Saturday, December 1, 2012

Turner’s Time? Vikings may be without QB Jones

COLUMBUS, Georgia  --  While today’s Pioneer Bowl in Columbus, Ga. will bring down the curtain on the Elizabeth City State football season, it may also be raising one earlier than expected on the career of Casey Turner as the team’s starting quarterback.

Turner, a junior who lost an intense competition for the starting position to senior Namon Jones back in August and is the likely starter next year, may have to be the No. 1 guy today against Tuskegee (10-1).

“Namon has a bruised shoulder from the CIAA championship game and has not practiced much,” ECSU coach Waverly Tillar said. “We have Casey Turner and (third-strnger) Tyrell Houghton ready to go if he can’t play.”

While losing a quarterback before a postseason game might be a disaster for some teams, Tillar believes the Vikings (7-4), who are coming off a 34-19 loss to Winston-Salem State in the CIAA title game, will be just fine.

At the end of the duel between Jones, who backed up Creven Powell the previous two seasons, and Turner, a transfer who began his career at UConn, Tillar said that there was little difference between the two.
 

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