Interpol makes new warning linked to prison breaks

PARIS (AP) ? Interpol has issued a global security alert in connection with suspected al-Qaida involvement in several recent prison escapes including those in Iraq, Libya and Pakistan.

The Lyon, France-based international police agency says that the alert follows "the escape of hundreds of terrorists and other criminals" in the past month. The alert calls on Interpol's 190 member countries to help determine whether these events are coordinated or linked, the organization said in a statement Saturday.

Interpol says it issues such alerts fairly regularly, the last one 10 days ago following jailbreaks from Iraq's infamous Abu Ghraib prison and the Taji prison near Baghdad.

The alert also comes a day after the U.S. issued an extraordinary global travel warning to Americans about a possible al-Qaida attack.

The U.S. is closing 21 of its embassies and consulates in the Muslim world this weekend, while Britain, France and Germany have announced the closures of their embassies in Yemen's capital, Sanaa.

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From Recession's Wake, Education Innovation Blooms - Higher ...

by Justin Pope, AP Education Writer

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. ? Hundreds of investment bankers, venture capitalists and geeky tech entrepreneurs gathered near the pool of the Phoenician, a luxury resort outside Phoenix. The occasion? A high-profile gathering of education innovators, and, as guests sipped cocktails, the mood was upbeat.

Major innovations forged by the struggles of the Great Recession and fostered by technology are coming to higher education.

Investment dollars are flooding in with a record-smashing 168 venture capital deals in the U.S. alone last year, according to the springtime conference?s host, GSV Advisors. The computing power of ?the cloud? and ?big data? are unleashing new software. Public officials, desperate to cut costs and measure results, are open to change.

And everyone, it seems, is talking about MOOCs, the ?Massive Open Online Courses? offered by elite universities and enrolling millions worldwide.

As with so many innovations from the lightbulb to the Internet, the technology is emerging mostly in the United States, fueled by American capital. But, as with those past innovations, the impact will be global. In this case, it may prove even more consequential in developing countries, where mass higher education is new and the changes could be built into emerging systems.

One source of this spring-like moment is the wintry depths of the financial crisis that struck five years ago, pushing higher education as never before to become more efficient. Another is simply the arrival of a generation demanding that higher education, at long last, embrace the technologies that have already transformed other sectors of the economy.

?The consumer, after five years on a tablet and five years on an iPhone, is just sick of being told, ?you can?t do that,?? said Brandon Dobell, a partner at William Blair & Co., an investment bank and research firm based in Chicago. ?I can do everything else on my phone, my tablet, why can?t I learn as well??

But, while technology is at the center of this wave of innovation, many argue it is merely the pathway to something even bigger.

Cracks are opening in the traditional, age-old structures of higher education. Terms like ?credit hour? and even the definition of what it means to be a college are in flux.

Higher education is becoming ?unbundled.? Individual classes and degrees are losing their connections to single institutions, in much the same way iTunes has unbundled songs from whole albums, and the Internet is unbundling television shows and networks from bulky cable packages.

Technology isn?t just changing traditional higher education. It?s helping break it down across two broad dimensions: distance and time.

But that doesn?t necessarily mean, as some contend, the traditional university is dead.

At his desk at a telecom company in Lagos, Nigeria, Ugochukwu Nehemiah used to take his full one-hour lunch break. Now, he devours his meal, then watches his downloaded MOOCs. He?s already finished courses in business, energy and sustainability, and disruptive innovation, taught by institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland.

Nehemiah needs a master?s to advance at work but cannot afford the United Kingdom program where he?s been admitted. The MOOC learning doesn?t translate into a widely recognized credential. But the teaching is free, not available locally, and helps him even without a credential.

?It?s a form of self-development,? said Nehemiah, a father of two. ?The way I would speak when I have meetings to attend,? he added, ?would be much different than the way I had spoken if I had not taken this course.?

When non-profit edX offered its first MOOC in ?Circuits and Electronics? in 2012, 154,000 students from more than 160 countries signed up (though only 8,000 lasted to the final). Now edX has more than a million unique users in about 60 courses. For-profit rival Coursera has exploded with 4.1 million students, 406 courses and 83 partner institutions.

