The contest took place at Dexter Park, before a vast crowd of spectators, the majority of whom looked to see the Nationals have almost a walk-over.

Regionals took place in mid-February of each year, and Nationals at the end of April.

Though the Washington Nationals franchise has four no-hitters in its history, including a perfect game by Dennis Martinez, all of them took place during the team's existence as the Montreal Expos.

In January 2011 Ranger Bear had his first ever qualification for Universal Cheer Association Mascot Nationals where he took 3rd place.

In 17 appearances ( 16 starts ), he had a 3 – 7 record and a 6. 64 ERA, and he took much criticism for the Marlins ' first-half struggles in 2005 ( they were 7 games behind the surprising Washington Nationals at the All-Star break ).

In the middle of his third season, his knowledge of the game was so highly regarded that he was offered the managing position of the Washington Nationals, and he took over the team on August 21, 1886.

Both the 2006 and 2007 Nationals took place in Daytona Beach, Florida.

In Washington, DC, the Washington Nationals have made fun of them, calling them the " un-Racing Sausages " during Brewers visits to the nation's capital in the Presidents Race, featuring runners dressed in oversized costumes representing the four Presidents on Mount Rushmore — George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt — which began when Ted Lerner took over ownership of the team in 2006 ; the live action version replacing a computerized animation version.

He won Nationals his freshmen year, took 6th place his sophomore year, won his junior year and placed second his senior year.

On September 27, Moyer took the mound for the Phillies against the Nationals, in a game where the Phillies could clinch the National League East title with a win.

Although they lost several shows to both BD and The Cadets, the Cavaliers took command at the DCI championships in Buffalo, winning Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and Finals for their first consecutive championships since winning the American Legion Nationals in 1966 and ' 67.

Girardi took himself out of the running for the Washington Nationals ' managerial job shortly thereafter and returned to the broadcast booth for the YES Network in 2007.

Dibble took a few days off from MASN after making the comments, and on September 1, 2010, MASN announced that Dibble would no longer be calling Nationals games.

The 50th running of the Knoxville Nationals took place place August 11 to 14, 2010.

This marked a shift from recent years where Phillies fans had flooded the park, as the crowd was predominantly Nationals fans and the team took two of three from their division rivals.

At the Nationals in 2006 ( NM Langbane ), ASK took 20 medals ( 7 gold, 8 silver and 5 bronze ).

He took the 1st place in the NPC Nationals Championship event in 1994.

In this series, the Nationals took two out of three games, including an exciting final game in which second baseman Ronnie Belliard hit a walk-off home run to win the game.

The Orioles were able to take the first two games of the series, while the Nationals took the final game of the series.

Starting in February 2009, he took a leave of absence from his position after it was discovered that one of Rijo's scouting finds, Dominican shortstop Esmailyn Gonzalez was actually named Carlos David Alvarez Lugo and was four years older than the Nationals believed when they signed him.

In the playoffs the Nationals would face the Cincinnati Royals, getting off to a 2 – 1 series lead.

Despite having made a promise to Shuichiro Oishi that he would lead Seigaku to the Nationals, Tezuka decided to quit the tennis club because he did not want to be on the same team with people who used their racquets to hurt others.

He is determined to lead his team to the Nationals, which often results in him ignoring his doctor's warnings against him playing in arduous tennis matches-considering his health secondary to the team's success, and continuing to risk re-injury in his matches to ensure their victory.

When the Liberal President of the Board of Education Sir Donald Maclean died, Margesson insisted that to appoint another Liberal merely on the basis of party balance would inflame tensions amongst Conservative MPs, potentially lead to a poor appointment and maintain an imbalance since the Liberals had one more Cabinet Minister than the Liberal Nationals ( and the National Labour Lord Privy Seal Lord Snowden was increasingly siding with the Liberals on all key divisions, thus providing a surrogate ), despite the latter having two more MPs.

