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THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2014

ASSESSING DAMAGE, 5A8.2 magnitude earthquake near Chile kills 6, triggers tsunami

1 suspect dead in overnight shooting

LAWRENCEVILLE — A man was killed and an officer was hospitalized for several hours after an officer-involved shooting early Wednesday morning in unincorporated Lawrencev-ille.

The shooting happened around 1 a.m. on Sweetwater Road near Old Nor-cross Road, Gwinnett County Police said. Police responded to a call of a suspicious car at Lake Sweetwater Apartments, and when police made contact with the car, two men and a woman jumped out and fled on foot. Officers caught the female suspect but a male suspect got away.

Gwinnett Police Sgt. Brian Doan said the remaining suspect was shot after an offi-cer found him stand-

ing over his partner. The officer shot the suspect, who later died at a local hospital, Doan said. The officer was hospitalized with a head injury, but had not been shot.

Gwinnett Police Cpl. Jake Smith said the deceased suspect is Marcus Garner, 22, a black man, who had an outstanding warrant for a probation violation. The female suspect and

From StaFF reportS

Gwinnett Co. schools excel in writing tests

Eighth-graders in Gwinnett excelled in this year’s state writing tests, especially at Osborne Middle, which had the top mean scaled score in the state.

Ten Gwinnett County Public Schools middle schools also scored in the top 25, including Twin Rivers, which was fifth, and North Gwinnett, which was eighth. Osborne’s score was 249.42, while 42.3 percent of its students scored in the “exceeds” cat-egory, the highest ever. Twin Rivers’ score was 239.34, and North Gwin-nett’s score was 238.64.

More than 13,000 Gwinnett eighth-graders took the state writ-ing test, and had an average mean scale score of 227. For Gwinnett County Public Schools, the state test serves as a local promotion require-ment, and students must meet or

By Keith Farner

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Committee formed to study child welfare in wake of area case

Two Gwinnett legisla-tors will take part in the Child Welfare Reform Council, created in the wake of the deaths of several children, includ-ing Lawrenceville girl Emani Moss, 10, who starved to death last year.

Gov. Nathan Deal named the council mem-bers Wednesday who are tasked with improve-ments with the child welfare system.

“With this council now in place, it is our hope to uncover new approaches that will strengthen our child welfare system and ensure that Georgia’s

children are given the best shot at a good life,” Deal said. “These ap-pointees have dedicated

themselves to improving the lives of children, and I feel confident that to-gether they will produce

meaningful and thought-ful reform recommenda-tions.”

The two local of-ficials appointed to the board are Rep. Valerie Clark, the Lawrenceville Republican who formerly served as Central Gwin-nett High School princi-pal, and Sen. Fran Millar, who represents Peachtree

Corners and previously served on a foster care reform study committee.

Other board members include Georgia’s child advocate, Ashley Will-cott, Children’s Health-care of Atlanta President Donna Hyland, United Methodist Children’s

By Camie youngcamie.young @gwinnettdailypost.com

Marcus Garner

Shena Penrose

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“With this council now in place, it is our hope to uncover new approaches that will strengthen our child welfare system and ensure that Georgia’s children are given the best shot at a good life.”

— Gov. Nathan Deal

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Lawrenceville elementary school donates supplies to Haitian students

LAWRENCEVILLE — With boxes and boxes of used books on their way to be donated, Charles Augustinvil made a suggestion to teachers at Lovin Elemen-tary — send them to his native country.

Augustinvil, who grew up in Haiti, is a custodian at the school, and under-stands the value of reading to the point that he encouraged his son to read every day, anything he could, from books to newspapers.

“When I was a kid, there was no library,” he said. “I started questioning people, and realized they don’t read because there’s no library.”

Augustinvil moved to the United States in 1986, and realizes he lives and works in a place that has an abundance of books and libraries.

The connection Augustinvil started has blossomed into a partnership be-tween Lovin and a school in Bizoton, Haiti, where Lovin students and teachers have sent 41 boxes of books and count-ing, and now send clothes and school supplies. The project, started by three teachers, turned schoolwide. In Haiti, the school opened a media center and named it the “Lovin Bibliotheque” in honor of Lovin Elementary.

Kindergarten teacher Becky Smith said it’s evident how much Augustinvil loves his country, and they felt like they ought to share what they have.

“We’ve been so blessed, especially in Gwinnett County, to have every resource we could ever dream of having, just to know we’re helping other people with books,” Smith said. “We have so many, we ought to be able to share with oth-ers.”

Around Christmastime, the Haitians sent a CD with a video of the library, and the boxes of books that were still unpacked.

For Lovin Principal Janet Blanchette, it has evolved into something more meaningful in her life even after she’s worked on similar projects with other countries earlier in her career.

“I’m a very giving person, I give to many organizations, but I feel like I’ve found my place now,” Blanchette said. “There are so many ways you can give to so many great things, but right now I have found such purpose in wanting to

help this school, these kids, this country.”The school, which houses kinder-

garten through 12th grade, is in a town of about 2 million people, but the area is still recovering from the 2010 earth-quake. A picture of a classroom the Haitians sent to Lovin showed students sitting on wooden benches inside walls of exposed cinder block.

A parent of a Lovin student, Ernest Antoine, is also a native Haitian, has

joined the effort, and offered ideas for cheaper shipping methods.

“It was a good thing to do for the people in Haiti if she can do it, do it,” Antoine said of Blanchette. “We need the books. If the support comes, there will be a book to read all the time.”

When Antoine grew up in Port Au Prince, Haiti, he said he would walk 25 miles to school because he didn’t have enough money to pay for a taxi. But when he left school, he didn’t know where his next meal would come from.

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By Keith [email protected]

Lovin Elementary students and teachers pose for a picture with Haitian Princi-pal Jean Baptiste Lappe, second from left, Lovin custodian Charles Augustinvil, far left, and Lovin Principal Janet Blanchette, far right. (Special Photo)

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Notre Dame Academy announces plans to expandNotre Dame Academy

has plans to grow again.The Catholic school

in Duluth announced on Wednesday that it has purchased 21 acres of land next to its campus on River Green Parkway off Peachtree Indus-

trial Boulevard in Duluth. Construction is scheduled to begin this spring on an expansion that will include a building for 12 class-rooms, a multi-purpose

gymnasium and fine arts building that will serve students in pre-kindergar-ten through 12th grade. There are also plans for another building for 22 classrooms and full athlet-ics facilities.

The school opened in 2005 with 151 students, and now counts 525.

“We continue to be blessed in our Archdio-cese with strong Catholic schools,” Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory said in a press release. “The

growth of our Archdiocese as well as the demand for Catholic education sup-ports the need to increase capacity in our Catholic schools. The expansion of Notre Dame Academy will help address the increased demand for Catholic education through the high school years.”

The school also has plans to be the first pre-K through 12th grade Inter-national Baccalaureate and Catholic School in Georgia and one of two schools to

hold that title nationwide.“We strongly believe in

the International Baccalau-reate’s ability to prepare students for today’s global world,” said Debra Orr, Notre Dame Academy Head of School. “The program teaches students to become critical thinkers who take responsibility for their own learning. We are excited to offer this edu-cational opportunity to all of our students in addition to the concrete growth of a high school.”

By Keith Farnerkeith.farner @gwinnettdailypost.com

Brookwood grad Amy Robach promoted to news anchor for GMA

Amy Robach, a Snell-ville native and graduate of Brookwood High School, has been promoted from Good Morning America correspondent to news anchor.

Robach has become a familiar face on the morn-ing news program, filling in for Robin Roberts for many of the 174 days Rob-erts spent recovering from a bone marrow transplant.

Robach graduated from Brookwood in 1991 and attended the University of Georgia where she earned a degree in journalism. She began her career as a gen-eral assignment reporter in South Carolina and moved on to become a morning anchor in Washington D.C., where she covered 9/11 from the Pentagon. She spent five years at NBC, where she was an anchor at MSNBC and co-host of Weekend Today.

“Amy is a world class anchor and correspon-dent who is beloved by

our morning audience and all who know her,” ABC News President Ben Sherwood wrote in a press release.

Robach discovered she had breast cancer after un-dergoing an on-air mam-mogram.

“We always knew that Amy was special and we have all been especially

inspired to watch her battle breast cancer with grace and determination,” Sher-wood wrote. “Indeed, she thrilled us with two weeks of memorable dispatches from Sochi anchoring our Olympic coverage — all between chemo treatments. Amy will be a fierce and formidable full-time addi-tion to our GMA team.”

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Amy Robach, a Snellville native and graduate of Brook-wood High School, has been promoted from Good Morning America corre-spondent to news anchor. (Special Photo)

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Once a year, the Georgia Plant Selections Commit-tee, an organization com-posed of plant professionals throughout the state, choose certain plants to label as Georgia Gold Medal Win-ners. Their purpose is “to promote the production, sale and use of superior ornamental plants.”

Several factors are taken into consideration when choosing the winners. The main criteria in making the selections are plants that are low maintenance, have few pest problems and are well adapted to Georgia’s varying climates and soil types. The plants must have features that are appealing to consumers.

Other factors include their ease of propagation and production needed in order to mass market the plants in addition to having appealing characteristics that last multiple seasons. One plant is chosen from each of the following cat-egories: annuals, perennials, shrubs, trees, and native plants.

The 2014 Gold Medal annual plant is the spider flower or cleome variet-ies Senorita Rosalita and the Senorita Blanca. The traditional varieties of cleomes have some nega-tive qualities such as loss of foliage, spines, sprawling growth habit and excessive seed production. These new varieties do not have these undesirable traits. These plants grow in an upright pattern which attracts but-terflies and hummingbirds. Senorita Rosalita has a lav-ender to pink coloring, the Senorita Blanca is white, and both bloom prolifi-cally during the summer. They should be planted in May when the soil is warm enough, and the plants require adequate drainage.

The red hot poker, also known as the torch lily, is the committee’s selec-tion for the 2014 Gold Medal perennial plant. The blooms, which are a combination of many small flowers, are at the ends of tall stems. They come in an array of colors such as red, orange, yellow and cream. They sometimes can produce a second round of blooms if you remove the dead flower heads before they go to seed. The foliage is evergreen and grasslike, upright and sword shaped. The red hot poker blooms from June through August and attracts butterflies, hummingbirds and honeybees. They will require full sun and good drainage.

The choice for the 2014 Gold Medal shrub is the sweetbox or Saracocca.

Closely related to box-woods, they have shiny evergreen leaves and grow three to five feet tall. Sweet-box thrives in shady and partially shaded areas. The shrubs are low maintenance, and requires little pruning. As for pests, sweetbox is not troubled by insects or diseases, and are resistant to deer and rabbits. In the win-ter, it they produce small white fragrant blooms that are somewhat hidden by the foliage. A dwarf variety of the plant grows 12 inches tall, spreads by suckering, and creates an attractive dense groundcover.

The 2014 Gold Medal winner in the tree category is the Chinese pistache. It can reach a height of 30 feet, and its canopy has a vase shape. It tolerates the hot, dry conditions of our summers and poor soil. The tree does well in difficult growing situations such as parking lot islands, land-scapes of newly built homes and along streets in urban areas. However, they suf-fers in soils that stay wet continually. In the fall, the leaves turn a brilliant red color and in the spring it produces clusters of small flowers.

The Atamasco lily, also called the rain lily, is the committee’s choice for 2014 Gold Medal winner in the native plant cat-egory. These hardy plants grow throughout Georgia. They have white to pink blooms that are on a stalk that rises above the foliage. Their blooms open up after a rainfall, thus giving it the name rain lily. They prefer sun to partial shade, thrive in moist sites, and are fre-quently found growing in wetlands, swamps and by streams and lakes. All parts of this plant are toxic.

Georgia Gold Medal winners are a worthy addi-tion to your home land-scape. The plants are attrac-tive, easy to maintain and thrive in our climate. For more information on these plants, go to the following website: www.georgiagold-medalplants.org.

Timothy Daly is an Ag-ricultural and Natural Re-source Extension Agent with Gwinnett County. He can be contacted at 678-377-4010 or [email protected].

Retired Snellville K-9, Euro, diesOne of the three origi-

nal dogs that started the Snellville Police K-9 Unit has died.

Euro, who retired at the end of 2011, served the city of Snellville for seven years after he started work-ing for the department at 2 years old. He lived with his handler, Officer Dennis Peters, and his family.

Snellville Police Chief Roy Whitehead said Euro was great at everything he did, from narcotics to tracking to apprehension.

“He could pretty much do it all,” Whitehead said. “He loved his toy, you couldn’t get it away from

him, which makes him a good drug dog.”

There were several note-worthy incidents where

Euro played a key role to locate or catch a criminal.

He once tracked a ho-micide suspect from a car lot on U.S. 78, and found a “scream mask” and hoodie that were described as be-ing worn by the gunman. Whitehead said DNA tests matched the suspect to the mask. The gunman is serv-ing time for another rob-bery, and has been indicted and awaiting trial.

Euro and Peters were also involved in the case of a grow house on Cree-kwood Drive in the Sum-mit Chase subdivision. The case was linked to grow houses around the metro Atlanta area, and Euro ran secondary and confirming searches and sniffs on the

vehicles and a trailer.More than 350 plants

and about 917 pounds of marijuana were found in the trailer, worth about $110,000, along with $10,000 in currency found in the house. Five arrests were made in that case.

Euro and Peters also assisted Gwinnett County Police in a home invasion investigation where Euro found one suspect who was taken into custody without incident. He also found an AK-47 used in the crime.

Whitehead said Euro didn’t want to retire, but Peters noticed that the had trouble with his hips.

“He’s done a lot of good work for us,” Whitehead said.

By Keith Farnerkeith.farner @gwinnettdailypost.com

Euro, who retired at the end of 2011, served the city of Snell-ville and its police de-partment for seven years after he started work-ing for the department at 2 years old. (Special Photo)

Snellville Police K-9 Euro lived with his handler, Offi-cer Dennis Peters, and his family. Euro retired at the end of 2011.

‘Photo finish’ predicted in governor’s raceA week after a poll

predicted that Gov. Nathan Deal would survive the GOP primary this May, another poll shows a

challenge in the November general election against Demo-cratic Sen. Jason Carter, the grand-son of President Jimmy Carter.

The poll of 575 ac-tive Geor-gia voters conducted

Sunday shows that Deal leads Carter 43 percent to 39 percent, but the margin of the lead matches the margin of error in the race. About 18 percent of voters remain undecided in the poll, conducted by Land-mark Communications and Rosetta Stone Communi-cations.

Deal has the lead among men, 48 percent to 38 percent, while Carter holds a 3 percent advantage among women, 41 per-cent to 38 percent. More women remain undecided (21 percent), while 14 percent of men haven’t chosen their candidate.

“Independent voters support Gov. Deal by a four-to-three margin,” said Mark Rountree, president of Duluth-based Landmark Communications. “With Deal at 41 percent, Carter at 32 percent among In-dependent voters, there is still a significant number of Independents who have yet to make up their mind.”

This week, a trial

involving accusations that Deal interfered in an eth-ics investigation into his campaign is underway in Atlanta, which Democrats hope will change the out-come in November, but the poll experts weren’t sure.

“Gov. Deal still enjoys a small lead among all age groups despite a non-stop barrage of bad press,” said John Garst, president of Rosetta Stone Commu-nications. “The governor trails Senator Jason Carter with female voters. I predict a photo finish in November.”

Kingston campaign events Saturday

Senate candidate Jack Kingston has two events planned in Gwinnett this weekend.

