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WVU Leads Fired-Up Iowa State at Halftime
November 28, 2015 01:48 PM | Football
One explosive offensive play is separating West Virginia and Iowa State here at halftime of today’s game at Milan Puskar Stadium.
It came from Shelton Gibson, who took a pass out in the flat, eluded a tackler, and outran the Cyclone defense for a 60-yard touchdown. Gibson’s catch and run has given the Mountaineers a 13-6 halftime lead.
West Virginia got field goals of 40 and 30 yards from Josh Lambert, while Iowa State has added two Cole Netten three-pointers, the first coming from 43 yards and the second covering a distance of 49 yards right before the end of the half.
Netten’s field goal culminated a weird 10-play, 32-yard drive that saw Iowa State line up in punt formation twice on fourth down and successfully convert both fakes, one going for three yards on a Colin Downing run right up the middle and the other a wounded-duck pass that Downing completed between three WVU defenders to Kane Seeley for five yards.
The fakes caught nobody in the stadium by surprise, accept the players out on the field attempting to stop it.
If not for two Joel Lanning interceptions that led to 10 Mountaineer points, West Virginia would be in far worse shape because the Cyclones are stopping WVU’s ground game and running the ball a little bit themselves.
West Virginia shows only 46 yards on 16 attempts while Iowa State has 58 yards on 23 carries, but two Lanning sacks have taken away from the Cyclones’ first-half rushing total.
Howard has completed 8 of 13 passes for 128 yards, four of those passes going to Gibson for 94 yards.
Lanning has completed 11-of-19 for 115 yards for Iowa State.
The Cyclones are set to get the ball at the start of the second half.
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