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“BIN LADEN WAS NOT a Muslim leader. He was a mass

murderer of Muslims. His demise should be welcomed by
all who believe in peace and human dignity.’’ -- President Obama

BIN LADEN DEAD U.S. mission

kills leader
of al-Qaida
in Pakistan
Times Leader Wire Services
WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden
is dead.
President Barack Obama made the
dramatic late-night announcement
Sunday from the East Room of the
White House, ending the long, elusive
international manhunt for the leader of
the al-Qaida terrorist organization re-
sponsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
“Justice has been done,” Obama said
in an 10-minute address shortly before
midnight.
Bin Laden, perhaps the most reviled
man in the eyes of Americans, also was
sought for the 1998 bombings of U.S.
embassies in east Africa.
A small team of U.S. operatives killed
bin Laden Sunday in Abbottabad, Pakis-
tan, after a firefight, took custody of his
body and confirmed his identity, Oba-
ma said. The president said a possible
lead to Obama’s whereabouts emerged
last August, but took “many months” to
run down.
He determined last week that there
was enough intelligence to take action,
he said. Sunday’s targeted operation
went down without harm to Americans
and without civilian casualty, he said.
Celebratory crowds flocked outside
the gates of the White House, waving
American flags and singing the national
anthem.
“The United States is not and never
will be at war with Islam,” Obama said.
“Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader. He
was a mass murderer of Muslims. His
demise should be welcomed by all who
believe in peace and human dignity.’’
Obama said the Pakistani govern-
ment had cooperated with the United
States to make the operation possible.
An official said the U.S. is ensuring
bin Laden’s body is handled in accord-
AP FILE PHOTO ance with Islamic tradition.
Osama bin Laden is seen in October at an undisclosed location in this television image. A person familiar with developments said Sunday that bin Laden is dead
and the U.S. has the body. See BIN LADEN, Page 10A

Some 1.5 million watch beatification ceremony in Rome

John Paul closer to sainthood

By NICOLE WINFIELD
and VANESSA GERA
Associated Press
VATICAN CITY — Some 1.5
million pilgrims flooded Rome
Sunday to watch Pope John Paul II
move a step closer to sainthood in
one of the largest Vatican Masses in
history, an outpouring of adoration
for a beloved and historic figure
after years marred by church scan-
dal.
The turnout for the beatification
far exceeded even the most optimis-
tic expectation of 1 million people,
the number Rome city officials
predicted. For Catholics filling St.
Peter’s Square and its surrounding
streets, and for those watching
around the world, the beatification
was a welcome hearkening back to
the days when the pope was almost
universally beloved.
“He was like a king to us, like a
father,” Marynka Ulaszewska, a
28-year-old from Ciechocinek, Po-
land, said, weeping. “I hope these
emotions will remain with us for a
long time,” she said.
Pope Benedict XVI praised John
Paul for turning back the seemingly
“irreversible” tide of communism
with faith, courage and “the
strength of a titan, a strength which
came to him from God.”
John Paul is universally credited
with helping bring down communi- AP PHOTO
Pope Benedict XVI passes a picture of the late John Paul II in St. Peter’s
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PAGE 2A MONDAY, MAY 2, 2011
With 18 months to go, GOP eyes Casey seat
One challenge for Republicans
is finding a candidate with a
household name.
By PETER JACKSON
Associated Press
HARRISBURG — Pennsylva-
nia’s Republican Party has a mess-
age for Bob Casey: We want your
U.S. Senate seat, badly.
Energized by the 2010 GOP
wave that elected Pat Toomey to
the Senate and restored Republi-
can control of the state govern-
ment after an eight-year hiatus,
party leaders are hoping to oust
one of Pennsylvania’s best-known
politicians and make the state’s
Senate seats a matched pair in
2012.
Several potential Casey chal-
lengers are considering whether
to run, and one Republican has al-
readyformedacommitteetoraise
money for his Senate campaign.
Rhee touts impact
teachers can have
At Wilkes, ex-D.C. chancellor
stresses the good and bad that
teachers have on kids.
By JERRY LYNOTT
jlynott@timesleader.com
WILKES-BARRE – During a
meeting with teachers in a
middle school when she was
chancellor of the District of
Columbia school system, Mi-
chelle Rhee learned something
about the students there.
They demanded to be taught
by their teachers who helped
turn around the school’s per-
formance, said Rhee.
She recalled the meeting
while delivering the 30th an-
nual Max Rosenn Lecture Sun-
day night at the Arnaud C.
Marts Center on the campus of
Wilkes University.
Rhee had scheduled a meet-
ing with the middle school’s
staff to inquire about the dras-
tic improvement of the stu-
dents on test scores and en-
tered a room of what she
thought were teachers anxious
about sitting down with the
chancellor.
When Rhee tried to allay
their concerns about repeating
the double-digit increase in
scores, they taught her a les-
son about the change in stu-
dents’ attitudes. The students
no longer accepted mediocrity
and instead wanted to be chal-
lenged, she added.
“The teachers weren’t afraid
of me. They were trying to live
up to the expectations of the
children,” said Rhee.
The turnaround at the
school came after Rhee re-
placed the principal with one
who shared her vision of pro-
viding the best education pos-
sible for the students from the
Avenged Sevenfold’s concert is a rock fan’s dream
Also joining the “Family”
tour at the arena were Three
Days Grace and Sevendust.
R E V I E W
By BRAD PATTON
For The Times Leader
Just moments into Friday’s
show at the Mohegan Sun
Arena at Casey Plaza,
Avenged Sevenfold proved
why it is one of the biggest
names in heavy metal and
hard rock music at the mo-
ment.
With a scorching version of
“Nightmare,” the band from
Huntington Beach, Calif. took
over the stage and ushered in
its “Welcome to the Family”
tour, complete with a man
hanging from the rafters in a
noose and enough flames to
light up the darkened arena.
Granted, you wouldn’t ex-
actly expect subtlety from a
bunch of guys with names like
Synyster Gates and Zacky
Vengeance, but if anyone
But the elec-
tion is still more
than 18 months
away. And
Casey’s 2006
landslide oust-
er of conserva-
Casey tive Sen. Rick
Santorum, then
the third-ranking Republican in
the Senate, cemented his status
as a political force to be reckoned
with.
One drawback for the GOP is
that the few Republicans who are
household names in Pennsylva-
nia are either not interested in
running — former Govs. Tom
Ridge and Mark Schweiker — or
are preoccupied with other en-
deavors. Santorum recently set
up a fundraising committee that
allows him to take the first steps
toward a presidential bid next
year.
At the other end of the spec-
trum is Harrisburg lawyer Mark
poor, urban
district.
It was one of
the many
changes Rhee
made in her
brief three-
Rhee year tenure as
chancellor af-
ter taking the job in what she
labeled the “most dysfunction-
al and lowest performing”
school district in the country.
She left last year after Mayor
Adrian Fenty, who appointed
her for the job in 2007, lost his
re-election bid.
Rhee, a graduate of Cornell
University and Harvard Uni-
versity’s Kennedy School of
Government, subsequently
formed StudentsFirst to con-
tinue her quest to focus atten-
tion and resources on where it
matters most in educating
America’s youth.
“I have a tremendous belief
in the power of teachers,” said
Rhee, 41, who taught third
grade in Baltimore.
Good teachers can do so
much to affect a student and
bad ones have just as much an
effect, she noted.
She decried the nation’s low
ranking in reading, math and
science skills when compared
to students of other nations
around the world. If the United
States performed poorly in the
Olympics and lagged behind in
the medal count, Rhee said,
there would be a national out-
cry and call for a renewed ef-
fort to do better. That kind of
response is what is needed to
change the public school sys-
tem, she added.
“We need to regain our sense
of competition in the nation
because we have gone soft,”
she said. “Let me repeat that;
we have gone soft.”
doubted the band’s power
before Friday, all shadows of
that doubt were gone by the
second song.
The band showed its versa-
tility a few songs later with a
touching version of “So Far
Away,” written about the
group’s original drummer,
James “The Rev” Sullivan,
who died in December 2009.
The “Nightmare” album,
which was just in its begin-
ning stages at the time of
Sullivan’s death, became the
band’s biggest release to date,
debuting at No. 1 on the Bill-
board chart.
Opening the show with a
thrashing 45-minute set, Sev-
endust warmed up the audi-
ence in fine fashion with great
versions of “Enemy,” “Driven”
and “Forever.”
Then came Three Days
Grace, the Canadian quartet
that was the most played
band on rock radio in 2007,
with a 50-minute set filled
with the standout tracks from
its three top-selling albums.
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Scaringi, a former Santorum aide
who is the only declared candi-
date.
Scaringi, who has not previous-
ly run for public office, has been
traveling across the state to drum
up support from tea-party activ-
ists and similar groups. His cam-
paign committee reported a bal-
ance of barely $300 at the end of
March.
“We haven’t focused on fun-
draising at all’’ so far, said Scari-
ngi’s campaign manager, John
Haynes. “It’s all about the hustle.’’
That leaves a number of Repub-
lican congressmen and at least
one state lawmaker who have not
ruled out a Senate campaign.
State Sen. Jake Corman, chair-
man of the Senate Appropriations
Committee, acknowledged he
has been making the rounds with
partyleadersaboutthepossibility
of challenging Casey’s expected
re-election but said Friday that
state budget negotiations come
SPRING CLEANING
A idan Fitzgibbon. 5, enjoys the seasonable weather
while sweeping his family’s walk along Carey Ave-
nue in Wilkes-Barre Sunday afternoon. The boy and his
father were spending the day getting the yard ready
for summer.
Singer Carey gives birth to girl, boy
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Mariah Ca-
rey and Nick Cannon celebrat-
ed their third anniversary with
another milestone — becom-
ing parents to a baby girl and
boy.
Carey’s representative, Cin-
di Berger, confirmed the births
to The Associated Press. The
Matt Sanders of Avenged Sevenfold performs with the band
Friday night at the Mohegun Sun Arena at Casey Plaza.
Highlights included opener
“Good Life,” a rousing sing-
along “I Hate Everything
About You,” “Never Too Late,”
and “Riot.” The band then
closed its set with “Animal I
Have Become,” as lead singer
Adam Gontier made his way
around the large crowd.
Not taking the stage until
around 9:40 p.m., Avenged
first.
“I won’t make any final deci-
sions until after the budget’’ is ap-
proved, the Centre County law-
maker said.
U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent, whose
district includes the Lehigh Val-
ley, is undecided about whether
to run for Senate, a spokesman
said.
U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach, who
publicly flirted with a run for the
GOP gubernatorial nomination
last year before he was elected to a
fifth term in his suburban Phila-
delphia district, sent word
through an aide that he has "no
plans to run for the Senate at this
time.”
Political observers said U.S.
Rep. Tim Murphy is weighing his
options, but his spokesman did
not return phone messages Fri-
day.
Rob Gleason, the state Republi-
can Party chairman, cited a Quin-
nipiac University poll released
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41-year-old singing superstar
gave birth Saturday at 12:07
p.m. EDT at an undisclosed
hospital in Los Angeles. Berger
says the baby girl was born
first, weighing 5 pounds, 3
ounces, and was 18 inches
long; her brother was next, at 5
pounds 6 ounces, and was 19
inches.
NIKO J. KALLIANIOTIS/FOR THE TIMES LEADER
Sevenfold came on strong.
It was a very large, very
loud crowd. The 100- and 200-
sections looked like they were
near capacity and the stand-
ing-room-only floor was about
three-quarters full.
The next concert at the
Mohegan Sun Arena is Cana-
dian crooner Michael Buble
on June 8.
THE TIMES LEADER
last week showing President Ba-
rack Obama’s Pennsylvania ap-
proval rating dipping to 42 per-
cent as evidence that Casey will
be vulnerable next year. Obama
carried the state when he was
elected in 2008 and Casey has
been a strong supporter of the ad-
ministration’s policies.
“It’s going to be fun,’’ Gleason
predicted.
Casey said the 2012 elections
will be mainly about the economy
and jobs. He cited the tens of bil-
lions of federal stimulus dollars
thatPennsylvaniareceivedandan
array of federal tax cuts as keys to
an economic recovery that is still
taking hold.
Obama announced his re-elec-
tion campaign earlier this month.
Casey, whose campaign commit-
tee had $2.1million on hand at the
end of March, said he plans to
seek another six-year term, but
will probably hold off an announ-
cement until next year.
LOCAL BRIEFS
LUZERNE – Luzerne Bor-
ough Sewer Authority will hold
its regular meeting at 7 p.m.
Tuesday.
Borough Council will hold its
work session at 7 p.m. Wednes-
day. The meeting will take place
at the Luzerne Borough Build-
ing, 144 Academy St. The public
is invited.
DALLAS – The Eastern Star
Building Association will be
hosting an inside and outside
craft and flea market from 9
a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday. It
will be at 15 Foster St., Dallas,
behind CVS Drugstore. Lunched
will be served and Welsh coo-
kies will be sold.
For vendor information, call
Dianne Corby at 675-4893.
SHEATOWN – The Newport
Cemetery Association will meet
at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 11,
at the Guardian Health Care.
The meeting will concern the
future of the cemetery. All offi-
cers and lot owners are urged to
attend. If planning to attend,
call Jim Griffith Sr. at 735-3292,
Thelma Blockus at 735-5489 or
Jim Griffith Jr. at 735-3506.
PITTSTON -- The Northeast-
ern Pennsylvania Nonprofit and
Community Assistance Center
(NCAC) announces the 2011
Community Awards finalists
representing the seven-county
region of Carbon, Lackawanna,
Luzerne, Monroe, Pike, Schuyl-
kill and Wayne counties.
• Arts & Culture - First Fri-
day Scranton, Lackawanna
County for First Friday Scran-
ton; Crayons, Lackawanna
County for Carbondale’s Main
Street Gallery Art Walk.
• Theodore “Ted” G. Daniels
Community Development -
Greater Carbondale YMCA,
Lackawanna County for 21st
Century Capital Campaign;
Luzerne County Flood Protec-
tion Authority & River Com-
mon.org, Luzerne County for
River Common Park.
• Children & Youth - Schuyl-
kill United Way, Schuylkill
County for Stuff the Bus Annual
School Supply Drive; Children’s
Service Center, Luzerne County
for Juvenile Fire Setters Pro-
gram.
• Education - The Scranton
School for the Deaf & Hard of
Hearing, Lackawanna County
for The Scranton School for the
Deaf & Hard of Hearing; Volun-
tary Action Center of NEPA,
Lackawanna County for RSVP
Literacy Project.
• Environmental Action/
Animal Welfare - Pennsylvania
Environmental Council (PEC),
Luzerne County, for “An Eve-
ning for Pennsylvania’s Envi-
ronment”; Newport Township
Community Organization, Lu-
zerne County for Newport
Township Beautification Pro-
gram.
• Health & Human Services -
Neighborhood Housing Services
of Lackawanna County, Lacka-
wanna County for Carbondale
NeighborWorks Week; Schuyl-
kill Alliance for Health Care
Access, Schuylkill County, for
Health Care for the Uninsured –
For a Healthy Community.
Winners will be announced at
the 2011 Community Awards
Dinner Program at 4:30 p.m.
June 9 at the Woodlands Inn &
Resort, Plains Township.
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LOTTERY
MIDDAY DRAWING
DAILY NUMBER – 5-7-7
BIG 4 – 3-1-0-8
QUINTO – 7-8-8-9-8
TREASURE HUNT
03-04-08-13-24
NIGHTLY DRAWING
DAILY NUMBER – 2-9-2
BIG 4 – 2-6-3-8
QUINTO – 1-0-2-1-4
CASH 5
03-07-18-40-43
HARRISBURG – One player
matched all five winning
numbers drawn in Sunday’s
“Pennsylvania Cash 5” game
so the jackpot will be worth
$225,000.
Lottery officials said 45
players matched four num-
bers and won $388.50 each;
2,206 players matched
three numbers and won $13;
and 30, 275 players matched
two numbers and won $1
each.
•
None of the tickets sold
for the Powerball game
Saturday evening matched
all six numbers drawn, which
were:
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Powerball: 03
Power Play: 2
The prize goes to an esti-
mated $36 million for
Wednesday.
Three Pennsylvania play-
ers matched four of five
numbers and the Power Ball,
each receiving $10,000.
Fifty-four Pennsylvania
players matched four of five
numbers and received $100
each.
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Connors, Shirley
Davenport, Warren
Haddick, Susan
Khoudary, Amin
LaSalle, Ronald
Niznik, Cecilia
Schuster, Barbara
Spak, David
Strenfel, Angeline
Weed, Velma
Yurek, Seraphine
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Reaching out to foster children
Church collects items for youth entering system
By EILEEN GODIN
Times Leader Correspondent
KINGSTON – As children are being re-
moved from a home to enter foster care,
they are given10 minutes to fill a garbage
bag with personal belongings, said Linda
Coolbaugh, founder of S.M.I.L.E., a char-
ity benefiting Wyoming County Children
and Youth.
This is often the first experience chil-
dren have when entering the foster care
system.
In an effort to make this transition eas-
ier, S.M.I.L.E collects items such as per-
sonal hygiene items along with clothing
and other items for foster children, to be
received from children and youth servic-
es after the youths are removed from
Hazleton
schools
tackling
budget
School board rescinds vote to
eliminate all social clubs,
middle school sports.
By JIM MORRISSEY
Time Leader Correspondent
HAZLE TWP. – The Hazleton
Area School Board will hold a
budget meeting Wednesday and
a finance committee meeting
Thursday to try to come up with
ways to balance the school dis-
trict’s budget.
The board last Thursday voted
to rescind a previous vote that
would have eliminated all social
clubs and all middle school
sports.
That was after a gymnasium
full of concerned parents, teach-
ers and students pleaded with the
board at the meeting at McAdoo-
Kelayres Elementary School to
save the programs.
Board members listened as
parents, teachers and students
took turns stepping to the podi-
um to speak in favor of not cut-
ting the programs.
After deciding to keep the
sports and clubs, they unani-
mously approved board member
Steve Hahn’s motion to ask all de-
partment heads to cut 5.5 per-
cent more off their already
slashed budgets.
Another heated agenda item
was the purchase of a $4.4 million
magnet school that will be used
to solve the overcrowding in the
classrooms in the district. A mag-
net public school has specific pro-
grams and instruction that are
not available elsewhere in a
school district and that are spe-
cially designed to draw students
from throughout the district. Ac-
ceptance in the school would re-
quire good grades, interest in a
specific curriculum and teacher
recommendations.
The building is located in
Drums and is owned by CAN DO
Corp.
The board voted against a mo-
tion to postpone the purchase of
the building because the building
would provide the 1,500 seats
needed to alleviate the over-
crowding issue in the district.
Business Manager Tony Ryba
explained that although the ini-
tial cost for the magnet school is
$4.4 million, the district would
be reimbursed 66 percent for the
building and an additional 25 per-
cent would be reimbursed from
construction. Final net cost
would only be $1.5 million.
The meeting Wednesday be-
gins at 5 p.m. in the Administra-
tion Building’s second-floor con-
ference room. The finance com-
mittee meeting on Thursday is at
7 p.m. in the Hazleton Area Ca-
reer Center, large group instruc-
tion room.
F O R M O R E I N F O R M AT I O N
To help out with project S.M.I.L.E, contact
Linda Coolbaugh at 836-2765 or 905-
5834.
their homes.
Recently, Holy Trinity Lutheran
Church in Kingston held a fundraiser for
project S.M.I.L.E. during the 40 days of
Lent, starting on Ash Wednesday and
ending on Easter Sunday. Coolbaugh
started S.M.I.L.E, which stands for Suit-
cases Make Individuals Lives Easier, last
October.
On Saturday, the church gave several
hundred items to Coolbaugh. Collected
items included fleece blankets, undergar- See FOSTER , Page 10A
Whether Allies could have or should have bombed Auschwitz discussed
‘Tough issue’ mulled
Mitchell Pisarz, 14, lights one of six candles each representing 1 million people that died
in the Holocaust. Behind Mitchell are his father, Allan, and grandfather, Morris, a survi-
vor of Auschwitz.
New group helps family of suicide victims
Surviving members and
friends are often plagued
by feelings of guilt.
By TERRIE MORGAN-BESECKER
tmorgan@timesleader.com
The mother of a teenager
who took his own life several
years ago has formed a sup-
port group in Hazleton for
family members and friends of
people who have committed
suicide.
Samantha Neaman, 40, said
she formed the Suicide Be-
reavement Support Group to
help others who have lost
loved ones to suicide deal with
the special issues in the griev-
ing process.
In addition to their grief,
surviving family members and
friends are often plagued by
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ments, magazines, notebooks, pencils,
puzzles, clothing, sippy cups, shampoos
and soaps.
“Since I started this, I have collected
about four car loads of items,” Coolbaugh
said. “They (Wyoming County Children
and Youth) will call other county children
and youth agencies to see if they need
anything.”
Starting last October, Coolbaugh has
tried to get the word out about the needs
of children entering foster care through
her local newspaper, the Wyoming Coun-
ty Press Examiner.
Harding resident Candy Frye, formerly
of Tunkhannock, saw Coolbaugh’s letter Matthew White, of Wilkes-Barre, loads
guilt that they did not see or
recognize signs that the per-
son was in distress. That
makes the grieving process
that much more difficult, she
said.
“It’s a whole different proc-
ess in addition to the normal
grieving process,” Neaman
said. “It’s so beneficial for sur-
vivors to walk into a room and
be with people who are going
through the same thing.”
Neaman’s 13-year-old son,
Kyle Koslop, killed himself on
Feb.10, 2007. Neaman said her
son was popular, outgoing and
an excellent student. He gave
no indication he was suicidal.
“He was very bright, funny,
popular,” she said. “He was
just a fantastic kid. I had no
reason for concern.”
The formation of the group
comes at a time when suicides
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items into a bag to be given to foster
children as part of Project S.M.I.L.E.
AIMEE DILGER/THE TIMES LEADER
are on the increase in the coun-
ty.
In 2010, 50 people commit-
ted suicide, up from 35 in
2009, according to the Lu-
zerne County Cororner’s Of-
fice. This year, 14 have com-
mitted suicide, the coroner’s
office said.
Neaman said she was moti-
vated in part to start a Hazle-
By JERRY LYNOTT
jlynott@timesleader.com
WILKES-BARRE – After much
thought and effort, Don Miller an-
swered one part of the question and
left the other part unanswered.
Miller, a World War II historian, au-
thor and the McCracken Professor of
History at Lafayette College, was the
featured speaker Sunday at Holo-
caust Remembrance Day at the Jew-
ish Community Center.
He spoke to ap-
proximately 100 “I don’t
people on the top-
ic, “Whether or have any
not the Allies easy an-
could have or
should have swers.”
bombed Ausch- Don Miller
witz during World Holocaust
War II.” Approxi- Remembrance
mately 6 million Day speaker
Jews were killed
by the Nazi re-
gime during the Holocaust, forcing
them into concentration camps like
Auschwitz in Poland.
“I don’t have any easy answers,” ac-
knowledged Miller, who has served
as a historical consultant for “The Pa-
cific” documentary on HBO, “World
WarIIinHD”ontheHistoryChannel
andason-cameraexpertinthePublic
Broadcasting System’s program,
“The Bombing of Germany.”
Allied forces were bombing in the
area of Auschwitz in the summer of
1944 and it could have been a target,
he said. “It was feasible.”
However, that was based on his re-
search, Miller said, which showed
theAmericanaircommandneverun-
dertook its own feasibility study.
Miller criticized a review done by
John J. McCloy, assistant secretary of
the war, in 1944 who would not au-
thorize the bombing. McCloy con-
cluded the bomber flights would
have had to originate from England,
approximately 2,000 miles away
from the camp, and the aircraft and
crews could not be diverted from
their critical missions of destroying
See HOLOCAUST , Page 10A
ton area group because nine of
the 50 suicides in 2010 in-
volved people from the Free-
land/Hazleton area.
The group has been formed
with the help of Catholic So-
cial Services, which has spon-
sored a suicide bereavement
group in Wilkes-Barre for
roughly the past 25 years, said
Denise Rowinski-Mengak, su-
pervisor of the adult and fam-
ily services counseling pro-
gram for CSS.
Neaman said she had been
attending the Wilkes-Barre
group for a number of years.
Having a second group in the
southern part of the county
will help reach more people.
The group will meet the sec-
ond and fourth Thursday of ev-
ery month from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
at Catholic Social Services,
214 W. Walnut St., Hazleton.
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WILKES-BARRE
Woman facing 2 counts
A woman accused by city police of
placing two young children in a taxi for
an unsupervised fare to an address
waived her right to a preliminary hear-
ing in Wilkes-Barre Central Court.
Holly Karpien, 37, of Wilkes-Barre,
waived two counts of endangering the
welfare of children to Luzerne County
Court on Thursday.
According to the criminal complaint:
A Burgit cab driver told police he
was dispatched to the 500 block of
South Main Street on March 30 to
transport a 10-year-old girl and an 8-
month-old toddler to the 100 block of
Jones Street. The transport was not
supervised by an adult, police said.
The driver took the children to the
Jones Street residence and found it
unoccupied. The children were return-
ed to Main Street, where Karpien alleg-
edly called a second cab to take the
children to Jones Street, the complaint
says.
Police said in the complaint that the
temperature was in the mid-20s and
the two children were wearing light-
weight pajamas. The toddler was not
covered in a blanket, jacket or head
covering, police allege.
WILKES-BARRE
DUI charge goes forward
A man accused by city police of
drunken driving and endangering a
police officer during a pursuit waived
his right to a preliminary hearing in
Wilkes-Barre Central Court on Thurs-
day.
Jeffery Narkewicz, 41, of Plainfield,
Conn., waived two counts each of driv-
ing under the influence of alcohol and
fleeing or attempting to elude police,
and one count each of reckless en-
dangerment, resisting arrest, disorder-
ly conduct, driving with a suspended
license, accidents involving injury and
several traffic citations to Luzerne
County Court.
Police charged Narkewicz with flee-
ing the scene after he struck a vehicle
on Hazle Avenue on April 8. Police
spotted Narkewicz in the area of Wood
Street, where he allegedly attempted to
escape. An officer jumped on his vehi-
cle when he turned onto Sambourne
Street, where he was forced to stop by
an oncoming vehicle, according to the
criminal complaint.
Police said in the criminal complaint
that Narkewicz was intoxicated.
NANTICOKE
Armed robbery probed
Police are investigating an armed
robbery that took place at approximate-
ly 3:29 a.m. Saturday at Turkey Hill,
460 W. Main St.
Police described the suspect as a
white male, approximately 5 feet 9
inches tall, with a thin build, and wear-
ing a black shirt, gray pants, black
baseball cap and black shoes.
Police said the man entered the store
and asked the clerk for change for a
dollar bill. The clerk opened the cash
register, at which point the man
showed a knife and demanded the
money from the register, police said.
The clerk gave him an undetermined
amount of money from the register,
police said.
Police said the suspect fled onto
Main Street in a small silver vehicle.
Anyone with any information about
the incident is asked to call Nanticoke
City Police at 735-2200.
HAZLETON
$7K grant helps seniors
Thanks to a $7,000 grant from The
Blue Ribbon Foundation of Blue Cross
of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Serento
Gardens teamed with a nurse and a
pharmacist to educate more than 300
residents at Med-Ed meetings at local
senior centers and housing complexes
during the past year.
The free sessions covered topics
such as throwing away expired med-
icines, the hazards of interactions
among drugs, the dangers of sharing
prescriptions, and how to notice signs
of alcoholism among the elderly.
The need for such education is espe-
cially great in the Hazleton area, where
2010 Census figures indicate that near-
ly half the population is age 45 or older
and one in four residents is older than
age 62.
Across the country, poisoning by
prescription medicines is currently the
second-leading cause of unintentional
deaths annually, according to the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Preven-
tion.

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Deal to end Yemen political crisis in doubt

I N B R I E F

AP PHOTO
May Day celebration in full bloom
William Knodel of Syracuse wears a
flower pot hat that he made for the
31st Annual May Day celebration at
Thorden Park in Syracuse, N.Y.
President refuses to sign
proposal to step down after
months of protests.
By AHMED AL-HAJ
and HAMZA HENDAWI
Associated Press
SANAA, Yemen — A deal to
end Yemen’s political crisis
neared collapse on Sunday af-
ter the country’s embattled
president refused to personally
sign it, leaving a deadlock that
threatens to plunge the impov-
erished Arab nation and key
U.S. ally deeper into disorder
and bloodshed.
An unraveling of the deal for
Ali Abdullah Saleh to step
down after nearly three months
of protests against his rule
would greatly increase the pro-
spects of more bloodshed in a
nation long beset by serious
conflict and deep poverty and
which is home to al-Qaida’s
most active offshoot.
At least 140 people have been
killed in the government’s
crackdown on the protesters,
who have nonetheless grown in
number week after week. The
violence, which has included
sniper attacks, has prompted
several top military command-
ers, ruling party members, dip-
lomats and others to defect to
the opposition, largely isolat-
ing the president.
Still, Saleh has clung to pow-
er, thanks in part to the key
backing of Yemen’s best trained
and equipped military units,
which are under the command
end the chaos and bloodshed,”
he predicted.
Continued unrest in Yemen
risks the stability of a region
that is home to important ship-
ping lanes at the southern
mouth of the Red Sea. Yemen is
also close to the massive oil and
gas fields of the Gulf Arab re-
gion.
The country has over the
years been wracked by rampant
corruption, a weak central gov-
ernment, a Shiite rebellion in
the north, a secessionist move-
ment in the south and, since
AP PHOTO early February, the massive
Anti-government protestors shout slogans during a demon- protests demanding Saleh’s
stration in Sanaa,Yemen, Sunday. ouster.
Inspired by uprisings in
of one of his sons and other olence now,” said analyst Fares Egypt and Tunisia, the protests
close relatives. al-Saqqaf. “It the end, we may pose the most serious threat to
“There will likely be more vi- have foreign intervention to Saleh’s authoritarian rule.

