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Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013
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OHS football duo earns all-district nods BY WILL JOHNSON Republican Sports Editor JEFFERSON CITY — After six Dutchmen earned postseason recognition from the Four Rivers Conference (FRC) football coaches, two more earned honors from the Missouri Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association (MSSA) Central District after voting among area media members. For their play on the offensive and defensive lines respectively, Derek Diekmann and Ryan Escalante both added another second-team honor to their season. “Ryan (Escalante) and Derek (Diekmann) worked their tails off this season and have earned every postseason award,” Dutchmen head coach Dale Long said. As a senior in his final season of Dutchmen football, Escalante made the most of it earning All-FRC Second Team honors along with his aforementioned All-District second team selection. “It’s an awesome feeling to be allconference and all-district two years in a row,” Escalante said. I could not have earned this without the help of all of my teammates over the last two seasons. Escalante ended his senior season with 37 solo tackles and 12 assists for a total of 49. Out of those, six of them were for a loss. As a junior, Diekmann will be one of a number of seniors to lead the orange and See Duo on Page 16
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RYAN ESCALANTE (above) AND DEREK DIEKMANN (below, center) added more postseason honors with Central MSSA All-District 2nd-team nods on the defensive and offensive lines respectively. PHOTOS BY WILL JOHNSON
In about a month, the Owensville Varsity Boys Basketball Tournament will have a silver feel to it. That’s because the 2014 edition will mark the 25th year for the annual Owensville Tournament dating back to January of 1990. In a round-robin format, Waynesville defeated OHS, Bourbon and Cuba to win the first annual tournament behind Most Valuable Player Carl (C.J.) Lawrence. Averaging 25.7 points a game in the 1990 invite, Lawrence poured in 36 points against Owensville. Doubling in size for the 1991 tourney field OHS welcomed Sullivan, Steelville, Belle and Newburg. In his first tournament appearSee MVP’s on Page 17
sports briefs OHS BASKETBALL played a home-and-home doubleheader with mixed results. Monday night on the road, the Dutchgirls held on to beat Fatima 61-59 while Kelsey Heflin’s JV Dutchgirls needed a last-second shot to beat Fatima 2726. Last night (Tuesday) at Owensville High School, the Dutchmen fell to Fatima 60-45 while Randy Crowe’s JV Dutchmen also fell against Fatima 66-38. More from these games will be in next week’s edition of The Republican.
Dutchgirls rally from early 8-0 deficit against Lutheran South BY WILL JOHNSON Republican Sports Editor ST. JAMES — Falling behind 8-0 to a good Lutheran South team, Dwayne Clingman’s Dutchgirls had to dig deep for a comeback without two key players. Owensville was without guards Bailey Nelson and Emily Ellis out with knee and ankle injuries respectively. Exploding for 19 second-quarter points, OHS took a 23-20 halftime lead and never trailed in the second half of their 58-49 win over the Lady Lancers of Lutheran South. This was the third of five games in the Community Bank of St. James Shoot Out
Saturday at St. James High School. “This was a great shoot out and St. James did a nice job putting it on,” Clingman said. “This was also a great chance to play someone we haven’t seen before.” After a 30-second timeout with 3:37 left in the first quarter, Dutchgirl sophomore
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Hailey Diestelkamp keyed a 4-1 run pulling OHS to within five of Lutheran South after one quarter, 9-5. Late in the first quarter, the Lady Lancers suffered a blow when Jocelynn Keller picked up her third foul with 1:22 left and See Rally on Page 22
BROOKELYN LIMBERG (below, left) AND COURTNEY HENDRIX (below, right) sandwich Lutheran South’s Michelle Puglisi shoot out action at St. James High School Saturday. ALLISON WALKER (below, right) looks for somewhere to go with the basketball against the Lady Lancers.
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Turnovers derail Dutchmen revenge bid BY WILL JOHNSON Republican Sports Editor Opening last year with a loss in overtime at Newburg, Josh Vinyard’s Dutchmen basketball team looked to avenge that loss in the season opener last Tuesday between the two teams. Tied at 13-13 moments into the second quarter on a Ben Angell basket, Owensville was outscored 45-22 by the visiting Wolves the rest of the way in their 58-35 loss. “We didn’t play as well as we practiced up until game day,” Vinyard said. “The good thing is that it’s early in the season and we’ll keep trying to get better with each game we play.” Tying the game at 2-2 and 5-5 early in the first quarter, the Dutchmen got a free throw and bucket from DeAndre Cox in the final minute to pull with two of Newburg after one quarter, 13-11. Opening the second quarter, Angell tied the game only to have
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Newburg go on a 12-3 run for a 25-16 lead with 2:22 until halftime. Wolf sophomore Ryan Ward had all 12 points in the run for Newburg. Four more points from Cox kept the Newburg lead in single digits at halftime by a score of 29-20. Only able to get points from a Nathan Smith free throw and Drew Garner 3-pointer, Owensville found themselves down 41-24 to the visiting Wolves after three quarters. Unable to trim the deficit any further, the Dutchmen fell short in their home and season opener. Ward led all scorers with a gamehigh 33 points while Garner nailed five shots from behind the arc for a team-high 15 points. He also shared team-high honors in assists in two with freshman Logan Moritz. Cox just missed double figures with nine points. Senior Ben Angell grabbed a team-high six rebounds. JV Dutchmen vs. Newburg Randy Crowe’s JV Dutchmen See Turnovers on Page 22
FRESHMAN DUTCHMEN BASKETBALL will open their season with a home game at Owensville Elementary School against Borgia on Monday, Dec. 9 starting at 5:30 p.m.
