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INSIDE SPORTS
Denton Record-Chronicle
SECTION B
Kansas completes
winless campaign
Page 5B
Sports
WHO TO CALL
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Sunday, November 29, 2015
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OU rips Pokes for title
Ryan to play Monday
By Cliff Brunt
Associated Press
College football
Staff report
Ryan’s Class 6A Division I Region
I third-round playoff game versus
Amarillo Tascosa originally slated for
Saturday afternoon has been moved
to 3 p.m. Monday at Dick Bivins Sta-
dium in Amarillo.
Denton and Amarillo school dis-
trict officials agreed to make the
move after a winter storm covered
most of West Texas and the Panhan-
dle with ice and snow. Ryan’s team
bus had been scheduled to leave
Denton on Friday. School officials de-
layed the departure until Saturday
High school football
Class 6A Division I playoffs: Ryan vs.
Amarillo Tascosa, 3 p.m. Monday, Amarillo
Big 12
Baker
Mayfield threw two touchdown passes
and ran for another score and No. 5
Oklahoma beat No. 9 Oklahoma State
58-23 on Saturday night to take the Big
12 title and likely a spot in the College
Football Playoff.
Mayfield was knocked out of the
previous game with a concussion, but
he was fearless against the Cowboys,
rushing for 77 yards and a touchdown.
The Sooners (11-1,8-1 Big 12, No. 3 CFP)
gained 524 yards, including 344 on the
ground, to claim their third win over a
ranked opponent in three weeks.
STILLWATER, Okla.
No. 5 Oklahoma 58, No. 9 Oklahoma State 23
Joe Mixon ran for 136 yards and two
touchdowns, Samaje Perine had 131
yards and two scores, and Jordan
Thomas intercepted two passes and re-
turned one for a touchdown for the
Sooners.
J.W. Walsh passed for 325 yards and
two scores, and James Washington
caught seven passes for 169 yards for the
Cowboys (10-2, 7-2, No. 11 CFP).
It was just the third time the rivals
morning, then agreed to postpone
the game to Monday.
Ryan (12-0) has posted playoff
victories over Plano East and South
Grand Prairie. Tascosa (10-2) ad-
vanced to the third round with wins
over El Paso El Dorado and Odessa
Permian.
The Ryan-Tascosa winner will
face Allen (13-0) at 2 p.m. Saturday at
Arlington’s AT&T Stadium.
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Tom Pennington/Getty Images
Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops is
soaked after a win over Oklahoma
State on Saturday in Stillwater,
Okla.
See OKLAHOMA on 3B
Seguin’s
OT goal
lifts Stars
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By Brian Hall
Associated Press
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Tyler Seguin
scored with just over a minute remain-
ing in overtime and the Stars came back
from a three-goal deficit to beat the
Minnesota Wild 4-3 on Saturday night.
Stars
Dallas 4, Minnesota 3 (OT)
Alex Goligoski, Jamie Benn and
John Klingberg scored for Dallas in the
third period. Seguin, Benn and Klingb-
erg also each had one assist, and Cody
Eakin had two assists. Antti Niemi
made 23 saves and the Stars won for the
fifth time in six games.
Jason Pominville ended the longest
goalless streak of his career with his first
goal of the season, and Thomas Vanek
and Charlie Coyle also scored for the
Wild. Minnesota lost for the fifth time
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in six games.
Darcy Kuemper made 40 saves for
Minnesota.
Minnesota lost 3-1 in a matinee
against Winnipeg on Friday, prompting
coach Mike Yeo to scold his team for its
inconsistent effort. The Wild took con-
trol early against Dallas, which was also
playing the second game of a back-to-
back after beating Vancouver at home
Friday night in a shootout.
Niemi started for the second straight
game, and Vanek created the first two
goals in the first period. After scoring
with a waffling puck that found its way
past a screened Niemi, Vanek set up
Coyle for the second goal.
Wild forward Justin Fontaine forced
a turnover in the defensive zone and
sent the puck wide to Vanek as he
slipped near the blue line. Vanek faked a
shot before sending a cross-ice pass to
Coyle, and he scored on a wide-open
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North Texas running back Jeffrey Wilson (26) fumbles the ball after being hit by UTEP defensive lineman Sky Logan (56) on Saturday at Apogee Stadium.
UTEP won 20-17 in the Mean Green’s season finale.
Miners dig UNT1-11 hole
Mean Green drop season finale after late
opportunity goes up in cloud of yellow flags
Thompson on the play.
UNT never recovered.
‘When he ended up at the 30, I
thought we are going to go down and
score,” Canales said. “Then I saw three
flags show up and I said ‘Oh no.’
“It was the story of the season. It has
worn me down. We were so close at
times and couldn’t get over the hump.”
