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HUNTINGTON Imagine sandlot football, except that the yard was 100 yards of artificial grass.
That’s how many players and coaches watched the Mountain State Athletic Conference 7-to-7 high school football practice on Thursday afternoon at Bob Sang Field in Huntington Highs. Sometimes the plays were like the old ones would all go deep into childhood game calls.
I think it’s fun, Winfield’s defending senior Carter Perry said. It’s like organized backyard football, hanging out with friends, competition. It’s not real until you put on the pillows.
Winfield joined host Highlanders, Boyd County, Fairland, Raceland, Spring Valley and Tolsia in all-pass scrimmages with each other. Teams kept points because they were required, but none of the coaches or players said they set much results. Such collisions also occurred on Thursday in Hurricane, South Charleston and Riverside. The top two teams from each event will advance to the finals on Saturday at Riverside.
It really helps us because we have a new defender, Winfield coach Craig Snyder. We can see how our guys compete and come up with something.
Fairland and Raceland are also breaking into new defenders.
It helps Peyton (Jackson) a lot, Dragons broad receiver / linebacker Zander Schmidt said of Fairlands ’new starter in the middle. It helps us improve a little.
Spring Valley coach Brad Dingess said the results in 7 of the 7 races are similar to NFL preliminaries. They mean little or nothing. He told the story of Timberwolves playing Ohio power and then losing to the West Virginia small school team.
We were 7-7 and beat Austintown-Fitch in Youngstown, Ohio, and they were really good, Dingess said. Then we were together and lost to Clay-Battelle. You never know.
Huntington High player Tyrese Smith said she enjoyed it on Thursday.
It’s good to see other teams, come out and have fun and heal, Smith said. We want to heal and we have no injuries. It’s good to see where our passing game is and what’s on defense. We were more of a contact group, but sometimes we have to get there and throw it a little.
Some impressive plays were made and not just because of the violations. Huntington’s high defensive defender Curtis Jones made an excellent pass deflection against Tolsia. Fairlands Steeler Leep cut off the feed in the end zone and weaved through Raceland’s defenders, who could have come into contact if it had been a regular game. In the attack, Boyd Countys ’wide receivers caught stellar catches, crossing the defenders in the final zone. Huntington Highs feeders are constantly displacing defenders from TD catches.
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