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May 15, 2011

Audit cites potential school savings

By SARAH SOLE ThisWeek Community Newspapers

The state auditor’s office has released results from its performance audit of Delaware City School District, citing total potential savings of $1,246,000.

The district’s school board contacted the auditor’s office in September 2010 to request a performance audit of its financial and strategic management practices,

staffing allocations and facilities.

“They bring expertise that we just don’t have,” said superintendent Paul Craft.

Though fiscal audits are conducted annually through the Ohio Department of Education, this is the first performance audit for the district. This audit cost the district $32,000. Craft said tax abatement funds the district receives from the city of Delaware were used to fund the audit.

The district receives about $100,000 in

tax abatement funds per year.

The study compared the district to 10 other districts of similar size in the categories of finance systems, staffing and facilities.

The audit’s recommendations include: • Eliminating 2.5 full-time equivalent administrative/supervisory positions, a savings of $202,000.

• Reducing two full-time equivalent educational service personnel positions,

a savings of $204,000.

• Eliminating two full-time equivalent library staff positions, a savings of $50,000.

• Eliminating one full-time equivalent educational support staff position, a savings of $48,000.

• Eliminating four full-time equivalent other certificated staff positions, a savings of $298,000.

• Reducing facility staffing levels by 3.5 full-time equivalent positions, a sav-

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A closer look The YMCA of Central Ohio has suggested that it handle all recreational programming for the city of Delaware, essentially eliminating the parks and recreation department and saving the city $70,000 annually. A new YMCA-city director would split time between the YMCA and Mingo Park during the 2011 transition.

See AUDIT CITES, page A2

County mulls transportation improvement district

Delaware FISHING DERBY broaches YMCA plan with public Delaware residents had a chance to voice their concerns about the city’s recreational programming during a public meeting held May 11.

Representatives from the city and the YMCA met with the public to address questions and concerns regarding the proposed YMCA-run city recreational program. About 30 individuals attended.

The YMCA of Central Ohio has suggested that it handle all recreational programming for the city of Delaware, essentially eliminating the parks and recreation department and saving the city $70,000 annually. A new YMCAcity director would split time between the YMCA and Mingo Park during the 2011 transition.

YMCA is requesting that it run previous “city run,” non-aquatic programs at what might be current city fees, including a 1- to 5-percent increase to address existing shortfalls. Any programs previously offered by outside contractors would have fees comparable to those of existing city-run programs. Aquatics programs might be kept at the same price or lowered to reflect similar YMCA pricing.

The city would pay the YMCA $205,000 in annual subsidies. The subsidy for years two to five also would include an annual 1.5-per-

ings of $142,000.

• Monitoring and controlling overtime costs, a savings of $25,000.

• Reviewing and controlling purchased services through the budget and appropriation process, a savings of $277,000.

“We wanted to have as much information as we possibly could,” Craft said.

The board has done, or is planning to

By Tim Norman/ThisWeek

Isaac Rausch, 14, tries to grab a fish he caught at Sunbury’s upground reservoir, 241 Otis St., during the fourth annual Sunbury Fishing Derby on May 7. The reservoir was stocked with 500 pounds of rainbow trout.

Delaware County commissioners have begun examining whether the county should form a transportation improvement district, an umbrella organization that would handle transportation projects across jurisdictional lines.

Commissioners at their May 9 work session heard a presentation from attorneys Steve Tugend and Rusty Schuermann, members of the law firm Kegler, Brown, Hill and Ritter, which provides counsel to TIDs in Clermont, Butler, Warren, Hamilton and Belmont counties.

Commissioner Dennis Stapleton initiated the meeting. He told ThisWeek that he knows Tugend and had spoken with a Clermont County commissioner at a County Commissioners Association of Ohio board meeting.

“My purpose for the whole Dennis discussion was to learn more Stapleton from my end along with the other commissioners about the viability of a TID being an economic tool,” he said.

At the meeting, commissioner Tommy Thompson said cooperation among the different county jurisdictions is better now than it was five or 10 years ago. “I think it’s going to happen,” he said of the prospect of TID implementation.

Stapleton told ThisWeek he’s Tommy made no judgments about Thompson whether it would be a good idea for the county.

“This is just an introduction and nothing more.

I am sure many more discussions would need to take place before we would proceed,” Stapleton said.

Commissioners would have to pass a resolution to begin a TID and then appoint board members to oversee it. Though membership varies, Tugend told ThisWeek that members can be county commisSee COUNTY LOOKS AT, page A5

Big Walnut to have two open board seats

By BONNIE BUTCHER ThisWeek Community Newspapers

Another Big Walnut Board of Education member will not run for re-election, leaving the race for the two expiring seats open.

Board president Diana Butts announced May 9 that she would not run again for office in November.

Butts said she has enjoyed her eight

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Information on candidacy for the board Big Walnut Board of Education of education is available at the Delaware recognizes the district’s student of the County Board of Elections. Candidate pemonth, senior Levi Murphy. titions to be placed on the ballot are due at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 10.

The board also: years on the board and found the position • Recognized Big Walnut High School challenging. She encouraged district ressenior Levi Murphy as student of the idents to run for the office.

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Audit cites potential school savings Continued from page A1 do, some of what the audit recommends. Of the $1.2-million in potential savings, the district will enact about $1,076,000, Craft said.

The board reduced full-time administrative positions by 1.33. The assistant director of curriculum position, which the board approved in March, was eliminated. The reduction also involved downgrading the director of student services position from 260 to 225 days. Craft said no more reductions in administrative staffing are planned.

The board also plans to eliminate one educational service personnel position, two library staff positions, and two maintenance and operational staff positions at its May 16 or June 6 meeting.

The district also will look at reducing overtime costs. While he wasn’t able to provide a cost figure for overtime expenses, director of facilities and transportation Larry Davis said overtime costs are directly related to events that the school district holds.

Auditorium events require additional evening cleaning. To rectify this, the district will try to schedule events within the regular hours of the custodial staff.

The district employs 30 custodial staffers. One of the posts will be eliminated next year.

The district also will charge outside organizations that also use the facilities. Davis said some schools’ space is regularly used on a weekly basis. The organizations would be charged if custodial maintenance or food service staffers would have to work

overtime. The organizations also would be charged for any building utility costs.

For fiscal year 2009-2010, the audit showed the district spending $9,821 per pupil, $109 more than the peer average expenditure of $9,712. The spending was broken down into five categories including administrative, building operations, staff support, pupil support and instruction.

The audit found that lower per pupil spending on administrative and instruction functions was offset by higher spending on building operations, staff support, and pupil support.

The audit showed the district spent $2,003 on building operations, $358 more than the peer average expenditure of $1,645.

The district’s buildings have an average age of more than 60 years old, making them expensive to maintain and to heat. The district is looking at proposals from two different companies, Trane International Inc. and Johnson Controls Inc., for an energy conservation program. Craft said that depending upon district enrollment and other variables, the district plans to spend $9,500 per pupil on total costs next school year.

