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Check out this week’s iN75 The Buckeye Insurance Group Basketball Holiday Classic doubles its amount of games by inviting girls teams to compete this year. Also, Mainstreet Piqua has new collectibles, and the Historic Sidney Theatre will be the site of a New Year’s Eve party this year.

Renewal levy to be on May ballot Come May, the Milton-Union Exempted Village School District renewal levy will be back on the ballot. The Board of Education voted Monday to place a renewal for the existing 10.9 mill, five-year tax levy on the ballot for the May 7, 2013 election. The levy renewal was originally placed on the Nov. 6 ballot and failed by nine votes.

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Council OKs ordinance In their final meeting of 2012 Monday night, Covington Village Council members looked ahead to next year by approving the 2013 appropriations ordinance. Expecting to begin 2013 with a projected $1,244,580 carryover balance for all funds, council passed appropriations totaling $2,721,356. Of that total, general fund expenses are expected to total $1,062,454.

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Several pieces of legislation related to terms of employment for city employees were passed at Monday’s council meeting, including American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) contracts that are valid for a three-year period. The city’s current contract with

TROY AFSCME expires at the end of this year. “You saw so many ordinances (at the meeting) because many different AFSCME groups were involved, and there was language passed for non-union employees too. All that will be in place Jan. 1,” said Director of Public Service and Safety Patrick Titterington.

“The only groups that are not resolved are police and fire, and we anticipate those won’t be resolved till the first quarter of next year.” The legislation had been endorsed by the personnel committee, which had gone into executive session to discuss the issues. Personnel committee chairman Alan Clark said the committee had discussed the issues involving wages and benefits extensively.

“We try to treat our employees fairly, but obviously cost savings are important,” Clark said. “We’re trying to get cost savings at a reasonable dollar and be fair to the employees and taxpayers, too.” Major changes of the AFSCME agreement include wage adjustments of 2.25 percent for 2013, 2014 and 2015 — to cover increases in the cost of living — for any-

Message from the heart Students send condolences to Newtown community BY MELANIE YINGST Staff Writer myingst@tdnpublishing.com he message is simple: Our thoughts and prayers are with you. It was Troy High School freshman Hena Brucia’s idea to simply do TROY something to let the residents of Newtown, Conn., and the families who lost loved ones know that Troy High School students mourn with them in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School’s shooting tragedy. Brucia, 14, said she heard about the tragedy last week and wanted to help. “I just wanted to show the families that we cared and send something to them,” Brucia said. Brucia said she has a friend who had a cousin who was a victim in the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy and the news of her friend’s loss hit close to home. “I used to go to school with her and I still talk to her and she lost a cousin in this shooting and I felt

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TIPP CITY This can create issues because there is no specific code section to cite when court action is necessary. Some of the changes include correcting language to make the regulations easier to read, increasing the maximum fine for noncompliance from $500 to $1,000 and allowing the city to pass the extra costs of pursuing compliance (collection agency, court fees, and certified letters) on to the delinquent tax filer. It also would allow Tax Administrator Steve Cross to waive late filing fees under special circumstances and to waive penalties up to $100 with the approval of the finance director. “There really are no significant changes,” Finance Director John Green said. Gibson called the changes “major surgery,” saying that more time is

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needed to consider the ordinance. City Manager Jon Crusey disagreed, echoing the finance director’s statement that the changes are minor. Before the city can take any action against delinquent tax filers, the ordinance must be approved. But Crusey assured Council that tabling the ordinance would not cause too much of a delay in the city’s pursuit of delinquent taxes. It will be on the agenda again in January to allow the council more time to review. Council also discussed a new policy for collecting delinquent income taxes. At the last meeting, Green proposed several changes to the city’s income tax regulations. He suggested that, once a delinquent account has been identified, the city should send out a collection letter. If that individual does not respond to the first

An adoptive father of three juveniles accused of raping the children in his custody and compelling child prostitution via online advertisements received a 60-year term in prison Monday. Kenneth H. Brandt, 40, of Troy, will remain behind prison bars until age 100 following Monday’s sentencing hearing in common pleas court BRANDT that followed a November plea agreement where 25 rape counts against him were dismissed and he pleaded guilty to six similar rape counts. In return, Brandt agreed to cooperate with authorities and testify against another man, Jason Zwick, 29, of Beavercreek, at his trial next week. Additionally, Brandt’s attorney, Nick Gounaris, said his client entered the plea so the child victims in the case will not have to testify. Neither Gounaris or Brandt offered the court any comment during the hearing, and Miami County Prosecutor Gary Nasal said he had no comment since Zwick’s case is still pending with the court. Afterward, Gounaris said he and his client were “happy the court followed through” with the plea agreement. At the hearing Brandt

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Kade is in kindergarten. “I think it makes people stop and sorry for her and her family,� Brucia said think,� said Lainee, a freshman. “I have a little sister in Kindergarten and I couldn’t Tuesday. “I was very sad about it so I imagine what it would fell like to lose her thought about doing something.� like that.� Brucia approached Troy High School “It didn’t just happen to Connecticut — guidance counselor Aaron Gibbons to put out a large banner out for students to sign it affected the whole world,� Lainee added. and send to Newtown, Conn. McKenna, a junior, said she signed her “It feels good to just do something and we started it yesterday and we have a lot name to show support to help bring hope and to show others around the country of names on it already,� Brucia said. they care about the victims. Freshman Dameek Baker signed his “I just think how we are from a small name to show support for the victims and the members of the Newtown community. town too,� McKenna said. “If one person sees this, they might feel like others care.� “It brings hope to them — you can’t Freshman Allie Soutar said the news bring those little kids back,� Baker said. hit close to home for her as well. “This shows people that we care about “It happened at the same time as I was them.� walking in to school,� Soutar said. “If it Sisters Lainee Poling and McKenna could happen there, it could happen to Poling said the news of the young any school and everybody would be children killed in the elementary classdevastated too.� room hit close to home since their sister

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Robbery suspect in court Monday Pleads guilty to robbing two gas stations BY WILL E SANDERS Civitas Media wsanders@dailycall.com A West Milton man who robbed two Troy Speedway gas stations within 15 minutes of one another in September faced a common pleas court judge Monday and entered pleas to his felony charges. Daniel A. Hymer, 30, pleaded guilty to two charges of robbery, which are third- HYMER degree felonies, and could face a maximum prison sentence of 10 years at his Jan. 28 sentencing. On Sept. 14, Hymer robbed the first Speedway,

TROY located at 1475 W. Market St., and another, located at 1894 W. Main St., just after 1 a.m. Authorities took Hymer into custody after the robberies after a sheriff’s deputy spotted a vehicle that matched a description of a suspect vehicle involved in the robberies shortly after they were committed. P o l i c e later recovered surveillance footage from the gas stations that showed Hymer committing the crimes. He remains behind bars at the Miami County Jail on a combined $70,000 bond.

