Show t 4jtr - 'r’-V- j ' u j ft B2— The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday October 5 2003 Continued from B1 j Dennehy was also concerned with how his team reacted after getting down The deficit at the end was the hugest 24-poi- nt AGGIES : V rushing Att David Fiefia 11 7 Travis Davis Bryan Black ft 1 Travis Cox ftft7 Richard Watson 5 Yds 37 29 ft- 3 3 of the season TD Avg 34 0 0 0 41 30 ' -- 11 '‘-2- 2 PASSING Att Comp Yds 27 4 TravisCox Matt Crfvello 13 162 1 V4 Kenny Coleman 7 20 79 4 5 67 Chris Stallworth 1 Na : Joel Higginson Joe Killpack 2 2 Travis Davis 1 ' 0 9-o- f-l 1 third-dow- 0 0 0 0 1 4 David Fiefia 0 Joel Higginson 1 j KICKOFF RETURNS I TD Yds Long 18 32 30 48 14 14 13-of-- 22 0 0 0 PUNT RETURNS TD Yds Long : 5 5 No Tony Pennyman 2 0 PUNTING Na ft Yds 336 'ft: 8 Ben Chaet Avg Long 420 50 SACKS ft ft i : No Yards ' John Chick t : Robert Watts ' ft ftft INTERCEPTIONS Na Yards Cornelius Lamb V' - 0 -- : ft 0 ft- 8 8 Robert Watts 1 8 T Washington V ft 7 ft w 3 : ftft 4ftftft Wilson Rodney : 6 Derrek Shank ! 6 v ftft :ft ft V’ DD Cox TonyFrazierJ J 6 T Thomas ' 1 x r 'A- i iV VA j W I 22: 5 Kole 39-ya- rd InL TD 13230 14 M' 0 1 1 : o RECEIVING Rec Dwight Counter 4 -4 Adrian Boyd Rashau Sanders 2 2 T Thomas 1 Zach Cresap Hank Basket! ' 1 TD Yds Long 46 106 24 65 14 24 20 23 13 13 13 13 No Adrian Boyd 1 4 Tyler Gaus 0 0 Yds 165 FGA Long 2 2 41 SACKS No Yards 7 Dani Gawronski 1 Daniel Kegler 16 62 Nick Speegle ft ft- New Mexico also sewed on its first drive of die fourdi quarter : Running back DD Cox capped ah drive widl a tun several die dragging up gut Aggies along for a 34-- 7 lead with 11:30 to play' ft Crivello made a brief appear- - ' ance toward the end and got ' hurt Bryan Black finished the game at quarterback for the ft 87-ya- rd rd : AsL Total 8 Arkansas State Middle Tenn New Mexico St Confarenct PF P£ Overall 44 23 28 10 35 31 51 95 0 0 31 35 26 78 51 72 127 78 92 162 119 119 64 6 103 PF PA L 139 141 174 168 171 156 217 217 Saturday’s Games New Mexico 34 Utah State 7 Temple 44 Middle Tennessee 36 Arkansas St 44 Louisiana-Monro- e Oklahoma Si 56 Louisiana-LafayetIdaho 35 New Mexico St 31 2-- The Associated Press 0 The Longhorns (4-- 1 Big 12) whose reputation suffered a beating after a 38-2- 8 home' loss to Arkansas on Sept 1 3 will face ' No 1 Oklahoma next week in Dallas Young limped off the field in pain after rolling his ankle on a sack in the third quarter He returned in the fourth to lead Texas to the winning score after Chance Mock had little success getting the offense moving dive over the top of Young's fourth-dow- n the line capped an drive that started after Texas recovered Kansas State quarterback Ell Roberson’s fumble Roberson ran for 87 yards and two touchdowns — including a run that gave the Wildcats (4-- 2 0-a 20-1- 7 lead But & also had three turnovers with two interceptions including one in the end zone that killed a scoring chance late in the first half No 1 Oklahoma 53 Iowa SL 7 ' At Ames Iowa Jason White tied an Oklahoma school record with five touchdown 384 passes while throwing for a career-hig- h yards and Mark Bradley returned a kickoff 100 yards for a TD The Sooners (5-- 0 Big 12) piled up 613 ' yards in their third straight game with more than 50 points low a State (2-- 3 0-- 1 ) kept Oklahoma out of the end zone on its first three possession But the Cyclones couldn't get any pressure on White and eventually were done in by the Sooners' speed There was no better example than White’s short flip to Will Peoples on a screen pass 41 Next Week's Games Arkansas St at Mississippi Noon New Mexico Si at Middle Tennessee at 3 pm North Texas at Idaho 5 pm Wyoming at Utah Si 6 pm oe 1) 1- -0 te 3 1 : ck defensive stand to beat Tennessee Jason Campbell had two touchdown passes 0 Southeastern Confer- -' for Auburn (3-- 2 ence) which has won five of its last seven pm games against Top 10 teams 11k Tigers finally showcased their heralded tailbacks in a marquee game with their third straight lopsided victory after an 0-- 2 start that dropped them out of the rankings Tbe Volunteers (4-- 1 2-- abandoned their own star tailbacks from the outsel trying to ride Casey Clausen’s passing to die victory The result was an anemic running game that netted 4 yards on 16 carries 184 yards below their season average Na 23 Iowa 30 Na 9 Michigan 27 At Ipwa City Iowa Nathan Chandler threw for two touchdowns and ran for another as Iowa beat Michigan Iowa (5-- 1 Big Ten) trailed 14-- 0 in the first quarter before rallying with 20 straight points Iowa’s defense after being picked apart by Michigan quarterback John Navarre for 224 yards in the first half allowed just five first downs in the final two quarters made it exciting at the Michigan (4-- 2 TD pass to end as Navarre threw a Braylon Edwards with 3:43 remaining cutting Iowa’s lead to three 195 for a career-hig- h Chandler was Russell and Nate 110 Fred for ran yards yards Kaeding added three field goals Na 10 Southern California 37 Arizona SL 17 ' At Tempe Ariz Matt Le inart shook off a leg injury that proved more scary than damaging to rally Southern California Leinart who hurt his right knee and ankle when linebacker Justin Burks sacked him in the second quarter completed 13 of 23 passes for 289 yards with scoring strikes of 57 yards to Keary Colbert and 33 yards to Brandon Hancock LenDale White a neshman with 17 carries coming in ran for 140 yards and two touchdowns on 21 attempts Ryan Killeen had three field goals for the Pac-1who kept their slim Trojans (4-- 1 national title hopes alive by winning after a triple-overtiloss at California last week Southern Cal’s defense held the Sun Devils 0-(2-3 to 61 yards rushing and stopped 1) 1- -1 1) 41-ya- rd 88-ya- rd North Texas Utah State Idaho back-to-ba- 41-ya- rd tei' Aggies as most of the bench saw action in the fourth quarter ' Cox and Fiefia did not play in ' the final periodOther game notes: USU has thrown a TD pass in seven The Aggie D straight games has held the opponents to less ' than 300 yards passing in eight The Aggies straight games 100-have not had final the rushers since two yard The games of the 2001 season 'Lobos are the only team in the ft country to improve on wins New every year since 1999 Mexico honored its 1963 team which won the Western Athletic ' Conference championship the last Lobo team to win an out- New Mexico right league title nude history earlier this year :ft ft when female kicker Katie Hnida ft booted two extra points in a blowout win against Texas State She did not see action Saturday Two Aggies made their night first career starts at wide receiver in Pennyman and Joel Higginson 'ft ' play 0 a short gain - field Zunker booted a goal to make it 27-- 7 on die Lobos first possession of die third quar- - Topl25lfootball TACKLES Solo fourdi-and-1- Texas answered its critics Saturday The Longhorns can tough it out to win a big game! Freshman' Vince Young shook off a sore ' right ankle to rally the Longhorns with his ' running and passing and scored the winning touchdown from a yard out on fourth down with five minutes left as No 13 Texas beat No 16 Kansas State 24-2- 0 in Austin Avg Long 413 56 FGM rd By KICKING Wes Zunker break this year “(The Lobos) looked like they were 10000 times faster than us but I told the kids they may be faster but not that much faster” Dennehy said ft : The Lobos held die ball for : ft more than 21 minutes in the first half and doubled die Aggies in total offense 256 to 128 ft Tie Aggies began the second half by driving 46 yards then ft- stalling and fuling to convert a Bruins roll in 2nd half PUNTING Na v ft AP photo : Vols suffer first loss