Angela Tincher
Angela Tincher has been selected by the Amateur Softball Association of America to compete with the Pan Am Qualifier Team in Maracay, Venezuela July 31-Aug. 9. Tincher participated in national tryouts last week in Chula Vista, CA, after returning from playing professionally in Japan with LeoPalace 21. Other notable members of the team include Monica Abbott, the former Tennessee Volunetteer and one of the other great young pitchers with whom Tincher has faced off against and shared the national spotlight with in recent years.
She is now off to Akron to play in the National Professional Fastpitch league (NPF) with the Akron Racers. In her first game with the Racers, they lost to the Rockford Thunder, 3-1. She allowed 3 hits and 3 runs, though none of them were earned. She struck out six batters and walked four in her first appearance with the team this season. The loss moved Akron to 4-6 in the early going of the season.
Drew Weaver
Drew Weaver qualified for the 2009 US Open Golf Championship by tying for fourth place and advancing out of a six-man playoff on Monday afternoon in sectional qualifying at Woodmont Country Club in Rockville, MD.
He scored 69 in 70 in respective rounds on Monday. He advanced following the second playoff hole, along with Jeff Brehaut, Fred Funk, and Chris Kirk.
Weaver was one of seven players to advance out of the Woodmont qualifying event. Weaver is best known for his 2007 US British Amateur Open Championship title, as well as appearing in the 2008 Masters. This will be his second major championship appearance in his career.
The US Open begins play Thursday, June 18, through June 21. Weaver also has an exemption to play in the 2009 US Amateur Open, which is in late August at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Patrick Nyarko
The Fire dropped their third straight match after starting the season with 11 games unbeaten, falling in Washington to DC United, 2-1. Nyarko did not play a very pivotal role in this game, and the Fire fell out of first place in the Eastern Conference with the defeat.
Joe Saunders
Saunders got his first winning decision in four starts on Saturday, June 13, as the Angels defeated the San Diego Padres in interleague play.
Saunders pitched 8 1/3 stellar innings, giving up one earned run on seven hits and striking out twelve. Saunders only allowed one base runner from a base on balls.
His total of 113 pitches was his second highest of the season. The win moves him to 7-4 on the season. The great outing lowered his season ERA to 3.66, and he has 47 strikeouts on the season. As of Tuesday, June 16, the Angels were 33-29 and two games behind the Texas Rangers for first place in the AL West.
Kerri Gardin
Gardin and the Connecticut Sun fell to the Atlanta Dream 67-62 at home on Sunday, June 14. Gardin played 18 minutes, a season-high, and scored 7 points with three rebounds.
She went 50% from the field, and spent much of her time on the floor guarding Chamique Hodsclaw, formerly one of the best players in the league who recently returned from retirement.
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