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Down on the FarmBy
Joba Chamberlain didn't make BA's Prospect Hot Sheet for the second time in 3 weeks, but do not fret, the Yanks were well represented as Ian Patrick Kennedy made the list at #11. Another well deserving Yankee farmhand made the cut, check out who's at #17.Â
Triple-A Scranton (4-0 win over Syracuse)
Justin Christian: 0 for 2, 2 R, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 SB
Shelley Duncan: 3 for 4, 1 R, 1 3B, 2 RBI, 1 K, 1 SBÂ - in other news, Andy Phillips is still on the 25 man roster
Bronson Sardinha, Angel Chavez & Eric Duncan: all 1 for 4 – Sardinha drove in a run, Duncan K'ed
Juan Francia: 1 for 3, 1 R, 1 2B – 13 hits in his last 24 AB
Steven White: 7.1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 3 BB, 2 K, 2 HBP – plunked Super Mario twice
Jimmy Brower: 1.2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 4-0 GB/FB – first hits allowed since June 11th
Double-A Trenton's game with Erie was called due to rain in the middle of the 3rd. Not much happened before that; Alan Horne went 2 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, and singles were had by Brett Gardner (he also walked, stole a base, got picked off first AND threw a runner out at 3rd), Andy Cannizaro, Noah Hall and Aarom Baldiris. No word on when or how they'll make this one up.
High-A Tampa (6-2 win over Daytona)
Reegie Corona: 0 for 4, 1 R, 1 BB, 2 K
Austin Jackson: 2 for 5, 1 K, 1 SBÂ - 7 hits and only the 1 K in 3 games since being promoted
Jose Tabata: 1 for 3, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 HBPÂ - alot of people think Joba's the organization's top prospect, but not me…this kid's only 18 and he's doing everything but hit for power in the FSL, and that's usually the last tool to come
Edwar Gonzalez: 3 for 5, 1 R, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 1 K
Marcos Vechionacci: 0 for 4, 1 BB – 2 for his last 21 with 6 K
Tim Battle: 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 2 K – second straight game with a jack
Walter Ibarra: 2 for 4, 2 R, 1 K, 1 SB
Danny McCutchen: 7 IP, 8 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 6 K – another game, another solid start deep into the game for McCutchen
Low-A Charleston (7-5 win over Savannah)
Mitch Hilligoss: 2 for 5, 2 R, 1 SBÂ - 5 multi-hit games in his last 8 contests
Kyle Anson: 0 for 5, 3 K
Seth Fortenberry: 2 for 3, 3 R, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 SB, 1 HBPÂ - 14 doubles, 12 homers this year
Kevin Smith: 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K
Eduardo Nunez: 2 for 4, 1 R, 2 RBI, 2 E (throwing, missed catch)Â - breaks a 2 for 23 slump…both errors came in the 9th
Josue Calzado: 1 for 4, 1 2B, 2 RBI, 1 K – gunned down a runner at the plate
Eric Hacker: 6 IP, 7 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 5 K, 2 WP, 1 Balk, 9-3 GB/FB
Jesse Hoover: 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 0 K, 1 WP
Edgar Soto: 0 IP, 0 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 0 K, 1 HBP - that's a funky little line…he hit a batter to start the inning, then an error was committed behind him, then he walked the next guy, and was pulled for …
Jon Hovis: 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K – allowed all 3 inherited runners to score via an error and a double…
Short Season Staten Island (7-3 win over Hudson Valley) took on an old friend in this one
Justin Snyder: 1 for 3, 1 R, 2 BB – college infielder played CF…and threw a runner out at 2nd
Luis Nunez: 3 for 4, 1 R, 1 2B, 3 RBI – 8 hits in 6 games with SI
Damon Sublett: 1 for 3, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 2 BB, 1 K – at least 1 K in each game so far
David Williams: 1 for 4, 2 R, 1 2B, 1 BB – 9 hits against only 1 K this year (threw a runner out at first)
Andres Perez: 0 for 5, 3 K
Austin Krum: 2 for 4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 K – 3 for 20 this year
Zach McAllister: 4.1 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 7-2 GB/FB – 12-3 GB/FB ratio this year
John Axford:Â 4 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K – has pitched at Short Season, Low-A, High-A and Triple-A this year
Rookie GCL Yanks (8-2 win over GCL Braves)
Abe Almonte: 2 for 5, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 SBÂ - signs of life after 4 hitless games (3 starts) to start the year
Prilys Cuello: 1 for 3, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K – at least one hit and one walk in all but 1 game this year
Ryan Wehrle: 2 for 4, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 BB
Brandon Laird: 2 for 4, 1 K, 1 HBP, 2 E (missed catch, pickoff)Â - he's hit in all 5 games so far
Zolio Almonte: 1 for 3, 1 R, 1 BB
Kelvin Castro: 2 for 5, 2 R, 2 K
Melky Mesa: 1 for 4, 1 R, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 2 K – 11 K in only 5 games
Andres Dionicio: 1 for 4, 1 R, 2 RBI, 1 K, 1 HBP
Larry Day: 1 for 5, 1 2B – first hit as a pro for Mr. Irrelevant
Ross Ohlendorf: 1.2 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 1 HB, 4-0 GB/FB – hey, I remember you…
Danny Gil: 3 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, 5-2 GB/FB
Dicky Marquez: 4 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 4 K, 1 WP
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White seems to be regaining form-so, two or so more good starts and is there any reason not to try him as our #5? Especially with the team most likely, what, 14 back by then?
Double-A Trenton's game with Erie was called due to rain in the middle of the 3rd.
no it wasn't jeez where do you get your info try http://www.milb.com
Couple questions:
Why has Braedyn Pruitt stopped playing at SI? He went 3-for-4 the first game. Hurt?
Any idea if Howes, Holliday and Morris are signing soon? I know their seasons just ended not long ago. Are any eligible to go back to school?
And for Zach, Clippard should still be ahead of White on the depth chart. You can't give up on the guy already. I'd even go to Desalvo before White. Desalvo and Clippard, for their problems in the majors, are still doing very well at AAA and deserve more chances.
I think it's a bad idea to put a ceiling on anyone. I cringe when Baseball America uses the term, especially when trying to predict three years down the line if a guy is a No. 2 or No. 4 starter, as if they are equal on all teams.
