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RB Maurice Wells (Official Thread)

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What about Dareus Walker? Anyone catch him in ND's embarassment Saturday?
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http://www.irishtoday.com/newsboard/newsboard.html

Freshmen Make Trip to Utah

"Three freshmen made the trip and were dressed at BYU, but did not play. David Wolke served as the No. 3 and emergency quarterback. Wide receiver Chris Vaughn and running back Darius Walker also accompanied the team to Provo, Utah.

Not seeing Walker set foot on the field was a little perplexing as much as the running game struggled without the injured Ryan Grant. Talk out of fall camp was that Walker has been impressive, but is still learning the 'complex' offensive system."
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http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/091104/hig_16614994.shtml

Wells runs over, around Jackson High
Sandalwood back gains 269 rushing yards, 2 TDs in team's delayed 2004 opener.

By JASON SCHNEIDER, The Times-Union

For all the talk about Sandalwood's transfers -- quarterback Rusty Smith and linebacker Marvin Sapp -- it was a familiar face that pulled the Saints through against Jackson.

Maurice Wells rushed for two touchdowns and 269 yards Friday night, leading the Saints past the visiting Tigers 24-14. Despite Wells' gaudy numbers, the Saints needed a 22-yard Andrew Louvat field goal with just more than 2 minutes left in the game to secure the win because of sloppy play on the Saints' part.

Prior to the game, Sandalwood coach Adam Geis said he was concerned about how his team would start. Since the Saints' scheduled season opener against Tallahassee Leon was canceled due to Hurricane Frances last week and because Jackson already had one game to its credit -- a 27-12 win over Wolfson -- Geis figured that his team would start slowly.

He was right.

Despite getting out to a 7-0 lead, the Saints weren't sharp. Wells was stuffed for a no gain on three of his first four carries and the Saints' defense struggled with their tackling as the Tigers scored twice on long plays.

Jamal Harvey scored on a 64-yard pass after taking a short slant from Michael Hicks and running through several Sandalwood defenders and around two others. Five minutes later, Ranier Rackley put the Tigers ahead 14-7 when he ran through the middle of the Saints defense for a 52-yard score.

The Saints (1-0) tied the game on Wells' first score with 1:58 left in the half, and despite the miscues Geis wasn't upset with a halftime tie.

"I figured we would be down by a score or two," Geis said. "[Jackson] already played a game, and with us sitting last week I figured we would have trouble. I told the guys [at halftime] that we were fine."

Sandalwood forced Jackson into a three-and-out to open the second half and then marched 60 yards on four Wells runs, taking a 21-14 lead on Wells' second touchdown.

Jackson (1-1) was unable to move the ball at all against the Saints' defense in the second half, managing just one first down and 28 total yards. Sandalwood moved the ball at will in the third and fourth quarters, but penalties and a fumble kept the Saints from running away with the game.
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http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/091804/hig_16676767.shtml

Saints kick Senators
Louvat kicks 18-yard field goal in overtime to give Sandalwood a 17-14 victory.
By JEFF ELLIOTT, The Times-Union

A Gatorade-soaked Sandalwood coach Adam Geis called it the biggest win for his program in at least the last five years.

That's how he described the Saints' 17-14 overtime win over arch-rival Fletcher on Friday night, which was ended by Andrew Louvat's 18-yard field goal in the first overtime.

It didn't appear that Sandalwood would require the heroics of a sophomore kicker in his first year with the Saints. Sandalwood took a 14-0 lead into the fourth quarter. But a pair of fumbles led to 14 points by Fletcher, the last of which came when receiver Jordan Dowling recovered teammate Nick Thomas' fumble in the end zone with just over five minutes remaining.

Fletcher took the ball first in overtime, but on third down the Senators fumbled and Sandalwood recovered. The Saints gave the ball to star running back Maurice Wells three consecutive times. He managed to take it inside the 5, but that was enough to set up Louvat's game-winner.

"I just kind of cleared my head and concentrated on hitting it squarely ... and I did," said Louvat who at 5-feet-9, 155 pounds avoided Sandalwood's 300-pounders in the wild celebration that followed his kick.

Sandalwood caught Fletcher by surprise in its initial drive of the game as senior Cory Mathews opened the game at tailback in place of Wells. The Saints' running back sat out the entire quarter due to what Geis called, "an in-house problem that we needed to take care of." On Matthews second carry, he went up the middle, side-stepped two defenders and raced 66 yards to the end zone.

Wells rushed for 53 yards on 11 carries in the second quarter. He then matched that total early in the third quarter when he took a pitch and raced 53 yards down the sideline for the Saints' second score. The senior finished with 173 yards on 30 carries for three quarters of work and echoed his coach's thoughts afterward.

"It just doesn't get any better than this," he screamed. "I was frustrated having to sit out that first quarter, but Cory came through for us in that quarter. This was a team win. It wasn't just one person tonight, it was everyone on offense and everyone on defense."

For the most part, Fletcher kept to their plan with regards to containing Wells.

"Our game plan is to keep him from making the big gainers on his cutbacks," Fletcher defensive coordinator Kevin Brown said prior to kickoff. "We know he'll gain his yards, we just wanted to keep him from breaking the big gains and of course to keep him out of the end zone."

The Senators were able to do that with Wells.
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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/spor...04,1,6171060.column?coll=orl-sports-headlines

RB Maurice Wells (5-9/185) of Jacksonville Sandalwood, No. 3 on the Orlando Sentinel's top 100 rankings, has three official visits planned.

He will visit Southern Cal on Oct. 9, Maryland on Oct. 30 and Columbus, Ohio, for the Michigan-Ohio State game Nov. 20.

Wells said he already has been to Georgia Tech a number of times unofficially and is considering Notre Dame and Tennessee for other visits.
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NJ-Buckeye said:
Wells has fumbled five times in two games
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J-ville newspaper comment on fumble problem

Wells fights fumble-itis
By CHASE GOODBREAD, The Times-Union


Sandalwood star running back Maurice Wells has ripped off plenty of yardage to start his senior season, but it hasn't exactly been what Saints fans have hoped for, either. Wells has fumbled five times in two games, ending enough Sandalwood drives to keep the competition close. The Saints (2-0) entered the second half tied with Jackson in their season opener, then needed overtime to clip Fletcher last week.

"I think he only fumbled four or five times all year last year, so we know he can hang onto it," Saints coach Adam Geis said. "But we'll definitely do some ball [control] drills with him this week. He was crazy upset with himself on the sideline [Friday]. Losing fumbles is terrible for momentum, and Maurice understands that."
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http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/092504/hig_16737718.shtml

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The Saints' Maurice Wells ran for 219 yards and three touchdowns
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