9/01/2011

Balboa football rebuilding for 2011 season with character, discipline

In high school football, rebuilding and replacing graduating seniors is an annual hurdle.

It’s no different at Balboa High School entering the 2011 season, as coach Alvaro Carvajal has the task of replacing Academic Athletic Association Player of the Year Christian Pulusian, All-City quarterback Kerati Apilakvanichakit and standout running back Greg Warren, a trio that led Balboa to a Turkey Bowl appearance.

“When talking about replacing those cornerstone players in Christian, Kerati and Greg, it’s pretty simple — we do it with character,” Carvajal said. “We do it with character and discipline at this program. With any type of talent, we’ll always work with what we got, and go from there.”

Carvajal knows the production of those three players will be hard to replicate, but with his offensive line being the strength of this year’s squad, making another run at a championship could be attainable.

Center Alonzo Sweets, left tackle Gabriel Davis, left guard Jesus Pleitez, right guard Kendrick Martin and right tackle Matthew Dabit form the wall protecting senior quarterback David Lantow in Balboa’s spread offense, which averaged 38 points in league play.

“We have a lot of new faces, but we have a lot of willing workers,” said Sweets, a senior and captain for the Buccaneers. “We have the guys that we need, and that’s our biggest thing. We need guys that will work hard no matter what.”

As Lantow steps in under center replacing Apilakvanichakit at quarterback, Antoine Crecy and Lewis Moran will compete for carries at running back.

Seniors Andres Arellano and Keene Roque will look to help Balboa’s spread offense as the lead receivers, and help defensively at free safety and cornerback.

Pulusian, who played nearly every down at linebacker, running back, receiver and kick returner, will be irreplaceable. However, Balboa feels just fine coming into the season due to the work they’ve put in this offseason.

On top of weight training and conditioning, Balboa took part in a slew of football camps this summer, participating at programs hosted by Cal, Stanford, San Jose State and San Diego State.

Carvajal hopes it will be a springboard to a better nonleague, as Balboa finished 5-8 last season and lost all of its nonleague games before making its run in the AAA to the Turkey Bowl.

“Before I got here, there was a culture of coming up short in this program,” Carvajal said. “The mind-set was like, ‘We’re not going to win any nonleague games, but we’ll turn it up in league and win those games.’ Now it’s more of a sense of we can win no matter if its preseason or league and that victory can come in any given week.”

Although last season’s 36-6 Turkey Bowl loss to Washington stung the program, that memory has been washed away. Coaches and players at Balboa insist it’s a distant memory, as 2011 is the only thing they’re worried about.

“Last year, we did have great players, but this year’s team is ready to step up and work just as hard,” Arellano said. “It’s a process every day to get better, and we’re going to work hard and take this season week by week.”

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8/31/2011

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Sox end regular season with loss

Some records and other tidbits about the 2011 Wenatchee AppleSox, who finished the regular season with a record of 39-15:

‧ Sox OF Payden Cawley Lamb wrested the West Coast League batting title away from Gonzaga teammate Alex Stanford on the last day of the regular season. Cawley Lamb went 3-for-5 Wednesday to finish at .350. Stanford finished at .340.

‧ Cawley Lamb’s three hits also tied him for the WCL’s all-time record in that category, as his 64 knocks equaled the total put up by Waterville native Drew Heid’s amount for Bend in 2008.

‧ The AppleSox’ offense was a truly historic group, setting WCL records for team batting average, hits, runs, total bases, doubles, RBI, sacrifice flies, hit batsmen and on-base percentage.

‧ Adam Nelubowich’s eight homers fell short of the single-season mark set by Moses Lake’s Chris Casazza in 2009. Nelubowich seemed destined to break the mark after blasting his eighth on July 17, but didn’t hit one after that.

‧ University of Portland teammates Owen Jones (wins, innings pitched) and Keeler Brynteson (appearances), were a record-breaking duo for the Sox’ pitching staff.

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WALLA WALLA — The Walla Walla Sweets prevented the AppleSox from reaching their goal of 40 victories, topping Wenatchee 3-2 in the regular-season finale for both teams.

The AppleSox are now left to hope they’ll be able to exact some revenge on the Sweets in the postseason.

With the exception of a six-run inning on Monday, Wenatchee’s offense muddled through a largely meaningless three games at Borleske Stadium, and now must count on the bats revving up again when the stakes are raised.

Wenatchee and Walla Walla will tangle in the West Coast League’s East Division playoffs from Friday-Sunday, but had to play out the regular-season string.

“It was awkward, and I’m really glad that it’s over,” Wenatchee manager Ed Knaggs of the series, in which the Sox used a combined 15 pitchers in the hopes of lining the staff up for Friday.

“We were hoping to come out and finish strong, but we struggled the last two nights.”

The Sox left a small army on the bases in an extra-inning loss Tuesday before being stifled by Walla Walla southpaw Tyler Billen, who had pitched a total of 19 1/3 innings this summer entering the game.

Billen scattered seven hits over 7 2/3 innings before the Sox finally pushed across a pair in the top of the eighth.

“I thought he was pretty average,” Knaggs said of Billen. “We should have scored more runs.”

Walla Walla scored single runs in the first and second off Ben Ruff, who got his first start of the summer after 18 relief appearances.

The Sweets tacked on a third run in the fifth off Mike Murray, the third of five Sox hurlers to take the mound.

In the eighth, WCL batting champ Payden Cawley Lamb singled for his third hit of the game and advanced to second on a two-out single by Adam Nelubowich.

Ryan Barnes doubled to right to drive in both runs and bring the Sox to within a run.

Wenatchee had first and second with two outs after Brock Gates walked, but reliever Jimmy Litchfield got Conner George to foul out to end the inning.

Walla Walla center fielder Andrew Mendenhall went 3-for-4 with a double and two RBI.

“We’re not taking good swings with two strikes,” Cawley Lamb said. “We need to come out and play better baseball on Friday.”

