For the second night in a row, Mother Nature decided to have an impact on the 8th District soccer tournament. A night after monsoon-like rains delayed the start of the girls’ semifinal matches and left the field a muddy mess, lightning prompted a stop in the 8th District boys’ championship match between Hopkinsville and University Heights.
Officials spotted lightning in the area just after 7pm with about 35 minutes left to go in the match. That prompted the officials to call for the 30-minute delay. When that thirty-minute period ended, the decision was made to come back Thursday evening and finish the match, with the Blazers holding a 3-1 lead.
The Blazers got on the board early when Ethan Hale came down the left side of the field and found the net at the 3:15 mark to give UHA the 1-0 lead.
Hopkinsville evened the match up at 1-1 when Will Knight buried a direct kick at 15:00.
Then came the momentum-swinging play of the first half. Hopkinsville missed a direct kick, with goalie Will Maxwell quickly getting the ball out of the box to Connor Dill. Dill took the ball the length of the field and scored coming in off the right-hand side to put UHA up 2-1 at 23:15.
The Blazers would extend the lead when Connor Dill found Preston Thomas on a run down the middle of the field and Thomas drilled the shot to move the lead out to 3-1, which was where the score would stand at the break.
Hopkinsville came out of the half and cranked up their attacking pressure, and got a couple of good looks in the first minutes of the second half, but could not find the net. Then came the lightning and the shutdown of the action on the field.
The boys’ title match will now resume at 5:30pm Thursday at the Stadium of Champions, with the girls’ championship match to follow.
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that would be a typo on my part………..doing too much at one time….it has been corrected
you are correct…….that was a reversal typo