Ready, Set, Go: Feb. 7

Each weekday morning, Patch delivers what you simply need to know and can’t miss. Whether it’s a school board meeting later that evening, the lowdown on the weather or a must-read on Patch, we’ll lay it out for you every morning. Getting out the door’s challenging enough, we can’t help you find your keys (check your purse) but we can tell you what you need to know to rock the day.

1.     On Sunday, it was all we could do in Patchlandia to keep from donning shorts and lying out to bask in the sunshine in our backyard. However modesty, and the thick layer of snow crust covering our lounge chair, kept us safely inside in our sweats. We did see our baby Patch outside on his bike zipping around  the neighborhood with his buddies and for a brief moment, we were sure we’d made it through the worst of this snowy, snowy winter. However, in this week’s weather forecast issued by our friends at the National Weather Service, the word “snow” is found a few times, lest we forget that there are still 41 days to forge through until spring. Kiss Sunday’s sunshine good-bye as it looks to be turning rainy the first part of the week with the old one-two rain/snow punch lurking around the early part of Tuesday and then clear skies through Wednesday.

2.     We don’t know if it was the Black Eyed Peas performance at the Super Bowl that’s gotten us really excited about sports— or maybe it was the football cupcakes our neighbor brought over before the game— but as the end of the winter sports season draws near, there’s plenty to cheer for in Falcons sports. Here’s Monday’s lineup:

• at Harmony Lanes in Middletown at 3:45 p.m.
• in Long Branch at 5:15 p.m.
• at home at 6:30 p.m.
• at Holmdel at 7 p.m. 

3.     AJ Visconti is back this week giving Patch an update on what’s going on in Monmouth Regional winter sports. His signed a letter of intent to play Division 1 field hockey with Temple University. Backman came late to the sport, only starting her sophomore year, but caught the attention of a number of D1 schools with her commitment to the game.

4.     selected by Visconti include Backman as well as Falcons wrestlers junior Dom Cardella, and seniors Clinton Cotton and Marcus Johnson. Monmouth Regional wrestling has so far broken is all-time wins this season with a 14-6 record and still has another five matches left.

5.     Patch caught up with the . Held at Red Bank’s Two Rivers Theater, the party had lots of board of education members out in support of the organization’s efforts. If you missed them Friday night, you can find them all together again p.m. at the Mahala F. Achison School. No wine here but it would just make you sleepy anyway.