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NACI Tigers win Murray Black Cup Neepawa defeats Dauphin Clippers in defensive battle
By Eoin Devereux
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There’s a reason the old cliché “Offence wins games, but defence wins championships” is an old cliché. It’s because more often than not, it proves to be true. The Neepawa Area Collegiate Institute (NACI) Tigers provided another sterling example to that adage on Saturday, Nov. 2, defeating the Dauphin Clippers in the Murray Black Cup, by the score of 10-8. The Murray Black Cup features the fifth through eighth ranked teams in the Rural Manitoba Football League. NACI, finished tied for fourth in the standings with Virden Golden Bears, but ended up in the Murray Black bracket, due to a regular season loss to the Bears. As for the game itself, there were several key defensive stoppages made throughout by Neepawa, but the one play that sealed victory was a clutch interception by Braden Haslen
late in the fourth quarter. To go along with Haslen’s big play, Riley Neufeld and Colter Birnie both led the way with six tackles apiece. Dawson Jakubowski also contributed with four tackles and a fumble recovery on special teams. NACI Tigers head coach Chidi Small said he was very proud of the performance from the defence over the course of the game. He noted to the Banner & Press that a major shift in the defensive scheme heading into the game made a big difference. “We watched a lot of [game] film this week and tried to identify some of the weaknesses we could potentially exploit. During the game itself, we spent a lot of time trying to read and react to their game plan. As well, going into [Saturday’s] game, we actually switched our defensive formation that we ran most of the season from a 3-4 defence to a 4-3. The decision to do this was because we thought that change would better protect us against their outside runs.
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The Neepawa Area Colliegiate Institute (NACI) Tigers concluded their season on Saturday, Nov. 2, by winning the Murray Black Cup, beating the Dauphin Clippers 10-8.
It proved to be effective and something that made a difference over the course of the game.” Untapped potential Heading into this football season, the NACI Tigers’ roster looked as though it was still a year away from some very big things. The team
featured only three seniors suiting up this season and had several key positions, including quarterback, held by first or second year players. Small said that as the season progressed, those players really started to buy into the system and that has the coaching staff very excited about what this team
and learned how to play the game of football. I thought at the beginning of the year, we were still working through the details to try and get better, but by the end of the season, I feel as through this was a different team at the end of the year.” Continued on Page 19
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could become. “Originally, going into the season, the expectation was that this was going to be a rebuild year and, to a degree, we still have that mentality. However, as we got to the later end of the season, the team started to gel well together. We started to watch a lot of [game] film
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