The Sunday snow continued overnight and ended on Monday morning, I went out at lunchtime to get the car cleaned off, moved out and warmed up. It began to sleet in early afternoon, the forecast was calling for another round of the white stuff in the evening. Tuesday morning was literally a repeat of Monday, we got word that the game at Cedar Crest was postponed (again) and moved to February 8. All told we got about a foot of snow in the city, areas in the northern part of the county were hit much harder. On Wednesday the weather was much better, in the evening we were back on the floor at McCaskey for a non-league game with Central York. JPM had not played in eight days and it showed as the club started sluggishly and trailed by ten after one quarter, the middle two periods were dead even. In the fourth the boys battled back and had a chance to tie it on the last possession, a three-point attempt fell short at the buzzer. The 80-77 final drops the club to 3-4 overall and 0-3 in the non-league portion of the schedule. Hasan Williams had another hot night with 28 points, Sam Hershey scored 16, Jonathan Byrd had 12 and Grady Bachman added ten. Jared Kumah had six, Javonzee Washington hit a three-pointer and and Jayon Burnside added a field goal. The gauntlet continues with visits from Cedar Crest on Friday the 5th and Reading High the following afternoon. The LL League recently announced its playoff format which is drastically different from the norm, only the division champions will qualify (it's usually the top two finishers) and only divisional games will count towards the league record. We have five crossover games against the teams in Section Two which would usually matter in the division race, they are now essentially non-league games counting only for the overall record and the district playoff standings. Right now we are 3-1 within the division (two wins over Township, one over Penn Manor and a loss to Hempfield) with four games left (home-and-home with Cedar Crest and road trips to Hempfield and Manor) and every one of them is huge. Take care, thanks for reading.
