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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