Speaking as a person who stood on the side of the Beaverton field in 2003 with a broken heart, desperately trying to console myself while watching the players walk off the field(shut up, it hurt), it felt unbelievably good to watch us kick Beaverton's ass on Friday. Yes, I was there but that's another story. Anyway, for those of you who weren't the game was better for JHS than the score would suggest. One, Weatheroy hurt his shoulderin the first halfand Keo had to come in and run in his place. Second, we don't have a punter. Third, second-half domination. Some numbers: 0, 8, 5, 134. In other words, 0 rushing yards in the game for Beaverton, 8 second-half plays for Beaverton, 5 yards total in the second half for Beaverton, 134 rushing yards(mostly in the second half) for Keo. Anytime you can post those kind of numbers, you're going to do pretty well. It was great to go in there and show that we can play with anyone including the second ranked team in the state.
Also, I talked to several people about the Southridge game. From what I heard, it was just one of those games where everything went wrong(one of those things being that the punter broke his foot the day before the game, thus the no punter comment above). We also made some terrible mistakes. Southrisge is a good team, as Pat astutely stated, and seeing as how they have never beat Jesuit in the history of their school, they were due for one. But we really are better than we played in that game so take heart.
As you can see, I still refer to Jesuit as we also.
4 comments:
Nice to see a Machuca post. If Ms. Myers was right, the tenth incarnation of Krishna should be stopping by anytime now.
When you say "the punter broke his foot" you should really say that a Dirty Sanchez broke the punter's foot... Just for the record.
That sounds freaking epic. Ah, football.
Remember when we went to the Jack in the Box after the game last year and got mooned by some Beaverton people? And the "Pedophile Preacher" chant? Oh man good times.
I rushed the field
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