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system has led to numerous arrests, Speaks said.

Law enforcement has stepped up efforts in recent months to combat thefts and have been spot-checking the 15 or so scrap-metal yards in Columbus.

Local churches also have been hit hard by the copper thieves.

The Rev. Robert Patterson, deacon of the Emmanuel Tabernacle Baptist Church on the Near East Side, said four units have been stolen since October, costing the church $20,000 in damages, plus replacement units and

The South-Western City Schools’ classified workers continue to work without a contract.

Negotiators for the district and Ohio Association of Public School Employees Local 211 met with a federal mediator for nearly six hours on April 11.

Superintendent Bill Wise characterized the most recent talks as productive.

“We had productive conversation,” he said prior to the April 11 school board meeting. “The key issues are primarily financial at this point. We’re hopeful as we continue to have dialogue on these key issues” an agreement will be reached.

No further talks have been scheduled, he said.

About 950 bus drivers, food service workers and other staff members are represented by OAPSE. Their last contract with the district expired June 30.

No one spoke during the public participation segment of the April 11 board meeting. OAPSE leaders said earlier they want a fair and equitable contract for their members.

Last month, the South-Western Education Association, which represents about 1,400 teachers and other certified staff, agreed to a new threeyear contract retroactive to July 1.

That agreement provides for no base-pay increases this school year, a 0.5-percent increase for 2011-12 and a 1-percent raise the following year.

Teachers and others also will contribute more toward health-care coverage.

Last summer, about 85 unionized administrators reached a one-year agreement with the district. That contract provides for no base-pay rais-

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Air-conditioners and parts

Scrap dealers issue moratorium on items

By GARY SEMAN JR. ThisWeek Community Newspapers In cooperation with the Columbus Division of Police, several of the city’s largest scrap dealers have declared a 30-day moratorium on the purchase of retail air-conditioners and parts.

Also during the moratorium period and beyond, the scrap dealers have agreed to check air-conditioning units and related merchandise to see if they are marked by ultraviolet-ink pens.

Meanwhile, the city will launch a massive public-outreach campaign on how residents can prevent thefts.

Community liaison officers will send

information to local business, civic associations, block-watch groups and other community organizations.

George Speaks, the city’s deputy director of public safety, said 400 reports of air-conditioning thefts have been made since November.

“It’s bad,” said Cmdr. Bob Meader of the property-crimes bureau for Columbus police. “We’re likely to see an increase in the number of thefts over the next few weeks. Not because actual thefts are occurring but because many of the thieves have stolen the air-conditioner units during the winter.”

Thieves can net $30 to $50 per unit,

while it costs the owner thousands of dollars to replace.

“Likewise, it’s adversely affecting insurance companies, which will pay the claims to the owners,” Speaks said.

Commercial air-conditioning businesses will not be affected by the moratorium, Speaks said.

Scrap-metal thefts have been plaguing the city for some time. Columbus City Council in 1997 passed a law regulating sales of scrap metal.

The following year, the state passed a similar measure.

Columbus police also follow an electronic-reporting system that tracks thousands of transactions a day. That

Ohio Library Council

Executive director sees rest of state ‘feeling pain’ of deep budget cuts

By KEVIN PARKS ThisWeek Community Newspapers When officials from state-funded departments, agencies, boards, etc. get together these days to commiserate with one another about looming budget cuts, public library representatives can say, “I’ve felt your pain.”

While library funding is only to be cut a modest 5 percent in Gov. John Kasich’s proposed biennial budget, the executive director of the Ohio Library Council hastens to point out that comes on top of a 23-percent reduction in state funding since 2008 and a 30-percent cut over the past five years.

“Everybody’s catching up with libraries now,” Douglas S. Evans said last week.

Operating out of offices off Schrock Road in the Northland area, the Ohio Library Council “is the statewide professional association which represents the interests of Ohio’s public libraries as well as their trustees, Friends and staffs,” according to the nonprofit’s website.

Of the state’s 251 public libraries, 238 are members of the council, Evans said. The council’s annual operating budget is $1.2 million.

