They are scheduled to come home, around the last of October or first of November.
I think this whole thing is huge for the community. We turned around the Department of Defense.
That`s an aberration. In our last game against Washington Academy we made about 67 percent, but before that we were 54 percent as a team, so we`ve spent a lot of time in practice shooting foul shots for the last couple of games.
We have a door open to discuss with the Defense Department what might be available ... The coming year is a crucial time.
We`re monitoring the situation, and we`ll decide if there`s anything that should happen on the Guard side.
Rural communities can just be devastated,
I`ve been telling the kids all along we were the best 4-5 team in the state. We`re as good as anybody in Class D. We went in No. 1 last year and have a lot of veterans back, but we just weren`t closing out games until tonight.
This community has won,
They`ve built a little over 30 schools, they`re working with the coalition training the Iraqi army, they`re doing border security, they`re doing a little bit of everything. There`s just a myriad of different tasks they`re doing over there.
We don`t know how long it will be before they arrive back at their Smyrna Airport base.