A busy weekend continued with an early start on Saturday, at noon we were in Kutztown for the university's home-opener football game. I sit in on the mic at KU whenever I'm needed, I worked three games in 2022, four in '21 and two the season before that. On this day the Golden Bears hosted Mercyhurst (from Erie, the northwestern Pennsylvania city that sits on the shores of the Great Lake of the same name) and won easily 47-14. The game was over about 2:40 or so, I was back home before 4:00 for supper and a degree of rest before heading over to the ballpark. The Barnstormers hosted the Staten Island FerryHawks in a game largely meaningless since the ALPB playoff pairings are now fully established. On this night the Stormers scored ten runs through the first three innings and added single tallies in the fifth, sixth and seventh, a six-spot in the eighth capped a one-sided 19-4 victory. The club unleashed a twenty-two-hit attack for forty-one total bases including three home runs, two triples and six doubles. Trayvon Robinson led the assault with a home run and five RBI, Chad Sedio went yard and had four RBI, Shawon Dunston also hit a round-tripper and added three ribbies. Jaret Lakind was the winner with Bret Clarke, Garrett Granitz and newcomer Chandler Breirley working out of the pen. There was afternoon rain forecast for Sunday, in the morning we were at Lions Park in Rothsville for the belated opening week of fall street hockey. Thirty-eight players participated, thirty from the spring plus eight new additions. Township won over Ephrata and Warwick defeated Hillside, during the second game it began to rain lightly but we managed to get everything done. I came immediately back to town and went to the ballpark, the last game of the regular season was scheduled for 1:00. I arrived about ten minutes before gametime, the field was uncovered but the start was being delayed because of the impending forecast. The Stormers announced the team award winners, Trayvon Robinson took home community-service honors and Ariel Sandoval was the fan-voted team MVP. The rain arrived as expected around 1:15, after a delay of better than an hour the game was cancelled outright. The division playoff with Long Island starts at the ballpark on Tuesday the 19th. Take care, thanks for reading.
