Scrimmage III: Don’t doubt the defense

The first series of the scrimmage reaffirmed everything you need to know about the Bruin defense.

Against the no. 1 Bruin offense, the defense gave up a five-yard completion on first down, a three-yard run on second down and on third down, sacked Ben Olson for a loss of three. Series over.

In fact, the Bruin defenses held the Bruin offenses to a third-down conversion percentage of 24 with just six conversions in 25 attempts!

More highlights:

>> The defensive line scored seven sacks for a total of 38 yards: three each against Ben Olson and Patrick Cowan and once against Chris Forcier, and the defense as a whole had nine tackles for loss.

>> The Bosworth brothers – Kyle and Korey – came alive during the scrimmage. Korey had four tackles, a sack for a loss of five yards and caught a Craig Sheppard fumble and ran 50 yards for a touchdown. Kyle had three unassisted tackles.

>> The Bruin offense had five fumbles: two by Forcier, one by Cowan, one by Sheppard that was returned for a touchdown and one by receiver Ben Bruneau. The defense recovered four of the five.

Starters: Davis and Dragovic, DE; Brown, Chase Moline and Harwell, DT; R. Carter and Taylor, LB; Verner and T. Brown, CB; Keyes and Horton, S.

Statistics - leading tacklers: Taylor, 7; T. Brown and Hale, 6; Van, 5; Verner, Schmitt and Korey Bosworth, 4; Kyle Bosworth, Ayers, Edwards, Blake, Whittington, Ware and Lockett, 3.

Statistics - sacks: Davis, Hale, Taylor, Ayers, Edwards, Blake and Korey Bosworth all had one sack.

Verner blocked a field goal. Among the defenders, only reserve linebacker Luc Barbosa did not scrimmage.

Comments

[BruinCore]

I thought it was Verner who blocked the field goal.

Do you know how Jerzy Siewierski's relative turned out?? He was real ill there, stopped breathing and had to be revitalized with electric shock right after the scrimmage. He was breathing again when they put him in the ambulance. Do you have any update?

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[Rich Perelman]

Thanks for sharp eyes; Verner did block the kick and this has been corrected. I can't read my own worksheets anymore! As of 6 p.m., we had no further medical update.