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October 6, 2012 It’s Where You Live!

Volume 104, No. 239

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SPORTS

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Newton seeks levy renewal the district’s general operating fund.

The district has an approximate total budget of $5.2 million per year.

“We are fortunate to have revenue exceed expenditures because we’ve had a long-term vision for the school,” McBride said. “We are

Income tax on Nov. 6 ballot ELECTION

BY MELANIE YINGST Staff Writer myingst@tdnpublishing.com

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PLEASANT HILL

Voters in Newton Township will have renewal of a three-year, 0.75 percent traditional income tax for the Newton Local School to

consider on the Nov. 6 election ballot. According to Newton Local School Superintendent Pat McBride, the annual revenue from the levy accounts for $475,000 of

just asking for a renewal.”

The three-year, 0.75 percent traditional income tax was first passed in 2004. McBride said an income tax is often viewed as a “more fair tax,” especially in regards to lower income years for farmers, such as this year’s drought and lower yields.

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MIAMI COUNTY

Smiling in the rain

Halloween frights & delights

Walk for a cause

It’s (arguably) the most wonderful time of the year — pumpkins and goblins and cider, oh my! Thankfully, the goodnatured scaring and quintessential autumn treats are just now heating up. Here are a few ways to get your fill of the fall festivities, right here in Miami County, along with a few spots that are perfect for a little road trip. Coming Sunday in

Sunday event raises money for Alzheimer’s Association

Valley, in the Miami Valley Sunday News.

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BY MELANIE YINGST Staff Writer myingst@tdnpublishing.com

PHOTO COURTESY OF LEE WOOLERY/SPEEDSHOT PHOTO

The best on 2 wheels

Troy High School fans brave the rain to cheer on the Trojans Friday night against the Butler Aviators in Vandalia.

The Trojans lost the game 6-0.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In a blur of pink, white and blue, riding as fast as 180 miles per hour, Elena Myers aims to prove a woman can race with the best on two wheels. See Racing,

U.S. jobless rate drops to 7.8 percent First time below 8 percent since 2009

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. unemployment rate dropped below 8 percent for the first time since the month President Barack Obama took office, a surprising lift for both the economy and his reelection hopes in the final weeks of the campaign.

The rate, the mostwatched measure of the country’s economic health, tumbled to 7.8 percent in September from 8.1 percent in August. It fell because a government survey of households found that 873,000 more people had jobs, the biggest jump since January 2003.

The government’s other monthly survey, of employers, showed they added a modest 114,000 jobs in September, but it also showed job growth in July and August was stronger than first thought.

Obama, eager to shift attention from a disappointing performance at the first presidential debate, said Friday that the report showed the country “has come too far to turn back now.”

His Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, coun-

Gas prices soar in Calif.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Californians woke up to a shock Friday as overnight gasoline prices jumped by as much as 20 cents a gallon in some areas, ending a week of soaring costs that saw some stations close and others charge record prices.

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INSIDE TODAY Advice ............................9 Calendar.........................3 Classified......................12 Comics .........................10 Deaths ............................6 Hilda E. Koverman Lowell L. Bodenmiller Helen Wellmeier Opinion ...........................5 Racing ..........................16 Religion ..........................7 Sports...........................17 TV...................................9

OUTLOOK Today A.M. showers High: 53° Low: 42° Sunday Showers High: 52° Low: 35°

BY BILL DUFFIELD Community News Group of Dayton

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The unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent in September, its lowest level since January 2009, the month President Barack Obama was inaugurated.

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tered: “This is not what a real recovery looks like.”

The drop brought the jobless rate back to where it was when Obama was sworn in, in January 2009, and snapped a 43-month streak in which unemployment was 8 percent or higher a run Romney had been emphasizing.

The October jobs report comes out Nov. 2, four days before the election, so Friday’s report provided one of the final snapshots of the economy as undecided vot-

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ers make up their minds.

The government calculates the unemployment rate by calling 60,000 households and asking whether the adults have jobs, and whether those who don’t are looking for work.

Those who do not have jobs and are looking are counted as unemployed.

Those who aren’t looking are not considered part of the work force and aren’t counted as unemployed.

A separate monthly survey seeks information from

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WIN A QUILT A raffle, to win a queen-sized quilt, we be held during the Alzheimer’s walks at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Troy Memorial Stadium and 10 a.m. Oct. 13 beginning at the Sidney Senior Citizen Center.

The handmade quilt, which measures 88-inches-by-102-inches, was donated by the Batty Binders Quilt Guild of Troy, and will be on display at both locations.

The quilt also can be viewed at www.facebook.com/alzdayton.

Tickets will be $1 each or six for $5 and can be purchased at the events or by calling Kay at (937) 339-9200.

The drawing will be Nov. 1 and the winner need not be present to win.

FBI searches Tipp City home; search warrant sealed

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Jobless rate lowest in nearly four years

140,000 companies and government agencies that together employ about one in three nonfarm workers in the United States.

That survey found that the economy added 114,000 jobs in September, the fewest since June. Most of the job growth came in service businesses such as health care and restaurants.

The Labor Department raised its job-creation figures by a total of 86,000 jobs for July and August. The July figure was revised from 141,000 to 181,000, and the August figure from 96,000 to 142,000.

Taken together, the two surveys suggest the job situation in the United States is better than was thought.

Economist Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economic Advisors, called the strong employment reports “a shocker” that showed the job market was sturdier than most economists had thought.

Financial markets seemed less impressed. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed as much as 86 points in early trading but drifted lower for most of the rest of the day. It finished up 34 points at 13,610.

For those who have loved and lost someone with Alzheimer’s disease, it’s a walk to remember.

On Sunday, the annual Alzheimer’s Association “Walk to End Alzheimer’s” is set to begin at 1:30 p.m. at Troy Memorial Stadium.

Registration begins at 12:30 p.m. The two-mile walk raises money for local research, care and support of those who have been diagnosed with the disease, which is currently the nation’s sixth-leading cause of death.

“This is our largest event to raise awareness and raise funds for care,

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Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Dayton office exercised a search warrant at a home at 421 W. Broadway Ave. in Tipp City Thursday.

According to Todd

TIPP CITY Lindgren, public affairs specialist for the Southern Ohio District of the FBI, the home, owned by Merrilee C. Embs, was searched for nine hours Thursday after a judge of the Seventh District Court agreed to a

search warrant sought by the bureau. The search warrant was sealed by the judge.

A sealed warrant means that the judge will determine at a later date whether the purpose of the search becomes public. No charges have been brought against Embs or her hus-

band, Todd M. Embs, also the subject of the warrant and a resident of the home.

Details of the search, including what officials were looking for, were not available at press time.

Reports, however, say that documents were removed from the home.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Embs

declined to comment.

Lindgren stated that for the FBI to be investigating, the potential case would be criminal in nature. Merrilee C. Embs is the managing editor for Community News Group of Dayton, owned by Civitas Media, LLC, also owner and publisher of the Troy Daily News.

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BUSINESS ROUNDUP • The Troy Elevator The grain prices listed below are the closing prices of Thursday.

Corn Month ...................Bid .. Change Oct....................7.6200 ...+0.0025 J/F/M 13 ...........7.5700 ....-0.0025 NC 13 ...............5.8800 ....-0.0625 Soybeans Month ...................Bid .. Change Oct..................15.1150 ...+0.1975 J/F/M 13 .........15.3100 ...+0.1875 NC 13 .............12.6400 ....-0.0325 Wheat Month ...................Bid .. Change Oct....................8.4400 ....-0.0375 NC 13 ...............8.0400 ....-0.0775 You can find more information online at www.troyelevator.com.

• Stocks of local interest Values reflect closing prices from Friday.

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9.09 27.79 18.86 49.19 10.16 15.99 130.39 24.80 60.66 23.96 86.89 38.58 23.77 33.23 91.00 12.82 71.10 12.35 54.68 34.92 47.05 4.20 75.13

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• Wall Street The Dow Jones industrial average picked up 34.79 points to close at 13,610.15. The Standard & Poor's (NYSE:MHP) 500 index fell 0.47 points to 1,460.93, and the Nasdaq dropped 13.27 points to 3,136.19.

— Staff and wire reports

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Consumer credit up $18.1 billion in August WASHINGTON (AP) Americans boosted their borrowing in August by the largest amount in three months with strong gains in the category that covers auto and student loans and in credit card debt.

Total consumer borrowing increased $18.1 billion in August compared to July, the Federal Reserve reported Friday. In July, consumer borrowing had fallen for the first time in nearly a year.

The rebound in August along with a separate report that showed the nation’s unemployment rate dropped to 7.8 percent in September were viewed as encouraging signs for an economy that has been struggling in recent months.

The August borrowing gains reflected a $4.2 billion increase in borrowing on credit cards and a $13.9 billion increase in auto and student loans.

Gregory Daco, senior economist at IHS Global Insight, said he looked for the low interest rates generated by the Federal

healthy finances are making more use of credit to buy autos and retail goods,” Daco said.

Retail sales rose in

August, in part because consumers bought more cars and trucks. However, they were cautious elsewhere, as rising gas prices

left them less to spend in other areas.

Activity through August left total consumer debt at $2.73 trillion, putting it 5.5 percent above the pre-recession peak for credit hit in July 2008.

Consumers have been using credit cards much less since the 2008 credit crisis. Four years ago, Americans had $1.03 trillion in credit card debt, an all-time high. In August, that figure was 17 percent lower.

During the same period, student loan debt has increased dramatically. The category that includes auto and student loans, along with other loans for items such as boats, has jumped to a level 20.3 percent higher than July 2008.

In the April-June quarter, student loans totaled $914 billion, according to a recent report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That is a nearly 50 percent increase from the July-September quarter of 2008.

McBride said. “We are very appreciative of the support of our community.”

McBride said the income tax levy’s approximate $475,000 per year ensures programs and opportunities for students continue at the school at a time where many districts are cutting back on programs or imposing large participation fees and laying off teachers.

McBride said the renewal is critical to stave off uncertain economic times.

“If we were to lose this funding, cuts would have to be made across the board and our cash reserves would be depleted in a few years,” he said.

Newton Local School currently has approximately $1.7 million in cash reserves and is one of only a few local schools to be in a stable financial position, according to McBride.

“If we lose this funding, it just spirals down and then you have to catch up,”

McBride said. “We just want to maintain the quality of education we have here.

Our teachers, our parents and our students are doing a great job and I believe we will be ‘Excellent with Distinction’ again this year.”

This year, Ohio Department of Education has not released each Ohio school district’s rating for last year’s Ohio Achievement Assessment and Ohio Graduation Tests, although several compo-

nents of the grade card have been released and are posted on the district’s website.

Newton Local School received an “Excellent” grade card for 2010-2011 school year and “Excellent with Distinction” in 20092010.

For more information about Newton Local School, visit www.newton.k12.oh. us. The next board of education meeting will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, in the board of education room.

honor those who care for those with Alzheimer’s.

“It’s a ceremony to honor those caregivers of those who work with people with Alzheimer’s, for someone who knows or has lost someone to the disease,” Mueller said. “It’s a very moving ceremony.”

Mueller said anyone may attend both the walk and the ceremony. There is no fee to register for the walk, although those who

raise $100 or more receive a commemorative T-shirt for their efforts. In years past, more than 400 community members have participated in the annual event and Mueller said she hopes more people will come out Sunday afternoon to continue raising awareness of the disease.

“We hope to top that this year,” she said. “Miami County is a great commu-

nity and has really supported the organization throughout the years.”

Mueller said proceeds from the event in Miami County will stay in Miami County to help those locally who are afflicted with the disease. Support information and multiple vendors will be at the walk to provide information to the community about the disease.

Participants in the two-

mile walk will learn more about Alzheimer’s disease, opportunities, advocacy clinical trial enrollment, and support programs and services of the Alzheimer’s Association, Mueller said.

For more information, call 1-800-272-3900 or visit alz.org/walk. The toll-free number is available for more information about the event and formore information about Alzheimer’s disease.

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A cashier rings up a sale at a Target store in Chicago on Aug. 22. Americans boosted their borrowing in August by the largest amount in three months with strong gains in the category that covers auto and student loans and in credit card debt.

Reserve’s latest bond buying program to spur further gains in consumer credit in coming months.

“Some consumers with

Newton levy • Continued from 1 “It’s a more fair tax because it fluctuates with the income — if the income is down, the tax collected is down,” he said.

McBride said through attrition, hiring a part-time treasurer and other cost controls, Newton Local School is in the positive both financially and academically.

“Right now we are in a strong financial position,”

Walk • Continued from 1 support and research of Alzheimer’s disease,” said Carrie Mueller, director of outreach and communications for the Alzheimer’s Association Miami Valley chapter.

A unique “Promise Garden” ceremony will begin right before the walk to pay tribute to those who know or loves someone with the disease as well as

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The new kitchen, to be built at the corner of N. Mulberry and Water Street, will be an amazing building inspired by the historic architecture of Troy.

We will serve dinner every weekday from 5 - 6 pm for those in need.

The new building will also enable us to host other programs and events for the entire community.

Christmas in October “REALLY” Join us at: Brush Creek Church of God

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Post No. 586, Tipp City, from 8-11 a.m. for $6. Items available will include bacon, • GARAGE SALE: The sausage, sausage gravy, bisTipp City Seniors, 320 S. First cuits, hash browns, eggs, St., will have a garage and C o m m u n i t y toast, pancakes, waffles, craft sale from 9 a.m. to 4 juices, fruit and cinnamon p.m.

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• PRAYER BREAKFAST: • WAGON RIDES: The Troy Men’s Community CONTACT US Aullwood will offer draft horse Prayer Breakfast will be pulled wagon rides from 1offered at 7:30 a.m. at 2:30 p.m. at the farm, 9101 Richards Chapel, West Frederick Pike, Dayton. Fees McKaig Avenue, Troy. Harry Call Melody for the program are $1 per Jackson’s 94th birthday will person. Non-members must Vallieu at be celebrated with cake and pay admission to the farm in 440-5265 to a visit from Troy Mayor addition to the wagon ride Michael Beamish. list your free fees. Each ride lasts about 30 • MELODY MEN: The minutes. calendar 2012 annual Melody Men • QUILT AUCTION: The items.You Show, “The Church of What’s 23rd annual Amish quilt aucUp With That? Revival” will can send tion will be at 1:30 p.m. at the be offered at 1:30 and 7:30 your news by e-mail to center, 1000 Aullwood Road, p.m. in the Troy High School vallieu@tdnpublishing.com. Dayton. Doors open at noon auditorium. A quest quartet, to register for bid numbers Rusty Pipes, the 2012 and to view the quilts. Nearly International Seniors Quartet 200 items including approxichampions, also will perform. mately 100 Amish made quilts and wall hangTickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the ings will be sold during the afternoon. door, students are $5. For tickets, call (937) Admission is free.

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• CLOTHING GIVEAWAY: Troy Christian Church will offer its annual free closing giveaway from 9 a.m. to noon at the church, 1440 E. State Route 55, Troy. They will have coats, clothing and household linens and more. For more information, call 335-8731.

• MOVIE OFFERED: Edison Community College will kick off its fall movie series with the Disney/Pixar summer family blockbuster “Brave,” in the courtyard of the Piqua Campus.

The movie will start at 8 p.m. and attendees are encouraged to bring blankets and lawn chairs for the outdoor show. In the event of rain, the movie will be moved inside to the theater. Admission to the movie is $1, popcorn will be provided free of charge and door prizes will be given out throughout the evening.

• CREATURE FEATURE: The Virginia opossum will be the featured animal from 2-4 p.m. at Brukner Nature Center. Join staff and volunteers as they discover the purpose behind that hairless tail and other interesting opossum adaptations.

• SPAGHETTI DINNER: The Troy Post No. 43 baseball will offer an all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner from 3:30-7 p.m. at 622 S. Market St., Troy. The meal also will include salad bar, rolls, dessert and soft drink or coffee. Meals will be $6.75 for adults and $4 for children under 12.

• FREE CONCERT: Big Daddy Weave, one of the top 10 most played artists at Christian radio, will perform a free concert at 6:30 p.m. at the Fort Rowdy Gathering in Covington Community Park. For more information, visit www.BigDaddyWeave.com.

• RIB DINNER: The Pleasant Hill VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls, will offer country-style barbecue ribs, macaroni and cheese and a vegetable for $9 from 5 -7 p.m.

• PANCAKE BREAKFAST: The Pleasant Hill United Church of Christ will hold a pancake and sausage breakfast from 8-11 a.m.

The cost is $4 for the standard adult breakfast of pancakes, sausage, juice and coffee, tea or milk. Meals are all the pancakes you can eat and free drink refills. A deluxe breakfast is available for $5 and includes scrambled eggs.

Children’s portions are also served. Call (937) 676-3193 for more information.

• KARAOKE: The American Legion Post No. 586, Tipp City, will present Papa D Pony Express Karaoke from 7 p.m. to close. The event is free.

TODAY-SUNDAY • CORN MAZE: The Miami County Park District’s corn maze will open from 2-6 p.m. at Lost Creek Reserve, 2385 E. State Route 41, east of Troy. Visitors are invited to experience the adventure of finding their way through the twists and turns of a corn maze in the design of a scarecrow playing a banjo. New this year is a corn shooter where you can test your aim as you try to hit various targets. Corn maze admission is $5 for adults and children 12 and older, $3 for children 5-11 and free for those 4 and younger. The corn shooter will be $1 for one shot and $5 for six shots. All proceeds will benefit Citizens for Miami County Park District.

SUNDAY • FALL FESTIVAL: The Hook PTO Fall Festival will be from 12:30-3:30 p.m. at Hook Elementary School, 749 Trade Square West, Troy. The event will include food and games for all ages, pony rides, Jumpy’s, the “Soak A Teacher” game, pumpkin patch, face painting, bingo, cake walk and more.

• OLD BARNS, CARS: An event, “Old Barns and Old Cars” will be offered from 1-4 p.m. at the Miami County Bicentennial Barn, 4080 State Route 48, West Milton. This is an opportunity for residents to visit the Miami County Bicentennial Barn and also see some interesting old cars found in the community.

For more information, visit www.ohiobarnsurvey.org.

