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Fox Chapel baseball breaks through with playoff win over Mars – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

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By: Jerin SteeleWednesday, May 17, 2023 | 9:23 PM

The Fox Chapel baseball team has been close in recent years, and after six seasons a breakthrough in the WPIAL postseason happened Wednesday night.

And they needed all facets to do so, fittingly enough against a Mars team that has been a thorn in the Foxes sides in recent years.

The Foxes came ready to hit, got a lead early, received a solid start from ace pitcher Jeremy Haigh and played strong defense behind him. It was enough to get No. 8 Foxes past Mars, 6-4, in the first round of the Class 5A playoffs at Plum.

This feels good, said Fox Chapel coach Jim Hastings.We played (Mars) in section for years and actually lost to them in 2019 in the first round of the playoffs. It was nice to get a win and move on.

The Foxes (13-8) advanced to play top-seeded Shaler in next weeks quarterfinals.

Mars finished 9-10.

Fox Chapel scored three runs in the first, all coming with two outs. Haigh doubled, and Dom Cassol followed with an RBI double. Then, Benny Demotte worked a nine-pitch walk, and Jack Resek followed with a line shot into the gap that scored both. Resek was credited with a two-run double but was thrown out trying to stretch it into a triple.

That was huge for us to get up top three early because we knew, with Jeremy going, if we could get three to five runs, we were going to be pretty solid, Hastings said.

The Foxes added another in the second when Logan Hoffman hit a one-out triple and was brought home by a Joey Gellar sacrifice fly to left field.

Mars punched back with a pair of runs in the third. Chase Winstead led off with a triple, Benji Astbury followed with a single and Jake Johnson had an RBI groundout. Astbury later scored on a wild pitch.

Following the single by Astbury, Haigh retired the next 10 in a row until an error on a Luke Goodworth grounder in the sixth.

The error proved costly as Zach Orosz scored Goodworth on an RBI double to right field, and Charlie Bickel followed with an RBI single, which cut the Fox Chapel lead to 5-4.

The Foxes got an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth. Troy Susnak was hit by a pitch, pinch hitter Franco Pistella sacrificed Susnak to second and Zach Johnston drove him in with a single.

With the tying run at the plate in the seventh, Haigh induced a ground ball to third, which turned into an around-the-horn double play from Susnak to Demotte to Cassol to end the game.

Haigh pitched a complete game and had four strikeouts.

I thought he settled in well after the second inning, Hastings said. The sixth inning we had an error, which hurt, but getting that run in the sixth was huge. We got a little breathing room and got it done from there.

Fox Chapel played Shaler on March 20 and fell 3-1.

We know they are one of the top programs in the WPIAL and have some big time players, but well be ready, Hastings said.

Jerin Steele is a freelance writer

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USAID and Mars, Incorporated Announce Donation of $4 Million to … – USAID

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Today, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Mars, Incorporated announced that Mars, Incorporated will donate $4 million to support the Agencys mission to ease the strains on Ukraines health system caused by the Russian Federations brutal war against Ukraine.

The donation, provided by Mars, Incorporated to USAID, will help to expand access to basic healthcare services, including mental health and rehabilitation for victims of the war, as well as supporting Ukrainians who have been displaced by the violence or affected by the Kremlins continued targeting of critical infrastructure. The donation will also help meet the health needs of discharged veterans and other war victims, who require increased access to primary and mental healthcare services due to the physical injuries and the mental trauma they have experienced.

The Russian Federations brutal, full-scale invasion has placed enormous strains on Ukraines healthcare system. The Russian Federations Armed Forces have killed or injured tens of thousands of people, damaged more than 1,500 healthcare facilities and pharmacies, made it difficult for healthcare providers to access the medicines and equipment they need to provide high quality care, and forced thousands to make harrowing journeys simply to access treatment. Moreover, as the Russian Federations military assault inflicts trauma on Ukrainians across the country, the need for mental health services has risen exponentially.

