Football

Saturday morning the Roscoe-Rockton Lions' Flyweight team The Hawks played their last game of the regular season against Kaneland Silver. And they won 28-12! Woo hoo!

Zeke played almost the entire first half, due to one of the other big kids on the team having had surgery a few days before. You would think Zeke would be excited for all the play time he was getting... after all, there are 33 kids on the team and coach trying to give them all equal play time, it doesn't add up to a whole lot. But actually, by the middle of the 2nd quarter, Zeke was just beat.



The team played really well, although they racked up quite a few more penalties than the other team. One of the things I, and all the other parents on our team for that matter, love about our coaches is that they believe in fairness all around. So when it looked like we were pretty far ahead score-wise, all the big kids on defense came out to the sidelines. They then put in the "Baracuda" defense and the "Shark" defense, which is the nice way of saying "the little guys".

I will say this: what those little 60 pound defensive kids lack in size, they sure do make up for in agility! And boy can they go after a quarterback or receiver!

All in all, a fun game to watch. Those 8 year olds really seem to enjoy themselves and we have to thank our coaches for that. They inspired a love of the game.

So because we won this game and have only lost one this season, the Hawks are in the playoffs! So we have more practice this week and our first of two playoff games on Sunday.

In other news, we gave Reggie his first bath at his new home today.

Reggie's Bath

Quite an experience! He was very good for it though and now smells minty fresh! And he is so soft - we have been running our fingers through his fur all evening!