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Acalanes senior steps up late as ground game keys DAL Foothill victory: ‘They couldn’t freaking stop it’

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:56:26 GMT

WALNUT CREEK — Acalanes’ passing attack has sliced and diced secondaries all season and entered Friday averaging over 300 yards per game.But in the Dons’ 34-14 victory over previously unbeaten Las Lomas, one that put Acalanes in first place in the Diablo Athletic League Foothill Division standings, the Lafayette school didn’t need precision passing.It needed a sledgehammer to break down its Walnut Creek rival and found one in 190-pound linebacker-turned-running back Jack Giorgianni.“Our games have been blowouts, so we’ve never needed him that much until tonight,” Acalanes coach Floyd Burnsed said. “He showed how good he was tonight.”With the score tied at 14-14 entering the fourth quarter and starting RB Jack Miller out with injury, Giorgianni ran the ball five times for 60 yards on the Dons’ drive and punctuated the sequence with an 18-yard run through the heart of the defense.By the time the senior made it into the end zone, he had broken ankles, tackles and a lead with 10:1...

Doughty scores 2 as Kings rally from 3 goals down to beat Coyotes 5-4

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:56:26 GMT

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Drew Doughty scored his second goal of the game with 1:59 remaining and the Los Angeles Kings rallied from three goals down and beat the Arizona Coyotes 5-4 on Friday night.Mikey Anderson, Quinton Byfield and Anze Kopitar also scored for the Kings, who got three goals in the third period to complete a comeback from a 4-1 deficit. Pheonix Copley was pulled after giving up three goals on six shots, and Cam Talbot finished with 17 saves.Coyotes forward Matias Maccelli scored 37 seconds into the game, and J.J. Moser, Jack McBain and Sean Durzi scored in a 69-second span later in the first for the three-goal lead. The Kings controlled play the rest of the way and finally caught up in the third period. Karel Vejmelka had 34 saves.“We were very confident that if we played the right way, took care of defense, that we could come back in that game,” Doughty said. “We just came out really flat early. We were determined to come back and we never game up. We know we can score...

Dominant throughout October, Diamondbacks bullpen falters in World Series Game 1 defeat

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:56:26 GMT

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Paul Sewald watched the end of his first World Series game in the Arizona Diamondbacks clubhouse and the trainer’s room, not from the center of a celebration on the mound as he had imagined.“There’s no worse feeling in this game than being the closer and blowing the save opportunity at the last second,” he said after Arizona’s 6-5, 11-inning loss to Texas on Friday night. “This team battled for 8 1/2 innings and had the lead and my job is to finish games when I get in there and I did not, and it came back to bite us.”Sewald entered with a 5-3 lead against the Rangers in the ninth inning. He started No. 9 hitter Leody Tavares with a called strike but then walked him on four straight fastballs, the first high and the next three outside.After striking out Marcus Semien on a high fastball, Sewald tried to overpower Corey Seager at the top of the strike zone. The 2020 World Series MVP drove the 93.6 mph pitch about two dozen rows into the right-field s...

Maryland awards $4.7M in federal funds aimed at fresh fruit and vegetables for school children

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:56:26 GMT

Maryland’s department of education is using $4.7 million in federal grant money to fund a program geared at expanding students’ access to fresh fruits and vegetables during the school day.The Maryland State Department of Education said it will distribute funds to 213 elementary schools statewide — up from 196 schools during the previous school year — from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program.The program, which is intended to enhance school-based nutrition education initiatives, provides a variety of fresh produce at no charge and encourages students to snack on fruits and vegetables, according to a news release.The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program’s website said the program has been successful in “introducing elementary school children to a variety of produce that they otherwise might not have the opportunity to sample.”Dr. Carey M. Wright, interim superintendent of Maryland schools, said that improving access to fresh...

Postseason Hitting Streaks

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:56:26 GMT

The longest consecutive-game hitting streaks in postseason history (x-active):Player, Team, YearsNo.Hank Bauer, New York (AL), 1956-5817Derek Jeter, New York (AL), 1998-9917Manny Ramirez, Boston (AL), 2003-0417x-Ketel Marte, Arizona (NL), 202317Michael Brantley, Houston (AL), 2020-2116Pat Borders, Toronto (AL), 1991-9316Alcides Escobar, Kansas City (AL), 201515Marquis Grissom, Atlanta (NL, 1995-9615Rickey Henderson, Oakland (AL), 1989-9015Source

