Tuesday afternoon at McCaskey as we boarded the bus for the season's first road game, we made the thirty-mile trip west to Dallastown in York County. This was our third consecutive year with Dallastown as a non-league opponent, by some strange quirk in the schedule this was the second straight season we traveled to their gym. It was on this very day eleven months earlier in this very building where Jared Kumah (arguably our best player at the time) suffered a high-school-career-ending injury, we were 4-6 at that point and won only three more the rest of the season. On this night the varsity game was a little over five minutes old when a Dallastown player went down on the opposite endline, there was close to a twenty-minute delay while an ambulance was summoned. I told Freddy (only half-kiddingly) we should never play in this gym again because it is a JINX pure and simple. The games themselves were not kind to JPM, the JV lost handily and the varsity (playing without arguably our best player right now) lost 77-56. Three players hit double figures, Eddie Bencosme led with 15, Jaloney Porter added 11 and Amir Thompson-Hanson hit for ten but the club was missing Deandre Jones, out of the lineup for one of what I call The Three "I"s. The team next plays on Friday night at home in the opening round of the annual Tipoff Tournament (which in theory should be on the season's FIRST weekend but nothing seems to be making much sense these days). On Wednesday morning Jenny and her mother were at the health campus for the long-awaited follow-up on her surgical procedure. The doctors said the healing process went exceptionally well, they also gave some guidance as to what her diet may consist of going forward. The last three-plus weeks have been no fun for Jenny but it appears now that the worst is over. Take care, thanks for reading.
