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by Todd Hambleton
Sun Media
April 20, 2009
Where'd all the baseball home-openers go?
None to the east in Montreal, and none to the west in Ottawa anymore . . . so we'll settle for a spring home-opener on Cornwall Island.
There's something exciting about the start of a new season in the spring, and on Saturday night it wasn't really about "settling'' for lacrosse, but more about enjoying a sport in an excellent facility.
And, the home team, the junior B Celtics, got a win, over expansion Kahnawake, in what was the first of what will be dozens of lacrosse junior and senior, A and B home games this spring and summer.
I'll have to settle for writing about lacrosse this year. The two little guys are taking a year off from lacrosse -- they'll try football and baseball instead. (Lacrosse and soccer are out.)
But it came up in intermission conversation (between Slushies) on Saturday: we're probably going to miss playing and coaching the fastest game on two feet -- perhaps we already do. And we're probably going to get back into it down the road sometime.
Because it's just a great game.
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