They are not about to limit out, as we salty dogs like to say

The Cape girls lacrosse team is the newest of Cape sports – let’s call it an “add-on alternate” to keep with second turf field jargon - and played its first varsity season in 2003. The program began in 2000 springing out of the Atlantic Lacrosse Foundation with enthusiasts such as Patsy Carpenter, Ann Mazzata and Jen Eckman.

The first “all call” produced 45 girls in grades 5-8 wanting to learn the lax game.

The Cape school board wisely approved adding girls lacrosse to the sports lineup requiring two years of a junior varsity schedule before going varsity. Kathleen Fluharty got the school program off the ground in 2001.

In 2002 Gretchen Wyshock, hired to teach physical education, was given the program, and in 2003 it was first-year varsity. Diane Brown of Rehoboth was an early assistant to Wyshock, and the girls did well until they took the field against St. Andrew’s and Worcester and were summarily but not merrily schooled in the final points of a free-flowing game always in motion.

Cape made the tournament in 2004 and has been a player ever since. Ted Haas - Coach Dad - and Mike Faust served as assistants to Wyshock as did Jen Harpel and later Steve Aubrey as a volunteer goalie coach. P.J. Kesmodel came to the beach to retire but in 2007 served as an assistant.

In 2008 coach Gretchen Hass-Wyshock took her hyphenated name, her Coach Dad and husband Travis and stepped out of teaching to raise a family.

Coaches P.J. Kesmodel and Bill Lingo have been steering the ship the last two seasons and with one state championship trophy in the boat they are not about to limit out, as we salty dogs like to say.

STACCATO SPORTS SHORTS - I will watch a professional playoff football game, but I am worn out by the ensuing short, loud bursts of staccato sports analyses. Just because a person is loud and using short sentences with no pauses in between doesn’t make it any more important or interesting.

A game is played, and then it is over! Can’t we just all move on to the next “crucial and huge” game?

“How big is this game for your team, Coach?”

“This game is huge, really huge. They don’t get any bigger.”

“Nothing bigger than really huge except perhaps astronomically gigantic, isn’t that right, Coach?”

BEAT UP ON BRETT - I must now endure another week of Brett Favre talk - thanks to the Cowgirls allowing him to throw four touchdown passes - as I am convinced some people are placed on Earth by a god just to test my humanity and humility. Talk good about him all you want, and I’m sure you are right, I just don’t like him. Admit it, have you ever been around a person everyone likes but you don’t and your only answer as to why you don’t is “I don’t know why, I just don’t.”

I do know the sports community gave him a free pass on the whole painkiller addiction phase of his life. My own question is why doesn’t he use his media juice to help America kick its number one destructive cocktail, a 16-ounce Budweiser and two Percocets.

Just saw an article creep onto my desktop after a Google search: “Will Percocet harm a nursing baby?” I could go off in all directions on that one so, like the Dallas Cowboys, I’ll just throw in the towel.

LAND DOWN UNDER - It may have been in fifth grade when I witnessed a woman teacher who was not a nun crumple and quit her job, saying she just couldn’t live anymore inside the world where everything was double meaning, inference and innuendo. I saw a third-grade nun lose her mind: “Whose boot is this with the red ball on the bottom?” - and a sixth-grade nun belch and boogie to the convent, never to return.

I was watching the first round of the Australian Open as Maria Kirilenko upset Maria Sharapova as the announcer said, “Sharapova is always extremely aggressive when playing down under.” I went fifth-grade as I leered my eyeballs from side to side, but the dogs don’t do double meaning. Let’s not even get into those unintentional utterances known as Freudian slips; suffice it to say if you throw up enough words, someday someone will throw sawdust on your career.

SNIPPETS - I am the sports guy so naturally, or is that unnaturally, I am all for turf field two. I can feel the pain of the punch lists posse and I think Cape should fix all those construction concerns in the new high school but build the field while you can so generations can enjoy it.