bbfbfan

White County has a scrimmage against Wilson County Tues. night at Wilson Co., which is Luke Dycus' team, the old Freshman coach that was at WCHS for a time. Also they have a playday Friday and Saturday at WCHS and a playday at Oakridge next Saturday. This is all I know until the first TSSAA Hall of Fame tournament 11/22-23/02 at Byrdstown. Tues. should be an interesting scrimmage since the boys that played football will get one practice in with the team before the scrimmage and 2-3 or those boys may be starters.

Like it was stated earlier, no one, probably not even Coach Slatten knows who the starters will be but I will try to give the roster for the ones I can remember. There are no Seniors this year, the juniors are Daniels, Young, Young, Williams, Drake, England, Hess, and Neal. There may be one more but I can seem to remember, I heard Cannon quit. The sophomores that I can remember are Davis, Qualls, Holman, Daniels, Demps--- there are a few more I think. Some freshman that may see a little Varsity playing time could be Brown, Buckner, and Gribble. Hope this helps! This is from memory from the summer practices. They still are a young team with no Seniors but they can only go up from last year one can hope. As far as Coach Crain, you never anything but great things about him. The Freshman seem to love him. He works them hard but they respect him and work for him. Asst. Coach Dotson, I hear, is the cog keeping some of the Juniors together. They like and respect him. He is a great cut up when the going gets rough and can manage to take a hot situation and cool it off. I heard through the grapevine that he was the only thing that kept one of the boys from walking off the court last year more than once. [Edited by bbfbfan on 10-31-02 9:54A]

Rumor has it that Slatten may move England to 4, Williams to 3 and Qualls to 5, Drake to 2 and Johnson to PG. Remember this is just a rumor and as it has been stated no one really knows until the season starts. Qualls will have to get a lot tougher under to goal to have momentum, England was tough there but at 6'4" he will be undersized, while Qualls is 6'7". I guess what will happen is anybody's guess.

How about Seth England, White County? The team had Sam Agee last year but England really came out the last half of the year and picked up in the Tournament, almost pulling off an upset. I think we will see a lot out of him this year. The team struggled last year but I saw him play in some summer practices and he stood out.