The Lincoln football program is getting a heavy dose of competition this summer during the July 7-on-7 and 11-on-11 competitive seasons.

Coach Matt Silkowski hopes an increase in its numbers this year will somewhat mitigate a largely inexperienced group. He has strong numbers up front with good experience. While he doesn't have the experience in the skill positions and secondary, he is optimistic an increase in athletes this year will create good internal competition. 

Learning is truly the name of the game this summer for Coach Silkowski and his program. He indicates he is very inexperienced and young. He hopes to introduce a lot of that inexperience to what he calls, how high school football works. 

With several more competitions on its schedule this month, the Railsplitters will scrimmage with Pleasant Plains on Aug. 22 before opening the season at Springfield Lanphier on Aug. 29.