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Sports
JL WEDNESDAY • APRIL 4,2018
Inside:
BACA shooting
Bertie baseball
■ Church Briefs
David Friedman
Sports help
make dreams
come true
One of the things
I appreciate most
about sports is how
it so often provides
an almost ideal mix
of the personalities
and environments re
quired to create hero
ic moments and allow
dreams to come true.
That’s exactly what
happened last week
when a 36-year-old ac
countant in Chicago
made his professional
hockey debut.
Scott Foster last
played organized
hockey when he was
at Western Michigan
in 2005.
Since then he has
focused on his ca
reer, started a family
and continued play
ing hockey when he
can in what they call
beer leagues. They’re
essentially recreation
leagues where fel
las get together, play
some hockey and then
go drink beer. Hence
the name.
He and a few other
guys won a public try
out with the Chicago
Blackhawks that al
lows them to attend
about 15 games a year
and be available in
case the first and sec
ond string goalie can’t
play. He serves as the
emergency backup
goalie for both teams
and he usually spends
his time in the press
box watching the
game and enjoying
the free food.
That’s not what hap
pened last Thursday
night.
Chicago was already
without their starting
goalie, so they called
up a young prospect
from the AhL by the
name of Collin Delia
to come in and serve
as their second string
goalie. Unfortunately,
their usual second
string goalie, now
their starter, injured
himself prior to the
game.
That meant Delia,
who was playing for
the Rockford IceHogs
two weeks ago, was
going to be starting in
goal for the Chicago
Blackhawks against
the Winnipeg Jets.
That by itself had all
the makings of a won
derful story.
A wonderful story
is exactly what it was
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JIM GREEN / Bertie Ledger-Advance
Lawrence Academy shortstop Lauren'Baker has a determined look as she fires to first base Monday against Bear Grass Charter School.
Comeback falls short
Lady Warriors rally in seventh
but drop Easter title game to Bears
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JIM GREEN
Bertie Ledger-Advance
EASONS CROSSROADS -
The rally came up a lit
tle short.
Lawrence Academy’s
softball team scored
three times in the top of
the seventh inning but
fell 6-3 to Bear Grass
Charter School in the
championship game
of the inaugural Easter
Tournament at Gates
County High School
Monday.
The Bears improved
to 10-2 overall and end
ed a three-game win
streak by the Warriors
(9-3 overall). Two of
Lawrence’s three losses
this season have come
at the hands of Bear
Grass Charter.
Both teams came into
the championship game
having won games over
Gates County and North
eastern on Saturday.
Lawrence trailed 6-0
entering the seventh af
ter stranding nine bas-
erunners through the
first six frames against
Bears’ pitcher Keagan
Wilkerson.
Gracen Rogers led
off the seventh with a
single, and Katlynn Sto-
tesberry followed with
a single past a diving
shortstop Morgan Lee.
Then things got shaky
defensively for the
Bears.
Rebekah Goodwin
reached on an outfield
error to load the bas
es. Wilkerson coaxed a
strikeout, and Lindsay
Smith’s fielder’s choice
plated Rogers, but Lee
threw Stotesberry out
at third (Kaley Silver-
thorne).
Lauren Smith reached
on an infield error to
plate Goodwin, and
Claire Dail reached on
a dropped fly ball in left
to bring home Lindsay
Smith. But Lauren Smith
was thrown out at third
(Brandie Coltrain to Sil-
verthorne) to end the
game.
Lawrence left two
runners on base in the
top of the first inning
(Rogers with a single
and Goodwin with a
walk), but the Warriors
couldn’t get the clutch
hit.
Bear Grass Charter
had no problems get
ting hits, as the Bears
struck for five runs on
five hits and one error
(which plated two of
those runs).
Lauren Baker, who
relieved Stotesberry
on the mound with one
out, got the final out of
the first and then held
Bear Grass to just one
run the rest of the way
- that coming in the bot
tom of the second when
Wilkerson’s two-out
double brought in Ra
chel Hardison (who had
walked).
While the Warriors
had baserunners, they
never could get to Wilk
erson until the seventh.
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JIM GREEN / Bertie Ledger-Advance
Lawrence Academy’s Isabelle Phelps makes an over the shoulder catch against Bear Grass.
Bertie Ledger-Advance congratulates
this week’s Athiete of the Week.
Bertie
Ledger-Advance
Bertie Ledger-Advance
109 S. King St., RO. Box 69
Windsor, NC 27983
Athlete
of the
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BACA
Shooting
Adam Hoggard
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