The Trenton Bulldog football program went into 2017 with a returning starting quarterback in Lathan Croy and the potential of a potent running game in their attempt to defend the conference title won in 2016, the school’s first as a member of the Grand River Conference.
However, instead of surging, last year’s Bulldog team regressed into the middle of the GRC standings, with home losses to eventual champion Princeton, in addition to South Harrison and Gallatin, holding the final record for the team to 4-6, a stretch that included a pair of losses to Lathrop and a setback at Lexington in Week 2.
Only minor changes to the schedule are noted for this year’s Trenton team, a group that began practice for the 2018 season on Monday night, as Coach Brandon Boswell is hopeful that a strong group of returning running backs and lineman, and early encouraging signs from new starting quarterback Sam Schilling, lead to success at C.F. Russell Stadium. Sports Director Tom Johnson asked Boswell about the quarterback battle coming into August, with Lathan Croy having graduated from the program in May:
Over the past several years, the Bulldogs saw Maysville and South Harrison in a jamboree that was held one week before the regular season opener. With the complication added in 2016 of those three teams being conference rivals, Trenton looked elsewhere for tune-up competition, with the Bulldogs headed for Knob Noster on Friday, August 17th:
The non-conference schedule for Trenton remains the same as the past two years, with THS playing at Lathrop on Friday, August 24th, before hosting the Lexington Minutemen on Friday, August 31th. The GRC has a scheduling formula that flips the schedule “forward” one week every two year cycle. For this season, that means Gallatin (the regular season finale in Trenton’s first two years in the GRC) will be the conference opener for Trenton, with that game at Gallatin High School on Friday, September 7th.