Davis said the program would cover water, natural gas and electricity, which account for most utility costs. The district will select one of the companies this month. The general fund or the permanent improvement fund would pay for the study. Davis said the actual cost of the program and estimated savings aren’t available yet.

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Delaware discusses YMCA plan with public Continued from page A1 cent increase to cover any anticipated cost increases.

The new YMCA facility on Houk Road is expected to be completed in September.

Mayor Gary Milner told the audience the city’s decision to investigate a possible agreement with the YMCA was not based solely on budget concerns. He said he would not support collaborating if it wasn’t in the community’s best interests.

Several people by a show of hands supported the city moving on to the next steps in negotiating with the YMCA. City manager Tom Homan addressed a question concerning how contracts and tracking performance would work, saying that the city hasn’t started drafting any contracts yet. “Those kinds of questions would get addressed,” he said, saying that both the city and the YMCA would have a way out of the agreement if either were dissatisfied with the partnership.

Some audience members were concerned about the city recreation staff’s future. Paul Weber, district vice president at YMCA of Central Ohio, said he would like the city staff to work for the YMCA. Weber told ThisWeek that about 150 positions will be available at the YMCA, substantially more than the city has, since the city uses contracts to conduct many programs. The city has four fulltime positions in its recreation department: Two program director positions; one director position, which is currently vacant; and an office manager position. Weber said he’s not yet sure if the YMCA positions will be opened up to the public. “We want to be fair in the process,” he said.

Weber said the city staff would have an advantage over other applicants. “I’m going to talk to the city staff first” he said. “It would make sense that we keep some

kind of continuity with the staff.”

John Bickley, YMCA of Central Ohio president, said 90 percent to 95 percent of those hired by the YMCA would be Delaware residents. “We’re a local community organization,” he said.

Bickley also addressed concerns about whether costs would increase if YMCA membership were to decrease. Bickley said the YMCA hasn’t raised membership fees in the last 28 months.

Weber told ThisWeek the YMCA raises rates collectively at its branches in central Ohio. “Our rates do not fluctuate on the performance of one particular branch,” he said.

Weber said he thought most of those attending the meeting were supportive of a collaboration. “As we talked, you could see heads

nod,” he said.

Delaware resident Holly Grimes attended the meeting and told ThisWeek that she doesn’t know enough about the situation yet to decide if she’s for or against the YMCA’s proposal. “I don’t think they have informed us enough,” she said. Grimes said her biggest concern is knowing how money will be spent.

Sherri Sulek, a Delaware Township resident, said she likes the idea of the YMCA being responsible for city recreational programming. Such an arrangement would eliminate redundancies.

Sulek also said she believes the YMCA would preserve the culture the city created.

Milner told ThisWeek that he appreciated the dialogue between the city, the YMCA and residents.

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A weather report, followed by a joke So this is how it’s going to be.

Ohio is known for its mercurial weather, of course, to the point that even bringing it up seems stale, like re-telling that joke about the insomniac, but what we’ve seen here lately is freakish, even for Ohio.

Speaking of Ohio, how is it that Indiana doesn’t get teased on the playground about its weather? If Ohio is changeable, doesn’t it stand to reason that Indiana would be, too? Not to mention Kentucky and Pennsylvania and Michigan and so on. Weather doesn’t come to a screeching halt at the state line, like a cartoon roadrunner. If it did, I’d expect a package from the Acme Weather Co. to show up, at which point the Ohio weather would change into something more comfortable, something suitable for, say, Muncie, Ind. But it doesn’t, because the weather in Muncie is almost exactly like the weather in Cincinnati, for all the people who insist on saying, “If you don’t like the weather in Ohio, wait a minute.”

(I could hardly force myself to type that, I’m so tired of hearing it.) Frankly, I think people in Ohio and people in Indiana are all wearing pretty much the same clothes: rain ponchos, polypropylene triclimate thermal pants and something slimming in seersucker.

But that’s a cartoon for another day. Today we’re examining what appears to be a gauntlet flung down on the local weather map: Take this, Ohio.

“This,” of course, being unusually wet weather, unusually windy weather, unusually cold weather and even unusually frosty weather, followed by the day on which I speak, which offers unusually hot, muggy, humid weather.

And when I say hot, I mean hot.

Parking-lot asphalt had the shimmery look of mid-August as I hiked across it to the grocery store entrance. “It’s very warm,” I mentioned to the young woman who sold me my coffee, and she murmured in agreement, apparently reluctant to risk raising her body temperature by exerting herself to speak.

At home, I opened several windows before settling in to the business of sitting very still, a trick I learned in second grade. In fact,

it may have been the only thing I learned in second grade: Take your seat and put your head down on your MARGO desk after runBARTLETT ning around on the playground after lunch.

My teacher had us do this every warm day, and each time she issued her instructions, I doubted they’d do any good. I was too flushed, too short of breath and too sticky to recover without going home to take a bath.

Ten minutes later — 10 quiet, motionless minutes later — the teacher would tell us to raise our heads, and darned if we all hadn’t regained, more or less, our resting heart rates and our usual complexions. The transformation caused me to look with real respect at my teacher, the unfortunately named Mrs. Piggot. How did she know that would work?

It seemed magical then and it still did the other day, when I used the same technique to cool off during a meeting: Sit very very still.

Don’t move even a tiny bit. And sure enough, after a few minutes — and perhaps a very brief nap — I was back to normal. The magical Mrs. Piggot! I bless you to this day.

But my point is this: Why the need for cooling-off magic when it’s only the middle of May? Why

are citizens swooning in the streets from heat exhaustion when just last week they were huddled around electric heaters and still shivering?

Didn’t we have snow squalls a few days ago? Weren’t we chipping away at windshield ice in April?

Of course we were, and I’d be a fool not to brace myself for more of the same in the weeks to come.

That is, I’m not swearing that it will snow before June, but neither am I swearing that it won’t.

Because you see how it is. Last week we had winds and rain and destructive floods, and now we have the sort of heat that causes babies to fret and brides to faint in a heap of collapsing tulle. And who knows what lies in store for Memorial Day high school band musicians? They’ll either suffer in the blinding sun or nearly catch their deaths of cold.

Or not. It may be a perfect Ohio day: mild, breezy and smelling of honeysuckle, even though as far as I know we don’t have honeysuckle around here.

And why do I say this? Because the weather has issued her pronouncement: This is how it’s going to be.

Now for the joke. Did you hear about the dyslexic, agnostic insomniac?

He was up all night wondering if there really is a dog.

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County looks at possible transportation district Continued from page A1 sioners, engineers and administrators; township administrators and trustees; and city representatives. “This allows for a county to bring in various contributors and to leverage their combined contributions to bring in as many resources as possible to fund transportation projects,� Tugend said.

