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Friday’s jamborees provided one last tune-up for parish teams before season openers.
And as usual, there were positives and things that still need to be cleaned up.
“I thought it looked like a jamboree,” Minden Head Coach Spencer Heard said. “We made some mistakes we probably shouldn’t have, some mental stuff, especially early on against Haynesville. It got better as we went. We kind of self-corrected and played better as the games went on.”
Minden fell to Haynesville 9-7 in the Pineland Jamboree’s third 15-minute period at Homer. The Tide then tied the host Pelicans 7-7 in the nightcap.
In the other Pineland Jamboree “games,” Lakeside fell to Haynesville 24-0, North Webster defeated Lakeside 28-0 and North Webster and Homer played to a scoreless tie.
In the Minden Medical Center Apache Jamboree at Glenbrook, Glenbrook defeated Lincoln Prep 21-0 and tied Montgomery 0-0.
The temperature was just over 100 degrees at the start of the jamborees. But a breeze made things somewhat tolerable as the sun went down.
As usual, the Pineland Jamboree’s five 15-minute regulation periods made for a long night.
Heard and his team arrived back at Minden around 11:30.
In the Homer game, Minden tied it with a little over two minutes left on a pass from sophomore Hudson Brown to Maurice Rabb. Bryson Ranger added the PAT.
Against Haynesville, Brown threw a TD pass to Jakobe Jackson.
“Hudson played pretty well,” Heard said. “He’s coming along.”
Minden opens the season at home against Parkway. The Panthers defeated Benton 16-0 in the Bossier City Lions Club Jamboree in two 12-minute periods.
“We’ve got a lot of stuff to improve on,” Heard said. “From a potential standpoint we’re probably 50 percent of what we could be. We’re not even close to being as good as we can be.
You kind of expect that early in the year. We’ve just got to get better and better as the weeks go on.”
North Webster scored in multiple ways against Lakeside.
Cam Lewis returned an interception for a touchdown and Jkobe Lawson returned a kickoff for one.
“It was fine,” Head Coach John Ware said of his team’s performance. “We got some good work in.”
The Knights had a pick-6 against Homer erased by a penalty. They missed a field goal on the final play.
North Webster opens the season at home against Haynesville.
Lakeside ran up against some tough competition. Haynesville is expected to make another deep playoff run.
The Warriors open the season at home against Class 1A Arcadia.
Glenbrook first-year Head Coach Reagan Smith liked what he saw from his team as the Apaches hosted a jamboree for the first time since joining the LHSAA.
“I’m tremendously pleased,” he said. “I feel like we showed what we’re capable of. We did not have any major mistakes. Everything that went slightly wrong is tremendously correctable and in certain instances understandable.”
The “games” consisted of a 15-minute period with a running clock the first 12.
Sophomore Easton Sanders threw a pair of touchdown passes and Chase Sentell scored a rushing TD.
Smith thought his team lost a little momentum during the hour-and-a-half wait before playing Montgomery.
“It’s just hard to restart line that,” he said.
Still, the was pleased with how the Apaches played against a team that is expected to be much improved this season.
Glenbrook travels to Ruston to face Cedar Creek in its opener. The Cougars fell to Mangham 33-0 in the Bayou Jamb Thursday.