SEATTLE – After embarrassing losses in back-to-back weeks to Oregon and USC, it appeared the Colorado soccer season couldn’t get a lot worse.
Then got here Saturday night time, when the Buffaloes hit a brand new low.
In a season stuffed with unhealthy soccer, CU may need had its most disastrous half of the season to start out Saturday’s sport and was routed by No. 15 Washington, 54-7, at Husky Stadium.
The Buffs (1-10, 1-7 Pac-12) had their third consecutive loss by no less than 38 factors and this one was over early.
It wasn’t the nation’s main passer that led the way in which for Washington (9-2, 6-2), nonetheless. As a substitute, the Huskies powered by the Buffs on the bottom.
Michael Penix Jr. was environment friendly however threw for a season-low 229 yards and a landing for Washington. Wayne Taulapapa ran for 107 yards and two touchdowns, whereas Cameron Davis added 59 yards and two touchdowns on the bottom.
Washington wound up with 575 yards in whole offense, getting 295 by the air and 280 on the bottom.
CU completed with 211 yards, 69 of these approaching a landing go from JT Shrout to Montana Lemonious-Craig late within the third quarter. The Buffs trailed 47-0 earlier than that play.
Washington took a 33-0 lead into intermission, but it surely was a comedy of CU errors within the final couple of minutes of the half that made that rating worse.
The Huskies led 21-0 when their kicker, Peyton Henry, missed a 48-yard subject purpose try with 1 minute, 55 seconds to play within the half.
Quite than reap the benefits of the chance, CU threw three straight incompletions that took a complete of 15 seconds off the clock. On fourth-and-10, the snap sailed over punter Trent Carrizosa’s head and ultimately rolled out of the again of the top zone for a security, giving Washington a 23-0 lead.
The Huskies had a 28-yard return on the following kickoff after which wanted simply 70 seconds to achieve the top zone once more, taking a 30-0 lead on Davis’ first landing run.
Solely 15 seconds remained within the half, so Washington squibbed the following kickoff, however CU couldn’t deal with the ball. The Huskies recovered on the Buffs’ 16-yard line and two performs later obtained a 33-yard subject purpose from Henry.
Washington, which didn’t punt till six minutes remaining within the sport, added a pair of landing runs within the third quarter to extend the result in 47-0 earlier than sending its starters to the bench.
No. 15 Washington 54, Colorado 7
Colorado 0 0 7 0 — 7Washington 14 19 14 7 — 54
First QuarterWASH—Taulapapa 8 run (Henry kick), 5:18.WASH—McMillan 27 go from Penix (Henry kick), 2:49.Second QuarterWASH—Taulapapa 2 run (Henry kick), 10:33.WASH—security, 1:32.WASH—C.Davis 4 run (Henry kick), :15.WASH—FG Henry 33, :00.Third QuarterWASH—C.Davis 6 run (Henry kick), 8:51.WASH—Newton 2 run (Henry kick), 2:11.COLO—Lemonious-Craig 69 go from Shrout (Becker kick), 1:45.Fourth QuarterWASH—Adams 15 go from Morris (Shrock kick), 8:10.
COLO WASHFirst downs 11 28Total Internet Yards 202 575Rushes-yards 33-79 43-280Passing 123 295Punt Returns 0-0 1-31Kickoff Returns 8-136 2-58Interceptions Ret. 1-1 1-0Comp-Att-Int 7-22-1 23-38-1Sacked-Yards Misplaced 2-21 0-0Punts 5-35.0 1-37.0Fumbles-Misplaced 2-1 0-0Penalties-Yards 4-40 5-35Time of Possession 27:17 32:43
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—Colorado, Fontenot 11-71, Carter 5-16, Hankerson 6-13, D.Smith 6-9, Stacks 2-3, Shrout 2-(minus 2), (Staff) 1-(minus 31). Washington, Taulapapa 11-107, C.Davis 12-59, Morris 4-32, G.Jackson 2-26, Newton 6-21, Sunday 1-19, Adams 2-10, Nixon 1-7, Penix 2-6, (Staff) 1-(minus 1), Holmes 1-(minus 6).PASSING—Colorado, Shrout 6-18-1-120, Carter 1-4-0-3. Washington, Penix 19-31-0-229, Morris 4-7-1-66.RECEIVING—Colorado, Hestera 2-36, Lemonious-Craig 1-69, Fontenot 1-7, Sneed 1-6, Harrison 1-3, Russell 1-2. Washington, McMillan 8-98, Polk 3-39, Odunze 2-17, G.Jackson 2-4, Moore 1-25, Culp 1-24, Waiss 1-21, Newton 1-20, Westover 1-18, Adams 1-15, T.Davis 1-9, Boston 1-5.MISSED FIELD GOALS—Washington, Henry 48.