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PHILADELPHIA -- Luke Weaver is learning that he doesnt need to be so perfect.Weaver took the loss in his second major league start as Cesar Hernandez homered, doubled and singled to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to a 4-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday night.Weaver (0-1), a 22-year-old 2014 first-round picks, went five innings and allowed three runs on nine hits with six strikeouts and no walks.I might be trying to make too good of pitches, which pushes the pitch count up, said Weaver, who was lifted after 96 pitches. Its not about making the perfect pitch, just making a quality one.Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said Weaver just needs to trust the stuff that got him to the big leagues.If theres one thing I think hes doing, he might be giving hitters at this level too much credit, Matheny said. Hes a guy thats been able to work in the zone and the bottom of the zone and trust his stuff and not feel like he has to be perfect. It looks like hes trying to be perfect here.Jeremy Hazelbaker homered and Jhonny Peralta had three hits for St. Louis, which had won five in a row. The Cardinals are 1 1/2 games ahead of Miami for the second wild-card spot in the National League.We had a hard time getting anything going against their starter, Matheny said. We couldnt get a lot of those late hits weve been accustomed to getting.St. Louis fell short of setting a major league record of 10 straight games with multiple home runs. The Cardinals tied the mark with a pair of homers Friday night.Its hard to hit one a game for a consistent amount of time, Matheny said. I thought today might be a day, especially when Hazelbaker hit one early. You could it the way guys were taking their at-bats there was an opportunity to maybe do it again.Maikel Franco had two hits, including a double and the winning RBI, and Aaron Altherr homered for the Phillies. They have hit home runs in 14 straight games.Great night for us, Phillies manager Pete Mackanin said.Jeremy Hellickson (10-7) became the first Phillies starter to throw seven innings since July 26.That was just what the doctor ordered, Mackanin said.Hellickson skipped his last start because of back tightness. The right-hander looked healthy and sharp, allowing two runs on seven hits with eight strikeouts and one walk. He pumped his fist into his glove after striking out pinch-hitter Greg Garcia to finish the seventh.I felt good, Hellickson said. It was good to save the bullpen tonight. I was just getting ahead and kept the fastball down for the most part.Franco put the Phillies ahead for good with a two-out single to left in the fifth that scored Hernandez from third.Jeanmar Gomez pitched a scoreless ninth for his 33rd save in 37 opportunities.The Phillies jumped on Weaver with a pair of runs in the first.Hernandez led off by driving an 0-1 pitch into the seats in right field for his fourth homer of the season. The Phillies have gotten Hernandez to level his swing midseason, and he is batting .350 since June 27. He is hitting .500 with a pair of homers in seven games during Philadelphias current homestand.Hes really swinging the bat well, Mackanin said. We had a harsh reality check for him -- keep the ball out of the air.Cameron Rupp put Philadelphia in front 2-0 with a broken-bat RBI single to left.The Cardinals tied it in the third. Weaver singled to center for his first career hit and scored on Hazelbakers two-run homer to left.After the Phillies took the lead in the fifth, Altherr made it a 4-2 game by drilling an 0-1 pitch from Jonathan Broxton over the wall in left.YOU AGAIN?Altherrs homer was the first the Phillies have hit off Broxton since Matt Stairs pinch-hit homer in Game 4 of the 2008 NLCS at Los Angeles.WEAVERS OUTINGRARE WINThe Phillies won for just the third time in their last 12 games against St. Louis.FAN HITA young fan sitting about 20 rows behind the Cardinals dugout was struck by a foul ball off the bat of Freddy Galvis in the eighth inning. After being treated at the seat for several minutes, the fan was carried out to the concourse by an adult into the waiting arms of medical personnel.TRAINERS ROOMPhillies: Hernandez was back in the starting lineup after a two-game absence due to a sore right foot. 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The Vikings announced Thursday that Priefer will be one of seven holdovers from the previous staff, along with offensive line coach Jeff Davidson, wide receivers coach George Stewart and others. Norv Turner will mark his 30th year of coaching in the NFL as the offensive co-ordinator, as widely reported for weeks, and George Edwards will be the defensive co-ordinator.The stumps are the real giveaway. One red, one yellow, one blue: the colours of the Colombian flag. And, of course, the altitude - at 2600 metres above sea level, fielding here is an exhausting business. So too fast bowling. But everything else about this match feels decidedly English: from the relentless afternoon drizzle to the dominance of a tall Australian with a handlebar moustache. This time, however, those ducking and diving are not batsmen but bowlers (the umpire and non-striker too); and the Australian in question is not Mitchell Johnson but the considerably less well-known Damien Alifraco, a former grade cricketer now living here amid the ever-expanding urban sprawl of Bogota, Colombia.Welcome to the Bogota Sports Club, aka Club Ingles, a little slice of old England on the outskirts of Colombias capital city. Founded and funded by a pair of English expats in 1961, Bogota Sports Club is now on its third location, as detailed here on ESPNcricinfo back in 2000. This June, while the rest of Colombia was focused on an increasingly divisive general election and the football World Cup, the British ambassador was here in the pavilion to watch the cricket with his family. The building - a quirky, brick Modernist-tinged affair - is spacious and well-equipped. In the bar hangs a large portrait of Prince William and Kate Middleton in all their wedding finery. Elsewhere, bare brick walls are adorned with sepia-tinted photos of cricket teams of yore.Hard as it may be to believe, cricket has been played on and off in Colombia for over 100 