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Thursday, December 28, 2017
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College Football
Purdue caps year with 38-35
Leach mum on Falk’s injury bowl win over Arizona
going into Holiday Bowl
By BERNIE WILSON
Associated Press
Holiday Bowl
SAN DIEGO — The fi rst
question for Washington State
coach Mike Leach during
Wednesday’s pre-Holiday
Bowl news conference was
about the cast on quarterback
Luke Falk’s non-throwing
left wrist.
The seventh question
was about the pet raccoon
Leach had when he was a
kid, which he mentioned in
an article he wrote for the
Players’ Tribune.
Naturally, Leach was
much more forthcoming
about the raccoon, which
was named Bilbo Baggins
after the character in “The
Hobbit” and “The Lord of the
Rings,” than he was about his
quarterback’s health.
“He’s doing great. You can
use your imagination all you
want about the cast,” Leach
said about Falk, who despite
whatever’s going on with his
wrist is still expected to lead
No. 21 WSU (9-3) against
No. 18 Michigan State (9-3)
on Thursday night. “He has
had something on his hand
all year and hence we named
him ‘the Kingslayer.’ Beyond
that you’re on your own.”
Falk and the Cougars are
looking for a better Holiday
Bowl than a year ago, when
Wash. State Michigan St.
Cougars
Spartans
(9-3)
(9-3)
• Thursday, 6 p.m. (FOX)
• at SDCCU Stadium, Calif.
their normally high-powered
Air Raid offense was shut
down by Minnesota in a
17-12 dud.
FALK
The Washington State
senior quarterback, who
threw for 3,593 yards and
30 touchdowns, was photo-
graphed Tuesday with a cast
on his non-throwing left
wrist. During an appearance
later that day, Falk was
careful to keep the wrist
out of view. In last year’s
Holiday Bowl, Falk was held
to 264 yards — 86 below
his average — on 30-of-51
passing. Falk didn’t crack
200 yards until the fi nal
minutes.
Leach praised Falk’s
work ethic, saying the
former walk-on “has had a
tremendous impact on our
program.”
THE RACCOON
“I don’t remember when
I did that article, but, yeah,
I did have a pet raccoon,”
Leach said. “Yeah, I kind
of would like to have a pet
raccoon again, but, you know,
bouncing around the country
it makes it tough. Then, you
know, there’s the time when
they, you know, they hit kind
of raccoon teenage years and
it’s time for them to head off
into the sunset. It was a lot of
fun, and in some ways every
bit as maintenance free as a
dog or a cat, you know?”
Toward the end of
Michigan State coach Mark
Dantonio’s session, the
moderator asked if there was
one more question.
“Is it a raccoon question? I
trapped one once,” Dantonio
said.
TURNAROUND
SEASON
The Spartans have gone
from playing in the national
championship semifi nal in
2015 to 3-9 last season to
9-3 this season. So it was an
emotional moment when the
seniors went through their
fi nal practice this week.
MILESTONES
IN
REACH
Dantonio is 99-45 (.688)
in 11 seasons as Spartans
coach. A victory Thursday
would make him the eighth
active FBS coach to own 100
wins at his current school.
MSU is looking for double-
digit wins for the eighth time
in program history.
By JOSH DUBOW
Associated Press
SANTA CLARA, Calif.
— Elijah Sindelar threw a
38-yard touchdown pass to
Anthony Mahoungou with
1:44 remaining and Purdue
capped coach Jeff Brohm’s
fi rst season in dramatic style
with a 38-35 victory over
Arizona in the Foster Farms
Bowl on Wednesday night.
The Boilermakers (7-6)
had squandered a 17-point
halftime lead when Khalil
Tate threw his fi fth TD pass
with 3:21 remaining to give
the Wildcats (7-6) the lead.
But Sindelar responded
with a 75-yard drive
that ended with the deep
throw into the end zone
to Mahoungou, giving the
Boilermakers their fi rst
winning record since 2011
and fi rst bowl win over
a major conference team
since beating Washington in
the 2002 Sun Bowl.
