![]() Defensive back Chelen Garnes described the locker room emotion after the game as, “Amazing.” He said the win came because “Everybody did their job.” And while giving up 152 yards of offense in the final quarter can feel tenuous, it was the defense that kept the Demon Deacons in the game throughout the first three quarters to even give Marucci a shot at the late-game heroics. But 152 of that was in the fourth quarter when the game became like a race car that was driving a little loose all over the track. The Wake defense did give up 414 yards of offense, and you are going to lose quite a few games when you do that. For weeks, the defense has performed mostly well, only for the Demon Deacons offense to come up empty at the end of the game. And maybe most importantly, for the first time in a month, the defense was rewarded for its work and not left with the, “We did what we could” sense. ![]() They got good blocking up front, and better blocking from the running backs than what they have seen in recent weeks. Wake got some explosive runs, something that has been on head coach Dave Clawson’s wish list all season. But the list of upsides goes well beyond that. The tale of Santino Marucci will live on for some time. Much has been written about the late-game heroics of a third-string quarterback. ![]() But for the here and now, for that brief period of time when they could bask in the win before it was time to move on to what’s next, there was a unified sense of happiness. ![]()
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