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA.

S E V E R E W E AT H E R A C R O S S S O U T H
Launch postponed again
S pace shuttle Endeavour’s final
launch is off until at least May 8
because technicians need to replace a
switch box in the engine compartment,
NASA said Sunday.
The six astronauts — led by com-
mander Mark Kelly — wasted no time
heading back to Houston.
Kelly’s wife, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords,
traveling separately from the crew, was
back in Houston by mid-afternoon. She
will resume rehab there; she was
wounded in a shooting rampage four
months ago.
As late as Saturday, the astronauts
and their families were still hoping for
a possible launch attempt today. But
NASA gave up on that once it became
clear extensive repair work would be
needed to fix a faulty heater system.
The trouble initially prevented the
shuttle from blasting off Friday.

TEHRAN, IRAN

President ends boycott

Iranian President Mahmoud Ah-
madinejad signaled Sunday that he had
backed down in a power struggle with
Iran’s supreme leader by ending his
apparent boycott of Cabinet meetings AP PHOTO
and accusing the U.S. and Israel of
Alberta Baptist Church Buildings and Grounds chairperson Dan Turner takes a moment to pray in the demolished sanctuary of the church in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
exaggerating internal rifts.
on Sunday. About 100 church members gathered outside the church Sunday morning for a brief service before helping their neighbors.
The president’s challenge to the

Survivors find comfort in faith

ultimate authority of Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei earned him
public rebukes from Khamenei himself
as well as lawmakers and hard-line
clerics, who regard the supreme leader
as answerable only to God.
The split between the men, who had
been close in the past, appeared to be
centered on a battle for influence over
next year’s parliamentary election and
a presidential election in 2013. It flared
up this month when Ahmadinejad
dismissed the powerful intelligence
minister, whom Khamenei then quickly
reinstated in a slap to the president. In
protest, the president skipped two
Cabinet meetings last week.
BERLIN
Workers make demands
Some 400,000 people took to the
streets in Germany on Sunday as
marchers around the world demanded
more jobs, better working conditions
and higher wages on International
Workers’ Day.
In Berlin, several rallies were scat-
The storms that roared across the
South last week flattened churches.
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSON
and CHRISTOPHER HAWLEY
Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Macolee Mu-
hammed accepted the prayer of a relief
worker who stopped by what was left of
her Birmingham home. It didn’t matter
that she was Muslim and he was a
Southern Baptist.
“If you came here to help, the only
person who sent you was God,” she said.
The storms that roared across the
South last week flattened churches and
crushed the homes of pastors and par-
ishioners in a ragged stretch from Mis-
sissippi to Virginia. At least 342 people
were killed and thousands more hurt.
So on the first Sunday after the disas-
ter, believers streamed into houses of
worship to give thanks for being spared,
to mourn the dead and to ponder impos-
sible questions. Why did some survive
without any explanation? Why did oth-
ers die for no apparent reason?
Many people in this highly religious
region saw God at work, even amid the
devastation.
"God just put his big old arms around
us,” said Peggy Blevins, 59, of Rain-
sville, Ala. “I don’t understand why he
takes some people and leaves others.
But I thank him just the same for pro-
tecting us.”
When the storm drew near, she and
her family hid in a hallway of their
house. She believes they survived only
because some trees fell on the house,
pinning it down and preventing the tor-
nado from hurling it through the air.
“To some people it might sound cold,
but God does have a plan," Blevins said.
"I know I sound like one of those South-
ern Baptists, but I am.”
In most small towns around here,
churches serve as community centers,
town halls and gymnasiums. Besides
Sunday services, they host Boy Scout
troop meetings, neighborhood voting,
bake sales, basketball games and
Wednesday night prayer meetings.
Some churches were wiped out.
Some of those left standing have be-
come headquarters for rebuilding.
American Christian Academy, a pri-
vate school in Tuscaloosa, hosted a ser-
vice at a football stadium within walk-
ing distance of neighborhoods where
several churches were wiped out. The
school distributed food, clothes, Bibles
and other supplies to residents who
came to worship.
"We’re hoping to feed them and give
them some spiritual food," said Rob
Cain, the school’s athletic director and
campus pastor.

Air France black box recovered Syrian residents continue

tered across the capital, with police
saying 10,000 people had taken to the
streets.

protesting despite assault

Police were out in force as past dem-
onstrations had turned violent.
In New York, labor leaders from
Wisconsin joined activists to march for
the rights of America’s immigrants and
workers. It was one of dozens of march-
es around the nation.
INDIANA, PA.
Reality TV chopper crashes
Authorities in western Pennsylvania
say a helicopter carrying a reality tele-
vision crew crashed near Indiana Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, seriously in-
juring two of the four people aboard,
but no fatalities were reported.
The helicopter went down shortly
after 8:30 p.m. Saturday in between
two apartment buildings. Officials say
no one on the ground was injured.
“We heard an airplane sound coming
down real low,” IUP freshman Lauren
Yates of Harrison City in Westmore-
land County told the Pittsburgh Tri-
bune-Review. “It kept getting lower and
lower and spun a few times. It landed
on the roof and fell down and over on
the cement.”
Federal Aviation Administration
spokesman Jim Peters said Sunday that
one of the three passengers, who are all
Canadian citizens, walked away but the
other three people were injured. One
was in critical condition while another
was in serious condition.
Memory unit from 2009
flight that crashed and
killed 228 may explain why.
The Associated Press
PARIS — Investigators
have located and recovered
the missing memory unit of
the flight data recorder of a
2009 Air France flight — a
remarkable deep-sea discov-
ery they hope will explain
why the aircraft went down
in a remote area of the mid-
Atlantic, killing all 228 peo-
ple on board.
France’s air accident in-
vestigation agency BEA said
a search by a submarine
probing 12,800 feet below
the ocean’s surface located
and recovered the unit Sun-
day morning. The unit is
now aboard the Ile de Sein, a
ship that’s helping conduct
the probe, the statement
said.
The statement also in-
cluded photos of the record-
er — a red cylinder partially
buried in sand on the sea
floor. Judging from the pho-
This photo provided Sunday by France’s air accident probe
agency shows the discovered flight data recorder.
tos, the unit appeared to be
in good condition.
Still, BEA officials have
warned that the recordings
may yet prove unusable,
considering the pressure
they were subjected to for
nearly two years.
“We can’t say in advance
that we’re going to be able to
read it until it’s been
opened,” a BEA spokeswo-
man told The Associated
AP PHOTO
Press in a telephone inter-
view. She did not give her
name in accordance with
her agency’s policy.
Last month, the agency
said the undersea search had
identified the “chassis” that
had held the recorder, but
the memory unit was still
missing. Detached from the
chassis, the memory unit
was found nearby, the spo-
keswoman said.
President Bashar Assad is
determined to crush the
six-week-old revolt.
By DIAA HADID
The Associated Press
CAIRO — The Syrian military
intensified its vigorous assault
on the besieged city at the center
of the country’s uprising Sunday
as defiant residents who have
been pinned down in their
homes for nearly a week strug-
gled to find food, pass along in-
formation and bury their dead.
President Bashar Assad is de-
termined to crush the six-week-
old revolt, which began in the
southern city of Daraa.
Now, the protests are posing
the most serious challenge to
four decades of rule by the Assad
family in one of the most repres-
sive and tightly controlled coun-
tries in the Middle East.
“The security solution isn’t
working. People are still demon-
strating,” Damascus-based hu-
man rights activist Razan Zaitou-
neh said. “They can’t stop these
(protests) now.”
Daraa has been without water,
fuel or electricity since Monday,
when the regime sent in troops
backed by tanks and snipers to
crush protests seeking the ouster
of Assad. The death toll has
soared to 545 nationwide from
government forces firing on
demonstrators — action that has
drawn international condemna-
tion and U.S. financial penalties
on top figures in his regime.
Syrian army tanks shelled the
old quarter of Daraa on Sunday
and rolled in six armored vehi-
cles, flanked on either side by
two buses packed with more se-
curity forces, residents said. But
residents remained defiant and
resourceful, using battery-pow-
ered computers and satellite tele-
phones to communicate with the
outside world, and sneaking
through alleyways to share infor-
mation.
Unable to leave their homes,
Daraa residents chant “God is
Great!” to each other from their
windows in the evenings, infu-
riating security forces and rais-
ing each other’s spirits.

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WARREN K. DAVENPORT, 24,
of Shickshinny, died Saturday,
April 30, 2011.
Funeral arrangements are
pending from the Clarke Piatt Fu-
neral Home Inc., 6 Sunset Road,
Hunlock Creek.
CECILIA T. NIZNIK, 82, of
Plain Township, died Saturday,
April 30, 2011. She was a daughter
of Adam and Anna Mushinsky Ku-
nec. She was preceded in death by
husband, Francis; brother, Peter
Kunec; and sister, Ann Limongelli.
Surviving are son, Michael, Me-
chanicsburg, Pa.; daughter, Donna
Trickle, Ocean City, N.J.; and
grandchildren, Michael Jr., Jenna,
and Sean.
Funeral services will be held
at 11 a.m. Tuesday from the Yeo-
sock Funeral Home, 40 S. Main
Street, Plains Township, with
Mass of Christian Burial at 11:30
a.m. in St Stanislaus Church. Inter-
ment will be in Sacred Heart Cem-
etery, Dallas. Friends may call
from 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday. In lieu
of flowers, memorial contribu-
tions may be made to the Founda-
tion Fighting Blindness, 800-683-
5555, or to the Sisters of Christian
Charity, 250 S. Washington St.
Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701.
DAVID SPAK, 54, of Ashley,
died Friday, April 29, 2011, at Geis-
inger Wyoming Valley Medical
Center, Plains Township. Surviv-
ing are brothers, Thomas Spak,
and wife, Cathy; James; sisters, Ei-
leen Szychowski, and husband,
Clem, and Maryann Spak; nieces
and nephews, Matt, Brian, and
Joelle Szychowski, Kaitlyn, Britta-
ny, and Jillian Spak; uncle, Joe
Blat; as well as numerous cousins.
Funeral Services will be held
at 9 a.m. Wednesday from the Ge-
orge A. Strish Inc., Funeral Home,
105 N. Main St., Ashley, with a
Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30
a.m. from St. Leo’s/Holy Rosary
Church, Manhattan Street, Ashley.
Interment will be in St. Mary’s
Cemetery, Hanover Township.
Friends may call from 5:30 to 8:30
p.m. Tuesday. In lieu of flowers,
donations can be made in his mem-
ory at the funeral home to the Sier-
ra Club, or the Peace and Justice
Center, Wilkes-Barre.
Shirley Connors
April 30, 2011
S hirley J. Connors, 84, of Holden
Street, West Wyoming, died
Saturday, April 30, 2011, in the
Meadows Nursing and Rehabilita-
tion Center, Dallas.
Born in Wyoming, she was a
daughter of the late Arthur and An-
na Jones Fritz.
Shirley was a graduate of the
Wyoming Memorial High School,
class of 1945.
Mrs. Connors was employed in
the garment industry for many
years. Prior to her retirement, she
was employed at Carter Footwear,
Wilkes-Barre, for 15 years.
She was a member of the First
Baptist Church, Wyoming, where
she served as a deaconess and
member of the choir.
Shirley was preceded in death
by her husband, Gerald; son, Ger-
ald A Connors, and brother, Fred
A. Fritz.
Surviving are sons, Robert,
West Wyoming, Richard, and his
wife, Lois, Kingston Township; six
grandchildren; five great-grand-
children; two great-great-grand-
children; sisters, Jane Carey, Sun
City Center, Fla., Nancy Monroe,
Barling, Ark., Edith Kraynak, Fran-
klin Township, Pa., and Carol Mill-
er, Wyoming; brother; Harold
Fritz, Boca Raton, Fla.; as well as
several nieces and nephews.
Private funeral services will
be held from the Metcalfe and
Shaver Funeral Home Inc., 504
Wyoming Avenue, Wyoming. In-
terment will be in the Memorial
Shrine Cemetery, Carverton.
There will be no calling hours.
Memorial contributions may be
made to a charity of the donor’s
choice.
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Susan Haddick
April 30, 2011
S usan L. Haddick, 46, of Enola,
Pa., entered into eternal life Sat-
urday, April 30, 2011, at home.
She was born on September 23,
1964, in St. Vincent’s Hospital,
Bridgeport, Conn., and was a
daughter of Virginia and Stanley
Motyka, Larksville.
Sue was a 1982 graduate of
Wyoming Valley West High School,
attended the University of Pitts-
burgh, and graduated from Blooms-
burg University, class of 1987, with a
Bachelor’s Degree in Special Educa-
tion, and later achieving a Master’s
Degree in Special Education from
Shippensburg University.
Sue was a special education
teacher at Good Hope Middle
School, Mechanicsburg, Pa., and
previously at West Perry Middle
School, Perry County, Pa.
She was an active member of
Camp Hill United Methodist
Church, being involved in their
nursery program. She was also in-
volved in the Epilepsy Foundation
of Central Pennsylvania, and, with
her family, participated in raising
money in the annual walk.
Sue was a loving mom, making
herself available to her children in
all situations. She was a devoted
wife, daughter, aunt, sister, niece,
and friend to all.
She had a dynamic, beautiful
smile, and a great personality. She
will be greatly missed by family,
friends, and all who knew her.
Sue is survived by her husband,
Charles E. “C.J.” Haddick Jr.; a son,
Charles E. III, Enola; a daughter,
Brynn Elizabeth, Enola; parents,
Ronald Hollis LaSalle
April 29, 2011
R
onald Hollis LaSalle, 47, of Mor-
ganton, N.C., passed away Fri-
day, April 29, 2011, in Wilkes-Barre
General Hospital, after a coura-
geous two-year battle with cancer.
He was born in Canton, N.Y., on
May 19, 1963, a son of the late Carl
Floyd and Arlene Tibbles LaSalle.
Ron was president and chief exec-
utive officer of Burke Hospice and
Palliative Care, Valdese, N.C.
Ron served in the U.S. Army,
where he was a member of the 1984
Culinary Olympic Team.
After a seven-year career in food
service management, Ron changed
career paths and became a Regis-
tered Nurse. After working on a
medical surgical floor at a hospital
for two years, he worked as a Regis-
tered Nurse Case Manager for Hos-
pice of Jefferson County, Water-
town, NY.
In June 2000, Ron was named ex-
ecutive director of Hope Hospice
and Palliative Care, Medford, Wis.
While in this role, he served on the
Board of Directors of Hospice Orga-
nization and Palliative Experts of
Wisconsin, and was a member of the
Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs. He was a
Paul Harris Fellow.
Ron relocated to Burke County,
N.C., in 2002 with his son, Ronny,
where he was active in the commu-
nity through his involvement in
Morganton Kiwanis and Valdese
Rotary Club. He was a volunteer for
the Burke County United Way and
the Good Samaritan Clinic.
Ron served on the safe school
task force at the Burke Public
Schools, and was past chair of the
Burke County Chamber of Com-
merce, and past president of the Ki-
Velma Weed
May 1, 2011
V elma R. Weed, 96, of Dallas, and
West Pittston died Sunday, May
1, 2011, at The Meadows Nursing
and Rehabilitation Center, Dallas.
Mrs. Weed was born in West Pitt-
ston, a daughter of the late Walton
S. and Helen Morrison Weed, and
was a graduate of the class of 1932,
West Pittston High School.
She began her working career
with the Pennsylvania Department
of Public Assistance and prior to her
retirement, she had been executive
secretary for several chief adminis-
trators at Valley Crest.
Velma had been very active as a
50-year member of Dallas Chapter
#396, Order of the Eastern Star,
where she had served as an officer
and organist for many years.
She was also a member of the
Irem Women’s Auxiliary, and of the
Shavertown United Methodist
Church, and its Mary Circle.
Velma had a great love for music,
and was a very accomplished pianist
and organist from an early age. In
addition to her work with the East-
ern Star, she had been organist for
many years at the First Congrega-
tional United Church of Christ, and
First Presbyterian Church, West
Pittston.
As a youngster, she played for the
silent movies at the former Garden
Village Theatre, West Pittston.
She was a devoted wife, mother,
grandmother, great-grandmother,
and aunt whose life revolved around
her family.
In addition to her parents, she
was preceded in death by her hus-
band, Ellis K. Weed; her beloved
granddaughter, Amanda Josephine
Weed; a brother, Roland J. Moffatt;
and sister, Grace Huntley.
Surviving are her son, Charles A.
Weed, and his wife, Karen, West
Pittston; daughter, Sharon Jones,
and her husband, John H., Dallas;
granddaughters, Megan E. Nice,
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Virginia (Davis), and Stanley Moty-
ka, Larksville; a sister, and her hus-
band, Tracy L., and Dr. David Marti-
ni, Lincoln University, Pa.; a broth-
er, and his wife, Stanley W., and Su-
san Motyka, Kingston; as well as
nephews; aunts; uncles; and cou-
sins.
Memorial services will be held
at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at her
church, 417 South 22nd Street,
Camp Hill. Burial will be held at 3
p.m. Thursday in St. John’s Ceme-
tery, Dallas. Visitation will be held
from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Par-
themore Funeral Home and Crema-
tion Services, 1303 Bridge Street,
New Cumberland.
In lieu of flowers, memorial con-
tributions are requested to 8301
Professional Place, Landover MD
20785 (www.epilepsyfounda-
tion.org).
For more information or to send
messages of condolence, please vis-
it www.Parthemore.com.
wanis Club.
He was a member of the Burke
County NAACP, and the Walden-
sian Presbyterian Church.
In 2004, Ron founded the Nation-
al Hospice Consulting Group, LLC
which he served as the president
and CEO.
He is survived by his former wife,
Maureen LaSalle; son, Ronny;
daughters, Nichole, Melissa, and
Kristen; brothers, Randy, Carlton,
Alan, and Christopher LaSalle; sis-
ters, Carlene McCargar, Sherry
Blade, and Sandy Lantainge; and
five grandchildren, Braden, Ella, Lil-
ly, Aidan, and Andrew.
Funeral Services will be held
at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the
Howell-Lussi Funeral Home, 509
Wyoming Avenue, West Pittston,
the Rev. James Breese, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, Pittston, will
officiate. Friends may call at the fu-
neral home from 5 p.m. until the
time of service Wednesday. Inter-
ment will be held at the conve-
nience of the family.
and her husband, George, Sweet
Valley; Rebecca Evansky, and her
husband, John, Hudson Falls, N.Y.;
great-grandson, Hunter Thomas
Nice; and nephew, Robert H. Hahn
Jr., Tunkhannock, Pa.
The family would especially like
to thank all the staff at Meadows
Manor Assisted Living, and also the
third floor staff of The Meadows
Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
for the wonderful care given to our
Mother.
Funeral will be held at 2 p.m.
Wednesday from the H. Merritt
Hughes Funeral Home Inc., 211 Lu-
zerne Avenue, West Pittston, with
the Rev. Lynn Snyder, pastor, Sha-
vertown United Methodist Church,
officiating. Interment will be in
West Pittston Cemetery. Friends
may call from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Dallas Chapter #396, Order of the
Eastern Star, will conduct services
Tuesday.
The family requests that flowers
be omitted, and that donations in
Velma’s name be made to Shriner’s
Hospital, c/o Irem Shrine Center,
P.O. Box 307, Dallas, Pa. 18612, or to
Pediatric Cancer Center, Janet Weis
Children’s Hospital, Geisinger Med-
ical Center, Danville, Pa. 17821.
A R I E S THE TIMES LEADER
Barbara Schuster
April 30, 2011
B arbara Schuster, 62, of Moosic,
died Saturday evening, April 30,
2011, at home after a lengthy illness.
She was born in Scranton, a
daughter of the late Robert J. and
Mary Hastings Bolchune.
Barbara was a member of the
Trinity United Church of Christ,
and a graduate of West Scranton
High School, class of 1967.
She was active with the Marion
Terrace Boys and Girls Club,
Wilkes-Barre, the Moosic Heights
Crime Watch, and the Downtown
Scranton Crime Watch.
Prior to her illness she was em-
ployed for 25 years, by Schott North
America Inc., Duryea, as an execu-
tive secretary.
Barbara was loved by those who
knew her and she will be missed.
The family would like to thank
the Heartland Hospice for their
kind and compassionate care and
Schott North America Inc., for their
support and kindness.
Barbara is survived by a sister,
Esther Phillips, Moosic; two broth-
ers, William B. Bolchune, Scranton,
and Robert J. Bolchune, Throop; as
well as aunts; uncles; nieces; neph-
ews; and cousins.
The funeral will be held at 10:30
a.m. Wednesday from the Miller
Angeline Strenfel
April 30, 2011
A ngeline
G. Strenfel, 89, of Lake
Silkworth, passed into eternal
life on Saturday, April 30, 2011, at
her home.
Born on November 5, 1921, in Lu-
zerne, she was a daughter of the late
John and Agnes Vrankar Mali Klan-
sek.
Angeline had resided at Lake
Silkworth her entire life, and was a
member of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
Church.
Her husband, Edward J. Strenfel,
died in 1976. She was also preceded
in death by a daughter, Dorothy M.
Woychio; sisters, Frances Kazokas,
Mary (Rose) Wildoner, Agnes
Pugh, Mary Poluski, Stella Kusar,
Pauline Plesnecher, and Anna Er-
zar; brothers, Albert, John, Joseph,
and Victor Klansek, and Vincent
Vrankar.
Angeline is survived by daugh-
ters, Angie Strenfel, with whom she
resided, Shirley Watkins, and her
husband, James, Chino Hills, Calif.,
Janet Rossi, and her husband, Mod-
erno, Hunlock Creek; sons, Edward
Strenfel, Hanover Township, and
David Strenfel, Sweet Valley; grand-
sons, Michael Woychio, Eric Stren-
fel, Jimmy Watkins, Timothy Stren-
fel, David Strenfel, and Jason Rossi;
two great-grandsons; daughters-in-
law, Donna Strenfel, Kingston, and
Cathy Strenfel Metric, Hanover
Township; as well as several nieces
and nephews.
Amin Elias
Khoudary
April 26, 2011
A min Elias Khoudary, of Alep-
po, Syria, passed away Tues-
day, April 26, 2011, at his home,
surrounded by his family.
He was born on October 15,
1926, in Aleppo, Syria, a son of the
late Elias and Afifa Khabbaza
Khoudary.
Prior to retiring, he was a nurse
at a private clinic for many years.
He served honorably in World War
II. He was a member of the St. Ge-
orge Melkite Catholic Church in
Aleppo, Syria. He was a fun-loving
man and took great pride in his
family. He was always there to help
people in their time of need.
He was preceded in death by his
brothers, Aboud Khoudary, Joseph
Khoudary, and Raymond Khoud-
ary.
Surviving are his wife, Camilia
Haffar Khoudary; daughter Vivian
Khabbaza and her husband, Elias,
Ph. D., of East North Port, N.Y.;
sons, Elias and his wife, Gracia, of
Aleppo, Syria, Kamal, Ph.D. and
his wife, Laureice, of Aleppo, Sy-
ria, Raymond, M.D. and his wife,
Malak, of Dallas, and Joseph and
his wife, Daad, of Smithtown, N.Y.;
brothers, Edmond and Maureice;
and a sister, Nadia Denbackley, all
of Villa De Cura, Venezuela; grand-
children, Joseph, M.D., Deena,
M.D., Michael, Amin Elias, Nata-
lie, Amin Kamal, Tony, Maria, An-
thony Amin, Peter, Theresa, Ste-
phanie and Christopher; as well as
numerous nieces and nephews.
A memorial Mass will be held
at 7 p.m. Tuesday in St. Anthony
and St. George Maronite Church,
315 Park Ave., Wilkes-Barre. A cof-
fee hour will be held after the me-
morial service at the church hall.
Memorial donations may be
made to St. Anthony and St. Ge-
orge Maronite Church, 315 Park
Ave., Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702, with
the proceeds going to Amin’s
church, St. George Melkite Cathol-
ic Church in Aleppo, Syria.
Bean Funeral Home Inc., 436 Cedar
Avenue, Scranton, with services at
11 a.m. in the Trinity United Church
of Christ, at the corner of Prospect
Avenue and Beech Street, Scranton,
by the Rev. Harrison Putnam, pas-
tor. Interment will follow in The
First Primitive Methodist Church
Cemetery, Dickson City.
Friends may call from 2 to 4 p.m.
and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the funer-
al home.
Go to www.millerbeanfh.com for
additional funeral information, di-
rections, or to submit an online con-
dolence card.
Funeral will be held at 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday from the Curtis L. Swan-
son Funeral Home Inc., corner of
routes 29 and 118, Pikes Creek, with
a Mass of Christian Burial at 11 a.m.
from the Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Church, Lake Silkworth, with the
Rev. Joseph Pisaneschi officiating.
Interment will be in the Mount Ol-
ivet Cemetery, Carverton. Friends
may call from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Tues-
day, prior to the service at the funer-
al home.
The family would like to thank
the staff of Care Givers of America,
and Hospice Community Care for
making Angeline’s last days at home
as comfortable as possible.
The family requests that memo-
rial contributions be sent to Hos-
pice Community Care, 601 Wyom-
ing Ave., Kingston, PA 18704.
Seraphine
Klepadlo Yurek
May 1, 2011
Seraphine
Klepadlo Yurek,
82, of Wyom-
ing, died Sun-
day, May 1,
2011, at Hospice
Care of the
VNA, Heritage
House, Wilkes-
Barre.
Born in Wilkes-Barre, on May 17,
1928, she was a daughter of the late
Joseph and Michaelena Sklarowski
Klepadlo.
Seraphine was a member of St.
Monica’s Parish, Wyoming, and was
a member of the Confraternity of
Christian Mothers, and also was a
member of the Altar and Rosary So-
ciety.
In addition to her parents, she
was preceded in death by brothers,
Leo, Stanley, Joseph, and Stephen.
Seraphine is survived by her hus-
band of 57 years, Carl Yurek; daugh-
ters, Carol Yurek, at home, and
Elaine McCabe, and her husband,
Bill, Wyoming; grandchildren, Kel-
ly, and Christopher McCabe; sis-
ters, Helen Swenski, Wapwallopen,
and Mary Florio, Plains Township;
as well as several nieces and neph-
ews.
Funeral services will be held at
9:30 a.m. Tuesday from the Bednar-
ski Funeral Home, 168 Wyoming
Avenue, Wyoming, with a Mass of
Christian Burial at 10 a.m. at St. Jo-
seph’s Church in the Parish of St.
Monica, Wyoming. Internment will
be in St. Joseph’s Cemetery, West
Wyoming. Friends may call at 8:30
a.m. until the time of service Tues-
day.
In lieu of flowers, memorial con-
tributions may be made in honor of
St. Joseph’s Church to St. Monica’s
Parish, 363 W. Eighth St., West
Wyoming, PA 18644.
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FUNERALS
BALDRICA – Albert, funeral 9
a.m. today from the Corcoran
Funeral Home Inc., 20 S. Main
St., Plains Township. Mass of
Christian Burial 9:30 a.m. in
Ss. Peter & Paul Church,
Plains Township.
BELTRAMI – Joseph Jr., funeral
9:30 a.m. today from the
Fierro Funeral Home, 26 W.
Second St., Hazleton. Mass of
Christian Burial 10 a.m. in
Most Precious Blood Church,
Hazleton.
BOBACK – Shirl, memorial bless-
ing service 8 p.m. today at
the Simon S. Russin Funeral
Home, 136 Maffett St., Plains
Township. Friends may call
from 6 to 8 p.m. today.
BUDZINSKI – Peter, funeral 10
a.m. Tuesday from the Corco-
ran Funeral Home Inc., 20 S.
Main St., Plains Township.
Friends may call from 7 to 9
p.m. today.
CARWARDINE – Linda, funeral 11
a.m. Tuesday in the Carlucci-
Golden-DeSantis Funeral Home
Inc., 318 E. Drinker St., Dun-
more. Visitation from 4 to 7
p.m. today at the funeral
home.
CHESNEY – Gilbert, military
funeral 9:30 a.m. Tuesday
from the George A. Strish Inc.,
Funeral Home, 211 W. Main St.,
Glen Lyon. Mass of Christian
Burial 10 a.m. in Holy Spirit/St.
Adalbert’s Church, Glen Lyon.
Friends may call from 5 to 8
p.m. today and from 8:30 to
9:30 a.m. Tuesday.
DEVERS – Mary, funeral 9 a.m.
Tuesday from the Peter J.
Adonizio Funeral Home, 802
Susquehanna Ave., West Pitt-
ston. Mass of Christian Burial
9:30 a.m. in Corpus Christi
Parish, Immaculate Conception
Church, West Pittston. Friends
may call from 4 to 8 p.m.
today at the funeral home.
FEARICK – Marian, Mass of
Christian Burial 9:30 a.m.
today in St. John the Evange-
list Church, Pittston. Those
attending the funeral Mass are
asked to go directly to the
church.
HORNLEIN – Thomas Sr., bless-
ing service 11 a.m. today at the
Andrew Strish Funeral Home, 11
Wilson St., Larksville.
JONES – Mary, memorial service
at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Rey-
burn Bible Church, Shickshinny.
Graveside Military Services will
be held by the Shickshinny
American Legion Post.
KHOUDARY – Amin, a memorial
service 7 p.m. Tuesday in St.
Anthony and St. George Maro-
nite Church, 315 Park Ave.,
Wilkes-Barre. A coffee hour
will be held after the memo-
rial service at the church hall.
KOREY – George, prayer service
2 p.m. Saturday, May 28, at
the Mercy Center Chapel,
Misericordia University Cam-
pus, Dallas. All are welcome to
attend.
MAZUR – Florence, Panikhida
Memorial Service 6 p.m. Tues-
day at St. John the Baptist
Orthodox Church, Zerby Ave-
nue, Edwardsville.
MAZUR – Peter, memorial ser-
vice for both Peter and Flo-
rence, 6 p.m. Tuesday at St.
John the Baptist Orthodox
Church, Edwardsville.
MCDERMOTT – Kevin, funeral
9:30 a.m. today from the
Desiderio Funeral Home Inc.,
679 Carey Ave., Hanover Town-
ship. Mass of Christian Burial
10 a.m. at St. Robert Bellar-
mine Parish, St. Aloysius
Church, Wilkes-Barre.
NALLON – Alice, funeral 9:15
a.m. today from the Maher-
Collins Funeral Home, 360 N.
Maple Ave., Kingston. Mass of
Christian Burial 10 a.m. in St.
Therese Church, Kingston.
PALTANAVICH – John, cele-
bration of life 8:30 a.m. Tues-
day from McLaughlin’s, 142 S.
Washington St., Wilkes-Barre.
Funeral Mass 9:30 a.m. in the
Church of Maternity of the
Blessed Virgin Mary, Wilkes-
Barre. Visitation from 5 to 8
p.m. today at the funeral
home.
ROBINSON – James, funeral 1
a.m. Wednesday from the H.
Merritt Hughes Funeral Home
Inc., 211 Luzerne Ave., West
Pittston. Friends may call from
5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday.
SARTORIO- Antoinette, funeral 9
a.m. today from the Graziano
Funeral Home Inc., Pittston
Township. Mass of Christian
Burial 9:30 a.m. at St. Rocco’s
R.C. Church, Pittston.
SIMKO – Phyllis, funeral 7:30
p.m. today from the Bednarski
Funeral Home, 168 Wyoming
Ave., Wyoming. Friends may
call from 6 to 9 p.m. today.
TAGLIATERRA – Santo, funeral
9:30 a.m. today from the
Louis V. Ciuccio Funeral Home,
145 Moosic Road, Old Forge.
Mass 10 a.m. at the Prince of
Peace Parish - St. Mary’s
Church, Old Forge.
TUCK – Henry Jr., funeral 5:30
p.m. Tuesday at the Shaver-
town United Methodist Church,
163 N. Pioneer Ave., Shaver-
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COURT BRIEF
SHICKSHINNY – Charges
of simple assault and terror-
POLITICAL BRIEFS
WILKES-BARRE -- Mike Old River Road, Wilkes-Barre. Republicans are Moderno
BEL L ES
C O N S TR U C TIO N C O .
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istic threats were withdrawn
against Eric Thomas Crevel-
ing, 22, of Berwick, during a
preliminary hearing before
District Judge John Hasay on
Thursday.
Salem Township police had
charged Creveling after his
pregnant girlfriend, D’Aileene
Hack, reported he punched
Judge for Wilkes-Barre, will be
holding several meet and greets
during the next few weeks.
Some are a part of the “Candi-
date Cares Program,” wherein
Smith will be sponsoring a
“Clean for Green Park Cleanup
Event,” at Huber Park on Sat-
urday and Miner Park on Sat-
urday, May 14. All cleanup
THE BES T
public. Refreshments will be glosky, Linda Urban, Bill James,
served. For information, contact Ed Warkevicz and Eugene Kel-
Kate at 706-5216. leher.
C.O.P.S. is also endorsing two
CONYNGHAM - The Citizens county judge candidates -- Vito RO O FIN G
Opposing Political Suppression DeLuca and Fred Pierantoni. S ID IN G
(C.O.P.S.) government watchdog W IN D O W S &
group has announced the county WRIGHT TWP. – Mike Vough,
council candidates it’s endorsing. Candidate for Luzerne County
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The endorsed Democrats are judge, will hold a meet-and-greet
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her several times causing
injuries on April 15, according
to the criminal complaint.
events will be held from 10 a.m.
to 1 p.m.
Any child under 12 accompa-
nied by any adult will receive $1
per bag of garbage collected.
Wil Toole, Bruce Simpson, Mi-
chelle Bednar, Thomas Ksiezo-
polski, Thomas Rome and Elaine
Maddon Curry. The endorsed
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Pizza, Mountain Top. There will
be free food and refreshments
available.

