Nashawtuc tourney no washout for charity - The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)

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Though flooding wiped out the 2006 Bank of America Championship atNashawtuc Country Club last June, the PGA Champions Tour andNashawtuc Charities are still donating $418,000 to more than 50 areacharitable organizations. The donations will bring to $4.5 millionthe amount disbursed over the tournament's 26-year history. Separatefrom the total is $5,000 donated by Champions Tour players to TheFirst Tee of Massachusetts for its golf programs for area youth,which the players have been supporting since 2002.

Bob Gallery, president of Bank of America Massachusetts, andWalter Lankau, president of Nashawtuc Charities, said the donationsunderscore the bank, tournament, Champions Tour, and players'commitments to giving back to the community. Among the localcharities to receive funds are Emerson Hospital, Hanscom Air ForceBase - Project Concern, Boys and Girls Club of Assabet Valley, theGenesis Fund, Concord-Carlisle Athletic Boosters, Francis OuimetScholarship Fund, Greater Waltham Association for Retarded Citizens,Lincoln-Sudbury Athletic Boosters, and others in Greater Boston.

Merrimack's Murphy now coach of the year

Merrimack College football coach Jim Murphy is the Northeastern-10 Conference Coach of the Year in voting by his peers. Murphy,former Reading and Northeastern University quarterback, led Merrimackto a 7-3 record and a share of its first NE-10 title. Since takingover the reins in 2003, Murphy and Merrimack have gone 25-14,including a school-best 8-2 in 2004. Merrimack finished this seasonwith six straight wins after losing three of its first four games.

Among other major award winners was Bentley senior AndrewRuggiero, who shared defensive lineman of the year honors with CaseyLarson of St. Anselm. After 10 games, Ruggiero had 49 tackles - 11 ofthem for a loss - four sacks, four pass breakups, and a forcedfumble. First-team All-NE-10 Conference picks included, in additionto Ruggiero, Bentley defensive back Sean Smith of Andover and Bentleypunter Derrick Marsan of Methuen. Merrimack was represented on thefirst team by tight end Ryan Salter of Bridgewater, return specialistand defensive back Andrew Jackson of New Britain, Conn., andlinebacker Matt Mikaitis of Chicago.

Scholastic odds 'n' ends

Top-seeded and undefeated North Andover (21-0-2) brought home theDivision 1 North field hockey title with a pulsating 1-0 win overActon-Boxborough in overtime. The game's only goal came less thanthree minutes into OT when junior Katie Boringa took a pass from LizDay and rifled the ball into the corner past A-B goalie KaitlynCurtis. Alison McCarthy had seven saves to post the shutout. ... No.1 Tewksbury wasn't as fortunate in its quest for the Division 2 fieldhockey crown. It fell to perennial power Watertown, 3-2, in overtime.The sectional title was the 15th in the past 21 years for Watertown.

It was just another day at the office for Andover's girls' swimteam, which crushed the field to win its eighth straight Division 1North championship. Andover, with 320 points, got winningperformances from Tiffany Petzold in the 200 individual medley and100 freestyle, and was a whopping 109.5 points better than runner-upActon-Boxborough. In the meet, Methuen's Laura Moriarty set a staterecord in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1 minute 5.79seconds.

Campus corner

University of Massachusetts at Lowell field hockey seniors SaraHohenberger of Windham, N.H., Kim Villare of Chelmsford, Lauren Jonesof West Brookfield, and Nicole Staiti of Barre are in Winston-Salem,N.C., this weekend playing in the National Field Hockey CoachesAssociation Division 2 North/South All-Star game. ... University ofMassachusetts at Boston senior sweeper Mike Reda and sophomore centermidfielder Romeo Zeqo, both of Medford, earned first-team berths onthe All-Little East Conference men's soccer team. Reda led leaguedefenders with a career-high eight goals and 19 points, while Zeqoled the team with 10 goals and 23 points. ... Merrimack's athletictraining education program has been awarded accreditation through2010-2011 by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic TrainingEducation. The commission found the program to be in 'substantialcompliance' with the nationally recognized Standards for Entry-LevelAthletic Training Education. ... Northeastern junior Stephanie Casperof Andover posted career highs of 10 goals and 25 points this season.Both marks led the Huskies field hockey team.

Lowell Devils

Today - Worcester, 4 p.m.; Wednesday - at Hershey, 7 p.m.; Friday -Portland, 7 p.m.; Saturday - Albany, 7 p.m. Home games at TsongasArena.

