Just as fast as the football season started this year, it finally came to an end yesterday. One of our contracted leagues, Marlboro Youth Football, had their Division 2 Black team make it to the Orange Country Youth Football Superbowl at Faller Field in Middletown New York.
Knowing how important this game was, we decided to head out to the field a little early so we could get shots of the players warming up. While walking down to the field, we couldn’t believe how many people filled the stands. It almost had the energy and feel of a high school football game!
As the Middletown versus Warwick game was coming into its final seconds, we made our way to the far side of the field to setup for the Marlboro versus Washingtonville game. While setting up, we realized that one of our friends was a coach for the Warwick team. When his team was crowned the winner, we took a few moments to grab some team shots with their new trophy!
Once the field was clear, Marlboro warmed up a bit more and before we knew it, the game was underway. Letting Washingtonville slip by with the first touchdown, Marlboro worked hard to get the scored tied – which came just a few downs later. Unfortunately, a missed field goal would let Washingtonville keep the lead.
With both sides playing hard, I found it easy to keep warm in the 50 degree air as I was continually running up and down the field to stay ahead of the action. Heading into half time, Marlboro was down by a touch down and a two point conversion. Unfortunately, they were unable to dig themselves out of the hole and ended the game with a loss. The hardest part of the day was looking at the disappointment in the faces of all the players!
Though Marlboro lost, we did get some great shots of the players in action! Check out some of the image below!
