blog #3 final project

Since 2006, the Alden football program has got better every single season. In 2006, the J.V. Bulldogs went 2 and 5. One year later, they went 7 and 1 and finished second in the division. In 2008, they won 7 games for the second straight season. In 2009 the Bulldogs lost their first game and then won the next 8 games to finish the year with an 8 and 1 record. Also in this year, the Bulldogs claimed a share of the division title with Pioneer and Lackawanna. The final game of this season resulted in the Bulldogs beating one of the best J.V. teams in Western New York which was Hamburg who is a much larger school than Alden. This year the Bulldogs finished with 9 and 0 undefeated record. The Bulldogs won their division title and the Section 6 Class B title over Depew. Alden was the only J.V. school in Section 6 Class B to go undefeated. The J.V. Bulldogs are also currently on a 17 game winning streak. That is pretty impressive.  Going back to the 2006, the Varsity Bulldogs had a record of 2 and 7. In 2007 they doubled their win count and won 4 games. The next season, they once again doubled their win count and won 8 games. In that season, the Bulldogs won their division title and fell one game short of playing for a Sectional Championship at Ralph Wilson Stadium. The next season, Alden only won 7 games, but they actually went further in the playoffs and got the opportunity to play at Ralph Wilson Stadium for a sectional championship. Alden lost that game to Cheektowaga by a score of 26 to 13. This season, Alden won 10 games and made it to the state playoffs for the first time in school history. Alden played in a Sectional Championship for the second straight season against the Lackawanna Steelers. Alden won 14 to 12. It was the first time since 1983 that the Bulldogs won a Sectional Championship. That is a great accomplishment. Hopefully in the upcoming seasons the program keeps getting better so even more great things can be accomplished by the Alden Bulldogs football program.

final project blog #2

This season the Varsity football team had the best season in school history. This year our Varsity Bulldogs won a sectional championship for the first time since 1983. This year it was the first time ever that Alden has played in a regional championship. That's pretty impressive considering the fact that 6 seasons ago the Alden Varsity football team went 1-7. That just goes to show how much we have improved as a program. This year the Bulldogs were led by many great players that worked very hard and played very well together as a team. There was some concern in the beginning of the season with the offensive line, but the line played great this season and gave many opportunities for the backs. The team opened up against the Tonawanda Warriors in a dominating win. The Bulldogs won that game 41-0 and they were just clearly the better team. In week two the Bulldogs headed north to Medina. The Bulldogs struggled a little bit, but they came out on top 25 to 8. In week three the Bulldogs bounced back great by destroying Lew- Port by a score of 56 to 7. In week four the Bulldogs hit another road bump, but still managed to come out on top over Newfane for the homecoming game. Alden won that game 31 to 13. In week five, Alden hosted Springville on Senior Night and the Bulldogs won 34 to 0. The week 6 match up will always remembered as the first time Coach Diminuco returned to his former school coaching the Bulldogs. Alden won this game 27 to 0 in a big division game against Albion. In week 7, the Bulldogs clinched the number one seed in the playoffs by beating Maryvale 49 to 21. In the first round of the playoffs Lew- Port came to Alden for the second time this season and Alden won once again 42 to 10. In week 9, Alden was hosting Burgard and everybody said Burgard would pull off the upset, but Alden made the statement that they are pretty good by beating Burgard 42 to 6. Alden advanced to play at Ralph Wilson Stadium for a sectional championship against Lackawanna. Alden came out on top 14 to 12. The final game of the Bulldogs' great season was against defending state champion, Hornell who ended up beating Alden 21 to 14. The Bulldogs ended up finishing 2nd in the state rankings. The Bulldogs had a great season that everyone will always remember.

