Delaney: More from Chittenango

It was a surreal scene at Chittenango High School on Tuesday for the East Syracuse-Minoa/Whitesboro boys soccer game. It was late-fall playoff soccer but the falling snow and wet leaves on the Chittenango track made for an odd scene - a pretty one with the snow hovering over the field but definitely strange.

 

While the snow was falling, boys were trying to play on a snow-covered field. A place in the Section III Class A finals was at stake. The evening was not unbearably cold and it wasn't windy. The snowflakes were big and wet and hindered visibility from one end of the field to the other. It didn't help the teams' were playing with a white ball.

 

Section III boys soccer chairman Charlie Engle and Chittenengo High School personnel shoveled snow off the lines on the field throughout the game. The first thing I thought about was the National Football League Snowplow game. During a snowy December 1982 game between the Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots in Foxborough, Mass., then-Patriots coach Ron Meyer brought a stadium snowplow driver onto the field to clear a patch of snow for a field goal attempt.  John Smith made the kick and the Patriots won, 3-0.

 

There was just one score in Tuesday's soccer game. ES-M's Adam Rowell scored a first-half goal in a 1-0 win.