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Shoppers scuffle across U.S. Black Friday crowds fight over bargains NEW YORK (AP) — A shopper in Los Angeles peppersprayed her competition for an Xbox and scuffles broke out elsewhere around the U.S. as bargainhunters crowded malls and megastores in an earlier-than-usual start to the madness known as Black Friday, the day that marks

the start of holiday shopping. For the first time, chains such as Target, Best Buy and Kohl’s opened their doors at midnight on the most anticipated shopping day of the year. Toys R Us opened for the second straight year on Thanksgiving itself, the traditional harvest holiday. And some

shoppers arrived with sharp elbows. In Michigan, a teenage girl was knocked down and stepped on several times after getting caught in the rush to a sale in the electronics department at a Walmart. She suffered minor injuries.

On Thanksgiving night, a Walmart in Los Angeles brought out a crate of discounted Xboxes, and as a crowd waited for the video game players to be unwrapped, a woman fired pepper spray at the other shoppers “in order to get an advantage,” police said. Ten people suffered cuts and

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Pain, progress and triumph Blood, sweat and tears are what many classify as simple signs of a tough physical challenge. That was not the case as we crossed the finish line of the Tough Mudder in Attica, Ind. We had no sweat, just drops of freezing cold water, no tears, and little blood, but we had lots of mud. Coming Sunday in

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Santa greets the crowd attending the Grand Illumination festivities in downtown Troy Friday evening. The night began with a parade, followed by the arrival of Santa and Mrs. Claus. Mayor Michael Beamish did his traditional reading of “T’was the Month before Christmas,” before leading the countdown to the lighting of the tree and holiday lights around the downtown area.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the White House. Michelle Obama continued a decades-old tradition the day after Thanksgiving as she, daughters Malia and Sasha, and Bo, the family dog, witnessed the arrival of an 18-and-a-half-foot balsam fir tree from Wisconsin.

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First of three U.S. students leaves Egypt

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ABOVE: Members of Lamp Post 4, from left, Ken Crawford, Ron Ventura, Paul Webb and Don Zerkle, perform during Friday’s festivities. LEFT: Kenney Ward, 4, of Troy, hugs SpongeBob SquarePants, one of several costumed characters that roamed through the crowd at Friday’s Grand Illumination.

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The victim of a plane crash Wednesday night near West Milton has been identified as the pilot, Clovis Dawson, 70, Marion County, Ohio, according to the Miami County Sheriff ’s Office. Mr. Dawson was pronounced dead at the scene and was transported by the Miami County Coroner’s Office to the Miami Valley Regional Crime Lab for an autopsy, reports said. The Beechcraft 23 registered out of the Columbus area went down in a field of corn stubble at about 8:45 p.m. Wednesday, 1/2 mile south of Emerick Road and 1/3 mile east of Rangeline Road, according to reports. The wreckage was found after about 40 minutes by the West Milton and Laura fire departments.

CAIRO (AP) — A Cairo airport official says the first of three American students arrested during a protest in Cairo has left Egypt. Luke Gates, 21, left Cairo early this morning on a flight to Frankfurt, Germany. An Egyptian court ordered the release of Gates, along with Derrik Sweeney and Gregory Porter, both 19, on Thursday. All were studying at the American University in Cairo.

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Daily admission rates at the Troy Aquatic Park will remain the same in 2012 as they were in 2011, Complete weather but the price for season passes will information on Page 11. rise slightly, according to a new fee Home Delivery: schedule approved last week by the 335-5634 Troy Recreation Board. The board agreed to raise the Classified Advertising: cost of a family season pass by (877) 844-8385 $10 — from $200 to $210 — and an adult season pass by $5, from $110 to $115. A student season pass increases from $86 to $90 6 74825 22406 6 and a senior citizen pass rises $5,

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passes: • A Holiday Promotion, from Dec. 5-31, which offers $25 off any season membership; • An Early Bird Promotion, from Jan. 1-May 11, 2012, which offers $15 off any season membership. The full season pass rate is in effect after May 12, 2012. The Troy Aquatic Park opens on Memorial Day weekend 2012. For more information, call the city recreation department at 3355171, or access the website at www.troyohio.gov.

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BUSINESS ROUNDUP • The Troy Elevator Markets were closed Friday. You can find more information online at www.troyelevator.com. • Stocks of local interest Values reflect closing prices from Friday. 8.95 +0.07 AA CAG 23.95 +0.09 CSCO 17.50 +0.09 DPL 30.19 +0.02 EMR 47.11 +0.05 F 9.75 -0.08 FITB 10.97 +0.03 FLS 90.10 +0.36 GM 20.34 +0.10 GR 122.50 -0.05 ITW 42.58 +0.08 JCP 29.61 -0.26 KMB 68.69 +0.17 KO 64.74 -0.13 KR 22.16 +0.34 LLTC 28.39 -0.21 MCD 92.10 +0.23 MSFG 7.66 -0.20 PEP 62.49 +0.09 PMI 0.31 0.00 SYX 12.77 -0.36 TUP 53.10 -0.39 USB 24.03 +0.24 VZ 35.35 0.00 WEN 4.87 -0.02 WMT 56.89 +0.25 • Wall Street The Dow industrial average fell 236.17 points, or 2.1 percent, to close at 11,257.55.The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 26.25, or 2.2 percent, to 1,161.79. The Nasdaq fell 61.20, or 2.4 percent, to 2,460.08. — Staff and wire reports

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Black Friday • Continued from 1 bruises in the chaos, and 10 others had minor injuries from the spray, authorities said. The woman got away in the confusion, and it was not immediately clear whether she got an Xbox. Protests were held Friday in places like Chicago and Washington to get people to reconsider shopping at national chains on what is known as Black Friday, so called because of the accounting practice of recording losses in red and profits in black. Protesters say the shops’ earlier opening hours have ruined the Thanksgiving holiday, which is meant to bring families together. On Friday morning, police said, two women were injured and a man was charged after a fight broke out at an upstate New York

Walmart. And a man was arrested in a scuffle at a jewelry counter at a Walmart in Kissimmee, Florida. Walmart, the nation’s biggest retailer, has taken steps in recent years to control its Black Friday crowds following the 2008 death of one of its workers in a stampede of shoppers. This year, it staggered its door-buster deals instead of offering them all at once. Walmart spokesman Greg Rossiter said Black Friday was safe at most of its nearly 4,000 U.S., but there were “a few unfortunate incidents.” The incidents were attributed to two converging Black Friday trends: Crowds are getting bigger as stores open earlier and stay open later. At the same time, cash-strapped shoppers are competing for deals

Students • Continued from 1 The three were arrested on the roof of a university building near Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square on Sunday. Officials accused them of throwing firebombs at security forces fighting with protesters. The other two are expected to leave on separate flights later Saturday morning, the airport official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters. Attorney Theodore Simon, who represents the 19-year-old Porter, a student at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said police escorted the students to the airport late Friday local time. Simon said he and Porter’s mother both spoke by phone with the student, is from the who Philadelphia suburb of Glenside.

“He clearly conveyed to me … that he was OK,” Simon told the AP. Joy Sweeney told the AP her son, a 19-year-old Georgetown University student from Jefferson City, Missouri, would fly from Frankfurt to Washington, then on to St. Louis. She said family will meet him when he arrives late Saturday. “I am ecstatic,” Sweeney said Friday. “I can’t wait for him to get home tomorrow night. I can’t believe he’s actually going to get on a plane. It is so wonderful.” The 21-year-old Gates is a student at Indiana University. Sweeney said she had talked with her son Friday afternoon and “he seemed jubilant.” “He thought he was going to be able to go back to his dorm room and get his stuff,” she said. “We said, ‘No, no, don’t get your stuff, we just want you here.’”

on a small number of gifts that everybody wants — tablet computers, TVs and game consoles like Xbox, Nintendo 3S and Wii. That’s a shift from years past, when there was a wider range of must-have items. “The more the people, the more the occurrences,” said Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst with market research firm The NPD Group. A record number of shoppers were expected to head out to stores across the U.S. this weekend to take advantage of discounts of up to 70 percent. For three days starting on Black Friday, 152 million people are expected to shop, up about 10 percent from last year, according to the National Retail Federation. Thanksgiving weekend is huge for retailers, particu-

larly Black Friday, so called because of the accounting practice of recording losses in red and profits in black. Over the past six years, Black Friday was the biggest sales day of the year, and it is expected to keep that crown this year, though shoppers seem to be procrastinating more every year, and the fate of the holiday season is increasingly coming down to the last few days. Last year, the Thanksgiving shopping weekend accounted for 12.1 percent of overall holiday revenue, according to ShopperTrak, a research firm. Black Friday made up about half of that. ShopperTrak is expected to release sales data on Saturday on how Black Friday fared, but a better picture will emerge when major retailers report their

November sales figures next Thursday. In addition to opening earlier than usual this year, some stores offered to match their competitors’ prices, rolled out layaway programs or offered more doorbuster deals than last year. Emmanuel Merced and his brother showed up at a Best Buy in New York at 3 p.m. local time on Wednesday so they could be the first in line when it opened at midnight Thursday to grab a Sharp 42-inch TV for $199.99, a PlayStation 3 with games for $199.99 and wireless headphones for $30. Merced said he likes camping out for Black Friday and figured he saved 50 percent. “I like the experience of it,” said Merced, who plans to spend $3,000 to $4,000 on gifts this season.

Egypt’s military under pressure from protests, U.S. government CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. increased pressure Friday on Egypt’s military rulers to hand over power to civilian leaders, and the generals turned to a Mubarakera politician to head a new government in a move that failed to satisfy the more than 100,000 protesters who jammed Tahrir Square in the biggest rally yet this week. The demonstrators rejected the appointment of Kamal el-Ganzouri as prime minister, breaking into chants of “Illegitimate! Illegitimate!” and setting up a showdown between the two sides only three days before key parliamentary elections. The size of the rally and the resilience of protesters in the face of the violence used by security forces in this week’s deadly street

battles have won back for the movement much of the strength it projected during the 18-day uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak in February. Showing the sort of resolve from the earliest days of the Arab Spring, the protesters say they will not leave the iconic square until the military rulers led by Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi step down and a civilian presidential council is formed to run the country until a new leader is elected. “They stole our January revolution because we did not agree on who should represent us,” said activist Sedeeqah Abu Seadah. “We shouted ‘erhal’ (leave) but did not shout the name of the person we want.” The military’s appointment of el-Ganzouri, its

apology for the death of protesters and a series of partial concessions in the past two days suggest that the generals are struggling to overcome the most serious challenge to their ninemonth rule, with fewer options now available to them. Significantly adding to their predicament, the Obama administration brought its position on the crisis in Egypt closer to the protesters’ demands, urging the military to fully empower the next interim civilian government. “We believe that Egypt’s transition to democracy must continue, with elections proceeding expeditiously, and all necessary measures taken to ensure security and prevent intimidation,” the White House said in a statement.

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be investigating. According to the report, information shows that Mr. Dawson left the Phillipsburg Airport earlier in the evening and was reportedly returning to the Columbus area. Anyone with information related to the crash is asked to call the Miami County Sheriff’s Office at 440-6085 or 9-1-1.

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• STEAK FRY: The Pleasant Hill VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Community Road, Ludlow Falls, will TUESDAY Calendar offer a T-bone steak dinner with salad, baked potato and a roll for $11 from 5-8 • QUARTER AUCTION: CONTACT US p.m. Mrs. Claus’ Quarter • BREAKFAST WITH Auction, sponsored by Troy SANTA: Children of all Main Street and Family Call Melody ages are invited to have Connection of Miami breakfast with Santa from County, will begin at 6:30 Vallieu at 9-10 a.m. at First United p.m. at Riverside of Miami 440-5265 to Church of Christ, 120 S. County, 1625 N. Troylist your free Market St., Troy. The Sidney Road, Troy. Doors calendar breakfast will be pancakes will open at 5:45 p.m. and items.You and sausage, cereal and concessions will open at 6 juice, milk, hot chocolate p.m., and will benefit can send and coffee. Enter at the Special Olympics. your news by e-mail to Canal Street entrance. For • RETIREES TO MEET: vallieu@tdnpublishing.com. more information, call the The BFGoodrich Retirees church office at 339-5871. will meet at 8 a.m. at • BENEFIT DINNER: A Lincoln Square, Troy. benefit dinner, baked goods and raffle will be from 5-6:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY at the AMVETS Post No. 39, Lakeview. The dinner will include chicken and noo• STORY TIME: Story time for children dles, green beans and rolls. Proceeds will 3-5 years old, which will include a puppet benefit Tina Reigelsperger, 54, a Troy play and simple craft, will be at 10:30 native, who is battling small cell carinoma a.m. at the Milton-Union Public Library, cancer. Donations also may be made in 560 S. Main St., West Milton. The theme care of Vicki Kindle, 4470 County Road will be “Apples.” 39, Lakeview, OH 43324, or by calling • KIWANIS MEETING: The Kiwanis (419) 234-8080. Club of Troy will meet from noon to 1 p.m. • MUSEUM OPEN: The Museum of at the Troy Country Club, 1830 Peters Troy History, 124 E. Water St., Troy, will Road, Troy. Lunch is $10. Lisa Timmeran celebrate the Christmas season by being with the American Egg Board will speak. open from 1-5 p.m. Volunteers will assist For more information, contact Kim Riber, visitors of all ages in making holiday deco- vice president, at (937) 974-0410. rations for the home and tree as they • PERI MEETING: Reservations are were made in Victorian times. The proneeded by today for the Miami County gram is free, although donations to cover chapter of Ohio Public Employee Retirees materials costs will be accepted. meeting, which will be at 11:30 a.m. Dec. • CHICKEN FRY: A chicken fry will be 7 at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 248 offered from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Troy Wood St., Piqua. Lunch will be $10, Eagles No. 971, 225 N. Elm St., Troy. The payable at the door. Call Beth at 335meal will include a four-piece fried chicken 2771. The speaker will be Jason Davis, dinner with fries, roll and coleslaw for $6. health care education representative, • CANDLE DIPPING: Aullwood from the OPERS office. Any area public Audubon Center, 1000 Aullwood Road, employee or public employee retiree is Dayton, will offer red and blue candle dip- invited to attend. ping beginning at 2:30 p.m. The cost is • FINANCIAL AID: Newton High the general admission fee of $4 for adults School will host a financial aid night for and $2 per child, plus $1 for each candle juniors and seniors with their parents at 7 made. Call 890-7360 for reservations. p.m. in the library/media center. The • ART FAIR: Aullwood’s holiday art fair speaker will be Logan Billing from Edison and open house will be from 9 a.m. to 5 Community College. p.m. at the Marie S. Aull Education • BLOOD DRIVE: A blood drive will be Center. Original works of art will be availoffered from noon to 6 p.m. at First able for purchase for artists and craftsPresbyterian Church, 20 S. Walnut St., men. Children will be able to make a treat Troy. Make an appointment at for the wild birds or a recycled ornament www.DonorTime.com. to take home. Candle dipping sessions • CLASS MEETING: The Troy High will be at 1:30 and 3 p.m. for $1 per canSchool Class of 1977 Reunion Committee dle. Admission is free. will have its next planning meeting at 7

SUNDAY • BREAKFAST OFFERED: The Pleasant Hill VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, Ludlow Falls, will offer a made-to-order breakfast from 8-11 a.m. All items are a la carte. • FAMILY QUEST DAY: The Miami County Park District will have its monthly Family Quest Day “Rock Hounds Fun with Fossils” program between 1-4 p.m. at Charleston Falls Preserve, 2535 Ross Road, south of Tipp City. This series of fun, family activities in the park is designed for busy families; drop in anytime between 1-4 p.m. at your convenience. A roving naturalist will be on-site. Participants can investigate real fossils and all different kinds of strange rocks. There are enough rocks for everyone. Meet at the falls. For more information, visit the park district’s website at www.miamicountyparks.com. • MUSEUM OPEN: The Museum of Troy History, 124 E. Water St., Troy, will celebrate the Christmas season by being open from 1-5 p.m. Deb Fitzpatrick and Karen Purke will teach a class in ornament making from simple materials, both traditional and contemporary. The program is free, although donations to cover materials costs will be accepted. • CANDLE DIPPING: Aullwood Audubon Center, 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton, will offer red and blue candle dipping beginning at 2:30 p.m. The cost is the general admission fee of $4 for adults and $2 per child, plus $1 for each candle made. Call 890-7360 for reservations.

MONDAY • MOVIE NIGHT: Students in kindergarten through fifth grade and their families can come to the Troy-Miami County Public Library at 6:30 p.m. for a family holiday movie. Refreshments will be provided. To register, call 339-0502. Civic agendas • Tipp City Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. at the board office, 90 S. Tippecanoe Drive. Call 667-8444 for more information. • Covington Village Council will meet at 7 p.m. at Town Hall. • The Covington Street Committee will meet immediately following the regular council meeting. • Brown Township Board of Trustees will meet at 8 p.m. in the Township Building in Conover. • The Union Township Trustees will

p.m. at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center, 301 W. Main St., Troy. Any class member may attend. To receive more information, contact the committee via email at troyclassof1977@woh.rr.com or contact Terri Boehringer at 335-7867 for more information.

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Area man will speak about experiences in Middle East Rick Polhamus, a member of On Earth Peace and Christian Peacemaker Teams, will speak at 6 p.m. Dec. 4 at the Potsdam Church of the Brethren. Fellowship and refreshments will begin at 5 p.m. Polhamus, also a member of the Pleasant Hill Church of the Brethren, has lived and worked in the Middle East — mostly in Palestine, Israel and Iraq — for the last 11 years. Polhamus has been working with conflict resolution, violence reduction, negotia-

POTSDAM tion and reconciliation. He has faced soldiers’ guns and seen violence against civilians, including children walking to school. The presentation will include photos of the 20-foot wall being built around Bethlehem by Israel. When in Miami County, Polhamus speaks at conferences, universities, churches, synagogues and mosques about his experiences with CPT and on sub-

jects such as Theology on Nonviolence and Peacemaking, Living in a Global Community, Humor in Peacemaking and related subjects. He also has trained and raced harness horses and served in rehabilitation in a traumatic brain injury unit. He has participated in many disaster response and Habitat for Humanity projects. The church is handicapped accessible. For more information, call Don Evans at 676-2027.

