The Parkview varsity girls’ soccer team won, 5-0, at Carthage Friday, getting two goals each from senior Kelsey Loderhose and freshman Emma Chilton. Parkview also earned an own goal in the first half after a dangerous cross played in by Chilton.
The JV team missed numerous chances and had to settle for a 0-0 draw.
The toughest challenge to face the team that day, however, may have been the ride home. Electing to start back home and eat dinner in Mount Vernon, the bus plodded along in usual fashion for almost 15 minutes. Out of nowhere at around 8:40 PM, a cloud of smoke and fumes seeped into the cabin, and the driver noted a sudden peak in engine temperature.
A radiator hose had ruptured, causing a loss of practically all of the bus’s coolant, and the driver had no choice but to pull off on the side of Interstate 44 (roughly at mile marker 82.8). The district bus barn immediately dispatched a driver to retreive and deliver a replacement bus, but that still meant the people on the broken bus would sit there until 11:35 PM, when the replacement finally arrived on the back of a tow truck.
Thank God for cell phones and well-behaved girls on the bus. What could have been torture turned into a fun, if forced, team bonding night.
The girls got home at 12:35 AM.
