Football
Falls To Kansas In Second Overtime, 34-31
Kingsbury
pulls Tech back from a 10-0 deficit to a half time lead by throwing two
touchdown passes.
By
MICHAEL A. LUTZ
AP
Sports Writer
LUBBOCK,
Texas - Freshman Johnny Beck kicked his fourth field goal in the second
overtime as Kansas rallied for a 34-31 win over Texas Tech on Saturday
night.
Trailing
24-13 in the third quarter, the Jayhawks (2-2, 1-1 Big 12) rallied with
two scores in a span of 4:11 to send the game into overtime. Beck kicked
a 44-yard field goal and Mario Kinsey threw a 5-yard touchdown pass to
Termaine Fulton. Reggie Duncan's run for the 2-point conversion tied the
game at 24.
Kinsey
put Kansas ahead in the first overtime with a 9-yard pass for a 31-24 lead.
But the Red Raiders (2-2, 0-2) tied it on a 9-yard quarterback draw by
B.J. Symons, who entered in the fourth quarter after starter Kliff Kingsbury
sprained his right thumb.
Beck
then kicked a 37-yard field goal for the go-ahead points and Marcus Rogers
secured the victory for the Jayhawks by intercepting Symons' pass on Tech's
second overtime possession.
Beck
is 9-for-10 on field-goal attempts this season. His only miss came on a
48-yard attempt that hit the left upright in the fourth quarter.
Kingsbury
pulled Tech back from a 10-0 deficit to a 17-13 halftime lead with touchdown
passes of 3 yards to Cole Roberts with 30 seconds left in the first quarter
and 35 yards to Wes Welker early in the second quarter.
Kingsbury's
third touchdown pass came with 3:26 to go in the third quarter, a 24-yard
screen pass to Ricky Williams, giving the Raiders a 24-13 lead.
Robert
Treece kicked a 27-yard field goal for Kansas with 4:55 left in the first
half and Beck kicked a 42-yarder with 1:57 to go.
The
Jayhawks drove 78 yards on the first drive of the game and scored on Zach
Dyer's 1-yard pass to Austine Nwabuisi. Reggie Duncan's 45-yard run to
the Tech 25 was the big gainer.
Moments
later, Carl Ivey blocked a Tech field goal attempt and Andrew Davidson
ran it back 36 yards to the Tech 34 setting up Beck's 42-yard field goal.
Middle
linebacker Lawrence Flugence, the Red Raiders' leading tackler, sprain
his knee in the first quarter and did not return. |