This afternoon I was again up at Mounds View photographing football, this time a sophomore game between Mounds View and Stillwater. Stillwater got the only score in the first half, but Mounds View came back to score 3 touchdowns in the second half to win convincingly 24-6. Better photos from today can be found on the web here.
Yesterday I went up to Mounds View for a football doubleheader. The games featured the two Mounds View freshman teams playing the two freshman teams from Forest Lake. The first game was Mounds View White versus Forest Lake Maroon. Mounds View kicked off and a Forest Lake kid ran it back for a touchdown, the first of 3 for him that quarter. That kid scored 5 touchdowns in the game as Forest Lake won 36-20. The second game (between Mounds View Green and Forest Lake Gold) was a seesaw affair, with the score tied 14-14 with a few minutes to go in the 4th quarter. Mounds View got a late touchdown to take a 21-14 lead, then caused a fumble on the ensuing kickoff as they went on to win 28-14. Better photos from these games can be seen here and here.
Today Greg and Dave hiked to the top of Mt. Whitney (highest point in the lower 48) and back down. They had a good time, and things went well. The guys did have a few observations:
In this morning’s Star Tribune, columnist Jim Souhan offered his take on how the Twins continue to be in the playoff hunt:
“The 2008 Twins are making up for their youth with a lack of experience, assuaging their lack of power with key injuries.”
Last night I went up to the Velodrome in Blaine for the second night of the Peace Coffee Grind. The idea was to capture something of the spirit of a six-day bike race, though doing it in only two days. Bike races of this type are called Madisons (from Madison Square Garden), and there are a pair of riders on each team. The event featured a number of different races, and the riders didn’t get much of a break between races. Given this was the second night of racing, it was obvious that some of the riders were competing on fumes. Better photos from last night can be found at my bike photos web site.
I was up at Mounds View this morning to photograph a JV football game against Woodbury. Mounds View turned the ball over on downs inside the Woodbury 10 yard line with 5 seconds left in the game, on their way to a 16-6 victory. The game, despite what one might conclude from the score, was pretty much dead even and was quite interesting to watch. Better photos from today can be found on the web here.
Yesterday I looked at the entry in my Dave Barry daily calendar, and I have to admit I chuckled right out loud:
Wood has been the preferred building material for thousands of years, because it is one of the few materials that will rot as well as burn.
This morning I was down in Rosemount for a high school cross country meet. This is a special, start-of-the-season meet, which makes for some differences with the traditional meets held during the rest of the season. For example, each of the races covers 2 miles, and they allow up to 10 runners per team in the varsity races. For someone trying to photograph the meet, it is handy that each and every race follows exactly the same route. It was a nice sunny day, and the better shots from today can be found on the web at my cross country photos web site.
At the meet I saw some folks that I first met in 1993 - Coach Patty, Coach Jim, Coach Tess.
This afternoon I went up to Mounds View to photograph a freshman football game, the Mounds View White team versus the Mounds View Green team. Unfortunately it was a cloudy day, so the lighting wasn’t the best, but it was an exciting game. Mounds View White got a pair of touchdowns in the first half to take a 12-0 lead into halftime. But, the green team got a score in the third quarter and was inside the 15 yard line late in the game, turning the ball over on downs in the final minute for a 12-6 loss. Better photos from today can be seen on the web here.
Tonight I was up at the Velodrome in Blaine for the Minnesota State Match Sprint Championships. The lighting was good primarily for the 200 meter qualifying sprints that were used to seed the heats of the match sprints, so my pictures feature very few actual match sprints. Better photos from tonight can be found at my bike photos web site.
