Back at McCaskey on the 25th for the second week of football season, Cedar Crest visited from Lebanon County for a divisional matchup. The setup remained the same in terms of procedure, no tickets sold or fans permitted but the game was livestreamed which will undoubtedly continue since by all accounts the first week went well. At halftime I was in the "comfort station" under the grandstand when one of Cedar Crest's bus drivers entered and said to me "sir, may I ask you a question? Are you 'Frenchy'?". This gentleman played in the old Lancaster Recreation Softball League at Conlin Field in the mid-1970s when I was cutting my teeth on the PA there as a teenager, he said he heard That Voice on this occasion and figured it had to be me. He told me he had been at a hockey game in Reading a few years back and recognized my voice there as well. It's always good to be noticed especially when it comes from someone who goes back forty-five years. In the game itself JPM led 3-0 at the half on a Sam Hershey 42-yard field goal, after the break Cedar Crest came alive and ran out to a 27-3 advantage. In the fourth quarter Issac Burks found the end zone on a 51-yard catch-and-run from Matthew Remash, the same combination hooked up for the two-point conversion to bring the final score to 27-11. The record drops to 0-2 and the road gets no easier, Hempfield visits on October 2 followed by Wilson on the 9th. Take care, thanks for reading.
