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I really don't know how I end up at some of the blogs I have read recently. Basically, I am visiting one blog, click on a link to another blog in the margins that is "recommended" or is regularly visited by that blogger -- and I just keep moving through the blogging world that way.
Thankfully, I do bookmark a number of them or I would never ever be able to find them again. (You should see the -- l o n g -- list of links in that "favorites" file ... I still may never find some of those blogs ever again.)One that I visited tonight has an entry on Hashimoto's Disease, a condition that causes hypo-thyroidism (or low thyroid). Below is the link to that blog entry. At least she has a sense-of-humor about the situation. Which is, in the end, the only way to deal with it.
Now that you have visited that site and read her entry on low thyroid, I'll tell you my take on it.
About 14 years ago (gee, has it really been THAT long ago??), I decided I was not going to go on a real "diet" per se, but would be a little more careful about what I ate -- in other words, I would regulate the portions a bit better. Over the course of about 2 1/2 years, I lost about 75 pounds.
In 1996, I moved from New Jersey to Minnesota to attend the University of Minnesota -- to finally finish up my Bachelor's degree but in a different field than I had originally studied. I had already been through majors like Pharmacy and on to Psychology. Now I was finally going to pursue the field one of my high school teachers had suggested a thousand years before -- art. Particularly, pottery.
In the first six months in Minnesota, I continued to lose weight but now lost another 55 pounds in that short time. To those who condemn fast food as causing the weight problems of America, I can tell you that is not true. I ate McDonald's or Burger King almost every day for lunch in that time; and Perkins for dinner two or three times a week. However, I didn't supersize my orders, didn't get the free refills on the soda. I just couldn't make my own lunch (or dinner, either) for the low prices I was paying. I did, however, drink a lot of water (bottled because I do not like the taste of chlorinated city water) and walked most of the places I wanted to go (the city buses were not my favorite mode of transportation).
In my studies, I took a class on formulating your own clays and glazes. Other students in the course were using white lead in the glazes they were making. And I was noticing a couple things-- I had a very embarrassing "startle" reflex; I could hear someone coming and be totally aware of their presence, but the second they appeared in my peripheral vision, I would jump out of my skin
-- I was getting a tremor in my hands that made it hard to do some of the fine drawing that I like to do
-- And my memory, I thought, was getting worse
I knew that the last two could be symptoms of lead poisoning and had an inkling that maybe the first could be too (though, I don't know for sure). So, I went to the University Hospital Clinic for a blood test. It came back negative (good news, no lead poisoning) -- but bad news, because that meant finding out what was causing these problems.
A couple of blood tests later came back with Graves Disease. This is an auto-immune problem that causes the thyroid to be over-active.
Over-active thyroid, I was informed by the endocrinologist could cause all kinds of terrible things if it wasn't taken care of, the worst was an enlarged heart. Since I already had a fast heart rate, I really was worried about this possibility. My father had died when I was 12 of a second massive heart attack in three years. I didn't want that to happen to me. Besides, I was not coping well with the startle reflex problem nor the shaky hands. So, I agreed to let him order the radioactive iodine for the death-to-the-thyroid treatment. Right now I do not remember which isotope was ordered, but the radiology department did question whether that was really what they wanted to use.
I had the treatment but a few months later was extremely overactive again. A second treatment was ordered, this one was just under the dosage that I had read about at the AMA website that has been linked to leukemia ...
That was toward the end of 1998 and into the summer of 1999. Now, I have a different doctor. She had once promised to get my thyroid levels into the middle of the "normal" range -- that is, she would increase my Synthroid prescription to a sufficient level that I would get off the bottom basement floor of the normal range. That was a few years ago and I am still laying on the floor of the normal range. Maybe, since we've moved a little over an hour away from that doctor's clinic, it is time to find another doctor?
Low thyroid has its "moments" -- like "I should be folding laundry" says -- you go bananas over little things that shouldn't even be an issue; just deal with it an move on.
Worst, though, is the mental lethargy and fog that can creep up on you. And the scatter-brained behavior that sneaks into your life (on top of the mental slip that just happens as a matter of the course of aging) ...
like I could not find my keys one day. I finally told myself to look in all the illogical places since they were not in any logical spot in the house, nor in the lock of the front door nor still in the ignition of the car. I looked inside shoes, bureau drawers, in cups and saucers in the kitchen cupboards. I searched through the bookcases, and on my husband's desk. I dumped out my purse for the tenth time just to be sure I had not somehow overlooked them the first nine times. Finally, I decided to look in the veggie crisper in the fridge. Not there, but I did find them sitting on the shelf where the oj container should have been. Found the oj in the pantry beside the butter dish (with a stick of butter in it). Went back to the fridge for the peanut butter. Threw away the oj and put the butter and peanut butter where they belonged.
