10/24/2019 0 Comments Football Playoffs Have BegunBy: Raechel Painovich
Tuesday night the Hinckley-Finlayson Jaguars football team faced East Central at our home field and came out on top with a score of 44-20. The jaguars’ defense played strong throughout the game which was a winning factor for the team. Offensive player of the game, Ashton Hosler had 109 yards on 16 carries and 2 touchdowns to contribute tto the jags’ points. Jacob Perrotti also had 5 catches for 84 yards and 2 touchdowns to add to the points. The defensive line of Zack Watrin, Ricky Skaff, Randy Skaff, Justin Matson and Gary McFarland held the eagles to 16 yards rushing, 4 sacks and 2 forced fumbles. Coach Brad Hopkins has said, “that their offensive line did a good job blocking for the running backs. They also had zero turnovers that is always a positive in controlling the game.” Coach Brad pulled out many positives from the game but still said they need to make some defensive adjustments before they play again. The Jaguars started out the game, giving up a touchdown to the Eagles but denying them on the 2-point conversion. From there, they continued to gain yards and score touchdowns, leaving the Eagles to only score two more touchdowns. They balanced the scoring out as they were able to have 4 receiving touchdowns and 2 rushing. Ashton Hosler ran for 2-TD’s, Jacob Perrotti caught 2-TD’s, Quentin Matrious and Randy Skaff each caught one TD Pass also. Throwing the ball Cedric Lafave and Brady Johnson combined for those 4-TD passes. The players mentioned that their defense was getting to the quarterback and blocking the screen passes which was an important asset to their game. Brad also said they struggled with pass coverage, they allowed an unusual amount of passing yards to a team they held to one catch earlier in the year. With the positives and the negatives, the team thought they could basically do anything they wanted on both sides of the ball. The football team is convinced they didn’t show their best game to Braham the last time they played them, and are hoping to pull off a win on Saturday. Brad adds to that by saying Braham is a very solid team. They lost to Deer River earlier in the season, and escaped a few close games vs Pine City and Rush City. We played Braham a couple weeks ago and came away on the short end of the score. We hope that with better weather for the match up and I should have 4 starters who were out last time we matched up will make this a very good game.The jaguars will face the Braham Bombers on Saturday in Braham starting at 2pm. The football team would love to see lots of supporters at their game.
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