By Daniel Dullum
Sports Radio Service
Saturday, September 20, 2014

For three quarters of their Pac-12 football game at Tucson, California was in the driver’s seat with a seemingly comfortable 18-point lead on at Arizona.

Then, the Wildcats roared back with a 36-point fourth quarter, and Anu Solomon’s 47-yard touchdown pass to Austin Hill on the game’s final play completed the comeback, as Arizona slipped past the Golden Bears 49-45.

Solomon threw for 520 yards, with four of his five TD passes coming in the fourth quarter. In the process, the Wildcats QB set single-game school records by completing 47 of 73 passes.

Cayleb Jones caught 13 passes for 186 yards for the Wildcats (4-0 overall, 1-0 Pac-12), who racked up 627 total yards to Cal’s 573.

The Bears (2-1, 0-1) led 34-16 going into the fourth quarter, largely behind the efforts of quarterback Jared Goff, who threw for 380 yards and three touchdowns.

Arizona found the end zone time after time in a wild fourth quarter. First, Solomon connected with Hill on a 9-yard TD pass, then found Jones on a 16-yard scoring pass. In between, Cal’s Khalfani Muhammad scored on runs of 50 and 6 yards. Cal was up 45-30 with five minutes to play.

The Wildcats kept coming back, first with a 6-yard touchdown run by Terris Jones-Grigsby. Arizona then recovered an onside kick to set up Solomon’s 15-yard scoring strike to Jones, but the 2-point conversion failed.

The Bears were unable to put the game away when James Langford hooked a 47-yard field goal attempt wide to the left. Arizona took over at its own 29-yard line with 52 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter.

Solomon moved the Wildcats upfield quickly and found Hill with a 20-yard completion that stopped the clock. Solomon then spiked the ball to set up a final shot into the end zone, which succeeded with Hill snaring a pass in between two Cal defenders.