Fri.-Sun., May 20-22, 2022
On Saturday, Laurie and I joined Michael and Jacob for a loooooooong day in the warm California sun.
The reason for our meeting was a good one as Jacob was participating in the 61st edition of the Hap Rapp Memorial Track Meet sponsored by the Camarillo Rotary Club. Since 1960 Rotary has brought together the city of Camarillo's elementary and middle school athletes at Camarillo H.S. for a fun filled day of running, jumping and shot putting.
Due to the Covid pandemic, it was the first Hap Rapp Memorial Track Meet since 2019.
Jacob's father, our son Michael, had run in this same meet as an eighth grader back in 1990 representing Monte Vista Middle School.
Jacob was entered into the long jump, the 100 meter dash and would be part of the Tierra Linda Hawks' fourth grade, 4 x 100 meter relay team.
The competitions were all divided into ten divisions, five boys and five girls, as well as by grades, four through eight. Thus, in Jacob's first ever track meet, he was vying against other fourth grade boys in all of his events.
It was a good day for track
Jacob's first event would start at
about 8:00 a.m. in the area to the right
Jacob airborne in his first event,
the Long Jump
Here is Jacob's final, and I
think, best attempt
No distance's were posted but we thought that he was having fun.
His next event was the 100 meters dash which started about three hours later.
Jacob is in Lane #1 in his
100 meters dash, Heat #4
YAHOO!
He tied for second in his Heat
We were all excited to see his name in lights.
In about four more hours, his 4 x 100 meters relay team ran their race.
Jacob is in Lane #9, next to the fence,
running the third leg of the relay
I thought that he ran a solid leg in catching up to the runner in Lane #8 who was way in front of him when he got the baton.
I think that Jacob had a
great time today
We finally left Camarillo H.S. a little over eight hours after we first arrived. How we've missed these fast moving, well organized Saturday track meets.
We both missed seeing
Miss Mary this week
As for the EuroBall front . . .
The Spanish Serie A Championship
game kicked off on Saturday in Madrid
It just didn't end this weekend.
With about ten minutes to play in the Fourth Quarter and the Osos Rivas leading 28-12, the game was first stopped for 30 minutes due to light strikes in the area. With the torrential conditions not abating and it getting late into the night, the game was eventually suspended.
They'll being finishing the game some time next weekend.
Only in España . . .
The Catania Elephants win over
the Cagliari Crusaders puts them
into the Italian DIII playoffs
I'm led to believe that our favorite DIII club, the 2-2 Elephants (#2 in Girone A), will now open the playoffs on the road against the 3-1 Bologna Doves (#2 Girone I).
The DIII playoffs start in two weeks.
As for our Varese Skorpions,
they will start their playoff run
next weekend
2022 Italian DII Playoffs
#1 Torino Giaguari (6-0) - Girone A #1*
#8 Torino Reapers (2-4) - Girone A #3
#4 Bergamo Lions (5-1) - Girone B #2*
#5 Cernusco Daemons (3-3) - Girone C #2
#3 Savonna Pirates (4-2) - Girone C #1*
#6 Ferrara Aquile (3-3) - Girone A #2
#2 Varese Skorpions (5-1) - Girone B #1*
#7 Padova Saints (3-3) - Girone C #3
* Home Team in First Round Games
It was yet another great weekend to be alive!
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