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Finland has inside track in Group C
Senators' Schubert bolsters blue line for Germany at 2008 worlds
Thursday, 05.1.2008 / 10:53 AM ET / Features
|The Florida Panthers' Olli Jokinen will be one of the many talented forwards on Finland's roster.
By far, Finland has the most stable and consistent team in the group. The Finns have been perpetual overachievers in recent years. Many times, Finland has entered the World Championship tournament or Olympics with rosters that seem destined to finish fourth or fifth in the field and come away with a medal.
Since 1992, the Finns have won nine medals at the World Championship. Over the same time span, Russia has won just four medals (one gold, one silver, two bronze) and the U.S. has two bronze medals to show for its efforts. But Finland has not been able to fully rekindle the magic of 1995, when it won its first and only gold medal on the home ice of archrival Sweden.
Apart from Finland, the rest of Group C faces an uphill climb to be in medal contention once the playoff round starts. Slovakia is missing most of its top players and the national federation has been mired in controversy. Germany often gives unprepared opponents a tough time but lacks forward depth. The Norwegians are a perpetual relegation round team and turned over much of the leadership in its national federation last year.
After round-robin play, the top three teams in Group C will move on to play the top three teams of Group B (Canada, United States, Latvia and Slovenia) in the medal-round qualification phase of the tournament. The fourth place team – probably Norway – will head to the relegation round.
Finns aims to overachieve again
Over the last 10 years, Finland has won six medals at the worlds, including a silver last year. A year ago, Finland upset a powerhouse Russian team on its home ice in the medal round semi-finals.
In the stunning 2-1 victory, Mikko Koivu of the Minnesota Wild scored the overtime game winner. Kari Lehtonen made 29 saves, while defencemen Lasse Kukkonen of the Philadelphia Flyers and Ville Koistinen of the Nashville Predators did a remarkable job of containing Evgeni Malkin's line. Former NHLer Jukka Hentunen scored a short-handed goal in regulation.
This year, coach Doug Shedden has some high-calibre forward talent on the preliminary roster, starting with Florida Panthers star Olli Jokinen. Koivu is slated to be back as well, coming off a strong performance in the Wild's six-game loss to the Colorado Avalanche in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Tampa Bay Lightning left wing Jussi Jokinen has been inconsistent offensively in his NHL career to date, but has good hands and is especially deadly in shootouts.
Panthers left wing Ville Peltonen, a member of the now-legendary (at least in Finland) 1995 gold-medal squad, is a national team mainstay who will be looked upon to provide leadership. While he's usually on a checking line in the NHL, he's often been productive offensively in international and European play.
Last year, Peltonen tallied eight points (two goals) in eight games at the Worlds. A decade ago, he was the third member of the "Huey, Duey, and Louey" line, along with Saku Koivu and Jere Lehtinen. His former linemates are unavailable for this tournament because their NHL clubs are still in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
The rest of the Finnish forward corps is typical of a Lions roster in that it's filled with role-playing types who are capable of elevating their play in international competition.
Tuomo Ruuttu of the Carolina Hurricanes fits this category, as do New York Islanders left wing Sean Bergenheim, former Los Angeles Kings forward Esa Pirnes (now with Färjestads BK in Sweden), veteran Phoenix Coyotes centre Niko Kapanen (who scored seven points for Finland at the worlds last year) and former Avalanche player Riku Hahl (now with Swedish club Timrå IK). One-time San Jose Shark and Columbus Blue Jacket Hannes Hyvonen is now a top scorer for Finnish champion Kärpät Oulu.
On defence, injuries will keep the enigmatic but talented Joni Pitkanen of the Edmonton Oilers out of the tournament. That's a blow to an already thin preliminary roster that is already doing without NHL All-Star Kimmo Timonen, national team mainstay Petteri Nummelin, Sami Salo, the perennially underrated Kukkonen and others.
In their absence, Koistinen is back and Shedden will rely heavily on former NHL defencemen Mikko Luoma (a key contributor on Swedish champion HV71 Jönköping), Ossi Vaananen (Djurgårdens IF Stockholm) and Antti-Jussi Niemi (Frölunda Indians Gothenburg). Anssi Salmela of Tappara Tampere has emerged as one of the top young offensive defencemen in Finland's SM-Liiga, tallying 16 goals this season.
