Out and about on Black Friday morning, in my highway travels I happened to drive by the local shopping mall. The place has been around since 1971 and has expansive parking areas that are usually about 75% empty. On this day the traffic to get in was backed up onto the main road and the traffic to get out was backed up in the mall itself, if there was anywhere to park a car I surely didn't see it. I had not planned to go into the mall on this day to begin with and there was no way I would have tried, it was the textbook definition of Insanity. On Saturday the basketball team had a 10:00 scrimmage at home with Susquehanna Township, I was there for about an hour before I headed south for lunch with Jenny. She and her mother had appointments in Willow Street on Tuesday morning, I took them home and we did lunch along the way. In the evening the boys scrimmaged at home against league football foe Wilson, it got underway at 6:00 (there was a time when one of the scrimmages was at home and the other on the road in alternating fashion, a few years back it got twisted around somehow and it's never been corrected). Right now it looks like the organization will have twenty-eight total players evenly divided between varsity and JV. The varsity has four returnees (Jonathan Byrd, Eric Centeno, Elias Garcia and De'Shaun McFadden), six players from the '21-22 JV squad and four players new to the program. The club looked pretty good from what I saw in the scrimmages but every year is a brand-new year, you never really know what you have until the games start for real. The season begins with a tipoff tournament in Coatesville on December 2 and 3 (and I'm out both nights for hockey at the Arena), my personal season debut is the first home game on December 8. Take care, thanks for reading.
