August 30-31

Friday night football at McCaskey, the Red Tornado hosted York in the high school version of The War Of The Roses. It's no secret that the program at JPM is in disrepair and it will take time to recover, on this night it was all York from the proverbial word GO. The visitors led 26-0 at halftime and added on in the second half, when the game mercifully ended it was 61-0. It reminded me of my first year back at JPM in 1988, we went into the last week of the season at 9-0 and finished it with a 61-0 win over an outmatched opponent that was every bit as one-sided as this game was. JPM on this night had less than 100 yards of total offense including just six yards rushing, by contrast York compiled over 400 yards on "O". The boys play week #3 on the road, they are home for back-to-back dates on September 13 and 20. On Saturday Jenny and Helen came into town after lunch for the ballgame, the Barnstormers hosted the New Britain Bees. The clubs played a makeup doubleheader on Friday with the Stormers winning both ends, on this night they never led in a 5-3 loss. The game was scoreless into the sixth where the Bees put four on the board, Caleb Gindl's solo home in the bottom half cut the deficit to 4-1. In the home seventh Melvin Mercedes (not known for the long ball) hit a two-run home run to make it 4-3 but a NB insurance run in the ninth ended the scoring, Nate Reed started for the Stormers and took the loss. Take care, thanks for reading.