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Burke Soccer stalwart, Romy Hernandez was featured in last week’s Northwest Current.  The article highlights his role on his travel team, the Baltimore Bays Chelsea, which just won the National Title in their age bracket.  But, just as importantly, it also focuses on why Romy, who had his pick of schools, chose to play and [...]

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Ceviche Cooks

Though Ceviche didn’t make it through to the second course round of 16, the team did close out the Summer 2010 season with plenty of chiles.  The squad, which also goes by the Fish, Raw Fish, Pink and many other savory and unsavory names, includes various Burke friends and family.  Some Burkies grace the photo [...]

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The Study of Sport

If you care about sports and education, read this ESPN article about an inspiring girls JV softball game this spring in Indianapolis – a game that ended after 1 and 1/2 innings when the winning team (!) offered to forfeit.  Roncalli High School, a well-to-do perennial softball powerhouse, was in the process of trouncing Marshall, [...]

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Yesterday, as a warm-up to the fast advancing World Cup, Burke held its first annual El Mundialito Soccer Championship 2010.  As you can see from the photos below and at BurkePix, there were several teams wearing the colors of powerful soccer nations, including Brazil, France, Netherlands and Lichtenschlang. You had players of all grades, sizes [...]

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A Diamond is Forever

Burke Softball’s 2010 season on the diamond came to a close with a tough loss this Sunday in the PVAC Championship.  Some things that the team hopefully will always remember:  They all played tough, hard, and with their heads held high the entire season… right up to the last out of the Championship game.  The [...]

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Burke was up 9-2 in the 6th inning of the PVAC Semi-Finals, when Thor, the Olympian umpire, issued forth a mighty thunderbolt causing softball time to come to an abrupt stop and all creation to freeze: The players were led from the field to their respective buses, where they discussed softball strategy and epistemology. Turns [...]

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Marcus in the Hooouuusssse!

Ceviche (the DC soccer league team manned and womanned by various so-called adult Burke-ified players) had a rocky start to its Spring season – opening 0 and 2.  Things were headed in the wrong direction as the team went into yesterday’s game.  The team needed a major shake up.  We needed to call in the [...]

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Burke’s regular season came to a resounding close with a 3-0 win.  It was a great match and a great way to celebrate Senior Night 2010… and a great way to send the team off for next week’s playoffs, peaking right on time. The night was capped by Pam, team Coach and James Dean of [...]

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My Favorite Things

It was the perfect day for a ball game.  Clear sky.  A breeze.  Fierce pitching.  Reliable fielding.  Clutch hitting.  Balloons, an ice cream truck for the fans.  And a well-played win.  To top it off – it was Senior Night.  Can I help it if I feel a song coming on.  Maestro, if you please [...]

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At the end of a tight game that saw the lead change hands a number of times, the MS Bengals won in the bottom of the 5th inning with Hannah’s frozen-rope, walk-off triple to deep left field.  That drive knocked in the winning run making the final score 7-6.  Before that, there was shut-down pitching [...]

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The bad news is that yesterday’s MS softball game was rained out after two soggy innings, with the young Bengals in the lead.  The good news is that the Nats aren’t the only game in town.  Heavily stocked with 6th graders just brought up from Triple A ball and some more seasoned 7th and 8th [...]

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Opening Day!

Tuesday marked a bee-ee-a-youtiful opening day for Bengal Softball.  And it didn’t hurt that the team came away with a “W”.  There was fine play all around – with some clutch hitting at the plate, including from Emma, Maya and others.  And the hitting was accompanied by some fierce pitching by Savannah and some excellent [...]

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Sure and Begorrah, it be the Fightin’ Bengals – in the trenches, on the field, at sea and in the air! H/T to Alex White, Coach McQ, Steve O’ and the Bengals!

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