Descriptive Essay: The Red Captains

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As the sun shined against the green turf, it left heat, fumes coming off the CBC football field. A low humming noise creeped onto the field as the cars flew by on Highway forty. The students walked around the track after the Red Devil’s coach called a timeout midway thru the second half of the game. As one of the Cadets cruised down the field with his hair flying back behind his head the roar of the crowd sounded like a tornado siren. His fellow teammate screamed, “Here, here” while swinging his right arm above his head because he wanted the ball possibly to place a shot on target, or to look for an open pass to penetrate the defensive line of the Red Devils. The outside player turned his body at his hips and looked up and to the left to see who had become open …show more content…
The Red Devils started to play more aggressively right after the Cadets scored. A Red Devils player hinged his arm at his elbow and pulled his whole arm across his body hugging his chest with his arm, he hit the Cadets player with his shoulder, knocking him onto the ground and made him look like a pin struck by a bowling ball. The Cadets coach screamed at the referee for a card to be given to the instigator, but the referee shook his head at his neck and reached down with his right hand and grabbed his whistle and blew it once again to resume play. The Red Devils made one last push in the last fifty seconds of the game. The Cadets had gone into a defensive formation in the last five minutes, in which they would clog up the box with all their midfielders and defenders so the Red Devils couldn't get a shot off. The Red Devils finally found a counter and made their way towards the goal. The Red Devils winger skipped the ball to the outside of the eighteen yard box and cocked his leg back at his knee and whipped a insanely hard shot off his laces. The goalie had his mouth open, and when the ball was hit he immediately shut his mouth and shuffled twice to his left and extended his legs so he could reach the

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