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Senate committee approves gun bill

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Upper Valley Career Center student and Skills USA Representative Oliver Walters of Piqua, holds the microphone for aNAO robot demonstration as Kris Frey, also of Piqua, standing behind table, demonstrates the robot's capabilities to alarge crowd in the commons area during a business after-hours sponsored by the Miami and Shelby County chambersof commerce and hosted by the Upper Valley Career Center onThursday.

Ramer announcesfirst-ever PPP event

BY BETHANY J.ROYERStaff writerbroyer@civitasmedia.com

PIQUA — Dan Ramer,recent Order of GeorgeAward recipient andmember of Positively Pro-moting Piqua, took to thepodium at Tuesday’s com-mission meeting to an-nounce a first-ever eventto be held Wednesday,Piqua Progress 2013.The event will begin at

5:15 p.m. (Doors open at4:30 p.m.) and will be heldin the Grand Ballroom ofthe fourth floor of the FortPiqua Plaza. It is free tothe public, and will consistof presentations given byPPP representatives,Piqua City Manager GaryHuff, and Piqua CitySchools SuperintendentRick Hanes.The goal, to update the

community on the manyencouraging develop-ments in both the publicand private sectors thathighlights Piqua as agreat community in whichto work, live, and play. Acommunity that, as ex-plained by Ramer, in orderto move forward and bethe progressive, dynamic,vibrant and fun commu-nity anticipated, needs towork constructively to-gether, and focus on posi-tive solutions to problemsfaced by all communities.“It’s really a celebration

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PAC steps into spring with Art Walk

Popular band Penny and the Loafers reunites

BY BELINDA M. PASCHALStaff Writerbpaschal@civitasmedia.com

The impending arrivals of St. Patrick’s Dayand a new season have inspired the PiquaArts Council to paint the town green during

its upcoming Spring ArtWalk.The self-guided tour of

downtown businesseswill be a celebration of allthings green, from envi-ronmental concerns andIrish clog dancers toshamrock shakes andhorticultural displays bygreen-thumbed resi-

dents. The event will take place from 5 to 8p.m. Thursday.“We are up and running and ready to go,”

said PAC executive director Jordan Knep-

per, adding that the Art Walk is designed tohighlight local artists, art and businesses ina casual setting. PAC and 19 other localbusinesses will showcase artwork and craftdisplays, offer food and drink specials andhost performances.The council’s contribution to the event will

be a gallery exhibiting the work of memberLindsay Cooper. “Her work is ridiculouslygood,” Knepper said.Following the Art Walk, a reception will be

held at Mulligan’s Pub, 110 W. High St. A spe-cial menu will offer themed cuisine likebangers and mash, shepherd’s pie and

BY BELINDA M. PASCHALStaff Writerbpaschal@civitasmedia.com

When guitarist Scott Ridenour took thestage with his former bandmate PennyNimety, the fit was as comfortable as an oldshoe.It had been five years since Nimety left the

band once known as Penny and the Loafers,but her return to the microphone last yearmelted those years away. The group nowplayed under a different name — The Drive— but the chemistry hadn’t changed.“Penny decided to come back when our

lead singer Bob Comstock suffered several

strokes in August of last year,” Ridenour said.“She stepped in for him and decided shewanted to sing again.”A Jan. 26 benefit for Comstock marked the

unofficial reunion of Penny and the Loafersand drew more than 850 people to the Cov-ington Eagles hall. “The turnout was incred-ible. We were very well-received,” Ridenoursaid. “Everyone kept saying we shouldchange our name back to Penny and theLoafers.” He declined to disclose the amountof money raised, simply saying, “We did very,very well.”Penny and the Loafers’ official reunion gig

BY ALAN FRAMAssociated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) TheSenate Judiciary Committee ap-proved legislation Thursdaymaking gun trafficking a fed-eral crime as lawmakers castthe first vote in Congress tocurb firearms since December’shorrific shootings at a Connecti-cut elementary school.The panel was also debating

bills banning assault weaponsand high capacity magazines,requiring background checks fornearly all gun purchases, andproviding more money for

schools to buy video camerasand other safety equipment.The committee approved the

gun trafficking measure on an11-7 vote. Sen. Charles Grass-ley, R-Iowa, was the only Re-publican to vote in favor of themeasure, whose chief sponsorwas the panel’s chairman, Sen.Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.Evidence was abundant of

partisan clashes ahead as thetwo parties sparred over theneed to limit firearms.Leahy said he hoped senators

would make significantprogress this week on curbinggun violence.

Grassley said everyone wantsto prevent more killings like thedeaths of 20 first-graders andsix staffers at Sandy Hook Ele-mentary School in Newtown,Conn. But he said gun controldoes not work and accused De-mocrats of wanting to “imposemore gun restrictions on law-abiding citizens.”All four measures were ex-

pected to pass the committee.But their fate when the fullSenate considers them, proba-bly in April, is less certain. Thetrafficking measure by Leahy,D-Vt., was thought to have thebest prospects, while the assault

weapons ban by Sen. Dianne Fe-instein, D-Calif., seemed to havethe slimmest chance.The trafficking bill would cre-

ate penalties of up to 25 years inprison for people who legallybuy guns but give them to oth-ers who use them in crimes.Democrats led by Sen.

Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., hadhoped to reach a bipartisan dealon expanding federal back-ground checks with conserva-tive Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.But on Wednesday, Democratsset aside their efforts to winover Coburn after weeks oftalks failed to resolve a dispute

over requiring that records ofprivate sales be retained.Their inability to craft a deal

with Coburn was a blow to De-mocrats because of his solid con-servative credentials and “A”rating with the NRA. His sup-port could have meant backingfrom other Senate Republicansand even moderate Democrats,including several facing 2014re-election campaigns in GOP-leaning states.In addition, supporters of

curbing guns say the Senatewill have to approve legislation

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Penny and the Loafers will play their officialreunion concert at 9 p.m. March 16 at Z’sFood & Spirits, 319 Wayne St.

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will be at 9 p.m. March 16 at Z’sFood & Spirits, 319 N.Wayne St.

Like The Drive, Penny and theLoafers is a cover band specializingin classic rock and 80’s hits. “Wehope to incorporate some originalseventually, but we primarily docovers and we target festivals, cor-porate events, parties and wed-dings, along with standard bar andclub gigs,” Ridenour said.

The Drive is known for its rendi-tions of songs including The Temp-tations’ “My Girl,” “What I LikeAbout You” by The Romantics andJourney’s “Only the Young,” whichshowcased Comstock’s soaring

voice. Though Comstock’s absenceis felt, Nimety’s return willbroaden the band’s repertoire to in-clude artists like Tina Turner, Ste-vie Nicks and Etta James.

“We really do miss Bob. He hadsuch a great voice and good range,”Ridenour said. “The changeoverwon’t be too drastic. We do a lot ofthe same songs we did as TheDrive, but now we’re able to domore female artists and blues-based songs.”

In addition to praising Nimety’svocal prowess, Ridenour remarkedthat her finesse as a frontwomanbrings a certain pizazz to theband’s performances. “Penny cer-tainly has a stage presence and an

energy. She has a spark. Peoplejust gravitate toward her,” he said.“She has a rapport with peoplethat frankly, we didn’t have as TheDrive. There’s an art to that andshe possesses it.”

Besides Ridenour and Nimety,Penny and the Loafers’ lineup in-cludes original member Jim Cookon drums, and newcomers JeffDavis (keyboards, vocals) and JohnStockstill (bass, vocals).

Penny and the Loafers can bebooked to play corporate and pri-vate events by calling Ridenour at(937) 773-9277. The band is stillusing The Drive’s website atwww.thedrivelive.com.

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number of fronts,” said Ramer,while giving a brief background ofthe PPP coming together a littleover two and a half years ago, andwhat they saw as an opportunity tocombine both their own organiza-tional supporters, along with thecity of Piqua, and the city schoolsdue to those aforementioned en-couraging developments.

The PPP will stage the collabora-tive event so as to communicate toas many people as possible the

many developments going on in thecommunity, while emphasizing theimportance of public participation.

“It’s important for us to have anengaged citizenry, people who areplugged in, who care about what isgoing on,” said Ramer. “We see dys-function in Washington everyevening on the news, and it’s reallydepressing. You see a governmentthat is paralyzed.All we hear aboutis fiscal cliffs and sequesters and aninability to deal with problems.Thecity of Piqua has made remarkableprogress in the past several years,squarely facing its problems and its

issues, and coming up with positivesolutions.”

Light refreshments will be pro-vided with social time from 6:30 to7 p.m.

“We are asking them (the public)to make a little time in your sched-ule to stop by,” said Ramer, withtime allocated for questions bothduring the presentation and socialtime. “Please come, get engaged inyour community, find out what isgoing on that is positive and con-structive.”

RSVP to dpsec@frenchoil.com orby phone 773-3420, ext. 272 today.

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with strong bipartisansupport to boost theirchances of success in theGOP-led House. Republi-can leaders there havesaid they won’t act untilthe Senate produces legis-lation.

Democrats said theywould negotiate withother Republicans andwould not give up on even-tually cutting a deal withCoburn.

“We’re confident plentyof senators already under-stand that this is thesweet spot where goodpolicy and politics meet,”said Mark Glaze, directorof Mayors Against IllegalGuns, a gun-curb groupled by New York MayorMichael Bloomberg andBoston Mayor ThomasMenino whose member-ship includes more than800 mayors.

Expanding the checksis the cornerstone andmost popular part ofObama’s effort to rein gunviolence. They are now

mandated only for salesby the nation’s 55,000 fed-erally licensed gun deal-ers, not for private salesbetween individuals, likethose at gun shows or on-line.

An Associated-Press-GfK poll in January found84 percent favored requir-ing background checks atgun shows. Other pro-posed gun curbs were sup-ported by just over halfthe public.

Thursday’s Judiciarysession prompted wide-spread efforts, especiallyby gun control advocates,to pressure recalcitrantsenators and show signsof public support.

Supporters of gun curbsplanned rallies outsidethe home-state offices ofGrassley, the JudiciaryCommittee’s top Republi-can, and Sen. Jeff Flake,R-Ariz.

Former Rep. GabrielleGiffords, D-Ariz., griev-ously wounded in a Tuc-son mass shooting twoyears ago, solicited contri-butions by email for thepolitical action committee

she and husband MarkKelly, the retired astro-naut, have formed to helpelect lawmakers who backgun curbs.

“Your contribution willhelp us keep the pressureon Judiciary Committeesenators while ensuringthe rest of them see ourmessage” during Con-gress’ recess late thismonth, she wrote.

NRA officials said theyhave urged their mem-bers, said to number morethan 4 million, to contactlawmakers.

Democrats say back-ground check records,whether kept by the indi-viduals, manufacturers orothers, are the only way toensure that the checks areconducted for privatesales. Coburn said suchinformation could helpcreate a federal registry ofgun owners somethingthat is now illegal andthat theWhite House sayswould not happen.

Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Mark Kirk, R-Ill., also have beeninvolved in the back-

ground check negotiationsand said in a joint state-ment they would continuelooking for a compromisewith other senators.

“Dr. Coburn is stillhopeful they can reach anagreement,” Coburnspokesman John Hartsaid Wednesday.

Lacking agreementwith Coburn, Schumerplanned to seek a vote bythe Judiciary Committeeon a bill resembling ameasure he initially pro-posed two years ago. Itwould require backgroundchecks for nearly all gunsales, with narrow exemp-tions including one fortransactions betweenclose relatives. It wouldalso cut federal aid forstates that don’t sendenough mental healthrecords to the federalbackground check net-work a widespread prob-lem that has fueled critics’complaints that the cur-rent system should befixed before it is ex-panded.

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Guinness beef stew. Livemusic will be providedby Wenches A’Wailing, aMiamisburg-based quar-tet that performs Irishdrinking songs andother traditional pubclassics.

In addition to PACand Mulligan’s, otherparticipating sites are:The Gazebo on PublicSquare; Barclay’s, 314 N.Main St.; Ken-Mar An-tiques, 322 N. Main St.;Susie’s Big Dipper, 323N. Main St.; Apple TreeGallery, 405 N. Main St.;Michalo’s Pizza, 413 N.

Main St.; Dobo’s De-lights Bake Shoppe, 417N. Main St.; Glamour onMane Day Spa, 420 N.Main St.; StephanieGunter, attorney at law,429 N. Main St.; Read-more’s Hallmark, 430 N.Main Street; Somewherein Time Decor, 509 N.Main St.; Arabella Salonand Spa, 312 W. WaterSt.; Beppo Uno, 414 W.Water St.; the PiquaPublic Library, 116 W.High St.; Winans FineChocolates & Coffees,122 W. High St.; CarriedAway Salon & Spa, 114W. Ash St.; Z’s Food &Spirits, 319 N. Wayne St.

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Ohio’s state payroll drops slightly in 2012COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio’s

state government payroll fell 3 per-cent last year,with psychiatrists atstate mental hospitals continuingto be among the top earners, ac-cording to payroll records analyzedby a newspaper.

The state’s non-university pay-roll fell to less than $3 billion in2012, after staying roughly thesame in 2010 and 2011, TheColumbus Dispatch reported in astory published Thursday.

Dr. Zinovi Goubar, a psychiatristat a state psychiatric hospital inNorthfield, near Cleveland, made

the most money at more than$335,000 last year including$177,720 in overtime. He was theonly state employee to top$300,000 annually and was thestate’s top earner for the fourthstraight year.

The analysis showed that 21 ofthe state’s top 23 earners and 17 ofthe top 20 overtime earners arefrom theOhio Department ofMen-tal Health. The agency had 238employees who made more than$100,000 last year, with a totalpayroll of $271 million.

Department of Mental Health

spokeswoman Trudy Sharp saidthe agency’s expenses, includingpayroll, are high because it mustmaintain professional care 24hours a day, seven days a week atall six psychiatric hospitals. Theagency serves an average of 1,000patients at any point during theyear.

“It’s a fixed cost,” Sharp said.“Each hospital has to cover 5,000hours beyond the 40-hour week.Toprovide that coverage in any otherwaywouldn’t save the statemoney.This is the most fiscally responsi-ble way to cover 24/7 operations.”

Dr. Andrew D. Eddy, whooversees the entire medical sys-tem for state prisons, was thesecond highest-paid state em-ployee. He made nearly$289,000 last year, with no over-time.

Gov. John Kasich was paid$148,347 in salary in 2012.

Personal-leave pay for state em-ployeesmore than doubled to $21.8million last year. That’s becausepersonal-leave days were frozenthrough June 30, 2011, under astate union contract that includedcost-saving furlough days.

Ohio Amish faceunfamiliar lives

CLEVELAND (AP) Six-teen Amish men andwomen who have livedrural, self-sufficient livessurrounded by extendedfamily and with little out-side contact are facingregimented routines in afederal prison systemwhere almost half of in-mates are behind bars fordrug offenses and modernconveniences such as tele-vision will be a constanttemptation.

Prison rules will allowthe 10 men convicted inbeard- and hair-cuttingattacks on fellowAmish ineastern Ohio to keep theirreligiously importantbeards, but they mustwear standard prison uni-forms instead of the darkoutfits they favor. Jumperdresses will be an optionfor the six Amish women,who will be barred fromwearing their typical long,dark dresses and bonnets.

It’s unclear where theAmish will serve theirsentences, but some of thenearest options includemen’s prisons in Elkton, a90-minute drive southeastof Cleveland, and inLoretto, Pa., and women’sprisons in Lexington, Ky.,and Alderson, W.Va. Someof the initial prison as-signments include loca-tions in Texas andLouisiana, according to aletter circulating amongdefense attorneys, andother assignments couldcome any day.

Visits from family mem-bers might be difficultsince they don’t drivemodern vehicles. Duringthe trial, relatives hiredvan drivers to take themmore than 100 miles tothe trial in Cleveland,where they often filledmost courtroom seats.

“Amish people grow upwith very strong commu-nal connections and largeextended families andparticipating in commu-nity activities, so beingsuddenly severed fromthat and isolated wouldcertainly be a majorchange,” said DonaldKraybill, a longtimeAmish researcher andprofessor at Elizabeth-town College in the heartof Pennsylvania’s Amishcountry.

The defendants, allmembers of the sameAmish sect, were con-victed in September ofhate crimes in 2011 at-tacks meant to shame fel-low Amish they believedwere straying from thestrict religious interpreta-tions espoused by thesect’s leader. Fifteen ofthem received sentencesranging from one to sevenyears; the ringleader,Samuel Mullet Sr., got 15years.

They all rejected pleadeals that offered leniency,with some young mothersturning down possiblechances for probation.

Amish communitieshave a highly insular,modest lifestyle, aredeeply religious and be-lieve in following theBible, which they believeinstructs women to lettheir hair grow long andmen to grow beards andstop shaving once theymarry.

Prosecutors say the 16defendants targeted hairbecause it carries spiritualsignificance, hence thehate crime prosecution.The defendants had ar-gued that the Amish arebound by different rulesguided by their religionand that the governmenthad no place getting in-volved in what amountedto a family or church dis-pute.

