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Theres always a level of calm when watching Casey Cole play field hockey.

No matter how big the stakes, the Crestwood senior approaches every game situation with a measured intensity.

That drive has led to quite a bit of success in the Comets red and white and why Cole has been selected the 2014 Times Leader Field Hockey Player of the Year.

You have to stay poised during the game of field hockey, Cole said. As soon as you start to panic, thats when you start to make mental errors and messing up on the basics. You always have to stay poised and confident.

Its not the kind of thing you can teach explained first-year head coach Patsy Moratori, who has known Cole since she was a little girl. Its not something you inherit even if your mom did win a state field hockey championship.

It comes from a belief, a confidence in ones ability, in the year-round training and most importantly, in the abilities of teammates.

Its part of her make up, said Moratori, who took over for long-time head coach Elvetta Gemski this season. Shes been that way since shes been a freshman. Being there (midfield) for three years, thats not usually the case in high school. Thats a senior position, a junior position, not really a come and play as a sophomore position.

The Comets finished with a 23-1-1 overall record and were a perfect 10-0 in the Wyoming Valley Conference. During that stretch, Cole scored 11 goals, dished out 13 assists and was asked to mark some of the best offensive players in the state.

During the semifinals of the PIAA Field Hockey Championships against Oley Valley, the No. 2 seed from District 3, Moratoris game plan to stop Oley Valleys leading scorer Carly Kauffman (32 goals, 17 assists) was simple.

We just put Casey on her and told her she had to stay on tight said Moratori after the game on Nov. 11. We didnt give a lot of extra attention. We just told Casey OK, shes yours mark her and were pretty sure that it would get done if we tell her thats her job.

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Comets Remain Undefeated

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December 27, 2014 - Major Arena Soccer League (MASL) Missouri Comets INDEPENDENCE, MO - The Missouri Comets faced their toughest challenge of the season but came out with a tight 10-7 victory over the San Diego Sockers to remain undefeated in the 2014/15 Major Arena Soccer League season on Saturday night at the Independence Events Center.

Defender Brian Harris was named the Borden Man of the Match with a four-point match recording two goals and two assists, while team leader Leo Gibson added three more points to his name with two tallies and one assist.

Two weeks after having defeated the Wichita B-52s for the second time in the season, Head Coach Vlatko Andonovski's team came back twice to earn their ninth consecutive victory over San Diego who will visit the St. Louis Ambush on Sunday.

Only fourteen seconds into the match, San Diego's Kraig Chiles found the back of the net followed by a tally from Ney five minutes later to give the visitors a 2-0 lead. However, the reigning MISL Champions scored back-to-back goals courtesy of Harris, Gibson and team captain Vahid Assadpour in less than a five-minute span to end the quarter with a 3-2 lead.

Each team would score twice in the second stanza. Less than two minutes into the quarter, goalkeeper Danny Waltman led an attack after controlling the ball all the way to San Diego's box, which ended in Alain Matingou's first tally of the evening.

Another goal by Assadpour gave the Comets a 5-2 lead before Chiles and Nick Perera notched two goals to end the half with a partial 6-5 score.

The half time break featured some of Kansas City's most renowned media members such as Jake Yadrich from Sporting Kansas City, Nick Vasos, Shannon Oleen, Holly Starr among others play a scrimmage game, which ended in a 1-1 tie.

San Diego came back to the field with an offensive mindset and regained the lead when Ney and former Comets player Jeff Hughes beat Waltman to make it 7-6 before Max Touloute tied the match with four minutes left in the quarter.

Three consecutive goals for the Comets in the fourth quarter scored by Gibson, Harris and Matingou forced the visitors to put in a sixth attacker for the last five minutes, which resulted in another goal from Chiles before Assadpour sealed the victory with a goal from his own half to end the match 10-7.

Next up, the Comets will visit the Milwaukee Wave on New Year's eve at 7:00 p.m. before visiting the St. Louis Ambush on January 3.

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Sockers Stumble 10-7 to Missouri Comets

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December 28, 2014 - Major Arena Soccer League (MASL) San Diego Sockers INDEPENDENCE, MO--Leo Gibson snapped a 6-6 tie with his second goal of the night and the Missouri Comets used a four-goal run in the fourth quarter to secure a 10-7 victory over the San Diego Sockers in front of 4.218 at the Independence Events Center. Kraig Chiles scored a hat trick in the losing effort for the Sockers (6-2), who will take on St. Louis Ambush on Sunday afternoon.