From radio to television to the Internet, technology has always promised to revolutionize higher education. So far, it?s enabled good teachers to lecture to thousands or even millions of students. But truly teach them, with individualized interaction and feedback?

It?s not clear the MOOCs can do that, either, and only 10 percent who sign up for a course are completing it. But with their more advanced interactivity, they are arguably the most sophisticated effort yet to solve the central problem of college access and affordability: the difficulty of ?scaling up? learning.

?This is virgin territory in terms of having tens or hundreds of thousands of people engaged in the same educational experience simultaneously in a way you can capture what you?re doing,? said Kevin Carey, director of the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation. ?We?ve never had that. The assumption is we?ll learn lots of things and that will lead to better classes in the future.??

The MOOCs are just one part of this new landscape.

Sal Khan, a charismatic former hedge-fund adviser, discovered his knack for explaining things while tutoring his young cousins in algebra in 2004. In 2006, he uploaded his first YouTube video and two years later founded Khan Academy.

Today, Mountain View, Calif.-based Khan has 6 million unique users a month from 216 countries, who watch the 4,000-plus videos available on Khan Academy?s website. These are not full courses, but a connected series of free, bite-sized lessons about 10 minutes each taught by Khan and others in everything from math to art history.

Khan talks excitedly not just of shaking up education across distance, but time. He says students can learn what they need, when they need it, without having to take and pay for an entire course.

?Whether we?re talking basic literacy or quantum physics, it?s the ability to cater to one person?s needs,? Khan said.

Some at cutting-edge traditional universities are also rethinking notions of academic time.

One morning last spring, not far from the innovation conference, at Arizona State University, a handful of students worked through problems in a developmental math course that looks little like the traditional model. There?s no lecturer; software takes students through the material at their own speed, adjusting to their errors. An instructor is available to answer questions?a model that?s proven cheaper and more effective than the traditional class.

Yet what matters most is what isn?t here: Most students have mastered the material and moved on to other classes.

?We?ve organized higher education into this factory model where we bring a group of students in post-high school and march them through more or less in lockstep,? said Richard Demillo, director of the Center for 21st Century Universities at the Georgia Institute of Technology. ?People that don?t conform are rejected from the factory, and people that make it through are stamped with a degree.?

ASU has broken up the traditional model of two-semesters-per-year into six parts. Some classes have accelerated versions that run essentially at double-speed: six or 7.5 weeks. So students who quickly finish a flexible-time class don?t have to wait before starting a new one. They can move more quickly and cheaply toward their degree.

?We began to say, ?What are all these sacred cows about time??? said ASU President Michael Crow, who has transformed ASU into a laboratory of innovation. ?What we?re looking for is intensification by freeing up the clock.?

More than a century ago, the Carnegie Foundation invented the ?credit hour,? the basic unit of academic time, measuring hours spent in class but not necessarily what students learned.

Now, the foundation is reviewing that model and may move toward a competency-based approach awarding credit for what students learn, not how long.

In March, the Department of Education approved a competency-based program at Southern New Hampshire University, inviting other colleges to seek approval for programs that don?t mark time in traditional credit hours.

ASU?s challenges are a microcosm of the country?s and the world?s. Amid scarce resources, it?s trying to accommodate diverse and growing demand. Yet despite a 50 percent state funding cut during the Great Recession, ASU did something unusual: It kept growing, from 50,000 students to around 72,000 over the last decade. Completion rates are up, too.

Still, Crow?s careful to emphasize innovation?s purpose is to make traditional universities work better, not replace them. He wants technologies like those in use in the math class to free up faculty resources for upper-division and critical-thinking courses where personal interaction really matters, and for the other endeavors of a physical university.

?Technology cannot produce new ideas,? Crow said. ?Technology cannot produce new understandings. Technology cannot produce new connections between disciplines.?

In much of the world, the question isn?t whether innovation can make higher education more efficient and affordable. It?s whether it can help it function at all.

A year ago, the campus of Felix Houphouet Boigy University, the largest in the West African nation of Ivory Coast, was nearly deserted, an institutional casualty of recent post-election violence. During the conflict, so-called student groups had become armed militias, accused of racketeering and rape. Buildings were looted, and the university shut down for 17 months.

Today, the campus is open again but bursting at the seams and barely functional. It?s added 10,000 students, for a total of 60,000. But there?s a shortage of classrooms, and no books in the two libraries.

