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Before the Sampson County businessman talked about how the baseball and softball training will work, though, he wanted to highlight something more important: the tutoring rooms at the front of the building.
Included with the nets for the baseball training will be a golf simulator, so parents whose kids are practicing or training will have something to do, which Thornton noted was important.
He noted that he got equipment as well, including pitching machines and nets that he will install at his Clinton training facility.
“For me, this isn’t a retirement fund. This is all about the kids,” he added, the latter of which he repeated multiple times throughout the interview, highlighting that this project is truly for the student-athletes it will be serving.
“It’s about 30 feet to the wall,” said Thornton, pointing from the edge of the turf to the cinder blocks on the other side. “So anywhere between 30 and 40 feet, four or five nets, so that they can do teamwork. They can pitch and hit while having a pitcher throw to them. We can run lessons out of here.
With a budding soccer program in Sampson County, which allows kids to play together from a young age through high school, Thornton saw an opportunity to do something with baseball and softball. “We’re trying to rebuild our feeder programs, which is what we did with football eight or 10 years ago. That’s what I want to do with baseball,” he stressed
Thornton said he is hoping to have the practice facility open to both the public and travel teams by March 1, a date that has been pushed back from the original goal of having it completed this winter.
“I want my parents and the kids that come in here and use this facility to understand that they’re student-athletes and the student comes first,” he said, adding that his hope was to get the help of teachers, mentors, or possibly even other students, to come in and tutor others in whatever subject they might need help.
“I want them (the public) to know that if they need a place, there’s a place they can send kids. They can work with kids. They can work as a team,” he said.
Reach Brandt Young at (910) 247-9036, at byoung@clintonnc.com, or on the Sampson Independent Facebook page.
“I’d like to have different things in here to pull in different kinds of people,” he added. “Because when it’s nice and sunny, they’re gonna play baseball outside, which they should. But, if they want to work at night or on Saturday and Sunday when they’re not playing, we’ll fill that gap.”
Turning the corner past the dividing wall in the front of the building leads you straight to the newly-installed turf which lines the big, open space that once housed a gym.
“I can have Division 1 softball girls, Division 1 baseball boys. They can come give lessons.”
“Baseball has become important to me through my sons. I love to play it, too, but it’s really become important to me because of my kids. So, to see all the kids that go to Fayetteville, Wilmington, or to Raleigh and not have anything near — and the people that don’t (go to those cities) because they can’t travel much and go to other places — it was solving the problem by having them come here,” he continued.
A recent trip to Washington, D.C. led Thornton to the ABCA, or the American Baseball Coaches Association, which provided opportunities for the businessman to network and learn more about his new venture.
In a building that once housed Lean Bodz gym for over 30 years, owner Greg Thornton has taken it in a different direction, transforming it into a space for baseball and softball training.
A nutrition area will be added later on, Thornton noted, as well as a workout area consisting of treadmills, weight training, and a TV to “keep your mind off of it (training).”
The back portion of the building will serve more for pitchers, with three long lanes that they can practice their craft in. Like many things in the building, Thornton noted that this was a “work in a progress,” with changes still to come.
A local team is already taking advantage of the space, which isn’t complete, but has enough amenities to host some training. Coach Terry Smith, with the Clinton Colts, currently holds practice in the former gym at least twice a week, if not more. Thornton said Smith has about six teams he works out at the facility.
The property, at 212 Wall St., has sat vacant since Hurricane Florence came through the area. A combination of damage from the hurricane and the ensuing COVID-19 pandemic provided the perfect storm to make the gym less than viable, Thornton said.

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13 Bruins qualify for national championshps at NCAA West Regionals

Winning at regionals is an accomplishment. But it’s just the beginning, serving as the first stepping stone to potentially capturing a national title. UCLA track and field competed in the NCAA West Regional at Texas A&M’s E.B Cushing Stadium in College Station, Texas, from Wednesday to Saturday. Thirteen Bruins qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Track […]

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Winning at regionals is an accomplishment.

