Let's start with Kekoa's football team - the 5th Grade Bobcats.
Our youngest son is shorter and skinnier than most boys his age, so he played mostly in the defensive secondary and a bit at wide receiver, as we can see below...
That's Kekoa above, lined up at the far right side of the picture.
He didn't play a lot, but when he did, Kekoa had a grand ol' time.
Here is Kekoa playing safety, with the number 22...
Getting ready to throw a shoulder on a guy...
And chasing after a running back...
The 5th grade teams play first thing Saturday mornings - before the 6th grade teams - so sometimes it gets a bit nippy outside.
But at this level, they don't have handwarmers tied around their waists.
So Kekoa found another way to keep his hands warm during the game...
But of all the pictures from the season, here's my favorite of Kekoa...
Just look at the intensity of that boy!
While Kekoa's team is still learning the fundamentals of football, Bret Jr.'s 6th grade team truly learned how to kick some butt this season.
Bret Jr. is considerably larger than his brother Kekoa. Bret is a starter on both the offensive and defensive lines.
He's the starting center, and he's so consistent that he almost never comes off the field. Here's our boy just before he snaps the football...
While Bret Jr. is a very good center, what he really loves is playing on the defensive line. He starts at defensive tackle and he always seems to be in the offensive backfield, harassing the quarterback...
It's good to know that he wreaks as much havoc on the football field as he does at home...
This is one of his favorite pictures of himself just as he hammers the quarterback...
That poor quarterback got slammed to the ground several times by Bret Jr. that day...
The 6th grade Bobcats had a tremendous season. They finished up with a record of 6 wins and only 1 loss. Their one loss was by the score of 22 to 12. In the 6 wins, however, they were absolutely dominant.
Colectively in those 6 wins, the offensive scored 178 points and gave up only 18. The defensive was so overwhelming that they had 3 shut outs.
During the last game of the season, Bret Jr. had another great game...
He was consistently in the quarterback's face and harassing the running backs...
If there ever was a picture that tells you how good a game a defensive lineman is having, it's this one below...
Look closely at that picture above. Those are two offensive lineman and a fullback that are trying to block our son!
But the most exciting play of the year for Bret Jr. came later in that final game.
Bret is so quick off the ball that he consistently is in the backfield disrupting the play. He has claimed all season that sooner or later he would steal the handoff from the quarterback before the running back could get the ball.
Amazingly, in the last game of the season, that's exactly what he did.
Bret lined up at his regular position of defensive tackle and sliced through the offensive line. He got there so quickly that he disrupted the handoff and stole the ball away from the quarterback.
It all happened so fast that I didn't have time to get in position and take a picture of it with the camera. But I did capture Bret Jr. as he rumbled down the field with the ball...
He looks almost like a running back...
Unfortunately, like most lineman, he's not the fastest guy on the field, so they tackled him before he could score. But everyone went absolutely crazy on the sidelines!
Well, mostly crazy.
Here's how David, Alyssa and Nalani enthusiastically watched the football game...
And I'm not exactly sure what Malia's doing here...
But ya gotta love a football season!
Congratulations to both the boys. They worked hard and had a lot of fun.
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