March 9-13

It warmed up considerably in the early part of the week, temperatures in the 40s and low 50s melted down a lot of the dirty white stuff. Had lunch with Jenny and her mother on Wednesday, in the evening we made the trip to New Holland for the game against Methacton. The word on our opponent was that they had some size and could shoot but they were not especially athletic. We fell behind 11-0 (on three three-point goals and a jump shot) in the first three minutes, at the quarter we trailed by eight. In the second period the club found its footing and shaved five points off the deficit, at the half we were down 33-30. In the second half it was an entire different game, Methacton's shooting cooled off drastically and fatigue became a definite factor as we outscored them by sixteen and won 65-52. Kobe Gantz had a monster night with 32 (matching his season high), La'Detrius Sibley had 12 and Randolph Speller added 10 (should mention that Ran pumped in 35 in the first-round victory over Abington). The win is the team's twenty-second against ten losses and puts us into the state quarterfinals on Saturday the 14th. On Thursday morning we learned that the game is at Spring-Ford HS in Royersford at 3:00 on Saturday afternoon. Royerford is just off route 422 about 25 miles east-southeast of Reading and since the Royals are at home that night I am going to drive on my own instead of riding the bus. The ladies and I will do lunch as usual, from there they'll travel with me and make the day of it as well. I missed the first-round game because the travel was prohibitive but this trip is doable, I was hoping the game would be a little closer to home and earlier in the day but it could have been much worse. The basketball game should be over by 4:15 (certainly by 4:30), we'll head straight over to Reading from there for the 7:05 game at the Arena. Take care, thanks for reading.