Bulldogs set to open MMC title defense

MOKANE - South Callaway head football coach Tim Rulo took some time to enjoy recalling the Bulldogs' first-ever Mid-Missouri Conference championship as part of their breakthrough 2010 season.

South Callaway will get the chance to enhance that experience starting tonight when it begins defense of the title in the Bulldogs' home opener against Hallsville (kickoff at 7). This is the swan song for the MMC, which will disband after the 2011-12 school year.

"It was such an awesome experience for the guys and for the community and for the school, to be conference champs," Rulo said Wednesday night. "... Now, I think it's something that once you get a taste of that, you want that again.

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