The second and last tournament of the spring arrives Saturday, the Canton Cup. We played here two years ago; those games are well documented and involved a lot of rain and mud. The forecast looks a lot better this year in terms of weather, but, the forecast for soccer looks gloomy.
Game 1: The Battle of Mid-Michigan at long last!
Yup, the big battle of Lansing area clubs is the first game on the docket, an 8:10 am kickoff. If you are curious, that means we will be on the road at 6 am.
And for a long time I would have made us a slight favorite in this game. But, while we have been playing down to our Division 2 competition this spring and seeing how many bad goals we can let in, the Chill has quietly just kept winning, against Division 1 competition, and playing good teams closer and better than we ever have. So I am not very hopeful of a good result here. The relative merits of each club at this point is a subject for another day.
Game 2: Canton Celtic Black
We have played these guys before, in the semi-finals of the Fall tournament. They killed us, 9-1. I am not very hopeful of a good result Saturday afternoon. I would be happy with a close and tough loss, especially knowing that we will be missing our best defenseman for this game and the next (he will be there for Game 1)
Game 3: Ann Arbor United
Probably our best chance at a ‘W’ this weekend; Chill has beaten them handily twice this spring.
