A8 | WEDNESDAY, 05.2.2012 THE LEDGER INDEPENDENT

The Generation Center will be offering Forklift Operator Training. This class fulfi lls OSHA requirements for forklift training. Classroom instruction will be provided on lift and operational safety with focused discussion on lift equipment in your workplace and industry as well as hands-on instruction.

The fi rst class will be on Saturday May 19th at 8 a.m. Class length is approximately 4 hours plus the hands-on evaluation. Each participant will have to take both a written and practical examination.

A non-refundable fee of $50 per student must be paid prior to class start. Students must also present a valid vehicle drivers license and will receive a forklift operator license upon successful completion of the course.

OSHA 1910.178 required 3-year forklift operator refresher training and this class are also available by appoint-ment.

Please contact Marilyn at 937-331-3801 or David at 937-331-3802 for inquiries, reservations, or for a free consultation.

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Tumbleweed and Relay for Life

“Playing Today for a Cure Tomorrow” Saturday, May 26, 2012

Washington Rec Park

Winners will receive t-shirts.

All proceeds will go to the Relay for Life.

There will also be other activities.

For more info or to enter in the tournaments please contact Chad Tucker at (606)584-7472.

Co-ed Softball

Tournament Entry fee: $125

per team

Cornhole Tournament

Entry Fee: $20 per team

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A8 | WEDNESDAY, 05.2.2012 THE LEDGER INDEPENDENTA8 | SPORTS WEDNESDAY, 05.2.2012 | THE LEDGER INDEPENDENT

SPORTS DIRECTORY606-564-9091 OR 800-264-9091

NAME EXT. EMAILChuck Hamilton 251 chuck.hamilton@lee.netZack Klemme 273 zack.klemme@lee.net

SCORE DEADLINE FOR NEXT DAY’S EDITION: 10 P.M.

PREP SCHEDULE

SPORTS ON TV

MLB STANDINGS

SPORTS CALENDAR

Wednesday, May 2BASEBALLDeming at Mason County, 7Bracken County at Augusta, 5Ripley at North Adams, 5Manchester at Fairfield, 5Georgetown at Whiteoak, 5SOFTBALLMason County at Bourbon County,

5:30Covington Latin at St. Patrick, 5

Lewis County at Fleming County, 6:30Ripley at North Adams, 5Manchester at Fairfield, 5Georgetown at Whiteoak, 5TENNISMason County at Scott CountyTRACK AND FIELDMariemont Invitational, 4:30(All times p.m. and subject to

change)

Wednesday, May 2HORSE RACING5 p.m.NBCSN — NTRA, Kentucky Derby Post

Position Draw, at LouisvilleMAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL12:30 p.m.MLB — Regional coverage, Texas at

Toronto or Kansas City at Detroit7 p.m.ESPN — Baltimore at N.Y. YankeesFox Sports Ohio, WGN — Chicago Cubs

at CincinnatiNBA BASKETBALL7 p.m.TNT — Playoffs, first round, game 2,

Utah at San Antonio9:30 p.m.TNT — Playoffs, first round, game 2,

L.A. Clippers at MemphisNHL HOCKEY7:30 p.m.NBCSN — Playoffs, conference

semifinals, game 3, N.Y. Rangers at Washington

9 p.m.CNBC — Playoffs, conference semifi-

nals, game 3, Phoenix at NashvilleSOCCER1:55 p.m.ESPN2 — Spanish Primera Division,

Malaga at Barcelona

BASKETBALLDarius Miller’s BBN Swat autograph

tour is coming to the Maysville Walmart on May 12 from 4-6 p.m.

GOLFThe annual Derby Day Scramble will be

held at Kenton Station Golf Course on May 5 beginning at 11:30 a.m. For more information or to sign up, call 606-759-7154.

The second annual Maysville Fire Department Golf Scramble is May 12 beginning at 8 a.m. at Kenton Station Golf Course. Cost $40 for members and $50 for non-members. Bring your own six-person team or sign up individually by calling the course at 606-759-7154 or the fire department at 606-564-2541.

