A surprise guest speaker entered the locker room before the Falcons' Sept. 30 homecoming football game. "I had just sat down; it is kind of dark in there and I didn't realize it was him," lineman Dylan Gilroy said. Dylan, a soft spoken junior, sat motionless when he recognized the man. He hadn't seen the man in more than a year, and hadn't expected to see him for another day or two. "I got up and walked over to him and gave him a hug," Dylan said. "We didn't even talk for about a minute." The guest speaker was Dylan's older brother Sean Gilroy, a U.S. Navy service member home from South Korea…

On a night when there was very little cheer about, in a 40-11 loss to Lakewood, Amy Swiatek continued to wave her pom-poms and cheer on her favorite team. Amy, 10, is a fifth-grade student at San Jose Elementary School and attends all the Falcons games with her dad. "My dad brought me to the game so we could spend time together and have fun," she remarked excitedly.  Her father Matt Swiatek, a 1998 Dunedin High School graduate, played cornerback for three years. "I will be a cheerleader just like these girls, I already know all the cheers and all the songs," she said with confidence.  "I used…