• LIFE CHAIN: Miami County Right to Life will have its annual Life Chain from 2-3 p.m.

The chain will form near the Miami County Courthouse and spread out along Main Street.

• BREAKFAST SET: Breakfast will be offered at the Pleasant Hill VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls, from 8-11 a.m. They are made-to-order breakfasts and everything is ala carte.

• BREAKFAST PLANNED: The AMVETS Post No. 88,, 3449 LeFevre Road, Troy, will offer an all-you-can-eat breakfast from 8:30-11 a.m. for $6.

BREAKFAST: Boy Scout Troop No. 586 will be serving breakfast at American Legion

MONDAY • ART EXHIBIT: An art exhibition has been scheduled in recognition of the Lincoln Center youth and their “Art Drum Film” at 6 p.m. at the Lincoln Center, Troy. For the past six weeks, eight children of the Lincoln Community Center have participated in a creative project with local musician Paul Shuler and artists Harry and Suzy Ally and we invite you to view the paintings and film we created.

For more information, call Shane Carter, director, at (937) 335-2715.

• WILD JOURNEYS: Join Joan Heidelberg and Judy Hartman on a journey from the bustling city of Edinburgh to the Outer Hebrides and into the North Atlantic to the magical island of St. Kilda, inhabited since the Stone Age at 7 p.m. at Brukner Nature Center.

Participants will visit castles, lochs and the largest national park in Britain, sharing native wildlife and flowers. The program is free for BNC members and admission is $2 per person for non-members.

• SUPPORT GROUP: A Mom and Baby Get Together support group for breastfeeding mothers is offered weekly at Upper Valley Medical Center from 9:30-11 a.m. at the Farmhouse located northwest of the main hospital entrance. The meetings are facilitated by the lactation department. Participants can meet other moms, share about being a new mother and learn more about breastfeeding and their babies. For more information, call (937) 440-4906.

• SOCIETY MEETING: The Covington Newberry Historical Society will meet at 7 p.m. at the Fort Rowdy Museum, 101 Pearl St. For more information, call (937) 473-2270.

• POET’S CORNER: Do you enjoy reading or writing poetry? Join the Troy-Miami County Pubic Library’s poetry workshop at 6:30 p.m. to share and discuss any poems that you have written . The workshop serves to stimulate creativity and improve your technique as a poet. Participants will examine the various forms, styles, structures and elements of different poems and use creative writing exercises to explore new ways to approach the art of poetry.

• LEGO NIGHT: Students in grades first through fifth are invited to a fun LEGO night from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the Troy-Miami County Public Library. Call the library at 339-0502 to register. In order to include as many children as possible, please only sign up for one night.

• POTATOES AND SALAD: The American Legion Post No. 586, Tipp City, will offer a loaded baked potato/salad bar for $3.50 each or both for $6 from 6-7:30 p.m.

Miami County Foundation offering Graduate Academy scholarships The Miami County Foundation is making available a limited number of scholarships to the Graduate Academy for Community Leadership at Edison Community College.

The community leadership seminar is based on the book “The Board Member’s Guide, Making a Difference on Your Board and in Your Community,” authored by Miami, Shelby and Darke county community leaders in cooperation with the Duke Foundation.

The program is designed for executive directors, board members and volunteers of not-for-profit organizations.

“Class participants will learn from experienced and

MIAMI COUNTY trained professionals about recruiting and selecting board members, staffing, budgeting, evaluation, board meetings, community awareness and collaboration and much more,” said Cheryl Stiefel-Francis, executive director of the Miami County Foundation.

Classes are held the third Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. beginning Jan. 16 and concluding on May 15.

Dr. Richard N. Adams explained the importance of this leadership course by saying, “Communities characterized by quality are not the result of good luck nor do they occur accidentally.

Outstanding communities are created and maintained by a number of factors.

Among the most important factors are dedicated notfor-profit board members who perform their duties with enthusiasm and competence.”

Individuals eligible to apply for scholarship assistance must serve a taxexempt organization located in Miami County in either a volunteer or paid staff position. Scholarship application deadline is Nov. 1. Registration is limited. To apply for a scholarship, register for the academy or for more information contact Julie Slattery at Edison Community College, at 7787805.

AREA BRIEFS

District soils contest held MONTGOMERY COUNTY — On Sept. 26, members of the Miami East FFA Chapter competed in the District 5 Soils Judging Contest in Montgomery County at Sycamore State Park. The Montgomery County Soil and Water Conservation District coordinated the event.

The Urban Soils team consisted of Braxton Donaldson, Daniel Everett, Levi Reid, Miranda Maggart, Hunter Sharp, Kelsey Kirchner, Katrina Bendickson and Trent Church. The team placed eighth out of 20 teams. Trent Church was the highest placing individual from Miami East, placing 22nd out of 131 individuals.

The Rural Soils team consisted of Haley Etherington, Kayden Gustin, Chase Fulghum, Jordan Inman, Haleigh Maggert and Madeline Davis. The team placed 17th out of 26 teams. Haley Etherington was the high individual

from Miami East placing 34th out of 182 individuals.

The contest consisted of evaluating four soils pit for slope, erosion, drainage, depth and soil texture. Also, the contestants took a written test and answered questions from the Soil Survey of Montgomery County.

FFA holds poster contest CASSTOWN — The Agricultural Awareness Committee of the Miami East FFA Chapter recently sponsored a farm safety poster contest at Miami East Elementary. Students in the second grade were given poster board and had to create a farm safety promotion poster.

FFA members evaluated the pictures and awarded first place to each homeroom.

The results are as follows: Mrs. Gentis — Samsaar Tapa Mrs. Donnelly — Carter Vanhorn Mrs. Riley — Kylee McKinney Mrs. Rice — Linde Snodgrass

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TUESDAY • MILTON MEMORIES: The Milton Memories recording session will be at 1 p.m. at the West Milton Municipal Building. The topic will be the West Milton Lions Club. The panel will be Al Roark, Winston Klepinger, Sheryenne King, Bob Menker, Richard Markley and Jack Scudmore. Audience participation is encouraged.

• LEGO NIGHT: Students in grades first through fifth are invited to a fun LEGO night from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the Troy-Miami County Public Library. Call the library at 339-0502 to register. In order to include as many children as possible, please only sign up for one night.

• BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION: The American Legion Post No. 586, Tipp City, will host its quarterly birthday carry in for those with birthdays in October, November and December. Come and offer birthday greetings and bring a covered dish to share. A birthday cake will be provided as well as table service.

Coffee will be available. This celebration, usually held on the third Tuesday has been moved to the second Tuesday due to a scheduling conflict.

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“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

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EDITORIAL ROUNDUP The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Miss., on Boy Scouts records: Add the Boy Scouts of America to the list of trusted institutions that failed sexually abused children.

The Scouts’ past behavior, like that of the Catholic Church and Penn State University, shows how easily child molesters can get away with vicious crimes and how easily respected institutions can convince themselves that keeping crimes a secret is acceptable.

From 1970 to 1991, the Boy Scouts failed to report hundreds of suspected sexual abusers to authorities and in some cases “urged admitted offenders to quietly resign,” sending them off with clean recommendations, according to an analysis by the Los Angeles Times of the Scouts’ once confidential files. The Scouts’ failure meant predators were free to stalk and abuse more innocent children, and some did.

The Scouts say that what matters most are its policies today, not files going back decades. And that’s true. … But since the pre-1992 records were forced into the open as a result of litigation, the Scouts have not released their more recent records or combed through those files to cull and report suspected abusers.

This is troubling because the older records, which came to be known as the “perversion files,” teach a timeless lesson. The Scouts, like other institutions, often saw molestation as more of a public relations problem than a crime. These institutions tried to ensure that molesters wouldn’t abuse children on their turf but had little compunction about sending them off to abuse others.

So why haven’t the Scouts gone back through their post-1991 files to bring more abusers to justice? Because, a spokesman says, the files “are an incomplete record set that are not used to track reporting.”

That’s not much of an excuse for an organization that offers a crime prevention merit badge. … Until recently, the organization Savannah (Ga.) Morning News on Iran’s nuclear capability: In an address to the United Nations General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did what he had to do for his nation’s survival: Draw a clear, red line.

He did it to show when Iran’s progress toward nuclear energy would be unacceptable.

The United States should back it up. More importantly, Iran should respect it — and back off.

Iran has been working to enrich uranium. Nearly everyone in the civilized world believes that the enriched uranium will be used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons to be used on Israel, as opposed to providing electricity to the Iranian people.

Netanyahu’s red line, which he literally drew on a picture of a bomb in front of the U.N., sits at 90 percent completion necessary for Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. He hopes that a clear line will work to discourage Iran from continuing their nuclear program, and has said that the red line’s goal is to prevent war, not encourage it. …

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel’s “Zionist regime” and has denied the occurrence of the Holocaust, which ultimately led to the creation of the Israeli state. There’s ample evidence, given Iran’s support of terrorist organizations, that nukes could end up in the hands of people who crash airliners into tall buildings.

President Barack Obama has wagged his finger at Iran, saying its leaders would be in deep, deep trouble if it went too far. Not surprisingly, the leader of the free world has been largely ignored.

A nuclear Iran poses a clear threat to Israel. Because of the potential for arming terrorists, it threatens the rest of the world as well.

LETTERS

Thank you for your support To the Editor: My name is Shane Carter, executive director of the Lincoln Community Center located here in Troy.

More than 147 years ago, the Lincoln School started in the foundation of the existing building for the blacks of Troy and the surrounding vicinity.

Through the vision of John M. Spencer and his wife Caroline, as well as Dr. Wesley Bradford in 1938, the Lincoln Community Center was constructed and opened as a fullservice community center that

was state of the art and the first of its kind in the state of Ohio.

Today I’m proud to say that we are a multicultural center that has been reinvigorated with 32 new programs, several updates and building renovations and, most importantly, a safe, kid-friendly environment.

We currently are averaging 1,500 visitors a month in the building and all areas of the center are being utilized more than ever.

I would like to thank Mayor Beamish, Troy City Council, City of Troy employees, Troy United Way, The Troy Foundation, Troy City Schools,

Miami County Foundation, Regal Beloit, ITW/Hobart and all those who donated time, supplies, monetary donations and, most importantly, your support.

As the old adage says, “It takes a village to raise a child; it takes a community working together to invest in the future of youth and preserve the history of our past.”

Thanks again for your continued support of the Lincoln Community Center and please come down and check out all we have to offer.

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Figuring out what’s best for my family this winter Well friends, the flu season is approaching fast and furious (in fact, it might already be among us, I’m not quite sure).

There are a few things I am pretty sure of, however.

Our family will more than likely be abstaining from the seasonal flu vaccine for another year.

To be honest, I have nothing truly, truly against vaccinations as a whole. I realize that there are a lot of benefits to getting them and that they can do a lot of good for our world. I do, however, think that the amount of vaccinations is increasing at an incredibly alarming rate.

Did you know they even have a vaccine for the chicken pox now?

Seriously, the majority of our kids won’t even know about the itchy apocalypse we had to deal with when we were little. The oatmeal baths, the oven mitts duct taped on our hands to deter us from scratching — those days are long behind us.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, by the age of 18, most of the children in my generation had received anywhere from 10-15 vaccinations in our lifetime. My daughter, however, is scheduled to receive up to 29 different vaccinations by the time she is 18.

And we’re not just talking double the amount of vaccinations; we’re talking about double the amount of pokes, prods and injec-

Amanda Stewart Troy Daily News Columnist tions. That means double the amount of vials and needles, all of which could carry their own set of complications completely apart from the medicine alone.

I’m not against vaccinations.

With the help from our daughter’s doctor and some of our own research, we have selected not just a delayed schedule for injections, but we’ve weeded out the ones that really, truly aren’t something our daughter will face as long as we stay in Kettering.

We will always, always put our daughter’s health before anything else, and as parents, we feel this includes informing ourselves and talking with as many different doctors and professionals as we can.

Did you know so few children are getting chicken pox now, that our daughter’s doctor office hasn’t had a documented case of it in 10 years? So now, while you may or may not see the need to get your child vaccinated for chicken pox,

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it’s almost a necessity as their chances of running into it and contracting it as a child (when it’s less likely to turn into something more serious) are slim to none.

For the most part, my doctors are accepting of the fact that I will not be getting the flu vaccine this blustery season despite being almost 30 weeks pregnant. I work from home, my growing child is a giant veggie baby already and I’ve never had one in the past. If I didn’t have a bun in the oven, I wouldn’t really be considered atrisk, anyway.

Our 2-year-old daughter, on the other hand, is apparently fair game for any kind of scrutiny.

She’s little and germ-filled, she spends eight hours a week around other little, germ-filled toddlers and because she’s little, her body can be affected by flu symptoms much faster and much more severely than other groups of people.

And still, we will not be giving her the flu vaccine this year.

I understand it’s not a decision most people will understand, but to us, it makes sense. A little over three months ago we watched as our daughter battled salmonella poisoning from tainted cantaloupe for nearly six weeks before it was diagnosed and treated. We woke up with her in the middle of the night as she threw up, we spent weeks trying to figure out what to feed her as a handful of doctors

from all sorts of places told us it was reflux or it was the flu bug or an allergy.

And over the six weeks it took her to heal, we learned one incredibly important thing. Doctors are wonderful people trying to help everyone, but ultimately, they can make mistakes and they can miss things like everyone else, too.

So research might sway most people to wait in line for the small poke, but at this point, until someone can tell me it can 100 percent provide my daughter protection against the actual flu and that there is no way she can 100 percent contract anything from said vaccine, we won’t opt for this seasonal one. If we can make it through six weeks of a food poisoning that adults can die from, we can make through a week of the flu.

We may not always feel this way, if we see our daughter is prone to catching the body aches, fever-inducing, stomach bug, we might change our minds. But until we find that it is necessary, this is going to be one vaccination our child won’t be getting.

It may not work for everyone, but it works for us. And ultimately, that’s what a family does. It figures out what works for it.

Amanda Stewart appears Saturday in the Troy Daily News.

She hopes no one has to deal with a sick toddler this flu season.

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Teen drives car into house Staff report

PIQUA

A Piqua High School student ran a vehicle he was driving into a home in the 1900 block of Park Avenue on Thursday afternoon, just hours after he received his learner’s permit, according to the Piqua Police Department.

The driver, identified as Logan Scott, 18, of Piqua, and his mother, who was a

passenger in the vehicle, a 2007 maroon Ford Focus, were not seriously injured and neither was the home’s occupant.

According to a traffic crash report of the incident, Scott was stopped at a twoway stop at the intersection of Park Avenue and Westview Drive when he

attempted to make a left hand turn, lost control and drove into a residence at 1901 Park Ave. A majority of the vehicle went into the home and the resident who lives there, Rose A. Butsch, was not in that area of the house at the time of the traffic crash.

Scott was cited with failure to maintain control of a motor vehicle.

OBITUARIES

LOWELL L. ‘BODIE’ BODENMILLER PIQUA — Lowell L. “Bodie” Bodenmiller, 87, a resident of Piqua, died at 10:05 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, at SpringMeade Health Center of Tipp City.

He was born May 27, 1925, at Piqua Memorial, to the late Mary Alice (Davis) and Clyde William Bodenmiller.

Bodie is survived by three daughters and son-in-law, Alicia M. “Alice” Tegeler of Dayton, Patricia A. Ham of Troy and Deborah L. and Robert E. Shaw of Los Gatos, Calif.; one sister, June L. Zimpfer of Anna; three grandsons, Anthony D. Weber of Troy, Toby D. Weber of Piqua and Michael L. Ham of Troy; three great-grandchildren, Rachael and Tiffany Weber of Piqua and A. Willfred Weber of Troy, all cherished and mentored; and numerous other relatives and friends.

Bodie married his high school sweetheart and soul mate, Helen L. Mikolajewski, on Feb. 12, 1946, at St. Mary Catholic Church, Piqua, and was happily married for 43 years until her death Nov. 8, 1990. During their life together, they spent their life living between Piqua and the Tampa Bay area in Florida. They enjoyed playing cards and being with their family and friends.

Bodie proudly served in the U.S. Army, World War II, 88th Division, 5th Army as

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FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Mitt Romney was still celebrating his widely praised debate performance when the campaign lurched in a different direction.

Unemployment dropped last month to the lowest level since 2009, and suddenly it was President Barack Obama’s turn to smile.

In a race dominated by the weak economy, Obama said Friday the creation of 114,000 jobs in September, coupled with a drop in unemployment to 7.8 percent, was “a reminder that this country has come too far to turn back now.”

Jabbing at his rival’s plans, he declared, “We’ve made too much progress to return to the policies that caused this crisis in the first place.”

But Romney saw little to like in the day’s new government numbers.

“This is not what a real recovery looks like,” the former Massachusetts governor and businessman said, an analysis echoed by other Republicans throughout the day. “We created fewer jobs in September than in August, and fewer jobs in August than in July, and we’ve lost over 600,000 manufacturing jobs since President Obama took office,” Romney added.

“If not for all the people who have simply dropped out of the labor force, the real unemployment rate

would be closer to 11%,” he said.

Incumbent and challenger alike campaigned in battleground states during the day, each man starting out in Virginia before the president headed for Ohio and Romney flew to Florida. Those three states, along with Colorado, Nevada, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Iowa make up the nine battleground states where the race is likely to be decided.

Among them, they account for 110 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House.

Recent polls have shown Obama with leads in most if not all of them, although the impact of Wednesday night’s debate and of the drop in unemcould well ployment change some public opinion.

Both campaigns kept up a television advertising war with a price tag approaching $750 million when outside group spending is included.

Romney launched three new commercials during the day, one aimed at voters in Nevada, a second targeted to Ohio and a third that says Obama claims “he is creating jobs, but he’s really creating debt,” running up deficits and spending unnecessarily. “He’s not just wasting it. He’s borrowing it and then wasting it,” the narrator says.

The campaign did not say where it would air.

Romney’s strong showing in the campaign’s first general election debate cheered Republicans who had worried about his campaign, and forced Obama’s aides into a rare public acknowledgement that they would have to adjust their strategy for the next encounter.

The jobs report was the main flashpoint of the day, and Obama scolded Republicans for their reaction.

