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WAC wants to see action on rec center

By CARLA SMITH ThisWeek Community Newspapers

The Westland Area Commission (WAC) said it wants to get a little more aggressive in its stance on acquiring a recreation facility for the Westland area.

The commission met for the first time this year on Jan. 19 with nothing but committee reports on its agenda.

When it came to the topic of parks and

recreation, commission member Mike McKay said he would like to reopen discussions with the city of Columbus about a proposed regional recreational facility.

A few years ago voters supported a bond issue that was to fund the regional recreation center concept around the city.

With the downturn in the economy, however, all the planned recreation centers were put on hold.

McKay proposed that the commission approach city officials and talk with them about keeping the facilities that were temporarily shut down in Columbus closed permanently in order to develop the regional recreation concept.

“We have been working on this a very long time,” McKay said. “We need to open up some discussion again.”

This past fall, a representative of Columbus Recreation and Parks prom-

ised the commission that it would at least get soccer fields built on the land where the proposed Westland area rec center is to be built. The location of those fields is at the corner of Alton Darby Road and West Broad Street.

McKay pointed out that last fall’s announcement was for work that had been promised for a year earlier.

“We need to show unity,” commission member Bill Steimer said. “The more

people you have standing in a group like WABA (Westland Area Business Association), the township, schools and hospital, then they will listen. The money is there for it, you have the people willing to work on it…let’s set a date.”

Commission member Linda Pitts said she was erring on the side of caution when she suggested that this may not be See WAC, page A2

Cordray will commute to job in Washington

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Josephine Biggs, Iris Marie Etter and Dosha Hoffman were among those participating in the aerobics class on Wednesday, Jan. 19, at the Prairie Township Senior Center, 4616 W. Broad St. The center offers aerobics at 10:30 a.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays. Gentle stretchers classes are available at 10 a.m. on Tuesdays and Friday and line dancing at noon on Mondays. The aerobics and stretching classes are free and the line dancing class will cost $2.

Downtown magic show to highlight art of illusion

By GARY SEMAN JR. ThisWeek Community Newspapers Ron Spangler remembers the trip to his first Magi-Fest well.

He didn’t make it.

In 1978, he was headed there with a friend but a terrible snowstorm forced his mom to turn the car around and go home.

Three years later, he successfully attended what he says is one of the biggest and oldest magic conventions in the country, and he hasn’t missed once since.

Spangler, an Upper Arlington resident, has been named director of the 79-year-old convention, to be held Jan. 27-29 at the Renaissance Columbus Downtown Hotel.

The Columbus convention, established in January 1932, is expected to draw about 600 people from across the country.

“Every magician convention has a different angle,” said Spangler, a mechanical engineer. “One of our particular angles is we want to be a family-friendly convention. We want to be known for that.”

While the convention is generally for practitioners and devotees of magic, the general public is invited to attend the convention’s annual magic show at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29 at Veterans Memorial. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for children. They are available online at www.magifest.com or will be See DOWNTOWN, page A2

Despite his new job in Washington, D.C., former Ohio attorney general Richard Cordray isn’t leaving his hometown anytime soon.

Cordray, recently appointed chief of enforcement at the new Consumer Financial Protection Richard Cordray Bureau, said he plans to commute from his Grove City home rather than relocate.

“I’ll out on Monday morning, come back Thursday and work from Grove City on Fridays,” Cordray said.

“My twin (daughters) are both enrolled in SouthWestern schools, and they’re doing well. They have their friends. My wife is a teacher at Capital (University) law school. This is my home.”

Cordray, who graduated from Grove City High School, credits his friends and mentors in town for the values he’s held throughout his political career, beginning in the Ohio House of Representatives in 1991.

“I think most of my values were formed growing up in Grove City from my parents, my friends and my teachers,” he said. “It’s about treating people fairly and equally, making sure that people have someone standing on their side to protect them. Those were all things that were formed for me growing up in Grove City.”

Cordray said he saw standing up for the common man as central to his job as attorney general.

“I think everybody recognizes that we did a good job on the law enforcement side, if you ask police chiefs and sheriffs across the state, so we could help them protect their communities,” he said.

