Day: May 11, 2013

SAINT JOSEPH\’S BASEBALL SETS NEW SCHOOL RECORD WITH 26TH WIN AS HAWKS TOP SAINT LOUIS, 3-2

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Mullen Ties Single-Season Record with Eighth Win; Yacabonis Notches 10th Save

ST. LOUIS – The Saint Joseph’s baseball set a new school record on Friday night, winning its 26th game of the season as the Hawks held on for a 3-2 win over Saint Louis at the Billiken Sports Center. Senior Kyle Mullen (Berwyn, Pa./St. Joseph\’s Prep) also tied a school record with his eighth victory of the season.

The previous school record for team victories was 25, set in 1995 and matched last season. Mullen pulled into a tie with John Butz and Jed Johnson, who won eight games in 1965 and 1995, respectively.

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ALL-DAY SPRING GOBBLER SEASON TO BEGIN MAY 13 | cnbnews.net

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Pennsylvania turkey hunters are permitted to hunt from one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset, beginning Monday, May 13. The expanded hunting hours continue through the last day of the season, Friday, May 31.

All-day hunting during the second half of the spring season began in 2011 to provide interested hunters with more time to be afield.

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St. Bonaventure 7, La Salle 5

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OLEAN, N.Y. – St. Bonaventure used two eighth inning runs to knock off the La Salle baseball team, 7-5, on \"Rp_primary_welling\" Saturday afternoon at Fred Handler Park. Sophomore Kevin Conroy(3-4, RBI, 2 runs) paced the Explorer offense and sophomore Ryan Welling notched a 2-3 line with a run and RBI.

Conroy jump started the La Salle in the first, depositing a 1-2 pitch over the left field wall for a 1-0 lead. Junior George Smith, Jr. (1-3, RBI) doubled home Welling in the second, who worked a two-out walk to keep the inning alive. Two more Explorers touched home in the third on sophomore Justin Korenblatt\’s (1-5, 2 RBI) fifth triple of the season to open up a 4-0 lead.

Not to be turned away on their senior day, the Bonnies (18-25, 8-13) began chipping at the lead in the bottom of the third and proceeded to score one run in each of the next five innings. La Salle starter Shane Hollman was charged with three earned runs on five hits in 5.1 innings of work.

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WILDLIFE RESCUED FOLLOWING DIESEL SPILL

May 10, 2013


Game Commission asks citizens to report sightings of affected animals. 

 

HARRISBURG – The fuel tanker explosion that has closed a stretch of Interstate 81 near

Harrisburg also caused about 2,000 gallons of spilled diesel fuel to flow into a nearby wetlands, prompting a rapid response to contain and clean up the spill, and rescue affected wildlife.

 

Efforts continue today at Wildwood Lake Sanctuary, which lies just northwest of the interchange where the tanker overturned and caught fire.

Fuel spilled at the crash site May 9 traveled through a storm drain to Paxton Creek and into the Wildwood marsh, an important habitat for wildlife and plants, including state endangered species of each.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission responded to the marsh just before noon on Thursday, after a man who had been hiking through Wildwood Park called to report the spill. Field officers with the commission paddled their way around the lake and were able to rescue about a dozen fuel-coated ducklings and goslings from the marsh.

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Rutgers Rivera repeats on Academic All-District 2 First Team

 

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CAMDEN, N.J. (May 8, 2013) – Rutgers University-Camden senior centerfielderAlbert Rivera (Matawan, NJ/Matawan Regional) has been named to the Capital One Baseball Academic All-District 2 First Team for the second consecutive season.

Rivera, a four-year letterman with the Scarlet Raptors who collected his 100th career hit in Rutgers-Camden’s ECAC Div. III Metro tournament win on Wednesday, owns a 3.82 GPA as a Finance major with a minor in Statistics.

The Academic All-American teams, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), are released to recognize the nation’s top student-athletes for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom. Capital One became the entitlement rights holder to CoSIDA’s Academic All-America teams programs in 2011.

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Archdiocesan Students Recognized for Winning Art Contest during the Dad Vail Regatta

 

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PHILADELPHIA PA–May 10, 2013 Six Archdiocesan high school students were among those recognized by Mayor Michael A. Nutter at a press conference during the 75th Annual Aberdeen Dad Vail Regatta. The students took grand prize, first prize and honorable mentions in the 11th Annual Poster Art Contest held in conjunction with the Regatta.

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Nine from Baseball Named Empire 8 All-Conference

 

 

 

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (May 10, 2013) – The Empire 8 Conference released its post season baseball awards today and nine members of the Stevens Institute of Technology squad were recognized on the first- and second-teams. Stevens finished up its 2013 season with a 23-18 overall record and bowed out of the ECAC Metro Tournament on Wednesday afternoon against Rutgers-Camden University.

Three student-athletes landed on the first-team in junior Dan Allen (Egg Harbor Township, N.J.), sophomore Ryan Mannello (Staten Island, N.Y) and freshman Ryan Patterson (Staten Island, N.Y.).

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