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HOUSTON -- The Montreal Impacts first season in Major League Soccer wont include a trip to the post-season. Montreal needed a victory Saturday to remain in the hunt for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference, but suffered a disappointing 1-1 tie with the Houston Dynamo in a game that Impact head coach Jesse Marsch felt his team should have won. Sanna Nyassi scored in the 66th minute to tie the game at 1-1, but when he drove into the box in the 85th minute, the Montreal midfielder was taken down by Houstons Bobby Boswell. Marsch, who was ejected after protesting the non-call, thought there should have been a penalty kick awarded on the play. "They battled and they deserved to win tonight," Marsch said. "We got a couple breaks. They hit the post. We battled like hell to clear balls off the line, throwing their bodies in front of plays. Thats what it takes on the road. Thats what it takes against teams like this. "In the end, that is a penalty on Sanna Nyassi. Print that, print that. Because it is 100 per cent a penalty, and the referee did not have the cojones to make that call." After Will Bruin gave Houston a 1-0 lead in the 44th minute by slipping a shot past Montreal goalkeeper Troy Perkins, Nyassi tied the game after burying his own rebound from 15 yards out. Nyassi had a chance to win it for Montreal in second half stoppage time, but was called offside. Directly after the play, Brian Ching appeared to have won it for Houston with a last second goal that blooped over Perkins and in, but side referee Jason Callum and head referee Chris Penso conversed and ruled Ching was also offside. Perkins said the Ching offside call was the right call. "We are obviously disappointed in a tie," Perkins said. "Questionable call here or there, but it is a good benchmark for us going into next year that we can go on the road like this and get a result. We get a couple results like this during the season and we are in a better situation." Houston (13-8-11, 50 points) extended its lead to two points over Columbus for fifth place and the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. The Dynamo had several chances to regain the lead late, with Cam Weaver hitting the near post in the 84th minute and Ching having a shot from in front of the net stopped by Perkins a minute later. Montreal (12-15-5, 41 points) will now be playing for pride in its final two games at Toronto FC on Oct. 20 and against New England on Oct. 27. "It hurts because we know we are out," Marsch said. "That part hurts, especially knowing we should have had a late penalty. We are continuing to move this thing along, and the effort the guys put in tonight, and the way they competed for each other was pretty damn good." Wholesale Jerseys China . Off the field, the fallout from the dispute could endure for some time, particularly in federal court. 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NEW ORLEANS -- Louisville safety Calvin Pryor predicted the Cardinals would "shock the world" against Florida in the Sugar Bowl. Brave words that he and his teammates backed up from start to finish against an SEC power. Terell Floyd returned an interception 38 yards for a touchdown on the first play, dual-threat quarterback Teddy Bridgewater directed a handful of scoring drives and No. 22 Louisville stunned the fourth-ranked Gators 33-23 in the Sugar Bowl on Wednesday night. By the end, the chant, "Charlie, Charlie!" echoed from sections of the Superdome occupied by red-clad Cardinals fans. It their way of serenading third-year Louisville coach Charlie Strong, the former defensive co-ordinator for the Gators, who has elevated Cardinals football to new heights and recently turned down a chance to leave behind what hes built for the top job at Tennessee. "They kind of thought we were going to come in and lay down and give them the game," Floyd said. "But Coach Strong always preaches that were better than any team in the nation if we come out and play hard. Coach Strong believed in us and our coaching staff believed in us and we came in and believed in ourselves Shaking off an early hit that flattened him and knocked off his helmet, Bridgewater was 20 of 32 passing for 266 yards and two touchdowns against the heavily favoured Gators. Among his throws was a pinpoint, 15-yard timing toss that DeVante Parker acrobatically grabbed as he touched one foot down in the corner of the end zone. "I looked at what did and didnt work for quarterbacks during the regular season," said Bridgewater, picked as the games top player. "They faced guys forcing throws ... and coach tells me, No capes on your back or S on your chest, take what the defence give you. Thats what I took. Film study was vital." His other scoring strike went to