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Spring football returned to Baytown Thursday afternoon.

It’s only 135 days until Sterling’s 2008 season opener against La Porte, so the Rangers were out on the practice field after school trying to get ready.

“We’ve got quite a few new players,†Sterling’s head coach, Herb Minyard, said. “We’ve got to increase our knowledge of execution, offensively and defensively, and on special teams.

“We have some specific objectives we’ve got to be able to do to be successful next fall.â€

Sterling’s not the only local team holding spring drills this year. Lee has set Monday to begin its first spring training season in three years.

Minyard’s Rangers were 1-9 a year ago, with their final game, a 52-49 overtime thriller against Kingwood their only win of the season.

But they played well in late season losses to Beaumont West Brook and Port Arthur Memorial. Minyard is hoping that momentum will carry over into spring training, 18 practices in pads in the next 30 days, and then the season.

“I think the last three ballgames at the end of the ’07 season saw us improve our mental understanding of our offense. Our execution improved,†he said. “That has carried over, not only to our offseason, but will be carried over to the spring.

Sterling did not hold spring training a year ago, which was the second year in a row for the team to add a new defensive or offensive coordinator in the offseason.

Offensive coordinator Scott Large will be working for his second year with the Rangers.

“Spring football is not only for us to teach and insert offense, defense and kicking game, but also learn to be fundamentally sound in all aspects of the game,†Minyard said.

“In the spring, there’s time to work on skills like blocking and tackling. During the season, or in August, it’s all about preparing for the opponent. Not having spring last year probably hurt us a little in that regard.â€

The school district rezoning to create a third high school at Goose Creek Memorial left Sterling with only about 90 players in grades 9, 10 and 11, the ones who were available for practice Thursday.

Linemen Miki Partsch, Michael Gibson, Chris Howard and Curtis Jenkins, backs and receivers Chance Nelson, Dwain Nicholas, D’Andre Thompson and Andre Corley are among the more recognizable names on Minyard’s roster after graduation and rezoning finished with his 2007 team.

A few players, like Keagan Kogut, the only experienced quarterback, are involved in other sports like baseball and track and will join the drills as soon as those seasons end.

“I’m pleased with the progress we made in our offseason program,†Minyard said. “We’re going to continue lifting through spring football so we can maintain our strength.â€

The Ranger coach says he is not planning to hold a spring Blue-White game to end this year’s spring drills.

“Right now we’re working on becoming a better fundamental football team,†he said. “There’s a great deal of work still to do.â€

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