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Former Colonel hits first major league HR
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The Richmond Register - Josh Anderson?s first major league home run set the tone for what turned out to be a bizarre game Tuesday in Miami....
Streelman takes lead at Barclays as Stricker fades
Found: 1 Month 1 Week 6 Days 9 Hours 30 Minutes ago
WBKO News - Kenny Perry shot one-over on Saturday and trails Streelman by three shots entering Sunday....
Legends cap trip with another loss
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Lexington Hearld-Leader -
The Lexington Legends concluded a miserable road trip Monday night with a 5-1 loss to the Augusta GreenJackets at Augusta, Ga.
Lexington won only once during the eight-game trip.
Third baseman Chris Jackson, making his first start as the Legends leadoff hitter, doubled to lead off the game and came around to score on two groundouts. That was pretty much it for the Lexington offense.
Jackson had the only other Lexington hit, a single in the third, and catcher Julian Henson drew a walk in the fifth. ...
Augusta extends Legends' misery
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Lexington Hearld-Leader -
First, the bad news: The Lexington Legends lost again on Sunday, this time to the first-place Augusta GreenJackets by a 14-2 score.
The good news: There's only 13 games left in this miserable season.
The Legends were particularly pathetic on Sunday in the third game of a road series in which they have been outscored 32-4.
All nine Augusta batters drove in a run, and all nine scored. Legends starter Luis Pardo (1-8) walked four and threw four wild pitches in 31.3 innings. And reliever Brett Robinson allowed eight earned runs in a third of an inning. ...
Four-run third starts Augusta to easy victory
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Lexington Hearld-Leader -
A four-run third inning gave Augusta the lead, and the hometown GreenJackets routed the Lexington Legends 11-2 Saturday night.
James Simmons and Dom Duggan had the Legends flustered after reaching base on back-to-back bunt singles to start the third. Nick Noonan hit a chopper to the infield but was ruled safe to load the bases.
Angel Villalona later doubled to center field for two runs and a 5-2 GreenJacket lead.
Augusta added three runs in the sixth off reliever Carlos Ladeuth. Jack Tilghman was tagged for three more runs in the eighth. The GreenJackets had four hits, including an RBI double by James Simmons. ...
Minor league home opener April 17 vs. Kannapolis
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Bowling Green Daily News - The Bowling Green minor league baseball team will hold its inaugural opening night April 17 against the Kannapolis (N.C.) Intimidators, team officials announced Saturday.
The home opener is the first of 70 home games in 2009 for the Class A affiliate of Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays. The Bowling Green franchise, which will play in the South Atlantic League, released the home schedule to give baseball fans a chance to plan ahead for next summer.
Bowling Green general manager and CEO Brad Taylor said he expects the announcement to spark added excitement about the new franchise.
“People should know that will be a historical date - the first professional baseball game in Bowling Green,” Taylor said. “Hopefully, everybody is going to be locked in on that. It’s a Friday, a great weekend event. I think it is very exciting to have the first date and opponent set. It shows how real it is.”
Bowling Green will welcome 12 opponents to its new stadium during the 2009 season, playing 42 games against Southern Division rivals and 28 against Northern Division clubs.
Bowling Green’s Southern Division rival Lexington Legends, a Class A affiliate of the Houston Astros, will make the most appearances, with nine games being played in Bowling Green.
“I think that is going to be a lot of fun to have a Bluegrass rivalry,” Taylor said. “It’s a short drive for both teams. It’s division play. I think that is going to be fun for fans of both cities.”
In addition to Lexington, Bowling Green’s breakdown against other Southern Division teams includes eight games against the Charleston (S.C.) RiverDogs (New York Yankees), seven meetings with the Greenville (S.C.) Drive (Boston Red Sox), six match-ups with the Asheville (N.C.) Tourists (Colorado Rockies) and four games apiece against the Hickory (N.C.) Crawdads (Pittsburgh Pirates), the Lake County (Ohio) Captains (Cleveland Indians) and the Savannah (Ga.) Sand Gnats (New York Mets).
