Lions roaring, prep for tough part of schedule
Has anyone noticed with the Bremen Lions football team has done the last three Friday nights?
Well, all Jordan Leeper’s squad has done is won three games in a row by a combined score of 104-28.
As a result, Bremen is 3-1 as it prepares for a trip to Jimtown to face the 1-3 Jimmies tomorrow night.
The only setback this season was an opening loss to visiting LaVille by a touchdown. Oh that same Lancer team that has climbed all the way to No. 3 in the latest 2A poll.
Although the Lions are not receiving any votes to be among the top-10 teams in their class, if they keep winning the rankings will take care of themselves.
A very winnable game awaits in about 24 hours, but beating Jimtown is never easy, especially in Elkhart.
With that said, this isn’t the usual Jimmie team. Its lost three of four to start the year albeit two of those three defeats came to 4A Northwood and 5A Concord.
Last Friday though John Glenn went to Jimtown and won for the first time since 1990, so there’s no reason to think this Bremen team can’t repeat what the Falcons did.
This is a Lion team that per usual is awful physical, and one that since being held to 10 points by LaVille has been scoring in bunches.
Bremen has scored at least 28 points in each of its past three games.
A big reason why the Lions have become a scoring machine has been the play its gotten from a pair of juniors – quarterback Silas Laidig and receiver Tyrus Graverson.
The 5-foot-9, 180-pound Graverson is having a season to remember.
No. 9 leads the state in receiving yards with 616 to go along with his seven TD receptions. As if that wasn’t enough, Graverson ranks 20th in the state in points (66 total or 16.5 per game).
As for Laidig, he’s completing 66 percent of his passes (45-of-68) and is sixth in the state with 1,020 yards through the air. Furthermore, the 6-1, 205-pounder has tossed 10 touchdown strikes and just one interception.
Don’t sleep on senior receiver/kick returner Reece Greene either. He’s averaging 133.3 yards per game thanks mainly to the damage he does in the return department. Through four games, Greene has 322 receiving yards (2 TDs), 116 kick return yards and 88 punt return yards.
If Graverson, Laidig, Greene and Co. get by Jimtown, that will set up quite the showdown with NIC rival John Glenn Sept. 22, a game that will be MAX 98.3 FM’s Game of the Week.
A Bremen win coupled with a Glenn victory at Knox tomorrow night, would mean the two would clash in eight days both sporting 4-1 records. Now wouldn’t that be something?
As we head down the stretch of the high school football season, it is a certainty that the Lions are embarking on the meat of their schedule.
Regardless of tomorrow night’s outcomes, Bremen knows three of its final four opponents – Glenn, Prairie Heights, South Bend Riley and Tippecanoe Valley – have winning records. Riley and Tippy are a combined 8-0.
No question, Graverson, Laidig, Greene and the rest of the Green Machine will have to be firing on all cylinders to keep on winning … and given how they’ve started the season, there’s no reason to think they will end it any differently.
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