Team Preview: St. Thomas More

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School: Saint Thomas More

Mascot: Sabers

Conference: Illini Prairie Conference

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Head Coach: Nathan Watson

Assistant Coaches: Chris Bazzell Shane Halcomb Tanner Laznik Cary Mathews Sergio Medina Brett Poorman Clark Roberts Joe Santillo Brandon Shaw Adam Walker

2017 results: 1-8 (1-8) Illini Prairie Conference. The Sabers failed to qualify for the 2017 IHSA state football playoff field.

2018 St. Thomas More Sabers schedule

8/24/2018 vs SJO

8/31 at Stanford-Olympia

9/7 vs Monticello

9/14 vs IVC

9/22 vs Rantoul (@ Memorial Stadium)

9/28 vs BCC

10/5 at Unity

10/12 vs Pontiac

10/19 at Prairie Central

Returning Offensive Starters

Name	Position	Grad Year	Height	Weight

Jon Gibas	OL	2019	6-foot-3	180
Tommy Anderson	OL	2019	6-foot-0	200
Justin Smith	OL	2020	5-foot-10	215
Nick Majers	OL	2019	6-foot-0	225
Averi Hughes	OL	2021	6-foot-2	200
Parker Jackson	TE	2020	6-foot-3	210
Hunter Howell	RB	2020	5-foot-10	170
Trevor Hummel	WR	2019	5-foot-11	165
Chad Kelton	WR	2019	6-foot-0	165
Elvory Shellman	WR	2019	5-foot-7	150
Bryson Lee	QB	2019	6-foot-2	170

Defensive Returning Starters

Name	Position	Grad Year	Height	Weight

Jon Gibas	DL	2019	6-foot-3	180
Tommy Anderson	DL	2019	6-foot-0	200
Nick Majers	DL	2019	6-foot-0	225
Averi Hughes	DL	2021	6-foot-2	200
Stephen Jerkovitz	LB	2019	5-foot-11	170
John Sexton	LB	2020	5-foot-10	170
Jay Quiram	LB	2019	6-foot-2	180
Jason Brown	DB	2021	6-foot-0	155
Nate Kelton	DB	2019	6-foot-0	165
Trevor Hummel	DB	2019	5-foot-11	165
Bryson Lee	DB	2019	6-foot-2	170

Newcomers to Watch

Name	Position

Dominic Magrini	RB/LB
Riley Morris	WR/DB
Joyson Kakings	OL/DL
Nick Twohey	ATH

2018 St. Thomas More Sabers Summer/7on7 plans

@ Gibson City July 12th (Watseka, Tri-Valley, & GCMS)

vs. Fisher TBD

@ Coles County July 25th

Did you know...that St. Thomas More second year head coach Nathan Watson has spent nearly his entire coaching career in Central Illinois? Watson was a grad assistant coach at EIU, an assistant coach at Champaign Central along with head coaching stops at Arcola and Urbana.