Labor Day Weekend is approaching and that means Saint Ignatius' fall sports teams will be traveling around the area and, in the case of the freshmen football players and their coaches, to that other state known as Michigan.

Coach Mike McLaughlin's varsity soccer team, fresh off Sunday's 2-1 victory over Toledo St. John's in the Jesuit Cup championship game at Walsh Jesuit, will take a 4-0 record into Thursday night's matchup at Strongsville. The 7 p.m. varsity game will be preceded by a junior varsity match at 5 p.m.

The Wildcats, winners of a record five Division I boys state soccer championships, including the past two titles, will take a 21-match winning streak into Strongsville. With the victory over St. John's Jesuit, Coach McLaughlin's program has now won 49 of its past 50 matches.

Coach Chuck Kyle's varsity football team, coming off Saturday night's impressive 31-7, season-opening victory over Youngstown Cardinal Mooney (see the corner's story below), will face De La Salle High School from Warren, Michigan on Saturday at Parma's Byers Field. The kickoff will be 3 p.m. The Pilots (1-0) are led by one of the highest-rated quarterbacks in the nation in University of Michigan 5-Star recruit Shane Morris. The corner will preview the De La Salle game and also give you its Players of the Week from the Cardinal Mooney encounter on Wednesday of this coming week.

The JV football 'Cats will face De La Salle's jayvees on Saturday at Wasmer Field and the freshman football team, which opened its season with a memorable victory over Cardinal Mooney's freshmen (see story below), will board the buses and head to Warren, Michigan on Friday for an evening game against the Pilots' freshmen.

After opening its season with a victory at the GlenOak Invitational Meet on Saturday, and turning back Twinsburg and Solon in the process, Dr. Mike Gallagher's cross country team is gearing up for this Saturday's Avon Lake Early Bird Invitational at Lorain County Community College at 9 a.m.

Dr. Gallagher reports that the varsity A team competing at GlenOak was led by Jack Miller, who finished second overall in 16:22. Freshman Luke Wagner posted an impresssvie time of 16:48.

Coach Brian Becker's varsity golf team, which got its winning swing back this past week, will be competing over the Labor Day Weekend at the Archbishop Hoban Invitational in the Firestone Country Club.

Rounding the corner and tipping my new guard-against-the-sun floppy hat to Home Team Marketing and the Cleveland Browns for another outstanding job in hosting the Charity Game.