Just heard that the game between Dixie and St Henry was suspended due to darkness tonight. They have to go back tomorrow at 5:15 to finish the last three kickers in golden goal PKs.

A district tournament shouldn't have to end this way. Props to both goalies for stopping PK's in the dark. it's a shame you work all year and play games at a field with no lights. Next time they are up to host the other 3 schools should pay Villa the cut they would get from the door and hold it at other another school.:banana:

That's unfortunate.

A district tournament shouldn't have to end this way. Props to both goalies for stopping PK's in the dark. it's a shame you work all year and play games at a field with no lights. Next time they are up to host the other 3 schools should pay Villa the cut they would get from the door and hold it at other another school.:banana:

 

 

It is not about taking a cut, it is about having the opportunity to play on your home field once in your high school career. Villa is not the only school without lights in the state of Kentucky. If you look at the KHSAA website, it shows plenty of games that started at 5:00 because they do not have lights and NDA is one of them. Would you have been okay if Dixie had hosted the tournament all 4 years your daughter played?

I would have, but you probably knew that. :lol:

Oh, by the way, both keepers stopped 2 each in the first 5 kicks. Refs allowed the first kicker to start the second group of 5 before calling it. All 12 shots were on frame.

time to require lights to hold post season play. That is a crying shame that the tournaments have to be played out this way. If a school wants to host then they should put up lights. Just not fair to the kids.

To an earlier poster regarding home field advantage....The 37th district holds all their basketball games at CC and I have to tell you that its not really unfair. The atmosphere is excellent as all teams have great representation. Its not like college where you control ticket allocations for your home games.

What a complete disaster. The way his was handled by Villa is embarrassing.

It is extremely sad the negativity with which this and the earlier Villa vs Dixie post have been addressed. Rather than criticizing a field with no lights and calling out the school as a total embarrassment, or arguing about the dilemma public schools face with mandatory bus service, this thread should have heavily complimented 3 excellent schools, their soccer programs, players, coaches, and athletic directors for 2 incredible post-season games.

 

These are the match-ups you dream of as a fan.....cheering for your team/players until the very last second, soaking in every play and memorable moment.....holding your breath at times, until that final whistle!

 

The unpredictable happened over the course of two nights.

No one is to blame......instead we should be congratulating the teams for their impressive performance.

Tied after regulation and double overtime, sending the games into PK's - Wow!

 

If mother nature intervened and a game was postponed just before PKs due to lightning or severe/dangerous weather, would we blame the hosting school for not preparing, calling their effort embarrassing?

 

Not every field, gym, or facility is the same, but each school has the right and priviledge to host according to their District rotation. Villa took great pride in their opportunity to host a District soccer tournament. The field condition was excellent - a project that the coaches, players and parents together have spent many hours working on. The only thing missing to avoid any complications - lights - not that the Villa athletes and parents wouldn't love to have them, but there are underlying restrictions.

 

There were several comments within the BGP girls soccer forum, specifically the above mentioned threads, about players bashing other schools on social media, and how shocking and inappropriate this was! Really! Seems to me the girls are learning it first hand with posts like this which blatantly scrutinize schools with extreme negativity, attempting to place blame or accountability over uncontrollable circumstances.

 

In a District where the caliber of play and degree of skill on the field was so equally matched, sending game determination into PKs, I am baffled that the most important thing to discuss was Villa's field not having lights.

 

What a shame that the players from those 3 teams did not get the same amount of recognition on BGP as Villa's lack of lights. Maybe tomorrow we will see a player affirming post giving kudos to the District Champs.

 

One final thought, for all those that don't comprehend the camaraderie, spirit and pride in hosting on one's school campus, and continue to comment about the gate and admissions, IMO a neutral facility (with all the requirements of a "perfect field") is only fair and viable if required to be consistenly used year after year, by every hosting school. Just because one school does not have field lights (but meets KHSAA guidelines for a District field), is everyone willing to sacrifice their home field and play at the same neutral facility? I don't know the answer, just playing devils advocate since it was constantly suggested that Villa should rent a facility.

 

Best of luck tomorrow to the St. Henry and Dixie girls. No matter the outcome, I promise you the field circumstances and lack of lights will not be to blame for any disappointment. Hold your heads high for the level at which your team played throughout the District tournament. Be proud!

 

Good luck to the Villa coaches and athletic personnel as they continue their hosting effort. Hopefully, the majority of attention will be positively focused on the players and not directed negatively toward you or the facility. This spectator does not feel that you have anything to be embarrassed about.

I agree with you 'whatsbestforthegirls' only to a limited extent. In the case I cited for the 37th district, these venues are played at CC middle school each year because of the location, size etc... This was decided by each of the respective schools to avoid issues where people are turned away because they do not have enough seating at every other schools gymnasium. This is why most schools in basketball do not hosts Regional tournaments etc... They know they cannot seat the number of individuals that want to attend so they defer so the fans can enjoy the games.

This is where Villa and ever other school needs to recognize that my facility simply is not setup to host post season. These delayed games is very avoidable. I know exactly what time the sun sets and in this instance knowing if I have any delays we simply aren't going to be able to finish the most important game of the year for these kids.

That is my issue, these kids work way to hard to have their season or careers end because of an issue that could have been avoided.

When things like this pop up, it distracts from the kids and people focus on the elephant in the room instead of celebrating the kids, this can hopefully be avoided in the future.

I've said it for years on this forum. There will never be neutral sites for this until the schools swallow their pride and share the cost of rental evenly among themselves. That will never happen though because they don't want to have to share.

Again, organizers HAVE TO ASSUME that each game will go the full distance. It is a stretch to say that these events were unpredictable. So now Dixie has to play back-to-back games where they go home and have to come back for PK's. It wasn't a fluke thing, it happened twice and to the same team. I know that the 37th district, all games are either played at Scott or CC. Not sure if its because BBHS and Calvary's fields don't qualify or if it is because they dont have lights. Either way, it works nicely for all teams to sit in a decent venue and not have to worry if you can finish your game.

I myself don't blame Villa for the issues with this tournament. I blame the AD's who allowed it. I have nothing against the school or it's teams. Like an early post said if your facilities aren't capable of handling it just accept it or make changes so it can. I know what KHSAA says but just because it says you don't need lights doesn't make it right for the girls. We do care about the teams and that's why we are discussing it. To say we don't think the teams are playing great and we don't care is wrong.

As stated, Dixie is now on their fourth day of a two day tournament. How is that fair to them? And by the same token, St Henry is also having to come back and finish. Some will probably cry "well both teams have to do it so it's no big deal!!!" but it is a big deal. Both keepers and the upcoming kick takers probably didn't get much rest last night. They are in Golden Goal PK's. One round and it could all be over.

 

Why can't Villa rent portable lights for the tournament? Are they fine with their facility causing preventable inconveniences?

Probably because portable lights are loud, annoying, spew fumes everywhere and not all that useful unless you spring for the really nice ones. Hosting districts isn't supposed to be a money pit for a school. If everyone shares and rents a neutral site there is not problem. But asking my a school to spend money or share with another is like asking politicians to speak nothing but the truth.