Saskatoon Hilltops look to snap a three-game losing streak Sunday when they visit the Calgary Colts in Prairie Football Conference action.
That’s the message Saskatoon Hilltops head coach Tom Sargeant is sending his players as they try to snap a rather rare — at least for them — three-game Prairie Football Conference losing skid this weekend in Calgary against the Colts.We deliver the local news you need in these turbulent times on weekdays at 3 p.m.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“We’re still not properly executing our defensive schemes, our offensive schemes and special teams schemes,” said Sargeant. “We took four penalties — four holding calls — on punt returns . That’s brutal. If you can start cleaning some of those things up, then those little things will become big things. When we get all that right, this will be a different team.”
“At the end of the day, I get the opportunity to coach young men, get an opportunity to get them ready for Calgary. We’ve just got a lot of work to get better. That’s healthy. It’s real. It’s not how you start the race; it’s how you finish it. We’ve certainly got our goals in front of us and nothing more important than getting better.Article content
“This isn’t a very happy place right now. That’s okay. You know, you learn way more in adversity than you do without; you learn way more at the bottom than at the top. Right now, we’re there and we’ve just got to hope this is ground zero, then we can start climbing that mountain again. If we’re not, then there you go and other things come into play.Article content