Bucks Co. Mavs Finish 2nd in PONY Regional

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(Catching up…here’s a report on Jack’s summer baseball team; look for posts about FBU Top Gun football camp, more about Tanzania (!), and general summer photos in the next few days.)

Jack played on a combined Upper Makefield-Solebury team this summer. It was great for him because he …

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Mavericks Photos

Mavs congratulation Will after his monster homerun

Quick post: Click here for the photos of the latter part of the Mavericks season.

More details coming soon….


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Sportsmanship is still worth more than wins

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I didn’t hear about my favorite moment from the weekend until last night. Kevin and I were talking about Jack’s game (I missed the beginning because I was at the fencing tournament with Owen.)

Kevin mentioned that — uncharacteristically — Jack had TWO errors in one inning when …

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Weekend Wrap-Up (LOTS of photos)

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Fiona enjoys the ride down from the top of the wall

Fiona had a great time Saturday at her classmate’s birthday party at the Doylestown Rock Gym. As usual, she was fearless and shot right up the wall.

She seemed to really like working her way up the wall using …

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Mavericks Baseball, part II

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Surprise, surprise. I got behind on posting photos. (Who’s waiting for the rest of the Africa photos??? I’ve only posted two days out of 12 of those!).

Sorry I got so behind — but grab a BIG cup of coffee and you can re-live all the Mavericks games …

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Solebury Rec Baseball: Owen’s Team

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Owen’s playing rec baseball for Solebury this year, in the 10-11 division. His team is the Dodgers and is coached by Kevin. It’s a great group of boys and they’re learning a lot of baseball.

Owen has been awesome at catcher and has logged some innings pitching (a first for …

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Upper Makefield Rec Baseball: Mets

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Because Jack’s playing with the Upper Makefield Mavericks, he’s also playing in their rec program. He’s having a great time and his team is really good. Right now, I think they’re tied for third, but have flirted with first place in the league for a game or two.

I’m way …

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Jack is a pitcher!! Pitches Shutout Inning

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Although it wasn’t a great game for the team (the Mavericks lost), Jack got to pitch in his first travel game ever!!

It was freezing cold (49 degrees in the second inning), but he did a fantastic of pitching.

Jack came in midway through the third …

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Baseball begins….

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The Spring/Summer baseball marathon is underway. Jack’s travel team, the Mavericks, won their first game yesterday. Of course, they had to make it “interesting” (!) — they were out to a huge lead,


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More Youth Sports Insanity

Let’s see…there are 28 travel team players available to assign to seven intramural baseball teams. Now, I’m a long way from my days as a math whiz, but it would seem to me that putting four travel players on each team would be a fair way to allocate the talent.…

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Jack’s Baseball Team in Doylestown Intelligencer

The Intelligencer ran a season wrap-up for Jack’s team in Home Fields this week.  The online link is here.

The team is trying to put together a group to play fall ball. Jack says he wants to play, as long as he doesn’t miss any football.

(I’m hoping

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Solebury U10 Little Leaguers Go 4-2

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Jack played on Solebury’s U10 Little League team this summer. It seems the team set a Solebury record of winning more games in the tournament than any other Solebury team ever has.

They won four straight (as part of an eight-game winning streak), before losing their last two …

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Solebury U10s Win Southampton Tournament

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(I’m a bit behind on posting photos from some of the summer activities, so I’m trying hard to catch up. The Southampton tournament was at the beginning of the month.)The Solebury U10 baseball team FINALLY worked out their slump. The bats came alive and the pitching was great. They …

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Amwell Tournament So Far: 1-1

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One win and one loss so far in the Amwell tournament. Two more games to go to see if the team makes it to the semi-finals. Photos from the first two days of games are here.


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Spiders Playoff Game

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Unfortunately, the slump continues.

The Spiders played well, but just couldn’t quite pull off a win against Doylestown — a team they beat earlier in the season — in the playoffs.

On a bright note for Jack, he had a nice hit into the outfield.

Some photos from the game

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