Greenville

The Flyers have entered into a minor league affiliation agreement with the Greenville (S.C.) Road Warriors for the 2010-11 season, according to general manager Paul Holmgren. The Road Warriors, of the ECHL, will serve as the Flyers' secondary affiliate. Players under contract to the Flyers or the Adirondack Phantoms, their AHL affiliate, can be assigned to the Road Warriors. Greenville replaces the Kalamazoo Wings, the Flyers' ECHL affiliate last season. "We are pleased to be working with Greenville for the upcoming season," Holmgren said in a statement.

I don't have to be at work until 10 a.m. and I don't head home until 6. These hours suit me perfectly. I make believe I'm not part of the rat race so evident in early morning traffic (although traffic here is a pitiable stream compared to the full force of the Philadelphia flow). On the way to work the morning sun is on my right; on the way home I have a lovely view of the Carolina foothills silhouetted by the light of the sinking sun. They promise secrets that the town in which I now live couldn't possibly hope to provide.

ALLENTOWN - Leftfielder Brandon Moss clubbed two home runs and drove in three to lead the Lehigh Valley IronPigs past the Syracuse Chiefs, 7-6, in the International League on Friday night. Tug Hulett drove in three for Syracuse. Trenton 3, Reading 1   TRENTON - Melky Mesa's two-run single keyed a three-run sixth and the Thunder beat the Phillies in the Eastern League. Robert Lyerly had singled in the inning's first run. Tuffy Gosewisch singled in Reading's only run. Lakewood 4, Greenville 0 GREENVILLE, S.C. - Jesse Biddle struck out eight in seven shutout innings to lead the BlueClaws past the Drive in the South Atlantic League.

Nicholas Kroon of Sweden and Pat Serret of Australia reached the final round of the Wilmington Fall Classic Open Tennis with straight-set victories yesterday at the Greenville (Del.) Country Club. Top-seeded Kroon defeated Nelson Aertz of Brazil, 6-0, 6-3, in the semifinals. Serret encountered considerable pressure before defeating American Aaron Stolpman, 7-6 (7-4), 6-4. Kroon and Serret will meet at 11 a.m. today. Stolpman and fellow American Andre Janasik will play Serret and Roberto Saad of Argentina in the doubles final.

The unholy union of politics and media has bestowed on Bob Jones University its 15 minutes of national infamy - its first dose since the mid-'70s, when it lost federal funding over the same issue that besmirches it today: racial inequity. Between then and now, we residents of Greenville, S.C., have been living out an uncertain destiny. Secreted away from media glitz, we have been vacillating ambivalently between pretensions of New South renaissance (wedged halfway between Atlanta and Charlotte)

At St. Joseph's University, an exhibit called "Jesuit Spirit in the Arts 1986" celebrates the recent inauguration of the school's president, the Rev. Nicholas S. Rashford. It also serves to mark the 255th anniversary of the Jesuit presence in this city. Featured are works of 56 faculty members (including 10 Jesuits) from 19 of the nation's 28 Jesuit-operated colleges and universities. Mention the Jesuit spirit in the arts, and we quite naturally think of the baroque period and the cultural manifestoes of the counter-reformation, when Jesuits encouraged the commissioning of many masterworks of religious sculpture, painting, architecture and music.

Young Min Kwon, pro at the Haddon Field Club in Haddonfield, advanced to the quarterfinal round of a strong international field in the Wilmington Fall Classic Open with a 7-6 (7-4), 6-1 victory over American Vimal Patel yesterday at the Greenville (Del.) Country Club. Kwon, the Eastern States champion, will face top-seeded Nicholas Kroon of Sweden today. Kroon eliminated Francisco Costa of Brazil, 6-3, 6-2. Second- seeded Roberto Saad of Argentina beat John Simone, Philadelphia Cricket Club pro, 6-2, 6-2. Aaron Stolpman, an American, overcame Andrew Stoner of Mechanicsburg, Pa., formerly of Trenton, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. Pat Serret of Australia defeated Eric Riley, a former Penn player, 6-3, 6-4. Most of the contenders in the tournament had lost in the early rounds of the U.S. Open in Flushing, N.Y.

Top-seeded Nicholas Kroon of Sweden advanced to the semifinals of the Wilmington Fall Classic Open tennis championship yesterday by defeating Young Min Kwon, 6-2, 6-2, at the Greenville (Del.) Country Club. The loser is the pro at the Haddon Field Club in Haddonfield and the Eastern States titleholder. Kroon will meet Nelson Aertz of Brazil, a 6-0, 6-3 winner over America's Andre Janasik, at 12:30 p.m. today. Pat Serret of Australia advanced with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Orin Motevassel of Israel and will meet America's Aaron Stolpman, who ousted Roberto Saad of Argentina, 6-4, 6-3.

PAWTUCKET, R.I. - Che-Hsuan Lin lined an RBI single to right with two out in the bottom of the ninth to give the Pawtucket Red Sox a 2-1 win over the Lehigh Valley IronPigs in the International League on Wednesday. Former Phillie Kevin Millwood gave up just one run in seven innings for Pawtucket. Jeremy Kehrt pitched the last two innings for the win. N. Hampshire 4, Reading 3   MANCHESTER, N.H. - Moises Sierra's solo homer in the eighth was the difference as the Fisher Cats beat the Phillies in the Eastern League.

