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Tornadoes still planning to play at Loudon
Alcoa High School athletic director Josh Stephens confirmed Thursday afternoon that the Tornadoes football team’s District 4-AA opener at Loudon will be played as scheduled at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
Alcoa City Schools canceled classes for the final three days of the week because of widespread illness among students, but Stephens said not playing a district football game — or even postponing it — was not an option.
One of Alcoa’s non-district girls soccer games was called off earlier this week, Stephens said, but the football team has not been affected by the illnesses.
Rivalry game draws smaller crowd
The annual high school football showdown between Maryville and Alcoa brought out a smaller-than-usual crowd this year.
An estimated crowd of just more than 7,000, Alcoa athletic director Josh Stephens said Thursday, watched the Tornadoes end the Rebels’ eight-game series winning streak Friday night with a 41-24 victory at Alcoa’s Goddard Field.
Stephens said it was “a little bit smaller” crowd than the two teams drew in 2007, the last time Alcoa hosted the game.
Speculating on a reason for the decrease in attendance, Stephens suggested extensive rainfall that caused flash flooding in the area Thursday night might have kept some fans from coming to the game.
A forecasted chance of rain Friday night during the game couldn’t have helped, either.