Greenville football team faces Celina in its 1st full squad scrimmage

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CELINA – The 2016 Greenville high school football team got its first full squad action against another team on Tuesday as the Green Wave traveled to Celina for a joint practice with the Bulldogs.

Greenville’s schedule listed Tuesday’s venture north as a scrimmage, but in reality less than one-third of the day was spent scrimmaging.

“Today’s a practice,” Greenville varsity football coach Aaron Shaffer said. “I know we’re out here, we’re in Celina, but it is just a practice. A really good practice by the way. Really pleased with today.”

Celina, a 2015 Ohio High School Athletic Association playoff team, and Greenville spent almost 45 minutes of Tuesday morning stretching and practicing on their own prior to coming together for drills.

The combined drills started with a seven-on-seven passing scrimmage with tackling while the linemen worked separately on blocking assignments.

After focusing on passing early, the focus shifted to running. The linemen joined with quarterbacks, running backs and linebackers for some full contact running plays while the receivers and defensive backs worked on one-on-one passing plays.

“There’s a lot of things you look at, you know, the competitive nature, their competitive spirit,” Shaffer said. “It’s one thing to go out and hit against your buddies all week. It’s another thing to come out against somebody else you really don’t know anything about other than the little bit of information that the coaches shared.”

After close to 90 minutes of combined drills, the teams had almost an hour of a full squad scrimmage. Each team’s offense, both varsity and backups, ran 10 plays at a time during the scrimmage session.

“General feeling is we were pretty clean most of the day,” Shaffer said. “We did have some mental breaks, but you’re going to have that. It’s Tuesday of the second week (of practice). But the general feeling is pretty good.”

Scores weren’t kept during Tuesday’s action as Shaffer said he just wanted to see his team get in some reps and learn against some outside competition.

“Today it’s about seeing who’s going to go out and compete and who’s got that inner drive to go do the things we ask them to do,” he said.

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Greenville offensive lineman Braden Russell breaks a tackle after recovering a fumble during a scrimmage against Celina on Tuesday in Celina.
https://www.dailyadvocate.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/web1_Braden-Russell-WEB.jpgGreenville offensive lineman Braden Russell breaks a tackle after recovering a fumble during a scrimmage against Celina on Tuesday in Celina.

By Kyle Shaner

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