The dearth of evening activity continues, we're in a proverbial Black Hole right now but it won't be much longer before business picks up. The one noteworthy achievement for the week was the playing of two hockey games in Rothsville on Sunday morning. We had originally planned on a nine-game season starting on September 11 with the championships on this day and the 20th as a backup week in case of rainouts. We were postponed on four occasions including the opening week, it was decided to play those games on this day with the other three canceled, it meant the nine-game schedule was knocked down to six. Once we get past November 20 we're into the holiday weekend and then into December and nobody is going to want to still be going by then. What made playing on this day an achievement was the weather leading into the weekend. A storm system moved north from Florida during the week and arrived here on Friday with a drenching all-day rain, Saturday was clear but there was a brief shower after midnight into Sunday morning. By daybreak the rain was gone and temperatures were in the 40s with a brisk wind. When I arrived in Rothsville the rink was completely dry, the big issue was leaves (not of lot of trees around the rink but the wind still carries them). Some of the guys swept them into piles with their sticks and I used my "bearclaws" to scoop them up and off the surface to the outside. It wasn't perfect but we made it work. On this day Township beat Ephrata and Hillside won over Warwick, on the 20th Warwick meets Ephrata in the consolation game and Township matches up with Hillside for the championship. The long-range forecast for that weekend looks good, we'll keep our fingers crossed. Take care, thanks for reading
