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Despite a good effort from sophomore starter Zach Hofeld and strong defensive play, the Crimson struggled to match its opponent’s offense against Eagles freshman hurler Mike Dennhardt. The hard-throwing righty—who, accoring to Walsh, reached speeds above 90 mph in high school—struck out three of the first six batters he faced and allowed four earned runs over 5.1 innings to improve to 3-0 on the season...
...Suter got the start for the Crimson, picking up the win after giving up seven hits over six innings. The left-hander—whose heat was hitting 90 mph on the radar gun—was removed after Centenary pulled to within two runs with three in the seventh. But fellow-freshman Klees came in to seal the victory, pitching three innings of scoreless relief...
...pickup trucks [run by insurgents] they may be chasing," says Gen. Robert Lennox, the U.S. Army's assistant deputy chief of staff for operations. The specifics required by the Army and the Marines are spelled out in the request for bids: blas-resistant, off-road vehicles that drive 65 mph, have 16 inches of ground clearance, accelerate from zero to 30 mph in 12 seconds and weigh no more than 10 tons. Oh yes, the winning bidder also has to be able to produce 500 to 2,000 vehicles within a couple of months...
Weather may have been a factor in the Buffalo incident. According to Accuweather.com, at the time of the crash, winds were gusting up to 25 mph, visibility was down to three miles because of snow and other planes at the same time "reported a bit of ice on their wings." (See "Plane Crash in the Hudson River...
...only a few minutes; no one is quite sure what went wrong. The best guess is that Peterson flew directly into the blizzard, lost visual reference and accidentally flew down instead of up. The four-passenger plane plowed into a nearby cornfield at over 170 mph, flipping over on itself and tossing the passengers into the air. Their bodies landed yards away from the wreckage and stayed there for ten hours as snowdrifts formed around them. Because of the weather, nobody could reach the crash site until the morning...