Cougars Roll Pokes 44-0

 Wyoming came out hard, and the Cougs looked a little rusty in the first quarter.  Assited by the Defense, and as the game settled in, the cougars rolled on to thier 17th consecutive conference win.

Things started to roll once Scott Johnson picked up an incomplete lateral pass and rushed into the endzone for the only first quarter score.  The Defense came up big with 5 turnovers two of which ended in touchdowns.

Austin Collie lead the offensive effort with 8 catches for 122 yards and two second quarter tds.  Harvey Unga added 123 yards (95 ground, 27 in the air) and two touchdowns.  Cougar touchdown machine Dennis Pitta went scoreless in this outing, and had 3 catches for 24 yrds.  The Michael Reed replacement team of Ashworth/Hafoka/Chambers only had 2 catches for 7 yards.  Hafoka left early with an ankle injury.

Max Hall had 3 TD’s to offset the pokes 3 ints and was 16 of 27 for 189 yards.  though this was not anywhere near last weeks performance, after the first two series, Max settled down and had a solid outing for the remainder of his 2.5 quarters of play. 

Pretty much all of the starters began their bye week a little early and made way for the subs.  Quality reps were to be had by all of the second stringers, and most of the 3rd (maybe even some of the 4th)  The subs held on for the shut-out, particularly thanks to a couple of great defensive plays.  Several other true Freshmen saw playing time, including Daniel Sorensen, Michael Alisha, Shiloah Te’o,Iona Pritchard, and Spencer Hadley.  Kicker Justin Sorensen also hit his first field goal as a cougar.

Bronco described the effort as “like a flywheel” in that it takes quite a bit of effort to get it rolling, but once the momentum begins, it’s hard to stop.  We hope that in most games, the flywheel won’t take quite so long to start.

Nice win for the cougs