“They’re basically unstoppable right now.”
That’s how the bantam Titans’ head coach Thomas Laffin is describing his team after a lopsided 106-8 win at home on Saturday, where fans watched as the scoreboard rolled over to double zeroes for the first time in recent memory.
The bantams were part of a triple header weekend at the Drumheller Valley Secondary School fields on Saturday of the Thanksgiving weekend, where the team racked up points against Stettler like it was a basketball game.
“We didn’t like the fact we ran up the score but we needed the points for playoffs,” says Laffin, who adds the game put them in third place and earned them the title of highest scoring team in the league.
“We knew heading into it it wasn’t going to be an easy game, but we got ready and went out there and dominated from the very beginning,” says Laffin. “We’ve been fired up ever since our McMahon game. The guys aren’t slowing down one bit and they’re coming together as a team more and more each day.”
He says the team took the opportunity to get all their players into the game, and while they didn’t let up on scoring when the opportunity came, Laffin says the team followed the coaches’ direction to soften their blows and to encourage Stettler’s players. He says the Stettler team stuck with it and finished the game.
While the team has one more regular season game against Springbank at home next Saturday afternoon, the team is now eyeing playoffs as they’ve pretty much secured at least a third place finish in the standings. The team seems locked to play Sylvan Lake in the first playoff round in two weeks, but will be looking at this last regular season game to add more points to their differential and hopefully secure home field advantage for playoffs.
“We’re more worried about the playoffs but we’re going to give Springbank all we got,” said Laffin.
The team will be at home next Saturday afternoon, with the start time still unconfirmed as of publication.
