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Sports	The Prater's Creek Gazette 4th Issue Winter 2004 Page #5
As Compiled by Sports Editor Bubba McCalister and his brother Dorris Polecats Have Up and Down Year on the Gridiron When only twelve young men showed up for summer practice, Prater’s Creek High Coach Dave “Killer” Keller knew it would be a rough year. “We’re a small school in a farming community”, Coach Keller commented the other day in his office, “ We usually only have twenty or so boys every year anyhow. A lot of boys’ daddies won’t let ‘em play ‘cause they need ‘em on the farm.” The season got off to a rough start when the Warriors of West-Oak visited Polecat Field. Neither team could afford a football so the game had to be played with a big rock substituting for the ball. This played havoc with the kicking game and by the second quarter each team was electing to go for two point conversions instead of kicking extra points. The Polecats won the game 36-34. A strange thing happened in the second game against Irmo when Coach Keller had Gatorade dumped on him early in the first quarter. Well, it wasn’t exactly Gatorade, but some cheap imitation that Coach Keller was using to try and save money. “That stuff tasted nasty!” star running back Lil Red Hampton said “We told Coach after the first game we wanted the good stuff!” The Polecats lost to the snotty rich kids of Irmo, but made out with their cheerleaders in what Coach Keller called a “moral victory”. Big Red and Maudie Hampton would like to announce the engagement of their son, star running back Lil Red Hampton to Jacqueline Dossier of Irmo, SC. Punter Johnny Wilson set a South Carolina High School record by kicking a ninety-nine yard punt. His foot had fully recovered from game one and it was late in the fourth quarter of the Walhalla game. After two fumbles and a fifteen- yard penalty, the Polecats found themselves with fourth and thirty-five on their own one-yard line. Wilson was preparing to take the snap from the back of the end zone when all of a sudden his mother showed up yelling at him. “She was screaming ‘I thought I told you couldn’t play tonight unless you finished your chores’” one eyewitness said. “Mama!” Wilson pleaded, “I’m in the middle of a game!” “I don’t care” she replied “Jonathan Owen Wilson, you just march yourself off that field and come home this instant!” Just then the ball was snapped and Wilson swung into the ball with a sonic boom. The hang time was estimated at ten seconds. “I was so embarrassed with her yelling at me like that in front of everybody” Wilson said, “ and I just saw her face on the ball.” Coach Keller said he’s already getting excited about next year’s team. “I think we got a good chance to make the playoffs this year. I really do,” he said over a plate of barbecue at the B&B Thursday afternoon. “ All of our boys are coming back and we got of couple of daddies talked into letting their sons play ball this year. Heck, I told ‘em I’d come and do the plowing if it meant I’d get me a good linebacker.” Drovers To Play Benefit Local bluegrass favorites, The Drovers Old Time Medicine Show, will play a benefit at Prater’s Creek High School on February 6. The benefit is to raise money for the Polecat football team and to be able to buy a real football for the 2005 season. Hockey How many times we gotta tell you to get it through your cotton pickin’ mind?! People in Prater’s Creek don’t care nothin’ about no Yankee sport like hockey!

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Sports

The Prater's Creek Gazette

4th Issue Winter 2004 Page #5

As Compiled by Sports Editor Bubba McCalister and his brother Dorris

Polecats Have Up and Down Year on the Gridiron

When only twelve young men showed up for summer practice, Prater’s Creek High Coach Dave “Killer” Keller knew it would be a rough year. “We’re a small school in a farming community”, Coach Keller commented the other day in his office, “ We usually only have twenty or so boys every year anyhow. A lot of boys’ daddies won’t let ‘em play ‘cause they need ‘em on the farm.”

The season got off to a rough start when the Warriors of West-Oak visited Polecat Field. Neither team could afford a football so the game had to be played with a big rock substituting for the ball. This played havoc with the kicking game and by the second quarter each team was electing to go for two point conversions instead of kicking extra points. The Polecats won the game 36-34.

A strange thing happened in the second game against Irmo when Coach Keller had Gatorade dumped on him early in the first quarter. Well, it wasn’t exactly Gatorade, but some cheap imitation that Coach Keller was using to try and save money. “That stuff tasted nasty!” star running back Lil Red Hampton said “We told Coach after the first game we wanted the good stuff!”

The Polecats lost to the snotty rich kids of Irmo, but made out with their cheerleaders in what Coach Keller called a “moral victory”. Big Red and Maudie Hampton would like to announce the engagement of their son, star running back Lil Red Hampton to Jacqueline Dossier of Irmo, SC.

Punter Johnny Wilson set a South Carolina High School record by kicking a ninety-nine yard punt. His foot had fully recovered from game one and it was late in the fourth quarter of the Walhalla game. After two fumbles and a fifteen- yard penalty, the Polecats found themselves with fourth and thirty-five on their own one-yard line. Wilson was preparing to take the snap from the back of the end zone when all of a sudden his mother showed up yelling at him. “She was screaming ‘I thought I told you couldn’t play tonight unless you finished your chores’” one eyewitness said. “Mama!” Wilson pleaded, “I’m in the middle of a game!” “I don’t care” she replied “Jonathan Owen Wilson, you just march yourself off that field and come home this instant!” Just then the ball was snapped and Wilson swung into the ball with a sonic boom. The hang time was estimated at ten seconds. “I was so embarrassed with her yelling at me like that in front of everybody” Wilson said, “ and I just saw her face on the ball.”

Coach Keller said he’s already getting excited about next year’s team. “I think we got a good chance to make the playoffs this year. I really do,” he said over a plate of barbecue at the B&B Thursday afternoon. “ All of our boys are coming back and we got of couple of daddies talked into letting their sons play ball this year. Heck, I told ‘em I’d come and do the plowing if it meant I’d get me a good linebacker.”

Colman's Saddlery Ad Drovers To Play Benefit

Local bluegrass favorites, The Drovers Old Time Medicine Show, will play a benefit at Prater’s Creek High School on February 6. The benefit is to raise money for the Polecat football team and to be able to buy a real football for the 2005 season.

Hockey

How many times we gotta tell you to get it through your cotton pickin’ mind?! People in Prater’s Creek don’t care nothin’ about no Yankee sport like hockey!