Sept. 17, 2005
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – DonTrell Moore ran for 120 yards to become New Mexico’s all-time career rushing leader and Kole McKamey threw two touchdown passes Saturday night in a 38-21 win over New Mexico State.
Moore’s record setter was an 8-yard run up the middle to the New Mexico State 24 with 10:26 left in the second quarter. Three plays later he took a screen pass from McKamey, cut to his left and went in untouched from 24 yards. The score capped a 91-yard, 19-play drive that consumed 9 1/2 minutes and gave the Lobos a 14-0 lead.
Kole McKamey runs for a 71-yard touchdown. (AP Photo/Jake Schoellkopf) |
Moore, now with 3,928 career rushing yards, broke the previous record of 3,862 yards set by Mike Williams from 1975-78. He and McKamey, who ran for 152 yards, led the Lobos to a season-high 314 yards rushing.
New Mexico (3-0) dominated the Aggies (0-3) and their one-dimensional (passing) offense. The Aggies got an 80-yard pass from Royal Gill to Paul Dombrowski in the second quarter, a 4-yard scoring run by Derek Dubois in the third quarter and a 1-yard run by Justine Buries late in the fourth quarter. The last two scores came after New Mexico had built a 38-7 lead.
The Aggies did manage to finish with positive yards rushing. They had 98 after averaging minus 6 yards in their first two games. Buries had 115 yards on 20 carries.
The Gill to Dombrowski TD pass came eight seconds after McKamey had run through the Aggies’ defense for a 71-yard TD. McKamey broke into the secondary, cut back and then got an assist from wide receiver Hank Baskett, who stayed between McKamey and the last Aggie defender for the final 10 yards.
New Mexico defensive back Gabriel Fulbright had two interceptions, both of which led to Lobo points. The first, just before halftime, set up Kenny Byrd’s 36-yard field goal and the second, which he picked off at the NMSU 36 and returned to the 18, set up a 3-yard touchdown by Moore. That drive took just 1:08 and three plays, with Moore accounting for all 18 yards with three rushes.
Fulbright, whose interception late in the fourth quarter preserved New Mexico’s season-opening 24-22 win over UNLV, has five interceptions this year and 14 in his career.
McKamey was a picture of productivity. He was 12-of-19 passing for 172 yards and his 17-yard TD pass to tight end John Mulchrone on the Lobos’ opening drive set the tone.
The one mistake McKamey made was to throw an interception – the Lobos’ first turnover this season. Aggie safety Eric Carrie picked off McKamey’s pass in the end zone in the third quarter.
The game was played before a University Stadium record crowd of 44,760.