Rams bowl down Coyotes

By Lethbridge Herald on October 14, 2022.

Herald Photo by Justin Seward Chinook Coyotes defensive back Carter Dyck tries to tackle down LCI Rams' Blake Van Bruggen during the first half of Southern Alberta High School Football Conference action on Friday night at Community Sports Stadium. The Rams won 38-0.

By Justin Seward

Lethbridge Herald

The LCI Rams football team were crowned the Gold Football Division A champions after defeating the Chinook Coyotes 38-0 on Friday night at Community Sports Stadium.

“I thought Chinook played very well,” said Rams coach Patrick Leahy.

“They’re a physical team, they’ve got some great athletes honestly in all grades that are really good football players. They’ve got a bright future over there. I thought our kids did a great job of rising to that challenge. We started out strong, hit a bit of a (slow stretch), scored on a drive near the end of the first half … and then put the pedal down a little bit in the second half.”

Leahy was happy with the way the team came out and competed.

“We challenged them to do better than last week and they backed that up,” he said.

Leahy thought the defence did a great job.

“We’ve been really challenging our defence to do a better job of being more physical and setting the tone on our side of things (and) coming up and  playing in their back field and not so much on our heels ,” said Leahy.

“I thought they really responded. A kid like Hudson Procee, I thought tonight played his best game at linebacker by far. He was making some big hits; he was flying around. We had some new guys rotating in on ‘D’ competition. Nate Morris is our tailback — he had a pick on defence as well.”

The Rams have completed league play and will now move on to play Raymond in the South Zone championship in a few weeks’ time in hopes of climbing the ladder from the seventh seed for provincial rounds and then will play at least one more provincial game after that.

The Rams will play Foothills in an exhibition game next week.

Chinook will play in their tier 2 provincial game next week.

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