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DEANDRE COX (above, right) AND BLAKE BOHL (left, far left) play for the respective Dutchmen basketball teams on offense in their home and season opener last Tuesday against Newburg at Owensville High School. PHOTOS BY WILL JOHNSON
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ance, Newburg junior Rhett Reichard was named MVP after averaging 19.3 points per game. Known for his defense and passing abilities, Reichard was Newburg’s lone MVP throughout their stay in the tournament. Sullivan junior Derek Dace made it three MVP’s from three different teams in the 1992 invite. Scoring 19 points to help his Eagle team defeat the Kurt Keller coached Waynesville Tigers, Dace went on to play baseball immediately out of high school. Drafted and signed by Houston’s Astros, Dace also spent time in the farm systems of Detroit’s Tigers and Arizona’s Diamondbacks before moving back to Sullivan in early 2007 to begin selling insurance for his mother Sharon Dace. Joining Lawrence from 1990, Waynesville’s Tony Calloway gave the Tigers a pair of MVPs after the 1993 Owensville Tournament. Scoring 25 points in their doubleovertime title game win over Sullivan, Calloway’s second 3-pointer of the first overtime was almost ruled a 2-point field goal. One official signaled two points
before being overruled by his partner making it a 3-pointer. Cuba senior Tracy Hutchings took home MVP honors in 1994 setting four tournament records. He set marks for most points (82), most free throws in one tourney (27), most free throws in a game (16) and best free-throw percentage for a tournament going 27-28 for 96.4 percent in three games. Upon graduation from Cuba High School in the spring of 1994, Hutchings went on to play college basketball for the Rebels of East Central College for two years before finishing out his college basketball career as a Gorlok at Webster University in St. Louis. Today, Hutchings still lives and works in the Cuba area as a sales representative for Mid-Mo Truss. Attempts to reach Lawrence, Reichard and Calloway for this column were unsuccessful. Editor’s Note: This series of MVP recap columns will continue throughout the month of December leading up to the 25th Owensville Boys Basketball Tournament during the first full week of January after the first of the year.
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Sports
Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013
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A.J. Harrell surpasses Hollander BY WILL JOHNSON Republican Sports Editor Nearly three years ago at Mizzou Arena in Columbia, Gabe Hollander passed Beau Viehmann as Owensville High School’s all-time winningest wrestler. Over the weekend in tournament action in Pleasant Hill at the Steve Leslie Invitational, OHS senior A.J. Harrell ended Hollander’s reign in the fourth round of pool wrestling at 220 pounds. Pinning Pleasant Hill freshman Tommy Williams in 2:41, Harrell moved one victory closer to winning his pool and won his 128th match in the Owensville orange and black. “It was an awesome feeling when I knew I had reached 128 wins,” Harrell said. “I knew what I needed to do and just went out there and did it.” Before Harrell’s historic win, the OHS senior earned additional pinfall wins over Adrian’s Trevor Sanders, Smithville’s Tyler Cato and Carl Junction’s Taylor Dawdy. A 3-1 decision over Smithville’s Jake
Bohlken clinched Pool B for Harrell. Opening bracket wrestling at 220 pounds, Harrell pinned Clinton senior Isaac Suthoff in 2:23. This win moved him into the semifinals and will help his cause come district seeding time in February. Facing Williams again in the semi’s, the Dutchmen senior needed three less seconds to pin the Rooster freshman in comparison to their pool bout. Awaiting Harrell in the championship match was Shawnee Mission NW senior (Kansas) Mario Galvan. Winning the tournament by fall in 3:44, the Dutchmen senior defeated a wrestler that finished second at 195 pounds last year during the Class 6A state wrestling tournament in Wichita, Kan. “I was really happy with pinning a kid that was a state runner-up last year to win the tournament,” Harrell said. Taking second in his pool at 195 pounds, fellow senior Nick Plocinski settled for See A.J. on Page 17
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RYAN ESCALANTE (left) controls Rolla’s Chase Bartle during seasonopening wrestling at Washington High School last Tuesday night. A.J. HARRELL (above, left) passed Gabe Hollander as Owensville’s all-time winningest wrestler in Pleasant Hill over the weekend. He is shown competing at Westminster last year. MISSOURIAN PHOTO (LEFT) COURTESY OF CRAIG VONDER HAAR, FILE PHOTO (ABOVE) BY WILL JOHNSON
Dutchgirls score road sweep at Fatima BY WILL JOHNSON Republican Sports Editor Three games into the young season, Dwayne Clingman’s Dutchgirls have a pair of quality wins away from OHS. The most recent of which came last Monday night in Osage County against Fatima’s Lady Comets. Locked up in a tight affair in Westphalia, Owensville held off a late Fatima rally to keep their record unblemished at 3-0. Nursing a 17-15 lead after one quarter, Hailey Diestelkamp led five different Dutchgirls in the scoring column with six first-quarter markers. Playing to a 16-16 stalemate in the second quarter, Kayla Charboneau picked up the scoring slack with seven of Owensville’s 16 points. Senior Mandie Robertson
also went 4-4 from the free-throw line helping the Dutchgirls to a 33-31 halftime lead. “Everyone did their part tonight,” Clingman said. “We knew we had to play well tonight if we wanted to beat a good ranked team on their home floor.” Edged 22-19 in the third quarter, Fatima snagged a one-point lead at 43-42 with one quarter of basketball left to play. Held to four field goals in the fourth quarter, Clingman’s Dutchgirls connected on 11-21 free throws to make a Lady Comet 3-pointer at the buzzer not affect the final outcome of a much-needed road win. “If more of our free throws would have went down, we could’ve won by double digits,” Clingman said. Showing the way for Owensville, See Road on Page 22
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Entering the sixth year of the existence of the Owensville Tournament, OHS did not have a team champion or an athlete named Most Valuable Player for the tournament. Both of those changed in January of 1995 for the Dutchmen coached by Paul Colton. Entering their own tournament as a top seed for the first time, Owensville nearly put up 90 points in all three games to win their own tournament title for the first time. In an 89-58 victory over Cuba’s Wildcats, tournament MVP Nathan Harrison poured in 24 points for the victorious Dutchmen. In the semifinals against Sullivan, Harrison led OHS with 20 points as part of a 92-82 win. Combining for 174 points, both teams set a new tournament record for points in a game by two teams. That record still stands today. In the tournament championship game against Waynesville’s Tigers, Harrison equaled his firstround output with a 24-point effort as part of a 90-80 title-game victory for the host Dutchmen. Harrison’s 68 points in the tournament led the field in scoring. Scoring 271 points in their three games, Owensville set a tournament record for most points scored See MVP’s on Page 16
OHS Sports This Week V/JV Dutchmen Basketball 12/11 OHS JV vs. St. James at Washington High School 6 p.m. (New Haven JV Tourn. makeup) 12/13 OHS at Linn 5:00 p.m. 12/17 OHS vs St. Clair 5:30 p.m. (Jam the Gym)
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ALAYNA ABNEY AND HALEY RYAN (below, from left) run the offense for the JV Dutchgirls. MANDIE ROBERTSON (right) gets a shot off for her varsity squad in a road sweep at Westphalia.
