Senior Badgers season concludes

Justin Seward
Times Reporter

 

The Strathmore Badgers senior football team’s season came to an end at the hands of Innisfail in a 46-6 defeat on Saturday, but head coach Brad Middlemiss shed some light on an overall successful campaign.
“I’d say our season overall from where we started with the brand new nine-man program was a success,” said Middlemiss.
“We came in fourth. The boys really worked hard. I had a lot of new players and we progressively got better all the way through.”
The team started out with 12 players and grew to 23 over the course of the season, and being a nine-man league there were adjustments that had to be made.
“Moving from 12-man to nine-man, some of the things that we thought would work in a 12-man system did not work in the nine,” said Middlemiss.
“As coaches we were learning along with the kids as we went through. I think that also helped with how we got better.
Middlemisss added that he is getting them into more of a training regime this offseason, which will get them better prepared for next year.
Meanwhile the peewees kick off their postseason against Olds on Oct. 31 at noon, followed by the bantams who will battle Red Deer later the same day at 2:30 p.m., with both games being played in Strathmore.