Cardinals End Season On Senior Night

The Soda Springs football team ended their season Friday night when they faced the Aberdeen Tigers for the Cardinal’s senior night.  The team celebrated their eight senior players prior to the game as each player was announced and escorted in front of the home crowd by their parents.  The Cardinals had already been eliminated from post season play so the team knew it would be the senior players last time playing for Soda Springs high school.  Facing a tough Tigers team the Cardinals knew the game would be a tough one.

Through most of the season the Cardinals defense has been stout even against some of the best teams in the state.  However on Friday night the Cardinals struggled to keep the power run game of the Tigers in check.  Virtually every scoring play by the Tigers came from twenty plus yards out.  The Tigers were able to put up twenty unanswered points in the first and followed that up with twenty-two points in the second.  The Cardinals only first half score came on an impressive catch and run by Gage Peck from over fifty yards out.  Soda Springs would not score again until late in the fourth quarter.  The Cardinals came up with several clever ways to get the seniors involved for their last game.  One big play came by way of a halfback pass from Cole Garbett to Elijah Dilworth.  Gage Peck who scored earlier also got in on the passing game when he completed a pass to Browning for a touchdown.  Finally Kayden Peterson scored the last touchdown for the Cardinals catching a six yard touchdown pass.

This group of seniors may not have qualified for the playoffs but they showed up every week for one another and were the group that broke one of the longest losing streaks in the state.  Hopefully when they look back on their high school careers they will be reminded of the good times with teammates and coaches and the knowledge that they never quit on Soda Springs or themselves.