Marble Falls football begins second week with scrimmage against Lago Vista
CAPTION: Senior receiver Jace Williams leaps and snatches this ball out of the air for a big first down as junior defensive back Gage Coleman defends. Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro
The Marble Falls High School football team completed its first week of practice with a short intrasquad scrimmage Aug. 9.
Head coach Keri Timmerman noted the Mustangs enjoyed a productive week as they get ready to welcome Lago Vista to a scrimmage Thursday, Aug. 14, with the subvarsities playing at 5 p.m. and the varsity to follow at 6:30 p.m.
“It’s been good,” he said. “The kids are further ahead. I feel like everything is moving forward.”
The varsity has 12 returners from a year ago led by seniors Joaquin Aguilar, Kaleb Bielfeldt, Jamir Garcia, Kaden Langbein, Gregory Lemon, Raul Moran and Doak Timmerman, the coach’s son.
The coach noted that while coaches are installing the playbook, the players also return to a base group of plays. They rep plays often to ensure the Mustangs have them down pat.
“We’re flooding the kids with information,” he said.
That way coaches know what the Mustangs do well, which helps everyone “figure out who we are.”
“I’m happy with what we’re retaining,” Timmerman said. “There’s cleanup. That’ll sharpen as well.”
He noted he’ll be looking for different traits from the Mustangs when they face the Vikings.
One is aggressiveness.
“Kids play fast and go aggressive,” he said. “We start to get confident as we go. The kids have confidence. There’s still a little more to that. It’s hard to break what you’ve done for five years.”
Timmerman, who is entering his second year at the helm, took over a program that spent five years learning the Slot-T offense, a run-based scheme that used misdirection to confuse the defense.
Now Marble Falls is running Timmerman’s version of the spread offense that has quarterbacks in the shotgun with a single running back standing next to him. There’s a H-back either behind the line or next to a tackle as the tight end. Three receivers also make up the formation.
Sophomore Crawford Mattox and senior Atreyu Machacek have been splitting time at quarterback. The Mustangs are in search of a new starting quarterback for the second year. But the coach pointed out that when one quarterback was sidelined because of an injury last season, the other stepped in and didn’t miss a beat. That’s because he had repped and trained every day as if he were starting.
“He was trained to do that,” he said.
In other words, the quarterback competition forced the two signal callers to learn the playbook and all that goes with that position, so when the other was needed, he was ready.
Aguilar, who is projected to start for the third year at running back, and Bielfeldt, who is the H-back and tight end, are expected to play.
Meanwhile Doak Timmerman has spent the majority of the summer at linebacker but will enter as a running back.
The coach added the freshmen and junior varsity also are performing well, pointing out those players are showing their retention of the playbook, too.
“We’re building and working a lot of singular plays,” he said. “We’re building up what we have. The kids are working very hard. They’re running out there holding their own.”
The junior varsity serves as the scout team for the varsity and those players are getting that job done, he said.
“It’s been a good week and a good end of the week,” he said.
During the scrimmage, fans can donate to the “Our Day to Shine” benevolence fund benefitting by the Texas High School Coaches Education Foundation. It assists student-athletes and hardship cases. Marble Falls participated in the fundraiser for the first time in 2018. One month later student Maribel Nikole Enriquez was in a car accident on Texas 71 and died. Because Marble Falls raised money and donated to the fund, the foundation made a contribution to the Enriquez family.
CAPTION: Senior lineman Bryson Benner explodes into his stance and begins to make his way to the quarterback. Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro
