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Merry Christmas!

Ho! Ho! Ho! It’s time for all good boys and girls to send their Christmas wishes to Santa at the North Pole. Again this year, the Troy Daily News will collect letters for the North Pole. Kids are invited to visit our website at www.tdn-net.com, click on the Letters to Santa link and follow the directions.

All letters will receive a reply from Santa at the North Pole!

On Monday, Dec. 23, the Troy Daily News will print the letters received from around Miami and Shelby counties in a special Letters to Santa supplement. So tell Santa if you’ve been a good girl or boy and send him your Christmas wish list! Letters will be accepted online until Dec. 6.

It’s Where You Live! www.troydailynews.com November 17, 2013 Volume 105, No. 271

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Hospital for newborns opens in Philippines TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — Althea Mustacisa was born three days ago in the aftermath of the killer typhoon that razed the eastern Philippines. And for every one of those three days, she has struggled to live.

But she has clung to life because her parents have been pushing oxygen into her tiny body with a hand-held pump non-stop ever since she came into this world.

And “if they stop, the baby will die,” said Amie Sia, a nurse at a hospital in typhoon-wracked Tacloban city that is running without electricity and few staff or medical supplies.

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If you were surprised by the snow on the ground this week, you better get used to it. Weather forecasters are all agreeing on one thing: Ohio is in for a cold and snowy winter.

So, how cold will the “cold” be and how much snow can we expect? Let’s just say a good Christmas gift this year may be an extra warm winter coat, hat, gloves and boots. The days of “shivery” are back, says The Farmer’s Almanac.

Ohio and the rest of the Midwest can

expect “biting, bitterly and piercing” cold and snowy weather this winter, The Farmer’s Almanac predicted.

The private forecasting firm Accuweather also sees a cold, snowy winter for the

‘Pioneers’ for a day

Above, fourth-grade students of Miami East Elementary School including Jenna Lablanc, left, and Gwyn Ferryman look at the result after churning butter during Pioneer Days Friday on the campus of the school.

Miami East 4th-graders see their reading come to life

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Council to meet Monday Staff Writer myingst@civitasmedia.com

In this fast-paced culture, lunch can become a grab-and-go scenario. But in a tea house, the pace is on the leisurely side.

Miami County has not one, but two, tea houses, with the recent openings of both the Golden Leaf’s Tea Room and Pinkies Up Tea House & Patisserie, located in the former Eleanor’s Tea Cottage space in Troy.

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Announcments .........B5 Real Estate...............B3 Valley....................B1 Dates to Remember...A6 Deaths.......................A5 Nancy Lawrence Dorothy Jean Shroyer Robert L. Wahl Dwight A. Curl Jeri L. Weikle Mildred Newman Opinion......................A4 Sports......................A7

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Photos by Anthony Weber | Troy Daily News

Tea houses open in Troy, Tipp City

Fourth-grade teacher Kathy Irick of Miami East Elementary School, left, stokes a campfire during Pioneer Days. Irick says the fourth-graders visited four stations during the day-long event Friday at the school. She explained the students have been working on novel studies and added, “it makes what they read come alive.”

TROY — The first public meeting in regards to the rezoning issue of a parcel of land in the area of Troy-Urbana Road and Deweese Road will be held at the Troy City Council meeting at 7 p.m., Monday at City Hall.

A local home custom builder and contractor has applied for a rezoning permit on behalf of TTF Brown LLC and PTK Realty LLC for a proposed new housing development located north of Troy-Urbana Road and west of DeWeese Road for currently undeveloped land.

Frank Harlow applied for the rezoning of the two lots (Inlot 9891 with 105.757 acres and Inlot 9892 with 20.888 acres) on behalf of TTF Brown LLC & PTK Realty LLC. Harlow was not present at the Troy Planning Commission meeting on Oct. 23. The property was annexed to the city of Troy in 2001. The proposed rezoning area also is located in the Miami East Local School District.

The proposed 125 acres of land is the northeast most parcel of what was once part of the proposed Honey Creek Development, which was proposed for rezoning and turned down in 2007.

In 2011, the ordinance (0-22011) zoned 47 acres along the west side of Piqua-Troy Road as OC-1, for office/commercial uses, and the balance of the 241 acres as AR, agriculture/residential. The 288 acres is north of the intersection of Piqua-Troy and Troy Urbana roads.

The proposed rezoning issue wants to rezone 125 acres of the 288 acres of the original parcel which was rezoned in the 2011 ordinance north of TroyUrbana Road to DeWeese Road.

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Free community dinner on the menu El Sombrero continues Thanksgiving tradition

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In a continued effort to bring the community together for the holidays, El Sombrero restaurants in Troy and Piqua again will offer a free Thanksgiving feast to the public.

Continuing to fulfill a promise he made to his mother to help his community, Ruben Pelayo, owner of both restaurants,

will offer the 17th annual community Thanksgiving dinner from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 28 — or until the last visitor is served.

“It’s not just me. Yes, we started (the meal), but the community has kept it going,” said Pelayo, who has been honored by several organizations for his ANTHONY WEBER | Staff File Photo work in the community.

The free meal, a tradi- El Sombrero owner Ruben Pelayo transfers juice from several tional Thanksgiving turkey turkeys into another container prior to the 2012 meal at the Troy

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Sombrero From page A1 dinner with all the trimmings, will be offered for dine in only again this year.

There will be no carry- out or deliveries.

Both Pelayo, and his business manager and “American mom” Judy Rose, stress that the meal indeed is for anyone who wish to have a good dinner or socialize with others, not just those in need.

“We have families that have made it their tradition to be here for Thanksgiving,” Rose said. “This is for the community. We want everybody to come and let us serve them.”

Employees begin cooking the some 125 turkeys the week prior to Thanksgiving in order to have them all ready for the dinner.

“I find it fun to come in the week before and smell turkeys cooking instead of Mexican food,” Rose said.

Rose said a core group of about 12 people help to plan the dinner each year, however, about 50 more volunteers

help in the two restaurants on Thanksgiving Day. Employees, many from Mexico, are paid, and see the holiday as just another day of work, Rose said, as Thanksgiving is not recognized in their country.

The meal again will be a sitdown dinner, with each visitor being personally served.

“It’s like when you have people come to your home. You sit them down and wait on them,” said Rose, who said they see a lot of doctors and nurses on shift at UVMC come in for a quick meal. “Older people especially appreciate it.”

In recent years, the restaurant has received help from the public and vendors to offset the cost of the dinner.

However, Rose said in all, the dinner will cost an estimated $14,000-$16,000, to serve the thousands of area residents that will visit the two locations.

Rose said Gordon Food Services this year has donated turkeys, while Pepsi donates the soft drinks for the meal.

Community members also drop off turkeys they either have purchased or received from their jobs.

A traditional Thanksgiving meal will be offered from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 28 at both El Sombrero locations. The Troy restaurant is located at 1700 N. County Road 25-A and the Piqua restaurant is located at 1274 E. Ash St.

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By the pound Between the Troy and Piqua locations, the following amount of food has been ordered to feed guests at El Sombrero’s 16th annual community Thanksgiving dinner: • 125 turkeys • 150 gallons of green beans • 75 gallons of gravy • 750 pounds of mashed potatoes • 500 pounds of sweet potatoes • 100 gallons of dressing • 50 gallons of cranberry sauce • 300 dozen dinner rolls • 600 pumpkin pies, with whipped cream for topping

A table with homemade items, many made by Rose herself, also is set up in the Troy restaurant.

And, any money made from the items is put directly into the fund for the annual meal.

Rose said items already have raised $1,600, and she is abour ready to put some handmade Minion hats, which depict characters from the movie “Despicable Me.”

“Even in this economy, you just thank everybody,” said Rose, tears welling up in her eyes. “After Thanksgiving, the goodwill from the community is overwhelming. They show up in hoards for the holiday season for dinner and parties.”

Pelayo said he plans to continue the annual outreach to the community for as long as he can.

“He thinks it’s the least he

can do for a community that has supported him,” said Rose, who said they have never had to lay an employee off, and have been able to maintain without raising their prices for the past five years.

Any leftover food from the meal is immediately donated to the Bethany Center in Piqua and St. Patrick Soup Kitchen in Troy, according to Pelayo.

So much so that Rose said she couldn’t manage enough turkey two years ago to have a sandwich the day after.

“Whatever cases, they go to the soup kitchens,” said Pelayo, who also supports both with monthly meat donations.

“It serves the same purpose, feeding those who need it.”

Preparations for the next Thanksgiving event start the minute they close the doors on this year’s Thanksgiving Day dinner, Rose said.

She said as soon as the restaurant is cleaned up, she and Pelayo sit down with the group of core volunteers and discuss what went well and any problems that came up. She said they then take notes and work on solving the problems for the next year.

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first met Rose and Pelayo prior to the opening of the first restaurant — and they all became fast friends.

“We both like Mexican food and used to go to Dayton to get it. When they opened in the hotel on West Main Street, we could tell from the decorations that it was going to be Mexican food,” Dennis Becker said. “We walked in the day before it opened and sat down and talked to Judy for about an hour and we’ve been friends with them every since.”

The Beckers missed the first Thanksgiving offering, but have volunteered ever since.

“It’s one of those events that just makes you feel good to be a part of,” said Dennis Becker, who helps get drinks for the volunteer servers. “You just see

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how appreciative so many of the people are that come. Some are needy, some are just lonely.”

Sharon Becker, who greets and seats diners, agrees.

“It’s kind of an awakening,” said Sharon Becker, who makes handmade items to sell to raise money for the dinner, along with Rose and Sheafter. “Some days you feel sorry for yourself, but you see that you have it a lot better than others.”

Evelyn Sheafer also met Rose and Pelayo at their first restaurant in the hotel and helped them purchase their home in the county. When the hotel burned down — the restaurant also was a complete loss — and there was no place to serve the community dinner, Sheafer helped coordinate the dinner at

her church, First United Methodist Church. The cooking was done at the church, while the serving took place at the Moose, now First Place.

“It’s a community service that really gives hope to people because it’s done with no expectation of anything in return,” Sheafer said. “It’s truly a community service.”

For many years, Sheafer — who also has helped the event become the fine-tuned event it is — would go to the Troy restaurant and cut all the pies prior to returning to her home to host Thanksgiving for up to 30 people, including her out-of-state son.

“It’s a way of giving back to the community,” said Sheafer, who said she then hosts Christmas at her home the day after Thanksgiving. “It seems

like the more you give, you get much more back.”

Dennis Becker said his parents, both in their 90s, usually make the trip out to the Troy restaurant to share the holiday.

“It makes it very easy for our family, because they know where we are.

We try and get them to come out in the middle of the afternoon when it’s not so busy and we take and break and eat,” he said.

Rose jokes that longtime volunteers, which also includes Murphy and Michelle Howe, have to give 25 years notice before they stop helping with the free dinner. The Beckers, who would be 94 and 95 at that point, said they better give their notice this year.

“We’ll be there as long as we can,” Sharon Becker said.

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MIAMI COUNTY — The Miami County Sheriff ’s Office has announced that once again they have been awarded a traffic enforcement grant for fiscal year 2014.

This will make the ninth consecutive year the sheriff’s office has been awarded federal monies for traffic enforcement throughout the county.

The funds are administered by the Ohio Traffic Safety Office. The sheriff’s office was awarded a total of $56,892.75 to be expended solely on overtime for extra traffic enforcement, some fuel costs and traffic safety education.

A total of 1,100 man hours will be spent on extra traffic enforcement throughout the upcoming year.

The goal of the extra traffic enforcement is to reduce the number of fatal and injury crashes on

Author signing set at Tipp store TIPP CITY — Author David Hughes of Greenville is coming to Browse Awhile Books in Tipp City from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 23.

Hughes will be available to sign copies of his book “Miles to Go Before I Sleep.”

In the book, finally reunited after three months of misunderstanding, confusion, and separation, Glory Meredith, a college student in Illinois, and Adam Runner, a young basketball coach at a small Ohio high school, are set to embark on their life journey up a road that looks both safe and wide.

But the path upon which they have set their feet quickly turns dangerous.

Amid rumors and allegations that threaten to separate them before they have hardly begun, they nevertheless forge ahead

on the strength of a deep and abiding love for each other.

Browse Awhile Books is located at 118 E. Main St., Tipp City.

For more information, call (937) 667-7200.

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Miami County roadways and increase restraint usage along with removing impaired drivers.

Deputies will be strictly enforcing all of Ohio’s traffic statutes with special emphasis on removing impaired drivers and seatbelt enforcement while working the grant details.

Most of the extra traffic enforcement details will be assigned during holidays when vehicular travel increases as well incidences of drinking and driving.

By having extra deputies on patrol it will also enable them to be available to offer roadside assistance to motorists in addition to having a deterrent effect on criminal activity by the mere presence of additional deputies on Miami County roadways.

During all of the extra traffic enforcement efforts no warnings will be issued by deputies.