TD Yds Long 11 24 8 8 ‘ ' Injured Young rallies Longhorns i o o o o o PUNT RETURNS Dwight Counter 5 L ' PASSING Att Comp Yds V points USU had given up by the : Matt Crivelk tote hi collar-block by Fiefia bone and is also most Ukely done for the year : ft V bosec- “Yeah we are getting a Uttleftft ftftwh° had a step on Tolli hauled the ball in at -thin” Dennehy said ft Tere also was a flu big affect the New Mexico 35 and was for a touchdown ing some of the players but Watts - gone Hamblin’s ‘extra Justin point said that was no excuse for the it IQ-- 7 with 12:10 left in ' " made team the way played ftft the half “It shouldn’t matter’! Watts - “That was die play from the said “We need to play hard no Tolli said “Travis ft I beginning? don’t we did feel matter what ftft ' threw a perfect ball hit me in ft tbattonighL” stride I just had to run” After dodging one bullet eady After that highlighl it got ugly in the first quarter the Aggies real ugly for the visitors didn’t the second time after a n The Lobos converted six turnover Tony Pennyman muffed on their three next recovMalone a punt and Jerreli ft: plays ft ered for the Lobos at die Aggie ' ft possessions and scored two more : 19 ' ' TDs Kelly found wide receiver It took the hosts just four runDwight Counter for a the Moore to reach scoring strike and Moore took an ning plays by end zone Moore bounced outside option pitch from Kelly and went for a TD scamper with two yards untouched to make it 24-- 7 3: 14 left in the opening quarter at the break It was die most r- : ti 1 11 Casey Kelly 4 New Mexico made it 10-- 0 on its next possession thanks to a 24- - third-dow- 1 Kole McKamey ' f Yda DonTrell Moore 30 : ft 79-ya- rd RUSHING ftV'ftft'AtLft 7 ' ft ' ' ' : 1060$ -- - : ft ft: ft: ftftft? TACKLES ftftft'ftft "'Solo-- ' Ail Iptal ‘I "ft New Mexico quarterback Casey Kelly right gets tackled by Utah State linebacker Nate Putnam after during the second quarter Saturday in Albuquerque NM 8 ft ftftftftft 5 1 - ' big way “It didn’t seem like we could ft stop them on third down” USU linebacker Robert Watts said ft “We Would get them to third down it’s very painful” 8 The Lobos converted n plays but most of the ones they didn’t convert came ft later in the game when the out- come was all but decided New Mexico was led by quarterback Casey Kelly with 230 yards passing on attempts and a touchdown Running back DonTrell Moore gained 132 yards on the ground on 30 carries and scored twice Then there was the salt in the ft wound as two Aggies are probably lost for the season USU deep snapper Matt Wiser left the game late in the second quarter -with a dislocated shoulder Jai-- ft 01 00 TD ft Entering Saturday’s game the Aggies hid allowed less points each outing That change 'in a InL TD RECEIVING Rec Yds Long 2 Barry Tom Tony Pennyman 2 youdothal” 0 0 v- -- : “The kids have played hard all season but didn’t nearly play as hard as in the past or what they are capable of" Dennehy said “This kind of result occurs when 17-oi-- 34 - AP photo Texas safety Dakarai Pearson left celebrates an interception by comerback Cedric Griffin during against Kansas State on Saturday Peoples outran the defense to complete a scoring play that made it 29-- 0 early in the second half Na 4 Virginia Tech 48 Rutgers 22 At Piscataway NJ Bryan Randall threw for 250 yards and four TDs as Virginia Tech beat Rutgers for the 1 1th straight time Randall had scoring passes of 28 and 45 to yards to Chris Shreve and two Mike Imoh for the Hokies (5-- 0 0 Big East) interJimmy Williams scored on a return Cedric Humes and had a ception touchdown run in the final Big East meeting between the two schools Auburn 28 Na 7 Tennessee 21 At Auburn Ala Carnell Williams ran for 185 yards and resurgent Auburn made a late 45-ya- rd 55-ya- rd 35-ya- rd 1- -1 0) 2) See TOP 25 on B6 |