Texas High School Football Playoffs
Texas High School Football Playoffs :Killeen, Texas – The scene here at Leo Buckley Stadium late Friday night was the most, such as football stadiums in high schools across the country, such as the Gray Wolves, Shoemaker deal with the reality of this season has ended.
Broke down in tears, and hugs were exchanged between players, coaches, players, coaches and trainers. When the top instructors thanks for the great effort.
But this was not the regular season’s final rite of gray wolves. Slightly more than 24 hours earlier, many of them not sure of their parents or loved one injured – or worse, murder – the deadly shooting incident at Fort Hood, the nation’s largest military base.
Shoemaker High School, which is just a stone’s throw from Fort Hood, and densely populated with children of all families living on the base or serving in the army. With the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and these young people have become accustomed to dealing with death.
But the news that made it carried out the attacks Thursday that any easier for many of them to take. Twelve soldiers and one civilian were killed and 30 others injured, police said. If there is one consolation is that none of the fathers of the Gray Wolves, “or immediate family members affected by the fire,” It was difficult for us to know some of our players from the mothers and fathers of the likely casualties or injuries, “said Shoemaker quarterback Jammie Blunt student who The family is awaiting orders to Korea soon regretted. ” We sat there with our heads together and want the best and it was hoped that none of our family. Fortunately, it does not.
“But we came here to play for two people of Fort Hood.”
“It was very difficult for us to come play this game to see families and some of us have been affected,” Schoomaker said senior lineman Jamie Bennett, who cried when the game ended. “It was really hard to come by, but we pray and then we moved.”
Shoemaker coach Ken Gray president who is willing for the worse when news spread of the Killeen that the shooter was loose on the base. About the cobbler, much more than other secondary schools in the community, and help young children deal with tragedy is just something that teachers, trainers and administrators to do.
“We are in a unique situation that the parents of our children” against the war in Iraq and are against the war in Afghanistan, Kuwait and the sites, “said Gray.” If there are events in their lives.
“What we are doing is we are trained to try to keep things as is customary in our power, consistent with what we can for our children. The tragedy of (Thursday) the type of bear children, whether or not their father, when they hear the passage of troops or get the victim send Prayer for you do not know when one of their parents or relatives. ”
The Killeen school district to stop all extra-curricular activities on the day of the shooting, but the higher ups at Fort Hood, expressed a desire to put things back to normal. Therefore, it was business as usual on Friday night at the Stade de Buckley, where I started the night as is always the case with a prayer for the soldiers and their families.
“The message this morning from Fort Hood, and I did everything as normally as possible with the school and everything to gain,” said sports director Tom Rogers County Killeen. “So this is our regularly scheduled game.
“There was some discussion in the road early, but it went very fast.
“Every time I’ve been around football or a sporting event, where there is a tragedy what happened this week,” and added that “this is what children know when they go to the area to urge them to return to normal life and forget everything that is happening outside.”
But Rogers admitted last Thursday especially difficult for the student athletes.
“Many of them went through a lot of stress (Thursday) because there is some ambiguity quite some time because many of their parents work on Fort Hood,” said Rogers. “Even if things had been closed, and rumors began flying children and start talking and people start talking, and there are a number of things that come … there was a lot of uncertainty, but in order for them to come back and play a game like that night was unbelievable.”
Without a win this season, gray wolves seemed to play inspired football on Friday night, which took the early lead in the temple of his opponent 6-0 lead and then 12.7 in the second quarter of the very front of the Temple described the recruitment of running back Lache Overseas trunk victory ended 44 — 32.
But Gray, who made the team and Texas high school playoffs last season, and spoke proudly of his team despite the 0-10 season. He saw his team, which lost three Division I prospects for damage within the first two weeks of the season, and the struggle to end Friday.
In fact, the result may differ significantly from gray wolves had their receivers are not dropped three touchdown passes point blank.
“They were ready to go, as we have them every week,” You give everything you have. There are a lot of people who support you in the world, “Gray said.” We got phone calls from Iraq, and got the kids text messages from anywhere in the world, because that is where our parents ‘children’ are.
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