Will baseball be a topic at Council tonight? Again?

QCBL youngsters previously appeared at Council seeking fair play by Recreation Division.

 

Will youth baseball be an unscripted item on tonight's Plainfield City Council agenda?

Despite assertions by resident Roland Muhammad at recent Council meetings that he had brokered an arrangement between the Queen City Baseball League (QCBL) and the Recreation Division's teams for the use of the Rock Avenue ballfields, it seems that the Recreation Division, under its Supervisor Dave Wynn, has slipped back into its old ways.

In an OpEd piece published on the Plainfield Sports News website this past Friday (see here), coach Anthony Davis reports the Corporation Counsel Dan Williamson personally witnessed the latest rounds of harassment.

According to Davis, QCBLwas slotted for both fields at Rock Avenue on Thursday evening, but the game on the second field was delayed for 45 minutes because the bases were locked away by Recreation and inaccessible to the QCBL players.

Additionally, the concession stand -- which not only satisfies the cravings of attendees, but helps raise funds for the program -- was SHUT TIGHT for the whole evening. Davis reports the concession stand was also kept unavailable for over an hour on May 1st.

All of this comes on top of word that Director Wynn stiffed the QCBL leadership on at least three meetings set to plan for this season's sharing of the fields and resources. Does the Recreation Division's renewed intransigence represent a poke in the eye to the Council after the attempt to put the Division on a leash failed?

The kids have trouble understanding all these shenanigans between alleged adults. They just want to play ball.

Will the QCBL appeal to the Council tonight to intervene? Yet again?

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• Plainfield Sports News:  "Plainfield Youth Baseball: An Op-Ed"
  

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On tap tonight: Press conference, Council, Cardinals

A full bill for Plainfield tonight --

6:00 PM - Press Conference

Council President Annie McWilliams has called a press conference for 6:00 PM this evening to address the Council's continued support for Recreation and to address misinformation being spread in the community. See here Facebook post here. At City Hall Library, 515 Watchung Avenue. Parking at rear of building.

7:00 PM - Special Council Meeting

Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs has exercised her prerogative under the city charter to call a Special Council Meeting this evening with the subject 'emergency appropriations'. Neither the Council nor the public has been favored with any details as to the business being proposed.

8:00 PM - PHS Cardinals vs. St. Anthony's in Tournament of Champs finale

Many, many Plainfielders will be there to see the Cardinals duke it out with the country's number one ranked high school basketball team (USA Today), St. Anthony's. The game is slated for 8:00 PM at the Izod Center at the Meadowlands.

Unfortunately, those summoned at the behest of the Mayor will not be able to be present at this historic event (the last time Plainfield reached this level was a generation ago).

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Queen City Baseball League's Labor Day Tourney

Queen City Baseball League players attended Council
earlier this year to lobby for fair treatment.

Plainfield's Queen City Baseball League has an end-of-summer Labor Day Tourney, starting TODAY at the Rock Avenue ballfields.

Read all about it and check the schedule in Augustine Dashiell's post at PLAINFIELD SPORT NEWS (see here).

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Plainfield's Joe Black finally gets his due, thanks to Board of Ed

Ball fields at Hub Stine will be named after baseball legend.

Plainfield sports legend and baseball Hall of Famer Joe Black finally gets his due in his hometown.

In a walk-on item at last night's Board of Ed business meeting, a resolution was unanimously adopted naming the baseball fields at Hub Stine after the late hero and renaming the entire assemblage of facilities (which also includes the Donald Van Blake Tennis Courts) the Hub Stine Sports Complex.

In one fell swoop the Board of Ed cured the embarrassment the Queen City suffered when it came to light that the City's Recreation Division failed to execute a 2004 Council resolution naming the Rock Avenue ball fields after Black, the first African-American to pitch a winning World Series game (see here).

