John Heffernan

When did I start coming to Point of Woods?
I have been coming to Point of Woods all my life starting in 2006 when I was a baby.

What I like to do at Point of Woods?
The beach is wonderful. The beach is really nice. There are really nice houses to look at while you are here.

Why Point of Woods is so special to me?

I can scooter and bike around by myself and stop by my friends houses to play with them. You can go down to the park whenever you want to play basketball, mulch monster, and definitely gaga ball.

Earlier this year, I started grapping sand from the bottom of the ocean at the raft.

There is an ice cream truck that stops by every day. There are so many different flavors.

There is a camp called “rec” that is really awesome and all my friends go there.

We play manhunt at night. There are two teams. One team counts to thirty or more but they can have their eyes open. The other team runs off and hides while the other team guards the base and they also try and look for the people. It’s a fun game. It’s exciting and a little bit scary when it is nine o’clock.

I want to come back again every year.

I got interested in understanding some baseball hitting stats and figured out the major ones for our leading hitters on on Conway Minors baseball team.  If only the Red Sox were putting up these numbers!

One thing that I learned is the difference between at bats and plate appearances.  At bats does not count walks and hit by pitches.  Plate appearances does count walks and hit by pitch.  So when they says so and so went 1 for 2 in a game, that  means they had one hit and one out and they may also have walked.  On Base Percentage (OBP) counts walks and hit by pitches and is thought by some to be more meaningful than batting average, which does not count walks.  Slugging average takes into account doubles, triples, and home runs and weighs them more heavily so it means the average base achieved per at bat.  Strikeout ratio is the simple ratio of strikeout to at bats.

I have not been keeping track of RBIs.  Davey would have a lot since he got at least 2 grand slams.  I did not have time to figure out the stats for all players but many other kids have also got hits and some are getting a high percentages of walks too.  However, these three in particular are hitting very well this year!