As the season's change, so do the sports that we cover. The first game of any new sporting season for me is always a lot of fun.
First of all, I am usually ready to move on from whatever sport just wrapped up and looking forward to a change of pace, but also each sport brings a different background with it.
During basketball season photographers curse the dimly lit interiors of most high school gyms, so when baseball season comes around, being outside at sunset is a blessing.
It's bittersweet though, because as the golden light of sunset blankets the field we are reminded that it is still only March and temperatures near freezing are still the norm. Leaving us wishing for the warmth of a packed gymnasium.

Here is a little preview of what you will find online and in today's Beacon-News. Check out the story in the sports section to see more photos and read up on this years Girls Player of the Year: Geneva's Kat Yelle.

Indian villagers covered in colored dye light cigarettes during Holi celebrations, the Hindu festival of colors in the village of Jaav 120 kilometers (113 miles) south of New Delhi, India, Monday, March 21, 2011. The festival marks the end of the winter season. (AP Photo/KevinFrayer)

A demonstrator tries to protect themself from a police water cannon during a demonstration outside of an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, March 24, 2011. European leaders hope to approve what they see as a comprehensive solution to the instability of the euro. But new uncertainly loomed as the Portuguese government is forced from power by opposition parties who think the proposed austerity package there went too far. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

A demonstrator falls after throwing a rock at police outside an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, March 24, 2011. European leaders hope to approve what they see as a comprehensive solution to the instability of the euro. But new uncertainly loomed as the Portuguese government is forced from power by opposition parties who think the proposed austerity package there went too far. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

A Libyan woman reacts with her hands written on them in Arabic " I love Libya' as she joins a rally in support of the allied air campaigns against the forces of Moammar Gadhafi in Benghazi, eastern Libya, Wednesday, March 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Women hang their laundry on makeshift lines in the seats of a gymnasium that has turned into an evacuation center in Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture, northern Japan, Thursday, March 24, 2011. Hundreds of thousands remain homeless, squeezed into temporary shelters without heat, warm food or medicine and no idea what to call home after the March 11 tsunami swallowed up communities along the coast and dozens of strong aftershocks continued to shake the nation. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

A Yemeni army officer, center, is kissed by an anti-government protestor during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa,Yemen, Friday, March 25, 2011. Facing growing calls for his resignation, Yemen's longtime ruler told tens of thousands of supporters Friday that he's ready to leave power but he doesn't trust his opposition, whom he called "drug dealers. Ali Abdullah Saleh spoke in a rare appearance before a cheering crowd outside his presidential palace in the Yemeni capital Friday on a day of dueling demonstrations. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels on Friday, March 25, 2011. EU leaders wrap up a two day summit on Friday focusing on the situation in Libya, the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and new financial measures they hope will contain the debt crisis that has rocked the continent for more than a year. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

A 15 meter ( 49 feet) tall head is fixed on a torso with cranes and integrated into the floating stage on Lake Constance near Bregenz, Austria Thursday March 24, 2011. It is part of the stage setting for the opera 'Andre Chenier' by Italian composer Umberto Giordano and is shown during the annual Bregenz Opera festival. The premiere is on July 20, 2011. (AP Photo/ dapd/ Felix Kaestle)

Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav arrives at a court in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, March 22, 2011. An Israeli court sentenced former Israeli President Moshe Katsav to seven years in prison for rape Tuesday, making him the highest-ranking Israeli official ever sent to jail in a case that has riveted the country for nearly five years. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

North Carolina's Dexter Strickland dunks during practice for an East regional semifinal game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Thursday, March 24, 2011, in Newark, N.J. North Carolina will play Marquette on Friday. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Baltimore Orioles first baseman Derrek Lee waits for a Minnesota Twins player to step into the batter's box during the first inning of a spring training baseball game in Fort Myers, Fla., Wednesday, March 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Cadet Chief Petty Officer Lindsey Bonitz of Aurora watches the color guard warm up before they present the colors at the State Sectional Basketball game at East Aurora High School in Aurora on Friday, March 11, 2011.

I met Walter at a rally earlier today in Naperville, but among all the commotion never once did he bark or raise a fuss. It made me wonder what Walter would have thought about what was going on...