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BUTLER TWP. – The Butler
Township Recreation Board is
sponsoring Open Gym nights
Wednesdays in May from 6 to
7:30 p.m. The gym will be open
for area youths 15 and younger.
Then, from 7:30 to 9 p.m., the
gym will be available for those
ages 16 and older.
The primary usage will be
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donuts. On Saturday at Huber
Park, Smith will be giving out
carnation corsages to the first 50
mothers for Mother’s Day.
DU-
RYEA – There will be a Meet and make your
and Greet with Candidate for dream of a
Luzerne County Judge Mike great smile a
Vough from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday reality with
at the Germania Hose Co., Du-
ryea. There will be free food and
refreshments. Sedation

for basketball; however, if there
is enough interest, the board
may set up the gym for volley-
ball later in May. The cost per
youth is $2, while attendees 16
and older will be charged $4.
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WORLD OPINION
New royal couple start
touching trend of gifting
T
HE BEST GIFT for
the bride and groom
who have it all, it
seems, is still money.
Prince William and Kate Mid-
dleton asked guests and well-
wishers to donate to charity, in
lieu of lavish gifts.
What a great idea, consider-
ing even palaces have only so
much room for so many gold
vases, silver platters, Steuben
glass bowls or local artwork.
(Remember the watercolor of
loons given to Prince Charles
and Lady Diana on their wed-
ding by the government of
Canada?)
The Alberta government po-
nied up to the tune of a $25,000
donation to seven youth shel-
ter programs in the province.
This thoughtful gift reflects an
issue close to the prince’s heart
– helping disadvantaged
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“We hope Washington realizes
they may have made a mistake
here.”
Tom Leighton
Wilkes-Barre’s mayor announced late last week the
city’s annual Community Development Block Grant
allocation had been cut by 16.2 percent, or $342,610.
Britain must back reform
F
OR A TIME, it
seemed that the mo-
mentum of the Arab
Spring would be car-
ried across the Arab world af-
ter the fall of the regimes in Tu-
nisia and Egypt.
That momentum is proving
hard to sustain in countries
where the ruling regimes fight
hard and dirty to maintain
their control.
The bloody suppression of
riots in Syria, the curbs on
demonstrations in Yemen and
the war that Moammar Gadha-
fi is waging in Libya show that
democracy campaigners face a
struggle to extend reform.
Opinion in those countries is
divided; Internet-savvy re-
formers with phone cameras
are pitted against military
force.
Britain is obviously militari-
ly committed to the anti-Gad-
hafi campaign in Libya and
The hope of Arab Spring
A
S IN PREVIOUS
years, Iranian Presi-
dent Mahmoud Ah-
madinejad used his
country’s celebration of Army
Day to bash Israel and the
United States.
April 18, the date of the es-
tablishment of Iran’s armed
forces – which have effective-
ly been sidelined by the Islam-
ic Republic’s Revolutionary
Guard – is commonly com-
memorated with jingoistic
processions of missiles, tanks
and legions of uniformed sol-
diers; and it has become cus-
tomary for Ahmadinejad to
utter threats against the Jew-
Editorial Board
RICHARD L. CONNOR
Editor and Publisher
JOE BUTKIEWICZ
Vice President/Executive Editor
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Editorial
youths. William has advocated
for homeless teens in the Unit-
ed Kingdom, and once spent a
night sleeping outdoors on
cardboard to raise awareness.
We like the modern twist to
traditional royal gift giving and
hope it becomes a trend among
protocol offices around the
world.
It sure beats some of the odd
presents received for royal
marriages over the years, in-
cluding 131 pairs of nylon
stockings sent to Queen Eliza-
beth for her postwar marriage
to Prince Philip in 1947, or the
lace tray cover sent by Mahat-
ma Gandhi, which he wove
himself, but was allegedly mis-
taken at the palace for a loin-
cloth.
Calgary Herald
Alberta, Canada
that leaves little scope for mil-
itary involvement elsewhere.
Of course, it is possible to ac-
cuse the British government of
double standards in respect of
its treatment of the conflicts in
Libya, Yemen and Syria. The
only answer is that Britain’s re-
sources and reach are limited;
we can be militarily involved in
only one area at a time, and Li-
bya is the country where our in-
volvement can do the most
good.
In our approach to the upris-
ings in the Arab world, Bri-
tain’s aims are twofold: pro-
moting democracy and ensur-
ing that the groups that seek to
change or overthrow existing
regimes will adopt policies fa-
voring pluralism and stability.
In each country our strategies
will be different but our aspira-
tions are coherent and worthy.
London Evening Standard
ish state and epithets against
the bulwark of freedom and
democracy, America.
While Ahmadinejad will
doubtless do all in his power
to bring his bleak predictions
to fruition, it is incumbent on
those who support genuine
freedoms to do what they can
to ensure the Arab Spring
leads to the increasing real-
ization of Western ideals such
as liberty and equality, as well
as a decrease in antagonism
toward America and Israel,
representatives of these ide-
als.
The Jerusalem Post, Israel
MARK E. JONES
Editorial Page Editor
PRASHANT SHITUT
President/Wilkes-Barre Publishing Co.
MAIL BAG LETTERS FROM READERS
Reader proposes creative
reuse for Sterling parts
L
et’s see now, another million dollars to
demolish the grand ol’ Hotel Sterling?
Why not dismantle the hotel instead,
bringing it down in successive steps and
auctioning off the contents/structural
parts?
At auction, these items can bring very
high prices because of historical/senti-
mental value, not to mention their in-
trinsic, utilitarian value. They can be
hauled off virtually for free by the highest
bidder.
And yet the building is still with us:
there in Joe’s retaining wall, there in Jane’s
patio and there in that marble in mom’s
kitchen.
Give the sorting and dismantling to local
crews/contractors, since we already have
$6 million invested, and appoint a project
manager to oversee.
Possibly a profit can be realized, and
isn’t it nice that these things are used in
the future as opposed to just crushed into
the ground as if the hotel didn’t exist?
Don’t you think Luzerne County can use
some redemptive/constructive thinking
after the rash of scandals?
Michael Mundy
Plymouth
WA taxpayer questions
Campenni’s recent action
A
s a taxpayer and voter, I have adopted
the policy of wait and see when it
comes to Wyoming Area School Board
politics. I wait and eventually see the pol-
luted politics that exist.
I don’t think all politicians are grand-
standers and I don’t believe that citizens
run for the school board with the intent of
deception. But just like spring follows
winter, it just seems to happen.
Four years ago, Estelle Campenni ran on
a platform of her credentials and as a
breath of fresh air for the taxpayers.
Campenni promised to end politics as
usual in the school board’s hiring proce-
dures; however, when the opportunity
presented itself, she chose to hire not one,
but two of her cousins. Right out of college
and into the classroom as full-time teach-
ers.
That’s not fresh air. That’s pollution
called “nepotism.”
And please don’t forget that Campenni
voted to fire long-time maintenance em-
ployee William Simmons. Now the tax-
payers face another potential wrongful
termination lawsuit, thanks in part to
Campenni’s vote.
When will it end? And why has she been
absent from the last few meetings? If she is
so concerned about the needs of the tax-
payers and the fiscal health of Wyoming
Area, her absence does not demonstrate it
and seems a political convenience.
Her utopian platform sounded great at
the time. Campenni wanted to clear the
air; however, four years later she apparent-
ly has joined the club and brought nothing
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but more polluted politics.
Vincent Holland
West Wyoming
Reader blasts county’s
reliance on consultants
I
have read a few letters to the editor by
Wil Toole and cannot agree with him
more on two recent issues.
Moon Lake Park: Why pay for consult-
ants when ideas can be obtained from the
people of Luzerne County who use the
facility? Get input, use the county’s engi-
neering staff and see what can be done.
Use people required to perform communi-
ty service to aid in minor repairs and up-
keep.
County time clocks: One of the most
outrageous expenses yet. We soon will
have a new government. Let the new man-
agers determine if there are abuses, as
Commissioner Stephen Urban claims. Why
wasn’t it stopped years ago? We never did
hear what department or which people
abused their time. It is an insult to the
hardworking employees.
It would be interesting to see how much
has been spent over the past few years on
consulting groups. I think the county resi-
dents would be outraged.
Ron Kukowski
Wilkes-Barre
Ex-Plymouth resident
says Madrack right man
I
am writing to ask you to elect Clifton
Madrack to Plymouth council.
I am not a resident of your town, nor
am I a member of his campaign staff. I
have known Clif all my life, and as anyone
who knows him will tell you, he has strong
opinions and is not shy about expressing
them. To some, he can seem arrogant and
dismissive. In an earlier time, I would have
to agree with that assessment.
Through years of experience, he has
learned the benefit of listening to the ideas
of others before making a decision. Clif
will most likely continue to speak his
mind. I view this as love of his town and its
people. He understands that the success of
Plymouth depends on cooperation and
input from its residents.
As a Vietnam veteran, a former busi-
nessman and town administrator, he pos-
sesses leadership qualities and a unique
understanding of government operations.
As director of the county’s Moon Lake
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Park, he took a rundown facility and made
it into a first-class park enjoyed by all who
visited. He will bring this same “can-do
attitude” and administrative knowledge to
the town council.
If you want a politician who will tell you
what you want to hear, then vote the pre-
sent council back into office. If you want
someone who will work with you and get
things done, then vote for Clifton Madrack.
Richard M. Post
Class of 1963, Plymouth High School
Pylesville, Md.
Medicare review board
called threat to system
P
ennsylvanians know it’s important to
keep the Medicare program safe and
sound; our state ranks third in the
percentage of residents older than 60.
That’s why we should be particularly
alarmed by federal plans to create an un-
elected, unaccountable board of bureau-
crats to cut Medicare spending. The “Inde-
pendent Payment Advisory Board,” or
IPAB, is being touted as a solution to
Medicare’s financial woes.
But those of us who work with Penn-
sylvania’s seniors aren’t fooled. The board
is set to slash the already bargain-base-
ment reimbursements Medicare pays its
health care providers – a move guaranteed
to cause even more doctors and other
caregivers to quit treating Medicare pa-
tients.
This advisory board jeopardizes the
entire Medicare system. The time to undo
it is now.
IPAB’s 15 members will be appointed by
the president and confirmed by the Senate.
Beginning in 2014, if Medicare costs in-
crease faster than inflation, the board can
propose cost-cutting measures.
These proposals automatically will be-
come law unless Congress overrules them
by instituting its own cuts of equal value.
Medicare patients and their caregivers
have no way to appeal these moves; even
the courts have no authority to overrule
whatever cuts the board concocts.
IPAB can decide to restrict coverage for
certain important treatments, including
those administered through home care.
These services are important because our
seniors are choosing to age at home and
there already are too many obstacles to
accessing home-care services. We do not
need another one. Many politicians have
embraced IPAB because it gives them a
political shield against having to take
tough votes to cut Medicare costs. But this
board goes too far; it provides immense
policymaking power to a completely unac-
countable set of distant bureaucrats.
It’s important for all Pennsylvanians to
urge our congressional representatives to
pull the plug on IPAB before it’s too late.
Our seniors, your loved ones, are depend-
ing on it.
Vicki Hoak
Executive director
Pennsylvania Homecare Association
Lemoyne
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C A S E Y S TAT E M E N T

BIN LADEN Statement by U.S. Sen. Bob Casey,

Continued from Page 1A
Based on statements given by
U.S. detainees, intelligence offi-
cials have known for years that
bin Laden trusted one al-Qaida
courier in particular and they be-
lieved he might be living with
him in hiding. In November, intel-
ligence officials found out where
he was living, a huge fortified
compound in an affluent suburb
of Islamabad. It was surrounded
by walls as high as 18 feet high,
topped with barbed wire. There
were two security gates and no
phone or Internet running into
the house.
Intelligence officials believed
the $1 million home was custom-
built to harbor a major terrorist.
CIA experts analyzed whether it
could be anyone else, but time
and again, they decided it was al-
most certainly bin Laden.
Three adult males were also
killed in Sunday’s raid, including
one of bin Laden’s sons, whom of-
ficials did not name. One of bin
Laden’s sons, Hamza, is a senior
member of al-Qaida.
Bin Laden has been the target
of history’s most intense interna-
tional manhunt, an operation
that’s focused on the remote trib-
al areas of Pakistan and neighbor-
ing Afghanistan.
While bin Laden’s death will
represent a major blow to the in-
ternational terrorist network that
he led, U.S. officials have long
said that it will not end the threat
of Islamic extremist because al
Qaida has metastasized into le-
thal branches based in Yemen and
North Africa, and has inspired
militants around the world.
Bin Laden’s death represents a
major boost for Obama coming as
he struggles with mixed public
sentiment about the U.S. ap-
proach to civilian uprisings in Li-
bya through the Mideast and
North Africa.
But bin Laden’s death is unlike-
ly to alter the course of the insur-
gency in neighboring Afghanis-
A crowd outside the White House in Washington, cheers Sundayupon hearing the news that terrorist leader Osama bin Laden is dead.
tan, where al Qaida has been play-
ing a secondary role to the Tali-
ban and allied militant groups.
Meanwhile, the State Depart-
ment is putting U.S. embassies on
alert and is warning Americans
abroad of possible reprisal attacks
from al-Qaida and its affiliates
around the world after the killing
of bin Laden.
In a worldwide travel alert re-
leased shortly after the president
late Sunday announced bin La-
den’s death in a military oper-
ation, the department said there
was an "enhanced potential for
anti-American violence given re-
cent counterterrorism activity in
Pakistan." It said Americans liv-
ing or traveling abroad, particu-
larly in areas that have been hit by
anti-American violence in the
past should limit travel outside
their homes and avoid large gath-
erings.
The alert said U.S. embassy op-
erations would continue "to the
extent possible under the con-
straints of any evolving security
situation."
Also, the New York Police De-
partment will be ramping up se-
curity measures across the city as
a precaution given the news bin
Laden has been killed, according
to Paul Browne, an NYPD spokes-
man.
Former President George W.
Bush, who was in office on the day
of the attacks, issued a written
statement hailing bin Laden’s
death as a momentous achieve-
ment. “The fight against terror
goes on, but tonight America has
sent an unmistakable message:
No matter how long it takes, jus-
tice will be done,” he said.
In a statement Sunday night,
Bush said Obama called to inform
him that U.S. forces had killed bin
Laden.
Bush said he congratulated
Obama and also congratulated
the men and women of the mili-
tary and intelligence communi-
ties who devoted their lives to the
mission.
Bush said, "This momentous
achievement marks a victory for
America, for people who seek
peace around the world, and for
all those who lost loved ones on
September 11, 2001."
Former President Bill Clinton
said the death of bin Laden is “a
profoundly important moment.’’
The news of bin Laden’s death
comes just months before the
10th anniversary of the Sept.11at-
tacks on the World Trade Centers
and Pentagon, orchestrated by
bin Laden’s al-Qaida organiza-
tion, that killed more than 3,000
people.
The attacks set off a chain of
AP PHOTO
events that led the United States
into wars in Afghanistan, and
then Iraq, and America’s entire in-
telligence apparatus was over-
hauled to counter the threat of
more terror attacks at home.
New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg says Americans have
kept their promise after Sept. 11
to capture or kill bin Laden.
Bloomberg says the killing of
the terrorist leader doesn’t lessen
the suffering Americans experi-
enced at his hands the day the
World Trade Center was de-
stroyed but is a "critically impor-
tant victory" for the nation. He
says it’s a tribute to the men and
women in the armed forces
who’ve fought so hard.
Bloomberg says in a statement
he hopes news of bin Laden’s de-
mise will "bring some closure and
comfort to all those who lost
loved ones" that day.
D-Scranton, Chairman of the Near
Eastern and South and Central
Asian Affairs Subcommittee of the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit-
tee.
“On September 11, 2001, the United
States was viciously attacked in a
cowardly terrorist plot master-
minded by Osama bin Laden.
Today, U.S. forces have killed bin
Laden and exacted justice for his
terrible crimes which killed thou-
sands.
“I thank our troops, the intelli-
gence community and diplomats
who have worked today and since
September 11th to bring Osama bin
Laden to justice.
"On September 11th, Pennsylvania
was directly impacted by Al Qaeda
when Flight 93 was downed over
Shanksville. In the nearly ten years
after September 11th, Pennsylvania
has lost 68 troops in Afghanistan
and hundreds have been injured.
The sacrifice of those families who
lost loved ones on September 11th
and in the following years can
never be made whole, but I hope
that the death of bin Laden can
help to bring some closure.
"While today’s development does
not mean an end to terrorism or
the need to remain relentlessly
vigilant, the death of bin Laden
has enormous significance in
American and world history."
M A R I N O S TAT E M E N T
Statement by U. S. Rep. Tom Mari-
no, R-Lycoming Township.
“This development is welcome
news to our nation and the world
and is a tribute to the strength
and perseverance of our military
and our intelligence community.
“Hopefully, this will provide some
sense of justice to the families of
the thousands of people who died
at the hands of this terrorist and
will help heal the wounds inflicted
on 9/11.
“Let the word go forth that the
elimination of this cold-blooded
murderer sends a distinct mess-
age to the terrorists around the
world that the United States of
America will track down and elim-
inate those cowards who think
they can create an atmosphere of
horror and get away with it.
“We are Americans. We are united.
We are determined.”

POPE
Continued from Page 1A
sm in his native Poland with sup-
port for the Solidarity labor
movement, accelerating the fall of
the Iron Curtain.
“He rightly reclaimed for Chris-
tianity that impulse of hope
which had in some sense faltered
before Marxism and the ideology
of progress,” Benedict said. “He
restored to Christianity its true
face as a religion of hope.”
John Paul’s beatification, the
fastest in modern times, has how-
ever triggered a new wave of an-
ger from sex-abuse victims be-
cause much of the criminality oc-
curred during his 27-year watch.
Critics also say John Paul’s legacy
is clouded by evidence of a dwin-
dling faith: empty churches in Eu-
rope, too few priests in North and
South America, priests who vio-
late their celibacy requirement in
places like Africa and a general
decline of Catholicism in former
Faithful take pictures of the casket containing the remains of the
late Pope John Paul II laid out in state inside St. Peter’s Basilica.
Guards standing at attention.
Beatification is the last major
milestone before a candidate is
declared a saint. John Paul needs
another miracle attributed to his
intercession before he can be can-
onized.
Already, Vatican officials have
said reports of inexplicable cures
AP PHOTO
ed VIP passes could get to their
places amid the throngs of pil-
grims.
Many in Rome and in capitals
around the world erupted in
cheers, tears and applause as Ben-
edict pronounced John Paul
“Blessed” and an enormous color
photo of a young, smiling John
who turned out Sunday
along with more than 3,000
others for a six-mile (10-kilome-
ter) race followed by a Mass
near Manila Bay in the Philip-
pines.
In Brazil, which has more Ro-
man Catholics than any other
nation, the beatification reso-
nated among the faithful and
sparked hope that it might re-
new faith in the church in the
South American nation which
is facing stiff competition for
souls from evangelical Protes-
tant movements.
“The beatification is going to
renovate the faith of those who
may have lost their way and left
the church,” said Adimir Go-
doy, as he left a Sunday mass at
the Santa Cecilia church in cen-
tral Sao Paulo. “We were all
blessed by the life of Pope John
Paul and he deserves to be a
saint.”
In John Paul’s native Poland,
tens of thousands of people
gathered in rain in a major sanc-
tuary in Krakow and in Wadow-
FOSTER
Continued from Page 3A
to the editor in her hometown
newspaper. Always on the lookout
for opportunities for community in-
volvement, she brought the idea to
Pastor Paul Metzloff and the con-
gregation.
“We were really happy to help,”
he said.
Andhelptheydid.Theirwell-exe-
cuted plan involved 14 children
from the church’s youth group pro-
grams, ranging in age from 3 to 16
years old, and parishioners. A table
with a wooden cross was placed in
the church’s lobby. Several little
pieces of paper pinned on the cross
asked for specific items.
Written on the little pieces of pa-
perweresimplerequestsforspecific
items, such as “5-10 year old boy,
tooth brush and tooth paste, Pre-
teen comb and brush.”
JessicaJones,20,ofWilkes-Barre,
saidherheartbrokewhensheheard
the experience many children have
when entering foster care.
“If I had 10 minutes to pack, I
would not get very far,” she said.
While shopping, she said she
tried to imagine what needs the
children might have. It was not hard
to pick up several toothbrushes,
some magazines and books, she
said.
Hannah Gaydos, 9, of Forty Fort,
madeabout100homemadecrayons
in various shapes. It took her an
hour to make one tray of crayons,
she said. One tray could make four
to 10 crayons depending on the
shape of the molds. She had each
crayon individually wrapped and
placed in canisters.
The outpouring of donations,
which filled the back of Coolbaugh’s
SUV, made her eyes watery. The
need is great, she said.
Coolbaugh said she has cared for
many foster children.

Christian strongholds.
John Paul’s defenders argue
that an entire generation of new
priests owe their vocations to
John Paul, and that millions of lay
Catholics found their faith during
the World Youth Days, which
were a hallmark of his papacy.
Vatican officials have insisted
that the saint-making process
isn’t a judgment of how John Paul
administered the church but rath-
er whether he lived a life of Chris-
tian virtue.
Benedict put John Paul on the
fast-track for possible sainthood
when he dispensed with the tradi-
tional five-year waiting period
and allowed the beatification
were pouring in, suggesting it is
only a matter of time before John
Paul is declared a saint, or even a
doctor of the church — an even
greater honor.
Police placed wide swaths of
Rome miles from the Vatican off
limits to private cars to ensure se-
curity for the estimated 16 heads
of state, eight prime ministers
and five members of European
royal houses attending.
Helicopters flew overhead, po-
lice boats patrolled the nearby
Tiber River and some 5,000 uni-
formed troops manned police bar-
ricades to ensure priests, official
delegations and those with covet-
Paul was unveiled over the loggia
of St. Peter’s Basilica.
“John Paul is an angel, he has
such charisma,” said Esperanza
Concilion, a 69-year-old hair-
dresser who traveled from Guada-
lajara, Mexico for the beatifica-
tion.
Catholics jammed churches
from Mexico to Australia to pray
and watch broadcasts of the
Rome Mass on television.
“He was a model and an inspira-
tion who united the world with
his extraordinary charisma,” said
John Paul Bustillo, a 16-year-old
medical student named after the
pontiff.
ice, where the pontiff was born
in 1920 as Karol Wojtyla. Prime
Minister Donald Tusk and his
wife Malgorzata watched the
ceremony together with Wa-
dowice residents.
After the nearly three-hour
Mass, Benedict prayed before
John Paul’s coffin, which had a
copy of the Lorsch Gospels on
it, a medieval book of the Gos-
pels that is one of the most pre-
cious in the Vatican’s collec-
tion.
The basilica was expected to
stay open for as long as it took
to accommodate the throngs of
faithful who paid their respects.
HOLOCAUST
150 miles from Auschwitz and
their air force could have drop-
ped commandos by parachute in-
to the camps to overpower the
Continued from Page 3A
Nazi guards, he theorized.
industrial targets in Europe. But those were just possible
McCloy was wrong about the scenarios that could have been
distance that is more like 1,500 undertaken with uncertain re-
miles, Miller pointed out. “That sults, said Miller.
means a lot,” he said. “Nobody, whatever you say, I
American air forces would defy the person who can tell me
have had a shorter flight from a with credibility what would have
base in Foggia, Italy, just 640 happened,” he said.
miles away, Miller said. Whether it should have been
Still there was another option, done is a “tough issue,” he said.
he pointed out.
“In this whole debate, nobody Jerry Lynott, a Times Leader staff
ever mentions the Russians,” writer, can be contacted at 570
said Miller. Russian forces were 829-7237.

