By Mojo Hill

NEW ROCKFORD — “When you’re frustrated about where you’re at,” Four Winds football coach Mark Bishop said, “look at where you’ve been. Where you came from.”

Bishop has been the Indians’ head football coach since 2011. His first year, the team won three games. At the time, that was tied for the most wins in school history.

The team went on to lose 40 consecutive varsity games. They went the greater part of the 2010s without any wins. The Indians went 0-9 in 2012, then 0-8 in back-to-back years.

Former Devils Lake star Travis Mertens joined the program as co-head coach in 2015. The program was struggling with numbers, so it went to a JV schedule for most of its games.

In 2017, Four Winds was back to a full nine-man varsity schedule.

“We were thinking we were gonna surprise

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