RED SOX NATION THRIVES IN CALIFORNIA - The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)

ANAHEIM, Calif. Standing in his rhinestone-studded Elvis suitwith a Massachusetts license plate dangling from his neck and aBoston Red Sox hat on his head, Mike Kearney was the number onetarget of Angels fans yesterday in Section 523, the nosebleed seats.

And he was loving it.

'1918!' yelled one Anaheim fan, tauntingly chanting the last yearthe Red Sox won the World Series.

'Go play your lottery numbers!' barked Kearney.

'1918!' the fan yelled again.

Kearney looked at the man's plaid button-down shirt and declaredwith derision: 'Nice shirt. I wore that in 1984.'

Kearney, 25, then turned his back and flowing white cape on hisadversary and proudly sipped his beer. 'I moved out here two monthsago, but I couldn't be more Boston,' he said. 'I'm Irish and I've gotsix brothers and sisters, and I'm from North Weymouth. And I love theSox.'

Few Bostonians were able to fly 3,000 miles on short notice thisweek for the first game of the American League Divisional Serieshere. But the game brought out plenty of transplanted Red Sox fans,who live mostly quiet lives the rest of the year among nativeCalifornians, but emerged loudly and unmistakeably into the sun-filled stadium yesterday.

While it was hard for the eye to distinguish Red Sox fans fromAngels fans in the stands because both sport red, it was easy for theears: The chants of 'let's go Red Sox' rained down from many sectionsof the ballpark.

'Get going! Get going! Manny, get going!' screamed Steve Furtado,29, a Mission Beach resident by way of Taunton, as Manny Ramirez'sfourth-inning home run sailed over the center-field fence.

'Look at that,' he said, pointing to a dozen Sox fans slappinghands in his section after the blast. 'A little bit of pride whereveryou go.'

Still, the sheer number of Sox fans here George Berardi, longtimesecretary of the BoSox Club, the team's official booster club, saysCalifornia trails only New York City and Florida in the number oftransplants tells only part of the story.

Living so far from Kenmore Square has made California Sox fansmore appreciative of all things back home, they say. Gathering forRed Sox games at the few bars that broadcast them, a tradition formany who have moved here, is a way to feel close to New Englandagain.

At the Ocean Beach Grille in San Diego, operated by West Roxburynative Aileecia Lewis, Boston sports fans hang memorabilia on thewalls or tack sports clippings from Boston newspapers on the doorwithout even asking, as if they're in their own house.

In Hermosa Beach, a short drive south of Los Angeles InternationalAirport, Sox fans shovel down clam chowder at Fat Face FennersFishshack, operated by Medford son Gary Vincent, whenever there's agame.

'We get anywhere between 100 and 200 people, depending on thenature of the game,' Vincent said. 'It's like a dysfunctional familyreunion. Everybody knows somebody, but nobody knows anybody. But ifyou're from New England, you're my buddy. It's the `Cheers'mentality.'

With so few chances to see the Sox in action, many transplantsmade the extra effort yesterday to see their team. Pete Apalakis, aStoneham native who is now a furniture maker in San Diego, had towait yesterday morning for Federal Express to deliver the tickets hebought on eBay before he could bolt up the highway.

Winthrop native Diana Walsh, meanwhile, pulled an all-nightnursing shift, so she could be in her seat for the 1 p.m. start.

'I've been up since 11 a.m. yesterday,' said Walsh, wearing a RedSox T-shirt and sitting next to an Arlington native. 'But I had aticket, so I had to come.'

More than 100 fans, with roots in places from Worcester toChelmsford to New Hampshire, poured into Sonny McLean's in SantaMonica, a bar run by Foxborough native Jim Connors that was featuredin the Red Sox documentary 'Still We Believe.'

'It's like this little support group here,' said Aidas Banaitis,28, a college math teacher raised in Canton, while sipping a drink atSonny's on Monday night.

Make no mistake, though: In spite of their laid-back surroundings,Sox fans here have hardly lost their edginess.

Chelsea native Lindsey Clarke, 22, moved to California when shewas 15. 'I went from Chelsea High to Palm Springs High School; isn'tthat weird?' she joked.

But she still boils when she talks about losing out on a ball RedSox outfielder Gabe Kapler was tossing to fans in the stands at AngelStadium. 'This old guy reaches in front of me and grabs it for hiskid,' she said. 'I wanted to kick the kid.'