Final Project #1

The 2010 Alden football season was indescribable at both the Varsity and J.V. levels. Many people realize how great the Varsity did, but they don’t some people don’t know that the J.V. team also had a great season.  People were not sure how the J.V. team would do this season because of how many players they lost to varsity. I was a member of the J.V. team so I will say how I figured out a plan to answer the questions about our team. When I played my first ever J.V. game in the fall of 2009 at Pioneer, it was the first game I lost as an Alden Bulldog. After that game, I was extremely upset, and I'm not going to lie, I actually did cry. I cried because I knew that I was playing on an extremely talented team and there was going to be a good chance that was the only game we would lose in the 2009 season. Well I was right. After the Pioneer game, I told myself that I would not let myself lose another game in my J.V. career. I accomplished my goal and I won 17 games in a row since losing to Pioneer. So this how our team this year was so successful. We were told all offseason by people that there was no way we could be as good as we were in 2009. Instead of arguing with people, we just used that as motivation and I can promise you our J.V. team was the hardest working team in Western New York this season. I would argue that with anyone any day. We lifted i the winter and then when the spring came rolling around we were outside every single day. We would have workouts 6 days a week in the summer and I can't ever explain how much better that made our team and how prepared we were because of that. So the season started with us traveling to Tonawanda with us beating them 34 to 6. Then a tough Medina opponent came in to our house in week to and we beat them 24 to 6. In week three we took a trip up to Lew -Port and we defeated the Lancers 32 to 12. In week four, we taking on and unbeaten Newfane and we also beat them by a score of 14 to 0. In week five, we faced some difficulties with the rain, but we ended beating Springville 22 to 0. After that game, we knew that we would be put to a test. The Albion Purple Eagles came to Alden in week 6 for a huge division game and we beat them 21 to 6. In week seven, we were playing for a division championship against Maryvale, both teams were undefeated. We beat Maryvale 16 to 6 to win the division. Then in week 8 we faced the B South Champions, Lackawanna for our final home game. We beat them 36 to 6. The final game of the 2010 football season for our team took place at Depew for the Class B Section 6 J.V. title. Depew won their division and not many people gave us a shot to win this game, but our team knew we could win this game and we were right. We beat Depew 17 to 6 to win the championship. I have never had a greater feeling in my life after beating Depew. Our team worked so hard this year and we deserved what we accomplished. Hopefully next season, the J.V. team will play as well as we did this year.

1/10-1/14 #3

Right now there are 8 teams left in the NFL playoffs. After this week end there will only be 4 teams left. In less than a month we will have a Superbowl Champion. I really have no team that I am really rooting for, but there is one team in particular that I am routing against. It is the New England Patriots. Here is a team that everybody says is so good, but let's face it. They really are not that good and they are cheaters. Actually that just made me think of a great idea. Cam Newton should be drafted by New England next year because he would fit in great there because he is also a cheater. Poor Reggie Bush gets his Heisman Trophy taken away from him which isn't fair and then Cam Newton does the same thing if not worse. But he is fine, he doesn't get suspended or his trophy taken away from him. Great job on this whole controversy by the NCAA. Just kidding, the NCAA is such a poorly ran organization. How does college football not have a playoff system yet? This is ridiculous. Anyway, I will get back to the NFL playoffs now. This is how I think the rest of the season will play out. This Saturday, there is a game at 4 and it is the Ravens against the Steelers. The Ravens split the season series with Pittsburgh. Even though this game will be played in Pittsburgh, I like the Ravens to win because they are hot right now and they actually may be the best team in the NFL. Ravens will win 20 to 17. The night game on Saturday involves Green Bay and Atlanta. In the regular season, Atlanta won this game by a field goal. This time I think Aaron Rogers will lead the Packers to a win. Packers win 38 to 28. On Sunday, Seattle will be taking on the Chicago Bears. Seattle made a neat little run there, but it comes to an end this week end because they will be really be playing a good defense and in bad conditions. Chicago wins 27 to 14. The final game on Sunday will have another division rematch with the Jets and Patriots. Patriots will win this game only because Rex Ryan runs his mouth too much and he will pay for it. Patriots win 23 to 13. So this leaves four teams left in the playoffs. The Patriots, Bears, Packers, and Ravens. My prediction is that the Packers will beat the Bears and the Ravens will shut up all of the Patriot, bandwagon fans. So the Superbowl will involve Green Bay and Baltimore. I would love to see either of these teams win the Superbowl. They are both young and very talented. This would be a very good game. Experts always say though the game's most important aspects are the running game, the better quarterback, the better line, and the better defense. Both quarterbacks are good, but Rodgers is better than Flaco. I am a James Starks fan, but I don't think he is better than Ray Rice. Ironically, both of those running backs are from New York. Then the better defense I think belongs to Baltimore by a hair. And finally, I would also say Baltimore has a better line. Baltimore will win this game 27 to 24. I hope this is the Superbowl match up we get.

