Summary of Hokies Final Tune Up Prior to Maroon-White Game

Here's the recap from Hokie Sports.com, and my thoughts follow after.

Tech quarterback Logan Thomas continued his good spring, throwing for 113 yards and two touchdowns in a football scrimmage on Wednesday night at Lane Stadium.

As was the case last Friday night, the scrimmage was broken into two parts. In the first part, the team worked on special situations – mostly red-zone stuff. The second part consisted of one 12-minute quarter.

Thomas completed 11 of 17 and fired touchdown passes of 12 yards to Danny Coale and 8 yards to Marcus Davis. Davis led all receivers with four catches for 21 yards, while Coale caught three for a scrimmage-high 40 yards. Coale also scored on an 8-yard run

Josh Oglesby led all rushers with 39 yards and scored two touchdowns, reaching the end zone on runs of 6 yards and 1 yard. James Hopper also scored on a 1-yard run. Projected starter David Wilson did not carry the ball in the scrimmage.

The Hokies got an impressive outing from freshman quarterback Mark Leal, who led the offense on a march against the first-team defense on the final drive of the game. With two seconds left, he threw a 17-yard touchdown pass to E.L. Smiling, who made a difficult grab in the back corner of the end zone.

Leal completed 6 of 8 for the game for 73 yards. Ju-Ju Clayton completed 2 of 7 for yards, with an interception. Tariq Edwards snared a Clayton pass and probably would have hauled it back for a touchdown except that the coaches called the play dead not long after he intercepted it.

Telvion Clark paced all defenders with five tackles, including a sack. Derrick Hopkins and James Gayle added sacks as well.

In the kicking game, Cody Journell made a 33-yarder, but missed from 30. Justin Myer missed from 50 yards out and had a 55-yarder blocked by J.R. Collins. Ethan Keyserling averaged 38.7 yards per punt on three punts, and Coale average nearly 40 on two punts.

Foster's emotional response to every play of Leal's scrimmage ending scoring drive against the first-team defense must have been a spectacle to watch--goatee rub, grass pull, grimace, snarl, $*@&!, hat throw, death stare, #@!!$%^&. It's great that Leal is having a little bit of success with Ricardo Young injured and Ju-Ju becoming more of a non-factor. I don't think any of the three will truly separate to serve as Thomas' backup, but it's nice to have options.

Coale. Must. Become. Our. Punter. Not only will it add to his legacy and mystique, open up playing time for Marcus Davis, but we might, and hold onto your pants now, run a fake punt this year.

The Logan Thomas Hypo-O-Meter is already out of date and will be amended to after the Maroon-White Game.

I don't know what to think about Josh O's numbers. If he grinded out those yards on 9 or less carries, then I'm enthused. If he plodded to them, then I am concerned. He's going to need to be both a tough, and productive runner. Two yards and a pop isn't going to lossen up the box any.

Every practice a new linebacker outdoes the rest of the bunch. I'm glad the competition there is what we all expected it to be.