Now I obviously agree that Clippard is not Hughes. But it shouldn't take one of the top young pitchers in all of baseball to be a No. 5 starter. You can be a notch below that like Clippard and still succeed. And since it seems to be against the Yankees ideals to have two guys under 30 in the rotation, I too would trade Clippard for a good player. But let's not forget what TC has done.
Joba at 21: pitching well in AA after very strong high-A year
Ian at 21: 9.03K/9; 3.19BB/9; 1.34 WHIP; 3.90 ERA at USC
Tyler at 21: 9.47K/9; 2.98BB/9; 1.04 WHIP; 3.35 ERA at AA
I don't know who else you want to put on the list, but people seem to have forgotten how young Clippard is and how good he's been along the way. The Yankees seem to have fallen into this pattern of if a guy isn't an very good the first time or two that he's in the majors, that he'll never be good. Just like every level, it takes time for guys to adjust.
Did Ross reinjure himself? Kinda odd for the starting pitcher to come out after 1.2 ip otherwise.
Action Jackson is lovin' Tampa… odd that Horne hasn't been called up to scranton, has pitched very well with amazing K's/BB ratio- almost think at this point they are looking for him to keep puttin' up sick numbers @ trenton to up his value in a trade… has great stuff and seems to have put it all together this year- there was a reason he was a #1 draft pick right out of High school- I wouldn't mind seein' him @ triple A and possible audition for #5 guy in rotation- I think he has a very high ceiling and recently got a bang up write up (baseball america I think)- I wouldn't just give this guy away for just anything, he's still just 24 and has a chance to be a good one
I'm just speculating here, but my guess is that Ohlendorf was on a strict, low pitch count since that was his first game action since going on the DL.
Chamberlain is the top prospect because he projects as a #1 or #2 and he is close to being ML ready.
I'm agreeing with Rich, arms like Joba's don't come around too often, and maybe we're spoiled because we just had Hughes come through here, but Joba's #1 overall prospect in my book- Phil, Wang & JoBA will be the foundation of the team going into the new stadium- not to say that Tabata's not going to be great, I think he is, it's just SO much harder to find pitchers
do you think they will ever let Shelly Duncan step foot in the show???
I figure he should be the next guy up, where does he play? Does he play 1B and RF?
He has pretty good genes, his brother is a decent player with power…
The reason that I advocate giving a start for White is that Clippard obviously needs more time to develop and throw strikes consistantly. DeSalvo is in the Joe Torre doghouse from whence one never returns…
As for White, he hasn't been given the chance, so might as well, right?
When I ran thru the box scores last night, the AA game had "Postponed: Rain" across the top of the line score, which is how milb.com informs you of delays, etc. I kept checking back as I wrote up the other stats (thinking it was actually raining, and that they may restart the game at some point), but the box score never updated.
My bad, but it's no biggie, it's one game out of the 700+ that'll be on DotF this year.
YFiC – I'm guessing Ohlendorf was a low pitch count, probably 30 or 35 pitches. I'm hoping that's why he came out after only 1.1 innings, but I guess the back could have acted up again.
Clippard had the same problems adjusting to AA last season. He was 2-9 with a 5.67 ERA before completely turning his season around to finish with a 3.36 ERA and win 10 of his last 11 decisions. And he did have control problems last year as well, at least in terms of what he had done the previous seasons.
There's just no proof anywhere that Steven White is or has been a better pitcher than CLippard – except for the fact that White hasn't pitched in the bigs yet. But that's no to run a team, just trot a guy out there, and if he fails go to some other guy.
Not that I think anyone is still checking this comments section, but might as well reply anyways:
Steven White is pitching better than Clippard right now, and was on track to be the callup before injury, so that is reason enough. its not simply "trotting him out there" but based on where each one stands at the moment…


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This piece is different than most. I usually try to lay out clear ideas on a subject of interest, and support it with logic and research.
Today, I want to simply express an opinion.
This election on Nov. 6th, 2012 is not about people, or parties, or issues. This election is about one central idea, and all the other issues and talking points and controversies flow from that central idea.
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are not central to this debate. As I point out in this post, politicians are largely captive to public opinion, and to their supporters. They are vessels carrying the agendas of those who support them. The election, therefore, is not about the agenda of the candidate, but the agenda of his supporters.
On the ballot this Tuesday is really only one question: Will we take responsibility for ourselves?
Many other questions and answers flow from this one. Will we hold ourselves and our neighbors accountable for their actions? Will we allow our government to do to our neighbors what we would never do ourselves? Will we value our freedom, and pay the costs, or sell our freedom for a little "security"? Will we rely on what we earn, or will we demand our neighbors provide for us? Will we take full responsibility for our own choices, or will we expect our government to make many of our choices for us?
When I was a child, we presumed that the most precious thing we had was our freedom, and we understood that freedom came at a price. That price was not only the sacrifice of our soldiers, but also the cost of making mistakes. A free society must contain a measure of chaos, and a measure of danger. It comes with the territory.
The engine of our prosperity, and our amazing wealth—and we are tremendously wealthy—is our free enterprise system. The very markets that have been demonized in the last 4 years as "risky" and "corrupt" are the same ones that brought us the prosperity that raised our standard of living far beyond anywhere in the world, with an almost continuous record of progress for the last 50 years.
As Milton Friedman has pointed out, strong economies depend on freedom, and freedom depends on economic independence.
... and freedom also depends utterly on the discipline and virtue of the people.
On Tuesday, we will have a choice between two ideologies. One believes that freedom is less important than "security". It believes that equality of results is paramount, and that evidence of unfairness can be found in every instance of inequality, and government must correct unfairness. Individual merit is little more than happenstance. Personal responsibility is an exception, not a rule. It is something to be considered an ideal, not a requirement.
The other ideology is less well articulated, because the virtues of egalitarianism and compassion have clouded its vision. The latter ideology is coming to see, through the excesses of the current political environment, where the current ideology is taking us. It has no single champion, but a phalanx of groups, pundits and candidates grappling with the issues. They don't have crystallized solutions, but they understand the central role of personal responsibility, the importance of individual merit, and how freedom, strictly limited government, and the wisdom of our founders is a far better foundation for our future.
