STILLWATER — Inconsis-tent with his usual tangledmess of mad-scientist hairswaying in the wind, Dana Hol-gorsen sported a ball cap onSaturday in his second returnto Stillwater since he becameWest Virginia head coach.

Disguised, the former Okla-homa State offensive coordina-tor barely looked like his for-mer self. Much like the currentOSU offense doesn’t resemblethe unit Holgorsen coachedduring his 2010 season at OSU.

Overheard from the BoonePickens Stadium stands follow-

ing the Cowboys’ 34-10 homeloss to No. 22 West Virginia:“At least we scored a touch-down this game.”

Strange times in Stillwater,indeed.

These used to be the “Coca-Cola” Cowboys. You know, youget up from your chair for aCoke and the they might go for10, 14 quick points.

Not this year. Certainly notSaturday.

OSU moved the ball, butmainly fiddled around when itcame to scoring, and has nowplayed 10 consecutive quarters

of football with just one touch-down to its name.

“Everything, offensively, tome is alarming right now,”OSU head coach Mike Gundysaid. “I’m disappointed for theplayers. There’s a lot of workthat goes in. I want them to en-joy success.”

The Mountaineers weren’tvideo-game like, barely out-gunning Oklahoma State with448 yards total offense. ButWest Virginia’s weapons at re-ceiver in Mario Alford andKevin White set up a nice run-ning attack, which got it yards

when needed — especially onthird down, where the Moun-taineers were 9 of 18.

The Cowboys (5-3, 3-2) didanything but, converting 2 of15 in those situations and 1 of 5fourth downs.

“There’s times we didn’tmake plays,” Gundy said. “Onsome of the shorter yardageplays, we didn’t convert.”

Offensive coordinator MikeYurcich, who has taken heatfor lack of creativity for someplay calling, put some blame on

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SCORESSCORES

High School Football 3CBowling 5COutdoors 5CScoreboard 6C

Where are they now

Miller takes rightfulplace in Hall

People who officiate anysport at any level deservemore than a medal. JohnPaul Miller gleaned one ofthose well-deserved awardsWednesday when he wasformally inducted into theSouthwest OklahomaFootball Officials Hall ofFame. 7C

CONTACTSCONTACTSJoey Goodman,Sports Editor 585-5124,tlcspts@swbell.net

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H.S. Football

District standingsget clearer

After a Friday of districtbattles, things are startingto look clearer when itcomes to playoff seedings.3C

Baseball

Big lead,or tied Series?

The Kansas City Royals andSan Francisco Giants battledin Game 4 of the WorldSeries on Saturday. For theRoyals, a win means a 3-1lead headed home. For theGiants, a win means a brandnew Series. 2C

College FootballSCORES, SUMMARIES 3C

Top 25

Mississippi State (1). . . . . . 45Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31LSU (24) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Mississippi (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Alabama (4). . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Auburn (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35Michigan State (8) . . . . . . . 35Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11TCU (10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82Texas Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Kansas State (11) . . . . . . . . 23Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0Ohio State (13) vs.Penn State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LateArizona State (14) vs.Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LateArizona (15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Washington State . . . . . . . . . . . 37Nebraska (16) . . . . . . . . . . . 42Rutgers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Utah (19) vs.Southern Cal (20) . . . . . . . . . . LateClemson (21) . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Syracuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6West Virginia (22) . . . . . . . . 34Oklahoma State . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Marshall (23) . . . . . . . . . . . . 35Florida Atlantic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16UCLA (25) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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Cameron Aggie volleyball players including Lindsey McCauley, right, and Kayla Hebert, center, dive for a ball in the Aggies’ home loss to Texas A&M-Commerce on Saturday in theAggie Gym.

BY HERB JACOBSSTAFF WRITER

Never awaken a sleeping Lion.Texas A&M-Commerce, stung by

a lopsided first-set loss, roared tolife and damaged Cameron Univer-sity’s Lone Star Conference playoffhopes by taking a 3-1 victory Satur-day in the Aggie gym.

