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MIAMI COUNTY — Miami County Commissioners have received an order by the Miami County Public Health officials to fix plumbing, and conditions that violate multiple Ohio Revised Codes and other

damage at the downtown jail by Dec. 9.

In a letter dated Sept.

23, Miami County Public Health Commissioner Chris Cook and Therese Tyson, registered sanitarian, outlined the downtown jail facilities eight major violations of the county’s health codes and sanitary conditions.

Last week, three areas

of the downtown jail were closed due to multiple violations of the county’s health code including lack of hot water and unsanitary living conditions.

The eight violations must be fixed by Dec. 9 after a re-inspection of the downtown jail facility or further action, including closure of additional

areas of the jail facility, will take place.

The following is a list of the eight violations observed by health officials on Sept. 19: 1. Plumbing and plumbing fixtures in poor repair.

Many toilets, sinks, and showers are either inoperable, will not drain, have significant leaks, had inadequate pressure,

have excessive pressure, or lack hot and/or cold water. Blankets and buckets are used in many areas to contain water leaks.

2. Sanitary facilities in poor repair. Many of the walls, ceilings, and floors around toilets, sinks, and showers are in disrepair and do not have impervious, non-corrosive, nonabsorbent and water

proof materials. These areas are rusting, structurally damaged, unsanitary and pose a safety hazard.

3. Mold growth on walls, ceilings, floors, pipes, and inside the ventilation system.

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then and now (is one of them), and another that ties in is the comparison and contrast.”

Studebaker said the comparisons and contrasts “between then and now” are one of the components that ties back into the core curriculum standards directly.

“The comparisons and contrasts of how

PIQUA — What does the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Where the Wild Things Are, and Fifty Shades of Grey have in common?

All three books have either been banned or challenged, according to the American Library Association, and are part of a larger list of similar titles being shared during Banned Book Week that runs Sept. 22-28.

A special time set aside for the national book community’s celebration of the freedom to read.

Or as Deborah CaldwellStone, Deputy Director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom for the American Library Association, says is a time to practice our fundamental freedoms as citizens, to know our own conscience, and to really make ourselves a whole people.

When asked why book purveyors in the area, from libraries to book stores, sporadically took part in the annual observance,

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Johnston Farm & Indian Agency Site Manager Andy Hite discusses Indian culture inside of the site’s museum to a class of students from Bennett Intermediate School on Monday morning during a field trip.

Bennett students take trip (back in time) to Johnston Farm Will E Sanders

to the historical site.

Andy Hite, site manager, said about 90 students from Bennett Intermediate took part in the annual field trip and said the students always enjoy the activities at the historical farm site.

“We do the Indian museum, the canal, the Johnston story and the canal boat,” Hite said.

“They get immersed very well in the local

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PIQUA — Instead of teaching local fourthgrade students at Bennett Intermediate School about local history and Indian culture, school educators and staff members at John Johnston Farm & Indian Agency showed it to them during a special field trip Monday

County man pleads not guilty in crash that killed passenger Will E Sanders

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TROY —A Miami County man involved in a single-car crash in November that resulted in the death of a passenger was arraigned on a superceding indictment Monday in common pleas court.

An attorney entered a not guilty plea to a lone

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felony charge of aggravated vehicular homicide on the behalf of Kenneth R. Thurmond, 32, of Troy, formerly of Piqua, who was given a recognizance bond.

An Oct. 29 trial date was set at the arraignment for Thurmond.

Thurmond wa s involved in a Nov. 17 crash along Piqua-Troy Road that killed a passenger in his vehicle, Michael Miller of Troy.

Mr. Miller died as a result of being ejected from the automobile when Thurmond’s vehicle left the roadway, snapped a utility pole and struck a tree and brush.

Thurmond wa s injured in the crash and was flown from the scene to Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton via CareFlight. He later recovered from his injuries.

Authorities say speed and alcohol were a contributing factor in the traffic crash.

history.”

He said the activity that students year in and year out enjoy the most is the canal boat rides.

“I think it is something they will always remember,” he said.

“It’s hard not to like it.”

Hite, along with several volunteers, presented the students with a variety of presentations related to the farm and Indian

agency.

Macarena Studebaker, a Bennett fourth-grade teacher, said the field trip is both entertaining and educational for the students — in addition to meeting the core curriculum standards.

“The core curriculum standards are going along with it and I am already starting to plan,” she said. “The differences between

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Miami East High School Future Farmers of America members Anthony Weber | Staff Photo discuss animal safety along with wearing a helmet while riding a Miami East High School Future Farmers of America members Kolin Bendickson, Colin Hawes, Grant Hodge, Blane Wagner and Colin Gump horse at one of five stations promoting farm safety Tuesday at the discuss tractor safety using a utility tractor with second grade students of Pam Rice’s class Tuesday during Farm Safety Day at the school. Here Tanner Church fits Maria Broerman, of Patty Gentis’ class, with a helmet. school. Members of the Miami East High School FFA taught students how to be safe while on a farm or using farm equipment.

Obituaries Virginia Bauer CINCINNATI — Virginia (Boyle) Bauer died Sept. 21, 2013, at the afe of 92.

She was the beloved wife of the late Frederick “Fritz” Bauer, loving mother of Margie (Ron) Di Muzio and Frederick (Kim) Bauer, cherished grandmother of Jason, Nathan and Donald Bauer, great-grandmother of Dylan, Ellie Kay, Wren, Alexander, Travis and Lydia; dear sister of Audrey Stratman, the late Lillian Boyle, James Boyle and Anna Mae

Myers.

There will be no visitation. Relatives and friends are invited to the celebration of the Mass of Christian Burial at 1:30 p.m. today at St. Lawrence Church, 3680 Warsaw Avenue,Cincinnati.

In lieu of flowers, remembrances may be made to Crohns & Colitis Foundation (CCFA) P.O. Box 1245, Albert Lea, MN 56007-9976 or American Cancer Society, 2808 Reading Road, Cincinnati, OH 45206. meyergeiser.com.

Paul William Wirrig PIQUA — Paul William Wirrig, 95, of Piqua, died at 3:40 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013, at Sterling House of Piqua.

He was born in Piqua, on March 16, 1918, to the late William and Cecilia (Bryant) Wirrig.

On June 3, 1961, in Piqua, he married Marie S. Schmidlapp.

She preceded him in death on Aug. 11, 1998.

Paul is survived by several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by three brothers and three sisters.

Paul graduated from Piqua Catholic High School, Piqua, in 1936.

He was a member of St. Boniface Catholic Church, Piqua.

Paul was also a member of Piqua American Legion Post #184 and Piqua Eagles.

He worked for Hartzell Fan for 34 years as a sheet metal layout before retiring in 1980.

Paul proudly served his

country as a part of the U.S. Army during World War II. A Mass of Christian Burial will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday, at St. Boniface Catholic Church, Piqua, with the Rev. Fr. Angelo Caserta and the Rev. Thomas Bolte as Co-Celebrants.

Burial will follow in Forest Hill Cemetery, Piqua.

Full military honors will be provided by The Veterans Elite Tribute Squad, Piqua.

Friends may call from 6-8 p.m. Thursday at Melcher-Sowers Funeral Home, Piqua.

Prayers will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Miami County, P. O. Box 502, Troy, OH 45373.

Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.melcher-sowers. com.

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From page 1 Caldwell-Stone emphasized the overlooked reasonings.

“While we like to encourage libraries and bookstores to take part we understand that not everyone can observe at the same time,” said Caldwell-Stone, explaining that many organizations will have different methods or times so as to allow full participation by their communities.

“Their calendar doesn’t always allow for the observance.”

Caldwell-Stone also noted possible concerns from parents and community members over what can sometimes be a politicized week, a potential that the ALA, “Respects as well.” With other methods of observing Banned Book Week beyond community announcements and displays including a virtual read-out, where individuals can record themselves reading their favorite banned book and post it on Youtube.

Their contribution added to other famous readers who will take part in the week’s observance.

Banned Book Week also has a heavy social media presence with the utilization of Facebook and Twitter, and new to the format this year is a Google hangout that will allow participants to

For more information visit www.bannedbooksweek.org.

As institutions around the country observe the freedom to read what one chooses, to celebrate 30 years of Banned Books Week, here are a few titles to consider:

The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X and Alex Haley, 1965 Beloved, Toni Morrison, 1987 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown, 1970 The Call of the Wild, Jack London, 1903 Catch-22, Joseph Heller, 1961 The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, 1951 Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, 1953 For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway, 1940 Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, 1936 The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, 1939 The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 Howl, Allen Ginsberg, 1956 In Cold Blood, Truman Capote, 1966 Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1952 The Jungle, Upton Sinclair, 1906 Moby-Dick; or The Whale, Herman Melville,1851 The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane, 1895 The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850 A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams, 1947 To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960 Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852

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life was back then ment and music. It’s said. “They are doing a hawks,” he said. “They and how it is now is different than getting really good job of wrap- are surprisingly in good one thing, what they an iPod and listening to ping their heads around shape.” were wearing and the music.” it.”

His c l a s s m at e , kinds of chores kids Studebaker said the Jason Shaffer, 9, one Savannah Bebe, 9, also were doing back then students have been of the Bennett students liked the weapons, but is another,” she said. really surprised with taking part in the field also enjoyed another “Some of the students the things they learned trip, didn’t miss a beat aspect of the field trip. are really surprised during the trip. when asked what his “I actually enjoyed with all of the similari“They keep ask- favorite part of the field learning about what they traded,” she said. at Riverside Cemetery, ties and the differences. ing, ‘Is that real?’” the trip was.

West Milton with Pastor For example, entertain- fourth-grade teacher “I liked the tomaRobert Kurtz officiating.

Arrangements are being handled by the HaleSarver Family Funeral From page 1 Home, West Milton. repair. Lack of adequate ventila- and showers.

3707.01, Ohio Plumbing Code, tion throughout the facility espe7. Crumbling, damaged, and the Miami County Health cially in areas with moisture (for compromised concrete walls, District Housing Regulations, example, shower areas). Heavy floors, and ceilings in several and state/local building and accumulation of dust, debris, areas, especially in pipe chase electrical codes. and foreign matter at intakes, rooms (areas identified by In the letter, only 50 percent exhausts, and in the duct work. building inspector). Water leaks of the jail was inspected by 5. Damage to floors, walls, appear to have compromised the health officials, but the order and ceilings. These areas pose integrity of some concrete. was made for the entire jail a safety hazard. Many of these 8. Parts of electrical system facility and all violations must areas are damaged to the point not properly maintained (areas be corrected in the jail, not where they cannot be properly identified by building inspec- just where the health inspectors maintained or cleaned. tor). Electrical outlets shorted found problems.

6. Excessive insects/infesta- and broken. Light switches inopAccording to the health departtion observed throughout the erable. ment, the downtown jail has facility (both dead insects and According to the letter, the 38 sinks/toilet combo unites, live insects) especially in pipe eight conditions are in viola- ten showers and one toilet/sink/ chase rooms and around toilets tion of the Ohio Revised Code shower combo unit.

Death Notice Dorsey Price Dorsey Price, 58, of West Milton, passed away Monday, Sept. 23, 2013, at Hospice of Dayton.

Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday,

speak with authors whose work has been challenged or banned (See the link below for more information).

In the end, no matter how it is observed or when, Caldwell-Stone says the most important thing is that a library (Or other book sources) observes the right to read any book on a regular basis or, “Protecting readers on a day to day basis.”

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Ohio Realtor Association members Warmer weather ahead shine at state awards convention COLUMBUS - Several members of the Midwestern Ohio Association of REALTORS were recently inducted into the 2013 Ohio Association of REALTORS President’s Sales Club at the State Convention in September Members received awards based on level of sales achieved.

The following members were recognized: Pinnacle Award for sales of 7.5 million or more Karri Gray Award of Excellence for sales of 5 million or more: Jeanie Bates, Kathy Henne, Malia Hughes, Dava Royer and Gay Smith.

Award of Distinction for sales of

2.5 million or more: Alice Ahrens, Jeffrey Apple, Mary Brown, Denise Cisco, Veryl Cisco, Mary Couser, Bryn Daring-Stewart, Timothy Eiting, Teri Frymyer, Laurie Johnson, Larry Lemonds, Patricia Murphy, Christine Price, Shirley Snyder, Justin Vondenhuevel, Doug Zimmerman and Libby Zimmerman.

Award of Achievement for sales of 1 million or more: Susan Anderson, Jeffrey Bertke, Patricia Braunm, Patricia Brown, Cindy Buroker, Amber Chivington, Sandra Christy, Nicholas Dammeyer, Susan Davis, Charlotte Delcamp, Janet Donnelly, David Galbreath,

Brukner’s Haunted Woods an Autumn family favorite TROY — Brukner Nature Center will again host their fall Haunted Woods from 6:30-8 p.m.

Saturdays and Sundays, Oct. 19-20 and Oct. 26-27.

Families can enjoy a kid-friendly evening filled with guided walks, live animals and costumed characters.

Guide will lead the way along the gently rolling, luminary-lit trail and stop at five stations to learn all about the wild creatures of the night.

But the fun doesn’t stop there; activities also include free face painting, crafts and games, wildlife viewing, storytelling at a campfire plus cookies and

cider after the hike.

This program is $3 per person for BNC Members and $5 per person for non-members.

Be sure to have your membership card ready.

Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis on the night of the event, handed out in the order that you arrive at the gate at our entrance, so if you want to join your friends, please ride together or meet and drive in together.

Gate opens at 6 p.m. with the first group leaving at 6:30 p.m. and every 5 minutes after that.

Parking is limited, so load up the van (or wagon) and car-pool.

Pedestrian bridge rehabilitation project continues PIQUA — Work continues on the Fountain Park Pedestrian Bridge Rehabilitation Project, located over the Hydraulic Canal in Fountain Park.

The city has entered into a contract with L.J. DeWeese, Co. Inc. of Tipp City, Ohio for this project.

The project consists of the raising of the existing

pedestrian bridge over the Hydraulic Canal to allow for the bridge to be handicap accessible.

During the duration of this project, which is scheduled to be completed by Oct. 31, the portion of the bike path between Echo Lake Drive and the north cemetery bridge will be closed. All work is weather permitting.

Southview Neighborhood Association meeting set PIQUA — The Southview Neighborhood Association will have a general membership meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26 at the Mote Park Community Building.

Anyone who lives, works, or has a business in the Southview area is welcome to attend.

The special speaker for the evening will be Ruth Koon, a member of many city committees, including the Mainstreet Piqua and library Boards.

Koon has an interest in the improvement of the neighborhoods of Piqua

An upper-level feature will spread a few clouds into the region today, but it looks like any shower chance will Timothy Gleason, Gregory remain south of the Dayton area. Sunshine resumes for Greenwald, Christine Grimm, Lisa the end of the week along with warmer temperatures.

Heath, Gareth Johnston, A Jones, High 77, Low 57 Brenda Klein, Jason Kuba, Nicole Loudenback, Jim Mackenbach, Jeffrey Marconette, Timothy McMahon, Donna Mergler, Mary Niekamp, Drew Paulus, Anita Ricketts, Charles Sanders, Darlene Shick, Amelia Spier, Kyle Springs, Connie Strobel, Shari Thokey, Rebecca Weber, Tambra Young and Mostly Mostly Barbara Ziegenbusch. sunny sunny The Midwestern Ohio Association of REALTORS has more than 450 members in Auglaize, Mercer, Miami, Logan, HIGH: 78 LOW: 54 HIGH: 82 LOW: 58 Champaign and Shelby counties.

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Lehman students join Dayton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra SIDNEY — Director of Education for the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra Gloria Pugh has announced that Lehman Catholic High School seniors Grace Jackson and Grace Winhoven have been accepted into the Dayton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra Program for the coming school year. Both students play violin.

For the fourth year, Winhoven will be part of the Dayton Philharmonic Youth Strings, directed by Dr. Betsey Hofeldt. Jackson spent two years in the Youth Strings and this year she has been selected for the Dayton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. That ensemble is directed by Patrick Reynolds.

Chosen through competitive audition, students in the Dayton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and Youth Strings represent over two dozen schools from Dayton and the surrounding region.