HAYES, EX-COWBOY AND OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST, DIES AT 59 - The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)

NAMES 'Bullet' Bob Hayes, the Olympic gold-medal sprinter andformer Dallas Cowboys star who was once considered the world'sfastest man, died at age 59. Hayes died of kidney failure at ShandsHospital in Jacksonville, Fla., late Wednesday, his daughter, WestineLodge, said. He was hospitalized earlier this month and had battledliver ailments and prostate cancer. Obituary, Page C28 . . . TampaBay defensive tackle Warren Sapp was fined $10,000 for slammingBaltimore running back Chester Taylor to the ground during Sunday's25-0 victory over the Ravens . . . Investigators in Tahiti scouredthe boat of Bison Dele for bullet marks as they looked into thedisappearance of the former NBA player and two others while sailingin the South Pacific. Also, the FBI arrested Dele's older brother,Miles Dabord, on fraud charges. Dabord was traveling with the groupaboard the boat before the disappearances. FBI supervisor JohnSteiner in San Rafael, Calif., said Dabord was found comatose inChula Vista near the California-Mexico border Saturday night and wasimmediately transported to a San Diego area hospital. He wasidentified yesterday and remained in intensive care. Steiner refusedto say whether Dabord was a suspect in his brother's suspected death. . . Sarah Fisher will become the first woman in 10 years to drive aFormula One car during a demonstration run at the Indianapolis MotorSpeedway next week. Fisher will drive a McLaren Mercedes Sept. 27,the first day of practice for the United States Grand Prix. Fisher,21, the only female driver in the Indy Racing League, became thefirst woman to win the pole in any major racing series earlier thisseason at Kentucky . . . A US request to extradite the man accused offixing Olympic figure skating arrived in Italy. But Luca Saldarelli,the lawyer for Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, said extradition hearingsmight not begin for several weeks . . . Alessandro Petacchi of Italywon the 12th stage of the Tour of Spain while Spain's Oscar Sevillakept the overall leader's jersey.

FOUR DEMOCRATS VIE FOR OPEN SENATE SEAT - The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)

WEST MEDFORD State Representative Patricia D. Jehlen was knockingon door after door, searching for committed voters home on a stunningsummer morning this week, when a worried neighbor issued a complaint.

He doesn't want the Green Line extended through Somerville intoWest Medford, he said, because commuters will flood his leafyneighborhood looking for convenient places to park. 'It's only so theWinchesters can get a better place to ride into Boston,' he griped.

'I know people are worried about that, but I don't feel anyconsensus at all,' Jehlen responded.

Such is the dilemma of a candidate trying to appeal to the votersof the Second Middlesex District. Spanning the congested, urbanstreets of Somerville; moderate, blue-collar Medford; the broad lawnsof conservative Winchester; and a sliver of working-class Woburn, thedistrict tosses together communities with clashing identities andsometimes opposing interests.

In Tuesday's special primary election, four Democrats are vyingfor the state Senate seat of Charles E. Shannon Jr., who died at 61in April.

Jehlen, 61, a onetime schoolteacher who has represented Somervillein the House since 1991, has collected endorsements from liberal andlabor organizations including the Sierra Club, the Boston TeachersUnion, and MassEquality, which advocates for gay marriage.

Jehlen's predecessor in the House, Joseph Mackey, 54, also livesin Somerville and has worked as an organizer of youth sports leagues.The lawyer, who has been out of office for 15 years after run ning anunsuccessful race for district attorney, picked up endorsements fromthe Boston Globe, Somerville Journal, Somerville News, and Shannon'swidow, Dorothy.

Also running is Medford's Michael Callahan, 61, an old-schoolmember of the Governor's Council who focuses on local issues, such asgetting more police and firefighters. Callahan was endorsed by themayors of Medford and Woburn and several unions, including theNational Association of Government Employees.

Paul Casey, 44, a Winchester state representative, touts hisfiscal conservatism and economic development incentives and is theonly contender who opposes gay marriage. He was a loyal committeechairman under former House speaker Thomas M. Finneran.

The winner of Tuesday's primary will face William A. White Jr., aSomerville alderman and a Republican, in the Sept. 27 generalelection.

The district is heavily Democratic, but Shannon ran as aRepublican in 1989 and defeated a Democratic incumbent, beforeswitching parties seven years later.

With the special election scheduled Tuesday, before many peoplereturn from summer vacations, turnout is expected to be low, so thecampaigns trained their sights on dedicated voters and deluged themwith phone calls, mail, and doorstep visits.

