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Saturday, Nov. 6 3:30pm ET
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Sore hip and all, Marques Tuiasosopo was too much for another Pac-10 opponent. Tuiasosopo showed his talent a week ago, accounting for 509 yards of total offense in an upset of Stanford that vaulted Washington into the frontrunner's spot in the Rose Bowl race. On Saturday, it was his courage. The gritty junior quarterback, unable to practice last week after severely bruising his hip and buttocks against Stanford, threw two touchdown passes, and the Huskies defeated Arizona 33-25 Saturday. "Adrenaline is the best painkiller," said Tuiasosopo, who was able to muster just 21 yards for his team in the first quarter. "I just had to get battle-tested, and it took a while for the hip to get warmed up to game speed. "But I just said, 'Hey, if I want to play this game I've got to suck it up and help these guys win."' Washington (6-3, 5-1 Pac-10) became bowl-eligible with the victory and kept Arizona (6-4, 3-3) from doing the same. The Wildcats must win seven games to qualify for postseason play because of their 12-game schedule. "Now we're fighting to get into a bowl game, and a lot hinges on what we do at Oregon State,' coach Dick Tomey said. Washington clinched its sixth victory in its last seven games with a 17-play, 80-yard march in the fourth quarter capped by a 6-yard touchdown pass from Tuiasosopo to Jerramy Stevens. That gave the Huskies a 26-17 lead with 4:14 left to play, and Anthony Vontoure picked off a pass by Ortege Jenkins and returned it 29 yards for an insurance score 24 seconds later. During the drive, Gerald Harris had three catches -- including first-down grabs on third-and-8 and third-and-3. "The last drive that resulted in the touchdown pass to Stevens was a thing of beauty in terms of the way we made the third-down conversions and were able to continue to move the chains and eat the clock," UW coach Rick Neuheisel said. "That was a real hard thing for Arizona to withstand." Tuiasosopo's other TD pass was a 25-yarder to Harris. Freshman running back Paul Arnold carried 27 yards for a TD just before halftime, and John Anderson kicked field goals of 25 and 38 yards during a 19-point, second-quarter surge. Trung Canidate ran 74 yards for an Arizona score and had more than 100 yards rushing for the eighth consecutive game and a school-record 16th time in his career. He broke the record of Art Luppino, who played from 1953-56. Jenkins also threw a 55-yard bomb to Marvin Brown and scored on a 1-yard dive with 1:34 to play. But until their final scoring march, the Wildcats were unable to sustain drives, and they suffered from their recurring problems this season of poor kicking and penalties. Sean Keel, a freshman who replaced Mark McDonald after McDonald went 1-for-10 on field goals to start the season, made a 30-yard field goal in the first quarter to go 3-for-3 on the season. But he missed from 47 and 31 yards in the second half. "I don't care what I did," said Canidate, who had 105 yards on 11 carries. "We have goals before the game. My personal goal is to win the game." Arizona ran only four plays from scrimmage in the first 14:37 of the second quarter, and Washington surged from a 3-0 deficit to a 13-3 lead. The Huskies held the ball for 12 plays in a second-quarter drive and marched within range of Anderson's first field goal, which tied it 3:34 into the quarter. On Arizona's first snap, Jermaine Smith made a diving interception of a throw by starter Keith Smith, and the Huskies scored on their first play. Tuiasosopo threw to Harris in the flat, and he slipped a tackle at the 10 and scored to make it 10-3 only 11 seconds after their first score. Anderson gave Washington a 10-point lead with 5:23 to play and the teams then traded TDs, with Canidate scoring on the long run, and Arnold, a heralded freshman, getting his first college TD from scrimmage to make it 19-10 with 39 seconds left in the first half. | ALSO SEE College Football Scoreboard Washington Clubhouse Arizona Clubhouse College football Top 25 overview
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