I am a little late in posting these photos, three and a half months. The processing of these photos waw just over taken by events and then slipped past me until now.
But that’s okay. It just gives us more opportunity celebrate a state championship. A sweet one at that. The regular season was a punishing with losses. Tough close loss after tough close loss against the best teams, especially the teams in the Catholic League Blue.
The Benet game showed me something. I had seen Benet a few times before the regular season finale against the Rams. The Rams played right with the Redwings. It was a seven point game, just within reach, for most of the fourth but ended with a Rams four point loss. I’ll take that against the No. 2 ranked team.
This Taft game was senior night. An early senior night in mid-January but that’s the way the schedule played out. With Jaylan McElroy back in the line up the Eagles were having trouble. The Rams braintrust started all senior line up who jumped out to an early lead. When the younger starters got in the game, it was worse for Taft.
To have Jaylan back in the lineup with better than a month before the playoff run would give him time to get back in game shape and knock off the rust. I was glad, optimistic to have him back without respect to how he was playing at that moment.
As we know now, it worked out. Jaylan played like a champ down the stretch. And so did the rest of the Rams. But we already know that.
This January 14th evening against Taft, we didn’t know. But we had could see how it might end.
So here are the Senior Night photos.
