Battle of the Marching Bands

] “The South East Marching Band fights for first place”
“South East High School regiment the judges are ready,” said the announcer at the 2009 Mayfair Competition on Thursday November 12, as the SEHS Marching Band and Color guard hits the filed. Luis Santana is a freshman at SEHS who plays the trumpet along with his older brother Omar Santana a sophomore. Luis said, “Well I’m really excited about this, this is my third competition and so far every time I hit the field I get nervous.” Santana ready to hit the field and so the audience prepared for the performance.
So, as the band hits the field and they announce the judges are ready, Drum Major Eric Quintero quickly solutes the judges as a sign of respect. Then Eric is ready to go. This year’s field show and theme Disney’s ”The Incredibles” it based on 3 parts of the music featured on the film. As soon as Eric gives the signal the band begins to play, the crowd begins to cheer and most importantly the judges begin scoring. As the band plays Part 1 and 2 the band begin to build confidence and the performance gets better and better. Then finally when the band plays part 3 they give it there all and finished the performance with a bang.
As the crowd applauds a tired and anxious marching band and Color Guard awaits the score. Soon after, Luis told us what we thought the band scored, if they did better than their last competition and if they were great. Santana said, “Well, I thought we did pretty great and a lot better than our previous competition in Las Vegas. I believe that tonight we deserve 1st place because everyone t=put the effort in tonight.” So, after the band packed everything away into the charter bus they went back to watch the rest of the bands perform. Many of the bands there blew their minds and some were phenomenal. As the night started to take over the sky the ceremony begin right after.

As the awards began are handed out they learn their score. The SEHS Marching Band and Color Guard had 2 bands to beat. The Color guard scored at 3rd place to Milliken High and Savannah high. The marching band won 2nd place and barely lost to Savannah by two points