Saturday night at the ballpark, for the second consecutive week Jenny and her mother came into town. No weather issues on this night, it couldn't have been more comfortable. It was Farm Show Night, there were various agricultural displays around the ballpark (which for the uninitiated is a big thing in our region). The Barnstormers hosted Kentucky aka Wild Health in game #2 of the weekend series, in the first inning Melvin Mercedes singled and scored on an error giving the home team a 1-0 lead. In the fourth Colton Shaver singled and rode home on Trayvon Robinson's two-run home run to right putting the Stormers up by three. The visiting Genomes (you gotta love that nickname) put a run on the board in the fifth but the Stormers got it right back on Trace Loehr's solo home run in the bottom half. On final run scored in the eighth, Andretty Cordero reached on an error and scored on an RBI single by Robinson. The final was 5-1, Brooks Hall (fresh from his performance in York on the 4th) pitched seven innings of two-hit ball for the win with Cole Aker and West Tunnell working an inning each in relief. The Stormers finished the series sweep on Sunday afternoon, I was in Rothsville for the Grand Finale of the Sunday hockey league at Lions Park. It was decided that there would be no semifinals this time around, the top two regular-season finishers played for the championship with the bottom two playing for third place. In the "bronze-medal" game Warwick beat Ephrata, in the championship Hillside defeated Township by one goal. Interesting to note that we've played three seasons in Rothsville now, each championship game was decided by a single goal and a different team has won each time (Warwick in the summer of '21. Ephrata in the fall and now Hillside). For the Hillside guys it has to feel like redemption since they lost in both of the previous two championships. A total of fifty-four players appeared in the twenty total games played, right now we're planning on the fall season starting in September. Take care, thanks for reading.
