McNeese holds second scrimmage of spring workouts :: All-American Bryan Smith has three quarterback sacks and causes a fumble

March 30, 2007

The defense took the upper hand early but the offense came back to make some plays as McNeese State completed its third week of spring football drills here Friday afternoon with its second scrimmage.

"Early on, the defense did a good job of creating some turnovers,"said head coach Matt Viator. "They ran to the ball and made some things happen. Later on I thought that the offense did a good job of moving the football."

The Cowboys will conclude their spring workouts next week and have scheduled a spring game for Thursday, April 5 at Cowboy Stadium.

Once again all-American end Bryan Smith led the defense. He had three sacks during the workout while Jonathan Walker, David Turnage and Jamelle Juneau all intercepted passes.

The offense scored seven touchdowns, four on runs and three in the air.

Place kicker Blake Bercegeay also booted field goals of 18 and 54 yards.

Tailback Toddrick Pendland led the running backs with 101 yards on 11 carries. He had the long run of the workout, a 66 yarder that set up a one yard td run by Jordy Johnson.

Eldrick Jones had 59 yards rushing along with a one yard td rush and Neely Hubbard ran for 58 yards.

The other rushing touchdowns came from Marquel Beason on a one yard run and from Jamie Leonard on a 10 yard run.

Derrick Fourroux, the rookie of the year in the Southland Conference last season, completed 11 of 17 passes for 150 yards and had a touchdown toss of 16 yards to Steven Whitehead.

Mark Fontenot was eight of 18 for 94 yards while Bart Crader hit on seven of nine tosses for 106 yards and had scoring tosses of 51 yards to Immanuel Friddle and 26 yards to Carlese Franklin.

Quinten Lawrence led all receivers with six catches for 101 yards while Friddle had four receptions for 84 yards and his touchdown.

McNeese scrimmage statistics

(Scoring)

Steven Whitehead, 16 pass from Derrick Fourroux. Blake Bercegeay kick

Blake Bercegeay, 18 yard field goal

Blake Bercegeay, 54 yard field goal

Marquel Beason, 1 run.

Jamie Leonard, 10 run. Bercegeay kick

Immanuel Friddle, 51 pass from Bart Crader. Robert Polanski kick

Elrick Jones, 1 run. Bercegeay kick

Jordy Johnson, 1 run. Polanski kick

Carlese Franklin, 26 pass from Bart Carder. Bercegeay kick