Every student in the school counts down the days until the annual Powder-Puff game. Female students get excited to be able to play a friendly game of flag football and make memories with their peers. People rush to the sign-up sheet to make sure they get a spot on the team. Powder-Puff is a flag football game in which female students are the players and male students are the coaches. The four teams are the freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors, and each team is allowed up to 15 players and three coaches.
The number of players, however, varies from grade to grade. The freshman sign-up sheet had to add extra pages because so many students signed up to play and coach. The sophomore and junior class teams had enough names to fill a whole sheet. The seniors, on the other hand, had barely enough students to even form a team. Worry was among the seniors and they feared that there would be no senior team this year. Due to weather conditions, the Powder-Puff game was postponed twice, which led to even less seniors being able to attend. The senior team only had four girls to play in the game, so they recruited two girls from the sophomore team. This team consisted of seniors Jenna Haskey, Maddy Meyer, Shaye Bailey and Emma Falk, and sophomores Mackenzie Mohrbacher and Alyssa Bearer. The senior coaches for this team were Wyatt Boyer and Ryan Kredel.
“I felt that we did good with the players that we had, but we missed those who didn’t sign up that played in previous years,” Boyer said.
The first game that took place was the freshmen versus the seniors at 5:30 p.m.. Both teams worked very hard from the beginning, but the senior team took an enormous lead, starting ahead by six touchdowns. The freshmen team refused to give up, and they then scored their first touchdown. The seniors pushed even harder and continued to score two more touchdowns. The freshmen team answered with another touchdown, but that was not enough to win the game. The seniors took the win for this game, with a score of 58-14.
The next game, sophomores versus juniors, took place right after the senior versus freshman game. Both teams knew they were close in skill level, so they never gave up once during the game. The juniors started the game off strong with a three-touchdown lead. The sophomores answered with another touchdown, but it did not get them far. The juniors quickly scored again to increase their lead. Each team fought hard, but the sophomores fell short with a score of 38-12.
The seniors and juniors advanced to the championship game where they competed in a close match-up. The seniors knew that the juniors would be a tough match for them, so they started strong from the beginning. The seniors started the game off with a three-touchdown lead. However, the juniors quickly answered with two touchdowns that put them almost even to the seniors. The game continued, and the seniors scored two more touchdowns, while the juniors were only able to score once more. The game resulted in a score of 36-20, where the seniors took the win.
“I feel like the game went really well for my teammates and I. Since there were only four of us, we had two of the sophomore girls play on our team. Both games we played we won by at least a few touchdowns, and the games were really fun to play in,” Falk said.