The Youth Strings is a training program for the Youth Orchestra, a complete orchestra with brass, woodwinds and percussion.

Students in grades 6 through 12 are eligible to audition. If their own schools do not have an orchestra program, which many do not, they are required to take private lessons on their instruments. Winhoven studies with Kathy Douds and Jackson studies with Michelle Roeke.

“Being in the Youth Strings really helped my sightreading and my ability to play with other people,” said Jackson, who also plays clarinet in the Lehman Marching and Concert Bands and sings in the Lehman Limelighters Show Choir. “Orchestra music has challenging key and time signatures. The experience has helped me grow as a musician. I was really excited to be chosen to move up to the Orchestra this year.”

“You can audition as early as sixth grade but I waited until the end of

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Grace Jackson, left, and Grace Winhoven, both students at Lehman Catholic, warm up in preparation for a performance with the

eighth grade,” Winhoven said. “We had to play a prepared solo and scales, and sightread an unfamiliar piece. I was very surprised that I made it the first time I auditioned.”

Winhoven began her violin training at DeColores Montessori School in Greenville. Everyone in that school of 150 students begins on a stringed instrument in the second grade. Unlike her classmate, Jackson did not start violin until the seventh grade when she transferred to DeColores Montessori from Miami Montessori in Troy.

Both girls chose to attend Lehman for high school even though the school does not have an orchestra. Jackson joined the band but both girls, along with another Greenville Montessori graduate, Rachel Remencus, have played their stringed instruments during communion reflection time at school Masses. “We all chose Lehman because of the school’s fine academic program,” Jackson said.

“Even though there isn’t an orchestra,

we have numerous opportunities to play our violins at school.”

The daughter of Jeff and Laura Jackson of Piqua, Jackson has also performed violin solos at the Ohio Music Education Association High School Solo and Ensemble Adjudicated Event in addition to playing in clarinet ensembles. Winhoven is the daughter of Carrie Winhoven of Greenville and the late Joe Winhoven.

The Dayton Philharmonic Youth Strings and Youth Orchestra rehearse on Sunday afternoons throughout the school year. The Youth Strings will perform two concerts: a Fall Concert at 1:30 p.m. at the Dayton Art Institute on Nov. 17, and a Spring Concert at 7 p.m. at the Dayton Masonic Temple on March 16.

The three Dayton Philharmonic Concerts during this school year will be at the Schuster Center in downtown Dayton on Dec. 8, March 9 and May 11.

All three concerts begin at 3 p.m.

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and has been instrumental in the renovation of the Fort Piqua Plaza and the Downtown Beautification projects.

Also on the agenda will be a discussion of Southview’s annual Halloween and Christmas projects.

Also the date for the November meeting will be changed due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

Members of the community at large are also welcome to attend.

For more information, contact Jim Vetter, President, at 778-1696.

Police Reports Sept. 23 Criminal damage: Police responded to French Park, 845 W. Water St., after a bathroom door at the park was vandalized by someone who wrote graffiti all over it.

Theft: Police responded to the 100 block of East Main Street after a Craftsman socket set in a red plastic case was stolen from a bed of a truck.

Criminal damage: Police responded to The Woodshop, 501 Young St., after someone kicked out a screen to a window leading to the basement of the building.

Disturbance: Police responded to Subway, 1575 Covington Ave., after a male called in to report that a female was harassing him verbally.

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A three-vehicle crash on East Ash Street, in the construction zone, in front of the Miami Valley Centre Mall, saw two victims transported by Piqua Fire Department medics to Upper Valley Medical Center for treatment on Tuesday morning. The crash occurred around 11:30 a.m. when a car failed to stop in time and struck the car in front of it. The impact pushed the car into a third car. No serious damage was sustained by any of the vehicles. The crash is under investigation by Piqua police.

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I read and watch a lot action takes place in ficof detective stories, and tional Absaroka County, the type I really enjoy Wyo. — another tiny, place are place-centered. The out-of-the-way ones where the crime- with more elk than peosolver’s hometown is as ple — but the carnage much a part of the story is equal to any gangas the crime that starts riddled city. Writing on the website the story Grantland. ro l l i n g. com, Ben New York, Lindbergh Chicago, reports that L.A. and San in Sheridan Francisco County, the have more actual sparsethan their ly populated fair share of Wyo m i n g detectives. So county where does London, Jim Mullen the author and for some lives, there reason, rural Columnist have only England. The butler rarely does it, but been five murders in 12 mystery readers seem years. In the TV series, to really love any crime there have been 27 murthat takes place in one ders in 22 episodes spanof the “stately homes of ning a few months’ time.

If that were really true, England.”

But now, for every Wyoming would have mystery story that takes to change its slogan place in a big city, there from “Like No Place on seems to be one that Earth” to “Like Shooting takes place in a small Fish in a Barrel.”

The late detectown. The king of that, on television at least, was tive writer Robert B. “Murder, She Wrote,” Parker’s Jesse Stone is which was set in the the off-again, on-again fictional town of Cabot police chief of the small Cove, Maine. During the town of Paradise, Mass. show’s 12-year run, 274 New York, Chicago and people were murdered L.A. put together don’t in a town of roughly have as much crime 3,500. According to as Paradise, but not the London Daily Mail, to worry: It’s all taken “This gives it an annual care of by a four-person murder rate of 1,490 per police department that million — more than still has time to write 50 percent higher than traffic tickets and work Honduras,” the current regular hours.

Every state in the murder capital of the union has detective world.

As a successful mys- writers that fill their tery writer, the show’s books with local color heroine, Jessica Fletcher, and regional quirks of would travel for business speech and action, but and pleasure, dead bod- you don’t have any ies piling up behind her local detective fiction if you don’t have any wherever she went.

If she signed a book local crime. In big cities for you, there was a they can rip the stories pretty good chance that from the headlines. In you would die before Manhattan, anything you ever got a chance to less than a triple murder won’t even make the read it.

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While Republicans squabble, Obama plots path to victory Most of Washington ignored these past five years … are some President Obama’s Sept. 16 speech of these folks really so beholden to marking the fifth anniversary of the one extreme wing of their party that financial meltdown. For good rea- they’re willing to tank the entire son; the city was consumed by the economy?” mass murders unfolding at the Navy Many Republicans will roll their Yard just a few miles from the White eyes; they’ve heard the president’s House. When Obama began rhetoric many times before. speaking, the TV networks But it worked in 2012, and carried his opening remarks with jobs and the economy on the shootings, and then still by far the nation’s No. cut away when he got to 1 issue, Obama intends to the substance of his speech. press those themes hard But a few people in through 2014. “This was Washington were watching. a speech designed to creThe strategists working to ate a clear narrative that is guide House Republicans going to last for a while,” to victory in the 2014 midByron York says the GOP strategist. term elections were taking “He’s saying, ‘If it hadn’t Columnist careful note of the presibeen for me, we wouldn’t dent’s words. “I think it have turned the economy was a critically important speech,” around, and the Republicans have says one Republican closely involved been trying to blow it up.’” in the effort. “It’s what he believes Meanwhile, as Obama lays the the debate in 2014 is going to sound groundwork for the coming camlike, and it’s the opening salvo of paign, Republicans are fighting defining where this economy is going among themselves over an imposand who has the initiative.” sible quest to defund Obamacare.

Obama began, as he always does, After that is resolved, they will fight by reminding his audience just how among themselves over the circumbad things were in late 2008 and stances of increasing the nation’s early 2009. In an astonishingly brief debt limit. And then they’ll fight time, investment banks failed, the among themselves over something stock market cratered, jobs disap- else. peared, lending dried up and the Every day the GOP is consumed auto industry nearly collapsed. with its internal squabbles is a day Then, Obama explained, his poli- Republicans don’t concentrate on the cies came to the rescue: stimulus, issues most important to voters. infrastructure spending, mortgage So now, amid the feuding, some in assistance, financial reform, the auto the GOP are asking: What case will rescue and more. The payoff for all we make for ourselves in 2014? In that work, he said, is 7.5 million new the strategist’s words, “What has a jobs in the last 3 1/2 years, a fall- Republican Congress accomplished?” ing unemployment rate, a recovering Obama’s speech gave them the housing market and a falling federal structure of an argument. Those deficit.

7.5 million jobs? Well, the vast “What all this means is we’ve majority of them, 5.7 million, came cleared away the rubble from the after Republicans took control of financial crisis and we’ve begun to the House in January 2011. Falling lay a new foundation for economic unemployment? The majority of that growth and prosperity,” Obama said. has come since then. Falling deficit?

In the future, he pledged to “push The same. back against the trends that have “There has been an important shift been battering the middle class for in direction since we’ve been in,” decades.” says the Republican strategist. “We Unless the bad guys stop him. need to start saying that.”

“The problem is at the moment, The point is not to dump on Republicans in Congress don’t seem Obama. The point is to show what to be focused on how to grow the Republicans have done with power. economy and build the middle “He’s not going to be up for reclass,” Obama said. GOP policies election again,” says the strategist. would starve education, research, “We better start proving to people infrastructure. They would hurt the that if we’re given responsibility, we middle class. Sequestration would can do something with it. This isn’t cripple vital areas of government.

Obama laid the blame on the about him any more. It’s about who “extreme wing” of the GOP. “I can- we are.”

That’s something Republicans need not remember a time when one faction of one party promises economic to think deeply about — if they ever chaos if it can’t get 100 percent of stop arguing with each other. what it wants,” the president said.

“After all that we’ve been through

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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are far less ambitious this week in their demands for spending cuts to erase new debt issued to pay the government’s bills than they were during a budget battle two years ago.

The list of cuts under consideration now tallies up to a fraction of the almost $1 trillion in additional borrowing that would be permitted under a GOP proposal for enabling the government to pay its bills through December of next year.

Two years ago, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, insisted on spending cuts totaling $2.1 trillion over a decade as the price to meet President Barack Obama’s demand for a like-sized increase in the government’s borrowing cap, also known as the debt ceiling.

Those cuts involved tighter “caps” on agency operating budgets as well as the automatic, across-the-board cuts known as sequestration triggered by the failure of a deficit “supercommittee” to reach a deal.

The problem now is that there isn’t a roster of big, politically palatable cuts ready to go. Instead, Republicans have put together a grab bag of smaller savings ideas, like higher pension contributions for federal workers, higher premiums for upper-income Medicare beneficiaries, caps on medical malpractice verdicts and reduced payments to hospitals that treat more poor people than average.

A leading set of proposals comes from a House GOP leadership office and was circulating on Washington’s K Street lobbying corridor on Monday. It includes a plan to increase pension contributions of federal civilian workers by up to 5 percentage points and lowering the federal match accordingly, which could help defray the deficit by up to $84 billion over a decade. Another, to block immigrants in the country illegally from claiming the child tax credit would save just $7 billion over the same period. Eliminating the Social Services Block Grant, a flexible funding stream for states to help with day care, Meals on Wheels, and drug treatment facilities, would save less than $2 billion a year.

Taken together, these proposals and others could cut spending by perhaps $200 billion over the coming decade.

While GOP aides say details aren’t set, House leaders are looking at an increase in the current $16.7 trillion debt ceiling sufficient to cover the government’s bills until the beginning of 2015. According to calculations by the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank in Washington, that would require raising the borrowing cap by almost $1 trillion.

Boehner insists that any increase in the borrowing cap be matched by budget cuts and other reforms to produce savings of an equal amount, though not on a dollar-fordollar basis over 10 years like in 2011. It’s a somewhat nebulous standard because of the difficulty in quantifying how much any given “reform” is worth.

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general exhaustion and ragged emotion flashing across the sky. Everything was fine two days later.

“We fight like brothers, then we hug and make up like brothers,” lead singer Caleb Followill said. “It’s just how it goes.”

“And the beauty of it is you can fight as a band or bandmates,” drummer Nathan Followill said, “but you make up as brothers or cousins.”

“It’s just a long, long, slow kiss, dry, closemouthed,” Caleb Followill said. “No seriously, we hate Jared and Matt. We can’t stand them.”

And everyone in the room is laughing again.

It’s been like this a lot lately, and the Followills hope “Mechanical Bull” serves as a palette cleanser.

They’ve played about 50 shows since Dallas without incident, including a string of well-received festival headlining dates that includes this week’s Global Citizen Festival in New York’s Central Park and next month’s Austin City Limits Festival.

And bouncy new single “Supersoaker” is in the top 10 on Billboard’s alternative rock songs list.

The vibe is much different than that of 2010’s “Come Around Sundown.” ”Bull” starts a new chapter in the band’s narrative. They rushed into “Sundown” in the aftermath of worldwide hits “Use Somebody” and “Sex on Fire.” That sudden popularity caused a surprising backlash with their original

fan base, which was fervent but small. “Sundown” was recorded as the Followills were trying to sort out what direction they wanted to go, and the album sounds stressed and tired because of it.

“We went somewhere in the middle,” Jared Followill said. “They say strike while the iron’s hot, and we definitely struck while the iron was hot, but we kind of struck with a wooden hammer, you know? We kind of just didn’t go all out.”

They took much of a year off, disconnected from the rock ‘n’ roll grind, and slowly worked their way back into music. They remodeled an old industrial paint warehouse into a recording studio and worked in their own space for the first time.

“Once you start thinking about how much it costs to record a guitar solo, you’re already in the wrong headspace,” Caleb Followill said.

The lead singer was most enthralled with the new building.

“There are times if you don’t want to you don’t have to leave, you know?” he said. “I stayed here pretty late most nights.”

They took months rather than weeks to make the record. Practical jokes punctuated by the sound of fireworks and good times threatened to take over at one point.

“You know on the back of the comic books when we were kids where you could order any kind of joke trick?” longtime pro-

ducer Angelo Petraglia asked. “I think that’s where they were ordering from.

Things were coming in and you’d be like, ‘They still make these things?’”

Caleb Followill brought in 10 songs he’d been working on alone at home, something of a change in the band’s formula. And Petraglia combed through old work tapes, finding bits and pieces he’d bring to the band’s attention, like the “Use Somebody” era sound sketch that turned into “Beautiful War.” “The whole thing was chill actually for those guys,” Petraglia said. “I felt like, let’s get back in there and be a rock ‘n’ roll band and get back to it. Things had gotten so big with the band, it was a chance to scale down, get in the clubhouse and kind of have fun and make a rock ‘n’ roll record.”

At the same time, they were falling into a stable pattern at home. Off the road for long stretches, everyone who wasn’t married settled down.

Everyone has at least one child now except Jared, the band’s youngest member.

They also started their own record label, Serpents & Snakes, using it to sign friends; started fine food, wine and spirits festival Music City Eats that debuted over the weekend; and have generally blended into the environs in a way they didn’t before. They started the new rock ‘n’ roll renaissance in Nashville, but were never really around to enjoy it.

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(AP) — The Kings of Leon are having a great time.

Problem is, no one really believes them.

A very public meltdown in Dallas in 2011 led to some acrimonious tweets, the cancellation of 26 concert dates and a bunch of negative buzz that’s persisted a surprisingly long time.

Since then, band members have played dozens of shows without incident, put down roots, married a few supermodels, had children and recorded an album.

They’ve moved on, and they’re patiently waiting for their story to update.

“I think because of what happened in Dallas that was very much on the surface,” bassist Jared Followill said. “And people were like, ‘Wow, man, those guys are really not getting along,’ and people think, ‘Man, they really hated each other during that time.’ People should know that we have always hated each other. That was not any more than usual. That was just more in the press.”

“That was tweeted about,” guitarist Matthew Followill said, and everyone in the room is laughing at the joke.

The abrupt ending to the Dallas show and the resulting fallout was just a passing storm for the brothers Followill — Nathan, Caleb and Jared — and their cousin Matthew. A little bit of rock ‘n’ roll excess crossed with high heat,

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This book cover image released by Scribner shows “Doctor Sleep,” by Stephen King. The book will be released on Sept. 24.

plain sight, and feasting on folks who shine.

The leader of the True Knot is one of King’s best baddies in years — Rose O’Hara, aka Rosie the Hat — a 6-foot beauty fond of wearing a top hat and hellbent on sacrificing Abra for the survival of her species.

