The Wrong Turn

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This past weekend the Trinity Tigers traveled deep into the mountains of Tennessee to do battle with the Sewanee Tigers. Strangely enough the battle that took place on the football field wasn’t the main battle that we would have to win that Saturday.

After a great game where our defense took everything into their hands, allowing only 3 points, the whole team felt pretty good. On the bus ride back to the airport we were all celebrating a much needed conference win when Parker noticed something. He had used his phone’s GPS to see how far we were from the airport and ended up noticing that we had missed out turn about 30 miles back and were now headed the wrong way. This was a critical mistake by our bus driver. We were already on a strict schedule because we were losing an hour due to the time zone change between Tennessee and Atlanta. Now we were and extra hour behind schedule due to the missed turn and would have to rush in order to catch our flight.

We arrived at the airport in Atlanta around 8:25 and our flight departure time was 9:00. It was GO TIME!!! After 20 minutes of hectic running most of us had made it to the gate just in time to grab a quick snack (if the coaches weren’t looking) before we got on the plane. The rest of us would have to deal with the small packages of pretzels the stewardesses pass out. The fortunate thing, however, was that we got the win, and everyone that flew down with us made the flight back!

The Tigers Hit the Road



This picture was taken by Nykolas McKissic



After losing two tough games at home by less than 10 points combined to Rhodes and Millsaps I couldn’t help but feel disappointed.  In both games we were so close to winning we could almost taste it yet victory was not in our grasp and now it was time to go on the road.

Our first road game was against Birmingham Southern in Alabama.  It was my first away football game in College and I had no idea what to expect.  I heard so many different roomers from the upper classman on the team, who said that freshman had to carry all bags and they had to sleep on the floor, but all these things didn’t bother me though because I was just happy to make the travel squad.  We have close to 100 people on the team but we are only allowed to travel 52 so I felt like it was a big honor to get to travel.

After a Friday full of flying and bus riding I was very ready to finally get down to business on Saturday.  That Saturday was the perfect day for football.  The temperature was around 75 degrees and there was a very light breeze that kept the field turf cool.  When we took the field that day we all knew what we came here to do and that was win a ball game.  After 4 long quarters of fighting we did just that.  It felt good to be back on a winning path after beating the 3-0 Birmingham Southern on the road.  We are now ready to show the rest of the conference what we are really made of.

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