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• BIRTHDAY BASH: Hospice of Miami County will host a birthday bash from 2-4:30 p.m. in honor of the organization’s 30 years of caring for patients and families in the community. The event will be held at the Troy Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy — the exact location of the first Hospice meeting, held Nov. 17, 1981. The public is invited to come and share stories of Hospice of Miami County’s first 30 years of service. There will be a small silent auction and a brief program at 3 p.m. Birthday cake and refreshments will be served. For more information about the event, call (937) 3355191 or visit www.

HospiceOfMiamiCounty. org.

• VIEW FROM THE VISTA: Brukner Nature Center will offer a View from the Vista from 2-4 p.m. at the center. Join members of the Brukner Bird Club for a relaxing afternoon and enjoy home-baked refreshments and the camaraderie of the tree-top vista as you learn all about the winter residents. All levels of birders are invited and it is free and open to the public.

• DOG SOCIAL: The Miami County Park District will hold its monthly dog social “New Park Discovery” from 1-3 p.m. at John A. Wannemacher Nature Reserve, 1876 MonroeConcord Road, Troy.

Join park district naturalist Spirit of Thunder, John De Boer, as pets and their owners follow the discovery treat trail around the park.

If your dog is friendly and plays well with others, bring them to the park to meet some new friends.

Participants can walk, talk and show off their dog while leisurely strolling down the trail. Remember owners are responsible for their dogs. Register for the program by visiting miamicountyparks.com, emailing to register@ miamicountyparks.com or calling (937) 3356273, Ext. 104.

• BREAKFAST SET: The Pleasant Hill VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls, will offer madeto-order breakfasts from 8-11 a.m. Everything will be a la carte.

• BREAKFAST PLANNED: The American Legion, 377 N. Third St., Tipp City, will present an all-you-caneat breakfast of bacon, sausage, home fries, biscuits, sausage gravy, pancakes, waffles, french toast, fruit, cinnamon rolls and juices. The cost is $6 and served from 8-11 a.m.

• INSTALLATION: Installation of the 3rd District’s new district deputy grand master RWB Dave R. Leytze, representing MWB Norman J. Mick, grand master of Masons of Ohio, be at the Franklin Lodge No. 14 F & AM at 2 p.m. at 107 W. Main St., Troy. Light refreshments will follow.

• CANDLE DIPPING:

Chapter No. 24 Royal naturalist Sassafras Susan Arch Masons will have or volunteer leader as its annual inspection at they head out to discover 7:30 p.m. in the Royal flowers, birds and trees.

Arch Degree at 107 W. These hikes are a great Main St., Troy. opportunity to get out in Civic agendas nature and learn together.

• Monroe Township Walks generally last about Board of Trustees will two hours and are not meet at 7 p.m. at the strenuous or fast-paced.

Township Building.

Register for the program • The Tipp City by visiting miamicounCONTACT US Council will meet at 7:30 typarks.com, emailing to p.m. at the Government register@miamicountypCall Melody Center. arks.com or calling (937) • The Troy City 335-6273, Ext. 104.

Vallieu at • CHARITY 440-5265 Council will meet at 7 p.m. in the meeting room AUCTION: There will be to list your in Council Chambers. a charity auction at The free calendar • The Staunton American Legion, 377 items. You Township Trustees will N. Third St., Tipp City can send meet at 7:30 p.m. in the from 6-9 p.m. Food will your news Staunton Township build- be available from 5:308:30 p.m. by e-mail to ing.

• Covington Board of • BOARD MEETING: mvallieu@civitasmedia.com.

Public Affairs will meet The Miami County at 4 p.m. in the Water Park District will hold Candle dipping will Department office locat- its next board of combe offered beginning ed at 123 W. Wright St., missioners at 9 a.m. A at 2:30 p.m. at the Covington. work session will begin Aullwood Farm, 9101 • The Miami County at 8 a.m. The meeting Frederick Pike, Dayton.

Educational Service will be at the Lost Creek Individuals, families, Center Governing Board Reserve Cabin, 2645 E. scout troops and youth will meet at 5 p.m. at State Route, 41 east of groups will enjoy making 2000 W. Stanfield Road, Troy. For more informared and/or blue colored Troy. tion, contact the Miami candles. The cost is a County Park District at general admission fee of Tuesday 335-6273. $5 for adults and $3 per • AWARDS NIGHT: child, plus $1 for each • JEWELRY AND Franklin Lodge No. 14 F candle made. Call (937) ROCKS: Brukner Nature & AM will have awards 890-7360 for reservaCenter will be host for night at 6:30 p.m. at 107 tions. the annual jewelry, min- W. Main St., Troy. Many • MOON WALK: A eral and rock sale and fun Master Masons will be Mad Buck Moon walk night (Tucson in Troy), awarded during a potwill be from 6:30-8 p.m. sponsored by the Brukner luck dinner and program. at Aullwood. The male Gem and Mineral Club Entree will be provided, or buck white-tailed deer at 7 p.m. Local gem and participants should bring are in an excited search mineral dealers will be their own table service for does during this time selling handcrafted jew- and covered dish. of year. The urge to mate elry, rocks and minerals at Civic agendas causes the bucks to take the club’s monthly meet• The Concord on a crazy or “mad” ing. Besides the dealers Township Trustees will behavior. An Aullwood selling their wares, there meet at the Concord naturalist will lead this will be a silent auction Township Memorial walk. and live rock auction. Building, 1150 Horizon Persons attending are West Court, Troy.

Monday encouraged to bring at • Pleasant Hill least one foowd item to Township Trustees will • LITERATURE be donated to the local meet at 8 p.m. in the CIRCLE: Join Stone’s food pantry. township building, 210 Throw Cooperative orga• TINY TOTS: Tiny W. Walnut St., Pleasant nizers to discuss Barbara Tots, an interactive pro- Hill.

Kingsolver’s “Animal, gram for infants, toddlers Wednesday Vegetable, Miracle,” and and their caregivers will • K I WA N I S explore ways to eat seabe offered from 1-1:30 MEETING: The Troy sonally throughout the p.m. at the Milton-Union Kiwanis Club will meet at coming year, from 7-9 Public Library. noon at the Troy Country p.m. at the Troy-Hayner • BOARD MEETING: Club. Patrick Keaty of Cultural Center, Troy.

The board of trustees of UTC Aerospace Systems • WORD CLASS: A the Milton-Union Public will speak. class to introduce users • C A S UA L Library will meet at 7 to Microsoft Word, which p.m.

CRAFTING: The Savvy uses documents to con• GUEST SPEAKER: Stitchers are a drop-in vey information, will be The Stillwater Civil War knitting, crocheting and from 7-8 p.m. at the Tipp Roundtable will present other crafts club that City Public Library, 11 Judge Dennis Langer of meets from 6:30-8 p.m.

E. Main St. Learn how the Montgomery County at the Tipp City Public to open, create, customCommon Please Court, Library, 11 E. Main St. ize, save and share docu• STORY HOUR: at 7 p.m. at the Troyments. Registration is Hayner Cultural Center, Story Hour will be required by calling (937) Troy. Langer will speak offered at 10:30 a.m. and 667-3826. on “Lincoln’s Path 1:30 p.m. at the Milton• EUCHRE: A tournato the Emancipation Union Public Library. ment-style Euchre night Children from ages 3-5 Proclamation.” will happen at the Tipp • ADULT HIKE: The (and their caregivers) City Public Library, 11 E. Miami County Park can enjoy stories, puppet Main St, from 6:30-8 p.m.

District will hold its adult shows and crafts at the • CRAFTY exploration hike at 9 a.m. library. Call (937) 698LISTENERS: The Crafty at Garbry Big Woods 5515 or visit Facebook Listeners will meet from Reserve, 6660 Casstown- or www.mupubliclibrary.

1-2:30 p.m. at the MiltonSidney Road, just east of org for details on weekly Union Public Library.

Piqua. Join park district themes.

Participants listen to an audio book and work on various craft projects.

• BUDDY READING: Buddy reading from 6:307:30 p.m. at the MiltonUnion Public Library Flagpoles & Specialty Store encourages young readers to practice their reading 1554 McKaig Avenue, Building A, Troy skills and work on their reading fluency and comSTORE HOURS prehension with patient Monday - Friday 9:30 - 5:30 mentors.

Saturday 10:00 – 2:00 • REUBEN SANDWICHES: The American Legion, 377 N. Flags • Flagpoles • Advocare Products Third St., Tipp City, will Crystal Synergy Products • 911 Systems offer reuben sandwiches Jamberry Nails • Children’s Shop with fries for $5 beginKids can shop for ning at 6 p.m.

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Plenty of lip service, but no action on bus safety Civitas News Media

Safety measures like seat belts are neither revolutionary nor complicated. They’re required on cars as well as jetliners. Motor coaches in Europe must have them.

Yet, no such requirements are being enforced for tour buses in the United States.

Not after seven people died when a bus carrying the Bluffton (Ohio) University baseball team plummeted off a highway overpass near Atlanta in 2007.

Not after National Transportation Safety Board said government inaction was partly responsible for the severity of injuries in a rollover crash near Mexican Hat, Utah, in 2009, which killed nine skiers and injured 43.

Not after investigators found a lack of seat belts contributed to 19 deaths on a California highway when a drunken driver slammed into a bus back in 1968. That was 45 years ago, and safety advocates are still waiting for the government to act on seat belts and other measures to protect bus passengers.

It was supposed to happen this year, but a report by The Associated Press noted regulations requiring seat belts on new buses are still under review by the White House Office of Management and Budget. The regulations were due in September.

Other regulations on windows and roofs are due by Sept. 30, 2014, but safety advocates said they doubt the government will meet that deadline since it is less than a year away and regulations haven’t even been proposed, let alone made final.

All of this despite the fact Congress wrapped bus safety improvements into a larger transportation bill, which was signed into law last year. Such foot-dragging not only is an example of bureaucratic incompetence, but it is a slap in the face to all of the families who lost loved ones in such tour bus accidents.

“If their son or daughter or wife or husband were killed in a motorcoach accident, perhaps that would get it off their desk.” John Betts, of Bryan, Ohio, told The Associated

Press. He lobbied to get the safety legislation passed after his son David was killed in the Bluffton crash. “We have worked too hard for too long for such a commonsense thing to be held up by people that don’t see it as significant.”

About half of all such motorcoach fatalities are the result of rollovers, and about 70 percent of those killed in rollover accidents were ejected from the bus, according to The National Transportation Safety Board. Its repeated calls for safety measures has received plenty of lip service, but no action.

Following the rollover crash that killed the nine people in Utah, then-Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood promised the department would act to improve motorcoach safety, including requiring seat belts. That was four years ago.

When the Associated Press requested an explanation of the holdup, a spokeswoman for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration refused to reply.

Her silence was as good as saying, “There is no reason for our inaction.”

Bus manufacturers aren’t fighting the inclusion of seat belts on new buses. In fact most manufacturers have recently begun including seat belts on most new buses, according to the AP. The cost — $13,000 — is just a fraction of the total cost of a bus, which ranges between $350,000 and $500,000.

But buses are typically on the road for about 20 to 25 years. It is the retrofitting of those old buses with seat belts that sparks their opposition. The industry claims the seats on older buses are not strong enough to withstand the repeated pulling of straps, and the retrofitting would be expensive To which we go back to the point made by John Betts: If their son or daughter or wife or husband were killed in a motorcoach accident, perhaps they would see the added expense being worth the cost of ensuring safer travel and saving lives.

It is time for regulators to get with the program and establish requirements that are long overdue.

LETTERS “Raise a little less corn and a little more (hell). It’s all political folks. It was political when it started and it’s still political today.” — Darke County farmer Ted Finnarn, referring to the possibility of farmers’ taxes increasing dramatically “You learn what it’s all about — what it means to serve your country. You have to show those who served our country your admiration because they deserve our respect.”

— Bob Studebaker, Vietnam Air Force veteran during the 2013 Veterans Day ceremonies in Troy “People come to Hobart Arena and can’t believe what great shape it is in when we tell them how old it is. That’s a testament to staff over the years and the community willing to keep up the arena’s condition over the years.”

— Marty Hobart, president of Troy City Council on Hobart Arena during a feasibility study meeting of the Parks and Recreation Committee WRITE TO US: The Troy Daily News welcomes signed letters to the editor. Letters must contain your home address and a telephone number where you can be reached during the day. Letters must be shorter than 500 words as a courtesy to other writers. We reserve the right to edit for length and clarity. MAIL: 224 S. Market, Troy, Ohio, 45373: E-MAIL: editorial@tdnpublishing.com; FAX (937) 440-5286; ONLINE: www.troydailynews.com (“Letters To The Editor” link on left side.)

Obama’s next year or so will define his presidency

By Dan K. Thomasson Scripps Howard News Service

Much of what Barack Obama has cooking seems to come out half baked. Maybe it is because as a political chef he seems unwilling to make certain of the ingredients and refuses to stay home to watch the oven.

Well, maybe I’ve been watching too many of those ubiquitous short order shows on television, but I think you get my drift.

The problem is obviously a lack of attentiveness to detail and a penchant for constant campaigning. He seems more comfortable in crowds than with those one on one or so confrontations that are mostly necessary to good governance.

