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     Dresden’s Lions had a successful season opener this past Friday night when they visited the East Robertson Indians and came home with a 37-13 victory. This week, Dresden will travel to Obion County Central where they will take on the Class 3-A Rebels in the opening game of the season for the Rebels. Game time will be at 7:30 a.m.

     The Lions used a balanced offensive attack to overcome the Indians as Dresden put up a grueling ground attack by rushing for 318 yards during the game and then adding another 88 yards through the air. However, the Dresden defensive unit deserves special credit for limiting Indian standout quarterback Tico Andrews to 42 yards rushing and 245 yards passing. Lions fans who witnessed the 2005 game between Dresden and East Robertson will recall that it was Andrews who almost single handedly engineered a second half rally to bring the Indians from a 24-13 deficit at the half to a 42-27 win over the Lions. This year was quite different as the Lions defense limited Andrews ability to scramble out of the pocket and forced him to put the ball into the air after shutting down the Indian rushing game. In fact, Dresden’s defensive unit was responsible for scoring 10 of the 37 points scored by the Lions during the game this past Friday night.

     The Lions were first to put points on the scoreboard during the game by tackling a Indian running back in the end zone and scoring two points on the safety. The score came with 11:37 remaining in the second quarter after a Dresden punt was downed at the one-yard line. The Indians elected to try to run the ball on first down and was met by Dresden’s Brandon Schultek and other members of an unbendable left defensive line who brought the back down one-yard deep in the endzone.

     The Indians then free kicked the ball to Dresden and the Lions took over with a first and ten at the East Robertson 38 yard line where Josh Mitchell had covered the short kick. On the first play from scrimmage following the free kick, Dresden scored it’s first touchdown of the 2006 on a 38 yard run by running back Clay Adams around the left end with 11:24 remaining in the second quarter. On the points-after-attempt, Matt Hewett carried up the center of the line for a two-point conversion and to give the Lions a 10-0 advantage.

(Read the rest of this story in the August 23rd edition of the Dresden Enterprise!)

   With a Fulton City offensive led by Da Ron Williams that kept pushing until the close of the game and a number of turnovers on the home team's part, Greenfield suffered a loss against the invited blue and white Bulldogs Friday evening.
     In the opening quarter of play, neither team gained any pointwise, but the Fulton lineup kept the ball on the Greenfield side of the field for the entirety of the period.
     As Greenfield had some trouble early on getting their offense running smoothly, they were still able to get in there defensively and stop the Bulldogs short of the end zone, which the Fulton team pushed within eleven yards of later in the quarter, before a couple incomplete passes capped off by a fourth down stop by Robert Jones to turn the ball over to the ’Jackets.
     As the second stanza began, Fulton had the ball at the Greenfield 28-yard line on a fourth down with about two yards to go for a first down. Fulton City pushed through just enough for the first down with Aaron Wilson carrying the ball, stopped by a joint effort on the parts of Eric Davidson and Chase McMullen.
     From there, Wilson carried the ball to cut the distance to the end zone in half with a 13-yard rush. After edging closer towards a touchdown, a holding call and a stop by McMullen and Kentavis Brent helps push the Bulldogs back to the 14-yard line.

(Read the rest of this story in the August 23rd edition of the Dresden Enterprise.)

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