What happened over the weekend? AND what is the story with this weather?

A cold and wet weekend was with us here in Wake County. Fortunately, we got all the games in on Saturday although it was unseasonably cold and looked like we would get precipitation all day. Yesterday, was mainly a washout and the CASL scheduling staff will be working on rescheduling those games early this week and getting the information out about the make-up games as soon as possible!
The US Men's National Team garnered a good tie in front of 78,000+ in Giants Stadium against Argentina.  The US hung in there and came back to tie the game. Messi is unreal and he should be watched as often as possible as there is no one better now and maybe, when his career is done, he will be acclaimed as the greatest player of all time. The US, of course, had trained in town last Monday-Thursday in preparation for that game and the game tomorrow night in Nashville against Paraguay, which lost to Mexico on Saturday.
Some locals had big weekends. Zack Shilawski scored his first goal of the season for the New England Revolution in a 2-1 victory. Zack played for CASL, Cary HS and Wake Forest. This is his second year in the MLS. Chicago Fire captain, Logan Pause, played all 90 minutes in their game. Logan played for Durham Jordan, UNC and a couple of local soccer clubs including CASL. Will Hesmer was in goal for the Columbus Crew, Will is from Wilson and played at Wake Forest Univ. Rookie, and newly signed, Tyler Lassiter was one of the substitutes for the New York Red Bulls but did not see action. Tyler played for CASL, Wake Forest Rolesville HS and NC State.
Also, CASL's own Damon Nahas just returned from a week of being on the US National Team staff with the Under 15 Girls National Team Camp. Damon coaches a couple of teams for CASL including the 1994 CASL Spartan Elite Black team. Two members of that team, Claire Wagner and JoAnna Boyles were at the same camp but were with the Under 17 US National Team. Damon also runs Next Level Academy and Net Sports.
Let's hope Spring returns soon and let's all have a great week of soccer!
                                                                               Charlie Slagle