Cross Country is over!
This is actually a photo from an earlier XX meet in Topeka where Sam was actually competing against his cousin- Jay.
Saturday the varsity boys competed in the regional cross country meet at Milford Lake (of all places). They competed against 9 schools (I think) and the top 3 qualified for state. Unfortunately our guys came in 4th- falling 28 points short of the third place team. 2 of our boys and 1 of our girls qualified individually for state but this means Sam's season is done. Sam is disappointed, of course. He finished 6th on the team (top 5 count) and I think with some time everyone has realized that it would have required every team member to do much better than they did to make up those 28 points. Anyway, it was a good season!
Max and I ran over to the KSU/OU game, which started at 11:30 due to TV. I felt that it would be a blowout which it eventually was but for a moment when K-State scored two touchdown's to tie the score at 28-28, I thought something special could happen. Then reality set back in....hard. Half time score was 55-28 and final score was 58-35. Of course our coaches were stressing the 500+ yds, special teams play and the 35 points scored not the 4 major turnovers, the catholic defense- (Holy), OU's 600 yrds and 58 points scored on them. Guess we kind of knew it would be a long year. Next weekend K-State plays KU in Manhattan, which after KU got blown out this weekend by Texas Tech might be a good game. ? Back to being cellar-dwellers.
JCHS football remained undefeated (8-0) Friday night with a win over Topeka High. It was 29-3 at half time I think so that took a lot of pressure off. Manhattan (7-1) had another win also so this Friday night's meeting will probably be something special esp. with it being Halloween and all.
Molly went out to a bday party last night. Kind of scary now that all of her gang is turning 16 & driving & all. For some reason I worry a lot more about her than Sam. May be a father/daughter thing. Her more frequent use of the car is starting to cause some probs.
Later
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