One successful season does not make a storied program. However, those responsible for that campaign can enter the following year with enhanced confidence.
Conventional wisdom states good things come to those who wait. This year’s Delaware Valley Senators proved that prosperity can likewise visit those whom fate has not given a lengthy delay. The team’s 7- and 8-year-olds began what they hope will be a prolonged relationship with success, capturing a pair of tournament crowns and fi nishing as runners-up in their 12-team league.
Proving that people are only as old as they feel, scores of sports devotees tested out their tendons and ligaments at the first Play Day at FDR Park, Broad Street and Pattison Avenue, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday. Reconnecting with the carefree moments of their youth led the participants through team tournaments and individual competitions, with trophies and pride at stake.
He calls Northeast Philadelphia home, but Mike “Zoom” Zolk cultivates a deep-rooted fondness for South Philadelphia. This time next year, he will begin to tend to new patches. On Aug. 4, the 17-year-old second baseman made a verbal commitment to the University of North Carolina, where he will trade the gold and black of the Saints for the white and blue of the Tar Heels.
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