and now sport scores and highlights news 18 Sports from where you live well welcome back and thanks for sticking around as we narrow in on football season we're diving into our area teams ahead of game one taking a look at the Faith Christian Eagles in our camp frenzy coverage the first year program is ready to hit the ground running head coach Jesse Shale says there is a lot of excitement going into this season especially going from 8 to the 11-man game he says his Focus for this season is to make sure that guys are put in the best situation to be successful in order to benefit the team as a whole shell says he is aiming to teach players how to work together regardless of their skill set and still on the topic of football the boilet makers clear day two of fall Camp without any significant rainfall with a little less than a month before the season opener the black and gold have a lot more depth at almost every position as coach Walters mentioned yesterday on day one more depth means more competition offensive coordinator Graham Harold and qb1 Hudson car talks about how the offense has been competing I think that uh you know I do think there was growth from yesterday to today especially with the young ones you know I think Hudson's pretty consistent he knows what he's doing um being in the system for a year and getting as many reps as he got obviously last year through games and through practice like he knows what he's doing he consistently I think makes good decisions um with our defense they force contested plays so we got to make contested plays obviously I think the the guys around um around me and this offense you know um you know I think we're in a great spot you know this year and we got a lot of guys that can go and compete you know at a high level uh we have a lot of depth at each position um you know that that was needed to to get done and you know we have those things now both Harold and card say their communication and relationship has been a huge part in the early progression of the offense and to complete our Football news Purdue defensive back Dylan thaman was named to the Jim Thorp award watch list ahead of the 2024 season thean is one of only two sophomores on the watch list for the award that highlights the best DBS in college football the announcement comes one day after he was named to the Bronco nersi watch list lastly it's hard to believe but the Lafayette Aviator season came to a close on Wednesday night and it ended on a high note after defeating the Johnstown Mill Rats 10 to nothing in seven quick Innings the player of the final game went to Elijah Griffith due to his seventh innings in a shutout baseball game with six strikeouts and giving up only two hits