A quick look at the Vance County Vipers football schedule will reveal a new conference opponent this year. The Louisburg High School Warriors have been added to the 2A/3A Northern Lakes Conference. “We had no place to go,” Louisburg Head Coach Dante Lassiter said on SportsTalk Wednesday.
The Warriors were 7-3 last year but failed to make the playoffs due to a technicality. The team did not play a full conference schedule last year and found that they did not have a conference this season so they were placed in the Northern Lakes Conference this season.
Lassiter, in his ninth year as head coach at Louisburg, says the Warriors will be young this year but looks at that as a good thing. The team will get some experience with scrimmages before the kick off of their season on August 25th against Southeast Halifax. “We will scrimmage against Warren County this weekend,” Lassiter said. Warren County is coming off a playoff year last season and will take on Vance County in the opening game of the season for both teams on August 18th.
Lassiter says his coaching experience is an advantage to his young team. “They know what to expect,” Lassister said. “I may have coached or played with an older brother or a parent,” Lassiter continued.
The Warriors will play the Vipers in Henderson on Sept. 22nd.