Gardner Edgerton kicked off its 2016-2017 football season with the annual Gatorade Scrimmage Friday, Aug. 26.

  The football team has several scrimmages against each other throughout the year. These scrimmages are held during their practices and fans are not formally invited to watch. However, at the beginning of the season every year, they hold the annual Gatorade Scrimmage. Which welcomes any and all fans to the stadium.

    This scrimmage is open to the public.The admission fee for the game is just Gatorade, a pack or a bottle. All players are eligible to use the Gatorade for both games and practices all season long.

  This year like many before, the varsity, junior varsity, sophomore and freshman teams all rivaled it out on the turf to receive the gatorade that the parents, teachers and blazer students had brought for the boys.

  Of course, with first games come first game jitters, and freshman player, Dilyn Jacobs, who plays shade position, was feeling just that.

“I’m feeling anxious, excited and probably a little reckless and nervous,” Jacobs said. “It’s a good different, not scary.”

  Returning sophomore player, Holden Carney, who plays left guard position, said he was feeling hyped about the scrimmage.

  “I’m kind of nervous,” Carney said. “Just ready to knock some heads and play my heart out.”

  With the sky spotted with clouds, the wind lightly blowing, and warm weather making the turf even hotter. The players played through an evergoing game of switching positions and subbing in different team members, all in order to gain gatorade for their teams.

  After the scrimmage, head coach, Marvin Diener only had good things to say about the teams and how excellent they had played.

  “We’re real excited, I mean, we had a great off season and they’ve worked really really hard to put themselves in this position,” Diener said. “They’re doing a very good job.”

   The players, managers and coaches want all Blazer fans to get ready for the 2016-2017 football season.