“We prosecuted quite a bit of corruption. We took on several sitting sheriffs and about a half dozen crooked police chiefs.”

His office recovered more than $1-billion from American International Group in an antitrust case and almost $400-million from Merrill Lynch & Company, he said.

“I think we established a principle that in the consumer area we were very aggressive. That’s a hallSee CORDRAY, page A2

Charitable Pharmacy to expand

By GARY SEMAN JR. ThisWeek Community Newspapers

The Charitable Pharmacy of Central Ohio will head into its second year of operation serving 50 percent more people and filling twice as many prescriptions.

Allan Zaenger, executive director and pharmacist for the organization, located inside the Livingston United Methodist Church, 200 E. Livingston Ave. in German Village, said the increase in patients is understandable, given the economy and cost of medication.

“After you get past food, clothing and shelter, one of the biggest gaps people have is related to health care,” he said. “And one of the most expensive things related to health care is the medicine they take.”

The Columbus Foundation is helping the pharmacy grow with

By Lorrie Cecil/ThisWeek

Tian Yao, a third-year pharmacy student at The Ohio State University, reshelves medicines at the Charitable Pharmacy of Central Ohio on Jan. 14. The pharmacy, located inside the Livingston United Methodist Church, 200 E. Livingston Ave. in German Village, recently received a $115,000 grant from the Columbus Foundation.

a $115,000 grant. The foundation Conference of the United was one of the original donors to Methodist Church,Access Health the Charitable Pharmacy, which See CHARITABLE, page A2 is a joint project of the West Ohio

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Charitable Pharmacy to expand Continued from page A1 Columbus and several other groups. The $115,000 will go toward additional staffing and targeting patients with diabetes and airway disease, Zaenger said.

The pharmacy, with an annual budget of roughly $350,000, is qualifying about 15 new patients a week and should reach 1,500 this year, which is a 50-percent increase. Officials with the pharmacy, founded Feb. 26 last year, projected filling 7,500 prescriptions in 2010, less than half the prescriptions already filled.

Zaenger said that number would increase to 30,000 in 2011. “Even with all of that, we’re really scratching the surface of the population in Franklin County that has limited access to medicine,” he said.

The pharmacy also has a preventative-care aspect. Pharmacists meet with patients to discuss diet and lifestyle habits.

Also, beginning Feb. 2, the pharmacy will hold “Living with Diabetes” classes, which will offer advice on how to cope with the disease, as well as provide information from resident experts. Additional classes will be held March 2 and April 6.

The pharmacy, which purchases a small amount of medication, receives most of it from facilities that don’t dispense the medication, samples from manufacturers and assistance programs. Ohio law prohibits citizens from giving their personal prescriptions to the pharmacy.

Patients, who must qualify for the help, are generally referred through social-service agencies, shelters and primary-care practices.

The organization also has quantifiable value, Zaenger said. For every $1 it receives, the pharmacy gives away $4.43 in medicine and pharmacy services. That number is expected to increase to $8 this year.

Many who seek the pharmacy’s services take as many as seven drugs a week, totaling several hundred dollars a month. One is Denise Chalfant, who is unemployed and seeking disability benefits because of her medical conditions.

Without the pharmacy, it would be virtually impossible to acquire the medicine, she said.

“The staff is really nice,” Chalfant said. “I think it’s great the volunteers help those of us who don’t have the means.”

Zaenger said the central Ohio community has been “overwhelmingly responsive.”

“We have an increasing number of individuals who will make donations of a few dollars to several hundred dollars,” he said. “I think increasingly in our culture, people who take a medicine every day understand what it would mean to them if they didn’t have their health-benefit coverage.”

Downtown magic show to highlight art of illusion Continued from page A1 on sale at the box office the night of the show.

The headliner is Greg Frewin, who has his own theater in Niagara Falls. Spangler described it as a Las Vegas-style magical review, complete with a juggler, dancers and assistants.

Meanwhile, the convention involves magic shows, lectures, competitions and sales of merchandise.

