2011 HTC–Highroad season, Stage races
It was rare for the team to attend a stage race and come away without a stage win, classification win, or overall podium finish. Only at the Tirreno–Adriatico, the Tour de Romandie, the Tour de Suisse, and the Eneco Tour did this happen.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
HTC-Highroad named an ardent, multi-faceted squad for the Giro d'Italia. Cavendish was named to the squad, marking his return to the Italian Grand Tour after he instead rode the Tour of California in 2010. Sivtsov and Pinotti, both strong individual time trialists, were named as overall classification riders, with Lewis to be a key support man in the mountains. The rest of the squad was named with brute strength, for the stage 1 team time trial and for leading out Cavendish's sprints, in mind. In this way, the squad targeted nearly everything in the race. The team time trial was a particular goal for the squad; their plan was to have Pinotti cross the line first and therefore claim the first pink jersey as race leader.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
The team time trial went about as well as the squad could have hoped. They set the best time at the intermediate time check and at the finish line, the first and only squad to finish under 21 minutes. Though they finished with only five riders, five was all they needed, as the squad's time was taken for the fifth man to cross the line. Pinotti indeed was the first over, and took the first pink jersey.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
It was the second time in his career he held the Giro race lead, having previously held it for four days in the 2008 Giro d'Italia. He made it clear after the stage that the team's focus for stage 2 would be Cavendish, in the sprint. Given that the Giro awards time bonuses for the first three riders to finish a road race stage, that made it extremely likely that Cavendish would take the pink jersey the next day.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
The team did work for Cavendish in stage 2, and he did become the new race leader, but he missed out on the stage win. Lampre–ISD's Alessandro Petacchi opened the sprint first, to the right of Cavendish's last leadout man Renshaw, leaving Cavendish to take the line to Renshaw's left. Just as Cavendish occupied a position with open road in front of him, Petacchi deviated from his line and rode directly in front of Cavendish for a few meters. When Cavendish tried to go around Petacchi, the Italian again changed his line to stay in front of Cavendish.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
After a moment, both sprinted with open road in front of them, and Petacchi came across the line first by a matter of millimeters. Cavendish was visibly upset, shouting and gesticulating at Petacchi after they crossed the finish line. Cavendish later explained that his frustration was not directed at Petacchi, but at race officials, since he felt he would be relegated if he had sprinted in a similar manner. However, he also said that he never had the intention of appealing the result.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
His sporting director Valerio Piva also took that stance, stating that Petacchi's sprint was "not really fair play." The next day, Cavendish made a point of apologizing to Petacchi via Twitter for his outburst after crossing the finish line. Cavendish then rode as race leader on stage 3, the day Wouter Weylandt died, finishing well back after repeated mechanical trouble. Sivtsov, Pinotti, and Lewis remained highly placed overall, staying so after the neutralized fourth stage had no effect on any of the race's standings.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
In stage 5, Pinotti and Sivtsov both finished with the first large group on the road, over the numerous unpaved or 'white' roads into Orvieto. Their group afforded solo stage winner Pieter Weening sufficient time that he took the next pink jersey, but the two HTC-Highroad men remained extremely well-placed in second and third overall, just two seconds back. Pinotti had a bad day on Etna in stage 9, finishing five minutes back of stage winner, new race leader, and eventual Giro champion Alberto Contador, and between three and four minutes behind the race's other top riders.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
The result dropped him to 25th overall, but Sivtsov remained in second place, the only rider within a minute of Contador. This difficult mountain stage nearly brought Cavendish's Giro to an end as well, as his group, which also contained Raboň, Rasmussen, and Renshaw, finished just 30 seconds inside the minimum survival time based on the stage winner's time. Rival sprinter Francisco Ventoso from Movistar Team claimed that Cavendish should have been disqualified anyway, saying that the Manxman had illegally used the race caravan for slipstreams on his ascent of Etna.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Stage 10 after the rest day was one of the few seemingly straightforward sprint stages in this Giro. When former race leader David Millar attacked out of the peloton just outside the 1 kilometer (0.62 mi) to go marker, HTC-Highroad was the team to chase him down. While they did successfully bring him back, this left their vaunted leadout train disorganized. Only Cavendish, Sivtsov, and Pinotti finished with the front group.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Nonetheless, Cavendish was able to surge past Petacchi, who had been left for an early sprint by his leadout man Danilo Hondo, to claim his first victory of the race. He took the opportunity after the stage to address Ventoso's remarks, claiming that because of his star status he is always led by race officials and photographers, even when at the very back of the race. Cavendish added another win in stage 12, the last flat stage before a crushingly difficult final week and a half. He was very nearly caught in the sprint by Team Sky's Davide Appollonio, but he edged out the young Italian for a second stage victory. Cavendish, and several other sprinters, left the Giro the next day.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
The next day was the first of three consecutive summit finishes that preceded the second rest day. Contador, alongside José Rujano, took the opportunity to further stamp his authority on the race, taking another minute and a half out of the race's other top riders. Sivtsov lost two minutes and 42 seconds to Contador, and more significantly a little over a minute to the race's other leading riders. This dropped him to sixth place overall. He lost more time on the Zoncolan the next day, though his overall position remained unchanged.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Stage 15 was the first time no HTC-Highroad rider occupied a position in the top ten, as Sivtsov dropped to 12th overall by losing close to seven minutes in the Giro's queen stage. Pinotti rebounded a bit from a disappointing second half of the Giro to ride to eighth place in the stage 16 individual time trial.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Sivtsov found an extremely fortunate breakaway in stage 17. The course's profile suggested that the winner was likely to come from the breakaway. When he, Hubert Dupont, and Christophe Le Mével, all of them within the top 16 overall at the beginning of the day, made the group, that left the onus for the chase on teams like Liquigas–Cannondale, Geox–TMC, and Euskaltel–Euskadi, since their riders could conceivably be displaced from high overall positions.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Liquigas–Cannondale successfully lowered the group's time gap to the point that their leader Vincenzo Nibali's overall third place was not in jeopardy, but Geox–TMC's and Euskaltel–Euskadi's efforts were not as successful. Sivtsov finished nearly three minutes ahead of the main field, moving back into the top ten overall, at fifth. Pinotti then also made a winning breakaway the next day. Having correctly anticipated a climb where the race would break up, Pinotti made all the day's selections to feature as one of the last three riders left at the front of the race.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
He narrowly missed the stage win, however, to Liquigas–Cannondale's Eros Capecchi. He then turned his attentions to the final-day individual time trial, but he and Lewis were both caught up in crashes in stage 19 that ensured that they would not complete the Giro. They struck a road sign in the middle of a traffic island, with Lewis sustaining a broken right femur and Pinotti a broken pelvis. Pinotti was said to be in extreme pain, and could not move his legs for a time.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Piva stated that the sign was difficult to see before the riders came up on it. The withdrawals left the team with only four riders in the race, which stood to make Sivtsov's task of defending fifth overall all the more difficult. Indeed, Sivstov was unable to maintain contact with the group of top overall riders on the way into Sestriere, losing sufficient time that he fell to 11th overall.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
He rebounded in stage 21 to take tenth place in the time trial, which coupled with the losses sustained by Mikel Nieve, tenth-placed at the beginning of the day, moved him back up to tenth overall. The team overall showed well in this time trial, with Rasmussen narrowly missing the victory, coming in second just seven seconds back of stage winner Millar. Gretsch took eighth place as well. They along with Bak were the only HTC-Highroad riders to complete the Giro. They shared the Giro's Fair Play award with five other teams.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
HTC-Highroad's squad for the Tour de France was centered around Cavendish, back again to try to win the points classification green jersey after finishing second in those standings each of the past two years. Eisel, Renshaw, Bak, and Pate were named as leadout men, with Goss also present to perhaps try for the sprints that may be too difficult for Cavendish.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Peter Velits and Tony Martin were named as possible general classification hopefuls, though Martin's true strength was the individual time trial, to be raced on the identical course to the one he won on earlier in the season at the Critérium du Dauphiné. Tour de France debutant van Garderen rounded out the squad.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Martin took tenth place on the first stage, ending at the Mont des Alouettes, staying with the first large group on the road but unable to match the accelerations of the day's winner Philippe Gilbert. Coming off their win in the team time trial at the Giro d'Italia, and with several of the same riders plus very strong time trialist Martin present, the squad was considered one of the favorites for the Tour's team test.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
However, they were unable to duplicate their success from earlier in the season, finishing five seconds slower than their American rivals Garmin–Cervélo for fifth place on the day. Stage 3 was also a day that Garmin–Cervélo got the better of them. All appeared to be going well at first, as the team hit the front with strength and numbers once the morning's breakaway was caught. However, they made errors negotiating a sharp left-hand turn at 750 meters (2,460 ft) to go, and Garmin–Cervélo was able to take first position again.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Displaced by his leadout men's errors, Cavendish could only manage fifth in the sprint, behind Garmin–Cervélo's Tyler Farrar. Cavendish rebounded in stage 5, another straightforward sprint stage. While late attacks from Edvald Boasson Hagen and Philippe Gilbert threatened to disrupt the sprint once again, the peloton chased them down, and Cavendish timed his sprint perfectly to take his first win of this Tour. Stage 6 had an undulating, hilly profile, such that the finish was unlikely to suit Cavendish.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The team worked for Goss, and the Australian narrowly missed the day's honors, taking second in the final sprint behind Boasson Hagen. The flat seventh stage was perhaps the first of the Tour that went completely to popular expectations, as the HTC-Highroad team provided the strength necessary to bring back the morning breakaway and was ubiquitous in the final few kilometers, dominantly leading Cavendish out to his second win of this Tour. This stage ended at Châteauroux, site of Cavendish's first win in the 2008 Tour de France.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The sprint ace was evidently quite aware of this, as he mimicked his victory reaction from three years prior, grabbing his helmet with both hands and painting a shocked expression on his face. Due to a crash involving most of Team Sky, Martin and Velits entered the top ten overall with this day's results, occupying eighth and ninth place respectively at day's end. Van Garderen's presence in a stage 8 breakaway resulted in him taking the polka dot jersey as leader of the mountains classification. He was the first American to wear the polka dot jersey during a Tour stage in its history.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Stage 10, while it contained four categorized climbs, was another likely sprint stage. Points leader Gilbert and race leader Thomas Voeckler set out on the last climb, the fourth-category Cote de Mirandol-Bourgnounac, to try to take the win themselves. The result was HTC-Highroad's support riders had to expend much more effort than usual to ensure that Cavendish was at the front of the race in the finale, and as such their leadout was less than perfect. It gave former team member André Greipel, now riding for Omega Pharma–Lotto, the opportunity to start his sprint just after Cavendish started his.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Cavendish started from a seemingly optimal 170 meters (560 ft) out, but the German took the victory at the finish line. Cavendish was gracious in defeat, taking the blame himself by saying he "didn't commit enough." The two were again the top two in the sprint the next day in Lavaur, but Cavendish reversed his fate from the day before by dominantly defeating Greipel. After Geraint Thomas had begun to lead out Boasson Hagen, Renshaw jumped from Thomas' wheel to take Cavendish to the front, where the Manxman was first by almost an entire bike length. The victory put him into the green jersey for the first time.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The next day came the Tour's first summit finish, and Velits and Martin both struggled. Velits lost four minutes and 15 seconds by finishing 31st, having been caught up in a crash at one point. Martin lost just over nine minutes by finishing 48th. Velits remained the team's highest-placed overall rider after the stage, but he fell to 14th place. The next two mountain stages were no kinder, as Velits fell to 16th after stage 14 and Martin well out of any possible contention in 35th.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Stage 15 was the last stage branded as flat before the traditional flat final stage on the Champs-Élysées. Cavendish and the leadout train did not disappoint, as he took another dominant win, this time over Farrar in second. Stages 18 and 19 could have been problematic for Cavendish. Both were difficult mountain stages with summit finishes, meaning the disqualification time cut was a concern. He did in fact finish outside the time cut on stage 18, but since more than half the peloton did likewise, the group was not disqualified from the Tour.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
They were each individually assessed a 25-point penalty in the points classification instead. This narrowed Cavendish's lead over José Joaquín Rojas to only 15 points. A similar result happened the next day on Alpe d'Huez, with Cavendish again finishing in the last group on the road and outside the time cut. Again close to half the peloton was in the group, so they were not removed from the Tour, and since Rojas also fell in the group this time, he too was assessed the 25-point penalty. This meant the true effect was essentially nil, effectively cinching the green jersey for Cavendish.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The team found further success in the Tour's last two days. Martin made it two time trial wins in Grenoble for the season, taking a strong win in stage 20. Other than Tour champion Cadel Evans, who finished just seven seconds off Martin's pace, no other rider finished within a minute of his time. This left only the Champs-Élysées stage still to race. In the 2010 Tour de France, Cavendish became the first rider ever to win on the Champs for a second year in a row, so a third win would further extend that record.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
He started his sprint later than in past years, due to a headwind coming off the Place de la Concorde, but he was able to surpass Greipel and Boasson Hagen to take his fifth stage win of the Tour, putting an exclamation point on his successful green jersey campaign. Velits finished as the team's best-placed rider, taking 19th place overall.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a España
HTC-Highroad again named a multi-faceted squad for the season's final Grand Tour, the Vuelta a España. As their dissolution was announced earlier the same month, it was also the final Grand Tour in the team's history. Cavendish and Degenkolb were named to target the sprints, with Goss and Howard also present for the possibly more difficult sprints. Martin, Sivtsov, and Martin Velits, the last of whom hoped to match his brother's surprise third-place finish in the 2010 Vuelta a España, were named as overall classification hopefuls. Albasini and Grabsch rounded out the squad. Sporting director Jens Zemke commented that the riders were mostly over the shock of the team folding, and with most of them having signed new contracts by that time, they were prepared to ride out the rest of the season as professionally and competitively as possible.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a España
The squad had another good team time trial in stage 1, but again missed out on the victory. They finished with six riders nine seconds off the time set by the winners Leopard Trek. Cavendish and Goss were unsurprising riders to lose the pace, but a major surprise was Martin rolling in for his own time over a minute behind his teammates.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a España
Goss was later revealed to be suffering from a stomach bug, which caused him to retire from the race during stage 2. Stage 2 was flat and seemingly conducive to one of HTC-Highroad's vaunted sprinters, but Cavendish was unable to finish with the first group on the road, coming home in a large group a minute later, and Degenkolb could manage only tenth place behind the day's winner Christopher Sutton. Two days later, during stage 4, Cavendish also quit the race, citing the extremely hot temperatures as his reason.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a España
The withdrawal potentially complicated his plans to ride the Tour of Britain as preparation for the world championships road race. UCI rules state that if a rider voluntarily withdraws from an event, he is forbidden to participate in another until that first event concludes, unless its organizers give their okay. The Tour of Britain overlapped the Vuelta by a single day. Cavendish was eventually given permission by Vuelta organizers to start that race.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a España
The squad remained quiet until the stage 10 individual time trial. Martin dominantly won the race against the clock, with only Team Sky's Chris Froome finishing within a minute of his time – and even then, only a single second inside of a minute. Post-race analysis found Martin's emphatic defeat of rival chrono specialist Fabian Cancellara a likely portend for the world championships time trial to come. Degenkolb came close to victory on stage 12, finishing second in a selective sprint behind Peter Sagan of Liquigas–Cannondale. The squad took their second Vuelta victory the next day.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a España
After making his way into a 20-man escape group, one which the race's top riders were content to let go as it contained no overall threat, Albasini proved himself easily the strongest by dominantly winning the sprint for the line. This was despite having tried to foil a sprint finish with an attack from 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) out, which was neutralized. The squad did not feature in the remainder of the race, with only Degenkolb's fourth place in the Vuelta's final sprint to show for themselves. Albasini, Velits, Grabsch, Degenkolb, and Howard were the only team members to complete the race, and all were more than three and a half hours down in the final overall standings.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Team dissolution
Columbia Sportswear, who had previously sponsored the team since the middle of the 2008 season, withdrew prior to 2011, leaving the team to use the Highroad placeholder again while they searched for a new sponsor. Since HTC Corporation's sponsorship contract was set to expire after 2011, it created a sense of immediacy in the sponsor search. Team manager Stapleton said that should a sponsor not be found by the end of the Tour de France, it would be unlikely that the team would continue.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Team dissolution
He further clarified that he wanted the issue resolved by the Tour's second rest day; but despite rumors, no announcement was made that day. Stapleton attended the Tour in person in hopes of bolstering ongoing negotiations with several supposed potential new sponsors. The end of the Tour came and passed with no announcement of a new sponsor, despite ample unofficial word that Stapleton was close to finding one.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Team dissolution
In early August, the seemingly inevitable came to pass, and Stapleton confirmed that the sponsor search had proven fruitless and the team would not continue in 2012. From the time the team first assumed the Highroad moniker in 2007 to the time its disbanding was announced, they had accumulated 484 victories among the men's and women's teams, including 54 Grand Tour stages. By the end of 2011, that number increased to 513 wins. The cycling world reacted with shock and sadness to the announcement of the team's demise.


