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  • The senior class for the McAlester Buffaloes enjoy their dinner provided by Pete’s Place during Sunday’s awards banquet for the 2012 McAlester Buffaloes at the Southeast Expo Center in McAlester. Buffs defensive lineman Jase Romine sits up front on the right. MATT GOISMAN

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  • McAlester junior Phillip Jewell leads an opening prayer during Sunday’s awards banquet for the 2012 McAlester Buffaloes at the Southeast Expo Center in McAlester. MATT GOISMAN

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  • McAlester senior Gannon Beck, left, receives his varsity letter from Buffaloes offensive coordinator Justin Mullins, center, and defensive line coach Aron Holt, right, during Sunday’s awards banquet for the 2012 McAlester Buffaloes at the Southeast Expo Center in McAlester. MATT GOISMAN

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  • The McAlester Buffaloes senior class participates in the candlelight ceremony during Sunday’s awards banquet for the 2012 McAlester Buffaloes at the Southeast Expo Center in McAlester. Front row, left to right: Buffs offensive coordinator Justin Mullins, Victor Wight, Campbell Davis, Seth Grant, Tyler Curry, Devin Rolan, Wyatt Beshears, Memrie Tohkubbi and Danielle Layden. Back row: Nick Eldridge, Gannon Beck, Jeremy Otis, Heath Hogan, Jase Romine, Justin Joyce, Justin Smith and Dakota Morris. MATT GOISMAN

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January 30, 2013

Banquet honors 2012 Buffaloes

By Matt Goisman Sports Writer

McALESTER —  

For the McAlester Buffaloes senior class, the 2012 football went by far too fast. And though the season concluded in November, the senior class enjoyed an epilogue of sorts on Sunday at the Southeast Expo Center in McAlester, when the entire team came back together one last time for the Buffs’ annual awards banquet.

“That’s what this banquet is about,” McAlester coach Bryan Pratt said before the approximately 244 attendees. “It’s about honoring our players, especially the senior class.”

Following an opening speech by Quarterback Club president Greg Rolan, who later received a plaque for all his work this season, and an opening prayer from Buffs junior Phillip Jewell, Pratt gave a speech in which he thanked his players, coaches, parents and administrators for all their help.

“I couldn’t ask for a better coaching staff to work with,” Pratt said.

“In my seven years (as head coach), the season that’s been the most enjoyable to me has been this one.”

 

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