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By Gary FauberASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

The season’s halfway pointfor most teams was not de-void of big-time performances.Several local players led theirteams to victories that couldprove huge in the push forthe postseason.

GAME BALLSn Cory Coppola, Blue-field. The perennial Class AApower Beavers showed theyare still as much of a threatas always, shutting down

GreenbrierEast’s potentoffense. Blue-field, mean-while, was asprolific as ithas been allyear, and Cop-pola had a bighand in that.

The 6-foot-4,233-pound jun-

ior ran for 151 yards on 11carries (13.7 yards per at-tempt) and scored threetouchdowns as the Beaverswon 57-18.n Mike Mullens, West-side. The Renegades had lostthree straight going into their

game at Inde-pendence, butMullenshelped stopthe bleeding.He ran 25times for 317yards andscored fourtouchdowns ina 50-20 win.

Mullens nowhas 1,027 yards through fivegames for 2-3 Westside.n Brent Osborne,Woodrow Wilson. The Fly-ing Eagles soared out of theirbye week with a 50-10 Home-coming victory over winless

Riverside.Osborne,

Woodrow’sjunior quarter-back, complet-ed 8 of 18passes for 101yards and apair of touch-down passes.But he alsocarried the

ball 12 times for a game-high210 yards.n Jake Parker, MeadowBridge. The Meadow Bridgesenior’s weekly romp tookhim to Pendleton County,

where Parkerand his team-mates won thebattle of theWildcats, 28-13.

Parker’s firsthalf was a bitpedestrian byhis standards,with 76 yardsand no touch-

downs. Things changed in thesecond half, when he scoredon a 65-yard run and finishedthe night with 229 yards on26 carries.

Parker now has 1,385 yardsthrough five games.n T.J. Smith, SummersCounty. Smith led the ClassAA No. 3 Bobcats to a big 27-20 win over Class A No. 5

and previouslyunbeatenGreenbrierWest. He ranfor 122 yardsand two touch-downs, caughta 28-yardtouchdownpass and re-covered a fum-ble that led to

a Summers County touch-down drive.

It was the Bobcats’ first winover the Cavaliers since 2007.

HELMET STICKERSn Chase Hancock,Woodrow Wilson. Osborne

Footballphenomsof Week 5

Coppola

Mullens

Osborne

Parker

Smith

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By Dan StillwellREGISTER-HERALD SPORTS WRITER

Woodrow Wilson had no answer Sat-urday for Parkersburg’s lightning-quickoffense.

The Flying Eagles gave up an earlygoal on a corner kick, another on a longshot, and then allowed the Big Redsbreakaway after breakaway in a 7-1 lossat the YMCA’s Paul Cline Stadium.

“They had their way with us,”Woodrow coach Rockey Powell said.“The only positive was we didn’t give up,but the score doesn’t say that.”

Six different players found the back ofthe net for Parkersburg (12-0-2). TylerMiller scored in the sixth minute offTommy Logston’s corner kick, andLogston put his own name in the score-

book with a blast from 20 yards out,midway through the opening half.

After that it was long ball after longball, capped by speedy runs by the BigRed forwards.

“We have so much speed, we playedthe ball over them,” coach Don Fossel-man said. “We have an attacking team.

“We’ve scored 79 goals this season.That’s a lot of goals.”

Tyler Bro outran a Woodrow defenderand beat goalkeeper Josh Moore tomake it 3-0 just before the half. MattPowney, who had a hat trick Tuesday inan 8-1 win over Capital, rifled anotherlong shot into the net early in the secondhalf.

Evan Rhodes and Powney then beatWoodrow defenders to put the game wellout of reach by the 67th minute.

A rash of poor passes didn’t help the 4-5-4 Flying Eagles’ cause any.

“We didn’t get untracked. Our firsttouch left us,” Powell said. “We had toomany turnovers.”

Woodrow had just one shot on goal, byRyan Thompson early in the game, be-fore Jordan Wright bounced in a shotfrom a corner kick by Zach Johnson inthe 77th minute.

Parkersburg’s Travon Nelson an-swered the goal a minute later, on yetanother breakaway.

“We didn’t have anything for them,”Powell said.

The Flying Eagles will return to PaulCline Stadium Tuesday to host Prince-ton.

— E-mail: dstillwell@register-herald.com

Big Reds score early, often versus Woodrow6 players score goals inParkersburg’s 7-1 victory

“They had their way with us.The only positive was we didn’t

give up, but the score doesn’tsay that.”

ROCKEY POWELL,Woodrow Wilson boys soccer coach after his

team’s 7-1 loss to Parkersburg

WVU upsets Cowboys

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West Virginia’s Ishmael Banks (34) reaches over the goal line for a touchdown after returning an interception 58 yards duringthe first quarter of a game against Oklahoma State Saturday in Morgantown. Oklahoma State quarterback J.W. Walsh tries to de-fend on the play. The Mountaineers beat the No. 11 Cowboys 30-21.

By Cam HuffmanSPORTS EDITOR

MORGANTOWN — At a communityservice event in Summersville this sum-mer, West Virginia University safetyDarwin Cook promised something differ-ent from the Mountaineer defense in2013.

“Ooh City,” he said. “There are going tobe a lot of oohs in the crowd this year.”

On Saturday, Cook’s promise came tofruition.

A major underdog against No. 11 Okla-homa State a week after being shut out37-0 on the road at Maryland, the WVUdefense — ranked near the bottom of the

country in every major category a yearago — forced three OSU turnovers, in-cluding a critical Cook interception in theclosing minutes to shut the door in a 30-21 upset that caught everybody but theWVU staff and players by surprise.

“It was just what we’re supposed to do,”said Cook. “It felt like 2010 again whenthe crowd was yelling, ‘defense, defense.’We got a couple of oohs.”

Against an OSU offense that was aver-

aging 45.3 points and 487.7 yards pergame coming into Morgantown, WVU (3-2, 1-1 Big 12) allowed only 21 points, allon passes of at least 20 yards. The Cow-boys managed 433 yards of offense, butWVU held them to a 6-of-20 mark onthird downs, getting off the field when itmattered most.

The game-defining stand came withthe clock under 10 minutes in the fourthquarter and OSU trailing 24-21. TheCowboys had the ball at the WVU 1-yardline with a second-and-goal, but wereturned away on back-to-back plays beforeBen Grogan missed a 23-yard field goal,

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By Cam HufmanSPORTS EDITOR

MORGANTOWN — Clint Trickettwas trying to make a decision on whereto continue his college football career.He had earned a degree from FloridaState but still had two years of eligibili-ty left and knew he wanted to finishsomewhere other than Tallahassee, Fla.

Driving down the road one day think-ing about the looming decision, heheard a familiar song. John Denver’s

“Take Me Home, Country Roads,” comethrough the speakers, and he knew itwas a sign. It was time to come back tothe state, and the city, where he spentmuch of his youth.

Trickett cashes in on ticketto ride as new starting QB

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WVU quarterback Clint Trickett (9)throws around the defense of Oklahoma

State cornerback Tyler Patmon.

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By Barry WilnerAP PRO FOOTBALL WRITER

First place in the NFCNorth is at stake today,and the Green Bay Pack-ers will be nowhere in thevicinity.

Instead, it’s the Bears,one of seven 3-0 teams,against the Lions at FordField. A victory for Chica-go would give it a stran-glehold on the divisionthrough one-fourth of theschedule.

The Bears have beenimpressive under newcoach Marc Trestman,showing a knack forclutch plays on both sidesof the ball. They have aleague-high 11 take-aways, are making gooddecisions, and Devin Hes-ter is averaging 38 yardsa kickoff return.

But they also havesome injuries, with de-fensive end HenryMelton (knee) gone forthe season and star cor-nerback Charles Tillmanhobbled but saying hewill play. Tillman nor-mally would match upwith the Lions’ topthreat, receiver CalvinJohnson.

Detroit (2-1) is winningthe close ones — the Li-ons have outscored theopposition by only 13points. Their passing at-tack is second in theleague, but just lost a keypiece when receiver NateBurleson was injured ina car accident.

The Lions got somegood news: Running backReggie Bush has recov-ered from the left kneeinjury that sidelined himin last week’s win overWashington.

Off this week areGreen Bay and Carolina,both 1-2.nMiami (3-0) at New Orleans (3-0),Monday night

Sean Payton’s return tothe sideline has made aworld of difference in theBig Easy, and his hiring

of Rob Ryan to run thedefense so far has been astroke of genius.

The Saints rank fourthin overall defense, almostunheard-of territory inNew Orleans.

“Any time you go into asituation where it’s a newdefensive coordinatorthat’s installing a newdefense, you always havethe question of howyou’re prepared,” saidoutside linebacker ParysHaralson, acquired fromSan Francisco in late Au-gust. “Everybody waspretty confident in whatthey had, in what wehave here. This is a de-fense full of talentedplayers.”

The Dolphins got thefirst comeback victory ofsecond-year quarterbackRyan Tannehill’s careerlast Sunday.n New England (3-0)at Atlanta (1-2)

A pretty strong Sundaynighter, even with At-lanta’s early-seasonstruggles. The Falconsneed to get healthy asmuch as anything, andfind ways to stop thepass.

That, of course, is es-sential against TomBrady, whose receivingcorps looked far moreprofessional in the romppast Tampa Bay than inthe first two wins.n Seattle (3-0) at Houston (2-1)

Under Pete Carroll, theSeahawks have beendominant at home, butmediocre on the road.They began turning thataround late last season,and this would be astatement win.

Carroll brings theNFL’s stingiest defense,particularly against thepass, into Reliant Stadi-um. Houston also has arugged D, but the Texansgot pushed around byBaltimore last week andhave yet to make theirown statement as a pow-er.

n Pittsburgh (0-3) vs. Minnesota (0-3)in London

Wembley Stadium hasbeen sold out for months,and there will be threebig stars on the field:Pittsburgh’s Troy Pola-malu and Ben Roethlis-berger, and Minnesota’sAdrian Peterson, theleague’s reigning MVP.

With the way bothsides have performed sofar, it might be a betteridea to tour BuckinghamPalace or the Tower ofLondon. Pity the loserhaving to stew at 0-4 onthe long plane ride backhome, then stew somemore with an upcomingbye week.n New York Jets (2-1)at Tennessee (2-1)

Rex Ryan and MikeMunchak entered theseason with tenuous jobsecurity. As each teamhas gotten off to decentstarts, the heat has sub-sided a bit, and this is abetter matchup than pre-viously expected.

Although the Jets got agift win in the openeragainst Tampa, theycame close in New Eng-land to upsetting the Pa-triots. They are far toosloppy, especially withpenalties, but, as usual,Ryan has a solid, physi-cal defense.

The Titans needed along TD pass with 15 sec-onds remaining to rallypast San Diego. But theyhave shown vast im-provement on defenseand have not turned overthe ball.n Philadelphia (1-2) at Denver (3-0)

Don’t believe PeytonManning is losing anysleep over this one.

Manning runs an of-fense so potent it looksunstoppable, and the Ea-gles can’t tackle in theopen field and aren’tmuch in pass coverage.The game is in the MileHigh City, where the Ea-gles’ fast-paced attack

could run out of breathless than a half-mile in.

Philly’s best hope isthrough the air; Denverranks first in ground de-fense.n Dallas (2-1) at San Diego (1-2)

Two teams difficult toget a handle on.

Dallas looked excellentlast week against St.Louis and has won bothits home games. But itfrittered away plenty ofchances to win at KansasCity in Week 2. The Cow-boys’ defense, sparked byend DeMarcus Ware andlinebacker Sean Lee,could decide this one.

San Diego has troubleclosing out games. Allthree have been down-to-the-wire affairs, and theChargers allowed Hous-ton’s big rally in theopener, then Jake Lock-er’s late TD pass lastweek.nN.Y. Giants (0-3)at Kansas City (3-0)

If Eli Manning thinkslast Sunday’s seven-sackbarrage was ugly in Car-olina, well, the Chiefslead the league in takingdown quarterbacks andhave a better all-arounddefense than the Pan-thers. The Giants, whoseoffensive line is banged-up, must find a runninggame; might be time forcoach Tom Coughlin toswallow hard and givemercurial (and fumble-prone) David Wilson theball.

After Andy Reid’s suc-cessful return to Philadel-phia, the Chiefs lead theNFL with a plus-9turnover differential.They have yet to have agiveaway.n Cincinnati (2-1) at Cleveland (1-2)

The Ohio faceoff gotsome added luster whenthe Bengals beat GreenBay and the Brownsstunned Minnesota.

Still, Cincinnati is infar better shape and hasthe look of a contender.

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With a win, Bears could take charge of divisionThere’s big-play capabili-ty on both sides of theball, with playmakerslike WR A.J. Green androokie RB Gio Bernard onoffense, Geno Atkins andReggie Nelson on defense.

Cleveland came to lifeafter the stunning trade ofTrent Richardson. TheBrowns’ defense is solid,and their offense was im-pressive at Minnesota be-hind journeyman QB Bri-an Hoyer and tight endJordan Cameron.nBaltimore (2-1) at Buffalo (1-2)

After two weak show-ings, the Ravens lookedmuch more like champi-ons in manhandling Hous-ton last week. There’shope Ray Rice can returnto the backfield from hiship flexor. Baltimore coulduse a spark for its offense.

Buffalo is dealing withthe growing pains of arookie QB, EJ Manuel,and a defense that can’tstop the run. It couldn’tgrab a victory last Sundaywhen the Jets seemedwilling to hand one over.n Indianapolis (2-1) at Jacksonville (0-3)

Coming off their hugewin at San Francisco, theColts need to remainsharp — although a lesserperformance still shouldbe enough to beat the un-dermanned Jaguars. Indy

will have RB TrentRichardson more indoctri-nated in the offense aftera full week of practice.

Jacksonville gets backstarting QB Blaine Gab-bert for an offense thathas produced a mere threeTDs.nWashington (0-3) at Oakland (1-2)

If the Redskins can’t getoff the schneid against theRaiders, some changesmight be in order. It’s dif-ficult being patient wait-ing for Robert Griffin IIIto return to full fitness, orfor the league’s worst de-fense statistically to turnit around.

Oakland is dealing withQB Terrelle Pryor’s con-cussion, and all the bruis-es physically and emo-tionally from that Mon-day night rout at thehands of the Broncos.n Arizona (1-2) at Tampa Bay (0-3)

Some members of theCardinals must smirkabout Tampa Bay’s unsta-ble QB situation givenhow Arizona wentthrough four of them lastyear, none productive.Now, the Cardinals havea veteran passer with cre-dentials in CarsonPalmer, and the Bucs aregoing with rookie MikeGlennon over benchedJosh Freeman.