Biden’s 2012 targets: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida WASHINGTON (AP) — A year from Election Day, Democrats are crafting a campaign strategy for Vice President Joe Biden that targets the big three political battlegrounds: Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida, states where Biden might be more of an asset to President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign than the president himself. The Biden plan underscores an uncomfortable reality for the Obama team. A shaky economy and sagging enthusiasm among Democrats could shrink the electoral map for Obama in 2012, forcing his campaign to depend on carrying the 67 electoral votes up for grabs in the three swing states. Obama won all three states in 2008. But this time he faces challenges in each, particularly in Ohio and Florida, where voters elected Republican governors in the 2010 midterm elections. The president sometimes struggles to connect with Ohio and Pennsylvania’s white working-class voters, and Jewish voters who make up a core constituency for Florida Democrats and view him with skepticism. Biden has built deep ties to both groups during his four decades in national politics, connections that could make a difference. As a long-serving member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden cemented his reputation as an unyielding supporter of Israel, winning the respect of many in the Jewish community. And Biden’s upbringing in a working class, Catholic family from Scranton, Pa., gives him a valuable political intangible: He empathizes with the struggles of blue-collar Americans because his family lived those struggles. “Talking to blue-collar voters is perhaps his greatest attribute,” said Dan

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End to debt gridlock is not in sight WASHINGTON (AP) — The supercommittee’s failure reflects the nation’s divide: Americans crave both the Republicans’ demand for low taxes and the Democrats’ insistence on protecting social programs. So far, no group or leader has persuaded them they can’t have both and there’s no quick solution in sight. It’s possible the stalemate won’t be broken by the time of the 2012 elections, nearly a year away. Some GOP strategists think Republicans can oust President Barack Obama and win control of both chambers of Congress. That would enable them to enact much of their agenda, and Americans could render a judgment on its results. Or, perhaps, Democrats will score big victories that will force Republicans to yield some ground. The bipartisan supercommittee’s collapse stems from an all-toofamiliar reality of modern politics. Republican lawmakers respond to activists who overwhelmingly oppose higher taxes. And Democrats answer to activists who will tolerate no nicks in Medicare, Social Security and other programs without steeper taxes on the wealthy. The same differences pushed the nation to the brink of default last summer, prompting the first-ever downgrade of the government’s creditworthiness. Yet no leader or group has convinced enough Americans that everyone must accept some pain to bring taxes and government services more closely in line. So the federal debt hit $15 trillion last week. And the government suffered another embarrassment Monday, immediately spooking U.S. markets and possibly unsettling foreign markets in the days ahead. Nineteenth Century Americans venerated Henry Clay as “the Great Compromiser” for helping resolve knotty national problems. Today, that title would almost surely be hurled as an insult, especially at a rally or caucus to nominate someone for Congress. The supercommittee’s six Democrats and six Republicans knew they would be criticized for failing to reach an accord. But they saw a worse fate in straying too far from their respective parties’ uncompromising stands on taxes and social programs. Many veteran politicians expect more versions of recent elections, which were heavily influenced by partisan activists who put a scare into lawmakers threatening to veer from party orthodoxy. “Compromise is not where the incentives are in the political process right now,” said former Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia, who once headed the GOP’s House campaign committee. Because so many House districts are solidly Republican or solidly Democratic, he said, “members are judged by what their primary electorate thinks of them.” Eventually, Davis said, repeated failures to tame the deficit might inflict so much pain on Americans — possibly through a severe recession or even depression — that today’s primary-dominated voting patterns will change. Some lawmakers doubtlessly see this coming, Davis said. “But the incentives in the system do not reward you for being ahead of the curve.”

EDITORIAL ROUNDUP From The Albany (N/Y.) Times Union on the congressional supercommittee: We can’t say we’re surprised by the failure of Congress’ socalled supercommittee to come up with at least $1.2 trillion in deficit reductions. But we are disappointed. There is no joy in having Congress live down to our expectations yet again. Heartbreaking as that lack of confidence in our own government may be, is it any wonder? For the past year, Washington has been all but paralyzed by an unyielding aversion among Republicans to tax increases, even on the wealthiest Americans, and by their unrelenting determination to oppose President Barack Obama at every turn in order to win back the White House, if not all of Congress, in 2012. We don’t say that to be partisan. We say it because those are the facts and the Republicans’ stated positions. Coupled with Democrats’ failure to negotiate through this

intransigence if, indeed, that were even possible the result has been an unending political campaign. And when the campaign never ends, governing has little hope of getting done … The failure of the supercommittee should leave us more than disappointed. It should leave us worried, gravely worried, that our political system has done little more than mark time, unable to handle the serious issues facing our nation today. From the Chicago SunTimes on deporting illegal immigrants: When gridlock keeps you from moving forward, be careful not to slip back. The Obama administration acknowledged that reality recently when officials began training immigration agents in a new policy to stop deporting as many illegal immigrants who have no criminal records. The philosophy behind President Barack Obama’s earli-

er ramping up of deportations was to demonstrate that current laws are being enforced, creating a climate leading to reform of immigration laws. The administration has deported nearly 400,000 people each year for the past three years. But have you heard about much progress on comprehensive immigration reform in Washington? Neither have we. Congress hasn’t even been able to pass the Dream Act, which would give legal status to young people who have lived in the country for years if they join the military or go to college. So why are we tearing apart families to deport individuals who have broken no laws other than the immigration regulations themselves? Why are thousands of people being held in prisonlike conditions, awaiting deportation hearings in a system that has a backlog of 300,000 cases? Why not devise a system that encourages legal instead of illegal immigration? …

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The makings of a really great Thanksgiving Last year was a pretty momentous Thanksgiving for us; in fact, every holiday following May 10, 2010, was pretty much the biggest and greatest one we’d had. Because we were first-time parents. There was a renewed joy in slaving over a stove all day for some dried out Tofurky roast (I’m just being sentimental here, we haven’t had a Tofurky roast since our first holiday together five years ago and trust me, we learned our lesson) and pumpkin pie. We had a little one to share the day with, which meant making our holiday favorites into mashed and pureed blends for our daughter to enjoy. This year, Thanksgiving with a child was old hat. Considering the fact we have already been there, done that and Pearyn didn’t need any special baby-sized versions of our favorite holiday treats, it very easily could have fallen short on the holiday awesomeness scale. Luckily though, we faced another significant first-time holiday: Thanksgiving with three little ones. No, dear readers, I didn’t reproduce twins overnight, my brother, sister-in-law, niece and nephew joined us for Thanksgiving this

Amanda Stewart Troy Daily News Columnist year and with six adults, three little ones and three Great Danes under my parent’s roof it was busy, to say the least. Thankfully my brother and his family are regular eaters. They don’t follow some silly vegan (who does that?) lifestyle, don’t have any dietary restrictions and aren’t very picky. Well, except for my nephew Eli, we’re convinced he lives off of a liquid diet of milk, Gatorade and not-so-good intentions. So when it came time to cook this year, my mother tackled dinner for the meat-eating posse, while I provided for our vegan family of three. (Everyone enjoyed the pumpkin cheesecake bars though, even if they were dairy, egg and cruelty free). Thanksgiving always makes me feel guilty. I admit that fol-

lowing the vegan lifestyle sometimes makes it easier for me to focus on the well-being of animals and lose sight of other human beings suffering in the world, but the gluttony of Thanksgiving always brings me back to reality. Seeing the copious amount of food that six adults and three mini humans have readily available to them reminds you just how lucky we are. There was turkey and seitan roast, turkey and vegan cinnamon stock gravy, ham salad, regular and vegan corn bread stuffing, mashed sweet and white potatoes, broccoli and vegan green bean casserole, deviled eggs, salad, crescent rolls, pumpkin and pecan pies, vegan pumpkin cheesecake bars and cookies. We have more leftovers than we know what to do with. And to think, we have the money and supplies readily available to eat like this every day if we wanted, while some don’t even have the bare necessities. We had a lot to be thankful for this year. Watching the kids watching us made me realize something else. These little eyes really are taking in every move we make. So

next year, when Pearyn’s little eyes are really, really watching us, it will be time to instill some of the “giving nature” into her. While I’m not sure what we can do to instill the thoughtfulness we need our future generation of children to have, you can be sure I’m going to do everything I can to try. And it’s going to be an even more crucial time to set the precedent for what Thanksgiving is really all about. So what if my pumpkin bars were slightly gooey in the middle, does that mean the whole day is ruined and I should pout? Probably not, because I’m just teaching all those little eyes to do the same, to throw a fit and stomp their feet when they don’t get their way. Three children have a way of teaching adults things they don’t realize they need to learn. Like exactly how much those little eyes are soaking everything in and exactly what I want them to learn from me. What did your children learn from you? Amanda Stewart appears Saturday in The Troy Daily News. She hopes you had a fabulous, family-filled holiday as well.

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It’s beginning to look like Christmas Tree arrives Friday at the White House WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the White House. Michelle Obama continued a decades-old tradition the day after Thanksgiving as she, daughters Malia and Sasha, and Bo, the family dog, witnessed the arrival of an 18-and-a-half-foot balsam fir tree from Wisconsin, hauled up the driveway by horse-drawn wagon and delivered to their doorstep Friday. The Obamas walked around the carriage and inspected the tree before giv-

ing it a thumbs-up. But that was merely a formality; White House staffers traveled to Wisconsin last month and picked out that tree. The fir is headed for the oval-shaped Blue Room, where it will become the centerpiece of the White House Christmas decorations. It will be decorated to honor Blue Star families, those with a loved one who has served or currently is serving in the armed forces. The tree came from Schroeder’s Forevergreens near Neshkoro, Wis., owned by Tom and Sue Schroeder. It’s the first time one of their trees has made it to the AP PHOTO/J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE White House. The couple First Lady Michelle Obama watches as the White House Christmas tree arrives at earned the honor after winthe North Portico Friday, in Washington. The 19-foot-tall balsam fir is from a farm ning a national contest on near Neshkoro, Wisc. their fourth try sponsored by

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at the village bakery. Relax and enjoy the hospitality of a village couple in their home, then follow the TROY — Children of all shepherds to the stable ages are invited to have where you can speak with breakfast with Santa from Mary and Joseph as they 9-10 a.m. today at First welcome a newborn son. United Church of Christ, Participants will be 120 S. Market St., Troy. able to take home samples The breakfast will be of their visit and have a pancakes and sausage, family picture taken as a cereal and juice, milk, hot keepsake of the event. chocolate and coffee. Enter Contact the church at 233at the Canal Street 5518 for more details or entrance. visit the website at cotc.us. For more information, call the church office at Cantata planned 339-5871.

Poinsettia sale set PLEASANT HILL — The Astrobuds Garden Club will be offering 6inch potted poinsettias from Andy’s Garden for its annual Christmas sale. Each plant will be $8 and comes wrapped in foil. Poinsettias will be for sale from 8-11 a.m. Dec. 2 at the United Church of Christ, 10 W. Monument St., Pleasant Hill. To order poinsettia coupons, call (937) 4486294.

Homemade treats for sale TROY — Homemade holiday cookies and candy will be sold by the pound at the Christmas Cookie Shoppe from 9 a.m. to noon at First Place Christian Center, 16 W. Franklin St., Troy, sponsored by the United Methodist Women. The proceeds will be given to local charities. For more information, call First United Methodist Church at 335-2826.

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TIPP CITY — Ginghamsburg Church will hold its fifth annual Sudan Christmas bazaar from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 4 on the main campus in The Avenue, 6759 S. County Road 25-A. Children in the ministry have used their talents and passions to create all bazaar items to raise money for the Sudan Project, the church’s global effort to aid the war-torn country of Sudan. for Dec. 4 In addition, there will WEST MILTON — A be a silent auction area, Christmas concert, activities for children with “Christmas Joy,” presented face painting and games by the choirs of Good and entertainment, includShepherd Lutheran ing live child musicians Church, will be at 7 p.m. performing. Dec. 4, under the direction For more information, of Marsha Fischbach. The call (937) 667-1069, Ext. accompanist for the canta- 277 or esharp@ginghamsta is Betty Lou Johansen, burg.org. For more inforand Louise Adams will mation about the Sudan play the violin. Project, visit www.gingThe church is at 1209 S. hamsburg.org. Miami St., West Milton. This is a free concert Musical dinner for the community. For more information, theater upcoming call the church office at TIPP CITY — Tipp City (937) 698-5826. United Methodist Church will present a free Share-A-Meal Christmas musical dinner theater Dec. 10-11. upcoming Saturday will offer a TROY — The First family luncheon at noon United Church of Christ’s with the performance Share-A-Meal will be starting at 1 p.m. offered from 11:30 a.m. to The menu has been 12:30 p.m. Dec. 3 at the designed for both children church, corner of South and adults. The Saturday Market and Canal streets. evening event will start The meal will feature with a traditional pork loin, mashed potatoes Christmas dinner at 5 and gravy, corn, pie and p.m., followed by the musibeverages. cal at 6:15 p.m. Sunday Share-A-Meal is a prowill offer a performance at gram to reach out to the 3 p.m. with a reception folcommunity by providing lowing. nourishing meals to anyTickets are free, but are one wishing to participate required and can be while giving an opportunireserved by calling or ty to socialize with others emailing Jean and Bruce in the community. The Calladine at 667-8506 or monthly Share-A-Meal at jeancalladine@ Program is on the first gmail.com. Tickets can be Saturday of each month. picked up at will call in Use the Canal Street the gathering area prior to entrance where the the performances. Meals church is handicapped and performances will be accessible. in the great hall of Tipp City United Methodist Live nativity to Church, 8 W. Main St., Tipp City. be offered

WILLIAM L. ‘BILL’ BYNUM PIQUA — William L. “Bill” Bynum, 70, of Piqua, died at 3:27 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011, at his residence. He was born in Sidney on May 1, 1941, to the late Albert and Goldie (Hook) Bynum. On June 15, 1963, in Sidney, he married Grace M. Martin. She preceded him in death on Jan. 18, 2010. Bill is survived by one daughter and son-in-law, Shelley and James Cohee of Russia; one son and daughter-in-law, Brad and Chrissy Bynum of Piqua; two sisters, Helen Johnston of Troy and Betty Carr of Fletcher; one brother, Robert Bynum, Panama; and six grandchildren: Haley, Hannah and Hunter Cohee, all of Russia, Ohio, and Shelby, Ben and Sarah Bynum, all of Piqua.

MURRELLS INLET, S.C. — Joanne Reed, 80, of Murrells Inlett, S.C., died Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011, at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center. Born in Troy, she was a daughter of the late William and Mary Helen Ransom. Mrs. Reed was a member of St. Michael Catholic Church and a former member of St. Mary Catholic Church in Piqua. She was preceded in death by a son, Michael Reed; and brothers, Richard, William and Robert Ransom. Survivors include her husband, Donald G. Reed of Murrells Inlet; daughter, M. Patricia DePace of New Jersey; son, David J. Reed and his wife

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Gerri Anne of Colorado and daughter, Linda A. Wansbrough and her husband James of Toronto, Canada; and grandchildren, Mitch and Brett DePace of New Jersey, Jackson Reed of Colorado and Kristen and Kory Wansbrough of Toronto, Canada. A memorial service will be at St. Michael Catholic Church. Sign a guestbook at www.goldfinch funeralhome.com/obituaries. Memorial donations may be made to St. Michael Catholic Church Building Fund, 542 Cypress Ave., Murrells Inlet, SC 29576. Goldfinch Funeral Home, Beach Chapel, Murrells Inlet, is in charge of the arrangements.

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er airports. That adds time and stress to travel. St. Cloud lost air service at the end of 2009 after Delta eliminated flights on 34seat turboprops. Now, passengers from the city of 66,000 have a 90-minute drive to the Minneapolis airport 65 miles to the southeast. Roger Geraets, who works for an online education company based near St. Cloud., flies at least twice a month from Minneapolis. He used to connect from St. Cloud. Now he drives, leaving an extra half hour for bad traffic. There are other headaches. Parking at St. Cloud was free, but in Minneapolis it costs $14 per day. And getting through airport security in Minneapolis takes longer. Another city without service is Oxnard, 60 miles northwest of Los Angeles, which lost three daily turboprop flights operated on behalf of United. The airport’s website advises travelers to catch a bus to Los Angeles International Airport. Atilla Taluy, a tax preparer who lives in Oxnard, ends up driving or taking the shuttle to Los Angeles. “In morning traffic, it becomes quite a burdensome trip,” he says. Pierre, S.D., will lose Delta flights to Minneapolis in midJanuary. Pierre officials

are waiting to find out whether those flights will be replaced or whether the city will be left with only Great Lakes Airlines flights to Denver. The Denver flights add almost 600 miles in the wrong direction for people who want to fly from South Dakota’s capital to Washington, D.C. “I don’t know if they really care about (passengers) in the small markets,” says Rick Steece, a consultant for the Centers for Disease Control who travels overseas from Pierre two to three times a year. In the late 1990s, when jet fuel cost one-fourth of today’s prices, the small jets and turboprops were a profitable way for airlines to connect people in small cities to the rest in the world. The flights attracted business travelers who tended to pay more for tickets. Airlines loved the planes. Bombardier and Embraer sold more than 1,900 50-seat jets during the late 1990s and early 2000s. “We all got carried away with it,” says Glen W. Hauenstein, Delta’s executive vice president for network planning, revenue management and marketing. Then jet fuel prices soared. They’re at $3.16 per gallon today, up from 78 cents in 2000. That’s changed the economics of small planes.

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SERVICES p.m. youth service; Wed. — 7 p.m. Bible study, 7 p.m. youth service. TROY FIRST CHURCH OF GOD 924 Troy-Urbana Road Pastor Michael Calhoun Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship; Wed. — 7 p.m. midweek service. TROY VIEW CHURCH OF GOD 1770 N. County Road 25-A, Troy Sun. — 9:15 a.m. Sunday school, 10:15 a.m. worship; Wed. — 7 p.m. prayer, Bible study.

GETHSEMANE FELLOWSHIP BRETHREN IN CHRIST Corner Rts. 40 & 201, Brandt Pastor Dale McCabe Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship service, 6:30 p.m. services; Wed. — 6:30 p.m. service. GOOD SHEPHERD CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN 7240 S. Peters Road Phone 667-3476 Pastor Daniel Fullen Sun. — 10:30 a.m. worship. HIGHLAND BRETHREN IN CHRIST 7210 S. Jay Road, West Milton (937) 698-3300 Pastor Todd Hammond Sun. —10 a.m. worship and children’s programs. PIQUA CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN 525 Boal Ave., Piqua Phone: 773-6342 Pastor Larry Lutz Parsonage phone: 773-0404 Sun. — 9:25 a.m. Sunday worship, 10:45 a.m. Sunday school, Bible study, men’s fellowship, women’s fellowship, junior and high school youth group, adults Young of Heart Group. PLEASANT HILL BRETHREN IN CHRIST CHURCH Corner of Hill and Church streets John Weaver, Pastor Accessible for the handicapped Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship service (worship on last Sunday of the month at 10:15 a.m.). TROY CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN 1431 W. Main St., Troy Pastor Sheila Shumaker Handicapped accessible Nursery care available Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:40 worship service; Mon. — 7 p.m. H.U.G.S. Support Group; Tues. — 7 p.m. Welcome Home AA group; Thu. — 7 p.m. NAIOU Support Group and choir practice WEST CHARLESTON CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN 4817 State Route 202, Tipp City Interim Pastor Irv and Nancy Heishman Sun. — 9 a.m. Sunday school, 10:15 a.m. worship service. WEST MILTON CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN 918 S. Miami St., West Milton Pastor Jerry Bowen Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship.

