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The Warrior football team runs through plays during practice on August 18 at Worland High School.
WORLAND - Week 1 for the Worland Warrior football team kicks off against the Powell Panthers on August 31 but before that matchup the Warriors host the Buffalo Bison at 1 p.m. in a Week 0 scrimmage at Worland High School.
The scrimmage will be a controlled scrimmage in that each team will get 10 downs, redzone offense transition from possession and other situational scenarios. More importantly WHS football coach Ryan Utterback is wanting to get as many reps as possible for his players, from starters and on down.
While Buffalo has moved down to 2A, Utterback knows they're going to provide sturdy competition as they look to be one of 2A's better squads.
"They're going to be right up there in 2A, they're a solid team that we're going to be going against Saturday," said Utterback. "We'll use the scrimmage to evaluate a lot of the younger guys that are up and coming. It's going to be a big evaluation tool for us to see how the kids will do in a competitive setting. You have an idea in practice but until you line up against someone from a different town it lets you know who we'll be able to depend on and where we need to put players to make the team the most successful."
A recap of the Warriors scrimmage against the Bison will be in next week's edition of the Northern Wyoming Daily News. An in-depth preview of the 2018 Worland season will be in the Fall Sports Preview due out August 30.
