Missouri quarterback James Franklin unloades the football during the annual Black and Gold Spring football game. UPI/Bill Greenblatt

Missouri head football coach Gary Pinkel said they did a lot of mix and matching with personnel in this year’s Black and Gold scrimmage. Pinkel wanted to get a fair evaluation of what he has coming in this fall. That, combined with breezy conditions, made for a less than explosive spring game.

Listen to James Franklin’s post scrimmage comments

Missouri fans have been used to seeing Blaine Gabbert and Chase Daniel pick apart young defenders, but this game lacked a lot of the big plays with James Franklin and Tyler Gabbert running the offense.

Missouri freshman quarterback Tyler Gabbert runs the football during the annual Black and Gold Spring football game. UPI/Bill Greenblatt

Gabbert admitted this wasn’t his best performance of the spring and Franklin said with the wind, the focus was on a lot of screen plays and running plays.

Tyler Gabbert comments on the spring and his performance

SCORING PLAYS

Team Scoring Description (Qtr./Time)

Mizzou1 Grant Ressel 25 yd FG (1st/4:03)

Mizzou2 Marcus Murphy 32 yd pass from James Franklin (1st/0:36)

Mizzou1 Brandon Gerau 1 yd pass from James Franklin

Mizzou3 Trey Barrow 43 yard FG (3rd/3:34)

RUSHING STATISTICS

Tiger Att. Yds. TD

Moore 5 57 0

Lawrence 4 18 0

Gabbert 4 (-18) 0

Murphy 3 18 0

Team 3 (-7) 0

Culver 2 6 0

Wright 2 1 0

Josey 2 0 0

Franklin 2 (-3) 0

Moe 1 15 0

Hunt 1 4 0

McGaffie 1 4 0

TOTALS 30 95 0

RECEIVING STATISTICS

Tiger Rec. Yds. TD

Murphy 4 43 1

Waters 3 28 0

Clark 3 23 0

McGaffie 3 23 0

Gerau 3 15 1

Lucas 3 15 0

Egnew 2 23 0

Jones 2 19 0

Washington 2 18 0

Stricker 2 15 0

Culver 2 11 0

Drain 1 8 0

Kemp 1 7 0

Peasel 1 6 0

Jackson 1 6 0

Sasser 1 6 0

Moe 1 3 0

Hunt 1 1 0

Josey 1 4 0

TOTALS 38 283 2

PASSING STATISTICS

Tiger Comp. Att. Yds. TD Int.

Franklin 13 21 116 2 0

Glazer 14 17 95 0 0

Gabbert 8 22 48 0 1

Howerton 4 6 24 0 0

TOTALS 28 49 283 2 1

QB SACKS

Tiger Sacks Yds.

K. Jackson 1 2

Resonno 1 5

Ealy 1 8

PUNTING

Tiger Punts Yds. Avg. Long

Barrow 6 270 45.0 52

Brinser 3 138 46.0 50

KICKING

Tiger FG-FGA Long XP-XPA

Ressel 1-1 25 2-2

Barrow 1-1 43 1-1

Owens 0-1 40 0-0

TACKLES

Tiger Solo Ast. Total PBU FF FR

Webb 7 – 7 – – –

Randolph 6 1 7 – – –

Easterly 5 1 6 – – –

Burnett 4 1 5 – – –

Ealy 3 1 4 – – –

Hobson 3 1 4 – – 1

Parham 2 2 4 – 1 –

T. Davis 3 – 3 – – –

Ruise 2 1 3 2 – –

Walker 2 1 3 – – –

M. White 2 1 3 – – –

Donaldson 2 – 2 – – –

Hoch 2 – 2 – – –

K. Jackson 1 1 2 2 – –

Edwards 1 – 1 – – –

Resonno 1 – 1 – – –

Gaines 1 – 1 2 – –

Sam 1 – 1 – – –

Gooden 1 – 1 1 – –

Malbrough 1 – 1 – – –

Hamilton 1 – 1 – – –

Vincent 1 – 1 – – –

G. White 1 – 1 – – –

G. Johnson 1 – 1 – – –

Sudhoff 1 – 1 – – –

Brennan 1 – 1 – – –

Ponder – 1 1 – – –

Carpenter – 1 1 – – –

Bolden – – – 1 – –