SEOUL, South Korea (AP) —North Korea’s leader said Fridaythat his rocket forces are ready “tosettle accounts with the U.S.,” anescalation of the country’s belli-cose rhetoric and a direct responseto the unprecedented announce-ment that U.S. nuclear-capable B-2 bombers had joined militarydrills with South Korea.

Kim Jong Un’s comments in ameeting with his senior generalsare part of a rising tide of threatsmeant to highlight anger over themilitary drills and recent U.N.sanctions over Pyongyang’snuclear test. North Korea sees U.S.nuclear firepower as a directthreat to its existence and claimsthe annual military drills are a

preparation for invasion.Pyongyang also uses the U.S.nuclear arsenal as a justificationfor its own push for nuclear-tippedmissiles that can strike the UnitedStates — a goal that expertsbelieve to be years away, despite anuclear test last month and a long-range rocket launch in December.A full-blown North Korean

attack is unlikely, though thereare fears of a more localized con-flict, such as a naval skirmish indisputed Yellow Sea waters. Suchnaval clashes have happenedthree times since 1999. NorthKorea’s threats are seen by outsideanalysts as efforts to provokeSouth Korea to soften its policiesand to win direct talks withWashington that could result in

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Children of St. John’s Preschool including Vince Whitaker, left, and Evan Sentman watch as boiledeggs change colorsThursday. According to Preschool Director Kate Arnett, children at St. John’s werecoloring eggs this week as they learn about the meaning of Easter. St. John’s Preschool is nowenrolling for the fall.

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Troy manin custodyfor heroinpossession

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A Troy man is being held behindbars after Upper Valley MedicalCenter officials and law enforce-ment found a capsule of whatappeared to be heroin while he wasbeing treated for an overdose of thedrug late Tuesday.Mark Hawkins, 26, of Troy, was

charged with a fifth degree felonypossession ofheroin after hos-pital officialsfound a gel cap-sule with a sub-stance that isbeing tested forheroin in hispants as hospitalofficials weretreating him foran overdoseinvolving the drug late Tuesdayevening.According to city of Troy Police

Department’s Capt. Joe Long,Hawkins was transported from 623

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Charges have been filed againsta 19-year-old Tipp City man after afemale family member alleged heforced her to commit a lewd sexualact as she slept at a Troy familymember’s apartment in August2012.William Lee Perkins, 19, of Tipp

City, has been charged with fourthdegree felony gross sexual imposi-tion and is currently being held atthe Miami County Jail.According to the city of Troy

Police Department’s Capt. Joe Long,Perkins allegedly forced a 33-year-old female member to perform alewd sexual act while she was sleep-ing at another family member’s Troyapartment on Aug. 20, 2012. The 33-year-old female victim claimed shewoke up in the living room areawhere she and Perkins were sleep-ing and found that Perkins hadengaged her in a lewd sexual actwhile she had been asleep.Long said it is not uncommon for

victims to wait long periods of timebefore coming forward after crimeshave allegedly been committed dueto fear, embarrassment and othersocial and emotional circumstances,especially crimes sexual in nature.Perkins was booked at the Miami

County Jail on Tuesday for thealleged incident and remainsbehind bars on a $1,000 cash bond.

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Gardeners sought for free plotsBY NATALIE KNOTH

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About 10 free gardening plotsare still available at Tipp CityCommunity Gardens for seasonedor budding gardeners alike to testout their green thumbs.Three years ago, Gardens

Alive!/Spring Hill Nurseries invit-ed community members to growproduce on one of its 52 plots,each measuring 9 feet by 12 feet.Each plot allows for enough pro-duce to feed an entire family, saidcommunity garden manager CraigHarmer.“We had extra land in our hor-

ticulture research center andthought it’d be a good way toinvolve local gardeners with someof our product line and keep anice open dialogue all summerlong,” Harmer said.The gardening center at 110

Elm St. will provide participantswith free seeds, transplants, fertil-izers, pest controls and access towater and gardening supplies.

Gardens Alive! is a supplier ofenvironmentally friendly prod-ucts.Harmer said a wide range of

plants have been grown at thecommunity gardens since the pro-gram was created.“We’ve seen all kinds of stuff

— the typical corn, beans, cucum-ber, lettuce, squash, tomatoes, andthe atypical — giant sunflowers,peanuts and more,” he said,adding that some people donateunneeded produce to foodpantries.Gardeners may continue plant-

ing through the fall, depending onthe weather, with produce includ-ing lettuce, spinach and radishes.Once finished with the plot,

participants are expected touproot any plants and weed thearea in preparation for the nextyear. Several participants havereturned the following spring, headded.Harmer stressed that growing

a garden appeals to people of allwalks of life.“We have people who have

never gardened before, those whodon’t have room at their house,families with kids and some (gar-dening) veterans, definitely,” hesaid. “There’s a lot of sharing ofinformation with people who havegardened before. They can helpthe newbies.”A $25 deposit is required and

an agreement must be signed,acknowledging the courtesy rules.Both measures are intended tocreate a sense of dedication and avaluable gardening experience forall participants.For more information, send an

email to Craig@GardensAlive.comor visit the Tipp City CommunityGardens Facebook page atfacebook.com/TippCityCommunityGardens.

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aid. Kim’s comments arealso seen as ways to builddomestic loyalty andstrengthen his militarycredentials.Kim met early this

morning with his senior

generals, state mediareported, signed a rocketpreparation plan andordered his forces on stand-by to strike the U.S. main-land, South Korea, Guamand Hawaii. Many analystssay they’ve seen no evi-dence that Pyongyang’s

missiles can hit the U.S.mainland. But it has capa-ble short- and mid-rangemissiles, and Seoul is onlya short drive from theheavily armed border sepa-rating the Koreas.U.S. Forces Korea said

Thursday that the B-2stealth bombers flew froma U.S. air base in Missouriand dropped dummy muni-tions on the South Koreanisland range before return-ing home. It was unclearwhether America’s stealthbombers were used in past

annual drills with SouthKorea, but this is the firsttime the military hasannounced their use.The statement follows

an earlier U.S. announce-ment that nuclear-capableB-52 bombers participatedin the joint military drills.Defense Secretary

Chuck Hagel told reportersThursday that the decisionto send B-2 bombers to jointhe military drills was partof normal exercises and notintended to provoke NorthKorea.

Hagel acknowledged,however, that NorthKorea’s belligerent tonesand actions in recent weekshave ratcheted up the dan-ger in the region, “and wehave to understand thatreality.”In Washington, State

Department spokeswomanVictoria Nuland said theU.S. was making sure itsdefenses were “appropriateand strong” as North Koreacontinues to test and seeksto extend the reach of itsweaponry.

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syringe and a marijuanapipe on his person during aroutine search. Hawkinsalso was charged with afirst degree misdemeanor

possession of a drug abuseinstrument and fourthdegree misdemeanor pos-session of drug parapher-nalia. Hawkins is still list-ed as an inmate at theMiami County Jail with a$1,500 cash bond.

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Obama: Don’t ‘get squishy’ on gun controlWASHINGTON (AP) —

President Barack Obamapressed Congress onThursday not to forget theheartbreak of the Newtownelementary school mas-sacre and “get squishy” ontightened gun laws, thoughsome lawmakers in his ownDemocratic Party remain atough sell on an approach-ing Senate vote to expandpurchasers’ backgroundchecks.“Shame on us if we’ve

forgotten,” Obama said atthe White House, standingamid 21 mothers who havelost children to shootings. “Ihaven’t forgotten thosekids.”More than three months

after 20 first-graders andsix staffers were killed inNewtown, Conn., Obamaurged the nation to pres-sure lawmakers to backwhat he called the bestchance in over a decade totame firearms violence.At the same time, gun

control groups were staginga “Day to Demand Action”with more than 100 ralliesand other events plannedfrom Connecticut toCalifornia. This was on topof a $12 million TV ad cam-paign financed by NewYork City Mayor MichaelBloomberg that has beenpressuring senators in 13states to tighten back-ground-check rules.But if political momen-

tum was building after thenightmarish Decembershootings, it has flagged asthe Senate prepares todebate gun restrictionsnext month. Thanks towidespread Republicanresistance and a warinessby moderate Democratsfrom Southern andWesternstates including six who arefacing re-election next yeara proposed assault weaponsban seems doomed andefforts to broaden back-ground checks and bar highcapacity ammunition mag-azines are in question.In one statement that

typifies moderateDemocrats’ caution,spokesman Kevin Hall saidVirginia Sen. Mark Warneris “still holding conversa-tions with Virginia stake-holders and sortingthrough issues on back-ground checks” and propos-

als on assault weapons andmagazines.In stronger language

this week, Democratic Sen.Heidi Heitkamp of NorthDakota said, “I do not needsomeone from New YorkCity to tell me how to han-dle crime in our state. Iknow that we can go afterand prosecute criminalswithout the need toinfringe upon the SecondAmendment rights of law-abiding North Dakotans.”Expanding federal back-

ground checks to privatesales at gun shows andonline is the gun-controleffort’s centerpiece and wasthe focus of Obama’sremarks. The system, de-signed to block criminalsand the mentally disturbedfrom getting firearms, cur-rently applies only to trans-actions by licensed gundealers.The National Rifle

Association opposes theexpansion, citing a threatthat it could bring federalregistries of gun owners,which would be illegal. TheNRA says what is needed isbetter enforcement of theexisting system, which itsays criminals too easilycircumvent.Democratic sponsors are

sure to need 60 votes to pre-

vail a daunting hurdlesince the party has just 53of the Senate’s 100 seats,plus two Democratic-lean-ing independents. In a signof potential trouble ahead,six Democrats backed afailed GOP proposal lastweek that would haverequired 60 votes for allfuture bills restrictingguns.“The week after

Newtown, we thought itwould be a tough road to 60votes but we’d get there,”said Mark Glaze, director ofMayors Against IllegalGuns, a group thatBloomberg helps lead.“Three months afterNewtown, it looks like atough slog but we’ll getthere.”Exactly how they can

achieve that has yet to bedemonstrated, withObama’s turn Thursday asarm-twister-in-chief under-scoring the political pres-sure that proponents feel isneeded 104 days after theNewtown killings.“Now’s the time to turn

that heartbreak into some-thing real,” said Obama.While not naming the NRA,he chided opponents fortrying to “make all ourprogress collapse under theweight of fear and frustra-

tion, or their assumption isthat people will just forgetabout it.”NRA officials are

unyielding in their opposi-tion, with spokesmanAndrew Arulanandam say-ing, “We have a politicallysavvy and a loyal votingbloc, and the politiciansknow that.”Obama and his backers

find themselves in anunusual position strugglingto line up votes for a pro-posal that polls show thepublic overwhelmingly sup-ports.An Associated Press-

GfK poll in January found84 percent support forexpanding backgroundchecks to include gun showsales. Near-universalchecks have received simi-lar or stronger support inother national surveys.Polls in some Southern

states have been compara-ble. March surveys by theQuinnipiac UniversityPolling Institute foundmore than 9 in 10 people inFlorida and Virginia back-ing expanded backgroundchecks, the same marginfound in February by anElon University Poll inNorth Carolina.Analysts say politicians

are loath to alienate the

people who oppose broaderbackground checks andother gun restrictionsbecause they tend to be ded-icated, single-issue voters.The polling also points

to a broader context thatpoliticians are watching:The same Quinnipiac pollsthat show one-sided sup-port for gun restrictionsshow people closely dividedover whether Obama or theNRA better representstheir views on guns.“They can be for a specif-

ic kind of gun control, butthey may be suspicious ofefforts of other kinds thatthey think might comedown the pike,” said PeterBrown, the Quinnipiacpoll’s assistant director.Sens. Chuck Schumer,

D-N.Y., Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Mark Kirk, R-Ill., have spent weeks nego-tiating with GOP senators,hoping to find a formulathat could win the neededbipartisan support.“I’ll wait and see the out-

come of that,” Sen. MarkBegich, D-Alaska, said ofthose talks, adding that themessage his constituentsgive him is, “Don’t takeaway our rights, our indi-vidual rights, our guns.”Other moderate

Democratic senators whocould be tough for support-ers of broader backgroundchecks to persuade includeHeitkamp of North Dakota,Mary Landrieu ofLouisiana, Kay Hagan ofNorth Carolina, MaxBaucus of Montana andMark Pryor of Arkansas.Also targeted by

Bloomberg’s ads are 10Republican senators,including Jeff Flake ofArizona, home of ex-Rep.Gabrielle Giffords, who wasseverely wounded in a massshooting, the retiring SaxbyChambliss of Georgia andmoderate Susan Collins ofMaine.The Senate gun bill also

would increase penaltiesfor illegal gun sales andslightly boost aid for schoolsafety.White House spokesman

Josh Earnest said Obamawill travel to DenverWednesday to talk to localleaders about Colorado’sefforts to reduce gun vio-lence.

APPresident Barack Obama listens as Katerina Rodgaard, a Maryland dance instruc-tor who knew one of the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings, speaks in the EastRoom of the White House in Washington, Thursday, where the president spokeabout measures to protect children from gun violence.

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• FRIDAY DINNERS:Dinner will be offered from5-8 p.m. at the CovingtonVFW Post 4235, 173 N.High St., Covington.Choices will include a $12New York strip steak,broasted chicken, fish,shrimp and sandwiches,all made-to-order.

• TAX HELP: AARPvolunteers will assist low-income and elderly taxpayers with preparingincome tax forms at theTroy-Miami County PublicLibrary from 11:30 a.m. to4 p.m. This is a free serv-ice.

• SEAFOOD DINNER:The Pleasant Hill VFWPost No. 6557, 7578 W.Fenner Road, LudlowFalls, will offer a three-piece fried fish dinner, 21-piece fried shrimp or a fish/shrimp combowith french fries and coleslaw for $6 from6-7:30 p.m. Frog legs, when available, willbe $10.

• JOHNNY MARZETTI: The AmericanLegion Post No. 586, Tipp City, will offer ameal of Johnny Marzetti, garlic toast,coleslaw and dessert for $7 from 6-7:30p.m.

SATURDAY

• KARAOKE PLANNED: AmericanPost No. 586, Tipp City, will offer the musicof Papa D’s Pony Express Karaoke from 7p.m. to close.

SUNDAY

• EGG HUNT: The Troy Abundant LifeChurch, 6661 N. County Road 25-A, Troy,will offer an Easter egg hunt from 10 a.m.to 1 p.m. The event also will include chil-dren’s activities, such as cookie decorat-ing, face painting and balloons. The egghunt will begin around noon. For moreinformation, call 339-4769.

• BREAKFAST SET: The LegionRiders of The American Legion Post No.586, Tipp City, will prepare an all-you-can-eat breakfast for $6 from 8-11 a.m. Itemsavailable will be eggs, bacon, sausage,sausage gravy, biscuits, French toast,hash browns, toast, waffles, pancakes,cinnamon rolls, juices and fruit.

MONDAY

• MAYOR’S BREAKFAST:Reservations are due today for the TroyMayor’s Breakfast set for 8 a.m. April 6 atFirst Place Christian Center, 16 W.Franklin St., Troy. The speaker will bePastor Phil Elmore of the Fields of GraceWorship Center in Covington.Reservations at $8 per person may bemade today by calling 573-6150 or 335-6397 or emailing pennyh12255@gmail.comor bakerma@aol.com.Tickets also are available from the

Office of the Mayor in Troy City Hall orfrom Tami Baird-Ganley.

• MEETING RESCHEDULED: Due toinclement weather, the March 25Covington Schools Building ProjectCommunity Meeting has been resched-uled for 7 p.m. today in the Covington HighSchool Commons. This meeting is to out-line the current status of the proposedschool building project. All residents of theCovington School District are invited andencouraged to attend. Information will begiven so that residents can understand thefacility needs of the school district as wellthe community developed solution. Timewill be allotted for questions and communi-ty input.

• CRAFTY LISTENERS: The CraftyListeners, a group of women who gettogether on Mondays from 1-2:30 p.m. atthe Milton-Union Public Library, to listen toan audio book and work on projects, willmeet. It may be needlework, making greet-ing cards or another hobby.

• BUDDY READING: Buddy reading atthe Milton-Union Public Library will be from6:30-7:30 p.m. The program for elemen-tary-aged students is designed to helpincrease reading skills and comprehen-sion. An adult or teenage volunteer will beavailable to aid students with their readinggoals.

• SHRIMP AND FRIES: The AmericanLegion Post No. 586, Tipp City, will presentshrimp and fries for $5 from 6-7:30 p.m.

Civic agendas• Monroe Township Board of Trustees

will meet at 7 p.m. at the TownshipBuilding.• The Tipp City Council will meet at 7:30

p.m. at the Government Center.• The Piqua City Commission will meet

at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall.• The Troy City Council will meet at 7

p.m. in the meeting room in CouncilChambers.• The Staunton Township Trustees will

meet at 7:30 p.m. in the StauntonTownship building.• Covington Board of Public Affairs will

meet at 4 p.m. in the Water Departmentoffice located at 123 W.Wright St.,Covington.• The Potsdam Village Council will meet

at 7 p.m. in the village offices.

TUESDAY

• LITERACY MEETING: The Troy

Literacy Council, an all-vol-unteer organization, willmeet at 7 p.m. at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center.Adults seeking help withbasic literacy or wishing tolearn English as a secondlanguage, and those inter-ested in becoming tutors,are asked to contact themessage center at (937)660-3170 for more informa-tion.

• TINY TOTS: The TinyTots program will be offeredfrom 1-1:30 p.m. at theMilton-Union Public Library.The interactive program isfor children from birth to 3years old and their parentsor caregivers.

Civic agendas• The Concord Township

Trustees will meet at 10 a.m.at the Concord TownshipMemorial Building, 1150Horizon West Court, Troy.

WEDNESDAY

• STORY HOUR: Milton-Union PublicLibrary story hours at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30p.m. Story hour is open to children ages3-5 and their caregiver. Programs includepuppet shows, stories and crafts. Contactthe library at (937) 698-5515 for detailsabout the weekly themes.

• COFFEE AND DOUGHNUTS: Coffeeand doughnuts will be served at the MiamiValley Veterans Museum from 9-11 a.m.for veterans, the family and the pubic.Tours of the museum also will be offered.For more information, call (937) 451-1455.

• SUPPORT GROUP: The Miami ValleyTroy Chapter of the National Alzheimer’sAssociation Caregiver Support Group willmeet from 4-5:30 p.m. at the Church ofthe Nazarene, 1200 Barnhart Road, Troy.Use the entrance at the side of the build-ing. For more information, call theAlzheimer’s Association at (937) 291-3332.

Civic agendas• The Elizabeth Township Trustees will

meet at 7 p.m. in the township building,5710 Walnut Grove Road, Troy.• The village of West Milton Planning

Board will meet at 7:30 p.m. in councilchambers.

