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Ex-Crusher a key cog for college crew team
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NOTES AND QUOTES for a Tuesday in the Napa Valley:
It’s been a very good spring for Napa’s Dante Ross, a sophomore who is on the men’s crew team for Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore.
It’s been a very good spring for Napa’s Dante Ross, a sophomore who is on the men’s crew team for Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore.
Ross, a Vintage High School graduate who played golf for the Crushers, is on the Hopkins varsity 4 and varsity 8 teams.
The varsity 4 crew placed second in its heat and then sixth in the grand final at the Mid Atlantic Collegiate Crew Championships on Sunday in Lorton, Va.
The varsity 4 crew placed second in its heat and then sixth in the grand final at the Mid Atlantic Collegiate Crew Championships on Sunday in Lorton, Va.
Last month, Johns Hopkins won the overall points trophy at the Mid-Atlantic Division III Regional Championships in York, Pa., for the second straight year. The varsity 4 crew finished fifth in a time of 7:28.3.
The Johns Hopkins varsity eight finished second in the final with a time of 6:24.9 at the Knecht Cup last month in Camden, NJ.
The Johns Hopkins varsity eight finished second in the final with a time of 6:24.9 at the Knecht Cup last month in Camden, NJ.
Ross was an honor student at Vintage.
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Arizona State hit a season high six homers, including two by Brett Wallace, in an 11-8 win Sunday over UCLA at Jackie Robinson Stadium in Los Angeles.
Wallace, a Justin-Siena graduate, homered over the right field wall in the third and fifth innings.
He went 3-for-5 with four RBIs. The two homers for Wallace give him 38 in his career, tying him for eighth on the school’s all-time list.
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Adam Fonville hit a three-run home run in the eighth inning to deep left field for visiting Cal State Stanislaus Sunday in a 13-8 win over Cal Poly Pomona. Fonville is a Napa High graduate and transfer from Napa Valley College.
The win moves Stanislaus (36-19 overall, 24-12 California Collegiate Athletic Association) into the CCAA Championship Tournament. The four-team tournament will open Thursday at Chico State’s Nettleton Stadium.
Sonoma State (42-12, 26-8 CCAA) captured the regular-season title and will be the tournament’s No. 1 seed. UC San Diego (41-14, 25-11 CCAA) is the second seed while Chico State (37-13, 24-11 CCAA) and Stanislaus are seeded third and fourth, respectively.
Sonoma, which was ranked as high as No. 2 in the country earlier this year, will face Stanislaus in Thursday’s tournament-opener beginning at 3 p.m. UC San Diego and Chico State will play the day’s second game at 7 p.m.
The double-elimination tournament continues on Friday with three games, including a pair of elimination contests, and concludes on Saturday with the championship game scheduled for noon. A second game, if necessary, will follow approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of the first game.
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A minimum of two UC Berkeley football games have been selected for broadcast on ABC/ESPN/ESPN2.
Cal’s season-opening home game with Michigan State (Aug. 30) and its road game at USC (Nov. 8) will be televised nationally by ABC and will kick off at 5 p.m.
Game times and television information for other Golden Bear contests will be released when available.
Season tickets for the 2008 Cal football schedule are currently available by visiting www.CalBears.com or by calling 1-800-GO-BEARS. In addition to the opener against Michigan State, other games on the Cal home slate include the 111th edition of the Big Game vs. Stanford, UCLA, Oregon, Arizona State, Washington and Colorado State.
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In an interview last week on “Movin’ The Chains” on SIRIUS NFL Radio, Oakland Raiders head coach Lane Kiffin said quarterback JaMarcus Russell has been having a great offseason.
“He’s working extremely hard,” said Kiffin. “He’s here from about 7:30 in the morning until about 2 in the afternoon. He starts with football stuff in the classroom and then he goes into the weight room, lifts with the first group, and then goes out on the field and runs with them and then stays out and throws and goes through all the quarterback stuff on the field after that.”
“Movin’ The Chains” airs weekdays (noon-4 p.m.) exclusively on SIRIUS NFL Radio, channel 124.
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Oakland’s Jack Cust has been named as the Bank of America Presents the American League Player of the Week for the period ending May 4.
Cust hit .500 (10-for-20) with three home runs, a double and four RBIs. The Athletics’ 29-year-old designated hitter also posted a 1.000 slugging percentage along with a .600 on-base percentage. During a road series against the Angels, Cust went 6-for-10 with a home run, which was hit during his 4-for-4, three-run, two-walk game on May 1.
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Scott Hoch moved to within 91 points of overall Charles Schwab Cup leader Bernhard Langer as the race tightened through the Champions Tour’s 11th tournament. Jay Haas, the 2006 Charles Schwab Cup winner, is in third, followed by Tom Watson. Denis Watson, who won his second tournament of the season, capturing last week’s FedEx Kinko’s Classic, is alone in fifth place.
