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John Glenn prepping for the 2024 season with scrimmages

against Buckeye Trail and Barnesville by Matthew Dotson

Matthew Dotson

The John Glenn Lil’ Muskies had “Obviously we are excited for week the bar from last season and John Glenn fight this season with the normal chal-
a glimpse of the Friday night lights as one, getting through the summer and is no exception. lengers as well as the big hitters in the
they scrimmaged Barnesville on Friday getting through your scrimmages Edwards went on to say “We have a MVL Big School division.
evening at New Concord. Leading up to healthy has always been really impor- pretty simple mantra, which is we want “The MVL Big School division is a
the season coaches like to make sure tant to us and we are relatively in good to be better every single day than we grind each and every week, you know
they have their ducks in a row and plays shape. We had two pretty quality oppo- were the previous day. With some of going into the year, we know Tri-Valley
ready to go for unforeseen situations nents with our scrimmages and we did these kids, we have taken it even further has a lot of returns back from an MVL
and scrimmages give them that little a lot of things well against Buckeye Trail because with 23 seniors and 27 letter- Championship last year, and we know
boost to make sure everything is click- and Barnesville, but we also saw some men returning we’ve asked those guys Sheridan is always going to be in the
ing like it is supposed to without putting things that would definitely be areas to take their game to the next level. We mix, you throw in the other schools, Phi-
their players in harm’s way as much as of improvement and we’ve addressed had some success last year but we still lo and ourselves and we expect it to be
they would be just starting the season some of those things this week and we fell short of some of our goals. What a very competitive year and we think we
cold on opening night. are really excited for week one of the we did last year was fine but it wasn’t can be right their in the mix,” said Ed-
So in order to help the team warm 2024 season,” stated John Glenn head enough, we need to be better in all phas- wards.
up for the season John Glenn spent the football coach Matt Edwards. es of our game if we want to accomplish
last two weeks facing some formidable With the season kicking off this those goals.”
foes in the likes of Buckeye Trail and week the Muskingum County teams are With such an experienced team the
most recently Barnesville. all gearing up and getting ready to raise Lil’ Muskies are on par to put up a big

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