Was it early morning or late at night? However Perryville football coach Brent Roth wanted to classify it, the scrimmage was way past one reporter’s bedtime.
The Perryville football team held a green/white scrimmage at midnight Saturday morning to kick off being able to practice in full pads. According to state rules, football teams had to build up from practicing in helmets during the first week to finally being able to practice in full pads after five days.
“The game was pretty much a dress rehearsal,” Roth said. “We worked on a lot of the little stuff like the way we are calling plays, the way we warm up as slightly changed, even the way we come out of the tunnel at the beginning of the game. We wanted to fine tune all of that stuff, as well as come out here and hit somebody.”
The white team defeated the green 26-14 in a game that featured four 10-minute running clock quarters. The team took a little more than one quarter to finally get the offenses rolling as the defense dominated much of the play early on, but Roth expected that coming in.
“When you make two teams out of one, that’s going to happen,” he said. “Out of your five starting linemen, one team is going to have three starters and the other is going to have two. We were trying to make it as even as possible. One offensive line was having trouble and the other was having a little more success and that was probably the difference in the game.”
Cooper Hudson got the scoring started in the scrimmage as he ran for a 15-yard touchdown with six minutes left in second quarter to give the white team a 7-0 lead. Hudson scored again from 30 yards out as Roth thought the ground attack looked good.
“Hudson looked good, and I thought both quarterbacks looked good and the JV guys came in and played well too,” Roth said. Brett Bohnert scored on. So the ground game looked good.”
