As Rock Hill High School wide receiver Jon Key raced toward the dressing rooms end zone at Memorial Stadium on Friday in the Bearcats semifinal football game in the 4A Division I state playoffs against Sumter, Gamecock free safety Travis Fredimon viewed from the far side of the field — with a sense of helplessness.
"To tell you the truth, I thought he was going to score," Fredimon said.
That didn't deter Fredimon though. He remained in dogged pursuit of Key as he made his way across the field. He quickly closed the gap, all the while as Key got closer to the goal line. Fredimon finally got close enough to Key where he could likely make a touchdown-saving tackle. Only he didn't go for the tackle.
Instead of diving for Key's legs, Fredimon wound up his right arm and ripped the ball from his grasp. Cornerback Jason Murray recovered at the SHS 4-yard line, as Sumter preserved a 29-14 lead in what would end up being a 35-14 victory.
"As I kept running, I thought I could catch him," Fredimon said. "He didn't have the ball tucked away yet. I just tried to time it right and hit it, and it was out."
The play capped off a huge night on both sides of the football for the senior. Along with the strip, Fredimon intercepted two passes and caught four passes for 114 yards as a wide receiver.
Not bad for a player who is really just starting to get into the swing of things after missing five games due to a pair of ankle injuries and has been learning to play safety under fire as well. His play, however, is one of the main reasons the Gamecocks will be taking on Byrnes for the state championship on Saturday at 3 p.m. at Clemson's Memorial Stadium.
Fredimon injured one ankle in Sumter's 19-14 loss to Spartanburg in the third game of the season. He injured the other ankle the following week in a 45-0 win against White Knoll. He missed the next five games, a time in which Sumter head coach Paul Sorrells had hoped to teach him the ropes about playing safety. Fredimon was playing safety for the first time because safety Cardell Scarborough couldn't play defensively because of a dislocated shoulder.
When he was healthy enough to play, Fredimon was thrown right into the fire.
"Once he got back, it was crunch time, so he was having to learn at that time," said Sorrells, whose team takes a 12-2 record into Saturday's game against 13-1 Byrnes. "If Cardell had remained (healthy enough to play defense), we wouldn't have made the move."
COLUMBIA — The scene at Monday's press conference for the 4A Division I state championship football game was emblematic of the contrast between the two teams that will meet for the title on Saturday at 3 p.m. at Clemson's Memorial Stadium.
Filling up three-quarters of the seats at the head table at the South Carolina High School League office was the contingent from Byrnes High School — head coach Chris Miller and seven players — all cogs in a machine that has put together five state championships in six years, spanning two head coaches, with lofty national rankings and only four losses along the way.
At the other end of the table was the Sumter contingent: head coach Paul Sorrells, linebacker Quinn McClendon and running back Roderick McDowell. Three unassuming gentlemen represented a program with three state titles in eight appearances over the last 40 years, the last in 1990 before this year's seniors were born.
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Sorrells said that while his Gamecocks are definitely the underdogs, he didn't think his players felt overwhelmed.
"I think, definitely, in everybody's eyes we are (underdogs)," he said. "But I don't think our players do, and I don't expect them to. You train your kids, and I'm sure Coach Miller does too, to take every week and work as hard as you can to get ready to play whoever it is you have to play.
"A lot of times, there might be too much made of who you're playing," added Sorrells, whose team improved to 12-2 on the season with a convincing 35-14 win over Rock Hill in the semifinal round last week. "I tell the guys week after week after week, the only thing we worry about is ourselves. We're going to scout the other team and be prepared with a game plan, that goes without saying. But the most important thing is that we execute and do the things that we do, make sure that we stay sharp and crisp and make sure that you execute as flawlessly as possible, protect the football and not make mistakes."
Sorrells said an eventual matchup against the Rebels has been in the back of the Gamecocks' minds all season.
"We're ready for this challenge. We've been talking about it for a long time," Sorrells said. "We set it as our goal and talked about the possibility of playing for a state championship and the very likelihood that it was going to be the Byrnes Rebels that we'd be playing. We didn't wait until Friday to start talking about that. That's something that we've been trying to weave throughout the fabric of our entire season."
Another group of Gamecocks will be playing in Death Valley a week from today — the Sumter High School Gamecocks.
