BAKER CITY HERALD — 5A
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2020
Ducks roll past Stanford
By Anne M. Peterson
AP Sports Writer
EUGENE — While it was
admittedly strange without
fans in the stands, Oregon
quarterback Tyler Shough
and the No. 12 Ducks still
found motivation in their
season opener.
Shough picked up where
Justin Herbert left off,
throwing for 227 yards and a
touchdown and running for
another score to lead Oregon
to a 35-14 victory over short-
handed Stanford on Saturday
night.
Stanford was hurt before
the game even kicked off
when it was announced that
starting quarterback Davis
Mills was unavailable.
Receiver Connor Weding-
ton and defensive end Trey
LaBounty were also listed
as unavailable because of
COVID-19 testing results
and contact tracing proto-
cols. Stanford did not specify
whether the players had
tested positive, but Wedington
said on Twitter that he tested
negative.
Shough completed 17 of 26
passes with one interception,
and ran for 85 yards, as he
assumed the starter’s role
now that Herbert has moved
on to the NFL. With Herbert
at quarterback, Oregon went
12-2 last season and won the
Rose Bowl over Wisconsin.
In a coronavirus-shortened
season, every win will be
valuable for the Ducks.
“It was really weird
running out of the tunnel,
without the Duck on the mo-
torcycle,” Shough said about
the lack of usual game-day
festivities at Autzen Stadium.
“We had to create our own
juice.”
CJ Verdell ran for 105
Leon Neuschwander/For The Oregonian/OregonLive
Oregon State’s Jaydon Grant, No. 3, comes down
with the interception in the end zone Saturday.
Beavers’ rally
comes up short
against Cougars
By Gary Horowitz
Associated Press
Sean Meagher/The Oregonian/OregonLive
Oregon’s Johnny Johnson III hauls in a catch near the goal line against the Stanford
Cardinal at Autzen Stadium in Eugene on Saturday.
yards and a score for Oregon,
which won its 11th straight
game at Autzen Stadium, the
seventh longest active streak
in the nation.
Mills started in six games
for the Cardinal last season,
throwing for 1,960 yards and
11 touchdowns. He was re-
placed by backup Jack West,
who made his second career
start. Stanford also used
freshman Tanner McKee.
West completed 13 of 19
passes for 154 yards for
Stanford, which went 4-8
last season to snap a 10-year
bowl streak. Austin Jones
ran for 100 yards and two
touchdowns but Jet Toner
missed four fi eld goal at-
tempts.
“We were missing obvi-
ously a couple of our start-
ers. Tough to fi nd that out
a couple hours before the
game,” Stanford coach David
Shaw said.
After Toner’s fi rst attempt
was off, Stanford took the
early lead on Jones’ 4-yard
touchdown run.
Oregon answered on the
ensuing drive with Verdell’s
10-yard scoring run. Verdell
is the Pac-12’s top returning
running back with 1,220 rush-
ing yards last season. Shough
found Mycah Pittman with a
44-yard pass on the scoring
drive.
Toner’s 40-yard attempt in
the second quarter went wide
left before Oregon pulled in
front on Shough’s 5-yard touch-
down pass to DJ Johnson.
Oregon appeared to expand
the lead on Shough’s 35-yard
pass to Johnny Johnson III in
the end zone, but it was ruled
incomplete on video review. A
pass interference call on the
play got the Ducks closer, and
Travis Dye ran 14 yards to
make it 21-7.
Toner missed a 35-yard fi eld
goal before Shough ran for a
9-yard touchdown to push the
Ducks’ lead to 28-7.
“Some of it’s by decision,
some of it’s just seeing the play
break down and doing what I
can,” Shough said about run-
ning the ball.
Toner’s fourth missed fi eld
goal, a 27-yard attempt, came
early in the fourth quarter.
Camden Lewis missed one for
the Ducks on the next drive.
Jones ran two yards for a
Stanford touchdown to narrow
the defi cit to 28-14. Cyrus
Habibi-Likio’s 4-yard scoring
run provided the fi nal margin
for Oregon.
