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Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Sport
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Jordy Bahl is a force in the circle and at the plate while leading Nebraska's NCAA softball run
FILE - Oklahoma's Jordy Bahl pitches against Florida State during the fifth inning of the second game of the NCAA Women's College World Series softball championship Thursday, June 8, 2023, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Nate Billings, File) FILE - Nebraska pitcher Jordyn Bahl (98) pitches during an NCAA regional softball game against UConn on Friday, May 16, 2025, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton) FILE - Nebraska pitcher Jordyn Bahl (98), center, celebrates with teammates after hitting a two-run home run during an NCAA regional softball game against UConn on Friday, May 16, 2025, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File) FILE - Nebraska pitcher Jordyn Bahl (98), center, celebrates with teammates after hitting a two-run home run during an NCAA regional softball game against UConn on Friday, May 16, 2025, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File) FILE - Oklahoma's Jordy Bahl pitches against Florida State during the fifth inning of the second game of the NCAA Women's College World Series softball championship Thursday, June 8, 2023, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Nate Billings, File) FILE - Nebraska pitcher Jordyn Bahl (98) pitches during an NCAA regional softball game against UConn on Friday, May 16, 2025, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton) FILE - Nebraska pitcher Jordyn Bahl (98), center, celebrates with teammates after hitting a two-run home run during an NCAA regional softball game against UConn on Friday, May 16, 2025, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File) LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — It's not just the dominance she's shown in the circle, the power she's flashed at the plate or Nebraska's run to its first NCAA super regional in more than a decade that told Jordy Bahl she made the right decision to come home after she won two national championships at Oklahoma. It's all that and more, like being 45 minutes away from her tight-knit family in Papillion, forging bonds with teammates and representing the state she loves. Advertisement 'When I see pictures from the heat of the battle,' coach Rhonda Revelle said, 'her eyes look happy, and I like that, and I like that for her.' There's a lot to be happy about for Bahl and the Cornhuskers (42-13), who open a best-of-three super regional at No. 7 seed Tennessee (43-14) on Friday. Bahl is the first player to sweep Big Ten pitcher and player of the year honors, a finalist for national player of the year and a first-team All-American for the third time. She's 25-6 with a 1.50 ERA and ranks in the top 10 nationally in eight pitching categories. Her 270 strikeouts are a career high. Advertisement She's fifth in the nation with a .475 average and seventh with a school-record 23 home runs. Of her 76 hits, 41 have gone for extra bases. She's the fifth player in NCAA history to record at least 20 pitching wins and 20 homers in the same season. 'I know the Lord is the author of my life," Bahl said, 'and there are just so many surreal moments lately where I just step back and I'm like, 'Wow, I'm so undeserving. Just to be able to experience this and to have these amazing teammates to do it with make it all the sweeter.' Bahl was the 2021 national high school player of the year at Papillion-La Vista High and passed on an offer from Nebraska to join an Oklahoma program that had, at the time, won five national championships under Patty Gasso. Advertisement Two more national titles followed with Bahl going a combined 44-2 with 397 strikeouts and an 0.99 ERA in 288 2/3 innings. Bahl was the most dominant pitcher in the nation when she left OU after the 2023 season. She had just gone through the NCAA Tournament with a 7-0 record and 0.18 ERA. In the WCWS alone, she threw 24 2/3 shutout innings and was voted Most Outstanding Player. But the pull of home kept tugging at her. She wears her heart on her right bicep, where there's a tattoo of the outline of the state of Nebraska. She said she felt called to help grow the sport in the state, and the Huskers have drawn their largest crowds over the past two seasons. This year Bahl has led the teams' onslaught on school offensive records. The Huskers are just the 11th team in NCAA history to record at least 100 doubles and 100 home runs in a season. Their momentum carried into the postseason. They're the first unseeded team to win each of its NCAA regional games by the run rule. Advertisement Bahl started all three games in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, last week, and allowed one run and two hits with 16 strikeouts over 12 innings. In two games against regional finalist Southeastern Louisiana, she struck out 13 of 29 batters over nine innings. 