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Washington propels Baylor football past TCU, 37-34 – The Baylor Lariat
By Foster Nicholas | Sports Editor, Braden Murray | LTVN Sports Director
Ten years from kicker Chris Callahan’s historic last-second game-winning field goal to knock off TCU 61-58, redshirt junior kicker Isaiah Hankins replicated the magic with a 33-yard field goal as time expired to help Baylor football knock off their in-state rival, 37-34, on Saturday night at McLane Stadium.
With the 2013 and 2014 Big 12 Championship teams in attendance and a blackout in full effect, head coach Dave Aranda led Baylor (5-4, 3-3 Big 12) to its first win against the Horned Frogs (5-4, 3-3 Big 12) since 2019, and the first home win against them since Oct. 11, 2014, when the Callahan called game.
“This is a game, if it was a couple weeks ago, we lose this game. And it did seem in this one that at times, you were finding ways to lose the game,” Aranda said. “We were able to overcome those opportune times and fight for a win. And I think that’s something that has to be learned.”
The Bears were led by redshirt freshman running back Bryson Washington, who finished with 26 carries for 196 yards and four touchdowns. Washington became the first player to score four or more rushing touchdowns in a game since Terrance Ganaway scored five in the Alamo Bowl against Washington on Dec. 29, 2011.
“I really think it was the O-line. They were working hard today, and everything was just opened up,” Washington said. “I saw the end zone, and it was like, I gotta get to it every time.”
After a pair of punts, the Horned Frogs opened up the scoring as sophomore quarterback Josh Hoover connected with freshman wide receiver Jordyn Bailey for a one-handed touchdown grab. The 8-yard score was steamrolled into momentum for Hoover, who completed 25 of 34 passes for 333 yards and two touchdowns.
Washington evened the game on the next drive, as a free kick out of bounds set up the Bears for a 10-play, 65-yard drive. The redshirt freshman took six carries on the drive and swerved through a gap made by redshirt sophomore center Coleton Price and redshirt junior left guard Ryan Lengyel to score an 8-yard touchdown with 1:48 in the first quarter.
Penalties forced each team to punt on their ensuing drives, but Washington found a rhythm again with 8:50 in the second quarter. With three runs, which landed the Bears a first down, Washington took his fourth carry of the drive, juked past multiple defenders and erupted up the middle for a 40-yard touchdown.
“I thought Bryson Washington had a great game. I thought O-line-wise, we were able to be really physical and move the line of scrimmage,” Aranda said. “We’re getting movement and Bryson’s running hard. So, it’s good for the Bears.”
Hankins missed the extra point, so Baylor held a 13-7 lead before sending the ball back to TCU. The Horned Frogs made the most out of the rest of the half as Hoover rushed for a touchdown, and freshman kicker Kyle Lemmermann knocked in a couple of field goals to give the visitors a 20-13 lead at halftime.
“The mindset was thinking back to when we were all younger and watching games like this. This is the moment you want to be in,” said redshirt sophomore linebacker Keaton Thomas. “Unfortunately, we didn’t maximize it, but that was the goal: to maximize it, be thankful for the moment, and take advantage of it.”
Returning in the second-half kickoff, redshirt junior quarterback Sawyer Robertson struggled to find time to throw and was sacked on third-and-9. For the first time this season, Robertson went without a touchdown pass but finished with 242 passing yards on 19 of 34 attempts. The quarterback also tallied nine carries for 28 yards.
“[Sawyer] really just made a statement and let everyone know we are going to win the game on offense. And that’s really what happened,” redshirt junior wide receiver Josh Cameron said. “It really didn’t matter [that] we didn’t throw a touchdown because my boy, B-Wash, was just doing his thing. I think that’s just a testament to [Sawyer’s] character because at the end of the day, he’s happy because we won the game.”
Sophomore running back Dawson Pendergrass, who set career-highs against Oklahoma State a week prior, started in the second half and recorded eight carries for 33 yards. Pendergrass pulled the Bears back to even with 5:09 in the third quarter with a 1-yard touchdown run to snap TCU’s 13-0 run.
