1. By DAVID BORGES
Journal Register News Service
BOSTON — It started innocent-
ly enough, with a Manny Ramirez
moon-shot home run over the
Monster Seats. And if a Manny’s
long shot isn’t exactly a news
flash, it was just his second of the
season.
Then came a J.D. Drew blast
over the Boston bullpen. Not the
end of the world, if you’re a
Yankees fan.
Three pitches later, however,
Mike Lowell lofted a homer over
everything, and things got inter-
esting. And when Jason Varitek
cracked a homer of his own two
pitches after that — well, things
got downright historic.
Four straight Red Sox home
runs on 10 Chase Wright pitches
in the third inning Sunday night
matched a major-league record
accomplished just four other times
in baseball history. All four were
solo shots, however, and though
they gave the Red Sox a brief lead,
they still had to come from behind
to eventually secure a 7-6 victory,
thanks to a so-so effort by Daisuke
Matsuzaka.
In fact, the game wasn’t decid-
ed until Jonathan Papelbon got
red-hot Alex Rodriguez on a weak
fielder’s choice grounder for the
game’s final out in the ninth. It’s
AP
Boston Red Sox’s Mike Lowell, left, congratulates teammate J.D. Drew after Drew’s solo shot off New York Yankees pitcher Chase Wright in the third inning
of their baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston on Sunday in Boston. Manny Ramirez, Drew, Lowell and Jason Varitek hit consecutive home runs.
AP
Penn State linebacker Tim Shaw works out at the college’s training facility
in State College, Pa., on Thursday.
By PETER WALLACE
Register Citizen Staff
Twelve people have been
selected for induction into
the 2007 class of the
Torrington High School
Athletic Hall of Fame.
Patrick Finn, Bruce
Kasenetz, Janis LaPorta,
Andrew Marchand, Michael
McKenna, Tammy Ostrosky,
John Palladino, Joe Perusse,
Biff Pond, Diane Shugrue,
Luis Thuillard, and Charles
Vierps will be feted at the
Cornucopia Banquet Hall on
April 29. Reservations can
be made through the high
school main office or by
calling committee Chairman
Pat Fairchild.
Here’s a preview (in
alphabetical order by last
name):
PATRICK FINN: Pat Finn
(Class of ‘81) was a football
lineman, swimmer and
scholar. He was named to
the Naugatuck Valley
League’s All-Defensive team
as a junior and a Hall of
Fame Scholar-Athlete by the
National Football
Association as a senior. He
went on to earn All-New
England honors as a three-
year starter at Trinity
College in Hartford. The
Bantams named him defen-
sive MVP as a senior.
BRUCE KASENETZ:
Kasenetz, head coach of the
Torrington football team
from 1981-1987, led the
Raiders to the CIAC Class M
championship game in 1983
and to the NVL champi-
onship in 1987. In the
process, he was named
Connecticut Coach of the
Year, beat perennial power
Ansonia three times, and
traditional rivals Naugatuck
and Watertown four times
apiece.
JANIS LAPORTA:
LaPorta was a High School
All-American swimmer in
1976, before Torrington had
a girls swimming team.
Swimming for the boys
team, her 1:08.59 in the 100-
yard breaststroke ranked
LaPorta 11th in the country
in that event in 1976. She
was in the NVL’s top 10 in
two events in all three of
her varsity years, and was
the first Torrington female
swimmer to go on to college
competition (Manhattanville
College in Purchase, N.Y.).
ANDREW MARCHAND:
Another champion swim-
mer, Marchand reigned as
All-NVL for all four of his
high school years (Class of
’95), the last three as All-
State, last two as All-
American Honorable
Mention. As a two-year
State Open champion, he set
a number of school records,
several of which still stand.
He also went on to swim at
the collegiate level, achiev-
ing all-conference honors
for three years at St.
Bonaventure University in
New York.
