September 15-16

It was raining on Thursday morning as I headed south to Quarryville for lunch with Jenny and Helen. This day was Helen's birthday, she is 74 years young. After lunch we went to the fairgrounds and walked around for a bit, the annual Solanco Fair started on Wednesday. The rains returned in the afternoon and the temperatures dropped sharply, I decided to forgo the ballgame and stay home. On Friday it was clear and dry, in the evening I was at Rossmere Stadium as the Lancaster Catholic Crusaders played their first home game. LCHS came in at 2-0 on the season, on this night they hosted McCaskey for the first time since 1988. Back then the schools were division-mates, in '89 Catholic came to JPM one final time before the series was discontinued. It lay dormant until 2010 when LCHS came to McCaskey and won 17-7. On this night JPM's defensive woes were on full display as the Crusaders won 56-28. It was 14-7 LCHS at the half, all hell broke loose in the third quarter as the teams combined to score seven touchdowns. All told the Crusaders scored five rushing TDs, three by Roman Clay and one each by Brandon Hollister and Carmelo Cruz. Sean Titus caught two TD passes from quarterback Andrew Dzurik, Charles Sweigert added a touchdown on an interception return. Josh Ransing and Jonathan Hulyo scored on the ground for JPM, Hulyo also threw for two TDs, both to Quashaun Davis. With the win the Crusaders move to 3-0 as they move into division play in Section III of the L-L League, in 2012 they'll move to Section I and once again become a divisional opponent for JPM. The Red Tornado drops to 0-3 and it's not difficult to pinpoint the problem. The club has scored an average of 29 points per game thus far, they have surrendered an average of 48 points. That's not good no matter where you play. JPM plays at home each of the next two weeks, my next game at LCHS is October 7th. Take care, thanks for reading.