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Coaching husband and wife bring success to Stansbury

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:29:03 MDT

Coaching husband and wife bring success to Stansbury

By Martin Renzhofer The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 22, 2013 03:29PM MDT

Stansbury Park • These days, Ray Clinton defers to his wife, Bridget. She has what he wants. But for now, the Stansbury baseball coach is more than happy to celebrate and enjoy the Stallions’ first state championship in any sport — softball. The delicious moment came Saturday when the Stansbury softball team rode senior Elise Sutherland’s game-changing home run and sophomore Kimbri Herring’s solid pitching to a 6-3 victory against Spanish Fork for the Class 3A championship. The school, only 4 ye...

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3A softball: Stansbury claims school’s first state title

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:42:08 MDT

3A softball: Stansbury claims school’s first state title

By David Cordero Special to The Tribune

Updated May 18, 2013 11:42PM MDT

St. George • Nothing that happened before Elise Sutherland’s first at-bat during Stansbury’s second contest could foreshadow what was coming next. She struck out twice and stranded a village on the basepaths against Spanish Fork in the first game Saturday. Sutherland made up for it with her team trailing by two in the second inning of a winner-take-all title match-up against the Dons. She put a charge into the ball that helped the Stallions make school history. Sutherland, Stansbury’s No. 9 hi...

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3A softball: Stansbury stampedes into championship game

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:24:15 MDT

3A softball: Stansbury stampedes into championship game

By Christopher Kamrani The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 18, 2013 10:24PM MDT

The Stansbury Stallions walloped a previously 22-0 team then bounced the five-time defending Class 3A state champions in a span of nine hours. Quite the day. The Stallions punched their ticket to the 3A state championship Saturday in St. George by rolling past Snow Canyon 16-0 in the first game of Friday’s semifinals, a game in which coach Bridget Clinton said her girls just couldn’t miss. “Everybody through the whole lineup hit the ball hard,” she said. “Every single one — 1 through 9.” Stansbu...

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Review chairman: Clinton didn’t make Benghazi call

Sun, 12 May 2013 17:25:24 MDT

Review chairman: Clinton didn’t make Benghazi call

By PHILIP ELLIOTT The Associated Press

Updated May 12, 2013 05:25PM MDT

Washington • The seasoned diplomat who penned a highly critical report on security at a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, defended his scathing assessment but absolved then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. “We knew where the responsibility rested,” Thomas Pickering said Sunday. “They’ve tried to point a finger at people more senior than where we found the decisions were made,” Pickering, whose career spans four decades, said of Clinton’s critics. The Accountability Review Board, which P...

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Review chairman: Clinton didn’t make Benghazi call

Sun, 12 May 2013 23:07:56 MDT

Review chairman: Clinton didn’t make Benghazi call

By PHILIP ELLIOTT The Associated Press

Updated May 12, 2013 11:07PM MDT

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GOP ready to push Benghazi case into 2014, beyond

Sat, 11 May 2013 14:30:20 MDT

GOP ready to push Benghazi case into 2014, beyond

By CHARLES BABINGTON The Associated Press

Updated May 11, 2013 02:30PM MDT

Washington • Steady drips of information about a horrific night in Libya are fueling Republican arguments and ads designed to fire up the conservative base and undercut the Democrats’ early favorite for president in 2016. Strategists in both parties disagree on the issue’s power to influence elections next year and beyond. But after eight months of trying, Democrats are still struggling to move past the terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi last Sept. 11 that killed Ambass...

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3A baseball: Stansbury seniors ready for a run

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:16:40 MDT

3A baseball: Stansbury seniors ready for a run

By Aaron Falk The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 11, 2013 12:16AM MDT

Stansbury • Brek Bentley figured he’d be playing ball for Tooele High right now. But when Bentley first heard of the new high school that would be opening his freshman year, he quickly signed up for a club team in the growing community. On Saturday, Bentley will take the mound for the Stansbury Stallions as they face Dixie in the first round of the Class 3A baseball tournament. He and his fellow seniors will be the first Stansbury class to have spent all four years at the school. As a senior gif...

Milbank: Whistle-blower’s yarn fails to tie Benghazi lapses to politics

Thu, 09 May 2013 09:53:02 MDT

Milbank: Whistle-blower’s yarn fails to tie Benghazi lapses to politics

By Dana Milbank The Washington Post

Updated May 9, 2013 09:53AM MDT

WASHINGTON — They summoned a whistle-blower to Capitol Hill, but instead they got a virtuoso storyteller. Gregory Hicks, the No. 2 U.S. diplomat in Libya the night Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed, was to be the star witness for Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the man leading the probe of the Obama administration’s handling of the attack on the diplomatic outpost in Benghazi. But despite Issa’s incautious promise that the hearing’s revelations would be “damaging” to Hi...

Prep softball: Stansbury’s Herring thrives in the circle

Wed, 08 May 2013 16:05:32 MDT

Prep softball: Stansbury’s Herring thrives in the circle

By Anthony Cusumano Special to The Tribune

Updated May 8, 2013 04:05PM MDT

Kimbri Herring handles pressure remarkably well for a sophomore. In fact, she wants nothing more than the ball in her hand with the game on the line. That kind of poise is what makes Stansbury softball coach Bridget Clinton happy that Herring toes the rubber for the Stallions each game. “She has the perfect mentality for a pitcher,” Clinton said. “She wants the ball. It’s what she loves to do. Pitchers give up hits and some don’t respond well to that, but it’s part of the game. You don’t get too...