BUIES CREEK, N.C. - The Campbell football program wraps up the 2010 spring schedule with the third annual Orange-White game on Saturday, April 10 at 12 p.m. at Barker-Lane Stadium.

The intra-squad scrimmage is free to the public and will feature the offense and defense going against each other in a game-type scrimmage. The first half will feature two 15-minute quarters with the second half's quarters being scaled back to 12-minutes each. The offense and defense will compete against each other for points in a system devised by Coach Steele and the coaching staff. The game is expected to allow the team to finish its 15 spring practice with a bang and be a sneak preview for the CU Football Fans to the 2010 season.

"We have been pleased with the progress that we have made through out our practices during the spring," Coach Steele explained. "We set numerous goals at the start of the off-season and at this point we have achieved a number of those goals. We have become more consistent and intense play-to-play as a football team through our off-season work. What we set out to do in the spring was to get our younger players better prepared to play during the upcoming fall by giving them a lot of snaps and repetitions and putting them in a lot of game-type situations. As a coaching staff we have had a number of players that have risen to the occasion and are playing at a higher level than they were at during the fall."

The scoring system for the scrimmage will go as follows: the defense will be awarded three points for forcing a punt, four points for forcing a fumble and recovering the ball and five points for picking off a pass. The offense can score six points when they score a touchdown, one point for an extra point and three points for a field goal.

"Being a now veteran football team, one of things that we are looking for in the spring game is seeing us play more mistake-free football, Steele stated. "We, as a coaching staff, want to see improvement and see few turnovers by the offense and limited penalties from both sides of the ball. That is one reason we keep the offense and defense separate and going against each other. One of our majors goals is to go out and continue to progress toward being a more productive and successful football team and program. We would like to see improvement in both red zone offense and see the offense putting points on the board in those situations. Defensively, we want to see the team play more consistently with as many three-downs and out and turnovers as they can get. Those are a few of the areas we want to see improvement on Saturday."

Last season the CU defense was able to outlast the offense by a score of 42-34 in a similar scoring system. The defense also won the first spring game by a 33-31 score.

"I think we have made numerous improvements offensively," Steele said with gleam in his eye. "Obviously fans like to see the offense score, head coaches don't, but fans do. We feel the progress that our offense has made throughout last fall and spring is going to make the game more competitively balanced this year."

Campbell football will start the 2010 home season at Barker-Lane Stadium/Ed Gore Field against Old Dominion on Sept. 11 starting at 1 p.m. For the first time in three years the Camels first game will be on the road as the team heads to Virginia Wise to take on Cavaliers on Sept. 4.

2010 Orange-Black Game Point System