Fulton Prep completes amazing run with City’s eight-man title
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The date: Sept. 15. Fulton Prep just finished playing its first eight-man game with a 28-player roster, and only two players had ever played organized football. The Jaguars lost and lost big, 60-6. On the bus ride home, the players were initially upset but soon were laughing and giggling as if losing should be expected.
Coach Sean Jackson went into action. ‘I told them from this point on, this was not a democracy but a dictatorship and they would do things my way,’ he said. ‘[The staff] made it known that expectations for them were high, and losing was not an option. They would not just lay down and be unprepared.’
Fast forward to Friday night. That same Fulton Prep (8-4), seeded fourth, defeats third-seeded Annenberg (8-5), 62-36, to win the City’s first Eight-Man Division championship.
‘It feels like a dream,’ Jackson said. ‘I’m really happy because some of these kids have never won anything. I don’t think, in the past, that people have believed in them. No matter what happens, we’re the first team to win the City [eight-man] title. I feel privileged.’
-- Mike Terry