By MIKE ROSIER/Publisher

Published on Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 6:23am |

• Sports

JOHNSTON – So far so good.

The seventh-ranked Strom Thurmond Rebels football team emerged from Wednesday’s home scrimmage with the Newberry Bulldogs injury free and feeling good about themselves.

The Rebels scored three times, all through the air on connections from junior quarterback Raleigh Yeldell to wideout Antonio Hamilton, while the Bulldogs managed just one score on a long run late in the scrimmage against mostly reserve players.

“It was a lot like (last Saturday’s scrimmage) in that we didn’t turn the ball over and didn’t have many penalties so that’s huge,” Sawyer said. “We had a lot of big plays where we had the ability to stretch the field, Antonio showed that. Raleigh threw the ball well except for a couple of slants where he threw it in the dirt, one that might have gone the distance. We’ll learn a lot more when we look at the film, but overall, I was pleased.”