Since Lawrence Seabury Academy’s soccer team is about half the size of most of its opponents, the second half of many matches can be tough.

But with lightning in the area toward the end of halftime of the Seahawks’ match Friday against Eudora High, the second half was not even a factor.

The Seahawks opened their season with a 2-1 victory over the Cardinals at the Youth Sports Inc. fields.

“It felt kind of incomplete because we didn’t get to beat them and play the whole game,” Seabury freshman Peter Zemanski said. “I’d rather finish it out.”

Seabury athletic director and first-year soccer coach Bryan Clyne said the cancellation of the second half prevented his team from finishing what it had started toward the end of the first 40 minutes.

“I think the second half, especially after the rest we got at halftime, we really wanted to go out,” Clyne said. “We really felt like we were going to get four or five more goals in the second half.”

The Seahawks’ halftime confidence came from a first half that, potentially, could have yielded more than the two goals they scored.

Within four minutes, seniors Gary Gardner and Yoo Sung Cha missed wide-left on open looks at the goal. But Gardner scored the game’s first goal at the 19:03 mark on a feed from sophomore Aaron Chung.

Eudora responded four minutes later, when Logan Heartpense’s shot deflected off of Seabury goalkeeper Paul Bireta’s hands and was put back in by Erryn Kendall.

Bishop Seabury's Aaron Chung flies over Eudora High goalkeeper Steven Foster. Seabury beat EHS, 2-1, Friday at the Youth Sports Inc. fields.

Chung scored the game-winning goal for the Seahawks with 3:19 left in the first half.

The teams tried to wait out the approaching storms, but the game ultimately was called, forcing Eudora to wait for its rematch later in the season with Seabury.

Instead of seeing how far their physical limits can be pushed, the Seahawks will get a boost going into their next match Wednesday at the Barstow Invitational.

“The second half is always going to be tough for us, and we know that,” Clyne said. “We didn’t get to test ourselves with a second half. But when you’ve got confidence, you feel you can run a little faster and do a little more.”

The second game of the evening, between Lawrence and Manhattan, was postponed. Lawrence athletic director Ron Commons said Wednesday could be a possible make-up date, depending on field and official availability.

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