Calling Fall “All-Stars”
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Before we talk about the final results in this fall’s “Pick 4” contest (one that will see the RCN personality with the fewest correctly prediction games this year having to do Fortnite dances live on an upcoming edition of “SportsTalk”), I wanted to send out my annual call for local athletic directors and league and district administrators in our RCN-TV viewing area.
At the end of each sports season, I like to highlight the student-athletes (typically in sports that do NOT receive the lions’ share of the media’s attention) that achieve honors, awards and are named to different All-League, All-District and/or All-State teams.
If you have an individual or a group listing of these outstanding accomplishments by athletes, if you could email them to be no later than December 10th, so we can mention them in that week’s edition of “The SportsTalk Shop.”
My email address is chris.michael@rcn.net
One All-Conference squad has already been named and came across my desk was the Colonial League Cross Country All-League Selections…
2018 Colonial League XC All League Seclections
I hope to be receiving more post-season awards soon and check back to our website in a few weeks for more fall sports highlights.
Now, here are “some” of the details for this fall’s “Pick 4” contest. Going into last weekend’s games, the standings were:
| “Pick 4” Contest Correct Game Predictions | ||
| TIE | Gary Laubach | 37 wins |
| TIE | Chris Michael | 37 wins |
| Tony Cocca | 36 wins | |
| Keith Groller | 35 sins | |
Now, with just two games involving the remaining Lehigh Valley teams, it was pretty evident that both Gary and I (each with a two “game” lead) were able to hold onto the top two spots in our poll. In doing so, we avoided what surely would have been embarrassing ourselves with our lack-of-dancing prowess (sorry Gary, but I’ve heard rumors…).
The real race was for the last spot, in which Tony had a one “game” lead over Keith.
Did Tony hold onto the lead?
Did Keith over take Tony in dramatic fashion with the final two games?
Is there a tie…and, if so, how will the tie be broken?
And who is Naomi?
(Feel free to Google “The Original Electric Company” with Morgan Freeman to find out what the heck I’m talk about with that last question).
All the other questions will be answered by checking out this week’s “RCN Sports Talk” show. Our in-studio guest on the program will be David Mika, Owner/Editor-in-Chief of EasternPAfootball.com who will break down all the remaining PIAA state playoff games that will be going on this weekend, and giving his thoughts on some of the outstanding high school football accomplishments from the past season, with emphasis on the teams in the RCN-TV viewing areas in both the Delaware and Lehigh Valley areas).
