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Friday, November 03, 2006

One Last Homecoming For Carrabelle

CARRABELLE- When the clock runs out on Carrabelle’s home coming game on Friday night, it will signal an end of an era.

The end of Panthers football.

In Franklin County, Carrabelle High School and Apalachicola High School will consolidate at the end of this year.  A major event that triggered the decision was Apalachicola not fielding a varsity football team this season because they didn’t have enough players.

But next year, they’ll have a new school and a new team. 

It will be a K-12 school called Franklin County Schools.  The new mascot a Seahawk with the colors of crimson, silver and black.

“The general idea came from the school population,” Franklin County Schools Superintendent Jo Ann Gander said.  “We asked each school to present to us with their three favorite mascots, school colors and school names.  Then we had the public participate when we had the best ideas.”

Thursday night, Carrabelle hosted it’s annual home coming bonfire.  Alumni gathered, relived the old days, wearing t-shirts symbolizing name changes over the years.

But it was the players doing the talking, about next year’s change.

“It’s going to be a new start for everybody,” senior Jonathan Kendrick said.  “Tough for the the superintendents, county officials and even the students.”

Kendrick won’t be affected by the change.  But up-coming student athletes will.  The change makes playing on a varsity team more difficult because of more students trying-out. 

“When you’re put into the position where your always the underdog it discourages students that would come out,” Gander said.

“If I don’t make the first team, I’m going for second,” eighth grader Brandon Walden said.  “‘Cause I give 110% everytime Ii play. God gave me athleticism, I’m going to workout and go for my position, I’m going to try harder than they did.”

If all members of next year’s Franklin County Seahawks come out with that kind of attitude, you can count on the Seahawks to have a successful future. 

Carrabelle won it’s homecoming game Friday night over Oak Hall (Gainesville) 52-46.

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