Covington Police Chief Lee Harmon reports an arrest is expected to be made later this week in an alleged attempted abduction involving three young

• CONTINUED FROM 1 one hired after Jan. 1. Vacation accrual will also change to two weeks for new employees instead of three, as a cost-saving measure for the city. “We talked to council and wanted to reduce long-term liability on benefits, and that was one of the benefits we saw, in the long-term, that would help manage the costs,â€? Titterington said. Severance pay at retirement, death or job abolishment will be decreased from a maximum of 1,040 hours to 240 hours. “For new hires, on or after Jan. 1, the maximum you can be paid out at retirement is 240 hours. That’s a big difference,â€? he said. Council members also approved a demand response agreement with EnerNOC, Inc., which will replace a similar agreement with DP&L — in conjunction with EnerNOC, Inc. — that is expiring. “If we had a major heat wave, and there’s a day everyone’s using their air conditioning and the strain on the electric

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the two men, along with another man, Patrick Rieder, 32, of Dayton, were arrested by authorities in February where several items were seized from Brandt’s home, including computers and media storage devices. The search and subsequent arrest came following an undercover investigation by the Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. The children, who were abused at Brandt’s Troy home and another home in Dayton, were ages 9, 10 and 12 at the time of the alleged sexual abuse, authorities said. Brandt and Zwick met

also was labeled as a tier III sex offender, which requires him to register as such for the rest of his life every 90 days in person at the sheriff’s office where he lives, works or receives an education. He also will be subject to a mandatory post release control term of five years, but it’s unlikely the man will ever be paroled in his lifetime. Originally, Brandt was COVINGTON charged with 31 counts of rape, 11 of which involved a victim under the age of 10. children. Brandt and Zwick were Police received a report at 11:17 a.m. Sunday that indicted by a Miami County the driver of an older red grand jury in March after pickup truck approached three children under the age of 10 who were riding their bikes at the intersec- • CONTINUED FROM 1 tion of Grant and Maple streets and told one of the letter, another will be sent. children to get in his truck. After that, an administrative subpoeHarmon said the children na will be issued. fled on their bikes and If the individual still does not respond, notified officers of the inci- a third, certified collection letter will be dent. sent. Failure to respond to all of the preNo threats were made vious steps will result in court action. In in the incident, according addition to these steps, the city may also to Harmon. use the services of a collection agency and Harmon said a descrip- periodically implement a tax amnesty tion of the truck was sent program. to all area law enforcement agencies and at about 2 Tax centralization p.m. Piqua police stopped a Also on the topic of income tax collecvehicle that fit the descrip- tion, council discussed House Bill 601. tion. Introduced by state representatives The driver was ques- Cheryl Grossman and Michael Henne, tioned and then released. this bill aims to make Ohio more business “We’re still talking to friendly by implementing municipal the kids,â€? Harmon said income tax uniformity. However, Tipp Monday night. “We do have City officials and the Ohio Municipal a suspect.â€? League feel that the bill is unfriendly to An arrest will likely be municipalities and will result in lost revmade later this week, he enues. According to the finance director, one added.

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of the key provisions of the bill is that municipalities must repeal their current income tax code and adopt the state income tax code. “They’re creating the framework for a centralized collection policy,� Crusey said, which the city has opposed in the past. “This is not friendly to local governments.� The bill also requires a five-year net operating loss (NOL) carry-forward, which means that losses in one year can be used to offset gains in a future year. Currently, Tipp City does not permit net operating loss carry-forwards. According to Green, a one-year NOL would have cost the city approximately $50,000 in 2012. House Bill 601 would also make it prohibitively difficult to audit a tax return and make corrections or assessments. Gibson called the bill the “latest in a series of centralization attempts� and Mayor Dee Gillis said it was unfair to the residents of Tipp City. The council agreed that they would be in favor of a resolution opposing the bill.

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• COMMISSION MEETING: The Miami County Veterans Service Commission will meet at 3 p.m. at 510 W. Water St., Suite 140, Troy. • NATURE CLUB: Brukner’s Home School Nature Club will offer “Ohio’s Nocturnal World,” from 2-4 p.m. at the center. Participants will take advantage of winter’s frost and snow to track down facts about the fascinating fauna that are active during the darkest hours. The fee for the program is $2.50 for BNC members and $5 for non-members. Registration and payment are due by 5 p.m. Monday before the program. • KIWANIS MEETING: The Kiwanis Club of Troy will meet from noon to 1 p.m. at the Troy Country Club. The Rev. Joe Hinds, a Presbyterian minister and YMCA teen leadership director, will give a holiday message. Fellow Kiwanian Dick Phillips also will play a few holiday selections on his saxophone. For more information, contact Donn Craig, vice president, at (937) 4181888. • BLOOD DRIVE: A blood drive will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at One Call Now, 726 Grant St., Troy. Those who register will receive a free “Blood Donor — Saves Lives” knit scarf in scarlet and grey. Individuals with eligibility questions are invited to email canidonate@cbccts.org or call (800) 388-GIVE. Make an appointment at www.DonorTime.com.