Scores were 15-25, 25-22, 26-24and 25-14.

Cameron falls to 3-11 in leagueplay and to 10-13 overall. Commercepassed the Ags in the standings byimproving to 3-10 for seventh place;its overall mark is 5-20.

The Ags will be on the road Tues-

day for a non-conference matchwith Southwestern State in Weather-ford. They return home Friday tomeet Midwestern State.

The Mustangs also are 3-11 andshare eighth place after dropping atough five-set match to 10-3 TexasWoman’s Saturday.

The top eight qualify for nextmonth’s LSC playoffs.

Angelo State (9-4) defeated A&M-Kingsville (5-7) in the only otherleague match.

Senior Amy Davault, ranked No. 2in the Lone Star in kills per set, wasthe Commerce leader Saturday with17 kills. Sophomore Taryn Driver

came off the bench to add 13.Davault also led the Lions in digswith 25.

Commerce hit .196 to Cameron’s.177.

Junior Kat Evans paced Cameronwith 14 kills and freshman CristinaViera added 11. Frosh Lindsey Mc-Cauley had 19 of the team’s 73 digs,Ingrid Boatman 14, Kayla Hebert 13and Viera 11. Boatman also had 26assists and Hebert 16. RebeccaGreen had a hand in five of theteam’s six blocks.

The Aggies made short work ofthe first set, opening with a 9-2 run.Commerce was hanging around at

21-15 when three violations and akill by Evans closed the door. CU hit.355, with Evans supplying fourkills, Viera three and Paige Holt andGreen two each. Green and Boat-man also had four digs and Boatmanadded six assists.

The Lions hit .051, Veronika Baricgetting six of their 12 kills. Cameronhad just four errors, Commerce 15.

The tide turned quickly in the sec-ond set. After five ties and five leadexchanges, the Lions took commandwith an 11-4 run that produced a 21-15 lead. Davault had three of herfive kills in that stretch. Cameron

Aggies wake the sleeping lion

APOklahoma State quarterback Daxx Garman (12) is tackled by West Virginia defensive lineman Dontrill Hyman (99) and EdwardMuldrow (20) in the first half in Stillwater on Saturday.

TYLER

PALMATEER

SPORTS WRITER

These aren’t your ‘Coca-Cola’ Cowboys

Another offensive stall

OutdoorsTrout season due to open

The leaves are beginningto change, the temperatureswill soon be falling and thatmeans that trout will soonbe biting again in MedicinePark. Another trout seasonwill begin Saturday (Nov. 1)with even more trout beingstocked in Medicine Creekthis season than everbefore. 5C

SEE CU, 2C

SEE PALMATEER, 2C

OSU falls toWest VirginiaBY JOEY GOODMANSPORTS EDITORJGOODMAN@SWOKNEWS.COM

STILLWATER – There was once a timewhen Oklahoma State University fanswere spoiled; they almost never had tosweat out getting that sixth victory to be-come bowl eligible.

However, that is no longer the case be-cause after Saturday’s 34-10 Homecomingloss to West Virginia, there are some scaryopponents on the remaining schedule thatcould leave the Cowboys and their legionof fans home for the holidays.

“We can’t worry about that, we just haveto come back Monday and try to make theplayers better and find a way to win thenext game,” OSU head coach Mike Gundysaid. “Somebody asked if we had re-gressed, but part of that regression is theschedule. We’re playing some very goodfootball teams.”

With the tough Big 12 Conference loss,the Cowboys fell to 5-3 overall and 3-2 inleague games. That leaves them with fourchances to get at least one victory, but itwon’t be easy, especially when the OSU of-fense has produced just one TD in the past10 quarters.

Coming up Saturday the Cowboys haveto visit Kansas State, then comes a homegame with Texas before two road gamesagainst Baylor and Oklahoma.

There are no easy opponents in thatgroup, especially if the OSU offense is go-ing to struggle and put unrelenting pres-sure on the thin defense.

