Archive By Author - Tom Didato
Doing all their offensive damage in the first two frames, North Central washed the bad taste from last Thursday's one-run loss to Fairfield Central from its mouth by thrashing visiting Keenan, 13-1, on a sun-splashed early Tuesday evening game in Boonetown.
April 04, 2014
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Tom
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North Central High/Middle
Hearing that his cousin was going to buy a catamaran and go sailing, Mac McCallum got caught up in the excitement and bought his own multi-hull sailboat. Turns out, he did not have a sailing partner as his cousin backed out on his end of the deal.
April 02, 2014
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Tom
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Sports
Using the Springdale Race Course as his classroom and his good friend and retired National Steeplechase Association champion jockey Jonathan Smart and Camden-based trainer Mickey Preger as his professors, Willie McCarthy went back to school last week in the days leading up to McCarthy's ride aboard Top Striker in Saturday's 82nd running of the $50,000 Carolina Cup steeplechase.
March 31, 2014
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Tom
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Equine
All those gloomy early week predictions of the possibility of --- your pick --- rain, hail, thunderstorms, threat of a tornado ... locusts ... on Saturday did not keep too many Carolina Cup patrons from descending upoon the Springdale Race Course in strong numbers.
March 31, 2014
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Tom
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Equine
Had it been the 1980s and if it were Wall Street, it would have been considered insider trading.
March 28, 2014
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Tom
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Equine
Brushing beneath the chin of a horse whose winter coat is shedding and floating into the air, Kate Dalton apologized for the mess it was making as hairs flew everywhere.
March 28, 2014
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Tom
Didato
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Equine
At a time of morning when many a Carolina Cup-goer is rolling over in their bed, the men charged with making sure everything on the grounds of the Springdale Race Course and its adjoining property are in working order are already on the job and rolling out, assuring that everything is in place for the tens of thousands of patrons who will make their way through the gates in the coming hours.
March 28, 2014
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Tom
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Equine
Hunter McManus is hardly the most imposing figure on the baseball field.
March 28, 2014
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Tom
Didato
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Sports
Unlike some student-athletes who make sports their first priority when choosing a college, Miranda Brown was ready to put athletics in her rear-view mirror after choosing to attend Columbia College.
March 26, 2014
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Tom
Didato
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Camden High/Middle
What has been a tough winter up and down the East Coast is having a profound effect on the first two weeks of the 2014 National Steeplechase Association campaign.
March 26, 2014
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Tom
Didato
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Equine
Streaks are made to be broken and, two went by the wayside Friday night at Optimist Field.
March 24, 2014
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Tom
Didato
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Lugoff-Elgin High/Middle
Meeting with his team following their 5-2 loss to visiting Pelion on a cold evening in Boonetown, Robbie Cash told his North Central baseball squad that the Panthers were "ripe for the picking."
March 21, 2014
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Tom
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North Central High/Middle
On the day before St. Patrick's Day, it was lucky to have been a horse which was developed in Camden as two graduates of Kip Elser's Kirkwood Stables and another from Donna Freyer's Custom Care Equine found their way into the winners' circle.
March 19, 2014
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Tom
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Equine
When you have been coaching for better than 40 years, you have a feel as to how to handle your squad and what it will take for that group to be successful.
March 19, 2014
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Tom
Didato
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Camden High/Middle
Never has a soft pop fly to center looked prettier.
March 17, 2014
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Tom
Didato
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Camden High/Middle