The Savannah con-gressman will address the Gwinnett GOP breakfast at 8:30 a.m. at 550 Trackside in Lawrenceville.

Later that morning, his campaign will host the first of several volun-teer victory parties at his campaign headquarters in Duluth, as well as in Savannah.

One of three congress-men vying for the GOP nomination for the open U.S. Senate seat this year, Kingston is hosting the parties from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. every Saturday until the May 20 primary. But while you party, leaders plan to put you to work making phone calls to voters.

“Phones will be provid-ed,” a press release said, noting that a light lunch will also be served for volunteers.

The campaign head-quarters are located at 3360 Satellite Boulevard in Duluth.

For more information and to RSVP, please con-tact [email protected], or give us a call at 470-545-8206.

Political Notebook appears in the Thursday and Sunday editions of the Gwinnett Daily Post.

Camie Young can be reached via email at [email protected].

For archived columns, go to www.gwinnettdailyp-ost.com/politics.

Political Notebook

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PUBLIC NOTICECity of Duluth - FY 15 Budget Availability, Review and Adoption

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The City of Duluth proposed FY15 working draft of the budget will be available for public inspection as of 8am on 4/4/14 during regular office hours (8am-5pm, Mon-Fri) in the office of the City Clerk, located on the first floor of Duluth City Hall, 3167 Main Street, Duluth, GA. It will also be available on the city website.

The Mayor, Council, Department Directors and Staff will meet at 5:30 pm in the Community Room of City Hall on the following dates to discuss the proposed City of Duluth 2015 Budget:

April 15, 2014 April 16, 2014

April 23, 2014 (if necessary)

Scheduled dates are subject to change. Any changes to meetings will be posted on the City’s website at www.duluthga.net. No official action will be taken at these meetings. The public is invited to attend and observe the work sessions.

The dates for the budget public hearing and anticipated adoption of the FY15 budget will be published on or before May 1, 2014.

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Husband must leave ‘surly wenches’ aloneDEAR AMY: My wife

and I have been married for 39 years. We have two grown children.

The problem is this. My wife’s friends make it uncomfortable for me when I am invited to an event with my wife. I am fed up with these friends and refuse to be around them any longer. My wife wants me to suck it up. This always ends in an argument.

My wife and I were invited to the cabin these women share for a week-end. Upon arrival, the friend had the nerve to tell me I couldn’t play golf with my wife despite them having only a threesome (I would have been the fourth).

My wife and I were invited to the cabin a second time. We were told that when we arrived after a four-hour trip that my wife was invited to lunch with her friends. I was not invited.

This one female friend purposely attacked me ver-bally to engage in a scream-ing match. I won the first bout with a direct scream in her face. It felt great.

Please give me your insight about dealing with these surly wenches.

— FuriousDEAR FURIOUS:

What is missing from this narrative is your wife’s perspective. I imagine it might be quite different from yours.

But given what you report, the only way for you to deal with these surly wenches is not to deal with them at all. This situation is volatile and not safe for any of you.

I’m not sure why you would insist on going with your wife to visit the home of people you seem to despise. You obviously have no intention — or the abil-ity — to “suck it up.”

If screaming in some-one’s face feels good to you, then that is further evidence that you should

not be anywhere near that person. Seriously, if you don’t simmer down, the police are going to get involved.

If your wife enjoys these friendships, she should do so on her own.

DEAR AMY: I am a single woman in my 50s. I’m interested in dating and settling down.

The problem is that the men who have shown inter-est in me recently have in-undated me right out of the starting gate with needy text messaging, out-of-control IMing, plus FaceTime calls (as well as regular calls).

The latest guy started tex-ting me all day during work hours and was asking me what time I get off work, presumably so that he could know when I’d be available to receive his phone calls and texts at home.

It strikes me as unprofes-sional that this man would be texting me all day during his work hours.

I find this disruptive when I’m at work. I don’t enjoy it at home, either.

Is this just something that

I have to endure, or is there some way for me to politely set boundaries and get these guys to cool it without them being offended?

The last time I tried say-ing something politely to one of these guys, he com-pletely stopped contacting me. I didn’t want that. What do I do?

— Textually FrustratedDEAR FRUSTRATED:

Excessive contact can feel intrusive (and worse) when you don’t want it. Don’t pass judgment on someone else’s commitment to his work if he chooses to send text messages to you during the workday. All you need to do is pay attention to your own comfort level.

You should tackle this the minute you feel it starting. Reply to a text, saying: “I’m not into frequent tex-ting, but if you want to set up a time to get together (in person), let me know.”

Don’t answer calls (Face-Time or “regular”) if you don’t want to talk. The guy who reads you the best in this context is the guy you will want to see.

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You will have to make some difficult decisions this year. Taking on too many projects at once will not earn you the recogni-tion you desire. Focus on the most advantageous opportunity and devote all of your time, effort and expertise toward that goal.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Your easygoing personality will draw at-tention and attract new alliances. Attend functions that allow you to share ideas, concepts and plans. Service groups or cultural get-togethers will lead to potential partnerships.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Don’t make prom-ises you won’t be able to keep, or you’ll face an emotional dilemma. Listen to friends and relatives who offer valuable advice, not ridicule and negativity.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Sharing opinions and listening to the people around you will be the first step in pursuing the home projects you have in mind. You should avoid criticizing others and instead offer them worthwhile solutions.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Postpone any plans until you are confident that you have all the details worked out. You can avoid tension by not revealing your aims until your plan is a sure thing.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You may be feeling emotionally stifled. Get-ting out will enable you to make new friends. Take a close look at your present relationships and decide if changes need to be made.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — It’s a fine time for artistic expression. Whether you enjoy paint-ing, music, literature or some other pastime, take on a project that will show-case your talent. Put aside problems and enjoy the moment.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Too much time spent helping others will lead to you neglecting the people and interests that mean the most. Take time to pursue activities that provide stimulation and greater happiness.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Budget wisely today. Your home improve-ment ideas may be more costly than you originally planned. Get in touch with older relatives who could use your help or offer you sound advice.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — There may be a rift with someone you deal with daily. Have a heart-to- heart talk to determine the extent of the problem, and be willing to compromise.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — New pos-sibilities or positions in the workplace are coming your way. Other people are impressed with the efforts you have put forth. Be prepared to make a career move.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Plan physical activities that will get you motivated and inspired. It could be as simple as a brisk walk or a hike in the country.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — A small change can boost your spirits. Consid-er making improvements at home. Ask a friend or family member to pitch in, and it will help you form a closer bond.

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DEAR DR. ROACH: We always hear about the negative prospects and ef-fects of various diseases, but never hear about the effective benefits and lon-gevity of medical control of them. I am a 76-year-old man in otherwise good health who was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation more than 15 years ago. I have religiously taken medicine (propafenone) for the problem, and have had only a few instances of rapid and irregular heartbeats since.

Do you feel that as long as I keep taking my medicine, my heart’s condition is as good as someone who has never had a problem, or will I always be subject to the negative consequences and associated problems of a condition that is sup-posedly under control? I have very low cholesterol, never had high blood pressure and have never been overweight. I do have a history of heart problems in my family.

— D.T.ANSWER: That’s a

great question, but it’s hard to answer, because it depends on the disease and its treatment. In your case, atrial fibrillation successfully treated with a medication for rhythm control, the risk of heart problems and stroke is very nearly reduced to the risk of someone with no history of atrial fibrilla-tion.

In hypertension, reduc-tion of risk has to do with the type of medication used, how high the blood pressure was before treat-ment and how long it went untreated, as well as how well-controlled the blood pressure is while on treat-ment. Most studies show that with well-controlled blood pressure, most of the excess risk of heart at-tack and stroke eventually goes away, but never quite completely.

In diabetes, long-term prognosis also is depen-dent on how well the diabetes has been con-trolled and for how long. Interestingly, very “tight” control of blood sugar (A1c level) did not reduce risk further, and actually increased heart disease somewhat, compared with “good” control.

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Over 200 skydivers to try for world record in Arizona

PHOENIX — A team of 222 veteran skydivers from around the world will step off a small squadron of airplanes in the Arizona skies this week and float down in formation to try to shatter a world record, organizers said on Wednesday.

Skydivers must execute two formations before deploying their parachutes to qualify for the

largest double-formation record set last year by 110 skydivers in Florida, a spokeswoman said.

“The team is very optimistic that we can do this,” said Gulcin Gilbert, a skydiver and spokes-woman for the group, World Team. “Everything seems to be going well so far.”

Skydivers representing 28 countries will take part in the

event in Eloy, Ariz.Gilbert said the complex, re-

cord-breaking maneuver is most likely to take place on Thursday at SkyDive Arizona, a popular facility in the desert about 65 miles south of Phoenix.

The jump, which has been in the planning stages for about 18 months, is set in motion when the skydivers in multi-colored jumpsuits are taken aloft by 10 aircraft.

Skydivers have 80 seconds

from the time they exit the planes to the time the parachutes open to position themselves into one kaleidoscope-like formation and then another at an estimated 19,500 feet above the ground, in an average freefall speed of about 120 miles per hour.

“Our individual flying tasks are not so difficult,” said B.J. Worth, the American leading the skydive effort. “But getting 222 skydivers to do their designated task safely and on the same jump

is a special challenge.”Skydivers have been practic-

ing since last Friday, first laying out the formations on the ground and then trying to replicate them while in the air, Gilbert said.

Organizers said they have taken every precaution to avoid any mishaps.

“This is an inherently danger-ous sport and we don’t do things rapidly,” said Gilbert. “Every-thing is staged and safety is foremost in everyone’s minds.”

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Kremlin: Putin officially divorces his wife of 30 years

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has formally divorced his wife Lyudmila after more than 30 years of marriage, Kremlin spokesman said on Wednes-day, following a surprise breakup announcement last year.

“The divorce has taken place,” Dmitry Peskov said, without giving any further details.

Putin and his wife an-nounced that their marriage was over last June in a live broadcast on Russian state television, confirming long-standing speculation that they had separated.

The Kremlin made clear at the time that their breakup had yet to be formalized.

The ex-KGB spy, 61, keeps his personal life pri-vate and little is known about his wife and two daughters, both in their 20s.

In 2008, Putin said there was no truth to a newspaper report that he was preparing to marry Olympic rhythmic gymnast Alina Kabayeva, who was born in 1983, the same year he married Lyudmila.

Panama quake revised to 5.8, no report of damage

WASHINGTON — An earthquake with a magni-tude of 5.8 hit Panama on Wednesday, the U.S. Geo-logical Survey said.

The quake came a day after Chile was shaken by an 8.2 magnitude quake that killed six people and set off a tsunami with 7-foot waves.

The Panama quake was centered about 38 miles south of David, Panama, at a depth of 17.3 miles. The USGS originally reported the magnitude at 6.2 and depth at 6.2 miles.

Panama’s head of emergency services, Arturo Alvarado, said there were no reports of damage or injuries but that schools and homes in the area were evacuated as a precaution. A USGS tweet said it had received citizens’ reports of light and moderate shaking.

Italy police arrest 24 for plotting Veneto secession

ROME — Italian police arrested two dozen separat-ists including a former par-liamentarian on Wednesday on suspicion of gathering arms to violently split the wealthy northern region of Veneto from the rest of Italy.

The group had converted a bulldozer into a tank with a makeshift cannon and in-tended to use it in an assault on St. Mark’s Square in the region’s capital Venice, police said.

Their plan recalled the 1997 seizure of the square’s famed bell tower by armed separatists who proclaimed an independent Venetian republic, harking back to the city-state that was a major power in the eastern Mediterranean for centuries until it fell to Napoleon Bonaparte in 1797.

That assault was quashed in a matter of hours.

— From wire reports

Michael Strahan confirms ‘GMA’ news on ‘Live’

NEW YORK — “Live with Kelly & Michael” anchor Michael Strahan revealed to co-host Kelly Ripa on Wednesday that he was astonished to read the news that he was joining “Good Morning America.”

“Once in a while, I see your name in the papers and I get excited. Once in a while!” Ripa teased.

“I saw my name in the papers too!” Strahan ex-claimed. “I was surprised! Surprised! Yeah!”

TheWrap reported Tues-day, Strahan was joining ABC’s flagship morning show “Good Morning America.” Strahan would also continue to serve as co-host of “Live” as well as an analyst on “Fox NFL Sunday,” according to insiders.

“What’s happening?” she asked.

“Well, the big news is that I’m going to be on “GMA” now. But it’s somewhat surprising!” Strahan acknowledged.

Shakira kept from topping the charts by ‘Frozen’

LOS ANGELES — Hip-shaking Colombian singer Shakira was no match for Disney’s animated prin-cesses on the weekly Bill-board 200 album chart on Wednesday as the “Frozen” movie soundtrack contin-ued its reign at the top.

The “Frozen” soundtrack, released in November 2013, sold 161,000 copies last week, bringing its total U.S. sales to 1.8 million, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan.

Billboard said 1.5 million of “Frozen” soundtrack sales were in 2014, making it the year’s biggest selling album so far. Beyonce’s self-titled album that she re-leased in December comes in second with 604,000 copies sold so far in 2014.

Worthington, Kendrick, Messina join cast of ‘Cake’

LOS ANGELES — Sam Worthington, Anna Kendrick, Chris Messina, Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy. Britt Robertson, Lucy Walters (“Shame”), Camille Mana (“Smart People”), Manuel Garcia Rulfo (“Bless Me, Ultima) and Oscar-nominated actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste (“Secrets & Lies”) will join Jennifer Aniston in the indie movie “Cake,” TheWrap has learned.

Daniel Barnz (“Won’t Back Down”) will direct from Patrick Tobin’s script, which was voted to the 2013 Black List.

Aniston will play an acerbic woman named Claire who becomes fasci-nated by the suicide of Nina (Kendrick), a woman in her chronic pain support group. As she uncovers the details of Nina’s suicide and de-velops a poignant relation-ship with Nina’s husband (Worthington), Claire also grapples with her own very raw personal tragedy.


Chile assesses damage after quake

SANTIAGO — Chilean authorities on Wednesday were assessing the damage from a massive earthquake that struck off the north-ern coast, causing a small tsunami, but the impact looked mostly limited.

Over 900,000 people who evacuated the coun-try’s low-lying coastal areas returned home on Wednesday morning after authorities called off a tsunami alarm.

The 8.2 magnitude quake that shook northern Chile on Tuesday killed six people and triggered a tsunami that pounded the shore with 7-foot waves.

Authorities evaluated the damage on Wednesday as the ocean waves receded and daylight showed the full extent of the damage.

Mines in Chile, the world’s No. 1 copper producer, mostly said they were functioning normally.

The arid, mineral-rich north is sparsely populated, with most of the popula-tion concentrated in the port towns of Iquique and Arica, near the Peruvian border.

In Peru, the earthquake led to temporary power outages and evacuations in some southern towns, but did not cause serious dam-age or injuries.

Chilean President

Michelle Bachelet visited Iquique on Wednesday and praised people’s orderly response to the emer-gency.

“We are here to recog-nize the calm behavior of the people of Iquique who showed great civic responsibility, as did those of Arica. I think you have given us all a tremendous example,” she said.

The government would put great effort into restor-ing services, she added.

Finance Minister Alberto Arenas said the govern-ment would place “no limit on the use of resources to

address this emergency.”Bachelet, who was

sworn in as president less than a month ago, is likely conscious of the stinging criticism she faced near the tailend of her first term in office in 2010, when the government was seen to have responded inad-equately to a much bigger 8.8 quake and tsunami that killed over 500 people.

