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Would have loved to seen that...26” rainbow on a 5 wt. fly rod.
1) @zappaa isn’t allowed to respond lol
2) half-court halftime buzzer-beater vs Lawrenceville Prep
lowest: being scored on 6 times by Danny Donigan. In one half.
Very cool, thanksThis is his card below - he played and started for a few years with USFL Breakers (he is the QB on the play Marcus Dupree got his knee wrecked - see ESPN 30 for 30 "The Best The Never Was" for that play). He is number 10 in the Dallas pic (from Sports Illustrated). He also had stints with Cleveland, Giants and Canadian teams. He was just a D3 player, but he had a wicked arm - you could hear the ball coming and he could throw 75 yards. I refused to catch for him because he would try to kill me. Phil Simms used to called him "The Sling".. Bill Belichick used have him throw long to burn and expose DBs he wanted to cut.
Camden County 400 Intermediate Hurdles champion. Almost 40 years ago. Still the holder of my high school record in the event.
I would actually love to hear what he considers his top moments.1) @zappaa isn’t allowed to respond lol
2) half-court halftime buzzer-beater vs Lawrenceville Prep
lowest: being scored on 6 times by Danny Donigan. In one half.
In a championship roller hockey game, I was carrying the puck out of our zone and heard a stick tapping on the floor behind me. I thought it was my defensive partner who was skilled enough to take it coast to coast, so I left the puck and began moving up the rink. Turns out it was the other team's best player. He scored on a breakaway and it ended up being the game-winning goal. I never made a blind pass in my defensive zone again and I always taught my teammates and kids I coached to use your voices when you call for a pass because a stick tap sounds the same no matter who it is.Just for contrast, I was pitching in an American Legion league game for Saddle Brook, again against Hasbrouck Heights. I was pitching a complete game going into the last inning, winning 4-3. They had men on 2nd and 3rd with 2 out. The next batter bounces one back to me on the mound and I overthrew the first baseman, 2 runs scored and I/we lose the game. Still hurts.
That is both an awesome and sad story haha. I was in marching band in high school and we always played pickup games after practice. We had some pretty athletic guys and our football team was terrible, so we challenged them to a game but they wouldn't do it. Looking back, they probably still would have crushed us, but their refusal felt like a win to us.Senior year at RU, athletic department had a RU athletics dodgeball tournament in the bubble for charity. Teams of 6 from all the RU sports teams. I rounded up 5 other members of the marching band and we threw our hat in the ring (this was during the early Ash years).
First game was against the track team, got destroyed. Next was against softball, we lost again. We were on our way out (thought it was double elimination) when we found out it there was a third game. We went back to find out it was us against the WRs/DBs on the football team.
To keep the tourney moving, the games were timed, and if after 5 mins there were still players in on both sides, it went to “overtime” - 1 played from each team stays in, gets 1 ball in each hand, and no court “half’s” .. whole ring is open. 1-on-1. We decided to go with the strategy of play defense, and try to survive to the whistle to force OT. By some miracle we did it. None of the other games went to OT so all the teams from all RU sports were gathered around our court. 1-vs-1 vs I won’t say who but was a DB in early Ash years. He threw first, missed, then by some miracle threw his second one and missed again ... the whole crowd was going nuts because they knew what was about to happen ... ran him down and nailed him right between the numbers and he dropped it, and the marching band kids beat the football team. Everyone from the other teams stormed the field, it was amazing. Knight Vision interviewer afterwards.
It was a sign of things under Ash that a couple of us band kids were able to take them down. Great night I’ll always remember
6 for 6 in a doubleheader versus St. Benedict's ( a homer, 3 doubles, two singles and a walk).
Winning the Union County Baseball Tournament vs. Union in 1974.
My contribution was 2 for 4 against Frank Araneo who was ( 1st team? ) All State that year
Worst memory was losing the State Finals 3-2 in 1973 at Clarke Field in Princeton. We had the bases loaded with one out in the 7th. I was the winning run on second when our batter hit a screamer to short. The kid caught it and doubled off our runner on third.
A foot either way and I'm sliding across the plate with the winning run in the State Championship. ☹
Impressive! What high school?Camden County 400 Intermediate Hurdles champion. Almost 40 years ago. Still the holder of my high school record in the event.
Baseball, GMC tournament against a high seed Colonia. We’re up one, bottom of the 7th (we played 7), tying run on third, two outs. I’m playing first base, batter hits a come backer off the pitchers shin and it squirts halfway between him and me. He’s standing there on one leg, so I sprint to the ball, pick it up, sprint back toward first, dive head first at the runner to tag him out before he hits first. Game over. We pull off the upset.
6 for 6 in a doubleheader versus St. Benedict's ( a homer, 3 doubles, two singles and a walk).
Winning the Union County Baseball Tournament vs. Union in 1974.
My contribution was 2 for 4 against Frank Araneo who was ( 1st team? ) All State that year
Worst memory was losing the State Finals 3-2 in 1973 at Clarke Field in Princeton. We had the bases loaded with one out in the 7th. I was the winning run on second when our batter hit a screamer to short. The kid caught it and doubled off our runner on third.
A foot either way and I'm sliding across the plate with the winning run in the State Championship. ☹
Funny you should say Lawrenceville. Mine was getting matched up with L'villes 4 year starting All State NJ and HS All American attackman. Gave up 1 assist and took 2 of his passes out of the air and cleared. Frustrating thing our top 2 scorers had been kicked off the team for getting caught smoking (cigarettes) and we still lost.
As a player not a fan.
Mine goes back to 1968 when I hit what turned out to be my only home run ever. I was a right handed batter and stuck my bat out late and hit a line drive over the 2nd baseman’s head which promptly went through the right fielders legs. I touched em all and my teammates went wild and I was on cloud 9. When I got home from the game - still basking in my glory - my brother was playing “Mrs. Robinson” on his stereo and that song has conflated in my mind with my home run and I think about it every time I hear it. And please don’t bother to point out to me that I really didn’t hit a homer because of the right fielders error - in my 9 year old mind it was a home run and it remains so to this day.
So what was yours?