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You might think I’m being glib if I point out that Wilson’s victory over Ganesha Friday night doubles their win total from last season, at a grand total of two—I assure you, I’m not. <\/span>We talked with Coach Morales about the cloud of that 2007 1-9 season, and what a motivating factor it’s been for this year’s squad. <\/span>After their first victory put them at 1-0, the returning players from last season refused to let their team get too excited—after they lost at Pacifica last week, Morales said keeping his kids’ heads up during practice would be a major focus. <\/span>Well, it looks like he succeeded, as the Wilson Bruins got it done against the Ganesha Giants by a score of 27-0.<\/span><\/p>\n Wilson’s biggest player, Jemari Roberts, scored two touchdowns with over fifty yards of total offense, but it was their defense that rose above the Giants. <\/span>The Bruins held Ganesha scoreless, and recorded six turnovers, three from fumbles and three from interceptions. <\/span>They also got a scoop-n-score touchdown from one of those recoveries, and had one of the picks taken to the house, too. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Steven Barrett, the Wilson QB who struggled mightily at last week’s game, settled down and had a solid day, completing over fifty percent of his passes. <\/span>But even with all of the positives, Coach Morales wants to make sure his team keeps climbing. <\/span>“We need to improve our consistency, on both sides of the ball,” he said. <\/span>“We need to tackle better—but it’s mostly things like that, things that are correctable. <\/span>So I think we’re going to continue to get better.” <\/span>With a <\/span>2-1 record, the Bruins can officially close the book on last season—how much they can improve over the next few weeks (they have a tough home opener against Los Al on Friday before starting their Moore League schedule) will determine what kind of a team the 2008 Bruins will be remembered as.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In their third consecutive road game to start the season, the Wilson Bruins shut out the Ganesha Giants, winning 27-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5574"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=5574"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}