Here are some highlights from the resolution --

...Joe Black brought pride to himself, his family and his community by his myriad accomplishments which include playing baseball for the Negro League Team in Baltimore, Maryland for many years; being named National League 'Rookie of the Year' in 1952 when he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers; and being the first African-American to pitch a winning World Series game, also in 1952, against the New York Yankees.

After leaving baseball, Joe Black taught physical education in the Plainfield Public Schools for several years and thereby impacted many young people with his display of intellect, dignity and humanity. He later joined corporate America and rose to the level of Vice President of the Greyhound Bus Company. Joe Black's life example is worthy and deserving of being honored, remembered and passed on to future generations...

Black's nephew, Jason Greer, had appeared before the City Council on July 12, asking for some resolution of the long-promised memorialization of his late uncle, saying that the repeated starts and stops have been stressful on his mother, Phyllis Greer, who is the late baseball hero's sister.

Let's hope the Board of Ed and other city officials arrange an appropriate marker and ceremony to bring this matter to a final, fitting close.

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• Plainfield Today:  "Rec Division strikes out on memorializing Joe Black"
  
• Wikipedia:  "Joe Black, baseball legend"
• Courier:  "Plainfield's Joe Black, baseball Hall of Famer, gone but not forgotten"
  
• NJ Newsroom:  "Inspiring life of Plainfield's Joe Black chronicles a career in baseball and philanthropy"
• Book:  "Meet the Real Joe Black: An Inspiring Life"

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Rec Division strikes out on memorializing Joe Black

Joe Black and the 1961 Hubbard School baseball team.

Plainfield Rec Division supervisor Dave Wynn stepped up to the plate last night ... and struck out over the Division's failure to memorialize Plainfield native and baseball legend Joe Black.

Summoned to the Council table by President Annie McWilliams, Wynn had no convincing explanation for why his division had failed to implement a unanimous resolution adopted by the City Council in 2004 memorializing Black by naming the Rock Avenue baseball complex after him.

Corporation Counsel Dan Williamson averred that the resolution might be unenforceable and perhaps the Council would want to consider an ordinance instead. After a lengthy discussion by the Council, including some back and forth with Williamson, McWilliams said it was not a matter of whether the original resolution was enforceable, but WHY it had not been effectuated in the first place.

Councilor Mapp refreshed memories by offering some historical detail, recalling that Mr. Wynn had objected at the time, bringing forth former Rec director John Pepe, who contended the fields already were known by another name and suggesting the ball diamond at Hub-Stine Field as an alternative. Notwithstanding, the Council adopted the resolution regarding the Rock Avenue complex -- unanimously.

Barring any further explanation, the only conclusion to be drawn is that Wynn decided on his own initiative to ignore the Council's wishes.

After the discussion got under way, Wynn and DPWUD Director David Brown were joined at the table by Board of Ed president Lisa Logan-Leach, who said that the Board of Ed had discussed naming the Hub-Stine ball field after Black as long as ten years ago, and would be taking the matter up again at Tuesday's (today's) meeting.

Former Board of Ed members I spoke to do recall a discussion of naming the ballfield after Black, but say that no action was ever taken by the Board and, after the Council weighed in in 2004, believed the matter had been settled.

Joe Black, the Plainfield native and outstanding athlete, became the first black pitcher to win a World Series game (in 1952), and has been in the news recently (see here and here) with the issuance of a biography by his former Hubbard School student Steven Selzer, Meet the Real Joe Black: An Inspiring Life, with a foreword by Bill Cosby. (More information about the book and ordering a copy can be found here.)

Council President McWilliams left the resolution of the matter open, pending the discussion at this evening's Board of Ed meeting, but made it clear that the Council considers it had taken definitive action and wanted to see the matter resolved as soon as possible.

Black's nephew, Jason Greer, son of his sister Phyllis, was present after the discussion had taken place. Invited by Council President McWilliams to the table to say a few words to the Council, he spoke of how stressful it was on his mother to have the matter of recognizing her brother unresolved after all these years. 'The family just wants closure,' he said.