Most of the men werelocked up, often in lessstrict local jails, after theirarrests and will havesome idea of what to ex-pect in prison. The womenremained free during thetrial, and several haveasked to stay out of prisonduring their appeals. Thejudge rejected three suchrequests Wednesday.

The timing for movingthose locked up to federalprisons and for those stillat home to report to beginserving terms will be up tothe prison system. Whenthey report, they will be inthe custody of the U.S. Bu-reau of Prisons.

The beard-cutting de-fendants aren’t likely tosee many fellow Amish inprison. In the Amish re-gion east of Clevelandwhere one of the attackstook place, TrumbullCounty Sheriff ThomasAltiere has seen only oneAmish inmate in his 20years as sheriff, and Kray-bill, the researcher, knowsof just one current Amishinmate.

Attorney John Pyfer,who has represented hun-dreds of Amish in Penn-sylvania in the past 40years, said: “I just don’tthink there’s a lot ofAmish that go to prison,and certainly not federalprison.”

The federal prisons bu-reau doesn’t keep figuresof how many Amish in-mates it has held over theyears.

The federal systemdoesn’t prohibit lockingup relatives in the samefacility, so the defendantscould wind up at some ofthe same locations. Thedefendants include Mul-let Sr., four of his chil-dren, his son-in-law,three nephews and thespouses of a niece andnephews.

The response to thejailing of one beard-cut-ting defendant high-lighted the closeness ofAmish families, said Al-tiere, the sheriff. Whiletwo relatives visited thedefendant, more than adozen more prayed be-hind a glass partition.

Some low-key Amishwon’t stand up whenthreatened in prison,Hyde said, but Mullet Sr.has encouraged a toughoutlook.

“Grow up,” he said in arecorded phone call to ajailed son who wasamong the first arrestedin the case. “You can takemore than that. I knowit’s rough.”

Mullet Sr. wasn’t asconfident about his ownability to handle prison.

“You’re in there likethat I can understandthat real good,” he toldhis son. “I don’t know if Icould handle it.”

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PROVIDED PHOTOThe Miami District of the MiamiValley Council held their Cub Scout Pinewood Derby Saturday, March2, at the MiamiValley Centre Mall. Shown in the picture are the top three of the District Race from leftto right, Brandon Allen (Pack 291), Mitchell Olberding (Pack 365) andTorin Schulte (Pack 344). Raceswere held for each division.TheTiger winners were Nathan Brewster (Pack 413), Aaron Oates (Pack413) andTyler Heuker (Pack 365).TheWolf winners were AaronWaters (Pack 295), Connor Stevenson(Pack 295) and Aaron Jackson (Pack 43).The Bear winners were Andrew Oates (Pack 413), MatthewPeoples (Pack 365), Sean Givler (Pack 365) and Scott Blumenstock (Pack 43). The WEBELOS win-ners were Dakota Foster (Pack 5) and Eli Monnin (Pack 365).The winner of the sibling race were Dim-itri Hartman (Pack 395), Addison Haddix (Pack 5) and Deserae Goings (Pack 5).

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PIQUA — The Miami CountyYMCA Teen Leaders Club will host a5k Run/Walk on Saturday.Registration begins at 7 a.m. at the

YMCA Youth Center located at 307 W.High St. in Piqua. The race begins at8:30 a.m. at the start/finish line on thebike path at Downing Street. The routegoes west with a turnaround just be-

yond the Sunset underpass. The racewill be electronically timed by SpeedyFeet. This event honors the memory ofA.J. Kaiser whose career in youth workand administration at the MiamiCounty YMCA spanned the years 1926-1960. Mr. Kaiser had a substantial im-pact as an advocate and friend to youthat the YMCA and in the community. All

proceeds from the event will providescholarships for Leaders Club membersto attend statewide leadership trainingrallies. For more information, call JoeHinds, Teen Leadership Director at theYMCA 778-5247 or email atj.hinds@miamicountyymca.net. Raceand registration fee information also isavailable at www.speedyfeet.com

COVINGTON — TheCovington Bucc Boosterswill host the DougSwartz/Bucc Booster Me-morial ScholarshipFundraiser for the Class of2013 from 5-11 p.m. Satur-day, March 23, at the End

Zone Hall, Covington. The event will includes a

pig roast, which includessandwich, bag of chips,cookie and drink for $7, abake sale, games, silent auc-tion and other fundraisingactivities. Donations for the

bake sale or auction will beaccepted up to 12 p.m. theday of the event. The fundraiser is being

sponsored by the friends ofDoug Swartz through theCovington Bucc Boostersand all proceeds will bene-

fit scholarships for the 2013class of Covington with 20percent going toward ath-letics and 80 percent to-wards scholarships. Mr. Swartz was a long-

time teacher and coach atCovington Schools.

PIQUA — Edison Com-munity College will hostits annual Career Expofrom 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.Tuesday, March 19, in theNorth Hall of the PiquaMain campus.More than 50 organiza-

tions ranging from manu-facturing, business,financial services, healthcare, social services, retail,construction, and thearmed forces will be in at-tendance, representing awide range of job opportu-nities for west centralOhio area residents.This year, the expo is

sponsored by Edison, theUpper Valley Career Cen-ter, area Job Centers andthe Rehabilitation Serv-ices Commission. Miamiand Shelby County repre-sentatives will be on hand

to provide resume helpand job search assistance.Additional resources, in-cluding online access, areavailable at their facili-ties.“We are looking for-

ward to another successfuland well-attended CareerExpo. I am pleased to seean increasing number ofjob opportunities in thisregion,” said PamelaGibellino, coordinator ofcareer services.More than 500 job

seekers are expected to at-tend the free event. Repre-sentatives fromorganizations includingCargill Inc., Crown Con-trol, Dannon, EmersonClimate Controls, HartzellIndustries, PlastipakPackaging Inc., Norcold,U.S. Bank, Premier

Health Partners, andmany others will be pres-ent. There will also bestaffing services partici-pating, representing someof the major employers inthe area.Also in attendance this

year will be representa-tives from some of thearea’s four-year collegesand universities, who willbe assisting students withinformation on credittransfers and various de-gree programs.Edison’s Career Serv-

ices department providesresources to students,alumni and the communityin the areas of careersearching and advising. In-dividuals can come to thedepartment for guidancewhen they are consideringa career change or have ex-

perienced a job loss. Skilledcareer advisors guide themthrough a career assess-ment process and links tosignificant data on careerfields and the job market.Many resources are avail-able on Edison’s website atwww.edisonohio.edu/ca-reer.“A job fair is an excellent

way to personally meet em-ployers and recruiters, net-work, submit your resume,and make a great first im-pression. It can also givecandidates a real edgewhen compared with sub-mitting a resume electroni-cally,” Gibellino said.For more information

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Fifty-eight years ago a small group of 17- and 18year-old boys stood in a stuffy, seldom-used meet-ing room, raised their hands and swore to defend

America’s Constitution.We went into the paratrooperswhere we trained constantly to do just that but wenever got the chance. Korea was finished three yearsbefore we went in and Vietnam didn’t start for fiveyears after we got out. Thus, the life-and-death fate ofmany naïve, poor, working-class boys is directed by de-cisions of distant events and distant men.Now, as an old man I still feel an obligation to de-

fend this Constitution because another war is going on— a war to change our country by erasing all the pro-gressive progress in America over most of the twenti-eth century. Some groups are trying to redefine ourfounding document, the Constitution, and the rulesand laws that spring from it.Who is doing this?

Well, if this questionhad been asked in thesixties, I would havesaid the SDS, the stu-dent crackpots and as-sorted people on the leftwho quoted Jefferson intheir right to take downgovernments by force.(Yes, I was in a group ofex-GIs who protestedthe idiot protesters then.)But now it’s the Right doing it. And they are much

better financed. They have their own media and theyalso have a formidable coalition of backers. This in-cludes the very rich, far right religious groups, formerJohn Birch Society members, the NRA leadership,Militia members, Libertarians and many others whoare either convinced that socialism has been takingover America or are making a good living spreadingthis myth.They like to use a Jefferson quote. “The tree of lib-

erty must be refreshed from time to time with theblood of patriots and tyrants.”The extreme Left used itfor their threats in the sixties and now it is being citedby the extreme Right. Jefferson did not write this toexplain a theory of government; it was an aside by himin a personal letter to a friend,William Smith. He wasridiculing some of the other founders for taking seri-ously the armed Shays’ Rebellion. It was a dismissiveand ironic statement about small armed rebellions, nota call to willy-nilly overthrow the government they hadworked so hard to form.Arch-conservatives also like another quote attrib-

uted to Jefferson. “When governments fear the people,there is liberty.When the people fear the government,there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the peopleto retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a lastresort, to protect themselves of tyranny in govern-ment.” This is bogus. Jefferson never wrote it. He neversaid it. (Jefferson wasn’t even part of the framing ofthe Constitution and Second Amendment. He was inParis.) The quote is sometimes attributed to JohnAdams or Thomas Paine or the Federalist Papers. Not!It was. made in 1914 by a John Basil Barnard in, iron-ically, a socialist magazine, the National Rip-Saw. Nowit is used to defend the Far Right’s understanding ofthe Second Amendment — the right to bear arms.Combine these two quotes about rebellion and guns

and you can get a scary, silly attitude toward the rightsand obligations of citizens. Why do a minority of gunowners think they need combat weapons? To take 30shots to hit a deer? To do deer vivisection? For protec-tion if 25 men try and break in? No, it’s to fight theMarines if Obama sends them into their town to takeaway their guns, give them medical insurance or putup a socialist government.Usually if you hear someone say, “the Founding Fa-

thers thought…” stop listening. The founders werenever of one mind. But let me go out on a limb and saythat most of them probably didn’t want to fear a gun-man’s reactions to their work nor did they want tobuild a violently chaotic country like Somalia orYemen.I own two guns. But I haven’t needed a combat rifle

since 1958. I don’t think the Constitution allows me tothreaten our government or point a gun at those I dis-agree with. And I think we can all defend our Consti-tution by understanding our Constitutional as it iswritten, not as some zealot’s wishful thinking.

JackRobinson ofPiqua is aUniversity ofAkrongraduatewho over 25 years worked his way up from the factory floorto a senior materials management position with GeneralTire. After the Akron plant closed, he worked at numerouscompanies,most ofwhich eitherwent broke ormoved toMex-ico. Contact him at piquajack@yahoo.com.

One last questionabout newly con-firmed Secretary of

Defense Chuck Hagel.Why?Why for nearly two

months (a Washington eter-nity) did this nominee aboveall others galvanize GOPSenate opposition?I ask the question in gen-

uine wonderment. After all,there was John Kerry with that giantbull’s-eye on his record for giving outra-geous aid and comfort to America’s ene-mies by, among other things, enteringinto negotiations with the North Viet-namese andViet Cong in 1971.How doesa U.S. citizen tapped to lead the State De-partment not have to answer to U.S. sen-ators for such treasonous behavior whilea young but already noted public figure?He was never asked the question,

that’s how. Kerry sailed, or even wind-surfed, through his confirmation hearingright into Foggy Bottom with only threelittle dissenting bumps (no votes fromGOP Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz ofTexas and James Inhofe of Oklahoma).Then there’s John Brennan, President

Obama’s nominee for CIA director. Sure,the president’s counterterrorism adviserstill sits unconfirmed on a hottish seat.But I would bet large sums of moneythat, whether confirmed (likely) or not,senators will never ask Brennan a singlequestion about the gross misinformationor, worse, disinformation that he regu-larly disseminates concerning the natureand aims of Islamic jihad. Nor will he beasked about allegations from a crediblesource -- former FBI investigator JohnGuandolo (whose special expertise isIslam and the Muslim Brotherhood) --that, as CIA station chief in Saudi Ara-bia, Brennan was successfully targetedfor conversion to Islam by a Saudi intel-ligence operation. And forget about anyGOP pooh-bah being bold enough to in-quire about the role Brennanmight haveplayed in 2008 as CEO of the securitycompany whose employee helped breachthe State Department passport recordsof Hillary Clinton, John McCain andBarack Obama -- whose new administra-tion, not incidentally, Brennan would joina few months later. Mum is always theword.But Hagel drew the heavy fire. Why?

Let me explain that, except for sharingwith Hagel the goal of bringing homeAmerican troops from Iraqi and Afghanhellholes and excusing them from na-tion-building duties forever, I do notshare much of the former senator’sworldview. But when I look at the redflags the GOP seized on and waved, I re-main perplexed.Take GOP concerns over whether

Hagel received compensation forspeeches or think-tank contributionsfrom freedom-hostile foreign govern-ments -- financial ties that do seem tobind. Even a quick perusal of the donorsto the Atlantic Council, for example,where Hagel was chairman, reveals trou-bling tranches of Turkish money cours-ing through the coffers, as well asdonations from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain,Jordan and other countries.I believe the appearance of influence-

selling -- or even simply taking bids --should disqualify all nominees from Cab-inet positions.That includes Hillary Clin-ton when, in 2009, she came up forconfirmation to be secretary of state.Hundreds of millions of dollars floodedher husband’s William J. Clinton Foun-dation, with many millions sluicing infrom Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Kuwait, Qatarand elsewhere, creating not just a “con-

flict” of interest, but totalwars of interest for Amer-ica’s top diplomat. Not toworry, said the U.S. Senate,voting the nomination out ofcommittee 16-1 (RepublicanSen. David Vitter ofLouisiana voted no) andconfirming her 94-2. (Vitterand Republican Sen. JimDeMint of South Carolinavoted no.) Why was foreign

money a confirmation problem only forHagel?Hagel critics also point out that the

Pentagon nominee had alarming connec-tions to lobbies of America’s enemy, Iran.And so he has. But Leon Panetta, formerdefense secretary and former CIA direc-tor, also has had troubling connections.These include a noted relationship withHugh De Lacy, who was a CommunistParty member with connections to noto-rious spies such as Solomon Adler and V.Frank Coe of the highly damaging Sil-vermaster group. Panetta also was asso-ciated with the Marxist think tankInstitute for Policy Studies right smackin the Reagan ‘80s. Such connections in-spired not one peep during his 2009 con-firmation hearing to become CIA directoror, later, Pentagon chief. He was con-firmed unanimously, no questions asked.Why?Was it Hagel’s hostility toward Israel,

so often expressed in language associatedwith anti-Semitism, that made him sonoxious? Such attitudes, alas, by nomeans make him an outlier in theObama administration -- or in compari-son to establishment Republican figuressuch as Brent Scowcroft or James Baker.His assent in an interview to a descrip-tion of America as a world “bully,” mean-while, is no more grating than formerSecretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s cri-tiques of the Constitution in its pre-abo-lition days and of American democracy inits pre-civil rights days. Condi, of course,got a standing “o” last summer at theGOP presidential convention.But Hagel, we were informed, closed

his University of Nebraska archive topress requests for papers and speeches. Icall that the behavior of a man withsomething to hide and, as such, a manwho should not serve as Pentagon chief.But think of it: President Obama hasprevented the public from examiningitems of even greater significance. Thepresident has refused to release docu-mentation pertaining to his identity,transcripts, thesis, medical records andsenatorial schedule, offering instead thatcrude, apparently fraudulent onlineimage of a birth certificate that no em-ployer, private or public, would ever ac-cept as proof of anything. And we justhired him for a second term.More baffling still, theHagel Sturmund

Drang was all for naught. Some of Hagel’snoisiest opponents (Sens. John McCain ofArizona and Lindsey Graham of SouthCarolina) voted to end debate on theHagelnomination, thereby guaranteeing confir-mation by a party-line floor vote.So what was all that about? Given the

hypocritical passes the GOP has grantedother highly controversial administra-tion figures, it certainly wasn’t aboutprinciple, strategy or even party coher-ence. Maybe it’s a sign of a party insearch of a reason for being.

Diana West’s new book is “AmericanBetrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Na-tion’s Character,” forthcoming in May2013 from St.Martin’s Press. She blogs atdianawest.net, and she can be contactedvia dianawest@verizon.net. Follow her onTwitter @diana_west_.

WASHINGTON (AP) —Senate Judiciary Chair-man Patrick Leahy saysit’s time for Congress totake steps to reduce gunviolence.The Vermont Democrat

made the remark as theJudiciary panel began de-bating four bills aimed atrestricting firearms. Allare expected to pass thecommittee, though it isunclear whether all willbe voted on during Thurs-day’s session.The bills would expand

required federal back-ground checks to nearlyall gun purchases; ban as-sault weapons and highcapacity ammunitionmagazines; create a fed-eral crime for illegal guntrafficking; and boost fed-eral aid for school safetyprograms.Sen. Charles Grassley

of Iowa is the committee’stop Republican. He sayseveryone wants to preventmore incidents like theDecember killings inNewtown, Conn.. But theRepublican says Congressshould not curb law-abid-ing citizens’ rights to beararms.