“Today’s news certainly is not an excuse to try to talk down the economy to score a few political points,” he said as Romney and most GOP lawmakers emphasized portions of the report other than the drop in the unemployment rate to the same level as when the president took office.

Republicans made it clear they wanted to keep the focus on Wednesday night’s debate, when Romney appeared confident as he pitched his case for a new approach to the economy and Obama turned in a performance that even some Democrats conceded was subpar.

In a weekly “Weekend Messaging Memo” distributed by the Republican National Committee, communications director Sean Spicer devoted 650 words to a recap of the debate and made no mention of the drop in unemployment.

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mushrooms because of the risk of eating a type called amanita, a common woodland variety that can cause severe liver damage or even death.

“There’s a potential for significant harm if the community is not alerted somehow,” Dr. Pierre Gholam told The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer Gholam said the mushroom’s poison is not deactivated by cooking, freezing or boiling. He advises not eating any mushrooms picked by friends or family member.

PIQUA — Helen Rundle Frazier Wellmeier, formerly of 1567 Garbry Road, Piqua, died Saturday, April 28, 2012, at Piqua Manor Nursing Home.

She was born Jan. 7, 1909, in Piqua, the second daughter of the late Logan A. and Ida L. (Rundle) Frazier.

Her grandparents were the late George Henry Rundle and Amanda Hance Rundle who had lived in Piqua, and Soloman G. Frazier and Belle Robinson Frazier, who lived in Lena. In October 1933 she married Hugh Wellmeier, a Piqua pediatrician; Dr. Wellmeier preceded her in death April 27, 1987.

Survivors include a daughter Ann Wellmeier Hilliard of New York City, N.Y.; a son, Frazier (Susan O’Hara) Wellmeier of Palm Beach, Fla.; two grandsons, Louis P. (Kelly Going) Wellmeier and their daughter Sophia all of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Logan Frazier (Meredith Vance) Wellmeier of Winter Park, Fla. In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death in 1911 by her sister, Martha Jane Frazier.

Mrs. Wellmeier attended Piqua City Schools and graduated in 1927 from Ogantz School of Rydel, Pa. In 1931, she was awarded a baccalaureate degree in English Literature from Smith College in Northhampton, Mass.

Mrs. Wellmeier was a life-long member of Westminster Presbyterian Church. She served on the Board of Trustees of the Flesh Public Library (now the Piqua Public Library) for 50 years. In 1985 while a trustee, she wrote “Sissy,” a fond memoir of life in

Middle America in the early 20th century. It was printed and sold privately, with the proceeds going to the Library Development Fund.

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A service to honor Mrs. Wellmeier’s life will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday Oct. 13, 2012, at Westminster Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Kazy Blocher Hinds officiating. Her family will receive friends following the service.

Memorial contributions may be made to Westminster Presbyterian Church, 325 W. Ash St., Piqua, OH 45356; Friends of the Piqua Public Library, 116 W. High St., Piqua, OH 45356; or Hospice of Miami County, Inc., P.O. Box 502, Troy, OH 45373.

Arrangements are being handled through the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home.

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HILDA ELIZABETH KOVERMAN MCCARTYVILLE — Hilda Elizabeth Koverman, 97, formerly of McCartyville, died at 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012, at Elmwood of New Bremen.

She was born Jan. 26, 1915, in Botkins, Ohio, to the late Bernard and Lottie (Brandewie) Artkamp.

She married William J. Koverman on Oct. 3, 1936, at St. Michael Catholic Church, Ft. Loramie.

He preceded her in death on Oct. 29, 1988.

She is survived by children, Robert and Ruth Koverman of Troy, Jerry and Lydia Koverman of Troy, Sylvia and Lloyd Kramer of Maria Stein, Jim and Linda Koverman of McCartyville and John and Denise Koverman of McCartyville; daughter-in-law, Therese Koverman of Clarksville, Tenn.; 19 grandchildren; three step grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren; and 10 stepgreat-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; sons, Kenneth and William Jr.; and sister, Jeanette Englert Shaffer.

She was a member of Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church, McCartyville, the Rosary Altar Sodality of the church, Knights of St. John Auxillary, Ft. Loramie, former member of the Shelby County KOVERMAN Farm Bureau Council and Homemakers Club.

Mass of Christian Burial was at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 5, 2012, at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church, McCartyville, with the Rev. John Tonkin celebrant. Friends called from 2-8 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, at the Sacred Heart Church, and from 9-10 a.m.

Friday, Oct. 5. Burial will take place in Sacred Heart Cemetery.

Hogenkamp Funeral Home Minster has been entrusted with the arrangements.

Condolences may be made at www.hogenkampfh.com.

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He was a delegate member of the American Legion.

During his career, he worked for Miller Meteor, city of Piqua Meter Collection, Smith’s Greenhouse, NCR and Piqua Furniture BODENMILLER Mart. Bodie’s last career was in public service, which was his passion. His career in public service expanded to more than 27 years with the Piqua Fire Department.

Bodie was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church, and frequently followed the telecast of Greene Street United Methodist Church, and St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, both in Piqua.

A Celebration of Bodie’s life will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012, at Melcher-Sowers Funeral Home, Piqua, with Pastor Greg Simmons officiating.

Burial will follow in Forest Hill Cemetery, Piqua. Friends may call from 5-8 p.m.

Monday at the funeral home. Full military honors will be presented by the Veteran’s Elite Tribute Squad, Piqua.

Memorial contributions may be made to Piqua Ambulance Fund, American Legion Post No. 184, P.O. Box 720, Piqua, OH 45356.

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

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Pastor at peace in breast cancer battle COLUMBUS, Ind. (AP) — Rob Craig’s untouched slice of his 66th birthday cake sat at the end of the table Tuesday morning in his office at Columbus’ First Presbyterian Church.

“I’ll get to it,” he said with a smile.

The pastor, unaware that a surprise party awaited Tuesday night, readily acknowledged that his life has been pretty sweet as is, without the need for birthday cake or frosting.

He said that even as he battles breast cancer, just diagnosed in July. It’s a rare illness for males, who represent less than 1 percent of all breast cancer cases, according to the American Cancer Society.

“I’m not totally sure I’m going to get a cure,” he told The Republic (http://bit.ly/SCt7mi ). “But I know I’m going to get a healing.”

Speaking as a Christian, he is referring to eternal life in heaven.

Yet the minister, preparing for a second surgery Monday to remove lymph nodes near the spot where his tumor grew, believes he will be healthy again.

“You go through waves (of concern),” he said, “especially at times such as waiting for my pathology report.

That was scary.”

Yet he feels God’s peace and sustenance at the church where he assumed leadership in 2007, relocating to Columbus from a New Mexico retreat center post.

He shows and feels no bitterness today for having to face cancer again and again.

“When I got sick the first time (with late-stage Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1979), I did get depressed, and I did get angry,” he said.

“And I may still do some of that this time, too.”

First Presbyterian members know him as a bright and compassionate leader.

The Rev. Peggy Casteel, his associate pastor, has seen him meet weekly with a homeless, jobless church member. Craig has assisted with resumes and helped him find job contacts.

“He really knows how to relate to people,” Casteel said.

He has also seen compassion expressed toward him.

A mantle in Craig’s office holds homemade crosses made by members of his former church in Albuquerque, N.M. Leaders there hired him as their pastor even as he underwent treatment for that first bout with cancer

that could have been fatal.

“That literally was a part of my healing,” he said, fondly recalling church members’ support and belief that he would survive.

He also bounced back from prostate cancer in 2004 when a simple surgery restored his health.

“I’m very grateful for health care professionals,” he said.

With his latest medical challenge, Craig first noticed a button-sized bump on his left breast as he shaved one morning this summer. After seeing his doctor, he went to Columbus Regional Health’s Breast Center, where a needle biopsy was performed.

Now, after a successful surgery in August to remove the tumor, he awaits chemotherapy, tentatively slated for November.

For spiritual support, he leans heavily on what he calls the Jesus prayer: “Savior Jesus Christ, son of the living God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.”

He found it in a meditative workshop just before his initial cancer surfaced more than 30 years ago.

“It was plunked down into my life at the very time I needed it,” he said.

In those days, the man who served as a chaplain alongside death-and-dying researcher Elizabeth Kubler-Ross wondered whether he might be facing his own end.

“My bargain with God was, ‘Let me see my (two) kids graduate,’” he said.

Today, daughter Callie is a neuroscientist in San Diego and son Will is an educator in New York.

“I think I ultimately got a pretty good deal,” he said, looking back.

Today, Craig gratefully watches his three granddaughters grow. He beamed over framed photos of them and others lining his office shelf. His 103-year-old mother, Hope resident Evelyn Craig, smiled from one of the pictures.

“I don’t think I’ll live to be 100,” he said. “But I’m definitely not done yet.”

Old enough to retire, he would rather keep working.

Church elder Sherry Stark said Craig still has lists of goals to tackle and social-justice issues to spotlight, to the benefit of others.

“I think he’ll keep going full-tilt as long as he can,” Stark said.

Besides, even amid his recent medical appointments, he’s missed only a

couple of days at the office.

He laughed about sacrifices he’s made thus far during his illness.

“The golf course there’s the loss,” said Craig, who plays even when the temperature dips into the 40s. “I figure since I can’t golf (because of a surgical incision), I might as well still work a little.”

Wife Sharon is happy he has felt good enough to keep ministering to the 175 who worship at First Presbyterian each week.

But just a couple of days ago, she wondered if he should be resting a bit more.

“This is certainly not something a woman expects to experience with her spouse,” she said.

With this interview scheduled just minutes after finishing a routine check-up with his eye doctor, he shared confirmation that his vision is fine.

“These days,” he said, “it’s really nice to go to a medical appointment where someone says, ‘Everything is stable.’”

As he finished his thoughts, the cake was still at the end of the table, untouched.

Even on his birthday, other things understandably appeared more important.

University presses forward CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — The enrollment at Tennessee Temple University has dwindled from around 5,000 at its peak to about 300 now, but officials say that doesn’t mean the end is near.

Steve Echols, who was recently hired to lead the school, says he hopes to strengthen its ties to the Southern Baptist denomination and realign its focus.

Echols told the Chattanooga Times Free Press that he wants to fix up the campus, try to attract students who wouldn’t excel elsewhere and focus more on character building than rule-following.

The college was started in the 1970s by Lee Roberson, who was pastor of the conservative Highland Park Baptist Church. Since his departure almost 30 years ago, both the church and the school have seen numbers steadily drop.

AREA RELIGION BRIEFS

Luncheon raffle under way TROY — The 29th annual October luncheon raffle, sponsored by St. Patrick Church, 409 E. Main St., Troy, includes four lunches at the Troy Country Club and the chance to win $1,000 every Friday in October. The final ticket drawn each week wins $1,000. The next to last ticket drawn each week wins $325.

For tickets, call Craig Eckstein at 335-2833, Ext. 102, or stop by the church office weekdays. Tickets will be available for the weekly drawings through Oct. 26.

The winner need not be present to win.

Grace plans fall festival TROY — Grace Family Worship Center, 1477 S. Market St., Troy, will sponsor a fall festival, including a corn hole challenge today.

The event also will include a bouncy house for children, face painting, prize drawings, food and more.

Registration for the corn hole tournament will begin at 9 a.m. and play will begin at 10:30 a.m.

First place will receive $200, second place $100 and third place $50. The fee is $20 per person or $15 and two non-perishable

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A variety of desserts also will be available.

Use the Canal Street entrance where the church is handicapped accessible.

FPU to be offered

TROY — Troy First United Methodist will offer Financial Peace University beginning at 7 p.m. Sunday.

More than 1 1/2 million families have positively changed their financial future through Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University. Updated in summer 2012, the now nine-week course provides families and individuals with practical tools to gain control of their finances and set themselves up for long-term financial success. The course meets once a week where a different lesson is is today taught by Ramsey on WEST MILTON — A DVD followed by a smallTriumphant Quartet congroup discussion. Lessons cert will be at 7 p.m. today include budgeting, relaat Hoffman United tionships and money, getMethodist Church, 201 S. ting out of debt, saving for Main St. emergencies and investTickets are $15 each and ing. groups will receive two free The church is located at tickets for every 15 ordered. 110 W. Franklin St. Checks may be made Contact Brett Bogan at payable to Hoffman United 335-2826 for more inforMethodist Church and mation or to register. mailed to David Hayes, 230 Wagner Road, West Milton, OH 45383. A stamped, self- Shabbat service addressed envelope is set for Oct. 13 appreciated to mail orders.

PIQUA — Congregation A free will offering will Anshe Emeth in Piqua will be taken at the concert. be conducting a Shabbat For more information, call (937) 698-3172 or (937) service to celebrate Simchat Torah at 10 a.m.

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Services will be led by Chicken pot pie rabbinic intern Marc Kasten and held at the dinner today synagogue, 320 Caldwell TROY — The women of St. For more information, First United Church of check the website at Christ will serve a chicken www.ansheemeth.org or pot pie supper from 4:30call (937) 547-0092.

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For questions or registration, call (937) 778-1768 WEST MILTON — and leave a message. The Hoffman United Methodist first 50 participants to regChurch will continue its ister will receive a free Fall Talk series by hosting grab bag. national consultant Scott A blood drive also will Ervin, known professionally begin at 9 a.m. Call Tracey as “The Kid Whisperer.” at (937) 397-0603 to regisErvin will be presenting ter, and a licensed massage a talk titled “Neutralizing therapist will be on hand.

Arguments with Today’s Kids” from 4-5 p.m. Sunday in the church’s activity cen- Clothing free ter. today at church As an elementary teacher, he has worked TROY — Troy with numerous teachers Christian Church will offer and families on how to deal its annual free closing with today’s children giveaway from 9 a.m. to through a loving and loginoon today at the church, cal approach. Teachers, par- 1440 E. State Route 55, ents, grandparents, and Troy. They will have coats, caregivers are encouraged clothing and household to attend. linens and more. For more Admission is free and information, call 335-8731. light refreshments will be served.

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Medicare discussed FLETCHER — Fletcher United Methodist Church will sponsor a free class on the new changes for the 2013 Medicare package for seniors from 10-11:30 a.m.

Wednesday in the sanctuary at 205 S. Walnut St. The class will be taught

by Fred Bomer from Ohio Insurance & Financial Services as well as a representative from Cincinnati with information related to this topic.

The class is strictly an update for seniors already on Medicare, but will address what to do if you are just going on Medicare.

For more information, call Sue Hart at 339-4185.

Single parenting group continues TROY — Single and Parenting, a group where single parents meet and

find practical help and hope, meets every other Thursday from 6:30-8 p.m.

Watch dynamic video sessions featuring single-parenting experts, the stories of single parents and instructional parenting demonstrations. A small group discussion will follow.

Participants are invited to attend at any time, each session is self contained.

The remaining session dates are: Oct. 11 — Conflict & Resolution Oct. 25 — Dating & Single Sexuality Child care is offered.

Contact Pat Smith at the parish office at 3352833, Ext 105, or rsmith3055@aol.com.

supper beginning at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 13.

The meal consists of chicken potpie, mashed potatoes, choice of vegetable, salad, pie or cake and drink. The price of the meal is $8 for adults and $4 for children 10 and under. Carry outs will be available.

Proceeds from the supper will be used for local mission projects.

The church is at 7007 Troy-Urbana Road and is handicapped accessible.

Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. and morning worship with special music at 10:30 a.m.

A lunch will be provided by the church will immediately follow the worship service.

After lunch, participants will gather in the sanctuary for sharing memories and favorite hymns.

Participants are invited to attend and share memories, pictures and mementos from McKendree’s past.

program.

Pastor Nan Erbaugh and her husband, David, from the Lower Miami Church of the Brethren, have traveled to Southern Sudan five times since 2001. They have seen positive changes, but said the question remains whether a lasting peace is possible, given the dynamics between North Sudan and South Sudan.

For more information, call Carol Dohner at (937) 884-5759.

church office at (937) 3682470 with questions or to request additional information.

Hoffman Quilt Show upcoming

WEST MILTON — Hoffman United Methodist Church, 201 S. Main St., will hold its annual quilt show Oct. 19-25.

The public is invited to attend the opening reception from 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Oct. 19.

Refreshments will be McKendree Presentation to Health fair served and ribbons will be awarded at 8:15 p.m. for feature Sudan planned to celebrate the top three People’s Choice Awards.

POTSDAM — The FLETCHER — The ELIZABETH TOWNOther show hours, all of Potsdam Church of the Fletcher United Methodist SHIP — Elizabeth Township’s oldest church, Brethren will host a pres- Church, 205 S. Walnut St., which are free, are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, noon to entation on the events in will sponsor its annual McKendree United 3 p.m. Sunday; and the African Sudan: the his- Community Health and Methodist, 2025 DaytonChicken potpie tory, the current and the Wellness Fair from 9 a.m. Monday-Thursday from 10 Brandt Road, is planning a.m. to 3 p.m. All show prospects.

The program, to 6 p.m. Oct. 18. dinner upcoming its celebration to observe which will be at 7 p.m. times are free.

Free blood pressure, its 200th anniversary with Application forms for Oct. 14 at the church, will HDL, cholesterol and blood LOSTCREEK TOWNa special homecoming interested participants include photos and conver- sugar screenings will be SHIP — Lostcreek United service Oct. 14. may be picked up at the sation will continue over provided by Premier Church of Christ will hold The event will include church office, The Hen’s refreshments following the Community Health (no its annual chicken potpie Nest and Really Cool Stuff fasting required). in West Milton. For more Kroger Pharmacy will information, call Nadine at provide flu shots for $25, (937) 698-6039 or Katie at and both Medicare and Medicaid will be accepted (937) 698-3519. for payment. The Miami County Health Women’s retreat Department will offer coming to Troy health information and skin screening with the TROY — Troy Church Dermascan. In addition, 30 of the Nazarene, 1200 other organizations will be Barnhart Road, will host a represented. Included are women’s retreat Oct. 19Sponsored by: Shelby County Collectibles, Bill Gertner & the Mall Management I-75 Exit 82 • Piqua • 937-773-1225 Christina Biedermann, 20, featuring Beth Moore’s LMT, who will be doing “Loving Well” video series, short massages, Margie which includes four heartDeHayes who will be doing to-heart messages reflexology, and Barbara designed to help women Felder who will show how embrace the biblical manhypnosis can be used for date to love. stress reduction.

