Box Score MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Brock Purdy threw a touchdown pass and ran for another in leading Iowa State to a 38-14 victory over West Virginia here at Milan Puskar Stadium this afternoon.
 
West Virginia (3-3, 1-2) played the majority of today's game without starting quarterback Austin Kendall, who suffered an upper body injury during the Mountaineers' opening series of the game.
 
On the play, Kendall never saw oncoming Iowa State blitzer Anthony Johnson, who hit him as he was attempting to throw a pass downfield, and he walked off the field holding his right shoulder.

"I think we will know more tomorrow or Monday," West Virginia coach Neal Brown said of Kendall's injury. "He got hit in the act of throwing and his arm kind of got behind him. The good thing is it's not an arm or a shoulder injury. It's more in his chest area."
 
Backup Jack Allison came in and led WVU to a touchdown on West Virginia's final offensive possession of the first half to tie the score at 14. Allison hit T.J. Simmons in stride on a crossing route to score from the 9-yard line with 28 seconds remaining.
 
Freshman defensive back Tykee Smith tallied West Virginia's first touchdown with 4:29 left in the first quarter when he grabbed a Purdy screen pass that was bobbled by Kene Nwangwu and returned it 19 yards for a touchdown.
 
It was West Virginia's first defensive touchdown this season and the first since Keith Washington II's 51-yard pick-six last year at Texas Tech.
 
Early in the second quarter, Iowa State knotted the game at 7 when Purdy led an 11-play drive covering 65 yards that ended with Breece Hall scoring from the 1.
 
Iowa State other scoring drive of the second half also consisted of double-digit plays (10) for 60-plus yards (66). This time Purdy called his own number from the 2 to make it 14-7.
 
The Cyclones (4-2, 2-1) took control of the game in the third quarter when they limited West Virginia's offense to only two first downs and 28 yards.
 
Following a Josh Growden punt, Iowa State took possession of the ball at its own 32 and needed only six plays to retake the lead. The big play was a Purdy pass to the nearside of the field to Tarique Milton for 28 yards to the WVU 24. 
 
An additional 12 yards was added when Hakeem Bailey was penalized for targeting and was ejected from the game. WVU was already down its other starting corner when Keith Washington was unable to go today.

"He got hurt in the fourth quarter against Texas. It's a muscle injury and it's one of those things where you can't really rush it because if you do then you put him at risk for being out longer," Brown said.
 
One play after Bailey's ejection, Hall ran 12 yards to pay dirt, giving the Cyclones a 21-14 lead.
 
Iowa State added three more early in the first quarter when its drive stalled at the Mountaineer 28. Here, Braden Narverson kicked a 45-yard field goal.
 
Purdy delivered the knockout blow with 6:54 remaining in the game when he found Joe Scates in the back of the end zone for an 18-yard touchdown. Purdy left the game soon after that touchdown but returned for ISU's final possession to take a knee and run out the clock.
 
In the meantime, Iowa State used a Braxton Lewis interception and 23-yard return to the Mountaineer 26 to produce the game's final touchdown.
 
Backup quarterback Re-al Mitchell got 19 of the 26 yards on the ground to set up Hall's second touchdown run of the game, a 1-yarder.
 
Hall ran 26 times for 132 yards and Purdy completed 19-of-30 passes for 229 yards for the victorious Cyclones. La'Michael Pettway was the game's leading receiver with eight catches for 81 yards.

"They are one of the top offenses in the country and I thought we held them in check with 372 yards," Brown said. "They ran the ball better late and I think some of that was fatigue because we couldn't get much going offensively, which was an understatement."
 
Allison completed 18-of-24 passes for 140 yards and a touchdown with one interception in a relief role before giving way to No. 3 quarterback Trey Lowe III on WVU's final possession of the game.
 
Simmons caught five passes for 75 yards and a touchdown.
 
West Virginia's rushing attack was only able to muster 41 yards on 28 attempts.

"We struggled to get the run game going against some decent box numbers and that's a tough thing to ask of Jack," Brown said. "I thought the drive at the end of the first half was really productive by him but it's tough to go in and play when you've got limited reps (during the week)."
 
Iowa State's defense held the Mountaineers to just 44 yards after halftime.

"They were clearly better than us today," Brown noted. "I thought our guys were ready to play but we just ran out of gas. Defensively, if you looked out there for most of the second half you saw two true freshmen playing corner and you saw true freshmen rotating in a lot at safety, you saw a true freshman playing spear and you saw a true freshman playing nose and I thought they all battled."
 
An announced crowd of 51,836 watched today's game.
 
The victory was Iowa State's second in a row against West Virginia. Last year the Mountaineers fell by a similar score in Ames, 30-14.
 
It will be four weeks before West Virginia returns to Milan Puskar Stadium when it faces Texas Tech on Nov. 9. Next week, the Mountaineers will have a difficult assignment facing sixth-ranked Oklahoma in Norman. The Sooners are coming off a 34-27 victory over Texas in the annual Red River Rivalry game played in Dallas earlier today.