A TID would group transportation projects together in the same area, across jurisdictional boundaries.

The TID board cannot act independently and finance road improvements alone, however. It must have approval from federal, state, county and local entities, said Nancy Burton, communications manager for the Ohio Department of Transportation District 6.

Tugend said that a TID’s unified approach would prevent ODOT from having to choose between competing projects in the same county or jurisdiction. Because of the group approach, the TID would also have a larger funding base and be able to provide a bigger local match for projects to get a larger amount of ODOT funding.

While Butler County, the first county to implement a TID, chose a larger board, most TIDs opt to use a smaller system, Schuermann said.

The bigger board includes two members appointed by county commissioners; three members appointed by the most populous municipal corporation in the TID area; two members appointed by the second-most populous municipal corporation; two members appointed by the most populous township; and the county engineer. There is also an option to appoint a member from a township

or municipality in the district who isn’t a member of one of the other groups. One nonvoting member is appointed by the regional planning commission. All state senators and representatives could be non-voting members.

The smaller board includes five members appointed by the county commissioners. One non-voting member is appointed by the speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, and another non-voting member is appointed by the president of the Ohio Senate.

Counties normally provide more funding because they have larger budgets, Schuermann said. No one is required to contribute, and entities don’t have to fund all projects at the same level. Funding strategies vary according to each TID. Individual projects could be funded one at a time, or a revenue pool could fund a program of projects.

Commissioner Ken O’Brien said he chose not to attend the presentation. He said he’s interested in whether the TID could be a solution for the county but wants to make sure that the area could financially sustain a TID. He said the county’s attorneys should take the lead on the project and recommend attorneys to speak with. He questioned why attorneys with Kegler, Brown, Hill and Ritter were chosen for the presentation. “If we are not paying for the attorney, why is it that they’re coming?� he questioned. “What is it that’s in it for them?�

Stapleton told ThisWeek that he chose the law firm because it had worked with Butler and Clermont counties. The state authorized transportation improvement districts in 1993.

County engineer Chris Bauserman said the county needs to determine if other public entities

would be interested in collaborating and if enough multi-jurisdictional projects exist to justify a TID. “I like the idea of agencies being able to pool their funds and hopefully being able to attract more federal and state funds to Delaware County,� Bauserman said. He said he would be concerned about creating another level of government if potential benefits don’t justify it.

Commissioners also: • Approved five right-of-way acquisitions totaling $28,552 for the Sawmill Parkway extension project. The county has acquired about half of the needed right of way. The total estimated right of way cost is $4.6 million, and the total estimated construction cost is $36 million. The project will extend Sawmill Parkway north from Hyatts Road to U.S. Route 42. Construction could begin as early as 2013 and is funded through county road and bridge revenues. • Approved a $232,221 preliminary engineering contract for the Lewis Center and Africa roads intersection project. The project will add a traffic signal to the intersection and left turn lanes from every approach and right turn lanes on two of the approaches. Preliminary cost for construction is $1.6-million. Work would start between 2014 and 2015. The county could seek funding through the Ohio Public Works Commission. • Approved a $92,150 contract for the replacement of two bridges on David Road, east of River Road.

Construction will be in 2014 and will take about three months to complete. County road and bridge funds will pay for the project. • Approved a $36,874 contract with Quickmow for roadside mowing to supplement mowing performed by county crews.

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After a meeting with Delaware County representatives, Delaware city officials have decided against sharing the county’s economic development director.

When city economic development coordinator Shannon Hamons announced his resignation in April, Delaware City Council member Carolyn Riggle suggested the city speak with the county about county economic development director Gus Comstock serving a dual role with the county and the city. Comstock previously was the city economic development director.

Mayor Gary Milner, along with city manager Tom Homan and Riggle, met on May 2 with Comstock, county commissioner Dennis Stapleton and county administrator Tim Hansley.

When Riggle suggested the dual role at the city council meeting on April 19, some council members were against the idea.

Council member Lisa Keller said she had “serious reservations” about the idea, saying economic development deserves its own department in addition to a coordinator position. “Those two agendas are very unique,” she said of the city and county. Keller said the economic development coordinator position is the “only one that has the potential to generate serious revenue for us.”

The city had previously considered the possibility of a dual role in 2009 when Comstock left the city development job. Many people felt then that the city should have its own coordinator, Milner said.

“Nothing’s really changed,” he said.

Because he works for the county, Comstock still serves the city, Milner said. A development coordinator working only for the city would spend every day attracting and retaining businesses. “We really need our own person to do that,” he said.

“This is a position that brings income to the city,” Milner said.

Homan is serving as the city’s business liaison until the city hires a new economic development coordinator.

Hamons will leave to serve as vice president of Pizzuti Solutions of Columbus. He served as director of special projects there for five years before the city hired him Feb. 8, 2010.

Milner said Homan will start looking for a development coordinator within the next couple of weeks. He expects the process to take two or three months.

Comstock, who worked at the city for nine years, said he wasn’t surprised by its decision. The city is a very influential seat of government in the county and the region, he said.

At the May 9 meeting, council also: • Approved making an application to the Ohio Department of Transportation, Division

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of Aviation, for the Ohio Airport Grant Projects for the resurfacing of the county airport terminal area apron. The project will cost $443,098, with $398,734 from the state and $44,304 from the city. This would be completed in spring 2012 if the grant is approved.

• Authorized a cash advance from the general fund to the Fire/EMS income tax fund to buy a fire ladder truck. The truck will cost $1.1 million. The city will get a discount of about $54,000 if it pays for the truck in full now. The city will enter into a capital lease purchase arrangement with either Fifth Third Bank or Huntington National Bank to finance the purchase over seven to eight years.

At the end of the lease, the city will own the vehicle. The fire department also will spend about $200,000 for associated equipment.

• Provided additional funding of $56,500 for street maintenance work. The city exceeded its $100,000 road salt budget by $33,616. An additional $18,680 was requested for roadway repair materials, and $3,500 was requested to purchase a “jumping jack compactor,” used to compact dirt.

• Provided an additional $75,000 from the storm sewer fund to rehabilitate the Delaware Run culvert below William and Liberty streets.

The additional money will cover final construction estimates of $203,140. The city is paying about a third of the cost; the rest, about $600,000, is coming from the Ohio Department of Transportation.

buildings in the district. The intermediate building would have housed fifth- and sixth-graders and the middle school would have housed seventh and eighth-graders.

Instead, the sixth through eighth grades will be housed in the new middle school slated to open for the 2011-12 school year.

“We’ve been very liberal with ... transfers, allowing children to attend the elementary school of their choice,” said Barber. “With our class sizes right now, parents can submit an application, but we will not be able to make a decision until somewhere around the first week of school.”

Resident Scott Erick said he would like to hear the details of how much money is saved by delaying the plan and closing the middle school.

