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ASSOCIATED PRESS MSU's Terry Love, 18, and Jerramy Scott celebrated Love's first-quarter touchdown in front of UH's Solomon Elimimian.

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A Spartan effort

MSU out-everythings Hawaii,
scoring TDs on its first four
possessions on the way to a rout

EAST LANSING, Mich. » Michigan State got its revenge, and Hawaii got out of Spartan Stadium with most of its dignity.

It's hard to convince football players that anything less than a win under any conditions is acceptable. But for the second game in a row, the odds were stacked lotto-high against the Warriors.

UH had reasons to feel better about this 42-14 defeat at packed Spartan Stadium yesterday than the 63-17 laugher against No. 1 USC the week before.

The Warriors traded scores and shoves with 36-point-favorite MSU in the second half after falling behind 35-0.

"(The USC Trojans) put their second string in kind of early," UH safety Lamar Broadway said. "But this week (the Spartans) still had their men in, and there was a different momentum. We were banged up, bleeding, everything, but we stuck together."

There was every reason for UH to lose just as badly as it had against USC. Michigan State had the edge in just about every category, tangible and intangible. But UH even grabbed a little momentum for a while in the second half, playing in front of the second-largest crowd (74,043) in school history. This was also the farthest east UH had played in 30 years, the Spartans were highly motivated after losing in controversial fashion at Hawaii last year, and MSU's roster overflows with talent.

There were many excuses from which to choose. In the end, coach June Jones chose none, but praised his team.

"I'm proud of our guys because they fought hard all the way until the end," he said. "We've played two great, tough teams, but I've seen some great and positive things from our guys, which is encouraging."

Of course, Jones has also seen some very bad things, including lots of missed assignments, missed tackles and missed opportunities. A poor special teams effort didn't help, either.

MSU jumped to a 28-0 lead by scoring on its first four possessions.

"I feel like we woke up kind of late as far as intensity," said UH running back Nate Ilaoa, who rushed for a team-high 76 yards. "But I thought we had a lot of good things, like last week. We're just going to keep building off that and get rid of mistakes, and we should be good."

It wasn't all Hawaii mistakes.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Michigan State's David Stanton brought down Hawaii's David Farmer during the second quarter yesterday.

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MSU junior quarterback Drew Stanton completed 21 of 26 passes for 301 yards and three touchdowns. Freshman running back Javon Ringer rushed for three touchdowns. And the Spartans defense proved tough when it had to be.

"Our plan was go to the ball," said sophomore rover SirDarean Adams, who was game-high with 12 tackles. "Once they catch it, swarm."

The Warriors' lack of speed on offense was evident, as UH's longest plays were a 41-yard run by Ilaoa and a 27-yard pass from Colt Brennan to Ian Sample. Neither went for a score.

But Brennan got into a groove midway through the third quarter. On one drive, he completed the last six passes in a row and got a little lucky, as MSU's Kaleb Thornhill tipped the last one into Davone Bess' hands for a 3-yard score.

After the Spartans punted, Brennan ran the completion streak to nine. Then he scrambled for 12 and 13 yards. Three plays later he hit Sample for a 16-yard TD.

"It's tough when you have to walk in down by that much (at halftime)," Brennan said. "Then I realized we had a whole second half."

After the game, Jones said Brennan had moved ahead of Tyler Graunke, who started against USC.

It won't matter who starts at quarterback Sept. 24 at Idaho if the Warriors don't improve their defense and special teams play during the bye week.

"We've got to tackle better. We've got to do our assignments better. I gotta be better. Other than that, we'll be fine," defensive coordinator Jerry Glanville said.

Linebackers Tanuvasa Moe and Brad Kalilimoku led the Warriors with nine tackles each.

"(Stanton) was smart," Kalilimoku said. "He stayed in the pocket most the time, but we knew we had to watch for him to run."

It was not a good day for the Hawaii kicking game. Dan Kelly missed a 33-yard field goal, Omega Hogan was called for interference on a fair catch, and punter Kurt Milne threw an interception on a fake punt.

Michigan State had waited nine months since a 41-38 loss at Hawaii some of the Spartans blamed on officiating. Yesterday's game was cleanly played (excepting a late hit on Stanton in the third quarter) until the fourth quarter, when each team was called for two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, MSU got tagged for roughing Brennan and UH got another personal foul.

UH nose tackle Reagan Mauia was at the center of much of it, as he was called for spearing Stanton and then kicking an MSU helmet on the next play.

"The whole atmosphere was crazy. We were just battling," Mauia said. "(On the spearing call) I hit him before the whistle, but I dove in with my helmet so they had to call it. There was no time to pull up. The whole damn game was messed up. Referees were making bad calls and it didn't go our way."

MSU guard Kyle Cook left the field with no hard feelings.

"Other than late in the game it was straight-up football. It gets like that no matter who you play," he said. "We're satisfied. We played a good game. Hawaii was physical and tough and gave us a good game."