A perfectly reasonable request, by my lights.

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ASIDE: I ran into Dave Wynn after the Independence Day Parade and he said he felt my post (see here) questioning the reassignment of the New Dems from slot 28 to slot 48 was unfair to him.

He said he needed the ability to rearrange elements of the parade as conditions warranted, and that moving the New Dems from their assigned slot (28) to a new one further back (48 out of 52) was not politically motivated nor meant to be a slight.

If I were in Dave's position, I certainly would like to have the freedom to rearrange parade elements if needed, and can agree that he should have that ability.

However, it would certainly help avoid the suspicion that political motives are afoot if the LETTER ISSUED BY REC stated that any assignment of a slot was subject to review and changing before the parade starts. Hopefully, it will contain some such language in the future.

Further, I suggest that the signup form for the parade include the contact person's EMAIL ADDRESS, with a notice that the Rec Division will contact them via email with any changes and the reasons for making them.

If changes like this are made for future Independence Day parades, I would consider modifying the headline of this story to 'Rec Division: One ball, two strikes'.

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• Wikipedia:  "Joe Black, baseball legend"
• Courier:  "Plainfield's Joe Black, baseball Hall of Famer, gone but not forgotten"
  
• NJ Newsroom:  "Inspiring life of Plainfield's Joe Black chronicles a career in baseball and philanthropy"
• Book:  "Meet the Real Joe Black: An Inspiring Life"
• Plainfield Today:  "Dave Wynn playing politics with July 4 Parade?"
  

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Baseball shenanigans: Mayor pours water on open wounds

QCBL supporters lined up to address the Council.

Having failed to derail the Queen City Baseball League (QCBL) by throwing up roadblocks despite the QCBL's vow to cooperate with the city's rec division, Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs was forced to take another tack at Monday's Council session.

As reported by Plainfield Sports News in August, 2008 (see here), with the demise of the P-PAL league the QCBL was created to fill the gap in youth baseball programming not then being filled by the city's recreation division (see the QCBL website here).

The Rec Division, despite its wonderful fields, facilities and lighting at Rock Avenue, did not offer any baseball league in the 2009 season.

This past October, QCBL supporters came to the Council crying foul when the city's rec division -- with a grant for uniforms and equipment in hand -- announced plans to establish a rec division baseball league which would monopolize the city's fields, leaving the independent, volunteer-based, and successful QCBL in jeopardy.

In December, when coaches, players and supporters of the Queen City Baseball League spoke to the Council, the Council, visibly annoyed with the Administration's handling of the matter, voiced support for the QCBL, suggesting the city should hold off on creating a rec division league until the QCBL was oversubscribed.

Matters bubbled over again in March, with the rec division reserving all the city's field's for its own league (see here), prompting further protests by QCBL supporters.

This past Thursday, mysteriously changed locks (even the DPW didn't know they had been changed) at the Rock Avenue fields led to the cancellation of one of two games, sending half the young baseball players home in tears (see here).

While Council President Annie McWilliams had made room at the beginning of the meeting to hear from QCBL representatives, as the proceedings went on a few speakers spoke on behalf of the Rec Division League, provoking murmurs from QCBL supporters.

It is hard to understand why these non-QCBL speakers took to the floor since the existence of the Rec Division league is not contested and the QCBL has no quarrel with the rec league -- unless they were put up to it by the Mayor.

The whole thrust of the QCBL's remarks to the Council were that differences between adults should not keep kids from playing baseball. QCBL speakers repeatedly said they were willing to work things out equitably and fairly with the City so that both leagues could use the public fields and amenities.

Council President McWilliams had to remind several speakers favoring the Rec Division league of the need for respect of the Council, telling a man at one point that if he did not stop interrupting and step back from the table while another person had the floor that she would have to have a police officer remove him. Giving the impression he was not used to being told what to do by a woman, the man edged backward in the smallest 'step' I have ever seen. But he did then remain silent.