The retreat is open to Additionally, a pet ther- women of all ages. apy dog will be present Doors will open at 5:30 along with information p.m. Oct. 19 for check in, related to that service. An followed by dinner at 6 Ohio Benefit counselor will p.m. and concluding by 9 be on the site as well as p.m. Saturday will begin Health Partners Free with a continental breakClinic. This year a special fast at 8 a.m. and the first “Look Good — Feel Good” session at 8:30 a.m. There section will be available. will be a break for lunch Jake is a 1 yr old, male Lab mix. He was picked up stray and Call 339-4185 or the and a final session ending

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

You can celebrate the kids’ birthdays on your own Dear Annie: My extended family has always been big on celebrating family birthdays for the adults.

Celebrations used to include a meal at a restaurant, but as the families expanded, we began celebrating at relatives' homes with appetizers followed by cake and ice cream.

The problem is, these parties always take place at the homes of grandparents or aunts and uncles.

The adult nephews and their wives never offer to host. They also never offer to bring anything. We have hinted on numerous occasions that it would be nice if everyone contributed, but it falls on deaf ears. There are no financial reasons why they cannot step up.

We have tried to let it go, but at the most recent party, one of the wives stated that giving parties is just too expensive. She said they would not be organizing any more children's parties and that "someone else" in the family can throw one for the kids.

Two weeks later, we learned that the grandparents on the wife's side had hosted an extravagant party, and then the parents threw a "kiddo" party for the little ones and their adult parents. Only the adults from our side of the family were excluded.

We cannot tell these wives what we think, because every time we voice an opinion, they go on Facebook and accuse us of "bullying." We don't feel the need to give in to their demands, but we also don't want the children to suffer.

We are all — Going Nuts in the Midwest Dear Going Nuts: These wives do not wish to contribute to or participate in their husbands' family events, and that's unlikely to change unless the nephews insist.

You can still celebrate the little kids' birthdays with something smaller. Skip your adult nephews' birthdays and those of their wives.

They aren't interested.

Dear Annie: Last year, my 91year-old father bent over to pick up his morning newspaper, lost his balance and fell, breaking his shoulder. During Dad's recovery, it became apparent that my 89-yearold mother could not take care of him. My sister and I made the difficult decision to put both of them into the same care facility.

I've been going to my parents' house once a month to sort through a lifetime of memories, clean and repaint. In an effort to move the old TV console, I kept tripping over the cord. When I opened the two sliding doors to stuff the cord inside, I saw a bulging envelope. It was filled with smaller envelopes of $100 bills, $50 bills, $20s and singles, totaling $4,000. After I calmed down, I phoned my sister, and we put the money back into my parents' bank account.

I'm probably not the first child who has found a hidden treasure in a book or tucked away with the clothes. Tell your readers to be sure to take the time to do a thorough search. — Learned Something Valuable Dear Learned: You've told them, and we are certain they will be paying closer attention now.

Found money is always a delightful discovery.

Dear Annie: This is in response to "Young Empty Nester," who said she phones former mom friends for lunch or conversation, but no one returns her calls. She might need to examine her own personality traits.

I had three friends whom I rarely called back. One has mastered the art of eating, breathing and talking simultaneously. One cried and talked about her latest illness. And the other dominated every minute of every conversation lamenting her three-year-old divorce. In an effort to be kind, I listened to their woes for years.

But there comes a time when you must pursue more positive acquaintances. Those whose worlds revolve entirely around themselves are draining and have to be cut loose. — Maine Coast Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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(FX) Golf Cent. Golf Web.com Neediest Kids Championship Golf PGA Round 3 (R) Golf C. (R) (GOLF) (4:00) Golf PGA Dancing With the Stars Dancing With the Stars Dancing With the Stars Fam. Feud Fam. Feud Newlywed Newlywed (GSN) Newlywed Newlywed Dancing With the Stars Minute to Win It !! Flower Girl ('09) Marla Sokoloff.

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Carny ('09) Lou Diamond Phillips.

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Movie (TCM) 3:15 !!! The F.B.I. ... !!! Buck and the Preacher Sidney Poitier.

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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION:

HINTS FROM HELOISE

College students: Try these time-saving hints Dear Readers: Many college students know that hitting the snooze button a few times is a way to get a little more sleep before rushing out the door. Still need a nap later in the day but have chores, too? Here are some time-saving hints: • No time to make the bed?

Invest in nice sheets so an unmade bed still looks semipresentable. At least throw the covers up over the pillows!

• Can’t tell if clothes are clean or dirty? Dirty clothes should be put in a laundry bag or hamper, not put back in the closet/drawer.

Hints from Heloise Columnist • Overwhelmed by stray papers? Baskets and bins can keep them corralled.

• Have vinyl flooring with no time to sweep? Throw rugs are an easy, cheap way to cover the floor. Don’t worry about a vacuum! Take the rugs outside, shake out the dirt and follow with a swipe of

a lint roller.

Go ahead and nap guilt-free.

You can always do laundry tomorrow! — Heloise PET PAL Dear Readers: Rosena Gerometta of Tyler, Texas, sent in a photo of her pretty gray cat, Baby Girl Gizmo, so named because of her large ears. Rosena says: “My son brought Giz to me as a baby when she was an attentionstarved, anorexic-looking kitten with huge eyes. I wouldn’t know what to do without her!”

To see Giz, visit my website, www.Heloise.com, and click on “Pets.” — Heloise

SHOE SURVEY Dear Readers: I was cleaning out some shoes the other day, so I thought I’d share a hint. When deciding whether to keep a pair of shoes or donate them, I put them on (if they don’t fit, to the donate pile they go) and walk up and down the hallway a few times.

If they are still comfortable, keep them. If not, donate them.

What about you, readers?

How many pairs of shoes do you have? Sandals, boots, etc.?

Let me know, along with any other great shoe hints you may have. — Heloise

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MUTTS

BIG NATE

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE

DILBERT

BLONDIE

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

HI AND LOIS ZITS

BEETLE BAILEY FAMILY CIRCUS

DENNIS the MENACE

ARLO & JANIS

HOROSCOPE

BY FRANCES DRAKE For Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Despite your enthusiasm, this is not a good time to defend your interests in shared property, insurance matters and inheritances. You might question what is truly yours.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Confusion in close partnerships is likely today, because you feel weak about standing up for what you want.

It’s as if you’re not sure of your worth or your rights. Just wait this one out.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Work might be exhausting today because you feel weaker than usual. Recognize this situation and get more rest. Don’t be too ambitious. Don’t take on more than you can handle.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Romance will be pretty rocky for some of you today, simply because you’re confused. One moment, you feel confident about the relationship; the next moment, you’re full of questions! (And so it goes.)

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) You might feel overwhelmed by opposition about what you want to achieve at home. Perhaps you’re not really sure what you want to achieve. Tread carefully.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Feelings of doubt, discouragement and even inadequacy might haunt you today. Let go of your desire to be perfect. Nobody is perfect.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Be cautious about making important expenditures today, because you might be confused about what you really want. Similarly, don’t be too aggressive at work. Take it easy.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) You might be surprised by how much you feel at loose ends today. Don’t worry if you feel hopeless or discouraged, because it’s actually an illusion.

You’re OK. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Hidden enemies might be working against your best interests today, so do be careful. Expect sneaky maneuvers and deceitful actions from others.

(Yikes!)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) Today you won’t find it easy to assert yourself with authority figures. Even if you know you’re right, you still will feel self-doubt (always a bummer).

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Travel plans and anything to do with higher education might confuse you today. You’re not sure if you should go or stay. Do nothing.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Today is a poor time to get tough in negotiations about shared property, inheritances and insurance matters. You won’t be a good defender for your own best interests.

YOU BORN TODAY You are an idealist who is true to your beliefs. Your sense of commitment and dedication help you to develop certain skills or techniques. Sometimes you’re a rebel because you seek to make the world a better place. Although tactful, you tell it like it is. Work hard to build or construct something in the coming year, because your rewards soon will follow.

Birthdate of: John Mellencamp, singer; Yo-Yo Ma, cellist; Diane Ackerman, poet/naturalist. (c) 2012 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Today

Tonight

Chance of A.M. showers, cool High: 53°

Mostly cloudy Low: 42°

SUN AND MOON Sunrise Sunday 7:39 a.m. ...........................

Sunset tonight 7:11 p.m. ...........................

Moonrise today 11:25 p.m. ...........................

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A.M frost possible, cool High: 57° Low: 34°

Partly cloudy High: 64° Low: 38°

Wednesday

Chance of showers High: 62° Low: 47°

TODAY’S STATEWIDE FORECAST Saturday, October 6, 2012 AccuWeather.com forecast for daytime conditions, low/high temperatures

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Moderate

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Mold Summary 0

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Portsmouth 59° | 47°

NATIONAL CITIES Temperatures indicate Friday’s high and overnight low to 8 p.m.

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Mansfield 54° | 40°

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Cleveland 54° | 45°

Toledo 54° | 40°

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REGIONAL ALMANAC Temperature High Yesterday .............................69 at 2:44 p.m.

Low Yesterday..............................55 at 3:32 a.m.

Normal High .....................................................68 Normal Low ......................................................47 Record High ........................................93 in 1900 Record Low.........................................28 in 1901

Precipitation 24 hours ending at 5 p.m................................0.0 Month to date ................................................1.20 Normal month to date ...................................0.48 Year to date .................................................25.42 Normal year to date ....................................32.09 Snowfall yesterday ........................................0.00

TODAY IN HISTORY (AP) — Today is Saturday, Oct. 6, the 280th day of 2012.

There are 86 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight: On Oct. 6, 1927, the era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of “The Jazz Singer,” starring Al Jolson, a movie that featured both silent and soundsynchronized sequences.

On this date: In 1928, Chiang Kai-shek

became president of China.

In 1949, U.S.-born Iva Toguri D’Aquino, convicted of treason for being Japanese wartime broadcaster “Tokyo Rose,” was sentenced in San Francisco to 10 years in prison (she ended up serving more than six).

In 1979, Pope John Paul II, on a week-long U.S. tour, became the first pontiff to visit the White House, where he was received by President Jimmy

Carter.

In 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was shot to death by extremists while reviewing a military parade.

One year ago: In a poor quality audio recording, a voice identified as that of Moammar Gadhafi called on Libyans to take to the streets and wage a campaign of civil disobedience against the country’s new leader.

Calif. refinery back online amid soaring gas prices LOS ANGELES (AP) — Californians woke up to a shock Friday as overnight gasoline prices jumped by as much as 20 cents a gallon in some areas, ending a week of soaring costs that saw some stations close and others charge record prices.

The average price of regular gas across the state was nearly $4.49 a gallon, the highest in the nation, according to AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge report.

In Southern California, the price jumped 20 cents a gallon overnight to $4.53 in Ventura. And in the Los Angeles-Long Beach area prices went up 19 cents to nearly $4.54. It wasn’t any better to the north, as a gallon of regular gas in San Francisco averaged nearly $4.60.

In many areas, prices have jumped 40 cents in a week as refinery problems have created shortages and helped send wholesale prices soaring. Some stations ran out of gas and shut down Thursday rather than pay those costs.

Even Costco Wholesale Corp., the giant discount store chain that sells large volumes of gas, decided to close some stations “We do not know when

we will be resupplied,” read a sign at one Southern California Costco, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Other gas stations charged more than $5 a gallon. The Low-P station in Calabasas charged $5.69 Thursday. The pumps bore hand-written signs reading, “We are sorry, it is not our fault,” the Times said.

While gas prices have spiked around the nation, refinery outages and pipeline problems have added to woes in California.

Among the recent disruptions, an Aug. 6 fire at a Chevron Corp. refinery in Richmond left one of the region’s largest refineries producing at a reduced capacity, and a Chevron pipeline that moves crude to Northern California also was shut down.

There also was a power failure that affected an Exxon Mobil Corp. refinery in Torrance, but a company spokeswoman said Friday that the refinery has resumed normal operations and would be able to meet all of its contractual commitments.

The national average for gas is about $3.79 a gallon, the highest ever for this time of year. However, gas

prices in many states have started decreasing, which is typical for October.

Hawaii usually has the nation’s most expensive gas, but California leapfrogged the Aloha State on Friday.

The average price in Hawaii was about 8 cents a gallon less than in California.

In California, gasoline inventories are the lowest in more than 10 years a situation made worse by the state’s strict pollution limits that require a special blend of cleaner-burning gasoline during hot summer months.

The California Air Resources Board was reviewing a waiver filed by the California Independent Oil Marketers Association, which represents independent station operators, requesting that they be allowed to begin selling socalled winter blend gasoline before the scheduled Oct. 31 switch.

David Clegern, a spokesman for the air board, said there is no timeline for a decision. The California Energy Commission must review actual gas inventory to determine if there is really a shortage and assess what effect the switch would have on air quality, he said.

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CASSTOWN, 5104 East State Route 55. Friday and Saturday 9am-6pm Large indoor/outdoor multi family, new, used, and vintage items, puzzles, books. dolls, adult clothing, lamps, jewelry, luggage, pegboard, tack, linens, craft/sewing supplies, hand tools, china, glassware, collectibles: Avon, Barbie, Harley Davidson, Home Interiors, NASCAR, Tupperware.

Free items.

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COVINGTON, 307 Richeson Street, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 9am-6pm.

Antiques, glassware, snow blower, lathe, tools, clothes COVINGTON, 6255 & 6275 West US 36 (between Piqua and Covington). Thursday and Friday 9-5, Saturday 9-4. HUGE GARAGE SALES!! Furniture, appliances, dog cages and much more.

PIQUA, 1516 Nicklin Ave. (In alley). Beside Kenmar. Thursday, Friday 9am-6pm, Saturday 9am-2pm. Big screen TV, dryer, air compressor, antiques and lots of miscellaneous.

PIQUA, 1535 East State Route 36 (2 miles East of Walmart on the left, just past Fairview Road), October 5 and 6, 9am-4pm.

Barn Sale - Antiques, household goods, furniture, tools, water rower machine.

PIQUA 217 Third Street Thursday, Friday 9am-6pm, and Saturday 9am-3pm Estate sale, household goods, wood crafts supplies Grapevine wreaths, tools, dishes, clothing women's 10-14, men's and young men's, kitchen table and chairs two sets,

PIQUA 490 E US St Rt 36. October 6th only 9-?

Bo-Flex, duck decoys, hutch, bike, winter clothes, lots of childrens clothing and toys.

TIPP CITY, 1427 West Main St. (Community Bible Church). Saturday ONLY 8am-3pm. HUGE church garage sale! Wide of variety of treasurers!

Something for everyone!

TIPP CITY 54 N Tippecanoe Dr. Thursday, Friday, Saturday 9-5. Garage Sale Halloween and xmas decorations, exercise equipment, 1hp pool pump and filter, aquariums, formed pond, dryer, Southwest headboard and large oil painting etc.

Cricket Circuit machine, household items, etc.

TIPP CITY 6825 Marjean Dr. Thursday, Friday Saturday 8am-4pm.

Simplicity riding mower, cherry bedroom suit, leather couches, Amish round table, TroyBuilt tiller, pump organ.

TIPP CITY 771 Arapaho Saturday only 9am-4pm Included are antiques, china, pottery, lamps, tables, a dining room set, kitchen items, Tupperware, and miscellaneous

TROY. 2371 Murphy Lane West, Saturday, 10/6 8am-2pm. Queen Bed, living room furniture, boy clothes NB-3T, toys, baby gear.

TROY, 1269 Stephenson Drive, Saturday only 8am-4pm, men's golf clubs, end tables, table and 2 chairs, bookcases, HO gauge train set, Dell computer, 18 inch Samsung monitor, small lawn trailer, linens, women's clothes, dishes

TROY, 2684 Piqua Troy Road. Saturday 9am-5pm and Sunday 9am-12pm Washer and Dryer, adult and boys clothes, Kathy Van Zealand purses, shoes, Reese hitch for GM SUV, teacher resource books, children books, lots of miscellaneous

TROY, 392, 443, 445 Shaftsbury Road Thursday, Friday 9am-6pm, Saturday 9am-1pm Lamps, new carpet, baby bed with mattress, working antique wall clocks, glass patio table 4 chairs, red Ryder wagon, tricycle, antiques, clothes boys infant to size 4, junior, ladies, men's on racks, and miscellaneous

TROY, 4445 East State Route 41 (between St. Rt. 201 and 202) Saturday only 8am-5pm. Computer, games, patio set, collectibles: Coca-Cola, Princess House crystal, furniture, Nintendo DS, Blu-ray CD player, and miscellaneous something for everyone.

TROY, 510 Birchwood Court (off Broken Woods/ Merrimont), Saturday, October 6, 9am-1pm.

Furniture, golf clubs, luggage, outdoor tools, quality, cute girls/ twins clothes (includes costumes, boots, holiday dresses) - sizes 0-3 years, men's & women's quality clothing, DVD rack, miscellaneous.

TROY, 600 Barnhart Road, Thursday 10-5, Saturday 9-1. Finished cleaning out the basement! NEW ITEMS ADDED. Entertainment center, microwave, TV's, sleeping bags, tent, sewing machine, chest of drawers, baby stroller, carseat, Home & Garden party items, George Foreman, Showtime Rotisserie, miscellaneous.

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Awesome Sale! Dressers, twin bed, new bedding sets, women's, girls (6-7/8), boys size 4 clothes, shoes, toys, decor, household.

TROY/CASSTOWN 524 N. Childrens Home Rd. Friday 8:30-5 & Saturday 8:30-12:30. Antiques, fishing/boating items, patio furniture, flute, oak chairs, band and table saws, country decor, glassware, junior clothes and more.

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HOME AND PERSONAL CARE TECHNICIANS Goodwill is recruiting full/part time Home and Personal Care Technicians for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities (DD). Providing assistance with activities of daily living and community integration for Miami County. High school diploma/GED required. Two years’ experience within DD field requested.

