Ryle wins 2-0

Mustangs drop to 0-6 on the season - Ouch!!!!

0-0 at half. Ryle put 2 on the board fairly quickly to start the second half and then the refs delayed the game due to heat lightning and it was never finished. 'Stangs look to get into the W column against Holy Cross on Thursday, Paris on Saturday and Beechwood next Tuesday.

Looks like the recruitment of all the good soccer athletes by the football coach is really starting to take its toll on the Brossart soccer program.

Looks like the recruitment of all the good soccer athletes by the football coach is really starting to take its toll on the Brossart soccer program.

 

Its a young team with 11 soph's and 6 upper classmen. Not too many 1A schools have both football and soccer, so I guess it does take a "genius" on your part to figure out one sport or the other can have trying years. Good luck to your program this year, I am praying for them.

Brossart has scored in each 80-minute match it has played and lost 3 games by just 1 goal. A respite in the schedule gives them a chance to put a couple W on the board and improve morale. Good luck Mustangs... persevere!

the refs delayed the game due to heat lightning and it was never finished.

 

There's no such thing as heat lightning. There is either lightning, or no lightning. Lightning from a storm that is so far away that you don't hear the thunder should not stop play - the storm can be 60-100 miles away. Refs need to be better educated on this. Here's a quick tutorial...Heat lightning: A Sterling example of the fake phenomenon - The Washington Post

There's no such thing as heat lightning. There is either lightning, or no lightning. Lightning from a storm that is so far away that you don't hear the thunder should not stop play - the storm can be 60-100 miles away. Refs need to be better educated on this. Here's a quick tutorial...Heat lightning: A Sterling example of the fake phenomenon - The Washington Post

I agree with you brotha....it was flashing orange in the same spot 300 light years away. I guess its better to be safe than sorry. What I really think was occurring was, the refs were Ryle graduates and trying to put an abrupt end to the furious comeback the 'Stangs were about to administer.

So with the complaints we have about the ref's making judgement calls that happen on the pitch in front of them, we now want them to make decision whether the lightning they see if far enough away to keep playing?

 

Lightning is lightning. Stop play.

There's no such thing as heat lightning. There is either lightning, or no lightning. Lightning from a storm that is so far away that you don't hear the thunder should not stop play - the storm can be 60-100 miles away. Refs need to be better educated on this. Here's a quick tutorial...Heat lightning: A Sterling example of the fake phenomenon - The Washington Post

 

This comment comes from the meteorologic gallery which, for those who didn't know, sits adjacent to the peanut gallery.

So with the complaints we have about the ref's making judgement calls that happen on the pitch in front of them, we now want them to make decision whether the lightning they see if far enough away to keep playing?

 

Lightning is lightning. Stop play.

 

But not all lightning you see is a threat. Did you read the link? A storm 60 miles away that is moving away from you is not a threat, but on a soccer field with a wide-open field of view at night, the lightning would clearly be visible. And if you can't hear the thunder, then you know it's really far away.

 

I would ask for some common sense.. everyone has a phone...look at the radar. It's pretty obvious when a storm is moving in... which wasn't the case last night. The sky was clear, no rain, no wind, no thunder - play on.

and we are all taught the 30/30 rule...if there's thunder within 30 seconds of the lightning, that's a threat and play is halted...and then can't resume until 30 minutes after the last thunder.

 

using that rule, last night when you saw a flash, count to 30...there was no thunder within 30 seconds (or at all), so the storm was not a threat and play should have continued.

But not all lightning you see is a threat. Did you read the link? A storm 60 miles away that is moving away from you is not a threat, but on a soccer field with a wide-open field of view at night, the lightning would clearly be visible. And if you can't hear the thunder, then you know it's really far away.

 

I would ask for some common sense.. everyone has a phone...look at the radar. It's pretty obvious when a storm is moving in... which wasn't the case last night. The sky was clear, no rain, no wind, no thunder - play on.

 

You see or hear it you stop. Doing anything else is tempting fate and well being. This isn't the pros it's High school. Get over it.

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You see or hear it you stop. Doing anything else is tempting fate and well being. This isn't the pros it's High school. Get over it.

 

This !

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Guess the other local games didn't see the make believe lightening. Games were played at Villa, Cooper, Conner, Dixie, St Henry... Someone paid off the refs it seems ha!

The match at Conner was stopped at the half.

 

You could see the lightning at Cooper, it was pointed out to the ref, somehow he was not able to see it himself so they played on.