His exploits, previous military experience, ability to rise above racism and empathize with local populations, and his stated mercenary intentions, made him an attractive candidate to lead a force of Foreign Nationals in defense of Shanghai against encroaching Taiping forces.

The Nationals produced a number of controversial advertisements, one of which alleged that the Labor Opposition's plan to decriminalise homosexuality would lead to a flood of gays from southern states moving to Queensland.

The Drum Major of the Cary High School Marching Band prepares to lead his band onto the field at the 2009 USSBA Grand Nationals.

Armed with her newly minted college degree, Kwiatkowski struck back with a strong performance at the 1995 U. S. Nationals, taking the lead after the short program and finishing third behind Nicole Bobek and Michelle Kwan, with a fall on a triple flip in the long program costing her a shot at the title ( see 1995 Nationals review article written the following year, " Kwiatkowksi is no kid at U. S. Championships " AP News, January 17, 1996 ).

The Brewers did suffer some early losses in spring training, as Zack Greinke was lost to a rib injury that would keep him out for a month, and Corey Hart was out for the first half of April with a hamstring injury, which caused the Brewers to make a last-minute trade at the end of spring training for Washington Nationals outfielder Nyjer Morgan.

In South Australia, for the first time in the Nationals ' history, in 2002 the single Nationals member in the House of Assembly entered the Rann Labor Government as a Minister forming an informal coalition between the two parties.

Through this period, the NBA continued to strengthen with the shift of the Minneapolis Lakers to Los Angeles, the Philadelphia Warriors to San Francisco, the Syracuse Nationals to Philadelphia to become the Philadelphia 76ers, and the St. Louis Hawks moving to Atlanta, as well as the addition of its first expansion franchises.

However, a hot start in the second half of the season put the Phillies back on the postseason hunt, though any hope was eventually extinguished with a loss to the Washington Nationals on September 28, thus the Phillies missed the postseason for the first time since 2006.

Numerous tournaments are held throughout Wisconsin during the year, with the largest tournament being the " Nationals ", held annually during the first or second weekend in November, and mini-tournaments held hourly throughout Germanfest in Milwaukee during the last weekend of each July.

The first US Nationals were held later that same year in Colorado Springs, CO on Prospect lake, hosted by Tommy Phillips.

Washington Nationals pitcher Scott Olsen and Chicago White Sox first baseman and gold glove winner Mike Squires was born in Kalamazoo.

They have won three NBA championships, with their first coming as the Syracuse Nationals in 1955.

They won the first game in WHA history 7 – 4 over the Ottawa Nationals.

On November 15, 2008, they were ranked as the best high school marching band in the country, placing first during Bands of America Grand Nationals for the first time in the school's history.

The one tournament that was certainly run in those first two years was the 1991 ACF Nationals, the first non-College Bowl event to unambiguously bill itself as a national championship.

Matt Colvin edited the 1998 Regionals, the first tournament of the new ACF, while Sheahan edited the 1998 ACF Nationals.

Th 1999 Nationals saw the first presentation of the Carper Award.

** Pete Robinson won Top Eliminator at the NHRA Nationals at the first Winternats with NHRA's first sub-9 sec pass

* Drag racing-The NHRA staged its first " Nationals " in Great Bend, Kansas.

The first ever world championship of box lacrosse, " The Nations in 1980 ", was staged in several arenas in British Columbia, Canada in July 1980 involving teams representing the United States, Australia, Canada East, Canada West and the Iroquois Nationals.

The High School varsity cheerleading team has also won states every year so far starting in 2004 as well as the NCA Nationals in 2007, making them the first team from New England to win at that competition.

Staying in the NBL, the Nationals sign Al Cervi to be player coach as Dolph Schayes makes his professional debut, leading the Nats to a winning record for the first time with a record of 40 – 23.

1952 – 53: The Nationals would finish in 2nd place in a hard fought 3-way battle for first place in the Eastern Division with a record of 47 – 24.

However, in the playoffs the Nationals would fall in the first round as they lost a 3-game series to the Philadelphia Warriors.