Fresno State drubs Hawaii

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Associated Press

Associated Press

FRESNO, Calif. — Derek Carr threw for 304 yards and four touchdowns, and Robbie Rouse eclipsed 1,000 yards rushing for the third straight season as Fresno State defeated Hawaii 45-10 in the 200th game at Bulldog Stadium.

Carr threw first-half touchdown passes of 8, 47, 45 and 31 yards while completing 15 of 23 passes for the Bulldogs (7-3, 5-1 Mountain West), who led 42-3 at halftime and improved to 5-0 at home this season. Rouse, the school’s all-time rushing leader, ran for 102 yards and a 51-yard touchdown on 13 carries to give him 1,101 yards this season. The senior is the first Fresno State player to surpass 1,000 yards in three seasons.

Hawaii (1-7, 0-5), which lost its sixth straight, got its only points on a 49-yard field goal by Tyler Hadden in the second quarter and a 5-yard run by Jeremy Higgins late in the fourth.

UH, which surrendered five sacks, fell to 0-5 season on the road, where its allowing an average of 47.0 points per game.

Hawaii 0 3 0 7—10

Fresno St. 21 21 3 0—45

First Quarter

Fre—Evans 8 pass from D.Carr (Breshears kick), 9:31.

Fre—Root 47 pass from D.Carr (Breshears kick), 8:05.

Fre—Watson 1 run (Breshears kick), 3:14.

Second Quarter

Fre—Rouse 51 run (Breshears kick), 13:56.

Haw—FG Hadden 49, 7:03.

Fre—Adams 45 pass from D.Carr (Breshears kick), 3:17.

Fre—Burse 31 pass from D.Carr (Breshears kick), :12.

Third Quarter

Fre—FG Breshears 32, 6:51.

Fourth Quarter

Haw—Higgins 5 run (Hadden kick), 3:06.

A—30,755.

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Haw Fre

First downs 17 18

Rushes-yards 34-79 44-151

Passing 221 329

Comp-Att-Int 21-38-1 18-33-1

Return Yards 8 39

Punts-Avg. 8-39.5 5-50.6

Fumbles-Lost 2-2 1-0

Penalties-Yards 9-90 8-85

Time of Possession 28:31 31:29

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INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING—Hawaii, Iosefa 15-50, Gregory 10-27, Lister 1-14,

Higgins 1-5, Shutter 1-4, Schroeder 6-(minus 21). Fresno St.,

Rouse 13-102, Waller 15-42, Harris 2-14, Knox 4-5, McDade 1-0,

Root 1-(minus 3), D.Carr 2-(minus 4), Watson 6-(minus 5).

PASSING—Hawaii, Schroeder 16-30-1-162, Higgins 4-5-0-56,

Shutter 1-2-0-3, Iosefa 0-1-0-0. Fresno St., D.Carr 15-23-0-304,

Watson 3-10-1-25.

RECEIVING—Hawaii, Stutzmann 4-57, Bright 3-45, Iosefa 3-29,

Davis 2-27, Lister 2-18, Hall 2-3, Ostrowski 1-16, Evans 1-11,

Harding 1-11, Paclebar 1-3, Vele 1-1. Fresno St., Adams 6-93,

Rouse 4-38, Burse 2-87, Root 1-47, Jensen 1-31, Barnes 1-14, Evans 1-8,

Waller 1-6, J.Johnson 1-5.