The VanHooser family has had quite an impressive run with the Caldwell County Tiger football team.
A VanHooser brother has been on the Caldwell roster every year since 2011.
From Drake to Hunter to Tate, at least one son of Ben and Holly VanHooser has played for the Tigers for an entire decade. And, for much of that run, the No. 32 jersey has belonged to one of the brothers.
With Tate being a senior, that streak ends after the 2020 season.
Following Friday’s win, the VanHooser boys are able to say that not one of them ever lost to Crittenden County.
Caldwell has taken 11 straight — and 15 of the last 16 — meetings from the Rockets, meaning the VanHoosers have completed a perfect 10-0 run.
Ben laughed after Friday’s 22-0 victory over the Rockets that he made sure to remind Tate of that streak last week as he and the Tigers were preparing to play their border rival from the north.
STONE HITS 50 YEARS
A milestone passed relatively quietly in the Caldwell pressbox on Friday.
Former Tiger standout Johnny Stone began his 50th season running the game clock and scoreboard at Tiger Stadium.
Stone, a former Lady Tiger softball head coach, also helps call Caldwell volleyball games on WPKY Radio with his wife, former Lady Tiger volleyball head coach Sue Stone.
WHITE JERSEYS AT HOME
In a rare occurrence, the Tiger football team donned its white road jerseys for Friday’s home game against Crittenden County.
That move was was requested by the Rockets, who had not gotten their new white jerseys in yet for this season. Crittenden coach Sean Thompson requested that Caldwell wear white so that the Rockets could wear their dark home jerseys.
So far, no one from Caldwell can come up with the last time the Tigers wore their white jerseys at home — or if it has ever happened.
However, after shutting out Crittenden in the white jerseys, Caldwell head coach Will Barnes laughed afterward that the Tigers might do that all the time — “like LSU or the Dallas Cowboys.”
BASEBALL SCORE
An early field goal, followed by a safety, led to an unusual tally on the Tiger Stadium scoreboard early Friday night.
Caldwell County’s 5-0 lead over Crittenden County looked more like a baseball score.
No one in the Tiger camp could remember seeing a 5-0 score in a Caldwell football game.
HOMECOMING, SENIOR NIGHT SET
Caldwell County will visit Union County next week. The Braves will be playing their season opener.
The Tigers will be back home the following week when they host Ballard Memorial in their first Class 2A 1st District game of the season.
Caldwell plans to have both Senior Night and Homecoming when the Bombers visit Princeton.
