Muskies face Clippers here today

The Muskies will try to finally put one into the win column today when they square off against the visiting Kelvin Clippers. Kick-off is at 4 p.m.
Both teams head into the game with 0-2 records in WHSFL play.
The black-and-gold have been steadily improving their play, but still are making avoidable mistakes that must be corrected in practice if they are to succeed on game day.
“As a group, we have to realize that that success has to occur the three or four days in practice,” head coach Bob Swing had said after their 29-17 defeat to the Grant Park Pirates here last Friday afternoon.
“The guys that were there practised hard and played hard, [but] we had some utterly massive brain farts that cost us the game,” he added. “Too many bug plays, too many penalties.”
The Muskies made mistakes against Grant Park game that they had been making in practice, and the coaches were well aware of that fact. They’re also well aware that is something the team must work on.
“We just fundamentally made mistakes and those are the ones that kick you in the butt,” defensive backs coach Greg Allan said last week.
“We just need more reps. We need to limit the errors,” he stressed. “The system is there, and it’s a very good system, but it’s just getting it nailed down.
“Once we get it nailed down, good things are going to happen,” he pledged.
After allowing 59 points in their first two regular-season games, the Muskies’ defence will have to give the offence more time on the field against the Clippers today.
“To tell you the truth, if we would stop making mental errors, we would be right there with every team,” said defensive co-ordinator Lou Gauthier. “And if we just stop making those errors, we would be in the game.
“When we have a practice, we try telling them that the way you practice is the way you play, and [the Grant Park game] was a prime example of that because the mistakes we made [last Friday] we also did in practice,” he added.
Due to small roster numbers, most of the players play both sides of the ball, so the Muskies have been working on their conditioning this past week to not only start strong, but finish strong, too.
“You could tell at the end of the game [against Grant Park] that a lot of guys were just missing tackles. If we were in better shape, then we would’ve played a better game for a lot longer,” said Muskie quarterback Ty Griffith.
“At the end, we still finished strong, but we didn’t have the conditioning to be able to finish fundamentally,” he noted. “And then you start taking short cuts and it just affects your game play.”