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Differentiated Instruction: Getting Personal with Technology
How a South Carolina elementary school has used computers to engage students in a learning process calibrated to their individual needs and abilities.
First grader Victoria, left, uses an AirLiner remote slate to do math problems on an interactive whiteboard from a distance. At right, Forest Lake Elementary prominently displays all the awards it has earned on the school facade.
Credit: Grace Rubenstein
When you walk into any given classroom at Forest Lake Elementary School, in Columbia, South Carolina, you see there is no one thing happening. Children might be reading books, practicing math skills on a computer, creating videos with a Flip cam, contributing to the class blog, producing PowerPoint slide shows, or reviewing suffixes and prefixes on an interactive whiteboard -- often all in the same room.
Then again, one thing is happening everywhere in the classroom: Students are thoroughly engaged in learning.
Forest Lake, a public school with a diverse population of 592 students in grades preK-5, is a technology magnet school. Each classroom is equipped with an interactive whiteboard and a Tech Zone of eight Internet-enabled computers, plus access to digital cameras, remote-response systems, and other tools. And while the gadgets are impressive, they aren't the whole story.
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What sets Forest Lake apart is the staff's dedication to challenge each student at his or her own level, every day -- and computers are essential to the success of that differentiated approach.
The school hardly seems like it would be ground zero for high-tech educational innovation. It occupies a clean but unremarkable building on a quiet wooded street near a seemingly endless series of strip malls. Many of the teachers, and almost the entire corps of key technology leaders, are older women -- not your stereotypical technology mavens. Yet these veteran educators are living proof that success lies not in the flashiness of the gizmos you have but in how well you use them.
"The teachers in this building could teach with a stick, a rock, and a paper bag," says Kappy Cannon, Forest Lake's principal of the last ten years. "Good teaching all comes down to the relationship between teacher and child."
Many Sizes Fit All
Second-grade teacher Tamika Lowe nurtures that relationship by constantly assessing students' progress and then carefully choosing the learning activities they undertake. The assessments come in countless forms, from writing assignments to computer-graded quizzes to one-on-one conversations. Her goal is to find the right activity -- and tech tool -- to fill in the gaps in the students' knowledge.
In one corner of the classroom on a winter morning, five students are handwriting their opinions of books they've read; four are at the Tech Zone, typing in their entries to the class blog on fantasy writing; four are reading books; one is listening to a book on tape; one is taking a Scholastic Reading Counts quiz on a laptop; and five are studying number prefixes (such as quad) on the interactive whiteboard with a teaching intern from the University of South Carolina.
As I watch, Lowe circulates through the class, providing assistance and checking up on how each child is progressing. It's downright startling to see second graders -- whom I'd expect would need a lot of supervision -- working independently with such purpose and focus.
In the next wing of the one-story building, Kevin Durden's fourth graders are doing projects for their unit on life cycles and adaptation. Durden, who served ten years as a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer and worked another decade as a stay-at-home dad, teaches in a room that's part of a district pilot program to test one-to-one computing; it's the only one-to-one class at Forest Lake. With 24 kids in the class (and a schoolhouse built in 1957 and rewired nine years ago), Durden uses every electrical outlet available.
These fourth graders are free to create a product of their own choosing, such as PowerPoint slide shows, quizzes to test classmates, comic strips, or skits. Kiley is placing a link to a National Geographic video into her PowerPoint on tigers. "I chose a slide show because it's really fun to do. They're really easy, and you can put a lot of details in them." She tries to show off the video, but it won't play. "Hmm," she says thoughtfully, "I'll have to work on that."
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Anne Graybill, whose son Ian is in Durden's class, says Ian's engagement with the technology amazes her. She reads aloud from his journal in an American history simulation called "Colonials at Sea": "We are at peace with the French and the Swedish, and the Dutch want to be allies with us, but we haven't decided if we want to be allies with them.
Graybill marvels, "You can see how the facts are woven into his writing. He's not usually a big writer, so I am amazed at how much he's written."
