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ADDISON COUNTY INDEPENDENT

B Section

THURSDAY, Â JULY Â 31, Â 2014

KARL LINDHOLM

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A  tribute  to  a  Yankee  star  at  the  end  of  the  line Here’s  to  my  favorite  Yankee  â€”  40  years  old  and  nearly  at  the  end  of  the  line. What  a  fabulous  career,  over  20  years  playing  at  the  highest  level  of  pro  baseball,  always  performing  with  great  skill  and  consistency,  both  as  a  hitter  (over  3,000  hits,  a  life-­ time  batting  average  over  .300)  and  LQ WKH ÂżHOG ZLQQLQJ *ROG *ORYHV for  defensive  ex-­ cellence).  He  is  OLNHO\ D ÂżUVW EDO-­ lot  Hall  of  Famer  a  few  years  hence. And  perhaps  just  as  important  has  been  the  way  he  plays  the  game  â€”  everyone  agrees  he  plays  the  game  right.  And  his  behavior  off  the  ¿HOG KDV EHHQ ZLWKRXW D KLQW RI LP-­ propriety,  despite  enormous  media  attention.  Who  is  this  paragon  of  the  dia-­ mond?  Not  Derek  Jeter! I’m  writing  about  Jeter’s  Yankee  teammate,  Ichiro  Suzuki. I’m  not  sure  we  fully  realize  how  extraordinary  Ichiro  has  been.  Be-­ fore  being  traded  to  the  Yanks  two  years  ago,  he  played  in  Seattle  for  11  full  seasons,  out  West  in  a  time  zone  when  games  are  played  while  we’re  snoozing.  Without  question,  this  visitor  from  Japan  is  one  of  the  all-­ time  greats  in  the  long  history  of  the  game,  along  with  his  Yankee  team-­ mate  at  shortstop. Ichiro  is  already  in  Japan’s  Hall  of  Fame,  so  remarkable  was  his  abbre-­ viated  career  there  in  his  homeland.  In  Japan,  he  amassed  1,278  hits  and  a  .358  career  batting  average  in  nine  seasons,  before  leaving  for  America  at  age  27.  He  still  holds  many  Japa-­ nese  major  league  records,  including  (See  Lindholm,  Page  2B)

Lottery  sets  winners  for  moose  hunt VERMONT  â€”  The  winners  of  Vermont’s  2014  moose  hunting  per-­ mits  were  determined  Thursday,  July  17,  at  a  lottery  drawing  in  Montpelier.  Gov.  Peter  Shumlin,  standing  alongside  Fish  &  Wildlife  Commis-­ sioner  Louis  Porter,  started  the  com-­ puter-­generated  selection  process  that  randomly  picked  335  winners  among  more  than  11,600  lottery  applications. The  drawing  is  done  by  a  random  sort  of  applications  that  were  submit-­ ted  by  a  June  17  deadline.  Lottery  ap-­ plications  cost  $10  for  residents  and  $25  for  nonresidents. As  part  of  the  regular  lottery  draw-­ ing,  a  â€œspecial  priority  drawingâ€?  was  KHOG IRU ÂżYH SHUPLWV WR JR WR DSSOL-­ cants  who  have  received,  or  are  eli-­ gible  to  receive,  a  Campaign  Ribbon  for  Operation  Iraqi  Freedom  or  Oper-­ ation  Enduring  Freedom  (in  Afghani-­ stan).  The  unsuccessful  applicants  from  the  Iraqi-­Afghanistan  drawing  were  included  in  the  larger  regular  drawing  that  followed.  All  applicants  for  both  drawings  who  did  not  receive  a  permit  were  awarded  a  bonus  point  to  improve  their  chances  in  future  moose  permit  lotteries. The  lottery  was  held  for  50  moose  permits  to  be  used  in  the  Vermont’s  Oct.  1-­7  archery  moose  hunting  sea-­ (See  Moose  permits,  Page  3B)