SHS earned a trip to Clemson's Memorial Stadium next Saturday when it defeated Rock Hill 35-14 in a 4A Division I football state playoffs semifinal game on Friday at Sumter's Memorial Stadium. Sumter will face defending DI state champion Byrnes, a 24-13 winner over previously undefeated Dorman, beginning at 3 p.m.
"This is just a blessing," said Gamecock Shrine Bowl running back Roderick McDowell. "This is just a result of all of the hard work that we've put in since the spring. We've not done the job that we want to do though. We want to win state."
If McDowell and wide receiver/defensive back Travis Fredimon have games like they did against the Bearcats, SHS might have a good shot at doing it. McDowell rushed for 191 yards and one touchdown on 17 carries and caught two passes for 53 yards and another score.
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Fredimon had four catches for 114 yards as a receiver and had two interceptions and a huge strip in the third quarter that ended up a Sumter fumble recovery when it appeared Rock Hill was going in for a touchdown with the Gamecocks leading 29-14.
"We didn't play a perfect game, but we made the plays we had to make," said SHS head coach Paul Sorrells, whose team will take a 12-2 record into the title game against 13-1 Byrnes. "We missed some opportunities where we could have put them away, but we were able to come up with the big plays when we had to have them."
Sumter jumped on the Bearcats early, driving 80 yards on seven plays for a touchdown on the game's first possession. The big play was when quarterback Stephen Curtis threw a pass to Fredimon in the flat that he turned into a 54-yard gain to the Bearcats' 8-yard line. After a holding penalty and a fumbled snap pushed Sumter back to the 23, Curtis connected with Fredimon for a 22-yard gain to the 1.
On fourth down and goal, Curtis went into the end zone with 9:13 left in the first quarter. Ross Watson's extra point made it 7-0.
After forcing the Bearcats, who finished the year with an 11-3 record, to punt, McDowell went down the right sideline 63 yards on the first play to make it 13-0 with 6:32 to go. Watson missed the PAT.
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Sumter then missed a couple of opportunities to really grab control of the game. The Gamecocks forced another Rock Hill punt and drove to the Bearcat 15 where they faced third and 1. However, Curtis was dropped for a loss both times. After recovering a fumble of a punt at the Bearcat 44, Sumter was unable to get a first down and had to punt.
On the next play, Rock Hill quarterback Jatavious Stewart ran a keeper up the middle for an 86-yard touchdown run. Brandon Berger's extra point made it 13-7 with 11:30 remaining in the second quarter.
"We've done this before, getting out to a quick lead, having a chance to take control and not doing it," Sorrells said. "I think we just lose our focus, but we might be in another game where we can't allow those things to happen."
Fredimon's first interception of Rock Hill's passing quarterback, Randall Dixon, set Sumter up at the Bearcat 31. An 18-yard run by McDowell and a late hit moved the ball to the 7. Fullback Shawn Armstrong ended up scoring three plays later from two yards out to make it 20-7 with 7:07 left in the first half. (full story)
Although it was only trailing Gaffney High School 21-14 at halftime of its 4A Division I football state playoffs second-round game on Friday, things did not look that promising for Sumter.
The Indians had rolled through the Gamecock defense for 304 yards of total offense, including 216 on the ground behind the running of quarterback DeEdward Burris and fullback Jeremiah Cochran. Burris had 125 yards on 19 carries and Cochran had 94 yards on 10 attempts.
The Sumter defense came out with a different attitude in the second half. The Gamecocks limited Gaffney to just 128 rushing yards and forced it to punt four times as Sumter rallied for a 34-31 overtime victory to advance to the semifinals.
"The coaches just got on us at halftime and told us it was time for us to step up," said SHS linebacker James Sanders, who made his presence felt on several occasions. "It was time for us to come out and play some football. We knew we had to play hard and make some stops."
Sumter did just that. The Indians had 15 first downs in the first, but the Gamecocks limited them to just five in the second half. In fact, most of Gaffney's second-half rushing yards came on a 53-yard scoring run by the 240-pound Cochran early in the fourth quarter that gave Gaffney a 28-21 advantage.
Burris finished with 196 yards on 33 carries while Cochran had 155 yards on 15 carries. Operating out of the spread, Gaffney gained a lot of its yards with Burris making good ball fakes and running a draw and often scrambling when he couldn't find an open receiver.