While the defense was gashed for 448yards on 74 plays, it was the offense’s in-ability to make plays, especially on third

SEE OSU, 2C

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —Hunter Pence, Pablo San-doval and the San FranciscoGiants charged back at apulsating AT&T Park, tak-ing an 11-4 Game 4 win overthe Kansas City Royals totie up the World Series onSaturday.

Trailing 2-1 in the Seriesand in danger of droppinginto a huge hole, the Giantsand their fans rallied.

All the early frustrationthat prompted managerBruce Bochy to throw hishat in the dugout turned intopositive energy during atwo-run comeback in thefifth that made it 4-all.

Then in the sixth, San-doval hit a two-run singleand Brandon Belt followedwith an RBI single as the Gi-ants roughed up postseasondarling Brandon Finneganto surge ahead.

Only a diving catch byspeedy Jarrod Dyson thattore up a divot in the center-field grass prevented theGiants from getting more.San Francisco also came outon the winning end of thefirst World Series replaychallenge in the expandedera, when Royals managerNed Yost asked for anotherlook at a pickoff play at sec-ond base.

The real star might’ve

been Giants reliever Yus-meiro Petit. He pitched inwith three scoreless inningsafter Ryan Vogelsong gotchased in a four-run thirdthat turned on a botchedgrounder. Petit also got ahit, not bad for a career .049batter.

Game 5 is today, withpostseason ace MadisonBumgarner starting for theGiants against strugglingJames Shields. It’s a re-match from the opener,when San Francisco rolled7-1.

Stow shouts `Play ball!’before Game 4 of SeriesBryan Stow hollered

“Play ball!” and the selloutcrowd roared.

Stow, the San FranciscoGiants fan brutally beatenoutside Dodger Stadium onopening day of the 2011 sea-son, did his part to get Game

4 of the World Series startedSaturday at AT&T Park.

From a wheelchair nearSan Francisco’s dugout —and with Giants third basecoach Tim Flannery and re-liever Jeremy Affeldt by hisside — Stow hollered, “Wel-come to the Kansas CityRoyals and your San Fran-cisco Giants! Whoo! ... Playball!”

Flannery kissed Stow onthe head.

“We are so thrilled to behere tonight,” Stow’s moth-er, Ann, said in a statement.“This is the first World Se-ries game that Bryan will beable to remember since hisaccident. He is so apprecia-tive of all the support Gi-ants’ fans have shown himthroughout this journey. Hefeels like he is part of theteam.”

Stow also attended Game2 of the 2012 World Series atAT&T Park. After he was

assaulted in a parking lotoutside Dodger Stadium onMarch 31, 2011, he spentmonths at a Los Angeleshospital in a medically in-duced coma. Stow sustainedserious brain injuries dur-ing the attack.

In late January, Flannerypresented the Stow familywith $96,000 to help withBryan’s care as the father of

two continues to deal withtraumatic injuries and braindamage. Flannery and hisband, The Lunatic Fringe,held four sold-out NorthernCalifornia concerts last off-season benefiting Stow. Alldollars from purchases ofFlannery’s 11th album,“Outside Lands,” releasedlast November, go directlyto Stow.

Stow followed in the foot-steps of some celebritycompany Saturday. Rockstar Huey Lewis shouted“Play ball!” on Friday be-fore Game 3 of the WorldSeries, and Hall of Fame49ers quarterback Joe Mon-tana handled those dutiesprior to one game of the NLChampionship Seriesagainst St. Louis.

down where the Cowboyswere just 2 of 15, that reallydetermined this outcome.That 2 of 15 effort was oneof the worst figures in re-cent history, it’s the type ofstat that will drive anyoneassociated with the pro-gram to the boiling point.

That paltry effort evenbrought out boo birds,something that had becomerather rare at home in re-cent years. But, Gundy saysit’s not time to start over.

