With the arrival of the Winter season, soccer has just started for MHS. This season, the varsity boys soccer team got off to a good start with a record of 3 wins and 2 ties, according to varsity soccer team captain Rayner Graham. However, injuries have been detrimental to the team, with the varsity team already having three players injured, Graham said.
“Two injured during a game, one of them is still out but one of them is okay,” Graham said. “Of the three people who are out, one has a long-term injury so we do not know how long he will be out. One has something fractured in his hand and will be out for the rest of December and the last person has an injury that will last for a month or maybe longer, as something happened with his leg, but there was no confirmation of anything in the x-ray he received.”
But even with these injuries, the varsity soccer team has 17 players still available to play, so it wouldn’t interfere with their positive stat line, Graham said.
However, according to Rayner, the soccer season wasn’t looking this good compared to last year’s season. “It was in the middle of COVID, so the protocols we had to go through and the precautions that we took made it weird,” Graham said. “The coach was fairly new and the season went fairly poorly. We had a lot of close games that we could not pull through with a win, and some games got canceled due to covid, so we ended the season with one win, eight losses, one tie, and two games not played.”
So far this season, the team has played in two scrimmage games. The first scrimmage was a win against Mission San Jose with the team being dominant even without the full team and the second scrimmage was a tie against James Logan which went well, Graham said. The team had a commanding victory against Archbishop Reardon, winning 5-0, and tied against Evergreen.