“We run a pretty lean operation, but it’s not inexpensive to be an advocate with state government,” said Evans, who has been executive director for just under nine years.

The council has 11 employees and represents the interests of only public libraries in Ohio, not school and academic ones as is typical

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Douglas Evans, executive director of the Ohio Library Council, met recently with the organization’s intellectual freedom committee. The Ohio Library Council “is the statewide professional association which represents the interests of Ohio’s public libraries as well as their trustees, friends and staffs,” according to the nonprofit’s website.

in other states, according to Evans.

Some organization in one form or another has represented public libraries in the Buckeye State back into the 19th century, he said.

Up until the 1930s or ’40s, three different organizations looked after different aspects of library operations: the Ohio Library Trustees Association, Ohio Library Association and Ohio Friends of the Library Association.

These eventually combined, although not entirely for some decades, Evans said. Up until the late 1990s, what had been three separate organizations continued to maintain separate boards of directors.

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The missions of those three entities included professional training as well as advocacy to maintain financial support for public libraries.

“The end result is to serve the public libraries which ultimately serve the public,” Evans said.

Library funding has undergone some major changes since 1985, according to Evans, up to and including the proposed 30-percent drop in state support Gov. Ted Strickland called for at 4 p.m. June See EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, page A2

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Executive director sees rest of state ‘feeling pain’ of deep budget cuts Continued from page A1 19, 2009 — obviously a memorable moment in his tenure.

Up until 1985, public libraries received funding based on a percentage of the intangibles tax, the amount of investments held by residents of a given county, Evans said. This resulted in some stark inequities in funding between one part of the state and another, he noted.

In 1985, that formula was replaced with the Library and Local Government Support fund, which came out of the state income tax.

It was about the same amount of money as before, but included a system for equalization between the have and have-not sections of Ohio.

Things went along pretty smoothly, and in fact Ohio was one of the models library officials in other states looked up to in terms of state funding support, up until that fateful afternoon in June 2009, according to Evans.

The ax didn’t end up cutting quite as deeply as initially proposed by Strickland, and the Ohio Library Council executive director credited the vocal opposition of library officials, trustees, patrons and Friends organizations for that.

“It was a tremendous effort on behalf of the libraries themselves to gear up their communities in response to the governor’s proposal,” Evans said. “It was tremendously overwhelming to see the public’s response to the governor’s proposal.

“We did not go out to the public and tell them what to say. We put the word out. The word that

‘Libraries are constantly changing’ Someone with no computer at home and not much more knowledge of how to use one is advised to apply for this or that form of state assistance.

But the only way they can do that is … online.

Where are they going to go?

They’re going to head to the nearest library, and they’re going to find help there, according to Ohio Library Council executive director Douglas S. Evans.

Once upon a time a “museum for books,” libraries have become much more, Evans said, and are on their way to becoming even more in response to social needs not being met by other public institutions. Evans cited examples around the state, many of them reflected by the Columbus Metropolitan Library, of the addition of homework and job help centers, tutoring programs, Internet access and even ongoing assistance with starting a business. In Cleveland, library personnel help patrons handle the paperwork needed to obtain a passport.

Increasingly, Evans said, public libraries are providing the conduit between the public and the government. “Libraries have become an extension of government/social services,” he said.

For library officials, it’s a case of: If not us, who?

“It really has become that situation,” Evans said. “The libraries have really assumed that role, regardless of whether anyone wants them to.”

Library services, he said, are driven by community need and, increasingly, technology. Therefore, library services are continually evolving. “That need is constantly changing,” Evans said, “so libraries are constantly changing.”

— Kevin Parks came back to the legislature, to the governor, was the public’s own word: They valued the public libraries.”

In the majority other states, libraries are supported almost entirely by local funding, and access to them is limited to those who pay, according to Evans. The city or county owns and runs the libraries.

In Ohio, state money supports libraries, which are controlled by local boards answerable to their patrons, he said.

