Tomorrow night the Spring Hill Bears play one of their toughest matchups this season on their home field against the Subiaco Academy, a team that was a runner-up in its Eight-on-eight Large conference last year.

Spring Hill (1-0) Coach Greg Smith calls Subiaco (0-0) “very talented,” and notes the team retains five offensive players who started last season and five returnees on defense.

“They have size and speed that can be hard to deal with. They will be in a spread offense that was highly efficient over the last three years and a defense that knows how to use the speed they own.”

Meanwhile Subiaco Coach Adam Creek describes Spring Hill as “a well-coached team with good overall speed and quickness.”

He is especially concerned with one Spring Hill offensive player, “a big agile running back, TJ Tipton that gave us a headache last year running the ball and receiving out of the backfield.”

The front lines of Spring Hill are also at the front of Creek’s thinking. “Spring Hill also has a solid offensive and defensive line that returns from last year. Trace Clements and Rick Korenek were able to manhandle our line last year and both return this year. We will have to find a way to get some control of these young men in order to have any success.”

Coach Smith hopes his team can accomplish some of its own goals against the Trojans tomorrow  “to become more fluent offensively and establish our timing as a unit.  Defensively we need to be great tackling in open field.  Defending the spread which is designed to get into the open field. We must defend that space.”

The game starts at 7:30 p.m. at Spring Hill’s football field. Junior high teams will kick off at 5:30 p.m.