Webster, Cache seniors trying to aid younger players

There has been little for the Cache football team to celebrate this season but for Josh Webster and the other seniors, they are just taking time to try and put some positive spin on their final few games before moving on with their lives.

“It has been frustrating, especially for the seniors,” the 5-10, 165-pound linebacker/wide receiver said. “We sure didn’t want to be 1-6 but right now what we can do for these younger players is to show up each day and continue to try and improve and find a way to win a game.”

Webster, who has been in the Cache school system since kindergarten, enjoys the great outdoors and gets out in the field as often as possible.

“I like to hunt, especially dove, deer, and turkey,” he said. “I love to eat grilled dove and turkey jerky is one of my favorite things to eat.”

Webster knows his football days are almost over and he’s looking to the future by attending the Great Plains Technical Center where he is taking HVAC and plans to make a career of it.

“That is always going to be a good field and I think it will allow me to make a living and enjoy my work at the same time,” he said.

When it comes to eating, Webster loves a grilled steak cooked medium rare with some simple sides like corn and potatoes.

This week the Bulldogs are preparing for another tough test against Clinton before facing Oklahoma City Douglass and then closing the season against No. 1 Elgin.

“What we can do is try and show these younger players how to practice hard and try to keep getting better even at this late point in the season,” he said. “We want some positives for these younger players to take forward. We have suffered some injuries that hurt our team and we’ve played a tough schedule.

“Last year the seniors didn’t have a great season as well but they kept fighting and trying to win even when we were facing really good teams.”

And Webster knows that there is frustration on the coaches as well but they never let it show.

“These coaches are still coming out every day trying to get us in the position to make plays and get wins,” he said. “This is tough on coaches because they were hoping for a good season as well. But they are still upbeat and showing up and helping us improve and to try and be positive for the underclassmen.”

He gives first-year head coach Tanner Thompson credit for being positive and trying to build for the future.

“Things are going to be getting better out here,” Webster said. “We will be moving all our weights and stuff out of this old fieldhouse and they will begin tearing it down and building a new facility and that will give the program a boost.”

For now the focus is on Clinton.

“They are going to be physical and they will try and pound the ball against us,” Webster said. “They aren’t going to do anything fancy, just line up and try to run the football against us.”

As far as his own season, Webster says the positives come in small ways.

“I’ve had some games where I made some good blocks on the edge and I was able to recover an onside kick to give us a chance in a game,” he said. “I think the key game in our season was against Duncan. We had a lead but we let them score right before halftime and wound up losing that game. You never know, had we won that game it might have been a different result.”