by Summer Smith – News/Feature Editor

With the friendly junior and senior rivalry heating up, powderpuff adds fuel to the competitive fire each year. This year powderpuff had the closest outcomes in Westminster history. The girls excited the crowd, going back and forth scoring touchdown after touchdown with the final score ending at 42 to 42.

”I think the teams were pretty well matched and the score could have gone either way in the end. Courtney Powell was basically unstoppable, but we were able to make good runs and catches with everyone contributing to match all their points. We had great coaching as well. Mark McFarland, one of the coaches, said at the end of the game that he would make sure not to play a fall sport next year so he can coach again because he had such a great time. It was nice just throwing a random group of girls together and all getting to know each other and syncing so we could hopefully beat the seniors. Win, lose, or tie, I know the juniors had a blast throughout the whole process,” said Shelby Kehr, junior.

The juniors started out down, but made their comeback and kept the game close. Katie Matheny, Jabri Boyd, Olivia Willis, and Shelby Kehr were key players that kept the juniors in the game.

“I was apart of powderpuff to be silly and have a good time. I thought the outcome of the game was really fitting because the teams were pretty equal. The key players for the seniors were Courtney Powell, Alexis Grasse, Rachel Gantner, and Chloe Carnahan. The best part of powderpuff is just spending time with your class, screaming, and being loud and crazy,” said Madeleine Smith, senior.

The senior class’s offense was almost unstoppable and a big threat to the juniors. Courtney Powell, senior, would run the ball breaking through the junior defense without much effort. Chloe Carnahan, senior, also made important catches contributing to a great game.

“I loved powderpuff this year! The coaches worked so hard and did a great job. I was disappointed in it ending in a tie, but tie or no tie we all were competitive and still had fun with each other. There weren’t as many girls playing this year and different coaches so it was good to get to play more and try out different positions,” said Chloe Carnahan, junior.

Though many of the junior and senior athletes were not able to play because of other sport’s commitments, the players involved fought to represent their class the best that they could

“I was really bummed that my friends and I could not play in powderpuff because of fall sports because it is such a great high school tradition. I thought the teams were somewhat evenly matched, but since the people in fall sports could not participate I felt like it took a lot of athletic people out of the game. Even though I wish I could have played, it was still a lot of fun to watch,” said Jessica Johnson, junior.

Many of the athletes who could not play still showed up to support their class and watch the game.

“If there was one class in all of Westminster that I would not mind tying against it would be this year’s senior class. I don’t think any of them or any of us really just hate each other. It made it so much fun and a great game,” said Kehr.