Our season ended last night in a first round playoff game; this was only the second time our HS has ever made it to the state playoffs (and it's an old HS; my great aunt was in the class of '29). We made a good showing against the team that finished first in our league (we were third with a 7-3 regular season, 5-2 league record), a 42-21 loss in a game we actually led 7-0 and 14-12 in the first half. Our opponent was a school with an outstanding football program who had beaten us in the last 4 meetings by a combined score of 151-6, including 28-0 4 weeks ago (when they knocked 3 of our starters out of the game, one of whom was lost for the season). So the year ended respectably, with no 3 hour bus rides to playoff games on the far side of the state. Whew!

P.S. The band finished the year 10-1!


"Live like you'll die tomorrow, but manage your grass like you'll live forever."
-S. M. Stirling
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