Fumbles Aid Arizona State

Ryan Kealy passed for two touchdowns in the second half and Arizona State took advantage of six lost fumbles by Washington for a 28-7 victory on Saturday at Seattle.

Kealy, who hadn’t finished a game this season because of injuries, had scoring passes of three yards to tight end Kendrick Bates and 24 yards to Tariq McDonald to break open a tight game.

The Sun Devils, 3-3 overall and 2-1 in the Pacific 10 Conference, ended a three-game winning streak for the Huskies (3-3, 2-1). Arizona State had lost its last four trips to Seattle and bounced back from a 48-17 loss at Notre Dame the previous Saturday.

Arizona State’s defense stymied quarterback Marques Tuiasosopo and Washington’s option attack after the Huskies took the game’s opening kickoff and drove 87 yards for their only touchdown.

The Sun Devils stopped the Huskies at the one-yard line on a fourth-down run by Willie Hurst with 5:02 left in the third quarter.

Kealy completed 15 of 28 passes for 194 yards and two touchdowns, with two interceptions. Tuiasosopo was 19 for 26 for 206 yards and no interceptions, but lost two fumbles.

Arizona State turned Washington’s fifth lost fumble into a touchdown in the first minute of the fourth quarter for a 28-7 lead. Hurst lost his second fumble of the day on a vicious hit by Alfred Williams and the ball was recovered by Kareem Clark at the Washington 24. Hurst was knocked out of the game with a concussion.

Arizona 34, Texas El Paso 21--Ortege Jenkins, pressed into full-game service because of an injury to quarterback Keith Smith, threw for one touchdown, scored one and set up another with a 52-yard run as the Wildcats (5-2) outlasted the Miners (3-4) at Tucson, Ariz., in a nonconference game.

Trung Canidate had a season-high 202 yards in 27 carries and scored on a 60-yard run that awakened Arizona’s sluggish offense after UTEP went ahead, 14-0. Canidate has rushed for over 100 yards in five straight games.

Jenkins, whose flip over Washington defenders into the end zone to win a game last year made every highlight show, went airborne again for a six-yard touchdown that broke a 21-21 tie 59 seconds into the fourth quarter.