Above the soft murmur of students asking one another questions, the clicking of keyboards, and the recorded sound of tropical birds chirping through someone's headphones, Durden coaches one kid at a time. "When I was student teaching in a more traditional environment, I felt that out of a class of 20 students, I was actually teaching maybe 12 of them," he explains. "Now, with these new tools, I feel I'm teaching every single one of them."
Playing to Their Strengths
A few stations to the right of Kiley, another fourth grader, a brown-haired boy, is using Comic Life software to make a cartoon about a reptile he calls a bearded dragon, explaining that he has one at home named J.J. Durden describes this student as disinterested in reading and writing, and he is clearly pleased that the boy has elected to work on creating comics, where good writing is essential and every word counts.
"If I'd given him a traditional project like a composition to write, he'd have gotten a C or D," Durden says. "If I lock into requiring only the full paragraph and punctuation, I'm dooming him to be a C student."
Working away, the boy tells me that his favorite thing is to draw, but that it's not hard to write words for a comic strip, "because I've been doing it since I was like five." For Durden, this is one of the best by-products of Forest Lake's use of technology.
"What's neat is that you don't see the disabilities. You see the abilities," he says.
For instance, using math software with customizable lessons, one student can work on basic multiplication tables while another tries three-digit multiplication and another tackles complex word problems. All three are performing at significantly different levels, yet all three are able to proceed at their own pace without affecting the progress of their classmates. Even the boy who has cerebral palsy, tapping away at his laptop in a special supportive chair, blends easily into the environment.
The benefits of personalization, so apparent when walking from classroom to classroom, don't show as clearly in Forest Lake's test scores. The scores hover below the district average on South Carolina's Palmetto Assessment of State Standards (PASS), with pass rates mostly between 63 and 76 percent. On the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test, used by the district to track students' annual growth, more than 50 percent of Forest Lake students are meeting their individual targets, which is slightly higher than the national norm.
So how does Cannon know her school's high-tech methods are working? Besides what she sees in classrooms day to day, she relies on the near-constant individual assessment that goes on at Forest Lake, from rubrics to computer-based tests to practice questions graded in real time with remote clickers. She reports that those metrics show "constant growth and progress." The attendance rate also has ticked up from 94 percent to more than 96 percent in the past six years.
In addition, these methods clearly account for an important part of Forest Lake's peaceful, productive environment. Part of the student engagement probably owes to the sheer pizzazz of the technology. As Lowe says, "They push a button and it makes a sound and they go, 'Wow!'" Yet some of it surely comes from the fact that the lessons match the children's skills -- much more often than with traditional lessons geared to only one average ability level.
"You're not dumbing things down for one child in order to challenge another. You're challenging every child at her level," says former Forest Lake student and current curriculum coordinator Marian Scullion. By enabling success, you create in the student the appetite to succeed again.
How They Differentiate
Technology-enabled or not, differentiating instruction takes time -- a lot of it. Forest Lake teachers tackle this challenge by using the technology to simplify other parts of their jobs, sharing their best ideas, and divvying up some of the work.
For starters, they use software to do much of the basic-skills practice and assessment that would otherwise take up the teacher's time. The computer programs (Study Island and EducationCity are Forest Lake favorites) can identify specific weaknesses in a child's skills, such as understanding analogies or adding fractions. Teachers can review these outcomes daily, then assign lessons to each student according to her needs so that the next time she logs on, the program will give her practice assignments on precisely what she's missing -- complete with the allure of colorful computer animations.
"Before, it was kind of acceptable that your textbook was geared for the average kid," says Durden. "So you'd teach to that average kid and maybe occasionally do something more challenging while the other kids did seat work. With this, I am no longer checking their worksheets on fractions every night. The computer does that, and if I see that they're missing questions on unlike denominators, then tomorrow I'm programming in lessons on unlike denominators."
That gives teachers time to plan and grade more complex projects and provide students with more individualized coaching. Plus, the students get immediate feedback from the computer on which questions they got right and wrong.
