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This was a great game to watch and coach. Unfortunately, the Wolverines came up short and lost to the Giants 26-10. The Giants remain undefeated at 5-0, and the Wolverines fall to 2-3 on the season.

The game was close heading into the fourth quarter 12-9, and then the Giants pulled away scoring two TDs late to seal the victory. The Wolverine defence was again lead by Sepke, who had a strong game. Never coming off the field, except of course when a Giant punched him in the face and popped his helmet off. When your helmet comes off in the WHSFL players have to come off for three plays. Sepke rested up grabbed some water, cleaned the blood off his face and went right back out there. Sepke finished up with 13.5 tackles, three of which were for losses. He also had some amazing special teams tackles. Add in a couple of receptions and Sepke had himself one heck of a football game.

Mike Fyfe also stepped up his defensive game adding 8.5 tackles to the cause. Fyfe also ran the ball hard for another 45 yards. The Wolverine offence was looking to pass. For the first time in a long time, the Wolverine offence had more pass attempts than rushing attempts. Wolverines scored their TD on a beautiful throw from Taylor Ward to his favourite target, Brayden Coulis, who turned on the jets and ran it in for 36 yards for the score.

The offence had a good push in the third quarter, literally driving the Giant defence back 8 yards a pop. However, the Wolverines were unable to finish off the drive and score.

The Wolverines also started a handful of players that have never played football before. Congratulations, Julian Bertrand who saw his first action, and played quite well at defensive end. Jordan Mages a sophomore, started his first game at middle linebacker and was able to hold his own in the middle of the defence.
Here is a clip of Jordan making a nice hit when the Giants were on the doorstep looking to score.

The Wolverines look to stop their 2 game losing streak as they travel to Brandon to face the Neelin Spartans on Thursday.

Here are the game stats

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Let's go Wolverines.

- Corbin Boughen

Wolverines Lose a Physical Game

The Wolverines fell to the DMCI Maroons Friday night 28-19. It was a tough hard nose game, and the Wolverines playing for the third time in 8 days simply could not stop DMCI when they needed to. The game could not have started any worse for the Wolverines. On DMCI's first two possessions they drove the field and scored, and it looked like this game was going to be a blowout. They were down 14-1 early.

The Wolverine defence could do little to stop both the DMCI pass, and run game. When it was all said and done, the Maroon offence racked up 196 rushing yards. The offence had a tough start to the game as well, as they could not get much going only able to score a field goal by kicker Brayden Coulis in the first half.

The second half could not have started any worse for the Wolverines as it looked like the Maroons returned the opening kickoff for a TD. However, the Maroons lined up offside and had to kick it again. DMCI was able to strike again early in third with a nice pass and catch play for a TD. The Wolverines were down 21-3.

Then the Wolverines woke up and decided to make a game of it. Behind some hard running from Michael Fyfe, and a great push from the offensive line the Wolverines were able to drive the field and score on a QB sneak.

If the Wolverines were able to complete the comeback and win the game, the 'TSN turning point,' would definitely have been Simon Sepke's interception. Sepke made a beautiful dive to scoop up the ball right before it hit the turf.

On the ensuing possession the offence was able to drive the short field and score a TD. Making the score 21-19. However, the defence could not hold them when they needed to and DMCI was able to score another TD.

Fyfe had a nice game finishing with 17 carries for  148 yards. Sepke lead the way on defence for the second game in a row, finishing with 13 tackles and an 1 interception. The Wolverine's schedule now gets back to normal, as they only have one game this week. They will go on the road for the first time this year as they play the Giants Friday night at 5pm.

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Let's go Wolverines

-Corbin Boughen

Wolverines Win Again

Another great home field win for the Wolverines. Yesterday afternoon the Wolverines were able to earn another victory, with an impressive air show put on by Taylor Ward and his team of receivers. Ward had a great afternoon, probably his best as a Wolverine. Spreading the ball around to 6 different receivers. Throwing for 2 TDs, one to Austin Benevides and one to Simon Sepke. Ward's stats were nice and tidy finishing 12 for 15, 2 TDs and 0 INTs and rushing for 1 TD and a quarterback rating of 150.4

Not to be out done the defence played amazing as well. They gave up some yards in the 2nd and 3rd quarters, but when they needed to they came up big with either a turnover or fumble recovery. The defence was lead by grade 11 linebacker Simon Sepke with 10 tackles and 5 assisted tackles. Another standout on defence was grade 10 linebacker Jordan Mages with 8 tackles, 8 assisted tackles, and 4 tackles for loss.

Wolverine's special teams still needs some work as they allowed the Eagles to recover not one but two onside kicks in the second half.

The Wolverines have a tough week as they played yesterday on a Tuesday, and now have a quick turn around and look to face DMCI on Friday for their fourth and final home game of the year. Be sure to come and cheer them on. Game time is 5pm!

Let's go Wolverines

-Coach Boughen

Wolverine's Lose A Tough One

The Wolverines fell to the St.Norbert Celtics 22-15 Thursday September 11.

The game started great for the Wolverines with grade 11 player Michael F. tackling the Celtic running back for loses on first down and second down. The Wolverine offence then took over and was able to march the ball all the way down to the Celtic 1 yard line. However, they were unable to punch it in.

