Documenting my travels and thoughts from around the country
2024 Week 16 (Ohio)
Week Sixteen gave me two logical options for games. Pennsylvania State Finals or Ohio State Finals. With them falling on the same weekend again, I had a choice. I was figuring I’d be in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania once again. But then I decided to let some other photographers for PA Football News cover the games and instead went with Ohio.
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Week 15 was a short week for games. As the state semifinals were being played for both Ohio and Pennsylvania. Games were at a premium. Ohio had all games on Friday night. Pennsylvania had mostly Friday games where I could get to them. With limited options for Saturday.
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Week 14 had one solid plan scheduled. Four games on Saturday at Acrisure Stadium for the WPIAL Finals. Friday, though, went through a lot of upheaval. The initial game I was attended was going to be at Williamsburg. But with schedule changes, Bishop Guilfoyle v. Westinghouse was moved to Highlands High School in Natrona Heights. And my schedule was adjusted to photograph that one.
But then, more changes. Games were reworked to move them from Friday night to Saturday. Including both originally planned games. That left me with only one option. Continue reading “2024 Week 14 (Ohio & Pennsylvania)”
Being at home for the week, I had a few options for games. But I wasn’t 100% sure what days I could be around. After one round of the Chuck Funke Bowl, I was back in New York on Thursday for the last of the Chuck Funke Bowl games.
There were a couple of options. Iroquois was hosting West Seneca East while McKinley was hosting Kenmore West at All-High Stadium. And though I hadn’t seen Kenmore West before, I had been to All-High and didn’t feel like driving into Buffalo for a game. And I had gone a while without seeing Southwestern.
Southwestern was playing Akron at Akron in the Class C Chuck Funke Bowl. Continue reading “2024 Week 12 (New York & Pennsylvania)”
I wasn’t planning to be home during Week 11. In fact, I had already planned to be in Montana again. But things don’t always go as planned. And finding myself at home I looked around the great lakes states and found some Wednesday and Thursday games in New York that I could attend. Not just Pennsylvania games.
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2024 Week 10 (Ohio)
Week Ten started on a Tuesday. In a rarity, a postponed game from earlier in the season was made up on a Tuesday before the regular season finale. In addition, I surveyed the schedule and settled on all Ohio games for the first weekend in a long, long time.
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2024 Week 6 (Montana)
For a second straight weekend, I was in the great state of Montana. Central Montana to be precise. Seeing new places, I was running out of options. My Saturday was determined by the lone afternoon game anywhere west of the North Dakota state line. Though Wibaux, Savage, Richey/Lambert and Froid/Medicine Lake all had games.
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2024 Week 4 (Nebraska & Colorado)
I knew I would be in Nebraska for Friday night. But my Thursday and Saturday options were up in the air. Nebraska had a surprising number of available games to choose from for Thursday. But nothing on Saturday.
2024 Week 3 (Ohio & Pennsylvania)
2024 Week 2 (New Jersey)
Another trip east to New Jersey. My third straight year going to the Battle at the Beach in Ocean City. Though, this year had some changes. Because the New Jersey schedule started on Labor Day weekend, the games could not all be played at Ocean City. Friday and Saturday would be moved. But it was still worth it. Continue reading “2024 Week 2 (New Jersey)”