Shoes are key to telling Kasson-Mantorville soccer players apart
Dave Bahr can be
excused for looking at the ground frequently while he’s coaching the
Kasson-Mantorville boys soccer team.
It’s not that he’s concentrating on
the path of the ball, or that he is uncomfortable making eye contact with his
players.
Bahr is just making sure that he knows who he’s looking at.
It’s not easy to do, considering there are a full house of familiar
faces on Bahr’s K-M varsity team, the Pathoulas triplets over an identical pair
of ReMine’s.
“My secret is they all wear different shoes,” Bahr
explained. “Otherwise, I can’t tell the brothers apart. It’s confusing for our
opponents and for the coach (Bahr) as well.”
Bahr just pays attention to
the color-coding: Senior Ed ReMine wears silver shoes and his brother Sam wears
black; sophomore Joe Pathoulas sports white shoes, and his brothers Chris and
Nick wear orange and blue, respectively.
“We didn’t get different
colored shoes so Coach Bahr could tell us apart; those were just the shoes we
all liked,” Chris Pathoulas said. “But if it helps our coach, that’s a bonus.”
Bahr has been decoding the 6-foot-tall ReMine brothers for three
seasons, after bringing them up to the varsity as sophomores in his first year
as coach at K-M.
Ed, an attacker, was the second-leading scorer last
season and Sam started at defender for a KoMets team that posted a sturdy 11-4-2
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losses by one goal.
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same size to me.”
Nick Pathoulas was brought up to varsity as an
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safe neighbourhood, Joe joined him for the section tournament that season, and
Chris came up last year as a freshman.
Now, Joe is an assistant captain
and Nick also starts, while Chris gets lot of playing time as a reserve. The
Pathoulas brothers are all about 5-foot-6 and slightly built, still growing into
their teen-age bodies.
The ReMine brothers and the Pathoulas brothers
all agreed that having an identical sibling or two is fun and, at times,
frustrating.
“I’d say it’s a mixture of all of it,” Ed Remine said. “We
get to play a lot of tricks on friends and family. But sometimes I get annoyed
when people come up and ask us if we’re twins, as if it’s not obvious. We like
to tell people ‘no’ sometimes, just to see their reaction and if they believe
it.”
Sam ReMine said that he and Ed are “just normal brothers” who do
most of the same things, including playing basketball in the winter and track in
the spring. They are both National Honor Society students and Knowledge Bowl
participants.
“We’ve been looking at different colleges, but we’re
probably going to go to the same school,” Sam said, noting they haven’t decided
yet.
The Pathoulas triplets also describe a close-knit sibling
relationship while growing up.
“It has always been very fun to have a
lot of kids to play with in our house, but there has also been a lot of
competition between us,” Chris offered.
“They tried to split us up a lot
early on (at school), but then we always wanted to be in the same classes,” Nick
explained.
“We have always played the same sports together, and on the
same team,” said Joe. All three play baseball, but oddly enough they aren’t
identical on the diamond: Chris is an outfielder who throws left-handed and bats
left-handed; Joe is an outfielder who throws left and bats right; and Nick is a
shortstop/pitcher who throws right and bats right.
“I believe we have
been pretty good friends as brothers go,” Nick said. “We will always stay
close.”
The Pathoulas triplets and the ReMine twins say that their
closest friends can distinguish them quickly. But as for telling each other
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“I think they’re
pretty hard to tell apart, except for the different shoes on the field,” Chris
Pathoulas said of the ReMine brothers.
“No, we can’t tell each other
apart,”Ed ReMine admitted. “If we see each other in the halls at school, they
will guess my name and will usually be wrong, and I’ll guess theirs and I’ll
usually be wrong.”