 Last week the U-Pike Bears put a W up on the board after defeating Livingstone University out of North Carolina. The Bears got moving early and often defeating the Blue Bears 52-23 with the offense putting up 28 unanswered points in the third and fourth quarters. We caught up with head coach Al Holland Jr. and receiver R T's Clark on their first victory of the season. Going back to the first game, we learned a lot of things about our football team and not being able to handle some adversity in that ball game so going into that second game we sort of put ourselves in the same situation at halftime and really talked to the guys about that. How are we going to handle this second half? You know, we've been here in this situation before. We're going to come out and we're going to regroup and come out and play with energy the second half and you know, go ahead and earn a win or we're going to just sort of let them hang around, hang around and I thought we had a big third quarter and that was a big difference in the ball game and sort of taking them out of their game plan and making them do things they didn't want to do. Just when we were making, just being prepared for what we're going to go our enemy, our team we were playing against, just being prepared for the first, second, and third, all the way to the fourth quarter. Not letting teams hang around with us a lot and going into halftime and finishing drives and getting first downs you can touch down so that's pretty much what we've been doing. The Bears now stand at one and one on this season as they gear up for Bethel University tonight from the Hambly Athletic Complex. The Bears lead the series with the Wildcats six to five although the two teams haven't met since 2016 where Bethel came out on top. The Wildcats coming off a big upsetting win over the number two team in the country, Reinhardt 31-21. Bethel is, you know, week one they played Reinhardt. Reinhardt's number two in the country. They had them at home and ended up knocking them off at home. So says a lot about their football program and their turn around with a new head coach and he's doing a great job. So we're going to have our hands full but we're going to play for 60 minutes and if it takes overtime we've been in that experience before. So we've got to be ready to go. We've got to, you know, be great in all three phases, offense, defense and special teams and, you know, take care of the football and create some turnovers defensively this week. Expectations on Bethel, you know, they're pretty physical. Some of the defense online and the DBs are pretty physical up front and they look pretty good, they look stock. But we're just making corrections in game. We just have to deal with them then. We're just working on, like, being disciplined on defense because we know that they're going to try to draw us off sides and, you know, I mean, they're a tough opponent. So hopefully if we play sound that we can come out and win. They knocked out the number two team in the nation but I think if we just play that we can actually play it through in Bethel and upset a lot of people.