Note: Breland Almadova has played his last game for the Wenatchee AppleSox this summer. The outfielder will be returning to Hawaii today for what Knaggs termed “personal reasons”. Classes at the University of Hawaii don’t begin until Aug. 20, and George, Almadova’s teammate at Hawaii, will remain with the team throughout the playoffs. Almadova hit .328 in 42 games in Wenatchee, and put together a 20-game hit streak early in the season. He did not start Wednesday’s game, but entered as a pinch-runner in the top of the ninth.

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8/30/2011

Playoffs Start Tonight, Home Game Saturday

August 12, 2011 - West Coast League (WCL) Wenatchee AppleSox The Wenatchee AppleSox will begin their quest for a third straight West Coast League Championship Friday night, opening a three-game series in the Divisional Round with the Walla Walla Sweets.

The AppleSox have home field advantage in the first round of the playoffs, putting game one of the series at Borleske Stadium in Walla Walla on Friday night. The series will then move to Wenatchee for game two on Saturday and, if necessary, game three will also be played in Wenatchee on Sunday. Tickets to Saturday's home game are available now by clicking here or can be purchased at the stadium when the ticket box opens an hour before game time. Fans can follow all the action of tonight's road game in Walla Walla on 560 KPQ or at www.kpq.com.

First pitch for every game of the series is set for 7:05 pm. The winner of the series will advance to the WCL Championship and play the winner of the Corvallis/Bend series.

University of Kentucky lefty Alex Phillips will get the start for the AppleSox in game one of the series. Phillips is 5-1 with a 1.89 ERA. The Sweets will counter with Ryan Richardson. The Campbellsville University junior finished the year with the lowest ERA in the WCL at 1.53 and a 3-3 record.

The two teams, in honor of their names, are making a good natured bet. The AppleSox owner/general manager Jim Corcoran has wagered a box of apples from the Wenatchee Valley with Sweets general manager Zachary Fraser, who is countering with a box of Walla Walla Sweet onions. Corcoran said "our apples beat their onions any day, and we expect our boys will do the same!"

Below is a schedule for the Divisional Round and WCL Championship Series.

Friday, August 12 - Game #1 East Division Playoffs - Wenatchee at Walla Walla. 7:05 pm first pitch.

Saturday, August 13 - Game #2 East Division Playoffs - Walla Walla at Wenatchee. 7:05 pm first pitch. Click here for tickets.

Sunday, August 14 - Game #3 East Division Playoffs - Walla Walla at Wenatchee (if needed). 7:05 pm first pitch.

Tuesday, August 16 - Game #1 Championship Series at East Winner

Thursday, August 18 - Game #2 Championship Series at West Winner

Friday, August 19 - Game #3 Championship Series at West Winner (if needed)

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8/29/2011

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St. Paul, Minn. — You'd think someone who's married to a food critic is more likely to be at restaurants rather than rock shows, but that isn't the case for Bombay Sweets' Nathan Grumdahl. Married to local food writer, Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, he enjoys his duck confit just as much as his garage-surf-rock band. The former guitarist for Selby Tigers and Monarques, Grumdahl started the Bombay Sweets as a one- man-band and added His Mischief drummer Jeff Brown to the mix shortly after.


The duo were finalists in the the 2010 Picked to Click Poll and will be celebrating the release of their first and self-titled EP on Saturday August 13th at the Turf Club.


Songs performed: "I Take You Alone," "Happy Birtday (To Your Petty Reasons)," and "You Are Not The Most Important Person In The World."

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8/28/2011

Sweets beat wasteful Sox

WALLA WALLA — The Walla Walla Sweets gave the Wenatchee AppleSox chance after chance to break open Tuesday night’s game at Borleske Stadium.

The Sox wouldn’t take any of them.

Wenatchee left 14 runners on base, 11 of those in scoring position, wasting a sterling performance by seven AppleSox pitchers in a 2-1 loss in 10 innings.

The AppleSox had runners in scoring position in nine of their 10 times at bat, but simply could not buy a clutch hit.

“We just stunk tonight,” Wenatchee manager Ed Knaggs told KPQ-AM after the game. “I thought our pitchers were awesome, but the way we left all those guys at third...we were just horrible.”

The Sweets posted a two-out rally off Keeler Brynteson, Wenatchee’s seventh pitcher of the game as Knaggs tried to get the staff some work before the playoffs begin Friday.

Andrew Mendenhall doubled down the right field line and for the second time in the game, Wenatchee elected to walk Zach Wentz intentionally to set up the double play with Chance Kopacz at the plate.

After fanning the first time, Kopacz made the AppleSox pay in the 10th, lining a 3-2 pitch from Brynteson into left field that drove in Mendenhall with the winning run.

There were at least three questionable calls that went against the AppleSox in this game, including one that directly preceded Walla Walla’s first run in the fourth inning, but Wenatchee didn’t help itself.

“The calls weren’t the game. There are going to be bad hops and bad calls,” Knaggs said. “The game was us not getting it done with runners on third. If we take care of business throughout the game those things wouldn’t have happened.”

The Sox and Sweets are in a bizarre situation, having to play three largely meaningless games to wrap up the regular season before opening the WCL East Division playoff series on Friday.

Alex Phillips, slated to start Game 1 on Friday, pitched the first inning of Tuesday’s contest and retired all three batters he faced before a parade of relievers took the mound for the Sox.

“It was especially frustrating given how well we pitched,” Knaggs said. “The offense just didn’t help out.”

“It’s uncharacteristic of us to not score guys when we get them to third,” said Wenatchee outfielder Payden Cawley Lamb, who went 3-for-4 and got left on third three times.

Wenatchee scored its lone run in the first inning on an RBI single by Pat Valaika that drove home Cawley Lamb, but Brock Gates’ groundout with runners on second and third prevented the Sox from getting more.

