I have not yet been to Rockford or Chicago, but from what I have seen Akron has the nicest facilities. Their stadium was beautiful; the field, the locker room, everything. Other than our stadium, its the only place we've been that has provided a locker room for both teams, which I believe is very nice to have. Maybe its just because I'm the sweaty kid, but having an air conditioned room to go to during warm up is completely necessary. Not to mention, this is professional. The result of the series was:
Game 1 - W 5-0
Game 2 - W 3-1
Game 3 - L 3-16 not my best game, or anyone else's
for that matter.
Game 4 - W 2-0
The Akron series went really well for us. We took 3 out of 4 games from them, improving our record to 17-19. Also, while we were in Akron we were credited with two more wins from our series with New England. They had utilized a player in two wins against us who was on the inactive roster, and therefore they became automatic wins for us and losses for New England. So our record improved to 19-17.
| Washington Glory | 31 | 9 | .775 |
| Rockford Thunder | 24 | 16 | .600 |
| Chicago Bandits | 19 | 15 | .559 |
| Akron Racers | 19 | 15 | .559 |
| Philadelphia Force | 19 | 17 | .528 |
| New England Riptide | 19 | 17 | .528 |
As the standings show, no place is secured, so really anyone has a chance at making playoffs. The top 4 teams go and its hosted in Kimberly, WI.
Rockford
Game 1 L 3-5
Game 2 L 4-6
We just played a two game series against Rockford, but they were exhibition games so they do not count towards our record. For those of you that don't know, Cat Osterman is on Rockford's team. When they arrived on Sunday night, a bunch of them met up with our team at Brew works, our new post-game restaurant/bar. Kellie is friends with Cat so she was introducing her to everyone. She came over to me and said this is Cat. I said, oh really it is? Haha. That was about it as far as my conversating with her but she seemed very nice. Cassidy Scoggins, who went to Southern Illinois, is also on the team and after I met her I felt bad for hating her the past few years. She was pretty cool.
Cat pitched against us in game one bringing in the biggest crowd we have had all season. Normally we get about 200-300 people at our games, but with Cat there we had over 1000. It was cool. Also, due to the last email I sent out about rookie car and livin in the bigs, the rookies were honored. Two little girls baked us a HUGE basket of cookies for the dugout and Tom and Judy made a rookie page with our pictures and part of my email and added them to the programs for the night. We also got framed copies of the rookie page in our lockers, it was really cute :)
Best in show
All summer long our team has given out a best in show award to the individual most deserving on any given night. The Best in Show award usually follows extreme action or entertainment following ones consumption of beverages. Best in Show is appointed by the team and is followed up by a poster on the door of the reigning individual which stays there until someone else earns the crown. The records in the hall state that this summers Best in Show individuals are:
Trena Peel - 7/6
Megan McAllister - 7/8
Dacey & Hall - 7/11
Chelsea Spencer - 7/12
Robin - 7/9
and.....
Stacy Birk 8/5
my best in show highlights include
- a photo shoot in the car on the way home from Brew Works
- a not-very-nice comment to the Mc Donalds drive thru employee followed by his refusing us service
- and wearing the Dunkin Donuts box as a hat
I've taken all the emails I've sent this summer and made them into a blog. I've also added a link for pictures. I'm still working on it, but you all can see it at http://www.phillyforce.blogspot
Tonight we start our series vs. the Michigan Ice, a semi-pro team, but the games do count towards our record.
Stacy Birk #10+1
