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Comets nip Enforcers in 19-inning game

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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Thanks to Kobe Santos base hit, the extended match finally ended. Santos single at the bottom of the 19th inning drove Lorenzo Sebaklim home. Sebaklim led off for the Comets and advanced to first off an Enforcers error at centerfield. He then made it to third after second batter Austin Hocog singled, but was stuck there in the ensuing play, as Aurel Mendiola flied out at second. Santos was next at bat and made the game-winning hit.

The Comets-Enforcers tiff was first played on March 1 and ended in a deadlock after 13 innings. The match resumed last Saturday after the three Senior League games were completed and it still took about two hours for the game to be completed.

The Enforcers had a chance to nail the go-ahead run at the top of the 16th inning with Ethan Babauta reaching third base with two outs, but Comets pitcher Aurel Mendiola and first baseman Austin Indalecio teamed up for the last out.

The Comets also had an opportunity to end the game earlier when they loaded the bases at the bottom of the 17th with two outs, but Rejay Iskawa flied out to left field.

The 19-inning game could be the longest in CNMI Little League history, according to SLLB, Inc. president Tony Rogolifoi. Saipan Tribune contacted former CNMI District Administrator James Ada to confirm the record, but have yet to get a response at press time last night.

Enforcers 7, Jets 2 The Enforcers (9-1) returned to the field last Sunday and regrouped quickly after beating the Jets. The Enforcers finished strong, scoring five runs in the last two innings to bring down the Jets (3-6). The game was tied, 2-all, after five complete innings before Jordan Kosam put the Enforcers in the lead with his RBI single. Kosam also reached home off a Jets error, while Shakobe Rangamar gave the team a 5-2 lead. Two more unearned runs at the top of the seventh game the Enforcers more breathing room and they kept the lead after a 1-2-3 at the bottom.

Falcons 3, Comets 1 The Comets failed to keep their momentum after the marathon win over the Enforcers, bowing to the Falcons in a low-scoring game.

The Falcons scored in the last two innings to edge the Comets. Kody Omengkar, who logged the Falcons first run at the top of the first off Don Fejerans single, also recorded the teams second run off a passed ball in the sixth inning to break the deadlock.

The Comets forced a standoff at the bottom of the first with Hocog blasting an RBI single and the match remained tied after five innings. The drought continued for the Comets in the last two innings, as they had two runners stranded in the sixth and one in the seventh. Earlier at the top of the seventh, Ace Evangelista scored off a Comets I error.

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Shield win a good omen insists Workington Comets captain

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By James Broadhurst

Last updated at 11:42, Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Workington Comets new captain Rene Bach proudly lifted the Ian Thomas Shield on Sunday and believes the win is a good omen for the season ahead.

Rene Bach

The 23-year-old from Denmark scored 12 points in the second leg on Sunday to help his side beat Newcastle Diamonds and clinch the shield 77-73 on aggregate.

Comets lost the second leg at Newcastles Brough Park 46-44 but won the shield on aggregate following a 33-27 win in the first leg at Derwent Park on Saturday.

Bach said he felt he owed his side a strong performance in the second leg after scoring three points from his two rides in the first leg, which was abandoned after heat 10 following a heavy downpour.

He said: I felt I let the team down on Saturday night but I got it working again on Sunday.

It was great to win the shield and a good way to start the season. Everyone had a heat win over the two legs, which was great.

Hopefully its a good sign for the season.

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Workington Comets lift first silverware of season

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Last updated at 11:35, Monday, 24 March 2014

Workington Comets lifted their first silverware of the season after winning the Ian Thomas Shield with a 77-73 aggregate victory over Newcastle Diamonds.

Comets' Josh Grajczonek leads Diamonds Stuart Robson and Ludvig Lindgren

The lead changed hands throughout the two legs but Comets just edged the contest in the final few heats at Brough Park last night.

Workington won the first leg 33-27 at Derwent Park, on Saturday, after the match was abandoned after heat 10 following heavy rain.

Diamonds won the second leg by 46-44 but lost out by four points overall.

The second leg saw several re-runs after riders fell from their bikes and either side could have clinched the contest in the final heats.

With the aggregate score at 66-66, heat 13 proved the turning point for Comets.

Workington recorded a 5-1, with new captain Rene Bach bagging first and number one Josh Grajczonek securing second.

Comets went on to win 77-73 on aggregate.

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Comets cut Diamonds down to size

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Last updated at 11:54, Monday, 24 March 2014

Newcastle Diamonds 46 Workington Comets 44 (Agg: 73-77): Workington Comets clinched the Ian Thomas Shield with a 77-73 aggregate victory over Newcastle Diamonds.

Workington Comets with the Ian Thomas Shield

Comets took a six point lead into yesterdays second leg match following a 33-27 win at Derwent Park on Saturday.

