Knights Notes-8/27 Middletown trio head down South for season opener

By Ben Spector
Winning After MidKnight

                         

The countdown to the first official start date for almost all of the high school sports is underway is at 7 days before September 2^nd comes around. But, if you think sports haven’t started then let the Knights Notes for August 27^th tell you otherwise.

Yesterday’s News

- The Middletown High School Junior Varsity Football team scrimmaged South Hagerstown yesterday and came out on the good end of a 14-12 result that was stopped midway through the 3^rd quarter because of a time limit.

- The Varsity Football team would also scrimmage South Hagerstown but take down the Rebels a bit more handily, dispatching them by a score of 42-6.

- Ali Williams (’16) fell in her debut as her Appalachian State Field Hockey team lost to Ball State, 3-1. (Link)

- Joann Engestrom also had a debut today as she was making her first appearance as a Volunteer Assistant Coach for Maryland Field Hockey who wiped through Saint Joseph’s, 6-2 in the 2016 Conference Cup. (Link)

- Middletown alumni Aubrey Pfau and Sam Higgenbothem (’14) are on opposite sides of the court for Maryland Volleyball but the result was the same as Maryland wiped through Eastern Michigan 25-18, 25-20, 25-19 in Game #2 of the 2016 Maryland Invite. A Sacred Heart win in the earlier match of the day leaves the Pioneers and the Terps tied for 1^st place of the tournament. (Link)

- Connor Myers (’12) and the South Bend Cubs have hit a slight down spell of late as the Cubs with the Cubs losing six of their last ten including last night’s shutout loss to the Great Lakes Loons. Myers did not pick up a hit for the Cubs going 0-3, but that was the norm for the Cubs as they only recorded three hits on the day. (Link)

Knight of the Day: She got her season started off on the right foot and for that reason Sam Higgenbothem is the Knight of The Day. Higgenbothem had 1 assist, 2 aces, and 2 digs for the Terps but more importantly used her serving to flip the momentum in the final 2 sets of the Terps win and pick up the Knight of the Day for August 27^th.

Today’s Happenings

More and more Middletown teams will be in action as both volleyball teams and both girl’s soccer teams will have scrimmages today.

- At 8:30 a.m. the Junior Varsity Girls Soccer team will get their pre-season underway with a multi-scrimmage play day set up at Boonsboro High School.

- It’ll be the same for Varsity Girls Soccer as they’ll also take part in Boonsboro’s pre-season Play Day at 8:30 a.m.

- The Junior Varsity Volleyball team will scrimmage Oakdale, taking on the Bears at 9:00 AM.

- And the Varsity team will also be facing the Bears in a scrimmage tomorrow at the exact same time.

- It’s been a week of debuts and tomorrow will be no different as Emma Provost (’16) and the La Salle Field Hockey team will start their season off at 1:00 p.m. in the Catamount Classic against Vermont from Burlington. Vermont already took down Central Michigan in Game #1 so with a win, Vermont will win the 2016 Catamount Classic. (Link)

- Emma Neahusan and the Grace College Lancers Women’s Soccer team will start their 2016-2017 campaign in Lima, Ohio as the NAIA #11 ranked Lancers take on the #3 ranked University of Northwestern Ohio Racers at 3:00 p.m. (Link)

- The Middletown trio of Victoria Doing (’15), Mackenize Farran (’16), and Sharnette Gonzalez (’14) will lead the Frederick Community College Women’s Soccer team into their season opener in Wilmington, North Carolina in the Cape Fear Community College Port City Classic against the aforementioned Cape Fear Community College at 2:30 p.m. (Link)

- Aubrey Pfau, Sam Higgenbothem (’14), and Maryland Volleyball will pull a double dip tomorrow as they will play two games to finish up the 2016 Maryland Invite. At 10:00 a.m. the Terps have a meeting with Delaware State and then in the final game they’ll take on Sacred Heart at 7:00 p.m. In between the Terps two games Eastern Michigan, who lost to the Terps yesterday will play Sacred Heart and Delaware State to determine the champion of the 2016 Maryland Invite. (Link)

- Connor Myers and the South Bend Cubs will look to get back in their winning ways as they will play host to the Great Lakes Loons from Four Winds Field in South bend, Indiana with the first pitch of the contest coming at 7:05 p.m. sharp. (Link)

- Tim Schumacher (’14), Tim Pirrone (’14), and the Lebanon Valley College Football team will have their last scrimmage of the pre-season as they will take on Dickinson College at 2:00 p.m. (Link)