In interviews with the Globe, and in a televised debate with CBS4political analyst Jon Keller, the candidates expressed their views onissues important in the district.

Taxes

None of the candidates favors the income tax rollback thatGovernor Mitt Romney has repeatedly proposed. Casey called it a 'pie-in-the-sky political maneuver,' and Callahan said it would be a'disaster.' All call for restoring local aid that was cut in recentstate budgets.

'I know two people that died because of budget cuts,' said Jehlen,who blamed the lack of available beds at Somerville detoxificationcenters. 'No more tax cuts of any sort.'

When asked during the Keller debate whether they would like tomake it easier for towns to override Proposition 2 1/2 tax limits,which restrict growth in towns' revenues and tax rates, Jehlen andMackey both called on the governor to tap recent budget surpluses torestore local aid, rather than cut taxes.

'The state has to shoulder its fair share,' said Mackey. 'Thecommunities we want to represent have lost 20 percent of fundingsince 2002. We have to reverse that trend.'

Callahan said that instead of encouraging towns to override taxlimits, the state should boost local aid and let more lottery revenueflow to city and town budgets. 'All that money was supposed to go tocities and towns,' he said during the debate. 'Take the cap off thelottery.'

Casey, a former chairman of the House tax committee, saidmunicipalities should soon benefit from the state's sound fiscalplanning and savings, but he urged restraint at all levels ofgovernment.

'You can't spend money like a drunken sailor,' he said.

Slot machines

This fall, the Legislature is expected to consider a measure toplace slot machines at racetracks. Callahan, a former assistant stateracing commissioner, favors the idea and said his research shows thattwo-thirds of the district's voters do, too, if the tax revenue goesto specifically dedicated programs.

Callahan, who cared for his late mother for 15 years as shestruggled with a form of dementia, proposes to use a portion of slotmachine revenue to help families dealing with such crises.

'We would like to keep the flow of the money in Massachusetts,'said Callahan, who said Massachusetts residents are now gambling inConnecticut or Rhode Island.

Casey also supports slot machines, but said the legislation mustbe carefully crafted, so that the state reclaims more than 60 percentof the revenue. Though he does not worry that slots would competewith the state lottery, he said racetracks should compete to have themachines.

Jehlen and Mackey both oppose slot machines out of concern thatthey would siphon gambling dollars from the lottery or draingamblers' bank accounts.

'I would listen to the arguments on existing horsetracks, but I'vegot some serious concerns even there,' Mackey said.

Healthcare

No candidate embraces Romney's healthcare proposal that would makeindividuals responsible for carrying their own insurance.

'You're just going to have the burden on people who really can'tafford healthcare and somebody has to pick up the slack,' Casey said.

Instead, he said, he would pursue single-payer healthcare byincrementally expanding state coverage for children, senior citizens'prescriptions, and senior healthcare, arguing that the gradualapproach would place less stress on the budget.

Mackey advocated the same incremental approach during the Kellerdebate. His campaign calls for expanding senior assisted- livingfacilities as one way to trim the expense of nursing care.

Asked by Keller whether they would support mandatory taxes onbusinesses that do not provide their own healthcare, only Jehlen saidyes.

She said exemptions and caps on extraordinary expenses could helpsmall businesses absorb the costs.

The other three said they feared that the burden would be tooheavy on small businesses.

ICE CHIPS - The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)

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Top 10 Boys' Teams

1. Reading (16-1-0)

2. Andover (12-2-1)

3. Concord-Carlisle (12-3-1)

4. Westford (13-3-1)

5. Bishop Guertin (10-2)

6. Tewksbury (9-2-2)

7. Lowell (8-4-1)

8. Wilmington (11-1-1)

9. Acton-Boxborough (9-3-3)

10. Littleton (10-1-3)

Game of the Week

Andover at Westford Academy (Monday, 6 p.m.): Merrimack ValleyConference/Dual County League Division 1 leader Andover takes on thered-hot Grey Ghosts, who are right behind the Warriors in the leaguestandings, at 13-3-1.

Player to Watch

Steve Servideo, Medford: The senior forward is ranked fifth inthe Greater Boston League with 19 points (7 goals, 12 assists), andhas helped the club to second place in the GBL behind Waltham.'Steve's a tough player,' said Medford coach Chuck Allen. 'He's goodat breakaways and has good puck control. He's always aware of wherehis teammates are, and is able to get them the puck at the rightplace at the right time.'

