With the winter sports season about to get underway, the Coal City community took time to recognize the achievement of one of its fall teams on Wednesday.

That is when a recognition night was held for the boys soccer team, a team coming off a season that ended with a 6-1 win in the third-place game of the IHSA Class 1A state tournament on Nov. 7, and was by basically every measure the best season in program history.

“It’s kind of weird to come down from all the excitement and everything, so tonight is just about celebrating these guys and the achievements that they had,” head coach Steve McCleary said. “We don’t want to just forget about it when it’s over, so to be able to have the community come in and be able to show off all the hardware these guys earned and all the good that they d

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