When it rains it pours for the Senior Drumheller Titans, as they took on the Crescent Heights Vikings in their home opener.
Titans, who are still assembling their 2015, squad met a well polished Vikings squad that is hitting its stride. Compound that with last Thursday night’s driving rain, it turned out to be a miserable night for the senior Titans.
“We knew that Crescent Heights has been gaining steam for the last year and half. It looks like we just ran into a team that is hitting their stride, going on to a good run at their tier 3 level,” said Coach Ken Fournier. “When it rains it pours. We dug ourselves into a deep hole and whenever we tried harder to get out of that hole we just pulled the wall down on ourselves.”
The Titans did show some promise on offense, but weren’t able to punch it into the end zone as the Vikings went on to a 54-0 win.
“That was one of the best defensive performances I have seen at the high school level period,” said Fournier of the Vikings.
“For our offense to get shut out means that there are a lot of things happening that didn’t allow us to move the ball forward and continue drives. The guys are going to have to dig deep this week because we have an equally tough opponent this Friday,” said Fournier.
For Coach Fournier, the game will provide all kinds of information for the team to learn and improve from, especially when they go to the film.
“The plus for us is we get to go back and look at the film because we had a team that showed us every single mistake we have made, and they played a pretty flawless game,” said coach Fournier.
The Titans have had a little bit of luck as of late and brought on more players, however with short notice, they were not able to utilize ten in last week’s game.
“Throughout the week we actually registered another 11 players, and six of them were the day before the game. Only two of them actually went in. We couldn’t put them in with no practice,” said Fourier, “especially against a team like that.”
This Friday they face another tough team in the Medicine Hat Mohawks on the road.
“Every team is going to be out for blood now, they are seeing this as an opportunity to take away a win from us, so our guys are going to have to dig down and play with heart and intensity, and play the game that we as Titans play.