King’s a master at writing characters you love to hate. Rose is like Drago in “Rocky IV,” sneering and overconfident, and you can’t wait for the inevitable showdown with Abra.

There are plenty of twists and turns along the way, and it all ends up at a familiar place in the Colorado mountains where Dan Torrance never thought he’d return.

In keeping with tradition, King sprinkles in plenty of insider references to his fictional universe (Jerusalem’s Lot is a favorite hangout for the True Knot, for instance) that will leave fans smiling.

Bottom line: If you loved “The Shining,” you’ll love catching up with these characters.

King is in fine form, making you laugh, grossing you out and spinning a tale that keeps the pages turning.

If you’ve never read King, there are better starter novels in his canon, but you could do a lot worse than a double feature of “The Shining” followed by “Doctor Sleep.”

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Whether you are or not, you have some difficult decisions to make.

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Thirty-six years after introducing readers to Danny Torrance and a precognitive ability he came to call “the shine,” Stephen King is back with another creepy tale featuring the now adult Dan, a young girl named Abra and a mysterious group of soul-sucking creeps known as the True Knot.

Read “The Shining” first if you haven’t already, but don’t worry if it’s been a few years or decades.

King opens with a chapter called “Prefatory Matters” and deftly catches readers up with that novel.

He begins “Doctor Sleep” with Dan starting fresh in New Hampshire after years of trying to outrun his demons.

“His mind was a blackboard. Booze was the eraser,” writes King.

Yes, he’s an alcoholic like his late father, but unlike that mallet-wielding madman, he’s finally ready to utter those words demanded by Alcoholics Anonymous: “I need help.”

He finds it in part by becoming a mentor to 12-year-old Abra, whose shining is stronger than his own and who needs some protection from the voices and visions she can’t always turn off in her head.

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RB was the last born African-American boys, to the family, joining following them along two brothers and a sis- the railroad tracks to pick blackberries from ter.

Nettie Lovelady was the bordering bushes.

He took his berries needed and appreciated to get the newborn set- home for Josie to make him a pie. tled in.

I got to know Josie Miss Iva was an excellent manager of home while visiting my sister. and family, but the time When RB and I married, came when it was decid- Josie was more accepted she needed another ing than my mother-inlaw and welcomed me pair of arms and eyes.

The help came in into the family.

I loved choosing spethe form of Josie, an A f r i c a n - A m e r i c a n cial gifts for her; anywoman about the thing gave her pleasure same age as Miss Iva, and a big sparkling employed to tend to smile.

W.F. appreciated cooking and cleaning.

RB remembers the Josie’s loyalty and good day Josie came and care of his family.

In the 1930s, he estabswears he was only 2 lished a Social Security years old.

When he relayed account for her, ensursome of his brother’s ing a source of income misadventures, it was in her later years.

As he aged, he conevident that Miss Iva tinued to think of her needed a break.

This story has been welfare.

She lived with her verified by the two brothers, still living, very ill husband a few Hamilton at 92 and miles away; at the end of her workday, she James at 97.

W.F. had a clothing/ walked home in the general store in the cen- blistering heat.

W.F. bought her a car, ter of town, a couple then he bought an air blocks away.

During a brief conditioner for their absence, Miss Iva put tiny house.

Before her weekends 12-year-old James in charge of 8- year-old off, she prepared food to be stored in the Ham. Ham was determined refrigerator, reducing to “go to town” so the workload for Miss Iva. James tied him in bed.

Regardless of anyWhile he was restrained, James thing else, the major decided he’d visit the necessity was W.F.’s sweet tea and enough store.

When Ham got loose of it in the refrigerator and trailed James, W.F. until Josie’s return on learned what was going Monday.

Miss Iva was a clever on.

In those days, Miss lady and a good cook Iva let the children herself but she never choose their own managed to make sweet switches but W.F. used tea that suited her otherwise easy-to-please his razor strap.

Once when Ham went husband.

RB got the recipe missing, Josie searched and found James had from Josie and has it tied him to a pool table down to a science: How many tea bags to how in the garage.

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Our daughter-in-law has written it and it will be guarded through the years, Josie and her husband had no children of their own but a wall in their home was full of pictures she called her “white ‘chillun,” the four Stevens children and their families.

After her death, sister Littie saw that a large professionally framed photograph was saved for RB. Standing in front of their house, a sweetly smiling, 3-year-old RB posed with his 5-yearold sister, Charlotte, who had her arm protectively around his shoulder.

He was one of those little boys who actually glowed when he was scrubbed up.

For that photograph, his hair was parted and perfectly combed, his short pants were buttoned to the matching shirt, both neatly ironed.

Josie stayed on, helping Miss Iva as they aged together.

They were friends.

Miss Iva provided emotional support through the illness and death of her husband, Lagurdis.

As W.F.’s health began to fail, Josie took over as a sort of bedside nurse.

He trusted her; she was there until he died.

When the grown children returned for visits, Josie was always available to cook their favorite foods.

After Miss Iva died and Josie retired, my sister asked Josie to come to her house for dinner.

Josie assumed she was needed to help serve and, bless her heart, offered to bring her famous cloverleaf rolls to pop into the oven.

She had never guessed she was to be the guest of honor.

RB, brothers Ham and James were there.

I took pictures of that special group and wonder now — did I sent her a set?

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Learn from my stupidity Burger King launching Well the First Annual Anti-Burnout and moved to a new location every two Blowout was a success! That’s right, I to three days.

The other night, I changed my site. said first annual. The event will be happening next year and I really hope you When you change your site, you’re also supposed to change the tubing that plan to be there! It was so much fun!

The food was awesome (and there runs the insulin from your pump to was a ton of it), the music was phe- the site.

Well, I did this. After you change nomenal and the messages were inspirational. I even shared my story (I had the tubing, you have to get it filled up no intention of doing this in the begin- with insulin. This is called “priming.” I primed it until I saw insuning, but you know things lin drip out of the tube change). like you’re supposed to.

Your ticket also gave However, I stopped it you the chance to win one before the pump could of six door prizes. So for recognize that the insulin just $8, you got yummy had made it all the way food, two live music perout. When this happens, formances, rejuvenating it makes you prime again. messages, the possibilI had already attached ity of walking away with the pump to the site in a great door prize, and SURVIVING DIABETES my arm before I realized you helped the Juvenile it was making me prime Diabetes Research Jennifer Runyon again.

Foundation!

Now, before it lets you start to It really was so much fun. Comments like this came from all in attendance; prime, it asks, “Are you disconnected?”

You have to enter “Yes” before it will It’s not just me saying it.

As you know, the ticket proceeds let you begin priming. I always thought went to the JDRF Walk to Cure you just had to be disconnected so you didn’t get the little bit of extra insulin Diabetes. I also sold paper sneakers.

With the ticket proceeds and the that comes out.

Well, I was tired (and lazy) and my money from the sneakers, I made $513 toward my goal of $2,000. Will you sugar was high, so I didn’t think the help me get the rest of the way? If so, extra insulin would hurt. I just went please log on to www.walk.jdrf.org and ahead and pushed “Yes” when it asked me if I was disconnected even though type my name in the search box.

Would you like to join the team and I was not.

The pump paid me back for lying to walk with me on Oct. 12? You can register at this site also. Just type my it! When that insulin started to come team’s name, Type 1 Talkers, in the out of the tube and into my arm, I felt a search box. Thank you in advance for pain like I have never felt before! Then your support toward a world without my arm started to bleed! Apparently, when you’re priming, the insulin comes Type 1 diabetes!

Now, I learned something the hard out too fast for your body to handle.

I know sometimes we (I’m really way the other day and I’d like to share about it in the hopes that you’ll learn hoping it’s not just me here) think we’re smarter than the pump. In some from my stupidity.

Jot this down on the list of dumb cases, that’s true. However, when the things I’ve done. (Gosh I hope no pump asks if you’re disconnected, don’t one really has this list.) With insulin lie to it! Save yourself the pain (and pumps, the site is where the tubing blood) and learn from my stupidity! goes into the body. It must be changed Always disconnect before priming!

Miami-Shelby Ostomy Support Group TROY — The Miami-Shelby Ostomy Support Group will meet Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. at Conference Room A in the lower level of the Upper Valley Medical Center, 3130 N. County Road 25-A, Troy.

The Ostomy Support Group’s meetings are held the first Wednesday of each month except January and July.

Programs provide information and

support to ostomates and their families, and are beneficial to health care professionals as well.

The October program will feature Edison Community College students discussing Health Care Reform Changes. Refreshments will be provided.

For more information, call 4404706.

lower-calorie french fry Candice Choi

AP Food Industry Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Burger King wants people to feel less guilty about gobbling up its french fries.

The world’s No. 2 hamburger chain is launching a new crinkle-cut french fry on Tuesday that it says has about 20 percent fewer calories than its regular fries.

The chain says a small order of the new “Satisfries” clocks in at 270 calories because of a new batter that doesn’t absorb as much oil.

By comparison, a small order of its regular fries, sans crinkles, has 340 calories.

The concept of taking an indulgent food and removing some of the guilt isn’t new, of course.

Supermarkets are filled with baked Lay’s potato chips, 100-calorie packs of Oreos and other less fattening versions of popular treats.

Such creations play on people’s inability to give up their food vices, even as they struggle to eat better.

The idea is to create something that skimps on calories, but not on taste.

Burger King executives say people won’t be able to tell that Satisfries are lower in calories.

It says they use exactly the same ingredients as its regular fries — potatoes, oil and batter.

To keep kitchen operations simple, they’re even made in the same fryers and cooked for the same amount of time as regular fries.

The difference, Burger King says, is that it adjusts the proportions of different ingredients for the batter to block out more oil.

The company declined to be more specific.

Another difference, the crinkle-cut shape, is in part so workers will be able to easily distinguish them from the regular fries when they’re deep frying them together.

“You need to make things as simple as possible,” says Eric Hirschhorn, Burger King’s chief marketing officer.

As per capita consumption of french fries has declined over the years, frozen potato suppliers have been working on ways to reduce fat and calories in french fries, said Maureen Storey, president and CEO of the Alliance for Potato Research & Education, an industry group.

“It’s actually not an easy thing to do to because consumers want the same taste and the same texture,” she said.

Alex Macedo, head of North American operations at Burger King, said the chain worked with one of its potato suppliers, McCain Foods, to develop the lower-calorie fries.

He said McCain can’t sell the fries to other fast-food clients and that different suppliers might have a tough time imitating them.

Burger King took great pains to keep the launch of Satisfries under wraps.

Last week, reporters were invited to preview a “top secret new product” at a New York City hotel, where they were asked to sign non-disclosure agreements.

Attendees were each served a carton of the fries that look and taste like any other fries, even leaving the familiar grease stains in their paper cartons.

Burger King led off its presentation by comparing the fries to the “leading french fries,” which are made by rival McDonald’s, the world’s largest burger chain.

On a pound-for-pound basis, executives noted that the new fries have 30 percent fewer calories than those served at the Golden Arches.

The comparison to McDonald’s may prove to be confusing for some, since fast-food chains each have their own definitions of what qualifies as a small, medium or large.

A small serving at McDonald’s, for example, weighs considerably less than a small order at Burger King.

As a result, a small order of McDonald’s fries has 230 calories — which is still less than the 270 calories for a small serving of Burger King’s Satisfries. A “value” order of Satisfries at Burger King — which is closer in weight to the small size at McDonald’s — has 190 calories.

Satisfries is the latest gambit by Burger King Worldwide Inc. to revive its image after a series of ownership changes in recent years. 3G Capital, the Brazilian private investment firm that bought the chain and took it private in 2010, kicked off a campaign last spring with a revamped menu and star-studded ad campaign.

Burger King is betting Satisfries will be so popular that people will even be willing to fork over more money for them.

The suggested price for a small order of Satisfries is $1.89, compared with $1.59 for regular fries.

That’s a 19 percent markup.

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IN BRIEF ■ Football

Piqua frosh drop game The Piqua freshman football team lost to Beavercreek 8-6 Saturday.

Piqua, 3-1, will play at Springboro at noon.

PressPros to air Troy game

SPORTS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Piqua loses momentum Lady Indians fall to Troy in three in GWOC North

BY ROB KISER Sports Editor

TROY — The Piqua volleyball team had a chance PressProsMagazine.com to share the GWOC North will air the Miamisburg title when it traveled to at Troy game Friday Troy Tuesday night. night.

The Lady Trojans came Air time is 6:30 p.m. in 4-0 in the conference, Fans at the game can while Piqua was 3-1. listen on Stadium FM And the Lady Indians 107.3. had the momentum late in the first game, before ■ JH Volleyball Troy showed they were up to the challenge, winning 25-21, 25-15, 25-13.

After trailing much of the opening game, a kill

by Frannie Haney got the NEW MADISON — The Lady Indians within 18-13 Bradford junior high volley- and that seemed to spark ball teams split two Piqua. matches with Tri-Village in Abby Berger served five CCC action. straight points to pull the The seventh grade, 3-8, Lady Indians even at 18. lost 23-25, 25-16, 25-13.

Mae Carnes and Michaela Bell had kills for Marissa Cassel had three points and one ace. sideouts and another kill MacKenzie Gambill had by Bell put Piqua in front 21-20. one point and Bianca "We were really playing Keener had nine points, well that first game," seven aces, one kill and Piqua coach Kaila Cook one assist. said.

Karmen Knepp had But, just as quickly, three points and one kill; Troy scored the next five while Macie Reck had 10 points to take the game points, four aces and two assists.

Amy Roberts had four points, one ace and five assists; while Holly Rosengarten had four points and two kills.

The eighth grade, 4-7, won 25-11, 25-19.

Ivee Brubaker had one ace; while Hannah Fout had one points, two aces and one kill.

Brooke Fair had one kill; while Samantha Grow had three points, seven aces and seven assists.

Valerie Kissinger had four kills, while Aspen Weldy had two aces and one kill.

Bailey Wysong added one point and five kills for the Lady Railroaders.

Bradford will host Newton Thursday in its “Volley for a Cure” match.

Bradford JH splits matches

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and never slowed down.

"We had a couple big mistakes in that run," Cook said. "I think we were in the net on one or two of them. Those points just changed the whole momentum."

Troy jumped out to big leads in both the second and third games and Piqua could never really recover.

In the third game, Tasha Potts had two kills to get the Lady Indians within 13-8, but that was as close as they could get.

"We got into big holes," Cook said. "I had to burn my timeouts early in both games. Our serve receive just killed us. I thought we did a nice job at times getting digs to keep balls alive. Troy hurt us a little bit at the net, but their serves just killed us."

Macy Yount had 14 assists and 10 digs for the Lady Indians, while Potts had two aces and 11 digs.

Bell led the hitters with six kills and Logan Ernst had four blocks.

PHOTO COURTESY OF LEE WOOLERY/SPEEDSHOT PHOTO Piqua, 7-7, will play at Piqua’s Kyrstan Mikolajewski passes the ball Tuesday night.

Bellbrook Thursday.

Piqua netters get win

Lehman falls to Wapakoneta The Piqua tennis team swept the doubles matches and recorded a 32 win over Urbana Monday.

Haley Weidner and Corinne Crawford defeated Coren Ropp and Erika Michael 6-3, 7-5; and Molly Smitley and Elle Ryan defeated Courtney Hobbs and Kaylen Turnmire 6-4, 6-3.

In singles, Kim McCullough lost to Savanna Burcham 6-0, 6-0; Abby Helman lost to Hannah Zerkle 6-0, 6-0; and Megan Mullen won by forfeit.

■ Bowling

Youth singups at Brel-Aire Piqua youth bowling signups will be held at Brel-Aire Lanes tonight and Oct. 2 from 6-8:30 p.m. and this Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon.

For more information, contace Craig Miller at 615-0729 or Jason Jenkins at 214-1603.

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Versailles’ Ryan Knapke watches his second shot on the par-5 12th hole Tuesday.

Versailles, Newton go 1-2 at Turtle Creek Russia wins Beechwood sectional

STUMPER SunQ: Before day, when is the last time the Browns had won a road game against the Vikings?

A:

1996

QUOTED "I've had some guys around the league texting me saying I threw it like a girl."

