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...temporary coffin carrying Ricketts arrived at Dover Air Force Base on March 2. (The body of Specialist Ian Gelig, also killed in Afghanistan, arrived on the same plane.) Dover is the first stop for dead soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and their families are often on hand to attend a brief, solemn ceremony as the flag-wrapped cases are removed from the plane and brought to the mortuary. The ban on media coverage of these transfers, in place during the Bush Administration, was lifted in February 2009, when Secretary of Defense Robert Gates ruled it should...
...didn’t get rattled when they had runners on base who were threatening, which was definitely a strength,” Allard said...
...They helped us a little with the base on balls, but we did have some clutch hits that inning,” Walsh said. “Anytime you’re going to hang up a big inning, you have to get some big hits in there...
Down 12-5 in the top of the ninth, Penn loaded the bases against freshman reliever Andrew Ferreira, and Quaker junior Jeremy Maas hit a grand slam to left, quickly turning what seemed to be a blowout into a three-run game. Walsh called Zailskas to the mound from first base, and he easily got the final two outs to clinch the sweep and earn his third save of the season...
Senior Stephanie Krysiak then had a sharp 2-RBI hit over second base to put the Crimson on the scoreboard. Sophomore Whitney Shaw finished the spree with a double over the shortstop, bringing Krysiak home to give Harvard a 3-0 lead and the game...