5
process to begin weeks after his
April 2, 2005, death. Benedict
was responding to chants of “San-
to Subito!” or “Sainthood Imme-
diately” which erupted during THINGS phenomenon that’s still traveling faster than the Millen-
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fans of the films have designated May 4 as Intergalactic
York is legend. It’s in the same realm as the Hatfields
and McCoys, The Montagues and Capulets, King Kong
and Godzilla. On the Triple-A level, the hatred isn’t that
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THE TIMES LEADER
I N T E R N AT I O N A L L E A G U E B A S E B A L L
Yankees snap three-game slide
Pilittere knocks in Parraz
with a single in the 10th
inning to give SWB a victory.
By Ben Beitzel
For the Times Leader
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. —It
took a close play, but the Yankees
finally got the RBI hit they’d
been lacking.
With two outs and runners on
the first and second in the top of
NFL
A decision
on lockout
is possible
Appeals court could decide
today whether to make NFL’s
temporary stay permanent.
By BARRY WILNER
AP Pro Football Writer
NEW YORK — If these are not
fun times for football fans, they
are captivating days for lawyers.
The NFL lockout is back in
force after a short hiatus last
week. A St. Louis appeals court
could determine as early as today
whether the league deserves a
permanent stay of an injunction
granted to the players in Minne-
sota to block the lockout.
“We are in uncharted but fasci-
nating legal territory,” agent and
attorney Ralph Cindrich said as
he examined the short-term rein-
statement of the lockout by three
judges from the 8th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals. “The owners’
lockout is temporary now; it can
become permanent after the
same three judges do a detailed
review. If the lockout is rein-
stated, it puts the players down
on points big.”
If it’s not, something Cindrich
predicts, league business could
resume almost immediately,
even as more NFL appeals are fil-
ed. Cindrich believes that even
though those judges voted 2-1Fri-
day to review the matter, they
won’t overturn Judge Susan Ri-
chard Nelson’s original determi-
nation that the lockout was pre-
venting the players from earning
a living.
With the draft behind them,
the 32 teams can’t have contact
with any players. That includes
veterans along with rookies just
selected. It also means undrafted
free agents, who usually sign con-
tracts hours after the seventh
round concludes or the next day.
“You just do what you do and
abide by the guidelines the
league puts out as we go along,”
Rams general manager Billy De-
vaney said. “Everybody’s in the
See NFL, Page 4B
Runners go up a hill during Sunday’s Cherry Blossom 5 Mile race at Kirby Park. Chris Wasnetsky,
of Dunmore, was the overall winner in 25 minutes, 32 seconds.
6 3
YANKEES BRAVES
the10th, catcher P.J. Pilittere sin-
gled to right field and Jordan
Parraz took off toward home.
The throw by Gwinnett Braves’
Making the tag
New York Mets third baseman David Wright, left, tags out the Philadelphia Phillies’ Jimmy Rollins after Rollins was
caught in a rundown while trying to steal second in the first inning of a game Sunday in Philadelphia. The Mets won
the game 2-1. Roundup, Page 3B.
HORSE RACING
Trainer Ritvo in Derby 3 years after transplant
By WILL GRAVES
AP Sports Writer
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kathy
Ritvo runs a finger over the five-
inch scar in the center of her
chest and leans forward. She
wants you to see it. She needs
you to see it.
The spot where doctors went
in three years ago and took out
her heart and replaced it with
one given by an unknown donor
is nearly imperceptible, almost
remarkably so.
Yet it is there, the ridge now
as familiar to the trainer of Ken-
SPORTS timesleader.com
right fielder Jordan Schafer beat
Parraz to the plate, but catcher
J.C. Boscan’s missed the tag
pushing across the winning run.
Boscan argued and Gwinnett
manager Dave Brundage was
eventually ejected, while the
Yankees road the two-out RBI to
three runs in the inning and a 6-3
win.
It was Pilittere’s first RBI of the
season.
The win halts a three-game
skid for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre,
tucky Derby
hopeful Mu-
cho Macho
Man as the
faces of her
two children.
It is a very
Ritvo tangible sym-
bol of just how
fragile life can be. The mark that
gave her a second chance at life
three years ago also gave her
perspective on how to live it.
“It’s a battle scar,” she said.
“I’m proud of it.”
And only when she learned to
NIKO J. KALLIANIOTIS/FOR THE TIMES LEADER
which rallied from 3-1 down in
the eighth to send the game to
extra innings.
“Winning one is better than
losing four,” Scranton/Wilkes-
Barre manager Dave Miley said.
Following Pilittere’s game-
winning RBI, Greg Golson reac-
hed on an error to score a run and
Kevin Russo knocked in the third
run of the inning. To that point,
the Yankees had stranded 10 run-
ners and it looked like a repeat of
Saturday, where missed opportu-
love it did she learn to let go.
Horse racing can be an equal-
ly addictive and cruel business
for those closest to it. Long
hours. Little pay. Almost no glo-
ry. Fortunes and careers can rise
and fall on a head bob here, a
bad step there.
Ritvo sweated every detail for
years as she and husband Tim
Ritvo carved out a niche train-
ing horses in South Florida. Her
family and friends learned to
avoid her on race days, knowing
she’d lose it when she saw one of
her horses at the quarter pole.
AREA RUNNING
Wasnetsky breaks record;
Snead wins women’s race
By ROBERT MINER
For The Times Leader
WILKES-BARRE – When run-
ners arrived at Kirby Park on
Sunday, they weren’t sure wheth-
er they would be running three
or five miles.
Race officials opted to run the
old Cherry Blossom 5 Mile
course, an out-and-back trek
mainly on the dike, instead of the
new course, a loop that involves
running through the park’s
meadow lands, which are under
water due to the recent heavy
rains.
Runners also knew that Chris
would win. The question was,
nities led to a three-run loss.
“We were able to grind it out,”
Miley said.
The Yankees started the game
with a bang. Justin Maxwell
blasted his ninth home run of the
season to deep center field to put
the Yankees on the board in the
second inning. The home run
tied Maxwell with Jorge Vazquez
for the team and league lead.
Vazquez had his second consec-
See YANKEES, Page 4B
AP PHOTO
Afterward she’d spend hours
breaking down every last stride
trying to figure out what went
wrong or what went right.
Not anymore. Oh, don’t get
her wrong. The 42-year-old Rit-
vo remains as hands-on as ever
even though doctors advised
her to stay away from the track
at all costs following the No-
vember 2008 transplant that re-
placed her diseased heart with a
new one.
She just doesn’t pore over ev-
See DERBY, Page 4B
Wasnetsky Snead
which Chris –Wasnetsky or Wa-
das?
Wasnetsky prevailed.
The 22-year-old from Dun-
more not only won the 5 miler
but he did it in record-breaking
See RUN , Page 4B
CMYK
SECTION
MONDAY, MAY 2, 2011
B
OPINION
TIM DAHLBERG
Physical or
chippy, Heat
and Celtics
can’t decide
The Celtics
were stumbling,
trying to find
some kind of
rhythm, as Doc
Rivers gathered
his players
around him
during a third quarter timeout.
To Rivers, it seemed like a good
time to remind them of some-
thing he had spent the last week
trying to drill into them.
When you play a team loaded
with stars, you better play with a
plan.
“If you think you’re going to
beat them in an athletic contest,
you’re kidding yourself,” Rivers
told his players.
Point well taken, if delivered
just a tad late in a game Sunday
that seemed to go Miami’s way
almost from the opening tip.
Because, as good as the Celtics
are, they’re not going to win a lot
of 1-on-1 matchups against the
likes of LeBron James, Dwyane
Wade or even Chris Bosh.
But who would have thought
the Celtics would lose the wres-
tling match, too? They did, and
that may be the most difficult
thing to turn around as Boston
tries to steal one on the road
Tuesday night in Miami in an
Eastern Conference semifinal
that only figures to get better as
it goes on.
“You knew it was coming,”
Rivers said after the Celtics fell
99-90 in Game 1. “All they (the
Heat) did the last few days was
talk about being physical.”
Nothing wrong with that. The
playoffs are often a contest of
attrition, with only the strongest
teams surviving to play another
day.
What was more interesting,
though, was what Boston’s head
coach said next.
“To me it wasn’t physical,”
Rivers said. “It was chippy.”
Paul Pierce presumably felt
that way, though he deserves
some of the blame for delivering
a forehead to the face of James
Jones after a hard foul in the
fourth quarter that earned both
technicals.
What Pierce didn’t deserve
was to be tossed from the game a
few minutes later when he
mouthed off after Wade slammed
into him on the baseline. The
NBA may agree with that upon
further review, though that is of
little consolation to a Boston
team that still had a chance when
the player fueling its hopes was
ejected with 7 minutes left in the
game.
But if Miami had a statement
to make, consider it delivered. If
the Celtics needed it explained
further, consider that done, too.
Backing down isn’t an option,
no matter how many stars you
have on your team.
“I don’t really know what
chippy is,” Bosh said. “A game is
a game. The intensity level will
go up, guys will start playing
more physical.”
Lost in the uproar over Pierce’s
ejection was the fact this prob-
ably wasn’t going to be Boston’s
day no matter who was on the
court for the Celtics. James said
a day earlier that beating Boston
was personal for him because he
was on the losing end of two
playoff series with the Celtics
when he played in Cleveland, the
last coming last year when he
flung his No. 23 jersey into the
crowd in what would be his last
game as a Cav.
But as good as James was —
and he seemed to be everywhere
on both sides of the court — the
man who lured him to Miami
was even better. Wade outscored
the entire Boston starting five by
himself in the first half with 23
points, and was playing with just
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PAGE 2B MONDAY, MAY 2, 2011
L O C A L
C A L E N D A R
(4:15 p.m.)
Monday, May 2
H.S. BASEBALL
Crestwood at Tunkhannock
Pittston Area at Dallas
Coughlin at Wyoming Area
Nanticoke at Berwick
Hazleton Area at Wyoming Valley West
H.S. SOFTBALL
(4:15 p.m.)
Crestwood at Tunkhannock
Pittston Area at Dallas
Coughlin at Wyoming Area
Nanticoke at Berwick
Hazleton Area at Wyoming Valley West
H.S. BOYS VOLLEYBALL
(5:45 p.m.)
Wyoming Valley West at Crestwood
Hanover Area at West Side Tech
Delaware Valley at Pittston Area
Coughlin at Holy Redeemer
Meyers at Tunkhannock
H.S. GIRLS SOCCER
(4:15 p.m.)
Wyoming Seminary at Honesdale
Pittston Area at Hanover Area
Tunkhannock at Meyers, 7 p.m.
Wyoming Area at GAR
Tuesday, May 3
H.S. BASEBALL
(4:15 p.m.)
MMI at Wyoming Seminary
Meyers at West Side TECH
Northwest at GAR
Hanover Area at Lake-Lehman
H.S. SOFTBALL
(4:15 p.m.)
MMI at Wyoming Seminary
Meyers at West Side TECH
Northwest at GAR
Hanover Area at Lake-Lehman
H.S. BOYS VOLLEYBALL
(5:45 p.m.)
North Pocono at Lake-Lehman
Hazleton Area at Abington Heights
Berwick at Nanticoke
Dallas at Wyoming Area
H.S. TRACK
(4:15 p.m.)
Lake-Lehman at Meyers
GAR at Nanticoke
Northwest at Holy Redeemer
Hanover Area at Wyoming Area
H.S. GIRLS SOCCER
(4:15 p.m. unless noted)
Holy Redeemer at Dallas
Coughlin at Berwick, 7 p.m.
GAR at North Pocono
Wyoming Valley West at Hazleton Area
Delaware Valley at Nanticoke
H.S. BOYS TENNIS
Coughlin at MMI Prep, 4:15 p.m.
Wednesday, May 4
H.S. BOYS VOLLEYBALL
(5:45 p.m.)
Crestwood at Hanover Area
Wyoming Valley West at Delaware Valley
West Side Tech at Coughlin
Pittston Area at Meyers
H.S. TRACK
(4:15 p.m.)
Dallas at Tunkhannock
Berwick at Crestwood
Hazleton Area at Pittston Area
Coughlin at Wyoming Valley West
H.S. GIRLS SOCCER
(4:15 p.m.)
Honesdale at Pittston Area
North Pocono at Wyoming Seminary
Meyers at Wyoming Area
MMI at Tunkhannock
Thursday, May 5
H.S. BASEBALL
(4:15 p.m.)
Wyoming Valley West at Dallas
Wyoming Area at Tunkhannock
Coughlin at Crestwood
Holy Redeemer at Nanticoke
Hazleton Area at Pittston Area
GAR at Hanover Area
H.S. SOFTBALL
(4:15 p.m.)
Wyoming Valley West at Dallas
Wyoming Area at Tunkhannock
Coughlin at Crestwood
Holy Redeemer at Nanticoke
Hazleton Area at Pittston Area
GAR at Hanover Area
H.S. BOYS VOLLEYBALL
(5:45 p.m.)
Holy Redeemer at North Pocono
Tunkhannock at Hazleton Area
Lake-Lehman at Berwick
Abington Heights at Dallas
Nanticoke at Wyoming Area
H.S. GIRLS SOCCER
(4:15 p.m.)
Dallas at Coughlin
Crestwood at Holy Redeemer
Hazleton Area at Delaware Valley
Lake-Lehman at Wyoming Valley West
Meyers at Wyoming Seminary
Friday, May 6
H.S. BASEBALL
(4:15 p.m.)
Wesi Side Tech at MMI
Wyoming Seminary at Northwest
Meyers at Lake-Lehman
H.S. SOFTBALL
(4:15 p.m.)
West Side Tech at MMI
Wyoming Seminary at Northwest
Meyers at Lake-Lehman
H.S. GIRLS SOCCER
(4:15 p.m.)
Pittston Area at North Pocono
Honesdale at Hanover Area
Wyoming Area at MMI Prep
GAR at Meyers
B A S E B A L L
International League
All Times EDT
North Division
Yankees ................................... 15 9 .625
Lehigh Valley (Phillies) ........... 13 11 .542
Pawtucket (Red Sox) .............. 13 11 .542
Rochester (Twins) ................... 10 13 .435
Buffalo (Mets)........................... 10 15 .400
Syracuse (Nationals)............... 8 16 .333
South Division
Gwinnett (Braves) ................... 14 10 .583
Durham (Rays)......................... 14 11 .560
Charlotte (White Sox) ............. 9 14 .391
Norfolk (Orioles) ...................... 8 16 .333
West Division
Columbus (Indians)................ 19 5 .792
Louisville (Reds) .................... 16 8 .667
Toledo (Tigers)....................... 13 12 .520
Indianapolis (Pirates) ............. 7 18 .280
Saturday's Games
Syracuse 3, Rochester 0
Toledo 4, Pawtucket 3
Louisville 10, Norfolk 1
Lehigh Valley 6, Buffalo 3
Gwinnett 4, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre 1
Durham 12, Indianapolis 3
Columbus 6, Charlotte 0
Sunday's Games
Toledo 4, Pawtucket 3
Lehigh Valley 7, Buffalo 2
Rochester 9, Syracuse 6
Yankees 6, Gwinnett 3, 10 innings
Durham 6, Indianapolis 1
Norfolk 5, Louisville 2
Columbus 9, Charlotte 3
Monday's Games
Rochester at Syracuse, 2 p.m.
Toledo at Pawtucket, 6:15 p.m.
Norfolk at Louisville, 6:35 p.m.
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre at Gwinnett, 7:05 p.m.
Buffalo at Lehigh Valley, 7:05 p.m.
Durham at Indianapolis, 7:05 p.m.
Columbus at Charlotte, 7:15 p.m.
Tuesday's Games
Rochester at Syracuse, 10:30 a.m.
Buffalo at Lehigh Valley, 10:35 a.m.
Norfolk at Louisville, 10:35 a.m.
Durham at Indianapolis, 11:05 a.m.
Toledo at Pawtucket, 12:05 p.m.
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre at Gwinnett, 7:05 p.m.
Columbus at Charlotte, 7:15 p.m.
Yankees 6, Braves 3
Yankees Braves
ab r h bi
Constanza
Golson lf 5 1 0 0 cf
Russo 2b 5 1 2 1 Schafer rf
Montero dh 4 0 1 0 Young 2b
Vazquez 1b 5 0 0 0 Gomez
Maxwell cf 3 1 2 2 Gatrell dh
Laird 3b 3 0 0 0 Ramirez lf
Bernier 3b 1 0 0 0 Lucas ss
Parraz rf 4 1 1 0 Bowman 3b 4 0 0 0
Pena ss 4 1 2 0 Boscan c
Pilittere c 4 1 1 1
Totals 38 6 9 4 Totals
Yankees........................ 010 000 000 3 — 6
Braves .......................... 000 021 000 0 — 3
2B – SWB: Russo. HR – SWB: Maxwell; GW:
Schafer.
IP H R ER BB SO
Yankees
Warren ..................... 6 6
Sisco......................... 0.2 0 0
Kontos ...................... 1.1 0 0
Wordekemper, W.... 1 0
Whelan, S ................ 1 0
Braves
Redmond ................. 6 5
Lugo.......................... 1 0
Marek ....................... 0.1 2 2
Varvaro, L ................ 2.1 0 2
Abreu ........................ 0.1 2 1
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(Best-of-7) Saturday, April 16 Note: In order to read the boxing lines, use the following example; to wager on
Friday, April 15 Chicago 104, Indiana 99 Manny Pacquiao, you would put up $800 to win back $100, or, to wager on Shane
Tampa Bay 5, Pittsburgh 1 Miami 97, Philadelphia 89
Washington 2, N.Y. Rangers 0 Atlanta 103, Orlando 93 Mosley, you would put up $100 to win back $550.
Vancouver 4, Chicago 3 Dallas 89, Portland 81
Anaheim 5, Nashville 3 Sunday, April 17 DODGERS ( 7.5 ) Cubs
Freedom golf
BASEBALL
Saturday, April 16 Memphis 101, San Antonio 98
New Orleans 109, L.A. Lakers 100 Favorite Odds Underdog NBA
Detroit 4, Phoenix 3
Philadelphia 5, Buffalo 4 Boston 87, New York 85 Favorite Points Underdog
Oklahoma City 107, Denver 103 American League
Montreal 3, Boston 1
Los Angeles 4, San Jose 0 Monday, April 18 BULLS 8.5 Hawks
A’S ( 7.5 ) Rangers
Sunday, April 17 Miami 94, Philadelphia 73 LAKERS 6 Mavericks
N.Y. Rangers 3, Washington 2 Chicago 96, Indiana 90 Angels ( 8.0 ) RED SOX
Nashville 4, Anaheim 3 Tuesday, April 19 Tuesday
TIGERS ( 8.5 ) Yankees
Vancouver 3, Chicago 2 Boston 96, New York 93
HEAT 4.5 Celtics
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Monday, April 18 Orlando 88, Atlanta 82 WHITE SOX ( 8.5 ) Orioles
Philadelphia 4, Buffalo 2 Dallas 101, Portland 89
National League
THUNDER 6.5 HERSHEY – Misericordia’s
Grizzlies
Boston 4, Montreal 2 Wednesday, April 20
Pittsburgh 3, Tampa Bay 2 Oklahoma City 106, Denver 89 NATIONALS ( 7.5 ) Giants
NHL Bucky Aeppli shot a 76 Sunday
Detroit 4, Phoenix 2 San Antonio 93, Memphis 87
Favorite Odds Underdog to finish with a two-day total of
Tuesday, April 19 L.A. Lakers 87, New Orleans 78 BRAVES ( 7.5 ) Brewers
Chicago 7, Vancouver 2 Thursday, April 21 FLYERS -$135/ Bruins 156, placing third overall at the
San Jose 6, Los Angeles 5, OT Chicago 88, Indiana 84 REDS ( 8.5 ) Astros +$115
Wednesday, April 20 Miami 100, Philadelphia 94 CARDS ( 8.5 ) Marlins Tuesday
Freedom Conference Golf
Washington 4, N.Y. Rangers 3, 2OT Portland 97, Dallas 92
Championships at the Hershey
Pittsburgh 3, Tampa Bay 2, 2OT Friday, April 22 PADRES ( 7.0 ) Pirates Canucks -$120/ PREDATORS
Buffalo 1, Philadelphia 0 Boston 113, New York 96
Anaheim 6, Nashville 3 Atlanta 88, Orlando 84
even Country Club.
Detroit 6, Phoenix 3, Detroit wins series 4-0
Thursday, April 21
L.A. Lakers 100, New Orleans 86
Saturday, April 23
Home Teams in Capital Letters Misericordia placed seventh
Boston 5, Montreal 4, OT Indiana 89, Chicago 84 in the team standings with 712.
Chicago 5, Vancouver 0 Portland 84, Dallas 82
San Jose 6, Los Angeles 3 Memphis 91, San Antonio 88
W H AT ’ S O N T V Wilkes’ Matt Kachurak shot a
Oklahoma City 97, Denver 94
Friday, April 22
Buffalo 4, Philadelphia 3 Sunday, April 24 B U L L E T I N B O A R D 78 to end the weekend with a
Nashville 4, Anaheim 3, OT Philadelphia 86, Miami 82 HOCKEY 159, placing him in a sixth-place
Saturday, April 23 Boston 101, New York 89, Boston wins series 4-0
Tampa Bay 8, Pittsburgh 2 Atlanta 88, Orlando 85
New Orleans 93, L.A. Lakers 88
10 a.m.
VERSUS — IIHF World Championship, U.S. vs.
tie with King’s Tom McGrath.
Washington 3, N.Y. Rangers 1, Washington wins GOLF
series 4-1 Monday, April 25 Norway, at Kosice, Slovakia McGrath shot a 79 on Sunday.
Boston 2, Montreal 1, 2OT
Los Angeles 3, San Jose 1
Memphis 104, San Antonio 86
Dallas 93, Portland 82
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Jake Humphreys shot a 166
Denver 104, Oklahoma City 101 7 p.m.
Northeast Gymnastics Academy
Athletic Association golf tourna- for 11th place and T.J. Maderia
Sunday, April 24
Philadelphia 5, Buffalo 4, OT Tuesday, April 26 ESPN — N.Y. Yankees at Detroit
Nashville 4, Anaheim 2, Nashville wins series 4-2
Chicago 4, Vancouver 3, OT
Orlando 101, Atlanta 76
Chicago 116, Indiana 89, Chicago wins series 4-1
10 p.m.
ROOT – Pittsburgh at San Diego
ment will be held May 22 at Blue finished tied for 24th with a 176
Monday, April 25 L.A. Lakers 106, New Orleans 90 Ridge Trail Golf Club in Mountain as the Monarchs finished fifth in
Tampa Bay 4, Pittsburgh 2 Wednesday, April 27 NATIONAL BASKETBALL Top. Registration is from 12:30 to
San Jose 4, Los Angeles 3, OT, San Jose wins se- Miami 97, Philadelphia 91, Miami wins series 4-1 ASSOCIATION 1:15 p.m., with a 1:30 p.m. shotgun
the team standings.
ries 4-2 San Antonio 110, Memphis 103, OT
Tuesday, April 26 Oklahoma City 100, Denver 97, Oklahoma City 8 p.m. start. Dinner and prizes following Michael Turano finished in
TNT — Playoffs, conference semifinals, game 1, At-
Montreal 2, Boston 1
Philadelphia 5, Buffalo 2, Philadelphia wins series
wins series 4-1
Thursday, April 28 lanta at Chicago golf. Dress casual, soft spikes only. 13th place with 169 and Bobby
4-3 Atlanta 84, Orlando 81, Atlanta wins series 4-2 10:30 p.m.
TNT — Playoffs, conference semifinals, game 1,
Win a car with a hole-in-one. Cost Hillbush was 15th with a score
Vancouver 2, Chicago 1, OT, Vancouver wins se- L.A. Lakers 98, New Orleans 80, L.A. Lakers wins is $85 per person. Make checks
ries 4-3 series 4-2 Dallas at L.A. Lakers of 170 for Wilkes. The Colonels
Wednesday, April 27 Dallas 103, Portland 96, Dallas wins series 4-2
NATIONAL HOCKEY payable to NGAAA. Benefits North-
Boston 4, Montreal 3, OT, Boston win series 4-3 Friday, April 29 east Gymnastics Team. For more placed fourth in the team stand-
Tampa Bay 1, Pittsburgh 0, Tampa Bay wins series Memphis 99, San Antonio 91, Memphis wins series LEAGUE information, contact Steve at ings.
4-3 4-2
7:30 p.m.
CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS
VERSUS — Playoffs, conference semifinals, game 261-1981 or sbrecher2000@ya- Misericordia’s Matt Klassner
(Best-of-7) (Best-of-7) hoo.com or Debbie at 606-1270.
Thursday, April 28 Sunday, May 1
2, Boston at Philadelphia shot a 90 in the final round to
Wright Township Police Officers’
Vancouver 1, Nashville 0
Friday, April 29
Memphis 114, Oklahoma City 101, Memphis leads
series 1-0 Association 11th annual golf
tie for 24th with 176.
Tampa Bay 4, Washington 2 Miami 99, Boston 90, Miami leads series 1-0
tournament, May 21 at the Sand
San Jose 2, Detroit 1, OT Monday, May 2
Atlanta at Chicago, 8 p.m.
P O C O N O Springs Golf Club in Drums. Regis- BASEBALL
Saturday, April 30
Boston 7, Philadelphia 3, Boston leads series 1-0 Dallas at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m. D O W N S tration starts at 11 a.m., with a Misericordia sweeps DeSales
Nashville 2, Vancouver 1, 2OT, series tied 1-1 Tuesday, May 3
Sunday, May 1 Boston at Miami, 7 p.m. shotgun start at 1 p.m. The captain- Misericordia defeated De-
Memphis at Oklahoma City, 9:30 p.m. Results
San Jose 2, Detroit 1, San Jose leads series 2-0 and-crew tournament will be
Tampa Bay 3, Washington 2, OT, Tampa Bay leads Wednesday, May 4 Saturday Apr 30, 2011
followed by a buffet dinner, bever- Sales twice and as a result
series 2-0 Atlanta at Chicago, 8 p.m. First - $8,600 Pace 1:53.1
Monday, May 2 Dallas at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m. 6-Hancock (Pa Berry) 14.20 12.80 2.80 ages and the awarding of prizes at clinched the top seed in the
Boston at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 6
Tuesday, May 3 Chicago at Atlanta, 7 p.m.
4-Mountain Air (La Stalbaum) 11.60 5.20
7-Great Balldini (Jo Pavia Jr) 13.20
the clubhouse. Cost is $90 per Freedom Conference playoffs.
Washington at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Dallas, 9:30 p.m. EXACTA (6-4) $144.60 golfer and $360 per foursome with In the first game, the Cougars
Vancouver at Nashville, 9 p.m. Saturday, May 7 TRIFECTA (6-4-7) $4,214.80
Wednesday, May 4 Oklahoma City at Memphis, 5 p.m. SUPERFECTA (6-4-ALL-ALL) $154.80
hole sponsorships starting at $25.
scored four runs in the bottom
Washington at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m. Miami at Boston, 8 p.m. Second - $13,000 Pace 1:52.0 Contact the WTPOA at 474-9251 or
Philadelphia at Boston, 7 p.m. Sunday, May 8 2-Lightning Moon (Ge Napolitano Jr) 5.60 3.60 4.00 srozit89@ptd.net if you are in- of the third en route to a 7-1
San Jose at Detroit, 8 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Dallas, 3:30 p.m. 3-Multiple Choice (La Stalbaum) 5.80 3.40
Thursday, May 5 Chicago at Atlanta, 8 p.m. 7-Sody’s Moonshine (Ro Pierce) 13.20 terested in playing, sponsoring a victory. Michael Impellittiere
Vancouver at Nashville, 8:30 p.m. Monday, May 9
Miami at Boston, 7 p.m.
EXACTA (2-3) $30.60
TRIFECTA (2-3-7) $573.40
hole or providing a gift for a give- had two hits and two RBI while
Friday, May 6 away. The tournament is held each
San Jose at Detroit, 7 p.m. Oklahoma City at Memphis, 9:30 p.m. SUPERFECTA (2-3-7-4) $1,518.80 Jeff Slanovec had two hits and
Philadelphia at Boston, 8 p.m. Tueseday, May 10 DAILY DOUBLE (6-2) $96.60 year to provide for the WTPOA
Saturday, May 7 x-Atlanta at Chicago, TBA Third - $8,600 Pace 1:54.2
Community Service Fund, which scored twice. Joe Tagliarini
x-Dallas at L.A. Lakers, TBA 4-Donnie Bop (La Stalbaum) 3.00 2.60 2.10
x-Tampa Bay at Washington, 12:30 p.m.
Nashville at Vancouver, 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 11 3-Artifact K (Ji Taggart Jr) 6.60 3.20 sponsors a scholarship, youth added two RBI in the win.
6-Kings Road (Ge Napolitano Jr) 2.20
Sunday, May 8 x-Boston at Miami, TBA
x-Memphis at Oklahoma City, TBA EXACTA (4-3) $21.20 sports teams, youth group activ- Misericordia defeated De-
x-Boston at Philadelphia, 3 p.m.
x-Detroit at San Jose, 8 p.m. Thursday, May 12
TRIFECTA (4-3-6) $70.80 ities, along with various other Sales 7-3 in the second game
SUPERFECTA (4-3-6-8) $309.20
Monday, May 9 x-Chicago at Atlanta, TBA WTPOA-sponsored activities.
x-Vancouver at Nashville, TBA x-L.A. Lakers at Dallas, TBA Fourth - $16,000 Pace 1:52.1 behind two hits and an RBI from
2-Lightning Elvis (Ge Napolitano Jr) 2.40 2.20 2.10
x-Washington at Tampa Bay, TBA
Tuesday, May 10
Friday, May 13
x-Miami at Boston, TBA
6-Cole Hard Cash (An Napolitano) 4.60 3.40 MEETINGS Kyle Engebrecht.
1-Caviart Spencer (Br Sears) 4.60
x-Philadelphia at Boston, TBA x-Oklahoma City at Memphis, TBA EXACTA (2-6) $9.20 Misericordia will play King’s
x-San Jose at Detroit, TBA Sunday, May 15 TRIFECTA (2-6-1) $33.80
Wednesday, May 11 x-Atlanta at Chicago, TBA SUPERFECTA (2-6-1-7) $244.80
Crestwood Football Booster Club in the opening round of the
x-Tampa Bay at Washington, TBA x-Dallas at L.A. Lakers, 3:30 p.m. Fifth - $15,000 Trot 1:55.3 will meet at 7 p.m. on May10 at double-elimination Freedom
x-Nashville at Vancouver, TBA x-Memphis at Oklahoma City, TBA
2-Aruba Vacation (Ji Taggart Jr) 8.60 5.80 4.00 King’s Restaurante. For more
Thursday, May 12
x-Boston at Philadelphia, TBA
Monday, May 16
x-Boston at Miami, 8 p.m.
6-Ginger Tree Jimmy (La Stalbaum) 11.00 6.60
information, call Tony at 430-7571. championships next weekend in
5-Whosgoinwhosstayin (Ke Sizer) 7.80
x-Detroit at San Jose, TBA EXACTA (2-6) $62.00 GAR High School Football Booster Boyertown.
TRIFECTA (2-6-5) $1,389.40
N A S C A R SUPERFECTA (2-6-ALL-ALL) $298.00 Club will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in
PICK 3 (4-2-2) $35.60
Sixth - $4,600 Pace 1:54.0
the Choral Room at the high SOFTBALL
AHL Sprint Cup Series 3-Chomp N Stomp (Ge Napolitano Jr) 8.20 3.60 school. Colonels split doubleheader
4.00 Wyoming Valley West Field Hockey
Playoff Glance Crown Royal Presents The Matthew & Daniel
Hansen 400
5-Camwiser (Ma Kakaley) 3.60 2.80
Booster Club will meet at 7 p.m. Amanda Holston had the
All Times EDT 1-Little Rock Spur (Br Sears) 6.20
(x-if necessary) Saturday EXACTA (3-5) $21.60 Tuesday in the Middle School game-winning hit as the Colo-
At Richmond International Raceway TRIFECTA (3-5-1) $130.20
FIRST ROUND
BEST OF 7 (Start position in parentheses) SUPERFECTA (3-5-1-2) $608.00 conference room. All parents are nels defeated Marywood 3-2 in
EASTERN CONFERENCE 1. (20) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 400 laps, 143.1 rating, Seventh - $21,000 Pace 1:52.3 urged to attend. the second game of a double-
48 points, $239,591. 6-Beauty And A Beast (Ma Romano) 17.60 9.20 WVW Wrestling Booster Club will
Portland 4, Connecticut 2
Thursday, April 14: Portland 3, Connecticut 2
2. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 400, 126.7, 43, 5.60
5-Three New Dawns (Br Sears) 9.20 7.80 meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the header. The Pacers won the first
$202,775.
Saturday, April 16: Portland 3, Connecticut 2, OT
Sunday, April 17: Connecticut 3, Portland 1
3. (4) Kasey Kahne, Toyota, 400, 116.2, 42, 4-Thunderfist (Ty Buter) 3.80 middle school. Nominations for contest 6-2.
$154,958. EXACTA (6-5) $336.00
Tuesday, April 19: Connecticut 3, Portland 1
Thursday, April 21: Portland 5, Connecticut 4
4. (27) David Ragan, Ford, 400, 82.7, 40, $129,350. TRIFECTA (6-5-4) $796.60 board members will be accepted at Wilkes had a 1-0 lead in the
5. (8) Carl Edwards, Ford, 400, 99.4, 40, $151,516. SUPERFECTA (6-5-4-3) $1,550.20 this time.
Saturday, April 23: Portland 6, Connecticut 4 6. (3) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 400, 110.5, 39, Eighth - $25,000 Pace 1:49.4 first game, but gave up three
Binghamton 4, Manchester 3
Thursday, April 14: Manchester 2, Binghamton 1
$143,633.
7. (18) A J Allmendinger, Ford, 400, 85.2, 37,
2-Drop Red (Br Sears) 5.00 3.00 2.10
9-J A’s Outlaw (Ge Napolitano Jr) 6.80 6.20 REGISTRATIONS/TRYOUTS
runs in the fourth inning. Jackie
Friday, April 15: Binghamton 4, Manchester 3, OT
Sunday, April 17: Manchester 5, Binghamton 4, OT
$124,411.
8. (30) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 400, 74.9, 36,
4-Dry Gulch (An Miller) 3.00
EXACTA (2-9) $31.20
Follweiler had two hits in the
Tuesday, April 19: Manchester 6, Binghamton 3
Wednesday, April 20: Binghamton 5, Manchester 4,
$133,561. TRIFECTA (2-9-4) $97.60 Greater Nanticoke Area Softball game and an RBI.
9. (31) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 400, 78.8, 35, SUPERFECTA (2-9-4-6) $345.00
OT
Friday, April 22: Binghamton 2, Manchester 1, 2OT
$123,783. Scratched: Real Celebration Booster Club will meet at 6:30 In the second game, Mary-
Saturday, April 23: Binghamton 6, Manchester 5,
10. (37) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 399, 87.8, 34, Ninth - $4,600 Pace 1:53.2 p.m. Tuesday at Time Out Pizza. All wood took a 2-0 lead in the
$108,439. 1-Artsbred Camotion (Ma Kakaley) 4.40 2.80 2.40
OT 11. (9) Joey Logano, Toyota, 399, 76.7, 33, are invited to attend. For more
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 4, Norfolk 2 $89,000.
3-Don’t Tell Barbara (Ty Buter) 6.20 3.00
9-Crazy Character (La Stalbaum) 2.40 information, contact Tammy at third. In the bottom of the third,
Friday, April 15: Norfolk 2, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 1
W L Pct. GB Saturday, April16: Norfolk 2, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
12. (12) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 399, 87.2, 32,
$123,911.
EXACTA (1-3) $20.40
TRIFECTA (1-3-9) $83.40 735-0661, Lynn at 735-8735, Lisa Alysha Bixler hit a two-run
—
2
0
Tuesday, April 19: Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 2, Norfolk
13. (29) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, 399, 63.7, 31,
$93,933.
SUPERFECTA (1-3-9-4) $173.80 at 735-8151, or Patty at 735-3830. home run to tie the score.
PICK 4 (3-6-(2,8)-1 (4 Out of 4)) $297.60
2 1 14. (5) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 399, 99.7, 30, Tenth - $60,000 Pace 1:50.1
Hanover Area Youth Soccer will be With the score tied in the
41⁄2 Wednesday, April 20: Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 4, $83,875. 4-Golden Receiver (An Miller) 18.20 6.40 5.40 holding the second of three regis-
51⁄2
Norfolk 2 15. (23) Greg Biffle, Ford, 399, 84, 29, $90,825. 3-Whiskey Pete (Pa Berry) 4.80 3.60 trations this from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
sixth, Holston drove in Bixler to
Friday, April 22: Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 2, Norfolk 1 16. (25) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 399, 86.4, 29,
7 Saturday, April 23: Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 6, Nor- $82,475.
9-Hypnotic Blue Chip (Br Sears) 6.60
EXACTA (4-3) $76.00 on Thursday at the Hanover Area give Wilkes the lead.
folk 3 17. (2) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 399, 80.3, 27,
W L Pct. GB Charlotte 4, Hershey 2 $99,945.
TRIFECTA (4-3-9) $1,203.40
SUPERFECTA (4-3-9-ALL) $2,391.20
Jr/Sr. High School. Cost is $50 for Bixler shut down Marywood
— Thursday, April 14: Charlotte 5, Hershey 4
Sunday, April 17: Hershey 4, Charlotte 2
18. (17) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 399, 71.4, 26,
$108,239.
Eleventh - $13,000 Pace 1:53.0 one child or $80 for two. in the bottom of the inning for
1
⁄2 5-Zander Massimo (Br Sears) 2.40 2.20 2.20
41⁄2 Tuesday, April 19: Hershey 3, Charlotte 2
Wednesday, April 20: Charlotte 3, Hershey 2
19. (24) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 398, 67.3,
25, $81,200.
6-Pick A Trail (La Stalbaum) 7.80 5.00 the win.
6 3-Pappy (Jo Pavia Jr) 4.20
Friday, April 22: Charlotte 5, Hershey 3 20. (13) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 398, 84, 24, EXACTA (5-6) $24.00
Sunday, April 24: Charlotte 2, Hershey 1, OT $112,625. TRIFECTA (5-6-3) $102.20
W L Pct. GB WESTERN CONFERENCE 21. (33) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 398, 77.5, 24, SUPERFECTA (5-6-3-7) $410.80
$110,286. Bulletin Board items will not be
— Manitoba 4, Lake Erie 3
22. (36) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 397, 57.3, 22, Twelfth - $21,000 Pace 1:51.0 LPGA Tour
3 Saturday, April 16: Lake Erie 6, Manitoba 4
$113,950. 3-Amillionpennies (Ma Romano) 5.00 3.60 3.00 accepted over the telephone. Items
61⁄2 Sunday, April 17: Manitoba 3, Lake Erie 2, OT 5-Mighty Young Joe (St Chiodo) 10.20 7.80 Avnet Classic
121⁄2 Tuesday, April 19: Lake Erie 2, Manitoba 1 23. (35) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 397, 51.7, 21,
6-Bullville Powerful (Ji Taggart Jr) 8.00 may be faxed to 831-7319, emailed to
Thursday, April 21: Lake Erie 6, Manitoba 3 $103,266.
24. (14) Bobby Labonte, Toyota, 397, 58.7, 20, EXACTA (3-5) $47.40 tlsports@timesleader.com or dropped Scores
Friday, April 22: Manitoba 2, Lake Erie 0 TRIFECTA (3-5-6) $423.80 Sunday
$98,420.
Sunday, April 24: Manitoba 3, Lake Erie 1
25. (39) David Gilliland, Ford, 397, 50, 19, $86,583. SUPERFECTA (3-5-6-1) $1,370.20 off at the Times Leader or mailed to At Magnolia Grove-Crossings Course
Tuesday, April 26: Manitoba 4, Lake Erie 1 PICK 3 (4-5-3) $113.00
Hamilton 4, Oklahoma City 2
26. (41) Andy Lally, Ford, 397, 44, 18, $81,100.
Thirteenth - $19,000 Trot 1:56.0
Times Leader, c/o Sports, 15 N, Main Mobile, Ala.
27. (21) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 397, 92.6, 18, Final Round
Thursday, April 14: Hamilton 5, Oklahoma City 2 $79,350. 5-Blazing Winner (Ge Napolitano Jr) 7.40 3.80 2.60 St., Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711-0250.
Saturday, April 16: Hamilton 2, Oklahoma City 1 Maria Hjorth, $195,000 ..............70-74-67-67—278
28. (15) Casey Mears, Toyota, 396, 52.9, 16, 6-Berto Keven (Ro Pierce) 3.60 2.60 Song-Hee Kim , $118,921 .........67-72-70-71—280
Tuesday, April 19: Oklahoma City 2, Hamilton 0 $71,850. 3-Luv Ya Tyler (Pa Berry) 5.00
Wednesday, April 20: Oklahoma City 5, Hamilton 2 EXACTA (5-6) $17.20 Na Yeon Choi, $76,502..............69-72-71-69—281
29. (1) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 395, 77, 16, Suzann Pettersen, $76,502 .......72-68-71-70—281
Friday, April 22: Hamilton 2, Oklahoma City 0 $120,633. TRIFECTA (5-6-3) $63.00
Sunday, April 24: Hamilton 4, Oklahoma City 1 Stacy Lewis, $53,715 .................68-71-74-69—282
30. (28) Travis Kvapil, Ford, 395, 46.8, 0, $83,708. SUPERFECTA (5-6-3-4) $223.20
Houston 4, Peoria 0
Wednesday, April 13: Houston 4, Peoria 1
31. (19) David Reutimann, Toyota, 395, 68.7, 13, Scratched: Zero Boundaries G O L F Katherine Hull, $37,655..............72-71-71-69—283
Hee Kyung Seo, $37,655...........73-74-65-71—283
$98,108. Fourteenth - $8,600 Pace 1:52.2
Friday, April 15: Houston 3, Peoria 2, OT 32. (38) Ken Schrader, Ford, 394, 35.6, 12, 2-Adams Mate A (Ge Napolitano Jr) 5.80 3.00 2.60 Amy Yang, $37,655.....................70-68-72-73—283
Monday, April 18: Houston 5, Peoria 3 $76,822. 1-The Real Dan (Br Sears) 5.20 3.20 PGA Tour Shanshan Feng, $25,636...........72-71-73-68—284
Sandra Gal, $25,636 ..................70-67-75-72—284
Tuesday, April 19: Houston 2, Peoria 1 33. (43) Tony Raines, Ford, 393, 31.1, 11, $68,100. 3-Cole Combustion (Ro Pierce) 3.20
Milwaukee 4, Texas 2 EXACTA (2-1) $27.00 Zurich Classic of New Orleans Paige Mackenzie, $25,636 ........70-71-71-72—284
34. (16) David Stremme, Chevrolet, 393, 40.5, 10,
Thursday, April 14: Milwaukee 5, Texas 2 $67,025. TRIFECTA (2-1-3) $78.60 Par Scores Karen Stupples, $25,636 ...........68-71-72-73—284
Mindy Kim, $20,096....................73-68-76-68—285
Saturday, April 16: Texas 3, Milwaukee 1 35. (42) Robby Gordon, Dodge, 393, 30.7, 9, SUPERFECTA (2-1-3-4) $133.40 Sunday
Tuesday, April 19: Texas 3, Milwaukee 2, OT $66,900. Fifteenth - $21,000 Pace 1:51.0 At TPC of Louisiana Christina Kim, $20,096...............70-71-72-72—285
Angela Stanford, $20,096 ..........74-70-68-73—285
Wednesday, April 20: Milwaukee 3, Texas 2 36. (7) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 388, 62.7, 8, 5-Clear Vision (Ro Pierce) 8.00 4.00 3.00 Avondale, La.
Friday, April 22: Milwaukee 2, Texas 1, OT $75,025. 4-Jeremy’s Successor (Se Bier) 4.00 2.80 Morgan Pressel, $16,972...........72-70-74-70—286
Final Round
Monday, April 25: Milwaukee 3, Texas 2, 2OT 37. (10) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 385, 53.3, 7, 1-Drive All Night (An Napolitano) 4.00 Stephanie Sherlock, $16,972 ....71-74-71-70—286
(x-won on second playoff hole) Jennifer Song, $16,972..............74-73-69-70—286
DIVISION FINALS $66,625. EXACTA (5-4) $16.00
38. (34) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 360, 40.9, 0, x-Bubba Watson (500), Jessica Korda, $14,715 .............75-69-73-70—287
BEST OF 7 TRIFECTA (5-4-1) $84.20
$66,500. SUPERFECTA (5-4-1-3) $435.60 $1,152,000 .............................66-68-70-69—273-15 Juli Inkster, $14,715 ...................71-72-70-74—287
EASTERN CONFERENCE Webb Simpson (300),
39. (6) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, accident, 300, 97.6, Sixteenth - $18,000 Pace 1:53.0 Anna Nordqvist, $14,715 ...........73-72-68-74—287
Binghamton 2, Portland 1 $691,200 ................................68-69-67-69—273-15
6, $103,536. 2-Best Boss (Mi Lachance) 11.60 5.60 2.80 Lexi Thompson, $14,715 ...........71-71-67-78—287
Wednesday, April 27: Binghamton 3, Portland 2 40. (22) Michael McDowell, Toyota, electrical, 134, Jason Dufner (145), Chella Choi, $11,553..................73-70-77-68—288
Thursday, April 28: Binghamton 5, Portland 3 6-Personal Ad (Br Sears) 3.00 2.40
34.9, 4, $66,200. 3-Flirtwithedealer (Ro Pierce) 4.00 $332,800 ................................68-69-72-66—275-13 Haeji Kang, $11,553 ...................72-71-74-71—288
Saturday, April 30: Portland 3, Binghamton 2 41. (32) Mike Skinner, Toyota, rear gear, 61, 29.4, 0,
Monday, May 2: Portland at Binghamton, 7:05 p.m. EXACTA (2-6) $33.80 Tommy Gainey (145), Alena Sharp, $11,553 ................72-69-76-71—288
$66,050. TRIFECTA (2-6-3) $157.60 $332,800 ................................67-71-68-69—275-13 Heather Bowie Young, $11,553 72-73-72-71—288
Tuesday, May 3: Portland at Binghamton, 7:05 p.m. 42. (26) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, brakes, 40, 27, 0,
x-Friday, May 6: Binghamton at Portland, 7 p.m. SUPERFECTA (2-6-3-5) $620.40 K.J. Choi (145), $332,800 ....68-71-67-69—275-13 Lorie Kane, $11,553 ...................72-73-71-72—288
$65,925. LATE DOUBLE (5-2) $83.00 Matt Jones (95), $222,400 ...66-71-69-70—276-12 Jimin Kang, $11,553 ...................73-69-73-73—288
x-Saturday, May 7: Binghamton at Portland, 7 p.m. 43. (40) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, electrical, 38, 25.9, 1,
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 1, Charlotte 1 Total Handle-$356,279 George McNeill (95), Cristie Kerr, $11,553 ..................76-70-69-73—288
$66,293. Grace Park, $11,553 ..................67-75-72-74—288
Thursday, April 28: Charlotte 3, Wilkes-Barre/ $222,400 ................................71-70-65-70—276-12
Race Statistics Billy Mayfair (75), $172,800 .69-70-72-67—278-10 Sun Young Yoo, $11,553...........72-68-74-74—288
Scranton 2 Average Speed of Race Winner: 95.280 mph.
Saturday, April 30: Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 3, Char- David Mathis (75), $172,80070-68-72-68—278-10 Ryann O’Toole, $8,698 ..............73-74-73-69—289
ab r h bi lotte 0
Time of Race: 3 hours, 8 minutes, 55 seconds.
Margin of Victory: 1.805 seconds.
T R A N S A C T I O N S Andres Romero (75), Kristy McPherson, $8,698 .........76-70-72-71—289
Monday, May 2: Wilkes-Barre/Scranton at Char- $172,800 ................................72-71-67-68—278-10 Maria Hernandez, $8,698 ..........73-72-70-74—289
5 0 0 0 Caution Flags: 8 for 60 laps. Karin Sjodin, $8,698 ...................74-71-70-74—289
lotte, 7 p.m.
5 1 2 2 Wednesday, May 4: Wilkes-Barre/Scranton at Char-
Lead Changes: 14 among 10 drivers. BASEBALL Luke Donald (75), $172,800 68-71-70-69—278-10
Greg Chalmers (75), Sarah Kemp, $8,698 ..................70-70-74-75—289
3 0 1 0 Lap Leaders: J.Montoya 1-25;C.Bowyer Stacy Prammanasudh, $6,420..70-75-76-69—290
lotte, 7 p.m. 26-43;K.Kahne 44-72;D.Hamlin 73-89;Ky.Busch Major League $172,800 ................................72-69-67-70—278-10
3 0 0 0 Friday, May 6: Wilkes-Barre/Scranton at Charlotte, Haru Nomura, $6,420.................73-71-76-70—290
4 0 1 0 90-199;J.Gordon 200-203;Ky.Busch Baseball John Senden (58), Wendy Ward, $6,420..................75-72-73-70—290
7 p.m. 204-238;D.Hamlin 239-245;M.Truex Jr. MLB—Susupended Atlanta pitching coach Roger
4 0 0 0 x-Saturday, May 7: Charlotte at Wilkes-Barre/Scran- $123,733 ................................70-67-71-71—279 -9 Karrie Webb, $6,420 ..................77-69-73-71—290
2 1 1 1 246-257;M.Kenseth 258-273;D.Hamlin McDowell two weeks and fined him an undisclosed Steve Stricker (58), Laura Davies, $6,420 .................72-72-74-72—290
ton, 7:05 p.m. 274-287;Ky.Busch 288-293;C.Edwards amount following allegations he made homophobic
x-Monday, May 9: Charlotte at Wilkes-Barre/Scran- $123,733 ................................70-68-68-73—279 -9 Candie Kung, $6,420..................72-70-75-73—290
4 1 1 0 294-304;J.Burton 305-316;Ky.Busch 317-400. comments and crude gestures toward fans before Charles Howell III (58),
ton, 7:05 p.m. Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): an April 23 game in San Francisco. Jee Young Lee, $6,420 ..............73-72-71-74—290
$123,733 ................................68-72-66-73—279 -9 Beatriz Recari, $6,420 ................73-72-71-74—290
34 3 6 3 WESTERN CONFERENCE Ky.Busch, 4 times for 235 laps;D.Hamlin, 3 times American League
Hamilton 2, Manitoba 0 for 38 laps;K.Kahne, 1 time for 29 laps;J.Montoya, 1 Charlie Wi (55), $105,600 ....70-70-71-69—280 -8 Brittany Lincicome, $6,420 ........71-73-71-75—290
NEW YORK YANKEES—Announced RHP Kevin Josh Teater (55), $105,600..69-66-74-71—280 -8 Se Ri Pak, $6,420 .......................69-71-75-75—290
Thursday, April 28: Hamilton 4, Manitoba 1 time for 25 laps;C.Bowyer, 1 time for 18 laps;M.Ken- Millwood has opted out of his contract.
Sunday, May 1: Hamilton 4, Manitoba 2 seth, 1 time for 16 laps;J.Burton, 1 time for 12 Cameron Tringale (53), Brittany Lang, $4,541..................72-73-78-68—291
National League $92,800...................................72-67-72-70—281 -7 Jin Young Pak, $4,541 ...............73-73-75-70—291
Tuesday, May 3: Hamilton at Manitoba, 8:30 p.m. laps;M.Truex Jr., 1 time for 12 laps;C.Edwards, 1 LOS ANGELES DODGERS—Activated LHP
Wednesday, May 4: Hamilton at Manitoba, 8:30 time for 11 laps;J.Gordon, 1 time for 4 laps. David Toms (53), $92,800 ...70-71-67-73—281 -7 Dori Carter, $4,541 .....................72-73-75-71—291
Hong-Chih Kuo from the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP M.J. Hur, $4,541..........................74-73-72-72—291
p.m. Top 12 in Points: 1. C.Edwards, 335;2. J.Johnson, Kenley Jansen to Chattanooga (SL). Ben Crane (49), $69,333......69-73-71-69—282 -6
x-Friday, May 6: Hamilton at Manitoba, 8:30 p.m. 326;3. Ky.Busch, 305;4. D.Earnhardt Jr., 301;5. Brandt Jobe (49), $69,333 ...71-71-69-71—282 -6 Angela Oh, $4,541......................69-77-72-73—291
3 3 3 4 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS—Placed 3B Pablo
x-Sunday, May 8: Manitoba at Hamilton, 7:30 p.m. K.Harvick, 300;6. Ku.Busch, 289;7. C.Bowyer, Sandoval on the 15-day DL. Called up 3B Ryan Hunter Haas (49), $69,333 ..69-71-70-72—282 -6 Mi Hyun Kim, $4,541 ..................73-70-74-74—291
0 1 1 x-Monday, May 9: Manitoba at Hamilton, 7:30 p.m. 284;8. R.Newman, 277;9. M.Kenseth, 276;10. Nick Watney (49), $69,333...71-68-71-72—282 -6 Mhairi McKay , $4,541................74-72-71-74—291
0 2 1 Rohlinger from Fresno (PCL).
Milwaukee 1, Houston 1 T.Stewart, 275;11. A.Allmendinger, 263;12. J.Mon- Nick O’Hern (49), $69,333 ...67-72-70-73—282 -6 Pornanong Phatlum, $4,541 ......74-72-71-74—291
0 0 0 0 Eastern League Cindy LaCrosse, $3,841 ............73-74-73-72—292
0 0 1 0 Friday, April 29: Milwaukee 3, Houston 1 toya, 262. TRENTON THUNDER—Announced C Jose Gil Joe Durant (49), $69,333 .....67-72-68-75—282 -6
Sunday, May 1: Houston 2, Milwaukee 0 NASCAR Driver Rating Formula was assigned to the team from Scranton/Wilkes- Chris DiMarco (39), Dewi Claire Schreefel, $3,841 ..72-72-75-73—292
1 1 3 7 Tuesday, May 3: Milwaukee at Houston, 8:05 p.m. A maximum of 150 points can be attained in a race. Barre (IL). $39,269...................................72-68-75-68—283 -5 Karine Icher, $3,516 ...................75-71-75-72—293
0 0 0 0 Thursday, May 5: Milwaukee at Houston, 8:05 p.m. The formula combines the following categories: Keegan Bradley (39), Kris Tamulis, $3,516...................75-70-76-72—293
1 2 0 Friday, May 6: Milwaukee at Houston, 8:35 p.m. Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running COLLEGE $39,269...................................73-70-72-68—283 -5 Natalie Gulbis, $3,516 ................74-70-76-73—293
1 4 3 x-Sunday, May 8: Houston at Milwaukee, 6 p.m. x- Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Gerina Piller, $3,190...................73-74-75-72—294
Tuesday, May 10: Houston at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. GEORGE MASON—Named Paul Hewitt men’s
0 0 1 Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Fin- basketball coach.
ish.
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N AT I O N A L L E A G U E R O U N D U P
STANDINGS/STATS
Paulino lifts Mets S TA N D I N G S
AMERICAN LEAGUE
N L B O X E S
Pirates 8, Rockies 4
Cousins ph
Choate p
Hensly p
Sanchs p
LNunez p
1 0 0 0 Hermid ph
0 0 0 0 Masset p
0 0 0 0 Fisher p
0 0 0 0 Heisey ph
0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
1 0 1 2