Sindelar threw for 396
yards and four touchdowns,
with Mahoungou (118
yards) and Gregory Phillips
(149) each topping the
100-yard mark and catching
two TD passes.
Tate was just as good,
showing he can win with
his arm as well as he can
with his legs that carried
him to 1,353 yards rushing
in the regular season. Tate
threw for 302 yards and
fi ve touchdowns but his
late interception to Jacob
Thieneman ended the come-
AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez
Purdue quarterback Elijah Sindelar, left, throws
against Arizona during the fi rst half of the Foster
Farms Bowl NCAA college football game Wednesday.
makers were dynamic in the
31-point fi rst half, showing
off offensive prowess that
was rarely seen on a consis-
tent basis during the regular
season. The offense stalled
mostly in the second half
before the winning score.
The most promising drive
before that ended when
Markell Jones got stopped
just short of the fi rst-down
marker on a fourth-down
pass.
Arizona: The Boiler-
makers managed to keep
Tate’s electric running in
check, holding him to just 58
yards on 20 carries. But that
opened up space for him to
exploit them with downfi eld
throws and he had a career
highs in touchdown passes
and yards passing.
back attempt.
Brohm pulled out all the
stops, going for it three times
on fourth down, calling a
couple of fl ea-fl ickers and
using an innovative trick
play to set up a fi eld goal at
the end of the fi rst half that
made it 31-14.
The Boilermakers took
over at their 32 with 56
seconds left after Tate lost
a fumble. Purdue appeared
to be taking a knee on the
paly to run out the clock, but
running back D.J. Knox was
crouching hidden behind a
guard. Sindelar then handed
the ball to Knox, who
waited an instant and then
ran around left end for a
30-yard gain that helped set
up the fi eld goal.
THE TAKEAWAY
Purdue: The Boiler-
CAMP: Young baseball players get a chance to work on fundamental skills
Continued from 1B
looking at where I was going
than what had happened in
the past,” he said. “Being
a part of that program was
great and I learned a lot about
myself ... it was hard to leave
but in the end it was the right
decision.”
Now O’Rourke calls
George Washington Univer-
sity in Washington D.C.
home, where he will have up
to three years of eligibility
remaining to play for the
Division-I Colonels which
compete in the Atlantic
10 Conference. As one of
only four catchers on the
roster and one of only two
non-freshmen,
O’Rourke
expects to play a big role
this season for the Colonels,
which is one of the reasons
that he chose to move across
the country.
“They were the right
program where they needed
a catcher at the right time and
it is a really good environ-
ment,” O’Rourke said. “The
team’s looking good and I
think we have a good shot to
win the conference and get a
bid to the tournament.”
Richards, who now
lives in Seattle working for
KPMG, parlayed a solid prep
career with the Bucks into a
scholarship to play at Notre
Dame, where he was a four-
year starter at shortstop for the
Irish. He compiled a career
.255 batting average but was
a stellar defender with a .954
fi elding percentage in 961
total fi elding chances, expe-
rience he has gladly shared
with the kids in Pendleton.
“I have defi nitely enjoyed
doing the camps,” Richards
said. “It’s nice to be able to
give back to a community
and a baseball program that
helped develop me as a
baseball player for 15 years.
“I hope the biggest
takeaway for the kids doing
the camps is that you can
practice and get better at
any sport while still having
fun and enjoying yourself,”
he added. “I also hope they
appreciate the time and
sacrifi ces their parents make
for them to be able to attend
camps and play the sports
they love.”
In a matter of weeks, the
indoor baseball facility will
again fi ll with the sounds
of gloves popping and bats
cracking once again, as this
next wave of Buckaroo stars
prepare for the 2017 season.
————
Contact Eric at esinger@
eastoregonian.com
or
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
541-966-0839. Follow him Pendleton graduate Alex O’Rourke, center, goes over the skills that were practiced
with attendees of a winter baseball workshop on Wednesday in Pendleton.
on Twitter @ByEricSinger.
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