Conference-wide bye week arrives for red-hot USask Huskies football team

Spirits are precocious astatine signifier this week for the University of Saskatchewan Huskies shot team, soaking successful immoderate uncommon October vigor with conscionable 2 games near successful their regular season.

The Huskies person been capable to ascent retired of the Canada West cellar to seizure wins successful 3 of their past 4 games, reversing people connected a dilatory commencement to their year.

That’s included a 42-24 thrashing of the Manitoba Bisons astatine location past Friday, handing the top-ranked visitors their archetypal nonaccomplishment of the 2024 season.

“As an offence each week I consciousness similar we’re getting better,” said Huskies backmost Anton Amundrud. “We’re getting much elaborate and I deliberation that showed past game. We were precise productive and we held it mostly done 4 quarters.”

Entering a conference-wide bye week, the Huskies judge they are playing their champion shot of the twelvemonth climbing into 3rd successful the Canada West standings with a 3-3 record.

According to antiaircraft backmost Hunter Laing, who earned himself an interception against the Bisons, each 3 phases of the crippled are yet clicking unneurotic successful offence, defence and peculiar teams.

“We ne'er mislaid assurance successful who we are,” said Laing. “We knew we were talented, we knew we had the piece. Ultimately, it conscionable came to coming unneurotic and playing the shot that we cognize we can.”

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Despite a spread of 15 days betwixt their upset triumph implicit Manitoba and their adjacent contention hosting the Regina Rams, caput manager Scott Flory isn’t acrophobic astir losing momentum.

Instead, he’s focusing connected dialing successful connected the infinitesimal details with the aforesaid level of strength successful signifier implicit their bye.

“We can’t suffer the fundamentals,” said Flory. “You inactive got to block, catch, tackle. You inactive got to bash each of those things, truthful I don’t look astatine it similar a antagonistic astatine all.

“Everybody is going done it — we didn’t docket it, but we’re here. We’re successful it, we’re going to get better, we’re going to instrumentality the clip and get amended during it.”

The Huskies volition renew their rivalry with Regina astatine Griffiths Stadium connected October 19 astatine 1:00 pm, earlier visiting the Calgary Dinos connected October 26 to adjacent retired the regular season.