But it’s just the beginning, serving as the first stepping stone to potentially capturing a national title.

UCLA track and field competed in the NCAA West Regional at Texas A&M’s E.B Cushing Stadium in College Station, Texas, from Wednesday to Saturday. Thirteen Bruins qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships as individuals, while both the 4×100- and 4×400-meter relay teams advanced on the women’s side.

The women’s 4×400-meter relay squad finished out the meet Saturday with a season-best 3:28.18 mark. UCLA trailed Texas A&M the entire race, but junior Naomi Johnson closed out the race with a team-best 51.43 split to send the squad to second in its heat and fourth overall.

On Friday, the men’s 4×400-meter relay squad placed dead last with a 22nd place finish in a time of 3:16.00. Junior Zaire Waring, who ran the second leg for UCLA, appeared to sustain an injury after the first 100 meters of his race as his stride quickly turned into a limp.

Waring pulled through with a 51.10 second split, the slowest leg of any competitor in the field, but still managed to finish despite his apparent pain during the majority of the race.

Despite missing out on qualification with the relay, sophomore Gabriel Clement II punched his ticket to Eugene, Oregon, after posting a personal best 46.75 to place third in the first heat of the 400-meter dash.

Juniors Michael Pinckney and Tamaal Myers were the other national qualifiers on the men’s side. Pinckney punched his ticket with a fourth-place finish in the discus event after throwing a personal-best 60.88 meters.

Junior Michael prepares to launch a hammer in Drake Stadium. (Nicolas Greamo/Daily Bruin senior staff)

The Queens, New York, local tossed another personal best mark in Wednesday’s hammer throw, opening the meet with a 64.91 meter throw to place 15th.

On the women’s side, 10 Bruins recorded national championship-qualfiying performances. Graduate students Ka’Leila Abrille and Katerina Adamiec earned their spots after placing first and seventh, respectively, in the pole vault competition, clearing the 4.42 meter mark – the third best jump in program history.

Abrille took home the regional title despite the top six competitors matching her mark clearing all four heights on her first attempt. While both recorded personal bests, Adamiec’s career bests on her third and four jumps, shattering her previous record by .14 meters.

The women’s team racked up four top-10 finishes in the field events, with senior Sydney Johnson qualifying for nationals in the heptathlon as well as the long jump.

Senior Yanla Ndjip-Nyemeck placed second overall in the 100-meter hurdles after posting a career-best 12.82 second mark in the second heat. Alongside Ndjip-Nyemeck’s victory, freshman Celeste Polzonetti earned her first ticket to the national championships after placing third in the same heat – and seventh overall – with a personal-best 13.08 time.

Another pair of Bruins in sophomore Taylor Snaer and Johnson qualified in the 200-meter dash after placing eighth and 12th, respectively. Snaer automatically qualified with a third-place finish while recording a personal-best 22.64 mark in the first heat. Johnson snagged a nationals spot after finishing 12th overall with a 22.94 mark.

With the first round of the 2025 Outdoor Track and Field Championships complete, UCLA will shift its focus to the national championships from June 11 to June 14 at Hayward Field.

And with one less Bruin headed to Eugene this year compared to 2024, the pressure to win seems stronger than ever.

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State of Steeple: 5 steeplechase athletes from Utah qualify for NCAA outdoor championships

SALT LAKE CITY — As is becoming frequent, the state of Utah will be well represented in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at next week’s NCAA outdoor track and field national championships in Eugene, Oregon. The list of five athletes from the Beehive State who qualified for the national meet beginning June 11 includes James Corrigan, the […]

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The list of five athletes from the Beehive State who qualified for the national meet beginning June 11 includes James Corrigan, the U.S. Olympian who also holds Big 12 records in the steeplechase and 5,000 meters.

The junior from Los Angeles who set a school record at the Penn Relays Summer Showcase to meet the qualifying standard for the Paris Summer Games last year remained undefeated in his top event by finishing first in his heat in facility-record time of 8 minutes, 31.79 seconds at Texas A&M’s E.B. Cushing Stadium in College Station, Texas.