After Pitkanen withdrew from the tournament, the Finns added AHL players Janne Niskala (Milwaukee Admirals) and Sami Lepisto (Hershey Bears) to the blue line. Shedden also has available Mikko Jokela, whom he coached this season with Jokerit Helsinki and who brings a right-handed shot to the mix.
Goaltending duties will be entrusted to the capable hands of Wild 'keeper Niklas Backstrom. Young Tampa Bay Lightning goalie Kari Ramo and Finnish league veteran Petri Vehanen (Lukko Rauma) will be the backups.
Slovaks could face tough tournament
|Marcel Hossa will not be joined by his brother Marian because he is still playing in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Unfortunately, in the last few years, the Slovak program has been besieged by controversy within its national federation. NHL Hall of Famer Peter Stastny resigned as general manager and went public with his criticisms of the federation leadership, which still has former communist official Juraj Siroky as president. At the junior level, the program's progress has stagnated and, at the senior level, there have recently been morale problems and issues with recruiting top NHLers to non-Olympic tournaments.
Slovakia's roster at this year's World Championship is more notable for who's not there than who is. Marian Gaborik (hip injury) won't be coming. Neither will his Minnesota Wild teammates, Pavol Demitra or Branko Radivojevic. Marian Hossa is playing in the Stanley Cup playoffs with the Pittsburgh Penguins and neither national team legend Miroslav Satan nor Richard Zednik will be joining the squad. Two-way centre Michal Handzus is also out.
The blue line won't have the services of Zdeno Chara, Andrej Meszaros of the Ottawa Senators or Milan Jurcina. Goaltenders Peter Budaj (Colorado) and Jaroslav Halak (Montreal) are both unavailable because their clubs remain in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
What's left is a sprinkling of NHL players, some former NHLers who've returned to Europe (usually playing in countries with higher-paying elite leagues than Slovakia's Extraliga) and a few players from Slovak clubs.
Even in the absence of Chara and others, the Slovaks still have a serviceable group of defencemen. Coach Julius Supler will rely heavily on the likes of Lubomir Visnovsky, Andrei Mazei and former NHLers Ivan Majesky (now with Linköpings HC in Sweden) and Martin Strbak (Russian team Metallurg Magnitogorsk). Young Buffalo Sabres defenceman Andrej Sekera will play in his first World Championship at the senior level.
With most of its considerable NHL firepower staying home, the Slovaks will need several current and former NHLers to step up. The top threats are Marcel Hossa, former Senators prospect Ivan Ciernik (the leading scorer for Germany's Cologne Sharks), Juraj Kolnik (a top scorer with Swiss club Servette Geneva this year) and Robert Petrovicky (Leksand Stars of Sweden's Allsvenskan league). Former Philadelphia Flyers checking wing Radovan Somik (now with Czech team HC Pardubice) will see a lot of penalty-killing time.
Slovakia's options in goal are former Nashville Predators goaltender Jan Lasak (HC Pardubice) and Modo Hockey Örnsköldsvik starter Karol Krizan. Lasak played well on a mediocre Czech Extraliga team this year. Krizan tends to run red-hot and ice-cold and is prone to losing his temper on the ice. At their best, both are capable of stealing games.
Team Germany led by NHL trio
|Bruins' centre Marco Sturm will lead Germany's attack.
Don't look for coach Uwe Krupp's team to win a medal this year, either. But the Germans could push the Slovaks for second place in the preliminary round-robin and could also make a strong showing in the playoff qualification round. The key: playing scrappy hockey and keeping the score low.
Team Germany doesn't have much top-end talent and has modest depth at forward. Even so, there's a decent core in place, led by Boston Bruins centre Marco Sturm and NHL defencemen Dennis Seidenberg (Carolina Hurricanes) and Christoph Schubert (Ottawa Senators). Schubert and Seidenberg have both played forward as well as defence at times in their careers.
The rest of the forward and defence corps features DEL players. Most notably, Iserlohn Roosters right wing Michael Wolf led the league in goal-scoring this year with 44 among the 71 points he racked up this season. Yannick Seidenberg (Dennis' brother) was the second leading scorer on ERC Ingolstadt. Centre Florian Busch (Eisbären Berlin) is a national team regular. Former NHLer Stefan Ustorf (Eisbären Berlin) will once again suit up for the national side and remains a solid performer in the import-laden DEL.
