What a game!

Last week Jonah played in the first half of the JV game.  The game kept getting delayed for lightning, but luckily it was at Provo so I could go home while I waited.  I was able to get a lot closer than I can at the Varsity games and get some good pictures.

He did the kickoffs and the punts.  He did great.

I thought Jonah would enjoy the extra game time, but he said he would rather be at the Varsity practice and team dinner.

He did the kickoff for the second half and then he left to go to practice with the Varsity team.

I was able to get some good pictures of him while he walked off the field.

He sure is a good looking guy!

Friday night Provo played Olympus.  Olympus is 5A and we are 4A.  They are ranked really high and Provo was definitely the underdogs going into the game.  Keith and I enjoy going to the games every Friday night.  The sunset was so pretty.

Provo struggled during the first half.  At one point we were down 13-0.  Luckily we finally got a couple of touch downs and Jonah made both extra points.

Jonah practiced his kicks on the sidelines during the game.

With two minutes left in the game the quarterback lofted the ball to one of our players and then he threw a long pass to Bryant and he ran it in for the touchdown!  It was such a cool play.  That tied the score at 20-20.

Jonah came on the field for the extra point and there couldn't have been more pressure on that kick.  One of the other mom's behind me was asking me how I was doing and we were talking about how much pressure was on Jonah. Jonah was right by the Olympus student section when he kicked and he said they were all yelling and swearing at him, trying to get him to mess up.  He kicked and made the extra point with no problem.  He looked over at the student section and waved goodbye to them, ha!

Everybody was going crazy, it was such an exciting comeback.  Jonah said he wasn't nervous.  I admire his confidence.  He was definitely the right man for the job! 

There was two minutes left and Olympus got past the 50 yard line and tried for a last minute field goal to win the game. Our team blocked the field goal and that was it, the game was over, we won 21-20.

We went down on the field to congratulate Jonah. He was so happy! Everyone was so excited and the whole team was on a high!

The next morning Paul texted us to say Jonah was mentioned in the paper.  It said, "Jonah Loosli's extra-point kick made the difference to help Provo improve to 2-0 so far this season."  I had a lot of people text me about Jonah's kick and about the article. Everyone was so excited for him. He was the talk at church on Sunday too.  It's fun to see your kid have moments like this.  I think he will remember that night for a long time!