THURSDAY

• QUARTER AUCTION: The PinkWarriors Relay for Life team will offer aquarter auction at 6:30 p.m. at RiversideSchool, 1625 Troy-Sidney Road, Troy.Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Many vendorsand local businesses will offer items. AGirl Scout troop will offer food and drink.Proceeds will benefit the AmericanCancer Society.

• SENIORS LUNCH: A seniors lunch,open to anyone, will be offered at the ABGraham Memorial Center, Conover. Theprogram will begin at 11 a.m. with speakerTeresa Bingham of ProfessionalAlternatives Therapies in St. Paris. Lunchwill be at noon for $6 per person. Call(937) 368-3700 for reservations.

• TAX HELP: AARP volunteer taxpreparation assistance for retirees will beoffered from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at theMilton-Union Public Library. The volun-teers accept clients on a first come, firstserved basis. Bring photo ID and SocialSecurity number.

• FRIENDS MEETING: The NewFriends of the Milton-Union Public Librarymeeting will be at 6:30 p.m. They will dis-cuss details about the upcoming booksale.

• HOT DOGS: The American LegionAuxiliary Unit 586, Tipp City, will offer hotdogs with toppings for $2 and cookies twofor cents from 6-7:30 p.m. Euchre willbegin at 7 p.m. for $5.

• PRACTICE ACT TEST: SylvanLearning Center will offer a free practiceACT test at the Vandalia center. Any col-lege bound high school sophomore or jun-ior may take advantage of this. A practicetest may be taken in either long form(three hours) or short form (90 minutes).Various times throughout the day areavailable. Parents must register studentsby April 3 at (937) 898-6686 to register.

• DISCOVERYWALK: A morning dis-covery walk for adults will be from 8-9:30a.m. at Aullwood Audubon Center, 1000Aullwood Road, Dayton. Tom Hissong,education coordinator, will lead walkers asthey experience the wonderful seasonalchanges taking place. Bring binoculars.

FRIDAY

• FRIDAY DINNERS: Dinner will beoffered from 5-8 p.m. at the CovingtonVFW Post 4235, 173 N. High St.,Covington. Choices will include a $12 NewYork strip steak, broasted chicken, fish,shrimp and sandwiches, all made-to-order.

• TAX HELP: AARP volunteers willassist low-income and elderly tax payerswith preparing income tax forms at theTroy-Miami County Public Library from11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. This is a free service.

• CHICKEN FRY: The Pleasant HillVFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. FennerRoad, Ludlow Falls, will offer a three-piecechicken dinner with french fries and maca-roni salad for $7 from 6-8 p.m. Chicken liv-ers also will be available.

• SHRIMP ANDWINGS: The AmericanLegion Post No. 586, Tipp City, will pre-pare shrimp, wings, fries and coleslaw for$7 from 6-7:30 p.m.

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TROY — Parents ofhome school students areinvited to attend a homeschool question and answersession at the Troy-Miami

County Public Library from2:30-3:30 p.m. April 10.Several home-school moth-ers will be on hand toanswer questions and

share experiences. Comeand bring a friend. No reg-istration is necessary. Formore information, callOlive at 339-0502, Ext. 123.

Home-school questions to be answered

Restaurant inspectionsare performed in the coun-ty by Miami CountyPublic Health, except inPiqua, which has its ownhealth department. MiamiCounty Public Health canbe reached at (937) 573-3500, by email atinfo@miamicounty-health.net or on thewebsite at www.miami-countyhealth.net.These violation reports

were provided by MiamiCounty Public Health.

Feb. 21• McDonald’s, 1560

W. Main St., Troy —Back hand sink nearthree compartment sinkwas not accessible. Allhand sinks must be easilyaccessible to help ensure

proper hand washing.Dishwashers must washtheir hands after touchingunclean utensils and thengoing to clean utensils onthe clean side of dish-washer, meaning washhands before touchingclean utensils and equip-ment.Observed ice scoop

lying in ice bin and icemachine. Ensure scoop isstored properly to preventcontamination of ice.Observed buns

wrapped in storage rackand cart, under and nextto paper towel dispenser.Move buns from this areato prevent contaminationof water dripping fromhands and splashing fromhand sink.Observed food debris in

the bottom of the freez-er/coolers. Clean whenrequired.Observed non-secure

dump sink in front.Ensure sink is repaired soit is level. Also fix waterleak if present.Observed door thresh-

old (metal) going to thewalk-in freezer from out-side damaged with icebuild-up. Fix properly.Observed utensil boxes

under front counter onfloor. All clean items mustbe off floor to prevent con-tamination.Observed sandwich

wrapper tray holders withfood residual/debris build-up. Ensure these paperwrapper holders arecleaned when needed toprevent contamination of

wrappers. Observed lowsanitizer level in sanitizercloth buckets. Ensureproper monitoring of sani-tizer levels in bucketsthat hold clothes.

• Hinders, 902 W.Main St., Tipp City —Open drinks on prep sur-faces. Contain all drinksand store separate fromprep surfaces to preventcross contamination. Thisis a critical violation;immediate correctionrequired.Floors under equip-

ment unclean; cleanareas. Cabinets in outsidebar area not designed tobe smooth and easilycleanable. Seal cabinets toprovide cleanable surface.No date marking on

some containers. Date

foods with consume-bydate not to exceed sevendays to reduce harmfulbacteria growth.Handles to equipment

unclean. Clean handles.Torn gaskets to refrigera-tion equipment. Replacegaskets.Fly strip above three-

compartment sink.Remove fly strip.Marinara sauce found

sitting at room tempera-ture with no temperaturecontrol. Keep cold at 41degrees or below or hot at135 degrees or above toreduce harmful bacteriagrowth. This is a criticalviolation; immediateattention required.Observed gap at bottom

of rear exit door. Sealopening to prevent mice,

etc. from entering thefacility. Damaged fryerbaskets with broken offmetal pieces. Replacedamaged baskets.Observed cigarette

butts in dish used as ashtray in dish area fromemployee. No smoking ispermitted in kitchen area.Stop this practice imme-diately.Monitor prep cooler to

ensure it is holding atproper temperature.Management reportersunit was just repaired.Temperatures found rang-ing from 41-44 degrees forrecently cut tomatoes.Old date stickers

remain on clean dishes.Remove old stickers priorto cleaning.Observed repairs due

such as fryer containersof used oil moved outside;new four-compartmentsink at bar, etc.Finish surfaces not

smooth and easily clean-able in these areas. Finishoff all floors, walls andceiling areas to be smoothand easily cleanable. Anyremodeling to barrequires plan review.Willfollow up in two weeks.All violations must be cor-rected.

Feb. 22• Frisch’s, 16 Weller

Drive, Tipp City — Re-inspection for cold holdingbuffet. Food service hasdone two improvementsto buffet, new air guidesand a new thermostat.One end of the cold hold-ing temperatures of 41degrees or below. The farend is not doing as well,so fix issue properly toensure all perishablefoods hold 41 degrees orbelow, to limit bacterialgrowth.• Sakai Japanese

Bistro, 2303 W. MainSt., Troy — No criticalelements at time ofinspection.Temperature review:

cold holding at 41 degreesor below, hot holding at135 degrees or above,reheating at 165 degreesor greater. For cooling,must be 135 degrees to 70degrees within two hoursand 135 degrees to 41degrees within four hours.Clean hard-to-reach

walls and floor areas ofobserved build-up/resid-ual. Also deep-clean floorswere needed. Observedice scoop not stored prop-erly. Store ice scoop for icemachine in a clean loca-tion to protect ice fromcontamination. Observedgaskets and seals on cool-ers with food residual.Clean properly and fre-quently. Observed stainedresidual on cuttingboards. Ensure a deepcleaning when required.Resurface or replace asneeded. Felt food residualon handles of coolers.Clean when needed ordaily.

• Main StreetMarket, 982 N. MarketSt., Troy —All repairwork is complete.Plumbing departmentfinalized project on Feb.21. All sinks installed inexisting locations. Allequipment has beencleared and sanitizedprior to being placed backin area. Fryer oil hasbeen replaced.Small area at entrance

to provide prep cooler notsealed. Seal bare concreteto provide mop-able sur-face. Complete withinseven days.

• Fox’s Pizza Den, 19N. Main St., WestMilton — Observed fooddebris in bottom of coolersand freezers. Clean whenneeded and properly.Paper towel holders

needed for paper towelsat hand sinks, includingthe kitchen sink and rest-room. Use current holdersor install new holders forthe type of paper towel.Observed raw steak

meat stored above un-rawfood items. Move rawmeats to the proper levelto prevent contaminationof foods. Cold water is notworking at three-com-partment sink. Fix issueso water is not too hot towork in.

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MIAMI COUNTY RESTAURANT INSPECTIONS

Thank you foryour support

To the Editor:Thank you to the Miami

County community for thetremendous display of respectand support as we celebratethe life of Jerry Lee Jackson.Jerry was an employee of theMiami County HighwayDepartment who loved spend-ing time with his family andriding horses. He was also an

active member of CommunityGrace Brethren Church.

Jerry loved his work andthis was recognized by theemployees who showed theirappreciation of his dedicatedservice by speaking at Jerry’sfuneral and serving as pallbearers.

The love shown by the greatnumber of people who attendedthe service, sent flowers andmade donations to favoritecharities meant so much toJerry’s family.

To Rev. Steve Peters and themembers of the church, thefamily thanks you for yourprayers and the delicious mealthat was provided after thefuneral. We are so grateful andknow Jerry would have beenvery humbled and appreciativeof the outpouring of your kind-ness. He will be missed bymany.

— Robert LongGreat-uncle of

Jerry Lee Jackson

DOONESBURY

PAIGE SOWERSEdison Community College Student

You may hear some of the same circumstances repeated over andover, just in different ways. When this happens, it usually means it isimportant or just popular at the time. After hearing about it so much, itbecomes old and then people begin to forget the concern. Most phenome-nons are not an issue, unless an unexpected uprising happens.

The issue of drug usage is rising globally every day, more and morethan ever before. The production, the distribution and the consumptionof illegal drugs is a problem.

Globalizing processes have profoundly shaped local drug problemsover the past few decades. Globalization of drugs affects the culturalaspect, migration and international trade around the world.

In the 1980s there was a rise in unemployment. Acontroversial drug was heroin. Many believed that itwas a link for the jobless; heroin provided relief fromthe pains of economic deprivation. This affected thetotal value of global trade.

International trade in illicit drugs is a majorissue. The industries will thrive and prosper as longas they are in demand. Trade in illegal drugs is esti-mated at 5-6 percent of overall world trade, which isslightly larger than global trade in agriculturalproducts and cars. The international drug trade isapproximately $400 billion dollars annually.

The drug trade is making it difficult for migra-tion. Many people travel around the world every day.It is just a feature of human life. The spread ofmovement of migrants has risen to 200 million sincethe 1980’s. Immigrants have become a source to hidethe substances, many in their bags, clothes and eveninside their bodies.

Kinship ties include a relationship of drugs andthe economy, enhancing the drugs on our streets. Ifthis does not come to a halt, it will affect our future.Families will be living with drug deals on every cor-ner because it will become more frequent in neigh-borhoods. Generations will become a society of gangsand drug dealers. Is that normal? Will it become thenorm? People participate in drug selling becausethey become wealthy so then they can buy the latesttrends and fashion. These people are supported because there are thou-sands of people that buy the drugs. The real question is will it ever bestopped?

Why do people abuse drugs? Drugs used for illnesses can becomeaddicting — things such as pain killers and depression medications,cough syrups and sinus medications, to name a few. People use them fornot only their health issues but also recreationally.

When they abuse these drugs, it affects the way they are prescribed.Doctors are still allowed to call some drugs in via phone and others, suchas cough syrups, have to be written as a prescription. This is a hassle topharmacists and feels untrustworthy to patients. It affects how you buythem over the counter, which can make it harder for those who needthem to get them.

It has been argued by many that it is globalizing processes that liesbehind the enormous social and economic changes that have beenreshaping the modern world. In this view, the relationship betweendrugs and the informal economy can only be fully understood by viewingthe social, economic and cultural context.

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Much like the majority of thenation, I’ve had it.

I’ve had it completely, utterlyup to here with these deplorableconditions.

We’ve endured more than ourfair share of this, my friends.

It’s starting to get ugly, folks.This catastrophe has even led meto rebel against the neat andorganized order of everyday life.

It started innocently enough.But it’s the crime I committedlast week that let me I know Ihad gone too far.

Last Sunday, I went throughthe Express Lane — 15 items orless — with at least 30 items.

It was snowing. I’m sorry. Idon’t know what got in to me.

I thought I had physically andmentally prepared for last week’sblast of snow.

I made sure I had all theessentials and accomplishedeverything I needed done before Iwould be buried for days anddays in the “white death.”

I bought frozen pizzas, DietMountain Dew and a bag of Dovechocolate. How else did youexpect me to survive without thatin the house?

I’m sure all you city folks

enjoyed the wondrous snowfallwhich cascaded your manicuredyards with a glistening whiteblanket of snow.

But being out in the country,you feel so far away from civiliza-tion and food.

You can never be too surewhen you may see anotherhuman being when you are outthis far. Who knew when I couldnext stop in at Mr. Oleson’sGeneral Store? It could have beenweeks, or even a month or more.

I just didn’t want to be snowedin my house without caffeine. Itcould turn ugly very, very quickly.

Luckily, my dad came to therescue. He painstakingly plowsout the driveway for me eachstorm.

So in the spirit of what I hope

to be the final snowfall of theyear, here’s a quiz for all my cityfriends:

When you live out in the coun-try and your dad shows up toplow out the snow from yourdrive way, you:

A) Stand at the window andwave hello?

B) Go outside to watch andeven direct where you prefer thepiles of snow to go so the piles ofgravel don’t impede your futureflower beds?

Or C) Grab a shovel and startcleaning off the walk like thedickens because once you choseoption A and B and you willnever, ever make that mistakeagain?

If you answered C, you are cor-rect. You are correct and you arein good graces for the rest of theweek.

Luckily, it’s getting a bitwarmer and the mounds of snoware disappearing.

So now we’ll have a wholeother beast to prepare for thisspring — Meteorologist Mayhem.

Have you ever noticed that theseverity of impending doom interms of the weather is in directrelation to the amount of “Jazz

Hands” the weather people use?“There will be lightening

strikes all over the southern por-tion of the Miami Valley! Takecover!” Side step. Extend arm.Turn, pivot, point to weather dis-aster area and jazz hands …

I mean, today’s meteorologistshave basically taken Broadwayclasses to entertain and scare usout of our wits with every cloudformation.

I can name a few who couldhave nominated for an Oscar forthis year’s performance of “SnowFlake — A Story of Survival.”

Next I’m sure they’ll be amp-ing up the anxiety attacks withspring tornadoes.

And I will be rushing to beatthe lightening, the wind and therain and infuriating every one inthe Express Line at Mr. Oleson’sGeneral Store. So when the windstarts to blow, please don’t mindme and the lack of my ExpressLane etiquette. Blame theMeteorologist Man. He made medo it…and all that jazz.

“Twin” Melanie Yingst appearson Fridays in the Troy DailyNews. She’s a walking, talkinghurricane.

Melanie YingstTroy Daily News Columnist

I’m just hoping to weather the storm out here

Drug usage isa global problem

Composting,gardeningworkshop setPIQUA — A free back-

yard composting and gar-dening workshop, a jointprogram of the MiamiCounty MasterGardeners and MiamiCounty SanitaryEngineering Department,will be conducted from10 a.m. to noon April 13at Upper Valley AppliedTechnology Center, 8901Looney Road.The registration dead-

line is April 9.Presentations will be

on basic composting, soils,sustainable gardeningand companion garden-ing.Door prizes will be

offered and compostingbins will be available forpurchase.For more information

about the workshop or to

register, call Cindy Backat 440-3488 or sendher an email atcbach@miamicountysed.com.

‘My Book andMe’ to be offeredWEST MILTON —

Children’s librarianWendy Heisey is intro-ducing a five-week pro-gram, “My Book and Me,”from 6:30-8 p.m. April 2at the Milton-UnionPublic Library, 560 S.Main St., for school-agedchildren.The purpose of the

program is to aid youngpeople in overcomingtheir fear of writing andto discover their aptitudeof composition.Heisey will provide

prompts for those whomay be stumped for anidea.She also will use a dif-

ferent type of materials

for illustrating part oftheir story each week.Children do not have toattend each week, andtheir books will be spiralbound in order for themto insert additional sto-ries later.Those who cannot pen

their own stories arerequired to have aguardian present to helpthem with this section.Participants will meet

each Tuesday during themonth of April from 6:30-8 p.m. and can partici-pate in an art show onMay 4.Heisey will provide

refreshments and chil-dren will have a phototaken with their cre-ations and can choose totake their books home orlet the library keepthem for a specialcollection.For more information,

call (937) 698-5515 orvisit mupubliclibrary.org.

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The Miami County Safety Council,one of the oldest such organizations inthe state, has been recognized by theOhio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation(BWC) for its efforts to increase safetyawareness in the workplace and educatebusinesses on occupational safety andhealth issues.The council, which was established

about 40 years ago, was one of 80 safetycouncils in the state vying for the title ofSafety Council of the Year, which went tothe Ashtabula Safety Council. The Miamicouncil received an honorable mention, itwas announced Tuesday in a pressrelease from the BWC.Miami County Safety Council manag-

er Marcy Mikolajewski said the honor isin keeping with the council’s commit-ment to “providing safety education andstandards for all of our members.”More than 90 businesses belong to the

council, which is a joint program of thePiqua Area Chamber of Commerce andthe BWC’s Division of Safety andHygiene, and is also supported by theTroy, Tipp City and Covington chambersof commerce. Member businesses hail notonly from Miami County, but fromSidney, Greenville, Columbus, Dayton,Huber Heights and Miamisburg.“Some of the businesses in other areas

prefer the efficiency with which theMiami council is run,” said Mikolajewski,who is also the administrative assistantfor the Piqua Area Chamber ofCommerce.

In addition to addressing safety issuesat its monthly meetings and the work-shops and seminars that educate areaemployers, the council also covers healthand human resources issues, which inter-twine with safety matters. For instance,a recent workshop addressed grief in theworkplace which, Mikolajewski said, “canaffect safety, as far as people’s work per-formance. If they are grieving, they maynot have their mind on what they’redoing and that can cause a safety issue.It also can be an h.r. issue as far as peo-ple being off work.”Besides its educational endeavors, the

Miami County Safety Council also spon-sors scholarships and holds a Christmasfood drive.“We have an excellent steering com-

mittee with people who really care aboutsafety issues and the community,”Mikolajewski said.Another incentive for businesses to

join the council is that all participatingemployers receive rebates on their work-ers’ compensation premiums. Memberbusinesses can receive a 2 percent rebatefor attending a specific number of safetycouncil programs and an additional 2percent for demonstrating a reduction inthe frequency and/or severity of work-place incidents.Membership is open to all businesses,

whether affiliated with the Piqua AreaChamber of Commerce or not. Annualmembership dues are $137, which coversone person attending each of the regular12 lunch meetings per year. The nextmeeting will be at 11:30 a.m. Thursday,April 11, at A Learning Place, 201 RobertM. Davis Parkway.Applications for membership and

other information are available on thechamber of commerce website atwww.piquaareachamber.com or by calling(937) 773-2765.