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State scoresSaturdayClay-Battelle 40, Bellaire St. John, Ohio 6Handley, Va. 38, Washington 28Linsly 26, Allderdice, Pa. 7Steubenville Cath. Cent., Ohio 48, Oak Glen 0

ScheduleFridayWoodrow Wilson at Cabell MidlandWyoming East at River VIewWestside at ScottMeadow Bridge at Valley (Homecoming)Summers County at Covington (Va.)Oak Hill at Shady Spring Robert C. Byrd at Nicholas CountyWebster County at LibertySherman at Independence (Homecoming)Greenbrier West at PikeViewUniversity at Greenbrier EastMan at Fayetteville (Homecoming)

Local resultsat Greenbrier East tournamentIndependence d. Princeton 25-23, 26-24Independence d. Riverside 25-23, 25-18Independence split with PikeView 22-25, 25-22Shady Spring d. Independence 25-23,26-24Independence d. PikeView 25-23, 25-10SemifinalsIndependence d. Greenbrier East 11-25,26-24, 26-24ChampionshipIndependence d. James Monroe 23-25,25-14, 25-13Statistics: Annie Bass 33 service points, 54kills, 39 digs; Brittany Allen 17 kills; SkylarKipps 10 service points, 44 kills, 12 blocks;Jenny Perkins 39 service points, 15 kills, 20blocks; Stephanie Fletcher 80 digs; JessicaAdkins 34 service points, 62 digs; KaitlynSpencer 36 service points, 61 digs; BrookeFoley 49 service points, 102 assists, 49 digsNext match: Independence (15-5-1) willplay at Summers County at 6:30 p.m. Mon-day

at River View tournamentRiver View d. Wyoming East 21-25, 12-25Wyoming East d. Bluefield 25-13, 25-13Tug Valley d. Wyoming East 9-25, 16-25Statistics: Bre Pertee 11 service points, 9aces, 17 kills, 4 digs, 1 block; Emily Day 17service points, 6 aces, 3 assists, 2 kills; Ash-ley Boyce 6 service points, 2 assists; Court-ney Hall 6 service points, 1 ace; MeganDavis 8 assists; Courtney Neece 5 servicepoints, 1 ace, 4 assists; Brooke Cantrell 6service points, 1 assistNext match: Wyoming East (3-10) will hostRiver View at 6 p.m. Tuesday

ScheduleMondayIndependence at Summers County, 6:30 p.m.Meadow Bridge at Valley, 6 p.m.TuesdayFayetteville, Calhoun County at Clay County, 6p.m.Independence, Princeton at PikeView, 6 p.m.James Monroe at Bluefield, 6 p.m.Liberty, Nicholas County at Oak Hill, 6 p.m.Nicholas County at Oak Hill, 5 p.m.Pocahontas County at Richwood, 6 p.m.River View at Wyoming East, 5 p.m.

Boys scheduleTuesdayBluefield at PikeView, 5 p.m.Independence at Nicholas County, 5 p.m.Princeton at Woodrow Wilson, 5:30 p.m.Shady Spring at Oak Hill, 5 p.m.

Girls scheduleMondayWyoming East at PikeView, 5:30 p.m.TuesdayBluefield at PikeView, 7 p.m.Oak Hill at Shady Spring, 6 p.m.Pocahontas County at Midland Trail, 7 p.m.Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, 5:30 p.m.

NASCAR-Sprint Cup-AAA 400 Lineup after Friday qualifying; race todayAt Dover International SpeedwayDover, Del.; Lap length: 1 miles(Car number in parentheses)1. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet,161.849.2. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 161.805.3. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 161.74.4. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 161.609.5. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 161.609.6. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 161.594.7. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 161.493.8. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 161.341.9. (78) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 161.326.10. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 161.204.11. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 161.023.12. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 160.8.13. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet,160.736.14. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 160.721.15. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 160.714.16. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 160.664.17. (47) A J Allmendinger, Toyota, 160.65.18. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 160.557.19. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 160.542.20. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 160.371.21. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 160.249.22. (55) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 160.1.23. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 159.851.24. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 159.645.25. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 158.779.26. (13) Casey Mears, Ford, 158.611.27. (34) David Ragan, Ford, 158.451.28. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 158.263.29. (14) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 157.992.30. (93) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, 157.929.31. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 157.563.32. (36) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, 157.549.33. (30) Cole Whitt, Toyota, 157.336.34. (98) Michael McDowell, Ford, 156.883.35. (95) Reed Sorenson, Ford, 156.692.36. (51) Ryan Truex, Chevrolet, 156.644.37. (33) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, OwnerPoints.38. (35) Josh Wise, Ford, Owner Points.39. (83) David Reutimann, Toyota, OwnerPoints.40. (7) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, Owner Points.41. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, OwnerPoints.

42. (32) Timmy Hill, Ford, Owner Points.43. (40) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, OwnerPoints.

NASCAR Nationwide5-hour ENERGY 200 benefiting Living Be-yond Breast Cancer ResultsSaturday, at Dover International Speed-way, Dover, Del.; Lap length: 1 miles(Start position in parentheses)1. (1) Joey Logano, Ford, 200 laps, 140 rating,0 points, $49,230.2. (17) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 200, 114.7, 42,$41,322.3. (8) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 200, 112.7, 0,$24,265.4. (11) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 200, 107.4, 40,$27,696.5. (12) Elliott Sadler, Toyota, 199, 98.1, 39,$25,821.6. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 199, 106.3, 38,$24,671.7. (9) Parker Kligerman, Toyota, 199, 86.4, 37,$22,256.8. (5) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 199, 134.3, 0,$18,110.9. (18) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 199, 90.2, 35,$21,621.10. (6) Mike Bliss, Toyota, 199, 92.8, 35,$22,446.11. (10) Brian Scott, Chevrolet, 199, 85.3, 33,$20,971.12. (14) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 199, 77.5,32, $20,846.13. (7) Brad Sweet, Chevrolet, 198, 81.6, 31,$20,746.14. (15) Michael Annett, Ford, 198, 72.6, 30,$20,621.15. (13) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 198, 100.7,29, $21,521.16. (19) Cole Whitt, Toyota, 198, 68.3, 29,$20,471.17. (2) Sam Hornish Jr., Ford, 198, 78.6, 27,$20,596.18. (4) Alex Bowman, Toyota, 197, 79.5, 26,$20,346.19. (20) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 197, 79.7,25, $20,296.20. (23) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 197,59.7, 24, $20,921.21. (22) Mike Wallace, Chevrolet, 196, 62.5,23, $20,191.22. (21) Travis Pastrana, Ford, 196, 69.6, 22,$20,091.23. (24) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 196, 53.1, 21,$20,016.24. (16) Nelson Piquet Jr., Chevrolet, 194, 62,20, $19,966.25. (38) T.J. Duke, Ford, 191, 41.3, 19,$20,391.26. (31) Eric McClure, Toyota, 189, 44.8, 18,$19,866.27. (34) Morgan Shepherd, Chevrolet, 177,38.9, 17, $19,816.28. (27) T.J. Bell, Chevrolet, 162, 49.1, 16,$19,741.29. (33) Joey Gase, Chevrolet, rear gear, 107,41.2, 15, $19,666.30. (25) Blake Koch, Toyota, handling, 85,44.1, 14, $19,916.31. (29) Carl Long, Dodge, transmission, 74,45.5, 13, $19,566.32. (30) Ryan Ellis, Toyota, brakes, 60, 49.7,12, $13,315.33. (39) Brad Teague, Toyota, parked, 58,30.9, 11, $13,245.34. (36) Donnie Neuenberger, Ford, accident,33, 37.2, 10, $19,406.35. (28) Jeff Green, Toyota, vibration, 13, 39.2,9, $13,155.36. (35) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, overheating, 9,34.9, 0, $12,260.37. (37) Chase Miller, Chevrolet, handling, 8,31.6, 7, $12,240.38. (26) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, transmission, 7,32.4, 6, $12,176.39. (32) Danny Efland, Chevrolet, vibration, 4,29.3, 5, $12,075.Race StatisticsAverage Speed of Race Winner: 131.219 mph.Time of Race: 1 hour, 31 minutes, 27 seconds.Margin of Victory: 14.590 seconds.Caution Flags: 2 for 8 laps.Lead Changes: 6 among 4 drivers.Lap Leaders: J.Logano 1-18; K.Busch 19-86;J.Logano 87-115; M.Bliss 116-117; C.Whitt118-120; K.Busch 121-141; J.Logano 142-200.

NFL standingsAMERICAN CONFERENCEEast W L T Pct PF PANew England 3 0 0 1.000 59 34Miami 3 0 0 1.000 74 53N.Y. Jets 2 1 0 .667 55 50Buffalo 1 2 0 .333 65 73South W L T Pct PF PAHouston 2 1 0 .667 70 82

Indianapolis 2 1 0 .667 68 48Tennessee 2 1 0 .667 60 56Jacksonville 0 3 0 .000 28 92North W L T Pct PF PACincinnati 2 1 0 .667 75 64Baltimore 2 1 0 .667 71 64Cleveland 1 2 0 .333 47 64Pittsburgh 0 3 0 .000 42 76West W L T Pct PF PADenver 3 0 0 1.000 127 71Kansas City 3 0 0 1.000 71 34San Diego 1 2 0 .333 78 81Oakland 1 2 0 .333 57 67NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast W L T Pct PF PADallas 2 1 0 .667 83 55Philadelphia 1 2 0 .333 79 86N.Y. Giants 0 3 0 .000 54 115Washington 0 3 0 .000 67 98South W L T Pct PF PANew Orleans 3 0 0 1.000 70 38Carolina 1 2 0 .333 68 36Atlanta 1 2 0 .333 71 74Tampa Bay 0 3 0 .000 34 57North W L T Pct PF PAChicago 3 0 0 1.000 95 74Detroit 2 1 0 .667 82 69Green Bay 1 2 0 .333 96 88Minnesota 0 3 0 .000 81 96Wes W L T Pct PF PASeattle 3 0 0 1.000 86 27San Francisco 2 2 0 .500 79 95Arizona 1 2 0 .333 56 79St. Louis 1 3 0 .250 69 121Thursday’s GameSan Francisco 35, St. Louis 11Today’s GamesN.Y. Giants at Kansas City, 1 p.m.Seattle at Houston, 1 p.m.Baltimore at Buffalo, 1 p.m.Arizona at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.Cincinnati at Cleveland, 1 p.m.Chicago at Detroit, 1 p.m.Pittsburgh vs. Minnesota at London, 1 p.m.N.Y. Jets at Tennessee, 4:05 p.m.Washington at Oakland, 4:25 p.m.Dallas at San Diego, 4:25 p.m.Philadelphia at Denver, 4:25 p.m.New England at Atlanta, 8:30 p.m.Open: Carolina, Green BayMonday’s GameMiami at New Orleans, 8:40 p.m.

National scoresEAST Albright 48, King’s (Pa.) 29 Alfred 34, Brockport 28, OT Amherst 27, Bowdoin 11 Bates 20, Tufts 16 Bloomsburg 56, Lock Haven 10 Bridgewater (Mass.) 30, Fitchburg St. 20 Bryant 47, Wagner 28 Buffalo 41, UConn 12 Carnegie-Mellon 41, Geneva 34, 2OT Coast Guard 37, Nichols 20 College of NJ 7, S. Virginia 2 Delaware Valley 41, Stevenson 23 Dickinson 31, Moravian 7 East Stroudsburg 40, Cheyney 6 Edinboro 43, Seton Hill 7 Florida St. 48, Boston College 34 Fordham 38, St. Francis (Pa.) 20 Framingham St. 14, W. Connecticut 12 Franklin & Marshall 46, Juniata 16 Gannon 45, Clarion 25 Gettysburg 42, Susquehanna 28 Hobart 24, Merchant Marine 8 Indiana (Pa.) 20, California (Pa.) 7 Ithaca 24, Buffalo St. 20 Lebanon Valley 65, FDU-Florham 21 Lehigh 34, New Hampshire 27 Livingstone 35, Lincoln (Pa.) 7 Lycoming 16, Widener 14 Mass.-Dartmouth 38, Plymouth St. 7 Merrimack 66, Pace 14 Middlebury 27, Colby 10 Monmouth (NJ) 37, Columbia 14 New Haven 48, CW Post 23 Pittsburgh 14, Virginia 3 Princeton 50, Georgetown 22 Rhode Island 42, CCSU 7 Rochester 36, Springfield 35 Rowan 7, Montclair St. 0 Sacred Heart 16, Bucknell 0 Salve Regina 29, MIT 21 Shippensburg 48, Millersville 10 Slippery Rock 58, Mercyhurst 34 St. Augustine’s 29, Bowie St. 7 St. John Fisher 33, Cortland St. 25 St. Lawrence 30, Union (NY) 20 Stonehill 30, Bentley 3 Towson 35, Stony Brook 21 Trinity (Conn.) 20, Williams 13 Ursinus 40, McDaniel 21 Villanova 35, Penn 6 W. New England 59, Maine Maritime 0 WPI 27, RPI 14 Washington & Jefferson 32, Thiel 19

Wesleyan (Conn.) 35, Hamilton 6 West Chester 22, Kutztown 21 West Virginia 30, Oklahoma St. 21 Westminster (Pa.) 28, St. Vincent 21 Wilkes 33, Misericordia 14 William Paterson 49, NY Maritime 23 Worcester St. 64, Mass. Maritime 63 Yale 38, Cornell 23SOUTH Alabama St. 49, Alcorn St. 30 Alderson-Broaddus 17, Va. Lynchburg 14 Army 35, Louisiana Tech 16 Ave Maria 27, Warner 3 Bethany (WV) 34, Grove City 31 Butler 45, Jacksonville 27 Campbellsville 54, Belhaven 22 Catawba 25, Carson-Newman 22 Catholic 49, Anna Maria 0 Charleston (WV) 34, Notre Dame Coll. 32 Charleston Southern 27, Appalachian St. 24 Charlotte 45, Presbyterian 21 Chowan 29, Shaw 23 Clemson 56, Wake Forest 7 Coastal Carolina 53, Elon 28 Concord 20, West Liberty 3 Cumberland (Tenn.) 40, Bluefield South 10 Delaware St. 24, Savannah St. 22 Duke 38, Troy 31 East Carolina 55, North Carolina 31 Fairmont St. 56, W. Virginia St. 3 Fayetteville St. 31, Elizabeth City St. 27 Fort Valley St. 35, Benedict 30 Furman 24, The Citadel 17 Gardner-Webb 55, Point (Ga.) 7 Georgetown (Ky.) 49, Kentucky Christian 7 Georgia 44, LSU 41 Georgia Southern 23, Chattanooga 21 Huntingdon 56, Ferrum 35 Jackson St. 19, Southern U. 14 Johns Hopkins 45, Muhlenberg 13 LaGrange 35, Greensboro 21 Lenoir-Rhyne 24, Tusculum 10 Lindsey Wilson 37, Faulkner 30, OT Maine 28, Richmond 21 Maryville (Tenn.) 35, Methodist 26 Mercer 31, Drake 17 Miami 49, South Florida 21 Morehead St. 45, Davidson 14 Murray St. 35, Jacksonville St. 34, OT NC State 48, Cent. Michigan 14 NC Wesleyan 27, Averett 24 Newberry 24, Mars Hill 10 Norfolk St. 27, Morgan St. 21 North Greenville 41, Brevard 28 Old Dominion 66, Albany (NY) 10 Reinhardt 41, Bethel (Tenn.) 36 Rhodes 36, Berry 24 Robert Morris 37, VMI 31, 2OT SC State 30, Hampton 6 Samford 62, W. Carolina 23 San Diego 59, Stetson 0 Shepherd 45, WV Wesleyan 10 South Carolina 28, UCF 25 Tennessee 31, South Alabama 24 Thomas More 49, Waynesburg 28 Tuskegee 42, Lane 14 UNC-Pembroke 38, Wingate 10 Union (Ky.) 24, Virginia-Wise 17 Virginia St. 19, Johnson C. Smith 17 W. Kentucky 19, Navy 7 Washington & Lee 35, Sewanee 24 Webber 35, Mississippi College 7 Wesley 46, Birmingham-Southern 12 West Georgia 31, Shorter 14 Winston-Salem 55, Virginia Union 15MIDWEST Ball St. 31, Toledo 24 Bethel (Minn.) 56, Carleton 14 Bowling Green 31, Akron 14 Concordia (Moor.) 24, St. John’s (Minn.) 14 Concordia (Neb.) 24, Dakota St. 0 Concordia (St.P.) 36, Minn. St.-Moorhead 34 DE. Illinois 42, E. Kentucky 7 Emporia St. 45, Northeastern St. 24 Eureka 21, Minn.-Morris 13 Ferris St. 59, Walsh 16 Findlay 40, Michigan Tech 19 Franklin 80, Earlham 14 Illinois 50, Miami (Ohio) 14 Illinois College 44, Ripon 28 Illinois Wesleyan 14, Hope 7 Indianapolis 17, Hillsdale 14 Iowa 23, Minnesota 7 Iowa Wesleyan 41, Mac Murray 14 Marist 31, Dayton 20 Minn. Duluth 64, Wayne (Neb.) 21 Missouri St. 37, Illinois St. 10 Montana St. 63, North Dakota 20 N. Dakota St. 20, S. Dakota St. 0 N. Illinois 55, Purdue 24 N. Iowa 41, McNeese St. 6 NW Missouri St. 53, Nebraska-Kearney 7 Nebraska Wesleyan 22, Northwestern (Iowa) 8 North Central (Ill.) 27, Wis.-Stevens Pt. 7 Ohio Dominican 57, Grand Valley St. 14 Ohio Northern 38, Capital 24 Oklahoma 35, Notre Dame 21 Olivet 14, North Park 10 Pacific Lutheran 21, Wis.-Eau Claire 19 Pittsburg St. 59, Lincoln (Mo.) 38 Quincy 36, Lindenwood (Mo.) 7 Rose-Hulman 44, Manchester 30 S. Dakota Tech 70, William Jewell 48 Siena Heights 14, Olivet Nazarene 0

