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Championship ‘rings’ up goals for young Dawgs

By Barry Merrill
NL Publisher

22 August 2007 — Despite a young squad on the field, the recent success of the baseball team may have sparked some lofty goals of the Princeton Football Team.

“They want to play in a state championship,” Head Coach Russell Williamson said Sunday.

That may come before this group of players graduates with some continued growth and some success. There is more work to be done, however, in the mean time.

Coach Williamson says his team is looking to win some conference games this year. After going winless the year before, Princeton scored a couple of non-conference wins, but still went winless in the Carolina 1-A Conference.

With most of the conference making the 1-A playoffs, his team is no longer satisfied just getting to the playoffs, but they are eager to start registering a win once they get there.

Even after a humbling defeat on Friday, albeit against a much larger school, he does not expect his team to get down. “They’re resilient.”

He also said they have confidence in their system and believes they are moving in the right direction for greater success at Princeton.

“We’ve never rolled over.”

Like the other coaches in the conference, he expects Ayden-Grifton, North Johnston and North Duplin to be the better teams in the conference, but there seems to be greater parity in the league this year.

That could bode well for a young Princeton team with some players with a recent taste of a championship still fresh on their lips.

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