On Tuesday we will make a choice. Will it be for leaders that will support personal responsibility and freedom, or leaders who will grow government, and try to buy our freedom from us with our neighbor's wealth.
Choose well on Nov. 6th.

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By Jeff Lehr
Globe Staff Writer
LAMAR, Mo. —
Jonathan Rector would not look Randi Stevens in the eye at his sentencing hearing Monday in Barton County Circuit Court.
The 22-year-old woman brought a picture of her infant son, Kaiden, to court in hopes of forcing her ex-boyfriend to look at it and acknowledge the hurt he had inflicted on all of them in a moment of rage 10 months ago.
The closure she sought in court never came.
Rector's attorney informed the court that he had advised his client to avert his eyes from hers at the hearing, she said in a telephone interview Wednesday.
"That just infuriated the heck out of me," Stevens said. "That he couldn't even look at the people he hurt."
Rector, 28, of Lamar, pleaded guilty at the hearing to a reduced charge of voluntary manslaughter in a plea bargain limiting his prison sentence in the shaken-baby death of 4-month-old Kaiden Stevens to 15 years. Rector had been facing a charge of second-degree murder in the case.
Kaiden was a happy baby throughout his brief life, with lovely blue eyes and "an ear-to-ear smile," his mother said. A little bit ornery but a pleasure to her and his grandparents, she said.
He was her third child by prior relationships. She'd come to know Rector while carrying Kaiden. They dated about five months and moved in together about a month before the child's death.
Stevens said she and her family remain stunned by what happened.
Rector, who has two children of his own by another woman, seemed to her and her family to be "really good with kids." She said he took to her children right away and was a good stepfather in the short time they were together.
"He loved being around that many kids," Stevens said. "He never got mad at them. He loved it."
He was not without problems, she said. Rector was going through a divorce, and he was concerned with how custody matters with his own two children would turn out.
But he was a devout Christian, she said. He would take her and her children to church each Sunday. He was involved in Wednesday night church services. He did not do drugs. He seldom drank alcohol, she said.
She just never saw it coming, she said.
Stevens often left her children at her parents when she went to work the second shift at the Dollar General store in Lamar. Rector worked at his parents' dairy farm off and on.
The day in question, Feb. 17, was just the second time that he baby-sat her children while she was at work. That day her parents had work and other obligations going on, and Rector offered to stay home and watch the kids.
Court records state that at 6:01 p.m., Rector called 911 and reported that Kaiden was not breathing. Emergency medical technicians and police found the child unresponsive and in respiratory distress when they arrived at the couple's apartment on West Eighth Street in Lamar.
Kaiden was taken initially to Barton County Memorial Hospital and flown by medical helicopter a few hours later that night to Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City.
Rector came running into the Dollar General store about 6:14 p.m. with one of her other children in his arms, Stevens said.
"Kaiden's not breathing," he told her.
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"He's blue and not breathing," he told her.
Rector told her that he and Kaiden had been taking naps. He woke up and saw Kaiden was blue in the face in his crib and appeared to be choking. He told her that he picked him up, patted his back and shook him a little before sticking his fingers down his throat in an effort to clear his airway of whatever he was choking on. A little coagulated milk came out, he told her.
She asked him how hard he had shaken him and he told her not hard, she said. Not hard at all.
"That was his first story," Stevens said.
The next day at the hospital in Kansas City, Rector's story changed, she said. He added to his account that when he noticed Kaiden wasn't breathing, he had run down some stairs with him and had fallen.
Stevens said she asked him why he hadn't mentioned that to her previously and his answer that he had just forgotten didn't sit well with her. That was when she first began to wonder if he'd had something to do with Kaiden's condition, she said.
The hospital in Kansas City soon diagnosed Kaiden as a shaken baby, and hospital staff began treating both Rector and Stevens as possible suspects, even though she told them she had been at work and didn't know what had happened to her baby, she said.
"It hurt," she said. "But I knew I didn't do anything and that I would be cleared."
She said her only real concern at that point was with Kaiden.
The following day was a Sunday and Rector was asked by investigators to submit to a polygraph examination. The probable-cause affidavit states that he agreed and was taken to Missouri State Highway Patrol troop headquarters in Springfield for the exam.
According to the affidavit, the exam had to be aborted when Rector declined to answer a series of irrelevant control questions untruthfully to establish a baseline for his responses to the examiner's relevant questions.
In a follow-up interview with Lamar police Chief Ron Hager, however, Rector admitted that he had shaken Kaiden "in a fit of rage," the affidavit states.
"He thought the rage was connected to the stress that he was experiencing at the time," Hager's affidavit states. "He said that after he shook Kaiden, he became limp and he attempted CPR."
Kaiden died at the hospital in Kansas City three days after his injury and the day after Rector confessed to having shaken him.
His mother told the Globe that she is not pleased with the plea bargain Rector obtained. She said she has been told that he could get out of prison in seven or eight years.
"People get more time for doing drugs," she said.
But she said the Barton County prosecutor did tell her that the plea offer was made because a conviction would not be a sure thing if the case proceeded to trial.
Prosecutor Steven Kaderly has been in court the past two days and could not be reached for comment by telephone.
Memorial walk
Randi Stevens said a memorial walk is being planned in April for her son, Kaiden Stevens, who died of shaken-baby injuries. She said the date and location of the walk will be announced on a Facebook page created in memory of Kaiden titled "Justice for Kaiden Michael Parker Stevens."


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Gas pump skimmers have figured out how to steal customer credit/debit card information in San Bernardino County and sheriff's detectives are trying to catch the local culprits.
Skimmer devices on gas pumps have been found recently at a gas station in the city of Rancho Cucamonga, sheriff's personnel said in a statement.
"The device is placed inside the pump and hooked up to work in conjunction with the card reader attached to the pump," Detectives K. Green and B. Stringer said in the statement.
"The customer is unaware their card information is being copied to the skimmer to be downloaded at a later date," detectives said. "Once the data is downloaded the thieves can create fake credit/debit cards using the data collected from the skimmer."
Victims may not be aware of theft of their card information for weeks or months, detectives said. Customers can protect themselves by using keypads with individual buttons for each number, usually found on newer gas station pumps.
Detectives advised that customers "avoid using card swiping machines that either look or feel loose to the touch or appear to have been affixed with glue or taped to the machine."