2011 HTC–Highroad season, Team dissolution
Cavendish was quick to point that HTC Corporation's sponsorship had kept the team from folding two years prior, but most reactions were based on disbelief that a team which won so frequently could fail to find a sponsor. Lewis was described as taking the announcement particularly hard, as he was still injured from his Giro d'Italia crash and unable to race at the time. All team riders eventually found new contracts.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado
The 2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado was an extremely violent and long-tracked EF5 wedge tornado that devastated several towns in rural northern Alabama, before tearing through the northern suburbs of Huntsville and causing damage in rural portions of southern Tennessee on the afternoon and early evening of April 27, 2011. It was the deadliest tornado of the 2011 Super Outbreak, the largest tornado outbreak in United States history. The tornado reached a maximum width of 1.25 miles (2.01 km) and was estimated to have had peak winds of 210 mph (340 km/h). The tornado killed 72 people, making it the deadliest tornado in Alabama history, and injured at least 145 others. At the time, it was the deadliest tornado to strike the United States since the 1955 Udall, Kansas, tornado.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Meteorological synopsis
The environmental conditions leading up to the 2011 Super Outbreak were among the "most conducive to violent tornadoes ever documented". On April 25, a vigorous upper-level shortwave trough moved into the Southern Plains states. Ample instability, low-level moisture, and wind shear all fueled a significant tornado outbreak from Texas to Tennessee; at least 64 tornadoes touched down on this day. An area of low pressure consolidated over Texas on April 26 and traveled east while the aforementioned shortwave trough traversed the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys. Another 50 tornadoes touched down on this day.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Meteorological synopsis
The multi-day outbreak culminated on April 27 with the most violent day of tornadic activity since the 1974 Super Outbreak. Multiple episodes of tornadic activity ensued with two waves of mesoscale convective systems in the morning hours followed by a widespread outbreak of supercells from Mississippi to North Carolina during the afternoon into the evening.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Meteorological synopsis
Tornadic activity on April 27 was precipitated by a 995 mbar (hPa; 29.39 inHg) surface low situated over Kentucky and a deep, negatively tilted (aligned northwest to southeast) trough over Arkansas and Louisiana. A strong southwesterly surface jet intersected these systems at a 60° angle, an ageostrophic flow that led to storm-relative helicity values in excess of 500 m2s−2—indicative of extreme wind shear and a very high potential for rotating updrafts within supercells. Ample moisture from the Gulf of Mexico was brought north across the Deep South, leading to daytime high temperatures of 77 to 81 °F (25 to 27 °C) and dewpoints of 66 to 72 °F (19 to 22 °C). Furthermore, convective available potential energy (CAPE) values reached 2,500–3,000 J/kg−1.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Tornado summary
The tornado initially touched down in Marion County, Alabama about 5 miles (8.0 km) west-southwest of Hamilton around 3:05 pm CDT and tracked to the northeast, causing significant tree and roof damage. Damage at the beginning of the path ranged from EF1 to EF2. The tornado reached EF4 strength as it approached U.S. Highway 43. As it approached Hackleburg, moving parallel to Highway 43, the tornado further strengthened to EF5 intensity and widened to 0.75 mi (1.21 km), sweeping away numerous homes along the highway.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Tornado summary
One large brick home along Hayfield Road was swept completely away, with vehicles from the house thrown 150 yards. Patches of scoured grass were also noted on the property. The tornado maintained EF5 strength as it struck Hackleburg directly, sweeping away numerous homes, destroying three schools, a Piggly Wiggly grocery store, a shopping center, and a Wrangler Jeans plant, and tossing cars as far as 200 yd (180 m) from where they originated.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Tornado summary
At least one of the homes swept away in Hackleburg was bolted to its foundation, and a brick home in the city's southwest portion had its poured concrete stem walls sheared off at ground level. Extensive wind-rowing of debris was also noted. Jeans from the Wrangler plant reportedly fell from the sky in Courtland, Alabama, roughly 40 miles away. The tornado completely debarked numerous trees in town, and even tore up poured concrete from the ground at one location. Several buildings in downtown Hackleburg were badly damaged as well. According to the Red Cross, 75% of the town was destroyed.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Tornado summary
A total of 18 people died in the Hackleburg area. While initially rated as an EF3, after further analysis of the damage in and around Hackleburg, the rating was increased to EF5, making it the first F5 or EF5 tornado in Alabama since the Birmingham tornado of April 8, 1998. The presence of well-built homes swept away, extensive wind-rowing, and cars thrown hundreds of yards were the main factors that led to the EF5 rating in Hackleburg.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Tornado summary
Continuing parallel to Highway 43, the tornado crossed into Franklin County, reducing additional homes to their foundations as it neared the town of Phil Campbell. The tornado then tore right through Phil Campbell at EF5 intensity, sweeping away numerous homes, a few of which even had their block foundations destroyed as well. Some of the homes swept away were well-constructed.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Tornado summary
A 25-foot section of pavement was scoured from a road in Phil Campbell, with chunks of asphalt scattered up to 1/3 of a mile away, and numerous trees were completely denuded and debarked, one of which had a car wrapped around it. Three churches were destroyed, one of which was reduced to a bare slab. Multiple mobile homes were obliterated as well, with their mangled frames tossed up to 50 yards away. An underground storm shelter in town had its concrete roof torn off, and grass was scoured from hillsides.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Tornado summary
EF4 and EF5 damage continued as the tornado exited Phil Campbell and tore through rural areas, sweeping away additional homes as it roughly followed County Roads 81 and 82. The tornado then reached its maximum intensity as it tore through the rural community of Oak Grove, with the damage intensity reaching well into the EF5 range and a path width over a mile wide. Oak Grove suffered a large swath of total devastation as large and well-built brick homes with extensive anchoring were swept completely away, with the debris strewn and wind-rowed long distances through nearby fields.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Tornado summary
A Corvette was thrown 641 feet and severely mangled, and a vehicle missing from one residence was never found. A large metal chicken house completely vanished, with nothing recovered at the site but a single piece of metal truss, and numerous large trees in this area were completely debarked. A total of 27 people were killed in Franklin County, mainly in and around Phil Campbell. The tornado continued into Lawrence County and maintained EF5 strength as it struck the small town of Mount Hope, where significant devastation was incurred to single-family homes and a restaurant.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Tornado summary
Nothing but the foundation and a pile of debris remained at the restaurant site, and a small portion of the restaurant's foundation slab buckled. Thousands of hardwood and softwood trees were snapped, with a significant number of trees twisted and debarked with only stubs of branches remaining. Many mobile homes were also destroyed with the frames mangled, and a single-family home was completely destroyed, with the walls and contents strewn over a hundred yards.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Tornado summary
WAAY-TV meteorologist and Mount Hope resident Gary Dobbs spotted the tornado from his front window but was unable to get to his storm shelter because he was giving a live report to viewers of WAAY. While the house was destroyed around him, Dobbs was thrown 40 feet (12 m) from his residence. The door of the storm shelter on the property was torn off, but no friends therein were seriously injured. Dobbs required hospitalization.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Tornado summary
Past Mount Hope, the tornado weakened to EF3 strength. More trees were found snapped and twisted before the tornado reached Highway 24. At this location, 4 chicken houses were completely destroyed with much of the debris wrapped around debarked trees. TVA high voltage power line trusses were also destroyed at this location. The tornado continued northeast as an EF3 as it struck Langtown, where multiple homes lost their roofs or had only interior walls left standing, and a gas station and a store sustained significant damage.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Tornado summary
The tornado re-intensified to high-end EF4 strength as it passed northwest of Moulton and Trinity, completely destroying multiple homes and mobile homes. Several cars were tossed into fields and wrapped around debarked trees along County Road 291 and 292. Tree and mobile home damage continued along County Roads 217 and 222, where a handful of large high voltage TVA power poles were destroyed, cutting off electricity delivery from Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant. EF4 damage continued northeast towards Alabama Highway 20, where a restaurant was completely destroyed and two single-family houses were significantly damaged. A total of 14 people were killed in Lawrence County. Tree damage continued into extreme northwestern Morgan County.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Tornado summary
The tornado continued a short stretch through the northwest corner of Morgan County, crossing Wheeler Lake, and into Limestone County, coming within approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) of Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant and toppling nearly a dozen high voltage power lines in Limestone County, snapping concrete power poles at their bases. These power lines delivered electricity from Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant, and without the outlet, the plant had to be shut down. The tornado continued towards the small community of Tanner.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Tornado summary
Tanner experienced a large swath of EF4 damage and a narrow corridor of "high-end EF4 to near-EF5 damage". The storm completely swept away several well-constructed homes with anchor bolting. One home was scattered over 300 yards with large items carried completely away. Intense ground scarring occurred in this area. The storm also tossed a large cargo container approximately 600 yards and carried several cars airborne for hundreds of yards. Several homes, a mobile home park, and a church that were destroyed by the 1974 Tanner tornadoes and later rebuilt, were destroyed once again by this tornado.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Tornado summary
As the tornado crossed US-Hwy 72 in eastern Limestone County, the tornado destroyed a privately owned radar and tower camera operated by NBC affiliate WAFF and continued into East Limestone, a more populated area of Limestone County where numerous homes were damaged or destroyed, with several leveled at high-end EF3 intensity in a subdivision at the corner of McCulley Mill Road and Capshaw Road.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Tornado summary
(Imagery from WAFF's radar, as seen during the station's coverage of the tornado outbreak, showed the graphical linear "sweep" indicating the scanning antenna dish briefly swaying violently in a ~70° horizontal curve as the tornado blew the dome and equipment off the radar tower.) The tornado then crossed into Madison County, tearing through the suburban communities of Harvest and Toney. Many homes in Harvest were damaged or destroyed, especially in the Anderson Hills subdivision (which was also significantly impacted by a violent tornado in 1995).


