The Tioga Bulldogs football team’s two-game winning streak came to a halt with a 47-38 road loss to the Tom Bean Tomcats on Oct. 3.
The Tomcats relied on opportune plays on defense, collecting three turnovers, and their explosive offense, which generated almost 500 yards of total offense and six touchdowns, to pull out the win.
“It was a little bit of a reality check for us that if you want to win the big-time games, it's going to take all four quarters, especially when you face a team on the road that's undefeated,” said Zach Birdwell, Tioga athletic director and head football coach. “We didn't come out and play it to our standard on any side of the ball early on and in the long run ended up costing us in a tough one. … But we'd much rather get a reality check right now in Week 2 of district and learn from it while we still have the ability to fix things than Week 2 of the playoffs, like we did last year, where we're turning in gear today.”