The “bully pulpit” can carry one only so far - then down and dirty, head knocking, nose to nose face offs and trades are the only solution. It’s hard work and one has to be willing to mix compromise with threat to get where he wants to go in the partisan war zone this town increasingly has become. As a former community organizer, one would have thought Obama would have developed some of the skills necessary for just such a fight. He obviously hasn’t.

Big ideas are great but with-

There is no “I’ll take what I can get” with this president. The result so far has been a domestic wasteland. out a sense of practicality they remain ideas. It’s important to know what is achievable and what isn’t. There is no “I’ll take what I can get” with this president. The result so far has been a domestic wasteland. Issues like immigration, transportation, education or any of a half dozen other major problems have been displaced by constant warfare over the Affordable Care Act. Problems mount daily and now the specter of fraud is looming over the giant program even in its start-up phase as bunko artists reportedly try to take advantage of the confusion to sign up applicants with phony policies and identity theft.

As he winds down his fifth year in office, he faces a window on historic accomplishment that is quickly closing. The next 13 or 14 months will define his presidency as either high up in the pantheon of the office or at best mediocre. It will not be

enough to merely have the distinction of being the first of his race to hold it. His chances of making his lofty goals a reality will give way pretty much to presiding over the chaotic scramble to replace him and his party for the next two years.

If one needs evidence of his refusal to pay attention to detail consider the fact that he almost single handedly cost his party the governorship of Virginia. A 10-point lead by Democrat Terry McAuliffe all but disappeared in the 10 days before the election in a landslide of protest over Obama’s continuing inability to get things straight about the lethal small stuff in the Affordable Care Act. And that’s despite the fact his Republican opponent was carrying more baggage than a member of the railroad porter’s union.

It became abundantly clear that even the president himself had no clue about the ramifications of this 2,700 page monstrosity.

Millions of Americans were receiving notice from their insurance companies that they would have to give up their current policies despite the president’s campaign promises to the contrary. All this was taking place as Virginians were prepar-

ing to head for the polls and the Republican candidate made the best of it.

Obama and the Democrats who helped him foolishly tried to overhaul 18 percent of the economy without public or bipartisan political support.

They now face the prospect of losing the advantage over the GOP brought about by the enormous political shortcomings of the radical tea party wing.

As a 50-year veteran of this burg’s seemingly never ending political battles, I have watched in total wonder the administration’s health care debacles and what it has done to the body politic. Mistakes made by the president and his novice staff continue to mount. Allowing the unrestrained drafting of the reform and then its passage without Republican input or support damned it from the start. Not one single vote was cast for it by the Republicans making it a one-party act despite its enormous scope and disruption-an historic first.

The next 12 months before the midterm elections are going to be a continuation of the fight over the program’s failings.

Good luck with explaining that, Mr. President, as you stump the country.

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Obituaries

James A. Owens

Date of birth: 4/21/60 Location: Piqua Height: 5’9” Weight: 150 Hair color: Blonde Eye color: OWENS Blue Wanted for: Possession of cocaine

Marc Pearil

Date of birth: 4/19/81 Location: Piqua Height: 5’6” Weight: 207 Hair color: Brown Eye color: Black Wanted PEARIL for: Drugs

Kim Rahming

Date of birth: 10/16/64 Location: Piqua Height: 5’10” Weight: 200 Hair color: Black Eye RAHMING color: Brown Wanted for: Failure to appear — drugs

Bobby R. Smith

Date of birth: 11/18/69 Location: Sidney Height: 5’10” Weight: 163 Hair color: Brown Eye color: Blue SMITH Wanted for: Theft

Amber Sweitzer

• This information is provided by the Miami County Sheriff’s Office. These individuals were still at-large as of Friday.

• If you have information on any of these suspects, call the sheriff’s office at 4406085.

• Location identifies the last known mailing address of suspects.

Richard Klipstine; son in law, Tom Voiles Dorothy was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Greenville.

She loved gardening and working with flowers, playing the organ and was an avid Reds fan.

There will be a service held on Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 2:00 PM at Zechar Bailey Funeral Home, Greenville, Ohio, with Pastor Peter Menke officiating. Burial will follow in the Gettysburg Cemetery, Gettysburg, Ohio. Family will receive friends on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 from 5-8 PM at the funeral home.

It is the wishes of the family that memorial contribution be given to St. Paul Lutheran Church.

Condolences for the family may be expressed through www. zecharbailey.com Robert L. Wahl Wahl, Robert L. “Bob”, 59 of Tipp City passed away unexpectedly at his home on Thursday, November 14, 2013, after a long battle with lung disease.

Born April 26, 1954 in Piqua, OH to Richard L. and Betty (Schultz) Wahl, he is preceded in death by his father; Richard. In addition to

his mother, Bob is survived by his loving wife of forty years Jackie (Wells)Wahl, Tipp City, daughters; Annie and her husband Ted Caudill, Oxford, OH and Katie Wahl, Tipp City, his sister; Connie and her husband Darrell Short, Bath, IN, and 3 grandchildren whom he adored; as well as numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and aunts.

Bob was the Vice President of Advanced Machinery Co., Dayton, OH for almost thirty years. A lifelong supporter of Tipp City and its organizations and activities, Bob, along with his wife Jackie, recently was recognized as the inaugural Philanthropists of the Year by the Tipp City Area Community Foundations.

He also was a member of the Tippecanoe Historical Society and the Tippecanoe STEAM Boosters and loved cars, fishing and working at everything. Bob never met a stranger and was known for his kind and gentle nature.

Funeral service will be held at 10:30 AM on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at FRINGS AND BAYLIFF FUNERAL HOME, 327 W. Main St., Tipp City, OH 45371, burial to follow in Maple

Hill Cemetery, Tipp City with a luncheon at the basement of the Monroe Township Building.

Visitation 4:00 to 8:00 PM on Monday at the funeral home. Contributions may be made in loving memory of Bob to the Wahl Family Fund of the Tipp City Foundations. www. fringsandbayliff.com

Funeral Directory Curl TROY — Dwight A. Curl, 57, of Troy, passed away on Nov. 14, 2013, at his residence. Services will be held at a later date. Baird Funeral Home, Troy, is assisting the family with arrangements.

Weikle Jeri L. Weikle, 60, of Tipp City, died at 11:20 a.m. Friday, November 15, 2013, at Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton. Her funeral arrangements are pending through the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home, Piqua.

Newman Mildred Newman, 91, passed away Saturday, November 16, 2013, at Rosebud Village, Richmond, IN. Services Pending. Arrangements in care of Jackson-Sarver Funeral Home, Pleasant Hill.

Chapel-hospital opened for newborns in Philippines T A C L O B A N , Philippines (AP) — Althea Mustacisa was born three days ago in the aftermath of the killer typhoon that razed the eastern Philippines. And for every one of those three days, she has struggled to live.

But she has clung to life because her parents have been pushing oxygen into her tiny body with a hand-held pump non-stop ever since she came into this world.

And “if they stop, the baby will die,” said Amie Sia, a nurse at a hospital in typhoon-wracked Tacloban city that is running without electricity

and few staff or medical supplies.

“She can’t breathe without them. She can’t breathe on her own,” Sia said. “The only sign of life this little girl has left is a heartbeat.”

More than a week after ferocious Typhoon Haiyan annihilated a vast swath of the Philippines, killing more than 3,600 people, the storm’s aftermath is still claiming victims — and doctors here fear Althea may be the next.

When the fierce storm smashed into this tropical country on Nov. 8, it transformed Tacloban into an unrecognizable

wasteland of rubble and death.

The bottom floor of the two-story government-run Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center was flooded, and the intensive care unit for newborns was left a muddy ruin. Life-saving machinery, like the facility’s only incubator, was soiled with water and mud.

As the storm hit, doctors and staff took 20 babies who were already in the intensive care unit to a small chapel upstairs for their safety, placing them three or four in one plastic crib cart built for one newborn.

$37,675; an agreement with EMH&T water line design for $65,240; ARCADIS Agreement amendment regarding programming for $205,000; and to approve the Ohio Department of Transportation for 2016 Market Street Bridge maintenance project.

Last Wednesday, Chairman Bobby Phillips and Robin Oda recommended the emergency legislation for the bridge work slated for 2016.

At the meeting, Patrick Titterington, city of Troy public safety and service director, said the city was advised

by ODOT about the maintenance set for the bridge. The bridge work will be at no cost to the city, Titterington said.

Titterington said the bridge would not be closed to traffic, although lane closings would be needed

throughout the project.

City engineer Deborah Swan, who was present at last week’s meeting, said there was no time line yet for the work to be completed until bids were available.

Titterington said the bridge needed patch work, painting and other maintenance in 2016.

Last week, Robin Oda, Alan Clark and Doug Tremblay recommended to fund the feasibility study costs not to exceed $75,000 from Crossroads Consulting Services of Tampa, Fla., the firm chosen to conduct the study.

During the recreation and parks committee meeting, Titterington said the $75,000 study is part of 2014 budget for Hobart Arena.

Titterington said the study will provide the city officials a detail analysis of the Hobart

Arena’s physical infrastructure and layout and recommend how to modernize the arena to continue to serve the community as a multi-use facility.

Titterington said the arena, built in 1950, was renovated in mid-1990s.

Titterington noted that for Hobart Arena to “continue to the next level” the study was needed to see what renovation would be needed to be done.

Titterington said Crossroads Consulting Services was the “best fit for us” to conduct the study.

In regards to ordinances, city council will have two emergency readings.

One to release the mortgage lien from Stephen and Stacy Rueckhaus and another for loan subordination of Four Sons Development for 114116 S. Market St.

the Eastern Seaboard.

“This will provide a risk of above normal snowfall for much of the Mississippi Valley and Upper Midwest,” said DopplerDale weather blog. It predicts 66 inches of snow for Cleveland this winter, 44 inches for Detroit and 27 inches for Cincinnati.

The Weather Channel is playing it safe, with Chief Meteorologist Dr. Todd Crawford saying, “we do foresee colderthan-normal temperatures across the Midwest into the mid-Atlantic and Southeast in November and potentially into early December.”

What else is being predicted? The Meadowlands in New Jersey is hosting its first Super Bowl and chances are good it could be swallowed by a Super winter storm, says The Farmer’s Almanac. The snow birds heading to

the central and western Gulf Coast could also be in for severe weather. A few heavy rain events could lead to flooding in December and February, but temperatures should be above normal, says Accuweather.

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Japanese doctors examine a baby in a field hospital set up for people who are affected by Typhoon Haiyan Saturday in Tacloban, Philippines. Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms on record, hit the country’s eastern seaboard Nov. 8, leaving a wide swath of destruction.

Council From page A1 On Oct. 23, the Troy Planning Commission meeting, the commission unanimously voted not to hold its own public hearing for the rezoning of the proposed 125 acres of land from A-R Agricultural Residential District to be rezoned to R-1 Single-Family Residential District.

A second public hearing in regards to the rezoning issue will be held on Dec. 2.

A public hearing in regards to the vacation of an alley in Southview area will be held Monday as well.

The council will have emergency readings of all five resolutions to consider including: Agreement with Crossroads Consulting Services Hobart Arena Study for $75,000; a Downtown Business Loan for P&C Ventures for 2. E Main Street for

Snow From page A1 does the Doppler forecast.

Accuweather says late December and into January will see ideal conditions for a big storm.

Those conditions could align to bring Chicago and much of Ohio a winter storm just in time for the Christmas holiday.

Throughout the winter, the Midwest will see an active storm track that will bring a wintry mix, Accuweather said.

The Doppler radar system is forecasting an increased number of “Clipper” like systems dropping southeast out of the Plains of Canada into the Heartland and then making the turn along

Other ordinances to be considered will be the Ohio minimum wage increase for seasonal and temporary workers.

The city council meeting is open to the public.

The public is welcome to speak on any agenda items at the beginning of the meeting, and again, at the end of the meeting on any matter not set on the agenda. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. Monday at City Hall.

For more information, visit www.troyohio.gov.

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Janie & Butch Clark of Bradford, Joann & Bob Nelson of Greenville and Janet & Jim Hunt of Greenville; son and daughter in law, Mike & Sue Shroyer of Greenville; g ra n d children: Matt and Melissa Vo i l e s , M a n d y & Chad G a r r e t t , Shroyer Rob & Joan Clark, Angie & Matt Kolb, Mark & Dusti Toman, Jason Toman, Jamie Looker, Amy and Justin Schoen, Julie and Kevin Stringer, Heather Hunt, Ashley Beatty, Melissa Shroyer, Nicki and Jared Glilespie and Danielle Larson; 26 great grandchildren; sisters in law and brothers in law, Connie and Robert Hill of Englewood, Ohio, Larry Shaw of Fairview Heights, Ohio, Evelyn Klipstine of Greenville and Nancy Klipstine of West Milton, Ohio; as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

In addition to her parents she is preceded in death by her husband Robert “Bob” Shroyer whom she married on November 27, 1948; brothers, Robert &

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Staunton High School and a graduate of MiamiJacobs Business College in Dayton, Ohio. She worked at Troy Sunshade, J.C. Penney Company in Troy, Stouder Memorial Hospital and for Dr. Walter Meeker before retiring and moving with her husband to Florida in 1983. She was an active member of the First Church of the Nazarene in Winter Haven, Florida until her illness.