Buffalo Sabres prospect Phillip Gogulla posted 44 points in 51 games this season for Kölner Haie (the Cologne Sharks), while veteran Cologne defenceman Andreas Renz had 106 penalty minutes.
In goal, San Jose Sharks farmhand Dimitri Patzold will share duties with former Washington Capitals draft pick Robert Mueller (Kölner Haie). There's also Sinupret Ice Tigers Nuremberg keeper Dimtrij Kotschnew, who is coming off a strong DEL season.
The German roster is rounded out by several passport players, including Canadian-born former NHL defenceman Jason Holland, defenceman/forward Chris Schmidt and right winger John Tripp. Ice Tigers left wing Petr Fical (22 goals in 52 games this season) was born in the former Czechoslovakia.
Norway hopes to hold ground
|Flyers winger Patrick Thoresen will be unavailable for Norway, but his younger brother Steffen is expected to play.
Norway's primary mission at the World Championship each year is to avoid relegation. The same goal holds true this year, as Norway has not finished higher than 10th in the last decade and spent four years at the Division I level in the early 2000s.
Up front, coach Roy Johansen will need production from Modo Hockey power forward Per-Age Skroder (he's particularly effective on power plays), Iowa Stars wing Marius Holtet and former ECHL player Morten Ask (now with the Duisberg Foxes in Germany).
Philadelphia Flyers winger Patrick Thoresen is unavailable due to the Stanley Cup playoffs. But his younger brother, Steffen, who plays for Vålerenga Oslo and also appeared this season for Swedish minor-league team Växjö Lakers, is on Norway's roster. Fellow young forward Lars Erik Spets (Duisberg) and Mads Hansen (who split the season between Brynäs Gävle in Sweden and Totempo HVIK in Denmark) should also see some playing time.
On defence, Tommy Jakobsen (Graz 99ers of Austria's Erste Bank Liga) and Mats Trygg (Cologne Sharks) are perennial members of Norway's roster and are both team leaders. Former NHLer Anders Myrvold has dealt with personal problems and injuries, but is slated to join the national team for the tourney.
Goaltending is a particular weak spot for Norway. Veteran Pal Grotnes (Comet Halden) will get the starting duties, backed up by recent junior national team graduate Ruben Smith (Storhamer) and Andre Lysenstoen (Stavanger Oilers), who played on the national Under-20 team earlier this season at the Division I World Junior Championship.
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In an official communiqué, Nitin Kukreja, head of sports business, STAR India, says, "We would like to engage more deeply with passionate sports fans. Therefore, we are embellishing our live content with a range of new shows and formats. This move is a critical step forward in creating a compelling experience for multi-sports fans who want to watch their favourite sports live and also want to have access to the best of non-live sports programming."
The third show is also a cricket based half an hour weekly show, Masterclass, in both English (to be telecast on STAR Sports 1) and Hindi (on STAR Sports 3), highlighting individual techniques adopted by star cricket players which made them legends of the game. The 13-episode series will involve physical demonstrations of various aspects of the game. Cricketers like Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Navjot Singh Sidhu will discuss in detail the intricacies of cricket.
The last in the list is a show based on the Indian hockey stars. The weekly show, named Hockey Hotshots, will tell the story of each hockey star in terms of his achievement for Indian hockey, his unique skill sets and his significance for the future of Indian hockey. The show will be broadcast every Saturday at 9:00 pm on STAR Sports 3.
It will focus on 'Match Winner' V R Raghunath, the mercurial drag flicker and Player of the Tournament in the recently concluded Asia Cup; 'The Wall' under the bar P Sreejesh, vice-captain and Best Goalkeeper of Asia Cup; Mandeep Singh, who is considered by many experts as the most promising central striker of world hockey; Manpreet Singh, captain of the junior Indian Hockey team, an Olympian at 19; Ramandeep Singh, 'The Play Maker' a selfless player who keeps the team before self and Sardar Singh, one of the best mid fielders in the world, a true master of his craft and considered one of the most skilful players of modern hockey.
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A failing publishing house receives an unexpected gem but the mystery surrounds the messenger as well as the manuscript.
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I was born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and first conceived the idea of the Elencheran Chronicles at college in 1999. I spent ten years compiling the history of Elenchera, resulting in 47,000+ years of events, 500+ maps, 2000+ pages, several short stories and many much-needed acquaintances with Jack Daniels.
I also have a blog, The World According to Dave (www.elenchera.com/blog), which features reviews, stories and dramatic tales of the horrors of owning cats.
