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HCC Sports Information
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Quarterback Justin Schropp threw three
touchdown passes and fellow signal-caller Skylar Travis had a dazzling TD
run to highlight the Hutchinson Community College football team’s spring
scrimmage to close out the 2008 spring season on Saturday at Gowans Stadium.
The Blue Dragons ran about a 70-play
scrimmage under perfect weather conditions at Gowans Stadium. Now the Blue
Dragons have to wait 19 weeks for the 2008 season opener at home against
Northeastern Oklahoma A&M.
“We had beautiful weather day,” second-year
HCC head coach Rion Rhoades said. “We haven’t had many of those this spring.
We are able to get some extra plays in, more than what we planned.”
Both of HCC’s quarterbacks in camp had good
games on Saturday.
Schropp’s first TD pass was 13 yards to
Jordan Wyatt. He then threw a 24-yard TD pass to Wyatt and found Wyatt once
again, this time from 50 yards out for a third score.
Travis, who guided HCC to a season-finale win
over Independence last October, turned in the highlight run of the scrimmage
when he broke multiple tackles and rumbled 65 yards for a touchdown.
Returning starting running back Damien Bates
also had a 67-yard run on the first play of the scrimmage.
But the defense also got its highlights as
well.
Michael Brackenhoff intercepted a Travis
pass. Adam Davis had the only other turnover with a fumble recovery.
“This is probably the most enjoyable spring
season that I have been apart of,” Rhoades said when asked to recap spring
drills. “We have an outstanding bunch of young men. They are good
character-wise and we have some players who can really play, too. That’s
been really enjoyable for me and our entire staff.”
In terms of individuals who stuck out during
the spring, Rhoades didn’t name names, but was happy with the overall
improvement shown in the 20 practices and scrimmages.
“I
would say offensively and defensively both we improved overall as time went
on,” Rhoades said, “especially offensively we got better each and every
day.”
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