Kyme… THANK YOU. Enjoy tonight… I’m sorry I cannot be there. I know the journey is not over but the road’s been fun, I feel very lucky to have been able to try to capture some of it for you, Eddie, Austin and of course Grandma. You’ve been very good to me and my family and I will forever be grateful.
Mr. Colby Brown, Carson Pop Warner, Jr. Pee Wee, 2008
Mr. Colby Brown, Carson High School, Varsity, 2014
It’s been a busy busy week (more in a few days, the week isn’t over yet…)… but I got to catch the NIAA Regional Girls Soccer match on Thursday night at Carson High between the Spanish Springs High Cougars and the Douglas High Tigers… The Douglas girls started quick, as in 19 seconds into the game they fired their first shot on goal… Douglas walked a way with a 4-1 win and ended with most of their starters resting on the bench. Douglas will play Galena who went into penalty kicks (so they played the equivalent of an extra half of play… then kicks…) against Bishop Manogue. The Regional Championship will be at Damonte Ranch High School at Noon on Saturday, November 8, 2014.
Here are a few shots from the night…
Sometimes you make mistakes… but sometimes it comes pretty cool… well in a photo geeky kinda way I guess! 🙂
I liked the “drive” of the players here… I can feel them moving… 🙂
I’ve been shooting McKenna for quite a few years and there’s no doubt she’s a goal scorer, look at the focus on watching the ball… need to show all the youth players this… watching the ball as you strike through it… you hit it well, you’ll have plenty of time to celebrate it going in the goal… just as it did here!
Looking forward to the Regional Championship on Saturday!
Just a few quick photos from some recent games… the galleries for Carson High Soccer and Douglas High Soccer are up to date… Also checkout our YouTube channel… just posted some clips from the Carson Douglas Boys Soccer game from Wednesday night… here’s an example…
Photos from the girls game…
Of course it was going to be a battle… it’s Carson Douglas! 🙂
At the final whistle… the nail in the coffin… Douglas 2 Carson 0… now onto the playoffs for both teams. Douglas will play at home and Carson will travel, both games Tuesday night.
What can I say? Carson ROLLED Galena tonight! 34-0… second shutout in as many weeks. Carson made some big plays, stopped Galena when they needed to and rolled to an easy victory.
Here are some images from the night… instead of a 1, 2 punch how about a 10, 11 punch… Ian Schulz and Nolan Shine “flying” after the Galena Quarterback…
Love these shots where you can see the eyes and the intensity of where he’s looking! Colby bowled himself a few more touchdowns tonight!
I can remember two Galena plays the whole night, it also helps that they were both deep pass plays and I got both on “film”… 🙂 I’m not a football expert but that hand in the face looks like pretty good coverage to me… to come down with that one was tough.
What in the heck is going on here… not trying to pick on you Connor… but where’d the ball go and what’s up with that leg… don’t know if that hurts to look at or what!?!?!?
OK, some of you may have noticed that I had some dorky looking thing on my forehead… well, I tried something tonight and it’s too late or I’d start messing with it… but I’m hoping to have a Point of View (POV) time lapse of “a night shooting football”… not sure if it will come out but I had a GoPro strapped to my head tonight so it might give you a glimpse of what I’m looking at and shooting… more details to follow if it turns out to be something worthwhile. 🙂 Might even have some cool video from it… will have to take a look later… Thanks for taking a photo of me DJ!!
It’s always said that you want to pick a team for homecoming that you feel you can win, to make the night “better”… I don’t think that anyone at the stadium tonight would have predicted a 42-0 thrashing!
One thing was certain tonight, Carson was not going to loose. The opening kickoff was nearly run back for a touchdown… I believe it was less that a minute into the game and Carson already had a touchdown and a successful extra point…. Then they sent out a defense that may have well been from Mars because it rendered the Manogue passing game completely useless… the Manogue QB was 1 for 11 in the first half… This one’s going to be a tale of coaching in my book. Coach Roman dug into his magic bag of goodies and stunned Manogue tonight… and the fellas executed. Game over, NEXT! 🙂
Here are some images from the night. Blowout games are tough to photograph… OK, here’s Carson scoring… next, oh, and here’s Carson scoring… next… OH, OH, and HERE’S Carson scorning… again… yawn… 😉 ANYWAY…
Wait, wait, WAIT! I mentioned it was homecoming! Congrats to the King, Fred Christensen and Queen, Abbey Dudley!
And the entire 2014 Homecoming Court! Congrats to all of you!