QCBL youngsters sat patiently while the adults talked.

When supporters of the QCBL had finished airing their concerns, Council President McWilliams offered the floor to Mayor Robinson-Briggs to respond.

As if her remarks were scripted by an email of complaint that had been widely circulated, Mayor Robinson-Briggs addressed QCBL's concerns, offering an apology for the Thursday evening episode, assuring everyone there was no maliciousness involved, and that the QCBL banner which had gone missing would be replaced by the city.

Rehearsing her version of a history of the interactions between herself and the QCBL (in which she is the one who is always timely and gets back to people), she concluded by saying that 'everybody is not going to get everything they want', but that she had an 'olive branch' to offer.

Wherewith, in best Lady Bountiful fashion, Mayor Robinson-Briggs reached under the table at which she was sitting to produce bags overflowing with peace offerings -- bases for both leagues ('not suitable' someone said sotto voce), lots of other baseball-related goodies, and topped it all off with word that she was also donating eight cases of water.

(As if anticipating a question from fellow blogger Jim Pivnichny, she turned toward him and said that everything was paid on her AmEx. The mayor did not make clear that she would not be asking for reimbursement.)

While Councilors Carter, Storch and Burney had comments and questions, attempting to clarify and resolve the situation, it was Councilor Mapp who annoyed Mayor Robinson-Brigg by saying, '...at the end of the day, the buck stops with you; unless you give direction to [the Recreation Division], we'll be back at this table again...the QCBL didn't come here tonight looking for handouts, they came looking for a solution...'

Mapp hit the nail on the head.

Unless Mayor Robinson-Briggs gives UNEQUIVOCAL DIRECTION to Rec Division Director Dave Wynn to be fair and equitable in allocating fields and other resources -- AND holds him accountable -- everyone will be back at the table again.

It will be frustrating for the QCBL coaches, parents and supporters.

It will be traumatic for the youngsters who just want to play baseball and don't understand why adults do the things they do.

And it could be a nail in the coffin of a very stubborn mayor who wants to portray herself as supportive of all Plainfield's children when in fact, she favors some and is unspeakably mean to others.

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• Plainfield Sports News, 8/31/08: "Queen City Baseball League"
• Website: "Queen City Baseball League"
  
• Plainfield Today, 3/17/10: "City Rec Division mugging QCBL kids"
• Plainfield Today, 4/30/10: "Plainfield mayor mean to baseball-loving youngsters"
  

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Plainfield mayor mean to baseball-loving youngsters

Robinson-Briggs aiming for 'Queen of Mean'?

Is Plainfield Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs vying for the title 'Queen of Mean'?

If forcing the cancellation of one of two Queen City Baseball League games last night -- sending the affected youngsters home in tears-- is any indication, the answer is YES.

Despite appeals from the Council for the Robinson-Briggs administration to work out an accommodation between the Queen City Baseball League (QCBL) and the city's recreation division's much smaller copycat operation, last night's incident shows that Mayor Robinson-Briggs evidently has a mind of her own about how Plainfield's baseball-loving youngsters are to be accommodated.

And that is, NOT.

When four QCBL teams showed up at the Rock Avenue ballfields for their 7:00 PM ball games last night, the coaches found that the City had changed the locks to the equipment room WITHOUT NOTICE, leaving the youngsters with no access to the bases which make play possible.

While a parent was able to scrounge up a set of bases for one of the two fields, the other was left without them and the game was cancelled, the youngsters then being sent home in tears.

Although the lights were ablaze when I arrived about 7:30 PM, one of the coaches told me that QCBL was told by the City that the lights were not working. QCBL coaching staff was able to turn them on, and they certainly flooded both fields with light, so I am wondering what the ruse was about. (Besides, with the season getting under way, why wouldn't the mayor see to it that the recreation division had its fields -- all of them -- in tip-top condition?)

With more games scheduled Friday and Saturday, one can only wonder if the QCBL folks will be able to successfully work around the city's obstructionist maneuvers.