Erick said voters who supported the November levy to provide operating funds did so believing it would ease crowding at the schools. The voters should have details related to the decision to change the plan, he said. He also wanted details on how the district

was going to handle the student capacity in the elementary schools.

“When I look at the (elementary) facilities that we have, I think we need to have a strong focus on that area because of the number of students. And we’ve narrowed it down farther by not moving the fifth grade out,” Erick said.

Barber said he would meet with Erick, who said he would prefer a public discussion because he thinks there is a “need to get the word out.”

• Approved exempting the class of 2011 from the additional honors diploma requirements. Principal Steve Fujii said high school administrators had overlooked a change in science requirements needed to earn an honors diploma. In 2007, the Ohio Department of Education had changed the requirement that a student could take physics and/or chemistry.

Now a student must take both, Fujii said.

The change takes effect for the 2011 graduates, but school districts are allowed one exemption, Fujii said, noting that a number of other school districts also missed the change.

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Civil War ‘sanitary fair’ slated on Sunbury square

By SARAH SOLE ThisWeek Community Newspapers

Visitors at Sunbury’s Civil War re-enactment this year will get to eat like a soldier and shop at a bazaar at the event’s first sanitary fair.

The fair will replicate fundraisers which supported Civil War soldiers’ health and their families. It is a new event planned for the re-enactment, set for May 20-22 on Sunbury’s village square. The Gen. Rosecrans’ Department of the Ohio Headquarters, part of the Big Walnut Area Historical Society, located in the Myers Inn, 45 S. Columbus St., Sunbury, will put on the event.

Myers Inn Museum curator Polly Horn said more than 100 people will serve as re-enactors. Two battles are planned for Saturday and Sunday, though other impromptu ones could also break out.

The three-day event, which costs about $5,000 to $6,000 to stage, is sponsored by Sunbury VFW, Division 7 Roofing, Eagle Auto, Galena Diner, Helwig Auctioneer, Noah’s Ark Learning Center, Reynoldsburg Re-enactment Committee, Sunbury Cleaners, Amazing Auto, CVS, Hildreth Insurance, Hub Carryout, Joe’s Firehouse Tavern, and Larry DeWitt. Gen. Rosecrans’ Department also holds fundraisers.

“We hope that people will go away with a feel of the history,” Horn said.

On May 20, 850 to 900 central Ohio students will attend an educational day and view cooking, laundry and blacksmithing exhibits, and infantry and artillery demonstrations. Actors in period costumes will also tell of their role in the war.

Saturday and Sunday events will be for the public from 9 a.m. to midnight Saturday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.

At 9 a.m. on May 21, the soldiers will put a wreath at the Soldier’s Monument on the village green and at the Fallen Heroes Monument one block west of the village square on Cherry Street. Throughout Saturday, soldiers will be in their camps to illustrate daily life during the Civil War. The sanitary fair opening ceremony will be held at the west door of the Town Hall after the memorial service. The fair will replicate the Great Western Sanitary Fair held in Cincinnati and the St. Louis Sanitary Fair, which raised money for the welfare of soldiers and their families. Two exhibits will be featured on the second floor of the Town Hall with a 25-cent admission charge, in keeping with Civil War-era pricing. Proceeds will go to the General Rosecrans Statue Fund. James Frasca will have a display called “Signatures of Our Founding Fathers” and Elizabeth Topping will

show a “Heroines of the Heart” display.

A bazaar table will offer Civil War-era items and typical food of the period. Attendees also can learn how to make fancy combs and a “housewife,” a piece of fabric about 3.5 inches by 12 inches used by soldiers to hold sewing supplies. The two workshops are $5 each to cover supplies.

A Saturday battle will be held in the afternoon between the village square and Prairie Run Park. Various presentations, games and music will be offered. A Blue and Gray Ball will begin at 7 p.m. in a tent on the village square, followed by a cannon night firing at 9:30 p.m. in Smith Park.

A 10 a.m. period church service will be held May 22 at the Town Hall. The afternoon battle will begin at 2 in Freedom Park on state Route 61 just north of Sunbury.

There is a $5 per car parking fee at the Sunday afternoon battle.

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ers on all veterans’ graves. The bronze markers cost $28.75 each.

Donations toward markers can Galena plans be sent to the American Legion Memorial Day Post 457, PO Box 173, Sunbury, The village of Galena will hold OH 43074.

Memorial Day ceremonies on May 30.

OWU graduates Events will begin at 1 p.m. on the Village Square with the 383 students singing of the national anthem A total of 383 students received

by Big Walnut High School stu- diplomas May 8 when Ohio Wesdent Alexandria Mahew. leyan University celebrated its The village will present a me- 167th commencement in a ceremorial wreath at the G&T Club mony held outdoors in the glen World War II memorial. just south of Phillips Hall.

Featured speakers will be Kim Author and political scientist and Mark Walker who both served Mary E. King was the speaker. in the Desert Storm war. The stu- The 1962 OWU graduate urged dent speaker will be Brooke students to spend less time on soPerkins, a local home-schooled cial networking and building their student. address books. Instead, she sugParticipants will proceed to the gested they “strive to bring about Galena Cemetery, where Galena concrete change in crucial areas Village Council member David of human need …”

Simmons will give a historical Class president Alina Ruzmepresentation about Civil War vet- tova of Pataskala, told her fellow erans in the cemetery. The Vet- students to “chart a course for our erans of Foreign Wars (VFW) own personal quest.”

Post 8736 will offer a three-vol“OWU gave us the confidence ley salute and taps. we would need to change the The American Legion Post 457, world,” she said.

Big Walnut Historical Society, For more on OWU’s graduaand the Sunbury Halter and Sad- tion, visit http://commencedle 4-H Club have completed ment.owu.edu/2011Congratulaplacing bronze markers/flag hold- tions.html.

ness and eventually law.

A Delaware teenager campaigning to remove tobacco from all Ohio school grounds has been named Ohio Public Health Citizen of the Year.

Graham Bowling, 18, received the statewide honor May 10 from the Ohio Public Health Association (OPHA) at its annual Celebrate Public Health Awards Dinner in Worthington, a press release said.

Graham, a co-valedictorian in the Delaware Hayes High School Class of 2011, received the OPHA honor for his advocacy of policies prohibiting anyone from using any tobacco products on school grounds.

After Graham asked the Delaware City Schools Board of Education to enact a “100-percent Tobacco-Free Campus” policy in early 2010, he conducted his own survey of more than 500 students.

The survey showed solid support for the policy, which was subsequently enacted in the Delaware City Schools.

Graham is the son of Gregory and Rebecca Bowling of Delaware. He plans to attend Miami University next fall to study busi-

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Parks event Parks plan model railroad events The Delaware County Model Railroaders will hold the first of several open houses on Saturday and Sunday, May 21 and 22, at the Trailhouse at Big Walnut Community Trail, 168 S. Vernon St., Sunbury. Visitors can watch the model trains, examine the scenery and buildings, and learn about railroad lore and history.

