Quantico Football Bowl Game

      On Saturday, November 8th, the football team had their last game of the season. It was not any ordinary game though - it was a bowl game at a tournament. This was the first bowl game Quantico had ever been to in the history of the school. The game was held between the Northern Virginia Centurions and Quantico. It was played at Quantico's home field, Butler Stadium. In the first quarter, Quantico had scored more than 20 points. Caleb Hall and Will Neil had three touchdowns, Jack Kelley had one touchdown, and Paul Kelley had two touchdowns with one being thrown from TJ Shelton by the end of the game. The defense had a great game with a total of 5 turnovers, 3 of which being interceptions. The three interceptions were from Kristian Lofgren, Nik Lofgren, and Matt Bianca. The other two turnovers were fumbles, and Anthony Nelson got one and the other fumble was from TJ Shelton.  At the end of the game, the warrior's came out on top with a total score of 60-6. Since it was a tournament, there was a game after the warrior’s game. That game was between Eastern Shore Homeschool and Hampton Roads Generals. The Eastern Shore Homeschool team came out on top with a total score of 46-24.

      I had a chance to interview the receiver and secondary coach, Mr. Whinderl. When asked how he felt the team did this year, he replied with "we had a lot of players that had never played before and that a winning season is always good". He said that one thing we could have improved is footwork, pursuit angle, breaking down, and jumping up to be the tallest man. His favorite moments were when someone would get an interception and return it for a touchdown. Three people got interceptions returned for touchdowns, but two of them were called back because of an inadvertant whistle. He says that when he played that was one thing he always wanted to get but never did get one, and to have someone that he coached get one made him proud. I asked him how he thought the team would do after the first official practice and he said "we needed a lot of work". He said that technique would be the number one thing we needed to get down to have a winning season.