Sunday, October 14, 2007

The Kirbyville Showdown


Photos by Mark M. Hancock / © The Beaumont Enterprise

Kirbyville's Broderick Jackson (No. 32, right) gets wrapped up by West Orange-Stark's Josh Lynch (No. 41, center) as Quintavious Garrett (No. 20, left) assists during a high school football game in Kirbyville on Friday, October 5, 2007.


West Orange-Stark's DePauldrick Garrett (No. 24, right) tries to run from the grip of Kirbyville's Stefan Jackson (No. 22, left) during a high school football game.


Kirbyville's Pierce Rhodes (No. 2, top) gets caught by West Orange-Stark's Sam Dixon (No. 35, bottom) during a high school football game in Kirbyville.

For several reasons, many thought Kirbyville would finally beat the dominant West Orange-Stark team. WO-S stopped the speculation with a 31-7 win. The Mustangs remain undefeated in district.

2 comments:

Marie said...

Amazing. You so 'school ' me in your football photos. I am generally consistently average in my football images, but I reckon i just don't either 'get' football photo strats or else I just have a horrible sense of timing with the sport. Your images are so sharp and your action so well timed I'm ashamed to even show mine...
Just having a moment of awe at your work...

Mark M. Hancock said...

Thanks Marie. There are plenty of awe-ful images from the same game. The praise actually goes to the players. High school football is very serious in Texas. The players step up for each game. I'm only documenting how hard they're playing.