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Peewee football team to play at B.C. Place |
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Written by TED CLARKE, Citizen staff
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
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LOWER MAINLAND
Her concert this weekend at B.C. Place Stadium has cancelled their annual camp-out under the Dome.
The peewees will still get to play as part of the halftime entertainment in Friday’s B.C. Lions-Edmonton Eskimos game. But this time, due to the setup involved in staging the Jackson concert on Saturday, the 48 peewee players from Prince George and Vanderhoof will be forced to vacate the premises after the game.
That means those peewee scrimmages under the lights that made their stadium experiences an all-night affair the previous two years won’t be happening. It’s still going to be fun, however, and the abbreviated stadium stay does nothing to diminish the anticipation of Joel Hansen, the 10-year-old receiver/defensive end.
“It’s pretty much a one-in-a-million chance that a kid my age will get to play at B.C. Place Stadium so I think it will be pretty exciting,” said Hansen. “It’s my first time playing in the Dome and I’m hoping it will be really fun. I want to have as many tackles as possible. I do want my dad to bring a camera.”
The PGMFA is sending a busload of parents and players down to Vancouver on Thursday and several of the players are going with their families in private vehicles. The cost of the trip is covered for all peewee players, paid for through a league fund-raising project.
Hansen’s parents, aunt and uncle, and grandparents in the Lower Mainland will make the trip for the game. For security reasons, family members won’t likely get to watch the kids’ game at field level.
Returning peewee Josh Hamilton, 11, slept on the turf with his team last year and was disappointed it won’t be happening again. This time in Vancouver, he’ll sleep in a hotel room bed, after playing in front of a crowd expected to exceed 30,000.
“It’s a really nice field, compared to the one we play on -- last year we got to play until my dad told me I had to go to sleep,” said Hamilton.
“It’s really fun to play there. You hope that you don’t mess up, because you don’t want to be embarrassed in front of everyone. It’s cool because you can get autographs from the (CFL) players while you’re waiting to get on.”
To accommodate three other peewee games being played simultaneously, the field will be divided into four sections running widthwise parallel to each other. The Prince George-Vanderhoof team will play a Lower Mainland team in an eight-minute game in the Football B.C.-sanctioned event and each kid will get to play at least half of that time.
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