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Friends, from left, Paige Foster and Abby Brown finish showing off their secret handshake while their friend Emme Hull watches on. The three girls enjoyed an afternoon game of tennis at Duncan Park on Saturday.
Game, set, match
Best friends play a game of tennis
Published Monday, September 1, 2008
NATCHEZ — Donning brightly colored string friendship bracelets, these three girls are inseparable.
Paige Foster, Abby Brown and Emme Hull, all 10-year-old fifth graders at Cathedral School, were having a ball playing tennis when The Dart landed on Duncan Park.
Sneakers moved in a flurry as they volleyed the ball, two against one on the sun-drenched courts.
Only Foster would admit that she has tennis talent.
“She takes lessons,” Brown explained. “I haven’t played in years.”
But Foster just enjoys the sport of it.
“It’s fun and good exercise,” she said.
Hull said she liked wielding a racket, too.
But tennis isn’t everything the tremendous trio tackles.
Foster and Brown have been best friends for as long as they can remember and Hull jumped on board when she moved to the area when she was in second grade.
There’s even a secret handshake involved that includes foot stomping, hand slapping and ending in a Charlie’s Angels pose.
Brown and Foster admit to being a bit of sports fanatics and said they play just about everything, even football.
“I never played quarterback or anything,” she said.
But she enjoyed participating in the youth league and Foster said loved tackling the most.
“Tackling is my favorite,” Foster said.
These girls are no frills.
“We’re all tough,” Brown said.
Puffing with pride over their school, they said they enjoyed being back in session and this year, they’re called middle schoolers.
But the one entitlement they truly want from being in middle school, which they don’t get now, is a locker.
“We want lockers,” Foster said.
Each wanting to express their personal flair, a locker would be the perfect drawing board to do so.
Laughing, joking and moaning whenever a bright yellow tennis ball shot straight in the air like a rocket instead of arching over the net, the girls continued on with their game, scurrying across the court looking very much like the best of friends.
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Posted by pbnj (anonymous) on September 1, 2008 at 12:35 a.m.
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Posted by Blasterhappy (anonymous) on September 1, 2008 at 5:40 a.m. (Suggest removal)
It's nice to have a special interest story every once in a while to break up the doom and gloom. Hey pbnj go watch the Weather Channel and have a PB&J and Chill Out.
Posted by chsmom (anonymous) on September 1, 2008 at 8:36 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I agree Blasterhappy...... nice to see smiling faces in the paper this morning. There's enough gloom outside! (And at pbnj's house too I guess!!)
Posted by ingodwetrust (anonymous) on September 1, 2008 at 9:43 a.m. (Suggest removal)
LOL!!! IM WITH YOU BLASTERHAPPY, ON THIS ONE! THE PERSON THAT LEFT THE RUDE COMMENT ABOUT THE 3 GIRL'S THAT HAVE BEEN LIFE LONG FRIEND'S AND ABOUT THE GREAT GAME OF TENNIS THEY HAD JUST PLAYED, AND THIER SECRET HAND SHAKE!
THEY DIDN'T EVEN READ THE WHOLE STORY TO BEGIN WITH BECAUSE IF THEY DID READ IT THEY WOULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT THE GIRL'S DID AT DUNKAN PARK.
THEY WERE JUST UP-SET BECAUSE IT WASN'T ABOUT (GUSTAV )!
WE DO NEED A BREAK NOW AND THEN, I KNOW I WOULDN'T WANT TO HEAR THE SAME OLE STORY OVER & OVER AGAIN BECAUSE THAT IS ALL WE HAVE BEEN FOCUSED ON 24/7 IS GUSTAV AND WE ALL NEED TO READ OR HEAR ABOUT SOMETHING HAPPY FOR A CHANGE OF PACE, AND IT ALSO HELP'S TO RELIEVE STRESS.
LAUGHTER IS ALL WAY'S THE BEST MEDICINE FOR ME!
I WOULD HAVE SAID, ( PBNJ GO EAT A PB-N-J AND CHILL OUT!LOL! ) YOU GOTTA LOVE IT!
BY THE WAY...GUSTAV IS STILL HERE AND YES WE WILL HAVE ABOUT 3 TO 5 DAY'S OF CONSTANT RAIN, AND WE WILL ALSO HAVE GUST OF HIGH WIND'S AND SOME MIGHT EVEN LOOSE THIER ELECTRICITY FOR A WHILE, BUT THANK GOD!, BECAUSE IT COULD HAVE BEEN CATASTROPHIC DAMAGE AND CAME ON LAND BEING A CATAGORY 5 HERRICANE!
AS SOON AS I HEARD ABOUT THIS MONSTER HERRICANE, I GOT ON-LINE AND ASKED EVERYONE I KNEW TO PLEASE SAY A PRAYER BECAUSE THAT IS THE MOST POWERFUL THING WE CAN ALL DO TO COMPLETELY CHANGE THE OUT COME OF ( ANYTHING & EVERYTHING! )
I WANT TO THANK GOD FOR HEARING ALL OF OUR PRAYER'S! I AM ALSO VERY THANKFUL THAT GOD IS IN TOTAL CONTROL OF EVERYTHING, BECAUSE IF WE WERE WE WOULD ONLY MAKE THING'S A WHOLE LOT WORSE, BECAUSE WE CAN ONLY SEE THE PRESENT, BUT GOD KNOW'S AND CAN SEE THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF EVERYTHING!
WE AS CHRISTIAN'S HAVE THE AUTHORITY AND KNOW THAT THE NAME OF ( JESUS ) CAN AND DOES HEAL EVERYTHING, IN GOD'S ON TIMING AND NOT OUR'S.
THAT IS WERE THE WORD ( FAITH ) COME'S IN TO PLAY AND I PRAY THAT MOST OF US DO HAVE FAITH THE SIZE OF A MUSTARD SEED!
THE BIBLE SAY'S, IF MAN WILL COME TOGETHER AND PRAY I WILL COME AND HEAL THIER LAND!
HAVE A SAFE LABOR DAY & GOD BLESS!
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