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Hollidaysburg’s Cole DeLattre seems to be for yardage towards Mifflinburg.
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- Cole DeLattre works his approach by the Mifflinburg protection.
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Hollidaysburg’s Cole DeLattre seems to be for yardage towards Mifflinburg.
Following Hollidaysburg’s season-opening victory over rival Altoona, lots of the Golden Tigers claimed this 12 months’s crew might match final 12 months’s undefeated squad that made it to the PIAA quarterfinals.
Goal achieved — in actual fact, even perhaps bettered contemplating Hollidaysburg defeated Fort Hill, 35-30, this season and solely received that sport final 12 months after Fort Hill forfeited for utilizing an ineligible participant after the sport was performed.
“We broke a lot of records last year,” Hollidaysburg coach Homer DeLattre stated. “This year, we did win that Fort Hill game on the field, and we have had a lot of record-breaking performances this year. We shattered our record for total points. We set rushing records, touchdown records — it’s been a lot of things that make it (a great season). There’s a lot of guys in town here that I talk to on a regular basis that thought last year’s team was the best they have ever seen in the 70 years they have been watching, and they are now saying the same thing about this year’s team in a different way.”
Now, they want the remainder of the season to progress in another way.
Last 12 months’s Golden Tigers misplaced to Roman Catholic, 48-14, within the PIAA quarterfinals.
Cole DeLattre works his approach by the Mifflinburg protection.
Friday at 7 p.m. at John H. Frederick Field at Memorial Park in Mechanicsburg — the identical location of final 12 months’s sport — the groups will meet once more.
“It’s a new year, and it’s really simple. If you lose, you go home,” Roman Catholic coach Rick Prete stated. “We have to be in the mindset that this is our Super Bowl. Hollidaysburg has a great program, and they aren’t the same as last year. They do some things differently and their personnel is different. They will present some different challenges for us, and our kids are aware of what is in front of them. No one is underestimating them.”
Hollidaysburg received off to a horrible begin in final 12 months’s sport, however DeLattre stated the way in which they completed helped construct his returning gamers’ perception