Fax Resume: Sabrina Braden at 937-528-2091

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One year of experience in food production, and high volume restaurant, healthcare setting required. 3 years experience preferred.

High school diploma or equivalent required.

Benefits offered.

Apply online at : www.oprs.org/careers (No phone calls please) Equal Opportunity Employer

EXPERIENCED TRACTOR/TRAILER MECHANICS Good pay/benefits.

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Apply at Herrmann's Service Center 1183 S. Market St; Troy, OH 937-339-4490

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MAINTENANCE TECH 3rd Shift- with experience in both electrical and controls

PRODUCTION ASSOCIATES With the ability to work overtime

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Human Resource Director The Council on Rural Services, a non-profit organization, serving 9 counties in Ohio is seeking a highly-skilled and experienced Human Resource Director to join our leadership team in Piqua, Ohio. The ideal candidate must be energetic, hardworking, motivated, and reflect the leadership traits that support excellence throughout the agency.

Slagle Mechanical Inc, an established HVAC & Plumbing construction/ service company is currently seeking qualified Electricians to better serve our growing customer base. This new opportunity will provide steady employment with industry leading benefits to allow the right individual many opportunities for growth in a new department.

Applicants must have a minimum of 5 years experience or more, have an excellent knowledge of the Electrical Code, Safety Processes, and hold applicable licenses.

Work experience to include commercial & industrial construction, maintenance, and service work, Residential experience a plus, Must be proficient with low voltage to 600 volt applications. High Voltage experience a plus.

Competitive Wage and benefit package based on experience, References required.

Buschur Electric Inc. is accepting applications for a generator technician. Applicant should be familiar with the mechanical and electrical workings of generators and transfer switches. 2 to 4 years of experience in mechanical work and electrical work is a plus, but we will train. Competitive wages and benefits package.

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Immediate openings.

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MACHINISTS IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Concept Machine & Tool is seeking experienced individuals for the following 1st & 2nd shift positions. 40 hours PLUS Overtime.

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ConAgra Foods, Inc. is one of North America's leading food companies, with brands in 97 percent of America's households. Our production facility located in Troy, OH, is currently seeking applicants for the following position.

MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN(S) 2ND & 3RD SHIFT These individuals will assist the Maintenance team in maintaining food processing equipment by overhauling, repairing and testing high speed production equipment such as ovens, packaging machines, mixers, cartoners, baggers, stuffers, etc., throughout the facility. Technicians are responsible for PM's, mechanical repairs, and troubleshooting.

Must have knowledge of PLC operations, Motor Control, Fabrication, Hydraulics, and Pneumatics (air valves and controls) with the ability to define problems, collect data, and establish facts and draw valid conclusions.

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We offer a competitive wage & benefits package: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k match, Life & Disability, paid holidays/ vacation/ personal days, company store among many other benefits.

Qualified candidates, who have demonstrated a good work history and have proven they can work in a team environment, should apply by emailing a resume or faxing to: brad.holmes@ conagrafoods.com Fax (937)339-8024 An Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer

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PRODUCTION ASSOCIATES ConAgra Foods, Inc. is one of North America's leading food companies, with brands in 97 percent of America's households. Consumers find Banquet, Chef Boyardee, Egg Beaters, Healthy Choice, Hebrew National Hunt's, Marie Callender's, Orville Redenbacher's, PAM, Peter Pan, Reddi-wip, Slim Jim, Snack Pack and many other ConAgra Foods brands in grocery, convenience, mass merchandise and club stores.

The Production Associates at our premier Slim Jim and school lunch pizza production facility located in Troy, OH, will be responsible for bakery and/or meat processing activities.

Job positions may include the following: • Machine Operator • Production Line Worker • Mixer • Packer • Sanitation Worker Position requirements: • Must have a High School Diploma or GED. • Must be able to communicate and work effectively in a team environment.

• Ability to frequently lift and/or carry items from 35-50 lbs.

• Ability to work in a noisy, hot and/or cold work environment.

• Ability to stand for an extended period of time.

• Must be able to work any shift and/or on weekends and holidays.

• It is preferred; applicants have at least 6+ months of continuous work experience in a manufacturing or for industry environment.

• Candidates must be willing and able to work in a fast paced manufacturing environment.

Applications for employment will ONLY be accepted at the Miami County Job Center office located at 2040 N. County Rd 25A, Troy, OH 45373 from Monday - Friday (10/1 thru 10/5 and 10/8 - 10/12) from 8:00am to 4:30pm.

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545 Firewood/Fuel FIREWOOD, All hardwood, $150 per cord delivered or $120 you pick up, (937)726-2780 FIREWOOD for sale. All seasoned hardwood, $150 per cord split/ delivered, $120 you pick up. ( 9 3 7 ) 8 4 4 - 3 7 5 6 (937)844-3879 FIREWOOD: half cord for $49. 5 cords available.

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TROY DAILY NEWS • WWW..TDN-NET. TROYDAILYNEWS COM .COM WHAT’S AHEAD: BRIEFLY

Sponsor Grab Tony Stewart insisted he wasn’t trying to poach a sponsor when he approached Bass Pro Shops about an opportunity to join his race team.

The three-time NASCAR champion has a long relationship with Bass Pro founder Johnny Morris, and knew the contract with Earnhardt Ganassi Racing expired at the end of this season. In need of funding, Stewart had a conversation that led to an 18-race sponsorship deal that was announced Friday.

“I didn’t go to Johnny trying to steal a sponsor from somebody,” Stewart said. “We just let it be known to him that we had an opportunity available on our side, and if he ever decided he was wanting to make a change, we wanted him to know we were available.”

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Good Sam Roadside Assistance 500 Site: Talladega, Ala. Schedule: Saturday, qualifying (Speed, noon-3 p.m.); Sunday, race, 2 p.m.

(ESPN, 1-5:30 p.m.).

Track: Talladega Superspeedway (oval, 2.66 miles).

Last year: Clint Bowyer won the race for the second straight year to give Richard Childress Racing its 100th Cup victory.

Last race: Joey Logano won at Dover for his seriesleading seventh victory of the season, leading 184 of the 200 laps. He also won at the track in June.

Next race: Dollar General 300, Oct. 12, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, N.C.

Fred’s 250 Site: Talladega, Ala. Schedule: Saturday, race, 4 p.m. (Speed, 3:30-6:30 p.m.).

Track: Talladega Superspeedway (oval, 2.66 miles).

Last year: Mike Wallace won for the first time in the series since 2000.

Japanese Grand Prix Site: Suzuka, Japan.

Schedule: Saturday, qualifying (Speed, 1-2:30 a.m.); Sunday, race, 2 a.m. (Speed, 1:30-4 a.m.).

Track: Suzuka International (road course, 3.61 miles).

Last year: Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel wrapped up his second straight season championship, finishing third behind McLaren’s Jenson Button.

Narrowing Focus NASCAR points leader Brad Keselowski says he’s scaling back his Nationwide Series schedule to focus on winning the Sprint Cup championship.

Keselowski says he will not run the Nationwide race at Kansas later this month. Penske Racing will instead have Ryan Blaney run the event.

Keselowski said Tuesday during an appearance at Charlotte Motor Speedway he’ll evaluate the rest of his Nationwide schedule as the season winds down.

He is leading the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship with seven races remaining.

TOP 10 RACERS: Sprint Cup 1. Brad Keselowski 2,142 2. Jimmie Johnson 2,137 3. Denny Hamlin 2,126 4. Clint Bowyer 2,117 5. Tony Stewart 2,110 6. Kasey Kahne 2,110 7. Dale Earnhardt Jr.2,103 8. Martin Truex Jr. 2,100 9. Kevin Harvick 2,096 10. Jeff Gordon 2,094 Nationwide Series 1. Elliott Sadler 1,054 2. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.1,045 3. Austin Dillon 1,029 4. Sam Hornish Jr. 994 5. Justin Allgaier 926 6. Michael Annett 916 7. Cole Whitt 843 8. Mike Bliss 781 9. Brian Scott 703 10. Joe Nemechek 678 IndyCar Series (Final) 1. Ryan Hunter-Reay 2. Will Power 3. Scott Dixon 4. Helio Castroneves 5. Simon Pagenaud 6. Ryan Briscoe 7. Dario Franchitti 8. James Hinchcliffe 9. Tony Kanaan 10. Graham Rahal

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Montreal off of schedule

By The Associated Press

Still Driving To End Hunger Jeff Gordon and Hendrick Motorsports announced a contract extension Thursday through 2014 with sponsor AARP and AARP Foundation.

The AARP Foundation signed a three-year deal in 2011 with its “Drive to End Hunger” campaign to be Gordon’s primary sponsor. It became the first cause-related sponsorship to sign on as primary sponsor for a major race team.

The one-year extension gives Drive to End Hunger the opportunity to continue addressing hunger issues among elder Americans.

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Elena Myers (21) goes through practice runs on the new track at NOLA Motorsports June 27 in Westwego, La. The 18-year-old with a blond ponytail sometimes flopping from beneath the back of her helmet is on her way to becoming the most successful woman in the history of her sport. She is the only woman ever to win an AMA Pro Racing event, having done so twice, most recently at Daytona earlier this year.

The best on 2 wheels Myers looks to move on to bigger, better things NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In a blur of pink, white and blue, riding as fast as 180 miles per hour, Elena Myers aims to prove a woman can race with the best on two wheels.

The 5-foot-3 18-year-old has put herself in position to become the most successful female in the history of motorcycle road racing. She is the only woman ever to win an AMA Pro Racing event, having done so twice, most recently at Daytona earlier this year.

“Young girls come up to me all the time at the racetrack and say, ‘Oh, you’re my hero,’ and they’re just so excited about it,” Myers said.

“Danica Patrick’s a household name and that’s kind of what I want to become. Indy Car and NASCAR have been helped by her being in the series and I want to do the same thing in AMA.” Myers will conclude what could be her final season in the AMA SuperSport class this weekend in the Triumph Big Kahuna Nationals at the NOLA Motorsports Park in New Orleans. Her goal is to move next to the Daytona SportBike series.

She will need to demonstrate continued success at higher levels to get the kind of sponsorships she

needs to sustain her career while reaching for her ultimate goal of racing worldwide in MotoGP, the motorcycle equivalent of Formula 1.

“Obviously I want to get a ride (at higher levels) based on the fact I deserve that ride, not because I’m a girl,” Myers said. “I think it will certainly help me, being a girl, to get opportunities … but ultimately it’s not going to help me race MotoGP if I’m not fast enough.”

More established riders readily acknowledge her potential. AMA SuperBike rider Ben Bostrom counts himself as a fan. Also impressed is Martin Cardenas, this season’s Daytona SportBike champion.

“If she gets a little bit stronger, she will be a real threat to any rider,” Cardenas said. “She’s pretty smooth on the race track. She’s aggressive and everything. It seems to me she’s not scared.”

Myers has always loved speed.

Her father, Matt Myers, said she was “a daredevil” as a child, gravitating to roller coasters at amusement parks.

He started a racing club near their northern California town of Brentwood as a way to spend time with his daughter and got her start-

ed on pocket bikes when she was 8.

By the time she’d turned 16, AMA team owner John Ulrich had noticed her talent and signed her.

She won her first race in 2010 at Sonoma Raceway.

Despite her success, Myers still gets the impression that many who meet her come away thinking, “That little girl is doing dangerous things.”

Of course, Myers knows the dangers as well as anyone.

At 14, she was bucked off her motorcycle in a 140 mph “high-side” wreck that knocked her out, lacerated her spleen and left her with a third-degree burn on her calf, where her motorcycle had come to rest while she lay unconscious.

The burn scar remains in the shape or a large puffy sand dollar.

She could have it removed, but sees it as a “battle wound.”

Oddly, Myers said she is “scared to death” of riding on the back of motorcycles. She does not ride on streets or have a motorcycle license.

“I get all my thrills on the track.

I can go as fast as want. I don’t have to worry about any cars,” she said.

“I’m so into motorcycles and pushing a bike to a limit, if I can’t do it on a street there’s really no point.”

NASCAR will not race in Montreal next season after the promoter pulled the plug on the six-year relationship when he couldn’t secure a premiere Sprint Cup Series event.

The official announcement Friday by promoter Francois Dumontier ended a surprising turn of events for NASCAR, which wanted to continue running the Nationwide Series at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

“NASCAR was preparing to return for 2013, however we were unable to come to an agreement,” NASCAR said in a statement.

Dumontier said he needed a Sprint Cup event to make the Montreal race profitable.

“It was a very difficult decision to make. Year after year, with great enthusiasm, our team has invested itself, body and soul, in order to make a success of this NASCAR weekend at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve,” he said. “But under the previous management and our own in 2012, the event remained non profitable, therefore we had to be realistic and conclude that the NASCAR main event on our weekend program doesn’t have the kind of appeal that could generate the requested revenues.”

Dumontier is head of Octane Management, which also promotes Formula One’s Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal. The group also ran the IndyCar race at Edmonton, but declined to continue that event next season. Octane filed for bankruptcy Sept. 24 and a creditor’s list shows debts over $5 million.

Dumontier recently informed NASCAR he was only interested in hosting a Sprint Cup Series race, and if Nationwide was his only option, he wanted to run the event at 9 a.m. on a Sunday.

The demands derailed an agreement that NASCAR thought it already had in place for a 2013 race.

“I must admit that NASCAR’s final answer is extremely disappointing. We can understand how difficult it could be to modify the Sprint Cup schedule, but we still believe that we deserved higher consideration,” Dumontier said. “Especially since we have often been told that the annual Montreal event was very important to NASCAR.”

Allmendinger doing some job-hunting at Talladega TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — AJ Allmendinger upped his effort to find a new job on Friday by making his first appearance at a NASCAR event since his suspension for failing a drug test.

The visit to Talladega Superspeedway is the first since Allmendinger’s July 7 suspension. He was reinstated by NASCAR last month and is looking for a job for 2013 after being dropped by Penske Racing three months ago.

“I’m looking, but from

reading the Internet, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of jobs out there,” Allmendinger said.

Allmendinger first returned to a track last month at Fontana, Calif., attending the IndyCar season finale as Roger Penske’s guest. He seemed nervous before arriving but said he felt at ease as soon as he entered the garage.

He experienced the same emotions at Talladega, where he said the reception was good.

“Nobody has told me to

get out yet,” joked Allmendinger, who stopped in the Penske Racing garage stalls and visited with his former crew. “It’s been a lot of fun to be back in the garage. It’s been a rough few months, and I’m just really glad to be back here.”

He was greeted with hugs from some of his former crew members at Richard Petty Motorsports, where he spent three seasons before moving this year to Penske Racing. He was let go by Penske in

July after his backup urine sample also failed a test.

NASCAR has not revealed the substance, but Allmendinger has said he tested positive for Adderall, a prescription drug typically used to treat attention deficit disorder. He does not have an ADD diagnosis or prescription, and said he took it a couple of days before the June 30 race at Kentucky Speedway because he was tired.

He spent two months completing NASCAR’s “Road to Recovery” pro-

gram, which is the only way a driver can be reinstated.

Now back, he’s looking to see what opportunities exist for him.

James Finch, owner of the No. 51 car at Phoenix Racing, said he’ll likely use Regan Smith next week at Charlotte Motor Speedway but isn’t opposed to talking with Allmendinger. Kurt Busch is replacing Smith at Furniture Row beginning next week, and Finch has six races to fill this year.

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TODAY’S TIPS

17 October 6, 2012

■ High School Football

• TROY SENIOR BUS: Senior citizens wishing to attend Troy varsity football away games may do so by riding a Troy City Schools bus for a nominal fee. For more information, call 335-7742.

• BASEBALL: Troy Post 43 will be hosting an all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner from 3-7 p.m. today at the Troy Legion Post on 622 South Market St. The public is invited, and the cost is $6.75 for adults and $4 for children under 12 for all-you-can-eat spaghetti, salad bar, desert and soft drink or coffee. Proceeds go to Troy Post 43 baseball.

• CROSS COUNTRY: Registration is now open for the 6th Annual Ohio Middle School Cross Country State Championships, to be held Oct. 21 at Groveport Madison High School. The first 900 athletes to register will receive a free event T-shirt. The entry deadline is Oct. 18. To register or for more information, go to www.ohiocrosscountry.org.

• BASEBALL: The Phiten Advanced Pitching Camp will be from noon-5 p.m. Oct. 14 at The Academy in Greenville. It is for ages 14-18 and the cost is $55. For more information, call (937) 423-3053.

• SUBMIT-A-TIP: To submit an item to the Troy Daily News sports section, please contact Josh Brown at jbrown@tdnpublishing.com or Colin Foster at cfoster@tdnpublishing.com.

SPORTS CALENDAR TODAY Boys Soccer Troy at Wayne (6:30 p.m.)

Bellbrook at Tippecanoe (3 p.m.)

Miami East at Milton-Union (noon) Franklin Monroe at Newton (2 p.m.)

Lehman at Greenon (1 p.m.)

Girls Soccer Northmont at Tippecanoe (7 p.m.)

Milton-Union at Miami East (noon) Franklin Monroe at Newton (noon) Piqua at Greenville (3:30 p.m.)

Lehman at Delphos St. John’s (11 a.m.)

Cross Country Troy boys, Miami East at Piqua Invitational (10 a.m.)

Bethel, Covington, Troy Christian, Bradford, Lehman at Anna Invite (9 a.m.)

Newton at National Trail Invite (10 a.m.)

Tennis Division I Sectional at Troy Troy, Piqua (9 a.m.)

Division II Sectional at Troy Tippecanoe, Milton-Union, Lehman (9 a.m.)

Volleyball Tippecanoe tri (10 a.m.)

Milton-Union at London Invite (9 a.m.)

Wayne/Dayton Christian at Bethel (10 a.m.)

Fairlawn at Newton (11:30 a.m.)

SUNDAY No events scheduled MONDAY Boys Soccer Miami East at Shawnee (7:15 p.m.)

Bethel at Kenton Ridge (5:30 p.m.)

Franklin Monroe at Troy Christian (7 p.m.)

Girls Soccer Miami East at Shawnee (5:30 p.m.)

Bethel at Kenton Ridge (7:15 p.m.)

Franklin Monroe at Troy Christian (5 p.m.)