Notes: Wenatchee third baseman Adam Nelubowich started on Tuesday after leaving Monday night’s game due to nausea sustained after a batting practice collision. He went 2-for-5...The WCL West Division race will go down to the final day of the regular season. The Cowlitz Black Bears beat division champ Corvallis 7-3 in 10 innings Tuesday, leaving them a half-game behind second-place Bend. If Cowlitz beats the Knights today, the Bears and Elks will tie for second place, giving Cowlitz the playoff berth via tiebreaker. It’s a tough deal for Bend, which finished its regular season on Sunday.

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8/27/2011

Sweets Playoff Bound Despite 8-2 Loss

August 9, 2011 - West Coast League (WCL) Walla Walla Sweets Walla Walla-- The Walla Walla Sweets needed one win or one Bellingham Bells loss to clinch their first postseason berth in playoff history. A six-run seventh from the Wenatchee Applesox erased any thought of a victory but the Kelowna Falcons rallied to win 4-3 over the Bells in ten innings and send the Sweets to the playoffs.

For a while it looked like the Sweets would need no other help than their own. They staked starter Jacob Overbay to a 2-0 lead after three and played stellar defense behind him but the wheels began to fall off in the sixth. Payden Cawley-Lamb singled with one out, Connor George doubled and Ryan Barnes singled to make it 2-1 Sweets. With runners on the corners, Pat Valaika hit a ground ball to short that looked like two but the return throw to first was high and allowed the tying run to score.

Wenatchee starter Phillip Ferragamo finished off his resurgent outing with a 1-2-3 sixth and the Applesox put the game away in the seventh. In all, they scored six runs and sent 11 batters to the plate. Eric Filia-Snyder started the inning with a single and Aaron DeGuire walked to end Overbay's night. Andrew Daniel followed with a sac but that was mishandled for an error and Breland Almadova walked to make it 3-2. Reliever Cory Mack got the first out on a nice play from Denver Chavez at second; he fielded and threw home to force out the runner. A wild pitch, though, with George batting would result in two runs and Barnes, Valaika and Filia-Snyder capped the scoring with run-scoring singles.

The Sweets built their lead around team baseball in the second and third innings. Zach Wentz started the second with a single and moved to third as Chance Kopacz's fly to right field fell in just fair for a double. Elliot Stewart completed the team inning with a sac fly to right field to make it 1-0. In the third the Sweets scored their second run thanks to Ferragamo's wildness. Alex Stanford led off the inning with a single, his 64th hit of the summer and advanced to second as the ball was misplayed in the outfield. Ferragamo then hit Chavez and Andrew Mendenhall back-to-back to load the bases with no outs. Wentz scored Stanford with a sac fly but Ferragamo got a fly out and ground out to end the inning.

Making his second start against Wenatchee this summer, Overbay worked out of trouble in the first and pitched well for the Sweets. He allowed consecutive bunt singles to start the game but picked up Cawley-Lamb at first, got a pop out and then struck out Valaika looking to strand two men on base. He let his middle infield do the rest. He induced a 4-6-3 double play to end the second, a 6-4-3 to end the third and another 4-6-3 to end the fourth. His best inning of the night came in the fifth as he struck out two and had his only 1-2-3 inning of the night.

Ferragamo settled to throw six innings and allow two runs on just four hits to pick up his fourth win. Cawley-Lamb had three of Wenatchee's 13 hits and now has 17 against the Sweets this summer. Three other collected two hits and Barnes drove in two. Stanford's 64th hit tied him with Drew Heid for the most in a single season in West Coast Leage history. Heid, a Touchet native, had 64 hits while for playing for the Bend Elks in 2008.

The Sweets playoff opponent will be the Applesox and the three-game East Division Championship round begins on Friday at Borleske Stadium with a 7:05 p.m. first pitch. Games two and three (if neccessary) will be in Wenatchee on Saturday and Sunday.

Walla Walla and Wenatchee will finish their regular-season series tomorrow and Wednesday. Tuesday's first pitch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. and it is the final kids day of the summer.

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Watson Whirls Sweets past Black Bears, 5-1

August 7, 2011 - West Coast League (WCL) Walla Walla Sweets Longview-- Staked to a 5-0 lead after four innings, Brett Watson did the rest, throwing a complete game to lead the Walla Walla Sweets to a 5-1 victory over the Cowlitz Black Bears on Saturday at Story Field.

Walla Walla got Watson two quick runs in the first and the left-hander made them stand up. He walked the leadoff batter but after a fielder's choice, picked off the runner at first before getting a ground out to end the inning. Watson went on to face the minimum over the first four innings thanks to a gorgeous 6-3 double play turn by Alex Stanford in the second and back-to-back 1-2-3 innings in the third and fourth. He hit his only rough water in the fifth as Billy Flamion's two-out double to right-center scored the Black Bears first run but by that point it was already 5-0 Sweets. He finished the inning with a strikeout and allowed just three hits the rest of the way to pick up his third win.

After a night in which they collected just three hits, all from the same player, and were shutout, the Sweets brought a much different mentality to the plate against Cowlitz starter Kevin Bosson. Struggling to hit with two outs for much of the season, Walla Walla did all their damage with two-men down tonight. In the first with the bases clear and two outs, Andrew Mendenhall's ground ball to third was bobbled for an error, Zach Wentz walked and Austin Heaps lined a run-scoring single into right field to give the Sweets the lead. Two pitches later, Wentz crossed home as Bosson's breaking ball scooted to the backstop.

Bosson settled after that, allowing just a single hit over the next two innings and had two outs in the fourth thanks to a double play turn by his middle infield. That's when things unraveled. Brenton Allen drew a four-pitch walk, Scott Gottschling picked up an infield single and Stanford made it 3-0 with a single into left field. A walk to Denver Chavez loaded the bases and Mendenhall, down 0-2 in the count, ripped a two-run double down the left field line to make it 5-0.