The origins of Magi-Fest can be traced to two Ohio magic dealers, Sylvester Reilly and Robert Nelson. They co-founded Ring No. 7, a local chapter of the In-

A closer look While the Magi-Fest is generally for practitioners and devotees of magic, the general public is invited to attend the convention’s annual magic show at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29 at Veterans Memorial. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for children. They are available online at www.magifest.com or will be on sale at the box office the night of the show.

ternational Brotherhood of Magicians, in 1928.

Spangler, 47, described the convention as a sort of family reunion, with a lot of veterans of the convention introducing their children to the craft.

“With a lot of kids, it just sticks.

CORDRAY Continued from page A1 mark of my administration and has probably led to this new position.”

As head of enforcement at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Cordray said he will make sure banks are following government regulations when they issue such consumer products as mortgages, credit cards and student loans. “I see it as standing on the side of individual citizens and seeing that they get a fair shake from the big banks,” he said. “I’m looking forward to having a chance to do that.”

It stays with them. It stayed with me,” he said, adding that he doesn’t get to perform as much as he did in the past.

Magic has changed over the past few decades, especially with the arrival of the Internet, which has revealed many closely guarded se-

WAC The biggest difference between his old job and his new one?

“I’ll be doing on a 50-state basis a lot of the same work I was doing in Ohio, with broader authority to act,” Cordray said.

“It draws on my background as attorney general and as state treasurer since I worked a lot with the banks.”

Cordray officially left the office of attorney general Jan. 10.

He’ll begin his new job Jan. 18.

As one of his last acts in office, he attended the Jan. 7 funeral of Suzanne Hopper, a Clark County sheriff’s deputy who was killed in the line of duty on Jan. 1.

Continued from page A1 a good time to press the city on the issue.

“I think everyone is on edge about potential cuts to their budgets,” Pitts said.

Commission members agreed that the Friends of Westland Park, a committee formed to address the Westland area’s parks and recreation needs, should to meet soon in order to discuss the issue further.

Time and date of a meeting has yet to be determined.

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crets, Spangler said.

“If people really want to find it they can find it,” he said. “So magicians are trying to reinvent themselves to keep it fresh.”

Jim King Sr. of wholesale supplier MAK Magic on the West Side has been involved with the convention for about 50 years. He said he’s watched participation grow, as well as interest in magic in recent years.

“There’s more activity with magic, partly because of the Internet,” he said. “People can get on there and see stuff they normally wouldn’t see.”

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No charges imminent in Grove City IRS case

By LISA AURAND ThisWeek Community Newspapers Grove City police say they’re unsure when charges will be filed for the theft of money related to the city’s unpaid and late federal payroll taxes.

Grove City Police Chief Joseph Wise issued a news release Jan. 13 saying that investigators uncovered evidence of a theft within the Grove City finance department.

Deputy city administrator Mike Wasylik said auditors from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and a special investigative unit from the state auditor’s office will get started on their own investigations into the city’s taxes in the next week.

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(The police) are pretty certain there was a theft, but they don’t have any target dates for charging anybody.

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“(The police) are pretty certain there was a theft, but they don’t have any target dates for charging anybody,” Wasylik said.

In another development, Ohio auditor Dave Yost said Jan. 18 that his office will begin a special audit of Grove City’s records regarding the IRS. “Investigators from our special audit section will work with city officials as well as state and local law enforcement

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to uncover any wrongdoing and restore the public's trust.”

The audit was requested by Wise.

The Internal Revenue Service last month told the city it owed about $685,905 in unpaid taxes. An initial investigation identified more unpaid quarterly tax returns totaling about $370,000.

Grove City has paid the IRS $187,000 for the fourth quarter of 2010 and $300,000 in initial payments toward pre-

vious quarters beginning in 2007.

Wasylik said the city is contesting the assessed penalties and interest.

“If this did involve a crime … there may be some ability not to have to deal with the penalties and interest,” he said.

In addition, the city’s independent auditor is working to determine whether the penalties and interest are accurate.

Mayor Richard “Ike” Stage didn’t have anything to say about the discovery of a theft. “I’m going to wait for the police investigation to run its course,” Stage said.

Council president Ted Berry said he wished he knew more about the circumstances behind the release.

“I’m going to ask some questions at the council meeting tomorrow night,” Berry said on Jan. 17.

