Eagle Blue

These boys have recently been made quite infamous in Michael D'Orso's book Eagle Blue. A pre-publication copy floated around the town for a while, and blood boiled. We haven't read it ourselves.
But we've seen the Eagles play, in fact I'm listening to their regional championship game live on KZPA as I post this photo. It was pretty fun watching them play. Their coach has them looking pretty sharp...and although its pretty much a five person team--four seniors and one junior take the vast majority of playing time, they are quite successful. Hopefully we'll be listening to their state championship appearance next week. The level reminds me quite a bit of Class S New Hampshire. Though you can see the echos of the absense of a real competetive feeder program. There are about 12-15 kids per grade here, can you imagine spending 7,000 dollars to charter a team in from another village for fourth graders to play?