Spring game shows Lane offense ahead of defense so far

JACKSON, Tennessee  --  Nobody kept score for Lane football’s spring game Saturday. The white team in Saturday’s scrimmage consisted exclusively of offensive players and the red team defensive players.

Though the scoreboard wasn’t used, coach Derrick Burroughs saw crisp play from his offense that suggests the Dragons will score plenty of points a few months from now when the season starts.
His concern is how many points the Dragon defense might surrender.

Johnny Ivey caught a couple of touchdown passes Saturday in Lane’s spring game, one each from quarterbacks Chris Rini and Lebron Houston, to highlight the afternoon.

“Johnny’s going to be our go-to guy this year,” Burroughs said.

A couple hundred people, many of them Lane students, attended the scrimmage on a warm, sunny afternoon.

The scrimmage was broken up into four segments, one for each quarterback. Rini, who started last year until an injury, played the first segment. He was followed by McKinsley Marbury.

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