AA\/AAA Hybrid division<\/a> that includes Surrey\u2019s Sullivan Heights Stars, Mission and Abbotsford, but not South Surrey\u2019s Earl Marriott Mariners, folded before the season began. The other Surrey varsity football team this fall is Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers, AAA Central contenders.<\/p>\n\u201cEarl Marriott and a few other teams folded this year, actually, for different reasons,\u201d noted Conrad Deugau, Holy Cross head coach. \u201cIn Hybrid West, one senior team folded because they didn\u2019t have enough players. There\u2019s some stability now, thankfully, because earlier in the year teams were forfeiting, teams were folding, week to week. Some teams are hurting for numbers (of players).\u201d<\/p>\n
Deugau wasn\u2019t at Robert DeJulius Field on Friday, due to illness, but liked what he watched on tape \u201cfor the most part.\u201d<\/p>\n
For depth, Holy Cross dressed several junior varsity players as the Crusaders look to make a playoff run this fall and play at BC Place Stadium for the first time since 2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re senior-heavy this season,\u201d Deugau noted. \u201cLast year was more of a rebuild because we had all but one of our O- linemen as Grade 11s. This year all my linemen are Grade 12 (and) we\u2019re trying to capitalize on that, go as far as we can with this group.\u2026 The goal is always to get to BC Place. I\u2019m old school, take it one week at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now 2-1, Holy Cross fell 14-10 to Ballenas to start the regular season, then beat Abbotsford 11-8.<\/p>\n
Next up is a game with Sullivan Heights (1:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24 at Holy Cross), followed by a rematch in Mission on
Friday, Oct. 30.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a very CFL-like schedule where (teams) will play each other a couple times or more,\u201d Deugau said of divisional games.<\/p>\n
Friday vs. Mission was a \u201cfriendly rivalry\u201d battle for the Holy Cross coach. <\/p>\n
\u201cMission\u2019s coaching staff has two coaches I\u2019ve known for a long time,\u201d he said in BC School Sports Football\u2019s latest newsletter<\/a>. \u201cKen McLean and I were teammates at Simon Fraser University, while Mike Schneider coached our offensive line during our playing days at SFU. It\u2019s always enjoyable competing against guys I\u2019ve known and respected for so many years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holy Cross leads football division in which rival Surrey school team folded pre-season Published 3:00 pm Monday, October…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-939390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}