Jackie Kincade, 61, payroll specialist, was placed on paid leave Dec. 10 after city officials were made aware of the back taxes owed to the IRS. She submitted her retirement effective Jan. 7 and has denied any wrongdoing.

Investigators found 49 letters to the city from the IRS that dated from 2003, but the IRS is seeking taxes from 2007 onward because the statute of limitations is expired on the earlier unpaid and late taxes, Wasylik said.

“There’s no doubt that the problem started well before 2007,” he said. “It definitely started around the year 2000.”

City officials, including Stage, a former city administrator, have said that they were unaware of any problems with the city’s payroll taxes.

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Columbus in the early days of 1861 was a town with a very good feeling about itself. Over the past few decades, Ohio’s capital city had grown from an almost invisible village of fewer than 2,000 inhabitants into a thriving city of more than 18,000 people.

Other cities in Ohio were doing considerably better, to be sure. Cincinnati was the largest city in the state and ED indeed in the LENTZ region. It was “the Queen City of the West.”

And Cleveland to the north was growing rapidly as well. It was not as large as most other Ohio cities, but it soon would be.

But Columbus in 1861 was doing quite well and showed every sign of even greater progress in the next few years to come.

It was not hard to see why.

In the early 1830s, Columbus was a village of fewer than 3,000 people. Since it was created by the Ohio General Assembly in 1812, the town had grown slowly but surely. Then, in the early 1830s, the Ohio Canal and the National Road arrived in Columbus. In less than two years, Columbus moved from being a village of 3,000 to a city of 5,000.

And the growth of the city was far from over.

In the 1840s and 1850s, Columbus became a major center of transportation and trade.

And most of the growth of those years had little to do with canals or the national road. It was the coming of the railroad that made all the difference.

In 1850, the Columbus and Xenia Railroad chugged into Columbus and established itself at the northern boundary of the city, where the convention center is today. In case one might wonder why a railroad was built to Xenia — a nice place, but rather small — the answer lay with people who had little to do with the town.

Xenia was a terminal point for the Little Miami Railroad. Board a train in Columbus and with a change, one would soon be in Cincinnati — where perhaps one wanted to be in the first place.

What was it like to live in Columbus in 1861? In a few words, it was smelly, noxious and a little on the dangerous side.

If we could take you back right now to the Columbus of 1861 and put you down at Broad and High streets, you would immediately notice several things.

First, you would probably notice that your eyes were watering. The reason for this was not hard to find. Columbus in 1861 is a city that runs on coal. Burning coal heats one’s house, powers one’s business and is commonly used for many other purposes.

Over the city hangs a pall of black smoke. The ash from that smoke clings to clothing and hair and seeps into the lungs. It will stain the brick of German Village houses and cling to the gravestones in the Old North Graveyard, where the North Market is today.

Second, you would probably notice the smell of the city.

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This is a view of Third and Broad streets, looking south across the fence at the eastern yard of the Statehouse. The churches in the distance are along South Third Street. This is one of the earliest views of Statehouse Square and shows the yard where the crowd gathered to hear President Abraham Lincoln speak.

Columbus in 1861 is a city where most people walk most of the time. The residents walk to school and to church. They walk to the market and walk to their business and other interests.

When the people of Columbus are not walking, they are riding in a conveyance pulled by horses. The streets are full of horses — pulling carriages, and wagons and simple buggies. And all of those horses leave in the city streets a lot of what horses leave behind. A whole crew of convicted criminals spends most of their days walking the streets and picking up the detritus of the horses.

But the most dangerous part of Columbus was the part most people never saw.

The average life expectancy of an adult male in Columbus in 1861 was considerably less than 50 years. Unlike our own time, the life expectancy of adult women was even less. The death rate among women was higher because of complications of childbirth. The death rate among both men and women was higher because of a number of ailments for which vaccines and other curative medicines had yet to be discovered.

In spite of all of these dangers and disagreeable aspects, people continued to come to the city of Columbus. They came for the same reasons people have been coming to cities for the past several hundred years: The city was where opportunity was waiting.

To really appreciate the wonder of a city like Columbus, all one had to do in 1860 was wander to the middle of town and gaze across Statehouse Square.