That doesn't happen all that often anymore as I have tried to develop a few habits that will, hopefully, help me cope with being forgetful and scatter-brained as the years go on.Oh, remember that diet I wasn't going to go on? And how regulating what I ate allowed me to lose so much weight?
Well, it found me again. But now, getting rid of it is just about impossible. The rapid heart rate has gone, thankfully, but so has a decent metabolic rate. Dietary methods of increasing the metabolism usually work by increasing the thyroid activity. As I have little to no natural thyroid activity, such methods just don't work. (It's almost like I had it surgically removed.)
Moodiness is something I really wasn't susceptible to in the past, but now -- I won't even go there.
Things that should have changed but did not:
-- Sensitivity to bright sunlight is a symptom of overactive thyroid -- still won't go outside without my sunglasses which frustrates my husband when I have done something with them (like with those keys) and need to take the time to find the sunglasses before I'll go anywhere. Having three or four pair of sunglasses does help but isn't always a foolproof solution.
-- For a while I thought I had been born to live in Minnesota instead of New Jersey. I hate the heat of summer but didn't have a hard time with the cold of Minnesota winters. Killing the thyroid was supposed to help me deal with the heat. (My normal body temperature was 2 degrees low, making me feel heat more and cold less ...) My body temperatures now "normal" but I still hate the heat of summer and now can't bear the cold of winter.
(We moved out of Minnesota to Wisconsin. And the winters aren't nearly as bad here --
now that might be, as one joke puts it:
A government agent came to a farmer and told him that the state lines were being redrawn. "You now live in Wisconsin and not in Minnesota any more." The farmer was ecstatic, "GOOD!" he exclaimed. "Maybe the winters won't be so bad over here."Or it just might be global warming -- most of the local farmers did get their corn planted this year about 2 to 3 weeks earlier than "usual.")
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The first time I made this soup I loosely followed a recipe from Closet Cooking. I meant to follow it exactly, but I kept getting distracted. Among other mistakes I made, I forgot to add milk to the soup and thinned it out with water instead. It wasn't until we had finished dinner that I realized I had forgotten a pretty major ingredient. As it turns out, the cauliflower is creamy enough without having to add dairy. I have posted a cauliflower soup previously, but this one is better, if I do say so myself.
I put this soup on double duty the second time I made it. To half of the soup I added some goat cheese and shredded cheddar cheese after blending it and used that as a healthy base for macaroni and cheese. I know. I am a frickin' genius.
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I always try to have some homemade chicken stock in the freezer, especially during soup season. If you don't have homemade, I have found Campbell's Stock First is a good store-bought alternative.
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- olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic
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Meanwhile, heat a large pot over medium high heat. Add butter and onions, season with salt and pepper. Cook onions, stirring often, and adding a splash of water when onions start to get too brown to deglaze the pan and stop them from burning (this is a quick caramelizing method. You can use a slow method of your choice if you'd like. I'm just not that patient). Once onions are very soft and deeply browned, add stock, thyme, and roasted cauliflower. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer for 10 minutes, until cauliflower is very tender.
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So far so Bletchley Park
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I remember one late winter day in Lincoln, Nebraska. There was a blue sky, a cold wind, and bits of snow drifts that had not yet melted. I was walking towards a classroom and my friend Lee was leaving the building. She asked how I was doing.
"Fine," I said. "Well, I'm feeling depressed but everything is going well in my life so objectively I guess I am doing fine." This was the first time I remember actually being able to observe my feeling of being depressed as being separate from what was going on outside of myself. Years later when I began to study cognitive therapy that conversation came back to me. Cognitive therapy examines how thought affects life. Here is the analogy I use now: My favorite place in the world is a small sea town in Oregon. It sits atop a huge basalt flow that dates back to a time when the whole west coast was 100 feet below the ocean surface. There is no sandy beach here, merely a sharp drop from the edge of the rock to the ocean.
When a log comes rolling in on the tide, you can stand above it and watch it get smashed into the rock and then drift back out, only to come in again and crash against the stone with each succeeding wave. With depression you get a choice: you can be on the log or you can be on the stone above the log watching. You can be in the middle of the devastating, soul eating thoughts and beliefs that go with depression or you can stand back and observe your thoughts as something that is created in your brain but that is not very accurate.
The negative thinking in depression appears to be related to low levels of certain neurotransmitters in the brain. When these neurotransmitters drop below a certain level, negative thoughts come unbidden into the mind. Interestingly enough, it appears that having negative thoughts can also cause the neurotransmitters to drop. This becomes a feedback loop, one causing the other, causing the other. Sometimes a person can actually feel themselves spiraling into depression. Something bad happens, they start ruminating about this and that leads to more negative thoughts that generalize to other aspects of life.


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Isn't the fact that most mainstream media sources don't spend much time covering these issues show that there's nothing there?
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Initially, there has been self-censorship by journalists.Several months after 9/11, famed news anchor Dan Rather told the BBC that American reporters were practicing "a form of self-censorship":
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"What we are talking about here - whether one wants to recognise it or not, or call it by its proper name or not - is a form of self-censorship."
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"You can rock the boat, but you can never say that the entire ocean is in trouble .... You cannot say: By the way, there's something wrong with our .... system".
As Air Force Colonel and key Pentagon official Karen Kwiatkowski has written (at page 26):
"I have been told by reporters that they will not report their own insights or contrary evaluations of the official 9/11 story, because to question the government story about 9/11 is to question the very foundations of our entire modern belief system regarding our government, our country, and our way of life. To be charged with questioning these foundations is far more serious than being labeled a disgruntled conspiracy nut or anti-government traitor, or even being sidelined or marginalized within an academic, government service, or literary career. To question the official 9/11 story is simply and fundamentally revolutionary. In this way, of course, questioning the official story is also simply and fundamentally American."Censorship by Higher-Ups
If journalists do want to speak out about 9/11, they also are subject to tremendous pressure by their editors or producers to kill the story.
The Pulitzer prize-winning reporter who uncovered the Iraq prison torture scandal and the Mai Lai massacre in Vietnam, Seymour Hersh, said:
"All of the institutions we thought would protect us -- particularly the press, but also the military, the bureaucracy, the Congress -- they have failed. The courts . . . the jury's not in yet on the courts. So all the things that we expect would normally carry us through didn't. The biggest failure, I would argue, is the press, because that's the most glaring....
Q: What can be done to fix the (media) situation?
[Long pause] You'd have to fire or execute ninety percent of the editors and executives. You'd actually have to start promoting people from the newsrooms to be editors who you didn't think you could control. And they're not going to do that."
In fact many journalists are warning that the true story is not being reported. See this announcement and this talk.
And a series of interviews with award-winning journalists also documents censorship of certain stories by media editors and owners (and see these samples).
There are many reasons for censorship by media higher-ups. One is money.
The media has a strong monetary interest to avoid controversial topics in general. It has always been true that advertisers discourage stories which challenge corporate power. Indeed, a 2003 survey reveals that 35% of reporters and news executives themselves admitted that journalists avoid newsworthy stories if "the story would be embarrassing or damaging to the financial interests of a news organization's owners or parent company."
False flag terrorism is the most controversial topic there is. Exposure of the truth about 9/11 would challenge the government and the corporate status quo. Exposure of the truth of 9/11 would directly damage General Electric's bottom line of war profiteering. It would also damage the financial interests of the news organizations, since revelation of the truth would show how bad the mainstream media has been in covering real news, thus encouraging more people to get their news from other sources.
In addition, the Bush administration is allowing tremendous consolidation in ownership of the airwaves. The large media players stand to gain billions of dollars in profits if the administration continues to allow monopoly ownership of the airwaves by a handful of players. The media giants know who butters their bread. So there is a spoken or tactit agreement: if the media cover the administration in a favorable light, the MSM will continue to be the receiver of the government's goodies. And censoring the truth about 9/11 is a large part of covering the administration in a favorable light.
Drumming Up Support for War
In addition, the owners of American media companies have long actively played a part in drumming up support for war.
It is painfully obvious to anyone with two brain cells to rub together that the large news outlets studiously avoided any real criticism of the government's claims in the run up to the Iraq war. It is painfully obvious that the large American media companies acted as lapdogs and stenographers for the government's war agenda.
Indeed, veteran reporter Bill Moyers criticized the corporate media for parroting the obviously false link between 9/11 and Iraq which the administration made in the run up to the Iraq war, and concluded that the false information on 9/11 was not challenged because:
"the [mainstream] media had been cheerleaders for the White House from the beginning and were simply continuing to rally the public behind the President — no questions asked."But this is nothing new. For example, the mainstream media also played footsie with the U.S. government right before Pearl Harbor. Specifically, a highly-praised historian has documented that the Army's Chief of Staff informed the Washington bureau chiefs of the major newspapers and magazines of the impending Pearl Harbor attack BEFORE IT OCCURRED, and swore them to an oath of secrecy, which the media honored (page 361) . Also listen to this interview.
And the large media companies drummed up support for all previous wars. For example, Hearst with the Spanish-American War.
In fact, the American press has always served the elites in disseminating their false justifications for war.
One of of the reasons is because the large media companies are owned by those who support the militarist agenda or even directly profit from war and terror (for example, NBC is owned by General Electric, one of the largest defense contractors in the world -- which directly profits from war, terrorism and chaos).
Another seems to be an unspoken rule that the media will not criticize the government's imperial war agenda.
9/11 was one of the main justifications for the Iraq war, as well as the entire American imperial war agenda. Revealing the truth about 9/11 would undermine the main reason for those wars, and therefore, is in direct conflict with the media giants' efforts to drum up support for war.
Censorship by the Government
Finally, as if the media's own interest in covering up things like 9/11 and in promoting war is not strong enough, the government has exerted tremendous pressure on the media to report things a certain way. Indeed, at times the government has thrown media owners and reporters in jail if they've been too critical. My hunch is that the media companies have already felt great pressure from the government to kill any real coverage of 9/11 other than the official story and attacking straw men.
For example, the head of CNN said:
"there was 'almost a patriotism police' after 9/11 and when the network showed [things critical of the administration's policies] it would get phone calls from advertisers and the administration and "big people in corporations were calling up and saying, 'You're being anti-American here.'"Of course, if the stick approach doesn't work, the government can always just pay off reporters to spread disinformation. Indeed, according to famed Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein, the CIA has already bought and paid for many successful journalists.
Indeed, in the final analysis, the main reason today that the media giants will not cover the truth about 9/11 is that we live in a fascist country (see point number 6). Fascism actually means the blending of the government and corporate interests, and the American government and mainstream media have in fact been blended together to an unprecedented degree.
See this book and the following 5-part interview for further information on 9/11 and the media: (Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 • Part 5
Can We Win the Battle Against Censorship?
The cards are heavily stacked against the media covering the facts disproving the government's version of 9/11 or the many credible people who have questioned that story. We are up against tremendous forces working to censor those facts.
But we have the ability to outsmart the bad guys. We can "be the media" ourselves. We can be the movie-makers, the commentators, the reporters and writers. A thousand voices are louder than one voice with a megaphone.
We cannot leave governance to our "leaders", as "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" (Jefferson). Similarly, we cannot leave news to the corporate media.
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent"
- Thomas Jefferson
"To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Powerlessness and silence go together. We...should use our privileged positions not as a shelter from the world's reality, but as a platform from which to speak. A voice is a gift. It should be cherished and used."
– Margaret Atwood
"There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change is the history of millions of actions, small and large, coming together at points in history and creating a power that [nothing] cannot suppress."
- Howard Zinn (historian and 9/11 truth advocate)


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5362. Power, J.F. (ed.). 1987. The role of legumes in conservation tillage systems.. Soil Cons. Soc. Amer., Ankeny, IA. 153 pp..
Proceedings of a national conference, University of Georgia, Athens, April 27-29, 1987. Excellent reference for the use of legumes in cropping systems and their compatibility with conservation tillage. Major sections include: the need; germplasm resources; nitrogen source; insects and diseases; cropping practices; weed control; erosion and productivity; economics.
4798. Nelson, A.L.. 1930. Methods of spring wheat tillage.. WY Agr. Expt. Sta. Bulletin 173.
No spring wheat yield benefit was realized from having winter rye or peas as green manure in the rotation over 17 years. Some years it was observed that the green manure had not begun to decay a year after plowdown. For the first five years of the study, the pea green manure in rotation was superior to fallow preceding spring wheat. A 3-year rotation study found spring wheat to yield 23% more following dry beans compared to corn.
7242. Veseth, R.. 1989. Reduced tillage for green manure legumes. STEEP Conservation Farming Update, Summer 1989, p. 3-5.
Three tillages were compared for incorporating Austrian winter pea or red clover green manure: moldboard plow plus shallow disk; shallow disk twice; no-till. At each N fertilizer rate, winter wheat yields were slightly higher with reduced tillage than with conventional tillage. A 60 lb/ac N rate substantially increased wheat yields after green manure, while the 120 N rate gave little or no yield increase. With no N fertilizer, the yield of winter wheat after both green manure crops compared favorably with yield of no-till winter wheat after a seed crop of spring peas. Legume N uptake by a following wheat crop was not affected by residue treatment, but recovery of legume N from the soil was about 10% lower with surface application than with soil incorporation. Also, wheat yields after chemically-killed green manures were consistently lower, and could not be fully recovered with fertilizer N. The mechanism of this suppression is not known.


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Bulldogs Edge Shoes, Area Baseball Roundup
Published on April 23 2014 9:09 am
Last Updated on April 23 2014 9:16 am
Written by Millie Lange
The only run of the contest came in the second when Effingham St. Anthony tallied to down rival Teutopolis 1-0 in baseball competition Tuesday at Evergreen Hollow Park.
Zach Gardewine scattered six hits across seven innings, allowing only one walk and striking out two.
T-town's Darren Probst picked up the tough-luck loss, allowing only three hits, one walk and striking out six.
Neil Williams, Jacob Lorenz and Brandon Puckett garnered a single each. Puckett scored the lone run.
Kenter and Will had two singles each for the Wooden Shoes.
At Evergreen Hollow Park
Teutopolis 000 000 0 -- 0-6-1
St. Anthony 010 000 x -- 1-3-0
WP -- Gardewine. LP -- Probst.
Teutopolis -- Hardiek, single; Goldstein, single; Kenter, 2 singles; Will, 2 singles
St. Anthony -- Williams, single; Lorenz, single; Puckett, single
At Neoga
Effingham had nine hits and tallied five runs in blanking Neoga, 5-0 Tuesday.
The Hearts scored a run in the opening inning then added on three in the third and one more in the fifth. Carter Hayes had a single, double and drove in two runs while Kennon Mahaffey added a double and Brayden Bone two singles. Jacob Dust had a single and drove in a run. The Hearts improve to 9-5.
Neoga was led by Hoedebecke with two singles.
At Neoga
Effingham 103 010 0 -- 5-9-0
Neoga 000 000 0 -- 0-3-2
WP -- Koenig. LP -- Walk.
Effingham -- Bone, 2 singles; Mahaffey, double; Hayes, single, double, 2 RBI; Sanders, single, 2 RBI; Dust, single, 1 RBI; Daugherty, single; Koester, single
Neoga -- Walk, single; Hoedebecke, 2 singles
At Altamont
Fifteen hits, 10 walks and six errors contributed to a 21-1 victory for Altamont over Ramsey Tuesday evening.
The Indians had a five-run first and a five-run second and ended the game in the fifth via the 10-run rule. Winn had a double and a two-run homer while Ziegler had two singles and two RBI, Goeckner a triple and two RBI, Woflf three singles and four RBI, Ricketts two singles and three RBI, J. Miller a single, triple and three RBI and Cornett two singles and an RBI. Borders had three RBI with a single.
N. Miller picked up the pitching win on a two-hitter.
At Altamont
Ramsey 100 00 -- 1- 2-6
Altamont 554 7x -- 21-15-0
WP -- N. Miller. LP -- Davis.
Ramsey -- Knisley, double; Davis, single
Altamont -- Winn, double, home run (fourth, one on), 2 RBI; Ziegler, 2 singles, 2 RBI: Goekcner, triple, 2 RBI; Wolff, 3 singles, 4 RBI; Ricketts, 2 singles, 3 RBI; J. Miller, single, triple, 3 RBI; Borders, single, 3 RBI; Cornett, 2 singles, 1 RBI
At Brownstown
Brownstown/St. Elmo came back from a 2-1 deficit with three runs in the sixth to pull out a 4-2 victory over Dieterich Tuesday.
Dieterch held a 1-0 lead after two innings before BSE tallied a run in the third to knot the score. Dieterich moved ahead with a run in the top of the sixth but BSE came right back in the bottom of the frame, scoring three runs.
Jacob Behrends improved his pitching record to 4-2 in relief of Levi Maxey. Landon Feezel had a double and an RBI for the winners. Dalton Parks and Drake Hall had a single and an RBI each as Brownstown/St. Elmo improved to 10-7.
Dieterich was led by Traub with a single and triple and Shoemaker with two singles and two RBI. The Maroons drop to 5-6.
At Bob Page Field
Dieterich 010 001 0 -- 2-6-1
Brownstown/St. Elmo 001 003 x -- 4-5-1
WP -- Behrends. LP -- Bohnhoff.
Dieterich -- J. Bohnhoff, single; Traub, single, triple; Campton, single; Shoemaker, 2 singles, 2 RBI
Brownstown/St. Elmo -- L. Maxey, single; Parks, single, 1 RBI; Flowers, single; Hall, single, 1 RBI; Feezel, double, 1 RBI
At Beecher City
Beecher City/Cowden-Herrick picked up its first victory of the season by beating Mulberry Grove 3-1.
BCCH tallied single runs in the second, third and fourth innings behind five hits. Jackson Bales had two singles while Austin Shelton had a double. Jacob Kenter drove in a run with a single.
Kenter improved to 1-2 allowing five hits, no walks and striking out five. BCCH is now 1-6 on the season.
At Beecher City
Mulberry Grove 000 000 1 -- 1-5-1
BCCH 011 100 x -- 3-5-0
WP -- Kenter. LP -- Childress.
Mulberry Grove -- Willis, single; Goodin, single; Chrisman, single; Korte, single, 1 RBI; Linnabary, single
Beecher City/Cowden-Herrick -- Bales, 2 singles; Kenter, single, 1 RBI; Randall, single; Shelton, double
At Farina
South Central came from a 2-1 deficit in the bottom of the sixth to tally four runs and went on to edge North Clay (Louisville) 7-6.
Noah Powless had a home run and three RBI for the winners. Smith had two singles and an RBI while Bray also had two singles and an RBI. Ross had a single, double and an RbI and Holmes three singles. The Cougars improve to 6-8 on the season.
North Clay was led by Claye Byers with two singles and an RBI and Walker with a single, double and two RBI.
At Kinmundy
North Clay 100 010 4 -- 6- 7-3
South Central 100 042 x -- 7-12-1
WP -- Peters. LP -- McNeely.
North Clay -- Byers, 2 singles, 1 RBI; Walker, single, double, 2 RBI; Box, single, 1 RBI
South Central -- Powless, home run, 3 RBI; Smith, 2 singles, 1 RBI; Bray, 2 singles, 1 RBI; Ross, single, double, 1 RBI; Holmes, 3 singles
At Mattoon
Mattoon claimed an 11-1 win over Newton. The Green Wave had 11 hits in the contest while Newton committed four errors.
Lodes picked up the pitching win to improve to 4-0 behind a three-hitter with four strikeouts. The Green Wave improve to 11-5.
Newton was led by Huston with a double and an RBI.
At Mattoon
Newton 010 000 -- 1- 3-4
Mattoon 600 401 -- 11-11-1
WP -- Lodes. LP -- Mammoser.
Newton -- Huston, double, 1 RBI
Mattoon -- Hartbank, 2 singles, 1 RBI; Warren, 3 singles, 3 RBI
At Windsor
Windsor/Stewardson-Strasburg blasted Cumberland 19-7 in five innings via the 10-run rule Tuesday.
Windsor/SS had a 17-run second inning to put the game away. Alex Allen had a single, two doubles and an RBI for the winners while Christian Vonderheide had a single, double and four RBI, Hayden Cole a single, home run and two RBI and Devon Deremiah a single, double and four RBI.
Cumberland was led by Hunter Light with a single, double and an RBI, Hayden Kanizer with three singles and Nicholas Kimble with a double and two RBI. Blayke Cutts added two singles and two RBI.
At Windsor
Cumberland 1 01 41 -- 7-11-0
Windsor/SS 0(17)2 00 -- 19-17-0
WP -- Hutchinson. LP -- Talley.
Cumberland -- Bauguss, double, 1 RBI; Kimble, double, 2 RBI; Elwood, double; Cutts, 2 singles, 2 RBI; Light, single, double, 1 RBI; Brumleve, single; Kanizer, 3 singles
Windsor/Stew-Stras -- Allen, single, 2 doubles, 1 RBI; Moschenrose, double; Helmuth, 2 singles, 2 RBI; Vonderheide, single, double, 4 RBI; Cole, single, home run, 2 RBI; C. Ohnesorge, single, 1 RBI; Kramer, double; Deremiah, single, double, 4 RBI; D. Ohnesorge, 1 RBI; Hutchinson, single, 2 RBI; Kemper, single; Bugger, 2 RBI; Caywood, single
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Moutn Carmel 11, Robinson 3