Washington Huskies Win But

The Washington Huskies won Saturday 

afternoon at home against Utah State 

however wasn't as expected.

The Huskies won the scoreboard and

on defense but the offense had a lot

of mix reviews. 

Final Washington 16 Utah State 14

The Huskies didn't even score amount of

points as they were favored again. This

was much like the Apple Cup last Sunday.

The main difference Utah State almost won.

Neither team scored in the first quarter 

though the Huskies offense had the chance 

In the second quarter the Huskies scored

first with a field goal.  It didn't take USU

verty long to take the only lead of the game

scoring a touchdown in less than 30 seconds.

What the Huskies defense didn't do well. 

The Huskies took less than five minutes 

to score their only touchdown of the game

to take a 10-7  lead into the second half.

Both teams didn't score in the 3rd quarter 

either. The Huskies kicked a field goal early 

on in the 4th quarter. At 6:28 they kicked 

another field goal giving them where  Utah 

State would have to score twice to win.

Utah State made a touchdown at 1:50 left

in the game.  Had they kicked a field goal

instead with more time left on the clock

they may have upset the Huskies.

The Huskies weren't able to run out the 

clock so under a minute Utah State got the 

ball back. The trouble was they had no more

time outs. They got the ball around the 40

yard line in Huskies side of the field but

kicking and making a field goal so they 

threw a hail Mary however the Huskies 

intercepted the pass for the win. 

Head coach Jedd Fisch said when the game

ended that they are 2-0 but dirty. They will

have to go back to the drawing board beginning 

with him and trickles down. Next Saturday 

the Huskies are again home against Eastern Washington. They usually have a good team.

The Huskies will be favored they will have to

play better to win.

At least the Huskies are not their Big Ten

rival Oregon who were upset Saturday 

39-31 by Oklahoma State. Might be the

biggest upset of the season. Oregon still

can win the national championship however

they may have to win all their remaining games.

The Washington State Cougars as expected

lost by a large margin to Kansas State 34-7.

This game started about three hours before

the Huskies game. 

The Cougars offense struggled once again.

They had 166 total yards with 65 in the air.

The Cougars only score and touchdown 

ended the first half with a interception.

The Cougars quarterback Caden Pinnick 

completed only 9 of 20 passes for 65 yards.

He didn't throw any interceptions. He ran

the ball 13 times which was the most on

the team but tied for second with 29 yards. 

Next Saturday afternoon the Cougars 

will have a home game against Duquesne.

We will have a preview during the week.

We will see whether Pinnick will start

next week depending on his leash.

Go Cougs! 

Walk Off Win By A's Friday night

The Mariners continue struggling in

September. The Athletics beat the

Mariners once again in the opening 

game of this weekend series. 

The game went 10 innings. The 

Mariners scored in the top of the 

10th with a run however the A's 

had a walk off home run in the

bottom of the 10th.  

Eduardo Bazardo who has been

struggling lately  came in the 10th 

gave up the home run. This is his 

third game already in September 

and his third home run.  

I know some are asking for Dan

Wilson head however Jerry Dipoto 

should take accountability for this. 

Final Athletics 6 Mariners 5

George Kirby started and went six 

Innings giving up nine hits and four

runs. Not quite a quality start.

The Mariners started off the first 

with a run then the bottom of the

inning the Athletics scored two.

The Mariners tied it in the second.

The A's took the lead in the 3rd

Inning. The Mariners tied it in  the

sixth by Laz Montes home run.

The score stay the same until the 

10th.

This was an opportunity as the 

Houston Astros and the Rangers

both lost. The Mariners are still

down by six games with  14 to go.

The Mariners really need to win

however the decisions are not

made correctly..

My thought can't wait until this

season 

Preview of the Huskies and Cougars Games

In my opinion the Apple Cup last Sunday 

did look like an opening.game for both 

teams so another week next time would 

be better. 

This Saturday the Washington Huskies 

are home against Utah State who is

now a member of the Pac-12.  The game 

is the same time as the Apple Cup was.

Usually teams like the Huskies play a

team that isn't very good to say the least.

This is the case with Utah State. The 

Huskies are favored around 27 points 

which is high for a team that didn't play

their best ball in their opener.