The Schwab Cup is a season-long points program designed to recognize the Tour’s leading player. The program rewards both top finishes and week-in/week-out consistency at all 29 official Charles Schwab Cup events. Points are awarded to the top-10 finishers and ties and are based on the money distribution for each tournament, with every $1,000 earned being the equivalent of one Charles Schwab Cup point. Points are doubled at the Champions Tour’s five major championships and the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship.
The winner of the 2008 Schwab Cup will earn a $1 million annuity. The second through fifth-place finishers earn annuities of $500,000, $300,000, $200,000 and $100,000.
E-mail Executive Sports Editor Marty James at mjames@napanews.com or call 256-2223.
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Arizona State hit a season high six homers, including two by Brett Wallace, in an 11-8 win Sunday over UCLA at Jackie Robinson Stadium in Los Angeles.
Wallace, a Justin-Siena graduate, homered over the right field wall in the third and fifth innings.
He went 3-for-5 with four RBIs. The two homers for Wallace give him 38 in his career, tying him for eighth on the school’s all-time list.
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Adam Fonville hit a three-run home run in the eighth inning to deep left field for visiting Cal State Stanislaus Sunday in a 13-8 win over Cal Poly Pomona. Fonville is a Napa High graduate and transfer from Napa Valley College.
The win moves Stanislaus (36-19 overall, 24-12 California Collegiate Athletic Association) into the CCAA Championship Tournament. The four-team tournament will open Thursday at Chico State’s Nettleton Stadium.
Sonoma State (42-12, 26-8 CCAA) captured the regular-season title and will be the tournament’s No. 1 seed. UC San Diego (41-14, 25-11 CCAA) is the second seed while Chico State (37-13, 24-11 CCAA) and Stanislaus are seeded third and fourth, respectively.
Sonoma, which was ranked as high as No. 2 in the country earlier this year, will face Stanislaus in Thursday’s tournament-opener beginning at 3 p.m. UC San Diego and Chico State will play the day’s second game at 7 p.m.
The double-elimination tournament continues on Friday with three games, including a pair of elimination contests, and concludes on Saturday with the championship game scheduled for noon. A second game, if necessary, will follow approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of the first game.
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A minimum of two UC Berkeley football games have been selected for broadcast on ABC/ESPN/ESPN2.
Cal’s season-opening home game with Michigan State (Aug. 30) and its road game at USC (Nov. 8) will be televised nationally by ABC and will kick off at 5 p.m.
Game times and television information for other Golden Bear contests will be released when available.
Season tickets for the 2008 Cal football schedule are currently available by visiting www.CalBears.com or by calling 1-800-GO-BEARS. In addition to the opener against Michigan State, other games on the Cal home slate include the 111th edition of the Big Game vs. Stanford, UCLA, Oregon, Arizona State, Washington and Colorado State.
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In an interview last week on “Movin’ The Chains” on SIRIUS NFL Radio, Oakland Raiders head coach Lane Kiffin said quarterback JaMarcus Russell has been having a great offseason.
“He’s working extremely hard,” said Kiffin. “He’s here from about 7:30 in the morning until about 2 in the afternoon. He starts with football stuff in the classroom and then he goes into the weight room, lifts with the first group, and then goes out on the field and runs with them and then stays out and throws and goes through all the quarterback stuff on the field after that.”
“Movin’ The Chains” airs weekdays (noon-4 p.m.) exclusively on SIRIUS NFL Radio, channel 124.
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Oakland’s Jack Cust has been named as the Bank of America Presents the American League Player of the Week for the period ending May 4.
Cust hit .500 (10-for-20) with three home runs, a double and four RBIs. The Athletics’ 29-year-old designated hitter also posted a 1.000 slugging percentage along with a .600 on-base percentage. During a road series against the Angels, Cust went 6-for-10 with a home run, which was hit during his 4-for-4, three-run, two-walk game on May 1.
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Scott Hoch moved to within 91 points of overall Charles Schwab Cup leader Bernhard Langer as the race tightened through the Champions Tour’s 11th tournament. Jay Haas, the 2006 Charles Schwab Cup winner, is in third, followed by Tom Watson. Denis Watson, who won his second tournament of the season, capturing last week’s FedEx Kinko’s Classic, is alone in fifth place.
The Schwab Cup is a season-long points program designed to recognize the Tour’s leading player. The program rewards both top finishes and week-in/week-out consistency at all 29 official Charles Schwab Cup events. Points are awarded to the top-10 finishers and ties and are based on the money distribution for each tournament, with every $1,000 earned being the equivalent of one Charles Schwab Cup point. Points are doubled at the Champions Tour’s five major championships and the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship.
The winner of the 2008 Schwab Cup will earn a $1 million annuity. The second through fifth-place finishers earn annuities of $500,000, $300,000, $200,000 and $100,000.
E-mail Executive Sports Editor Marty James at mjames@napanews.com or call 256-2223.
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