October 11-13

Friday night at the stadium at McCaskey but not for football, on this night it was the girls soccer team's turn for Senior Night activities. This was a varsity-only event that started at 6:30, the pregame recognition was unfortunately the high point of the night as JPM lost the game 2-0. On Saturday morning I was on the road early, the destination was northeastern Berks County into the Land Of The Golden Bear AKA Kutztown University. Kutztown is about fifteen miles or so northeast of Reading, the university was established in 1866 and many years ago their sports information director at that time worked with us in pro baseball in Reading as an official scorer. Every year there would be one football game the regular PA guy couldn't do and he would ask me to sub in. I hadn't worked at KU since 2009 (the SID moved on shortly thereafter), the current SID is a Berks County guy who knows me as well. He used to be in the athletic department at Elizabethtown College, in 2015 I worked a baseball doubleheader there at his request. Recently he contacted me about his need for an announcer on October 12 and 26, luckily I was available and glad to be able to help out. The Golden Bears play at the NCAA Division II level as members of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference, on this day they defeated visiting East Stroudsburg 35-13 before an enthusiastic crowd at Andre Reed Stadium (named for the KU alum who played pro football for many years with the Buffalo Bills). The game kicked off at 12:05 and ended shortly after 2:30, I was back in Lancaster shortly after 4:00. On Sunday Jenny and I made up for missing lunch on Saturday. Take care, thanks for reading.