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BLUE CREEK, North Carolina. (KEYT) - In their Cal Poly debut, Oregon State transfer Laif Palmer scattered four hits over five innings and struck out seven while Sean McGrath and Corden Pettey, both freshmen, allowed just one run over the final four frames as the Mustangs completed a sweep of their doubleheader at Campbell with a 4-3 victory in Saturday's nightcap at Jim Perry Stadium.

Coupled with a 16-5 triumph in the opener, Cal Poly (2-1) clinched the three-game non-conference series, bouncing back from Friday's season-opening 5-2 setback. Sunday's scheduled finale was moved to Saturday night due to an approaching weather front.

"Having to play a doubleheader after losing the opener the day before shows some character and some resilience from our team," said 24th-year Mustang head coach Larry Lee. "We turned what could have been a big negative into a positive.

"We still have a long way to go in all facets of the game to become the team that we need to become," Lee added.

In the nightcap, Cal Poly scored single runs in the first and third innings. Dante Vachini opened the game with a double and eventually scored on a groundout by Alejandro Garza. The same two players figured prominently in the third-inning run as well, with Vachini singling and Garza knocking him home with a single of his own.

Campbell scored twice in the fifth to tie the game at 2-2, but Cal Poly wasted no time jumping back on top as Nate Castellon opened the sixth with a double and trotted home on Casey Murray Jr.'s run-scoring single to right field.

The Mustangs added what turned out to be a much-needed insurance run in the ninth on a double by Cam Hoiland and a sacrifice fly off the bat of Jake Downing. Campbell pulled to within a run in the bottom of the ninth on Andrew Keller's pinch-hit single to right before Pettey induced Carlos Lugo to roll a grounder to shortstop for the game-ending force play at second base.

Palmer (1-0) struck out a pair of batters in both the first and fifth innings to wriggle out of jams as Campbell stranded eight runners on the basepaths. McGrath pitched one scoreless frame while Pettey earned a save by giving up just one run and one hit over three innings, striking out four.

"Palmer threw great, McGrath worked himself out of some trouble and then Petty came in and did a real good job as a first outing for a freshman," said Lee. "Against a good team on the road and playing three games in the course of 24 hours, we accomplished some things.

"It's early. We're still trying to figure out a lot of different things, who fits in where, defensively and in the batting order, but it was a good first weekend to get some answers," said Lee.

Vachini was the lone Mustang with multiple hits in the nightcap. Four of Cal Poly's seven hits were doubles. Campbell's six hits included two singles by designated hitter Jonah Oster.

Cal Poly 16, Campbell 5 (Opener)

Cal Poly produced three crooked numbers, jumping to a 5-0 lead in the first inning, snapping a 5-5 tie with three runs in the seventh and breaking the game wide open with an eight-run ninth-inning rally to win the opener.

A two-run single by Braxton Thomas and a three-run home run by Ryan Tayman staked the Mustangs to their early 5-0 lead in the opening frame.

After Campbell scored in four of its first five at

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Por Ibrahim Dahman, Eyad Kourdi y Tim Lister, CNN

Un combatiente de alto rango en Gaza murió este domingo en un ataque aéreo israelí, según la televisora Al Aqsa, controlada por el grupo extremista Hamas.

Sami al-Dahdouh —miembro del grupo Yihad Islámica— murió en Gaza.

No hubo confirmación del ataque por parte de las Fuerzas Armadas de Israel. Video desde Gaza mostró la procesión fúnebre de al-Dahdouh.

En total, 11 personas murieron en Gaza este domingo, según el portavoz de Defensa Civil, Mahmoud Basal, una cifra marcadamente superior al promedio diario reciente. Decenas resultaron heridas como resultado de los ataques israelíes, dijo en un comunicado.

Uno de los fallecidos fue el hijo de un destacado operativo de Hamas, Muhammad Abu Askar, quien a su vez murió hace un año. Iyad Abu Askar murió durante la noche cuando una tienda para personas desplazadas fue alcanzada cerca del campamento de Jabalia, en el norte de Gaza, según su familia.

El aumento de los ataques israelíes ocurre días antes de la primera reunión programada de la Junta de Paz para Gaza del presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, a la que Israel se sumó oficialmente durante la visita del primer ministro de Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, a Washington la semana pasada.

El portavoz de Hamas, Hazem Qassem, dijo que Israel cometió una “masacre al atacar a personas desplazadas en sus tiendas, en una grave violación del acuerdo de cese del fuego”.

El viernes, el jefe militar de Israel, Eyal Zamir, dijo que las Fuerzas Armadas están “controlando las puertas de Gaza y despejando sistemáticamente la zona de infraestructuras terroristas”.

“Recientemente matamos a muchos terroristas, entre ellos altos operativos de organizaciones terroristas”, dijo Zamir durante una visita a Gaza.

“No estamos renunciando al objetivo de la guerra: la desmilitarización completa de Gaza y el desarme de Hamas”, afirmó.

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By Dana Santas, CNN

(CNN) — If you have recurring back pain, you’ve probably tried strengthening your core, loosening your hips and stretching your back. Those strategies can help, but they don’t always provide a complete solution. When pain lingers or flares up during everyday movements, it’s often a sign that a critical area is being overlooked: your rib cage.

Because all 12 vertebrae of your thoracic spine (middle segment) connect to your rib cage, rib mobility plays a central role in how your spine moves and how forces are managed through your back. When rib motion is limited, upper-body and mid-back movement are also restricted. The result is not just overall tension but added strain on your lower back.

Rib cage stiffness goes largely unnoticed because it develops gradually through factors such as less-than-optimal breathing mechanics and poor movement patterns. With a few simple, daily exercises, you can counter the causes of rib immobility and restore healthy motion that relieves and prevents back pain.

How rib cage rigidity hurts your back

Your rib cage serves as a protective structure for your heart and lungs, but it’s not a rigid design. Your ribs wrap around your upper and mid-back and attach to your spine, providing a supportive, mobile framework for rotating and bending. Activities such as reaching, turning to look behind you or carrying uneven loads all rely on functional rib cage and thoracic spine mobility.

When your rib cage becomes stiff, it compromises healthy thoracic motion, forcing the lumbar spine in the lower back to pick up the slack. This compensation pattern is common in people who sit for long hours, train with limited focus on rotation or habitually hold tension in their upper bodies.

Your lumbar spine is designed primarily for stability and not large degrees of rotation, so the stress of compensating takes a toll. Over time, your nervous system senses instability and responds by creating protective tension, further limiting movement and increasing pain as a warning signal.

Why breathing matters

Rib mobility is a critical component of proper breathing. The ribs need to expand and contract for the diaphragm — your primary breathing muscle — to function. When your breath becomes shallow or chronically upper-chest-oriented, rib movement diminishes further.

That restriction creates a dysfunctional cycle that ultimately contributes to back pain. Limited rib mobility interferes with the ability to breathe deeply, triggering your body’s stress response, which increases muscle tensing as a guarding mechanism. In turn, that tension further reduces movement options for the spine, especially during rotation and extension. For many people with back pain, this cycle has been unfolding quietly for years.

Restoring rib cage mobility with breathing-based exercises helps break that loop. Improved rib motion supports deeper breathing and vice versa, while both reduce protective tension and enable healthy spine movement.

Positional breathing exercises to restore rib mobility

The following three categories of exercises emphasize a focus on rib and spinal movement powered by slow, deep, diaphragmatic breaths. As you practice them, move within a comfortable range and stop if you feel pain or experience dif