Adam Williamson, Kyle Evans and Mike Moussaw open with the Barons - on Mother's Day!
Williamson, Evans and Moussaw open with Barons
Sun., May 11: The Ocean City Barons Soccer team opens its season at Carey Stadium, 6th St. off Boardwalk, when they host the Newark Ironbound in a United Soccer League game starting 7:30 p.m. Tickets available at gate, Adults $6, Youth $4. Call
609-525-9999.
Great news for local soccer fans and my colleague Tom Williams wrote a great piece about this in the Ocean City Gazette this week - www.oceancitygazette.com, page 32.
I had to laugh when I realized that the season opens on Mother's Day, it reminded me of our traveling soccer days. You have to be proud of all three of these local boys, but I have a special place in my heart for Adam Williamson because his mother, Marlene remains a dear friend and his father, Ross was my son's soccer coach for five years, and he was as great a coach, and as wonderful a man, as they come. He led by example and he and Marlene did a terrific job raising Adam. Little sister Kelly was a year old when the boys started playing, and she did a great job of helping to entertain, and corral, my younger son Joe who was a "terrible two" at the time. She also kept my then five year old daughter happy.
How terrific is it that Adam is back in his hometown opening with the Barons? Adam was drafted in the third round of the MLS Supplemental Draft by the New England Revolution and then signed with the Wilmington Hammerheads. Long story short, Adam is going to take a job offered to him when he graduated from Lehigh University two years ago, at accounting firm KPMG beginning in the fall. He is also going to pursue a masters degree.
So for the summer, he's getting his fill of soccer with the Baron's and I think that's wonderful.
What's funny about Mother's Day is a game we played on Mother's Day when the boys were about 14 years old. It was a make-up game, necessitated by a huge snowfall in March of that year.
A large contingency of the team ended up at the McDonald's on the Berlin Circle for of all things, Mother's Day dinner. The boys were starving, the younger siblings tagging along for the ride were starving and it sure beat cooking. Marlene and Ross went on home, but the Mother's Day game was one for the record books. No one was happy but we had a nice day of friendship.
I wish for the Williamson's and the families of the other Ocean City boys a day of fun and friendship. What could be better than a soccer game by the beach on Mother's Day?
Sun., May 11: The Ocean City Barons Soccer team opens its season at Carey Stadium, 6th St. off Boardwalk, when they host the Newark Ironbound in a United Soccer League game starting 7:30 p.m. Tickets available at gate, Adults $6, Youth $4. Call
609-525-9999.
Great news for local soccer fans and my colleague Tom Williams wrote a great piece about this in the Ocean City Gazette this week - www.oceancitygazette.com, page 32.
I had to laugh when I realized that the season opens on Mother's Day, it reminded me of our traveling soccer days. You have to be proud of all three of these local boys, but I have a special place in my heart for Adam Williamson because his mother, Marlene remains a dear friend and his father, Ross was my son's soccer coach for five years, and he was as great a coach, and as wonderful a man, as they come. He led by example and he and Marlene did a terrific job raising Adam. Little sister Kelly was a year old when the boys started playing, and she did a great job of helping to entertain, and corral, my younger son Joe who was a "terrible two" at the time. She also kept my then five year old daughter happy.
How terrific is it that Adam is back in his hometown opening with the Barons? Adam was drafted in the third round of the MLS Supplemental Draft by the New England Revolution and then signed with the Wilmington Hammerheads. Long story short, Adam is going to take a job offered to him when he graduated from Lehigh University two years ago, at accounting firm KPMG beginning in the fall. He is also going to pursue a masters degree.
So for the summer, he's getting his fill of soccer with the Baron's and I think that's wonderful.
What's funny about Mother's Day is a game we played on Mother's Day when the boys were about 14 years old. It was a make-up game, necessitated by a huge snowfall in March of that year.
A large contingency of the team ended up at the McDonald's on the Berlin Circle for of all things, Mother's Day dinner. The boys were starving, the younger siblings tagging along for the ride were starving and it sure beat cooking. Marlene and Ross went on home, but the Mother's Day game was one for the record books. No one was happy but we had a nice day of friendship.
I wish for the Williamson's and the families of the other Ocean City boys a day of fun and friendship. What could be better than a soccer game by the beach on Mother's Day?
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