Two Windsor high school baseball teams will battle it out this morning for a spot in OFSAA’s Prentice Cup at the Rogers Centre next week.
The defending Prentice Cup champs from Holy Names will face their WECSSAA final foes from Essex today in the OFSAA East Regional final at Mic Mac Park’s Cullen Field at 11:45 a.m.
The door to a Cup berth doesn’t close with a loss, however.
While the winner moves on to Toronto, the loser of this game can still grab the region’s second berth in an afternoon game against whoever survived through the loser’s side of the draw.
Both Holy Names and Essex went unbeaten at 2-0 Wednesday.
The Knights won their opener 19-0 over a Stratford St. Michael’s team coached by Windsor native Tom Valcke and then they took a 1-0 nail biter from Unionville’s Bill Crothers in the afternoon.
The Red Raiders defeated Orchard Park 11-1 in the morning and downed St. Michael’s College 3-2 in extra innings in the afternoon.
According to international rules when a game goes to extra innings, the Raiders started the winning rally in the bottom of the eighth with a runner, Kyle Tremblay, on second.
Tremblay stole third and scored the decisive run on Jonah Feurth’s single up the middle.
Winning pitcher Corey Lemire ignited an inning-ending double play against St. Michael’s in their half of the eighth.
Holy Names and Crothers were locked in a scoreless pitchers duel between the Knights’ Rex Romero and Crothers’ Geoff Seto.
The Knights finally scratched out a run in the bottom of the fifth when Connor Soulliere reached on a single, moved to second on a wild pitch and to third on a well-executed bunt by Brent Rankin.
Soulliere scored from there on Jake Lumley’s single up the middle.
“That’s the ups and downs of OFSAA,” third baseman Spencer Church said.
“You never know who you’re going to get so you have to bring the same intensity no matter what.”
Church went three-for-four with four RBIs in a lopsided opener.
Fifteen-year-old Romero was the winning pitcher as the starter of both games Wednesday. He threw two innings against Stratford and a stellar six against Crothers, allowing four hits while striking out five.
Soulliere pitched through a seventh-inning scare when Crothers got the tying run as far as third base.
“My arm felt really good today so I wanted to try (and pitch the second game),” Romero said.
His double dip gives Holy Names plenty of pitching options today.
“He saved us a lot pitching,” Church said of Romero.
“For a young guy like him to step up like a veteran was huge.”
Source: www.windsorstar.com
Essex: Man dies after two-vehicle crash - East Anglian Daily Times
Police are at the scene of a fatal accident
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
11:14 AM
A MAN has died a two-vehicle accident in north Essex this morning.
Essex police officers were called to the scene in Bolford Street, Debden Green, at 7.50am and discovered the crash involced a car and a Range Rover.
The car driver, a man believed to be in his 50s, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The road is expected to remain closed for several hours while police carry out initial investigations into the crash.
Officers from the Essex police serious collision investigation unit have appealed for witnesses who have not yet spoken to them to come forward.
Anyone with information should contact the serious collision investigation Unit or 101 or e-mail collisionappeal@essex.pnn.police.uk
Source: www.eadt.co.uk
Essex Amends Credit Facility - Zacks.com
Essex Property Trust Inc. (ESS - Snapshot Report), a real estate investment trust (REIT), has recently amended its existing unsecured revolving credit facility worth $425 million to increase the borrowing capacity to $500 million.
The amended credit facility bears an interest rate of LIBOR plus 120 basis points and a facility fee of 20 basis points. Scheduled to mature in December 2015, the amended credit facility has two one-year extension options and an accordion feature that enables Essex Property to further increase the borrowing capacity to $600 million.
Essex Property reported first quarter 2012 FFO (funds from operations) of $59.3 million or $1.63 per share, compared with $48.5 million or $1.44 per share in the year-earlier quarter. Funds from operations, a widely used metric to gauge the performance of REITs, are obtained after adding depreciation and amortization and other non-cash expenses to net income.
During the first quarter of 2012, the company entered into an agreement to obtain private placement unsecured notes worth $200 million for a term of 9 years at a rate of 4.3%. The net proceeds from the note offering were intended to repay secured mortgage debt due in late 2012 and 2013.
Based in Palo Alto, California, Essex Property acquires, develops, redevelops, and manages apartment communities primarily in highly desirable, supply-constrained markets. Essex Property currently owns 158 multifamily properties with an additional 5 properties in various stages of development.