I took a chance tonight and went down to the end zone… and Colby Brown ran right at me… Thanks Coach! 🙂
Joe Nelson back for a pass…
Ikela Lewis recording a sack…
Brady Rivera in flight… wish I could see that face… oh well…
It sounds like we’ve not heard the last of this young man… Freshman QB Connor Noland at Manogue. He did show poise tonight… in my opinion, he was just the victim of Coach Roman’s wicked smart coaching. 🙂
Just a few photos from the night… the game was… well I’ll steal a description from one of the TV fellas… sloppy. Yes, one team “won”, if you can call it that… neither team ever grabbed the game by the face mask and took control… Ahhhhh, that’s high school sports! 🙂
I mentioned to one of the parents of one of the fellas yesterday in the grocery store that I hoped, even though they took a pretty big loss on Saturday evening in Loomis, that they will remember that “event”, the experience, for a long time… I’m sure some will… I know I will.
My day started out with the CHS Varsity Volleyball team up at the Kings Canyon waterfall… and ended with arriving at home at 2:00 am with the Nevada Appeal delivery person dropping our copy of the paper with my photos from a game in Loomis, CA inside, what a surreal thing… 🙂 Crazy how that happens!
I’d first like to make a huge shout out to the Carson High Football Boosters for their efforts to make this trip as comfortable as I think it could possibly be. They chartered four buses so we didn’t have to ride school buses!! That’s the life fellas! And pizza for the fellas after the game on the bus!! Be sure to thank the boosters when you see them!
Hind sight will always be much clearer and I hope at the end of the season we can look back at this game and see that it was pivotal in the success of the 2014 season, I know that’s a hard pill to swallow after licking wounds of a big loss but I think you have to keep games like this in perspective. Clayton Valley has a great football program. Playing someone like that exposes where you are as team on that night; it does not define you as a team the first game of the season. As I’ve come to know how Coach Roman and his staff work, I know there will be valuable lessons taken from this game, I’m excited about this season!
This event is the first leg of The Honor Bowl put on by The Honor Group (http://thehonorgroup.org) (there’s a second weekend in So. Cal this week). They are dedicated to helping America’s wounded warriors. At one end of the field they had military vehicles on display and before each game they honored several military veterans who have been wounded in defending our country, very cool event to help our nation’s heroes!
On to the game!
I’m still trying for that helmet popping off shot, I got an earlier one of this series but it’s still not quite “the shot”… The kid wrapped up in the middle of this Senator sandwich is Mr. Harrison, he put up some impressive stats Saturday evening… but he didn’t always have free running space.
This shot makes me remember back to the basketball game where Brady was wearing his Superman cape and throwing his punches at the crowd. Can’t tell it’s really Brady so I added the follow on shot…
Yes, he did make the sack!
This was one of the things that I’ll take a way from the game… it seems very simple but I’ve not seen a team execute it quite as well as Clayton Valley. For obvious reasons Colby was going to be a marked man but even when the Clayton Valley kids were down on the ground they were still working to try to grab feet or anything they could to try to trip up the runners, and it happened on multiple occasions and saved them some potential loss of yardage.
Fumble! Carson recovery! The ball did bounce the Senator way too!
Clayton Valley didn’t throw the ball very much, they have a fierce ground game and a big line to do it behind… here’s the one first half pass/reception, right on the money through good coverage….
Just like this shot, bodies flying are always fun!
Elijah had some good success running the ball… I’m guessing game footage of this game will put a damper of that for the balance of the season but I’d guess Coach Roman has more up his sleeve! 🙂
A shout out to Joe Nelson! If you follow Carson High Baseball you know who Joe is… if not, well, now you’ve seen him on the football field! He’s headed to Australia for an honor he picked up playing baseball over the winter break and if you ask me, he showed a lot of poise and composure against Clayton Valley. Neither Carson quarterbacks Saturday night had seen many reps in varsity action so to have moved the ball as well as they did… I think we’re going to see some great stuff from them this year.
Mr. Colby Brown headed to the end zone! As you may remember Colby didn’t see a single snap from the field for the 2013 season due to an injury… he’s back! He looks health, strong and back to his defense carving ways! Welcome back Colby and congratulations on earning the Carson High MVP for the game!
Colby and Brady were recognized for their play in this game… Here they’re signing 20 footballs that will go to the sponsors of this event.
My kids had never heard the music before and I just got plain old lucky with some of the inflections in the music and “action”… 🙂 Enjoy!