Morse to Curry Midnight madness

Henderson State sixthyear senior quarterback Adam Morse has developed a rapport with another sixthyear senior, wide receiver L’liott Curry.

Morse threw six touchdown passes in Henderson’s 59-24 win over East Central Oklahoma, with three of those touchdown passes going to Curry, who is fourth in Division II in receiving yards (734), fifth in receptions (48) and third in touchdown catches (9).

One play that stood last week against East Central occurred late in the third quarter when Curry outmaneuvered two East Central defenders to catch the football in the right front corner of the end zone.

“You know he can make plays like that when you need him to,” Morse said. “I gave him a shot, and he showed the fans what he can do. He’s not shy about showing you what he can do.”

Said Curry: “I stemmed up the corner, got him on my inside hip. … Adam threw a great ball. He threw it in a place where the corner couldn’t get it.

… I just made the play, you know.”

There is no way to shorten the 565-mile bus ride from Monticello to Alva, Okla., but University of Arkansas-Monticello Coach Hud Jackson tried a middleof-the-night departure last Friday that seemed to work for the Boll Weevils.

“It’s like when you go on vacation and you leave in the middle of the night so you can get there and start having fun,” Jackson said of UAM’s different road approach. “Any time you go on the road in our conference and win, it’s a big deal. We stressed that we needed to do some things well and we did that. The whole trip was an important trip for a lot of reasons.”