Regular assessment plays an important role, too. It's Forest Lake policy that teachers begin each unit of study with a pretest to determine students' needs. To ease the burden of planning lessons for students at diverse levels, teachers often split up this task; different members of each grade-level team design the activities for higher-skilled kids, lower-skilled kids, etc.
Of course, it takes more than new-fangled computers, assessment, and personalization to make these classrooms run as smoothly as they do. Good old-fashioned classroom management helps, too.
"If you just set them to work on computers, you can expect chaos," says Lowe. One secret to her students' productive work habits, she says, is "practice, practice, practice." At the beginning of the year, she and her students repeatedly drill their procedures -- how to use the technology, what to do if you have a question, how to behave if Ms. Lowe isn't standing right there.
Another essential element: the willingness to take risks and make mistakes. Lowe describes how she dealt with the disaster that ensued the first time she had her students try a wiki: "You have to be flexible with the students, and say, 'You know what? If it doesn't work it's OK.' Every experience is a learning experience."
Ingredients of Transformation
Fifteen years ago, Forest Lake was a different place. There was just one computer and one printer in each classroom, and the homogenous, mostly middle class student population was beginning to change. Today, 65 percent of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and 5 percent are English-language learners. Some 65 percent are African American, 27 percent are white, and the rest are of other races. Gradually, as a new school identity evolved, the staff, supported by the district, turned to technology to help meet the widening array of student needs.
From left: Fourth-grade teacher Kevin Durden helps students, such as Katerina, individually while they do independent work. Tamika Lowe tries to get to know the unique strengths and needs of each of her second graders, like Kellis. Each classroom is equipped with a 'Tech Zone' of eight Internet-enabled computers.
Credit: Grace Rubenstein
Ten years ago, Kappy Cannon was named principal. The former teacher and guidance counselor facilitated efforts to infuse more technology into the classrooms. Cannon built a cohesive staff with very low turnover. Instructional Technology Specialist Paulette Williams recalls, "There were a few people that were harder to sell than others, but then the peer pressure began to get to them. As a couple of teachers in a grade level would get really techie, the parents started asking the less enthusiastic ones, 'Well, why don't you try this?'"
Ask the educators here why they chose technology as their springboard to success, and you'll get puzzled looks. It's almost as if they couldn't imagine doing anything else.
"Any professional wants to keep learning to stay fresh," says Scullion. "And we are always encouraged to try something new. We don't get micromanaged."
Support and Training
To say that Cannon has encouraged the change isn't quite right. She insisted upon it. "In this day and age," she says, "a teacher must use technology. It can't be optional." However she is quick to add, "You cannot set those expectations unless you're backing them up with tech support and professional development."
So how did these traditional teachers -- "old dogs" as Scullion jokingly calls herself and her colleagues -- learn all these new tricks?
One trick at a time, with a lot of help from the school and each other.
Ten years ago, the school purchased two interactive whiteboards on carts for teachers to experiment with. Year by year, the school added more whiteboards and computers, combining money from the district, grants, and a parent-run education foundation that held annual fundraisers. By 2007, there was an interactive whiteboard in every classroom.
Some of the high-tech infusion came from outside sources. In 2006, Forest Lake became one of 50-plus NASA Explorer Schools nationwide, committing to infuse its classes with science, technology, engineering and mathematics curriculum. Through that program, the school received a video conference system that it still uses to connect students with NASA scientists. And more recently, a local media-production company donated its old equipment -- cameras, microphones, monitors, and mixing boards -- for the school's daily in-house news broadcast, produced entirely by fifth graders.
Now, the staff sustain their progress through several strategies. Collaborative Conference is a biweekly meeting of each grade-level team with Forest Lake's tech-integration triumvirate: Scullion, Williams, and library-media specialist Lizzie Padget. Teams use these meetings to address problems and plan their study units, brainstorming ideas for the pre-unit assessment, technology components, and hands-on experiences. Williams also serves as a real-time tech supporter, available to fight fires, coach teachers individually, or stand by in their classrooms while they try something new.
