California duo steals the show on Day 3 in Mobile

Updated: January 24, 2008, 1:37 PM ET

Tempers were running hot at the Senior Bowl on Wednesday but the scuffles in practice could not overshadow the impressive performances by California teammates Lavelle Hawkins and Justin Forsett.

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MOBILE, Ala. -- Wednesdays practices, which were in full pads for the second day in a row, were predictably chippy. The minor shoving matches during the North session in the morning served as an undercard to the South's afternoon heavyweight fight. Tempers boiled over into a couple of individual scuffles, one featuring Newberry College OT Heath Benedict versus Hampton DE Kendall Langford and the other between Vanderbilt OT Christopher Williams and Texas A&M DT Red Bryant.

While fighting is certainly not encouraged, it was good to see a mean streak from Williams, whose biggest knock is that he doesn't show enough nastiness to consistently finish blocks. Regardless, it's probably a good thing that players will be in shells during the Thursday practices, which will feature far less contact.

The big news of the day is that Limas Sweed of Texas and Early Doucet of LSU -- the top two receivers in Mobile -- are both on the shelf with injuries. Sweed reinjured his wrist/hand on Tuesday when attempting to catch a frozen rope thrown by Kentucky QB Andre Woodson; Doucet tweaked his hamstring during the same practice and is done for the week.

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