The Yorkton Raiders probably needed their Global Positioning System (GPS) to find Gutheridge Field Saturday afternoon but they didn't need any extra help finding the end zone Saturday afternoon, their first trip as a football team to a city other than Regina, Weyburn or Estevan.
The YRHS prevailed 29-8 over the Vanier Vikings to win their opening game in the Moose Jaw High School Football League (MJHSFL).
The win was extra sweet for a couple of reasons: it was their first game outside the Regina Intercollegiate Football League, it starts the YRHS troops off at 1-0 for the first time in years, it came on the road, and it also came against the defending champions of the Moose Jaw High School League.
Neither team had seen each other before so nobody on either side had any idea what to expect.
Vanier had a chance to get on the board first, but failed to connect on a third down gamble on the Yorkton 10 yard line. The Raiders opened the scoring when quarterback Dalton Fichtner found Layne Hull on a 10-yard TD pass with eight seconds left in the half. After a tight, defensive first 24 minutes, the bigger, older Raiders began to take control in the second half. Zach Kais scored on a pair of three-yard runs for the Raiders to give them a 21-0 lead. Matt Morris scored a 65-yard TD after he took the pass from Haydenn Teriann and weaved through the Yorkton defence. Hull caught a 14-yard pass from Fichtner to restore the 21-point lead before a kickoff single rounded out the scoring.
