The Emerson-Hubbard Football Team wrapped up their season Friday night, losing 42-12 at Randolph.
It definitely had to be disappointing for the Pirates not to make the playoffs. Emerson-Hubbard played some good, tough teams though.
The Pirates conclude the 2017 season with a 2-6 record.
All of Emerson-Hubbard's losses were to teams with records of 5-3 or better.
The two wins came over Scribner-Snyder and Winside.
Only having 14 kids out for the team this year had to make things difficult, especially in practice and late in games.
The Pirates lose seniors Connar Newton, Micah Lamprecht, Blake Eriksen, Nick Ahlers, and Spencer Emmons.
Emerson-Hubbard figures to be strong next year with the return of Jacob Kneifl, Spencer Burcham, Drake Steele, Nolan Ostrand, Nolan Belt, and Kaden Swanson.
The Pirates should have a solid and dandy team next year, and I'm excited to see what Emerson-Hubbard can accomplish.
The Pirates have to be disappointed by the fact their 4-year playoff streak ended, but you can bet Emerson-Hubbard will be back next season.
The Pirates need to have a good offseason of hard work, weightlifting, running, agility drills, maturity, as well as growth and development amongst players.
Emerson-Hubbard should focus on football as much as possible in the offseason.
I know it's tough to spend a lot of time on it in the winter and spring with Emerson-Hubbard being such a small school and kids out for 3 sports and some playing baseball in the summer, so I can definitely understand how hard it will be to work on football for the rest of the school year.
With that said, these kids have to find a way to manage their time and make time for football.
The student-athletes have to wake up everyday excited and passionate about making themselves better as athletes on an off the field.
Getting involved in community service projects if they're not already in them doesn't hurt.
Finding ways to serve and being successful on the field and in the classroom is very important for the Pirates I would say.
Emerson-Hubbard has to try and be as successful as they can be. Normally success in other aspects of life besides sports tends to result in success in sports quite a bit of the time.
It definitely wouldn't hurt these players to be well rounded athletes if they aren't already.
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