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TlNTXLK COLLEGE FOOTBALL Sunday, October 21 2007 C5 SAM HOUSTON STATE 42, NORTHWESTERN STATE 21 BOISE STATE 45, LOUISIANA TECH 31 Tharp throws Broncos past Bulldogs Gary HardamonNSU photo lab Northwestern State linebacker Blake Delcambre dives into the end zone after picking off Sam Houston quarterback Rhett Bomar and returning the interception back for a touchdown. and did not travel to Ruston. Even without him, Boise had 465 yards total offense. The Broncos (6-1, 3-0) have lost only one Western Athletic Conference game since 2002. The game went back and forth for 2Vi quarters, but a late Tech fumble and two Tharp touchdowns in the fourth quarter ended any chance of an upset.

-V iU, jjL i i tit'. 1 I OD t5 OA irsDs The Associated Press RUSTON Taylor Tharp threw for five touchdowns one of them for 83 yards and Boise State beat Louisiana Tech, 45-31, Saturday night. Tharp more than made up for the loss of Ian Johnson, who led the nation in scoring last season with 25 touchdowns but was injured last week against Nevada I-f 1 i -1 i up short on the road However, Sam Houston State quickly answered back on its next possession, marching on an 80-yard drive that was capped by a 17-yard touchdown run by Bomar that seemed to take back any momentum the Demons may have gained. "I was proud of how we came back to close the gap to 8 points at 28-20 and I thought we really had something going there," Stoker said. "But to give up a long touchdown drive immediately after we scored really took something out of us." Sam Houston scored the games final points on a 1-yard Bomar run with 6:18 remaining in the game.

"Everyone knows Bomar passes the ball well, but we saw on the game tapes that he can also run very effectively when he has to," Stoker says. Still, it "had to be surprising that Bomar would score on three runs and not throw a touchdown pass. battle but still come However, that was as close as the Demons would get as Sam Houston scored the last 14 points of the game. After going up 7-0, Sam Houston reeled off the next 28 points. The Bearkats' running game was especially effective as tailback Chris Pullard scored on a first quarter run of 61 yards.

In their second scoring drive, Pullard threw a 33-yard option pass back to Bomar to set up the Bearkats at the NSU 2. Following a penalty, Pullard then scored on a 6-yard run. The Bearkats boosted the lead to 21-7 late in the first half on a 25-yard run by TyMagic Robinson while Bomaf romped 59 yards up the middle to put Sam Houston up 28-7 with 6:55 left in the first half. After the Bomar scoring run, the Demons put together a series of good drives to gain momen- turn and bring themselves back in Un4ef Edmond, whp replaced Northwestern State starting quarterback Drew, Branch late in the first quarter, the Demons drove from their 45-yard line to the Sam Houston 8 before settling for a Robert Weeks field goal to narrow the score to 28-10. In the third quarter, Northwest-em State drove from the Demons 48 to cut the gap to eight points on the touchdown pass from Edmond to OPEN 24-7 561-0306 3117 Masonic' Tharp finished 21 of 35 for 328 yards with two interceptions.

As the Bulldogs were putting together a drive that might have tied the game in the fourth quarter, Orlando Scandrick stripped the ball from Joe Anderson on Boise's 13-yard line. Two plays later, Tharp's long bomb to Jeremy Quids made the score 38-24 with 6:38 left in the game. I Demons win turnover By Ric Jensen For The Town Talk HUNTSVILLE, Texas When Northwestern State's football team wins the turnover battle, good things usually happen. Not Saturday. In spite of forcing two turnovers and not giving up the ball, Northwestern State fell to Sam Houston State 42-21 at Bowers Stadium.

The loss drops the Demons to 3-4 overall, 2-2 in the Southland Conference. According to NSU coach Scott Stoker, the team is now in a position where it prob-V, has to win out to reach the cvtvt Ci "We have to take care of all the hiccups we had iriwthis 'Stoker "We had many op- today, but, we hurt -ourselves. We must play better thart tWs from herednut;" I The Demons won. turnover battle 2-0, due in large art to the play-pf linebacker' Blali Delcam-1' ore, a sophomore! froniNew Iberia. Delcambre intercepted Bear-, kat quarterback." RHettj Bomar's first pass on Sam Houston State's Second play from scrimmage and ran it back 15 yards to put NSU in front 7-0.

It was the first time all year the" Demonsefense hadput points1 ontheboard. Early in the third Marter, cambre forced and recovered a Bomar fumble at the Northwest- em State 46. That started a 7-play, 52-yard drive that culrninated in a 7-yard touchdown pass from Germayne Edmond to Byron Lawrence with in the period, cutting the Sam Houston lead to 28-20: I i i Kite Bros. in Deridder, LA Only! I 1940 North Pine St. Pre-Fall Clearance Sale on all "07 www.kitebros.com Southern Cadillac More Than A Car- it's the 2008 CIS fj cacMac r.laeQ A A C.

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