Loss

Loss is never something that's easy to deal with. Whether you lost someone you care about or it's a team of yours. The latter is obviously much less important but it still sucks none the less. It's even worse when you're school's team is the one thats losing. That's exactly what happened last night at Cedar Rapids Xavier played my school, Cedar Rapids Kennedy. It would have been a great game to any spectator not heavily supporting a certain team, but for any dedicated student with high hopes for the season, it was not a fun night. It started out ok with both teams doing ok. Kennedy definitely looked better and had some steady drives going but had two turnovers that really set them back. But they were in the lead 10-7 heading into halftime and it was looking alright for us except one of our top recievers, Max Martino, was taken out of the game with a concussion. That's when the second string runningback and kick returner, Josh Simmons, hopped off the field after falling awkwardly on his leg. It was broken. Now we had two big time players out with injuries and it was starting to feel much similair to the Kennedy-Xavier game held earlier in the year. We had our starting quarterback, Derek Thomas, and again Max Martino knocked out of the game from big hits. We went into halftime leading but when we came back out, things started looking even more downhill. On one of our first possesions in the 3rd quarter Derek Thomas was sacked for a safety. 10-9. They then managed to score again to put it to 10-16. But the game wasn't over yet and Kennedy managed to get the ball back with 49 seconds left after they stopped Xavier with a 4 and out that only took 20 seconds. But it had also taken all of our timeouts and we were now on our own 8. The following plays included a couple of very long throws that were somehow miracuously caught. Derek Thomas managed to get one more completion to get the ball to the 12 before he had to spike the ball with 3 seconds on the clock. This was the game. They hiked the ball and Derek dropped back to...... lob it to the corner to a reciever who is double covered and the ball is almost intercepted. Game over. End of season.