Rookie Green:
The Skyline Youth Football Association e-mailed the coaches tonight and told us we can not use Pine Lake Field tomorrow. The school sent a last minute e-mail cancelling because of a track meet of some kind.
We are going back to the Highlands from 5-7pm tomorrow for more work against our good friends at Issaquah Gold. I was calling around and could have potentially squeezed us onto another field with other Skyline teams... but I spoke with the Issy coach and he gave us a deal that's too good to pass up. He says he wants his boys to practice against quality competition and thinks our boys present great challenges. He also says since they only have 14 or 15 guys... they can't scrimmage each other and rarely can practice special teams... I was just looking for a piece of their field to practice alone.. not wanting to bug them twice in one week.. instead what we've decided on is this.... We'll split the practice into 20- minute segments. I'm sending them details on our Saturday opponent (Liberty) and they will run the Liberty power offense against us so our defense can get good practice... They want to try to run a different kind of offense as well... We'll also get a chance to play our offense against a "Liberty Style" defense.. and our offense against the "regular" Issy Gold defense.
So... tomorrow's practice is 5-7pm at the Highlands... the same turf soccer fields in Central Park!! We're very lucky to play this team as often as we do.. I think in the long run it'll make our Spartans better.
Take care..
Coach Mike
