For the 4th, the Weed went to Jordan G to make his mound debut for this season, and he immediately got a groundball … We just ran into some bad luck in this one, mostly because our many hard-hit balls found gloves whereas two of our opponents’ went for homers that led to four runs, more than their margin of victory. The Weed went down 1-2-3 in the bottom of the 6th (despite another hard-hit ball, this one by Jordan N, that went straight to the center fielder - the way our hitting went this game, you would have thought the outfield was wall-to-wall fielders), sending us to the top of the 7th. With the game within reach, we went to Saturday’s Game 2 starter Dylan for one inning of relief, and he turned in a 15-pitch, three-swinging-strikeout gem. Our opponents, Holy Name Carmody, turned out to have a large contingent of players from Holy Name Meehan, the longtime dynasty that we knocked out in the semifinals two years ago behind a 138-pitch masterpiece from Dylan. A hundred years ago, these two closely related weed species, charlock and wild radish (runch), along with couch, were the most troublesome weeds of arable crops (Common weeds of farm and garden, H C Long, 1910). In 1897, the value of copper sulphate at controlling charlock was discovered accidentally and this became the most widely used selective herbicide in the UK in the early 20th century - 30 years before MCPA and 2,4-D were discovered.

Control of charlock and wild radish is largely dependent on herbicides on most farms, so maintaining the availability and efficacy of a wide range of herbicides is essential. Rotations which include spring as well as autumn sown crops are unlikely to be as effective against charlock and wild radish as they are against autumn germinating grass-weeds such as black-grass, although they may enable the use of a wider range of herbicides. Both species can act as alternative hosts for a range of crop pests and pathogens, including the beet cyst nematode. The Cuban royal palm is a species of tree that can be found in the Caribbean, Mexico, southern Florida and Central America. This is difficult as there are fewer, effective non-chemical options and the highly competitive nature of these species means that infestations must be reduced as much as possible. This led the 3rd General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) of 1901 to officially declare "The word weight denotes a quantity of the same nature as a force: the weight of a body is the product of its mass and the acceleration due to gravity", thus distinguishing it from mass for official usage.

Ben C led off with a walk, then Jordan N hit a slow roller to the right side that he was able to beat out when the second baseman couldn’t play it cleanly. Sam hit yet another at-‘em ball with a long drive that the left fielder tracked down for the first out. Dylan drew a walk to open the bottom of the second, then Yates cracked a line drive to left … 3 hitter Jack O. He cracked a long line drive to left-center, rounding second and heading for third - which turned out to be a bad idea, as Jordan N ran the ball down and hit cutoff man Dylan with his throw, then Dylan threw to Max at third, who made a nifty tag of the runner for the third out. The top of the 6th may have been the craziest sequence of all: walk, pickoff by Jordan G, walk, throwing error on a pickoff throw and throwing error on the subsequent throw that allowed the runner to reach third, טלגראס צפון טלגראס כיוונים בת ים (https://telegrass2u.com/טלגראס-כיוונים-בת-ים) grounder to third that Dylan threw home to Max for the tag out at the plate, stolen base, wild pitch, walk, hit batter (poor Derek again) to load the bases, and finally a strikeout looking of Andy to end the inning with, somehow, no more runs allowed.

Autumn emerging charlock plants may be killed by low winter temperatures but wild radish tends to be more frost-tolerant. QUICK - which AERO member can start a fire rubbing sticks together; catch a trout with his bare hands; is a published writer, builder of energy-efficient homes, self-taught web-master, producer of educational videos, takes to the wild in winter with nothing but a wool blanket; AND is taking the lead in establishing an exciting new public park at the Missouri headwaters? Charlock and wild radish are susceptible to competition, especially at the early growth stages, and a strongly competitive crop will assist other control measures. Establishing spring crops by direct drilling or with minimal soil disturbance should reduce the numbers of charlock and wild radish emerging in the crop. The long persistence of charlock and wild radish seeds in the soil, their competitiveness and fecundity, mean that detecting resistance at an early stage is vital. We needed to start getting some hits - any hits - to stage a comeback, and in the bottom of the 5th we finally did.