Rifles look for comeback after fourth loss
Playoff hopes in doubt after Wildcats beating
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The Winnipeg Rifles saw their playoff aspirations take a big hit on Sunday. The Edmonton Wildcats came to St. Vital Mustangs field and handed the Rifles a 28-2 beating. The Rifles have now dropped three straight games and sit at 1-4 in the Canadian Junior Football League’s Prairie Conference.
The Wildcats, now 2-3, sit in fourth place in the six-team conference. Only the top four teams make the playoffs.
“The loss is obviously tough,” head coach Geordie Wilson told RiflesFootball.com after the game. “We’re not dead and gone or nothing. We just got to strap it up. We got to play the three games we have (left).”
The Rifles came into Sunday as the second-highest scoring offence in the Prairie Conference. However, it’s the second week in a row the Rifles have struggled to put up points as last week they lost 28-14 on the road against the Edmonton Huskies.
“At the end of the day, it’s been the same story with our offence. You can’t turn the ball over,” Wilson continued. “I mean, today we had no yardage hardly, but the other games we quite often get good yardage but we turn the ball over. We turned the ball over, I think, five times today. Again, in any league, it’s pretty difficult to win.”
The Rifles will try to turn things around next Sunday when they host the Edmonton Huskies (3-2) at IG Field.
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