'Jordy is something fierce in the circle,' Lions coach Rick Fremin said. 'We faced her a few years ago. She was tough then and she's even tougher now in a different uniform.' Bahl homered in each of her first four at-bats at the regional and finished 5 for 5 with seven walks, eight RBIs and seven runs scored. No pitching strategy worked against her. 'It doesn't matter if it's up, down, in, out, hard or soft, it's going to be tattooed,' Fremin said. 'So good luck figuring that out. That's somebody else's problem now." Advertisement Bahl's offensive prowess has been eye-opening. She didn't get many opportunities at the plate in her two years at Oklahoma. She bats leadoff at Nebraska. 'I could have told you her freshman year in high school she was this kind of offensive player,' Revelle said. 'If she never would have pitched, she probably could have been an All-American second baseman with hitting like this, or wherever she played.' In addition to her 31 starts in the circle, she's played 13 games at first base, three in center field, two in left and three as the designated player (formerly called the designated hitter). 'A lot of athletes could learn so much from her," Revelle said. "She is not focused on numbers, accolades. She's focused on one mission, and it's helping, doing whatever she can to help the team win, and she's just talented enough that she can do a lot of things to help the team win.' Advertisement Bahl and the Huskers could be a major storyline if they win two more games and advance to the WCWS. They would play Oklahoma in the first round if the Sooners win their home super regional against Alabama. ___ AP college sports:
Irish Examiner
29-04-2025
- Irish Examiner
Iraq detains IS suspect accused of helping to incite New Orleans ramming attack
An official with the so-called Islamic State (IS) group has been detained in Iraq, suspected of being involved with inciting the pickup truck-ramming attack in New Orleans that killed more than a dozen people celebrating the start of 2025, Iraqi authorities said. Iraqi authorities had received requests from the US to help in the investigation of the attack in the predawn hours of New Year's Day in the famous French Quarter of New Orleans, Iraqi judicial officials said. A US Army veteran driving a pickup truck that bore an IS flag sped down Bourbon Street, running over some victims and ramming others, authorities said at the time. The Federal Bureau of Investigation identified the driver as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a US citizen from Texas, and said it was working to determine any potential associations with terrorist organisations. After driving his pickup truck onto a pavement around a police car blocking an entrance to Bourbon Street and striking the New Year's revellers, he crashed into construction equipment, authorities said. He then opened fire on police officers and Bourbon Street crowds, and was shot and killed by the officers, authorities said. The FBI said shortly after the attack that it was investigating the crime as a terrorist act and did not believe the driver acted alone. FBI investigators on Orleans St and Bourbon Street after the New Year's Day attack (Matthew Hinton/AP) Investigators found guns and what appeared to be an improvised explosive device in the vehicle, along with other devices elsewhere in the French Quarter. Iraqi officials said that Baghdad's Al-Karkh Investigative Court specified the suspect who was later detained and turned out to be a member of IS's foreign operations office. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, did not release the name of the suspect, only saying that he is an Iraqi citizen. The officials said the man will be put on trial in accordance with the country's anti-terrorism law, adding that Iraq is committed to international co-operation in fighting terrorism. Despite its defeat in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria two years later, IS still has sleeper cells that carry out deadly attack in both countries as well as other parts of the world. The group once attracted tens of thousands of fighters and supporters from around the world to come to Syria and Iraq, and at its peak ruled an area half the size of the United Kingdom and was notorious for its brutality. It beheaded civilians, slaughtered 1,700 captured Iraqi soldiers in a short period, and enslaved and raped thousands of women from the Yazidi community, one of Iraq's oldest religious minorities.
