The Ospreys’ pitching maintained much of the defense during both games, allowing only five hits during the first game and one run in the second game.

Southpaw Michael Kelly only allowed the Hatters to squeeze in a merciful one run during the first inning of the second game but was quick to shatter the Hatter’s confidence with only limited attempts at getting past the senior’s, seasoned, arsenal of pitches.

“This is our last opportunity for us seniors to pitch here at home,” Kelly said. “I just wanted to give my team a chance to compete for the win.”

The Ospreys’ offense also answered back later in the game with a series of homeruns.

Right-fielder Preston Hale triggered the second game into action with a deep homerun out of centerfield in the sixth inning, followed by TJ Thompson with another homerun during the seventh inning, but catcher David Eldredge sealed the deal with a three-run homer in the eighth.

It isn’t over for the Ospreys, yet, as they will be fighting for another victory against Stetson Sunday May 15 at 12:30 p.m.

Saturday’s game was especially important for coach Dusty Rhodes and his seniors considering they were not expecting to make the post playoffs unless they received this win.

“For these guys that are seniors today, they came here with the idea they knew they weren’t going to be able to play for postseason until this year,” Rhodes said. “So, it had to be the situation where we needed to get there, just for those guys.”

Rhodes said this was a “main game” for the Ospreys and could potentially put them in a position for an Atlantic Sun Conference championship.

“Now we’re Division II … we had to sit out all those years, and now we’re going back to where we belong,” Rhodes said. “We belong in postseason play.”

Environmental Services Inc. released a report Jan. 19 which shows how UNF violated laws which protect the natural landscape of certain areas inside the GOLFPLEX.

The report was then sent to the district for review.

After more than 10 weeks of review, the district sent a letter to UNF last week informing them of its decision of a $2,999 fine.

Chris Wrenn, UNF associate general counsel, said he is passing the fine over to McCumber Golf Inc. who has a maintenance contract with UNF June 2021.

“This isn’t a huge fine,” Wrenn said. “It’s not as bad as it could have been.”

UNF has 10 days to pay the fine.

In addition to $2,999 fine, UNF must also pay a $209 fee for administrative costs.

Saathoff is now passing out flyers for his senators on United Osprey and another flyer for the Yellow Party candidates, Sitou Byll-Cataria and Giovanni Medina.

“I’m not switching parties, I’m endorsing the Yellow Party,” Saathoff said.

Saathoff said he called the Yellow Party Tuesday night to talk about it.

He said he didn’t ask, nor was promised an appointment if the Yellow Party wins.

“I have to do what’s best for the student body,” Saathoff said.

After the election, Saathoff said he plans on focusing his time on his ministry.

In the 2008 election cycle, mismanaged campaigns full of errors, misspeaks and poor use of the news cycle have become the standard rather than the exception.

But the most recent mistakes are the best yet.

According to Sen. John McCain, $5 million is the precipice for being considered rich, and Sen. Barack Obama called for Vladimir Putin to remove Russian troops from Ossetia, Georgia.

Obama was on a private golf course in Hawaii when he made the comment, forgetting for a second the press had a field day with President Bush making foreign policy speeches on a golf course, and merely echoed what every other world leader had stated. To top off his successful foreign policy outing, two weeks later, Russia is still occupying Georgia.

This is why Obama’s announcement of his vice president candidate should come of no surprise.

Not only did Obama completely botch the actual announcement – 3 a.m. text messages to fanatics Saturday morning the weekend before the Democratic National Convention – he completely wasted the amount of press coverage he was assured to get had he announced on a weekday.

The weekend is considered to be the news dumping ground, but the Obama camp had its supporters – Mainstream Media – waiting for the “imminent announcement” since 9 a.m. that Friday.

But the real question is, why pick Delaware’s senior citizen Sen. Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr?

Was Delaware recently considered a swing state or is this simple pandering to McCain’s base of geriatrics?

With the amount of time and man-power put into this decision, it is hard to see this as anything but Obama intentionally sabotaging his own campaign. His strongest asset was that voters saw him as a Washington outsider and identified with his now empty rhetoric of a “different kind of politics.”

Biden, however, is the quintessential Washington insider without one shred of reform - minded politics. During his six terms as a senator, he authored poisonous legislation that created the Drug Czar and the RAVE Act, which allows the government to prosecute business owners if drugs are used on their property.

And more, the senator has been an open critic of Obama’s lack of experience from the beginning.

McCain already completed an ad featuring two clips: Biden praising McCain as someone who transcends political parties and can work across the isle, and Biden during the Democrat primary debates commenting on Obama’s lack of experience and stating he will need “on the job training.”

But most political pundits see this as Obama simply balancing his presidential ticket.

Apparently few are taking into account that Obama balancing his ticket to include someone who chaired the foreign relations committee only underscores his own lack of experience on the subject.

Though this pick brings easy comparisons between President Carter’s vice president pick in 1976, it might not be all bad.

Biden should be very adept in countering McCain’s old-white-guy hawkish charm with his own, barring he discontinues his longstanding practice of speaking without thinking.

E-mail James Cannon II at staff1@unfspinnaker.com.