That bitter taste in the mouth is more than enough motivation to take full advantage of a second chance.
Still smarting for losing the Rocky View Sports Association football title at home Oct. 25 to Airdrie’s George McDougall Mustangs, the No. 3-ranked Cochrane Cobras are hosting a regional high school Tier 3 (450-749 school population) semifinal.
Medicine Hat’s No. 4-ranked Crescent Heights Vikings are sailing into a pit of seething vipers on Nov. 8. The paint is still peeling off the Cobras locker-room walls from the blistering post-game oratory coaches delivered following the 21-17 upset home loss to George Mac.
“We will definitely be ready for them,” Cobras co-head-coach and offensive coordinator Rob McNab says of the Vikings. “We do our homework.”
His homework includes in-depth knowledge of the Vikings offensive and defensive tendencies and the team’s player personnel.
“I know they’re a young team like us. They have a few seniors very similar to us,” McNab says of his book on the Vikings. “They’re athletic. They have a young quarterback.
“We’ll just keep playing and do what we do.”
Cobras senior linebacker/fullback Mac Chaisson echoed McNab’s sentiments on Cochrane’s preparations for the regional semifinal against the Medicine Hat school.
“We’re just going to continue to play hard. What we did this week (against Mustangs),” Chaisson remarks. “We did a lot of stuff well. We’ll just look at the couple of fails we did have. Just execute better. We’re not done yet.”
