There were thunderstorms in the forecast for Thursday, they didn't arrive until late afternoon. We had a quick-hitter roll through around 4:45 or so, at 5:00 I was at McCaskey for the Lancaster Jr. Tornado's County Midget League season opener. Circumstances permitted me to work these games in 2021, I didn't expect it to happen again this time around but with The Saga Of Reservoir Park being what it is I'm available (and besides, it's for the kids). The "JrT" (as I abbreviate it) was scheduled to start its season on May 19 but all of its games to this point had been postponed, most of them for the fact that the opposing district's high school team was still involved in postseason play. The league has two divisions, one with six clubs and the other with seven, everybody plays their division-mates twice and the teams in the opposite division once. On this night the JrT hosted Hempfield Black (not to be confused with Hempfield RED), despite the earlier rain the game started on time at 6:00. JPM head coach Gilbert Vega is the head man with the JrT as well, he has seventeen players on the roster with most of them from the McCaskey program and several others added on a co-op basis from districts not participating. We had a brief stray rainfall during the early innings but it was gone as quickly as it arrived, as the sun broke out there was a brilliant rainbow to the southeast. The rainbow was perhaps the highlight of the evening as the JrT lost 11-0, the game was called via mercy rule after five innings. Lars Holland started on the mound with Adarius Williams, Elias Morales and Jhanel Perez working in relief. The boys have a home game set for Saturday the 4th but there is a chance it may be rescheduled, we'll know more later. Take care, thanks for reading.