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Tornado summary
Numerous two-story homes were destroyed at that location, with a few that were flattened or reduced to their block foundations. Numerous trees were snapped and debarked, and several mobile homes were swept completely away. The tornado destroyed a Piggly Wiggly grocery store in Harvest, and also severely damaged a convenience store and local bank, which was shut down for months following the event. Damage in Harvest was rated low-end EF4. In Toney, the Carter's Gin subdivision was devastated as multiple poorly-anchored homes were leveled at high-end EF3 strength.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Tornado summary
The tornado then weakened significantly, twisting irrigation equipment and producing only intermittent EF0 tree damage south of Hazel Green and through rural areas as it approached the Tennessee border. In all, hundreds of homes received moderate to major damage along the path from Limestone to Madison County with many of these being total losses, and 13 people were killed.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Tornado summary
The tornado then moved into Tennessee and continued south of Huntland. Isolated and minor EF0 tree damage was noted at the intersection of John Hunter Highway (State Route 122) and Limestone Road near the Lincoln/Franklin county line. More significant damage was noted, starting about 1.4 miles (2.3 km) south southwest of Huntland. A cinder block building suffered damage to its flat adobe roof, with some of blocks near the roof (around 20 feet (6.1 m) off of the ground) pushed out, resulting in EF2 damage.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Tornado summary
Surveyors could not directly examine the roof given this building was on the highest ground in the vicinity. Nearby, a single-family home of cinder block construction had its roof totally removed, with another home about 1,000 feet (300 m) away having significant roof damage, with over one half of its roof removed, and some shifting off of its foundation. Damage with the latter was consistent with high-end EF2 damage. A chicken building with metal girding near the second home was completely flattened, consistent with EF2 damage.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Tornado summary
A farm complex south of Hickory Grove road had damage to a number of structures there. The home and the main car garage had part of their roofs removed. A barn that was protecting bales of hay was destroyed, with a few of bales blown from 100–200 feet from their original location. The worst damage was noted with low-end EF3 damage to a well-built cinder block utility building about 200 feet (61 m) south of the primary residence. Most of its roof was removed, with over half of its downwind wall pushed outward.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Tornado summary
An older barn nearby suffered lesser EF0 damage to it roof, while the top half of a silo near that barn was missing. Another barn structure was completely destroyed northwest of the primary home. The width at this point was approximately 1/4 mile. Other damage was noted near the intersection of Hickory Grove Road and Sugar Cove Road, with EF1 damage to some heavy farm equipment and EF0 roof damage to a nearby barn. Scattered trees were downed to the northeast, with 8-inch (200 mm) fence posts 18 inches (460 mm) deep pulled up near Hickory Grove and Buncombe Road. There was evidence the tornado continued toward mountains a few miles further east before dissipating, with some trees damaged along the ridge.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Aftermath and response
In total, this tornado killed 72 people, all in Alabama. This made it the deadliest single tornado ever to strike the state of Alabama as well as (at the time) the deadliest in the United States since the 1955 Udall, Kansas tornado that killed 80 people. This death toll would go on to be exceeded by the Joplin EF5 tornado less than a month later. Damage from the tornado amounted to $1.29 billion, making this one of the costliest tornadoes in U.S. history. This tornado also had the longest track of any tornado in the outbreak, with its path extending 132 miles (212 km) across Northern Alabama and into Tennessee.