This distinction, Evans said, was brought home to him when, two weeks after becoming executive director of the Ohio Library Council, he attended a national conference.

“So you’re the one who got the plum job in Ohio,” counterpart after counterpart commented to him, Evans recalled.

State funding “has created a level of library service statewide that is unmatched throughout the country,” Evans said.

“Needless to say, we’re very

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SWCS and OAPSE still in contract talks Continued from page A1 es and also increases what administrators contribute to health coverage.

Qualifying teachers and administrators will still receive step increases, based largely on education and length of employment.

Both Wise and treasurer Hugh Garside said before the April 11 board meeting they think the district made enough preparations to withstand cuts in state aid in Gov. John Kasich’s proposed twoyear state budget. That budget is expected to undergo revisions in the state legislature.

A budget must be approved by July 1.

Garside said district officials projected about a $9-million loss in state aid in next year’s budget, as well as the end of about $6.4-million in onetime federal stimulus money. He said he doesn’t see anything in the new budget, as currently proposed, that would add to that $15.4-million in cutbacks.

Garside and Wise both said they expect some changes to be made to the proposed budget.

“I anticipate the budget will go through multi-

ple revisions before a final piece of legislation is approved,” Wise said. “We’re confident we made the necessary adjustments” in next year’s budget.

The board also: • Approved paying $256,000 to DataTalk Telecom Inc. to update phone systems in 20 of the district’s schools.

• Approved a new facilities use agreement with the city of Grove City. The one-year agreement allows the city to use baseball diamonds this summer at two elementary schools and one middle school for youth baseball. Another elementary school and middle school also could be used, if needed.

Garside said after the meeting the youth baseball league maintains the fields during the summer and that the district doesn’t charge any fee for use of the fields.

• Authorized Garside to refinance $3.5-million in bonds if he can find a lower interest rate. Those bonds currently have an interest rate of 4.94 percent. The district is hoping to refinance the bonds to lower interest payments by at least $100,000.

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“It’s real disheartening,” Patterson said. “It makes you wonder about people.”

The church is one of many that will hand out invisible-ink pens to worshippers so they can mark their air-conditioners.

Patterson said he supports the

moratorium but doesn’t think it goes far enough.

“I’m hoping it goes statewide because I’ve talked to a pastor and a few other people who say, ‘if you stop them in Columbus, what’s to stop them from going to Lancaster or somewhere outside of town?’” he said.

Dave Southan, a member of the Clintonville Area Commission,

said the initiative sounds like a good start.

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State budget Lack of fix should be foresight led bipartisan, to financial not ideological ‘surprise’ Gov. John Kasich’s proposed budget is not a plan to balance Ohio’s budget, but a means to pursue his narrow, ideological agenda.

He is seeking to capitalize on Ohio’s budget crisis to eliminate workers’rights, outsource core government services and balance the budget on the backs of local governments. His patronizing charge to local officials to make difficult choices and to be leaders is misdirected and reflects an underappreciation of the value cities, villages and townships bring to ANDREW the state.

Two years ago, Columbus GINTHER faced declining revenue and increased costs, compounded by two recessions within 10 years, the latter being the worst since the Great Depression. Funding for critical social services had been slashed and many city services were discontinued. Recreation centers were closed and entire city departments eliminated. Many city jobs had already been cut, but more workers were let go.

Those who remained were asked to make sacrifices; wages were frozen and workers were furloughed. Income-tax revenues continued to decline, state funding continued to shrink and investment earnings evaporated. The city’s budget was structurally unbalanced.

Columbus leaders coalesced around a strategy to bring Columbus’ budget back into balance. City workers, including organized labor, agreed to contribute more to cover costs of their insurance and pensions. Elected leaders promised reforms that

Columbus City Hall is scrambling to makeup a $5 million reduction to the Local Government Fund (LGF) in 2011. City Hall also will be faced with an additional $15 million reduction to this fund in 2012 and another $20 million cut in 2013.

