Fien Throws 1st Td Pass; Ucla Wins

Pac-10

Tommy Bennett returned a fumble for a touchdown and Ryan Fien came off the bench to throw the first scoring pass of his college career Saturday as UCLA held off Arizona, 17-10, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.

Bennett’s TD at 6:12 of the first quarter was the only scoring until UCLA’s Greg Andrasick kicked a 47-yard field goal on the first play of the fourth period.

Andrasick, a junior, was successful on the first field goal attempt of his career.

Fien threw a 14-yard scoring pass to Karim Abdul-Jabbar with 7:52 remaining to cap a 70-yard, 12-play drive. Abdul-Jabbar reversed his field twice and broke at least three tackles before scoring to give UCLA enough points to win.

Arizona got its points on a 42-yard field goal by Jon Prasuhn with 5:15 left and a 17-yard pass from Brady Batten to Cary Taylor just 1:03 later.

Prasuhn’s field goal was set up by Derrick Stewart’s recovery of a fumble by Abdul-Jabbar at UCLA’s 19, and the Wildcats moved 68 yards in just three plays for the TD.

Arizona got the ball back with 2 minutes left and moved from its 31 to the UCLA 36, but Batten’s fourth-down pass was intercepted by Paul Guidry at the Bruins 5 with 13 seconds to play.

While the defenses dominated, they were helped by the inept offenses of both teams for most of the game. There were 21 punts in the game, 11 by Arizona.

Bennett scooped up a fumble by Gary Taylor and ran untouched into the end zone for his touchdown. The fumble was forced by George Kase.

UCLA 17, Arizona 10

Arizona 0 0 0 10 - 10

UCLA 7 0 0 10 - 17

UCLABennett 29 fumble return (Merten kick) UCLAFG Andrasick 47 UCLAAbdul-Jabbar 14 pass from Fien (Merten kick)

Arizona-FG Prasuhn 42

Arizona-C.Taylor 17 pass from Batten (Prasuhn kick)

A-43,798.

UA UCLA First downs 15 13 Rushes-yards 43-101 40-70 Passing 163 184 Return Yards 31 69 Comp-Att-Int 10-38-1 9-28-1 Punts 11-42 10-42 Fumbles-Lost 3-2 2-2 Penalties-Yards 9-80 8-79 Time of Possession 32:21 27:39

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHINGArizona, G.Taylor 20-86, Schmidtke 8-26, Myles 4-21, White 2-(minus 13), Batten 9-(minus 19). UCLA, Abdul-Jabbar 30-67, Milliner 2-3, Fien 5-1, McElroy 1-0, McNown 2-(minus 1).

PASSINGArizona, White 3-17-0-34, Batten 7-21-1-129. UCLA, McNown 3-18-1-80, Fien 6-10-0-104.

RECEIVINGArizona, R.Williams 3-47, G.Taylor 3-30, C.Taylor 2-23, Schmidtke 1-51, Chiasson 1-12. UCLA, Jordan 4-79, Scott 2-39, Abdul-Jabbar 2-20, McElroy 1-46.

Arizona State 29, BYU 21

Robert Nycz’s 20-yard field goal put the Sun Devils (3-4) ahead to stay, and linebacker Scott Von Der Ahe returned an interception 31 yards for a touchdown with 48 seconds remaining to seal a victory over Brigham Young at Tempe, Ariz.

The Sun Devils trailed 21-13 before mounting their comeback and keeping the Cougars (2-3) from winning at ASU for the first time since 1965.

Brigham Young 7 7 7 0 - 21 Arizona St. 13 0 0 16 - 29

BYUAtuaia 51 run (Hansen kick) ASUJackson 2 pass from Plummer (Nycz kick) ASUBush 1 pass from Plummer (run failed) BYULewis 7 pass from Sarkisian (Hansen kick) BYUJohnston 23 pass from Sarkisian (Hansen kick) ASUWood 1 run (pass failed) ASUFG Nycz 20 ASUVon Der Ahe 31 interception return (Nycz kick)

A-51,035.

BYU ASU First downs 17 22 Rushes-yards 28-97 54-197 Passing 282 177 Return yards 32 112 Comp-Att-Int 19-29-2 22-28-0 Punts 6-44 6-38 Fumbles-lost 3-2 2-1 Penalties-yards 10-109 6-60 Time of possession 24:34 35:26

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHINGBrigham Young, Atuaia 8-64, Heimuli 9-37, Sarkisian 10-1, Kealaluhi 1-(minus 5). Arizona St., Martin 24-78, Hopkins 7-49, T.Battle 10-34, Poole 1-23, Wood 6-10, Mitchell 1-2, Plummer 5-1.

PASSINGBrigham Young, Sarkisian 19-29-2-282. Arizona St., Plummer 22-28-0-177.

RECEIVINGBrigham Young, Lewis 5-66, Kealaluhi 4-92, Atuaia 3-14, Johnston 2-34, Heimuli 2-17, McGuire 1-27, Baldwin 1-16, Cooper 1-16. Arizona St., Bush 4-30, Poole 3-65, Boyer 3-20, Charles 3-18, Hopkins 3-13, Martin 3-11, Mitchell 1-11, T.Battle 1-7, Jackson 1-2.