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Yahoo
6 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
USC baseball blown out by Oregon State, setting up winner-take-all game Monday
After winning its first two NCAA Tournament games, USC baseball entered Sunday on the cusp of its first super regional appearance in nearly two decades. With a victory over old Pac-12 foe Oregon State Sunday night, the Trojans would win the Corvallis Regional and head to the tournament's second weekend for the first time since 2006. Instead, however, USC suffered a humiliating blowout loss. The Beavers dominated the Trojans 14-1, setting up a winner-take-all game to decide the regional on Monday. Advertisement Things went awry from the start for the Trojans. After Brayden Dowd led off the first inning with a single, Ethan Hedges hit a double. Dowd was sent home by the third base coach despite there being no outs in the inning. Dowd was thrown out at the plate, and the Trojans did not score in the frame. The very next inning, Oregon State was helped significantly by poor defense from USC. Everything the Trojans did so well in their tournament opener against TCU on Friday, they essentially threw out the window. They did the complete opposite in this game and allowed the contest to spiral out of control. Oregon State built a 6-1 lead with some line-drive singles, but also a number of infield hits USC fielders did not handle as well as they could have. The game's other turning point came in the fifth inning. Trailing 6-1, USC loaded the bases with no one out, a golden opportunity to get back in the game. Instead, however, the next three Trojans batters all struck out, and they did not get a single run across. The very next inning, Oregon State hit a three-run home run to go up 9-1, and the rout was on. The two teams will now play a decisive winner-take-all game on Monday. The winner will move on to the super regionals to face Florida State, while the loser will go home. First pitch from Corvallis is set for 3 p.m. Pacific time on ESPNU and ESPN+. This article originally appeared on Trojans Wire: Oregon State blows out USC, with rematch to decide regional champion
USA Today
6 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
USC baseball blown out by Oregon State, setting up winner-take-all game Monday
USC baseball blown out by Oregon State, setting up winner-take-all game Monday After winning its first two NCAA Tournament games, USC baseball entered Sunday on the cusp of its first super regional appearance in nearly two decades. With a victory over old Pac-12 foe Oregon State Sunday night, the Trojans would win the Corvallis Regional and head to the tournament's second weekend for the first time since 2006. Instead, however, USC suffered a humiliating blowout loss. The Beavers dominated the Trojans 14-1, setting up a winner-take-all game to decide the regional on Monday. Things went awry from the start for the Trojans. After Brayden Dowd led off the first inning with a single, Ethan Hedges hit a double. Dowd was sent home by the third base coach despite there being no outs in the inning. Dowd was thrown out at the plate, and the Trojans did not score in the frame. The very next inning, Oregon State was helped significantly by poor defense from USC. Everything the Trojans did so well in their tournament opener against TCU on Friday, they essentially threw out the window. They did the complete opposite in this game and allowed the contest to spiral out of control. Oregon State built a 6-1 lead with some line-drive singles, but also a number of infield hits USC fielders did not handle as well as they could have. The game's other turning point came in the fifth inning. Trailing 6-1, USC loaded the bases with no one out, a golden opportunity to get back in the game. Instead, however, the next three Trojans batters all struck out, and they did not get a single run across. The very next inning, Oregon State hit a three-run home run to go up 9-1, and the rout was on. The two teams will now play a decisive winner-take-all game on Monday. The winner will move on to the super regionals to face Florida State, while the loser will go home. First pitch from Corvallis is set for 3 p.m. Pacific time on ESPNU and ESPN+.
