Cardinals Fall To Eagles

The young Cardinal football team faced another behemoth last Friday when they took on the Marsh Valley Eagles on the road.  The final score was not a pretty one but the Cardinals did have a handful of highlights against the larger more experienced team.  The Cardinals first big play came on their opening drive when Zayden Garbett took off for a forty yard run getting Soda inside the twenty yard line.  Unfortunately the Eagles would bring the pressure and get a strip sack dashing the hopes of an early Cardinal score.  A couple of series later the Soda defense came up big when they caused, then recovered a fumble of their own.  However the offense was not able to move the ball and the Cardinals had to punt the ball away.  The first quarter ended with the Eagles leading 14-0.  In the second the Cardinal defense had a big stop when Marsh Valley tried a fake punt that came up about six yards short.  The Soda offense then had a big pass play getting them across midfield but followed it up with throwing an interception.  As the first half came to a close the Cardinals now trailed 28-0.  Early in the second half Soda had another brief moment of excitement when Carson Stephens grabbed an interception and took the ball to the forty-three yard line.  Once again Soda would not be able to keep the momentum as a high snap gave the ball back to the Eagles once more that they turned into six more points.  The rest of the quarter saw more turnovers by Soda Springs with more scoring coming from the Eagles.  Marsh Valley slowed things down in the fourth quarter and burned a bunch of clock before punching in their last score of the game.  The Cardinals had one last gasp when they themselves converted a fake punt but the clock would run out on this game with the Cardinals losing 50-0.  So far this season the Cardinal opponents have a combined record of 11-6.  The bad news is five of the six losses have come against teams that Soda still has left on their schedule.  The good news for the Cardinals is that this week they travel to Malad who, like Soda, has struggled this season.  Making this a good matchup for Soda and a potential confidence booster for the team.