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Waco, Texas – Sophomore running back Jay Finley rushed eight times for 73 yards and two touchdowns to highlight Baylor’s 111-play scrimmage to end spring practice Saturday afternoon at Floyd Casey Stadium.
“First of all, we didn’t get anyone injured; that was our number one goal,” said Baylor head football coach Art Briles. “We played with a pretty good pace and tempo which is something that we want to be known as; a tempo-tough football team.
“From the standpoint of what we’re looking for, we’re there,” he added. “It’ss like I told them, this journey is not over, it just started. We’ll have 29 workouts before we play Wake Forest and we just finished 15. We should see vast improvement and we will.”
Finley, the Bears’ leading returning rusher, scored on runs of 5 and 4 yards while averaging 9.1 yards per carry. Five of his eight carries on the day went for 10 or more yards and he caught one pass for 5 yards.
Senior Jacoby Jones carried a scrimmage-high 12 times for 53 yards as the Bears’ ground game generated 207 yards on 61 carries for the scrimmage.
True freshman quarterback Robert Griffin also impressed in his first spring game as a Baylor Bear, completing 5-of-9 passes for 66 yards and rushing five times for 30 yards. Griffin graduated from Copperas Cove (Texas) High School last December and enrolled at Baylor in January 2008 in order to go through spring ball and compete for the Bears’ starting job as a rookie.
Senior Kirby Freeman, a transfer from Miami, Fla., who has one season of eligibility remaining, and junior Blake Szymanski, who has 12 career starts under his belt at Baylor, also had impressive moments under center Saturday. Freeman, who took the first series of the scrimmage, completed 7-of-13 passes for 75 yards with one interception and no touchdowns.

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