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The Cleveland Browns won for only the second time this season to send the Pittsburgh Steelers to their fifth straight defeat and extend the longest losing streak in six years for the National Football League champions.

Phil Dawson kicked a pair of 29-yard field goals at Cleveland Browns Stadium before Chris Jennings ran 10 yards for his first career touchdown and the only score by a Cleveland running back in more than a year. The Steelers could only muster two field goals from Jeff Reed in response as they lost 13-6.

Ben Roethlisberger was sacked eight times as the Browns allowed 216 yards of offense. Cleveland hadn’t managed so many sacks since Oct. 20, 2002, when it also got eight against Houston. Roethlisberger found himself on the losing team for the first time in 11 starts against the Browns, who ended a 12-game losing skid to their division rival.

“We got a little sack party going,” Corey Williams, who got two of five first-half sacks on Roethlisberger, told Cleveland’s Web site.

On a night when temperatures dipped to around 15 degrees Fahrenheit (-9.5 Celsius) and the wind swirled, Cleveland quarterback Brady Quinn completed six of 19 pass attempts for 90 yards, while Roethlisberger went 18-for-32 and 201 yards.

The Browns, who had lost seven consecutive games since beating Buffalo on Oct. 11, improved to 2-11 with their first win in 10 home games, while the Steelers dropped to 6-7. Cleveland remains last in the American Football Conference North Division, while the Steelers are third. Cincinnati leads with a 9-3 record and Baltimore is second at 6-6.