More of a Game

The middle school team actually had some competition today, but the outcome of the game was never in doubt. In a 63-40 win, Nathan threw 3 touchdown passes and had one interception. He made a couple of good open field tackles and made at least two blocks that freed up the running back to score a touchdown. His one kick attempt failed. 

The thing I'm most proud of this season is the way he shakes off broken plays or mistakes and gets back into the groove. It shows he has matured some. The season is far from over, but so far, I like what I see!

Double Header

The pictures are both of Nathan this week. He's #11. He's doing great on both offense and defense!

It was a beautiful night to watch our "double header"--first the middle school game, then the varsity game. We played on astroturf for the first time as our home field. The field we usually rent from the school district was unavailable, so we used their practice/soccer field.

The middle school didn't have much of a contest again. The score was 46-0 at the half, so the game ended. Nathan had a few good tackles on defense and on offense he threw two touchdown passes--the last one to his cousin! That was fun!

The Varsity took the field about an hour later. It was a quick game. A half, to be exact. With a great hook-and-ladder fake as the buzzer was sounding, we made it 60-13. Game over. Aaron was 6-for-6 on point after attempts. He is currently the second leading scorer on the team since all his PATs count for 2 points.

Middle school plays again on Tuesday, hopefully some competition this time. Varsity has a bye this week. 

She's In!

The first college acceptance letter arrived while I was gone. I was so sad to have missed it! It came from Nicholls State, in Thibodaux, LA. Now we wait on Johnson and Wales in Denver. Then she has to decide!

Yeah, Elizabeth!! 

JV and Varsity

I'm finally home and got caught up on all the stats of the weekend.

JV game: Aaron was 4 for 5 on PATs and caught a touchdown pass.

Varsity game: Aaron was 4 for 5 on PATs. 

You can't say he isn't consistent!

This week we get a 2-for-1. Middle School plays on Friday before the Varsity game. I'll try to get some pictures at those.

A Crushing

Our poor middle school team! They were pumped for their game against our biggest rival school this afternoon. But all the excitement fizzled as they took the field against a bunch of sixth graders and a couple of eighth graders who'd never played football before. It was pitiful, one of those games where you feel bad clapping for your team. We managed to stretch it into the 3rd quarter before we 45'd them, but they didn't make it easy! Even our little 7th graders made big plays against these guys!

Nathan did well. He had two good runs from scrimmage, threw 2 touchdown passes, caught an extra point conversion, and made a couple of good blocks and tackles. 

Sorry, no pictures, though. The sun blinded us most of the game. Not very conducive to picture-taking.

I'm off to my writers' conference on Thursday, so I'll report about the JV and Varsity games next week after I get home and hear all about them!

A Perfect Ten!

We played last night, due to the impending landfall of Ike this weekend. We won 86-44. For those of our family that don't know, six-man football is very fast and very high scoring!

And last night's leading scorer was . . . (drumroll, please!) . . . AARON! He was a perfect 10 for 10 on extra points! Three of our seniors had 18 points each, but since kicked extra points in six-man count as 2 points, Aaron had 20.

He was really in the groove, all of his kicks flew high and straight. On the eleventh extra point try, the snap was bad and the holder missed it. Aaron picked up the ball and heaved it into the end zone, but the it got tipped away. So he was 10 for 10 on kicks, and 0 for 1 passing!

JV players even got to run a drive, but Aaron missed the pass Colton threw to him.

If you look closely at the picture above, you can see his proud Daddy on the sidelines keeping stats!

Mudfest

It rained much of the day today, but game time was a lovely 80ish degrees with sun breaking through the clouds. So of course the boys had a great time wallowing in the mud--I mean, playing their game. They won, 46-20, but it was a harder fought game than the score might indicate.

Nathan was off on his kicking game tonight. He only made 1 out of 4 extra point attempts. As quarterback, he got knocked down several times, had a couple of passes deflected and threw a couple away. He made a few completions and had some good blocks after hand-offs.

On defense, he made one really good tackle along with several assists. One time he wrapped his arms around the ball carrier's waist and got dragged a good 20 yards! It wasn't a pretty game, but it was a win. And they are learning. His cousin Chris did make an interception near the end.

Next up: Varsity game on Thursday at 6 pm in Temple, TX, three hours south. (This was originally scheduled as a Saturday game in a town near San Antonio, but Hurricane Ike is threatening, so they moved the game time and place in an effort to get it played and get everyone home again!)

Aaron (#3) and Colton (#21) Watch from the Sidelines

This is Aaron and one of his good friends.

#1 versus #1

Our varsity football team is ranked #1 in the state among private school 6-man football teams. Last night we traveled three hours (each way) to play the #1 public school 6-man football team in the state. 

We lost. Were 45'd, actually. (6-man football has a 45 point mercy rule. Usually we are the ones 45ing teams.) We expected all that. What we didn't expect (but did hope) was that we could hang with them for awhile. And we did. The game didn't end until the third quarter was 2 minutes from over. 

Aaron went 1 for 2 on extra points. The second one hit the crossbar of the goal post even though Calvert's whole line had broken through in front of him! He did get to kick off once and got in on the last of the tackle on the return.

We were proud of our boys. But it sure will be nice to go back to playing teams we can beat!

Here's Aaron's game-saving catch--much closer to the goal line than I remembered! Elizabeth actually took the picture. She was acting in her "yearbook" capacity. And am I glad she was!!

Just for you!

I decided to create this new blog so all of our family and friends can keep up with what is going on with our kids (and sometimes us.) This will be our family blog. I will still blog at www.fivebazillionandone.blogspot.com, but it will be more about life and relationships and writing instead of the specific goings on in our house.