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LAGI 2014: Copenhagen
The Land Art Generator Initiative and Refshaleøen Holding held the LAGI 2014 ideas competition in Copenhagen in partnership with IT University of Copenhagen, Danish Design Centre, Green Cities, Sharing Copenhagen, Information Studies at Aarhus University, and Alexandra Institute.
LAGI 2014 Copenhagen invited interdisciplinary teams from around the world to submit their ideas for what infrastructure art of sustainable cities looks like. The invitation was to envision public art that provides utility-scale clean energy to the grid.
LAGI 2014 came to Copenhagen at an opportune moment. As the city (the European Green Capital of 2014) moves towards carbon neutral status by 2025 the debate over the aesthetic manifestation and human interaction component of our new energy infrastructure is becoming increasingly important to the planning strategies required to attain zero-carbon sustainability goals.
Martin Lidegaard, Danish Minister of Climate, Energy, and Building states:
Land Art Generator Initiative provides new and exciting proposals for approaching the green transition. We saw in the previous exhibitions in Dubai in 2010 and New York City in 2012, where creative forces of art, architecture, and engineering together brought forth innovative ideas, concepts, and solutions that can produce green energy while being integrated to beautify the local environment.
The LAGI 2014 jury was comprised of civic leaders within the fields of many disciplines, including architecture, urban design, energy industry, art, and ecology.
Download the CPH 2025 Climate Plan here.
The design site—Refshaleøen—at its height, was a shipyard that employed 8,000 individuals and is poised to be an important area for new development within the city. The rich historical context of the site, and its place in Copenhagen's future informed the design proposals.
The view to the site from the Langelinie and the cherished statue of the Little Mermaid provided a beautiful canvas on which to create.
LAGI 2014 partnered with the Green Cities Municipalities (including Albertslund, Herning, Allerød, and Kolding) of Denmark for additional opportunities for teams, which were outlined more in depth in the Design Guidelines.
The award ceremony, exhibition, and book launch was held in Copenhagen in the fall of 2014 in partnership with the Danish Design Centre at the Design Society.
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Moody's Investors Service on Tuesday brightened its outlook for U.S. states for the first time since the financial crisis, saying the slowly recovering economy has helped states' revenue and reserves.
The ratings agency changed its collective outlook on U.S. states to stable from negative, where it has been for the past five years. Credit quality among the 50 states is generally high, Moody's said, with 30 states rated at triple-A or Aa1, the two highest ratings.
Illinois, which is struggling with a large pension gap, has the lowest rating among U.S. states, at A3.
The company, a unit of Moody's Corp., said gains this year in U.S. house prices and generally strong financial markets have helped lift U.S. economic activity, bolstering many states' outlooks.
"Improving labor and housing markets have boosted consumer confidence, and strong stock-market performance has further improved state revenues," said Moody's analyst Baye Larsen.
Still, Moody's cautioned that the economic recovery has been uneven, and said that the local government outlook remains negative. Indeed, many cities and towns are still struggling in the wake of recession to balance their budgets and fund their pensions, with Detroit's record municipal bankruptcy last month providing a stark reminder of those lingering troubles.
Many states have posted better-than-expected revenue growth in fiscal 2013, Moody's said. At the same time, states have been boosting reserves above the lows of fiscal 2010, though levels are still well short of pre-recession peaks.
A growing understanding of the scope of federal budget cuts has also helped ease uncertainty about the pace of the continued economic recovery, Ms. Larsen said.


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Figgins snub is official
The voting wrapped up in the run-off MLB was doing to pick the final All-Stars and Chone Figgins didn't make it.
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MENOMONIE (WEAU)- Next week 12 members of the Menomonie high school football team will be competing in this year's 7-on-7 national tournament in Indianapolis. Because of their great success on the field, they are the Gordy's Athlete of the Week. SportScene 13's Chance Dickman has the story.
No coaches, no pads, no problem. The Menomonie 7 on 7 football team has been a dominate force in Wisconsin for the past few years now, and the Mustangs have qualified for their second straight national tournament. Hayden Swartz says, "I know a lot of the guys that were on the team last year and new guys this year, we're really looking forward to it. It's one of the best experiences in a lifetime that you'll have."
Adds Connor McCauley, "We're representing the whole state of Wisconsin so it's definitely a whole new loaded pressure, but it's exciting at the same time."