FUNERAL DIRECTORY

•• Crata J. CavinderPEMBERTON — Crata J. Cavinder, 79,of 6527 Palestine St., Pemberton, Ohio,passed away peacefully at 3:17 a.m.Thursday, March 28, 2013, at Miami

Valley Hospital, Dayton. Private grave-side services will be at the convenienceof the family. Arrangements are beinghandled by Adams Funeral Home, 1401Fair Road, Sidney, OH 45365.

In respect for friends and family, theTroy Daily News prints a funeraldirectory free of charge. Families whowould like photographs and more

detailed obituary information pub-lished in the Troy Daily News shouldcontact their local funeral home forpricing details.

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SPRINGFIELD — Richard Arthur“Dick” Roberts, died March 18, 2013, atOhio Masonic Home, Springfield, Ohio.He was born in 1921 to Arthur andLydia Johnston Roberts.He was a 1940 Springfield High Schoolgraduate.Dick, a Purple Heart recipient, servedin the U.S. Navy from 1941-45. Hemet and married fellow Navyinstructor Esther Kathleen Gant in1943.After 30 years as a tool and diemaker and quality control engineerfor Steel Products, he and Esther spentretirement traveling and spoiling theirgrandchildren and great-grandchildren.Beginning as a child in youth churchchoir, Dick remained active singing whilein the Navy and in church choirs. As amember of the Chancel Choir at SulphurGrove United Methodist Church, Dicksang until he was physically unable. Heis again standing and singing, now inThe Heavenly Choir with Esther at hisside.

Dick is survived by his children,Kathleen Roberts of Galloway, MaggieVent of Troy and Rick Roberts Jr. (Pat) ofHarveysburg; grandchildren, John Vent(Heather) of Troy, Amy (Dean) Weaver ofGallatin Tenn., Lane (Carla) Oatman ofMiddletown and Alison (Bernie)Kwiatkowski of Pittsburgh, Pa.; great-

grandchildren, Allie and JennaVent and Cam, Grant, Jaceyand Laurel Weaver; and brother,the Rev. William (Lorraine)Roberts of Blackfoot, Idaho.A memorial service will be at

11 a.m. March 30, 2013, at SulphurGrove UMC, 7505 Taylorsville Road,Huber Heights, with the Rev. TomHanover officiating. Family will receiveguests beginning at 10 a.m.Gifts in his memory may be made tothe church building fund or to UnitedStates Navy Memorial.Arrangements by Jackson, Lytle &Lewis Funeral Homes.Condolences may be made to the family by visiting www.jacksonlytle.com.

RICHARD ARTHUR ‘DICK’ ROBERTS

TOLEDO — Arthur Frederick Howard,an accomplished Toledo organist andorgan technician, died Monday, March25, 2013. He was 67.Mr. Howard was born Sept. 8, 1945, inTroy, to Emma and Harry Howard. Heattended Miami Countyschools, graduated in 1963from Piqua Catholic High andattended CincinnatiConservatory of Music.His first job was as organistat St. Mary’s Roman CatholicChurch in Cincinnati. Heserved churches from TrinityEpiscopal, Troy, and St. Mark’sEpiscopal, Sidney, to a numberof Toledo churches.He worked with electronic andpipe organs, rebuilding an entire theaterorgan inside a Maumee home andrestoring a church organ in NorthCarolina.He was preceded in death by his par-

ents. He is survived by 10 brothers andsisters, Harriet “Dolly” Heithaus (Chick)of Naples, Fla., Willard of Placitas, N.M.,Frank, Marion (Kris), Keith (Pam),William, Robert and Randy, all of Piqua,Marette, of Houston, and Antoinette

Reynolds, of Piqua. Also surviving are numerousnieces and nephews, includ-ing Kristi Creager of Piqua;and great-nephews and -nieces.A private family service willbe held April 6 in the Piquaarea, with burial in MiamiMemorial Park, Covington. Condolences may be sent

to: Facebook/Art Howardmemorial page.

In lieu of flowers donations may bemade to the Holiday with Heart fund, c/oToledo Community Foundation, 300Madison Avenue, Suite 1300, Toledo,OH 43604 (www.toledocf.org)

HOWARD

ARTHUR FREDERICK HOWARD

TIPP CITY — Bernard J. “Bernie”Pleiss Jr., 83, of Tipp City, Ohio, diedTuesday, March 26, 2013, at his resi-dence.He was born July 14 1929, on BastilleDay in Omaha, Neb., to Bernard Sr. andClara (Sommer) Pleiss.Bernie graduated with a bachelor ofscience in electrical engineeringfrom Marquette University in1951. Shortly thereafter Bernieand Rita moved to Dayton,Ohio, where they began to raisehis family.Bernie worked as an engineerat Delco Products for 10 yearsand at A.O. Smith for 28 years.Bernie was a member of St.John the Baptist CatholicChurch since 1977. He servedas the financial secretary of theKnights of Columbus Council 5129 for20 years; was a lifetime member of theNeedy Basket of Miami County; andmember of the St. John’s Over 50 Club.He was preceded in death by his par-ents and two brothers, Lawrence andKenneth.Surviving Bernie is his loving wife of61 years, Rita (Romanowski) Pleiss; hissister, Mary Graeve Erhardt; his chil-dren, Drs. Michael (Chris) Pleiss ofSunnyvale, Calif., and Mark (Cecilia)

Pleiss of Baltimore, Md., S. SusanMarie Pleiss of Oldenburg, Ind., Linda(Richard) Felts of Asheville, N.C., Lisa(Kevin) Walker of Findlay, Ohio, Philip(Karen) Pleiss of Madison, Miss., MartinPleiss of Dayton, Ohio, and KristinaPleiss of Knoxville, Tenn; grandchildren,Katie and Geoffrey Pleiss, Melanie and

Timothy Pleiss, Matthew,Colin and Abigail Walker,Benjamin and Broc Pleissand Bella Troutman.Mass of Christian Burialwill be at 2 p.m. Tuesday,April 2, 2013, at St. John theBaptist Catholic Church,753 S. Hyatt St., Tipp City,OH 45371, with Father MarcSherlock as celebrant. Burial will follow in St.John’s Cemetery, Tipp City.

Visitation will be from 4-6 p.m. and 7-9p.m. Monday, April 1, 2013, also at St.John’s Church.Contributions may be made to theInternational Myeloma Foundation,Miami County Hospice or Tipp CityNeedy Baskets in loving memory ofBernie.Arrangements entrusted to Frings andBayliff Funeral Home Tipp City. Online condolences may be made atwww.fringsandbayliff.com.

BERNARD J. ‘BERNIE’ PLEISS JR

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COVINGTON — John P. Bubeck II,63, of Covington, passed awayThursday, March 28, 2013, at hishome.John was born in Greenville on Dec.20, 1949, to the late Robert Lee andShirley (Kothman) Bubeck.He was a graduate of Covington HighSchool, class of 1970.He was a U.S. Army veteranserving during the Vietnam War.Mr. Bubeck retired with 39years of service from B.F.Goodrich, Troy.He was a member of CovingtonEagles Aerie No. 3998, the CovingtonVFW Post No. 4235 and a life memberof AMVETS Post No. 66, Covington.He was preceded in death by his par-ents; and two stillborn brothers, Robertand Matthew Bubeck.John is survived by his three sonsand daughters-in-law, Travis andJessica Bubeck of Covington, Justin“Munch” Bubeck and fiancée’ ChelseaSwan of Hilton Head, S.C., John

“Bubby” III and Amy Bubeck ofCovington; three grandsons, Cash andPenn Bubeck and Kane Bubeck; stepgrandson, Ryan Evans; four sisters andbrothers-in-law, Roberta and DavidMorris of Lompoc, Calif., Judy Waltersof Covington, Julie Cole of Bradfordand Barbara and Chris Reed of

Bradford; best friends, Nick andSheila Carine of Bradford;nieces, nephews, other relativesand friends.Funeral services will be at 11a.m. Tuesday at the Bridges-Stocker-Fraley Funeral Home,

Covington. Interment will be in Miami MemorialPark Cemetery, Covington, with militaryhonors provided by the Veteran EliteTribute Squad. The family will receivefriends 4-8 p.m. Monday at the funeralHome.In lieu of flowers, contributions maybe made to Hospice of Miami County.Condolences may be sent to the family at www.stockerfraley.com.

JOHN P. BUBECK II

For the Troy Daily News

The Miami ValleyMusic Festival Associationwill host the second annu-al River Clean-up in Troyfrom 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.April 13.The event, hosted in

collaboration with theMiami County ParkDistrict, will give commu-nity members the opportu-nity to clean up the MiamiRiver while enjoying livelocal music. Volunteerswill receive a $5 gift cardto Kuzzinz Bar and Grillfor their service, alongwith free music entertain-ment before and duringthe event.Registration will begin

at 10 a.m. at Kuzzinz Barand Grille at 3006 N.County Road 25-A in Troy.

Volunteers may check inany time between 10 a.m.to 3 p.m., and will be car-pooled to clean up loca-tions at Twin Arches andFarrington parks alongthe Miami River. Theclean up will end at 4p.m., and volunteers maycheck in and leave anytime between 10 a.m. and4 p.m. Attendees areencouraged to wear oldclothes, and bring gloves ifdesired.Volunteers will be

entertained with NativeAmerican flute by localnaturalist John De Boer.Local folk musician ScottLee also will provideentertainment for volun-teers along the river.

All recyclable materialscollected during the eventwill be donated to Can DoRecycling, a programoffered by Vision Mentorsthat gives adults with dis-abilities the opportunity tolearn new skills and growas individuals while gen-erating income. Attendeesare encouraged to bringany metals, cardboard,paper, newspapers, plastic,computers with monitors,cell phones or books theywould like to recycle tothe event to support theprogram.Last year, the event

recruited 45 volunteers formore than 135 hours ofservice to the community.More information on

the event may be found atwww.miamivalleymu-sicfest.com.

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Writers asked to submit poetryTIPP CITY — The Tipp City Area Arts Council will host its fourth annual

poetry contest and jam. The contest is open to grades 4-12 and adults in TippCity and its adjacent areas. Categories will include grades 3-4; 5-6; 7-8; 9-12and adult. All work must be original and not previously published.

Entries are due by Monday, April 15. Winners will be announced at thepoetry jam on Monday, April 30, which will be hosted at 6 p.m. at Benkin’sStudio 14, 14 E. Main St.

Refreshments will be served, and the public is welcome to attend and readan original or published poem in celebration of National Poetry Month.

Rules and entry forms can be found on the TCAAC website at www.tippcit-yartscouncil.com under the Get Involved link.

Contact Lynn Woodworth-Shirk at lrshirk@tippcity.k12.oh.us for moreinformation or to email entries.

Brass quintet performance set for MarchTROY — The upcoming R.S. Paul Chamber Concert at 7:30 p.m. March 26

will feature the Wright State University Brass Quintet. Hosted at the HaynerCenter, the quintet performance includes Daniel Zehringer, first trumpet, EricKnorr, second trumpet, Jonas Thoms on horn, Dr. Gretchen McNamara ontrombone and Thomas Lukowicz on tuba. The faculty brass quintet promisesa rousing concert guaranteed to swing the winter from your head and inspirea brighter pace to your gait.

Poetry reading slatedTROY — To celebrate National Poetry Month, the Hayner Center will be

hosting a poetry reading at 7:30 p.m. April 11. This year, for the first time,poets will have the option to have their poems considered for submission inthe Hayner Poetry Book. Faculty members from Wright State University willreview the poems for awards and inclusion in the Hayner Poetry Book.

Brukner benefit features wildlife, musicTROY — A day of music, song, hikes and hot dogs is planned for the ninth

annual “Tunes in the Trees” event from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at BruknerNature Center, 5995 W. Horseshoe Road.

While the event is free, donations are encouraged for the wildlife rehabili-tation unit.

Musicians will be performing bluegrass, folk and American acoustic musicon two stages and raffle tickets are on sale now for a 2013 “Tunes in theTrees” custom Inlay HD28 Vintage Series Martin Guitar — a $4,300 value.The drawing will take place at the end of the day.

The event is supported by Martin Guitar, Sound City Music, Piqua Guitar,Characters Printing and Rum River Blend.

For more information, call (937) 698-6493.

Vendors sought for festivalENGLEWOOD — Applications from artists and craftspeople for the 40th

annual Englewood Art Festival on Aug.10-11 are being accepted by theEnglewood Festival and Arts Commission. The festival will be held under thetrees at Centennial Park off Union Boulevard in Englewood.

All work must be of original design and produced by hand.Artists are invited to submit photos in their area of expertise for review by

a committee.Applications are due June 1 and can be found on the city’s website at

www.englewood.oh.us under events or by calling Barb at (937) 836-4175 orKathleen at (937) 836-1258.

Artwork requested for contestTIPP CITY — The Tipp City Area Arts Council will sponsor its free annual

student art contest this spring. Artwork may be 2D or 3D and should be sub-mitted along with the entry form between April 17 through May 24.

The contest is open to students in grades K-12. Categories for the contestare K-1, 2-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12. Students must live or go to school in TippCity or its surrounding areas.

This year’s theme, “What’s in the Woods?” will be adjudicated by a commit-tee, and prizes will be awarded at the June 6 reception. Artwork will be onexhibit from June 6 through July 7 at Benkin’s Studio 14 Gallery, 14 E. MainSt. in Tipp City.

Rules and entry forms can be found on the TCAAC website at www.tippcit-yartscouncil.com under the Get Involved link.

For more information, contact Molly Spencer atmollypspencer@frontier.com or Lily Nichols at lnichols12@woh.rr.com.

Hayner to host renown ensembleTROY — The international ensemble Tutti Solisti will perform chamber

music at 7:30 p.m. April 9 at the Hayner Center. Its members are MiriamKramer on violin, Deborah Kramer Netanel on cello, and Steven Aldredge onpiano.

Miriam Kramer hails from London, England. In 1995 she won the UnitedKingdom’s Jewish Performer of the Year award. Recently The New York Timescalled Kramer “a gifted young violinist who proved a soulful performer show-ing flair and temperament, fine sensitivity and warmth.”

Netanel is a well-respected cellist, composer and arranger with degreesfrom the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, Rubin Academyof Music (Jerusalem), Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University ofCincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

A faculty member at Wright State, Aldredge has performed extensively asa soloist and collaborator both in the U.S. and abroad.

As a fellowship winner of the Pacific Music Festival, he performed a seriesof collaborative concerts in Japan with the principle members of the ViennaPhilharmonic and the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, which were broadcastthroughout Asia. Aldredge is largely responsible for bringing the trio to thearea.

For more information, call 339-0457 or visit www.TroyHayner.org.

Movie night to feature Stewart comedyTROY — The Hayner Center will show a 1950 comedy starring Jimmy

Stewart as part of its Let’s Go to the Movies at Hayner regular series on April12. Stewart plays one of his most endearing roles as Elwood P. Dowd, a mid-dle-aged amiable, eccentric individual whose best friend is a large invisiblerabbit named Harvey.

Harvey is a benign but mischievous creature from Celtic mythology whocan only be seen by certain people. Because Dowd insists on introducingHarvey to everyone, the family’s social life has become non-existent.

His sister and niece are driven to distraction and plan on having Dowdcommitted to the local sanitarium.

The laughter begins when the sanitarium doctors aren’t sure who theyneed to treat, Dowd or his sister. It’s confusion and chaos when Dowd isreleased and his sister is admitted. This movie is continually on the best 100movies list.

The evening will start at 7:30 with an introduction to the film. After view-ing the film, a short discussion may follow. There will be cafe-style seatingwith popcorn and soda pop.

The film series is intended for adult viewership and may not be appropri-ate for children under 13.

The series comprises of a movie once a month from October through April,excluding December.

Hayner will host an additional movie, “The Glenn Miller Story,” as part ofthe film series on May 10.

For the TroyDaily News

ChristinaRyan Claypoolhas been a jour-nalist fordecades. Butuntil she won arecent nationalOakTaraPublishers’ con-test, she had never beenpublished in the inspira-tional romance genre. Now,her Christian short story,“Not Just anotherCasserole Lady,” has beenincluded in OakTara’s newanthology, “I Choose You.”

The Sidney woman is acolumnist for the SidneyDaily News and alsowrites the Inspirations col-umn for GenerationsMagazine, a Lima Newspublication. She has free-lanced for many newspa-pers and magazines overthe years, along with beinga former broadcast journal-ist with WTLW TV 44 inLima.

Claypool also hasauthored Christian recov-ery books, “Seeds of Hopefor Survivors for everyone

who has ever beenbrokenhearted,addicted, or a vic-tim” and“Forgiven.”

Her fictionaltale is about a late40s hair stylist,Trish Delaney, wholoses her husbandin a tragic accident.

Trish has a specialgift for helping womenwith hair loss issues due tocancer.

The Shelby Countywoman was one of 37authors whose entrieswere selected for whatOakTara Publishers referto as, “The best-of-the-bestromance short story con-test winners from acrossthe globe.”

“It’s a beautiful bookand I am thankful to beone of the writers includ-ed,” said Ryan Claypoolwho also is a seasonedspeaker and has been fea-tured on Joyce MeyerMinistries’ national TVprogram and CBN’s 700Club.

“This past October I lostmy close 41-year-old friend,Kimberly Winegardner, to

cancer after a three-yearbattle, and I wrote thepiece in her honor,”Claypool said.

Released in December2012, “I Choose You” isavailable throughwww.oaktara.com,www.facebook.com/oaktara,www.amazon.com andwww.barnesandnoble.comamong other outlets. Therealso is a link on RyanClaypool’s website atwww.christinaryanclay-pool.com.

The book also soon willbe available as an ebook.

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• “G.I. Joe: Retaliation”— If a big, dumb actionmovie knows it’s a big,dumb action movie andrevels in that fact, is thatpreferable to a big, dumbaction movie making themistake of thinking it’s sig-nificant, relevant art?That’s the question toponder here if you canthink straight and yourears aren’t ringing toobadly. This sequel of sortsto the 2009 blockbuster“G.I. Joe: The Rise of theCobra” seems to havesome cheeky fun withitself, from Bruce Willischeerily revealing thearsenal he’s hiding in hisquiet suburban home toRZA from the Wu-TangClan essentially showingup and playing himself. Amajor city is obliteratedwith the touch of a buttonand several others are inperil as the world hingeson nuclear destruction inwhat amounts to a hammygame of chicken. Nothingmatters really. This is amovie based on a Hasbrotoy, after all it’s all specta-cle and bombast. But atleast “G.I. Joe” is aware ofits vapidity compared to,say, last week’s “OlympusHas Fallen,” in whichNorth Korean terroriststook over the White Housein self-serious fashion, butour Secret Service agent-hero found time to makewedged-in, smart-aleckyquips on the way to savingthe day.That’s not to say that this“G.I. Joe” is good, asidefrom a couple of dazzling

action set pieces, but atleast it’s efficient in itsmuscular mindlessness.Dwayne Johnson,Channing Tatum,Jonathan Pryce, AdriannePalicki and Byung-hunLee star. PG-13 forintense sequences ofcombat violence and mar-tial arts action throughout,and for brief sensuality.Running time: 110 min-utes. Two stars out of four.

