This season, the marching band will return to Lafayette, Edwardsville, the annual Champion of Champions competition and will go to Tennessee for the Bands of America competition.

When I saw her sitting there so shaken, all I could think was that this experience was going to stick with her for the rest of her life.

“This year, we are really fighting for the one or two seed because the first two seeds only play two games [in the tournament] as opposed to three,” Towe said. “With the way our makeup is with our pitchers and our team, as young as we are, we have a pretty good opportunity if we play two games. If we played three games, it just gets a lot harder.”

NFL linebacker Edwin Jackson was killed by drunk driver who happened to be an illegal immigrant.