UMBC women fight back from 5 down to win
Bockstie, Gerow both net hat trick to lead comeback
UMBC women’s lacrosse came back from a five-goal deficit to beat Virginia Commonwealth University 12-11 on Saturday.
The Retrievers (1-1) outscored the Rams (3-1) 9-3 in the second half to win. Claire Bockstie (Maryvale) and Dymo Gerow had three goals each for UMBC. Megan Halczuk had two goals and three assists for the Retrievers.
Mount St. Mary’s 19, American 9: Jordan Butler (John Carroll) turned in a 10-point performance to lead the host Mount (1-2) past the Eagles (0-1).
Butler had five goals and five assists and Alayna Pagnotta had four goals and an assist. Emma Vinall had a game-high six goals for American.
Jenna Oler (Wilde Lake) made eight saves for the Mount, while Delaney Oliveira made four saves for the Eagles.
The Mount got off to a quick start with a goal from Butler in the first four minutes. Vinal answered to tie up the game. Pagnotta and Sara Moeller (St. Paul’s) scored two quick goals to give the Mountaineers a 3-1 lead. Vinall responded with two goals of her own to tie the game back up. Jordan Groover scored a man-advantage goal to give the Mount the lead, but Vinall scored another two goals to give American their only lead of the game at 5-4.
The Mount responded with a 6-0 run that spanned about 10 minutes. The run started with a man-advantage goal from Butler. Thirty seconds later Beanie Colson (Manchester Valley) scored on a feed from Butler to beat the goalkeeper over her left shoulder. Colson scored again 10 seconds later from another feed from Butler to extend the lead to two. Groover, Colson, and Butler scored again to cap off the 6-0 run for the Mountaineers to give them a five-goal lead.
American scored with 1 minute, 21 seconds remaining in the half to cut the deficit down to four, but Pagnotta scored with 10 seconds remaining to give the Mount an 11-6 lead at halftime.
Butler started off the second half with another goal to extend the lead to six. Vinall and Kate Kinsella traded goals 36 seconds apart to keep the lead at six. American scored two goals to make it 13-9. After that, the Mount would not allow American to score again. The Mount wen on another 6-0 run over the last 13:17 to close out the game. Erin Anderson (Westminster) and Pagnotta each scored two goals during the run with Butler and Moeller scoring one goal apiece as well.
The Mount outshot the Eagles 30-20 with 26 shots on goal for the Mountaineers compared to 17 for American.
Mount St. Mary’s travel to Bryant on Saturday at 1 p.m.
Navy 22, George Washington 2: The visiting Mids (3-0) opened with a 14-0 run and cruised past the Colonials (0-1). Navy was led by Nicole Victory with four goals and three assists and Marina Lazarides (Garrison Forest) with three goals and an assist.
The Mids held an opponent scoreless in the first half for the first time since 2016.
“We played well, and we are happy,” Navy coach Cindy Timchal said.
Navy won 18 of 25 draws, including 14 of 15 in the first half. Navy hosts Bucknell next Sunday at noon.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — This is how Kyle Schwarber and Kevin Long wound up at a high school in Tampa with a shared goal of improving a swing.
Schwarber signed with the Washington Nationals in early January. Long, the Nationals’ hitting coach, texted him to say congratulations. They got to talking about hitting.
Schwarber told Long to come on down to Florida whenever. Long told Schwarber he would be there in three days.
And he meant it.
“He just showed up,” Schwarber said on a video call with reporters Thursday. “It was great, and he came with a lot of good things for me. The best thing is that the hitting stance, everyone wants to kind of think it’s a new thing. It’s really not.”
Long has regularly visited players throughout his coaching career, and players have regularly visited him. That was nothing new. What changed was Schwarber, 27, returning to a stance that worked in college and his early minor-league years.
He is a bit more “squatty” now, as he put it, and hopes a lower setup will help him cover the bottom of the zone better.
The Nationals offered Schwarber a one-year, $10 million contract because they believe he can rebound from a mediocre and uninspiring 2020. Schwarber finished last year with a .188 batting average, .308 on-base percentage and .393 slugging percentage in 224 plate appearances. Each of those marks was the lowest of his career.