Nearly eight times more energy was released in the quake that struck Chile some four years ago, experts say.

Damage limitedIt was too early to

estimate financial losses, but they were expected to be much lower than the $30 billion from the 2010 quake, which affected the more densely popu-lated central region, said earthquake expert Alexan-der Allmann at reinsurer Munich Re.

“The quake has caused severe damage to some buildings in the affected region, but in general the building standards in Chile are comparatively high, al-lowing buildings and infra-structure to withstand such quakes reasonably well,” Allmann said.

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U.S. bankruptcy judge OKs $120M loan for Detroit

A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved Detroit’s plan to borrow $120 million from Bar-clays PLC to improve ser-vices in the cash-strapped city.

Judge Steven Rhodes, who is overseeing Detroit’s historic bankruptcy case, overruled objections by city creditors who took issue with the timing and structure of the loan.

“This court has previ-ously held the city is service-delivery insolvent,” Rhodes said.

Detroit has said it plans to use some of the loan proceeds on public safety improvements.

The loan deal emerged early last month after a larger loan was rejected in part by the judge in January. The previous loan, backed largely by city casino tax revenue, included $165 million that Detroit wanted to use to pay two investment banks to end soured interest rate swap agreements that con-tributed to the city’s filing of the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history in July. Those swaps were used to hedge interest rate risk on some Detroit pen-sion debt.

Retiree claims $425.3M lottery prize in Calif.

SAN FRANCISCO — A retired Northern California man has claimed a $425.3 million national Powerball prize, more than a month

after the sixth-highest jack-pot drawing in U.S. history was announced, lottery of-ficials said on Wednesday.

Raymond Buxton turned up at the Sacramento office of the California Lottery on Tuesday with the win-ning ticket from the Febru-ary 19 drawing, California Lottery spokeswoman Melissa Villarin said.

Buxton, whose age was not released, wore a faded T-shirt with an image of the “Star Wars” character Yoda, wearing leprechaun attire, emblazoned with the words “Luck of the Jedi I have,” lottery officials said in a written statement.

Firefighters mourn comrade killed in blaze

WATERTOWN, Mass. — Thousands of firefight-ers from across the United States lined the streets of a Boston suburb on Wednes-day to grieve for one of

two firefighters who died battling a blaze in a down-town apartment building.

In front of St. Patrick’s Church in Watertown, where the funeral was held for Boston Fire Depart-ment Lieutenant Edward Walsh, a gigantic American flag hung from two ladder trucks assigned to local fire companies.

Walsh, 43, and Firefight-er Michael Kennedy, 33, died on March 26 while fighting a fire in a four-story apartment house in Boston’s historic Back Bay neighborhood.

Judge halts Texas executions over drug supplier info

AUSTIN, Texas — A U.S. federal judge has temporarily suspended the execution of two inmates planned for this month in Texas, saying the state has hidden information about the supplier of the drug to

be used in the lethal injec-tions.

“The court stays plain-tiffs’ scheduled executions until the information iden-tified is produced,” U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore wrote in Houston in a temporary injunction issued on Wednesday.

The decision is part of a series of court rulings in recent weeks that have mandated states to release information about drugs used for lethal injection, saying that keeping the information secret violates due process protections of the U.S. Constitution.

Senator accuses GM of ‘culture of cover-up’ in recalls

WASHINGTON — General Motors Co. came under withering attack for its decade-long failure to notify the public about de-fective parts linked to fatal crashes, as a U.S. Senate hearing opened on Wednes-day with accusations that the company fostered “a culture of cover-up.”

Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill rebut-ted some of GM CEO Mary Barra’s testimony to a House of Representa-tives panel on Tuesday that her company had recently cleaned up its act.

“It might have been the ‘Old GM’ that started sweeping this defect under the rug 10 years ago. Even under the ‘New GM’ ban-ner, the company waited nine months to take action after being confronted with specific evidence of this egregious violation of public trust,” the Missouri senator said.


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A fisherman tries to salvage pieces of boats damaged by an earthquake and tsunami that hit the northern port of Iquiqueon on Wednesday. The earthquake, with a magni-tude of 8.2, struck off the coast of northern Chile near the copper exporting port of Iquique on Tuesday evening, killing six and triggering the tsunami that pounded the shore with 7-foot waves. (Reuters/Luis Hidalgo)

Boston Fire Department Lt. Edward Walsh’s brother Mi-chael carries his helmet out of Saint Patrick’s church following Lt. Walsh’s funeral in Watertown, Mass., on Wednesday. Thousands of firefighters from across the United States lined the streets for the funeral of Walsh, one of two firefighters who died battling a blaze in a Boston apartment building last week. Walsh, 43, and Firefighter Michael Kennedy, 33, died on March 26 while battling a roaring fire in a four-story apartment building in Boston’s historic Back Bay neighborhood. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)


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How foreign is our policy?

Many people are lamenting the bad consequences of Barack Obama’s foreign policy, and some are questioning his com-petence.

There is much to lament, and much to fear. Multiple setbacks to American

interests have been brought on by Obama’s policies in Libya, Egypt, Syria, Crimea and — above all — in what seems almost certain to be-come a nuclear Iran in the very near future.

The president’s public warning to Syr-ia of dire consequenc-es if the Assad regime there crossed a “red

line” he had drawn seemed to epitomize an amateurish bluff that was exposed as a bluff when Syria crossed that red line without suffering any consequences. Drawing red lines in disappearing ink makes an interna-tional mockery of not only this president’s credibility, but also the credibility of future American presidents’ commitments.

When some future President of the United States issues a solemn warning internationally, and means it, there may be less likelihood that the warning will be taken seriously. That invites the kind of miscalculation that has led to wars.

Many who are disappointed with what seem to be multiple fiascoes in President Obama’s foreign policy question his com-petence and blame his inexperience. Such critics may be right, but it is by no means certain that they are.

Like those who are disappointed with Barack Obama’s domestic policies, critics of his foreign policy may be ignoring the fact that you cannot know whether some-one is failing or succeeding without know-ing what he is trying to do.

Whether ObamaCare, for example, is a success or a failure, depends on whether you think the president’s goal is to improve the medical treatment of Americans or to leave as his permanent legacy a system of income redistribution, through ObamaCare, and tight government control of the medical profession.

Much, if not most, of the disappointment with Barack Obama comes from expecta-tions based on his words, rather than on an examination of what he has done over his lifetime before reaching the White House.

His words were glowing. He is a master of rhetoric, image and postures. He was so convincing that many failed to connect the dots of his past life that pointed in the opposite direction from his words. “Com-munity organizers,” for example, are not uniters but dividers — and former com-munity organizer Obama has polarized this country, despite his rhetoric about uniting us.

Many were so mesmerized by both the man himself and the euphoria surrounding the idea of “the first black president” that they failed to notice that there were any dots, much less any need to connect them.

One dot alone — the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, whose church the Obamas attended for 20 years — would have been enough to sink any other presidential bid by anyone who was not in line to become “the first black president.”

The painful irony is that Jeremiah Wright was just one in a series of Obama’s mentors hostile to America, resentful of successful Americans, and convinced that America had too much power internationally, and needed to be brought down a peg.

Anti-Americanism was the rule, not the exception, among Obama’s mentors over the years, beginning in his childhood. When the young Obama and his mother lived in Indonesia, her Indonesian husband wanted her to accompany him to social gatherings with American businessmen — and was puzzled when she refused.

He reminded her that these were her own people. According to Barack Obama’s own eyewitness account, her voice rose “almost to a shout” when she replied:

“They are not my people.”Most of Barack Obama’s foreign policy

decisions since becoming president are consistent with this mindset. He has acted repeatedly as a citizen of the world, even though he was elected to be President of the United States.

Virtually every major move of the Obama administration has reduced the power, security and influence of America and its allies. Cutbacks in military spend-ing, while our adversaries have increased their military buildups, ensure that these changes to our detriment will continue, even after Barack Obama has left the White House.

Is that failure or success?Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the

Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His website is www.tsowell.com.

CHICAGO — It’s the time of the year when you can’t throw a rock without hitting a parent or a teenager bragging about college acceptance letters.

You’re far less likely to hear about the plans of students who really have no desire to go to college and aren’t sure what the world might have in store for them — especially considering the risk of poverty, shorter life spans and other ills that re-searchers tell them will happen to someone having less than a college degree.

The National Center for Edu-cation Statistics projects that at the end of the current academic year, about 3.3 million students will graduate from high school. In 2011, the last year for which numbers are available, the cen-ter noted that the percentage of high school seniors enrolling in college in the fall immediately following graduation was 68.2 percent, with females enrolling at a higher rate (72.2 percent) than males (64.7 percent).

Failure to transition to post-secondary schooling is often seen as a financial issue. But it’s fair to say that some portion of the high school graduates who decide against college simply don’t want to face more time sitting in a classroom waiting for their “real” — often then debt-riddled — lives to begin.

This might seem small-mind-ed to college-educated folks who can’t stand the thought

of any child not having the opportunity to earn a degree. But what’s more inflexible, not to mention shortsighted, about our society’s “college is the only answer” mentality is that there are too few workforce preparedness programs for what amounts to nearly a third of our high school graduates. And many of the programs that are available hardly make the grade.

The Lexington Institute, a conservative-leaning think tank, has issued a report charging that many of the 17,000 high schools across the country that offer career and technical education (CTE) remain mired in outdated instructional models that fail primarily by under-estimating the ability of the students they aim to serve.

“The outdated vo-tech [vocational-technical] model of career and technical educa-tion has a legacy of providing a sub-par instructional program for students who don’t have the ability to achieve high academ-

ic success,” writes Kristen Nye Larson in “Updating Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century.” “Tech schools sometimes falsely assume that students don’t need or can’t handle a high level of rigor and use this as an excuse to provide lower-quality instruction.”

In addition to not offering training that is responsive to regional industry demands, Larson notes that many CTE programs — which are often outgrowths of traditional vo-cational education models that were established in the 1970s and ’80s — haven’t been mod-ernized to develop proficient levels of English, reading, math and science with core instruc-tion.

This doesn’t square with the rapidly evolving computer-as-sisted or customer-centric mar-ketplace for skilled workers.

As reported in countless business journals, and repeated in Larson’s critique, “Many employers deem students that come out of high school career-ready are often not properly prepared for the workforce. Employers complain that young graduates often lack communi-cation skills, professionalism, literacy and critical thinking skills. … A national survey of CEOs and postsecondary lead-ers said that 53 percent of busi-ness leaders were struggling with recruiting non-managerial employees.”

It’s not all bleakness, how-ever. Larson provides several examples of high-performing CTE programs that have a demonstrated track record in helping students complete their training, and possess what are considered to be the two most important job-candidate skills: the ability to work in a team structure and the ability to verbally communicate with persons inside and outside the organization.

There are programs that do a good job of producing well-rounded students and others that partner with private em-ployers or regional economic leaders to get students directly from training into work. We simply don’t hear much about them because the majority of our education system is focused on college access.

But not everyone can afford college — or is cut out for it. Once we realize this, our country can start pumping out the workers our future economy needs instead of outsourcing skilled manufacturing jobs to places such as Germany or Poland, with their world-renowned apprentice programs. They’ve already figured out that there’s plenty of value in a life devoted to working with both your hands and your mind.

Esther J. Cepeda is a nation-ally syndicated columnist. Email her at [email protected].

Continuing education — on the job

WASHINGTON — H.L. Mencken gets a workout in election years when voters are reminded by pundits of the curmudgeon’s observation that no one ever went broke under-estimating the intelligence of the American public.

Mean. But true?If you’re a Democratic

strategist, this seems to be the motto operandi. If you’re a Republican strategist, you’re thinking: Better dumb that down.

There now, if everyone is equally offended, we can proceed.

First, let’s dispense with Democrats, as voters are likely to do this November for count-less reasons. Chief among them is the recent debut of the Democratic “strategy” of hurling “pocketbook” legisla-tion at Republicans that has no chance of passing.

This is not exactly a paradigm-shifting strategy. Minimum-wage debates are sort of like funeral suits. You keep them handy for those glum times when respect for dying ideas must be paid. Giving strategists their due, the bills are catchy, using as they do the poll-tested word “fairness” in their titles. (For some reason, I have an irresist-ible urge to enlist “Modern Family’s” Phil Dunphy to say: “Geniuses.”

The minimum wage cam-paign is obviously an effort to bestir the Democratic base

to turn out at the polls, where Republicans tend to show up in greater numbers during midterm elections. But Demo-crats can’t force votes in the Republican-controlled House so this “strategy” is mainly something to talk about. At best, Democrats get to reiter-ate the familiar trope that the GOP is the heartless, greedy, obstructionist Party of No.

Even if House Speaker John Boehner ignores the mini-mum wage, which he will, the consequences of inaction fall at his feet, not at any indi-vidual congressman’s. Thus, it may not hurt the generic GOP brand as much as Democrats hope. Also, even if a minimum wage bill is passed by the Sen-ate in the next few days, who cares?

Republicans really only have one vulnerable incum-bent senator, Mitch McCon-nell of Kentucky, so, theoreti-cally, the political benefit is more a positive for Democrats who get to vote for it than it is a negative for Republicans.

In the meantime, Repub-

licans benefit from a time of record distrust of government, even though, irony observed, they have earned their own share. But being viewed as obstructionist on more govern-ment spending and economic tinkering may not be such a bad thing. As for seeming uncaring, this is harder to shed if only because supporting a wage increase seems like such a decent idea.

Which it is — in times of economic stability.

It is not such a great idea when viewed in the context of broader economic implications and the probability that raising wages will do more harm than good. For sure, raising wages won’t create jobs and more likely will cost jobs for the very population we all want to help. Low-wage earners usual-ly lack job skills, which won’t be acquired in the unemploy-ment line. It also makes little sense to apply one national wage when costs of living are so diverse across states.

Again, none of this matters. The wage increase won’t go through. Democrats know it. Republicans know it. The only people who may not know it are the dead and busy. Thus, this is much ado about nothing … for everything.

If Democrats can make Re-publicans look nasty enough, maybe a few more single women, low income workers and minorities will turn out in November. That’s not nothing.

If Republicans prevail, after all, the Obama administration is finished. That’s everything. So the stakes are high even if the strategy seems not so lofty.

Mostly the Democratic campaign agenda reflects desperation: If all you can do is attack your opponent, chances are you have nothing much to sell. Poll after poll shows Americans aren’t buy-ing what the Democratic Party is selling.

Strategy, meanwhile, cuts both ways.

Boehner also can force votes on vulnerable House Democrats — jobs votes such as the Keystone XL pipe-line that squeeze Democrats between their union base and environmentalists. And then there’s the gift that keeps on giving, Obamacare, not to mention the economy, record debt, higher taxes, and dubious leadership in foreign affairs.

Now where was I?Oh, yes, fairness. To wit: It

is highly probable that Menck-en, who referred to the South as the “Sahara of the Bozart” and pilloried rural Christians as “ignoramuses” during the 1925 Scopes trial, would have little good to say about today’s GOP, for which the South is Ground Zero.

Then again, he rarely said anything nice about anyone.

Email nationally syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker at [email protected].

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Donation to help provide meals, transportation to seniors

Thanks to a little help from their Friends, Gwin-nett seniors will get a boost in home-delivered meals and transportation services.

Commissioners accepted a total $104,000 donation this week from the Friends

of Gwinnett County Senior Services to help with those services.

