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Mustangs ready for season opener (http://theinglesideindex.com/articles/2006/08/31/sports/sports1.txt)
Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:47 PM CDT
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THE INGLESIDE MUSTANGS have been holding intersquad scrimmages as well as competing in practice games against Banqete, Kenedy and San Diego, to prepare for the regular season. On Friday, the varsity squad will travel to C.C. Tuloso-Midway for their 2006 season opener, which is set to kick off at 7:30 p.m. Head Coach Graig Hesseltine said his team is ready and eager to begin.
Ingleside's varsity squad eager to kick off season after scrimmages
By KURT MOGONYE, Index Editor
The season opener.
It's the moment most everyone in Ingleside has been waiting for since the end of the 2005 season. And no one is more excited than the players and coaches.
On Friday, the Mustangs will travel to Corpus Christi Tuloso-Midway to take on the Dist. 31 Class 4A Warriors, and even though size matters in most cases, Head Coach Graig Hesseltin looks for the matchup to be one that could give his team an early boost of confidence as Ingleside will attempt to live up to the high expectations in 2006.
Hesseltine, who is in his third year as athletic director and head coach of the IHS varsity squad, will face off against Tuloso-Midway for the first time, and admits that even he is as excited or more about the first game.
When the coaches began the process of setting a schedule earlier in the year, Hesseltine knew that going head-to-head with a larger school would be a testing and proving ground for his squad going into the tough Dist. 30-3A schedule he will face this year.
“When we created the schedule we looked at teams that would provide us with more of a challenge than in the past,” he said, “and they will definitely provide us with that challenge because they're used to competing against Alice and Gregory-Portland.”
Going into Friday's game, the Ingleside coaches have only sized up their competition by what they've seen on scrimmage films, but one thing Hesseltine is confident about is the Mustangs' preparedness for the season opener.
“I really do feel we're prepared,” Hesseltine said. “We're where we need to be. From our previous two scrimmages, we've executed our plays well on offense and have played sound defense ... we're as ready as we're going to be.”
And they players, he says, have been ready since summer workouts began.
“I haven't tried to bottle up the emotion of our guys,” the head coach says. I've even fed off of that and tried to get the most out of them at our practices to use that energy in preparing for our competition.”
According to Hesseltine, the varsity squad has had some good workouts this week and are anxious to play the first real game under the Friday night lights.
“We're excited to step out onto the field for the fist time, and it's good for the team to walk on the field for the first time with that much excitement,” said Hesseltine. “Hopefully we'll be able to use that to our advantage.”
Today the Mustangs planned to follow their normal pre-game routine: kick the field session, special teams, offensive and defensive drills and a team get-together hosted by parents, which usually includes a meal.
But come Friday night, a victory will be on the minds of every player and coach on the sideline, and as the head coach puts it: there's nothing like 7:30 p.m. when the teams kick off - the coaches are excited, the players are exited - there's just a lot to be excited about.
“We want to win every game we compete in, and this one is no different,” said Hesseltine. “We want to start the season on a positive note because we have some big expectations to live up to. Our players have worked hard the entire off season for this moment.”
Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:47 PM CDT
http://theinglesideindex.com/content/articles/2006/08/31/sports/sports1.jpg
Index photo by Allen Fisher
THE INGLESIDE MUSTANGS have been holding intersquad scrimmages as well as competing in practice games against Banqete, Kenedy and San Diego, to prepare for the regular season. On Friday, the varsity squad will travel to C.C. Tuloso-Midway for their 2006 season opener, which is set to kick off at 7:30 p.m. Head Coach Graig Hesseltine said his team is ready and eager to begin.
Ingleside's varsity squad eager to kick off season after scrimmages
By KURT MOGONYE, Index Editor
The season opener.
It's the moment most everyone in Ingleside has been waiting for since the end of the 2005 season. And no one is more excited than the players and coaches.
On Friday, the Mustangs will travel to Corpus Christi Tuloso-Midway to take on the Dist. 31 Class 4A Warriors, and even though size matters in most cases, Head Coach Graig Hesseltin looks for the matchup to be one that could give his team an early boost of confidence as Ingleside will attempt to live up to the high expectations in 2006.
Hesseltine, who is in his third year as athletic director and head coach of the IHS varsity squad, will face off against Tuloso-Midway for the first time, and admits that even he is as excited or more about the first game.
When the coaches began the process of setting a schedule earlier in the year, Hesseltine knew that going head-to-head with a larger school would be a testing and proving ground for his squad going into the tough Dist. 30-3A schedule he will face this year.
“When we created the schedule we looked at teams that would provide us with more of a challenge than in the past,” he said, “and they will definitely provide us with that challenge because they're used to competing against Alice and Gregory-Portland.”
Going into Friday's game, the Ingleside coaches have only sized up their competition by what they've seen on scrimmage films, but one thing Hesseltine is confident about is the Mustangs' preparedness for the season opener.
“I really do feel we're prepared,” Hesseltine said. “We're where we need to be. From our previous two scrimmages, we've executed our plays well on offense and have played sound defense ... we're as ready as we're going to be.”
And they players, he says, have been ready since summer workouts began.
“I haven't tried to bottle up the emotion of our guys,” the head coach says. I've even fed off of that and tried to get the most out of them at our practices to use that energy in preparing for our competition.”
According to Hesseltine, the varsity squad has had some good workouts this week and are anxious to play the first real game under the Friday night lights.
“We're excited to step out onto the field for the fist time, and it's good for the team to walk on the field for the first time with that much excitement,” said Hesseltine. “Hopefully we'll be able to use that to our advantage.”
Today the Mustangs planned to follow their normal pre-game routine: kick the field session, special teams, offensive and defensive drills and a team get-together hosted by parents, which usually includes a meal.
But come Friday night, a victory will be on the minds of every player and coach on the sideline, and as the head coach puts it: there's nothing like 7:30 p.m. when the teams kick off - the coaches are excited, the players are exited - there's just a lot to be excited about.
“We want to win every game we compete in, and this one is no different,” said Hesseltine. “We want to start the season on a positive note because we have some big expectations to live up to. Our players have worked hard the entire off season for this moment.”