Rising from the middle of the square was one of the great buildings in 19th-century America.

More than 20 years earlier, in

1839, the small, frontier state of Ohio had decided to build a new statehouse. It was thought the building would be done in two years and cost about $200,000.

The Statehouse took 22 years to build and cost $2,200,000. But now it was finally done. Occupied in 1857 after the old Statehouse burned in 1852, the new Statehouse was finally completed in 1861.

It was worth the wait. It is one of America’s truly great buildings and a reflection of the strong and dedicated people who built it.

On Feb. 13, 1861, Abraham Lincoln, soon to be inaugurated as President of the United States, passed through Columbus. After speaking to the Ohio General Assembly, he moved to the steps of the state capitol and spoke to the people.

He concluded his brief remarks by saying, “I am doubly thankful that you have appeared here to give me this greeting. It is not much for me, as I shall soon pass away from you, but we have a large country and a large future before us, and the manifestations of goodwill towards the government, and affection for the Union which you may exhibit are of immense value to you and your posterity forever. (applause) In this point of view, it is that I thank you most heartily for the exhibition you have given me and with that allow me to bid you an affectionate farewell.” (deafening applause and cheers) In less than two months the “affection for the Union” of Columbus, Ohio, and the rest of the nation would be tested as never before with the beginning of the American Civil War. Ed Lentz writes a history column for ThisWeek.

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Netotian rolls first 300 game for Rams There are magic numbers in every sport. These are numbers that define great achievement in that particular endeavor.

As most of us know, 300 is the magic number in bowling. It’s a perfect game, all strikes.

When it is done, it is etched in one’s sports storybook forever.

For Whitehall senior LARRY Nick Netotian, LARSON magic time came on Dec. 10 at Holiday Lanes in a match against Eastmoor Academy.

For the first time in his young life, Netotian knocked down all the pins on his first throw every frame and nailed down his first 300 game.

“It is what you dream of and you shoot for from the time you start bowling,” said Netotian, who is averaging 222.6 a game for the Rams. “My highest before was a 279. At the beginning of my perfect game I felt pretty

By Mike Munden/ThisWeek good, but it wasn’t really any- Devin Norris dribbles away from fallen Marysville defender Corey Gould during the host Cougars’ 46-42 loss Jan. 15. thing special until after the eighth frame when I knew the possibilities that were ahead.

“I got nervous and then this crowd formed behind me, which added to the pressure. I tried really hard to focus on my mark and let my ball do the work.

When I came to the final frame I was a little bit shaken. I was a bit lucky in the frame before, so I felt a little more confident, and when I rolled the last ball I knew I had missed my mark, but I

By FRANK DiRENNA knew I didn’t miss it by much ThisWeek Community Newspapers At a glance and my dream of a 300 game was realized. When the pins all Westland High School boys Below are the recent results and com- points. schedules for the Westland boys *Jan. 21 — Played Davidson fell, I felt so unbelievably rebasketball coach Todd Parker ing basketball, girls basketball, gym- *Jan. 25 — Home vs. Coffman. The lieved and it was just so sweet. emphasizes team unity and a nastics and wrestling teams: Shamrocks defeated Westland 78I hope to bowl for my lifetime family atmosphere.

32 on Dec. 10.

BOYS BASKETBALL and hopefully I will get anothHe witnessed those philoso- *Jan. 14 — Defeated Central Cross- *Jan. 28 — At Kilbourne. The Wolves beat the Cougars 54-35 on Dec. 17. er 300, but no doubt I will alphies firsthand following the re- ing 60-50 Of note: The Cougars were 0-13 overways remember this first one.”

Jan. 15 — Lost to Marysville 46-42 cent death of his brother, David *Jan. 21 — Played Hilliard Davidson all and 0-8 in the OCC-Central before Talking about his strengths as Parker Jr. *Jan. 25 — At Dublin Coffman. The Jan. 21. a bowler, the Whitehall standThe Cougars rallied around Shamrocks defeated Westland 84- GYMNASTICS out said, “I think that being able Jan. 24 — At Kilbourne with Central their coach, winning both games 61 on Dec. 10. to adjust to different lane conthat he missed while he spent *Jan. 28 — Home vs. Worthington Crossing and Granville ditions is one of my pluses and Kilbourne. The Wolves beat the Jan. 29 — At Mount Vernon with Centime with his family.