Minutes later, Hoover and senior wide receiver Jack Bech marched down the field and pulled back ahead. Bech’s 6-yard touchdown reception with 0:23 in the third quarter came off the arm of senior wide receiver Savion Williams. Williams took the snap and rushed to the far side before hopping and tossing the ball over his head to Bech in the end zone. Williams led TCU on the ground and in the air with eight rushes for 57 rushing yards and eight receptions for 92 yards to go along with his touchdown pass.
Heading into the fourth quarter, Baylor trailed 27-20, but a 27-yard competition from Robertson to Cameron set up a 35-yard touchdown rush for Washington.
Looking to find a knockout blow, TCU marched to midfield. On third-and-6, sixth-year senior linebacker Matt Jones quickly wrapped up a Horned Frog after a short pass. With a fourth-and-2 play on the horizon, TCU head coach Sonny Dykes trotted out the punting unit.
“I mean, we need to get better,” Aranda said when reflecting on the defense’s play. “You’d like to win by playing well in the secondary, and not win in spite of how you played. And so that’s a definite improvement we need to make.”
With the ball at their own 19-yard line, the green and gold marched 81 yards in 13 plays. Robertson completed passes to senior wide receivers Hal Presley and Ashtyn Hawkins before pounding the rock with Washington. However, prior to a fourth-and-2 play, the Horned Frogs called time out.
Although they came up with a gameplan, Robertson lunged for the first down and the Bears kept rolling. Robertson completed a pass to redshirt junior tight end Michael Trigg to put Baylor in the red zone. On second-and-two from the TCU 6-yard line, Robertson kept the ball and dove for the right pilon but took a shot to his leg and came up just short.
Needing only inches to take the lead, the gunslinger handed the ball to Washington, who punched the ball from a yard out at 4:54 in the fourth quarter.
Leading 34-27, TCU marched back down the field and Bech found himself wide open on a 24-yard touchdown pass down the middle of the field to tie the game with 1:55 left in the game.
With a tie game, Washington took four carries and Robertson completed a pass to put Baylor at the TCU 44-yard line, setting up a fourth-and-9. Keeping the offense out there, Dykes called timeout and Robertson made the Horned Frogs pay, completing a 15-yard pass to Trigg.
“It was huge. We got the play call in, and I was mid-route. I look over, and Trigg makes the catch,” Cameron said. “[I felt] just pure joy, pure excitement.”
With just 16 seconds left in the game, Robertson handed the ball to Washington, who was carried by the offensive line from the 29-yard line to the 16-yard line.
“All I could think about, honestly, when I was running the ball, when an O-linemen got behind me start pushing me, is, let me fall to the ground. Let me follow the ground so the clock wouldn’t expire. I wasn’t really worried about getting too many yards,” Washington said.
After timeouts by both teams, five seconds remained on the clock, and Hankins drilled a 33-yard field goal to give the Bears a 37-34 victory. As Baylor players rushed toward Hankins and lifted him on their shoulders, fans pounced out of the stands and rushed the field in support.
“I think that, for the students, and I think just fans in general — and I understand there’s a prove-it thing, and, I can understand that. And from the players thing, it’s like, are we good enough? Are these moments too big? Can we do this? ” Aranda said. “And so, to [see] everyone get past all of that on either side and just be one team. It’s pretty cool.”
The Bears hit their second bye week of the season next week and will be back in action on Nov. 16 against West Virginia (4-4, 3-2 Big 12) at Milan Puskar Stadium in Morgantown. The Mountaineers will be on the road against Cincinnati next weekend before returning home to host Baylor.
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Group hopes to boost recognition for Seattle’s Filipinotown
By Venice Buhain
The group Filipinotown Seattle hopes to make sure that the legacy of Filipino Americans in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District isn’t forgotten.
One of the group’s current projects is pushing for a Filipinotown placemarking sign in the CID.
“Filipino Americans have had a presence here for over 100 years in Seattle,” said Filipinotown Seattle Executive Director Devin Israel Cabanilla.
He said that the signage is important to remind people that “the International District is not just Chinatown. Japantown. Filipinotown is here as well.”
The group held a poll on what signage might look like and where it might be located. It would be similar to the Chinatown sign on South Jackson Street and Fifth Avenue South, or the Wing Luke Museum
In the early 20th century, the area now known as the CID was a hub full of businesses, entertainment, social groups and housing that served Seattle’s growing immigrant population from Asia and elsewhere. The communities all intermingled throughout the CID.
