The community turned out Friday to watch the Rams take the Indians for a 34-0 win at the Holt arena. When head coach, Gino Mariani, was asked how the team has prepared for the game he said, pretty much like every other game. It’s big in a sense that it’s Pocatello and it’s against another team that’s in Pocatello, but as for as having prepared its the same for every week. Gino said that our school was built in 1963 and that the black and blue rivalry began in 1963 so it’s probably been like 56 years. The overall record for the Black and Blue Bowl is now 49 for Highland and 14 for Pocatello.

Easton Durham responded, “I would say we just get ourselves hyped up really. He puts the plan in front of us and then we execute as best we can,” when asked how the coach hypes the team up for the game. The team works just as hard for every game they play every game and “our expectation is to win every game we go into so there’s nothing really different.” The spirit of it’ll be fun; we’ll be performing in front of a lot of people.

Part of the experience comes from the energy in the student section. SWAT team members were given the front rows of the student section. Hollin Henderson explained SWAT as, “Students With A Team, and the main goal is to bring a bunch of students together, come out to games and stuff like that. It’s just a way I think to bring students together to unify us as a school.” She added “I think we’re just trying to get as many students there, the SWAT clubs goal is 500 students at the Black and Blue Bowl. It’s the best games of the year.”

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Emmalynn Packard

Warm up

uper special but just get as many kids out there as we can.