A memorial service will be held at 2:00pm on Wednesday, November 27, 2013 at the Riverside Cemetery Chapel, Troy, Ohio. Burial will take place at Riverside Cemetery.

Friends may express condolences to the family through www.bairdfuneralhome.com.

Dorothy Jean Shroyer Dorothy Jean Shroyer, age 85, of Greenville, Ohio, passed away on Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 5:42 PM at the Brethren Retirement Community in Greenville, Ohio.

She was born on November 20, 1927 in Darke County, Ohio, to the late Robert R. & Mildred E. (Deeter) Klipstine.

She is survived by her daughters and sons in law, Judy Voiles of Greenville,

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Nancy (Macy) Lawrence WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — Nancy (Macy) Lawrence, 85, of Winter Haven, Florida and form e r l y of Troy, passed away on Thursday, October 17, 2013 after an ex t e n d e d illness.

Lawrence S h e was born on February 19, 1928 in Troy to the late Ralph and Mabel (Freeze) Macy.

She married Erwin E. “Woody” Lawrence on May 8, 1949 and he preceded her in death on November 4, 1998.

She is survived by her daughter Cathy (Brad) Baden of Troy, Ohio; son Kent (Debby) Lawrence of Winter Haven, Florida; five grandchildren, Jared, Joel and John Baden and Brandon and Halle Lawrence; and two sisters Louise McKinney of Hamilton, Ohio and Sharon (Marvin) Buchanan of Troy, Ohio.

In addition to her parents and husband, Mrs. Lawrence was preceded in death by an infant brother.

Mrs. Lawrence was a 1947 graduate of

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DATES TO REMEMBER Today

• DivorceCare seminar and support group will meet from 6:30-8 p.m. at Piqua Assembly of God Church, 8440 King Arthur Drive, Piqua. Child care provided through the sixthgrade.

• AA, Piqua Breakfast Group will meet at 8:30 a.m. at Westminter Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. The discussion meeting is open.

• AA, Troy Trinity Group meets at 7 p.m. for open discussion in the 12 Step Room at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 1550 Henley Road, Troy.

• AA, open meeting, 6 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. Alley entrance, upstairs.

• AA, Living Sober meeting, open to all who have an interest in a sober lifestyle, 7:30 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua.

• Narcotics Anonymous, Winner’s Group, will meet at 5 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Ave., Troy. Open discussion .

• Narcotics Anonymous, Poison Free, 7 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 202 W. Fourth St., third floor, Greenville.

• Narcotics Anonymous, Never Alone, Never Again, 6:30 p.m., First Christian Church, 212 N. Main St., Sidney • Teen Talk, where teens share their everyday issues through communication, will meet at 6 p.m. at the Troy View Church of God, 1879 Staunton Road, Troy.

• Singles Night at The Avenue will be from 6-10 p.m. at the Main Campus Avenue, Ginghamsburg Church, 6759 S. County Road 25-A, Troy. Each week, cards, noncompetitive volleyball, free line dances and free ballroom dance lessons.

Child care for children birth through fifth grade is offered from 5:45-7:45 p.m. each night in the Main Campus building.

For more information, call 6671069, Ext. 21.

• A Spin-In group, practicing the art of making yarn on a spinning wheel, meets from 2-4 p.m. on the third Sunday at Tippecanoe Weaver and Fibers Too, 17 N. 2nd St., Tipp City. All knitters are invited to attend. For more information, call 667-5358.

• Baseball bingo will be offered from 7 p.m. until games are complete at Sunset Bingo, 1710 W. High St., Piqua.

Refreshments will be available.

Proceeds help the youth baseball organization, a nonprofit.

• Sunday bingo will be offered at the West Milton Eagles No. 3621, 2270 S. Miami St. Doors open at 11:30 a.m., bingo starts at 1 p.m. Paper and computer.

Proceeds benefit various nonprofit organizations.

Monday

• Dollar menu night will be from 6-8 p.m. at Troy Eagles, 225 N. Elm St. Dollar menu items include hamburger sliders, sloppy joe, hot dog, grilled cheese, french fries, onion straws, cup of soup, ice cream and more for $1 each.

• Come join an Intermediate Contract Bridge game at the Tipp City Public Library every Monday at 1:30 p.m. Beverages and relaxed company provided.

Sign up is required, either in person at the circulation desk, 11 E. Main St., or by phone at (937) 667-3826, Ext. 216.

• Christian 12 step meetings, “Walking in Freedom,” are offered at 7 p.m. at Open Arms Church, 4075 Tipp Cowlesville Road, Tipp City.

• An arthritis aquatic class will be offered from 8-9 or 9-10 a.m. at Lincoln Community Center, Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and programs.

• AA, Big Book discussion meeting will be at 11 a.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy, in the 12 Step Room. The discussion is open to the public.

• AA, Green & Growing will meet at 8 p.m. The closed discussion meeting (attendees must have a desire to stop drinking) will be at Troy View Church of God, 1879 Old Staunton Road, Troy.

• AA, There Is A Solution Group will meet at 8 p.m. in Ginghamsburg United Methodist Church, County Road 25-A, Ginghamsburg. The discussion group is closed (participants must have a desire to stop drinking).

• AA, West Milton open

discussion, 7:30 p.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, rear entrance, 1209 S. Miami St. Non-smoking, handicap accessible.

• Al-Anon, Serenity Seekers will meet at 8 p.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. The discussion meeting is open. A beginner’s meeting begins at 7:30 p.m.

• Alternatives: Anger/Rage Control Group for adult males, 7-9 p.m., Miami County Shelter, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Issues addressed are physical, verbal and emotional violence toward family members and other persons, how to express feelings, how to communicate instead of confronting and how to act nonviolently with stress and anger issues.

• Mind Over Weight Total Fitness, 6-7 p.m., 213 E. Franklin St., Troy. Other days and times available. For more information, call 339-2699.

• TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), 6 p.m., Zion Lutheran Church, 11 N. Third St., Tipp City. New members welcome. For more information, call 335-9721.

• Troy Noon Optimist Club will meet at noon at the Tin Roof restaurant. Guests welcome. For more information, call 478-1401.

• Weight Watchers, Westminster Presbyterian, Piqua, weigh-in is at 5 and meeting at 5:30 p.m.

• Parenting Education Groups will meet from 6-8 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Learn new and ageappropriate ways to parent children. Call 339-6761 for more information. There is no charge for this program.

• Narcotics Anonymous, Hug A Miracle, will meet at 7 p.m. at the Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy, use back door.

• Narcotics Anonymous, Inspiring Hope, 12:30 p.m., Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy.

• Sanctuary, for women who have been affected by sexual abuse, location not made public. Must currently be in therapy. For more information, call Amy Johns at 667-1069, Ext. 430 • Miami Valley Women’s Center, 7049-A Taylorsville Road, Huber Heights, offers free pregnancy testing, noon to 4 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. For more information, call 236-2273.

• Pilates for Beginners, 8:309:30 a.m. and 5:30-6:30 p.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe Community Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at 669-2441.

• NAMI, a support group for family members who have a family member who is mentally ill, will meet from 7-8:30 p.m. the third Monday at the Stouder Center, Suite 4000, Troy. Call 335-3365 or 3395393 for more information.

• The Ex-WAVES, or any woman who formerly served during World War II, will meet at 1 p.m. the second Monday at Bob Evans in Troy.

• Next Step at Noon, noon to 1 p.m. at Ginghamsburg South Campus, ARK, 7695 S. County Road 25-A, one mile south of the main campus.

Tuesday

• Double deck pinochle is played at the Tipp City Public Library, 11 E. Main St., every Tuesday at 1 p.m. Come enjoy the relaxed environment with beverages provided by the library. Sign up is required, either in person at the circulation desk or by phone at (937) 667-3826, Ext. 216.

• Deep water aerobics will be offered from 6-7 p.m. at Lincoln Community Center, 110 Ash St., Troy. Call 3352715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and programs.

• Hospice of Miami County “Growing Through Grief ” meetings are at 11 a.m. on the first, third and fifth Tuesdays of each month, and 7 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesdays and are designed to provide a safe and supportive environment for the expression of thoughts and feelings associated with the grief process. All sessions are available to the community and at the Hospice Generations of Life Center, 550 Summit Ave., second floor, Troy, with light refreshments provided.

No reservations are required.

For more information, call Susan Cottrell at Hospice of Miami County, 335-5191.

• A daytime grief support group meets on the first, third and fifth Tuesdays at 11 a.m. at the Generations of Life Center,, second floor, 550 Summit Ave., Troy. The support group is open to any grieving adults in the greater Miami County area and there is no participation fee. Sessions are facilitated by trained bereavement staff. Call 573-2100 for details or visit the website at homc.org.

• A children’s support group for any grieving children ages 6-11 years in the greater Miami County area will meet from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Generations of Life Center, second floor, 550 Summit Ave., Troy. There is no participation fee. Sessions are facilitated by trained bereavement staff and volunteers.

Crafts, sharing time and other grief support activities are preceded by a light meal.

• Quilting and crafts is offered from 9 a.m. to noon every Tuesday at the Tipp City Seniors, 320 S. First St., Tipp City. Call 667-8865 for more information.

• The Concord Township Trustees will meet at 10 a.m. at the township building, 2678 W. State Route 718.

• The Blue Star Mothers of America meet from 7-9 p.m. at the Miami County Red Cross, 1314 Barnhart Road, Troy. Meetings are open to any mother of a member of the military, guard or reserve or mothers of veterans. For more information, e-mail at SpiritofFreedomOH1@yahoo. com or by call (937) 307-9219.

• A support group for people affected by breast cancer meets on the third Tuesday of each month. Sponsored by the UVMC Cancer Care Center, the group’s mission is to empower women to cope with the day-today realities of cancer before, during and after treatment.

The support group meets at the Farmhouse, located on the UVMC/Upper Valley Medical Center campus, 3130 N. Dixie Highway, Troy. Social time begins at 6:30 p.m., the meeting, 7-8:15 p.m. Contact Chris Watercutter at 440-4638 or 492-1033, or Robin Supinger at 440-4820 for more information.

• Mothers of Preschoolers, a group of moms who meet to unwind and socialize while listening to information from speakers, meet the second and fourth Tuesday from 6:15-8:30 p.m. Single, married, working or stay-at-home moms are invited. Children (under 5) are cared for in MOPPETS. For more information, contact Michelle Lutz at 440-9417 or Andrea Stapleton at 339-8074.

• The Miami Shelby Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Greene Street United Methodist Church, 415 W. Greene St., Piqua. All men interested in singing are welcome and visitors always are welcome. For more information, call 778-1586 or visit the group’s Web site at www.melodymenchorus.org.

• Divorce Care, 7 p.m. at Richards Chapel, 831 McKaig Ave., Troy. Video/small group class designed to help separated or divorced people. For more information, call 3358814.

• AA, women’s meeting, 8-9 p.m., Dettmer’s Daniel Dining Room.

• AA Tuesday night meeting, 7 p.m., Troy Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy.

• AA, The Best Is Yet To Come Group will meet at 11 a.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy. The discussion is open.

• AA, Tipp City Group, Zion Lutheran Church, Main and Third streets at 8 p.m. This is a closed discussion (participants must have a desire to stop drinking).

• Al-Anon, 8:30 p.m. Sidney Group, Presbyterian Church, corner North and Miami streets, Sidney.

• AA, 7 p.m. at Troy Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy. Open discussion.

• An Intermediate Pilates class will be from 9-10 a.m. and 6-7 p.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe Community Services at 6678631 or Celeste at 669-2441.

• Women’s Anger/Rage Group will meet from 6-8 p.m.

Tuesdays at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Issues addressed are physical, verbal and emotional violence toward family members and other per-

sons, how to express feelings, how to communicate instead of confronting and how to act nonviolently with stress and anger issues. Call 339-6761 for more information.

• Narcotics Anonymous, Just For Tuesday, will meet at 7 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Ave., Troy. This is an open discussion.

• Narcotics Anonymous, Unity Group, 7 p.m., Freedom Life Ministries Church, 9101 N. County Road 25-A, Piqua.

Open discussion.

• Public bingo, license No. 0105-28, will begin with early birds at 7 p.m. and regular bingo at 7:30 p.m. at the Elks Lodge No. 833, 17 W. Franklin St., Troy. Use the Cherry Street entrance. Doors open at 5 p.m.

Instant tickets also will be available.

• The Knitting Group meets at 6:30 p.m. the fourth Tuesday of each month at the Bradford Public Libary, 138 E. Main St., Bradford. All knitters are welcome or residents can come to learn.

• DivorceCare will be every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Troy Church of the Nazarene, State Route 55 and Barnhart Road, Troy. The group is open to men and women. For more information, call Patty at 4401269 or Debbie at 335-8397.

• Christian 12-Step, 7-8:30 p.m. at Ginghamsburg South Campus, ARK, 7695 S. County Road 25-A, one mile south of the main campus.

