He even led the league with eight triples — and he also played a little outfield when asked. Any one of these achievements would be impressive for a year-old hitting his prime in his fourth season since moving from Japan to the major leagues.

Doing it all at the same time is something that almost nobody who's currently alive had ever seen. Ohtani kept baseball's historians and statheads metaphorically buried up to their eyes in dusty record books all summer as they dug into the early 20th century annals to identify the last players to accomplish the statistical superlatives Ohtani was currently blazing past.

Fans across the world agreed: Despite his soft-spoken personality and single-minded focus on his sport, Ohtani has become an icon wherever baseball is played and a known figure even beyond the game's traditional borders.

I love it. Seems like every pitch when he's at the plate, you can hear the oohs and aahs. I think it's great for baseball. The Bucks won Brady's fifth Super Bowl title, at 43 no less, was one of the best moments of , when a continuing pandemic could not dim the brightest of stars of the sports world.

The Buccaneers defeated the Chiefs to win the Super Bowl. Phillip, File. Mickelson gave the silver-haired set a thrill, becoming the oldest major champion in golf history by winning the PGA Championship at Helio Castroneves showed he's still got some lift in his year-old body, climbing the fence after winning a fourth Indy Major League Baseball and the players' association are scheduled to meet Thursday, ending a day break in negotiations that began when management started a lockout.

Louis Cardinals. First-base umpire Don Denkinger's blown safe call on Jorge Orta's grounder in the bottom of the ninth of Game 6 opened the door for Kansas City to rally for two runs and tie the series with a victory — and ultimately go on to a Game 7 rout for its first World Series title.

Scott Spiezio's three-run homer in the seventh made things interesting, and Troy Glaus ' double scored two to highlight a three-run eighth and help then-Anaheim pull out a comeback win and pave the way for a Game 7 title victory. Six World Series titles in Dodger history, and the last might be the most memorable, as it certainly featured one of the great World Series games. In storybook fashion, an ailing and gimpy Kirk Gibson stepped to the plate in the bottom of the ninth, with Los Angeles trailing by a run and star Oakland closer Dennis Eckersley on the mound.

In seemingly improbable fashion, Gibson belted a two-run homer , igniting a frenzy at Dodger Stadium and sending the home team to a victory. Just five years into their existence, the Marlins were World Series champions. However, they needed one of the most thrilling Game 7s in the history of the Fall Classic to get it done.

Down to Cleveland for most of the game, the Marlins tied it on Craig Counsell's sacrifice fly in the ninth. Counsell then scored the winning run on Edgar Renteria's memorable single in the bottom of the 11th for the victory.

Back when they were members of the American League, the Brewers trailed the California Angels in the best-of-five AL championship series. However, the series was in Milwaukee for the final three games, and the Brewers made the most of their home surroundings. After falling behind in Game 5 , Cecil Cooper put Milwaukee ahead with a two-run single in the seventh inning and held on for a win that punched the franchise's only World Series ticket.

The Twins wrapped up their second World Series title in five years thanks to veteran star hurler Jack Morris. In one of the great World Series-pitching performances of all time, Morris allowed seven hits, struck out eight and threw pitches over 10 innings to outduel John Smoltz and help Minnesota to a , inning victory over the Atlanta Braves in Game 7.

Morris watched as Gene Larkin singled home Dan Gladden with the winning run. The '69 Mets had their miracle run to the World Series, and perhaps, at least for one night, the '86 Mets needed their own type of miracle to win it all. That would be the famed Game 6, where New York rallied for three runs in the bottom of the 10th inning to stun the Boston Red Sox, , and even the series.

Mookie Wilson, Ray Knight, Bill Buckner — the cast of characters is unforgettable, just like the moment. No doubt, there are certainly enough games to pick from when discussing the Yankees. The Babe calling his shot, Mr. October, Mr. The list goes on. Larsen's feat remains the only one of its kind in World Series history. We're going all the way back to when the A's were based in Philadelphia and taking on the Chicago Cubs in the World Series.

Chicago had just taken Game 3 to cut the Athletics' lead to and led heading into the bottom of the seventh. She was also honored to be asked to serve on the Search Committee for the new Head of School, where she and Meg Frederick and were the first teachers to serve in that capacity. The students and my faculty friends and principals have taught me so much over the years. I have worn many hats and have loved every minute. I will truly miss this community. McCarty said.

