One year ago, Helix celebrated going to the San Diego Section Open Division championship game by winning at Cathedral Catholic.“They dogpiled on our field,” Dons junior first baseman Garrett Frechette recalled.On Wednesday, fifth-seeded Cathedral Catholic avenged that moment with a 3-1 victory at No. 4 Helix in the opening round of this year’s Open Division baseball playoffs.Frechette’s solo home run, his second this season, tied the game 1-1 in the fifth inning. It was the first hit of the game for the Dons (20-8).“I was thinking fastball, but I got a curve,” Frechette said of the home run. “I was out in front of it. I just threw my hands out there. Trust your hands, right?“I knew it was gone as soon as I hit it.”The Open Division champion in 2016, Cathedral advances to the second round of the double-elimination competition. On Friday, the Dons will host No. 8 Poway, which upset top-seeded Eastlake 3-1.Helix (21-9), which lost last … [Read more...] about Dons get even with Helix one year later in baseball playoffs
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Review: Richard Powers’ Overstory’ an ever-branching story of humans and trees
Henry David Thoreau once heaved a big stone against the trunk of a chestnut tree to bring down a shower of nuts. He loved their sweet meat, but the meal filled him with guilt. "It is worse than boorish, it is criminal, to inflict an unnecessary injury on the tree that feeds or shadows us," he wrote in his journal in 1855. "Old trees are our parents, and our parents’ parents, perchance."During Thoreau’s life, American chestnuts covered a huge swath of the Eastern United States. The author of Walden couldn’t have imagined that billions of our woody parents would be destroyed by a blight in the early 20th century. That decimation, sparked by a fungus imported from Asia, was compounded by the nation’s voracious lumber industry, which denuded North America and then lashed out across the world.In 2016, Annie Proulx captured three centuries of logging in the New World with a fantastic novel called Barkskins. Given its enormous length and its encyclopedic examination of … [Read more...] about Review: Richard Powers’ Overstory’ an ever-branching story of humans and trees
Book review: ‘The Overstory’
“The Overstory” by Richard Powers. W.W. Norton. 502 pp. $27.95. Review provided by The Washington Post.Henry David Thoreau once heaved a big stone against the trunk of a chestnut tree to bring down a shower of nuts. He loved their sweet meat, but the meal filled him with guilt. “It is worse than boorish, it is criminal, to inflict an unnecessary injury on the tree that feeds or shadows us,” he wrote in his journal in 1855. “Old trees are our parents, and our parents’ parents, perchance.”During Thoreau’s life, American chestnuts covered a huge swath of the eastern United States. The author of “Walden” couldn’t have imagined that billions of our woody parents would be destroyed by a blight in the early 20th century. That decimation, sparked by a fungus imported from Asia, was compounded by the nation’s voracious lumber industry, which denuded North America and then lashed out across the world. In 2016, Annie Proulx … [Read more...] about Book review: ‘The Overstory’
Pickleball at sea? These cruise ships court fans with facilities
Share This Story! Let friends in your social network know what you are reading about Facebook Email Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Pinterest Pickleball at sea? These cruise ships court fans with facilities Holland America offers pickleball on all 14 of its vessels, and other lines are adding the sport, too Sent! A link has been sent to your friend's email address. Posted! A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Join the Nation's Conversation To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs Dan Fellner, Special for the (Arizona) Republic Published 9:12 a.m. ET April 1, 2018 Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Cruise ship tours: Holland America's Koningsdam Fullscreen Posted! A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. The MV Koningsdam is the first in a new generation of Holland America Line ships dubbed the Pinnacle Class. Holland America Line Fullscreen … [Read more...] about Pickleball at sea? These cruise ships court fans with facilities
Today in History: Feb. 28
Today is Wednesday, Feb. 28, the 59th day of 2018. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 28, 1993, a gun battle erupted at a religious compound near Waco, Texas, when Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents tried to arrest Branch Davidian leader David Koresh on weapons charges; four agents and six Davidians were killed as a 51-day standoff began. On this date: In 1784, John Wesley, the co-founder of Methodism, chartered the first Methodist Church in the United States in Leesburg, Virginia. In 1844, a 12-inch gun aboard the USS Princeton exploded as the ship was sailing on the Potomac River, killing Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Navy Secretary Thomas W. Gilmer and several others. In 1861, the Territory of Colorado was organized. In 1917, The Associated Press reported that the United States had obtained a diplomatic communication sent by German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to a German official in Mexico proposing a German alliance with Mexico and Japan should the … [Read more...] about Today in History: Feb. 28