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A team effort and the save of a lifetimeBy JEFFREY FALKDaily News SportswriterLebanon Daily NewsThrough her son Ryan’s involvement as a pitcher for the Palmyra Area High School baseball team, Lori Dove has become familiar with the concept of a save.

Last Wednesday, Dove recorded a save of her own — one that had nothing to do with the baseball game that was being played a few feet away.

And Chuck Yasinski, the school’s athletic trainer, served as the “set-up” man.

The “save” that Dove and Yasinski collaborated on was the life of Jack Gingrich, father of Cougars’ baseball coach, Tim Gingrich.

With Gingrich lying on his back, the victim of a heart attack, Dove performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, and Yasinski worked on his chest.

Gingrich, who serves under his son as an assistant coach, suffered the heart attack in the Cougar dugout during the eighth inning of a tie game between Middletown and Palmyra at PAHS.

Following Yasinski’s and Dove’s heroics, paramedics transported Gingrich to Hershey Medical Center, where he has been hospitalized since.

Gingrich is Advertisementexpected to be released from HMC tomorrow, according to Tim Gingrich.

And when Gingrich does come home, Yasinski’s and Dov...

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