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By From staff reports | May 8, 2007
Stephanie Speierman's 17 strikeouts led Hammond's softball team to a 2-1 win over visiting Long Reach yesterday. The victory puts the No. 5 Bears (17-1) into the Howard County championship game, in which they will host Glenelg tomorrow at 4 p.m. Speierman's 17 strikeouts give her a county-record 321 for the season. She broke her record of 283, which she set last season as a freshman. Boys lacrosse Carver 15, Douglass 1 -- Maurice Washington scored seven goals to lead the Bears (10-1)
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By CHILDS WALKER | May 3, 2007
I targeted two minor leaguers in the reserve portions of American League drafts this year. I figured Adam Lind's hitting excellence would force the Toronto Blue Jays to give him a job at some point and that he'd immediately be better than the fifth outfielders on my teams. And I thought the New York Yankees' pitching would be shabby enough that they'd have to recall phenom Phil Hughes by Memorial Day. Well, those bets turned out better than I could have imagined. Reed Johnson got hurt right away in Toronto, and Lind received his starting job on a platter.
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By Joe Strauss | September 8, 1999
MINNEAPOLIS -- Welcome to September baseball in the land that franchise relocation forgot. In a setting where fans throw their voices to hear the echo, Scott Erickson gave the Orioles another strong showing against his former club in a 5-0 win before 9,263 at the Metrodome. As long as the game "survives" in the Great White North, the Orioles will always have somewhere to get well.Only 45-68 against the rest of the American League, the Orioles improved to 6-1 against their small-market competition.
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By Pat O'Malley | April 7, 1999
Mike Ziegler, an All-Metro pitcher at Old Mill in 1997 who is 12-1 at Tallahassee (Fla.) Community College, has orally committed to Florida State University, which has the nation's top-ranked college baseball team.Ziegler, a 6-foot-3, 229-pound right-hander, told veteran Seminoles' coach Mike Martin Monday that he would accept the school's scholarship offer. Ziegler chose FSU over a host of other Division I schools."I could not be getting a better opportunity," said Ziegler. "Being down here in Tallahassee [also FSU's location]
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By Pat O'Malley | March 24, 1999
Even Bernie Walter, the quintessential perfectionist, had trouble finding something wrong with top-ranked Arundel's season opener in Gambrills yesterday.Returning All-Metro right-hander Andy Kostic spun a three-hitter with a career-high 12 strikeouts as the Wildcats opened with an 8-0 victory over Thomas Johnson of Frederick."The most [strikeouts] I had in a game last year was seven or eight," said Kostic. "I wasn't a strikeout pitcher last year, but maybe I will be this year because I have even better command of my three pitches [fastball, curve and change]
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June 8, 1999
Braves: John Smoltz became the 53rd pitcher in major-league history to get 2,000 career strikeouts.Mets: Roger Cedeno was caught stealing for the fifth time.Phillies: Scott Rolen homered for the second straight day after not hitting one in 63 at-bats. Attendance of 37,180 -- including many Yankees fans -- was the largest since Opening Day and nearly double the Phillies' average of 18,881.Pirates: Jason Kendall extended his hitting streak to 16 games.
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By FROM STAFF REPORTS | May 13, 1999
Long Reach's Kristen Schaper (12-6) threw a perfect five-inning game as the Lightning defeated visiting Oakland Mills, 12-0, yesterday. Schaper faced the minimum 15 batters and struck out seven, running her 18-game total to 157 strikeouts.
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By Kent Baker | March 22, 1999
SARASOTA, Fla. -- Two years ago, he entered his Double-A season ranked as one of the leading prospects in the Orioles' farm system. Then, it was farewell to arm.Now, lean right-hander Julio Moreno is in minor-league training camp exuding confidence about the upcoming season, when he is scheduled to be one of the bulwarks of the Rochester pitching staff.But there will be no more weightlifting to bulk up his slender upper body."They want me to pitch a lot of innings," said Moreno, who skipped 1998 entirely after straining his right shoulder while lifting in spring training.
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May 16, 1999
Cubs: The back-to-back victories are the team's first since a five-game winning streak April 28-May 2. Attendance was a season-high 40,332.Diamondbacks: Randy Johnson has reached double digits in strikeouts five times this season and 107 times in his career.Expos: Catcher Chris Widger left the game after three innings with a strained lower back. In two starts against the Pirates this season, Carl Pavano has pitched four innings, allowing 17 hits with 15 runs, for an ERA of 33.75.Pirates: Pittsburgh's 17 hits were a season high.
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September 9, 1999
RochesterLeague: Triple-A InternationalManager: Dave MachemerFinal record: 61-83Finish: Fifth in six-team divisionHome attendance: 481,037Top hitters hitter: Julio Vinas (.312, 83 RBIs), Ryan Minor (21 HRs)Top starter: Calvin Maduro (11-11, 3.99 ERA, 149 strikeouts, 169 IP)Top reliever: Gabe Molina (2-2, 3.14 ERA, 18 saves)Best prospects: IF Jerry Hairston, 3B Minor, 1B Calvin Pickering, IF Jesse Garcia, Maduro, Molina, P Radhames DykhoffBowieLeague: Double-A EasternManager: Joe FergusonFinal record: 70-71Finish: Fourth in six-team divisionHome attendance: 412,398 (69 dates)