March 6, 2014: This one's a long one.

This will be a two parter:

After seeing stuff about the state wrestling and basketball tournament that old teammates of mine are/were going to it really made me miss sports in high school.  I definitely took them for granted for the first few years of high school.  It took me all the way to senior year to realize that I really don't want to take them for granted.  Everyone says that once you get to senior year you realize how time has flown and to enjoy every minute of sports you play, I never really bought it till I was playing my last football game.  Nothing was more fun that playing football for me and all the training that came with it.  The season wasn't all that good, we were a talented and good team but we kept losing close games.  A couple were decided by one point and a couple others were decided by one touchdown.  We did beat our district rivals though.  One of them, Sandpoint, was a team we had a lot of trouble beating in the past.  My sophomore year we lost to them in double overtime by a field goal which sent them to the state playoffs rather than us, then my junior year we beat them by scoring a touchdown on a 85 yard drive.  We got the ball with about a minute and a half left and then scored with about 8 seconds left.  We could have kicked an extra point and tied it to go to overtime but we had nothing to lose since lakeland (our other district rival) was going to state seeing as they beat us and sandpoint already so we went for a two point try.  We scored it by throwing a little jump pass to the back of the endzone and with that we took the lead by one.  The next kick took the last 8 seconds and we won.  It was a bad season but the end was so good, we hadn't beat sandpoint in close to 8 years.  Then senior year happened.  We lost our first four games, then played a team from canada here at the kibbie dome.  We won in a blowout and played some great football, we then lost the next game to lewiston by one. We then traveled up to sandpoint for our first district game.  We completely blew sandpoint out of the water, my mom is the athletic trainer for moscow and has been for awhile and she had never seen moscow beat sandpoint up there.  The next week Lakeland came to our house to play us for the championship game.  Lakeland was 5 and 2 we were 2 and 5 in the win/loss column.

I'll continue in the next post.