"It was a good game of indoor soccer all the way around and a tough result, said Chiles, who has scored nine goals in the past two games, "Momentum was with us in the third quarter and then it seemed to shift away and we were unable to recover."

A highly anticipated battle between last year's defending MISL champions, the Missouri Comets (9-0), and the four-time PASL champion Sockers proved to be the type of game that Major Arena Soccer League fans have been craving. San Diego stunned the host Comets by scoring off the kickoff just fourteen seconds into the game on a Chiles back-post tap-in, and when Brazilian rookie Ney (two goals, assist) scored on Mati Kruger's feed with 9:31 in the first, the Sockers had a 2-0 lead.

The Comets came into the night as the MASL's top scoring team and proved their offensive ability with a quick three-goal burst to take the lead. Brian Harris scored on a corner kick before a giveaway in the defensive end turned into a Gibson goal and a 2-2 tie with 8:07 left in the first quarter. Less than three minutes later Sockers defender Eduardo Velez was called for a defensive clear and the Comets converted the top-box free kick into a goal by Missouri captain Vahid Assadpour for a 3-2 lead after one quarter.

Goals by Alain Matingue and Assadpour pushed the Comets' advantage to 5-2 in the second quarter, but late goals by Chiles and Nick Perera helped San Diego narrow the deficit to 5-4 at the half. When Ney converted a counter-attack on a pass from Velez to start the second half the Sockers had leveled the score 5-5. Jeff Hughes then gave San Diego a 6-5 lead, scoring when he crashed the crease and then finished a back-heel pass from Perera.

A series of penalty calls helped swing the momentum of the contest midway through the third quarter. The Sockers earned a power play when Matias Kruger was boarded with 7:41 to play, but just eleven seconds later the blue card was out again, with Chiles whistled on a make-up call to end the advantage and put the teams 4-v-4. Moments later, a giveaway forced Toth to tackle Comets attacker Max Touloute outside his penalty crease, and the Comets were awarded a shootout. Gibson's shootout attempt was blocked by San Diego keeper Chris Toth (eight saves) and the Sockers killed the penalty, but the Comets caught San Diego with their penalty killers still on the field at the end of their shifts and took advantage on Touloute's fourteenth goal of the season for a 6-6 tie.

The score was still 6-6 to start the fourth quarter but the Sockers found themselves back on the penalty kill after a questionable penalty called on Chiky Luna, who was carded for boarding in the final second of the third frame. Gibson admitted on the field to having slipped. While the Sockers again successfully killed the penalty, fortune frowned upon the visitors when a Gibson wall pass kicked off the seam between the goal glass and the boards and took a funny backward spin, falling into the San Diego net for a 7-6 Missouri lead at 12:15.

Moments later things took a serious turn for the worse when Ney was injured on a tackle in the defensive zone, suffering a sprained right ankle. The injury was ruled a soft tissue injury instead of a break and Ney is expected to miss less than four weeks, a devastating injury to the rookie who had netted eight points in his first two MASL games.

The Comets then took control when Harris toe-poked a steal between the legs of Hughes and rifled a long shot home from the yellow line for an 8-6 lead. Matingue's second goal of the game made it 9-6, and while the Sockers scored using a sixth attacker to complete Chiles' hat trick, Assadpour completed a hat trick of his own with a chip from beyond midfield to complete the scoring.

San Diego (6-2) moves on to battle the St. Louis Ambush on Sunday afternoon at 4:35pm Pacific time.

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DeFazio's Hat Trick Powers Comets

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December 27, 2014 - American Hockey League (AHL) Utica Comets In a 6-3 final decision against the Lake Erie Monsters at The Utica Memorial Auditorium on Saturday night, the Comets closed out the month of December with a 7-0-3-0 record with a total of 17 points out of a possible 20.

Brandon DeFazio (3-0-3), the first star of the game might be able to open up his own hat store after tonight's hat trick just moments into the second period. Hamilton (1-1-2), Darren Archibald (1-1-2) and Dustin Jeffrey (0-2-2) also contributed to the Comets second victory this season over the Monsters.

The Comets came out hard and fast and their efforts showed up quickly on the scoreboard just moments into beginning of the first period. At 6:45 DeFazio received a short pass directly between the hashmarks from Darren Archibald. DeFazio snapped the rubber off of the blade of his stick only to bury it top shelf past Flames goaltender Roman Will for the 1-0 lead for his first goal of the night. Travis Ehrhardt received the secondary assist on the play.

