Fresno State stays in the hunt for MW championship with 24-3 win over Wyoming

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno State battled done the elements to get a gritty 24-3 triumph implicit Wyoming.

The Bulldogs amended to 7-3 connected the play and 4-2 successful Mountain West play, keeping live the team's chances of making the Mountain West Championship Game connected December 5.

Fresno State scored connected the archetypal possession of the crippled erstwhile Bryson Donelson capped a 73-yard, 10-play thrust with a 12-yard rushing touchdown. The sophomore retired of Central Valley Christian finished with 45 yards.

Wyoming responded connected its archetypal possession but had to settee for a 41-yard tract goal. The people would stay 7-3 until the last infinitesimal of the archetypal half.

Tytus Khajavi, a freshman linebacker retired of Clovis West, logged his archetypal vocation sack. The 14-yard nonaccomplishment connected 3rd down forced the Cowboys to punt it away.

That would acceptable up the Bulldogs' last possession of the archetypal fractional with 1:43 connected the clock. The thrust resulted successful a 40-yard Dylan Lynch tract extremity making it a 10-3 FS pb astatine the break.

Neither squad would people until the 4th quarter. Senior cornerback Al'zillion Hamilton came distant with his 3rd interception of the season.

The ensuing thrust was rapidly turned into points erstwhile Johnathan Arceneaux scored connected the archetypal play of the drive. The elder broke escaped for a 58-yard summation for a rushing touchdown.

The last people of the crippled would beryllium backmost Carson Conklin's archetypal touchdown walk arsenic a Bulldog, uncovering elder wide receiver Josiah Freeman for 13 yards.

Fresno State is 1 of 5 Mountain West teams with a 4-2 grounds successful league play. The Dogs presently clasp the tiebreaker implicit Boise State and Hawaii acknowledgment to their head-to-head wins.

The tiebreaker betwixt UNLV and New Mexico would beryllium decided connected "a composite mean of selected predictive and results based machine metrics" astatine the extremity of the regular season.

Senior Day is adjacent for the Bulldogs. Fresno State volition big Utah State adjacent Saturday, November 22, with kickoff from Valley Children's Stadium acceptable for 7:30 p.m.

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