With health, comes potential
Rash of injuries has Lumen soccer team looking toward hopeful playoff run By Mike Moore Staff Writer Jackson — The injury report has been a rotating carousel of names and diagnosis. And if he wasn’t front and center to witness it, Damon Havlicek may not believe its validity. But as the Lumen Christi girls soccer coach spoke Thursday night about his team, and about its continuous updating of who’s in and who’s out, he couldn’t help but force a laugh. “I’ve never had anything like this before,” he said. “I’ve had friends who coach who tell me stuff similar, I guess. But you never expect something like this to happen to you.” Since the season started, the Titans have lost three players for the entire year, three more have missed time with quadricep injuries, another with a hamstring issue and another with a hip flexor. “I’ve never pulled kids up from the junior varsity before during the season,” Havlicek said. “This year I had no choice.” In one of Lumen’s most recent games, Havlicek said he had two subs on the bench. The girls were 8-5-1 entering Friday’s tilt with Western. …