At half time of the Apple Cup head coach

Jedd Fisch was not very happy with their

running game. I would say that the passing

from Desmond Williams Jr wasn't that great

either until the 4th quarter.  On social media 

the Huskies fans were not very happy with

his play calling. Let's see how that goes

this time.

On Monday Fisch announced that both

the starting and number two running backs

were injured in the Apple Cup so that gives

more of a challenge as they both be out for

a while. At least playing a soft team will

allow the running game to see how much

improvement is this week with different 

running backs. The improvement will have

to come from the offensive line. 

We were not able to see how good the 

receivers were until late in the game so

we hope better things from Desmond 

this week in the throwing the ball.

It won't be good for Utah State since 

the Huskies have a good defense which

they showed in the Apple Cup so we

could see some turnovers since the 

Cougars had some against the Huskies.

Speaking of the Cougars, they play in

the midmorning Pacific time at Kansas 

State. Again they are playing on the

road. The Cougars are better than Utah.

State though KSU is favored by almost

as many points as the Huskies are.

Although Cougars will likely not win 

need to see improvement from the 

Cougars offense. Almost three quarters 

of the Apple Cup the Cougars running

and passing game were not good. I

am sure the Huskies defense had a lot

to do with it.

I am sure replacing Pinnick was in the

minds of the Cougars fans at least.

They did change tactics in the 4th

quarter where Pinnick actually ran the

ball with some success. The trouble 

was having turnovers when passing 

the ball. I would say that the Cougars 

begin with running Pinnick in this

game. This might allow them to have

more room for the running backs as 

well as passing to the receivers.

The Cougars defense showed better

than expected against the Huskies 

for basically with new players and

coaching staff for sure. Now we see

if the defense can keep them below 

what the point spread is. Of course

if the offense can put the defense 

in good position to do so like making

KSU go on the long field and keep

the turnovers to a minimum.

In both games we hope better results 

no matter who wins. Go Dawgs and Go 

Cougs. 

Mariners Beat Rangers Again

The Seattle Mariners and the Texas Rangers 

are both fighting to make the playoffs. The

Rangers have the best shot.

The Rangers have won the season series 

so the Mariners couldn't tie the Rangers

to win the division while they can do so

against the Houston Astros. The lead the

Astros and the Rangers have on the M's 

make the odds of making the playoffs 

as very remote. 

The Mariners won the game 4-3 but it

wasn't easy to do.

First thing the Rangers scored two runs

in the third inning when Logan Gilbert 

gave up a two run homer and then the

single run in the fifth. Of course that 

turned out to be the only runs the Rangers 

scored in the game.

What made the odds that the Mariners 

would win Rangers veteran  starter

Jacob deGromm  pitched a perfect game 

through five innings. At that point he 

struck out ten of the fifteen Mariners.

The Mariners have problems scoring 

runs.

In the 6th inning Cole Young lead off 

with a single off deGromm however

he struck two out of the next three 

guys to end the inning.

The Rangers took out deGromm in

the bottom of the 7th inning. They 

brought in reliever Jakob Junnis 

to face the Mariners. The Mariners 

haven't had a great record as of late

to come back to win.  Not even 

getting a base runner for five innings.

Junnis ended up hitting Randy Arozarena 

then threw a wild pitch. Canzone hit

a single scoring Randy.  Cal Raleigh 

hits a single moving Canzone to second.

Julio Rodriguez who we know has 

struggled at the plate since the all-star 

break hits a home run making it 4-3

Mariners. This was all with no outs. 

Josh Naylor strikes out. Cole Young 

who sort of started this whole thing

flied out to feel center field. Laz Montes

struck out to end the inning.

Logan Gilbert was able to pitch through

seven innings so he got the win.  He 

walked two Rangers and struck out 11.

What an awesome game he pitched too.

Gabe Speier pitched the 8th giving up

a hit and striking out two.

Andre Munoz game in the 9th and got

the save but made it really interesting 

since he walked two batters. This game

sort of has the same ring as Wednesday 

night  win by the Seahawks. The difference 

is their opening game of the season.