2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado, Aftermath and response
In response to the damage in Phil Campbell, one of the hardest hit communities, writer Phil Campbell organized a fundraising and relief effort composed of 20 people with the name Phil Campbell or variations thereof. These Phil Campbells traveled to the community from places as far away as Australia to aid in the cleanup effort. Many of these people had planned to attend a convention in June, 2011 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the city's incorporation.


2011 Haimen protest
The 2011 Haimen protest of December 2011 occurred in the Chinese town of Haimen, Guangdong province. The protests, which drew thousands of participants, were met with detentions and tear gassing by authorities.


2011 Haimen protest
Protests were ignited over plans to expand a coal-fired power plant in the town—a plan that residents opposed, arguing that existing coal-fired plants had caused environmental and health damage. Demonstrations began on Tuesday, 20 December when thousands of residents barricaded a freeway and surrounded government offices in an attempt to block the project.


2011 Haimen protest
According to AFP, the riot police fired tear gas into the crowd and beat protesters with riot sticks. Late on 20 December, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said that five residents had been detained on vandalism charged, and published a declaration from the Shantou city council announcing that the "Shantou deputy and municipality already decided to stop the project. Unconfirmed reports of two deaths circulated online following the first day of protests, though authorities denied these reports.


2011 Haimen protest
Tensions cooled by 23 December, after Communist Party officials declared that the plant expansion plans would be temporarily suspended, and authorities agreed to release detained protesters.


2011 Haimen protest
Although the protests in Haimen were unrelated to demonstrations in nearby Wukan, Haimen residents told Reuters that they had followed developments in Wukan closely, regarding it as a good model of how citizens might negotiate with authorities.


2011 Hainan Classic
The 2011 Chinalife Xingpai Hainan Classic was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 10 and 13 March 2011 at the Boao Conference Center in Boao, China.


2011 Hainan Classic
John Higgins won in the final 7–2 against Jamie Cope.


2011 Hainan Classic, Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


2011 Hainan Classic, Round-robin stage, Group C
*Ali Carter went through as he made the highest break in the group. (Carter 88, Murphy 67, Tian 52)


2011 Hakkâri attack
The 2011 Hakkari attacks occurred on the night of October 19, 2011, when over 100 Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters killed 26 Turkish soldiers in Hakkâri Province. It was allegedly the deadliest PKK attack on Turkish security forces since the Çewlik massacre in which 33 unarmed recruits were killed. The PKK said the attack was to avenge a high-ranking PKK commander killed by Turkish operations in Iraqi Kurdistan earlier.


2011 Hakkâri attack
Turkish security forces claimed to have killed 49 PKK fighters in their retaliation during the following days, according to Turkish media.


2011 Hakkâri attack
According to claims made by Turkish authorities, the attack was carried out by the Syrian branch of the PKK, led by Dr. Bahoz Erdal.


2011 Halloween nor'easter
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2011 Halloween nor'easter
The 2011 Halloween nor'easter, sometimes referred to as "Snowtober," "Shocktober,"   "Storm Alfred," and "Oktoberblast," was a large low pressure area that produced unusually early snowfall across the northeastern United States and the Canadian Maritimes. It formed early on October 29 along a cold front to the southeast of the Carolinas. As it moved up the East Coast, its associated snowfall broke records in at least 20 cities for total accumulations, resulting in a rare "white Halloween" two days later.


2011 Halloween nor'easter
The storm arrived just two months after Hurricane Irene caused extensive power outages and property damage in the Northeast; with the 2011 New England tornado outbreak also causing damage in Western Massachusetts. It dumped snow on trees that were often still in leaf, adding extra weight, with the ground in some areas still soft from a preceding warm, rainy period that increased the possibility trees could be uprooted. Trees and branches that collapsed caused considerable damage, particularly to power lines, with estimates of storm costs ranging between $1 billion and $3 billion. In all, 3.2 million U.S. residences and businesses in 12 states experienced power outages, with the storm also impacting three Canadian provinces.


2011 Halloween nor'easter
Some customers in Connecticut did not get power back until early November; many outages lasted 11 days Many communities chose to postpone celebrations of Halloween from two days to a week later as a result, or cancel them entirely. Delays in restoring power led to the resignation of the chief operating officer of Connecticut Light & Power amid widespread criticism of the company's mishandling of both the nor'easter and Irene.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Meteorological history
Early on October 28, 2011, a ridge over Canada advected an unseasonably cold air mass across the Mid-Atlantic states and New England; at the same time, a surface low-pressure area began developing along the coast of Louisiana. A cold front moved eastward from the Ohio Valley and exited the East Coast of the United States, developing another low pressure area off the coast of the Carolinas on October 29. The remnants of Hurricane Rina had also been absorbed into the developing system. At the same time, an area of precipitation extended from South Carolina through Pennsylvania, mostly falling as rain with some snow observed at higher elevations. By late that morning, the system was producing precipitation over much of the Mid-Atlantic and New England.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Meteorological history
As the system moved to the northeast through the day, it produced widespread snow and winds near hurricane-strength north of the cyclone's warm front over the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Winds as high as 69 mph (111 km/h) were observed in Massachusetts, and the National Weather Service, issued a Hurricane Force Wind Warning for the Gulf of Maine and other high seas off New England. Overnight into October 30, the storm passed south of Nantucket, and it moved over Nova Scotia later that day with a barometric pressure of 975 mb (28.8 inHg).


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Meteorological history
As it did so, the associated precipitation diminished over New England and moved into Atlantic Canada. As the system moved out into the Atlantic Ocean, it reached a minimum barometric pressure of 971 mb (28.7 inHg) as it passed to the east of the island of Newfoundland late on October 31. By the early morning of November 1, the system had fully moved out to sea. The storm then hit the UK as Cyclone Quinn.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Preparations
Before the storm was at its strongest, local National Weather Service offices issued winter storm warnings from northwestern Virginia through central New England, as well as winter storm watches from central Maryland through central Maine. Officials anticipated peak snowfall totals to be from 8–10 inches (20–25 cm) across much of the region. All warnings were canceled after the storm moved away from the region.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Preparations
Early on October 29, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation activated their fleet of salt trucks. In eastern Pennsylvania, the most recent significant snowstorm during October was in 1972. Utility crews prepared additional crews in the event of power outages. The Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area closed a road due to the storm's threat. Connecticut governor Dan Malloy opened the state's Emergency Operations Center in Hartford, which included members of the transportation, health, and energy departments. Officials opened 41 shelters in Connecticut. Occupy Wall Street protesters pledged to remain in Lower Manhattan's Zucotti Park despite the weather, obtaining coats and blankets.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Snowfall totals and records
Precipitation began falling in North Carolina and Virginia late on October 28. By early the next day, measurable snowfall had been reported from West Virginia through Maryland, and eventually as far north as Maine. The deepest snowfall reported was  32.0 in (810 mm), at Peru, Massachusetts. At least 20 cities reported record-breaking totals, and the peak of 19 in (480 mm) in West Milford, New Jersey broke that state's record for highest snowfall in October. Newark, New Jersey's largest city, also broke its all-time October snowfall record with 5.2 in (130 mm).


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Snowfall totals and records
Central Park in Manhattan observed 2.9 in (74 mm), also a record. Hartford, Connecticut's state capital, observed a record 12.3 in (310 mm), and the highest total in the state was 24.0 in (610 mm) in Farmington southwest of Hartford; this, too, broke the state record for an October snowfall. As the storm moved into Canada, it dropped rain in Nova Scotia and snow in New Brunswick and Newfoundland. Parts of the inland regions of Newfoundland received close to 25 cm (9.8 in) of snow.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Snowfall totals and records
In Massachusetts, the nor'easter brought wind gusts peaking at 69 mph (111 km/h) in Barnstable and, unofficially, 76 mph (122 km/h) in Provincetown. An automated marine weather station at Mount Desert Rock off the coast of Maine recorded a top gust of 77.2 mph (124.2 km/h).