For students like Abdoulaye Coulibaly, it would be easy to see the appeal of other options. To reach his 8 a.m. class by bus, he leaves home around 5 a.m. He?s been robbed a half-dozen times en route.

Yet he?s skeptical.

?We?re going to be very lazy online,? he said. ?If you put my class online I?m going to take it and I?m not going to come to the university again. We need to come to class. They?re the teachers and they have to teach us. If we don?t understand, we need to ask questions. That?s the only way for us to understand.?

Fellow English student Stephanie N?Guessan was also unconvinced.

?Many of us don?t know how to manage the Internet very well,? she said. ?I myself am computer illiterate.?

Many experts argue the hype of technology transforming higher education in such places is overblown.

?Disadvantaged populations need higher-touch services, not self-services,? said Peter Stokes, an expert on education innovation at Northeastern University in Boston.

Still, roughly 40 percent of Coursera?s registered students come from developing countries, and close to half of edX?s.

India?s latest official five-year plan calls for increasing college enrollment by roughly 2 million students each year, to help it catch up with emerging economies like Brazil and China. Coursera co-founder Daphne Kohler says meeting its goals would require India to build 1,500 new universities when it can?t staff its current ones. Scaled-up teaching through technology is its only hope.

Francisco Marmolejo, a longtime Mexican university administrator who now leads the World Bank?s higher education efforts, said global policymakers are intrigued by technology like MOOCs, but also anxious. They fear such innovations will become an excuse to ignore the imperative of building local institutions.

Physical universities are ?a place where you train to become a citizen,? he said. ?It is not the new technologies against the old system. It is the blended component that I believe may be the key.?

Indeed, an experiment underway in California?s public universities has found students doing well when MOOCs used in conjunction with traditional classes, supplementing them. When they replace traditional classes, they have done worse.

In 1997, Marmolejo noted, the late management guru Peter Drucker predicted big university campuses would disappear within 30 years. Yet the importance of place, and human interaction, appears if anything to have been magnified.

Still, Drucker may well be proved correct in comparing the scale of the changes coming to higher education to the revolution unleashed by the printing press.

Universities ?need to change and they will change,? Marmolejo said. ?Technology will absolutely help them to change.?

Robbie Corey-Boulet reported from Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

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Disabled woman who won court battle with mother moves in with friends

By Noreen O'Donnell

(Reuters) - A 29-year-old Virginia woman with Down syndrome who successfully fought her mother's attempt to be her guardian has moved in with friends, according to one of the people she now lives with.

In a case watched carefully by advocates for people with disabilities, Margaret Jean Hatch, who is known as Jenny, had been fighting for nearly a year to be able to choose where to live. She succeeded on Friday.

Newport News, Virginia, Circuit Judge David Pugh decided that although Hatch was not capable of independence and needed a legal guardian, he had to consider the disabled woman's wishes in picking that guardian. He chose her friends, Jim Talbert and Kelly Morris of Hampton, Virginia, for the next year, during which they are to help her gain more independence.

Hatch's mother and stepfather, Julia and Richard Ross, had filed for guardianship. They had wanted her to remain in a group home, which they believed offered the safest environment, the Washington Post reported, citing court records. They asked for the right to decide where she lived, what medical treatment she received and whom she could see.

"We were ecstatic," Talbert said on Saturday of the judge's decision. "We were happy. We were crying. It was an unbelievable victory for Jenny."

Hatch persuaded Talbert and Morris to gather her belongings at the group home immediately rather than wait, Talbert said. She spent Saturday swimming and bowling, he said.

"It's more than just where she wants to live," he said. "I think that Jenny's goal is not to have a guardian and have the right to choose how she directed her life. And obviously you can't do that if you're in a guardianship."

Hatch, who was represented by Jonathan Martinis, the legal director for Quality Trust for Individuals with Disabilities in Washington, D.C., had worked at a thrift store that Talbert and Morris own. She lived with them in the spring after she was in a bicycle accident.

She wants to return to work at the thrift store, possibly later next week, Talbert said.

"We're not her mother, we're not her father, but she's like one of our family.

If in the future, she wants to move into an apartment, they will try to help her achieve that goal, he said.

