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Roman Martin's grand slam powers UCLA baseball past Arizona State in L.A. Regional
UCLA's Roman Martin, shown here batting against Brigham Young in February, hit a grand slam in the Bruins' 11-5 win over Arizona State in the Los Angeles Regional of the NCAA baseball tournament Saturday night. (Kyusung Gong / Associated Press) UCLA pitcher Ian May came out of the bullpen and delivered a crucial double play in the second inning. The Bruins never looked back during an 11-5 victory over Arizona State on Saturday at the Los Angeles Regional. The top-seeded Bruins (43-16) advance to the regional final at Jackie Robinson Field, while No. 3 seed Arizona State (36-22) must win two games on Sunday to stay alive. Advertisement May entered the game in the second inning and protected UCLA's lead, giving up three runs in five innings. "His line doesn't completely tell you the story with his two earned runs at the end of the game, but I don't think we'd be where we were tonight without Ian," UCLA coach John Savage said. Read more: UCLA baseball crushes Fresno State behind 22-hit barrage in NCAA regional opener May said he was pleased with the result. "It felt pretty good tonight, just happy to get the team a win," he said. AJ Salgado scored the opening run for UCLA, followed by Payton Brennan to make it 2-0. Cleanup hitter Roman Martin then broke the game open with a four-run home run in the second, driving in Mulivai Levu, Roch Cholowsky, and Dean West to extend UCLA's commanding lead to 7-0. Martin finished with four RBIs. Advertisement Arizona State scored a run in the bottom of the second and again in the fourth to cut into the deficit, but UCLA's offense kept the pressure on. The Sun Devils added two more runs in the ninth but could not close the gap. The Bruins will face the winner of the early Arizona State versus UC Irvine game at 4 p.m. PDT Sunday for a spot in the super regionals. Get the best, most interesting and strangest stories of the day from the L.A. sports scene and beyond from our newsletter The Sports Report. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
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3 days ago
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Nature campaigners take over Southampton City Council meeting
Amateur actors wore nature inspired costumes to a council meeting in a bid to give a voice to Southampton's non-human wanting to make Southampton a National Park City aired their concerns at an "interspecies democracy meeting" on was part of the week-long Urban Wild festival that culminates with an event at Southampton Common on group said its vision was for an urban setting where where people, culture and nature coexist harmoniously. It proposed policies to protect the city's flora, fauna and the River Blunden, the group's chair who dressed as a river for the event, said: "Southampton is particularly unique - we have a chalk stream here which is a birthplace for Atlantic salmon. "We have some unique habitats and it's looking at how we can gather momentum around the idea of looking at our natural heritage in the same way you would a national park."She added that the event was about looking at "how other species contribute to our lives and how we can manage those relationships better". Speaking from the Civic Centre, Councillor John Savage, cabinet member for Green City and Net Zero, said: "We're doing an awful lot to make sure that we maintain and keep the green infrastructure across Southampton and develop it more."He suggested interconnecting the greenways around the city, making it easier for creatures to travel. Councillor Dave Shields, the outgoing lord mayor, got involved with the performance and dressed as an owl for the occasion."We need to protect our environment, we need to be addressing net zero, we need to be taking more action to protect our wonderful biodiversity," he said. You can follow BBC Hampshire & Isle of Wight on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
