That didn't last long.

Roughly a month after a shocking transfer to a basketball powerhouse which plans to close following the 2012 school year, Baltimore prep hoops sensation Aquille Carr has transferred back to his original school, Baltimore (Md.) Patterson High, so he could be closer to his infant daughter Averi, who had come down with an illness.

Teen hoops sensation Aquille Carr — Rivals.com

The news of Carr's second transfer in as many months was first delivered by HoopGroup.com, which spoke with the junior sensation -- who was offered a $650,000 professional contract in Italy while just 16 years old -- about his surprising decision to return to Baltimore so soon after leaving his home city for Elizabeth (N.J.) St. Patrick School.

"I was away from my daughter too long. She had gotten sick so I wanted to come home and take care of her," Carr told Hoop Group. "And I just wanted to spend the first year of her life there, and be there for her.

"I just wanted to come home to feel better…It wasn't a basketball or school issue."

While Carr's motivations are certainly understandable, some might question why he transferred out of Baltimore in the first place given his concerns about his daughter, who was just two weeks old when he first left Baltimore for the school uniforms and New Jersey climes of St. Patrick.

There were widespread rumors in the basketball recruiting community that Carr's transfer was academically motivated, with St. Patrick offering the chance to take care of a handful of credits that would move the player closer to graduation and qualifying for the scholarship to Seton Hall which he has committed to accept, should be qualify for it.

Where Carr will take up that pursuit in the 2012-13 school year remains to be seen. Carr openly said he had no idea where he would play his senior season when asked by Hoop Group, but his desire to be close to his daughter might indeed make the home comforts of Patterson a likely landing spot, even if others have speculated that Carr could wind up at Las Vegas (Nev.) Findlay Prep or Mouth of Wilson (Va.) Oak Hill Academy for his final high school season.

Shayna Hersh, an 11-year-old from Huntington Woods, Mich., is a baseball player. A die-hard Tigers fan, Hersh even refused to play softball because she so badly wanted to be like her favorite athletes. For Hersh, no other athlete is as beloved as Tigers Cy Young winner Justin Verlander.

As reported by the Detroit News and a variety of other sources, including Off the Bench, Hersh often wears Verlander t-shirts. Her friends on her baseball team all call her Verlander, and Hersh claims "they say I throw like him." Her father insists that his daughter even knows more about Verlander than the pitcher knows about himself.

Yet all isn't entirely sunny for Hersh. The Huntington Woods elementary schooler has lived her entire life with cystic fibrosis, the debilitating disease which affects Hersh's lungs and poses a threat to her life every day. Hersh also lost her mother to an unspecified disease in 2011.

Those traumatic setbacks haven't slowed Hersh's commitment to baseball or, notably, to Verlander. The 11-year-old has been writing letters to Verlander for multiple years, and the pitcher took note, eventually helping organize a trip for Hersh and her father to see the Tigers play at Yankee Stadium.

Throughout that trip, Shayna Hersh didn't know that Verlander had set up her trip … until he surprised her while she was filming a segment about the trip in MLB's Fan Cave, as you can see above.

The 11-year-old was clearly touched, but she never lost her cool while in the presence of her hero. "I stayed for the whole game," Hersh said when Verlander asked her about the prior evening's matchup at Yankee Stadium.

All different kinds of situations can lead to delays or postponements of baseball games. Weather issues often come into play, and occasionally electrical outages can throw a wrench in the best laid plans. And of course umpire disputes can delay a game or series, too.

The San Antonio Madison baseball team celebrates a win — BeRecruited

Wait, what? Umpire dispute? Incredibly, in Texas that's precisely what happened.

As reported by the San Antonio Express-News, two different high school baseball playoff series had to be delayed because of an injunction filed in relation to a dispute between two different groups of baseball umpires. While the Texas Collegiate Umpire Association was scheduled to work the San Antonio (Texas) Madison High vs. San Antonio (Texas) Judson High series and the Boerne (Texas) Champion High vs. Buda (Texas) Hays High series, a suit from the San Antonio branch of the Texas Association of Sports Officials forced the opening of both series to be delayed.

The two groups of officials don't necessarily play well together, so it was not particularly surprising that one would be upset when the other was chosen to officiate a prestigious playoff series. Rather, the issue may be why the decision to pick one over the other was considered a major surprise.