LGF money comes from Ohio taxpayers to help pay for safety services in our own city. I don’t have time to get into the moral question of this odd arrangement, but I do wish to comment on the shocking surprise it has brought to our elected officials at City MATTHEW Hall.

It should have come as no sur- FERRIS prise at all.

With an estimated state budget deficit of $8 billion to $10 billion, city officials throughout Ohio knew that big cuts were coming. However, Columbus City Hall failed to foresee these cuts and take adequate budgeting steps to prepare for them. For example, while City Hall claims to have set aside $3 million for anticipated reductions in state aid, it actually projected an increase of $1,319,000 ($39,931,000 in 2010; $41,250,000 in 2011) in expected state funding to the Local Government Fund.

How are we supposed to take our elected officials at their word when their actions do not match?

If City Hall truly believed big cuts were coming, as they should, then why did they project increased aid to the LGF? In 2009, City Hall scared and shamed Columbus voters into a 25-percent tax increase (2 percent to 2.5 percent; yes, this is a 25-percent increase in

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FERRIS Continued from page A4 the city’s tax rate).

As a result, City Hall was able to increase our city’s budget by approximately $50 million between 2010 (approximately $655 million) and 2011 (approximately $705 million).

If you consider that the LGF will be reduced by $40 million over three years, then it is easy to see that City Hall would have had more than enough money to offset LGF cuts, if they had held 2011 spending to 2010 levels.

It was irresponsible for City Hall to propose $50 million in new spending when $40 million in state aid was in question. If City Hall is unable to streamline our budget by prioritizing spending, then it should be no surprise what could be in our very near future: another tax increase.

Recent mass business exodus is another new surprise for City Hall. With the recently announced departure of Bob Evans (350 jobs lost), and Alcatel-Lucent (600 jobs lost) from Columbus, it will be even more difficult for City Hall to get its act together, as tax revenues will be impacted. Years of neglect and hostility toward Columbus businesses on the part of City Hall have finally taken their toll.

There is little to no trust between businesses and our local elected officials. Instead of businesses and jobs heading for the door, why don’t we show our officials at City Hall the door?

It is clear to see that our city leadership has let us down yet again. City Hall’s lack of foresight and failure to properly prioritize spending over the years have left Columbus vulnerable to state budget cuts, tax increases and seemingly endless job losses. We didn’t get into this mess overnight, and we won’t get out of it in short order.

However, we will not achieve any meaningful improvements in our city until we identify and address some serious obstacles. The only way to get Columbus back on the right track is to make fundamental changes at City Hall.

By now, that should come as a surprise to no one.

Matthew Ferris is a candidate for a seat on Columbus City Council.

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GINTHER would further streamline local government and committed to reporting progress to an accountability committee of community members, business leaders and financial experts.

The city also committed to stepping up economic development efforts to attract new businesses while making it easier for those already here to expand and create new jobs.

And Columbus leaders, Republicans and Democrats alike, asked taxpayers to pay more for services.

Columbus voters obliged, choosing to invest in their community rather than see services cut further and their quality of life diminished.

Columbus workers continue to make concessions, and the city has implemented changes that will save taxpayers at least $135 million through 2019. The mayor and council have made an unprecedented investment in regional economic development efforts through Columbus2020!, a public-private partnership that includes leaders from the Columbus Partnership, Columbus Chamber of Commerce, CompeteColumbus, TechColumbus, MODE, MORPC, Franklin County, The Ohio State University, Columbus Foundation and Battelle.

Unemployment is down, tax receipts have improved and there are signs of growth in the local economy.

Gov. Kasich’s proposed budget will further slash local government funding. Reducing the portion of state tax revenues committed to local governments breaks a promise made in 1935, when the Andrew Ginther is president of Local Government Fund was Columbus City Council.

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Gov. Kasich rationalizes these cuts by providing “tools� that will allow local governments to reduce costs, including the elimination of collective bargaining through the passage of Senate Bill 5. However, the new law will not have any meaningful impact on the proposed budget, as it cannot be applied retroactively. Contracts in place must be honored. Eliminating prevailing-wage requirements impacts capital projects, not the operating budget.