—Spencer Lanning on his TD pass on a fake field goal

GREENVILLE — Versailles and Newton boys golf teams and Covington's Levi Winn advanced on to the D-III district tournament from sectional action Tuesday at Turtle Creek Golf Course.

Versailles won with a 335 total, while Newton was second with 349.

Covington finished seventh with a 373 total.

Ryan Knapke shot an evenpar 36 on the back nine and led Versailles with a 76.

Alex Stucke was close behind with an 80.

Other Versailles scores were Mitchell Stover 89, Nicholas Litten-Stonebraker 90, Tyler Drees 90.

Brock Jamison led Newton with 79.

Donovan Osceola 89, Wade Ferrell 90, Reid Ferrell 91 and Christian Nelson 122.

Winn carded an 87 to gain the final individual spot for dis-

trict for Covington.

Joe Slusher missed advancing by one shot with an 87.

Other Covington scores were Ty Boehringer 99, Jacob Blair 101, Matt Carder 113.

Russia defends title

ARCANUM — It took everything they had, but the Russia boys golf team defended its DIII sectional title Tuesday at Beechwood Golf Course and Miami East’s Scot Kirby advanced as an individual.

The Raiders tied West Liberty-Salem with 332, but Jordan Kremer’s 91 was good enough to win the fifth-man tiebreaker and give the Raiders the title.

Austin Tebbe led the Raiders with 80.

Other Russia scores were Luke Dapore 82, Gaving Hoying 83 and Zach Sherman 87.

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Lady Cavs lose

The Lehman girls tennis team lost to Wapakoneta 5-0.

Diana Gibson lost to Kaitlin Snider 6-0, 6-1; Elaina Snyder lost Allie Zofkie 6-0, 6-0; Emma Simpson lost to Rachel Roberts 6-0, 6-0.

In doubles, Julia Harrelson and Meghan Burner lost to Kiersten Wellons and Chelsea Myers 6-1, 6-3; and Emily Hoersten and Kaitlin Gillman lost to Carly Buzzard and Madison Watt 6-1, 60.

VOLLEYBALL Lady Cavs win

Austin Tebbe watches a tee shot.

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FORT RECOVERY — The Lehman volleyball team will play at Upper Scioto Valley Thursday in NWCC play.

Lehman defeated Fort Recovery 25-16, 25-20, 2511 Monday.

Ellie Cain dished out 24 assists for Lehman, 8-7, while Erica Paulus had 12 kills and 10 digs.

Olivia Slagle had eight kills and Sidney Chapman added six.

Ava Schmitz had seven digs.

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Reds get ace back just in time Cueto ready to go for playoffs

CINCINNATI (AP) — Johnny Cueto has looked good in his two starts since returning from the disabled list, giving the Cincinnati Reds their ace in time for the playoffs.

The question now is how they use him.

They also have that question about speedy Billy Hamilton, who has made a big impact by going 13 for 13 in steals since his promotion, showing an ability to decide a close game at the end.

Manager Dusty Baker said on Tuesday that the Reds haven't decided how Cueto fits into the playoff rotation or whether Hamilton will be on the

roster. The Reds clinched at least a wild card berth on Monday night and are still in contention for the NL Central title, trailing St. Louis by two games with five left.

"We still haven't decided," Baker said.

"There's a lot of variables here."

Heading into September, they didn't think they'd have Cueto in consideration for the playoff rotation. Their opening day pitcher has been on the disabled list three times this season with strained muscles behind his pitching shoulder.

At best, they figured they might be able to get him ready to pitch in relief. But he's done so well in two starts since return-

ing that he's now an option to start the playoffs.

He threw 99 pitches during seven innings of a 3-2, 10-inning win over the New York Mets on Monday night, looking quite sharp.

Cueto's experience in tight games and his ability to dominate teams make him the favorite to start the playoffs if he's healthy enough.

"The other guys have pitched great but Johnny was the man," Baker said.

"Nothing against anyone else, but just Johnny has a longer and greater track record. So it was just a matter of (building) endurance."

Cueto feels like he is back to normal.

"I feel good," he said

after the game on Monday, with trainer Tomas Vera translating. "I talked to Dusty about pitching the eighth. He said, 'No, no that's enough.' My velocity is there, everything is there."

His teammates saw it, too.

"Cueto looked good and looked healthy, which always is important," shortstop Zack Cozart said. "So with that, we're happy."

Hamilton got into the game as a pinch-runner and stole his 13th base in as many tries.

Since his promotion on Sept. 2, he leads the majors in steals. He has scored two game-winning runs, a game-tying run and a go-ahead run in extra innings.

He's gone 6 for 14 at the plate with a pair of doubles, two walks and one run batted in, much better than expected. Hamilton batted only .256 at Louisville this season, his first at Triple-A. He also was moved from shortstop to center field for the first time in his career and needs work there, as well.

The Reds are weighing whether it's better to keep Hamilton around for his limited but important role so far as a late-inning base stealer, or to go with another outfielder who is a better all-around player.

"Who do you delete to take his place?" Baker said. "Is he ready to start a game or come off the bench and get some hits you might need? There's a

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lot of factors here."

Hamilton's late-inning steals have made him a fan favorite. The Reds are selling red "Run Billy Run" shirts at Great American Ball Park. So far, Hamilton has handled his promotion smoothly.

Baker lobbied to add the 23-year-old speedster to the roster for September, convinced it would help him learn a lot about how his talents translated to the majors.

One question for the postseason is whether the rookie would be ready for such responsibility.

"I know Billy's the topic of the day — they're selling T-shirts with his name up there," Baker said. "I'm glad we got him. I don't think he's in awe of this."

No getting excited

Reds calm about clinching playoffs

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Newton’s Brock Jamison watches his approach shot to the par-5 12th hole at Turtle Creek.

Golf From page 8 Kirby shot 84 to advance as an individual for the Vikings

Tigers take third

Covington’s Levi Winn chips on to the fifth green at Turtle Creek Tuesday.

WEBSTER — The Versailles boys golf team finished third at the MAC golf tournament Saturday with a 341 total. Versailles finished second in the MAC overall.

Minster won with 313 and Parkway was second with 333.

Ryan Knapke tied for fifth overall with a 79 and led the Tigers.

Other Versailles scores were Nicholas LittenStonebraker 86, Alex Stucke 87, Tyler Drees 89, Mitchell Stover 97, Kyle Cotner 97.

The Versailles girls won the MAC tournament with a 368 total, while St. Henry was second with 390.

Brooke Wehrkamp tied for medalist honors with 81 to lead the Lady Tigers.

Other Versailles scores were HAnnah Niekamp 94, Elizabeth White 95, Madison Covault 98, Emily Harman 100, Katie Heckman 106.

Tigers drop match

Miami East’s Scot Kirby watches his shot into the 13th green at Beechwood.

MINSTER — The Versailles boys golf team lost a match with Minster 160-174 Monday at Arrowhead Golf Course in MAC action.

Tyler Drees led Versailles with 42.

Other Tiger scores were Ryan Knapke 44, Alex Stucke 44, Nicholas Litten-Stonebraker 44, Mitchell Stover 45, Kyle Cotner 49.

Versailles lost the JV match 190-205.

Tiger scores were Griffen Riegle 45, JAcob Watren 46, Michael Hemmelgarn 53, Aaron Barga 61

CINCINNATI (AP) — No champagne. No curtain call in front of joyous fans. No celebrating at all, really. The Cincinnati Reds clinched a playoff spot with hardly any notice.

If anything, they were a little bummed out.

Shin-Soo Choo drove in the winning run with a single off the wall in the 10th inning, and the Reds secured their third playoff spot in four years shortly after beating the New York Mets 3-2 on Monday night.

They want a whole lot more than the wild card that's already in hand.

"We're excited, obviously," shortstop Zack Cozart said, looking over a clubhouse where the only visible celebration was the image of Pittsburgh Pirates spraying each other on television. "That's not our goal. We're in the division hunt. We're not happy with a wild card."

The Reds clinched theirs after Choo's drive smacked high off the wall in left-center field. Eight minutes later, the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Washington Nationals 4-3, clinching an NL wild card for Pittsburgh.

Bummer.

The Reds were pulling for first-place St. Louis to lose. Instead, the Cardinals retained their twogame lead over Cincinnati and Pittsburgh in the NL Central.

"I was pulling for the Nationals to win, get a step closer to the Cardinals," manager Dusty Baker said. "We've still got five games to go. A lot of baseball."

The Reds kept pace with St. Louis despite squandering plenty of chances to end it early.

They wasted a chance in the ninth, when David Aardsma pitched out of a bases-loaded threat by retiring Todd Frazier on a fly out.

Greg Burke (0-3) gave up a one-out single to Devin Mesoraco in the 10th, and Derrick Robinson singled him to third.

Choo followed with his third hit of the game, off left-hander Sean Henn, a drive high off the wall in left-center. Choo headed for the dugout after crossing first base.

Manny Parra (2-3) allowed one hit in the 10th.

It was a notable win for the Reds — their 90th of the season, the third time in the last four years that they have reached the mark under Baker. They haven't had so many 90win seasons since the Big

Red Machine of the 1970s.

Johnny Cueto made a second solid start since coming off the disabled list, an encouraging sign for Cincinnati's postseason plans. The right-hander has been sidelined three times by soreness near his shoulder.

He gave up two runs — one earned — on Lucas Duda's sacrifice fly and solo homer, which snapped an 0-for-17 slump. In two starts, Cueto has allowed eight hits and one earned run in 12 innings.

Cueto's 99-pitch outing was the most encouraging part of the night for the Reds, who could have their ace back for the playoffs.

"He was excellent," Baker said. "He's getting ready. Each time he goes out, he gets his endurance up."

The Reds got two runs in six innings off Aaron Harang, who made his third start for the Mets.

Choo singled home a run in the second and Joey Votto got one of his careerhigh five walks with the bases loaded.

Harang is 3-0 in four career starts against the Reds, including a 4-2 victory with Seattle on July 5 at Great American Ball Park. The Mariners later released him with a 5-11 record.

The Reds sustained their hopes of another division title by winning another long game — they are 13-9 in extra innings.

Last September, Baker was in a Chicago hospital getting treated for an irregular heartbeat and a mini-stroke when the Reds clinched the NL Central title. They made a video of their spray-away celebration and wished for another when he returned.

It didn't happy. Cueto had to leave the opening game of the playoffs at San Francisco after only eight pitches because of a strained muscle in his right side. With their rotation in flux, the Reds lost the five-game series.

This season, the Reds have stayed in contention despite losing Cueto, setup relievers Sean Marshall and Jonathan Broxton, and cleanup hitter Ryan Ludwick for most of the season. Ludwick tore cartilage in his right shoulder while sliding into a base on opening day and was out for more than three months.

They were six games out on Aug. 9, in danger of falling out of the division's three-team race.

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Bengals ‘D’ doesn’t flinch Makes big play to finish off win over Packers

CINCINNATI (AP) — The Bengals' defense has a motto: Don't flinch.

On the worst day, it didn't. And as a result, Cincinnati is looking mighty good at the moment.

The Bengals made NFL history — admittedly, weird NFL history — with their 34-30 win over the Green Bay Packers on Sunday. The offense turned the ball over four times to one of the league's best offenses, but that unflinching defense minimized the damage.

Then, it scored the winning touchdown on Terence Newman's 58-yard fumble return with 3:47 left, and finished the day by batting down Aaron Rodgers' fourth-down pass at the Cincinnati 20-yard line.

Some performance.

"Yeah man, that was tough," defensive tackle Domata Peko said. "There were a lot of turnovers in a row and them getting the ball at the 40, at the 20, in the red zone. It just shows our character.

AP PHOTO "We've been building Terence Newman is on his way to the end zone with here for a lot of years, and the winning touchdown against the Packers Sunday. guys just stepped up their

game. Every time we take the field, we take it like we own it. We stood firm as a defense. As long as we do that all season, we should have a chance to win a lot of games."

The Bengals (2-1) recovered from a mistake-filled 24-21 loss in Chicago by winning two games in six days at Paul Brown Stadium, with the defense leading the way. It handled Pittsburgh's mess of an offense for a 20-10 win on Monday night, then held up under the toughest type of challenge on Sunday.

Cincinnati's offense turned the ball over four times in the first half.

Andy Dalton's interception gave Green Bay the ball at Cincinnati's 26, but the defense held for three plays and forced a field goal.

A fumble turned the ball over at the Cincinnati 37-yard line. This time, the defense forced a punt.

The defense couldn't do anything after BenJarvus Green-Ellis' fumble — M.D. Jennings returned it for a touchdown.

Perhaps the saving series came after another

fumble turned it over at the Cincinnati 21-yard line midway through the second quarter. The Packers got to a first-and-goal at the 5-yard line, but Rodgers was stopped at the 1-yard line on a thirddown scramble, forcing another field goal.

Four turnovers, only 13 points allowed. That made a difference.

"A lot of times, when things aren't going well, guys are on the sidelines bickering with one another," Newman said.

"There was none of that (on Sunday). I think that was the key to us playing the way we did."

The defensive line gave Rodgers a rough time, sacking him four times and giving him little time to throw the ball. The Bengals' tall ends — 6-foot-7 Michael Johnson and 6foot-6 Carlos Dunlap — batted down three passes, with Johnson swatting away Rodgers' fourthdown throw in the closing minutes to clinch it.

"We didn't flinch," safety Reggie Nelson said.

"That's what you call a good game, man. We're going against the No. 1 of-

fense. Our defense just plays together and when things happen, we move on to the next play.

"I think we did a good job of that, sticking together and not deteriorating."

The Bengals play at Cleveland (1-2) on Sunday with a chance to improve to 2-0 in the AFC North.

They're trying to reach the playoffs for the third season in a row, something the franchise has never accomplished. They made it the last two years as a wild card.

Cincinnati spent a lot of time and money keeping its defense intact from last season, when it finished sixth overall in the NFL. The early returns are encouraging.

"Oh man, big-time confidence," Peko said. "We already have a lot of confidence here. To win against a great quarterback and a great team like this, that really helps us out a lot, just to measure ourselves.

"It wasn't the perfect game by far.

“We had a lot of mistakes out there and a lot of good plays as well. A great win for us."

OSU ready for ‘Classic’ Wisconsin visits for night game

BY JIM NAVEAU Lima News COLUMBUS — Ohio State’s Saturday night matchup with Wisconsin will be “a classic,” Urban Meyer said on Monday at his weekly press conference.

At $110 a ticket, in the first premium priced football game ever at Ohio State, the Buckeyes’ fans hope he is right.

No. 4 Ohio State (4-0, 0-0 Big Ten) will be trying to take another step toward back-toback undefeated seasons when it plays No. 23 Wisconsin at 8 p.m. Saturday in a nationally televised game.

The classic part is yet to be determined. But Wisconsin (31, 1-0 Big Ten) is a step up from anyone so far on OSU’s schedule and definitely light years ahead of the Florida A&M team the Buckeyes beat 76-0 last Saturday.

Rising to another level of competition should not be a problem for OSU, Meyer said.

“I think it’s the way we practice. I’d like to think that our guys get prepared for those type situations by the way we practice. Tuesdays, I’ve been told, are as hard as game days.

“That’s kind of the way we do our business around here,” he said. “But that is a concern.”

Center Corey Linsley says starting Big Ten competition and beginning it with a matchup against a team of Wisconsin’s ability has definitely grabbed the Buckeyes’ attention.

“Jack (offensive tackle Jack Mewhort) told me yesterday, ‘It’s nice to play somebody this week.’ We played somebody against Cal. And those other opponents played hard. But it’s not like a Big Ten game.

“It could be because the Big Ten season has its own feel to it. It’s colder outside, the practices are a little bit longer, the preparations are a little more intense. Everything is amped up a little because it’s conference play. It’s nice to get back to that mentality,” Linsley said.

Back-up quarterback Kenny Guiton continued his magical September by throwing for an Ohio State-record six touchdowns against Florida A&M

and was named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week for a second consecutive week.

But if starter Braxton Miller is healthy enough to play, Guiton will return to the bench after starting the last two games.