“We want to get him to where, when he gets that pitch that’s in that nitro zone for him, he can’t foul it off; he’s got to put it in play,” said manager Dave Martinez, who coached Schwarber for three seasons with the Chicago Cubs. “When he does that, he’s going to be really good. If we can get him to do that consistently, you’ll see the average go up with the walks as well.”
“Got him in his legs” is baseball-speak for “squatty.” Squatty is an odd way to say a bit more crouched. Schwarber recalled that, as a freshman at Indiana, he was upright at the plate. Then he went “back down into his legs” — or got squatty — before slowly raising his body in the following years.
Children’s bedrooms and play spaces in general should be fun, friendly and bright. These spaces are a great opportunity to infuse creativity and color.
Here are some kid-friendly ideas adaptable to both types of spaces.
Use citrus colors Orange, yellow, green and even red are bright, friendly and gender-neutral options.
Infuse creative decorative elements like a hammock, tent or game table.
Incorporate portable or removable decor elements like wall stickers.
Consider multimedia or fun prints instead of traditional canvases.
Look for ways to repurpose items in a creative way, such as using skateboards on brackets instead of traditional shelves.
Use bright and bold colors as opposed to more muted and washed-out tones.
Frame children’s art or mementos
as decorative elements. This will help add a nice personal touch to your home.
The National Garden Bureau has declared 2021 “The Year of the Hardy Hibiscus” and The Garden Guy thinks this is absolutely terrific. Actually, I would go a-step further and say it is Summerific!
By hardy hibiscus, the bureau is referring to those with native DNA. You may not be aware but the hardy hibiscus commonly referred to as rose mallow is native to 33 states and Canada. Though you may see those long-lost cousins growing in the ditches and swampy areas, breeders have applied their magic and created dazzling selections.
Such is the case with the Summerific series from Proven Winners. It now boasts almost a dozen choices for summer-lasting bloom. These incredible varieties can let you create a dose of tropical splendor just about anywhere from zone 4-9. On the other hand, if you want to add a colorful flash to grandma’s cottage garden then the Summerific hibiscuses can do that too!
I’ve been growing Summerific Holy Grail for a few years now and I could not be more thrilled. It is one of their taller varieties sporting deep red blooms and dark foliage. Whether I have it in proximity to palms and bananas or as partners to rudbeckias and salvias, it has lived up to the task.
The next ones coming to my garden will be Cranberry Crush and
Berry Awesome. Cranberry Crush is a Classic
City Award Winner in the University of Georgia trial program and features topical looking scarlet red flowers on a 48-inch-tall plant with a backdrop of deep green maple-like leaves. It will bring in bees and hummers, which makes
The Garden Guy do the happy dance.
Berry Awesome has ruffled deep lavender pink flowers with a cheery red eye. You would love this with perennial echinacea like Yellow My Darling or the Price is White. Don’t forget to add a drift or two of salvias. I can only imagine Rockin Blue Suede Shoes and Rockin Deep Purple as companions.
This year there are two new colors entering the
market place and they are Summerific French Vanilla and Spinderella.
It’s not often we find a creamy vanilla color to add to the perennial garden. It reminds me of the color of old-fashioned ice cream with a red eye.
Last year my university friends were sending me photos from trial gardens and giving a WOW to Spinderella. I’m not sure how to describe this one. The ruffled flowers are white
with a cherry eye and major brushstrokes of rose pink as you go toward the margins. The flowers look to have more-pink and giving the illusion that it just could be spinning.
The whole Summerific series is so beautiful it is really amazing these are hardy hibiscus, perennial from zones 4-9. Almost everyone can relish in their beauty. Choose a site with plenty of sunlight the more the better. I have
morning sun and filtered afternoon light here in west Georgia. The hibiscus blooms on new growth, so it is important to keep it growing vigorously throughout the season. Keep them well fed and watered during droughty periods.
You will not need a super-bloom fertilizer however, just use a slow released, balanced fertilizer given out in regular small monthly applications.
Water daily if you are growing in containers during the summer. Nutrients will quickly leach from the soil, so apply a dilute, water-soluble fertilizer weekly or add controlled release granules per label recommendation.
The National Garden Bureau hit a homerun with the designation of 2021 as The Year of the Hardy Hibiscus. You’ll think so too if you try some of the Summerific Series.