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Published July 04, 2008 12:34 am - The talk this summer in the Washington weight room probably isn’t going to focus much on how badly the Warriors will blow out opponents this fall. Readying to step up in class By Jeff Johncox The Norman Transcript WASHINGTON — Like most schools, Washington has been to a couple football camps this summer, one at Lindsay and one at Lexington.
Now the Warriors are getting ready for their summer lifting and running program, which begins Monday and involves 45- to 50-minute sessions of weights and conditioning. But the talk this summer in the Washington weight room probably isn’t going to focus much on how badly the Warriors will blow out opponents this fall. Instead, this year’s talk will likely involve the Warriors’ jump up to Class 2A. “There’s been quite a bit of talk already,” coach Dennis McCray said. “It’s a little bit of a venture into the unknown.” The Warriors will be part of District 2A-3 this fall, and will play a district schedule against Lindsay, Bridge Creek, Comanche, Crooked Oak, Frederick, Hobart and Riverside. And now that they’ve moved up a class, finding strong non-district competition won’t prove too difficult. “We open with Bethany, who we’ve played the last couple of years, then play Purcell, then Jones,” McCray said. McCray believes his team will be prepared. The Warriors scrimmaged Purcell last season. Two season ago, they won at Bethany 14-0 weather-shortened game before the Broncos returned the favor last season, 23-14, at Washington. “I think one thing that’s going to help us, the past six years, we’ve been going to a lot of summer camps,” McCray said. “We seek out larger schools to play. Always have.” This summer the Warriors have competed against teams like John Marshall, Holdenville, Lexington, Elgin, Wynnewood and Little Axe. “That kind of gives us a perspective of where we stand against larger competition, how we stack up with them,” McCray said. “It kind of takes away the unknown.” While they move up a class, McCray isn’t sure the best programs in Class A and 2A are very dissimilar. “I really don’t think there’s a lot of difference between A and 2A,” McCray said. “Maybe the below-average teams in 2A are a lot better than the below-average teams in A. The top teams in each class can be very competetive. I strongly feel the better Class A teams can match up with the better Class 2A teams.” The Warriors have proven that against Bethany, which itself is jumping to Class 3A. 
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