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Show Friday. Aue. 3L 2007 StatesmanSports Page 15 Broncos extend nation's Welcome Back Special... for all you Aggies longest winning streak WE DO IT ALL! half. On his longest run, he went around the left BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Ian Johnson ran for 129 yards and three touchdowns and Taylor Tharp was steady side and cut upfield,easily accelerating away from in his first start at quarterback, guiding Boise State defenders for a 54-yard touchdown run that gave the Broncos a 28-0 lead with 43 seconds left in the past Weber State 56-7 on Thursday in the season first quarter. opener for both teams. Weber State, out of the Football Championship Coming offan undefeated season, the Broncos Subdivision (formerly I-AA) Big Sky Conference, ran their winning streak to 14 games — the longest got on the board with 3:40 left in the third quarter in major collegefootball— and even dipped into when Jimmy Barnes hit Bryant Eteuati with a 21the bag of tricks that helped them upset Oklahoma yard touchdown pass to make it 56-7. in the Fiesta Bowl last season. Wide receiver Vinny Perretta, who threw for a score in the Fiesta Bowl, lined up at quarterback on third-and goal from the 7, and ran up the middle for the first score of the game. Boise State took a 49-0 lead into halftime, scoring touchdowns on their first seven possessions and getting stopped on fourth-and-goal from the 1 on their eighth drive with the second quarter winding down. The overmatched Wildcats picked up just two first downs in the first half, fumbling the ball away on their next play on both occasions. Boise State has now won 52 of its last 54 games on its home blue turf. Tharp, a senior, looked poised, smart and tough, throwing the ball away when necessary and hanging in the pocket to deliver a 53-yard touchdown pass to Titus Young just before getting drilled. Tharp was slow getting up after the hit, and Boise State coach Chris Petersen checked on him with a look of concern as Tharp walked off the field. But Tharp, replacing Jared Zabransky, directed five more touchdown drives before the half for the defending Western Athletic Conference champions. Tharp directed another touchdown drive to start the second half, making it 56-0 with 10:49 left in the third quarter before leaving the game. He finished 14 of 19 passes for 184 yards and a touchBOISE STATE RUNNING BACK IAN JOHNdown. SON breaks away from a Weber State defender as a Johnson, who scored 25 touchdowns last season part of a 129 yard effort in a 56-7 BSU routofWSU in to led major college football, sat out the second Boise Thursday night. AP photo LSU, Louisville and Rutgers notch wins in season openers STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Craig Steltz had three of LSU's six interceptions of Mississippi State quarterback Michael Henig and the secondranked Tigers manhandled the Bulldogs again in a 45-0 victory Thursday night. LSU's new starting quarterback Matt Flynn and new offensive coordinator Gary Crowton struggled to find a rhythm early, but they received plenty of help from Henig, who set a school record by throwing six picks. ; It was LSU's eighth straight win overall and eighth straight in the series with the Bulldogs. Since Mississippi State's last win in 1999, LSU has outscored the Bulldogs 340-81, including three shutouts by 42 or more points. Mississippi State has lost 12 straight games t{> Top 10 opponents and 11 of its last 13 home games. ; LSU's Steltz, Curtis Taylor, Jonathan Zenon and Danny McCray had interceptions in the first half and Steltz added two more in the second half. The Tigers needed the help as a stout Bulldogs defense held them scoreless on every drive but one that wasn't set up by a turnover. Henig also fumbled the snap on a fourth-and-1 attempt after he led the team on a nine-play drive iri the first quarter that put the Bulldogs at the Tigers 36. It was one of only two serious forays into LSU territory. Henig tied the school record for interceptions in a game that had stood since 1949 before giving way to freshman Wesley Carroll midway through the fourth quarter. It was Henig's fifth multipleinterception game in 10 career starts and the most picks he's thrown since giving away three passes against Alabama on Nov. 5, 2005, as a freshman. While Henig struggled, Flynn gained confidence as the game progressed. After completing 3 of 7 passes for 23 yards in the first quarter, JaMarcus Russell's replacement zeroed in on Early Doucet. The fifth-year senior finished with 128 yards on 12 of 19 passing with two touchdowns and no turnovers in his second career start. That included an 11-yard touchdown to Doucet, who had nine catches for 78 yards. 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(AP) — Brian Brohm threw for 375 yards and four touchdowns and the Cardinals sparkled in coach Steve Kragthorpe's debut. Brohm led Louisville (1-0) to touchdowns on each of the Cardinals' first eight drives, guiding an attack that looked awfully similar to the wide-open system that former coach Bobby Petrino used to lead the Cardinals to national prominence. Louisville rolled up 655 yards of total offense, and worked with a stunning efficiency. The Cardinals averaged a touchdown once every four plays in the first half, and their longest scoring drive with the starters in took all of 2:58. Brohm, who decided to return for his senior year rather than enter the NFL Draft last spring, completed 16 of 21 passes, most of them to wide-open receivers who met little resistance against a team that features 72 underclassmen. Harry Douglas caught five passes for 151 yards and two touchdowns, thefirston Louisville's first play from scrimmage in the first half, the other on Louisville's first play from scrimmage in the second half. By the time Brohm put a towel over his shoulder 20 seconds into the second half, the Cardinals led 56-10. It didn't get much better for the Racers (0-1), a member of the Football Championship Division, formerly Division I-AA. NOBODY DOES STUFF LIKE COLLEGE STUDENTS AND RADIOSHACK CAN HELP YOU DO IT. 10% DISCOUNT WITH STUDENT ID* on a qualifying purchase. RADIOSHACK HAS THE GEAR THAT LETS YOU DO MORE STUFF: No. 16 Rutgers 38, Buffalo 3 PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Ray Rice rushed for 184 yards and three touchdowns, Tiquan Underwood had 10 catches for a school-record 248 yards and Mike Teel passed for a career-best 328 yards as the Scarlet Knights opened their most anticipated season. Rice scored on runs of 34,12 and 41 yards. • Networking. • Printers • Calculators • Flash Drives Everyone's Approved! Prepaid Wireless Phones.-.. * No Credit Checks • No Long Term Commitments • No Annual Contracts VBall: Freshmen to help Aggie spikers [J continued from page 12 WAC last season. Osterloh, who DuBose said did "a real nice job in the summer," should also figure heavily in the team's outside hitter plans. It is the hitters Dubose is most focused on as he tries to guide his team to the top of the WAC. "We need to improve our kills per game; that was one of the biggest things that jumped out at me," DuBose said. "We were the third best blocking team in our conference last year behind New Mexico State and Hawaii, so we felt that our blocking system and our block was really good. The area \yhere we lacked was kills per game, so we're trying tb increase that. We have some nice outside hitters: Qsterloh, Amanda, Kris Hymas is a transfer from Ifalt Lake Community College and she's a really nice volleyball player." New assistant coach ;' The 10 players are not the only newcomers to second-year coach DuBose's program. Former Aggie volleyball player Taubi Neves joins the coaching staff. Neves graduated from USU in 2004 with a degree in physical education/prephysical therapy. MUNEX 55 E, 2000 N. 755-9997 HXPIRHS 9/15/07. N..np«J^tih^yoiht.oiJf/. She will handle travel coordination, academic progress and equipment for the team. "Taubi Neves is a former player recommended to me by my former head coach, a guy named Tom Peterson," DuBose said. "She's a great worker, and she's wonderful to have in the gym. She's really organized, which helps both Shawn (Olmstead) and myself out a little bit." Looking ahead at the schedule, DuBose said, "We're going to play New Mexico State and we're going to play Hawaii, and those are really good volleyball teams. 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