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Revs. Michael L. Bidwell and Paul Vieson. Deacon, Robert Kozlowski Sat. — 5 p.m. Mass; Sun. — 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Mass; Mon., Tues., Thu. and Fri. — 8:30 a.m. Mass; Wed. — 9:30 a.m. Mass. CATHOLIC, OTHER ANNUNCIATION NATIONAL CATHOLIC CHURCH OF AMERICA The Rev. Father Norman J. Szylakowski Phone: 339-9249 E-mail: anncca@aol.com hometown.aol.com/normski274. Sun. — 1 p.m. Mass (Holy Eucharist), Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) one-half hour prior to Sunday Mass or by arrangement (meeting at a facility rear classroom of Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy). CHURCH OF CHRIST CHURCH OF CHRIST IN CHRISTIAN UNION 5020 Panhandle Road, Christiansburg 857-9362 Pastor Jeremy Olson Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship, 6 p.m. cell groups Wed. — 6:30 p.m. prayer and praise. MID-COUNTY CHURCH OF CHRIST 1580 N. Dorset Road Minister Ralph Royse Sun. — 9 a.m. Bible classes, 10 a.m. worship, 6 p.m. worship; Wed. — 7 p.m. Bible study. TIPP CITY CHURCH OF CHRIST 6460 S. County Road 25-A, Tipp City Minister Robert Vincent Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Bible classes, 10:30 a.m. worship, 6 p.m. worship; Tue. — 10 a.m. to noon The Golden Years; Wed. — 7 p.m. Bible classes. CHURCH OF GOD

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC 753 S. Hyatt St., Tipp City The Rev. R. Marc Sherlock Masses — Sat. at 5 p.m.; Sun. at 8 and 10:30 a.m.; Holy Days, Vigil, 7 p.m., Nursery — 10 a.m. Mass. ST. PATRICK CATHOLIC 409 E. Main St., Troy Fr. James S. Duell www.stpatroy.org Masses — Sat. at 5 p.m.; Sun. at 7:30, 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. Holy days at 7 a.m., noon and 7 p.m. Confessions — Sat. at 4-4:30 p.m. ST. TERESA CATHOLIC 6925 W. U.S. Route 36, Covington Phone: 473-2970 Fr. Jim Simons Masses — First and Third Sat. at 5 p.m.; Sun. at 7:30 and 10:30 a.m. TRANSFIGURATION CATHOLIC CHURCH 972 S. Miami St., West Milton Father John MacQuarrie, pastor Masses — Saturday at 5 p.m., Sunday at 7:30 and 10:20 a.m.; Daily Mass: Mon., Wed., Thurs. and Fri. at 8:15 a.m.; Mass:Tues. at noon. Benediction — Thurs. at 7 p.m. Confessions: Sat at 3:30-4:30 p.m. SACRED HEART PARISH 476 N. Scott St., New Carlisle

BRUSH CREEK CHURCH OF GOD 6370 S. Kessler-Frederick, Tipp City Pastor David Hixon; Phone: 698-6327 Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship Service; Wed. — 7 p.m. Bible study. FULL GOSPEL COMMUNITY CHURCH OF GOD 212 S. Mulberry St., Troy (937) 732-1057 Pastor Al Banister Sunday — 10 a.m. Sunday school, 11 a.m. morning worship, 6 p.m. night service; Wed. — 7 p.m. night service. NEW HORIZON CHURCH OF GOD MOUNTAIN ASSEMBLY 527 N. Market St., Troy Pastor Joe Hill Sun. — 10 a.m. Sunday school, 11 a.m. worship, 6 p.m. worship; Wed. — 7 p.m. youth night/adult Bible study. PLEASANT HILL CHURCH OF GOD Main Street Pastor Scott Deane Sun. — 9:30 a.m. worship, 10:30 a.m. Sunday school; Wed. — 7 p.m. evening program for adults and children of all ages. SNYDER ROAD CHURCH OF GOD Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship, 6 p.m. evening, 6

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Christiansburg Pastor - Mark Atterhold Sun. — 8:45 a.m., 10 a.m. Services. FIRST UNITED METHODIST 110 W. Frankllin St., Troy Senior Pastor — Rev. David Leckrone Rev. Mic Mohler, associate pastor Phone: 335-2826 Web site: troyfumc.org Sun. — 8:15 and 10:45. a.m. traditional worship services, 9:05 and 10:35 a.m. contemporary worship service, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, nursery care EPISCOPAL provided for all services, First Kids preschool and extended care, 10:35 a.m. TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH First Place contemporary worship; Mon., 60 S. Dorset Road, Troy Wed. and Friday — 1:30-3 p.m. First Phone: 335-7747 Place Food Pantry. trinitychurch@trinitytroyohio.net FLETCHER UNITED www.trinity-troy.disohioorg METHODIST Handicapped accessible. 205 S. Walnut St., Fletcher Sun. — 8:15 and 10:30 a.m. Holy 368-2470 Eucharist, 9:15 a.m. Sunday forum, Pastor Andy Perry 10:15 a.m. Christian formation for chilwww.fletcherchurch.org dren, last Sunday of month at noon: free Sun. — 8:15 and 10:45 a.m. worcommunity lunch, open to the public; ship services, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school; Wed. — 7 p.m. evening prayer. nursery care and children’s church available; Wed. — 7 p.m. prayer group. LUTHERAN HOFFMAN UNITED METHODIST BRANDT EVANGELICAL 201 S. Main St., West Milton LUTHERAN Phone: 698-4401 6870 E. St. Rt. 40, Brandt Pastor Justin Williams Phone: 845-0450 Sun. — 9 a.m. Sunday service. Rev. David Jarvis-Schroeder GINGHAMSBURG CHURCH Sun. — 9:15 a.m. Bible Study, 10 Dr. Michael Slaughter, senior pastor a.m. worship. 6759 S. County Road. 25-A, Tipp City FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH Phone: 667-1069 (NALC) Worship: Sat. — 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.; 2899 W. Main St., Troy Sun. — 9, 10:15 and 11:30 a.m. Phone: 335-2323 GREENE STREET UNITED Pastor Ric Barnes METHODIST CHURCH flctroy-nalc.org 415 W. Greene St., Piqua Handicapped accessible and hearPhone: 773-5313 ing assistance Pastor Lisa Ellison Sunday — 8 a.m. traditional worship Child care provided celebration, 9:15 a.m. Faith Formation Handicapped accessible classes for everyone, 10:30 a.m. conwww.greenestreetumc.com temporary worship celebration; Sat. — Sunday — 8 and 10:30 a.m. wor8:30 a.m. AA men’s closed meeting. ship services; 9:15 a.m. — church FRIEDENS EVANGELICAL school for all ages LUTHERAN McKENDREE UNITED 11038 W. Versailles Road METHODIST Covington One mile south of St. Rt. 41 on Phone: 526-4849 Dayton Brandt Road Interim Pastor Bob Akins Pastor James Leighty Sun. — 9 a.m. Sunday worship. Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, GOOD SHEPHERD 10:30 a.m. worship service. LUTHERAN POTSDAM UNITED 1209 S. Miami St.,West Milton METHODIST CHURCH Pastor Melvin Musser 12 S. Main St., P.O. Box 124, Sun. — 9:15 a.m. Sunday school, Potsdam 10:30 a.m. worship. Phone: 947-1438 OUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN Pastor Pamela A. Hitchcock 517 McKinley Ave., Piqua Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, Phone: 778-9325 10:30 a.m. worship. The Rev. William Ritchie RICHARDS CHAPEL UNITED Sun. — 10 a.m. worship service, 11 METHODIST CHURCH a.m. Sunday school. Bible Buddies — 2831 McKaig Ave., Troy 3:30 p.m. the second Saturday of each Phone: 335-8814 month Pastor David Richey PEACE OF OUR SAVIOR Choir director Brenda Coleman LUTHERAN CHURCH Sun. — 9 a.m. Sunday school for 1025 Cliffside Drive, New Carlisle adults, 10:30 a.m. worship; Mon.-Thur Pastor Marc Frey — 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m., free lunch pro849-9374 gram for community; Wed. — 11:45 a.m. www.peaceofoursavior.net worship service; Thurs. — 1 p.m. Bible Pre-school 8:30-11 a.m. Mon.-Fri. study. Sun. — 9:30 a.m. worship, 10:45 TIPP CITY UNITED a.m. Sunday school. METHODIST REDEEMER LUTHERAN, LC-MS 8 W. Main St., Tipp City County Road 25-A and Mason Phone: 667-2318 Road, Sidney Pastor Dan Glover Phone: 492-2461 Sun. — 9 a.m. traditional service, Pastor Ken Castor 10:30 a.m. contemporary service; 9 and Sat. — 5:30 p.m. worship 10:30 a.m. children’s and adult discileSun. — 9 a.m. worship, 10:30 a.m. ship opportunities. Child care available Sunday school and Bible class. from 9 a.m. to noon. ST. JOHN’S EVANGELICAL THE FAMILY OF GRACE UNITLUTHERAN CHURCH ED METHODIST CHURCH 200 E. Bridge St.., Covington 9411 N. County Road 25-A, Piqua The Rev. Stephen Nierman, pastor Phone: 773-8232 Phone: 473-2170 www.thefamilyofgrace.com Sun.— 9 a.m. church service.; The Rev. Mike Carnevale, lead Wed. — 7 p.m. choir practice. pastor ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN CHURCH Sun. — 8:15 a.m. traditional serv248 Wood St., Piqua ice, 10 and 11:15 a.m. contemoporary Phone: 773-3284 services, 10 a.m. Sunday school for all The Rev. Ronald A. Shreffler ages. Web address: www.stjohnpiqua.org CHRISTIANSBURG UNITED Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Christian educa- METHODIST CHURCH tion for all ages, 10:30 a.m. worship Grafton Dialton Road, St. Paris service. Pastor Mark Atterhold ZION EVANGELICAL Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, LUTHERAN CHURCH 10:30 a.m. service. 14 W. Walnut St., Tipp City Pastor Steven J. Gellatly NAZARENE Phone: 667-3110 Sun. — 9 a.m. Sunday school, 10 TIPP CITY CHURCH a.m. worship; Sat. — 5 p.m. Christian OF THE NAZARENE gathering. St. Rt. 571 & I-75 Phone: 667-6586 METHODIST Pastor Bradley Warkentine Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, BETHEL UNITED 10:30 a.m. worship service, 6 p.m. METHODIST CHURCH evening service; Tues. — 8 a.m. Men’s 2505 E. Loy Road, Piqua Bible study; Sat. — 7-11 a.m. youth The Rev. David C. Ramming recreation center. Parsonage Office: 335-6596 TROY CHURCH OF Sun. — 9 a.m. worship service, THE NAZARENE 10:15 a.m. Sunday school; Mon — 10 Pastor Jeff Rollison a.m. UMW meeting, bring a sack lunch; 1200 Barnhart Road, Troy Wed. — 6-7:30 p.m. CTC (end of Corner of W. Market St. and Barnhart Season), 7:30 p.m. CTC program. Road CASSTOWN UNITED (937) 339-3117 METHODIST CHURCH www.troynaz.net 102 Center St., Casstown Sun. — 9:30 a.m. worship service, The Rev. David C. Ramming 11 a.m. in-house education classes, 6 Parsonage Office: 335-6596 p.m. small groups in homes; Wed. — Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 6:30 p.m. adult Bible study; Sat. — 9 10:45 a.m. worship service. a.m. Men’s Bible study. CHRISTIANSBURG UNITED METHODIST CHURCH ■ See SERVICES on Page A7 Corner of 3rd and Monroe Streets, 2229749

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Pastor Dale Scott Sun. — 11 a.m. morning service, 10 a.m. Sunday school, 6 p.m. evening service; Wed. — 7 p.m. Bible study. LAURA FIRST BAPTIST Just Off St. Rt. 571 on Haworth Road Pastor Rick Mowry Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. worship; Wed. — 7 p.m. Bible study. LENA BAPTIST 8050 N. Church St., Conover Interim Pastor Ed Sollenberger Sun. — 9:15 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. Worship service 7 p.m. education prayer meeting. APOSTOLIC MAIN STREET BAPTIST 11191 W. State Route 571, Laura APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF Pastor Ron Evans JESUS CHRIST Sun. — 10:30 a.m. worship, 6 p.m. 1624 N. County Road 25-A, Troy age group Bible studies; Wed. — 7 p.m. Pastor Charles A. Carnes mid-week worship, 7 p.m. children’s Sun. — 10 a.m. Sunday school, hour; Thu. — 8 p.m. men’s prayer 11:30 a.m. worship, 6:30 p.m. service; encounter. Tue. — 10 a.m. prayer; Thu. — 7 p.m. NEW LIFE BAPTIST mid-week worship service. MINISTRIES OPEN ARMS APOSTOLIC 1001 County Road 25-A, Troy CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST 339-2992 4075 S. Tipp Cowlesville Road, Pastor Joseph Baldwin Tipp City Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday church Pastor Bob Bell school, 11 a.m. worship services; Wed. — Sun. — 10 a.m., Sunday 6:30 p.m. Prayer meeting and Bible study. school/worship; 6 p.m., worship; Wed. — PIQUA BAPTIST Midweek service, 7 p.m. 1402 W. High St., Piqua TROY APOSTOLIC TEMPLE 773-4583 625 N. County Road 25-A, Troy www.piquabaptist.com Pastor Richard A. Workman Donald Wells, senior pastor; Daniel Sun. — 10 a.m. Sunday school, 6 Helms, director of family ministries p.m. Sunday celebration; Wed. — 7 p.m. Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, Bible study. 10:30 a.m. morning worship, 5 p.m. Word of Life for children and teens; ASSEMBLY Wed. — 7 p.m. Bible studies for adults OF GOD and youth, God’s Kids Choir; Young at Heart — third Thu. of each month; Lydia VICTORY ASSEMBLY Circle — third Tue. of each month. OF GOD SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH 4645 S. County Road 25-A 232 S. Wayne St., Piqua Phone: 667-0763 Phone: 773-0619 Sun. — 10 a.m. Sunday morning Bishop Ted C. Willis Jr, c/o Pastor meet and greet with coffee and snacks, Cheryl Willis 10:30 a.m. morning service; Wed. — 7 Sr. Deacon S. Taylor p.m. Missionettes, Royal Rangers, adult Sun. — 10-10:30 a.m. intercessary Bible study. prayer, 10:30-11 a.m. prayer and worABUNDANT LIFE ASSEMBLY ship, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. worship service; OF GOD Mon. — 6-8 p.m. men’s meeting; Wed. 661 N. County Road 25-A, Troy — 6:30-8:30 p.m. Bible study and Phone: 339-4769 prayer service. Pastor Nathan Bacorn TROY BAPTIST TEMPLE Sun. — 10:15 a.m. Worship. 691 E. Staunton Road Phone: 339-3207 BAPTIST Pastor David Mulvaine Sun. — 9:45 a.m. Sunday school, CALVARY BAPTIST 10:45 a.m. morning worship, 6 p.m. 1045 Monroe Concord Road evening worship; Wed. — 7 p.m. prayer, Phone: 335-3686 ministries for all ages, Frontline Clubs, Pastor Jason Barclay Teen Youth S.A.L.T., adult Bible study. Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, TROY FREEWILL BAPTIST 10:30 a.m. worship, 6 p.m. Sunday night 2482 S. County Road 25-A service; Wed. — 7 p.m. prayer meeting. Pastor Dwight Stump CENTRAL BAPTIST Sun. — 10 a.m. Sunday school, 11 115 Staunton, Piqua a.m. worship, 6 p.m. Sunday evening Pastor Randy Satchwell service; Thu. — 7 p.m. evening service. Sun. — 9:45 a.m. Sunday school, UNION BAPTIST 11 a.m. worship, 6 p.m. service; Wed. — 1885 E. Peterson Road 7 p.m. prayer, Bible study and kid’s proPastor Dale Adkins grams. (937) 335-1045 CHARITY BAPTIST Sun. — 9:15 a.m. Sunday school, 667-9167 10:30 a.m. worship, 7 p.m. Service; 445 Evanston Road, Tipp City Wed. — 6:30 p.m., Awana clubs, 7 p.m. Pastor Dan Williams adult Bible studies. Sun. — 9:45 a.m. Sunday school, ZION BAPTIST 10:45 a.m. worship, 6 p.m. service; Wed. 711 W. Franklin St., Troy — 7 p.m. Kids Club for boys and girls Rev. Paul L. Cooper Jr. ages 4-12, 7 p.m. adult Bible study and Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, prayer. 11 a.m. worship service, first Sunday CORNERSTONE BAPTIST Baptizing and Holy Communion; Wed. 1879 Staunton Road, Troy — 6:30 p.m. Bible study, 7:30 p.m. 440-6900 Prayer meeting; Thu. — 6:30 p.m. choir cbctroy.org rehearsal. Pastor Matt Harbour Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, BRETHREN 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. worship service; Wed. — 6 p.m. in-home mid-week Bible BRADFORD CHURCH OF THE study (call church for more information) BRETHREN FAVORITE HILL BAPTIST SBC 120 W. Oakwood St., Bradford Pastor Phillip Delorme Pastor Dan Scalf 1601 South St., Piqua Sun. — 9 a.m. Sunday school, 10 773-6469 a.m. Sunday school, 11 a.m. service. Sun. — 9:15 a.m. Sunday school, CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN 10:30 a.m. worship; Wed. — 6:30 p.m. 300 E. Monument, Pleasant Hill Awana. Nick Beam, Pastor FIRST BAPTIST Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 53 S. Norwich Road, Troy 10:30 a.m. worship service. Phone: 339-3602 COMMUNITY GRACE www.fbctroy.com BRETHREN Senior Pastor Dale R. Christian 2261 S. Miami St., West Milton Pastor Douglas R. Magin Phone: 698-4048 Sun. — 8:30 a.m. Early Worship Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, Services, 9:45 a.m. Sunday school and 10:45 a.m. worship; Wed. — 6:30 p.m. adult Bible fellowships, 11 a.m. worship, Awana. 6 p.m. worship service, 7:15 p.m Youth - COVINGTON CHURCH TGIF; Wed. — 6:30 p.m. FBC Family OF THE BRETHREN Ministry Night; Fri. — 10 a.m. Ladies 101 N. Wall St., Covington Bible study. Pastor Michael Yingst FIRST BAPTIST Sun. — 8:30 a.m. Wake Up With 8233 W. Covington-Gettysburg God, coffee and juice; 9:30 a.m. worRoad, Covington ship, 10:30 a.m. Sunday school. Phone: 473-5347 FIRST BRETHREN CHURCH Pastor Jim Thacker PLEASANT HILL Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 210 N. Church St. 10:30 a.m. worship, 6 p.m. service; Wed. Corners of Church and Walnut — 7 p.m. prayer and Bible study. Streets, one block West of Newton Hall. FIRST BAPTIST www.FirstBrethren.com 6533 Tipp Cowlesville, Tipp City Phone: 676-2802 Sun. — 10 a.m. worship celebraPastor Lynn Mercer tion, 11:15 a.m. Sunday school, 7 p.m. Sun. — 9 a.m. fellowship, 9:30 a.m. worship Wed. — 7 p.m. mid-week Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship celprayer. ebration; Fri. — 7 p.m. Senior High at FREE BAPTIST The Barn, noon senior luncheon (sec8 S. Main St., Christiansburg ond Fri. of each month, location varies); Jeff Ferguson Sat. — 7:30 a.m. men’s breakfast Sun. — 11 a.m. worship and chil(every other Sat., location varies), 7 dren’s church. a.m. Jr. High at the Barn (First and Third GRACE BAPTIST Sat.). 1400 N. Market St., Troy Phone: 339-2019 Sun. — 9 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship services, 6 p.m. growth groups and Grace Youth; Wed. — 6:40 p.m. AWANA, 7 p.m. Prayer and Praise. GRACE BAPTIST 3230 S. Co. Rd. 25A • Troy 2500 St. Rt. 48, Ludlow Falls 339-2687 2229751 Phone: (937) 698-4342

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SERVICES WEST MILTON CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE 151 W. Baker Road, West Milton Pastor Charles W. Meinecke Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. morning worship, 6 p.m. Sunday Night Ministries; Wed. — 7 p.m. Kids’ Club, Teens Get Together, adult Bible study.