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Impact
The nor'easter storm became the 14th multibillion-dollar weather-related disaster of 2011, breaking the three-year-old record of nine. Across the Northeast, the combination of high winds and wet, heavy snow downed trees, most of which retained their leaves, did extensive damage. In New York City, a thousand trees were estimated to have fallen in Central Park, far more than had been damaged by Hurricane Irene two months earlier, just as had been reported in Connecticut.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Impact
The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx reported that 2,200 trees in its old-growth forest, the only one remaining in the city from the era prior to European colonization, were damaged. Downed trees caused widespread power outages, leaving over 3 million people without power. In Central Park workers put a priority on making the park safe for the annual New York City Marathon the following weekend.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Impact, Fatalities
Traffic accidents killed at least six people. Two were electrocuted by downed power lines. Overall, there were 39 deaths.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Impact, Transportation
The storm affected transportation across the Northeast. Two rail services were closed in the New York area, and Amtrak service across the region was either delayed or canceled. NJ Transit suspended service on the Morris and Essex Lines until November 1 due to downed wires and branches, and even then was only able to restore service as far west as Lake Hopatcong.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Impact, Transportation
North of New York City, Metro-North suspended commuter rail service on the Harlem Line north of North White Plains, leaving passengers marooned on a train at Southeast for 11 hours when fallen trees blocked the tracks in both directions. Service was also suspended on the Port Jervis Line and the New Canaan, Danbury and Waterbury branches of the New Haven Line. Service on the Port Jervis Line and electrified portions of the Harlem Line was restored on Monday; bus service replaced trains between Southeast and Wassaic and on the Danbury and Waterbury branches for the rest of the week.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Impact, Transportation
The storm also disrupted air travel from Pennsylvania through Connecticut. Officials at Newark International Airport canceled all flights after 4 pm on October 29, and flights out of New York's two major airports were delayed by up to five hours. Some flights bound for New York were diverted to Hartford. Several JetBlue flights departing from Bradley International Airport there were stranded on the tarmac for up to seven hours due to the hazardous conditions.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Impact, Transportation
Some roads were also affected. Along the Jersey Shore, the nor'easter produced coastal flooding that left Ventnor Heights isolated. Officials closed a portion of the Black Horse Pike in West Atlantic City due to flooding. Further north, the flooding closed five New Jersey state highways in Monmouth and Ocean counties.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Impact, Sports
Sporting events on Saturday, mostly college and high school football games, were also impacted. Penn State officials limited parking at its home game in State College to 1,500 spaces due to the inclement weather. It was the first Nittany Lions home October football game with measurable snow since record-keeping began in 1896. At West Point, New York, Army defeated Fordham 55–0 in its first home game played in snow since 1985.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Impact, Sports
On Long Island where a windswept mixture of heavy snow and rain fell, a match between Plainview – Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School and Valley Stream Central High School was cancelled after 15 players were treated for hypothermia, prompting the former school district to reconsider game cancellation policies. At another football game on Long Island 10 players were checked and some treated for the condition. Several players at Farmingdale High School reported extreme fatigue for several weeks following playing in the storm.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Impact, Halloween
Many traditional Halloween activities were affected by the storm. In communities without electricity, where tree limbs and wires were down, trick-or-treating was delayed until days when it was expected to be back and repairs had made the streets safer. This also occurred in communities where electricity was still fully or partially on but the streets still may have been unsafe. In Sleepy Hollow, New York, a popular destination for the holiday since Washington Irving's classic short story, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set there, Halloween events were canceled due to the storm and its aftermath. On the other hand, another popular Halloween destination, Salem, Massachusetts, location of the 1692 witch trials, was unaffected due to its minimal snowfall.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Impact, Halloween
Some families were able to compensate for the lost Halloween. They took their children to trick-or-treat in other communities that still had electricity. Residents of Glen Rock, New Jersey, organized a "trunk-or-treat" party at the local high school's football field, where children went around to parked sport-utility vehicles. Since many schools had snow days, and there was little to distract children without electricity, many parents insisted on going ahead with the holiday. "You can't cancel Halloween," said a woman in Fairfield, New Jersey. "The kids are all hyped up. They had no school because there's no electricity and this and that." A boy in Lexington, Massachusetts said he now planned to "buy some candy and eat it myself."


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Impact, Halloween
At UMass Amherst, the storm caused a power outage over a traditional party weekend at the college that lasted throughout most of the night on Saturday, October 29. While power was largely restored by Sunday, October 30, the campus canceled classes on October 31, and the UMass Campus Center served as a rest location for students and area residents who were still without power. Amherst College saw similar conditions, with the university newspaper reporting that students were taking refuge from power outages in Valentine Dining Hall, with one student describing the response as similar to hurricanes in her home state of Florida.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Impact, Halloween
Proposals in some communities to hold Halloween the following weekend, or whenever conditions returned to normal, met with protest from some parents. Some considered the October 31 date to be immutable and non-negotiable, so children would have to wait for 2012. "I don't have control over the calendar, so Halloween is on Halloween, which is the 31st", said Pat Murphy, mayor of New Milford, Connecticut. She noted the town had managed to celebrate the holiday that day on its village green despite considerable storm damage and continued power outages. Others had already allowed their children some trick-or-treating, and did not want them to indulge in candy a second time within the week.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Impact, Halloween
Many school districts were forced by the storm to use up their remaining allotted snow days for the school year, after Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee had required some be used near the beginning of the year. The Weston, Connecticut, public schools had already used nine snow days as of November 2, five more than its schedule allowed. Since more snow days would inevitably be used during the upcoming winter, they predicted that  vacation periods planned for later in the year would have to be shortened or canceled, or the school year would have to be extended.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Impact, Halloween
The storm came at a critical time for high school seniors preparing college applications for early decision, and 76 colleges and universities moved those deadlines back to compensate. In Connecticut, Weston High School, which had power, opened its library for students wishing to study or work on their applications; movies were shown in the auditorium.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Impact, Electrical outages
Approximately 1.7 million customers in the Northeast were still without electricity three days after the storm. Temperatures in the region warmed up to above 50 °F (10 °C) during the day, but went down to near freezing at night. As powerless houses grew cold, residents bundled up and kept under blankets, went to stay or visit with others who had electricity, or used their car heaters to temporarily warm-up. Some, frustrated by long blackouts after other recent storms, considered leaving the region or moving to cities where power lines were underground. About half a million households in New Jersey lost electricity, prompting a state of emergency declaration from governor Chris Christie. He had himself suffered outages both at his house in Mendham and the governor's mansion, Drumthwacket, near Princeton.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Impact, Electrical outages
In Connecticut, Governor Dannel Malloy declared a state of emergency late on October 29, after 830,000 people lost power, breaking the record set after Hurricane Irene. In the Danbury area, outages were so prolonged that seven school districts had to cancel classes for the following week. A state of emergency was also declared in Massachusetts, which allowed for the activation of the state's National Guard as well as other emergency measures. Due to the power outages and downed trees shortly before Halloween, at least three towns in the state advised delaying trick-or-treating. In New Hampshire, officials opened seven shelters for people who lost heating during the storm. The early snowfall allowed for the opening of ski resorts in Vermont and Maine.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Impact, Electrical outages
At a November 1 press conference, Governor Malloy estimated that damages in Connecticut would exceed $3 billion. Two days later, close to 700,000 homes and businesses remained without power. A week after the storm, almost 150,000 customers of the state's two utilities had not yet had power restored. Customers still suffering outages continued to cope as best they could, by sleeping at the homes of friends who had already had their electricity restored, taking showers at work and storing perishable foods outside. Power was not restored to all the customers who had lost it in the storm until November 9.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Impact, Electrical outages
Many Connecticut residents were angry with the state's electric utilities, particularly Connecticut Light & Power (CL&P), which serves most of the state, for the long delays in restoring service. By the weekend after the storm, in comparison, most customers in other affected states had already gotten their electricity back. Malloy said they had "missed their own target" and ordered an investigation into their preparation and restoration efforts to be led by James Lee Witt, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency during the Clinton Administration.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Impact, Electrical outages
An Avon man complained he had not seen any crews in his area since the storm. Some commentators felt Malloy was being too lenient with CL&P, noting that the company had cut its maintenance budget in the preceding year and that smaller public utilities, such as that serving the city of Norwich, had experienced far less power loss and for far less time despite CL&P's customers paying the highest rates in the contiguous United States. Similar complaints had been made after the company had taken a long time to restore service after Hurricane Irene, and three weeks after the nor'easter, Jeff Butler, the company's CEO, resigned.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Impact, Electrical outages
A month after the storm, Malloy released Witt's report, which concluded that "CL&P was not prepared for an event of this size". The utility had planned for a worst-case scenario in which 100,000 customers lost power, only one-eighth of those actually affected by the nor'easter. While the report noted that such a storm had not hit in 25 years when the company's emergency plan was drawn up in June, it nevertheless faulted CL&P for merely telling its emergency crews to be on call that weekend, instead of having them wait at predetermined locations. As a result, it was harder to mobilize them when the effects turned out to be far worse than they anticipated despite warnings from the NWS using terms such as "historic" and "catastrophic" prior to the storm.


2011 Halloween nor'easter, Impact, Electrical outages
The report also said that CL&P did not ask for crews from neighboring states until after the storm, at which point other New England utilities were also seeking help from them. "Because of that poor preparation, it's not surprising that they didn't, or that they couldn't, respond with enough boots on the ground when the worst-case scenario was compounded by a factor of eight", said Malloy. The report did praise some aspects of CL&P's response, such as its short call wait times, speedy repairs by crews once they reached their job sites and the absence of death or serious injury among responding utility crews.


2011 Halmstads BK season
In 2011 Halmstads BK will compete in Allsvenskan and Svenska Cupen.


2011 Halmstads BK season, Season statistics, Allsvenskan
= Number of bookings= Number of sending offs after a second yellow card= Number of sending offs by a direct red card


2011 Halmstads BK season, Season statistics, Svenska cupen
= Number of bookings= Number of sending offs after a second yellow card= Number of sending offs by a direct red card


2011 Halmstads BK season, International players
Does only contain players that represent the senior squad during the 2011 season.