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1. You are declarer withthe West hand at ThreeNotrump, and North leadsthe four of spades. Southwins with the king and re-turns the seven, whichyou cover with the ten.North takes the queenand shifts to the jack ofhearts. How would youplay so as to ensure thecontract against any dis-tribution of the North-South cards?

2. You are declarer withthe West hand at the am-bitious contract of SevenHearts, and North leadsthe queen of spades. As-suming the trumps are di-vided 2-2, how would youplay the hand?

1. The only way you can

be 100 percent certain ofthe contract is to playdummy’s king and yourace on North’s jack ofhearts! Now lead the jackof spades to force out theace, establishing twospade tricks in your hand.Let’s assume North

wins and makes the neu-tral return of a club todummy’s queen. You nextlead a low heart to youreight. Regardless of howthe opponents defend,they cannot stop you fromreaching your hand witheither the eight or ten ofhearts, so you are certainto score two spades, twohearts, two diamonds andthree clubs to come to ninetricks.If you adopt any other

line of play, you mightmake the contract, butyou cannot be sure of it.

The extraordinary play ofthe K-A of hearts at trickthree removes all doubtabout the outcome.2. Take the ace of

spades, cash the A-K ofhearts, lead a diamondfrom dummy and finessethe nine. If the nine wins,enter dummy with atrump and repeat the fi-nesse. If the diamonds aredivided 3-3 or 4-2, youmake the contract by dis-carding three spades fromdummy and then ruffingthe ten of spades.It would be wrong to

cash the A-K of diamonds,planning to ruff a dia-mond in dummy. Unlessthe queen fell under the A-K -- less than a 20 percentchance -- it would then beimpossible to avoid aspade loser. As opposed tothis, a first-round finesse

against the queen offersnearly a 50 percent chanceof success.Note that it would also

be wrong to cash the acefirst and then try the fi-nesse, since you could nolonger make the slam ifSouth started with four di-amonds to the queen.

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DEAR ABBY: I am in acounty jail for parole viola-tion. I am an addict, which iswhy I’m in this not-so-welcoming environment. Iaccept full responsibility forbeing here because ulti-mately it was my actions thatguaranteed me confinementin jail. I read your columnevery day and find hopewithin it.I have been struck with

some not-so-good news whilehere. On a recent visit withmy parents I learned mymother, who suffers from avariety of health problems,can no longer work. My fa-ther, who must work to coverthe cost of her medical care,has been diagnosed with livercancer. This is very difficultfor me. My father is my ab-solute best friend. I have to bestrong for my mother. I wantto scream and cry and some-times lash out, but my inneradult (I’m 26) tells me thatwould be immature. I don’tfeel like I have come to termswith my father’s illness. Al-though I know what is even-tually to come, I have yet tofeel any emotion, good or bad.I’m not sure if I’m blocking itor if I’m being the strong-willed adult I was raised to beby my father and best friend.I was never raised with the“men don’t cry” or “be strongfor your mother” concept. AmI repressing my emotions?And if so, is there anything Ican do to start dealing withthis?

— JUST ANOTHERINMATE IN

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DEAR JUST: All peopledo not react to bad news inthe same way — crying,screaming or lashing out.Some go numb for a period oftime, until they are ready toprocess their emotions. Partof your problem may be thatbecause you’re incarcerated,you feel helpless.Not knowing whether psy-

chological counseling is avail-able for prisoners in your jail— or how effective it is if it’soffered at all — I’m recom-mending you discuss thiswith a chaplain. It would bea safe way to air some of theemotions you are strugglingwith. You have my sympathy.

DEAR ABBY: I am themother of a “yours, mine andours” family. Between us, myhusband and I have six chil-dren. I have been “Mom” forhis three children since theoldest was 6. Fifteen yearshave passed, and I raised allof them as my own. Because

the stress of such a large fam-ily has taken its toll at times,I have said I couldn’t waituntil everyone was 18 andout of the house.Three of the children are

on their own now and threeremain. The youngest is 14. Irecently took my 18-year-oldson to the Air Force recruiterto take his entrance test andas I watched him walk intothe building, I started to cry. Irealized I don’t really wantthem to go away.I have been a parent since

I was 17, and now — at 40 —I’m having a hard time imag-ining life without them. I’mafraid of having only my hus-band to keep me occupied.There has never been a timewithout kids around. I’mafraid it’ll be like starting ourrelationship all over again,and he may not like what hesees. How can I get past thefear of not being needed orwanted anymore?

— ALMOST EMPTY-NESTED IN

VERMONT

DEAR ALMOSTEMPTY-NESTED: Insteadof allowing fear or anxiety todrag you down, look at thebright side. Your nest will befull for four more years —and if there is somethingabout yourself that you seethat YOU don’t like, there isplenty of time to do some-thing about it. You are morethan “just” a mother. Becauseyour responsibilities as a par-ent have lightened, use thetime to broaden your hori-zons and develop some mu-tual interests with yourhusband that you couldn’tbefore. Sometimes we can beour own harshest critics — sobe a little kinder to yourselfand consider what I havesaid. It is heartfelt.

Dear Abby is written byAbigail Van Buren, alsoknown as Jeanne Phillips,and was founded by hermother, Pauline Phillips.Write Dear Abby atwww.DearAbby.com or P.O.Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA90069.

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In Brad Parks’ “The GoodCop,” newspaper reporterCarter Ross learns of a po-liceman’s death and his in-terview with the widow onlyraises more questions.When Ross learns the po-

liceman committed suicide

and the story has beenpulled, he can’t get the caseout of his mind. Why wouldsomeone who loved his joband his family suddenly endhis life? Against the wishesof his editors, he begins tosearch for answers.“The Good Cop” is told in

first person, and the smart-aleck style adds a level of

humor that is quite refresh-ing. A subplot involving gun-running seems a bit out ofplace, but ties together quitenicely at the final reveal.Ross has to prove the cop

didn’t kill himself even asthe widow begins to distrusthim and his usual sourcesfor information dry up. Ob-viously, someone doesn’t

want him to uncover thetruth, and his determinationto pursue justice puts his lifein jeopardy.Parks’ laid-back narra-

tion and appealing protago-nist add up to a greatlighthearted read. Thoughit’s the fourth Carter Rossbook, newcomers won’t feellost.

BY BARBARAORTUTAYAP Technology Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Fora book that has yet to bereleased, Sheryl Sand-berg’s “Lean In” — partfeminist manifesto, parthow-to career guide — hasgot a lot of people talking.In the weeks leading up

to the book’s March 11 re-lease, pundits and presshounds have been debat-ing its merits. New YorkTimes columnist MaureenDowd called Sandberg a“PowerPoint Pied Piper inPrada ankle boots,” andcountless bloggers havesuggested that Facebook’schief operating officer isthe wrong person to lead awomen’s movement.“Most of the criticism

has to do with the positionshe is coming from,” saidSusan Yohn, professor andchair of Hofstra Univer-sity’s history department.Sandberg, 43, hopes

that her message of em-powerment won’t be ob-scured by the loftypedestal from which shespeaks. But is the multi-millionaire with two Har-vard degrees too rich tooffer advice? Too success-ful? Does her blueprint forsuccess ignore the plightof poor and working-classwomen? Does the book’svery premise blamewomen for not rising totop corporate positions atthe same rate as men?And just how big is her

house?The questions keep

coming largely becausefew people have actuallyread the book. But in it,Sandberg seems to haveforeseen much of the criti-cism. The book acknowl-edges that critics mightdiscount her feminist callto action with an easy-for-her-to-say shrug.“My hope is that my

message will be judged onits merits,” she writes inthe preamble.Sandberg recognizes

that parts of the book aretargeted toward womenwho are in a position tomake decisions abouttheir careers. Still, shewrites, “we can’t avoid thisconversation. This issuetranscends all of us. Thetime is long overdue to en-courage more women todream the possible dreamand encourage more men

to support women in theworkforce and in thehome.”Published by Alfred A.

Knopf Inc., “Lean In:Women, Work and the Willto Lead” will be launchedThursday with a receptionin New York City hostedby Mayor MichaelBloomberg and AriannaHuffington.It’s true that Sandberg

is wealthy. She also has asupportive husband. MarkZuckerberg is her boss.And, yes, her home is a9,000 square-foot mansionin Menlo Park, Calif.But as a woman in Sili-

con Valley, Sandberg has-n’t exactly had it easy, andher tale shows she’s noarmchair activist. Afterall, not many womenwould march into theirboss’ office and demandspecial parking for expec-tant mothers. But Sand-berg did just that whenshe worked at Google.Company founders LarryPage and Sergey Brincomplied.After Sandberg moved

to Facebook in 2008, shebecame even more outspo-ken on the issues facingwomen in corporate Amer-ica. At a time when otherexecutives, male or fe-male, have largely stayedquiet, Sandberg has deliv-ered speeches on topicssuch as “Why we have toofew women leaders.”And she’s no worka-

holic. In an age of endlesswork hours, Sandberg isfamous for leaving the of-fice at 5:30 to spend timewith her family. She doesadmit, however, to pickingup work once her kidshave gone to bed.Of the many inspira-

tional slogans that hangon Facebook’s walls, herfavorite asks “What wouldyou do if you weren’tafraid?” ‘’Lean In” is aboutpushing past fear.“Fear is at the root of so

many of the barriers thatwomen face,” she writes.“Fear of not being liked.Fear of making the wrongchoice. Fear of drawingnegative attention. Fear ofoverreaching. Fear ofbeing judged. Fear of fail-ure. And the holy trinity offear: the fear of being abad mother/wife/daugh-ter.”Sandberg peppers the

book with studies, reports

and personal anecdotes toback up her premise —that for reasons both inand out of their control,there are fewer womanleaders than men in thebusiness world and be-yond. For example, theFortune 500 has only 21female CEOs. Sandberg isamong the 14 percent ofwomen who hold execu-tive officer positions andthe 16 percent of womenwho hold board of directorseats, according to Cata-lyst.org.For minority women,

the numbers are evenbleaker. Women of color,she writes, hold just 4 per-cent of top corporate jobsand 3 percent of boardseats.“A truly equal world

would be one wherewomen ran half our coun-tries and companies andmen ran half our homes. Ibelieve that this would bea better world,” she writes.“The laws of economicsand many studies of diver-sity tell us that if wetapped the entire pool ofhuman resources and tal-ent, our collective per-formance would improve.”At less than 200 pages,

plus a good chunk of foot-notes, “Lean In” does notpurport to be the end-allsolution to inequality. Itdeals with issues Sand-berg sees as in women’scontrol.“Don’t leave before you

leave” is one of her catch-phrases, aimed at success-ful women who graduallydrop out of the workforcein anticipation of childrenthey may someday bear.“Make your partner a realpartner” is another. Shesays everyone should en-courage men to “lean in”at home by being equalpartners in parenting andhousework.“Lean In” is, by and

large, for women who arelooking to climb the corpo-rate ladder (which Sand-berg calls a jungle gym),and ideally their malesupporters. She hopes it’sthe start of a conversa-tion. To that end, Sand-berg plans to donate all ofthe proceeds to her newlyminted nonprofit,LeanIn.org.Sandberg’s book shares

personal details that re-veal a fair share of stum-bles and lesser-known

tidbits. Did you know shewas an aerobics instructorin the 1980s —big hair, sil-ver leotard and all? Thebook paints a picture of anexceptionally successfulwoman who admits tolacking confidence at vari-ous points in her career.Sandberg writes about

the “ambition gap” be-tween men and women inthe workplace — thatwhile men are expected tobe driven, ambition inwomen can be seen asnegative. She writes aboutparents’ gender-based ap-proaches to child rearingthat teach girls to be“pretty like mommy” andboys “smart like daddy,” asshe’s seen on baby onesiessold at Gymboree.And she writes about

“feeling like a fraud” —that insidious notion, feltlargely by women but menas well, that success is duenot to her own merit butto some sort of gross over-sight or accident.Sandberg’s book comes

half a century after BettyFriedan’s “The FeminineMystique,” which identi-fied “the problem that hasno name” among largelywhite, suburban house-wives who felt unhappyand unfulfilled in theirroles at home. Friedan,too, was criticized for fo-cusing on a privilegedswath of womankind.“Lean In” is a call to ac-

tion to make it easier forwomen to become leaders.It’s a call for women totake space at the table,raise their hands, speakup and step up. It’s a per-sonal account of a womanwho, through a mix of tal-ent, luck and ambition,but also with plenty of in-ternal and external obsta-cles along the way,managed to do that.Feminist icon Gloria

Steinem, whom Sandbergthanks in the acknowl-edgements and cites as in-spiration, praises “LeanIn” on her Facebook page,saying that it “addressesinternalized oppression,opposes external barriersthat create it and urgeswomen to support eachother to fight both.”She adds that even the

book’s critics “are makinga deep if inadvertentpoint: Only in women issuccess viewed as a bar-rier to giving advice.”

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Review: Readers old and new will enjoy ‘Good Cop’

COLLEEN LONGAssociated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Aman suspected of fleeingthe scene of a grisly NewYork crash that killed apregnant woman and herhusband was arrested ata Pennsylvania conven-ience store on Wednesdayafter a friend arrangedhis surrender, and he wasordered held withoutbail.Julio Acevedo walked

to officers waiting in carsin the parking lot inBethlehem, Pa., and wasarrested on charges ofleaving the scene of anaccident, New York PoliceDepartment spokesmanPaul Browne said.Acevedo said nothing toofficers who took himinto custody, Brownesaid.Acevedo is accused of

speeding down a Brook-lyn street at 60 mphearly Sunday and crash-ing into a car carryingNachman and RaizyGlauber. The Glaubers,both 21 years old, diedSunday, and their prema-ture son, delivered by ce-sarean section, diedMonday.The surrender of

Acevedo on Wednesdayevening was brokered bya friend who had been intouch with police earlierin the day. The friend metofficers at New York’sGrand Central Terminaland then led them toAcevedo in Bethlehem,about 80 miles away, po-lice said.Acevedo, 44, was or-

dered held without bailon a charge of being afugitive from justice lateWednesday during avideo hearing. A judgesaid Acevedo would beheld overnight in LehighCounty Prison whileawaiting an extraditionhearing Thursday to ad-dress his return to NewYork, said The Express-Times newspaper, of Eas-ton, Pa.Acevedo said he under-

stood.It was unclear if

Acevedo had an attorney.The friend had told policethat Acevedo would sur-render after consultingan attorney, but none waswith him when he turnedhimself in, Browne said.Acevedo told the Daily

News that he was fleeinga gunman who was try-ing to shoot at him whenhis borrowed BMWslammed into a hired carcarrying the couple. Hetold the newspaper hefled because he was wor-ried he’d be killed. Butpolice said there were noreports of shots fired inthe area at the time ofthe wreck.The tragedy unfolded

shortly after midnightSaturday, when RaizyGlauber, who was sevenmonths pregnant, de-cided to go to the hospitalbecause she wasn’t feel-ing well, her family said.The Glaubers called a liv-ery cab, a hired car thatis arranged via tele-phone, not hailed off thestreet like a yellow cab.The crash with the

BMW reduced the livery

cab to a crumpled heap,and Raizy Glauber wasthrown from it. The cab’sengine ended up in theback seat. The driver ofthe cab was knocked un-conscious.The couple belonged to

a close-knit ultra-Ortho-dox Jewish community inBrooklyn, which is hometo the largest communityof ultra-Orthodox Jewsoutside Israel, more than250,000. They were mem-bers of the Satmar Ha-sidic sect. Raizy Glaubergrew up in a prominentrabbinical family. Herhusband was studying ata rabbinical college; hisfamily founded a line ofclothing for OrthodoxJews.The couple’s son

weighed only about 4pounds when he was de-livered, neighbors andfriends said. He died ofextreme prematurity, thecity medical examiner’soffice said.He was buried Monday

near his parents’ graves,according to a spokesmanfor the Hasidic Jewishcommunity. About a thou-sand community mem-bers turned out for theyoung couple's funeral aday earlier.Word of Acevedo’s ar-

rest was met with bitter-sweet satisfaction in theGlaubers’ community.“It’s a sweet bitter pill

to swallow," said IsaacAbraham, a spokesmanfor the community. "It’s alittle good news that atleast the man responsiblehas been arrested, but itdoesn’t bring any of the

victims back.”He added that commu-

nity members hopedAcevedo would face mur-der charges.“We in the community

hope that today isAcevedo’s last day thathe sees daylight for therest of his life,” he said.Acevedo was arrested

last month on a charge ofdriving while under theinfluence, and the case ispending. He was stoppedby police after they saidhe was driving erraticallyaround 3 a.m. on Feb. 17.He had a blood-alcohollevel of 0.13, over thelimit of 0.08, police said.He served about a

decade in prison in the1990s for manslaughterafter he was convicted ofshooting a Brooklyncriminal whose moniker,50 Cent, was the inspira-tion for rapper CurtisJackson’s current stagename.How Acevedo came to

possess the BMW isunder investigation. Theregistered owner was ar-rested Sunday on insur-ance fraud chargesrelated to the vehicle, butthe case was deferred.