Top 5 Girls' Teams

1. Arlington (12-1-2)

2. Arlington Catholic

(10-1-1)

3. Billerica (14-3)

4. Lexington (8-1-2)

5. Acton-Boxborough

(12-4-1)

Game of the Week

Woburn at Winchester (Saturday, 6 p.m.): Another Middlesex Leaguematchup in this heated rivalry. Woburn enters the game with a slightedge in the league standings.

Player to Watch

A SOX DISPATCH FROM THE EVIL EMPIRE - The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)

NEW YORK I am sitting in the sumptuous, 20th-floor grand ballroomof the Yale Club, listening to grown men (and a few women) cursing'those dirty bastards from New York . . . the Yankees, the Big Dig ofoverbudgeted sports enterprises.' To this assembly, Randy Johnson is'the Big Eunuch,' George Steinbrenner is 'Furious George,' and so on.

Welcome to the biannual meeting of the Benevolent Loyal Order ofthe Honorable Ancient Redsox Diehard Sufferers (BLOHARDS) of NewYork, a Red Sox booster group recruited mainly from New York, NewJersey, and Connecticut, although I did bump into a couple from ParisFrance, not Maine. Founded 38 years ago by Jim Powers, a publishingexecutive from Uxbridge now exiled to Weston, Conn., the B-Hards usedto reune furtively in nondescript midtown bars. No longer. Now theyswagger down Fifth Avenue in full Red Sox regalia, pack 150 peopleinto their meetings, and talk of a dawning 'Red Sox millennium.'

After years of enduring Yankee rule, the tristate Bosox fans failutterly to contain their glee no, euphoria at the reversal offortune that on Sunday landed the Carmine Hose three games atop thehated Bombers in the American League East, with just 20 games left toplay. There is no sordid detail of Yankee excess they do not revelin. When Powers chortles from the podium that Yankees catcher JorgePosada paints his fingernails to help the pitcher see his signs this seems like more information than I really want to know.

The Diehard Sufferers are animated by anti-Yankees fervor, andalso by a wicked sense of humor. The group loudly boasts of its fifthcolumn activities in New York, which have so far resulted in theelection of a Medford native Michael Bloomberg as mayor, and theopening of a Boston-themed sports bar in the dark heart of the RottenApple. What other website would celebrate in a banner headline:'Manhattanites Get Home Delivery of the Globe'?

At the website, blohards.com, Amherst-born hedge fund managerPeter Collery runs the naughty Name That Yankee nickname contest thatgave us Furious George, the Big Eunuch, and Mariano 'the cLOSER'Rivera who, like Johnson, looked pretty potent in the weekend series.Collery also sells fiery red T-shirts bearing a portrait of a beret-wearing, Che Guevera-like Johnny Damon above the line: 'Resist YankeeHegemony! Wage Relentless Struggle Against the Steinbrenner Clique!Strive to Emulate Comrade Johnny!'

It now hangs in my closet next to my blasphemous 'Johnny Saves' T-shirt from last season.

The website likewise publishes a miniature travel guide fordisplaced Bostonians, called 'Lifelines.' One stop is Notaro, an EastSide Italian restaurant where the genial former Red Sox hurler JerryCasale puts in nightly appearances. Casale, who won 13 games for theSox in 1959, is in the history books, albeit not for the reasons hemight like. As a Los Angeles Angel, Casale surrendered CarlYastrzemski's first major league home run. Also, he gave up RogerMaris's homer number 24 during Maris's 61-home-run year, 1961.

About 20 blocks uptown from Notaro, I found Boston (212), the Hub-themed sports bar that is the brainchild of Buzzards Bay nativeCharles Garland. Boston (212) is a movable feast currently occupyingthe bar section of the Caffe Buon Gusto, a small Italian restaurant.In addition to pulling together crowds for Red Sox games, Garlandalso hosts alumni events for Boston College, Boston University, andDartmouth, where he attended business school.

Boston (212) knocks a dollar off drink costs for every RBIproduced by a Boston homer. On Sunday, that proved to be a shrewdbusiness decision. On Saturday, less so.

The final stop on the How-New-York-Can-Be-More-Like-Boston-Tourtook me to Harrison's Tavern on the Upper West Side, co-owned byRuben Roine, a Jamaica Plain transplant. A klatch of Boston cops wascelebrating a bachelor party, and Sox colors were everywhere. Yetwhen the Yankee bats exploded in the sixth inning on Friday night, Iheard loud cheers from the periphery of the packed bar. Roineexplained to me that he loves the Sox but observes commercialneutrality to please all of his customers: 'The color of money isgreen.'

Ah, New York.

King and Bowman spark Babson start - The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)

With former Framingham High star Kathleen King and formerArlington Catholic High standout Becky Bowman of Melrose producingstellar play, the Babson College women's basketball team is off to a7-2 start.

A sophomore 6-foot forward, King is averaging 12.7 points, 8.2rebounds, and 2.4 steals per game for the defending New EnglandWomen's and Men's Athletic Conference champions. She was shooting 46percent from the field (45-98) and a team-best .774 from the freethrow line (24-31). King was named NEWMAC Player of the Week Dec. 7after recording her fourth double-double of the season against SmithCollege.

Bowman, a junior shooting guard, was scoring at an 11.8 per gameclip and had 25 assists, a block, and 14 steals.

Senior forward Sarah Hughes (Wellesley High) and junior guardKristy Benoit and sophomore forward Kelly McKenna, both ShrewsburyHigh graduates, have played key roles off the bench.

'All five have been keys to our success,' said Babson head coachJudy Blinstrub, whose team plays Rhode Island College Jan. 3 at theWilliams College Invitational. 'Kathleen has the ability to dominatethe game with her rebounding and shooting and is a hard matchupbecause of her athleticism. She's relentless. Becky is outstandingon both ends, we play her against our best opponent, and she'sprobably our toughest player.

'Kristy gives us a big lift off the bench with her defense on thepress; Sarah is a great leader who has a fantastic work ethic and iswilling to do anything for the team, and Kelly gives us a strongdefender at the forward spot who is also a great teammate and alwaysready to play.'

McLaughlin cited for a good run of it

Longtime Cambridge Sports Union member Diane McLaughlin ofArlington was inducted into the organization's hall of fame earlierthis month. The CSU's running section includes 300 women and men.

McLaughlin served as the women's Masters team representative toUSA Track & Field/New England 1989 through most of the 1990s and hasbeen a familiar face at the Fresh Pond road races, which she hashelped organize on Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings. Thatcommitment was recognized in 2005, when she received the NorthMedford Club's Fred Brown Cup.

A veteran Boston Marathoner, she ran 3:22:50 in 1991, and hermany accomplishments in long-distance running included competingwith CSU's women's 60s team that competed in the New England CrossCountry Championships.

'No matter what the conditions or challenges of that day, Dianeis always smiling and upbeat,'said CSU running section chairpersonGail Breslow. 'The caring and positive outlook she imparts toeveryone is an inspiration to us all.'

BC's Schaus bound for Olympic games

Boston College women's ice hockey goaltender Molly Schaus ofNatick has been selected to the United States women's team that willcompete in the Winter Olympic Games in February in Vancouver, B.C.

Schaus is second all-time in career saves for the Eagles with2,647 in her first three seasons. She also ranks first and second insingle-season goals against averages: 1.69 in 2008-'09 and 1.90 in2006-'07.

Last season, Schaus was a second team All-America and was alsonamed to the New England Hockey Writers Division 1 Women's All-Starteam.

The team of 21 was selected from the 23 skaters who were membersof the 2009-'10 women's national team. The US will face China in itsfirst game Feb. 14.

Connecticut draws flow of local rowers

Varsity rowers at Connecticut College this fall included juniorsHannah Brassord of Boxborough (Acton-Boxborough) and Robyn Ly(Lexington High) and sophomores Lesley Gaughan (Weston High), AlexHellman (Wayland High), and Katrina Sereiko (Wellesley High).Heilman, Gaughan, and Ly helped the Camels finish 10th out of 29teams in the Varsity Four at the Head of the Charles Regatta.

The novice rowing team, which won a bronze medal at theQuinsigamond Challenge, included freshman No. 2 seat Lillian Beck ofBolton (Lawrence Academy) and classmate Lila Douglis at stroke row.Freshman Kathy Bentley of Concord (Concord-Carlisle) was also on thenovice roster.

'Hannah has found a sport that suits her personality bothphysically and mentally, Robin is a coxswain who has become astudent of the sport, and Lesley has become a savvy competitor,'said 10-year head coach Eva Kovach. 'Alex also rowed for Wayland-Weston and is one of the most fluid rowers I have had theopportunity to coach, and Katrina is an incredibly hard worker whohas improved tremendously this fall.'