Posted at 2:39 p.m., Saturday, September 13, 2003
No. 4 Southern Cal routs Hawai'i, 61-32
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Matt Leinart threw two touchdown passes and Southern California’s defense held Hawai'i’s Tim Chang in check until late in the game as the fourth-ranked Trojans beat the Warriors 61-32 today.Freshmen tailbacks Reggie Bush and Lendale White each ran for a pair of touchdowns as the Trojans won their 11th consecutive game stretching to last October.
Leinart completed 15 of 21 passes for 200 yards and didn’t play after the third quarter.
The Trojans (3-0) took control against the Warriors (1-1) with four touchdowns in the second quarter — three in the final 4:29 before halftime — for a 31-6 lead.
They went on to open a 52-6 lead in the third quarter.
Chang, who threw for 4,474 yards last year as a sophomore, went 32-of-54 for 306 yards, with two touchdowns. He threw two interceptions in what was his season debut; he sat out Hawai'i’s 40-17 opening win over Appalachian State because of an academic problem.
The win was the Trojans’ fifth in five games against Hawai'i. They’ve outscored the Warriors 234-50 in the series that dates to their 52-0 win in 1930, the last time before Saturday that Hawaii had played in the Coliseum.
USC beat the Warriors 62-7 at Aloha Stadium in 1999, June Jones’ debut as the Hawai'i coach.
The Warriors remain on the road to play UNLV in Las Vegas on Friday.
