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By BONNIE PRICE LOFTON
RappahMWKk N*wi Coatributing Writer
The Clarke County varsity soccer players who went home with no goals to the Panthers’ five last Wednesday may have thought it was a bloodbath.
But the Panthers definitely treated it as a mudbath. They squished, slid and splashed their way to victory, laughing at some of the ridiculous plays the pouring rain created.
Like the straight shot that Eddie Sause had for a goal, only the ball stopped dead in the middle of a huge puddle.
Or the goal Mike Wolfe discovered after rising from a heap of arms and legs and finding that his ball had rolled in slow-motion past the prone goalkeeper and into the net. “I planned it that way,” he deadpanned.
By 10 minutes into the game, there wasn’t a white shirt on a Panther player. Everyone had gone down, sliding five or 10 feet along the ground on their bottoms or bellies.
Coach Kenny Rogers said that ordinarily a strong downpour is cause for rescheduling a game, but he and the visiting coach chose to play because there was no lightning and because the visiting team had come
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