• “The Place Beyondthe Pines” — The firstimage you see is of RyanGosling’s shirtless torso,ripped and tatted atop askintight pair of leatherpants. But the long track-ing shot that comes nextis a better indication ofwhere director and co-writer Derek Cianfrance isheaded. His camera fol-lows Gosling’s characterfrom behind through agarishly lighted travelingcircus. Gosling’s bleach-blond “Handsome Luke”lights a cigarette andstrides calmly but pur-posefully into a loud andcrowded tent, where heclimbs onto a motorcyclebefore entering a ball-shaped cage with twoother riders to perform adeath-defying stunt. Overthe next two-plus hoursand across three connect-ed stories, it will becomeclear that everything isvery dramatic and every-one is doomed.You cantry to redeem yourself butit’s no use; the pastalways catches up with us.Not a terribly novel con-cept but one that

Cianfrance and co-writersBen Coccio and DariusMarder hammer homewith the utmost serious-ness. Part one focuses onLuke trying to be a fatherto the infant son he neverknew he had with a wait-ress (Eva Mendes) he hada fling with the last timehe passed through town.Part two follows the rookiepolice officer (BradleyCooper) whose path hecrosses at a pivotalmoment.And the final part jumpsahead 15 years as bothmen’s sons (DaneDeHaan and EmoryCohen) forge an ill-advised friendship. Thefilm aims admirably for anepic sense of Greektragedy, and it does havesome powerful individualmoments, but the charac-ters are so underdevel-oped that the whole effortfeels like studied postur-ing. R for languagethroughout, some vio-lence, teen drug and alco-hol use and a sexual ref-erence. 140 minutes. Twostars out of four.

Christina RyanClaypool’s short storyappears in the newbook, “I Choose You.”

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Dear Readers: Here is anupdate on one of my recentcolumns about how to preventunsolicited credit-card insuranceoffers..Many wrote saying they were

concerned about some of the per-sonal information being asked,especially a Social Security num-ber and date of birth. And rightlyso — you want to be sure this pri-vate and important informationis safe. Yes, it is safe for you togive it in this instance. First, theservice to opt out of prescreensolicitations is offered by themajor credit-reporting companies.The Federal Trade Commissionrecommends using this service tohelp stop this annoying mail!

Here is what you do. You cancall 1-888-5-OPTOUT (888-567-8688) or go online towww.OptOutPrescreen.com andregister. The information you pro-vide is only used to process thisrequest. You have initiated thecall or online request, so you canfeel comfortable giving your iden-tifying information.

They, or anyone else, shouldnot call you and ask for personalfinancial information! The mainreason to ask for a SocialSecurity number is that thisnumber is how most serviceslocate and file your information.There may be several Ted or TaraThomases living in Texarkana,Texas!However, if you are still a

little leery about your SocialSecurity number, you can opt outof giving it.After dialing the phone num-

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Dear Annie: I'm a gay manand have been with myboyfriend for four years. I knowhe's bisexual, but I guess I didn'tunderstand. He told me recentlythat he wants to have a girl-friend in addition to seeing me. Iunderstand the logic, but I don'tlike it. I don't feel threatened. Iknow he loves me, and he's notgoing to replace me with anotherguy. He views our relationship assteady. I'm sure if he ever settlesdown, it will be with me.I have a five-year head start

over this girl, but it doesn't sitright with me. Whenever I bringup concerns about sharing himor what the future will be like,he says we'll cross that bridgewhen we come to it.Annie, what if he wants a

child — or decides to marry awoman to avoid the stigma ofbeing gay? He'd still expect meto hang on. And whenever Iissue an ultimatum about notdating anyone else, he says I'mallowed to leave whenever Iwant. I don't know whether hedoesn't care or knows I don'treally mean it.I love him and want to be with

him forever, but I don't think Icould get used to being "theother man." What do I do? —Confused and Hurt fromNorth Dakota

Dear North Dakota: It does-n't matter whether yourboyfriend is gay, straight, bisexu-al or from another planet. Hewants to have someone else inhis bed, and you apparentlydon't consider this cheating. Yousay his heart belongs to you, andyet you believe he could marrysomeone else. He isn't being fairto you. You know this, which iswhy it doesn't "sit right," but youpermit it to continue becausesomewhere in your head, you areconvinced he is committed toyou. He is not. He is manipulat-ing you into sticking aroundwhile he plays the field.After five years, it might be a

good idea to set him free. If youare still available when he'sready to settle down, he can con-tact you then. Otherwise, you areonly making yourself miserableand anxious.

Dear Annie: I took my 13-year-old cat to the vet yesterdayand found out she has diabetesthat is treatable. I will be learn-ing how to give her shots.I don't drive, so my mom gave

me a ride back from the vet, andI told her the diagnosis. Shesaid, "You might want to put herdown if you're not able to giveher the shots."Why would a person think so

negatively? Why would sheadvise me to do such a thingwhen I've barely had an opportu-nity to start administering care?Mom has a cat that's not nearlyas sweet as mine, but it's not asif she doesn't understand. Pleasetell people to keep their negativeattitude to themselves — Iowa

Dear Iowa: Mom was proba-bly projecting her attitude ontoyou. She might not be as willingto take such care of her cat anduttered that thought aloud. Mostpeople do not intend to sayunkind, negative things. Theysimply open their mouths beforetheir brains are in gear. Pleaseforgive her.

Dear Annie: "Soon To BeFamily Outcast" asked whethershe had to attend a wedding inCanada, saying passports are tooexpensive.You answered the question,

but you didn't address her com-ment about passports.One can get a passport card

for about $55. If that is stillbeyond her means, she can lookinto an Enhanced Driver'sLicense.— Michael inIndianapolis

Dear Michael: We're happyto clarify. An Enhanced Driver'sLicense allows land or sea travelbetween the U.S. and Canadaand, at the moment, is availablein only four states. For informa-tion, contact getyouhome.gov.Passport cards (also land andsea travel) are issued by the U.S.Dept. of State (travel.state.gov).

Annie's Mailbox is written byKathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar,longtime editors of the AnnLanders column. Please emailyour questions to anniesmail-box@comcast.net, or write to:Annie's Mailbox, c/o CreatorsSyndicate, 737 3rd Street,Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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For Saturday, March 30, 2013ARIES (March 21 to April 19)This is a social day. Enjoy schmoozingwith partners and close friends. How-ever, avoid making important deci-sions and commitments. Don’tvolunteer for anything.TAURUS (April 20 to May 20)Work quietly at your own pace, prefer-ably alone or behind the scenes. It’s agood day to seek out some peace andquiet. Avoid important decisions.GEMINI (May 21 to June 20)You’ll enjoy schmoozing with otherstoday, especially in group situations(classes, casual coffee klatches, meet-ings or large conferences). However,don’t agree to anything important.CANCER (June 21 to July 22)You’re in the limelight now, especiallyin the eyes of bosses, parents andteachers. They’re impressed with you.Nevertheless, don’t volunteer for any-thing or agree to important decisions.LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22)You want a change of scenery, which iswhy you feel restless today. You wantadventure and something different tohappen. That’s fine, but be cautiousabout making spontaneous decisions.VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22)This is a poor day to decide how toshare or divide anything important.Avoid final arrangements about inher-itances, shared property and such.LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22)You need to get more sleep. Right now,the Sun is as far away from your signas it gets all year, and the Sun is yoursource of energy. (Go to bed.)SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21)Despite your desire to be more effi-cient and effective right now (which isa good thing), today it’s tough. Loweryour expectations. Postpone importantdecisions.SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21)This is a wildly, wonderfully creativeday! You’re in touch with your muse,and you’re thinking outside of the box.Don’t spend money on anything otherthan personal food.CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19)Family discussions will be warm andfriendly today; however, don’t agree toanything important, because you willsimply have to change or backpedal.Keep things light.AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18)Your imagination is strong today, andyou’re tuned to creative, intuitiveideas. Just write them down and seehow they look tomorrow. They mightfly, but they might not.PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20)You’re focused on money, cash flow andearnings now. This is a good thing ex-cept for today, which is a very fuzzy,hazy day. Avoid shopping or makingimportant decisions. Don’t spendmoney on anything except on personalfood.YOU BORN TODAY You are a vision-ary with driving energy. Many of youare multitalented and can succeed indifferent careers. You are intense anddemanding of yourself and others. Ide-ally, you need the freedom to pursueyour own interests. You have high en-ergy, which is often a lot for others todeal with. In your year ahead, an im-portant choice will arise. Choosewisely.Birthdate of: Eric Clapton, guitarist;Vincent van Gogh, painter; NorahJones, singer.(c) 2013 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

HOROSCOPEBY FRANCES DRAKE

NEW YORK (AP) — Forthe second time in less thana month, the stock marketmarched past another mile-post on its long, turbulentjourney back from theGreat Recession, topplinganother record left overfrom the days before gov-ernment bailouts and fail-ing investment banks.

The Standard & Poor’s500 closed at a new highThursday, three weeks afteranother popular marketgauge, the Dow Jonesindustrial average, obliter-ated its own closing record.The S&P capped its bestquarter in a year, rising 10percent, and the Dow hadits best first quarter in 15years, climbing 11 percent.

The numbers offer moreevidence that investorsbelieve the economy is onthe mend, said Sam Stovall,chief equity strategist atS&P Capital IQ.

“The low-flying recoveryis gaining altitude,” Stovallsaid, citing a truism amonginvestors that rising stockprices come first, then theeconomy catches up.

Thursday’s performancewas driven by encouragingeconomic data. Companiesare making record profitsquarter after quarter.They’re hiring in greater

numbers, and the housingmarket is finally recover-ing. The economy hasexpanded for 14 quarters ina row.

The Fed has helped, too.By keeping interest ratesnear record lows, the cen-tral bank has encouragedpeople to move money out ofsavings accounts that paynext to nothing and intostocks and other invest-ments.

Investors warned clientsnot to get overly excited.

“Getting back to wherewe were is an importantstep,” said HowardSilverblatt, senior indexanalyst at S&P Dow JonesIndices. But he cautioned ina note to investors:“Markets are volatile, and ifyou are a long-terminvestor you should expectdeclines.”

On Thursday, the S&P500 rose 6.34 points, or 0.41percent, to 1,569.19, beat-ing by four points its previ-ous record of 1,565.15 set onOct. 9, 2007. The index isstill shy of its all-time trad-ing high of 1,576.09.

The index has nowrecovered all of its lossesfrom the recession and thefinancial crisis that fol-lowed. Investors who puttheir dividends back intothe market have done evenbetter. A $10,000 invest-ment in the S&P back inOctober 2007 would beworth $11,270.

On any other day, a mar-ket gain of six points wouldgo unheralded but not afterthe turmoil that began inlate 2008 and persistedthrough a slow, sometimesstalled recovery.

The S&P 500 is a barom-eter that gauges marketperformance. And whileprofessional investorsmight scoff at using it todecide when to buy and sell,the breaking of an oldrecord can be psychological-ly important.

However, many obstacles

still loom.The U.S. economy is sta-

ble, but growth is anemic.Unemployment is 7.7 per-cent, versus 4.7 percent, thelast time the S&P notched arecord. The European debtcrisis is far from resolved.And some investors are con-cerned that the market’sgains are being fueled bythe Federal Reserve’s easymoney policy and will dis-appear once the Fed revers-es course.

The crisis of the momentis Cyprus, theMediterranean island coun-try that struggled this weekto get an emergency bailout.For many investors, thebailout deal was a reminderof Europe’s lingering eco-nomic problems. Elsewhere,Italy failed to set up a newgovernment this week, rais-ing fears that the countrywill be unable to manage itsdeep debts.

On Thursday, U.S. eco-nomic news was mixed.

The U.S. economy grewfaster than first estimatedin the fourth quarter, thegovernment reported. Butthe growth, an annual rateof 0.4 percent, was stillweak. The number ofAmericans seeking unem-ployment benefits jumpedfor the second straightweek. Longer-term, though,applications for benefitshave been declining sinceNovember.

In Europe, Cyprusreopened its banks afterclosing them for nearly twoweeks to keep depositorsfrom making panickedwithdrawals. Portugalreported that its budgetdeficit was widening.

“If you’re a bull or a bear,you could find enough newsout there to convince you ofyour position,” said JimLauder, CEO of GlobalIndex Advisors in Marietta,Ga., and co-portfolio man-ager on Wells FargoAdvantage Dow JonesTarget Date Funds.

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TODAY IN HISTORY

(AP) — Today is Good Friday,March 29, the 88th day of 2013.There are 277 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:On March 29, 1973, the last

United States combat troops leftSouth Vietnam, ending America’sdirect military involvement in theVietnam War. In an address to thenation, President Richard Nixondeclared, “For the first time in 12years, no American military forcesare in Vietnam.”

On this date:• In 1812, the first White House

wedding took place as Lucy PayneWashington, the sister of First Lady

Dolley Madison, married SupremeCourt Justice Thomas Todd.

• In 1871, the Royal Albert Hall inLondon was opened by QueenVictoria.

• In 1943, World War II rationingof meat, fats and cheese began.

• In 1951, Julius and EthelRosenberg were convicted of con-spiracy to commit espionage. (Theywere executed in June 1953.) TheRodgers and Hammerstein musical“The King and I” opened onBroadway.

• In 1971, Army Lt.William L.Calley Jr. was convicted of murdering22 Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai

massacre. (Calley ended up servingthree years under house arrest.) Ajury in Los Angeles recommendedthe death penalty for Charles Mansonand three female followers for the1969 Tate-La Bianca murders. (Thesentences were later commuted.)

In 1993, “Unforgiven” won theAcademy Award for best picture aswell as best director for ClintEastwood.

• Today’s Birthdays: ComedianEric Idle is 70. Actor BrendanGleeson is 58. Pro and CollegeFootball Hall of Famer Earl Campbellis 58. Actor Christopher Lambert is56. Model Elle Macpherson is 50.

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COURT OF COMMON PLEASMIAMI COUNTY, OHIO

Case No.: 12CV00819Judge: Robert J. Lindeman

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. SUCCESSOR BYMERGER TO BANK ONE, N.A.Plaintiff,

-vs-

SHIRLEY K. PERSINGER, et al.Defendants.

LEGAL NOTICE IN SUIT FOR SERVICE BY PUBLI-CATION

To: The Mortgage Authority, Inc., whose last knownplaces of business 27555 Farmington Road, Farm-ington Hills, MI 48334 and 150 W. Jefferson Ave., De-troit, MI 48226 you will take notice that on the 18th dayof December, 2012, Plaintiff, filed a Complaint for fore-closure in the Miami County Court of Common Pleas,being Case No. 12CV00819, alleging that there is dueto the Plaintiff the sum of $71,503.25, plus interest at9.99% per annum from June 1, 2012, plus latecharges and attorney fees applicable to the terms ofthe Promissory Note secured by a Mortgage on thereal property, which has a street address of 718 DixieAvenue, Troy, OH 45373, being permanent parcelnumber PPN: D08-033010

Plaintiff further alleges that by reason of a default inpayment of said Promissory Note, the conditions ofsaid Mortgage have been broken and the same hasbecome absolute.

Plaintiff prays that the Defendant named above be re-quired to answer and assert any interest in said realproperty or be forever barred from asserting any in-terest therein, for foreclosure of said mortgage, mar-shalling of liens, and the sale of said real property, andthat the proceeds of said sale be applied according tolaw.

Said Defendant is required to file an Answer on or be-fore the 26th day of April, 2013.

By Tina Woods Attorney for PlaintiffJPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. successor by merger toBank One, N.A.c/o Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., L.P.A.525 Vine Street, Suite 800Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

3/15, 3/22, 3/29-20132374454

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Tipp City Planning Board- Public Hearing, 7:30 p.m.Tues. April 9, 2013, Tipp City Govʼt Center, 260 S.Garber Dr. for a Sign Standards-Code replacement,§154.090-112.

Information on this matter is available at the Govern-ment Center or call 667-6305. The public is invited toattend the meeting.

