Little brother Peter honors Kenny by wearing his jersey as Beckman’s ball boy.
BY JOSH DIGGS
Tustin Sports Blog Contributor
It was overly obvious that last week’s Beckman-Artesia game was the first game at Tustin this season.
As I made my way up to the press box I was overcome with nostalgic memories of my senior year of college! The tight, compact area looked more like my room than a press box.
It was littered with paper, envelopes, graduation programs from last June, sunflower seeds that I probably deposited there sometime last season, and wood chips from the slowly eroding door.
Tustin High is lucky the city doesn’t use the same standards for restaurants that it does for its press boxes.
On top of that all five chairs were leaning toward one end zone and they were so lopsided it looked as if Roseanne Barr had used each one to change a light bulb.
Ok enough about the press box, here on some thought from the Beckman game: The mood was somber before the game as fans and players remembered Kenny Wilson.
I overheard a lot of people saying good things about the young man, whose name still appeared on the team media guide.
His family played a big part of the tribute. They took part in the coin toss before the game and there was a long moment of silence in his name.
His younger brother Peter, a sixth grader at nearby Pioneer Middle School, was the game’s honorary ball boy and was tossing the ball around before the game. He also wore the Beckman jersey with the number 59, the number Kenny would have worn.
His sister Candace, a freshman at Beckman, is a member of the marching band.
The Knights defeated the Oilers 19-12 and enter the playoffs as the No. 2 team out of the Sea View League.
