{"id":34032,"date":"2025-11-02T00:44:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/34032\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T00:44:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:44:20","slug":"hammond-jr-smith-run-for-2-tds-each-sacramento-state-beats-eastern-washington-35-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/34032\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammond Jr., Smith run for 2 TDs each, Sacramento State beats Eastern Washington 35-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761895929_946_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CHENEY, Wash. (AP)  Rodney Hammond Jr. had 208 yards rushing and two touchdowns on 22 carries, Jaquail Smith ran for TDs of 45 and 29 yards and <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/SACST\/sacramento-state-hornets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento State<\/a> beat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/EWASH\/eastern-washington-eagles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eastern Washington<\/a> 35-13 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento State (5-4, 3-2 Big Sky Conference) finished with 376 yards rushing and averaged 6.7 yards per carry.<\/p>\n<p>Hammond took a hand off up the middle, bent it out toward the right sideline and raced 59 yards to the end zone to give the Hornets a 14-10 lead with about five minutes left in the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The first play after a 10-yard punt by EWU&#8217;s Landon Ogles, Smith ripped off a 45-yard touchdown run early in the second quarter. A 17-punt gave the Sacramento State possession at the Eagles 35 and five plays later Hammond&#8217;s 7-yard TD run made it 28-10.<\/p>\n<p>Soren McKee, who made a career-long 51-yard field goal in the first quarter, kicked a 19-yarder as time expired in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Nate Bell threw a 5-yard touchdown pass to Wilson Medina for Eastern Washington (4-5, 3-2). Bell left the game early in the second quarter due to an apparent shoulder injury and finished 6-of-14 passing for 39 yards. Redshirt freshman Jake Schakel replaced Bell and went 24 of 38 for 201 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Quarterback Cardell Williams opened the scoring with a 1-yard touchdown run a little more than two minutes into the game and Smith, who had 12 carries for 117 yards, capped the scoring with 9:47 to play.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>More AP college football: http:\/\/apnews.com\/Collegefootball and http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/AP-Top25<\/p>\n<p class=\"StatsincCopyright\">\n    Copyright 2025 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.\n<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHENEY, Wash. (AP) Rodney Hammond Jr. had 208 yards rushing and two touchdowns on 22 carries, Jaquail Smith&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1321,23065,121,123,122,17685],"class_list":["post-34032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-college-football","tag-eastern-washington-eagles","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacramento-state-hornets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}