Saturday....9am......60 degrees
Sounds like the perfect time to watch a Pee-Wee football game. WRONG!!! 60 mile an hour winds brought this game to a complete standstill. Through four quarters of play the final score was 6-2. Remember this was a football game not a baseball game. The Vermillion Tanagers hosted the Dell Rapid Quarriers in tournament play today. One loss your done format so it should have been excitng. These 8-10 year olds really gave it their all for four quarters. Vermillion was lead by Quarterback Chase Ffel who ran for sixty yards on seventeen carries. The only downside to that was he was 0 for 13 passing. This was a major surprise because the Tanagers were a very strong passing team according to the parents in the stands. Vermillions lone score came on a safety that was really a string of bad luck for the Quarriers. The Quarriers quarterback tried to pitch the ball to his runningback and a gust of wind blew the ball into the endzone and was recovered by Quarriers giving the Tanagers 2 points at the beginning of the fourth quarter. The Quarriers received the ball late in the fourth quarter after the Tanagers had punted. Maybe it was the football God's making up for the weather, but the wind died down around this time as well. THe Quarriers then went 43 yards for the go ahead touchdown. The touchdown was run in by fullback Taylor Kratz from the three yard line. I felt bad for my fiances brrother who played for the Tanagers. This was not a good game by any means, but all the kids played their hearts out and the best moment came after the game. Both teams huddled around an ice chest dring Capri Sun and having a granola bar.....Now thats football.
There was talk of moving the game to a later time slot in the day, but was overruled by the referees. The tournament is only a one day tournament and extra time slots were not available. THere were other great games offered by the tournament which included a shootout that ended 21 to 28. I have no idea who will win this tournament but the favorite from this reporters eyes is the team out of Yankton. The plays I saw this young quarterback were amazing. He ran for two long touchdown runs and even caught one as Yankton used a rough version of a "wildcat" offense.
All of the kids seemed to have a lot of fun. One of things I enjoyed the most were all the cheerleaders and all the coaches were wearing pink shirts that showed their support for breast cancer awareness. Ther proceeds from this tournament were going to be given to the South Dakota chapter of breast cancer awareness.
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