He’ll join BYU distance teammates Joey Nokes and Creed Thompson, who qualified in the 10,000 meters, and Luke Grundvig, who qualified in the 5,000 meters Friday evening.

“We had some good things happen and in a meet like this sometimes you have some disappointments,” BYU coach Ed Eyestone said. “I think we got some people through that we knew had a really good chance of scoring at the NCAA meet. James Corrigan looked good winning his heat in the steeplechase. That’s one of the high points. It’s always exciting when you cap things with the 4×400-meter relay and see our team advance to nationals.”

HE’S HEADED BACK TO NATTYS

Winning his heat with a time of 8:31.79, Corrigan punched his steeplechase ticket!

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Weber State’s Peter Visser was one of three Wildcats vying for a spot in the steeplechase finals through the West regionals in College Station. The junior from Afton, Wyoming, who also qualified for the NCAA cross country championships earned his second finals berth finishing 12th overall in 8:40.17.

Lexy Hallday-Lowry and Taylor Lovell both qualified in the steeplechase for the BYU women’s team, which tied a program record with 10 entries to Track Town, USA. That’s the most since the program first sent 10 entries to the national meet back in 2004.

Former Provo High star Meghan Hunter set a program record with the third-fastest time in NCAA history in the 800 meters in 1:58.95, and North Carolina transfer Carlee Hansen broke the BYU school record in the 1,500 meters in 4:07.64.

Utah Valley’s Ella Hopper broke the school record in the 400-meter hurdle when she finished 17th Friday in 57.73 seconds. Teammate Kelsi Oldroyd broke her own school record in the javelin with a throw of 57.72 meters, becoming the first Utah Valley athlete to qualify for the national meet in the javelin.

The Utah quartet of Megan Rose, Emily Martin, Bailey Kealamkia and Chelsea Amoah became the program’s first 4×100-meter relay team to qualify for nationals in school history, earning the final timed qualifying spot with a school-record time of 43.85.

Former Westlake High standout Shelby Jensen became the first Utah State female athlete to qualify for the national meet since 2019, finishing second in the 3,000-meter steeplechase quarterfinals in 10:00.46.

Sophomore Shelby Jensen punched her ticket to the 2025 National Championships as three women representing Utah State women’s track & field team raced at the 2025 NCAA West First Rounds in College Station, Texas, on Saturday. (Photo: Courtesy, USU Athletics)

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Sami Obad, 400m — 51.29
Meghan Hunter, 800m — 1:58.95
Tessa Buswell, 800m — 2:02.54
Carlee Hansen, 1500m — 4:07.64
Riley Chamberlain, 1500m — 4:08.42
Lexy Halladay-Lowry, 3000m steeplechase — 9:23.03
Taylor Lovell, 3000m steeplechase — 9:42.83
Jenna Hutchins, 5000m — 15:49.95
Gretchen Hoekstre, shot put — 16.87m (55-4.25)
Gretchen Hoekstre, discus — 54.58m (179-1)
Danny Bryant, shot put — 18.91m (16-11.5)
Joey Nokes, 10000m — 28:21.04
Creed Thompson, 10000m — 28:21.52
James Corrigan, 3000m steeplechase — 8:31.79
Luke Grundvig, 5000m — 13:34.63
Eli Hazlett, Josh Taylor, Jonah Heimuli, Trey Jackson; 4x400m relay — 3:03.65
Jaden Roskelley, decathlon — 8,000 points
Ben Barton, decathlon — 7,865 points

TWO 1500M TICKETS!!

