Latest news with #Cordell
Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Freshmen-led Whitney Wildcats softball team takes CIF Division II section crown
The rivalry between Rocklin and Whitney high schools in Placer County is about as good as it gets across all sports. Named in recognition of the city of Rocklin's granite mining history dating back to the Civil War, the 'Quarry' rivalry is always sure to fill the seats, no matter the venue. Rocklin, which opened in 1993, and Whitney, which opened in 2005 about 3½ miles away, penned another chapter Saturday afternoon in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section's Division II softball final. These two rivals are responsible for the last two D-II championships. Rocklin won a 10-inning thriller over Tracy in 2024, while Whitney downed Vacaville in 2023. Each school has two championship softball banners hanging proudly in their gyms, and the chance for a third and major bragging rights in the city of Rocklin hung in the balance. It was a bevy of underclassmen leading the charge to another Whitney championship. Freshman pitcher Taylor Cordell tossed a two-hit shutout, and fellow classmate Bri Seffens laced a go-ahead RBI single and made a spectacular catch in right field to punctuate a 2-0 win over top-seeded Rocklin at Sacramento State's Shea Stadium. Cordell worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the first inning and cruised from the second inning on. She only allowed a two-out single in the second and a one-out double in the third before retiring the final 14 hitters she faced, including six by strikeout. 'I was a little nervous, I'm not gonna lie,' Cordell said. 'But I just knew, I felt it, we were gonna win this. There was no way we were gonna let them just defeat us again.' After Seffens' RBI single in the sixth made it 1-0, Emma Rabe drove in an insurance run in the top of the seventh that scored Alyssa Flindt for a 2-0 Wildcats lead. Seffens also laid out for a catch in right field in the bottom of the sixth, diving toward the right field fence to keep Rocklin off the bases. Senior Aliyah Lomuljo, who scored the game's first run, made a diving catch in shallow left field to end the game and send Whitney into a frenzied celebration. 'It was a long time getting here,' Lomuljo said. 'We've been working really hard. We knew after that first run, the 'Cats just had to stay hot. We had great energy and great vibes all the way through the game, and we just knew if we keep the intensity high, we would come through.' Rocklin defeated Whitney in all three regular season meetings in the Sierra Foothill League. But the Whitney victory Saturday gives the Wildcats a 3-2 edge over the Thunder in softball section titles. 'We never give up, never, never,' Cordell said. 'We're always in the game, always. And let's just say everybody's like a bunch of goofballs. And I think that really helps us out a lot. We always keep the positive vibes going.' With all of the history in the storied rivalry between the two schools, there has only been one prior instance where the Thunder and Wildcats have gone head-to-head for a Sac-Joaquin Section championship. It was in 2019, when the Thunder boys tennis team downed the Wildcats 6-3. Whitney head coach April Steele won a section title as a player with Casa Roble, and now her daughter, junior Brooklyn Steele, has two with Whitney. Rocklin senior Katie Wetteland roped a double and fellow senior Kamryn Buffington had a single for the Thunder's only two hits of the game. Sophomore starter Payton Prior, who went all 10 innings for the win in the 2024 final, tossed seven innings with just three hits allowed and 10 strikeouts. Both teams qualify for the CIF Northern California Regional championship tournament, which begins June 3 and culminates with regional finals on June 7. Nick Pecoraro is a sports journalist and host of 'Premier Preps with Nick Pecoraro,' a weekly prep show available on YouTube that recaps games and teams in the Sacramento area each week. Find it at
Metro
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
The Precinct review - Hill Streets Blues meets GTA
An interesting new indie title is a homage to both old school, top-down GTA games and 80s cop shows like Kojak and Cagney & Lacey. Nostalgia is very much to the fore in The Precinct. Not just for video games but for TV. While its appearance, with an isometric style camera mounted high in its virtual sky, brings to mind memories of early, top-down Grand Theft Auto games, its content is a clear and unabashed homage to much-loved cop shows and films of the 1970s and 80s – from Kojak and The French Connection to Hill Street Blues, and Cagney & Lacey. That's an unusual setting for a game, made more interesting because it tries to turn the GTA blueprint on its head, by playing as a police officer instead of a criminal. To be precise, you play as rookie Nick Cordell Jr., fresh out of the Police Academy and eager to make his mark on the mean streets of Averno City (a thinly disguised New York, without the skyscrapers but with lots of neon and forbiddingly rundown dark alleys). This is basically a police procedural in video game form – and if you think about it, there have been precious few of those over the years (weirdly, RoboCop: Rogue