By Ernie W. Webb III BURLINGAME – I often reminisce about the old days while I’m walking the sideline during a Burlingame football game. Notice I didn’t say “good” before days, as many of those memories of Friday Night Lights aren’t exactly great ones. This Friday, I couldn’t help but think how far the Bearcats […]
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By Ernie W. Webb III BURLINGAME – Burlingame knew it had its hands full Friday night against a team with so many players that the roster in the game program consumed two columns in small type. With little on the line in a non-district game, the Bearcats kept the play-calling vanilla in a 52-14
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By Ernie W. Webb III BURLINGAME – When Jeff Slater started as Burlingame’s football coach in 2014, the Bearcats had six winning seasons in the playoff era (since 1969). With Friday’s 54-8 drubbing of Hartford, Burlingame has never had a campaign below .500 under the longtime coach. That’s 12 seasons, 12 winning records. “I learned
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By Ernie W. Webb III LEBO – Pure guts. It’s the best way to describe Burlingame’s gritty 36-32 win against a Lebo team loaded with talented underclassmen and gunning to climb the mountain in a Lyon County League recently dominated by the Bearcats and Madison. Burlingame, now 4-1 overall and 2-0 in district games, overcame
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By Ernie W. Webb III MADISON – As Madison’s players ran off the field, jumping and yelling in celebration of a hard-fought 42-26 win Friday against Burlingame, John Denver’s “Country Roads” briefly blared on the public address system on the Bulldogs’ home field. That song, of course, is one Burlingame regularly plays at home and
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Burlingame finished the season 10-1 as Lyon County League, district and regional champions. The Bearcats are 90-25 under coach Jeff Slater. By Ernie W. Webb III FRANKFORT – A cold, blustery wind seemed fitting Friday night during Burlingame’s sectional championship game against Frankfort. That biting weather summed up a bitter ending for the Bearcats, whose
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Burlingame won its fifth district title in 11 seasons under Jeff Slater with a 60-30 win over Rural Vista. By Ernie W. Webb III BURLINGAME – With a district championship on the line, Burlingame did what it has done all season Friday night against Rural Vista: Overwhelm the competition with a prolific offense. The Bearcats
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By Ernie W. Webb III When Burlingame coach Jeff Slater asked me to speak to his team the day before the Bearcats’ Lyon County League showdown against Lebo last week, I had no idea what I was going to say. I knew that he wanted me to talk about the history of Burlingame’s program, and
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By Ernie W. Webb III BURLINGAME – It took 46 years for Burlingame to win its first Lyon County League championship in football, but the Bearcats have made up for lost time with a flurry of titles in the past decade. With a 50-0 rout of Lebo on Friday night, Burlingame (5-0, 4-0) captured its
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By Ernie W. Webb III BURLINGAME – Burlingame coach Jeff Slater didn’t mince words early in the second quarter of a Lyon County League game against rival Madison, repeatedly telling his team it was playing soft. After a slow start, particularly on defense, the Bearcats took Slater’s words to heart, cruising to a 66-16 blowout
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