Monthly staff meetings are another essential venue for ongoing training. Scullion, Williams, and Padget often ask teachers to showcase the innovations that are working in their classrooms. Lowe, for instance, is the first to experiment with blogs in second grade. Scullion intends to ask her to teach her technique at an upcoming meeting. "Innovations seem more attainable if you see people next door doing them," she explains.
It Can Be Done
Cannon knows educators in other schools may look at Forest Lake, shake their heads and say, "We just can't do this." Lack of funds, not enough time, technophobic teachers, whatever the reason, Cannon has a comeback: It boils down to attitude. "Facility-wise it can be done," she says. "We have a 53-year-old building. It's a challenge you overcome. People say, 'We can't do it because our kids are poor.' Well, we have a lot of poor kids, too."
For the individual teacher who feels technology integration is beyond her reach, Forest Lake has its own homegrown model. She's first-grade teacher Susan Crabtree, who taught for 32 years before coming to Forest Lake in 2006. Upon arrival, she had to reinvent her methods; she even needed instructions on how to turn on the interactive whiteboard. Within two months, Crabtree had broken down and cried twice, convinced that she couldn't do it. But her daughter and her teaching colleagues buoyed her confidence with some tech coaching. That year, she taught next door to Scullion, who came over to help as needed. Students, too, would show her solutions. Now Crabtree fluently uses the whiteboard and coaches her first graders through their computer lessons.
"My colleagues have taught me everything I know," Crabtree says. "It takes me longer to learn, but that doesn't bother me. If I can do it, it can be done."
Grace Rubenstein is a senior producer at Edutopia. Mary Best, a freelance writer based in Charlotte, North Carolina, contributed reporting for this story.
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Keep this out of High School and 7th and 8th grade too.
Differentiated instruction is a great tool for elementary school, but does more harm than good in high school. Please stop trying to force elementary school teaching techniques that work for 6 year olds onto 16 year olds.
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I am the proud parent of a Forest Lake 2nd grader. But my pride is not just in my son, it is in the wonderful school he attends. Our expectations and hopes have been exceeded, as our son flourishes as a result of the differentiated instruction he receives. We are thrilled to be part of such a successful school, and very grateful for all of the work that the faculty and staff put into making it that way!


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Aspen hotel news * At the base of Aspen Mountain, The Gant is a 123-condominium resort that includes a recently expanded conference center, complete with more than 5,000 square feet of indoor and 3,516 square feet of outdoor function space.
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Fax: (970) 920-1173
Total Hotel Tax: 8.2%
Boulder hotel news * The new centrally located Boulder Marriott has 155 rooms, 3,600 square feet of meeting space, banquet and catering services, and a private concierge level.
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(303) 442-2911, (800) 444-0447
Fax: (303) 938-8837
Total Hotel Tax: 12.96%
Breckenridge/Keystone hotel news * The 208-room Great Divide Lodge (formerly The Breckenridge Hilton) is undergoing a $4 million refurbishment. The Lodge features 14,000 square feet of versatile meeting and event space for up to 400 reception-style, as well as break-out rooms for smaller groups of 10 to 30.
* Last July, Vail Resorts purchased The Village at Breckenridge Resort for $24 million, including the 60-room Village Hotel, the 71-room Breckenridge Mountain Lodge, and two management companies renting 30,000-plus square feet of convention and meeting space. The property is the only one linking the town's Main Street with the resort's famous skiing.
* The 152-room Keystone Lodge completed a $4.6 million renovation in June 1998, which included a redesign of its loft suites and in-room technology advancements such as dual-line telephones and data ports.
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Fax: (970) 668-1515
Total Hotel Tax: 10.4%
Colorado Springs hotel news * The Broadmoor Hotel, a 3,000-acre property with 700 rooms and suites plus 115,000 square feet of meeting space, completed a $10.4 million renovation over the winter. This includes extensive guest room refurbishments, the creation of larger hospitality suites, and improvements to the Spa and Fitness Center and Penrose Room restaurant and lounge. The Broadmoor is the longest holder of the Mobil Five-Star and AAA Five-Diamond awards.