• Double H Squares will offer lessons on Tuesdays from 7-9 p.m. at Sulphur Grove United Methodist Church, 7505 Taylorsville Road, Huber Heights. The fee is $2 per person. For more information, call 339-2955, 233-6247 or 6678282.

Wednesday

• Come join the Experienced Contract Bridge game at the Tipp City Public Library, played every Wednesday at 11:30 a.m., beverages and relaxed company are provided.

Sign up is required, either in person at the circulation desk, 11 E. Main St., or by phone at (937) 667-3826, Ext. 216.

• Skyview Wesleyan Church, 6995 Peters Road, Tipp City, will offer a free dinner at 6:15 p.m. Bible study will begin at 7 p.m.

• An arthritis aquatic class will be offered from 8-9 or 9-10 a.m. at Lincoln Community Center, Troy. Call 335-2715 or visit www.lcctroy.com for more information and programs.

• The “Sit and Knit” group meets from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Tippecanoe Weaver and Fibers Too, 17 N. 2nd St., Tipp City. All knitters are invited to attend. For more information, call 667-5358.

• Grandma’s Kitchen, a homecooked meal prepared by volunteers, is offered every Wednesday from 5-6:30 p.m. in the activity center of Hoffman United Methodist Church, 201 S. Main St., West Milton, one block west of State Route 48.

The meal, which includes a main course, salad, dessert and drink, for a suggested donation of $7 per person, or $3 for a children’s meal. The meal is not provided on the weeks of Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year’s.

• The Miami County Troy Alzheimer’s Support Group, affiliated with the Miami Valley, Dayton Alzheimer’s Association and the National Alzheimer’s Association, will meet from 3-4:30 p.m. at Senior Active Adult Services, 2006 W. Stanfield Road, Troy.

Respite care will be provided.

Caregivers may call 335-8800 for more information.

• The Dayton Area ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/ Lou Gehrig’s Disease) Support Group will meet from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the West Charleston Church of the Brethren, 7390 State Route 202 (3 miles north of I-70). Bring a brown bag lunch. Beverages will be provided. For more information, call (866) 273-2572.

• The Kiwanis Club will meet at noon at the Troy Country Club, 1830 Peters Road, Troy.

Non-members of Kiwanis are invited to come meet friends and have lunch. For more information, contact Bobby Phillips, vice president, at 335-6989.

• Retirees of the Local 128 UAW will meet at 11:30 a.m. for a hot lunch and short meeting at the Troy Senior Citizens Center, 134 N. Market St., Troy.

• The Troy American Legion Post No. 43 euchre parties will begin at 7:30 p.m. For more

information, call 339-1564.

• AA, Pioneer Group open discussion will meet at 9:30 a.m.

Enter down the basement steps on the north side of The United Church Of Christ on North Pearl Street in Covington. The group also meets at 8:30 p.m.

Monday night and is wheelchair accessible.

• AA, Serenity Island Group will meet at 8 p.m. in the Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. The discussion is open.

• AA, 12 & 12 will meet at 8 p.m. for closed discussion, Step and Tradition meeting, in the 12 Step Room, Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy.

• AA, open discussion, 8 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Ash and Caldwell streets, Piqua. Use the alley entrance, upstairs.

• Al-Anon, Trinity Group will meet at 11 a.m. in the 12 Step Room at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy.

• Men’s Anger/Rage Group will meet from 6-8 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy.

Issues addressed are physical, verbal and emotional violence toward family members and other persons, how to express feelings, how to communicate instead of confronting and how to act nonviolently with stress and anger issues. Call 339-6761 for more information.

• A Domestic Violence Support Group for Women will meet from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16. E. Franklin St., Troy. Support for battered women who want to break free from partner violence is offered.

There is no charge for the program. For more information, call 339-6761.

• Narcotics Anonymous, Inspiring Hope, 12:30 p.m., Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy.

• Children’s Creative Play Group will be from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, 16 E. Franklin St., Troy. Schoolage children will learn appropriate social interactions and free expression through unique play therapy. There is no charge for this program. More information is available by calling 339-6761.

• Narcotics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Spirit of Recovery, Church of the Brethren, 1431 W. Main St., Troy.

• Overeaters Anonymous will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 9100 N. Main St., State Route 48, between Meijer and Samaritan North. For other meetings or information, call 252-6766 or (800) 589-6262, or visit the Web site at www.region5oa.org.

• Miami Valley Women’s Center, 7049-A Taylorsville Road, Huber Heights, offers free pregnancy testing, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call 236-2273.

• A Pilates Beginners group matwork class will be from 5:306:30 p.m. at 27 1/2 E. Main St., Tipp City. For more information, call Tipp-Monroe Community Services at 667-8631 or Celeste at 669-2441.

• Safe People, 7-8:30 p.m., Ginghamsburg Church, SC/DC 104. Find guidance for making safe choices in relationships, from friendships to co-workers, family or romance. Learn to identify nurturing people as well as those who should be avoided. Call Roberta Bogle at 667-4678 for more information.

• Boundaries, 7-8:30 p.m., Ginghamsburg Church, ARK 200. A 12-week video series using Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend.

Offers practical help and encouragement to all who seek a healthy, balanced life and practice in being able to say no. For more information, call Linda Richards at 667-4678.

• The Temple of Praise Ministries will serve hot lunches from noon to 2 p.m. on the first and third Wednesday at 235 S. Third St., Tipp City.

• A free employment networking group will be offered from 8-9 a.m. each Wednesday at Job and Family Services, 2040 N. County Road 25-A, Troy. The group will offer tools to tap into unadvertised jobs, assistance to improve personal presentation skills and resume writing. For more information, call Steven Kiefer at 570-2688 or Justin Sommer at 440-3465.

• The Tipp City Seniors offer line dancing at 10 a.m. every Wednesday at 320 S. First St., Tipp City.

CONTACT US n Sports Editor Josh Brown

(937) 440-5251, (937) 440-5232 jbrown@civitasmedia.com

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Hyde, OSU still unbeaten

TODAY’S TIPS • BASEBALL: The University of Dayton baseball program will host a holiday camp for players ages 7-12 Dec. 27-29 at the Fredericks Center on the UD campus. The cost is $115. For more information and a camp brochure, send an email to pvittorio1@ udayton.edu, or register online at daytonflyers.com by clicking the “baseball” and then “baseball camps” links.

• WINTER SPORTS: Reserve and season tickets for the Covington High School boys basketball season will go on sale Thursday.

Those who held reserve seats last year may purchase their tickets from between 6-7, and those who did not hold reserve seats last year should come to the office between 7-7:30. Boys basketball reserve seat prices are $70 for adults and $40 for students, while season tickets are $60 for adults and $30 for students. Girls basketball season ticket prices are $60 for adults and $30 for students. The girls passes can be purchased in the high school athletic office. Winter sports passes for all junior high and high school regular season home events are also on sale in the high school office, with costs of $90 for adults and $50 for students. For more information, contact Athletic Director Roger Craft at (937) 473-2552.

• SUBMIT-A-TIP: To submit an item to the Troy Daily News sports section, please contact Josh Brown at jbrown@civitasmedia. com or David Fong at dfong@civitasmedia. com.

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Ohio State quarterback Braxton Miller (5) runs for a 70-yard touchdown during the first half Saturday in Champaign, Ill.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Breaking into the open field for a late, long touchdown run Saturday at Illinois, Ohio State running back Carlos Hyde wondered why it hadn’t all come this easy for the Buckeyes.

Hyde finished the day with the kind of numbers that usually come with an easy win: 248 yards rushing with four touchdowns on the ground and another through the air.

Quarterback Braxton Miller wasn’t far behind with 184 yards rushing and two more touchdowns.

But after opening up a 28-0 lead, the No. 3 Buckeyes needed a momentum-chang-

ing safety and Hyde’s late 55and 51-yard touchdowns to finally put Illinois away 60-35 and stay unbeaten (10-0, 6-0 Big Ten).

“That last run, in my head I was like, we could (have done) this the whole time,” Hyde said. “That last run, I had energy and I just feel like we could have had that momentum the whole game.”

Illinois, though, fought back. Quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase led the Illini with 288 yards passing and two touchdowns. But the Buckeyes defense kept him under pressure all day, See OSU | 9

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Football Division III, Region 10 Final at TBA Tippecanoe vs. Trotwood-Madison (7:30 p.m.)

Girls Basketball West Carrollton at Troy (7:30 p.m.)

Tippecanoe at Butler (7:30 p.m.)

Newton at Bradford (7:30 p.m.)

Covington at Houston (7:30 p.m.)

Hockey Troy at Findlay (7 p.m.)

Bowling Alter at Tippecanoe (4 p.m.)

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Football Division VII, Region 26 Final At TBA Covington/Marion-Local vs.

Lehman/Triad (7 p.m.)

Girls Basketball Miami East at Butler (7:30 p.m.)

Bethel at Piqua (12:30 p.m.)

Houston at Newton (7:30 p.m.)

Fairlawn at Covington (6 p.m.)

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Jimmie Johnson still fighting for respect Jimmie Johnson is up almost every day by 5:30 a.m., the easiest time of day to do his training.

He runs five days a week, logging up to 40 miles on foot, swims two days a week and cycles two days a week. Johnson has completed half marathons, multiple triathlons and now has his eyes set on an Ironman and the Boston Marathon, perhaps as early as next year.

Yet as the most dominant driver of the decade closes in on his sixth NASCAR championship in eight years, his accomplishments fail to earn proper due. The latest slight came from retired NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb, who said on a Fox Sports 1 program that Johnson is “absolutely not” an athlete.

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the Flyers faced fourth-and-5 from the Covington 17-yard line, and an incomplete pass that likely could have been pass interference cut the drive short and gave the ball back to the Buccs.

And they refused to let it go.

Covington drove 83 yards on an astounding 20 plays, chewing up more than 11 minutes in the process.

The Buccs converted two third downs and two fourth downs along the way, including sophomore quarterback

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A short jumper off the glass. A stutter-step shot that drew a foul. An easy layup after a teammate sealed off a defender in the middle.

After a bruising tussle with Marquette in the first half, Shannon Scott helped energize No. 10 Ohio State early in the second half for a big win on the road.

Scott scored 13 points, including the three buckets during the 12-4 run after halftime, and the Buckeyes pulled away for a 52-35 win Saturday over the cold-shooting, 17thranked Golden Eagles.

Sam Thompson also scored 13, while Aaron Craft added 10 points and 10 assists for the Buckeyes (3-0), who ended Marquette’s 27-game home winning streak, secondlongest in the nation.

It was the school’s first loss at home since Vanderbilt beat the Golden Eagles 74-57 on Dec. 29, 2011. Only South Dakota State (30) had a longer winning streak in the country entering Saturday.

Didn’t look like they could pull it off after shooting just 27 percent in the first half.

But things opened up after halftime, when coach Thad Matta’s team was 15 of 26 from the field (58 percent).

“Eventually, it’s got to go in the basket,” Matta said in recounting a halftime talk.

“Fortunately we had that run.

It was the difference in the game.”

Scott, Craft and Thompson were the sparks, while Marquette (2-1) came out flat in the second half in front of a full house of 18,700 friendly fans in the BMO Harris Bradley Center.

“As I told our guys, I don’t feel sorry for us at all. They beat us,” coach Buzz Williams

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Covington’s A.J. Ouellette breaks free on a 51-yard touchdown run in the second half of Saturday’s Division VII, Region 26 semifinal against Marion Local at Piqua High School. Ouellette ran for 231 yards and two touchdowns in the Buccaneers’ 35-28 loss.

Buccs season finishes in regional semi

By Josh Brown

Sports Editor jbrown@civitasmedia.com

PIQUA — As the clock wound down on Covington’s season, it wasn’t the lost perfect record that Buccaneer coach Dave Miller was thinking about.

Or league championships.

Or state title shots.

“I just can’t say goodbye to them. I don’t want to have to say goodbye,” Miller said. “I love my kids, and I wanted 15 weeks with them. I wanted us to go all the way so I could be with them for three more weeks. That’s what I’m going to miss.”

But Marion Local — the No. 1 ranked team in the state in the final Division VII poll — converted a fourth-and-10 from its own 49 with 1:20 left to play in a tie game, and Adam Bertke hit Troy Homan on a 4-yard touchdown pass with 29 seconds on the clock to lift the Flyers (12-0) to a 35-28 D-VII, Region 26 semifinal victory after a titanic battle Saturday at Piqua High School.

No one gave Covington (11-1) much of a chance coming into the game — the Buccaneers entered the night 0-8 against the Flyers in postseason play.

But, as they have all season, the Buccs — led by senior A.J. Ouellette, who finished with 231 yards on 24 carries in the game — didn’t listen to

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Covington’s Justin Williams runs over a Marion Local defender Saturday at Piqua High School.

any of the chatter surrounding them and bought into the coaches’ gameplan.

And that plan worked early on.

Ouellette shocked the Flyers out of the gate with a 38-yard kickoff return, and then he took a pitch on the Buccs’ third play from scrimmage untouched around the left side 41 yards to put Covington up 7-0 with 9:51 left in the first quarter.

