11th Marine Cannon Cockers

On Monday Dec 16th the 11th Marines football team arrived at the 11 area football feild ready to take on Supply Bn with some new familiar faces. With starting QB Steven Phelps and LB Scott Cook on leave and prepareing for a deployment the team looked to two people to fill in the gaps, two players from last year and both of them coached, last years head coach Richard Owens and current head coach Jacob Puda. Owens is fresh off a WESTPAC and was a golden helmet selection last year and will fill in a LB for Cook. Assumeing the starting QB role is head coach Jacob Puda. Also returning to the lineup was William Moyer who was out with a Rib injury after the HQBN 1st MarDiv game. The team was missing a few other key players, OL Jeff Beckum, Horacio Garza and Christopher Brooks and talented TB Ketrin Mays. Knocked out for good is SS Arlie Jordan because of to many concussions. Never the less the team was ready to play...then came the rain and still no sign of Supply. Eventually at 1700 the game was called and the Cannon Cockers picked up a win bringing them to 5-1 to finish the season. While other teams played 10 games 11th Marines was forced to settle with 5 plus a forfeit. Why so few games??? Your guess is as good as mine. However now its playoff time with the first games ready to begin on January 15th. It looks like 11th Marines will draw SOI in the first round and begin their march to the title. There's only one dissapointing thing about the playoffs comeing in January, and that is that 6 players are lost to deployment, 1 to Cpl's Course, 1 to a DUI and one more probable to Sgt's course. Every player in vital to the success of the team and thoes 6 players in Fox Btry contributed greatly to the success of the team. Miguel Ortiz, Mario Rodriguez, Micheal Guillory, Steven Phelps, Scott Cook, and Harvey Nix thanks for you hard work and dedication to the team you'll still be part of us if your here or not. Next action for the team is TBD on January 10th at a league coaches meeting. To you and yours have a happy and joyful holiday season.