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i don't konw if this is revelant or not...but what's your feeling on the San Diego Padres Being in the Playoffs this year...they were in any other division they'd be sitting at home through october. Currently there are 9 other teams with better records than the padres that are not division leaders, only 2 of those teams will make it in through wild card, while the Padres almost seem to have a free ticket in.
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Re: CR Lion Football
I was thinking about this last night and started to look at the flip side. What has Bedford gained for joining the LHAC? If I remember correctly the argument back then was to make the other (besides football) programs stronger. Has it happened?
Bedford girls basketball team made the play-offs last year for the first time a long while. The boys basketball team won a District Title, somewhere in the early 90's was the last time that had occured. baseball lost in the District final to Everett 1-0 last year, the first year for D-5 having it's own playoff system appart from district 6. The track teams have won alot of LHAC titles and district titles. Not to mention the success the football team has had since joining the LHAC in 1994(or sometime around there).
The Lions started out very flat against a surprisingly big-up front Glendale team who dared CR to pass by putting what seemed like 9 or 10 guys in the box. After a while, the Lions spread things out a little and then the defense made some big plays. Nick Malone played tough, making a big interception and then later rattling off a 10 yard or so gainer that had him losing the ball but then finding a way to regain control by circling it around his waist and bringing it back up front. (You had to be there to see it.) Unfortunately, he got hurt on that play and never returned. Hope he can recover because he's as tough-nosed a player I've seen play at rRdge recently.
I've never been big on coaches making too big a deal of individual players in the paper after a game because despite what might seem like stellar individual efforts, football is such a team game and so many factors -- most of them taking place at practice -- go into a player's ability to perform well that sometimes it's unfair to be too effusive in one's praise.
That being said, and since I'm not a Lion football coach and since no one -- coach and reporters alike -- -- picked up on this, I find it remiss that no one mentioned that junior linebacker/TE/fullback/and special teams headhunter Kyle Hess had a monster game against the Vikings. He made a half dozen or so tackles, recovered a fumble, broke up one of the better thrown Viking passes, intercepted a pass in the flat and took it down to the 5-yard-line (the paper failed to note this), reeled off a tough 6-yard gain in the 4th quarter on his only run, and basically played his butt off. Plus, he's a humble, awe-shucks, soft-spoken, courteous, and totally coachable type of kid who gets my player-of- the-game award. You'll see no hotdogging, no grandstanding, no ego-thumping from Kyle. To use a military analogy, he's the type of guy you want next to you in the foxhole. Moreover, he'd probably be embarrassed with this praise.
After the game when I was leaving the stadium, I heard two Viking fans -- big guys in their 30s or 40s who sounded like they knew what was what -- talking about the game. One of them consulted his program and said something like this: "That 31 kid -- Hess -- he's a stud. He killed us all night."
Exactly.
I've never been big on coaches making too big a deal of individual players in the paper after a game because despite what might seem like stellar individual efforts, football is such a team game and so many factors -- most of them taking place at practice -- go into a player's ability to perform well that sometimes it's unfair to be too effusive in one's praise.
That being said, and since I'm not a Lion football coach and since no one -- coach and reporters alike -- -- picked up on this, I find it remiss that no one mentioned that junior linebacker/TE/fullback/and special teams headhunter Kyle Hess had a monster game against the Vikings. He made a half dozen or so tackles, recovered a fumble, broke up one of the better thrown Viking passes, intercepted a pass in the flat and took it down to the 5-yard-line (the paper failed to note this), reeled off a tough 6-yard gain in the 4th quarter on his only run, and basically played his butt off. Plus, he's a humble, awe-shucks, soft-spoken, courteous, and totally coachable type of kid who gets my player-of- the-game award. You'll see no hotdogging, no grandstanding, no ego-thumping from Kyle. To use a military analogy, he's the type of guy you want next to you in the foxhole. Moreover, he'd probably be embarrassed with this praise.
After the game when I was leaving the stadium, I heard two Viking fans -- big guys in their 30s or 40s who sounded like they knew what was what -- talking about the game. One of them consulted his program and said something like this: "That 31 kid -- Hess -- he's a stud. He killed us all night."
Exactly.
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