2 hospitalized after Fairfax Co. shooting over parking spot dispute

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:56:26 GMT

Detectives in Fairfax County, Virginia, are investigating the Thursday night shooting of two men, which the department said stemmed from a dispute over a parking spot.Fairfax County police said that officers responded to the 14000 block of Golden Oak Road in Centreville just before 11 p.m., after a woman reported that her boyfriend had been shot near the entrance of their residence. Another caller had also reporter that another man had been shot and was laying outside.Officers found a man in the kitchen of his home suffering from gunshot wounds, as well as a second man several town houses down, laying in his foyer and also suffering from gunshot wounds, according to a news release.Both men were transported to the hospital, and remain hospitalized, according to police.Police said two firearms were found at the scene, but did not confirm with WTOP whether both victims involved had shot each other.A map of the area where shooting happened is below. Source

Sampson Zheng shoots 65 to take third-round lead at Asia-Pacific Amateur at Royal Melbourne

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:56:26 GMT

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — In otherwise difficult scoring conditions, Sampson Zheng shot a 6-under 65 at Royal Melbourne on Saturday to take a four-stroke lead into the final round of the Asia-Pacific Amateur.Chinese player Zheng’s three-round total of 3-under 210 was the only score under par in the tournament which awards the winner an invitation to the 2024 Masters and a spot in next year’s British Open at Royal Troon, along with being exempt from qualifying for the British Amateur. Australian Billy Dowling shot 73 and was in second place at 1-over 214. Tied for third, five strokes behind Zheng, were first-round leader Kazuma Kobori of New Zealand, who shot 74 Saturday, and second-round co-leader Ding Wenyi of China, who had a third-round 76.Zheng had an eagle, six birdies and two bogeys on the Royal Melbourne composite course that was last used for international competition at the 2019 Presidents Cup.One of Zheng’s birdies came on the 300-meter (330-yard) par-4 13th ...

Rangers slugger Adolis García gets postseason-record 22nd RBI with walkoff homer in World Series

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:56:26 GMT

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Texas Rangers slugger Adolis García matched the MLB postseason record for RBIs, then broke it with his game-ending home run in the 11th inning of a 6-5 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks in Game 1 of the World Series on Friday night.The solo shot off reliever Miguel Castro gave García 22 RBIs along with homers in five consecutive games, tied for the second-longest streak in postseason history. The 21st RBI came on a run-scoring single in the first inning.The first hit by García put the Rangers ahead 2-0 and matched David Freese’s mark from 2011 when the St. Louis Cardinals won a seven-game World Series against the Rangers. García has driven in runs in seven consecutive postseason games.“Just very happy to be at the opportunity to be in the history books,” García said through a translator. “But like I said as well, just when I’m in the batter’s box, I’m just focused and I tune out everything, every other noise, and I’m just focused on the situation.” ...

Serbian police detain 6 people after deadly shooting between migrants near Hungary border

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:56:26 GMT

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian police have arrested six people and seized automatic weapons after a shooting between migrants near the country’s tense border with Hungary killed three people and injured one. Police said late Friday they detained four Afghan and two Turkish nationals suspected of unlawful possession of guns and explosives. It was not immediately clear whether they would be charged with the shooting as well.The suspected clash between groups of migrants happened early Friday in abandoned farming warehouses near the village of Horgos. Police raided the area and seized two automatic rifles and ammunition. They also found 79 migrants and transferred them to reception centers, the statement said.Reports of violence and gunbattles have become common near the border between Serbia and European Union member nation Hungary. Thousands of migrants have been camping in the area, looking for ways to cross with the help of people smugglers.Serbian police have raided the bor...

Islamic State group claims responsibility for an explosion in Afghanistan, killing 4

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:56:26 GMT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for an explosion in a Shiite Muslim neighborhood in Afghanistan’s capital that killed at least four people.Seven others were critically wounded in the attack Thursday evening, according to Khalid Zadran, a spokesman for the Kabul police chief.Islamic State affiliates claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement late Friday through its news agency Aamaq, saying it “managed to leave a booby-trapped suitcase” inside a Shiite gathering place that exploded, killing and wounding about 35 people and inflicting heavy damage on a sports club.Video taken after the explosion shows part of a building with its windows blown out and a fire inside. Shattered glass and other debris are strewn across the street below.The scale of the damage was clearer Friday morning. There were craters in the ground and most of the interior was gutted. Workers picked their way through boxing gloves and gym equipment on the blood-splattere...