Sioux Falls 52, Minn.-Crookston 7 St. Ambrose 66, Concordia (Mich.) 0 St. Cloud St. 29, Augustana (SD) 26 St. Joseph’s (Ind.) 24, Trine 21 St. Mary (Kan.) 45, Bethany (Kan.) 15 St. Norbert 27, Carroll (Wis.) 7 St. Scholastica 41, Westminster (Mo.) 13 St. Xavier 37, St. Francis (Ill.) 25 Tennessee St. 73, Central St. (Ohio) 6 Upper Iowa 36, Mary 7 Urbana 12, Glenville St. 9 Valparaiso 49, Campbell 42, OT W. Illinois 24, South Dakota 10 Wabash 65, Allegheny 0 Washburn 28, Cent. Oklahoma 19 Washington (Mo.) 31, Centre 14 Wayne (Mich.) 38, Malone 27 William Penn 21, Taylor 10 Winona St. 49, Minot St. 14 Wis.-Oshkosh 56, Alma 3 Wis.-Whitewater 65, Waldorf 0 Wooster 38, Hiram 24SOUTHWEST Henderson St. 63, East Central 31 Hendrix 48, Southwestern (Texas) 29 Houston 59, UTSA 28 S. Arkansas 47, NW Oklahoma St. 14 Sam Houston St. 49, E. Washington 34 TCU 48, SMU 17 Tarleton St. 41, Abilene Christian 34, 2OT Trinity (Texas) 26, Austin 3FAR WEST Colorado St. 59, UTEP 42 Idaho 26, Temple 24 Oregon St. 44, Colorado 17 S. Utah 27, N. Colorado 21

■ The junior class at Greater Beckley Christ-ian School will sponsor a golf tournamentSaturday, Oct. 12 at the Brier Patch GolfLinks. The tournament is a four-personscramble with a 2 p.m. shotgun start. Entryfee is $55 person or $200 per team and in-cludes greens fees, cart and spaghetti dinner.Hole sponsorships are available for $100 andmulligans will be sold for $5 apiece. Formore information please contact RachelleKendrick (dsken@suddenlink.net) at 304-763-5236 or Deb Moreland (deb_more-land@frontier.com) at 304-237-1447. ■ The Oak Hill Little League will hold an or-ganizational meeting on Oct. 15 at the ScoutCabin at 6:30 p.m. to vote and elect newboard members for the upcoming season.The public is invited.■ The Independence Baseball Boosters willhave a fundraiser Monday, Sept. 30 at Dick-ey’s BBQ in Lester Square in Sophia. Thefundraiser will run from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.■ The Shady Spring High School Baseball Boosterswill sponsor a four-man scramble golf tournamentOct. 5 at Grandview Country Club starting at 8:30a.m. The cost is $240 per team or $60 per personwith lunch and drinks provided. Mulligan bags willbe sold and prizes will be awarded for first, secondand third place, as well as longest drive, closest tothe pin and longest putt. There will be a 50/50 putt-off and all players will receive something for partici-pating. For more information, please contact headbaseball coach Dave Shaw at 304-890-2226 or anyplayer or parent.■ There will be an ASEP coaching class held Sept.29 and Oct. 5, 6 at South Charleston High Schoolfor all persons interested in coaching a secondaryschool sport. All interested participants can registerat www.wvssac.org.

TELEVISION TODAYAUTO RACING2 p.m.ESPN — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, AAA 400, atDover, Del. 8:30 p.m.ESPN2 — NHRA, Midwest Nationals, at Madi-son, Ill. (same-day tape) GOLF8 a.m.TGC — European PGA Tour, Alfred DunhillLinks Championship, final round, at St. An-drews, Scotland 3 p.m.TGC — Web.com Tour Championship, finalround, at Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. 7 p.m.TGC — Champions Tour, First Tee Open, finalround, at Pebble Beach, Calif. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL1 p.m.TBS — Pittsburgh at Cincinnati 2 p.m.WGN — Kansas City at Chicago White Sox MOTORSPORTS8 a.m.FS1 — MotoGP World Championship, GranPremio de Aragon, at Aragon, Spain NFL FOOTBALL1 p.m.CBS — Regional coverageFOX — Regional coverage, doubleheader 4 p.m.CBS — Regional coverage 4:25 p.m.FOX — Regional coverage, doubleheadergame 8 p.m.NBC — New England at Atlanta SOCCER8:25 a.m.NBCSN — Premier League, Norwich at StokeCity 10:55 a.m.NBCSN — Premier League, Liverpool at Sun-derland 3:30 p.m.NBC — MLS, Los Angeles at Portland 9 p.m.ESPN — MLS, New York at Seattle 1:30 a.m.ESPN2 — FIFA, Beach World Cup, champi-onship, at Papeete, Tahiti (delayed tape) WNBA BASKETBALL3 p.m.ESPN2 — Playoffs, conference finals, game2, Atlanta at Indiana5 p.m.

ESPN2 — Playoffs, conference finals, game2, Minnesota at Phoenix

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GARDNER — Hunter Moses led PikeViewto the promised land Friday night.

The PikeView senior had 313 all-purposeyards and scored three touchdowns, leadingthe Panthers to a 23-12 win over Shady Springfor their first season with at least two winssince 2010.

PikeView (2-3) took a 16-6 lead at the break,keyed by a 60-yard punt return for a touch-down by Moses in the opening quarter. He alsohad an 8-yard run to the end zone before thehalf, and a 36-yard scoring dash in the final pe-riod.

“Our kids played well. The kids played fourquarters of football, if we had played that wayall season, we could be 4-1, if not 5-0,” Pike-View second-year head coach Bobby Wyattsaid. “Like Hunter said, ‘It is easy to run whenthey block like that.’”

Moses finished with 254 yards and a touch-down on 21 carries.

“He made some good open field moves to getmore yardage,” Wyatt said. “Last year he wasmore of a straight ahead runner. When he getsin a hole he can make people miss now.”

Shady Spring (1-4) had a first-quarter touch-down on a 30-yard pass from Tim Culicerto toDrew Green.

The Tigers also got a 15-yard scoring runfrom Tyler Hansen.

Otherwise, they struggled.

Defensively, the Panthers also stepped upbig when it counted most, led by JonathanJennings, who had four pass breakups, twoforced fumbles and a fumble recovery.Richard Edwards and Bradley Flinchumwere also recognized by Wyatt for their ef-forts on that side of the ball.

“Our defense played well,” Wyatt said. “Wehad them inside the 10 twice and once insidethe 5 and stopped them. We gave up someyardage. They ran straight at us, we strug-gled with that and bent a little bit, but brokeonly once (on a touchdown pass in the firstquarter).”

Shady Spring coach Vince Culicerto saidthe learning process continues for his young,1-4 team.

“It’s the same stuff we’ve had with the mis-takes,” he said. “It was one of those gameswhere you had chances to score some pointsand didn’t.”

Alex Testerman added a 30-yard field goalfor PikeView and made a pair of extra points.

“Give PikeView credit. They’re a realscrappy bunch and they’re well coached,”Culicerto said. “They played hard and got af-ter it.”

PikeView, which was 1-9 in 2011 and 0-10last season, has defeated Independence (9-6)and the Tigers, while dropping a trio of closecalls to Summers County (18-12), Liberty (14-

13) and James Monroe (24-13).The Panthers will face Greenbrier West on

Friday in what is homecoming for the Pan-thers.

“My speech to our kids, and I have alreadystarted it with them,” Wyatt said. “We knewhow we played with Summers County and wereally had an opportunity to come away withan unforeseen upset.

“They are starting to figure out what thisgame is about and what it takes to get to thenext level of winning.”

Shady Spring (1-4) hosts unbeaten OakHill next Friday.

— The Register-Herald’s Dan Stillwell contributed to this story.

PikeView 23, Shady Spring 12SS (1-4) 6 0 6 0 — 12PV (2-3) 9 7 7 0 — 23First QuarterPV: Hunter Moses 60 punt return (Kick failed)SS: Drew Green 30 pass from Tim Culicerto (Kick failed)PV: Alex Testerman FG 25Second QuarterPV: Moses 8 run (Testerman kick)Third QuarterPV: Moses 36 run (Testerman kick)SS: Tyler Hansen 15 run (Kick failed)INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING — SS: Hansen 19-114, Culicerto 8-17, Elliot Hal-stead 10--46. PV: Moses 21-254.PASSING — SS: Culicerto 8-16-0, 138. PV: n/a. RECEIVING — SS: Green 1-30, Patrick Sawyers 4-72, Hansen3-28. PV: n/a.TAKEAWAYS — SS: Parker Unroe (int.). PV: Jonathan Jennings(fum. rec.).

Panthers top Shady for 2nd victory

■ BOYS PREP SOCCEROak Hill 2, Winfield 1

OAK HILL — John Hardman scored both OakHill goals as the Red Devils remained unbeaten.

Ian Hunt assisted on one of Hardman’s goals.Keeper Brett Garris saved seven shots; Winfieldtook 10 on the afternoon.

Steven Taylor scored for the Generals.Oak Hill (12-0-1) will host Shady Spring at 5

p.m. Tuesday.

PikeView 5, Nicholas County 0SUMMERSVILLE — Seth Wood scored two

goals and assisted on another as visiting Pike-View blanked Nicholas County.

Hunter Cline scored a goal and had an assist,while Blake Hopkins and Beau Smith alsoscored. PikeView keeper Austin Cordell madethree saves.

Nicholas’ Justin Browning was peppered allday by the Panthers and managed to make 18saves.

PikeView (8-3-1) will host Greenbrier East at7:15 p.m. Monday.

Charleston Catholic 4, Greenbrier East 0Joey Trupo and Anthony Cipollone scored two

goals apiece to pace the Fighting Irish.Charleston had a 19-3 advantage in shots on

goal. Cavaliers goalkeeper Mac Brackenrich made12 saves, while backup Noah Dye had 2. FightingIrish goalie Patrick Kline made two saves.

Greenbrier East (3-7-2) will play a 7 p.m.match Monday at PikeView.

■ GIRLS PREP SOCCERPikeView 1, Nicholas County 0

SUMMERSVILLE — Keri Shrewsbury’s unas-sisted goal in the 11th held up as PikeViewpicked up the program’s 100th victory.

Kristen Brinkley made three saves for the Pan-thers (9-4), who will host Wyoming East at 5:30p.m. Monday.

■ Crossroads Chevrolet to provide trucksfor Fastrak championships at BMP

Local car dealership Crossroads Chevrolet will

be a main sponsor of the 2013 FASTRAK WorldChampionships II for driver introductions and pre-race entertainment. The race events will be heldfrom Oct. 3-5 at Beckley Motorsports Park inProsperity.

Much like the drivers in NASCAR, the drivers ofin the FASTRAK championship will be introducedto the crowd in the back of full-size trucks cour-tesy of Crossroads Chevrolet. The 24 drivers ofthe prestigious race will be treated like rock starsas they lap the track and wave to fans.

In addition, there will be a massive full sizetruck with a big video board in back, along withan powerful sound system, positioned on theway through the main concourse to the speed-way for fans to see. The display will play videohighlights of the Inaugural World Championshipsfrom 2012.

Fans can visit http://fastrakracing.com orhttp://crossroadschevy.com/ for more informa-tion. For any questions, please contact AdamAlkassmi of Crossroads Chevrolet at 304-252-1500 or by emailing adam@crossroad-schevy.com.

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CINCINNATI (AP) —The postseason will startat PNC Park.

Neil Walker hit two ofPittsburgh’s six homers— its biggest power surgein six years — and the Pi-rates clinched home-fieldadvantage for the NL’swild-card playoff game bybeat the Cincinnati Reds8-3 Saturday.

Pittsburgh will host theReds on Tuesday night inthe Pirates’ first playoffappearance in 21 years.They went 50-31 at PNCPark, the third-best homerecord in the NL.

Pittsburgh hit fivehomers off Bronson Ar-royo (14-12), who hadnever given up that manyin a game in his career.Walker homered twice offthe right-hander, AndrewMcCutchen and Pedro Al-varez also hit solohomers, and Marlon Byrdhad a two-run shot thatended Arroyo’s outing inthe fifth and made it 6-3.

Prospect Andrew Lam-bo hit his first homer offLogan Ondrusek, the firsttime the Pirates had sixin a game since Aug. 22,2007 at Colorado.

Pirates starter CharlieMorton also struggled,leaving with one out andthe bases loaded in thefifth. Vin Mazzaro (8-2)fanned Zack Cozart andretired Ryan Hanigan ona fly ball as the slumpingReds left the bases loadedfor the second time in thegame.

Cincinnati stranded 11runners overall. Hun-dreds of Pirates fanschanted “Let’s Go Bucs!”as Jay Bruce groundedout with a runner aboardto end it.

Both teams already hadclinched wild-card berthsheading into their week-end series. Whoever tookit would host the one-game showdown. Pitts-burgh made quick work ofit, winning the opener 4-1on Friday night and thenthe second game, too.

The Ohio River rivalshave met five times in theplayoffs — 1970, 1972,1975, 1979 and 1990,when the Reds won theirlast World Series title.The Reds are 13-7 againstthe Pirates in the postsea-son. Pittsburgh hasplayed the Reds morethan any other team inthe playoffs.

The Reds have gone in-to a deep slump at a verybad time. They’ve lostfour in a row since clinch-ing a playoff spot with a3-2 win over the Mets onMonday night, scoring atotal of six runs.

They were at it again inthe first inning on Satur-day, leaving the basesloaded when Todd Frazierflied out.

Walker and McCutchenhit back-to-back homersin the third for a 2-0 lead.Brandon Phillips had anRBI single and Jay Brucefollowed with a two-rundouble for a 3-2 lead inthe third, Cincinnati’sfirst lead since Monday.

