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See SOCCER on 49WILL KOWALSKI
Sports Editor/Asst. Editor
Although the local prep boys’ soc-
cer campaign for the Michigan High
School Athletic Association’s Fall
2024 season is just a week old, five
city schools will be in action during
this Friday’s (Aug. 23) annual All-
City Tournament that will take place
at Lakeview High.
Both Spartan Memorial Stadium
(turf) and the Spartans’ adjacent
soccer field (grass) will be used for
tourney play.
In Friday’s 3 p.m. first-round open-
er, Battle Creek Central will take on
Pennfield at 3 p.m. at the stadium.
A semifinal match between Harper
Creek and the Calhoun Christian
Co-Op (a co-op with St. Philip and
Climax-Scotts) then follows on the
grass field at 4:45 p.m; and another
semifinal – on the turf at 5 p.m. –
will featured the winner of the BCC
vs. Pennfield match taking on five-
time-defending champ and tourney
host Lakeview.
Once those contests are completed,
the championship game will take
place in the stadium at 7 p.m., with
Battle Creek Central junior Alexander Small (9) had a pair of goals in the
Bearcats’ season-opening home victory over the visiting Calhoun Christian
Co-Op squad last Friday. Also in the photo for BCC is junior Griffin Roberson
(10). In the photo for CC are Sawyer Bandeen (9) and Michael Miller (13).
(Shopper News photo by Will Kowalski)
All-City Boys’ Soccer
Tournament is Friday at LHS
the consolation match taking place
on the grass soccer field also at 7
p.m.
Not entered in Friday’s All-City
event this year (as of this past
Monday) is Battle Creek Academy –
which last season played in its first-
ever All-City tourney and wound up
playing in the title tilt vs. Lakeview.
That said ... Following is informa-
tion about a season-opening match
played last Friday (Aug. 16):
In a showdown between coach
Melchor Carillo’s host Battle
Creek Central unit and coach Mike
VanderBilt’s Calhoun Christian
Co-Op, BCC posted a 5-2 triumph.
With two goals each for the
Bearcats were senior Hangmang
Thang and junior Alexander Small;
with one goal was junior Taichi
Matsuura; and in the nets was junior
goalkeeper Joshua Shroll Jr.
Scoring both Cougar goals was
Johann Albarran-Aguilar; and in the
nets for CC was Andrew Belote.CITY OF SPRINGFIELD
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