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Bruins Spin Their Records : College football: Cook, Stokes, Jordan and Shah dazzle Arizona State, 59-23. UCLA rolls up 680 yards of offense.

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TIMES STAFF WRITER

It was an expected Saturday night shootout that became an unexpected Saturday night blowout because only UCLA came in armed.

Wayne Cook passed for 380 yards, best of his career by far. Sharmon Shah went past 1,000 yards for the first time in his career, and J.J. Stokes caught two touchdown passes for the umpteenth time in his career to lead the Bruins to a 59-23 victory over Arizona State.

The impact on the Bruin record books went well beyond a game or a night. Cook’s total gave him 2,283 yards for the season, his second 2,000-plus year in a row. Only Tommy Maddox and Troy Aikman have done that at UCLA.

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His four touchdown passes tied a school record, but only he has done it three times.

Shah’s 180 yards in 14 carries give him 1,092 and make him the first Bruin in four digits since Kevin Williams was there in 1991.

And Stokes, well, he’s back.

With 175 yards in seven receptions, he showed his recovery from a leg injury sustained in the opening game of the season is complete.

With his second reception, he broke Sean LaChapelle’s record for a career, 142. That came in the second quarter when Cook lofted the ball over Marcus Soward to the Arizona State eight-yard line. Skip Hicks scored on the next play to give the Bruins a 21-7 lead.

That was cut to 21-10 when Jon Baker kicked a 37-yard field goal, but Stokes came back with a highlight film reception to give UCLA a 28-10 advantage at halftime.

On second down from the Bruin 31, Cook faded back and spotted Stokes alone with Soward. The pass was low, but Stokes reached down, beat Soward to the ball and set sail. Eddie Cade came over to challenge, but Stokes slipped his tackle and headed down the sideline.

The final stumbling block was Lee Cole, who got a Stokes stiff-arm in his face on the five and lost a wrestling match. Stokes scored standing up after walking a tightrope with his final steps.

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Kevin Jordan had six catches for 175 yards and a touchdown. That gives him 1,190 yards for the season, breaking Stokes’ mark of 1,181, set last year.

To give everybody a feeling of belonging, the Bruins had 680 yards of total offense, a school record by nine yards.

The highlight film offering to Stokes gave Cook 247 passing yards in a first half in which the Bruins made things as difficult as possible for themselves.

They scored on a 122-yard drive that included a successful conversion on third and 39, and on a conventional 85-yard drive to open the game.

The drive was long because Sale Isiah’s debut on offense was short-lived.

The senior had played defensive tackle his entire career, but moved to offense for this game because the Bruins were short-handed up front.

His first effort began on the UCLA eight and lasted eight plays. On the eighth, Daron Washington’s run up the middle for one yard to the Arizona State 23, Isiah took exception to Cade’s jumping on top of the pile. Isiah pushed Cade, drawing an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, then was ejected when he took exception to the call.

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When officials had finished their hike across Sun Devil Stadium, the Bruins had second down on their 47. After an incomplete pass made it third down, Cook hit Jordan, who wrestled the ball from Arizona State’s Craig Newsome on the three.

Cook passed to tight end Brian Richards for a touchdown on the next play to make it 14-0, and Richards drew his own unsportsmanlike conduct for celebrating the first touchdown of his career.

In all, UCLA, the least penalized team in the Pacific 10, drew seven penalties for 88 yards in the first half.

The Bruins had made it look easy on their first drive, 85 yards in nine plays that included Cook-to-Jordan passes of 27 and 14 yards and Shah runs of 22 and 12 yards.

The lead was cut to 14-7 when Jake Plummer hit Keith Poole on an 11-yard touchdown pass, inside of cornerback Teddy Lawrence.

UCLA showed no signs of letting up in the second half, coming out and rolling 69 yards in seven plays, plus the usual penalty, this for holding.

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Three of the plays were passes to Stokes, for 28, 12 and the final eight yards of the drive to a 35-10 lead.

Shah also had a 26-yard run en route. That put him over 1,000 yards for the season.

The Bruins (4-6, 2-5 in Pac-10) extended the lead to 42-10 on the next series, the rout being on. Backed up on their 12 after Andy Colbert had knocked down Plummer’s fourth-down pass in the end zone, UCLA got space when Cook hit Stokes for 15 yards. Two Shah runs netted another first down, and then Cook passed twice to Jordan, first for 15 yards, then for 47 yards and a touchdown.

Arizona State (3-7, 2-5) countered with a Plummer-to-Poole touchdown hookup of 33 yards, but Shah got that back in one play, a 65-yard run on the first play after the next kickoff. Now leading, 49-17, the Bruins decided Shah had had enough.

Also Cook, Jordan and Stokes, with quarterback heir apparent Ryan Fien leading a new group onto the field with 1:28 to play in the third quarter.

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