Hart Indians 13, West Ranch Wildcats 7
Little things matter.
If there was any player on our squad who did not already know this, he is certainly convinced of the truth of it now.
There's no percentage in isolating any single play or event in the game and pointing at it as "the" play or "the" moment. If we, as coaches, could pick and choose which moments we wanted to cancel out of the game, we'd all be undefeated.
The point, though, is that doing the little things right make a difference.
Those of you who saw the game saw a battle between two Foothill League teams that could have gone either way at any time. While we never like to lose, of course, it's quite obvious from our two games and the other games in the league that West Ranch JV Football is a contender. No one would dare say that because we are the new kid on the block we need to go a few years before we're worthy. We proved it against Saugus last week, and even though we lost here to Hart, we proved it again last Friday.
We did not help ourselves with too many turnovers and far too many penalties. We must eliminate those kinds of things and play as close to error-free as we can. The strength of this team has always been its precision and smarts: we need to eliminate the lapse in both we had this game.
Now, we must learn from the Hart loss and come raging back against Canyon. We cannot get into the complexities of who-beat-who and what it means for us: we merely need to improve and come out strong against Canyon.
Next Week: Canyon!
If there was any player on our squad who did not already know this, he is certainly convinced of the truth of it now.
There's no percentage in isolating any single play or event in the game and pointing at it as "the" play or "the" moment. If we, as coaches, could pick and choose which moments we wanted to cancel out of the game, we'd all be undefeated.
The point, though, is that doing the little things right make a difference.
Those of you who saw the game saw a battle between two Foothill League teams that could have gone either way at any time. While we never like to lose, of course, it's quite obvious from our two games and the other games in the league that West Ranch JV Football is a contender. No one would dare say that because we are the new kid on the block we need to go a few years before we're worthy. We proved it against Saugus last week, and even though we lost here to Hart, we proved it again last Friday.
We did not help ourselves with too many turnovers and far too many penalties. We must eliminate those kinds of things and play as close to error-free as we can. The strength of this team has always been its precision and smarts: we need to eliminate the lapse in both we had this game.
Now, we must learn from the Hart loss and come raging back against Canyon. We cannot get into the complexities of who-beat-who and what it means for us: we merely need to improve and come out strong against Canyon.
Next Week: Canyon!
