The weekend rain was gone on Monday morning, Tuesday was another game night for the girls at McCaskey. JPM hosted Wilson (our old friends from suburban Reading), the JV suffered an uncompetitive loss while the varsity won by three points. The varsity is 5-1 thus far after winning only three games in '21-22, they have one last home date I should be able to make on Monday the 19th. On Wednesday I was On The Bus With The Boys for the first time, the destination was the borough of Manchester in northeastern York County for a date at the appropriately-named Northeastern HS (a number of schools in York Country are named for the region of the county they serve, there is also an Eastern, Northern, Southwestern and West York). I've been through the area before but not for a long time, this was my first time there for any athletic event. The JV squad fell to 0-2 with a one-point loss, the varsity game was also a one-pointer that ended in our favor. We trailed by ten entering the last quarter, in the final seconds with JPM trailing by one Jonathan Byrd was fouled and awarded two free throws. Jon uncharacteristically missed both, on the second attempt Markelle Caine pounced on the rebound and laid it in to put us ahead by one. NE quickly inbounded but a desperation heave at the buzzer missed badly, we escaped with the sorely-needed 56-55 win. Markelle was game-high with sixteen, Nemias Tirado also hit double-figures with twelve. Byrd had nine, Eric Centeno scored eight, Aiden Burgess added five, De'Shaun McFadden added four and Robert Lewis rounded out the book with a field goal. In '21-22 the club earned its first win in the season's fourth game but did not follow up in game #5, the current roster gets a chance to break that pattern with back-to-back home dates on the 16th and 17th. Thursday was one Miserable Day, rain moved in overnight and stayed well into the evening. Early-morning temperatures were low enough to cause icy conditions, by the time I went out there were no such issues. I made what rounds I needed to and came home glad to be inside and dry. Take care, thanks for reading.