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Butte VA clinic renamed for World War II veteran, Pearl Harbor survivor
The Montana VA Healthcare System renamed Butte's clinic to the Charlie Dowd VA Clinic in honor of a local veteran who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor. (Courtesy Photo) Ahead of the Memorial Day Weekend, dozens gathered in Butte for a ceremony renaming the city's Veterans Affairs Clinic to honor Montana's last survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Montana VA Heath Care System renamed the clinic to the Charlie Dowd Veteran Affairs Clinic, honoring Dowd, a World War II veteran who was awarded seven bronze stars throughout his military career, and died in March 2023 in Butte at the age of 99. 'We are honored to be able to rename this clinic after a local Veteran like Charlie,' Montana VA Executive Director, Duane Gill said in a press release. 'At 17 years of age, this proud Sailor ran out to defend Pearl Harbor in only a t-shirt and trousers. It is that fighting spirit that we will recognize. That same fighting spirit is in the hearts of every Montana Veteran. In some small way by renaming this clinic, we hope to memorialize the honor, commitment and courage for every Veteran who walks through those doors.' U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke and U.S. Montana Sen. Steve Daines introduced companion bills to rename the Butte clinic, which was signed into law in July 2024. 'Montana is home to nearly 100,000 veterans. As the proud son of a United States Marine, I think it's safe to say each one of our veterans has his or her own story,' Daines said in his remarks at the renaming ceremony on Friday. 'And each one is a hero is his or her own right.' Dowd joined the U.S. Navy in 1941, when he was 17 years old, and was assigned to a station in Pearl Harbor. According to Daines' remarks, 'Charlie did not hesitate when we were attacked and ran straight toward danger to defend his country.' 'Wearing just a t-shirt and trousers, Charlie sprinted to the armory, climbed to the roof with a Springfield rifle, and fired at the torpedo bombers. During the attack he suffered burns on his arms and neck when the USS California, which was nearby, was engulfed in flames,' Daines said. 'His bravery in that moment is both astonishing and inspiring. He had the Montana fighting spirit.' According to the Montana VA, the Butte clinic opened in 2022 and is four times larger than its former location in Anaconda. More than 1,750 veterans receive care at the clinic each year from Silver Bow, Deer Lodge, Beaverhead, Madison and Jefferson Counties. Following his military service, Dowd settled down in the Butte area and was an active member of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, a member of the Anaconda Sportsmen's Club, and worked as an outdoor writer for the Anaconda Leader newspaper. 'I had the privilege of visiting with Charlie many times over the years, and I'll never forget listening to him share stories from Pearl Harbor and the South Pacific. Even at 99, he could still fit into his uniform and tap out Morse code like he did in the service. The 'Charlie Dowd Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic' will serve as a lasting reminder of Devil Dog Dowd's legacy of bravery and lifelong commitment to his country, his fellow veterans, and his community,' said Zinke, in a press release.
Winnipeg Free Press
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Alice's Wonderland
Ageless Gardens is a popular documentary series that travels to gardens across Canada and introduces viewers to inspiring people who share the stories of their gardens. Filmed by Gemini Award-winning director and cinematographer Ian Toews, the series is produced by Toews and Mark Bradley, who collaborate through 291 Film Company in association with VisionTV and ZoomerMedia Limited. The Season 5 première started on May 5. The May 19 episode, Gardening for All Seasons, features Leanne Dowd, a Neepawa gardener whose garden is a story of rediscovery and transformation. The beginning of the episode takes place in April when plants are beginning to reawaken. Every gardener can relate to the joy of discovering new growth emerging from the ground in spring, but for Dowd, each new discovery brings her closer to learning more about the vast collection of plants that were planted by the garden's previous owners, Alice and Bill Moger. Ageless Gardens photo Neepawa gardener Leanne Dowd is featured in Ageless Gardens Season 5 in the episode Gardening for All Seasons. It airs May 19 on Vision TV. Alice died at the age of 87 in 2018, two years after her husband Bill. They were well-known for hybridizing lilies, delphiniums, daylilies and irises. Their once beautiful garden, however, had fallen into neglect in their later years. Dowd purchased the one-hectare property in spring of 2020. Since then, she has painstakingly uncovered and nurtured hundreds of lilies, peonies, roses, clematis and delphinium that were buried beneath layers of overgrown grape vines, raspberry canes, chest-high weedy growth and a thick carpet of fallen leaves from the many trees on the property. 'It was probably five years before Alice passed away that anything was last done with the garden,' says Dowd. 'By the time I bought the property, the garden had been sitting untended for at least seven years.' But the garden's past was so significant that Dowd set about immediately to uncover its treasures. 