Coach's Corner

Friday night was a tough night for our young Ram team.  Although we lost the game, we gained valuable experience.  For the first time in 2 years we took the field with an entirely new offensive line & Quarterback.  Not to mention that our running backs started their first varsity game as well.  JR. QB T.J. Miller started his first varsity game at QB and the offensive line of Marc Sutton, Anthony Briones, Mark (Texas) Dominguez, Jacob Palmerin and Sophomore Bryant (Biggie) San Pedro have a combined 1 varsity start collectively.  Finding any offensive continuity proved to be challenging as the offense was trying hard to find a groove.  Miller had a challenging night facing a blitzing 3-5-3 defense from King. Our goal to improving is learning to work together.  One bright spot for us Friday was the play of JR. RB Julian Fisher.  Fisher played a solid game at the RB position as well as playing a full game at Middle Linebacker.  Fisher proved to be tough, versatile and dependable.

Defensivley the Rams faced a tough challenge defending a very talented RB in King's Todd Handley.  After giving up an early score, the Rams defense settled down and played tough through the first half, going in at the half downby 2 scores.  The defense hustled and played hard all night with 8 defenders pulling double duty on offense as well.  The defense did force 3 turnovers and showed some signs of good team speed.  Defensively we will continue to work on tackling and performing our assignments.  They have great potential. 

Our next game will be our home opener against Riverside Poly.  The team has looked forward to this for quite sometime.  The always heated rivalry with Poly will take place on Friday September 10th at 7:00 pm at the "New" Ramona Stadium.  Our goal this week as a team is to "execute" our assignments on offense, defense and special teams and play fundamentaly sound football. 

Welcome to the Coach's Corner.  Each week I recap the events of the week and talk about how the game and practice went.  Each week in 2010 we will include a profile of  the player of the week for the varsity squad.  I hope you enjoy reading this section as it is the world of Ramona football from the coaches and players perspective.