“We are not in the positionto just scrap everything andstart making changes,” hesaid. “In the first half whenwe were able to run the foot-ball, it opened up the of-fense and we had some suc-cess. The play-action routesworked better, the guys gotopen more often, it justmakes the offense work bet-ter.

“Our offensive line lookedgood at times but there inthe third quarter they start-ed putting more guys in thebox and we just weren’t ableto make anything happen. “

For a time it looked likethis was going to be a car-bon copy of last week’s 42-9loss at TCU as the Moun-taineers struck for touch-downs on their first two of-fensive possessions, bothagainst the young OSU sec-ondary.

Quarterback Clint Trick-ett hit Kevin White for 19yards to cap a 62-yard driveon just five plays, then onthe next possession Tricketthit Mario Alford on a cross-ing route and he exploded79 yards to paydirt for aquick 14-0 lead.

To its credit, OSU cameback to make things inter-esting, but it could havebeen much better; the Cow-boys could have easily hadthe lead at halftime hadthey just made a couple ofplays on offense.

A Ben Grogan 40-yardfield goal got OSU on theboard, then with the defensefinally solving its woes, theCowboys got anotherchance to pull closer, takingover at their own 11.

It took Daxx Garman andthe offense just 1:39 tomarch 89 yards to score onjust six plays, the payoffcoming when fullback Ted-dy Johnson slipped free inthe right flat and was wideopen when Garman’s passfloated into his arms.

Grogan hit the PAT and itwas 14-10 with 8:34 left inthe half.

That ignited the crowdand the OSU defense and af-ter giving up one first down,

the Cowboys slammed thedoor on the Mountaineersand forced another punt.

Starting at their own 7-yard-line, the Cowboyspicked up three first downs,the last at the Mountaineer26 after David Glidden hadjumped high in the air tograb a Garman pass thatsailed high.

Glidden came down in anawkward manner and need-ed time to recover and getassistance off the field. ATV timeout extended thebreak even more and thatall seemed to give the WVdefense time to plot theirschemes and it took awayOSU’s momentum.

Tyreek Hill, the OSUspeedster, was able to getjust a couple of yards onfirst down, then he was un-able to gain any yardage af-ter catching a short swingpass.

On third down Garmandropped back to pass andwas flushed by a big rush.He tried to spin away fromthe oncoming defender butturned right into the arms ofDontrill Hyman, thus forc-ing OSU into a 4th-and-18from the WV 19.

Grogan pushed the 36-yard field goal attempt wideright, thus taking a greatdeal of steam out of the OSUplayers and the fans, espe-cially knowing that the ex-plosive Mountaineers wouldbe getting the second halfkickoff.

But despite moving 53yards with that possession,the visitors had to settle fortheir own field goal try but

Josh Lambert drilled a 39-yarder for a 17-10 lead with9:59 left in the quarter.

That’s when OSU’s of-fense started to struggle.On the next series theypicked up two quick firstdowns but then ran into arock wall.

Twice more the Cowboyshad the ball in decent fieldposition but just couldn’tproduce points. And, theend result of those non-pro-ductive drives was the factthe OSU defense was drag-ging more and more withevery snap.

OSU fans could sense bigtrouble when West Virginiatook over at one point at itsown 1-yard-line after a 43-yard Kip Smith punt. Threestraight rushing plays byreserve back WendellSmallwood netted a firstdown to get WV out of ahole.

But OSU stiffened andwhen Vili Leveni sackedTrickett at the 5-yard-line,the Mountaineers faced athird and 19. They promptlypicked up that critical firstdown, not by a pass but by arun from Dreamis Smithand with that big play,OSU’s defense was neverthe same, giving up big playafter big play, most of themon the ground.

All total, the Moun-taineers rushed for 210yards, with Smallwood get-ting 134 of those yards.

“When we started gettingtired we missed tackles andagainst those backs you justcan’t do that,” OSU defen-sive coordinator Glen

Spencer said. “We just haveto do a better job. We can’tmake excuses.”

