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Saturday, April 11th, 2009
Posted by Don Ruiz @ 05:05:34 pm

Some ordinary spring scrimmage for the Washington Huskies.

Not.

It was the first staged – and controlled – competition in the Steve Sarkisian era Saturday afternoon, and 1,800 curious fans flocked to Husky Stadium to see how the new-look Huskies would fare.

And after a slow start, the No. 1 offense got rolling behind quarterback Jake Locker, who was 10-of-18 for 142 yards, including a 10-yard touchdown strike to Lakes High product Jermaine Kearse.

After the two-hour scrimmage concluded amid blustery conditions, Sarkisian was generally pleased with the debut outing of his team.

"We were able to get a lot of areas in special situations done, whether it was special teams, two-minute situations, some goal-line stuff, some short-yardage stuff, so I thought we got a lot accomplished," Sarkisian said. "Now we can go back to the film and clean some stuff up."

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