As one QCBL coach said to me, 'Regardless of how you feel about the adults working things out (meaning the QCBL and the Rec Division), why on earth would anyone punish the kids? They just want to be able to play baseball.'

Why, indeed?

Unless you had your heart set on being Plainfield's 'Queen of Mean'?

P.S. Think the Council can expect visitors at its agenda-setting session on Monday?

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NFL's Eugene Monroe, PHS grad, hosts football camp at Hub-Stine

Plainfield High School grad and 2005 All-American lineman Eugene Monroe will host a two-day football camp in July at Hub-Stine Field (see more here).

Monroe, now a defensive tackle with the Jacksonville Jaguars, will host the two-day camp on July 17 and 18 at the city school district's athletic field on Randolph Road.

The camp is open to Central New Jersey youngsters.

Slots are available for a one-day camp for youngsters aged 6-12 at $35 per person. The full two-day camp is available to those aged 13-18 at $80 per person (a group discount is available for five or more students from the same school). Registration details can be found here.

Tip: Early registration will guarantee a space.

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• Eugene Monroe Football Camp --
• "Event Informantion"
• "Registration Information"
• Eugene Monroe --
• NFL: "NFL Draft 2009"
• NFL: "Stats, Eugene Monroe"
  
• Wikipedia: "Eugene Monroe"
• Jacksonville Jaguars: "Wikipedia: History and Stats"
  

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City Rec Division mugging Queen City Baseball League kids

Logo of the Queen City Baseball League.

Despite admonitions by Plainfield's City Council this past fall that the City Recreation Division, under its director Dave Wynn, play nice with the Queen City Baseball League (QCBL), Wynn evidently means to do them harm by 'reserving' all the ball fields in Plainfield for the Division's teams.

This appears to be just about being mean to kids who don't understand grownup ways and just want to play ball.

With more than two hundred children enrolled, and with well-motivate volunteer coaches, the Queen City Baseball League dwarfs the 60 or so players Wynn is fielding. Plus your tax dollars are being spent on coaches for the Rec Division's teams, so it should be a no-brainer for a cash-strapped Administration.

Now that the season is ready to get under way, it is crucial for this voluntary, community-wide sports program to get the fair treatment it deserves.

The Mayor, who supposedly represents ALL THE PEOPLE, should order Wynn to relent and share equitably.

If she will not, I think Councilor Mapp is on the right track by asking the City Council to formally support the QCBL with a $1-per-year arrangement (see his post here). My one quibble would be that this would best be done with a RESOLUTION rather than an ORDINANCE -- the difference being that an ordinance persists forever until it is changed, whereas a resolution binds the Council only for the current year (though a resolution can be renewed every year if necessary).

Queen City Baseball League supporters have a perfect opportunity to bring the matter once again before the Council and the whole city by showing up en masse at the Council's four Town Hall meetings scheduled over the next few weeks in each ward and making their case for Council intervention if the Mayor and Wynn won't be reasonable.

Here is the schedule of the town hall meetings, beginning with Ward 1 tomorrow --

• Ward 1 Town Hall · 7 PM · Thursday, March 18 · Emerson School
• Ward 2 Town Hall · 7 PM · Thursday, March 25 · Cook School
• Ward 3 Town Hall · 7 PM · WEDNESDAY, March 31 · Cedarbrook School
• Ward 4 Town Hall · 7 PM · Thursday, April 22 · Clinton School

Besides all this, the parents and supporters of the Queen City Baseball League can join the growing ranks of those who are fed up with a Mayor who refuses to represent ALL the residents and taxpayers of Plainfield.

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• Mapping It Out: "QCBL: Doing good by and for our children"
  

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Congrats to Plainfield Sports News, movin' on up

Congratulations to Plainfield Sports News (PSN) for its new partnership with the growing nationwide communications company, Resolution Sports!