Hanging of the Green. WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Sun. — 10:30 a.m. worship, 9:30 a.m. Sunday school for junior and senior high, 11-11:30 a.m. Sunday school for 2 year olds through sixth grade; Mon. — 7 p.m. Shawl Ministry meeting. UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST

PRESBYTERIAN COVINGTON PRESBYTERIAN 30 North Pearl St. (937) 473-5263 — Pastor Greg Krutz Sunday — 10 a.m. worship service with children’s service. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN 20 S. Walnut St., Troy Dr. Richard B. Culp, pastor www.fpctroy.org Sun. — 8:30 a.m. chapel worship service, 9:15 a.m. Chancel choir rehearsal, 9:30 a.m. church school for youth and adults, 11 a.m. sanctuary worship service; Mon. — 9:30 a.m. Serendipity Bible study, 7 p.m. Monday evening Bible study and Prayer Shawl Ministry; Tues. — 5 p.m. prayer meeting, 6 p.m. exercise class, 7 p.m. Bicentennial Committee meeting; Wed. — Noon, Bloodmobile at the church; Thurs. — 9 a.m. Tipp City Coffee Group, 6 p.m. exercise class, 7:30 p.m. Thursday Evening Circle at Barb Werths; Fri. — Fifth and sixth grade retreat at Kirkmont; 2 p.m.

COVINGTON UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST 115 Pearl St. Pastor Rev. Howard Storm Sun. — 9:30 a.m. worship, 11 a.m. Sunday school. Handicap accessible, nursery available. FIRST UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST 120 S. Market St., Troy www.firstucctroy.org Interim Minister the Rev. Stephanie Haines Sat. — 9-10 a.m. Breakfast with Santa, 5 p.m. worship; Sun. — 9 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship; Mon. — 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. GED; Wed. — 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. GEDl, 6:30 p.m. WOW for Kids; Thurs. — 7 p.m. Sat. — 5 p.m. worship (chapel). LOSTCREEK UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST 7007 Troy-Urbana Road, Casstown Pastor Jason Egbert

www.lostcreekucc.org (937) 857-9638 Sun. — 9 a.m. adult Bible study, 10 a.m. Sunday worship and children’s Sunday school. NASHVILLE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST 4540 W. State Route 571, West Milton, corner of State Route 571 and Wheelock Road. 698-5867 or (937) 541-1041 Rev. Lynn Labs Sun. — 9:15 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship service. PLEASANT HILL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST 10 W. Monument St. Pastor Craig Showalter Sun. — 9:15 a.m. Sunday school; 10 a.m. Worship service ST. JOHN’S UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST 130 S. Walnut St., Troy 335-2028 The Rev. Dr. Keith Wagner www.stjohnsucctroyohio.com Handicapped accessible, nursery available Sun. — 9:15 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship. PIQUA CONGREGATIONAL CHRISTIAN UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST 421 Broadway, Piqua Pastor William Hewitt

Sun. — 9:30 a.m. adult Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship, 4 p.m. Chells. UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST 108 S. Main St., West Milton Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:40 a.m. church. UNITED PENTECOSTAL SAFE HARBOR MINISTRIES 2464 Peters Road, Troy Phone: 773-1096 www.safeharbortroy.com Pastor Simon Young Sun. — 11 a.m. celebration service and Kidz Church; Thu. — 7 p.m. Christian development. OTHERS ALCONY GRACE 1045 S. Alcony Conover Road Pastor Stephen Marcum Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship, 6 p.m. youth fellowship, first and third Sun., 7 p.m. Sunday evening service; Wed. — 7 p.m. prayer meeting. BAHA’I FAITH Please contact 669-7962. BIBLE MISSIONARY 1003 E. Canal St. Pastor Robert Lewis Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school,

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Call 332-6919 or Visit The Miami County Animal Shelter, 1110 N. 25-A, Troy

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“Siohban & Lavender” White DSH Females 5 mos. Tested/Spayed/first Vaccs. It has been the year for white kitties! We have several beautiful white cats up for adoption including Siohban and Lavender. Donations can be sent to: Miami Co. Humane Society Cat Programs, PO Box 789, Troy, Ohio 45373

All Miami County Humane Society kitties are tested for FeLV/FIV and neutered.

Miami County Humane Society Contact: Teresa Lynn (937) 623-0176

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10:30 a.m. worship, 7 p.m. worship; Wed. — 7 p.m. prayer meeting. CALVARY BIBLE CHURCH NON-DENOMINATIONAL Corner of St. Rt. 571 and Red RiverWest Grove Road Phone: 676-3535 Pastor Bill Cornett Sun. — 9 a.m. Sunday school, 10 a.m. morning worship, 6 p.m. evening service, 6 p.m. Patch Club — three years through grade six. CELEBRATION OF LIFE 4100 Benfield Dr., Kettering, Phone: 298-1376 The Rev. Eunice Chalfant Sun. services: 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. — child care available at both services, junior church available at 11 a.m. service only. Music: Kenny Rice of the Hathaways. CENTER FRIENDS 8550 W. St. Rt. 571, W. Milton Pastor, Kerry Baker Phone: 698-3114 Church Phone: 698-5964 Parsonage Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship. Nursery provided. CERTAIN TRUTH MINISTRIES Meeting at the Troy Rec Center, 11 N. Market St., Troy Pastor Tim Kinder (937) 216-6384 Sunday — 10:30 a.m. worship. CHRIST LIGHT UNITY PRAYER CIRCLE Baird Family Center 527 N. Market St., Troy Pastor Lisa Davis Sun. — 7 p.m. Services. CHRIST MISSIONARY FREEDOM 602 W. Main St. Pastor Tom Holley 332-8018 Sun.— 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. worship, 5 p.m. youth, 5 p.m. new comers; Wed. — 7 p.m. service. CHRISTIAN CHAPEL Pastor Jessie Tipton Ginghamsburg Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:45 a.m. worship, 6:30 p.m. service. CHRISTIAN FAMILY FELLOWSHIP MINISTRY 1575 W. State Route 571, Tipp City Minister John F. Shroyer Sun. — 10:30 a.m. morning fellowship, children’s fellowship; Wed. — 7:30 p.m. Bible study. CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER PIQUA Cinemark Miami Valley Cinemas 1020 Garbry Road Piqua, OH 45356 (937) 381-9753 joldham@clcdayton.org www.clcpiqua.com Pastor James Oldham Sunday — 10 a.m. worship service CHURCH OF JESUS 421 Wood St., Piqua Pastor Brian T. Hamilton 773-4004 www.churchofjesuspiqua.com Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 11 a.m., worship service Wed. — 6:30 p.m. Prayer; 7 p.m. Bible study. COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH 1427 W. Main St., Tipp City 667-2710 Pastor Jeff Seekins Pastor Tim Board, associate Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. worship service; nursery and children’s programs throughout the morning; Wednesday — 6:30 p.m. family night service for kids, teens and adults. LUDLOW FALLS CHRISTIAN CHURCH Corner of Oak and Vine St. Ludlow Falls Phone: 698-3823 The Rev. Jerry Collins Sun. — 9:15 a.m. morning worship. COVE SPRING CHURCH 5705 E. Walnut Grove Road Pastor Evan Garber Sun. — 9:30 a.m. church school, 10:30 a.m. worship hour. COURTS OF PRAISE Open Bible Church 410 N. Elm St., Troy Pastor Joshua Pierce Sunday — 10 a.m. services; Wed. — 6 p.m. Life groups. FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY CHURCH 5850 N. State Route 41, Covington 473-2128 Pastor Eugene Oburn Sunday — 9:30 a.m. morning worship, 10:50 Bible study; Mon. — 6:30 p.m. AWANA; Wed. — 6:30 p.m. TRUTH. GOSPEL OF ABUNDANT LIFE CHURCH 801 N. Market St., Troy Phone: 524-6485 - Eric Burns, pastor Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 11 a.m. morning worship; Mon.-Thu. — Noon, prayer; Wed. — 6 p.m. Bible study; Thu. — 7 p.m. Women’s fellowship every first and third fellowship; Every third Fri. — 7 p.m. monthly youth activity; Sat. — 9 a.m. Men’s fellowship. GRACE FAMILY WORSHIP CENTER 1477 S. Market St., Troy, next to Fat Boyz Pizza and Yuppie Puppie Pastor, Elder Howard Collier Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 11 a.m. Sunday morning worship; Tues. — 6 a.m. prayer; Wed. — 6 p.m. prayer, 7 p.m. Bible study. HEARKEN UNTO THE KING MINISTRIES Pastor Tamara and Apostle Christopher Evans 200 S. Monroe St., Troy Sunday — 10 a.m. prayer, 11 a.m. worship service; Tues. — 6:30 p.m. prayer, 7 p.m. Bible study; Wed. — 6:30 p.m. Youth Rearching Youth service. HEARTLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH Worship center — 1375 State Route 55, corner of Dorset and State Route 55 Admnistrative office — Stouder Center, 1100 Wayne St., Suite 1112 (937) 332-0041 — www.takeheart.us Pastor Chris Daum Sunday — 10:30 a.m. worship. HERITAGE TEMPLE Pastor Rod Dysinger Phone: 381-5186

Contact information: e-mail to heritagetemple@yahoo.com or visit the Web site at www.heritagetemple.frewebsites.com KOINOS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP 722 Grant St., Troy Pastor Johnathan Newman Sun. — 10:30 a.m. worship celebration. LAURA CHRISTIAN Pastor Curtis F. Duncan Sun. — 9:30 a.m. service, 10:30 a.m. Sunday school. Nursery provided. LIGHTHOUSE HOLINESS CHAPEL Affiliated with Wesleyan Holiness Association of Churches 213 E. Water St., Troy Phone: (574) 601-7758 Justin N. Jessup, pastor Sun. — 10 a.m. Sunday school, 10:45 a.m. worship, 6 p.m. evening worship; Wed. – 7 p.m. worship, midweek prayer meeting. LIVING HOPE WORSHIP CENTER 505 McKaigAve. Pastor — Linda Spicer Sun. 10:30 a.m. Morning Worship. NEW CARLISLE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST 501 Dayton-Lakeview Road Elder Willis Adams Sat. — 9:15 a.m. worship, 10:30 a.m. Sabbath school. REDEMPTION GOSPEL MINISTRIES 111 E. Canal St., Troy Pastor Michael J. Miles II Sun. — 10 a.m. Sunday school, 11 a.m. Morning worship. Tue. — 6 p.m. Bible Study. SKYVIEW WESLEYAN 6995 S. Peters Road, Tipp City Pastor John Hughes, Sun. — 10:30 a.m. worship service, nursery provided; Wed — 6:30 p.m. Dinner, 7 p.m. Bible study. SPIRIT LIFE CHURCH 8527 N. County Road 25-A, Piqua Pastor Ken VanHoose Sunday — 10:30 a.m. worship services. ST. JAMES COMMUNITY 702 Sherman Ave. Pastor Vickie L. Evans Sun. — 9 a.m. Sunday school; 10 a.m. celebration; Wed. — 6 p.m. Bible study. STILLWATER COMMUNITY 7900 W. Sugar Grove Road, Covington Pastor Ralph Schaafsma Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. morning worship; Wed. — 6:30 p.m. AWANA Club, Cubbies: Preschool Sparks: K-2nd grades, Truth & Training: 3rd -6th grades, Junior Varsity: 7th-9th grades SUGAR GROVE BIBLE 7875 S. Kessler-Frederick Road Tipp City (in Frederick) Phone: 698-4478 Pastor Larry Sneed Sun. — 9:30-10 a.m. Sunday school, 10:45-11:45 a.m. special music & worship service. SYNAGOGUE ANSHE EMETH Monthly worship services; for dates or more information call 547-0092. TEMPLE OF PRAISE MINISTRIES 200 S. Monroe Ave., Troy Bishop — Roy L. Pirtle Phone: 573-9829 Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 11 a.m. morning worship, 5:30 p.m. evening worship Sunday night every other week; Thu. — 7 p.m. Bible study THE CHRISTIAN WORSHIP CENTER One mile north of Christiansburg 3537 S. Elm Tree Road Cell Phone: 360-6046 or Home Phone: 788-2710 Pastor Jim Fannin Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. Sunday morning worship, 7 p.m. service; Wed — 6:30 p.m. teens. THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS 475 W. Loy Road Phone: 773-3392 Grant Armstrong, bishop, 339-7509 Sun. — 9-10:15 a.m. Sacrament meeting, 10:15-11:15 a.m. Sunday school, 11:15 a.m.-noon Priesthood meeting, Relief Society; Mon. — Family home evening; Wed. — 7 p.m. young women and young men activity night. THE LIVING WORD FELLOWSHIP CENTER 947 North Market St. Pastors Gilbert and Phyllis Welbaum Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:45 a.m. worship; Wed. — 7 p.m. Bible study, youth fellowship. TROY CHRISTIAN CHURCH 1440 E. State Route 55 www.troychristianchurch.org Pat McWhorter, Children’s Minister Caleb Christman, Student Minister Rob Campbell, Worship Minister Sun. — 9:30 and 10:50 a.m. worship, children’s programs at both services. Call 335-8731 about adult small groups and teen cell groups. TROY GOSPEL TABERNACLE Long and Ellis streets Pastor Erv Holland Sun. — 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. morning worship, Sunday evening services 6 p.m.; Wed. — 7 p.m. Prayer meeting at Bible Study. UPPER ROOM WORSHIP CENTER 203 N. 4th St., Tipp City Phone: 667-5585 www.theur.net Senior Pastor Greg Simmons Sun. — 11 a.m. Sunday worship celebration, followed by adult, youth and children’s ministries; Friday — 7 p.m. Celebrate Recovery, 12-step Christian program for hurts, habits and hang-ups. Various small groups meet throughout the week UPPER VALLEY COMMUNITY CHURCH 1400 Seidel Parkway, Piqua (937) 778-8822 E-mail: uvcc@uvcc.org Web site: www.uvcc.org Sunday celebrations at 9:15 and 11:15 a.m. WEST MILTON FRIENDS 47 N. Main St. Pastor Kerry Baker Phone: 698-2846 or 698-4549 Sun.— 9:30-10:30 a.m. worship.

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Stop the power play and discuss the issues Dear Annie: My husband and I have a small online stock trading account. Several months ago, he mentioned that he was thinking of giving our son and daughter-in-law money to open their own stock account. I immediately told him I was against it. I then left to go to the store and thought that was the end of it. When I arrived home, I found my husband signing a check for $25,000 to our daughter-in-law. We have no agreement that the money will be repaid or that we will be informed as to what happens to it. If I hadn't returned home when I did, I never even would have known about it. My husband doesn't think he did anything wrong. How am I supposed to trust or respect him when he does things like this? Am I justified to feel resentful and betrayed? — Floored Dear Floored: Your husband should not be making unilateral decisions that affect both of you. But by telling him "no" and assuming the matter was settled, you did the same thing. It sounds like this is not so much about the money as it is about who controls it. Giving a large sum to anyone, including a child, requires the cooperation and agreement of all involved parties. You and your husband need to stop the power plays and talk about this calmly. Admit your own part in creating the problem, and explain how hurt you were that he didn't take your feelings into account. We don't know if this money was a gift or a loan or how you want to handle it, but the discussion should end with the agreement that neither of you will do this again without the consent of the other. Dear Annie: My wife and I have no children, so we try to reach out to the nieces and nephews on both sides of the family. We always make the effort to visit them when we are in their area, and for the most part, they reciprocate the love we extend. However, we are perplexed about the total lack of social graces of one nephew's wife. To our knowledge, we have never given this young woman any reason to treat us in the manner she does. We dread future visits for fear one of us may be tempted to say something to her about her lack of civility. What do we do when she behaves like this again? — Confused in West Virginia Dear Confused: Talk to the nephew. Ask as sweetly as possible whether you have done something unintentionally offensive to his wife, because she seems to dislike you. Ask how to make the relationship better. She simply may be socially inept and covering it with what appears to be rudeness but is in reality shyness or discomfort. Give your nephew the opportunity to address it with his wife and work on it. Dear Annie: I read the letter from "Daughter-in-Law in Distress," whose husband is verbally abused by his father and sisters. This woman needs to give her husband a great big hug! His father is a mean and calculating bully who enjoys watching others, including his own grandchildren, squirm. When I was a child, I had adult relatives who found pleasure and power in making fun of us for everything from the pimples on our faces to whether or not we could hit a ball. Our parents taught us to be seen and not heard, so we did not respond to these thoughtless, painful remarks. Neither did our parents. I am now 58 years old and a strong individual. To this day, however, when there is a family gathering, I am so filled with anxiety that I have difficulty breathing. I love these people, but they have no idea at what cost. I commend this dad for protecting his children and putting them first. They are richly blessed. — Made it Through Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please e-mail your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Ste. 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045.