Hansen and Chamberlain both punched their tickets to Eugene in the 1500M

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Southern Utah

Ajia Hughes, high jump — 1.81m (5-11.25)

Utah

Megan Rose, Emily Martin, Bailey Kealamakia, Chelsea Amoah; 4x100m relay — 43.85
McKaylie Caesar, 10000m — 34:15.26
Morgan Jensen, 10000m — 34:15.28

Utah State

Shelby Jensen, 3000m steeplechase — 10:00.46
Logan Hammer, pole vault — 5.42m (17-9.25)

Utah Valley

Kelsi Oldroyd, javelin — 57.72m (189-4)
Gavin Stafford, Cameron Franklin, Kade Thompson, Gabe Remy; 4x100m relay — 39.13

Weber State

Peter Visser, 3000m steeplechase — 8:40.17

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MINNEAPOLIS – The University of Minnesota women’s track and field team has qualified two events to the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships in June at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. The Maroon and Gold qualified by finishing in the top 12 of their respective events at the NCAA West Regional at Texas A&M in Bryan-College Station at E.B. […]

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MINNEAPOLIS – The University of Minnesota women’s track and field team has qualified two events to the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships in June at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. The Maroon and Gold qualified by finishing in the top 12 of their respective events at the NCAA West Regional at Texas A&M in Bryan-College Station at E.B. Cushing Stadium on May 29 and May 31.

Ali Weimer was the first Gopher to punch her ticket to NCAAs, earning her first career bid in the 10,000m in a time of 34:09.14 to finish sixth overall. The Big Ten cross country bronze medalist is the first Gopher to qualify for the NCAA 10,000 final since Megan Hasz finished 20th overall and earned Honorable Mention All-America honors in 2019.

Minnesota had a few individuals fall just short of NCAA Championships qualification. Diarra Sow and Zoie Dundon both finished 13th overall in their respective events. Sow matched her season best in the triple jump with a mark of 13.42m (44-0 1/2) and ended in a tie for 12th but due to Oregon’s Ryann Porter having a better second-best mark, Sow was bumped from the top 12. Dundon’s time of 10:05.41 in the 3000m steeplechase also fell short of returning the sophomore to the NCAA Outdoor Championships.

One of the biggest risers of the final month of the season was Dyandra Gray, who punched her first career individual ticket to the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Gray qualified in the 400m hurdles with back-to-back lifetime bests at E.B. Cushing Stadium. Since April 30 Gray has posted five different lifetime best performances, capped off by her 56.86 in the NCAA quarterfinals on Saturday night. Gray now sits at No. 3 all-time in Minnesota 400m hurdles history and will look to move up that list at Hayward Field in June. Gray is the first Gopher to qualify for the NCAA Championships 400m hurdles since 2022 when Abigail Schaaffe earned an Honorable Mention All-America honor.

Women’s Qualified Events (Event, Regional Finish, Qualifying Performance)

Ali Weimer – 10000m (6th. 34:09.14)

Dyandra Gray – 400m Hurdles (10th. 56.86)

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St. Thomas More grad invited to USA Volleyball U23 National Team training

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) – A Champaign native could get the chance to play volleyball internationally this summer. Caroline Kerr, a graduate of St. Thomas More, received an invite to train with the 2025 Women’s U23 National Team for the NORCECA U23 Pan American Cup. Advertisement Kerr was an All-American in 2024 as a redshirt sophomore […]

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) – A Champaign native could get the chance to play volleyball internationally this summer.

Caroline Kerr, a graduate of St. Thomas More, received an invite to train with the 2025 Women’s U23 National Team for the NORCECA U23 Pan American Cup.

Kerr was an All-American in 2024 as a redshirt sophomore at the University of Tennessee. She recorded more than 1,000 assists in the season for the second straight year.

She’s one of just 18 athletes invited to the U23 camp in Anaheim, Calif., from July 18-25.

She looks forward to representing Central Illinois on a big stage, as she has been for years with the Vols.

“I think it’s just really cool to be able to wear that with pride,” Kerr said. “Especially in the SEC there’s not too many Champaign, Illinois out there. So I take a lot of pride in it, being from Illinois and being from Champaign, and credit a lot of my success to the training I’ve been lucky enough to have growing up.”

12 of the 18 athletes will be chosen to represent the United States July 25-August 2 in Leon, Mexico.

Caroline’s younger sister, Addison Kerr, just wrapped up her senior year with the Sabers and is committed to play college volleyball at Southern Illinois.

