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• Longtime Lodi auto dealership Plummer Automall to close Wednesday

• Vickie and Rodney Tate continue to heal after fiery crash

• Dental clinic aids 30 Galt area students

• Panelists want more regional input on ag belt

• Regional Roundup

February 9th, 2010

• Middle College High School rated one of the best — and a bargain, to boot

• Lodi decathlon boasts top team in county

• Man who sparked counterfeit case pleads guilty

• Local businessman will visit Haiti to look for family

• Man who claimed to be Yosemite Sam pleads guilty to meth charge

• David Harmer seeks Republican congressional nod

• Lack of evidence in case against suspect in 'drug deal' stabbing

• Regional Roundup

February 8th, 2010

• Public Meetings

• Locals pick best, most memorable Super Bowl commercials

• Regional Roundup

February 6th, 2010

• The Home Depot hopes to join Costco at Reynolds Ranch

• Meet Larry, Curly and Moe

• Baboon business

• Regional Roundup

• Several Lodi venues let you watch the Super Bowl in style

• Lodi Library celebrates 100 years of serving the community

• Culinary craft

February 5th, 2010

• Kids, teachers help Haiti by collecting pennies for Learning Link

• Lodi, Galt students reach out to help Haiti earthquake survivors

• Tasered suspect claims he is Yosemite Sam

• Hours of sweat and work go into putting on crab feeds

• Things looking up for state's real estate

• Correction

• Regional Roundup

• Stray bullet strikes Lodi home; police suspect gang activity may be factor

February 4th, 2010

• Managers at Geweke Toyota answer questions about recall

• Lodi City Council votes to replace play structure at Century Park

• Lodi extends ban on pot shops for another year

• Mokelumne River triathlon set for June

• Family, friends to run half-marathon in memory of Galt family

February 3rd, 2010

• Correction

• Delta College trustees again collide over stipend committee

• Bad bugs, weeds are hot topics at Grape Day

• Lodi-area senators Dave Cox, Lois Wolk admit to gifts; Tom Berryhill case pending

• Lodi Unified School District president issues warning to speakers over cuts

• Galt City Council avoids budget cuts — for now

• New Lodi Memorial Hospital emergency room opens to the public without a hitch

• Regional Roundup

February 2nd, 2010

• Local business leaders say tourism, Costco, Home Depot may play roles in city's future

• Correction

• Former Lodian Erica Davis is first paraplegic woman to summit Kilimanjaro

• Regional Roundup

• No snow leopards, otters for Micke Grove

• McNerney leads in campaign cash

• Police: Train victim was a Lodi teen

• Big rig plows 7 cars

• Jumpers across California

The following stories have received the most reader comments during the last 7 days.

• Will terrorists be given Miranda warnings? (75)
• Lodi Unified School District president issues warning to speakers over cuts (64)
• President Obama's first year (45)
• Many reject the politics of 'no' (45)
• Islamic symbol in mosaic — what is all the fuss? (44)
• Writer comments on Neely column (42)
• The Home Depot hopes to join Costco at Reynolds Ranch (41)
• Time to shed the convenient sham of 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy (34)
• We need to conduct respectful conversations (30)
• Tasered suspect claims he is Yosemite Sam (25)

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Alumni Update

The latest news on local athletes who are continuing to play at the college or pro levels.

Julius Thomas
Sport: Basketball
High school: Tokay
College: Portland State
Thomas, a junior and the team's sixth man, had five points and two rebounds for the Vikings in a 77-74 win over Northern Colorado on Thursday. He had four points and two rebounds in a 93-81 win over Boise State on Saturday

David Cooper
Sport: Baseball
High school: Tokay
Professional: Toronto Blue Jays
Cooper, who signed a contract with the Blue Jays last spring that included a $1.5 million bonus, has been invited to spring training with the parent club at Dunedin, Fla. Cooper reported to camp on Feb. 16..

Joe Harden
Sport: Basketball
High school: St. Mary's
College: UC Davis
Harden had 16 points and seven rebounds for Davis in an 75-73 win over Cal-Poly San Luis Obispo on Thursday. He had a career-high 25 points in 71-70 loss to Fresno State in ESPN Bracket Busters game on Saturday.

Jordan Lawley
Sport: Basketball
High school: Tokay
College: UC San Diego
Lawley had 22 points and seven rebounds as the Tritons beat San Francisco State 78-71 on Friday. On Saturday, he had 11 points and six rebounds in a 72-65 win over Cal-State Monterey Bay.

Sam Oelsner
Sport: Basketball
High school: Galt
College: Chico State
Oelsner played two minutes for the Wildcats in a 69-59 win over Cal-State LA on Friday.

Mike Caffese
Sport: Basketball
High school: Tokay
College: Azusa Pacific
Caffese had a career-high 23 points with three assists in a 93-84 loss to Fresno Pacific on Tuesday. He had 11 points, seven assists and six steals in a 79-63 win over Vanguard on Saturday.