Cougars 53-41 on Dec. 17. tral Crossing and Granville bowling good when it matters Westland defeated host Lon- Of note: The Cougars were 3-9 overWRESTLING is another positive. Bowling is don 64-58 on Jan. 12 behind 12 all and 1-6 in the OCC-Central before *Jan. 20 — Competed against Dava very intense game and you abJan. 21. points apiece from Chase idson solutely have to stay on track.

GIRLS BASKETBALL *Jan. 27 — At Upper Arlington Blankenship and J.J. Smith, and Confidence, like all sports, is so *Jan. 14 — Lost to Central Cross- Jan. 29 — At Westerville South 10 from Zac Buchwalter.

The important. You are taught what ing 55-23. Christina Simpson scored duals Cougars also beat Central Cross- seven points for Westland.

Of note: The Cougars were 1-3 in the to do to be successful, but how ing 60-50 at home on Jan. 14 Jan. 15 — Lost to Delaware 60-27. OCC-Central before Jan. 20. you apply that teaching is what behind 15 points from Smith, Taylor Horn led Westland with 13 *OCC-Central contest counts. You have to trust your 11 from Buchwalter and 10 from throw more and more as you get James Wilson. what could they do for me. I told lyzed from the shoulders down more experienced.

“We really do have a good them before the London game, when a robber shot him on “I started bowling when I was rapport between the coaches and ‘Can you guys just win?’ So they Columbus’ north side on Nov. 6 years old over at Main Lanes. my kids,” coach Parker said. “I went out and did it.”

28, 1993.

My parents bowled every Frido think they play hard for me.

“Once we found out that he David Parker, 43, died Jan. 9 day night and my dad coached

By Mike Munden/ThisWeek It’s due to the fact that our coach- from complications from pneu- died, we knew we had to get me a lot when I was just starting. ing staff cares and in turn they monia and the flu, his brother The Cougars’ J.J. Smith tries to block a shot by Corey Gould of actually called me and asked said. David Parker was paraSee LARSON, page A6 Marysville on Jan. 15.

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Ready Roundup

Girls basketball team still struggling with offense

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Ready’s Nikki Brown gets set to pass to teammate Dani Pugh (25) during the host Silver Knights’ 55-52 loss to DeSales on Jan. 15.

The negatives have been tough to ignore for the Ready High School girls basketball team as it prepares for the final stretch of the regular season.

Other than during their 47-27 victory over Yellow Springs on Dec. 2, the Silver Knights were held to 41 or fewer points in each of their first 10 games.

An example of Ready’s struggles on offense took place Jan. 13 during a 44-28 loss to visiting Hartley.

After trailing 15-12 at halftime, the Silver Knights were outscored 18-1 in the third quarter and committed 17 second-half turnovers.

Although Ready took a step forward offensively Jan. 15 during a 55-52 loss to DeSales, finding answers has been a difficult task for a roster featuring few players who score consistently.

“It’s like we’re in a chess match, but we’re playing with checkers,” coach Joe Lang said.

“We compete for a half and when we’ve got to start making things happen, we don’t understand how to score. We have no go-to player. This isn’t football, where you sometimes can go out and win by only playing defense.”

Dani Pugh is the only senior who sees reg-

ular playing time, and she and sophomore guard Kim Lloyd both average about nine points.

Pugh put together a 24-point performance during a 44-39 victory over Marion Pleasant on Dec. 15, but scored in double figures only one other time during Ready’s first 10 games.

Sophomore post player Alexis Mayle has been a bright spot of late. She scored 13 points during a 51-41 loss to Jonathan Alder on Jan. 6 and 10 in a 41-40 loss to Columbus School for Girls on Jan. 8.

Because of makeup games, the schedule is about to become another complication for a team that is trying to find its identity before the Division III district tournament.

Over a 10-day span beginning Thursday, Jan. 27, Ready will play six games. In addition to facing Watterson on Jan. 27 and CSG on Saturday, Feb. 5, in conference matchups, it will face Worthington Christian on Saturday, Jan. 29, Hilliard Darby on Tuesday, Feb. 1, Grove City on Wednesday, Feb. 2, and Zanesville Rosecrans on Thursday, Feb. 3.

