Soccer-playing grads from the two towns are forging a turkey day tradition of their own.

Clocker and Hiller alumni will meet at Ashland Middle School tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. for their second annual Thanksgiving match.

Organizers hope to rival last year's turnout of more than 100 spectators and start putting proceeds from admission fees toward a new scholarship and summer soccer camps for local teens.

It won't be any old pickup game. Recent Ashland grads organizing the match said it will be officially refereed and they had jerseys printed up for their team, which includes more than 20 players.

Organizers have talked up the match on Facebook, a social networking Web site, in hopes of getting a good crowd in the bleachers, Walsh said.

"We're trying to make it a tradition," he said. "We're all at college ... This is like a new reason to come home during Thanksgiving and see everyone."