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| Warming up - if that is necessary the first week of August. |
The Second Grade Bears football team is gearing up and preparing for another fun season. The Bears went undefeated in the regular season last year and ended up losing in the Super Bowl to the Lions which they had beat twice earlier in the year. The majority of the team is back and ready to play, and it looks like we picked up some talented players in the draft. This will be the first year of tackle for these boys and after the first night of full pads they are starting to get a little more aggressive.
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| Hitting the Dummy's - no pun intended! |
We have had four practices cancelled by the league because of the Heat, when the Heat Index is over 105 degrees at 7:30 pm the league bans any practices for the safety of the players. Since this has happened for two straight weeks, the league has decided to back the season up by one week to hopefully get in a couple more practices.
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| Finding some running room in the open field. |
It is amazing how this team has matured this year, the boys seem much more focused and they all seem to get along very well together. I think they look very balanced this year and it is starting to all come together as a complete team. It's a good thing since we only have 12 players - there won't be much time to rest.
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| Showing off the tackling skills to Coach Will. |
Kendall will split the load of running back and slot back with two other boys this year and with his size I think that is a great idea. The other two boys are slightly bigger and will take the brunt of the power running and Kendall will mix it up with some speed to keep their defense off guard.
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| Showing a move or two - catch me if you can. |
On defense Kendall will be mostly playing corner back and handling the plays to the outside and an occasional rush of the quarterback on passing plays.
The annual Parmerlee Tournament, which is a short scrimmage against three other teams will be August 21st and then the regular season gets underway on the 28th when we kick off the season against the Lions.
GO BEARS!!!
