STATE CHAMPION EAGLES!!!

I headed over to the west side Friday after school with Lane, Chance, Brad and Nick. When we got to Leslie's here is how we were met:

I LOVE it!!! The boys all played hard and had a good time with each other. This was the first time for Matt and Lucas to meet Lane and Chance....all athletes who love sports...how did they get along??? Don't really need to answer that!!

We arrived at the Tacoma Dome Saturday morning during the Lynden vs West Valley game. Lynden won. It was then time for the Eagles!!

The Captains meet in the middle....

The team introductions....

GAME ON!!!!!

My camera was on the wrong settings the entire game so I got crappy pictures!! ):

Bare with them!

Dog pile!!

Here goes Shane for our first touchdown!!! AWESOME!!! The Connell side has come alive!!

TOUCHDOWN!!

Matt into the endzone with seconds remaining in the half.

Connell on top.....right where we should be!

Briar had some great punts....especially since they didn't do a lot of punting during the season.

Defense...

Get that ball!!

Dyrel in for touchdown #4

This would end up being the final score.

Celebration

Here comes the trophy!

Oh YEAH!!

You guys did it!!!

Michael, Briar, Kraymer and Kade

Eagles.....State Champions!! Congratulations on a super season...undefeated 14-0!!

December 2.....Report to Franklin County Superior Court

Today was JURY DUTY!!! Yeah!! NOT!!! We had to be at the Court House by 8:30 a.m. Got there, went through the question/answer session and then waited for the Jury Coordinator to get out numbers printed off so we could get moving along. We waited. We waited. We waited some more and then finally they came out to tell us that while printing the numbers the computer crashed and were were to leave and come back at 1:30 when we would get things rolling. Lovely. It's 11:00 by this time....not enough time to go home and come back, not to mention the gas money it would cost and with the whopping $10.00 you make for coming to Jury Duty, THAT money is not going to last long. So WHAT was a person suppose to do? I ended up going and getting gas, stopping by the bank and then going to WalMart to walk the aisles with the thousand other people that have nothing to do on a Wednesday! Joy. Finally went back to the Court House and sat in the parking lot for awhile before going back into the courtroom. The afternoon was spent listening to potential jurors (that's us) get asked questions by the attorneys and the judge and finally at 4:00 14 jurors were sitting in the juror box. My number was 35. The last number to get placed in the box?? 32. Did I mention that this is going to be at least a 3 week trial? You already know the way I feel about not getting seated!

I call in again this Friday.

Getting Ready for Game Day!

It was an afternoon of hair dying today! Boys went from red, white, blond, and brown to BLACK! All in the sake of a football game...the Championship Football Game to be exact.

Pictured: Dyrel, Michael, Kade, Bryant, Briar, Chandler and Shane. Not pictured: Kraymer and Scott (and we sent a dye box home for Matt!) GO get'em Eagles.

VICTORY!!!

Today the Connell Eagles took on the Chelan Goats.....and well, the last picture says it all!!

Yes, Marcie, these are cheerleader pictures!! Go C-H-S!!

Defense coming to the field...led by seniors Scott Borgens (54) and Michael Casper (51)!!

Warm ups...

Handshakes...

The crowd.

The introductions.

The first of 4 (I think) touchdowns by Matt Hadley!

An extra point by Ivan Barragan.

The Goats with their first possession.

Downhill for them from here on out.

Running backs, Whitby and Hadley!

Katelyn. LOTS to be cheering about!!

3 of the offensive lineman for Chelan weigh over 800 pounds, combined. That's a lot of hard work for our guys....they did their job and contained Chelan's running game. Good job to the lineman...too often times, not enough credit given to these guys. One more game Connell, and all your hard work will pay off!!!

Brianna.

Chandler getting a bandaid on his nose.

Rushing yards. Matt had 241 of them for the game.

Be careful Nate!!

Go, Alan!!

The Defense-to-Offense switch.

Martinez to Whitby.

Martinez to Hadley.

TOUCHDOWN!!!

Handoff to Anderson.

Chelan Defensive Line.

Scottie.

Michael.

Shoulder ride.

Here comes the blitz!!

Michael getting a hand on the quarterback's throw!! GOOD JOB!!!

Extra point.....GOOD!!

Special Teams coming off the field.

Anderson after the quarterback. That quarterback was a great athlete. He got many a pass off after it looked like he was going down.

Briar on Special Teams for an on-side kick recovery.

This 6'5" wide receiver from the Goats was tall....he got balls right out of the air ABOVE our Brady. Thank goodness he didn't get but a few!!

That's game!!

Chelan had a huge Tailgate Party going before the game. They brought the spectators (although NOT as many as we did!!). I am told that this was their first time for getting this far...they did well but just weren't up to beating us today!!!

That scoreboard says: Home 14.....Guest 37!!

Tacoma Dome bound......Yeah, Eagles!!! You guys rock!!