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<\/p>\n\t\t\tMarquise Russ Tosses Three Touchdowns To Keep Fort Lauderdale Unbeaten\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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By Dave Brousseau<\/p>\n
FORT LAUDERDALE \u2013 The common denominator for the Fort Lauderdale High football team through its first six games has been the play of senior quarterback Marquise Russ.<\/p>\n
His strong play had the Flying L\u2019s undefeated entering Thursday\u2019s home game against Douglas.<\/p>\n
With no alterations to his effectiveness to date, Russ shined again with three more touchdown passes and one rushing score for a 27-7 victory at Lockhart Stadium.<\/p>\n
Not only did Fort Lauderdale improve to 7-0 on the season, but they have also won nine consecutive games dating back to last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is all a learning experience and all about growing and developing your roster,\u201d said Fort Lauderdale coach Richard Dunbar. \u201cWe were slopy at time, but I\u2019ll take the win.\u2019<\/p>\n
As for Russ, he\u2019s thrown at least one touchdown each game this season and a minimum of three scoring passes five times.<\/p>\n
\u201cMarquise has always been great for us,\u201d said Dunbar. \u201cI love his poise and love the way he has shown a maturity over the last nine months here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Russ had 10 completions for 227 yards. He had a pair scoring passes to junior wide receiver Antwan Jackson for 50 and 24 yards. The other scoring toss was 33 yards to Isaiah Mabson that gave the Flying L\u2019s a 14-7 lead with 4:39 left in the second quarter.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were many ups and downs in the game, but we were able to stay poised,\u201d said Russ. \u201cI was able to overcome some things, but we found a way to win.\u201d<\/p>\n
Russ added his second rushing touchdown of the season on a one-yard sneak with 5:03 left in the fourth quarter.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Eagles (1-6) lone score came with 5:26 left in the second quarter when junior quarterback Sampsen Orlinsky threw a 59-yard scoring pass to Anthony Diaz tying the game 7-7.<\/p>\n
Fort Lauderdale will host Coral Springs on Friday, Oct. 16, where they hope to improve to 8-0. Douglas will play Forest Hill at home on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Dave Brousseau is a veteran journalist who worked at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and is a longtime BCAA Correspondent. Need to reach out to him? Contact him at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marquise Russ Tosses Three Touchdowns To Keep Fort Lauderdale Unbeaten By Dave Brousseau FORT LAUDERDALE \u2013 The common…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-425797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}