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Former Husky Seeks Redemption
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The Top Spot:
Golden Bears must win
The Western New England University basketball team faces a do-or-die situation when it meets the University of New England (6-18) on Saturday at 3 p.m. in Biddeford, ME.
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The Golden Bears—who are coming off a 60-58 loss to Roger Williams in a Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) game at the Alumni Healthful Living Center in Springfield, MA—must win to secure a spot in the CCC playoffs.
“We lost to UNE by one point in overtime,” recalled sophomore center Dennis Rinaldi of Harrison, who also has a personal score to settle.
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“We were up by 10 with about five minutes to go, and blew it. I missed the game-winning shot,” Rinaldi said. “I think we are real confident that we’ll win the game.”
Roger Williams, which had dropped a 69-68 decision to the Golden Bears on a last-second shot Jan. 19 in Newport, RI, improved to 13-11 overall and 9-8 in the conference after breaking a four-game skid.
Western New England (8-16, 5-12 CCC) rallied from a nine-point deficit in the final three minutes and had a chance to win the game, but a three-point attempt by senior guard Andre Shaw of New York hit the front of the rim and fell out as the clock expired. Shaw led the Golden Bears with 15 points while the 6-foot-4, 220-pound Rinaldi had 14.
Today’s Schedule:
In boys basketball, (19) Harrison heads to (3) Eastchester at 7 p.m.
In girls basketball, (19) Harrison heads to (3) Ardsley at 5 p.m.
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Earlier in the month the Baseball Hall of Fame started a drug education program for students and young adults. “Be A Superior Example” or “BASE” will work with the Taylor Hooton Foundation and the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society in an effort to promote a healthy lifestyle for athletes that is completely free of performance enhancing drugs.
"It is through the education programs that we are able to fulfill our mission of providing context to the issues that have faced our game, as a reflection of American history, throughout its history," Baseball Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson said to the Associated Press.
In the upcoming months Idelson and the Hall of Fame are hoping to conduct a nationwide survey, hold a summit in Cooperstown and begin a national registry for people pledging to live a PED free lifestyle.
Since 1936 voting for the baseball hall of fame in Cooperstown, NY, has been an integral part in the Major League Baseball season. This year controversial figures like Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds, and Roger Clemens will be appearing on the ballot for the first time. Now the only question is should this trio of notorious superstars be allowed into baseball’s hallowed halls? Or should they be left out of Cooperstown like so many others?