The Mean Green finished 1-11, tying
UNT’s 2008 team for the worst season
in program history. UNT also finished
1-4 at Apogee, the Mean Green’s first
losing season at home in the venue’s
five-year history.
UNT ended up with those dubious
distinctions — and a 1-7 record in Con-
ference USA play — largely because of
an offense that struggled. The Mean
Green were averaging just 15.0 points
per game coming in and never reached
the end zone on offense against UTEP
(5-7, 3-5 C-USA) while managing just
205 total yards.
“It’s tough when you can’t move the
ball and produce points,” said quarter-
back Andrew McNulty, who started for
the first time since the fifth game of the
season and was knocked out of the
game with a cracked rib. “They brought
a lot of pressure and tried to stop the
run. We needed to make more plays.”
UNT’s defense made plenty on a day
when the Mean Green recovered five
fumbles and scored a touchdown on de-
fense and another on special teams.
By Brett Vito
Staff Writer
bvito @ dentonrc.com
North Texas interim coach Mike Ca-
nales and his veteran players talked all
week about washing away the bad taste
in their mouths from a lost season.
For a few short minutes Saturday in
their final game, the Mean Green ap-
peared as if they might be ready to pull
it off against UTEP at Apogee Stadium.
UNT had the ball and was driving
for a go-ahead touchdown late, only to
make two key mistakes on a single play
that helped sink the Mean Green in a
North Texas football
UTEP 20, UNT 17
net.
Pominville, a seven-time 20-goal
scorer, hadn’t scored a regular-season
goal since April 9 of last season and
snapped a goalless streak of 22 games in
the second.
Kuemper was besieged after being
given a 3-0 lead, with Dallas out-
shooting Minnesota 35-15 in the sec-
ond and third periods. Benn scored
his league-leading 18th goal short-
handed, and Klingberg tied it with
20-17 loss that capped one of the worst
seasons in program history.
UNT appeared as if it would have
the ball at the UTEP 30-yard line in the
closing minutes of the fourth quarter
after a 32-yard run by quarterback
DaMarcus Smith.
The momentum that run provided
vanished in a flash when UNT was
flagged for a targeting foul on wide re-
ceiver Carlos Harris and an unsports-
manlike conduct call on Thaddeous
See UNT on 4B
See STARS on 3B
Mavs start third strong, snap skid
DALLAS (AP) — Deron Williams
scored 22 points, Zaza Pachulia added
16 points and 12 rebounds, and the
Mavericks used a 16-0 run to begin the
second half and beat the Denver Nug-
gets 92-81 on Saturday night and snap a
three-game losing streak.
The Nuggets began a five-game road
trip with their sixth straight loss.
Dallas has won five straight at home
after losing its first two games of the
season at American Airlines Center.
The Mavericks, trailing 52-48 at
halftime, scored the first 16 points of the
third quarter and never trailed again.
Denver missed its first 15 field-goal at-
tempts in the opening 8:45 of the peri-
od and committed six turnovers before
Kenneth Faried scored on a layup to
leave Dallas ahead 64-54.
Darrell Arthur, who attended Dallas’
South Oak Cliff High, scored 16 points.
bound effort in a loss at San Antonio on
Wednesday night with his 10th double-
double of the season.
Emmanuel Mudiay, the No. 7 draft-
ee last summer after playing his high
school ball in Arlington and Dallas,
scored 12 for the Nuggets on 5-for-15
shooting. Danilo Gallinari had 12
points, all in the first half. He shot 0 for
7 in the second half.
The Nuggets scored the game’s first
seven points, shot 52.6 percent in the
first half and led 52-48 at intermission.
Denver outrebounded Dallas 25-15 in
the half and limited Nowitzki, the Mav-
ericks’ leading scorer at 17.4 points per
game, to two field-goal attempts and
two points.
Nowitzki finished with 13 points and
seven rebounds. Raymond Felton
Mavericks
Dallas 92, Denver 81
Will Barton added 14 off the bench, 12 in
the second half.
Dallas outscored Denver 25-5 in the
third period, shooting 61.5 percent to
the Nuggets’ 10.5 percent (2 for 19). The
Nuggets committed seven turnovers in
the quarter.
The Mavericks’ largest lead was 20
points, when a 3-pointer by Dirk No-
witzki put Dallas ahead 77-57 less than
a minute into the fourth quarter.
Williams, who played his high
school ball locally at The Colony, was 4
for 8 on 3-pointers. Signed during the
offseason, Williams fell one short of his
season high in points and added four
assists and four rebounds.
Pachulia scored Dallas’ first seven
points and followed a four-point, no-re-
i
Mavericks
guard Deron
Williams,
left, drives
past Denver
forward
Darrell Ar-
thur, right,
on Saturday
in Dallas.
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