North Gem Football

Last year the nine players listed on the Cowboys eight-man football team entered the season under much skepticism.  Not many outside of the North Gem community gave the Cowboys much of a chance of making it through the season.  After all they were only two injuries away from not having enough players to field a team.  For hard nosed coach Corry Hatch those doubts sounded more like a challenge.  After dropping the first two games by a combined score of 88-32 it would have been easy to throw in the towel and quit on the season.  Well, quitting just isn’t something you do when you are Cowboy tough.  The Cowboys went on to win the next five games before just missing out on making the playoffs when they came up short in a three way tie for second place in the conference.  This year's Cowboys will face a similar challenge.  North Gem did lose senior standout Evan O’Brien to graduation but they do retain a solid core of players.  Ryver Hayden and Haydn Frandsen will have a big impact on the line play for both offense and defense.  Coach Hatch’s run-heavy offense will primarily run through Rustin Hatch at quarterback, and all purpose back Craig Yost.  Welker and Rindlisbaker will also play a part in the game scheme for the Cowboys.  The Cowboys will get an extra week of practice over the other two local teams as they will not play their season opener until next week on August 30th when they will play Castleford at home.  

The Idaho Enterprise reached out to the North Gem volleyball team but has not heard back.  Look for their season preview in next weeks edition.