While crediting the Gaffney offense, Gamecock head coach Paul Sorrells said he thought his defense was overpursuing in the early going.
"I think the defense was really fired up in the first half and was trying to get after it and Gaffney took advantage of it," said Sorrells, whose team improved to 11-2 on the season. "It wasn't a lack of effort. We were pursuing the ball hard and they would catch us with that. We just had to settle down on defense."
Gaffney head coach Phil Strickland said Sumter's main adjustment at halftime was to focus on taking away the run.
More than one football coach has been known to tell his players "to leave everything on the field," to know there was nothing else you could give. For Sumter High School head coach Paul Sorrells, he wanted to make sure that he had no regrets when he walked off the Memorial Stadium field following the Gamecocks' game against Gaffney on Friday in the second round of the 4A Division I state playoffs.
Sorrells saw SHS convert a first down on fourth and eight yards to go from its 28-yard line with just over three minutes left in what would eventually be a game-tying drive, and he went for the touchdown on fourth and inches in the first overtime with his team trailing 31-28. Quarterback Stephen Curtis made the move pay off as he went in for the score and a 34-31 victory that vaulted Sumter into the state semifinals.
The Gamecocks will be at home next week after Rock Hill upset Irmo 26-3. Sixth-seeded Sumter will play host to No.7 seed Rock Hill on Friday at 7:30 p.m. with a berth in the state championship game at Clemson the following week on the line.
"We looked at all of our options, but we just felt like those are the things we had to do," said Sorrells, who led Sumter High to its first victory ever over Gaffney in 10 tries. "It might have been a gamble, but I didn't want to wake up the next morning and regret not giving us a chance to win."
Things looked grim for SHS when it faced fourth and eight from its 28, trailing 28-21. Even though there were over three minutes left and Sumter had two timeouts remaining, Sorrells elected to go for it. Curtis connected with wide receiver Travis Fredimon for an 11-yard gain to keep the drive alive.
"I knew we were going to go for it there," said Curtis, who had not had an effective game throwing the ball up until the final drive. "I felt like I was going to get hit, so I stepped up, made the throw and my receiver went and got it."
Curtis followed with a screen pass to running back Roderick McDowell for a 15-yard gain and the drive was on. Sumter used 13 plays to go 79 yards with McDowell going off left tackle on a tough five-yard scoring run with 1:09 left in the fourth quarter. Ross Watson added the pressure-packed extra point to tie the game at 28-28 and force overtime.
Gaffney, which finished its season with a 7-6 record, got the ball first in overtime, in which each team gets the ball at the 10-yard line and has four plays to try and score. On the first play, quarterback DeEdward Burris went in for an apparent touchdown on a keeper. The Indians were called for holding on the one-yard line, however, nullifying the score and pushing the ball back to the 11.
Burris, who carried the ball 33 times for 196 yards, was dropped for a 1-yard loss on the next play and followed with two incompletions. Gaffney had to settle for 29-yard field goal from Josh Harris.
"We really hurt ourselves with some penalties tonight," said Gaffney head coach Phil Strickland, whose team was flagged eight times for 57 yards.
Stephen Curtis, Quinn McClendon and Roderick McDowell all have different memories of Sumter High School's 21-14 loss to Gaffney in the second round of the 4A Division I football state playoffs last season.
Curtis remembers the big-game atmosphere at Memorial Stadium, McClendon remembers the Gamecocks going toe to toe with the defending state champion and McDowell recalls being upset that SHS missed out on too many scoring opportunities.
With the Indians returning to Sumter on Friday for another second-round playoff game, there is one thing the trio can agree on: they want the Gamecocks to come out on the long end of the stick in the 7:30 p.m. contest.
"We would really like to give them some payback," said Curtis, a quarterback who has helped lead the Gamecocks to a 10-2 record. "They've only got three returning starters on defense and we've got over half of our starters back on offense. If our offensive line protects me and Roderick (a Shrine Bowl running back), I think we'll do fine. I think our receivers are a little better than they were last year."
Curtis has completed 109 of 196 passes for 1,779 yards and 22 touchdowns against just eight interceptions. He has completed at least 15 passes to five different players. Danniel Duncan has 25 catches for 437 yards and two TDs, Tyler Smith has 24 catches for 462 yards and seven scores, McDowell has 18 catches for 262 yards and three TDs, Avery Woods has 17 catches for 248 yards and three scores and Travis Fredimon has 15 catches for 277 yards and five TDs.
