The Clinton County Football team moved to 0-2 Friday night after losing a close game to Trimble County, 10-8.

Last season, the Bulldogs fell to Trimble County by only one point, 14-13.

Head Coach Jamie Miller said Friday night’s game was a tough pill to swallow.

“It was another situation just like last year,” Miller said. “They didn’t beat us, we beat ourselves. We played good enough to keep it close, but not good enough to win.”

Miller said Trimble County is the type of team Clinton County needs on its schedule.

“We played poorly. We didn’t make the plays on offense, we didn’t make tackles on defense,” Miller said. “We didn’t make the plays when we needed to.”

Clinton County led at the half, 8-2, on a 65-yard touchdown run by Austin Stearns. Last week, Tyler Holland ran in a touchdown from 51 yards out. Miller said his team has a lot of speed if they can ever hit the holes and get into the open field.

“Nobody would be able to catch Stearns and Holland in the open field,” Miller said. “We just have to hit the holes when they are there.”

Miller said this week’s practice was probably one of the best the team has had all year.

“Even going back to camp, this was probably one of the best week’s we’ve had all year,” Miller said. “I don’t think the three and a half hour drive had anything to do with it … the officials weren’t very good, but we shouldn’t have been in that situation.There were a lot of mental mistakes.”

Miller said he is going to change a few things in practice and take what has happened during the games and put that information to good use.

“We have to learn from our mistakes and hopefully we can pick up a few wins to salvage the season,” Miller said.

The Bulldogs will be back in action this Friday night at Bulldog Field as the team hosts Adair County. Kick off is set for 7 p.m.

“They are a very solid football program. They are 1-1 right now. They beat Caverna pretty soundly and got beat by Larue County,” Miller said. “They are a fast team. We have a lot of work ahead of us this week and I want to see as much effort and heart as we can put in it.”

One promising note for Clinton County Football is the number of fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth graders Miller has in his feeder program.

Miller said there are 94 students playing in those grades and he is excited about the years to come.

“That would be fantastic if we were to keep two-thirds of those guys,” Miller said. “If something happens and they all decide they want to play, we would have to come up with some money somewhere because we would have to suit out 94 kids. That would be a problem I would like to deal with. With the program growing with the younger grades, that will directly lead into the high school.”