Dutchgirl Basketball 12/12 OHS at Sullivan 5:30 p.m. 12/13 OHS at Linn 5:00 p.m. (Varsity Only) 12/16-12/20 OHS V at People’s Bank Holiday Classic at Sullivan (See bracket on page 16)
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MVP’s • from page 15 as a team. Tournament number seven in Owensville meant another championship and a different Dutchmen being named MVP in 1996. Led by the 3-point shooting of OHS senior Tim Wenkel, the Dutchmen averaged 92 points a game en route to their second Owensville Tournament title in as many years. Starting the tournament once again against Cuba, Wenkel fired in 23 points with six 3-pointers. In a high-scoring semifinal against Belle, the former Hermann head boy’s basketball coach dialed in 35 points which included 8 makes from behind the 3-point arc. That fell one shy of the record for 3-point makes in a game still currently held by Bourbon’s Chris Craft from the 1993 tournament. Defeating the Tigers by a score of 100-53, Owensville set team tournament record for most points in a game by one team (100) and most 3-point field goals made by one team with 16. Nailing four 3’s in Owensville’s 84-72 title-game win over Sullivan, Wenkel’s total of 18 makes from 3-point land broke Craft’s 1993 mark of 16 3-pointers. His 79 points
in three games also led the tournament in scoring in 1996 Following coaching stints at Hermann and Bishop LeBlond (St. Joseph), Wenkel is now currently the head boy’s basketball coach at Russellville High School. As a team, the Dutchmen nailed 37 shots from behind the arc which still stands as a tournament record. Through seven OHS Tournaments, Waynesville and the Dutchmen each had two MVPs. That tie was broken after the eighth OHS invite in 1997. Tiger senior John St. George scored 43 points in three games to lead Waynesville to their fourth Owensville Tournament title. Upon graduation from Waynesville later that spring, St. George went on to play four years of intercollegiate hoops at Iowa Weslyan College in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Now residing in Miami, Fl., St. George is currently an auditor at a certified public accountant’s firm. Linn’s Wildcats made their first appearance in the tourney taking Sullivan’s place as the Eagles competed in Rolla that year on their way to a final-four berth. A special milestone for the men
in black and white also occurred during the 1997 OHS Tournament. John Schaefferkoetter donned the referee stripes for the 2,500th time in a tournament-semifinal between Owensville and Steelville. After a one-year absence from the tournament, Sullivan moved back into the field of eight upon Newburg’s exit before the ninth Owensville Tournament in 1998. Leading the Eagles to their third tourney title, junior Michael Rubenstein scored 47 points to finish in a three-way tie with teammate Tom VanLeer and Bourbon’s Mike King. Rubenstein scored a tournamenthigh 24 points in a 60-58 first-round win over Cuba before helping Sullivan with 12 points in their 52-49 championship game win over OHS. Back for his senior season under former Dutchmen head coach Chris Arand, Rubenstein made history during the ninth OHS Invite in 1999. Putting up 18 and 16 points respectively against Belle and the Dutchmen, the Eagle senior saved his best for last in the title game. Needing two overtimes to decide the tournament championship, Rubenstein’s 31 points helped the Eagles to join Waynesville and
Owensville as the only teams to win back-to-back tourney titles. Waynesville left the tournament after a nine-year run and was replaced by Perryville. For the second time in as many years, another new team joined the OHS Tournament for the first time. Troy’s Trojans took Perryville’s place in the 2000 OHS Invite. Despite 21 points from tournament MVP Greg Edinger, Troy’s bid for a tourney title was denied by the host Dutchmen with a 64-62 victory. Edinger finished the tournament with 65 points just behind Sullivan’s Brian Rhodes (66). Edinger currently lives in Troy and is an electrician in St. Louis. The highlight of the tournament in 2000 came in the semifinals. Down 58-57 in the closing seconds to Sullivan, Dutchmen senior Matt Jost splashed home a half-court buzzer beater to upset the Eagles by a score of 60-58.
a rare four-point play, Owensville clawed back with three of Belle with 5:46 left, 46-43. Behind the scoring trio of Clark (20), Price (19) and Thomas Brewer (11), Belle was able to pull away after a Nathan Smith 3-ball with 3:13 left made the score 51-48 in favor of the visiting Tigers. Four seconds later, Garner fouled out leaving the Dutchmen without one of their better shooters the remainder of the game. In a losing cause, Smith, Garner and Cox all had 10 points to pace OHS in scoring. Moritz and Amptman added seven markers each. Angell chipped in four, Wehmeyer had three second-quarter points and Farrell rounded out the Dutchmen scoring with two points.
LOGAN MORITZ (above, right) keeps his eye on the basketball while defending Belle’s Jesse Wilson Monday night in basketball action at Owensville High School. OHS will return home Tuesday, Dec. 17 for “Jam the Gym” action against St. Clair starting at 5:30 p.m.
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Editor’s Note: This is a continuation of a series of columns looking back at past MVP’s from the Owensville Varsity Boys Basketball Tournament ahead of the 25th edition next month.
