The last time Cape Coral and Ida Baker met on the football field was Nov. 5. The result was an ugly 42-6 Seahawks victory on the Bulldogs’ home field.

That meeting will be reenacted Thursday night – though the Bulldogs desire a more respectful outcome – in the climax to the spring football season. Kickoff is 7 p.m. at the Bulldogs’ stadium.

In other clashes on this, the final week of spring football, shows Oasis playing six-man football at Canterbury Thursday and North Fort Myers hosting Lehigh at Moody Field Friday.

The Seahawks are rebuilding after losing 32 of 38 varsity players off their 10-2 regional semifinals squad.

The Seahawks picked up a quarterback to replace Bryan Greenwell in J.T. Etnoyer, who transferred over from Mariner. At least they thought they had. Etnoyer since has transferred again to Palmetto Ridge, leaving the starting position to sophomore Kurt Benkert.

“J.T. left the second week of practice, so Kurt has had to learn a lot in a short amount of time, but he will be our starting quarterback,” said Seahawks coach Brad Metheny. “We are eager to see where we are at and anxious to play someone different.”

The Seahawks still have skill players in T.J. Jiles, Kyle Young, Dustin Thibodeau, T.J. Johnson and J.D. Irons to lean on, but overall remains a very green team.

“I don’t expect the same type of game with Baker this time,” said Metheny. “It’s two totally different teams and a different ballgame. We have a bunch of young kids who just want to play and show what they can do.”

Baker, on the other hand, moves on without 10 seniors from their 0-10 season. The burning question is, how good are the replacements?

“It’s been a good spring,” said Bulldogs coach Brian Conn. “We got a lot of good reps and with 60-plus guys we got to see a lot of what the young guys can do.”

Like Metheny, Conn does not expect a repeat of the November meeting.

“I certainly do not expect that,” he said. “We are anxious about playing, but it would be greatly disappointing if we give a performance like that again.”

Still, like most teams gearing up for the spring finale, the Bulldogs think they are ready to go at it.

“This spring just flew by,” said Conn. “In the beginning when you sit down and look at the installation process you are always overzealous, but I think we’ve done a good job of honing it all back to achieve more quality instead of quantity.”

Don’t expect a lot of fancy play-calling. These teams just want to find their footing and build on it in the offseason heading into the fall.

“We have not changed anything in the last seven days of practice,” said Metheny. “We’ve polished a few things, but just taking baby steps.”

“We’ll be very vanilla and no surprises,” said Conn.

Fall practice is not all that far off, either. Just 10 short weeks.