THE OCCASIONAL ORBITER

    Hi, hello, and welcome, it's time once again for your occasional 
reading.

              **** Summer League Delayed Once Again ****

    It appears that the wait will be yet another week for the start of the 
Space Cowboys Summer League.  The league, which had been scheduled to start 
this coming Tuesday, has been postponed for a second time.  This time 
however, one of the 'boys had something to do with it.  Thursday, of this 
past week, some of the team gathered at Sports of All Sorts to get in some 
practice.  After a few games of "lighting it up" they decided to call it 
quits.  it was at the time that Space Cowboy, Nick Lubbers, decided to take 
one last jump at the rim.  Little did he know that this would be the last 
for that particular rim.  That's right, the little six (6) foot four (4) 
inch one hundred fifty (150) pund monster we all know and love pretty much 
ripped the rim right off the backboard.  Needless to say he was awestruck.  
Never before had he shown that kind of shear power.  But the proof was there 
in the rim, hanging limp from the backboard.
    The management did come and survey the damage, putting the bill at 
apporxamatly four hundred (400) dollars ($).  Also, at that time, they 
pushed the leagues back one more week, for fear of not having the rim 
replaced in time for the scheduled start just five days later.  This is 
defintly a huge blow to the Space Cowboys because two (2) of the "star" 
players are only available for play until mid to late August.  The longer 
the league is pushed back, the less games these basketball "superstars" will 
participate in.  So when the Space Cowboys come within a game of the 
tournament, blame it on Mr. Lubbers, for if the league would have started on 
time, they would have had their entire team to compete for one week longer.

              **** T-Shirts STILL Available For Pickup ****

    The Space Cowboys official "game jersey" and "t-shirt" have been 
recieved and are available to be picked up at your convenience.  Quite a few 
have are ready been handed out, but we are still waiting on a few of you.  
As a reminder, your thirteen (13) dollars ($) is due before the "recieval" 
of your shirt.  Don't wait too long, because after thirty (30) days the 
shirts become sole property of the Space Cowboys.  And they may do whatever 
they wish with them.  So don't hesitate.  Get your money in and the shirt on 
your back!

               **** Space Cowboys Offical Website Up ****

    The Space Cowboys launched their website for the first time this week.  
Keith Lubbers, "honarary" Cowboy came up with the design and did the 
programming for the site.  As he still has yet to find a job, he did this 
not as a favor to the Space Cowboys, but for one (1) orange personalized 
Space Cowboys t-shirt.  A small price to pay for the wonderful design.
    On the site you can find everything from personal and team stats, to the 
upcoming schedule and results.  Also, don't forget to check out the team 
roster and profiles.  The site will be updated as often as possible, but the 
Occasional Orbiter will still be there to let you know of all the happenings 
of the home team.
    You can find the Space Cowboys Official Team site at 
www.geocities.com/spaceranch2001.

                 **** Space Cowboys Softball Update ****

    The Space Cowboys Softball team continued their losing ways Friday 
night.  For just the second time of the season, the 'boys kept the score 
within ten (10) runs to force the entire game to be played.  Overall this 
was a much better showing for the hometeam, who put together a couple solid 
innings with five runs to show for them.
    Mike Ash followed up his first ever hits in the previous game to once 
again go "0 fer", dropping his average to even more of a disgrace.  On the 
bright side, Kevin Brinkman continued his hot hitting have a nice three hit 
night.
    The Cowboys will once again be taking the field this week at the new 
sports complex at FOPA.  The time of the game will be forthcoming.



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                            Editor-in-Chief

                          Nick "Stud" Lubbers

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