It's 37.2 degres at 6:45, with no precipitation.
I seldom do Sunday blog posts - I do like to sleep late, now and then! - but this is important to lots of fellows and I always appreciate receiving John Savage's Pop Warner "press releases."
First and foremost:
The WKTV weather forecast for today: "Expect a cloudy start with little improvement. Most of tomorrow will stay cloudy with temperatures near 50. There is a slight chance of a sprinkle tomorrow, especially towards dark."
GAME TIME
2: 00
(from former coach and proud dad, John Savage:)
"When Waterville’s Junior Midgets take the field against the New City Rams at Brothertown Field an un-biased assessment might predict that our high flying eagles could be simply outmatched. That’s if you look at the simplest of statistics. New City’s population was 34,038 at the time of the 2000 census, making it the most populous CDP/hamlet in the state of New York. It is also the most populated community in Rockland County (as per online resource Wikepdia). When compared to Waterville’s tally in 2,000 of 1,721 the analysis could end there. But that would severely underestimate the Waterville Junior Midgets who have methodically destroyed every single opponent they have faced. If this team were a high school team and didn’t have to comply with Pop Warner’s “lopsided rules” and minimum playing requirements I would guess the Eagle’s average score per game would be in the 60-70 point range, in fact the starting line-ups played less than 15 out of 40 minutes in a majority of the games. When you combine that fact, in addition to the Pop Warner equalizer of maximum weight rules (no player can be more that 144 lbs at the season end), you have an extraordinary team from a small town going against a second place team from the most populated area north of the five boroughs.
But even after assessing all of the above one might easily forget one simply fact. Experience and the heart of a champion. These boys have been here before and know the bitter taste of losing a close one at home against a downstate powerhouse. This time around the Waterville Eagles have a focus you rarely see in players this young. And everyone in this town, whether football fans or not, owe it to this little community to take that short trip up Madison street on Sunday to support these kids. Because one last factor that no sports analyst can underestimate is home field advantage.
Go Eagles.
