Friday Night Football

Friday, Oct. 2, 2009 ~ Paxton Tigers travel to Wallace
(Garrett is behind #29). The Paxton fans had a tailgate
party with lots of good food! We had a large crowd and
luckily the wind went down after blowing 45+ for two
days!

Tyler, student manager, and Garrett
watch from the sideline.

Garrett, #12 to the far right. Paxton scored the first TD
of the night and the score teter-totered back and forth
all night. The refs made a few bad calls and the Wildcats
played a little dirty so it was a vocal game from both
sidelines, but very exciting! The Tigers did a great job!

Bernie and my nephew Tanner. He rode with us to watch
Cousin Garrett play. Gma Grace came too, she toughed it
out on the bleachers until half time then we all retreated
to the vehicle for hot chocolate! :)

Garrett, white jersey on right, had some great plays!

Garrett got hurt on a tackle in the first quarter when he
kind of wrenched his neck. The coach, whose been keeping a
close eye on Garrett as he's coming back from a concusion
had Bernie and I talk to him and an emt look at him and it
was decided they'd wait til the middle of the 2nd qt. to see
how he was doing. Garrett does not like to be on the side
lines so was eager to go back in in the 3rd qt. He took
another big hit though and got dizzy so the ambulance
crew checked him out. It was decided at that time that
he was done playing for the night. He was really bummed
but we didn't want to take any chances. We're not sure at
this time what this means for Garrett but there is a good
possibility that he is done playing for the season......

Garrett got warmed up then finished watching the game
from the sidelines. The last quarter was pretty exciting
and he hated not being able to play. The coach said they
really missed him not being in there too.

Coach Moreland felt really bad that Garrett got hurt. He
thinks very highly of Garrett and he's a great asset to the
team. He told Garrett to get healed and that he was very
proud of him. He took good care of Garrett after the game
and we appreciated his concern.

Good news was....Paxton was able to hang on to the
lead and WON their 2nd game of the season!!!!! It was
very exciting as the fans cheered "hip, hip, hooray" and
went on to the field to congratulate the boys'! Another fun
game and a great win for Paxton over their rival!
Homecoming is next week so lots of fun things are ahead!
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We checked Garrett throughout the night and morning as
the emt's gave us signs to look for. He iced his neck/shoulder
area too and was able to get some rest. We will see what the
next day or two brings...