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STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

The Gilmer Buckeyes will face off against the Navasota Rattlers on Friday, December 21st at 4:00pm. Advance tickets may be purchased through Thursday at the Administration building. Advance tickets are $12 for adults and $8 for students. Tickets at the gate will be $15. Parking at the stadium will be $10 per vehicle.

Everyone will require a ticket, regardless of age. Tickets are good for all games being played in the stadium on 12/21/12, although they are good for ONE ENTRY ONLY. If you leave the stadium between games you must pay to re-enter.

Air horns are not allowed in the stadium. Other noisemakers are allowed. Tickets purchased from the school are good for entry through Entry C and Entry H only.

Students will be released for the Christmas holiday at the end of day on Thursday, December 20th to allow staff, students and supporters to arrive safely to the game.

GO BUCKEYES!!

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How Gilmer came to be known as the Buckeyes

By JOE BLOUNT Long before the birth of Christ the buckeye was known to have medicinal value. The nutlike seed, found abundantly on shrubs here in East Texas, first got its notoriety as a curative agent from the Greco-Roman culture. Their god of medicine was Aesculapian. Even today botanical scientists place the buckeye within the genus Aesculus, recognize it as a member of the horse-chestnut family and are still highly puzzled by its many and varied phytochemicals. “Phyto,” as you may recall from biology, simply means “from plants.” There are a great number of antioxidants and maintenance chemicals found in the buckeye’s pulp. There are also many toxic compounds and several of the substances are downright poisonous. Early Greek docs would skin the buckeye and boil the endosperm, producing a brew that was taken internally. Most often, just as the case may still be today, the cure inevitably turned out to be worse than the disease. So now, we see that the buckeye is poisonous. We also b...