In response, the United States government has doubled its annual health assistance to help Ukraine maintain its public health system and restore essential services like treatment for tuberculosis and HIV. Through direct budget support to the government of Ukraine, USAID is also supporting the continuity of health services by supporting the salaries of more than 517,000 health workers. In May 2022, just months after the full-scale invasion, USAID also launched a new five-year activity to help Ukraine increase preparedness for public health threats, strengthen immunization services, and expand mental health services. These efforts are in addition to the nearly $96 million USAID has provided to humanitarian partners who are delivering healthcare services across Ukraine.

USAID is grateful for the pledge Mars, Incorporated has made to support those who have been directly impacted by Russias senseless war. USAID remains committed to working with partners to respond to the immediate health needs of Ukrainians while also helping Ukraine to emerge from this war stronger, including by supporting the government to build a health system that is transparent, efficient, and responsive to the needs of the Ukrainian people.

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Mars Volta showers San Antonio with new music during their tour – mySA

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Coming off a ten-year hiatus, guitarist-composer Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala showered San Antonio rock fans with new music for the first time since 2012's Noctourniquet.

While San Antonians celebrated the achievement of securing the No. 1 pick in the 2023 NBA Draft on Tuesday, May 16 night, thousands of their city counter parts took to the Boeing Center at Tech Port to lay witness to Mars Volta and their hardcore, psychedelic rock.

Coming off a ten-year hiatus, guitarist-composer Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala showered San Antonio rock fans with new music for the first time since 2012's Noctourniquet. Special guestTeri Gender Bender also made an appearance during the performance, opening for the group with music that embodies so many genres that they almost blur together.

Along with their new song "Blacklight Shine," Mars Volta announced a string of North American tour dates in 2022. After rocking out in the Countdown City, the El Paso-bred rock band will travel to the Orpheum Theatre in New Orleans on Thursday, May 18, before making their way back to the Lone Star State for the 713 Music Hall in Houston on Friday, May 19.

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What we need from a DARPA for education: A Mars rover for schools – Thomas B. Fordham Institute

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Theres a lot of buzz right now about the potential for the Institute of Education Sciences to finally get the resources and authority to support major breakthroughs in teaching and learning. Some of that is due to $30 million in funding included in the end-of-the-year spending package for fiscal year 2023 to support a stronger R & D infrastructure at IES. The big excitement, though, is around the NEED Act, a bill sponsored by Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), and about to be reintroduced in the current Congress, which would create a National Center for Advanced Development in Education (NCADE)or, as others are calling it, ARPA-ED, modeled after the Defense Departments DARPA program. Heres how IES director Mark Schneider describes its potential:

In the heart of every federal agency lies a dream of becoming the next DARPAthe folks that brought us advances like GPS and the internet. I want to bring you up to speed on our most recent efforts to create ARPA-ED and open a discussion with our stakeholders about where we will go from here as we pursue its creation.

While ARPA-ED won't create a new internet, there are many questions a DARPA-like unit might tackle: How will we identify the new literacy skills Americans need and develop them in learners across the lifespan? How do we even conceive of appropriate literacy and writing skills in a modern, AI-dominated world? How can we best harness innovations to create a personalized system of education so that instruction is tailored to the needs of learners? How can we use new technology to relieve the paperwork burden on teachers, freeing them to do what they do bestteach students?

I am proud to be a member of the Alliance for Learning Innovation, a coalition that advocates for ARPA-ED and similar initiatives, and I certainly hope that IES will receive a Congressional charter to do more to balance its impressive research agenda with an equally impressive development one. And I hope Director Schneider is right that an ARPA-ED could lead to a wave of instructional innovations. (Fordham and the Center for American Progress highlighted what some of those might look like through our Moonshot for Kids initiative in pre-pandemic times.)

But beyond all the razzle and dazzle, let me admit that I am desperate for something even more fundamental, starting with basic information about what the heck is going on in Americas classrooms. We arguably know less about the typical American school than about the dark side of the moon. Indeed, what we desperately need is a sort of Mars Rover for our classrooms.

More on that in a bit. But first, contemplate just how little information our policymakers and education leaders can tap about the impact of their decisions in the real world of teachers and students, desks, and books.

Take a simple example. Like many states, Ohio is on the verge of significantly strengthening its literacy policies to align them with the science of reading. The hope is to improve teaching and learning in the subject, in a way that will eventually be apparent via higher student achievement and greater student success.

