Stars bring strengths, weaknesses into clear focus during scrimmage workout at Columbus North

By Justin Sokeland

WBIW.com

COLUMBUS – Dress rehearsals are designed to allow the most microscopic details to be scrutinized and adjusted, to perfect the final product. Bedford North Lawrence’s final preseason workout was such an exercise, a closer look against outside competition that brought things into clear focus.

With its unusually close proximity to the regular-season opener, a two-day warning that seems like only two minutes before the premiere of a new era, the annual IHSAA sanctioned scrimmage became an experiment in real time. Now with only one practice session before the debut, the Stars know exactly what works and what needs work.

Columbus North provided the insight as the Bull Dogs, with one devastating run in the third quarter, recorded a four-period “win” over BNL on Tue