The Mariners are now 69-78 with 15 games

remaining in the season.  The Phillies didn't 

help the Mariners or the Rangers for that 

matter losing Thursday to the Astros 2-1. 

The Mariners are still six games behind 

the Astros while the Rangers are three.

The Astros have 75 wins.  Using the 

criteria of 81 wins the Astros only need

to win five of their remaining 15 games 

while the Mariners need to win 12.

Still not great odds. 

The Rangers are at 72 wins so they 

would need nine wins and they have

the tie breaker against the Astros and

the Mariners.  If you are a betting person 

the odds would be good if the Mariners 

win the division. As we see it doesn't 

look good.

Friday the Mariners start a three game

series against the Athletics in Sacramento.

Last week the Athletics beat the Mariners 

three of the four games. We have to keep 

our hopes up since we are fans but still 

a miracle needs to happen. 

Until Friday night have a good one. Go M's.

Seahawks Sam Darnold Out Game 2

Sam Darnold went to the hospital in

the third quarter. He ended up staying 

overnight and released in the morning.

The hospital took a MRI and his hip

isn't too serious where he will be out

got a long time.  They know that he

 be out for game two at Arizona.

It is a tricky situation. He will be going 

thru physical therapy so all depends 

how his body responds.

Drew Lock will take the snaps with the

first unit when they get back to practice.

Lock had a good game under the circum

-stances so  should be fine.

No other player got hurt in the game 

so we will who see who missed the game 

whether they be ready to go. 

Seahawks Win In Amazing Fashion

Sometimes an end to a game is worth

watching.  The Seahawks lost quarterback 

Sam Darnold ealy in the game when he

was sacked by Patriots on the fifth play 

of the game withs hip injury. At this point

don't know if he will play a week from 

Sunday against Arizona.

Backup Drew Lock had to play the rest

of the game.  After the game he said 

his thinking was to protect the ball.

The Patriots took a ten point lead  close

heading into the 4th quarter.  The Seahawks 

scored 13 straight points.  They had two 

interceptions that helped them to get there.

Jaxon Smith-Njigba had the lone touchdown. 

He was quiet for a while though he had

eight receptions. 

The Seahawks had the opportunity to

score a second td to take a good lead

put penalties cost them which happened 

often on the night so settled for the 3

points. 

Under 30 seconds left in the game the

patriots had the opportunity to at least

tie with a field goal however quarterback 

Drake Maye tried to win the game throwing

near the sideline in the end zone but 

Seahawks cornerback  Josh Jobe intercepted

the ball to win the game. The Seahawks 

ran the clock out on two plays.

Jadarian Price started the game as the

running back. He had ten carries on the

night for 52 yards.  He had two catches

as well. George Holani had eight carries

for 29 yards. At least two were when

they had short yardage.

For three quarters the Seahawks offense

especially looked like they hadn't played

in preseason. Lock played in two preseason 

games which I am sure helped.

The NFL game be Thursday with the 49ers

and Rams playing in Melbourne Australia.

The winner will be tied for the NFC West

Division with the Seahawks.

We have to see what more happens in

the next 16 games ahead. Go Hawks. 

Kade Anderson Gets His First Major League Win

Kade Anderson was able to go six innings

to receive his first major league win.

Cal Raleigh said he was getting stronger as 

the game went along. 

Kade gave up one run in the second inning 

which was a home run and nothing after

that.  He gave up six hits, one walk and 

five strike outs. If Kade can do that more

times than not the Mariners should take

it.

The Mariners tied the game in the bottom 

of the 2nd. Cal had a walk in the second

on nine pitches. Taylor Ward singled him

in with two outs.  In the 4th inning the 

Mariners scored two runs on a double

by Cole Young. Unfortunately they only

had two hits against the Rangers bullpen

the rest of the way. 

Corey Seager hit a home run in the 8th 

inning for the Rangers to come within

one. Andre Munoz shut the door in the

9th for another save. He ended the game

on a strike out with his change up.  

Something  he has gotten better this 

season besides relying on his fastball 

and slider.

Final Mariners 3 Rangers 2

Thursday the Mariners will see if they

can win the series with Logan Gilbert.

Coming up next is how the Seahawks 

do Wednesday night at home against

the New England Patriots. Go Hawks.