Thursday afternoon on the road north and my first time at the Arena since mid-May when the season ended with a handshake line. This was an orientation/run-through night for the newer members of the game staff, several of the intermission on-ice contests were rehearsed. My part of it consisted largely of running the clock to simulate the end of a period, making a mock shots-on-goal announcement and then running intermission time starting from eighteen minutes. The object is to complete the on-ice activity by the thirteen-minute mark because that is when the Zambonis must enter. On the whole everything went well and it was good to be back in The House. On Friday night it was football gameday at McCaskey, the Red Tornado hosted Cedar Crest on Homecoming. Since an opening-week 30-24 win on the road JPM had lost six straight by an average score of 46-6, three of the losses were by shutout. On this night the downbeat reached seven with a not-as-close-as-it-looks 42-19 loss. Cedar Crest ran out a 14-0 lead in the first quarter, three more touchdowns in the second made it 35-0 at halftime and insured running time in the second half. CC added one more TD in the third while JPM found the end zone three times. Matthew Remash threw scoring passes to Quimeak Talton (51 yards) and Liam Cox (11 yards), the club also scored defensively when Jose Garcia picked up a fumble and took it thirty-five yards to paydirt. Cox converted on his lone PAT attempt, the other two were failed two-point tries. Two games remain on the schedule, the last one at home is on the 28th. Take care, thanks for reading.
