House Bill 9075

    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                HR 9075

        By Representative Minton






  1                         House Resolution

  2         A resolution honoring the Glades Central High

  3         School Raiders, winners of the State Division

  4         4A High School Football Championship.

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  6         WHEREAS, the 1998 regular football season for the

  7  Glades Central High School Raiders was marked by several

  8  come-from-behind victories, earning the Raiders the nickname

  9  "the Miracle Kids," and

10         WHEREAS, on Friday, December 18, 1998, the Glades

11  Central High School Raiders staged a 33-28 come-from-behind

12  victory over the Madison County High School Cowboys before a

13  crowd of 4,840 at Florida Field on the University of Florida

14  campus in Gainesville, and

15         WHEREAS, in doing so, the Glades Central High School

16  Raiders became the Division 4A High School Football Champions

17  in the State of Florida, and

18         WHEREAS, the victory was the culmination of a season in

19  which the Raiders were given little chance of playing for a

20  state championship, and

21         WHEREAS, Glades Central trailed Madison County 28-14

22  with only 6:41 remaining in the championship game, and

23         WHEREAS, Glades Central scored 19 points from three

24  touchdown passes in the final minutes of the game, and

25         WHEREAS, key to the Raiders' victory was junior wide

26  receiver, Reggie Vickers, who caught a 31-yard touchdown pass

27  with only 20 seconds remaining in the game, and

28         WHEREAS, Vickers caught 4 passes for 85 yards,

29  including two for touchdowns, and returned a kickoff 80 yards

30  for another score, and

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                HR 9075

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  1         WHEREAS, first-year quarterback Jerry Campbell

  2  engineered the winning 97-yard drive for Glades Central,

  3  finishing the night with 4 touchdown passes, going 18 of 36

  4  for 301 yards, and

  5         WHEREAS, Tremaine Knight and Antonio Thomas also caught

  6  touchdown passes, with Thomas pulling in 9 receptions for 105

  7  yards, and

  8         WHEREAS, it is fitting and appropriate that the Glades

  9  Central High School Raiders be acknowledged for their

10  outstanding 1998 regular season and their postseason

11  championship, NOW, THEREFORE,

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13  Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of

14  Florida:

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16         That the House of Representatives of the State of

17  Florida hereby recognizes the Glades Central High School

18  Raiders, winners of the Division 4A State High School Football

19  Championship.

20         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution

21  be presented to Milton Watson, Head Coach of the Glades

22  Central High School Raiders, to the assistant coaches, and to

23  each member of the Glades Central High School football team.

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