Open house hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Other open house dates are June 25 and 26, July 23 and 24, and Aug. 27 and 28.

The Delaware County Model Railroaders are leasing the Trailhouse from Preservation Parks of Delaware County. The group has been setting up its HO Gauge model train display since late fall. On May 21and 22, the group will concentrate on the early years of the American railroad industry.

Rita Au, Preservation Parks’executive director, said that having the group in the trail house is a “logical fit. … It (the Trailhouse) used to be a railroad depot, and the old line is still there.”

The railroaders group also will have information available about becoming a member. For more information, call (740) 548-7517.

These programs are offered at the Delaware County District Library, 84 E. Winter St. Contact www. delawarelibrary.org or call (740) 362-3861.

• Game day: Mario Cart tournament, 3 to 5 p.m., Thursday, May 19, grades four to eight. Challenge friends in a race.

• Movie: “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” 2 to 4 p.m., Saturday, May 21. Family program.

Community library These programs are offered at the Community Library, 44 Burrer Drive in Sunbury.

For information, call (740) 965-3901 or visit community.lib.oh.us.

• Budget Meals, 6 to 9 p.m., Tuesday, May 17. R.S.V.P. to (614) 550-6431. Teaches those age 12 and up how to create a budget, shop, plan menus and prepare meals.

Classes can help feed a family of four for $300 a month. For information, e-mail info@columbus.rr.com. Free.

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Softball team reaches district semifinal

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The Delaware Hayes High School softball team will play fifth-seeded Worthington Kilbourne in a Division I district semifinal Tuesday, May 17, at Pickerington North.

It will mark the Pacers’ first district appearance since 2006, when they lost to Hilliard Davidson 8-3 in a semifinal.

The Pacers, seeded eighth, are 186. The Wolves improved to 19-5 after beating Westerville South 8-5 in the second round May 12.

Delaware advanced by beating 12thseeded Westerville Central 2-0 in the second round on May 12 at home, after defeating visiting Reynoldsburg 10-0 in five innings on May 10.

“These girls have believed in themselves from the start, and they believed they would win a sectional championship and advance,” coach Mark Thomas said moments before getting a water bucket shower. “We’re excited to get the chance to return to (Pickerington).”

Mikayla Cooper outpitched Central’s Paige McMenemy in a battle of freshman standouts. The only hit Cooper allowed was a soft line drive single in the seventh inning. The hit followed a leadoff walk.

With the tying runs on base, Cooper caught a bunt attempt for the first out and then got two called strikeouts to end the game, both coming after she fell behind in the count.

“I was just a little off with the curveballs in the last inning, so I did get behind in the count,” said Cooper, who has allowed two hits in the tournament.

“But at that point, you just have to go after the hitter. I have complete faith in my defense, so I told myself to just come back and throw strikes.”

Cooper had four walks and nine strikeouts against the Warhawks.

McMenemy allowed seven hits and one earned run. She had two strikeouts, two walks and hit a batter. The lone earned run was a leadoff home run by Cooper to right-center field in the bottom of the fourth inning.

“That was all power because she

By Adam Cairns/ThisWeek

Hayes shortstop Cindy Bowman reaches to tag Rachel Ramsey of Olentangy Orange during the host Pacers’ 7-6 victory on May 6. Ramsey was called out on the play.

didn’t even swing all the way through,” Thomas said. “She still got it out of here to right-center and that got us going.”

“My dad and I work almost every night at hitting curveballs a foot off the plate,” Cooper said. “I know that I can hit that pitch well and my dad says that’s where my power is right now.”

The Pacers had several chances to tack on runs but stranded eight runners. But they made it 2-0 in the fifth as Kalene Schmidt singled and scored

from first when Warhawks third baseman Mary Bury fielded Kaitlyn Woerner’s bunt and threw it down the rightfield line.

“Kalene Schmidt gets great jumps, has great instincts and is really a smart kid who has wheels,” said assistant Jordan Blackburn, who coaches first base.

“She could lead off for any team in the district.”

“There was no way I was holding her up at third, and with her wisdom and wheels, she would’ve kept going

anyway,” Thomas said. “I think she’s the fastest runner I’ve seen in the district and she might be one of the fastest in the state.”

Schmidt had three hits and Tia Hinten had two.

Kilbourne is led by sophomore pitcher Sarah Adams, who had a 1.74 ERA with 139 strikeouts during the regular season. She also led the team in RBI (28) an was second in batting average (.472) behind senior shortstop Lauren Rossi (.478, 16 RBI). Junior outfield-

ers Lizzie Cherry (.434) and Steph Keller (.408) also batted above .400, and senior catcher Alexis Williams and freshman first baseman Manda Cash both had 19 RBI. The semifinal winner will play second-seeded Gahanna or Upper Arlington in a district final May 19 at Pickerington Central. Their semifinal game is a rematch from last year’s district final, won by Gahanna 1-0.

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Big Walnut Roundup

Tennis team matches program mark for wins

By PATRICK DOLAN ThisWeek Community Newspapers

The Big Walnut High School boys tennis team has finished with a winning record in each of coach Mike McDonough’s seven seasons, but only once has the program produced as many victories as this one.

The Golden Eagles finished 15-4 in dual matches, tying the program record for victories.

The record was set in 2007 when they finished 15-3.

Big Walnut won its 15th match when it defeated Buckeye Valley 4-1 on May 9 but missed an opportunity to break the record in its final match, as it closed its dual-match schedule with a 3-2 loss to Westerville South on May 11.

“I’ve been lucky to have players who love the sport and dedicate themselves to improving year in and year out,” McDonough said. “We have 20 players (in the program), and nine

By Lorrie Cecil/ThisWeek or 10 of them took lessons over Todd Torney of Big Walnut chases Beechcroft’s R.J. Daniels back toward first base in a rundown the winter.”

McDonough had high expecduring the Golden Eagles’ 17-0 victory over the visiting Cougars in a Division II tournament opener tations given that Big Walnut reon May 10.

turned six letterwinners in senior Sam Lawless, juniors Nate Fagan, Russell McMurry, Nathan Randall and Dan Violet and sophomore Sean Tribble. The Golden Eagles went 12-6 last season.

“The question we had was, are we going to be able to determine what are best lineup was? I think we’ve done that,” McDonough said.

Randall and Lawless played first and second singles, respectively, just as they had last year. Violet played third singles, replacing 2010 graduate Ian Ivanoff, and McMurry and Sean Tribble solidified themselves at first doubles.

“The question after that was, could we find another doubles team?” McDonough said.

The primary pairing at second doubles ended up being Fagan and junior Cory Walters, although junior Sam Baldauf and sophomore Jeff Tribble also saw significant playing time.

“Cory Walters came on as a top-notch player for us and he played with Nate Fagan most of the time, but we have a lot of

guys we can put in there and be successful,” McDonough said.

