By Rey Sifuentes Jr.
C.C. Winn High School’s only scrimmage of the season, held on Saturday, ended in a 3-3 tie against Laredo Cigarroa.
“On the plus side, our quarterback (Jaime Vargas) was solid,” Head Coach George Ruiz said. “He took command of the offense and did a good job. We put together two pretty good sustained drives where the boys executed everything the way they were supposed to. We had a young tailback (Deion Alonso) who had a pretty good outing against Cigarroa, including one particular run of about fifty yards while also scoring two touchdowns.”
There are, however, a few things the Mavericks still need to polish up on.
“Offensively we moved the ball inside the 30-yard line twice but did not score, which is something we definitely want top improve on,” Ruiz said. “Defensively we did pretty good, even though we gave up three big plays that cost us three touchdowns. That is something we are going to try and address to make sure we do not give up any big plays on defense. Aside from those three big plays our defense played pretty well.”
Ruiz admitted that he only used about ten to fifteen percent of his playbook against the Toros – a practice he said was statewide.
“Sometimes there is not a lot of time to put everything in,” Ruiz said. “We had two weeks of practice and then had to be ready for the scrimmage so we are working on fundamentals most of that time. We only put in a certain number of plays that we use during a scrimmage, and we make adjustments as the season goes along depending on the type of defense each week’s opponent is using. I think that holds true for every team in the state, you start off with only a certain number of plays and add on every week.”
CCWN kicks off its season by visiting Uvalde this Friday at 7:30 p.m.
“They are a pretty big and solid team,” Ruiz said. “Uvalde scrimmage Laredo Martin on Friday night, we went to go watch them, so we know that we are going to be in a battle against them. We are getting ready to go head to head and being victorious in the end because we know we are going to face a quality football team.”
The Mavericks will have four non-district contests this season to brush up their execution, as opposed to only one in years past.
“It is a good thing because we only used a small percentage of our playbook during Saturday’s scrimmage,” Ruiz said. “In the past, this game would be our only practice run and then we would be right in the thick of our district schedule next week. But with four non-district games, we can now figure out what things are working out for our players. We have some time to adjust as we go along.”
