Daily Sports Digest: Pros Go Pink For Mom, South’s Tobias Named Rockland Scholar-Athlete

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The Top Spot:

Anyone who watched a Major League Baseball game yesterday may have realized something different about the player’s equipment. Rather then using the traditional brown or black Louisville Slugger baseball bats players across the country stood in the batter’s box with a piece of pink lumber.

The bats are part of the MLB’s tradition to raise awareness for breast cancer and to raise funds to someday find a cure. The players started using pink bats in 2006 and yesterday players and other field personnel wore pink ribbons and wristbands during games. 

After players get a chance to sign their game used bats they will be put on MLB.com and auctioned off with proceeds going to Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

Click here to bid on memorabilia from across the Major League, and be sure to check out the Yankees and Mets auctions.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there. Love you Mom.

Rockland Scholar-Athlete:

Clarkstown South’s Alison Tobias was named this week’s Rockland Scholar-Athlete by the Journal News, check out Gina Stallone’s full story online.

Tobias is a senior at South and she is the starting catcher for the school’s softball team. Currently she is hitting .400 with 20 RBI on the season. She is also a straight-A student and next year she will be heading to the University of Maryland to study finance.

Rockland Boulders Host Two Events:

NYPD officers from Westchester and Rockland counties took on the Rockland Boulders in a charity event at Provident Bank Park in Pomona on Saturday. The Boulders won the game 17-8. Patch’s Alexandra Wren has the .

Children from the ages of 7 to 14 were invited to take part in the Aquafina Major League Pitch, Hit & Run at Provident Bank Park. The Boulders hosted the event yesterday and Patch’s Alexandra Wren has the .

Yesterday’s Results:

Sport: Softball (Friday)

Game: Clarkstown North vs. Nanuet

Score: Clarkstown North Won 2-1

Sport: Softball (Friday)

Game: Albertus Magnus vs. Suffern

Score: Suffern Won 7-3

Sport: Girls Lacrosse (Friday)

Game: Albertus Magnus vs. Nanuet

Score: Albertus Magnus Won 13-9

Sport: Softball (Saturday)

Game: Clarkstown North vs. White Plains

Score: Clarkstown North Won 4-1

Sport: Boys Lacrosse (Saturday)

Game: Clarkstown North vs. Clarkstown South

Score: Clarkstown South Won 16-2

Sport: Girls Lacrosse (Saturday)

Game: Clarkstown South vs. Clarkstown North

Score: Clarkstown South Won 15-5

Today’s Schedule:

In boys lacrosse, North Rockland heads to Clarkstown North at 4 p.m.

In baseball, Suffern heads to Albertus Magnus at 4 p.m.

In boys lacrosse, Albertus Magnus heads to Westlake at 6 p.m.

In boys tennis, Albertus Magnus heads to Nyack at 4 p.m.

In softball, Albertus Magnus heads to Pearl River at 4 p.m.

College Sports Notebook:

Spartans hope to be at home in Kentucky

The St. Thomas Aquinas golf team, fresh off a fifth-place finish in the Atlantic/East NCAA Super Regionals, will compete in the NCAA Division II National Championship on Tuesday when the first round is held at The Cardinal Club in Simpsonville, KY.

 The Spartans, advancing to the national championship for a fourth consecutive season, shot a team score of 318 to advance.

Mike Gunderson of Duxbury, MA, posted a team low 74, which placed the senior eighth overall.

Thomas Linehan of Dansville shot his highest round on the final day, carding an 80, but still tied for 6th overall.  Linehan, a sophomore, shot 74, 76 in his first two rounds and was among the top four individuals for most of the tournament.  

Seniors John Casey and Nick Delango, both of Garnerville, closed out the Spartans’ scorers with rounds of 82. Gunderson started out strong finishing the front nine 1-over and was able to get back to even with five holes to go.  

Mortarboard musings

• Standout junior JoJo Marasco of Yorktown Heights was held without a point for the first time in 25 games as No. 3 Duke (14-4) defeated No. 16 Syracuse, 12-9, in the opening round of the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Tournament at Koskinen Stadium in Durham, NC. The Orange, who received two goals apiece from senior Kevin Drew of Katonah and sophomore Scott Loy of Toledo, OH, finished the season with a 9-8 overall record. Marasco, an alum of Somers HS, ranked fourth in scoring on the team with 31 points on 12 goals and 19 assists.
• Senior defenseman Kevin Gordon of Rye, a team captain, was in action as Colgate University (14-3), seeded ninth, upended top-rated, previously unbeaten UMass, 13-11, in the first round of the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Tournament at Garber Field in Amherst, MA. The Raiders, who overcame a five-goal deficit, stopped a 15-game winning streak for UMass, and marks the first time in program history that they advance to the second round where they will face Duke.
• Junior defenseman Kiernan McDonald of Rye was on the losing end as the University of Denver, a 2011 NCAA Tournament semifinalist, defeated North Carolina, 16-14, at Fetzer Field in Chapel Hill, NH. The Pioneers improved to 9-6 on the season while the Tar Heels' season ends at 11-6.

Weekly Sports Poll:

Last week’s Daily Sports Digest poll revolved around the Yankees and the injury to future hall of famer Mariano Rivera. The question asks 50% of the people polled voted that the Yankees would still win the World Series without Rivera closing out games.

This week the Daily Sports Digest poll looks at a controversial decision made by a Phoenix based high school to not allow their baseball team to play against another squad because the starting second basemen is female.

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