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The Scout ('94) Albert Brooks.

The Avengers Ralph Fiennes.

Mighty Morphin Power Ran... (:15) Tekwar (PLEX) Movie

Cruel Intentions 2 ('00) Robin Dunne. Young & Restless (R) Young & Restless (R) Young & Restless (R) One Life to Live (R) (SOAP) Gilmore Girls "Pilot" (R) Gilmore Girls (R)

Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones ('02) Ewan McGregor.

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Pretty Woman ('90) Julia Roberts, Richard Gere.

Dodsworth ('36) Walter Huston.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ('43) Roger Livesey. (TCM)

America, America ('63) John Marley, Lou Antonio. 48 Hours: Evidence 48 Hours: Left for (R) 48 Hours: Evidence (R) (TLC) 48 Hours: Evidence (R) 48 Hours: Evidence (R) 48 Hours "Haunted" (R) 48 Hours: Left for Dead 48 Hours: Evidence Degrassi Degrassi Degrassi Degrassi Malcolm Malcolm All That (R) K & Kel (R) (TNICK) (12:00) To Be Announced

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Cold or flu — what’s the difference? Dear Readers: Is it a cold or the flu? Do you know the difference? Flu season is here, and you could be a victim. Here are some symptoms of this respiratory illness: • fatigue • body aches • cough and sore throat • runny nose • headache and fever (although fever is not always present). Flu is spread mostly by coughing and sneezing, and by touching surfaces that hold the virus and then touching your mouth or eyes. Don’t rub your eyes!

Hints from Heloise Columnist The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (www.cdc.gov) say that a flu vaccine is the best way to prevent influenza. There are two types of flu vaccines: 1. A flu shot contains the actual flu virus, but don’t worry — it’s not active and will not give you the flu. There

are three varieties of shots: • The typical flu shot, which is recommended for most people, even those who are pregnant. • For those over 65, a stronger dose. • And there is a new variety this season for people 1864 that is injected into the skin. 2. The other type of flu vaccine is a nasal spray. It is approved for healthy people who are not pregnant. Some people should not have the flu shot: people with egg allergies, infants younger than 6 months of age and people who are already ill fall

into this category. Talk to your health-care provider about the flu, the flu shot and how to protect yourself and your family. — Heloise PET PAL Dear Readers: Meow Meow, our office cat, is this week’s Pet Pal. He is shown camping out on top of the outside trash can, letting us know it’s time for him to eat. Afterward, he’ll have a sun bath on the patio for the rest of the afternoon. To see Meow Meow and our other Pet Pals, visit www.Heloise.com and click on “Pets.” — Heloise

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HOROSCOPE Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011 Chances are the year ahead will quickly prove whether the path you’re on is the correct one. Do not make any unnecessary changes until you know for sure which way the worm is turning. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Avoid partaking with people who previously have been unlucky for you materially. Chances are nothing has changed, and such folk will continue to be ill-fated for you in money matters. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — As long as you are making your own decisions, things are likely to go quite well. Let someone else call the shots, and it could be another story. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Take some time to help instruct those who can’t seem to grasp new ideas in a timely fashion, especially if it means the difference between success and failure for you and/or them. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — You might have a bit of trouble understanding what could get you in jeopardy, so don’t engage in anything that might cause problems if things don’t go exactly right. ARIES (March 21-April 19) — There are plenty of good buys out there without you having to think about which one is better; they’ll all be great. Select the one that pleases you the most. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Get your most difficult tasks out of the way early while you have plenty of energy to take on those tough jobs. If you wait too long to do so, you won’t have the fortitude to finish. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Don’t fret if you’re better at making money for someone else than you are for yourself. The rewards for doing so will come your way sooner than you think. CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Do your homework if you want to make a good presentation about promoting something big. The more you know about your product, the easier it will be to sell. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Although you may be in a good material cycle, don’t discuss your financial situation with anyone. Someone with devious plans may bogart what you have in the hopper. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Having a friend who does things in novel ways can be interesting, but don’t try to mimic their techniques. This person may be exaggerating what is really going on, anyway. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Be energetic and go after only big and potentially profitable targets, but be realistic about your means and ability to do so. You may collapse if you take on more than you can handle. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — By being so intense about everything, you will have a tendency to take something that is meant to be merely interesting far too seriously. Hang on to your sense of perspective. COPYRIGHT 2011 United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

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275 Situation Wanted CHILD CARE OPENINGS by City park. 30 years experience, bussing to Heywood School. Ages 2 years and up. Patty (937)339-1734

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2 BEDROOM in Troy, Stove, refrigerator, W/D, A/C, very clean, cats ok. $525. (937)573-7908 3 BEDROOM, 1/2 Double in Troy. All new flooring/appliances, 2 full baths, large, attached garage. Call Peggy (937)603-7721 DODD RENTALS Tipp-Troy: 2 bedroom AC, appliances $500/$450 plus deposit No pets (937)667-4349 for appt. EFFICIENCY APARTMENT perfect for one person. Washer/ dryer, CA, appliances. $400 month. Non-smoking, no pets. Utilities paid. (937)524-9114. IN PIQUA, 5 rooms & bath, first floor, washer/ dryer hookup, $400, (937)773-2829 after 2pm. MCGOVERN RENTALS TROY 2 BR duplexes & 2 BR townhouses. 1.5 baths, 1 car garage, fireplace, Great Location! Starting at $625-$675. (937)335-1443 PIQUA, 3-5 bedrooms. Handicap accessible,Metro accepted . $600 rent, $500 deposit, (937)339-7028. SPECIAL 1ST MONTH FREE

1 & 2 Bedroom apts. $410 to $450 NO PETS Park Regency Apartments 1211 West Main (937)216-0398

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TIPP CITY, DUPLEX, nice 3 bedroom, 2 baths, garage, appliances included. $750 month. (937)667-5045

LOVELY TROY, 2 bedroom condo, 1.5 bath, private parking, washer/ dryer hook-up. Appliances. $575. (937)335-5440

TIPP CITY/ Huber Heights, 1 bedroom, country, $450 monthly includes water & trash, no pets (937)778-0524

TROY, 2 bedroom exquisite cobblestone townhouse, 1300 sqft, fireplace, garage, loft, vaulted ceilings. $795. (937)308-0679.

TROY: SPECIAL DEALS 3 bedroom townhome, furnished & unfurnished. Call (937)367-6217 or (937)524-4896. TROY, 1 bedroom, A/C, stove, refrigerator, metro accepted, $420 rent + $250 deposit. (937)339-7028 TROY 2 bedroom duplex with garage. No dogs. $525 a month (937)657-5948

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430 Mobile Homes for Sale

TROY, Troy-Sidney Rd, 3 bedrooms, $700 monthly plus electric, newly remodeled, hardwood/ carpet floors, heated tile, oak trim, central air (937)524-2061

LOCATED AT Lake Loramie, must see! Central air, oak cabinets, stove, refrigerator & dishwasher, large deck, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 2000 mobile home, vinyl. $19,995. (937)307-5866.

325 Mobile Homes for Rent

500 - Merchandise

NEAR BRADFORD in country 3 bedroom trailer, $350. Also 2 bedroom trailer, washer/dryer hookup. $375. (937)417-7111, (937)448-2974

330 Office Space

2 BEDROOM trailer at Stillwater Beach Campground. $350. (937)473-5563 3 BEDROOM duplex. 209 Rolling Acres Dr. Tipp City. $700 monthly. No pets. (937)541-9121

TROY, 509-1/2 East Main. Large, clean 1 bedroom upstairs, most appliances, near downtown. $475 month + utilities, deposit and possible monthly lease, (937)207-7306

PIQUA, 2935 Delaware Circle, 3 Bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage, all appliances, No pets, $880 monthly, 1 year lease, (937)778-0524

TROY area, 2 bedroom townhouses, 1-1/2 bath, furnished appliances, W/D hookup, A/C, No dogs $475. (937)339-6776.

TROY 3 Bedroom. 460 Robert Court. (near Troy Christian school). No pets. $650 monthly. (937)335-4301

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545 Firewood/Fuel

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Gun & Knife Show Shelby County Fairgrounds, Saturday November, 26th. 8:30am-3:00pm and the last Saturday of every month.

BAR STOOLS, medium colored oak, (2), swivel back, Amish custom made, (937)778-0986. CHRISTMAS TREE 7 foot (GE Monroe) lighted with 550 multi colored lights. Dimensions 45"X15"X12" $40. (937)498-9822

SPRINKLER SYSTEMS, In ground for flower beds or lawns. Great Christmas Gifts for parents and children. Convenient, affordable. Gift cards available. (937)492-7582

CHRISTMAS TREE, 9.5', slim. $75. (937)473-9833 Call after 2pm.

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AIR HOCKEY TABLE, full size with electronic scoreboard, good working condition. $85 (937)335-9870

SNOW THROWER, TroyBilt, 24" clearing path. 5.5hp, electric start. $450 cash. (937)778-8671

105 Announcements

FIREWOOD for sale. All seasoned hardwood, $130 per cord split/ delivered. Roundwood $85 per cord; delivered/ dumped. , (937)844-3756.

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14 • Troy Daily News • Classifieds That Work • Saturday, November 26, 2011 577 Miscellaneous

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800 - Transportation SPA Hot Springs Sovereign Spa. 6 adults, 230W, 50AMP, 335 Gallon. New retractable vinyl cover bought in September. $2550. (937)492-2443

580 Musical Instruments ORGAN, Theater Lowry console, in excellent condition, mahogany finish. With two Leslie cabinets. Make offer. (937)773-2217

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TODAY’S TIPS

■ Girls Basketball

• SOCCER: Registration is under way for Troy Rec indoor soccer. Sixweek sessions will be held for 5-and 6year-old teams and first and second grade teams. The cost is $35 per player. Practices and games are at the Rec in downtown Troy. Registration forms are available at www.troyrec.com or at the Rec. For more information, call (937) 339-1923. Deadline to register is Dec. 9. • SUBMIT-A-TIP: To submit an item to the Troy Daily News sports section, please contact Josh Brown at jbrown@tdnpublishing.com.

Bulldogs find positives in loss to Jills

SPORTS CALENDAR

Staff Reports

MIAMI COUNTY

OAKWOOD — Sometimes you find positives from a loss. That was the case for MiltonUnion on Friday night. The Bulldogs played right with Oakwood, but the Jills used a late second-half surge, outscoring Milton 23-15 over the final two quarters to win the game 4738 to kick off the Oakwood

Tournament. “It is a step in the right direction,” Milton-Union coach Richard Cline said. “We played right with them. We were actually within striking distance going into the fourth quarter.” Danielle Vincent and Ashleigh Bishop led the Bulldogs

with nine points each, with happens.” Milton-Union (0-1) takes on Bishop also adding six rebounds. Cate Busse added eight points Stebbins today. Milton-Union — 38 and Katelyn Vincent had six Danielle Vincent 2-3-9, Katelyn assists. Vincent 1-2-4, Haley Martens 0-2-2, “We shot the ball well,” Cline Ashleigh Bishop 4-1-0, Meghan Schwartz said. “We were 10 for 10 from the 1-0-2, Megan Ward 2-0-4, Cate Busse 1-6foul line in the first half. What it 8, Brooke Falb 0-0-0. Totals: 12-12-38. Oakwood — 47 came down to tonight was offenBarhorst 1-0-2, Teeters 4-0-8, sive rebounding. They outrebounded us 17-7. You can’t ■ See ROUNDUP on 17 expect to win games when that

■ Girls Basketball

■ College Basketball

TODAY Girls Basketball Milton-Union at Oakwood Tourney (TBA) Fairlawn at Covington (7:30 p.m.) Thurgood Marshall at Piqua (1 p.m.) Sidney at Lehman (7:30 p.m.) Hockey Troy at Maumee (at South Metro) (11 a.m.) Troy at CVCA (at Kettering Rec) (4 p.m.) SUNDAY Hockey Troy at Beavercreek (at Kettering Rec) (noon) Frozen Creek championship (5 p.m.) MONDAY No events scheduled AP PHOTO

TUESDAY Girls Basketball Carroll at Tippecanoe (7:30 p.m.) Madison Plains at Bethel (7 p.m.) Troy Christian at Newton (7 p.m.)

Ohio State’s William Buford (44) shoots over Valparaiso's Matt Kenney, left, and Erik Buggs (15) during the second half Friday in Columbus.

WEDNESDAY Girls Basketball Troy at Trotwood (7:30 p.m.) Piqua at Butler (7 p.m.) Bowling Northmont at Tippecanoe (4 p.m.) THURSDAY Girls Basketball Milton-Union at Northridge (7:30 p.m.) Miami East at Bradford (7 p.m.) Mississinawa Valley at Bethel (7 p.m.) Newton at Ansonia (7 p.m.) Covington at Franklin Monroe (7 p.m.) Lehman at Tri Village (7 p.m.) Bowling Tippecanoe at Fenwick (4 p.m.) FRIDAY Boys Basketball Tecumseh at Troy (7:30 p.m.) Butler at Tippecanoe (7:30 p.m.) Northridge at Milton-Union (7:30 p.m.) Tri-County North at Miami East (8 p.m.) Bethel at Arcanum (8 p.m.) Mississinawa Valley at Newton (8 p.m.) Bradford at Ansonia (8 p.m.) Wapakoneta at Piqua (7:30 p.m.) Lehman at Minster (8 p.m.) Bowling West Liberty-Salem at Piqua (4:30 p.m.) Hockey Troy at Thomas Worthington (8 p.m.) Swimming Miami East at Troy Christian (TBA) Piqua at Trotwood (5 p.m.)

UPCOMING Sport ....................Start Date Swimming .................Monday Boys Basketball...........Dec. 2 Wrestling......................Dec. 2 Gymnastics..................Dec. 5

WHAT’S INSIDE National Football League .....16 College Football ...................16 Local Sports..........................17 College Basketball................17 Scoreboard ............................18 Television Schedule..............18

Buckeyes dominate Valpo STAFF PHOTOS/COLIN FOSTER

Tippecanoe’s Ellise Sharpe drives to the basket and draws a foul during Friday night’s season opener at Butler High School.

Missing pieces Tippecanoe stumbles, falls to Butler in opener BY JOSH BROWN Sports Editor jbrown@tdnpublishing.com Every piece of the puzzle is going to be important for Tippecanoe this season. And, without one of those pieces in place Friday, they came up just short.

VANDALIA Ellise Sharpe the Red Devils back in the fourth quarter Friday night in the season opener at Butler, but the Aviators were able to hold off the Morgan Miller-less Devils’ late charge 50-48 in a game where Tippecanoe showed flashes of its potential — and quite a bit of fight. Butler built a 10-2 lead early in the first, but the Devils cut the lead to four before a sevenpoint Aviator run to close the quarter. After trailing 21-15 at the half, Tippecanoe cut the lead to 23-20 after a 3 and a stealand-layup by Sharpe to force a timeout with 6:38 left in the third. The Aviators answered

Buford scores 25 in victory COLUMBUS (AP) — Jared Sullinger blamed it on too much turkey. Whatever the reason, No. 3 Ohio State shook off its slow start with a dizzying display at the beginning of the second half. William Buford scored 17 of his 25 points after the break, and the Buckeyes routed Valparaiso 80-47 on Friday night. Aaron Craft added 15 points and eight assists for the Buckeyes (6-0), who tuned up for a big home showdown against No. 6 Duke on Tuesday. Sullinger had 14 points and 13 rebounds, and Deshaun Thomas added 12 points. Buford had four points in Ohio State’s 19-2 surge right after the break, and the crowd used the final minute to serenade Michigan with derisive cheers ahead of their football game on Saturday. The quick burst to start the second half made the outcome a formality and allowed the Buckeyes (6-0) to begin thinking about facing the Blue Devils in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. “From the standpoint of looking at a team like Duke, it draws back to our game with Florida,” said Ohio State coach Thad Matta, referring to the Buckeyes’ relatively easy 81-74 win over the Gators earlier this season. “It’ll be a good challenge for us. Like the Florida game, we’ll know a lot more about us after it.” Sullinger said he couldn’t wait

Tippecanoe’s Erica Comer looks for room to shoot Friday night

■ See DEVILS on 17 against Butler.

■ See BUCKEYES on 17

■ College Football

Pride — not roses — on the line No. 1 LSU cruises in critical matchup Tyrann Mathieu returned a punt 92 yards for a score, LSU punished thirdranked Arkansas with 286 yards rushing, and the top-ranked Tigers secured a spot in the SEC championship game with a 4117 victory Friday. Kenny Hilliard, Spencer Ware and Jordan Jefferson all scored on the ground for LSU (12-0, 8-0 SEC), which is 12-0 for the first time and will play No. 13 Georgia next weekend in Atlanta. See Page 16.