Bowling Green will host both the Augusta (Ga.) GreenJackets (San Francisco Giants) and West Virginia Power (Milwaukee Brewers) eight times. The Hagerstown (Md.) Suns (Washington Nationals), Kannapolis (Chicago White Sox) and Rome (Ga.) Braves (Atlanta Braves) each will play a four-game series at Bowling Green. Those five teams are all members of the North Division in the South Atlantic League.
Bowling Green will have several home games on holidays, including a Fourth of July matchup with Augusta.
“I think it is great when you can be home on days like that. It will be a tremendous help for tickets. The Fourth of July is always a big weekend,” Taylor said. “What’s better on the Fourth of July than watching baseball and fireworks.”
Bowling Green will start on the road April 9, giving officials a chance to put the finishing touches on the downtown stadium, which is under construction.
The Bowling Green team’s road schedule has not been released.
“It’s nice that we get a chance to get a couple of extra days to get the stadium open, to continue to build the excitement and get people ready for Bowling Green baseball,” Taylor said.
The Bowling Green team is still accepting deposits for season tickets and luxury suites at www.BowlingGreenProBaseball.com or by calling 901-2121. Full-season tickets are $595, and deposits can be made for $100 a seat.
Ticket sales began in late May and Taylor said the team is pleased with the response. Still, he expects a boost following Saturday’s announcement.
“I think every time a new story happens with the team, we see a spike in sales,” Taylor said. “It’s been a lot of fun to watch people’s point of reality change as I got named to work there. Then all the sudden we had a name-the-team contest and now we have a schedule.
“Monday the link goes live to vote on the final seven names. People have driven downtown and seen the progress on the stadium construction. I think all of this just reinforces that it is really here and really going to happen.”
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Shark is circling with 2-shot lead in British
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The State Journal - SOUTHPORT, England (AP) - Gusts that approached 50 mph required Greg Norman to manufacture shots from his 53-year-old memory Saturday in the British Open, which he called among the toughest tests he has ever faced in golf. It only got harder after he finished another chapter in this incredible script at Royal Birkdale. Norman played the perfect pitch shot over a....
The Shark is circling with 2-shot lead in British
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Lexington Hearld-Leader - Greg Norman has another chance to win a major. This time, he might have nothing to lose.
In gusts that approached 50 mph Saturday at Royal Birkdale, Norman finished off another chapter of this incredible script at the British Open with the perfect pitch shot over a pot bunker that settled a few inches from the cup, the easiest putt he had all day.
Norman played bogey-free over the final eight holes for a 2-over 72, emerging from a four-way logjam at the turn to take a two-shot lead over defending champion Padraig Harrington and K.J. Choi.
The rest of the details are still hard to believe.
This is no longer the thrill-seeking Great White Shark who used to routinely beat up on the best players in every major until it was time to award the trophy. That was when his game was tested, and the wounds from so many majors-gone-wrong were still fresh....
Major tours come together to push for Olympic golf
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Lexington Hearld-Leader - Tiger Woods, Olympian?
Golf's major governing bodies stepped up their campaign to get the sport added to the Olympic program in 2016, naming former LPGA commissioner Ty Votaw to lead the effort.
Votaw, now an executive vice president of the PGA Tour, will be loaned out from that post over the next 15 months to represent seven of the bigger hitters in the game: both the American and European tours, Royal & Ancient, LPGA, U.S. Golf Association, PGA of America and Augusta National Golf Club, home of the Masters.
"The time is right for the world of golf to come together for the common good of the sport," Votaw said.
The IOC will decide in October 2009 on possible changes in the Olympic program at the same meeting where it picks the next host city for the Summer Games. The 2016 finalists are Chicago, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro and Madrid....
Wayside sells, will move
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LEO Weekly - citystrobe@leoweekly.comWayside Christian Mission announced the sale of its East Market Street campus Thursday, the final act in more than a month?s worth of disputes over the mission?s expansion plans, which included tearing down some old, old buildings ? an idea that sat sideways with some neighbors, including the East Downtown Business Association, which formally opposed the plan. ...
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