Homecoming is coming to an end.

Students have been celebrating the basketball homecoming season throughout the week and it ended with basketball scrimmages this afternoon.

Principal Chris Mason kicked off the rally by talking to students. Each grade level faced off in a basketball game against one another, which ultimately lead to the teachers and juniors playing each other. The homecoming basketball game will be tonight, where the homecoming king and queen will be announced.

The assembly began with Mason reminding students to come out to the basketball game tonight and to wear orange and blue, which are the school colors for Marshall County High School where the school shooting was Tuesday. Both Bullitt East and tonights opponent, Bullitt Central, will be wearing these colors to show their love and support for the high school. At the end of Mason’s talk, the school took a moment of silence together.

“The moment of silence was a great display of respect from our high school to a fellow one. It was the quietest I’d ever heard our school be,” said sophomore Andrea Foley.

The homecoming court walked on the gym floor before the scrimmages took place. The decided representatives for underclassmen consists of freshmen Ellie Poole and Aeron Adams, sophomores Meredith Bass and Nathan Thomas and juniors Lilly Ralph and Tyler Steinmetz.

The winning homecoming king and queen will be announced at tonight’s basketball game. The homecoming king candidates consists of Luke Ezell, Peyton Meredith, Marley Michel, Jared Poteet and Sean Woods. The homecoming queen candidates are Summer Barr, Jordan Blain, Cori Etherton, Lexie Fisher and Brooke Hatfield.

The basketball scrimmages started off with freshman vs. sophomores, which concluded with the sophomores winning 7-4. The juniors and seniors then played and juniors won 8-5. The two winners of the previous games, sophomores and juniors, scrimmaged and the juniors won 10-6. The juniors, alongside a couple seniors, then continued to play the teachers and the students were annihilated, with a final score of 54-13.

“It all depends on the amount of effort you put into it. If you are not playing but are excited about what is happening, you will have a good time, but if you do not actively participate and you sit back and do nothing then you won’t enjoy it. I personally like the scrimmages because it’s fun to cheer on your classmates and to joke around with them,” said junior Matthew Brown.

Come out to the basketball game tonight at 6, where the Chargers will be facing county rival Bullitt Central for the first time in six years.