NATCHEZ — The Adams County Christian School girls soccer team showed up to play a game Monday, unknowing of who their opponent would be.

When someone from Delta Charter School pulled up, an ACCS soccer player hollered across the field to head coach Jimmy Allgood.

“Jimmy, you lied to us,” she said. “You didn’t say we were going to play Delta Charter.”

Allgood responded, “does it matter?” He then looked at seventh grader Halle Peterman and asked her the same.

“Buzzsaw, does it matter who we play today?”

“Nope,” she answered, as she shrugged her shoulders and ran to get a ball.

As a seventh grader, Halle wears many hats for the ACCS soccer team — midfielder, defender and the “buzzsaw.” She is the younger sister to senior Lindsey Peterman, and for the past couple of games, Allgood has devised a game plan using the siblings.

Because both sisters feature similar qualities, with stamina being their greatest component as players, Allgood chooses to start Lindsey as a defender guarding the ball, pestering opponents with constant pressure for 20 minutes. Then, Allgood moves Lindsey to mid or back defender and puts Halle in the midfield.

“Out of an 80-minute contest, (Halle) is averaging 60 minutes,” Allgood said. “Her main function is to guard the main striker. That seventh-grade roadrunner is amazing at running step for step with the other girl.”

Though Lindsey is the senior, Allgood’s Buzzsaw has five years of playing experience, starting as a second grader for the junior varsity team. Of course, as she’s grown and learned the game over the years, she’s put herself in a position to play with the varsity team, alongside her older sister.

“I never thought I would be able to play a sport with her,” Lindsey said. “It’s pretty interesting and nice.”

Despite the age difference, Lindsey and Halle are extremely close. While both spend time on the soccer field, most of their bonding time is spent in a car.

“She’s usually with me when I go to practices or games, because I always have to take her with me,” Lindsey said. “We always hang out that way, though.”

Lindsey first picked up a soccer ball in the sixth grade, when ACCS first ramped up its soccer program. Because friends encouraged her to join the team, Lindsey tried it out, enjoyed it and stuck with it, despite suffering from Iliotibial band syndrome, a common injury to the knee that is associated with running.

“My muscles are shorter than my bones, so if I do a lot, I have a possibility of tearing my ACL. Because of that, I decided to just stick to playing soccer instead of playing multiple sports,” Lindsey said.

When asked who was the better player of the two, younger sister was quick to declare her older sister as the superior soccer player.

“She’s older, she knows more, she’s better,” Halle said.

“I don’t know about that,” Lindsey responded graciously.

But if you ask Allgood, both sisters play a vital part for the Lady Rebels. Halle isn’t playing varsity minutes to produce a compelling human-interest story, Allgood declared. He plays both because the Peterman sisters give ACCS a great chance of winning each and every time they step onto the soccer field.

“I’m not that coach that’s going to play a seventh grader over an 11th grader because she’s a sister of a senior,” Allgood said. “She has earned the spot of being the buzzsaw on our team.”