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I just decided to make a new thread since I figured everyone would comment on this. Hope this organizes it a little better for everyone so other people know what we’re talking about.
I have a few games I thought were great.
First I’ll start with while I was in school. Scott mentioned that Watervliet game in 1999. It was full of energy and renewed our rivalry with our neighbors. I remember Jeff Holland catching that 32 and go pass from Pruiett for like 80 yards to retake the lead I think. Seeing Jeff sprinting with his tiny arms under those shoulder pads was classic, I was jumping up and down.
The Coloma game that year was pretty good too. That was when Tank or Dozer or whatever his name was, he was a junior. It was at Coloma and we beat them by like 2 or 3. But Decatur that year was awesome, even though we lost 6-0. It was all defensive, hard fought, in the trenches type of game.
I won’t mention the next season. Sorry. “For the fallen heroes.”
2001 and 2002: Pretty much blew out every team in conference. Of course there was the double overtime thriller with Decatur in 01 and the loss to Coloma the next week. The 02 debacle against Decatur, that was a terrible game. We should’ve destroyed them but we went in with an embarrassing game plan for that game.
I tried to think of more games that I remembered being close but I couldn’t really do it, not regular season anyway. With the exception of Decatur, we never were really challenged, until recently. I can remember in like 94 us losing to Watervliet then beating LMC in a great game. Maybe 98 or 97 we had a good game against Galien actually. A really good playoff game was in 95 against Union City when we lost 7-6 because Ricky Ricardo missed that extra point and the ref said Winans didn’t break the plain on that QB sneak. That was a cold day.
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