Those five would be enough for the Sweets. Kody Watts came on in the fifth and proceded to pitch five scoreless innings in his first appearance of the summer for Cowlitz. He did not allow a hit and struck out three. His performance allowed the Black Bears to rally in the ninth off of Watson. After two quick outs, Greg Velazquez picked up his third hit with an infield single and Mike Bush walked to put two on for Kevin Schwartz. Trying to load the bases, Schwartz laid down a bunt but Watson was quick off the mound and his bullet to first was just in time to nab Schwartz and end the game.

The final play off the mound was just one of several beautiful plays that Watson made on the night. He jumped to snag a comebacker from Spencer O'Neil in the fourth, he collected a Velazquez hot smash in the seventh and fielded Kirk Cunningham's chopper flawlessly in the eighth. Watson now sports a 1.62 ERA, fourth-best in the West Coast League. Mendenhall was the only Sweet to have multiple hits and Stanford's single gave him 60 hits on the summer. His .337 batting average is four points below Breland Almadova's league-leading .341. Velazquez had three of Cowlitz's five hits.

Walla Walla's victory was their third over Cowlitz this summer and it is the third time they have won the middle game of the three-game series. It also pushed them three games ahead of Bellingham, an 8-3 loser to Wenatchee, in the East Division standings. The magic number is now two and the Sweets can clinch their first playoff spot in team history with a win and a Bellingham loss on Sunday.

Game three of the series is scheduled for a 5:05 p.m. start and Kyle Anderson will get the ball for the Sweets. After the game the Sweets will return home to finish their regular season with a three-game series against the Wenatchee Applesox at Borleske Stadium starting on Monday.

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8/26/2011

Eye On The Bay: Cultural Sweets – 8/8/11

Cultural Sweets

The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the best places in the nation to experience cuisines from around the world thanks to the region’s large multicultural population.?? Neighborhood bakeries, snack carts, ice cream shops and more serve a wide range of authentic satisfying sweets and treats.? Eye on the Bay Hosts Liam Mayclem and Thuy Vu sampled delicious delicacies from around the globe first heading behind the scenes to a Chinese fortune cookie factory, a Japanese shop for some mochi, a Russian bakery for Vatrushka and then wrapped up their culinary adventure making Norwegian cookies.

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RUSSIAN DESSERTS

Russian Family Restaurant and Bakery
719 Camino Plaza
San Bruno CA 94066
Phone: (650) 588-2950
www.russianfamily.net

Want to experience the taste of Russia? Tatiana and Vladimir the chef/ owners of “The Russian Family Restaurant and Bakery” will tantalize your taste buds with dishes like Syriniki, and Chakhokhbily Chicken. And sweets like Pirozhki Pies, Napoleon and Vatruska. Everything made from starch in their San Bruno kitchen

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CHINESE DESSERTS

Eastern Bakery
720 Grant Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94108
415 433-7973
415-392-4497
E-mail: cs@easternbakery.com

Eastern Bakery is the quintessential local spot well known for it’s one of a kind moon pies – not to mention its delicious Coffee Crunch cake. ?The pork buns are incredible.

Golden Gate BakeryGolden Gate Bakery
1029 Grant Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94133-5004
(415) 781-2627

This Chinatown bakery is a San Francisco favorite – it sets the benchmark for mouth watering egg tarts.? The coconut buns are a wonderful sweet treat. You just can’t eat one.

Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory
56 Ross Alley
San Francisco, CA 94108-1204
(415) 781-3956

Hidden down Ross alley, visitors will discover the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie factory. Walk through the door and take a deep breath of the sweet aroma of fresh fortune cookies being made by hand. There are plenty of shapes sizes and flavors including chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.

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JAPANESE DESSERTS

Minamoto Kitchoan
648 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94104-5001
(415) 989-1645
www.kitchoan.com

Minamoto Kitchoan is a beautifully decorated Japanese confectionery store. From vanilla creme cookies to gelatin cherries, there are plenty of yummy desserts to eat.? This is one stop you can’t miss.

Benkyodo Co.
1747 Buchanan Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
www.benkyodocompany.com

Benkyoto is a family run business that offers a wide variety of Japanese snacks, candies, and treats. Their selection of world class mochi guarantees guests an authentic taste of Japanese treats.

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GREEK DESSERTS

Kokkari
200 Jackson Street
San Francisco, CA
415-981-0983
www.kokkari.com

The Baklava is a staple, but the new comers on the scene are the pistachio flavor from the Kadaifi and the Galaktoboureko’s creamy custard filling.? Of course Kokkari’s traditional Greek Coffee is a must, however be warned, it’s extra strong!

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Nordic House
2709 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94702
(510) 705-1932
www.nordichouse.com


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8/25/2011

Bears' backs nearing the wall after loss to Sweets

Going 1 for 3 at the plate is pretty good in baseball. But the Cowlitz Black Bears will have to do better than that in the win column if they want to make the playoffs for the first time in club history.

The Bears dropped a deflating 5-4, 10-inning loss to the Walla Walla Sweets on Sunday at David Story Field, losing two of three to the Sweets and putting their playoff-hopeful backs squarely against the wall.

Cowlitz now must take two of three games from West Division champion Corvallis to finish second and make the playoffs. The Bears (27-24) visit the Knights (35-16) on Monday and Tuesday, then host the Knights in their regular season finale Wednesday. Cowlitz is 1-2 against Corvallis this season.

Cowlitz's competition for the final divisional playoff spot, the Bend Elks, fell 5-4 to Klamath Falls to close their regular season Sunday. Had the Elks won, the Bears would have needed to sweep the Knights to make the playoffs.

Taking a series from Corvallis will be difficult, but Cowlitz coach Bryson LeBlanc hasn't thrown in the towel yet.

"It's doable," LeBlanc said. "With these guys and these athletes and their attitude and their resilience, I wouldn't put it past us. Did we make it hard on ourselves? Yeah. But I wouldn't put it past us."

LeBlanc will throw ace Jeff Gold against Corvallis tonight, following up with Lower Columbia College product Stuart Fewel on Tuesday. The two pitchers have combined to toss three complete games?— two by Gold, one by Fewel?— in their last three starts.

