(Council Bluffs) The St. Albert football team enters Week 5 with a 1-3 overall record. The Falcons are 1-1 in district play.
The Class A, District 7 playoff race is still wide open and coach Jake Driver’s squad looks to remain in the hunt when they travel to 1-3 Earlham. The Cardinals are also 1-1 in the league standings. “Every year our goal is to make the playoffs. This is a huge step. Last week was a downside to that, because it was a game that we feel like we should have one. We lost 14-0 and had four turnovers. Those 50-50 games you have to win in order to get to the playoffs. To me this is another 50-50 game.”
Falcon coach Jake Driver says size is the first thing that stands out when they look at the matchup at hand. “They are really big up front. We have to be able to handle their size and be able to stop their tremendous run game. They are big and physical and really want to assert their dominance up front.”
St. Albert is coming off of a 14-0 loss to SW Valley last week. “We are right in there.” Driver says, “If we limit our mistakes, in our first two games we played close games against good teams and had zero turnovers. In the last two weeks against good teams we’ve had eight. We have to eliminate those mistakes.”
Coach Driver says Earlham’s defense doesn’t make mistakes and his team will have to execute well in order to move the ball.
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