Belle claims Highway 28 hardwood bragging rights BY WILL JOHNSON Republican Sports Editor Six days removed from a tough 60-45 loss to Fatima’s Comets, Josh Vinyard’s Dutchmen tried again Monday night for their first win of the season against Belle’s Tigers. “Against Fatima, we did a lot of good things against a traditionally strong team,” Vinyard said. “We just have to go in and clean up a few things to make ourselves better.” Getting as close as three points twice in the fourth quarter, foul trouble plagued Owensville in a 60-53 loss to their Highway 28 counterparts to the west. Drawing first blood, a BenAngell bucket gave OHS a quick 2-0 lead 28 seconds into the game. Angell shared game-high scoring honors against Fatima with Landon Farrell putting up 10 points each. Fighting through ties at 2-2 and 7-7, a DeAndre Cox basket with 1:15 for the first quarter gave the Dutchmen a 9-7 advantage after eight minutes of basketball. Cox scored again to start the second quarter giving OHS an 11-7 lead with 6:50 until halftime. Belle countered with a pair of 3-point plays from Mason Price and Kolton Clark giving the Tigers their first lead at 13-11 midway through the second quarter. Game-tying buckets from Keith Wehmeyer and Matt Amptman eventually led to a 17-17 stalemate at halftime between the two teams separated by nearly 15 miles. During the first two minutes of the third quarter, five lead changes occurred between the two teams with the last coming on a Drew Garner 3-pointer with 6:10 left. Five straight point from Price gave the Tigers a 27-25 advantage just over a minute later. Inheriting the uniform number of former Dutchmen Ryan Cooper, freshman Logan Moritz showed he deserved varsity minutes. Fouled shooting a 3-pointer, the young freshman hit two of three free throws to deadlock the game at 27-27 with 4:38 left in the third. After the tie, Jesse Wilson’s lone three points of the game ignited a 12-4 Belle run for a 39-31 lead with under two minutes left in the third. Seconds after Cox went to the bench with his fourth foul, Garner splashed home a 3-pointer to pull OHS back within three of the visiting Tigers with :25 left, 41-38. Down six two minutes into the fourth quarter, Moritz was fouled again shooting a 3-pointer. Only this time, he made it. In spite of the missed chance at
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Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013
Dutchmen pin St. Clair, Union BY WILL JOHNSON Republican Sports Editor It may have been six days until Christmas, but Dutchmen head wrestling coach Rod Barndollar got an early present. Thursday night in a triangular meet with Four Rivers Conference (FRC) foes Union and St. Clair, Owensville hosted the two teams with plenty of exciting matches. Down 33-18 in team scoring to Union, OHS had three matches left to catch up. Starting at 138 pounds, junior Matt Pohlmann took on Union’s Shane Foster. Getting a takedown seconds into the match, Pohlmann went on to pin his Wildcat foe in :50 closing the gap to 33-24. At 145 pounds, sophomores Wyatt Harrell (OHS) and Dalton Fennessey battled. Harrell took a 5-0 lead after one period before going on to pin Fennessey in 2:37. With the team score now 33-30 in Union’s favor, the final bout at 152 pounds between Dutchmen junior David Weirich and Union sophomore Lukis Ladymon would decide which team would leave the meet with a 2-0 start in conference. Taking a quick 5-0 lead on a takedown and three back points, Weirich went on to get the win by fall in 1:35 giving Owens-
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ville a 36-33 team win over the Wildcats. “This was a good win tonight,” Barndollar said. “Everyone wrestled well and we beat two very good teams.” Before the dramatic Dutchmen comeback, the dual was very close throughout. Opening at 160 pounds was OHS’Bodie Bombach and Union’s Devin Mainard. Leading 11-0 after one period, Bodie See Pin on Page 22
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MATT POHLMANN (right, left) gets a takedown on Union’s Shane Foster. NICK PLOCINSKI (below, top) tries to roll St. Clair’s Dustin Coner on to his back during wrestling at OHS Thursday night.
Resuming our look back at past Most Valuable Players (MVP’s) in the 25-year history of the Owensville Tournament, 2001 brought about another new team to the field. Returning to OHS after leading the Dutchmen to a state championship in basketball in 1974, Jerry Buescher brought his Helias (Jefferson City) Crusaders to OHS for tourney hoops taking Troy’s place. Going into the 12th Owensville Tournament, Helias and Linn both entered the invite undefeated at 6-0 and 5-0 respectively. Posting a convincing 65-23 first-round win over Bourbon, senior Jordan Olufson led the Crusaders with 19 points. Going against his former team in the semifinals, Buescher’s Helias squad defeated Pete Jett’s Dutchmen, 51-31. Olufson had 20 points to lead the Crusaders. In the championship game, See MVP’s on Page 16
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Dutchgirls tame Waynesville’s Tigers for third place Hailey Diestelkamp named Peoples Bank Holiday Classic MVP BY WILL JOHNSON Republican Sports Editor SULLIVAN — Redemption. That was the goal Friday night after a tough loss to the host Sullivan Lady Eagles in the semifinals of the 2nd Annual Peoples Bank Holiday Classic in Sullivan. Facing Waynesville in a battle of orange and black schools for third place, Owensville overcame a sluggish second quarter to take third place over the Lady Tigers by a final score of 63-46. To open the game, Dutchgirl sophomore Hailey Diestelkamp and Waynesville’s Hannah Bland traded baskets in the first 25 seconds of the first quarter. Over the next three minutes, an Emily Ellis bucket started a 10-2 run ended by Mandie Robertson at the 4:06 mark gave Owensville a 12-4 lead. Seeing the Lady Tigers close within five twice minutes later, Robertson beat the first-quarter buzzer to give the Dutchgirls a 20-9 lead after eight minutes of basketball.
