The journey comes to an end for Comets

I guess they say that all good things must come to an end, and on Saturday night, one of the best teams to play for Naselle High School played their final game of the season. The Comets season came to an abrupt end Saturday with a 22-0 loss to Life Christian in the quarterfinals of the state 2B football playoffs.
The Comets could never seem to get their offense in order as the Eagles defense stuffed most of the Comets attempts in the first half. But thanks to a stout Comets defense, which has played over their heads all season, even in this case without stalwart defensive presence Jason Gradt, the Comets held the high powered Eagles to just just two field goals in the first half.
The second half was a slightly different story however, as the Easgles marched down the field on the first possesion of the second half and scored a touchdown, and never looked back.
For me, covering the Comets football journey, which started back in training camp in August, has been a lot of fun. It was great to have such a passionate team to cover. This blog was started as a way to bring more attention to the football programs at the two local high schools and increase our storytelling ability in our coverage. Hopefully we accomplished this.
We're talking now about what to do next, in terms of sports and format. If you have any feedback, please feel free to let us know. You can leave a comment at the bottom of the post, or email me: dmulinix@chinookobserver.com

So here's a handful of pix that I was able to get tonight. Not a lot of action, but these types of big games have so much more going on in terms of emotion and nuance that I think is sometimes more important than the plays on the field. It was obvious the level of disappointment in the team, that they were unable to continue their season. But it was very cool to see that anguish quickly turn around to positive possibility as many almost immediately started getting fired up for next year.











* Sorry for the delay in getting this up on here (10:47 pm on Sunday night. Unfortunately after getting home at 12:30 am on Sunday after the game I was up four hours later to drive to California for the holiday. After finally arriving and getting my edit done — and driving around until I found a hotel with wi-fi I could pick up on — it was pretty late in updating.

-D. Mulinix, Observer staff photojournalist