How will we know if that new policy package works? Most likely, we wont. Yes, policymakers might commission an evaluation, and we will be able to see which reading programs districts and charter schools say they have adopted, and we can gauge how well those programs are aligned with the science of reading. But we wont have any trustworthy information about whether those adoptions are embraced and faithfully implemented by individual classroom teachers, nor whether those teachers get the support and ongoing professional development they need to shift their practice. (Perhaps we could survey teachers about this, but self-reports are famously unreliable.) Well know almost nothing about whether this rubber actually hits the road.

Someday, to be sure, well be able to look at test scores, but we will have a hard time knowing if the policy reforms can explain any changes in student achievement. That is always a challenge, what with so many confounding factors in education, but the pandemic has made it more so. If reading scores for young Ohio students continue to slide over the next several years, will that be a sign that the reading policy failed? Or will it simply be because lots of todays elementary school students missed out on preschool, as well as key developmental milestones during the pandemic? On the other hand, if test scores go up, will that mean that the new reading policy was a success? Or would that have happened anyway, as post-pandemic students enter the system?

What will be missing from a look back at Ohios reading reforms, as with any evaluation-type study in education, is the most important part. The middle stuff between policy enactment and its impacts. In other words, what actually changes (or not) in the classroom, in terms of teaching and learning.

In the case of Ohio, it would be great to know, ideally for every classroom, or at least for a representative sample: Which reading programs do teachers stop using and start using after enactment of the new reading law? Did those teachers thoroughly implement the new programs? Did they get skilled support in training? How much time did students spend with the new materials? What about interventions for students who were struggling? How frequent were those, and what was going on in them? Which programs were used for the interventions? Were they different than what teachers had used before? How adept were the interveners? Did teachers have students use any online programs to help support their reading? Which ones? How often and for how long? What else was happening in the classroom and around the school that might have impacted students achievement, experience, and engagement? For example, are schools spending more, less, or the same amount of time on English language arts than before the policy shift?

Those are critical questions, but are very difficult to answer because they call for nuanced and precise data collection. In the old days, researchers would hope for a multi-million-dollar federal grant to be able to send out graduate students to sit in the back of classrooms and collect such information by hand, systematically coding what they saw. Even then, it was exorbitantly expensive and extremely time-consuming, so inevitably you could only visit a relative handful of schools and classrooms.

Solving this evaluation challenge is a tough problemprecisely the type of problem that DARPA and its clones are supposed to tackle.

So enter my Mars Rover idea. (Be warned: This is going to sound far-fetched!) Imagine that we could design a small robot that could be sent into a classroom for a week or a month or even a whole school year to collect all of this information and more. It would be tricked out with high-tech gizmos that would collect data and beam it safely to the cloud. Then AI would make sense of those data, giving scholars, leaders, and policymakers an accurate, comprehensive picture of what was happening in our schools.

First and foremost, our rover would record everything going on in the classroom. As Ive written before, video would be most powerful, but audio could work if that made people more comfortable in terms of student and teacher privacy.

Given that modern classrooms tend to have lots of movement and activity, the rover might have a sensor that could make sense of it allfor example, tracking the composition of student groups, and how much time the teacher spent with each one. Were those groups reshuffled frequently, as students made progress? Or were low-achieving students getting stuck in slow-moving instruction?

The rover should also have a little scanner built into it so every night teachers could insert any paperwork they had students complete, along with their own feedback and grades, so researchers would get some insight into what kind of work students were being asked to do, and the standards that teachers were holding that work to.

Since many assignments and grading (and even instruction) happens online now, our rover would also have the ability to track any digital activity of students in the classroom, seeing, for example, which programs they were using, how engaged they were, and the dosage.

To be sure, designing such a marvelous rover would be no small feat. Yet the toughest nut to crack would likely be political: How to get educators and families to buy in? Strong privacy protections would go a long way, but teachers especially would need to get something out of participating in a rover-assisted evaluation. Perhaps they could get real-time feedback about their instructional practices and/or grading standards. Or maybe they simply need to be paid for their involvement.

With the blizzard of information generated by our rovertied to particular teachers, students, and schools, and then connected to other data from test scores, student surveys, and beyond, and analyzed by AIscholars, leaders, and policymakers would actually have some insight into whats going on in our schools and whether their policies and decisions were making things better.