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Daily Hampshire Gazette – Div. 4 Track & Field: Amherst girls cement place in history, capture first-ever state title

NORTH ANDOVER — It only took a handful of regular season dual meets for Amherst Regional track and field coach Chris Gould to realize just how special his ‘Canes girls team could be in 2025. After blowing out teams throughout the spring, including rival Northampton in early May, Gould tabbed this Amherst girls squad as […]

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He meant every word when he said it then, and Sunday only further solidified Gould’s statement.

The Hurricanes entered Day 2 of the MIAA Division 4 Outdoor Track and Field Championships in first place by two points, with 12 of the weekend’s 19 events still to come – including all three relays, where Amherst excels. Behind gutsy performances from their stellar senior class, and assistance from a couple of fierce freshmen, the ‘Canes (literally) ran away from their competition.

Amherst finished the weekend in first with 87.5 points, securing its first-ever team title at the MIAA Championships. Melrose finished second with 68 points, Holliston grabbed third (59) while Pembroke (fourth, 48) and Newburyport (fifth, 39) rounded out the top five. Northampton was the lone other Hampshire County program competing, and the Blue Devils slotted into 17th with 18 points.

If the Hurricanes weren’t already the greatest team in Amherst Regional history following their win at the Western Massachusetts Championships last weekend, they certainly are now.

“This feels great,” Gould said. “Part of it was convincing the girls to want to win a team title as much as I did. It’s not cool when the coach wants to win more than the athletes do. And they started to increasingly trust each other and their coaches. They totally put it on the line, in every single event, this weekend. I’m so proud of each and every one of them.”

Amherst’s team – numbers-wise – isn’t as large as some of the other teams that competed, but that didn’t stop it. That only meant the Hurricanes had to rely on their athletes to do a little bit of everything.

Senior Moriah Luetjen was one of those who logged a busy afternoon, and it started with a first-place finish in the 400 meters. Luetjen breezed by everyone in the field, finishing over two seconds faster (56.36) than the next finisher – who happened to be sophomore teammate Ololara Baptiste (58.52). Ruby Austin also turned in a strong race in the 400, taking sixth in 1:00.47.

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Luetjen then ran in the 4×800-meter relay alongside Brooke Nedeau, Ella Jamate and Skylar Fox less than an hour later, anchoring the team to a second-place finish with a time of 9:42.50. Austin competed in the 4×100 relay with Claire Fortin, Juliana Albo and Ella Austin, coming in fourth (51.57), as well as the 4×400 relay with Fox, Ella Austin and Baptiste. Baptiste turned in a fantastic anchor leg to help Amherst come in first in what was the final event of the day. Their time of 4:00.36 put a perfect bow on the Hurricanes’ big day.

“This is so rewarding,” Luetjen said of the team’s title. “We’ve all worked so hard for this, and it was not necessarily something that was in the books for us this season. We weren’t really focused on it until [Coach Gould] was talking about us potentially being able to win it. Some of us were kind of on the fence about it, but doing it feels really good for all of us. I’m really proud of everybody for how they pulled through.”

With Amherst holding the slim lead entering Sunday, members of the team knew it was a possibility for them to win the team championship considering many of their strong events were still to come. But the only issue was the order of them, as multiple events that their athletes compete in came one after another later in the day.

Following Luetjen, Baptiste and Austin’s battle in the 400, the trio had about a half hour before the beginning of relays. Fox, Ella Austin and Ruby Austin also competed in two relays with limited time in between.

The ‘Canes knew it would be difficult to stay fresh and mentally prepared for each one, that’s what made the taste of victory so sweet.

“I think we all knew we were capable of it, but with the way the events were ordered, there were a lot of people who had to run back-to-back,” Ruby Austin said. “That made a lot of us really stressed. But we pulled it out, and I’m proud that we all came together to do this.”

Amherst also understood that in order to remain in the team lead, big-time performances in the relays were needed.

