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ORLANDO, Florida (Ticker) -- Omar Brown returned a fumble 20 yards for a touchdown late in the first quarter as the Orlando Rage remained unbeaten with a 26-14 victory over the San Francisco Demons. Brian Shaw ran 28 yards for a touchdown early in the second quarter and Derrick Clark scored on a six-yard run in the third for Orlando (2-0), which was coming off a 33-29 victory over the Chicago Enforcers. After selling their full allotment of 36,000 tickets in their home opener, the Rage played in front of a crowd of 25,049 in Week Two. Jeff Brohm, a former Louisville standout and Orlando's first-round draft pick, completed 10-of-21 passes for 161 yards, inlcluding a 49-yard TD pass to Mario Bailey in the first quarter. Mike Pawlawski completed 36-of-52 passes for 294 yards and two touchdowns for San Francisco (1-1), which was coming off a last-second 15-13 win over the Los Angeles Xtreme. Pawlawski, a former standout at California, threw a five-yard touchdown pass to Richard O'Donnell late in the first quarter, capping a 14-play, 90-yard drive that gave San Francisco a 7-0 lead. The Rage answered on its ensuing possession on Brohm's 49-yard scoring strike to Bailey that tied it. A defensive back, Brown gave the Rage a 13-7 lead with 80 seconds left in the first quarter, scooping up a fumble by San Francisco running back Brandon Young and returning it 20 yards for a touchdown. "It's extremely difficult to get ready for a team like San Francisco," Orlando coach Galen Hall said. "Everything happens so quickly. There's no way you can duplicate what they do on offense in practice. I think it took us a bit of time for our defense to adjust to what they were doing." Orlando extended the lead to 19-7 less than five minutes into the second quarter on Shaw's 28-yard touchdown run. Clark, who played in the NFL for the Denver Broncos, provided the Rage with a 26-7 lead 6:48 left in the third quarter, when he capped a six-play, 80-yard drive with a six-yard run. Pawlawski capped the scoring for the Demons with a 11-yard TD pass to Jimmy Cunningham with 32 seconds left in the third. "Penalties got us tonight. I felt a lot of that was frustration, letting the game get away from us. We need to be smarter than that," said Demons coach Jim Skipper, whose club was penalized 13 times for 106 yards.
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