MICHAEL MCKENNA:
McKenna qualifies for the
Hall as a player, coach and
trainer. An All-NVL football
player (Class of ‘73),
McKenna holds the record
for longest field goal. As a
trainer, he developed
Torrington’s Student
Trainer Program. He
coached baseball at
Torrington and football at
The Forman School in
Litchfield.
TAMMY OSTROSKY:
Ostrosky (Class of ‘84)
played four varsity sports,
the second female Red
Raider to do so. From star-
ring high school roles in
cross country, soccer, soft-
ball and basketball,
Ostrosky was awarded a
basketball scholarship by
Mitchell College in New
London. Torrington won an
NVL softball championship
with Ostrosky playing first
base.
JOHN PALLADINO:
Palladino attended
Torrington High School in
the early ‘50s. He played
football, baseball and bas-
ketball with distinction, but
joins the Hall more as a leg-
endary all-around athlete
than for specific accom-
plishments in a particular
field. Grade school?
Palladino led games we’ve
never seen. Sand lot base-
ball and football before
organized youth sports held
sway? Palladino was there
and leading.
JOE PERUSSE: Perusse
(Class of ‘83) specialized in
football and baseball at
Torrington. In football, as a
running back, linebacker
and offensive guard,
Perusse won Most
Outstanding Defensive
Player awards in his junior
and senior years, Most
Outstanding Offensive
Player in his junior year and
Most Outstanding Lineman
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another series
to Braves
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HOFCLASS
OF ’07
12 will join Raiders’ club
By PATRICK TISCIA
Register Citizen Staff
After a couple of rain-filled
days early in the week, the
weather cleared up enough for
the local high school teams to
get plenty of games in.
Here’s a look at the best of
this past week:
BASEBALL, WAMOGO 13,
SHEPAUG 12: Ken Bosse’s
RBI single drove in the go-
ahead run in the top of the
seventh as the Warriors
scored six times in the final
inning to shock Shepaug in
Washington, Conn., on
Wednesday afternoon.
Collin Dickinson homered
and had three hits for
Wamogo, while Mark Zarrella
collected three hits and
earned the win on the mound.
Karl Quist had three hits for
the Spartans, while Chris
Ayer smacked a triple.
SOFTBALL, TERRYVILLE
3, LEWIS MILLS 2: Terryville
took advantage of three Lewis
Mills’ errors and handed the
Spartans their first loss of the
season after four games
Thursday afternoon.
Ashley Hogan picked up
the win on the mound and
chipped in with a single.
Emily Bohmer had a great
game in defeat for Lewis Mills,
clubbing a home run and
allowing just two hits in a
complete game effort.
GOLF, HOUSATONIC 167,
GILBERT 167, LITCHFIELD
197: Clayton Wilburn,
Housatonic’s fifth golfer, shot
a 48 to win the tiebreaker for
the Mountaineers, who pre-
vailed over Gilbert and
Litchfield on Wednesday after-
noon at the Greenwoods
Country Club in Winsted.
Adam Vaccari of Gilbert
and Housatonic’s Dan Simons
each shot a 39 to earn co-
medalist honors. Jon Morse
led Litchfield with a 41.
BOYS VOLLEYBALL,
LEWIS MILLS 3, HALL 0:
Roger Parent registered 16
assists and 11 aces to lead
Lewis Mills over Hall in
Warriors-Spartans’ classic highlights week
HOUSTON (AP) —
Sebastien Bourdais raced to
his second straight Grand
Prix of Houston victory
Sunday and grabbed the
inside track for his fourth
consecutive Champ Car
title.
The Frenchman earned
his 25th career win in his
62nd start, continuing his
unprecedented dominance
of the circuit. Bourdais fin-
ished his second win of the
season in style, turning his
fastest lap (58.018 seconds)
on his 93rd and final trip
around the 1.69-mile circuit
next to Reliant Stadium.