to win over Phils

East Division Totals 36 911 9 Totals 35 5 9 5
W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Pittsburgh Colorado
New York ....................................... 16 9 .640 — — 7-3 W-2 12-6 4-3 ab r h bi ab r h bi Florida ................................ 210 000 240 — 9
Tampa Bay..................................... 15 13 .536 21⁄2 1 6-4 L-1 7-9 8-4 AMcCt cf 6 1 2 1 Fowler cf 4 1 2 2 Cincinnati ........................... 200 001 002 — 5
Baltimore........................................ 13 13 .500 31⁄2 2 6-4 W-3 7-8 6-5 Paul lf 4 1 2 2 Amezg 2b 4 0 1 0 DP—Florida 1, Cincinnati 1. LOB—Florida 4, Cin-
Toronto........................................... 13 15 .464 41⁄2 3 5-5 L-2 6-5 7-10 GJones rf 4 0 2 3 Helton 1b 5 0 2 1 cinnati 7. 2B—Janish (5), Arroyo (2), Heisey (2).
Boston ............................................ 12 15 .444 5 31⁄2 6-4 W-1 6-6 6-9 Walker 2b 5 0 0 0 Tlwtzk ss 4 0 1 0 HR—H.Ramirez (1), Stanton (3), Dobbs (2), J.Buck
Overay 1b 5 1 2 0 CGnzlz lf 3 0 1 0 (3), Bonifacio (1), Bruce (5), Phillips (4). SB—
Central Division Doumit c 3 1 0 0 S.Smith rf 4 2 1 0 Stubbs (10). S—Nolasco.
W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Alvarez 3b 4 2 2 0 JoLopz 3b 4 0 0 0 IP H R ER BB SO
The Associated Press a three-run homer before being Cleveland....................................... 19 8 .704 — — 7-3 W-6 13-2 6-6 Cedeno ss 2 2 1 1 Iannett c 2 1 0 0 Florida
Kansas City ................................... 15 13 .536 41⁄2 1 4-6 W-3 12-5 3-8 Beimel p 0 0 0 0 Jimenz p 1 0 0 0
PHILADELPHIA — Ronny taken to the hospital to have Detroit............................................. 12 16 .429 71⁄2 4 4-6 L-6 6-6 6-10 Veras p 0 0 0 0 Splrghs ph 1 0 1 1
Nolasco W,3-0 ........
Choate ...................... 2⁄3
7 6
0
3
0
3
0
1
0
5
1
Chicago.......................................... 10 19 .345 10 61⁄2 2-8 L-5 4-9 6-10
Paulino had a career-high five X-rays on his ribcage, and Bud Minnesota ...................................... 9 18 .333 10 61⁄2 3-7 L-6 4-6 5-12
Diaz ph
Hanrhn p
1
0
0
0
0 0
0 0
Rogers p
FMorls p
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
Hensley .................... 1⁄3
Sanches ................... 1⁄3
0
3
0
2
0
2
0
1
0
0
hits in his first start for the Norris combined with three W L
West Division
Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away
Morton p
Crotta p
2
0
0
0
0 1
0 0
Herrer ph
Lndstr p
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
L.Nunez S,9-9 ......... 2⁄3
Cincinnati
0 0 0 1 1

