FCA camp continued after relative cool down
It was hot at Trinity Christian Academy on Thursday. So hot the beginning of the second day of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes 7-on-7 camp was delayed by a couple hours and the total day cut short by a third.
“It was just the best option for us to do,” said TCA head coach Blake Butler. “The heat index stayed at 106 for a couple hours before it got dark, and we couldn’t get out there until it got down to 104.
“That’s just the situation we get in sometimes when there’s no cloud cover to kind of take that sun off the area and cool things down.”
Once the teams did get on the field, they got their work in.
Peabody had two teams competing since Humboldt and Adamsville elected to leave before the teams were allowed to enter the field and North Side didn’t attend the scrimmage.
Sacred Heart got work in against South Side, and it was an opportunity the Knights had looked forward to seeing how they could compete against local teams since they’re the only rural West Tennessee who plays eight-man football.
“We were worried we wouldn’t get to play because last year when we were scheduled for this it got rained out,” said Sacred Heart head coach Michael Ashlock.
The Knights did get to play and held their own against the Hawks.
South Side got some work in for multiple quarterbacks in their games against Sacred Heart and one of the teams from Peabody.
Scotts Hill and Dresden came away with the most to show for the work they put in.
The Lions from Henderson County won the 7-on-7 competition, and Dresden finished second.
Because so much time was cut short, the lineman challenge only had two events as opposed to the five they competed in the night before. They had the bench press competition and the event where the guys battled in big balloons where they tried to push each other out of a square until there was one man left.
“It’s been a good couple days, and we were glad to see everybody we got to see and minister to,” said Barry Cox, who’s one of the coordinators from the Southwest Tennessee chapter of FCA. “These kids worked hard out here too.”
Brandon Shields, 425-9751