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EAST HARTFORD, Conn. -- UConn kicker Bobby Puyol sought out Virginia kicker Alex Furbank after the Huskies 13-10 win over the Cavaliers on Saturday.Puyol had hit the game winner from 43-yards out with 1:33 left, then watched from the sideline as Furbank, a walk-on playing in his first football game at any level, missed a 20-yard field-goal attempt for Virginia as time expired.I just told him, `Man youre going to do a good job, youre going to get plenty more kicks, Puyol said. Sometimes you make them, sometimes you dont.It was the second game winner this season for Puyol, who had three extra points blocked a year ago. His 37-yard field goal with 11 seconds left beat Maine in the Huskies season-opener.I just knew, Puyol said. I said, `Get it down in field-goal range, ready to go and Ill make it.UConn Quarterback Bryant Shirreffs completed 13 of 24 passes for 154 yards. He also ran for 33 yards and a touchdown as the Huskies (2-1), overcame an early 10-0 deficit with two fourth-quarter scores.A 20-yard run by Shirreffs and a 23-yard screen play to Noel Thomas set up Puyols game winner.But Virginia (0-3) got the ball back and moved right down the field. A 33-yard strike down the left side from Kurt Benkert to Doni Dowling put the Cavaliers in UConn territory. It appeared they would at least send the game into overtime after Benkert hit Keeon Johnson with a 34-yard fourth-down pass to put the ball inside the UConn 10.The Husky defense stiffened, stopping Benkerts keeper at the 2-yard line on third down. The Cavaliers, who had no timeouts remaining, were able to rush the field-goal unit onto the field. But Furbank pulled the ball left.I know I rushed the kick a little bit and thats 100 percent on me, he said.It was the 17th straight road loss for Virginia, and leaves first-year coach Bronco Mendenhall still looking for his 100th career win. He was 99-43 during his 11-year tenure at BYU.Im proud of the way my team played today, he said. They fought hard from the beginning and I think they took a step forward again today.Virginia opened the scoring with first quarter drives of 12 and 13 plays. The first led to a 23-yard field goal from Furbank. It was the sophomores first football kick. He played soccer at Division III Randolph-Macon before transferring to Virginia.A 90-yard drive ended in a 9-yard touchdown run by Albert Reid that made it 10-0.UConn drove to the Virginia 2-yard line in the second quarter but had to settle for a 21-yard field goal.The Huskies missed several second-half scoring chances.A third-quarter UConn drive was thwarted when Juan Thornhill out-dueled Husky receiver Noel Thomas in the end zone and came up with an interception. A fourth-quarter drive ended when Arkeel Newsome dropped a pitch and the fumble was recovered by Virginias Andrew Brown.But Huskies got the ball right back when Jamar Summers intercepted Benkert. It was the first pick of the season for Summers, who had eight last season.The Huskies, helped by interference and face mask calls on Virginia, drove 37-yards in nine plays to tie the game. Shirreffs ran the ball in on a sweep from a yard out.Virginia then drove to the UConn 24-yard line, but a run by Albert Reid on fourth-and-1 came up short.It was painful, thats all I can say, Reid said. There were plenty of plays on the field that we didnt make.Newsome ran 13 times for 90 yards for UConn. Benkert completed 23 of 42 passes for 241 yards. Reid (73 yards) and running back Taquan Mizzell (66) combined for 139 yards.THE TAKEAWAYVIRGINIA: The Cavaliers continued to make too many mistakes to win. They were penalized 10 times for 91 yards. 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On Tuesday, Ottawa placed forward Cory Conacher and defenceman Joe Corvo on waivers as trade rumours swirl around the Senators.RIO DE JANEIRO -- Several of the players competing in the womens Olympic golf tournament have been in Brazil for well over a week. They got here early to practice, watch the mens tournament and take in all that comes with the Olympic experience.It helped that the LPGA Tour did not have an event scheduled the week before and the week after the Olympic tournament.Everyone involved in the womens game, from LPGA commissioner Mike Whan down to the players, including the two women in the field from Brazil, understand how big this is to their niche inside a niche sport.Unlike their male counterparts, the women were always all-in on Rio.This is an extremely important week for us, said Stacy Lewis, one of three Americans in the 60-player field that begins play at the Olympic Golf Course on Wednesday. I think Mike Whan did a really good job of moving our schedule around so we dont play any tournaments around the Olympics. I think that leadership from the top shows that this is an important week for us.This is a great stage for us to play golf on, for the world to see us play more than they do. All of the best players in the world are here -- nobody really dropped out. Everyone is here to compete. I think its so cool. I grew up probably watching the Olympics more than I watched golf. To be here and be a part of this is a big deal.Lewis, 31, had been critical of the men for dropping out, 21 in all, and was concerned it might affect golf in the Olympics going forward. A few weeks ago at the Womens British Open, she spoke of how important golf in the Olympics is to the womens game, and that perhaps the money available in mens golf skewed the perspective of male players.Whan purposely left some room on the schedule so the players would not see the Olympics as a burden. And he, too, has seen this as an opportunity.Were going to get a huge dose of awareness and try to bring those viewers back to us next week, he said. Most of these players grew up with big dreams. Theyre standing on the putting green, this is a putt for the U.S. Womens Open, or this is the putt to win the Ricoh Womens British Open, but nobody stood on that putting green and said, this is for the gold medal.So for most of these players, all of a sudden this whole new goal came about where youre not only playing a great golf event, youre playing in the greatest sports arena in the world, and now theres a new dream for a lot of them. And they also realize that if the next ones 2020, especially on the LPGA, where youth just keeps coming, no one is convinced that theyll be at the top of that chart in 2020 -- so they realize that its an opportunity. It might be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.To that end, American Gerina Piller predicted during a news conference Tuesday that she would have a hard time explaining her thoughts on what success in the Olympics would mean.Just a few words in, Piller became emotional, tears streaming down her face. Unlike Lewis and the other American in the field, Lexi Thompson, Piller has not won on the LPGA Tour. But she had a strong run of success in 2016 and managed to play her way into the top 15 iin the world rankings, assuring her a spot in the Games as long as the United States did not have more than four qualifiers.ddddddddddddThe only reason all the top players in the world are not here is because of the limitation on players from the same country, specifically South Korea, which qualified four women; seven of the top 15 spots are taken by South Koreans. Given that, Inbee Park, who recently qualified for the LPGA Hall of Fame, described it as perhaps the hardest Olympic team to make. We feel pretty lucky that we are here representing South Korea, she said.Much like the mens tournament, the top-ranked players in the world are expected to contend for medals, with the possibility of some surprises. Two women from Brazil (Victoria Lovelady and Miriam Nagl), a country with just 25,000 golfers among 200 million people, made the field. So did three amateurs (Irelands Leona Maguire, Switzerlands Albane Valenzuela and Hong Kongs Tiffany Chan) -- a testament to their ability to earn world ranking points in professional events.The hope, too, is to show off golf in countries where the game is emerging or isnt as popular.In France, we need that because theres not many golf courses, said French golfer Karine Icher. Golf is a small sport in France. And to bring a medal means a lot and can bring so many young girls and young boys to the sport. So thats something we are looking for.The excitement of the mens event, which concluded with Great Britains Justin Rose outdueling Swedens Henrik Stenson for the gold medal, is certainly something for the women to try to attain. They mostly view it as bolstering the sport even more, a welcome outcome given all the negativity that was apparent prior to the first tee shot being struck.I think its going to help womens golf, for sure, Icher said. I read that [Olympic] golf in the U.S. for the men was the highest audience [actually, the second-highest TV rating behind the Masters this year]. Its funny, because when you are thinking the top four or five players in the world were not here, and still, the highest audience.So I hope its going to be the same for the girls. I think so, because people are curious to see the medalists and the whole Olympic champion and the national anthem. People love that. So it can be just positive for womens golf. It can only bring positive things and good spirit for what we are trying to do every day.Lewis believes it is crucial for the game in general and for the LPGA in particular.For our tour and for womens golf, anytime you can get people to experience what we are about and the way we play ... its different than the guys, Lewis said. Our tour is different, the way we play golf is different. Once people experience and they see it, thats when they come back.The more eyeballs we can get on us, the better. Were constantly fighting for network TV, and thats one huge part of this week. Its beyond anything I think we can do just as a tour. We can hopefully grow our tour and grow womens golf. ' ' '