Friday night football in Rossmere, the LCHS Crusaders hosted Delone Catholic (from McSherrystown, York County). The AD at Catholic is a former assistant football coach at McCaskey, with JPM playing there at least for the present he asked if I could work his games as well. On this night the Crusaders had it all their own way in a 47-20 victory. J.J. Boas threw for three scores, one each to Chris Baumler, Colton Hegener and Brandon Way (trivia: Brandon's father is an assistant coach at LC and a former McCaskey player from the early 2000s). Hegener also ran for a score and Way added three more on two rushes and a punt return. Will O'Malley was 4-5 in the PAT department, Simon Wickenheiser converted his lone attempt. The Crusaders are back home vs Columbia on September 12. On Saturday morning we were back at Rossmere bright and early, the Red Tornado hosted Conestoga Valley at 10:00 (the stadium at McCaskey never had lights until 1999, before then we played our home games at 10:30 and I wasn't wild about those either). On this day the opponent had it all THEIR own way, JPM lost 35-6. The lone score came on a six-yard TD toss from Liam Stinchfield to Quinnes Jones-Hawkins. The club next plays at "home" on October 4 with a somewhat more sensible 4:00 kickoff. In the evening at the ballpark the Stormers continued a weekend series with the Staten Island FerryHawks. The ballclub won the opener on Friday, on this night they won going away 15-4. The onslaught started on the second on a Danny Amaral triple, a Nick Ward single and Alex Isola's RBI groundout, a wild pitch scored the fourth run one inning later. A two-run double by returning fan favorite Melvin Mercedes in the fourth scored runs #5 and 6, back-to-back home runs by Joe Campagna and Nick Lucky put the Stormers up 8-1. Newcomer Luis Castro went yard in the sixth, in the seventh Campagna's two-run single and Lucky's wo-run triple made it 13-4. Ward's two-run home run in the eighth ended the scoring, Matt Swarmer (just back from a lengthy IL stint) was the winning pitcher. The busy weekend ended at the ballpark on Sunday afternoon, friend and colleague John Witwer was away at a family function and I sat in on the PA. The Stormers finished the sweep with a 5-1 win, the runs scoring on a Nick Ward two-run home run, a Joe Campagna RBI single and Danny Amaral's two-run triple. Noah Skirrow started and went five innings for the decision. Take care, thanks for reading.
