Summary: In Friday night's game, the Coatesville Red Raiders beat the Rustin Golden Knights by a score of 36-7, bringing Rustin's season-long record to 4-2 (3-1 in conference). The game had some exciting moments, but Pennsylvania's #8 ranked high school football team wound up overwhelming the Knights. This post contains a photo-essay from the stands.
As with the previous week, Rustin's band was joined in the stands by visiting students. This time it was 8th graders from the local middle school. In addition to joining in the "pep music" in the stands, the eighth graders also got to play September and The Hey Song on the track as part of the half-time show. Hopefully, this gives the kids something to look forward to when they come to high school next year.
The football game started off with a bit of a surprise when Rustin, ranked #110 in the state, marched down the field and scored a touchdown on their opening drive, with #8 carrying the ball across the goal line. Coatesville responded quickly, though and it was 7-7 with a few minutes left in the first quarter. Then, in a game-changing play, Rustin's #4 completed a pass to a receiver who had an open path to the goal line, but he was caught from behind by a Coatesville defenseman who snatched the ball out of his hand and returned it 90 or so yards for a Coatesville touchdown. After that sudden change in momentum, Rustin was scoreless for the rest of the game. Rustin was also afflicted by penalties and more turnovers, which you just can't afford when you're playing against the #8 ranked team in the state. The team put their hearts into it, but Coatesville won the day.
| Team | Location | Name | Q1 | Q2 | 1st Half | Q3 | Q4 | 2nd Half | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coatesville | Visitor | Red Raiders | 14 | 7 | 21 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 36 |
| Rustin | Home | Golden Knights | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
The remainder of this post contains a photo essay from the game. Most of the photos are probably from early in the evening, since I continue to have difficulty with the auto-focus lens after dark.
Unless otherwise noted, all images are original photos that were taken by @remlaps.
Marching Band
Coatesville - Pregame
It's ironic that since Rustin keeps playing half-time, which is after dark, my pictures of the visiting bands tend to look better. Here is Coatesville, during their pregame show.
Rustin - Half time
But despite the darkness at half time, I did manage to get some photos of Rustin's band, along with the visiting eighth graders.
As a reminder, Rustin's show was called, "Descent into madness," and it featured Green Day's Basket Case, Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, and Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.
Football
Rustin's #8 managed one touchdown and a number of strong carries. #21 showed up with some good carries of his own, too. I also heard #1 and #42 called for carrying the ball a few times. On defense, #1 made a number of tackles.
Unfortunately, the early darkness is making it difficult or impossible for me to get action shots without blurring.
Cheerleading
Stands Music
Coatesville
Rustin
Thank you to the band parents who volunteered to keep the stadium-crowd fed!
Since I'm doing this on Sunday, it looks like the ranks have already been updated with results from this week-end. At a national level, after the loss to Coatesville, Rustin fell from 3,519 to 3,754. Their state rank fell from 110 to 116. And their Class AAAAA rank held at 28.
Next week's game will be another non-conference game against Chichester.
The game will take place at Chichester High School in southern Delaware County, near where the state borders with both New Jersey and Delaware. The team is ranked #241 in the state with a 2-3 record.
And here is the rest of the 2019 schedule for the marching band
Saturday Competitions: (ALL)
- 9/28: USBands Competition @ Boyertown
- 10/19: PA State Championships @ WCU
- 10/26: HOME SHOW!!! USBANDS REGIONAL @ Rustin
- 11/2: USBands A Class National Championships (Allentown)
Parades: (All) Times TBD
- 7/4: Thornbury Delco 4th of July Parade
- 10/23: West Chester Halloween Parade
- 11/10: West Chester Veteran’s Day Parade
- 12/6: West Chester Old Fashioned Christmas Parade
Here's the full 2019 football schedule:
all games are at 7pm
- 8/23 - AWAY @ Sun Valley - Rustin 53 / Sun Valley 7 (W)
- 8/30 - HOME vs Great Valley - Rustin 47 / Great Valley 7 (W)
- 9/6 - HOME vs Kennett - Rustin 7 / Kennett 12 (L)
- 9/13 - AWAY @ Oxford - Rustin 46 / Oxford 23 (W)
- 9/20 - HOME vs Avon Grove - Rustin 28 / Avon Grove 14 (W)
- 9/27 - HOME vs Coatesville - Rustin 7 / Coatesville 31 (L)
- 10/4 - AWAY vs Chichester
- 10/11 - HOMECOMING vs Unionville
- 10/18 - HOME vs WC East
- 10/25 - HOME vs WC Henderson
- PLAYOFFS - 11/1 and 11/8
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