Big Walnut went 5-2 in the OCC-Capital Division and finished the league tournament May 7 at Hilliard Bradley with 39 points to place third, behind New Albany (76) and Olentangy Orange (52) and ahead of Delaware Hayes (31), Bradley (24), Watkins Memorial (22), Franklin Heights (7) and Mount Vernon (6). Not all the point totals are finalized because two OCC-Capital dual matches had yet to be played at the time of the league tournament.

Big Walnut competed in the league tournament without Lawless, Violet, Fagan and Walters, as each took part in the Ohio Music Educators Association state band and choir contest that same day at Gahanna.

“We had a bunch of others who stepped up in their place and helped us maintain our standing,” said McDonough, whose team was third in the OCC-Capital standings entering the league tournament.

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Commentary

Bradley’s Roudabush passionate about softball

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Junior Nick Tanuredjo of the Hayes boys tennis team was the runner-up at third singles in the OCC-Capital tournament May 7 at Hilliard Bradley.

PACERS

At a glance

Continued from page B1 Gahanna improved to 16-6 by beating Dublin Scioto 11-0 in the second round. UA was 9-12 after upsetting 11th-seeded Pickerington Central 6-4 in the second round.

Gahanna is led by Miami University-signee Tiyonna Marshall in center field and pitcher Brandis Fishel, who will play at Ohio Dominican. In the regular season, Marshall batted .509 with 16 RBI and Fishel had a 1.08 ERA. Fishel also batted .426 with 20 RBI from the cleanup spot.

Junior second baseman Tanya Busby (.611) led the team in hitting and junior left fielder Montana Fishel batted .400.

UA is led offensively by Mimi Bair, Laramie Abbruzzese and Stephanie Turner, but the Golden Bears have struggled defensively since losing ace pitcher Mandie Abbruzzese to an injury.

The junior has been out since the third week of April with tendinitis in her right throwing arm.

•The baseball team was in position to pull off what coach Mike Yinger said would have been one of the biggest tournament upsets in the state this season.

Instead, the Pacers were eliminated from the Division I district tournament with a 7-3 loss to fourth-seeded Westerville Central in the second round May 11.

The Pacers led 3-1 through three innings and 3-2 entering the bottom of the sixth inning before the host Warhawks scored five times with three hits.

“You’ve heard the phrase, ‘This isn’t our first rodeo?’Well, this was our first rodeo,” Yinger said, noting that just one senior started compared to seven for Central. “We’ve got about six or seven guys playing positions that they didn’t play last year, too.”

Second baseman Conner Ulmer stopped a one-out ground ball hit by Central’s Jerry McCartney but couldn’t throw out McCartney, who eventually reached third. With McCartney on third, Jacob Bosiokovic struck out Jake Simmerman and had two strikes on Danny Lawrence before fortunes changed.

Lawrence swung and missed at strike three in the dirt but reached base when catcher Alex Rafeld had trouble locating the ball after blocking it.

Rafeld then threw late to Bosiokovic, who was covering home plate trying to tag out McCartney.

With the game tied at 3, Central’s Chris Gygi hit a grounder to third baseman Colin Reed, who knocked down the ball but overthrew first base, allowing the base runners to move to second and third.

Central then took the lead on a passed ball. After a walk, the Warhawks’ Connor Sitz hit an RBI single on an 0-2 count. Lefthanded hitter Derreck Chisholm then sliced an 0-2 pitch down the left-field line for a two-run double.

“We’re young, and it showed there,”Yinger said. “That was the best (Bosiokovic) has pitched all year. He played a whale of a game, too, with a home run and RBI single in three at-bats. He also dove and caught the suicide

Below are the recent results and coming schedules for the Delaware Hayes baseball, softball, boys tennis, track & field and boys volleyball teams, and the boys and girls club lacrosse teams: BASEBALL *May 6 — Lost to Olentangy Orange 5-1 May 7 — Lost to St. Charles 8-6; lost to Hilliard Darby 17-4 May 9 — Defeated Walnut Ridge 282 in first round of Division I district tournament *May 10 — Def. Hilliard Bradley 10-3 May 11 — Lost to fourth-seeded Westerville Central 7-3 in second round of district tournament *May 12 — Lost to New Albany 159 May 14 — Played *Olentangy Orange and Fredericktown Of note: The Pacers were 11-12 overall and 5-7 in the OCC-Capital before May 14.

SOFTBALL *May 6 — Def. Olentangy Orange 7-6 *May 7 — Def. Hilliard Bradley 10-3 in makeup from May 2; lost to Grove City 9-5 May 10 — Def. Reynoldsburg 10-0 in six innings in first round of Division I district tournament May 12 — Def. 12th-seeded Westerville Central 2-0 in second round of district tournament May 17 — Fifth-seeded Worthington Kilbourne in district semifinal at Pickerington North. Winner plays secondseeded Gahanna or Upper Arlington in district final May 19 at Pickerington Central.

Of note: The Pacers are 18-6 overall and finished 14-0 (first) in the OCCCapital.

BOYS TENNIS *May 6 — Match vs. Hilliard Bradley canceled May 7 — Finished fourth (31) in OCCCapital tournament at Bradley behind New Albany (76) and Olentangy Orange (52) and Big Walnut (39) May 11 — Lost to Pickerington Central 3-2 May 12, 14 — Division I sectional at Hilliard Darby. None of the Pacers finished in the top four to advance to the district tournament May 20-21 at Hilliard Davidson. Chris Leyva reached a district-qualifying match in singles

squeeze that we turned into a double play (in the third inning).

“I was delighted with the way we played for the most part and I’m happy with the way we competed all the way to the last pitch.”

Bosiokovic allowed nine hits and two earned runs. He had eight strikeouts with just one walk. Delaware had just five hits off Lawrence, with Tyler Miller getting a single and double.

Justin Vanhoesen added a bunt single. Lawrence had 14 strikeouts, including six in a row to end the game.

•The boys tennis team had a strong showing in the OCC-Capital Division tournament on May 7 at Hilliard Bradley, as senior Justin Rike and junior Nick Tanuredjo were runners-up in singles play.

New Albany won titles on all five courts en route to its fifth consecutive league tournament title. Since joining the OCCCapital in 2007, the Eagles have gone 30-0 in regular-season league dual matches.

Olentangy Orange finished second in the tournament and the Pacers tied Big Walnut for third with 12 points. Including regular-season matches, New Albany totaled 76 points, followed by Orange (52), Big Walnut (39), Delaware (31), Bradley (24), Watkins Memorial (22), Franklin Heights (7) and Mount Vernon (6).

Not all the point totals are finalized because two OCC-Capital dual matches had yet to be

but lost to New Albany’s Sean Yun 61, 6-1. Josh Byerly and John Homan also reached a district-qualifying match in doubles but lost to St. Charles’ Grant Dolven and Weston Niermeyer 6-1, 6-0.

