Cody Goggin
9-24-13 12:58 pm
OWENSVILLE, MO-Last year, things did not go the way on the gridiron that the Owensville football team planned. They finished the season with a dismal 0-9 record. Coming into this year, things were not looking promising either due to a group of senior starters, including the quarterback, leaving because of graduation. Owensville Dutchmen football has started a losing streak and is in dire need of a W.
This season is looking as if it will
be just as disappointing. There have
been some bright spots this year and reasons to show hope however. In week one
against the Borgia Knights, a very good team, Owensville held their own in the
first half, as the score going into the locker room was 0-0. Later that game it
would seem as if Owensville’s team was worn down and Borgia just took advantage
of the mistakes, pushing the final score to a 26-6 Knights victory.
Week two in Blair Oaks did not go as
well. The Dutchmen offense looked
terrible to begin the game and they could never recover from all of the
mistakes. The first possessions consisted of turnovers that often resulted in
Falcon touchdowns. The score was 42-0 at the end of the first and 55-0 at
halftime. After this, the Dutchmen played solid, although it was against the Falcons
back-ups. Owensville was sent home by a score of 55-13.
Again, at home in week three,
Owensville’s team showed some promising signs.
Playing Salem, the Dutchmen got out to an early score, earning their
first lead of the season. Salem would come back with a touchdown of their own
and be successful on the two point conversion to make it 8-7. This would be the
score going into halftime. Again in the third quarter, things went bad for
Owensville as they allowed 16 unanswered points in the frame and then another
six more in the fourth. As time was running low, Morgan Huebner, a junior
runningback, scored the last Dutchman touchdown, resulting in a final score of
30-13, Salem Tigers on top.
Things are not all bad for the
Dutchmen though, as has been mentioned before, there are some bright spots.
Senior wide receiver Ben Angell described the first three games of the season
as, “… a time for us to figure out where to put people and to become better
teammates.” when asked if the team were as bad as their record has shown and he
replied with, “I believe that the team is better than we have shown because we
have played very good at times, but also very bad at times. Once we figure out
how to stay up all the time on the game field, things will come together a lot
quicker.” The last question Ben was asked was, “What aspect of the game is our
team best at?” Angell’s reply was, “The aspect of the game that I believe we
are best at would have to be defense because other than a couple big plays,
that we have given up in the games, we are stout. The problem with our offense
is that we have a tendency to drive the ball down the field and then something
goes wrong in the red zone and we give up the ball.”
I do, in fact, agree with Ben’s
statements and I think that we will have at least two wins in the rest of the
season. This may not seem like a big deal to some people, but it is here in
Owensville because we love our football and we are looking for improvement in
the future so that we can return to our traditional form. According to Ben
Angell, “There are still many winnable games ahead of us this season.”
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