District play set to begin for football
Having lost its first two games, the football team starts play in District 9-5A with Friday’s game against Independence at Memorial Stadium.
September 10, 2015
Fifty-five varsity players, fourteen hours of practice per week, and only forty-eight minutes of play time comes to a critical juncture for the football team Friday night as they open District 9-5A play against Independence at Memorial Stadium at 7 p.m.
Opening the season with a loss against Denison, the football team has two games under its belt as they start District 9-5A action with a game against Independence Friday night at Memorial Stadium.
“There’s going to be a line drawn on Friday night,” head football coach Chris Burtch said. “Of those that are one step closer to playoffs and those that aren’t, and you definitely want to be the team that’s one step closer.”
Although the team started its season with two non-district losses against Denison and McKinney, their current record will have no bearing on where the team hopes to end up.
“[Winning the games against Denison and Mckinney High] was not the goal,” Burtch said. “We’ve talked about it as a team and our goal is a deep run in the playoffs, and those games only prepare us for that run.”