Meyer said Miller is around 90 percent of full strength now, a little more than two weeks after suffering a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee.

“We’ll see how practice goes,” Meyer said.

Some of Ohio State’s players sounded more optimistic than Meyer about their starting quarterback returning this week.

“He’ll be good to go,” wide receiver Evan Spencer said.

“He looked good on Sunday, we were just throwing and catching the ball good. Our Sunday practices are more pitch and catch, he wasn’t really taking off (running).”

Linsley said, “I don’t mean to talk him up too much but he did look phenomenal yesterday. He was whizzing the ball over my head and I thought, ‘He’s back.’

BENNETT BACK, WASHINGTON PROBABLE; At least one of the starting defensive linemen who missed the Florida A&M game will be back in the lineup this week.

Meyer said Michael Bennett, who sat out with a shoulder injury, will play. Adolphus Washington, who has missed two games because of a groin injury, is probable.

“We’re really hoping to get Adolphus back,” Meyer said.

CONFIDENT RECEIVERS: When it was pointed out to Spencer that Wisconsin has not allowed a passing touchdown this season, he said, “I can tell you that little record probably won’t stand too long.”

CLARK INJURY SERIOUS: The ankle injury freshman receiver James Clark suffered against Florida A&M appears to be the end of his season. “He's probably done for the year,” receivers coach Zach Smith confirmed on Monday.

NETWORK NEWS: Ohio State game at Northwestern on Oct. 5 will be televised by ABC.

AP PHOTO

Will Brian Hoyer remain as the Cleveland Browns starting quarterback this week.

Will Browns do quarterback re-boot for Bengals game?

Team uncertain if Hoyer will get another start BEREA (AP) — After a quarterback change and blockbuster trade unsettled them and the outside world threatened to tear their young season apart, the Cleveland Browns pulled together.

They ignored all the rumors and focused on their jobs. They went to Minnesota, rallied in the fourth quarter behind a hometown hero and won.

A stunning week — from start to finish.

"Our guys showed a lot of toughness and determination," said Browns coach Rob Chudzinski, who notched his first win Sunday. "It wasn't always pretty, but our guys scrapped, fought and found a way to win."

As one.

The Browns (1-2) were still bathing in the afterglow of their 31-27 win over the Vikings, a victory that came a few days after the team shook the NFL by trading star running back Trent Richardson to Indianapolis for a first-round draft pick. The deal came hours after Chudzinski selected third-string quarterback Brian Hoyer to start ahead of backup Jason Campbell for the

injured Brandon Weeden, and wide receiver Greg Little being dropped from the starting lineup.

Those events could have rattled the Browns. Instead, it prompted resolve.

"Pretty resilient," tight end Jordan Cameron said. "We got together last week after the news about Trent and we kind of came closer as a team. The team leaders talked to us about trusting this organization and where we're going as a team and we did a good job of that.

"It was a huge week."

Chudzinski called two momentum-swinging trick plays and Hoyer overcame three interceptions with three touchdown passes, the final one to Cameron with 51 seconds left.

But while the turbulence of last week has dissipated, there are still some unsettled issues.

Chudzinski said he has not yet decided whether to stick with Hoyer for this week's home game against Cincinnati or go back to Weeden, who lost his job because of a sprained right thumb.

While it would seem logical to

stay with Hoyer, who finished 30 of 54 for 321 yards, the choice made not be that simple. If Weeden is healthy, Chudzinski would be setting a dangerous precedent if he decided to play Hoyer. Typically, starters do not lose their jobs because of injuries.

Chudzinski, who made several daring calls in Sunday's win, is facing the toughest one of his young career.

"I'm going to wait to make any determination on that until I have all the information," Chudzinski said. "That's how we did it last week.

“We'll look at it every week and make the best determination of who it is that's going to play that position, as well as any position."

Chudzinski said Weeden's sprained right thumb has improved, but the second-year QB hasn't thrown the ball since the fourth quarter vs. Baltimore Sept. 15.

Making just his second career start, the 27-year-old Hoyer showed the poise and composure of a veteran who had done it dozens of times before.

SPORTS

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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

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Ohio High School Football Computer Ratings DIVISION I

Region 1 1. Austintown-Fitch (4-0) 11.3, 2. Hudson (4-0) 11.1, 3. Lakewood St. Edward (4-0) 10.875, 4. Elyria (4-0) 9.425, 5. Marysville (4-0) 9.225, 6. Stow-Munroe Falls (4-0) 8.6, 7. Cle. St. Ignatius (3-1) 8.375, 8. Canton McKinley (4-0) 7.9617, 9. Shaker Hts. (4-0) 7.825, 10. Cleveland Heights (3-1) 7.475, 11. Westerville Central (3-1) 7.3, 12.

Wadsworth (3-1) 6.975, 13. Green (3-1) 6.8, 14. Mentor (3-1) 6.65, 15. Solon (2-2) 5.8, 16. Brunswick (2-2) 5.4, 17. Findlay (2-2) 5.3, 18. Medina (2-2) 4.8, 19. Massillon Jackson (2-2) 4.725, 20. Warren G. Harding (2-2) 4.525 Region 2 1. Centerville (4-0) 12.5366, 2. Cin. Colerain (4-0) 12.05, 3. Cin. Archbishop Moeller (4-0) 11.425, 4. Hilliard Davidson (4-0) 10.75, 5. Fairfield (4-0) 9.25, 6. Pickerington North (4-0) 8.975, 7. Cin. Elder (31) 8.725, 8. Clayton Northmont (3-1) 8.5379, 9. Cin. St. Xavier (3-1) 8.3, 10. Cin. Sycamore (4-0) 8.275, 11. Miamisburg (31) 8.05, 12. Reynoldsburg (3-1) 7.85, 13.

West Chester Lakota West (3-1) 7.8, 14.

Springboro (3-1) 7.05, 15. Huber Hts. Wayne (3-1) 7.0253, 16. Pickerington Central (2-1) 6.3889, 17. Hilliard Darby (3-1) 5.875, 18. Westerville South (3-1) 5.4, 19.

Lebanon (2-2) 5.325, 20. Milford (3-1) 5.15 DIVISION II Region 3 1. Willoughby South (4-0) 10.65, 2. Cle. Glenville (3-1) 7.8, 3. North Olmsted (3-1) 7.475, 4. Westlake (3-1) 6.825, 5. Kent Roosevelt (3-1) 6.725, 6. Brecksville-Broadview Hts. (3-1) 6.225, 7. Madison (3-1) 6.15, 8.

Garfield Hts. (3-1) 5.6, tie-9. Lyndhurst Brush (2-2) 5.225, tie-9. Bedford (3-1) 5.225, 11. Painesville Riverside (2-2) 4.725, 12. Mayfield (2-2) 4.15 Region 4 1. Massillon Washington (4-0) 9.55, 2.

Medina Highland (4-0) 9.35, 3. Avon (4-0) 9.225, 4. Akron Ellet (4-0) 8.8, 5. Macedonia Nordonia (4-0) 8.775, 6. Avon Lake (31) 6.9, 7. Tol. Bowsher (3-1) 6.475, 8.

Grafton Midview (3-1) 6.35, 9. Uniontown

Lake (2-2) 6.3, 10. Tol. St. Francis deSales (3-1) 6.125, 11. Copley (3-1) 5.525, 12.

North Ridgeville (2-2) 5.4 Region 5 1. New Albany (4-0) 10.875, 2. Zanesville (4-0) 8.525, 3. Mansfield Senior (4-0) 8.325, 4. Pataskala Licking Hts. (4-0) 7.9, 5. Worthington Kilbourne (3-1) 7.825, 6. Lewis Center Olentangy (4-0) 7.625, 7. Mount Vernon (3-1) 6.075, 8. Pataskala Watkins Memorial (3-1) 6.025, 9. Cols. Walnut Ridge (3-1) 5.85, 10. Dublin Scioto (2-2) 5.575, 11.

Dublin Jerome (2-2) 5.25, 12. Cols. Northland (2-1) 5.0556 Region 6 1. Loveland (4-0) 10.4, 2. Cin. Winton Woods (4-0) 9.775, 3. Cin. Northwest (4-0) 9.325, 4. Cin. Mount Healthy (3-1) 7.175, 5.

Cin. LaSalle (3-1) 7.075, 6. Cin. Withrow (31) 6.675, 7. Kings Mills Kings (3-1) 6.325, 8. Cin. Anderson (2-2) 4.8, 9. Lima Senior (2-2) 4.7, 10. Riverside Stebbins (3-1) 4.475, 11. Vandalia Butler (2-2) 3.825, 12.

Troy (2-2) 3.675 DIVISION III Region 7 1. Akron St. Vincent-St Mary (4-0) 9.225, 2. Poland Seminary (4-0) 8.95, 3. Hubbard (4-0) 7.5, 4. Chesterland West Geauga (31) 7.3, tie-5. Chagrin Falls Kenston (3-1) 7.25, tie-5. Aurora (4-0) 7.25, 7. Tallmadge (3-1) 7.2, 8. Louisville (4-0) 6.525, 9. Canton South (3-1) 5.8, 10. Alliance Marlington (3-1) 5.3, 11. Akron Archbishop Hoban (22) 4.7, 12. Norton (3-1) 4.525 Region 8 1. Tol. Central Cath. (4-0) 10.325, 2.

Clyde (4-0) 9.825, 3. Tiffin Columbian (3-1) 7.4, 4. Sandusky Perkins (4-0) 7.3, 5. Norwalk (3-1) 6.9, 6. Napoleon (3-1) 6.35, 7.

Parma Padua Franciscan (2-2) 4.7, 8. Lodi Cloverleaf (2-2) 3.875, 9. Defiance (2-2) 3.525, 10. Elida (2-2) 2.65, 11. Lima Shawnee (2-2) 2.5, 12. Mentor Lake Cath.

(1-3) 2.375 Region 9 1. The Plains Athens (4-0) 10.575, 2.

Chillicothe (4-0) 9.075, 3. Cols. MarionFranklin (3-1) 7.475, 4. New Philadelphia

(4-0) 7.125, 5. Carrollton (3-1) 7.025, 6.

Millersburg West Holmes (4-0) 6.8, 7. Dover (3-1) 6.1607, 8. Washington C.H. Washington (3-1) 6.125, 9. Granville (3-1) 5.875, 10.

Circleville Logan Elm (3-1) 5.65, 11.

Thornville Sheridan (3-1) 5.15, 12. Cols.

Centennial (3-1) 5.05 Region 10 1. Mount Orab Western Brown (4-0) 8.4028, 2. Springfield Shawnee (4-0) 7.95, 3. Day. Thurgood Marshall (2-1) 7.7778, 4.

Celina (4-0) 7.7, 5. Tipp City Tippecanoe (40) 6.425, 6. Wapakoneta (3-1) 6.0, 7.

Springfield Kenton Ridge (4-0) 5.625, 8.

New Richmond (3-1) 5.3, 9. Trotwood-Madison (2-1) 5.0556, 10. Franklin (3-1) 4.95, 11. Hamilton Ross (2-2) 4.075, 12. Goshen (3-1) 4.029 DIVISION IV Region 11 1. Perry (2-1) 7.725, 2. Struthers (3-0) 7.375, 3. Fairview Park Fairview (3-0) 6.9, 4.

Minerva (2-1) 6.0, 5. Cle. Central Cath. (21) 5.6, 5. Chardon Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin (2-1) 5.6, 7. Pepper Pike Orange (2-1) 5.575, 8. Cuyahoga Falls Cuyahoga Valley Christian Acad. (2-2) 5.275, 9. Chagrin Falls (2-2) 4.6, 10. Peninsula Woodridge (2-2) 4.55, 11. Cle. John Hay (1-1) 4.5, 12.

Streetsboro (1-1) 4.4 Region 12 1. Caledonia River Valley (4-0) 9.75, 2.

Wauseon (4-0) 7.825, 3. Kenton (4-0) 7.8, 4. Galion (4-0) 7.225, 5. Genoa Area (4-0) 7.175, 6. Millbury Lake (4-0) 7.0, 7. Sparta Highland (3-1) 6.825, 8. Bryan (4-0) 6.775, 9. Upper Sandusky (4-0) 5.65, 10. Ontario (3-1) 5.6, 11. Wooster Triway (2-2) 4.575, 12. Vermilion (2-2) 3.7 Region 13 1. Carroll Bloom-Carroll (4-0) 8.25, 2.

Zanesville Maysville (4-0) 7.925, 3.

Gnadenhutten Indian Valley (4-0) 7.15, 4.

Steubenville (4-0) 6.7702, 5. Bexley (4-0) 6.55, 6. Wintersville Indian Creek (4-0) 5.875, 7. Newark Licking Valley (3-1) 5.35, 8. Duncan Falls Philo (3-1) 5.125, 9.

Uhrichsville Claymont (2-2) 5.075, 10. New Concord John Glenn (3-1) 4.45, 11. Vincent

Warren (2-2) 4.1616, 12. Byesville Meadowbrook (3-1) 3.25 Region 14 1. North Bend Taylor (4-0) 8.475, 2.

Clarksville Clinton-Massie (4-0) 7.9, 3. Germantown Valley View (4-0) 7.8, 4. Urbana (4-0) 7.775, 5. Washington C.H. Miami Trace (3-1) 7.65, 6. Kettering Archbishop Alter (3-1) 6.375, 7. Middletown Bishop Fenwick (3-1) 6.0, 8. Cin. Archbishop McNicholas (3-1) 5.9388, 9. Minford (4-0) 5.625, 10. Eaton (3-1) 5.35, 11. Gallipolis Gallia Acad. (3-1) 5.075, 12. Greenfield McClain (3-1) 4.85 DIVISION V Region 15 1. Navarre Fairless (4-0) 6.875, 2. Akron Manchester (3-1) 6.125, 3. Independence (3-1) 5.675, 4. Columbiana Crestview (3-1) 5.525, 5. Gates Mills Gilmour Acad. (3-1) 4.825, 6.Youngstown Ursuline (2-2) 4.7917, 7. Youngstown Liberty (2-2) 4.4, 8. Beachwood (2-2) 4.3, 9. Cadiz Harrison Central (2-2) 4.175, 10. Sullivan Black River (2-2) 4.0, 11. Warren Champion (2-2) 3.975, 12.

Wickliffe (2-2) 3.6 Region 16 1. Orrville (4-0) 7.925, 2. Columbia Station Columbia (4-0) 7.15, 3. Pemberville Eastwood (3-1) 6.75, 4. Loudonville (4-0) 6.4, 5. Findlay Liberty-Benton (4-0) 5.625, 6. Coldwater (3-1) 5.45, 7. West Salem Northwestern (3-1) 5.3, 8. Huron (3-1) 5.275, 9. Creston Norwayne (3-1) 5.225, 10.

Apple Creek Waynedale (3-1) 5.05, 11. Ottawa-Glandorf (3-1) 4.75, 12. Liberty Center (3-1) 4.5 Region 17 1. Cols. Bishop Hartley (3-1) 7.425, 2.

Wheelersburg (4-0) 6.775, 3. St. Clairsville (4-0) 6.7023, 4. Martins Ferry (3-1) 5.9482, 5. South Point (4-0) 5.7, 6. Baltimore Liberty Union (4-0) 5.65, 7. Belmont Union Local (3-1) 4.0, 8. Ironton (2-2) 3.95, 9. Chillicothe Southeastern (2-2) 3.9, 10. Proctorville Fairland (2-2) 3.675, 11. Waverly (2-2) 3.1, 12. McDermott Northwest (2-2) 2.225 Region 18 1. Hamilton Badin (4-0) 8.15, 2. Cin. Hills Christian Acad. (4-0) 7.55, 3. Day. Chami-

nade-Julienne (3-1) 7.2602, 4. Richwood North Union (4-0) 6.3, 5. Brookville (3-1) 5.975, 6. Cin. Purcell Marian (3-1) 5.9, 7.