City is about as close as it's come recently). So, if you've ever had a secret hankering to pound a beat, you should find plenty to interest you here. It splits its gameplay into working day chunks, so you can be sent out with a brief to do everything from issuing parking tickets to keeping a lid on rowdiness in the nightclub district on a Friday night. While Cordell's days on Averno City's streets might start off as mundane, they rarely finish that way. There are two very active gangs (The Jawheads, centred on a punk band, and Crimson Serpent, which is based in Chinatown) and as you perform your duties, you frequently encounter their members performing crimes, which yields evidence enabling you to work up the food chain from captains to underbosses to bosses. There are also other activities to pursue, such as very GTA style illegal street races (the story being that Cordell has been placed undercover to gather evidence about who's running them) and murders that the homicide cops get you to perform the grunt work for. Whenever you amass enough evidence to arrest a key gang member, you're given the honour of leading the charge in what inevitably becomes a big shoot-out. The Precinct also has a role-playing element, in that as you level up you acquire upgrade tokens which improve Cordell's key stats (including stamina – in true 80s cop show style, there's an awful lot of running after criminals, weaponry (acquiring the automatic rifle is a game changer) and general privileges, such as the clearance to commandeer random cars and pilot the police chopper. Despite all this, The Precinct's upgrade tree is commendably compact, in keeping with the game's general size: the main story takes about six hours to work through and then there's probably another six hours' worth of general sandbox style police work to pursue after that. That will, undoubtedly, be added to via DLC, but The Precinct is not a game designed to occupy your every waking hour. Developer Fallen Tree Games, although full of industry veterans, is a small outfit and most of The Precinct was created by a team of just five people. In practice, the action is fun: the cars are wallow-y and tail-happy – much like those of GTA – and the third person shooting uses a line-of-sight indicator, makes use of cover, and is heavy on the snap aim. But the odd thing is that perhaps the most enjoyable tasks to perform in The Precinct are the most mundane ones. This includes the thrill of finding a car parked on a pavement, to which you can issue a ticket, and the satisfaction of finding something illegal on a random suspect who has committed a minor misdemeanour – which enables you to arrest them rather than merely issuing a fine. More Trending Even when you're driving, you can run random cars' plates, and occasionally uncover wanted criminals, inevitably leading to some classic car chase action. Despite its obvious homages to early era GTA, The Precinct looks pretty decent, too; whatever its viewpoint, it is fully 3D and properly textured, with some modern visual effects in evidence. It also nails the 80s atmosphere, with some very good music and hard-boiled dialogue – although not as problematically hard-boiled as many of those old cop shows are now deemed to be. The Precinct is something of an antidote to games that are over-the-top and in your face: it has an understated, matter-of-fact air that somehow serves to make it more compelling. The fact that it is clearly a labour of love helps, as does its simple but effective structure. Anyone with a secret urge to live the vicarious life of an 80s cop should find it satisfyingly authentic. In Short: A fine attempt at turning 80s cop shows into a video game, that wisely uses PS1 era GTA games as its gameplay template. Pros: Well structured and with plenty of varied mission types. Decent action sequence and surprisingly good graphics and music. Nails the 80s tone. Cons: The AI for criminals sometimes acts very oddly, and the driving can be a bit too reminiscent of GTA at times. Relatively expensive for the short length. Score: 7/10 Formats: Xbox Series X/S (reviewed), PlayStation 5, and PCPrice: £24.99Publisher: KwaleeDeveloper: Fallen Tree GamesRelease Date: 13th March 2025 Age Rating: 18 Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. MORE: Games Inbox: Is there going to be a PS5 State of Play this summer? MORE: Over 75% of all PlayStation game sales are digital as physical sales plummet MORE: Capcom Fighting Collection 2 review – Power Stone revival
CBS News
02-05-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
Hundreds march in Mountain View to protest actions of Trump administration
