Showing posts with label Charlie Springer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charlie Springer. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Wednesday Cardinal Couple - Softball at Baseball game

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Louisville Softball team throws out first pitch at UofL baseball game Tuesday night. (Photo by Charlie Springer-UofL
Card Game)



Wednesday Cardinal Couple

- Softball Team throws out first pitch at UofL baseball game.


-Game times changes for Saturday softball


-Kiyohara a true team player


The University of Louisville softball team took to the diamond a few days earlier than expected, and it wasn't at Ulmer Stadium for the NCAA Softball Regionals. 


Cardinal Couple's Sonja with Charlie Springer.  
Instead, Sandy Pearsall's squad traveled across campus to Jim Patterson Stadium to throw out the first pitch for the Louisville vs. Morehead baseball game. The Cards won the Senior Day contest 8-3 over the Eagles and used eight pitchers in the contest. 


None of the eight were from the softball team, as far as we know...but Collins, Leonard and Connell could have probably shut the Eagles down. 


Charlie Springer has the write up for you over at his fine site...UofL Card Game. Click the link below to read the Observer's observations.


Cards Send Seniors off in style with 8-3 win.


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ESPN has decided to pick up the second day of action at the Softball Regionals at Ulmer on Saturday. Not ESPN 2, U, 3, Classic or Desportes...but the original ESPN. 


They've also changed the start times for the games on Saturday. First pitch is at 3 p.m. now...when the  winners of Friday's games one and two will face off. The revised schedule:


Saturday


3:00 p.m.  GAME 3  Winner #1 vs. Winner #2
5:30 p.m.  GAME 4  Loser #1 vs. Loser #2
8:00 p.m.  GAME 5  Winner #4 vs. Loser #3


No changes to Sunday...and ESPN 2 still has the feed for that one...as far as we know. 


Jennie, Jennie !!
We'll see if Brent Musberger and Dick Vitale show up to do these. 


But, no problems if Jennie Finch does the color analysis again. Not only does she know softball...she's pretty pleasing to the eye as well.


Great opportunity for the softball Cards to get at least one game in on the flagship ESPN Network station. And, we hope one is all they'll have to play Saturday. That means that they've won two games and will be playing in the finals...scheduled for 1 p.m. Sunday.


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Cardinal softball player Hannah Kiyohara was selected to the BIG EAST First Team in the 2011 season. The freshman right-fielder started 42 of the Cards 49 games and batted .331 for the season. After such an auspicious beginning to her career, the sky looked the limit for the Auburn, Washington native. 


Instead, she became the Cards utility player her sophomore year. Seeing action in 35 of the Cards 53 games and starting 25 of them, Sandy Pearsall has used her at right-field, short shop, second base and also at designated hitter this year. 


We can't confirm it, but it is rumored she also filled in for J-Bone on public address duties and played the organ at games when Al Greener wasn't available.


When the decision was made to rest Kristin Austin and her sore hamstring in a couple of the BIG EAST Tournament games, Kiyohara took over right field and the Cards were in capable hands. 


Hannah Kiyohara defines the term "team player" and with Austin's graduation this year, we're confident that #24 will return to her right-field domain for the 2013 season. 


"Run over to the dorms, Becky, and see if
Hannah wants a little court time..."
Unless Sandy Pearsall loans her to Jeff Walz as a back-up point guard (she played basketball also at her high school, led the team in scoring and was First Team All-South Puget Sound League) or has her directing traffic at the corner of Floyd and Brandeis. 


If you need it done...and in a efficient "mannah"...call Hannah. 


( OK. Corny rhyme. We're outta here. See ya Thursday.) 
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Friday, February 10, 2012

Saturday at the UofL women's game a part of Breast Cancer Awareness/Play4Kay days.

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Saturday Cardinal Couple

-Syracuse game to raise awareness to fight breast cancer.

- "We're glad to be here...say, how about a loan?"


This may be the most important entry we've ever posted here at Cardinal Couple. There is a killer out there. It's name is Breast Cancer. We'd like to see it arrested.

You can help us in this fight by supporting the women's basketball team with attendance to the many "Play4Kay" games that will donate toward the $ 1 million dollars that
we hope will be raised for breast cancer awareness and funding.

We're going to put it at you pretty simply and direct. If you are reading this, you had a mother. In most cases here, your mother raised and nurtured you. In most cases, you either love and honor that mother that is still alive, or miss her departure from this earth.

My Mom loved the Pink
Panther movies with
Peter Sellers.
I'd give anything to be able to talk to my mom again. If you have a mother still living, or know a mother...please help this worthy cause. A mother's love is unconditional. Breast Cancer is the last thing you'd ever want for your mother...or anyone else's mom.

Please do what you can to help eradicate this horrible killer.

Wear pink tomorrow at the UofL women's game, please...if you go. And, if you are fortunate enough to still have a mother living...tell her how much you love her. 

It's the most beautiful thing out there...

We hope you will make a difference. WE hope to see you tomorrow doing so...by attending. God bless motherhood.

Always.

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During Play4Kay week, women's basketball teams and supporters across the nation will dedicate at least one game to raise breast cancer awareness and funding. Teams, fans and arenas will be decked out in pink, survivors will be honored at games, referees will blow pink whistles (mostly against Syracuse...we hope) and donations will be collected.

Previousy known as the WBCA Pink Zone, the Play4Kay mission remains the same: a nation of coaches raising breast cancer awareness for research on the court, across campuses, in communities and beyon. The Kay Yow Cancer Fund, in partnership with the WBCA and the V Foundation, is the official charity of the initiative.

You can go to http://www.play4kay.org/ , http://www.kayyow.com/ and http://www.jimmyv.org/ for much more information and to find out how you can help.

Game time today is two. WHAS TV has the digital broadcast. We'll after a full recap a few hours after the Cards beat Syracuse.

Remember to wear your pink if you go.

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Finally, in the category of "Really? SMH..."

West Virginia has received their release from the BIG EAST and can now participate in BIG 12 sports. The price tag? $20 million. The problem? WVU only has $11 mil.

So, the other schools in the BIG 12 are putting up $1 million each to pay the tab. It's a loan...of course. The Mountaineers will be expected to pay the money back. This should have been a Seinfeld episode...

George: "Jerry, I'm doing it. I'm making the big move. It's going to cost me...but I can live in your building now!"

Jerry: "That's great, George!

George: "There's just one small problem. I'm coming up a bit short on the down-payment."

Jerry: "How much short?"

George: " 45% of it..."

Kramer: "Well, Jerry will lend it to you! I'll chip in, so will Newman and Elaine. Right, Jerry?"

George: "Really? Thanks, Jerry!"

Jerry: (Rolling his eyes...) "Welcome to the neighborhood.."

( Check out Charlie Springer's column about it and see all the new friends he's made from the "wild and wonderful state")

http://www.uoflcardgame.com/

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