Archive for May 30th, 2008
Division I regional baseball semifinal: Amherst holds off No. 2 St. Ignatius for a little while before falling 11-1
SHELBY — Logan Bruce lived on the razor’s edge for three innings. Bruce, Amherst’s starting pitcher, worked out of some precarious situations during Thursday’s Division I regional semifinal at W.W. Skiles Field. He escaped first and second with no outs in the first inning. He worked out of a bases-loaded, no-outs situation in the second. [...]
Fixing Rafael: Tribe’s Betancourt has to start pitching inside, Wedge stresses
CLEVELAND — What’s wrong with Rafael Betancourt? The right-hander has gone from top-shelf setup man to unreliable late-inning reliever in less than a calendar year, with his struggles over the first two months of the regular season serving as yet another reminder of the fickle nature of bullpen work. Betancourt, one of the Indians’ most [...]
Head clear, game in gear: Goggin leads Memorial after 65, which is a lot better than the first time he played course
DUBLIN — Mathew Goggin’s first round at Muirfield Village Golf Club ended after eight holes. He wasn’t injured, rained out or disqualified. He was hungover. Goggin made better use of his second trip to Muirfield, shooting a 7-under-par 65 Thursday to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Memorial Tournament. Kenny Perry [...]
Memorial notes: Rose remembers his breakout moment at 1998 British Open
DUBLIN — Justin Rose is 27 years old and a veteran of 10 professional seasons. But he may be best remembered for a fourth-place finish at the British Open as a 17-year-old amateur in 1998. Rose, who lives in England, recently returned to Royal Birkdale for the first time since bursting onto the scene. “It [...]
Area tennis players facing tough draw: State qualifiers have to take on past champions in first round
The three area tennis players who earned trips to the Division I state tournament this weekend knew that they were going to face some stiff competition. They just weren’t expecting to meet state champions in their opening matches this morning. Avon Lake senior Alex Trzeciak will face Cincinnati St. Xavier senior Patrick Bandy in the [...]
Soccer: Brad Friedel’s Premier Soccer Academy introduces first non-resident class
LORAIN — Brad Friedel’s Premier Soccer Academy (PSA) celebrated another first Thursday with the introduction of its non-resident class. Five players from Amherst, Avon Lake, North Olmsted, Westlake and Strongsville signed letters of intent in front of their families. They will be part of the Academy’s second class and will receive the same professional training [...]
Charles D. Stickler
Charles D. Stickler, 78, of Lorain, died Thursday, May 29, 2008 at Community Health Partners Hospital and Surgical Center West, Lorain. Further arrangements are incomplete and will be announced tomorrow.
Division II regional track: Avon’s Bushong blows away competition, captures discus title
Avon senior Alex Bushong won the discus title at the Ravenna Division II regional track meet in convincing fashion. Bushong crushed the nearest competition by more than 17 feet as he tossed the discus 167 feet, 6 inches. It was a personal record by 5 feet. Bay junior Dayna Rohlke earned her second straight ticket [...]
Horse racing: Big Brown’s trainer says Triple Crown is ‘foregone conclusion’
NEW YORK — Trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. held nothing back, saying it’s a “foregone conclusion” Big Brown will win the Triple Crown. What’s more, he insists that Smarty Jones, the last horse to try for racing’s biggest prize, lost the Belmont Stakes because his connections “were not smart.” Asked if he was getting nervous in [...]
Nellie Meints
Nellie Meints, 97, of Oberlin died, May 25, 2008, at Kendal at Oberlin. Dicken Funeral Home, Elyria, Ohio is in charge of arrangements.
Amherst teen memorialized with granite bench
AMHERST — When he was 10 years old, Matthew Hewitt’s mother gave him a present — one of her kidneys. On Thursday, she dedicated another — a mahogany-colored granite bench that will forever greet students and others as they enter Marion L. Steele High School, where Matthew would now be spending his final days before [...]
Speller misses out, but she’s glad to be in D.C.