Mets, including a go-ahead relievers on a three-hitter in Los Angeles .................................. 16 12 .571 — — 4-6 W-1 6-7 10-5 BrWod ss 2 0 1 0 MtRynl p
JMorls ph
0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0
Arroyo L,3-3............. 7 7 5 5 2 3
Texas ............................................. 16 12 .571 — — 5-5 L-1 11-5 5-7 Masset...................... 1 3 4 4 1 0
double in the 14th inning, and the Houston Astros’ win over Oakland.......................................... 14 14 .500 2 2 5-5 W-1 6-6 8-8 FPauln p 0 0 0 0 Fisher ....................... 1 1 0 0 0 1
Seattle ............................................ 13 16 .448 31⁄2 31⁄2 7-3 L-1 5-8 8-8 Totals 38 812 8 Totals 33 4 9 4 HBP—by Nolasco (Stubbs).
New York beat the Philadelphia the Milwaukee Brewers. NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh .......................... 040 040 000 — 8 Umpires—Home, Angel Hernandez;First, Paul
Schrieber;Second, Chad Fairchild;Third, Joe
Phillies 2-1 Sunday night after Jeff Fulchino, Fernando Abad East Division Colorado ............................ 001 102 000 — 4
DP—Pittsburgh 3. LOB—Pittsburgh 11, Colorado West.
W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away
news of Osama bin Laden’s and Mark Melancon combined Philadelphia................................... 18 9 .667 — — 7-3 L-1 9-5 9-4 9. 2B—G.Jones (2), Fowler (10), C.Gonzalez (5).
3B—Paul (1). SB—A.McCutchen (4), Paul (1). SF—
T—2:53. A—26,941 (42,319).
Florida ............................................ 17 9 .654 1
⁄2 — 7-3 W-1 10-5 7-4
death had fans at Citizens for 1 1-3 hitless innings after Atlanta ............................................ 14 15 .483 5 41⁄2 6-4 W-1 5-7 9-8 Morton.
Washington ................................... 13 14 .481 5 41⁄2 4-6 W-1 8-7 5-7 IP H R ER BB SO
Bank Park chanting “U-S-A! Norris (2-1) left after 7 2-3 New York ....................................... 12 16 .429 6 ⁄2
1
6 7-3 W-1 5-8 7-8 Pittsburgh
Nationals 5, Giants 2
Morton W,3-1 .......... 51⁄3 7 4 4 5 1
U-S-A!” innings to hand Milwaukee its Central Division Crotta........................ 0 1 0 0 1 0 San Francisco Washington
W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Beimel H,3 ............... 12⁄3 0 0 0 1 2 ab r h bi ab r h bi
Taylor Buchholz (1-0), one of first shutout of the season. St. Louis ......................................... 16 12 .571 — — 7-3 L-1 6-6 10-6 Veras ........................ 1 0 0 0 0 2 Rownd cf 4 0 0 0 HrstnJr 3b-lf 4 0 0 1
Cincinnati ....................................... 14 14 .500 2 4 5-5 L-1 8-8 6-6
six Mets pitchers used, pitched Milwaukee...................................... 13 14 .481 21⁄2 41⁄2 4-6 L-2 8-5 5-9
Hanrahan..................
Colorado
1 1 0 0 0 0 FSnchz 2b
Posey c
4
3
0
0
1 0
2 0
Ankiel cf
Werth rf
3
4
1
0
1 0
3 0
two scoreless innings in relief Pirates 8, Rockies 4 Pittsburgh ......................................
Chicago..........................................
13
12
15
15
.464
.444
3
31⁄2
5
51⁄2
5-5
3-7
W-1
L-1
4-8
6-8
9-7
6-7
Jimenez L,0-2.......... 4 6 4 4 4 6 Ford pr 0 0 0 0 L.Nix lf 3 1 1 0
Rogers...................... 1 4 4 4 2 1 Espinos
to help New York snap a three- DENVER — Charlie Morton Houston ......................................... 11 17 .393 5 7 4-6 W-2 7-9 4-8 F.Morales.................
Lindstrom .................
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
2
Whitsd c 0 0 0 0 ph-2b 0 1 0 0
West Division Burrell lf 3 0 0 0 AdLRc 1b 2 0 0 0
game losing streak and salvage pitched into the sixth inning W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Mat.Reynolds........... 1 1 0 0 0 1 Huff 1b 3 0 0 0 Dsmnd ss 4 1 1 0
Colorado ........................................ 17 9 .654 — — 5-5 L-1 7-6 10-3 F.Paulino .................. 1 1 0 0 0 1 Tejada 3b 4 1 1 0 IRdrgz c 4 1 2 2
a game in the series. for his third win, Garrett Jones Los Angeles .................................. 14 15 .483 41⁄2 41⁄2 5-5 L-2 8-7 6-8 Crotta pitched to 2 batters in the 6th. Fontent ss 4 1 2 0 Cora 2b-3b 4 0 2 1
San Francisco ............................... 13 14 .481 41⁄2 41⁄2 3-7 L-1 4-5 9-9 WP—Jimenez 3. Schrhlt rf 4 0 1 2 Zmrmn p 1 0 0 0
Kyle Kendrick (1-2), one of had two hits and three RBIs Arizona........................................... 12 15 .444 51⁄2 51⁄2 4-6 W-1 8-8 4-7 Umpires—Home, Mark Carlson;First, Tim Tim- Cain p 2 0 0 0 Bixler ph 1 0 0 0
mons;Second, Jeff Kellogg;Third, Eric Cooper.
six Philadelphia pitchers, and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat San Diego ...................................... 11 17 .393 7 7 3-7 W-2 4-11 7-6
T—3:24. A—35,012 (50,490).
Burriss ph
Mota p
1 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
Clipprd p
SBurntt p
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
pitched three innings and al- the Colorado Rockies. AMERICAN LEAGUE
Saturday's Games
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Saturday's Games
Runzler p
C.Ross ph
0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0
Storen p 0 0 0 0

lowing four hits. Xavier Paul, Andrew Tampa Bay 2, L.A. Angels 1, 10 innings Philadelphia 2, N.Y. Mets 1 Astros 5, Brewers 0 Totals 33 2 7 2 Totals 30 510 4
Texas 11, Oakland 2 St. Louis 3, Atlanta 2 Milwaukee Houston San Francisco.................... 020 000 000 — 2
The game took 4 hours, 44 McCutchen, Lyle Overbay and N.Y. Yankees 5, Toronto 4 San Francisco 2, Washington 1 ab r h bi ab r h bi Washington ....................... 011 100 02x — 5
Cleveland 3, Detroit 2, 13 innings Houston 2, Milwaukee 1 Weeks 2b 4 0 0 0 Bourgs cf-lf 4 1 2 0
minutes. Pedro Alvarez also had two hits Baltimore 6, Chicago White Sox 2 Cincinnati 4, Florida 3, 10 innings CGomz cf 3 0 0 0 AngSnc ss 4 0 0 0
E—Schierholtz (1). DP—San Francisco 1. LOB—
San Francisco 7, Washington 6. 2B—Fontenot 2
The “U-S-A!” chants started each for the Pirates, who took Kansas City 11, Minnesota 2
Seattle 2, Boston 0
Chicago Cubs 5, Arizona 3
Colorado 4, Pittsburgh 1
Braun lf
Fielder 1b
3
4
0
0
0 0
1 0
Pence rf
Ca.Lee lf
4 1 1 0
3 2 2 3
(4), Schierholtz (2), Cora (2). SB—Espinosa (2),
Desmond (10). CS—Ford (3). S—Zimmermann.
in the top of the ninth inning of two of three in the series. Sunday's Games
Cleveland 5, Detroit 4
San Diego 5, L.A. Dodgers 2
Sunday's Games
McGeh 3b
Kotsay rf
4
4
0
0
0 0
1 0
Bourn cf
Wallac 1b
1 0 1 0
4 0 1 0 San Francisco
IP H R ER BB SO

the game and picked up in Colorado ace Ubaldo Jime- N.Y. Yankees 5, Toronto 2 Washington 5, San Francisco 2 YBtncr ss 3 0 0 0 Hall 2b 4 0 1 1 Cain L,2-2 ................ 6 7 3 3 3 5
Boston 3, Seattle 2 Atlanta 6, St. Louis 5 Lucroy c 2 0 1 0 MDwns 3b 3 1 0 0 Mota.......................... 1 1 0 0 0 0
intensity throughout the in- nez (0-2) struggled again and L.A. Angels 6, Tampa Bay 5 Houston 5, Milwaukee 0 Narvsn p 1 0 0 0 Quinter c 3 0 1 0 Runzler..................... 1 2 2 2 1 2
Baltimore 6, Chicago White Sox 4 Pittsburgh 8, Colorado 4 Mitre p 0 0 0 0 Norris p 3 0 0 0 Washington
ning. his ERA rose to 7.20 through Kansas City 10, Minnesota 3 Arizona 4, Chicago Cubs 3 Counsll ph 1 0 0 0 Fulchin p 0 0 0 0 Zimmermann W,2-4 6 6 2 2 2 4
Brddck p 0 0 0 0 Abad p 0 0 0 0 Clippard H,7 ............ 12⁄3 0 0 0 1 3
four starts. Oakland 7, Texas 2
Monday's Games
Florida 9, Cincinnati 5
San Diego 7, L.A. Dodgers 0 Melncn p 0 0 0 0 S.Burnett H,2........... 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0
Braves 6, Cardinals 5 Texas (Holland 3-1) at Oakland (McCarthy 1-2), N.Y. Mets 2, Philadelphia 1, 14 innings Totals 29 0 3 0 Totals 33 5 9 4 Storen S,5-5 ............ 1 1 0 0 0 0
3:35 p.m. Monday's Games Milwaukee.......................... 000 000 000 — 0 WP—Cain, Zimmermann.
ATLANTA — Brooks Con- Diamondbacks 4, Cubs 3 N.Y. Yankees (Colon 2-1) at Detroit (Verlander 2-3), San Francisco (Bumgarner 0-4) at Washington Houston.............................. 010 003 10x — 5 Umpires—Home, Rob Drake;First, Gary Darling-
7:05 p.m. (Gorzelanny 0-2), 7:05 p.m. E—Mitre (1), McGehee (3). DP—Milwaukee 1. ;Second, Bruce Dreckman;Third, Paul Emmel.
rad recaptured his pinch-hit PHOENIX — Daniel Hudson L.A. Angels (Weaver 6-0) at Boston (C.Buchholz Houston (Happ 1-4) at Cincinnati (Leake 3-0), 7:10 LOB—Milwaukee 6, Houston 4. 2B—Kotsay (2). T—2:45. A—21,611 (41,506).
1-3), 7:10 p.m. p.m. HR—Ca.Lee (3). SB—Bourgeois (8). S—Narve-
magic of 2010, driving in the pitched seven solid innings and Baltimore (Guthrie 1-3) at Chicago White Sox Milwaukee (Gallardo 2-1) at Atlanta (Jurrjens 2-0), son. Mets 2, Phillies 1
IP H R ER BB SO
winning run in the ninth in- the Arizona Diamondbacks (Buehrle 1-3), 8:10 p.m.
Tuesday's Games
7:10 p.m.
Florida (Volstad 2-1) at St. Louis (Lohse 4-1), 8:15 Milwaukee New York Philadelphia
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ning to give the Atlanta Braves took advantage of some key Toronto at Tampa Bay, 6:40 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees at Detroit, 7:05 p.m.
p.m.
Pittsburgh (Ja.McDonald 1-2) at San Diego (Harang
Narveson L,1-2 .......
Mitre..........................
6
1
7
1
4
1
4
0
0
0
7
2 JosRys ss 6 0 2 0 Victorn cf 5 0 1 0
Turner 2b 3 0 0 0 Polanc 3b 6 0 1 0
a 6-5 win over the St. Louis mistakes by the Chicago Cubs L.A. Angels at Boston, 7:10 p.m. 4-1), 10:05 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (J.Russell 1-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Ker-
Braddock..................
Houston
1 1 0 0 0 3
DnMrp ph-2b 3 0 0 0 Rollins ss 4 0 0 0
Baltimore at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m. DWrght 3b 6 2 3 0 Howard 1b 5 0 1 1
Cardinals on Sunday. in a victory. Minnesota at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m. shaw 2-3), 10:10 p.m. Norris W,2-1 ............ 72⁄3
Fulchino ................... 1
⁄3
3
0
0
0
0
0
3 11
0 0 Beltran rf 6 0 1 1 BFrncs rf 4 0 1 0
Cleveland at Oakland, 10:05 p.m. Tuesday's Games
Conrad, who had three Texas at Seattle, 10:10 p.m. Washington at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m. Abad ......................... 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Bay lf
I.Davis 1b
6 0 1 0 Ibanez lf
6 0 0 0 Madson p
4 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
Melancon ................. 2⁄3 0 0 0 0 1
homers — including two grand Padres 7, Dodgers 0 Houston at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.
Umpires—Home, Adrian Johnson;First, Jim Joyce- RPauln c 7 0 5 1 Sardinh c 2 0 0 0
Milwaukee at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m. Hairstn cf 3 0 1 0 Orr 2b 5 0 1 0
;Second, Ron Kulpa;Third, Derryl Cousins.
slams — and drove in 12 runs LOS ANGELES — Dustin San Francisco at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.
Florida at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m. T—2:47. A—23,908 (40,963). Pridie cf 3 0 1 0 Schndr c 4 0 2 0
CYoung p 2 0 0 0 Mrtnz pr 0 0 0 0
as a pinch-hitter last season, hit Moseley pitched seven shutout Colorado at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.
Pittsburgh at San Diego, 10:05 p.m.
Hu ph 1 0 0 0 Baez p 0 0 0 0
Isrnghs p 0 0 0 0 WValdz ph 1 0 0 0
a bloop single to center off innings for his first victory of Chicago Cubs at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m. Braves 6, Cardinals 5 Byrdak p 0 0 0 0 Kndrck p 0 0 0 0
FRdrgz p 0 0 0 0 Hamels ph 1 0 0 0
Ryan Franklin to drive in Alex 2011, Brad Hawpe doubled his St. Louis
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Atlanta
ab r h bi
Harris ph 1 0 0 0 Cl.Lee p 2 0 0 0
Beato p 0 0 0 0 Stutes p 0 0 0 0
Gonzalez from second base. RBI total for the season with a Punto 2b 2 1 1 0 Prado lf 4 0 1 1 Thole ph 1 0 0 0 Bastrd p 0 0 0 0
two-run single, and the San A L B O X E S IP H R ER BB SO
Descals
2b-3b-2b 2 0 0 0 Heywrd rf 4 0 0 0
TBchlz p 1 0 0 0 Mayrry ph-lf 3 1 0 0
Seattle Totals 55 214 2 Totals 46 1 7 1
Nationals 5, Giants 2 Diego Padres beat the Los F.Hernandez............ 7 6 2 2 1 10
Rasms cf 4 1 1 0 C.Jones 3b 4 0 0 0 New York ......... 000 010 000 000 01 — 2
Yankees 5, Blue Jays 2 J.Wright L,0-1.......... 12⁄3 2 1 1 0 1
Pujols 1b-3b 4 0 1 1 McCnn c 4 1 1 0
Philadelphia ..... 000 000 010 000 00 — 1
WASHINGTON — Jordan Angeles Dodgers 7-0 on Sun- Toronto New York Boston
Hollidy lf
Brkmn rf
3
4
2
0
2
2
2
1
Uggla 2b
AlGnzlz ss
4 1 1 0
4 2 1 2 E—Orr (1). LOB—New York 19, Philadelphia 11.
ab r h bi ab r h bi Wakefield ................. 52⁄3 3 1 1 1 3 2B—Jos.Reyes (9), Beltran (9), R.Paulino (1), Pri-
Zimmermann allowed two day. RDavis cf 3 1 1 0 Jeter ss 3 1 0 0 Jenks BS,2-2 ........... 1⁄3 1 1 1 3 0
Freese 3b
Greene 2b
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Mather 1b
McLoth cf
2 2 0 0
3 0 1 0 die (1), Schneider (1). SB—Jos.Reyes 2 (10),
Albers ....................... 2 0 0 0 0 1
runs over six innings to end his Andre Ethier extended his YEscor ss
Bautist rf
5
2
0
0
0 0
0 1
Grndrs cf
Teixeir 1b
4 1 2 3
4 1 1 1 Papelbon W,1-0 ...... 1 0 0 0 0 1
Jay ph 0 0 0 0 D.Lowe p 1 0 0 0 D.Wright (6), Pridie (1). CS—Rollins (1), B.Francis-
co (3). S—C.Young, Victorino.
Frnkln p 0 0 0 0 Hicks ph 1 0 1 1
three-game losing streak and hitting streak to 27 games. CPttrsn pr-lf
Lind 1b
0
4
0
1
0 0
2 1
AlRdrg 3b
Cano 2b
4 0 0 0
3 0 1 0
WP—F.Hernandez, Jenks.
Umpires—Home, Todd Tichenor;First, Gerry Da-
YMolin c 3 0 1 1 Linernk p 0 0 0 0
New York
IP H R ER BB SO
Theriot ss 4 0 0 0 Sherrill p 0 0 0 0
Ivan Rodriguez hit a two-run JRiver lf-rf
Arencii c
3
4
0
0
0 0
1 0
Chavez ph
ENunez 2b
1 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
vis;Second, Sam Holbrook;Third, Greg Gibson.
T—2:39. A—37,079 (37,065).
JGarci p 3 1 1 0 OFlhrt p 0 0 0 0 C.Young ................... 7 2 0 0 3 7
Isringhausen H,5..... 2⁄3 0 1 1 2 0
single in the eighth to seal the Marlins 9, Reds 5 Cooper dh 3 0 2 0 Swisher rf 3 0 0 0
Motte p
MHmlt 1b
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
Hinske ph
Gearrin p
1 0 1 0
0 0 0 0 Byrdak BS,1-1 ......... 0 1 0 0 0 0
Encrnc 3b 4 0 0 0 Posada dh 3 1 1 0 Venters p 0 0 0 0 F.Rodriguez............. 11⁄3 2 0 0 1 1
Washington Nationals’ win CINCINNATI — John Buck JMcDnl 2b 4 0 0 0 Gardnr lf 1 1 1 0 Indians 5, Conrad ph 1 0 1 1 Beato......................... 3 2 0 0 0 2
Cervelli c 2 0 0 1 T.Buchholz W,1-0 ... 2 0 0 0 0 2
against the San Francisco Gi- snapped a tie with a seventh- Totals 32 2 6 2 Totals 28 5 6 5 Tigers 4 Totals 32 5 9 5 Totals 33 6 8 5
Philadelphia
St. Louis ............................. 300 010 010 — 5
Detroit Cleveland Cl.Lee ....................... 7 8 1 1 2 5
ants. inning homer, one of a season- Toronto............................... 011 000 000 — 2
New York ........................... 100 040 00x — 5 ab r h bi ab r h bi Atlanta ................................ 000 030 201 — 6 Stutes ....................... 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0
One out when winning run scored.
high five hit by the Florida DP—Toronto 2. LOB—Toronto 9, New York 3. Rhyms 2b
Santiag ss
5 1 2 0 Sizemr cf
2 0 0 0 ACarer ss
5 0 0 0
4 0 1 0 E—Pujols (4), Theriot (7). DP—St. Louis 1, Atlanta
Bastardo ................... 2⁄3
Madson .................... 1
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
2
2
1
2B—Arencibia (3), Posada (1). HR—Lind (5), Gran-
Astros 5, Brewers 0 Marlins in a victory over the derson (8), Teixeira (7). SB—R.Davis 3 (6). CS— Kelly rf 5 2 2 1 Choo rf 4 1 1 0 2. LOB—St. Louis 6, Atlanta 5. 2B—Holliday 2 (9),
Berkman (9), Uggla (4). HR—Ale.Gonzalez (4).
Baez.......................... 2 1 0 0 0 1
R.Davis (2), Gardner (4). S—Cervelli. MiCarr 1b 3 0 1 1 CSantn c 3 0 0 0 K.Kendrick L,1-2 ..... 3 4 1 1 2 1
HOUSTON — Carlos Lee hit Cincinnati Reds. IP H R ER BB SO Boesch dh 5 0 1 0 Duncan dh 3 1 0 0 S—Descalso, Mather. SF—Y.Molina.
IP H R ER BB SO
Byrdak pitched to 1 batter in the 8th.
Toronto Raburn lf 4 0 1 0 OCarer 2b 3 2 2 1 HBP—by C.Young (B.Francisco). WP—F.Rodri-
Avila c 3 0 0 1 Brantly lf 3 1 2 1 St. Louis guez.
Litsch L,2-2 .............. 6 6 5 5 2 5 J.Garcia.................... 6 5 4 3 1 6
Janssen .................... 1 0 0 0 0 2 Inge 3b 4 0 1 0 LaPort 1b 3 0 2 3
AJcksn cf 3 1 2 0 Everett 3b 2 0 0 0 Motte BS,1-1 ........... 1 2 1 0 0 0
Villanueva ................ 1 0 0 0 0 0
AMERICAN LEAGUE ROUNDUP New York Totals 34 410 3 Totals 30 5 8 5 Franklin L,0-3 .......... 11⁄3
Atlanta
1 1 0 1 0 S A T U R D AY ’ S
Nova W,2-2.............. 61⁄3
Robertson H,6......... 1⁄3
6
0
2
0
2
0
4
1
5
1
Detroit................................. 200 000 011 — 4
Cleveland ........................... 020 000 03x — 5
D.Lowe ..................... 5 6 4 4 2 5 L A T E B O X E S
Linebrink .................. 2⁄3 2 0 0 0 0

Granderson, Teixeira
Logan H,2 ................ 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 E—Coke (2). DP—Cleveland 1. LOB—Detroit 10, Sherrill ...................... 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 1
R.Soriano H,8..........
M.Rivera S,10-12....
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
Cleveland 8. 2B—Kelly (4), A.Cabrera (5), LaPorta O’Flaherty ................ 1 0 0 0 0 2 Cubs 5, Diamondbacks 3
2 (6). SB—Boesch (3), A.Jackson (3), Brantley (4). Gearrin BS,1-1 ........ 1 1 1 1 1 1
Litsch pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. S—Santiago, Everett. SF—Avila, LaPorta. Chicago Arizona
Venters W,1-0 ......... 1 0 0 0 0 1 ab r h bi ab r h bi
HBP—by Litsch (Jeter). WP—Janssen. IP H R ER BB SO J.Garcia pitched to 1 batter in the 7th.
Umpires—Home, Laz Diaz;First, Scott Barry;Se- Detroit Fukdm rf 5 1 0 0 CYoung cf 3 1 0 0
HBP—by Linebrink (Freese). Barney 2b 5 1 2 1 GParra lf 3 1 1 1
cond, John Hirschbeck;Third, Wally Bell. Coke ......................... 6 4 2 2 2 4 Umpires—Home, Ted Barrett;First, Brian Runge- SCastro ss 5 1 2 1 J.Upton rf 4 1 1 0

send Yanks past Jays

T—2:55. A—43,363 (50,291). Perry ......................... 1 1 0 0 0 1 ;Second, Tim McClelland;Third, Marvin Hudson.
Benoit L,0-2 BS,2-2 2
⁄3 3 3 3 1 0 ArRmr 3b 5 0 1 1 S.Drew ss 4 0 2 2
T—2:55. A—34,129 (49,586). JeBakr 1b 4 0 0 0 RRorts 2b 3 0 1 0
Villarreal ................... 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0
C.Pena pr-1b 0 0 0 0 Branyn 1b 4 0 0 0
Royals 10, Twins 3 Cleveland
ASorin lf 4 1 2 2 Monter c 4 0 1 0
Minnesota Kansas City
Masterson ................
R.Perez .................... 2⁄3
7 7
1
3
0
2
0
2
0
7
1
Diamondbacks 4, Cubs 3 Byrd cf 4 0 2 0 Mora 3b 3 0 0 0
ab r h bi ab r h bi Durbin W,1-1 ........... 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Chicago Arizona Soto c 3 1 0 0 IKnndy p 2 0 0 0
Span dh 5 0 0 1
Dyson cf 1 0 1 0 C.Perez S,7-8.......... 1 2 1 1 1 0 ab r h bi ab r h bi Garza p 3 0 0 0 DHrndz p 0 0 0 0
Repko cf 5 0 1 0
Maier cf 3 3 2 1 Masterson pitched to 2 batters in the 8th. Fukdm rf 4 0 1 0 CYoung cf 4 0 1 0 Colvin ph 0 0 0 0 KJhnsn ph 1 0 0 0
Mornea 1b 4 1 1 1
Aviles 2b 5 2 3 4 HBP—by Benoit (Duncan), by Coke (Brantley), by Barney 2b 4 0 2 0 KJhnsn 2b 3 0 0 0 Marml p 0 0 0 0 Putz p 0 0 0 0
Kubel rf 2 0 1 0
Gordon lf 3 0 1 1 Masterson (Santiago, Mi.Cabrera). PB—C.Santa- SCastro ss 4 0 0 0 J.Upton rf 3 0 0 0 Totals 38 5 9 5 Totals 31 3 6 3
The Associated Press from a five-run deficit to beat Valenci 3b 3 0 0 0
Butler dh 4 2 2 1 na. ArRmr 3b 4 0 1 0 S.Drew ss 4 0 0 0 Chicago.............................. 010 110 002 — 5
Tosoni lf 3 0 0 0
Francr rf 5 1 1 1 ASorin lf 4 1 1 0 Monter c 3 1 1 0
NEW YORK — Curtis Gran- the Rays. LHughs 2b 3 0 0 0
Betemt 3b 4 0 1 1
Umpires—Home, Tim Welke;First, Jim Reynolds-
;Second, Mike DiMuro;Third, Andy Fletcher. Byrd cf 4 1 2 0 RRorts 3b 3 2 2 1
Arizona ............................... 100 002 000 — 3
E—Mora (1), S.Drew (2). DP—Chicago 1. LOB—
derson hit a three-run homer, Angels ace Jered Weaver Butera c
ACasill ss
3
3
1
1
0 0
Kaaihu 1b
2 1
Treanr c
4 0 1 0
3 2 2 0
T—3:04. A—14,164 (43,441). C.Pena 1b
Soto c
3 1 1 1 Mirand 1b
3 0 2 2 GParra lf
3 0 0 0
3 1 0 0
Chicago 8, Arizona 4. 2B—S.Castro (6), Ar.Rami-
rez (7), J.Upton (7). 3B—G.Parra (1). HR—A.Sor-
Mark Teixeira also went deep (6-0) was scratched from his Totals
AEscor ss
31 3 5 3 Totals
4 0 1 0
361015 9
CColmn p
Smrdzj p
2 0 0 0 DHdsn p
0 0 0 0 DHrndz p
2 0 0 1
0 0 0 0
iano (10).
Chicago IP H R ER BB SO
and the New York Yankees scheduled start because of a Minnesota........................ 000 011 100 — 3 Orioles 6, Colvin ph 1 0 0 0 Nady ph 1 0 1 0 Garza W,1-3 8 6 3 3 2 10
Grabow p 0 0 0 0 Putz p 0 0 0 0
powered their way to a 5-2 stomach virus. Los Angeles Kansas City ..................... 010 132 03x — 10
E—A.Casilla (4). DP—Minnesota 1, Kansas City 1. White Sox 4 Mateo p 0 0 0 0
Marmol S,7-9...........
Arizona ....................
1 0 0 0 1 0

