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Freedom Fall in Closely Contested Game to Boomers

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May 24, 2014 - Frontier League (FL) Florence Freedom (Schaumburg, IL) - The Florence Freedom (4-4) rallied from an early 3-0 deficit but fell short as they lost for the second consecutive night by one run to the Schaumburg Boomers (4-4). This time the final score was 3-2 as both teams tallied six hits but it was the Boomers who managed to push across one more run.

Gregory McDaniel (0-1) made his professional debut and looked sharp through three innings. But in the fourth, the Boomers' bats came alive. With one out, Ben Kline drew a walk and Brian McConkey singled. Denver Chavez singled up the middle to score a run and everyone moved up 90 feet when the throw home sailed to the backstop. With runners on second and third, a wild pitch scored McConkey to make it 2-0 in favor of the Boomers. They added one more run on a Michael Valadez sacrifice fly.

The Freedom bullpen held Schaumburg scoreless from there as Adam Krebs, Edgar Valle and Daniel DeSimone all pitched well.

But Florence's offense couldn't get anything going against Schaumburg starter Danny Jimenez (1-0) until the seventh inning. Sam Eberle started the inning with a single to right. Then Joe Staley extended his hitting streak to eight games with a double to deep left-center field. After Nick Stein lined out, Rob Kelly singled to score Eberle and finally chase Jimenez from the game. Kyle Bluestein followed with a sacrifice fly off of new pitcher Heith Hatfield and it was a 3-2 ballgame.

Florence would put a runner at third with only one out in the ninth but were unable to score as they dropped their fourth straight game. The four losses have been by a combined six runs.

A scary moment in the game occurred in the top of the ninth when Jacob Tanis was hit by a throw from the bullpen in the head as he was standing in the dugout. The game was delayed for 20 minutes as Tanis was attended to. He would later get on a stretcher under his own power and get wheeled off the field.

Florence will look to win the finale of the series Sunday night. First pitch is at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time. All the action can be heard on http://www.allinbroadcasting.com/Florence.html.

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Lightning Strikes One World Trade Center (Freedom Tower) Twice | 05/23/14 – Video

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Lightning Strikes One World Trade Center (Freedom Tower) Twice | 05/23/14
Last night #39;s thunderstorm produced several lighting bolts that struck the now completed One Word Trade Center aka the Freedom Tower. We recorded this on an iphone (which you can see has trouble...

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Freedom Party falls to fourth place in election

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Far-right politician Geert Wilders: floundered in the wake of three solidly pro-Europe parties. Photograph: Michael Kooren

Geert Wilderss aim of positioning himself at the heart of a pan-European right-wing alliance lies in tatters this weekend after the Dutch electorate consigned his Freedom Party to fourth place in the European Parliament elections with fewer seats than he started out with.

Mr Wilders had characterised this election as a turning point for anti-EU and anti-immigrant parties across Europe, convinced that more than five years of austerity had turned the political tide in their favour. But he was left floundering in the wake of three solidly pro-Europe parties.

Sixty five per cent of the electorate stayed at home, so we cannot conclude from this result that the Netherlands has suddenly become more pro-Europe, he maintained, after three separate exit polls confirmed him not as a mould-breaking winner but as the elections biggest loser.

We will carry on fighting, for national sovereignty, for less immigration and for less of Brussels, he told supporters wearing shirts emblazoned with Wilders Akbar.

And we will continue to work with partners across Europe who share our views.

However, Andre Krouwel, one of the Netherlands leading political commentators, said the result would damage Mr Wilderss prospects of forming an alliance on an equal footing with French National Front leader Marine Le Pen.

His loyal followers didnt show up. They werent interested. That makes it hard for him to portray himself as a victor.

The results were supposed to remain secret until Sunday, but seconds after voting closed at 9pm on Thursday, the definitive exit poll by Ipsos for NOS TV showed the big winners were the centre-left D66 and the Christian Democrats, with 15.6 per cent and 15.2 per cent of the vote respectively.

Moments later, D66 leader Alexander Pechtold declared: Everyone had the opportunity to choose today and the Netherlands overwhelmingly chose Europe.

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