Southern offense stepping up

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana  --  The Southern football team convened on the practice fields Saturday morning to conduct its final intrasquad scrimmage — and to hopefully put a stamp on what has been a long, grueling and hot preseason camp.

In the time between last week’s scrimmage and Saturday, the offense displayed signs of significant progress in moving the ball effectively against the first-team defense.

Unofficially, quarterback Dray Joseph completed 19 of 28 passes for 157 yards to go along with an interception and a touchdown.

Sophomore wide receiver Willie Quinn continued to shine in camp. He led the receiving corps with four catches for 47 yards — including a 35-yard touchdown play, on which he ran a 5-yard hitch route, caught the ball, made two defenders miss and scampered down the sideline for the score.

“That’s the type of things we are going to need out of Willie,” Joseph said. “We need for him to be explosive.”

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