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Page B-4 - Mason County Journal - Thursday, June 19,2014
North Mason
incoming
senior Terry
Winslow blocks
a teammate
Monday during
spring football
practice while
assistant coach
Steve Anderson
looks on.
Journal photo by
Emily Hanson
Bulldogs turn out in droves
By EMILY HANSON
emily@masoncounOz cam
The North Mason football team
has the had the biggest turnout for
spring football practices in more than
six years.
Practices began June 4 with 74
Bulldogs attending.
"There's only been one other team
with almost 70 at spring practices,"
head coach Jeff Bevers said. "That
was when (John) Fullington was a
junior and we'd had a 9-2 season the
fall before."
Fullington graduated from North
Mason in 2010. He recently gradu-
ated from Washington State Univer-
sity, where he played four years of
football and has signed a free-agent
contract with the Green Bay Packers.
Of the 74 North Mason football
players participating in spring prac-
tices, Bevers said about 50 have
signed up for the team's camp in July.
"Between the juniors and seniors,
we've got close to 45 kids returning,"
Bevers said. "All the seniors had var-
sity experience and four of the juniors
played varsity last year."
He said he's seen a lot of enthusi-
asm from the Bulldogs so far.
"There's real good energy with a
lot of leadership from our seniors," he
said. "Those are good steps. How it'll
translate, we'll see."
Bevers said he'd hoped to see more sopho-
mores turn out for spring practices.
"They kind of got beat up playing a junior var-
sity schedule (last fall) because we didn't have a
C-team," he added.
Of the more than 20 freshmen who played in
2013, only eight or nine have returned for spring
ball.
"We have 25 incoming freshmen with us now
and we will have a C-team this year," Bevers
said. "I'm excited how that will grow the team."
Bevers said he'll use the spring practices to
help team members bond.
The team ended spring practices Tuesday and
will participate in noncontact activities, working
on skills until camp.
The Bulldogs will attend the Steve Gervais
Academy from July 7 to 11 at The Evergreen
State College in Olympia.
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Young
Owls get
in shape
Spring football
practice starts
conditioning for
Mary M. Knight
By EMILY HANSON
emily@masoncoun cam
Matt Brkljacich
knows he has a challenge
this fall.
The Mary M. Knight
head football coach will
start the 2014 season
with just five returning
players: seniors James
Anderson, Austin Re-
necker, Taylor Diggle
and Adam Pais and ju-
nior Isaiah Thompson.
This leaves him three
positions to fill and more
than 15 young, inexperi-
enced football players to
fill them.
To address this chal-
lenge head-on, Brkljacich
hosted spring football
beginning June 2 and
concluding Tuesday. The
seven days of practice
last about 90 minutes
each day.
"We're so young that
I wanted kids to learn
how to put on gear, teach
them drills they can do
alone in the summer
and get conditioning
started for the summer,"
Brkljacich said. "We've
got to come into camp (in
August) in shape. I can't
spend two weeks getting
them into shape."
More than 20 athletes
turned out for practices
last week to participate
in no-contact, no-gear
drills followed by light-
contact drills with gear.
The majority of ath-
letes were incoming
freshmen and eighth-
graders, many of whom
had never put on pads
before.
"We've got some inex-
perience to deal with, but
I like their attitudes,"
Brkljacich said.
He said all of the
young athletes know the
five returning players,
who have been welcom-
ing to the new Owls.
"I'd go to battle with
those (five returners) any
game," Brkljacich said.
A big part of his strat-
egy for the spring prac-
tices was to split the
team into groups, with
the returning players
leading the drills.
"If I can get my ath-
letes to teach other ath-
letes, that's where they'll
learn," Brkljacich said.