* In March, the new 154-room Hilton Garden Inn opened, the 25th Hilton Garden Inn hotel to open. It has 1,800 square feet of meeting space, and a 24-hour business center.
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(719) 635-7506; 877-745-377
Fax: (719) 635-4968
Total Hotel Tax: 8%
Denver hotel news Hotel development continues to surge in Denver, which now boasts 5,286 rooms downtown and a total of 23,711 rooms in the metro area.
* Hotel Monaco opened downtown in October, offering a luxury hotel with 189 guest rooms, including 32 suites. Built in the completely renovated historic 1918 Railway Exchange Building and the 1934 art moderne Title Building, the four-star hotel has a dramatic main lobby distinguished by a multitiered, 23-foot-high, hand-painted ceiling. The hotel features 3,800 square feet of conference/banquet facilities and two fully equipped board rooms for 15 people each.
* The 116-room Teatro, a Wyndham Grand Heritage Hotel located in a landmark downtown building, offers a fax, copier, scanner, and printer in every guest room. The hotel has two meeting rooms for up to 88 people.
* The 1,225-room Adam's Mark Hotel is adjacent to the new Denver Pavilions, which includes a Hard Rock Cafe, a Virgin Records megastore, a Barnes & Noble superstore, and a Wolfgang Puck Cafe, as well as a 15-screen movie theater and some 30 other shops. Three blocks from the convention center, the hotel has three ballrooms--one measuring 30,000 square feet--and 125,000 square feet of meeting, exhibit, and banquet space.
* Doubletree Hotels--with five locations throughout Colorado including Denver, many with scenic views--now offers a free welcome reception for groups booking 50 room nights by September 7, 1999.
* The 181-room Marriott Courtyard hotel opened downtown in April 1998. Built in the historic Joslin's building on the 16th Street Mall, the property has an atrium lobby with fireplaces.
* Other downtown hotels under construction at press time include the $33 million Off Larimer Inn, which will provide 176 rooms near Larimer Square and the Denver Performing Arts Complex; and the 120-room Denver Hotel, located in the heart of LoDo (lower downtown).
* Denver Metro area hotel development includes the Westin Westminster, a 350-room hotel to open in February 2000. Featuring a 50,000-square-foot conference center, the hotel will be part of the new Westminster Downtown Center and will be attached to a shopping and entertainment complex offering a world-class ice skating rink and 20 movie theaters. The hotel will be affiliated with Legacy Ridge Golf Course.
* Nearby, the Omni Interlocken Hotel and Conference Resort opens in July. The five-star, 392-room resort on Highway 36 between Denver and Boulder will be adjacent to the 27-hole Interlocken golf course.
* Denver International Airport continues to boom as does hotel development in the DIA corridor, with a total of 3,092 rooms now available or under construction, including a full-service, 225-room Marriott. An $87 million, 526-room Westin will open in summer 2001, connected to the main terminal and offering 30,000 square feet of conference space.
important info Colorado Convention Center
After more than a year of study, a task force has concluded that the CCC should be doubled in size, from 290,000 to 580,000 square feet of exhibit space, all on one contiguous level. Recommendations include doubling the 65,000 square feet of meeting space, adding a new 20,000-square-foot ballroom to complement the existing 35,000-square-foot ballroom, and creating a 1,000-space parking garage. If approved by voters this November, construction could begin next summer, with opening slated for the winter of 2002 to 2003. A local developer plans to build a 1,000-room headquarters hotel across the street once expansion is approved.
Denver Metro CVB
(303) 892-1112, (800) 888-1990
Fax: (303) 892-1636
Estes Park hotel news * The Stanley Hotel & Conference Center, a recently restored 1909 building, offers 133 rooms and can accommodate groups of up to 300 people in its 18,000 square feet of meeting space. Located in the mountains near the town of Estes Park, 78 miles northwest of Denver, the resort completed a full renovation of all guest and meeting rooms in 1997.