FISHINGThe Southern Ohio Farmland Preserva-

tion Association is sponsoring a youth fishing tournament May 20 from 4 to 7 p.m. at Silver Hook Fishing Lake on Ohio 125 in Decatur. Admission is $5; prizes offered for age groups 10 years old and under, 11-14 and 15-18 for lon-gest fish and heaviest fish. For more information or to sign up, call 937-379-1602 or email rab.cces@gmail.com by May 16 and include number and age of attendees.

FOOTBALLSign-ups for Tiger Football (grades 1-4

in Mason, Bracken and Robertson counties) will be held from 9 a.m. to

1 p.m. on May 5 at the Augusta boat dock and May 19 at the Germantown pavilion. A golf scramble will be held April 28, beginning at 8 a.m. at Ken-ton Station. For more information, call Angela Yelton at 606-782-0270.

The 2012 Mason County High School football player/parent meeting is May 16 from 7-7:30 and 9-9:30 p.m. at the football facility. Families can choose whichever meeting time is best to avoid possible church con-flicts; the date was chosen to avoid school, track and baseball conflicts. For more information, contact coach David Buchanan at david.buchanan@mason.kyschools.us or 606-507-3708.

SOFTBALLThe 14th annual Morgan Memorial

Tournaments are May 19 at Aber-deen Park. There will be both a 3-on-3 basketball tourney and a men’s softball event. For more information about basketball, call Jimmy Mitchell at 606-584-0484. For more softball information, call Randy Newberry at 606-407-1628. Other questions can be answered at 937-561-8416 or 937-795-2408.

A men’s softball league is now forming in Augusta. Games will be played on Fridays beginning May 25. Entry fee is $200 per team; deadline is May 18. For more information, call Mark Kiskaden at 606-402-0896.

NATIONAL LEAGUEEast

W L Pct GBWashington 14 9 .609 —Atlanta 14 10 .583 ½New York 13 11 .542 1½Philadelphia 12 12 .500 2½Miami 8 14 .364 5½

Central W L Pct GBSt. Louis 14 8 .636 —Cincinnati 11 11 .500 3Milwaukee 11 12 .478 3½Pittsburgh 10 12 .455 4Houston 10 14 .417 5Chicago 8 15 .348 6½

West W L Pct GBLos Angeles 16 7 .696 —San Francisco 12 10 .545 3½Arizona 13 11 .542 3½Colorado 11 11 .500 4½San Diego 7 17 .292 9½

Monday’s GamesArizona 9, Miami 5Philadelphia 6, Chicago Cubs 4Pittsburgh 9, Atlanta 3Houston 4, N.Y. Mets 3Colorado 6, L.A. Dodgers 2Milwaukee 8, San Diego 3

Tuesday’s GamesArizona 5, Washington 1Philadelphia 4, Atlanta 2Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, ppd., rainHouston 6, N.Y. Mets 3Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.Milwaukee at San Diego, 10:05 p.m.Miami at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesN.Y. Mets (Schwinden 0-0) at Houston

(W.Rodriguez 2-2), 2:05 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 2-0) at Colo-

rado (Pomeranz 0-1), 3:10 p.m.Milwaukee (Gallardo 1-2) at San Diego

(Suppan 0-0), 6:35 p.m.Arizona (J.Saunders 2-1) at Washing-

ton (E.Jackson 1-1), 7:05 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 2-1) at Cin-

cinnati (Arroyo 1-0), 7:10 p.m.Philadelphia (Halladay 3-2) at Atlanta

(Hanson 3-2), 7:10 p.m.Pittsburgh (A.J.Burnett 1-1) at St. Louis

(Lynn 4-0), 8:15 p.m.Miami (Zambrano 0-2) at San Fran-

cisco (Zito 1-0), 10:15 p.m.Thursday’s Games

Philadelphia at Atlanta, 12:10 p.m.Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 12:35 p.m.Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 1:45 p.m.Miami at San Francisco, 3:45 p.m.Arizona at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUEEast

W L Pct GBTampa Bay 16 8 .667 —Baltimore 15 9 .625 1New York 13 10 .565 2½Toronto 13 11 .542 3Boston 11 12 .478 4½

Central W L Pct GBCleveland 11 9 .550 —Detroit 12 11 .522 ½Chicago 11 11 .500 1Kansas City 6 16 .273 6Minnesota 6 16 .273 6

