PACIFIC 10 ROUNDUP : Vardell, Palumbis Lead Stanford Over Arizona

Tommy Vardell ran for two touchdowns and Jason Palumbis added another as Stanford beat Arizona, 23-10, Saturday night in Pacific 10 game at Tucson.

Stanford improved to 4-6 overall and 3-4 in the conference. Arizona is 6-4 and 4-4.

Palumbis, a junior quarterback who led the Pac-10 in passing efficiency coming in with a 68.7% completion average, completed 15 of 19 passes for 181 yards. He was 11 for 13 for 110 yards as the Cardinal took a 14-10 halftime lead.

Glyn Milburn rushed 20 times for 142 yards and Vardell had 80 yards in 15 carries.

Palumbis dived over from the one to start the fourth quarter, putting Stanford ahead 20-10. That capped a 27-yard drive set up by a punt by Arizona’s Adam Grand that went only eight yards.

John Hopkins’ conversion attempt hit the upright, but his 30-yard field goal with 7:27 left made it 23-10.

The Cardinal drove 76 yards in seven plays after the opening kickoff, with Vardell scoring his Stanford-record 13th touchdown of the season on a one-yard dive. The key play was a 38-yard run by Milburn to the Arizona seven. Milburn broke six tackles along the way.

Gary Coston kicked a 41-yard field goal to narrow the margin to 7-3, but Vardell put Stanford ahead 14-3 early in the second quarter on a two-yard run.

Vardell broke Brad Muster’s team record of 12 touchdowns, set in 1986.

Arizona State 51, Washington State 26--Paul Justin threw three touchdown passes and ran for two more to lead Sun Devils to a Pac-10 victory over the Cougars at Pullman, Wash.

Justin, a senior, completed 19 of 25 passes for 379 yards. Eric Guliford had seven catches for 128 yards and a touchdown.

Justin also threw touchdown passes of 42 yards to Eric Moss, 31 yards to Kelvin Fisher and sneaked across twice for one-yard scoring runs.

Washington State freshman quarterback Drew Bledsoe threw touchdown passes of four, five and 27 yards to Phillip Bobo, who finished with 10 catches for 100 yards.

Bledsoe completed 25 of 43 passes for 274 yards, but had a pass intercepted by Adam Brass that stopped a 70-yard drive first-quarter drive on the Washington State 10.

Arizona State improved to 4-5 and 2-4; Washington State fell to 3-7 and 2-5.