Big Ten title not at stake, but rivalry is no less intense ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Brady Hoke has added his own twist to The Game. The Michigan coach refuses to identify his team’s archrival by its proper name. He demands that his players respond with “Ohio” when he says the word “Beat.” He offers the Wolverines constant in-their-face reminders about how much they’ve been

dominated by the Buckeyes lately. Bo Schembechler would’ve loved it. Woody Hayes probably would’ve, as well. Hoke will lead college football’s winningest team against Ohio State for the first time Saturday, knowing that the expectation of a seven-point vic-

tory from odds makers is irrelevant after watching the storied series as a kid in Dayton, Ohio, and experiencing it up close as an assistant at Michigan under Lloyd Carr. “You can be the favorite and the underdog, but none of that matters in this football game,” Hoke said. “It never does. “It’s special because of the pridefulness that both teams have.” The 17th-ranked Wolverines (9-2, 5-2 Big Ten) seem to have much more to lose. They have a

good shot to snap a schoolrecord, seven-game losing streak in the series and possibly play their way into a BCS bowl for the first time since the 2006 season. “It’s kind of exciting,” said Michigan tight end Kevin Koger, who hails from Toledo, Ohio. “If it is the BCS, better for us right?” Not for Ohio State. The Buckeyes (6-5, 3-4) are motivated especially the senior class to avoid being on the field for Michigan’s first win over

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OSU-Michigan ■ CONTINUED FROM 15 them since 2003. Linebacker Andrew Sweat said Ohio State has “everything” to play for at the Big House. “This game is bigger than any bowl game,” Sweat said. A loss would sink the Buckeyes to their first 6-6 season since 1999, John Cooper’s next to last year, and end a season that has been miserable off and on the field with a lingering loss. Jim Tressel, who had his with Michigan, way resigned because of a tattoo-parlor scandal that forced star quarterback Terrelle Pryor to leave, and several other players were suspended for multiple games. Beating Michigan won’t

give interim coach Luke Fickell the job for good some have speculated it is already Urban Meyer’s gig but might give him and his players a sweet ending on what has been a sour season. “It would definitely say something if we came here and left without ever losing to them,” Ohio State center Mike Brewster said. “It’s definitely going to be a big memory and big part of our legacy. Even though this season has been rough, this would be a good way to end it.” When the Hoke era began at Michigan in January, he pounded his fist with each word he spoke about beating the Buckeyes. Hoke had a meet-andgreet session with his new

team at the Big House and later told the Wolverines they were to say “Ohio” when he said “Beat” every time they got together. By The Associated Press The coach, who never wears red and won’t allow An ESPN spokesman the color on clothes in says Urban Meyer will Schembechler Hall, had not appear on the netclocks installed at team work this weekend after headquarters to count down the former Florida coach the time before Saturday’s requested he be taken off game and posted signs his assignment. showing players how many Several media outlets days it has been since they have reported that Meyer beat their archrival. is set to become the new “You want to motivate coach at Ohio State. your players on a daily On Friday, ESPN basis,” Hoke said. “It’s just a spokesman Mike Humes reminder.” posted on his Twitter Ohio State has won the account: “Urban Meyer last seven games by an average of two-plus touchdowns by 25.3 on average 10-2-1 run in the rivalry the past three years against that dates to 1897. Troy Smith started the Rich Rodriguez not long after Michigan enjoyed a streak, Pryor extended it

freshman has connected on fewer than half his passes with nine touchdowns and three interceptions. Miller matched his season high won’t be appearing on with 105 yards rushing in ESPN this weekend. He last week’s loss to Penn requested off his studio State. assignment and we “He’s just flat out a playobliged.” maker,” Hoke said. “He’s a Meyer has been worktremendous athlete.” ing as a game analyst this So is Michigan’s Denard season for ESPN, and the Robinson, who has run for rest of his usual broad993 yards and 14 TDs carcast team will be covering rying the ball fewer times the Buckeyes’ game by design and has completagainst Michigan in Ann ed at least 60 percent of his Arbor on Saturday. passes the past two games. Earlier in the week, “He poses a lot of probESPN announced Meyer lems,” Fickell said. would work in the studio “Anytime the quarterback’s Saturday. got the ability to keep plays alive, running the football, and now it’s Braxton it makes you struggle a litMiller’s turn to take snaps tle bit on defense with some for the Buckeyes. things you can do and the The 6-foot-3, 210-pound chances you can take.”

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No. 1 LSU rolls to win Tigers stay unbeaten, crush No. 3 Arkansas, 41-17 BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Tyrann Mathieu answered the call for a game-turning play when LSU needed one most, and the top-ranked Tigers piled on from there. Mathieu returned a punt 92 yards for a game-tying score and the Tigers punthird-ranked ished Arkansas with 286 yards rushing, wiping out a 14point deficit with a 41-17 win Friday that secured a spot in the SEC championship. “I could hear my teammates in my ear saying, ‘Man, we need you to go make a play,’” Mathieu said. “I was able to help the momentum really go in our favor. “You have no idea how bad I just wanted to go out there and make a big play for our team. I was fortunate enough to be able to do that.” Kenny Hilliard, Spencer Ware and Jordan Jefferson all scored on the ground for LSU (12-0, 8-0 SEC), which is 12-0 for the first time and will play No. 13 Georgia next weekend in Atlanta. A win over the Bulldogs would assure the Tigers their third trip to the BCS title game in nine seasons. Though at this point, LSU might be able to get there even if it loses. The rivalry game with Arkansas (10-2, 6-2) for the big Boot trophy was billed as the biggest in Tiger Stadium since 1959, the last time two teams ranked in the top three clashed in Death Valley. Billy Cannon lifted No. 1 LSU to a 7-3 win over No. 3 Mississippi in that game with an 89-yard punt return for a score, so it seemed fitting that the Tigers would get a similar score against the Razorbacks. “That was a huge turning point in the game,” Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino said. “We were trying to get the ball punted to the sideline, but he miss-hit it a bit and punted it to the middle. … (Mathieu) made a great cut and made us miss at the point of attack.

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LSU quarterback Jordan Jefferson (9) is pressured by Arkansas cornerback Darius Winston (21) and linebacker Alonzo Highsmith (45) during the second quarter in Baton Rouge, La. Friday. He made a great play.” LSU trailed 14-7 when Mathieu fielded Dylan Breeding’s end-over-end kick at his own 8, started left, made a hard cut straight up field, then angled left again to break into the clear. “It made the statement that that lead was not going to stand up,” LSU coach Les Miles said. “Our defense was going to continue to play well and our offense was coming.” No. 8 Houston 48, Tulsa 16 TULSA, Okla. — Case Keenum threw for 457 yards and five touchdowns, Patrick Edwards had 181

yards receiving and four scores and No. 8 Houston earned a spot in the Conference USA championship game by beating Tulsa 48-16 on Friday. The Cougars (12-0, 8-0) set a school season record by winning their 12th game. The 12 straight wins also match the school’s longest winning streak, set over the 1990 and ‘91 seasons. Keenum helped Houston pull away by hooking up with Edwards twice for touchdowns after the Cougars faced a fourth down in no man’s land. He found Edwards cutting across the field for a 33-

yard score on fourth-and-10 in the second quarter, then threw a deep ball to him for a 38-yard TD on fourthand-1 in the third quarter. No. 22 Nebraska 20, Iowa 7 LINCOLN, Neb. — Rex Burkhead, who started the week with his right foot in a walking boot, ran for 160 yards and a touchdown on a school-record 38 carries and No. 22 Nebraska defeated Iowa 20-7 on Friday. Burkhead pounded away at Iowa’s defense 4 and 5 yards at a time and looked like his old self after being held to a season-low 36 yards in last week’s loss at Michigan.

DETROIT (AP) — For the first season-and-a-half of his young career, Ndamukong Suh could almost brush off talk about his penalties and fines, saying he would keep doing what was needed to help his Detroit Lions. On Friday, Suh’s team publically chastised the star defensive tackle after he was ejected during a Thanksgiving loss to Green Bay for stomping at an opposing player. “The on-field conduct exhibited by Ndamukong Suh that led to his ejection from yesterday’s game was unacceptable and failed to meet the high level of sportsmanship we expect from our players,” the team said in a statement Friday night. “Ndamukong has made many positive contributions to the Lions on and off the field. We expect his behavior going forward to consistently reflect that high standard of professionalism.” It could be several days before Suh finds out the true cost of his third-quarter stomp in Detroit’s 2715 loss to the Packers on Thursday. An NFL spokesman said Friday that plays from Week 12 looked at for potential discipline won’t be reviewed until all games are com-

pleted. Detroit coach Jim Schwartz was curt after Thursday’s defeat when asked if he was worried about a possible suspension. “I’m worried about losing this game,” Schwartz said. Suh was dismissed tangling with after Packers offensive lineman Evan Dietrich-Smith. After being pushed off Dietrich-Smith, Suh stepped down hard with his right foot, appearing to make contact with Dietrich-Smith’s right arm. Suh said he was trying to keep his balance while freeing himself from the brief scuffle. He publically apologized to teammates, coaches and fans for “allowing the refs to have an opportunity to take me out of this game,” but he insisted he didn’t intentionally step on anyone. “People are going to have their own opinions that’s fine,” he said. “The only (people) that I really care about are my teammates, my true fans and my coaches and their opinions, and that’s where it lies. And honestly, the most important person in this whole thing that I have to deal with is the man upstairs.”

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49ers look for answers after loss SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — So much for that popular Harbaugh family catchphrase, “Who’s got it better than us? Nobody!” It had a different ring for Jim Harbaugh on Friday. John Harbaugh and the Baltimore Ravens absolutely had it best Thursday night. No cross-country travel to play on three days’ rest. No meetings or film sessions on an airplane. No hostile environment against them in prime time. Still, Jim Harbaugh accepts the fact his San AP PHOTO Francisco 49ers (9-2) might Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh, left, have lost to his big brother chats with his brother, San Francisco 49ers head coach regardless even had it been Sunday game in Jim Harbaugh, center, and their father, Jack, before a their game in Baltimore on Thursday. Candlestick Park with a full

week to prepare. “The fact that we were the road team and we had to travel across country, that put us at a competitive disadvantage,” Harbaugh said Friday of the 16-6 defeat. “I’m not whining, I’m not making excuses, it’s just the truth. We knew it, we had to overcome it and we weren’t able to. And that was a good football team. I think it will make us stronger going forward.” The Harbaugh brothers typically speak on the phone once a week to rehash their respective games. Sometimes it’s Sunday night, or perhaps Monday because of the time difference, and occasionally not

until Tuesday. Jim is unsure when that conversation might take place after Baltimore snapped San Francisco’s eight-game winning streak in the hyped-up game that marked the first time in NFL history siblings opposed each other as head coaches. There are more pressing matters at the moment than friendly family chats. Such as figuring out what happened with an overmatched offensive line that allowed nine sacks of Alex Smith. Harbaugh insists his team will learn from it. He knows the loss stung for his players, who are closing in on the franchise’s first play-

off berth and winning record since 2002. They hadn’t lost since a 27-24 overtime defeat to the Dallas Cowboys in Week 2, so that had to feel a little strange. And San Francisco had won its initial four road games, all on the East Coast. “Not everybody feels the same. Everybody’s different,” Harbaugh said of the reaction. “I’m not a psychologist and wasn’t going around checking the whites of everybody’s eyes to see how bad they felt or didn’t feel. The men put a lot into it. They were disappointed. That I could see. They’ll bounce back. This is a team that’s a resilient team and we’ll learn from it.”

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■ CONTINUED FROM 15 with a 12-point run and didn’t allow Tippecanoe to score for more than eight minutes. The Devils (0-1) then outscored the Aviators 2817 in the fourth quarter. “This was one of those games where you use all of your energy to get back into it — and you don’t have enough left to actually take the lead,” Aaron Jackson said after his debut as Tippecanoe coach. “We played hard. We played real hard.” Tippecanoe returns one of the most dangerous backcourts in the area in Ellise Sharpe and Morgan Miller — the team’s two leading scorers last year. And Sharpe showed why they’re so feared, leading all scorers with 19 points and adding seven steals, six rebounds and three assists. “Ellise is great to have,” Jackson said. “She’s a coach’s dream so far as having someone to take over the team. She can defend, she can hit shots and she will take it to the basket when you need a quick one. She’s tough.” But another scoring and option like defensive Miller — who sat out with an injury — could have provided may have made the difference. Sharpe had 11 points after three quarters — the rest of the team combined for nine at that point. “(Missing) Morgan was huge today,” Jackson said. “It hurt a lot. We didn’t get to set up in some of our presses or traps without her.” But after a 3 by Sharpe made it 35-23 with six minutes to play, the rest of the Devils began to show what they could do, too. After a Jenna Nelson free throw, Sharpe grabbed a rebound on the defensive end — a rarity for Tippecanoe on the night — and hit Erica Comer in transition for a three-point play that cut the lead to single digits. After Butler broke Tippecanoe’s press and scored an easy one, Chelsea Clawson had a steal-and-layup to help the Devils keep pace. A layup by Comer — who finished with 10 points, eight in the fourth quarter — cut the edge to

■ CONTINUED FROM 15 Beasore 1-0-2, Davis 3-3-11, Rieger 2-0-4, Haley 6-8-20. Totals: 17-11-47. Score By Quarters M-U ......................12 23 32 38 Oakwood..............14 24 36 47 3-point goals: M-U — D. Vincent 2. Oakwood — Davis 2. Records: Milton-Union 0-1. Oakwood 1-0. Reserve Score: MiltonUnion 52, Oakwood 12.

Houston 34, Covington 26 HOUSTON — The Houston Wildcats opened with a victory Friday, beating Covington 34-26 in nonleague play. The Wildcats steadily pulled away from Buccs, leading 10-9 after a quarter and 25-18 by the end of the third period. Julianna Simon led all scorers with 16 points for Covington (0-1), and Shelby Kihm added nine. STAFF PHOTOS/COLIN FOSTER

Tippecanoe’s Halee Printz drives the baseline against a Butler defender during the Red Devils’ season opener in Vandalia Friday. 41-36 with 1:46 to play. “Foul trouble held Erica back a little tonight. We had to keep her off the floor at times because of it,” Jackson said. “But she’s going to be big for us this year.” Then Sharpe hit freshman Halee Printz (nine points, six rebounds) for a pair of 3s in the game’s final minute, the second of which made it 49-45 Butler with 14.9 seconds to play. “Haylee played really well,” Jackson said. “She’s still not confident. The team rallied around her in the fourth quarter and said, ‘you’ve got to shoot those’ — and she knocked them down.” Butler drew a foul, though, and pushed the edge back to five, and a buzzer-beating 3 by CC Alvarez wasn’t enough. In the end, Tippecanoe couldn’t overcome two big things — shooting percentage and rebounding. The Devils shot 36 percent for the game and were outrebounded 46-26. The Aviators’ two top rebounders, Gina Warmouth (team-high 14 points, 12 rebounds) and Alyssa Ryerse (four points, 14 rebounds) equaled the Devils’ team total. Emily Mowbray added 14 points for Butler. “We work hard on boxing out in practice, but we

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3-4-10, Jenna Nelson 0-1-1, Ellise

Covington — 26 Simon 5-5-16; Kihm 2-5-9; Cain 0-1-1. Totals: 7-11-26. Houston — 34 Holthaus 3-0-6; Elliott 4-1-9; Roeth 5-0-10; Reister 2-5-9. Totals: 14-6-34. Score By Quarters Covington ..............9 11 18 26 Houston ...............10 16 25 34 Houston 1-0, Records: Covington 0-1. Reserve score: Covington 24, Houston 22.

Lehman 42, Riverside 30 DEGRAFF — Lehman struggled from the field, hitting under 20 percent for the game, but used the free throw line to post a 42-30

victory over Riverside in the Cavaliers’ first game under new head coach Gene Goodwin. Lehman (1-0) is right back in action tonight at home against crosstown rival Sidney. Lehman was able to hit only 10 for 51 from the floor (19.7 percent) and didn’t shoot well at the line either (56 percent). But the Cavs were able to get to the line a lot (22 for 39) and that accounted for over half their points. “They played a 1-2-2 zone but they were doing a lot of slapping,” Goodwin said. “It was ugly, but it was a win, and we’re happy being 1-0.” Lindsay Spearman, who led the Cavs in scoring last season, had 17 to lead all scorers Friday. Whitey Jenkins had 13 to lead Riverside, which was 10 for 46 from the field (22 percent) and just 8 for 22 from the line (36 percent). Lehman — 42 Heckman 0-2-2; Harrelson 04-4; Slagle 0-1-1; Williams 2-0-4; Spearman 6-5-17; Hatcher 2-1-5; Sargeant 0-9-9. Totals: 10-22-42. Riverside — 30 Ledly 3-1-8; Hawkey 1-0-2; Robison 3-0-7; Jenkins 3-7-13. Totals: 10-8-30. Score By Quarters Lehman ...............12 16 26 42 Riverside................5 12 23 30 3-point goals: Lehman — none. Riverside — Robison. Records: Lehman 1-0. Riverside 0-1.

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Tippecanoe’s CC Alvarez drives Friday night against Butler. Jackson said. “We weren’t thinking, and we got outhustled a couple of times. “We shot 36 percent. The basket was closed to us. You’re not going to win many ballgames shooting 36 percent.” The Red Devils host a loaded Carroll team Tuesday to kick off a fourgame homestand. One during which they hope to put all the pieces in place. Tippecanoe — 48 CC Alvarez 1-0-3, Erica Comer

Sharpe 6-5-19, Krystah Pickrell 10-2, Chelsea Clawson 1-0-2, Katie Zellers 1-0-2, Halee Printz 3-1-9. Totals: 16-11-48. Butler — 50 Tierney Black 3-1-7, Whitney Barfknecht 2-2-6, Autumn Ratliff 00-0, Alyssa Ryerse 1-2-4, Gina Warmouth 4-6-14, Danyelle Ratliff 0-0-0, Julie Duren 1-3-6, Emily Mowbray 5-3-14. Totals: 16-17-50. Score By Quarters Tippecanoe..............6 15 20 48 Butler ....................17 21 33 50 3-point goals: Tippecanoe — Alvarez, Sharpe 2, Printz 2. Butler — Duren, Mowbray. Records: Tippecanoe 0-1. Butler 1-0. Reserve score: Butler 31, Tippecanoe 27.

■ CONTINUED FROM 15 for much anticipated game against Duke, with Value City Arena already sold out. “We know the team coming in here on Tuesday night,” said Sullinger, who also had five assists against Valpo. “And we know the team we have coming in here on Tuesday night. It should be a good battle.” The game clearly tilted at the outset of the second half. The Buckeyes brought a four-point lead into the final 20 minutes, but they quickly asserted themselves at both ends of the floor. “We played well for a stretch in the first half,” Valparaiso coach Bryce Drew said. “We didn’t play

a great 20 minutes, but I was optimistic we’d be able to play a good second half. Then we all saw Ohio State’s ability to go on a quick run.” Sullinger had seven points including a crowdpleasing 3 in the secondhalf surge, with Craft adding a 3 and a layup and Buford hitting two jumpers. Buford made six of his seven shots in the second half, including all three of his 3-point attempts. “My teammates were able to get me the ball and were setting good screens for me,” he said. “And I was able to knock them down today.” Jay Harris led the Crusaders (5-2) with 18 points.

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Buffalo Sabres’ Ville Leino, left, chases Columbus Blue Jackets’ Samuel Pahlsson during the second period Friday in Columbus.

Blue Jackets destroy Sabres COLUMBUS (AP) — The Columbus Blue Jackets are starting to look as if they will live up to the hype. Rick Nash scored twice and goalie Curtis Sanford was again solid in goal as the Blue Jackets chased Buffalo goalie Jhonas Enroth early in the second period of a 5-1 victory that sent the Sabres to a third straight loss Saturday night. “Anytime you can get a couple goals, it takes the pressure off big-time at home,” said Nash, who now has seven on the season. “The guys stuck to the game plan right off the start and it seemed to

work.” The Blue Jackets are on a five-game points streak and are 4-1-2 run since a brutal 2-12-1 start. Mark Letestu, Marc Methot and R.J. Umberger also scored for Columbus, who broke out with their highest goal output and largest margin of victory this season. “We haven’t had many of those games, obviously,” Blue Jackets coach Scott Arniel said. “It was nice just to roll the lines. We’ve been doing a lot of good things the last couple of weeks. We said how our play without the puck was going to lead to offense.”

