Powderpuff 2018

This week is Homecoming Week in Menomonee Falls and Wednesday night was the annual Powderpuff football game. For those who are unaware of what this is, it is the junior vs. senior girls flag football game. This year was Alison’s first foray into it, and she has been looking forward to playing since she was in 7th grade when Sarah was a junior. Also to note, every year, it is “tradition” that the seniors win... EXCEPT for Sarah’s class, who is the only junior class to EVER beat the seniors in the history of the game.

Alison got put at tight end on the #1 offense. They basically had (2) different teams of offense, and (2) teams of defense, and they rotate them out by quarter. Unfortunately, because they had no one who knew how to throw a football, or at least with any sort of accuracy or consistency. What that means is that tight end essentially becomes another lineman and all she did was block.

It was pretty uneventful except for a couple of injuries on the juniors team. One girl was thrown (slammed) to the ground, and another hurt her knee. No one was really sure how bad the knee injury was, but she had to be carted off the field/sidelines when the game was over. Hopefully she doesn’t have any serious damage to her knee. And the playbook was really pretty basic. Although, what would you expect with only a week to practice. But every play was a toss to one or two girls and everyone run right, or run left, and every now and then there would be a reverse thrown in.

I take it back, there was some excitement for the juniors. Both touchdowns were on long runs by one of the girls who is a sprinter on the track team. The first was a 94 yard run. She started going in one direction, then stopped, and cut right up the middle of the formation, broke loose to the outside and was off to the races. The second came as time was expiring. The seniors held a 15-7 lead after going for a two point conversion early. There was about 30 seconds left, and the same girl broke out on a sweep to the left and was off to the races for about a 70 yard run with 14 seconds left in the game. They had to go for two to tie, and got it. So the game ultimately ended with a 15-15 tie.

I wasn’t sure if they were just going to leave the game a tie, or if they would play an overtime from the 20 yard lines. It looked like the teachers who were running (coaching and refereeing) the game huddled up and decided they would have the game decided by kicking field goals. Each team kicked a field goal, and the first one to miss lost. I don’t know if the plan was to have the ball moved back 5 yards each time, or just keep kicking from the same pot. We didn’t need to worry about though because the seniors made their first kick, and the juniors missed theirs. Final score: Seniors 18, Juniors 15. A tough loss. 

So Sarah’s class is still the only junior class to win.