Pink softball game set at Husson Saturday
The eighth annual Pink softball game between John Bapst of Bangor and Central of Corinth will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. at O’Keefe Field on the Husson University campus in Bangor.
The exhibition game is designed to raise money for cancer awareness.
Central has set up a cancer awareness endowment named after Kristie Collins, a multiple-sport athlete at Central who died in a car accident in 2011 at the age of 22.
She graduated from Central in 2008.
Both John Bapst and Central will compete in playoff prelim games tentatively set for Tuesday when John Bapst (6-10) visits Foxcroft Academy and (10-6) and Central (8-8) hosts Orono (5-11).
Husson names Hoyt cheer/dance coach
Hillary Hoyt has been named the head cheer and dance coach at Husson University in Bangor, the school announced in a news release Friday.
Hoyt served as the interim dance coach this past year. She is a 2013 graduate of the University of Maine where she was captain of the dance team and co-captain of the UMaine Tap Club. She is currently a third grade teacher at LeRoy H. Smith School in Winterport, Maine.
“We are delighted to have Hillary take over our cheer and dance squads,” Husson Director of Athletics Frank Pergolizzi said in the release. “She did an outstanding job as interim coach and we fully expect her to pick up right where she left off.”
Hoyt said she was thrilled with the new role.
“This is an amazing group of student athletes which I have been so lucky to work with for the past two years and I can’t wait to see where this next year take us,” she said.
Fan injured at Fenway Park
BOSTON — A spectator seated in the box seats was removed from Fenway Park after being hit on the head by the broken barrel of Oakland third baseman Brett Lawrie’s bat in the second inning of Friday night’s Boston Red Sox-A’s game.
The game was delayed for about five minutes while what appeared to be a woman, seated with a man and a young child, was treated apparently for a wound on the left side of her head. Attendants were holding a towel tightly to the left side of her head.
A stretcher was brought out and she was taken along the warning track and in front of the Red Sox dugout to the ambulance entrance.
A’s call up switch-handed pitcher Venditte
The Oakland Athletics called up ambidextrous pitcher Pat Venditte, a reliever who can throw both right-handed and left-handed during a game.
The A’s selected the contract of the switch-handed pitcher from Triple-A Nashville and optioned right-hander Dan Otero to Nashville, the team announced Friday. To clear a spot on the 40-man roster for Venditte, outfielder Coco Crisp was transferred to the 60-day disabled list.
It may be questionable whether Venditte will arrive by game time Friday night when the A’s play the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park. His flight was scheduled to land a half-hour before first pitch, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Venditte, 29, would be the major league’s first ambidextrous pitcher since 1995. He will be the first switch-pitcher to appear in a game since Greg Harris of the Montreal Expos made history against the Cincinnati Reds. Harris, a natural right-hander, recorded outs with his left and right arms on Sept. 28, 1995.
Venditte, a natural right-hander, throws harder as a righty. His left-handed release is more from the side. He throws a fastball, slider and changeup from both sides and uses an ambidextrous glove with two thumb holes.