Two of the three Niagara Spears travel football squads are still in search of their first wins of the year in Ontario Summer Football League action.

In a trio of games last weekend at Notre Dame, the Varsity Spears defeated the Cornwall Wildcats 17-0, the Junior Varsity Spears fell 26-7 to the Kingston Grenadiers and the Bantam Spears were shut out 35-0 by the London Junior Mustangs.

GRENADIERS 26 JV SPEARS 7

“I saw some positives but a lot of mistakes. Our team is young and every time we made a mistake we paid for it,” Niagara head coach Brad Martin said. “Sometimes you get away with a mistake or two in a game but we make a play on a ball and it pops up and the other guys catches it and runs it for a first down.”

Too many mistakes and too many penalties has been an early theme for the JV Spears.

“It is a consistency thing. They are learning but it seems like they are making mistakes at bad times and we’re paying for it.”

Martin saw a lot of positives in the running game, in the play of quarterback Jacob Iannizzi, who scored Niagara’s one major of a five-yard scramble, and on defence.

“The defence played great again but they can only do so much.”

Two players that stood out on defence for Martin were Nathan Vander Meer and Lucas Landry.

“I liked their ability to pressure the quarterback. They had a couple of great sacks, we took their starting quarterback out of the game with a couple of big hits on him, they forced a couple of fumbles and they work well together in tandem.”

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