{"id":44725,"date":"2022-04-25T17:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T21:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/?p=44725"},"modified":"2022-04-25T10:31:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T14:31:39","slug":"defense-beats-offense-in-return-of-ysu-spring-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2022\/04\/25\/defense-beats-offense-in-return-of-ysu-spring-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense Beats Offense In Return of YSU Spring Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time in two seasons, the Youngstown State Penguins were able to return to action in the classic Red and White Scrimmage. \u00a0They had a two-year absence because of the pandemic and then playing in the Spring season. \u00a0This was also the first YSU Spring game under coach Doug Phillips<\/strong> in 2022 and showed a preview of what to expect for fall practice.<\/p>\n

Recapping The Return of the Red and White Spring Game<\/h3>\n

The defense opened the game strong as D’Marco Augustin<\/strong> sacked quarterback Demeatric Crenshaw<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 On the next play, Senior Griffin Hoak<\/strong><\/a> came into the party, hurrying the quarterback. \u00a0Later, the defense pressured Crenshaw again, causing him to throw a pick to Tyjon Jones<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Offensively, the ball was not rolling until later in the game. \u00a0One play changed that when Crenshaw threw a line of scrimmage pass to CJ Charleston<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0Charleston threw a 46-yard bomb to Liberty Leopard alumni Dra Rushton<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0Rushton would cap off the drive with a 15-yard rushing touchdown.<\/p>\n

The offense wouldn’t stop there, as trailing by two, Crenshaw gave the ball to Austintown Fitch Alumni Randy Smith<\/strong><\/a>, showing off the nice madden spin move and going 16-yards for the score. \u00a0The offense also got a score earlier with a 43-yard field goal from Colten McFadden<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The second half had Salem alumni Mitch Davidson<\/strong><\/a> throwing two touchdown passes to Tre Radford<\/strong><\/a> for 16-yards.\u00a0 Later Nate Damron for a 17-yard touchdown. \u00a0Another Valley alumni in Ursulines Dante Walker<\/strong><\/a> shined rushing for 23-yards on one drive, leading to a Davidson touchdown.<\/p>\n

However, that would be the offensives power as the defense overmatched them well into the later half. \u00a0Quarterback Brandon Alexander<\/strong><\/a> threw a pass and out of nowhere came Logan Pasco<\/strong><\/a> with the interception, returning it 35-yards for the touchdown with the final being the defense beating the offense 27 to 24.<\/p>\n

What To Expect After The Spring Game<\/h3>\n

August will come sooner than expected. \u00a0One thing to know however is that the defense looks like their spring season counterparts. \u00a0That is where they can hold opponents to low scoring, something that they were missing during the fall 2021 season.<\/p>\n

The offense looks to have a lot more trickery coming through, especially practicing that pass with Charleston. \u00a0Another to watch out for is Crenshaw and Jaleel McLaughlin<\/strong>. \u00a0Only time will tell with lifting and conditioning<\/a> in May, first practice in August, and then the first game against Duquesne on September 3rd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the first time in two seasons, the Youngstown State Penguins were able to return to action in the classic Red and White Scrimmage. \u00a0They had a two-year absence because of the pandemic and then playing in the Spring season. \u00a0This was also the first YSU Spring game under coach Doug Phillips in 2022 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3128,"featured_media":22247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"This post should cover the recap of the YSU Red vs White Spring game.","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"396","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4162],"tags":[8974,6232,8975,8096,4712,4935],"class_list":["post-44725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-fcs","tag-crenshaw","tag-doug-phillips","tag-dra-rushton","tag-randy-smith","tag-spring-game","tag-ysu"],"modified_by":"Tony Siracusa, CFB Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}