Different Venue - Same Result: Rosemount Bests Lincoln

Posted September 28th
Saturday was a very long day for the Patriot marching band, one that began after 8:00 a.m. with sectionals and ended well after 5:00 a.m. Sunday morning. In between they worked through a solid morning rehearsal and endured long bus rides. But despite a great effort by the kids in blue, LHS fell (literally in one instance) short in the evening competition at the Music of the Knight.
The band entertained us with another great performance, but we just missed a few things that the judges didn't like. (click here for scores or here for complete results). And whether it impacted the score or not, the 3-marcher collision was hard to miss in the show. A judge even picked up a plume and mouthpiece from the crash site and placed them on our tymp cart.
For the Roadies, a long road -trip always make for good stories, and this one was no different. Among the "highlights" from our point of view:
* We decided that Dean Versteeg looked a bit too healthy and was showing us up, so a couple of us decided to run him over with a trailer. The results of our success would need to be determined by radiology, but we rolled his foot pretty good and Dean later confessed
that a couple of interesting words may have floated thru his mind shortly after the event.
* This may be a first at a competition,...Jim and Tim had their welder and generator in the back of the truck and performed some last minute surgery on a broken tymp cart handle.
* Reason #32 why we throw everything back into the trailers and lock them up during a performance in the Cities: Some members of one section had brought some type of beverages that were in glass bottles. Needless to say, when we returned from the performance, some members of the neighborhood welcoming committee had smashed them all over the parking lot. So we got some practice in for sweeping up glass without a broom (no injuries reported on that one). New Rule: No glass bottles?
* Yet another pair of pants with gum on them. That's 3 so far this year. New Rule: No Gum?
We had three people taking pictures at Irondale, and as the pictures are received, they will be posted on the website. Please keep checking back from time to time