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By BONNIE PRICE LOFTON
Rappahannock Newi Contributing
This week marked the first games . of the spring season of the Rappahannock Soccer League and of the Rappahannock County High School (RCHS) teams.
Rappahannock’s varsity soccer team chalked up a 2 to 0 victory for its opener at Warren County Tuesday night.
There were four official games played outside the county — the varsity game against Warren, one JV game against a Fauquier County high school team, and two U-8 games in Culpeper. Except for the varsity win the other games were losses. >■ Rappahannock’s two U-12 teams played each other and were evenly thatched, with a 3-2 final score.
Varsity players Mike Wolfe and Eddie Sauce led their team to victory over Warren, with Mike scoring what coach Kenny Rogers described as a ,Jvery pretty goal.” Eddie got the other goal on a penalty kick. Both goals came in the first half. “We didn’t make any other scores, but we sure tried real hard,” Coach Rogers said.
Goalie Jim Clark had a pretty easy time of it, according to Coach Rogers, as Warren County’s team only took 10 shots on goal. “We controlled the midfield, so they didn’t tyave any counters to what we were doing. It was a good win to start the season off.”
Were Rappahannock’s other coaches discouraged by the losses to putside teams? Not at all.
First of all, most of the losses weren’t wide.
"Second, they think Rappahannock is slowly building itself to be a power in soccer. They are pleased with the progress they have seen, and they are convinced that they will be around to see- Rappahannock hold its own against any opponent, even the one's from counties and schools that are twice or three times our size.
JV Coach Mark Pace pointed out that Liberty’s 4-0 victory over his team Monday afternoon might have looked like a “romp” to the casual observer, but in fact his team played admirably under the circumstances.
Here are the circumstances: JV at Rappahannock consists of 15 eighth graders and three tenth graders. In the absence of a girls’ soccer team at Rappahannock, five girls play on the JV team. Nobody was cut from the JV team during spring tryouts because there were barely enough bodies to fill Mr. Pace’s roster. ' Monday afternoon, these 18 youngsters faced a team from Liberty
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