Lehman at Bellefontaine (6 p.m.)

Volleyball Bradford at Milton-Union (7 p.m.)

Newton at Mississinawa Valley (7 p.m.)

Troy Christian at Arcanum (5:30 p.m.)

Parkway at Lehman (7:30 p.m.)

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Troy’s Miles Hibbler (25) slips away from a tackler during a game against Butler Friday night in Vandalia.

Simply offensive Troy offense can’t move ball in 6-0 loss to Butler

BY DAVID FONG Executive Editor fong@tdnpublishing.com Troy football coach Scot Brewer couldn’t get off a rainsoaked field at Butler High School fast enough Friday night.

Ironic, considering his offense couldn’t stay on it long enough to produce anything resembling a scoring drive — or even an extended drive — Friday in a 6-0 loss to Butler.

“We’ve got to find a way to move the ball,” Brewer said as he hustled off the field to meet his team in the lockerroom.

An understatement, considering just how ineffective Troy was in moving the ball.

Troy’s offense peaked on the second play of the game — a 12yard pass from Matt Barr to Seth Perdziola that moved the ball out to the Aviator 45. That

VANDALIA FOR MORE RESULTS For complete box scores from Friday, along with a further look at Troy’s game against Butler, see Sunday’s edition of the Troy Daily News. would be Troy’s longest play of the night, one of three first downs the Trojans earned all night and the last time Troy would cross midfield all night.

Needless to say, it was all downhill from there for the Trojans.

“We couldn’t get anything moving,” Brewer said. “And when we did get a big play, we had a

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Slippery when wet Turnovers costly in Miami East loss

BY JOSH BROWN Sports Editor jbrown@tdnpublishing.com

OSU remembers loss to Nebraska It was a game that went into the Nebraska record books and the Ohio State memory banks.

The Cornhuskers mounted the biggest comeback in school history a year ago, finishing with a 24-0 flurry to erase a 21-point, second-half deficit, to beat the Buckeyes 34-27 in the first Big Ten game ever played in Lincoln, Neb. See Page 18.

A freshman quarterback starting for the first time. Nonstop rain creating slick conditions — and wet footballs. Four fumbled snaps in the second half as a result, three of them lost.

In the end, it still took a bewilderingly bad spot on fourth down late in the fourth quarter to truly knock Miami East out of STAFF PHOTOS/COLIN FOSTER contention.

Miami East’s Colton Holicki (center) and teammates celebrate after Trailing by four with less Holicki scored a touchdown during a game against Tri-County than three minutes to play and North Friday in Casstown. facing a fourth-and-inches from

CASSTOWN the Tri-County North 36-yard line, the Vikings (4-3, 4-2 Cross County Conference) gave the ball up the gut to Colton Holicki, who had been gashing the Panther defense all night. Holicki appeared to get well beyond the 35 before his forward progress was stopped and the whistle blew the play dead — but when the ball was placed, it sat back at the original line of scrimmage.

The turnover on downs cost Miami East valuable time — and

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Buckeyes remember Ohio State says it ‘owes’ Nebraska for loss

Cincy a changed city since Reds’ last playoff run CINCINNATI (AP) — Less than two years ago, little more than a giant parking lot occupied the half-mile between the stadiums of the Cincinnati Reds and Bengals along the Ohio River.

With the Reds returning to the National League playoffs, baseball fans from around Ohio and beyond will find a much different Cincinnati since the last time the team played in the postseason in 2010.

After more than $600 million in new development between the two stadiums, there are now six distinct bars and restaurants, a popular riverfront park and high-end apartments that are touted as being “Cincinnati’s premier live-work-play destination” and charge rent in the thousands.

A few blocks over is a new $322 million, 41-story office tower that’s the tallest building in the city, and a 20-minute walk away is the trendy Over-theRhine historic district that used to be best known as a haven for crime and the site of the city’s 2001 race riots. Now dozens of bedraggled buildings in the district have been renovated into popular bars and restaurants and a once crime-prone park has undergone a $48 million makeover to become one of the city’s best venues for concerts, outdoor movie viewings and flea markets.

“When you look at the changes over the last two years, it’s night and day,” said Mike Willis, 62, who was born and raised in Cincinnati and is a longtime Reds fan.

“What used to happen is you’d park at the game, walk to the game, get your food and all your stuff there, watch the game, and then you’d go get in your car and drive home,” said Willis, who has been going to Reds games since he was a kid and now blogs about the team.

“But not anymore,” said Willis, who now takes his wife to get a bite to eat near the stadium before the game and likes to stick around afterward.

Willis is trying to snag

tickets to one of the Reds’ playoff games. The team begins its playoff run Saturday and Sunday in San Francisco and returns for the first home game in the five-game series on Tuesday.

Since the late 1990s, the city and Hamilton County have been working to reclaim Cincinnati’s riverfront from about 200 years of manufacturing and commerce, and turn it into a destination where people can live, work and play.

The biggest development between the stadiums, known as The Banks, drew plenty of skepticism from locals as the project was delayed repeatedly amid infighting by local leaders and deals with developers that fell apart.

As the years passed, the area became known as “the mud pit.”

When Mayor Mark Mallory first took office in 2005, the wheels on the project began turning much faster. The city and county teamed up and got two developers on board and began figuring out financing, which comes from a combination of private money, tax dollars and some federal stimulus funds.

“We weren’t going to let petty differences keep the project from happening,” said Mallory, who said he made the project a priority to boost morale in the city.

“You have to understand where we had been.

You had a long period where a company would leave downtown Cincinnati and go to northern Kentucky or a business would close up shop,” he said. “When you went downtown, you got the impression that the core was dying, and that’s a morale-killer. We needed to be able to show that we were focused on turning that around.”

The annual economic impact of The Banks is projected to reach nearly $92 million a year, according to a study released in May by the University of Cincinnati’s Economics Center that was commissioned by the developers of The Banks.

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Nebraska’s Rex Burkhead (22) celebrates his go-ahead touchdown against Ohio State with teammate Quincy Enunwa, left, during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Ohio State on Oct. 8, 2011 in Lincoln, Neb. The Cornhuskers mounted the biggest comeback in school history, finishing with a 24-0 flurry to erase a 21-point, second-half deficit, to beat the Buckeyes 34-27. recalled.

Asked if he felt the game shifted at that point, he nodded and said, “Yeah.”

It wasn’t just the players who felt that way. Mike Vrabel, then and still a defensive assistant coach, felt the momentum shift.

“Our quarterback went down and our guys on defense felt like that was going to be it they said that after the game,” Vrabel said.

“We were getting stops and forcing them to kick field goals and then things just started to steamroll and pile up on you. And there was not a play to be made to stop anything.”

Fifth-year senior Joe Bauserman came on but things had changed.

Nebraska’s Blackshirts defense was now much more active, much more inspired.

The crowd was back in the game. And Huskers quarterback Taylor Martinez, booed late in the first half, regained his footing.

Martinez ran for a touchdown and passed for two others and running back Rex Burkhead exploded to total 119 yards on 26 carries, catching one scoring pass from Martinez and also adding the go-ahead touchdown on a 17-yard run with 5:10 left.

Bauserman went 1 for 10 passing for 13 yards with an interception, meaning he completed as many passes to Nebraska players as he did to Ohio State’s. He was unable to lead a final drive to tie the game.

The video from the Oct. 8, 2011, game rivals a horror flick for the Buckeyes.

“We look at those things and try to get, not revenge, but not let anything like that happen again,” linebacker Ryan Shazier said.

Despite falling to 0-2 in the Big Ten with the loss, the Buckeyes regrouped to win their next three games but then closed what would be a 6-7 season their most

losses since 1897 with four consecutive defeats.

Even though the entire season didn’t tilt on that one, cool Saturday evening in Nebraska, many of the Buckeyes believe it did.

“Last season as a whole is brought up more than just one single game,” offensive tackle Jack Mewhort said.

“The Nebraska game was part of it, just the way it happened and we let the lead go. It adds a little something and gives you a little more of a chip on your shoulder.”

Nebraska coach Bo Pelini and his players barely mentioned the game this week.

But the Buckeyes are well aware of what happened.

“Last year was last year.

I’m not going to forget it, but I’m not going to dwell on it either,” Ohio State linebacker Etienne Sabino said.

“But we’re looking forward to this game this week.”

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Cardinals beat Braves 6-3 in playoff ATLANTA (AP) — David Freese and the St. Louis Cardinals rediscovered their postseason touch. Chipper Jones and the Braves kept throwing the ball away. And the Atlanta fans turned Turner Field into a trash heap.

They said anything could happen in baseball’s first wild-card playoff.

Boy, did it ever.

In a game protested by the Braves, Matt Holliday homered and the defending World Series champion Cardinals took advantage of

three Atlanta throwing errors the most crucial of them by the retiring Jones to take the winner-take-all playoff 6-3 on Friday.

Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said shortly after the game that Major League Baseball had denied the Braves’ protest. St. Louis advanced to face Washington in the best-of-five division round, beginning Sunday at Busch Stadium.

The Braves are done for this season, the recipients of another heartbreaking loss in the playoffs.

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even though the ball landed at least 50 feet beyond the dirt.

When the fans realized what had happened, they littered the field with beers cups, popcorn holders and other trash, leading to a 19minute delay as the Cardinals retreated to their dugout.

That only delayed the inevitable. When play finally resumed, Brian McCann walked but Michael Bourn struck out to end the threat.

Dan Uggla grounded out with two aboard in the ninth to end it, leading to one more wave of trash throwing as the umps scurried off the field probably feeling a lot like those replacement NFL refs who caught so much grief.

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The 40-year-old Jones is all done, period. He managed an infield hit in his final atbat but threw away a double play ball in the fourth, which led to a three-run inning that wiped out Atlanta’s early 2-0 lead behind Kris Medlen.

But this one-and-done game will be remembered for the eighth, when a disputed call on a fly ball that dropped in short left field cost the Braves a chance at extending Jones’ career.

The Braves thought they had the bases loaded with one out after the ball dropped between two fielders, who appeared to get mixed up over who had called for it. But left-field umpire Sam Holbrook called Andrelton Simmons out under the infield fly rule

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Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Homer Bailey throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Wednesday in St. Louis.

COLUMBUS (AP) — It was a game that went into the Nebraska record books and the Ohio State memory banks.

The Cornhuskers mounted the biggest comeback in school history a year ago, finishing with a 24-0 flurry to erase a 21-point, secondhalf deficit, to beat the Buckeyes 34-27 in the first Big Ten game ever played in Lincoln, Neb. It’s a new year but Ohio State hasn’t forgotten.

Heading into Saturday night’s showdown at Ohio Stadium, a number of the Buckeyes 12th-ranked believe some payback is due to the No. 21 Cornhuskers for what happened then.

“I have heard them talk,” said Ohio State coach Urban Meyer, who wasn’t around for last year’s wild, up-anddown struggle at Memorial Stadium. “I haven’t brought it up. But I hear them say that ‘We owe this team.’”

It’s clear that the Buckeyes have taken note.

“It’s a looooong flight,” safety Bradley Roby said of the return trip after a road defeat like the one at Nebraska. “I went through it last year. It’s not fun at all.

So that’s what we’re trying to send them back with.”

Funny, but at halftime the game appeared to be a high point for the Buckeyes, who were muddling through a transitional season after Jim Tressel was forced out for knowingly playing ineligible players. Several Buckeyes were suspended for the Nebraska game because of NCAA violations and the final sanctions had yet to be handed down.

Assistant Luke Fickell was serving as interim coach, Ohio State had a true freshman quarterback in Braxton Miller playing every down and there was a feeling that the season could go either way.

When the Buckeyes bolted to a 20-6 halftime lead, quieting a crowd of 85,426, it appeared that perhaps the program might be able to weather the storms battering it from outside and within and still have a successful season.

But then Miller went down. He had completed 5 of 8 passes for 95 yards, including a 32-yard touchdown pass to Jake Stoneburner, and had run for 91 yards on 10 carries. Everything seemed to be clicking until he sprained his right ankle and wasn’t able to return.

“We had a good game plan, things went well, and in the second half I just messed up my ankle,” Miller

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BASEBALL Major League Baseball Postseason Glance All Times EDT WILD CARD Friday, Oct. 5 National League: St. Louis 6, Atlanta 3 American League: Baltimore (Saunders 9-13 or Johnson 4-0) at Texas (Darvish 16-9), 8:37 p.m. (TBS) DIVISION SERIES (Best-of-5; x-if necessary) American League Series A Oakland vs. Detroit Saturday, Oct. 6: Oakland at Detroit (Verlander 17-8), 6:07 p.m. (TBS) Sunday, Oct. 7: Oakland at Detroit (TBS or MLB) Tuesday, Oct. 9: Detroit at Oakland (TBS) x-Wednesday, Oct. 10: Detroit at Oakland (TBS or MLB) x-Thursday, Oct. 11: Detroit at Oakland (TBS) Series B NewYork vs. Baltimore-Texas winner Sunday, Oct. 7: New York at BaltimoreTexas winner (TBS or MLB) Monday, Oct. 8: New York at BaltimoreTexas winner (TBS) Wednesday, Oct. 10: Baltimore-Texas winner at New York (TBS or MLB) x-Thursday, Oct. 11: Baltimore-Texas winner at New York (TBS) x-Friday, Oct. 12: Baltimore-Texas winner at New York (TBS) National League Series A Cincinnati vs. San Francisco Saturday, Oct. 6: Cincinnati (Cueto 199) at San Francisco (Cain 16-5), 9:37 p.m.

(TBS) Sunday, Oct. 7: Cincinnati (Arroyo 1210) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 16-11) (TBS or MLB) Tuesday, Oct. 9: San Francisco at Cincinnati (Mat Latos 14-4) (TBS) x-Wednesday, Oct. 10: San Francisco at Cincinnati (TBS or MLB) x-Thursday, Oct. 11: San Francisco at Cincinnati (TBS) Series B Washington vs. St. Louis Sunday, Oct. 7: Washington (Gonzalez 21-8) at St. Louis, 3:07 p.m. (TBS) Monday, Oct. 8: Washington (Zimmermann 12-8) at St.Louis, 4:37 p.m.

(TBS) Wednesday, Oct. 10: St. Louis at Washington, TBD (TBS or MLB) x-Thursday, Oct. 11: St. Louis at Washington, TBD (TBS) x-Friday, Oct. 12: St. Louis at Washington, TBD (TBS) LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) American League All games televised by TBS Saturday, Oct. 13: Oakland-Detroit winner at New York OR Baltimore-Texas winner at Oakland-Detroit winner Sunday, Oct. 14: Oakland-Detroit winner at New York OR Baltimore-Texas winner at Oakland-Detroit winner Tuesday, Oct. 16: New York at OaklandDetroit winner OR Oakland-Detroit winner at Baltimore-Texas winner Wednesday, Oct. 17: New York at Oakland-Detroit winner OR OaklandDetroit winner at Baltimore-Texas winner x-Thursday, Oct. 18: New York at Oakland-Detroit winner OR OaklandDetroit winner at Baltimore-Texas winner x-Saturday, Oct. 20: Oakland-Detroit winner at New York OR Baltimore-Texas winner at Oakland-Detroit winner x-Sunday, Oct. 21: Oakland-Detroit winner at New York OR Baltimore-Texas winner at Oakland-Detroit winner National League All games televised by Fox Sunday, Oct. 14: Cincinnati-San Francisco winner at Washington OR St. Louis at Cincinnati-San Francisco winner Monday, Oct. 15: Cincinnati-San Francisco winner at Washington OR St. Louis at Cincinnati-San Francisco winner Wednesday, Oct. 17: Washington at Cincinnati-San Francisco winner OR Cincinnati at St. Louis Thursday, Oct. 18: Washington at Cincinnati-San Francisco winner OR Cincinnati at St. Louis x-Friday, Oct. 19: Washington at Cincinnati-San Francisco winner OR Cincinnati at St. Louis x-Sunday, Oct. 21: Cincinnati-San Francisco winner at Washington OR St. Louis at Cincinnati-San Francisco winner x-Monday, Oct. 22: Cincinnati-San Francisco winner at Washington OR St. Louis at Cincinnati-San Francisco winner WORLD SERIES (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) All games televised by Fox Wednesday, Oct. 24: at National League, (n) Thursday, Oct. 25: at National League, (n) Saturday, Oct. 27: at American League, (n) Sunday, Oct. 28: at American League, (n) x-Monday, Oct. 29: at American League, (n) x-Wednesday, Oct. 31: at National League, (n) x-Thursday, Nov. 1: at National League, (n)

1 3 0 .250 88 136 Kansas City 1 3 0 .250 67 125 Oakland NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Philadelphia 3 1 0 .750 66 83 Dallas 2 2 0 .500 65 88 2 2 0 .500 123 123 Washington 2 2 0 .500 111 84 N.Y. Giants South W L T Pct PF PA 4 0 0 1.000 124 76 Atlanta Tampa Bay 1 3 0 .250 82 91 Carolina 1 3 0 .250 80 109 New Orleans 0 4 0 .000 110 130 North W L T Pct PF PA 3 1 0 .750 90 72 Minnesota 3 1 0 .750 108 68 Chicago Green Bay 2 2 0 .500 85 81 Detroit 1 3 0 .250 100 114 West W L T Pct PF PA 4 1 0 .800 94 78 Arizona San Francisco 3 1 0 .750 104 65 3 2 0 .600 96 94 St. Louis 2 2 0 .500 70 58 Seattle Thursday, Oct. 4 St. Louis 17, Arizona 3 Sunday, Oct. 7 Baltimore at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Atlanta at Washington, 1 p.m.

Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

Green Bay at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.

Miami at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

Seattle at Carolina, 4:05 p.m.

Chicago at Jacksonville, 4:05 p.m.

Buffalo at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m.

Tennessee at Minnesota, 4:25 p.m.

Denver at New England, 4:25 p.m.

San Diego at New Orleans, 8:20 p.m.

Open: Dallas, Detroit, Oakland, Tampa Bay Monday, Oct. 8 Houston at N.Y. Jets, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 11 Pittsburgh at Tennessee, 8:20 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 14 Oakland at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.

