With the passing of longtime Coach Jed Lacey in August, followed by the tragic passing of senior and team-leader Grace Sheer in February, two games into the season, questions surrounded this year’s Lady Tigers soccer team. Was the focus there? Would they even play? Those questions were emphatically answered time and time again, and while their season ended May1 with an 8-0 loss at Westminster in the second round of the playoffs, the postgame public-address announcement from a school 60 miles away, playing Dawson County for the first time, asking for a moment of silence in honor of Lacey and Sheer was a stark reminder of just how much heartache these 15 to 18-year-old girls have had to endure all season while still managing to play at a high-level without two of their leaders and friends.