SANDRA M STANWAY
Brooks Bulletin
The Brooks Badgers pee wee/atom football team are small but they are mighty and that bodes well for the future of the sport in Brooks.
On Saturday the Badgers hosted the season’s first football home game and defeated the Medicine Hat Raiders 45-0.
The home team’s defence limited the Med Hat team to only a pair of first downs in the entire contest while the Brooks team completed seven touchdowns.
“We have depth. Last year we had Kohyve Lukye who danced around and took up a big part of the offence and now we have to spread it around a lot more which has been fulfilling in its own way,” said head coach Jarrod Maxwell-Lyster.
Lars Maxwell-Lyster completed three touchdowns, Kaiden Clarke had two TDs and Caden Fest and Josh Alimi each had one.
Alimi, Maxwell-Lyster believes, will be “a big man on campus next year.
“He’s been a big part of the team so far. He usually has a lot of tackles.”
Maxwell-Lyster said most of the grade 7 players play both offense and defense and they are the ones who will advance to the Roadrunners for the 2025-26 season.
The team is now 2-1 on the season but they did three preseason jamboree-style matches.
“The regular season is a four game season and then the finals. We want to go 3-1 and reach the finals,” he said.
On Oct. 23 the Badgers will face the Medicine Hat Riders.
If the Brooks team wins they will face either the Medicine Hat Riders or Medicine Hat TiCats in the final.
All levels of the sport have been played out of town as the belief was that school construction would start during the season.
