Big G, little o, Go, Go Jackets, Go!

by Miguel Jimenez, Kyle Montgomery, and Carlos Murillo

      Haynes Academy for Advanced Studies has had a high school football team for four years now and has grown and advanced in skill level each year. Our head coach Kenny Kendrick has done an amazing job these past years building the football program. Kendrick teaches the team to work hard, to do their best and to most importantly, have fun. The team has taken that to heart and has had many memorable moments.

        The Haynes football team has played four games this year. Our season opened against the Mount Hermon Yellow Jackets. With the powerful running attack from Ashton Morris, Hayden Chighizola, Jonathan Lin and Jared Smith, we ran over Mount Hermon 40-18.

A couple of weeks ago the Yellow Jackets played the Fisher Gators. The team, playing as hard as humanly possible, suffered a tough loss. With two minutes left, with the Jackets threatening on the 3-yard line, Jared Smith handed the ball off to Hayden Chighizola. He ran straight into the end zone and a second after, the power at Fisher High School and all of Lafitte went out. The field was in complete darkness so the game was called at 37-9. Later, in news report, they found out that someone had hit a transporter and knocked power out for about 2,000 people in that town.

        Haynes Academy’s football team played their absolute hardest during the Magnet Bowl. Even though they didn’t bring home the trophy, they deserve praise from their fellow classmates on how hard they fought. Losing the game 19-16 to Thomas Jefferson, our rivals, was a tough loss, but we’ll get them next year.

        This past week the Haynes Football team played Metairie Park Country Day and after a hard fought game, we lost 21-0. We were held to 166 yards of offense, 155 of those yards were by our amazing running backs, Ashton Morris, Hayden Chighizola and Jonathan Lin.

        This coming week we are playing Crescent City Pioneers. This should be an interesting game that will be exciting to watch. Everyone should go support their fellow Yellow Jackets!