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Yahoo
27-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
'It's amazing': Laney baseball shuts out Corinth Holders to advance to state championship
Wilmington — Laney baseball is state championship bound for the first time in 15 years. The No. 3-seeded Bucs (25-5) left no doubt Saturday, May 22, shutting out No. 4 Corinth Holders 4-0 to win Game 3 of the NCHSAA 4A East regional championship. Advertisement Laney pitcher Jason Sproull didn't blink on the mound, tossing 10 strikeouts in the shutout victory that sends the Bucs to next week's 4A state title game against West champion T.C. Roberson. "To put it all together this year its honestly amazing," the junior said. "To get out here and finish it, to do what I do best, is great." LANEY BASEBALL Laney baseball sprints past Corinth Holders in Game 1 of regional championship series The Laney High School baseball team defeated Corinth Holders 4-0 to win the NCHSAA 4A East regional championship series on Saturday, May 24, 2025. Sproull was hot at the plate as well, logging two RBIs as Laney jumped to an early 3-0 lead. It was the Bucs' standout defense, led by Sproull's effort on the mound, that lifted the team to the definitive win. Advertisement "He's one of the best pitchers in the state," Laney coach Justin Bradley said of Sproull. "Just a dude that you can hand the ball to and just know that he's gonna go out there and compete his butt off." Ziermann continued his hot streak, going 3-for-3 as the Bucs tallied seven total hits. The Pirates (26-5) began the game with Brayden Driver on the mound. The junior threw nine strikeouts in five innings. Ace pitcher Briggs McKenzie started Game 2, delivering 11 strikeouts as the team rolled to a decisive 7-1 victory. But in the series' championship game, when it mattered most, Laney came to play. "To see it manifest and become real … I really don't have words for it," Bradley said of his team's journey this spring. "They played their hearts out." Advertisement Bradley is no stranger to state title games. The former Ashley and UNCW baseball standout helped the Screaming Eagles make their first state championship appearance in 2007. Laney last played for a state championship in 2010. The Bucs, who finished sixth in the conference that season, shocked the 4A bracket as they collected a state title trophy in a series sweep over East Forsyth. Laney faces T.C. Roberson in the best-of-three state championship series slated for May 30-31. The regional champs will play in Burlington or Holly Springs. "Just play Laney baseball," Sproull said of the Bucs' mentality going into the state championship matchup. "That's what we've been doing all year, and we're not going to change at all." This article originally appeared on Wilmington StarNews: Laney baseball shuts out Corinth Holders to advance to 4A state championship
NZ Herald
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- NZ Herald
‘Charlie bit my finger' star Charlie Davies-Carr, 19, shares life update with ZM hosts
'Wha– he's a man now!' co-host Vaughan Smith said. 'I'm actually told I look quite young, but all my friends tell me I look young, so I'll take being a man,' Charlie replied. The viral star had no idea it was the anniversary of the video's upload to the internet until ZM reached out to him. Charlie said he hadn't bitten any fingers 'in a long time' when co-host Hayley Sproull asked whether he celebrates the day with his brother. 'I've kind of grown out of that phase.' The show's hosts thought Charlie might've used his standing as a viral sensation to impress the people he meets, but he said it's something he keeps to himself. 'I don't think I've ever brought [it] up. I think it's always come out through my friends, so I don't think personally I've ever told anyone in my life, to be honest.' 'Humble. Humble hero,' Smith replied. Charlie said it's 'lucky' he doesn't look the same as his younger self, but his friends still bring up the video at random. 'It'll be a big thing for five minutes and then it goes,' Charlie said. 'In my day-to-day life, I'm just Charlie, really.' The 19-year-old spoke from his university's student accommodation and revealed he's now working to obtain a law degree. Sproull suggested Charlie could 'cash in' on the video if he went on to open a law firm after graduating. 'You could call it like, 'Bit My Finger Law', do you know what I mean?' Advertisement Advertise with NZME. Yet Charlie said opening his own practice wasn't currently on his mind. 'I've got to pass these exams first ... 'cause it's exam season here. So if I get past these and then the next two years, we'll see about that.' With Sproull enquiring about his older brother – 'how's his finger?' – Charlie said Harry's studying business and 'working hard, I think'. 'His finger should be fine. I haven't checked on it in a while, but it should be fine.' The ZM hosts said Charlie had grown into a 'responsible' and 'handsome young man' and praised him for keeping a tidy room. 'He's made his bed, and that's really made me quite happy,' Sproull said. The hosts wrapped up the interview by asking Charlie to keep in touch, with Sproull inviting him back once he'd graduated so they could 'jam around some ideas' for the law firm's name. 'Yep. I'll pencil you in at some point in three years' time,' Charlie said. 'Pencil me in. Look, he's already talking like a lawyer. He's already charging, isn't he?' Sproull replied. 'Charlie bit my finger' was uploaded to YouTube on May 23, 2007, and became the most-viewed video on YouTube in October 2009. The 55-second video remained so until Lady Gaga's Bad Romance took the top spot in April 2010. Charlie and Harry's father, Howard Davies-Carr, originally uploaded the video to YouTube so the boys' grandfather could watch in the United States. Howard used YouTube because the video file was too big to send by email, but he didn't expect it to blow up like it did – especially as he'd made it private. 'I was just about to remove [the video] before it exploded. But once it had [exploded] I had lost control of the clip anyway, so I left it,' Howard told Business Insider.
