Friday night football at McCaskey, the season's second half began with Manheim Township visiting from the northern suburbs. MT had beaten Hempfield convincingly the week before and entered this game undefeated as the ranked #1 team in the entire district, JPM entered in search of their second win at 1-4. It's no secret that the football program has been lean for better than a decade, the culture is beginning to change but it's still a very long process. One tries to view things positively but all the same this was a contest where Township could probably have named their score. At halftime it was 44-0, the entire second half was played under the mercy rule. There was just one score in the second half and it belonged to JPM, in the closing minutes Jalen Cintron found Josh Morales-Monzon over the middle for a 61-yard catch-and-run. The conversion attempt failed, the final was 44-6 and the Red Tornado will look to regroup for the Homecoming game on October 6. Saturday was a quiet day save for lunch with Jenny, on Sunday there was not a cloud in the sky as we reconvened for Rothsville for the first time in two weeks. This was week #2 for Sunday street hockey, it should have been week #4 but we all know that story. Eight new players joined up bringing the total to forty-six, Township beat Warwick and Ephrata defeated Hillside. The biggest news of the weekend came late Sunday afternoon from North Carolina where the Barnstormers won the Atlantic League championship for the second straight year. After splitting the first two games at home the Stormers lost game #3 in Gastonia but rebounded to win the final two. The final score in the deciding game was 7-1 with Andretty Cordero leading the attack with three hits and two RBI, series MVP Brent Teller pitched seven innings of four-hit ball with Ofreidy Gomez and Nick Duron nailing it down from there. It's the club's fourth league title in eighteen years of competition which matches Long Island for the most among active franchises and it's the first time anyone has gone back-to-back since the Ducks did it in 2012-13. Take care, thanks for reading.