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

Cincinnati at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Detroit at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

St. Louis at Miami, 1 p.m.

Dallas at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Buffalo at Arizona, 4:05 p.m.

New England at Seattle, 4:05 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m.

Minnesota at Washington, 4:25 p.m.

Green Bay at Houston, 8:20 p.m.

Open: Carolina, Chicago, Jacksonville, New Orleans Monday, Oct. 15 Denver at San Diego, 8:30 p.m.

AP Top 25 Poll The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sept. 29, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking: Pts Pv .............................Record 1. Alabama (60)..........5-0 1,500 1 2. Oregon....................5-0 1,430 2 3. Florida St. ...............5-0 1,349 4 4. LSU .........................5-0 1,310 3 5. Georgia ...................5-0 1,252 5 6. South Carolina........5-0 1,152 6 7. Kansas St. ..............4-0 1,123 7 8. West Virginia...........4-0 1,066 9 9. Notre Dame............4-0 1,043 10 10. Florida...................4-0 937 11 932 12 11.Texas .....................4-0 793 14 12. Ohio St..................5-0 703 13 13. Southern Cal ........3-1 14. Oregon St. ............3-0 647 18 608 17 15. Clemson................4-1 608 15 15.TCU.......................4-0 17. Oklahoma .............2-1 581 16 18. Stanford ................3-1 509 8 404 19 19. Louisville ...............5-0 306 21 20. Mississippi St........4-0 21. Nebraska ..............4-1 240 22 160 23 22. Rutgers .................4-0 159 NR 23. Washington...........3-1 143 NR 24. Northwestern........5-0 25. UCLA ....................4-1 122 NR Others receiving votes: Cincinnati 72, Boise St. 53, Texas A&M 51, Michigan St. 43, Texas Tech 39, Michigan 38, Louisiana Tech 37, Baylor 31, Ohio 30, Arizona St. 15, Arizona 4, Miami 4, Iowa St. 3, Tennessee 3.

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USA Today Top 25 Poll The USA Today Top 25 football coaches poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sept. 29, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, and previous ranking: .................................Record Pts Pvs 1. Alabama (57)..........5-0 1,472 1 2. Oregon....................5-0 1,403 2 3. LSU (1)....................5-0 1,327 3 4. Florida St. (1)..........5-0 1,301 4 5. Georgia ...................5-0 1,227 5 6. South Carolina........5-0 1,161 6 7. West Virginia...........4-0 1,137 7 8. Kansas St. ..............4-0 1,050 8 9.Texas .......................4-0 981 10 10. Notre Dame..........4-0 915 11 11. Florida...................4-0 883 12 12. USC ......................3-1 784 13 13.TCU.......................4-0 749 14 14. Oklahoma .............2-1 684 15 15. Clemson................4-1 626 16 16. Louisville ...............5-0 524 17 17. Oregon St. ............3-0 453 21 18. Stanford ................3-1 452 9 19. Mississippi St........4-0 422 19 20. Nebraska ..............4-1 415 20 21. Rutgers .................4-0 206 25 22. Northwestern........5-0 202 NR 23. Cincinnati..............3-0 175 NR 24.Texas Tech ............4-0 108 NR 25. Boise St. ...............3-1 83 NR Others Receiving Votes: Washington 65; Texas A&M 61; UCLA 58; Louisiana Tech 56; Michigan State 45; Baylor 41; Arizona State 40; Miami (Fla.) 17; Michigan 11; Ohio 11; Louisiana-Monroe 8; Purdue 6; Wisconsin 6; San Jose State 4; Oklahoma State 3; Toledo 1; Tulsa 1; Virginia Tech 1.

National Football League All Times EDT AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct N.Y. Jets 2 2 0 .500 New England 2 2 0 .500 Buffalo 2 2 0 .500 Miami 1 3 0 .250 South W L T Pct Houston 4 0 0 1.000 Indianapolis 1 2 0 .333 Jacksonville 1 3 0 .250 Tennessee 1 3 0 .250 North W L T Pct Baltimore 3 1 0 .750 Cincinnati 3 1 0 .750 Pittsburgh 1 2 0 .333 Cleveland 0 4 0 .000 West W L T Pct San Diego 3 1 0 .750 Denver 2 2 0 .500

Friday's Scores PREP FOOTBALL Akr. Coventry 35, Akr. Springfield 21 Akr. Ellet 20, Akr. Buchtel 19 Akr. Firestone 51, Akr. East 0 Akr. Hoban 30, Parma Padua 14 Akr. SVSM 70, Marion Harding 20 Alliance 44, Salem 14 Alliance Marlington 27, Minerva 10 Archbold 37, Delta 8 Ashland 21, Orrville 6 Ashville Teays Valley 28, AmandaClearcreek 0 Athens 77, Albany Alexander 13 Attica Seneca E. 33, Sycamore Mohawk 12 Atwater Waterloo 24, Windham 0 Aurora 48, Wickliffe 7 Avon 28, Grafton Midview 0 Bainbridge Paint Valley 35, Frankfort Adena 33 Batavia 42, Blanchester 41 Beachwood 37, Richmond Hts. 0 Beavercreek 14, Huber Hts. Wayne 13

Friday's Major League Linescores NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis . . . .000 301 200—6 6 0 Atlanta . . . . . .020 000 100—3 12 3 Lohse, Lynn (6), Mujica (7), Rzepczynski (7), Boggs (8), Motte (8) and Y.Molina; Medlen, Durbin (7), Venters (7), O'Flaherty (8), Kimbrel (9) and D.Ross. W_Lohse 1-0. L_Medlen 0-1. Sv_Motte (1). HRs_St. Louis, Holliday (1). Atlanta, D.Ross (1).

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PA 109 92 131 90

PF 126 61 62 81

PA 56 83 97 151

PF 121 112 77 73

PA 83 112 75 98

PF PA 100 71 114 83

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SPORTS ON TV TODAY AUTO RACING Noon SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, pole qualifying for Good Sam Roadside Assistance 500, at Talladega, Ala. 4 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Truck Series, Coca-Cola 250, at Talladega, Ala. 1:30 a.m. SPEED — Formula One, Grand Prix of Japan, at Suzuka, Japan COLLEGE FOOTBALL 11:30 a.m. CBS — National coverage, Navy at Air Force Noon ESPN — Northwestern at Penn St. or Arkansas at Auburn ESPN2 — Arkansas at Auburn or Northwestern at Penn St. FSN — Boise St. at Southern Miss.

FX — Kansas at Kansas St. 1 p.m. NBCSN — Towson at James Madison 3 p.m. FOX — Arizona at Stanford 3:30 p.m. ABC — Regional coverage, Illinois at Wisconsin or teams TBA CBS — National coverage, LSU at Florida ESPN — Georgia Tech at Clemson or Oklahoma at Texas Tech ESPN2 — Regional coverage, Illinois at Wisconsin or teams TBA FSN — Iowa St. at TCU 7 p.m. ESPN — Georgia at South Carolina FOX — West Virginia at Texas 7:30 p.m. NBC — Miami vs. Notre Dame, at Chicago 8 p.m. ESPN2 — Florida St. at NC State or Nebraska at Ohio St. 8:07 p.m. ABC — National coverage, Nebraska at Ohio St. or Florida St. at NC State 10:30 p.m. ESPN — Washington at Oregon GOLF 8:30 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, third round, at Kingsbarns, Angus, and St. Andrews, Scotland 1:30 p.m. TGC — Champions Tour, SAS Championship, second round, at Cary, N.C. 4 p.m. TGC — PGA Tour, Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, third round, at Las Vegas 7:30 p.m. TGC — Web.com Tour, Neediest Kids Championship, third round, at Potomac, Md. (same-day tape) SOCCER 7:30 a.m. ESPN2 — Premier League, Sunderland at Manchester City 3:30 p.m. NBC — MLS, Chicago at New York 9 p.m. NBCSN — MLS, Salt Lake at Los Angeles Bellaire 29, Cadiz Harrison Cent. 28 Bellaire St. John 42, Valley Wetzel, W.Va. 20 Bellevue 42, Willard 6 Berea 40, Olmsted Falls 21 Berlin Center Western Reserve 56, Sebring McKinley 14 Beverly Ft. Frye 24, Lore City Buckeye Trail 21 Bowerston Conotton Valley 56, Paden City, W.Va. 12 Brecksville-Broadview Hts. 35, Amherst Steele 14 Brookfield 49, Ashtabula Edgewood 13 Brookville 40, Monroe 21 Bryan 32, Hamler Patrick Henry 28 Bucyrus Wynford 21, Upper Sandusky 12 Caledonia River Valley 35, Marion Pleasant 21 Cambridge 35, E. Liverpool 7 Campbell Memorial 35, Warren Champion 29, OT Can. Cent. Cath. 22, Barberton 12 Can. South 35, Beloit W. Branch 23 Canal Winchester 28, Cols. Hamilton Twp. 7 Canfield S. Range 55, Mineral Ridge 20 Carey 59, Kansas Lakota 0 Carlisle 20, Middletown Madison 12 Carrollton 21, Louisville 0 Centerville 13, Clayton Northmont 0 Chagrin Falls 55, Painesville Harvey 6 Chagrin Falls Kenston 34, Perry 14 Chardon 28, Geneva 6 Chardon NDCL 28, Cuyahoga Falls Walsh Jesuit 7 Chillicothe 38, Vincent Warren 7 Chillicothe Zane Trace 14, Chillicothe Huntington 6 Cin. Colerain 41, Middletown 14 Cin. Elder 17, Cin. Moeller 13 Cin. Glen Este 20, Cin. Walnut Hills 3 Cin. Madeira 42, Cin. Indian Hill 0 Cin. Mariemont 63, Cin. Deer Park 14 Cin. Mt. Healthy 31, Harrison 7 Cin. N. College Hill 20, Cin. Clark Montessori 3 Cin. Princeton 48, Hamilton 6 Cin. St. Xavier 31, Cin. La Salle 14 Cin. Summit Country Day 36, Cin. Christian 2 Cin. Sycamore 28, Liberty Twp. Lakota E. 7 Cin. Turpin 42, Cin. Anderson 14 Cin. Western Hills 55, Cin. Hughes 22 Cin. Withrow 27, Cin. Shroder 8 Circleville 51, Lancaster Fairfield Union 14 Circleville Logan Elm 34, BloomCarroll 14 Clarksville Clinton-Massie 62, London 13 Cle. Hay 34, Cle. Lincoln W. 7 Cle. Hts. 47, Warrensville Hts. 8 Cle. Rhodes 24, Cle. E. Tech 14 Coldwater 7, Anna 0 Collins Western Reserve 40, Ashland Crestview 15 Cols. Beechcroft 34, Cols. Mifflin 19 Cols. Brookhaven 35, Cols. Linden McKinley 8 Cols. Hartley 40, Ft. Wayne Luers, Ind. 7 Cols. Independence 88, Cols. Briggs 6 Cols. Marion-Franklin 73, Cols.

Africentric 20 Cols. Northland 38, Cols. Centennial 0 Cols. St. Charles 37, Canal Fulton Northwest 21 Cols. Walnut Ridge 27, Cols. West 6 Cols. Watterson 42, Ironton 8 Cols. Whetstone 26, Cols. East 20 Columbia Station Columbia 16, Rocky River Lutheran W. 14 Columbiana 14, Leetonia 7 Columbiana Crestview 63, Hanoverton United 14 Copley 38, Lodi Cloverleaf 21

Cory-Rawson 20, Vanlue 14 Crooksville 36, Zanesville W. Muskingum 0 Danville 40, Johnstown Northridge 0 Day. Christian 49, McGuffey Upper Scioto Valley 8 Day. Dunbar 37, Day. Ponitz Tech. 6 Defiance 20, Van Wert 14 Defiance Ayersville 21, Edgerton 19 Defiance Tinora 56, Antwerp 8 Delaware Buckeye Valley 28, Mt. Gilead 6 Delphos St. John's 28, Ft. Recovery 0 Dover 26, Zanesville 17 Dresden Tri-Valley 43, New Lexington 7 Dublin Coffman 53, Grove City Cent.

Crossing 6 Dublin Scioto 42, Dublin Jerome 23 E. Cle. Shaw 27, Bedford 14 E. Palestine 30, N. Jackson JacksonMilton 14 Eastlake N. 16, Ashtabula Lakeside 8 Eaton 7, Bellbrook 6, OT Elyria 28, Cuyahoga Falls 14 Elyria Cath. 31, Vermilion 0 Fairfield Christian 42, FayettevillePerry 6 Findlay Liberty-Benton 55, Dola Hardin Northern 12 Fremont St. Joseph 18, Bascom Hopewell-Loudon 13 Ft. Loramie 20, Muncie South, Ind. 7 Gahanna Cols. Academy 30, Cols.

Bexley 7 Gahanna Lincoln 24, Lancaster 3 Galion 38, Mt. Blanchard Riverdale 0 Garfield Hts. Trinity 46, Cle. VASJ 14 Gates Mills Gilmour 29, Conneaut 28 Gates Mills Hawken 7, Independence 0 Genoa Area 53, Bloomdale Elmwood 6 Gibsonburg 7, Tol. Christian 0 Gnadenhutten Indian Valley 33, Wooster Triway 32 Granville 42, Heath 14 Green 21, Wadsworth 9 Greenfield McClain 21, Washington C.H. 15 Grove City Christian 49, St. Bernard 6 Hamilton Badin 17, Day. ChaminadeJulienne 14 Hamilton New Miami 28, Cin. Country Day 22 Hamilton Ross 21, Wilmington 6 Harrod Allen E. 35, Paulding 18 Haviland Wayne Trace 22, Hicksville 7 Hilliard Darby 28, Westerville S. 14 Hilliard Davidson 42, Cols. Upper Arlington 14 Howard E. Knox 28, Fredericktown 26 Hubbard 43, Niles McKinley 14 Hudson 38, Stow-Munroe Falls 0 Jackson 31, Logan 20 Jefferson Area 24, Cortland Lakeview 21 Johnstown-Monroe 49, Utica 8 Kent Roosevelt 42, Mantua Crestwood 20 Kettering Fairmont 38, Springfield 13 Kings Mills Kings 49, Milford 6 Kirtland 64, Fairport Harbor Harding 20 Lakewood 24, Bay Village Bay 8 Lakewood St. Edward 54, Youngs.

Mooney 14 Leavittsburg LaBrae 47, Newton Falls 6 Lebanon 56, W. Carrollton 0 Lewis Center Olentangy Orange 24, Delaware Hayes 10 Lewisburg Tri-County N. 21, Casstown Miami E. 17 Lewistown Indian Lake 21, Spring.

NW 12 Lexington 44, Wooster 28 Lima Perry 21, DeGraff Riverside 12 Lisbon Beaver 21, Struthers 14 Lorain Clearview 36, Oberlin 14 Loudonville 28, Centerburg 6

Saturday, October 6, 2012 Louisville Aquinas 27, Akr. Garfield 20 Loveland 14, Cin. Winton Woods 0 Macedonia Nordonia 34, Tallmadge 28 Malvern 53, Strasburg-Franklin 10 Mansfield Madison 41, Bellville Clear Fork 20 Mansfield Sr. 40, Millersburg W. Holmes 29 Maple Hts. 40, Lorain 35 Maria Stein Marion Local 38, St. Henry 22 Marion Elgin 41, Galion Northmor 22 Marysville 39, Thomas Worthington 21 Mason 55, Fairfield 13 Massillon Jackson 47, Villanova College, Ontario 0 Massillon Perry 29, Uniontown Lake 7 Massillon Tuslaw 28, Akr. Manchester 21 Massillon Washington 34, Austintown Fitch 14 Maumee 40, Holland Springfield 7 McDonald 34, Lowellville 14 Medina Highland 56, Richfield Revere 0 Mentor 56, Solon 28 Metamora Evergreen 44, Swanton 0 Miamisburg 16, Xenia 0 Middlefield Cardinal 59, Newbury 21 Middletown Fenwick 56, St. Bernard Roger Bacon 26 Milan Edison 27, Castalia Margaretta 7 Milford Center Fairbanks 40, Sidney Lehman 33 Milton-Union 61, Camden Preble Shawnee 0 Minford 64, McDermott Scioto NW 7 Mogadore 38, Garrettsville Garfield 0 Monroeville 49, Ashland Mapleton 34 Mt. Orab Western Brown 51, Batavia Clermont NE 13 N. Can. Hoover 42, Youngs.

Boardman 20 N. Lewisburg Triad 47, Mechanicsburg 7 N. Olmsted 28, Middleburg Hts. Midpark 6 N. Robinson Col. Crawford 47, Bucyrus 10 N. Royalton 42, Mayfield 35 Napoleon 34, Whitehouse Anthony Wayne 31, 2OT Navarre Fairless 23, Cuyahoga Falls CVCA 17 New Carlisle Tecumseh 24, Spring.

Shawnee 13 New Concord John Glenn 41, McConnelsville Morgan 18 New Lebanon Dixie 54, Day. Northridge 6 New Matamoras Frontier 34, Caldwell 29 New Paris National Trail 9, Tipp City Bethel 7 New Philadelphia 34, Marietta 0 Newark 16, Groveport-Madison 14 Newark Cath. 25, Newark Licking Valley 9 Northwood 59, Lakeside Danbury 0 Norwalk 54, Sandusky 13 Norwood 21, Goshen 3 Oak Harbor 27, Huron 14 Oberlin Firelands 14, LaGrange Keystone 7 Ontario 41, Lucas 20 Orange 17, Chesterland W. Geauga 0 Oxford Talawanda 27, Morrow Little Miami 6 Pataskala Licking Hts. 61, Millersport 0 Pataskala Watkins Memorial 51, Cols. Franklin Hts. 12 Pemberville Eastwood 61, Fostoria 6 Peninsula Woodridge 38, E. Can. 0 Perrysburg 45, Sylvania Northview 8 Philo 31, Thornville Sheridan 0 Pickerington Cent. 28, Grove City 7 Pickerington N. 49, Reynoldsburg 27 Plymouth 17, Greenwich S. Cent. 0 Powell Olentangy Liberty 63, Galloway Westland 7 Ravenna 15, Mogadore Field 14 Ravenna SE 44, Rootstown 7 Reading 7, Cin. Finneytown 6 Richwood N. Union 60, CardingtonLincoln 8 Rocky River 33, N. Ridgeville 16 Rossford 41, Millbury Lake 16 Salineville Southern 40, Wellsville 9 Sandusky Perkins 35, Clyde 13 Sandusky St. Mary 34, Port Clinton 26 Shadyside 14, Wheeling Central, W.Va. 0 Sherwood Fairview 40, Holgate 10 Sparta Highland 62, Morral Ridgedale 0 Spencerville 22, Bluffton 0 Ridge 30, Spring. Kenton Bellefontaine 23 Spring. NE 28, Spring. Cath. Cent. 18 Springboro 61, Fairborn 7 St. Paris Graham 44, Spring.