This is, of course, how most modern organizations already operate, with a deluge of data, allowing them to fine-tune and adjust and continuously improve. As far as I can tell, flying blind is something that has been relegated just to our education system.

Im just a policy wonk, and something of a dreamer, so Im sure there are many reasons that make what I have described here technically challenging. Even with the use of artificial intelligence and high-tech sensors, it might be impossible for anyone or anything to make sense of what the heck is going on in an American classroom, given the cacophony that is so typical.

Then again, a lot of people were skeptical that we could land a rover on Mars.

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‘Mars Horizon 2’ lets players search for Red Planet life with real … – Space.com

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A Mars game coming to PC in 2024 will get a big boost from a planetary scientist.

Konstantin Batygin, who is best known for his search for the mysterious Planet Nine that may be far out in the solar system, will join the team behind "Mars Horizon 2," an upcoming game that has players search for fictional Red Planet life.

Batygin, a California Institute of Technology planetary scientist, has pledged to help the gaming team with Mars mission design and fact-checking the research, developer Auroch Digital and publisher Secret Mode wrote in a release (opens in new tab).

"His invaluable knowledge and expertise will ensure that'Mars Horizon 2'is as authentic as possible, accurately portraying space exploration and extrapolation beyond present day as the search for life in the universe continues," the statement added. For his own part, Batygin retweeted the announcement (opens in new tab) Thursday (May 11) from the official Mars Horizon 2 Twitter account.

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Mars Horizon 2 is the successor to the "space race"-like Mars Horizon, which released in 2020. The original game allowed players to design virtual rocket programs based on real-life space hardware from NASA, the European Space Agency and other worldwide space groups.

Of the successor game, the developers wrote on March 7, players will "race to make discoveries ahead of rival agencies, using established scientific methodology in tandem with modern and near-future technologies to seek, recover, and analyze alien biosignatures."

Both Mars Horizon games are somewhat similar to the popular Kerbal Space Program (KSP) series; KSP 2 released on Feb. 24 and is still delivering early access updates for players. Kerbal also has players managing space programs, but focuses a little more on real-life physics. The Mars Horizon games hone in on Mission Control elements like managing staff, building facilities or making difficult decisions when missions face issues in space.

Real-life space agencies also have numerous Mars missions on the go in the quest to find ancient life on its surface. For example, NASA and the European Space Agency are engaging in a sample return campaign aiming to bring Red Planet rocks to Earth as soon as 2033.

The Perseverance rover has already collected and stored 10 twin samples of material, one set on the surface of the Red Planet and one inside its belly. The mission design, still being reviewed, for now suggests that Perseverance may deliver the samples to a spacecraft that will relay the material back to our planet. If the rover is disabled, two fresh fetch helicopters would do the planetary deliveries themselves.

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This mall crater on Mars shows evidence of possible water gullies – Devdiscourse

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This gullied crater in the Tempe Terra region of Mars was captured using the HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The small crater shows evidence of possible water gullies, reminiscent of channels carved by flowing water.

This suggests that liquid water may have flowed across the Martian surface in the past, potentially creating habitable environments for microbial life.

In addition to the water gullies, Tempe Terra shows evidence of potential glacial features known as eskers. Eskers are sinuous ridges formed by glacial activity, typically found on Earth.

While the presence of Liquid water, a fundamental requirement for life as we know it, has been confirmed by various missions, it is unclear how long ago it may have flowed on the Martian surface.

These findings by NASA's HiRISE fuel speculation about the planet's past habitability and the potential for future exploration.

HiRISE is flying onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars since 2006. The powerful camera, designed to capture high-resolution, detailed images of the Martian surface, is a vital tool in unravelling the mysteries of Mars and paving the way for future exploration missions to the Red Planet.

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Looking into 2nd highest volcano on Mars that is taller than Mount … – India Today

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By India Today Science Desk: Mars is known not just for its characteristic reddish glow, but also for its vicious volcanoes that were once active in the planet's ancient past. Europe's Mars Express has now peered on one such structure that is taller than Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth.