Marion Local’s first drive was efficient, also, as quarterback Adam Bertke was 3-for-6 passing and added 15 yards on the ground. Still,

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FOOTBALL National Football League All Times EDT AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA New England 7 2 0 .778234 175 N.Y. Jets 5 4 0 .556169 231 Miami 4 5 0 .444193 209 Buffalo 3 7 0 .300199 259 South W L T Pct PF PA Indianapolis 7 3 0 .700252 220 Tennessee 4 6 0 .400227 226 Houston 2 7 0 .222170 248 Jacksonville 1 8 0 .111115 291 North W L T Pct PF PA Cincinnati 6 4 0 .600234 186 Cleveland 4 5 0 .444172 197 Baltimore 4 5 0 .444188 189 Pittsburgh 3 6 0 .333179 218 West W L T Pct PF PA Kansas City 9 0 0 1.000215 111 Denver 8 1 0 .889371 238 San Diego 4 5 0 .444212 202 Oakland 3 6 0 .333166 223 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Dallas 5 5 0 .500274 258 Philadelphia 5 5 0 .500252 244 N.Y. Giants 3 6 0 .333165 243 Washington 3 6 0 .333230 287 South W L T Pct PF PA New Orleans 7 2 0 .778265 163 Carolina 6 3 0 .667214 115 Atlanta 2 7 0 .222186 251 Tampa Bay 1 8 0 .111146 209 North W L T Pct PF PA Detroit 6 3 0 .667238 216 Chicago 5 4 0 .556259 247 Green Bay 5 4 0 .556245 212 Minnesota 2 7 0 .222220 279 West W L T Pct PF PA Seattle 9 1 0 .900265 159 San Francisco 6 3 0 .667227 155 Arizona 5 4 0 .556187 198 St. Louis 4 6 0 .400224 234 Thursday, Nov. 14 Indianapolis 30, Tennessee 27 Sunday, Nov. 17 Baltimore at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Oakland at Houston, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.

Detroit at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

Arizona at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

San Diego at Miami, 4:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Seattle, 4:25 p.m.

San Francisco at New Orleans, 4:25 p.m.

Green Bay at N.Y. Giants, 4:25 p.m.

Kansas City at Denver, 8:30 p.m.

Open: Dallas, St. Louis Monday, Nov. 18 New England at Carolina, 8:40 p.m.

College Football Scores EAST Akron 14, UMass 13 Albright 40, Lebanon Valley 25 American International 27, Stonehill 17 Bentley 56, St. Anselm 41 Bethany (WV) 56, St.Vincent 35 Bloomsburg 42, Slippery Rock 38 Boston College 38, NC State 21 Bridgewater (Mass.) 45, Mass.Maritime 20 Brockport 43, Morrisville St. 33 Bucknell 17, Georgetown 7 California (Pa.) 48, Millersville 14 Case Reserve 35, Carnegie-Mellon 32 Cincinnati 52, Rutgers 17 Cornell 24, Columbia 9 Cortland St. 28, Ithaca 24 Curry 54, Maine Maritime 38 Dartmouth 24, Brown 20 Delaware Valley 50, Widener 28 Duquesne 24, CCSU 21 Endicott 24, Salve Regina 0 Fitchburg St. 41, Plymouth St. 30 Framingham St. 36, Worcester St. 0 Franklin & Marshall 36, Gettysburg 26 Gannon 44, Lock Haven 14 Grove City 50, Thiel 44, OT Hartwick 21, Utica 10 Harvard 38, Penn 30 Hobart 42, Rochester 21 Indiana (Pa.) 42, Shippensburg 21 Juniata 17, Susquehanna 10 King's (Pa.) 35, Wilkes 28 Kutztown 41, Edinboro 10 LIU Post 62, Pace 28 Lafayette 27, Fordham 14 Lehigh 31, Colgate 14 Lycoming 36, Stevenson 20 MIT 48, Coast Guard 31 Maine 41, Rhode Island 0 Marist 33, Mercer 7 Mercyhurst 37, East Stroudsburg 20 Merrimack 35, S. Connecticut 24 Misericordia 63, FDU-Florham 40 Monmouth (NJ) 21, Bryant 18 Montclair St. 21, Kean 14 Mount Ida 6, Husson 0 Muhlenberg 24, Moravian 12 NY Maritime 7, Gallaudet 6 Navy 42, South Alabama 14 New Hampshire 37, Albany (NY) 20 New Haven 27, Assumption 17 North Carolina 34, Pittsburgh 27 Norwich 31, Castleton St. 13 Penn St. 45, Purdue 21 Princeton 59, Yale 23 RPI 31, Union (NY) 28

Richmond 46, Delaware 43 Sacred Heart 42, Robert Morris 25 Seton Hill 17, Cheyney 10 Springfield 35, WPI 21 St. Lawrence 31, Merchant Marine 0 UCF 39, Temple 36 Ursinus 31, Dickinson 0 W. Connecticut 37, Westfield St. 0 W. New England 62, Nichols 37 Wagner 10, St. Francis (Pa.) 7 Washington & Jefferson 38, Waynesburg 13 West Chester 41, Clarion 14 Westminster (Pa.) 30, Geneva 27 MIDWEST Albion 34, Hope 31 Alma 31, Trine 13 Aurora 44, Rockford 7 Baker 38, Peru St. 13 Bemidji St. 35, Minot St. 14 Benedictine (Kan.) 38, Evangel 24 Bethel (Kan.) 26, Bethany (Kan.) 14 Bethel (Minn.) 28, St. John's (Minn.) 7 Bluffton 17, Defiance 10 Buena Vista 29, Dubuque 28 Capital 41, Wilmington (Ohio) 27 Carleton 49, Augsburg 45 Carroll (Wis.) 23, Illinois College 21 Cent. Michigan 27, W. Michigan 22 Central 21, Coe 7 Concordia (Ill.) 48, Maranatha Baptist 22 Concordia (Moor.) 38, Gustavus 31 Concordia (Neb.) 45, Briar Cliff 7 Concordia (Wis.) 58, Wis. Lutheran 31 Cornell (Iowa) 45, Grinnell 0 Culver-Stockton 20, Graceland (Iowa) 10 Dakota Wesleyan 27, Dordt 0 Dayton 45, Valparaiso 20 Denison 42, Kenyon 7 E. Illinois 52, Jacksonville St. 14 Emporia St. 34, Washburn 23 Ferris St. 35, N. Michigan 22 Findlay 49, Walsh 28 Franklin 59, Hanover 21 Friends 35, St. Mary (Kan.) 13 Grand Valley St. 49, Saginaw Valley St. 34 Heidelberg 42, Baldwin-Wallace 14 Hillsdale 24, Northwood (Mich.) 7 Illinois Wesleyan 24, Elmhurst 10 Indianapolis 21, Truman St. 14 Kalamazoo 39, Olivet 37 Kansas 31, West Virginia 19 Kansas St. 33, TCU 31 Lake Erie 50, Tiffin 32 Lake Forest 31, St. Norbert 3 Lakeland 15, Benedictine (Ill.) 12 Lincoln (Mo.) 51, SW Baptist 28 Lindenwood (Ill.) 57, Haskell Indian Nations 7 Macalester 7, Hamline 0 Manchester 42, Anderson (Ind.) 13 Mary 31, Minn.-Crookston 15 McKendree 58, Kentucky Wesleyan 14 McPherson 37, Southwestern (Kan.) 7 Michigan 27, Northwestern 19, 3OT Michigan St. 41, Nebraska 28 Michigan Tech 28, Wayne (Mich.) 21 Mid-Am Nazarene 64, Cent. Methodist 23 Millikin 28, Carthage 21 Minn. Duluth 39, Northern St. (SD) 7 Minn. St.-Mankato 73, Upper Iowa 7 Missouri Southern 35, Pittsburg St. 21 Missouri Valley 26, Avila 0 Monmouth (Ill.) 37, Knox 10 Morningside 51, Doane 13 Mount Union 42, John Carroll 34 Muskingum 24, Marietta 14 N. Dakota St. 35, Youngstown St. 17 N. Iowa 17, Missouri St. 10 NW Missouri St. 51, Missouri Western 21 Nebraska Wesleyan 43, Hastings 14 North Central (Ill.) 53, Augustana (Ill.) 14 Northwestern (Iowa) 55, Midland 27 Oberlin 47, Hiram 13 Ohio Dominican 40, Malone 13 Ohio Northern 42, Otterbein 21 Ohio St. 60, Illinois 35 Ripon 48, Lawrence 28 Robert Morris-Chicago 42, Concordia (Mich.) 2 Rose-Hulman 53, Earlham 15 S. Dakota St. 27, South Dakota 12 S. Illinois 24, Illinois St. 17 SW Minnesota St. 34, Augustana (SD) 24 Simpson (Iowa) 28, Luther 21 Sioux Falls 35, Wayne (Neb.) 10 St. Ambrose 80, Waldorf 20 St. Cloud St. 64, Minn. St.-Moorhead 27 St. Francis (Ind.) 41, Marian (Ind.) 24 St.Joseph's (Ind.) 37, William Jewell 31, OT St.Thomas (Minn.) 45, St. Olaf 23 St. Xavier 34, Olivet Nazarene 7 Sterling 36, Kansas Wesleyan 19 Tabor 23, Ottawa, Kan. 20 Taylor 30, St. Francis (Ill.) 20 Thomas More 59, Mount St. Joseph 13 Urbana 24, Charleston (WV) 21 W. Illinois 21, Indiana St. 14 Wabash 38, DePauw 21 Wartburg 59, Loras 3 Washington (Mo.) 17, Chicago 7 Wheaton (Ill.) 58, North Park 0 William Penn 23, Trinity (Ill.) 18 Wis.-Eau Claire 24, Wis.-LaCrosse 21 Wis.-Platteville 17, Wis.-Oshkosh 16 Wis.-Stevens Pt. 19, Wis.-Stout 14 Wis.-Whitewater 43, Wis.-River Falls 6 Wisconsin 51, Indiana 3 Wittenberg 56, Allegheny 0 Wooster 28, Ohio Wesleyan 27 SOUTH Alabama A&M 50, Ark.-Pine Bluff 42 Alabama St. 19, MVSU 7 Alcorn St. 48, Jackson St. 33 Appalachian St. 33, Wofford 21

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SPORTS ON TV TODAY AUTO RACING 2 p.m. NBC — Formula One, United States Grand Prix, at Austin, Texas 3 p.m. ESPN — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, Ford EcoBoost 400, at Homestead, Fla. CANADIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE 11 p.m. NBCSN — Playoffs, conference finals, teams TBD (sameday tape) FIGURE SKATING 4:30 p.m. NBC — ISU Grand Prix: Skate France, at Paris (sameday tape) GOLF 2 p.m. TGC — PGA Tour, OHL Classic, final round, at Playa del Carmen, Mexico MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 4 p.m. FSN — Long Beach St. at Kansas St. 5 p.m. ESPN2 — Michigan at Iowa St. FS1 — Towson at Villanova 7 p.m. ESPN2 — Robert Morris at Kentucky NFL FOOTBALL 1 p.m. CBS — Regional coverage FOX — Regional coverage, doubleheader 4 p.m. CBS — Regional coverage 4:25 p.m. FOX — Regional coverage, doubleheader game 8 p.m. NBC — Kansas City at Denver WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 3 p.m. FS1 — California at Georgetown Auburn 43, Georgia 38 Ave Maria 42, Apprentice 21 Belhaven 55, Bethel (Tenn.) 45 Bethune-Cookman 42, Hampton 12 Butler 58, Morehead St. 27 Carson-Newman 52, Wingate 35 Catholic 42, Bridgewater (Va.) 19 Cent. Arkansas 17, Nicholls St. 10 Centre 53, Birmingham-Southern 19 Christopher Newport 58, Ferrum 12 Coastal Carolina 46, Presbyterian 13 Cumberland (Tenn.) 41, AldersonBroaddus 17 Cumberlands 56, Bluefield South 14 Delaware St. 29, Florida A&M 21 Duke 48, Miami 30 East Carolina 63, UAB 14 FAU 41, Southern Miss. 7 Fairmont St. 47, Virginia-Wise 44 Faulkner 42, Kentucky Christian 14 Florida St. 59, Syracuse 3 Florida Tech 17, Webber 3 Furman 32, W. Carolina 20 Gardner-Webb 27, Charleston Southern 10 Georgetown (Ky.) 20, Lindsey Wilson 10 Georgia Southern 38, Elon 20 Glenville St. 17, W.Virginia St. 12 Guilford 35, Emory & Henry 31 Hampden-Sydney 28, RandolphMacon 26 Huntingdon 45, Maryville (Tenn.) 38 Jacksonville 45, Stetson 24 Johns Hopkins 52, McDaniel 21 LaGrange 37, Averett 9 Lenoir-Rhyne 48, Catawba 15 Liberty 59, Brevard 21 Louisiana-Lafayette 35, Georgia St. 21 Maryland 27, Virginia Tech 24, OT Memphis 23, South Florida 10 Methodist 69, NC Wesleyan 62 Mississippi 51, Troy 21 NC A&T 41, Savannah St. 14 NC Central 24, Norfolk St. 13 Newberry 55, North Greenville 21 Notre Dame Coll. 30, West Liberty 13 Old Dominion 42, Campbell 14 Pikeville 56, Union (Ky.) 38 Reinhardt 66, Campbellsville 48 Rhodes 49, Millsaps 30 S.Virginia 40, Southwestern (Texas) 0 SE Louisiana 34, Sam Houston St. 21 SE Missouri 36, Austin Peay 34 Samford 17, Chattanooga 14, OT Shenandoah 21, Washington & Lee 14 Shepherd 41, Concord 33 Southern U. 53, Clark Atlanta 0 Stony Brook 41, James Madison 38 Tennessee St. 17, Murray St. 10 The Citadel 31, VMI 10 Towson 15, William & Mary 9 Tusculum 49, Mars Hill 42 UNC-Pembroke 63, Va. Lynchburg 0 UT-Martin 16, E. Kentucky 7 Vanderbilt 22, Kentucky 6 Warner 13, Concordia-Selma 7 Wesley 47, Alfred 0 SOUTHWEST Abilene Christian 65, Prairie View 45 Angelo St. 7, Incarnate Word 0 Austin 35, Trinity (Texas) 7 E. New Mexico 35, Texas A&M Commerce 28 E.Texas Baptist 34, Sul Ross St. 32 East Central 23, SE Oklahoma 16 Fort Hays St. 56, Nebraska-Kearney 17 Harding 28, Arkansas Tech 17 Henderson St. 60, Ouachita 52, 3OT Howard 40, Texas Southern 6 Langston 33, Wayland Baptist 0 Louisiana College 46, Hardin-Simmons 34 Mary Hardin-Baylor 56, Mississippi

