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2013 Spring Season, Week 8 Games

Day	Date	FC77	Team	Time	Field
Sat	5/18	Rangers	Binks Wolfhounds	noon	Gladstone HS
	5/18	Bollocks	Highlanders o30	5 pm	LaSalle HS
Sun	5/19	Old Nicks	Gresham East	10 am	Gladstone HS
	5/19	Newcastle	Rodders	noon	Clackamas CC
	5/19	Hibernian	FC Oldtimers	2 pm	Clackamas CC
	5/19	Last Call	SBFC Beulaland	6 pm	LaSalle HS

May 14, 2013. Our former macro brew loving PBR team renamed themselves as the wistful sounding Last Call. Dave Crist continues on as the manager.

Old Nicks passed on playing their match Sunday 5/12/13. There was a Timbers home match at 2pm for which other league teams got reschedules.

Fall Registration (!)

May 17, 2013. As GPSD so correctly reminds us, it's time to register for 2013 Fall Season.

The season will start at the first of September and will consist of 10 matches. Most games will be on Sunday, with some Saturdays possibly scheduled.

Registration deadline is July 22nd at 11:59pm.

New Name, Same Tourney

That's the Rose Festival Soccer Classic tournament, formally known as the Oregon Classic. 2013 will bring this tournament into the Rose Festival Fleet of Activities.

The tournament will run May 25th-27th, 2013 which is Memorial Day Weekend. Registration was open to a couple new divisions, the U-18’s and Over 60’s. View all the information on this tournament from hotels, rules and other information by clicking here.

"Ernie the Canadian" - 1978.

April 28, 2013. As you look at our FC77 title web page, you'll notice in the top row of the image a graying gentleman. In those late 1970's seasons, he was the elder statesman of the SJO Irregulars. We were an open team aged 25-33; Ernie Martin was an amazingly old 42-43.

But, Ernie more than held his own on the pitch because he could do what most of us couldn't - pass and shoot accurately. Well, after a couple of years of the mental abuse of playing on a team of the truly mediocre, Ernie bid us adieu.

But Ernie was never forgotten by those of us there at the beginning of what came to be FC77. Ernie's back story for us was that he was Canadian; had been in the (Canadian) Navy and owned his own business in the Portland area. We lost track of Ernie, but he many times was the subject of , "I wonder what Ernie's up to?"

A day ago, David Porter happened to be reading the Oregonian Obits and came across this death notice. Ernie, we'll always remember you fondly; you were there at the start

The Maestro Gets Recognition

March 10, 2013. David Porter's blog made note of a very recent article in Alaska Airline's magazine by a fellow Over-50 player from Masterbooters, Jeff Wallach.

Jeff rightly gives Lajos Balogh the credit we all think he's due. The man plays Over 50 on a regular basis and he's 81!

The picture on the left shows him as a youthful 73 year old, back in 2005. He had only been playing regularly since age 65!

[The kid behind him is Al Gerritsen.]

Old Nicks Team Pix

February 24, 2013. As the Old Nicks fought to a satisfactory 2-2 tie with the Royals, Club photographer du jour Mike Calder captured the more senior senior team in glorious jpeg imagery.

While the Old Nicks team members were given access to the extensive Dropbox portfolio, we are able to share the group pictures with you.

And, yes, team manager Porter does seem to be taking slight umbrage at the picture taking process.

Old Nicks team manager David Porter writes a soccer blog titled: It's My Sodden Pitch. New entries all the time. Give it a read.