Last Thursday night, Northumberland hosted the West Point Pointers for their second and final scrimmage before the season begins for keeps. Next Friday night, they will host the Lancaster Red Devils to begin the 2022 season.
In last week’s scrimmage, the Indians had several players back for the first time at the positions where they will probably start the season. In the opening part of the scrimmage, with the clock running, Northumberland outscored the Pointers 24-0.
West Point has the biggest team in size that they have fielded in several years, but the Indians handled them well on both sides of the ball. An obviously pleased head coach Aaron Lewis said, “We played pretty good.” “We need to work on a couple of things,” he added.
Mixing the run and an effective passing game together with controlling the line of scrimmage were the biggest factors in the opening portion of the game that lasted for approximately an hour.
Coming back from a half-time break, the Northumberland staff substituted freely even inserting some prospective JV players. During that time of play, West Point got the formidable single wing attack in high gear. They moved the ball well and in two drives scored 14 points to 8 from the Indians’ subs.
Indians’ schedule
The Indians’ varsity football team currently has nine scheduled games. They open play here Friday, August 26 with Lancaster in a non-district game.
On the 9th of September, they travel to Charles City High School and. September 16, they travel to King and Queen Central in a game added to replace Mathews, who has been forced to cancel their season due to lack of players.
On the 22nd ,the Indians will host Bruton in a Thursday night game. On October seventh, Essex is at Northumberland to open Northern Neck District play.
On October 14, the Indians go to Westmoreland High School, the new name for the new high school in Montross. On the 21st, Colonial Beach will be here to close out the Indians home games. On the 28th of October, they travel to Rappahannock and close out regular season play with a game at Lancaster on November 4th.
For the first time in recent history, the JV football team is scheduled to play 10 games. They open Wednesday, August 31 at Rappahannock. All games, unless otherwise noted will be Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m. The rest of the schedule is as follows:
