Friday night at Turpin Stadium in Natchitoches, the Benton Tigers wore maroon shirts with the No. 12 and name Walker on the back during warmups.
They did so to honor Robert Walker, a 16-year-old Natchitoches Central player who was killed in a UTV accident on Oct. 2, the day before the Tigers and Chiefs were scheduled to play sub-varsity games.
“I just wanted to do something low key,” Benton head coach Reynolds Moore said. “I didn’t want to draw attention to us. It’s not about us. I really wanted to just kind of let their team, their community and really the young man’s mom know we were thinking about them and praying for them.
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