The Englewood Youth Sports Association sixth-grade football team
snagged the brass ring this season as it qualified to play in the
Carnation Bowl on Nov. 14.
The EYSA team, coached by Steve Moore, will play in the
sixth-grade division championship against the team from south
Jefferson County. The kickoff is scheduled at 2 p.m. and the game
will be played in Englewood High School Stadium.
The Carnation Bowl is a long-standing league playoff tradition
and the culmination of the football season for the youth teams
involved. The site moves from stadium to stadium and rather than a
single game, the Carnation Bowl is a series of several age-group
youth football championship games.
This year, Moore and his assistants guided the Pirates to a 7-1
regular season record plus the team won the playoff game to advance
the the Nov. 14 game.
The achievement is a milestone for the team and the league as
the sixth-graders are the second team in EYSA history to make it to
the Carnation Bowl game. The eighth-grade team did it about three
years ago.