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Legion  edged  twice  in  quest  for  title in  four  previous  tournament  games  before  the  team  ran  into  the  hard-­ throwing  Mikell  and  the  crafty  Bro-­ deur  on  Tuesday  afternoon.  AC  Coach  Mike  Estey  said  credit  had  to  go  to  the  Essex  hurlers.  â€œThis  morning  we  came  in  and  hit  well  against  Colchester  and  their  ace,  (Sean)  Callahan,â€?  Estey  said.  â€œThen  it  seemed  to  disappear  the  next  two  games  against  Essex.  Hats  off  to  them.  They  threw  well.â€? If  Estey  has  any  regrets,  they  might  be  that  a  few  hard-­hit  balls  against  Brodeur  didn’t  drop  in.  â€œIt  was  a  good  weekend  for  us.  We  went  4-­2  and  put  ourselves  in  the  best  possible  position  we  could.  Our  bats  went  away  the  last  two  games  just  enough.  I  think  if  we  could  have  got  to  the  second  guy  early,  one  or  two  hits  early,  it  could  have  made  a  big  difference  for  us,â€?  he  said.  AC  entered  the  tournament  hav-­ LQJ ORVW WKUHH RI ÂżYH DQG WKHQ JRW KRW ZLWK ÂżUVW EDVHPDQ :DGH 6WHHOH Raymond,  pitcher/shortstop  Sawyer  .DPPDQ DQG SLWFKHU LQÂżHOGHU 'HYLQ Hayes  doing  damage  at  the  plate.  3LWFKHU FHQWHUÂżHOGHU $DURQ 6PLWK earned  two  pitching  wins,  Hayes  and  Kamman  picked  up  a  win  apiece,  and  Hayes  earned  a  save.  Estey  said  the  team’s  chemis-­ try  has  been  good  in  recent  weeks,  but  performance  probably  mattered  more  in  Castleton. “We  started  coming  together  as  a  team  a  little  bit.  But  we  started  to  hit,â€?  Estey  said.  â€œAnd  we  pitched  ZHOO :H GHIHQGHG ZHOO WKH ÂżUVW IRXU $'',621 &2817< $0(5,&$1 /HJLRQ EDWWHU 'HYLQ +D\HV SXWV WKH EDOO LQ SOD\ 6XQGD\ GXULQJ WKH 9HUPRQW games,  extremely  well,  really  solid.  $PHULFDQ /HJLRQ VWDWH FKDPSLRQVKLS WRXUQDPHQW $GGLVRQ &RXQW\ ÂżQLVKHG LQ VHFRQG SODFH It  was  fun.â€? 3KRWR E\ $ODQ .DPPDQ (See  Baseball,  Page  2B)

/DWH WKDW PRUQLQJ OHIW ÂżHOGHU Dylan  Raymond’s  two-­run,  ninth-­in-­ ning  single  gave  AC  a  7-­5  win  over  Colchester  that  ran  the  county  nine’s  By  ANDY  KIRKALDY record  in  the  tournament  to  4-­0  and  CASTLETON  â€”  At  noon  on  eliminated  the  defending  champion  Tuesday  at  the  Castleton  State  Col-­ Cannons. lege  baseball  diamond,  everything  That  victory  meant  AC,  which  appeared  to  be  in  place  for  the  Ad-­ opened  the  tournament  with  three  dison  County  team  at  the  Vermont  straight  wins  between  July  24  and  American  Legion  state  champion-­ 26  (see  related  story),  just  needed  to  ship  tournament.  defeat  Northern  Division  rival  Essex Â

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once  in  two  tries  on  Tuesday  after-­ noon  to  win  its  second  state  title  and  ¿UVW VLQFH But  instead  Essex,  the  Northern  Division  regular  season  champion,  rode  strong  pitching  by  righthanders  Davis  Mikell  and  Pat  Brodeur  to  5-­3  and  3-­2  wins  over  AC  and  claimed  its  second  title  in  three  years  and  eighth  overall. AC,  second  in  the  Northern  Divi-­ sion  this  summer,  had  scored  32  runs Â

Local  nine  puts  together  strong  tournament  run By  ANDY  KIRKALDY CASTLETON  â€”  The  Addison  County  American  Legion  baseball  team  started  strong  at  the  Vermont  tournament,  which  was  contested  starting  on  Thursday,  July  24,  at  Castleton  State  College  and  Mount  St.  Joseph  Academy  in  Rutland.  AC,  the  Northern  Division’s  sec-­ RQG VHHG ZRQ LWV ÂżUVW WKUHH JDPHV on  Thursday,  5-­3  over  South  No.  3  Lakes  Region;Íž  on  Friday,  15-­4  over  North  No.  4  Colchester,  which  had  upset  South  No.  1  Rutland;Íž  and  on Â

Saturday,  5-­4  over  North  No.  1  Es-­ sex.  $& WRRN WKH ÂżHOG RQ 6XQGD\ YV Colchester,  but  rain  delayed  and  then  darkness  halted  the  action  with  the  score  5-­5  midway  through  the  VHYHQWK 2IÂżFLDOV ORRNHG DW 0RQ-­ day’s  forecast  and  postponed  it  until  Tuesday  at  10  a.m.,  at  Castleton.  One  way  or  another,  those  three  wins  assured  AC  a  shot  at  the  title,  regardless  of  how  the  game  with  Colchester  ends.  If  AC  wins  the  suspended  game, Â

the  local  nine  would  play  against  Es-­ sex  1  p.m.,  with  the  state  title  theirs  with  a  win.  A  loss  in  that  game  vs.  Essex  would  mean  a  winner-­take-­all  game  vs.  Essex  at  4  p.m.  If  AC  falls  to  Colchester,  Colchester  would  meet  Essex  at  1  p.m.,  and  the  win-­ ner  of  that  game  will  play  AC  in  a  4  p.m.  title  game. AC,  5-­3  In  Thursday’s  opener,  Devin  Hayes  tossed  a  complete  game,  striking  out  11,  and  Wade  Steele  knocked  out  three  hits  to  spark  the Â