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Josh Parker scored 15 points and Kevin Dillard added 12, leading Dayton to the Old Spice Classic championship game with a 56-49 victory over Fairfield on Friday night. Dayton (4-1) will go against Minnesota, a 76-69 winner over Indiana State earlier Friday, in the title matchup. “Obviously, a great win,” Dayton coach Archie Miller said. “It feels really good, and continues to give not only individual players, but our team confidence that we have won games and especially close ones.” Parker went 0 for 5 from the floor and didn’t score Thursday when Dayton beat Wake Forest 80-76. “It was my teammates. They told me, just stay with it and don’t worry about what happened,” Parker said. “New game, new setting and it’s time to go. Everybody just came and we rallied together. Everybody played big.” Rakim Sanders had 17 points for Fairfield (3-3). He had 21 points and seven rebounds in the Stags’ 55-44 victory over Arizona State on Thursday. Dillard had a threepoint play as Dayton went ahead 54-49 with 62 seconds to play. He added two late free throws after a technical was called on Fairfield coach Sydney Johnson.

“We played hard enough to win … You could tell by my reaction at the end of the game,” Johnson said. “I just don’t think it’s a great idea to harp on my reaction because I know it’s a really good win for Archie and his squad. I don’t want to take anything away from them.” After Matt Kavanaugh’s basket with 3 1/2 minutes to play gave Dayton a 5146 advantage, Desmond Wade hit a 3 to cut the Fairfield deficit to 51-49. Kavanaugh finished with five points and 11 rebounds. Consecutive layups by Paul Williams and Dillard put Dayton up 41-34 eight minutes into the second half. Parker had 13 points as Dayton, despite shooting just 27.3 percent (9 for 33), took a 27-23 halftime lead. Five of the Flyers’ baskets came from 3-point range, including three by Parker. “I thought the last couple games he’s pressed without letting the game come to him,” Miller said. “But to his credit tonight, when we needed him the most, he stepped up and banged some big shots. Without him we can’t win.” Dayton had 10 offensive rebounds, compared to one for Fairfield, which did make 10 of its 19 shots during the opening half. C. FLORIDA 68, No. 4 UCONN 63 PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas — Marcus Jordan was headed to the foul line

for two big shots Friday when a teammate passed along an encouraging message. “He told me this shot is in my blood,” Jordan said. Yup, like father, like son. Jordan, the son of Hall of Famer Michael Jordan, made two big free throws to give Central Florida the lead with 3:11 left and the Knights upset No. 4 Connecticut 68-63 in the semifinals of the Battle 4 Atlantis, snapping the Huskies’ 16-game winning streak. Jordan and Keith Clanton each scored 20 points for the Knights (4-1), who trailed by 17 early in the second half. Jordan also had seven rebounds and seven assists. NO. 5 SYRACUSE 69, STANFORD 63 NEW YORK — Kris Joseph had 18 points and eight rebounds and the fifthranked Orange closed the game on a 15-3 run to win the NIT Season Tip-Off at Madison Square Garden. Syracuse (6-0) was never able to make a run against Stanford until the game’s final 4 minutes, when they made all five of their shots from the field and five of seven free throws. They forced the Cardinal (5-1) into 24 turnovers during the game, including three in the closing stretch. NO. 7 LOUISVILLE 59, OHIO 54 LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kyle Kuric scored 16 points and Gorgui Dieng grabbed a career-high 16 rebounds to

give Rick Pitino his 250th victory as the Cardinals’ coach. Ohio held a six-point lead with under 4 minutes to play before Louisville (5-0) rallied. NO. 10 FLORIDA 107, JACKSONVILLE 62 GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Kenny Boynton scored 22 points, Erving Walker added 21 and the Gators used one of their best shooting performances to handle the Dolphins. NO. 17 PITT 78, PENN 58 PHILADELPHIA — Khem Birch had 15 points and 10 rebounds, Ashton Gibbs added 16 points and the Panthers pulled away from the Quakers to win the Philly Hoop Group Classic. Pittsburgh (4-1) got the 20-point victory over inferior competition it badly needed after struggling the last three games. Zack Rosen led Penn (33) with 22 points on 6 of 10 3-pointers. Tyler Bernardini scored 14 points. HARVARD 46, NO. 22 FSU 41 PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas — Brandyn Curry had six points, five assists, and five steals to help the Crimson upset the Seminoles in a game that matched the lowest halftime Division I scoring total since 1986. Oliver McNally and Wesley Saunders had seven points apiece for Harvard (50), which will face Central Florida in the championship on Saturday.

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FOOTBALL National Football League All Times EDT AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA New England 7 3 0 .700 293 203 5 5 0 .500 228 217 N.Y. Jets 5 5 0 .500 237 253 Buffalo 3 8 0 .273 212 206 Miami South W L T Pct PF PA Houston 7 3 0 .700 273 166 Tennessee 5 5 0 .500 203 195 3 7 0 .300 125 180 Jacksonville 0 10 0 .000 131 300 Indianapolis North W L T Pct PF PA Baltimore 8 3 0 .727 272 182 Pittsburgh 7 3 0 .700 220 179 Cincinnati 6 4 0 .600 236 195 4 6 0 .400 145 193 Cleveland West W L T Pct PF PA 6 4 0 .600 235 254 Oakland 5 5 0 .500 205 247 Denver San Diego 4 6 0 .400 236 259 Kansas City 4 6 0 .400 144 252 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA 7 4 0 .636 270 225 Dallas 6 4 0 .600 228 228 N.Y. Giants Philadelphia 4 6 0 .400 237 213 Washington 3 7 0 .300 160 205 South W L T Pct PF PA New Orleans 7 3 0 .700 313 228 6 4 0 .600 235 213 Atlanta 4 6 0 .400 182 268 Tampa Bay Carolina 2 8 0 .200 225 286 North W L T Pct PF PA Green Bay 11 0 0 1.000 382 227 7 3 0 .700 268 207 Chicago 7 4 0 .636 316 246 Detroit 2 8 0 .200 200 271 Minnesota West W L T Pct PF PA San Francisco 9 2 0 .818 262 161 Seattle 4 6 0 .400 168 209 3 7 0 .300 190 236 Arizona 2 8 0 .200 120 247 St. Louis Thursday, Nov. 24 Green Bay 27, Detroit 15 Dallas 20, Miami 19 Baltimore 16, San Francisco 6 Sunday's Games Arizona at St. Louis, 1 p.m. Tampa Bay at Tennessee, 1 p.m. Cleveland at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. Buffalo at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. Houston at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. Carolina at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. Minnesota at Atlanta, 1 p.m. Chicago at Oakland, 4:05 p.m. Washington at Seattle, 4:05 p.m. Denver at San Diego, 4:15 p.m. New England at Philadelphia, 4:15 p.m. Pittsburgh at Kansas City, 8:20 p.m. Monday's Game N.Y. Giants at New Orleans, 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1 Philadelphia at Seattle, 8:20 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4 Kansas City at Chicago, 1 p.m. Atlanta at Houston, 1 p.m. Denver at Minnesota, 1 p.m. Carolina at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. N.Y. Jets at Washington, 1 p.m. Oakland at Miami, 1 p.m. Tennessee at Buffalo, 1 p.m. Indianapolis at New England, 1 p.m. Baltimore at Cleveland, 4:05 p.m. St. Louis at San Francisco, 4:15 p.m. Dallas at Arizona, 4:15 p.m. Green Bay at N.Y. Giants, 4:15 p.m. Detroit at New Orleans, 8:20 p.m. Monday, Dec. 5 San Diego at Jacksonville, 8:30 p.m. The AP Top 25 The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 19, 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. LSU (60) ...............11-0 1,500 1 2. Alabama................10-1 1,440 3 3. Arkansas...............10-1 1,376 6 4. Stanford ................10-1 1,224 8 5. Oklahoma St. .......10-1 1,206 2 6.Virginia Tech..........10-1 1,133 9 7. Boise St...................9-1 1,025 10 8. Houston ................11-0 1,018 11 9. Oregon....................9-2 1,008 4 964 18 10. Southern Cal ........9-2 876 12 11. Michigan St...........9-2 12. Oklahoma .............8-2 819 5 13. Georgia.................9-2 815 13 762 14 14. South Carolina......9-2 714 15 15. Wisconsin..............9-2 16. Kansas St. ............9-2 682 16 17. Michigan ...............9-2 527 20 515 7 18. Clemson................9-2 456 19 19.TCU.......................9-2 20. Penn St. ................9-2 398 21 21. Baylor....................7-3 383 25 22. Nebraska ..............8-3 155 17 22. Notre Dame..........8-3 155 24 24.Virginia ..................8-3 147 NR 25. Georgia Tech ........8-3 77 NR Others receiving votes: West Virginia 37, Tulsa 34, Auburn 28, Southern Miss. 12, Rutgers 6, Arkansas St. 4, Iowa St. 3, Cincinnati 1. USA Today Top 25 Poll The USA Today Top 25 football coaches poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 19, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, and previous ranking: .................................Record Pts Pvs 1. LSU (59) ...............11-0 1475 1 2. Alabama................10-1 1413 3 3. Arkansas...............10-1 1349 6 4.Virginia Tech..........10-1 1242 7 5. Stanford ................10-1 1222 9 6. Oklahoma State ...10-1 1156 2 7. Houston ................11-0 1075 10 8. Boise State .............9-1 982 11 9. Oregon....................9-2 933 4 10. Michigan State......9-2 928 12 11. Oklahoma .............8-2 826 5 12. Wisconsin..............9-2 808 13 13. South Carolina......9-2 806 14 14. Georgia.................9-2 803 15 15. Kansas State........9-2 671 17 16. Michigan ...............9-2 618 18 17. Clemson................9-2 587 8 18.TCU.......................9-2 494 19 19. Penn State............9-2 455 21 20. Baylor....................7-3 302 NR 21. Georgia Tech ........8-3 203 t23 22. Nebraska ..............8-3 165 16 23. West Virginia.........7-3 158 t23 24. Notre Dame..........8-3 156 25 25.Virginia ..................8-3 154 NR Others receiving votes: Rutgers 54; Auburn 33; Southern Mississippi 25;Tulsa 23; BrighamYoung 21; Arkansas State 10; Northern Illinois 10; Missouri 8; Texas A&M 4; Utah 3; Florida State 1; Iowa State 1; Texas 1. OHSAA Football State Semifinals Pairings COLUMBUS – The Ohio High School

Athletic Association released the football regional final pairings and sites Sunday. The pairings below include the seeds, schools and updated records. Division I State Semifinal Pairings Saturday, November 26, 7 p.m. Toledo Whitmer (13-0) vs. Cleveland St. Ignatius (11-2) at Mansfield Arlin Field Pickerington Central (10-2) vs. Cincinnati St. Xavier (10-3) at Dayton Welcome Stadium State Championship Game: Saturday, Dec. 3 at Canton Fawcett Stadium, 7 p.m. Division II State Semifinal Pairings Friday, November 25, 7:30 p.m. Avon 43, Aurora 20 Trotwood-Madison 47, Cols. MarionFranklin 44 State Championship Game: Friday, Dec. 2 at Massillon Paul Brown Tiger Stadium, 7 p.m. Division III State Semifinal Pairings Friday, November 25, 7:30 p.m. Spring. Shawnee 56, Elida 42 Youngs. Mooney 24, Chagrin Falls 14 State Championship Game: Friday, Dec. 2 at Canton Fawcett Stadium, 3 p.m. Division IV State Semifinal Pairings Saturday, November 26, 7 p.m. Creston Norwayne (12-1) vs. Johnstown-Monroe (13-0) at New Philadelphia Woody Hayes Quaker Stadium Kenton (13-0) vs. Clarksville ClintonMassie (11-2) at Piqua Alexander Stadium State Championship Game: Saturday, Dec. 3 at Massillon Paul Brown Tiger Stadium, 3 p.m. Division V State Semifinal Pairings Friday, November 25, 7:30 p.m. Coldwater 41, Hicksville 21 Kirtland 42, Bucyrus Wynford 0 State Championship Game: Friday, Dec. 2 at Massillon Paul Brown Tiger Stadium, 11 a.m. Division VI State Semifinal Pairings Saturday, November 26, 7 p.m. Berlin Center Western Reserve (13-0) vs. New Washington Buckeye Central (112) at Massillon Paul Brown Tiger Stadium Delphos St. John’s (10-3) vs. Maria Stein Marion Local (11-2) at Wapakoneta Harmon Field State Championship Game: Saturday, Dec. 3 at Canton Fawcett Stadium, 11 a.m.

HOCKEY National Hockey League All Times EDT EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 23 13 6 4 30 73 56 Philadelphia 22 13 6 3 29 80 66 N.Y. Rangers 19 11 5 3 25 54 43 New Jersey 21 12 8 1 25 55 55 N.Y. Islanders 20 5 11 4 14 38 66 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 21 13 7 1 27 71 45 Boston Toronto 22 12 8 2 26 70 70 22 12 9 1 25 62 60 Buffalo 23 10 10 3 23 58 56 Montreal Ottawa 22 10 10 2 22 65 76 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 22 12 6 4 28 63 54 Florida Washington 21 12 8 1 25 69 68 Tampa Bay 21 10 9 2 22 57 68 22 9 9 4 22 64 70 Winnipeg 24 8 12 4 20 57 79 Carolina WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 23 13 7 3 29 77 73 Detroit 21 13 7 1 27 61 48 22 12 8 2 26 55 48 St. Louis 21 10 7 4 24 57 57 Nashville Columbus 22 6 13 3 15 53 73 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Minnesota 22 13 6 3 29 52 47 Edmonton 22 12 8 2 26 62 53 Vancouver 21 11 9 1 23 61 57 22 9 12 1 19 56 68 Colorado Calgary 21 8 12 1 17 45 58 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 19 13 5 1 27 58 43 San Jose Dallas 21 13 8 0 26 56 57 Los Angeles 22 11 7 4 26 54 53 20 11 6 3 25 58 51 Phoenix 22 6 12 4 16 48 71 Anaheim NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Thursday's Games No games scheduled Friday's Games Detroit 3, Boston 2, SO New Jersey 1, N.Y. Islanders 0 Philadelphia 3, Montreal 1 Edmonton 5, Minnesota 2 N.Y. Rangers 6, Washington 3 Chicago 6, Anaheim 5 Pittsburgh 6, Ottawa 3 Winnipeg 3, Carolina 1 Columbus 5, Buffalo 1 Tampa Bay 2, Florida 1, OT St. Louis 2, Calgary 0 Toronto at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Vancouver at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Saturday's Games N.Y. Islanders at New Jersey, 1 p.m. Philadelphia at N.Y. Rangers, 2 p.m. Edmonton at Colorado, 7 p.m. Winnipeg at Boston, 7 p.m. Washington at Buffalo, 7 p.m. Pittsburgh at Montreal, 7 p.m. Florida at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m. Nashville at Detroit, 7 p.m. Dallas at Phoenix, 8 p.m. Vancouver at San Jose, 10 p.m. Chicago at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. Sunday's Games Carolina at Ottawa, 5 p.m. St. Louis at Columbus, 6 p.m. Calgary at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Toronto at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

BASKETBALL The Top Twenty Five The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' college basketball poll, with firstplace votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 20, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: .................................Record Pts Prv 1. North Carolina (62) 3-0 1,621 1 2. Kentucky .................4-0 1,528 2 3. Ohio St. (1)..............3-0 1,493 3 4. UConn (2)...............4-0 1,426 4 5. Syracuse.................4-0 1,353 5 6. Duke........................4-0 1,305 6 7. Louisville .................3-0 1,186 8 8. Memphis .................1-0 1,123 10 9. Baylor ......................3-0 1,079 11 10. Florida...................2-1 998 7 11. Wisconsin..............3-0 916 14 12. Xavier....................3-0 912 13

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SPORTS ON TV TODAY AUTO RACING 11 a.m. SPEED — Formula One, qualifying for Brazilian Grand Prix, at Sao Paulo BOXING 10:30 p.m. HBO — Adrien Broner (21-0-0) vs. Vicente Rodriguez (34-2-1), for vacant WBO junior lightweight title, at Cincinnati; champion Canelo Alvarez (38-0-0) vs. Kermit Cintron (33-4-1), for WBC super welterweight title, at Mexico City COLLEGE FOOTBALL Noon ABC — National coverage, Ohio St. at Michigan or Georgia at Georgia Tech ESPN — Georgia at Georgia Tech or Ohio St. at Michigan ESPN2 — Cincinnati at Syracuse or Rutgers at Connecticut FSN — Rice at SMU FX — Iowa St. at Oklahoma 2:30 p.m. NBC — NCAA, FCS, Grambling St. vs. Southern U., at New Orleans 3:30 p.m. ABC — Regional coverage, Oregon St. at Oregon or teams TBA CBS — National coverage, Alabama at Auburn ESPN — Virginia Tech at Virginia or Penn St. at Wisconsin ESPN2 — Virginia Tech at Virginia or teams TBA FSN — Missouri vs. Kansas, at Kansas City, Mo. 7 p.m. ESPN2 — Florida St. at Florida FSN — Texas Tech vs. Baylor, at Arlington, Texas 7:30 p.m. VERSUS — Washington St. at Washington 7:45 p.m. ESPN — Clemson at South Carolina 8:07 p.m. ABC — Notre Dame at Stanford 10 p.m. FSN — UCLA at Southern Cal GOLF 9 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, South African Open, third round, at Johannesburg, (same-day tape) Noon TGC — Australian PGA Championship, third round, at Coolum Beach, Australia (same-day tape) 10:30 p.m. TGC — Mission Hills World Cup, final round, at Hainan Island, China MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 2 p.m. VERSUS — Battle 4 Atlantis, third place and championship game, teams TBD, at Nassau, Bahamas 10:30 p.m. ESPN2 — Teams TBD, at Las Vegas SOCCER 9:55 a.m. ESPN2 — Premier League, Newcastle at Manchester United

THE BCS RANKINGS As of Nov. 20 Rk 1 1. LSU 2 2. Alabama 3 3. Arkansas 4. Oklahoma St. 6 5. Virginia Tech 5 4 6. Stanford 7. Boise St. 8 7 8. Houston 10 9. Oklahoma 9 10. Oregon 11. Kansas St. 15 12. South Carolina13 12 13. Georgia 14. Michigan St. 11 15. Michigan 16 16. Wisconsin 14 17 17. Clemson 18. Baylor 20 19. Penn St. 18 19 20. TCU 21 21. Nebraska 22. Notre Dame 23 23. Georgia Tech 22 27 24. Auburn 33 25. Texas