Advocates hailed the judge's ruling.

"This decision is a big step in the right direction," Susan Mizner, disability counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement. "Like most people with developmental disabilities - and just like all of us - Jenny will learn, grow, and live best when she has the freedom and responsibility to make her own decisions."

Efforts to contact her mother or her lawyer for comment were not successful.

(Reporting By Noreen O'Donnell; Editing by Greg McCune and Eric Walsh)

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Oil companies frack in coastal waters off Calif.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Companies prospecting for oil off California's coast have used hydraulic fracturing on at least a dozen occasions to force open cracks beneath the seabed, and now regulators are investigating whether the practice should require a separate permit and be subject to stricter environmental review.

While debate has raged over fracking on land, prompting efforts to ban or severely restrict it, offshore fracking has occurred with little attention in sensitive coastal waters where for decades new oil leases have been prohibited.

Hundreds of pages of federal documents released by the government to The Associated Press and advocacy groups through the Freedom of Information Act show regulators have permitted fracking in the Pacific Ocean at least 12 times since the late 1990s, and have recently approved a new project.

The targets are the vast oil fields in the Santa Barbara Channel, site of a 1969 spill that spewed more than 3 million gallons of crude oil into the ocean, spoiled miles of beaches and killed thousands of birds and other wildlife. The disaster prompted a moratorium on new drill leases and inspired federal clean water laws and the modern environmental movement.

Companies are doing the offshore fracking - which involves pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of salt water, sand and chemicals into undersea shale and sand formations - to stimulate old existing wells into new oil production.

Federal regulators thus far have exempted the chemical fluids used in offshore fracking from the nation's clean water laws, allowing companies to release fracking fluid into the sea without filing a separate environmental impact report or statement looking at the possible effects. That exemption was affirmed this year by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to the internal emails reviewed by the AP.

Fracking fluids can comprise hundreds of chemicals - some known and others that aren't since they are protected as trade secrets. Some of these chemicals are toxins to fish larvae and crustaceans, bottom dwellers most at risk from drilling activities, according to government health disclosure documents detailing some of the fluids used off California's shore.

Marine scientists, petroleum engineers and regulatory officials interviewed by the AP could point to no studies that have been performed on the effects of fracking fluids on the marine environment. Research regarding traditional offshore oil exploration has found that drilling fluids can cause reproductive harm to some marine creatures.

"This is a significant data gap, and we need to know what the impacts are before offshore fracking becomes widespread," said Samantha Joye, a marine scientist at the University of Georgia who studies the effects of oil spills in the ocean environment.

The EPA and the federal agency that oversees offshore drilling, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement or BSEE, conduct some routine inspections during fracking projects, but any spills or leaks are largely left to the oil companies to report.

In a statement to the AP, the EPA defended its oversight of offshore fracking, saying its system ensures the practice does not pollute the environment in a way that would endanger human health. Oil companies must obtain permits for wastewater and storm water discharges from production platforms that "ensure all fluids used in the drilling and production process will not adversely impact water quality," the statement said.

Oil companies also maintain that much of the fracking fluid is treated before being discharged into the sea. Tupper Hull, spokesman for the Western States Petroleum Association, said fracking in general is safe and has "never been associated with any risk or harm to the environment" in over six decades in California.

California coastal regulators said they were unaware until recently that offshore fracking was even occurring, and are now asking oil companies proposing new offshore drilling projects if they will be fracking.

Because the area of concern is located more than three miles off the state's shoreline, federal regulators have jurisdiction over these offshore exploration efforts. However, the state can reject a permit in federal waters if the work endangers water quality.

"It wasn't on our radar before, and now it is," said Alison Dettmer, a deputy director at the California Coastal Commission.

Government documents including permits and internal emails from the BSEE reveal that fracking off the shores of California is more widespread than previously known. While new oil leases are banned, companies can still drill from 23 grandfathered-in platforms in waters where endangered blue and humpback whales and other marine mammals often congregate.

In March, a privately held oil and gas company received permission from the agency to frack some 10 miles off the Ventura County coast. The job by DCOR LLC involves using the existing wellbore of an old well to drill a new well. Three so-called "mini-fracks" will be done in an attempt to release oil locked within sand and rocks in the Upper Repetto formation.