“This area was a central place for Asian Pacific immigrants simply because of segregation,” Cabanilla said.
Because the Philippines was a U.S. territory from 1898 to 1946, Filipino immigrants were unaffected by laws in the 1920s that restricted immigration from Japan or China. Many Filipinos came to study at the University of Washington or to work in burgeoning industries, like lumber, farming, canneries and factories.
While the physical Filipino presence in terms of buildings and storefronts in the CID dwindled in the later 20th century with redevelopment, Seattle Filipinos and Filipino Americans continued to make impacts locally, regionally and nationally.
“It may not have been in terms of storefronts, but our presence has always existed in terms of politics, culture as well,” Cabanilla said.
The Seattle Department of Transportation said it is aware that the group is working on its signage request, but the Department of Neighborhoods has not yet received a formal request. They are also working to develop a clearer process for this and other similar neighborhood signage proposals.
Filipinotown Seattle said it hopes that the sign helps remind Seattle of the CID’s unique designation as a neighborhood shaped by many immigrants and migrants to Seattle.
“Is it Chinatown? Is it Japantown? Is it Little Saigon? It’s all those things. And I think re cultivating that this is a multicultural district, Filipinotown is helping establish: Yes, it’s more than one thing,” Cabanilla said.
Venice Buhain is a multimedia journalist at Cascade PBS. She previously was the Cascade PBS’s associate news editor and education reporter. Venice has also worked for KING 5, The Seattle Globalist and TVW News.
Venice Buhain is a multimedia journalist at Cascade PBS. She previously was the Cascade PBS’s associate news editor and education reporter. Venice has also worked for KING 5, The Seattle Globalist and TVW News.
The state of Washington is getting a seventh temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Marysville Washington Temple was announced Sunday night during a devotional in the Marysville Washington Stake by Elder Hugo E. Martinez, a General Authority Seventy in the church’s United States West Area Presidency.
“We are pleased to announce the construction of a temple in Marysville, Washington,” the First Presidency said in a statement. “The specific location and timing of the construction will be announced later. This is a reason for all of us to rejoice and express gratitude for such a significant blessing — one that will allow more frequent access to the ordinances, covenants and power that can only be found in the house of the Lord.”
The other temples in Washington are the Columbia River, Moses Lake, Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma and Vancouver temples.
The church has 214 temples in operation. Plans for another 170 temples have been announced; many of those temples are in various stages of planning and construction.
Sunday’s temple announcement follows the new practice of the church’s First Presidency, which determines where temples will be built — and when and how they will be announced.
The First Presidency directed a General Authority Seventy to announce the first temple in Maine at a fireside there in December.
In January, church President Dallin H. Oaks said the Maine announcement set the pattern for future temple announcements.
“The best place to announce a temple is in that temple district,” he told the Deseret News.
The First Presidency will continue to decide where future temples will be built. It then will “assign someone else to make the announcement in the place where the temple will be built,” he said.
This pattern came to him as a strong impression after he assumed leadership of the church in October, following the death of his friend, President Russell M. Nelson.
This came as a strong impression to him shortly after he assumed the leadership of the church, President Oaks said.
The church remains in the midst of an aggressive temple-building era. President Nelson announced 200 new temples from 2018 to 2025. All but one were announced at general conference.
Five dozen temples are now under construction.
President Oaks now has overseen the announcement of two temples, neither at a general conference.
At the October conference he said that “with the large number of temples now in the very earliest phases of planning and construction, it is appropriate that we slow down the announcement of new temples.”
Ten new temples are scheduled to be dedicated in the next six months.
- May 3: Davao Philippines Temple.
- May 3: Lindon Utah Temple.
- May 31: Bacolod Philippines Temple.
- June 7: Yorba Linda California Temple.
- June 7: Willamette Valley Oregon Temple.
- Aug. 16: Belo Horizonte Brazil Temple.
- Aug. 16: Cleveland Ohio Temple.
- Aug. 30: Phnom Penh Cambodia Temple.
- Oct. 11: Miraflores Guatemala City Guatemala Temple.
- Oct. 18: Managua Nicaragua Temple.
Two-thirds of the 170 temples still to be built are outside the United States.
