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WVC football: Ground game powers Wyoming Area past GAR

<p>CHAMPAIGN, Ill. &#8212; Miles Sanders burst through the hole, bounced off a defender trying to grab his ankles and sped up the right side for the go-ahead touchdown.</p><p>That&#8217;s when No. 10 Penn State started to hit its stride, too.</p><p>Sanders set career highs by rushing for 200 yards and three touchdowns, Trace McSorley threw for three TDs and ran for a personal-best 92 yards, and the Nittany Lions scored 35 points in the fourth quarter to pull away for a 63-24 victory over Illinois on Friday night.</p><p>Penn State (4-0, 1-0 Big Ten) scored the final 42 points after Illinois went up by three early in the third quarter, breaking it open after getting all it could handle from a team showing signs of a turnaround in coach Lovie Smith&#8217;s third season.</p><p>Illinois (2-2, 0-1) opened the second half with a 75-yard touchdown drive. Sanders answered with a 48-yard scoring run , and Penn State put this one away with two TDs in the opening minute of the fourth. It was the Nittany Lions&#8217; third straight game with more than 50 points.</p><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ve played a complete game,&#8221; said coach James Franklin, in his fifth season. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if we&#8217;ve played many complete games since we&#8217;ve been here. I think we are getting better. There&#8217;s certain plays, there&#8217;s certain series, there&#8217;s certain quarters that we&#8217;re not happy. I&#8217;ve watched a little bit of the NFL. It seems it&#8217;s the same way at that level.&#8221;</p><p>McSorley threw a 16-yard TD to Juwan Johnson on the first play of the quarter. Jan Johnson intercepted Illinois&#8217; M.J. Rivers, and McSorley hit KJ Hamler with a 21-yarder on the next play, making it 42-24.</p><p>Sanders easily surpassed his previous highs of 118 yards and two TDs. He had 113 yards and two scores in the first half alone.</p><p>McSorley showed why he is a Heisman Trophy hopeful, eclipsing his previous rushing high of 81 yards against Maryland in 2016. The senior also completed 12 of 19 passes for 160 yards with an interception.</p><p>Ricky Slade added a 61-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter, and the Nittany Lions racked up 591 yards.</p><p>&#8220;I think we&#8217;re close,&#8221; McSorley said. &#8220;Obviously, you&#8217;re putting up 63 points and not playing full, complete games &#8212; you&#8217;re close to that. When we talk about a complete game, it&#8217;s having the success for the full four quarters.&#8221;</p><p>Rivers, a true freshman, was 17 of 28 for 149 yards, a touchdown and an interception in his second start with AJ Bush nursing a hamstring injury.</p><p>Reggie Corbin ran for 87 yards. Mike Epstein finished with 73 after back-to-back 100-yard rushing games.</p><p>&#8220;I think we can all see what kind of a team we can be,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;We have a lot of potential. Right now, we&#8217;re playing with our backup quarterback. Hopefully with the bye week, AJ (Bush) will be ready to go.&#8221;</p><p><strong>TIGHT START</strong></p><p>Sanders broke a tackle and plowed through three defenders near the goal line for a 14-yard touchdown that gave Penn State a 7-0 lead.</p><p>Illinois tied it on a 2-yard run by Corbin. Then the Nittany Lions scored back-to-back touchdowns and looked ready to blow it open.</p><p>Sanders scored from the 2 after the Illini&#8217;s Sydney Brown got flagged for interference on an overthrown pass intended for Hamler in the end zone. McSorley then threw a 5-yard TD to Pat Freiermuth, who skidded into the end zone as he lost his footing, to make it 21-7.</p><p>But a 51-yard run by Corbin set up a 6-yard touchdown pass from Rivers to Ricky Smalling, after the Illini&#8217;s Daniel Barker fumbled a reception near the goal line, to make it a seven-point game midway through the second quarter.</p><p>Illinois&#8217; Delano Ware intercepted a deep pass by McSorley into double coverage with about 30 seconds left in the half when Penn State could have opted to run out the clock. That led to a 42-yard field goal by Chase McLaughlin as time expired, making it 21-17.</p><p><strong>THE TAKEAWAY</strong></p><p>Penn State: Though they didn&#8217;t put this one away until the fourth, the Nittany Lions got another lopsided win after outscoring Pittsburgh and Kent State by a combined 114-16.</p><p>Illinois: Whether Bush returns to the lineup or not, Rivers is showing he could be a major contributor for the Illini.</p><p><strong>UP NEXT</strong></p><p>Penn State: Hosts No. 4 Ohio State next Saturday.</p><p>Illinois: Visits Rutgers on Oct. 6.</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Andrew Seligman</p><p>AP Sports Writer</p></bylineMeta></div>

Sanders leads another Penn State second-half surge in Lions’ win