Only a month before the application was approved, however, an official with the BSEE voiced concerns about the company's proposed frack and whether the operation would discharge chemicals into the ocean.

"We have an operator proposing to use `hydraulic stimulation' (which has not been done very often here) and I'm trying to run through the list of potential concerns," Kenneth Seeley, the BSEE's regional environmental officer for the Pacific, wrote in a Feb. 12 email to colleagues. "The operator says their produced water is Superclean! but the way they responded to my questions kind of made me think this was worth following up on."

BSEE officials approved DCOR's application on March 7. The agency told the AP that DCOR's job would use far less fracking fluid than an onshore operation.

"For comparison, well stimulation offshore typically uses 2 percent of the liquids and 7 percent of the sand that is used routinely for onshore hydraulic fracturing," the BSEE said in a statement.

Oil industry estimates show that at least half of the chemical-laced water used in fracking remains in the environment after an operation. Environmental groups say as much as 80 percent of the fluids can be left behind. The rest gets pumped back up to the oil platform, and is piped or barged back to shore for treatment. Companies can also pump the fluids into an old well reservoir to discard it.

DCOR, which did not respond to requests for comment, is not the first company to try to tap more oil from California's offshore reserves, nor is the project the most extensive offshore frack here in recent years.

In January 2010, oil and gas company Venoco Inc. set out to improve the production of one of its old wells with what federal drilling records show was the largest offshore fracking operation attempted in federal waters off California's coast. The target: the Monterey Shale, a vast formation that extends from California's Central Valley farmlands to offshore and could ultimately comprise two-thirds of the nation's shale oil reserves.

Six different fracks were completed during the project, during which engineers funneled a mix of about 300,000 pounds of fracking fluids, sand and seawater 4,500 feet beneath the seabed, according to BSEE documents.

Venoco's attempt only mildly increased production, according to the documents. Venoco declined to comment.

Despite greenlighting offshore fracking projects for years, federal and state regulators now are trying to learn more about the extent of fracking in the Pacific even as officials and marine scientists scramble to weigh the environmental effects.

In January, Jaron Ming, the Pacific regional director of the BSEE, told employees in an email that there had been heightened interest in offshore fracking from within the agency and the public.

"For that reason, I am asking you to pay close attention to any (drilling applications) that we receive and let me know if you believe any of them would be considered a `frac job.'"

That same month, BSEE estimated in internal emails that only two such jobs had occurred off California in the past two decades. But weeks later, as the agency worked to respond to public requests about fracking offshore, emails show it had found 12 such instances of offshore fracking.

BSEE said it cannot be sure just how often fracking has been allowed without going through every single well file.

Brian Segee, a staff attorney at the Environmental Defense Center, said the uncertainty makes him skeptical about the actual number of offshore fracks. The Santa Barbara-based environmental law firm, which formed in the wake of the 1969 oil spill, is calling for a moratorium on future fracking in the Pacific until the potential environmental effects are studied.

Most fracking efforts off California have yielded mixed results. The first time Venoco fracked offshore in the 1990s, it had limited success. Chevron's one try failed. Out of Nuevo Energy's nine attempts, only one was considered very successful, according to company and BSEE records.

The practice has been more fruitful in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, where it's more common and the porous nature of the geologic formation makes it easier to extract oil, according to regulators and oil industry experts. Still, oil companies surveyed by federal regulators said they haven't ruled out fracking projects in the Pacific in the future.

As fracking technology evolves and companies seek to wring production from old offshore wells, drilling experts caution that strict safety precautions and planning are needed.

Working in the open ocean, "you have to be a lot more careful to avoid any spillage," said Mukul Sharma, a professor of petroleum engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.

David Pritchard, a Texas petroleum engineer who has been working in offshore drilling for 45 years, said offshore fracking "no doubt adds complexity and risk."

One concern is that the high pressure fracking mixture in some jobs might break the rock seal around an old well bore, allowing oil to escape, added another expert, Tulane University petroleum engineering professor Eric Smith.

"I'd say it (offshore fracking) is safe," Smith said, "but nothing's a sure thing in this world."

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Victim in fatal California boardwalk hit-run identified as Italian woman on honeymoon; suspect arrested

A vehicle plowed through a group of people near Venice Beach, Calif., killing a woman, in an incident caught on security video cameras. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.

