Squires Battle Culver In Sectional Championship

The Manchester Boys Varsity Soccer team saw their season come to an end with a 3-0 loss to Culver Academies in the Wabash Sectional Championship on Saturday night.

Manchester, unranked in the Indiana High School Soccer Coaches poll at the end of the season, faced Culver Academies, a team ranked #6 in 2a soccer in Indiana, in a game that might have been expected to be a lopsided affair, but the Squires held their own through the first twenty minutes of the game, before Culver scored a goal and then followed with two more in the next ten minutes.

The game settled in after that and Manchester threatened the goal several times, but could not get on the scoreboard, even though one shot by Tyler McLain appeared to cross the goal line before a Culver defender cleared it out.

In the second half, neither team gave up a goal, with Manchester goalkeeper Kolby Haecker making 21 saves in the game.

The Squires bid fairwell to the following senior players who were playing in their last high school game: Liam York (captain), Trevor Heath (captain), Kolby Haecker (captain), Jose Hernandez, Traceson Gearhart, and Michael Ortiz. Also playing their last game for the Squires were exchange students Tristian Schmid and Roberto Iaione.

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