Rockville Central readers have expressed enthusiasm for our new coverage of sports in Our Fair City. Among the writers has been John Hartranft, who is coach of Thomas Wootton High School's boys volleyball team.
He keeps a blog called Dig This! for the team, and wrote a stirring piece about last Friday's game between his team and Richard Montgomery High School.
It begins:
Sports memories -- and fantasies -- are constructed and revealed in different forms. For baseball fans, it's bottom of the ninth and two out with the base loaded. For football, it's the final two minute drill driving for a victory. In soccer, it's a tie score in overtime heading toward a shootout. Whatever sport you happen to enjoy playing, or watching, or cheering on your favorite team, you know when something special is happening on the field of play. Your hands sweat, your heart races, your emotions flip-flop with every turn and twist. And in the end, the difference between winning and losing can be measured by the widest grins, the weight in a pair of cupped hands supporting a bowed head, energy renewed by celebration, and heartbreak consoled only by time and reflection.
Crosstown rivals Richard Montgomery and Wootton battled on the volleyball court in a five game match on Friday, April 18. . . .
Go here to read the whole post. It's good!
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