Last Home Stand for Seniors

When it's the last game of the regular season and it's at home, you want to go out on high note, especially leading into playoffs next week. Especially because the fans are bundled up and still freezing in the stands. And especially since it was Senior Night.

Took some pictures for my friend Brenda, whose son Zack will be graduating. Her husband Greg did sideline stats with Jim this season. (And their daughter graduated with Carter last year.)

So these touching photos are for her benefit!

Plus it's always nice to see big, tough football players get emotional with their parents!

By coincidence, our 6-3 Royals were hosting the winless Greenwood team. Throw in Friday Night Lights AND a full moon, and we got ourselves a steamrolling victory! We were actually leading 42-0 at halftime when I went to sit in the car to blast the heat for 15 minutes.

In the second half, to be humane, our second string and JV players took the field. They didn't score again but did hold Greenwood to only a few scores.

The final!

The last home game meant the Assumption tradition of the "senior walk," where the senior players link arms and walk from one goal post to another one last time.

Love that tradition. And so much better when the crying is just out of sadness at the milestone, not having to do with losing the last home game.

The underclassmen applaud and wait for them at the goal line.

Then embrace them before moms with cameras converge on the scene and embrace them, too!

Always need one more smiling picture. You never know how the first round of the playoffs will go next weekend. Nothing worse than crabby teenagers when you want photos. You know that!

It was very nice to see the fans hang around, too, to support the win! I'm sure everyone was freezing! Even with hat, mittens and scarf, plus hand warmers, I was ready to bolt.

Something about that Royal Pride makes you stay. Hope we can carry it on for a few more weekends!