Marilyn FennellBoard Secretary

03/29/20132376455

300 - Real Estate

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TROY, 21 N. Oxford, 1bedroom, down stairs,appliances furnished,$390 monthly, plus de-posit. No pets.(937)698-3151

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SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS

Case No.: 12-625First Guaranty Mortgage Corporationvs.Terry J. Grise, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on April 24, 2013at 10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following describedpremises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Troy, in the County of Miami,and in the State of OhioParcel Number: D08-044850Also known as: 960 South Market Street, Troy, Ohio45373A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at One Hundred Ten Thousand and 00/100($110,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Stan C. Cwalinski, Attorney03/22, 03/29, 04/05-2013

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SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS

Case No.: 12-767JPMorgan Chase Bank, NAvs.Scott Kizer, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on April 17, 2013at 10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following describedpremises, to-wit:Situated in the Township of Monroe, in the County ofMiami, and in the State of OhioParcel Number: G12-080441Prior Deed Reference: 765 / 381Also known as: 7470 Meadow Drive, Tipp City, Ohio45371A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Forty Five Thousand and 00/100($45,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Bethany L. Suttinger, Attorney03/22, 03/29, 04/05-2013

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SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS

Case No.: 12-518JPMorgan Chase Bank, NAvs.Mark E. Stemple, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court of Com-mon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer at PublicSale in the lobby of the Sheriff on April 17, 2013 at 10:00oʼclock in the a.m. the following described premises, to-wit:Situated in the Township of Union, in the County of Miami,and in the State of OhioParcel Number: L34-002150Prior Deed Reference: Deed Book 796, Page 071 & DeedBook 783, Page 188Also known as: 10661 North Montgomery Co Line Road,Brookville, Ohio 45309A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Eighty One Thousand and 00/100($81,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down time ofsale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance andrecording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Tyler G. Shank, Attorney03/22, 03/29, 04/05-2013

2377189

SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS

Case No.: 12-758E. Joseph Lowe, MD, Trusteevs.Wendy B. Compton, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on May 1, 2013at 10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following describedpremises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Troy, in the County of Miami,and in the State of OhioParcel Number: D08-055960Also known as: 1396 West McKaig Avenue, Troy, Ohio45373A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at One Hundred Two Thousand and 00/100($102,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Grant D. Kerber, Attorney03/29, 04/05, 04/12-2013

2379028

SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS

Case No.: 12-465Resolution T Company, LLCvs.Dennis Mann, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on April 24, 2013at 10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following describedpremises, to-wit:Situated in the Township of Bethel, in the County ofMiami, and in the State of OhioParcel Number: A01-052220 & A01-052250Also known as: 7090 East State Route 40, NewCarlisle, Ohio 45344A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Seventy Five Thousand and 00/100($75,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Phillip G. Eckenrode, Attorney03/29, 04/05, 04/12-2013

2379026

SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEASCase No.: 12-238Wells Fargo Bank, NAvs.Cassendra L. Yount, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on May 1, 2013at 10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following describedpremises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Troy, in the County of Miami,and in the State of OhioParcel Number: D08-039620Also known as: 1379 Chelsea Road, Troy, Ohio 45373A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at One Hundred Three Thousand and00/100 ($103,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold forless than two-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Andrew C. Clark, Attorney03/29, 04/05, 04/12-2013

2379025

SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS

Case No.: 09-625U S Bank, NAvs.Bruce E. Land, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on May 1, 2013at 10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following describedpremises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Troy, in the County of Miami,and in the State of OhioParcel Number: D08-000210Prior Deed Reference: Volume 698, Page 613Also known as: 316-318 West Water Street, Troy, Ohio45373A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Eighty Eight Thousand and 00/100($88,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Pamela A. Fehring, Attorney03/29, 04/05, 04/12-2013

2379022

SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS

Case No.: 12-128Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporationvs.Dorothy Louise Crowl, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on May 1, 2013at 10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following describedpremises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Tipp City, in the County ofMiami, and in the State of OhioParcel Number: G15-022182Prior Deed Reference: Volume No. 783, Page 203Also known as: 875 Oak Lea Drive, Tipp City, Ohio45371A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Three Hundred Thirty Nine Thousandand 00/100 ($339,000.00) Dollars and cannot be soldfor less than two-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Anita L. Maddix, Attorney03/29, 04/05, 04/12-2013

2379019

SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS

Case No.: 12-591Wells Fargo Bank, NAvs.Diane K. Miller, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on May 1, 2013at 10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following describedpremises, to-wit:Situated in the Village of West Milton, in the County ofMiami, and in the State of OhioParcel Number: L39-001020Also known as: 417 South Main Street, West Milton,Ohio 45383A full legal description may be obtained in the Officeof the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Forty Five Thousand and 00/100($45,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Mark P. Herring, Attorney03/29, 04/05, 04/12-2013

2379015

SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS

Case No.: 05-463U S Bank, NAvs.William M. Hill, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on April 10, 2013at 10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following describedpremises, to-wit:Situated in the Township of Concord, in the County ofMiami, and in the State of OhioParcel Number: C06-081287Prior Deed Reference: Volume 672, Page 535Also known as: 1501 Waco Street, Troy, Ohio 45373A full legal description may be obtained in the Officeof the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Forty Five Thousand and 00/100($45,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyance andrecording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Sara M. Petersmann, Attorney03/15, 03/22, 03/29-2013

2374950

SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS

Case No.: 12-817Unity National Bankvs.Helen L. Potter, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on April 17, 2013at 10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following describedpremises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Troy, in the County of Miami,and in the State of OhioParcel Number: D08-027670Also known as: 613 Virginia Avenue, Troy, Ohio 45373A full legal description may be obtained in the Officeof the Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Forty Thousand and 00/100($40,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Dale G. Davis, Attorney03/22, 03/29, 04/05-2013

2377039

SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS

Case No.: 12-733One West Bank, FSBvs.Heirs of Jerry L. Stager, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on April 10, 2013at 10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following describedpremises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Troy, in the County of Miami,and in the State of OhioParcel Number: D08-014620Also known as: 825 South Clay Street, Troy, Ohio45373A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Seventy Four Thousand and 00/100($74,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Paula M. Nalepka, Attorney03/15, 03/22, 03/29-2013

2374952

SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS

Case No.: 12-818JPMorgan Chase Bank, NAvs.William L. Mangas, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on April 17, 2013at 10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following describedpremises, to-wit:Situated in the Township of Concord, in the County ofMiami, and in the State of OhioParcel Number: C06-082723Also known as: 1895 Fox Run, Troy, Ohio 45373A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at One Hundred Seventy Five Thousandand 00/100 ($175,000.00) Dollars and cannot be soldfor less than two-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Kevin L. Williams, Attorney03/22, 03/29, 04/05-2013

2377036

SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEAS

Case No.: 09-211The Bank of New York Mellonvs.Raymond J. Fleming, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on April 17, 2013at 10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following describedpremises, to-wit:Situated in the City of Troy, in the County of Miami,and in the State of OhioParcel Number: D08-101930Also known as: 820 Willow Creek Way, Troy, Ohio45373A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at Two Hundred Five Thousand and 00/100($205,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold for less thantwo-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Kyle E. Timken, Attorney03/22, 03/29, 04/05-2013

2377033

SHERIFFʼS SALEMIAMI COUNTY COMMON PLEASCase No.: 08-125KeyBank, NAvs.David E. Smith, et alPursuant to the command of an Order of Sale in theabove name cause to me directed by the Court ofCommon Pleas of Miami County, Ohio, I will offer atPublic Sale in the lobby of the Sheriff on April 24, 2013at 10:00 oʼclock in the a.m. the following describedpremises, to-wit:Situated in the Township of Monroe, in the County ofMiami, and in the State of OhioParcel Number: G12-082460Prior Deed Reference: Volume 610, Page 286Also known as: 6670 Marjean Drive, Tipp City, Ohio45371A full legal description may be obtained in the Office ofthe Recorder of Miami County, Ohio.Appraised at One Hundred Thirty Eight Thousand and00/100 ($138,000.00) Dollars and cannot be sold forless than two-thirds of the appraisement.TERMS OF SALE: 10% of appraised value down timeof sale and .5% of appraised value for conveyanceand recording, balance within 30 days of confirmation.Elizabeth A. Carullo, Attorney03/22, 03/29, 04/05-2013

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583 Pets and Supplies

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More late heroicsLOS ANGELES (AP) — Ohio

State needed another last-sec-ond shot, and Aaron Craft hadthe ball at the top of the keyagain.But last week’s hero gave it

up to the hottest hand on thefloor, and LaQuinton Ross sentthe Buckeyes to the brink oftheir second straight Final Four.Ross hit the tiebreaking 3-

pointer with 2 seconds to play,and Ohio State advanced to theWest Regional final with a 73-70

victory over Arizona onThursday night.Ross, Ohio State’s remark-

able reserve, scored 14 of his 17points in the second half for thesecond-seeded Buckeyes (29-7),who rallied from an early 11-point deficit. With Ross makinga series of tough shots capped bythat dramatic 3, Ohio Stateweathered the sixth-seededWildcats’ late charge for its 11thconsecutive victory since mid-February.

“It feels great, man,” saidRoss, a once-ballyhooed recruitwho has grown into a bigger rolein the past two months. “I thinkthis is what every player growsup looking at on TV, wanting tohit that big shot for an NCAAtournament team. It just feelsgreat right now.”Deshaun Thomas scored 20

points for Ohio State, and Craftadded 13 before ceding Ohio

Clutch 3 by Ross puts OSU in Elite 8

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SPORTS CALENDAR

TODAYNo events scheduled

SATURDAYBaseballTroy at Wayne (DH) (noon)Troy Christian at Mississinawa Valley

(DH) (11 a.m.)St. Henry at Covington (noon)Indian Lake at Piqua (5 p.m.)SoftballMiami East at Troy (DH) (11 a.m.)Tippecanoe, Watkins Memorial at Piqua

(11:30 a.m.)Milton-Union at Greenville Invite (10 a.m.)Newton at TBA (at Florida) (TBA)Versailles at Covington (DH) (noon)Marion Local at Bradford (DH) (11 a.m.)Lehman at Sidney Invite (11 a.m.)TrackTroy, Troy Christian, Covington boys at

Tippecanoe Relays (10 a.m.)Newton, Covington, Bradford at

Versailles Invite (girls only) (9 a.m.)

SUNDAYNo events scheduled

MONDAYBaseballPiqua at Tippecanoe (5 p.m.)Tri-County North at Milton-Union (5 p.m.)Newton at Lehman (5 p.m.)New Knoxville at Covington (5 p.m.)Bradford at New Bremen (5 p.m.)SoftballBeavercreek at Troy (5 p.m.)Tippecanoe at West Carrollton

(5:30 p.m.)Tecumseh at Miami East (5 p.m.)Newton at TBA (at Florida) (TBA)Piqua at Miamisburg (5 p.m.)New Bremen at Bradford (5 p.m.)TennisTippecanoe at Stebbins (4:30 p.m.)Milton-Union at Franklin (4:30 p.m.)St. Marys Memorial at Lehman

(4:30 p.m.)TrackNewton, Bradford at Arcanum (4:30 p.m.)

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Local Sports....................16, 18Scoreboard ............................17Television Schedule ..............17College Basketball ................18

Cinderella FGCstill partying

A week ago, Florida Gulf CoastUniversity was just another overlooked No.15 seed — a longshot at best to nearlyeveryone eyeballing their NCAA tourna-ment brackets.

Now the Eagles are the high-flyingshow from “Dunk City” in the round of 16,the darlings of the South Regional and abracket-busting team everybody is talkingabout even when surrounded by formernational champions Michigan, Kansas andFlorida. See Page 18.

TODAY’S TIPS

• GOLF: The MIami Shores 18-holeGolf League is holding its openingmeeting at 9 a.m. April 23. Everyone isinvited. For more information, callMiami Shores Golf Course at (937)335-4457.• HALL OF FAME: The Trojan

Athletics Hall of Fame is still acceptingnominations for its 2013 inauguralclass. Induction will be held in the fall.Entrance to the selection process isthrough public nomination.The dead-line for nominations is April 1.Nomination forms are available at allhome events or at the athletics officeat Troy High School.• HALL OF FAME: The Miami East

athletic boosters will hold their annualdinner and auction on April 6. Socialhour will begin at 5 p.m. and dinner willbe served at 5:30.The AthleticDepartment will induct three newmembers into the Hall of Fame begin-ning at 6:30. New members will be JimMartin, Barry Coomes and JamieLong Coleman.• BASEBALL: Spots are still avail-

able for the Locos Express SuperPower Slam 13U, 14U, 15U baseballtournament June 14–16 in Lima.There is a four-game guarantee.Contact locosexpress@gmail.com foradditional information.

UPCOMING

Sport ....................Start DateBaseball...................SaturdaySoftball.....................SaturdayTrack and Field........SaturdayTennis........................Monday

STAFF FILE PHOTO/ANTHONYWEBERThe Troy Trojans celebrate after defeating Piqua in the final gameof the regular season last year, clinching their first division titlesince 1991.

� Baseball

The road to a repeatBY JOSH BROWN

Sports Editorjbrown@civitasmedia.com

The Troy Trojans got to dosomething last year that theyhadn’t been able to since 1991.Celebrate a division champi-

onship.And while the road to a repeat

is always tough, Troy coach TyWelker doesn’t want to see hisTrojans wait another 21 years todo it again.“We feel like we’re not going

to sneak up on anybody thisyear,” he said. “People are going

to expect us to be competitive —and we expect to be competitive.We’ve still got a lot to figure outin this short period since we’veonly been outside four days thispreseason.“If we score runs, we can have

a big season. If we don’t, we’regoing to have to scrape andscratch for every win — muchlike last season. I think in nine ofour 19 wins, we were outhit. Weplay great defense and we can

Troy looks to follow championshipMIAMI COUNTY

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� Softball

Like theypictured

BY COLIN FOSTERAssociate Sports Editor

colinfoster@civitasmedia.com

Troy didn’t have the season itenvisioned last year.The Trojans finished with an

overall record of 10-16 and amark of 6-4 in Greater WesternConference North Division play,which earned the Trojans thirdplace.This year, however, with a new

coach and several girls with var-sity experience returning, theTrojans will look to do some dam-age.

“Our expectations are alwaysto take the GWOC.” first-yearcoach Megan Campbell said.Campbell was the freshman

coach at Troy last season. Sheadded assistant Angie Lycans toher staff. Both played softball atthe college level, which couldbenefit the Trojans’ young squadin the long run.“I coached freshman last year,

so I was aware of the organiza-tion and aware of what we weredoing,” Campbell said. “My firstimpression was that we reallyneeded to work on discipline,teamwork and working togetherand thinking for ourselves.”Pitcher Amber Smith could

possibly benefit most from

� College Basketball

Marquette cruises past No. 2 MiamiWASHINGTON (AP) — After

sweating through a pair of edge-of-your-seat comebacks,Marquette’s first Sweet 16 victo-ry in a decade was as straightand smooth as the 15-foot step-back jumper that Vander Bluenailed at the end of the first half.It helped that the Golden

Eagles ran into an out-of-sortsMiami team that, in an echo ofits bus ride to the VerizonCenter, was able to make as

much headway as a frustratedcommuter in rush-hour traffic.Marquette is in the Elite

Eight for the first time since2003, getting there with anemphatic 71-61 win over Miamion Thursday night. The GoldenEagles were never threatenedafter taking a double-digit leadin the first half, quite the con-trast from their rallies that beatDavidson by one and Butler bytwo earlier in the NCAA tourna-

ment.“It’s fantastic. It feels good not

to have to worry about, are yougoing to lose on a last-secondshot or are you going to win on alast-second shot?” said JamilWilson, who had 16 points andeight rebounds. “To have a cush-ion like that, these guys playedwith tremendous heart, and wedid it all game.”Blue, who made the shot that

beat Davidson and led the come-

back against Butler, finishedwith 14 points. He wasn’tMarquette’s leading scorer, buthis offensive and defensive ener-gy pushed the Golden Eagles to abig lead early. It’s a good thing hegot his buzzer-beater before half-time for a change, Marquettedidn’t need one at the end of thegame.“We’re so used to people not

giving us credit. … That fuelsour fire,” Blue said.

STAFF FILE PHOTO/ANTHONYWEBERTroy starting pitcher AmberSmith will be taking on evenmore of a leadership role duringher senior season this year.

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SoftballCampbell’s experience, asCampbell was a pitcherherself. Smith returnsafter finishing 2012 with 9-13 record and an ERA of3.00. Her strikeout total(92) ranked eighth in theGWOC.

“We have really workedwith her,” Campbell said.“She throws hard. We’vebeen working on move-ment, curveball and riseball. It’s always been there.She’s become a huge leaderon our team.”

Sophomore MackenzieVernon will also see timepitching. Behind the platewill be senior ShayEmerick, while JessicaSnay could see time, aswell.

“Shay didn’t catch manyinnings last year,”Campbell said. “She’s oneto where we’ve had to workon her foot work and fram-ing. We’ve had to help heralong calling pitches. Butshe’s another one who hasreally took on that leader-ship role.”

Rainey Rohlfs, a sopho-more, will play second basethis season and hit in theleadoff position. Campbellliked what Rohlfs didagainst Tippecanoe in ascrimmage Thursday, fin-ishing the day with a per-fect on-base percentage.

Sophomore MaggieMcClurg will play short-stop, sophomore AlliePierce will be at third,Brittney Sowers andVictoria Adams will bothsee time at first or in a des-ignated hitter role.

Left-handed slap hitterAlex Wilt will play in right,Jamie Snay will anchorcenter field and MeganSchreiber will be in left.Brooke Evans, who wasfifth in the GWOC in bat-ting average last season(.567), is out with an injury.

Troy opens the seasonwith a doubleheader athome against Miami Easton Saturday.

• TippecanoeTwo years removed

from a state semifinalberth, the Tippecanoe RedDevils are looking strongas ever — even with thegraduation of a huge groupof senior leaders.

“Even with the gradua-tion of a great senior classfrom last year, expecta-tions are still the same andour goals as a program arestill the same,” Tippecanoecoach Charles Tackett said.“We’re very excited aboutthe year, and the girls havebeen working hard.”

Indoors, at least.Tackett still wants to seewhat his team can do onthe softball field since theweather hasn’t given themmuch of a chance to be onone.

“We have a lot of girlsthat can play multiplepositions. We have to getout on the dirt to see whatcombination of girls isgoing to work the best,though,” he said.

Senior and three-yearstarter Jordynn Kostyalwill start out behind theplate, but she could move ifthe team needs her to withsophomore Lauren Goodallback her up.That’s becausetwo-year starter KristinMace is the only returninginfielder, playing first base.Kostyal has experience atshort, too, with Ali Muse,Slef Kraska, MeganRittenhouse, Goodall andAshley Bruce all vying forthe remaining three spots.

Junior Bri Eichbaumwill take over as the ace onthe pitching staff, withsophomores Rittenhouseand Kraska fighting for theNo. 2 spot in the rotation.And in the outfield, seniorHannah Beck and juniorCassie Gingerich — bothtwo-year starters —return, with Muse,Rittenhouse, Bruce,Kraska and Goodall all inthe mix for the final spot.

• Milton-UnionBulldog coach Curt

Schaefer had an advantagecoming into this preseason— already knowing histeam’s capabilities despitethe frigid weather keepingeveryone off the practicefield.

And with a veteran line-

up, Milton-Union is settingits sights high.

“I think we’ve got a goodshot at winning the(Southwestern BuckeyeLeague Buckeye Division)again,” Schaefer said. “Thisis probably the best overallteam that I’ve had, so myexpecations are prettyhigh. I knew what I wasgoing to do (lineup-wise)coming into the season, butit’s been tough. I’ve actual-ly gotten three scrimmagesin, believe it or not. Theweather has put everyonein the same boat.”

Sophomore ClaireFetters will see plenty ofinnings on the mound,with junior Ashley Smithalso pitching when notplaying shortstop andBrittany and KatieCourtright behind theplate.

Chelsea Smith will joinAshley Smith on the leftside of the infield at thirdbase, and Chloe Smith andChristine Heisey willpatrol the right side. Andthe Bulldogs boast an all-senior outfield with HaleyMartens in left, KaylaSmith in center and CassieHayworth in right.

“We’re not looking bad,”Schaefer said. “Our goal isto win the league andmake a deep tournamentrun. But the ball has tobounce your way some-times, too. Last year wedidn’t make it as far intothe tournament as wewanted. We need to stayfocused this year.”

• Miami EastThe Vikings may be

bringing back a lot of expe-rience, but the losses tograduation that they didsuffer were painful ones.Now Miami East is lookingto fill some big shoes goinginto a stacked CrossCounty Conference race.

“Even though we returnseveral seniors who have alot of varsity experience,we have several unan-swered questions as we tryto replace four-yearstarters Kristy Brown,Jeni Accurso and BrittanyGarrison,” Miami Eastcoach Brain Kadel said.“Our pitching should bestrong with the return ofboth of our top pitchers,and we also return four ofour top six hitters to helpbring a lot of offense back,as well.”