Damian Copeland from 19 yards one play after a surprise onside kick by the Gators backfired badly. Jeremy Wright had short touchdown run which gave the two-touchdown underdogs from the Big East a 14-0 lead from which the Gators never recovered. Florida never trailed by more than 10 points this season, and the Southeastern Conference team had lost only once going into this game. The defeat dropped SEC teams to 3-3 this bowl season, with Alabama, Texas A&M and Mississippi still left to play. "We got outcoached and outplayed," Florida coach Will Muschamp said. "Thats what I told the football team. Thats the bottom line." Louisville and Florida each finished at 11-2. Gators quarterback Jeff Driskel, who had thrown only three interceptions all season, turned the ball over three times on two interceptions -- both tipped passes -- and a fumble. He finished 16 of 29 for 175 yards. "I look at this performance tonight, and I sometimes wonder, Why didnt we do this the whole season," Strong said. "We said this at the beginning: We just take care of our job and do what were supposed to do, dont worry about who were playing." Down 33-10 midway through the fourth period, Florida tried to rally. Andre Debose scored on a 100-yard kickoff return and Driskel threw a TD pass to tight end Kent Taylor with 2:13 left. But when Louisville defenders piled on Driskel to thwart the 2-point try, the game was essentially over. Florida didnt score until Caleb Sturgiss 33-yard field goal earlyy in the second quarter.dddddddddddd The Gators finally got in the end zone with a trick play in the closing seconds of the half. They changed personnel as if to kick a field goal on fourth-and-goal from the 1, but lined up in a bizarre combination of swinging-gate and shotgun formations and handed off to Matt Jones. Jones met only minimal resistance as he crashed into the end zone to cap an 11-play, 74-yard drive that included four straight completions and four straight runs by Driskel. The Gators tried to keep the momentum with a surprise onside kick to open the third quarter, but not only did Louisville recover, Floridas Chris Johnson was called for a personal foul and ejected for jabbing at Louisvilles Zed Evans. That gave Louisville the ball on the Florida 19, from where Bridgewater needed one play to find Copeland for his score. "We game-planned it and felt good about it," Muschamp said of the onside kick attempt. "We wanted to steal a possession at the start of the second half." On the following kickoff, Evans cut down kick returner Loucheiz Purifoy with a vicious low, high-speed hit that shook Purifoy up. Soon after, Driskel was sacked hard from behind and stripped by Pryor. "Just coming up to this point, we had the right attitude, had the right mindset that we would go out and beat this team," Pryor said. Louisvilles Lorenzo Mauldin recovered on the Florida 4, but the Gators defence drove the Cardinals backward and forced a missed field goal, but that was one of few morale victories for the frustrated Gators. After Louisville native Muhammad Ali was on the field for the coin toss, the Cardinals quickly stung the Gators. Floyd, one of nearly three dozen Louisville players from the state of Florida, made the play. Driskel was looking for seldom-targeted Debose, whod had only two catches all season. "I threw it behind him, (he) tried to make a play on it, tipped it right to the guy," Driskel said. "Unfortunate to start the game like that." It made for an easy catch and score for Floyd only 15 seconds into the game. "That play kind of set the tone," Floyd said. "It kind of gave us momentum and we kept it." Oddly, Louisville had only 10 defenders on the field until only moments before the snap, when safety Jermaine Reve darted out from the sideline and immediately found a Florida receiver to cover. When Louisvilles offence got the ball later in the quarter, the Florida defence, ranked among the best in the nation this season, sought to intimidate the Cardinals with one heavy hit after another. One blow by Jon Bostic knocked Bridgewaters helmet off moments after hed floated an incomplete pass down the right sideline. Bostic was called for a personal foul, however, which seemed to get the Cardinals opening drive rolling. Later, Wright lost his helmet during a 3-yard gain and took another heavy hit before he went down. Louisville kept coming, though. B.J. Butler turned a short catch into a 23-yard gain down to the Florida 1. Then Wright punched it in to give the Cardinals an early two-TD lead over a team that finished third in the BCS standings, one spot too low to play for a national title in Miami. Louisville won the Big East berth to this game. They beat Rutgers in late November to virtually lock up the conference title, sealing that win on a late interception by Floyd. ' ' '