victory over the Toronto Blue manager Mike Scioscia hopes LOB—Minnesota 8, Kansas City 7. 2B—Maier (1), Baltimore Chicago
JeBakr ph
Totals
1 0 0 0
34 310 3 Totals 29 4 5 2
I.Kennedy................. 72⁄3 6 3 3 1 6
Gordon (13), Butler (8), Treanor (1), A.Escobar (5). ab r h bi ab r h bi D.Hernandez ........... 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 1
Jays on Sunday. Weaver will be able to pitch 3B—A.Casilla 2 (2), Maier (1). HR—Morneau (1), BRorts 2b 4 1 1 0 Pierre lf 2 0 1 0 Chicago.............................. 010 000 200 — 3 Putz L,0-1 ................ 1 3 2 2 1 0
Arizona ............................... 010 300 00x — 4 Umpires—Home, Larry Vanover; First, Tony Ran-
Jorge Posada broke out of an Monday night at Boston. Aviles (5), Francoeur (6). SB—Aviles (6). CS—
Aviles (1). SF—Gordon.
Markks rf
D.Lee 1b
4
4
1
0
1 3
0 0
AlRmrz ss
Quentin dh
3 0 0 0
5 0 1 0 DP—Arizona 3. LOB—Chicago 6, Arizona 10. dazzo; Second, Dan Bellino; Third, Brian Gorman.
IP H R ER BB SO Guerrr dh 4 0 1 0 Konerk 1b 4 0 2 1 2B—Fukudome (2), A.Soriano (4), Byrd (7), Soto 2 T—2:41. A—27,652 (48,633).
0-for-19 slump and Francisco Minnesota Scott lf 4 1 2 2 Rios cf 5 0 0 0 (6), Montero (8). HR—R.Roberts (6). SB—
Red Sox 3, Mariners 2 Rockies 4, Pirates 1
Cervelli added an RBI groun- Pavano L,2-3 ........... 51⁄3 12
Perkins ..................... 12⁄3 1
7
0
6
0
0
1
0
2
AdJons cf
Wieters c
0
4
0
0
0 0
0 0
RCastr c 2 0 0 0
Przyns ph-c 2 0 0 0
C.Young (1), G.Parra (3). S—D.Hudson.
IP H R ER BB SO Pittsburgh Colorado
dout in his first game back BOSTON — Jed Lowrie D.Hughes................. 1⁄3 2 3 3 2 1 MrRynl 3b 4 1 1 1 Lillirdg rf 3 1 1 1 Chicago ab r h bi ab r h bi
Al.Burnett ................. 2⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 C.Coleman L,1-2..... 5 4 4 4 5 3
from the disabled list, helping tripled when right-fielder Ichi- Kansas City Pie cf-lf 4 1 2 0 ph-rf
Teahen
1 0 0 0 Samardzija............... 1 0 0 0 2 1
AMcCt cf
Tabata lf
4 1 2 1 Fowler cf
1 0 0 0 Herrer 2b
3 0 0 0
4 0 1 0
the Yankees take the final two ro Suzuki lost his fly ball in the Hochevar W,3-3...... 61⁄3
Collins....................... 1
5
0
3
0
3
0
4
1
1
1
Andino ss 2 1 0 0 Bckhm 2b 3 2 2 0 Grabow..................... 11⁄3
Mateo ........................ 2⁄3
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
Diaz lf
Moskos p
3 0 0 0 Helton 1b
0 0 0 0 Tlwtzk ss
3 0 1 0
4 0 0 0
Morel 3b 3 0 0 0
games against the Blue Jays sun, and Carl Crawford singled Crow ......................... 2⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 A.Dunn ph 1 1 1 2 Arizona GJones rf 4 0 1 0 CGnzlz lf 4 1 2 0
L.Coleman ............... 1 0 0 0 2 2 Vizquel 3b 0 0 0 0 D.Hudson W,2-4 ..... 7 8 3 3 1 5 Walker 2b 4 0 2 0 JoLopz 3b 4 1 1 0
and remain unbeaten (5-0-1) in him home with two outs in the Umpires—Home, Tim Tschida;First, Jeff Nelson- Totals 34 6 8 6 Totals 34 4 8 4 D.Hernandez H,3 .... 1 1 0 0 0 1 Overay 1b 4 0 0 0 S.Smith rf 3 1 1 1
;Second, Marty Foster;Third, Bill Welke. Putz S,6-6 ................ 1 1 0 0 1 0
home series. ninth inning to lift the Red Sox T—2:39. A—18,108 (37,903).
Baltimore ............................ 000 150 000 — 6
WP—C.Coleman, D.Hernandez. PB—Soto. Balk—
Snyder c
Alvarez 3b
3 0 1 0 Iannett c
3 0 0 0 Hamml p
3 1 1 3
2 0 0 0
Chicago.............................. 000 010 120 — 4
to a victory over the Mariners. DP—Baltimore 1. LOB—Baltimore 4, Chicago 11.
C.Coleman.
Umpires—Home, Tony Randazzo;First, Dan Belli-
Cedeno ss
Mahlm p
3 0 1 0 RBtncr p
0 0 0 0 Street p
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
Indians 5, Tigers 4 Jonathan Papelbon (1-0) 2B—Markakis (3), Beckham (5). 3B—Pie (1). HR—
Scott (5), Mar.Reynolds (3), Lillibridge (3), A.Dunn
no;Second, Brian Gorman;Third, Larry Vanover. Paul ph-lf 1 0 0 0
T—2:50. A—26,605 (48,633). Totals 30 1 7 1 Totals 30 4 7 4
CLEVELAND — Michael earned the win with a perfect Rays 2, Angels 1 (3). SB—B.Roberts (3). S—Andino.
Pittsburgh .......................... 100 000 000 — 1
IP H R ER BB SO
Brantley singled home the ninth inning. Los Angeles Tampa Bay Baltimore Padres 7, Dodgers 0 Colorado ............................ 040 000 00x — 4
ab r h bi ab r h bi Britton W,5-1 ........... 6 5 1 1 3 1 E—G.Jones (1). DP—Colorado 3. LOB—Pitts-
MIzturs 3b 5 0 0 0
Fuld lf 4 0 0 0 San Diego Los Angeles
go-ahead run in the eighth Orioles 6, White Sox 4 Abreu rf 4 0 0 0
Damon dh 4 0 1 0
Berken ...................... 1⁄3
Ji.Johnson H,5 ........ 12⁄3
1
1
1
2
1
2
2
2
0
0 ab r h bi ab r h bi
burgh 5, Colorado 6. 2B—Helton (6), C.Gonzalez
(4). HR—A.McCutchen (5), Iannetta (3). SB—
inning and the Cleveland Indi- TrHntr dh 4 1 1 0
BUpton cf 4 0 0 0 Gregg S,5-6 ............. 1 1 0 0 1 2 Venale rf 4 1 0 0 GwynJ lf 3 0 0 0 G.Jones (2). S—Maholm, Hammel.

ans rallied for a victory over CHICAGO — Nick Markakis V.Wells lf

HKndrc 1b
4
4
0
0
0 0
Joyce rf
2 1
Zobrist 2b
4 2 2 1
4 0 1 0
Chicago
Floyd L,3-2............... 6 7 6 6 2 5
Bartlett ss
Headly 3b
4
4
0
0
0 1
1 2
Miles 2b
Ethier rf
4
3
0
0
1 0
1 0 Pittsburgh
IP H R ER BB SO

the Detroit Tigers to extend hit a three-run double and Aybar ss

Conger c
4
4
0
0
2 0
Ktchm 1b
1 0
FLopez 3b
4 0 1 0
2 0 0 0
Crain ......................... 1 0 0 0 0 3 Hundly c 4 1 1 0 Kemp cf 4 0 2 0 Maholm L,1-4 .......... 7 7 4 4 3 3
Ohman...................... 1 1 0 0 0 1 OHudsn 2b 3 1 1 0 Uribe 3b 4 0 0 0 Moskos..................... 1 0 0 0 0 0
their home winning streak to Zach Britton pitched six strong Bourjos cf 4 0 1 0
Shppch c 3 0 0 0 S.Santos................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 AlGnzlz Colorado
Amarst 2b 3 0 0 0
Brignc ss 2 0 1 0 Hammel W,3-1 ........ 7 6 1 1 2 4
innings to lead the Orioles to a EJhnsn
Balk—Floyd. ph-2b 1 0 0 0 Loney 1b 3 0 0 0
13 games. Umpires—Home, Cory Blaser;First, Ed Rapuano- Maybin cf 2 2 1 1 Navarr c 3 0 0 0 R.Betancourt H,8 .... 1 0 0 0 0 0
win over the struggling White ph-ss 1 0 1 0 ;Second, Alfonso Marquez;Third, Ed Hickox. Hawpe 1b 4 1 2 2 Carroll ss 3 0 1 0 Street S,10-10 ......... 1 1 0 0 0 2
Cleveland’s sixth straight Totals 36 1 7 1 Totals 32 2 7 1 T—3:03. A—22,029 (40,615). EPtrsn lf 3 0 0 0 Garlnd p 1 0 0 0 Umpires—Home, Eric Cooper;First, Mark Carlson-
Sox. Los Angeles ................. 000 000 001 0 — 1 Denorfi ph-lf 1 0 0 0 DeJess ph 1 0 0 0 ;Second, Tim Timmons;Third, Jeff Kellogg.
win overall increased the Ti- Mosely p 2 0 0 0 Hwksw p 0 0 0 0 T—2:35. A—33,684 (50,490).
Luke Scott and Mark Rey- Tampa Bay ................... 000 010 000 1 — 2
Adams p 0 0 0 0 Thams ph 1 0 0 0
gers’ losing streak to six. The Two outs when winning run scored. Athletics 7, Padres 5, Dodgers 2
nolds added solo home runs E—Farnsworth (1). DP—Los Angeles 3. LOB—Los Cantu ph 1 1 1 1 Kuo p 0 0 0 0
three-game sweep gave the for Baltimore, who has won
Angeles 6, Tampa Bay 2. 2B—Tor.Hunter (2), Rangers 2 Qualls p 0 0 0 0 MacDgl p
Cormir p
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
San Diego
ab r h bi
Los Angeles
ab r h bi
Joyce (8), Zobrist (8). HR—Joyce (2). CS—Bourjos
Indians four series sweeps this five of its last six. The Orioles (4). Texas
ab r h bi
Oakland
ab r h bi
Totals 33 7 7 7 Totals 30 0 5 0 Venale rf 5 2 2 0 Miles 2b 4 0 0 0
IP H R ER BB SO San Diego .......................... 030 000 004 — 7 Bartlett ss 4 1 1 0 Sands lf 4 0 0 0
season, matching their total for will try to complete a four- Los Angeles Kinsler 2b 5 0 1 1 Crisp cf 5 1 2 1 Los Angeles....................... 000 000 000 — 0 Ludwck lf 3 0 1 1 Ethier rf 4 1 2 0
Andrus ss 5 1 2 0 Barton 1b 4 1 1 0 Headly 3b 3 1 1 0 Kemp cf 4 0 1 0
2010 when they went 69-93. game sweep Monday night.
Pineiro ......................
Takahashi ................ 12⁄3
7 4
2
1
0
1
0
1
0
3
2 MiYong dh 3 0 1 1 CJcksn rf 3 1 2 2
E—Navarro (2). DP—San Diego 2. LOB—San Die-
go 7, Los Angeles 5. 2B—Headley (8), Carroll (5). Hundly c 4 0 0 0 Uribe 3b 3 0 0 0
Rodney L,0-1........... 1 1 1 1 0 0 ABeltre 3b 4 0 0 0 Wlngh lf 4 1 0 0 SB—Headley (2). S—Moseley. SF—Bartlett. OHudsn 2b 3 0 0 0 Loney 1b 3 0 1 1
Tampa Bay N.Cruz lf 4 0 0 0 KSuzuk c 4 1 2 2 IP H R ER BB SO Maybin cf 4 1 2 1 Barajs c 3 0 1 0
Royals 10, Twins 3 Athletics 7, Rangers 2 Shields ..................... 8 6 1 1 1 12 Napoli 1b 4 0 0 0 Matsui dh 3 1 1 1 San Diego Hawpe 1b 4 0 1 0 Mitchll pr 0 1 0 0
Farnsworth BS,1-6 . 1 1 0 0 0 0 DvMrp cf 3 0 2 0 M.Ellis 2b 4 0 0 0 Moseley W,1-3 ........ 7 3 0 0 2 6 Stauffr p 2 0 0 1 Navarr c 1 0 1 0
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Mike OAKLAND, Calif. — Conor Jo.Peralta W,1-0 ..... 1 0 0 0 0 2 Torreal c
Morlnd rf
3 1 1 0 AnLRc 3b
3 0 1 0 Pnngtn ss
3 1 2 0
4 0 1 1
Adams H,6 ............... 1 0 0 0 0 1 Grgrsn p 0 0 0 0 Carroll ss 3 0 0 0
Shields pitched to 1 batter in the 9th. Adams p 0 0 0 0 Kuroda p 2 0 0 0
Aviles homered and drove in Jackson had two hits and two WP—Rodney. Totals 34 2 8 2 Totals 34 711 7
Qualls .......................
Los Angeles
1 2 0 0 0 0
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Texas.................................. 000 001 100 — 2 H.Bell p 0 0 0 0 Guerrir p 0 0 0 0
four runs to help the Royals RBIs, Gio Gonzalez pitched
Umpires—Home, Phil Cuzzi;First, Alan Porter;Se-
cond, James Hoye;Third, Tom Hallion. Oakland.............................. 312 000 10x — 7
Garland L,1-2 ..........
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beat the Twins. into the seventh inning to snap T—2:48. A—20,245 (34,078). E—Kinsler (4), Andrus (6), Moreland (1). DP—Tex- Kuo ........................... 1⁄3 2 4 4 1 1
Totals 32 5 8 3 Totals
Thams ph 1 0 0 0
33 2 7 2
as 2, Oakland 1. LOB—Texas 9, Oakland 7. MacDougal .............. 1⁄3 1 0 0 0 0
The Twins have lost six in a a three-start skid and the Ath- 2B—Kinsler (8), Andrus (4), Crisp (6), Barton (9), Cormier .................... 1⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 San Diego .......................... 000 020 030 — 5
Red Sox 3, Mariners 2 C.Jackson (5), Matsui (7), An.LaRoche (5). SB— HBP—by Kuo (Venable). WP—Hawksworth. Los Angeles....................... 000 100 100 — 2
row and were swept in a three- letics snapped out of their Seattle Boston Willingham (2). CS—K.Suzuki (1), Pennington (3). Umpires—Home, Hunter Wendelstedt;First, Vic E—Navarro (1). LOB—San Diego 7, Los Angeles 7.
game series by the Royals for scoring slump in a win over the ab r h bi ab r h bi
Texas
IP H R ER BB SO Carapazza;Second, Mike Muchlinski;Third, Bob
Davidson.
2B—Maybin (5), Barajas (1). S—Ludwick. SF—
Stauffer, Loney.
ISuzuki rf 4 0 0 0 Ellsury cf 4 1 1 0
the first time since Aug. 4-6, Rangers. Figgins 3b 4 0 0 0 Pedroia 2b 4 1 2 0 Harrison L,3-3 ......... 12⁄3
Bush ......................... 41⁄3
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3
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4
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Lngrhn lf 4 1 1 0 AdGnzl 1b 4 0 1 0 San Diego
1998. Minnesota dropped to Leadoff hitter Coco Crisp Olivo c 4 1 1 0 Ortiz dh 4 0 1 2 Tucker ...................... 1 1 1 0 1 0 Stauffer..................... 62⁄3 4 2 2 1 7
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majors. the lineup and Kurt Suzuki had LRdrgz ss
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two RBIs to help the A’s score JaWlsn 2b
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Kuroda...................... 7 5 2 2 2 7
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Guerrier L,2-2.......... 1 3 3 2 2 0
Breslow pitched to 2 batters in the 9th. GSnchz 1b 5 0 1 0 Phillips 2b 4 1 1 1
Jansen ...................... 1 0 0 0 1 2
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — fourth time this season. They Boston ................................ 002 000 001 — 3
Two outs when winning run scored.
HBP—by Bush (An.LaRoche), by G.Gonzalez (Mo- Stanton rf
Dobbs 3b
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reland). WP—Tucker, G.Gonzalez.
Hank Conger homered and knocked out Rangers starter E—Scutaro (3), Pedroia (1). LOB—Seattle 6, Bos- Umpires—Home, Doug Eddings;First, Dana De- J.Buck c 4 2 3 2 Janish ss 4 1 2 0 Umpires—Home, Bob Davidson;First, Hunter
Wendelstedt;Second, Vic Carapazza;Third, Mike
ton 6. 2B—Cust (4), Ortiz (4). 3B—Lowrie (1). CS— Bonifac lf 3 1 1 3 Valaika 3b 3 0 0 0
nifty baserunning by Vernon Matt Harrison (3-3) in the Figgins (4).
Muth;Second, Kerwin Danley;Third, Paul Nauert.
T—3:01. A—15,178 (35,067). Nolasco p 2 0 0 0 Arroyo p 2 0 1 0 Muchlinski.
T—2:53. A—34,453 (56,000).
Wells helped the Angels rally second inning.

PAGE 4B MONDAY, MAY 2, 2011
PRO GOLF
Watson edges Simpson to win Zurich Classic
The Associated Press
AVONDALE, La. — Bubba
Watson won the Zurich Classic
on Sunday for his second PGA
Tour victory of the year and
third overall, holing a 3-foot
birdie putt on the second hole of
a playoff with Webb Simpson. Watson
After his 329-yard drive nar-
rowly stayed out of the water he was addressing it on the
and landed in a fairway bunker, green.
Watson hit his second shot 210 Watson, also the winner at
yards to the green on the 568- Torrey Pines in late January,
yard, par-5 18th. matched Simpson with a 3-
Simpson’s second shot landed under 69 to finish at 15-under
in a bunker short of the green, 273 at TPC Louisiana. Both
and he blasted out to 12 feet. players birdied the 18th on the
After Simpson narrowly mis- first extra hole, with Watson
sed his birdie putt, Watson holed making a 12-foot putt to force
out for the victory. the second playoff.
Simpson, winless on the PGA Watson earned $1,152,000 and
YANKEES
Continued from Page 1B
utive hitless game for the first
time this season.
“We’ve got to get Vazquez
and guys like that back on track
because that’s our RBI guy,”
Miley said.
The Yankees began leaving
guys on base in the fourth in-
ning. With two on and two
outs, Jesus Montero was
picked off second base by Bos-
can, leaving Maxwell on first.
The Yankees left two on in the
fourth and fifth.
Starter Adam Warren, who
pitched a scoreless first four in-
nings, found trouble in the
fifth. The right-hander gave up
a one-out single to Boscan and
an out later Jordan Schafer hit
his first home run of the sea-
son.
Warren walked the next two
batters before inducing a
groundout to keep the damage
to two runs. He needed 27
pitches to get through the in-
ning. And things got a bit
worse in the sixth when he al-
lowed a solo home run to the
.197-hitting Ed Lucas that gave
Gwinnett a 3-1 lead.
But then came the eighth.
A walk and an error helped
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre loaded
the bases with no outs to start
the inning. Vazquez popped
out in the infield, but Maxwell
pushed across a run with the
second infield hit of the inning,
and Doug Bernier walked to
score the tying run.
“When you have an opportu-
nity, it is what you do with
them,” Miley said. “That one
inning we were able to capital-
ize. That was fortunate for us.”
But the rally stopped there.
New Gwinnett pitcher Antho-
ny Varvaro struck out Jordan
Parraz, and Ramiro Pena end-
ed the inning with a shallow fly
to left field, leaving the bases
loaded and the game tied until
the 10th.
Kevin Whelan earned his
league-leading ninth save,
walking one in a scoreless 10th.
Maxwell finished 2-for-3 with
two walks, two RBI and a run
scored.
NOTES: C Gustavo Molina
rejoined the SWB Yankees fol-
lowing nearly a month in New
York filling in for the injured
Francisco Cervelli. Molina had
one double in six plate appear-
ance for New York. ... C Jose Gil
was sent to Double-A Trenton
to open up the roster spot for
Molina. ...
Pitcher Kevin Millwood opt-
ed out of his minor league con-
tract with the Yankees and is
no longer with the team. The
right-hander was 1-1 with an
8.00 ERA in two starts for the
SWB Yankees. In his most re-
cent start at Charlotte, Mill-
wood lasted just two innings,
allowing six runs off seven hits
including two home runs. RHP
D.J. Mitchell will pitch in Mill-
wood’s scheduled start Tues-
day. ...
HOW THEY SCORED
YANKEES SECOND: Jorge Vazquez
grounded out. Justin Maxwell homered. Brandon
Laird called out on strikes. Jordan Parraz flied out
to right. YANKEES 1-0
BRAVES FIFTH: Shawn Bowman flied out to
center. J.C. Boscan singled. Jose Constanza
popped out to left. Jordan Schafer homered. Matt
Young walked. Mauro Gomez walked. Stefan
Gartrell grounded into a fielder’s choice.
BRAVES 2-1
BRAVES SIXTH: Wilkin Ramirez popped out
to first. Ed Lucas homered. Shawn Bowman
struck out. J.C. Boscan flied out to right.
BRAVES 3-1
YANKEES EIGHTH: Greg Golson reached
on an error. Kevin Russo walked. Jesus Montero
hit an infield single. Vazquez popped out to sec-
ond. Maxwell singled to score Golson. Doug Ber-
nier walked to score Russo. Jordan Parraz
struck. Ramiro Pena flied out to right. TIED 3-3
YANKEES TENTH: Maxwell popped out to
right field. Doug Bernier grounded out to short-
stop. Jordan Parraz walked. Pena was intention-
ally walked. P.J. Pilittere singled in Parraz. Greg
Golson reached on an error to score Pena. Rus-
so singled to score Pilittere. Montero struck out.
YANKEES 6-3
Tour, was left
to wonder
what might
have been if
not for an
unusual one-
stroke penalty
on 15 when his
ball moved as
Dave Mitchell of Bloomsburg stretches before Sunday’s Cherry Blossom 5 Mile Race at Kirby
Park. Mitchell won the men’s 55-59 age group title with a time of 31 minutes, 56 seconds.
RUN
Continued from Page 1B
time, finishing the race in 25
minutes and 32 seconds. Was-
netsky actually broke his own
course record, 26:17, set ironical-
ly on the same old course two
years ago.
Wadas finished second, 34
seconds behind.
It was Wadas’ record, 26:19,
set four years ago, that Wasnet-
sky broke in 2009.
In Sunday’s race, Wasnetsky
took an early lead and pulled
away about 100 meters into the
race.
“I held steady and Wadas fell
back a bit at that point,” said
Wasnetsky, who is a fourth-year
senior and soon to be a fifth-year
senior (he redshirted last year)
at the University of Scranton,
where he runs track and cross
country.
“When we reached the turn-
around, I could see that I had
about a 100-meter lead. But then
I cramped. And I was really hurt-
ing. In fact, I thought that Wadas
would pass me, but that never
happened.”
“I had no chance at catching
him,” said Wadas, who runs for
the Keystone Elite Running
Club in Harrisburg. “He ran
away from me right from the
start.”
Samantha Snead, the top fe-
male finisher, also ran away from
the rest of the females right from
the start, winning with a fifth-
place finish overall in 30:17.
Snead, 22, of Moscow, outran
second-place finishe, Deedra
Porfirio, 34, of West Pittston, by
2:15.
“I don’t really know how to
pace myself,” said Snead, who
ran cross country for Penn State
Worthington in 2008. “I go by
how my legs feel on that day. To-
day I focused on two men up
ahead of me, Paul Leonard and
John Evangelista, because I
knew they were good runners. I
just tried to keep pace with
them.”
Good idea.
Part of UCLA’s Pauley court sells for $325K
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. (AP)
— The original center court jump
circle from UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion
has netted $325,085 at auction.
SCP Auctions said Sunday that
it’s the most someone has ever paid
for any piece of college basketball
memorabilia.
The12-foot jump circle was used
➛ S P O
jumped from No. 16 to No. 10 in
the world.
Avnet LPGA Classic
MOBILE, Ala. — Maria
Hjorth took advantage of Alexis
Thompson’s collapse in a failed
bid to become the youngest
LPGA Tour winner, rallying to
win the Avnet LPGA Classic for
her fifth tour title.
The 37-year-old Swede shot
her second straight 5-under 67
to finish at 10-under 278, two
strokes ahead of Song-Hee Kim
(71) on The Crossings course at
the Robert Trent Jones Golf
Trail’s Magnolia Grove complex.
The 16-year-old Thompson,
tied for the lead with Kim enter-
ing the round, had a 78 to drop
Evangelista, 41, of Blakely, fin-
ished third in 29:31 and Leonard,
48, of Scranton, finished fourth
in 29:38.
The Cherry Blossom 5-miler
is the second leg of the Striders
Triple Crown. Evangelista has a
commanding lead in both the
male open division and the male
masters (40 and over) division
because Wasnetsky and Wadas
didn’t run in the Winter’s End
(4.5-mile) Run – the first leg of
the Triple Crown – at Penn State
Wilkes-Barre in March. Bornfase
Nyandusi Omurwa, the native
Kenyan who now lives in King-
ston, won that race. But he didn’t
race in the Cherry Blossom 5
miler Sunday because he was
running in the Broad Street 10
Miler in Philadelphia. Evangelis-
ta finished third in the Winter’s
End Run.
Snead has now won the first
two legs of the Triple Crown and
has a commanding lead in the fe-
male open division. Swoyers-
ville’s Ann Zoranski leads the fe-
male masters division.
The final leg of the Triple
Crown will be the Summer 10K
in Kirby Park on July 23. Hope-
fully the park will be water free
for that race.
In 2004, race officials from the
Striders running club added
“Tim Thomas Memorial” to the
Cherry Blossom 5 Mile Run
name in memory of Thomas,
who was a standout runner from
Plains Township and ran for
Bloomsburg University. He died
at age 31.
Each year, Tim’s widow, Kim,
contacts all of the Wyoming Val-
ley Conference guidance coun-
selors with the criteria for enter-
ing a scholarship contest in
Tim’s name. The contest is for
high school senior boys and girls
who plan to run at the college
level. Each contestant is asked to
write Kim a letter explaining
what running means to them.
Kim then picks two winners
(one boy and one girl) from the
letters that impress her the
most. The winners each receive
a $500 scholarship.
This year’s winners are :Frank
Ferlenda from Dallas High
School and Jacquelyn Yurchak
from Hazleton Area High
from 1965 to 1982 by the men’s
teams that won eight national
championships and the women’s
team that won the 1978 national ti-
tle. Former UCLA coach John
Wooden and some of his greatest
players, including Kareem Abdul-
Jabbar and Bill Walton, signed the
piece while it was in storage.
CMYK
R T S THE TIMES LEADER www.timesleader.com
NFL DERBY
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same boat; we’re not stressing
Continued from Page 1B
ery detail. It took eight years bat-
into a tie for 19th at 1 under. out or anything. It’ll eventually tling a degenerative heart disease
get settled and you just go with and a17-hour surgery for her to re-
Ballantine’s Championship it.” alize attempts at omnipotence
SEOUL, South Korea — Top- Going with it for the players are futile.
ranked Lee Westwood rallied to means training on their own. “If something happens and we
win the Ballantine’s Champion- For first-round picks, it means don’t have control over it then try
ship for his second straight devouring the playbooks they not to obsess over it,” Ritvo said.
victory, shooting a 5-under 67 were able to get from their “Things are going to happen and
for a one-stroke victory over teams during Friday’s short you have to accept it.”
Miguel Angel Jimenez. break in the lockout. Oh, there were nights when she
Westwood, the English star “The quarterbacks and of- would cry and scream “why me?”
who won the Asian Tour’s In- fensive linemen and wide re- Who could blame her? Tim Rit-
donesian Masters last week to ceivers, these young guys, can vo, who ceded his half of the busi-
regain the No. 1 spot in the you imagine? With no mini- ness to his wife last winter to over-
world, finished at 12-under 276 camps and no OTAs, if they see racing at Gulfstream, Pimlico
at Blackstone Resort in the show up Aug. 1 to training and Laurel Park, didn’t get it.
event sanctioned by the Europe- camp, they’re going to be so “Kathy never drank, never
an and Asian tour and Korea lost,” Montana-based agent smoked, never did a drug,” he
PGA. The 47-year-old Jimenez Ken Staninger said. “It may be said. “You see other people try to
parred the final nine holes for a a lost draft, other than the kill themselves and she never did
71. elite-elite.” a thing wrong.”
For coaches, it means eval- Genetic testing revealed Ritvo
uating how they addressed suffered from cardiomyopathy,
their needs in the draft, and the same disease that killed her
which undrafted players they brother Louis, a former jockey, at
might approach when allowed age 38 in 1996.
to do so. She spent months shuttling in
Dallas coach Jason Garrett and out of Jackson Memorial Hos-
has all his plans organized for pital in Miami taking intravenous
offseason workouts and mini-
drugs to keep her heart pumping.
camps.
There were days she felt so slug-
“What we did is we laid out
gish it was all she could do to lift
the entire calendar for the off-
her head off her pillow. There
season assuming there was no
were nights when she wasn’t sure
lockout,” Garrett said. “So all
she would wake up in the morn-
of those dates were in place
ing.
soon after the season ended.
Ritvo spent months awaiting a
But obviously we had to be re-
transplant. When the call finally
sponsive to the lockout and
when the players came back, came, she didn’t even pack a bag
on her way out the door. She
and we’ll continue to do that
based on what the new rules didn’t plan on staying in the hos-
are.” pital that long.
Those rules are uncertain “Once you get through that and
even if the players win the next get yourself together, you have to
round in the appeals court. keep going forward,” she said. “It
Among the league’s options is was not my time to go and I did
reinstating the 2010 guide- not want to go.”
NIKO J. KALLIANIOTIS/FOR THE TIMES LEADER
lines, which featured more lim- A week after the surgery, she
ited free agency and no salary was back home. Three years later,
cap. And no minimum for she’s as healthy as she’s ever been
spending, which could come in her life, though there are daily
School. into play more than ever with reminders of how close she came
Ferlenda, who will attend East some owners who fear profits to not being here at all.
Stroudsburg University, wrote will continue to decline. Besides the scar there is the dai-
that running has taught him pa- “It’s a chaotic time,” said Ben ly 30-pill regimen — a handful an-
tience and that every day mat- Dogra, agent for Sam Bradford ti-rejection drugs at 7:30 in the
ters, adding that training every and Patrick Willis, among morning, another handful 12
day is the big picture. Ferlenda many other players. “There are hours later, then 15 vitamins at
said that his greatest achieve- a lot of moving points, and it lunch. There’s the occasional cold
ment has been winning the means daily uncertainty.” that takes a little longer to clear
Wyoming Valley Conference Amid the uncertainty, one up than it probably should.
championship. message rang clear at Radio That’s pretty much it, though.
Yurchak, who will attend City Music Hall during the A small list of complaints that
Hood College, in Frederick, Md., draft. It was delivered by the pales in comparison to the good
wrote that running is a way of re- fans, who repeatedly booed fortune that’s come her way since
lieving stress for her and it en-
Commissioner Roger Goodell she walked out of the hospital just
ables her to enjoy the outdoors.
and also chanted “we want before Thanksgiving 21⁄2 years
Yurchak said that her greatest
football.” ago.
achievement was when she com-
pleted the Philadelphia Half
NBA
Marathon at age 16. world.
Wyoming Valley Striders
37th annual Cherry Blossom 5 Mile Run The Heat, on the other hand,
(second leg of Striders Triple Crown)
Tim Thomas Memorial results do have something to prove.
Top 10
Chris Wasnetsky, 22, Dunmore ................25:32 Ever since the day James made
Chris Wadas, 29, Plains Twp. ...................26:06 Continued from Page 1B
John Evangelista, 41, Blakely....................29:31 his much derided announcement
Paul Leonard, 48, Scranton........................29:38
as much intensity in the fourth that he would bring his consid-
Samantha Snead, 22, Moscow..................30:17
Pat Leonard, 32, Pittston ............................30:51
quarter when he put a shoulder erable talent to the Heat, he’s
Dan Thomas Jr., 51, Dallas........................31:30
Brian Thomas, 28, Tunkhannock ..............31:36 down and went into Pierce, who known that the only way to vali-
Will Butkiewicz, 15, Kingston .....................31:44
Dave Mitchell, 56, Bloomsburg..................31:56 didn’t take it kindly. date himself as truly one of the
Male award winners: Overall: Wasnetsky,
25:32, course record. Age group winners: 19 & “Paul had some words for me, greatest players in the game is to
under: 1. Will Butkiewicz, Kingston, 31:44; 2. For-
the referee thought it was too win the title that has so far elud-
est Hawkins, Ashley, 33:39; 3. Jeff Austin, Pringle,
34:07. 20-29: 1.Chris Wadas, Plains Twp., 26:06;
much,” Wade said. “We move ed him in his otherwise spectac-
2.Glenn Zimmerman, Wilkes-Barre, 36:50; 3. Dave
Houssock, Plymouth, 36:50. 30-34: 1. Pat Leonard,
on.” ular career. Wade and Bosh don’t
Pittston, 30:51; 2. Flash Barchick, Cambra, 34:57;
3. James Zeske, Hanover Twp., 36:34. 35-39: 1.
Pierce apparently decided he have that much pressure on
Jay Albers, White Haven, 32:26; 2. John Zawadski,
Plymouth, 32:36; 3. Paul Manley, Plymouth, 34:20.
had spoken too much for the day them, but they know they have to
Masters division: 40-44: 1. John Evangelista,
Blakely, 29:31; 2. Brian Thomas, Tunkhannock, and did not speak to the media. deliver on their promises, too.
31:36; 3. Brian Kryper, Forty Fort, 32:05. 45-49: 1.
But crew chief Dan Crawford Game 1 was just a primer,
Paul Leonard, Scranton, 29:38; 2. George Dunbar,
Old Forge, 32:56; 3. Joe Kichilinsky, Wyoming,
said Pierce’s second technical — offering a tantalizing glimpse
33:48. 50-54: 1. Dan Thomas Jr, Dallas, 31:30; 2.
Bob Warnagiris, Hunlock Creek, 35:50; 3. Rich
which won him automatic ejec- into what is yet to come in this
Shiptoski, Shickshinny, 37:05. 55-59: 1. Dave
Mitchell, Bloomsburg, 31:56; 2. Dave Jiunta, W.
tion — came because he swore at playoff series.
Wyoming, 34:32; 3. Robert Miller, Forty Fort, 36:15.
60-64: 1. Joe Dutko, Mountain Top, 37:59; 2. Pat
Wade. It may not be epic, because
McMahon, Dallas, 41:43; 3. 60-64: 1. Mike Jones,
Kingston, 49:32. 65 & over: 1. Robert Kiley, Ship-
“And in the rulebook, that is a epic is usually reserved for the
pensburg, 43:59; 2. Mike Fay, Hazleton, 46:49; 3.
Tom Winter, Shavertown, 47:20. verbal taunt,” Crawford said. finals.
Top 5 females
Samantha Snead, 22, Moscow..................30:17 Expect some more taunting as But it very well could be spec-
Deedra Porfirio, 34, W. Pittston.................32:32
Ann Zoranski, 40, Swoyersville .................34:45 this series moves on, because tacular.
Lynn Dolan, 47, W. Wyoming ....................35:12
Kerry Zawadski, 32, Plymouth ...................36:04 these are two teams that boxing
Female award winners: 19 & under: None.20-
29: 1. Lindsey Conrad, Wilkes-Barre, 39:59; 2. Jen- promoter Don King would love. Tim Dahlberg is a national sports
ny Carlo, Wilkes-Barre, 41:36; 3. Amy Ruda, Be-
thlehem, 45:06. 30-34: 1. Deedra Porfirio, W. Pitt- They just don’t like each other, columnist for The Associated Press.
ston, 32:32; 2. Karen McLaughlin, Plains Twp.,
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NASCAR

