TAHLEQUAH — Although the Roland Rangers did not find the end zone in their first football preseason scrimmage Friday night against Vian, Tulsa Holland Hall and host Sequoyah-Tahlequah, first-year coach Greg Wise was fairly pleased with how his team played.

“We had a few good drives,” Wise said. “We made sure all of our kids got some good reps in. We got a lot of good work, and that was what I wanted to see. We had a lot of good things that I saw. Some of the things I wanted to look for were what their conditioning was, where their minds were and see how well they picked up on what we’re trying to bring to the table offensively and defensively. We showed some stages of good things, and some things that need to improve. There are things all over the field I’m pleased with. A lot of the stuff I was pleased with was our effort and our attentiveness to seeing what we need to do. I felt on both sides of the ball, I saw good stuff.”

Of course, there are some things that need to be corrected before the Rangers take on their archrivals, the Muldrow Bulldogs, in the latest installment of “The Battle of 64” at 7 p.m. Sept. 5 at Muldrow’s Marty Rogers Field.

“A lot of things need to be worked on,” Wise said. “Right now, we’re in the process of understanding what each of our jobs are. We’re making sure our kids know what their job is on every play. Offensively, we need to have better reads. We need to see the field better. Our (running) backs are going to have to see the holes better. Our offensive linemen are going to have to figure out the blocking schemes a little bit better than we did in the scrimmage Friday night. There’s things all over the field we need to correct.”