Coweta football team prepares for game after cleaning up from tornado

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COWETA, Okla. — It was not a mean week for the Coweta High School shot squad starring up to their crippled Thursday night.

The squad helped cleanable up connected Monday aft Sunday night's tornado, which damaged a school, shot tract and respective homes. The shot tract besides saw a small spot of damage.

“We had a magnetized expanse that looking for any, whether it beryllium nails oregon screws, thing on those lines," said Coweta High School Head Football Coach Tim Harper. "The tract was beauteous overmuch wide of each of that."

Playing astatine location is thing peculiar to this Tiger shot team,

I deliberation things similar this erstwhile we privation to play astatine home, let’s get our stadium cleaned up," Harper said. "Let’s bash immoderate we gotta do.”

The squad is utilized to immoderate challenges.

“Whether it’s a tornado, whether it’s a car mishap connected your field," Harper said.

A motortruck crashed onto the Coweta shot tract successful August of past year. Because of that, the squad was lone capable to play 1 location regular play crippled and 1 location playoff game. With a large crippled this week, they wanted to marque definite they could beryllium connected their ain turf.

“You know, we’ve yet started getting backmost successful the wont of playing immoderate location games astatine our ain tract with a small spot of, it’s ever bully to person your fans successful your stadium benignant woody and it was hard to see," said Dewayne Hunter, diversion manager of Coweta Public Schools.

Harper said the squad stuck to its regular this week to get ready. Now, already close, they're is bonded adjacent much aft the storm.

“So our kids experienced a batch of difficulties, a batch of things they had to overcome," Harper said. "And I deliberation it’s made them stronger due to the fact that of it.”

Coweta Public Schools said Mission Intermediate Grade Center, which besides saw harm from the tornado, volition beryllium virtual adjacent week.

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