MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- The Alabama State University football team held its first spring scrimmage in forty-five minutes and 60 plays at the ASU football practice field, Saturday morning.The offense was able to move the ball quickly down the field, making big plays where they could, scoring on three of the 60 plays that was ran. The first of three touchdowns was on a Malcolm Cyrus run down the sideline. The defense took a stance, allowing the next touchdown to come 24 plays later on another run this time by junior Andre Kincey. The Hornets offense would see its last touchdown a few possessions later, when red-shirt freshman quarterback Sir Jackson hit Ephriam "EJ" Henderson for a one yard touch.
Those three plays accounted for 87 yards of the 286 offensive yards gained as the Hornets defense had 19 defensive stops, to include four sacks and a fumble recovery.
"Today's goal was to get 60 plays," said head coach Reggie Barlow. "We wanted to get our work in and give the guys an opportunity to compete, there were some positives that came from the scrimmage today, we wanted to create big plays and Cyrus did that for us today. Although, I would have liked to see the team create more positive runs, we weren't very effective in the run game. There were also some inadequate throws and those are the things that we need to get cleaned up its spring ball, but we will look to improve in those areas as much as we can now."
"Our defense came out with great energy and embraced what we were trying to do, you can tell that they were excited to be out here". "They came out here with the right mind frame, we will go back and watch and critique the film and see where we can get better. There are still some things that we need to get cleaned up and we will go from there."
All three quarterbacks played with the return of Arsenio Favors leading the way hitting seven of his 12 passes for 58 yards. Daniel Duhart hit seven of his eight pass attempts for 43 yards, and Jackson was four of six for 24 yards and a touchdown.
Cyrus led the run game for the offense as he totaled 91 yards and one touchdown on four carries, while Jahaad Coleman had nine carries for 36 yards. Kincey totaled 35 yards and one touchdown carrying the ball six times and had one reception for 11.
DeMario Bell led the receivers with 50 yards for a scrimmage high of three receptions. Earl Lucas had two catches for 22 yards and Ka'Ra Stewart had 10 yards on two receptions.
Defensively the Hornets were led by a host of players, but Edward Mosley had the most impact with three sacks and four tackles. Nathaniel Black, James Graves, II and red-shirt freshman Amin Worthy had four tackles apiece. Worthy had one sack to add to his numbers. Senior Chris Terry had three stops and a quarterback sack, while Deontrelle Silmon and Ed Murray added three stops apiece.
"We had some guys who did well right off the bat like Mosley, who had two or three sacks created some great pressure for us and I think he did a really good job. Defensively we wanted to be combative and that's what they did."
ASU will take Sunday and Monday off and will be back on the practice field Tuesday, April 18th at 11 a.m.
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