A Woodward tri-captain, Patton was the first-team, All-Region 4-AAA quarterback and team MVP for the the War Eagles, who finished 8-4. He also plays on the Woodward baseball team.
There's getting to be a familiar refrain as Jake Novak at Roar Lions Roar looks at next fall's Ivy League race. Writing about Yale, he says (italics are mine):
Like Princeton, I think the Bulldogs will be able to beat Cornell and Dartmouth, (those are both home games), but besting Penn, Harvard and Brown seems like a big stretch.Speaking of Columbia, the Lions will culminate spring drills with a morning scrimmage tomorrow. From a Columbia Spectator story:
Since the Lions only have two quarterbacks, hitting the quarterbacks has been “verboten” during spring practice, according to head coach Norries Wilson’s online updates, and may continue to be forbidden during the Blue and White game.If the quarterback is not "live," it will defuse some of the explosiveness of Millie Olawale, who was Ivy League player of the week after coming off the bench to lead the Lions to a win over Dartmouth in a monsoon. He is, as they say, a "load."
My memory is a little hazy, but I seem to recall that the Ivy League once had a chance at a contract to broadcast a weekly primetime game (on ESPN?), but refused to play on anything but Saturday afternoons. Times (and game days, apparently) have changed. Princeton, which pioneered Friday night TV game the past few years, has now pushed the envelope a further for its October game against Colgate. From a Princeton release:
For the first time in three seasons, Princeton won't play a Friday night football game. For the first time in 140 seasons, the Tigers will play a Thursday night game. In front of a national ESPNU audience, Princeton will host Colgate on Thursday, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m.; the last two Princeton-Colgate games have been decided on the final play.When former Dartmouth tailback-turned-lacrosse player Chad Gaudet lines up as a graduate student for Virginia in tomorrow afternoon's nationally televised game against the Big Green, he'll surely have mixed feelings. He'll have no such problem when the Cavaliers, ranked No. 1 until losing to Duke the last time out, head into the NCAA playoffs in search of a national championship. If he gets it, he'll be able to compare notes with younger brother Ross, a member of the national championship Boston University ice hockey team. By the way, I still remember watching Chad skate in a pickup hockey game with a group of kids on Occom Pond during a recruiting weekend and thinking he'd played the game before ;-)
A Dartmouth release popped up on my screen yesterday with a note about one of the more serious baseball fans on campus. An excerpt:
Dartmouth College President James Wright will throw out the first pitch at Boston’s Fenway Park to kick off a Red Sox vs. Texas Rangers baseball game at 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 6, 2009.And finally, that certain Hanover High junior was one of the top vote-getters in being re-elected to the school council this week. Ask her and she'll proudly tell you that the Hanover council is more powerful than most such organizations in the country. Other schools even send representatives to council meetings to see exactly what it does. All I know is there there are community members and teachers who also run for spots on council, and that you shouldn't refer to it as "student" council.
That certain HHS freshman played his first game with the junior varsity baseball team yesterday afternoon in Laconia. A catcher, he returned home last night proudly showing off an imprint on his arm from the stitches of a baseball that apparently nailed him pretty good behind the plate. The other catcher in the family won't have her first game until after next week's spring vacation.
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