years, with reports of matches at La Magdalena Jocking Club as far back as 1905. But while the sport has flourished in other South American nations (Argentina, for example, have been ICC Associate Members since 1974) Colombia has been left behind. As the article from 2000 on ESPNcricinfo noted: Like many outposts of the game, the playing numbers and standard varies depending on economic variables which either attract or repel foreign labour to or from the country.The fortunes of cricket in the country therefore provide an echo of the wider economic and political context. In the comparatively peaceful 1970s, with many players employees of the Royal Bank of Canada, Lloyds Bank, and the British Consulate in Cali, frequent matches were played against Caracas and Lima. High-profile visitors included John Morrison and Andy Roberts (playing together for the New Zealand Ambassadors XI in 1970). The apex came perhaps in 1979, with the arrival of the Derrick Robins XI, captained by Chris Cowdrey and including the likes of Bill Athey, Tim Lloyd and Graham Stevenson.But as Colombia became increasingly violent in the 1980s and 90s, the foreigners began to leave. The early 2000s saw the brief return of regular cricket, thanks in part to Norman Bracht, a Canadian expat and some-time ESPNcricinfo correspondent. But in truth, cricket here hasnt been the same since its 1970s heyday.But that may be about to change. The last few years have seen the resurrection of Bogotas long-standing rivalry with Cali, a city some 400km to the south, with the return of a fixture that dates back to 1957. This June saw the Cali team fly in especially for the weekend, so it was a shame it was not more of a contest. After losing the toss and being asked to bat first, Alifraco led from the front with a chanceless innings. With his opening partner, Cameron Forbes, notching a (noticeably less classy) hundred of his own, the Cali bowlers, though tidy, were put to the sword on a matted concrete wicket that offered nothing. Bogota racked up 264 for 1 in their 25 overs, Cali, in reply, never got going (they managed just 67 for 5) and the result was victory for Bogota by the crushing margin of 197 runs.The weekend was notable not only for the game itself but also for a significant step in the evolution of the sport in Colombia. After the match, the two teams gathered in the north of Bogota to mark the inauguration of the new Colombia Cricket Board - at a gastro-pub named (what else?) El Ingles.dddddddddddd. The first aim of the board is to put structures in place to ensure crickets future here. Much credit for this initiative - and for the success of the weekend - must go to Andy Wright, a rugby-playing former banker from Newcastle, who was introduced to the Bogota Sports Club by Bracht. Cricket has been on record in Colombia since 1905, he says. However it has depended upon individuals, and no official club or board has seemingly ever been formed. The idea now is to give more structure to the practice and development of the sport here, so that it stands the test of time even if individuals come and go.Because come and go they do, especially during periods of pronounced political turbulence. The mid-2000s, for example, was among the bloodiest periods in Colombias long-running civil war. As George Bush ramped up his War on Drugs (spending billions on the controversial Plan Colombia), thousands were killed each year in brutal fighting between government armed forces, rebel groups (such as the communist FARC and ELN), and right-wing paramilitaries. Violence is not an attractive proposition for foreign investors, and as the expats departed, so cricket too faded away.In recent years, however, violence in Colombia seems to be on the decline, and the ongoing peace talks taking place in Havana offer at least some hope of a permanent solution. Colombians agree, as President Juan Manuel Santos, who initiated the talks in 2012, has just been voted in for a second term. As the political climate stabilises (leaving aside Bogotas recent mayoral fiasco) investment is returning. Under successive neo-liberal presidents, vast shopping malls have been popping up in the citys affluent north, containing all the usual multinational conglomerates. Wright too returned in 2009 and he is now CEO of UK Colombia Trade, a trade development agency based in the British Embassy, helping British companies do more business in Colombia. At the same time, he has helped to get cricket going again, and with a group of other committed cricketers restarted the traditional fixture against Cali. The long-term aim of the new Colombian Cricket Board is to widen the sports appeal beyond the expat community. This years Cali-Bogota fixture was dominated by English and Australian expats - small businessmen, teachers, journalists, and a member of the British military. But two Colombians also played, which is a start at least. Meanwhile the Cali players have already made great efforts to teach the game to local children - both boys and girls.Wright hopes that cricket can follow the success that rugby has had here. Since rugbys introduction as a purely expat pastime in the 1970s, there are now 12,000 registered players across all the major cities of Colombia. Wright - who coached the national rugby team, The Toucans, at the 2001 World Cup qualifiers - credits the support given by the International Rugby Board. Significant IRB funding has taken rugby to real problem areas in the country, he says, and the sport is changing lives.Its something the ICC could learn from, Wright believes. Other countries in Latin America have registered as Affiliates of the ICC, and Colombia will be hosting two of them (Peru and Brazil) on October 4 and 5 for a tri-national T20 tournament. Unfortunately, as Wright points out, the entry standards have since been raised and Colombia does not currently qualify for ICC support. In order to become an ICC Affiliate, countries must have a minimum of eight senior teams and four junior teams playing in structured competition. But with the country currently in the grip of football World Cup fever its hard to see how cricket could really take off here without significant investment. For now, then, cricket remains a predominantly English pastime, but by some distance the best one there is. ' ' '