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STANLEY CUP FINAL

GAME 6 PREVIEW

ONE LAST MISSION? MUSICK: Hawks can close deal on Stanley Cup Monday

MONDAY, JUNE 24, 2013

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Hampshire’s Tyler Crater is Northwest Herald Male Athlete of Year

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Concussion a ‘blessing’ for student EKG reveals an irregularity in Woodstock North athlete’s heart By SHAWN SHINNEMAN sshinneman@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – Diving out of bounds for a loose ball during a freshmen basketball game late last year, Zak Lampl smashed his head on the bleachers. It’s one of the best things that’s ever happened to him. “Absolutely. It was a blessing,” said his mom, Dina Lampl, of Woodstock. “I would have never even thought of having an EKG done for my son. He wasn’t showing me any kind of symptoms.” An EKG, or electrocardio-

gram, revealed warning signs that prompted doctors to refer him to a heart specialist. They soon got news that Zak Lampl, 15, had a 20-millimeter hole between the upper chambers of his heart known as an atrial septal defect, or ASD. Things changed in a hurry for the Lampl family. Zak Lampl, who goes to Woodstock North, sat out the rest of that game in December and went home with a headache. It persisted the next day at school, and toward the end of the day, he started feeling dizzy and light-headed. Zak Lampl went to see the

school nurse, who checked his pupils and determined they weren’t responding correctly. Zak Lampl was taken by ambulance to Centegra Hospital – Woodstock for a suspected concussion. But in the ambulance and at the hospital, he received several EKGs that revealed a more serious issue – an irregularity in his heart. “The doctor was completely frank and blunt with us, and said, ‘You know when athletes die on a field with no explanation?’ ” Dina Lampl recalled. “ ‘You need to go get this checked out. Something’s not

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right.’ ” Follow-up tests revealed the issue. Present at birth, ASD can create a deficiency of oxygen in the blood that causes fatigue and exercise intolerance. If it isn’t dealt with, ASD can eventually lead to a reduced life span, said Zak Lampl’s pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Michael Carr of Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. But the symptoms can be tough to detect, especially since patients have the defect from birth, and therefore don’t

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Zak Lampl practices Friday at Woodstock North High School. Lampl previously sustained a concussion after he hit the ground hard during a basketball game for Woodstock North. While testing for the concussion, an EKG revealed a heart condition that can be fatal if left untreated. Lampl has since undergone surgery and is recovering well.

NSA leaker seeks asylum in Ecuador

But summer break no vacation for teachers

By PHILIP ELLIOTT The Associated Press

Kyle Grillot – kgrillot@shawmedia.com

Sara Bauman, a math teacher at Prairie Ridge High School, cuts out table labels for her wedding reception Friday in her Crystal Lake home. Bauman has just two weeks to plan her wedding. After the wedding, it will be back to working toward her master’s degree, preparing the curriculum for August and doing camps as part of her tennis coaching duties. By JEFF ENGELHARDT jengelhardt@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Trips to NASA to handle moon rocks and tours of the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Ha-

waii may seem like a vacation, but they can be a lot of hard work. For Michelle Dare, those experiences are all part of her “summer vacation” as a science teacher at Crystal Lake Central High School. Like many teachers, sum-

mer break offers a reprieve from her classroom but not from the work needed to grow professionally and prepare for the next academic year.

WASHINGTON – Admitted leaker Edward Snowden took flight Sunday in evasion of U.S. authorities, seeking asylum in Ecuador and leaving the Obama administration scrambling to determine its next step in what became a game of diplomatic cat-andmouse. The former National Security Agency contractor and CIA technician fled Hong Kong and arrived at the Moscow airport, where he planned to spend the night before boarding an Aeroflot flight to Cuba. Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said his government received an asylum request from Snowden, and the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said it would help him. “He goes to the very countries that have, at best, very tense relationships with the United States,” said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., adding that she feared Snowden would trade more U.S. secrets for asylum. “This is not going to play out well for the national security interests of the United States.”

Edward Snowden

Ricardo Patino Ecuador’s foreign minister

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‘JERRY LEE & FRIENDS’ AT THE RAUE “Jerry Lee & Friends: An Evening With the King, The Killer & Cash” will be at 8 p.m. Saturday at Raue Center for the Arts, 26 N. Williams St., Crystal Lake. The show features Lance Lipinsky, Cody Slaughter and Adam Lee of “Million Dollar Quartet.” Tickets, starting at $44, are available at 815-356-9212 or www.rauecenter.org.

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