Game 1 - Win

And it was amazing. I started my first varsity game on Friday, and man, it was a blast. We played a team called Derita Christian. It was their first year as a school and as a football team, so they didn't have a lot of kids (probably around 20 on the team) but they were ALL black, except for one white wide receiver. They were pretty small, averaging about 180 lbs and in between 5' 9" and 6' 2". But they were FAST. They were a one-man team, though. They had a very fast and quick quarterback, and he ran for probably 200+ yards. All they would do is snap the ball to him, and he would wait in the pocket until our 3 defensive linemen got through, then he would run around them, and just take off, leaving just 2 inside linebackers to take him, because his receivers had cleared our corners and outside linebackers (when I say clear, I mean that they ran deep patterns so that their quarterback would have plenty of space to run.) By the end of the first half, altough we were up 12-0, we had completely changed our defense around to control that guy. He always wanted to run outside; never up the middle. So we started the second half with a new contain defense, which meant that no matter what, us corners and outside linebackers were not to allow that guy to get outside of us...we were to force him inside where we would get help from our inside linebackers, linemen, and safteys. It worked really well, and I had 3 tackles in a row on one series (I ended the game with 5 tackles.)

But they finally scored in the 3rd quarter, making it 12-6 (we blocked the extra point). Our offense in the second half was atrocious, with less then 50 yards and no points. But our defense held strong until the end, and I mean to the END. The game ended up going down to the wire. Score: 12-6. 11 seconds left in the game, no timeouts left for anyone, they have the ball on our 5 yard line (meaning they are 5 yards away from a touchdown.) The crowd is screaming, the adrenaline is pumping, and then the ball was snapped. Hand-off down the middle. Their running back makes it to the 3 yard line, gets hit, fumbles, one of their lineman picks it up, 1 yard away from the endzone. Our middle linebacker hits him inches away from the goaline and holds him there until me and our safety come and help Rigo tackle him on the one yard line. We win the game, crowd going bonkers, everyone jumping up and down and screaming. It was awesome. Y'all should have been there.

Game 2 will be on Friday, at 7:30 PM. We will play Hickory Grove Baptist, a team that won their first game as well. I'll give recaps like this for all of our games. Sorry if it bores you...you will just have to get over it. ;-)