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Rams Football: Dixon Looks For Bounce Back in Home Opener Tonight Against Patterson
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After last Friday’s season-opening 60-0 blowout loss against Foothill, football coach Wes Besseghini had his team working on “offensive execution” in practice this week.
Can you blame him?
Though his varsity coaching debut didn’t go well, Besseghini felt his first-year varsity players learned a lesson in being shutout offensively and ripped apart defensively.
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“I think that last week was kind of a big eye-opener for some of our kids that have played JV football and then they came up to varsity,” he said. “The speed of the game and the intensity of the game was a big adjustment for them. Improvement in what we do is what our focus is this week.”
The inexperienced Rams were penalized nine times for 65 yards in the first half alone last week. Rams’ running backs carried the ball 24 times for 35 yards and quarterbacks Marcos Pangelinan and Timmy Ruiz passed for a total of 10 yards. Dixon gained only three first downs over four quarters.
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Foothill clicked from the start last week, putting up 28 points in the first and second quarters to lead 56-0 at the half. The Cougars finished with 380 total yards and 16 first downs.
Dixon looks to put last week’s debacle behind them with their home opener tonight against Patterson at 7 p.m. The Tigers dominated Grace Davis of Modesto 42-14 last week, and also have a first-year head coach calling the shots.
Nick Marchy now calls the shots for Patterson after Rob Cozart resigned at the end of last year. Cozart, who had been the Tigers head coach for the past eight seasons, would later join Merced College’s coaching staff.
Besseghini feels as if his younger players have improved to varsity-game speed after experiencing it for the first time last week.
“Our kids have adjusted to the game now and we want to be more physical in what we do,” he said. “I don’t think we were very physical last week.”
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