By Miguel Almaguer and M. Alex Johnson, NBC News

A California man was held on suspicion of murder after a car plowed through Los Angeles' popular Venice Beach boardwalk Saturday night, killing a young Italian woman in the U.S. for her honeymoon and injuring 11 other people, authorities said Sunday.

Police said Nathan Louis Campbell, 38, of Los Angeles, was being held on $1 million bail after he fled the scene in a dark sedan in an incident that was captured on security camera video.

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The video shows a man parking a black car along the boardwalk, watching for several minutes and then speeding into the crowd about 6 p.m. (9 p.m. ET).?It shows the car careening around barriers intended to block automobiles from reaching the boardwalk's pedestrian area.

Alice Gruppioni, 32, of Italy was killed, the Los Angeles County coroner's office told NBC News. Eleven other people, all of them believed to have been pedestrians on the boardwalk, were injured, one of them critically.

The Italian news agency ANSA reported that Gruppioni, of Bologna in northern Italy, was married July 20 to Christian Casadei, an architect from Cesena.

Casadei suffered minor injuries and was at his wife's side when she died, it said, quoting Giuseppe Perrone, the Italian consul general in Los Angeles, who accompanied Casadei to the hospital.

Perrone told ANSA in a telephone interview that Casadei and his new wife were strolling along the boardwalk when the car came barreling through.

"We were walking, we were happy, we were on our honeymoon and everything, and suddenly everything changed," Casadei said, according to Perrone.

"I still can't believe it, and I don't even remember exactly what happened. It's all very confusing."

Perrone described Casadei as "destroyed and in disbelief."

Witnesses said it appeared that the driver took aim at people on the boardwalk.

"All I saw was a car emerging from the crowd driving southbound on the boardwalk just plowing through whomever was in its way," said Scott Levinsky, a vendor at the packed tourist attraction.

"We're never going to forget that moment," he said. "I'm still thankful to God that we are still alive and surviving."

Chelsea Alvarez, who was visiting the boardwalk Saturday night, said the scene was "really bad."

"There was tables, there was people everywhere, blood everywhere," she said. "There was scattered stuff. It was horrible. It was the ugliest scene I've ever seen."

Alvarez told NBC Los Angeles that her grandmother Linda Alvarez, 75, was among those hit, suffering broken ribs.

"She's good. She's just resting. She's sleeping right now," Alvarez said.

Los Angeles City Council member Mike Bonin told the station that the barriers in place at the Venice boardwalk are insufficient. He said he would ask the council to move quickly to install new barriers before the end of the year.

Gruppioni was the daughter of Valerio Gruppioni, president of Sira Group, based in Bologna, one of the world's largest producers of radiators for heating. Bologna FC, a club in the top flight of Italian soccer, confirmed her death in a statement offering condolences to Valerio Gruppioni, a former president of the club.

"President (Albano) Guaraldi and all of Bologna FC are with the Gruppioni family in this time of unspeakable pain," the club said.

In a statement Sunday, rival club AC Milan, one of the world's premier teams, expressed its "condolences to former Bologna president Valerio Gruppioni and his family following the passing of his daughter Alice."

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Sports ? Urawa Reds beats Hiroshima 3-1 in J-League

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Urawa Reds moved into third spot in the J-League on Saturday with a 3-1 win against leader and defending champion Sanfrecce Hiroshima at Saitama Stadium. Two goals by Shinzo Koroki and one for Genki Haraguchi sealed the points in front of the day's biggest crowd, 42,426, with Hiroki Mizumoto scoring? ...

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Brad Frace pitches Nazareth to 4-3 victory in opening round of Region 2 American Legion baseball tournament

Brad Frace has experienced the dark side of baseball, having been cut twice from Nazareth Area High School's JV team and missing the first three weeks of Nazareth's American Legion season last month after having his appendix removed.

That was the back story of the pitcher manager Jason Brown sent to the mound Saturday afternoon in Nazareth's game against Salisbury in the opening round of the Region 2 American Legion Baseball Tournament at Bear Stadium in Boyertown, Pa.

But Frace, a right-hander, became the big story of Game 2 of the tournament, pitching seven brilliant innings while leading the 15-time Northampton County League champions to a 4-3 win over Lehigh County League runner-up Salisbury 4-3.

