Carmi just too strong for young CZR Bearcats

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C_Z-R QB Bryce Pratt gets the play call from the sidelines. (Randall Risley, Photo

CARMI, IL  (Randall Risley, Benton News.  Please click on the link for the full story.  Here is an excerpt below.)

Kaizen is the Japanese word for “constant improvement.” That Christopher-Zeigler-Royalton football lost 40-0 to Carmi-White County doesn’t take away from the measurable, encouraging progress the very young Bearcats are demonstrating.

Kaizen is as much a philosophy as a word and CZR seems to be embracing that philosophy from the top down.

“One of the main goals was to get rid of that deer-in-the-headlights look. We wanted to come out and play at 100 percent,” said Bearcats first-year headc coach Anthony Hargrove. “We felt that we didn’t play at 100 percent last week because we were nervous, so this week we just wanted to play hard and see where the chips lay.”

Hargrove spoke about positivity and emotion saying, “That’s half the battle, you’ve got to get them to believe.”