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Q: In our city, most ofthe high school seniorsparticipate in “SeniorBeach Week” duringspring break. They rentbeach houses and condosand party like there’s notomorrow. Alcohol, mari-juana and sex abound.Our friends justify allow-ing their kids to go by say-ing they have to betrusted sometime. Intruth, we all have goodkids who have never givenus any trouble. They justwant to go and be part ofthe scene. Our nephew’sparents, however, refuseto let him go. They say it’sirresponsible even if thechild in question has beentrustworthy to this point.We are wavering back andforth on letting our 17-year-old son attend. He as-sures us he won’t get intotrouble. What are yourthoughts?

A: My immediatethought is that it requiresa serious lapse of commonsense for a person to playwith an explosive device,even if it has a safety andit’s never gone off. In otherwords, the fact that ayoungster has been trou-ble-free and trustworthyto date is no guaranteethat he will not sponta-neously combust if put inthe wrong situation. It’snot a matter of trust; it’s amatter of understandingthat ALL teens are im-pressionable (some morethan others) and want tobe accepted by their peers.It would be one thing ifthese kids were all mem-bers of a church youthgroup going on a missiontrip to a third-world coun-try. It’s quite anotherwhen the destination isthe modern equivalent ofGomorrah.I strongly suspect that

parents who justify allow-ing their kids to attendthis weeklong bacchanaliaby saying “Well, you gottatrust ‘em sometime,” arereally afraid to incur thenegative emotional reac-tion that is bound to hap-pen if they say no. Theywant to be liked by theirkids, so they let them dothings that strain com-

mon sense. Your nephew’sparents are to be com-mended for standing theirground. Certainly the talkwill be that they’re over-protective and controllingand so on.That’s just morejustification on the part ofparents who desperatelyneed to rationalize mak-ing a really bad decision.Too many of today’s par-

ents have let having agood relationship withtheir kids take priorityover providing effectiveleadership, part of whichinvolves the willingness tomake unpopular deci-sions. Instead, they thinklike politicians, alwaysworried about doing some-thing that might hurttheir chances of re-elec-tion (or, in this case, some-thing that might causetheir kids to not like themfor a while, as if that’s rel-evant to anything). Poli-tics and parenting don’tmix.In lieu of putting your

foot down and taking theinevitable heat, you mightpropose to your son thatsince he has no intentionof doing anything inappro-priate, the entire familywill go on spring break to-gether. During the day, hecan hobnob with hisfriends but the eveningswill be family time. Thatplan would afford him areasonable amount offreedom while at the sametime minimizing the po-tential risks. Further-more, instead of beingogres, you’re just a coupleof fuddy-duddies. You canlive with that, I’m sure.

Family psychologistJohn Rosemond answersparents’ questions on hisweb site at www.rose-mond.com.

Beach week�� Living with Children

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Zoo workers go ape over gorillaDAN SEWELLAssociated Press

CINCINNATI (AP) —Some zoo workers inCincinnati are going apeover a baby gorilla.They are wearing all-

black outfits, grunting af-fectionately, and generallyimitating mother gorillasto help the month-oldbaby adjust to a new homeand get ready for a surro-gate mother. Later, theywill don hairy vests andcarry baby Gladys on theirbacks, put on kneepadsand gloves to move aroundlike a gorilla, and theymight knuckle-walk andclimb a tree with baby onboard.Even though some of

Gladys’ mamas havebeards and moustaches,they are trying to give hera mother’s love, as muchlike a gorilla as they areable. They cuddle her, lether hang on them orsquirm in their laps, liedown next to her and talkto her with different gut-tural sounds.“Whatever a gorilla

mom would do with herbaby is what we have to dowith this baby,” said RonEvans, the zoo’s primateteam leader and one ofGladys’ human surro-gates. “Everything that wecan do … obviously, I’mnot producing milk.”He’s heading a team of

seven to 10 people whowork in shifts of eighthours or so to provide thebaby with 24-hour com-panionship. She camefrom the Gladys PorterZoo in Brownsville, Texas,where she was born Jan.29 to a first-time motherwho showed little mater-nal instinct. Zoo employ-ees Jerry and CindyStones — the baby wasnamed Gladys Stones onFriday — bottle-fed andcared for her there.The zoos agreed it was

best to move her toCincinnati, where two ex-perienced mother gorillasare available to serve as

surrogates. Over theyears, 48 gorillas havebeen successfully born liveat Cincinnati.Evans said the Colum-

bus Zoo in Ohio has beena global pioneer in takinggorilla babies in need ofsurrogates from otherzoos, but this is a first forCincinnati. Zoo employeeswant to be careful, andhave a four- to five-monthtransition period to makesure first that the baby ishealthy, then will be ableto socialize and be ac-cepted within its popula-tion of eight other gorillas.“We don’t want to move

too fast with her, wherewe stress out the baby,”Evans said. “It’s going tobe a gradual process.”A suite has been set up

for Gladys and the humansurrogates, within view,hearing and smell of theother gorillas. Evans saidthat so far, they have re-sponded hospitably.“Babies have a calming

effect on a gorilla commu-nity,” he said. “The two fe-males were just fixated onthat baby.”Gladys is gaining

weight, big for her age at

nearly 7 pounds, and alertand apparently curious,looking around a lot at hersurroundings.When working on her

transition plan, Evansconsidered bringing inveteran neonatal nurses,but decided that familiar-ity with gorilla behaviorwas more important. Asthe baby progresses, vol-unteers who have workedwith gorillas may beadded to help.Zoo spokeswoman

Tiffany Barnes said thesurrogate effort has

drawn wide interest, withthousands of emails andsocial media responses al-ready. There have beenplenty of volunteers fromthe public to cuddle andbottle-feed the baby go-rilla or otherwise help out.“At this point, we aren’t

in need of volunteers, aswe are using zoo staffmembers who have apebehavior knowledge andexperience,” she said.“That being said, if weever needed volunteers,we know we don’t have tolook far.”

Employees act as surrogate moms to baby Gladys

These photos provided by the Cincinnati Zoo show Ron Evans, primate centerteam leader, with a baby gorilla named Gladys the way a mother Western Lowlandgorilla would with her young. Gladys was born Jan. 29 at a Texas zoo to a first-time mother who wouldn't care for her. Zoo workers and volunteers are acting assurrogate mothers to prepare the baby to be introduced to two female gorillas atthe Cincinnati Zoo who might accept her.

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The following schools haveplanned kindergarten reg-istration opportunities forthe 2013-14 school year.• Piqua’sNicklin Learn-

ing Center will hosttheir annualKindergarten Kick-Off Night for incom-ing 2013-14kindergarten stu-dents on Thursday,March 14. Futurestudents and theirparents will meet theteachers and learn aboutthe kindergarten pro-gram. Information will begiven regarding thescreening and registrationprocess which will be heldin April. The event takesplace from 5:30-6:15 p.m.for students with lastnames A-M and 6:30 -7:15p.m. for students with lastnames N-Z.• Bradford Elementary

will conduct kindergartenregistration during theweek of March 11. Chil-dren who will be 5 yearsold by Aug. 1, are eligibleto come to kindergarten

this fall. Call the el-ementay office at448-2811 duringthe week of March11 during regularoffice hours, from7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.to make an appoint-ment for your

child’s Kindergarten Reg-istration and Screening,which will be held onTuesday, April 9. Theitems that must bebrought to the April 9screening are originalbirth certificate, Social Se-curity number, immuniza-tion records, custodypapers if applicable, and aproof of residency, whichmay include a rent re-ceipt, utility bill, etc.

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WESTGATE VILLA, Pi-qua Senior Apt, Very well-maintained, 1-bedroom,walk-in closet, large Livingroom. Owner pays allutilities except electric,private parking.$ 4 7 6 / m o n t h ,(937)214-2445

WOODGATE APART-MENTS, 1433 Covington,1 bedroom, very quiet.$406 monthly, Special$299 deposit if qualified,( 9 3 7 ) 7 7 3 - 3 5 3 0 ,(937)418-9408 Call9am-5pm

320 Houses for Rent

2 BEDROOM, Piqua,fenced yard, $595,available 3/1,(937)778-9303 days,(937)604-5417 evenings.

919 BROADWAY, Piqua.Half double home, newlyupdated, $445,(937)573-6917

PIQUA, lovely, large 4-5bedroom house in coun-try. Appliances furnished.No pets. Credit check re-quired, $1500 monthly.(937)418-8912.

TROY, 3 bedroom, 1.5bath, 1.5 car garage,completely redecorated,$730 month, 1353 LeeRoad (937)239-1864

TROY, 1142 Lee Road, 3bedrooms, garage withextra storage. $800month + deposit.(937)552-9644.

325 Mobile Homes for Rent

IN COUNTRY, Near Brad-ford, 2 bedroom, $400plus deposit,(937)417-7111, or(937)448-2974

500 - Merchandise

545 Firewood/Fuel

FIREWOOD, $125 a cordpick up, $150 a cord deliv-ered, $175 a cord deliv-ered and stacked(937)308-6334 or(937)719-3237

HARDWOOD, Seasonedhardwood for sale. $125 acord. Will deliver.(937)301-7237

560 Home Furnishings

BEDROOM SUIT, Califor-nia king with 2 largedressers, $700 OBO;large wooden computercenter, $300 OBO, down-sizing must sell(937)214-0093

570 Lawn and Garden

FOR SALE Miami CountyLawn and LandscapeCompany. 300 customerbase, serious calls only(937)409-4562

577 Miscellaneous

CRIB, changing table,pack-n-play, doorwayswing, walker, gate, highchair, booster chair, trav-el bassinet, tub, clothes,blankets, snuggli, more(937)339-4233

CRIB, real wood, goodcondition, stationarysides, $75(937)339-4233

EASTER BUNNIES,Dolls, Cabbage Patch,Real Babies, Bratz, Barb-ies, Collectible dolls,Boyd, Care Bears, Tybuddies, Beanies,Videos, More,(937)339-4233

GAS HEATER, NaturalGas heater, 18,000 BTU,used 1 time, good for usein garage or workshop,$125, (937)335-7826

JUKE BOXES, 45 rpmand CD players(937)606-0248

MOVING SALE, Winco,portable generator, 5hp,2500 watts, $300; electriclawn sprayer, pull behind,$50; oval wood diningroom table, 3 boards,$115; 2 green upholsteredoffice chairs, $50(937)698-4758

WALKER, adult, folds,adjustable height, goodcondition, with or withoutwheels $20.(937)339-4233

WALKER, seated walker,wheelchair, Tub shower/transfer benches, com-mode chair, toilet riser,grab bars, canes, Mickeyphone, More,(937)339-4233

583 Pets and Supplies

BERNICE & Black Lab 6puppies, ready to go, $50.(937)448-0522

583 Pets and Supplies

YORKIE-POO PUPS, twofemales left, will be readyMarch 14th. Will have firstshorts. Taking depositsnow. $250(419)582-4211.

800 - Transportation

805 Auto

1988 CHEVROLET van,G-20 custom conversion,green, 60K miles, storedinside, excellent condition,one owner, moving mustsee, $5950(937)698-4758

1995 CHEVY Silverado.146,000 miles. 1 owner.Asking $3500. Make of-fer. (937)418-6074

2002 CHEVY Impala. Ex-cellent condition. Veryclean! 80,000 miles,$4400. (937)238-9037

2009 HONDA Civic, darkblue with grey interior,39,700 miles. 4 cylinder,auto, 2 door, non smok-ing, perfect condition$13,500. (937)875-1615.

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625 Construction

RESIDENTIAL/ COM-MERCIAL RENOVA-TION. Inerrant Contrac-tors, LLC. Kitchens, bath-rooms, decks, roofs,doors, drywall, paint, sid-ing, floors, concrete, win-dows. Licensed and in-sured. Free estimates!Inerrantcontractors@g m a i l . c o m .(973)573-7357.

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Sealed bids for cleaning services at the MunicipalGovernment Complex for the City of Piqua, will be re-ceived by the City of Piqua Purchasing Office, 201West Water Street, Piqua, Ohio, until 2:00 P.M., onWednesday, March 27, 2013 at which time the bidswill be publicly opened and read.

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03/08, 03/11-20132373459

SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS

Case No.: 07-552Wells Fargo Bank, NAvs.James A. Siders, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on March 27,2013 at 10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following de-scribed premises, to-wit:Situated in the Village of Bradford, in the County ofMiami, and in the State of OhioParcel Number: H18-001960Also known as: 138 East Church Street, Bradford,Ohio 45308A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Thirty Three Thousand and 00/100($33,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Matthew Murtland, Attorney02/22, 03/01, 03/08-2013

2367868

SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS

Case No.: 12-399Greenville National Bankvs.Angela C. Murphy, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court of Com-mon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at PublicSale in the lobby of the Sheriff on March 27, 2013 at10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following described prem-ises, to-wit:Situated in the Village of Bradford, in the County ofMiami, and in the State of OhioParcel Number: H18-000640, H18-000650, and H18-000660Prior Deed Reference: Official Records Volume 657,Page 449Also known as: 114 Front Street, Bradford, Ohio 45308A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Fifty Five Thousand and 00/100($55,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time ofsale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance andrecording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.John Marchal, Attorney02/22, 03/01, 03/08-2013

2367873

SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS

Case No.: 12-691JPMorgan Chase Bank, NAvs.Douglas W. Ufheil, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on April 3, 2013at 10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following describedpremises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Piqua, in the County of Miami,and in the State of OhioParcel Number: N44-043810Also known as: 424 Cleveland Street, Piqua, Ohio45356A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Forty Eight Thousand and 00/100($48,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Andrew C. Clark, Attorney03/01, 03/08, 03/15-2013

2370395

SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS

Case No.: 12-586GMAC Mortgage, LLCvs.Verl V. Van DeGrift, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on April 3, 2013at 10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following describedpremises, to-wit:Situated in the Village of Covington, in the County ofMiami, and in the State of OhioParcel Number: H19-001440Prior Deed Reference: Volume 642, Page 382Also known as: 110 North Pearl Street, Covington,Ohio 45318A full legal description may be obtained in the Officeof the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Twelve Thousand and 00/100($12,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Joseph M. Henkel, Attorney03/01, 03/08, 03/15-2013

2370391

SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS

Case No.: 11-305JPMorgan Chase Bank, NAvs.Keith R. Helmandollar, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on April 3, 2013at 10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following describedpremises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Piqua, in the County of Miami,and in the State of OhioParcel Number: N44-053330Prior Deed Reference: Volume No. 783, Page 712Also known as: 1001 Nicklin Avenue, Piqua, Ohio45356A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Fifty One Thousand and 00/100($51,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Channing L. Ulbrich, Attorney03/01, 03/08, 03/15-2013

2370386

SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS

Case No.: 12-534Bank of America, NAvs.Ryan M. Blankenship, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on April 3, 2013at 10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following describedpremises, to-wit:Situated in the Village of Covington, in the County ofMiami, and in the State of OhioParcel Number: H19-004110Prior Deed Reference: Volume 772, Page 509Also known as: 215 East Broadway Street, Coving-ton, Ohio 45318A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Sixty Nine Thousand and 00/100($69,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Ryan F. Hemmerle, Attorney03/01, 03/08, 03/15-2013

2370383

SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS

Case No.: 12-839Deutsche Bank Trust Companyvs.Wanda K. Tobe, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court of Com-mon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at PublicSale in the lobby of the Sheriff on April 3, 2013 at 10:00oʼclock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Piqua, in the County of Miami, andin the State of OhioParcel Number: N44-038820Prior Deed Reference: General Warranty Deed,Recorded in Volume 750, Page 942, Filed on 06/30/2004Also known as: 908 Blaine Avenue, Piqua, Ohio 45356A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Fifty One Thousand and 00/100($51,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance andrecording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Charles V. Gasior, Attorney03/01, 03/08, 03/15-2013

2370378

SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS

Case No.: 12-745Unity National Bankvs.Deborah C. Millhouse, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on April 3, 2013at 10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following describedpremises, to-wit:Situated in the Village of Fletcher, in the County ofMiami, and in the State of OhioParcel Number: B05-000630Also known as: 11 West Main Street, Fletcher, Ohio45326A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Thirty Thousand and 00/100($30,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Dale G. Davis, Attorney03/01, 03/08, 03/15-2013

2370405

SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS

Case No.: 12-648CitiMortgage, Inc.vs.Barbara A. Goings, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on April 3, 2013at 10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following describedpremises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Piqua, in the County of Miami,and in the State of OhioParcel Number: N44-047230 & N44-047220Also known as: 363 Home Avenue, Piqua, Ohio45356A full legal description may be obtained in the Officeof the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Forty Five Thousand and 00/100($45,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Angela D. Kirk, Attorney03/01, 03/08, 03/15-2013

2370398

SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS

Case No.: 12-508Bank of America, NAvs.Gregory S. Reprogle,et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff onApril 10, 2013at 10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following describedpremises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Piqua, in the County of Miami,and in the State of OhioParcel Number: N44-069170Also known as: 1710 Dubois Drive, Piqua, Ohio45356A full legal description may be obtained in the Officeof the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at One Hundred Eleven Thousand and00/100 ($111,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold forless than two-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Jeffrey R. Jinkens, Attorney03/08 03/15, 03/22-2013

2372878

Farm Public Sale

St. Paulʼs E & R Church, Upper Valley Medical Center,and YWCAPiqua will receive bids for the purchase of100 acres, more or less, owned by them and locatedat 6345 West Versailles Road in Newberry Township,Miami County, Ohio. The residence and outbuildingswill be included. Auditorʼs parcel no. is H17-021100.

