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From UCLA:
Brett Hundley 12-20-185 yds-1 td 1 int
Richard Brehaut 12-16-249 yds-4 td 0 int
Kevin Prince 8-11-101 yds 2 td 0 int
Rushing –
Johnathan Franklin 8 – 28 yds
Malcolm Jones 8-38 yds 1 td
Jordon James 6-18 yds
Steven Manfro 2-20
Receiving –
Jerry Johnson 5-125 2 td
Tyler Scott 3-113 2 td
Steven Manfro 7-105
Darius Bell 5-56 1 td
Devin Lucien 3-48 1 td
Shaq Evans 4-46
Scoring –
Brett Hundley 41 yd pass to Tyler Scott
Malcolm Jones 1 yd run
Richard Brehaut 20-yd pass to Darius Bell
Kevin Prince 15-yd pass to Logan Sweet
Richard Brehaut 63-yd pass to Tyler Scott
Richard Brehaut 69-yard pass to Jerry Johnson
Brett Hundley 18-yd run
Richard Brehaut 9-yd pass to Jerry Johnson
Kevin Prince 9-yd pass to Devin Lucien
Sacks – Datone Jones – 2 , Donovan Carter
* Well, it most certainly looked like a different offense today at the Rose Bowl. From the get-go, the offense took it to the admittedly thin defense, striking deep on a number of throws.
* The quarterbacks were, for the most part, good to very good on Saturday. Richard Brehaut had four pretty touchdown passes and Brett Hundley had a nice deep touchdown pass and a long run. Kevin Prince was also good, adding a nice touchdown throw, but Brehaut and Hundley kind of stole the day.
* Perhaps the biggest actual “news” out of the day was the revelation that Brehaut would be remaining with the football team and forgoing the rest of the baseball season. It’s a big move for him, as he’s going all in on football.
* Have to be impressed by Jerry Johnson and the rest of the receiver corps. Johnson had a number of fantastic plays, Devin Lucien made a couple nice grabs, and Noel Mazzone specifically lauded Shaq Evans after the scrimmage.
* Walk-on Tyler Scott, though, had the best day of all. Scott had two beautiful touchdown catches and a third that was called back because of off-setting penalties.
* Steven Manfro. Not much to say about him other than he’s just kind of an unbelievable story. Had an 80-yard kickoff return today – but a blown backflip that was pretty hilarious – and a number of silky catches and runs.
* The defensive line was a bit Jekyl and Hyde, alternating great push with bad push back. Datone Jones and Cassius Marsh looked stout, and Donovan Carter had a good sack, but overall, not what you’d want up front.
* I got a ton of videos that I’ll post over the next several days.
It started with a blown chest bump and it ended with a quick-pick six, but UCLA’s football spring game was all offense.
There was even a backflip. Sort of.
The Bruins exploded for several long touchdowns – the majority on touchdown throws from redshirt senior quarterback Richard Brehaut and redshirt freshman Brett Hundley – during an offensive display in front of an estimated crowd of 13,000 at the Rose Bowl on Saturday afternoon.
With several defensive players in the two-deep not even dressed out – including linebackers Jordan Zumwalt and Eric Kendricks – the offense exploited the inexperience, particularly shining early in the afternoon.
Embroiled in a competition that will stretch into midway through fall camp, the quarterbacks performed well, Brehaut throwing four touchdown passes, including a pair to senior wide receiver Jerry Johnson. Hundley, meanwhile, got the first reps and got the offense off to a quick start, hitting walk-on wide receiver Tyler Scott for a 41-yard touchdown on the day’s first drive, one of Scott’s three scores on the day.
Hundley sprinted to the end zone to celebrate with his offensive teammates and a three-way chest bump with Scott and offensive lineman Kody Innes ended with the trio on the ground, laughing.
“(Offensive coordinator Noel) Mazzone told us, ‘Just have fun today,’ and that’s what we did today,” Hundley said. “We tried to light up the scoreboard. It was a fun offense. A fun day.”
Hundley added a 27-yard touchdown run and Kevin Prince added a pair of touchdown passes as well in the quarterbacks’ lost opportunity to shine before an offseason that will go a long way toward determining who gets the first snaps against Rice on Aug. 30 in the season opener.
“I just got done telling them – now is the time to start working harder,” offensive coordinator Noel Mazzone said. “To me, it’s what they do between now and August 1 that’s going to play a big decision in what happens next season.”
The offense didn’t have all the fun on Saturday, though.
Defensive end Datone Jones had two sacks and was a constant presence in the backfield and UCLA defense picked up four interceptions, including an interception-return-for-touchdown by senior cornerback Sheldon Price that ended the action.
The coaching staff was smiling widest about coming out of the afternoon without losing any more players to injury as the team was hit particularly hard by the injury bug this spring.
“Any time you’re going 11-on-11 with your own team, you’re taking a risk,” head coach Jim Mora said. “You’re doubling your risk any time you scrimmage because you’ve got 22 of your own players. But the trade off for us in this point in the development of this team is important.”
Perhaps the highlight of the afternoon, though, was the 80-yard kickoff return for touchdown by Valencia product Steven Manfro, who has excelled this spring.
The lowlight? His botched backflip immediately following the play.
“It was a long run, so…,” Manfro said, sheepishly. “I could do it after a short run … but I had no jumps.”