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Steve White’s first objective as coach of the Westland High School football team is to make the program more competitive in 2011.

White, the team’s linebackers coach last season, was promoted in January to replace Brian Smith, who resigned in November. Under Smith, the Cougars were 2-28 overall and 0-19 in the OCC-Central Division in three seasons.

Last season, Westland finished 1-9 overall and 0-7 in the OCC-Central. The Cougars defeated Toledo Scott 28-0.

“We have to make sure the

By Chris Parker/ThisWeek kids are more competitive at all Andy Runkle of Westland safely scrambles to second base as the ball gets away from Worthington Kilbourne’s Will Meador during the visiting Cougars’ 2-1 loss times,” White said.

April 13.

“If we can make them realize that we can compete and play with every team we have on the schedule then we can have a good season. Bringing that competitiveness out is important.”

With no head coach in place late last year, assistant coaches helped run the team’s conditioning program once the 30-day rest period ended in December.

When White was promoted in January, the offseason program intensified.

The offseason conditioning ior Kris Carius said. “Last year we

By FRANK DiRENNA program includes weightlifting, lost a lot worse. This year we’re a ThisWeek Community Newspapers cardiovascular exercises and year older, so it’s a lot better losing aerobic training.

Like most coaches, Dave Daniels 2-1 than 11-0.”

Coaches are allowed 10 days Westland’s wins came over doesn’t believe in moral victories. of contact with their players However, he’s pleased with how Brookhaven 10-0 in five innings during the offseason. White said his Westland High School baseball on April 7 and Fairfield Union 8his program uses eight of those 6 and 9-6 on April 9. team has played this season. days for summer camp. The The Cougars entered their game The Cougars opened the season other two are utilized to paragainst Dublin Coffman on April 14 with an 11-8 loss to Whitehall on ticipate in area 7-on-7 passing at 3-8 overall and 0-4 in the OCC- March 29 and have lost three other leagues.

Central Division, but they had been games by four or fewer runs, in“I like those passing leagues, cluding a 2-1 defeat against Worcompetitive in most games. especially offensively because “We’re learning how to play the thington Kilbourne on April 13.

The Wolves improved to 4-0 in game,” Daniels said. “There’s See FOOTBALL, page A8 enough talent there. When they put the league entering the rematch with everything together and learn to Westland on April 15. play the game right, we can hang “(Kilbourne) is 4-0 in the league At a glance and they won it last year, so we’re with anybody.”

Last season, Westland lost by 10 not going to play anybody better or more runs 11 times on its way to than them,” Daniels said after the a 3-23 finish. The Cougars went 0- first meeting. “There are no moral 14 in the OCC-Central. victories; we still lost. But we’re •Coach: Steve White, first season •2010 record: 1-9 overall, 0-7 This season, the Cougars have starting to play better and they sense (eighth) in OCC-Central Division lost by the 10-run mercy rule only that.”

•Final 2010 computer ranking:

By Chris Parker/ThisWeek once, 11-1 to Coffman on April 8.

28th in Division I, Region 3 See COUGARS, page A8 “That’s been a big positive,” junThe Cougars’ D.J. Taylor ducks away from a pitch against Kilbourne on April 13.

Westland Roundup

Coach sees potential in baseball team

Ready Roundup

Improved defense, chemistry spark baseball team

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An improved defense and more chemistry in the dugout are among the factors that have the Ready High School baseball team off to a strong start.

The Silver Knights won four of their first five games and posted their first CCL victory since 2008 with a 12-2 six-inning win over visiting Hartley on April 5.

“The guys are playing for each other and they’re proud to play for Bishop Ready,” coach Harry Caruso said. “Get-

ting a 12-2 run-rule victory over Hartley helped us solidify some things.

We’ve always played them tough, but we just haven’t finished against them in the past. This time we scored both of our runs in the sixth inning when there were already two outs. It’s good to see your players do that.”

Ready, which advanced to a Division III district semifinal for the seventh time in nine seasons but went just 8-21 a year ago, committed no errors against Hartley. The Silver Knights were charged with six errors over their first five games.