The biggest positive thus far is that the Silver Knights’ defense has kept them in games.

“We’re playing hard and we’re trying to mix it up,” Lang said. “We’re trying to keep teams guessing, but it’s very hard to keep up the defensive intensity when you can’t score. We have

people who have had good games, but I never know who is going to have a good game. I think eventually we’ll get it turned around, but right now we just make a lot of poor decisions.”

•Although it resulted in just two wins over its first nine games, boys basketball coach Don Worstell wasn’t disappointed with a defense that allowed an average of 50.5 points during that span.

“We’re pleased with the kids right now,” Worstell said. “They’re working hard at it every day, although it hasn’t shown up on game night, which has been frustrating. But it’s starting to show. We’re giving up a considerable amount of our strength to youth, but defensively I think we’ve been fairly sound all year. We value the defensive end and we’ve been reasonably good defensively, especially for us being such a young team.”

The return of junior Derek Farmer from a shoulder injury over the holiday break has boosted an offense that was held to 41 or fewer points in eight of Ready’s first nine games.

Farmer missed most of last season and all of summer conditioning in addition to not being available for Ready’s first five games this season. He scored 10 points during a 43-40 loss to See READY, page A6

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Continued from page A5 Celina in the consolation game of the Celina HALLiday Hoop It Up Shootout on Dec. 30.

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South boys vs. Burlington (N.J.) “We put ourselves in bad sitWrestling: Olentangy junior Log onto Facebook.com and Life Center Academy and the Ryan Brady is motivated by uations because of our inabilities Thomas Worthington vs. Upper his father, Tom, who passed search "ThisWeekSports" to to handle pressure,” Worstell said.

Arlington girls game. “(Farmer) basically missed a year away from colon cancer in become a fan. and a half, and even last year he 2005.

Top performances missed all of the preseason. He Follow us definitely helps us, but if you’re Quotable BOYS Short, sweet and limited to a perimeter shooter in basketball, Upper Arlington’s Brian Sul“Since freshman year I wear 140 characters, follow us on conditioning is vital, so that’s livan scored 29 points to lead ... the same socks. Don’t worry, Twitter @TWSportsFan today. something he’s working on.

“We’re getting pretty nice contributions on the rebounding end from Brady Taylor, our freshman post (player), and Matt Yoho is starting to really rebound the ball for us.”

David Parker had been a social studies teacher Continued from page A5 since 2004 at Jonathan Alder High School, where julrey@thisweeknews.com some wins and play hard for (coach) Parker and he also had been a student, athlete and coach. www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com More than 1,000 people, including 600 stumake him happy,” said Blankenship, a junior dents, attended his funeral in the Alder gymnaforward.

The wins over London and Central Crossing sium on Jan. 21. Todd Parker said that several of were just the second and third of the season for his current and former players and their parents the Cougars. The win over Central Crossing was attended the service.

“It makes it feel like you’re doing something The Grove City Kids Associaspecial because the players dedicated the game tion will hold recreational soccer to their coach and beat a rival, Blankenship said. right. It makes it all worthwhile,” he said.

David Parker was a member of Ohio Wes- league sign-ups from 10 a.m. to “We were very emotional for that game and leyan’s 1988 NCAA Division III championship 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, and Satwe gave 110 percent,” he said.

Parker praised assistant Troy Sayre, who served basketball team. He also assisted with his broth- urday, Feb. 5, at the GCKA’s ofer’s program at Westland, providing insight on fices, 3959 Broadway. The leagues as head coach during his absence.

“You work so hard for the kids and you want opponents. are U6 to U14 for boys and girls “Despite all his setbacks he was still able to born on Aug. 1, 1996 to Aug. 1, them to feel some sort of reward,” said Parker, who returned to the team for its game against help some kids out, and I think that’s what peo- 2004. For more information, call Marysville on Jan. 15. The Cougars responded ple looked at,” Todd Parker said. “He could have the GCKA at (614) 871-0080 or with a strong effort before losing 46-42. Smith easily packed it in and instead he tried to help visit www.gckasports.org. scored 12 points and Marqual Pressey added 11. young people be able to get to college. That was The Cougars have worn black wristbands his main thing.” during their games in honor of their coach’s www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com brother. his team past Dublin Coffman 53-52 in a meeting of undefeated teams on Jan. 14.