Their road to Indianapolis was a challenging one, but Menomonie believed in their team and went a perfect 6-0 in state pool play.
Says Derek Kahl, "I think that we're a lot closer this year than we were last year, and we have also have a great quarterback this year, so that helps a lot."
McCauley agrees, "Even though we don't have the best athleticism out of all the teams, our team really came together and put forth 100 percent effort."
Adds Swartz, "Our team is a lot more close nit. I feel like we've really bonded, and it's going to be really exciting to see what we can do at this national tournament."
What's amazing is that the players do everything on their own, from practice preparation to live game situations.
Kahl says, "I honestly think it's an advantage. We get to use our leadership and really step up to the opportunity and show what we have."
Adds McCauley, "At Green Bay, we actually did take out coach along, but we used a contact day so that was under the legal rules of the WIAA, so we don't have a contact day to use at Indianapolis, so we're not taking coach LaBuda."
Coach or no coach, these guys are ready to take their talents to Indy.
Swartz says, "We are really quick and not the most physical or big team there, but hopefully we can actually go to the championship this year."
Kahl adds, "We're pretty confident that we'll be able to compete this year and hopefully make it to the championship."
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Singer Bruce Melody revealed that working with established regional artistes has moved his music to another level and upgraded his music skills.
The singer disclosed the information while talking about how his music is listened across East Africa due to featuring various artistes.
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Melody added that, it doesn't matter whether you are more talented than them because they have money and a name in music industry to push you to another level.
Melody is known by many in Rwanda for his role in encouraging local artists to focus on live music by staging only live music shows.
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Lorn | Ask The Dust LP [ZEN187]
Following up his Nothing Else LP released on Brainfeeder last June, Lorn's Ask The Dust LP is due for release on Ninja Tune on June 19th.
The release takes its name from John Fante's 1939 novel. Contrasting his new work with his debut release, Lorn describes his first record as "cold and strict"; while the new record is "haunted, oily, and smeared."
Here are two freshly uploaded cuts from the new record:


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The Power of Principle
When it comes to public resignations, martyrdom can morph into a marketing opportunity.
CNET senior writer Greg Sandoval became an instant Internet hero when he took to Twitter yesterday, saying he was resigning in protest over parent company CBS's decision to intervene in editorial content.
CNET was prepared to name Dish Network's latest ad-skipping DVR for its top award at last week's Consumer Electronics Show. But CBS, which sued Dish last year over the ad feature, alleging copyright infringement, forced the technology news and review site to disqualify the device.
Hundreds of people retweeted Mr. Sandoval's resignation in which he said he had lost "confidence that CBS is committed to editorial independence," with many commending him for his integrity. Others offered job suggestions and more than one editor from competing tech sites offered freelance assignments.
"That's the sound of every blog now trying to hire @sandoCNET," tweeted MG Siegler a columnist at TechCrunch and a partner at venture capital firm CrunchFund.
In stepping down, Mr. Sandoval may have unintentionally invigorated his career.


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Secondhand Mews
Posted By Leslie Garrett On July 9, 2010 @ 5:17 pm In Personal Growth | No Comments
Something made me say yes.
It wasn't common sense, which pointed out that I already had three dogs [2], two cats and a rabbit. I surely didn't need another pet [3].
It wasn't love. Despite his name, there was little about Romeo that lassoed my heart. He was enormous. And toothless. His claws seemed permanently poised to strike. His fur was dull and he had a bad case of dandruff and he reeked of a pack-a-day habit [4].
Nonetheless, the word that escaped my lips when asked if I'd give Romeo a temporary home — "just a week" — was "yes."
He spent the first 48 hours AWOL. We finally discovered him, wedged in a closet beside a dresser. His girth rendered him unable to turn around and so he faced the wall, unable to back out. We lifted him up and his claws came out, swiping at the air.
He must be hungry, we figured, so we offered him some food. He didn't touch it and soon skulked back to his hiding place in the closet.
Slowly, over a week or so, we began to see him more often. He still hardly ate, but, to be honest, he looked like he could afford to skip a few meals.
It was like living with a shadow. He tolerated our presence but seemed completely uninterested. The other animals terrified him, though they were only mildly curious about him and largely left him alone.
His owner, who had sought his temporary refuge, was hard to contact. A week became two, then three.