McDowell, who has rushed for 1,414 yards and 18 touchdowns on 183 carries, believes the Gamecocks have to avoid mistakes like they had against the Indians last season.
"We should have won that game last year," said McDowell. "There were some stupid mistakes we made on offense."
Tickets for Friday's 4A Division I state playoffs high school football game between Gaffney and Sumter at Memorial Stadium will be sold in advance.
Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. game will be sold on both Thursday and Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Sumter High Commons area. Tickets are $6 apiece.
The Sumter High School football coaching staff preached to the Gamecocks all week not to take Boiling Springs, their first-round opponent in the 4A Division I state playoffs on Friday, for granted. The SHS defensive unit apparently didn't get the message prior to the game, but it did after the Bulldogs' first possession of the game.
After Boiling Springs rolled 65 yards in eight play on the game's first possession, Sumter pretty much slammed the door shut the rest of the way. The Bulldogs finished with 143 yards of total offense as the Gamecocks rolled to a 49-13 victory at Memorial Stadium.
The sixth-seeded Gamecocks move to 10-2 on the season and will get an unexpected second-round home game next Friday. Gaffney, the No. 14 seed, went on the road and spanked No. 3 seed Summerville 40-10.
"We talked all week about not taking them for granted after last year (Sumter beat Boiling Springs 51-14 in the first round last seaosn)," said SHS head coach Paul Sorrells. "And I really don't think we were prepared early on. After that first drive though, we played great and we took care of business."
The Bulldogs, the No. 11 seed who finish with an 8-4 record, gave the ball to running back Josh Murph on the first drive and he showed why he had 1,754 yards entering the contest. He broke off a 29-yard run and scored on a 16-yard run on which he broke two tackles. Kyle Tait's extra point made it 7-0 with 9:19 left in the first quarter.
Boiling Springs had three first downs on the opening drive. It didn't get its next one until midway through the third quarter. The Bulldogs ended up having to punt nine times. Murph had 51 yards on opening drive; he finished with 65.
"Coach Sorrells got on us pretty good after that first drive," said Sumter defensive end Marquise Thompson. "We knew we had to step up. We quit playing around and we stopped them."
The Gamecocks tied the game when quarterback Stephen Curtis connected with wide receiver Tyler Smith for a 31-yard touchdown pass with 4:39 left in the first quarter. The SHS defense really came to life, supplying the next touchdown courtesy of Thompson and setting up a one-play, two-yard drive for the next score on a fumble return.
Boiling Springs quarterback Dylan P. Thompson tried to set up a screen pass on third down and 21 from the Bulldogs 11. Thompson read the play perfectly, stayed at home and picked the pass off, returning it six yards for the score. Ross Watson's extra point made it 14-7 with 3:35 left.
"I saw it (the screen developing)," said Thompson. "When he took the five-step drop I knew the screen was coming. We'd talked about that in practice all week.
If Sumter High School head football coach Paul Sorrells had any concerns about his team not bouncing back from a last-play loss to Conway last week for the Region VI-4A title, the Gamecocks quelled them in a resounding way on Friday against Hartsville.
SHS broke open a close game with a 28-point second quarter and rolled to a 62-26 victory over the Red Foxes at Memorial Stadium.
“Our young men really came out and played a great game tonight,” said Sorrells, whose team improved to 9-2 on the season and finished 4-1 in region play. “Last week we didn’t play bad, but we just didn’t play good enough to win (a 31-28 loss). We challenged them all week to step up and make plays. Last week we didn’t do that; tonight we did.”
The Gamecocks, who will play host to a first-round game in the 4A Division I state playoffs next week, did that on many occasions against Hartsville. They had 598 yards of total offense on 58 offensive plays.
Quarterback Stephen Curtis completed 15 of 21 passes for 300 yards and four touchdowns and he also rushed for a touchdown.
“We thought we could throw the football against them,” Sorrells said. “Stephen threw the ball as well tonight as I think I’ve ever seen them. He was making all of the throws and our receivers did a great job making the catches.”
Shrine Bowl running back Roderick McDowell only carried the football five times, but he rushed for 98 yards. He also caught a 19-yard TD pass from Curtis. Cardell Scarborough rushed for 117 yards and two touchdowns.