Senior PaigeKiesewetter (1.21 ERA)and junior Sam Denlinger(2.24 ERA) return on thehill, with senior SarahO’Neal, sophomore KrisBigelow and junior TaraMiller vying to replaceAccurso at catcher. SeniorMadison Linn will play atsecond or third, andChristine Bowling mayhave to move in from cen-ter field to replace Brownat short. Denlinger andKiesewetter will also fillinfield spots when notpitching.

Seniors LindseyBrookhart and PaigeMullen bring plenty ofexperience back to the out-field, with juniors EllieGearhart, Miller and TrinaCurrent, sophomores RianKingery, Bigelow, OliviaEdgell and RachelHawkins all competingwith a number of freshmento fill the remaining posi-tions.

“The team has highexpectations for both theleague and the tourna-ment,” Kadel said. “Theleague remains very com-

petitive this year, andthere should be four or fiveteams with a legitimatechance at winning theleague — with Covingtonremaining the favoritewith a state appearancelast season.”

• NewtonNewton was hit hard by

graduation.The Indians have also

been hurt by the injurybug.

This year, it will be allabout getting inexperi-enced players accustomedto high school softball rightout of the gate.

“Between graduatingsix senior starters andinjuries this year, we willbe very inexperienced. Wewill need to start four orfive freshmen, and mostreturners will be at newpositions,” Newton coachKirk Kadel said. “The teamwill need to come togetherquickly if we are going tobe competitive in a verystrong league.”

Senior pitcher KirstenBurden is working on com-ing back from a knee sur-gery suffered during soccerseason.

“She is working to getback into condition for theseason,” Kadel said. “If sheis not able to go, sophomoreErin Hixon and freshmanLaura Oaks will have tostep up and fill the posi-tion.”

Catcher Laura Burdenis working her way backinto shape after an ankleinjury from basketball, aswell. That means freshmanRose Studebaker may bebehind the plate.

Sophomore MeganRutledge (shortstop) is theonly returning infielder forthe Indians. Last seasonshe hit .299 and had 17RBIs. Others vying forpositions in the infield aresenior Casey Thompson,who played outfield lastseason, sophomore Hixon,freshman Maddie Mollette,Mckell Deaton, LauraOaks and Rylee Schauer.

The top outfieldprospects are senior TiaraJackson, Oaks, Deaton andSchauer.

• CovingtonWhen you reach the

state’s final four two yearsin a row and return all buttwo players to the roster —and then ad a very talent-ed freshman class — it’seasy to see why the expec-tations are very high forthe Covington Buccaneerssoftball team.

“The expectations arehigh,” Covington coachDean Denlinger said. “Thegirls know what it takes toget there, and they knowthat it takes playing thegame the right way.”

Covington suffered ahuge loss a year ago withthe graduation of HannahPond, who was the seniorleader not only on the fieldbut in the dugout. Findingsomeone to emerge as theemotional leader will becritical to Covington’s suc-cess.

Fortunately, Denlingerhas seven talented seniorsto look too in Casey Yingst,Heidi Snipes, Jessie Shilt,Kyrtsyn Boyer, BrittanieFlora, Connor Schaffer andOlivia Moody.

Yingst, who recentlycommitted to play colle-giate ball at the Universityof Northwestern Ohio,returns as the ace hurlerafter putting togetherback-to-back monumentalefforts in the state tourna-

ment as a sophomore andjunior. Aiding her on thepitching staff are sopho-more Morgan Arbogast,senior Heidi Snipes andfreshman BrookeGostomsky.

The entire infieldreturns from a year agowith Cassidy Cain, HeidiSnipes, Jessie Shilt,Morgan Arbogast andcatcher Connor Schafferand the only loss in theoutfield was Hannah Pond.

But there may be someshuffling due to the talentthat is on the roster asHeidi Cron returns for hersophomore year after suf-fering a broken foot a yearago. Plus, junior HaleyAdams returns healthier,while sophomores JessicaDammeyer and Alex Gast,along with junior MorganMcReynolds return aftersolid campaigns.

Then, to top it off,Covington is loaded withthe freshman talent ofJessie Crowell, AriannaRichards, BrookeGostomsky, Erin Olson andNicole Zeitz — all varsitycaliber players.

• Troy ChristianTroy Christian is going

through changes, and first-year coach Sherri Daily ishoping to make thosechanges positive ones.

“This year, TroyChristian has two newcoaches and a very youngteam,” she said. “We onlyhave one senior and onejunior, and several of ourplayers have never playedon an organized softballteam.We are working hardto teach fundamentals,pitching and game strate-gies. This will be a growingyear for our team.”

Four first-year pitcherswill begin their develop-ment in Katie Poteet,Shauna Davee, HannahMorrow and RaeganThomas. Poteet is a return-er at catcher, as well, andthe Eagles will work withRebekkah Frantom as abackup.

Poteet will also play atshort when she is notcatching, with AbbyEvaniuk at second andDavee at first. And in theoutfield, Lyon Current,Rachel Puderbaugh, TaylorMadison and Thomas areholding down those spotswhile rotating in and outat other positions, too.

• BradfordEric McReynolds

returns as coach ofBradford. And theRailroaders return severalgirls off a team that fin-ished fourth in the CrossCounty Conference lastseason.

Junior pitcher HaleyPatty returns after having174 strikeouts and a .429batting average last sea-son. Junior BrookeDunlevy will catch.Dunlevy hit .289 at theplate a year ago.

Junior Jayde Mead willbe playing first or thirdbase. Ciara Broughmanwill be at second. SeniorLindsey Rose and juniorMichayla Barga — boththree-year starters — willbe in the outfield.

“It’s always the goal tobe better than the yearbefore,” McReynolds said.“There is always room forimprovememt. We finishedfourth in our league lastseason. We are determindto finish with a betterrecord this season, and arefocused on coming out ontop.”

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STAFF PHOTO/ANTHONY WEBERTroy’s Alex Wilt steals a base last season.

� Rugby

Rugby making itsMiami County debut

BY MIKE ULLERYChief Photographermullery@dailycall.com

A new sport is about todebut in Miami County.

Perhaps, more accu-rately, a long-timefavorite sport of many iscoming to Miami County.

The Miami CountyBombers high schoolrugby team is looking fora few good men — highschool-age good men —who are interested inlearning about and play-ing rugby.

The sport of rugby cantrace its roots to aroundthe 10th century but thesport, as it is today, beganat Cambridge Universityin 1839.

Frank Harris, headcoach for the Bombers,and his assistants arefielding a rugby teammade up of Miami Countyhigh school boys whowould like to play thegame.

Harris said theBombers are the result ofan expansion, funded bythe Dayton Area RugbyClub. The first Dayton-area high school team wasformed seven years agoand has now expandedinto Miami County, aswell as Springfield andMiamisburg.

“We are about buildingrugby,” said Harris, “it isthe fastest-growing sportin the United States nowin high school.”

Harris noted thatrugby will be a summerOlympic sport beginningwith the next OlympicGames.

A visit to the Bomberspractice field at ArcherPark, in Troy, last week,

found more than 20 highschool athletes fromaround Miami Countyhard a work, learning thefundamentals of a sportthat looks a lot like foot-ball but varies greatlyfrom what we see onFriday nights.

Harris is a scienceteacher at the UpperValley Career Center. Heis assisted by AndyLuciano, a science teacherat Troy Junior HighSchool, Dale Kellis, anengineer at F&P America,and Kris Black a firefight-er/paramedic with thePiqua Fire Department.

There are currently 28young men signed to playwith the Bombers. Harrisexplained that there aretwo most-common formsof rugby, seven-on-sevenand 15-on-15. The DaytonArea Rugby Club is a 15-on-15 club.

Rugby is a spring sportfor Ohio high schools.

Harris encourages anyhigh school-age boy who isinterested to come out toArcher Park in Troy andwatch a practice. TheBombers practiceTuesdays and Thursdaysfrom 4-6 p.m.

There are girls rugbyteams in the Dayton areafor any girls who might beinterested in the sport.

Games will be playedon Sunday afternoons.

For more informationon the Miami CountyBombers High SchoolRugby team, you can con-tact Frank Harris at 937-638-7693 or visit them onFacebook at MiamiCounty Bombers HighSchool Rugby.

CIVITAS MEDIA PHOTO/MIKE ULLERYHead coach for the Miami County Bombers Rugbyteam Frank Harris, top right, demonstrates a tech-nique to team members during a recent practice inTroy.

MIAMI COUNTY

� Legal

Bail restrictions onPistorius lightened

PRETORIA, SouthAfrica (AP) — OscarPistorius could compete atthis year’s world champi-onships after a SouthAfrican judge eased hisbail restrictions and ruledThursday that the athlete,who faces a murder trialfor the shooting death ofhis girlfriend, can traveloverseas to run.

The international ath-letics body said that ifPistorius qualifies, it hadno objections to him run-ning— an event that couldeclipse the stir last yearwhen he became the firstdouble amputee to com-pete at the Olympics.Pistorius’ agent told TheAssociated Press soon afterthe ruling that the worldchampionships in Moscowin August could be a possi-bility if the runner wantedto return to the track onhis carbon fiber blades.

Judge Bert Bam upheldthe Olympic athlete’sappeal against some of hisbail restrictions, but saidthe 26-year-old Pistoriusmust travel under certainconditions. The athlete

could face a life sentence iffound guilty of murder forthe Valentine’s Day shoot-ing death of ReevaSteenkamp.

His passport will beheld by a court while he isin South Africa, and he canonly leave the country if heprovides an itinerary of histravel plans at least aweek before he is due toleave. Pistorius must alsohand his travel documentsback to the court within 24hours of returning home,Bam ruled.

“Based on this (thejudge’s decision), and if heis up for it and qualifies,the world championshipswill definitely be on theradar,” Pistorius’ agent,Peet van Zyl, told the APby telephone.

The judge’s decisionwas “fair,”Van Zyl said, butany return to track wouldbe up to Pistorius, whohasn’t run competitivelysince September andhasn’t trained for twomonths. The worlds are inAugust, while Pistorius’next court appearance isJune 4.

BASEBALL

SpringTraining GlanceAllTimes ESTAMERICAN LEAGUE

W L PctKansas City 24 7 .774Baltimore 18 9 .667Seattle 21 11 .656Detroit 18 14 .563Oakland 15 12 .556Cleveland 16 15 .516Minnesota 16 15 .516Boston 16 16 .500Chicago 13 13 .500Tampa Bay 15 16 .484Texas 15 17 .469Houston 14 16 .467Toronto 14 17 .452NewYork 13 18 .419Los Angeles 9 18 .333NATIONAL LEAGUE

W L PctAtlanta 20 15 .571San Francisco 15 13 .536Colorado 16 14 .533St. Louis 16 14 .533Arizona 16 15 .516Philadelphia 16 15 .516NewYork 14 14 .500Chicago 16 18 .471San Diego 16 18 .471Washington 14 17 .452Miami 13 16 .448Pittsburgh 13 18 .419Milwaukee 12 17 .414Cincinnati 11 19 .367Los Angeles 11 19 .367NOTE: Split-squad games count in the

standings; games against non-majorleague teams do not.Wednesday's GamesPhiladelphia 4, Detroit 1St. Louis 10, Washington (ss) 1Washington (ss) 11, Atlanta 2Toronto 6, Tampa Bay 1Minnesota 7, Pittsburgh 4Miami 5, Boston 1Chicago White Sox 5, Cleveland 4L.A. Angels 6, Texas 3Oakland 6, Colorado 5Milwaukee 9, Kansas City (ss) 1Seattle 10, L.A. Dodgers 7Cincinnati 7, San Diego 3San Francisco 8, Arizona 6N.Y. Mets 6, Houston 2N.Y.Yankees 11, Baltimore 8Kansas City (ss) 9, Chicago Cubs 9,

tie, 10 inningsThursday's GamesAtlanta 2, Houston (ss) 0Houston (ss) 11, Detroit 4Philadelphia 7, Toronto 2St. Louis 1, Miami 0Pittsburgh 2, N.Y.Yankees 1Washington 5, N.Y. Mets 1Seattle 6, Chicago Cubs 4San Diego 6, Cleveland 4Arizona 9, Texas 3Kansas City 8, Cincinnati 3Milwaukee 6, Colorado 2Baltimore 4, Tampa Bay 4, tie, 10

inningsBoston 6, Minnesota 1L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, 10:05

p.m.Oakland at San Francisco, 10:15

p.m.Friday's GamesSt. Louis vs. N.Y. Mets at Port St.

Lucie, Fla., 12:10 p.m.Tampa Bay vs. Detroit at Lakeland,

Fla., 1:05 p.m.Boston vs. Minnesota at Fort Myers,

Fla., 1:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees at Washington, 2:05

p.m.Cleveland vs. Kansas City at

Surprise, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.Toronto at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.Chicago Cubs at Houston, 8:05 p.m.San Diego vs. Texas at San Antonio,

Texas, 8:05 p.m.Chicago White Sox at Milwaukee,

8:10 p.m.Cincinnati vs. Arizona at Scottsdale,

Ariz., 9:40 p.m.L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10

p.m.Oakland at San Francisco, 10:15

p.m.Saturday's GamesN.Y. Mets vs. Baltimore at Sarasota,

Fla., 12:05 p.m.Toronto at Philadelphia, 1:05 p.m.Detroit at Tampa Bay, 1:10 p.m.Minnesota vs. Boston at Fort Myers,

Fla., 1:35 p.m.San Diego vs. Texas at San Antonio,

Texas, 2:05 p.m.Chicago Cubs at Houston, 2:05 p.m.Chicago White Sox at Milwaukee,

2:10 p.m.Cincinnati (ss) vs. Cleveland at

Goodyear, Ariz., 3:00 p.m.L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, 3:00

p.m.Seattle vs. Colorado at Salt Lake

City, Utah, 3:05 p.m.San Francisco at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.Cincinnati (ss) vs. Arizona at

Scottsdale, Ariz., 4:10 p.m.

HOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueAllTimes ESTEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAPittsburgh 35 27 8 0 54121 84New Jersey 33 15 11 7 37 82 89N.Y. Rangers 33 16 14 3 35 78 81N.Y. Islanders 34 16 15 3 35100110Philadelphia 33 13 17 3 29 87103Northeast Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAMontreal 33 21 7 5 47104 83Boston 32 21 7 4 46 94 72Ottawa 34 19 9 6 44 89 72Toronto 35 19 12 4 42108100Buffalo 34 13 16 5 31 91107Southeast Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAWinnipeg 35 18 15 2 38 88103Carolina 32 15 15 2 32 89 96Washington 33 15 17 1 31 94 93Tampa Bay 33 14 18 1 29105 99Florida 35 10 19 6 26 85123WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAChicago 32 25 4 3 53108 71Detroit 33 17 11 5 39 90 83St. Louis 33 17 14 2 36 94 93Nashville 34 14 14 6 34 87 95Columbus 33 13 13 7 33 75 86Northwest Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAMinnesota 32 20 10 2 42 90 78Vancouver 33 18 9 6 42 88 85Edmonton 32 12 13 7 31 77 91Calgary 32 13 15 4 30 89108Colorado 32 11 17 4 26 82104Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAAnaheim 33 22 7 4 48104 87Los Angeles 33 19 12 2 40 97 82San Jose 32 15 11 6 36 80 82Dallas 32 15 14 3 33 87 97Phoenix 34 14 15 5 33 92 98

NOTE: Two points for a win, one pointfor overtime loss.Wednesday's GamesMontreal 6, Boston 5, SOMinnesota 4, Phoenix 3, OTCalgary 4, Colorado 3San Jose 4, Anaheim 0

Thursday's GamesN.Y. Islanders 4, Philadelphia 3, SOFlorida 5, Buffalo 4, SOToronto 6, Carolina 3Pittsburgh 4, Winnipeg 0Ottawa 3, N.Y. Rangers 0Phoenix 7, Nashville 4Los Angeles 4, St. Louis 2Columbus at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.Colorado at Vancouver, 10 p.m.Detroit at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

Friday's GamesNew Jersey at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.Minnesota at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.Anaheim at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.Columbus at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Saturday's GamesBoston at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.N.Y. Islanders at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.Nashville at Colorado, 3 p.m.Carolina at Winnipeg, 3 p.m.Toronto at Ottawa, 7 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Montreal, 7 p.m.Washington at Buffalo, 7 p.m.New Jersey at Florida, 7:30 p.m.Los Angeles at Minnesota, 8 p.m.Vancouver at Edmonton, 10 p.m.Phoenix at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

AUTO RACINGNASCAR Sprint CupTop 10 in Points1. D.Earnhardt Jr..............................1992. Bra.Keselowski.............................1873. J.Johnson ....................................1834. C.Edwards....................................1645.G.Biffle..........................................1646. Ky.Busch.......................................1637. K.Kahne .......................................1598. P.Menard ......................................1549. J.Logano.......................................14610. D.Hamlin.....................................145

BASKETBALLNational Basketball AssociationEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

W L Pct GBx-NewYork 44 26 .629 —x-Brooklyn 42 29 .592 2½Boston 37 34 .521 7½Philadelphia 28 43 .394 16½Toronto 26 45 .366 18½Southeast Division

W L Pct GBy-Miami 56 15 .789 —x-Atlanta 40 32 .556 16½Washington 26 45 .366 30Orlando 18 54 .250 38½Charlotte 17 54 .239 39Central Division

W L Pct GBx-Indiana 45 27 .625 —x-Chicago 39 31 .557 5Milwaukee 35 36 .493 9½Detroit 24 48 .333 21Cleveland 22 48 .314 22WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBx-San Antonio 54 17 .761 —x-Memphis 47 24 .662 7Houston 39 32 .549 15Dallas 35 36 .493 19New Orleans 25 47 .347 29½Northwest Division

W L Pct GBx-Oklahoma City 53 19 .736 —x-Denver 49 24 .671 4½Utah 36 36 .500 17Portland 33 38 .465 19½Minnesota 25 45 .357 27Pacific Division

W L Pct GBx-L.A. Clippers 49 23 .681 —Golden State 41 32 .562 8½L.A. Lakers 37 36 .507 12½Sacramento 26 46 .361 23Phoenix 23 49 .319 26x-clinched playoff spoty-clinched division

Wednesday's GamesBoston 93, Cleveland 92Charlotte 114, Orlando 108Philadelphia 100, Milwaukee 92Atlanta 107, Toronto 88New York 108, Memphis 101Chicago 101, Miami 97Indiana 100, Houston 91L.A. Lakers 120, Minnesota 117L.A. Clippers 105, New Orleans 91Oklahoma City 103, Washington 80San Antonio 100, Denver 99Utah 103, Phoenix 88Sacramento 105, Golden State 98Brooklyn 111, Portland 93

Thursday's GamesMilwaukee 113, L.A. Lakers 103Indiana at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.Sacramento at Phoenix, 10 p.m.

Friday's GamesWashington at Orlando, 7 p.m.Atlanta at Boston, 7:30 p.m.Charlotte at NewYork, 7:30 p.m.Philadelphia at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m.Toronto at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.Houston at Memphis, 8 p.m.Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 8 p.m.Miami at New Orleans, 8 p.m.L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.Brooklyn at Denver, 9 p.m.Utah at Portland, 10 p.m.