West W L Pct GBTexas 17 7 .708 —Oakland 12 13 .480 5½Seattle 11 14 .440 6½Los Angeles 8 15 .348 8½

Monday’s GamesN.Y. Yankees 2, Baltimore 1Kansas City at Detroit, ppd., rainTexas 4, Toronto 1Boston 11, Oakland 6Tampa Bay 3, Seattle 2, 12 inningsL.A. Angels 4, Minnesota 3

Tuesday’s GamesBaltimore 7, N.Y. Yankees 1Detroit 9, Kansas City 3Toronto 8, Texas 7Oakland 5, Boston 3Tampa Bay 3, Seattle 1Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 8:10

p.m.Minnesota at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesTexas (M.Harrison 3-1) at Toronto

(R.Romero 3-0), 12:37 p.m.Kansas City (J.Sanchez 1-1) at Detroit

(Verlander 2-1), 1:05 p.m.Baltimore (Arrieta 1-2) at N.Y. Yankees

(Nova 3-0), 7:05 p.m.Oakland (McCarthy 1-3) at Boston

(Bard 2-2), 7:10 p.m.Seattle (Beavan 1-2) at Tampa Bay

(Shields 4-0), 7:10 p.m.Cleveland (Tomlin 1-2) at Chicago

White Sox (Humber 1-1), 8:10 p.m.Minnesota (Hendriks 0-1) at L.A. Angels

(Weaver 3-0), 10:05 p.m.Thursday’s Games

Seattle at Tampa Bay, 1:10 p.m.Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 8:10

p.m.N.Y. Yankees at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.Toronto at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.

MASONFROM A7

Logan Brown went 2-for-3 with a pair of RBI, and Logan Sapp was 2-for-3 and drove in one.

St. Patrick (3-9) got its lone tally in the second frame when Chase Ralston came home on a Royals er-ror on a double steal.

Mason coach Tom Posey would have liked to see more fire from his team, but will take the win after a tournament at Harrison County last Thursday and Saturday saw the Royals go 1-2, dropping the third game to Fleming County. A victory would have given Mason a winning weekend and a season series defeat of the border rival Pan-thers.

“We’ve gotta hit the ball earlier and we gotta be more consistent on hit-ting the ball,” Posey said. “The kids didn’t play bad tonight, (but) we need to get the intensity up every

game. We’re up and down sometimes, just like our bats have been up and down. We just gotta be more consistent.”

Getting Moore back af-ter he missed most of the season to date due to a leg injury helps.

“He did a good job for us throwing there,” Posey said. “He’s a senior, he’s got experience and that’s just the senior leadership that he’s got for us.”

The Saints, meanwhile, struggled against Moore and didn’t get a hit in two innings against reliever Aaron Scilley.

Two other things skip-per Ronnie Clos didn’t like were struggles to throw strikes and get the signs on the bases.

“We didn’t get the pitching. Seven runs (al-lowed in the) first three innings, how many walks? How many wild pitches?” he asked rhetorically. “I’m not ashamed of us. What I am upset with ‘em: miss-ing signs. (It’s) midseason and we’re not catching the

signs.”Mason jumped on top

in its first inning and led throughout. Brown sin-gled home Lukas Green-hill, and Trevor Taylor scored on a Saints error.

Ralston’s run cut that edge in half, but a patient Royals order added three runs in the second inning, as 14 of the first 17 pitches in the inning from William McKay sailed outside the strike zone.

Brown’s sacrifice fly drove in Bryce Gardner and Osborne laced a two-run double to the fence in left-center, scoring Scilley and Greenhill.

Sapp’s single plated Mason in the third frame, and courtesy runner Ryan Johnson crossed the dish on Greenhill’s groundout for a 7-1 lead.

A steady drizzle in the fifth inning did nothing more than get everyone a little wet. And in the bot-tom of the sixth, Osborne singled home Brown before Mason’s bases-clearing double scored Os-

borne, Taylor and Nathan Cracraft to end the game a half-inning early.

With the win, the Roy-als are 5-0 against district opponents with one game left against Augusta on May 18. The 39th District tournament draw is next Wednesday at an athletic directors’ meeting in Cyn-thiana, Posey said.

