Big West

Chris Lemon carried 29 times for 129 yards and a touchdown and John Dutton threw for two scores Saturday as Nevada routed North Texas 40-13 in a Big West Conference game at Denton, Texas.

Jeff Graham’s field goal gave North Texas (3-5, 1-1 Big West) a 3-0 lead with 7:29 to go in the opening quarter.

The Eagles’ lead didn’t last long. Dutton threw touchdown passes of 9 yards to Trevor Insley and 14 yards to Geoffrey Noisy and Damon Shea kicked field goals of 30 and 19 yards as the Wolf Pack (5-3, 2-1) took a 20-3 halftime lead.

Nevada 40, North Texas 13

Nevada 10 10 7 13 - 40 North Texas 3 0 10 0 - 13

UNT-FG Graham 40

Nev-FG Shea 30

Nev-Insley 9 pass from Dutton (Shea kick)

Nev-Noley 14 pass from Dutton (Shea kick)

Nev-FG Shea 19

UNT-Mills 10 run (Graham kick)

UNT-FG Graham 41

Nev-Lemon 1 run (Shea kick)

Nev-FG Shea 38

Nev-FG Shea 32

Nev-Higgin 11 pass from Bennett (Shea kick)

A-15,734.

Nevada NTex First downs 23 17 Rushes-yards 42-173 43-190 Passing 256 146 Comp-Att-Int 24-42-1 10-31-1 Return Yards 12 11 Punts-Avg. 5-40.2 4-43.8 Fumbles-Lost 3-0 2-2 Penalties-Yards 9-55 9-68 Time of Possession 32:11 27:49

Individual statistics

RUSHING - Nevada, Lemon 29-129, Gresham 4-29, Bennett 2-4, Dutton 6-(minus 3), Wilkins 1-14. North Texas, Allred 19-157, Cromer 7-20, Mills 16-10, Hampton 1-3.

PASSING - Nevada, Dutton 20-37-1-225, Bennett 4-5-0-31. North Texas, Mills 10-31-1-146.

RECEIVING - Nevada, Wilkins 10-63, Noisy 6-112, Insley 3-36, Higgins 2-20, Lemon 2-14, Kelly 1-11. North Texas, Hollie 4-46, Harrison 2-16, Harris 1-40, Grimes 1-28, Boone 1-8, Waters 1-8.

New Mexico St. 52, S. Utah 21

Denvis Manns rushed for 205 yards and scored two touchdowns, leading the Aggies (1-7) of the Big West over the Thunderbirds (4-5) in a non-conference game at Las Cruces, N.M.

For the first time since a win over Pacific in 1966, New Mexico State completed a game without punting.