By Curtis Dunlap

Avila vs. Baker

    The game against baker went exactly how any Avila/Baker fan thought it would: insults and near-fights. During the game the refs were being extremely unfair towards our players and sympathetic and more ton Bakers side. At one point a Baker player slid tackled Trent Nichol and no foul was called and when Trent had a clean slide tackle he got a yellow card. The fans started getting restless because that was not the first bad call. Many more bad calls were made and the fans just got angrier. Overall it was a loss for Avila. Despite the bad calls and loss the team played rather well Trent Nichol would have had a goal in the final seconds of the game but the ref decided to blow the whistle and call the game just as the ball entered the goal. 

   Fights almost broke out during some of the refs bad calls and at the end of the game a rather rude Baker parent (or grandparent) was cheering in the Avila fans section. She had been drinking and was belligerent. When asked to leave she used profanities and stated that she could yell whatever she wanted where ever she wanted to yell it from. In the end she left or was picked up by her family and left without any more trouble. The baker fans and women’s soccer team were also being obnoxious; then again they must have felt the same about Avila fans. During one of the fouls called on Avila, against Trent Nichol for his clean slide tackle, he was pushed from behind and at that all the fans in the front row jumped up and were ready to throw some fists. Luckily they were subdued, but they did not like it. None of the baker fans got up but the soccer players were also ready to fight. Had a fight broken out it would have been all out chaos.

 Overall it was a game of name calling, miscalls and foul play. Another loss for this seasons Avila men’s soccer team. next year they will be better so they say. Eventually it has to happen. every game played is a chance to get better, an opportunity to improve and set goals as a team: to make goals. They may not have won many games this year but they do have the highest GPA of the sports program several years running though. There’s always next year boys, I’ll be there to cheer you on as usual.