The probe operated above Mars by the European Space Agency (ESA) has imaged the pitted, fissured flank of the planets second-tallest volcano, named Ascraeus Mons, using its High-Resolution Stereo Camera.This image from ESAs Mars Express shows the southern flanks of Ascraeus Mons, the second-tallest volcano on Mars. (Photo: ESA)

Ascraeus Mons stands tall with a towering height of 18 kilometers, but its slopes are gentle, with an average incline of seven degrees. It is the northernmost and tallest of three prominent volcanoes found in the Tharsis region of Mars, which is a volcanic plateau in the western hemisphere of the Red Planet.

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While it is 18 kilometers in height, the volcano has a huge base diameter of 480 kilometers, which gives it a footprint roughly the size of Romania on Earth. Ascraeus is only surpassed by Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano not only on Mars but in the entire Solar System.Several key features are labelled across the frame, including lava flows, chains of craters, channel-like rilles seen on Mars. (Photo: ESA)

The image beamed back by the Mars Express shows the lower southern flank of the volcano and astronomers noticed a dramatic difference in elevation from one side to the other, with the left side of the frame sitting about 10 km lower than the right side.

The probe observed the chasms of the volcano that encompasses an enormous patch of collapsed terrain over 70 km across. The structures reveal lava flows and tubes, chains of craters, channel-like rilles, and large fissures spanning tens of km in length. "These features knit together to form a scene resembling trails of ink dispersing artfully in water," ESA said in a statement.This image shows the region surrounding the martian volcanoes Ascraeus Mons, Pavonis Mons and Arsia Mons. (Photo: ESA)

The spacecraft also observed numerous wrinkled lava flows chains of pit craters, features where strings of circular or near-circular depressions have combined and coalesced to form troughs. Geologists believe that these chains and troughs form where hidden voids lie below the surface, causing the ground to become unstable and collapse a bit like a sinkhole.

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"It is still unclear how these structures formed, but their creation may involve flows of lava, ash, or water or a combination of the three," ESA added.

The Mars Express has been orbiting the Red Planet since 2003, imaging the surface, mapping minerals, identifying the composition and circulation of the tenuous atmosphere, and probing beneath Red Planet's crust.

Also Read | Evidence of raging wild river found on Mars by Perseverance rover

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End of life FPSO to land on MARS – Upstream Online

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SBM Offshore has contracted Modern American Recycling Services Europe (MARS) to greenly recycle its retiring Capixaba floating production, storage and offloading vessel that is coming to the end of its working life.

The Capixaba FPSO is currently deployed in a water depth of 1350 metres on Petrobras Cachalote field in the Campos basin offshore Brazil. MARS workscope includes the engineering, preparation, dismantling and green recycling of the 362-metre floater has a light displacement tonnage of 54,656 tonnes.

The Capixaba FPSO is expected to arrive at MARS yard in the Port of Frederikshavn in Denmark at the end of 2023 or in early 2024.

"We are glad that SBM Offshore has chosen to retire and green recycle [the] FPSO Capixaba at our EU approved green recycling facility in the Port of Frederikshavn, compliant with all local, national and international rules and regulations," said MARS.

Located in Frederikshavn in northern Denmark, near the North Sea, the contractor hails its MARS Europe facility as the only purpose built site that includes a draining system under a surface of granular material of well compacted crushed rock, to ensure no harm to groundwater.

Our waste segregation system ensures a recycling percentage well above 90% and provides an effective and environmentally friendly recycling process. Our water filtration system with channels throughout the yard ensures that all water being released to the port basin is cleaned, states MARS website.

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David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars: The … – Yahoo Entertainment

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Exactly 50 years to the date of David Bowies final performance as Ziggy Stardust, digitally restored footage of the performance will be shown at the very venue where it happened. On July 3rd, 2023, Londons Eventim Apollo Hammersmith will host a screening of the 1979 concert film Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars: The Motion Picture, now restored in 4K.

Known as the Odeon back in 1973, the Eventim Appolo Hammersmith will roll out the red carpet to commemorate Ziggy Stardusts legacy, welcoming a fleet of some of his frequent collaborators and musical successors for an on-stage panel ahead of the screening.