“I am grateful to organi-zations like Friends that are filled with volunteers who selflessly identify needs in the community and causes they are willing to support,” Commission Chairman Charlotte Nash said. “With

the growing demand for senior services in Gwinnett County, it will take every-one working together to meet those needs.”

Through donations and fundraisers, the Friends or-ganization donated $79,000 to fund home-delivered meals for seniors who are on the waiting list, emer-

gency meals for displaced or distressed seniors and nutritional supplements for seniors in need. Officials could not immediately answer how many seniors will receive meals due to the donation.

A second $25,000 dona-tion will go to providing eligible seniors with medi-

cal transportation services, as well as rides to and from Gwinnett’s senior service centers.

“Friends is dedicated to meeting needs for Gwinnett seniors and appreciates the opportunity to collaborate with the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners to the needs of our aging

population,” said John Winters, president of the nonprofit, which has helped provide private funding to supplement the county senior programs since 1999.

For more information about Gwinnett County Se-nior Services, go to www.gwinnettseniorservices.com.

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New ‘geologic clock’ resets date for Earth’s moon formation

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Earth’s moon started forming up to 65 million years later than some previous estimates, according to a study released on Wednesday that uses a new way to calculate the birthday of the 4.47 billion-year-old planet’s only natural satel-lite.

The mega-asteroid which smashed into Earth, launching debris that later became the moon, hap-pened about 95 million years after the birth of the solar system, research in this week’s issue of the journal Nature showed.

The finding disputes, with a 99.9 percent degree of accuracy, some previ-ous estimates that the moon-forming impact occurred as early as 30 million to 40 million years after the solar system’s formation, some 4.58 bil-lion years ago.

The new study is based on 259 computer simula-tions of how the solar system evolved from a pri-mordial disk of planetary embryos swirling around the sun. The programs simulate the crashes and mergers of the small bod-ies until they meld into the rocky planets that exist today.

By that geologic clock, Earth’s last big chunk came from a Mars-sized body that hit about 95 mil-lion years after the solar system’s formation, the

study showed.“We think that the thing

that hit Earth and ended up forming the moon, the lion’s share of it stayed on Earth. A small fraction of its mass and some materi-al from Earth was pushed off into space to form the moon,” astronomer John Chambers, with the Carne-gie Institution for Science in Washington DC, said in an interview.

“That was probably the last big event,” he added.

The previous as-sessment was based on measuring the naturally occurring radioactive de-cay of telltale atoms inside lunar rocks. The same process, however, also led to findings that the impact happened between 50 mil-lion and 100 million years after the solar system’s formation.

“Our new method is independent of radiomet-ric techniques and so we break through the con-troversy,” lead researcher Seth Jacobson, with Cote d’Azur Observatory in Nice, France, wrote in an email.

By irene KlotzReuters

N.Y. restaurant’s fragile Picasso fate hangs in court

NEW YORK — The question of whether a fragile Picasso painting that covers a wall in New York City’s Four Seasons Restaurant will crumble if taken down to allow repairs went before a state court judge on Wednes-day.

The dispute between the restaurant’s landlord and the painting’s owner takes place in a grand setting: Midtown Manhat-tan’s Seagram Building, the landmark International Style tower designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe which opened in 1958.

Real Estate devel-oper Aby Rosen, who has owned the build-ing since 2000, wants the Picasso taken down from its prominent space overlooking the rich and powerful who dine at the Four Seasons on the ground floor.

The 19-foot-high unframed painted theater curtain depicting figures overlooking a bullring has been displayed in a hallway between two dining rooms since the restaurant’s 1959 open-ing, earning it the name “Picasso Alley.”

The limestone wall on which it hangs has been damaged by moisture and steam from the kitchens on the other side, Andrew Kratenstein, a lawyer for Rosen, told the court.

An art handler hired by

Rosen “was concerned it was more dangerous to leave (the painting) in place,” Kratenstein said.

The New York Land-marks Conservancy, the nonprofit preservation-ist group that was given ownership of the Picasso in 2005, argues that the wall is fine and removing the curtain risked ruining it and harming the restau-rant’s interior.

The conservancy’s pres-ident Peg Breen called it the “iconic center” of

the Four Seasons. “Philip Johnson didn’t just say, ‘We’ll slap up a Picasso for a little while and see what else comes along,’” she said, referring to the restaurant’s architect.

The conservancy, which won a temporary injunc-tion a few days before movers were due to arrive in February, said Rosen is exaggerating the wall’s state out of a dislike for the painting.

He has referred to it as a ‘schmatte,’ the Yid-

dish word for rag, the conservancy said in court papers.

Rosen, also a collector of modern and contem-porary art, has not said if he’d let the Picasso return to its old spot if it is removed. He did not respond to requests for an interview.

Both sides have dis-patched engineers and experts to view the wall, with only those sent by Rosen finding its state alarming.

By Jonathan allenReuters

A 19-by-20-foot theater curtain “Le Tricorne” painted by Pablo Picasso hangs at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York City on Tuesday. The fate of the painting, which has graced the wall of the Four Seasons for more than half a century hangs in the bal-ance on Wednesday as the building’s owner and the painting’s owner will debate in a New York City court whether it can be taken down to allow repairs to the wall. The New York Landmarks Conservancy, which owns the painting, argue it is too fragile to be moved. (Reuters/Mike Segar)

GWINNETT GAB

Caboose Days Festival held this weekend

The Southeastern Railway Museum will give families a chance to welcome spring while learning about cabooses at Caboose Days this Friday and Saturday.

The event will include a caboose hunt, craft corner for kids to create a souve-nir, and handcar rides on the restored antique hand-car. Food will be available and refreshments will be served on the SCL caboose included with admission.

The Southeastern Rail-way Museum is located at 3595 Buford Highway in Duluth. For more informa-tion, visit srmduluth.org.

Rotary Club of Duluth’s Second Annual Car Show

The Duluth Roatry Club will give the public a chance to view antique classics, foreign sports, hotrods and much more at their Second Annual Car Show April 12 in down-town Duluth.

The event will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and viewing is free to the public. There will be pro-fessional judging of first, second, and third place in each category, plus a people’s choice winner. The show will also in-clude a 50-50 raffle where the winner splits the pot with Duluth Rotary, and food and commemorative

T-shirts will be sold by Duluth Rotary. Proceeds go to benefit Operation One Voice, a Duluth- based nonprofit that aids children and families of fallen Special Operations Forces.

Entry fee is $20 per car for all entries received by April 11 and $25 per car on the day of the show. For more information, visit duluthrotaryevents.org.

You be the Judge art exhibit at the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse

The Kudzu Arts Center is hosting an exhibition, You Be the Judge, through April 11 at the Historic Courthouse in Lawrencev-ille.

The exhibit features works with a wide range of style and media. Visitors are invited to cast their vote and “Be the Judge” for the People’s Choice Award reception. The reception will be held at the courthouse on April 10 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., but the doors open at 6 p.m.

The exhibition and re-ception are free and open to the public. For more information, visit kud-zuartzone.org.

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Shooting at Ft. Hood leaves several people dead

AUSTIN, Texas — Sev-eral people were killed and at least 14 injured on Wednesday when a gunman opened fire at a U.S. Army base in Fort Hood, Texas, the site of another rampage in 2009, U.S. officials said.

One official, who spoke on the condition of anonym-ity, declined to offer specific numbers on fatalities. A separate U.S. official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said 14 people had been injured.

He noted the informa-tion was preliminary and said he could not confirm reports the shooter had been killed. Local news reports said there may be as many as four dead, although this could not be confirmed.

The base said in a state-ment that its directorate of emergency services “has an initial report that a shooter is dead,” but also added that the information was unconfirmed.

It said: “The number of injured are not confirmed at this time.”

The Scott and White Hospital in Temple, Texas, said it had received four patients, ranging from critical condition to stable with single and multiple gunshot wounds. Two more

were arriving soon, hospital officials told a news confer-ence.

U.S. President Barack Obama said he was “heart-broken” that another shooting had occurred at the Fort Hood Army base and described the situation there as fluid.

“We are going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened,” Obama told reporters in Chicago, where he is traveling for Demo-cratic fundraisers. “We’re heartbroken that something like this might have hap-pened again.”

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told a news confer-

ence in Honolulu, where he was meeting with Asian defense ministers the inci-dent was still under investi-gation.

“It’s a terrible tragedy. We know that. We know there are casualties, both people killed and injured,” he said.

After the shooting, the third such incident at a military base in the United States in about six months, Fort Hood was put on lockdown and police were securing its perimeter, mili-tary officials said. Helicop-ters could be seen circling the base in live TV footage broadcast from the scene.

An announcement tell-ing people to lock their windows and doors can be heard on a video from Fort Hood broadcast on local TV station KCEN.

Police went from build-ing to building, while scores of police vehicles and am-bulances were on the scene, the station said.

Authorities advised those on the post to stay away from windows and to keep doors closed and locked.

Central Texas College, which has a Fort Hood cam-pus, ordered an immediate evacuation of all students and staff, and canceled classes.

In 2009, a former Army psychiatrist shot dead 13 people and wounded 32 others in a shooting spree at Fort Hood.

Major Nidal Hasan shouted “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is greatest” in Arabic, during the attack and later said he wanted to be a martyr. He was convicted and faces death by lethal injection

In September, a gunman opened fire at the Washing-ton Navy Yard, killing 12 and wounding four before being slain by police. Last month, a civilian shot dead a sailor aboard a ship at a U.S. Navy base in Norfolk, Va.

By Jon hersKovitzReuters

President Barack Obama pauses as he makes a state-ment about the shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, while in Chicago on Wednesday. Obama said on Wednesday he was “heartbroken” that another shooting had occurred at the Fort Hood Army base and described the situation there as fluid. (Reuters/Larry Downing)

Shooting

driver of the suspicious ve-hicle is Shena Penrose, 27. Penrose is in custody on an outstanding warrant for failure to appear in court.

A second officer report-ed that he heard shots fired at 1:02 a.m., the same time the first officer stopped re-sponding on his radio, po-lice said. Once the second officer caught and secured Penrose, he rounded the corner of a building in the complex and found a male suspect armed with a gun, standing over the officer. A minute later, the second officer fired several shots, struck and disabled the suspect. The officer’s shots were fired at 1:03 a.m.

Additional charges are under investigation. Officers are investigating the identity of the man who fled. Officers do not believe he is armed or dan-gerous, or was involved in the attack on the officer.

Doan said the officer who was knocked out was taken to Gwinnett Medical

Center, where he regained consciousness, and has been released from the hospital this morning. Penrose was taken in for questioning.

The investigation continues as police try to determine what activity took place before officers arrived on the scene.

The officers will be placed on administrative leave for at least three days during the preliminary investigation. The first officer has worked with Gwinnett Police for nine years, the second for four years.

The officers’ identities will not be released until the Deadly Force Investi-gation Team’s investiga-tion is completed, which could take 90 days.

Other departments investigating the incident included the Homicide Unit, the Crime Scene Investigations Unit, the Internal Affairs Unit, the Medical Examiner’s Office and the District Attorney’s Office.

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Child

Home CEO Bob Bruder-Mattson, Juvenile Court judges in Clayton and Douglas counties, and others.

The council is expect-ed to complete a review of the Division of Family and Children Services by the end of the year and advise the governor on possible executive reforms and legislative proposals.

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Lovin

center at Lovin, Antoine said Haitian students would be amazed.

“If one school in Haiti had something like that,” he said, “every child would come from everywhere to that school.”

Earlier this year, the Hai-tian school’s principal, Jean Baptiste Lappe, who the school is named after, visited Lovin to show his apprecia-tion and thank the teachers, students and Blanchette, who he presented with a wooden plaque engraved with her name.

Lappe’s message to the Lovin students was “knowl-edge is power,” to read as much as possible and realize how fortunate they are to have the education they do. When Lappe left, the Lovin administrators and Erin Sprinkle, the school’s counselor, cried and prayed about the visit.

“The principal was so very grateful with express-ing his gratitude for the support we donated materi-

ally. But I’m not sure he will ever understand the impact he had on us immaterially,” Sprinkle said. “Just in the way of the adults in the building had this tremen-dous moment that day which may be the most meaningful of my career. Really see how very much you can do, and that we have such a respon-sibility to use the gifts that we have, and the blessings that we have to help other people. So in a lot other ways, he gave us more that day than we had given them. He really refocused our

priorities.”When Lappe visited,

he was welcomed with a poster in his native language which he spoke, Creole, and discussed with Blanchette about extending the partner-ship. The community has an Internet connection now, so communicating is easier. Blanchette plans to visit Haiti in June for the official opening of the library.

“From that moment on I feel like I made that connec-tion with him,” Blanchette said. “Just a wonderful morning; it was one of those

mornings when you realize we have a lot of materialistic things here, and our kids in this school are the most generous, giving children and they want to help.”

Antoine’s son, Moses, a fourth-grader at Lovin, said he would like to visit Haiti someday.

“At first, I felt like it was an honor to do this, I felt really happy for the kids in Haiti,” he said. “I wish I could go there in Haiti, and say hi, and let them know we sent the books for you.”

Smith, the kindergarten teacher, said she’s seen the power of reading first hand to inspire and educate.

“I feel like if you can read, you can go anywhere in this world,” she said. “You can travel places, you can learn about any applica-tion, any job that’s available out there. If you have books to read, you can educate yourself in so many different ways, and we’re giving them the opportunity to read in a community and hopefully that will inspire them to be teachers and readers.”

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Haitian Principal Jean Baptiste Lappe, left, poses for a picture with Lovin Elementary Principal Janet Blanchette and custodian Charles Augustinvil during a recent visit to the school. (Special Photo)

Writing

exceed state standards. Eighth-graders must pass five of their six courses, including language arts and math, and must meet state standards on the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests to earn promotion to ninth grade.

District spokesman Jorge Quintana said district leaders are espe-cially pleased with the increase in the percentage

of eighth-graders who scored in the “exceeds” performance level, up two

percent from last year to 17 percent.

Nine Gwinnett middle

schools ranked in the top 20 of schools who scored at the highest level.

The eighth-grade state writing test measures a student’s ability to com-municate in writing using an assigned prompt. The genres assessed in eighth grade are expository or persuasive writing.

Students must dem-onstrate development of the topic; good organiza-tion of their ideas; use of language and vocabulary to engage the reader; and proper sentence structure, grammar, and mechanics.

