ECU Conducts Second Fall Scrimmage
August 21, 2010 | Football
Aug. 21, 2010
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GREENVILLE, N.C. - Junior quarterback Dominique Davis tossed a pair of touchdown passes and redshirt freshman inside receiver Torrance Hunt had two scoring receptions during East Carolina's second, and final, scrimmage of preseason camp Saturday afternoon at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.
ECU passers combined to go 32-of-50 for 541 yards and seven touchdowns while senior Giavanni Ruffin broke off a 40-yard run on the way to a game-high 75-yard rushing performance. On the other side of the ball, sophomore defensive back Jacobi Jenkins had a 31-yard interception return.
The controlled contest featured 50 passes, 29 rushes and 664 yards of total offense. First-year head coach Ruffin McNeill and his staff treated the scrimmage as a regular-season game rehearsal with the Pirates going through their full warm-up and pregame preparations.
"It was very competitive," McNeill said. "I thought the offense did some good things today. Our first-team defense did a really good job as well. Making routine plays was one of the goals of the scrimmage."
Davis, Brad Wornick and Rio Johnson split the majority of the repetitions at quarterback, combining to account for 29 of the 32 completions. True freshman Shane Carden drove the offense down the field for a TD in his lone series, cashing in on a 24-yard strike to Mike Price.
"I saw improvement," McNeill said. "We wanted to see better execution on offense, defense, special teams and in making substitutions. I saw routine runs turn into big runs and routine catches turn into big catches."
Davis guided the offense to scores on three of his six series while Johnson hooked up with Hunt on a pair of touchdown passes from 23 and 38 yards. Wornick accounted for six first downs and threw a 22-yard scoring pass to inside receiver Michael Bowman, who set the tone for the scrimmage on the third play when he hauled in a 53-yarder from Davis.
Hunt finished with a team-best 96 yards for a 16-member receiving corps that averaged 16.9 yards per catch.
"I think we are right where we want to be," McNeill added. "We have two weeks left to prepare and will start a mock game week Monday in preparation for Tulsa."
Ben Ryan and Michael Barbour alternated kicking duties and combined to go seven-for-seven on extra-point attempts. Ryan was just short from 50 yards out on the game's only field goal attempt.
Defensively, for the second-straight week, Melvin Patterson was the leader with six tackles, including a five-yard sack. Linebackers Wes Pittman, Dustin Lineback, Matt Thompson and Kyle Tudor each made four stops during the contest with Pittman and Lineback picking up a sack. Overall, the unit registered six sacks and three pass breakups to go along with Jenkins' interception.
The Pirates will take Sunday off before returning to the Cliff Moore Practice Complex Monday for their final day of preseason camp.
