Preseason high school action (BC): CFC50 Hyacks come away with early win down south, training camps started

CFC50 New Westminster Hyacks (22), Linfield Christian Academy (9)

The Hyacks traveled down south this past week to finish off their training camp and to play against Lindfield Christian Academy (LC) in California. Lindfield opened the 1st quarter with a 26 yard field goal which the Hyacks responded with a kickoff return touchdown by Sebastien Reid and a 2-pt conversion making the score 8-3.

It would remain 8-3 until the 3rd quarter when Travion Brown from LC, busted out an 80 yard touchdown reception, but failed the 2-pt conversion bringing the score 8-9. On the following drive, Broxx Comia ran it in for a 14 yard touchdown. The Hyacks also failed on the 2-pt conversion bringing the score to 14-9.

Finishing off the game in the 4th, Michael Kingsley had a 14 yard touchdown run – and another failed attempt on the 2-pt conversion, making the final score of the game 22-9 for the Hyacks.

“I’m very pleased with our fundamentals on defense for week 1. Our tackling and our ability to rally to the ball was very good.” “Linfield was a team that had some very high end talent (3 players with multiple Div 1 offers) but we competed hard against them all night, ” – head coach Farhan Lalji.

Source: New Westminster Hyacks

Other news around the province…..

The South Delta Sun Devils participated in a controlled scrimmage on Saturday against the Kelowna Owls where they came out the victors according to the Delta Optimist. They will kick off their pre-season schedule on Thursday with a trip to Tacoma to face Henry Foss High, followed by a game versus the Squalicum High on Sept. 8.