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May 18, 2013 | The Inquirer Staff
Rutgers-Camden announced Thursday that it has hired Annette Reiter, who played on four state championship teams at Gloucester Catholic, as its women's basketball coach. Reiter, a 21-year coaching veteran at the college and high school levels, had been the Penn State Abington coach. She spent three seasons as an assistant at Rowan. Her Nittany Lions team posted a 9-16 record a year after going 0-23. Reiter also starred as a player at Widener. Baseball. Fifth-seeded Neumann (30-14)
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May 18, 2013 | By Tyler R. Tynes, Inquirer Staff Writer
The winners of Saturday's quarterfinals in the NCAA Division I women's lacrosse championships will head to Villanova for the semifinals on May 24. The championship game is slated for May 26 at Villanova Stadium. The Division II and III semifinals and title games are both Saturday and Sunday in Owings Mills, Md. Maryland, undefeated in 20 games, is the top seed in Division I and will host unseeded Duke (14-5) on Saturday. No. 4 Syracuse (17-3) will host No. 5 Florida (18-2)
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May 18, 2013 | The Inquirer Staff
The Rowan University women's track and field team won the Eastern College Athletic Conference championship in Springfield, Mass., on Friday. Among the highlights, Shailah Williams (Pemberton) won the 400 meters in 56.32 seconds. Vanessa Wright (Haddonfield) came in second in the 1,500 and the 4x800 squad of Vanessa Valdes, Jessalynn Wright (Cherokee), Melirah Search and Vanessa Wright finished second. In the men's competition, Rowan's Demetrius Rooks (Absegami) won the 400 hurdles.
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May 18, 2013 | The Inquirer Staff
The Penn women's softball team fell to Texas A&M, 12-0, in five innings in the first round of the Division I regionals in College Station, Texas, on Friday. Quakers ace Alexis Borden took the loss. The Quakers had advanced to the double-elimination regionals after earning an automatic bid with the Ivy League title. Coached by Lisa King, Penn had an eight-game winning streak in March and ended the regular season by winning seven of its last 10 games. The loss put Penn (30-19)
NEWS
May 15, 2013 | By Howard Gensler
WOMEN MAY be making progress knocking their heads against the glass ceiling, but the celluloid ceiling is still causing a problem. Female representation in major-release movies is at its lowest level in five years, according to a study released yesterday by the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and reported by the Los Angeles Times . And that's with "Bridesmaids," "The Hunger Games," the...
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May 15, 2013 | By Joe Juliano, Inquirer Staff Writer
Erica Herr was cold and tired when she arrived at the scoring area for the U.S. Women's Open qualifier at Butler (Pa.) Country Club. She also was a little bummed, believing that her 78 in the second round of the 36-hole event would not be good enough to gain a ticket to the biggest show in women's golf. However, after a quick examination of her scorecard, the official in charge said, "Congratulations. " A junior at Council Rock North High School, the 17-year-old Herr was ecstatic.
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May 14, 2013 | INQUIRER STAFF
Junior attacker Mackenzie Cyr notched her second straight six-point game, and sophomore attacker Maggie McCormick recorded four goals and two assists to lead the seventh-seeded Penn State women's lacrosse team to a 12-9 home victory against No. 8 Massachusetts in the second round of the NCAA tournament Sunday afternoon. The Nittany Lions (14-6), who improved to 9-0 at home and 7-2 when hosting an NCAA tournament game, won consecutive NCAA tournament games for the first time since 1999 and advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals for the second straight year.
NEWS
May 14, 2013 | BY JAN RANSOM, Daily News Staff Writer ransomj@phillynews.com, 215-854-5218
WOMEN Against Abuse announced plans yesterday to open a new facility for domestic-violence victims by the end of the year. The shelter, made possible through a $2.5 million grant from the city's Office of Supportive Housing, will allow WAA to open a second 100-bed facility to serve an additional 600 women and children a year. Currently, there is only one shelter in the city for victims of domestic violence. Last year, WAA had to turn down 8,465 requests for safe shelter. The shelter will be housed in a building that is to be renovated, but officials won't disclose its location to protect the women who will stay there.
NEWS
May 14, 2013
Prescription for women's safety Having read in vivid detail the trial testimony about the alleged shop of horrors run by abortionist Kermit Gosnell, I wonder when we as a society will realize that proactive, universal policies that enable women to avoid unwanted pregnancies must be a priority. Policies that mandate timely sex education for our teens, including options such as abstinence and uninhibited access to birth-control for young men and women, are socially responsible actions that we must take to ensure that early and especially late-term abortions are minimized or eliminated.
NEWS
May 13, 2013 | By Ian Deitch, Associated Press
JERUSALEM - Forming human chains and using metal barriers, Israeli police held back thousands of ultra-Orthodox protesters who tried to prevent a Jewish women's group from praying at a holy site Friday, the first time police have come down on the side of the women and not the protesters. The reversal followed a court order backing the right of the women to pray at the Western Wall using religious rituals Orthodox Jews insist should be practiced only by men. Wearing prayer shawls, phylacteries, and skull caps reserved for men under strict Orthodox tradition, the women sang and prayed out loud.