The aggregate lead in the second leg at Newcastles Brough Park swung backwards and forwards between the two teams.

Diamonds won the meeting by 46 to 44 but lost out on the shield on the aggregate scoreline.

A 5-1 score in heat 13 courtesy of new captain Rene Bach and number one Josh Grajczonek proved the pivotal moment and Comets went on to secure the shield with a 77-73 win.

The first leg on Saturday ended prematurely after the race was abandoned halfway through following a heavy rain shower which made the track hazardous and visibility poor.

After consulting with the riders and managers of both teams, referee Graham Flint abandoned the meeting after heat 10 and the result stood heading into the second leg last night at Newcastles Brough Park.

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'Cosmos' recap: The meaning and math of comets

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Some of us are old enough to remember the much-ballyhooed appearance of Halleys comet in 1986 -- it swoops past Earth only once every 76 years, after all, and isnt due back until 2061. (So mark your calendars!) It also provides a handy framework on which to hang the scientific concepts featured in this weeks episode of "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey."

It starts with a nod to the human gift for pattern recognition -- both a blessing and a curse, since sometimes we see patterns that arent really there, like the face of Jesus in a piece of toast. (The technical term is pareidolia.)

We also see patterns and messages in the stars. We were born into a mystery, Neil deGrasse Tyson intones over an image of a baby in a basket, gazing up at the night sky as the stars are reflected in the infants eyes. We see shapes in the form of constellations, for instance, and past civilizations read dire portents of doom in the periodic appearance of comets streaking across the sky. Chinese astronomers began keeping records of comets around 1400 BC, including one in 240 BC that we now know as Halleys comet, after the 17thcentury astronomer Edmund Halley.

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Halley first observed a comet in 1664. It happened to coincide with the outbreak of the plague in England, as well as the Great Fire of London, but it inspired the young Halleys love of the night sky. He gained notoriety for his voyage to map the stars of the Southern Hemisphere and soon became part of the vibrant intellectual community that frequented the local coffeehouses, vividly brought to life in another of the series clever animated sequences.

During one conversation, Halley offered to pay 40 shillings to the first person to demonstrate a simple mathematical law explaining why the planets move in elliptical orbits rather than perfect circles. But nobody could do the math -- except for Isaac Newton, who was a bit of a recluse by this point thanks to his squabbles with Hooke and many other scientists of that era. Newton was a difficult man. But he was also brilliant. Halley learned that Newton had solved this calculation five years earlier, part of the manuscript hed been writing: thePrincipia. Spoiler alert: This is one of the greatest scientific treatises ever written, outlining the laws of motion and the universal law of gravitation, as well as the invention of calculus.

It was just the sort of thing that the Royal Society would publish -- except the society was strapped for cash that year, having blown its budget on a lavishly illustrated tome called "History of Fish" that proved to be a colossal failure in terms of sales. Apparently the society was paying Halleys salary in copies of books it couldnt sell, which does make for an amusing domestic scene in which Halleys wife is dismayed when he comes home with yet another copy of "History of Fish."

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Long story short: Halley decided to pony up the cash to publish thePrincipiahimself, and a scientific revolution ensued. Newtons laws explain how nature works, and it does so in the language of mathematics. When mankind sent the first rockets to the moon, it was Newton in the drivers seat.

Newton was such a towering figure that we tend not to remember his gifted contemporaries -- like Halley, who did not actually discover the comet that bears his name. But he was the first to notice an interesting pattern in comet sightings, after poring over first-hand accounts from several centuries. He realized that the comet recorded in 1682 was the same as the one that had been recorded in 1531 and 1607. It was orbiting the sun in a long elliptical path. Halley predicted the same comet would reappear at the end of 1758 -- and it did.

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Workington Comets cut Newcastle Diamonds down to size

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Last updated at 11:54, Monday, 24 March 2014

Newcastle Diamonds 46 Workington Comets 44 (Agg: 73-77): Workington Comets clinched the Ian Thomas Shield with a 77-73 aggregate victory over Newcastle Diamonds.

Workington Comets with the Ian Thomas Shield

Comets took a six point lead into yesterdays second leg match following a 33-27 win at Derwent Park on Saturday.

The aggregate lead in the second leg at Newcastles Brough Park swung backwards and forwards between the two teams.

Diamonds won the meeting by 46 to 44 but lost out on the shield on the aggregate scoreline.

A 5-1 score in heat 13 courtesy of new captain Rene Bach and number one Josh Grajczonek proved the pivotal moment and Comets went on to secure the shield with a 77-73 win.

The first leg on Saturday ended prematurely after the race was abandoned halfway through following a heavy rain shower which made the track hazardous and visibility poor.

After consulting with the riders and managers of both teams, referee Graham Flint abandoned the meeting after heat 10 and the result stood heading into the second leg last night at Newcastles Brough Park.