Reading (3-1) 5.75, 8. West Jefferson (3-1) 5.725, 9. Cin. Clark Montessori (3-1) 4.975, 10. Cin. Mariemont (2-2) 4.325, 11. Cin. Madeira (3-1) 4.25, 12. Middletown Madison (2-2) 4.125 DIVISION VI

Region 19 1. Mogadore (4-0) 7.675, 2. North Lima South Range (4-0) 7.35, 3. Louisville St. Thomas Aquinas (3-1) 6.15, 4. Kirtland (40) 5.2045, tie-5. McDonald (3-1) 5.15, tie-5.

Cle. Villa Angela-St. Joseph (4-0) 5.15, 7.

Brookfield (3-1) 5.125, 8. Cuyahoga Hts. (31) 4.675, 9. New Middletown Springfield (31) 4.25, 10. New London (3-1) 3.925, 11.

Jeromesville Hillsdale (2-2) 3.425, 12. Sugarcreek Garaway (2-2) 3.35 Region 20 1. Haviland Wayne Trace (4-0) 7.925, 2.

Delphos Jefferson (4-0) 5.85, 3. North Robinson Colonel Crawford (3-1) 5.425, 4.

Hamler Patrick Henry (3-1) 5.2, 5. Convoy Crestview (3-1) 5.125, 6. Bascom Hopewell-Loudon (3-1) 4.9, 7. Ada (3-1) 4.65, 8. Defiance Tinora (3-1) 4.525, 9.

Spencerville (3-1) 4.1, 10. Kansas Lakota (3-1) 3.85, 11. Defiance Ayersville (3-1) 3.65, tie-12. Elmore Woodmore (3-1) 3.4, tie-12. Lima Central Cath. (3-1) 3.4 Region 21 1. Cols. Bishop Ready (4-0) 8.625, 2.

Centerburg (4-0) 6.75, 3. Lucasville Valley (4-0) 5.4, 4. Oak Hill (4-0) 5.35, 5. Beverly Fort Frye (4-0) 4.8, 6. Bellaire (2-2) 4.6957, 7. Newark Cath. (3-1) 4.1, 8. Crooksville (22) 3.125, 9. West Lafayette Ridgewood (22) 3.0, 10. Gahanna Cols. Acad. (2-2) 2.975, 11. Fredericktown (2-2) 2.65, tie-12.

Woodsfield Monroe Central (2-2) 2.625, tie12. Lore City Buckeye Trail (2-2) 2.625 Region 22 1. Lewisburg Tri-County North (4-0) 6.35, 2. Casstown Miami East (4-0) 6.3, 3. Cin. Summit Country Day (4-0) 5.3611, 4. Cin. Country Day (4-0) 5.1, 5. West LibertySalem (4-0) 4.95, 6. New Paris National

Trail (3-1) 4.7146, 7. Fayetteville-Perry (3-1) 4.225, 8. West Alexandria Twin Valley South (3-1) 3.75, 9. Anna (2-2) 3.7, 10. Williamsburg (2-2) 3.475, 11. St. Bernard-Elmwood Place (2-1) 3.2778, 12. Mechanicsburg (31) 2.75 DIVISION VII Region 23 1. Berlin Center Western Reserve (4-0) 8.2, 2. Wellsville (4-0) 6.4, 3. Ashland Mapleton (3-1) 4.75, 4. Lowellville (3-1) 4.2412, 5. Danville (3-1) 4.15, tie-6. Mineral Ridge (3-1) 4.075, 6. Tie-Southington Chalker (3-1) 4.075, 8. Plymouth (3-1) 3.775, 9. Vienna Mathews (3-1) 3.5821, 10.

Norwalk St. Paul (3-1) 3.5, 11. Leetonia (22) 3.025, 12. Sebring McKinley (2-2) 2.9116 Region 24 1. Arlington (4-0) 6.175, 2. Fremont St. Joseph Central Cath. (3-1) 4.725, 3. Leipsic (3-1) 4.675, 4. McComb (3-1) 4.25, tie5. North Baltimore (2-2) 3.075, tie-5.

Pandora-Gilboa (3-1) 3.075, 7. Tol. Christian (2-2) 2.95, 8. Hicksville (2-2) 2.925, 9.

Holgate (2-2) 2.8, tie-10. Tiffin Calvert (1-3) 2.1, tie-10. Edon (2-2) 2.1, 12. Lakeside Danbury (2-2) 1.75 Region 25 1. Glouster Trimble (4-0) 7.725, 2. Shadyside (4-0) 7.35, 3. Steubenville Cath. Central (4-0) 6.25, 4. Racine Southern (4-0) 5.75, 5. Malvern (3-1) 4.725, 6. Beallsville (3-1) 4.4432, 7. Strasburg-Franklin (3-1) 3.85, 8. Willow Wood Symmes Valley (3-1) 3.575, 9. Caldwell (2-2) 3.025, tie-10.

Crown City South Gallia (2-2) 2.45, tie-10.

Reedsville Eastern (2-2) 2.45, 12. New Matamoras Frontier (2-2) 2.275, Region 26 1. Maria Stein Marion Local (4-0) 8.175, 2. Cedarville (4-0) 6.5, 3. North Lewisburg Triad (4-0) 6.0, 4. Portsmouth Notre Dame (4-0) 5.425, tie-5. Bainbridge Paint Valley (4-0) 5.2, tie-5. Covington (4-0) 5.2, 7. Fort Loramie (3-1) 5.0, 8. Sidney Lehman Cath. (3-1) 4.425, 9. Manchester (3-1) 3.575, 10. McGuffey Upper Scioto Valley (31) 3.1, 11. Fairfield Cin. Christian (2-2) 2.6035, 12. DeGraff Riverside (2-2) 2.1035,

Record Book Football

Browns Stats

NFL Standings National Football League All Times EDT AMERICAN CONFERENCE East New England Miami N.Y. Jets Buffalo South Houston Indianapolis Tennessee Jacksonville North Cincinnati Baltimore Cleveland Pittsburgh West

W 3 3 2 1

L 0 0 1 2

T 0 0 0 0

Pct 1.000 1.000 .667 .333

PF 59 74 55 65

PA 34 53 50 73

W 2 2 2 0

L 1 1 1 3

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .667 .667 .000

PF 70 68 60 28

PA 82 48 56 92

W 2 2 1 0

L 1 1 2 3

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .667 .333 .000

PF 75 71 47 42

PA 64 64 64 76

W L T Pct PF PA Denver 3 0 0 1.000 127 71 Kansas City 3 0 0 1.000 71 34 San Diego 1 2 0 .333 78 81 67 Oakland 1 2 0 .333 57 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Dallas 2 1 0 .667 83 55 Philadelphia 1 2 0 .333 79 86 N.Y. Giants 0 3 0 .000 54 115 Washington 0 3 0 .000 67 98 South W L T Pct PF PA New Orleans 3 0 0 1.000 70 38 Carolina 1 2 0 .333 68 36 Atlanta 1 2 0 .333 71 74 Tampa Bay 0 3 0 .000 34 57 North W L T Pct PF PA Chicago 3 0 0 1.000 95 74 Detroit 2 1 0 .667 82 69 Green Bay 1 2 0 .333 96 88 Minnesota 0 3 0 .000 81 96 West W L T Pct PF PA Seattle 3 0 0 1.000 86 27 St. Louis 1 2 0 .333 58 86 San Francisco 1 2 0 .333 44 84 Arizona 1 2 0 .333 56 79 Thursday's Game Kansas City 26, Philadelphia 16 Sunday's Games Tennessee 20, San Diego 17 New Orleans 31, Arizona 7 Dallas 31, St. Louis 7 Cleveland 31, Minnesota 27 Baltimore 30, Houston 9 Carolina 38, N.Y. Giants 0 Detroit 27, Washington 20 New England 23, Tampa Bay 3 Cincinnati 34, Green Bay 30 Miami 27, Atlanta 23 Indianapolis 27, San Francisco 7 Seattle 45, Jacksonville 17 N.Y. Jets 27, Buffalo 20 Chicago 40, Pittsburgh 23 Monday's Game Denver 37, Oakland 21 Thursday, Sep. 26 San Francisco at St. Louis, 8:25 p.m.

Sunday, Sep. 29 N.Y. Giants at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Seattle at Houston, 1 p.m.

Baltimore at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Arizona at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.

Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

Cincinnati at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Chicago at Detroit, 1 p.m.

Pittsburgh vs. Minnesota at London, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Tennessee, 4:05 p.m.

Washington at Oakland, 4:25 p.m.

Dallas at San Diego, 4:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at Denver, 4:25 p.m.

New England at Atlanta, 8:30 p.m.

Open: Carolina, Green Bay Monday, Sep. 30 Miami at New Orleans, 8:40 p.m.

Bengals Stats Packers-Bengals Stats Green Bay 0 16 14 0—30 Cincinnati 14 0 7 13—34 First Quarter Cin—Bernard 3 run (Nugent kick), 9:20.

Cin—Green-Ellis 2 run (Nugent kick), 9:08.

Second Quarter GB—FG Crosby 41, 14:57.

GB—Jennings 24 fumble return (Crosby kick), 11:22.

GB—FG Crosby 19, 6:32.

GB—FG Crosby 26, :00.

Third Quarter GB—Franklin 2 run (Crosby kick), 11:40.

GB—J.Jones 7 pass from Rodgers (Crosby kick), 5:30.

Cin—Green 20 pass from Dalton (Nugent kick), 3:50.

Fourth Quarter Cin—M.Jones 11 pass from Dalton (kick blocked), 10:55.

Cin—Newman 58 offensive fumble return (Nugent kick), 3:47.

A—64,633.

——— GB Cin First downs 27 19 Total Net Yards 399 297 Rushes-yards 30-182 24-82 Passing 217 215 Punt Returns 0-0 0-0 Kickoff Returns 2-21 4-111 Interceptions Ret. 1-1 2-9 Comp-Att-Int 26-43-2 20-28-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 4-27 4-20 Punts 3-43.3 3-43.7 Fumbles-Lost 2-2 5-3 Penalties-Yards 4-55 5-43 Time of Possession 31:51 28:09 ——— INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Green Bay, Franklin 13-103, Starks 14-55, Rodgers 3-24. Cincinnati, Bernard 10-50, Green-Ellis 10-29, Dalton 4-3.

PASSING—Green Bay, Rodgers 26-43-2-244.

Cincinnati, Dalton 20-28-1-235.

RECEIVING—Green Bay, Nelson 8-93, Cobb 554, J.Jones 4-34, Franklin 3-23, Quarless 3-21, R.Taylor 2-11, Ross 1-8. Cincinnati, Sanu 4-68, Bernard 4-49, Green 4-46, Gresham 4-27, M.Jones 3-38, Eifert 1-7.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—Cincinnati, Nugent 52 (WL).

Browns-Vikings Stats Cleveland 7 17 0 7—31 Minnesota 7 10 7 3—27 First Quarter Min—Peterson 2 run (Walsh kick), 9:13.

Cle—Gordon 47 pass from Hoyer (Cundiff kick), 4:42.

Second Quarter Cle—Cameron 19 pass from Hoyer (Cundiff kick), 14:55.

Min—Ponder 6 run (Walsh kick), 10:12.

Cle—FG Cundiff 38, 6:07.

Cle—Cameron 11 pass from Lanning (Cundiff kick), 3:39.

Min—FG Walsh 43, 1:08.

Third Quarter Min—Ponder 8 run (Walsh kick), 2:36.

Fourth Quarter Min—FG Walsh 30, 10:47.

Cle—Cameron 7 pass from Hoyer (Lanning kick), :51.

A—63,672.

——— Cle Min First downs 23 21 Total Net Yards 409 329 Rushes-yards 17-103 31-134 Passing 306 195 Punt Returns 3-20 2-2 Kickoff Returns 1-26 3-78 Interceptions Ret. 1-13 3-36 Comp-Att-Int 31-55-3 25-42-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 3-26 6-33 Punts 5-46.8 7-46.4 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 3-2 Penalties-Yards 5-47 4-35 Time of Possession 28:52 31:08 ——— INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Cleveland, Aubrey 1-34, Ogbonnaya 2-23, Gordon 1-22, Rainey 4-17, McGahee 8-9, Hoyer 1-(minus 2). Minnesota, Peterson 25-88, Ponder 5-46, Patterson 1-0.

PASSING—Cleveland, Hoyer 30-54-3-321, Lanning 1-1-0-11. Minnesota, Ponder 25-42-1-228.

RECEIVING—Cleveland, Gordon 10-146, Bess 7-67, Cameron 6-66, Ogbonnaya 4-30, Little 3-19, Rainey 1-4. Minnesota, Peterson 6-27, Rudolph 528, Jennings 3-43, Wright 3-35, Simpson 3-29, Patterson 2-49, Gerhart 2-14, Carlson 1-3.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

Top 25 AP Poll The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sept. 21, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking: Record Pts Pv 1. Alabama (56) 3-0 1,496 1 2. Oregon (4) 3-0 1,418 2 3. Clemson 3-0 1,340 3 4. Ohio St. 4-0 1,320 4 5. Stanford 3-0 1,270 5 6. LSU 4-0 1,167 6 7. Louisville 4-0 1,088 7 8. Florida St. 3-0 1,049 8 9 9. Georgia 2-1 1,029 10. Texas A&M 3-1 1,011 10 11. Oklahoma St. 3-0 849 11 12. South Carolina 2-1 828 12 13. UCLA 3-0 798 13 14. Oklahoma 3-0 689 14 15. Miami 3-0 687 16 16. Washington 3-0 559 17 17. Northwestern 4-0 477 18 18. Michigan 4-0 450 15 19. Baylor 3-0 441 20 20. Florida 2-1 414 19 21. Mississippi 3-0 342 21 22. Notre Dame 3-1 256 22 23. Wisconsin 3-1 130 24 24. Texas Tech 4-0 127 25 25. Fresno St. 3-0 110 NR Others receiving votes: Arizona St. 41, Georgia Tech 30, Maryland 24, UCF 19, Nebraska 13, N. Illinois 9, Arizona 8, Virginia Tech 4, Michigan St. 3, Missouri 2, Navy 1, Rutgers 1.

USA Today Top 25 The USA Today Top 25 football coaches poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sept. 21, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Alabama (59) 3-0 1,547 1 2. Oregon (3) 3-0 1,480 2 3. Ohio St. 4-0 1,399 3 4. Clemson 3-0 1,332 4 5. Stanford 3-0 1,312 5 6. LSU 4-0 1,161 7 7. Louisville 4-0 1,140 6 8. Florida St. 3-0 1,121 8 9. Texas A&M 3-1 1,044 9 10. Georgia 2-1 1,020 10 3-0 909 11 11. Oklahoma St. 12. Oklahoma 3-0 863 12 13. South Carolina 2-1 825 13 14. UCLA 3-0 731 15 15. Miami 3-0 613 17 16. Northwestern 4-0 560 16 17. Michigan 4-0 534 14 18. Baylor 3-0 465 19 19. Florida 2-1 449 18 20. Washington 3-0 427 20 21. Mississippi 3-0 331 22 22. Notre Dame 3-1 317 21 23. Fresno St. 3-0 156 25 24. Wisconsin 3-1 98 NR 25. Texas Tech 4-0 92 NR Others Receiving Votes: Georgia Tech 47; Central Florida 35; Nebraska 34; Arizona 33; Northern Illinois 21; Arizona State 19; Maryland 11; Michigan State 8; Rutgers 5; Texas 4; Virginia Tech 3; Missouri 2; Minnesota 1; Utah 1.

College Schedule College Football Schedule All Times EDT (Subject to change) Thursday, Sept. 26 SOUTH Virginia Tech (3-1) at Georgia Tech (3-0), 7:30 p.m.

Howard (1-2) at NC A&T (2-0), 7:30 p.m.

SOUTHWEST Iowa St. (0-2) at Tulsa (1-2), 7:30 p.m.

FAR WEST Cal Poly (1-2) at Portland St. (3-1), 10:15 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 27 FAR WEST Middle Tennessee (3-1) at BYU (1-2), 9 p.m.

Utah St. (2-2) at San Jose St. (1-2), 9 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 28 EAST Fordham (4-0) at St. Francis (Pa.) (1-2), Noon

Oklahoma St. (3-0) at West Virginia (2-2), Noon Cornell (1-0) at Yale (1-0), Noon Monmouth (NJ) (1-3) at Columbia (0-1), 12:30 p.m.