1/10-1/14#2

My typical Superbowl Sunday is like a Christmas for many little kids. I wake up on Superbowl Sunday and I just feel a rush of excitement run through me because it is such a big day for me. The day usually starts off with my mom making me a nice breakfast to start off the big day. While eating breakfast, I also read the sports page because the Buffalo News usually puts together a nice Superbowl special that I always enjoy reading. Starting the night before the Superbowl, I am always watching Superbowl rewinds. I always love watching these classic football games that get me ready for the upcoming Superbowl. Then at about twelve, people start coming over to my house for a party. Usually all the guys come over at this time and play cards and watch Superbowl rewinds. Also, my mother always puts together a great spread so the food is definitely one of the best parts of the day. On Superbowl, I usually put on about 5 pounds I would have to say. I have to be honest. I would argue my next statement with anybody in the world. Superbowl Sunday is not only a holiday, but i believe that it is one of the best holidays. So anyway, going back to my typical Superbowl Sunday. The guys will usually play cards until about 6. Then everybody will eat dinner. Usually my mother orders pizza and subs so the dinner is always something to look forward to. This year, I will have to make sure my mother orders the food from Carbones so we keep my good friend Ryan Pinkowski in Business. Finally the best part of the day is the game. Usually I don't really care who wins the game, I just want it to be a good game. As long as the Patriots are not playing in the game, I don't get too into who wins and loses. The final part about Superbowl Sunday that I enjoy is when I go to bed, I really hope for a snow day the next day because I am always tired.

1/10-1/14 #1

Social Networking really has not impacted my life very much. I have only been involved with one social network and it is Facebook. I believe that a lot of these social networking sites and programs are stupid. I mean let us use twitter for example. All summer all I heard was how all these famous athletes would tweet something so stupid like "Going to the mall". Honestly, who cares about LeBron James saying what he is doing every single minute of his life. Twitter is stupid, why do people feel the need to just post to people what they are doing. It is so stupid! I have never had a twitter and never will have a twitter. It is that simple. Some people really need to learn to live a life. Twitter is stupid, end of discussion. MySpace is another thing that was so big at one point and I don't get why. I never had a MySpace. Whenever I heard about MySpace it always had to do with something bad. People always thought that they were cool for having a MySpace, but I did not have one and I think I turned out alright. Even Facebook, is used in a pretty stupid manner at times. I only use Facebook for another way to talk to friends, and talk to some of my buddies from other towns. Some people use Facebook just like people use twitter. They say what they are doing every second of their life and it's stupid. So I would definitely have to say social networking has not affected my life, but for some kids it definitely has. Social networking can definitely make people lazy, as matter of fact, I have realized that all the people that are constantly on line and lazy and people that complain all the time and it is because they don't get out in the world. Also, these social networking things can be bad because some kids do some inappropriate things on them. Social Networking does not affect me very much.

