An Early Game

This year's Taylor County Vikings and Lady Vikings play in the first round of the state play-offs tonight. The games will be in Butler. I remember our first round of state in 1972. We were to play Central Gwinnett at the Macon Coliseum. The time scheduled was 11 A.M. on Thursday morning, March 2. Now as you can imagine, it was hard to expect many fans to make that game. 11 in the morning! On a Thursday!

That's when it comes in handy to have your coach also be the superintendent of schools. Coach Carter announced that eleven busses of students could go to the game and all teachers and staff could go with them. It's about an hour's trip to Macon from Butler, so it was a nice field trip. The lunchroom would fix sack lunches and students could eat right there.

I'm sure we had the most fans at that game! We won 48 - 42. Central Gwinnett gave us a battle in the last quarter when they pressed us. Shirley and I were in foul trouble, and Coach said we got a little too careful and allowed them to get back in the game. We won and moved on to the semi-finals and finals, played at a more reasonable time.

Good luck to the Vikings and Lady Vikings tonight!