New Hampshire (1-1) at Lehigh (3-0), 12:30 p.m.

Virginia (2-1) at Pittsburgh (2-1), 12:30 p.m.

CCSU (1-3) at Rhode Island (1-3), 1 p.m.

Bryant (2-1) at Wagner (1-3), 1 p.m.

Princeton (0-1) at Georgetown (1-3), 2 p.m.

Florida St. (3-0) at Boston College (2-1), 3:30 p.m.

UConn (0-3) at Buffalo (1-2), 3:30 p.m.

Penn (1-0) at Villanova (1-2), 5 p.m.

Sacred Heart (4-0) at Bucknell (1-1), 6 p.m.

Towson (4-0) at Stony Brook (1-2), 6 p.m.

Holy Cross (1-3) at Dartmouth (1-0), 7 p.m.

James Madison (3-1) at Delaware (3-1), 7 p.m.

Brown (1-0) at Harvard (1-0), 7:30 p.m.

SOUTH Butler (2-2) at Jacksonville (2-2), Noon Miami (3-0) at South Florida (0-3), Noon South Carolina (2-1) at UCF (3-0), Noon South Alabama (2-1) at Tennessee (2-2), 12:21 p.m.

East Carolina (2-1) at North Carolina (1-2), 12:30 p.m.

Drake (1-2) at Mercer (3-0), 1 p.m.

Davidson (0-3) at Morehead St. (0-4), 1 p.m.

Norfolk St. (0-3) at Morgan St. (0-4), 1 p.m.

San Diego (1-2) at Stetson (1-2), 1 p.m.

Coastal Carolina (4-0) at Elon (1-3), 1:30 p.m.

Robert Morris (1-2) at VMI (1-3), 1:30 p.m.

Charlotte (2-2) at Presbyterian (1-2), 2 p.m.

Hampton (0-4) at SC State (2-2), 2 p.m.

Navy (2-0) at W. Kentucky (2-2), 2 p.m.

Troy (2-2) at Duke (2-2), 3 p.m.

W. Carolina (1-3) at Samford (2-2), 3 p.m.

Charleston Southern (4-0) at Appalachian St. (12), 3:30 p.m.

Wake Forest (2-2) at Clemson (3-0), 3:30 p.m.

LSU (4-0) at Georgia (2-1), 3:30 p.m.

Cent. Michigan (1-3) at NC State (2-1), 3:30 p.m.

Murray St. (2-2) at Jacksonville St. (4-0), 4 p.m.

Maine (3-1) at Richmond (2-2), 4 p.m.

Alcorn St. (3-1) at Alabama St. (2-2), 6 p.m.

Point (Ga.) (2-1) at Gardner-Webb (3-1), 6 p.m.

Chattanooga (2-1) at Georgia Southern (2-1), 6 p.m.

Albany (NY) (1-3) at Old Dominion (2-2), 6 p.m.

Delaware St. (0-3) at Savannah St. (1-3), 6 p.m.

Furman (1-2) at The Citadel (1-3), 6 p.m.

Mississippi (3-0) at Alabama (3-0), 6:30 p.m.

Texas Southern (0-3) at Alabama A&M (1-3), 7 p.m.

Lamar (2-2) at Grambling St. (0-4), 7 p.m.

Florida (2-1) at Kentucky (1-2), 7 p.m.

Kentucky Wesleyan (0-3) at Liberty (2-2), 7 p.m.

Tulane (2-2) at Louisiana-Monroe (2-2), 7 p.m.

Arkansas Tech (2-1) at Nicholls St. (2-2), 7 p.m.

Langston (0-3) at Northwestern St. (2-2), 7 p.m.

Jackson St. (2-2) at Southern U. (2-2), 7 p.m.

UAB (1-2) at Vanderbilt (2-2), 7:30 p.m.

Indiana St. (1-2) at Tennessee Tech (2-2), 8 p.m.

MIDWEST Miami (Ohio) (0-3) at Illinois (2-1), Noon N. Illinois (3-0) at Purdue (1-3), Noon Marist (1-2) at Dayton (2-1), 1 p.m.

Illinois St. (1-2) at Missouri St. (0-4), 2 p.m.

Campbell (1-2) at Valparaiso (0-3), 2 p.m.

Akron (1-3) at Bowling Green (3-1), 2:30 p.m.

E. Kentucky (2-2) at E. Illinois (3-1), 2:30 p.m.

Toledo (2-2) at Ball St. (3-1), 3 p.m.

Tennessee St. (3-1) vs. Central St. (Ohio) (0-3) at St. Louis, 3 p.m.

N. Dakota St. (3-0) at S. Dakota St. (3-1), 3 p.m.

Iowa (3-1) at Minnesota (4-0), 3:30 p.m.

Montana St. (2-2) at North Dakota (1-2), 3:30 p.m.

Oklahoma (3-0) at Notre Dame (3-1), 3:30 p.m.

South Dakota (1-2) at W. Illinois (2-2), 4 p.m.

McNeese St. (4-0) at N. Iowa (3-0), 5 p.m.

Youngstown St. (3-1) at S. Illinois (2-2), 7 p.m.

UT-Martin (2-1) at SE Missouri (0-3), 7 p.m.

Kent St. (1-3) at W. Michigan (0-4), 7 p.m.

Arkansas St. (2-2) at Missouri (3-0), 7:30 p.m.

Wisconsin (3-1) at Ohio St. (4-0), 8 p.m.

SOUTHWEST SMU (1-2) at TCU (1-2), Noon E. Washington (2-1) at Sam Houston St. (3-1), 3 p.m.

Army (1-3) vs. Louisiana Tech (1-3) at Dallas, 4 p.m.

Houston (3-0) at UTSA (2-2), 4 p.m.

Texas A&M (3-1) at Arkansas (3-1), 7 p.m.

FAU (1-3) at Rice (1-2), 7 p.m.

Prairie View (2-2) at Stephen F. Austin (2-2), 7 p.m.

Wyoming (3-1) at Texas St. (2-1), 7 p.m.

FAR WEST Colorado (2-0) at Oregon St. (3-1), 3 p.m.

UTEP (1-2) at Colorado St. (1-3), 3:30 p.m.

S. Utah (3-1) at N. Colorado (1-3), 3:35 p.m.

Temple (0-3) at Idaho (0-4), 5 p.m.

Arizona (3-0) at Washington (3-0), 7 p.m.

UNLV (2-2) at New Mexico (1-2), 8 p.m.

San Diego St. (0-3) at New Mexico St. (0-4), 8 p.m.

Sacramento St. (1-3) at Weber St. (1-3), 8 p.m.

Air Force (1-3) at Nevada (2-2), 8:05 p.m.

Montana (3-0) at N. Arizona (2-1), 9 p.m.

Idaho St. (2-1) at UC Davis (0-4), 9 p.m.

Stanford (3-0) at Washington St. (3-1), 10 p.m.

Southern Miss. (0-3) at Boise St. (2-2), 10:15 p.m.

Southern Cal (3-1) at Arizona St. (2-1), 10:30 p.m.

California (1-2) at Oregon (3-0), 10:30 p.m.

Fresno State (3-0) at Hawaii (0-3), 12 Mid.

Prep Football Poll COLUMBUS (AP) — How a state panel of sports writers and broadcasters rates Ohio high school football teams in the second weekly Associated Press poll of 2013, by OHSAA divisions, with won-lost record and total points (first-place votes in parentheses): DIVISION I 1, Lakewood St. Edward (13) 4-0 253 2, Cincinnati Colerain (10) 4-0 248 3, Cincinnati Moeller (3) 4-0 194 4, Austintown-Fitch 4-0 156 5, Canton Mckinley (1) 4-0 149 108 6, Cleveland St. Ignatius 3-1 7, Hilliard Davidson 4-0 103 8, Hudson 4-0 95 9, Centerville 4-0 94 10, Cincinnati St. Xavier 3-1 39 Others receiving 12 or more points: 11, Mentor 22. 12, Cincinnati Elder 16. 13, Pickerington North 14. 14, Marysville (1) 13.

DIVISION II 1, Massillon Washington (18) 4-0 258 2, New Albany (5) 4-0 220 3, Cincinnati Winton Woods (2) 4-0 199 4, Willoughby South 4-0 168 5, Zanesville (2) 4-0 150 6, Avon 4-0 135 7, Loveland 4-0 105 (tie) Cleveland Glenville (1) 3-1 105 40 9, Mansfield 4-0 10, Cincinnati La Salle 3-1 38 Others receiving 12 or more points: 11, Lewis Center Olentangy 26. 12, Medina Highland 19. 13, North Olmsted 15. 13, Madison 15. 15, Macedonia Nordonia 14.

DIVISION III 1, Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary (18) 2, Toledo Central Catholic (6) 3, Aurora (2) 4, Athens (1) 5, Clyde

4-0 4-0 4-0 4-0 4-0

257 231 142 135 129

6, Day. Thurgood Marshall 2-1 125 7, Poland Seminary 4-0 121 8, Hubbard 4-0 92 9, New Philadelphia 4-0 79 10, Chillicothe (1) 4-0 42 Others receiving 12 or more points: 11, Dover 37. 12, Sandusky Perkins 32. 13, Trotwood-Madison 17. 13, Mount Orab Western Brown 17. 15, Springfield Shawnee 16.

DIVISION IV 1, Clarksville Clinton-Massie (13) 4-0 233 2, Kenton (5) 4-0 230 3, Bryan (3) 4-0 182 4, Steubenville (3) 4-0 159 5, Bloom-Carroll 4-0 132 6, Genoa Area (2) 4-0 121 7, Caledonia River Valley (2) 4-0 96 8, Fairview Park 4-0 47 9, Wauseon 4-0 39 10, Middletown Bishop Fenwick 3-1 36 Others receiving 12 or more points: 11, Washington C.H. Miami Trace 25. 12, Perry 24. 13, Zanesville Maysville 23. 13, Germantown Valley View 23. 15, Kettering Archbishop Alter 21. 16, Struthers 20. 17, Galion 18. 17, Gnadenhutten Indian Valley 18. 19, Minford 15. 20, Upper Sandusky 12.

DIVISION V 1, Wheelersburg (8) 4-0 217 2, Coldwater (4) 4-0 216 3, St. Clairsville (6) 4-0 86 4, Findlay Liberty-Benton (2) 4-0 166 5, Cin. Hills Christian Academy (2) 4-0 144 6, Orrville (1) 4-0 125 95 7, Dayton Chaminade-Julienne (1) 3-1 8, Hamilton Badin (3) 4-0 87 9, Columbiana Crestview 3-1 34 10, Martins Ferry 3-1 33 Others receiving 12 or more points: 11, Youngstown Ursuline 30. 12, Navarre Fairless 28. 13, Loudonville 27. 14, Columbia Station Columbia 24.

15, Baltimore Liberty Union 22. 16, Richwood North Union (1) 20. 17, Columbus Bishop Hartley 18.

DIVISION VI 1, Kirtland (22) 4-0 259 2, Mogadore (1) 4-0 212 3, Columbus Bishop Ready (2) 4-0 209 4, Haviland Wayne Trace (1) 4-0 181 4-0 127 5, Summit Country Day (1) 6, Lewisburg Tri-County North 4-0 111 7, Clev. Villa Angela-St. Joseph 4-0 76 8, Lima Central Catholic 3-1 55 9, Canfield S. Range (1) 4-0 47 10, N. Robinson Colonel Crawford 3-1 31 Others receiving 12 or more points: 11, Cincinnati Country Day 27. 12, Casstown Miami East 26.

13, Centerburg 22. 14, Hamler Patrick Henry 20. 15, Delphos Jefferson 15. 16, Oak Hill 14. 17, Lucasville Valley 13. 17, West Liberty-Salem 13. 17, Newark Catholic 13.

DIVISION VII 4-0 253 1, Maria Stein Marion Local (21) 2, Berlin Center W. Reserve (1) 4-0 198 3, Shadyside (1) 4-0 179 4, North Lewisburg Triad (1) 4-0 156 5, Glouster Trimble (1) 4-0 131 6, Arlington 4-0 130 7, Steubenville Catholic Central 4-0 129 8, Covington 4-0 91 9, Wellsville (1) 4-0 87 10, Cedarville 4-0 21 Others receiving 12 or more points: 11, Ft. Loramie 20. 12, Leipsic 19. 13, Norwalk St. Paul 15.

Baseball

MLB Standings Major League Baseball At A Glance All Times EDT National League East Division W L Pct GB x-Atlanta 92 64 .590 — Washington 84 73 .535 8½ New York 71 85 .455 21 Philadelphia 71 85 .455 21 Miami 58 99 .369 34½ Central Division W L Pct GB z-St. Louis 92 65 .586 — z-Cincinnati 90 67 .573 2 z-Pittsburgh 90 67 .573 2 Milwaukee 70 86 .449 21½ Chicago 65 92 .414 27 West Division W L Pct GB x-Los Angeles 90 66 .577 — Arizona 79 77 .506 11 San Diego 73 83 .468 17 San Francisco 72 84 .462 18 71 86 .452 19½ Colorado z-clinched playoff berth x-clinched division Monday's Games Milwaukee 5, Atlanta 0 Cincinnati 3, N.Y. Mets 2, 10 innings Miami 4, Philadelphia 0 Pittsburgh 2, Chicago Cubs 1 St. Louis 4, Washington 3 San Diego 4, Arizona 1 Tuesday's Games Milwaukee at Atlanta N.Y. Mets at Cincinnat Philadelphia at Miami Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs Washington at St. Louis Boston at Colorado Arizona at San Diego L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco Wednesday's Games N.Y. Mets (Matsuzaka 2-3) at Cincinnati (G.Reynolds 1-2), 12:35 p.m.

Washington (Zimmermann 19-8) at St. Louis (S.Miller 14-9), 1:45 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Liriano 16-7) at Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 3-2), 2:20 p.m.

Milwaukee (Lohse 10-10) at Atlanta (Maholm 1010), 7:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Hamels 8-14) at Miami (B.Hand 11), 7:10 p.m.

Boston (Peavy 11-5) at Colorado (Oswalt 0-6), 8:40 p.m.

Arizona (Delgado 5-6) at San Diego (Kennedy 610), 10:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Nolasco 13-10) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 13-9), 10:15 p.m.

Thursday's Games Arizona at San Diego, 6:40 p.m.

Milwaukee at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

American League East Division W L Pct GB x-Boston 95 62 .605 — Tampa Bay 87 69 .558 7½ New York 82 74 .526 12½ Baltimore 81 75 .519 13½ Toronto 71 85 .455 23½ Central Division W L Pct GB Detroit 91 66 .580 — Cleveland 86 70 .551 4½ Kansas City 83 73 .532 7½ Minnesota 66 90 .423 24½ Chicago 62 94 .397 28½

West Division

W L Pct GB x-Oakland 94 63 .599 — Texas 85 71 .545 8½ Los Angeles 76 80 .487 17½ Seattle 68 89 .433 26 Houston 51 106 .325 43 x-clinched division Monday's Games Tampa Bay 5, Baltimore 4 Texas 12, Houston 0 Minnesota 4, Detroit 3, 11 innings Chicago White Sox 3, Toronto 2 Oakland 10, L.A. Angels 5 Kansas City 6, Seattle 5, 12 innings Tuesday's Games Chicago White Sox at Cleveland Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees Toronto at Baltimore Houston at Texas Detroit at Minnesota Boston at Colorado Oakland at L.A. Angels Kansas City at Seattle Wednesday's Games Oakland (Straily 10-7) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 108), 3:35 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Axelrod 4-10) at Cleveland (Salazar 1-3), 7:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Price 8-8) at N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 4-13), 7:05 p.m.

Toronto (Rogers 5-8) at Baltimore (B.Norris 1012), 7:05 p.m.

Houston (Keuchel 6-9) at Texas (M.Perez 9-5), 8:05 p.m.

Detroit (Scherzer 20-3) at Minnesota (Correia 912), 8:10 p.m.

Boston (Peavy 11-5) at Colorado (Oswalt 0-6), 8:40 p.m.