College 30 North Alabama 44, Tarleton St. 7 Northeastern St. 45, Cent. Oklahoma 38 Oklahoma 48, Iowa St. 10 Oklahoma Baptist 39, Texas College 28 Oklahoma St. 38, Texas 13 Rice 52, Louisiana Tech 14 S. Arkansas 44, Ark.-Monticello 20 S. Nazarene 55, McMurry 20 SMU 38, UConn 21 SW Assemblies of God 38, Bacone 34 SW Oklahoma 62, NW Oklahoma St. 17 Sewanee 35, Hendrix 9 Texas Lutheran 63, Howard Payne 14 West Texas A&M 19, Midwestern St. 12 FAR WEST Adams St. 19, Mesa St. 17 Azusa Pacific 28, Simon Fraser 19 BYU 59, Idaho St. 13 Black Hills St. 17, Fort Lewis 14 CSU-Pueblo 38, Western St. (Col.) 13 Carroll (Mont.) 48, Dickinson St. 3 Chapman 37, Cal Lutheran 27 Claremont-Mudd 29, Pomona-Pitzer 23 Colorado 41, California 24 Colorado Mines 23, Chadron St. 0 Colorado St. 66, New Mexico 42 E. Oregon 42, Montana Western 20 E. Washington 35, Cal Poly 22 Linfield 28, Pacific 22 Menlo 38, Valley City St. 28 Montana 42, Weber St. 6 N. Arizona 24, N. Colorado 7 Occidental 49, La Verne 21 Oregon 44, Utah 21 Redlands 70, Whittier 16 Rocky Mountain 49, Montana St.Northern 28 S. Oregon 31, Montana Tech 10 S. Utah 22, Montana St. 14 Sacramento St. 43, Portland St. 42 San Diego 23, Drake 13 UC Davis 34, North Dakota 18 W. New Mexico 43, NM Highlands 14 W. Oregon 27, Humboldt St. 14 Washington St. 24, Arizona 17 Whitworth 61, Lewis & Clark 28 Willamette 62, Puget Sound 20

Tippecanoe 30, Thurgood Marshall 13 Thurgood Tipp 15 First Downs 11 229 Yards Rushing 232 104 Yards Passing 29 6-12 Comp.-Att. 2-4 2 Interceptions Thrown 0 8-5 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 2-15 Penalties-Yards 3-31 1-0.0 Punts-Average 3-38.7 Scoring Summary Tipp — Taylor Clark 35-yard field goal.

Tipp — Alex Hall 9-yard pass from Zack Blair (Clark kick).

Tipp — Jacob Hall 64-yard run (Clark kick).

TM — Vayante Copeland 45yard run (kick failed).

Tipp — Clark 24-yard field goal.

TM — Copeland 1-yard run (Antionio Camberos kick).

Tipp — Clark 29-yard field goal.

Tipp — Jacob Hall 10-yard run (Clark kick).

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■ Receiving: Thurgood Marshall — Copeland 3-53, Thompson 1-24, Lashon Howard 2-27. Tippecanoe — Ford 1-20, Alex Hall 1-9.

■ Passing: Thurgood Marshall — Manley 6-12-2 104.

Tippecanoe — Blair 2-4-0 29.

■ Records: Thurgood Marshall 7-4. Tippecanoe 12-0.

Mechanicsburg 31, Miami East 14 Mechanicsburg Miami East 12 First Downs 12 326 Yards Rushing 99 69 Yards Passing 148 2-4 Comp.-Att. 14-25 0 Interceptions Thrown 2 3-3 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 3-15 Penalties-Yards 2-20 2-42.0 Punts-Average 5-51.4 Scoring Summary Miami East – Michael Fellers 37-yard pass from Conner Hellyer (Fellers kick).

Mechanicsburg – Brandon Purk 48-yard pass from Kaleb Romero (Purk kick).

Mechanicsburg – Aeryton Erwin 1-yard run (Purk kick).

Miami East – Alex Brewer 2yard run (Fellers kick).

Mechanicsburg – Erwin 1yard run.

Mechanicsburg – Purk 66yard interception return (Purk kick).

Mechanicsburg – Purk 24yard field goal.

Score by Quarters Mech...............7 7 7 10 – 31 Miami East ....7 7 0 0 – 14 Individual Statistics ■ Rushing: Mechanicsburg — Rombero 12-68, Erwin 28256, Joe Ziegler 1-2. Miami East — Hellyer 1-(-3), Fellers 7-21, Colton McKinney 9-35, Brewer 10-15, Kurt Brower 7-31.

■ Receiving: Mechanicsburg — Purk 2-69. Miami East — Dalton Allen 2-17, Fellers 6-74, McKinney 1-7, Brewer 1-3, Braxton Donaldson 1-21, Franco Villella 3-26.

■ Passing: Mechanicsburg — Romero 2-3-0 69, Erwin 0-11 0. Miami East — Hellyer 1425-2 148.

■ Records: Mechanicsburg 10-2, Miami East 10-2.

OHSAA High School Football Playoffs Friday's Scores Division II Avon 24, Perrysburg 21 Cin. Mt. Healthy 13, Cin. Winton Woods 10 Cle. Glenville 26, Bedford 12 Loveland 45, Cin. NW 14 Madison 22, Brecksville-Broadview Hts. 21 Medina Highland 17, Massillon Washington 14 New Albany 26, Mansfield Sr. 22 Zanesville 36, Worthington Kilbourne 0 Division III Akr. SVSM 35, Poland Seminary 7 Athens 55, Dresden Tri-Valley 52, OT Clyde 19, Sandusky Perkins 6 Cols. Marion-Franklin 20, Cols.

Brookhaven 19 Hubbard 49, Aurora 19 Tipp City Tippecanoe 30, Day. Thurgood Marshall 13 Tol. Cent. Cath. 42, Tiffin Columbian 13 Trotwood-Madison 44, Spring.

Shawnee 7 Division IV Steubenville 22, Zanesville Maysville 20 Bryan 49, Caledonia River Valley 19 Clarksville Clinton-Massie 52, Cin. McNicholas 14 Cle. Benedictine 52, Chagrin Falls 35 Gnadenhutten Indian Valley 7, Philo 3 Kenton 46, Wooster Triway 6 Kettering Alter 28, Germantown Valley View 0 Youngs. Mooney 42, Struthers 14 Division VI Ada 35, Convoy Crestview 0 Cols. Ready 45, Woodsfield Monroe Cent. 14 Haviland Wayne Trace 40, Defiance Tinora 7 Kirtland 49, Louisville Aquinas 21 Mechanicsburg 31, Casstown Miami E. 14 Mogadore 35, Canfield S. Range 28 Newark Cath. 35, Lucasville Valley 21 W. Liberty-Salem 21, Cin. Summit Country Day 13 Saturday's Scores Division I

Austintown Fitch 40, Westerville Cent.

24 Cin. Colerain 38, Pickerington Cent. 20 Cin. Moeller 24, Cin. Elder 0 Cle. St. Ignatius 28, Hudson 17 Hilliard Davidson 20, Pickerington N. 7 Huber Hts. Wayne 31, Dublin Coffman 10 Lakewood St. Edward 42, Cle. Hts. 7 Mentor 43, Stow-Munroe Falls 0 Division V Akr. Manchester 35, Navarre Fairless 7 Coldwater 49, Doylestown Chippewa 21 Cols. Hartley 14, Baltimore Liberty Union 7 Columbiana Crestview 27, Gates Mills Gilmour 26 Hamilton Badin 31, Cin. Hills Christian Academy 17 Huron 17, Loudonville 13 W. Jefferson 37, Richwood N. Union 20 Wheelersburg 45, Martins Ferry 0 Division VII Arlington 54, Hicksville 14 Berlin Center Western Reserve 31, Danville 26 Delphos St. John's 42, Tiffin Calvert 10 Glouster Trimble 27, Steubenville Cath.

Cent. 22 Maria Stein Marion Local 35, Covington 28 N. Lewisburg Triad 14, Sidney Lehman 7 Norwalk St. Paul 24, Wellsville 0 Shadyside 30, Caldwell 6

BASKETBALL Saturday's College Basketball Scores EAST Brown 85, Sacred Heart 73 Bryant 87, Vermont 64 Bucknell 72, St. Francis (Pa.) 50 Buffalo 80, WV Wesleyan 60 Creighton 83, Saint Joseph's 79 Dartmouth 77, Mass.-Lowell 59 George Washington 80, Manhattan 74 Iona 76, Wofford 55 La Salle 78, Siena 74 Loyola (Md.) 59, Fairfield 52 Navy 68, Binghamton 50 Northeastern 83, CCSU 69 Penn St. 83, Penn 71 Providence 93, Marist 48 Quinnipiac 79, Albany (NY) 69 St. Anselm 113, Chestnut Hill 73 St. Bonaventure 86, Canisius 64 St. Lawrence 84, Alfred 48 St. Rose 96, Felician 63 Suffolk 95, W. New England 84 Syracuse 69, Colgate 50 MIDWEST Aquinas 71, Siena Heights 63 Ashford 93, Indiana-East 84 Briar Cliff 101, Doane 95 Butler 70, Princeton 67 Cincinnati 77, Appalachian St. 49 Concordia (Mich.) 76, MichiganDearborn 64 Concordia (St.P.) 75, Waldorf 67 Davenport 102, Marygrove 46 Dayton 78, St. Francis (NY) 58 DePaul 81, Wright St. 72 E. Illinois 86, Ill.-Chicago 66 Gustavus 82, Buena Vista 69 Indianapolis 88, Northwood (Mich.) 79 Lake Superior St. 97, St. Joseph's (Ind.) 89 Marian (Wis.) 79, Martin Luther 70 Michigan Tech 78, Minn. Duluth 58 Milwaukee 77, James Madison 66 Minn. St.-Moorhead 94, Northland 38 Missouri 92, Hawaii 80 Ohio St. 52, Marquette 35 Pepperdine 88, Cent. Michigan 71 SE Missouri 76, IUPUI 68 Saint Louis 76, S. Illinois 67 Walsh 112, Wilberforce 68 Wichita St. 85, Tennessee St. 71 Wis.-Eau Claire 70, Hamline 66 Wis.-Parkside 91, Purdue-N. Central 48 Wisconsin 69, Green Bay 66 SOUTH Alabama St. 84, Jacksonville St. 73 Apprentice 97, Chowan 91, OT Auburn-Montgomery 77, Loyola NO 57 Capital 85, Thomas More 69 Chattanooga 108, Montreat 51 Coker 75, Limestone 73 Delta St. 82, LeMoyne-Owen 71 E. Kentucky 74, High Point 67 FIU 70, Texas Southern 68 Fisk 100, Reinhardt 90 Florida 86, UALR 56 Freed-Hardeman 90, Tougaloo 66 GRU Augusta 87, Bowie St. 86, OT Gardner-Webb 87, Jacksonville 78 George Mason 76, N. Iowa 70 Georgia Southern 104, Toccoa Falls 50 Johnson C. Smith 78, Lees-McRae 73 LSU 88, Northwestern St. 74 Lincoln Memorial 86, King (Tenn.) 50 Longwood 88, Mars Hill 70 Mercer 77, Seton Hall 74, 2OT Middle Tennessee 80, Akron 73 Milligan 88, Alice Lloyd 68 Minnesota 74, Richmond 59 Mississippi 72, Coastal Carolina 70 NC State 81, Campbell 66 Radford 105, Brevard 57 San Diego 75, N. Kentucky 44 Sewanee 96, Columbia (SC) 66 Southern U. 87, North Florida 78 Spring Hill 78, Emmanuel (Mass.) 64 St. Augustine's 106, Pfeiffer 87 Tennessee 74, SC-Upstate 65 The Citadel 83, North Greenville 53 Tulane 65, Loyola of Chicago 59 UNC Wilmington 80, Wingate 61 Union (Tenn.) 100, Central Baptist 56 VCU 92, Winthrop 71 VMI 121, Bluefield St. 80

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Johnson fights for his due among the greats HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Jimmie Johnson is up almost every day by 5:30 a.m., the easiest time of day to do his training.

