The Parkland football team wins by 17 points in the first home game since 17 people were killed in a shot

It was the first time that they had been playing at home since the Parkland shoot and the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School football team won a notable lead.

A gunman killed 17 students and teachers at school last February in one of the worst shootings in modern US history.

On Friday, they faced the South Broward Bulldogs and beat them 23-6. The final score was 17 points, according to articles published on the social networks of the football team.

"It's the 17 angels," offensive midfielder Brian Smith said Friday at the South Florida Sun Sentinel. "They were watching us."

When the Eagles entered the field of the school, it was the number 17 that bound them all along.

The Eagles wore new helmets with "17" on the side and the same "17" was painted on the school's distinctive logo in the middle of the field.

"We just want them to be proud," said head coach Willis May at Sun Sentinel. "They are in heaven and hopefully they are watching us and they are happy with the way we try to represent them.We try to make sure that they understand that we are thinking of them and that they will always be with them. "

The team also paid tribute to Aaron Feis, an assistant football coach who was killed in the shootout as he threw himself at students as bullets were thrown. One player wore a uniform with the number 73, which was Feis's number of his days of play, reported WSVN.

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