Paying a visit to the variety store...
Radio waves
Joe “Mr. Sports” Pete — aka, The King of Ashtabula County Media — has announced a portion of the high school boys basketball schedule for ESPN 970, WFUN.
I use the term “partial” because Mr. Sports has smartly decided to leave some dates listed as “to be announced,” which will allow him and his staff to select the best possible games down the line.
Being joined by cohorts Ed “Lionheart” Looman and Brad “Golden Arm” Petro, Mr. Sports & Co. will tip off their 2009-10 broadcast schedule with the first boys basketball game played in the new Falcon Gym in Jefferson.
On Friday, Dec. 4, coach Steve Locy’s Falcons will host invading North in their first game in their new digs. The Jefferson girls of the legendary Rod Holmes will christen the new Falcon Gym on Saturday, Nov. 28 with an encounter against visiting Madison.
Here’s the list of boys games Mr. Sports and his henchmen have set up to this point:
n Dec. 4 — North at Jefferson.
n Dec. 11 — Madison at Lakeside.
n Dec. 18 — Edgewood at Jefferson.
n Dec. 29 — Edgewood at Lakeside.
n Jan. 15 — Lakeside at Geneva.
n Feb. 5 — Jefferson at Edgewood.
n Feb. 23 — Lakeside at Edgewood.
All of the station’s broadcasts will also be streamed on its Web site: www.espn970wfun.com.
Oh, deer!
This item comes courtesy of Dwight Perry, excellent columnist for the Seattle Times:
Who needs a deer rifle when you have a lawn ornament?
Mark Brye of Viroqua, Wis., boasts a freezer full of serendipitous venison after a love-crazed 7-point buck dropped dead in his yard after he rammed Brye’s concrete elk lawn statue. Talk about a mismatch: The deer weighed 180 pounds — and the lawn ornament 640 pounds.
And just to make it legal, wrote Bob Lamb of the La Crosse Tribune, “Brye claimed the buck with a tag from the Vernon County conservation warden. He laughed at the warden’s tag note: ‘lawn ornament fight — lost.’”
The statue isn’t doing so hot, either, lying on its side — one of its shattered antlers in five pieces — until Brye can round up friends to get it upright.
Blind leading the...
This gem from Greg Cote, columnist for the Miami Herald:
Baseball general managers meeting in Chicago failed to take a vote on expanding instant replay following a postseason in which several controversies arose from players tripping over umpires’ white canes or being chased by guide dogs.
McCormack is the sports editor of the Star Beacon. Reach him at donmac@suite224.net.
Sports
Related Photos
-
DON McCORMACK
Discussion
A Don McCormack column: Boys B-ball returning to WFUN
- Sports
-
-
Riverside sneaks past Edgewood
Riverside wrestling coach Scott Blank learned a good deal of what he knows from Edgewood coach Greg Stolfer as a former Warrior great. Thursday, he used a bit of that knowledge to get the better of his old coach as the Beavers bested the Warriors, 31-28, at Edgewood.
-
Madison rolls past Geneva
Madison recovered from coming out on the short end of a pin in the first match of the night by taking six of the next seven matches against Geneva and capped the night with pins from their last pair of grapplers in dismantling the Eagles, 49-17.
-
Boys tourney returning to county
On Feb. 27, for the first time in 20 years, postseason boys basketball will return to Ashtabula County when the Division II sectional-district tournament comes to Lakeside high school.
-
Dragons dump Lakers in drink
Despite the fact his girls have been through a tough season, Lakeside coach Rob Livingston spoke as though he had sensed that better things might be around the corner.
-
Mustangs dominate Heralds
In their last home game of the season, the Grand Valley Mustangs rose to the occasion on Senior Night, defeating the SS. John and Paul Heralds, 59-28.
-
Clark, Francis help give Falcons Liberty
Paige Clark led an attack that saw three Jefferson players reach double figures and Rachel Francis had a triple-double as the Falcons blasted visiting Liberty, 59-17, in an All-American Conference game Thursday night in Falcon Gym.
-
Scholastic Statistics:
WRESTLING
NON-CONFERENCE
Riverside 31, Edgewood 28
at Edgewood -
Scholastic Schedule:
FRIDAY, FEB. 10
Boys Basketball
n Lakeside at Madison
n Conneaut at Edgewood
n Liberty at Jefferson (WFUN)
n South at Geneva
n PV at Bloomfield
n Grand Valley at Southington
n Riverside at North
n Harvey at Perry -
PV prevails
Cody Miller and Zach Campbell knew what they had to do in order for the Pymatuning Valley wrestling team to complete a come-from-behind victory over Jefferson on Wednesday at triangular match at PV.
The pair delivered exactly that and the Lakers pulled off the win, 37-36. -
Eagles bounce back
The Geneva girls didn’t have much time to regroup. But just one day after a heartbreaking defeat, they were able to knock off a strong Perry team on the road, 39-33.
- More Sports Headlines
-
