Sparta Homecoming Game

The 2010 Sparta homecoming football game was a game for the Spartans to look back and learn from. After a 41-0 loss to the La Crosse Aquinas Blugolds. The Spartan's now look forward to the game against the Holmen Vikings on Friday, October first at seven p.m. at the Sparta Memorial Park Stadium.

The Spartan's did not play up to there ability. Sparta Junior Clay Langan, the Spartan's starting quarterback, said, "Not good, we didn't play up to our potential." The Spartans had multiple miscues including wrong routes, missed assignments, and missed tackles, Langan stated, "Not everyone was on the same page offensively, and defensively, Jimmy Coady is good." Blugold running back Jimmy Coady ran for 219 yards and scored three touchdowns versus the Spartans. Coady now has 1076 yards through five games with twelve touchdowns. "Timing must be better and everyone needs to play at 100% at all times, we need better tackling and pursuit" Langan explained when asked what needs to be fixed for the Spartans to be successful.

Spartans play another conference foe, Holmen Friday night. "Holmen passes the ball [more than other teams in the conference] and plays good defense," said Mark Byom, Spartans head coach. Byom, in his second year as Sparta's head coach he has gone through ups and downs, with low numbers of athletes involved and a problem with execution mistakes being two major problems. "We played hard Friday but Aquinas was much faster than us and we gave up too many big plays" Byom said when asked what his thoughts of Friday's game were. Spartans need to continue to play hard and the combination playing hard and executing will lead to success. To fix the problem and be able to execute Sparta must make changes and fix things. "Offensive line needs to hold assignments and sustain blocks with more consistent execution" Byom says, "Bad tackling and a very good running back, we need to work on fundamentals of tackling defensively" offers Byom.

With an 0-5 start the Spartans are looking for something to turn there season around, the Spartan's look forward to the game against the Holmen Vikings on Friday, October first at seven p.m. at the Sparta Memorial Park Stadium. The game could be a low scoring, defensive battle.