Liberty-Eylau seeing the good from a tough week one loss

TEXARKANA, TX (KTAL/KMSS) – Liberty-Eylau’s season opener didn’t go quite as they wanted, falling to the Pittsburg Pirates 33-20.

After losing many key play makers from last year’s dominant season, the Leopards are going through a small learning curve, but nothing they’re worried about.

“That’s game one jitters for a lot of young kids, but any coach can say it, and would say it after week one, whether you win or lose, obviously we all want to win every time we’re out there on a Friday night, but we saw a whole lot of good even from those young kids that had some jitters,” head coach Brad Willard said. “A whole lot of good throughout the film, and just a lot to clean up.”

Now the focus shifts to this week, taking the good into the week two matchup against Henderson, and leaving the bad in week one. And the Leopards have identified a few things.

“Protecting the ball. I don’t know how I could say anything different after last week,” Willard said. “I don’t even know how many turnovers it was, but whether it be bad snaps, drop snaps, the interception, we’ve got to control the ball.”

The Leopards get their next opportunity on Friday, September 5 as they host Henderson.