Spring Game at a distance--updated with video

Well, the results are in. Our team battled to a 9-9 tie in the lid-lifter at People's Park. There shouldn't be ties in baseball, except in Communist China and parts of rural Quebec. But we had one. Rules are rules.

Anyhoo, catching up on the news from the Spring Game. Coach Clawson was pitting the offense against the defense, which I think it smart, because it is a natural rivalry that already exists everyday around a football team. There was a complicated scoring system.

You'd expect the offense to win based on who is back, and they did. The defense did score the first 15 points, but then the offense scored 66-32 from then on and pick up the win.

The real thing you look for here is little clues. The results are hard to gauge, because it is hard to know if the offense was good or the defense bad, vice versa, combination, etc.

So, with that in mind, based on reports, here are some clues.

• Ray Hutson (WR) had four catches and was a big offensive playmaker. This is an important player for us, and he has been lurking as a potentially very productive player. With Partridge graduating, having Hutson be able to book end Freddie Barnes in our offense (whatever form it takes) will be huge.
• Steven Dunlap had 100 yards as a RB. Don't know what to make of him, you can't even click on his name on the roster on bgsufalcons.com.
• Bullock was productive. Geter less so. As the scheme changes, I have a hunch Bullock will find things more to his liking.
• Sheehan and Beam both had good games, though there were four sacks.
• The offense did take care of the ball, committing only one turnover (A Pankratz INT).
• We had a lot fewer QB runs then we saw in the past.
• Derek Brighton also had a big catch early.

There may have been some defensive players who stood out too, but I don't know who they were.

If you want to check out some pretty good coverage, the BG News was all over it. For example, here are the starters....
Offense
*Tyler Sheehan
*Willie Geter
*Calvin Wiley
*Freddie Barnes
*Tyrone Pronty
*Jimmy Scheidler
*Tyler Donahue
*Scott Albert
*Ben Bojicic
*Brady Minturn
*Shane Steffy

Defense
*Angelo Magnone
*Nick Torresso
*Kevin Alvarado
*Darius Smith
*Cody Basler
*James Schneider
*Roger Williams
*Marquese Quiles
*P.J. Mahone
*Jerett Sanderson

Here are some video highlights courtesy of the BG News



The BG News also has blog posts for:

The 1st quarter
The 2nd quarter
Halftime
The 3rd quarter
The 4th quarter
Final