Harris Pts Pct 2875 1.0000 2758 0.9593 2619 0.9110 2267 0.7885 2302 0.8007 2371 0.8247 2037 0.7085 2060 0.7165 1719 0.5979 2036 0.7082 1362 0.4737 1511 0.5256 1559 0.5423 1685 0.5861 1164 0.4049 1506 0.5238 1128 0.3923 616 0.2143 943 0.3280 872 0.3033 442 0.1537 281 0.0977 357 0.1242 94 0.0327 9 0.0031

820 16 13. Alabama................5-0 717 12 14. Kansas..................1-1 15. Michigan ...............3-0 587 17 16. Marquette..............4-0 558 21 524 9 17. Pittsburgh..............2-1 468 18 18.Vanderbilt ..............3-1 19. Gonzaga...............3-0 454 22 20. California...............3-0 420 23 327 24 21. Missouri ................3-0 22. Florida St. .............4-0 323 25 23. Arizona..................4-1 273 15 215 — 24. Mississippi St........4-1 108 19 25.Texas A&M............3-1 Others receiving votes: Cleveland St. 94, Michigan St. 58, Creighton 48, Cincinnati 30, Washington 27, UNLV 23, Villanova 18,Temple 14, San Diego St.12, Saint Mary's (Cal) 9, Kent St. 7, Oregon St. 7, Belmont 6, Saint Louis 6, Long Beach St. 4, New Mexico St. 4, Notre Dame 4, Purdue 4, Texas 4, Harvard 3, Georgetown 2, Illinois 2, Middle Tennessee 2, Marshall 1, Minnesota 1, West Virginia 1. USA Today/ESPN Top 25 Poll The top 25 teams in the USA TodayESPN men's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 20, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: .................................Record Pts Pvs 1. North Carolina (30) 3-0 774 1 2. Kentucky (1)............4-0 732 2 3. Ohio State...............3-0 708 3 4. Connecticut.............4-0 668 4 5. Syracuse.................4-0 652 5 6. Duke........................4-0 640 6 7. Louisville .................3-0 555 7 8. Memphis .................1-0 497 10 9. Florida .....................2-1 480 8 10. Baylor....................3-0 443 12 11. Wisconsin..............3-0 438 13 12. Xavier....................3-0 394 14 13. Alabama................5-0 379 15 14. Kansas..................1-1 327 11 15. Michigan ...............3-0 288 17 16. Pittsburgh..............2-1 252 9 17. Marquette..............4-0 241 19 18. California...............3-0 216 22 19. Gonzaga...............3-0 208 23 20. Florida State .........4-0 189 24 21. Missouri ................3-0 181 25 22.Vanderbilt ..............3-1 179 t20 23. Arizona..................4-1 134 16 24.Texas A&M............3-1 65 18 25. Creighton ..............4-0 62 NR Others receiving votes: Mississippi State 58; Purdue 48; Villanova 48; Texas 31; Cincinnati 23; UNLV 23; Northwestern 22; Cleveland State 20; Temple 20; Michigan State 12; Saint Louis 12; George Mason 10; Illinois 8; Long Beach State 8; San Diego State 8; Oklahoma State 6; Saint Mary's 6; Washington 3; Indiana 2; Virginia 2; Harvard 1; Marshall 1; Notre Dame 1.

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USA Today Pts Pct 1475 1.0000 1413 0.9580 1349 0.9146 1156 0.7837 1242 0.8420 1222 0.8285 982 0.6658 1075 0.7288 826 0.5600 933 0.6325 671 0.4549 806 0.5464 803 0.5444 928 0.6292 618 0.4190 808 0.5478 587 0.3980 302 0.2047 455 0.3085 494 0.3349 165 0.1119 156 0.1058 203 0.1376 33 0.0224 1 0.0007

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Computer BCS Pct Avg Pv 1.000 1.0000 1 .930 0.9491 3 .870 0.8985 6 .950 0.8408 2 .710 0.7842 8 .660 0.7711 9 .690 0.6881 10 .560 0.6684 11 .800 0.6526 5 .600 0.6469 4 .840 0.5896 13 .620 0.5640 12 .470 0.5189 14 .290 0.5017 15 .370 0.3980 18 .110 0.3939 17 .300 0.3634 7 .550 0.3230 22 .280 0.3055 21 .270 0.3027 19 .180 0.1485 16 .080 0.0945 NR .000 0.0873 NR .170 0.0750 24 .220 0.0746 23

Friday's Women's Basketball Scores EAST Army 71, Manhattanville 40 E. Michigan 54, Cornell 52 Florida 85, La Salle 74 Hartford 64, TCU 60 Hofstra 70, Drake 60 LIU 81, Charlotte 72 Lafayette 66, Wagner 55 Long Beach St. 70, Columbia 61 Monmouth (NJ) 75, Lehigh 73 Niagara 61, Bucknell 55 Princeton 53, Davidson 44 UConn 74, Fairleigh Dickinson 28 MIDWEST Avila 80, Park 49 BYU 76, Nevada 55 Creighton 104, Campbell 81 Emporia St. 71, Cent. Oklahoma 70 Lake Superior St. 64, Indianapolis 62 Longwood 70, Prairie View 67 Marshall 73, Cincinnati 69, OT Northwestern 63, Stony Brook 58 Oakland 89, Utah Valley 83 Ohio St. 80, Valparaiso 47 S. Illinois 73, Chicago St. 57 St. Joseph's (Ind.) 81, N. Michigan 76 UMKC 64, Wofford 58, OT Washburn 88, Newman 63 Wichita St. 68, UAB 46 Wis.-Eau Claire 67, Rockford 62 Wis.-Oshkosh 91, St. Mary's (Minn.) 79 Wisconsin 66, Bradley 43 Xavier 70, Georgia 56 SOUTH Auburn 78, Nicholls St. 57 Barry 67, Pfeiffer 57 Chattanooga 65, Savannah St. 63 Clemson 59, Furman 49 Florida 107, Jacksonville 62 Lamar 85, Tennessee Tech 65 Lindsey Wilson 99, Life 83 Louisville 59, Ohio 54 Maryland 73, Florida Gulf Coast 67 Mississippi 64, Miami 61, OT Mississippi St. 76, UT-Martin 50 NC A&T 88, Barber-Scotia 53 NC State 82, Elon 67 North Florida 69, Jackson St. 60 SC-Upstate 78, Texas-Pan American 63 San Diego 64, New Orleans 56 Tulane 83, Alcorn St. 41 Union (Ky.) 87, Berea 80 Virginia 68, Green Bay 42 SOUTHWEST Iowa St. 64, Providence 54 N. Colorado 74, W. Carolina 57 N. Iowa 64, Rice 60 Southern U. 64, Florida A&M 61 FAR WEST Arizona St. 51, Illinois 50 Michigan 69, Washington St. 39 N. Colorado 71, Air Force 51 Nicholls St. 83, Weber St. 56 North Dakota 62, S. Utah 61 Oregon 89, UC Irvine 77 Portland 62, Portland St. 54

St. Mary (Neb.) 79, Menlo 76 Tulane 45, Idaho St. 37 Utah 64, Detroit 55 Utah Valley 46, Kent St. 45 TOURNAMENT 76 Classic Semifinals Boston College 66, UC Riverside 62, OT Saint Louis 80, Villanova 68 Battle 4 Atlantis Semifinals Harvard 46, Florida St. 41 UCF 68, UConn 63 Consolation Bracket Coll. of Charleston 68, UNC Asheville 66 Dick's Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip Championship Syracuse 69, Stanford 63 Third Place Virginia Tech 59, Oklahoma St. 57 EA Sports Maui Invitational First Round Cent. Michigan 82, UC Irvine 72 Dartmouth 64, Alaska-Anchorage 52 InnKeepers Beaver Classic First Round Bemidji St. 74, Minot St. 45 Michigan Tech 68, SW Minnesota St.61 Old Spice Classic Semifinals Dayton 56, Fairfield 49 Minnesota 76, Indiana St. 69 Consolation Bracket Arizona St. 84, Wake Forest 56 DePaul 76, Texas Tech 70 Owensboro Classic First Round Kentucky Wesleyan 98, Clark Atlanta 57 Rhodes College Thanksgiving Classic First Round Ohio Wesleyan 70, Washington (Mo.) 67 Rhodes 77, Principia 43 Union Thanksgiving Classic First Round Tougaloo 97, Freed-Hardeman 68 Union (Tenn.) 74, McKendree 65 The Women's Top Twenty Five The top 25 teams in the The Associated Press' women's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 20, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Pts Prv .................................Record 999 1 1. Baylor (39) ..............3-0 927 4 2. UConn.....................2-0 903 5 3. Stanford...................3-0 4. Notre Dame............3-1 888 2 5.Texas A&M (1) ........4-0 861 6 765 3 6.Tennessee...............2-1 757 8 7. Duke........................3-0 727 10 8. Maryland.................4-0 9. Miami.......................2-1 642 7 616 12 10. Georgia.................4-0 610 9 11. Louisville ...............3-1 507 13 12. Oklahoma .............2-0 466 15 13. Rutgers .................3-0 452 17 14. Kentucky ...............4-0 446 16 15. Purdue ..................3-0 16. North Carolina......3-0 390 19 324 11 17. Penn St. ................3-1 212 24 18. Ohio St..................2-0 201 25 19.Texas Tech ............2-0 20. LSU .......................2-1 171 20 166 14 21. Georgetown..........2-2 153 — 22.Virginia ..................4-0 151 18 23. DePaul ..................4-1 24.Texas .....................2-1 113 — 106 22 25. UCLA ....................2-1 Others receiving votes: Green Bay 92, Delaware 79, Gonzaga 67, Georgia Tech 59, Iowa St. 29, Florida St. 20, Kansas St. 19, Nebraska 13, San Diego St.13,Tulane 11, Vanderbilt 10, Princeton 9, Southern Cal 9, UNLV 8, California 4, Michigan 2, Michigan St. 2, Arkansas 1. USA Today/ESPN Women's Top 25 Poll The top 25 teams in the USA TodayESPN women's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 21, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: .................................Record Pts Prv 773 1 1. Baylor (29) ..............4-0 734 4 2. UConn (2)...............3-0 701 2 3. Notre Dame............3-1 4.Texas A&M..............4-0 678 6 638 5 5. Stanford...................3-1 603 8 6. Duke........................3-0 7.Tennessee...............2-1 602 3 8. Maryland.................4-0 550 9 500 7 9. Miami.......................2-1 497 11 10. Georgia.................4-0 11. Kentucky ...............4-0 455 13 12. Louisville ...............3-1 447 10 385 15 13. Rutgers .................3-0 14. Oklahoma .............2-0 364 14 15. North Carolina......3-0 324 17 272 12 16. Penn State............3-1 271 20 17. Purdue ..................3-0 18. Green Bay ............3-0 191 23 19. Ohio State.............2-0 156 25 150 18 20. DePaul ..................4-1 21. Georgetown..........3-2 141 16 22.Texas .....................2-1 125 24 23. LSU .......................3-1 96 21 24. Florida State .........3-2 68 19 25. Georgia Tech ........3-0 64 — Others receiving votes: Vanderbilt 62, Iowa State 47, Gonzaga 46, Virginia 28, Texas Tech 25, Syracuse 19, Delaware 13, Oklahoma State 10, UCLA 9, Kansas 6, Princeton 4, St. John's 4, UNLV 3, Villanova 3, Michigan 2, Temple 2, Tulane 2, James Madison 1, Middle Tennessee 1, Nebraska 1, San Diego State 1, Southern Cal 1. Firday’s Scores Girls Basketball Anna 56, New Knoxville 37 Bellbrook 58, Miamisburg 42 Cambridge 41, New Concord John Glenn 36 Fairview 34, Garfield Hts. 30 Girard 52, McDonald 49 Kettering Fairmont 64, Fairfield 41 Maria Stein Marion Local 55, Ft. Loramie 42 Morrow Little Miami 52, Waynesville 43 N. Baltimore 75, Tontogany Otsego 59 N. Lewisburg Triad 69, W. Jefferson 19 Painesville Riverside 45, Painesville Harvey 33 Parma Hts. Valley Forge 49, Cle. John Marshall 19 Sidney Lehman 42, DeGraff Riverside 30 Spring. Cath. Cent. 69, Spring. Emmanuel Christian 42 Spring. Kenton Ridge 80, S. Charleston SE 46 Sylvania Northview 54, Strongsville 33 Tol. Whitmer 46, Liberty Center 23 Vandalia Butler 50, Tipp City Tippecanoe 48 New Madison Tri-Village 79, Arcanum 19 Celina 89, Greenville 46 Huber Hts. Wayne 56, Versailles 38 Lorain 52, Cle. Hts. Beaumont 32 Bay Village Bay 60, Chardon 57 Lima Bath 46, Delphos St. John's 26 Middleburg Hts. Midpark 69, Rocky

River Magnificat 60 N. Can. Hoover 83, Parma Normandy 30 Middletown Madison 56, Riverside Stebbins 28 Athens 49, S. Point 35 Sardinia Eastern 49, Ironton 42 Washington C.H. 60, Waverly 40 Wheelersburg 44, Williamsburg 29 Williamsport Westfall 47, Minford 37

GOLF World Cup of Golf Scores Friday At Mission Hills Hainan Golf Club Haikou, China Purse: $7.5 million Yardage: 7,511, Par: 72 Second Round Foursomes, alternate shot Brendan JonesRichard Green, Australia ...61-60—131 Graeme McDowellRory McIlroy, Ireland..........63-68—131 Stephen GallacherMartin Laird, Scotland .......63-69—132 Gary WoodlandMatt Kuchar, United States64-70—134 Alvaro QuirosJimenez, Spain ..................65-69—134 Gareth PaddisonHendry, New Zealand........66-68—134 Robert-Jan DerksenJoost Luiten, Netherlands .64-71—135 Justin RoseIan Poulter, England...........66-69—135 Jose de Jesus RodriguezOscar Serna, Mexico.........66-69—135 Charl SchwartzelOosthuizen, South Africa ..68-68—136 Liang Wen-chongZhang Xin-jun, China.........68-68—136 Alex CejkaMartin Kaymer, Germany..65-71—136 Edoardo MolinariFrancesco Molinari, Italy....67-69—136 Yuta IkedaTetsuji Hiratsuka, Japan.....66-70—136 Brendon de JongeMcDonald, Zimbabwe........66-70—136 Gregory BourdyRaphael Jacquelin, France66-70—136 Rhys DaviesJamie Donaldson, Wales...67-69—136 Kiradech AphibarnratJaidee, Thailand.................66-70—136 Anders HansenOlesen, Denmark...............65-72—137 Kim Hyung-sungSung-joon, South Korea....66-71—137 Hugo SantosRicardo Santos, Portugal ..70-68—138 Lucas LeeAdilson da Silva, Brazil ......68-70—139 Alexander NorenRobert Karlsson, Sweden.66-74—140 Manny VillegasCamilo Villegas, Colombia 65-76—141 Florian PraegantRoland Steiner, Austria......69-72—141 Lam Chih-bingMardan Mamat, Singapore68-75—143 Jerome TheunisNicolas Colsaerts, Belgium67-77—144 Pablo AcunaJose Toledo, Guatemala....75-74—149 Australian PGA Championship Scores Friday At Hyatt Regency Coolum Resort Coolum, Australia Purse: $1.48 million Yardage: 6,686; Par: 72 a-amateur Second Round Fraser, Australia .................68-65—133 Watson, United States.......67-68—135 K.T. Kim, South Korea........69-67—136 Y.E.Yang, South Korea ......69-68—137 John Senden, Australia .....73-64—137 Adam Scott, Australia ........70-67—137 Robert Allenby, Australia ...69-68—137 McKechnie, Australia .........68-70—138 Chan Shih-chang, Taiwan .69-69—138 Kieran Pratt, Australia........68-70—138 Stuart Appleby, Australia ...70-68—138 Jason Day, Australia...........69-69—138 Summers, Australia............70-68—138 Townsend, Australia...........67-71—138 Kurt Barnes, Australia........69-69—138 Geary, New Zealand..........68-70—138 Bowditch, Australia.............66-73—139 Holloway, New Zealand .....70-69—139 Aaron Baddeley, Australia .67-72—139 Marc Leishman, Australia..70-69—139 Joon-woo, South Korea.....66-73—139 Ryan Haller, Australia ........70-70—140 Matthew Giles, Australia....70-70—140 Peter Fowler, Australia.......71-69—140 Chang-won, South Korea..68-72—140 Greg Chalmers, Australia..71-69—140 David Bransdon, Australia.69-71—140 Alistair Presnell, Australia..73-68—141 Aron Price, Australia ..........69-72—141 Geoff Ogilvy, Australia........72-69—141 Greg Norman, Australia.....72-69—141 Nick O'Hern, Australia .......72-69—141 Adam Bland, Australia.......68-74—142 Brad Kennedy, Australia ....74-68—142 Stephen Leaney, Australia.70-72—142 Ashley Hall, Australia.........73-69—142 Fowler, United States.........69-73—142 Li Haotong, China..............72-70—142 Mitchell Brown, Australia ...69-73—142 Clarke, Northern Ireland....69-73—142 Peter Nolan, Australia........69-73—142 Heath Reed, Australia .......69-73—142 Woo-hyun, South Korea ....74-69—143 Steve Conran, Australia.....68-75—143 Rod Pampling, Australia....72-71—143 Peter Senior, Australia .......70-73—143 Scott Hend, Australia.........75-68—143 Leigh Deagan, Australia ....72-71—143 Beckmann, Australia..........72-71—143

TRANSACTIONS Friday's Sports Transactions FOOTBALL National Football League NFL_Fined Seattle S Kam Chancellor $40,000 for unnecessary roughness against St. Louis TE Lance Kendricks. Fined Denver LB Von Miller $25,000 for roughing New York Jets' QB Mark Sanchez in a Nov. 17 game. Fined San Francisco S Dashon Goldson $25,000 for punching Arizona WR Early Doucet and fined Doucet $10,000 for unnecessary roughness when he struck Goldson in the helmet area in a Nov. 20 game. Fined Miami S Tyrone Culver $20,000 for unnecessary roughness in a Nov. 20 game against Buffalo. Fined Philadelphia WRKR DeSean Jackson $10,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct and Philadelphia DT Trevor Laws was fined $7,500 for unnecessary roughness in a Nov. 20 game at the New York Giants. DETROIT LIONS_Placed RB Jahvid Best on injured reserve. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS_Placed CB Derek Cox on injured reserve. Signed QB Dan LeFevour off Indianapolis' practice squad. NEW YORK JETS_Signed OT Austin Howard from Baltimore's practice squad. ST. LOUIS RAMS_Placed WR Mark Clayton and OT Jason Smith on injured reserve. Signed WR Nick Miller.