LeBlanc has not picked a starter for Wednesday's finale.

It's basically playoff baseball from here on out, just as it was this weekend between two teams vying for a postseason berth. By taking two of three from the Bears, the similarly two-year-old Sweets (24-27) need just one win to clinch their first playoff trip as well.

"It was pretty awesome," LeBlanc said of the ballpark atmosphere Sunday. "I thought the fans were great tonight. It was a great turnout. I thought the fans were really into it, I thought our boys were really into it. That was a really good baseball game, a baseball game that I thought we had control over."

Cowlitz led 4-3 entering the ninth and was just one out away from victory when reliever Andy Lines gave up the tying run on a single to center field.

Richi Sandoval relieved Lines and escaped the inning with a flyout. But in the 10th, Sweets shortstop Alex Stanford crushed a solo home run to right?— the third Walla Walla homer of the game?— to give the Sweets a 5-4 lead.

Meanwhile, Cowlitz batters went 0 for 8 in their final eight at-bats.

"They just came up with that big swing when they needed it, the big hit," said Bears starting pitcher Ian Ekery.

"Stanford, he's a heck of a hitter," he added. "I struggled with him the whole night, and we struggled with him the whole series. He just came up with that hit when they needed it."

Stanford was 7 for 13 in the series.

The Bears managed 13 hits on Sunday, but it didn't translate to runs. LeBlanc felt that Cowlitz left two runs on the bases when Kirk Cunningham got picked off leaning too far off second base in the second inning, and left one or two more runs off the board in the fifth when Kevin Schwartz grounded into an inning-ending double play with the bases loaded.

"We could just never get the one to break it open," LeBlanc said. "If we get the one to break it open, then who knows."

And who knows whether the Bears will be able to right the ship in time to take a series from the best team in their division, with two of three games on the road.

"Corvallis is a great team," Ekery said. "Obviously they're first. I feel that we have just as much ability to beat them. With the playoff race being what it is, that might light the fire under our butts a little bit."


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8/24/2011

Beneo gets approval for oligofructose in India

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The Beneo-Institute (Gmbh) has said that its prebiotic fibre, oligofructose, has been approved for use for more products in India, having previously approved for use in bakery items.


Inulin and oligofructose have prebiotic activity


According to a press release issued by the Germany-based organization, the Indian Ministry of Health has approved oligofructose for use in sweets, dairy products, frozen dessert, ice cream, cereals, chocolates and meat applications.


The organization revealed that oligofructose has also been approved for use in the popular ‘Traditional Indian Sweets’ category, which includes sweets such as Halwa, Mysore Pak and Boondi Ladoo.


As a result of this approval and subsequent use, food manufacturers will be able to reach a wider cross-section of consumers with the fibre-type and prebiotic benefits of oligofructose, the organization said.


Derived from chicory root, oligofructose is a soluble prebiotic dietary fibre; at levels of five grams each day, it is claimed to stimulate and increase the bifidobacteria (prebiotic effect).


Due to its moderately sweet taste, oligofructose is said to be able to partly replace sugar in some products, the organization said, adding that in combination with high intensity sweeteners it provides balanced sweetness.


“Since India is one of the growing economies it was on our agenda to achieve ingredient approval so that the Indian consumer can benefit from this prebiotic dietary fibre that supports a healthy lifestyle,” said Claudia Meissner, corporate communications manager for Beneo.


On the question of what the approval means for Beneo's business performance, Meissner said that it was a bit early to forecast on performance but the organization is looking forward to develop business in this region of the world.


According to Mintel Global New Products Database 2011, product launches with added-fibre claims have been growing for one and a half years by 439 per cent worldwide. While in the first half of 2010 357 high-in-fibre products were launched, the market has seen 1,932 launches in the same category in 2011.


A recent report from the Indian Council of Medical Research also said that fibre-enriched food will steadily gain importance in India as “Western-style” diets – typically processed or refined and low in fibre – influence food in urban India.

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Candy show gets incentives to move dates

 Patty Ushman (left) and Jill Schroeder of Pease's Candy in Springfield at the National Confectioners Association Sweets and Snacks Expo at McCormick Place, May 24, 2011. (Heather Charles/Chicago Tribune)

The National Confectioners Association has agreed to move its Sweets & Snack Expo to earlier dates next May at McCormick Place to avoid overlap with the NATO and G8 summits coming to town.

The candy show is the second show to rearrange its timing. The National Restaurant Association agreed to move its dates after negotiating a one-time financial package worth about $2 million, including some noncash items, such as marketing assistance.

The Sweets & Snacks Expo declined to disclose whether its new agreement included financial assistance, but a spokeswoman said convention officials recognized the show might lose some exhibitors because of the change in dates, from May 22-24 to May 8-10.

The association considered moving its 2012 show to another city, possibly Las Vegas or Orlando, Fla., after its members grew concerned that security surrounding the global summits could cause logistical problems for candy show attendees.


A source close to the deal said the city's convention bureau offered incentives worth about $500,000 to keep the show here.


Chicago Convention & Tourism Bureau officials declined to disclose any details of the agreement, but a spokeswoman characterized it as a "modest investment to protect a dedicated and loyal customer."


The move was aimed at ensuring "the best experience for exhibitors and attendees — smooth transportation throughout downtown, (and) access to their favorite restaurants and venues," bureau spokeswoman Meghan Risch said in a statement.


As it has before, the candy show will overlap one day with the restaurant show, which will run May 5-8. The restaurant show draws about 60,000 attendees; the candy show brings about 14,000.


"Chicago has welcomed our annual Expo since its inception 15 years ago, so it is no surprise that city officials, along with leadership at McCormick Place, have gone above and beyond, and together we decided on a mutually acceptable alternative," association President Larry Graham said in a statement.


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8/23/2011

Total loss

WALLA WALLA — The Wenatchee AppleSox controlled Friday night’s opening game of the West Coast League East Division Series for six pitches.