•From Page 1AMEAN SCALED SCORES, RANKING OF GWINNETT MIDDLE SCHOOLS RANKED IN TOP 25 IN THE STATE (SCORES ARE ROUNDED)• Osborne, 249, first• Twin Rivers, 239, fifth• North Gwinnett, 239, eighth• McConnell, 237, 11• Trickum, 236, 13• Couch, 236, 14• Crews, 234, 18• Pinckneyville, 233, 21

• Five Forks, 233, 22• Creekland, 232, 23

Gwinnett middle schools ranked in the top 20 in the state in percent that exceeds the standard• Osborne, 42.3, first• Twin Rivers, 28.4, sixth

• North Gwinnett, 28.4, seventh• McConnell, 27.7, 11• Couch, 27.3, 12• Trickum, 25.2, 14• Pinckneyville, 24.9, 16• Crews, 24.4, 17• Five Forks, 23.4, 18


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Norma BryantNorma Davis Bryant,

age 82, of Buford, GA passed away on April 1, 2014. Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA 770-932-1133 www.fl aniganfuneralhome.com

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Glenn KrebelGlenn S. Krebel, 73,

of Hoschton, GA passed away on March 31, 2014. He is survived by his wife of thirty years, Patricia G. Krebel; children, Melissa and Eric Scoggins, Ho-schton, GA, Scott Krebel, Lilburn, GA; grandchil-

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dren, Ash-lynn Bower, Makenzie Scoggins; brother,

Willard Krebel, Waterloo, IL; sister-in-law, Mickey and Steve Shirley, Green-ville, SC; brothers-in-law, Richard Gallamore, Greenville, SC, Bill and Rosemary Gallamore, Fairplay, SC; stepchildren, Deidre Yvonne Cribb, Lawrenceville, GA, Larue and Lara Cribb, Winston-Salem, NC, Brian Cribb, Badin, NC; four step-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. Mr. Krebel was born March 5, 1941, in Fults, IL. He graduated in 1959 from Saints Peter and Paul Catholic School, Waterloo, IL. He was a veteran of the United States Army. He was retired from NCR National Cash Register after twenty-eight years

of service. He was a member of St. Lawrence Catholic Church, Law-renceville, GA. Graveside service will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 5, 2014, at Floral Hills Memory Gardens, Tucker, GA. There will be no visitation at the funeral home. In lieu of fl owers, donations may be made to the American Heart Association in memory of Glenn Krebel. To express condolences, please sign our online guest book at www.fl aniganfuneral-home.com. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA, 770-932-1133.

SNELLVILLE

Georgette MayerGeorgette Mayer, age

88, of Snellville, GA passed away April 1, 2014. Tim Stewart Fu-neral Home, Snellville Chapel, 770-979-5010.

DULUTH

Judy MurphyJudy Murphy, age 68,

of Duluth, GA passed away March 25, 2014. Tim Stewart Funeral Home, 300 Simonton Road SW, Lawrenceville GA, 30046. 770-962-3100. www.stewartfh.com

SUGAR HILL

Mabel SimpsonMabel Yates Simpson,

76, of Sugar Hill, GA passed away on April 1, 2014. She was preceded in death by her son, Nathan Paul York. She is sur-vived by her husband of forty-two years, Wayne Simpson; children, David L. and Phyllis York, Sul-livan, MO; stepchildren, Cindy and Nathan Till-man, Baxley, GA, Donna Gail Simpson, Biloxi, MS, Sherry Renee and Keith White, Dallas, GA; eight grandchildren; twelve great grandchildren; brother, George P. and C l i

Carolyn Yates, Trion, GA; several nieces, nephews and cousins. Mrs. Simp-son was born October 10, 1937 in Ringgold, GA. She was a retired elec-tronic tech from Color Graphic. She was a mem-ber of West Buford Baptist Church and a former member of Resurrection Baptist Church, Light-house Baptist Church and Free Spirit Baptist Church. Memorial service will be held at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 3, 2014, in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Rev. Joel Alexander offi ciating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Thursday from 3:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. In lieu of fl owers, memorials may be made to West Buford Baptist Church, Buford, GA, in memory of Mabel Y. Simpson. To express condolences, please sign our online guest book at www.fl aniganfuneral-home.com. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA, 770-932-1133.

WINDER

Sheila WillardSheila Annette Willard,

age 62, of Winder passed away Sunday, March 30, 2014.

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Duluth delivers to help family

Kathy Marelle knows firsthand about accumulat-ing medical bills and dire predictions from doctors.

Her husband Joe — the longtime basketball coach, athletic director and now gym namesake at Duluth High — was diagnosed with stage four non-Hodg-kins lymphoma in 1998 and given six months to live. A few years later, he was diagnosed with leuke-mia, and he spent the better part of a decade battling cancer, as well as death sentences.

Fresh off winning another state champion-ship as a Greater Atlanta Christian boys basketball assistant, Joe Marelle is now cancer-free.

“I’m very confident saying that Joe would not be here today if not for the love and support of the Duluth community,” Kathy Marelle said. “It’s not the monetary support. It’s the strength you get from the other support and prayers.”

Duluth’s love and sup-port is still there today, and now the city has a new cause, another chance to stand behind one of its own.

Brylee’s Bash in the Park is scheduled for June 1 as a fundraiser for Brylee Anne Bradford, a young child battling a rare neuromuscular disorder. She is the daughter of Du-luth grads Jeff and Marisa (McCabe) Bradford, and the granddaughter of two longtime Duluth families, including former Duluth baseball, basketball and softball coach Jerry Brad-ford.

The event, which features a 5K, bake sale, barbecue lunch and Duluth alumni basketball game, will be held at Bunten Road Park, where Marisa Bradford pushes Brylee’s wheelchair on walks.

“The medical bills have become insurmountable for the family,” said Kathy Marelle, the City of Duluth Parks and Recreation di-rector, and one of the event planners along with Diane Clausen. “We wanted to raise money to offset their medical expenses. It’s once again time for Duluth to come together.”

Brylee was born in May 2012 and nearly didn’t make it through her first night. There were several other close calls over the next three weeks in the NICU, a battle caused by nemaline rod myopathy, essentially the absence of muscle tissue in the body. She requires constant care (from her mother except for in-home nursing help at night because she requires turning and monitoring), along with tracheostomy and feeding tubes. She has seven machines with her at all times, making any trip from the home a 30-minute ordeal.

Will Hammock

See DULUTH, Page 4B

Experience roams G-Braves outfield

LAWRENCEVILLE — At least for the opening few games, the Gwinnett Braves should be able to score some runs.

The Class AAA season gets rolling today with Gwinnett visiting Dur-ham for the first of four games and the start of

an eight game road trip before the team returns to Coolray Field on April 11 for its opener against the

same Bulls.Like every season in

the minor leagues there are plenty of new faces underneath Gwinnett Braves logos, but in plenty of places there are faces that have not just worn the G, but also the A on their hat in the big leagues. There is catching prospect Christian Bethancourt (No. 2 overall in the organiza-tion) and infielder Phil

Gosselin who both played briefly in the big league. But nowhere it the major league experience deeper than the G-Braves outfield. Jose Constanza, who has spent time each of the past three seasons in the Atlanta dugout, understands the back-and-forth nature of an outfielder. Next to him, in centerfield and in right, Todd Cunningham and Joey Terdoslavich both

returned to the G-Braves coming off seasons where they made their major league debuts. That taste gave each a boost in confi-dence and acted as a way to calm them down entering spring training.

“Every big league camp I have gone to has been a lit-tle bit easier,” said Cunning-ham who hit .265 with 38

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SEASON OPENER• Who: Gwinnett Braves at Durham Bulls• When: Today, 6 p.m.• Where: Durham, N.C.• Radio: WDUN.com

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TWINPOWERS

Senior siblings Fiorella, left, and Brahan Gamarra, right, are leaders for their respective Brookwood soccer teams. The twins are dynamic playmakers who create a lot of offensive chances for the Broncos. (Staff Photo: Brendan Sullivan)

Senior midfielders play big roles for Brookwood’s top-ranked teams

The backyard battles come much less often these days.

“We’re always so busy with high school,” Fiorella Gamarra said.

“And club,” Brahan Gamarra added.

“And work,” Fiorella finished.But there were once ferocious

one-on-one games between the twins, with their father as referee.

“Oh, yeah!” Brahan, older by 10 minutes, said. “All the time.”

“When we were little, it was really competitive,” Fiorella said. “We’d be going for each other’s ankles.”

They honed formidable skills — some certainly inherited from their dad, a former pro player in the family’s native Peru — against each other.

“That’s another reason I have the abilities I do — because of him,” Fiorella said. “He’s good and I learned from him a lot.”

How often does Fiorella win?She laughs.“Wellllll,” Brahan starts to say

with a smile.“I get lucky sometimes,” Fio-

rella admits.It’s a short three-minute walk

along tree-lined roads from the Gamarra house to Brookwood High School, where the twins are senior leaders on highly ranked teams with a combined record of 27-1.

But when the family moved to Gwinnett a decade ago, they weren’t thinking about the Bron-cos’ proclivity for soccer success when they picked a new home.

“It was just a good school

district,” Brahan said.At the time, Fiorella didn’t

even play.“I used to hate soccer,” she

said. “The only reason I started to play was because I saw him play.”

Brahan was just 4 and the fam-ily was still living in Peru when he began to follow in his father’s footsteps.

The Gamarras immigrated to the U.S. when the twins were 6, first living in New York before

By Christine [email protected]

Wolves’ Jones picks Tar Heels

PEACHTREE CORNERS — One of Gwinnett County’s top junior baseball players has made an early college choice.

Wesleyan outfielder Jahmai Jones gave a verbal commitment last week to attend the University of North Carolina beginning in the fall of 2015.

Ranked among the top college and draft pros-pects of this year’s junior class, Jones chose the Tar Heels over a large number of similar offers, including ACC rivals Georgia Tech, Notre Dame and Clemson, as well as SEC power Vanderbilt.

The 6-foot, 205-pound junior was a first-team All-County selection by the Daily Post and a member of this year’s preseason Super Six after hitting .483 with nine home runs, 32 RBIs, 14 doubles, a 1.392 OPS and 48 runs scored for Wesleyan as a sophomore last season.

He currently leads the Wolves with a .519 aver-age with three homers, seven RBIs and a 1.544 OPS in 10 games of action this spring.

From staFF reports

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Historic title for Millhof

It came down to 30 seconds.

Collins Hill standout Ryan Millhof, after a one-point escape in overtime, held a slim 2-1 lead over California wrestler Isaiah Locsin in the senior finals of the National High School Coaches Association Na-tional Championships. With 30 seconds on the clock and Locsin down for a restart, Millhof’s mission was clear — hang on.

If he kept Locsin from an escape, Millhof had his goal of four straight national titles at the prestigious high

school meet, which draws the top wres-tlers from 48 states.

“I just knew I was 30 seconds from making history,” Millhof said.

The Oklahoma signee did just that with his 2-1 over-time victory last weekend in Virginia Beach, making him just the fourth wrestler in the tournament’s history and first in nearly a decade to win four straight NHS-CA national champion-ships. He swept his earlier matches 9-0, 4-0, 17-1, 9-0 and 3-0 before the thrilling

championship match.“It was an awesome

experience, an awesome feeling, to accomplish a feat that not many people get to do,” Millhof said. “I’m very blessed to have done it.”

Millhof headlined an incredible NHSCA meet for Gwinnett County, which also got three national champions and six All-Americans from Archer’s loaded program.

The Tigers, who swept Georgia’s duals and tradi-tional state championships last season, got repeat championships from twins Daniel and Thomas Bullard in the sophomore division

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BASEBALL4:30 p.m. — Athens Academy at Hebron5 p.m. — Towns Co. at Providence6 p.m. — Wesleyan at Lovett6 p.m. — Westminster at GAC6 p.m. — Providence at Towns Co.

GOLF3 p.m. — Collins Hill at Chateau Elan Par-33 p.m. — Dacula and Parkview at Country Club of Gwinnett3:15 p.m. — Grayson and Brookwood at Summit Chase3:15 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge and Lanier at Sugar Hill3:30 p.m. — Norcross and Duluth at Northwood4 p.m. — Wesleyan girls and Lovett at St. Ives

LACROSSE5 p.m. — Mill Creek at Parkview5 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge boys at Etowah5:30 p.m. — Cambridge girls at GAC6:30 p.m. — Grady girls at Duluth7 p.m. — Brookwood boys at Druid Hills7 p.m. — Duluth boys at Archer7 p.m. — Northview boys at Wesleyan

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May 20: The 16th Dr. Miles H. Mason Jr. golf tournament, benefiting the Gwinnett Medical Center Concussion Institute, at Chateau Elan begins with registration and breakfast at 8 a.m. with a 10 a.m. shot-gun start. Cost is $300 per player with sponsorships available. For more informa-tion, call 678-312-8500 or visit www.gwinnettmedical-

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County Football Officials are looking for new officials to join its organization covering much of the metro Atlanta area. New and experienced officials welcome. For more information, visit www.mcfoafootball.org or call George Allen at 770-880-6632.

Clowney impresses at pro dayCOLUMBIA, S.C. — All

the watchful eyes of the NFL turned to South Carolina’s Pro Timing Day at Williams-Brice Stadium, where the featured attraction was potential No. 1 overall draft pick Jadeveon Clowney.

More than 140 creden-tialed media and 30 of 32 NFL teams were counted while live look-ins from ESPN, NFL Network and Fox Sports 1 provided fans across the country a peek at the pass rusher.

If you listened to Clowney and the experts on hand, the 6-foot-5, 266-pound freakish athlete did more than impress.

“I wanted to show that I moved well lateral, not just one way,” Clowney said. “They know I have speed but I think I showed how quick I can get my hips. I also showed my cardio, that I’ve been working out and staying in shape. I can pret-ty much do it all. I can be a play-maker on defense.”

Representing the Hous-ton Texans, the franchise that holds the No. 1 overall pick for the third time in franchise history, was a

contingent of eight. That crew met with Clowney Tuesday night and will host him again this month in Houston.

Owner Bob McNair, who is a South Carolina graduate, and coach Bill O’Brien were among representatives the Texans brought to town. Defensive coordinator Romeo Cren-nel was one of the position coaches that was able to put Clowney through indi-vidual agility drills.

O’Brien did not tip the Texans’ hand with which way they were leaning but he was excited how Clowney performed. The opportunity to see Clowney show his ability in differ-ent drills other than strictly rushing the passer was an important aspect to his day.

Clowney elected to forgo the bench press and 40-yard dash that he competed in at the NFL Combine in February. He ran a 4.53 40-yard dash and did 21 reps of 225 pounds on the bench in Indianapolis. Clowney felt that was good enough. He didn’t go through any positional drills at the combine but ran the full gauntlet Wednesday, when

a rotation of defensive line coaches and coordinators moved him through several unique drills.

Jackson signs for 3 yearsDeSean Jackson can earn

$24 million on the three-year deal he signed Tuesday night with the Washington Redskins, a contract that will pay the former Phila-delphia Eagles wide receiver $16 million guaranteed.

Jackson tweeted late Tuesday “ITS GOIN DOWN !!” on his official Twitter account. “BUR-GUNDY & GOLD.”

“I’m happy about the situation I’m in here. At the end of the day, it’s all about winning in the NFL,” Jackson said during a con-ference call Wednesday.

According to The Sports Xchange, Jackson gets a $5 million signing bonus. His deal is technically for four years and $32 million where 2017 voids if he is on the roster five days after the 2016 Super Bowl.

Manziel, Bridgewater to visit Patriots

The New England Patriots, who have the 29th overall draft selection, are

scheduled to host quar-terbacks Johnny Manziel and Teddy Bridgewater on pre-draft visits at Gillette Stadium on Wednesday, according to reports.

NFL teams are allowed to invite 30 prospects to their facility each year before the draft, so the visits are nothing out of the ordinary, even though Manziel and Bridgewater are projected to be selected well before New England’s scheduled first pick.

Steelers sign Heyward-BeyThe Pittsburgh Steel-

ers signed wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey to a one-year contract, the team said Wednesday. He had 29 catches for 309 yards and a touchdown with the India-napolis Colts last season.

Heyward-Bey (6-2, 219) was originally selected by the Oakland Raiders in the first round (seventh overall) of the 2009 NFL Draft. He spent his first four seasons with Oakland before being released on March 12, 2013. He signed a one-year contract with the Colts on April 1, 2013, and played in a career-high 16 games last season.

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Family relents, recruit headed to MSUDefensive end Malik

McDowell won the public tug-of-war with his disap-proving parents to wind up at Michigan State, a move the family blocked in February.