Busch prevails, but Hamlin happy with second

By JENNA FRYER the years in Joe ance on intermediate tracks, he
AP Auto Racing Writer Gibbs Racing understood that being a good
RICHMOND, Va. – Denny debriefs that it teammate is part of the game and
Hamlin, in desperate need of a vic- had helped for the betterment of JGR — even
tory, had no issues with settling Busch improve it was Busch that got to Victory
for second behind teammate Kyle at Richmond. Lane.
Busch at Richmond International Busch’s victory Buttherewasalsoahopethatin
Raceway. Hamlin Saturday night coming close to grabbing his first
Why not? The start of the sea- was his third win of the season, Hamlin might
sonhasbeensobadforHamlin,an consecutive in Richmond’s spring have snapped out of the slump
eight-race winner last season and race, and he and Hamlin have he’s been in since losing his first
the runner-up to Jimmie Johnson combined to win the last five Sprint Cup title in last year’s fi-
in the final points standings, that races at the short track. nale. The15-point lead he took in-
coming in second was a huge step Busch readily admitted that to the final race was swallowed up
for the slumping driver. Hamlin’s tutorials have helped by Johnson, who ended up win-
His finish at his home track was him immensely, and said there ning his fifth consecutive title by
his best this season, first top-five, was something specific he picked 39 points over Hamlin.
and only his second top-10 in nine up from Hamlin’s victory last Sep- It sent Hamlin into a funk he AP PHOTO
races. tember that helped him beat his carried through the offseason but Denny Hamlin (11) and Kyle Bush (18) are side by side in turn two during the NASCAR Sprint Cup
“I’m ecstatic, to be honest with teammate this time around. vowed to break out of before the auto race at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Va., Saturday.
you,” he said after Saturday “Denny did do a nice job at help- new season began. Although his
night’s race. “You can’t be mad at ing me here a little bit last fall,” mood was better, his performance erroneous report this week that a strongly that Ford is the best man “We’ve been through it with all
second place. Yeah, I want to win, Busch said. “I used the informa- was way off. swapping of crews for Hamlin and for Hamlin. of our drivers over the years. So I
trust me. It burns that you didn’t tion. I kind of used it all through- Most glaring was a 12th-place Joey Logano was “imminent,” “I think they have faith in each think to have a good run at a place
win. But how we didn’t win I can out the race.” finish at Martinsville, where he’d something everyone at JGR other,” said team president J.D. where you should run well, I think
live with.” Considering Hamlin has par- won three straight races, and a strongly rebuked. Hamlin has Gibbs, who acknowledged the that was encouraging. I think
Hamlin didn’t win because he’d layed Busch’s insider information 15th at Texas, where he won both stood by crew chief Mike Ford, slow start to the season had worn overall that gives them a little mo-
shared so much information over into improving his own perform- of last season’s races. It led to an and JGR management believes on the No. 11 team. mentum.”

N B A P L AYO F F S S TA N L E Y C U P P L AYO F F S

Bruins have no hole in their net

Thomas is bringing stability
in goal, while the Flyers are
still looking for a solution.
By DAN GELSTON
AP Sports Writer
PHILADELPHIA — Tim Tho-
mas was invisible in last year’s
playoffs, never called on to stop a
Flyers’ comeback that knocked
Boston out of the Eastern Con-
ference semifinals.
Only an injury could keep Tho-
mas out of Boston’s net this post-
season.
Thomas rebounded from off-
season hip surgery and won 35
games, had nine shutouts and is
one of three finalists for the Vezi-
na Trophy, given to the NHL’s top
goalie every year.
AP PHOTO He’s played every minute of
The Miami Heat’s Chris Bosh celebrates as the Boston Celtics Boston’s postseason run — an
call a timeout during the second half of Game 1 of a second- envious stat for a Flyers team
round NBA playoff series Sunday. that has used net roulette
throughout the playoffs.
Timmy, and even Tuukka there,”
UP NEXT Bruins center Brad Marchand
GAME 2 said Sunday. “We have a great
Boston Bruins duo. But at playoff time, it’s so
at Philadelphia Flyers tough because a goalie can get
7: 30 p.m. today
TV Coverage: Versus hot at any time.”
Boston leads series 1-0 Thomas’ defensemen were
stout in front of him in Game 1,
and Thomas wasn’t forced into
The Bruins are counting on his any spectacular saves. Boston’s
improvement to advance to the 5-1 lead was cut to 5-3 before the
conference finals a year after Bruins scored two late goals to
they blew a 3-0 lead against the turn it into a romp.
Flyers. Thomas, a 2010 U.S. “You usually do not have those
Olympian, was a bystander when type of leads in the playoffs so it
the Bruins suffered their melt- was nice, but we didn’t have that
down. lead all game,” Thomas said. “It
It was a big bump in the career was still a playoff game, and Phil-
path for one of the top goalies in ly is known for their comebacks,
the NHL. even within games, so you have
Thomas won the Vezina two to be on your toes.”
years ago and signed a five-year Thomas allowed five goals in
contract extension in spring the first two games of the first-
2009. But he slumped to a17-18-8 round series against Montreal,
record with a 2.56 goals-against both losses. When he settled
average and .915 save percentage down, so did the Bruins, who
last season and lost his job to Tu- eliminated Montreal in seven
ukka Rask. games.
The Flyers made their fourth
goalie change in eight playoff
games, a staggering number for a
team that spent a chunk of the
season leading the Eastern Con-
ference.
Boucher has been the goat as a
starter and a star reliever — he
won two games off the bench ver-
sus the Sabres.
He’s wants that Game 2 start.
“I will prepare the same way I
do every day and we will see
what happens,” Boucher said
Sunday. “I think there are only so
many times you can make a
change before you run out of nine
lives.”
Flyers coach Peter Laviolette
declined to reveal his Game 2
starter.
Boucher said Laviolette has
reasons other than ineffective-
ness for benching the goalie.
“It’s always a wakeup call for
the team,” Boucher said. “You al-
ways seem to get a bit of a boost
after there’s a goalie change. I

Wade, Jones are hot

Game 2 is today in Philadel- Thomas played in just three of “What you saw early in the first think that’s why coaches are so
phia. Boston’s final 12 regular-season round was not indicative, like the apt to do that. That seems to be
Thomas had 31 saves in Bos- games and didn’t make a playoff rest of our team, (of us) when we one of the last things they can do,
ton’s 7-3 Game 1 win over Phila- appearance. made uncharacteristic mis- as opposed to yelling at the guys

as Heat top Celtics

delphia in this year’s East semis Rask was in net for all seven takes,” Julien said. or calling a timeout.”
and gives the Bruins the durabil- games of last year’s series with Julien never wavered on his Laviolette would love to have a
ity and stability needed to make a the Flyers, when Boston became No. 1 starter. No. 1 guy and stick with him.
deep postseason run. the third NHL to blow a 3-0 best- The Flyers have been stymied Consider, Phillies starting pitch-
The Associated Press “He was very comfortable of-seven series lead and fail to ad- in finding the answer to the most ers have three complete games,
MIAMI — Dwyane Wade
Thibodeau wins from the start,” Boston coach vance. valuable position on the ice. one less than the Flyers’ goalies
knew his regular-season num- Coach of the Year Claude Julien said. “But that is Thomas intends to finish the Brian Boucher allowed five have in the postseason. The
bers against Boston were lack- DEERFIELD, Ill. — Tom just Tim getting better and better job this season. goals and some soft rebounds be- Flyers also failed to earn a shut-
ing. Thibodeau is the NBA’s Coach as these playoffs move forward.” “We’re pretty fortunate to have fore he was replaced in Game 1. out this season.
of the Year after leading the
He also knew that wouldn’t
Chicago Bulls to 62 wins in his
matter in the playoffs. first season to tie a league

Lightning strike in OT
And Game 1 — which record set by Paul Westphal.
seemed more like Round 1 — The winner was announced
of what’s already an emotional- at news conference in Chicago
ly charged series went to Wade for Sunday afternoon.

to even series vs. Caps

and the Miami Heat. The Chicago Tribune first
reported Thibodeau’s
Wade scored 38 points on 14 selection, which was no
of 21 shooting, James Jones set surprise given what the Bulls
a Miami postseason record accomplished. An NBA
with 25 points off the bench, assistant for about two The Associated Press Lecavalier, who flipped the
and the Heat beat the Celtics decades, Thibodeau finally got WASHINGTON — Vincent puck over rookie goalie Michal
99-90 on Sunday to open their his chance to lead a team Lecavalier scored his second Neuvirth to end the game.
after spending three seasons
Eastern Conference semifinal working for Doc Rivers in
goal of the game 6:19 into over- Taking a page out of Ovech-
series. Boston. time, and the Tampa Bay Light- kin’s celebration playbook,
“It’s a big game. It’s Game 1, He replaced the fired Vinny ning beat the top-seeded Wash- Lecavalier jumped into the
at home,” Wade said. Del Negro in June, and with a ington Capitals 3-2 Sunday glass behind the net before
“You’ve got to take care of rebuilt roster and an night for a 2-0 lead in the East- being surrounded by team-
home court. These guys expect emphasis on defense, the ern Conference semifinals. mates.
Bulls breezed to a 62-20 . Tampa Bay................................. 1 0 1 1 — 3
this from me. I wasn’t giving it Fifth-seeded Tampa Bay Washington ............................... 0 1 1 0 — 2
to them in the regular season appeared headed for a much First Period–1, Tampa Bay, Lecavalier 3 (St. AP PHOTO
Louis, Malone), 19:01 (pp). Penalties—Knuble,
versus them and I wanted to the Memphis Grizzlies over- simpler victory, leading 2-1 in Was (interference), 7:14;Downie, TB (holding), Washington right wing Boyd Gordon, left, battles for the puck
come out today and be a lead- powered the Oklahoma City the third period, but two-time 9:04;B.Jones, TB (tripping), 12:11;Clark, TB with Tampa Bay goalie Dwayne Roloson during the first period
(cross-checking), 14:08;Ovechkin, Was (high-
er.” Thunder inside for a victory in NHL MVP Alex Ovechkin sticking), 17:56. Stanley Cup hockey playoff game Sunday in Washington.
LeBron James finished with the opening game of the West- forced the extra period by scor- Second Period—2, Washington, Laich 1
(Backstrom, Erskine), 14:52. Penalties—Malone,
22 points, six rebounds and ern Conference semifinals. ing with 67 seconds left in TB (high-sticking), 1:33;Bergeron, TB (hooking), take a 2-0 lead over Detroit in starting Wednesday night.
4:17;Green, Was (roughing), 6:02;Bergenheim,
five assists for Miami. Just as they did in a surpris- regulation. TB (hooking), 11:00;Schultz, Was (holding),
the Western Conference semi- The Red Wings got a power-
BOSTON (90): Pierce 6-14 4-6 19, Garnett
3-9 0-0 6, J.O’Neal 3-6 3-3 9, Rondo 3-10 2-2 8, ing first-round upset of top- Dwayne Roloson made 35 15:28. final series. play goal from Henrik Zetter-
Allen 9-13 2-2 25, Davis 2-5 0-0 4, West 3-9 2-2 Third Period—3, Tampa Bay, St. Louis 5
10, Krstic 0-1 0-0 0, Green 3-8 1-3 9. Totals seeded San Antonio, Randolph saves as the Lightning won (Purcell), 7:35. 4, Washington, Ovechkin 4 White scored on a power play berg with 6:02 remaining, but
32-75 14-18 90.
MIAMI (99): James 8-19 5-9 22, Bosh 3-10
and Gasol provided enough their fifth consecutive game — (Arnott, Laich), 18:52. Penalties—Green, Was in the first period and Wallin couldn’t net the equalizer.
(roughing), 8:32. Detroit............................................... 0 0 1 — 1
1-2 7, Ilgauskas 0-2 0-0 0, Bibby 1-4 0-0 3, Wade
14-21 8-9 38, Anthony 0-1 2-2 2, Jones 5-7
punch to give eighth-seeded and their fifth in a row on the First Overtime—5, Tampa Bay, Lecavalier 4 extended the lead early in the San Jose.......................................... 1 0 1 — 2
10-10 25, Chalmers 1-4 0-0 2, Miller 0-0 0-0 0. Memphis a road victory in road. (Purcell, R.Jones), 6:19. Penalties—None.
Shots on Goal—Tampa Bay 6-3-11-3—23.
third period as the Sharks put First Period—1, San Jose, I.White 1 (Heatley,
Totals 32-68 26-32 99. Clowe), 4:54 (pp). Penalties—Clowe, SJ (rough-
Boston ................................................14222628—90 Game 1. The series now shifts to Tam- Washington 11-16-5-5—37. together two of their best back- ing), :59; Abdelkader, Det (high-sticking), 3:11;
Miami ..................................................20312523—99 MEMPHIS (114) Power-play opportunities—Tampa Bay 1 of
3-Point Goals—Boston 12-24 (Allen 5-8, Young 3-7 0-0 6, Randolph 12-22 9-9 34, pa for Game 3 on Tuesday, 5;Washington 0 of 6.
to-back games to jump on top Ferriero, SJ, double minor (high-sticking), 6:23;
Pierce 3-7, Green 2-4, West 2-5), Miami 9-19 Gasol 9-11 2-4 20, Conley 5-13 5-6 15, Allen Bertuzzi, Det (roughing), 16:08; Vlasic, SJ
(Jones 5-7, Wade 2-5, James 1-3, Bibby 1-3, 5-10 2-4 12, Battier 4-9 2-2 11, Mayo 2-7 1-1 6, followed by Game 4 the next Goalies—Tampa Bay, Roloson 6-3-0 (37 of the Red Wings for the second (roughing), 16:08; Zetterberg, Det (high-sticking),
shots-35 saves). Washington, Neuvirth 4-3-0
Chalmers 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—
Boston 42 (Garnett 8), Miami 47 (Bosh 12).
Arthur 2-7 2-2 6, Vasquez 2-3 0-0 4. Totals 44-89
23-28 114.
night. (23-20). straight year. 17:27.
Second Period—None. Penalties—Holm-
Assists—Boston 18 (Rondo 7), Miami 17 (Wade,
James 5). Total Fouls—Boston 24, Miami 21.
OKLAHOMA CITY (101)
Durant 11-21 8-11 33, Ibaka 7-14 2-2 16,
On the winning goal, the A—18,398 (18,398). T—2:50. The determined Sharks have strom, Det (holding), 2:27; Pavelski, SJ (in-
Referees—Chris Lee, Tim Peel. Linesmen— terference), 3:29; Bertuzzi, Det (roughing), 6:36;
Technicals—Pierce 2, West, Boston defensive Perkins 1-3 0-0 2, Westbrook 9-23 10-12 29, Lightning caught the Capitals Scott Driscoll, Brad Kovachik. won 10 of 12 games against Eager, SJ (roughing), 6:36; Eager, SJ, mis-
three second 2, Jones, Wade. Flagrant Fouls— Sefolosha 2-2 1-1 5, Collison 2-3 1-2 5, Mo-
J.O’Neal. Ejected—Pierce. A—20,021 (19,600). hammed 0-1 0-0 0, Harden 2-5 0-0 5, Maynor 0-3 in the middle of a line change. Detroit. conduct, 8:37; Rafalski, Det (delay of game), 9:33.
3-4 3, Cook 1-3 0-0 3. Totals 35-78 25-32 101. Third Period—2, San Jose, Wallin 1 (Clowe,
Memphis..........................................28292730—114 Tampa Bay defenseman Randy Sharks 2, Red Wings 1 Jimmy Howard was again Couture), 1:39. 3, Detroit, Zetterberg 1 (Datsyuk,
Grizzlies 114, Thunder 101 Oklahoma City................................24232430—101
3-Point Goals—Memphis 3-8 (Battier 1-1, Jones — playing in his first SAN JOSE, Calif. — Defense- strong for the Red Wings, mak- Holmstrom), 13:58 (pp). Penalties—Thornton, SJ
(interference), 2:50; Holmstrom, Det (roughing),
OKLAHOMA CITY — Zach Randolph 1-1, Mayo 1-3, Young 0-1, Conley 0-2),
Oklahoma City 6-14 (Durant 3-5, Cook 1-2,
game this postseason because men Ian White and Niclas Wal- ing 35 saves, but he got little 3:27; Setoguchi, SJ (slashing), 13:22.
Randolph had 34 points and 10 Westbrook 1-2, Harden 1-3, Maynor 0-2). Fouled
Out—None. Rebounds—Memphis 53 (Gasol
of an injury to Pavel Kubina in lin scored their first goals of the help from his teammates. The Shots on Goal—Detroit 12-9-13—34. San
Jose 7-19-11—37.
rebounds, Marc Gasol added 13), Oklahoma City 47 (Ibaka, Durant 11). Game 1 — sent a long pass off postseason and Antti Niemi Red Wings hope to change their Power-play opportunities—Detroit 1 of 6;
Assists—Memphis 21 (Conley 7), Oklahoma City San Jose 1 of 5.
20 points and 13 boards, and 16 (Westbrook 6). Total Fouls—Memphis 23, the boards to Teddy Purcell. He made 33 saves to help San Jose fortunes when the series shifts Goalies—Detroit, Howard 4-2-0 (37 shots-35
Oklahoma City 25. A—18,203 (18,203).
then passed it across the ice to to Detroit for Games 3 and 4 saves). San Jose, Niemi 5-2-0 (34-33).
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NATIONAL FORECAST
NATIONAL FORECAST: A frontal boundary extending from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes will

63°
spread precipitation across the East today. Rain and thunderstorms associated with this system will
TODAY TUESDAY
Mostly
WEDNESDAY
Cloudy
fall from the southern Plains, across the Mississippi River and Ohio Valley, and into portions of the
with light Great Lakes and Northeast.
Mostly cloudy, with cloudy, thun-

47° derstorms rain

isolated thunder-
storms 66° 59°
50° 49°

THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 54/44

47/33
Partly Partly Partly Periods 64/51
sunny sunny with sunny, a of rain
62/39
56/43 The month may
a shower shower have changed on
58/39
65° 68° 70° 70° 64/49 the calendar, but
74/60
40° 40° 45° 50° 56/40 the weather pat-
61/34
tern remains
REGIONAL FORECAST TODAY’S SUMMARY 80/57
81/63
much the same.
A stalled front
The Poconos 68/44 49/43
Today’s high/ Syracuse Highs: 59-63. Lows: 46-51. Cloudy, chance will keep show-
60/42
Tonight’s low of showers, thunderstorms possible. 73/48
ers, and maybe a
Albany
63/48 thunderstorm in
53/35 87/72 85/78
the forecast for
Binghamton The Jersey Shore 49/39 the first few
59/42 Highs: 60-65. Lows: 53-54. Mostly cloudy, days of this
slight chance of isolated showers. City Yesterday Today Tomorrow City Yesterday Today Tomorrow week. The best
Towanda
59/43 Anchorage 46/29/.00 53/35/pc 52/35/sh Myrtle Beach 73/57/.00 78/63/pc 81/59/pc chance for show-
Poughkeepsie
Scranton 62/48
Atlanta 80/59/.00 81/63/pc 74/52/pc Nashville 74/62/.68 67/50/t 56/39/r ers will reside
61/49 The Finger Lakes Baltimore 62/47/.03 72/58/pc 72/45/pc New Orleans 88/71/.00 86/71/t 74/58/t north of our
Wilkes-Barre Highs: 55-60. Lows: 39-43. Mostly cloudy, Boston 55/46/.00 59/49/c 57/46/c Norfolk 69/49/.00 78/61/pc 81/56/pc
62/50 Buffalo 64/53/.01 55/41/sh 49/37/sh Oklahoma City 62/43/.66 56/38/sh 71/46/s
area. We may
chance of showers. see a little sun,
Charlotte 78/55/.00 83/61/pc 82/51/pc Omaha 63/41/.00 61/34/pc 68/49/s
Pottsville New York City Chicago 63/53/.00 58/39/pc 52/37/pc Orlando 87/64/.00 89/67/pc 89/67/pc but the showers
State College 62/46
65/45
64/51 Cleveland 66/54/.16 53/42/sh 48/38/sh Phoenix 76/61/.00 87/60/s 94/66/s can't be ruled
Brandywine Valley Dallas 72/51/.04 49/43/r 70/48/s Pittsburgh 61/52/.21 67/47/t 53/38/sh out. By
Reading Denver 48/32/.00 56/40/c 72/43/s Portland, Ore. 60/38/.00 60/43/sh 60/43/sh
Harrisburg 66/53 Highs: 66-67. Lows: 46-55. Mostly cloudy. Wednesday a
68/50 Detroit 69/52/.40 56/43/sh 51/42/sh St. Louis 66/54/.00 60/43/c 62/43/pc
Honolulu 83/72/.01 87/72/r 85/74/r Salt Lake City 53/32/.00 60/44/pc 65/43/c larger area of
Philadelphia
67/55 Houston 89/77/.00 73/48/t 73/49/pc San Antonio 91/76/.00 59/44/sh 74/45/s low pressure will
Indianapolis 70/61/.21 57/44/sh 55/38/sh San Diego 81/57/.00 85/58/s 90/61/s develop along
Atlantic City Delmarva/Ocean City Las Vegas 69/54/.00 77/56/s 86/63/s San Francisco 72/47/.00 72/48/pc 74/52/s the stalled front,
65/53 Highs: 65-72. Lows: 54-61. Partly to Los Angeles 81/65/.00 80/57/s 79/59/s Seattle 58/39/.00 54/44/sh 56/46/sh
Miami 87/76/.00 85/78/pc 85/74/pc Tampa 87/68t/.00 89/70/pc 90/65/pc and bring us
mostly cloudy.
Milwaukee 63/48/.04 52/35/pc 48/36/pc Tucson 71/48/.00 81/54/s 93/60/s periods of light
Minneapolis 43/33/.00 47/33/c 58/44/s Washington, DC 61/51/.01 74/60/pc 75/45/pc rain with cloudy
ALMANAC Recorded at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Int’l Airport skies through
WORLD CITIES the midweek.
Temperatures Precipitation River Levels, from 12 p.m. yesterday. City Yesterday Today Tomorrow City Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Yesterday 70/45 Yesterday 0.00” Susquehanna Stage Chg. Fld. Stg Forecasts, graphs Temperatures
Average 66/43 Month to date 0.00” Wilkes-Barre 17.70 -4.17 22.0 and data ©2011 Amsterdam 66/46/.00 56/37/s 56/36/s Mexico City 84/59/.00 83/58/t 79/54/sh will come in a lit-
Record High 88 in 1942 Normal month to date 0.11” Towanda 11.27 -2.44 21.0 Weather Central, LP Baghdad 84/64/.00 89/68/pc 89/67/pc Montreal 68/41/.00 57/44/sh 54/40/c
Beijing 81/61/.00 79/53/s 74/51/s Moscow 54/37/.00 64/48/pc 70/48/s
tle closer to nor-
Record Low 29 in 1978 Year to date 16.95” Lehigh
Heating Degree Days* Normal year to date 10.62” For more weather Berlin 59/41/.00 53/35/pc 51/35/pc Paris 72/50/.00 69/46/pc 63/40/pc mal this week,
Bethlehem 5.50 3.18 16.0
Yesterday 7 Sun and Moon Delaware information go to: Buenos Aires 59/50/.00 63/40/s 66/45/s Rio de Janeiro 95/77/.00 85/74/t 82/70/t with 60s, instead
Month to date 7 Sunrise Sunset Port Jervis 7.27 -1.02 18.0 www.timesleader.com Dublin 59/46/.00 60/44/sh 59/41/pc Riyadh 95/75/.00 95/73/s 97/73/s of the 80s we
Year to date 6034 Today 6:00a 8:02p Frankfurt 68/48/.00 61/39/pc 58/35/s Rome 68/52/.00 74/54/sh 72/55/sh saw last week.
Last year to date 5586 Tomorrow 5:59a 8:03p New First Full Last National Weather Service Hong Kong 86/77/.00 85/75/pc 84/76/t San Juan 80/73/1.22 82/74/t 84/74/t
Normal year to date 5973 Moonrise Moonset 607-729-1597 Jerusalem 73/55/.02 81/56/pc 79/55/s Tokyo 70/59/.00 73/54/s 72/54/sh - Ryan Coyle
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