Last Friday The McClatchy football team played River City at Hughes Stadium.
McClatchy’s latest game against River City was a close match ending with an unfortunate loss for the Lions. The Lions started the game off strong with #11, Kiko Brambila running the first touchdown to set McClatchy up 6-0 on River City. During this half, I had the opportunity to speak with Coach Fisher and ask him a question.
“How do you think McClatchy will do against River City in this game?”
“River City is a beatable team. Every year in the metro league River City is a tough team, But a beatable one at that.”
In quarter 2, the Lions played hard and fought harder to keep the lead in their favor. Unfortunately, near the end of the quarter River City made a play and got a touchdown in. RC also scored the field goal which led to the Lions being down 6-7 going into the second half.
At halftime, I could interview Coach Davis about how he felt the team would fare going into the second half.
“How do you think the team will do going into the second half?”
“Good, good. We need to stay focused and motivated going into the second half to win this one.”
McClatchy kicked off to River City in the 2nd half. There were lots of trading yards back and forth between the teams until River City scored yet another touchdown and field goal leading the Lions by 8 points. After more back and forth between the teams, the 3rd quarter ends.
In the 4th quarter, River City scored 2 more touchdowns, one at the start of the quarter and one at the end. These touchdowns locked out the game leading to an unfortunate loss for McClatchy. The final score was 6-27 with River City winning.
Post game I was able to interview student athlete, #24 Malachi Goethe about the loss.
“How do you feel about the loss against River City today?”
“The loss tonight was a strong loss, it hit home for sure. We started off strong in the start but as the game went on we kind of just let it go. We let them get the upper hand and we let them keep it”
In the end McClatchy lost but still the team is excited, motivated, and hopeful for their next games.