Lorain/Elyria, OH
Archive for July 12th, 2008
Shining brightly: Cliff Lee notches 12th win, makes strong case to start All-Star Game
CLEVELAND — Cliff Lee made his closing argument Friday night to start for the American League in the upcoming All-Star Game. It added to an already strong case from the left-hander. In his final outing prior to the All-Star break, Lee continued his brilliant bounce-back season, pitching the Indians to a 5-0 [...]
Tribe notes: Carmona gets go-ahead to begin rehab
CLEVELAND — Fausto Carmona has been cleared to begin a rehab assignment. “By all accounts, everything was good from (Thursday),” said Indians manager Eric Wedge of Carmona’s simulated game at Progressive Field. “He should be good to go early next week.” Carmona, who has been on the injured list [...]
Little League baseball: Elyria opens strong, rips Miami in Big League state tournament opener
ELYRIA — Even without the strong hitting and the gifts handed to it, Elyria would have been tough to beat in Friday’s first-round game of the Big League state tournament at George Day Field. Seth Harshberger was the reason. Harshberger, a senior at Elyria High School, scattered six hits over six innings [...]
OGSO district finals: Midview’s Stone throws perfect game, outduels Ridgeville’s Andrews, who fires one-hitter in loss
LAGRANGE — It was the game of the tournament to this point and one that neither team should have had to lose.But in a memorable pitchers’ duel, Midview Royal Sports scored an unearned run in the top of the seventh inning to nip North Ridgeville 1-0 in an OGSO Class B (ages 12 and under) [...]
Arena Football League: Redemption is Gladiators’ goal in conference final battle with Philadelphia
CLEVELAND — Who would have thought a piece of advice in a song written for his band’s 2000 Crush CD might come back to haunt Jon Bon Jovi a little more than eight years after its release? Bon Jovi’s hit “It’s My Life” talks about people who rise up in the face of opposition [...]
Mixed Martial Arts: Elyria’s Washington gets draw, then collapses from “extreme fatigue,” according to manager
SHEFFIELD — Marcus Washington fought out of a pair of arm bars, a deep triangle choke and a third round filled with flurries of punches to come away with a technical draw during Round 2 of the Quaker Fight Series on Friday night. Washington, a 170-pound fighter with Elyria’s Team [...]
Softball notes: SunDogs piling up the state tournament titles
The Elyria SunDogs, who won the ASA state championship last month, added the NSA state title last weekend in Cincinnati. They didn’t know it at the time, but the ’Dogs had all the runs they needed when they scored twice in the first inning of the championship game. They held on for a 2-1 [...]
Little League Juniors baseball: Elyria East feasts on fast start, downs Elyria West for district title
ELYRIA — Yogi Berra used to say, “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.” West’s All-Stars may want to subscribe to Yogi’s philosophy following Friday’s 12-6 Juniors (ages 13-14) Little League district championship loss to East at Vic Janowicz Park. But Yogi was also quoted as saying “it gets late early,” and when [...]
Oct. 14 execution date set for Cooey
NORTH RIDGEVILLE — The Ohio Supreme Court on Friday scheduled an Oct. 14 execution date for convicted killer Richard Cooey.That’s a day that cannot come soon enough for Bob McCreery of North Ridgeville, whose daughter, Dawn McCreery, was one of Cooey’s victims.
“I’ll definitely be there. I want to see him get the needle put in [...]
William Robert Cooley
William Robert “Bob” Cooley, 85, of Lake Wales, Fla., passed away Saturday, June 7, 2008, at the home of his granddaughter, Sharon Smulin, in Winter Haven, Florida.
Bob was born February 7, 1923, in Oberlin. He graduated from Elyria High School in [...]