Saturday, October 14, 2006

"Fri. Nite Lights" at Midnight

Last night I think I witnessed THE LONGEST game of high school football I ever witnessed! Truly the "Friday nite lights" burned in Alamo Stadium 'til close to midnight. This is much longer than usual on a high school football night!

The Lanier Voks ("Pride of the Westside") fought a lo-o-ong, hard gridiron battle against the Sam Houston Cherokees. Located in far eastern San Antonio, the latter high school takes in students from what might formerly have been the ghetto (if S.A. was considered to have one). So the Cherokees have a strong football team every year. Oops! I forgot: the "politically-correct" agenda has forced SHHS to change the mascot to "Hurricanes". Last nite, one SHHS fan word a green-and-orange tee shirt which proclaimed "ALWAYS a Cherokee!" You bet! More power to ya! Let's hear it for opposing the politically-correct agenda!

Meanwhile, the Lanier Voks reign as defending District 28-4A champs and were undefeated so far this year in District games. Houston had one District loss.

The game was tied 6-6 at halftime -- an omen of what was to come. Lanier pushed its lead to 20-6 with two lightning-quick touchdowns in the third quarter, but Houston came back in the fourth to tie the game 20-20 and send the contest into the first overtime. Neither team scored in the first, and both teams scored equally in the next two. Finally, in the fourth overtime, the Hurricanes failed on a two-point conversion, the Voks scored and made their two-pointer to end victorious 43-41 about an hour and a half after regulation time had expired.

Whew!

Elsewhere, the Alamo Heights Mules paid a visit to their District 27-4A foes Fredricksburg, up in the Texas Hill Country. The Mules stomped on the Billies (as in "billygoats" I think). Also, the Devine Warhorses and the Decatur eagles, both ranked #7 (the former in the Express-News area poll and the latter in the state-wide AP poll) also did some stomping to keep their records bright for district championships and playoff trips. Devine defeated Pearsall and Decatur bested in-county arch-rival Bridgeport.

But at least none of those games were marathon-length like the Voks' contest in Alamo Stadium was! Oh, and I didn't stay for the overtimes. I'd bro't my headset radio, so I caught the last VÍA bus going past the stadium, and listened to the finish of the hard-fought battle.

Go, Voks, Go! And go, "Friday Nite Lights!" Just don't go over-long again!

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