September 15 is Helen's birthday, she turned 87 and she's still remarkably active despite the issues she has faced over the last year. Jenny and I noted the occasion with a visit to a local Italian restaurant in Quarryville on Saturday since Sunday itself was very busy and it started early. In the morning we were at Lions Park for week #2 of the Sunday hockey league, eleven new players joined the ranks bringing the total thus far to forty-six. On this day thirty-seven were in attendance as Ephrata beat Township and Warwick downed Hillside. We were done around 12:30 or so, after a brief respite at home I was at the ballpark for the final date of the Atlantic League regular season. I'm well-known as a non-fan of day games and this day was a good example of why, at 3:00 it was in the low 80s with little cloud cover and it was WARM but it was the last game and you have to attend the last game. Before it started the club announced its annual awards, coach Trayvon Robinson won the community service award and Mason Martin was named team MVP. In the game itself the Stormers fell behind 5-0 in the second inning, a solo home run by Martin and a Trace Loehr two-run single brought the club back to within two. In the third Niko Hulsizer launched a missile onto the sidewalk above the berm in left field to make it 5-4, after the FerryHawks went up 7-4 in the fifth the Stormers scored twice on a throwing error in their half to close to within 7-6. In the seventh the Good Guys went ahead for good, a Martin RBI hit tied it and Hulsizer followed with a two-run double putting the ballclub up 9-7. That would be the final score in what was a bullpen game, Adam Wibert was the first of seven pitchers with Phillip Diehl saving it for winning pitcher A.J. Alexy. The playoff field is set with the Stormers hosting the Revolution in the first two games of the best-of-five North Division championship series, Gastonia faces Charleston for the South Division title. Take care, thanks for reading
