The Wildcats have had a good season, going 6-3 after winning their Oct. 20 game against the Buffalo Bison 43-6. On Oct.6, the Wildcats lost to the Butler Bears in a nail biter, 30-27. The Bears walked away as conference champs in this high stakes game.
The team gave the Butler Bears a tough battle, where it was a much closer game this season compared to last season where they lost 38-14.
The Cats also gave the fourth best team in class 2A football, Lafayette County, a tough battle as they only lost by five points, proving that the Cats can compete with the best of the best.
The Wildcats have a very youthful team this year with only five seniors. With having a young team it can be hard to have a lot of leadership within the team, but for the Cats that’s not a problem. A lot of juniors and underclassmen have stepped up to take on those leadership roles, as well.
“It doesn’t matter how old someone is, it matters about who’s going to step up and take on that role of being a leader,” sophomore running back Josh Harvath said.
The Wildcats put in a lot of work in the off-season to be the best they can possibly be, a lot of them went to summer weights, went to the gym, and went to the football field to get extra reps outside of practice.
“During the off-season I went to the gym, I went to summer weights, I went to the field to throw to my wide receivers, and I talked to previous quarterbacks to improve my knowledge of the game and improve my knowledge of the quarterback position,” junior quarterback Garrett Ferguson said.
The expectations were high for the Cats this season, as they had a good season last year going 8-3. They were looking to do even better this season and possibly go even farther in the playoffs as well.
“The expectation this season is to do better than what we did last season and win a district championship,” senior center Devon Boul said.
“The expectation is for our kids to work hard every single week.If they do everything that’s expected of them week in and week out it puts us in a position to have success on game day,” Head Coach Ryan Boyer said.
The Wildcats have had a lot of recent injuries this season with junior wide receiver Shane Poyser missing a couple games due to a hamstring injury, sophomore running back Joshua Harvath dealing with a shoulder injury, and sophomore quarterback Brennan Slavens breaking his wrist in the final minutes of the fourth quarter in El Dorado Springs.
The Cats play their first round of district playoffs against the 0-9 Carrollton Trojans as they earned the second seed in the district.