Just 18 seconds into the second stanza, the Monsters and the fans at The AUD realized DeFazio's wheels hadn't stopped turning. After a quick bout of shots taken on Will, the Czech Republic native was unable to control every re-bound outside of his crease. As the puck popped out of his possession for the third consecutive time, DeFazio found the puck to his right side and emptied in to the mesh for his second goal of the night to make it 2-0. Dustin Jeffrey and Andrey Pedan both received assists after their shot attempts.

And just moments later at 3:46, hats began to hit the ice.

After pick-pocketing one of the Lake Erie defensemen at the blue-line, DeFazio rushed into the offensive zone on a breakaway. In one swift move to deke Will in the opposite direction, DeFazio shot the puck and lifted it past Will's blocker side for the hat-trick goal, and his twelve of the season, which is just shy five goals of the 17 he scored last season for the Comets.

Even with the 3-0 lead, the Comets weren't letting up on the Cleveland hockey club. At 15:31, Carter Bancks fed a cross-ice saucer pass to Hamilton in a play that might be best explained as 'too close for comfort.'

Hamilton popped the puck in past Will's right side and immediately took the net with him as he crashed into the boards. With the net coming off after the puck had crossed the line, Hamilton was credited with the fourth Comets goal of the night to make it a four nothing game. John Negrin was credited with the secondary assist.

After letting in three goals in the second period, the Monsters thought it was time for a goaltending change for the start of the third period. Sami Aittokallio replaced Will in net for his first game since Dec. 13.

It only took 6 minutes into the final period for the Comets to bury one past the new opposing goaltender. After a pass to Brendan Gaunce from Alex Biega near the top of the circle, Gaunce pinpointed his target and sniped the puck over Aittokallio's glove for a power-play goal to give the Comets the five nothing lead.

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Can Vedic Maths make up for sex education? Shiksha Bachao Andolan wants lessons on spirituality; sex education scrapped

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If controversial activist Dinanath Batra has his way, sex education in schools would soon be replaced with Vedic Maths and similar subjects.

Batra does not want sex education to be a part of curriculum in the new school education policy being drafted by the ministry of human resources and development (MHRD). The ministry is seeking inputs from all stakeholders.

Batra's Shiksha Bachao Andolan (SBA) wants Vedic Mathematics, ancient Indian knowledge, spirituality and environment-related principles in Vedas and Upanishadas in the school curriculum and wants sex education out. Formed in 2004, the SBA Samiti has emerged as the most vocal among the Hindutva brigade's moral vigilantes. Over the years, the Samiti has forced several public and private bodies to give in to its demands regarding changes in education.

At present, Central Board of School Education's (CBSE) biology texts for the eight standard and above have chapters on sex education, under the 'Adolescence and Reproductive Sexual Health Programme'. It covers issues related to nutrition, health, hygiene, physical fitness and mental health besides drug abuse, reproductive and sexual health and HIV-AIDS.

Batra (89) was unavailable for comment due to poor health. His colleague and co-convenor of the SBA, Atulbhai Kothari, says, "We need not follow western countries blindly. A simple fact check can tell you that all these countries are witnessing higher incidences of teenage sex. Teaching about sex in classrooms is one of the worst ideas to spoil kids in the name of education. The flawed policy must be corrected," says Kothari, who, along with Batra, is preparing a comprehensive report to "guide" MHRD on the new education policy to be submitted to the ministry by May 2015.

Batra and several right wing groups have been opposing sex education since educationists, psychologists and NGOs started advocating it in the 90s and the CBSE finally introduced it in 2007.

"Teaching sex in classrooms generate unnecessary curiosity among children. Schools can rather have counselling cells to address issues like stress, sexuality, etc. This will also bail out teachers who feel uncomfortable teaching this subject," Kothari says.

"We believe that education must incorporate three basic principles - culture, nature and development. Education must not only offer livelihood but also a vision for life and society, which our current education policy lacks. We have also forgotten ancient Indian knowledge. That's why we want Vedic Maths to be taught in schools," says Kothari.

The SBA claims that its report would be based on "thorough research" on the previous education policies, and country-wide consultation with the stakeholders.

Educationists, predictably, are not sanguine about the SBA stand. "After messing up with Teachers' Day, Children's Day and Christmas, we will not be surprised if the BJP-led central government also accepts these suggestions," a Mumbai University professor said.

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