Indians play in summer scrimmages

PHOTO BY LINDSAY DEBOLT

Milan’s offense moves downfield as part of a summer scrimmage last week against South Dearborn. The Indians are in high hopes of a second-straight winning season this fall.

We are still a little a month away from the official start to the high school football season but Milan hit the field for a pair of summer scrimmages this past week at South Dearborn.

The scrimmages coincided with summer workouts just prior to the annual Moratorium Week enforced by the Indiana High School Athletic Association. No sports program among IHSAA affiliated schools are not allowed to practice during the week which ends on July 7.

South Dearborn and Milan faced off while the Indians also took part in a scrimmage that same day against a familiar foe in Switzerland County. The Knights are coming off of a 5-5 season last fall while the Pacers went 6-5 in just their ninth season as a varsity football program. Each team’s roster last week saw much of its varsity and junior varsity rosters compete and all squads will build off of those performances as they get prepared for the 2024 campaign.

Milan and South Dearborn do not face each other during the regular season and have not been on each other’s schedule since the fall of 2005. The Indians will see the Pacers in Vevay on September 13.

The first official practice of the upcoming high school football season is on August 5 but it will be August 8 before teams can hold an official practice with contact. Milan opens the regular season on August 23 at Rushville as they are in high hopes of building off last year’s 8-4 overall record and runner-up finish in Class A Sectional 47.