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Terrapins playing well down home stretch

   The Drumheller Terrapins are winding down their season, but looking back it has been a strong season of learning and having fun.
   They have also been very competitive on the field.
   On Saturday afternoon, October 15, they took on the Red Deer Steelers, and though they fell 26-0, they played well defensively. The Terrapins fell behind 20-0 at the half but managed to hold Red Deer to just one touchdown in the second half.
   “It is not that bad at all considering that Red Deer is a high scoring team, we held them pretty good,” said Coach Thomas Laffin.
   He said the Terrapins have struggled with size this season, and last Saturday that was again the case.
   “We are a very young team with seven Grade 7 players going up against teams with more Grade 7s and more size than us,” he explains. “We moved the ball almost 170 yards, it was just the turnovers was killing us.”
   Another highlight was Ben Messom, who now holds the record for most interceptions in one game and also in a season.
   While the team has been short on wins, it has been competitive.
   “When you look at the stat lines with points for and against we look really good,” he said. “The game play is better. The guys have developed very well.”
   The Terrapins have one more regular season game this Saturday versus Innisfail, and then the postseason begins. The next weekend the team has a bye and then on November 5, they are back in the thick of it.
   He foresees the team playing in the C Championship and he says they have a good opportunity to bring home that trophy on November 5.

Senior Titans top Olds

   The senior Drumheller Titans cruised to a solid win over Olds on their way to the post season.
   The Titan faced Olds on their home field on Saturday night, and Drumheller had their offense firing on all cylinders as they cruised to a 41-6 victory.
   “That is the best quarter our offense has had.” Said coach Fournier. In fact, down the stretch, officials invoked a mercy rule and saw the clock not stop.
   Fournier said the team played clean and that was a big help.
“The difference is we didn’t take a whole bunch of penalties that kills drives and we kept moving the ball,” said Fournier.
   He says while Olds is a young team, they are a well-coached team that will improve, and in this game, they protected the ball well not committing any turnovers.
   “They didn’t give us anything we didn’t have to earn,” said Fournier. Colton Enns had a great day with two runs over 50 yards.
   The road to the provincials doesn’t get any easier for the Titans. This weekend they are hosting Canmore, another team looking to the post season.
   “They are another team really pushing to get into provincials and compete,” said Fournier. They are a well coached team and they can roll out well, and they can throw the ball from sideline to sideline. On defense, our DBs are going to have to have a good game because the quarterback is going to throw it,” said Fournier.
   The Titans host Canmore this Saturday at 2 p.m. Next Wednesday they play Forest Lawn in Calgary.

Sabres win silver at Zones

   The St. Anthony’s Sabres hosted the South Central Zone Tier 2 Soccer Zones and came home with a silver medal.
   On October 14 and 15, soccer players from throughout the zone descended on Drumheller to play in the tournament. The Sabres played well, advancing to the championship match.
   “It is the best placing our high school girls soccer program has ever had,” said coach

Gavin Makse. “We have had a team for almost 10 years, and to win the silver medal is very good.”
The Sabres were second overall coming out of pool play on Friday. This puts them in a semi-final versus Highwood High on Saturday morning. They won over Highwood 2-1 to advance to the championship.
There, they met a combination team from Olds Koinonia Christian School and Hugh Sutherland School of Carstairs, and after a close battle, fell 2-0.
He explains it has been a long road for the squad. “We have 5 grade 12 players, a lot of those girls started in Grade 7 or Grade 8, and they have been playing against older teams We went in not expecting to win but it was all for the future,” said Makse. “They were playing these older girls in order to get better. I know it is tough and not much fun losing, but it will pay off long term, and we saw that today.”

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