And it didn’t last long.Alvarez led off the

fourth inning with a first-pitch homer, tying it at 3.Alvarez’s 36th homergave him 100 RBIs. Walk-er hit his career-high 16thhomer in the fifth inning— the first multihomergame of his career — andByrd’s two-run shot end-ed Arroyo’s outing. Walk-er has seven homers inSeptember.

Lambo’s pinch-hithomer let the Pirates tiethe record for most by avisiting team at GreatAmerican Ball Park,which opened in 2003.

Piratesto hostwild-card

Indians open AL wild-cardlead over Tampa, Texas

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — TheCleveland Indians moved intosole possession of the AL wild-card lead on the next-to-lastscheduled day of the regularseason, beating the MinnesotaTwins 5-1 Saturday behind

Scott Kazmir’s strong start toextend their winning streak tonine.

Seeking their first postseasonappearance since 2007, the In-dians (91-70) took a one-gamelead over Tampa Bay andTexas (both 90-71).

Cleveland is assured of atleast a tie for the AL wild-card.With three teams seeking the

two wild-cards, today’s resultscould decide the matter or leadto one or two tiebreaker gamesat the start of next week.

Carlos Santana homered forthe Indians, who have won 14of their last 16.

If the three teams are tied af-ter today, Cleveland would hostTampa Bay on Monday, withthe winner advancing to the

postseason. The loser wouldplay at Texas on Tuesday forthe second wild card.

In the event today ends witha tie for the second wild-cardberth, there would be a one-game tiebreaker Monday. Tam-pa Bay would host Cleveland,Texas would be home againstthe Rays or the Indians wouldhost the Rangers.

The two wild cards wouldthen meet in a postseason gameWednesday to determine whichadvances to the division series.

After a rain delay of 2 hours,26 minutes at the start, Kazmir(10-9) allowed one run and sixhits in six innings. He won hissecond straight start after going1-5 with a 5.82 ERA in his pre-vious seven outings.

Standings and boxscores

EAST W L Pct. GB WC P10 Strk Home Away

x-Detroit 93 67 .581 –1/2 –1/2 6-4 L1 51-30 42-37Cleveland 91 70 .565 21/2 –1/2 9-1 W9 51-30 40-40Kansas City 85 76 .528 81/2 51/2 6-4 L1 44-37 41-39Minnesota 66 95 .410 271/2 241/2 1-9 L5 32-48 34-47Chicago Sox 63 98 .391 301/2 271/2 3-7 W1 37-43 26-55

CENTRAL W L Pct. GB WC P10 Strk Home Away

x-Oakland 95 66 .590 –1/2 –1/2 6-4 L1 52-29 43-37Texas 90 71 .559 51/2 –1/2 8-2 W6 45-35 45-36LA Angels 78 83 .484 171/2 121/2 5-5 L3 39-42 39-41Seattle 71 90 .441 241/2 191/2 5-5 W1 37-43 35-46Houston 51 110 .317 441/2 391/2 0-10 L14 24-56 26-55

WEST W L Pct. GB WC P10 Strk Home Awayx-LA Dodgers 92 68 .575 –1/2 –1/2 6-4 W1 47-32 45-36Arizona 80 80 .500 121/2 91/2 4-6 L3 44-35 36-45San Diego 76 85 .472 161/2 141/2 5-5 W1 45-36 31-49San Francisco 75 86 .466 171/2 151/2 5-5 L1 41-40 34-46Colorado 72 88 .450 201/2 171/2 4-6 L2 45-36 27-52

WEST W L Pct. GB WC P10 Strk Home Away

x-St. Louis 96 65 .596 –1/2 –1/2 8-2 W5 53-27 43-38y-Pittsburgh 93 68 .578 31/2 –1/2 6-4 W2 50-31 43-37y-Cincinnati 90 71 .559 61/2 –1/2 5-5 L4 49-30 41-41Milwaukee 74 87 .460 221/2 161/2 6-4 W4 37-44 37-43Chicago Cubs 66 95 .410 301/2 241/2 3-7 L2 31-50 35-45

CENTRAL W L Pct. GB WC P10 Strk Home Away

x-Atlanta 95 65 .594 –1/2 –1/2 6-4 W2 55-24 40-41Washington 85 75 .531 101/2 41/2 5-5 W1 47-34 38-41NY Mets 73 88 .453 221/2 171/2 5-5 L3 32-48 41-40Philadelphia 72 88 .450 231/2 171/2 2-8 L3 43-38 29-50Miami 60 100 .375 351/2 291/2 5-5 W2 34-45 26-55

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Saturday’s Results Friday’s ResultsBoston 12, Baltimore 3Toronto 6, Tampa Bay 3Texas 5, LA Angels 3Cleveland 12, Minnesota 6Kansas City 6, Chicago Sox 1NY Yankees 3, Houston 2Oakland 8, Seattle 2

Saturday’s Results Friday’s ResultsMiami 3, Detroit 2Milwaukee 4, NY Mets 2Pittsburgh 4, Cincinnati 1Atlanta 1, Philadelphia 0St. Louis 7, Chicago Cubs 0Washington 8, Arizona 4LA Dodgers 11, Colorado 0San Francisco 7, San Diego 3

Today’s GamesTampa Bay (M.Moore 16-4) at Toronto (Redmond 4-2), 1:07 p.m.Boston (Lackey 10-13) at Baltimore (Tillman 16-7), 1:35 p.m.Cleveland (U.Jimenez 12-9) at Minnesota (Diamond 6-12), 2:10 p.m.Kansas City (B.Chen 8-4) at Chicago White Sox (Quintana 9-6), 2:10 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (Huff 3-1) at Houston (Bedard 4-12), 2:10 p.m.L.A. Angels (Vargas 9-7) at Texas (Darvish 13-9), 3:05 p.m.Oakland (Gray 4-3) at Seattle (E.Ramirez 5-2), 4:10 p.m.

Today’s GamesDetroit (Verlander 13-12) at Miami (H.Alvarez 4-6), 1:10 p.m.Milwaukee (Estrada 7-4) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 8-8), 1:10 p.m.Pittsburgh (Cumpton 1-1) at Cincinnati (G.Reynolds 1-2), 1:10 p.m.Philadelphia (Miner 0-1) at Atlanta (Teheran 13-8), 1:35 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 8-12) at St. Louis (Westbrook 7-8), 2:15 p.m.San Diego (T.Ross 3-8) at San Francisco (Moscoso 2-2), 4:05 p.m.Colorado (Undecided) at L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 14-7), 4:10 p.m.Washington (Roark 7-1) at Arizona (Miley 10-10), 4:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh 8, Cincinnati 3San Diego 9, San Francisco 3Milwaukee 4, NY Mets 2, (10)St. Louis 6, Chicago Cubs 2Detroit at Miami, latePhiladelphia at Atlanta, lateWashington at Arizona, lateColorado at LA Dodgers, late

Texas 7, LA Angels 4Cleveland 5, Minnesota 1Toronto 7, Tampa Bay 2Seattle 7, Oakland 5Baltimore 6, Boston 5Chicago Sox 6, Kansas City 5NY Yankees 2, Houston 1

x-Boston 97 64 .602 –1/2 –1/2 5-5 L1 53-28 44-36Tampa Bay 90 71 .559 71/2 –1/2 7-3 L2 51-30 39-41Baltimore 84 77 .522 131/2 61/2 3-7 W1 45-35 39-42NY Yankees 84 77 .522 131/2 61/2 5-5 W2 46-35 38-42Toronto 74 87 .460 231/2 161/2 5-5 W2 40-40 34-47

Blue Jays 7, Rays 2Tampa Bay Toronto

ab r h bi ab r h biZobrist cf 4 1 2 0 Reyes ss 5 1 1 0SRdrgz lf 3 0 0 0 Lawrie 3b 3 0 2 0WMyrs rf 4 1 2 1 Lind dh 3 0 2 3Longori 3b 4 0 0 0 Kawsk dh 2 0 0 0DYong dh 4 0 0 1 Sierra rf 4 0 1 0YEscor ss 4 0 0 0 Gose cf 4 1 1 0Loney 1b 3 0 1 0 Goins 2b 4 1 1 2JMolin c 2 0 0 0 Lngrhn 1b 3 2 2 0DJnngs ph 1 0 0 0 Thole c 4 0 0 0Fuld cf 2 0 0 0 Pillar lf 4 2 2 2TBckh 2b 1 0 1 0Totals 32 2 6 2 Totals 36 712 7

Tampa Bay 100 000 001 — 2Toronto 001 240 00x — 7DP—Toronto 1. LOB—Tampa Bay 4, Toron-to 8. 2B—Zobrist (36), W.Myers (21), Loney(33). HR—Goins (2), Pillar (3). SB—Gose(4), Langerhans (1).

IP H R ER BB SOTampa Bay

Archer 2 1-3 5 1 1 1 4Al.Torres L,4-2 1 1-3 2 2 2 0 2J.Wright 2-3 4 3 3 1 2B.Gomes 2-3 1 1 1 1 2C.Ramos 3 0 0 0 0 5Toronto

Happ W,5-7 7 1-3 5 1 1 1 4Loup 2-3 0 0 0 0 0McGowan 1 1 1 1 0 1WP—Al.Torres. PB—Thole.T—3:18. A—33,232 (49,282).

Rangers 7, Angels 4Los Angeles Texas

ab r h bi ab r h biAybar ss 5 3 3 0 Kinsler 2b 5 2 1 0Cowgill lf 4 0 1 1 Andrus ss 4 1 1 0Field 2b 0 0 0 0 Rios rf 3 1 1 1JHmltn ph 1 0 1 0 ABeltre 3b 4 0 1 0Trout cf 1 0 0 2 Przyns c 4 1 1 1HKndrc dh 5 0 1 1 Morlnd 1b 3 0 1 0Trumo 1b 4 0 1 0 Gentry lf 4 1 2 1Calhon rf 4 0 1 0 DvMrp dh 3 1 1 0Iannett c 2 0 0 0 LMartn cf 2 0 1 0Shuck ph-lf 1 0 0 0GGreen 2b 3 0 0 0Conger c 1 0 0 0AnRmn 3b 3 1 1 0Totals 34 4 9 4 Totals 32 710 3

Los Angeles 101 020 000 — 4Texas 140 020 00x — 7E—Aybar (15), An.Romine (4), Cowgill (1),Richards (2), Calhoun (8). LOB—Los Ange-les 9, Texas 7. 2B—Aybar 3 (33), J.Hamilton(32), H.Kendrick (21), Rios (31), Gentry (12).SB—Gentry (22), L.Martin (36). S—Andrus,L.Martin 2. SF—Trout 2, Rios.

IP H R ER BB SOLos Angeles

Richards L,7-8 4 1-3 6 6 3 1 2Boshers 0 2 1 1 0 0Coello 2-3 1 0 0 0 1Hanson 3 1 0 0 1 1Texas

D.Holland 4 2-3 8 4 4 0 4Soria W,1-0 1 1-3 0 0 0 2 2R.Ross H,15 1 0 0 0 1 2Scheppers H,26 1 0 0 0 0 0Nathan S,43-46 1 1 0 0 1 2WP—Richards 2.T—3:18. A—38,635 (48,114).

Pirates 8, Reds 3Pittsburgh Cincinnati

ab r h bi ab r h biSMarte lf 5 0 1 0 Choo cf 3 1 1 0NWalkr 2b 5 2 2 2 Ludwck lf 3 0 0 0McCtch cf 5 1 2 1 HRdrgz 2b 1 0 0 0Mornea 1b 4 1 1 0 Votto 1b 2 1 1 0Byrd rf 4 2 3 2 BPhllps 2b 3 1 2 1PAlvrz 3b 4 1 2 1 CIzturs pr-2b0 0 0 0RMartn c 4 0 1 0 Heisey ph-lf 2 0 0 0Barmes ss 3 0 0 1 Bruce rf 4 0 1 2Morton p 2 0 0 0 Frazier 3b 3 0 0 0Mazzar p 0 0 0 0 Cozart ss 4 0 0 0Lambo ph 1 1 1 1 Hanign c 4 0 0 0JuWlsn p 0 0 0 0 Arroyo p 2 0 0 0GSnchz ph 1 0 0 0 DRonsn ph 0 0 0 0

Paul ph 1 0 0 0Totals 38 813 8 Totals 32 3 5 3

Pittsburgh 002 131 010 — 8Cincinnati 003 000 000 — 3E—Frazier (10). DP—Cincinnati 2. LOB—Pittsburgh 5, Cincinnati 11. 2B—Bruce (43).HR—N.Walker 2 (16), McCutchen (21), Byrd(24), P.Alvarez (36), Lambo (1). SF—Barmes.

IP H R ER BB SOPittsburgh

Morton 4 1-3 5 3 3 5 3Mazzaro W,8-2 2-3 0 0 0 0 1Ju.Wilson 1 0 0 0 2 1Watson 1 0 0 0 0 1Melancon 1 0 0 0 0 1Morris 1 0 0 0 1 2Cincinnati

Arroyo L,14-12 4 2-3 8 6 6 1 2S.Marshall 1-3 0 0 0 0 1Ondrusek 1 1 1 1 0 3Duke 1 0 0 0 0 0Hoover 1-3 3 1 1 0 0M.Parra 2-3 0 0 0 0 0LeCure 1 1 0 0 0 0T—3:24. A—40,707 (42,319).

Indians 5, Twins 1Cleveland Minnesota

ab r h bi ab r h biBourn cf 4 1 2 2 Presley cf 4 0 1 0Swisher 1b 3 0 0 0 Dozier 2b 3 0 0 0Kipnis 2b 4 1 2 1 Plouffe 3b 4 0 1 0CSantn 1b 4 1 1 2 Doumit dh 4 1 1 0MCarsn rf 0 0 0 0 Wlngh lf 4 0 1 0Brantly lf 4 0 0 0 Colaell 1b 4 0 1 0AsCarr ss 4 0 0 0 Mstrnn rf 3 0 0 0Giambi dh 2 0 0 0 Parmel ph 1 0 0 0Chsnhll dh 0 0 0 0 Fryer c 1 0 1 1Raburn dh 1 0 0 0 Flormn ss 3 0 0 0YGoms c 4 1 1 0Aviles 3b 4 1 1 0Totals 34 5 7 5 Totals 31 1 6 1

Cleveland 000 230 000 — 5Minnesota 000 100 000 — 1DP—Cleveland 1. LOB—Cleveland 4, Min-nesota 6. 3B—Bourn (6). HR—C.Santana(20).

IP H R ER BB SOCleveland

Kazmir W,10-9 6 6 1 1 2 11Rzepczynski 1 0 0 0 1 0Allen 1 0 0 0 0 1J.Smith 1 0 0 0 0 1Minnesota

De Vries L,0-2 5 6 5 5 1 7Swarzak 1 2-3 1 0 0 1 1Thielbar 1 1-3 0 0 0 0 0Perkins 1 0 0 0 0 1T—2:53. A—30,452 (39,021).