NZ Herald
02-05-2025
- Science
- NZ Herald
Rare orca sightings as sea ice breaks near Scott Base in Antarctica
'When I arrived, all I wanted to do was take photos, but I hadn't adapted to the temperature. It took no time at all before I was very uncomfortable and couldn't feel my fingertips.' His role at Scott Base is in the communications team and monitoring field events on the ice is a far cry from his usual work on helicopters. 'Our primary role is to maintain contact with all the field events in various places in the Ross Island region. 'We will talk with them at least once a day to make sure everyone is safe. Then we pass on any requests that they may need, like food or equipment supplies – we pass that along here to other groups here at Scott Base who will make a plan to satisfy those requests.' The team operates the communication equipment 24/7, but is also put to work performing stocktake audits, washing linen, printing notices and flight schedules, and making daily PA announcements with weather updates, new information, birthdays on base – and a joke or two. During overnight shifts, they look after air conditioning units, hot water cylinders and generators to ensure Scott Base stays warm. 'We call them mouse rounds, because we're like little mice scurrying around checking things. There's also lots of outside buildings and containers we check in the evenings,' Sproull said. 'At the start of the season, when we were checking them, we were rugged up with jackets, face masks, goggles and boots because it was so cold and it would take a while to get kitted up. But in the height of summer, you'd be in a hoodie, shorts and Crocs.' Sproull said his deployment had been amazing, with days packed full of activities. 'I've been lucky to fly out to the Dry Valleys, on mainland Antarctica, to help pack up a campsite that was the base for Italian and New Zealand scientists researching the area's geology. Not everyone gets a chance to go out there, so that was a privilege.' There was another team looking at the sea ice and using robotic equipment to study methane seeps from the ocean floor – an indication of global warming and the effects on ecosystems, he said. 'There are people down here looking at the ozone layers and what effect global warming has on that. There's a huge amount of science going on here. It's very busy.' In October, Sproull looked upon the last sunset before the summer season started 24 hours of daylight. 'It set about 2am, so there was a group of us who went out in the middle of the night and watched the last sunset of the season. 'There's also the marathon that takes place in January. I did the full 42km with no training and I hurt for two weeks after that. It was a huge struggle to walk around base and there are lots of level changes here – lots of stairs.' Antarctica is always cold and it's imperative to pay close attention to weather forecasts, but Sproull said the height of summer can be manageable with blue skies and no wind. 'About two weeks ago summer ended and it started getting quite a bit colder again. You notice the sun is lower in the horizon at night, so it's not far away from the first sunset of the season. This deployment has been an amazing experience.
CBC
10-03-2025
- CBC
Husband of home daycare owner sentenced to 15 years for child pornography, sexual assault
Joseph Sproull, whose spouse owned a daycare centre that operated out of their home, has been sentenced to 15 years for child pornography and sex crime convictions. In July 2021, police searched a home in the small community of Marshall, Sask., — located about 240 kilometres northwest of Saskatoon — after being notified that child pornography videos were uploaded online. Sproull was convicted of one count of possessing child pornography, two counts of making it and one count of distribution. He was also convicted on two counts each of sexual assault and sexual interference. Sproull was sentenced in February. According to court documents, there were hundreds of images of child pornography on Sproull's personal cellphone. Some depicted sexual activity involving children, court documents say. "He's one of the worst offenders that we've seen and a big portion of that was because he did this in a daycare to kids that were in the care of the home," said Andrew Clements, a senior crown prosecutor on the case. "We were all happy to see such a severe sentence." The fact that Sproull's spouse operated a daycare centre out of the home was considered an aggravating factor in his sentencing because he held a position of trust and control in the house. Other aggravating factors included that the two victims were "very young children," and the offences happened over an extended period of time, according to court documents. Conversely, the presiding justice noted mitigating factors including that Sproull had no criminal record, was employed and that Sproull believed he suffered from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Measuring 'monstrous behaviour' In his decision, the judge wrote that Sproull's offences are "among the most serious and objectionable of offences that fall within the areas of sexual assault on children and child pornography." "At this level of sexual exploitation of children, it really is a matter of trying to determine whether one case of monstrous behaviour is even more monstrous than another." According to court documents, a forensic computer analysis expert explained that child pornography material had been on Sproull's phone since August 2020. There was also evidence that Sproull had uploaded the material to the social media app Kik in March 2021. RCMP said in a news release they were alerted to child pornography videos being uploaded to an online platform. While executing a search warrant, police discovered that the home was a daycare on July 14, 2021, and notified the provincial Ministry of Education the same day. The ministry suspended the business's licence on July 16, 2021. Sproull was ordered to provide a sample of his DNA and will be on the sex offender registry for life. He is also barred from communicating with the victims or other people under 16 years old, owning firearms or weapons for 10 years and cannot be at places where children can be expected to be, like playgrounds.
