By ROB NUNLEY Sports Editor for the Southern Standard KENNAMER Former Pioneer Derek Kennamer?s Francis Marion University squad was ousted from the double-elimination Division II College World Series over the holiday weekend, falling to top-ranked Tampa on Saturday then losing in 10 innings to West Chester University Monday afternoon. On Monday, West Chester?s Mark Gilliford…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Action last week in the girls 7- and 8-year-old girls coach-pitch league saw Kirby Real Estate roll past TMF 24-14 in five innings. TMF scored four runs in the top of the first, but Kirby answered with seven runs in the bottom of the inning. Kirby…

Indians pitcher Scott Sauerbeck apologized Tuesday to his family and teammates following his early morning arrest, another distraction for a struggling Cleveland team. Sauerbeck and a woman were taken into custody after fleeing the left-hander?s vehicle and were found hiding behind bushes, police said. Sauerbeck, who is married, was the passenger in his Lincoln, which…

By ROB NUNLEY Sports Editor for the Southern Standard The Exchange Furniture Cubs kept their spotless record in the city Junior League intact last Thursday, with a 5-1 victory over the Cohutta Yankees. Hunter Boulding and Jonathan Reed combined on the hill for the Cubs, who improved to 5-0. Boulding worked two innings, allowing two…

Dale Stubblefield The record they said would never be broken has now been surpassed twice. First by Hank Aaron, and now by Barry Bonds. On Sunday Bonds hit his 715th home run, and in doing so he entered the record books, hopefully with an asterisk beside his name. As many of you already know, I?m…

PARIS (AP) MARTINA HINGIS As it is, the French Open is the cruelest Grand Slam tournament for Andy Roddick, the toughest for all U.S. men over the years, really. Toss in a bum ankle, and Roddick never really stood a chance this time. He quit Tuesday because of his injury while trailing Alberto Martin of…

By ROB NUNLEY Sports Editor for the Southern Standard Pioneer baseball players receiving awards at Saturday?s picnic included, front row, from left, Coty Grissom, Joshua Bratcher and Jordan Powers. Back row, Colby Killian, Nick Cantrell, Tyler Gilley and Jordan Underhill. Not pictured is Jacob Bratcher. The Pioneer baseball team said good-bye to its seven seniors…

Lady Pioneer head basketball coach Jimmy Cannon left WCHS after four years. Cannon served two years as an assistant and two years as head coach. During his tenure as head coach the Lady Pioneers had a 25-28 record.(June 1, 2001)

“The DaVinci Code–Fiction and Fact” is the theme of a local broadcast special airing tomorrow and Friday on Warren County public radio WCPI 91.3. Central Church of Christ elder and local pharmacist Nestor Stewart joins Locust Street Church of God minister Roland Sharp in a discussion of writer Dan Brown’s controversial novel “The DaVinci Code”…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON News Editor for the Southern Standard Dr. Randal D. Rampp is Chief Medical Officer and director of the hospitalist program at River Park Hospital. Many patients at River Park Hospital may find themselves benefiting from the attention of round-the-clock, on staff physicians these days through the facility?s hospitalist program. For those…