All bids will be sealed. Bid opening will occur onThursday, March 28, 2013 at 10:15 a.m. at the officeof Faulkner, Garmhausen, Keister & Shenk, Suite 300,100 South Main Avenue, Sidney, Ohio 45365. For alegal description of the property, bid form and biddinginstructions, contact Attorney David B. Shuffelton atP.O. Box 320, 31 South Main Street, Fort Loramie,Ohio, telephone 937-295-2983, fax 937-295-3633, ore@mail: dshuffelton@fgks-law.com.

03/08, 03/15-20132369272

SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS

Case No.: 11-438U S Bank, NAvs.Brandy R. Walters, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on April 10, 2013at 10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following describedpremises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Piqua, in the County of Miami,and in the State of OhioParcel Number: N44-050160Prior Deed Reference: O R Book 80, Page 293Also known as: 718 Vine Street, Piqua, Ohio 45356A full legal description may be obtained in the Officeof the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Forty Five Thousand and 00/100($45,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Lori N. Wight, Attorney03/08 03/15, 03/22-2013

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810 Auto Parts & Accessories

TIRES, Goodyear, (4),Eagle GT II P285/50R20.Worth $800, sell for $400.2 350 Engines. 1922,1978, $350 each.(937)622-1300

830 Boats/Motor/Equipment

JON BOAT, 1966 DuraCraft aluminum Jon boat14.5', 2 swivel seats,1975Mercury 7.5 Horse power,with Trailer, $1250,(937)441-4424

850 Motorcycles/Mopeds

2004 HARLEY Davidson,FXDL DYNA Low, luxuryblue, 2612 miles, alarmsystem, saddle bags withwindshield, very nice con-dition, $9,000(937)726-1353 after 3pm

890 Trucks

1993 CHEVY Silverado,Runs good, like new tires,$1100 obo,(937)718-2785

2000 CHEVY Silverado,gray/ burgundy with grayinterior, 83,500 miles.Rear, V8, gas, auto, goodcondition, runs good, hastopper and 4 spare tires,$6200 OBO,( 9 3 7 ) 7 7 3 - 0 5 0 4jbrown590488@att.net.

2000 FORD F350 SuperDuty, red, with tan leatherinterior, 76,000 miles.DRW, 7.3 liter, diesel, au-to, Rhino liner, 5th wheelhitch, 5th wheel gate$15,000, (937)475-5191dbercot58@gmail.com.

1996 SEA NYMPH

16 foot. 40 horse electricstart Evinrude motor.40lb thrust Bow Mounttrolling motor & trailer allin very good condition.$4000.

(937)638-9090

1996 SYLVANPRO SELECT

17 foot with 90 horseJohnson with troll plate& rod holders for trollingand 55lb thrust Minnkotatrolling motor (new lastyear). New tires on trail-er last spring. $7500.

(937)638-1089

2005 CHEVYSILVERADO 1500

39000 miles, new tires,bed liner, remote start,$8500, excellent condi-tion

(937)667-9859

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A new season brings new hope.And no one in the NASCAR SprintCup Series is in more need of hopethan Carl Edwards.

On the outside looking in at lastseason’s Chase for the Champi-onship, Edwards has been mired in awinless skid that dates back to March6, 2011. And his 2013 season got offto a dubious start in Daytona duringSpeedweeks, where he was involvedin four wrecks (and a fifth in a testsession in January), ultimately fin-ishing 33rd in the Daytona 500.

Factor in a new contract that hesigned in 2011 with Roush FenwayRacing that made the 33-year-oldFord Racing’s figurehead, as well asbeing given RFR’s ace crew chief inJimmy Fennig, and it’s easy to un-derstand how the pressure hasmounted on Edwards to perform.

Consider the weight lifted.Edwards led the final 78 laps in the

Subway Fresh Fit 500 on Sunday,holding off Jimmie Johnson in agreen-white-checker finish en routeto the win at Phoenix InternationalRaceway.

“It’s tough to go that long withoutwinning,” Edwards said. “And thenyou come into the season withJimmy (Fennig) who did so well lastyear (three wins with Matt Kenseth)… and everybody did so well. We’vegot the fastest pit crew on pit road —and I thought ‘We’ve got to go win

some races.’”Edwards seemingly had the sched-

uled 312-lap race in hand, cruisingnearly a half-second in front of John-son as the laps wound down. How-ever, a caution for Ken Schrader’sblown tire with three circuits re-maining forced the event intoNASCAR’s version of an overtimefinish. And with fuel an issue, manywere unsure if they had enough inthe tank to survive the caution lapsand a three-lap shootout onPhoenix’s one-mile layout.

The leaders — Edwards, Johnson,Brad Keselowski, Denny Hamlinand Dale Earnhardt Jr. — had plentyin reserve, though. When the greenwaved, Keselowski pushed Ed-wards, on the inside lane, by Johnsonand the driver of the No. 99 did therest. In clean air, the Missouri nativeeasily held off the pack, winning his20th career Cup race.

“I was trying to suspend my emo-tions after that last caution.” Edwardssaid. “There was two laps to go andI’m saying, ‘Were going to win thisrace.’ And Brad pushed me — thatsealed it right there. I knew that if wewere the first ones down into the cor-ner (Turn 1), we’d win this thing.”

Meanwhile, Johnson, Keselowskiand Hamlin engaged in a thrillingbattle for second. With Johnson andKeselowski door-to-door exitingTurn 2 on the final lap, Hamlin cutacross the apron of the track in thedogleg, blocking Keselwoski andpulling even with Johnson. The twocame to the finish line trading paint,

with Johnson edging out Hamlin.Keselowski was fourth, Earnhardt Jr.fifth.

Johnson, though, was none-too-happy with the deciding restart.

“The leader is not supposed toslow down before he takes off (com-ing to the green),” Johnson said.“And he (Edwards) did that twice. Itput me in a bad position with the 2(Keselowski) inside of me … and offwe went.”

“I was going for anything,” Ham-lin said of the finish. “I didn’t havemuch all day. The pit crew and Dar-ian (Grubb, crew chief) really carriedus today getting track position. (Itwas) just so hard to pass. You’regoing to hear it a lot this week thatwe’ve got a lot of work to do thisweek to get these cars to pass eachother.”

Johnson, with finishes of first andsecond is off to a hot start this sea-son, but Sunday was about Edwards,his new crew chief, a re-tooled teamin only their second race together andNASCAR’s Gen-6 car, which seemsto like clean air as much as its pred-ecessor.

Is Phoenix an indication of whatlies ahead for the 99 team? Will Ed-wards be a driver to deal withthroughout the season as he was in2011, or will he fade into obscuritylike 2012?

“I think we are (back),” said Ed-wards. “But next week I think isgoing to be the true test (for the car)— at the mile-and-a-half (track inLas Vegas).”

Carl Edwards performs a celebratory backflip after winning the Subway Fresh Fit 500 at Phoenix International Raceway. (Photo by ASP, Inc.)

Edwards endsdrought in desert

Carl Edwards ends 70-race skid, wins Subway Fresh Fit 500 in Phoenix

MARK MARTIN The 54-year-old NASCARveteran hasn’t lost any speed with

age. Martin finished third in theDaytona 500 and followed it up

with a pole in Phoenix.

MARTIN TRUEX JR. A sur-prise Chaser in 2012, Truex is off

to a slow start this season. Adropped cylinder in Daytona rele-

gated him to a 24th-place finish,while a broken gear landed the New Jer-sey native 36th in Phoenix.

Four Turns

Sprint Cup Standings

Nationwide Standings

Truck Standings

Throttle Up/Throttle Down

DRIVER (WINS) POINTS BEHIND1. Jimmie Johnson (1) 90 —2. Dale Earnhardt Jr. 82 -83. Brad Keselowski 82 -84. Denny Hamlin 72 -185. Clint Bowyer 72 -186. Greg Biffle 66 -247. Mark Martin 65 -258. Jeff Gordon 60 -309. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 60 -30

10. Aric Almirola 60 -30^ CHASE FOR THE SPRINT CUP ^

11. Carl Edwards (1) 59 -3112. Marcos Ambrose 52 -3813. J.J. Yeley 50 -4014. Bobby Labonte 49 -4115. Jeff Burton 48 -4216. David Reutimann 48 -4217. Paul Menard 48 -4218. Matt Kenseth 46 -4419. Casey Mears 45 -4520. Ryan Newman 44 -46

DRIVER (WINS) POINTS BEHIND1. Justin Allgaier 79 —2. Sam Hornish Jr. 79 —3. Parker Kligerman 73 -64. Elliott Sadler 69 -105. Parker Kligerman 65 -146. Regan Smith 65 -147. Kyle Larson 63 -168. Nelson Piquet Jr. 62 -179. Austin Dillon 61 -18

10. Trevor Bayne 54 -25

DRIVER (WINS) POINTS BEHIND1. Johnny Sauter (1) 47 —2. Ron Hornaday Jr. 41 -63. Justin Lofton 41 -64. Ty Dillon 40 -75. Jeb Burton 39 -86. Miguel Paludo 37 -107. Ryan Blaney 36 -118. Matt Crafton 35 -129. Ryan Sieg 34 -13

10. Todd Bodine 34 -13

Compiled and written by Matt Taliaferro.Follow Matt on Twitter @MattTaliaferro or

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HOT STARTS After two races in the2013 season, Jimmie Johnson, DaleEarnhardt Jr. and Brad Keselowskitop the NASCAR Sprint Cup pointstandings. The three drivers are theonly ones in the series to haverecorded top-5 finishes at both Day-tona and Phoenix.

NOT-SO-HOT STARTS On the otherend of the spectrum, five drivers sitmired in the early-season standings.Kasey Kahne (29th), Kevin Harvick(30th), Kurt Busch (32nd), Kyle Busch(33rd) and Martin Truex Jr. (34th) havefailed to record a single top-10 run.While it’s better to have problemsearly in the year rather than late, eachChase-worthy driver and his team willfeel the pressure to perform as winterturns to spring.

BACK TO HIS ROWDY WAYS KyleBusch put on a clinic in Saturday’sNationwide Series Dollar General 200at Phoenix International Raceway.Busch started from the pole and ledthe first 40 laps but was penalizedfor speeding on pit road. Forced torestart from the tail end of the fieldafter a caution period, Busch drovethrough the pack and by lap 89 wasback in front. He led the final 102 of112 laps en route to his 52nd careervictory in the series.

ROOKIE ROLLER COASTER DanicaPatrick enjoyed a fine Speedweeks inDaytona, becoming the first female towin the pole for the Daytona 500. Shealso finished the race eighth, whichwas the best result for a female in TheGreat American Race. Phoenix wasnot so kind, though. Patrick qualified apaltry 40th and finished 39th after ablown tire ended her day on lap 184.

Tracks on Tap

SPRINT CUP SERIESRace: Kobalt Tools 400Track: Las Vegas Motor SpeedwayLocation: Las Vegas, Nev.When: Sunday, March 10TV: FOX (3:00 p.m. EST)Layout: 1.5-mile tri-ovalBanking/Tri-oval: 9 degreesBanking/Turns: 20 degreesBanking/Backstretch: 3 degrees2012 Winner: Tony StewartCrew Chief’s Take: “There isn’t a bettertown to have a racetrack in than Vegas. Ifyou can’t find something to do out thereyou aren’t trying. The only thing that wouldbe better is if the track were right down-town. That said, the track itself is a prettyracy track. They’ve worked hard at it overthe years and made it as good as it can be,but it is still a mile-and-a-half tri-oval, soyou know it is going to be some pretty bor-ing racing. Therefore, track position is im-portant. To get to the front to enjoy thatdownforce, you need a car that can getthrough the corners. A question will be howmuch difference that clean air up frontmakes on the new bodies — this will bethe first true race test of the Gen-6 car.”

NATIONWIDE SERIESTrack: Las Vegas Motor SpeedwayRace: Sam’s Town 300When: Saturday, March 9TV: ESPN2 (4:15 p.m. EST)2012 Winner: Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIESTrack: Martinsville SpeedwayRace: Kroger 250When: Saturday, April 6TV: SPEED (1 p.m. EST)2012 Winners: Kevin Harvick (April) andDenny Hamlin (Oct.)

Classic Moments

Las Vegas Motor SpeedwayThere’s no place like home. That familiar

adage has never rung truer for Kyle Buschthan in 2009 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Driving in front of his home crowd for thefifth time in his Cup career, Busch picked upan intensely desired and wildly popular vic-tory at the track not far from where he andhis older brother, 2004 Cup champion KurtBusch, were raised.

Despite a massive show of support fromhis hometown fans and friends, Busch’s vic-tory in the Shelby 427 was anything buteasy. Having put his No. 18 Joe Gibbs Rac-ing Toyota on the pole in qualifying, Buschsaw his starting position negated when apenalty for an engine change forced him todrop to the rear at the start.

Busch still had one of the best cars, how-ever, and showed it in the race, as he led51 of 285 laps, including the final one by.411 seconds over a pesky Clint Bowyer.Busch celebrated his hometown win inclassic Kyle style: smoky burnouts, a bowto the crowd and kneeling to kiss thestart/finish line.

� When NASCAR introduced the Car of Tomorrow in2007, Hendrick Motorsports was ahead of the learn-ing curve. Hendrick’s two-car shop, housing the Nos.24 and 48 cars — led at the time by Chad Knaus (Jimmie Johnson’screw chief) and Jeff Gordon’s then-head wrench, Steve Letarte —showed the way. Their drivers combined for 16 race wins that year, ran1-2 in the Chase and collected 54 of a possible 72 top-10 finishes.

Flash forward to 2013: the main mechanical minds in Knaus andLetarte remain in place, with Earnhardt, not Gordon, now poised toreap the benefits in what is now the 48/88 shop. Although it’s earlyin the season, Johnson and Earnhardt clearly have come out of thegate strong with two top 5s a piece (highlighted by a 1-2 finish in theDaytona 500) and top 5s in Phoenix.

� Prior to Sunday’s win at Phoenix International Raceway, Carl Ed-wards hadn’t won a Sprint Cup Series race since the third race of the2011 season in Las Vegas — a span of 70 races.

In 2008, Edwards won the third race of the Sprint Cup season at LasVegas Motor Speedway, but would not visit Victory Lane again untilNovember 2010, when he won the Kobalt Tools 500 at, you guessedit, Phoenix International Raceway — a span of 70 races.

Edwards won the following weekend in the 2010 season finale atHomestead-Miami Speedway and the next season, despite winningonly one event, tied Tony Stewart for first in the point standings.Stewart, however, won the title via tie-breaker.

� Toyota teams on the Cup circuit had another eventful weekend atthe track — for all the wrong reasons. On Saturday, the engine inDenny Hamlin’s No. 11 Camry let go after a valve spring problem in

practice. The team was forced to change enginesand start at the rear of the field for Sunday’s race.

On Sunday morning, Kyle Busch’s No. 18 team hadto change the engine in his Camry after changing the valve springsin his engine, as well. He also started at the rear of the field.

Toyota Racing Development Senior Vice President David Wilson saidin the case of Busch, it was human error that was the issue, not amechanical failure in nature.

These incidents come on the heels of a disappointing Daytona 500when Busch and Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Matt Kenseth droppedengines within two laps of one another with roughly 50 laps re-maining. Kenseth was running first at the time, Busch second. TRDdetermined that Kenseth’s issue was related to a bearing, whileBusch’s was valve-spring related.

Martin Truex Jr., in a Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota, finished the 500down a cylinder.

“We don’t believe it was a systemic issue that was related to thechallenges we had at Daytona,” Wilson said. “Unfortunately becauseof the timing of it, on the heels of Daytona, it gets lumped together.”

Toyota teams did not experience any engine-related issues duringSunday’s race in Phoenix. Mark Martin, in the MWR’s No. 55 Toyota,won the pole and led 75 laps while three Toyotas — Hamlin (third),Clint Bowyer (sixth) and Kenseth (seventh) — registered top-10showings.

JGR is in its second season receiving TRD engines. Prior to the 2011season, it relied on an in-house engine program.

QUOTED

IN BRIEF

STUMPER

“If we put to-gether a good D-line andlinebackers, I thinkwe’re a good team.”