Mason hosts Deming this evening at 7 p.m. in a game moved up from its original scheduled date of May 17. That contest will follow a middle school game at 5.

The Saints return to ac-tion in a Saturday double-header at Eminence.

St. Patrick 010 000 — 1 2 2Mason County 232 004 — 11 8 1WP: Moore, LP: McKay.Hitting leaders: SP — Applegate 1-3,

3 SB; Heller 1-3; Ralston R, 3 BB, SB; Jodrey BB, SB; Fritz BB; Mason BB.

MC — Osborne 1-3, 3 RBI, R, BB, 2 SB; Mason 1-4, 3 RBI, R, 2B, 2 SB; Brown 2-3, 2 RBI, R, 2B; Sapp 2-3, RBI; Greenhill RBI, 2 R, BB, SB; Scilley 1-2, R, BB; Taylor 2 R, BB; Cracraft R, 2 BB; B. Gardner R, 2 BB; Johnson R.

Records: St. Patrick 3-9, Mason County 15-10-1.

FLEMINGFROM A7

Abby Miller’s sac bunt. Mandy Boyd, who also reached on a sac bunt and an error, scored on Cristi Petersen’s groundout for the third run of the frame.

The Lady Royals mount-ed a serious threat in their half of the third. With one out, Aimee Arthur lined a single to left field but she was forced out at second on a grounder to second base. Arthur was also in-jured on the play when she went into the bag awk-wardly and had to leave the game.

Biddle walked Irwin and Bethany Foister to load the bases but coaxed Newdi-gate to pop out to shortstop to end the inning.

After reliever Karissa Greenhill blanked the Lady Panthers in the fourth in-ning, Fleming struck with three more runs in the fifth before adding two in the sixth. Brown led off the fifth with a walk, went to second on Mandy Boyd’s line single to left, swiped third on a delayed steal and scored on an error. Boyd, who stole second and third, was plated on a single to right field from Hurst. Petersen, who reached on a bunt single prior to Hurst’s base hit, scored

when Hurst got involved in a rundown between first and second before sliding safely back into the first base bag.

The pair of sixth inning runs were scored on RBI singles to left field from Mandy Boyd and Miller, plating Sarah Boyd and Brown, respectively.

Mason coach Meredith Fraysure saw some good and not-so-good from her team.

“We hit the ball very hard today but right at people and it’s frustrating,” Fraysure said. “Fleming always plays good defense and they don’t give you anything. We also left too many runners on base in crucial situations. We had some communica-tion issues with our infield tonight and Fleming took advantage of that by taking extra bases on us.”

Ryver was pleased with

the way his team per-formed.

“We hit the ball a little better tonight and bunted a lot better than we have recently,” he said. “But the big dif-ference was being ex-tremely aggressive on the basepaths. We made ‘em make plays and they had some trouble at times making them. I was happy to see Mandy get a couple of solid hits to-night, she’s really worked at it and making a little tweak in the way she swings has really helped her at the plate.”

Fleming County 203 032 —10 8 0Mason County 000 000 —0 4 5WP: Biddle, LP: Carver.Hitting leaders: FC—Brown 4R; M.

Boyd 2-2, 3R, RBI; Miller 1-3, 2RBI; Hurst 3-3, 2RBI; Wagner 1-3, 2B; R. Boyd 2R.

MC—Arthur 1-2; Huff 1-3, 2B; Newdi-gate 1-3, 2B; Douglas 1-3.

Records: Fleming County 13-12, Mason County 8-15.

CARDINALS TO RETIRE LA RUSSA’S NO. 10

ST. LOUIS | The St. Louis Cardinals are wast-ing no time honoring Tony La Russa, announcing they will retire their former manager’s No. 10 later this month.

La Russa retired last fall after leading the franchise to a second World Series title in his 16 seasons. He left the game ranked third all time in managerial vic-

tories, trailing Connie Mack and John McGraw.

The jersey will be re-tired May 11 prior to the Cardinals’ game against the Atlanta Braves.

La Russa’s number will become the 12th retired by the Cardinals and first since Whitey Herzog’s No. 24 in 2010, and they’re the only managers who did not play for the team to have their uniform numbers retired. — AP