Nigel Traylor expressed his appreciation for Ms. McCarty and her years here. Her career has been diverse as she has worked under five heads of school and five principals, which included four buildings, six classrooms, three cafeterias and even outdoors. Thurmond said. Auction items included vacations, sports events, jewelry, class baskets, artwork and much more. One of many great memories was the traditional class trip, where they traveled five hours to Turtle Island in North Carolina.

Later, they published their own literary magazine — Paw Prints. There, she attended a luncheon where President Bill Clinton spoke and Dorothy Sullivan accepted the award. People ask how I can teach Middle School kids and the answer is easy — I love them!

Through it all, Ms. Thurmond has seen students and educators come and go, buildings razed and new ones built in their place, and she has witnessed every type of game, meet, pep rally, assembly, parade, play and more. Her thoughts after all this? Crimson and Gold allocates the funds to support ALL organized team sports and many programs and initiatives, including new uniforms for cheer, football, wrestling, soccer and lacrosse, volleyball pole system, softball helmets, tennis practice courts, baseball and softball batting cages, refinishing the gym floor, teacher and coach appreciation, spirit supplies and much more.

Fittingly, he was with loved ones when he passed, and his legacy will remain with us. He leaves behind one son, former HI teacher and coach Eamon Thornton, and two grandchildren. Afterward, he accepted a head coaching position at Virginia Episcopal School.

From there, he took a law position in Atlanta where he was a partner in the firm Dennis, Corey, Porter, and Thornton. He later struck out on his own and started his own practice. His wisdom and dedication have been a major reason for our gridiron successes over the years.

In , he started coaching lacrosse as a community coach at HI — that fall he was hired to teach history in the Middle School and was also named associate head coach of lacrosse at the same time. In , he took over as head lacrosse coach, a position he served up until this year. Over this span, the Bears had a. His teams have also advanced to postseason many times and remain competitive year after year.

Personally, Mike was a mentor, colleague and friend. There will be no replacing him. His dedication to building teams of great spiritual and physical strength resulted in strong young men who will make the world a better place. Looking at the total picture, Coach Mike left more than a lasting legacy wherever he went, including in the classrooms, athletic fields and around the campus.

Our prayers continue to go out to not only his family and our school community, but to all who had the opportunity to know him. The game changed, to say the least, and our foursome changed with it and helped us adapt for the better in the process. Rankin said. Everything must be looked at differently. Scroggins added. Adams said. Adams added. Even the paperwork has grown exponentially larger.

This was noticed at a high point last August when our students returned, full on for the first time since walking out the doors on March 12 of last year. There were smiles, warm greetings and easy chit chat, while maintaining social distancing the best ways a teenager can. Scroggins said. The evidence is in the cafeteria and in the quads, inside the classrooms and watching the students changing classes. The evidence is our leadership, our family — from the Head of School to the earliest of learners.

And the evidence is, in large part, been successfully aided, monitored and healed by our four nurses. As said earlier, there are people in our world who have always been heroes. Maybe a positive of this pandemic is now everyone can get to see them and appreciate them for who they are and for what they do and have done.

Madeline Poch was valedictorian and Ella Vail was salutatorian. The graduates will attend 64 different colleges and universities across 22 states. Seven will study the visual and performing arts while 18 will participate in NCAA athletics.

Congratulations, Class of ! She would complete her academic journey at HIES as valedictorian and go on to Duke University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and competed in swimming.

Much happened before all of that occurred and before she became Dr. Jamie Fleming, however. Academically, Dr. Fleming was a standout student at HIES. That led to her being named valedictorian. It was a shock and an honor for sure.

My siblings kept me humble. Teachers and school leaders worked hard to provide the high school experience that families expected and that students would enjoy. Fleming said. Sports were available as part of the Upper School program and Dr. Fleming chose swimming. She was a part of the meter relay team that finished fourth in GHSA state competition in She graduated cum laude from Duke in with the plan to work with animals.

Knowing the emotions involved with treating animals and working with pet owners, she decided to take a position at a veterinary clinic for a year to test the experience. Fleming explained. Living in Wisconsin, Dr. Both decided to specialize in internal medicine and relocated to Wisconsin after completing their DVMs. Both have worked for the past 10 years for Lakeshore Veterinary Specialists, a hour emergency and specialty care center with three facilities outside Milwaukee in Glendale, Oak Creek and Port Washington.

