There was no plan, no pre-game handshake or agreed-upon outcome.
Getting Steamboat Springs High School junior Ben James into Saturday’s varsity soccer game was something that’d lingered in the back of the mind of Sailors’ coach Rob Bohlmann and, even more so, his players, but there’d been no real discussions and there was certainly no consultation with Palisade, Steamboat’s opponent for a Saturday morning clash.
The idea was to get him onto the field if an appropriate situation arose, and with Steamboat cruising toward the end of the game Saturday with a 10-1 lead, that situation presented itself.