NOVEMBER 3 UPDATE
COMMITMENTS
Whitney Warner - catcher, Center Grove High School - Valparaiso University
Malorie Weller, C, Shamrocks, to Kennesaw State
Meredith Miesbach, WA Ladyhawks, has committed to Portland State University
Michaela Sanchez- C/OF Fresno FORCE verballed to Univ. of Toledo
Marie Thompson, OF, Hotshots Gold-Neuman, DePaul University
Christine McGivney, P, Illinois Chill Gold committed to University of Maine
Krista Hansen - Short Stop, Washington Lake Breeze committed to University of Akron
Lauren O'Malley, outfielder, Riviera Beach Spirit/Team Miken to UMBC
Sydney Jones (1B), Lancaster Mennonite HS, PA Mystics, to Catawba College (NC)
Irvine Sting
Nicole Aaronson P, 1B to University of Pennsylvania
Krista Seeman P, 3B to Quinnipiac University
Division II Dominican College (NY).
Lauren Galladay 3B-OF St. John Vianney HS, NJ / Morris County Belles
Nicole Philpot OF Delaware Valley HS, PA / Tri State Angels
Jessica Martinieri SS-2B Walter Sickles HS, FL / Florida Ultimate Gold
Kelli Rehm (P-IF-OF) Livingston Lightnight/NJ Livingston High School
Absolute Blast Gold Commitments
Lindsay Boughton, P, to Idaho State University
Dani Weir, 1B/C, to Boston College
East Cobb Bullets Gold Verbal Commitments:
- Elizabeth Branan, Georgia Southern, GA. (Southern Conference)
- Holly Oglesbee, Mercer University, GA. (Atlantic Sun)
- Samantha Peters, Georgetown University, Washington DC. (Big East)
- Allison Schwimer, Georgia College and State University, GA. (Peach Belt
Conference)
- Laura Meaut, Tallahassee Community College, FL. (NJCAA)
- Amber Harrell, UNC Greensboro, NC. (Southern Conference)
PLAYERS NEEDED
If you know of any JC or anyone available for school in the up coming semester please let me know. We are in need of a catcher /utility player. We do have money available. You may contact Head coach Lawanda Pearson at Clark Atlanta University at 404 468 8395. or fortsona@fulton.k12.ga.us. THANKS A LOT.
Also, Longwood is seeking a pitcher. Contact Mickey Dean.434-3952568
JETS GOLD AT AFC SHOWCASE
JETS GOLD SWEEP COLLEGE SHOWCASE
The So Cal Jets Gold 18u travel softball team went undefeated in five games this past weekend at the SD Renegades ”America’s Finest City” showcase tournament at Kit Carson Park in San Diego.
With over 85 teams at the college exposure event, the Jets outscored their five opponents by combined scores of 21-2, including wins against Cal Cruisers Gold, San Jose Sharks, SD Legacy, Bakersfield Babes, and Power Surge. The early season record is 23-4.
Jets Gold will be at the USA Athletics Gold tournament in Anaheim November 5-6, and at the Diamonds college showcase at Camino Real Park in Ventura November 12-13.
The Jets players are Kaitlyn Baca/El Camino Real HS, Whitney Born/Newbury Park HS, Eliana Cortes/Granada Hills HS, Morgan Facchini/Hanford West HS, Brandi Gutierrez/Ridgeview HS in Bakersfield, Sarah Hooper/Saugus HS, Shalise Lugo/St Bonaventure HS in Ventura, Kelly McGregor/Camarillo HS, Susie Nicoll/Buena HS in Ventura, Lyndsie Roberts/Stockdale HS in Bakersfield, Amy Shadinger/Camarillo HS, and Sara Smith/LA Baptist HS.
Craig Pearce is the Manager and Carissa Millsap is the Head Coach.
More info, Craig Pearce at 818-991-4498, email Scutter9@aol.com, and visit www.eteamz.com/jetsgold.