'The first two years, I would spend hours tiptoeing around the garden because I knew there could be plants beneath the fallen debris. I carried a fistful of orange flags and every time I came across even just a hint of a plant, I would mark it with a flag. Within months, the garden was an absolute sea of fluttering orange flags. It drove my family crazy because they had no idea where to walk on the property.' That first year in the garden was also an enormous task. Ageless Gardens photo Leanne Dowd identifies a treasure trove of hidden and rare plants left by her garden's previous owner, Alice Moger. 'Alice wanted something of everything and what resulted was a property that was jam-packed with plants,' says Dowd. 'So many old, half-dead trees had to be removed. There were mountains of debris — fallen branches — that had to be removed and rampant growth that had been left unchecked. Every bed needed to be re-dug and every plant had to be transplanted. 'Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) was one of the plants that suddenly showed up and at first I had no idea what it was. It was just a tiny little thread of a thing. I lifted it out of its unfortunate location and planted it in a different spot and last year it just exploded with growth. That has happened so many times after plants were uncovered and exposed to more sunlight.' In 2023, while on a walkabout during the first filming of the episode which features Dowd, director Toews was intrigued by Northern Nodding Trillium, the most northerly occurring trillium in North America. 'It popped up a couple of years ago and is one of the really special plants that Alice left behind,' says Dowd. Dowd never doubted that the plants would survive and thrive. 'The garden took care of itself,' she says. The organic material that fell on the beds over the years had been left undisturbed and allowed to slowly decompose and feed and enrich the soil. 'But it's also a testament to the bone-cold-hardiness and disease resistance of Alice's plants,' says Dowd. Leanne Dowd photo The door to Alice's Wonderland in Neepawa leads the visitor into a garden full of wonder and mystery. The May 19 episode of Ageless Gardens touches on the enormity of the task of plant identification. There are, for example, hundreds of unnamed lilies and peonies, many of which Alice planted from seed decades ago. While Dowd is an experienced and knowledgeable gardener as well as a lily hybridizer and the author of Canadian Lily Hybridizers and Their Lilies (Pegasus Publications, 2023), identifying the treasure trove of rare plants left by her garden's previous owner has taken many hours of careful research and networking with horticultural experts in Manitoba and across Canada, including the Canadian Rose Society and the Canadian Peony Society. Dowd has applied for historical status for the vast collection of Canadian-bred lilies that grow in her garden. 'Heritage status would ensure their protection once I am gone,' says Dowd. 'Unless we keep a dialogue going about the history of horticulture in Canada, the push for discovery as well as preservation of the plants introduced by hybridizers, past and present will fade away.' If the application is successful, the garden would be open to the public and allow visitors a chance to see the extraordinary plant collection. Dowd is also attempting to register some of the Martagon lilies hybridized by Alice Moger with the Royal Horticultural Society Lily Group. Leanne Dowd photo This one-hectare Neepawa garden features a stunning collection of hundreds of lilies, peonies, roses, clematis, delphinium and more. The garden contains plants from some of Canada's best-known plant breeders — Frank Leith Skinner, A.J. (Bert) Porter and Isabella Preston. The vast collection of roses holds many fascinating stories. One example is the Dr. Merkeley rose, an ultra hardy (Zone 2B) double pink rose which a soldier brought home to Canada after the First World War. He gave a cutting from the rose to Dr. H.J. Merkeley, a dentist in Manitoba, who gave it to Frank Skinner who had a nursery on his Dropmore homestead. Skinner named the rose after Dr. Merkeley. Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. Dowd cannot resist backstories. 'It's the backstory that intrigues me as much as the plant itself,' she says. She is not only maintaining the numerous plants that Alice originally planted, but she also adds new plant acquisitions every year. 'I have an order of roses coming from Cornhill Nursery in New Brunswick. I add eight to 10 new roses a year,' she says. Dowd has named her garden Alice's Wonderland. The door to Alice's Wonderland leads visitors into a garden full of wonder and mystery. Be sure to watch the episode of Ageless Gardens that airs on May 19 on VisionTV at 8 p.m. The episode, Gardening for All Seasons, also travels to a protected woodland and public-cultivated garden on Vancouver Island, as well as to a beautiful private garden in Waterloo, Ont. The photography is breathtaking and the original score uplifting. The entire series affirms all the reasons why we garden — therapeutic benefits, a sense of community, and above all, a love of plants. For the series trailer and exclusive webisodes, visit colleenizacharias@ Leanne Dowd photo The fascinating story behind the origin of the Dr. Merkeley rose dates back to the First World War and involves a soldier, a Manitoba dentist and legendary breeder Frank Skinner. For advice, ideas and tips to keep your outdoor and indoor plants growing, sign up to have Winnipeg Gardener, a free monthly newsletter I write for the Winnipeg Free Press, at Colleen ZachariasGardening columnist Colleen Zacharias writes about many aspects of gardening including trends, plant recommendations, and how-to information that is uniquely relevant to Prairie gardeners. She has written a column for the Free Press since 2010 and pens the monthly newsletter Winnipeg Gardener. Read more about Colleen. Every piece of reporting Colleen produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the Free Press's tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press's history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates. Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. 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Hamilton Spectator
