March 1-6

The first six days of March were largely uneventful, the only real activity of any note was Sunday afternoon soccer at the Arena. This was the final game of the Roar's inaugural season, the boys lost to Baltimore 18-2. Chris Williams scored the lone goal for the Roar as the team finishes its season at 1-19. As expected the club experienced growing pains typical of any expansion franchise, in twenty games the Roar scored 48 total goals while surrendering 178. Corey Maret was the team's leading scorer with 21 points (five two-point goals, three 3-pointers and two assists), veteran Peter Pappas and Reading native Scott Krotee were the club's goaltenders who despite the statistics performed remarkably well. Before the game the organization held its "play like the pros" program, members of a local youth soccer team scrimmaged for thirty minutes prior to the main warmup period. The Sunday weather forecast was not encouraging, it was very damp and dark in the morning. Jenny wanted to come to the game but the weather was supposed to deteriorate in the evening hours and she wasn't feeling well to begin with. She was disappointed because she wanted to participate in the autograph session after the game, I printed a team photo from the internet and had the guys sign it for her. The game started at 4:00, I looked outside around 3:30 and it was sleeting. It was still coming at halftime but when the game ended shortly after 6:00 it had stopped, the drive home was wet but no problem otherwise. There was a light dusting of snow overnight into Monday but it was apparently worse to the south, Jenny was supposed to come into town but her transportation called off. She made it in on Tuesday, we saw each other over the lunch hour. On Wednesday morning I was at the health campus for some blood work, on Thursday Jenny and I had lunch together in Quarryville. The weekend will be a busy one as the Royals are at home for a rare three-in-three. Take care, thanks for reading.