Soccer team uses summer to help themselves, neighbors

While other sports are ending summer league play, the Highland Lakes Soccer League is just getting started.

Area high school programs are meeting each Thursday to play 7 versus 7 matches at the Burnet Middle School stadium at 7 p.m. The boys teams from Burnet, Lampasas and Marble Falls make up the league.

“The whole purpose of the league is to have them come to get touches,” Burnet boys soccer head coach and league co-director Benjamin Boorman said. “Soccer requires repetition and touches. The more you don’t touch a ball, the more it goes away.”