The barrage of whipped cream was supposed to end at the same time the third quarter of the Brentsville District versus Warren County homecoming football game expired but, well, sometimes there's just enough room for one more.

Looking like a papier-mache version the Stay Puft Marshmallow man as the layers upon layers of whipped cream on his face matched the color of his T-shirt, Sean Weddel offered up another smile and headed back behind the firing wall seconds after the whistle blew and the football teams in Nokesville traded sides of the field.

"SENIOR" blazoned the bottom of the wall. Random streaks, like someone shot a watergun of paint, lined the front of the wooden protectorate featuring a hole on top just big enough for a human head to fit through.

Brentsville District High School senior Emilio Marmol stepped to the line, paper plate filled with another batch of freshly-squirted Harris Teeter whipped cream. His yellow jacket contrasted the night sky as he cocked his arm back and readied his throw.

A quick moment later, the plate lay still on the cutout border of the hole. Half of it planted against the edge of the wooden frame; the other half along the right side of the Brentsville soccer coach's face.

Weddel paused as laughter echoed from the Class of 2011’s tent, stationed between a pink cupcake stand and junior class tents with a Go Army setup nearby too. Then, with a sudden burst of enthusiasm, he shouted:

"That was fantastic!"

His eyes barely penetrated the layers of dessert topping covering every visible inch of flesh and hair as he kept his head poking out from the hole.

"That was a great throw!"

Call him a glutton for punishment or just someone who knew how to entertain a group of teenagers the night before the big homecoming dance, but Weddel trooped through the last pie. Even with breath could be seen lingering in the chilly air for three seconds before it evaporated, Weddel kept his shivering cool.

"I should go chase around somebody!" he said to a chorus of laughs.

The pie-throwing-for-charity turned out to be just one of many events drawing attention away from the football game itself as students and alumni crowded around the perimeter of the field, from the north end zone and along the rail toward the southern end. Brentsville’s marching band performed at halftime without a visible conductor (at least from the press box’s vantage point), stretching 20 yards between the 40-yard dash marks on each side of midfield, flanked on the south end by the flag guard and baton twirler on the north side.

Of course no homecoming would be complete without the naming of the class courts, represented by 22 students this year chosen by their classmates.

The freshmen included Beverly Brunk, Catherine Garvey, Jesse Leasure and Connor Kielbasa while Taylor Kirby, Gretch Wisby, Konnor Fulk and Cody Trenum represented the sophomores. Aida Ghergas, Emily Thatcher, Trevor Flynn and Michael Morgan claimed the royalty honors for the juniors.

An all-athlete field dominated the senior court as class president Taylor Fox, her fellow track teammates Aaron Keller and Tyler Giller, volleyball player Emily Wisby, cheerleader Shannon Butler, swimmer Nathan Kania, lacrosse players Kelly Jacobson and Morgan Wernecke and varsity football stars Garrison Ernst and Mike Lennox walked to the football field at the end of the presentation procession.

There, 2009 homecoming queen Asha Patel passed the tiara torch to the group's leader Fox as the 2010 honoree, one night before Keller brought home the king's crown from the "Making a Difference" homecoming dance.