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ON THIS DAY - April 13
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Back on April 13, 2001, Boyd was celebrating a historic win for its soccer team. The Standard’s sports page will covered by the Broncos’ first ever victory, beating Friendship Christian 3-0.

Blaka Reynolds scored two goals in the victory for Boyd, which was guided by Keri Hertwig.

Also on April 13, 1970, the sports page was showing off the Pioneer baseball team, Tom Sparkman’s top blockers and Marie Barnes.

In other April 13 issues, karate was showing off trophies (1979), Dot’s Little Devils topped the bowling league (1983), the Pioneerettes were announced (1984), Pioneer 1B Jamie Smith worked to apply a tag against Grundy County (1990), Josh Livesay and Steven Morris were playing for the Pioneer baseball team (1997), Derrin Rogers pitched the Pioneers to victory (2007), WCMS golf was getting into the swing of things (2011), the Lady Pioneers had a tough week (2012), WCHS tennis swept Stone Memorial (2014), WCMS baseball kept winning (2016) and the WCHS baseball and softball teams each earned wins (2018).

Famous April 13 birthdays

 

1967 – Dana Barros, NBA 14-year pro

1976 – Patrik Elias, NHL four-time All Star

1979 – Baron Davis, NBA all-star

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1983 – Hunter Pence, MLB four-time All Star

1986 – Lorenzo Cain, MLB All Star

1993 – Melvin Gordan, NFL Pro Bowl RB

National April 13 headlines (AP)

 

1914 — The first Federal League game is played in Baltimore with the Terrapins beating Buffalo 3-2 behind Jack Quinn.

1940 — The New York Rangers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 to win the Stanley Cup in six games.

1940 — Dutch Warmerdam becomes the first man to clear 15 feet in the pole vault in a small track meet at Cal-Berkeley. Warmerdam, the last to set records with a bamboo pole, will have 43 vaults over 15 feet at a time when no other vaulter in the world clears 15 feet.

1957 — The Boston Celtics capture their first NBA championship as rookie Tommy Heinsohn scores 37 points and grabs 23 rebounds in a 125-123 double overtime victory over the St. Louis Hawks in Game 7.

1970 — Billy Casper wins the Masters with a five-stroke playoff victory over Gene Littler.

1972 — The first player strike in baseball history ends and the season is set to start April 15.

1980 — Seve Ballesteros, 23, becomes the youngest to win the Masters, with a four-stroke victory.

1984 — Pete Rose of the Montreal Expos collects the 4,000th hit of his career with a double off Philadelphia’s Jerry Koosman in the fourth inning.

1986 — Jack Nicklaus wins the Masters for a record sixth time and at 46 becomes the oldest to win the event.

1991 — Pete Weber wins four games to become the second player in PBA history to win the BPAA U.S. Open twice, this time with a 289-184 victory over Mark Thayer.

1993 — Lee Smith becomes the all-time saves leader as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 9-7. Smith gets the last three outs to register his 358th save, surpassing Jeff Reardon of the Cincinnati Reds.

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1997 — Tiger Woods wins the Masters by a record 12 strokes at Augusta National. Closing with a 69, Woods finished at 18-under 270, the lowest score in the Masters and matching the most under par by anyone in any of the four Grand Slam events.

2003 — Mike Weir becomes the first Canadian to win the Masters after the first sudden-death playoff in 13 years.

2006 — Brendan Shanahan records his 17th career hat trick and adds an assist as Detroit sets an NHL record with its 11th straight road win, 7-3 at Chicago.

2008 — Trevor Immelman handles the wind and pressure of Augusta National far better than anyone chasing him to win the Masters, the first South African in a green jacket in 30 years.