Mariners 7, Athletics 5Oakland Seattle

ab r h bi ab r h biCrisp cf 3 0 0 1 BMiller ss 4 2 2 5Dnldsn 3b 3 1 0 0 AAlmnt rf 4 0 0 0Lowrie ss 5 1 2 0 Seager 3b 3 0 0 0Moss 1b 5 1 1 2 KMorls dh 4 0 0 0Callasp dh 5 1 2 2 Ibanez lf 3 1 0 0Reddck rf 5 0 2 0 MSndrs lf 0 0 0 0S.Smith lf 1 0 0 0 Smoak 1b 3 1 1 2CYoung lf 2 0 1 0 Ackley cf 2 1 1 0Vogt c 2 1 1 0 Zunino c 3 1 1 0DNorrs c 0 0 0 0 Frnkln 2b 3 1 2 0Barton ph 1 0 0 0KSuzuk c 0 0 0 0Sogard 2b 2 0 1 0Freimn ph 1 0 0 0JWeeks 2b 1 0 0 0Totals 36 510 5 Totals 29 7 7 7

Oakland 001 001 300 — 5Seattle 021 040 00x — 7DP—Oakland 1. LOB—Oakland 10, Seattle1. 2B—Lowrie (45), C.Young (18), Vogt (6),Franklin (20). HR—Moss (30), Callaspo (10),B.Miller 2 (8), Smoak (20). SB—Crisp (21),C.Young (10). SF—Crisp.

IP H R ER BB SOOakland

J.Parker L,12-8 4 1-3 7 7 7 1 4Blevins 2-3 0 0 0 0 0Bre.Anderson 1 0 0 0 1 0Otero 1 0 0 0 0 1J.Chavez 1 0 0 0 1 0Seattle

Maurer W,5-8 5 1-3 6 2 2 1 5Furbush 2-3 1 0 0 1 1Ruffin 2-3 2 3 3 1 1Luetge H,1 1-3 0 0 0 0 0Medina H,19 1 1 0 0 2 2Farquhar S,16-20 1 0 0 0 0 2T—2:58. A—17,751 (47,476).

Cardinals 6, Cubs 2Chicago St. Louis

ab r h bi ab r h biStCastr ss 4 0 1 0 MCrpnt 3b 3 0 0 0Lake lf 3 0 0 0 RJcksn 3b 1 0 0 0Rizzo 1b 3 1 1 1 Jay cf 3 1 1 0DNavrr c 3 0 0 0 BPtrsn lf 1 0 0 0Boscan ph 1 1 1 0 Hollidy lf 1 1 1 2Schrhlt rf 4 0 1 0 SRonsn cf 2 1 1 0DMrph 3b 4 0 1 1 MAdms 1b 3 1 0 0Bogsvc cf 3 0 1 0 YMolin c 2 1 2 2DMcDn ph 1 0 1 0 T.Cruz c 2 0 0 0Barney 2b 4 0 0 0 Descals 3b 3 0 1 0Villanv p 1 0 0 0 APerez ph 1 0 0 0Sweeny ph 1 0 0 0 Kozma ss 4 1 2 1

Chamrs rf 3 0 1 0Wnwrg p 2 0 1 1Wong 2b 2 0 0 0

Totals 32 2 7 2 Totals 33 610 6

Chicago 000 000 002 — 2St. Louis 204 000 00x — 6DP—St. Louis 1. LOB—Chicago 6, St. Louis7. 2B—St.Castro (34), Boscan (1), Do.Mur-phy (8), Y.Molina (44), Kozma (20). HR—Riz-zo (23), Holliday (22). CS—Chambers (1).S—E.Jackson.

IP H R ER BB SOChicago

Jackson L,8-18 2 2-3 8 6 6 3 1Villanueva 2 1-3 0 0 0 0 2Rosscup 1 0 0 0 1 2Grimm 1 1 0 0 0 2B.Parker 1 1 0 0 0 1St. Louis

Wnwrght W,19-9 5 1-3 2 0 0 1 5S.Freeman 12-3 0 0 0 1 1Axford 1 1 0 0 0 1Mujica 1-3 3 2 2 0 0Choate 0 1 0 0 0 0Maness S,1-3 2-3 0 0 0 0 0T—3:00. A—42,520 (43,975).

Padres 9, Giants 3San Diego San Francisco

ab r h bi ab r h biDenorfi rf 5 2 2 2 Pagan cf 5 1 3 0Forsyth ss 4 0 0 0 J.Perez lf 4 1 1 0Fuents cf 1 1 1 1 Belt ph 1 0 0 0Gyorko 2b 5 1 1 2 Pence rf 4 1 1 2Headly 3b 4 1 2 0 Sandovl 3b 3 0 2 1Medica 1b 4 1 3 1 HSnchz c 4 0 0 0JGzmn lf 5 1 3 2 Abreu 2b 4 0 1 0Amarst ss 5 1 1 0 Pill 1b 4 0 1 0CRonsn c 5 0 1 0 Adrianz ss 3 0 0 0Stults p 3 0 1 1 Petit p 1 0 0 0Venale ph 1 0 1 0 FPegur ph 1 0 0 0Alonso pr 0 1 0 0 BCrwfr ph 1 0 0 0

GBlanc ph 1 0 0 0Totals 42 916 9 Totals 36 3 9 3

San Diego 100 400 004 — 9San Francisco 102 000 000 — 3E—Amarista (5), Adrianza (1). DP—SanFrancisco 1. LOB—San Diego 8, San Fran-cisco 8. 2B—Headley (35), Venable (22),Pagan (16), Sandoval (27), Pill (4). HR—Denorfia (10), Gyorko (22), J.Guzman (9),Pence (27). SB—Denorfia (11).

IP H R ER BB SOSan Diego

Stults W,11-13 7 7 3 3 0 3Gregerson H,24 1 0 0 0 1 1Vincent 1 2 0 0 1 2San Francisco

Petit L,4-1 3 2-3 7 5 5 0 2Kontos 1-3 0 0 0 0 1Dunning 1 1 0 0 2 0Mijares 1 0 0 0 0 2Hembree 1 0 0 0 0 2Machi 1 2 0 0 0 1Kickham 1 6 4 4 0 1T—3:01. A—41,201 (41,915).

Baseball CalendarOct. 23 — World Series begins, city of Ameri-can League champion.November TBA — Deadline for teams to makequalifying offers to their eligible former playerswho became free agents, fifth day after WorldSeries.November TBA — Deadline for free agents toaccept qualifying offers, 12th day after WorldSeries.Nov. 11-13 — General managers meeting,Orlando, Fla.Nov. 13-14 — Owners meeting, Orlando, Fla.Dec. 2 — Last day for teams to offer 2014 con-tracts to unsigned players.Dec. 2-5 — Major League Baseball PlayersAssociation executive board meeting, La Jolla,Calif.Dec. 9-12 — Winter meetings, Lake BuenaVista, Fla.Dec. 9 — Hall of Fame expansion era commit-tee (1973 and later) vote announced, LakeBuena Vista, Fla.

Brewers 4, Mets 2 (10)Milwaukee New York

ab r h bi ab r h biAoki rf 5 0 1 0 EYong lf 5 0 1 1Segura ss 4 0 0 0 Duda 1b 3 1 0 0Gindl ph 0 1 0 0 Atchisn p 0 0 0 0Lucroy 1b 3 2 1 0 DWrght 3b 5 0 0 0CGomz cf 5 1 4 2 DnMrp 2b 3 0 2 1Gennett 2b 4 0 2 0 Baxter rf 4 0 1 0YBtncr 3b 4 0 2 2 Lagars cf 4 0 0 0JFrncs 1b 1 0 0 0 Recker c 3 0 1 0Halton 1b 3 0 0 0 JuTrnr 1b 1 0 0 0LSchfr lf 5 0 0 0 Quntnll ss 2 0 0 0JNelsn p 2 0 0 0 dnDkkr lf 0 1 0 0ArRmr ph 1 0 1 0 Harang p 2 0 0 0Bianchi ss 1 0 1 0 Hwkns p 0 0 0 0Totals 38 412 4 Totals 32 2 5 2

Milwaukee 000 100 010 2 — 4New York 000 100 001 0 — 2E—Y.Betancourt (11). DP—Milwaukee 2.LOB—Milwaukee 10, New York 10. 2B—Y.Betancourt (15). HR—C.Gomez (24). SB—Lucroy (9), C.Gomez 2 (39), Bianchi (4),Dan.Murphy (22), Baxter (5). CS—Bianchi(4). S—Gennett, Quintanilla. SF—Y.Betan-court, Dan.Murphy.

IP H R ER BB SOMilwaukee

J.Nelson 5 1 1 1 3 4Mic.Gonzalez 2-3 2 0 0 0 0Badenhop 1-3 0 0 0 0 0Blazek 1 1 0 0 1 0D.Hand W,1-5 BS,1 2 1 1 1 3 0Figaro S,1-1 1 0 0 0 0 1New York

Harang 6 5 1 1 2 7Feliciano 2-3 0 0 0 0 2Aardsma 1-3 1 0 0 0 0Black 1 2 1 1 1 1Hawkins 1 1 0 0 0 0Atchison L,3-3 1-3 3 2 2 1 0F.Francisco 2-3 0 0 0 0 1T—3:57. A—29,326 (41,922).

Yankees 2, Astros 1New York Houston

ab r h bi ab r h biGrndrs cf 4 0 0 0 Villar ss 3 0 0 0Nunez 3b 4 1 1 0 Altuve 2b 4 1 2 0Cano 2b 4 0 2 1 MDmn 3b 4 0 0 0ASorin lf 2 0 1 0 Carter 1b 4 0 1 1Overay 1b 3 0 0 0 Crowe pr 0 0 0 0MrRynl 1b 1 0 0 0 JDMrtn lf 4 0 1 0ZAlmnt rf 4 0 0 0 B.Laird dh 3 0 0 0ISuzuki dh 4 0 2 0 Pareds rf 3 0 0 0Ryan ss 4 0 0 0 Pagnzz c 2 0 1 0CStwrt c 4 1 2 0 BBarns cf 3 0 0 0Totals 34 2 8 1 Totals 30 1 5 1

New York 000 002 000 — 2Houston 000 100 000 — 1E—Pagnozzi (1). DP—New York 2. LOB—New York 8, Houston 4. 2B—Cano (41),J.D.Martinez (17). CS—Granderson (2).

IP H R ER BB SONew York

Pettitte W,11-11 9 5 1 1 2 5Houston

Clemens L,4-7 5 1-3 5 2 1 1 4Lo 2-3 0 0 0 1 0R.Cruz 2-3 1 0 0 0 1K.Chapman 2-3 1 0 0 1 1Zeid 2-3 0 0 0 0 1Fields 1 1 0 0 0 0T—2:49. A—37,199 (42,060).

White Sox 6, Royals 5Kansas City Chicago

ab r h bi ab r h biAGordn lf 4 0 0 0 LeGarc cf 4 0 0 0Getz pr 0 0 0 0 GBckh 2b 3 2 1 0Bonifac 2b 5 0 0 0 Gillaspi 1b 3 1 1 2Hosmer 1b 4 1 1 0 Konerk 1b 4 0 0 0BButler dh 4 2 2 2 AlRmrz ss 0 0 0 0S.Perez c 4 1 2 2 A.Dunn dh 4 1 2 2Mostks 3b 3 1 1 1 AGarci rf 4 0 0 0Lough rf 3 0 1 0 Semien 3b 4 1 3 1Maxwll rf 1 0 0 0 JrDnks lf 3 1 1 1AEscor ss 4 0 0 0 MgGnzl c 4 0 1 0JDyson cf 2 0 0 0Totals 34 5 7 5 Totals 33 6 9 6

Kansas City 000 012 020 — 5Chicago 022 000 20x — 6E—Bonifacio (10), Moustakas (16). DP—Kansas City 1. LOB—Kansas City 6, Chicago6. 2B—A.Dunn (15), Semien (4). HR—B.But-ler (15), S.Perez (12), Moustakas (12),Gillaspie (13), A.Dunn (34), Semien (2),Jor.Danks (5). SB—Getz (16), J.Dyson (34).CS—Semien (2).

IP H R ER BB SOKansas City

Ventura L,0-1 4 6 4 4 1 2Dwyer 1 0 0 0 0 0Coleman 1 1-3 0 1 1 2 3Collins 1-3 2 1 1 0 1Crow 1 1-3 1 0 0 0 2Chicago

Johnson W,3-2 5 1-3 5 3 3 3 4Leesman H,1 1-3 0 0 0 0 1D.Webb H,1 1 1-3 0 0 0 0 2Lindstrom H,20 1-3 2 2 2 0 0Veal H,13 1-3 0 0 0 0 0N.Jones H,16 1-3 0 0 0 0 0A.Reed S,40-48 1 0 0 0 1 1T—2:58. A—22,235 (40,615).

Orioles 6, Red Sox 5Boston Baltimore

ab r h bi ab r h biVictorn cf 5 0 0 0 BRorts 2b 5 1 1 1Drew ss 5 2 2 0 Hardy ss 4 1 2 0Pedroia 2b 5 1 3 1 C.Davis 1b 3 0 0 0Napoli dh 4 0 1 0 A.Jones cf 4 1 1 0Berry pr 0 0 0 0 Wieters c 3 0 2 1JGoms lf 5 1 2 1 McLoth lf 0 1 0 0Nava rf 4 1 4 0 Valenci 3b 4 1 2 1BSnydr 1b 3 0 0 0 CSnydr c 0 0 0 0Carp ph-1b 1 0 0 0 Markks rf 4 1 2 0D.Ross c 4 0 2 2 Pearce dh 4 0 2 3Mdlrks 3b 4 0 0 0 Pridie lf 3 0 0 0

Flahrty 3b 1 0 0 0Totals 40 514 4 Totals 35 612 6

Boston 000 111 200 — 5Baltimore 011 020 02x — 6E—Pridie (2). DP—Boston 1. LOB—Boston9, Baltimore 7. 2B—Drew (29), D.Ross (5),Pearce 2 (7). HR—B.Roberts (8). SB—Berry(2).

IP H R ER BB SOBoston

Lester 5 9 4 4 2 4Thornton 1 0 0 0 0 1Tazawa L,5-4 H,25 1 2 2 2 0 1F.Morales BS,1-1 1-3 1 0 0 0 1Workman 2-3 0 0 0 0 1Baltimore

W.Chen 5 1-3 9 3 3 1 5Stinson BS,1-1 1 3 2 1 0 1Matusz 1-3 1 0 0 0 0Gausman W,3-5 1 1-3 0 0 0 0 2Ji.Johnson S,49-58 1 1 0 0 0 1T—3:21. A—36,556 (45,971).

Late Friday

Cardinals 7, Cubs 0Chicago St. Louis

ab r h bi ab r h biStCastr ss 4 0 3 0 MCrpnt 2b 3 1 1 0DMrph 3b 4 0 1 0 Beltran rf 2 1 1 0Rizzo 1b 4 0 1 0 SRonsn rf 2 0 0 0DNavrr c 3 0 1 0 Hollidy lf 2 2 2 1Schrhlt rf 4 0 0 0 MAdms 1b 5 1 1 0Sweeny cf 4 0 0 0 YMolin c 4 1 2 3Bogsvc lf 4 0 1 0 Freese 3b 3 1 1 1Barney 2b 4 0 0 0 Jay cf 4 0 2 1TrWood p 0 0 0 0 Kozma ss 2 0 0 0Raley p 1 0 0 0 Lynn p 3 0 0 0Watkns ph 1 0 0 0 Siegrist p 0 0 0 0BParkr p 0 0 0 0 Wong ph 1 0 0 0Lake ph 1 0 0 0 Rosnthl p 0 0 0 0Totals 34 0 7 0 Totals 31 710 6

Chicago 000 000 000 — 0St. Louis 301 201 00x — 7E—D.Navarro (5). DP—Chicago 2. LOB—Chicago 8, St. Louis 9. 2B—St.Castro (33),Y.Molina (43), Jay (27). HR—Holliday (21),Freese (9).