BreakingNews.ie
29-04-2025
- BreakingNews.ie
Iraq detains IS suspect accused of helping to incite New Orleans ramming attack
An official with the so-called Islamic State (IS) group has been detained in Iraq, suspected of being involved with inciting the pickup truck-ramming attack in New Orleans that killed more than a dozen people celebrating the start of 2025, Iraqi authorities said. Iraqi authorities had received requests from the US to help in the investigation of the attack in the predawn hours of New Year's Day in the famous French Quarter of New Orleans, Iraqi judicial officials said. Advertisement A US Army veteran driving a pickup truck that bore an IS flag sped down Bourbon Street, running over some victims and ramming others, authorities said at the time. The Federal Bureau of Investigation identified the driver as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a US citizen from Texas, and said it was working to determine any potential associations with terrorist organisations. After driving his pickup truck onto a pavement around a police car blocking an entrance to Bourbon Street and striking the New Year's revellers, he crashed into construction equipment, authorities said. He then opened fire on police officers and Bourbon Street crowds, and was shot and killed by the officers, authorities said. The FBI said shortly after the attack that it was investigating the crime as a terrorist act and did not believe the driver acted alone. Advertisement FBI investigators on Orleans St and Bourbon Street after the New Year's Day attack (Matthew Hinton/AP) Investigators found guns and what appeared to be an improvised explosive device in the vehicle, along with other devices elsewhere in the French Quarter. Iraqi officials said that Baghdad's Al-Karkh Investigative Court specified the suspect who was later detained and turned out to be a member of IS's foreign operations office. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, did not release the name of the suspect, only saying that he is an Iraqi citizen. The officials said the man will be put on trial in accordance with the country's anti-terrorism law, adding that Iraq is committed to international co-operation in fighting terrorism. Advertisement Despite its defeat in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria two years later, IS still has sleeper cells that carry out deadly attack in both countries as well as other parts of the world. The group once attracted tens of thousands of fighters and supporters from around the world to come to Syria and Iraq, and at its peak ruled an area half the size of the United Kingdom and was notorious for its brutality. It beheaded civilians, slaughtered 1,700 captured Iraqi soldiers in a short period, and enslaved and raped thousands of women from the Yazidi community, one of Iraq's oldest religious minorities.
Yahoo
23-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
PGA Tour's Zurich Classic extends title sponsorship through 2030
FILE - Rory McIlroy, second from left, and teammate Shane Lowry, of Ireland, celebrate on 18th hole during the third round of the PGA Zurich Classic golf tournament at TPC Louisiana in Avondale, La., Saturday, April 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File) FILE - Shane Lowry tees off on the first hole during the third round of the Zurich Classic golf tournament at TPC Louisiana in Avondale, La., Saturday, April 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File) FILE - Shane Lowry, of Ireland, hits off the third tee during the final round of the PGA Zurich Classic golf tournament at TPC Louisiana in Avondale, La., Sunday, April 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) FILE - Shane Lowry, of Ireland, hits off the third tee during the final round of the PGA Zurich Classic golf tournament at TPC Louisiana in Avondale, La., Sunday, April 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) FILE - Rory McIlroy, second from left, and teammate Shane Lowry, of Ireland, celebrate on 18th hole during the third round of the PGA Zurich Classic golf tournament at TPC Louisiana in Avondale, La., Saturday, April 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File) FILE - Shane Lowry tees off on the first hole during the third round of the Zurich Classic golf tournament at TPC Louisiana in Avondale, La., Saturday, April 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File) FILE - Shane Lowry, of Ireland, hits off the third tee during the final round of the PGA Zurich Classic golf tournament at TPC Louisiana in Avondale, La., Sunday, April 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) AVONDALE, La. (AP) — The PGA Tour has locked up Zurich Insurance as the sponsor of its only two-man team event through 2030. Wednesday's announcement came on the eve of Thursday's first round of the Zurich Classic. The length of the deal corresponds to the remaining years on the PGA Tour's television broadcast rights contracts. Advertisement Zurich has sponsored the tour's New Orleans-area event since 2005, the first year the tournament was held at the Pete Dye-designed TPC Louisiana, and just months before Hurricane Katrina flooded much of the area. A number of Zurich's charitable endeavors in the years following the storm focused on the area's recovery from widespread destruction. The Zurich Classic was an individual event until 2017, when it became the only team event to offer FedEx Cup points. 'Our connection to this resilient city runs deep, and the Zurich Classic of New Orleans has supported that resilience over the past two decades,' Zurich CEO of North America Kristof Terryn said. 'As the only team event on the PGA Tour, the Zurich Classic lets players compete alongside family and friends.' Advertisement Defending champions Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland and Shane Lowry of Ireland are close friends. The Zurich is McIlroy's first event since he won the Masters on April 13 to complete the career Grand Slam. This year's field also includes former U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick of England alongside his brother, Alex. Players on the winning team each earn 400 FedEx Cup points and $1.66 million. The event has raised more than $30 million for local charities since Zurich became the title sponsor, officials said. ___ AP golf:
