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...seventh, the Crimson managed to get two on base before senior Jennifer Francis grounded out to end the game...
...Bison (3-2) stole the game from the Crimson with a late four-score rally in the bottom of the sixth inning to notch a 7-6 victory. Ferri threw several wild pitches that advanced Bucknell base runners, and Brown could not stop the bleeding, as she allowed 4 RBI before ending the inning by catching a Bison base runner stealing...
...Henderson] got on base,” Roberts said, “[and] she basically stole second, stole third, [and] stole home to get us on the board, which was really a breakthrough inning...
...vote. But that was a race that included three other major candidates with widespread appeal - Democrat Chris Bell, who got 28% of the vote; renegade Democrat turned Republican turned independent Carole Strayhorn, who garnered 18%; and songwriter-novelist Kinky Friedman, who won 12%. Short of a scandal, Perry's base seems secure. Democrats are hoping that the election might reflect voter weariness with Perry, who has served almost 10 years in the office. But in the recent primary, Perry won handily by tapping voter discontent with Washington, not Austin...
...without making alliances across traditional fault lines. The big parties put forward diverse coalitions preaching national unity, even if each retained a core identity well known to voters: Maliki's State of Law coalition ran on a law-and-order platform but drew primarily from a moderate Shi'ite base; Allawi's Iraqiya ran on a similar platform but ran strongest among Sunnis. But even if Iraq's politicians pretended to have outgrown identity politics, voters either didn't get the memo or saw through the spin, and voted largely by ethnicity and sect. Allawi won in majority Sunni areas...