The defensive end announced on National Signing Day that he was joining Michigan State, his preferred school, but did so without a binding national letter of intent. NCAA by-laws state that a parent or guardian must sign the let-ter of intent within 14 days of issuance if a student-athlete is below age 21.

It was finally signed and approved at 11:15 p.m. Tuesday.

Greg McDowell, the player’s father, and his mother, Joya Crowe, objected to their son, who attends Southfield High School in suburban Detroit, going to Big Ten and Rose Bowl champion Michigan State. They expressed a desire for their son to leave the state to remove himself from potential pratfalls of being too close to what the parents termed “distrac-tions.”

The 6-foot-7, 290-pound McDowell narrowed his choices to Michigan State, Ohio State and Florida State. He took a final recruiting trip to Columbus last weekend and his father was hoping McDowell would choose the Buck-eyes or Seminoles.

McDowell, ranked by 247Sports as the nation’s No. 32 prospect overall, No. 3 at strong-side de-fensive end and the No. 1 player in Michigan, was un-bowed in his desire to play for coach Mark Dantonio who was the first to con-gratulate him Wednesday.

“Congrats to Malik McDowell and his family on his NLI to MSU. Big decision for family and all involved,” Dantonio said via Twitter on Wednesday.

At a crowded assembly in February, McDowell said he had known since January that he wanted to play for the Spartans. The same day, his father said that he preferred his son to leave Michigan but that he supported his choice.

“I feel good about the decision,” Greg McDowell said. “My son, he stood up and said, ‘Hey, this is where I want to be.’ And despite my reservations and his mom’s reserva-tions, I fully support my son. He showed me a lot today, he stood firm and

didn’t back down from anything.”

The first sign of trouble came 36 hours before Signing Day, when Crowe spoke directly about her son’s recruitment.

“We don’t want him at MSU,” Crowe said. “Something happened, I don’t want to put it out there what it was, but I had a bad experience at MSU. It was something on my end, I don’t want to get into specifics.”

The parents also ques-

tioned whether Michigan State would prepare their son for a possible NFL career.

“I want him to get a good education,” Crowe said. “Not that he can’t get a good education at MSU. But he also wants to be a first-round pick after college. Nothing is guaranteed, but I don’t think their defensive line coach (Ron Burton) has the background for that.”

Greg McDowell ques-tioned the environment

in East Lansing during an earlier interview with 247Sports.com.

“You have to be some-where you have less distractions and be around people that do what you do, go to class, be football players, be a student-athlete,” he said. “That’s the environment I want him to be around, and not be in close proximity to his friends. I want him out of Michigan. I don’t care if that’s Ohio State or Florida State.”

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UGA gives basketball coach Fox an extensionUniversity of Georgia

men’s basketball coach Mark Fox will receive a two-year extension to his existing contract, accord-ing to an announcement Wednesday by Bulldog athletic director Greg Mc-Garity. Fox has two years left on his current agree-

ment, and the two-year ex-tension will extend through the 2017-18 season.

“The improvement our team made throughout the 2013-14 season was very encouraging, and with the loss of only one starter, the expectations for the coming season will be very high,” McGarity said. “Mark and I discussed not

only this past season, but spent the majority of our time focused on the next four-year period. We dis-cussed our recruiting plans, scheduling, academic progress and continued de-velopment of our program moving forward, and Mark fully recognizes the expec-tations in these key areas.”

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ished with a 20-14 overall record, including 12-6 in the SEC. The Bulldogs tied for second place in the final SEC standings, just the fourth time in 82 years of SEC basketball a UGA team has finished that high. Georgia earned a berth in the National Invitation Tournament, where it ad-vanced to the second round

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worked to establish bas-ketball success within the SEC, academic success in the graduation of our players and developing a culture where we remain consistently successful,” Fox said. “As we move forward and continue to recruit and develop young

men who can compete for championships, this is a great step to aid in the process.

“The next goal is to remain successful and to move that success to another level through scheduling, recruiting, the commitment of our young people and the help of our administration.”

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Georgia native Wainwright eager for another titleJUPITER, Fla. — The

final image of Adam Wain-wright last season was of him standing on the top step of the St. Louis Car-dinals’ dugout, gnashing his teeth as he watched the Boston Red Sox celebrate their first World Series vic-tory at home in 95 years.

If you are a Red Sox fan, you found that fact to be something special, at least sentimental. The Sox have now won three Series titles in the last 10 years, but the last time they celebrated a championship on their turf, in ancient Fenway Park, was in 1918 when Babe Ruth pitched for Boston.

Wainwright is not the least bit sentimental about such things — unless, of course, it involves the Cardinals. In all likelihood, the Cardinals wouldn’t have made it to the series last year if it had not been for Wainwright’s pitching, to say nothing about the impact of his presence in the clubhouse.

This year, the pitching staff has a handful of new faces. They are young kids with good arms, the types with good futures — but they are also precocious kids, whose careers and performances can be enhanced by a veteran

teammate like Wainwright, a Brunswick native.

What they are hearing from Wainwright is that the Cardinals can not only return to the series, but find a way to win it all. When they departed here last week a World Series championship was on their collective minds.

In recent years, the Car-dinals have been annually competitive, consistently finding their way into the playoffs.

Beginning with 2000, the Cardinals have won two World Series, lost twice in the series (2013 and 2004) and lost in the league championship series six times.

Only in four years dur-ing the last 13 did they not make the playoffs.

If they reach the play-offs this year, it will be Wainwright who will lead

them to whatever level they reach. You will find him impressing all observ-ers with his work ethic, due diligence, character and integrity. He has a big

money contract, but he has a caring attitude. He sup-ports limitless charities on St. Simons, including his church and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

Boston’s success rankles Wainwright in that he did not play his best in the fall classic in 2013. With the game on the line, he wants the ball in his hands. In the past, it was as if he had written the script in such critical situations. He began his St. Louis career by hitting the first pitch he saw for a home run in 2006, becoming No. 22 in MLB history to enjoy that experience.

He is built, mentally and emotionally, for clutch time. Also, in 2006, he struck out Carlos Beltran with the bases loaded to get the Cardinals to the World Series, where he struck out Detroit third baseman Brandon Ingle in game five to clinch the series for St. Louis.

Big League life has been big for Adam even though he had to miss most of the 2011 season with Tommy John surgery. He had won 20 games in 2010 and made the All-Star team. In 2011, he rehabbed and watched his team win a World Series ring for him while he was on the bench. That was not his preferred way, but he is proud to show off both of his World Series rings.

Winning one would be

enough for most players, but Wainwright believes he is with a team that should get to the ultimate series each year and win it, which is why he lingered on the dugout steps last fall as if to say to the Red Sox, “Just wait till we have another opportunity.”

From the days when his older brother Trey built a mound in the backyard of their home in Brunswick and taught him to pitch, Adam has been a multi-tal-ented athlete who enjoyed praiseworthy success.

He played basketball at Glynn Academy — you would expect him to excel with his 6-foot-7 frame; he was All State in football as a receiver (nice target for a quarterback).

And don’t forget: He has two gold gloves and counting.

None of that is impor-tant to him, however, since it is in the past. Adam Wainwright wants another World Series ring, and he wants to get it when the game is on the line with the ball in his hands.

Loran Smith is co-host of “The Tailgate Show” and sideline announcer for Georgia football. He is also a freelance writer and columnist.

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Duluth

Despite the early prog-nosis, Brylee continues to beat the odds. Most children with her condi-tion don’t live to their first birthday. Brylee turns 2 next month.

“Brylee’s kind of a little miracle,” Kathy Marelle said.

She’s a miracle the city, and its high school, is fully behind. Duluth, in the middle of Gwinnett’s population boom over the past 30 years, isn’t the small town it once was, but it still retains that small-town feel.

That’s why Joe Marelle, who coached Brylee’s dad Jeff, a Duluth basketball and baseball player from 1993-97, and his family have centered their life around Duluth for so long.

“Once a Wildcat, always a Wildcat, help out a team-mate,” Joe Marelle said.

“That’s what we’ve been saying.”

Will Hammock can be reached via email at [email protected]. His column appears on Thursdays. For archived columns, go to www.gwinnettdailypost.com/willhammock.

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Duluth has banded to-gether to help the family of Brylee Bradford, who has nemaline rod myopathy, the absence of muscle tis-sue in the body.

FUNDRAISERWhat: Brylee’s Bash in the ParkWhen: June 1Where: Bunten Road ParkNoteworthy: The event, featuring a 5K, bake sale and basketball game, is a fundraiser to offset the medical costs of Brylee Bradford, the young daughter of Duluth grads Jeff and Marisa Bradford, during her fight against nemaline rod myopathy, a rare neuromuscular disorder.Registration: Early race registration available at Gwin-nett Community Bank at 2775 Buford Highway in Duluth; call Kathy Marelle at 770-841-6981 or email to [email protected] to sign up for alumni basketball gameSchedule:7 a.m. — 5K registration7:30 a.m. — Bake sale opens (closes 9 a.m.)7:45 a.m. — Opening ceremonies8 a.m. — 5K Fun Run/Walk/Push10:30 a.m. — Barbecue lunch available1 p.m. — Duluth alumni basketball game

Gamarras

coming to Georgia a year later.

Brahan joined a club team as soon as they moved to Gwinnett.

Fiorella came around a few years later — though she didn’t take after her brother’s left-footedness.

“I needed something to do and he looked like he was having a lot of fun,” she said. “So I wanted to do that, too.”

Like it already had for her brother, soccer became more than just something to do.

It’s long been the usual dinner-table talk.

“They’re really sup-portive,” Fiorella said of their parents. “They always point out the positive stuff.”

“Yeah,” Brahan agreed. “But also if we make a mistake here and there …”

“They’ll let us know,” Fiorella said.

“And what we can do …,” Brahan said.

“… how we can fix it,” Fiorella finished.

The Gamarras, both play-making center midfielders, are headed to college on scholarships next year. Fiorella already has picked Shorter Univer-sity, in part because of its proximity to home.

“I’m really close with my parents,” she said. “Whenever we go out, it’s the four of us.

“I also liked the coach a lot. It was just somewhere I wanted to go and some-where I knew I was going to get to see the field and see playing time.”

Brahan is still deciding. He’s narrowed the choices to Limestone, Darton or Tyler College in Texas.

“I don’t know if I want to be far away from home or close,” he said.

Either way, those backyard battles will be even less frequent. So the Gamarras are focused on what they can accomplish now.

The Brookwood boys are undefeated and ranked No. 1 in the state, while the fourth-ranked girls have just one loss. The dynamic Gamarras, both four-year starters, are a big reason why — though neither cares much about personal stats.

“As long as the team wins, that’s what I want,” said Brahan, who will leave Brookwood as the school’s all-time assists leader. “I want to win a state championship this year.”

The boys have bookend-ed Sweet 16 appearances around a Final Four trip in Brahan’s sophomore sea-son. Certainly they seemed poised to improve on that this year with an unblem-ished 14-0 record so far.

The girls have been nearly as good with a 13-1 mark and are coming off a Final Four finish.

Still, the twins know how little that can matter when it comes to playoffs.

“That’s the thing, just the way the brackets work out,” Brahan said.

“Yeah, even if you win region, you can still get the hardest bracket,” Fiorella said. “I guess you don’t want to jinx it.”

“Yeah, now that it’s our senior year …,” Brahan said.

“… we won’t have another chance to win it again,” Fiorella said.

“So everything is spe-cial,” Brahan finished.

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G-Braves

Wrestling

RBIs while playing a stellar center field for the G-Braves in 2013. “The first one I went to, I was amped up the whole time. You start to settle in and you feel a little more comfortable it takes a little of that edge off.”

Both Cunningham and Terdoslavich understood the challenges of returning to the big leagues to start the season. It’s not realis-tic to assume a spot on a team with an outfield of B.J. Upton, Justin Upton and Jason Heyward. But

Terdoslavich kept work-ing, spending his winter in the Dominican playing and Cunningham even ventured into the infield for some work.

Neither admitted dis-appointment with their Gwinnett assignment, but neither acted satisfied.

“It’s something you dream about everyday growing up and I got to experience that and it makes you want it more,” said Terdoslavich, who played in 55 games with Atlanta, hitting .215. “It was awesome. It’s defi-

nitely somewhere I want to be again. And stay. I just try to get back there.”

For now, the two will be central threats in the G-Braves lineup that includes International League all-star Ernesto Mejia and No. 9-ranked prospect infielder Tommy Le Stella. Mejia hit 28 homers a season ago for the G-Braves and La Stella knocked in 41 runs and hit .343 with Class AA Mississippi.

“I think we have a pretty good team this year,” Terdoslavich said.

With the power of Mejia and Terdoslavich (18 hom-ers in 85 G-Braves games) and Edward Salcedo (23 homers, 23 stolen bases with Mississippi) mixed with the bats of La Stella, Cunningham and even Bethancourt the G-Braves have potential. What hap-pens starts now.

“It’s good to see how you stack up with every-body else,” manager Brian Snitker said. “We like the team we have here. Every-body is anxious to get out of (spring training) and get things going.”

and a title from Quinn Miller in the freshman division. Teammates Chris Diaz (sec-ond in the 126-pound sopho-more division), Jacob Lill (third in the 220 sophomore division) and M.J. Couzan (fourth in the 285 senior division) also earned All-American status. Diaz nearly claimed a championship him-self, falling 3-2 in overtime to New Jersey’s Kris Lindemann.

Miller dominated in the 195-pound freshman bracket, defeating Pennsylvania’s Cole Nye 10-2 in the finals. Thomas Bullard defeated Abner Romero Jr. of Califor-nia 8-2 in the finals and his brother Daniel topped Colo-rado’s Deyaun Trueblood 7-6 in the championship match.

All of the All-Americans except for Couzan will return to Archer’s high school team for the 2014-15 season.

“I am very excited about how our kids did at Nation-als, to have six All-Americans on one high school team is amazing,” Archer head coach Tom Beuglas said. “When you are competing against the best kids in the country, the matches are so close, you nev-er know how the results are going to come out. The Bul-lard twins repeated as national champions. Chris Diaz was third last year, so his second-place finish was an improve-ment. I was not surprised with Quinn Miller winning, he is a beast, and probably the best overall freshman in the coun-try, regardless of weight class.

“I am very happy for Jacob Lill, he placed higher at Nationals than he did at state, that is awesome. M.J. Couzan finishes his career proving he is among the best in the country before he moves on to play college football. Not bad for a kid who started wrestling

in ninth grade.”Buford wrestler Rudy Guil-

len gave Gwinnett another All-American with his fifth-place finish in the 145-pound junior division.

Apalachee’s Matthew Moore also was a national champion in the 220-pound senior division.

The Gwinnett wrestlers played big parts in Geor-gia’s impressive meet, which should bring more attention and scholarship opportunities for wrestlers from this state. In the team standings, Geor-gia was third in the senior division, eighth in the junior division, fifth in the sopho-more division and seventh in the freshman division.

“Gwinnett and the state of Georgia had an awesome showing,” Millhof said. “Georgia’s definitely a name on the rise and a state on the rise in wrestling and Gwinnett did better than ever before.”

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Thomas Bullard

Daniel Bullard

Quinn Miller

Braves, Harang outduel Brewers

MILWAUKEE — For all the concern heading into the season over their decimated starting rota-tion, the Atlanta Braves are doing just fine.

After outstanding ef-forts from right-hander Julio Teheran and lefty Alex Wood in the first two games of their season-opening series at Milwau-kee, the Braves got a gem their third time out from a most unlikely candidate.