THURSDAY • SOLSTICE CONCERT: Come celebrate the new season with wine, nature and song in the candlelit Heidelberg Auditorium at Brukner Nature Center at 7 p.m. and enjoy songs of the season with True Life Travelers. Admission is $5 for BNC members and $10 for non-members. Meet a wildlife ambassador up close and personal, possibly take home a poinsettia door prize and be the first to view the “Nature though the Lens” submissions. All proceeds support the mission of wildlife conservation. • EXHIBIT OPENING: Brukner’s annual the “Nature though the Lens” exhibit, which will feature the work of both adult and youth participants that have captured the beauty on the BNC grounds, will open. The exhibit also will be open to the public during Interpretive Center hours and will run through March 17. A percentage of the sales of these works will support the mission of Brukner. • CRAFTS FOR SCHOOL AGE KIDS: School-age children accompanied by an adult are invited to come by the TroyMiami County Public Library anytime between 10 a.m. to noon to create a gift for someone special. No registration is necessary. • CHESS CLUB: Have you ever played chess or wanted to learn how to play the game of chess? Whether you are a chess master or an amateur, the Troy-Miami County Library’s Checkmate Chess Club invites all types of players at 6:30 p.m. Play against your friends and family or sit back and watch others capture the pieces. Learn new strategies to controlling the board and defeating your opponent. • BOARD MEETING: The regular meeting of the Lostcreek Township Board of Trustees has been canceled and a year-end meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Dec. 27. • DISCOVERY WALK: A morning discovery walk for adults will be from 8-9:30 a.m. at Aullwood Audubon Center, 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton. Tom Hissong, education coordinator, will lead walkers as they experience the wonderful seasonal

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MONDAY • TENDERLOIN AND FRIES: The American Legion, 377 N. 3rd St., Tipp City, will offer a tenderloin sandwich and fries for $5 from 6-7:30 p.m. • CANDLELIGHT SERVICE: Full Gospel Community Church, 212 S. Mulberry St., Troy, will offer a candlelight Christmas Eve service at 6 p.m. The event will include music and fellowship. For more information, call (937) 570-5273.

DEC. 27 changes taking place. Bring binoculars. • AMERICAN LEGION DINNER: The Troy Post American Legion Post No. 43, 622 S. Market St., is having a dinner from 5 until 7:30 p.m. The meal will include chicken and noodles, mashed potatoes and green beans or corn for $7.

FRIDAY • FRIDAY DINNER: The Covington VFW Post No. 4235, 173 N. High St., Covington, will offer dinner from 5-8 p.m. For more information, call 753-1108. • COUNTRY FRIED STEAK: The Pleasant Hill VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, will offer chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and a side from 6-7:30 p.m. for $7. • CHICKEN AND NOODLES: The AMVETS Ladies Auxiliary, 3449 LeFevre Road, Troy, will offer chicken and noodles from 5:30-8 p.m. for $7. Meals also will include mashed potatoes, corn and dessert. • BLOOD DRIVE: A blood drive will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Miami County YMCA, 3060 S. County Road 25-A, Troy, and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Voss Honda, 155 S. Garber Drive, Tipp City. Those who register will receive a free “Blood Donor — Saves Lives” knit scarf in scarlet and grey. Individuals with eligibility questions are invited to email canidonate@cbccts.org or call (800) 388-GIVE. Make an appointment at www.DonorTime.com. • END OF THE WORLD PARTY: The Tipp City American Legion Post No. 586, 377 N 3rd St, Tipp City will host a “PARTY LIKE THERE’S NO TOMAYAN!!!!.” Join us for a “Survive the End of the World Party” from 6 p.m. until the end of the world or closing time, whichever comes first. There will be food, tacos, burritos and Mexican style snacks, music, games and prizes. Please bring a snack to share and one canned good for charity. The cost is $6 per person. The public is welcome.

• DISCOVERY WALK: A morning discovery walk for adults will be from 8-9:30 a.m. at Aullwood Audubon Center, 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton. Tom Hissong, education coordinator, will lead walkers as they experience the wonderful seasonal changes taking place. Bring binoculars. • FEEDERWATCH: Project Feederwatch will be offered from 9:30-11:30 a.m. at Aullwood, 1000 Aullwood Road, Dayton. Count birds, drink coffee, eat doughnuts, share stories and count more birds. The bird count contributes to scientific studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Check out the Cornell web site at www.bird.cornell.edu/pfw for more information.

Troy car dealership hosting charity drive For the Troy Daily News An area business currently is collecting everything from toys cars to coloring books and more for a number of families who will be spending Christmas in the hospital. Dave Arbogast Buick GMC Vans RVs, 3540 S. County Road 25-A, currently is hosting a charity drive in an effort to collect toys, books, art supplies, gift cards and more for patients and their families currently admitted to the Children’s Medical Center in Dayton. The dealership is working with the hospital’s Child Life Network for the drive. The drive will continue through Thursday evening. “A lot of people don’t realize the kids in the hospital aren’t the only ones who need a helping hand during the holiday season,” said Blake Arbogast. “Donations in the form of gift cards (gas, area restaurants, etc.) go a long way in helping ease

some of the financial burden of having a loved one in the hospital.” Among the items currently being sought after by the hospital include the following: gift cards (iTunes, WalMart, Best Buy, Target), family gift cards (Area Restaurants, gas cards, phone cards, parking passes), coloring books, small Lego sets, Snap-together car models (no glue or paint needed), nail polish and lip gloss, Uno cards, playing cards, Old Maid, Go Fish, etc., high quality rattles, Hot Wheels/Matchbox cars, My Little Pony, Littlest Pet Shop, Webkinz, books for teens, Transformers/action figures, gel pens, journals, notebooks, fun pads, Mad Libs, activity pads, gift set size shower gel/lotion, Fisher-Price toys, culturally diverse dolls, new board books for infants and toddlers, over-the-door Nerf basketball hoops and arts

and craft sets. Each year, the team at Dave Arbogast chooses a different local charitable group to work with. In the past, it’s included everyone from the women’s abuse shelter in Miami County to Choices Foster Care, Inc. in Kettering. “We wanted to do something different this year,” Arbogast said. “There are a number of people from our dealership whose lives have been touched in a positive way by Children’s Hospital in Dayton, we felt a responsibility to do everything we can to help out the families who stay with them. “The best part of all of this is we have a great team here who have all already went above and beyond when it comes to donating. We couldn’t be more thrilled.” If anyone in the public, both on a personal or business level, is interested in donating items, contact the dealership at (937) 335-0068.

