Super Saturdays
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Speaking of Somers-North Rockland, we already know next Saturday’s game will kickstart the season. But it will be followed by another Super Saturday on April 5th. Clarkstown North travels to Mamaroneck and Suffern to Mahopac, both at 11 a.m.
If you’re a local baseball fan just looking for a good game, it’s a tough call. Where do you go? As always, I think it depends on the starters that day. Are Sean Hagan, Robbie Aviles and C.J. Riefenhauser all on the hill??? (Sorry North fans, I don’t know who’s the No. 1 without Chris O’Grady…maybe someone can fill me in…)
I do know Suffern’s at a disadvantage against Mahopac. The Mounties open with a nightmarish week: Arlington on Tuesday the 1st, JJEF on Thursday the 3rd and Mamaroneck on Saturday the 5th.
Hey, look at it this way, at least the first two are at home. … The other three clubs will all be playing their Section 1 openers.
One guy who will miss the festivities on Apr. 5th is yours truly. I’ll be roughing it in Vegas on my bachelor party to celebrate the final stretch of my life as a single man. … It’ll be a little weekend at Caesar’s Palace with my brother and eight or nine of my best friends. … And, oh yeah, it’s during Final Four weekend.
I know: It’s a tough life, but someone has to grin-and-bear it.
I think I’m brave enough at least try and do the best I can.






Josh Thomson has done some of everything since joining The Journal News in
March 2003. He began working for the Gannett weeklies during the winter of
2002 as a freelance writer. He joined the daily staff soon after and has
since covered various high school and pro sports. Away from sportswriting,
Josh lives in Westchester and spends his free time either with his
fiancee, Sarah, or expertly managing his various championship-winning
fantasy sports teams. He's visited 21 major-league baseball stadiums and
insists that Fenway Park and Wrigley Field are the best by far. Josh
graduated from Carmel High School in 1998, then went to Boston University,
where, in 2002, he received a degree in communications with a minor in
history.
Jake Thomases has covered baseball, hockey, girls basketball, and girls soccer for the Journal News since arriving in 2003. He previously interned at The Poughkeepsie Journal while attending Vassar College. He is socking money away under his mattress to buy the Knicks, at which time he will trade Jerome James to Cleveland for a ham sandwich.






Mike Avilas the star of Suffern. That is a surprise since he is also pitching for St. Thomas. It is Robbie. Did not start the bachelor party early.
Corrected…and certainly not my first mistake. ... Thanks for the help baseball.
Aren’t teams that are away for trips starting before Saturday?