“Shame of it was, honestly,
we had multiple opportunities,”
Shaw said. “In the passing
game, in particular, we had,
gosh, four or fi ve chances for
guys to make plays. We have
to connect. It’s part of the
problem with not having
your starting quarterback,
absolutely. Still, we practice
and we practice together and
we have to connect.”
Notre Dame upsets No. 1 Clemson
initely did not meet the CDC’s
social-distancing guidelines.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. —
“When fans stormed the
When Clemson’s desperate
fi eld, it was fun,” Book said.
attempt to convert a fourth-
Kyren Williams put the
and-forever ended in a scrum, Irish ahead with a 3-yard
Notre Dame quarterback Ian touchdown run in the second
Book tossed his helmet as
overtime and No. 4 Notre
he sprinted onto the fi eld to
Dame shut down top-ranked
celebrate with his teammates. Clemson with a couple of
Within seconds, thousands sacks to seal a 47-40 win
of fans joined in, rushing the
Saturday night.
fi eld amid a pandemic for a
The fi rst victory over a No. 1
postgame party that most def- team in 27 years for the Fight-
By Ralph D. Russo
AP College Football Writer
Thank you,
Veterans
ing Irish can be added to the
list of famous streak-breakers
in Notre Dame history:
Catholics vs. Convicts in 1988
snapped Miami’s 36-game
regular-season winning streak
and the shutout of Oklahoma
in 1957 broke the Sooners’
record 47-game roll.
Clemson (7-1, 6-1) had won
36 consecutive regular-season
games and had not lost to an
Atlantic Coast Conference
team since 2017. The Fighting
Irish (7-0, 6-0), playing in the
ACC only because of the coro-
navirus pandemic, brought
them all to a halt.
“No matter how old I am,
I’ll remember this one for-
ever,” Book said.
Who knows where this
victory should rank in Notre
Dame lore, but considering
the setting and this weird
pandemic-altered season,
the win is probably its most
bizarre.
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CORVALLIS — Jayden de Laura passed for two
touchdowns and ran for a score in his college debut, lead-
ing Washington State to a 38-28 victory Saturday night
over Oregon State in the Pac-12 opener for both schools.
De Laura, a 6-foot, 195-pound freshman from Hono-
lulu, completed 18 of 33 passes for 227 yards and also
rushed for 43 yards.
Deon McIntosh had 147 yards rushing and a touch-
down as the Cougars amassed 456 total yards.
Nick Rolovich got a win in his fi rst game as coach at
Washington State, which was without running back Max
Borghi. The junior — who has 28 career touchdowns,
including 16 last season — reportedly hurt his back in
practice.
But McIntosh played well in Borghi’s absence, and de
Laura showed poise in his fi rst game.
“The good thing about Jayden is, he was comfortable
when he got off the plane,” Rolovich said. “And this mo-
ment wasn’t too big for him. He loves football, he loves
winning, he loves playing and he wants to get better.”
The Beavers rallied late behind quarterback Tristan
Gebbia and cut the lead to 31-28 with 2:39 remaining
on Jermar Jefferson’s 15-yard run, and Gebbia’s 2-point
conversion pass to Trevon Bradford.
But Washington State recovered the on-side kick and
scored on the next play — a 44-yard touchdown run by
Travell Harris.
Gebbia passed for 329 yards and a touchdown, and
Jefferson ran for 120 yards and three scores, but it
wasn’t enough for the Beavers, who haven’t had a win-
ning season since 2013.
The Beavers failed to move the ball on their fi rst three
possessions.
“As an offense it starts with me,” Gebbia said. “You
can’t start slow like that.”
Washington State extended its lead to 28-7 on de
Laura’s 28-yard touchdown pass to Harris midway
through the third quarter.
Oregon State answered with Jefferson’s 1-yard touch-
down run to cut the lead to 28-14.
McIntoch ran 49 yards on a third-and-10 draw play,
and de Laura’s 5-yard touchdown run on the next play
gave the Cougars a 21-7 advantage early in the third
quarter.
“They just played a little better than us,” Oregon State
coach Jonathan Smith said. “And we dug a hole that we
couldn’t get out of.”
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