Essex Property currently retains a Zacks #3 Rank, which translates into a short-term Hold rating. We presently have a long-term Neutral recommendation on the stock. One of its competitors, BRE Properties Inc. (BRE - Analyst Report) has a Zacks #4 Rank, which translates into a short-term Sell rating.
Source: www.zacks.com
The Miley Cyrus engagement: Five other famous women who got engaged young - Washington Post
Hemsworth and Cyrus, soon to be husband and wife. (© Mario Anzuoni / Reuters - REUTERS) As noted earlier today in Celebritology and all over the Internet, Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth are now engaged. The news, perhaps not surprisingly, elicited cynical responses from some Celebritology commenters.
One example of said cynicism, via Mags0829: “Omg. Barf.” Gawker readers were even more, uh, candid in their skepticism. “In hillbilly years, Miley is 45, so this news is much delayed,” wrote Sprockett.
Indeed, Cyrus’s age may be a key reason why some greeted word of this matrimonial union with a loud snort that, by the way, everyone in a cubicle within 30 miles of yours’ can totally hear. The actress best known as Hannah Montana is 19, which is still a little young, by most standards, to enter into an “as long as we both shall live” commitment.
Still, Cyrus is hardly a pioneer in this department. Other famous females have gotten engaged or married at roughly the same age. Here are five examples, none of whom — spoiler alert — found a happy ending with their grooms or grooms-to-be. (On the plus side, all of these women continued to have decent careers and other long-term relationships following their early engagements.)
These less-than-successful pairings are not meant as evidence that Cyrus and Hemsworth can’t make their relationship work. What they do suggest is that after extensive (fine, extensive-ish) online research I couldn’t find an example of a famous person who decided to wed at Cyrus’s age and stayed married. If you dear, cynical readers can think of some, by all means, share them in the comments.
Elizabeth Taylor: Taylor became a bride for the first time at age 18, when she wed Conrad “Nicky” Hilton in 1952. The marriage lasted only nine months. But Taylor remained a believer in love, so much so that she married seven additional times afterwards.
Drew Barrymore: She’s happily married now. But she got engaged for the first time, to Leland Hayward, at age 16. (They never married). She then became a bride for real three years later, when she tied the knot at 19 with bartender Jeremy Thomas. That marriage lasted less than two months.
Winona Ryder: Ryder was just 18 when she got engaged in 1991 to Johnny Depp who, like Hemsworth, was older than his bride-to-be. (Edward Scissorhands was 28 at the time.) They broke off the engagement in 1993.
LeeAnn Rimes: Rimes’s first marriage, to dancer Dean Sheremet, took place in 2002, when the country crooner was 19. The two separated in 2009 and divorced in 2010, paving the way for Rimes to marry current husband Eddie Cibrian.
Kate Hudson: The “Almost Famous” star said “I do” to first husband, Chris Robinson, in 2000, when she was 21 — still young, but at least of legal, drinking-age. Their divorce was finalized in 2007.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
K-Solo Marriage Breaks**Moves Out Of Matrimonial Home - Modern Ghana
Popular producer, Solomon Oyeniyi a.k.a. K solo who has quite done some music production for the likes of Timaya, Clever-J and others allegedly said to have moved out of his matrimonial home, abandons his legal wife, Kikelomo for his mum's home.
According to the information, K Solo marriage to the top business woman, Kike has been going through trouble waters for sometime now. The delectable woman, we learnt, hasn't too comfortable with K Solo's recklessness and insatiable appetite for anything in skirt.
"As a good wife who wants the success of her hubby, she has the right to query her hubby whenever he comes back home late, smelling of alcohol. This, in most times, doesn't go down well on him and he keeps on complaining of Kike nagging all the time." An insider told nigeriafilms.com
Kike, as a supplier had some transaction with Nigeria Breweries Limited, she was expected to be paid her money that month and K-Solo came up with some unbearable demands and Kike, we gathered, turned down his proposal claiming that the money she was expecting from her supply was going back into the business. This, we learnt, frustrated K-Solo and he allegedly said to have beaten a hell out of her.
"The following day, he packed his things and moved to his mum house where he permanent keeps his former girlfriend" another source told us.
Source: www.modernghana.com
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