MOUNTAIN VIEW — In Mountain View, hundreds of people gathered to protest the actions of the Trump administration. Many were worried about their social security, health care and the president's stance on immigration. Retired Superior Court judge LaDoris Cordell spoke at the Civic Center in Mountain View in front of hundreds of people. She had one message for her fellow Americans. "Today was about not being indifferent and being an activist," Cordell said. "An activist can mean all kinds of things, but the bottom line: it means being an upstander. Standing up, speaking up, lawyering up, protesting up for justice and democracy." Cordell lived through segregation and has been fighting for equal justice for people of color throughout her career. She was the first African American woman judge in Northern California. In some ways, she sees similarities between the current uprising and the protests across the country in the 1960s, but says the stakes are higher. "What's happening to this country now is very different from when I was protesting in the '60s," she said. "Why? Because in the '60s, there was really one issue. It was about racism, segregation. This time, it's about everything." Many here had signs in hand, even draping signs on pets with dogs opposing the work of the Department of Government Efficiency. "It's what I can do," said protester Laura Degenova. "I can't go back to Washington. This is my little part to take my felt pens and to come out here and to protest." Degenova and others are concerned about how the first few months of the Trump presidency have impacted them. "My Medicare, my 401k," Degenova said. "I worked as a nurse for over 37 years and to see my 401k drop $60,000 in one week. That's my savings." "I want to stay in this country," Meerenai Shim said. "I'm a naturalized U.S. citizen and this is my home. Democracy is in peril, and I could not have imagined that this is a possibility in this country." The crowd then marched down Castro Street, chanting and waving their American flags. Cordell said she was inspired as she looked out into the crowd. "I always tell people I'm ever hopeful," she said. "I'm hopeful because so many people are coming out and speaking out."
Yahoo
05-03-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Residents along Shell Creek Rd. in Roan Mountain have safety concerns due to remaining damage from Hurricane Helene
ROAN MOUNTAIN, Tenn. (WJHL) – It's been over five months since Hurricane Helene damaged countless roadways in the region, including Shell Creek Road in Roan Mountain. Many residents have safety concerns and are wondering when repairs will start. Vivian Cordell has lived on Shell Creek Rd. all of her life and said the road's condition is the worst she has ever seen it in. 'I've never seen a hurricane come through here. It's been five months. The road's not fixed. We can't get up and down it. You can get so far. I'm scared. When I go out, I am absolutely scared of the road falling and they're not making much of an effort to fix it.' Cordell's main concern is safety, as there are parts of the road that are broken off from the flooding that happened during Helene. 'There's a place down the road that the creek is running up and under the pavement. That's dangerous.' She said school buses have been taking a detour on Morgan Branch Rd. to avoid the damaged culverts. 'I worry about the kids. There's an elderly lady. I worry myself to death about her, about the squad having to come get her and I mean it's been long enough to where they ought've had something done.' Cordell said she's called Carter County's Road Superintendent Shannon Burchett about her concerns. 'I'd like to see them fix the culverts. The paving, I know that's going to be down the road. It's not going to be any time soon. But the culverts need fixed and where the roads are dangerous needs fixed.' Burchett told News Channel 11 that four temporary culverts for Shell Creek Rd. have actually been ordered. 'There's two main crossings on Shell Creek that is a little iffy,' Burchett said. 'It's what the public is concerned about. And we are too. It's choked down to one lane. We have them ordered. They told me it would be up to three weeks to get them. We're looking probably in our second week now. They should be, I hope they get here next week.' Burchett said the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is doing a study of that area and should have a bid out for a contractor in 30 days. The NRCS is doing site studies of 52 areas in Carter County, according to Burchett. Burchett said the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has designated Heaton Creek Rd. and Shell Creek Rd. as rapid repair roads. FEMA also still has to conduct a hydraulic study on Shell Creek to see if they need to upsize any of the pipes in the culverts. If so, those pipes will be for the permanent ones put in after the temporary ones are taken out. Burchett is not sure when permanent work will start and be completed. He said that would be up to the contractor's schedule. 'It's been a really really slow process and not really pointing a finger at anybody, but it's just a lot of paperwork to go through with FEMA to try to get the county's reimbursement, because if we don't, then the county is gonna have to foot the bill for all this. And there's no way.' County workers have put down gravel on parts of Shell Creek that have been washed out, and a sign is in place to warn drivers about the conditions. 'If people have patience, that would be greatly appreciated,' Burchett said. 'Which I know it's hard to understand. If I lived there, I would be the same way, you know 'why you don't have it fixed.' But it's really all got to do with trying to get all our paperwork correct and it just takes time.' Both Burchett and Cordell urge travelers to drive cautiously on Shell Creek Rd. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