Down the stretch WVadded two more quickstrikes, one by the of-fense and another on apick-six and by the timethe clock hit 0:00 theHomecoming crowd waslong gone.

OSU: Boobirds comeout at BooneCONTINUED FROM 1C

SPORTS2C OCTOBER 26, 2014

MLB SCOREBOARDMLB SCOREBOARDWORLD SERIES

(Best-of-7)

All games televised by Fox

Kansas City 2, San Francisco 2

Tuesday, Oct. 21: San Francisco 7,

Kansas City 1

Wednesday, Oct. 22: Kansas City 7,

San Francisco 2

Friday, Oct. 24: Kansas City 3, San

Francisco 2

Saturday, Oct. 25: San Francisco 11,

Kansas City 4

Sunday, Oct. 26: Kansas City at San

Francisco, 7:07 p.m.

x-Tuesday, Oct. 28: San Francisco at

Kansas City, 7:07 p.m.

x-Wednesday, Oct. 29: San

Francisco at Kansas City, 7:07 p.m.

APKansas City Royals’ Eric Hosmer is tripped as he beats a throw to first with San Francisco Giants’ RyanVogelsong covering during the third inning of Game 4 of the World Series on Saturday in San Francisco.

three times closed the deficit totwo points, the last at 24-22, butDavault slammed home theclincher.

The Lions hit .257, with Dri-ver adding three kills to the

team total of 13. They also re-duced their errors to six; CUhad 12. Cameron had morekills as Evans, Holt, Viera,Green and Boatman had threeapiece, but the mistakesdropped the hitting level to

.200. Davault also had ninedigs.

Davault came throughagain in the third set, using herfourth and fifth kills to end theset after Cameron had ralliedfrom a 24-20 deficit to arrange

a tie at 24. Chassidy Hill addedfour kills for the Lions, who hit.222 to CU’s .185. Evans had sixof the Ags’ 15 kills and Vierafour.

Cameron controlled the ear-ly part of the third set as Evans

had three kills. Three four-point runs helped the Lionsearn their 24-20 lead, but twokills by Viera and a pair of acesarranged the tie at 24. Hill had10 of the Lions’ 28 digs andHebert nine of CU’s 29.

After a pair of early ties, the

Lions simply ran away in the

fourth set. Driver had seven of

the team’s 14 kills and Davault

six. Holt had two of Cameron’s

five kills.

CU: Cameron controls early part of third set, but can’t hold on against LionsCONTINUED FROM 1C

No. 22 W. VIRGINIA 34,OKLAHOMA ST. 10

West Virginia 14 0 3 17—34Oklahoma St. 0 10 0 0—10

First QuarterWVU—White 19 pass from

Trickett (Lambert kick), 10:29.WVU—Alford 79 pass from

Trickett (Lambert kick), 7:49.Second Quarter

OkSt—FG Grogan 40, 14:11.OkSt—Johnson 8 pass from

Garman (Grogan kick), 8:34.Third Quarter

WVU—FG Lambert 39, 9:59.Fourth Quarter

WVU—FG Lambert 43, 10:14.WVU—Henry 52 interception

return (Lambert kick), 4:44.WVU—D.Smith 40 run (Lambert

kick), 3:12.A—59,124.

———WVU OkSt

First downs 22 23Rushes-yards 44-210 39-194Passing 238 242Comp-Att-Int 21-30-0 21-41-2Return Yards 52 5Punts-Avg. 7-41.1 5-52.6Fumbles-Lost 1-0 0-0Penalties-Yards 7-57 4-30Time of Possession 33:39 26:21

———INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING—West Virginia,Smallwood 23-132, D.Smith 5-72,Buie 6-17, Garrison 3-14, Team 1-(minus 2), Alford 1-(minus 5), Trickett5-(minus 18). Oklahoma St., Hill 14-78, Sheperd 1-51, Roland 12-37,R.Taylor 7-25, Garman 5-3.

PASSING—West Virginia, Trickett21-30-0-238. Oklahoma St., Garman21-41-2-242.

