West Lawn out of Mid-Atlantic | reading eagle.com

AUGUST 11, 2012

Flemington, the New Jersey runner-up, scored a run in the bottom of the ninth to top West Lawn 6-5 and force the Owls into the elimination bracket. Pennsylvania runner-up Spring City delivered the knockout with a 17-1 victory Friday night at Owls Field.

\”We played our hearts out in that first game,\” West Lawn coach Zack Williams said. \”The kids gave us everything they could. Some things didn\’t go our way, and we didn\’t finish it.

\”But the kids who played for us made me proud to be their coach.\”

The Owls (11-16) had a berth in Mid-Atlantics as host. The positive, of course, was a fresh start after going a combined 0-4 in the Berks County and Region 2 American Legion tournaments. The team didn\’t qualify for states.

The difficult part? The competition – seven of the top teams from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia – is fierce.

Even so, West Lawn was six outs away from ending its postseason losing streak. The Owls led Flemington 5-2 after Zach Post hit a two-run single in the top of the eighth.

But Flemington scored four in the final two innings. Pat Roberts hit a one-out single to drive in the winning run in the bottom of the ninth.

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Reading Eagle

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Owls rained out, play opener today | readingeagle.com

AUGUST 10, 2012

West Lawn and Flemington will try again this morning.

Game 4 of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Tournament between the host Owls and the New Jersey state runner-up was delayed by thunderstorms at the start for 90 minutes Thursday night. At 9:30 p.m., tournament officials postponed the game until 9 a.m.

In earlier action, Brooklawn, N.J., defeated Elkins, W.Va., 6-2; Columbia, Md., topped Spring City 3-1; and Stahl, Del., beat Doylestown 7-2.

The second-day schedule will begin approximately 20 minutes after the completion of West Lawn-Flemington.

Game 5 is an elimination contest between Elkins and Doylestown. Spring City takes on the West Lawn-Flemington loser in the second elimination game.

Brooklawn plays Stahl in the first winners bracket game. Columbia faces the winner between West Lawn and Flemington.

There will be 20-minute breaks between the games.

The teams are competing for a berth in the American Legion World Series in Shelby, N.C.

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Okalahoma: Disasters Strke Everyone No Matter Who You Are

This story is written by Red Cross worker Nigel Holderby.

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Dr. Olson, his wife and their 5 children, were evacuated from their home in Drumright, OK on the afternoon of 8/4 due to a massive wildfire that was raging in the immediate area. They fled their home, headed to Stillwater to a hotel near the hospital where Dr. Olson would report to work the next morning.

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Explorers Picked Third In A-10 Preseason Coaches Poll

PHILADELPHIA – Following a historic season in 2011 that saw the program\’s first-ever NCAA tournament appearance, La Salle Women\’s Soccer has been predicted to finish third in the Atlantic 10 according to preseason voting conducted by the league\’s 16 head coaches.

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N.J. Firefighter Bails, Three Rescued After Flashover

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A Passaic firefighter was forced to bail out of a second-story window and three other firefighters had to be rescued following a flashover during a four-alarm blaze early Friday morning.

Crews responded to the fire at 216 Central Avenue just after 3:30 a.m. to find the structure fully involved, according to The Record.

The firefighters were attempting to search the structure after receiving reports of a person on the second floor, which ended up being false.

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Bill Donahue: Obama Spins Catholic Dialogue

August 9, 2012

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on remarks made yesterday in Denver by President Barack Obama:

Before a crowd at the University of Denver, President Obama addressed the Health and Human Services mandate that orders Catholic non-profits to pay for abortion-inducing drugs, contraception and sterilization. \”We worked with the Catholic hospitals and universities to find a solution that protects both religious liberty and a woman’s health,\” he said. The president also said that Mitt Romney \”joined the far right of his party to support a bill that would allow any employer to deny contraceptive coverage to their employees.\”

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Brooklawn breaks through over Elkins | courierpostonline.com

WEST LAWN, PA. — Brooklawn Red scored four runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to break a 2-2 deadlock and went on for a 6-2 victory over Elkins (West Va.) in the opening game of the Senior American Legion Mid-Atlantic Regional Tournament this morning.

The Brookers will face the winner of this afternoon’s matchup between Doylestown (Pa.) and Stahl (Del.) on Friday at 4 p.m.

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Letters: A RESPONSE TO \”WHO’S THAT LADY?\”

Mr. David Townsend is correct, Ramona. This statue was on the grounds of the United States Immigration Station on King Street. My mother and Mr. John Butts, the grounds keeper, often talked of flowers, gardening.

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Estes rides across Iowa to stay fit, raise funding for cancer

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Last Updated – August 2, 2012 1:21 GMT

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Brown head coach Phil Estes recently completed a seven-day ride across Iowa – the largest and longest bicycle touring event in the world.

Imagine sitting through a severe thunderstorm huddled up in a RV after biking 90 miles in 100-degree heat with headwinds of 30 mph.

Sounds like a tough day … maybe worse than football two-a-day practices.

But for Brown head coach football coach Phil Estes, and his team, the Angry Bears, it was just another day of an adversity-filled week participating in the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI).

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What Happened at the Bullying Prevention Summit?

$\"English:$ English: A Bully Free Zone sign – School in Berea, Ohio (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

By Susan Jones

August 7, 2012

(CNSNews.com) – When students are bullied, the entire nation pays the price, Acting Associate Attorney General Tony West told the 2012 Bullying Prevention Summit in Washington on Tuesday.

But in his speech, West offered only one specific example of how the Obama administration has intervened to stop bullying, and that case involved homosexuality, which in recent years has become synonymous with bullying.

Bullying \”presents challenges that affect us all,\” West told the summit. \”When kids who are the targets of bullies show up in school, not ready to learn because they’re too afraid…that’s not just a challenge for the victim or his or her family; that becomes an education challenge. And when those bullied children show up in doctor’s offices and clinics suffering from anxiety or depression or a whole host of other issues, that becomes a health care challenge.

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