By Nick Brockman, Messenger Sports Reporter nbrockman@the-messenger.com
As the high school soccer season draws closer, the girls squads from Hopkins County Central and Madisonville-North Hopkins will get one more opportunity to scrimmage live competition today at the Lady Storm Jamboree.
The official season opens Aug. 17, but eight schools will gather today at Central for one final tune-up and evaluation.
"It's kind of a fun way to put your team against different levels of competition and see how they do against them," Central coach Susan Phelps said.
"It's fun for the kids particularly during this time of the year when you're trying to see how well they do in scrimmage and what types of things you need to address."
Unlike the regular season, each game will be 40 minutes or one-half of a typical contest. Junior varsity teams will play 30 minutes. Using that format allows each team to face off against more opponents. Central will battle Christian County, Lyon County, Todd County Central and Webster County. The Lady Maroons will play Christian and Lyon.
"We're just ready to play another opponent and see what we can learn about ourselves," North coach John Tichenor said.
Tichenor said fitness has been one dimension his crew has worked on throughout the summer.
The official season opens Aug. 17, but eight schools will gather today at Central for one final tune-up and evaluation.
"It's kind of a fun way to put your team against different levels of competition and see how they do against them," Central coach Susan Phelps said.
"It's fun for the kids particularly during this time of the year when you're trying to see how well they do in scrimmage and what types of things you need to address."
Unlike the regular season, each game will be 40 minutes or one-half of a typical contest. Junior varsity teams will play 30 minutes. Using that format allows each team to face off against more opponents. Central will battle Christian County, Lyon County, Todd County Central and Webster County. The Lady Maroons will play Christian and Lyon.
"We're just ready to play another opponent and see what we can learn about ourselves," North coach John Tichenor said.
Tichenor said fitness has been one dimension his crew has worked on throughout the summer.
"We're in much better shape than we were two weeks ago as a team," he said. "We try to get fitter each and every practice as we train."
Competition won't be limited to school against school either, Tichenor said.
"Even though they're competing against other teams, in a lot of respect, they're competing against each other because they're vying for positions," he said of the Lady Maroons.
Phelps said it's still nice to have a somewhat lax atmosphere, which allows the coaches to employ different strategies.
"Although it's competitive, it's still a scrimmage, so we'll be looking to put kids in different positions and see how well they do," she said. "We'll probably use a couple different formations to see how well they play.
"There's lot of things we haven't decided and since it's not a tournament format like the Bluegrass Games, we get to play around a little bit with the players and figure some things out."
Other schools expected to attend include Union County and the Dawson Springs JV team.
Today's first game will start at 8 a.m. and the last scheduled matchup is set for 6 p.m.
Competition won't be limited to school against school either, Tichenor said.
"Even though they're competing against other teams, in a lot of respect, they're competing against each other because they're vying for positions," he said of the Lady Maroons.
Phelps said it's still nice to have a somewhat lax atmosphere, which allows the coaches to employ different strategies.
"Although it's competitive, it's still a scrimmage, so we'll be looking to put kids in different positions and see how well they do," she said. "We'll probably use a couple different formations to see how well they play.
"There's lot of things we haven't decided and since it's not a tournament format like the Bluegrass Games, we get to play around a little bit with the players and figure some things out."
Other schools expected to attend include Union County and the Dawson Springs JV team.
Today's first game will start at 8 a.m. and the last scheduled matchup is set for 6 p.m.
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