Wolves football team heads for WECSSAA title game
- Ron Giofu
- Nov 11
- 2 min read
The North Star Wolves are heading to the WECSSAA Tier 2 championship game with an undefeated record.
The Wolves capped their regular season with a perfect 7-0 record after a 27-16 win over L’Essor last Wednesday night at the Libro Centre. The game was moved from Nov. 7 to Nov. 5.
The Wolves got off to a familiar start, getting the first touchdown of the evening. That came off of an 85-yard touchdown run from Ashton Fevreau.
What was unfamiliar was what happened in the second quarter. On the first play of the second quarter, L’Essor scored on a two-yard touchdown run and those were the first points allowed by North Star this season. The L’Essor touchdown snapped a streak of 25 straight quarters where the Wolves hadn’t allowed a point.
The Wolves trailed for the first time later in the quarter, when, after a fumble on a kickoff, L’Essor recovered and came back down the field and scored on another two-yard touchdown run to make it 14-7.
The third quarter saw the tide turn, as North Star scored 20 unanswered points and took the lead back for good. Fevreau scored three more touchdowns and the Wolves defense forced turnovers and kept L’Essor off the scoreboard with the remaining two L’Essor points coming off a safety the Wolves conceded.
“We couldn’t get anything going in the first half,” said Wolves coach Joel Charron. “It felt we were getting in our own way.”
Allowing points in the second quarter seemed to get in the Wolves’ head a bit, Charron added, but he had a chat with them at halftime and it appeared to work.
“I just challenged them,” said Charron. “We came out on fire in the third quarter. We just relied on our defense and shut them down.”Brody Halliday recovered a fumble early in the third quarter and the Wolves forced three more, with Charron adding Fevreau put the team on his back and helped carry them to victory. Halliday had ten tackles for a loss.
It was likely the best second half they played this year, he added.
L’Essor has had the Wolves number for the last couple of years, including in the WECSSAA Tier 2 championship game last season, with Charron saying it was a nice feeling to finally beat them.
“I was really proud of them,” he said, of the Wolves.
The Wolves will play the Belle River Nobles for the championship Nov. 15 at 6 p.m. at St. Clair College.
“I think it’s going to be one heck of a game,” said Charron. “I look forward to playing them.”
Wolves football team heads for WECSSAA title game
By Ron Giofu
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