In the meantime, Romeo was settling in. He began appearing at his bowl each morning, decidedly more slim than when he'd arrived. Although he'd been unable to get onto our rather high bed [5] at first, his trimmer self found it possible, and he began settling at my feet when I read before bed [6].
We discovered he could purr.
When his owner finally announced that she'd found a rescue willing to take him in, I felt relieved. Our house had enough animals. This sentiment was shared by our 21-year-old cat who had been on his own hunger strike — except when I broke out the lobster-based cat food — since Romeo's arrival.
But in the days after Romeo left, the house felt too empty. Hard to believe with a family of five people, three dogs, two cats and a rabbit. I worried that Romeo had been uprooted yet again. I wondered if he'd found another closet retreat.
Two days later, I sought out the rescue. Although I have no doubt the women who ran it were large-hearted souls, my own heart sank at the conditions. No fewer than a hundred cats lived in a roughly 800 square foot area. They were on top of couches, beneath tables, in cages and perched on chairs. The place reeked of cat. I wondered whether I'd be able to find ordinary-looking Romeo in this feline sea [7].
But I did. He was huddled at the back, looking bewildered.
I plucked him up and left.
He's been back with us for more than six months now. He has slowly grown chubby again and we routinely tease him about his "memory foam stomach," as my daughter calls it. Perhaps not surprisingly, the same things that made him less-than-appealing at first — his toothlessness, his tubbiness — are part of what we love most about him now.
Each of us secretly thinks that he loves us better than all the rest. He's the consummate diplomat — or just blessed with enough love that he can afford to spread it around.
We routinely seek him out when we need a pick-me-up. He'll happily listen to us, no matter what we say. He'll purr at the first sign of a chin rub. And he'll curl up on the bed of whomever seems most in need of comfort.
Sometimes "yes," when "no" makes much more sense, really is the right answer.
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[3] pet: http://life.gaiam.com/gaiam/p/10-Ways-to-Green-Your-Pet.html
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO)-- Zane Hemond gave the Indians a solid pitching performance and Bryce Gaber's go-ahead hit in the fifth inning proved to be the difference in a 9-7 win on Friday afternoon.
Montrose won its first home game behind five solid innings from Hemond as he gave up four runs. Bryce Gaber had a two-out hit to score two and give the Indians a 4-3 lead. The Bulldogs nearly came back on the Indians with a three-run rally in the seventh, but Roland McLaren was able to lock down the win.
Montrose will finish off the Lloyd McMillan Tournament with a double-header on Saturday starting at 1:45 p.m.


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News 12 First at Five/ Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- Paine College has settled a civil lawsuit out of court with a student raped in an on-campus dorm room last year.
We're learning this less than 24 hours after the Paine College rapist agrees to a plea deal.
As a condition of the settlement, all records are sealed, so we have no way of knowing how much cash the victim is getting.
As for the rapist, Jarius Dantzler is facing a life sentence with 20 years tacked on. The guilty plea ties him to three separate crimes: a rape and attempted rape on Paine's campus as well as a robbery and burglary.
Even though more security measures are in place, and the man responsible is behind bars, we spoke to students who tell us, they still don't feel safe.
After a rape, an attempted rape, and a shooting on campus, security is a little tighter now.
"They gave us key cards to put up against doors, and you have to put your last four digits in for the code," Samantha McIntosh, who lives on campus, said.
But, for the student living with the life changing effects of being raped, it's too little too late.
"The civil suit was filed because this never should have happened," her lawyer, Christ Stewart, said.
The ten page lawsuit accused Paine College of 'failing to provide adequate security for its students.' Students say, when the rape happened, security on campus was a joke.
"They used to leave rocks and sticks. One of the boy dorms had cigarette butts stuck in the traps so it wouldn't lock, it's just crazy," she said.
The suit claims Paine College did not warn students after an attempted rape on campus four months earlier, and the same rapist ended up striking again.
"Nothing was done after that to prevent this from happening," Stewart said.
As Dantzler faced a jury this week, we got to see a glimpse of his interview with investigators about the campus rape.
He says, "She gave me her number. She invited me upstairs." The investigator asks, "Well, where's her number at? You have the same clothes on. You've got to have it on your body somewhere." Dantzler responded, "I don't know."
McIntosh says, even with Dantzler in prison, she doesn't feel safe anymore.
"I'm ready to drop out, but I know if I drop out, I'm leaving behind all my years I have been attending Paine," she said.


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