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September 1, 2008

Weekend wrap -- Murray shines, O'Brien rebounds

Avery Murray will suit up for the Terps as a linebacker, but the 6-foot, 219-pounder stood out Friday night on offense.

Murray had two carries for two long touchdown runs in a 42-6 win for his West Florence (S.C.) squad.

Murray broke a scoreless tie with an 80-yard touchdown run with 7:18 left in the first half. The score opened the floodgates for the Knights, who went up 17-0 at the half and led 27-6 after three quarters.

Murray, Terance Gamble and Leon Richardson each had touchdown runs of 50 yards or more. Murray led the team with 107 yards and two scores while Gamble had 97 yards and a touchdown.

• UM quarterback commitment Danny O’Brien rebounded from his team’s opening-week loss by leading East Forsyth (N.C.) to a 37-16 win over Reynolds.

O’Brien threw for one touchdown and rushed for one score. East Forsyth coach Todd Willert called for O’Brien -- who rushed for 120 yards on 20 carries -- to do most of his damage on the ground.

And Willert obliged, calling O'Brien's number for 20 carries, and for once, the strong-armed quarterback did more with his legs than his arm. O'Brien smiled and said his rushing total was "easily" a career high.

"Coach decided I would have to run more this game because last year they didn't key on me running the ball," O'Brien said. "I said whatever I had to do to win the game, whatever it took, and so that's what I did.

C.J. Brown threw for more than 300 yards, rushed for one touchdown and threw for another, rallying his Seneca Valley (Pa.) team from a 14-point deficit. But Norwin pulled ahead on a late field goal, and Brown’s comeback attempt fell just short.

With his team clinging to a late three-point lead, Norwin coach Dan Conwell's risky fourth-down play call gave Seneca Valley the ball at his team's 29-yard line. But the Norwin defense stopped Brown, a Maryland recruit, who had completed 21 passes and controlled the play for most of the second half.

• Terps linebacker recruit Bradley Johnson led the Dinwiddie (Va.) rushing attack in a 14-10 loss to Clover Hill.

Bradley Johnson led the Generals with nine carries for 66 yards.

• Running back D.J. Adams helped Norcross (Ga.) to a 24-17 win over South Gwinnett. Adams also reaffirmed to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that his only visit this fall will be to College Park.

Norcross tailback D.J. Adams has five opportunities to take official visits this fall, but he’ll only need one. The Maryland commitment plans on visiting the Terrapins and only the Terrapins sometime during the season.

Posted by Matt Bracken at 10:20 AM | | Comments (3)
        

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D. J. Adams had 112 yards on 24 carries and 2 TDs

Great job as always .... nice to get news without all the spin!

Matt- Does it crack you up when UMD is supposed to be a major college program. You hear about national championships (I'm talking football btw). Here is what I mean.
The terps have one of the top WR in the Nation. Some are projecting him in the top 8 for the 09 draft. You are playing a 1-AA school in your own stadium. The HB runs for nearly 200 yards (that should seriously open up the air game), and your QB could only manage 115 yards passing no TD's and 2 INTs. How can they defend that? I mean what is going on down at CP? I can not wait for CJ Brown next year so we actually have a pass first QB.

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About Matt Bracken

Matt Bracken was a lightly recruited football and tennis prospect out of East Lansing (Mich.) High School in 2001, but spurned all (nonexistent) scholarship offers to attend the University of Michigan. Matt graduated from UM in 2005, earned a master's degree in new media journalism from Northwestern University in 2006, and spent the first 11 months of his career as an online producer / videographer / blogger at the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson. He has worked at The Baltimore Sun since July 2007, where he currently serves as an assistant sports editor / producer / recruiting writer.

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