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Colorado State Football Dynasty 2012 game 2

Posted on December 21, 2010 at 07:57 PM.

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PULLMAN, Wash. -- Colorado State (2-0) needed every last second to get the win at Washington State (0-2), as Pete Kontodiakos hit a 41 yard field goal as time expired to take the 41-38 win.

After falling behind 20-0, CSU scored twice in the final two minutes of the first half to trail 20-14 at halftime. CSU took the lead in the 3rd when Marquise Law caught a pass and ran 74 yards for the tocuhdown, however the Cougars answered back with a 71 yard touchdown pass from Tuel to Wilson, a minute later.

In this exciting game CSU quarterback Pete Thomas set the school single game passing record with 484 yards, he also added 4 touchdowns and one interception on 23 of 37 passing. "I was focused today on finding my receivers. I knew we could take advantage with our size and speed in the receiving corps today." Thomas said.

Marquise Law caught 9 passes for 212 yards and 2 touchdowns, Byron Steele had 6 catches for 99 yards and a TD, Lou Greenwood had 3 passes for 124 yards and one touchdown. Steele commented about their performance,"We knew coming in that we had an advantage with our experience, and Pete constantly hit us in stride so we didn't have to slow down to catch the ball, it was a great help as we burst away from the defense numerous times on the way to the endzone."

HB Carlos Washington added 98 yards on the ground with a score."With us being so focused on the passing game, whenever I begged in the huddle to get the ball, Thomas obliged and handed it off, I think that the 5 yards per carry showed that the defense had no clue if we were going to pass or run."

WSU QB Jeff Tuel passed for 517 yards on 38 of 48 attempts, and added 3 touchdowns too."I knew I could take advantage of their defense because they have a history of being very aggressive, so I tried to avoid the blitz and find the open man, a lot of the time the underneath pass was open and I'd hit the short pass with our guy then able to run 10-15 yards in open space."

The receiving combo of Gino Simone (92 yards on 9 catches), Marquess Wilson (151 yards on 8 catches, and 1 TD), and Isiah Barton (113 yards on 7 catches) found a lot of open space to work with and like their CSU conterparts, were much quicker and smarter then the defense today.

"I'm going to work on getting these guys motivated more for the start of the game, as both this week and last week we went down early only to have to play catch up for a good portion of the time." CSU coach Drew Gill commented.