Customers should be wary of suspicious activity in and around gas pumps and report concerns to gas station managers, detectives advised.
Customers can further protect themselves by using cards with low dollar limits, use a prepaid gas card, or cash, detectives said. They should also monitor their statements monthly to check for unauthorized purchases.
"It is unknown how long these devices have been in place or how many consumers have been victimized," sheriff's spokeswoman Cindy Bachman said this week.
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The Tribune-Star
On the heels of their thrilling double victory at the 2013 Missouri Valley Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships both the Indiana State men and women moved up in the national rankings which were released Tuesday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).
Indiana State will send a record 22 athletes to compete in the NCAA East Preliminary at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, where action begins Thursday. The top 12 individuals from each preliminary site advance to the NCAA Finals.
The Sycamore women won their first MVC championship since 1999 in dramatic fashion as they captured the title by winning the final event (1,600 meter relay) on Sunday.
Indiana State moved up three notches in the national rankings as they are 37th which is their second highest placement for week seven since the current system was established in 2008. The Sycamores were 16th in the nation during week seen of the 2010 season.
The Indiana State men dominated the final day of competition in Des Moines, Iowa, and captured their third straight MVC outdoor championship. The Sycamores moved up five spots in the national rankings as they are now 63rd which is their highest ranking for week seven since the current system was established in 2008. The previous best was 64th during the 2012 campaign.
Illinois State is the top ranked women's team from the Missouri Valley Conference as they moved into the top 25 for the first time this season. Wichita State dropped out of the 25 and are now 26th followed by Indiana State in 37th. Notre Dame is still the top school among major universities in Indiana despite falling 11 spots to 29th. The Sycamores are next at 37th with Indiana 59th, Butler 66th, and Purdue 77th. Loyola, who will join the Missouri Valley for the 2014 season, remained 78th.
Justin Applegate, Dustin Betz, Derek Bunch, Chris Fields, Jonathan Jackson, Maurice Lyke, John Mascari, Brandon Pounds, Arqeil Shaw, Greggmar Swift, and Max Tuttle have qualified for the men's NCAA East Preliminary Round.
Nicole Hope, Felisha Johnson, Richelle Kimble, Leeann Michl, Kimyanna Rudolph, Shalesa Smith, Stacia Weatherford, and Katie Wise have qualified for the women's NCAA East Preliminary Round along the 4x100 meter relay team of Kaisha Martin, Macey Black, Demetra Camble, and Wise.
Five hurdlers have already qualified for the men's East Preliminary including Greggmar Swift and Maurice Lyke in the 110 meter hurdles and Jonathan Jackson, Max Tuttle, and Arqeil Shaw in the 400 meter hurdles.
Swift is making his third straight trip to the NCAAs as he enters the post-season with the eighth fastest 110 meter hurdle time in the nation of 13.52 seconds that he ran in winning the 2013 MVC title. The junior also ranks fourth on the East performance list. He finished 10th in the event at the 2012 NCAA Finals and missed a trip to the 2011 finals by a hundredth of a second.
Lyke will be making his second straight trip to the NCAAs and will compete in two events at the East Preliminary. The junior ranks 26th in the nation and 13th on the East performance list in the 110 meter hurdles with a time of 13.83 seconds that he ran at the Billy Hayes Invitational. He finished 28th in the first round of the East Preliminary in 2012. He will also be competing in the long jump after winning the 2013 MVC title with a leap of 24'-53⁄4" (7.46m). The distance ranks 64th in the nation and 27th on the East performance list.
Three members of the women's team will be competing on the track at the East Preliminary including Leeann Michl, Katie Wise and Stacia Weatherford.
Michl will be making her second straight appearance in the NCAAs with a season best time of 2:07.91 in the 800 meters at the Auburn Tiger Track Classic. The senior's time currently ranks 102nd in the nation and 40th on the declared entries list for the East Preliminaries. She came close to advancing to the NCAA Finals in 2012 with a 15th place finish in the quarterfinals at the East Preliminary. The top 12 advanced to the NCAA Finals.
Wise will be making her first trip to the NCAAs after winning the 100 meters at the 2013 MVC Championship with a season best time of 11.41 seconds which ranks 26th in the nation and is ninth on the East performance list. The freshman is also the Valley's indoor 60 meter champion marking the first time since Jeanne Middleton in 2009 that a Sycamore has won both the indoor and outdoor sprint races. She also has a season best time of 23.92 seconds in the 200 meters while running the event only twice and both at the MVC Championships where she finished fifth overall. She missed making the cut for that event by just one hundredth of a second.
Weatherford will be making her second trip to the NCAAs after qualifying in both hurdle events for the 2013 East Preliminary. The senior ran 57.62 seconds to win the 400 meter title at the 2013 MVC Championship which ranks as the 15th fastest time in the nation and sixth on the East preliminary performance list. She competed in the event at the 2012 NCAAs and finished 19th at the NCAA Finals. She also qualified for the 100 meters hurdles after running 13.55 and finishing second at the MVC Championships but will be bypassing that event to concentrate on the 400 meter hurdles.
Also competing on the track will be the Sycamore 4x100 meter relay team which won the MVC title with a time of 45.16 seconds. Kaisha Martin, Macey Black, Demetra Camble, and Wise make up the relay which recorded the third fastest finish in Indiana State history. The team ranks 64th in the nation and 15th on the East performance list. The last relay that made the NCAAs was in 2010 when Erica Moore, Lauren Martin, Michl, and Weatherford ran the 4x400 meter relay and finished 19th at the East Preliminary.
Three pole vaulters, a jumper and a thrower have also qualified for the East Preliminary from the Sycamore track & field team including Nicole Hope, Kimyanna Rudolph, Richelle Kimble, Shalesa Smith, and Felisha Johnson.
This will be Kimble's fourth trip to the NCAAs in the pole vault as she qualified by clearing 13'-01⁄2" (3.97m) at the Billy Hayes Invitational. She just missed a spot at the NCAA Finals a year ago with a 14th place finish in the 2012 East Preliminary. The senior ranks 64th in the nation and 30th on the East performance list for the event. She was second at the 2013 MVC Championships.


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Santa is making stops early this year and he is teaming up with the Kensington Fire-Rescue looking for good girls and boys!
