Junior Varsity Field Hockey: Knights find meaning in loss to Owls

By Ben Spector
Winning After MidKnight

 

The Middletown High School Knights Junior Varsity Field Hockey team may not have won their game on Tuesday September 6^th against the Westminster High School Owls but for the Knights the game meant something much more important than a result.

It meant that the Knights season had officially started and that the Knights were a team for at least this year, which was a welcome relief considering around two weeks ago the idea of the Knights even being able to field a JV team was more of a pipe dream than anything.

When tryouts rolled around, one thing for the Knights was painfully obvious.

They were short on the number of players needed to have teams at both levels but if they didn’t have two teams than they would have one team that was painfully large which could have been a hindrance for the Varsity players to have to go through practices and share drills with that big of a group.

Thankfully, things for Middletown worked out for the better as some more players joined the team a little bit after the first practice date and with some maneuvering and work to get the logistics of how things were going to be done in order, Middletown was able to commit to officially fielding a JV team for the 2016-2017 campaign.

So, when the Knights took the field on the 6^th against the Owls, even though very few people knew about what had happened for the Knights to reach the point of having a team, among the few who knew about the situation there was relief.

There was a sense of excitement and a sense of hope.

The foundations of the Middletown High School Field Hockey program were still standing, maybe not as sturdy as they had been before but the bonds were still there and they looked better than ever.

There was a game to be played on the other side of the deeper meaning and even though the Knights lost it by a score of 2-0 to a talented Westminster Owls team the fact that the Knights with a large number of first year players kept the game that close is a big deal.

As we’ve mentioned in earlier articles the Owls are one of the top field hockey programs in the state so the 2-0 loss is actually a good result for the Knights, albeit not the one they were hoping for, considering how young their team is.

Regardless of the result, Middletown was just happy to see another day of JV field hockey.