The second game I shot on Saturday for The Telegraph was between Gainesville High School and Peach County High School. The game ended up being surprisingly close. After Peach County scored the go ahead touchdown with around a minute or less on the clock, Gainesville drove down the field and scored a touchdown of their own as time expired.
The kids on the Peach County sideline who were all smiles just seconds earlier looked aghast as it looked like the game would go into overtime. Well, it should have gone into overtime. The problem was that the Gainesville coach called for a 2-point conversion to win the game. I guess you could argue that because the Gainesville place kicker missed a kick earlier he had more faith in his offense which had just steam rolled the Peach County defense, but it didn’t pay off. The pass was tipped and Peach county won by one point.
Would have been a great play call if they converted and won, but now it just looks stupid. Lesson? Give the kicker a chance and send the game to overtime.
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| Not so fast buddy, Gainesville just got the ball back with enough time to drive! |
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| Different angle on a common photo. |
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| Nice jump to avoid the collision. |
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| I just like that the two Peach County kids have their arms up. |
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| Almost looks like one person with four arms. |
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| Getting tackled from behind when you aren’t expecting it is never fun. |
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| Gotta make those tackles. |
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| Gaiensville is the Red Elephants. I guess they are too close to Alabama to be the Crimson Tide since that’s obviously what they were going for. |
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| Not gonna get away from this one. |
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| Gotta keep your eye on the ball. He was wide open, it would have been stupid if he missed that catch. |
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| Liked the graphics in this one with the hash marks and 20 yard marker. |
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| Two frames later or so. |
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| He got some nice air on this one. |
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| I’m a sucker for players not touching the ground. |
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| Another missed tackle. |
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| The Gainesville Time’s Sara Guevara points her camera in the wrong direction. Well kind of, she was secretly getting a photo of some cheerleaders behind her. Her right hand is actually holding a remote trigger. Way to be non-chalant! |
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| I like the lean, almost gravity defying. |
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| Another premature celebration photo. |
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| This was the face he made as he watched Gainesville score a potentially game tieing touchdown as time expired on the jumbotron. |
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| Ok, now its cool to celebrate. |
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| The coach looks like he’s about to eat the player’s head. |
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| I wish I had my 50 f/1.4 for this one, but my wide f/2.8 had to do. |
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| Hamming it up for someone else’s camera. |
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| Cliche trophy picture. |
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Wrong you are, Joshikins.
I was actually reaching into my bag to pull out a video camera.
Very nice shots. Gainesville did right thing going for 2…. Peach was in control whole game. Great play call at end on the quick slant but #28 for PC jumped the route perfectly. Great players beat great calls.
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