Three minutes into the second quarter, Diestelkamp’s second foul sent her to the bench for the rest of the first half. That allowed the Waynesville trio of Kallie Bildner, Jordan Laughlin and Bland to orchestrate a 16-0 run for a 25-20 Lady Tiger lead with 2:15 until halftime. Robertson’s score with 2:05 left in the second denied a Waynesville shutout and left Owensville trailing 25-22 at halftime. Starting the second half with a bang, a See Tame on Page 22
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COURTNEY HENDRIX, MANDIE ROBERTSON AND HAILEY DIESTELKAMP (above, from left) watch a passed ball by Waynesville’s Kallie Bildner during the third-place game at Sullivan Friday night.
Bulldogs spoil OHS’ annual “Jam the Gym” night BY WILL JOHNSON Republican Sports Editor Leading by as much as four in the third quarter, Josh Vinyard’s Dutchmen positioned themselves to end a two-year Four Rivers Conference (FRC) victory drought last Tuesday against St. Clair. Forcing overtime on a pair of Nathan Smith free throws, the Dutchmen were outscored 11-5 in the extra session and will have to wait over a week for their next crack at the FRC win column following a 51-45 overtime loss to the visiting Bulldogs. “They hit a big three to start overtime and that took the momentum away from us,” Vinyard said. “I’m proud of the way we battled tonight and never gave up.” In the first quarter, St. Clair’s Damon Arnold gave Owensville all kinds of fits. Scoring all 14 points, Arnold singlehandedly helped the Bulldogs to a 14-7 advantage after eight minutes. Arnold went on to score a game-high 25 points to pace visiting St. Clair. Opening the bank to start the second quarter, Drew Garner canned a 3-pointer from the volleyball spike line trimming the St. Clair lead to 14-10. Two Ben Angell baskets within 28 seconds of each other knotted the game at 14-14 with 5:20 until halftime. Down three about two minutes later, buckets by DeAndre Cox and Nathan Smith tied the game again at 18-18. Another Arnold 3-pointer and Garner bucket left the Dutchmen trailing visiting St. Clair by one at halftime, 21-20. Freshman Logan Moritz made his presence known to start the third quarter. Scoring inside and getting fouled with 7:05 remaining in the third quarter, he gave
OHS their first lead of the game, 22-21. Over a minute later, another Garner 3-pointer bumped the Dutchmen lead to their biggest of the night at 25-21. Two Arnold free throws and an Angell basket within 16 ticks of each other left Owensville with a 27-23 lead at the 4:10 mark of the third quarter. Six Reno Jones points gave St. Clair the lead back at 29-27 with 3:13 left. Thirteen seconds later, Garner tied the game at 29-29 before a pair of Matt Amptman free throws helped Owensville reclaim a 31-29 lead with 2:27 remaining in a tight third quarter of basketball. With less than a minute left in the third quarter, Smith tied the game at 33-33 with :47 left leading up to the last eight minutes of basketball deciding who would win the annual “Jam the Gym” showdown. Tying the game to end the third quarter, Smith scored at the 6:40 mark of the fourth See Spoil on Page 17
DEANDRE COX, BEN ANGELL AND NATHAN SMITH (right, top to bottom) keep an eye on the St. Clair offense during Jam the Gym action last Tuesday at OHS. PHOTO BY WILL JOHNSON
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OHS Sports This Week V/JV Dutchmen Basketball No games scheduled Dutchgirl Basketball No games scheduled OMS Dutchmen Basketball No games scheduled OHS Wrestling 12/27-28 OHS V in Kinloch Holiday Classic Wrestling Tournament at Parkview HS (Springfield). Pool wrestling on Friday, Dec. 27 will start at approximately 10:30 a.m., and run until around 9 p.m. Bracket wrestling will begin on Saturday, Dec. 28 at 9:30 a.m., with the tournament concluding at 6:30 p.m., with the presentation of trophies for the top three scoring teams and tournament’s outstanding wrestler. Dutchmen Freshman Basketball
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MVP’s • from page 15 something had to give with Linn and Helias both getting two wins to earn spots in the final showdown. Posting a 52-40 victory in the championship game, Buescher’s Crusaders were led by Olufson’s team-high 15 points. Olufson is currently the head women’s basketball coach at Webster University in St. Louis. Reaching six years, Owensville’s MVP drought dating back to Tim Wenkel in 1996 ended in the 2002 OHS Tournament. Racking up 10 of his game-high 29 points in the fourth quarter, former Dutchmen Adam Hempelmann helped avert a huge first-round upset with a 55-48 win over Cuba. Adding 18 points in a 69-63 semifinal victory over Linn, Hempelmann helped Owensville reach the championship game against defending tournament champion Helias. Despite being held to six points in the title game, Hempelmann became the third Dutchmen in tournament history to be named MVP joining Nathan Harrison and Wenkel. Hempelmann’s 53 points in the tournament was second to Linn’s Adam Dudenhoeffer with 60 points. Adam is currently in the construction business here in the Owensville area with his father Don. Going for a three-peat in the 2003 Owensville Tournament, Buescher’s Crusaders were once again given the top seed. Led by senior Jamaal Tatum, Helias averaged over 75 points a game while allowing just under 32 to Cuba, Linn and Sullivan. Scoring 13 against Cuba and 17 against Linn, Tatum saved his best for the title game with 26 points against the Eagles. In their 80-33 win, 21 of Tatum’s 26 markers came in the first half. After playing his college ball for the Salukis at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Tatum spent time in the NBA with the Atlanta Hawks and Portland Trail Blazers. Following a stint with a semi-pro team known as the Idaho Stampede, Tatum played overseas in France, Latvia and Germany. Tatum is currently living in the Jefferson City area after he was the head boy’s basketball coach at Russellville High School last year. 2004 marked a banner year for the Gasconade Valley Conference in the annual OHS Tournament. Returning to Owensville, former Waynesville head boy’s basketball coach Kurt Keller entered his first season with Steelville’s Cardinals. If not for Belle’s Tigers and Adam Daniels, Keller would have
