Tuesday: Soccer
Chelsea defeated Stevensville Lakeshore. As is immediately obvious in the pictures, the game was played on a football field, which meant the football sidelines — very wide, very bright white lines about five feet inside the soccer boundaries — were immensely distracting (and the end zones didn’t really help, either). While I understand the practical necessity of a multi-use field, I don’t think soccer and football are a good mix: a football field is cluttered with lines and numbers (and now, with the growing popularity of artificial turf, midfield and end zone graphics) all over the place, while a soccer field is quiet and clean. Football on a soccer field would be fine, but soccer on a football field is just hard on the eyes.
So, to all the schools with dedicated soccer facilities: thank you.
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Saturday: Soccer
In a game moved from Friday due to a tornado watch, Chelsea’s season was ended by Portage Northern.
And, with the season coming to a close deep in the playoffs, I got the usual set of photos I’d rather not get.
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There was an English dude from Bury St. Edmunds who played soccer in the US for a short while. He said he liked playing on an (American) football field, because to know how far is was to the goal, all you had to do was look down. Kind of like golfers who use those distance-o-meter things.
And why are people crying if Chelsea won?
They beat Stevensville, but they lost to Portage Northern in what would be the state quarterfinals (except they call it a regional final). They had to win two more games to win a state title.