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Hello everyone and welcome to the Huddle where I break down a topic surrounding the sports teams in our area and this week, we are talking Weimar football.
The Weimar Wildcats are currently 3-2 in district and sit in fourth place in the standings. Most of us who follow high school football know that it is your district record is what matters when it comes to playoffs and only the top four teams go.
So if the playoffs started today the Wildcats would be in the playoffs but that is not the case. They have one more game on the schedule and it is a home game against Flatonia.
Every district game is important to teams, but this is a must-win for the Wildcats if they want to make the playoffs. Flatonia is currently in fifth place in the district with a record of 2-2 and two games left on the schedule.
If Flatonia wins the game Friday night in Weimar and then loses to Holland, the two teams will have the same record of 3-3 but Flatonia would make the playoffs because they would have the tiebreaker over Weimar.
So the pressure is on Weimar to win this game if they really want to make the playoffs and now is the time to send the message that the Wildcats are in fact a playoff team. I don’t say there is pressure on the Wildcats in a bad way either because they have been playing some really good football these past couple of weeks and stacking up some really gritty wins.
They have been running the football very well, which is something they have done all season but now they make big time throws when they need it. Teams dream of situations like this where they are getting better at the end of the season and on the brink of making the playoffs.
But it is because they are playing so well that they are going to have to play a perfect game almost to keep Faltonia at bay and punch their ticket to the playoffs. Flatonia is coming to play spoiler and derail all the momentum the Wildcats have built up and take that spot from them at the last second.
The Wildcats will have the full force of their home crowd behind them, and they are going to need every ounce of that energy to get the job done on Friday.