won Owensville Tournament titles with two different schools. In the first round, Belle defeated the host Dutchmen (82-67) behind 32 points from Daniels. Held to 21 against Linn, Daniels led the Tigers to their first championship game appearance at OHS. Going off for 49 points in a 76-74 overtime win over the Cardinals, Belle hoisted the championship hardware for the first time while Daniels earned MVP honors. Breaking two records, Daniels finished with 102 points in three games breaking Tracy Hutching’s record from 1994. His 49-point performance against Steelville broke Bryon Hoffman’s singlegame scoring record of 40 points from the 1991 Owensville Tourney. Going on to play his college basketball at Central Methodist University in Fayette, Daniels currently lives in Arkansas. A year removed from their JV squad taking Helias’ place in the tournament field, Pacific’s varsity Indians made their Owensville Tournament debut in 2005. To open their first tourney, the third-seeded Indians took on Sullivan senior Nathan Whittaker and the sixth-seeded Eagles. Scoring a 63-61 overtime upset of the Indians, Sullivan head boy’s basketball coach Chris Arand earned the right to say “I told you we we’re better than a sixth seed.” Running into Steelville in the semifinals, 33 points from Whittaker was not enough in a 66-56 loss to the Cardinals. Steelville went on to win the tournament with a 62-53 victory over Linn’s Wildcats. Playing for third place against Belle, the Eagle senior came back with a tournament-high 34 points as part of a 56-49 victory. Whittaker also made history that Saturday night after the title game. He became just the second Owensville Tournament MVP (Hoffman) to not come from the title game. Whittaker also became the first player in the 16-year history of the tournament to be a four-time All-Tournament Team selection. Racking up 246 points in four years, Whittaker tied tournament records for most field goals made in a tournament and most field goals made in one game. Playing his college basketball at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL), Whittaker still lives in Franklin County and details cars. The remaining six past tournament MVP’s will be recapped in the New Year’s Day installment of ‘Will’ful Thinking’
Third place Dutchgirls and a MVP Bouncing back from a tough loss to Sullivan in the semifinals of the People’s Bank Holiday Classic last week at Sullivan High School. Dwayne Clingman’s Dutchgirl basketball squad (above) had a team photo taken with their thirdplace hardware they earned for their win over Waynesville. Team members (above, in front, from left) include seniors Taylor Payne, Jaelyn Gauer, Mandie Robertson and Dayla Gruenloh; and in back, Brittany Jahnsen (manager), Hailey Diestelkamp, Haley Ryan, Alayna Abney, Bailey Nelson, Kayla Charboneau, Brookelyn Limberg, Allison Walker, Emily Ellis, Courtney Hendrix and Sarah Estes (manager). Diestelkamp (right, left) was also presented with the Bill Wallis Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award by Sullivan High School Activities Director Sean Erwin and Wallis Oil Company Vice President of Marketing Rachel Andreasson. Andreasson is also Wallis’ daughter.
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Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014
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Pacific earns top seed for 25th OHS Invite BY WILL JOHNSON Republican Sports Editor There will be silver lining to the 2014 Owensville Varsity Boys Basketball Tournament when it kicks off Monday, Jan. 6. After becoming the third player to earn back-to-back Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards last year, Pacific junior guard Cullen VanLeer will look to become the first athlete in tournament history to win three consecutive MVP awards. John VanLeer’s Pacific Indians will also look to join Jerry Buescher’s Helias Crusaders (2001-03) as the only other team to win three straight tournament titles.
25th Owensville Varsity Boys Basketball Tournament, January 6-11, 2014 (1) Pacific Mon., Jan. 6 6:00 p.m. (8) Steelville
Thurs., Jan. 9 6:00 p.m.
Kicking off the 25th OHS Invite, Matt Thomas’ Steelville Cardinals (1-4) will have the daunting task of facing the top seeded and two-time defending tournament champion Pacific Indians (6-2). Seniors playing in their final Owensville Tournament for Steelville include Ethan Ruch, Dylan Warden and Adam Volner. Thomas’ squad will be led by returning starters Shawn Ryerson, Devin Diaz, Caleb Callahan and Nick Hatcher. Surpassing the 1,000-point mark against See 25th on Page 15
(2) Sullivan Tues., Jan. 7 7:30 p.m. (7) Owensville
Thurs., Jan. 9 7:30 p.m.
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Where are the O’town MVP’s Fri., Jan. 10 6:00 p.m.
(4) Linn Mon., Jan. 6 7:30 p.m. (5) Hermann
Consolation Sat., Jan. 11 4:00 p.m.
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Fri., Jan. 10 7:30 p.m.
(3) Cuba Tues., Jan. 7 6:00 p.m. (6) Salem
Seventh Place Sat., Jan. 11 2:30 p.m.
Third Place Sat., Jan. 11 5:30 p.m.
