The boys’ varsity soccer team played their first game on the new King Field turf in a scrimmage against West Chester East on August 22.

Being a scrimmage, it was played in four quarters, rather than halves like a normal soccer game.

Entering the fourth quarter, the Panthers had been in control of the entire scrimmage. 

“I’d say three quarters of it was pretty well rehearsed, but the last quarter of it was not as good,” senior Nico Taylor said. “We got scored on two times, we just got to work on that.”

New varsity athletes had some playing time, and their inexperience may have contributed to the loss.

“Me and some of the younger kids, we came into the game, and we played very well for the third quarter, but we messed up in the fourth quarter, gave up some goals,” freshman Halen O’Neill said. 

Some athletes appreciated the new turf field, which was approved by the school board last March and installed over the summer.

“It’s so much better,” O’Neill said. “The old turf was flat, and the ball really rolled.”