The Celtics were able to capitalize on a Wolverine fumble inside their own 10 yard line, and scored easily on the next play, putting them up 7-0 early. The Wolverines special teams had a second quarter to forget! First, the punt team was caught standing around as the Celtic player was able to pick up the ball on one bounce and go untouched into the end zone. Later with under 2 mins to go in the half the Celtics lined up for a field goal. It was a fake, and they were able to turn it into 7 points. The Wolverines also gave up a safety in the second quarter, making the half time score 22-1 for the Celtics.

The Wolverine offence woke up early in the third with an amazing pitch and catch between QB Taylor W. and receiver Brayden C. . He was able to make at least 3 Celtics miss as he ran the length of the field for the score.

Brayden and Taylor hooked up later in the half for another score. This time Taylor showing great pocket presence, avoided the rush and then found an open Brayden behind the Celtic coverage. Brayden finished the game with 3 receptions for 132 yards and 2 TDs.

In the end the Wolverines ran out of time and were unable to complete the comeback coming up 7 points short. It was a hard fought game for the Wolverines loosing many starters to injury throughout the game. The Wolverines are in the toughest stretch of their schedule playing 3 games in a span of 8 days. Come and check out their next home game:

Tuesday September, 16th at West Kildonan Collegiate.

-Coach Boughen

Wolverines over Maples

September, 2013


The Wolverines won their first game of the season Friday night against divisional rival Maples. The Wolverines opened the scoring with a great effort from Michael Fyfe who was hustled downfield covering a punt, when the ball popped out of the player’s hand, Mike was Johnny on the spot and recovered it in the endzone. After a back and forth half, Maples were able to score on the last play of the first half taking the lead 15-13.

The Wolverines came out strong in the second half and, in the end, simply worn down the Maples team, finishing them off 43 – 22. A huge “shout out” to the offensive line of J.Williams, D. MacKay, D. Beaudry, J.Ramgotra, M.Hot, B.Cadieux, A.Wood, D.Kohinski and D. Zilli who all did an amazing job opening holes for T.Byron. Byron ended the game with close to 300 yards, and 4 TDs. On one of his TDs, the opening the line created was so big, he could have stopped running and walked in. There was also one drive in which the offence ran the same play 7 times in a row to drive the field and score! Maples simply had no answer for the push from our dominant offensive line.  Byron also earned offensive player of the week for his efforts! Congratulations Byron.

Wolverines have their homecoming/Alumni game coming up next. Be sure to come and check out the festivities. The program starts at 4pm, with kick off set for 5pm this Friday on our home field.
-Coach Boughen

October, 2011

The Wolverines earned their second win of the season with a tough hard fought win over the Vincent Massey Vikings.  The Wolverines came into the game as heavy underdogs. The Vikings were 4-1 and in second place in the division, the Wolverines were 1-4 and tied for second last in the division. The Wolverines played their best game of the season, mostly due to the fact that they played well in all three phases of the game; offense, defense, and special teams.

The offense moved the ball behind some hard running by Demidiuk, who finished the day with 160 yards, and Byron who added 41 yards rushing and 35 yards receiving. Josh R did what he does best, and that is catch TDs. Josh has 11 receptions this year, and 6 have gone for touchdowns.

The TSN turning point was in the fourth quarter when West K’s drive was somewhat keep alive by a roughing the kicker penalty. After the penalty, it put the Wolverines in 3^rd and 7 on the Vikings 30 yard line. With a bold and decisive call by Wolverine, offensive coordinator, Coach Medwick, the Wolverines went for it. Byron snatched a beautiful pass out of the air and stretched his short-statured frame as far as he could. Fortunately it was enough for the first down. Three runs later by Demidiuk, and the Wolverines were ahead by a score of 14-0. Based on the way the Wolverine defense was playing it all but sealed the deal.

The Wolverine defensive sure came to play, and earned their second shut out of the year. The defense allowed a paltry 182 total yards to the Vikings, they had 2 interceptions, and also turned it over on downs. The biggest play from scrimmage that they allowed was a 30-yard reverse. Other than that the Wolverine defense handled the Viking offense all game. The defense was led with some great play from all 12 of its members. However, Ethan M led the way with 9 tackles, 2 of which were tackles for losses. His efforts earned him defensive player week for the WHSFL. Congratulations Ethan!

The Wolverines have one more regular season game this year on Thursday in Portage. Be sure to wish them luck!

Go Wolverines.

-Coach Boughen

Wolverines Win

The Wolverines kicked off their 2014 season with a convincing 40-6 win over the St.John’s Tigers. The Wolverine offence was lead by the hard-nose running of grade 11 starter Michael Fyfe, who pounded out 142 yards on 16 carries, and 2 TDs.

 The Wolverines were also able to score on a beautiful pass and catch between Taylor Ward and Simon Sepke. Ward was able to drop in a pass into the waiting arms of Sepke for a TD, putting the Wolverines up for good. That was Ward’s only completion of the afternoon, as the strong winds and rain really made it tough to throw the ball.

 The Wolverine Defence had an impressive outing limiting the Tiger offence to just one score. They did allow the Tigers running back to dance around and chew up some yards throughout the game, but they were able to tighten up when needed. The opportunistic defense was even able to score a TD, when the Tigers had a bad snap Jordan Mages was able to jump on the ball in the endzone. Speaking of Mages, he had an excellent first game as a Wolverine leading the team with 6.5 tackles, he was flying around the field on Thursday.

 The Wolverines have a short week, as they look to welcome the St.Norbert Celtics in their homecoming game this Thursday, at 4PM.

Be sure to come and cheer them on.

 Go Wolverines

 -Coach Boughen