CAMP WRAP PART II - SCRIMMAGE REPORTS!

The University of Tampa's Peppin Rood hosted the 2 scrimmages on the final 2 Saturdays of camp. The stadium was only minutes from downtown as you can see.

Aaron Stecker turned up to lend his support. What's Preston pointing to?

That would be the big f'in storm on the way that made sure that Dingle and the rest of the hounds would be kept in their kennel all weekend!

So the scrimmage vs. the Admirals was re-arranged for the Monday morning at One Buc Place (home of the Bucs and also camp home for the Dutch). Both teams had been bottling their frustration all weekend …

And it spilled over baby! A huge bench-clearing brawl marred the scrimmage, but as quickly as it came it went and the teams cooled off and got back to business. Admirals got the better of the early exchanges, but Claymores RB Anthony Gray burst up the middle for a TD to even the contest.

2 days later the Claymores had opposition again. This time it was the Dragons in a 'combined workout' that was held down at St. Petersburg. There wasn't much to report as there was only a little scrimmaging done, and only a small flight this time with a Dragon player who tried to get it going on the Claymores sideline (bad move).

Coach D and the QB's (from L to R - Hayes, Stoerner and Ornstein) discuss tactics during the workout.

TE James Whalen gets some interesting treatment.

Scoops scoots past Dragons CB JoJuan Armour. Sadly the pass was overthrown … but the QB's looked better today.

Stoerner under center vs. the Dragons. Quite what a cricket pavilion was doing on the sideline we're not sure …

Perennially retired / un-retired Dragons WR Marcos Martos goes up against Central. 'Cent' will get his first crack at the Dragons in 2001 after missing both games through injury in 2000.

The final scrimmage was back at the U of Tampa on the final Saturday vs. the Thunder. It didn't go well. Berlin scored on its first play, a 70 yard TD bomb and had much more intensity through than a lackluster Claymores. They tacked on 2 more TD's while the Claymores O struggled. Gus Ornstein (in shotgun) had a rough day seeing his first picked off and returned for a TD by Billy Gustin (despite Preston being on the 15-yard line and having a great chance for a open field tackle).

But the scrimmages are reliably unreliable and the poor performance shouldn't be a harbinger of doom.