2011 Halton Borough Council election
The 2011 Halton Borough Council election took place on 10 May 2011 to elect members of Halton Unitary Council in Cheshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.


2011 Hamburg state election
The 2011 Hamburg state election was held on 20 February 2011 to elect the members of the 20th Hamburg Parliament. The election was triggered by the collapse of the coalition government between the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Green Alternative List (GAL), which had governed the state since 2008. The election was a major defeat for the CDU, which lost half its voteshare and seats. Much of this lost support flowed to the Social Democratic Party (SPD), which won 62 of the 121 seats in Parliament, forming a majority government led by Olaf Scholz.


2011 Hamburg state election, Background
After the 2008 state election, the CDU formed a coalition government with the GAL. This was the first time such a government had been formed in Germany, as the Greens were seen as aligned with the SPD, typically in opposition to the CDU. Popular CDU mayor Ole von Beust was seen as a stabilising force for the government. After his retirement in August 2010 and the election of Christoph Ahlhaus as his successor, relations between the two parties became increasingly strained. In November 2010, GAL left the government. The Parliament subsequently voted to dissolve itself and hold early elections.


2011 Hamburg state election, Parties
The table below lists parties represented in the 19th Hamburg Parliament.


2011 Hamilton Nationals season
The 2011 Hamilton Nationals season was the third for the franchise. After playing their 2010 season at Lamport Stadium, the Nationals moved their home games to Ron Joyce Stadium for their third season. They finished third in the league in 2011 with a 7–5 record. Jeremy Boltus won the Major League Lacrosse Rookie of the Year Award and Brodie Merrill was named Major League Lacrosse Defensive Player of the Year Award for the sixth straight year.


2011 Hamilton Nationals season, Standings
W = Wins, L = Losses, PCT = Winning Percentage, GB = Games Back of first place, GF = Goals For, 2ptGF = 2 point Goals For, GA = Goals Against, 2ptGA = 2 point Goals Against


2011 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season
The 2011 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season was the 54th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 62nd overall. The Tiger-Cats finished 3rd place in the East Division with an 8–10 record. After hosting the East Semi-Final in 2009 and 2010 with no success, the Tiger-Cats had to go on the road for the 2011 playoffs since they finished 3rd in the East. In the East Semi-Final, the Ti-Cats upset the two-time defending Grey Cup champions, Montreal Alouettes, 52–44 in overtime, giving them their first playoff victory since 2001. The Ti-Cats then traveled to Winnipeg to play the Blue Bombers where they lost 19–3 in the East Final.


2011 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season, Offseason, CFL Draft
The 2011 CFL Draft took place on Sunday, May 8, 2011. The Tiger-Cats had six selections in the draft with their first coming in the second round with the 10th pick overall. The team traded their first round pick, which was 5th overall, to Edmonton for two second round picks. With those picks, Hamilton selected the 10th ranked Moe Petrus from the University of Connecticut and quickly followed with Maurice Forbes of Concordia with the 13th overall pick.


2011 Hampton Pirates football team
The 2011 Hampton Pirates football team represented Hampton University in the 2011 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Pirates were led by third-year head coach Donovan Rose and played their home games at Armstrong Stadium. They are a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. They finished the season 7–4 overall and 5–3 in MEAC play to tie for fourth place.


2011 Hangzhou Greentown F.C. season
The 2011 Hangzhou Greentown F.C. season involved Hangzhou competing in the Chinese Super League, Chinese FA Cup, and AFC Champions League. Hangzhou qualified for the AFC Champions League after finishing 4th place in the 2010 Chinese Super League.


2011 Harlequins Rugby League season
The 2011 Harlequins Rugby League season was the thirty-second in the club's history and their sixteenth season in the Super League. The club was coached by Rob Powell, competing in Super League XVI, finishing in 12th place and reaching the Fifth round of the 2011 Challenge Cup.


2011 Harlequins Rugby League season
It was their fifth consecutive season at the Stoop. They exited the Challenge Cup with a defeat to the Leeds Rhinos.


2011 Harlequins Rugby League season, Super League XVI table
Source: . Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.


2011 Harlow District Council election
The 2011 Harlow District Council election took place on 5 May 2011 to elect members of Harlow District Council in Essex, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.


2011 Harlow District Council election, Background
After the last election in 2010 the Conservatives controlled the council with 18 seats, compared to 10 for Labour and 5 for the Liberal Democrats. The Liberal Democrat group was reduced further in December 2010 when councillor Manny Doku of Bush Fair ward defected to Labour.


2011 Harlow District Council election, Background
34 candidates stood for the 11 seats contested, with the Conservative and Labour group leaders, Andrew Johnson and Mark Wilkinson, defending seats in Church Langley and Harlow Common wards. The Liberal Democrats were defending 2 seats, but their group leader Chris Millington of Bush Fair ward stood down at the election. Conservative councillor Patrick McClarnon also stood down from his Great Parndon ward, while seats in Staple Tye and Sumners and Kingsmoor were vacant after Conservative councillors Lee and Sarah Dangerfield resigned from the council in November 2010.


2011 Harlow District Council election, Election result
The Conservatives remained in control of the council with 17 councillors, but Labour made 3 gains to move to 14 seats, while the Liberal Democrats dropped to 2 seats. The Labour gains meant they won 7 of the 11 seats contested in 2011, including taking Staple Tye which previously had been held by the Conservatives before the councillor had resigned from the council. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats lost both the seats they had been defending in Bush Fair and Mark Hall to Labour and lost vote share everywhere.


2011 Hart District Council election
The 2011 Hart District council election took place on 5 May 2011, with one third of the seats up for election. The Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Community Campaign (Hart) held all seats up for election, meaning that the council composition was the same after the election as it had been before.


2011 Hartlepool Borough Council election
The 2011 Hartlepool Borough Council election took place in May 2011 to fill a third of the Hartlepool Borough Council's seats. No seats were earned unopposed. Though the Labour Party earned less than 12% of votes cast, they won 73% of the available seats.


2011 Harvard Crimson football team
The 2011 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 2011 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Crimson were led by 18th-year head coach Tim Murphy and played their home games at Harvard Stadium. They were a member of the Ivy League. They finished the season 9–1 overall and 7–0 in Ivy League play to claim the conference championship.


2011 Havant Borough Council election
The 2011 Havant Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2011 to elect members of Havant Borough Council in Hampshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.


2011 Havant Borough Council election, Background
A total of 42 candidates stood at the election for the 10 seats that were contested. The only non-Conservative councillor whose seat was up for election, Liberal Democrat Ann Buckley in Bedhampton ward, stood down at the election.


2011 Havant Borough Council election, Election result
The Conservatives won all 10 seats contested and therefore held 35 of the 38 seats on the council, while the Liberal Democrats dropped to 2 seats and Labour remained on 1 seat. The only change saw Conservative George Smith gained Bedhampton from the Liberal Democrats. The Liberal Democrats saw their share of the vote fall, which was blamed on the party's role in the national coalition government. Overall turnout was just over 42%, down from over 61% at the 2010 council election when it had been held at the same time as the general election.


2011 Hawaii Bowl
The 2011 Sheraton Hawaii Bowl, the tenth edition of the game, was a post-season American college football bowl game, held on December 24, 2011, at Aloha Stadium in Halawa, Hawaii as part of the 2011–12 NCAA Bowl season. It was telecast at 2:00 p.m. HT on ESPN and was sponsored by Sheraton Hotels and Resorts.


2011 Hawaii Bowl
The game featured the Nevada Wolf Pack from the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) versus the Southern Miss Golden Eagles from Conference USA (C-USA). Southern Miss defeated Nevada, 24–17.


2011 Hawaii Bowl, Teams
The Wolf Pack has played twice previously in the Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl, defeating UCF in 2005 and losing to SMU in 2009. Southern Miss is making its 22nd appearance in a bowl game and its second trip to Hawai’i. It defeated the host Rainbow Warriors 28–26 on October 15, 1977.


2011 Hawaii Bowl, Teams, Nevada
The Wolf Pack finished second in the WAC conference with a 7–5 record. The team was led by seven players who earned All-WAC honors, including WAC Freshman of the Year quarterback Cody Fajardo who operated with Nevada's effective pistol offense (523 yards per game) and All-American defensive tackle Brett Roy.


2011 Hawaii Bowl, Teams, Southern Miss
USM entered the bowl game with an 11–2 record. The Golden Eagles upset the Houston Cougars in the 2011 Conference USA Football Championship Game 49–28 to win the conference championship. The 2011 Hawai'i Bowl was Southern Mississippi's 10th straight bowl game. The game was also coach Larry Fedora's last game with the Golden Eagles, as he was hired to coach the North Carolina Tar Heels. The Golden Eagles were led by senior quarterback Austin Davis, who completed 10,727 yards during his career. Four running backs, Kendrick Hardy, Jeremy Hester, Jamal Woodyard, and Desmond Johnson, carried the loads, each had at least one 100-yard game.


2011 Hawaii Bowl, Game summary
In the 1st quarter, Nevada threatened to score first when the Wolf Pack drove into the red zone. However, Cody Fajardo's pass was intercepted in the end zone, ending the drive. The rest of the 1st quarter remained scoreless.


2011 Hawaii Bowl, Game summary
In the 2nd quarter, Southern Mississippi scored first when they blocked a punt in the end zone for a touchdown. Nevada responded with two rushing touchdowns from Lampford Mark, including one 45-yard rushing touchdown, to make the game 14-7. On the ensuing kickoff, Southern Miss's Jeremy Hester appeared to return the kickoff for a touchdown, but was stripped from behind by Nevada's Khalid Wooten and Thaddeus Brown. Nevada was unable to take advantage of the turnover, however, and turned the ball over on a 4th-and-1 play on the Wolf Pack's own 45-yard line.