The restoration of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars: The Motion Picture also contains famed guitarist Jeff Becks performance scenes, which were cut from its original iteration. Shot by filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker (Monterey Pop, Bob Dylan Dont Look Back, Depeche Mode 101), the new version complete with 5.1 sound revitalized stellar onstage antics along with candid backstage moments of Bowie and The Spiders from Mars, plus a guest appearance from Ringo Starr.

In addition to the Eventim Appolo screening, simultaneous one-night-only screenings of the Q&A and the film will also go down on July 3rd in cinemas in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, and Australia. Screenings in Canada, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Hungary will take place throughout July, while additional screenings will be announced in the US, Latin America, Asia, France, Spain, Belgium, and Scandinavia.

Ticket information and additional details can be found on Bowies website. See a trailer for the restoration below.

If you cant make it to the theater, you can watch Brett Morgens 2022 Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream, which is now streaming on HBO Max.

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Le Mars tennis teams bow out of bracket – nwestiowa.com

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SPENCER The Le Mars Community boys tennis team competed in the Class 1A substate tournament on Friday.

The team opened up against Missouri River Activities Conference rival Bishop Heelan. The Bulldogs were the No. 4 seed in the bracket while the Crusaders were the No. 5 seed.

Le Mars won the regular season meeting by a 7-2 score which featured four singles wins. The Bulldogs did even better this time around, winning five of the six singles matches in order to clinch the win to advance.

Michael Meis won at No. 1 by a 6-2, 6-0 score over Luka Ernesti. The No. 2 match was by the same scores in the other order as Evan Pratt beat Brady Schultz.

No. 4 singles went to Ian Penne by a 6-1, 6-2 score over Jack Bousquet.

The bottom two singles matches went to three sets. Jacob McGill won at No. 5 over Ikey Scott by a 6-3, 1-6, 6-4 score. Devin DeVall claimed No. 6 by a 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 score.

The only loss was at No. 3 as Caden Wurth fell to Jason Breen 6-2, 7-5.

The Bulldogs advanced to play top-seeded an No. 4 ranked Spencer in the next round. The Tigers won their first round contest 5-0 over Cherokee.

When Le Mars and Spencer met in non-conference action earlier in the season the Tigers won by a 9-0 score. It was a similar outcome this time around with the Tigers clinching all of the singles wins necessary to advance.

At No. 1, Sam Feldmann won a close 7-6 (7-5) tiebreaker in the first set over Michael Meis before winning 6-2 in the second set.

Owen Kierscht won by identical 6-1 set scores against Evan Pratt at No. 2.

The Tigers took No. 3 by a 6-3, 6-1 score as Riley DeWitt defeated Caden Wurth.

In the No. 4 matchup, Parker Bergstadt beat Ian Penne 6-1, 6-1.

At No. 6, Gavin Honkomp defeated Devin DeVall 6-4, 6-0.

The only set win for the Bulldogs came at No. 5 as Jacob McGill picked off the second set by a 6-3 score over Quinn Baker. The other set was a 6-1 win for Baker and he led the tiebreaker set before the Tigers clinched the victory with their fifth singles win.

Le Mars finishes 10-4 in dual competition.

Spencer advances to play Spirit Lake in Wednesdays substate final.

On Saturday, the Le Mars girls lost 5-1 to Estherville-Lincoln Central in the first round of their Class 1A regional bracket, ending their season winless in dual action. Individual results for that contest were unavailable.

The Midgets went on to lost 5-2 to Cherokee in the next round. The Braves advanced to play No. 4 ranked Spirit Lake in the next round.

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Fox Chapel baseball breaks through with playoff win over Mars – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

USAID and Mars, Incorporated Announce Donation of $4 Million to … – USAID

Mars Volta showers San Antonio with new music during their tour – mySA

What we need from a DARPA for education: A Mars rover for schools – Thomas B. Fordham Institute

‘Mars Horizon 2’ lets players search for Red Planet life with real … – Space.com

This mall crater on Mars shows evidence of possible water gullies – Devdiscourse

Looking into 2nd highest volcano on Mars that is taller than Mount … – India Today

End of life FPSO to land on MARS – Upstream Online

David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars: The … – Yahoo Entertainment

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