Leadoff man Payden Cawley Lamb tripled on the fifth pitch he saw from Walla Walla Sweets’ starter Ryan Richardson in the top of the first inning, and new No. 2 hitter Ryan Barnes drove him in with a double to left-center on the first pitch of his at-bat.

The rest of the game belonged to Walla Walla, as the Sox were beaten in every aspect in a crushing 9-4 Game 1 loss, forcing Wenatchee into a win-or-go home situation Saturday night in its home yard.

“I said before the game that if we played the game well we’d have a good chance to win,” Wenatchee manager Ed Knaggs told KPQ-AM after the game. “We didn’t play well and they kicked our butts. We have a lot of work to do, and we have to go out and play well for one game.”

After the loss, a game that saw the AppleSox make five errors, Knaggs named Owen Jones as Wenatchee’s starter for Saturday night’s must-win Game 2.

Jones was installed as the team’s closer a week ago to shore up a scuffling bullpen, but Knaggs is now forced to use his best pitcher to extend the season to Sunday and help the Sox avoid missing the WCL Championship Series for the second time in the league’s seven-year existence.

“We couldn’t have our best guy not pitch in the series,” Knaggs said.

The AppleSox’ hoped that Phillips, who momentarily reversed the team’s late regular-season slide with a dominating start against Kelowna on Aug. 4, but left-hander just wasn’t himself on Friday.

“For whatever reason, he wasn’t real sharp,” Knaggs said of Phillips, who allowed five runs (two earned) in four innings.

“He didn’t locate his fastball very well and his changeup was up and over the plate.”

Initially, Phillips was hardly to blame for the four-run third inning that sent the game spinning out of Wenatchee’s control.

Walla Walla led off the frame with three softly hit singles, and loaded the bases on a questionable call.

Denver Chavez laid a bunt down the first base line that the umpire claimed was touched by Wenatchee first baseman Brock Gates in fair territory.

Knaggs argued that Gates didn’t touch the ball, which rolled foul.

“Obviously, that wasn’t a nine-run call, but it was a bad call,” Knaggs said.

After Andrew Mendenhall singled to drive in Walla Walla’s first run, the Sox traded another run for a double play.

With two outs, Walla Walla’s Elliot Stewart that the normally sure-handed Pat Valaika simply booted, and instead of the inning being over, a third run scored.

The Sweets would score once more off Phillips before he could finally escape, but the Sox were a different team after that inning.

“Give credit to them,” Knaggs said of Walla Walla. “They did a good job and got some big hits after that bad stuff happened.

The Sweets tacked on another run in the fourth, and took a 4-1 advantage while starter Ryan Richardson got into a groove.

Richardson, who went 7 2/3 innings and allowed just one hit for a six-inning stretch.

The Sweets blew the game open with three more runs in the sixth, again capitalizing on a defensive meltdown by Wenatchee.

Walla Walla got two singles to begin the rally, and scored a run when Wenatchee reliever Aaron Brooks was slow off the mound covering Scott Gottschling’s bunt, throwing the ball into center field.

The wheels officially fell off on Kalani Brackenridge’s single into center field, which the Sox misplayed into a two-run hit.

“Errors are a part of the game and they happen, but we have to shore that up and be better tomorrow,” said Sox right fielder Ryan Barnes, who hit in the No. 2 spot in the batting order for the first time this summer after Breland Almadova’s early departure.

Wenatchee finally got back on the scoreboard with three runs off Richardson in the top of the eighth, but the comeback window had long been long shut.

“It’s a tough atmosphere to play in, and I’m looking forward to going back home to our place,” Knaggs said. “Hopefully coming home and having Owen Jones on the mound is a good combination toward forcing a deciding Game 3.”

If it’s not, the record-breaking season turned in by this AppleSox club will come to an abrupt conclusion.

Note: The Bend Elks defeated the Corvallis Knights 3-1 in Game 1 of the WCL West Division Series, making the league’s respective division winners each face elimination Saturday.

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8/22/2011

Bread & Butter: A happy birthday party complete with sweets

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Stop by 310 Bon Air Center — or any SusieCakes bakery — between noon and 3 p.m. Aug. 13. for DJs spinning classic beach tunes; kid-friendly activities such as temporary tattoos, balloon art, a coloring contest, games and prizes; and complimentary sweet treats for all. If you're one of the first 50 customers, you'll get a free box of six mini red velvet cupcakes with purchase.

Can't make the party? Submit your favorite five-ingredient dessert recipe on the SusieCakes Facebook Page (www.facebook.com/SusieCakesBakery?ref=search) by Aug. 31 and your recipe may be featured at a select SusieCakes during September. And the frosting is that 5 percent of all proceeds will also go to a local charity.

Call SusieCakes at 461-2253 or go to www.susiecakesbakery.com.

Baker's secrets

Chad Robertson, co-owner of Tartine Bakery and author of "Tartine Bread," will be chatting about all things delicious with David Muller of Outerlands Restaurant in San Francisco from 10 a.m. Aug. 13 in West Marin.

Robertson will talk about his start at what is now Brickmaiden Bakery in Point Reyes and will demonstrate bread making at the free event, part of Marin Organic and Point Reyes Books' "Food for Thought Author Series."

This event is at Toby's Feed Barn at 11250 California Route 1 in Point Reyes

Station. For more information, go to www.marinorganic.org.

Marin takes the Cakebread

Napa's Cakebread Cellars will be celebrating its 25th anniversary with panache, so of course Marin locals will be part of the Aug. 19 event.

Hog Island owner John Finger, Peggy Smith from Cowgirl Creamery and Lynne Giacomini from Point Reyes Original Blue are among the chefs and purveyors offering tasting and seminars at 4:30 p.m. and at 6:30 p.m. Each event is $25. A grand chef's tasting is from 5 to 7 p.m. and costs $75.

Cakebread Cellars is at 8300 St. Helena Highway in Rutherford. For more information call 800-588-0298 or go to www.cakebread.com.