—Urban Meyeron Ohio State

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Prior to the 1920 schoolyear, a policy that im-pacted all of the athletesat Piqua High School wasapproved by the board ofeducation and reported inthe Call. “A new ruling has been

established in the highschool this year in regardto the participants in ath-letics. “It requires that the

members of any athleticteam representing theschool must have theirparent’s written consentand a doctor’s certificatethat they are physically fitto engage in the sport. “This is a great im-

provement over previous

years. When no doctor’scertificate was requiredplayers sometime enteredcontests with organicweaknesses and seriousconsequences followed. “It is also much more

satisfactory all aroundwhen parents have knowl-edge of their sons partici-pating in strenuousgames.”The Piquonian followed

the Red and Blue for theentire 1920 football sea-son that included six con-secutivegames on theroad. In the first game of the

season, an Alumni teamwas defeated 14 to 0. “In the opening game

Piqua encountered noeasy opposition, for al-though the Alumni lineupcontained four of our ownscrubs it also containedsuch well known formida-ble personages as “Bill”Louder, “Liz” Retterbush,“Jimmie” Ginn, “Bill”

Bixler, and “Mike” Alexan-der. Is it any wonder ourscoring only totaled four-teen points.?”Piqua traveled to Ar-

canum the following weekand won 28 to 0. “Piqua met Arcanum on

the latter’s field and a reg-ular battle ensued. Piqua played far from

topnotch foot ball yet at notime was her goal in whatyou might call seriousdanger from the villagers.The play in various spotswas fast and furious butas a whole it lacked thefight and pep that goes tomake a real game.”Former Piqua football

coach Merlin Ditmer took

a similar position with theSpringfield Schools in1919, but an article in theCall indicated that he wasnot coaching in that city in1920. “On next Friday Piqua

goes to Springfield to at-tempt to wipe out the de-feat of last season, whichCoach Ditmer’s favoritesadministered to the localteam in this city. As Springfield is now

without this coach as wellas several of their lastyear’s stars the Red andBlue warriors think thatthey can return with a vic-tory.”

DUANE BACHMANThe History of Piqua

AthleticsA JournalFall, 1920

Change in rules for 1920 seasonHigh school athletes must have parent’s consent

See HISTORY/Page 13

Fish Fry setfor SaturdayThe Piqua Baseball Fish

Fry/Auction will be heldSaturday at the PiquaVFW.This fund raiser helps

pay for improvementsbeing made to HardmanField.All you can eat fish din-

ner is from 5:30-7 p.m.,with the auction to follow.Tickets can be pur-

chased at the door andare $7.

PYSA to holdsignups soonPlayer registration for

the Piqua Youth SoccerAssociation will be heldMarch 9 and 16.Registration will be from

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. bothdays at the Miami ValleyCentre Mall. Please plan to attend if

you are registering aplayer, coach, or a referee. Information can be

found atpiquayouthsoccer.com

AHRENS WINNER

V-TigerssurviveGet past Stiversin D-III finalBY ROB KISERSports Editorrkiser@dailycall.com

DAYTON — A scrappyand tenacious Stiversboys basketball team gaveVersailles all it wanted ina D-III district finalThursday night at U.D.Arena.But, the Darke County

Tigers were able to pullaway in the closing min-utes for a 65-54 win to ad-vance on to the D-IIIregional semifinals.Versailles will play the

Worthington Christian, a46-38 winner over Colum-bus Ready, at 5:30 p.m.Wednesday at TrentArena in Kettering.With Kyle Ahrens bury-

ing two quick threes, theTigers had taken a quick8-0 lead.But, starters Ahrens,

Chad Winner and NickCampbell all picked uptwo fouls each in the firstsix minutes and Stiverswent on a a 19-4 run to goin front 19-12 and theMontgomery CountyTigers, coached by formerPiqua and Newton playerJay Hall, led by as manyas nine (25-16) in theopening half.With Versailles trailing

25-16, Ahrens scored on aputback, hit two freethrows, then brought thecrowd to its feet with a 3-point shot from beyondthe PNC logo on the arenafloor.The 40-foot shot found

nothing but net and Ver-sailles was within 27-26at the break, with Ahrensscoring 13 points in justnine minutes on the floor.Stivers quickly opened

a seven-point lead withthe first six points of thesecond half.Winner broke the Ver-

sailles ice with a three atthe 5:15 mark of the thirdquarter.Ahrens gave the Tiger

their first lead of the sea-son half with two freethrows with 2:06 remain-ing in the third quarter.Two free throws by Jace

Barga and a basket byAhrens put Versailles up42-39 going to the fourthquarter.

See TIGERS/Page 14

CINCINNATI (AP) —The Bengals have agreedto a two-year deal withrunning back Cedric Peer-man, a special teamsstandout who could havebecome a free agent nextweek.Peerman had two long

runs off fake punts lastseason. He also carried 34times for 178 yards.Also on Thursday, the

Bengals made tender of-fers to safety JeromyMiles, receiver AndrewHawkins and linebackerVincent Rey, all of whomhave contracts that expireon Monday.As a result of the offers,

Miles will become a re-stricted free agent nextweek. The Bengals main-tained exclusive rights toHawkins and Rey for nextseason.

Bengals givePeerman deal

Chargers partways with LBSAN DIEGO (AP) —

The San Diego Chargershave released linebackerTakeo Spikes in their firstmajor move under newgeneral manager TomTelesco.The 36-year-old Spikes

has played 15 NFL sea-sons.

BY JOSH BROWNCivitas Media

S P R I NG F I E L D —Even without a 19-0deficit, the Miami EastVikings still found them-selves playing from be-hind.And against a team like

perennial powerhouseAnna, that’s not a goodplace to be.The Rockets took con-

trol with a seven-pointrun to start the secondquarter in Thursdaynight’s Division III re-gional semifinal atSpringfield High School,and though the Vikingsfought hard, they couldn’tregain the edge in a 62-52loss.“We battled back. We’ve

got a group of disap-pointed kids that battledand battled for 32 min-utes. There’s not muchmore you can ask as acoach than that,” MiamiEast coach PrestonElifritz said.And while Anna (23-4)

moves on to face Madison,a 67-58 winner overFayetteville-Perry in theother semifinal, MiamiEast’s season ends at 25-2– with both of those lossescoming at the hands of theRockets. In fact, the Vikings’ last

three losses have all beento Anna. The Rocketsknocked the Vikings off ina rout in last year’s re-gional championshipgame – and both of theprevious losses started outwith the Rockets leading19-0 early in the first

quarter.That’s not how things

went this time, though.The Vikings got the first

points of the game and led8-5 after a drive-and-foulby Angie Mack. A bucketby Abby Cash gave theVikings a 12-10 lead – butthat would be the lasttime Miami East had theadvantage. Still, the gamewas tied 16-16 after one.“Our first quarter, the

girls came ready to play,”Elifritz said. “But Ithought we got a littletired and allowed someeasy buckets the otherway. It was pretty obviousthat we wanted to get theball inside, and I think wegot a little gassed trying toget it in there – and thenhaving to run back andplay defense against themwas too much.”Rachel Noffsinger hit a

3 to start the second quar-ter, and Erica Huber stolethe ball, drove and dishedto Cayla Bensman to givethe Rockets a five-pointlead. Another Vikingturnover led to a Bensmandrive, a seven-point Annalead and a Viking timeout.“Our first five posses-

sions of the second quar-ter were all turnovers,”Elifritz said. “But then ournext five were all scores.But Anna was able to cashin enough of those chancesto force us to play catch-upall night, and against ateam like that, you justcan’t do that.”The game stayed rela-

tively close until late inthe third when a Bens-man 3 gave Anna a 46-35

lead, and that lead grew toas many as 12.But that’s when the

Vikings finally found theiranswer – Ashley Current.Current scored 13 of her

game-high 21 point in thesecond half, including ninestraight for the Vikingsduring one stretch in thefourth quarter to get Eastwithin 53-48. The Rocketsmanaged to keep pace,though, getting a three-point play from NatalieBilling to make it 56-48.Trina Current blocked a

shot, got the ball to Mackwho hit Cash for a layup,then Mack stole the balland passed to Cash, whodropped a mid-air catch-and-toss pass to TrinaCurrent for a layup toclose the gap to four points– but Cash came up limp-ing after the landing, forc-ing an injury timeout.Without the Southwest

District Player of the Yearon the floor, Anna foundBilling on a backdoor cutto stifle the momentum,and East never challengedagain.“When we played them

earlier this year, wefought back, too, got towithin eight points,”Elifritz said. “We battledback and battled back, butthen something wouldhappen and we couldn’tmaintain that momen-tum. That play was verysimilar to that.”Ashley Current finished

with 21 points and five re-bounds, Cash added 10points and Mack scoredeight.“Abby played her heart

out, and Angie played agreat first quarter,”Elifritz said. “We’ve gotfive seniors, and theirlegacy is set in stone, hav-ing the second-best all-time record for a four-yeargroup. And these juniorsand sophomores playedtheir hearts out for thoseseniors tonight, too.”Bensman led Anna with

18 points and 12 re-bounds, hitting three 3s –all of which seemed tocome at key moments.Billing added a team-high19 points.“Their shot just seemed

to fall, while some of oursdidn’t,” Elifritz said. “Andthey maybe took advan-tage of our weaknesses alittle bit more than wetook advantage of theirs.In a game like this, all thelittle things matter.“I want to thank my as-

sistants, Kevin Gump,Kelly Cash and MorganHoward. I don’t know abetter group of individualsthat supports a headcoach, and they do atremendous job with ourkids. We’ve made it to theSweet 16 two consecutiveyears now, and not a lot ofteams can say that. Icouldn’t be more proud.”

BOXSCOREMiami East (52)Angie Mack 2-4-8, Tori Nuss 0-0-0, Madi-

son Linn 1-2-5, Hannah Davisson 0-0-0,Ashley Current 9-3-21, Trina Current 2-0-4,Abby Cash 5-0-10, Leah Dunivan 2-0-4. To-tals: 21-9-52.Anna (62)Avery Bensman 1-0-2, Erica Huber 2-1-

6, Chandler Bensman 0-0-0, KaylaBlankenship 1-0-2, Natalie Billing 7-5-19,Cayla Bensman 9-3-18, Sydney Rioch 1-0-2, Rachel Noffsinger 3-0-7. Totals: 24-9-62.3-point field goals — Miami East: Linn.

Anna: Huber, C. Bensman (3).Score By QuartersMiami East 16 27 37 52Anna 16 33 46 62Records: Miami East 25-2. Anna 23-4.

Vikings play from behindMiami East has season end with loss to Anna

Miami East’s Angie Mack (left) and Ashley Current (32) leap for a rebound Thursday night.ANTHONY WEBER/CIVITAS MEDIA PHOTO

PIQUA DAILY CALL • WWW.DAILYCALL.COM SPORTS Friday, March 8, 2013 13Record Book

Another road game atSpringfield followed withPiqua winning 6 to 0 infront of a crowd of 3500spectators.“For the first time in

many long years PiquaHigh defeated Springfieldin football and on the ene-mies ground at that.Pretty good, Piqua.“It was a fight from

start to finish and afterPiqua scored the lonetouchdown of the game itwas an airtight affair.The game was replete inunexpected thrills for bothteams resorted to manyaerial attacks.“Altho the day was

mostly in Piqua’s advanceterritory, Springfield gavethe Piqua fans and teammany occasions for excite-ment and suspense. Bothteams showed splendidspirit throughout and theSpringfield crowd is to becomplimented on theirfine sportsmanship.”Miamisburg hosted

Piqua the following week,with the Red and Blue los-ing 6 to 0.“Piqua, full of confi-

dence, sailed gaily into thepost of Miamisburg andreceived the first jolt ofthe season on the rocks ofdefeat.“Piqua’s playing was

not at all up to standard,still the score should havebeen 0 to 0 for it was notuntil the fourth quarterthat Miamisburg scoredand then on a fluke pieceof luck.“It can be said that

though thefourth quarterwas Piqua’s stellar period,for after the touchdownmade by Miamisburg, the(Piqua) were filled withdesperation and each manbattled heroically.“Indeed it was on the

high wind into whoseteeth they were playingthat frustrated the won-derful attack launchedand directed by Pattersonand executed by his faith-ful teammates.”The fourth consecutive

game on the road foundPiqua at Sidney, but it wasanother loss by the scoreof 7 to 0.“The less said about

this game the better. Letit suffice, to say, ‘Piqua didnot receive the fairesttreatment possible.”The Call reported that

there were some hard feel-ings in regard to the Sid-ney win, and that couldhave resulted in Sidneycancelling the secondgame of the season withPiqua scheduled later.“While not wishing to

present any alibis themembers of the Red andBlue say they were robbedout of the game by Sidneyofficials and by interfer-ence from the crowd ofSidney rooters.“Very grave charges are

made by the local playersagainst their treatment inSidney and it is deplorablethat such a feeling exists.“A touchdown by Piqua

was declared illegal by theSidney referee, but in thelast minute of play Lind-sey made a clean touch-down and had the ball inhis arms when a Sidneyrooter deliberately kickedthe ball out of his armswhile he was lying pros-trate on the ground.“No action was taken on

this unfair treatment bythe referee.“Piqua was placed

within five yards of thegoal line and then the ref-eree used up the rest ofthe time of the half inpushing back the Sidneyrooters from the goal linewithout calling time out.Following the game thePiqua players declaredthat they were followedinto their dressing roomby a group of Sidney root-ers who were bent uponassaulting them.“The referee, the head

linesman and the timerswere all Sidney men.”

The next week Piquatraveled to Dayton to takeon Stivers, but were hu-miliated 83 to 0.“This was Piqua’s

‘hoodoo’ game. With M.Michelson, Stockham andDeitrich all out in practi-cally the first five minutesof play and Lindsey outlater on, Piqua did herbest with the ‘patched’team; and let it here besaid of the ‘subs’ that eachand every one played afine game but it wasmerely a matter of beingoutweighed and out-classed. Piqua made onlyfour first downs duringthe entire game and wasnever once within scoringdistance.“The third quarter was

the best, as it was duringthis period that Stiverswas held scoreless.”Piqua had failed to

score in the last fivegames and Troy was thenext opponent.“Piqua was defeated in

their last out-of-towngame and by their old ri-vals by a score of 7 to 6.“Piqua, still crippled

from the Stivers game, butwith the addition of Oster,a former Mansfield star,they gave Troy, who wereexpecting a ‘cinch’ thegreatest battle of theirlives. It was a real battlein every sense of the wordfrom the starting whistleto the last second of play.“It can be said to the

credit of the Piqua endand halves that Troy, whois particularly strong inthose positions, did not getbut three end runs aroundthe extremities of thePiqua line.“The Piqua team out-

played the Trojans in thefirst half with the orderreversed in the secondhalf.”“Due to the fact that

Sidney called off hersec-ond game with Piqua forreasons all her own, Piquawas forced to go far insearch of another oppo-nent, and overwhelmedWest Alexandria 38 to 7.“Piqua showed a slight

improvement, even overthe form displayed at Troyand it is little wonder thatthe score was onesided.”The season finale on

Thanksgiving Daywasagainst rival Troy.“Ah, this is the bitterest

drop in the toughest game,of all the whole season tolose. Contrary to thestatement in the ‘Call’ thefirst half of the game wasan ‘even bet’ and neitherteam held the advantage.“It was the third quar-

ter that marked the down-fall of Piqua for it was inthis quarter that Troy car-ried on a successful for-ward passing campaignthat resulted in two touch-downs.“It was too late when

Piqua again found them-selves and their defensetightened.“For a space it seemed

that the machinelike de-fense that rolled back theTrojan attack, would yettriumph.“But suddenly, out of

the struggling, teemingmass of players a manbroke free. He had theball and rushed madly forthe goal.“Thru a particular

stroke of good luck he es-caped the waiting quarter-back and was safe acrossthe goal line. Troy hadscored again.“Only a few more min-

utes of mid-field play andthe game was over. Troywins 19 to 0.”

Editor’s Note: DuaneBachman is a retired su-perintendent of PiquaCity Schools and personal-ity for WPTW Radio.His column will appear

every other Friday.Much of the informa-

tion in these columnscame from The PiquaDaily Call and PiquaLeader Dispatch.