RECEIVING—West Virginia,Alford 7-136, Thompson 5-46, White3-27, D.Smith 2-(minus 4), Shorts 1-15, Smallwood 1-14, Buie 1-2,Garrison 1-2. Oklahoma St.,Washington 5-87, Glidden 5-63,Sheperd 3-37, Hill 3-26, Hays 2-2,Seaton 1-11, Doolittle 1-8, Johnson1-8.

quarterback Daxx Gar-mann, but also didn’t lethimself off the hook.

“A lot of it is we hadman-to-man matchups,”Yurcich said. “We have todo a better job of puttingthe ball where it needs togo. Figuring out which (de-fensive back) we need to at-tack, which receiver weneed to go to. And that’s,you know, as much play-calling as anything. I’m nottrying to throw anybodyunder the bus.

“As an offense, we needto do a better job beatingman coverage.”

OSU had 299 yards of of-fense in the first half andcame away with 10 points.The Cowboys nickeled anddimed their way to a nicetotal of 436 yards overall,but there was rarely aspark play, or spark player,to get the ball in the endzone.

“Points are where it’s at.Points and turnovers, that’swhat’s correlates victoriesand we’ve got to put upmore points,” Yurcich said.

A 51-yard reverse toBrandon Sheperd withabout eight minutes left inthe second quarter liftedspirits after the Cowboysgot down 14-0 early. Shep-erd bounced around ablocker — made a nice play— and burst up field, set-ting up an 8-yard TD passto Teddy Johnson. It wasOSU’s first TD since Oct.11 at Kansas, and it had theCowboys within 14-10.

Problem was, that se-quence was only the Cow-boys glimpsing at their for-mer selves in a magic pool.Like much of this season,one second it was there, thenext it wasn’t.

“That just might be whowe are right now,” Gundysaid of the inconsistencies.

OSU went down the fieldon the next possession andstalled at the 9-yard line. Asuddenly reliable Ben Gro-gan — his status as the na-tion’s leader in field goalsmade per game is as muchfeat as it is a slap at the of-fense — pushed a 36-yardfield goal to the right, leav-ing the Mountaineers witha 14-10 lead at halftime.

The Cowboys in that situ-ation needed points, with-out question. Preferablyseven, which are harder tocome by these days.

Gundy signaled that hewas pleased with the playfor most of the game andidentified some time in thethird quarter as the turningpoint. That was when WestVirginia started controllingthe time-of-possession bat-tle.

There was a school of

thought floating around thepress box that Garman andCo. were responsible forstaying on the field longenough to give their de-fense a rest.

That is partially true. But the defense had

chances to earn itself a restby stopping West Virginiaon one of the five thirddowns in converted in thatstretch.

“We started giving upsome run,” Gundy said.“We let them run on a third-and-7 for a first down, andmaybe a third-and-20 orsomething, and that wasdisappointing for us.”

The Cowboys are one winfrom bowl eligibility, clos-ing the season with awinnable home game vs.Texas on Nov. 15, alongwith trips to to No. 11Kansas State, No. 12 Baylorand No. 17 Oklahoma stilllooming.

In all reality, a sub .500record could be peaking atthe Pokes from around thecorner. With that in mind,Gundy indicated its his goalto keep his young teamfrom pressing.

Perhaps with that mind-set, they can start to resem-ble the team most Cowboyfans have come to know thepast half-decade.

“It’s not something thatcan just happen overnight,”Gundy said of his youngteam improving. “I wish itcould.”

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PALMATEER: Man coveragescause Cowboys problemsCONTINUED FROM 1C

APOklahoma State’s Kip Smith (35) punts in the third quarter against West Virginia in Stillwater on Saturday.With the Cowboys just 2 of 15 on third down, Smith had a lot of work against the Mountaineers. AP

West Virginia head coach DanaHolgorsen shouts on the bench inthe fourth quarter againstOklahoma State in Stillwater onSaturday.

Giants find way, tie Series