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A SEASON TO
remember remember The Eagles made history by wrapping up an incredible 2021 football season with a trip to Columbia for the State Championship, a first for Liberty North. written by: Maia Gaddis and Jack Bendure
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ootball ended the season with a record of 11-2. The year finished with varsity playing the State Championship game against the Christian Brothers on November 27 for the state title. The game was a loss for the Eagles with an ending score of 21-48. “You know, it is what it is. We wish we would’ve played better after all the work we put in to get there but it is what it is and we’re moving forward,” coach Greg Jones said. Though it was a loss, the team didn’t let it change their perspective of the season. To get to state, all teams had training both physically and mentally in preparation for the season. “Our preparation has been stuff that we’ve been doing since last January. At 6 am, [players]
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would cycle through about 10 or 11 different stations. We’d have a lot of 7 on 7 offensive workouts and defensive workouts through January, February, March, then we had our summer weights set up. We had 7 on 7 during that time too. Then we had a team camp that we went to UCM for and a one in August to get ready to go for the season. So really, those kids worked 9-10 months out of the year to prep for the season,” Moore said. For their first game of the season, Liberty North went to Arkansas to play against Bentonville. The game ended up being a loss, losing 43 to 30. The varsity team took it as a learning experience, moving to win 11 games in a row after that.
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