By: Alexandra Trahnstrom
On October 27th the Hopkinton varsity boy’s soccer team was scheduled to play a play off game against Mascoma. At the end of the first half the game was tied 0-0. Five minutes into the second half Mascoma scored the first goal of the game. About two minutes after the goal, the rain came down in buckets. Fans, players, and coaches were drenched. There were puddles on the field making it an unsafe playing area for both teams. The teams stopped playing for twenty minutes to see if the rain would clear.
After the twenty minutes the Hopkinton athletic director, Dan Meserve, announced that the game would be postponed until the next day. Meserve had called NHIAA asking if they could do so, and NHIAA officials okayed it. However, the next day NHIAA notified Hopkinton and Mascoma high schools that the game could not take place. Hopkinton High School restated the fact that it was already okayed, it turns out that the NHIAA official did not have the authority to say what he said. The game could not continue, and Hopkinton had to for fit to Mascoma.
“Clearly there were other options,” Coach Zipke said, according to the Concord Monitor. "Hopkinton has other fields that the game could’ve been moved to. They could’ve raked away the water or sprinkled dirt onto the field to make it playable. The school did not decide to do so because they were told that the game could continue the next day."
“It was hard for me, being a senior, to find out that we couldn’t become state champions for the fifth year in a row because of NHIAA,” Brian Scala stated. There were seven seniors on the boys Varsity soccer team that have worked hard through out the season. No one knows who would’ve won the game if it hadn’t been cancelled. The Mascoma team sympathized with Hopkinton; however they went up to the quarter finals.
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