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Hummel, Bats Pace Pacific To 8-5 Win In Season Finale

Senior RHP Jake Hummel (Peoria, Ariz.) went the distance in his final start and the Tigers dropped a five-run fifth inning on UC Santa Barbara to take a 8-5 win Sunday in the season finale. Junior RF Allen Riley (Fresno, Calif.) added his fourth home run of the season to go with two RBI.

Sophomore third baseman Dustin Torchio (Santa Cruz, Calif.) posted his 26th multi-hit game of the season, going three-for-five with a double and an RBI to finish the year with a Big West leading .369 batting average.

Seniors Brian Martin (Livermore, Calif.) and Matt Carvutto (Poway, Calif.) turned in multi-hit games as well in their final games in a Pacific uniform.

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National ed blog highlights: June 2

Here is an unscientific sampling of education blog highlights from the past several days:

• Charter schools and low-SES kids: Damned if they do, damned if they dont? Matthew Yglesias
• Seven obvious things in education that are ignored. Washington Post Answer Sheet blog
• Eight reformer state education chiefs endorse NCTQ review of teacher prep programs. Teacher Beat blog
• Diane Ravitch is right to pop myth balloons about miracle schools (including Bruce Randolph) Flypaper
• Data-driven policymaking? In your dreams. Larry Cubans blog
• Big flaws in NYT piece on Gates Foundation influence. Rick Hess Straight Up

Scholarships Totaling $117,000 Help Local Students with Financial Need

Fifty-six students from throughout Sacramento and Yolo counties received grant-funded scholarships through programs designed to help young people with financial need prepare for and enter college.

At a special May 24th ceremony inside the Secretary of State Auditorium in downtown Sacramento, 56 high school seniors representing 21 Sacramento-area schools were awarded college scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $4,500 for use toward community college or four-year college or university programs.

“The scholarships being awarded tonight place higher education within reach of deserving students,” Deputy County Superintendent of Schools Sue Stickel told attendees.

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A North High diploma mill?

This excellent piece of reporting by Westwords Melanie Asmar exposes some scandalous practices in the credit recovery program at Denvers North High School. As a fomer North teacher says at the articles conclusion:

What sucks is that there are kids working their butts off for a diploma to mean something and there are kids getting diplomas from North who have earned every single credit on there plus more, says Brown. Then a bunch of other kids get the same diploma, and it devalues it.

She adds, Id hate forpeople to look at a transcript and say, Oh, they went to North? Theyll give a diploma to anyone.

Watch for this story to change some practices at North and probably other DPS high schools.

Baseball: Pacific Visits UCSB in Final Big West Series

The Pacific Tigers wrap the 2011 campaign with a weekend series at UC Santa Barbara. The Tigers will take on the Gauchos Friday at 3 p.m., followed by Saturday and Sunday 1 p.m. starts.

Pacific (16-35) and Santa Barbara (24-25) sit tied for seventh in the Big West at 8-13, just two games back of fourth place entering the final weekend of the season.

The Tigers picked up their first game one win of the season last Friday, as senior RHP Robbie Richardson (Lodi, Calif.) and junior RHP John Prato Matthews combined to hold Cal Poly to one run in a 6-1 Tigers’ victory. Richardson allowed four hits in five innings in his first start since high school to earn the victory, while Prato Matthews tossed four innings of one-hit ball for his first save.

Richardson (2-2, 6.28 ERA) will get the start on Friday, opposite UCSB senior RHP Greg Davis.

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At the track in London

Just set up my laptop at the OFSAA West track and field championship in London.

It really is a shame that Waterloo Region is unable to host such an event.

Heres a great website to follow the results.