The days are getting shorter, the air is getting cooler and another year of High School Sports is right around the corner.
Almost all fall High School sports have started practice and are playing non-league competitions all over the area.
New Bruin Head Football Coach Shaun Bavaro held the traditional Bruin Blue and Gold game Friday night, and an obvious new team ran out onto the field. Of course the Blue and Gold game is an inter-team scrimmage where the Bruin Defense plays against the Bruin offense.
Just as in any ‘pre-season’ contest, the goal of these scrimmages is really the first test of a new team, new system and new ideas. Coach Bavaro and his new crew of offensive, defensive, and special teams coaches are putting their team through their paces, looking for new young team leaders, looking for those who will rise to the top, and looking at skill sets that they have been instilling in these young men during these last few weeks of tough practices.
When the Wild Coast Compass asked Coach Bavaro what he gleaned from Friday’s performance, he said “as a whole, he saw great improvement overall, the defense played well, and the offense hit their marks.” However, he followed that statement up with “we still are seeing the results of a new system learning curve and their is still a lot of room for improvement before they hit the field in real game time situations.”
The Bruins still have four scrimmage games on the calendar, next week against Gold Beach in Gold Beach, and then Del Norte in Crescent City the following week. Coach Bavaro will be spending the next few weeks of practice time fine-tuning the new offensive gameplan, and tightening up the new defensive strategy on their way to opening day, September 21st against Lakeview.
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