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Varina’s coaching staff must have felt snake-bitten. In the 2006 season opener, they lost star quarterback/safety Davon Morgan to a broken fibula. The same thing happened last season, when Blue Devils running back Brandon Minor suffered a hip injury early in the year and missed most of the 2005 season. Minor and the Blue Devils persevered then and Morgan and his teammates have done the same so far in 2006.

Minor returned from his injury and Morgan is hoping to follow suit, possibly as soon as the next few weeks.

“I got my walking boot off [yesterday],” said Morgan, who started at quarterback and safety in the season opener. “I’m starting rehab tomorrow. I supposedly could be back in a couple weeks. I’m real anxious to get out there. In my mind, I’m saying ‘hurry up, hurry up, hurry up.’ I’m playing it by the doctor’s orders, though. I don’t want to rush it.”

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