10 SportsUnion | AUGUST 2017
10 SportsUnion | AUGUST 2017
The game always seems to have extra meaning . Games against your rival are always intense . In this case the boys know each other pretty well . Some of them may play in the same club in the offhigh school
Soccer
It ’ s a game that is circled on the calendar every year . Games against your rival are never easy . They also say records don ’ t matter when two rivals get together .
By Matt Ondesko Managing Editor
season .
Off the field they are friends . One the field they don ’ t like each other .
Hamburg and Frontier have been going at it on the pitch for a very long time . This year , however , the stakes have been ratcheted up just a little bit . For the first time , the teams will be playing for a cup .
It ’ s more than bragging rights when Hamburg and Frontier take part in the first Southtowns Derby to be played Saturday , Spet . 16 at Frontier High School . Just the fact the game is being played at Frontier is a testament to where Rich Kozak has taken this team in his first couple years as varsity coach .
Normally , this game
Frontier , Hamburg to clash in Southtowns DerBy
would deb played on the turf at Hamburg High School . But , the Bulldogs will be traveling to their rival . Last year , Frontier game Hamburg a scare , before the Bulldogs were able to get a late goal to seal the win .
“ Most of the players on the pitch for the Derby match have been either playing with or against each other since they were 5 or 6 years old . Whether it was with the Hamburg Monarchs organization or Lake View soccer , these kids have developed together for a