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Monday - July 17, 2006

Alumni news: Ontiveros and Emond

Sad to report that the Coastal Bend Aviators released Jeff Ontiveros about a week ago.

The Quebec Capitales announced over the weekend that they traded Ben (Benoit) Emond to the Edmonton Cracker-Cats of the Northern League for a player to be named later. I was very intrigued by that name...the Cracker-Cats. What in the world is a Cracker-Cat? I found their web site (Ben's not yet listed on their roster as I post this) and am guessing, based on their logo...

...that a Cracker-Cat might be something like an oil wildcatter. That's what the oil derick and fancy oil-drop dash brings to mind, at any rate. Doing a cursory web search for the term only revealed that Edmonton baseball team, though.

Posted by Joanna at 10:56 PM