For a $25 dollar donation, Santa, assisted by firefighters from Kensington Fire-Rescue, will deliver your Christmas presents using a real fire truck!
The delivery address MUST be within the Town of Berlin.
Here's how it works:
- Step 1: Register and donation drop off IN PERSON.
Registration will take place IN PERSON from October 22 to October 27 at the Kensington Fire House, 880 Farmington Ave.
Registration times are as follows:
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October 30, 1980 -- The Buffalo Stallions had some interesting moments in their brief history, but none was as bizarre as the Paolo Rossi situation.
Rossi was one of the top players in Italy during the late 1970's. However, he was accused in 1980 of being involved in a betting scandal, and was suspended for three years (later reduced to two). Rossi always maintained his innocence, and one of his accusers later admitted that he had invented the story.
What's a soccer player to do when suspended? Look for some place to play, which in this case -- almost unbelievably in hindsight -- was in Buffalo. The Stallions signed him, and he suited up for an exhibition game on this date.
Rossi never did play in a regular-season game with the Stallions, as the Major Indoor Soccer League had no desire to get caught up in world soccer affairs that early in its life. But that's not the end of the story.
Rossi came back just in time for the 1982 World Cup, and he led Italy to a victory. Rossi was named world footballer of the year for his efforts, and is now considered one of the greatest players in the history of the sport. Too bad he didn't get to spend more time in Buffalo.
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Jaxson Quin "Jaxman" Anisansel, infant son of Brian D. and Ashley D. Opitz Anisansel of Stoneboro, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family at 7:10 p.m. Tuesday, July 30, 2013 in UPMC Children's Hospital, Pittsburgh.
Jaxson was born at 4:13 a.m. Friday, July 26, 2013, in UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital, Pittsburgh.
Although Jaxson's life on this earth was brief, the love of family will be forever.
He was a baptized member of Stoneboro United Methodist Church.
Jaxson leaves behind his Mom and Dad at home; maternal grandparents, Bob and Jacki Opitz, Stoneboro; paternal grandparents, David and Mary Anisansel, West End, N.C.; maternal great-grandparents, Shirley Nagel and Duane Oscar Harrison, both Stoneboro; and Bob and Mary Opitz, Sandy Lake; and many loving aunts, uncles and cousins.
He was preceded in death by paternal great-grandparents William and Leona Bellosa and Arthur and Dorothy Anisansel.
Jaxson Quin "Jaxman," infant son of Brian D. and Ashley D. Opitz, Stoneboro.
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This process had already started in June 2010 with the internal organization of NATO Headquarters, i.e., the NATO Committee review. In parallel, NATO also engaged in the reform of its Command Structure – the NATO Command Structure Review - and that of its Agencies – the NATO Agencies Review.
- The Committee Review has been implemented and is currently being fine-tuned;
- the NATO Command Structure Review was launched at the Lisbon Summit and the approval of the model and geographical footprint was approved by defence ministers in June 2011. Its implementation will be conducted over a period of one year;
- the Agencies Review aims to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of capabilities and services, to achieve greater synergy between similar functions and increase transparency and accountability. At the Lisbon Summit, Allies agreed to streamline the 14 NATO agencies into three major programmatic themes: procurement, support, and communications and information.
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By KEVIN HARRIS
All season long, the Providence boys' soccer team has wanted a chance to redeem itself in the Class A Providence Sectional final against Christian Academy.
On Saturday night at Memorial Field, the Pioneers got their opportunity and took full advantage of it.
Providence avenged last year's 2-0 loss to the Warriors in the sectional championship game with a 2-1 victory in the 2012 sectional final.
The Pioneers (10-5-2) will face Salem (11-6) in the Class A Switzerland County Regional semifinal at 5 p.m. on Thursday.
"That's all we thought about," Providence senior captain Pierce Crawley said about paying back the Warriors. "It feels great. For a team [in the Pioneers] who was not expected to be as strong as last year's team, it's a great feeling."
Providence coach Brandon Rogers was proud of the way his players persevered in winning their program's first sectional title since 2008.
"It was a tough loss for us last year," Rogers said. "I knew there was going to be no shortage of intensity tonight. I knew they wanted to pay back the favor."
Crawley set the tone early for the Pioneers.
Three minutes and 6 seconds into the contest, Crawley scored from 15 yards out on Providence's first shot on goal for a 1-0 lead.
"It was critical," Rogers said about Crawley's goal. "Sectional games are all about intensity, and we were able to control the first half because of that."
The lead grew to 2-0 with 18:37 remaining in the first half. Providence junior Brent Hesse received a pass from Crawley in the goal box and nailed a short-range goal.
Christian Academy (6-7-4) cut its deficit in half with 3:24 remaining in the opening half. Junior Minho Lee averted Providence goalkeeper Jeffrey Wiles in the penalty area and connected on a wide-open 8-yard shot to make the score 2-1 Providence. The Warriors' Sean Kim got the assist.
"Anytime you can pull back to within one before halftime, even a lucky shot can get you back into it," Warriors' coach Will Lorigan said. "You can figure out a plan for the second half."
Despite Lee's goal, Christian Academy had a difficult time figuring out the Pioneers' defense.
Providence gave up only two shots on goal for the contest. The Warriors' second shot did not occur until the game's 77th minute when senior Josh Moore's 30-yard boot on a free kick curved left of the goal.
"We just couldn't pass it to ourselves. Anytime we passed it, it went to a blue jersey," Lorigan said. "Tonight, we didn't come in with a lot of intensity and that's why they got that first goal."
The Providence defense did a great job of deflecting several balls when Christian Academy tried to move closer to the goal.
"I thought our defense was great," Crawley said. "They stepped up and played a great game."
Rogers said his players did an outstanding job of keeping an eye on Lee.
"He's got some speed and we had to focus on him," Rogers said. "We knew what their plan was coming in."
The Warriors got a great effort from junior goalkeeper Lucas Young, who made six saves. Young kept Christian Academy in the game in the second half by either catching or deflecting several hard shots by Providence.
"Lucas played well. We know goalkeeping is never going to be a problem for us," Lorigan said.
The Warriors say goodbye to six seniors in Moore, Brandon Hamm, Caleb Ferree, Justin Baird, Quinn Banet and Matt Hurtgen.
Providence 2 0—2
Christian Academy 1 0—1
First Half
P — Pierce Crawley (unassisted), 3:06.