2011 Hawaii Bowl, Game summary
The Golden Eagles capitalized on their good field position to kick a field goal to cut the lead 14-10 with 1:21 left in the half. On the ensuing kickoff, Nevada's Khalid Wooten fumbled the kickoff and Southern Mississippi's Emmanuel Johnson recovered the ball at Nevada's 24. The Golden Eagles used the good field position to score a touchdown to take the lead 17-14 going into the half.


2011 Hawaii Bowl, Game summary
The second half was a defensive struggle for both teams. The Wolf Pack tied the game 17-17 in the 3rd quarter on a 37-yard field goal. The Golden Eagles took the lead 24-17 with 5:48 left in the game on a 4-yard touchdown pass from Austin Davis to Kelvin Bolden. On the ensuing drive, the Wolf Pack were stopped midfield on 4th-and-1 with 3:56 left in the game. The Golden Eagles were able to get a few more first downs to preserve the victory.


2011 Hawaii Bowl, Game summary
The 2011 Hawaii Bowl featured a record 17 punts and a record low 41 combined points. The win also gave the Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles its first 12-win season.


2011 Hawaii Warriors football team
The 2011 Hawaii Warriors football team represented the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Warriors were led by fourth-year head coach Greg McMackin and played their home games at Aloha Stadium. They were members of the Western Athletic Conference. They finished the season 6–7, and 3–4 in WAC play to finish in a three-way tie for fourth place. Head coach Greg McMackin resigned at the end of the season due to mounting backlash from boosters and fans.


2011 Hawaii Warriors football team
This was the Warriors last year as a member of the WAC as their football program joined the Mountain West Conference for the 2012 season.


2011 Hawaii Warriors football team
It also began the streak of seven straight losing seasons until 2018.


2011 Hawthorn Football Club season
The 2011 season was the Hawthorn Football Club's 87th season in the Australian Football League and 110th overall.


2011 Hawthorn Football Club season, Playing list changes
The following lists all player changes between the conclusion of the 2010 season and the beginning of the 2011 season.


2011 Hazara Town shooting
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2011 Hazara Town shooting
2011 Hazara Town shooting refers to a massacre of Hazara people on May 6, 2011 in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan which left 8 dead and at least 15 wounded. The shooting took place early in the morning around 0630 hrs Pakistan Standard Time in a park when people were doing morning-exercises, playing cricket and football. Three rockets were fired which was followed by heavy gunfire. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) claimed responsibility for the attack.


2011 Hazara Town shooting, Background
Hazara Town is one of the Hazara populated neighborhoods of southwestern city of Quetta in Pakistani province of Balochistan. The Hazaras are mainly Shia Muslims and their neighborhood is surrounded by other ethnic groups of Sunni sect, Balochs and Pashtuns.


2011 Hazara Town shooting, Shooting
The attack took place in an open field park adjacent to Hazara cemetery by Bypass Road. At least 10 armed men with two rocket launchers and automatic assault rifles on three vehicles entered from Brewery Road, took positions on Bypass Road and started shooting. At least three rockets were fired which were followed by heavy gunfire. The shooting last 17 minutes then assailants fled toward the Shalkot area after carrying out the attack. At the end of the day, the shooting left 8 dead and 15 injured.


2011 Hazara Town shooting, Perpetrators
The banned Pakistani Sunni extremist militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for the attacks in Hazara Town. LeJ specifically talks about Hazara Town shooting in one of their night letters distributed in Quetta by LeJ Balochistan Unit. It is believed that it was one of the attacks in revenge of the death of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.


2011 Hazara Town shooting, Response
The protesters blocked the bypass road and demanded the arrest of the assailants.


2011 Hazara Town shooting, Response
The US Embassy in Islamabad also issued a statement condemning the killings:


2011 Hazara Town shooting, Response
The senseless killing of innocent civilians is an affront to the people of Pakistan and to all humanity. All must stand together and take resolute action to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat terrorist organisations'.


2011 Hazara Town shooting, Response
The Pakistani political parties Muttahida Qaumi Movement and Tehreek Insaf condemned the killings and demanded the arrest of perpetrators from Government of Pakistan.


2011 Hazfi Cup Final
The 2011 Hazfi Cup Final was a two-legged football tie in order to determine the 2010–11 Hazfi Cup champion of Iranian football clubs. Persepolis faced Malavan in this final game. The first leg took place on June 7, 2011 at 19:45 IRDT (UTC+4:30) at Azadi Stadium in Tehran and the second leg took place on June 10, 2011 at 17:00 local time (UTC+4:30) at Takhti Stadium, Bandar Anzali.


2011 Hazfi Cup Final, Format
The rules for the final were exactly the same as the one for the previous knockout rounds. The tie was contested over two legs with away goals deciding the winner if the two teams were level on goals after the second leg. If the teams could still not be separated at that stage, then extra time would have been played with a penalty shootout (taking place if the teams were still level after that).


