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LOGAN, Utah (AP) \u2014 Sesi Vailahi<\/a> and McCae Hillstead<\/a> had touchdown runs in the first quarter for Utah State<\/a> in a 17-10 victory over Fresno State<\/a> on Saturday night. <\/p>\n Fresno State scored its only touchdown when Jayden Mandal<\/a> threw a 12-yard touchdown pass to Ezekiel Avit with 1:30 left to play. <\/p>\n Utah State (4-5, 3-2 Pac-12) has won three of its last four games while Fresno State (5-4, 2-3) has lost three of four. <\/p>\n Hillstead completed 9 of 14 passes without an interception and ran for 56 yards on 12 carries. Vailahi carried 10 times for 39 yards rushing. Each of their scores came from short yardage. <\/p>\n Mandal was 22-of-39 passing for 262 yards. Josiah Freeman<\/a> had eight receptions for 114 yards for the Bulldogs, who were held to just 16 yards rushing. <\/p>\n Manaki Watanabe’s<\/a> 32-yard field goal for the Bulldogs ended a long drive midway through the third quarter that made it 14-3. Kian Afrookhteh’s<\/a> 43-yard field goal stretched the Aggies’ lead to 17-3 with 4:21 left to play. <\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n Fresno State: At Texas State on Saturday. <\/p>\n Utah State: At San Diego State on Saturday. <\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n Sign up for Top 25 poll alerts here, visit the Top 25 here and see AP\u2019s full college football coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press LOGAN, Utah (AP) \u2014 Sesi Vailahi and McCae Hillstead had touchdown runs in the first quarter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1321,81064,112,114,113,3257,170214,13731,199801,182239,199798,199805,9250],"class_list":["post-522646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-college-football","tag-event_recap","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-state-bulldogs","tag-jayden-mandal","tag-josiah-freeman","tag-kian-afrookhteh","tag-manaki-watanabe","tag-mccae-hillstead","tag-sesi-vailahi","tag-utah-state-aggies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522646","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=522646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}