The Yorkton Kinsmen Pee Wee Spring Tackle Football league season came to an end Thursday afternoon at Kinsmen Century Field.
Five teams representing Yorkton, Preeceville and Melville got together for eight games and brought two months of football practice to an end.
"This is the start of their football careers," noted Jason Farrell, head coach of the Yorkton Stampeders.
Everything they learned in practice over the past couple of months was finally about to be put into play that night.
The scrimmage marked the end of what Farrell says is the training camp for the Pee Wee Gridder football team, which has been competing in the Regina Minor Football League for the past three seasons.
The Yorkton Lions, Preeceville Panthers, Yorkdale Central and Melville added to the other action last Thursday.
The final game of the day was between Preeceville and Yorkdale Central.
Jason Boyda, Yorkdale Central School head coach, said the day was "a blast" just to be a part of and that watching his team play well together, there's not much more that he could ask of them.
"I thought things went really well for us," he said following his Yorkdale team's win over Preeceville.
He said that pretty much everything improved, including tackling and blocking.
They played four games Thursday, beginning with a 4:30 p.m., game with the Lions and it wasn't done until close to 9 p.m.
He said they had a lot of fun.
"Oh yeah! For sure. We had four games. There was lots of playing time (for all the players)."
Farrell said the games involved about 150 players from all over.
The games wrapped up two months of football practice for the players.
"It wasit was good," Farrell told the media following the Yorkton Stampeders' final match of the day, which was against Boyda's Royals.
"It's always great to be able to take these kids from not knowing anything about the game to calling their own plays."
Both Boyda and Farrell spoke almost in awe about how some kids were able to grasp what they were taught in two months of practice and then leave it all out on the field during the final four games of the season.
"I saw a lot of improvement," explains Farrell. "This is all part of the building of the program."