Lucas Birchard
Sport: Basketball
High school: Elliot Christian
College: William Jessup Univ.
The senior had 16 points and eight rebounds for Jessup in a 81-56 victory over Holy Names College on Saturday.

Jessica Dela Cruz
Sport: Basketball
High school: Galt
College: Delta
Dela Cruz scored six points for the Mustangs (27-6) in a 76-51 win over Modesto on Friday at Joe Blanchard Gymnasium as Delta won its eighth consecutive Big 8 Conference championship.

Caitlin Waugh
Sport: Softball
High school: Tokay
College: Willamette
Waugh, a junior, went 0-1 with a walk in two pinch hit appearances in Willamette's season-opening doubleheader sweep of Eastern Oregon University, which it beat 9-5, and Norwest Christian, which it beat 8-5, this weekend.

Mercedes O'Brien
Sport: Swimming
High school: Galt
College: UC San Diego
O'Brien, a member of Lodi City Swim Club who currently swims for UC San Diego, competed at the Pacific Collegiate Swimming and Diving Conference Championships last weekend in Long Beach at the Belmont Olympic pool. O'Brien swam the breast stroke leg of the Lady Tritons 200 medley relay in a personal best time of 28.98 seconds to boost San Diego to a first-place finish with a school record time of 1:45.29. She also placed 13th in the 50 free with a personal best time of 24.58 seconds. She placed third in the 100 breast with another personal best of 1:04.95 and then placed second in the 200 breast with her fourth personal best of the meet with a time of 2:22.03.

Lindy Capps
Sport: Track and Field
High school: Tokay
College: UC-San Diego
Capps placed second in the women's shot put with a heave of 38 feet, 8 and 3/4 inches to help San Diego to a first-place finish in a quad meet with San Diego State, Cal-Poly Pomona and Cal-State Dominguez Hills this weekend.

Andrew Troncale
Sport: Baseball
High school: Tokay
College: Cal-State Stanislaus
Troncale, a senior pitcher, threw 3 2/3 innings of relief in giving up just three hits while striking out five and allowing no runs in his team's 4-2 win vs. Cal Poly Pomona last week.

Alex Rivers
Sport: Baseball
High school: Tokay
College: Santa Clara
Rivers, a hard-throwing right-handed junior, is 1-0 with four strikeouts, two walks and two hits allowed in three innings of work on the pitcher's mound for the Broncos this season.

Kaila Shull
Sport: Softball
High school: Jim Elliot Christian
College: UCLA
Shull, a junior catcher for the No. 4-ranked Lady Bruins, is hitting .386, second highest on the squad, with three home runs and a team-leading 20 RBIs this season. She has started all 15 games and leads the team with 115 putouts without committing a single error behind the plate.

Alaina Shull
Sport: Softball
High school: Jim Elliot Christian
College: San Joaquin Delta
Shull, a freshman pitcher for the Lady Mustangs, held Merced College just five hits and one earned run in a 6-1 victory last week.

Elise Fry
Sport: Softball
High school: Galt
College: San Joaquin Delta
The freshman pitcher hurled two innings of relief, including one in each game, while allowing just one hit as the Mustangs split a doubleheader with Merced. They won 6-1 in the opener and lost 4-2 in the nightcap on Feb. 16.

Bret Morgan
Sport: Baseball
High school: Tokay
College: San Joaquin Delta
A sophomore outfielder, Morgan hit his first two home runs of the season last week in a three-game sweep of Butte College.

Matt Fuson
Sport: Baseball
High school: Lodi
College: University of the Pacific
A junior centerfielder, Fuson went 1-for-3 with a walk in his team's season-opening 2-1 loss to No. 8-ranked Baylor on the road on Friday. On Saturday, Fuson appeared as a pinch runner in the Tigers' 9-8 upset win over the Bears. He also appeared as a pinch runner as the Tigers (1-2) lost to Baylor 5-4 in the finale of a three-game series.

Emily Woo
Sport: Swimming
High school: Tokay
College: Stevens
The senior captain swam a leg of the 200 medley relay which clocked and NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships A-cut qualifying time of 1 minute, 45.05 seconds at the New York State Women's Collegiate Athletic Association/Empire 8 Championships over the weekend. Woo also swam on the winning 400 freestyle relay, which set a school record with a time of 3:28.25 and also hit the NCAA B-cut. Stevens placed second in the meet.

Kamden Brakel
Sport: Golf
High school: Lodi
College: Hawaii
The sophomore shot rounds of 76, 72 and 76 to total a 224 to tie for 71st place at the John Burns Intercollegiate tournament in Oahu last week. Hawaii placed 14th as a team.

Do you know of a local athlete that has continued playing at the college or pro levels? If so, the News-Sentinel encourages you (parents, coaches, athletes and anyone else) to update us on how these former athletes are doing. We'd like to update our readers as often as possible. You can reach the News-Sentinel sports department by phone at 369-7035 or by e-mail at sports@lodinews.com.