Thursday, August 28, 2014

La Porte Football Weekend

Tonight the football begins.  La Porte's JV and Freshman teams will be in action against Clear Brook,

Thursday, August 28, 2014
Freshman B starts at 4:30 at La Porte
Freshman A starts at 6:00 at La Porte
JV White starts at 4:30 at Clear Brook
JV Orange starts at 6:30 at Clear Brook

Friday, August 29, 2014
La Porte vs Clear Brook at La Porte 7pm

Jonathan Lewis C/O 2014 Colorado St running back
Colorado State vs Colorado 8pm Fox Sports 1

Keith Whitely C/O 2013 UNLV running back
UNLV at Arizona 9:30 on ESPN - Set to record the beginning

Saturday, August 30, 2014
Vic Holmes C/O 2014 Iowa State DB
Iowa State vs North Dakota State 11am Fox Sports 1

Maurice Morris C/O 2013 Navy OL
Navy vs Ohio State 11am CBSSN

Michael Rodriguez C/O 2014 Louisiana Tech TE
Louisiana Tech vs Oklahoma 7pm FSN PPV

Sunday, August 31, 2014
Anthony Webb C/O 2011 Baylor (injured)
Baylor vs SMU 7:30 Fox Sports 1

Am I missing someone?

Monday, August 25, 2014

La Porte vs Pearland Dawson Scrimmage Recap

Pearland Dawson visited La Porte last Friday at Bulldog Stadium for the big warm-up  scrimmage before the real thing kicks off this Friday Night.  The teams had a handful of sets of plays in a controlled scrimmage and then played two quarters of live action with the clock running.

La Porte's defense settled in nicely in the controlled scrimmage.  Good tackling and pressure resulted in many negative and one or two yard plays for the Dawson offense.  The Bulldog linebackers look the part this year for sure.

The Bulldog offense struggled early, but seemed to move the ball better by the end of the controlled scrimmage.  The second team offense found the end zone, moving down the field on the legs of Sophomore Quarterback Austin Upshaw.  Sophomore Linebacker/Running Back Terrell Bernard ran the ball for the score from a yard out.

In the live quarters, Dawson turned up the intensity and scored a few times on the Bulldogs showing some weakness that surely will be worked out this week at practice.

Overall it was a good warm up and La Porte will be back at Bulldog Stadium Friday night against the Clear Brook Wolverines in the first game of the season.

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

La Porte First Week of Practice / Scrimmage Times

La Porte completed their first week of practice Saturday morning and are now less than two weeks away from the season opening tilt with Clear Brook.

The offense seemed to be clicking pretty good with uptempo practices and lots of different personnel at the skill positions.

The defense is moving along with lots of new faces and very little contact up to this point.  Expect the contact to pick up especially against Pearland Dawson this Friday 8/22 at Bulldog Stadium.  It will be the only action for the Bulldogs against a real opponent before the season opener.

Below are the scrimmage schedules:

Pearland Dawson at La Porte Friday 8/22
4pm Freshman scrimmage
5pm JV scrimmage
6pm Varsity scrimmage

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Practice Starting / Season Approaching

The La Porte Bulldogs are in the middle of their summer camp week and practice will start up without pads on Monday August 11th.

Full padded practices begin Friday evening August 15th.

The scrimmage vs Pearland Dawson is August 22nd.

Things are moving along quickly.

Some questions going into practice:

Who will be starting quarterback?

An experienced offensive line and skill position players come back from last season's squad.  Finding the Quarterback will be the key.

The defense will need to improve from last year, who will step up?

The next few weeks will tell us a lot.