Sports

For the third year in a row, Elliot's football team has struggled to get a win.  This year they finally got a win in overtime in the fourth game…and it happened to be the one played underneath the lights on a Saturday evening on the field at Central Middle School.  Elliot's been playing receiver on offense and linebacker on defense.

Here is some video from the game at Central including the game-winning TD.

Here is a series of photos of Elliot (# 8) making a tackle on a run up the middle:

Here is a series of photos of Elliot causing a fumble:

I never finished reporting on the boys youth football seasons last year.  Here is what I wrote about Week 1 and Weeks 2/3.

After playing RB the first half of the season, Elliot played QB during the final three games.  He played well, but his team continued to struggle and finished the season winless.

Here is video of Elliot at QB pitching to his friend Ethan who makes a long run before being tackled just short of the goal line:

Here's a video from the final game of the season with Elliot at QB:

Here are some photos:

The last game of Finn's season was a special one.  He carried the ball twice and scored both times.  The first one was a short run off tackle.  The second one was more adventurous.  Below are a couple of videos of Finn's team.  The first video focuses on the two TDs.  Unfortunately, I didn't have the good video camera with me, and it wasn't quite in focus for the second TD.  As you'll hear, I get pretty excited during the second run.  Below are a couple of photos too.

The 2011 Country Club Championship Swim Meet (Midland, Bay City, and Saginaw) was held this past week.  Congratulations to Elliot who brought home 3 ribbons in the boys age 9-10 category:

• 4th place in the 25 meter backstroke (time 28.12)
• 5th place in the 25 meter breaststroke (time 34.43)
• 5th place in the 100 meter freestyle (time 1:50.16)

Last Wednesday Elliot participated in the city-wide elementary track meet at Midland Stadium, competing against kids from 8 other schools.  He participated in the softball throw and 800 m run and was an alternate for the 400 m relay.  He finished 6th in the city in the softball throw (I didn’t realize that pink is the official color for 6th-place ribbons).  That was an unexpected surprise to me since it’s been several years since he has played baseball.  One of his buddies finished just ahead of him (4th ?), and a bunch of his buddies represented Carpenter really well in the various running events (winning or finishing in the top few).

We went to the Nouvel basketball game tonight for a couple of reasons: 1) they were playing Midland (we saw Nouvel defeat Midland earlier in the season, but it didn’t go that way tonight) and 2) it was Blair White night.  White was a student at Nouvel before playing football at Michigan State and this past season with Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts.

Here are photos of the boys with Blair and then the flyer he signed for them: