Cleaning things up

Little Rock Parkview has been one of the state’s most surprising teams in the first four weeks of the season.

The Patriots are 2-2 overall and 1-0 in the 5A-Central Conference after routing Mills 67-26 on Sept. 21.

However, Parkview Coach Brad Bolding, in his first season at the school, knows there’s more work ahead if the Patriots want to contend in Class 5A. Bolding said some of his players are making the same procedural mistakes that they were making in the team’s preseason scrimmage in August at Pine Bluff and in the first three weeks against Star City, Benton and North Little Rock.

“There was a lot of little mistakes we made,” Bolding said. “As a coach, you see it and you’re like, ‘Golly, we’ve been working on that. We’re making those mistakes we shouldn’t be making.’

“You look at the score and you’re excited about what your team is doing. But you take those mistakes against a PA [Pulaski Academy] or one of those types of teams, they’ll take advantage of it and it’s a different score. We’ve got to really work on fixing those little things and mental mistakes.”

Even with wanting his team to get better, Bolding said the Patriots have two victories under their belt.

“It gives us a little mojo going into the next game against Fair [on Friday],” Bolding said. “The teams get harder and harder as we go. We’ll be approaching some good teams before long.”