IP H R ER BB SOChicago

Tr.Wood L,9-12 1 4 3 3 2 1Raley 3 3 3 2 3 3Al.Cabrera 1 1 0 0 1 0B.Parker 1 2 1 1 0 1H.Rondon 1 0 0 0 0 0Lim 1 0 0 0 2 1St. Louis

Lynn W,15-10 6 4 0 0 0 9Siegrist 2-3 0 0 0 0 0Mujica 1-3 0 0 0 0 0Ca.Martinez 1 1 0 0 0 2Rosenthal 1 2 0 0 0 2T—2:54. A—44,030 (43,975).

Yankees 3, Astros 2New York Houston

ab r h bi ab r h biGrndrs cf 4 0 0 0 Villar ss 4 0 1 0Nunez 3b 4 0 0 0 Altuve 2b 3 0 0 0Cano dh 4 1 1 0 MDmn 3b 3 0 0 0ASorin lf 3 1 1 0 Krauss dh 2 0 0 0MrRynl 1b 4 1 2 1 Elmore dh 0 0 0 0DAdms 2b 4 0 1 2 Carter lf 3 1 0 0ZAlmnt rf 4 0 0 0 Crowe lf-cf 4 0 0 0Ryan ss 3 0 0 0 Hoes rf 4 1 2 0JMrphy c 3 0 1 0 Corprn c 4 0 0 0

BBarns cf 2 0 1 0Wallac 1b 2 0 1 2

Totals 33 3 6 3 Totals 31 2 5 2

New York 000 300 000 — 3Houston 000 000 200 — 2E—M.Dominguez (16). LOB—New York 4,Houston 7. 2B—A.Soriano (8), D.Adams (5),J.Murphy (1), Wallace (14). SB—Villar (18).CS—Elmore (6).

IP H R ER BB SONew York

Warren W,3-2 5 2 0 0 1 4D.Phelps H,1 1 2-3 1 2 2 2 1Chamberlain H,5 1-3 2 0 0 1 0Claiborne H,4 1 0 0 0 1 1D.Robertson S,3-5 1 0 0 0 0 1Houston

Oberhltzr L,4-5 5 1-3 5 3 2 1 4Zeid 1 2-3 0 0 0 0 3K.Chapman 1 0 0 0 0 1Fields 1 1 0 0 0 2Umpires—Home, Kerwin Danley; First, VicCarapazza; Second, Bill Miller; Third, GaryCederstrom.T—3:04. A—29,486 (42,060).

Red Sox 12, Orioles 3Boston Baltimore

ab r h bi ab r h biEllsury cf 4 0 0 0 BRorts dh 4 1 2 0BrdlyJr cf 0 1 0 0 Markks rf 3 0 0 0Pedroia 2b 4 2 3 0 Pearce rf 0 0 0 0Holt 2b 0 0 0 0 A.Jones cf 4 1 1 2D.Ortiz dh 5 2 2 3 Pridie cf 0 0 0 0Napoli 1b 3 1 1 1 C.Davis 1b 3 1 2 1BSnydr 1b 0 0 0 0 Valenci 3b 1 0 1 0Nava rf 5 2 2 3 Wieters c 4 0 0 0JGoms lf 4 3 3 1 DJhnsn 1b 0 0 0 0Sltlmch c 4 1 1 1 Hardy ss 3 0 1 0Lvrnwy ph-c1 0 0 0 CSnydr c 1 0 0 0Drew ss 4 0 2 3 McLoth lf 4 0 0 0Bogarts ss 1 0 1 0 Schoop 2b 4 0 0 0Mdlrks 3b 5 0 1 0 Flahrty ss 3 0 1 0Totals 40 1216 12 Totals 34 3 8 3

Boston 503 000 031 — 12Baltimore 002 001 000 — 3DP—Boston 1, Baltimore 2. LOB—Boston 6,Baltimore 5. 2B—Napoli (37), Saltalamacchia(40). 3B—Drew (8). HR—D.Ortiz (30), Nava(12), J.Gomes (13), A.Jones (33), C.Davis(53).

IP H R ER BB SOBoston

Buchholz W,12-1 7 7 3 3 0 4Breslow 1 1 0 0 1 1Uehara 1 0 0 0 0 1Baltimore

Feldman L,5-6 2 1-3 8 8 8 1 1Z.Britton 3 2-3 5 0 0 0 2S.Johnson 1 2-3 0 2 2 3 3Belfiore 1 1-3 3 2 2 1 0T—3:16. A—30,774 (45,971).

Rangers 5, Angels 3Los Angeles Texas

ab r h bi ab r h biAybar ss 4 0 1 0 Kinsler 2b 2 2 0 0Calhon rf 3 1 2 1 Andrus ss 4 1 2 0Trout dh 2 0 0 0 Rios rf 3 2 1 2JHmltn cf 4 0 1 2 ABeltre 3b 3 0 0 0HKndrc 2b 4 0 1 0 Przyns c 3 0 1 2Trumo 1b 3 0 0 0 JeBakr dh 2 0 0 0Conger c 4 0 1 0 Profar ph-dh1 0 0 0Cowgill lf 3 0 0 0 Morlnd 1b 3 0 1 0Shuck ph 1 0 0 0 Gentry lf 4 0 1 0AnRmn 3b 3 2 2 0 LMartn cf 4 0 1 0Totals 31 3 8 3 Totals 29 5 7 4

Los Angeles 001 020 000 — 3Texas 102 000 20x — 5E—J.Gutierrez (2). DP—Los Angeles 1,Texas 3. LOB—Los Angeles 5, Texas 9.SB—Rios 2 (42), L.Martin (35). CS—Cal-houn (2), Rios (7). S—Andrus. SF—Calhoun.

IP H R ER BB SOLos Angeles

C.Wilson 6 4 3 3 4 6J.Gutierrez L,1-5 2-3 1 2 2 1 1Boshers 0 1 0 0 0 0Cor.Rasmus 1 1 0 0 0 1Brasier 1-3 0 0 0 1 0Texas

Ogando 5 1-3 8 3 3 3 4Frasor 2-3 0 0 0 0 2Cotts W,7-3 1 0 0 0 0 2Scheppers H,25 1 0 0 0 0 2Nathan S,42-45 1 0 0 0 0 0HBP—by C.Wilson (A.Beltre, Pierzynski).WP—C.Wilson 3.T—3:31. A—37,355 (48,114).

(End of Regular Season)(End of Regular Season)

x-clinched division; y-clinched wild card

Indians 12, Twins 6Cleveland Minnesota

ab r h bi ab r h biBrantly lf 5 0 1 0 Presley cf 5 0 2 2Swisher 1b 6 1 2 0 Dozier 2b 5 0 0 0Kipnis 2b 5 2 3 2 Doumit rf 5 1 2 0CSantn dh 3 3 2 1 Arcia dh 4 0 0 0Raburn rf 5 0 1 2 Pinto c 1 0 1 0MCarsn rf 0 0 0 0 CHrmn c 2 0 0 0AsCarr ss 5 2 3 1 Plouffe 3b 3 1 3 1YGoms c 5 0 1 1 Parmel 1b 3 1 0 0Aviles 3b 5 1 2 2 Mstrnn lf 4 2 2 0Stubbs cf 4 3 2 2 Flormn ss 4 1 1 3Totals 43 1217 11 Totals 36 611 6

Cleveland 430 020 012 — 12Minnesota 000 123 000 — 6DP—Cleveland 2, Minnesota 1. LOB—Cleveland 8, Minnesota 6. 2B—Swisher (26),Kipnis (36), C.Santana 2 (38), As.Cabrera 2(35). 3B—Kipnis (4). HR—Stubbs (10), Flori-mon (9). SB—Stubbs (17).

IP H R ER BB SOCleveland

Kluber W,11-5 5 1-3 10 6 6 1 5R.Hill 1-3 1 0 0 0 0C.C.Lee H,1 1-3 0 0 0 0 1Rzepczynski H,5 1 0 0 0 0 1Masterson 1 0 0 0 1 3M.Albers 1 0 0 0 0 0Minnesota

Hernandz L,3-3 1 2-3 7 6 6 1 1Martis 2 1-3 2 1 1 0 0Hendriks 4 2-3 8 5 5 2 8Duensing 1-3 0 0 0 1 0HBP—by Kluber (Pinto).T—3:31. A—24,074 (39,021).

Nationals 8, Diamondbacks 4Washington Arizona

ab r h bi ab r h biKoerns lf 2 1 1 0 Eaton lf 5 0 1 0Span ph-cf 2 0 0 0 GParra rf 4 0 2 1Zmrmn 3b 5 0 0 0 Gldsch 1b 4 0 1 0Werth rf 2 2 2 3 Prado 3b 3 0 1 0CBrwn rf 0 0 0 0 A.Hill 2b 4 1 1 0Harper cf-lf 5 1 1 1 MMntr c 4 0 0 0Dsmnd ss 4 1 1 0 Pollock cf 4 1 2 0WRams c 4 1 1 3 Gregrs ss 3 1 0 1TMoore 1b 4 1 1 0 Corbin p 0 1 0 0Rendon 2b 3 1 1 1 Campn ph 1 0 0 0Strasrg p 3 0 0 0 WHarrs p 0 0 0 0Tracy ph 1 0 1 0 Pnngtn ph 1 0 0 0

Davdsn ph 1 0 1 1Totals 35 8 9 8 Totals 34 4 9 3

Washington 000 140 030 — 8Arizona 002 000 002 — 4DP—Washington 2. LOB—Washington 5,Arizona 6. 2B—Harper (24), T.Moore (9),Rendon (23), Prado (36), Davidson (5). HR—Werth (25), W.Ramos (16). SB—Kobernus(3). CS—Desmond (6).

IP H R ER BB SOWashington

Strasburg W,8-9 7 6 2 2 2 4Clippard 1 0 0 0 0 1Abad 2-3 3 2 2 0 0X.Cedeno 1-3 0 0 0 0 0Arizona

Corbin L,14-8 5 6 5 5 2 7W.Harris 1 0 0 0 0 0Putz 1 0 0 0 0 2Roe 1 2 3 3 1 1Langwell 1 1 0 0 1 0T—2:57. A—31,037 (48,633).

Dodgers 11, Rockies 0Colorado Los Angeles

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Colorado 000 000 000 — 0Los Angeles 401 321 00x — 11E—Pacheco (7), Blackmon 2 (4). DP—Col-orado 1. LOB—Colorado 4, Los Angeles 8.2B—Uribe (21), D.Gordon (1). HR—C.Craw-ford (6), Ad.Gonzalez (22), A.Ellis (10). SB—Uribe (5).

IP H R ER BB SOColorado

McHugh L,0-4 4 9 8 8 1 3Manship 1 2-3 5 3 3 2 1Corpas 1 1-3 1 0 0 1 1Boggs 1 0 0 0 1 0Los Angeles

Kershaw W,16-9 6 4 0 0 0 8Marmol 1 0 0 0 0 1Capuano 1 0 0 0 0 2League 1 1 0 0 0 0T—2:53. A—52,367 (56,000).

Athletics 8, Mariners 2Oakland Seattle

ab r h bi ab r h biCrisp cf 5 1 4 0 BMiller ss 4 0 0 0Dnldsn 3b 5 0 0 1 FGtrrz rf 4 1 1 1Lowrie ss 5 1 2 0 Seager 3b 4 0 0 0Moss dh 5 1 1 3 KMorls dh 3 1 2 1Cespds lf 2 0 0 0 Ibanez lf 4 0 0 0S.Smith lf 1 0 0 0 Smoak 1b 3 0 0 0CYoung lf 1 1 0 0 MSndrs cf 4 0 0 0Reddck rf 3 1 0 0 Zunino c 3 0 1 0Vogt c 2 0 0 0 Frnkln 2b 3 0 0 0DNorrs c 2 2 2 3Barton 1b 3 1 1 1Sogard 2b 2 0 1 0Callasp 2b 2 0 0 0Totals 38 811 8 Totals 32 2 4 2

Oakland 300 000 320 — 8Seattle 100 001 000 — 2E—Sogard (9), Franklin (12). DP—Seattle 1.LOB—Oakland 6, Seattle 5. 2B—Crisp 2(22), D.Norris (16). HR—Moss (29), D.Norris(9), F.Gutierrez (10), K.Morales (23). SB—C.Young (9).

IP H R ER BB SOOakland

Colon W,18-6 6 3 2 2 1 8Cook 1 1 0 0 0 1Doolittle 1 0 0 0 0 1Balfour 1 0 0 0 1 3Seattle

Hernandez L,12-10 6 5 3 3 1 6O.Perez 1-3 2 3 2 1 0Capps 2-3 0 0 0 0 1Luetge 2-3 0 1 1 1 1Wilhelmsen 1 1-3 4 1 1 0 3WP—Capps.Umpires—Home, Hunter Wendelstedt; First,Alan Porter; Second, Marvin Hudson; Third,Jerry Layne.T—3:06. A—23,014 (47,476).

Giants 7, Padres 3San Diego San Francisco

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Dunnng p 0 0 0 0Totals 33 3 9 3 Totals 32 711 7

San Diego 101 000 001 — 3San Francisco 023 001 01x — 7DP—San Francisco 2. LOB—San Diego 8,San Francisco 8. 2B—Venable (21), Gyorko(26), Headley (34), J.Perez (5). 3B—G.Blan-co (6), Abreu (3). HR—Forsythe (6), Belt(17), Pence (26), J.Perez (1).

IP H R ER BB SOSan Diego

B.Smith L,1-3 5 2-3 8 6 6 3 8Layne 0 0 0 0 2 0Boxberger 1-3 0 0 0 0 0Brach 1 0 0 0 2 0Hynes 1 3 1 1 0 1San Francisco

Vogelsong W,4-6 6 5 2 2 4 3Machi 1 0 0 0 0 2Hembree 0 2 0 0 0 0S.Casilla H,23 1 0 0 0 1 1J.Lopez 0 1 1 1 0 0Dunning 1 1 0 0 0 0Hembree pitched to 2 batters in the 8th.J.Lopez pitched to 1 batter in the 9th.Layne pitched to 2 batters in the 6th.Umpires—Home, Rob Drake; First, Joe West;Second, Quinn Wolcott; Third, Andy Fletcher.T—3:13. A—41,103 (41,915).

HOUSTON (AP) —Alex Rodriguez said deal-ing with his 211-game sus-pension stemming frombaseball’s Biogenesis druginvestigation has been a“big burden” and adds he’sready to face it “head on”when the arbitration hear-ing on his grievance be-gins Monday.

The New York Yankeesthird baseman didn’t ex-pect to play this weekendduring the team’s season-ending series at Houstonbecause of soreness in hislegs.

He said he’s excited toget the hearing started be-fore arbitrator FredricHorowitz and he plans toattend every day.Horowitz has set aside allfive business days nextweek for sessions.

“I’m fighting for my lifeand my whole legacy,” Ro-driguez said. “Yeah, Ishould be there.”

Rodriguez was suspend-ed by MLB on Aug. 5, theday he returned from Jan-uary hip surgery and aquadriceps injury sus-tained during a minorleague rehabilitation as-signment.

He dodged the questionwhen asked whether hewould consider it a victoryif his suspension wereshortened or would hewould be satisfied only if itwere overturned complete-ly.

“I’m not going to get intothat,” he said. “I told youguys about a month-and-a-half ago that I’m not go-ing to talk about it duringthe season. I’m kind of justgiving you some color onit, but I’m not going to getinto my expectations andwhatnot.”

He said he will discussthe case in detail at someunspecified point.