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Michaela M. Sainz SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Air Force Reserve Airman Michaela M. Sainz graduated this fall from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force

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If it could happen there, it could happen here It is so easy, while living here in our tranquil, insular little community, to assume we are safe. This is a town where many people would think nothing of leaving their doors unlocked at night, let their kids walk down to the corner market by themselves and think the firemen getting a cat out of the tree is “big news.” Face it, it’s part of the charm of living in a community like this. We are far removed from the hustle and bustle of the big city and all its problems. Sure, it may not be as exciting as living in New York or Los Angeles — but it’s also far removed from the traffic, the noise and, especially, the crime and violence. Or so we’ve always thought. The recent tragedy at Shady Hook Elementary School in Connecticut has shattered our way of thinking about the community in which we live. Newtown, Conn. is not all that different from Troy, Ohio. It is similar in size, population and cultural and economic statistics. On that horrible morning, parents sent their children to school with no idea of what would transpire a few hours later. They felt as though their children would be safe within the friendly confines of an elementary school building. Now, all of that has changed. For the families of the nearly two dozen children who were brutally murdered, life will never be the same. There are no words that can possibly express the pain and suffering they must be feeling — and will continue to feel so long as they are on this planet. They aren’t the only ones hurting, however. The families of the children fortunate to survive also are suffering unspeakable pain. The hundreds of children who were spared that day have seen sights and heard sounds no child should ever have to witness. They — along with their families — are now charged with putting the pieces of their shattered lives back together. It will take a lifetime. The scariest part for those of us living hundreds of miles away is that if it could happen there, it could happen here. Newtown is very much like Troy — and just as the people living there could not possibly have predicted the terror that would unfold in their community, we have no way of guaranteeing the same thing couldn’t happen in our community. Rather than focus on the negative and live in constant fear, however, let this tragedy serve as a wake-up call to all of us. Our local school administrators always have done an excellent job of putting safety measures in place at our schools. This is an opportunity for them to examine what already is in place to see if they could possibly do more. This is a reminder to our local police officers and other firstresponders to be ever vigilant should the worst of all possible scenarios occur in our town. More than any of that, however, this is an opportunity for all of us to remember how much our loved ones mean to us. After reading this, give your kids and extra hug. Chances are you’ve already been doing plenty of that since Friday — but giving them yet another one isn’t going to hurt. Tell them you love them and how much you cherish every moment you have with them. At times like these, little acts such as that can go a long way.

EDITORIAL ROUNDUP Enterprise-Journal, McComb, Miss., on automobile “black boxes”: You’ve heard of those “black boxes” on airplanes that record data used to determine the cause of a crash. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is expected to soon propose regulations requiring automobile manufacturers to install similar equipment on all new cars and light trucks. What most motorists don’t know is that automakers on their own have been quietly installing data-recording devices in some vehicles for years. The devices can record the actions of

drivers and the responses of their cars and pickup trucks. According to an Associated Press article, when a car equipped with such devices “is involved in a crash or when its airbags deploy, inputs from the vehicle’s sensors during the five to 10 seconds before impact are automatically preserved. That’s usually enough to record things like how fast the car was traveling and whether the driver applied the brake, was steering erratically or had a seat belt on.” Sounds like a good thing — especially when it comes to lawsuits involving both drivers and manufacturers. Such equipment can be useful in placing blame

where it belongs. Also, the recorders can help identify defects in automobiles, showing manufacturers things they need to correct. But such devices are not without controversy. Already privacy advocates are insisting on rules and limits on how much information can be gathered and how it can be used. Perhaps they’ll make a valid argument for some limits, but we doubt it. In our view, the benefits of using reliable data to produce safer vehicles, as well as helping establish accurate blame for crashes, outweigh privacy concerns.

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Newtown slayings a call to action for Congress Newtown is the latest locale in America to become synonymous with senseless slaughter. The shock and the horror are so intense, it almost guarantees that Congress will act. There will inevitably be an enormous brouhaha around guns and ammunition, leading to nothing likely to prevent the next massacre. Democrats are talking about a renewed assault-weapon ban and a prohibition on highcapacity magazines. But Adam Lanza could have killed just as indiscriminately with any semiautomatic gun, and if he didn't have a high-capacity magazine, he could simply have reloaded with smaller magazines, something the Virginia Tech and Columbine killers managed to do. If we are going to have a rush to action, it shouldn't be on guns. It should be on mental illness. It doesn't make for high political drama or emotional cable chatter, but getting treatment for more of the most seriously mentally ill might actually prevent future shootings. Even if it doesn't, it would improve the lives of sick and vulnerable people. Adam Lanza's mother, Nancy, lived alone with him and, by all

Rich Lowry Troy Daily News Guest Columnist accounts, was utterly devoted to her youngest child. Then, one morning he shot her four times in the head. If Lanza was mentally ill, this would accord with the pattern. Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children. We may never know what the dynamic was in the Lanza home. For too many parents of the mentally ill, though, it goes something like this: Their child becomes withdrawn, delusional and erratic. If they call the mental-health system, they are told to bring the child in for an appointment and the sick child won't go. If the parents call the cops, the cops show up and say the child doesn't appear to represent a threat to himself or others and they leave.

If they take him to the hospital, he is quickly released back to the parents even if he is admitted. The choice might become living with a deteriorating child increasingly out of his mind or forcing him out of the home and into the streets. Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not. Where we supposedly deinstitutionalized the mentally ill by closing down psychiatric hospitals, and then reinstitutionalized them behind bars. The number of psychiatric beds on a per capita basis is back at 1850 levels, and there are three times as many seriously mentally ill people in jail or prison than in hospitals, according to the Treatment Advocacy Center. Where we let sick people sleep on the streets. About a third of homeless men and two-thirds of homeless women are seriously mentally ill. Imagine the national outrage if people with Alzheimer's were permitted to wander around the streets uncared for. But, by some perverse logic, it's considered OK for schizophrenics.

