Michael Kitchen's Blog, page 13
February 1, 2018
May 14, 2017: at Michigan Stars FC (NPSL Regular Season)
May 14, 2017
Hurley Field, Berkley, MI
NPSL Regular Season Match
Michigan Stars FC 2, DCFC 2
DCFC David Edwardson (Derrick Otim) 5′
DCFC Adam Spinks (Cyrus Saydee) 30′
Stars Austin Ricci 60′
Stars Kyle Thompson (Nash Popovic) 90+’
Hurley Field in Berkley has been home to four pre-season friendlies for Detroit City FC the previous three seasons [wins over Saginaw Valley State University (2014) and Muskegon Risers (2016), a draw vs Saginaw Valley State University (2015), and a loss to the Michigan State Spartans (2015)].
We’ve also entered this stadium as visitors in the inaugural NPSL match of FC Sparta Michigan/Michigan Stars/Michigan Stars FC (a 5-1 thumping). After a season here, then a season in Dearborn, and two seasons in Pontiac, the Stars returned to Hurley, and we were planning on making ourselves at home in their house once more.
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Five minutes in, the potential for another thrashing of the Stars arrived when David Edwardson beat the Stars’ keeper, Antyhony Mwembia.
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At the 30th minute, Adam Spinks doubled City’s lead. When the half-time whistle blew, Le Rouge led 2-0.
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In the second half, the Stars’ Austin Ricci scored in the 60th minute, giving the Detroit City faithful pause, hoping that it wasn’t deja vu all over again. A sigh of relief came when City was awarded a penalty kick in the 85th minute. It was short-lived as Mwembia made the save, keeping the Stars in the match. Last minute heroics by Kyle Thompson leveled the score.
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Two matches. Two draws. Three leads conceded. An ominous opening weekend.
January 27, 2018
May 12, 2017: vs Milwaukee Torrent (NPSL Regular Season).
May 12, 2017
Keyworth Stadium, Hamtramck, MI
NPSL Regular Season match.
Detroit City FC 3, Milwaukee Torrent 3
Attendance: 5,041
DCFC Cyrus Saydee (Roddy Green) 40′
Milwaukee Declan Rodriguez (Stuart Grable) 49′
DCFC Jeff Adkins 58′
Milwaukee Mark Hutchison 60′
Milwaukee Nemanja Medic 68′
DCFC Max Todd 90+6′
Five years ago, Detroit City FC played its first NPSL regular season match before 1,072 fans at Cass Tech High School Stadium. The unexpected growth since that one-one draw comes with higher expectations. Last season’s drop in the standings, and the rumblings of billionaires seeking a Major League Soccer franchise, this was the opening match of an important season. It produced excitement and concern.
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At the 40th minute, Cyrus Saydee scored, taking us into half time with a 1-0 lead.
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Milwaukee’s Declan Rodriguez scored in the 49th minute to even the match. Nine minutes later, Jeff Adkins curled the ball into the net with this beautiful corner kick, to retake the lead.
It took only ten minutes to not only erase the lead, but put DCFC behind. Mark Hutchison scored two minutes after the Adkins goal on a defensive lapse after the goal, then Nemanja Medic sailed a shot from outside the box that dropped in the far corner at the 68th minute.
As the half continued, there was a buzz in the air. Could City come back? Behind me I heard the conversation of two guys – one of them attending their first match. As City struggled, I heard the new guy ask, “Do these guys always lose?” Prior to tonight, we’d only lost one match at Keyworth. But we’d only recorded two wins and three draws. It took final second heroics by Max Todd to recover a point out of this match.
With a full moon beginning to wane, there was immediate jubilation, and a hope that last season’s funk would wane with it.
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January 23, 2018
May 6, 2017: vs Dayton Dynamo (Friendly)
May 6, 2017
Keyworth Stadium, Hamtramck, MI
Pre-Season Friendly
Detroit City FC 2, Dayton Dynamo 2
Attendance: 4,168
DCFC Peyton Mowery Own Goal 18′
DCFC Cyrus Saydee (David Edwardson) 56′
Dayton Tristan Lyle (Tate Robertson) 57′
Dayton Tristan Lyle (Tate Robertson) 65′
An overcast and chilly evening to open Keyworth Stadium in 2017. Dayton, no longer in our division, provided a good challenge leading into the season. They exposed our fear that last year’s weakness still existed – leaking goals after achieving a lead. Dayton’s keeper, Ryan Holding, made a few key saves after they tied it, keeping the score level for the final twenty-five minutes of the match.
Personally, I felt off, too. First time I asked for a media pass was last year at the season-ending friendly against Windsor. And before this season, I inquired about one for the full season, and the honor was bestowed. Standing there with the other photographers and their massive equipment, I felt like my little Sony Cyber-Shot was an inadequate toy. Coupled with the overcast weather, it certainly wasn’t my best performance in shooting, either. After this match, I had to shrug it off and remember my approach: don’t worry about not having the camera to capture the shots I fantasize about, rather know which kinds of shots my camera can capture, and get them. Fortunately for me, video compliments when photographing fail.
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January 21, 2018
April 30, 2017 at Lawrence Tech (friendly)
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April 30, 2017
LTU Athletic Field, Southfield, MI
Pre-Season Friendly.
Lawrence Tech 0, Detroit City FC 2
DCFC Cyrus Saydee 22′
DCFC Roddy Green 65′
A radical change in temperature from our match two weeks ago in Saginaw. Cold, with a chilly rain. It didn’t dampen the spirits of those who turned out for another fun afternoon supporting the team. The Lawrence Tech Athletic Field held bleacher seating for about five-hundred, and we made ourselves at home.
