A Saturday Full of 6-man Game 1...

The weekend after Thanksgiving was kind of an odd week in that all of our 11-man football teams ended up playing on Friday and none had games to be played on Saturday. We did, however, have a few 6-man football teams playing. Abilene Christian High was playing its playoff game in Zephyr in the afternoon and defending state champion Throckmorton was playing just up the road in Early later that evening. It made for a nice road trip to cover a couple of teams we don't always get to cover very much.

The first game was Abilene Christian High School playing Bracken Christian. At the start it looked like it was going to be a pretty good game. Both teams traded a couple touchdowns, there each team had a few stops and it was looking like it would be pretty fun. Then after the first quarter ACHS took over and pulled away with things. By the second half the game was a blowout and it was just a matter of time before ACHS won by the 45-point mercy rule. That was just fine with me, that gave me time to edit my photos and get up the road to the next game on time.

State Track, Day 2....

The great thing about the second day of the state track meet is after working 18+ hours the day before, the second day is a "short 12-13 hours. However, from 9am until almost 5pm it is literally almost non-stop shooting, almost 1,400 images worth. The Saturday afternoon session this year was the Class 1A and 3A meets. This year we had a bunch of 3A kids in addition to usual heavy dose of 1A kids.

The day started in the morning with field events. The good part was that they were spread out enough that I could spend a little time shooting each event. Then around noon the running started. Luckily all of the field events were done during this tie and I wasn't going to have to worry about being in two places at once.

This year, we had a couple of teams that were vying for state titles. Both the Munday boys in Class 1A and the Big Spring girls in 3A had a chance to win. And after a strong performance the day before the Albany girls had an outside chance at winning. Munday ended up running away with their title, literally. Big Spring had a few races that they came up short in and Albany couldn't pull off a win in the mile relay. I ended up getting a few nice frames from the meet, but overall, I think I was happier with what I had shot the day before even though I ended up having a lot more keepers on Saturday.