The federal government can act on this travesty only at the margins. It is largely up to the states. They can make a real difference by stopping the further closure of public hospital psychiatric beds and making it easier to compel treatment. Civil-commitment laws that require imminent danger to self or others are too strict. As DJ Jaffe of Mental Illness Policy Org puts it, that standard doesn't prevent violence, it requires violence in order to get care to someone too irrational to realize that he needs it. When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are. The evidence is in our ongoing roll call of horrors perpetrated by the deranged. We don't know yet if Adam Lanza was mentally ill, or if a better system would have helped him. We do know that somewhere out there a young man is about to get very sick. He could become the next Jared Loughner or James Holmes -- unless someone gets him treatment.

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MARY E. SIMS DAYTON — Mary E. Sims, 74, passed away at 12:10 a.m. Monday, Dec. 17, 2012 at Hospice of Dayton. Mary was born on July, 12, 1938 in Troy, Ohio to the late Clem and Lucille (Andrews) Clay. Mary is survived by three sons and daughters-in-law, Robert and Windelene Sims of Piqua, Ohio, Virgil and Torrie Smothers of Troy, and Daryl Wells of Louisville, Ky.; four daughters, Rene Clark of Piqua, Hope Brandenburg of Jacksonville, Fla., Tarita Carter of Dayton, Ohio, and Lisa Wells of Springfield, Ohio. SIMS She also is survived by three brothers and sisters-in-law, Lex and Joyce Andrews of Urbana, Ohio, Ben and Rhonda Andrews of Troy, and Steve Andrews of Troy, one sister and brotherin-law; Lavaga and Mike Rochester of Ann Arbor, Mich., 14 grandchildren; and

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seven great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by one daughter, Kim, and one grandchild, Shakka Brandenburg. A funeral service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, at Fisher-Cheney Funeral Home, Troy, Ohio, with Pastor Todd Hoskins, Pastor Mike Williams, Pastor Charles Carnes and Elder Brian Hamilton officiating. Friends and family may call at the funeral home one hour prior to service (10 a.m. to 11 a.m.). Interment will follow at Riverside Cemetery, Troy. The family asks that contributions be made to Hospice of Dayton, 324 Wilmington Ave. Dayton, OH 45420. Condolences may be left for the family at www.fisher-cheneyfuneralhome.com.

ESTELLA JEAN YENNEY PIQUA — Estella Jean Yenney, 96, of Piqua, died at 11:27 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, at Piqua Manor Nursing Home. She was born in Piqua on May 30, 1916, to the late Forrest and Wilma (McMaken) Yenney. She was preceded in death by one brother, James Yenney, who died in 1992; and one sister, Arlene W. Yenney, who died on Jan. 13, 2011. Estella graduated from Piqua Central High School in 1934. She was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church, Piqua for more than 50 years. Estella taught Sunday school and was a member of the Philatlier Sunday School YENNEY class. She was a member of Piqua Assembly of God near the end of her life. Estella was a member of Dayton Painter’s Society. She made master drawings of bottle caps at Piqua Cap Co. during the 1930s. During WW II, she designed monuments at Piqua

Granite. Estella worked at Berry School of Horsemanship as an art instructor from 1951-1978 when she retired. She taught calligraphy at Edison State College, designed cards for Stanley Greeting Card Co. and worked at Dalton Advertising Agency, Troy. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, at Melcher-Sowers Funeral Home, Piqua, with the Rev. Earl Wagoner officiating. Burial will follow at Miami Memorial Park, Covington. Friends may call from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday. Memorial contributions may be made to Piqua Ambulance Fund, American Legion Post No. 184, P.O. Box 720, Piqua, OH 45356, or Trinity Broadcast Network, P.O. Box A, Santa Ana, CA 92711 (www.tbn.org/contact/). Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.melcher-sowers.com.

Hawaii’s Inouye, senator and war hero, dies at 88 open and I knew I had five seconds, so I flipped it into the German’s face as he was trying to reload,” he said. “And it hit the target.” In 2000, when then-President Bill Clinton belatedly presented Inouye and 21 other Asian-American World War II veterans with the Medal of Honor, Clinton recounted that Inouye’s father believed their family owed an unrepayable debt to America. “If I may say so, sir, more than a half century later, America owes an unrepayable debt to you and your colleagues,” Clinton said. Inouye became a senator in January 1963. As president pro tempore of the Senate, he was third in the line of presidential succession. He broke racial barriers on Capitol Hill as the first JapaneseAmerican to serve in Congress. Less than an hour after Inouye’s passing, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Inouye’s death to a stunned chamber. “Our friend Daniel Inouye has died,” Reid said somberly. Shocked members of the Senate stood in the aisles or slumped in their chairs. He was elected to the House in 1959, the year Hawaii became a state. He won election to the Senate three years later and served there longer than anyone in American history except Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who died in 2010 after 51 years in the Senate. Inouye died after a relatively brief hospitalization. Once a regular smoker, he had a portion of a lung removed in the 1960s after a misdiagnosis for cancer. Just last week, he issued a statement expressing optimism about his recovery. Despite his age and illness, Inouye’s death shocked members of the Senate. “I’m too broken up,” said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who becomes president pro tem of the Senate. Leahy also is poised to take over the Senate Appropriations Committee, which Inouye helmed since 2009. “He was the kind of man, in short, that America has always been grateful to have, especially in her darkest hours, men who lead by example and who expect nothing in return,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie will appoint a replacement, choosing from a list of three candidates selected by the state Democratic Party. “We’re preparing to say goodbye,” Abercrombie said. “Everything else will take place in good time.”

Carol Louise (Hartman) White SPRINGFIELD — Carol Louise (Hartman) White, 80, formerly of Westerville and Troy, Ohio, passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, at the Ohio Masonic Home in Springfield. Carol was a registered nurse for 40 years, having worked at Children’s Hospital in Columbus and later retiring from Riverside Methodist Hospital. She graduated from the Grant Hospital School of Nursing in 1954 and worked in various medical and surgical capacities. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Andrew and Tami (Wickline) White of Englewood, Ohio; grandchildren, Jordan Tyler Geisler, Abigail Nora White and Andrew Corbin White; sister and brothers-in-law, Donna and Carl Dawalt of Enon, Ohio, Dick Speakman of Circleville, Ohio; niece and husband, Dorothy and Jimmy Lowrey; and a nephew, Shane “Chip” Dawalt.

