{"id":31,"date":"2011-10-16T17:10:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T21:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/2011\/10\/16\/regular-season-football-is-over\/"},"modified":"2011-10-16T17:10:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T21:10:07","slug":"regular-season-football-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/regular-season-football-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Regular Season Football is over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><![CDATA[\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<p>For the secondary s=\nchools in our area the regular season play has ended and now it&#39;s ti=\nme for the playoffs.  (My international readers will keep in mind this i=\ns American Football, not what you call Football but we call Soccer. \ud83d\ude42 <=\nimg WIDTH=3D\"15%\" ALT=3D\"what a football looks like\" ALIGN=3D\"right\" SRC=\n=3D\"http:\/\/images.free-extras.com\/pics\/r\/rawlings_football-955.jpg\/\" \/>)=\n<\/p>\n\n<br \/>\n\n<p>Since this is the last year of high school for my youngest d=\naughter, I guess this is a wrap-up for me on several levels.  I have rep=\norted previously in this blog about the successes of our local <a href=3D=\n\"http:\/\/www.eastbrookschools.net\/\" target=3D\"_blank\">Eastbrook High Scho=\nol<\/a> team, the <a href=3D\"http:\/\/www.eastbrookfootball.com\/\" target=3D=\n\"_blank\">Panthers<\/a>.  We had another wonderful season of victories thi=\ns year, again finishing the season undefeated.<\/p>\n\n<br \/>\n\n<p>Here is the wr=\nap up:\n\n\n<table BORDER=3D\"0\">\n\n\n<tr>\n\n<td>08\/19\/2011<\/td>\n\n\n\n<td>away<\/td>\n\n\n\n<td>Rochester (Rochester, IN)<\/td>\n\n<t=\nd>54-27  Win<\/td>\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n\n\n<tr>\n\n<td>08\/26\/2011<\/td>\n\n\n\n<td>home<\/td>\n\n\n\n<td>Western (Russiaville, IN)<\/td>\n\n<t=\nd>14- 6  Win<\/td>\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n\n\n<tr>\n\n<td>09\/02\/2011<\/td>\n\n\n\n<td>away<\/td>\n\n\n\n<td>Frankton (Frankton, IN)<\/td>\n\n\n\n<td>=\n66- 7  Win<\/td>\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n\n\n<tr>\n\n<td>09\/09\/2011<\/td>\n\n\n\n<td>home<\/td>\n\n\n\n<td>Monroe (Alexandria, IN)<\/td>\n\n\n\n<td>=\n50-25  Win<\/td>\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n\n\n<tr>\n\n<td>09\/16\/2011<\/td>\n\n\n\n<td>away<\/td>\n\n\n\n<td>Blackford (Hartford City, IN)<\/t=\nd>\n\n<td>57- 3  Win<\/td>\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n\n\n<tr>\n\n<td>09\/23\/2011<\/td>\n\n\n\n<td>away<\/td>\n\n\n\n<td>Elwood (Elwood, IN)<\/td>\n\n\n\n<td>49-2=\n7  Win<\/td>\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n\n\n<tr>\n\n<td>09\/30\/2011<\/td>\n\n\n\n<td>home<\/td>\n\n\n\n<td>Madison-Grant (Fairmount, IN)<\/t=\nd>\n\n<td>35- 6  Win<\/td>\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n\n\n<tr>\n\n<td>10\/07\/2011<\/td>\n\n\n\n<td>home<\/td>\n\n\n\n<td>Mississinewa (Gas City, IN)<\/td>\n\n=\n\n\n<td>63-13  Win<\/td>\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n\n\n<tr>\n\n<td>10\/14\/2011<\/td>\n\n\n\n<td>home<\/td>\n\n\n\n<td>Oak Hill (Converse, IN) <\/td>\n\n<td=\n>42- 7  Win<\/td>\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n<\/table>\n\n\n<br \/>\nOur past couple of years have looked like this for win-loss records:\n\n\n<ul>\n\n<li>2010 Season: 11-1<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n<li>2009 Season: 12-1<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n<li>2008 Season: 8-3<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n<li>2007 Season: 9-2<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n<li>2006 Season: 8-3<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n<li>2005 Season: 11-2<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n<li>2004 Season: 15-1<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/p>\n\n<br \/>\n\n<p>Unfortunately, what this means for the team is we reall=\ny don&#39;t get much practice against tougher opponents.  The outcome of=\n this is that we do not do well in the tournaments.  Keep in mind that f=\nor the past years&#39; records, each season ends when we get knocked out=\n of the state tournament.  That is, for our regular season play, you nee=\nd to deduct one of the losses listed for each year.<\/p>\n\n<br \/>\n\n<p>All-in-al=\nl, it&#39;s been great to have been an Eastbrook Panther fan for the las=\nt couple of years.  I&#39;m glad to have been part of it, even if it onl=\ny means for me sitting in the stands for <i>some<\/i> of the games.<\/p>\n\n]]=\n>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oUw6-v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}