Putting on the Ritz

San Anselmo's Ron Siegel, who has been in charge of the Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco since since July 2004, is planning big changes for the venerable establishment.

After two decades as a fine dining restaurant, it will close and reopen as a "more approachable, contemporary and less formal" dining room with a simpler menu to fit the new look.

In addition, it will feature a bar and lounge area in the dining highlighting handcrafted cocktails and small plates.

The redesign won't start until after Sept. 15 — plans are to reopen by the end of the year — so there's still time to catch Siegel's salt and pepper tasting menu, available until Sept. 15.

The Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton is at 600 Stockton St.; call 773-6198.

Rose and pate

The Left Bank Brasserie is planning a special event — a rose and pate pairing — from Aug. 15 to 21.

Enjoy an $11 flight of three roses (2-ounce pours); a pate portion will be $8.50, $2.50 for additional slices. Or choose a pairing of the rose flight and one pate for $18 or a full pate selection for $25. Pates and specialty sausages include Pate De Campagne, a rustic country pate, and Saucisson Aux Pistaches, smoked garlic sausage with pistachio.

Left Bank Brasserie is at 507 Magnolia Ave. in Larkspur. Call 927-3331 or go to www.leftbank.com.

Toasting success

Raise a glass to toast Novato's Michael Mina, whose wine team grabbed quite a few 2011 Wine Spectators Awards. Most notable is the highest award, the "Grand Award," given to RN74 in San Francisco; only 74 restaurants in the world received this designation for 2011.

The members of Mina's group also scored an award of excellence and 15 best of award of excellence.

RN74 is at 301 Mission St. in San Francisco. ?Call 543-7474 or go to www.michaelmina.net.

Warm and melty

Just want some good ol' comfort food? Stop by Brick & Bottle for Grilled Cheese Wednesdays.

Each week a grilled cheese sandwich with a different type of cheese will be offered with a cup of soup and either salad or French fries for $15. Aug. 10 features burrata and Aug. 20 features Sonoma white cheddar.

Brick & Bottle is at 55 Tamal Vista Blvd. in Corte Madera. Call 924-3366 or go to www.brickandbottle.com.

Anna Haight is a longtime Marin resident and an even longer foodie who blogs at Anna's Cool Finds, www.annascoolfinds.com. Her bread & butter column appears Wednesdays. Have news about chefs, restaurants and other foodie goodies? Contact her at annahaight@gmail.com or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/annahaight.


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Sweets, and a journey back to childhood

 

One of the defining memories of my childhood was falling through the ceiling of my parents' house. We had friends visiting Timaru from Dunedin, I was maybe about 8 years old, and had been OD'ing on the CS Lewis Narnia books, and was reasonably convinced that a clamber around the attic of our old house would locate the passageway to a parallel universe.


Of course, my partly formed 8-year-old brain had not fully thought this one through, or I would have, at the very least, considered walking on the beams. So, when my chubby legs started marching my chubby body along the ceiling panels, something kinda had to give.


And give it did. Oh, my word did it give. However-many years of plaster, dust and pink batts came clattering down, all over the rooms below. Chaos and carnage. I remember hanging on to a beam and shrieking for help, while my parents rushed, panicked, to see what the ruckus was about. And then almost collapsed in hysterical laughter.?


I have no recollection of the repairs. What I do remember is that we were eating humbugs at the time...


 


When I was a boy (all those many, many years ago), one of the greatest treats and a source of unbridled gastronomic pleasure was getting a bag of sweets from the corner dairy.


Back in those days, 50 cents bought you a mixed bag of lollies the size of your head (especially if you knew a girl who worked in her parents' dairy). Sometimes you would open the white paper bags and sneak a peek (to try to avoid too many orange or green jet planes), but mostly it was luck of the draw. The favourites were always chewy, wrapped Milk Shakes, milk bottles, perhaps a brittle, thinly choc-coated toffee milk bar, jet planes of the red or purple persuasion, Jersey caramels, soft jubes, and the glorious, iconic pineapple lump. There for bulk were Eskimos (big, but bland, and possessing a curiously chalky texture), some pretty ropey marshmallows, and liquorice allsorts, which always seemed a bit grown up and dull.


Some sweets were clearly for kids, while others were obviously more adult in their appeal - boiled sweets, for example, which I regarded as tantamount to some form of cruel and unusual punishment as a child, and about which I am ambivalent now. Barley sugars always reminded of the dreaded 40-hour famine (which I did once, without any real enthusiasm or awareness of what it was actually about) - sweaty sleeping bags and farting schoolkids.


I have recently been reading Toast, the memoir of English food writer and cook Nigel Slater, in which he describes all manner of delicious English sweets such as pear drops, sherbet fountains, rhubarb and custard drops, and Blackpool rock, and the way they can still transport you back to simpler times. Taste (along with smell) is one of the most evocative senses, and certainly sweets seem to have an almost portal-like quality in recalling childhood memories. And I have found that visiting the UK Goodies shop in Petone (where I happen to live, purely by coincidence), I am able to revisit childhood memories that actually belong not to me, but to Nigel Slater...


A special honorary mention, also, to the pick'n'mix at?The?Dutch Shop?in Jackson Street, Petone, which specialises in the peculiar salty, chewy candies beloved of that nationality, but also has amazing wine gums and caramels.


These days, you can buy "fancy" sweets, even sweets that contain no artificial colourings, such as those made by the Natural Confectionery Company.?There is the delectable soft liquorice made by RJ's, the traditional black and also now in red raspberry. With chocolate, white or brown, inside or out - yikes. And then there are all those classic chocolate goodies from Whittakers?(although chocolate is really another topic altogether...)


What actually reminded me of this was the Aspee Fruit Supply, on Wellington's Cuba Street, which now has a pretty amazing selection of pick'n'mix sweets - all the old faves, along with new selections such as peach-, feijoa- (which taste faintly like a rugby changing room smells) and grape-flavoured gumdrops. Just occasionally (not too often!) I like to stop in and make up my own "50c mixture" - even if nowadays it is likely to cost more like four or five dollars.


