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Huskies Take Down Buffs
On Veterans Day, 38-3
BOULDER-After allowing Arizona
to run right through them the previous week, the Colorado Buffaloes
defense responded with a strong performance on Saturday against
Washington, at least for nearly three quarters. However, this time
it was the offense that was idle.
With an offense that had trouble moving the ball
once again at home, the 'D' helped the Buffs get out of a couple
tough situations in the first half and only be down 7-0 at
halftime. But the lack of ball movement continued in the second
half and the Colorado defense couldn't sustain the success they had
of containing UW quarterback Keith Price, who threw four of his
five touchdown passes in the final 30 minutes to lead Washington to
the 38-3 win at Folsom Field.
The Buffaloes sit at 1-10, 1-7 in the Pac-12
with one game left while the Huskies improve to 7-4 overall and 5-3
in conference play.
"I thought our defense played well," Colorado
coach Jon Embree said. "They really kept us in it, we just couldn't
capitalize."
The game remained close throughout the first
half and it wasn't until a 3-yard pass from Price to Cody Bruns
with 1:02 before halftime did the Huskies find the end zone.
On Washington's previous four possessions,
Colorado forced the Huskies to punt, fumble, miss a field goal and
lose it on downs.
The fumble came on a 2nd-and-1 on the CU 9-yard
line in which Husky tailback Bishop Sankey went up the middle but
was stripped by senior linebacker Doug Rippy. With the ball
bouncing at the goal line, fellow senior linebacker Jon Major
scooped up the ball and found a way to keep his body out of the end
zone to avoid the safety.
But only five plays later, quarterback Connor
Wood - who was making his first career start - threw his first
second interception to put the CU defense with their 'backs against
the wall.'
Once again, the Buffs D was up to the challenge
as UW went three-and-out (with some penalties thrown in there as
well) and almost fumbled the punt but kicker Travis Coons was able
to regain his composure and boot it away...more
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