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She was preceded in death by her husband, Arthur White in 1982; her parents, Ferry Eugene and Gladys Marie (Blauser) Hartman; and a sister, Ruth Speakman. The family will receive friends from 4-6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, at the Kindred Funeral Home (400 Union Blvd., Englewood). Funeral Services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 21, at the funeral home with the Rev. Mic Mohler officiating. Graveside services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Friday, at the Northlawn Memory Gardens in Westerville, Ohio, with Rev. Dr. Richard Ellsworth officiating. If desired, memorial contributions may be made to Evercare Hospice. Envelopes will be provided. Online condolences may be made to the family at www.KindredFuneralHome.com.

THEODORE BATES GREENVILLE — Theodore Bates, 71, of Greenville, passed away at 11 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, at his residence. He was born July 26, 1941, in Piqua, and was the son of the late Earl and Lois (Ilo) Bates. He was retired as a truck driver for R D Holder Company- BP Distributor Springfield, and was a veteran serving in the U.S. Navy. He also enjoyed fishing. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by brothers Frank, Bill and Bob Bates; and sisters, Betty Sargent and Patricia Clark. He is survived by his wife, Joyce Ann (Holman) “Werling” Bates of Greenville. They were married June 16, 1972. Also surviving are sons and daughters-in-law,

Jeff and Lynn Werling of Conover, Steve and Kim Werling and Jim Bates, all of Arcanum; daughters and son-in- law, Tina Hunt of Greenville and Terri and Rick Wade of Brandt; grandchildren, Amanda Werling, Trevor Bates, Jordan Bates, Alison Bates, Sheldon Bates, Jason Hunt, Ryan Hunt, Danielle Reed, Ricky Werling, Michael Werling, Chase Werling and Cody Werling; sister, June Jay of Paulding; brother, Gerald Bates of Piqua; and numerous nieces and nephews. Private services will be held at the convenience of the family. Arrangements are being made by Zechar Bailey Funeral Home, Greenville. Condolences for the family may be expressed through www.zecharbailey.com.

ROBERT A. GENTLE TROY — Robert A. Gentle, 90, of Troy, Ohio, passed away on Sunday evening, Dec. 16, 2012, at his residence. He was born on July 6, 1922, in Farmington, Ill., to the late Harry and Clara (Archdale) Gentle. He was married to Jeanne (Sparks) Gentle in 1952, and she preceded him in death in 1987. He is survived by his wife of 21 years, Dorothy “Dottie” Rehmert-Mumma Gentle; son and daughter-in-law, Richard and Dru Gentle of Goshen, Ind.; two daughters and a son-in-law, Sheree and David Frank of Darien, Conn., and Barbara Gentle of Tampa, Fla.; and four grandchildren, Amy, Brooke, Rob and Brett; and great-granddaughter, Mari. In addition to his parents and his first wife, Jeanne, Bob was preceded in death by his brother, Thomas, and two sisters, Ruth and Eleanor. Bob served in the U.S. Navy Reserve.

He had been a resident of Troy since 1968 and was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Troy, and the Troy Elks Lodge. Bob worked in international sales and service at BF Goodrich Company for 27 years before his retirement in 1988. Services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, at Baird Funeral Home, Troy, with the Rev. David Leckrone officiating. Interment will follow in Riverside Cemetery, Troy. Friends may call from 4-7 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Lung Association 4050 Executive Park Drive, No. 402, Cincinnati, OH 45241, or the American Heart Association, 15120 Collections Center Drive, Chicago, IL 60693. Friends may express condolences to the family through www.bairdfuneralhome.com.

KATHLEEN AMY MCMULLEN GREENFIELD — Kathleen Amy McMullen, 87, of Greenfield, Ohio, passed away Monday, Dec. 17, 2012, at Adena Greenfield Medical Center. She was born Jan. 5, 1925, in Tipp City, Ohio, the daughter of Joseph and Hazel (Dick) Long. She was a devoted homemaker, a 1943 graduate of Tippecanoe High School, a member of the Greenfield History Club, a 2343490

HONOLULU (AP) — On Dec. 7, 1941, high school senior Daniel Inouye knew he and other Japanese-Americans would face trouble when he saw Japanese dive bombers, torpedo planes and fighters on their way to bomb Pearl Harbor and other Oahu military bases. He and other Japanese-Americans had wanted desperately to be accepted, he said, and that meant going to war. “I felt that there was a need for us to demonstrate that we’re just as good as anybody else,” Inouye, who eventually went on to serve 50 years as a U.S. senator from Hawaii, once said. “The price was bloody and expensive, but I felt we succeeded.” Inouye, 88, died Monday of respiratory complications at a Washington-area hospital. As a senator, he became one of the most influential politicians in the country, playing key roles in congressional investigations of the Watergate and Iran-Contra scandals. He was the longest serving current senator and by far the most important for his home state of Hawaii. “Tonight, our country has lost a true American hero with the passing of Sen. Daniel Inouye,” President Barack Obama said in a statement Monday. “It was his incredible bravery during World War II including one heroic effort that cost him his arm but earned him the Medal of Honor that made Danny not just a colleague and a mentor, but someone revered by all of us lucky enough to know him.” Inouye turned toward life as a politician after his dreams of becoming a surgeon became impossible in World War II. He lost his right arm in a firefight with Germans in Italy in 1945. Inouye’s platoon came under fire and Inouye was shot in the stomach as he tried to draw a grenade. He didn’t stop, crawling up a hillside, taking out two machine gun emplacements and grabbing a grenade to throw at a third. That’s when an enemy rifle grenade exploded near his right elbow, shot by a German roughly 10 yards away. He searched for the grenade, then found it clenched in his right hand, his arm shredded and dangling from his body. “The fingers somehow froze over the grenade, so I just had to pry it out,” Inouye said in recounting the moment in the 2004 book “Beyond Glory: Medal of Honor Heroes in Their Own Words” by Larry Smith. “When I pulled it out, the lever snapped

