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Walker, team receives holiday
Jul 03, 2010
By TOM KERRANE
Times Herald Staff
COLUMBIA, S.C. – On Independence Day, many Americans get the chance to attend a parade in the local town.
Floats are towed down the main drag, bands play patriotic tunes, fire engines blare their sirens. It is the usual tradition on this holiday weekend.
For Christian Walker, the Kennedy-Kenrick Catholic High product got to experience all that a little bit earlier than usual.
Walker was one of those riding on a float through the town of Columbia, South Carolina on Friday. His parade was not to mark the country’s independence 234 years ago.
It was to celebrate the national championship the University of South Carolina won in baseball Tuesday, Walker being the freshman first baseman for the Gamecocks. (more…)
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Looking back
Jul 03, 2010
By DAVE KURTZ
Times Herald Sports Editor
The pages in the scrapbook are yellow and brittle. The photographs are cracked and faded. And the athletes that created those headlines and freeze-frame moments on playing fields and athletic arenas across the area have also been diminished.
Gone to seed, in many cases.
But what they’ve sewn in our subconsciousness – countless memories – remain bright and vivid and unbroken.
The eye-popping touchdown runs, slam dunks in traffic, walk-off home runs, overtime pins and game-winning goals aren’t easily forgotten. Neither are the league or district or state championships that fill all the trophy cases in the local high schools.
There is a rich athletic tradition in the Norristown area, and the athletes that helped build that legacy are etched in our minds forever.
In conjunction with the landmark Ben Franklin Project, readers were asked to submit their nominations for the greatest area high school athlete they’d ever seen.
The responses were diverse and in some cases, predictable.
An edited sampling from John Souder of Graterford:
“The greatest high school athlete that I got to watch in action was Henry Williams of A. D. Eisenhower High School (Norristown High School). (more…)
Woods trails by 10 strokes behind 36-hole leader Rose
Jul 03, 2010
By NEIL GEOGHEGAN
Journal Register News Service
NEWTOWN SQUARE — For the most part, the second round of the AT&T National was a struggle at an Aronimink Golf Club that is becoming more and more challenging. But it’s probably safe to say that nobody experienced a more anxiety-filled day than tournament organizers and CBS Sports, who had to sweat it out for six-plus hours on Friday wondering whether Tiger Woods was going to make the 36-hole cut.
The planet’s most recognizable athlete ultimately made it, barely, thus averting what would have been a major calamity. But Woods will head into the weekend a full 10 strokes behind 36-hole leader Justin Rose, who seized a 1-stroke lead over Jason Day and Charlie Wi thanks to a masterful bogey-free 6-under-par 64.
“I didn’t really go out there with the intentions of going low, so to speak. The round just evolved and happened,” the South African native said.
At 7-under 133, Rose is in position to notch the second victory of his six-year PGA Tour career just four weeks after finally getting his first at the Memorial. But Rose, 29, is just five days removed from a final round collapse at the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Conn., where he held the 54-hole lead and finished ninth. (more…)
Phils offense still on vacation
Jul 03, 2010
By RYAN LAWRENCE
Journal Register News Service
PITTSBURGH — The Pirates aren’t the worst team in the National League for no good reason.
There starting pitchers sport a collective 5.48 ERA, the worst in baseball and nearly a full run lower than the next National League team (Arizona, 4.65). Entering a four-game holiday weekend series with the Phillies, the Pirates were running out two starters who had yet to win a game all season Thursday and Friday.
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Union hopes to keep streak alive
Jul 03, 2010
By CHRISTOPHER A. VITO
Journal Register News Service
As first impressions go, Danny Califf’s initial go-round with the Union was an awkward one.
He was brought aboard Major League Soccer’s expansion club six months ago because team manager Peter Nowak saw something in him. When meeting people for the first time, however, it’s less about what people see in Califf … and more of what they see on him.
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Haulers rally from big deficit in legion win
Jul 02, 2010
By TOM KERRANE
Times Herald Staff
WORCESTER — There was a chance Thursday’s first inning would not be completed – due to darkness.
First pitch for Thursday evening’s Greater Norristown American Legion Baseball League game between J.P. Mascaro and Paul’s Auto was thrown at 6:03 p.m. The last pitch of the inning came at 6:49.
A lot happened between those two pitches.
Combined, the first inning included 30 batters, 19 runs, 14 hits, eight walks, three errors, five runners left on base, 118 pitches thrown and the 46 minutes to be completed. (more…)
Suddenly potent Angels bury Rebels again
Jul 02, 2010
By DENNIS C. WAY
Times Herald Staff
WHITPAIN — When Plymouth dropped 18 runs on Ambler Tuesday, more than a few jaws dropped.
After all, the Angels had only scored in double digits once this year prior to Tuesday’s deluge, and the team’s much better suited to a pitchers’ duel than it is a slugfest.
What could they do for an encore?
The Angels provided the answer, in spades, at Montgomery County Community College Thursday night. (more…)
Utley lost to Phils for minimum of 8 weeks
Jul 02, 2010
By RYAN LAWRENCE
Journal Register News Service
PITTSBURGH — The mood in the clubhouse prior to Thursday night’s game at PNC Park wasn’t especially glum or downtrodden.
Phillies players went about their usual business. Jamie Moyer and a few other pitchers were watching a matinee Cubs game on TV, Shane Victorino was reading a newspaper and Cole Hamels was watching video.
Despite the news that they would be without a player Roy Halladay recently called “the driving force of the team” and “the Derek Jeter of the National League,” the Phils continued to prep for the game that was four hours away. It’s all they could do.
Chase Utley underwent successful surgery Friday in New York to repair a torn ligament in his right thumb. Head team trainer Scott Sheridan said Utley will be out of action for approximately eight weeks, which would translate into mid-to-late August. (more…)
Valley Forge’s bats remain hot, scoring 16 runs in win
Jul 01, 2010
By TOM KERRANE
Times Herald Staff
LOWER GWYNEDD —Earlier in the season, the folks at Valley Forge were a little worried about the team’s offense.
The Generals were not getting enough timely hits, were not having the big innings, were not putting up the crooked numbers.
They do not seem too worried these days.
Wednesday night at Whitpain, Valley Forge batted around in each of the first two innings, scoring five times in the first and six more in the second, going on to a 16-3, five-inning Greater Norristown American Legion Baseball League victory at Wissahickon High.
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Black Sox make a statement to rest of the league
Jul 01, 2010
By DAVE KURTZ
Times Herald Sports Editor
COLLEGEVILLE — If Collegeville was looking to make a statement Wednesday evening, the message came across loud and clear.
Loud — as in the 19 hits the Black Sox hammered to every region of the ballpark. Clear — as in the sharp 13-strikeout, four-hit mound performance delivered by Brian Rorick and Mike Cope.
“I think it was (a statement),” said Lenny DelGrippo, who keyed the 13-1 Perkiomen Valley Twilight League flogging of Lansdale with three hits and three RBIs. “We’ve played them four times now. We’ve lost a couple of close games and blew them out twice. (more…)
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