ATLANTA, Georgia -- The new motto for the Clark Atlanta football team is “Trust. Believe. Succeed.”
On Saturday night at rival Morehouse College, the Panthers trusted in their wing-T offense, which had mustered only 21 points in the first three games of the season — all losses. They believed they could overcome three turnovers, two of which led directly to 10 Tigers points. And Clark Atlanta (1-3, 1-2) succeeded in breaking their four-game losing streak to Morehouse with a 21-17 win at a packed B.T. Harvey Stadium.
Clark Atlanta first-year coach Kevin Weston, a longtime defensive coordinator at Tusculum, brought the new motto with him, along with the wing-T. In the Panthers’ first three games of the season the offense hadn’t produced much. But things came together Saturday night, as the Panthers shredded the Morehouse defense for 445 yards, 288 on the ground. Freshman slotback Montavious Taylor (Carver-Atlanta) led the charge with 166 yards on 33 carries, including touchdown runs of 35 and 9 yards, while South Florida transfer Bradley Battles, a graduate student, added 95 yards on 25 carries, and a 5-yard touchdown run.
Meanwhile, the Clark Atlanta passing game, which had been nearly nonexistent, came alive as well, as freshman quarterback Trenton Earl (Stockbridge) completed 12 of 16 passes for 157 yards. Clark Atlanta held the Maroon Tigers’ high-octane spread offense, which had averaged 30 points during Morehouse’s two-game winning streak, to only 177 yards.
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