Football team en route to Monmouth

Catpion (John Kruger/TommieMedia)
The football team starts the long distance trek to Monmouth for the first round of the NCAA playoffs. (John Kruger/TommieMedia)

The Tommie football team was sent off to Illinois in style at 8 a.m. Friday morning to take on Monmouth.

Fans, cheerleaders, “Caruso’s crew” and even the mascot Tommie were all there to cheer the team on one more time before St. Thomas plays in the NCAA playoffs for the first time since 1990.

John Kruger can be reached at jckruger@stthomas.edu