Rounding out our look back at the past 21 Most Valuable Players (MVP’s) in the 25-year history of the Owensville Boys Basketball Tournament, we start in 2006 with year one of the Greg Williams era at Owensville High School. Leading the Dutchmen to consolation hardware with a 43-31 win over Sullivan, Linn’s Wildcats won their first tournament championship in a low-scoring affair. Accounting for half of their points in a 34-33 title-game win over Steelville, tournament MVP Adam Knollmeyer became the first player in tournament history to win titles with two different teams. Knollmeyer was a freshman in 2003 when Helias won the Owensville Tournament in their final appearance under Jerry Buescher. The 34-33 score set a new See MVP’s on Page 14
A.J. Harrell settles for second at the Kinloch Classic BY WILL JOHNSON Republican Sports Editor SPRINGFIELD — Concluding the 2013 portion of their season at the 46th Annual Kinloch Classic Holiday Wrestling Tournament, Rod Barndollar’s Dutchmen wrestlers competed with a number of Class 3 and 4 teams from Missouri and Arkansas. Looking to add to his tournament title in Pleasant Hill, senior A.J. Harrell entered action at Parkview High School in Springfield seeded second at 195 pounds. Pinning his way through pool wrestling
in just over two minutes on Friday, Harrell entered Saturday three wins from an undefeated record going into the 2014. Wins by fall over Nixa’s Austin Heatherly (1:02) and Willard’s Sky Cope (:36) set up the championship match between the Dutchmen senior and Blue Springs senior Michael Pixley. Entering the tournament as a three-time defending state champion in Class 4, Pixley pinned Harrell in :38 handing the OHS senior his first loss of the season. This was also Harrell’s second silver medal from
Springfield at the Kinloch. “He (Pixley) came in with only one loss to the number one kid in the nation,” Harrell said. “This loss will motivate me to get back in the gym, work harder and help me in my quest not to lose again.” Pinning his first two pool opponents and winning a 14-4 major decision over Bolivar’s Marcus Cox, Dutchmen junior Matt Pohlmann went for his pool championship against McDonald County’s Josh Kinser. Tying the match at 2-2 on a reversal midway through the first period, Pohlmann
gave up a takedown and another reversal to trail 6-3 after two minutes of wrestling. Unable to get any closer, the OHS junior lost a 16-7 major decision. Given a tough draw to open his bracket, Pohlmann faced Carthage’s Seth Logan. Midway through the second period, Pohlmann got an escape to trail 4-1. From there, Logan got six straight points sending Pohlmann to the consolation side. Facing Springdale Har-ber (Arkansas) junior Coltin Morgan, the OHS junior was See Kinloch on Page 20
BODIE BOMBACH (above, left) looks to escape the clutches of Glendale’s (Springfield) Robert Fackrell in their fifth-place match at 160 pounds from the 46th Kinloch Classic over the weekend at Springfield’s Parkview High School. CHRIS DOLLES (left, right) sits back looking for the pin on Springdale Har-Ber’s Robert White in Friday pool wrestling. Dolles indeed got the pin in 2:26. PHOTOS BY WILL JOHNSON
Dutchmen hoops win search continues in 2014 BY WILL JOHNSON Republican Sports Editor SULLIVAN — Four days removed from a tough overtime loss to St. Clair’s Bulldogs, Josh Vinyard’s Dutchmen basketball team looked to end 2013 on a winning note at Sullivan High School. Played the Saturday before Christmas, Owensville took on Lindbergh’s Flyers in the opening game of six at the second annual Bank of Sullivan Shoot Out. Giving up a 12-3 run to start the fourth quarter, the Dutchmen could not overcome it in a 65-40 loss to the Flyers. Down 6-0 to start the game, senior Ben Angell got Owensville on the board at the 4:54 mark of the first quarter making it 6-2. Trading scores with Lindbergh the rest of the quarter, another Angell basket, a 3-pointer from Drew Garner and a Matt Amptman bucket left the Dutchmen trailing 16-9 after eight minutes of basketball. Keeping their deficit in single digits most of the second quarter, Owensville needed a pair of Nathan Smith free throws with 5.4 seconds until halftime to go into the locker room trailing the Flyers, 27-18. Angell and Smith each had four points to pace the Dutchmen in the first half. Living from behind the arc, Lindbergh scored 15 of their 27 first-half points courtesy of five 3-point shots.
A minute into the third quarter, Flyer junior Noah Dukesherer was assessed a technical foul enabling Smith to shoot four free throws (two for being fouled in the act of shooting and two for the technical). Making two of four free throws, Smith trimmed the lead back down to seven. Seconds later, DeAndre Cox scored in the paint putting Owensville down by just five at 27-22 with 7:00 left in the third. Lindbergh then put up eight unanswered points before another Garner 3-pointer stopped that run cutting the Flyer advantage down to 10 at 35-25 at the 5:00 mark. Five more points from Garner and a Devon Dowler basket in the final minute of the quarter kept OHS in striking distance See Search on Page 15
OHS Sports This Week V/JV Dutchmen Basketball 1/3 OHS at Sullivan 6:15 p.m. 1/6-8 25th Owensville Varsity Boys Basketball Tournament (See bracket on this page) Dutchgirl Basketball 1/7 OHS vs. Cuba 5:30 p.m. (Games played at OES) OMS Dutchmen Basketball No games scheduled Dutchmen Wrestling No games scheduled Dutchmen Freshman Basketball
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LOGAN MORITZ (above, right) handles the ball amid pressure from two Lindbergh Flyer defenders during opening-game action from the Bank of Sullivan Shoot Out at Sullivan High School the Saturday before Christmas. PHOTO BY WILL JOHNSON
Unless noted otherwise, all Dutchmen and Dutchgirl basketball games will be V/JV doubleheaders. Wrestling meets will also be JV and Varsity and all OMS home basketball games will be at OES.
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sports briefs DUTCHMEN BASKETBALL will travel to Sullivan on Friday, Jan. 3 for a Four Rivers Conference (FRC) tripleheader. Derrick Tyree’s freshmen squad will begin the trifecta at Sullivan High School at 5 p.m., followed by Randy Crowe’s JV squad at 6:15 and Josh Vinyard’s varsity Dutchmen at 7:30 p.m. Varsity action will be televised live on Fidelity Cable Channel 95 and online at www.fidelitylocal6.com. DWAYNE CLINGMAN’S Dutchgirl basketball squad will end their over month-long home drought on Tuesday, Jan. 7 hosting Cuba’s Lady Wildcats at 5:30 p.m., at Owensville Elementary School due to the 25th Owensville Boys Basketball Tournament at OHS. THUNDERALLEY will host the first-half position rounds for the Mid-Missouri High School Travel (Bowling) League on Sunday, Jan. 5 starting at 2 p.m. Owensville Team No. 2 will go against Borgia Team No. 1 for first place in the first half while Owensville Team No. 1 takes on Borgia Team No. 2 for third place in the first half of the 18-week league. OHS WRESTLING will now host Blair Oaks and Central (Park Hills) on Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 5 p.m., instead of going to Blair Oaks that night for a wrestling dual.