Her parents moved back for work but often winter in Georgia, however. Her sister Morgan also relocated there so they are able to enjoy a great deal of family time together. Fleming and her husband have two children:. Hazel, 4, and Nate, 2. Fleming works three 9-tohour days at the clinic each week, where her practice focuses on internal medicine and advanced diagnostics with animals.

The other two days each week she is at home but often spends time catching up on paperwork. During COVIDrelated quarantine, the veterinary clinics never closed and continue to permit only curbside drop-offs of animals and consultations with families either virtually or outdoors.

With an increase of pet adoptions during quarantine days, the practice has remained extremely busy. Unlike other states, Wisconsin did not include veterinarians in the initial wave of vaccinations for first responders or medical professionals. They were eligible along with other residents in early April.

She has not been able to visit Atlanta as often as she would like; Dr. Fleming was inducted into the HIES Athletic Wall of Fame for swimming in but was unable to attend the ceremony in person as she was expecting daughter Hazel about a week after the event.

Her sister Morgan, a UGA athlete who was also inducted into the Wall of Fame for swimming in , was able to accept the recognition on her behalf. She hopes to visit campus soon. His company has been featured in Forbes magazine. Reid and his wife Caroline are currently living in Costa Rica.

They were married in October The couple will be married on May 28, , in California at the Yosemite Valley Chapel in a small intimate ceremony. The couple will reside in Atlanta. Reid joins big brother, William Andrew. The family resides in Pratville, Ala. Chelsea won four state titles here — three in the meter and one in the hurdles. Sydney received the Sociology Outstanding Senior Award.

This award is given to two graduating seniors in the Sociology Department for their scholarship, leadership, outreach and. TES engagement at the university. In her time at Ohio State, she conducted research to better understand Executive Functions and Emotion Recognition in preschool students. She has advocated for educational equity and other social justice issues as a Morrill Scholar. She was awarded with a merit scholarship and one of only 20 coveted places in the program.

She will likely pursue certification as a licensed professional counselor LPC , a two-year program. She is considering working in trauma therapy for children and adolescents. Easter Eggstravaganza cookie decorating About 40 alumni and faculty children and their parents participated in Easter cookie decorating fun on Saturday, March 27, via Zoom. In , Ms.

We look forward to more in-person and Zoom events in the summer and fall. Both her father and aunt are graduates and she was thrilled to earn acceptance into the UGA Honors College.

Influenced by her grandmother, a retired attorney with a successful career as a civil litigator in Savannah, Ga. PDT and fans in the U. Joe Ryan will start on the mound for the U. Tyler Austin. They also currently lead the tournament in slugging percentage Austin. Saturday will mark the eighth all-time meeting against the defending gold medalists in an Olympic Games, and the stars and stripes hold a head-to-head record in the previous six meetings.

In the last meeting on July 31, t he U. Nick Martinez was strong on the mound in his victory. After giving up back-to-back singles and a run to start the game, he sat down 13 of the next 14 batters he faced, striking out the side in the top of the third.

Martinez scattered four hits and no walks over five innings of work and struck out nine batters to get the win. Casas led the offense with a 1-for-4 day with a two-run home run in the fifth inning to take a lead. Allen hit a solo shot in the sixth for the eventual game-winning run before Austin added an RBI-single to put the U. The gold medal game is set for Saturday, August 7, at 7 p. PDT and the bronze medal game is scheduled for Saturday, August 7, at 12 p. They will face the loser of the first semifinal between Japan and Korea with a spot in the gold medal game on the line.

With Austin on first base thanks to a one-out walk, he launched a hanging breaking ball to deep center-field to give the stars and stripes an early lead. After escaping a bases-loaded jam with one out in the top of the first inning, Kazmir retired 12 of the next 13 batters, including the last nine he faced, allowing just a lead-off double in the third inning. Holding on to its two-run lead in the bottom half of the fifth inning, Austin came to the plate with two outs and laced the first pitch he saw to dead center, giving Team USA a cushion.

The relievers took over from there and delivered in clutch moments. Brandon Dickson survived two fielding errors to pitch a hitless sixth inning, and Scott McGough escaped giving up two hits in the top of the seventh to keep the U. Anthony Gose pitched a perfect eighth inning before handing the game over to David Robertson in the ninth.

Robertson picked up the first two outs but surrendered a solo home run and a free pass in back-to-back at-bats to bring the tying run to the plate.