As the Express-News noted, the San Antonio North East Independent School District used TASO-San Antonio officials throughout the regular season only to choose TCUA officials for the playoffs. That upset the TASO members, who then filed an injunction claiming that they had a right to work the playoffs because they were the officials working that region during the regular season.

A TASO official works a softball game — TASO.org

With no quick resolution in sight, athletic directors from the effected schools decided to postpone their playoff series rather than scramble to find other officials to work the game on a moment's notice, even though Champion was actually en route to Hays for their game when they first learned of the umpire snafu.

In what may be a fitting twist to the feuding officials groups, the injunction filed between the two may actually keep either group from being able to officiate either playoff series.

Redemption can come in many forms. For Kennesaw (Ga.) Harrison High soccer star Trevor Stolz, it came nearly bundled in a like-for-like replacement that few would have even imagined possible.

In 2011, Stolz struck one of his team's goals of the season -- if not the goal of the season in the state -- when he connected on an overhead bicycle kick to score in a tight playoff matchup. There was just one problem: The goal in question was wiped out by a rather ludicrous yellow card handed to Stolz for accidentally kicking his opposing defender on the follow through of his kick.

When you watch that 2011 wonder goal, it is almost impossible to understand how Stolz could have received a card for the kick. Clearly the junior felt the same way, as his instant protestations about the discipline indicate.

It would be understandable if Stolz chalked the lost goal, one which might be a once-in-a-lifetime strike, to simple bad luck. If he did, he never gave up on the idea of scoring such an audacious goal again.

That is now certain because, incredibly, Stolz scored an almost identical goal almost exactly a year later, again in the playoffs. Deadlocked 2-2 against Woodward (Ga.) High, Stolz found an inbounds pass taking a lucky bounce in his direction, headed the ball up and set himself up for an almost identical bicycle attempt.

This time, there was no one around to possibly keep the goal from counting, and the strike eventually gave Harrison a 3-2 victory.

Tragedy struck a Texas softball playoff game on Friday night after an umpire working the game collapsed and died in the middle of the second inning.

The Cinco Ranch and MacArthur softball teams join in a prayer circle — Twitter

According to the Houston Chronicle and YourHoustonNews.com, among other outlets, the frightening incident occurred during a matchup between Katy (Texas) Cinco Ranch High and Houston (Texas) MacArthur High. During the second inning, first base umpire Ricky Scearce Jr., collapsed of an apparent heart attack on the field. He was immediately taken to nearby Memorial Herman Northeast Hospital, but was pronounced dead approximately an hour later.

"We are in utter shock," Scearce's daughter, Cara Smith, told Your Houston News. "He was a healthy man. All he needed was a knee replacement. We are in absolute shock and there is a lot of sadness.

"That was one of his loves. He dedicated his life to being an umpire."

While concern immediately focused on the welfare of the 60-year-old Scearce, the umpire's collapse also led to the postponement of the playoff series between Cinco Ranch and MacArthur, with the postponed game rescheduled for Saturday. Cinco Ranch eventually won the rescheduled Saturday matchup and followed that with a second victory to advance to the Texas Region II quarterfinals with a 2-1 series win over MacArthur.

Texas softball umpire Ricky Scearce Jr. — Houston Chronicle

Immediately after Scearce's collapse, both the Cinco Ranch and MacArthur teams gathered together in a prayer circle for the fallen umpire, as you can see in the picture above from the Twitter account of MacArthur senior pitcher Alyssa Perez, who later noted that paramedics on the scene told the players and fans at the game that Scearce had died while he was on the field.

"It really was [crazy]!" Perez Tweeted on Friday. "Just happened out of nowhere!

"They didn't want to put him in a body bag in front of everyone so they just took him inside the ambulance."

There may have been little comfort for the Scearce family on Friday night or Saturday as they adjusted to life without the Katy resident, but Cinco Ranch coach Jerry Miller expressed a sense of peace in knowing Scearce died doing what he loved.

A high school softball coach and teacher at a New Jersey Catholic school has been arrested and charged with sexual assault after she allegedly had a sexual relationship with a student at the school in which she coached.

Wood-Ridge softball coach Jillian Clementi — Bergen County Prosecutor's Office

According to NJ.com and CBS New York, among other sources, 28-year-old Wood-Ridge (N.J.) High softball coach Jillian Clementi was arrested and charged with sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child for holding an ongoing sexual relationship with a former male Wood-Ridge student.

The softball coach allegedly met with the student at her house on multiple occasions while he was still a student at the school, though he has since graduated, according to Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli.

