PULLMAN, Wash. -- Washington State coach Mike Leach is famous for his Air Raid passing offenses.Turns out the Cougars have a ground game too.Washington State rushed for 280 yards and six touchdowns to beat Oregon 51-33 on Saturday, sending the Ducks to their third consecutive loss.Jamal Morrow, Gerard Wicks and James Williams each ran for two touchdowns for Washington State (2-2, 1-0 Pac-12), which was coming off a bye week. Washington State defeated Oregon in double overtime last year, a game that sparked the Cougars run to a 9-4 record.I dont think anybody expected six touchdowns out of us, Morrow said. Its great.I dont think tonight was our full potential, Wicks said. Youll see a way better running team.Leach said the passing of Luke Falk, who threw for 371 yards, helped set up the ground attack.The biggest thing was the passing was real effective, Leach said. We got them off balance with the pass.Oregon (2-3, 0-2) has lost three straight games and held a team meeting earlier in the week to seek a turnaround.Royce Freeman, who missed the last game with a leg injury, ran for 138 yards and three touchdowns for Oregon.We didnt have any big plays of any kind tonight, said Oregon coach Mark Helfrich. Both sides put a ton of pressure on each other at the wrong times; the offense was not answering, the defense was not answering.Sticking together is paramount, and we will, Helfrich said.Washington State piled up 651 yards of total offense, to 416 total yards for Oregon.Falk completed 36 of 48 passes with one touchdown.Almost every play they called was a pass and they checked to a run, Helfrich said. That balance was very difficult for us to stop.Oregons Dakota Prukop completed 14 of 22 passes for 132 yards.Washington State came in averaging 121 rushing yards per game.Washington State opened the scoring with Falk hitting Gabe Marks on a 7-yard touchdown pass.Oregon replied with an 11-yard touchdown run by Freeman to tie the score at 7-7.Washington State marched 75 yards on its next drive, with Wicks running four yards for the touchdown and a 14-7 lead.Freeman bulled over from the 1 to tie the score at 14-14 midway through the second quarter.Washington State went 80 yards in seven plays on its next series, including a 40-yard bomb from Falk to Kyle Sweet. Morrow ran the final 10 yards for a touchdown and a 21-14 lead.Oregon went three-and-out and Washington State got the ball near midfield. Wicks scored again, this time on a 2-yard run, for a 28-14 lead at halftime.Washington State opened the second half by marching to the Oregon 5, but Erik Powells 22-yard field goal attempt was blocked. He has missed all four of his field goal attempts this season.Oregon immediately gave the ball back, when Dwayne Stanford fumbled after a reception and WSUs Robert Taylor recovered. He returned the ball to the Oregon 26. But Washington State turned the ball over on downs when Falks pass to Sweet in the end zone fell incomplete.Prukop was then sacked in the end zone by Hercules Mataafa for a safety and WSU led 30-14.After a WSU punt, Freeman ran 75 yards for his third touchdown to cut Oregons deficit to 30-20 late in the third. Oregons conversion pass failed.The Cougars replied with a 75-yard drive that ended with Morrows 14-yard touchdown run for a 37-20 lead.Williams added a 38-yard touchdown burst midway through the fourth that gave Washington State a 44-20 lead.Charles Nelson returned the ensuing kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown to cut WSUs lead to 44-26.Williams added a 3-yard touchdown run.THE TAKEAWAYOregon: The Ducks lead the all-time series 47-40-7, but are clearly not as formidable as in recent years. Their defense looks suspect.Washington State: The Air Raid offense also has a ground attack this year. The Cougars appear to be rebounding from an 0-2 start, and have topped 50 points for two consecutive games. WSU, which beat the Ducks 45-38 in double overtime last season, notched consecutive wins over Oregon for the first time since 2002 and 2003.UP NEXTOregon hosts No. 10 WashingtonWashington State plays at No. 7 Stanford, which lost big at Washington on Friday. Justin Hardee Jersey . 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Frank Warren Jersey . The defending champion beat Gael Monfils of France 7-6 (6), 6-3, while second-seeded Andy Murray of Britain dispatched Edouard Roger-Vasselin, also of France, 6-3, 6-3. Making his first appearance since injuring his wrist a month ago, Del Potro had difficulty with his service games in the first set. It is in Becky Sauerbrunns job description to frustrate and stymie on defense, to prevent players from going where they wish on a soccer field. She does this well. Many suggest that the player who was the centerpiece of a unit that helped the U.S. womens national team win the World Cup just one year ago does those things better than any defender in the world.It is also in her job description as one of the teams co-captains, a role the 31-year-old inherited only this year, to do the opposite off the field. After more than 100 appearances for her country, Olympic and World Cup titles already in her inventory, hers is a voice of experience.?A captain for a group of Olympic aspirants noticeably younger (average age 27.8 years old) than the team that won the World Cup a year ago (average age 29.5 years old), she took it as her mission in recent months to help those players adapt to the pressure of trying to make the final roster of 18 players -- and prepare for any outcome.?Thats crippling, Sauerbrunn said shortly before the roster was announced. Thats crushing to a lot of players. If, by chance, they dont make it, whats their response? Are they going to be like Crystal Dunn, where she absolutely lights the league on fire [after being left off the World Cup roster] and gets called back in and is fighting for a starting spot? Or is it somebody thats kind of like, OK, I guess the national team just isnt in the cards for me.?Its making sure they know the journey is long. Youre going to have a lot of ups, youre going to have a lot of downs. But its absolutely 100 percent worth it to be here, so never give up on that dream.She is a qualified guide. They are the same questions she asked herself not so long ago.?Her own ticket to Brazil was a formality long before U.S. coach Jill Ellis this week named the roster that will compete in the Olympics. She is in her own right as indispensable as any player. With her as defensive anchor in the World Cup, the first major tournament in which she was a full-time starter, the United States came within seconds of a record shutout streak en route to a title. At the She Believes Cup earlier this year