HistoryContinued from page 12

BaseballSpring Training

HockeyNHL Standings

SpringTraining GlanceAll Times EST

AMERICAN LEAGUEW L Pct

Kansas City 11 0 1.000Seattle 10 2 .833Baltimore 7 2 .778Tampa Bay 8 4 .667Cleveland 9 5 .643Chicago 5 3 .625Minnesota 6 5 .545Boston 6 6 .500Detroit 6 6 .500Houston 5 5 .500Oakland 5 6 .455Toronto 5 6 .455Texas 4 7 .364NewYork 3 8 .273Los Angeles 2 8 .200

NATIONAL LEAGUEW L Pct

Washington 5 4 .556Colorado 6 5 .545Philadelphia 6 5 .545San Diego 7 6 .538Atlanta 6 6 .500Miami 4 4 .500St. Louis 5 5 .500Arizona 5 6 .455Milwaukee 5 6 .455San Francisco 4 5 .444Los Angeles 4 6 .400Chicago 5 8 .385Pittsburgh 4 7 .364NewYork 2 5 .286Cincinnati 2 11 .154NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; gamesagainst non-major league teams do not.Wednesday's GamesSt. Louis 7, Miami 2Philadelphia 6, Washington 3Detroit 4, Toronto 1Pittsburgh 9, Boston 3Cleveland 4, L.A. Dodgers 0Texas 3, Chicago Cubs 2Milwaukee 7, Seattle 6Kansas City 8, Arizona 1Thursday's GamesN.Y.Yankees vs. St. Louis at Jupiter, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Tampa Bay vs. Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Minnesota (ss) vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 1:05

p.m.Washington vs. Houston at Kissimmee, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Boston vs.Minnesota (ss) at Fort Myers, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Toronto vs. Baltimore at Sarasota, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Miami vs. N.Y. Mets at Port St. Lucie, Fla., 1:10 p.m.L.A. Angels vs. San Diego at Peoria, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.Texas vs. L.A. Dodgers at Glendale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.Chicago White Sox vs. Chicago Cubs at Mesa, Ariz.,

3:05 p.m.Seattle (ss) vs. Oakland at Phoenix, 3:05 p.m.Arizona vs. Milwaukee at Phoenix, 3:05 p.m.San Francisco vs. Cleveland at Goodyear, Ariz., 3:05

p.m.Seattle (ss) vs. Kansas City at Surprise, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.Detroit vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 6:05 p.m.Friday's GamesPhiladelphia vs.Tampa Bay at Port Charlotte, Fla., 1:05

p.m.N.Y. Mets vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Atlanta (ss) vs. Houston at Kissimmee, Fla., 1:05 p.m.St. Louis vs.Washington at Viera, Fla., 1:05 p.m.N.Y.Yankees vs. Miami at Jupiter, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Toronto vs. Atlanta (ss) at Kissimmee, Fla., 1:05 p.m.L.A.Dodgers (ss) vs. San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz.,

3:05 p.m.Arizona vs. L.A. Angels at Tempe, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.San Diego vs. Chicago White Sox at Glendale, Ariz.,

3:05 p.m.Cleveland vs. Kansas City (ss) at Surprise, Ariz., 3:05

p.m.Oakland vs. Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.Texas vs. Milwaukee at Phoenix, 3:05 p.m.Minnesota vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 7:05 p.m.Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Fla., 7:05 p.m.Cincinnati (ss) vs. L.A. Dodgers (ss) at Glendale, Ariz.,

9:05 p.m.Chicago Cubs vs. Cincinnati (ss) at Goodyear, Ariz.,

9:05 p.m.Kansas City (ss) vs. Colorado at Scottsdale, Ariz., 9:10

p.m.Saturday's GamesAtlanta vs. N.Y.Yankees at Tampa, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Detroit vs. Toronto at Dunedin, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Tampa Bay vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 1:05

p.m.St. Louis vs. Miami (ss) at Jupiter, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Minnesota vs. Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Miami (ss) vs.Washington at Viera, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Houston vs. N.Y. Mets at Port St. Lucie, Fla., 1:10 p.m.Kansas City vs. San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz., 3:05

p.m.Colorado vs. L.A. Angels at Tempe, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.Oakland vs. Texas (ss) at Surprise, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.Milwaukee vs. Cincinnati at Goodyear, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.Texas (ss) vs. San Diego at Peoria, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.Seattle vs. L.A. Dodgers at Glendale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.Cleveland vs. Chicago Cubs at Mesa, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.ChicagoWhite Sox vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz., 3:10

p.m.Baltimore vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 7:05 p.m.

BasketballNBA Glance

National Basketball AssociationAll Times EST

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

W L Pct GBNewYork 37 21 .638 —Brooklyn 35 26 .574 3½Boston 33 27 .550 5Toronto 24 38 .387 15Philadelphia 23 37 .383 15Southeast Division

W L Pct GBMiami 45 14 .763 —Atlanta 34 26 .567 11½Washington 19 40 .322 26Orlando 17 45 .274 29½Charlotte 13 48 .213 33Central Division

W L Pct GBIndiana 38 23 .623 —Chicago 34 27 .557 4Milwaukee 30 29 .508 7Detroit 23 40 .365 16Cleveland 21 40 .344 17

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBSan Antonio 48 14 .774 —Memphis 40 19 .678 6½Houston 33 29 .532 15Dallas 27 33 .450 20New Orleans 21 41 .339 27Northwest Division

W L Pct GBOklahoma City 44 16 .733 —Denver 40 22 .645 5Utah 32 29 .525 12½Portland 28 32 .467 16Minnesota 21 37 .362 22Pacific Division

W L Pct GBL.A. Clippers 44 19 .698 —Golden State 35 27 .565 8½L.A. Lakers 31 31 .500 12½Phoenix 21 40 .344 22Sacramento 21 42 .333 23Wednesday's GamesCleveland 104, Utah 101Brooklyn 99, Charlotte 78Boston 83, Indiana 81Atlanta 107, Philadelphia 96NewYork 87, Detroit 77Miami 97, Orlando 96Memphis 91, Portland 85Minnesota 87, Washington 82L.A. Lakers 108, New Orleans 102Dallas 112, Houston 108Toronto 98, Phoenix 71San Antonio 101, Chicago 83Golden State 87, Sacramento 83L.A. Clippers 117, Milwaukee 101Thursday's GamesOklahoma City at NewYorkL.A. Clippers at DenverFriday's GamesOklahoma City at Charlotte, 7 p.m.Indiana at Orlando, 7 p.m.Memphis at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m.Washington at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.Dallas at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.Utah at Chicago, 8 p.m.Atlanta at Boston, 8 p.m.Philadelphia at Miami, 8 p.m.Portland at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.Phoenix at Sacramento, 10 p.m.Houston at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.Toronto at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.Saturday's GamesBrooklyn at Atlanta, 7 p.m.Utah at NewYork, 7:30 p.m.New Orleans at Memphis, 8 p.m.Charlotte at Washington, 8 p.m.Minnesota at Denver, 9 p.m.Houston at Phoenix, 9 p.m.Milwaukee at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

Men’s ScheduleCollege Basketball Schedule

All Times ESTFriday, March 8

EASTPenn at Brown, 7 p.m.Cornell at Dartmouth, 7 p.m.Columbia at Harvard, 7 p.m.Rutgers at Seton Hall, 7 p.m.Princeton at Yale, 7 p.m.

MIDWESTBuffalo at Bowling Green, 6 p.m.Kent St. at Akron, 7 p.m.

TOURNAMENTSAtlantic Sun ConferenceAt Macon, Ga.SemifinalsMercer-Lipscomb winner vs. Jacksonville-S.C. Up-

state winner, 5:30 or 8 p.m.Florida Gulf Coast-North Florida winner vs. Stetson-

ETSU winner, 5:30 or 8 p.m.NOTE: Highest-remaining seed plays early game.Horizon LeagueAt Regular-Season ChampionSecond RoundWright St. vs.Youngstown St.-Loyola of Chicago win-

ner, 6 p.m.Green Bay-Milwaukee winner vs. Ill.-Chicago-

Cleveland St. winner, 8:30 p.m.Metro Atlantic Athletic ConferenceAt Springfield, Mass.First RoundMarist vs. Siena, 7:30 p.m.Fairfield vs. Saint Peter's, 10 p.m.Missouri Valley ConferenceAt St. LouisQuarterfinalsCreighton vs. Bradley-Drake winner, 1:05 p.m.Evansville vs. Indiana St., 3:35 p.m.Wichita St. vs. Missouri St.-S. Illinois, 7:05 p.m.N. Iowa vs. Illinois St., 9:35 p.m.Ohio Valley ConferenceAt Nashville,Tenn.SemifinalsBelmont vs. Tennessee St._Morehead St.-UT Martin

winner, 7 p.m.Murray St. vs. E. Kentucky_SE Missouri-E. Illinois

winner, 9 p.m.Southern ConferenceAt Asheville, N.C.First RoundWofford vs. Georgia Southern, 11:30 a.m.Samford vs. Furman, 2 p.m.Chattanooga vs. UNC Greensboro, 6 p.m.W. Carolina vs. The Citadel, 8:30 p.m.Sun Belt ConferenceAt Hot Springs, Ark.First RoundW. Kentucky vs. Louisiana-Monroe, 7 p.m.Louisiana-Lafayette vs. North Texas, 7:30 p.m.Florida Atlantic vs. Troy, 9:30 p.m.West Coast ConferenceAt Las VegasThird RoundSanta Clara vs. San Francisco_Portland-Loyola

Marymount winner, 9 p.m.BYU vs. San Diego-Pepperdine winner, 11:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 9EAST

Georgia Tech at Boston College, NoonSyracuse at Georgetown, NoonProvidence at UConn, NoonIowa St. at West Virginia, 1:30 p.m.Dayton at George Washington, 2 p.m.UMass at Rhode Island, 2 p.m.Marquette at St. John's, 2 p.m.Fordham at St. Bonaventure, 4 p.m.Cornell at Harvard, 5:30 p.m.Princeton at Brown, 6 p.m.Columbia at Dartmouth, 7 p.m.Penn at Yale, 7 p.m.

SOUTHFlorida at Kentucky, NoonUAB at Memphis, NoonMississippi at LSU, 1:30 p.m.South Carolina at Vanderbilt, 1:30 p.m.NC State at Florida St., 2 p.m.Clemson at Miami, 2:30 p.m.Georgia at Alabama, 4 p.m.Notre Dame at Louisville, 4 p.m.Sam Houston St. at Northwestern St., 4 p.m.Missouri at Tennessee, 4 p.m.Marshall at East Carolina, 5 p.m.McNeese St. at Nicholls St., 5 p.m.Lamar at SE Louisiana, 5 p.m.Auburn at Mississippi St., 5:30 p.m.Duquesne at Richmond, 6 p.m.Saint Joseph's at Charlotte, 7 p.m.UCF at Southern Miss., 8 p.m.Houston at Tulane, 8 p.m.Duke at North Carolina, 9 p.m.

MIDWESTMinnesota at Purdue, TBACent. Michigan at W. Michigan, TBAToledo at E. Michigan, NoonLa Salle at Saint Louis, 1:30 p.m.N. Illinois at Ball St., 2 p.m.Pittsburgh at DePaul, 2 p.m.Nebraska at Iowa, 2:21 p.m.S. Utah at North Dakota, 3 p.m.South Florida at Cincinnati, 4 p.m.Miami (Ohio) at Ohio, 4 p.m.Xavier at Butler, 6:30 p.m.

SOUTHWESTKansas St. at Oklahoma St., 1:30 p.m.Texas A&M at Arkansas, 2 p.m.UTEP at SMU, 3 p.m.Texas at Texas Tech, 4 p.m.Oral Roberts at Cent. Arkansas, 5 p.m.Oklahoma at TCU, 5 p.m.Kansas at Baylor, 6 p.m.Texas A&M-CC at Stephen F. Austin, 7 p.m.Tulsa at Rice, 8 p.m.NJIT at Texas-Pan American, 8 p.m.Chicago St. at Houston Baptist, 8:05 p.m.

FARWESTUCLA at Washington, 2 p.m.Oregon at Utah, 2:30 p.m.San Diego St. at Boise St., 3:30 p.m.Arizona St. at Arizona, 4:30 p.m.Oregon St. at Colorado, 4:30 p.m.Sacramento St. at Montana St., 4:30 p.m.New Mexico at Air Force, 6 p.m.Fresno St. at UNLV, 6 p.m.Southern Cal at Washington St., 6:30 p.m.Louisiana Tech at Denver, 7 p.m.Long Beach St. at Pacific, 8 p.m.Nevada at Colorado St., 8:30 p.m.N. Arizona at Montana, 9 p.m.Texas-Arlington at New Mexico St., 9 p.m.E.Washington at Weber St., 9 p.m.Portland St. at Idaho St., 9:05 p.m.UTSA at Utah St., 9:05 p.m.CS Bakersfield at Utah Valley, 9:05 p.m.Cal St.-Fullerton at Cal Poly, 10 p.m.Texas St. at San Jose St., 10 p.m.UC Irvine at UC Davis, 10 p.m.UC Riverside at UC Santa Barbara, 10 p.m.Seattle at Idaho, 10:05 p.m.

TOURNAMENTSAmerica East ConferenceAt Albany, N.Y.First RoundVermont vs. New Hampshire, NoonHartford vs. UMBC, 2:30 p.m.Stony Brook vs. Binghamton, 6 p.m.Albany (N.Y.) vs. Maine, 8:30 p.m.Atlantic Sun ConferenceAt Macon, Ga.ChampionshipSemifinal winners, NoonBig South ConferenceAt Conway, S.C.SemifinalsCharleston Southern_Radford-Winthrop vs.

VMI_UNC Asheville-Longwood winner, NoonHigh Point_Coastal Carolina-Liberty winner vs.Gard-

ner-Webb_Campbell-Presbyterian winner, 2 p.m.Colonial Athletic AssociationAt Richmond,Va.First RoundGeorge Mason vs. Drexel, 3:30 p.m.Delaware vs. Hofstra, 6 p.m.James Madison vs.William & Mary, 8:30 p.m.Horizon LeagueAt Regular-Season ChampionSemifinalsDetroit vs. Wright St._Youngstown St.-Loyola of

Chicago winner, 6 p.m.Valparaiso vs. Green Bay-Milwaukee_Ill.-Chicago-

Cleveland St. winner, 8:30 p.m.Metro Atlantic Athletic ConferenceAt Springfield, Mass.QuarterfinalsNiagara vs. Marist-Siena winner, 2:30 p.m.Iona vs. Canisius, 5 p.m.Rider vs. Fairfield-Saint Peter's winner, 7:30 p.m.Loyola (Md.) vs. Manhattan, 10 p.m.Missouri Valley ConferenceAt St. LouisSemifinalsCreighton_Bradley-Drake winner vs. Evansville-Indi-

ana St. winner, 2:35 p.m.Wichita St._Missouri St.-S. Illinois winner vs. N. Iowa-

Illinois St., 5:05 p.m.Northeast ConferenceAt Campus SitesSemifinalsLowest-remaining seed at highest-remaining seed,

Noon or 2:30 p.m.Third-remaining seed at second-remaining seed,

Noon or 2:30 p.m.Ohio Valley ConferenceAt Nashville,Tenn.

ChampionshipSemifinal winners, 7 p.m.Patriot LeagueAt Campus SitesSemifinalsBucknell-Navy winner vs. Army-American winner, 2 or

4:30 p.m.Lafayette-Holy Cross winner vs. Lehigh-Colgate win-

ner, 2 or 4:30 p.m.Southern ConferenceAt Asheville, N.C.QuarterfinalsDavidson vs.Wofford-Georgia Southern winner, NoonAppalachian St. vs. Samford-Furman winner, 2:30 p.m.Elon vs. Chattanooga-UNC Greensboro winner, 6 p.m.Coll. of Charleston vs.W. Carolina-The Citadel winner,

8:30 p.m.Summit LeagueAt Sioux Falls, S.D.First RoundS. Dakota St. vs. IUPUI, 7 p.m.W. Illinois vs. South Dakota, 9:30 p.m.Sun Belt ConferenceAt Hot Springs, Ark.QuarterfinalsFIU vs. UALR, 7 p.m.Middle Tennessee vs. Louisiana-Lafayette-North Texas

winner, 7:30 p.m.South Alabama vs. W. Kentucky-Louisiana-Monroe

winner, 9:30 p.m.Arkansas St. vs. FAU-Troy winner, 10 p.m.West Coast ConferenceAt Las VegasSemifinalsGonzaga vs. Santa Clara_San Francisco_Portland-

Loyola Marymount winner, 9 p.m.Saint Mary's (Cal) vs. BYU_San Diego-Pepperdine

winner, 11:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 10EAST

Wisconsin at Penn St., NoonVCU at Temple, Noon

SOUTHVirginia Tech at Wake Forest, 2 p.m.Maryland at Virginia, 6 p.m.

MIDWESTNorthwestern at Michigan St., TBAIllinois at Ohio St., TBAIndiana at Michigan, 4 p.m.

TOURNAMENTSAmerica East ConferenceAt Albany, N.Y.SemifinalsVermont-New Hampshire winner vs. Hartford-UMBC

winner, 5 p.m.Stony Brook-Binghamton winner vs. Albany (N.Y.)-

Maine winner, 7:30 p.m.

Big South ConferenceAt Conway, S.C.ChampionshipSemifinal winners, Noon

Colonial Athletic AssociationAt Richmond,Va.SemifinalsNortheastern vs. George Mason-Drexel winner, 2 p.m.Delaware-Hofstra winner vs. James Madison-William

& Mary winner, 4:30 p.m.