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season
The 2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season is made up of 10 college athletic programs that compete in the Heart of America Athletic Conference (HAAC) under the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) for the 2011 college football season. The season began play on August 27 with the Victory Sports Network College Fanz First Down Classic.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 0, Concordia vs. #22 Benedictine
Benedictine dominated the game starting when Cameron Fore caught a 4–yard pass from quarterback Bill Noonan for a touchdown in the first quarter. Benedictine accumulated 442 yards of total offense in 67 plays, averaging 6.6 yards per play. They scored six touchdowns (3 rushing and 3 passing) and committed only one penalty for five yards the entire game.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 0, Concordia vs. #22 Benedictine
Benedictine earned  19 first downs on offense where Concordia only achieved a total of 4. The score ended with a Benedictine victory at 45–0.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 0, #10 Ottawa vs. #23 Baker
Nationally ranked at #23, Baker University upset #10 ranked Ottawa University in the 2011 College Fanz First Down Classic played at Liston Stadium in Baldwin City, Kansas. Ottawa scored first when Shane Gimzo completed a 9 yard run for a touchdown with 9:02 remaining in the first quarter. It was the only lead Ottawa would hold for the entire game, which they lost when Baker's Tyler Hatcher ran the kickoff return for 82 yards for a touchdown and Andrew Kimrey completed the PAT kick. Later that same quarter, Baker's Reggie Harris ran a 62 yard punt return for a touchdown to take the lead.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 0, #10 Ottawa vs. #23 Baker
Ottawa managed to get close several times with the score at the end of the first half with Baker leading 17–16.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 0, #10 Ottawa vs. #23 Baker
Baker managed to hold Ottawa scoreless in the second half of play while scoring three touchdowns and a field goal. Baker recovered two fumbles and intercepted two passes to win with a final score of 41–16.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 0, #10 Ottawa vs. #23 Baker
Baker Running Back John Babb was named the game's Offensive MVP with 102 rushing yards on 10 attempts, 1 reception for 11 yards, and a Touchdown. Baker Outside Linebacker Adam Steele was named Defensive MVP with 16 tackles (7 Unassisted), 2 Interceptions and One Tackle for Loss.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 1, Evangel vs. Nicholls State
Evangel played outside the NAIA against NCAA Division I FCS Nicholls State of the Southland Conference and failed to score a single point. Conversely, Nicholls scored 21 points in the first quarter and stacked together 422 yards of total offense while limiting Evangel to 147, leaving the final score at 42–0.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 1, Evangel vs. Nicholls State
Andre Brimhall led Evangel with 76 yards passing and 14 rushing. Evangel suffered particularly in controlling the ball and losing turnovers.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 1, Graceland vs. Culver-Stockton
Culver-Stockton started off with 5 points in the first quarter, but Graceland answered with ten in the second to lead 10–5 at halftime. But the lead Graceland gained was lost in the third quarter and went unanswered for the rest of the game as Culver-Stockton scored 30 points in the second half.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 1, Graceland vs. Culver-Stockton
Culver-Stockton's defense scored twice, once with a safety and then again with a touchdown by advancing a fumble. It was the first season-opening win for Culver-Stockton since 2005.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 1, Avila vs. Lincoln
NCAA Division II Lincoln University of Missouri (a member of the MIAA) managed 453 yards of total offense and held NAIA Avila to 270 yards in their 35–3 victory. Neither team scored until the second quarter when Lincoln running back Deon Brock caught a 36-yard from freshmen quarterback Robert Redmond for a touchdown, capping a 62-yard drive. Lioncoln failed to convert the extra point.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 1, #22 Benedictine vs. Sterling
Sterling lost its second consecutive game and its home opener to #22 ranked Benedictine. Benedictine managed to achieve 265 yards in total offense where Sterling managed only 76. Both teams combined for 17 punts in the game for a total of 337 yards punting. On defense, Sterling managed one interception for 20 yards but also lost a fumble on offense.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 1, #22 Benedictine vs. Sterling
The only scores came from Benedictine's two touchdowns and extra points in the first and second quarter, leaving the final score at 14–0.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 1, Central Methodist vs. #3 MidAmerica Nazarene
The MidAmerica Nazarene Pioneers outscored the Central Methodist Eagles 24–0 in Olathe. Nazarene accumulated 402 yards of total offense and held the Eagles to 192. The Pioneers scored all three touchdowns on the ground and an additional field goal in the fourth quarter.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 1, Central Methodist vs. #3 MidAmerica Nazarene
With this victory, MidAmerica Nazarene extended their domination of the series to 28–3, winning the last three matchups of the two schools.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 1, #12 McPherson vs. #11 Missouri Valley
#11 Missouri Valley proved its ranking above #12 McPherson with a 47–10 thrashing in its home opener against last year's KCAC champion. Missouri Valley took the lead in the first quarter when Lorenzo Dennard completed 5 yard run for a touchdown and held the lead for the remainder of the game. Missouri Valley scored seven touchdowns:  five on the ground, one by air, and one more on defense while accumulating 486 yards of total offense. McPherson could only manage one touchdown and 136 yards of total offense and could not convert a single third down situation in 14 attempts.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 1, #12 McPherson vs. #11 Missouri Valley
Local McPherson sportswriter Steve Sell noted before the game that McPherson's team was "full of unknowns" and noted that the more challenging opponent scheduled early in the season is different from previous years.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 1, Peru State vs. #23 Baker
The Baker Wildcats advanced their record to 2–0 for the season by defeating Nebraska's Peru State 55–12 at Baldwin City. Baker accumulated 468 yards of total offense and held Peru State to 111. Baker scored a total of seven touchdowns, four by passing and three by rushing and picked off three interceptions on defense.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 1, Peru State vs. #23 Baker
Baker's John Babb led the Wildcats on the ground with 129 yards on 11 carries and teammate Jake Morse added 183 yards in the air with three touchdowns.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 2
Only Graceland had a non-conference game in week two, which they lost to Lindenwood University. However, there were some exciting games as #11 Missouri Valley upset #3 MidAmerica Nazarene and unranked Evangel managed a win against #23 Baker. Benedictine did not play and thus remained unbeaten alongside Missouri Valley College.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 2, Culver-Stockton vs. Peru State
Peru State scored twice in the first quarter and then held the lead for the remainder of the game. Included in the first quarter run was a 70 yard interception return by Peru State's Trey Rigby for a touchdown.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 2, Culver-Stockton vs. Peru State
Peru State managed 497 yards of total offense, 25 first downs, and seven touchdowns while only committing two penalties the entire game. Culver-Stockton managed 384 yards of total offense, but could only get 18 first downs and three touchdowns, while committing six penalties for a total of 50 yards. The final score of the game was 58–27 with Peru State taking the victory.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 2, Graceland vs. Lindenwood
Graceland traveled to former HAAC member and 2009 champion Lindenwood. Lindenwood took the lead early and big in the first quarter and at the half led by 34–0. Graceland managed a field goal in the third and touchdown in the fourth quarter, but gave up an additional 33 points in the process to end the game by score of 67–10.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 2, MidAmerica Nazarene vs. Missouri Valley
MidAmerica Nazarene traveled to Missouri Valley for what was considered by many to be one of the most important games in conference play for the season. Coaches and sportswriters alike agreed that the winner of this game, only in week 2, would have the "inside edge" to the conference championship.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 2, MidAmerica Nazarene vs. Missouri Valley
Although ranked eight spots lower in the NAIA Coaches' poll, Missouri Valley secured a win at home in a close matchup that ended with the final score 26–21. During the game, Missouri Valley managed five takeaways and a fourth-quarter goal line stance to seal the win.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 2, Avila vs. Central Methodist
Central Methodist achieved 404 yards of total offense and held Avila to 158 yards while scoring four touchdowns and holding Avila scoreless the entire game. James Cody Jr ran for two touchdowns including a 67 yard carry to score in the third quarter. Teammates James Harris and Justin Lowe each added a rushing touchdown and Ezequiel Rivera made a first quarter field goal plus three extra points to bring the score to 30–0 for a Central Methodist victory.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 2, #23 Baker vs. Evangel
Nationally-ranked Baker University managed to do nearly everything right on the field except win the game. Baker generated 480 yards of total offense compared to Evangel's 389, achieved 25 first downs compared to Evangel's 18, and converted 2 of 3 fourth-down conversions to Evangel's single failed attempt.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 2, #23 Baker vs. Evangel
The strong statistical performance was outweighed by Baker scoring 27 points and Evangel scoring 34 to win. Evangel took the lead in the first quarter and maintained it through the entire game for the upset at home.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 3, #7 Missouri Valley vs. Avila
Missouri Valley put up 399 yards of total offense and seven touchdowns against Avila, who could only muster 112 yards of total offense and could not score the entire game. Avila did manage to keep Missouri Valley from scoring in the first quarter, but when Bruce Reyes pushed a 24 yard carry into the end zone with 7:56 on the clock in the second quarter, it was all Missouri Valley from there.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 3, #7 Missouri Valley vs. Avila
Missouri Valley ran up the score to a 49–0 victory over Avila, assisted by two fourth quarter defensive touchdowns. Gideon Lockett made a 39 yard interception return for a touchdown, and Daniel Gray recovered a fumble in the end zone for another.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 3, Graceland vs. #14 Benedictine
Graceland managed one bright spot in their road game against #14 Benedictine when James Andrews picked up a blocked field goal attempt and ran it 75 yards for a touchdown. The rest of the game was dominated by Benedictine, scoring four touchdowns and a safety. Benedictine's offense produced 350 total yards where Graceland managed only 125.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 3, Graceland vs. #14 Benedictine
Benedictine scored first when Jordan Jackson caught a 44 yard pass from Bill Noonan for a touchdown, and led the remainder of the game. The final score was 30–6.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 3, Evangel vs. Culver-Stockton
A 17-point fourth quarter burst of scores helped Evangel lock the win against Culver-Stockton.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 3, Evangel vs. Culver-Stockton
Evangel's Tommy Meyer started the scoring with a 39 yard run for a touchdown in the first quarter. Evangel held the lead until Culver-Stockton tied the score 10–10 with 35 seconds left in the third quarter when Jacob Harnacke completed a 2 yard run and Michael Camargo converted the extra point. From that point on, it was all in Evangel's hands, as scores came from Jesse Vaughn's 84 yard punt and Tyre Hemingway's 51 yard interception return. Drew O'Cain also contributed two extra points and a field goal to bring the final score to 27–10.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 3, Central Methodist vs. Baker
Baker's Andrew Kimrey made a 21 yard field goal in the first quarter for Baker to take the lead 3–0. No further scoring occurred until the third quarter, when Central Methodist's Caleb Haynes pushed a 1 yard run into the end zone, and Ezequiel Rivera tacked on the extra point to make the score 7–3.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 3, Central Methodist vs. Baker
Baker then scored four touchdowns in the fourth quarter:  Kyle Rooks on a 2 yard run; Jake Green caught a 64 yard pass from Jake Morse; John Babb made a 57 yard run; and Jake Morse dove for 1 yard. Kicker Andrew Kimrey made every extra point, leaving the final score with a clear Baker victory 31–7.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 4, Avila vs. #8 MidAmerica Nazarene
MidAmerica Nazarene started off the scoring when Juan Redmon caught a 10 yard pass from Sean Ransburg for a touchdown in the first quarter. Cody Morrow's extra point kick made the score 7–0. Avila responded in the second quarter when Da'Veion Sullivan made good on a 39 yard pass from Vincent Beltran for six points, and Tim Gilday's extra point tied the score 7–7.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 4, Avila vs. #8 MidAmerica Nazarene
MidAmerica Nazarene answered by scoring three touchdowns in the rest of the second quarter to make it 28–7 at halftime, and then dominated the second half. MidAmerica scored a total of five touchdowns through 511 yards of total offense while holding Avila to one touchdown and 240 offensive yards. The final score was 41–7.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 4, #22 Baker vs. #6 Missouri Valley
Both Baker and Missouri Valley were ranked teams when met for conference play. Last week's game for Baker, they held their opponents to one touchdown for the win. This week, it was Baker's turn to be held to one touchdown for a loss.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 4, #22 Baker vs. #6 Missouri Valley
Missouri Valley's offense achieved 487 total yards while Baker was only able to make 169. Missouri Valley's 30 first downs and five touchdowns far surpassed Baker's 11 first downs and one touchdown, leaving the final score 38–7.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 5, #15 Bethany vs. Avila
Bethany out-paced Avila University in a game that statistically was closely matched between the two teams. Bethany put down 364 yards of total offense, compared to Avila's 331; Bethany had 21 first downs compared to Avila's 19; Bethany went 7 for 15 on third down conversions and Avila went 7 for 17; both teams were 0 for 1 on fourth down attempts. Each side lost a fumble, but Bethany gave up 2 interceptions where Avila had zero.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 5, #15 Bethany vs. Avila
Despite the similarity of statistics, Bethany won by a score of 30 to 13.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 7, #15 Southern Nazarene vs. #7 MidAmerica Nazarene
MidAmerica Nazarene's Juan Redmon caught a 38 yard pass from Sean Ransburg for a touchdown and rolled to victory over Southern Nazarene at Cessna Stadium in Wichita, Kansas  Southern did manage to tie up the score in the second quarter when Shawn Mingledorff kicked a 12 yard field goal to make the score 10–10, but just over five minutes later MidAmerica's Sean Ransburg completed a 7 yard run for a touchdown and the Pioneers held the lead for the remainder of the game. Southern's offense managed 275 total yards, where MidAmerica made 418. The final score was 17–41, with MidAmerica Nazarene the victors.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Schedule, Week 7, #15 Southern Nazarene vs. #7 MidAmerica Nazarene
The two teams met again in the first round of the national championship playoffs.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Postseason
MidAmerica Nazarene, Missouri Valley, and Benedictine qualified to compete in the 2011 NAIA Football National Championship postseason tournament.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Postseason, First round, #9 Saint Francis vs. #7 Missouri Valley
Missouri Valley entered the first round with a record of 9–1 and as the champions of the Heart of America Athletic Conference. Saint Francis came with a record of 8–2 and has won eight-straight First Round games in previous years.


2011 Heart of America Athletic Conference football season, Postseason, First round, #9 Saint Francis vs. #7 Missouri Valley
Saint Francis scored first and last in their first round game against Missouri Valley, with a total of four touchdowns for the game. It was enough to record a win on the road by a score of 28–14.