GIRLS Africentric’s Raven Ferguson scored 36 points to lead her team to an 80-59 win over Eastmoor Academy on Jan. 11 in a matchup of first-place teams.

I wash them before every game, but it’s the same pair.”

— Upper Arlington senior guard Mary Corbett on her pregame rituals.

Below are the recent results and coming schedules for the Ready boys basketball, girls basketball, bowling and wrestling teams: BOYS BASKETBALL *Jan. 7 — Lost to Watterson 62-39 Jan. 11 — Game vs. Wellington postponed because of bad weather and rescheduled for Feb. 2. *Jan. 14 — Def. Worthington Christian 43-42 *Jan. 21 — Played St. Charles Jan. 25 — Home vs. Shekinah Christian *Jan. 28 — Home vs. Hartley Of note: The Silver Knights were 3-7 overall and 0-3 in the CCL before Jan. 21.

GIRLS BASKETBALL Jan. 6 — Lost to Jonathan Alder 51-41 *Jan. 8 — Def. Columbus School for Girls 41-40 Jan. 11 — Game vs. Grove City postponed because of bad weather and rescheduled for Feb. 2. *Jan. 13 — Lost to Hartley 44-28 *Jan. 15 — Lost to DeSales 55-52 *Jan. 22 — Played Hartley Of note: The Silver Knights were 47 overall and 1-3 in the CCL before Jan. 22.

BOWLING *Jan. 6 — Boys: Def. Linden-McKin-

ley 1,745-967; Girls: Def. Linden 1,806-542 *Jan. 10 — Boys: Lost to Hartley 2,103-1,822; Girls: Lost to Hartley 1,766-1,657 *Jan. 21 — Boys, girls: Competed against Brookhaven *Jan. 24 — Boys, girls: Columbus Academy at Western Lanes *Jan. 27 — Boys, girls: Northland at Sequoia *Jan. 28 — Boys, girls: Columbus West at Western Lanes Of note: The boys were 5-4 overall and 4-4 in the Central Ohio High School Bowling Conference-Central Division and the girls were 6-2 overall and 5-2 in the COHSBC-Central before Jan. 21.

WRESTLING Jan. 8 — Finished second (205.5) at 11-team Olentangy Orange Invitational behind host Pioneers (252).

Bobby Smith (112) was first and Josh Hall (119), Phil Halko (171) and Brandon Cooper (215) each were second.

Jan. 14-15 — Finished eighth (113) at Catholic Invitational Tournament at Toledo Central Catholic behind champion Cincinnati Moeller (256) Jan. 20 — Competed against Worthington Kilbourne *League contest

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LARSON Continued from page A5 As I got stronger personally my throw got stronger, and at about the age of 13, I began noticing that I could put a hook on my throw and get the ball into pockets, and from that time on I have done pretty well. If there is a weakness that I have it is that I haven’t done particularly well in tournament play and now as a senior I want to make major improvements in that aspect of

my sport.”

Speaking about what bowling has done for him, Netotian said, “Bowling has taught me the importance of sticking with something and that carries over into lots of other aspects of my life. I love my sport and I love being around people that will always back you up when things are tough. Being good at a sport teaches you to stay with something until you finish it and getting better at bowling

is like taking something apart and then putting it back together and making it better than it was before.”

Netotian’s 300 game shows he is doing a great job of putting his skills to work at a very high level.

I’ll see you at a game.

Larry Larson is a former athletics director at Grandview High School. He can be heard as “Mr. High School Sports” on WTVN 610 AM.

Schools announce coaching vacancies The following schools are seeking coaches: Dublin Jerome — Boys golf, girls soccer. Send résumé to Nick Magistrale, athletics director, Dublin Jerome High School, 8300 Hyland Croy Road, Dublin, 43016 or e-mail magistrale_nick@dublinschools.net.

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