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DWWDFN $& WRRN D OHDG LQ WKH ¿UVW inning,  with  Steele  and  Dylan  Ray-­ mond  singling  home  runs  off  Lakes  Region  starter  Lincoln  Pritchard.  Lakes  Region  scored  in  the  sec-­ ond,  when  former  Otter  Valley  player  Will  Claessens  singled  home  a  run.  AC  made  it  3-­1  in  the  bottom  of  the  second  with  an  unearned  run.  Lakes  Region  scored  solo  runs  in  WKH IRXUWK DQG ¿IWK WR NQRW WKH VFRUH at  3-­3.  AC  plated  the  go-­ahead  run  in  (See  Legion,  Page  2B)

By  ANDY  KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY  â€”  The  Middle-­ bury  Panthers  won  nine  events  â€”  four  by  10-­year-­old  Thomas  Denton  ² WR ÂżQLVK ÂżIWK RXW RI HLJKW WHDPV as  they  hosted  the  Champlain  Valley  Swim  League  championship  meet  in  the  Middlebury  town  pool  this  past  Friday  and  Saturday.  That  strength  at  the  top  allowed  the  Panthers  to  edge  the  Vergennes  &KDPSV E\ MXVW SRLQWV LQ WKH ÂżQDO standings.  The  Champs  won  just  two  event,  courtesy  of  two  8-­year-­olds,  Noah  Konczal  in  the  boys’  25-­yard  backstroke  and  Acadia  Clark  in  the  girls’  25-­yard  breaststroke Vergennes,  however,  saw  many  swimmers  place  in  several  races,  in-­ cluding  second-­  and/or  third-­place  efforts  from  Allie  Croke,  Emily  Rooney,  Calder  Rakowski,  Lucius  Karki,  Tucker  Stearns,  Ethan  Saus-­ ville  and  under-­8  and  under-­12  boys’  relay  teams. But  in  addition  to  Denton’s  quar-­ tet  of  wins  in  U-­10  races,  the  Pan-­ WKHUV UHFHLYHG ÂżUVW SODFH SRLQWV IURP Devon  Kearns  in  the  U-­12  50-­yard  breaststroke,  Mary  Ann  Eastman  in  the  girls’  U-­12  50-­yard  freestyle,  Max  Moulton  in  the  U-­18  boys’  100-­ yard  breaststroke,  Nick  Merrill  in  the  U-­18  200-­yard  freestyle,  and  the  U-­12  boys’  freestyle  relay  team  of  Spencer  Doran,  Nathan  Stone,  Will  Carpenter  and  Kearns.  Middlebury  was  named  â€œMost  Im-­ proved  Teamâ€?  at  the  meet.  The  Racquet’s  Edge  took  the  over-­ all  title  in  a  duel  with  the  Town  of  Essex  Team,  known  as  TEST.  The  VWDQGLQJV ZHUH (GJH 6ZLP 7HDP 2,260.5;Íž  2.  TEST,  2,003;Íž  3.  Burl-­ ington  Tennis  Club  (BTC),  1,570.  4.  Burlington  Country  Club  (BCC),  1,295.5;Íž  5.  Middlebury,  1,044.5;Íž  6.  Vergennes,  1,040;Íž  7.  Saint  Al-­ bans  (STA),  723.5;Íž  and  8.  Winooski  (WIN),  183. The  teams  will  gather  again  this  coming  weekend  in  Hartford  at  the  Upper  Valley  Aquatic  Center  for  the  season-­ending  Vermont  Swim  Asso-­ ciation  summer  championship  meet.  The  winners  and  Panthers  and  Champs  posting  top-­12  individual  or  top-­six  relay  results  this  past  week-­ HQG ZHUH GIRLS’ RESULTS ‡ 8QGHU <DUG )UHHVW\OH 5LOH\ +DUSHU %7& 5DSRSRUW &DUO\Q &KDPSV &ODUN $FDGLD &KDPSV (FNHOV %HH &KDPSV ‡ 8 <DUG )UHHVW\OH +DOODGD\ 9LY LDQ %&& 'HQWRQ 0HJKDQ 0,'' ‡ 8 <DUG %DFNVWURNH %RDUGPDQ 0LOOLH %&& &ODUN &KDPSV

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:LOGOLIH RIÂżFLDOV RIIHULQJ VHPLQDUV for  new  hunters MONTPELIER  â€”  The  Vermont  Fish  &  Wildlife  Department  is  holding  a  series  of  free  seminars  covering  the  basics  for  brand  new  hunters  and  archers. “Starting  in  mid-­August,  we  are  hosting  a  series  of  seminars  in  dif-­ ferent  aspects  of  hunting  to  prop-­ erly  equip  inexperienced  hunters  with  the  tools  to  be  successful  in  the  Vermont  outdoors,â€?  says  John  Pellegrini,  hunter  education  train-­ (See  Seminar,  Page  2B)


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