Founded by Plainfielder Augustine Dashiell in 2008 while he was a journalism student at Rutgers (yes, I know I still owe you answers to those questions for a paper!), PSN has filled an important niche in sports coverage that is overlooked by the -- sadly dwindling -- sports staffs of the mainstream media.

PSN's dedicated crew has covered the local sports scene from youth leagues to school sports and also reaches out to cover adult sports in football, soccer, and basketball, including women's teams as well as men's.

The new partnership plugs PSN in to a growing national network of sports news that is able to do better justice to Americans' interest in sports than just the major league and big university programs.

Check out Plainfield Sports News (here) and Resolution Sports (here).

You can also follow PSN on its FaceBook page (here) and live Tweets during games (here).

Way to go, PSN!

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Plainfield mayor stumbles in Double Dutch

Plainfielders may be momentarily amused to read in today's Courier (print edition only, sorry!) that Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs hosted the Statewide Double Dutch contest. Nearly two weeks ago!

The amusement may fade quickly when they learn that her public relations staff -- for which the annual tab is what? $200,000 now? -- managed to get neither an advance story nor a picture story in Plainfield's paper-of-record.

How can that be, you ask? Good question.

Thirty-three teams participated in the event, which took place on May 3 -- nearly two weeks ago. According to the Courier, the 16 teams given first-place honors will go on to the world finals in North Carolina.

Personally, I would have found a picture story compelling. I'm sure the parents and team members who participated would have been thrilled.

Even Mayor Robinson-Briggs might have been thrilled for the photo-op.

Did it take THAT long for her crack staff to write up the event? If so, who dropped the ball?

Or, metaphorically more appropriately, who got tangled in the ropes?

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Free Nets tix available for Wizards game

Sports enthusiast, youth coach, and Plainfield Board of Ed member Lenny Cathcart tells me that he has a limited number of FREE tickets available to the Nets v. Washington Wizards game at the Izod Center in the Meadowlands, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28. Game time: 7:30 PM.

To get your tickets, call Lenny at (908) 822-7249 -- leave your number if he is away from the phone.

The offer is for tickets alone; those wishing to go must arrange their own transportation.

While Lenny is graciously offering the tickets at no charge, he would be deeply grateful if you wanted to make a donation toward the city's youth basketball program. Discuss it with him when you call.

Do it now, while it's on your mind!

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• Website: "New Jersey Nets"

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Devils Arena: How about a handy handle?

Photo, NJ Devils

People like short, snappy names that convey the flavor of what something's about.

Think Golden Gate Bridge.

So, what to do with the Devils new arena in Newark?

Prudential has plunked down a big piece of the Rock for naming rights, but Prudential Center doesn't hack it.

Nor Pru Center.

Shouldn't the catchphrase call the Devils to mind?

A modest proposal -- How about Devils Rock?

The Devils are in and Pru gets its due.

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PHS v. Elizabeth

Plainfield High's Cardinals opened the 2007 season on its home turf, Hub Stine Field, playing against Elizabeth on Saturday afternoon.

Though Elizabeth took the game (20-13), the Cardinals turned in a very respectable showing against the state's third-ranking team. (Thanks to K and J for the score!)

Coach Reggie Robinson, who was appointed by the Board of Ed last March, has been with the program for eight years. As head coach of the freshman team last year, he led them to an 8-1 season.

A 1978 PHS grad, Robinson went on to play defensive end and tight end at Boston University.

This fall marks the start of Robinson's tenth year as a business education and computer teach with the Plainfield public schools.

He was quoted at the time of his appointment as head coach as saying, "We have to get past the past and get Plainfield back to where we know it can be ... I really think that at this point, it's really more about the mental aspect of the game than the physical."

Saturday was a good start. Let's hope the local papers decide to give the team some coverage.

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PHS Football kicks off today

Plainfield High School's 2007 football schedule kicks off today at 1:00 PM at Hub-Stine Field, where the Cardinals will take on Elizabeth HS (more here).

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