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Edgewater ready to pound past Dr. Phillips -- OrlandoSentinel.com

(L-R) Courtney Senior, Edgewater, Damion Allen, Dr Phillips, Mike Brewster, Edgewater, Embry Peeples, Dr. Phillips, and Troy Niblack, Edgewater (Julie Fletcher, Orlando Sentinel / August 28, 2007)

Tania Ganguli | Sentinel Staff Writer
August 30, 2007

Sometimes these non-district high school football games in August mean little more than preseason games.

Not tonight.

That rumble you hear is the Edgewater running game, advancing steadily like a disciplined army.

That flash you see is the glint of light that hits Dr. Phillips' helmets as the players wearing them dash around the spread offense, daring their opponents to catch them.

"We won't know who the best team is until the end of the year," Apopka Coach Rick Darlington said. "But for the preseason, they'd certainly be No. 1 and 2."

Tonight at 7, the Central Florida high school football season will begin with a flourish at Edgewater High School. Two of the area's top teams will begin their seasons against each other.

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