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Bowers stays busy during offseason Darius Bowers has been one busy Bulldog. Bowers attended elite quarterback camps at Nashville and Dallas after playing basketball for Fayetteville. He's also been busy opening mail with scholarship offers that began with Central Arkansas and continued last week with an offer from Northern Iowa. "Darius is a great kid and a quiet leader," Fayetteville coach Billy Dawson said of Bowers, who threw for nearly 3,500 yards and 34 touchdowns as a junior. "He's team-oriented and he puts in his work." Fayetteville is set at quarterback for spring drills that begin on Tuesday. But there are holes to fill, especially at receiver and on defense. "We lost 2,400 receiving yards, and we've got holes to fill in the back end of the secondary," Dawson said. Fayetteville finished 8-5 overall and 5-2 in 7A-West Conference play. That record would've been better had the Bulldogs not lost some close games, including two one-point defeats to Bryant. "We probably lost four or five games in the fourth quarter," Dawson said. "We had some guys won hadn't played a lot, but we've got to win the fourth quarter." Fayetteville opens the season Aug. 24 at Vianney High School in Kirkwood, Mo.

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