For the second straight year, the Wright City football program held an August scrimmage, while also collecting items for Wright City Food Pantry.
Wright City held its annual Soap and Soup …
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For the second straight year, the Wright City football program held an August scrimmage, while also collecting items for Wright City Food Pantry.
Wright City held its annual Soap and Soup Scrimmage Saturday at Wright City High School. Wright City Football Coach Tyler Rickard said through communication with Wright City Food Pantry Director Joe Purl, he saw an opportunity for the Wright City football program to partner with the pantry and help supply needed items.
“Last year was the first year we did it,” Rickard said. “It went really well. So this year, we just did it again. It looks like we got another good supply over there that we can go give them.”
Purl noted the pantry goes through a lot of hygiene products and soup is one of the pantry’s other staple items. Purl said not only are they high need items, but they are easy items to access for the scrimmage.
“It’s a great opportunity as we move back into school time to have an influx of some of those products that we go through with a lot for our clients,” Purl said.
As Rickard decided to introduce the event last season, it was with the focus to help the Wildcat athletes excel on the field, in the classroom and within the community. It also offers parents and the community members a chance to see the team scrimmage prior to the start of the season and give back to the community at the same time.
“This is a great way for them to learn about programs that are offered to our community,” Rickard said. “And to help out … We want them to learn how to be servant leaders to one another and to our community. That’s how we want to make an impact beyond the football field.”
Despite needing to slightly alter the plan for the scrimmage due to wet field conditions, Rickard thought the scrimmage ran well. They were originally planning to be on the game field Saturday but wet field conditions moved the scrimmage to the practice field.
“Our practice field did a pretty good job with the exception of about a third of it was a little wet,” Rickard said. “So, you know, minor adjustment, but we still were able to do what we wanted to do. Thankfully, we had some bleachers here, parents brought chairs and so I think it worked out really well.”
Wright City is slated to compete at the Borgia football Jamboree starting at 6 p.m. Friday. Warrenton is also slated to compete in the Jamboree. Warrenton is slated to compete against Wright City at 7 p.m.