He runs five days a week, logging up to 40 miles on foot, swims two days a week and cycles two days a week. Johnson has completed half marathons, multiple triathlons and now has his eyes set on an Ironman and the Boston Marathon, perhaps as early as next year.

Yet as the most dominant driver of the decade closes in on his sixth NASCAR championship in eight years, his accomplishments fail to earn proper due. The latest slight came from retired NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb, who said on a Fox Sports 1 program that Johnson is “absolutely not” an athlete.

“He sits in a car and he drives, that doesn’t take being athletic,” McNabb said Friday night during

a debate over the most dominant athletes in sports. “What athletically is he doing?”

It triggered an immediate backlash on social media against McNabb, who ranked Johnson third on his personal list behind Tiger Woods and Kobe Bryant. Fellow drivers rallied to the defense of Johnson, who stayed silent on the subject until Saturday morning.

Johnson Tweeted his response, posting: “The debate continues…

Everyone is entitled to an opinion. (hashtag) DriversAreAthletes.”

Goaded by a fan to go harder on the topic, Johnson declined.

“I choose to be respectful. There is way too much venom spewed these days,” he tweeted in response.

And that was his final word on the subject as Johnson headed off for the final two practice sessions before today’s season finale race at Homestead-

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Driver Jimmie Johnson sits in his car waiting for the start of practice for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup series auto race Friday at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Fla.

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He can win his sixth championship by finishing 23rd or better.

Matt Kenseth and Kevin Harvick both need for something to go terribly wrong with Johnson’s Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet on the track to

have any shot at snatching the title.

A spokeswoman for Johnson said he would have no further comment on McNabb beyond his Saturday morning tweets She said Johnson was focused only on preparing the No. 48 for the final

race of the year.

“We’re just working on comfort,” Johnson said between practice sessions.

“I was just out there running around on old tires, trying to find a little comfort in the car.”

Business as usual for Johnson and his laserfocused Hendrick crew.

Johnson’s 10-lap average ranked sixth in Saturday’s first practice, and he shot to the top of the leaderboard in the final session before Sunday’s race.

That’s what has put him in this position, and put a NASCAR drivers’ name in the debate of dominant athletes.

Johnson’s 66 Sprint Cup wins since 2002 are 30 more than any other driver has won during the same span, and a sixth title will put only the seven won by Richard Petty and the late Dale Earnhardt ahead of him on the all-time list.

Neither Petty nor Earnhardt did it in an eight-year span. And

should Johnson win the title, at 38 he would be four years younger than Earnhardt was when he won his sixth.

But outside of NASCAR, his numbers rank among other recent greats.

• Roger Federer won 16 of 27 Grand Slams from 2003-10.

• Michael Phelps won 18 gold medals in three Olympics from 2004 to 2012.

• Tiger Woods won four consecutive majors in 2000 and 2001, and seven overall from 19992002.

Rick Hendrick plucked the relatively unknown Johnson out of the Nationwide Series in late 2001 to be the driver of his new fourth car. He has been fighting for years to get Johnson more respect.

“I don’t think Jimmie’s gotten the real credit he deserves for the talent that he has, and for the dedication that he has given to this sport,” the team owner said.

Pa. students ban ‘Redskins,’ get sent to principal PHILADELPHIA (AP) — When a high school newspaper at a suburban Philadelphia football powerhouse decided the word “Redskins” had no place in its pages, the paper’s student editors found themselves called to the principal’s office.

The dispute between Neshaminy High School’s paper, the Playwickian, and school administrators is a strange twist on the fight over what students can and can’t say: this time it’s the students urging restraint.

The Playwickian editors started getting heat from school officials after an Oct. 27 editorial that barred the use of the word “Redskins” — the nickname of the teams at Neshaminy, a school

named for the creek where the Lenape Indians once lived.

“Detractors will argue that the word is used with all due respect. But the offensiveness of a word cannot be judged by its intended meaning, but by how it is received,” read the editorial backed by 14 of 21 staff members.

(An equally well-written op-ed voiced the dissenting group’s opinion.)

The ban comes as Native American activists and a few media outlets, along with President Barack Obama, challenge the moniker of Washington’s NFL team, which visits Philadelphia on Sunday.

At Neshaminy — where the welcome sign sometimes reads: “Everybody

do the Redskin Rumble” and the football team is 11-1 with a shot at its second state title— news editors had pledged to stop using the term “Redskins” as far back as 2001, but sometimes wavered. This year’s staff decided to take it on fullforce.

“You are not afraid to write about the hard and sensitive issues. You take risks on editorial pages — bravo!” judges wrote last month in a student journalism contest, when the Playwickian earned a top award.

Nonetheless, Principal Robert McGee ordered the editors to put the “Redskins” ban on hold, and summoned them to a meeting after school Tuesday, accord-

ing to junior Gillian McGoldrick, the editorin-chief.

“People are (saying), ‘Just give in. It doesn’t really matter.’ But it’s a huge deal, that we’re being forced to say something that we don’t want to,” said McGoldrick, a 16-year-old junior.

McGee called the editors’ motives “valiant,” but said the dispute pits the rights of one group of students against another.

His approximately 2,600 students must each publish an article in the Playwickian for course credit. He doesn’t think anyone should be barred from writing about the Neshaminy Redskins, especially, he said, when the harm alleged is open to debate.

OSU From page A7 sacking him five times and hitting him more than that.

Hyde, Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer said, made the difference.

“He’s been great for us and did get great in the end for us,” he said. “It did get tight. Offensively, we did need the help.”

The loss extends the Big Ten losing streak for Illinois (3-7, 0-6) to 20 games.

“An L is an L,” Illini head coach Tim Beckman said.

“These kids fought, they know they fought. … I’m proud of them for doing that, but they’re

Buckeyes From page A7 said. “They beat us straight up. They beat us at home before a sellout crowd.”

It certainly didn’t help that the Golden Eagles had 20 turnovers and shot just 10 of 53 (19 percent) for the game, including 4 of 24 (17 percent) in the second half.

Tied at 19 at halftime, the game opened up with Ohio State going on the run and finding room to maneuver inside.

Center Amir Williams started the spurt by muscling out Chris Otule in the post for a basket.

Then Williams sealed off Otule in the lane to allow Scott to go in for an uncontested layup.

After forcing a steal of Jake Thomas, Scott sped down the court and drew a foul on Thomas on the stutter-step jumper.

Lenzelle Smith Jr. lowered his head driving the baseline and flipped up a tough shot around Marquette’s big men for a

just like everybody else is, they want a W.” After trailing 28-0 in the second quarter, Illinois closed to 35-21 in the third on two Scheelhaase touchdown passes.

Illinois had the momen-

tum when the Buckeyes’ Ryan Shazier sacked backup quarterback Reilly O’Toole in the end zone.

Illinois recovered his fumble but the safety gave the Buckeyes a 37-21 edge and the ball. Minutes

later, a Hyde touchdown put them up 44-21.

It was one of the hits on Scheelhaase that kept Ohio State in control when Illinois was getting back into the game.

After Illinois closed to within two scores at 35-21, Scheelhaase had his helmet ripped off at his own goal line. Under the rules, he had to leave the game for a play, bringing O’Toole on.

The Buckeyes teed off on the backup quarterback, with Shazier hitting him from behind and knocking the ball loose.

Tight end Matt LaCosse recovered the ball for Illinois to limit the damage to the safety.

The momentum swung swiftly back to the Buckeyes.

31-23 lead with 16:21 left.

“Defensively, we just didn’t get back in transition, and from that point on they had the advantage,” point guard Derrick Wilson said. ‘ Coach Williams called a timeout that briefly settled his team before the Buckeyes pulled away again.

Ohio State had just three turnovers in the second half to 10 for the Golden Eagles, who are breaking in a new backcourt with last year’s starting trio of Vander Blue, Junior Cadougan and Trent Lockett all gone.

Wilson is the new starter at the point. Todd Mayo, helping to fill the minutes left by Blue’s departure at

shooting guard, led the Golden Eagles with 11 points.

Whatever the reason, Ohio State found its rhythm on the fastbreak, with a 16-0 edge, including 12-0 in the second half.

“The biggest thing we wanted to do was get out in transition,” Craft said.

“If we could get rebounds and run, we could get layups before they could set up. And that’s what we wanted to do.”

It was another momen-

tous day in Craft’s career after he eclipsed 1,000 career points, to become the first player in team history to have that many points along with 500 assists and 200 steals.

The bruising first half featured tussles under the bucket, plenty of rebounds and lots of missed shots.

The teams combined to shoot 13 of 55 in a half that ended in a 19-all tie on Buckeye forward Marc Loving’s 3 from the corner with 7 seconds left.

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Ohio State running back Carlos Hyde (34) runs for a 51-yard touchdown during the second half against Illinois on Saturday in Champaign, Ill. Ohio State won the game 60-35.

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School officials had also ordered the Playwickian to run a full-page, $200 ad — submitted by a Class of ‘72 alumnus — celebrating the “Redskin” name, McGoldrick said.

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Covington’s Bobby Alexander (40) takes a handoff from quarterback Jared Williams (10) Saturday against Marion Local.

From page A7 Jared Williams’ 2-yard touchdown run on fourth-and-goal that put Covington up 14-0.

Ouellette had 11 carries on the drive for 49 yards on the epic march.

With its back to the wall, Marion Local fought back.

The Flyers converted a pair of fourth downs to keep the ensuing drive alive, but on first down from the Covington 45, James Grilliot appeared to legally tip the ball to Ouellette for a Covington interception.

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But the officials ruled that play pass interference to allow the Flyers to keep the ball, and four plays later Bertke scampered in on a 3-yard touchdown to cut the Covington lead to 14-7 at the half.

Ouellette had 105 yards on 16 carries in the first half, while the entire Marion Local offense totaled just 107.

The Flyers wasted no time tying the score on the opening possession of the second half, though, as Bertke hit Hunter Wilker in stride on a 55-yard bomb to make it a 14-14 game with less than a minute

gone in the third. And after the Flyer defense held, Marion Local marched right back down the field, with Aaron Nietfeld scoring on a 19-yard run to give the Flyers their first lead with 4:42 left in the quarter.

“They’re a big play team, and we knew that coming in,” Miller said.

“That’s why they’re the two-time — and likely three-time — defending state champ.”

But even with momentum clearly swinging away from them, Ouellette and the Buccs refused to give up.

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the Buccs’ own 25, Ouellette got the edge on a toss and broke a 66-yard run, weaving in and out of both defenders and his own blockers along the sideline to take it all the way to the Flyer 9.

Three plays later, Bobby Alexander broke the plane on a 2-yard burst up the middle, and the score was tied at 21-21.

Marion Local then took advantage of a short field despite having to work for it, going 45 yards on 11 plays — twice having to convert on fourth down — until Bertke hit Homan on a 7-yard out route to make it 28-21 Flyers with 8:14 to play.

Ouellette again had the answer, though, breaking a 51-yard touchdown run on a counter up the middle and going untouched to tie the score with 6:18 to go.

“He’s a special kid, and he’s got a bunch of buddies with him,” Miller said. “I’ve never been around a group like this. He exemplifies everything that we talk about all the time. All these kids do.”

The Covington defense held, giving the Buccs a shot to take the lead. A 12-yard Justin Williams run gave the Buccs a first down on the Marion Local 39, but a pair of no-gains and a holding call moved the ball back to the Covington side of the field, and the Buccs were forced to punt, giving the Flyers the ball on their own 24 with 2:34 left.

Marion Local moved the ball to midfield, but the Bucc ‘D’ stiffened up again and forced fourthand-10 from the Flyer 49 with 1:10 on the clock.

But Bertke — was was 7-for-8 for 71 yards on the final drive — hit Austin Albers for 15 yards over the middle to keep the drive alive, and three plays later he found Homan from 4 yards out to put the Flyers on top for good.

Bertke finished the game 16-for-27 for 211 yards to help Marion Local move on to face Triad — a 14-7 winner over Lehman in the other semifinal — next week.

And while Covington finished the season 11-1 after what could prove to be the state title game three weeks early, that was the farthest thing from Miller’s mind as he hugged his players goodbye.

“That’s a great football team we lost to, so we’re not ashamed. It just hurts,” Miller said.

“I wouldn’t have even cared if we lost the last game. I just wanted three more weeks with my kids. I hate to say goodbye.”

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