1/3-1/7#1

In my opinion, 2010 was a great year and I couldn't ask for a much better year than that. It got off to a rocky start when someone I knew I actually died in early January. Actually, it was a year ago today exactly. I remember going to his wake and funeral and it was just a very upsetting, emotional time. 2010 also started off a bad because my basketball team didn't play very well and we ended up with a losing record on the season. I also caught the flu in early 2011, so I got off to a rough year, but the year would only get better. I March I was looking forward to a good birthday, but it ended up being my worst birthday because I caught the flu yet again. Then I ended up having a decent baseball season, we only lost a couple of games and I felt honored to play on a great team. This year I started something new that I thought would improve my football game a lot. I started working work with Coach Kubiak who played college football at Navy and at St. Francis High School, but he tries to keep that a secret because Coach Currin ended up going there which took away any greatness of St. Francis high school. I also got the opportunity to go to the Syracuse football camp. My football team and I worked very hard this summer which was awesome because it paid off. My summer was very fun. Football season was incredible to say the least, my team didn't lose a game and I got the opportunity to play at the Ralph. I wish the Yankees and Bills would have done better this year, but that is out of my control. My Duke Blue Devils won the National Championship which is no surprise at all. I capped off the year with a great Christmas and I really though 2010 was a great year.

1/3-1/7#2

I think that 2010 was an incredible year, but I am hoping that 2011 will be even better. In 2011 I hope that I accomplish many great things in the classroom and with my teammates in athletics. I also hope that all of my family and friends stay safe and have an enjoyable year. I have already came up with many goals for 2011 in sports and I am working hard already with my teammates to accomplish my goals. A lot of my goals have to do with football for next season. My first goal is that I want my team to have an undefeated season. Personally, I hate losing and I don't accept anything less than winning so I put in a ton of time in the off season so I limit my chances of losing. Secondly I would like to win the division title for the second straight year. Every season, winning the division is one of my goals because it means a lot to me to be the best team in your division. My final goal in football for 2011 will be to win a state championship and end our football season at the Carrier Dome. In my opinion, for a high school athlete this is the greatest accomplishment. I think along the way of winning a state championship, we will have many tough tasks, but we are a tough team and I think we can complete these tasks if we keep working hard. First, we will have to win our section title for the second straight year which is never easy, and we will also have to beat the two- time defending state champion, Hornell. We will also have to beat them in Rochester this year because that is where the regionals are held next season. That is my major goal for next year. In 2011, I just hope that I have a good, fun time and I also hope that everyone stays safe.

1/3-1/7 #3

It was the night before the much waited opening day of hunting season. Every hunter was so prepared for opening day because many hunters would consider opening day a holiday. Well the Stoldt family was ready just like every hunter. The Stoldt family owns a cabin up in Attica, New York with a few other families. All of the hunters that owned the cabin were staying the night at the cabin so they could get out nice and early to hunt. Mr. Stoldt had to go to a football game in Rochester and then he was going to meet his sons at the cabin later at night. His one son was Tyler, and his other son was Brian, also known as the young one. Well Brian and Tyler both had basketball practice in the evening so they would not go to the cabin until nine. At home the boys were getting all the gear and ammunition ready to go hunting. They were putting all of their supplies in the dining room and they were taking it out to the car. Tyler had his hands full, and Brian picked the shot guns. Brian put all of the things he picked up into the car and asked Ty "Ty is there anything else that needs to be put in the car?" Tyler replied with "Nope, I got everything." So the boys hit the road and they were having a great conversation. One thing, Brian said in the conversation was “Gee, it just seems like things have not been going our way lately." Well on the ride to the cabin it seemed like life was perfect for the brothers. When they got to the cabin, they pulled up next to the driveway and started getting all the supplies out of the car. Tyler said to me " Hey Bri, where is my duffle bag with the ammunition?" "Didn't you grab it Ty?" The Stoldt’s left the bag at home so they had to drive all the way back to Alden. On the car ride home, these are some of the comments Tyler said. "Boy, you called that one Brian, didn’t you!? Things just aren't going our way lately. You are so stupid! And by the way you're fat too! How can you be this stupid!?" The ride home back to Alden was 25 minutes of this and Brian did not say one word. When they got home, Ty picked up the bag and Brian said "I'm not going hunting now." So it was a 20 minute fight that finally made Brian go back to the cabin. This was the night that the Stoldt brothers will never forget.