Saturday's GamesChicago at Dallas, 2 p.m.Orlando at Atlanta, 7 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Houston, 8 p.m.Memphis at Minnesota, 8 p.m.Charlotte at Philadelphia, 8 p.m.Oklahoma City at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m.Brooklyn at Utah, 9 p.m.Indiana at Phoenix, 10 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Sacramento, 10 p.m.Portland at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

NCAATournament GlanceAll Times EDTFIRST ROUNDN.C. A&T 73, Liberty 72Saint Mary's (Cal) 67, Middle

Tennessee 54James Madison 68, LIU Brooklyn 55La Salle 80, Boise State 71

EAST REGIONALSecond RoundButler 68, Bucknell 56Marquette 59, Davidson 58California 64, UNLV 61Syracuse 81, Montana 34Temple 76, N.C. State 72Indiana 83, James Madison 62Miami 78, Pacific 49Illinois 57, Colorado 49

Third RoundMarquette 74, Butler 72Syracuse 66, California 60Indiana 58, Temple 52Miami 63, Illinois 59

Regional SemifinalsThursday, March 28At The Verizon CenterWashingtonMarquette 71, Miami 61

Indiana (29-6) vs. Syracuse (28-9)Regional ChampionshipSaturday, March 30Marquette (26-8) vs. Indiana-

Syracuse winner, TBASOUTH REGIONALSecond RoundMichigan 71, South Dakota State 56VCU 88, Akron 42Florida Gulf Coast 78, Georgetown

68San Diego State 70, Oklahoma 55North Carolina 78, Villanova 71Kansas 64, Western Kentucky 57Florida 79, Northwestern State 47Minnesota 83, UCLA 63

Third RoundMichigan 78, VCU 53Florida Gulf Coast 81, San Diego

State 71Kansas 70, North Carolina 58Florida 78, Minnesota 64

Regional SemifinalsFriday, March 29At Cowboys StadiumArlington,TexasKansas (31-5) vs. Michigan (28-7),

7:37 p.m.Florida Gulf Coast (26-10) vs. Florida

(28-7), 30 minutes followingRegional ChampionshipSunday, March 31Semifinal winners, TBA

MIDWEST REGIONALSecond RoundLouisville 79, N.C. A&T 48Colorado State 84, Missouri 72Michigan State 65, Valparaiso 54Memphis 54, Saint Mary's (Cal) 52Saint Louis 64, New Mexico State 44Oregon 68, Oklahoma State 55Duke 73, Albany (N.Y.) 61Creighton 67, Cincinnati 63

Third RoundLouisville 82, Colorado State 56Michigan State 70, Memphis 48Oregon 74, Saint Louis 57Duke 66, Creighton 50

Regional SemifinalsFriday, March 29At Lucas Oil StadiumIndianapolisLouisville (31-5) vs. Oregon (28-8),

7:15 p.m.Duke (29-5) vs. Michigan State (27-

8), 30 minutes followingRegional ChampionshipSunday, March 31Semifinal winners, TBA

WEST REGIONALSecond RoundWichita State 73, Pittsburgh 55Gonzaga 64, Southern 58Arizona 81, Belmont 64Harvard 68, New Mexico 62Ohio State 95, Iona 70Iowa State 76, Notre Dame 58Mississippi 57, Wisconsin 46La Salle 63, Kansas State 61

Third RoundArizona 74, Harvard 51Wichita State 76, Gonzaga 70Ohio State 78, Iowa State 75La Salle 76, Mississippi 74

Regional SemifinalsThursday, March 28At The Staples CenterLos AngelesOhio State 73, Arizona 70Wichita State (28-8) vs. La Salle (24-

9)Regional ChampionshipSaturday, March 30Ohio State (29-7) vs. Wichita St.-La

Salle winner, TBAFINAL FOURAt The Georgia DomeAtlantaNational SemifinalsSaturday, April 6Midwest champion vs. West champi-

on, 6 or 8:30 p.m.South champion vs. East champion,

6 or 8:30 p.m.National ChampionshipMonday, April 8Semifinal winners, 9 p.m.

National Invitation TournamentGlanceAll Times EDTFirst RoundMaryland 86, Niagara 70St. John's 63, Saint Joseph's 61Louisiana Tech 71, Florida State 66Robert Morris 59, Kentucky 57Alabama 62, Northeastern 43Virginia 67, Norfolk State 56Denver 61, Ohio 57BYU 90, Washington 79Stanford 58, Stephen F. Austin 57Iowa 68, Indiana State 52Providence 75, Charlotte 66Stony Brook 71, Massachusetts 58Mercer 75, Tennessee 67Baylor 112, Long Beach State 66Southern Mississippi 78, Charleston

Southern 71Arizona State 83, Detroit 68

Second RoundMaryland 62, Denver 52Baylor 89, Arizona State 85Iowa 75, Stony Brook 63Alabama 66, Stanford 54Virginia 68, St. John's 50Providence 77, Robert Morris 68BYU 90, Mercer 71Southern Mississippi 63, Louisiana

Tech 52QuarterfinalsMaryland 58, Alabama 57Iowa 75, Virginia 64BYU 79, Southern Mississippi 62Baylor 79, Providence 68

At Madison Square GardenNewYorkSemifinalsTuesday, April 2BYU (24-11) vs. Baylor (21-14), 7

p.m.Maryland (25-12) vs. Iowa (24-12),

9:30 p.m.ChampionshipThursday, April 4Semifinal winners, 9 p.m.

NCAAWomen's BasketballTournament GlanceAll Times EDTOKLAHOMA CITY REGIONALFirst RoundSaturday, March 23Columbus, OhioOklahoma 78, Central Michigan 73UCLA 66, Stetson 49

Knoxville,Tenn.Creighton 61, Syracuse 56Tennessee 83, Oral Roberts 62

Sunday, March 24Waco,TexasFlorida State 60, Princeton 44Baylor 82, Prairie View 40

Louisville, Ky.Purdue 77, Liberty 43Louisville 74, Middle Tennessee 49

Second RoundMonday, March 25Columbus, OhioOklahoma 85, UCLA 72

Knoxville,Tenn.Tennessee 68, Creighton 52

Tuesday, March 26Waco,TexasBaylor 85, Florida State 47

Louisville, Ky.Louisville 76, Purdue 63

Regional SemifinalsOklahoma CitySunday, March 31Oklahoma (24-10) vs. Tennessee

(26-7), 4:35 p.m.Baylor (34-1) vs. Louisville (26-8),

7:05 p.m.Tuesday, April 2Regional ChampionshipSemifinal winners, 9 p.m.

SPOKANE REGIONALFirst RoundSaturday, March 23Spokane,Wash.Iowa State 72, Gonzaga 60Georgia 70, Montana 50

Lubbock,TexasCalifornia 90, Fresno State 76South Florida 71, Texas Tech 70

Sunday, March 24Stanford, Calif.Stanford 72, Tulsa 56Michigan 60, Villanova 52

Baton Rouge, La.Penn State 85, Cal Poly 55LSU 75, Green Bay 71

Second RoundMonday, March 25Spokane,Wash.Georgia 65, Iowa State 60

Lubbock,TexasCalifornia 82, South Florida 78, OT

Tuesday, March 26Stanford, Calif.Stanford 73, Michigan 40

Baton Rouge, La.LSU 71, Penn State 66

Regional SemifinalsSpokane,Wash.Saturday, March 30Stanford (33-2) vs. Georgia (27-6),

9:04 p.m.California (30-3) vs. LSU (22-11),

11:32 p.m.Regional ChampionshipMonday, April 1Semifinal winners, 9:30 p.m.

NORFOLK REGIONALFirst RoundSaturday, March 23Boulder, Colo.South Carolina 74, South Dakota

State 52Kansas 67, Colorado 52

College Station,TexasTexas A&M 71, Wichita State 45Nebraska 73, Chattanooga 59

Sunday, March 24Iowa CityNotre Dame 97, UT-Martin 64Iowa 69, Miami 53

Durham, N.C.Duke 67, Hampton 51Oklahoma State 73, DePaul 56

Second RoundMonday, March 25Boulder, Colo.Kansas 75, South Carolina 69

College Station,TexasNebraska 74, Texas A&M 63

Tuesday, March 26Iowa CityNotre Dame 74, Iowa 57

Durham, N.C.Duke 68, Oklahoma State 59

Regional SemifinalsNorfolk, Va.Sunday, March 31Notre Dame (33-1) vs. Kansas (20-

13), 12:04 p.m.

Duke (32-2) vs. Nebraska (25-8),2:32 p.m.Regional ChampionshipTuesday, April 2Semifinal winners, 7 p.m.

BRIDGEPORT REGIONALFirst RoundSaturday, March 23Storrs, Conn.Vanderbilt 60, Saint Joseph's 54Connecticut 105, Idaho 37

College Park, Md.Maryland 72, Quinnipiac 52Michigan State 55, Marist 47

Sunday, March 24Newark, Del.Delaware 66, West Virginia 53North Carolina 59, Albany (N.Y.) 54

Queens, N.Y.Kentucky 61, Navy 41Dayton 96, St. John's 90, 2OT

Second RoundMonday, March 25Storrs, Conn.Connecticut 77, Vanderbilt 44

College Park, Md.Maryland 74, Michigan State 49

Tuesday, March 26Newark, Del.Delaware 78, North Carolina 69

Queens, N.Y.Kentucky 84, Dayton 70

Regional SemifinalsBridgeport, Conn.Saturday, March 30Delaware (32-3) vs. Kentucky (29-5),

12:04 p.m.Connecticut (31-4) vs. Maryland (26-

7), 2:30 p.m.Regional ChampionshipMonday, April 1Semifinal winners, 7:30 p.m.

FINAL FOURAt New Orleans ArenaNew OrleansNational SemifinalsSunday, April 7Oklahoma City champion vs.

Spokane champion, 5:30 or 8 p.m.Norfolk champion vs. Bridgeport

champion, 5:30 or 8 p.m.National ChampionshipTuesday, April 9Semifinal winners, 7:30 p.m.

GOLFPGA-Houston Open ScoresThursdayAt Redstone Golf Club,TournamentCourseHumble,TexasPurse: $6.2 millionYardage: 7,441; Par: 72 (36-36)First RoundD.A. Points ............................34-30—64Cameron Tringale.................33-32—65John Rollins..........................33-32—65Jason Kokrak........................33-33—66Angel Cabrera......................34-32—66Jeff Overton..........................33-34—67Brian Davis ...........................33-34—67SteveWheatcroft..................32-35—67Billy Horschel........................32-36—68Charley Hoffman..................34-34—68Matt Jones............................33-35—68LeeWestwood......................35-33—68John Merrick.........................33-35—68Bud Cauley...........................33-35—68JimmyWalker .......................34-34—68Bill Haas................................35-33—68Greg Owen...........................34-34—68David Lingmerth...................36-33—69Charles Howell III.................36-33—69Brandt Jobe..........................36-33—69Harris English.......................35-34—69Tim Herron ...........................35-34—69Jin Park.................................33-36—69Dustin Johnson ....................36-33—69Henrik Stenson ....................34-35—69Ben Crane ............................34-35—69Hunter Haas.........................34-35—69Joe Ogilvie............................36-34—70Tag Ridings...........................36-34—70Louis Oosthuizen .................35-35—70Aaron Baddeley ...................36-34—70Brendan Steele ....................35-35—70Ken Duke..............................37-33—70Nicholas Thompson.............35-35—70BooWeekley ........................32-38—70Kevin Chappell .....................35-35—70Kevin Stadler ........................36-34—70Keegan Bradley....................33-37—70Scott Stallings.......................33-37—70Scott Brown..........................35-35—70Robert Streb.........................35-35—70Kelly Kraft..............................33-37—70Brendon de Jonge ...............37-34—71Justin Hicks...........................35-36—71Chris Kirk..............................39-32—71Justin Leonard......................32-39—71Charlie Beljan.......................34-37—71Arron Oberholser .................37-34—71Stewart Cink.........................35-36—71Jonas Blixt ............................35-36—71Scott Langley........................36-35—71Shane Lowry ........................37-34—71Jason Bohn ..........................35-36—71NickWatney..........................36-35—71Jerry Kelly.............................34-37—71Wes Short, Jr........................36-35—71Troy Matteson.......................36-35—71Graham DeLaet ...................36-35—71Colt Knost.............................37-34—71Chris Stroud .........................36-35—71Bob Estes .............................36-35—71Randy Lowry ........................37-34—71Doug LaBelle II.....................34-37—71John Mallinger......................35-37—72David Lynn............................36-36—72Phil Mickelson.......................39-33—72Michael Thompson...............37-35—72Russell Henley .....................36-36—72BoVan Pelt ...........................36-36—72Scott Verplank ......................37-35—72Kyle Stanley..........................36-36—72Ben Curtis.............................35-37—72John Senden........................37-35—72Jonathan Byrd......................36-36—72George Coetzee...................33-39—72Chez Reavie.........................37-35—72Daniel Summerhays ............39-33—72Patrick Reed.........................38-34—72D.H. Lee................................37-35—72Chad Campbell ....................36-36—72Pat Perez ..............................39-33—72Trevor Immelman .................37-35—72GaryWoodland ....................37-35—72William McGirt......................38-34—72Seung-Yul Noh .....................39-33—72Jordan Spieth .......................36-36—72Richard H. Lee .....................37-35—72Hank Kuehne .......................37-36—73Brian Harman.......................36-37—73Geoff Ogilvy..........................36-37—73Retief Goosen ......................37-36—73David Mathis.........................35-38—73Brad Fritsch ..........................36-37—73Steven Bowditch...................36-37—73Alistair Presnell.....................36-37—73Martin Flores ........................35-38—73Rory McIlroy .........................39-34—73Steve Stricker .......................36-37—73Michael Bradley....................36-37—73Stuart Appleby......................39-34—73Troy Kelly...............................35-38—73Ricky Barnes........................37-36—73Cameron Percy ....................38-35—73LeeWilliams .........................37-36—73Ross Fisher ..........................38-35—73James Driscoll......................36-38—74George McNeill ....................35-39—74

Hunter Mahan ......................39-35—74Joey Snyder III .....................35-39—74Ryan Palmer.........................39-35—74Brian Stuard .........................38-36—74James Hahn.........................37-37—74Josh Teater ...........................36-38—74Sang-Moon Bae...................38-36—74Carl Pettersson.....................38-36—74Brandt Snedeker ..................37-37—74Greg Chalmers.....................41-33—74Fabian Gomez......................39-35—74Justin Bolli.............................36-38—74Henrik Norlander..................36-38—74Marc Leishman ....................37-38—75John Huh..............................43-32—75Martin Laird ..........................39-36—75David Hearn .........................37-38—75Will Claxton...........................40-35—75Michael Putnam...................37-38—75Bryce Molder........................38-37—75Lucas Glover ........................39-36—75Branden Grace.....................39-36—75Ben Kohles ...........................41-35—76Robert Allenby......................40-36—76Sean O'Hair..........................39-37—76Scott Gardiner ......................38-39—77Andres Romero....................39-38—77Tommy Gainey .....................37-40—77Ryo Ishikawa ........................40-37—77Luke Guthrie.........................37-40—77Luke List ...............................39-38—77J.J. Henry..............................40-38—78Bobby Gates.........................39-39—78Matt Dobyns .........................37-41—78Paul Casey ...........................42-36—78Mark O'Meara ......................40-38—78Eric Meierdierks ...................37-41—78Paul Haley II .........................39-39—78Matt Every ............................43-36—79JohnsonWagner..................41-38—79Roberto Castro.....................39-40—79Shawn Stefani ......................43-36—79Jeff Maggert .........................41-39—80Jim Herman..........................41-39—80Tom Gillis ..............................42-39—81ClaytonWonnell ...................43-38—81Thorbjorn Olesen.................40-42—82Peter Tomasulo.....................40-42—82

TRANSACTIONS

Thursday's Sports TransactionsBASEBALLAmerican LeagueBALTIMORE ORIOLES_Placed RHP

Chris Tillman on the 15-day DL. Agreedto terms with 2B Tucker Nathans on aminor league contract. Reassigned OFTrayvon Robinson to their minor leaguecamp.BOSTON RED SOX_Placed SS

Stephen Drew on the 7-day DL,retroactive to March 27. Optioned RHPDaniel Bard to Portland (EL) and 1BMauro Gomez and INF Brock Holt toPawtucket (IL).DETROIT TIGERS_Optioned RHP

Bruce Rondon and RHP Luis Marte toToledo (IL).HOUSTON ASTROS_Assigned RHP

Edgar Gonzalez to Oklahoma City(PCL).KANSAS CITY ROYALS_Agreed to

terms with RHP Cesar Arreaza and 3BFreddy Sandoval on minor league con-tracts. Optioned RHP Louis Colemansto Omaha (PCL).LOS ANGELES ANGELS_Assigned

RHP Bobby Cassevah outright to SaltLake (PCL).NEW YORK YANKEES_Agreed to

terms with RHP Chris Bootcheck on aminor league contract. Released OFJuan Rivera.TEXAS RANGERS_Assigned LHP

Brad Mills outright to Round Rock(PCL).National LeagueCINCINNATI REDS_Released C

Miguel Olivo from his minor leaguecontract.ST. LOUIS CARDINALS_Agreed to

terms with RHP AdamWainwright on afive-year contract for 2014-18.SAN DIEGO PADRES_Placed RHP

JoeWieland on the 60-day DL, retroac-tive to Feb. 26.SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS_Signed

general manager Brian Sabean andmanager Bruce Bochy to three-yearcontracts. Agreed to terms with RHPRamon Ramirez on a minor leaguecontract and assigned him to Fresno(PCL).WASHINGTON NATIONALS_Agreed

to terms with OF Israel Mota on a minorleague contract. Assigned 1B/OFMicah Owings and INF/OF CarlosRivero to their minor league camp.FOOTBALLNational Football LeagueBALTIMORE RAVENS_Signed DT

Arthur Jones and DE Albert McClellan.CHICAGO BEARS_Signed RB

Armando Allen, T Jonathan Scott, LBJames Anderson and DB KelvinHayden.CLEVELAND BROWNS_Signed QB

Jason Campbell and P Jake Schum.HOUSTON TEXANS_Signed RB

Greg Jones.INDIANAPOLIS COLTS_Traded DE

Clifton Geathers to Philadelphia for FBStanley Havili. Re-signed OT JeffLinkenbach.KANSAS CITY CHIEFS_Signed LB

Chad Kilgore. Named Brad Childressspread game analyst.MIAMI DOLPHINS_Agreed to terms

with DL Vaughn Martin.MINNESOTA VIKINGS_Signed LB

Marvin Mitchell.NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS_Signed

WR Michael Jenkins.NEW ORLEANS SAINTS_Agreed to

terms with LB Victor Butler on a two-year contract.WASHINGTON REDSKINS_Signed

LB Darryl Tapp.HOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueCALGARY FLAMES_Traded F

Jarome Iginla to Pittsburgh for therights to LW Kenneth Agostino, F BenHanowski and a 2013 first-round draftpick.COLUMBUS BLUE

JACKETS_Activated D JamesWisniewski from injured reserve.MINNESOTA WILD_Recalled G Matt

Hackett from Houston (AHL). AssignedF Jake Dowell to Houston.ST. LOUIS BLUES_Assigned G

Brian Elliott to Peoria (AHL) for condi-tioning.WASHINGTON CAPITALS_Re-

signed F Casey Wellman to a two-year,two-way contract.LACROSSEMajor League LacrosseOHIO MACHINE_Traded M Roy

Lang and 2015 first-round draft pick toHamilton for G Scott Rodgers, D ChadWiedmaier and a 2014 second-rounddraft pick.SOCCERMajor League SoccerMLS_Suspended Colorado D Drew

Moor one additional game and finedhim an undisclosed amount for violentconduct away from the play duringSunday's game.