Offensively, the leading contributors through five games were senior Jeff Johnson (.583), sophomores Mitch McNabb (.526, 7 RBI) and Sean Mogan (.471, 9 RBI), junior Brian Horn (.467) and senior Bill Marting (.455). Sophomore leadoff hitter Ross Etgen had contributed seven RBI. Freshman Hunter Clanin also has been a welcomed addition. He has seen action at first base, second base and shortstop.

Senior Erik Dubiel was 1-0 with a 2.80 ERA in 10 innings to lead the pitching staff through five games. McNabb

and juniors Brian Hasenkamp and Alex Kopczyk also have been key pitchers.

“Our defense has been outstanding so far,” Caruso said. “We’ve got a junior playing first base and third, a sophomore in the middle of the diamond and a freshman mixed in. Those guys are all batting high in the order, so we’ve got really high hopes as we get deeper into the season and into the future.”

•After opening with consecutive wins behind back-to-back no-hit performances from senior pitcher Katie Ardrey, the softball team was outslugged in consecutive losses to Jonathan Alder

9-8 on April 5 and Upper Arlington 64 on April 7.

Still, coach Nick Joseph was pleased with his team’s ability to battle back.

Against UA, the Silver Knights fell behind 4-0 after two innings and scored three in the top of the third to tie it.

Ready rallied to take a 5-3 lead after falling behind 3-0 against Jonathan Alder before a home run in the seventh by the Pioneers’Alex Greene gave her team the victory.

“We started out two games in a row See READY, page A8

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COUGARS

At a glance

Continued from page A7

By Chris Parker/ThisWeek

Ready’s Dani Pugh is tagged out at the plate by Stephanie Turner of Upper Arlington during the visiting Silver Knights’ 6-4 loss April 7.

READY

At a glance

Continued from page A7 down 3-0 and got them both back to even,” Joseph said. “We’re this close. We need to struggle a little bit more, fight a little bit harder. It isn’t going to be easy. “(Ardrey’s) problem against Jonathan Alder was her coach.

She should have thrown more before that game because she just hasn’t gotten enough work.”

Against UA, No. 2 hitter and third baseman Sam Curry had an RBI single, cleanup hitter and shortstop Dani Pugh had an RBI groundout and right fielder Erin Bennett had a two-run double.

“Erin Bennett has been the light of my life out there,” Joseph said. “That kid has just given us everything every game.”

Second baseman Alexis Mayle and left fielder Emily Finchum both went 2-for-3 against the Golden Bears. Other regulars in the lineup have included first baseman Lindsey Kusan and catcher Mara Waldo.

Ready began a stretch of four CCL games in seven days on April 13 with a 3-2 loss to DeSales. julrey@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com

Below are the recent results and coming schedules for the Ready baseball, softball, boys tennis and track & field teams: BASEBALL April 2 — Defeated Northland 14-2 and 23-1 *April 5 — Def. Hartley 12-2 April 6 — Lost to DeSales 7-2 April 9 — Def. Centennial 11-1 and 12-2 April 12 — Game vs. Hilliard Bradley postponed because of bad weather and rescheduled for April 26. *April 13 — Lost to Watterson 12-4 *April 14 — Played St. Charles *April 15 — Played Hartley April 16 — Played Bexley and Big Walnut *April 18 — Home vs. DeSales April 19 — At Newark Catholic Of note: The Silver Knights were 62 overall and 1-1 in the CCL before April 14.

SOFTBALL March 31 — Def. Fairbanks 10-0 April 5 — Lost to Jonathan Alder 9-8 April 7 — Lost to Upper Arlington 6-4 April 9 — Def. Bloom-Carroll 3-2 and 10-6 *April 13 — Lost to DeSales 3-2 *April 14 — Played Hartley April 15 — Played Fisher Catholic at Lancaster tournament April 16 — Played Millersburg West Holmes and Mount Gilead at Lancaster tournament *April 18 — Home vs. Watterson

April 19 — Home vs. Olentangy Orange *April 20 — Home vs. Hartley Of note: The Silver Knights were 4-3 overall and 0-1 in the CCL before April 14.