Right-hander Aaron Ha-rang was brilliant Wednes-day afternoon, throwing a no-hitter through six innings as the Braves beat the Brewers 1-0, at Miller Park.

Through three games, the Braves’ starters have only allowed three runs and struck out 10 in 19 2/3 innings of work.

“I felt good in the pen and I was just able to come out and keep them off balance and keep their team guessing,” said Ha-rang, who didn’t join the Braves until March 25, just a day after he was let go by the Cleveland Indi-ans. “Then you see their guy throwing up numbers like that and you’re trying to do the same thing and give your team a chance to win. I was able to do that.”

The Braves were in need of help after los-ing both Kris Medlen and Brandon Beachy to season-ending Tommy John surgeries.

The 35-year-old Harang had an average spring, posting a 2-1 record and 4.91 ERA in five games (three starts) but was on

from the start Wednesday.Harang (1-0) retired his

first seven batters before walking Brewers first baseman Lyle Overbay in the third and then sat the next 11 down in order.

But Milwaukee right-hander Matt Garza, making his Brewers debut, matched zeroes with Harang, and took a no-hitter of his own into the seventh before third baseman Chris Johnson broke it up with his first home run of the season, a solo shot to left that would be the difference.

“Amazing,” Johnson said. “Anytime you get a 1-0 win, all kudos go to the pitching staff. He did awesome. He worked quick. He was fun to play behind. He was throwing strikes on both sides of the plate.”

The Brewers finally got one past Harang in the seventh, when left fielder Logan Schafer led off with a single up the middle.

Schafer was retired when Braun bounced into a fielder’s choice but Ramirez moved Braun to third with a base hit to

right, putting runners at the corners with one out.

Harang would get catcher Jonathan Lucroy to pop out to second before giving way to left-hander Luis Avilan.

Brewers manager Ron Roenicke then sent Rickie Weeks to pinch-hit for the Scooter Gennett, a left-hander, but Weeks ended the threat with a weak grounder to third.

“I think our offense is going to score runs and when we don’t, I’m go-ing to be disappointed,” Roenicke said. “Some-times you look at the other pitcher — I’ve seen Ha-rang before and this was really a good ball game for him.”

The punchless offense provided a bittersweet Milwaukee debut for Garza.

Signed to a franchise-record $52 million deal in January, Garza was outstanding through the first 6 2/3 innings, allow-ing just a fourth-inning walk to first baseman Fed-die Freeman and striking out six.

Garza got help from his

defense, too, especially in the seventh when third baseman Aramis Ramirez made a nice grab of center fielder B.J. Upton’s sharp grounder to lead off the inning, just before John-son’s home run.

“I liked the way he threw the ball,” Roenicke said. “He commanded it, his slider was outstand-ing and he mixed in some curveballs. He’s going to win a lot of games if he pitches like that.

“Offensively, Harang was good. He commanded his fastball good and his slider was really good to-day. We just need to score runs.”

Garza (0-1) likely would have come back out for the ninth — he threw just 90 pitches (65 strikes) — but Milwaukee needed offense before facing Braves closer Craig Kimbrel.

“You just tip your cap, man,” Garza said. “It was one hell of a game and I hope the fans enjoyed it.”

Right fielder Jason Hey-ward came through with a defensive gem, making a diving grab that robbed center fielder Carlos Go-mez of a potential double as Kimbrel picked up his second save in as many games.

Notes: Brewers 3B Ara-mis Ramirez went 1-for-3 Wednesday to improve to .333 (22-for-66) lifetime against Braves RHP Aaron Harang. … The Brewers are 8-3 against the Braves in their last 11 meetings, including six shutouts. … Braves closer Craig Kim-brel needs 13 saves to tie John Smoltz (154) for first place on the franchise’s all-time list.

By Andrew wAgnerThe Sports Xchange

Atlanta starter Aaron Harang (34) pitches against the Milwaukee Brewers in the first inning at Miller Park on Wednesday. (USA Today Sports: Benny Sieu)

Semifinalists UConn, Kentucky chasing validationOne short year ago,

Kevin Ollie was a first-year head coach with little chance to validate his selection as Jim Calhoun’s hand-picked successor at Connecticut.

The former Huskies point guard and Calhoun assistant admits he was dy-ing inside not to be a part

of the 2013 postseason, by virtue of NCAA-levied postseason ban. But the promise of a much brighter future helped Ollie keep his program intact.

“It takes a lot of character to keep believing when no-body else believes in you,” Ollie said as the Huskies prepare for Saturday’s na-tional semifinal against top-ranked Florida. “These kids

are loyal. I believe in them. They believe in us. They also believe in what UConn is all about, what they can be successful in if they do go through this program.

“I thought they did a remarkable job last year, people saying they wasn’t playing for nothing, but they was playing for everything. People saying we was banned, but we

weren’t banned from car-ing for each other, loving each other, making each other better, challenging each other. That’s what they did. They learned a life lesson.”

Ollie said he didn’t strain to convince All-American point guard Shabazz Napier, a fresh-man on UConn’s national championship team four

years ago, to return to Storrs. It was, in fact, Napier who told Ollie he would be back to finish what he started.

Napier scored 25 points against favored Michigan State and was named the Most Outstanding Player in the East Regional. There were times when he seemed to will the Hus-kies to points, pushing the

seventh-seeded program all the way to Dallas, where a rematch with Florida awaits. It was Napier who nailed the game-winner to sink the Gators on Dec. 2, the last time Florida lost this season.

UConn fans are hoping Napier can deliver an en-core effort to that delivered down the road in Houston by Kemba Walker in 2011.

The SporTS XchAnge

THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2014 5B •gwinnettdailypost.com

Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE

East Division W L Pct GB L10Toronto 2 1 .667 — 2-1Baltimore 1 1 .500 .5 1-1Boston 1 1 .500 .5 1-1Tampa Bay 1 2 .333 1 1-2New York 0 1 .000 1 0-1

Central Division W L Pct GB L10Chicago 2 0 1.000 — 2-0Detroit 2 0 1.000 — 2-0Cleveland 1 1 .500 1 1-1Kansas City 0 2 .000 2 0-2Minnesota 0 2 .000 2 0-2

West Division W L Pct GB L10Seattle 2 0 1.000 — 2-0Houston 1 0 1.000 .5 1-0Oakland 1 1 .500 1 1-1Texas 1 1 .500 1 1-1Los Angeles 0 2 .000 2 0-2

Tuesday’s GamesHouston 6, N.Y. Yankees 2Toronto 4, Tampa Bay 2Cleveland (Kluber 0-1) at Oakland (Kazmir 1-0), ppd.Seattle 8, L.A. Angels 3

Wednesday’s GamesDetroit 2, Kansas City 1, 10 inningsChi. White Sox 7, Minnesota 6, 11 inningsOakland 6, Cleveland 1Boston 6, Baltimore 2Toronto 3, Tampa Bay 0N.Y. Yankees at Houston, lateCleveland at Oakland, lateSeattle at L.A. Angels, late

Today’s GamesKansas City (Ventura 0-0) at Detroit (San-chez 0-0), 1:08 p.m.Minnesota (Hughes 0-0) at Chicago White Sox (Quintana 0-0), 2:10 p.m.Boston (Doubront 0-0) at Baltimore (Chen 0-0), 7:05 p.m.Toronto (Morrow 0-0) at Tampa Bay (Archer 0-0), 7:10 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (Nova 0-0) at Houston (Ober-holtzer 0-0), 8:10 p.m.Seattle (Elias 0-0) at Oakland (Chavez 0-0), 10:05 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUEEast Division

W L Pct GB L10Washington 2 0 1.000 — 2-0

Atlanta 2 1 .667 .5 2-1Miami 2 1 .667 .5 2-1Philadelphia 1 1 .500 1 1-1New York 0 2 .000 2 0-2

Central Division W L Pct GB L10Pittsburgh 1 0 1.000 — 1-0St. Louis 1 0 1.000 — 1-0Milwaukee 1 2 .333 1 1-2Chicago 0 1 .000 1 0-1Cincinnati 0 1 .000 1 0-1

West Division W L Pct GB L10Los Angeles 3 1 .750 — 3-1San Diego 1 1 .500 1 1-1San Francisco 1 1 .500 1 1-1Colorado 1 2 .333 1.5 1-2Arizona 1 3 .250 2 1-3

Tuesday’s GamesL.A. Dodgers 3, San Diego 2Miami 4, Colorado 3Atlanta 5, Milwaukee 2Arizona 5, San Francisco 4

Wednesday’s GamesAtlanta 1, Milwaukee 0Colorado 6, Miami 5Washington 5, N.Y. Mets 1Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, lateSt. Louis at Cincinnati, lateSan Francisco at Arizona, lateL.A. Dodgers at San Diego, late

Thursday’s GamesChicago Cubs (Hammel 0-0) at Pittsburgh (Rodriguez 0-0), 12:35 p.m.St. Louis (Lynn 0-0) at Cincinnati (Bailey 0-0), 12:35 p.m.Colorado (Morales 0-0) at Miami (Turner 0-0), 12:40 p.m.Washington (Zimmermann 0-0) at N.Y. Mets (Wheeler 0-0), 1:10 p.m.San Francisco (Lincecum 0-0) at Arizona (Arroyo 0-0), 3:40 p.m.

BasketballNBA

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

W L Pct GBToronto ..............43 .32 ....573 .....—Brooklyn ............40 .34 ....541 ....2.5New York ...........33 .43 ....434 ..10.5Boston ..............23 .52 ....307 .....20Philadelphia ...... 16 .59 ... .213 .....27

Southeast Division W L Pct GB

Miami ................52 .22 ....703 .....—Washington .......39 .36 ....520 ..13.5Charlotte ...........37 .38 ....493 ..15.5Atlanta ..............32 .42 ....432 .....20Orlando .............21 .54 ....280 .. 31.5

Central Division W L Pct GBIndiana ..............53 .23 ....697 .....—Chicago ............43 .32 ....573 ....9.5Cleveland ..........31 .45 ....408 .....22Detroit ...............27 .48 ....360 ..25.5Milwaukee ......... 14 .61 ... .187 ..38.5

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBSan Antonio ......58 .16 ....784 .....—Houston ............49 .25 ....662 .......9Memphis ...........44 .30 ....595 .....14Dallas ................44 .31 ....587 ..14.5New Orleans .....32 .42 ....432 .....26

Northwest Division W L Pct GBOklahoma City ..54 .19 ... .740 .....—Portland ............49 .27 ....645 ....6.5Minnesota .........36 .37 ....493 .....18Denver ..............32 .42 ....432 ..22.5Utah ..................23 .52 ....307 .....32

Pacific Division W L Pct GBL.A. Clippers .....53 .22 ....707 .....—Golden State .....46 .28 ....622 ....6.5Phoenix .............44 .30 ....595 ....8.5Sacramento ......26 .48 ....351 ..26.5L.A. Lakers ........25 .49 ....338 .. 27.5

Tuesday’s GamesBrooklyn 105, Houston 96Golden State 122, Dallas 120Portland 124, L.A. Lakers 112

Wednesday’s GamesIndiana 101, Detroit 94New York 110, Brooklyn 81Cleveland 119, Orlando 98Charlotte 123, Philadelphia 93Toronto 107, Houston 103Washington 118, Boston 92Chicago 105, Atlanta 92Miami 96, Milwaukee 77Memphis at Minnesota, lateGolden State at San Antonio, lateNew Orleans at Denver, lateL.A. Clippers at Phoenix, lateL.A. Lakers at Sacramento, late

Today’s GamesSan Antonio at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.Dallas at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

HockeyNHL

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GABoston 75 52 17 6 110 241 158Tampa Bay 76 42 25 9 93 226 202Montreal 77 43 27 7 93 200 192Detroit 75 35 26 14 84 202 213Toronto 77 37 32 8 82 223 241Ottawa 76 32 30 14 78 219 252Florida 77 27 42 8 62 184 254Buffalo 75 21 45 9 51 145 224

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAPittsburgh 76 48 23 5 101 233 189NY Rangers 77 43 30 4 90 208 184Philadelphia 75 39 27 9 87 213 211Columbus 75 38 30 7 83 210 203Washington 76 34 29 13 81 217 231New Jersey 76 32 28 16 80 186 198Carolina 76 33 32 11 77 191 211NY Islanders 76 31 35 10 72 212 250

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GASt. Louis 75 51 17 7 109 241 168Colorado 75 48 21 6 102 230 204Chicago 76 42 19 15 99 248 200Minnesota 76 39 26 11 89 189 191Dallas 75 37 27 11 85 219 212Winnipeg 77 34 33 10 78 214 226Nashville 76 33 32 11 77 190 229

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAAnaheim 75 49 18 8 106 244 191San Jose 77 48 20 9 105 237 188Los Angeles 76 44 26 6 94 191 162Phoenix 76 36 27 13 85 207 214Vancouver 77 34 32 11 79 185 209Calgary 76 31 38 7 69 194 226Edmonton 76 26 41 9 61 188 254

Tuesday’s GamesBuffalo 3, New Jersey 2, SOToronto 3, Calgary 2NY Islanders 4, Florida 2Carolina 4, Pittsburgh 1Dallas 5, Washington 0Colorado 3, Columbus 2, OTTampa Bay 3, Montreal 1St. Louis 1, Philadelphia 0, SONY Rangers 3, Vancouver 1Winnipeg 2, Phoenix 1, SOSan Jose 5, Edmonton 4

Wednesday’s GamesNY Islanders 2, Ottawa 1Boston at Detroit, lateEdmonton at Anaheim, latePhoenix at Los Angeles, late

Today’s GamesColumbus at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Carolina, 7 p.m.Boston at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.Calgary at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.Minnesota at Chicago, 8 p.m.Buffalo at St. Louis, 8 p.m.Pittsburgh at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.NY Rangers at Colorado, 9 p.m.Los Angeles at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

TransactionsBASEBALL

American LeagueCHICAGO WHITE SOX—Signed RHP Mitchell Boggs to a minor league contract.CLEVELAND INDIANS—Recalled RHP C.C. Lee from Columbus (IL).KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Outrighted RF Carlos Peguero to Omaha (PCL).LOS ANGELES ANGELS—Claimed RHP Michael Brady off waivers from the Miami Marlins, optioned him to Arkansas (TL).OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Recalled RHP Josh Lindblom from Sacramento (PCL).TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Signed 1B Juan Francisco to a minor league contract.

National LeagueCOLORADO ROCKIES—Placed RHP Tyler Chatwood on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 29th. Recalled RHP undefined from Colorado Springs (PCL).LOS ANGELES DODGERS—Claimed SS Carlos Triunfel off waivers from the Seattle Mariners, optioned him to Albuquerque (PCL).MIAMI MARLINS—Outrighted LF Brian Bogusevic to New Orleans (PCL).NEW YORK METS—Outrighted RHP Ryan Reid to Las Vegas (PCL). Placed RHP Bobby Parnell on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 1. Placed 2B Daniel Murphy on the paternity list. Recalled 3B Wilmer Flores from Las Vegas (PCL).SAN DIEGO PADRES—Claimed LHP Bobby LaFromboise off waivers from the Seattle Mariners. Transferred RP Joe Wieland from the 15-day DL to the 60-day DL.WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Placed C Wilson Ramos on the 15-day DL, retroac-tive to April 1. Recalled C Sandy Leon from Harrisburg (EL).

