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Derrick Knight Runs for 251 Yards as Turnovers, Marshall's Concussion Cost Mountaineers
CHESTNUT HILL, MA - Derrick Knight rushed for 251 yards and four touchdowns on 20 carries as his Boston College Eagles (7-3, 3-2) ran away with it in the fourth quarter against West Virginia (4-5, 1-3), who are in real possibility of missing a bowl game this year with their fifth loss in six games.
Knight was effective from start to finish, and broke off touchdown runs from 63 and 77 yards out, along with shorter touchdown runs from 5 and 21 yards from the end zone.
West Virginia was dealt a huge blow on their opening drive, when Rasheed Marshall was concussed during a routine designed quarterback run. He would miss the rest of the game, but he should be good to go next week.
Charles Hayes filled in for Marshall, and the Mountaineers controlled the line of scrimmage during the initial drive of the game as Jason Colson punched it in from a yard out to put the Mountaineers up 7-0 midway through the first quarter.
Boston College struck back on their following drive as Derrick Knight scored the first of his four touchdowns, this one from five yards out, to tie the game at 7-7. He struck again with 6:24 left in the second quarter, as he broke free on a third-and-short for a 63-yard touchdown run to put the Eagles up 14-7.
West Virginia was undeterred, however, as they continued to move the ball well enough with Hayes at quarterback. Quincy Wilson found the end zone with 11 seconds left in the half to tie the game at 14 apiece at halftime.
Unfortunately for West Virginia, the Eagles changed their gameplan at halftime to account for Hayes, who lacked the athleticism of Marshall, and thus made a lot of West Virginia's designed quarterback runs an impossibility. The Eagles began to stack the box, and Hayes couldn't make them pay through the air.
Hayes passed for 134 yards on the game, but threw three crucial interceptions, and fumbled the ball once, as well, though his fumble came in the waning seconds once the game was well in hand.
The Eagles went ahead with 1:34 in the half as Sandro Sciortino kicked a 44-yard field goal to put Boston College up 17-14. West Virginia struggled to get into scoring position over the majority of the fourth quarter. The Mountaineers finally got into the outside periphery of field goal range with three minutes remaining, but were stopped on a third-and-two, setting up a fourth-and-inches.
Rich Rodriguez elected to go for it, and Charles Hayes handed the ball off to senior fullback Alex King, who started tonight's game in place of injured starter Moe Fofana. King took the handoff and easily made the first down, but the senior, who only had a few carries on the year coming into tonight's game, coughed up the football and Boston College recovered it.
Then it went from bad to worse for West Virginia as Derrick Knight took it to the house from 77 yards out on the ensuing drive to put Boston College up 24-14 with just 2:28 remaining.
Then worse went to something even worse as Charles Hayes threw a pick on the Mountaineers' first play from scrimmage after Derrick Knight's 77-yard touchdown run, and Knight took the following play's handoff to the house from 21 yards out for his fourth and final touchdown run of the knight.
"A complete meltdown," muttered a dejected and frustrated West Virginia head coach Rich Rodriguez about his team's fourth quarter performance. "That's something I'll never live down. We had the game within our grasp, and just like that it was all over."
The Eagles struggled to move the ball through the air as quarterback Quinton Porter threw for just 125 yards and two interceptions, completing just eight of his 20 pass attempts. Neither of his two picks set up a West Virginia score, however.
West Virginia will try to get back on track against hated rival No. 13 Pittsburgh at home next week in the annual Backyard Brawl. West Virginia will need to win two of their last three games to become bowl eligible at 6-6. Fortunately, West Virginia's final two games of the season are against Syracuse and Temple, both of whom the Mountaineers should be heavy favorites to beat.
Boston College 31, West Virginia 14
WVU - 07 / 07 / 00 / 00
BC - 07 / 07 / 03 / 14
Scoring Summary
1st Quarter:
(3:48) WVU: 1 yard run by Colson (7-0 WVU)
(1:26) BC: 5 yard run by HB #20 (7-7)
2nd Quarter:
(6:24) BC: 63 yard run by HB #20 (14-7 BC)
(0:11) WVU: 5 yard run by Wilson (14-14)
3rd Quarter:
(1:34) BC: 44 yard field goal by K #33 (17-14 BC)
4th Quarter:
(2:28) BC: 77 yard run by HB #20 (24-14 BC)
(2:13) BC: 21 yard run by HB #20 (31-14 BC)
West Virginia Mountaineers
C. Hayes: 14/25, 134 Yds, 3 Int, 6 Car, 28 Yds, Fum
R. Marshall: 0/0, 0 Yds, 3 Car, 21 Yds
Q. Wilson: 18 Car, 65 Yds, TD
K. Harris: 13 Car, 38 Yds
J. Colson: 5 Car, 18 Yds, TD, Rec, 4 Yds
A. Neal: 3 Rec, 44 Yds
J. Addae: 4 Tkl, TFL, Sck, 2 Int, FF
G. Wiley: 4 Tkl, TFL, Sck
L. Audena: 4 Tkl
C. Wilson: 3 Tkl, 3 TFL, Sck, FF
A. Lehnortt: 3 Tkl
B. Cooper: 0/0 FG, N/A Long, 2/2 PAT
T. James: 5 Punts, 184 Yds, 36.8 Avg, 0 Inside 20
Boston College Eagles
QB #15: 8/20, 125 Yds, 2 Int
HB #20: 20 Car, 251 Yds, 4 TD
WR #5: 2 Rec, 42 Yds
WR #13: 2 Rec, 38 Yds
LOLB #36: 9 Tkl, TFL, FF
MLB #55: 7 Tkl, Int, FF
SS #27: 7 Tkl, TFL
FS #23: 4 Tkl, TFL, 2 Int
ROLB #45: 4 Tkl, TFL, FR
DT #96: 3 Tkl, FR
K #33: 1/1 FG, Long 44, 4/4 PAT
P #80: 5 Punts, 188 Yds, 37.6 Avg, 0 Inside 20
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