Metro Atlantic Athletic ConferenceAt Springfield, Mass.SemifinalsNiagara_Marist-Siena winner vs. Iona-Canisius winner,

2 p.m.Rider_Fairfield-Saint Peter's winner vs. Loyola (Md.)-

Manhattan, 4:30 p.m.

Missouri Valley ConferenceAt St. LouisChampionshipSemifinal winners, 2:05 p.m.Southern ConferenceAt Asheville, N.C.SemifinalsDavidson_Wofford-Georgia Southern winner vs. Ap-

palachian St._Samford-Furman winner, 6 p.m.Elon_Chattanooga-UNC Greensboro winner vs. Coll.

of Charleston_W. Carolina-The Citadel winner, 8:30 p.m.

Summit LeagueAt Sioux Falls, S.D.First RoundOakland vs. IPFW, 7 p.m.N. Dakota St. vs. UMKC, 9:30 p.m.

Sun Belt ConferenceAt Hot Springs, Ark.SemifinalsMiddle Tennessee_Louisiana-Lafayette-North Texas

winner vs. FIU-UALR winner, 7:30 p.m.Arkansas St.-FAU-Troy winner vs. South Alabama_W.

Kentucky-Louisiana-Monroe winner, 10 p.m.

National Hockey LeagueAll Times EST

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

W L OT Pts GF GAPittsburgh 15 8 0 30 81 67New Jersey 10 8 5 25 56 65N.Y. Rangers 11 8 2 24 55 53Philadelphia 11 12 1 23 68 72N.Y. Islanders 10 11 2 22 70 78Northeast Division

W L OT Pts GF GAMontreal 14 5 4 32 71 59Boston 14 3 3 31 60 46Toronto 15 9 0 30 73 61Ottawa 12 8 4 28 56 49Buffalo 9 13 2 20 63 77Southeast Division

W L OT Pts GF GACarolina 13 8 1 27 67 62Tampa Bay 10 12 1 21 81 73Winnipeg 10 11 1 21 56 68Florida 7 11 5 19 59 83Washington 9 11 1 19 59 62

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

W L OT Pts GF GAChicago 21 0 3 45 78 46Detroit 11 8 4 26 63 60St. Louis 11 9 2 24 64 67Nashville 9 9 5 23 47 59Columbus 7 12 4 18 53 69Northwest Division

W L OT Pts GF GAVancouver 11 6 5 27 63 61Minnesota 11 9 2 24 52 56Calgary 9 8 4 22 61 69Edmonton 8 9 5 21 54 62Colorado 8 10 4 20 53 65Pacific Division

W L OT Pts GF GAAnaheim 16 3 3 35 77 60Los Angeles 12 7 2 26 60 52San Jose 11 7 4 26 51 50Phoenix 11 9 3 25 67 65Dallas 11 9 2 24 61 63NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.Wednesday's GamesToronto 5, Ottawa 4Chicago 3, Colorado 2Calgary 4, San Jose 1Anaheim 2, Phoenix 0Thursday's GamesToronto at BostonBuffalo at New JerseyN.Y. Rangers at N.Y. IslandersPittsburgh at PhiladelphiaFlorida at WashingtonMontreal at CarolinaVancouver at ColumbusWinnipeg at Tampa BayEdmonton at DetroitSt. Louis at PhoenixDallas at Los AngelesFriday's GamesOttawa at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.Winnipeg at Florida, 7:30 p.m.Edmonton at Nashville, 8 p.m.Chicago at Colorado, 9 p.m.Calgary at Anaheim, 10:30 p.m.Saturday's GamesPhiladelphia at Boston, 1 p.m.Washington at N.Y. Islanders, 1 p.m.Detroit at Columbus, 2 p.m.St. Louis at San Jose, 4 p.m.Pittsburgh at Toronto, 7 p.m.New Jersey at Carolina, 7 p.m.Montreal at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.Minnesota at Nashville, 8 p.m.Dallas at Phoenix, 8 p.m.Calgary at Los Angeles, 10 p.m.

SPORTS14 Friday, March 8, 2013 WWW.DAILYCALL.COM • PIQUA DAILY CALL

BY DAVID FONGCivitas Media

PIQUA — For 10 years,professional wrestlingfans have been makingfaithful pilrgimages to thePiqua National Guard Ar-mory to watch their fa-vorite wrestlers ply theirtrade for Dynamic Cham-pionship Wrestling.At 7:30 p.m. Saturday

(doors open at 7 p.m),DCW is looking to giveback to its legion of fans asit hosts its 10th anniver-sary show at the armory.“This is definitely going

to be a historic celebra-tion,” said event organizerLonnie Saunders. “We’vealways had stellar crowdsfor our shows. MiamiCounty has supported us

whole-heartedly and thisis our chance to give backto them. We want to puton an extravaganza foreveryone to enjoy.”Dynamic Champi-

onship Wrestling beganrunning shows a decadeago in Huber Heights, butquickly moved to its cur-rent home in the PiquaNational Guard Armory.The organization gener-ally runs shows everyother month, althoughdoes run fewer shows inthe summer. It also runs ashow on the midway dur-ing the annual MiamiCounty Fair. A number ofwrestlers within thepromition are MiamiCounty residents.Saunders said the 10th

anniversary show prom-

ises to be one of the organ-izations most entertain-ing.In a two-out-of-three

falls match, DCW cham-pion Shawn Draven willdefend his title against“The Incomparable” MacMcPhat. In an extreme ta-bles, ladders and chairsmatch, Mid-Ohio cham-pion “The Real Deal” EvanStreet will defend his titleagainst “Big” JimHutchinson.Tommy Blaze and Van-

dal will compete in a tagteam grudge matchagainst Logan Caine and“The Monster of the Mid-way” Alexander Drago,with DCW CommissionerCasey Coleman serving asguest refereer. In a ladiesmatch, Sin D will take on

Big Momma.Tickets for the event

are $10 for adults and $5for children and senior cit-izens. Saunders said it’s ashow the entire family canenjoy.“It’s a family show,” he

said. “We get a lot of sen-ior citizens who comes toour shows and a lot ofthem bring their grand-children.“We don’t use a lot of

bad language like youmight see at other places.We’ve done events forchurches.“It’s definitely some-

thing you can bring yourwhole family out to see.We want to give back toMiami County becausethey have been so loyal tous.”

In this file photo, Dynamic ChampionshipWrestling’sTommy Blaze, left, battles Super Insane during the Dy-namic Championship Wrestling event at the 2011 Miami County Fair. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, DCW will behosting its 10th-anniversary show at the Piqua National Guard Armory.

ANTHONY WEBER/CIVITAS MEDIA FILE PHOTO

DCW returns to Piqua ArmoryWrestling action gets underway at 7:30 p.m. Saturday

Winner and Evan Phlipot scoredon assists by Ahrens to make it 46-39 and Versailles never trailedagain.Five points by Robert Caldwell got

the S-Tigers with 46-44 with 5:44 re-maining and Roderick Caldwell hita three to make it 48-47 at the 4:00mark.Phlipot hit two free throws and

Ahrens, Damien Richard and Win-ner added one each to make it 53-47with 1:29 remaining.Roderick Caldwell hit a three, but

six straight free throws by Winner,two by Richard and and athletic 3-point play by Campbell allowed theV-Tigers to put the game away.Ahrens finished with 25 points, 11

rebounds, three assists and twoblocks; while Winner added 18points and five rebounds. Richardadded 15 boards and four assists,while Phlipot pulled down sixboards.Roderick Caldwell had 19 points

for the S-Tigers, while Robert Cald-well added 15. Dwight McKinney,who scored 11 points in the first half,finished with 14 points and seven re-bounds.Versailles was 17 of 42 from the

floor for 41 percent, including four of13 from 3-point range for 31 percent.The Tigers converted 27 of 3g freethrows for 75 percent.Stivers was 20 of 66 from the floor

for 31 percent, including four of 24from 3-point range for 17 percent.The S-Tigers made just 10 of 19 freethrows for 53 percent.Versailles won the battle of the

boards 47-34, but had 20 turnoversto Stivers seven.

BOXSCOREStivers (54)Zach Eggleton 0-0-0, Robert Caldwell 5-4-15, Roderick

Caldwell 7-2-19, Yousef Gula 1-2-4, Dwight McKinney 6-2-14, Noah Howell 0-0-0, IsaiahWilliams 0-0-0, Tyon Trapps 0-0-0, Mondre Newsome 0-0-0, Daniel Allen 1-0-2. Totals:20-10-54.Versailles (65)Nick Campbell 3-1-7, Damien Richard 0-5-5, Chad Win-

ner 5-7-18, Kyle Ahrens 6-10-25, Jacob Heitkamp 0-0-0,Brett McEldowney 0-0-0, Jace Barga 1-2-4, Kyle Rutschilling0-0-0, JacobWenning 0-0-0, Evan Phlipot 2-2-6, Zach Stein-brunner 0-0-0, Ryan Knapke 0-0-0. Totals: 17-27-65.3-point field goals — Stivers: Robert Caldwell, Roderick

Caldwell (3). Versailles:Winner, Ahrens (3).Score By QuartersStivers 11 27 39 54Versailles 10 26 42 65Records: Stivers 17-9, Versailles 20-5.

TigersContinued from page 12

GOODYEAR,Ariz. (AP)—A struggling CincinnatiReds lineup turnedCanada's tuneup into atrouncing.Ryan Ludwick and

Miguel Olivo hit three-runhomers Wednesday nightand the Reds piled up 18hits for a 12-2 victory overthe team that Canada willtake to theWorld BaseballClassic.The Reds have been

struggling to score runs sofar during spring training.They were aggressive

against Canada's pitchingstaff and took advantage."Tonight it seemed that

everybody was gettingthat first strike and didsomething with it," saidTodd Frazier, who had apair of hits. "For me that'sbasically what I was try-ing to do, just trying to getin a groove.“Like (manager Dusty

Baker) says all the time,'You get that first-pitchfastball, let's go do somedamage.' We hit the ballreally hard tonight."The Canadians man-

aged only four hits in itsfinal exhibition beforeopening the WBC againstItaly over the weekend.Reds first baseman JoeyVotto, who is on Canada'steam, didn't play."Hopefully we got it all

out of the way and getready for Friday," Canadi-ans manager Ernie Whittsaid. "We didn't swing thebats well, but they hadsome strong pitching.Sometimes you tip yourhat to the opposition.When you compound thatwith shoddy defense,that's what happens.Mark Hardy, who

pitched for Double-A San

Antonio last season, strug-gled through 1 2-3 in-nings.He allowed six runs on

seven hits. Trystan Mag-nuson, who was Toronto'sfirst pick in the June 2007draft, gave up Ludwick'shomer.Third baseman Brett

Lawrie left the game afterthree innings with tight-ness in his side."We took him out as a

precaution," Whitt said."He was only going to playfour innings anyway. Weare always very cautiousof individuals.“If they feel anything,

we don't want to hurtthem or extend their in-juries.“We are going to wait

and see how he feels to-morrow."Mat Latos pitched three

innings for Cincinnati, al-lowing two runs on ahomer by Adam Loewen.

NOTES: Two formerMVPs are on Canada'sroster. Justin Morneauwon the AL MVP in 2006.Votto won the NL MVP in2010. ... Morneau and PeteOrr played for Canada intheWBC in both 2006 and2009. ... Phillipe Aumont,Chris Leroux, Scott Math-ieson, Lawrie and Vottoplayed on the 2009 team.Chris Robinson played onthe 2006 team. ... RHPJesse Crain of the WhiteSox has withdrawn fromCanada's team with ashoulder injury. R.J. Swin-dle replaced Crain on theroster. ... Reds C RyanHanigan is expected toplay Friday against theChicago Cubs. He missedseven games with astrained oblique.

Reds breakout batsTrounce Canada team

DORAL, Fla. (AP) — TigerWoods was on his game, andso were most of the world bestgolfers Thursday in the Cadil-lac Championship.Except for the world's No. 1

player.Woods made nine birdies on

the Blue Monster at Doral fora 6-under 66 that put him in afive-way share of the lead withMasters champion BubbaWatson, former U.S. Openchampion Graeme McDowell,Sergio Garcia and Freddie Ja-cobson.This World Golf Champi-

onship lived up to its namewith Phil Mickelson, SteveStricker and Hunter Mahanamong those one shot behind.But it was another rough

day for Rory McIlroy.He hit only three fairways

and made six bogeys that kepthim at par or worse on a per-fect day for scoring. Despitemaking a 15-foot eagle putt onthe par-5 first hole, and lacinga 5-iron over the water for an-other eagle attempt on thepar-5 eighth that narrowlymissed, the best he could man-age was a 73.McIlroy has yet to break par

this year."It was a bit of a struggle, to

be honest," McIlroy said toSky Sports. "Hit some goodshots. Hit some not-so-goodshots. As I've been saying allweek, this is a work inprogress and I'm working at itand I'm staying patient."He declined to speak to re-

porters, grabbing a quicklunch and smiling at scream-ing fans who wanted his auto-graph as he headed to thepractice range.McIlroy played alongside

Woods and Luke Donald —Nos. 1, 2 and 3 in the world —

and while this essentially is ahome game for Woods havingwon three times at Doral, theoccasional shouts of "You'rethe real No. 1, Tiger" rangtrue.Coming off a pedestrian

performance a week ago at theHonda Classic, Woods lookedsharp in most aspects of hisgame, except for a few lapseswith his chipping. He wastedtwo early birdies with a three-putt bogey on the 13th holeand a delicate flop shot that heflubbed on the 14th, leading toanother bogey. His chip up theslope on the third didn't reachthe green for another bogey.That's all that was wrong.He holed two long birdie

putts, including a sliding, slip-pery putt from about 40 feeton the par-3 fourth hole, andmissed four reasonablechances inside 15 feet. Hisfinal birdie was on the par-5eighth, when he had to lay upfrom a fairway bunker and hita wedge that stopped 2 feetfrom the hole."It was certainly a day that

could have been a little lower,"said Woods, who was selectedfor random drug testing afterhis round.Just about everyone could

say that in these conditions.Garcia and McDowell were

in the same group. Not onlydid they have bogey-freerounds, both birdied the samefour holes. Jacobson made twoeagles in a span of three holes,both times hitting a 5-woodonto the green to just over 12feet.Watson played in the group

with Mickelson and Stricker,and they were a collective 16-under par.Stricker had a chance to tie

for the lead except he missed

a 4-foot birdie putt on the finalhole.Mickelson, as usual, keptit entertaining. He pulled histee shot on the 17th hole andhis ball stopped rolling after ittraveled some 450 yards. Hepurposely took a free drop onthe cart path to avoid therough, and chipped that toabout 5 feet for birdie."You hit the ball in as much

trouble as I do off the tee, youlearn to hit those kinds ofshots and have enough prac-tice at it," he said. "I knewwhat was going to happen."Woods atop the leaderboard

is enough to create enoughbuzz to drown out the jetlinersover Doral as they approachMiami International Airport.On this day, there was just asmuch curiosity about the 23-year-old McIlroy and the stateof his game, not to mentionwhat's going on inside hishead.The pressure of changing

equipment and backing up abig year that made him No. 1in the world got the best ofhim last week at the HondaClassic, when he walked offthe course without finishinghis ninth hole of the secondround.McIlroy apologized during a

press conference Wednesday,said it would never happenagain and wanted to get backto being happy on the golfcourse. There weren't manysmiles, though he often chat-ted withWoods as they walkeddown the fairway.He didn't hit a fairway on

the front nine (he started onNo. 10), though two of thoseshots were in the first cut andled to birdie. But as much timeas he has spent trying to re-discover that easy, balancedswing, it was clear he has neg-

lected his short game. On thesecond hole, he had an 80-footputt that he left 20 feet short."It was nice to sneak in a

couple birdies on the lastthree holes and make it looksomewhat respectable, eventhough everyone seems to begoing pretty low out theretoday," McIlroy said.Woods played two rounds

with him at Abu Dhabi tostart the year, and they werefrequent playing partners dur-ing the FedEx Cup playoffslast year. Woods said McIlroylooked "just a little bit defen-sive" with his swing."That happens, and we have

all gone through stretches likethis," Woods said. "It happens,and it happened to him lastyear in the middle of the year,and ended up all right at theend of the year.When you playgolf for a very long time, you'regoing to have spells like this.You can't play well everyweek, even though you try.You're going to have ups anddowns, and just got to battlethrough it."For everyone else, it wasn't

much of a battle in the open-ing round with a gentle breezeand warm sunshine. The fair-ways were firm and runningfast, allowing the Blue Mon-ster to play shorter. The aver-age score was 70.8, and only16 players in the 65-man fieldwere over par."This course is playing

pretty firm, so if you hit it inthe fairway, it's not going to bea ton of long shots," Jacobsonsaid. "Tough thing is if you'rein the rough, you don't get anycontrol on the ball from thisgrass. It makes it really diffi-cult to stop the ball, and if youmiss the green, it's prettytricky around here."

Woods shares lead at DoralMcIlroy continues to struggle in ideal scoring conditions