against England, France and Germany, three of the top five teams in the world, the United States allowed only one goal and won all three games.?The FC Kansas City captain was the National Womens Soccer Leagues defender of the year in each of that leagues three completed seasons.Even snubs, as when she was omitted from the World Cup all-tournament team and what amounts to FIFAs all-world team this year, reinforce her status through the outcry such omissions elicit. She so perpetually figures in conversations about underrated players that she almost defies the label.?What people dont realize is just how easy she makes things, Carli Lloyd said after the most recent omission. And I think that might make people not recognize her as much out there.?Yet it was just six years ago, when the U.S. team -- then under the direction of Pia Sundhage who now coaches Sweden -- gathered for the training camp that would determine the roster for World Cup qualifying, that Sauerbrunn instead made her way to the movies with her boyfriend on the other side of the country. Instead of Sundhages distinctive Swedish accent, she spent the night listening to Blake Livelys somewhat less authentic interpretation of a Boston accent in The Town.?Sauerbrunns debut for the national team more than two years earlier was by that time rapidly receding in the rearview mirror, followed not by more appearances and more camp invitations but by silence. Then employed by the Washington Freedom in the now-defunct Womens Professional Soccer, Sauerbrunn was 25 years old. Not so old to be without hope of completing her journey, but running out of time to get her foot in the door. ?True to the character of a contemplative and almost hyper-rational former English major at the University of Virginia, she attempted to reason rather than rage against reality. She told herself she would be the best professional she could be in whatever time remained in the short shelf life of an athletic career. Perhaps that was her ceiling. Perhaps international soccer wasnt her fate.?That surely wouldnt have been a tragedy. To emerge from among the millions of girls playing soccer to compete at a regional level, where she first became a defender, and for youth national teams, to then be among the sliver to play Division I soccer and the smaller subsset to play professionally, was already success.dddddddddddd Logically, rationally, that should leave anyone fulfilled.? ?None of which explained the feeling she had after she put together one of the best defensive efforts of her life to help stymie Brazilian superstar Marta in a WPS game of that era, with Sundhage in attendance. What she felt was not the glow of satisfaction at a job well done.?I remember seeing Pia there and Pia not acknowledging my presence, Sauerbrunn said. And just being so crushed and thinking, OK, Im trying to convince myself that the national team isnt in my cards, but clearly I still want it so, so bad.?I was attempting [to readjust my expectations], but I was failing.That was the struggle right up until she checked her phone before the movie that night and saw a message waiting for her. There had been an injury and Sundhage wanted to know if she could be at the training camp. She boarded the plane the next morning, expecting to be camp fodder, little more than extra body to make drills works. But she survived the first cut. Then she not only made the roster for qualifying but also the 2011 World Cup itself, in which her lone appearance was a start in the semifinal win against France in place of suspended starter Rachel Buehler.?A year after feeling like she was so far on the outside that she might need to accept that it would be her home, she was very much on the inside of the national teams future plans.?Becky, defensively, certainly caught Pias eye and my eye because she was willing to take risks, she was very alert, said Ellis, then an assistant under Sundhage.?Missing in their eyes had been two components. First, though not uncommon among young defenders trying to make the national team, Sauerbrunn too often let her undeniably talented actions speak louder than her words. She didnt communicate well enough. Second, she didnt comfortably play the kind of long, driven passes that Sundhage wanted out of the position.? ?The latter came with repetition. It wasnt something she did naturally, more inclined to shorter passes, technical and precise to build possession through the midfield. It still isnt her first instinct, but she accepted that she needed to show it in her skill set.The other continues as a work in progress, the captaincy the latest test.?Its a little bit of leaving my comfort zone and demanding [from] players around me, Sauerbrunn said. I think its gotten better. I dont know if the players are listening to me more or if its just Ive never really talked as much, so now theyre listening.Its not that Sauerbrunn never had anything to say.?She has a calmness about her that, I think as a coach, I enjoy. Ellis said. I enjoy the conversations because its always a thoughtful conversation. I know Im not getting exactly what she thinks I need to hear.Much of what Sauerbrunn does with her voice is still hidden from our view, the conversations with teammates and even the marshaling of resources on the field difficult to decipher from a distance. Where it is most readily evident is in the sphere of social justice. Alongside names more familiar to headlines and faces more familiar to cameras -- Lloyd, Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe and Hope Solo -- she is one of five players to file jointly a federal complaint against U.S. Soccer alleging wage discrimination.?I feel very strongly about the equal pay complaint, so it came pretty naturally, Sauerbrunn said. Now that Ive been on the team for so many years, Ive been through different CBA negotiations and I kind of know a little bit more about whats going on.Six years ago she wasnt sure if there was a place for her in international soccer. Now she is as valuable a defender as anyone, a voice both her team and the sport needs.?When she tells young players the journey may be long, she knows of what she speaks.?And when she tells them its worth the miles, she speaks from experience, too.?In 2010, when I was fighting my way back on, it was trying to prove that I deserved to be on the team, Sauerbrunn said. And in a sense, Im still proving that to this day. Ive been made a co-captain, and I have this feeling that I have to prove to everyone that I deserve that honor.?So every day Im just as hungry as I was in 2010 to prove that I deserve to be where I am.Which soon enough will be in the soccer stadiums of Brazil.? ' ' '