Clementi, a former all-state softball player at Washington Township (N.J.) Immaculate Heart Academy, had returned to teach social studies at the school since 2008. The Archdiocese of Newark which is in charge of Sacred Heart officially suspended the coach and teacher indefinitely shortly after she was arrested.

"She's out of the classroom and she's not part of the faculty now," Jim Goodness, the Newark diocese spokesman, told NJ.com. "We view these as very serious accusations."

There are losing streaks, and then there are the steaks like the one that the Arlington (Va.) Wakefield High boys lacrosse program was on entering the 2012 season. Heading into the first season of Wakefield head coach Brian Gilman's tenure at the held of the program, the Warriors had lost 91 straight games.

Wakefield boys lacrosse — WakefieldAthletics.org

Yes, 91. The losing streak stretched back to 2004, when the Warriors lacrosse squad last won a game, against Arlington (Va.) Stuart High. After another rough start to the season, Wakefield's losing streak sat at 99 entering a face off with fellow struggling squad Sterling (Va.) Park View High in late April.

That's when Wakefield not only beat a fellow Virginia team, it blew it out.

As noted in LaxPower.com's statistical database, among other sites, Wakefield blitzed past Park View, 12-1, ending an almost unfathomable losing streak that lasted nearly a full decade.

For Gilman's part, earning a single victory was an accomplishment in itself, the first step to proving the program it could win important games in the future simply by winning a game now.

"That's the No. 1 thing is to get that first W -- get the monkey off our back," Gilman told the Connection Newspapers. "Then I think the guys will start getting into a culture of winning. I think once they get that first win they'll see the excitement and they'll just explode from there out. The other thing is [changing] the culture. Wakefield has a lot of negative stereotypes associated with the school and a lot of them are false. We have guys that are hard working; they want to try hard. …

"It's breaking those stereotypes and showing that we're actually a serious program now. It's not just some team that's a joke and we're hanging around, we're doing this for fun. We're here to win; we're here to do some business."

Unfortunately, it's been a return to business as usual for Wakefield after the breakthrough victory. The Warriors dropped their following three games, all by 10 goals or more.

Still, even a final record of 1-12 would register as a major accomplishment for a program which is still searching to find its footing in its own community.

"Even our own school, [people] sometimes are against us," Wakefield player DJ Johnson told the Connection. "We want them to support the lacrosse team [but] they don't really want to because of our record."

In late April, Prep Rally brought you the story of the forthcoming U.S. Olympic women's table tennis team, a group comprised entirely of Asian American teens from California. Now it has emerged that the most highly regarded of that trio was first discovered and championed by a man who has made his name and fortune almost as far away from sports as possible: Legendary investor and Berkshire Hathaway founder Warren Buffett.

U.S. Olympic table tennis player Ariel Hsing — Associated Press

As reported by the Wall Street Journal, and later picked up by Off the Bench and other outlets, America's top-ranked table tennis star, 16-year-old Ariel Hsing, has known Buffett since she was nine, when the investor mogul faced off against the ping pong phenom at a company event.

Hsing is now the champion of the North American Table Tennis trials, and enters the Olympics as one of America's best chances for a medal in the event in years, even if she will still be considered a bit of a long shot because of her age and general lack of international experience.

For Hsing, a longtime relationship with Buffett has proved incredibly influential. The California native who attends San Jose (Calif.) Valley Christian School refers to Buffett as "Uncle Warren" and said that the billionaire's influence on her life had inspired her to change her future academic interests from medicine to business. Her relationship with Buffett also opened doors to meet other business luminaries including Microsoft founder Bill Gates, another famous table tennis player who was summarily dispatched by an 11-year-old Hsing at a Berkshire Hathaway event. Buffett even went so far as to claim that Gates' "manhood was challenged" when Hsing defeated him.

"The luckiest moment of my life was meeting Uncle Warren [Buffett] and Uncle Bill [Gates]," Hsing told the Journal.

Indeed, making those kind of connections before Hsing has even applied to college could make life much easier for Hsing, not that she necessarily needs the help. The teenager reportedly boasts impressive grades at Valley Christian and has her future priorities straight; right now, she's worried about the SATs first and ping pong second, even though she's fewer than three months away from her first Olympics. Those priorities have long been engrained in Hsing's psyche because of her parents' influence; they told Ariel Hsing that she would have to stop playing table tennis if her grades dropped from all A's to B's.