Cyclones Cruise to 55-7 Win Over South Dakota in House Opener

AMES, Iowa – A packed stadium welcomed Matt Campbell‘s Iowa State soccer crew for its first recreation of the season on U.S. soil.

Rocco Becht, his tight ends and kicker Kyle Konrardy turned it into a cheerful event for the Cyclone devoted.

Becht threw three landing passes, all to tight ends, and Konrardy blasted a college and stadium file 63-yard discipline purpose, sparking No. 22 Iowa State to a 55-7 victory over South Dakota at MidAmerican Energy Field at Jack Trice Stadium on Saturday.

The Cyclones (2-0) struggled via a sluggish begin of their 24-21 win over Kansas State in Dublin, Ireland, every week in the past, however Becht and Co. have been sharp from the start on this one.

Becht hit Brett Eskildsen for 66 yards on the sport’s first play, went on to finish his first 14 passes and completed 19-of-20 for 278 yards and no interceptions earlier than turning issues over to freshman Alex Manske halfway via the third quarter.

His 95 p.c completion proportion is a college file, breaking the previous mark of 91.7 p.c that Seneca Wallace (22-of-24) posted in opposition to Baylor in 2001. Becht has thrown a TD go in 20 straight video games, the longest present streak in FBS, and has 19 video games with a number of scoring passes, together with 5 in a row.

The junior QB turned simply the third ISU participant to go for greater than 7,000 yards, working his profession whole to 7,151, and his 53 landing passes put him alone in second place within the faculty file e-book. Brock Purdy is the chief with 81.

Becht threw scoring passes of 4 and three yards to Benjamin Brahmer and hit Gabe Burkle on an 18-yard scoring taking part in, the 6-foot-6, 255-pounder breaking two tackles on his solution to the tip zone. Brahmer caught two completely thrown balls within the far proper nook of the tip zone, one on every finish of the sphere.

Brahmer, injured most of final season, completed with a career-high seven catches for 47 yards. Burkle had 4 catches for a career-best 85 yards and a 3rd tight finish, Tyler Moore, caught two balls for 33 yards.

With ISU main 24-7 and time about to expire within the first half, Campbell despatched Konrardy onto the sphere to attempt a kick with the ball noticed on his personal 47. It was lengthy sufficient and true, breaking the previous stadium file of 62 yards by the Air Force’s Dave Lawson again in 1975, the primary 12 months Jack Trice Stadium was open.

The old fashioned file was 58 yards shared by Alex Giffords (1979) and Ty Stewart (twice in 1993). Konrardy additionally kicked a 28-yard discipline purpose.

Redshirt freshman Aiden Flora added to the Cyclones’ spotlight reel with punt returns of 66 and 51 yards to arrange touchdowns. It regarded as if he had gone 99 yards for a landing on the 66-yarder, however a evaluate confirmed his toe nicked the left sideline on the South Dakota 33. Jamison Patton arrange one other rating along with his third profession interception.