Published in the August 25, 2016 edition.

WAKEFIELD — The fall preseason has started for the Wakefield Memorial High sports teams. For players, that means time spent practicing to learn and fine tune the skills of their sport under the guidance of the coaching staffs in place.

Before the regular season starts after Labor Day weekend, many of the Warrior teams will be participating in scrimmages as part of their preparation as well.

In fact, Saturday marks the first day of scrimmages for the varsity football and varsity and JV boys’ and girls’ soccer teams.

The football team will have a scrimmage with Woburn on Saturday at 10 a.m. at Woburn High School.

The JV and varsity girls’ soccer teams will scrimmage at Georgetown on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Georgetown Middle/High School.

The JV and varsity boys’ soccer team will have a scrimmage against Saugus on Saturday at 12 p.m. at the Galvin Middle School.

All three teams will have scrimmages next week as well.

The football team hosts Methuen on Tuesday, Aug. 30 at 6 p.m. at Landrigan Field and then takes on Lynn English on Friday, Sept. 2 at 7 p.m. at Manning Field.

Wakefield opens up the regular season on Saturday, Sept. 10 at 1 p.m. against Beverly at Hurd Stadium.

The JV and varsity girls’ soccer team will also be scrimmaging several times next week.

On Monday, Aug. 29, the JV and varsity girls’ soccer teams will scrimmage Triton at 6 p.m. at Triton Regional High School. On Thursday, Sept. 1, the JV and varsity girls’ soccer teams will host Concord-Carlisle in a scrimmage at 3:45 p.m. at the Galvin Middle School. On Saturday, Sept. 3, the varsity girls’ soccer team will scrimmage both Apponequet and Lowell at 1 p.m. and 2:20 p.m. at Woburn High School.

The JV and varsity girls’ soccer teams open up the regular season on Thursday, Sept. 8 at 3:45 p.m. against Lexington at Lincoln Park for the varsity and the Worthen Road Field at LHS for the JV.

The JV and varsity boys’ soccer teams will also scrimmage St. Mary’s of Lynn on Wednesday, Aug. 31 at 6 p.m. at the Galvin Middle School. The Warriors open the regular season on Thursday, Sept. 8 against Lexington at the Galvin Middle School. The JV plays at 4:30 p.m. and the varsity goes at 6:15 p.m.

On Wednesday, Aug. 31, the varsity and JV field hockey teams will have their first scrimmage as well at the Shaun Beasley Field against Saugus. The varsity will play at 3:45 p.m. and the JV will go at 5:15 p.m.

The JV and varsity field hockey teams will also scrimmage on Friday, Sept. 2 against Lynnfield at 3:45 p.m. at Lynnfield High School.

The varsity field hockey team’s final tuneup will be on Saturday, Sept. 3 at 10 a.m. at Shaun Beasley Field when it hosts Revere.

The season opener for the varsity and JV field hockey teams against Lexington is on Friday, Sept. 9 at Shaun Beasley Field. The varsity plays at 3:45 p.m. and the JV game starts at 5:15 p.m.

There are currently no scrimmages scheduled for golf, girls’ volleyball, girls’ swimming, boys’ cross country, and girls’ cross country. That could change if any of those sports picks up a late scrimmage or practice meet. In the meantime, they will be working hard in the practices before their season openers as well.