“We just couldn’t stop Sumter tonight,” said Hartsville head coach Jeff Calabrease, whose team fell to 6-5 on the season and 2-3 in region play. “Sumter did a great job running the ball and their quarterback was spot on.
“I think us beating them the last three years all came boiling out tonight,” he added.
Sumter needed just two plays to get into the end zone on its first possession of the game. Curtis threw a 22-yard completion to wide receiver Avery Woods and a personal foul on the end of the play set SHS up at the Hartsville 33. Curtis then hit wide receiver Tyler Smith for a 33-yard score.
The Sumter High School varsity football team dropped a heartbreaking 31-28 game to Conway last Friday that cost it the Region VI-4A title and a top-four seed in the 4A Division I state playoffs.
That, however, doesn't mean that there will be nothing on the line when the Gamecocks play host to Hartsville today at Memorial Stadium beginning at 7:30 p.m. in their final regular-season game.
A victory would positively assure SHS of a top-eight seed and a home game in the first round of the playoffs.
"A win would certainly help us with our playoff position," said Sumter head coach Paul Sorrells, whose team brings an 8-2 record into the contest.
According to Sumter offensive coordinator Grayson Howell — the points system guru for the Gamecocks — SHS could finish anywhere from sixth to ninth depending on what unfolds in its game and other games. If Sumter wins, though, Howell thinks it will be either sixth or seventh and would likely host either Spartanburg, Mauldin or Boiling Springs in the first round.
Conway’s Logan Heaps kicks 38-yard field goal as time expires to beat Gamecocks
By JOSH HOKE Special To The Item
CONWAY — The Conway Tigers pulled another win from their hat on Friday.
In their familiar position as the underdog, the Tigers limited Sumter’s big plays and made enough of their own. Logan Heaps kicked a 38-yard field goal as time expired, sending Conway to a 31-28 victory and at least a share of the Region VI-AAAA championship at The Backyard.
The Tigers can clinch the title outright with a victory next week over winless Carolina Forest and are likely headed for a high seed in the Class AAAA, Division II playoffs.
Conway (9-1, 4-0 region) found ways once again to manufacture points. After Sumter tied the game on quarterback Stephen Curtis’ quarterback sneak with 1:54 left, Dallas Bellamy returned the kickoff 29 yards and the Tigers did just enough to get into Heaps’ range.
After waiting through two timeouts, Heaps, who was just 1 of 6 on his previous attempts this year, nailed the kick.
“I gotta give our kids a lot of credit,’’ Conway coach Chuck Jordan said. “We got into field goal position and then Heaps drilled it.
“He’s missed a couple. I don’t think people understand how difficult it is to go in there and make that kick, especially after you’ve missed your last two.’’
After a late-hit penalty against Sumter on the kickoff return, the Tigers moved into field goal position with a 14-yard completion from quarterback Ryne Hardwick to 6-foot-3 receiver Trevon Owens on third-and-10 with 24 seconds left.
MYRTLE BEACH — Sumter High School fumbled 10 times.
The Gamecocks were flagged for twice as many penalty yards as Carolina Forest.
And none of that mattered.
The Gamecocks whipped the Panthers 40-0 on Friday night in a considerable rain storm. Sumter moved to 8-1 overall and 3-0 in the region
“It was a torrential downpour and never let up,” said SHS head coach Paul Sorrells, whose team has played four of its last five games in the rain. “We actually let them run the clock in the second half. We got to play everybody.”
CF was hurt by the injury bug and that certainly didn’t help Carolina’s Forest’s chances Friday. Honestly, though, the Panthers, who fell to 0-9 overall and 0-3 in the region were never really in the game.
“We’re playing with back-ups to back-ups,” Hummel said. “We are now to the point where we are, basically, a young (junior varsity) football team… We’re doing the best we can.”
Sumter tailback Roderick McDowell took over from the beginning. Playing virtually a quarter and a half, McDowell racked up 172 rushing yards and three touchdowns on 14 carries.
His three scores nearly became four. He broke off a 57-yard run about midway through the second half, only to have it called back because of a penalty away from the play.
It was about the only thing that could stop the talented senior.
“They didn’t have much of an answer for him (McDowell),” said Sorrells. “He pretty much ran at will, which was good because you couldn’t do much else in that rain.” Carolina Forest’s offense had nowhere near the weapons to compete.