Nazareth (18-8-2) advances to the winners bracket where it will face the winner of Saturday night's Boyertown-Pottstown game at 7:30 tonight. Salisbury (16-8) faces the loser of the Boyertown-Pottstown game at 1 p.m. in the double-elimination tourney.

Frace gave up just five hits and only a first-inning run while throwing 99 pitches and striking out three against three walks.

"How about Brad Frace?" Brown said. "He didn't play high school baseball until his senior year and he missed the first three weeks of our season with the appendix deal. The kid is just thrilled to be in the starting rotation. He throws a two-seam fastball that cuts away from right-handed hitters. He can throw it in good spots and he throws it for strikes. He made a lot of good Salisbury hitters look average."

"I just threw my fastball," said Frace, who was cut his freshman and sophomore years from the Nazareth JV team and didn't go out for it as a junior. "I threw maybe 10 curveballs, tops. I just tried to keep the ball away from everybody."

Salisbury, comprised of almost the entire Salisbury High School team that dominated the Colonial League while reaching the PIAA Class AA semifinals in the spring, scored a first-inning run off Frace on Justin Aungst's RBI single, but couldn't do anything else against the slender 5-foot-10 righty over the next six innings.

"(Frace) shut down the middle of our lineup," Salisbury manager Scott Heppenheimer said. "Our hitters were getting repeatedly frustrated that they couldn't hit him."

All four of Nazareth's runs were unearned as the result of six Salisbury errors, five of them coming in a three-run sixth off starter Nic Ampietro. Jake Suarez started the rally by reaching first when right fielder Zach Seitz dropped his fly ball and stole second.

Anthony Gaetaniello laid down a sacrifice bunt and reached base when catcher Evan Kulig threw the ball away at first, scoring Suarez. Shortstop Javier Rivera bobbled Tyler Pastor's ground ball, allowing Gaetaniello to score. Jake Carty then drove in Pastor by dumping a single to right.

Nazareth got an all-important insurance run in the top of the ninth on Salisbury's sixth error and a booming triple to left by Tanner Buss.

That run was significant because Nazareth had to weather a two-run single by Ryan Utsch in the ninth off Carty, who came on in relief in the eighth, but got out of it to earn the save.

NAZARETH (ab-r-h-bi) Gaetaniello cf 3-1-1-0, Pastor rf 4-1-1-0, Hallman c 3-0-1-0, Carty 1b/p 4-0-1-1, Talmadge lf/1b 4-0-0-0, Snyder ss 4-1-0-0, Trenberth dh 3-0-0-0, Kline lf 1-0-0-0, Buss 3b 4-0-1-1, Suarez 2b 4-1-1-0, Frace p 0-0-0-0. Totals 34-4-6-2.

SALISBURY (ab-r-h-bi) Vangeli cf 5-0-0-0, Kulig c 3-1-1-0, Aungst 2b/3b 4-0-1-1, Ampietro p/2b 3-0-0-0, Rivera ss 3-0-0-0, Adams c 1-0-0-0, Cooperman 3b/p 3-1-0-0, Kresley lf 3-1-2-0, Seitz rf 2-0-0-0, Santanasto rf 2-0-1-0, Utsch 1b 4-0-2-2. Totals 33-3-7-3.

Nazareth (18-8-2) 000 003 001--4 6 1

Salisbury (16-8)??? 100 000 002--3 7 6

E -- Pastor, Kulig, Aungst, Rivera 3, Seitz. DP -- Salisbury 1. LOB -- Nazareth 5, Salisbury 7. 2B -- Kresley. 3B -- Buss. HBP -- By Carty (Cooperman). S -- Gaetaniello. SB -- Gaetaniello, Suarez 2, Kulig 2, Rivera. CS -- Gaetaniello, Carty, Kresley.

Frace, Carty (8) and Hallman; Ampietro, Cooperman (6) and Kulig, Adams (6). W -- Frace. L -- Ampietro. Save -- Carty.

WP -- Ampietro. Umpires -- HP: D. Houck; 1B: E. Houck; 3B: Mike DiGiacomo. T -- 2:13. A -- 150.

Source: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/07/brad_frace_pitches_nazareth_to.html

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