“It was definitely a lot,” Fox said. “Moriah did the 400 and the 4×8 almost back-to-back, and I did the 4×8 and the 4×4 back-to-back. And those were two events that we knew we needed to get a lot of points in. For me, that was really stressful, because I knew it wasn’t just my coaches or relay teammates relying on me – it was the whole team. We wanted to have a really strong 4×4 like we always do, so we had to make some sacrifices. In the end it paid off, and it’s rewarding.”

Elsewhere, senior Elizabeth Sawicki won the pole vault on Sunday with a height of 9 feet, a new personal best this season, to go along with her fourth-place mark in the pentathlon and fifth-place finish in the 400 hurdles – both of which she achieved on Friday. Sawicki has experienced the lowest of lows and now the highest of highs during her four years with the program. Going out on top is something she never could have imagined.

“It’s incredible,” Sawicki said. “Freshman year, we were doing pretty good, but the last two years were pretty bad. So to come back this year and have an undefeated season is insane, and just to be a part of that with all these great athletes is incredible. Considering on Friday [Coach Gould] was like, ‘Hey, we’re in first right now,’ and we weren’t sure if it was going to hold, everyone had a lot on their shoulders today and coming out on top is just amazing.”

Freshmen Claire Fortin and Juliana Albo each picked up key points for Amherst, as Albo finished in seventh in the high jump (PR 5 feet), eighth in the long jump (17 feet, 6 3/4 inches) and competed in the 4×100 relay while Fortin also ran in the 4×100 relay. Senior Brooke Nedeau ran the mile, grabbing eighth in 5:22.04.

Jeffries highlights strong weekend from Amherst boys

All spring long, any time Hurricanes senior Miles Jeffries picked up his phone, he’d be greeted with the number ‘49’ plastered as his screen saver. His only goal of the outdoor season was to break 50 seconds in the 400 meters.

After an extremely successful high school career on the tennis courts his first three years of high school, Jeffries chose to join the track team this year. He participated in indoor track in the 2023-24 season and fell in love, so he chose to do it again this past winter. Jeffries enjoyed it so much he gave up his favorite sport, tennis, to run outside this spring.

That decision paid off on Sunday, as Jeffries ran a personal-best time of 49.71 seconds to take home first place in the boys 400. It marked the first time in his career Jeffries broke 50, securing a state title in the process.

Mission accomplished.

“It’s been my goal all year for sure,” Jeffries said. “I look at [the number] 49 every time I check my phone. I’ve just been wanting to do this all season. We’ve had a lot of meets in bad weather, so it’s been hard to show out the way that I’ve wanted to. Today was a pretty nice day out, so I wanted to do it here, and make quitting tennis worth it.”

Jeffries’ first-place finish led Amherst to a fifth-place mark with 45 points, finishing behind Wakefield (74), Pembroke (66), Burlington (53) and Ludlow (53).

Logan Alfandari took second in both the discus (162 feet, 7 inches) and shot put (52 feet, 9¾ inches), and the ‘Canes saw a pair of relay teams crack the top 10 on Sunday. Amherst’s 4×800 relay team of Owen Platt, Calvin Miller, Peter Nedeau and Nico Lisle finished seventh (8:34.37) while the 4×100 relay team of Jose Munnoz Gomez, Tylahn Beckett, Insaf Fazal and Rajahni Conyers finished in ninth (45.42).

Top Northampton finishers from Sunday

Maddalena Figueroa-Starr took fifth place in the 400 with a time of 1:00.32, and joined Katherine Munson, Ella Hoogendyk and Daniela Serlin in the 4×400 relay to take seventh in 4:14.66 to round out the girls competitors on Sunday

The Blue Devils boys were led by Owen LacLachlan’s personal record in the 400, as he turned in a 16th-place finish in 53.59. Northampton also finished 12th in the 4×400 relay with Acer Verson, MacLachlan, Henry Loughrey and Alessandro Agliati and 18th in the 4×800 relay with Pranav Belur, Charlie Sidoti, Xander Lane and Justin Zamura Buri.

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