An Egyptian protester waves an Egyptian flag during a rally in Cairo's Tahrir Square, Egypt, Friday, March 18, 2011, as demonstrators call for a "no" vote in Saturday's referendum on constitutional amendments. A package of key constitutional amendments sponsored by Egypt's ruling military will be put to a nationwide vote on Saturday. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Wounded anti-government protestors lay on the ground as they received medical help at a field hospital during clashes with security forces in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, March 18, 2011. Yemeni security forces fired from rooftops at protesters as some tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators gathered in central Sanaa, killing at least 31 protesters. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Riot police stand guard during a demonstration in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 18, 2011. Protesters gathered to demonstrate against corruption and the lack of government services in Baghdad's Tahrir Square, one of at least four demonstrations, in Iraqi cities on Friday. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Chicago Bulls' Omer Asik, of Turkey, is fouled by New Jersey Nets' Kris Humphries, right, as Nets' Sundiata Gaines, left, helps out during the third quarter of an NBA basketball game, Thursday, March 17, 2011, in Newark, N.J. The Bulls won 84-73. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)

A youngster rests in a school gymnasium being used as a center for people to stay at whose homes were damaged by the tsunami in Ofunato, Japan, Wednesday, March 16, 2011. Two search and rescue teams from the U.S. and a team from the U.K. with combined numbers of around 220 personnel searched the town for survivors Wednesday to help in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

A partially destroyed building is draped with fishing nets carried inland by the tsunami into the town of Minamisanriku, Friday, March 18, 2011. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

Table mountain is seen lit up in green, in a spectacular display to commemorate St Patrick's Day in Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, March 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

Men, who used to work in Libya and fled the unrest in the country, play football in a refugee camp at the Tunisia-Libyan border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Thursday, March 17, 2011. More than 250,000 migrant workers have left Libya for neighboring countries, primarily Tunisia and Egypt, in the past three weeks. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Waubonsie Valley played Rockford for the Blackhawk Cup last night at the Edge Ice Arena in Bensenville. Sadly, The Warriors came up short and fell to the Icemen 4-0.
The whole game I was drawn to these people that were hanging on the glass, even as players were smashed into the boards they stayed right there. This was my favorite from the bunch, but check the paper tomorrow for some more highlights from the game!

After photographing this class my respect for the men and women in blue was taken to a whole new level. I could feel the panic in the rooms rise as students would look for their assailants and try to subdue them. Everyone knew the guns were fake, but the feeling was still there. I could not imagine entering a room without any knowledge of it's inhabitants or worse, knowing the guns inside were made of metal and not plastic.

The aurora borealis, or northern lights, fill the sky above the Takotna, Alaska checkpoint during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Bob Hallinen)

Migrants ride on top of a northern bound train toward the US-Mexico border in Ixtepec, in Oaxaca, southern Mexico, Thursday, March 10, 2011. The Mexican Senate approved last Feb. 24 a bill offering undocumented migrants greater rights, while stripping out controversial proposals to toughen enforcement measures. Migrants crossing Mexico to get to the U.S. have increasingly become targets of criminal gangs who kidnap them to obtain ransom money. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Police remove a protester from the Capitol Thursday, March 10, 2011, in Madison, Wis. The state's Assembly passed Republican Gov. Scott Walker's explosive proposal 53-42. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Mardi Gras reveler Mike Turpin, whose night still isn't over, reacts as a front loader collects beads and other debris left behind by revelers on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, early Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Ash Wednesday marks the end of Mardi Gras festivities and the beginning of the Lenten season for Catholics. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

First-aiders watch as South Korea's Hwang Hyun-Sun crashes into a barrier during a training session for the World Short Track Speed Skating Championships at the Motorpoint arena in Sheffield, England, Thursday, March 10, 2011. She was not hurt in the crash. The event runs from Friday March 11 until Sunday March 13. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Besse Cooper, 114, right, receives a kiss from her grandson Paul Cooper, 42, during a ceremony in which Guinness World Records recognizes her as the word's oldest living person, at the nursing home where she lives, Thursday, March 10, 2011, in Monroe, Ga. (AP Photo/John Amis)