Kansas City (E.Santana 9-9) at Seattle (Iwakuma 13-6), 10:10 p.m.

Thursday's Games Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.

Toronto at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.

MLB Leaders TODAY'S MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING—Cuddyer, Colorado, .334; CJohnson, Atlanta, .327; MCarpenter, St. Louis, .324; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, .319; Werth, Washington, .318; Tulowitzki, Colorado, .316; Craig, St. Louis, .315.

RUNS—MCarpenter, St. Louis, 124; Choo, Cincinnati, 105; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 100; Votto, Cincinnati, 100; Holliday, St. Louis, 99; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 94; JUpton, Atlanta, 92.

RBI—Goldschmidt, Arizona, 123; Bruce, Cincinnati, 107; FFreeman, Atlanta, 105; BPhillips, Cincinnati, 102; AdGonzalez, Los Angeles, 98; Craig, St. Louis, 97; PAlvarez, Pittsburgh, 94.

HITS—MCarpenter, St. Louis, 197; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 181; DanMurphy, New York, 180; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 176; Pence, San Francisco, 174; Votto, Cincinnati, 174; Segura, Milwaukee, 173.

DOUBLES—MCarpenter, St. Louis, 54; Bruce, Cincinnati, 42; YMolina, St. Louis, 41; GParra, Arizona, 41; Rizzo, Chicago, 39; Desmond, Washington, 38; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 38.

TRIPLES—CGomez, Milwaukee, 10; SMarte, Pittsburgh, 10; Segura, Milwaukee, 10; Span, Washington, 10; MCarpenter, St. Louis, 7; Hechavarria, Miami, 7; Venable, San Diego, 7; EYoung, New York, 7.

HOME RUNS—Goldschmidt, Arizona, 35; PAlvarez, Pittsburgh, 34; Bruce, Cincinnati, 30; DBrown, Philadelphia, 27; CGonzalez, Colorado, 26; JUpton, Atlanta, 26; Zimmerman, Washington, 26.

STOLEN BASES—Segura, Milwaukee, 44; EYoung, New York, 41; ECabrera, San Diego, 37; CGomez, Milwaukee, 37; SMarte, Pittsburgh, 37; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 27; Pierre, Miami, 23.

PITCHING—Zimmermann, Washington, 19-8; Wainwright, St. Louis, 18-9; JDe La Rosa, Colorado, 16-6; Liriano, Pittsburgh, 16-7; Greinke, Los Angeles, 15-3; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 15-9; 9 tied at 14.

ERA—Kershaw, Los Angeles, 1.88; Fernandez, Miami, 2.19; Harvey, New York, 2.27; Greinke, Los Angeles, 2.67; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 2.77; ClLee, Philadelphia, 2.93; TWood, Chicago, 2.98.

STRIKEOUTS—Kershaw, Los Angeles, 224; Wainwright, St. Louis, 214; Samardzija, Chicago, 210; ClLee, Philadelphia, 209; AJBurnett, Pittsburgh, 203; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 199; Hamels, Philadelphia, 196; HBailey, Cincinnati, 196.

SAVES—Kimbrel, Atlanta, 49; RSoriano, Washington, 42; AChapman, Cincinnati, 38; Mujica, St. Louis, 37; Romo, San Francisco, 36; Street, San Diego, 33; Cishek, Miami, 32; Grilli, Pittsburgh, 32; Gregg, Chicago, 32.

AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING—MiCabrera, Detroit, .350; Trout, Los Angeles, .325; Mauer, Minnesota, .324; ABeltre, Texas, .317; Cano, New York, .314; Donaldson, Oakland, .307; DOrtiz, Boston, .307.

RUNS—Trout, Los Angeles, 108; MiCabrera, Detroit, 103; CDavis, Baltimore, 102; AJones, Baltimore, 98; AJackson, Detroit, 97; Crisp, Oakland, 91; Encarnacion, Toronto, 90; TorHunter, Detroit, 90.

RBI—MiCabrera, Detroit, 137; CDavis, Baltimore, 136; Fielder, Detroit, 106; AJones, Baltimore, 106; Cano, New York, 105; Encarnacion, Toronto, 104; Trumbo, Los Angeles, 99.

HITS—ABeltre, Texas, 192; MiCabrera, Detroit, 189; Machado, Baltimore, 189; Trout, Los Angeles, 187; Pedroia, Boston, 186; Cano, New York, 184; Hosmer, Kansas City, 182; AJones, Baltimore, 182.

DOUBLES—Machado, Baltimore, 51; Lowrie, Oakland, 44; Pedroia, Boston, 42; CDavis, Baltimore, 41; AlRamirez, Chicago, 39; Trout, Los Angeles, 39; Cano, New York, 38; Saltalamacchia, Boston, 38.

TRIPLES—Gardner, New York, 10; Trout, Los Angeles, 9; Ellsbury, Boston, 8; Drew, Boston, 7; AGordon, Kansas City, 6; DeJennings, Tampa Bay, 6; LMartin, Texas, 6; BMiller, Seattle, 6.

HOME RUNS—CDavis, Baltimore, 52; MiCabrera, Detroit, 44; Encarnacion, Toronto, 36; Trumbo, Los Angeles, 34; ADunn, Chicago, 32; AJones, Baltimore, 32; Carter, Houston, 29; Ibanez, Seattle, 29; Longoria, Tampa Bay, 29; DOrtiz, Boston, 29.

STOLEN BASES—Ellsbury, Boston, 52; RDavis, Toronto, 45; Andrus, Texas, 40; Rios, Texas, 39; Altuve, Houston, 35; LMartin, Texas, 33; Trout, Los Angeles, 33.

PITCHING—Scherzer, Detroit, 20-3; Colon, Oakland, 17-6; CWilson, Los Angeles, 17-7; Tillman, Baltimore, 16-7; MMoore, Tampa Bay, 15-4; Lester, Boston, 15-8; 5 tied at 14.

ERA—AniSanchez, Detroit, 2.64; Colon, Oakland, 2.64; Iwakuma, Seattle, 2.76; Darvish, Texas, 2.81; Sale, Chicago, 2.97; FHernandez, Seattle, 2.99; Scherzer, Detroit, 3.00.

STRIKEOUTS—Darvish, Texas, 260; Scherzer, Detroit, 230; Sale, Chicago, 221; FHernandez, Seattle, 210; Verlander, Detroit, 207; AniSanchez, Detroit, 194; Masterson, Cleveland, 188.

SAVES—JiJohnson, Baltimore, 47; GHolland, Kansas City, 45; MRivera, New York, 44; Nathan, Texas, 40; AReed, Chicago, 39; Balfour, Oakland, 38; Perkins, Minnesota, 36; Frieri, Los Angeles, 36; Rodney, Tampa Bay, 36.

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday challenged the U.N. Security Council to hold Syria accountable if it fails to live up to pledges to dismantle its chemical weapons stockpiles. He said the United Nations’ credibility and reputation is at stake.

“If we cannot agree even on this,” Obama said, “then it will show that the United Nations is incapable of enforcing the most basic of international laws.”

The United States and Russia earlier this month brokered an agreement to secure and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons, thus averting a threatened U.S. military strike to deter and degrade Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ability to use the banned arms.

Despite the agreement, Washington and Moscow remain at odds over possible consequences should Syria fail to comply.

“We believe that as a starting point the international community must enforce the ban in international weapons,” Obama said in his address to the U.N. General Assembly.

The U.S.-Russia agreement came as Obama was pushing Congress to approve a military strike against Syria for a chemical weapons attack last month on civilians outside Damascus, which the Obama administration contends was carried out by Assad’s regime.

With Congress appearing all but certain to withhold its approval, Obama did an abrupt turnaround and asked Secretary of State John Kerry to try a last-ditch diplomatic approach with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

The subsequent diplomatic steps placed the threat of force on hold.

Kerry and Lavrov met privately at the United Nations for nearly two hours Tuesday to discuss how to enshrine the agreement in a binding Security Council resolution.

“We had a very constructive meeting,” Kerry said afterward.

They were to meet again at the U.N. on Friday with Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.Arab League special envoy for Syria, to push ahead with plans for a new international conference that would help form a Syrian transitional government.

Despite the chemical weapons deal, the Russians have challenged the administration’s claims of Assad’s culpability. Assad has blamed rebel forces for the attack.

Obama aggressively pushed back against those claims in his U.N. speech.

“It’s an insult to human reason and to the legitimacy of this institution to suggest that anyone other than the regime carried out this attack,” the president said.

Obama also said that while the international community has recognized the stakes involved in the more than 2-year-old civil war, “our response has not matched the scale of the challenge.”

Obama also announced that the U.S. will provide $339 million in additional humanitarian aid to refugees and countries affected by the Syrian civil war, bringing the total American aid devoted to that crisis to nearly $1.4 billion.

The White House said the aid will include $161 million spent inside Syria for medical care, shelter and sanitation projects, with the remainder going to help Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey and Egypt.

Obama reiterated his stand that Assad cannot continue to lead Syria, but said he would not use U.S. military force to depose him.

“That is for the Syrian people to decide,” he said.

“Nevertheless, a leader who slaughtered his citizens and gassed children to death cannot regain the legitimacy to lead a badly fractured country.”

Associated Press writers Matthew Pennington, Lara Jakes and Edith M. Lederer contributed to this report.

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To apply, call 937-335-6974 or stop our office at 405 Public Square, Troy OH Applications are available online at www.crsi-oh.com EOE

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For Immediate consideration apply in person at: Freshway Foods 601 N. Stolle Ave Sidney, Ohio 45365

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LEGALS COURT OF COMMON PLEAS MIAMI COUNTY, OHIO Case No.: 13 CV 00331 Judge: Robert J. Lindeman THE HUNTINGTON NATIONAL BANK, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO UNIZAN BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -vs-

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AMERICAN TRIM in Sidney, Ohio currently has an immediate need for Skilled Trades candidates on their first, second and third shifts. Positions available are Tool & Die and Maintenance. Both positions would require 5+ years of experience in their individual disciplines, with at least 3+ years focused on metal stamping operations. Both positions require blueprint reading and problem solving knowledge. Journeyman cards for both positions are preferred, but comparable experience will be considered.

Hourly base rates will be commensurate with experience and skill set. In return for expertise and contributions, American Trim offers a comprehensive benefit package.

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LEGAL NOTICE FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION To: Select Mortgage Group, Ltd., whose last known addresses are 6784 Loop Road, Centerville, OH 45459 and Publication, you will take notice that on the 17th day of June, 2013, Plaintiff, filed a Complaint for foreclosure in the Miami County Court of Common Pleas, 201 W. Main St., Safety Bldg., 3rd floor, Troy, OH 45373, being Case No. 13 CV 00331, alleging that there is due to the Plaintiff the sum of $68,276.55, plus interest at 4.25% per annum from December 1, 2012, plus late charges and attorney fees applicable to the terms of a Promissory Note secured by a Mortgage on the real property, which has a street address of 7 Water Street, Fletcher, OH 45326, being permanent parcel number Parcel ID: B05-001270 Plaintiff further alleges that by reason of a default in payment of said Promissory Note, the conditions of said Mortgage have been broken and the same has become absolute.

Plaintiff prays that the Defendant named above be required to answer and assert any interest in said real property or be forever barred from asserting any interest therein, for foreclosure of said mortgage, marshalling of liens, and the sale of said real property, and that the proceeds of said sale be applied according to law.

Said Defendant is required to file an Answer on or before the 30th day of October, 2013.

By Anne M. Smith Attorney for Plaintiff The Huntington National Bank, successor by merger to Unizan Bank, National Association c/o Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., L.P.A. 525 Vine Street, Suite 800 Cincinnati, OH 45202 09/18, 09/25, 10/02-2013 40491575

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ran a 15K (about 9.3 miles) in Cincinnati.

“It was a real nice run. Very emotional at the starting line. When I completed the race, it was like I’d crossed a big hurdle,” he said.

But not knowing what caused his heart to stop beating haunts him.

A couple of months ago, his running group ascended a steep hill outside Doylestown when he felt his heart pounding. It wasn’t anything unusual, just normal exertion, but he couldn’t stop wondering, “Is this the feeling I had the day of the marathon? Is this how it started?”

He waved his friends on and walked the rest of the way.

“I was just mentally stressing,” he said.

That’s why he’s not eager to return to the North Hill neighborhood where he literally dropped dead.

He went through a mental exercise, imagined himself crossing the starting line, running down Broadway and over the All-America Bridge, turning onto Tallmadge Avenue, and then Schiller.

“The more I thought about it, the more I realized I wasn’t ready to do it. It’s just a little bit too much,” he said.

He shared his reservations with Pariso, who eagerly talked him into joining her relay team.

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Schiller leg, “and I told him he needed to take the finish,” she said, “because he didn’t finish last year.”

Meanwhile, Trenkelbach’s marathon training schedule faltered as she dealt with a family medical issue.

Unprepared to tackle the full 26.2-mile course, it didn’t take an armtwisting to convince her to join the relay team.

“Once the team was formed, I was really thrilled,” Lindeman said.

“It was a great day.”

Pariso said Lindeman has been an inspiration to her.

“Tony has changed my life. He’s changed my whole outlook,” she said.

Trenkelbach feels the same. “It’s been a tough year for me, and Tony has been there to lend an ear. He’s the best person.

I can talk to him about anything,” she said. “And Heather’s such a great person.”

They’re also proud of Lindeman’s efforts as an ambassador for the American Heart Association.

Lindeman has spoken to churches, schools, community groups and at sporting events, encouraging people to learn the techniques that saved his life.

“That’s really important to me,” he said, “making sure people understand that they can save a life the way mine was saved.”

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Trenkelbach received an American Red Cross “Acts of Courage” award.

They stood with him when he represented the American Heart Association at an event encouraging folks to take CPR classes.

As Lindeman worked up his nerve to run again, they were there. He’s tackled five organized races in the past year.

At four of them, Pariso, Trenkelbach, or both, were at his side.

“It’s definitely comforting to have them with me when I’m running,” he said, and not because they’re medical professionals. “There’s a special bond there, something unique that you can’t put into words.”

Lindeman said he’s still nervous about running, even though he said his doctor cannot tie his cardiac event to the act of running.

“It could have happened to me while I was sitting at home eating dinner,” he said. “It just so happened it was at the marathon.”

A month after his collapse, Lindeman worked himself up to taking long walks around the neighborhood. Two months later, he laced up his shoes for his first postinjury run. He and his wife, Ann, covered 1.6 miles.

“It was probably more of a mental challenge than any marathon I’ve ever run,” he said. “I was very nervous … but I had already started to set my sights on my first race back.”

In March, the couple

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AKRON (AP) — He’s not ready to run past the spot where he died last year.

But the two women responsible for him being alive intend to get him to the finish line this year.

If that sounds a bit like a riddle, it’s appropriate. After all, Tony Lindeman’s very existence is a riddle.

Lindeman, 47, a Doylestown councilman, said his physicians still can’t explain why his perfectly healthy heart stopped beating a couple of miles into last year’s Akron Marathon, sending him sprawling, lifeless, to the concrete.

Two nurse/athletes who saw him collapse ran to his aid, taking turns pumping his heart for several minutes until paramedics could arrive and restart it with their electrified paddles.

Lindeman has a defibrillator permanently implanted in his chest now, just in case his heart short-circuits again.

Otherwise, he’s just about back to his normal routine: working, playing, attending his Doylestown council meetings, being a husband and father.

And running. Just not running past that spot on Schiller Avenue.

But he won’t need to.

This year, Lindeman and the women he refers to as his “angels” will run the course as the relay team “Stayin’ Alive.”

Heather Pariso and Lynne Trenkelbach — who didn’t know each other before the incident — will handle two sections of the five-leg relay.

Two friends, Kristen Ashby and Katie Shick, will run two other legs.

“We’re all nurses, so Tony couldn’t be safer,” Pariso quipped.

That will leave Lindeman free to take the final 5.5-mile stretch into Canal Park on Saturday morning, completing his unfinished journey.

Looking back, Lindeman, Pariso and Trenkelbach say they could never have guessed they would have become the best of friends.

They visit each other regularly and dine together, as often as once a month.

Lindeman was present when Pariso and

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