Ashley Terry was heading to the Smithsonian Museum on Thursday afternoon. Ashley, an eighth-grader at Sailorway Middle School in Vermilion, added a visit to the famed galleries to her schedule after she missed out on the chance to move on to the quarterfinals in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Not that she was alone. Of [...]
Sky is the limit for JVS grads
LORAIN — A teacher asked her students to stand at the edge of a tall cliff. They said they were too afraid. Again, she told them to stand at the edge. But the students said it was too high and they might fall. Then, she demanded they come to the edge. Finally, they relented. And [...]
Windstream to the rescue: Company donates fire equipment
COLUMBIA TWP. — Thanks to Windstream Corp., the Columbia Volunteer Fire Department now has several new pieces of life-saving equipment worth $3,000. On May 15, Windstream employees delivered two flotation buoyancy control devices, two redundant air supplies, two rescue harnesses and smoke detectors to Columbia Fire Chief Ray Anthony. The supplies were purchased from Ron [...]
Grafton/LaGrange/Columbia Notebook: May 30, 2008
Benefit for Cleveland Sight Center Lloyd and Judy Miller of Grafton know the value of the Cleveland Sight Center’s services. “Our grandson has been a client there since he was 6 months old,” Judy Miller said. As part of the center’s awareness and fund-raising plan, the annual White Cane Walk will be 9 a.m. to [...]
‘We could have blown up’
Safety crews say leak at Elyria Gas USA had explosive potential in sewers, houses
Similar situation had explosive result in 1973
The leak at Gas USA is not the first of its kind in Elyria, or even the worst, Elyria Interim Fire Chief Joseph Pronesti said. A similar situation in October 1973 caused an explosion on Seneca Avenue after more than 1,500 gallons leaked from a nearby Certified Oil station, he said. Seneca is off Lowell [...]
Veronica Golematis
Veronica Golematis (nee Ksenich), 90, of Lorain, died Monday May 26, 2008 at Community Health Partners Hospital in Lorain after a brief illness. She was born May 22, 1918 in Lorain and had been a lifelong Lorain area resident. Veronica attended Lorain High School. She worked as a cashier at the Hills Department Store on [...]
Jessie F. Shackett
Jessie F. (nee McNeese) Shackett, 84, of Elyria, went to be with the Lord on Wednesday morning, May 28, 2008 at Northridge Health Center in North Ridgeville. She was born November 11, 1923 in Fairmont , West Virginia and had lived most of her life in Elyria. Jessie was musically talented and played piano on [...]
How city and county responded to the danger
County emergency response teams went door-to-door Thursday night giving warnings and instructions to residents affected by the Gas USA fuel leak. The teams explained that the drinking water was not contaminated and that no explosive levels of gasoline vapor had been found inside homes — only in sewers. No one was forced to evacuate, but [...]
Eugene Evans Peters
Eugene Evans Peters, 70, of LaGrange, died Saturday, January 5, 2008. He was born in Elyria, and had lived in the Elyria and LaGrange his entire life.A graveside service was held Saturday, May 24, 2008 at Spencer Cemetery in Spencer. Arrangements were handled by the Bauer-Laubenthal Funeral Home, Elyria.
How crews determined the unsafe levels
Any chemical can be ignited if the concentration is high enough, and the level of gasoline vapor rose to a point on Thursday that any spark would have caused an explosion, Elyria Assistant Fire Chief Ron Brlas said. Firefighters use special meters to test for how much gas is in the air. The readings range [...]
Police seek suspect in kidnap try
Eight-year-old Elyria student said man tried to get her in his car
Emma Husband
Emma Husband (nee Palagyi), 90, of Elyria, died Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at Life Care Center of Elyria. Mrs. Husband was born in Calumet, Michigan April 23, 1918. She lived in Elyria most of her life. She is a graduate of Elyria High School, with the mid-year class in 1937. She attended Elyria Business College [...]
Woman goes from captive to captivating
VIENNA, Austria — Television was once her only window on the world. Now Natascha Kampusch — still adjusting to life after spending 8½ years captive in an underground cell — is starting an improbable career as a TV talk show host. Less than two years after staging a dramatic escape while her captor was distracted [...]