BOYS TENNIS April 1 — Def. Bloom-Carroll 3-2 *April 5 — Lost to St. Charles 5-0 April 6 — Def. Grandview 3-2 April 7 — Lost to Centennial 3-2 *April 12 — Match vs. Watterson postponed April 14 — Played Briggs April 18 — Home vs. Jonathan Alder *April 19 — Home vs. Hartley Of note: The Silver Knights were 33 overall and 0-1 in the CCL before April 14.

TRACK & FIELD March 31 — Boys: Lost to Grandview 82-46; Girls: Lost to Grandview 65-63 April 2 — Boys: Finished seventh (34) in 12-team Red Raider Relays at London behind champion London (87); Girls: Finished third (66.5) in 11-team Red Raider Relays at London behind Bexley (76) and Jonathan Alder (72) April 9 — Boys: Finished sixth (62.5) in 15-team Granville Invitational behind champion and host Blue Aces (127.5); Girls: Finished third (70) in 16-team Granville Invitational behind champion Heath (86) and Granville (81.5) April 13 — Boys: Def. Bloom-Carroll 68-60; Girls: Def. Bloom-Carroll 70-58 April 16 — Boys, girls: Competed in Licking Heights Invitational April 19 — Boys, girls: At Liberty Union *CCL contest

FOOTBALL Continued from page A7 you can get kids working and throwing the ball,” White said.

“That’s a big deal. Defensively, obviously you’re not seeing the full scheme of things, so that’s a little different. Some teams do a little bit more than they would do normally. Not every team is going to send five (receivers) out every play during the season.”

The offseason also has included attending football practices at Ohio State.

“That’s a great way to show our kids that this is the level of intensity that you have to practice at,” White said.

White expects more than 10

have starting experience,” White said. “You can’t replicate experience.”

Leading the returning group should be quarterback Korey Browning and linemen Zach Friday Night Live is back with a Hall, Kyle Maxwell, Junior look at how area teams are proReyes and Brady Willis. gressing in the offseason. To read Athletics programs in Southfull stories on other teams from Western City Schools have a the area over the coming weeks, visit the Spring Football Edition of $150 pay-to-participate fee for Friday Night Live at ThisWeekeach sport. White, however, beSPORTS.com. This week, we take lieves the fee isn’t a deterrent for a look at the OCC-Central. Next participation. week, we take a look at the teams in the OCC-Cardinal.

“I’m pretty excited,” White said. “I can’t wait for June to players to return on a team that get here, so we can do a little lacked depth last season. He more stuff.” calls that a solid number.

“We have a lot of players fdirenna@thisweeknews.com back from last season that www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com

The Cougars tied the game at 1 in the third inning when Lineurys Sanchez scored on a single by Steven Gonzalez.

The Wolves took the lead in the bottom of the fourth when Brandon Randolph scored on a double steal.

D.J. Taylor was the losing pitcher. He allowed one earned run and four hits with one strikeout and three walks in the complete-game effort.

Westland had five hits against Kilbourne pitcher Jacob Niggemeyer.

“We have to put the ball in play,” Carius said. “We didn’t put the ball in play that much today.”

The Cougars’ lineup took a hit in the first game of the doubleheader against Fairfield Union when junior utility player Junior Reyes broke his right hand sliding into third base and was lost for the season. Before April 14, Reyes led the team in hitting with a .375 average.

“We’re going to miss his bat a lot,” Daniels said.

Carius was second on the team in hitting at .370 and was 2-1 on the mound. Sanchez was batting .343 followed by Jake Cook (.333) and Taylor (.321).

“I’m always an optimist,” Daniels said. “The boys have ability to play. They’re going to put it together and once they beat a good team like Kilbourne, it’s going to be a little sigh of relief for just maybe the realization that it can be done and this is what it feels like.”

