A quiet weekend

Class 2A baseball starts Saturday and 1A baseball starts next week Tuesday.

Since there was no paper on Friday, I feel like I should highlight some of the solid performances from Thursday on. Granted, Tanner Dowling's grand slam was the big blow, but honorable mention has to go to Gehlen's Shaun Ryan.

The junior outfielder hit his first career homer at South O'Brien on Thursday.

With Friday's rain, just a handful of games were played: the Akron-Westfield-Hinton baseball game was not one of them, as intern Nick and I found out - after driving to Akron.

Be sure to check out Bethany's column on murdered Aplington-Parkersburg coach Ed Thomas and (allegedly) murdered former NFL quarterback Steve McNair in Monday's Sentinel.

A couple of interesting links for you. First, in case you don't subscribe to Sports Illustrated, here is the cover story on Ed Thomas:

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/v...

Second, here is the link to the previous issue detailing the perfect game/no-hitter combo turned in by two Norwalk teammates (I just moved, so I got these two issues one day apart - one directly from SI and the other with a Post Office forwarding sticker):

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/v...