Underdogs of 6A

To compete with the “Big Dogs” in 6A football, the Mayo Spartans are working to overcome doubters and skeptics. Despite facing new teams this year, the Spartans are preparing to face the Lakeville North Panthers tonight, like they would any other game, any other year. Head coach Donny Holcomb is ready to continue to take his players into battle every week while still sticking to the basics of Mayo Football.

“Lakeville North is a really good team and they have a lot of speed, so we are going to have to try to contain that speed. We try to put a little different wrinkle in every week, something that they haven’t seen, something that we think we can distract them with or give us a little bit of an advantage,” Holcomb said.

The Spartans are looking to prove themselves in 6A and bring home a big win back down highway 52 against a top ranked opponent.

Throughout all the adversity these Spartans are facing, their number one goal is always to get better, every practice, every game. This year they are playing teams with twice the numbers.

“Every team that we play, they don’t have any two-way starters. They always have one guy for each position”, said captain Remington Gau.

On the contrary, Mayo has players going both ways, offense and defense, that have to fight through being tired. They have to be focused on every single rep to prepare for these bigger 6A teams. Gau expresses his enthusiasm for the rest of the season saying, “I’m looking forward to going to state. You know especially at 6A, we are underdogs, you know nobody believes in us so I just wanna prove everybody wrong that didn’t believe in us at the start”.

“We can make it to state. We are a good team. We do belong in 6A.”