And still, to this day, I pretty well spurn aniseed, smokers, anything musk flavoured, anything cherry, orange or lime flavoured, and, obviously, humbugs - the taste of falling through your parents' ceiling.


But everybody has their favourites. What were your favourite sweets as a child, and what memories do they evoke? And what are your favourites now - do you still eat sweets now and again? Or have you outgrown, or just stopped eating them?


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8/21/2011

Black Bears Lose to Sweets

August 7, 2011 - West Coast League (WCL) Cowlitz Black Bears Longview-Kelso: August 6, 2011: *Kevin Bosson (Cal Poly) received Co-West Coast League Player of the Week honors after his complete game shutout of the Bellingham Bells. Eight days later, that form disappeared as the Walla Walla Sweets scored two unearned runs in the first inning. Bosson struggled after a throw down to first base hit him on the back, and lasted through the 4th.

Kody Watts (University of Portland) came on in relief and pitched five scoreless innings. The righty struck out three and walked three in a hitless performance. His efforts allowed the Black Bears to have a chance at a comeback, and things looked promising in the 5th as an RBI double by Billy Flamion (Central Catholic HS) scored Kevin Schwartz (Pacific University) to break up the shutout. However, the Black Bears would manage three hits the rest of the way to keep their magic number to clinch the playoffs at 3.

Tomorrow is the last game of nine between the Black Bears and Sweets this summer. Come out to Story Field for Elder Options Senior Sunday. Seniors will receive a $2 discount on tickets, and members of the Cold Stone Creamery Kids Club get in for free. All kids can run the bases after the game.

2011 Cowlitz Black Bears Ticket Packages are available by calling (360) 703-3195 or please visit us on-line at www.cowlitzblackbears.com

The Black Bears are members of the West Coast League, a nine-team, professional style wood-bat summer college league. The WCL features pro prospects from major conferences across the country. More than 120 WCL alums played affiliated professional baseball last season, and 14 ex-WCL stars played in the Major Leagues. For more information on the league, visit www.westcoastleague.com.

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8/20/2011

Astros Sweets

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Sweets, gumbo, truffles - and eat your veggies

var archivedState=0; Pressing sorghum with a horse-powered mill at the Music & Molasses Arts & Crafts Festival. (Tennessee Agricutlural Museum)

Music & Molasses Arts & Crafts Festival: The Tennessee Agricultural Museum is full of artifacts from pioneer days, but this annual country festival brings that time to life. The two stages of bluegrass music are almost de rigeur, but the truly old-timey attraction is molasses-making - from squeezing sorghum with a horse-powered mill to cooking down the juice. Storytellers and country cloggers entertain, there are free buggy rides, and traditional crafts and homemade cakes and pies are for sale. Ellington Agricultural Center, 440 Hogan Road, $5. 615-837-5197, tnagmuseum.org


Exmoor Food Festival: Exmoor National Park (possibly the best-kept secret in England’s West Country) goes gastronomic for a 10-day festival that includes food fairs, farmers’ markets, classes in foraging, cheese tastings, cooking classes, farm visits, and lots and lots of teas, complete with scones and clotted cream. Several food-themed country hikes will be offered in conjunction with the North Devon & Exmoor Walking Festival (Sept. 30-Oct. 3). Lodging choices include an 18th-century farmhouse bed-and-breakfast in the middle of the park that offers luxury overnights with meals made from the produce of its organic farm. Walks $18-$28, classes $16-$41, meals $10-$65. 011-44-1984-633-782, www.exmoorfoodfestival.co.uk


12th Annual World Veg Festival Weekend: One phrase you probably won’t hear this weekend is “would you like fries with that?’’ Sponsored by the San Francisco Vegetarian Society, the World Veg Festival spotlights vegan cuisine with product samples, cooking demos, food to taste and buy, speakers on both the ethical and practical aspects of a vegan lifestyle, and even a vegan fashion show. Continuing a popular tradition at the festival, there will also be vegan speed dating. A cooked or raw dinner is available on Saturday night. San Francisco County Fair Building, 1199 9th Ave. at Lincoln Way. $8; children, students, seniors free; dinner $25. 415-273-5481, www.sfvs.org/wvd


World Championship Gumbo Cook Off: Hank Williams had it right: jambalaya and a crawfish pie, and all of it topped by a file gumbo. The live music starts bubbling on Friday night here in the gastronomic capital of bayou country. Mind you, the 50 booths cooking on Saturday make everything except gumbo, including fried fish, corn and crab bisque, and jambalaya. On Sunday, about 90 teams compete for the professional and amateur gumbo titles. Samples are available for purchase both days. Basically it’s one big fais-do-do with world-class food. Bouligny Plaza, 100 West Main St. Admission free, food $20 for sheet of 20 tickets. 337-364-1836, worldchampionshipgumbocookoff.blogspot.com


OCT. 30-NOV 1, NOV. 5-6, 12-13


National White Truffle Fair: This tiny village in the Marche region is known as the capital of truffle cultivation in Italy. But the prized white truffle only grows wild and is available for just a short period. As a result, tens of thousands of tourists and truffle buyers descend on Acqualagna for this largest marketplace of white truffles anywhere in the world. More than 100 exhibitors have stands. Prices for fresh truffles are high, but vendors also offer a variety of products that make that haunting flavor go further - from truffle oil to truffle-scented rice to truffled instant mashed potatoes. The local cheeses and sausages aren’t bad either. Piazza Mattei, admission free. 011-39-0721-796-741, http://www.comune.acqualagna.ps.it/


PATRICIA HARRIS AND DAVID LYON


Events are sometimes canceled, rescheduled, or sold out; check online. Patricia Harris and David Lyon can be reached at harris.lyon@verizon.net. Read their food and travel blog at http://www.hungrytravelers.com/.

c Copyright 2011 Globe Newspaper Company.

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