Lorain/Elyria, OH
Archive for May, 2009
Regional Softball: Elyria returns to Final Four, gets another shot at title
CLYDE — After three years of defeat and frustration, Tess Sito and Elyria’s other seniors get a fourth and final shot at a state softball championship next week.
Sito struck out 14 and stroked a crucial seventh-inning double and the Pioneers finally put Oregon Clay to rest, 4-1, on Saturday to win a fourth straight Division [...]
Cavaliers Playoffs: Dream season ends with nightmare loss
The Associated Press
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Orlando Magic can no longer be ignored. After 14 frustrating years, a team overlooked and ignored all season sent LeBron James home and is on its way to face Kobe Bryant in the NBA Finals.
Dwight Howard dominated inside for 40 points, Rashard Lewis added 18 and the Magic, a [...]
Cavaliers commentary: Add ‘The Flop’ to list of Cleveland disappointments
Cleveland sports fans have seen “The Drive” and “The Fumble” and “The Shot” … and a ton of other moments that didn’t receive a nickname but ripped out the heart of the city.
Now you can add “The Flop.”
No, not the defensive maneuver Anderson Varejao — and Ben Wallace and Mo Williams, according to Orlando coach [...]
Indians: CC Sabathia returns to Cleveland, shuts down Tribe
CLEVELAND — It was home sweet second home for CC Sabathia on Saturday night.
Back in Cleveland, where he spent the first 10-plus years of his career, Sabathia was in the comfort zone, helping the Yankees to a 10-5 victory in front of 34,396 fans at Progressive Field — many of them wearing the Bronx Bombers’ [...]
Regional Softball: Keystone misses state trip for 2nd straight season
Dan Gilles
The Chronicle-Telegram
BUCYRUS — Last year, a promising Keystone softball season came to a surprising end at Bucyrus High School in the Division II regional championship.
On Saturday, Keystone came back to the scene of the crime in hope of exorcising those demons.
Unfortunately for the Wildcats, history repeated itself.
A two-run third inning by Belleville Clear Fork [...]
Regional Track: LaMar, Coolidge run to titles, head to state
RAVENNA — Firelands junior Cory LaMar, Elyria Catholic sophomore Marty Coolidge and Bay freshman Bridget Doughty brought home regional titles from Saturday’s Division II track and field meet at Ravenna High School.
A three-time regional qualifier, LaMar clocked a school-record time of 49.16 in winning the 400 meters.
“It’s amazing,” LaMar said. “From district champ to regional [...]
H.S. Baseball: Vermilion’s Clark awarded with Mr. Baseball
The voters didn’t hold his injury against him. Tim Clark, despite playing less than half a season for the Vermilion Sailors, was named Lorain County’s Mr. Baseball for 2009 at the county all-star game Saturday at All Pro Freight Stadium.
Clark’s season lasted less than a month. The left-handed pitcher headed for Cleveland State University next [...]
Indians notes: A pitcher looks like the pick in first round
CLEVELAND — It sounds as though the Indians are leaning toward taking a pitcher with their first-round choice — 15th overall — in the amateur draft
(June 9-11).
“It’s pretty pitcher-heavy,” Cleveland’s director of amateur scouting, Brad Grant, said of this year’s draft class, headlined by power pitcher Stephen Strasburg, a right-hander from San Diego State whose [...]
Obituaries for May 31, 2009
James P. McGuinn
Irene E. Burns
Thomas G. Adams Sr.
Thomas Joseph Long
Margaret A. Uszak
Deborah Ann Crawford
Elizabeth M. Garbak
Bernice Harris
Floyd Leonard Herchler
Read the full obituaries on The Chronicle E-edition at:
http://elyriachronicletelegram.oh.newsmemory.com
EHS class of 2009 graduates underneath blue skies
ELYRIA — Elyria High School’s class of 2009, the largest since the early 1990s, must have had an “in” with the weather gods.
The class of 452, along with their teachers, family, friends and others, enjoyed a picture-perfect evening Saturday beneath nearly cloudless blue skies and temperatures in the 70s.
As the last commencement exercises to take [...]