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| Coaches ready for start of season.... The Eagle coaching staff is eager for the season with first scrimmage set for Saturday. Coaches are (L to R) Villanueva, Domingo Vento, Armando Ortega, Raul Tucker, head coach Jose Salinas, Michael Hidalgo, and Luis Garcia. |
- “The 2008 Van Horn Eagle football season is rapidly approaching and our kids have been working hard,” said head coach Jose Salinas this week.
Salinas reported that at the start of two-a-days, he was somewhat apprehensive since the numbers were hovering around 32. “Now, we’re up over 40 and it looks like we’ll be able to field a JV and a varsity team,” Salinas added.
His young charges are ready to see some action and so are the coaches. Salinas noted, “All we’ve done is hit each other and we’re ready to hit someone else.”
That someone else is coming to Van Horn this Saturday, in the form of the Marfa Shorthorns. The Eagles will scrimmage the Shorthorns at Eagle Field beginning at 10 a.m.
Salinas added, “The JV will scrimmage first and then we’ll follow with our varsity kids. It will provide our coaches with a first hand look at how our kids might perform during the season. We’ll make adjustments based on what we see in this scrimmage.”
Salinas urged local fans to come out this Saturday and watch our kids in this first scrimmage. He also added that “We’ll scrimmage Alpine next Thursday, August 21st, in Alpine.”
Salinas went on to announce that the 2008 gridiron season has been set and the schedule is as follows:
August 30th: Coahoma @ Ratliff Stadium in Odessa.
September 5th: Anthony @ Eagle Field.
September 12th: Kermit @ Kermit.
September 19th: Tornillo @ Tornillo.
September 26th: Jal, NM @ Eagle Field.
October 3rd: Open date.
October 10th: Wink @ Eagle Field (district game).
October 17th: Marfa @ Marfa (district game).
October 24th: Iraan @ Eagle Field (district game).
October 31st: McCamey @ McCamey (district game).
November 7th: El Paso Cathedral @ Eagle Field.