MORE AFC SCORES
AFC Saturday Score
Worth Firecrackers (Dan) 14 – Cal Waves 5
Worth Firecrackers (Dan) 12 – Chaos 3
JETS 3 - Bakersfield
Babes 0
JETS 10
- Sharks 0
JETS 3 - Cruisers Gold 0
JETS 3
- Legacy 2
JETS 2
- Power Surge 0
South Bay Pride
Pride 1 West Bay Nuggets 0
W/P Jami Escalante (07) April Setterlund (07) stole two bases and scored on
an RBI by Krista Gould (07)
Pride 9 San Jose Sting 1 W/P Mary Cronin (07) Hr's Kat Delpit
(06) & Jenna Smith (06)
Pride 10 Fire 0 W/P Jami Escalante Hr's Amanda
Taualii (06) & Krista Gould (07)
Pride 2 Strikezone 4 L/P Mary Cronin Hr Korin
Cuico (08)
Pride 8 Grapettes 0 W/P Megan Currier (06) Grand Slam Kat
Delpit & Hr by Jenna Smith
Note from Andy Anderson: On my Sunday report I made a mistake and said Kristie Fox's younger sister is 5'. I meant 5' 8"
HALLOWEEN REDUX
A horde of youngsters went through 12 bags of candy in 90 minutes – many of them brought in from other neighborhoods. One rather large parent accompanied his children wearing a tutu and huge falsies, with makeup slathered on with a spatula. As Vito Corleone said, a man should never be or look foolish. Back in country club days, used to go to Halloween parties where people put some real money down at costume shops, eg, a real Mr. Peanut costume. I happen to have a British flying officer’s uniform (provenance not relevant to this discussion) including highly-polished flying boots – and a Blue Max. Deflated when this woman asked if I was imitating a Metro bus driver. Probably thinks a Spitfire is a latter day Carmen Miranda. Next year, took another garment from the closet and a highly insulted Catholic woman berated me for impersonating a priest, then spent the rest of the night apologizing after I blessed her in Latin.
SUNSCREEN: LESSONS LEARNED
Having braved the burning sands of the Sahara, and sandstorms in the Kalihari, and the unrelenting heat of Saudia Arabia, I considered myself immune to skin cancer. Ergo, sunscreen was only used intermittently – a mistake when you sojourn to places like Bill Barber Park, Mission Viejo at Aurora, North Stazio, and other shadeless venues.
I LEARNED TUESDAY THAT TWO OF THREE CARCINOMA FOUND RECENTLY ARE MALIGNANT, ONE IS ON MY FACE -- SKIN CANCER. THE OTHER, MORE WORRISOME, IS A MALIGNANT TUMOR WHICH FORMED ON MY LEFT LEG WHERE I CUT IT TWO YEARS AGO AT CANADA CUP.
Somewhat against my doctors' advice for immediate action, given that the tumor seeps blood periodically, I will have the surgery in December. I want to attend the ASA Council, the pre-Thanksgiving Batbuster, and the NFCA convention. However, I will not attend the entire ASA meeting. Regret not attending the JO Committee meeting Sunday, Nov 13, but the important meeting is Thursday when the Council votes. So, I will arrive in Tucson Wednesday, file a report on ASA decisions, and go to Irvine on Friday.
Gold coaches: if you have not communicated your thoughts to your ASA commissioners on: resumption of pool play; reversion to the double elimination format; what to do with the two host berths, etc, the window is closing.
A TRIBUTE TO THE LATE COACH RON BOULDIN
(TAKES A GOOD MAN TO INSPIRE THIS KIND OF POEM)
I See You
I'm not Jennie Finch or Becky Lemke
I don't even know their names yet
I don't have their posters on my wall
I don't dream of being them at all
I'm just a girl... but he sees me.
I'm a girl who doesn't have her first pair of Ringors
I'm a girl without a single tournament t-shirt
I don't have a ribboned hair clip
I don't carry a bag with my name on it
I'm just a girl... but he sees me.
I go there in my tennis shoes
I stand back behind the others
I don't know if I will like this game
I don't have a sport that's mine yet
I'm just a girl... but he sees me.
