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Saturday, Sep. 23 3:30pm ET Miami defense scores three times | |||
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- It will take time for Ken Dorsey to draw comparisons with Miami's long tradition of great drop-back quarterbacks. The sophomore is off to a great start. Dorsey threw two touchdown passes to Reggie Wayne and Miami's (No. 14 ESPN/USA Today, No. 12 AP) defense scored three times in a 47-10 victory over West Virginia on Saturday. Dorsey took over this season after Kenny Kelly left school to pursue a baseball career. Two weeks ago at Washington, Dorsey rallied Miami for 26 second-half points and that confidence carried over to Saturday. Dorsey completed 22-of-33 passes for 291 yards. "Kenny Dorsey gave me an excellent performance," Miami coach Butch Davis said. "I thought his composure was great and I think the game in Washington really helped him grow as a player." In six career starts, Dorsey has completed 63 percent of his passes (118-of-187) for 1,472 yards, 15 touchdowns and just one interception. "We knew we had to throw the ball today to be successful," Dorsey said. "We ran the right routes and made the right reads. We were able to spread the ball around and get a lot of different guys involved. "I was happy with my performance today, but there's always room to improve. I'm anxious to get back on the practice field and work on some things." Miami (2-1, 1-0 Big East), which gave up 34 points in a loss at Washington two weeks ago, held the Mountaineers to 95 yards in the first half and 317 overall. It didn't help West Virginia (2-1, 1-1) that quarterback Brad Lewis had his worst outing and Avon Cobourne, the Big East's leading rusher, sat out the game with a sprained ankle. Lewis, also making his sixth career start, was just 11-of-31 for 113 yards. "He wasn't quite as good but he had an awful lot of pressure, too," West Virginia coach Don Nehlen said. "It was a combination, not just Brad. He didn't have a lot of folks open and the defensive backs just destroy your timing." Miami broke the game open with 17 third-quarter points. Howard Clark returned an interception 29 yards for a 28-10 lead midway through the period. On the Mountaineers' next possession, Leonard Myers, who earlier returned a second-quarter interception 25 yards for a score, stripped the ball from West Virginia receiver Phil Braxton. Miami's Al Blades recovered at the Mountaineers' 31 to set up the first of Todd Sievers' two field goals. "It was a big knockout blow," Myers said of his effort. "Our defense was relentless in stopping the running game. We created just enough negative plays to keep them out of synch." Wayne caught a 38-yard TD pass in the first quarter and added a 47-yarder late in the third quarter to make it 38-10. With seven catches, Wayne now has 146 career receptions, breaking the school record of 144 set by Lamar Thomas from 1989-92. Wayne, who had 127 yards receiving, has caught a TD pass in five straight regular season games. Philip Buchanan's 77-yard fumble return late with 1:38 left capped the scoring. "That was a good football team," Nehlen said. "Offensively, we just made too many mistakes and about everything that could go wrong went wrong." West Virginia's lone bright spot was the play of Cobourne's backup, Cooper Rego, who rushed for 107 yards. However, a half-dozen of his 25 carries went for negative yardage. "I know they missed Avon Cobourne," Davis said. "We caught a break with him being out." Miami took the sellout crowd of 63,735 at Mountaineer Field out of the game early and its 21-10 halftime lead should have been greater. West Virginia's defense got a goal-line stand at the 1-yard line. Miami's Santana Moss fumbled a punt that led to West Virginia's opening touchdown -- a 1-yard run by Rego -- and Moss fumbled the ball away after a catch with Miami driving at the Mountaineers' 32. |
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