Bourdais has won 14 of
his last 24 starts. With his
victory Sunday, the 28-year-
old star overtook points
leader Will Power in the
standings. Power, who start-
ed on the pole, damaged the
nose wing on his car three
times and finished 11th.
Bourdais got a little lucky
at the end to secure the win.
He went for a pit stop on
the 68th lap, while rookie
Tristan Gommendy stayed
on the track, gambling that
he wouldn’t have to stop
again for fuel.
But Gommendy ran out
of gas on lap 87 and stalled
as Bourdais glided past.
Bourdais cruised to the
finish line from there with
rookie Graham Rahal, his
Newman/Haas/Lanigan
teammate, protecting him in
second place. The 18-year-
old Rahal, who skipped his
senior prom in Ohio to race
in Houston, finished 4.819
seconds behind Bourdais
and became the youngest
driver in series history to
earn a podium finish.
Robert Doornbos, anoth-
er rookie, was third, 7.061
seconds behind the winner.
Bourdais reached 104.430
mph on his fastest lap. He
had the best qualifying
times on Saturday, but he
was bumped from the pole
when Champ Car penalized
him for blocking Power.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP)
— The list of Penn State line-
backers who have gone on to
star in the NFL reads like a
Who’s Who at the position —
Jack Ham, Shane Conlan and
LaVar Arrington, for starters.
Yet there’s been a dry spell
for Linebacker U. since 2000,
when Arrington (Washington)
and Brandon Short (New York
Giants) were the last Nittany
Lion linebackers to be draft-
ed.
That streak appears over.
“It’s been too long since a
Penn State linebacker was
taken,” said Paul Posluszny,
the school’s career leading
tackler. “Too long.”
Posluszny almost certainly
will be taken early at the
draft Saturday. Another
Linebacker U. graduate, Tim
Shaw, is also on the wish lists
of several NFL teams.
Ham calls Posluszny the
greatest linebacker to play at
Penn State. Coach Joe
Paterno says he’s a natural at
the position. Many scouts tar-
get Posluszny as a mid-to-late
first-round pick.
“One of those playoff
teams will sit there and say,
‘Smart, tough, fairly instinc-
tive, clean off the field,’” NFL
Network draft analyst Mike
Mayock said.
Posluszny has sideline-to-
sideline range and a fiery on-
field demeanor. Off the field,
he is a mild-mannered,
straight-A student.
In the 2005 season, his hel-
met didn’t fit right, butting
against the bridge of his nose
and creating a bloody gash by
the end of a game. When he
returned to the sideline,
Posluszny would talk to his
coaches like a Boy Scout.
During a tense moment
against Ohio State two years
ago, Posluszny approached
defensive coordinator Tom
Bradley and asked, “Coach
Bradley, can I please ask you
Bourdais wins in Houston,
in driver’s seat for crown
School’s back in session
at select Linebacker U.
See GAMES, Page B3
See STATE, Page B5
No. 740
Barry Bonds is
beginning to close
in on Hank Aaron
— fast. Bonds hit
his 740th home
run Sunday, con-
necting for the
second consecu-
tive game in the
San Francisco
Giants’ 2-1 victory
over the Arizona
Diamondbacks.
■ More on Page B4
FRIDAY
Red Sox 7, Yankees 6
SATURDAY
Red Sox 7, Yankees 5
SUNDAY
Red Sox 7, Yankees 6
Of note: Red Sox rallied in each
game for the first sweep of the
Yanks at Fenway since 1990
Red Sox vs. Yankees
The Red Sox hit four straight home runs
Sunday night against the New York
Yankees, tying a major league record.
Manny Ramirez, J.D. Drew, Mike
Lowell and Jason Varitek (shown above
from left) connected in a span of 13
pitches during the third inning against
Chase Wright. The Red Sox became the
fifth team in major league history to hit
four consecutive homers.
THE FANTASTIC FOUR
Sox sweep
at Fenway