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With three games lost to Mother Nature this past weekend, the Wolverine baseball team now faces the daunting task of finishing the 2009 fall season by playing five games within a five-day span, beginning on Wednesday. The schedule is as follows: 21 Wednesday Frozen Ropes/Portland 3:30 HOME 23 Friday Merrimack College 7:30 Breed’s Middle School, Lynn, MA 24 Saturday University New Hampshire 12:00 AWAY (Niver Field) 25 Sunday Fairfield University 12:00 Breed’s Middle School, Lynn, MA Holy Cross College 4:00 Breed’s Middle School, Lynn, MA “It’s going to be tough,” says BA mentor Brad Smith, “but everyone is pretty much in the same boat. We just need to concentrate on one game at a time.” The NECBA playoffs, which begin on October 31, are still up in the air for the Wolverines, despite an unblemished 8-0 conference record. “We’re certainly in the driver’s seat, but we have no reason to be complacent, because anything can happen.” Smith hopes that the strength of his pitching staff will ma
SYDNEY, Oct 31, 2009 (AFP) – A massive oil leak off Australia’s northwest coast poses an “immediate risk” to dozens of marine species, with untold numbers possibly dying and sinking to the Timor Sea floor, a report has said. Biologist James Watson was commissioned to carry out a government survey of the West Atlas drilling rig, where at least 400 barrels of oil have gushed daily into the ocean since August 21. He found about 20 dead seabirds and a dead sea snake among 23 species, and said the oil appeared to be drawing certain species into the toxic area, where they were at grave risk.
