August 12-18

Not a lot going on over the last seven days, the usual lunch visits with Jenny were easily the highlight. This week they were on Wednesday and Friday, the Friday visit was particularly special because August 16 is Jenny's birthday. Jenny is a person of very modest tastes (much like me), she never asks for anything huge where gifts are concerned. She is an aficionado of country music, recently one of her favorite performers released his debut CD. It's only been out since the 6th, I found it at the mall on Monday and it was on sale so things could not have worked any better. Drove by McCaskey High School on Wednesday and saw the field hockey team practicing, a reminder that it's almost that time (the first football game is on August 30). On Sunday the Barnstormers returned home for the start of a seven-day homestand as the Bridgeport Bluefish visited. Over the last twenty days the Stormers have been at home for just three games, from here forward sixteen of the last twenty-six are on home turf. This game was actually the fourth of seven straight against Bridgeport, the clubs played three in Connecticut on Thursday through Saturday with the Barnstormers taking two of them. On this night on North Prince Street the trend continued as the Stormers took the early lead and won it going away 5-0. In the second inning Ryan Harvey and Travis Denker reached on base hits and scored on Gustavo Molina's two-run double. In the fourth Denker picked up his second safety of the game, Molina doubled his pleasure literally with another two-base hit to score Denker to make it 3-0. It stayed that way until the eighth when the ballclub added two insurance runs, one on an error and the other on a Kyle Russell sacrifice fly. Derrick Loop got the start and went six innings for the win, relief support came from Brian Grening, Ross Peeples, Brodie Downs and newcomer Justin Dowdy. The series continues through Wednesday, after an off-day on Thursday the York Revs come to town for the weekend. Take care, thanks for reading.