Richard Froese
South Peace News
The Peace River Prospectors lost 36-12 to the Sexsmith Shamrocks in Peace River on Sept. 14 to kick off the season in the Mighty Peace Bantam Football League.
The Prospectors jumped out to an early 6-0 lead when Makai Knoblauch ran in for a 22-yard touchdown on the opening drive.
Sexsmith quickly responded with a 58-yard touchdown on the Shamrocks’ opening drive to tie the score 6-6 and stretched the lead to 21-6 at halftime.
The Shamrocks added two touchdowns and increased the lead to 24-6 after the third quarter.
Brock Kish scored a touchdown for the Prospectors on a run up the gut to narrow the Sexsmith lead to 24-12 in the third quarter.
Co-head coach Josh Scott says the Shamrocks were tough to challenge.
“Sexsmith is a physical team and came ready to play,” Scott says.
He was satisfied with the Prospectors’ play.
“I am proud of how we played the game,” Scott says.
“It was our first game of the season and the players were itching to get playing and they came out strong at the start.”
The Prospectors had other challenges in the game.
“Unfortunately, injuries go the best of us and we had to put players in different positions than they were used to playing, which caused issues for us,” Scott says.
He is optimistic the team will rebound for its following game Sept. 21