First year football tourney has big turnout

Members of A Fo Sho Win
Photo courtesy of Keyon Johnson

By Keyon Johnson

Last Saturday had to be one of the windiest days in recent years but it wouldn’t stop the nearly 300 people from working off post Thanksgiving day turkey to participate in the First Annual 2009 Turkey Bowl Tournament at Pittsburg High School.

Eight teams, 18 years and older from across the Bay Area showed up as early as 7:15am and stayed as late as 5:00pm to compete in the double elimination tournament for the Pennington Championship Trophy.

The Championship game came down to two teams, A Fo Sho Win (3-0) and Runnin 7 Deep (4-1). A Fo Sho Win displayed dominance throughout the day averaging over 50 points per game. While Runnin 7 Deep dropped their first game and from there played and won their way back into the championship game by knocking off four straight opponents.

In the championship game both teams were exuberating great defense and by half time Runnin 7 Deep was leading 7-6. At the beginning of the second half A Fo Sho Win showed why they were the team to beat scoring 22 unanswered points in six minutes to make the score 28-7.

On the very next possession Runnin 7 Deep threw a pass that was picked off and ran in the end zone for 6 points by the Max Muscle Brentwood Maximum Player of the Day Marcus Davis (Pittburg, CA) that ended the game.

“This was a positive event going on in the community,” Davis said. “It gave people a chance to come back and support Pittsburg High School. It gave an opportunity for some of the former Pittsburg High School standout players to come out and showcase their talents again.”

As for Davis’ performance and capturing the Max Muscle Brentwood Maximum Player of the Day award he had this to say.

“It felt good to win the Max Muscle Brentwood Maximum Player of the Day award.” “I can’t say that I was necessarily shocked because I knew that I put on a good show. I have to give credit to my teammates because they helped me out a lot.”

A Fo Sho Win coach Jason Stenson (Pittsburg, CA) was excited about the win and the day.

“I thought that the tournament was a great idea,” Stenson said. “Overall I thought that it was a great turnout and conducted professionally. I think that my team performed very well, I know most of the guys and played with most of them before, but I knew that we had a good chance to win the Pennington trophy with the athletes that we had on our team. Being the older guy on the team I was just worried about my performance. Overall I give the Pick 6 Turkey Bowl an A++.”

The Pick 6 Flag Football Tournament was created to provide the community with the opportunity to engage in physical activities, showcase their talents as well as interact with others that share similar interest in a fun, safe and competitive environment.

“We were very excited to get this 1st Annual Pick 6 Flag Football Tournament underway,” Pick 6 Co-Founder Ontario Johnson said. “The turnout was excellent and the competition out there was tremendous, everyone seemed to have a great time and got a long. We just want to thank all those people that came out to support us, as well as those that couldn’t make it but wanted to. Our sponsors Max Muscle Brentwood, Pennington Plumbing, Celia’s Mexican Restaurant were all great. The only thing was that we had trouble with was the Mother Nature. But at least it was just a lot of wind and not a lot of rain. We were able to deal with that.”

Not only were the teams able to deal with the obstacle that Mother Nature presented but they were able to fight through it and enjoy a great time while participating in a fun competitive flag football tournament.

For more information on future tournaments contact Keyon Johnson at onkeypr@gmail.com.