Upon Further Review

The Saturday edition of the Daily Pooch Punt will either be posted later tonight or Sunday due to problems with my home computer. (Yeah, I’m doing this from home. So what?)

This weekend we’ll write about:

Waynesboro’s loss to Fort Defiance in the Southern Valley District baseball tournament

Tons of soccer

And a bunch of other stuff you may (or may not, who cares, really) care about.

—Sacco

You can’t wrap up a regional berth in a box and shiny paper, slap a sticky-bottom bow on it and leave it under the tree for some deserving kid to find.

That’s not how it works,no matter how many regional berths the Southern Valley District finagles. But, if you could do all that, nobody would blame you if you watched from the staircase as Brittnie Siron saw that wrapped-up Region III bid and smiled.

Don’t know what happens when your time here on Earth is done. Don’t know what becomes of us when our bodies join the Earth. And, really, in no hurry to find out.

But what we do know is Augusta County soccer lost two coaches and great teachers of soccer this week in Glenn Anderson, JV girls soccer coach for Waynesboro, and Mike Dattilio, an assistant coach for the Riverheads girls.

What we also know is that without these two guys, girls soccer probably wouldn’t be where it is right now in Augusta County. The Gladiators have dedicated the rest of their season to Dattilio and have pushed back Thursday’s Shenandoah District championship match to 7 so the girls can attend his funeral.

It’s been a rough week for Augusta County soccer.

To call April, you know, that month that starts with a day for fools, a bad month for Wilson Memorial baseball would be a grand understatement.

It started with players not respecting the Hornet and ended with a 10-2 loss to Luray that had first-year coach Derek McDaniel stating that his Green Hornets, upon further review, were “not a good team.“

In that loss to Luray, the Hornets committed six errors and the one-time star pitcher in Fishersville turned coach came to the realization that his team was more like kitty litter than the cat’s pajamas.

Just when you thought you’d have an easier road to a long or triple jump championship, along comes another Jenkins and, well, we’re sorry about that feeling you have in your gut right now. You know what it is, that feeling that you’re going to have to wait a little while longer if you ever hope to sniff gold in either of those events in the Southern Valley District.

Sure, Alicia and Angela Jenkins tore up Group A over at Buffalo Gap and saved the Southern Valley (or “old” Valley ... geez people, let it go!!) from any embarrassment. But the five-school district won’t be so lucky now that Karissa Jenkins is in the mix.