He sees a girl that tries hard
He sees what I can be
He goes and writes my name down
He comes and works with me
I'm just a girl... but he sees a star.
He knows me when I come now
He calls me by my name
He rings the bell just for me
He gives a pitch my name
I'm just a girl... but he sees a star.
He knows my every weakness
He sees my every flaw
He builds upon my strong points
He knows I have the heart
I'm just a girl... but he sees a star.
My arm is getting stronger
My numbers start to rise
I feel that I am special
I read it in his eyes
I'm just a girl... but he sees a fast-pitch pitcher.
I throw because I love it
I try new different grips
I know that I can do it
I hear it from his lips
I'm just a girl... but he sees a fast-pitch pitcher.
Success is coming faster
I do what others can't
I hear my coach's sayings
I do my very best
I'm just a girl... but he sees a fast-pitch pitcher.
They say you can't go home again
I guess I know it's true
Whenever I had problems
I thought I could always run back to you.
I thought you'd always be there
To help me if I asked
You'd always know the answer
You'd always pass the test.
But now my heart is broken
There's no one there to call
There's not just one more lesson
You've been taken from us all.
And then I quick remember
That you're not gone at all
Your words are still inside me
They answer when I call.
I'm toast, I go to my room
I scrape the gum off and flamingo again
I finish... don't show me the pictures!
I hear the bell ring and know that I'm faster
I raise my hand and you call me a star!
I'm still a fast-pitch pitcher
You're the one who made me so
I'm still the star you called me
I can feel it in my soul.
For on that day so long ago
When I was just a girl
You saw someone special
And helped me change my world.
Today, I am that girl you saw
Today, I am that star
Today, I am that fast-pitch pitcher
And today and forever, I see you, Ron Bouldin.
_____________________
and we still miss him...
OLDER THAN DIRT
Thanks to Jay Miller. I seem to run this every year around my birthday. FDR was completing his first term; of films released that year* Mutiny on the Bounty won the Academy award for best picture and Victor McLaglen won for The Informer. Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli was nearly four years away from becoming Pope Pius XII; Huey Long was assassinated; the Nuremberg laws were dictated by the Nazis; Deroit beat the Cubs in the World Series, 4 games to 2. *At the 1935 Oscars, the award went to a 1934 film, it happened One Night.
LightningBugs / Older 'n Dirt!!
"Hey Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "What was your favorite
fast food when you were growing up?"
"We didn't have fast food when I was growing up," I informed him. "All
the food was slow." "C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?" "It was a place
called 'at home,'" I explained. "Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa got
home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't
like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it."
By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer
serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have
permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I would have told
him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it:
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a golf
course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later
years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was
good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears AND Roebuck. Either way,
there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.
My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we
never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and
only had one speed, (slow). We didn't have a television in our house until I was
11, but my grandparents had one before that. It was, of course, black and white,
but they bought a piece of colored plastic to cover the screen. The top third
was blue, like the sky, and the bottom third was green, like grass. The middle
third was red. It was perfect for programs that had scenes of fire trucks riding
across someone's lawn on a sunny day. Some people had a lens taped to the front
of the TV to make the picture look larger.
I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called "pizza pie." When I bit
into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down,
plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza
I ever had.
I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the
living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen
and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers.
I delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which
I got to keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every morning.. On
Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favorite
customers were the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the
change. My least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be
home on collection day.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the
movies. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French
kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did in
French movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to see
them.
If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want
to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren.. Just
don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES from a friend:
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and
he brought me a! n old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a
stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but
my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt
shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the
ironing board to "sprinkle" clothes with because we didn't have steam
irons. Man, I am old.
How many do you remembe r?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember not the ones
you were told about Ratings at the bottom.
(I remembered 14....Renee)
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933)
12. Peashooters
13. H owdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16 Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19 Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork p opguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
I might be older than dirt but those memories are the best part of my
life.
Don't forget to pass this along!!