•The softball team entered its game against Thomas Worthington on April 14 at 5-4 over-

Below are the recent results and coming schedules for the Westland baseball, softball, boys tennis and track & field teams: BASEBALL April 7 — Defeated Brookhaven 100 in five innings *April 8 — Lost to Dublin Coffman 11-1 in five innings April 9 — Def. Fairfield Union 9-6 and 8-6 *April 11 — Game against Coffman postponed because of bad weather *April 12 — Game against Coffman postponed because of bad weather *April 13 — Lost to Worthington Kilbourne 2-1 *April 14 — Played Coffman *April 15 — Played Kilbourne April 16 — Played in Red Devil Classic at Marion-Franklin *April 18 — Home vs. Thomas Worthington *April 20 — At Thomas April 21 — At Northland Of note: The Cougars were 3-8 overall and 0-4 in the OCC-Central before April 14.

SOFTBALL *April 7 — Def. Coffman 9-6 *April 8 — Lost to Kilbourne 8-2 April 9 — Lost to Watterson 9-1; def.

Olentangy Liberty 9-8. Westland scored eight runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to beat Liberty. *April 11 — Game against Thomas postponed because of bad weather *April 12 — Game against Hilliard Darby postponed because of bad weather *April 13 — Lost to Upper Arlington

all and 1-3 in the OCC-Central.

The Cougars lost to Upper Arlington 7-0 on April 13.

Westland had three hits against winning pitcher Mandie Abbruzzese and committed six errors.

“I keep telling the kids that if you don’t score runs, the best you can ask for is a tie,” Westland coach Mike North said.

“We scattered a few hits and

7-0 *April 14 — Played Thomas *April 18 — Home vs. Central Crossing April 19 — At Westerville Central *April 20 — Home vs. Hilliard Davidson *April 21 — At Darby Of note: The Cougars were 5-4 overall and 1-3 in the OCC-Central before April 14.

BOYS TENNIS April 7 — Lost to Circleville 3-2. Winners for the Cougars were Tyler Thomas at first singles 1-6, 7-5, 6-0 and Stan Bilyk and Dylan Clanin at first doubles 6-3, 6-2. *April 12 — Match against Kilbourne postponed because of bad weather April 13 — Lost to Watkins Memorial 4-1. Bilyk and Clanin won at first doubles 7-5, 6-4. *April 14 — Played Thomas April 15 — Played Centennial *April 19 — Home vs. Upper Arlington April 20 — At Franklin Heights April 21 — At Grove City April 22 — Home vs. Columbus West Of note: The Cougars were 0-6 overall and 0-2 in the OCC-Central before April 14.

TRACK & FIELD April 9 — Boys: Finished seventh (28) in Falcon Invitational at Fairfield Union, behind first-place Thornville Sheridan (163); Girls: Finished seventh (26) in Falcon Invitational, behind first-place Sheridan (163) April 12 — Boys: Lost to Thomas 8631; Girls: Lost to Thomas 93-22 April 15 — Competed in Best of the South-West Invitational at Central Crossing April 19 — Home vs. Upper Arlington *OCC-Central contest

made a few mistakes. I’ll be the first one to admit that I had a bad game, too, so we kind of all suffered together on this one.”

The Cougars earned their first OCC-Central victory April 7 against Coffman. Westland scored six runs in the sixth inning to win 9-6. fdirenna@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com

Schools announce coaching vacancies The following schools are seeking coaches: Central Crossing — Assistant volleyball. Send letter of interest and résumé by Friday, April 22, to athletics director Zoraba Ross at zoraba.ross@swcs.us.

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Dublin Jerome — Assistant girls basketball. Send résumé by May 31 to girls basketball coach Matt Martin, c/o Nick Magistrale, athletics director, Dublin Jerome High School, 8300 Hyland Croy Road, Dublin, Ohio 43016.

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Real Estate Hilliard home - 4BR, 2.5BA, granite counters; SS appl.; new wood flrs & carpet, full unfin bsmt, fen backyd; 2 car att gar. $190,000.

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