Eric used his birthday money to buy a BB Gun – a Crosman pump that can also shoot pellets. Saturday afternoon he and Trevor set up a sheet rock target in the snow bank. They took turns firing at the target and shot outside for about 30 minutes in single digit temperatures. Both boys were real good about gun safety.
HP Gold 3rd-4th Grade Basketball Team before their season opener. Row 1: Daniel, Jack, Luke, Caleb. Row 2 Trevor, DeVante, Eric, Michael, Sawyer. Row 3 Coaches Jim & Matt.
Billie Jo, Stone and Eric went to the Buffalo Bills v Tennessee Titans NFL game at Bufffalo. They joined a bus group organized by Ron Haier. They had an ideal day with good weather. the game had a lot of scoring and the Bills were tied or leading throughout the game. Unfortunately Matt Hasselbeck hit Nate Washington for a 15-yard touchdown pass with 1:03 left in leading the Tennessee Titans to a 35-34 win over the Buffalo Bills on Sunday.
It was Hasselbeck’s 22nd career fourth-quarter comeback and second in consecutive weeks. It happened in a game in which Titans running back Chris Johnson enjoyed a breakout performance with 195 rushing yards and two scores. Jamie Harper also scored twice for Tennessee (3-4). Jason McCourty’s interception of a Ryan Fitzpatrick pass set up the decisive drive.
Fitzpatrick finished 27-of-35 passing for 225 yards and three scores, but he turned over the ball twice, including a lost fumble. The Buffalo Bills only punted one time against the Titans. Against a very average Titans offense, the Bills gave up 35 points to a team averaging 19 points. It only took Chris Johnson four carries to eclipse 100 yards. Bills PK Rian Lindell hit field goals from 31 and 42 yards. Buffalo now enters its bye week off at 3-4, having lost three of its last four.
We played lots of swimming games during our vacation. A favorite was tube surfing. Eric set the record for the longest surf ~10 seconds. Stone achieved a surf on his first try. Dakota was also quickly successful. None of the adults tried it.
The AYSO U10 Boys team wraps up their regular season on Saturday morning concluding a very successful season. We lost one player from our fall team (Patrick) and gained one new player (Zach). We accommodated four boys (Dylan, Joe, Trevor and Jaden) who played both baseball and AYSO soccer. Two boys (Eric and Andrew) were balancing AYSO soccer commitments vs. Odyssey Soccer Club practices and games.
I know that AYSO doesn’t place a premium on keeping score but going into the last game the HP Gold Team is undefeated. Last Tuesday night’s game took a yeoman’s effort and several goals in the 4th quarter to preserve that record.
In honor of the team I created a HP Gold Poster for each of the players to be handed out following our last game.
I also made a movie which showed three of the boys (Eric, Trevor and Brandon) playing in their 1st U6 game and medley of pictures taken over the course of the fall and spring seasons.
HP’s U10 Boys team finished 4th in the 6 team Select 7 Tournament! Congratulations to the 10 boys who played so hard today.
Front row: Austin, Josh, Joey, Josh. Back row: Jack, David, Thomas, Colby, Eric, Dylan. Third row: Coach Marcus.
Eric’s latest school project was a poster and presentation at International Day. Each child picked a country and developed a poster presenting information about that country. Eric chose Vietnam. His poster displayed the Vietnam flag, a map, interesting facts and a recipe.
Eric dressed in shorts, a white t-shirt and a hat befitting a rice farmer.
We had nine boys interested in playing in the Frankfort Tournament.
Front row: Zach, Cole, Andrew, Eric. Back row: Trevor, Jaden, David, Aaron and Nicco. Below the team makes the requisite “funny faces picture.”
HP Gold came in 4th in the 6 team tournament beating Frankfort and Remsen and being beaten by Sharon Springs, Richfield Springs and HP Purple.
Below the boys display their awards, pins and ribbons.
Eric got recognized for his good grades on a Science test answering 23 of 25 questions correctly. One other student got 24 of 25.
He told us when we visit the school this next Tuesday for International Day (his poster project is on Vietnam) that we should check out his desk as “it is really clean!”. Well yeah….look at all the papers he brought home from cleaning out his desk!
Eric’s U10 AYSO Boys Soccer team had their Spring 2012 opening game versus Camden today at 9am. Temperatures overnight were cold – 26 degrees. Fortunately we only had 7 boys and they all played continuously and stayed warm. The Odyssey training that Eric and Andrew have been doing really showed off. Eric was aggressive to the ball and moved the ball up the field. HP won 5-1.