“Obviously this is goingto be a grueling processall the way through,” hesaid. “You’ll hear the fullstory when the time isright for me, and thattime is not just now.”

The 38-year-old is hit-ting .244 with sevenhomers and 19 RBIs in 44games this season and issix homers shy of tyingWillie Mays’ 660 forfourth place on the careerlist, behind only BarryBonds (762), Hank Aaron(755) and Babe Ruth(714).

Rodriguez is owed $86million in salaries by theYankees: $25 million nextyear, $21 million in 2015and $20 million in each ofthe final two seasons ofhis $275 million, 10-yeardeal. He can also earn five$6 million bonuses con-templated to be tying thehome run marks of Mays,Ruth, Aaron and Bonds,and breaking Bonds’record.

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certainly was not a one-man show for the FlyingEagles. Hancock scoredthree touchdowns andfinished with 19 carriesfor 124 yards.n Meadow Bridgedefense. As good asParker has been, it nev-er hurts to have a solidstop unit. The Wildcatsgot just that Fridaynight, with 13 tacklesfrom Shane Harless, twointerceptions from RyanChurch and anotherfrom Craig Peters thathe returned 82 yards fora touchdown in thefourth quarter.n Isaiah Brown,Summers County. Lastweek’s Register-HeraldPlayer of the Weekturned in another strongperformance. He ran for142 yards, including a68-yard touchdown, andhad a key interception inthe third quarter.n Isaiah Kinder,Greenbrier East. TheSpartan quarterbackcompleted 15 of 37 pass-es for 172 yards andthree touchdowns in alosing effort.

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PHENOMSContinued from 1D

On Saturday afternoon, thejunior quarterback, who grew uparound Mountaineer Field whilehis father, Rick Trickett, wascoaching the West Virginia of-fensive line under Rich Ro-driguez, was singing that samesong with more than 57,000 ofhis closest new friends followingthe Mountaineers’ 30-21 homewin over No. 11 Oklahoma State.

“I love that song,” said Trick-ett, who threw for 309 yards anda touchdown. “I love this state,and I’m glad to be back.”

Trickett has been back in theMountain State since finishingup his final semester at FSU lastspring, but he’s spent much ofhis time waiting. He entered theseason as the favorite to win thejob of replacing Geno Smith,WVU’s all-time passing leader,at quarterback, but WVU head

coach Dana Holgorsen surprisedeverybody by starting juniorPaul Millard in the openeragainst William & Mary.

Trickett was on the field justsix snaps in that game, failing topick up a first down, and he did-n’t see the field at all in theMountaineers’ next three — loss-es to Oklahoma and Marylandand a win over Georgia State.Millard started the 16-7 loss toOklahoma, and redshirt fresh-man Ford Childress got the nodin the next two.

But when Trickett’s roommatemissed practice this week be-cause of a chest injury, Trickettknew it was his time.

“I had chances to do it, and Ididn’t do it during camp,” saidTrickett of winning the job. “A lotof the things I do are in game sit-uations, so once I got a chance toget in a game, it was all good.

“It’s different when you’re abackup. When you’re a starterand you know everybody is confi-dent in you, that’s big. Coach

(Holgorsen) just told me to takeit and run with it.”

That’s what Trickett spentmuch of the sunny afternoon inMorgantown doing. Officially, heran for five yards on 22 carries, acouple of sacks ruining his rush-ing total, but, more importantly,he was able to move the pocketand keep plays alive, giving astruggling WVU offense achance to score.

“I don’t think I bring thatmuch,” Trickett laughed, mini-mizing his running ability. “It’senough to get three or fouryards. But I ain’t Pat White,that’s for sure.”

Trickett will surely admit he’snot Smith, either, but he threwsome nice passes, including a 17-yard touchdown strike to KevinWhite in the opening quarterthat gave WVU a 14-7 lead thatit never relinquished.

“It was pretty cool,” said Trick-ett of his first Mountaineertouchdown. “Kevin made a greatplay. He’s a great player, and I’m

glad to see him making someplays. It was awesome.”

That, in fact, was Trickett’sbest description of the entire af-ternoon, especially the postgamesing-along that might have evenbrought a little moisture to hiseyes.

“It was pretty cool,” he saidwith a huge smile. “I saw somegood friends I grew up with inthe stands. It was a special mo-ment. I had one of my buddies,Tyler Anderson, next to me. Igrew up with him, so it was pret-ty cool.”

And it’s a moment Trickettwants to repeat as many timesas possible before his Moun-taineer career comes to an end.

“There’s a lot of room for im-provement,” he said. “We have along way to go. That’s what’s soexciting. We did beat the No. 11team in the country, and we did-n’t play our best game at all.”

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leaving the lead in WVU’sfavor.

OSU really neverthreatened again.

“I knew something goodwas going to happen forus, and today was theday,” said WVU defensivecoordinator Keith Patter-son. “I was pleased withthe pressure we were ableto get. I think it speaks tothe character of our kids.All the credit goes tothose young men.”

Takeaways were whathelped the Mountaineercause most. Down 7-0early, after the Cowboys(3-1, 0-1 Big 12) set thetone with a 73-yardtouchdown pass fromJ.W. Walsh to Josh Stew-art, junior cornerbackIshmael Banks came upwith the play of the game— and perhaps the sea-son — when he picked aWalsh pass and then re-turned it through a sea ofOSU defenders 58 yardsfor a touchdown.

“It was a dream cometrue,” said Banks of hisfirst collegiate intercep-tion. “Doing it on thisstage meant a lot.

“I was looking for room

to run. (The coaches) al-ways tell us to get up thesideline (after an inter-ception), so when I got tothe middle of the field Ithought, ‘If I don’t score,I’m going to get cussedout.’ So I had to get intothe end zone.”

WVU followed that mo-mentum-changing playwith a 17-yard touchdownpass from quarterbackClint Trickett, earninghis first Mountaineerstart, to Kevin White —the first Mountaineertouchdown for both ofthem — and Josh Lam-bert added a 45-yard fieldgoal to put the home teamahead 17-7.

OSU closed to withinthree on a 27-yard passfrom Walsh to TracyMoore, but Charles Simsstretched the lead back to10 when he capped off afive-play, 43-yard drivewith a 1-yard touchdownplunge. WVU entered thehalf with a 24-14 advan-tage.

The Mountaineersscored only six morepoints the rest of the wayon a pair of Lambert fieldgoals, but the defense wasmore than up to the task.A 30-yard third-quarterpass from Walsh to Jere-my Seaton was all theCowboys could muster af-

ter the break as Patter-son’s unit played withconfidence and energy.

“It’s a disappointingloss for us,” said OSUhead coach Mike Gundy,who hired WVU headcoach Dana Holgorsen ashis offensive coordinatorin 2010, one season beforeathletic director OliverLuck hired Holgorsen tocome to Morgantown.“The only thing to do nowis to rally.”

WVU’s offense, whichhad scored only sevenpoints in two gamesagainst “power confer-ence” opponents cominginto Saturday’s contest,didn’t suddenly look likethe group that put up 70in a win over Baylor atthis time last year. But itdid enough to win.

Trickett completed 24of 50 passes for 309 yardsand a touchdown, work-ing around a pair of inter-ceptions. Sims rushed for60 yards on 18 carriesand caught five passes for82 yards.

Ronald Carswell alsohad five grabs for 76yards, as the WVU of-fense ended the afternoonwith 388 yards on 90plays.

“It was apparent duringthe first four games thatwe weren’t really having

fun on offense,” saidTrickett. “So I said, ‘Let’sjust have fun, throw somedeep balls and get it go-ing.’ I think we did that.

“You get shut out 37-0against Maryland, andthat’s tough. To be somentally tough that youcome back and beat theNo. 11 team on your fieldthe very next week (isspecial). It was a roughweek. A lot of people weretalking a lot of things. Wejust ignored it, keptgrinding and believed inwhat Coach (Holgorsen)said. We took care of it,and I’m proud of ourguys.”

OSU was led by Stew-art, who caught sevenpasses for 127 yards andthe touchdown. Walshfinished 20 of 47 for 322yards and three touch-downs, but he threw apair of costly intercep-tions.

WVU will face anotherdifficult test on Saturdaywhen it hits the road for agame at Baylor, the na-tion’s top statistical of-fense. But the Moun-taineers will take some-thing with them theyhaven’t had before thisseason — confidence.

“We’ve got a chance towin every game,” saidsenior nose tackle Shaq

Rowell. “We just have tobelieve.”

OSU will be looking forits first conference winSaturday at home againstKansas State.

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OkSt 7 7 7 0 — 21WVU 14 10 0 6 — 30First QuarterOkSt—Stewart 73 pass from Walsh (Gro-gan kick), 8:32.WVU—Banks 58 interception return (Lam-bert kick), 6:53.WVU—K.White 17 pass from Trickett (Lam-bert kick), 1:26.Second QuarterWVU—FG Lambert 45, 10:43.OkSt—T.Moore 27 pass from Walsh (Gro-gan kick), 8:15.WVU—Sims 1 run (Lambert kick), 2:41.Third QuarterOkSt—Seaton 30 pass from Walsh (Gro-gan kick), 11:35.Fourth QuarterWVU—FG Lambert 27, 3:54.WVU—FG Lambert 34, 1:28.A—57,280.

OkSt WVUFirst downs 18 21Rushes-yards 40-111 39-68Passing 322 320Comp-Att-Int 20-47-2 25-51-2Return Yards 36 65Punts-Avg. 10-37.9 8-44.6Fumbles-Lost 2-1 2-0Penalties-Yards 10-96 6-39Time of Possession 26:59 33:01

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—Oklahoma St., Walsh 16-52,Roland 7-46, Stewart 2-12, J.Smith 15-1.West Virginia, Sims 18-60, Trickett 7-5,D.Smith 10-5, Smallwood 1-1, Team 3-(mi-nus 3).PASSING—Oklahoma St., Walsh 20-47-2-322. West Virginia, Trickett 24-50-2-309,Millard 1-1-0-11.RECEIVING—Oklahoma St., Stewart 7-127,T.Moore 5-89, Seales 4-40, Seaton 1-30,C.Moore 1-25, Ateman 1-6, Glidden 1-5.

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WEST LIBERTY —The Concord Universityfootball team forced threeturnovers, including aninterception return for atouchdown by senior safe-ty Josh Clark, while soph-omore running back Calv-inaugh Jones rushed for acareer-long 45-yardtouchdown to lead theMountain Lions overWest Liberty 20-3 Satur-day afternoon.

Concord (3-1, 2-0) re-bounded from last week’s

loss at Bowie State to stayperfect in Mountain EastConference competition.

The Mountain Lionshad the advantage intime of possession (45:23-29:37), total yards (260-198), rushing yards (133-52), first downs (14-11)and forced turnovers (3-1).

The Mountain Lion de-fense has now held oppo-nents to 10 points or lessin five of its last sevengames dating back to2012.

Jones led the Concord

offensive attack with 132yards on 32 rushes. The100-yard game was thefifth of Jones’ careerwhile his 32 at-tempts were acareer-high.

R e d s h i r tf r e s h m a nquarterbackBrian Novakcompleted 12of 18 passes for127 yards and andwas intercepted once.Sophomore Ryan Stewartcaught three passes for44 yards while junior

Darrick Williams hauledin four receptions for 35yards.

Concord’s stout de-fense was paced by

Clark’s 32-yardinterception re-

turn for atouchdownin the sec-ond quar-ter. TheM o u n t a i nLions gener-

ated two other turnovers— an interception byDavon Marion and a fum-ble recovery from Keith

Ferguson after Clarkforced the loose ball.

Bluefield product JakeLilly made a team-higheight tackles, RiyahdRichardson broke upthree passes and Antho-ny Pyle picked up his sec-ond sack in as manyweeks.

Sophomore AndyEllington connected ontwo field goal attempts of48 and 42 yards. Elling-ton’s 48-yarder, whichcapped off the first driveof the game, was thelongest by a Concord

kicker since the Moun-tain Lions moved toNCAA Division II.

His second field goal in-creased the lead to 6-0.

The Hilltoppers (2-2, 1-1) scored their onlypoints of the game with aBryan Arbes field goalfrom 21 yards out tomake it a 6-3 game with9:39 to play in the half.

Concord will look tomaintain its perfect MECrecord at home on Satur-day against FairmontState. Kickoff is set for 1p.m.

Defense again leads Concord in win at West Liberty

DOVER, Del. (AP) —Matt Kenseth has Chaseperfection. Kyle Buschnailed the runner-up fin-ishes. And no driver cantouch the championshippedigree of Jimmie John-son.

Led by Kenseth, thetop three drivers in theChase for the Sprint Cupchampionship standingshave started to separatethemselves from the restof the field with eightraces remaining.

But is the list of con-tenders set? Have onlythree drivers out of the13-car field reallyemerged as the favoritesto win the champi-onship?

Not so fast.Carl Edwards is lurk-

ing in fourth, and GregBiffle and Kevin Har-vick have certainlystamped themselves asdrivers who can winraces and wrest the topspot away fromKenseth.

“I can’t imagine witheight races to go thatsomebody would be will-ing to say, ‘Oh, this is a

three-man race,”’ Bifflesaid.

As the Chase shifts to-day to Dover, the fieldknows time is runningshort to widenthe list of con-tenders. They’llneed that perfectblend of strongfinishes and thehope thatKenseth blowsan engine orBusch and John-son wreck. Any-thing that takesthe top driversout of the checkered flagchase.

Kenseth, who has a se-ries-high seven wins,leads Busch by 14 pointsand Johnson by 18. Ed-wards (36 back), Biffle(38), and Harvick (39)are still in the mix.

Kurt Busch, Jeff Gor-don, Ryan Newman,Clint Bowyer, DaleEarnhardt Jr., JoeyLogano and Kasey Kahneround out the field. Forsome perspective, Kahneis 71 points behindKenseth, more than a fullrace behind the leader.

“I wouldn’t be the oneputting my name on theline to say there are onlythree cars in this huntright now,” Biffle said. “I

wasn’t necessari-ly saying that forthe 16 team. Iwasn’t makingthe case that it’snot a three-manrace because ofus. I wouldn’tcount out CarlEdwards or anyof those otherguys that areright there in the

hunt.”Biffle, who was third

last week at New Hamp-shire, knows as well asany driver that a champi-onship isn’t won in thefirst two races. He wasthe first driver in Chasehistory to win the firsttwo races (2008) of the10-race playoff and he fol-lowed with a third inKansas.

A strong showing, justnot stout enough to holdoff Johnson for the cham-pionship. Biffle had fourfinishes of 10th or worseand finished third in the

final standings.One of NASCAR’s most

consistent drivers, Bifflewas second in 2002, sev-enth in 2009, sixth in2010 and fifth in 2012.But when it comes to truetitle contenders, Biffle’sname is rarely tossedaround in the same cate-gory with Johnson orKenseth or Kyle Busch.

“Am I surprised they’renot talking about the 16?Not really because wetend to slide a little bitunder the radar all thetime anyway,” he said. “Itdoesn’t bother me. Itgives you motivation todo well and competeevery week and try to getwhat you can. If you’rewinning races or you winthe championship, theyhave to talk about you, soput yourself in that posi-tion.”

That starts with win-ning races. Biffle has twowins and 10 top 10s in 22career starts at the 1-mile track. He made sev-en straight starts atDover in one stretchwhere he finished noworse than eighth.

