Camp Verde High School’s football program returned from a five-day team camp Friday, July 31, in Irvine, Calif., after losing a close battle with Greenway High School, of Phoenix, but winning the confidence game.
“We were real close,” said Steve Darby, CVHS head coach, after the Cowboys were edged by the Demons in their Big Man competition. “They just had some monsters. Our big guys didn’t match up real well, but we won a fair amount of our individual matchups.
“Our kids were really rusty but played them pretty even” in their seven-on-seven tie, Darby added. “I’m feeling a lot better about our depth chart from the beginning of this summer.”
CVHS took 28 players from that depth chart to its fourth annual team camp at Concordia University, near Huntington Beach, Calif. — where, in between two-a-day practice sessions, the team spent three hours in conditioning exercises each weekday beginning July 27.
For the full story, please see the Wednesday, Aug. 5, issue of the Camp Verde Journal.
