One down, four to go.
The Bow Valley High School Bobcats remain resolute in their quest for a winning football season.
Yet, swagger is sneaking into their stride.
The Bobcats opened the Rocky View Sports Association high school football season with a 21-0 win over the re-building Chestermere Cowboys on Sept. 12 at Bow Valley’s Stewie Devlin Field.
Confidence is infections, and its working its way into the Bobcats clubhouse.
“Defence basically won the game for us. We gave the defensive players a hug today,” Bobcats head coach Scott Allard said following the contest. The Bobcats D stuffed two Cowboys first-and-goal opportunities in the first half, allowing the offence to get on track. “A lot of that (offence) was just nerves. We just sat down with the offence to get a couple of them getting some key blocks and that’s all it took.”
Bow Valley’s offence sprang to life 49 seconds into the fourth quarter on senior running back Marshall van Iderstine’s two-yard dive. Senior quarterback Zach Kibzey hit senior receiver Grayson Javorsky on a 70-yard, pass-and-run play midway through the quarter, with Javorsky chewing up 50 yards sprinting from the middle of the field and down the east sideline for the score. Senior running back Scott Haigh put the exclamation point on Bow Valley’s win with a 10-yard run late in the contest.
With the season-opening victory, things appear to be coming together on the field for Bow Valley.
“It gives the kids a little more confidence,” Allard observed, as more difficult games lurk down the season. “If we’re competing against teams at a higher level later in the season, and we know going into the playoffs that we’re going to hit teams just like that – we’re going to hit teams of that caliber. If we can’t show it then, we need to know what we’re looking at.
“I think this is the right way to go,” he said of more difficult opponents as the season goes on.
Taking a little swagger along the way can’t hurt.