Beach chairs sit empty along Agua Dulce beach which is normally full of people in Lima, Peru, Friday March 11, 2011. Latin American governments ordered islanders and coastal residents to head for higher ground on Friday as the vast Pacific seaboard readied for a possible tsunami raised by Japan's magnitude-8.9 earthquake. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)

In this photo taken during a government-organised visit for foreign media, a pro-Gadhafi soldier stands on a tank next to a destroyed building in the main square of Zawiya, 30 miles (50 kilometers) west of Tripoli, in Libya, Friday, March 11, 2011. Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi's regime has gained momentum with the capture of Zawiya after days of fierce fighting with rebels, in a key test of the government's ability to maintain its hold on the Libyan capital and surrounding areas. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

An anti-government protestor reacts during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, March 11, 2011. Yemen's embattled president on Thursday proposed a new constitution guaranteeing the independence of the parliament and judiciary, but thousands of unsatisfied protesters poured into the streets to demand his ouster. Opposition leaders promptly rejected President Ali Abdullah Saleh's offer and called for mass demonstrations Friday, marking a month since the protests began. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Houses swallowed by tsunami waves burn in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture (state) after Japan was struck by a strong earthquake off its northeastern coast Friday, March 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

A constant companion for any road warrior...

A new feature here on the Visualouge, Photos of the Week is a chance for you to see some of the amazing photographs produced at big news events around the world. We started this blog, not only to share our photos, but to share great photography. There is so much going on in the world today, the Photos of the Week post will be your spot to see what is happening beyond the borders of the Fox Valley.

An anti-government protestor, left, sprays foam to cool off other demonstrators shouting slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, March 2, 2011. Yemen's embattled president on Tuesday accused the U.S., his closest ally, of instigating the mounting protests against him, but the gambit failed to slow the momentum for his ouster. Banner on right reads in Arabic, "I would rather die but my people live". (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

People attempt to collect oil spilled from an Afghanistan-bound NATO oil tanker, after it was allegedly attacked by militants in Peshawar, Pakistan on Thursday, March 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

A supporter of Pakistan's government minister for religious minorities Shahbaz Bhatti mourns over his death outside a local hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, March 2, 2011. Gunmen shot and killed Bhatti, the latest attack on a high-profile Pakistani figure threatened by Islamist militants for urging reform of harsh blasphemy laws that impose the death penalty for insulting Islam. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistani Christian women mourn over the death of their leader Shahbaz Bhatti, during a rally in his native town Khushpur near Faisalabad, Pakistan, on Friday, March 4, 2011. Bhatti, 42, was gunned down in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, after receiving death threats because he had urged Pakistan to reform its harsh laws that impose the death penalty for insulting Islam. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

U.S. soldier from the 2nd Infantry Division wearing a gas mask and anti-chemical gear participates during a joint military drill between U.S. and South Korea for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear detection and response capabilities at U.S. military base, Camp Casey in Dongducheon, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 3, 2011. South Korean and U.S. troops kicked off their annual drills Monday, while North Korea slammed the maneuvers as a rehearsal for invasion that could trigger a nuclear war on the divided peninsula. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Libyan rebels who are part of the forces against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi stand with an anti-aircraft gun as they prepare to the front-line near Ras Lanuf, west of the town of Brega, eastern Libya, Friday, March 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

Baltimore Orioles Koji Uehara pitches against the Pittsburgh Pirates during the sixth inning of their spring training baseball game, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011, in Bradenton, Fla. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell goes through the revolving door as he arrives for football labor negotiations with the NFL players involving a federal mediator, Friday, March 4, 2011, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

A Chinese military band rehearses before the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) held in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, China, Thursday, March 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A model presents a creation by Israeli fashion designer Alber Elbaz, for Lanvin Fall-Winter ready-to-wear 2012, fashion collection, presented in Paris, Friday, March. 4 , 2011.(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

In a game that featured more lead changes than a Nascar race, East Aurora defeated Neuqua Valley 62-59 to advance to the Sectional round.
I've posted previously about how many sports we shoot throughout the year, but few of those games top what happened at Bolingbrook high school last Friday night. Neither team ever lead by more than 5 points and down by 3 with 38 seconds left, East Aurora's Ryan Boatright nailed the shot that would send the game into overtime.
Next up for East Aurora- Undefeated and top ranked Benet Academy on Tuesday.