Chelsea softball faced Ann Arbor Huron. You may notice these are all photos of baserunners; that’s because that’s essentially all Chelsea did in this game. It was…slightly lopsided, and I was short on time to cover softball. The next set of softball photos will be much more varied.
Chelsea baseball opened its season at home against Ann Arbor Huron.
Chelsea soccer faced the Kicking Mules of Bedford High School. Yes, it makes perfect sense for Kicking Mules to play soccer. (They’re the Going For It Mules in football, remember?)
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the official start of the Civil War, the Chelsea Area Historical Society organized a presentation by local Civil War re-enactor George Till.
Till chose a young audience member to wear the gear of a typical Civil War soldier.
The early spring sports season continued with lacrosse — one of my newer favorite sports — in Dexter.
The Dexter boys faced Belleville:
Notice the placement of the Belleville stick in the next two photos…
…and insert the Urkel “Did I do thaaaat?” catchphrase here.
The Dexter lacrosse program is pretty good, while the Belleville lacrosse program is…uh…decidedly not pretty good. The Belleville goalie was fiercely competitive, so the frequent and abundant Dexter goals served to make him more and more frustrated as the game wore on. Eventually, with the score badly lopsided and a Dexter player running in on a breakaway, the goalie found a way to take out his frustration…by leveling the Dexter player on the breakaway.
The Dexter player still scored — he managed to shoot the ball before the goalie reached him — but he certainly paid for the goal.
At the same time, the Dexter girls lacrosse team was playing Salem.
(As an aside: who decided the Rocks mascot should go to Salem? As a mascot, it makes sense only when attached to Plymouth. The Plymouth Rocks is a great name. The Salem Rocks? That makes no sense.)
My sports preview photo tour continued (and…um…ended) with tennis.
Hey, this is even more of an action shot than yesterday’s hurdle photo: she’s in the act of picking up the tennis balls!
I visited the CHS track during a practice to get a few photos for the Chelsea Standard’s track & field preview. As usual, that involved getting shots of seniors…
Hey, look, Coach K! It’s the seniors displaying a gesture made famous by those memorable Duke basketball teams from the early 1990s. OH WAIT. No they’re not.
…as well as a few action shots.
What? That’s an action shot. That’s what hurdles do.
Several days after the frigid opener against Dexter, Chelsea soccer faced Pinckney.
While most spring sports wait until after spring break to get into competition, soccer always has a game or two before spring break. Chelsea started with a game against Dexter on a day better suited for hockey than for soccer.
Unfortunately, midway through the first half a Chelsea athlete went down with an obviously painful injury.
It was a very physical game.
Did I mention it was cold? It was cold.
Apologies for the mangled timeline. Apparently I was so excited to get to 12 March that I forgot all about 11 March.
Fresh off an overtime win over Chelsea, Gabriel Richard faced Milan in the district final at Onsted.
When the crew at the scorers’ table tried to start the national anthem, they ran into a problem: it wouldn’t play. After a minute or so of frantic but fruitless efforts by the game crew, the crowd solved the problem by singing the anthem itself. It was a great moment.
(I thought about taking video of the crowd-powered anthem, but I decided to stick to my job and just shoot photos.)
Look! It’s Joakim Noah!