relocated to work as the office manager TROY — Vivian Jean Grilliot, 85, of Troy, passed away at 5:55 a.m. Monday, of his veterinarian practice in Troy, Ohio. Dec. 17, 2012, at Upper Valley Medical She was a member of First United Methodist Church in Troy and the Beta Center, Troy, Ohio. Sigma Phi sorority. Her hobbies includVivian was born July, 5, 1927, in Cambridge, Ohio, to the late Oscar and ed antique collecting, traveling and collecting snowmen. Grace (Lake) Meredith. A funeral service will be Vivian is survived by one conducted at 12:30 p.m. son, Michael Grilliot of Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, at Columbus, and one brother Fisher-Cheney Funeral and sister-in-law, Ron and Home, Troy, with the Rev. Cathy Meredith of Washington David Leckrone officiating. Court House, Ohio. Family and friends may call Vivian also is survived by at funeral home from 6-8 three grandchildren, Miles, p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, Meredith and Melena Grilliot. 2012, and from 11 a.m. until She was preceded in death time of service at 12:30 p.m. by her husband, Dr. Linus J. Friday, Dec. 21, Grilliot, and her brother, Robert GRILLIOT Interment will be in Riverside Meredith. Cemetery, Troy. Vivian was a 1945 graduate of A Beta Sigma Phi sorority service will Madison High School in Guernsey be conducted at 6 p.m. Thursday at the County, Ohio, and attended Columbus funeral home. Business College in Columbus, Ohio. The family asks that contributions can During World War II, Vivian was a be made to American Cancer Society: “Rosie the Riveter” and worked at Berger Aircraft, in Canton, Ohio, on the P.O. Box 22718 Oklahoma City, OK 73123, or Hospice of Miami County: wing assembly for the B-24 Liberator. P.O. Box 502 Troy, OH 45373. Later years, she worked at National Condolences may be left for the family Electric Coil in Columbus. She met her husband and married in Columbus and at www.fisher-cheneyfuneralhome.com.

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former member of YGradale, a volunteer at the hospital and nursing homes, and a member of Christian Women. Her life was dedicated to her faith, family and friends. She is survived by one son, Larry (Linda) McMullen of Greenfield; one daughter, Lee Ann (Dale) Ross of Greenfield; four grandchildren, Angela (Troy) Hammond of Columbus, Branton Ross of Greenfield, Chris (Renee) Karnes of Hillsboro, and Brian (Rebecca) Scaff of Columbus; five great grandchildren, Evan Hammond, Chloe and Heidi Karnes, and Tia and Jordan Scaff; one great great granddaughter, Addison Scaff; one sister, Nancy Thurman of Tipp City; two sister-in-laws, Anna Lou Lucas of

Greenfield, and Lucy Long of Tipp City; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Harold Lawrence McMullen on Nov. 7, 1989; three brothers, Robert, Richard and Joe Long; one sister, Norma Metcalf; and both parents. A celebration of her life will be 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21, at the Murray-Fettro Funeral Home in Greenfield, with Rev. Jim Groves officiating and burial to follow in the Greenfield Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the First United Methodist Church, 405 S. St., Greenfield, OH 45123. Condolences may be sent to www.murrayfettro.com.

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W.M. renewal levy to be on May ballot BY ANDREW WILSON Civitas Media editorial@tdnpublishing.com Come May, the MiltonUnion Exempted Village School District renewal levy will be back on the ballot. The Board of Education voted Monday to place a renewal for the existing 10.9 mill, five-year tax levy on the ballot for the May 7, 2013 election. The levy renewal was originally placed on the Nov. 6 ballot and failed by nine votes. “If we do not renew this levy during 2013, MiltonUnion Schools will be in financial trouble,” Treasurer Charles Klein said. If approved, the tax levy will be placed on the district’s 2013 tax list and will be collected for the first time in the calendar year of 2014. It will not raise property taxes. “We are one of the least expensive per-pupil districts around,” Superintendent Dr. Ginny Rammel said. “And yet we are providing an excellent education as measured by the State of Ohio. Our state funding has been cut over 1 million dollars in the last few years. We have cut our expenditures by over one

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WEST MILTON million dollars trying to keep our budget in balance.” Klein stressed the need for stability. “It will most benefit the students by giving us the financial stability and allow us to continue to provide an excellent and full education,” Klein said. In other business, in light of the Newtown, Conn. school shooting tragedy, Rammel stated that the school has made numerous security improvements. Such improvements include locking outside doors that provide a path to hallways, security cameras throughout the building and exterior, and Officer Deputy Todd Cooper on duty throughout the day. Rammel said she was also pleased to announce that Milton-Union had the highest graduation rate along with the second highest average ACT scores in the county. According to Rammel, the district is rated excellent by the state and their expenditures by student are the lowest in Miami County and local operating revenue per student is the second lowest in the coun-

During the speech, Klein was congratulated for producing a clean audit for 2012. Also on Monday, board members settled a “group grievance,” filed Nov. 2, between the Milton-Union Exempted Village School District and the Ohio Association of Public Schools Employees regarding the use of a charter bus that was used to take the football team to their first playoff game. According to Rammel, by using a charter bus, the students were able to eat on the bus instead of having to stop on the way, which led to them spending more time in class than if they would have taken the usual yellow buses to the event. The cost of the agreement was under $48 and Milton-Union bus drivers Christina Baker and Kym Reid will be paid two hours each. The terms of the agreement detail that this shall not set precedent and shall not have any force or effect in any arbitration or any court of law. The next meeting of the Milton-Union Board of Education will be on Monday, Jan. 7, at 6:30 p.m.

