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Tigers Practice at Local High School 8/16/08

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fb816.jpegMEMPHIS, TENN. - The Tiger football team moved their Saturday practice to Christian Brothers High School because Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium was hosting a concert and the fields at the Murphy Athletic Complex were soaked from Friday’s rain.

Several players were back “home” as five Tigers played their prep ball at CBHS, including Corey Mills, Brandon Pearce, Brett Russell, Philip Beliles and John McArthur. CBHS recently had a turf field installed, which made the stadium a great alternate practice spot for the Tigers.

“This was a little different atmosphere, but I thought it was good,” said head coach Tommy West. “Our fields are just so bad. They won’t drain and so they were too wet to practice on and Kevin Locastro good enough to let us come out here. I appreciate him letting us come out here today.”

The squad worked out for just over two hours, which included some scrimmage work for about 30 minutes. The team ended with special teams work on field goal and punts. There were quite a few onlookers in the stands as some people realized that it was the Tigers on the field while they were passing down Walnut Grove Road, and stopped in to catch a glimpse of the team.

“I thought today that our energy is getting a little bit better,” said West. “We have to be a high energy, high enthusiasm type of team and we are getting a little bit better at that. I thought the defensive line had good energy today. I was really pleased with them.”
The team will just have meetings on Sunday. The scrimmage that was originally planned for Friday and rained out is expected to be rescheduled for Monday evening.”We have too many people out right now with injuries,” said West. “That’s one reason that it didn’t tear me up that we didn’t scrimmage Friday. Hopefully we can get some people back for Monday.”

“I was wanting a few more days without school,” West added. “This coming week is a big week for us because the following week we start school, it’s game week and there are a lot of distractions.”

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