By Alan Snel
LVSportsBiz.com
A half-hour after the Las Vegas Lights FC soccer team beat Rio Grand Valley FC, 2-1, Saturday night, it was still 99 degrees in downtown Las Vegas at 10 p.m.
But the searing mid-summer heat, the visiting grasshoppers and a weird-looking duck that landed on the Cashman Field pitch before the game started could not keep away the Las Vegas soccer fans who filled up ol’ Cashman with announced attendance of 8,818 — just three days after the second-year United Soccer League team played a horrid game Wednesday when the Lights lost to Tacoma, 4-1. (Attendance did not include the grasshoppers.)
How did Lights owner Brett Lashbrook explain the big crowd amid the triple-digit temperatures when the USL game started at 7:30 p.m.?
“One (home) game in seven weeks,” Lashbrook observed.
Indeed, the last Lights game at Cashman was July 4. And the next home game is Aug. 24.
So if you wanted to see the Lights play between early July and late August, tonight was the sole chance to see the franchise in action.
Even if it was beastly hot.
The Lights have won seven games, lost eight and tied five, good for 13th place out of 18 teams in the USL’s Western Conference.
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