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top, ltr: Lowell Blackman, Yaniv Gohary, Dani Machlis. bot: Ari Cohen, David Sommer, Yossi Glickman, Avi Davilla, Yosef Gitler, Danny Epstein. Great practice, guys. Wish we had more time. In the end, we had 10 guys, and it was like this: David Sommer led the practice, as usual, but it seemed to this writer that it was lower key, dunno, mebbe because we're all used to running around like maniacs chasing a ball. We had some infield work and some situational work, like last time, and some work on the "hit-away". Batting practice this time was mainly from Lowell's lob pitches. Oh, and this time, the digital camera worked, although we've got some time before we can work it well. Attendance report:

Veterans: Danny Epstein, Yaniv Gohary, Yossi Glickman, Shmuel Goldstein, David Sommer, Lowell Blackman, Dani Machlis Newbies: Ari Cohen, Avi Davilla, Yosef Gitler Absentees Albert Sarkovitch, Robert Even, Natan Mandel, Yechezkel Gantz, Yoav Eliahu, Michael Moronov, Yigal Rozval

We spoke about doing the next practice at BV on Wednesday, Feb. 23, but that won't work out, as that field is still under water. Besides, it's going to get stormy again on Sunday, Feb 20, 2005. So, we'll have to see. Check the website, your email, and SMS messages.

First practice for the Dawgs was Wednesday, January 26, 8 PM at Rishon. David Sommer led the practice, and it was full of action, and hard work. We had some intense infield work, a great deal of situational work (hit the cut-off man, stuff like that), and finally a quickie batting practice, with Shmuel pitching easy-like. Notables were the newbie fellers listed below, who found out about us from THIS WEBSITE, Martha. Lowell also encouraged a few outfielders (whose names we will not mention) of having a Cavalier attitude (that means non-chalant, or in a language we all understand = àãéù). Good work, Lowell. Also notable was the really cool portable backstop we recently purchased. Attendance report:

Veterans: Danny Epstein, Albert Sarkovitch, Shmuel Goldstein, Robert (hard as) Even (welcome back!), David Sommer, Lowell Blackman, Michael Moronov, Yigal Rozval Newbies: Ari Cohen, David Cohen, Gai Weissburg Absentees Natan Mandel, Yaniv Gohary, Yossi Glickman, Yechezkel Gantz, Yoav Eliahu, Dani Machlis

Next practice: Wednesday, 8 PM, Rishon, Feb. 16, 2005. In all likelyhood, we will have at least one Friday practice, also at Rishon, so get ready.