Not a lot happening on Friday since the Barnstormers were on the road, Saturday was a different story. After lunch Jenny and Helen rode back to town with me, the destination was Jenny's friend's house for her oldest daughter's birthday party. Back in June it was the middle daughter's fourth birthday, on this day Ann'Aliyah (the spelling is accurate, it's pronounced "ANN-uh-LEE-uh") turned seven years of age. It was much like Shania's birthday party had been, I suppose there isn't much difference from one children's birthday party to the next. On Sunday we were in Rothsville at Lions Park for street hockey playoff semifinals. During the regular season we allowed players to jump in and play for another team if they were shorthanded but for the playoffs that practice has been outlawed. The league was intended to be for fun first and foremost but if you're going to have playoffs that are meaningful a certain amount of integrity has to be preserved or else it is pointless. During the regular season seventy-one individuals played in the league, twenty-four played for two teams, nine of them played for three and one man completed The Tour by playing for all four. On this day everybody present was right where they were supposed to be, Hillside defeated Township and Warwick won over Ephrata. That sets the schedule for August 1, Township meets Ephrata in the consolation game (for the "bronze medal" if you will) with the championship between Warwick and Hillside following. There is an excellent chance that this league will play another season in the fall, the games will still be on Sundays but we may start earlier in the day so everything is over by 1:00 (all the better for everybody to be home in time for the early pro football games). We'll see what happens. Take care, thanks for reading.
