Sorry it has been a few day since my last post - I also had a post that did not go through for some reason, but that's neither here or there.

Went to the Whitehall softball game agianst Argyle last night. It was a very well played game and I thought the Railroaders looked alright against the Scots. It was also one of those times when you see a coach preach and preach something and when it clicks, stuff starts happening. When the team started to focus more on making contact than taking big swings, they started getting baserunners and had the Argyle pitcher in trouble in each of the last three innings, but were never able to get runs across the plate.

I remember having this same challenge against Crown Point when I coached. I would keep saying that you had to hit one of the first two pitches because they were going to be fastballs and they were going to be strikes. What happens: strikes one and two looking, then a whiff on a nasty breaker. Once they got the notion of swing early in their heads, though, they started to pulverize the pitchers (it also helped that these players were really, really good).

Over to golf, I was able to play the best round of my life at Westport the other day - not because I pared the past two holes, but because I played nine with my son for the first time. He did alright, got the ball off the ground and hit some good shots. Scored 88 (10 for the first eight holes and an 8 on the par-3 ninth).

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I hope that everyone enjoys their Easter on Sunday and that everyone at school has a good break. With an eight-year old daughter, my weekend starts with a trip to the theater to see Hannah Montana.

One quick tought - Yesterdays story about Nick Adenhart, the LAA Angels pitcher who threw his first start of the season and was then hit by an alleged drunk driver and killed reminded me of when I covered the Jack Shea DWI death in Lake Placid. For me, i just don't get how with all of these examples someone could still get into a car like that and risk lives.

So on top of everything else, have a safe Easter weekend and Sprin Break.

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Don't forget, tomorrow night is the first performance of The Music Man by the Whitehall Drama Club. The performance begins at 7 p.m. and tickets are available for $8 each. I will be at the friday night performance, and there will be two more onm Saturday at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.

to all involved, good work by you to get to this point and "break a leg."

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This weekend, Virginia is for wrestlers at the Junior Nationals. Here are the local results from yesterday.

Curt Thompson made it to the quarterfinal round in the Junior bracket at 119, scoring 11-2, 9-2 and 4-2 wins before dropping a 7-6 match against a kid from Maryland (he beat kids from West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Alabama).

Grant Gebo, in the sophomore bracket, won his first match against a kid from Tennessee 9-2 before falling to a kid from New Jersey with 17 seconds left in the match.

Zach Diekel got beat in his frist round match 9-2 against a kid from West Virginia in the freshman bracket.

John Diekel has yet to wrestle in the middle school bracket.

See what they say tomorrow.

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