Biffle not counting himself out A-Rod says bana ‘big burden,’ready for appeal

Biffle

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Bonus hunting days aren’tmarked on a calendar. Youcan’t count them as part of

your scheduled huntingplan. That’s the thingabout a bonus day; theyare simply special andshould be cherished as so.They are life’s little gifts —like finding a 20 in yourfreshly washed jeans orflipping through the chan-nels and stumbling ontoyour favorite John Waynemovie.

Bonus days generallystart with low expectations,partially because there isno anticipation and planning, butoften times end with better-than-expected results.

This past week, I found myselfsmack-dab in the middle of a bonusday of hunting. A rare, free after-noon with no pending deadlinesand an eager hunting buddy setthe stage. We were both longing tofill our noses with the scent of thefall woods and the connection to thenatural world hunting offers.

A quick check of the WVDNRregulations revealed the quarry ofchoice had to be either doves orsquirrels — we chose the latter.

With the stage set and charactersdefined, we set off to a hillside farmabout 20 minutes from nowhere.

A couple of years ago, theWVDNR moved the openingof squirrel season back amonth. I recall statementslike, “Mild weather condi-tions in September andlonger days offer a great op-portunity to take a young-ster hunting,” being writtenin news releases offered bythe agency. Being a huge fanof increased opportunities forhunters to go afield, I’d liketo shake the hand of whoev-er decided that was a good

idea.The weather had turned on the

drive out to the farm. A mild rainhad set into a drizzle and big dropsrolled off the leaves of the overhang-ing branches, causing plops of waterto hit the truck’s windshield as weslowly creaked out the gravel road.

We parked at the farmer’s gateand decided with the recent rain, itwould be best to spend our timestill-hunting — slipping quietlythrough the woods. The damp forestfloor provided for almost no noise asour boots clambered over rocks androots as we made our way to a par-

ticular beech flat I had scoutedweeks earlier.

This year’s beech nut crop is un-like any I recall before and I was cu-rious to see if the game had migrat-ed to the plentiful food source. Weslipped around an old haul road andsettled in on a spot overlooking awrinkled-up patch of earth with thesmooth, skin-like, light-gray bark ofthe beech trees rising from theground and reaching high into theforest canopy.

“We’re here,” I whispered to myhunting buddy.

It didn’t take us long to find outthe answer to my question. In amatter of minutes, lasting until thelight began to fade hurriedly withdusk approaching, we watcheddeer, turkeys and squirrels feedingon the abundance of beech mastscattered atop the leaf litter on theground. We had front-row seats tothe show and beech nuts providedus with backstage passes.

On an unplanned, bonus after-noon of hunting on a dreary day inSeptember, two hunting buddiesslipped into a beech flat. It was aday I will not soon forget and Iplan on recalling it in vivid-colordetail when the squirrel gravy ispoured over the biscuits.

The year I turned 12 I got my firsthunting license. It was my firstchance to hunt ring-necked pheas-

ants. My father brought birds home everyfall, and I wanted to join the hunt.

My dad taught me to shoot with a used,single-shot, 12-gauge shot-gun. It was a lot of gun fora kid, but on opening day Iwas ready. I got my firstcock bird that year.

Though the meat was de-licious, my trophy was thebird’s central tail feathers.They measured almost twofeet long, and I wore themproudly on my hunting cap.

Pheasants are birds offarm country. In the springthey nest in fencerows andhayfields, and in the fall they favor har-vested cornfields littered with waste grain.When spooked they usually run, but theyare capable of short powerful bursts offlight. A mature rooster weighs about 2.5pounds.

Male pheasants are impressive. The iri-descent bronze body is decorated withbrown and black markings. A bright whitering separates the body from the greenishhead. And during the breeding season, themale’s red face screams for attention. Hensare smaller and duller. This cryptic look isperfect for the parent that incubates theeggs and raises the chicks on her own.

Looking back, the ring-necked pheasantwas my “spark bird.” That’s the speciesbirders credit with hooking them on birdsand birding. It was the most beautiful birdin my “Golden Guide to Birds,” and in lifethe red face and white ring around theneck were stunning.

In southeastern Pennsylvania in themid-1960s, pheasants were common. Theannual statewide pheasant harvest backthen approached a million birds, accordingto game commission statistics.

In the spring I could hear the explosivecrow of cock birds from my backyard. Mydad and I would search for nests alongfencerows and country roads. Ten to 12eggs were typical, and after the 24-day in-cubation period, we often saw hens withchicks.

Those were the good old days. Todaypheasant numbers have declined precipi-tously in the east. If it weren’t for statesponsored stocking programs, they justmight disappear completely. Breeding birdsurvey numbers dating back to 1965 con-firm this trend.

Some blame suburbanization, loss offarmland habitat, intensive agriculture,and increased use of pesticides and fertiliz-ers for the pheasant’s decline. Another im-portant factor is winterkill.

Pheasants can’t survive hard winters ifquality winter habitat is in short supply.Frigid snowy winters in 1977 and 1978 fol-lowed by a big blizzard in March 1993 tookheavy tolls on wild pheasants. They nevercompletely recovered, and perhaps neverwill. And that’s a shame because there’s nomore stirring sound than a rooster crowingin spring and no more beautiful bird thana male ring-necked pheasant in breedingplumage.

Though native to Asia, pheasants have along history in North America. The earli-est attempts to introduce them to this con-tinent date back to the 1700s. These firstefforts were unsuccessful, but finally in1881 a population was established in Ore-gon’s Willamette Valley.

Here in the east, private citizens beganimporting pheasants in the early 1890s.For several decades these releases helpedestablish the pheasant as a game bird forsport hunting.

In the early 1900s the PennsylvaniaGame Commission began propagatingpheasants, and the state’s first stockingtook place in 1913. For several years thepopulation fluctuated until the state im-posed hunting seasons and bag limits in1923. In 1929 Pennsylvania establishedtwo game farms and extensive propagationbegan.

Through the 1960s pheasants flourishedin Pennsylvania, and it became a populargame bird. But in the 1970s, thingschanged. Agriculture became more inten-sive, and the use of chemicals increased.Family farms were sold to make room forhousing developments, shopping malls,and parking lots. From the mid 1970sthrough the early 1980s, Pennsylvania, forexample, lost approximately 900,000 acresof farmland to urbanization. Nearby statesexperienced similar habit losses.

Today only isolated, remnant popula-tions of pheasants persist in most places. Isuspect that most of the birds I occasional-ly see are escapees from exotic bird breed-ers. If I had known what the future heldfor pheasants back when I was a boy, Iwould have treasured these spectacularbirds even more.

Bonus day of hunting Pheasant is afading symbolof autumn

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A large crop of beech nut mast has provided an abundant food source for deer, turkeys and squirrels this year.

A rare day free of the usual responsibilities leads to squirrel hunt

W.Va. Mast Survey andHunting Outlook available

SOUTH CHARLESTON — The2013 Mast Survey and HuntingOutlook is available on the WestVirginia Division of Natural Re-sources’ website and will be avail-able soon at DNR offices across thestate, according to Curtis I. Taylor,chief for the DNR Wildlife ResourcesSection. Since 1971, the Wildlife Re-sources Section, in cooperation withvolunteers from numerous otheragencies, has conducted a fall mastsurvey to determine the abundanceof mast produced by 18 species oftrees and shrubs.

“The availability of fall foods has asignificant impact on wildlife popu-lations and harvests,” said Taylor.“Our biologists have used the mastsurvey data to demonstrate thestrong correlation between mastconditions and deer, bear andturkey harvests. In addition to theimpact on harvests, the amount offood available each year can affectthe reproductive success of numer-ous species which will affect popula-tion sizes in the following years.”

Beechnut and hickory were abovetheir long-term average and shouldsupply many wildlife species withample food sources. Production ofacorns, however, is well below the42-year average and will have no-ticeable effects on the 2013–2014hunting seasons because oakmakes up the majority of the hardmast biomass. Soft mast conditions

of apple, crabapple and hawthornwere also well above average.

“It is very important for huntersto scout and consider the type andamount of food available in the ar-eas that they hunt,” added Taylor.“Areas that have any oak mast willconcentrate animals early in theseason but most of it should be con-sumed by mid-fall. Hunters willhave to shift their localized huntingspots to take advantage of thesemast conditions. Hunters can find awealth of facts in the Mast Surveyand Hunting Outlook. It shouldprovide them valuable informationbefore heading into the field.”

Copies of the 2013 Mast Surveyand Hunting Outlook may be foundon the DNR website at www.wvd-nr.gov under “Hunting.” Informa-tion analyzing mast conditions andwildlife harvests also is availableon the website.

George Washington High tohost AIS instructor training

CHARLESTON — The West Vir-ginia Division of Natural ResourcesWildlife Resources Section (DNR)will hold its next instructor trainingfor the Archery in the Schools (AIS)Program Oct. 29 and 30 at GeorgeWashington High School, accordingto Krista Snodgrass, program coor-dinator. Registration deadline forthe training is Oct. 15.

The AIS Program has becomeDNR’s largest growing educationalprogram. Since its inception in 2004,

more than 84,000 students havebeen introduced to archery as partof their physical education classes innearly 300 West Virginia schools.The program teaches Olympic-styletarget archery in both public andprivate schools grades 4 through 12.

“George Washington High Schoolis excited about implementing thisprogram into our school’s PhysicalEducation program and we’re look-ing forward to hosting this training,”said Shawn Wheeler, GWHS physi-cal education Instructor. “It’s our goalto use this program as a way to en-courage participation among all ourstudents, including those who maynot be the most athletic or those notengaged in our educational system.Who knows, maybe with a little prac-tice down the road, students fromGW will make it to the State Tourna-ment held at the Civic Center.”

To ensure a training slot, anyoneinterested in getting a school in-volved in the program is encouragedto apply as soon as possible, beforethe Oct. 15 deadline. The trainingcosts $25 for school employees and$50 for non-school employees. Thisfee will be paid to WVDNR —Archery in the Schools Program (viacheck, money order, or exact curren-cy only) during the first morning ofthe training.

To register for the AIS training orfor more information on the AISProgram, contact Krista Snodgrassat 304-558-2771; emailKrista.R.Snodgrass@wv.gov or visitthe DNR’s AIS website atwww.wvdnr.gov/archery.

ATHENS, Ga. (AP)— Aaron Murraythrew four touchdownpasses, including a 25-yarder to Justin Scott-Wesley with 1:47 re-maining, and No. 9Georgia rallied to beatNo. 6 LSU 44-41 in athrilling game betweenSoutheastern Confer-ence powerhouses Sat-urday.

The Bulldogs (3-1, 2-0) completed theiropening-month runthrough a gauntlet oftop-10 teams with avictory that propelledthem back into thethick of the nationalchampionship race.

LSU (4-1, 1-1) got acareer-best 372 yardspassing from formerGeorgia quarterbackZach Mettenberger inhis return to Athens,and the Tigers wentahead 41-37 on JeremyHill’s 8-yard touch-down run with 4:14 togo.

But that was plentyof time for Murray andthe high-powered Bull-dogs on a day whenneither defense hadmuch success. He com-pleted three straightpasses to quickly movethe Bulldogs into LSUterritory, and fresh-man J.J. Green brokeoff an 18-yard run tothe Tigers 25. Then itwas Scott-Wesley,breaking wide open be-hind the secondary tohaul in a pass and tip-toe just inside the py-lon for the winningscore.

■ NO. 3 CLEMSON 56,WAKE FOREST 7

CLEMSON, S.C.(AP) — Tajh Boyd be-came the second At-lantic Coast Confer-ence quarterback to ac-count for 100 careertouchdowns, leadingClemson to the easywin.

Boyd threw for threetouchdowns andrushed for anotherscore. He stands at 102

TDs, joining formerNorth Carolina Statestar Phillip Rivers inthe ACC’s centuryclub. Boyd passed for311 yards and ran for69 to surpass CharlieWhitehurst as Clem-son’s total offenseleader.

The Tigers (4-0, 2-0)have won their firstfour games for the sec-ond time in Boyd’sthree seasons asstarter. He had touch-down throws of 64yards to SammyWatkins, 75 yards toD.J. Howard and 14yards to Mike Williamsas Clemson built a 35-7 halftime lead.

Tanner Price had aTD pass for Wake For-est (2-3, 0-2).

■ NO. 8 FSU 48,BOSTON COLL. 34

BOSTON (AP) —Jameis Winston threwfor four touchdowns forFlorida State, includ-ing a 55-yard HailMary as time expiredin the first half.

Winston had first-half touchdown passesof 56 and 10 yards totie the game after BC,coming off a 28-pointloss to Southern Cali-fornia, opened a 17-3lead. The desperationheave to Kenny Shawmade it 24-17, andthen Winston added afourth TD pass in thesecond half as theSeminoles (4-0, 2-0 At-lantic Coast Confer-ence) pulled away.

In all, the FloridaState freshman com-pleted 17 of 28 passesfor 330 yards and ran14 times for 67 more.

Chase Rettig complet-ed 19 of 29 passes for197 yards and a career-high four touchdownsfor BC (2-2, 1-1).

■ NO. 12 SOUTH CAR-OLINA 28, UCF 25

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP)— Mike Davis rushedfor 167 yards andthree touchdowns as

South Carolina over-came an injury to itsstarting quarterback,four turnovers and ahalftime deficit to getthe win.

Davis picked up theslack after starting QBConnor Shaw left witha sprained right shoul-der following a hardtackle during SouthCarolina’s first offen-sive series.

Knights quarterbackBlake Bortles threwfor 358 yards and twotouchdowns, but hadtwo interceptions anda fumble.

South Carolina (3-1)also lost second-stringtailback BrandonWilds in the thirdquarter with a left el-bow strain, but Davisremained steady as theprimary ball carrier.

UCF (3-1) had all theearly momentum, lead-

ing 10-0 at halftime,the first time theGamecocks had beenshut out in a half since2010.

■ NO. 14 OKLA. 35,NO. 22 N. DAME 21

SOUTH BEND, Ind.(AP) — Blake Bellthrew a 54-yard touch-down pass to SterlingShepard in the fourthquarter, and Okla-homa jumped to a two-touchdown lead in theopening three min-utes.

It was the Sooners’second win over theFighting Irish in 11meetings.

The Sooners (4-0)had three intercep-tions that led to TDs,including a 24-yardscore by linebackerCorey Nelson. DamienWilliams, suspendedthe previous game

against Tulsa for vio-lating team rules,added an 11-yard TDrun after an intercep-tion by linebackerFrank Shannon.

The Irish (3-2) cutthe lead to 27-21 inthe fourth quarter,but the Sooners an-swered with Shepard’sTD.

Notre Dame’s Tom-my Rees struggled fora second straightgame. After threestraight games ofpassing for more than300 yards, he was 9-of-24 passing for aseason-low 104 yards.

■ NO. 15 MIAMI 49,SOUTH FLORIDA 21

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) —Stephen Morris threwfor two touchdowns be-fore limping off withan ankle injury andDuke Johnson scored a

TD in his eighth con-secutive game, helpingMiami roll to the win.

Miami (4-0) is off toits best start in nineyears heading into nextweekend’s AtlanticCoast Conference open-er at home againstGeorgia Tech. At 0-4under first-year coachWillie Taggart, USF isoff to the worst start inschool history and hasdropped 13 of 14 dat-ing to last season.

Morris threw for 222yards, moving ahead ofSteve Walsh and intoninth place on Miami’scareer passing list. Hetossed TD passes of 19yards to Herb Watersand 34 yards to StacyColey as the Hurri-canes scored on theirfirst three possessionsand amassed 251 yardsof offense in the firstquarter alone.

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