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New Zealand 576 for 6 dec (Taylor 173*, Watling 107, Latham 105) beat Zimbabwe 164 (Tiripano 49*, Wagner 6-41) and 295 (Williams 119, Ervine 50, Boult 4-52) by an innings and 117 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball detailsSean Williams maiden Test century could not prevent Zimbabwe from crashing to defeat in the first match against New Zealand but it helped cushion the heavy innings loss. Williams, who took over after Craig Ervine reached his first fifty in the format, put on 118 for the seventh wicket with captain Graeme Cremer and the pair spent 33.2 overs together to frustrate New Zealand. Williams went on to hold the visitors at bay until 25 minutes before the tea break but once he was dismissed, Zimbabwe could not prevent the inevitable.New Zealands attack were kept on the field for longer than they may have expected, after they had Zimbabwe reeling at 17 for 4 and plucked a fifth scalp on the third evening. But the middle and lower order applied themselves well against swing from Tim Southee and Trent Boult, a short-ball barrage from Neil Wagner and spin from Ish Sodhi and Michael Santner, and took their innings deep to show improvement after their first-innings implosion.Zimbabwe began the final day with some momentum after Ervine resumed from an overnight score of 49. He reached his fifty off the second ball of the day but then played inside the line of a delivery from Boult and was given out caught behind by debutant umpire Michael Gough. Replays showed Ervine had not hit the ball and the noise was likely bat-pad.He was replaced by Williams, who got a rough decision in the first innings when he was caught off the helmet. Now battling flu, Williams, who wasnt on the field for New Zealands innings, put his illness aside to play an authoritative knock, the most assured of his three-Test career.He began with a quartet of crisp drives off Southee and one off Boult, whose pace stayed in the upper 120s throughout the match. Kane Williamson tried to clog up his scoring area with two slips, two gullies, two short covers and a backward point but Williams was wise to the trick and responded with shots in the vacant leg side.With Southee and Boult unable to dislodge Williams, Williamson turned to first-innings hero Neil Wagner and gave him a license to attack. Wagner hit Cremer on the thigh pad, the left shoulder and eventually the left fore-arm, which Cremer broke earlier this year. The Zimbabwe captain, as he did with ball in hand, fought through it all.While Cremer content to hold his end, Williams profited off the short ball and brought out an audacious range of strokes, including a cheeky ramp off Wagner and sweetly timed sweeps. He used his feet, scored quickly, with his fifty coming off 63 balls, and found the boundary often - 11 times in the fifty and 21 in his entire innings.Williams took his partnership with Cremer to 100 runs with a straight dive and put himself into the nineties with a cut. His captain was not around to usher him to the century. Cremer was given out lbw by umpire Paul Reiffel to a Sodhi legbreak that hit him above the pad. The height made the decision questionable but Cremer had to go.Instead, Williams fellow sick-bed mate Regis Chakabva, whose tonsillitis meant he could not field, was at the other end when he outside edged a wrong un to third man to bring up the fastest hundred by a Zimbabwean in Tests. Williams faced just 106 balls, one less than Neil Johnson.Although clearly affected by exertion after his illness, Williams did not let the landmark distract him from keeping Zimbabwe fighting for as long as possible. He watched as Chakabva was bowled around the legs by Tim Southee with the old ball, but then holed out to deep mid-wicket off Santner to end a courageous knock. Donald Tiripano was left to deal with the last rites, which came when he nicked off, with Zimbabwe five runs short of 300 Air Max 95 Clearance Canada . They reached the 100-point plateau for the fourth time in five games, bested the visiting Trail Blazers by 34 in the paint and scored 19 of the final 25 points in regulation. Air Max 95 Sale Canada . On Saturday night, the normally free throw-challenged centre did just that. 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Having two big pieces back is going to be a key for us moving forward for years to come," said Knighthawks head coach Mike Hasen. West Virginia was in the Big East and Dana Holgorsen was a first-year head coach the last time the Mountaineers won 10 games in a season.Five years into its membership in the Big 12, No. 14 West Virginia has a chance to do it again.Not many outside the teams inner circle thought there was a chance that could happen.Not with a defense that returned only a few starters from a year ago. And certainly not as one running back after another went down with midseason injuries, only to have others step in and thrive.The Mountaineers (9-2, 6-2) have finally moved into the leagues upper tier. And while turnover-riddled losses to Oklahoma State and Oklahoma took it out of the title chase, West Virginia can reach win No. 10 in the regular-season finale Saturday at home against Baylor (6-5, 3-5).Holgorsen, for one, knows what 10 wins could mean for a program that isnt considered to be in the forefront of the national title picture every year and was picked to finish seventh in the league this season.Its big. We understand that, Holgorsen said. Great for the program. It doesnt happen very often. That gives us some motivation moving forward to play this game to the best of our ability.It helps that West Virginias success came during a down year in the Big 12 with recent powers Baylor and TCU now in the middle of the pack and Texas toward the bottom. But that doesnt discount the strides the Mountaineers have made in a season in which Holgorsens job security has been under scrutiny.Part of that winning formula has been not buying into what outsiders say about the program.With the two losses, after each loss not panicking and ccontinuing to work and continue to get better throughout the season, (we) continue to want to prove people wrong, linebacker Justin Ardnt said.ddddddddddddVU has recorded 10 wins only eight times in program history. Three of those came under Rich Rodriguez from 2005-2007.Holgorsen did it in 2011 in West Virginias final season in the Big East behind his version of the Air Raid offense.But that wasnt a springboard for success when West Virginia moved up to the Big 12 the following year. Building depth is something Holgorsen learned quickly was needed in the new league. His defenses were forced to use freshmen in starting roles and were frequently picked apart.We took our lumps earlier in Big 12 play and we knew it was going to take some time to be able to get our depth the right way, to be able to build the roster the right way, he said. Weve been heading in that direction for the last three years.Saturdays game will mark the final home one for 21 seniors.Arndt remembers arriving at WVU as a walk-on and the teams struggles of his first few seasons, including a 4-8 mark as a redshirt freshman in 2013. Now hes a first-year starter and leads the team with 71 tackles.I didnt think wed make it this far at all -- definitely accomplished a lot and exceeded expectations, Arndt said. You look at what people thought we were going to be and the expectations, it really just puts in reality how far weve come.---More AP college football: www.collegefootball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25 ' ' '