Chelsea baseball faced Dexter.
If you’ve been reading this blog for a few months, you’ve seen this pitcher before…
Category Archives: Dexter
Photo of the (Dexter) Baseball Now: 24 May 2011
Back in modern baseball, Dexter faced Chelsea.
Photo of the Track & Field Now: 10 May 2011
Chelsea and Dexter faced off in a dual track meet.
The Chelsea track program has a piece of Chelsea history: an Ames shopping cart!
For those of you who weren’t here then: Ames was the store that predated the now-closed Pamida. I don’t recall how long it’s been since Ames closed its Chelsea location, but I do know it’s been a while.
One Chelsea distance runner takes a unique approach to her footwear:
She’s wearing Vibram FiveFingers shoes. I’ve never worn a pair, but those I’ve known who have worn them have given nothing but glowingly positive reviews.
The Dexter high jump coach found a good use for the iPad: recording the jumps.
Photo of the (Dexter) baseball now: 21 April 2011
Dexter baseball also faced Ann Arbor Huron. And guess what? Dexter’s baseball jerseys have numbers on both the front and the back!
Okay, okay…I’m done. Here are the photos.
Photo of the (Dexter) Softball Now: 21 April 2011
Dexter softball faced Ann Arbor Huron. Though it was the day after the frigid cold tennis match, it was actually a pleasant sunny spring day nearly perfect for softball. In other words, if the month of April in Michigan were a person, it would require psychiatric treatment.
Oh, but before the pictures, I have to rant as a photographer…
Hey softball jersey designers: why do you delight in putting only one number on jerseys, that being the number on the back? Other sports make a habit of putting the numbers in more than one location on the jersey, thereby ensuring that the players’ numbers are almost always visible. But your jerseys? No, all too often they have the numbers only on the back, thereby forcing me to make an extra effort to ensure I can identify the players in my photos because I seldom shoot worthwhile action photos from behind the players. Do the right thing, jersey designers, and make an effort to put the numbers in more than one location on the jerseys.
And now that I have that off my chest…here are the photos.
Home runs get the whole team involved:
Photo of the Lacrosse Now: 1 April 2011
The early spring sports season continued with lacrosse — one of my newer favorite sports — in Dexter.
The Dexter boys faced Belleville:
Notice the placement of the Belleville stick in the next two photos…
…and insert the Urkel “Did I do thaaaat?” catchphrase here.
The Dexter lacrosse program is pretty good, while the Belleville lacrosse program is…uh…decidedly not pretty good. The Belleville goalie was fiercely competitive, so the frequent and abundant Dexter goals served to make him more and more frustrated as the game wore on. Eventually, with the score badly lopsided and a Dexter player running in on a breakaway, the goalie found a way to take out his frustration…by leveling the Dexter player on the breakaway.
The Dexter player still scored — he managed to shoot the ball before the goalie reached him — but he certainly paid for the goal.
At the same time, the Dexter girls lacrosse team was playing Salem.
(As an aside: who decided the Rocks mascot should go to Salem? As a mascot, it makes sense only when attached to Plymouth. The Plymouth Rocks is a great name. The Salem Rocks? That makes no sense.)
Photo of the Frigid Cold Soccer Now: 25 March 2011
While most spring sports wait until after spring break to get into competition, soccer always has a game or two before spring break. Chelsea started with a game against Dexter on a day better suited for hockey than for soccer.
Unfortunately, midway through the first half a Chelsea athlete went down with an obviously painful injury.
It was a very physical game.
Did I mention it was cold? It was cold.
Photo of the Swimming Finals Now: 12 March 2011
Eastern Michigan University hosted the division 2 swimming finals.
My primary job at the finals was to keep an eye on the many Dexter swimmers who had qualified. Joining me in that task was a large and vocal crowd of Dexter fans.
As a team, Dexter finished third overall.
Photo of the Pool Reopening Now: 5 March 2011
After recently completed a renovation of its community pool, Dexter held a ribbon cutting to celebrate.
After the brief ceremony, they opened the pool to the kids who had gathered to enjoy the renovations.
Photo of the Basketball Rivalry Now: 3 March 2011
As usual, Chelsea ended its basketball regular season with its big rivalry game at Dexter; as usual, the game drew a big crowd that produced a fantastic atmosphere.
The evening started with Dexter’s senior night festivities, including 6’9 Cornell-bound senior Dave LaMore…
…the national anthem…
…and the introduction of Chelsea’s starting lineup…
…and then things got interesting. Dexter decided to have some fun with their introductions: to the delight of the crowd, they shut off the gym lights, turned on a couple spotlights and gave the starting five an introduction to remember.
That’s LaMore being introduced as the Dexter student section, highlighted by one of the spotlights, gives him a rousing welcome.