Greenon 14 Streetsboro 14, Norton 7 Sugarcreek Garaway 56, Magnolia Sandy Valley 20 Sunbury Big Walnut 27, Mt. Vernon 14 Sylvania Southview 28, Bowling Green 14 Thompson Ledgemont 41, Vienna Mathews 12 Tiffin Calvert 52, N. Baltimore 16 Tiffin Columbian 19, Shelby 0 Tipp City Tippecanoe 34, Riverside Stebbins 20 Tol. Bowsher 36, Tol. Scott 6 Tol. Cent. Cath. 47, Lima Sr. 7 Tol. Ottawa Hills 48, Oregon Stritch 14 Tol. Rogers 53, Tol. Woodward 0 Tol. St. Francis 24, Fremont Ross 13 Tol. St. John's 42, Oregon Clay 12 Tol. Whitmer 49, Findlay 25 Tontogany Otsego 42, Elmore Woodmore 12 Twinsburg 26, Brunswick 14 Vandalia Butler 6, Troy 0 Versailles 42, New Bremen 8 W. Chester Lakota W. 37, Cin. Oak Hills 10 W. Liberty-Salem 41, Jamestown Greeneview 6 W. Salem NW 28, Jeromesville Hillsdale 17 Wahama, W.Va. 24, Stewart Federal Hocking 6 Wapakoneta 14, St. Marys Memorial 0 Warren Harding 28, Euclid 20 Warren Howland 26, Poland Seminary 7 Warsaw River View 41, Byesville Meadowbrook 14 Wauseon 42, Montpelier 13 Waynesfield-Goshen 53, Ridgeway Ridgemont 0 Waynesville 38, Day. Oakwood 31 Wellington 7, Sullivan Black River 0 Westerville Cent. 35, Westerville N. 14 Westlake 28, Avon Lake 21 Wheelersburg 48, Waverly 26 Whitehall-Yearling 24, Hebron Lakewood 6

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Williamsburg 49, Bethel-Tate 28 Westfall 42, Williamsport Southeastern 17 Willoughby S. 41, Madison 0 Wintersville Indian Creek 27, Martins Ferry 14 Woodsfield Monroe Cent. 48, Sarahsville Shenandoah 0 Worthington Kilbourne 34, Hilliard Bradley 14 Youngs. East 19, Canfield 0 Youngs. Liberty 35, Girard 21 Youngs. Ursuline 31, Steubenville 7 Zanesville Maysville 14, Coshocton 0 Zoarville Tuscarawas Valley 34, Can. Timken 7

BASKETBALL WNBA Playoff Glance All Times EDT CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (x-if necessary) (Best-of-3) Eastern Conference Connecticut 2, New York 0 Indiana 2, Atlanta 1 Western Conference Minnesota 2, Seattle 1 Los Angeles 2, San Antonio 0 CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-3) (x-if necessary) Eastern Conference Connecticut vs. Indiana Friday, Oct. 5: Connecticut 76, Indiana 64 Monday, Oct. 8: Connecticut at Indiana, 8 p.m. x-Thursday, Oct. 11: Indiana at Connecticut, 8:30 p.m.

Western Conference Los Angeles vs. Minnesota Thursday, Oct. 4: Minnesota 94, Los Angeles 77 Sunday, Oct. 7: Minnesota at Los Angeles, 3:30 p.m. x-Wednesday, Oct. 10: Los Angeles at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

GOLF Las Vegas Scores Friday At TPC Summerlin Las Vegas Purse: $4.5 million Yardage: 7,243; Par 71 Second Round Jonas Blixt ..........................64-64—128 Brendon de Jonge .............62-66—128 Ryan Moore........................61-68—129 Tim Herron .........................63-68—131 Daniel Summerhays ..........68-63—131 Vijay Singh..........................66-66—132 John Daly ...........................69-63—132 Nick Watney........................66-66—132 Chris Kirk............................64-68—132 John Huh............................63-69—132 Scott Piercy ........................67-66—133 Justin Leonard....................64-69—133 Jimmy Walker.....................67-66—133 Russell Knox ......................66-67—133 Kevin Na .............................68-66—134 Ken Duke............................66-68—134 Andres Romero..................68-66—134 Robert Garrigus .................66-68—134 Heath Slocum ....................67-67—134 Kevin Stadler ......................66-68—134 J.J. Killeen...........................66-68—134 Richard H. Lee ...................66-68—134 Patrick Reed.......................65-69—134 Blake Adams......................65-70—135 John Mallinger....................70-65—135 Josh Teater .........................70-65—135 Davis Love III......................68-67—135 Roberto Castro ..................69-66—135 Colt Knost...........................68-67—135 Daniel Chopra ....................68-67—135 Kevin Streelman.................68-67—135 Edward Loar.......................67-68—135 David Mathis.......................68-68—136 Gary Christian....................68-68—136 John Merrick.......................69-67—136 Jeff Overton........................70-66—136 Rory Sabbatini ...................65-71—136 Bill Lunde............................67-69—136 Jhonattan Vegas ................68-68—136 Scott Brown........................69-67—136 Billy Mayfair ........................70-66—136 Nathan Green ....................68-68—136 Camilo Villegas...................70-66—136 Brendan Steele ..................69-67—136 Michael Thompson ............70-66—136 Ricky Barnes......................68-69—137 Harris English.....................71-66—137 Sean O'Hair........................67-70—137 Jason Day...........................69-68—137 Rocco Mediate...................69-68—137 Robert Karlsson.................69-68—137 Vaughn Taylor.....................65-72—137 Mathew Goggin..................68-69—137 Bobby Gates ......................70-67—137 Erik Compton .....................66-71—137 Ryan Palmer.......................67-70—137 J.B. Holmes ........................70-67—137 Jason Bohn ........................71-66—137 Stewart Cink.......................68-69—137 Bob Estes...........................69-68—137 Champions Tour-SAS Championship Scores Friday At Prestonwood Country Club Cary, N.C. Purse: $2.1 million Yardage: 7,212; Par 72 (35-37) First Round Russ Cochran ......................32-34—66 Andrew Magee.....................32-35—67 Steve Pate ............................33-34—67 Jay Don Blake ......................30-37—67 Fred Funk .............................30-37—67 Gene Sauers........................34-34—68 Allen Doyle ...........................35-33—68 Bernhard Langer..................32-36—68 Gary Hallberg.......................33-35—68 Kenny Perry..........................32-36—68 Tom Jenkins .........................33-36—69 Wayne Levi...........................32-37—69 Jeff Sluman ..........................35-34—69 Mark Wiebe ..........................35-34—69 Ted Schulz............................35-34—69 Loren Roberts ......................35-34—69 Mike Reid..............................34-35—69 Mark O'Meara ......................35-34—69 Willie Wood...........................34-35—69 Bob Niger..............................34-35—69 David Peoples ......................35-35—70 Bruce Fleisher......................32-38—70 Chien Soon Lu .....................32-38—70 Tom Purtzer..........................34-36—70 Bill Glasson...........................32-38—70 Hale Irwin..............................35-35—70 Mark McNulty .......................34-36—70 Larry Mize.............................32-38—70 Craig Stadler ........................33-37—70 Tommy Armour III ................34-37—71 Duffy Waldorf........................36-35—71 Peter Jacobsen ....................34-37—71 Bob Tway ..............................33-38—71 Michael Allen........................35-36—71 David Frost ...........................36-35—71 Mark Calcavecchia...............33-38—71 John Huston.........................35-36—71 D.A. Weibring........................35-36—71 John Harris...........................35-37—72 Jim Thorpe............................34-38—72 Mike Hulbert .........................36-36—72 Neal Lancaster.....................35-37—72 Peter Senior..........................37-35—72

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FRIDAY NIGHT ROUNDUP

Milton-Union rolls past Arrows CAMDEN — A 35-point first quarter jump started Milton-Union to a 61-0 victory over Preble Shawnee Friday night.

David karns opened the game with a four-yard TD, which was followed by an 86-yard touchdown run from Brad Stine. Later in the first quarter, London Cowan was the recipient of a 47-yard touchdown pass from David Karns. Still in the first, Tyler Brown ran for an 11-yard score, then Karns ran one in from 55 yards out to make it 35-0 after one.

Sam Niswonger ran for a 30-yard score in the second quarter, then in the third, Kenton Dickison caught a nine-yard TD pass from Josh Morgan. Capping off the Milton-Union scor-

ing was Kodey Wolf on a 37yard run and Chase Martins, who ran for a 45yard TD to close out the third.

The Bulldogs are now 61, while Preble Shawnee drops to 0-7.

Devils escape with win RIVERSIDE — Maybe

Tippecanoe was looking ahead to its tough stretch of three games to end the season.

Maybe it was the wet, muddy conditions.

One way or another, all of that wasn’t even enough to stop the Red Devils.

With the score tied at 20-20 with seven minutes to play on the road at Stebbins, Cameron Johnson broke off a 47-yard touchdown run to put the Devils up for good and Jacob Hall

tacked on a 19-yard insurance score as Tippecanoe (7-0, 2-0 Central Buckeye Conference Kenton Trail Division) held off the upsetminded Indians (2-5, 0-2) 34-20.

Johnson also had touchdowns of 8 and 63 yards earlier in the game, and Ben Hughes scored on a 5yard quarterback keeper.

third, Adam Bartle put Trail up 9-0 with a one-yard touchdown run.

With the win, National Trail improves to 6-1, 5-1 in the Cross County Conference.

Bethel falls to National Trail

The rout was on early in West Alexandria as the Cross County Conference leading Covington Buccs scored 14 in the first quarter, followed by 21 in the second en route to a 55-14 win over Twin Valley South.

Covington (7-0, 6-0 CCC) has now won 13 in a row against Twin Valley South (3-4). The last Panther’ win against the Buccs came in 1999.

Quarterback Trent Tobias gave the Buccs their

NEW PARIS — A 76yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter by Mason Kretzer wasn’t enough, as the Bethel Bees dropped to 2-5 on the season with a 97 loss to National Trail on Friday night.

Trail’s Darrin Van Dyke put the first points of the game on the board in the second with a field goal from 24 yards out. In the

Buccs pound Panthers WEST ALEXANDRIA —

first score of the game on a two-yard run. After Twin Valley South scored a TD, Covington’s A.J. Ouellette countered with back-toback touchdown runs of 80 yards, then added a 50-yard score moments later. The junior also added a kickoff return for a touchdown, as well. Following that, Troy Cron ran for a 25-yard TD — and the Buccs rolled the rest of the way.

Up next for the Buccs is National Trail, which enters the game with a 5-1 CCC record.

Canan, Bradford hammer Arcanum ARCANUM — The Bradford Railroaders coasted to a 46-13 win over Arcanum Friday night behind James Canan’s five

touchdowns.

Canan ran for 281 yards on 13 carries to help Bradford improve to 6-1, 51 in the Cross County Conference. Dallas Cassel added a touchdown reception from quarterback Brandon Wysong.

Piqua wins SIDNEY — Piqua hung on to edge Greater Western Ohio Conference North Division rival Sidney 12-3 on Friday night.

The win puts Piqua’s record at 3-4 on the season, while Sidney drops to 3-4, as well.

Piqua’s Tate Honeycutt had a 41-yard touchdown run, while Justice Young threw a TD pass to Josh Holfinger.

Piqua plays another GWOC North contest next Friday, hosting Greenville (1-6, 0-2 GWOC North).

Vikings

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Miami East’s Cole Hale brings down a Tri-County North running back during a game Friday night in Casstown.

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Troy’s Nick Zimmer goes up for a pass during a game against Butler Friday in Vandalia.

Trojans ■ CONTINUED FROM 17 penalty. We just aren’t playing very well offensively.”

How bad was it?

In addition to recording just three first downs in the entire game, Troy ran just 28 offensive plays (not counting its six punts) all night — including a mere 11 plays in the second half. Troy put up 57 yards in total offense for the game — 2 yards fewer than the Trojans were penalized for the game. Despite running so few plays, however, Troy did manage to turn the ball over four times — three times on fumbles and once on an interception — an average of one turnover every seven plays.

In the face of all that adversity, however, Troy’s defense was outstanding.

Thank in large part to Trojan turnovers and the inability to move the ball on offense, Butler started with the ball in Trojan territory five times Friday. Four of those times, Troy’s defense was able to hold the Aviator offense without a score.

Even when it made plays on defense, however, Troy still couldn’t catch a

break.

Late in the second quarter, Troy safety DeVante Bush intercepted Butler quarterback Richard Motter deep in Aviator territory and appeared to be taking the ball back for a score. He was hit from behind by Butler’s Airion Kosack on the play, however, fumbling the ball back to the Aviators and giving Butler a fresh set of downs to work with.

“We just can’t catch a break,” Brewer said. “We haven’t been able to catch a break all season.

It seems like that’s just the way it’s gone for us.”

Butler, however, could — and it ended up spelling the difference in the game.

Early in the fourth quarter, Troy had the ball on its own 18 after a Butler punt. Trojan tailback Miles Hibbler appeared to have broken off a 40-yard run, allowing the Trojans to cross midfield for just the second time all night — but that play was called back by a holding penalty. On the very next play, Trojan flanker Devin Blakely couldn’t get a grip on the handoff from Barr, allowing the ball to hit the

field at the Trojan 17, where Butler defensive lineman Cody Poling pounced on it.

Three plays later, Troy’s defense — which had been holding on all night — finally broke as Butler’s Nic Martin ran the ball from 2 yards out to put the Aviators up 60. Troy would get the ball back with a little less than eight minutes to play, promptly went backwards and punted the ball to Butler with 6:01 left to play in the game.

Butler was able to run out the clock for the win.

“Their size just wore us down,” Brewer said.

With the loss, Troy fell to 3-4, 1-1 in the Greater Western Ohio Conference North Division, while Butler improved to 4-3 (2-0). The loss all but eliminates the Trojans from playoff contention, while also putting a serious dent in its hopes for a GWOC North crown. It doesn’t get any easier for the Trojans with stateranked Trotwood coming to town this coming Friday.

“I’m still proud of our kids,” Brewer said. “They played their butts off and they never quit.”

■ CONTINUED FROM 17 even more valuable yardage — and although they did get one final chance, it was from too far away as the Panthers held on 21-17 Friday night.

But Miami East coach Max Current wasn’t about to let that be an excuse.

“It was a bad spot, sure, but when you need the length of the ball like that, you’ve got to leave no doubt that you got it,” Current said. “Your offensive front has to make no doubt, and we didn’t make no doubt.”

Freshman quarterback Braxton Donaldson — starting in place of the injured Conner Hellyer — performed well, going 7 for 16 for 85 yards, including a pair of clutch fourthdown conversions in the fourth quarter. On fourthand-3 with four minutes to play, he did a playaction rollout and confidently hit Michael Fellers for an 8-yard gain to keep the drive — and the Vikings’ hopes — alive.

“Considering the conditions, he played well,” Current said of Donaldson. “Like I told someone the other day, if I didn’t have any confidence in him, he wouldn’t be back there.”

Three plays later, though, the bad spot gave the ball back to the Panthers (4-3, 4-2 CCC), and they knocked off as much time as possible before punting it back to the Vikings, giving Miami East one final chance from its own 32 with 1:35 to play. Donaldson completed another fourthdown pass to Fellers, but on fourth-and-10 with 29 seconds to go, Donaldson connected with Colton McKinney for only seven yards, putting the final nail in the coffin.

“That was the difference in the game — they handled the adverse weather conditions better than we did,” Current said. “They capitalized on our fumbles, and we didn’t capitalize on our chances.”

And while the three lost fumbles in the second half ended up being costly, it was the one in the first half that was most directly hurtful.

With Miami East leading 14-7, Tri-County North quarterback Austin

Miami East’s Michael Fellers (13) kicks an extra point while Dalton Allen (25) holds.

Hutchins fired a bomb down the sideline, but the Vikings’ Cole Hale picked the pass off — only to have the intended receiver, Billy Derringer, rip the ball right out of his hands and trot in from 10 yards out to tie the score.

“We had an interception, and their guy stole it right from our guy,” Current said. “If we hold onto that interception, we’re still up 14-7 at the half. It was a good play by (Derringer).”

But it was also Donaldson and the Vikings’ first chance to show their ability to run the two-minute drill.

Runs of 22 and 16 yards

by Colton Holicki — who scored both of Miami East’s touchdowns, also — pushed the Vikings deep into Panther territory, and a 9-yard run by Holicki put the ball on the 5-yard line.

After Donaldson spiked the ball, Ross Snodgrass nailed a 22-yard field goal to cap off an 11-play, 67yard drive and put the Vikings up 17-14 at the break.

“We battled back and got a field goal right

before the half. We answered the bell every time they scored in the first half,” Current said.

“In the second half, we didn’t.”

Holicki was dominant in the first half, carrying the ball 14 times for 113 yards, including touchdowns of 6 and 3 yards.

The Panther defense made adjustments after halftime, though, and limited him to 44 yards on 10 attempts after the break.

The only score of the second half came with 10:14 to play when Hutchins hit Derringer for a 19-yard touchdown to make it 21-17, capping off a stretch where the Panthers ran 13 offensive plays to one — a snap that was fumbled away — by Miami East.

All told, the Vikings outgained the Panthers 305-185 in total offense — 114-68 in the second half.

They just couldn’t overcome their mistakes — and one bad spot.

And things don’t get easier for the Vikings, either. They remain at home in Week 8, hosting 6-1 Bradford on homecoming night.