Riptide Series @ New England - June 27- June 30
L L L W
After we got home from that series things got pretty interesting. Both of our head coaches, John Byrne and Ashley Moore left the team, leaving us with one coach, Jennifer Teague. Byrne wanted to spend more time with his family and Moore got a job offer that required her to leave us early. Teague became our head coach and hired Robin Santiago as an assistant, and Geoff Deen who was our BP catcher, became an assistant coach as well.
Visitor
Margo and I drove to Philly to pick Katie up from the airport on June 2nd. On our drive back from the airport a semi decided to swerve into my lane as I was passing him, so I slammed on the brakes and our car skidded on the wall a bit, and then we went back into our lane. Other than nearly having a heart attack, no one got hurt. We looked at the car when we got back too and there wasn't even a scratch! Crazy. Katie stayed for a week, til the 10th, so she was here for the second Riptide series. I think she had fun, but we really didn't do much other than go to practice and the games followed by late night dinners at Bennigans. Its hard not having a car here, and for some reason we didn't do anything as a team either.
Riptide Series @ Home - July 4- July 7
W W W L
For the past few weeks we've been competing with New England for a chance at the playoffs. Its only appropriate that we play them 16 times, haha. They won the first series, beating us 3/4 times, but we fought right back winning the second one 3/4 games as well.
Brakettes Series @ Home - July 10 - July 13
W W L W
We handed the Brakettes their first loss of the season, as well as their second and third, winning the series 3-1. The Brakettes are not an NPF team, although they were last year, but our series against them still counts for our record.
Beach Party
On the weekend after the Brakettes series, one of our owners threw a beach party for us. We left Cedar Crest in three cars, heading towards Ocean City, NJ where their house was. About 20 minutes after we left, Ashley said to me, I feel like the car is shaking, and just as I answered, yeah, one of her back tires blew out and we began fish-tailing across the Interstate. A few seconds later we landed facing backwards in the grass on the side of the road. We missed a ditch and guardrail by about 100ft and the rest of our caravan stopped right behind us. Everyone was fine, and once a tow truck came we transfered all of our stuff as well as ourselves into the other cars and headed on to Ocean City.
The beach party was ridiculous. The house Bud and Judy lived in literally backed up to the beach, and get this - its just their summer house. They had tons of food and drinks to snack on when we got there, and dinner was catered. The house was gorgeous; every room had an ocean view and their closet was bigger than our dorm rooms! We told em we would come back anytime they wanted some company, haha. They could easily house our entire team.
Glory Series @ Fairfax - July 18 - 21
L L L L
Yeah, we lost all four games of the series and it was ugly.
My parents arrived at the last game of the Glory series and they have been here since then. Margo and I stayed with them last weekend when the team headed back to Allentown. We did sightseeing in DC, went to a Nationals game, the Harley Davidson factory tour, Intercourse, PA to see the Amish, and then headed back home. A hometown friend of mine, Erin Clancy, is living in DC right now so she gave us a personal tour of the Vietnam War memorial, the Washington monument, and the Lincoln Memorial. Ive been to DC once before but it was really cool to see everything again. My favorite was seeing the Washington monument at sunset, it was beautiful!
Riptide Series @ New England July 25-July 28
Right now we are playing our third series against them and we are up 2-1. Tonight is the final game and its vital to both teams to stay in contention for the playoffs. Im sitting in our hotel lobby and its just about time to leave for the game, so I gotta go.
Sorry it took me so long to update!
- Stacy Birk #10+1
L L L W
After we got home from that series things got pretty interesting. Both of our head coaches, John Byrne and Ashley Moore left the team, leaving us with one coach, Jennifer Teague. Byrne wanted to spend more time with his family and Moore got a job offer that required her to leave us early. Teague became our head coach and hired Robin Santiago as an assistant, and Geoff Deen who was our BP catcher, became an assistant coach as well.
Visitor
Margo and I drove to Philly to pick Katie up from the airport on June 2nd. On our drive back from the airport a semi decided to swerve into my lane as I was passing him, so I slammed on the brakes and our car skidded on the wall a bit, and then we went back into our lane. Other than nearly having a heart attack, no one got hurt. We looked at the car when we got back too and there wasn't even a scratch! Crazy. Katie stayed for a week, til the 10th, so she was here for the second Riptide series. I think she had fun, but we really didn't do much other than go to practice and the games followed by late night dinners at Bennigans. Its hard not having a car here, and for some reason we didn't do anything as a team either.
Riptide Series @ Home - July 4- July 7
W W W L
For the past few weeks we've been competing with New England for a chance at the playoffs. Its only appropriate that we play them 16 times, haha. They won the first series, beating us 3/4 times, but we fought right back winning the second one 3/4 games as well.
Brakettes Series @ Home - July 10 - July 13
W W L W
We handed the Brakettes their first loss of the season, as well as their second and third, winning the series 3-1. The Brakettes are not an NPF team, although they were last year, but our series against them still counts for our record.
Beach Party
On the weekend after the Brakettes series, one of our owners threw a beach party for us. We left Cedar Crest in three cars, heading towards Ocean City, NJ where their house was. About 20 minutes after we left, Ashley said to me, I feel like the car is shaking, and just as I answered, yeah, one of her back tires blew out and we began fish-tailing across the Interstate. A few seconds later we landed facing backwards in the grass on the side of the road. We missed a ditch and guardrail by about 100ft and the rest of our caravan stopped right behind us. Everyone was fine, and once a tow truck came we transfered all of our stuff as well as ourselves into the other cars and headed on to Ocean City.
The beach party was ridiculous. The house Bud and Judy lived in literally backed up to the beach, and get this - its just their summer house. They had tons of food and drinks to snack on when we got there, and dinner was catered. The house was gorgeous; every room had an ocean view and their closet was bigger than our dorm rooms! We told em we would come back anytime they wanted some company, haha. They could easily house our entire team.
Glory Series @ Fairfax - July 18 - 21
L L L L
Yeah, we lost all four games of the series and it was ugly.
My parents arrived at the last game of the Glory series and they have been here since then. Margo and I stayed with them last weekend when the team headed back to Allentown. We did sightseeing in DC, went to a Nationals game, the Harley Davidson factory tour, Intercourse, PA to see the Amish, and then headed back home. A hometown friend of mine, Erin Clancy, is living in DC right now so she gave us a personal tour of the Vietnam War memorial, the Washington monument, and the Lincoln Memorial. Ive been to DC once before but it was really cool to see everything again. My favorite was seeing the Washington monument at sunset, it was beautiful!
Riptide Series @ New England July 25-July 28
Right now we are playing our third series against them and we are up 2-1. Tonight is the final game and its vital to both teams to stay in contention for the playoffs. Im sitting in our hotel lobby and its just about time to leave for the game, so I gotta go.
Sorry it took me so long to update!
- Stacy Birk #10+1
