Athletics

Homecoming Game: A Story in Tweets

Ms. Giraud, Jimmy Kuebler, Carson Jungers, Natalie Buffett, Jordan Towsley, Jacob Romine, Cassandra Ratzlaff, Reanna Gregory, and |October 11, 2013

Ask reporters from the Bolt how they told the story of Homecoming night 2013, and you might hear them tell you a little bird told the story. For Homecoming game this year, the Bolt is trying something new. With one of the paper’s goals set on increasing our presence on social media, we decided to challenge ourselves to write about the Homecoming game collaboratively… in Tweets. The story that follows was created by a group of writers on staff. Pairs of reporters were assigned a quarter of the game. For each quarter, reporters were asked to post a certain number of Tweets about the game, the crowd, or the Homecoming event itself.

Reporters were asked to send images from the game to our senior editor, Cassandra Ratzlaff, who would build a gallery of images to accompany the story. We hope you like our experiment, a story in Tweets:

HOMECOMING! Thunder will kick off ball in the first half!!

The Thunder is showing strong defense! and will force the Seahawks to punt!

In at Quarterback is #9 David Grain.

ODA stops Seahawks on first drive and forced them to punt.

Interception caught by #25 on the Seahawks and ran in for a touchdown

7-0 Seahawks

Penalty, running into kicker, Bryan Kirshe, will give the thunder and automatic first down

Pass completed to Trenton Radigan for 20 yards, giving the thunder a first down!

Pass intercepted by #7 on the Seahawks to change ball possession

Pass completed too, #7 will give the Seahawks another touchdown

Pass completed to Joey Runge, just short of a first down, and the thunder will be forced to punt

COME ON THUNDER!