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Winners and losers

By Blake Roberts-BCFC Media, 08/16/16, 7:00AM PDT

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Winners and Losers

We are one weekend away from the midway point of the season which means fall football is just around the corner. Fall football is good…it’s the fall part that’s the issue but we digress.

If we learned anything this past weekend it’s that there is some real parity in the conference this year. The big 4 of the Sun, Raiders, Rebels and Rams are going to fight it out till the end of the regular season it seems.

The Huskers and Broncos are struggling as expected and still winless but are dangerous every weekend and make anyone team that plays them work for a W.

 

Let’s look beyond the scoreboard for this week’s winners and losers…

 

Winner

Okanagan Sun streak

Easy to assume a 4-0 team is in the winner category but Saturday night’s victory at home was also the club’s 22 consecutive regular season victory. The Sun hold the conference record at 26 and might be starting to eye breaking its own mark.

 

Loser 

Langley Rams late game scoring prowess

Yes, the Rams moved to 3-1 with a 41-16 win over the Huskers but a late game drive that involved throwing deep and scoring a touchdown with no time on the clock wasn’t smart football. There apparently was some after the whistle curricular activity earlier in the game that had the Rams in the mood to pile on the score a bit, but 7 points as time expires doesn’t prove much in the big scheme of things. The conference has a mercy rule that many would like to see done away with. Scoring late like this won’t help the cause.

 

Winner

Rookie Quarterbacks

A look at the passing yardage leader board give the term “young guns” credence. Three of the top 4 passing yardage leaders are raw rookies to junior football straight out of high school or midget football. #1 Noah Falconer (Huskers 924 yards), #2 Jacob Laberg (Raiders 808 yards) and #4 Colby Henkel (Broncos 736 yards) are all under fire but performing well for their respective clubs. If the Huskers, Raiders and Broncos can hang onto their QBS for a few years this could play out to something cool to watch as they battle it out through junior football.

 

Loser

Referees or fans in Langley

Or maybe both…we don’t have a breakdown of what the penalties were but in the Rams/Huskers game Saturday night there were a combined 33 penalties for 350 yards. Not sure if the refs were flag happy, players undisciplined or both but either way the fans likely were not impressed. “I went to a flag throwing contest and a football game broke out”.

Winner

Westshore Rebels fashion

The Rebels unveiled new road jerseys in Kamloops. Red trim with a light grey main color instead of traditional wide. Sick as the players would say.

 

Losers

Valley Huskers run game

9 carries for 18 yards against Langley. The Huskers now have a grand total of 102 yards through 4 games. The Huskers passing game has been exceptionally good this year. Unfortunately, with a running attack averaging 25 yards a game the duo of Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski would be hard pressed to help.

 

Winner

Raquille Cespedes

The Okanagan Sun defensive back and special teamer made it back to back weeks with special team touchdowns. Last week it was the 120 yard missed field goal he returned for a TD. This week he scooped up teammate Conor Richard’s block of a Rebels punt and returned it 15 yards to pay dirt.

Winner

Jamel Lyles

Rebels running back Jamel Lyles is crushing his club's record book and potentially that of the BCFC as well.  His 301 all purpose yards Saturday night (238 rushing and 68 rushing) means he is the first Rebels player ever to have two 300+ yard games in a season.  he had 307 in the Rams second game of the season against the Raiders.