February 3-4

The new week began as most new weeks usually do, on Tuesday morning Jenny was in town for a medical appointment. She was getting some physical therapy on the knee that has been bothering her for some time, the access van brought her in from Quarryville and I took her home. In the evening we were at McCaskey for the regular season's league finale, Hempfield was the opponent. We did Senior Night activities before the varsity game (although we still have one home game left) as Irving Gonzalez, Carter Gingerich, Isaiah Thomas, Makai Ortiz-Gray and Elijah Terry were recognized as the Class of 2020. The JV squad lost by one point to finish its league slate at 11-2 (both losses to the same opponent), by comparison the varsity game seemed almost anticlimactic. Hempfield is historically one of the league's best programs, more often than not they are a force but this time around they have struggled. They lost a lot to graduation from their 2019 team, on this night they entered at 6-15 and were playing their last game. High school sports runs in cycles and it's a situation we can relate to given what our program has been through since 2016. We were ahead by eleven at the quarter and sixteen at the half, the lead was thirty-one entering the last quarter. Hempfield battled to the end (being the quality operation they are) and prevented the game from entering the mercy rule, the final score was 77-40. Freddy got twelve players into the game, eleven of them scored: Elijah Terry led with 22, Kevin Polite added eleven and Makai Ortiz-Gray hit double figures with ten. Irving Gonzalez scored eight points, Isaiah Thomas and Samir Gordon had six each and Da-vion Scarborough had five. Sam Hershey and Hasan Williams added three apiece, Carter Gingerich had a field goal and Jonathan Byrd was 1-2 at the line. JV player Jyzel Rice made his varsity debut in the fourth quarter but did not score. The final league mark is 10-3, overall the club is at 14-7 with an important non-league game coming up on Wednesday. Take care, thanks for reading