The new week began with an announcement that the game with Cedar Crest was reset for Friday the 12th, since we were already scheduled for the 11th and 13th the games on the 13th were moved to Saturday the 20th. It all proved to be completely moot but that story comes later. On Tuesday afternoon we boarded the bus for the five-mile trip west on route 283 to Hempfield. This was one of those nights where you start at the bottom of the hill and climb endlessly without reaching the peak, it was like walking down the pier and up the gangplank but the ship isn't there. We were down by three at the quarter and eight at the half, the deficit was four entering the last period. The club fought to the end and never gave up but it was all for naught, Hempfield held on for the 62-59 decision. Johnathan Byrd was game-high for JPM with 19, Sam Hershey had 15 and Hasan Williams added 14. Kevin Bell scored six, Javonzee Washington hit a three-pointer and Jayon Burnside had a field goal. The loss drops the division record to 4-2 (both losses to Hempfield) and puts the club out of a league playoff spot, when we returned to JPM after the game nobody could have known that we wouldn't play again the rest of the week. On Wednesday night into Thursday morning there was a freezing wintry mix, school was closed and the evening's home game with Lebanon was postponed. Later in the day it was announced that the game on Friday at Cedar Crest was called off YET AGAIN. Neither game was immediately rescheduled until Sunday evening when the CC game was set for Tuesday the 16th (the Lebanon game remains TBA). This creates a five-games-in-six-days scenario since we're already on for Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Talk about endurance tests: This Is It. Take care, thanks for reading.