Telluride hotel news * The Lodge at Mountain Village, a Wyndham condominium hotel project with a log-and-stone design, opened in June with a 27,000-square-foot main lodge, 85 condominium residences, and 10 cottages. The Lodge offers valet and con-cierge services, a pool and health club, and two 1,200-square-foot meeting rooms. Guests are entitled to services and amenities at The Peaks, another Wyndham property, and shuttle service is provided.
* Nearby in the Mountain Village core, the new Inn at Lost Creek has the feel of a mountain retreat. The 32 residences feature hand-crafted furnishings, stone fireplaces, and mountain-view balconies.
important info Telluride Conference Center
Opened in June adjacent to the Telluride Golf Course in the heart of Mountain Village, the 23,000-square-foot building, perched at 9,500 feet, accommodates 550 people in the main ballroom and can host up to three groups of 200 simultaneously in the smaller break-out rooms. The center has AV and projection capabilities, high-speed communication access, private office space, and full-service kitchen facilities for large banquets. On-site concierge and conference planning services are available. A free gondola service connects to Telluride.
Telluride Visitors Service
(970) 728-3041, (888) 783-0257
Fax: (970) 728-6475
Total Hotel Tax: 10.5% (Telluride), 12.36% (Village)
Vail Valley/Beaver Creek hotel news * The ski-in/ski-out Lodge at Vail, with 117 hotel rooms and condominium units, has added a new $15 million wing, including 19 guest rooms and suites and a 6,000-square-foot ballroom.
* Vail Cascade Hotel & Club offers a 26,000-square-foot conference center with 289 newly decorated guest rooms and 63 condominiums.
* The 349-room Marriott's Mountain Resort at Vail has seen more than $12 million in recent upgrades.
* At the foot of Beaver Creek Mountain, the Hyatt Regency Beaver Creek provides 295 rooms and 23,000 square feet of meeting space.
important info Vail Valley Tourism and Convention Bureau
(970) 476-6008, (800) 525-3875
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Graduates of this course are inducted into a tribe known as the Cognoscenti.
Do you sometimes know intuitively what should be done, but find yourself unable to explain scientifically why your idea will work? This is because you have a lifetime of left-brain education, but our society woefully neglects the right. Simply stated, this course is remedial education for the right hemisphere of your brain. In this class you'll learn not only what to do, but why it will work. Together we'll investigate:
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"Talent" is any natural ability to swim in the deep waters of the unconscious and pull up the timeless fishes. Ask a talented person how they do what they do and they can rarely explain it - because talent is typically unconscious.
The Magical Worlds curriculum was created by carefully de-constructing what talented people do when they're feeling inspired. This allows us to chart the creative process with 20/20 hindsight. Our goal is to give you the ability to do consciously what talented people do unconsciously.
Talent is a natural ability to swim in the dark, deep water of the intuitive right brain.
es ...at $3,500, the Magical Worlds curriculum at Wizard Academy is a tremendous investment of time and money. But while the books and tapes of the Wizard are terrific tools, they simply don't compare to the interactive multimedia experience you'll have at the Wizard's castle in Austin, Texas. This curriculum is taught by the Wizard in person. There is no other experience like it.
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This super soft yarn adds a bit of luxury to the already-wonderful Smooshy yarn with the addition of cashmere and nylon. This exclusive colorway was dyed up to commemorate the Dragonfly Group during Project Two!
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Material: 70% Superwash Merino, 20% Cashmere, 10% Nylon Gauge: 7.5-9 sts = 1" Fiber Weight: Fingering Weight Actual Weight: 4.00 oz / about 110 grams Yardage: 400 yd / 365.8 m Care: Hand wash recommended; lay flat to dry. Needle Size: US 0-2 (2-2.75mm)
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Saints Split Doubleheader with Francis Marion in PBC Action
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FLORENCE, SC – The 13th-ranked North Georgia baseball team broke out the bats in game one on Sunday afternoon, but 30th-ranked Francis Marion rebounded in the nightcap to split a Peach Belt Conference doubleheader at Cormell Field.
