For the fourth straight season, the @ECGullsBaseball team is headed to the NCAA Division 3 College World Series after defeating rival Salve Regina, 12-4, today in the third & final game of their Super Regional. Endicott (now 40-11) heads to Ohio in hopes of bringing home a natty.
Shout out to Kevin Vance, who was named Mountain West Coach of the Year after leading the Aztecs to the MW regular-season championship in his first year at the helm. Congrats, Coach! #GoAztecs | #MWBSB
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In 1995, a nurse broke hospital rules to place a newborn into her twin sister’s incubator. The baby was not expected to survive.
Kyrie and Brielle Jackson were born 12 weeks early at a hospital in the United States. Each weighed roughly two pounds. They were placed in separate incubators, standard practice to prevent infection.
Kyrie gained strength. Brielle did not. Three weeks after birth, Brielle went into critical condition. Her oxygen dropped. Her heart rate spiked. Her skin turned bluish-grey. Nurse Gayle Kasparian tried everything. She held her. She had her father hold her. She wrapped her in a blanket. Nothing worked.
Kasparian remembered hearing about a practice used in parts of Europe but never tried in American hospitals. She placed Brielle into Kyrie’s incubator. Their father described what happened next: “She snuggled up to Kyrie and she was just fine. It was immediate. It was absolutely immediate.”
Within minutes, Brielle’s oxygen levels were the best they had been since she was born. As she slept, Kyrie stretched her left arm across her sister’s body and held her.
Photographer Chris Christo captured the moment. The image spread around the world and became known as “The Rescuing Hug.” Hospitals across multiple countries began placing premature twins together, a practice that had been resisted for decades. Both girls went home healthy. They are now 30.