Temples are distinct from the meetinghouses where Latter-day Saints worship Jesus Christ each Sunday. Temples are closed on Sundays, but they open during the week as sanctuaries where church members go to find peace, make covenants with God and perform proxy ordinances for deceased relatives.
On a perfect day in Seattle for football, Washington took the field inside Husky Stadium for its first scrimmage of spring practice, and ahead of his third season at the helm, Jedd Fisch seemed pleased with the results.
“Guys played and competed their ass off,” he said after the Huskies ran 120 plays. “That’s the type of day we want to have…We have a lot to work on, but we’re excited that today gave us this opportunity.”
The 120 plays had a little bit of everything, but the biggest thing the Huskies showed during the day was that, despite the inexperience that Fisch’s coaching staff is looking to lean on at several positions, there’s plenty of talent littering the roster. The best example of that is sophomore safety Paul Mencke Jr., who had his best practice in a Husky uniform after Fisch announced on Saturday that senior CJ Christian is out for the year after suffering a torn Achilles tendon during Tuesday’s practice at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center.
“Paul’s done a great job of competing and being physical and playing fast, and you could see over these three years, he’s really grown into understanding now the system, and what’s asked of him as a safety,” Fisch said. “I think there’s a lot of in him that he wants to be like (safeties coach Taylor) Mays. He sees himself as a tall, linear, big hitter. So when you have your coach that is known for that type of play, I think Paul has done a great job.”
Mencke was all over the field. Not only did he lay some big hits, just like his safeties coach did during his time at USC, but the former four-star recruit also tallied a pair of pass breakups, an interception in a 7-on-7 period, and multiple strong tackles to hold ball carriers to limited yards.
While the defense did a good job getting pressure throughout the day and making the quarterbacks hold the ball with different looks on the back end, with safety Alex McLaughlin, linebacker Donovan Robinson, and edge rusher Logan George all among the players credited for a sack, quarterback Demond Williams Jr. got an opportunity to show off how he’s improved ahead of his junior year.
Early on, he showed off his well-known speed and athleticism, making the correct decision on a read option, pulling the ball and scampering for a 25-yard gain before displaying his touch. Throughout the day, his favorite target was junior receiver Rashid Williams, whom he found on several layered throws of 15-plus yards in the various scrimmage periods of practice.
On a day when every able-bodied member of the team was able to get several reps of live action, here are some of the other noteworthy plays from the day.
Spring practice notebook
- Freshman cornerback Jeron Jones was unable to participate in the scrimmage and was spotted working off to the side with the rest of the players rehabbing their injuries.
- The running backs delivered a pair of big blows on the day. First, cornerback Emmanuel Karnley was on the receiving end of a big hit from redshirt freshman Quaid Carr before the former three-star recruit ripped off a 13-yard touchdown run on the next play. Later on, every player on offense had a lot of fun cheering on freshman Ansu Sanoe after he leveled Zaydrius Rainey-Sale, letting the sophomore linebacker hear all about it when the play was whistled dead.
- Sophomore wide receiver Justice Williams put together a strong day with several contested catches, showing off his strong hands and 6-foot-4 frame, including a 25-yard catch and run off a drag route from backup quarterback Elijah Brown.
- Of all the tackles for a loss the Huskies were able to rack up throughout the day, two stood out. First, junior defensive tackle Elinneus Davis burst through the middle of the line to wrap up freshman running back Brian Bonner. Later on, freshman outside linebacker Ramzak Fruean wasn’t even touched as he shot through a gap in the offensive line to track down a play from behind, letting the entire offensive sideline know about the play on his way back to his own bench.
- The Huskies experimented with several defensive line combinations on Saturday, and for the first time this spring, it felt like freshman Derek Colman-Brusa took the majority of his reps alongside someone other than Davis, who he said has taken on an older brother role to help mentor the top-ranked in-state prospect in the 2026 class.
“Elinneus is a phenomenal guy. Great work ethic. He’s kind of taken on that older brother mentor for me. He’s been a great help just to learn plays and learn the scheme. Can’t say enough good things about the guy.”
- Ball State transfer Darin Conley took a handful of reps with the first team, while rotating with Colman-Brusa, who got a lot of work in alongside Sacramento State transfer DeSean Watts.
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