August 21-22

Wednesday lunch with Jenny and her mother in Quarryville, in the evening I was back at the ballpark. After the come-from-ahead loss on Monday and a Tuesday night defeat the Stormers got back on the plus side with an 8-2 win. High Point scored single runs in the fifth and sixth innings, the Barnstormers scored singles in three different innings and blew it open with a five-spot in the fourth. Melvin Mercedes' RBI hit in the second gave the ballclub a 1-0 lead, in the big fourth Darian Sandford had a run-scoring single, Andrew Aplin picked up a ribbie on a bases-loaded walk and Destin Hood followed him with a three-run double to make it 6-0. The Stormers added on in the fifth when Anderson De La Rosa singled and touched home on an error, Devon Torrence's RBI hit in the seventh wrapped up the scoring. Nate Reed got the start and went five innings for the win, former St. Louis Cardinal property Pedro Echemendia and Logan Sawyer each worked two innings of relief. On Thursday evening we played night #7 of summer dek hockey amid an annoying light mist that starting falling about thirty minutes before 7:00 game time. The radar showed hit-and-miss rain all over the area, we were right on the northern tip of a system that was hitting the southern part of the county. I texted Jenny and she said it was very dark and thundering in Quarryville but at the rink we were lucky, the light mist was all we got and it was gone by 7:30. The games on this night were the last go-around for Blue vs Gold and Green vs Orange, the league concludes with games on the 27th and 29th. Saw on the Internet where the start of the Stormers game was delayed until almost 8:30, they must have been hit much harder there then we were at the rink even though the two facilities are only a mile-and-a-half apart. Goes to show how unpredictable the weather can be. Take care, thanks for reading.