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Brentwood Football Hosts a Young Team on Friday
The Eagles will face the cadets from the Missouri Military Academy Friday night. It's a growing program, on its way up.
This Friday, football will play Missouri Military Academy at home. The MMA is 0-3 on the season, and are working with a coach hired this year to rebuild a program that went 0-10 last year.
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Eagles coach Keith Herring said he’s seen one tape on MMA and said they look pretty athletic.
“They’ve got an athletic quarterback, and the running back looks pretty good, and they’ve got a linebacker that looks like a pretty good player,” he said.
MMA coach Marc Wilson was defensive coordinator for a Division 2 college team, Oklahoma Panhandle State University, prior to this position. He was a coach for the 2006 CBC team that went to state, and also the St. Louis arena football team, the RiverCity Rage. Brentwood’s coach, Rob Findley, was an all-league selection player for the Rage when Wilson was a coach.
The program had only 21 players last year, and Wilson said he’s up to 53 on the team now. A freshman quarterback and a sophomore tailback drive the offense.
“Whole bunch of young faces,” Wilson said. “We’re looking at building a program here, not just a team. So some of our growing pains are just learning football, because we’ve got a lot of kids that haven’t played before.”
Brentwood is coming into the game with a 1-2 record, following last week’s . Eagles running backs Rekardo Owens, a junior, and seniors Danny Lynch and Tyler Jones combined for 347 yards in 46 carries in the Friday night game.
Herring said who they play doesn’t change how they practice.
“We’re going to practice hard. We’re going to try and get better,” he said. “We’ve got some goals that we’ve got to achieve. We have to improve each day and each game to achieve those goals.”
He said for the most part, the Eagles are healthy and ready to go.
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“We’ve got a couple guys with some nagging things, but for the most part we’re pretty healthy.”
Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. for Friday night's game at .