Last Wednesday evening the Wellsville Touchdown Club honored the members of the 2010 WHS Football Team. The annual banquet was catered by Connie's Corner and held at the WHS Auditeria.
Head Coach Dave Skinner served as the Master-of-Ceremonies. Skinner said coaching at Wellsville is "awesome" because of the parents, fans, the staff and most of all the young men that make up the team.
This year's team was short on experienced players but not on determination. Even though their record was 4&6 on the season Skinner noted the fact they "never quit". That determination to not give up paid off in the last weeks of the schedule. Going into Week 8 the team was 1&6. With two away games and one home game left it would be understandable if morale was at an all time low. However, the Fighting Tigers never tucked their tail between their legs and put three straight victories in the record books to finish out the season. As the coach noted it was awesome!
Skinner profusely thanked everyone involved in the football program and noted the efforts of WHS Sports Station which brought the play-by-play each and every week to everyone. WHS SS is a group of volunteers that are completely independent of the school. With Mayor Joe Surace, Roger Miller and Bud Ceneviva in the booth they broadcast every game over the internet, supported by donations. James "Sparky" Miller takes care of the technical stuff back in his studio and Dave Miller films the games for later viewing on www.whsalumni.com. With a lap top and an air card these guys bring Wellsville sports live to a world wide audience. Then the next day a video of the game can be seen on the web site. League rules prohibit televising the game live.
The Mayor said they are ready to start doing the same with basketball once the season gets started. They have enough funds to get started but can always use more to bank and finish out the season. In addition to regular expenses the league gets $50 per game. It cost $500 in league fees to broadcast the football games.
At this year's banquet all the Freshman players were given a travel bag. Upper classmen were given WHS Tiger hoodies and the Seniors were their game jerseys. Even the coaches got a present from the Touchdown Club.
Pastor Dirk Hall offered the invocation and benediction for the banquet. Hall is pastor of Wellsville's Nazarene Church. In reminding everyone present that the Good Lord does answer prayers, Pastor Dirk said he is praying for a 10&0 record for the 2011 season.
Wouldn't that be something?
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