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Only a week after being voted into the Delaney Conference the new Wakefield Country Day School fielded two teams in conference games with Word of Life School on Sept. 13.
The school that had been founed on the Huntly site 19 years ago by William and Pamela Lynn split in August leaving much doubt as to whether either school would have enough students to field teams.
President Dr. Alan Saunders of the Wakefield School that moved to Marshall had sent letters to conference members in late August notifying them that his school would be unable to field teams this year.
Jim Harris at the newly reorganized Wakefield Country Day School in Huntly, when questioned by league members indicated that his school would be able to take over the abandoned schedule of games.
On Sept. 5, Wakefield County Day School was unanimously voted into the Delaney Conference, which the Lynn’s school had been a charter member of in 1984.
Founded to honor the late Joe Delaney of the Kansas City Chiefs, who died trying to rescue the second of two drowning boys, the league is currently made up of 10 area, schools.
Leading Wakefield Country Day’s soccer team, formed only three days before, was Bobby Nelson of Front Royal, who was all-conference and voted to the first team in both soccer and basketball last year.
With the help of novice goalie Oliver Culley of Summit Point, W. Va., the fledgling team held its opponents, Word of Life, to a mere one point victory, finishing 4-3.
Coach Matt VanderWoude was pleasantly surprised by his young team’s strength, especially its four distaff players, Courtney and Laura Beeton, Debbie Logie, and Caroline Brandt.
“If they play well, they play,” Mr. VanderWoude commented on the choice of girls as starters.
Caroline Brandt joined the game late coming from the earlier finishing volleyball game that ran concurrently. Wakefield Country Day School’s novice team did not have the same luck on the volleyball court losing 3-0 to Word of Life.
However, Wakefield’s greenhorns enjoyed their first game and vowed to imitate their opponent’s serving prowess.
All observers commented that if the teams showed such promise after a mere three days practice, the season could be an exceptional one.
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