Harry Hoffman and Joe Gentile advanced to the second round yesterday in their defense of Abington Township's Golden Century and a Half tennis championship at Alverthorpe Park. They defeated Ted Marchese and Fred Meimbresse, 6-2, 6-3. In this tournament, the combined ages of doubles partners must be at least 150 years. The other pairs reaching the second round were Herb Weintraub and Henry Rothkopf, Bill Williams and Pres Buckman, John Merry and Morley Richards, Clem Brown and Alex Mychaluk, and Phil Kind and Marvin Wachman.

PAWTUCKET, R.I. - Che-Hsuan Lin lined an RBI single to right with two out in the bottom of the ninth to give the Pawtucket Red Sox a 2-1 win over the Lehigh Valley IronPigs in the International League on Wednesday. Former Phillie Kevin Millwood gave up just one run in seven innings for Pawtucket. Jeremy Kehrt pitched the last two innings for the win. N. Hampshire 4, Reading 3   MANCHESTER, N.H. - Moises Sierra's solo homer in the eighth was the difference as the Fisher Cats beat the Phillies in the Eastern League.

ALLENTOWN - Leftfielder Brandon Moss clubbed two home runs and drove in three to lead the Lehigh Valley IronPigs past the Syracuse Chiefs, 7-6, in the International League on Friday night. Tug Hulett drove in three for Syracuse. Trenton 3, Reading 1   TRENTON - Melky Mesa's two-run single keyed a three-run sixth and the Thunder beat the Phillies in the Eastern League. Robert Lyerly had singled in the inning's first run. Tuffy Gosewisch singled in Reading's only run. Lakewood 4, Greenville 0 GREENVILLE, S.C. - Jesse Biddle struck out eight in seven shutout innings to lead the BlueClaws past the Drive in the South Atlantic League.

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The Flyers have entered into a minor league affiliation agreement with the Greenville (S.C.) Road Warriors for the 2010-11 season, according to general manager Paul Holmgren. The Road Warriors, of the ECHL, will serve as the Flyers' secondary affiliate. Players under contract to the Flyers or the Adirondack Phantoms, their AHL affiliate, can be assigned to the Road Warriors. Greenville replaces the Kalamazoo Wings, the Flyers' ECHL affiliate last season. "We are pleased to be working with Greenville for the upcoming season," Holmgren said in a statement.

GREENVILLE, S.C. - The Lakewood BlueClaws claimed the South Atlantic League championship last night with a 5-1 victory over the Greenville Drive. The BlueClaws won the five-game series, three games to one. They led, 4-0, after four innings, while Greenville scored its only run in the seventh inning. Korey Noles went seven innings to pick up the win. Long Island 7, Camden 2 WEST ISLIP, N.Y. - The Ducks had a 5-0 lead after six innings in their Atlantic League win over the Riversharks.

Mitch Dening's RBI double keyed a three-run sixth inning last night as the Greenville Drive stayed alive in the South Atlantic League Championship Series with a 3-2 win over the Lakewood BlueClaws. Lakewood leads the best-of-five series, two games to one. Greg Gose was 3 for 5, Jim Murphy had an RBI double in the fifth inning, and Travis Mattair had another RBI double in the eighth for the BlueClaws.

Shares in Knoll Inc., a Montgomery County manufacturer of office furniture, gained $2.10 to close at $17.10 yesterday, its first day of trading in an initial public offering. Knoll's New York Stock Exchange offering at $15 a share marked its third debut as an IPO and a second chance for Warburg Pincus Private Ventures, its major shareholder, to cash out. The net proceeds of $154.1 million, for 24 percent of the company, went largely to Warburg Pincus investors, who held 91 percent of the company before the IPO. David Bright, a spokesman for Knoll, would not comment, citing securities rules.

St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Scott Rolen missed his third consecutive start with a strained left calf muscle and is likely miss at least a few more games. Rolen, hitting .320 with 32 homers and an NL-leading 121 RBIs, was hurt Friday running out a double. He said his leg had been numb after he fouled a pitch off his left shin earlier in the at-bat. Manager Art Howe met with New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon and general manager Jim Duquette, one day after saying that if the team planned to fire him, it should do so now. "We had a very good discussion, a private discussion," Howe said.

Victor Lemus, owner of the Country Chef bar and restaurant in this Upper Perkiomen Valley borough, was glad to see as many police as possible that scary Sunday last month. "They were here fast," said Lemus, who was tied up with one of his employees by as many as seven robbers who attacked as he was closing his Montgomery County business just after 11 p.m. Oct. 13. He said there were about five robbers inside with at least one gun and a bunch of baseball bats. He thinks two others were lookouts in the parking lot. He knows they taped his mouth and scared the life out of him. "There were two kinds of police here," Lemus said.

The Andy Ashby trade was a little like an elderly patient with a long, lingering illness. Everybody knows how it will end. But it's still a small shock when the inevitable occurs. So the Phillies began the second half of their season last night, continuing their uphill quest for respectability without the pitcher who was brought in to help put them over the top. Not surprising, the balancing act was a little awkward. "It's hard to lose Andy Ashby," said third baseman Scott Rolen.