A recently-added Homecoming activity put a hurting to seniors' pride Wednesday during lunch hours at Marion High School. Late underclass squads' heroics kept the senior powderpuff football teams from advancing to the evening's championship rounds in an activity MHS football coach Kerry Martin guessed to be five years old. In the early lunch-hour battle, the freshmen — a.k.a. "Tarlton's Terminators" after coach Jeff Tarlton — bested the seniors in a sudden-death field-goal competition, 2-1, after a scoreless game. Libby Landes nailed the winning kick. "It was great," she said. "I didn't think I'd get to do that." In the late lunch hour, the junior squad — "Manfredo's Mafia" — beat the sophomores with a last-second touchdown on a quarterback carry called by coach Marty Manfredo. Despite encouragement from a few of the early lunch's seniors, Martin's spread offense didn't fare well against the juniors, who won, 1-0 in the field-goal tiebreaker. Weather-permitting, the early-lunch champ freshmen were set to play the late-lunch champ juniors Wednesday evening for the priviledge of playing a squad of faculty. A range of tactics was employed in the quest for powderpuff supremacy. Tarlton's squad had practiced for a week with a rather thick playbook — by powderpuff standards — only to end up using a handfull of plays in the games. Martin tried a modified version of his Friday night offense. Manfredo's offense was called "hike the ball ...
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A recently-added Homecoming activity put a hurting to seniors' pride Wednesday during lunch hours at Marion High School. Late underclass squads' heroics kept the senior powderpuff football teams from advancing to the evening's championship rounds in an activity MHS football coach Kerry Martin guessed to be five years old. In the early lunch-hour battle, the freshmen — a.k.a. "Tarlton's Terminators" after coach Jeff Tarlton — bested the seniors in a sudden-death field-goal competition, 2-1, after a scoreless game. Libby Landes nailed the winning kick. "It was great," she said. "I didn't think I'd get to do that." In the late lunch hour, the junior squad — "Manfredo's Mafia" — beat the sophomores with a last-second touchdown on a quarterback carry called by coach Marty Manfredo. Despite encouragement from a few of the early lunch's seniors, Martin's spread offense didn't fare well against the juniors, who won, 1-0 in the field-goal tiebreaker. Weather-permitting, the early-lunch champ freshmen were set to play the late-lunch champ juniors Wednesday evening for the priviledge of playing a squad of faculty. A range of tactics was employed in the quest for powderpuff supremacy. Tarlton's squad had practiced for a week with a rather thick playbook — by powderpuff standards — only to end up using a handfull of plays in the games. Martin tried a modified version of his Friday night offense. Manfredo's offense was called "hike the ball ...