07-05-2025
- Sport
- Hamilton Spectator
Capitals and Golden Knights are the latest to blow leads this NHL playoffs and need to fix problems
So far early in these NHL playoffs, 45 times a team has skated onto the ice for the third period with a lead. Nearly a third of those times that team lost the game. The Washington Capitals and Vegas Golden Knights lost their second-round series opener, becoming the 12th and 13th examples of that particular blown lead this postseason. The Capitals lost to Carolina in overtime and the Golden Knights fell to Edmonton in regulation. 'We've been good at getting leads and building leads in past playoff series, but the past is the past and the time's now,' Vegas center Jack Eichel said. 'You learn from some stuff that's happened. At the same time, we have to understand they're not going to come in here and roll over, so our effort needs to be better.' Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl don't know the meaning of 'roll over.' Trailing 2-1, the Oilers outshot the Golden Knights 12-1 in the second period, then scored 57 seconds out of intermission on the way to winning 4-2. Washington led 1-0 midway through the third, when a turnover by Aliaksei Protas off the right skate of teammate Alex Alexeyev put the puck right on Jesperi Kotkaniemi's stick. Quick pass to Logan Stankoven, who beat Logan Thompson, and the score was tied. Carolina finished it off three minutes into OT. Sure, it was a bad bounce, but the Capitals were 31-1-1 during the regular season when up after two periods. 'You have to trust yourself and play within good D-zone structure for when those bad moments do happen because inevitably they're going to happen in a series,' center Nic Dowd said. 'Pucks are going to hit stanchions, they're going hit toes of people's skates — things like that are going to happen. But I trust that the five guys that are on the ice are always going to get the job done.' That was a one-goal lead, and Washington was under siege most of Game 1. Vegas blew a two-goal advantage, ending a streak of winning 26 playoff games in a row when up by that margin or more. 'I don't think it's anything that concerns us,' said Reilly Smith, a member of the Knights' 2023 Cup-winning team who was reacquired ahead of the trade deadline in March. 'There's a lot that's correctable. I think we need to play faster and more direct, and I think it starts there.' Carolina Hurricanes at Washington Capitals When/Where to Watch: Game 2, Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT (ESPN) Series: Hurricanes lead 1-0 What went wrong for the Capitals in the series-opening loss? Let coach Spencer Carbery count the ways. 'You can obviously go down 20 different alleys,' Carbery said. Dowd referenced '94' twice as the number of shot attempts Carolina had in Game 1 compared with Washington's 34. That explains just how much the ice was tilted toward Thompson. 'They're going to funnel a ton of pucks to the net, and eventually something bad will happen,' Dowd said, referencing Jaccob Slavin's overtime winner on a seemingly harmless shot from 65 feet out. 'You give them enough opportunities, something weird is bound to happen, just like it did. But all in all I don't think we played a very good game, so we'll obviously be looking to get back to what we do best.' The silver lining for the Caps is they were one goal from stealing a game they had no business winning. Games 3 and 4 are on the road in Raleigh, where the Hurricanes get to control matchups — making this as close to a must-win as a Game 2 can realistically be. 'We're very, very short-term focused, so I don't even look at it as a series at this point right now,' Carbery said. 'Our focus is: 'What do we need to adjust? What do we need to do tomorrow to have success on home ice and have our game look as close to possible what our game needs to look like this year and the level it has to be at — extremely high — to compete with a team like the Carolina Hurricanes?'' Edmonton Oilers at Vegas Golden Knights When/Where to Watch: Game 2, Thursday, 9:30 p.m. EDT (ESPN) Series: Oilers lead 1-0 Trailing in a playoff series is nothing new for the Golden Knights, who have shown a fortitude throughout their eight-year history to overcome early losses. 'No, I don't think we're panicking,' Eichel said. 'It's a seven-game series. Obviously, we didn't have our best (Tuesday) night and it cost us Game 1, but you learn from it and move on.' The Golden Knights have won three consecutive series after losing the opener and are 4-2 in franchise history in such scenarios. They lost the first game to Winnipeg in both 2018 and 2023 on eventual trips to the Stanley Cup Final. In 2021, the Golden Knights dropped their first two games to Colorado before storming back to win in six. Vegas also has a series comeback just this year. The Golden Knights took Game 1 in the first round against Minnesota, lost the next two to trail 2-1, then won the next three to move on. Coach Bruce Cassidy anticipates a hungry opponent after the Oilers came one victory away from the Stanley Cup last season and not being satisfied with winning just one of the first two at Vegas. 'We can't be relying on (past comeback success),' Cassidy said. 'We've got to play better is what we've got to do.' ___ AP Sports Writer Mark Anderson in Las Vegas contributed to this report. ___ AP NHL playoffs: and
