Bantam Badgers stay strong

JUStin Seward
Times Reporter

 

The Strathmore Community Football Association bantam team continued to stay undefeated last Saturday but the seniors and peewees were not fortunate to come away with victories in the latter half of the triple-header.
Despite a lot of penalties taken, the bantam team was able to play a fundamentally sound game on both sides of the ball and were fortunate enough to come up with big plays at pivotal times in the game.
“It went good,” said head coach Sean Seafoot. “The past few games we’ve been trying to concentrate on our penalties and that’s the only thing I can say bad about this game is that we just had too many penalties. Offensively, they weren’t playing a safety back. Right at the halftime we threw that bomb there and that was pretty much the nail in the coffin.”
He added defense and special teams allowed them to run up the score and more than anything field position proved to be key in strategy.
“That’s what the game is all about is getting good field position,” he said. “If you’re down on their side for most of the game than you should be scoring more points.”
Even though the team is undefeated, Seafoot stressed they shouldn’t get too comfortable as a lot of work still needs to be done. But he liked that the playbook is starting to take shape.
“We want to keep getting better and better each week,” said Seafoot. “We’ve put a lot into offense these last two weeks but we have our whole offensive package in pretty much. We wanted to work on our passing game this week, just with the receivers all staying on one side and it turned out to look good and made the defense think a little bit and that’s what we wanted.”
The bantams will not be playing any games this weekend as they will be going into the bye week
Clinton Bean’s peewee team wasn’t as fortunate, however, as penalties cost them a victory where the team was unable to get into a groove, allowing Red Deer to capitalize on the situation and walking away with a 60-28 victory.
“We did have a lot mental errors today,” said Bean. “It’s tough because we have such a big team. Trying to get everyone timed, it’s just tough. For most the part, you look at a lot of other teams like them, they rotate four five guys that play offense and defense. We’ve got two sets of offense and two sets of defense because of the amount of kids we have and that’s awesome in community (football) and to be competitive, it’s tough.”
He tipped his hat off to his defense saying they played a great game but questioned their length of time on the field and the offensive turnovers.
“I think we turned the ball over four or five times which is frustrating on offense,” said Bean. “When you do that and they score points, you get down quick.”
The peewees will be back on the field against Stettler (1 p.m.) in Strathmore on Oct. 3.
Meanwhile, the Senior Badgers lost 56-14 to Sundre.