The Estevan Century 21 Chargers fell on their first play and couldn't get much to go right after it.
The peewee football team gave up an opening kickoff touchdown to Assiniboia Rockets' Quinton Fettes and watched as he and the Rockets won 52-0 at Woodlawn Field Saturday in Moose Jaw Minor Football League action.
“As much as we help them and teach them how to prevent that, we're still struggling on that understanding,” said Chargers head coach Jason Bresciani. “We've got a lot of young kids on there that are still understanding what football is all about.”
Although the Chargers defence would often be able to get the Rockets to third and long, Fettes was always available and with size, speed and power was able to exploit the Chargers for big plays, including a pair of touchdowns.
“They switched him and another kid in at half, and he was another big strong runnerand he ran us over too,” said Bresciani.
The Chargers' Robbie Mitchell recovered a fumble late in the first half but the offense wasn't able to capitalize.
There's only one more regular season game to go for the team which wore special retro-style NFL Chargers' jerseys for the game. The Chargers will take on the Moose Jaw Lions for their last regular season game and will likely play them in the first round of the playoffs.
“I know they're struggling too, they only have one tie,” Bresciani said. “Hoepfully it's going to be a closer game.”
