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Prep Football Notebook: How to describe Harding's Rod Smith? 'Great'
By Nick West
of The News-Sentinel

There's a plethora of adjectives to describe Harding running back Roderick Smith - beast, force, monster, Adrian Peterson? was beast mentioned?

The 6-foot-3, 214-pound junior touched up the Class 4A Bishop Dwenger Saints for 202 yards and a touchdown on 27 carries on Friday night and drew the praise of Saints coach Chris Svarczkopf.

?Rod Smith is a great football player,? he said. ?He's everything they say he is.?

A beast?

Saints safety Tyler Eifert seems to agree. Smith broke away from the defense and was galloping down the sidelines but was caught and pushed out of bounds by Eifert, who angled across the field and dove to get enough of Smith to knock him out of bounds.

Smith ended up with 41 yards and likely would have scored if it wasn't for Eifert.

?You think he's bottled up in the backfield and he just emerges out of nowhere,? Eifert said. ?You've got to go up and make the play. He's a big back and hard to bring down. He had a great game.?

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