Friday, April 26, 2013

Lincoln Blue Tigers holds spring scrimmage

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri  --  One concern rose above the rest for Lincoln head football coach Mike Jones.

“Stay healthy,” the second-year head man said following the Blue Tigers’ annual spring game Saturday afternoon at Dwight T. Reed Stadium. “Most spring games, it’s more for the fans than it is for us. You worry about somebody getting hurt the last practice.”

Lincoln appeared to stay injury-free during the two-hour program of team drills and a controlled-situation scrimmage.



“I think it went OK,” Jones said. “We have a lot of guys that we kept out of practice. (Last season’s starting quarterback) Jake (Morris) only took about 10 snaps and then we had the young guys go. We were up and down.”

The Gray team (offense) faced off against the Blue team (defense) in a variety of different situations: two-minute drill, from midfield, deep in both their own and opposing territory, red zone and first-and-goal, among others.

“The first time we ran hurry-up, we ...

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