May 1-2

The fifth month of the year began (somewhat appropriately) on a Monday, I made my usual visit to the mall for lunch. In the afternoon we were at McCaskey for baseball, the Red Tornado hosted Cedar Crest at 4:15. One of the CC coaches knows me from my baseball days in Berks County, he commented on how nice it is that I do the PA for these games. I told him that it's fun because at the high school level it's about the GAME and the extraneous nonsense so prevalent in other areas is nowhere to be found. JPM had a home game on April 24 that I missed because of ice hockey, they won that game and on this day they made it two straight on their home field. CC took an early 1-0 lead, in the second inning McCaskey scored two on walks issued to Michael Abrew and Radames Roubert and RBI hits by Caleb McFarland and Mason Lee. In the third Cedar Crest put three on the board to lead 4-2, that advantage held until the bottom of the sixth when the same part of the batting order came through again. Abrew was hit by the pitch, Roubert and McFarland followed with singles to load the bases. Lee's RBI hit scored Abrew, Roubert and McFarland came home on consecutive wild pitches to put JPM up 5-4. Noah Bergey pitched the final two innings preserving the lead and picking up the win in relief of starter Dylan Esh. The club has two home games left, they are both under the lights at 7:00 on Friday the 5th and Monday the 8th. The game ended shortly before 6:30, I immediately headed to the rink for the night's dek hockey schedule. Don was aware I would be late, he had things up and running right on time. These were the makeup games from April 25, winners included the Kings over the Misfits via shootout, the Riot over the Hammerheads, the UniLords over the Pub Dawgs and the Steamers over the Owls. On Tuesday we continued week #3 with the regularly-scheduled games, on this night the Hammerheads beat the Pub Dawgs, the UniLords defeated the Owls, the Steamers won over the Kings and the Misfits prevailed over the Riot. Take care, thanks for reading.