BASKETBALLCOLLEGE BASKETBALL

ALABAMA—Announced C Carl Engstrom will return to Sweden to pursue a profes-sional career.BRIGHAM YOUNG—Announced G Matt Carlino will transfer from program.GEORGIA—Signed Mark Fox to a two-year contract extension.NEVADA—Announced F Cole Huff will transfer from the program.

FOOTBALLNational Football League

DENVER BRONCOS—Signed C Will Mont-gomery to a one-year, $1.3 million contract. Signed CB Chris Harris to a one-year, $2.187 million contract.MIAMI DOLPHINS—Signed T Jason Fox to a one-year, $795,000 contract.NEW YORK GIANTS—Signed DE Robert Ayers to a two-year contract.NEW YORK JETS—Signed CB Dimitri Patterson to a one-year, $3 million contract. Signed WR Jacoby Ford.PITTSBURGH STEELERS—Signed CB Brice McCain.TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS—Signed TE Josh Baker and FB Jorvorskie Lane.WASHINGTON REDSKINS—Signed S Ryan Clark to a one-year contract. Signed WR DeSean Jackson to a three-year, $24 million contract.

NCAA FootballFORDHAM—Named Darin Edward defensive line coach. Named Jon Wholley asstistant defensive coordinator/lineback-ers coach.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

BUFFALO SABRES—Signed C Justin Kea and D Jake McCabe to a three-year, entry-level contract.CALGARY FLAMES—Recalled D Mark Cundari and D Chris Breen from Abbots-ford (AHL).CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS—Recalled C Joakim Nordstrom from Rockford (AHL).COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS—Signed C T.J. Tynan to a two-year, entry-level contract.DALLAS STARS—Assigned D Troy Vance to Elmira (ECHL).EDMONTON OILERS—Recalled RW Ste-ven Pinizzotto from Oklahoma City (AHL).FLORIDA PANTHERS—Assigned C Jona-than Racine to San Antonio (AHL).LOS ANGELES KINGS—Signed C Nic Dowd to a one-year, entry-level contract. Signed RW Michael Mersch to a three-year, entry-level contract.MINNESOTA WILD—Recalled G John Curry and C Jake Dowell from Iowa (AHL).NEW JERSEY DEVILS—Recalled RW Michael Sislo from Albany (AHL).OTTAWA SENATORS—Signed C Ryan Dzingel to an entry-level contract.SAN JOSE SHARKS—Assigned D Mirco Mueller to Worcester (AHL).TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING—Signed LW Adam Erne to an entry-level contract, as-signed him to Syracuse (AHL).WASHINGTON CAPITALS—Assigned C Chris Brown to Hershey (AHL). Signed D Madison Bowey to a three-year, entry-level contract.

SPORTS AT A GLANCE

Bulls complete sweep of Hawks

ATLANTA — Guard D.J. Augustin came off the bench to produce his second 20-point effort in three games to lead the Chicago Bulls to a 105-92 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday night.

The fifth-year player scored 23 points on 8-for-15 shooting from the field and added five assists. The 6-foot guard, who scored a career-high 33 points two games ago against Boston, has scored 57 points as a reserve in the four games against the Hawks this season.

Augustin had four 3-pointers, the last with 3:20 remaining that ended any hopes of Atlanta comeback.

It was the third straight win for Chicago (43-32), which swept the four-game season series against Atlanta and has now beaten the Hawks six straight times. Atlanta (32-42) has lost seven of its last eight games.

The Bulls are 28-2 when they score at least 86 points.

Chicago also got 17 points from guard Jimmy Butler, 17 points and six assists from guard Kirk Hinrich, 12 points and six rebounds from forward Carlos Boozer and 10 points, 19 rebounds and six assists from center Joakim Noah.

Atlanta was led by forward Paul Millsap with 22 points and 11 re-bounds, his 25th double-double of the season, and

point guard Jeff Teague, who had 21 points and eight assists. Guard Kyle Korver scored 12 points, all on 3-pointers.

The entertaining first quarter, which finished in a 31-31 tie, was high-lighted by 3-pointers. Korver made three and Teague had two. Chicago guard Tony Snell knocked down two 3-pointers.

Atlanta led by as many as six points, but Chicago tied the score at 28 thanks to a 12-6 run late in the quarter.

The Bulls took com-mand in the second quarter on the strength of a 10-0 run that gave them a 48-42 lead. Chicago stretched the lead to nine when Augustin’s un-contested layup made it 54-45 with 2:38 left in the half.

The Bulls led 57-49 at the break after Augustin scored all of his 14 first-half points in the second quarter.

Atlanta cut the lead to 60-57 on Teague’s layup with 8:04 left, but Chi-cago answered by scoring six straight points to the return the lead to nine. The Hawks gamely used their defense to prevent the Bulls from putting the game away and drew within two points at 66-64 on Teague’s 3-pointer. But Chicago kept the momentum and led 78-72 after third quarters.

The Bulls opened the fourth quarter by outscor-ing Atlanta 9-1 to stretch their lead to 87-73, with Noah adding two baskets and an assist during the run. Atlanta never got closer than seven points.

By Stan awtreyThe Sports Xchange

Lions cruise to crucial region win over Norcross

NORCROSS — Both Norcross and Peachtree Ridge still have nine region games left to play, but the outcome of Wednesday night’s meeting between the Region 7-AAAAAA rivals could have a huge impact on whether or not either of the two teams make the playoffs.

Behind a strong pitching performance from South Carolina commit Nick Nei-dert and 13 hits from its offense, Peachtree Ridge strung together five runs in the second and four more in the third to pull away for

a 10-1 win over the Blue Devils.

The win pushed the Lions to 11-6 overall and 4-3 in the region and ran its winning streak to three in a row.

“We had a good game on Monday against Collins Hill and wanted to capitalize on that momentum,” Peachtree Ridge head coach Ryan Hanik said. “We had a good approach at the plate and made (Norcross) work.”

The Peachtree Ridge hitters certainly did put the Norcross defenders to the test as no Lion went down via strikeout, building off of Monday’s game against Collins Hill that saw just one Peachtree Ridge hitter

strike out.But it was the Norcross

offense that drew first blood, getting an unearned run off Neider in the bot-tom of the first.

Justin Henderson led off with a single and reached third on an errant pickoff throw.

Griffin Helms, hitting in the second spot, singled to left to put Norcross up 1-0 before Neidert had even recorded one out.

It turned out to be the only serious threat from Norcross as Neidert retired the next three Blue Devils and faced the minimum over the next three innings.

Neidert finished with one unearned run on three

hits, one walk, two hit bat-ters and five strikeouts for the complete-game win, going the distance on 87 pitches.

“He was really dealing tonight,” Hanick said of his starter.

Neidert would get all the runs he needed in the top of the second when Peachtree Ridge sent nine men to the plate, pushing five of them across.

Derek Huff, who finished 3-for-3 with two runs, a walk and two RBIs, drove in one of those with an RBI single to center.

Two more runs scored on wild pitches, while Drew Wharton’s RBI double to left would chase

starter Jordyn Thomas from the game, with Mike Perez coming in for relief.

In the third, the Lions also received help from Mother Nature as two balls that would normally have been routine outs were lost in the sun by Norcross defenders on the left side.

The first of those was a fly to left off the bat of Huff that drove in Michael Swint, while a high chop-per to third became an RBI single from Tomlinson.

Reese Shepherd also had an RBI single in the frame, helping vault the Lions to a 9-1 lead.

Perez would only last for 2/3 of an inning for Norcross, prompting Trey

Nelson to come in as the third pitcher of the night for the Blue Devils (10-7, 3-4).

Nelson was able to quell the Lions’ bats, giving up one run on five hits and one walk in 3 2/3 innings, while Will Shirah pitched a scoreless seventh with one hit.

But the Norcross bats weren’t able to get going, mustering just three hits against Neidert. Hender-son and Helms each had one, while the third was an infield single from Jacob Gassert.

Wharton finished 2-for-4 with an RBI for Peachtree Ridge, while Jordan Sted-man had two hits with a sacrifice bunt and an RBI.

By Scott Smithscott.smith@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Higginbotham K’s 15 in Buford winCLEVELAND — Bu-

ford’s Jake Higginbotham pitched a complete-game shutout and struck out 15 as Buford defeated White County 7-0 on Wednesday.

Nick Wilhite, Joey Bart, Austin Upshaw, Jake Mayo and Patrick Burnette each had two hits for the Wolves (15-0, 11-0).

BASEBALL

Grayson 9, Berkmar 6LILBURN — Grayson pushed

across three runs in the eighth inning to defeat Berkmar 9-6 in Region 8-AAAAAA action on Wednesday.

Tyler Knight pitched two in-nings in relief to get the win for the Rams (11-6, 7-0). Knight also connected on a home run. Scott White had three hits and David Stinson and Chase Brice each had two for Grayson.

North Gwinnett 8, Duluth 2SUWANEE — North Gwinnett

improved to 11-6 overall and 6-1 in Region 7-AAAAAA with a 8-2 win over Duluth on Wednesday.

Tucker Baca improved his record to 4-2 by throwing five innings and not allowing a hit while striking out 10 Wildcats. Avery Kenyon, Ben Carswell and Blake Sangster each had two hits, while Kyle Shumeyko drove in two runs for the Bulldogs.

Mountain View 10, Meadowcreek 0LAWRENCEVILLE — Moun-

tain View defeated Meadow-creek 10-0 to improve to 15-2 on the season and 6-1 in Region 7-AAAAAA.

Brendan Munson threw five innings and struck out eight to get the win for the Bears. Robert Kwiatkowski blasted a home run for Mountain View. Matt Hub-bard, Louis Vilchez and Forrest Girardeau each had two hits to lead the offense.

Collins Hill 11, Habersham Central 10SUWANEE — Collins Hill

defeated Habersham Central 11-10 to improve to 4-3 in Region 7-AAAAAA on Wednesday.

Al DelVillar had three hits and drove in two runs to lead the Eagles. Riley King, Austin Gon-zalez and William Holland had

two hits each for Collins Hill.

Parkview 13, Central Gwinnett 1LILBURN — Jake Roberson

pitched Parkview to a 13-1 win over Central Gwinnett on Wednesday.

Isiah Gilliam had two hits, including a home run, and drove in three runs to lead the Pan-thers ( 13-3, 7-0). Daino Deas and Brandon Hill each had three hits for Parkview.

Dacula 10, South Gwinnett 9DACULA — Austin Collins’

bases loaded walk in the bottom of the eighth brought home the winning run as Dacula defeated South Gwinnett 10-9 Wednes-day night.

Gage Murray pitched two innings to get the win for the Falcons ( 10-7, 4-3). Ryan Vigue and Johnathan Grant each had three hits while Dallas Richards and Garrett Medley had two for Dacula.

Chad Smith hit a grand slam for the Comets (3-13, 1-5). Ryan Dunlap and Adrian Martinez each had two hits for South Gwinnett.

Lumpkin County 7, Lanier 5DAHLONEGA — Lumpkin

County defeated Lanier 7-5 on Wednesday. Matt Ramsay had two hits and smacked a home run for the Longhorns (11-6, 5-3). Anthony Valvo and Brian Gropp had three and two hits, respectively, for Lanier.

Hebron Christian 13, Athens Academy 4ATHENS — Hebron Christian

defeated Athens Academy 13-4 on Wednesday. Brad Reynolds, Haydn Nechanicky and Sid Turner each had three hits for the Lions (12-5, 9-0). Joey Ruiz, Parker Reynolds and Will Brice each had two hits.

GIRLS TENNIS

St.Pius 4, Buford 1BUFORD — Buford fell to St.

Pius 4-1 on Wednesday. Savan-nah Whaley and Abbey Mitchell posted a doubles victory for the Wolves.

Wesleyan 3, Woodward Academy 2NORCROSS — Wesleyan

swept the doubles matches to defeat Woodward Academy 3-2 on Wednesday.

Katie McLaughlin and Katie Van Laeke, along with Kaitlin

English and Leila Jordan, won doubles matches for the Wolves (12-3). Savannah Strickland won a singles match.

BOYS TENNIS

Collins Hill 3, North Oconee 2BOGART — Collins Hill

improved to 10-5 with a 3-2 win over North Oconee on Wednes-day. Shayon Malek and Luke Eafano won singles matches while the doubles duo of Ross Hastings and Andrew Bell also posted a win for the Eagles.

St.Pius 5, Buford 0BUFORD — Buford dropped a

5-0 decision to St. Pius to bring the Wolves record to 12-4 on the season.

Woodward Academy 5, Wesleyan 0NORCROSS — Wesleyan

dropped a 5-0 decision to visiting Woodward Academy on Wednesday.

BOYS LACROSSE

Grayson 17, Mountain View 8LAWRENCEVILLE — Grayson

improved to 11-1 on the season with a 17-8 win over Mountain View on Wednesday.

Dustin Hopkins and Cameron Schuster had three goals for the Rams. Matt McHugh, Hayden Rozalski and Cooper McCullers each had two goals.

North Gwinnett 9, Collins Hill 3SUWANEE — North Gwin-

nett defeated Collins Hill 9-3 on Wednesday.

Sam Gasta, Nathan Howell and Jack Ryan each had two goals for the Bulldogs (12-0).

Cody Lewis made 26 saves for the Eagles (6-7).

GIRLS LACROSSE

Grayson 13, Mountain View 6LAWRENCEVILLE — Austyn

Gorski scored eight goals to lift Grayson (5-6) to a 13-6 win over Mountain View on Wednesday.

Collins Hill 15, North Gwinnett 13SUWANEE — Abby Squires

scored five goals as Collins Hill defeated North Gwinnett 15-13 on Wednesday.

Kate Dougherty scored four times, while Alyssa Quinones and Emily Napierala each had three goals for the Eagles (8-3, 3-0). Laine Simmons made 13

saves for Collins Hill.Lindsey Cobb had four goals

to lead North (9-4, 3-1) while Haley Gorke added three for the Bulldogs.

Peachtree Ridge 19, Norcross 0SUWANEE — Peachtree

Ridge had nine different players score as the Lions defeated Norcross 19-0 on Wednesday.

Darby Frisbie led Peachtree Ridge (3-8) with seven goals. Sherine Starr added three more for the Lions.

Meg Touat made 21 saves for the Blue Devils.

Lovett 14, Wesleyan 4NORCROSS — Wesleyan (6-

4) was defeated 14-4 by Lovett on Wednesday.

GIRLS GOLF

Norcross 128, Peachtree Ridge 134DULUTH — Norcross defeated

Peachtree Ridge 128-134 in a match played at Berkeley Hills Country Club on Wednesday.

Bailey Tardy of Norcross was the low medalist, shooting a 35. Zoe McDavid led the Lions with a 41.

North Gwinnett 128, Collins Hill 154SUWANEE — Christina Yang

tied the school record by firing a 33 to help North Gwinnett defeat Collins Hill 128-154 on Wednes-day. Lucy Min led the Eagles with a 46.

BOYS GOLF

Providence posts first win in two seasons

BOGART — Providence Christian fell to Athens Academy 174-213 the day after it posted its first victory in the past two seasons.

On Tuesday, the Storm de-feated Prince Avenue 190-191. Auston Netcher shot a career low 39 on Tuesday while Austin Clarke led Providence Christian with a 50 on Wednesday.

North Gwinnett 155, Collins Hill 169SUWANEE — North Gwinnett

defeated Collins Hill 155-169 at Bear’s Best on Wednesday.

Bailey Ulp and Corey Ulp led the Bulldogs by scoring 37 and 38 resepectively.

Jacob Bayer and Hunter Hatsvongsa led the Eagles by shooting 40.

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