The Saints (10-4, 3-2) jumped out to an early lead in the opener and held on for a 13-6 victory, while the Patriots (11-8, 3-5) fought back in game two and evened the series with a 10-1 blowout.
Game 1 (North Georgia 13, Francis Marion 6)
The North Georgia bats came alive in the opener, tagging Francis Marion pitching for 13 runs on 17 hits to jump out on top early. Andrew Gordon started things off in the second inning when he turned on a fastball and blasted a three-run home run that hit the top of the fence in left field and bounced over to give the Saints a 3-0 lead.
Dustin Carpenter added to the lead in the third inning when he stepped to the plate with two outs and Terrell Jones standing on second. The junior promptly ripped a double over the third base bag to send Jones racing home and make it 4-0.
The bottom of the order came to life in the fifth inning, putting two runners on base before Eason Spivey skied a ball to left field that was lost in the sun, allowing Travis Naraine and Carpenter to trot home and give the Saints a 6-0 lead.
After North Georgia starter Blake Hobby cruised through the first four innings, he ran into some trouble in the fifth frame when the Patriots' bats came alive, recording four singles and a triple to bring four runs home and cut the Saints' lead to just two. Brock McCallister had the big blow, a run-scoring triple to the gap in left center. Hobby would dig deep and strand him on third however, as he got Dalton Gress to strikeout on three pitches.
That would be all the offense Francis Marion would muster off one of the best pitchers in the league, as Hobby went 8.0 innings and tallied six strikeouts to pick up his third win of the season.
The North Georgia offense continued to bring runs to the plate as the game went along, scoring five runs in the sixth inning and two more in the ninth to put the Patriots away.
Jacob Beauchamp came on in the ninth and gave up a pair of runs off a McCallister single to right field, but the freshman got the final out on a Luke Tollison strikeout to give the Saints a 13-6 win in game one of the doubleheader.
Jones had a game-high four hits in the game, while Gordon tallied three base knocks and drove in three runs with his second-inning blast.
Francis Marion starter Don Sandifer (0-4) struggled all afternoon, lasting just 4.1 innings and giving up six earned runs on nine hits to stay winless on the year.
Game 2 (Francis Marion 10, North Georgia 1)
The Saints had little to write home about in the nightcap as errors and mental mistakes handed the Patriots game two of the doubleheader.
Francis Marion scored two runs in the first inning without the benefit of a hit as a leadoff walk came around to score on one of two errors in the frame. That would be the story of the night as the Patriots coaxed eight walks in the contest and forced head coach Tom Cantrell to go to the pen and use six different pitchers.
The biggest inning came in the seventh when Francis Marion scored six runs on just one hit to take a 10-0 lead.
North Georgia scraped together a run in their last at bat when Carpenter legged out an infield single to send Eric Hicks home to score the Saints' only run of the contest.
Jesse Coxwell (3-1) suffered the loss for the Saints, lasting 3.0 innings and giving up three runs on two hits, while walking three and striking out three.
Jeffrey Stoner (2-1) tossed a gem to pick up the win for the Patriots. He had a no-hitter until a two-out bunt single from Jordan Erisman in the sixth inning put the Saints into the hit column. Stoner allowed just one run on six hits, while striking out 11.
The Saints and Patriots will play the rubber game of the three-game series on Monday afternoon at Cormell Field. First pitch is slated for 1:00 p.m. as the Saints look to take their second straight series against a ranked opponent.


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BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's Finance Ministry says the government's tax income rose sharply in March and saw a healthy overall first-quarter rise as Europe's biggest economy picked up momentum.
The ministry said Tuesday that Germany's tax take totaled some 55.4 billion euros ($76.4 billion) last month - 7.2 percent higher than a year earlier, when unusually persistent winter weather weighed down the economy. In the first quarter, the tax income climbed 3.7 percent to 140 billion euros.
Low unemployment has helped bolster the government's finances - income tax receipts were up 7.5 percent in March.
The Finance Ministry said indicators point to a "broad-based economic upswing." Factory orders and industrial production have been growing and business confidence is high, despite some worries about the possible impact of the crisis in Ukraine.
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