Of note: The Pacers finished 6-7 overall and 3-3 in the OCC-Capital.

TRACK & FIELD May 12, 14 — Competed in OCC-Capital meet at Davidson May 17, 19, 21 — Division I, district 1 meet at Bradley. The top four placers in each event advance to the regional May 25, 27 at Pickerington North.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL May 14 — Played fourth-seeded Westerville North in first round of Division I East Region tournament. Winner plays fifth-seeded Gahanna or Westerville Central in semifinal May 18 at Gahanna. Semifinal winner plays in final May 21 at Gahanna with state berth at stake. Potential opponents in final include top-seeded Hilliard Darby and sixth-seeded Worthington Kilbourne.

Of note: The Pacers were 8-12 overall before May 14 and finished 2-8 in the OCC-Capital. *OCC-Capital contest BOYS LACROSSE May 7 — Def. Strongsville 13-12; def.

Brunswick 11-3. Against Strongsville, Griffin Kinney had four goals, Josh Bender scored three, Dominic Sanfillipo and Paul Golden both scored two and Brad Fitzpatrick had 12 saves as the Pacers rallied from a 7-3 halftime deficit. Against Brunswick, Kinney and Bender both had three goals, Charlie Darrough scored two and Michael Duffy had seven saves. *May 9 — Lost to Westerville Central 7-5 *May 11 — Def. Big Walnut 10-3.

Bender had three goals and Duffy had 10 saves.

Of note: The Pacers are 9-4 overall and finished 2-4 in the OCC-Central. *OCC-Central game GIRLS LACROSSE May 6 — Def. Chillicothe 12-7 May 7 — Lost to Olentangy Liberty 9-4 May 9 — Tied Big Walnut at 8 May 16 — At Olentangy Liberty in play-in game in Division I North/Central Region tournament. Winner plays at Thomas Worthington in first round May 18.

Of note: The Pacers are 3-8-1.

played at the time of the league tournament.

“Basically, everyone went in knowing that there were five second places up for grabs and we won two of those,” coach Dan Morrison said.

Rike lost to New Albany’s Steven Miller 6-0, 6-1 in the final at second singles and Tanuredjo lost to the Eagles’ Sam Romanoff 6-0, 6-0 in the final at third singles.

“Justin played his best tennis of the year,” Morrison said. “He won his first two matches handily but ran into a player much better than he is in Miller. Justin made him play some, but it’s the nature of high school tennis. He played his best but was outmatched by someone better.

“Because of the threat of rain, some matches were switched to eight-game pro sets and Nick trailed his second match 5-1 (to Orange’s Daniel Nagel). He caught up, and then after trailing in the tiebreaker 4-1, came back to win, enabling him to reach the finals. He got more patient and that changed the momentum, and after he caught up, he hit some big winners. It was a great mid-match correction.”

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When I was talking with a veteran high school softball coach in central Ohio about Hilliard Bradley’s talented senior, Kellie Roudabush, he told me, “It’s simple, Larry. This girl can flat out hit a softball.”

And that is what this Jaguars standout has been doing all season.

Through 18 games, Roudabush was batting .576 with seven doubles, three triples, four home runs and 20 RBI. She also has been stellar as a pitcher with a 10-2 record and a 1.99 ERA, but it’s her offense that has sparked Bradley to 15 wins in those 18 games.

“I work very hard at every aspect of softball, but right now I have more confidence swinging the bat than the other parts of the game,” Roudabush said. “I do tee-work every day as I constantly try to improve as a hitter, and before we play I take a 10minute jog and try to visualize what I am going to do at bat against their pitcher. All of that helps me focus on what I want to complete. When I am at bat I clear everything else out of my mind because I want no distractions and, until there are two strikes on me, I look for my pitch.

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“I feel like I am a coachable athlete and I have been lucky to have coach (Kevin) Moody with me at both Hilliard Darby and here at Bradley. I have had my summer coaches and my dad work with me and they have been able to change my swing at times, teach me not to hit off my front foot too much, how to use my hips for power in my swing and the importance of following through when you hit. I think I have learned well.”

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But everyone gets along and, even though I had two great years at Darby, I am glad I am here at Bradley because it has allowed me to be a leader on the team and that is something that has helped me grow as a person. I have learned that if you have a challenge, then go out and work hard to reach that challenge. Being a leader has helped me work with all kinds of people and has helped me mature See LARSON, page B3

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EAGLES “They did a great job. I’m really proud of them.”

Randall went 2-1 in the league tournament and placed third at first singles, and the first doubles team of McMurry and Sean Tribble went 2-1 and placed third. Jeff Tribble at second singles and freshman Logan Adams at third singles both went 2-1 and placed fifth, and the second doubles team of Baldauf and senior Devin Trainer went 1-2 and placed sixth.

New Albany won all five courts at the OCC-Capital tournament en route to winning its fifth consecutive league title.

•The track and field teams will compete in the Division I district meet this week at Bradley. The top four finishers in each event advance to the regional meet May 25 and 27 at Pickerington North.

The girls team is competing in district 1 on Tuesday, May 17, Thursday, May 19, and Saturday, May 21, with second-seeded Dublin Coffman, eighth-seeded Gahanna, 12th-seeded Olentangy, 16th-seeded Westerville Central, Beechcroft, Delaware, Franklin Heights, Independence, Newark, Northland, Olentangy Liberty, Westerville North and Westland.

“We were seeded 19th of 54 teams,” girls coach Joe Evener said. “I was hoping to be seeded in the top 16, but I think we got a good draw. If we can go into the meet and do what we’re capable of doing, we should have a lot of success.

“I’m shooting for a top three, top four finish as a team, and I’m looking to get quite a few girls out to regional.”

Junior Brea Medlock is among central Ohio’s top runners in the 400 meters, as she was seventh in the area honor roll last week with a time of 59.95 seconds. Also making the honor roll were the 400 relay (50.29), 800 relay (1:47.16) and 3,200 relay (9:57.65).

The boys team was seeded 14th of 48 teams and is competing in district 3 on Wednesday, May 18, Thursday, May 19, and Saturday, May 21, with top-seeded Coffman, fifth-seeded Bradley, Beechcroft, Briggs, Central Crossing, Columbus East, Columbus West, Grove City, Hamilton Township, Lancaster, Pickerington Central, Teays Valley, Upper Arlington, Whetstone and Worthington Kilbourne.

“I was happy with our district draw,” boys coach Eric Myers said. “I’d like to think we can contend for the district title. You have to perform at your best to

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Continued from page B1 Below are the recent results and coming schedules for the Big Walnut baseball, softball, boys tennis and track and field teams, and the boys and girls club lacrosse teams: BASEBALL *May 6 — Defeated Franklin Heights 7-3 *May 7 — Def. New Albany 9-8 in game that had been suspended April 28; lost to New Albany 8-3 May 10 — Def. Beechcroft 17-0 in five innings in first round of Division II district tournament May 12 — Def. fifth-seeded Granville 19-17 in second round of district tournament. The eighth-seeded Golden Eagles trailed 14-11 before scoring eight runs in the top of the sixth inning. Grant Beam hit a solo home run.