P — Brent Hesse (Crawley), 21:23.
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The Xi Chapter of Beta Theta Pi at Knox College was founded in 1855, not only as the first fraternity on campus, but also the first fraternity in the state of Illinois. The international fraternity was founded in Miami, Ohio, in 1839.
Beta's mission states: "Beta Theta Pi is dedicated to building men of principle for a principled life. Our brotherhood aids the individual, builds the Fraternity and strengthens the host academic institution through lifelong devotion to intellectual excellence, high standards of moral conduct and responsible citizenship." Along with this mission, the Xi Chapter's focused main goals include:
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Thanks to the easy flow of information over the Internet, the fanzine is becoming something of a dinosaur, but for many of us, zines were an early and much-loved gateway to information and subcultures we would not have otherwise been exposed to.
For those of you reading who are still in your younger years, the fanzine revolves around a very simple idea: Find something you are obsessed with, write a bunch of stuff about it, cut and paste your fingers to the bone, photocopy, staple, distribute the booklet with your own hard-earned funds, and hope that other folks out there who are just as obsessed as you are find it and love it too.
The horror zine is unique in the fact that many early DIY titles grew into larger publications, including Cinefantastique. Today's genre zines are less-frequently produced and tough to find, but there are many intrepid zine makers that persevere and continue to publish out of their homes. The authors behind the cut-and-pasted pages are still putting a ton of love and care into each print.
One of those authors is Samm Deighan, who writes for Paracinema and Diabolique and was a contributing writer to Fangoria. Deighan created three horror guides: Guide to Satanic Horror Cinema: 69 Films for the Devil, Un Guide Pour le Cinema de Jean Rollin, and The Strange Vice of Sergio Martino. Each primer is hand-crafted – yep, she photocopies and pastes - and offers the reader a one-page look at the each film. Satanic Horror is exhaustive, Rollin offers A LOT of topless ladies, and Martino covers his 40 plus year career. Deighan's style offers a nice mix of personal perspective - if the film's a crapfest she won't mince words - with nut-and-bolts plot and cast details.
I spoke to Deighan about her guides and challenges of creating and disseminating the printed page in a post-paper, blogging world.
Can you give a brief overview of your three horror primers?
The satanic horror zine was my first effort at zine making in over 10 years, so it's kind of all over the place. I chose between 70 and 80 satanic horror films and loosely organized them. The Jean Rollin and Sergio Martino zines both cover all the films directed by those fine gentlemen.
"Satanic Horror" is a huge genre, and it's my favorite of your zines. How did you go about deciding what was in, what was out? Do you constantly want to update it?
I've already gotten requests to do a sequel, so I'm definitely thinking about it. I basically made a list of my favorite satanic horror films and did research to fill in the rest. I tried to include as much as I could. Turns out creating an 80+ page zine is really time consuming to photocopy and staple though.
Do you have a very top Satanic panic movie?
Undoubtedly Ken Russell's masterpiece, The Devils.
The Devils may be the best use of a sexy nun in all celluloid history. Agree or disagree?
Actually I think The Devils is not remotely about sexy nuns. It's about hysteria, trauma, sickness, repression, and financially motivated manipulation. Though Oliver Reed is lovely to look upon, not a lot about The Devils is sexy. The sexiest nun movie of all time is definitely Walerian Borowczyk's Behind Convent Walls, which is sadly neglected and frequently banned because of its subject matter.
For those readers unfamiliar with Sergio Martino and Jean Rollin, can you sum up each director in two sentences?
Sergio Martino created some of the most creative(ly titled) Italian giallo films of the '70s and some of the most fun Italian exploitation films of the late '70s and '80s. Jean Rollin, who recently passed away, has created some of the most poetic, bizarre and nonsensical horror films of France or probably any other country. He specializes in nudie vampire movies.
Martino and Jean Rollin feature super-sexually explicit and, at times, very complicated depictions of women. Obviously, their styles don't deter you and you're a huge fan, but many people may find their films problematic. Not to get too theory-heavy, but how do you navigate and acknowledge that when writing your reviews for a broader audience?
This is sort of a sore subject for me. Because I have a gender-neutral name and write about horror/erotica people often assume I am a man and they sometimes assume I am misogynistic because of my interests. I am female, but as a writer and critic, I am less interested in female-specific experiences and more interested in explorations of sexuality and fantasy, particularly how these relate to horror/repression regardless of gender, race, class, age, etc. So Rollin and Martino are not at all problematic for me. Compared to the spectrum of horror filmmakers, I think they are actually two of the least offensive.
Both Martino and Rollin are a bit unusual, and perhaps intimidating, for the uninitiated. What is the one movie from each director would you suggest the new viewer watch first?
Martino newbies should definitely start with The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (Lo strano vizio della Signora Wardh aka Blade of the Ripper, 1971). As for Rollin, it's a bit more difficult, because he's known for his erotic vampire films, but actually has quite a range. Maybe Lips of Blood (Lèvres de sang, 1975) if I had to pick just one. Be warned that Rollin is an acquired taste.
Is there anyone comparable to these two directors making films now?
As far as I know, absolutely not. Though the French-Belgium film Amer (2009), directed by Hèléne Cattet and Bruno Forzani, is probably what would happen if Martino and Rollin made a cinematic baby. Even though I felt the film was deeply flawed, it is a more interesting experiment than a lot of the redundant horror being made today.
You have your email address and website in the zine, in case anyone wants to send "death threats, naked pictures, or copies of Satanic films" you haven't seen, what kind of response have your zines gotten in the horror community?
Sadly, no naked pictures. My blog is a lot more popular, but I've gotten some nice feedback and a lot more zines have sold than I ever could have guessed. I actually have to go restock the Martino issue tonight.
Where can people purchase them?
At my friend Kevin's wonderful site, House of Mysterious Secrets. Every time I send someone there they wind up coming away with a lot more, generally some of his amazing custom designed horror t-shirts.
Possibly the toughest question for a horror fan to answer: What one movie, made in the past few years, should every genre fan see?
Anything by Park Chan Wook, even though he is not strictly horror. Honestly, I hate most recent genre movies. The things other people seem excited about I tend to find boring, predictable, unimaginative.
Read Deighan's Satanic Pandemonium and buy her zines here.


