File photo Former Saratoga High School football coach Benny Pierce, shown here talking to one of his players in 1986, died on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023, of natural causes. He was 89. (file photo)
Many years after Benny Pierce retired as Saratoga High’s football coach, the school held a class reunion during a fall weekend.
The activities included a Saratoga football game.
Pierce walked into Saratoga’s team room with many of his former players from the reunited class and gave the current team a pregame address.
Tim Lugo, Saratoga’s head coach at that time, gets choked up remembering that moment.
“To see how