Scene 17 - The Game

This scene is primarily a collage of stills accompanied first by voices and then by music. The scene begins with darkness. Accompanying the darkness we hear the girls on the softball team praying the Hail Mary. We next hear Carol's voice:

Carol's voice: (Clapping) Come on, girls, wake up, wake up! Are you up for this ?

(We see Carol.)

Carol: Now I just saw some Regina Coeli girls out by the snack truck laughing and spraying each other with sodas. They were having a good old time, talking about all the shopping they were going to do when they got to Santa Fe! Are you going to take that? They've just dismissed Big Blue as a bunch of pushovers. Doesn't that make you mad? What are you going to do about it?

(Generally rowdiness among the girls. They break into the team fight song.)

Team Fight Song:

Let's go Big Blue, get hot! (clap clap) Get hot! (clap clap)
Get it up! Get it on! Put it out! (clap clap)
Let's go! Go! (clap) Go! (clap) Go! (clap)
Go! (clap) Go! (clap) Go-oh-oh! (clap) Go-oh-oh! (clap)
Go, GO!
GO! Oh! Ho ho, ho ho!
GO! Oh! Ho ho, ho ho!
GO! Oh! Ho ho, ho ho!
GO! Oh! Ho ho, ho ho!

(Fight song segues to an eerie violin solo, slightly reminiscent of the theme from Dark Shadows. Photographic stills accompany the music. Stills begin with a shot of the girls' hands in a circle, for the team prayer. The body of stills consists of key moments of the game. The photographs have a bit of a staged quality about them. There's something a little odd. They don't look exactly like shots you would get by photographing a real game, but are somewhat stylized. They are photographed close up so that they capture the intensity, the concentration in the girls' faces. The girls are playing hard.)

(Last stills are of girls celebrating on field, walking off with arms raised in victory; and of team in a tight group, holding pitcher up on their shoulders. Pitcher is holding trophy, fist in air. Interspersed with the game photographs are stills of Carol and Bruce talking to eacher other, leaning against fence, yelling to the girls on the field during the game, etc.)

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