MIDDLEBURG - The new look to the Middleburg High Broncos under first year coach Ryan Wolfe, a Fleming Island transfer, was impressive over the last year’s team in their Red and Black Scrimmage on Friday.

The obvious look was this team came out in condition and walked away from 90 minutes of alternating between a varsity set of reps, and a junor varsity set with zero injuries. That statistic plagued Bronco Football all last season, but the Wolfe pack seems in outstanding shape in preseason.

“We got out healthy” said an optimistic Wolfe. “Any time you’re banging heads against your own team, you want to make sure you’re crisp, you’re physical, but at the same time we get out of here healthy. It’s the last time we get to face Red on Red and Black on Black. Next week we finally get to line up against somebody. I know our guys are chomping at the bit ready to play somebody. Going against each other, throwing it against each other all summer, they’re ready to face another team.”

And ready they were as the team showed discipline on both sides of the ball. Gone were the regular false starts and miscues. If there were any broken plays, senior quarterback Luke Padgett never let it show as he had clean handoffs, great option reads, and got the ball down field with his throws.

“Luke makes the offense go,” said Wolfe. “We like to run the quarterback. Tonight, we had him in a white jersey and didn’t run him at all.”

Wolfe sat back and watched as his offensive line led by Senior Tanner Perry gave very good protection for Padgett. While the Black Team Defense did get a few short stops and forced a punt, the offense was able to move the ball with Austin Dillon and later Omar Holcomb out of the backfield. On Defense, the team was able to hold the offense to a single runaway touchdown. “We still have a few little mistakes with eye discipline and a couple times they liked to free-lance, but when you get down to it, we really didn’t give up many plays,” said Wolfe. “A few times we went up top on them, but that is when they had backups in. We should be pretty stout on defense.”

Freshman BJ Carter was in the backfield several times and showed his younger age didn’t take away his ability to shake things up. Senior Tyrone Floyd, at defensive tackle, was always in the interior mix, throwing bodies around and finding the ball. Place kick holder Aiden Postemski showed great concentration pulling in snaps for kicker Wade Mathis who made several point after attempts, and was hot and cold as Wolfe backed him up five yards at a time.

Mathis made a nice fake kick, roll out pass to a wide open receiver that had the defense faked out.

“We had 21 guys out for this scrimmage with being sick, didn’t have the amount of days in, and different stuff. We’ll be full healthy on Monday and then it’s game week.”