AND SCHEDULES

SPORTS ON TV

Scores

TODAY

BOXING9 p.m. ESPN — Champion Brian Vera (22-6-0) vs. DonatasBondorovas (17-3-1), for NABO middleweight title, at Verona, N.Y.GOLF9:30 a.m.TGC—European PGATour, Trophee Hassan II, secondround, at Agadir, Morocco4 p.m. TGC — PGA Tour, Houston Open, second round, atHumble, TexasMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL7 p.m. CBS — NCAA Division I tournament, regional semifinal,Oregon vs. Louisville, at Indianapolis7:37 p.m.TBS — NCAA Division I tournament, regional semifinal,Kansas vs. Michigan, at Arlington, Texas9:45 p.m. CBS— NCAA Division I tournament, regional semifinal,Michigan St. vs. Duke, at Indianapolis10:17 p.m. TBS — NCAA Division I tournament, regional semifi-nal, Florida Gulf Coast vs. Florida, at Arlington, TexasTENNIS3 p.m. ESPN2 — ATP World Tour/WTA, Sony Open, men's semi-final, at Key Biscayne, Fla.7 p.m. ESPN2 — ATP World Tour/WTA, Sony Open, men's semi-final, at Key Biscayne, Fla.

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Baseballpitch. We won gamesbecause we did the littlethings right.”And despite key losses in

key areas, the Trojans havetalent and experience com-ing back to offset some ofthose losses.Starting in the pitching

staff.Troy loses starter Devon

Alexander and closerNathan Helke, but it alsowelcomes back a number ofarms that got plenty ofstarts last year. Junior BenLangdon is looking to be theace, with junior ZachKendall and senior CodyFuller getting that balloften, too. Nick Sanders,Ryan Lavy, Riley Turnerand Kyle Croft will also getsome innings, likely out ofthe bullpen.“Ben got an unbelievable

amount of experience as ourNo. 2 starter last year —especially pitching for theleague title in our (GreaterWestern Ohio ConferenceNorth Division) champi-onship game againstPiqua,” Welker said.“Obviously, he’ll be pitchingin league games again thisyear. And Zach started outthe season with some injuryand illness issues, but hehad a couple of nice startsnear the end. And Cody gota lot of starts and valuableexperience in non-leaguegames — and I know hewants to pitch in some biggames this year.”As for the closing role?“That’s a good question

right now,”Welker said. “Wedon’t have anyone that cancome in and throw likeHelke.We’re still looking fora guy that can finishgames.”Ian Nadolny will return

as a third-year startingcatcher, and first team All-GWOC North shortstopDylan Cascaden returns forhis third year starting, aswell. But with those theonly returners in theinfield, other Trojans willneed to step up. Welkerfeels that those Trojans areJay Swigard at second,Langdon at first when he’snot pitching, and Sanders,Lavy, Alex Magoteaux,Logan Perkins and KevinMcGraw filling in whereneeded.“We have a whole bunch

of options at third, andMcGraw can play any-where,” Welker said. “Welost three of our four infield-ers, but we have guys thathave some good experience.We won’t miss a beat ondefense.”Center fielder Devin

Blakely — a third-year let-terman and speedster —makes up the other half ofpossibly the Trojans’ bestoffensive weapon, its nine-one combo in the lineup.“Devin was our leadoff

hitter, but Dylan movedthere and Devin likes it inthe nine-hole,” Welker said.“It’s like having two leadoff

hitters back-to-back in themiddle of games. And I tellyou now, that’s not going tochange. That helped us outa lot last year.”Cam Weaver and Collin

Moeller will fight for thespot in left field, while JoeyBenson and Greg Johnsonwill vie for duties in right.“Whoever is hitting at

the time, that’s who is goingto be in the lineup,” Welkersaid. “Last year we won theleague title by hitting .274— and I’m not braggingabout that. We want to bean offensive team, as well.We lost our two-three-fourhitters in Jordan Guillozet,Helke and Nick Antonides.And that’s going to be a bigchallenge for our guys, fill-ing those holes.”Particularly with Butler

looking to regain its perchatop the division.“Butler is always the No.

1 challenge in the league —but we can’t overlook any-body,” Welker said. “Piquahad a nice season last year,and we expect them to begood. Greenville was kind ofa wild card and should besolid, and Sidney wasyoung, so I look for them tobe improved.”

• TippecanoeExpectations are still

very, very high for theTippecanoe baseball team.And with all nine

starters back from lastyear’s 24-6 team, whywouldn’t they be?The Red Devils pitching

staff is possibly the best inthe area. Senior ace CarterLangdon returns after post-ing a 9-1 record with a 1.08ERA last year. SeniorSteven Calhoun (5-0, 0.54ERA), junior Ben Hughes(6-2, 2.46), sophomore ColeQuillen and juniorCameron Johnson will allbe featured in the rotation.Junior Reid Ferrell and

sophomore Zack Blair will

also see time on the mound,with B.J. Donathan prima-rily playing behind theplate.Langdon, who hit .368

last season, will play firstwhen he’s not pitching.Blair will be at second, ayear removed from hitting.385 as a freshman.Johnson (.300 average) willplay short, Hughes (.385)and Zach Robbins will playat third. Steven Calhoun,who got the game-winningwalk-off hit in the districtfinals last year,will see timeat first base, as will Ferrell.Austin Hadden, a .378

hitter last season, will hitlead off and play outfield.Quillen (.394 average),Austin Clack and BradBruns (.370) will all seetime in the outfield.“Basically, all nine

starters return from lastyear’s 24-6 regional team,”Tippecanoe coach BruceCahill said. “We lost twovaluable seniors in NickMuse and Henry Scott.Pitching-wise, 23 of our 24wins return with CarterLangdon leading the way.Carter was the CentralBuckeye Conference Playerof the Year and second teamAll-State last year.“Our goals are high this

year. This is a team thatworks extremely hard andexpects to win.”

• Milton-UnionBrett Barnes returns at

Milton-Union in hopes ofbuilding off an 11-15 recordlast season.And Barnes believes his

team can if its pitching per-forms well.“If our pitching holds, I

believe overall we will bebetter than last year’s 11-15team,” Barnes said. “We arecontinuing to build a pro-gram and get better every-day.”Wes Bisner is the lead-

ing returning pitcher for the

Bulldogs. He went 4-5 witha 3.19 ERA last year andwas named All-Southwestern BuckeyeLeague Buckeye Division.Also in the rotation will beZac Greenwald and ChrisHeisey, along with TroyChristian transfer ElijahSims. Catching will be MattBracci, senior JesseSimpson and junior SamMorgan.In the infield, Biser will

hold down short when heisn’t pitching. Sims andHolden Kimmel are in themix for shortstop and thirdbase, while second will behandled by juniors BrianBeeler and Connor Jones.Sam Morgan will play in

left field and Sam Bradywill be in right field. AlexGunston will also find timein the outfield.

• Miami EastBarry Coomes returns

for his 11th season as coachat Miami East, and he hashis Vikings ready to battlefor a third straight CrossCounty Conference crown.“We would like to defend

our league championshipfor a third year in a row,” hesaid. “We need all of ourplayers to step up and playtogether as a team.Leadership and dedicationwill help the team reach itsgoals and to have a success-ful season.”Seniors Garrett Mitchell

and Cole Hale and juniorsEvan Bowling, Alex Brewer,Michael Fellers andBrandon Kirk all returnwith hopes of repeating asCCC champs. But theVikings have some big holesto fill with the loss of LukeClark, Bradley Coomes,Logan Durand, JacobHawkins and KevinMcMaken—with the pitch-ing staff being a top priority.

• BethelThe Bethel Bees lost a

lot of firepower off of lastyear’s team, but with a deeppitching staff, they shouldbe able to challenge for aCross County Conferencetitle.“We lost six very good

seniors from last year’s 23-5team, but we have a goodreturning group back,”Bethel coach BrettBrookhart — who is backfor his 13th year — said.“We lost our defense up themiddle, which is hard toreplace, but I think we havemany capable guys who cando the job. The key with usis can we play defense andscore runs. I feel we havethree solid pitchers who cankeep us in every game.”Those pitchers are Luke

Veldman, a senior that went8-1 last year with a 1.88ERA and juniors JordanElam (3-0, 3.69 ERA) andJimmy Pelphrey (2-1, 3.92ERA, three saves). Pelphreywill also be catching whenhe isn’t pitching, and he isan outstanding defensivecatcher.Seniors Mitch Siler and

Matt Bush return and will

play second and short,respectively, while juniorNate Reese will play first.And Elam— a second teamAll-Area outfielder with a.442 average and 24 RBIs,will anchor the outfield.“We are going to have to

do the little things to wingames — play solid defenseand manufacture runs,”Brookhart said. “I am hop-ing we can compete in theupper half of the CCC, con-tinue to improve through-out the year and make asolid tournament run.”

• NewtonAfter going through its

growing pains and nowboasting a roster with dou-ble digits in veterans,Newton coach GreggCarnes wants to see thattranslate into double fig-ures in another category.“The team has 10

returning lettermen, so lookfor double digits in winsthis year,” he said. “We’regoing to continue toprogress and compete dayin and day out, especially inthe competitive CrossCounty Conference —where we would like to fin-ish in the upper five-to-sixteams.”The Indians will lean on

junior starter CodyAlexander — but he cantake it after throwing sevencomplete games last year.Chase Courtney, BrianSchwartz and lefty MitchellHussong will also see timeon the mound, withSchwartz and Reece Oilersharing duties behind theplate.Courtney and freshman

Wade Farrell will lock downthe middle infield, withDustin Coate playing atthird, Hussong playing atfirst and Cody Alexanderrotating in where needed.And the outfield will be the“best we have had in thelast five years,” Carnes said,with Gavin Alexander,Logan Welbaum, BrandonDelcamp Tyler Denlinger,Coate and Ricky Webb.Gavin Alexander hit over.400 for the second year in arow last year, had a .600 on-base percentage and led theteam in runs, hits, doubles,RBIs and stolen bases.

• Troy ChristianTroy Christian will be

without longtime ace andgraduate MichaelSeagraves this season, butwith a pair of solid pitchers— and senior leadershipfrom Nathan Kirkpatrick incenter field — the Eaglesare looking to compete for aMetro Buckeye Conferencetitle.“We want to win the

league and get farther inthe tournament than weever have before — thoseare always our goals,” TroyChristian coach BillCampbell said. “Nathan’s aleader, and with this beinghis last year, he’s going to goout strong.“We’re pretty young,

though. We have a little bit

of varsity experience, andwith some of these guys get-ting their first varsityaction, it can be a littleintimidating. We’re excited,though. I think we’re goingto get better, and if we cankeep getting better everyday, we can get to where wewant to be.”Seniors BenMorrow and

Alec Patterson will see mostof the starts on the mound,with Kevin Moore and LeviSims seeing time on themound, too, and TaylorKolker behind the plate.Garrett Hancock will playat shortstop, JonahNoble atsecond — and whoever isn’tpitching will play the cor-ners.The Eagle outfield is as

solid as any, particularlywith Kirkpatrick in center.They also have SpencerThomas in left and Sims inright.

• CovingtonEven with 10 seniors on

the roster, Covington entersthe 2013 season with a feel-ing of the unknown.That’s because the

weather has wreaked havocon Covington’s preparationthis spring as the team hasrarely been able to get outto the baseball field.“It’s too early to tell,”

Covington coach MitchHirsch said when askedabout what to expect fromhis team in 2013. “Wehaven’t been outsideenough to really get a feelfor how well we meshtogether. We’ve been coopedup in the gym.”What Hirsch does know

is he has a talented seniorclass consisting of AustinAngle, Kyler Deeter, BrytonLear, Sheldon Rank, ColeOwens, Brock Smith, D.J.Segar, Matthew Hubbard,Ryan Boehringer and IsaacCanan.“We have a good senior

group,” Hirsch said. “Austin(Angle), Bryton (Lear) andKyler (Deeter) and played afew years at the varsitylevel, so that helps from aleadership standpoint.”Also returning to the

varsity level are juniorsAustin Lefeld and JustinWilliams, while juniorsZakk Collins and DainPeters join the varsity line-up. Peters a move-in fromWashington.

• BradfordBradford coach Shane

Snyder is back with a sen-ior-led team — a group heexpects to be a strong con-tender in the Cross CountyConference.Seniors Austin Learn

and Jake Cline, along withBrandon Wysong areexpected to be the top pitch-ers. Cline and senior AaronYohey will be catchers. Inthe infield, senior BryceArnett will be at second,Wysong will be at shortstop. TJ Pullins, MikeyBarga are expected to beutility players.As of now, the outfield

spots are up for grabs.

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BuckeyesState’s final shot to Rosswhen the Wildcats didn’tmake the proper switch onthe Buckeyes’ screen. Rosscoolly drilled his second 3-pointer and set off awild cel-ebration in the Ohio Statesection of the Arizona-domi-nated crowd.Craft hit an awfully sim-

ilar 3-pointer against IowaState last Sunday to sendthe Buckeyes forward witha 78-75 victory, but Ross did-n’t flinch at his turn underpressure in this increasinglymagical Ohio State season.“LaQuinton has really

grown in a lot of areas,”OhioState coach Thad Mattasaid. “I think the biggestthing he’s done is he’sengaged himself in all thelittle things, and that’smade him a better basket-ball player. We’re proud ofhim.”Arizona couldn’t get off a

shot on its last-secondinbounds heave, and MarkLyons greeted Ross in thepostgame handshakes witha joking “I can’t stand you!”Lyons’ acrobatic three-

point play for the Wildcats(27-8) had tied it with 21.8

seconds left, thanks to a foulby Ross. But Ross knew hemight be in for a specialmoment when he wasassigned Kobe Bryant’s stallin the Lakers’ locker roomat Staples Center and henailed a shot that wouldhave made the NBA starproud.“It was similar to the

play we ran last game,”Rosssaid. “We like to get the (bigmen) on a pick-and-roll. It sohappened they messed upthe switch there, and I wasable to knock down theshot.”On Saturday, Ohio State

will face the winner of thelate game between under-dogs Wichita State and LaSalle. As the only top-eightseed left in the West, theBuckeyes will be Atlanta-bound with one more win.SamThompson added 11

points for the Buckeyes,whotrailed for nearly the entirefirst half before pushingahead and nursing a smalllead throughout the finalminutes.

The Wichita State-LaSalle and Indiana-Syracuse games were still inprogress at time of press.

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STAFF FILE PHOTO/ANTHONY WEBERTroy’s Dylan Cascaden runs the bases during a gamelast season.

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‘Dunk City’ darlings ready for GatorsARLINGTON, Texas

(AP) — A week ago, FloridaGulf Coast University wasjust another overlooked No.15 seed — a longshot at bestto nearly everyone eye-balling their NCAA tourna-ment brackets.Now the Eagles are the

high-flying show from“Dunk City” in the round of16, the darlings of the SouthRegional and a bracket-busting team everybody istalking about even whensurrounded by formernational championsMichigan, Kansas andFlorida.“Things have changed

dramatically,” FGCU coachAndy Enfield said.“The way we looked at it,

we did make history. … Wefeel like we shocked theworld,” said Brett Comer,the guard with 22 pointsand 24 assists in two NCAAgames. “Nobody picked us tobeat Georgetown, or SanDiego State, for sure. We’regoing to prepare for Floridathe same way.We’re going totry to win again.”Florida Gulf Coast (26-

10) plays the SEC regular-season champion Gators

(28-7), the No. 3 seed in theSouth, on Friday night. Theimprobable intrastate show-down is magnified evenmore at Cowboys Stadium,where the court is on araised stage and belowgiant high-definitionscreens that had the play-ers’ attention on Thursday.“Even if you make big

plays, it’s hard to get a goodangle on that TV, you haveto stand right on the edge(of the court),” Eagles for-ward Chase Fieler said.“We’ll have to run moretoward the sideline to seeit.”This group doesn’t need

one of the world’s largestHD displays to appear larg-er than life, though anyhighlight dunks sure willlook good on the big screens.How about a few shots

up there of their sun-soakedcampus in Fort Myers, Fla.,with its manmade lakes anda beach? The school’s firstclasses were held in August1997, making FGCUyounger than the playerswho have put it on a nation-al stage.“I never heard of Florida

Gulf Coast until actually I

started to visit the schooland to attend it,” admittedSherwood Brown, thedreadlocked showman wholeads the Eagles in scoring(15.6 points per game) andrebounds (6.6 rpg) and istheir only senior starter.After their two NCAA

tournament victories inPhiladelphia, the Eaglesarrived home early Mondaymorning. All the playerswere in back in class a fewhours after that, though theatmosphere had certainlychanged on the campuswith an enrollment of13,468.“It was a busy week, just

with the attention and themedia being around. Andthe students were excitedabout what’s going on andtalking to us,” Fieler said.“But now we’re in Dallas,

we can feel the game start-ing to get closer and closer,”Enfield said. “Just like theGeorgetown and San DiegoState games got closer andcloser.And they’re very, veryfocused.”While Florida Gulf Coast

was back home getting acco-lades and trying to prepareamong a pep rally-type

atmosphere, the Gatorsspent the entire week inTexas. They stayed in theLone Star State instead ofgoing back-and-forth afterbeating Minnesota lastSunday in Austin, aboutthree hours away.The Eagles are in the

round of 16 in only their sec-ond season being eligible forthe NCAA tournament.Florida, a state school withnearly 50,000 students, hasa roster loaded with NCAAexperience.It is the first time that

two teams from the samestate have meet in thisround of the NCAA tourna-ment.Florida, which won con-

secutive national titles in2006 and 2007, has been toregional finals each of thelast two years. But this isthe last chance for seniorsKenny Boynton, ErikMurphy and Mike Rosarioto get a championship oftheir own.“We remember the pain

it caused for us last year,”Boynton said. “I think weused it to learn. … We’vebeen close.And our goal is toget further this year.”