May 16 — Hartley in district semifinal at Hilliard Davidson. The Hawks are the third seed. Winner plays fourthseeded DeSales or Canal Winchester in district final May 18 at Grove City.

The Golden Eagles have not played Hartley, DeSales or Canal Winchester this season.

Of note: The Golden Eagles are 15-9 overall and finished 6-8 in the OCCCapital.

SOFTBALL *May 6 — Def. Franklin Heights 7-4 May 7 — Def. *New Albany 6-2; lost to Westerville South 4-3 in 10 innings May 9 — Def. Hamilton Township 101 in first round of Division II district tournament May 11 — Def. Whitehall 8-6 in second round of district tournament May 16 — DeSales in district semifinal at Pickerington North. DeSales is top seed. Winner plays third-seeded Hilliard Bradley or Buckeye Valley in district final May 18 at Pickerington Central. The Golden Eagles lost to DeSales 3-2 on March 31 and split two games with Bradley, winning 9-6 on April 27 and losing 10-3 on April 8. Big Walnut has not played Buckeye Valley this season.

Of note: The Golden Eagles are 1314 overall and finished 7-7 in the OCCCapital.

BOYS TENNIS *May 6 — Def. Franklin Heights 5-0 May 7 — Finished third (39) in OCCCapital tournament at Bradley behind New Albany (76) and Olentangy Or-

ange (52) May 9 — Def. Buckeye Valley 4-1 May 10 — Match at Westerville Central canceled May 11 — Lost to Westerville South 3-2 May 12, 14 — Competed in Division I sectional tournament at Hilliard Davidson. Reaching the semifinals held May 14 to clinch a berth in the district tournament May 20-21 at Davidson was the doubles team of Nathan Randall and Sam Lawless. The top four finishers at district advance to state May 27-28 at Davidson.

Of note: The Golden Eagles finished 15-4 overall and 5-2 in the OCC-Capital.

TRACK & FIELD May 6 — Boys: Finished third (70) in five-team Friday Night at Grandview behind Grandview (125) and Hamilton Township (87); Girls: Finished fourth (61) in five-team Friday Night at Grandview behind champion Grandview (115) May 12, 14 — Competed in OCC-Capital meet at Davidson May 18-19, 21 — Boys: Division I, district 3 meet at Bradley. The top four finishers in each event advance to regional May 25 and 27 at Pickerington North.

May 17, 19, 21 — Girls: Division I, district 1 meet at Bradley The top four finishers in each event advance to regional May 25 and 27 at Pickerington North. *OCC-Capital contest BOYS LACROSSE May 6 — Game at Marysville canceled *May 11 — Lost to Delaware Hayes 10-3 *May 12 — Lost to Pickerington Central 11-6. Matt Heiden and Trevor Seaver each had two goals May 13 — Played Springfield May 16 — At Hilliard Bradley Of note: The Golden Eagles were 3-7 overall before May 13 and finished 05 in the OCC-Central.

GIRLS LACROSSE *May 9 — Tied Delaware Hayes at 8.

Shelby Coulter had five goals.

May 11 — Lost to Hilliard Bradley 20-1 May 12 — Lost to Bexley 21-5. Christa Ford had two goals *May 16 — At Gahanna Of note: The Golden Eagles are 3-81 overall before May 12 and 1-3-1 in the OCC-Central. *OCC-Central game

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Spring Football FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE RETURNS In the sixth week of a spring football series looking at central Ohio high school programs, ThisWeek is featuring the City League-South Division.

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Top stories Making Adjustments: Worthington Kilbourne sophomore Hannah Loveday has had to make plenty of adjustments, transferring from Gallipolis Gallia Academy where she finished sixth in the shot put in the Division II state meet.

Loveday has become one of the top performers for the track and field team.

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ed Westerville North 9-2 on May 6 to clinch the OCCCardinal Division title a year after finishing last. The league title is the first for the Braves since 2007. "It's great because not a lot of guys get the experience of winning a league championship," junior Woody Wallace said.

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Runners were 350 meters into the race when it was delayed more than 90 minutes because of lightning. “When they stopped us, I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’”

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Note of the week Andrew Bailey hit a home run to help Licking Heights defeat Fisher Catholic 8-3 to clinch the MSL-Cardinal title.

It is the first league title for the Hornets since 1989 when Bailey’s father, Kenny, hit a home run in the title-clinching victory over Fisher Catholic.

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Ohio Wesleyan University has of trustees. received a $500,000 donation to In 1951, Millhon became the rename the men’s basketball lock- first OWU basketball player to er room in honor of the late Jud- be named first-team All-Amerison Millhon and the football locker room in honor of Robert Gardner of Columbus.

The gift was made by Louis Mitchell of Columbus and his wife, Cynthia Halliday Mitchell, the university announced in a news release. Cynthia Mitchell is a 1961 OWU graduate and a ing most of the season with an member of the university’s board ankle injury. Brown made his season debut in a tri-meet May Call me for all your 3 against Franklin Heights and Gahanna Christian but has yet advertising needs! to return to his 2010 form when he was on the 1,600 relay that placed fourth (program-record 3:18.68) at state and the 800 relay that placed sixth (1:28.23) at state.

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Big Walnut will be without one of its top distance runners in senior Micah Armbrust, who will miss the remainder of the season because of shin splints.

“It’s disappointing for Micah,” Myers said. “He was running the best he has run in two-anda-half years since recovering from this injury before. It’s also disappointing for his teammates and it’s disappointing for me.

We will certainly miss him.”

Myers said sophomore A.J. Barber is expected to take Armbrust’s place in the 3,200 relay, which also includes seniors Joel Craig and Nolan Leber and junior Josh Annis.

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LARSON to run the bases, I love sliding and I love being around a group of teammates that all have a comas an individual.” mon goal, and that is to win a conference title Roudabush, who will play softball at the Uni- and hopefully a whole lot more.” versity of Akron beginning next year, is as pasI’ll see you at a game. sionate about her sport as any athlete I have interviewed.

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With a savings account, they’ll be able to see the value as the account grows and will feel empowered by contributing to the account.

Add a bit of reality to financial conversations.

If your teen is anxious to rent his first apartment and live off campus, show him your monthly bills. This should help him gain a better understanding of how much things really cost and how much he will need to budget to cover his bills before he gets in over his head.

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not, but our teens might not see it that way. This is a time when teens need to learn about how to care for their “identity” and how quickly thieves can steal their identity.

This is an opportune time to give your children a basic ERIC understanding about the access their Social Security numCLARKE bers provide to their identity and how long it can take to repair their credit if it gets into the wrong hands.

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