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MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012
BIG 12
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Conference's weekend recaps
FARZIN VOUSOUGHIAN
fvousoughian@kansan.com
TEXAS TECH 49 - NO. 5 WEST VIRGINIA 14
TTU 5-1 (2-1) - WVU 5-1 (2-1)
Texas Tech shocked the world on Saturday after pounding West Virginia and handing the team its first loss of the season.
texas Tech quarterback Seth Doege threw for 499 yards, the most he is thrown in a single game. Doege also threw six touchdown passes in the game to give the Red Raiders a 35-point win. Wide receiver Darrin Moore was Doege's biggest target. Moore pulled in nine catches for 92 yards and three touchdowns.
The Red Raiders defense hindered West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith. Smith came into this game with an 81 percent completion percentage, but completed only 29 of his 55 passes — 53 percent — against Texas Tech.
Smiths 26 incomplete were a factor in the Mountaineers mustering only 14 points, a season-leason.
NO. 6 KANSAS STATE 27 - IOWA STATE 21
KSU 6-0 (3-0) - 4-2 (1-2)
Kansas State traveled to Iowa State for its second conference road game of the season. The Wildcats were challenged by the Cyclones on Saturday, but survived, earning a big victory on the road.
Jared Barnett filled in for Iowa State quarterback Steele Jantz, who was out with a knee injury. Barnett threw for 166 yards, two touchdowns and one interception. A touchdown pass to tight end Ernst Brun Jr. in the second quarter gave the Cyclones their first lead of the game. However, the momentum boost disappeared when Kansas State's ground game made its presence known.
Kansas State ran the ball 52 times. Quarterback Collin Klein scrambled 25 times for 105 yards and three touchdowns. Running back John Hubert was also a prominent player, running 22 times for 79 yards.
Kansas State's defense ended the game with two consecutive fourth down holds in the fourth quarter. The Wildcats remain undefeated.
NO. 13 OKLAHOMA 63 - NO. 15 TEXAS 21
OU 4-1 (2-1) - UT 4-2 (1-2)
Oklahoma scored first and never looked back against Texas.
The only points scored by the Longhorns came from a blocked extra point attempt taken back 88 yards for two points by corner back Quandre Diggs. Oklahoma went into halftime with a 36-2 lead.
Texas quarterback David Ash threw 13 of 29 passes on Saturday. Ash and the Texas offense had no opportunities to succeed after being held to 13 first downs and converting only four of 13 third downs.
Sooners quarterback Landry Jones passed for 321 yards and a pair of touchdowns, contributing to Oklahoma's 677 total yards. Damien Williams also played a big role, running for 167 yards and a touchdown to help defeat Texas.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN 49 - BAYLOR 21
TCU 5-1 (2-1) - BU 3-2 (0-2)
In this game, it was TCU that prevailed.
It was redemption week for both teams. Each went into Saturday's game after losing the week before; Texas Christian was defeated by Iowa State after losing quarterback Casey Pachall, and Baylor lost to West Virginia in a wild shootout two weeks ago.
TCU quarterback Trevone Boykin played a better game this week, throwing 261 yards and four touchdown passes. Coach Gary Patterson tried to take some of the pressure off Boykin by getting the ground game involved. Boykin scrambled 16 times for a touchdown, and tailbacks Aundre Dean and B.J. Caton each had more than 70 rushing yards to contribute to TCU's 248 total.
It was simply a bad game for Baylor quarterback Nick Florence. Florence completed only 12 passes and threw four interceptions. As a team, Baylor committed six turnovers and held possession of the ball for only 18 minutes and eight seconds.
Although the fourth quarter began as a one-score game, TCU scored three unanswered touchdowns to pull the game away from the Bears.
— Edited by Nikki Wentling
CROSS COUNTRY
Individuals shine at tournament
MAX GOODWIN
mgoodwin@kansan.com
The Jayhawks men and women's cross country teams did not start the Wisconsin Adidas invitational the way that assistant
coach Michael Whitesley imagined for the start of the race.
"I felt both teams really put themselves into a hole early in their races." Whittlesey said.
That hole became difficult to climb out of since the Wisconsin
Adidas Invitational is one of the largest NCAA cross country races of the season. During the invitational, 45 mens' teams and 48 women's' teams competed. The Kansas men's team finished in the middle of the pack at 20th place while the women's team finished in 47th place.
"We definitely had good efforts out there, but in a meet of this size, that's a lot of bodies you have to fight through if you fall behind early," Whitesley said. "The results were not where we felt they could've been today."
Despite the finish in the standings, the women's team had some strong individual races. Whittlesey said he thought that junior Natalie Becker ran the best race of her career at Kansas with a time of 22:14 and senior Kyra Kilwein finished the race nicely at 21:24.
The first Jayhawk to finish was senior Kathleen Thompson at 21:20 witwh Kilwein four seconds behind her at the finish. Other than those two runners, the women's team did not finish the race as much of a pack.
However, the men's team did finish another race with a tight pack of runners near the front. Sophomore Reid Buchanan finished as the first Jayhawk for the first time in his career at Kansas in 74th place.
Buchanan ran with senior Donny Wasinger and redshirt freshman Gabe Gonzalez for most of the race before finishing ahead of them.
"I thought Reid did a really good job today," Whittlesey said. "Reid had a fantastic kick down the final 400 meters that put him ahead of the other two, but I was pleased with how all three performed today."
After Buchanan crossed the finish line, 33 seconds passed before the Jayhawks seventh runner, Josh Munsch, finished. Whittlesey said he thought there were some things that needed to be changed for the next meet.
"It was still a good result despite some poor execution on the men's side," Whittlesey said. "We definitely have some things we can build upon after today's race, but we need to be more focused on our game plan before the conference meet."
The Jayhawks have two weeks before the Big 12 meet in Austin, Texas on Oct. 27.
"Both teams just need to execute the race plan much better at the early part of the race." Whittlesey said. "We need to continue to build our confidence and if we do that we could so some good things at the Big 12 meet."
Edited by Christy Khamphilay
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Kansas runner Kyra Kilwein runs to finish first in the 5k at the Bob Timmons Classic on Sept. 1 at Rim Rock Farm. This weekend, Kilwein was an individual standout at the Wisconsin Adidas Invitational in Madison, Wis.
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