The Estevan Century 21 peewee Chargers shut out the Rockets 19-0 on Saturday at Assiniboia High School to capture their first victory of the season.
Jason Bresciani, head coach of the Chargers, said their offence started clicking and they played together as a team. He said once they started moving the football early in the game the confidence level began to grow and points on the board was the result.
Chargers signal-caller Alec Waldegger recorded two touchdowns on quarterback bootlegs running around the end of the offensive and defensive lines, while running back Klayden Piippo notched the third major on a run play inside the tackles where he followed his blocks, got bumped outside and charged ahead for the score. Chargers kicker Rylan Hansen also got on the board recording the game’s only convert.
“Defensively we played outstanding,” said Bresciani. “We created a lot of pressure, a lot of tackles for losses and I think we (didn’t) give up a first down until late in the third quarter.”
Bresciani said they enjoyed full momentum against Assiniboia from the opening whistle through the final seconds of the fourth quarter. He said there were four more touchdowns the Chargers scored only to have them called back due to illegal blocks and they also captured two onside kicks by simply beating their opposition to the ball.
“It was a lot of practice, but practising the right things,” he said about where credit for the victory should go. “All the last week we were working on blocking and that really showed. We put a lot of emphasis on that area of the game. Execution on the offence, we really focused on that too and defensively it was just tackling.”