Town ‘N Country Lanes MID MISSOURI HIGH SCHOOL TRAVEL LEAGUE December 15, 2013 Owensville HS #2 Borgia HS #1 Owensville HS #1 Borgia HS #2 Union HS #2 Union HS #1 St. Clair Washington
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Individual Boy’s High Scratch Game Jamie Walters (Union).......................... 247 Individual Girl’s High Scratch Game Anna Thompson (Union)...................... 188 Individual Boy’s High Handicap Game Josh LaBeau (Borgia)........................... 318 Individual Girl’s High Handicap Game Amy Plocinski (Owensville)................. 262 Individual Boy’s High Scratch Series Jamie Walters (Union).......................... 659 Individual Girl’s High Scratch Series Anna Thompson (Union)...................... 506 Individual Boy’s High Handicap Series Josh LaBeau (Borgia)........................... 836 Individual Girl’s High Handicap Series Amy Plocinski (Owensville)................. 721 Team Scratch Game St. Clair................................................. 864 Team Scratch Series Union HS #2....................................... 2433 Team Handicap Game Owensville HS #2................................ 1246 Dakota Nochta, Amy Plocinski, Austin Lancaster, Regina Grube, Christian King and Haley Cooper Team Handicap Series Owensville HS #1................................ 3572 Haydien Emo, Karli Aberle, Tyler Klingensmith, Bryce Henson, Nick Heidland and Toni Henson Individual Boy’s High Average Jamie Walters (Union)..................... 208.17 Individual Girl’s High Average Anna Thompson (Union)................. 197.08 Most Improved Boy’s Average Bryce Henson (Owensville)........130 to 146 Most Improved Girl’s Average Adrienne Mercer (Union).....156 to 161.17
OHS wrestlers earn medals from Springfield Bodie Bombach (above, far left) A.J. Harrell (right, second from left) and Chris Dolles (below, far left) pose for medal-stand pictures after wrestling concluded over the weekend in Springfield. PHOTOS BY WILL JOHNSON
MVP’s • from page 13 tournament record for fewest points scored by two teams breaking the previous record from 1992 in a 42-38 win for Bourbon over Cuba. Finishing with 70 points in the tournament, Knollmeyer was second in scoring to Belle’s Drew Lansford who poured in 76 points. Guiding his team to consolation hardware, Dutchmen point guard Chris Collins earned All-Tournament 1st Team recognition in 2006. In 2007, the “Flyin’ Hawaiian” left his mark in OHS Tourney lore. Getting off to a rough start, Collins overcame a technical foul in the first half against Belle to lead them to an 80-61 first-round win over the Bill Kackley coached Tigers. Leading the Dutchmen with 17 points in a 70-33 semifinal victory over Cuba, Owensville went for their first OHS Tourney title in seven years against 2006 champion Linn. Scoring 11 of his 16 points in the second half, Collins led the Dutchmen to a 60-50 title-game win and earned himself MVP honors in
the process. He became the fourth Dutchmen MVP. Four years into their Owensville Tournament tenure, Pacific was still looking for their first tourney title. That drought ended when Joe Gildehaus helped the Indians to a 66-51 title-game victory over Linn with a team-high 16 points. Before beating Linn, the Indian senior had 26 points in a 75-71 overtime win over OHS in the semi’s including a first-half buzzer-beater. Scoring 59 points to lead Pacific to their first OHS Tourney crown, Gildehaus was named MVP in 2008 finishing third in scoring behind Linn’s Mike Reinkemeyer (60) and Bourbon’s Matt Harris (66). In 2009, Linn’s JV squad competed so that the varsity Wildcats could play in the Mike Kehoe Great 8 Classic in Jefferson City. Blair Thompson’s Sullivan Eagles needed overtime twice in the tourney to claim their first title since the 1999 Eagle team led by twotime MVP Michael Rubenstein.
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Racing past Steelville in the first round, Sullivan needed a Tyler Garner lay-up with :03 left in overtime to edge the host Dutchmen, 74-72. Even though he was held to 10 points in a 70-65 overtime win against Pacific for the championship, Garner became the fourth Sullivan Eagle to be named MVP. Back for his senior year, Garner looked to help Sullivan become just the fourth team in tournament history to win back-to-back titles. Posting 13 first-half points in a 57-39 championship-game victory over Linn, Garner joined Rubenstein as the only two players to be named OHS Tourney MVP twice. This also capped a seven-game marathon that Saturday thanks to winter weather earlier in the week. Belle and Bourbon left the Owensville Tournament after 2010 with Hermann’s Bearcats filling one spot for the 2011 OHS Invite.
Coached by former Dutchmen basketball player and 1996 OHS Tourney MVP Tim Wenkel, Hermann had a successful debut. Behind 2011 MVP Jake Schannuth with a little help from his friends, Wenkel became the first person to win an Owensville Tournament title as a player and coach. Even though Schannuth was held to six points in a 42-40 overtime win against Sullivan in the title game, Ethan Kirchhofer played savior not once, but twice for Hermann. Hitting a 3-pointer to force overtime with :46 left in regulation, he struck again in overtime with another 3-pointer (oddly enough with :46 left as well). Seeded sixth, Thompson’s Eagles became the lowest seeded team to reach the title game and nearly dethroned Owensville’s fifth-seeded 2000 team as the lowest seed to win the OHS Tournament.
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Schannuth is currently playing basketball in his sophomore season for the Ravens of Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan. Normalcy was restored in 2012 when the St. Louis Christian Academy Cougars (STLCA) became the eighth team for the OHS Tourney. A youth movement also began when Pacific freshman point guard Cullen VanLeer made his Owensville Tournament debut. Scoring a tournament-high 33 points against Sullivan in the semifinals, VanLeer went on to score 83 points in three games becoming
the youngest tourney MVP since Sullivan’s Derek Dace won it as a sophomore back in 1992. For an encore last year, VanLeer became a two-time MVP while a part of a stingy Indian defense holding Steelville to 13 points and allowing 74 points in three games to break tournament records for fewest points allowed in one game (20) and for a tournament (94) previously held by Helias from 2001. Salem’s Tigers took STLCA’s place in 2013. Happy New Year and here’s to a good 25th Owensville Varsity Boys Basketball Tournament next week.
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