He would respond by striking out Yefri Perez to close out the game and securing the victory and a spot in the semifinals. Kazmir earned the win for the stars and stripes, giving up just two hits, one walk, and striking out five batters in five innings. Robertson 2 was credited with his second save of the Olympic Games.

Offensively, the U. Casas finished the day 1-for-3 with his two-run homer, and Austin picked up the other RBI on a 1-for-3 day with a solo shot and two runs scored. Eric Filia 1-for-2 was the only other American batter to collect a hit in the game with a single in the fourth inning.

The Dominican Republic was relegated into the bronze medal game follow the loss and will await the loser of the second semifinal. PDT with a spot in the second semifinal on the line at the Tokyo Olympic Games baseball tournament.

Fans in the U. The winner of this matchup will advance to face the loser of Japan and Korea on Thursday, August 5, at 7 p. The loser will advance directly into the bronze medal game on Saturday. Scott Kazmir will make his Olympic debut starting on the mound for the U. The Dominican Republic will give the ball to Denyi Reyes Wednesday's matchup will be the third all-time meeting in Olympic Games history between the two countries, with Team USA holding a advantage.

The last match-up was during the Barcelona games when lefty Jeff Alkire hurled a complete game, two-hit shutout for Team USA in a game that was called due to run-rule in the seventh inning.

Alkire faned six in the effort, his second win of the Olympic Games. Jason Varitek chipped-in two hits and scored twice. Dominican starter Felix Noval suffered the loss. Through three games in the Tokyo baseball tournament, Tyler Austin leads the team in batting average.

Triston Casas leads the team in homers 2 and RBIs 6. The pitching staff holds a collective 2. Three-time World Series champion Scioscia leads a roster laden with major league and international baseball experience. Of the 24 players on the roster, 19 have previously suited up for the red, white, and blue, and seven have won a gold medal. Despite the loss, the U. A loss in either of its next two games would relegate Team USA into the bronze medal game. Back-to-back walks loaded the bases and an infield single put Japan ahead before Brandon Dickson came on and got out of the jam.

But Team USA would respond immediately. Triston Casas worked a one-out walk off Japan starter Masahiro Tanaka and Todd Frazier drove the first pitch he saw into the left-center gap to score Casas from first base. Eric Filia was hit by a pitch to put runners on the corners with one out before Mark Kolozsvary followed with an RBI-single to tie the game at two. Nick Allen then placed a double down the right-field line to score Filia from second to push the U. Japan tied the game in the bottom of the fourth on a two-out RBI-double; but, the stars and stripes, again, wasted no time responding.

Back-to-back singles by Eddy Alvarez and Tyler Austin led off the top of the fifth to put runners on first and second with no outs and Casas coming to the plate. He connected in a big way, slamming an opposite-field three-run home run over the left-field fence to put Team USA ahead A solo shot to left field and an RBI-single put Japan back within one after five complete, with the red, white, and blue leading The bullpens took over from there, exchanging outs until the bottom of the ninth.

The stars and stripes turned to Scott McGough to close out the game but a walk, a single, and a tough groundout tied the game at to force extra-innings. Japan, however, got the job done, sacrificing both runners to second and third on a bunt before Takuya Kai came up with the walk-off single to right field to finish the game, Baz worked 2. He gave up five hits, two earned runs, walked three batters, and struck out one in his first appearance in the Olympic Games. Dickson was first out of the bullpen and gave up one run in his 1.

Ryder Ryan struck out two batters in 1. David Robertson pitched a scoreless eighth, striking out two batters before McGough suffered the blown save in the bottom of the ninth inning. Edwin Jackson was tagged with the loss, giving up the unearned run in the bottom of the 10th inning. Austin continued his hot hitting in the tournament, finishing the day 2-for-5 with a run scored and Frazier had his first multi-hit game of the Olympics, going 2-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored.

The first pitch is scheduled for 7 p. Shane Baz will get the start on the mound for the U. Japan will turn to Masahiro Tanaka Team USA holds a record over Japan in the previous contests and has won the last three meetings, including their last matchup in the Beijing Olympic Games bronze medal game.

Trailing in the bronze medal game, Matthew Brown three-run home run to tie the game in the bottom half of the third inning. Brown doubled and Nate Schierholtz walked to put runners on with one out in the bottom of the fifth, Taylor Teagarden followed with a double off the right-field wall, and Jason Donald hit a two-run bomb to double-up Japan, PDT in the first of two semifinals.

The loser will advance into the elimination bracket and play on Wednesday, August 4, at 12 p.