He Shoots, He Scores

Cole played his third lacrosse game on Sunday, April 26. While his team did set a new team scoring high with five goals, they also allowed a season-most 15 goals. Cole scored the first four goals for his team to give him seven of his team's nine goals this season. Before you start to think he is a ball hog, he also leads the team in passes. Yes, just passing the ball. It ain't it pretty, but he is having fun.

Cole's Opening Day of Lacrosse

After weeks of getting "weathered out" Cole finally had his first lacrosse games on April 19. His team played a double-header and lost both games. Cole scored a goal and had an assist on the only two goals by his team in the first game and then scored the only two goals for his team in the second contest. He had a lot of fun and played really well.

Honor Roll Recognition Speaker

On Tuesday night an honor's roll ceremony was held at South Junior High recognizing the top eighth grade students. There was an honorable mention for those with grade point averages between 3.00 and 3.49, honor roll recognition for those with GPAs between 3.50 and 3.99 and president honor roll accolades for those with perfect 4.00 GPAs. Bradley was on the honor roll after getting all A's to go along with one B+ (his ninth grade math class).
The faculty and staff selected one boy and one girl to speak at the ceremony and Bradley was selected to represent the boys. It was a great night.

Tennis Anyone?

Bradley had his first tennis match as a member of the South Jr. High Eighth Grade Team. He played three doubles matches with three different partners. They lost their first match 6-1, the second match 6-1 and won the third match 6-0.

In his second match his partner wore jeans (see photo). However, jean boy was usually able to get the ball over the net.

Inspirational

Here is a link to Wayman Tisdale's home page - http://waymantisdale.com/.

On the right side there is a video from an ESPN piece they did on him. I love his attitude and got a lot out of this. Hopefully you will too.

For those who don't know, he was a three-time All-America basketball player at Oklahoma and then played in the NBA. He is now a bass player and has a lot of albums out.

Baseball Opener

Bradley's baseball team opened its 2009 season playing in a tournament in suburban Kansas City on a cold and windy Friday night. The Rebels posted a 9-0 victory and will continue play Saturday and hopefully Sunday. The Saturday forecast is for 70 degree weather with potential for rain, while Sunday is expected to have snow and be in the 30s.

Bradley started at shortstop and did not get a ball hit to him as the other team only had one hit on the night. At the plate he was two for three, but got on base all three times and scored three runs. He had one solid hit up the middle and then beat out a ball he hit to the first baseman for his other hit.