A Banquet in God's House!

The East Limestone Indians football team recently celebrated their season with a banquet at Isom's Chapel. It's always been an honor for us to host the football banquet, especially for Austin, because it brings together two things that are dear to him - Jesus Christ and East Limestone Football. The players and cheerleaders were recognized for their efforts this year. Probably the most impressive part of the celebration was that the Cheerleader sponsor was so proud of all the cheerleaders' efforts in the classroom that she actually quoted every single one of their GPAs and the lowest was something like 3.4! For 20 cheerleaders that's impressive. The head football coach then stood up and told his players "Don't worry, I'm not going to tell anybody your GPAs!"





It was really fun for East to finish the season the way they did and to get to spend so much time with the coaches and team. The Indians played probably the toughest schedule in the state this year and did about as well as could be expected given that one week before the season started they got their third head coach in just two years. Coach Pugh was asked to head up the team when Coach C could no longer do it because of his health. Please pray for Coach C and for Coach Pugh. Coach Pugh did a really good job, trying to keep the team focused while changing things a little bit to match his style. East ended up losing to Athens (5A State Champions) and Guntersville (4A State Champions). So that's two losses to eventual state champions. On the positive side of things, East made a deep run into the 4A playoffs and shocked the state by going into Tarrant in downtown Birmingham and beating the undefeated, #2 ranked Tarrant team that no one thought East could beat. That was a classic night in East Limestone football history. East Limestone returns several players next year and will have had the benefit of a year's work in Coach Pugh's approach. So look out 4A, East will be on a warpath! Check out Austin in the pictures from the banquet below.



Love,
Jerry, Connie, Austin (Team Manager), and Lily Grace (Little Cheerleader)