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QUESTION: One other quick one. Senator Schumer has written a letter that he has also made public to Secretary Powell suggesting that the State Department was considering relaxing visa processes and requirements for Saudi citizens seeking non-immigrant visas to the United States. Are you considering doing that or --
MR. BOUCHER: The standards that apply are applied worldwide. It's a matter of law that people have to meet the security standards and security checks that are done are done worldwide. The emphasis that we have put on doing more and more interviews is being done worldwide. I think we're at a hundred percent or close to a hundred percent interviews in Saudi Arabia with very few exceptions.
That effort to beef up the security of our visa process has been and continues to be one of the highest priorities of the Secretary and the State Department. If we can do that efficiently, more efficiently, we'll look at ways to do that. But security is the -- is the main goal right now, and we're not relaxing standards for anybody.


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Services for Lee "Cowboy" Russell will be held Saturday, at 11 a.m., at Berry and Gardner Funeral Home with Rev. Willie Ray Clark officiating. Burial will be in Meridian Memorial Park Cemetery with Berry and Gardner Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Russell, 60, of Meridian, died Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, at his residence.
Survivors include his wife, Mary Barrett Russell of Meridian; two brothers: Honorable Elvis Hudson of Marion, and Baby Ruth Hudson of Memphis, Tenn.; seven sisters: Tiny Hudson of Seattle, Wash., Bernice (James) Martin of Marion, Ruby (Alfred) Darden of Bailey, Lori Clark of Russell, Janell Hudson of Atlanta, Ga., Marie Hudson of Meridian, and Virginia Jackson of Meridian; step-mother, Mattie Clark of Meridian; six step-children: Dan (Sandra Faye) Barrett Jr. of Meridian, Specialist Four U.S. Army Marcie (Andre) Barrett Boyd of Meridian, Cheryl Stell, Hank Phillips, Jimmy Phillips, and Angela Phillips; one brother-in-law, Willie E. (Jo Sandra) Gandy; and, one sister-in-law, Geraldine (Tommie) Byrd of Meridian.
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I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. Specialized readers may have come across me in Dr. Peter Luce's study, "Gender Identity in 5-Alpha-Reductase Pseudohermaphrodites," published in the Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology in 1975. Or maybe you've seen my photograph in chapter sixteen of the now sadly outdated Genetics and Heredity. That's me on page 578, standing naked beside a height chart
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When the Valarium announced two weeks ago that it would be closing its doors on Nov. 24, the music community in Knoxville openly mourned. The club brought in a lot of bands that no one else tries to get, and the void will hurt both local musicians and fans.
Club owner Gary Mitchell posted a letter on the Valarium's website stating that the closure was for legal reasons. He wrote, "Due to new rule changes from the TN Alcoholic Beverage Commission concerning the minimum percentage of food an establishment must sell in relation to its gross sales, our venues will be closing. We also cannot comply with the minimum number of days they require us to be open per week."
The Knoxville News Sentinel reported that the issue was "legislation passed last May by the Tennessee General Assembly creating a new limited service license, which requires that 15 percent of the gross revenue is derived from the service of food."
But according to the Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission, this isn't the case at all. TABC's attorney, Ginna Winfree, says the law changes happened in 2010—and they were actually designed to help bars get by while selling less food, not more.
Up until 2010, if you wanted to be a bar serving liquor in Tennessee, you had to also be a restaurant. At least 50 percent of your revenue had to come from food sales, and you had to be open at least five days a week.
There are innumerable exceptions to this rule—the law regulating liquor licenses is riddled with special cases for hotels, private clubs, and places like the Tennessee Theatre, which has its own special exception codified into law as a historic theater. But the majority of what are commonly thought of as bars in the state have a restaurant license. (Bars that only serve beer, and not wine or liquor, do not need an TABC license, just a permit from the beer board, and thus are governed by different laws.)
Then in 2010, the state Legislature passed a law changing these regulations. While restaurant licenses (obviously) continue to exist, the state now also offers "limited service restaurant" licenses for entities that have less than 50 percent food sales. According to Winfree, businesses with this particular license are required to have at least 15 percent food sales and be open three days a week instead of five. (This latter requirement was also changed for all restaurants.) And, Winfree says, this is the kind of license the Valarium had.
So what changed this year? According to Winfree, nothing. She says "minor language" was added to the law this past session but she could not point out anything that would fit what Mitchell had stated were his reasons for closing.
Again, the two points he lists—the minimum percentage of sales and the minimum number of days to be open—had already been in effect since 2010 and had actually become less onerous than when the club first opened in 2007.
Mitchell declined to talk to for this story, stating that his lawyer was already mad at him for sharing too much in his post on the Valarium website. Mitchell says he plans to sue, but when asked if that meant he plans to sue TABC, and for what, he wouldn't say. The only thing he would say was that the problem was "they took beer off of food sales." But according to an e-mail from Winfree, "Beer sales have never been allowed to count towards the food percentage. Food percentages are determined by comparing the gross sales of prepared foods to the gross sales of alcoholic beverages, excluding low-gravity beer."
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---- — MONTREAL — Historical themes abound with new exhibits at Montreal's specialty history museums.
Old Montreal's Chateau Ramezay presents "Heart and Soul: Quebec Folk Art," an eclectic, quirky collection of folk art presented by the prestigious Canadian Museum of Civilization. The museum offers wooden weather vanes, eggshell paintings and one-of-a-kind toys. Some 65 original artifacts are on display. Much of the collection comes from Nettie Covey Sharpe, a one-time Montreal South Shore St. Lambert resident and an avid collector of Canadiana and folk art. Her collection, considered one of the foremost collections of Quebecois folk art, was donated to the Canadian Museum of Civilization after her death in 2002. "Heart and Soul" continues through Sunday, Nov. 3.
Summer is also the perfect time for a stroll through the Governor's Garden, which reflects a typical working city garden circa the 18th century. And new this year, more gardening inspiration can be found at the Pleasure Grounds. Located at Place De La Dauversiere between the Chateau Ramezay and Place Jacques Cartier just opposite City Hall, the Pleasure Grounds explore New France-style gardens from the 17th and 18th centuries. The garden visits are free and continue through Monday, Oct. 14, at 280 Notre Dame E. Adult admission costs $10. Call (514) 861-3708 or visit www.chateauramezay.qc.ca for details.
