6A — BAKER CITY HERALD
MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2019
LAS VEGAS BOWL: WASHINGTON 38, BOISE STATE 7
Huskies romp over Broncos in Peterson’s finale
Bachmeier, who started the
fi rst seven games before sus-
taining a hip injury against
Hawaii, was 15 of 26 for 119
yards.
By Dan Greenspan
Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — The Las
Vegas Bowl was always going
to be about Chris Petersen. It
was his fi nal game as coach, a
matchup of the two programs
he led to such great heights in
Washington and Boise State.
It could have been his
moment, but the humble Pe-
tersen went out of his way to
share his last spotlight after a
successful fi nale.
Jacob Eason threw for 210
yards and a touchdown, Eli-
jah Molden was named MVP
after intercepting a pass and
forcing a fumble, and the
Huskies sent out Petersen
with a 38-7 victory over No.
18 Broncos on Saturday
night.
“Well, this is never about
any one person. It’s never
about any one player. It’s a
team game,” Petersen said.
That was certainly true as
Petersen capped six seasons
as Washington’s coach and
14 years as one of the most
successful leaders in college
football.
Richard Newton rushed
for 69 yards with a short
touchdown run and threw
a touchdown pass for the
Huskies (8-5), and Salvon
Ahmed added two touchdown
runs. Myles Bryant added an
interception, and six different
defenders had a tackle for
loss.
Together, they capped
an erratic season with a
dominant fi nale for Petersen
— who left Boise State to
coach Washington — after
THE TAKEAWAY
Boise State: The offense
had no answers, but the big-
gest question will be about
Harsin deciding to go with
Bachmeier after Henderson
had played so well down the
stretch. Both interceptions
came on throws Bachmeier
should not have made, and
the fi rst pick allowed Wash-
ington’s offense to build
confi dence early. The Broncos
defense had three sacks and
Darin Oswald / Idaho Statesman-TNS nine tackles for loss, but they
Washington wide receiver Andre Baccellia (5) runs unimpeded into the end zone for
could never come up with a
the Huskies’ fi rst score against Boise State in the Las Vegas Bowl on Saturday.
truly game-changing play.
Washington: The Huskies
he announced Dec. 2 he was had a lot of weeks to kind of
Broncos had been completely were clearly fi red up to give
Petersen a memorable fi nale,
stepping down after six sea-
let this simmer. And then we taken out of their game.
capping his tenure there with
sons. Defensive coordinator
went out there, we played
“Ultimately, it falls back
a record of 55-26. It was also
Jimmy Lake will take over as well.”
on me, and the performance
one of their most complete
head coach.
The Huskies jumped out to tonight, I mean, that’s my
performances in an up-and-
Petersen brought Lake
a 17-0 halftime lead behind
fault,” Boise State coach
down season, with the offense
to the stage to help accept
a methodical offense and
Bryan Harsin said. “Obvi-
the trophy. Petersen then
suffocating defense, starting ously seven points is not what proving to be effi cient enough
alternated between cracking with an interception of Hank we put in 10 days of practice to complement a tenacious
defensive effort. Petersen got
jokes and assigning praise
Bachmeier’s pass that was
time to go out there and
the Huskies back to the upper
to players and coaches in his thrown up for grabs on the
execute and achieve.”
echelon of West Coast football
fi nal press conference.
opening possession and easily
Jaylon Henderson threw
by winning two Pac-12 titles
While Petersen was appre- picked off by Bryant. Andre
for 48 yards and a touch-
hensive about the all encom- Baccellia took a slant from
down for the Broncos (12-2). and leaves a strong founda-
passing focus on himself lead- Eason 17 yards into the end
They lost for the fi rst time in tion behind for Lake.
ing up to the game, Molden
zone for the opening score,
fi ve appearances in the Las
said it was a “pretty good
and Washington never was
Vegas Bowl. Henderson found SUNDAY MORNING
Petersen isn’t clear on what
incentive” to play well for him seriously threatened.
George Holani on a 10-yard
and the seniors while also
By the time the Huskies
touchdown pass after replac- his next step will be, but he
building momentum toward went up 24-0 early in the
ing Bachmeier in the second is looking forward to waking
Lake’s fi rst season.
third quarter on a 2-yard
half after the freshman threw up Sunday as an ex-coach.
“It’s going to be awesome,”
“Every game is important, touchdown run by Newton
his second interception.
but some games are more
after Molden picked off a
important,” Molden said. “We screen pass by Bachmeier, the
Petersen said. “And the next
day after that is going to be
awesome. Maybe in a month,
it might not be so awesome,
fi guring out what to do next.
But it’s gonna be good for a
while.”
POLL IMPLICATIONS
It might be dicey after
the blowout loss, but Boise
State’s overall body of work
in a solid Mountain West
Conference should be enough
to be ranked in the fi nal poll.
Washington could merit con-
sideration in the preseason
AP Top 25.
UP NEXT
• Boise State: The Broncos
will have to rebuild on both
lines of scrimmage, but they
will be favorites to win the
Mountain West for the third
time in four seasons and the
top challenger to dethrone the
American Athletic Conference
for the automatic bid to a New
Year’s Six bowl. Boise State
will open the 2020 season by
hosting Georgia Southern on
Sept. 5.
• Washington: Lake will
have to decide whether to
make changes to the offensive
coaching staff, but the Hus-
kies will have the personnel to
challenge Oregon in the Pac-
12 North, especially if Eason
returns for his redshirt senior
season. Washington opens
next season by hosting Michi-
gan on Sept. 5 in what will be
one of the Pac-12’s marquee
nonconference games.
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Las Vegas Bowl on Saturday.
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ing a 34-31 victory Saturday
night over the Los Angeles
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the well-being of third-string
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whose younger brother
Clayton was fatally stabbed
earlier in the day at a Nash-
ville bar.
“It was defi nitely the tough-
est game of my career,” said
an emotional George Kittle,
who played with Beathard in
college at Iowa and was close
to the family.
“Today was absolutely ter-
rible, for me the entire day. It
sucked all around. Overall it
was just kind of a brutal day.
We got that one for C.J. and
I’m so happy we were able to
do it.”
It didn’t come easy, as it
took Jimmy Garoppolo con-
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on third-and-16 to set up
Robbie Gould’s game-winning
33-yard fi eld goal with no
time left to eliminate the de-
fending NFC champion Rams
from playoff contention.
Garoppolo made up for a
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drive after taking his fi fth
and sixth sacks.
“To convert two of those
the way we did it was pretty
incredible,” Garoppolo said.