Quarterback Matt Jolly, starting in place of Marlon Horton, had a rough go of it. Horton was suspended one game for what Hummel called conduct detrimental to the team. The suspension came down earlier in the day.
Between the quick switch and the weather, it turned out to not be Jolly’s night.
He completed just two of his first 14 pass attempts. Combined with the Gamecocks’ run defense, and the Panthers accounted for one first down in the first half. By that point, it was 34-0.
The second half wasn’t much different, as the Panthers ran only three plays in the running-clock shortened third quarter.
With school being out Friday at Sumter High School, head football coach Paul Sorrells and standout running back Roderick McDowell found some time to hang out during the day.
In that time, Sorrells sensed his senior might be in for a big game against West Florence. McDowell went on to rack up 273 all-purpose yards and two touchdowns in the Gamecocks’ 42-20 victory at Memorial Stadium.
“He was focused and ready to go,” said Sorrells. “He’s a special young man and a lot of fun. You love to watch him play.”
Two plays on special teams helped turn a 7-6 first-quarter lead into a 28-6 lead in the third quarter.
“A special teams play can sometimes put a team away,” said Sorrells, whose team improved to 7-1 on the season and 2-0 in Region VI-4A. “Both of those plays were big for us. A special teams play mixed in with good offense and good defense just helps you with the steamroll affect.”
McDowell, a Clemson commitment, had 215 all-purpose yards in the first half, much helped by his 97-yard kickoff return for a touchdown in the second quarter. For the game, he ran for 84 yards on nine carries, caught one pass for 48 yards and returned two kickoffs for 137.
Sumter drove down the field on its first possession against a Knights defense that features Clemson commitment Malliciah Goodman. The Gamecocks went 60 yards in seven plays as quarterback Stephen Curtis scored from 11 yards out on an option keeper.
Ross Watson’s PAT made it 7-0 just 2 minutes, 28 seconds, into the game.
“Our game plan is if you are big up front, we are going to use our speed,” said McDowell. “We are going to use a hurry-up offense to wear you down. I wasn’t shocked because we came in thinking they couldn’t keep up with the tempo.”
After that drive, the teams combined for just 19 yards the remainder of the quarter.
The Knights put together a 12-play drive late in the first quarter, but Sumter looked to have avoided any damage as a bad snap on a 30-yard field goal attempt forced a wobbly pass to the 5-yard line. Sumter, however, was called for pass interference and two plays later Avery Murray found paydirt to cut the lead to 7-6 with 8:50 left in the first half.
Alex Howell missed the PAT and Sumter maintained its lead.
It took all of 15 seconds for McDowell to push the lead to eight. He caught Howell’s kickoff at the SHS 3 and took off upfield.
In its first three football games of the season, the Sumter High School defense was giving up nearly 28 points a game. Thankfully, the offense clicked well enough to sustain a 2-1 record over those games.
Since then, however, the Gamecock defense has been the third little pig’s brick house. In the last four games, Sumter has surrendered just 16 points — including an 11-quarter shutout streak over three of those games.
The Gamecocks’ next test comes today as it continues Region VI-4A play against West Florence at Memorial Stadium. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m.
Sumter head coach Paul Sorrells, whose team enters with a 6-1 overall record and is 1-0 in the region, said several things have contributed to the improved defensive play.
“It’s a combination of three or four things,” he said. “The line — offensively and defensively — are usually the last things to come around. The defensive front has played good the last three weeks. It’s also a lot cooler and less humid and that makes a big difference. If you don’t have a bunch of kids you can rotate in there, it takes a toll on you.
“I do not want to take away that coaches and players have worked extremely hard on that side of the ball,” he added. “Eleven quarters of shutout ball — I don’t care who you are playing, that’s hard to do.”
Last week in a 38-10 win over South Florence, starting quarterback Stephen Curtis dinged up his shoulder late in the second quarter. In the second half, the Gamecocks went with running backs Roderick McDowell and Romaine Prince at quarterback most of the time.
The tailbacks attempted just three passes — all from McDowell, including a 38-yard completion — but shouldn’t have to worry about that today. Sorrells said Curtis sat out the second half just as a precaution and will be back to face WF.
So does that mean that McDowell and Prince’s days of taking snaps are gone?