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Cosmos Quest for Students: Comets and Pattern Recognition

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COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey,Episode 3, When Knowledge Conquered Fear, depicts the friendship between EdmondHalley and Isaac Newton and its consequences for science. Episode 3 also exploreshumans ability for pattern recognition. The proposed activities and discussion topics seekto deepen students understanding of comets, the myths that once surrounded theirappearance, false pattern recognition, and scientific prophecy.

Grade Levels 6-12

Episode Summary There was a time, not so long ago, when natural events could only be explained as gestures of displeasure by the gods or a God. The appearance of a comet in the sky inspired dread.Our understanding of comets and so much else was the byproduct of a deep friendshipbetween the brilliant polymath Edmond Halley and that paragon of genius, Isaac Newton.Robert Hooke, another scientific luminary of the time, falsely accused Newton of stealinghis ideas, and the resulting public humiliation drove Newton to withdraw from the scientificarena when he was in his early twenties. More than a decade later, through Halleyspatience and selfless generosity, Newton conquered his fearful isolation and found thecourage to publish his masterwork, the Principia Mathematica. This single work launchedthe scientific revolution, and gave science the power to accurately foretell events in thedistant future.The Ship of the Imagination will venture halfway out to the nearest star, to find thebrooding, frigid realm of the Oort Cloud, where a trillion comets wait. Our Ship takes us ona hair-raising ride, chasing a single comet through its million-year plunge toward the Sun.

The chapter ends with a prophecy of the events of several billion years from now, the spectacular collision of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies. Comets afford us an excellent opportunity to explore the double-edged sword of the human gift for pattern recognition, both false and true, and to relive that tipping point in history when our understanding of nature shifted from the one to the other. Discussion Topics Imagine you are a citizen of Earth 1,000 years ago. You and your friends are the first to witness the coming of a comet. How would you understand it? Where would you think it came from? Make up a story to explain it. What created the comets of our solar system? How many ways can comets die or depart from our solar system? On the topic of scientific prophecy: how is it possible to know decades before an astronomical event where the planets and stars will be? The photo below represents Barnard 33, a dark nebula approximately 1,500 light years from Earth but it is commonly referred to by another name because of the shape of its cloud of dark dust and gases as seen from the Earth. What do you think that name might be?

Proposed Activities Use examples referenced below and in the Online Resources to illustrate the concept of false pattern recognition for students. Present a sample of images to students that might include the image of a face in a grilled cheese sandwich, Halleys comet trajectories and the DNA barcodes of different creatures (pictured below), and clouds that look like something else. Challenge students to find patterns or pictures in the images. Which of these images have patterns because our eyes complete the picture and which have patterns that are really there? How can we tell the difference? At the beginning of this episode, we say, We came of age in a kind of cosmicquarantine without any notion of our true circumstances in the universe, like anabandoned baby without a note to explain anything about who we are, or how ourworld came to be, or any idea how to end the isolation.How would you compose acommunication to accompany the baby in the basket how would you explain whowe are, how we came to be, and how we could end our isolation?

Online Resources http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6511148/ns/us_news-weird_news/t/virgin-mary-grilledcheese-sells/ (Story on grilled cheese sandwich with face sold on ebay) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/9287627/Clouds-That-Look- Like-Things-a-new-book-from-the-Cloud-Appreciation-Society.html?frame=2229063 (Clouds that look like other things photo gallery) http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/turn-me-on-dead-man/ (Supplemental article on false pattern recognition)

Relevant Scenes from COSMOS Act One: The Baby in the Basket Act Two: How Comets Were Perceived Throughout History & False Pattern Recognition Act Three: Edmund Halley and Isaac Newton Act Four: The Principia Mathematica Act Five: The Lasting Impact of Newtons Work Act Six: Halleys Comet For a deeper dive, more subjects touched on in Episode 3: Physics and astronomy of the Oort Cloud Origin and fate of comets Scientific reasoning that enabled Jan Oort to predict the Oort Clouds existence Distances from Earth to the center of the galaxy Gravitational interaction of comets with other bodies in the solar system Evolution of pattern recognition False pattern recognition and the interpretation of comets Comparative mythology (Aztec, Babylonian, Hindu, Masai, Zulu, Eghap, Djaga, Luba andBritish) The birth of Chinese astronomy

The lives, times and scientific achievements of Edmund, Halley, Robert Hooke and IsaacNewton and the revolutionary consequences of their personal lives and interactions

The mapping of the stars of the southern hemisphere The Royal Society and the significance of its credo The role of the 17th century English coffeehouse in the social political and scientific revolutions The Principia Mathematica and how it changed everything Marriage of physics and mathematics Gravitation on the local and galactic scale Science and prophecy

Written by Ann Druyan Produced by Cosmos Studios

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Cosmos Quest for Students: Comets and Pattern Recognition


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