City won the match on goals by Cyrus Saydee and Roddy Green.
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A portion of the proceeds from the match were donated to a member of the Lawrence Tech family – Sean English. English, a seventeen-year-old student at University of Detroit Jesuit, and Dr. Cynthia Ray of Henry Ford Hospital, had stopped on I-96 to assist motorists in a car crash. A car struck them both, resulting in the death of Dr. Ray and serious injuries to English.
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January 15, 2018
April 15, 2017: at Saginaw Valley State University (Friendly)
April 15, 2017
Pre-Season Friendly
Saginaw Valley State University 1, Detroit City FC 3
Braddock Field, University City, Michigan
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56′ Detroit City FC Jeff Adkins (PK)
82′ Saginaw Valley State University Alberto Gangutia (PK)
85′ Detroit City FC Tommy Catalano (Jeff Adkins)
Finally. The passing of autumn and winter leads to spring, and the first sighting of our team.
Many of us traveled, gathering at Stardust Lanes in Saginaw before the contest. The weather cooperated, as it appeared spring was going to be skipped. The sun blazed, and the temperature hit 82 degrees. And windy. I was glad I had last year’s sunscreen lotion still in the car.
It was a good tune-up for both the team and supporters. A promising result.
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October 21, 2017
October 21, 2017: Typing Assignment #11
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Joe Van Cleave’s eleventh typing assignment is a one-page Halloween story. “(W)e’ll be writing on the subject of Halloween. It could be from any angle: history, personal accounts, fiction, even anti-Halloween. Whatever.”
Anti-Halloween sounded interesting, but I thought it best not to put a downer on those who enjoy this holiday. Instead, I looked to last year. A writer’s group I’m in is about to hold its second Halloween party. Each of us are to craft a one-thousand word Halloween short story. A couple weeks ago, I wrapped up my rough draft for the party, but it is too long to fit on a one-pager. However, the story I wrote last year would work.
The protagonist of this story – Trevor Aldabra – is a character I have been working and developing for a few years now. He’s a lawyer who represents those on the other side of life. He came to me in a short story I submitted to the Michigan Bar Journal Short Story Contest (which earned the position of a finalist). Some day, I’ll have everything in place to develop a novel featuring him. In the meantime, I’ve been crafting stories, playing with this character. And this is one of them.
This story was typed on my 1951 Royal Quiet De Luxe. The pumpkin in the photo was painted by an inmate at the Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater, MI. I was there to visit a client, and in the prison’s lobby a number of prisoner-painted pumpkins were being sold to raise money for local food bank.
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For previous Typing Assignments, click the pumpkin below.
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October 15, 2017
October 15, 2017: Typing Assignment #10
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Joe Van Cleave’s blog has set Typing Assignment #10 as a one-page free-form. “Participants can write a one-pager on whatever they want.”
My initial thought was to kill two birds with one stone and write my Halloween story for the writers group I’m in. However, the story filled more than a single page.
For this assignment, I decided on a re-run. I participated in a Made in Michigan Festival in downtown Mount Clemens. I took a few copies of my novel to sell – I am a writer that was Made in Michigan – and set up at a table as a guest of Paperback Writer Books/Weirdsville Records for a few hours on Friday, May 6, 2016. Instead of just sitting there, watching the people go by, I decided to try something different. I had recently read Richard Polt’s The Typewriter Revolution, and there was a section on a poet who typed poems spontaneously for people. I’m neither poetic nor spontaneous, so I considered a different approach. I would just type while there, taking in the sights and sounds and banging them out on the keys.
Below is the page I typed that day on my 1951 Royal Quiet De Luxe.
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Other Typing Assignments can be found HERE
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September 24, 2017
September 24, 2017: Typing Assignment #9
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Yes, this is Typing Assignment #9 for Joe Van Cleave’s blog. I did skip TA#8 due to busyness and just wasn’t moved by the prompt.
This assignment was to write a one-page hypothetical story in the life of a real-life stranger that you periodically see. I did bend the rules a little on this one. I was in a weekly bowling league for a few years, and though I bowled on a team of senior citizens, we only knew very general things about each other. Early on, they knew I was a little different from them when I took offense to an off-color, Michelle Obama joke one of them made. So I put myself in the mind of one of them, and fictionalized this speculative analysis. It’s more a story about resistance and adjustment to change.
I typed this on my 1954 Olivetti Lettera 22, on one of the sheets of the Eaton’s corrasable onion skin paper from the box.
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Previous typing assignments and typewritten pages can be found HERE.
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August 27, 2017
August 27, 2017: Typing Assignment #7
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This assignment typed on my 196? Sears Forecast 12.
This typing assignment for Joe Van Cleave’s blog, takes us down another avenue of personal history by describing a time in the writer’s life when he/she achieved something significant, or overcame a major obstacle.
For this new assignment, you’ll dig into your life’s experience and find something significant that you achieved, or a major problem you overcame. Perhaps you might think you’ve never accomplished much, never tackled some significant feat that’s worthy of note. But to ourselves, in our internal life experience, many things loom large that might otherwise be seen as insignificant to others. Our job as writers is to communicate the magnitude of our internal experience to others in a way that they can appreciate; to enable them to enter into our personal experience.
There was only one obvious obstacle that knocked me on my ass and nearly tore me down that I had to write about. That damn Bar Exam.
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August 19, 2017
August 19, 2017: The Newbies
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This entry was typed on the 196? Sears Forecast 12.
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The 196X Sears Forecast 12 photos:
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