Just down the block, take a quick peek inside the Sir George-Etienne Cartier National Historic Site, which explores Montreal bourgeois life in a completely restored Old Montreal residence now maintained by Parks Canada. Cartier was a lawyer, politician and businessman whose career played a crucial role in Canadian history. The visit includes a stroll through an ornate salon, drawing room, dining room and kitchen. The space is an absolute bargain with adult admission costing $3.90. The site is at 458 Notre Dame St. E. Call (514) 283-2282 or visit www.pc.gc.ca/eng/lhn-nhs/qc/etiennecartier to learn more.
On the opposite end of Old Montreal, Centre d'Histoire de Montreal, the Montreal History Center, presents a side of Mount Royal rarely explored with "The Hidden Face of the Mountain." The exhibit looks at Mount Royal's north side, which overlooks Mount Royal Cemetery and the University of Montreal. It continues through Sunday, April 13, 2014.
Also on display, the extended run of "Lost Neighborhoods" winds down on Sunday, Sept. 1. The exhibition explores the disappearance of entire neighborhoods in Montreal between 1950 and 1975 when the likes of Expo 67 and the 1976 Summer Olympics changed the map in more ways than one.
The History Center is at 335 Place d'Youville. Adult admission costs $6. For questions, call (514) 872-3207 or visit www.ville.montreal.qc.ca/chm.
Located on Park Jean Drapeau, the Stewart Museum offers the impressive collection of David M. Stewart, a Montrealer of Scottish descent who was heir to the fortune built by Canadian tobacco-industry magnate Sir William C. Macdonald. The museum is housed in an actual fort along the St. Lawrence River just under the Jacques Cartier Bridge.
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The new temporary exhibit, "20,000 Leagues Over Land and Sea: Exploring Six Centuries of Cartography," explores the importance of cartography with more than 100 maps — world maps, continental maps, maps of countries, sea charts, polar maps, celestial maps and city maps — as well as navigational, astronomical and surveying instruments. It continues through Sunday, April 13, 2014.
The Stewart Museum is on St. Helen's Island. Take the Jacques Cartier Bridge to the Park Jean Drapeau exit (about halfway over the bridge), and follow the signs. Adult admission costs $13. Call (514) 861-6701 or visit www.stewart-museum.org for more information.
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After not playing in over a week, the Valdosta State softball team finally got back onto the field Tuesday night, albeit in cold, blustery conditions.
The Blazers did their best to get out of the cold as fast as possible, winning both games against Albany State by run-rule in the fifth inning.
The Blazers racked up a combined 17 hits and routed the Golden Rams 11-3 and 9-0, improving to 25-6 overall this season.
"You could tell we hadn't played in a week-and-a-half," Valdosta State coach Thomas Macera said. "It took us a little bit of time to get going."
Tuesday's games came after the Blazers flew to Memphis, Tenn. this past weekend for a pair of conference doubleheaders that were eventually rained out, forcing the team to sit around hotels for three days.
"Being on the road and sitting in hotels for three days, not playing games, if we didn't get along we might've had problems," Macera said, when asked if the trip brought his team closer together. "We get along well. It was a great trip as far as that is concerned."
The Blazers arrived home in Valdosta around 2 a.m. Monday morning, making for a quick turnaround Tuesday afternoon.
With the lack of games played last weekend, Macera said he thought Tuesday's games against Albany State were critical before going on the road this weekend to face North Alabama and Union in league play.
"It was good we finally got to play, because I did not want to have to go to North (Alabama) sitting two full weeks," Macera said. "They gave us a fit last time. We split with North Alabama."
As for Tuesday, the Blazers broke open a 2-2 tie in game one by scoring nine straight runs to win 11-3. In game two, they scored a pair of runs in the third inning on a Courtney Albritton home run — her 15th of the season, the second most in the country — before scoring seven runs in the fourth inning to pull away.
"In game two, they played us tight there; they had a chance to go up on us, but we stepped up and made some plays," Macera said. "We made some good plays, which I am happy to see that."
After scoring a pair of runs in the first inning of game one, only to see Albany State hit a two-run homer in the second inning to knot the game even, the Blazers scored four runs in the second and third innings before adding another in the fourth.
Seven different Blazers scored runs in the game, including Albritton, Kiley Rusen and Fran Johnson, each of whom scored two runs.
Albritton also drove in a pair of runs in the win, coming on a double in the third inning. Senior Sarah Vaughn drove in both runs in the first inning, scoring Albritton and Shelby Altman.
In the second inning, Fran Johnson, Hannah Strickland and Altman each drove in runs, while Rusen, Johnson, Strickland and April Collins scored runs.
In the third inning, three of VSU's runs — Rusen, Fran Johnson and Collins — reached base on walks, before Albritton connected on her two-run double, later scoring on a wild pitch.
In the fourth inning, Vaughn scored on a single to right field by Rusen.
In game two, Albritton's home run gave the Blazers a 2-0 lead, before they scored seven runs on four hits and three Golden Ram errors in the fourth inning.
In the inning, it was a bases clearing three-run double by Ashley Steinhilber that gave the Blazers enough runs to win in the fifth inning, by run-rule.
At the plate, Albritton led the Blazers, going 3 for 6 with four runs scored and five RBIs on the day.
In the circle, Brianna Hancock (9-2) allowed three runs — two earned — on five hits in game one. In game two, Hanna Lythberg (5-2) allowed no runs on two hits, striking out eight in five innings.
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Researching, deciding, and applying for middle schools can seem overwhelming. Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco is hosting this workshop to help parents/guardians understand their middle school options and navigate through the enrollment processes.
Attendees will:
- hear about the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Student Assignment System
- get tips from experienced parents
- learn about key dates and associated actions required
- receive advice on transitioning to middle school
Register Online by going to the Parents for Public Schools website, www.ppssf.org or call 415.861.7077
Co-sponsored by School Support Services @ San Francisco Public Library
Upcoming Events
- Transition to Middle School
- Saturday, August 2, 2014Main Library, Children's Center
- Getting Ready for Kindergarten
- Wednesday, August 6, 2014Ortega, Ortega Meeting Room
- Find a Public School
- Saturday, August 9, 2014Main Library, Children's Center