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Just before 1 p.m. the band took to the field at Kelly Reeves Stadium in Round Rock to perform its show “Fury Road.” Today marks the band’s first competition performance of the season and may have qualified them for the finals later tonight. Senior woodwind captain, Ava Escamilla, said she was proud of the band’s performance. 

“It went pretty well from what I saw,” she said. “All in all, we stayed together, and it sounded pretty good.”

In just under thirty minutes, drum majors will receive word of whether or not the band has made it to the finals, and Escamilla said that the results could go either way. 

“It’s hard to tell,” she said. “We’re up against a lot of really big 6A schools. A majority of the bands make finals, but mainly for us, it’s about seeing which of the smaller bands we can beat.”

Escamilla has a flute solo midway through the performance and was tasked with a variety of different additional challenges. 

“I have to flutter, which is running across the whole field,” she said. “When I got up there, I had a little bit of time to slow my breathing down, and I was a little shaky at the beginning because it’s hot, but I think it sounded good.” 

Sophomore Will Jones, bass two player, performed in his second Bands of America competition.

“It went really well,” he said. “We were slowed down a little bit from what it sounds like. I didn’t feel it, but some of the other band members felt it.”

Despite some small setbacks, Jones said that he believes the band’s performance will qualify it for the finals later tonight.

“Musically as a whole that was a really really good run,” he said.

For now, the band awaits the finals decision and will hear back from the judges today at 2:27 p.m.. If they qualify, they will perform again later tonight, if not, this year’s BOA run will come to an end.

Pictures by Wren Vanderford and Lillian Gray. Caption by Lillian Gray.

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