Sask 9 man – Comets face test hosting Humboldt in home opener on Friday afternoon


The MUCC Comets football team face are tackling one of the biggest tests of the season right off the start, facing their rival Humboldt Mohawks to open the North East 9-man Football Conference regular season play.

The game kicks off this Friday at 4 p.m. at MUCC field.

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Comets’ head coach Dave Rogers said hosting the Mohawks in the first game of the regular season creates a lot of motivation for the team.

“It gives us a measure of where we are and where we need to get to. It is a motivator, a big challenge for us, and we just have to go out on Friday and see what happens,” he said.

To help get ready for the start of the regular season the Comets played a pair of exhibition games. One at home where they lost to Meadow Lake and this past weekend in Regina where they played against Maple Creek.

Although no score was kept, Rogers said the Comets did very well against Maple Creek.

“The offense performed as well as could have been expected. I think the defense could have been better, but we didn’t have any of our “The offense performed as well as could have been expected. I think the defense could have been better, but we didn’t have any of our starting linebackers with us so that was what we expected.”

The exhibition games are a great way for the Comets to get in “game shape” in preparation for the start of the regular season.

“You can practice as much as you like, but practice conditions are never the same as playing another team so I think when we get into the scenario where we are now playing another team it is not new, we have done this a couple times now. We have come through adversity and have had to work really hard to be competitive and got an idea of what we have to do and it helps get us into game shape.”

He is also preparing the team to take on their first opponents for points in the standings, the Mohawks.

The Comets are developing their offense, defense and special teams as well as doing some game specific things.

“Humboldt for the last few years has run their spread offense so we will get them prepped against a spread offense, something we haven’t seen very much in the pre-season,” Rogers said.

“We are getting ready, there will be a feeling out process, because nobody has played a game yet. We are not exactly sure what their personnel and systems will be like and of course they will have the same thing where Humboldt will have some uncertainty in terms of what we are doing.”

The game is the start of the regular season where the expectations are that the team will be better than the 1-5 record produced last season.

“That is the expectation at this point is we need to be better than last year and we should be better than last year and it is up to our players to put us in a position to be better than last year. As a team we are better prepared than we were last year. The two exhibition games makes us better prepared than we were last year. We just need to go out and play with some confidence.”

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