Any reports from scrimmages?

I sat in on the Lifegate scrimmage (Lifegate, Alvin Living Stones, Corpus Christi Annapolis) today.

The Falcons (Lifegate) looked pretty good; scored 4 td's (one on defense) while shutting out both opponents. The key players are in great form -- those summer conditioning programs work. Saw a couple young guys step up and show some promise. Looks like we'll have 16 in uniform this fall.

Wasn't able to stick around for all of Annapolis vs Living Stones, but from the parts I saw, Annapolis will be rebuilding but they were able to move the ball on Lifegate a bit; got a first and goal at the one before the Falcon defense stuffed them for four plays. Living Stones also had some good ball players and should be in position to make the playoffs again this year.

Weatherford Christian traveled up to Forestburg this morning. Both teams are fighting through the injury bug, so both teams were playing with players 'out of position'. Only 3 TD's were scored, 2 by Forsetburg and 1 by WC. WC did cause a number of fumbles on defense.

I want to thank Coach Parker and the Forestbug players for their hospitality and sportsmanship, and I wish them luck for this season.

Coach Weaver
Weatherford Christian

Bastrop Tribe scored 11 times and gave up 5 TD's in all. Sunnybrook looks much better this year, with finally kids on the sideline. They have some talent if they can stay healthy. Austin Christian was missing a few players but looked good and very young. Looks like a rebuilding year for them also. All in all a great scrimmage!

notre dame, wichita christian and byers all scrimaged each other. notre dame beat byers 2-0 causing 4 turnovers. then beat wichita christian 1-0 . wichita christian has a good coach and a decent running back with guys that wanna play with high expecations this year. notre dame is young but has some 13 player

From the Seguin Gazette Enterprise, 8/15/10

http://www.seguingazette.com/story.lass ... 9fca7be3e1

Falcons shut out opponents

SEGUIN — Lifegate began its quest for a second-consecutive district championship with the first of two home scrimmage on Saturday morning, welcoming both Corpus Christi Annapolis Christian and Alvin Living Stones to Seguin for a friendly sparring session.

The Falcons held Annapolis and Living Stones at bay for the duration of each hour-long contest, even coming through with an impressive goal line stand that left Lifegate fans buzzing in the bleachers.

“Annapolis, which is the TCAL (Texas Christian Athletic League) state champs, got a long pass down to our one and we stuffed them four straight plays down there,” head coach John Rabon said. “We didn’t allow a score from the first two teams with our first- or second-stringers, so overall we did pretty well. In fact, as usually happens, we’re way ahead on defense right now.”

But the Falcon offense also had some highlights in the two scrimmages, totaling four total touchdowns — two rushing and two receiving. Despite those scores, however, Rabon says that his players also let some points slip right through their fingertips.

“We did okay,” Rabon said. “We didn’t score as much as we’d like, but we didn’t run that many plays — we ran about six or eight plays is all we ran. We dropped two or three deep touchdown passes and those are things that you misfire on sometimes.

“We’ll get there — we’re in a good spot.”

Freshman Jacob Swick and sophomore Jayson Mittelberg each hauled in scores for Lifegate on Saturday, while seniors Matt Akin and Caleb Tate each tallied rushing touchdowns for the Falcons.

But besides simply getting prepared for the upcoming season, the coach said that the scrimmage may have also given his team an advanced look at a potential opponent.

“Alvin Living Stones — there’s a chance we may see them in the playoffs because they had seven teams in their district and three of the teams folded,” Rabon said. “So they’ve got four and the top four go to the playoffs.

“(Annapolis and Living Stones are) both good, solid programs so it was good for us to play them.”

Having battled depth problems in the past, it was also a positive sign that Lifegate had 16 players suited up on Saturday. Of those 16, five were freshman, meaning that the Falcons are getting a head start on cementing the future of their program.

And even though there were some miscues by the youngsters, the coaching staff realizes that they need to soak up all the experience they can get.

“We’ve got some more to go, but the defense did a good job,” Rabon said. “(The offense) is behind the defense, but you expect that because there’s so much time left.”

Lifegate will host another scrimmage next Saturday morning, set to begin playing at around 9 a.m. Among the participants will be the San Marcos Area Christian Competitors (SMACC) Panthers — a second-year team featuring three players from Seguin and two from Kingsbury.

Following that contest, the Falcons will begin preparation for the 2010 season, which will kick off on Aug. 27 when Lifegate hosts the Christian Academy of San Antonio (CASA) at 5:30 p.m.

Azle Christian traveled to St. Jo on Saturday.

The format for the scrimmage was 15 O, 15 D, 15 O, 15 D and then they played a 10 minute game setting.

The Crusaders looked very impressive both offensively and defensely. They scored easily on all three offensive possessions and scored a TD on a interception.

The Crusaders held the St Jo team to 1 score and 2 first downs on the 30 plays that the Panthers ran from scrimmage, while the Crusaders scored 5 times on their offensive plays. The only score for the St Jo team was against the 2nd team defense. The Crusaders also returned an interception for a TD.

When the teams went the game format, each team scored twice and you could tell that the heat was starting to affect both sides.

For the day it was 8-3 Azle.

St Jo will get better, much better, when they get a few more kids back. Azle looked very fast. With the influz of a lot of really good talent, ACS looks better, with more talent than they have ever had. The ability to have four starters on each side of the ball that only go one way will help them tremendously.

Good luck to ACS and to St Jo!!!

Town East participated in a four team scrimmage with Bracken, Buckholts, and Brenham. Not too sure how the other teams did, but we finished the day having scored 3 tds and giving up 5 tds.

Temple Holy Trinity played host to Waco Parkview. Holy Trinity scored eight touchdowns to Parkview's one. This was the first scrimmage/game for Holy Trinity's new coach, Charles Boles.

SCA scrimmaged Cherokee HS and Lingleville HS on Saturday.

We got out of it what we needed and we're pleased with our progress. We kept things very vanilla on offense and defense and used this as a time to evaluate our younger kids and new kids.

#1 objective was achieved - we came out of it healthy.