Coal Region Interviews

The Coal Region Voice would like to thank Mike Brennan of Mount Carmel and Dave Zielinskie of Shamokin for their time this week for interviews. (Turn up the volume on your computer)

POLL

In our informal poll 60% of our users picked MCA over Shamokin. Going with the odds MCA has won 78% of the games since 1966.

STREAK

My senior in high school found me a the midst of a coaching change. In 1983, Lourdes Regional was coming off a 1-10 season loosing the last 10 of 1982. We faced our arch rival Shamokin with a 5-1 record while the Indians were winless. Lourdes had only beaten Shamokin once and that was in 1974.

One of the things that our team had focused on was every play of the game. It doesn't sound like much, but if we focused on every single play good things would happen. It was as simple as A-B-C. With five wins we quickly had the A-ttitude of a winner. We would be a tough game for anyone's schedule. After five wins, we B-elieved in the new coach and system. To put it in simple terms, A+ B = C-onfidence. We were confident every time we went on the field. In the end we were a 22-8 winner over Shamokin that night. The Indians would finish at 0-11.

A win by either team will go a long way in restoring some of the ABC's of winning high school football games.