Bits & Pieces

By Kim J. Harmon

When head coach Carl Strait told me the baseball game with Weston – rained out last week – had been rescheduled for Saturday, I told him, “If it is going to be as nice as they say, there’s no way I’m coming to work.”

And then, of course, I realized:

How can watching a baseball game on a beautiful spring afternoon be considered work?

“Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection.” - Red Smith

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The Newtown High School girls’ lacrosse game with Lauralton Hall last week on the back fields was delayed a few minutes when the referees discovered that the end lines inside the cage were two wide and needed to be redrawn.

Head coach Sara Patrick made the observation that the lines were fine for the last game.

And I made the observation that in the entire history of the sport – all the way back to when it was invented by native Americans – there has never ever been an issue about whether or not a ball had crossed a goal line.

And athletic director Gregg Simon – who wielded the can of spray paint – made the observation that it wouldn’t be a lacrosse game if he didn’t go home with white paint on his fingertips.

Boys, we were full of observations last week.

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Speaking of the back fields, after five inches of rain in five days the field was in flawless condition. Although the same could not be said about the baseball and softball fields (they were soaked, with a little standing water left behind), but they held up far, far better than you’d expect.

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If it seemed like Kim Allen and Jillian Tanner of the Newtown High School girls’ tennis team had extra incentive to breeze through a doubles match last Friday against Katie Champion and Brittany Urbach of New Fairfield, it was because Tanner had tickets that night to the Red Sox-Yankees game in Boston.

Now, that’s what I call motivation.

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The Newtown Blue and Gold Booster Club is on the lookout for golfers who would like to play in the annual Nighthawk Golf Tournament on Tuesday, May 18, at Whitney Farms in Monroe.

Cost is just $125 and includes breakfast, lunch, 50/50 raffle, longest drive competition and more.

Tee off is 8 am.

What better way is there to spend a spring morning? You get out of work and you help the B&G with its long list of projects.

Call B&G president Dan Barrett at 270-1927 to register. Also call him if you would like to sponsor a tee or a golf cart.

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PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has asked Carmelo Anthony of the Denver Nuggets to stop appearing in the Got Milk? ads because he is condoning the physical abuse of milk cows.

Now I’m all for the ethical treatment of animals, but aren’t there bigger fish to fry (excuse the pun) than that?