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In their final meeting of 2012 Monday night, Covington Village Council members looked ahead to next year by approving the 2013 appropriations ordinance. Expecting to begin 2013 with a projected $1,244,580 carryover balance for all funds, council passed appropriations totaling $2,721,356. Of that total, general fund expenses are expected to total $1,062,454. The projected year-end balance for all funds was set at $988,254, with the general fund year-end balance expected to total $306,032. General fund expenses are projected to be $157,924 higher than revenues, with the difference being made up with the $463,956 carryover balance from this year. While the year-end balance for 2013 is expected to be less than this year, Mayor Ed McCord noted that the expenses figures are estimates for next year. “We don’t always spend 100 percent of what we appropriate,” McCord said. He also noted that officials are conservative with their projects for village revenues for next year. Council also approved a list of 2013 goals which include the following: start a sidewalk program; complete the wastewater plant study and formulate an action plan; replace approximately 250 water meters with radio-read meters; revise the village website to provide residents with better access to forms and regulations; continue the wastewater infiltration and inflow study; update infrastructure maps; complete the Spring Street Phase I design; work with the Planning and Zoning Board to revise zoning regulations and complete the preliminary design for the bike path project. Village Administrator Mike Busse said the Income Tax Review Committee recently met to consider the continuation of a tax abatement for a local industry.

“The committee voted to recommend to council that they approve the continuation of the tax abatement for Concept Machine Inc. for 50 percent for 10 years, beginning 2006,” Busse said. He noted that the purpose of the abatement is to encourage economic development and that Machine Concept has met the requirements of the agreement with the village. Waiving the three-reading rule in order to set in motion the notification of affected property owners, council approved the 2013 sidewalk repair and replacement program. In other business council: • Authorized Village Solicitor Frank Patrizio to proceed with eminent domain proceedings against property owned by Adrian Miller and David Crumpler. The former railroad property would be part of the village’s future bike path project. • Approved a resolution opposing Ohio House Bill 601. Busse said other communities have voiced opposition to the legislation pertaining to municipal income taxes. “We feel like we would be losing local control,” Busse said. • Heard the second reading of an ordinance that revises standard drawings for water system, sewer system and sidewalk construction projects. • Authorized Busse to execute a contract to employ the law firm of McCulloch, Felger, Fite and Gutman (Frank J. Patrizio and Nathan Funderberg, specifically) as legal counsel for the village. • Voted to accept Brandon Studebaker as a probationary firefighter. • Approved Chief Lee Harmon’s request for two new handheld radios for the police department at a total cost of $5,737. • Went into executive session to discuss personnel matters. No action was taken following the session.

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Living lettuce … and another helpful hint from a reader Dear Readers: Have you seen the hydroponically grown living lettuce that are sold in plastic, clamshell containers? I just love them! It is amazing how long these lettuces last! The container is designed to be a “mini-greenhouse,” which is what helps make the product last. The lettuce still has its roots attached, and it sits in a small amount of nutrient-rich liquid. When ready to eat, just take off the number of leaves needed, rinse and eat. — Heloise (Here’s another lettuce hint): LETTUCE WRAP Dear Heloise: I enjoy your column in The (Monroe, La.)

Hints from Heloise Columnist News-Star. Before cutting a wedge from a head of lettuce, I remove one large outer leaf. Then I place this leaf over the cut surface like a bandage before wrapping it and putting it in the refrigerator. It greatly reduces the browning of the cut edges. — Gayle M., Monroe, La.

EASIER DEVILED EGGS Dear Heloise: Here is my recipe for easy deviled eggs: Cut peeled, hard-boiled eggs in half. Make a topping of mayonnaise, mustard and any other condiments you would like. Spread this mixture on top of the cut eggs. You may add olive slices on top, minced parsley, etc. — Elaine W., Harrisburg, Pa. Deviled eggs are delicious! They are so popular, and this is a clever shortcut, with a fun twist, to making them. Love it! — Heloise FROZEN GARBAGE

Dear Heloise: When cooking or baking something that requires eggs, I hate throwing the shells in the garbage can, especially if pickup isn’t for a few days. I take the shells or any offensive-smelling object and put it in a plastic bag, like one the newspaper comes in, and stick it in the door of the freezer. On garbage day, I just open the freezer door and throw out the plastic bag. This works well with shellfish, too. The only trouble is that you have to remember to throw it out! — Judy B., Hobe Sound, Fla.

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BY FRANCES DRAKE For Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This is a lovely day for you, because the Moon is in your sign, dancing beautifully with the other planets. Ask the universe for whatever you want, because you just might get it. (The universe owes you a favor today.) TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Solitude in beautiful surroundings will please you today. Give yourself some pleasant moments of privacy and perhaps luxury. (Your favorite magazine and some dark chocolate?) GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) This is a wonderful day to schmooze with others, especially in group situations. Enjoy classes, meetings and casual get-togethers. People will listen to you, so take advantage of this. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) You can make a great impression on bosses and important people today. For starters, they notice you. Furthermore, they notice that you have influence on others. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) You have the edge to be able to explore opportunities related to higher education, travel or anything that has to do with publishing and the media. Why not grab this advantage? VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) This is a good day to settle loose details about inheritances, insurance matters and shared property. You very likely will come out smelling like a rose. (Laughing all the way to the bank.) LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) You have to go more than halfway when dealing with others today, because the Moon is opposite your sign. But really, this will be very easy to do. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Work-related travel is likely today. You’ll also enjoy meetings with others and any kind of group activity on the job. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) This is a great day for competitive sports, playful activities with children, romantic flirtations and little vacation getaways. The bottom line is to have fun! CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) By all means, explore real-estate opportunities today. You also might buy something quite nice for your home or a family member. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) You will enjoy writing, speaking, acting or teaching today, because you have a strong desire to enlighten others. Don’t hesitate to share your new approach to something. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) This is an excellent day for business and commerce. You feel competitive, bold and daring. Go after what you want! Test new ideas. (Run them up the flagpole to see if anyone salutes.) YOU BORN TODAY You love to begin new things and initiate new situations. You are fast-thinking and highly productive! Despite your speed, you have intense focus. You’re quite philosophical about life, and yet, always are a grounded realist. You’re also extremely hardworking. You can be very staunch when defending your beliefs. Your year ahead will focus predominantly on close friendships and partnerships. Birthdate of: Irene Dunne, actress; Peter May, writer; Jenny Agutter, actress. (c) 2012 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Tipp City voters will see an emergency levy for their school district at the polls in May 2013. The board of education decided Monday night to put a four-year, 4.95-mil levy on the next ballot. While throwing the same number on the ballot as in August was appealing to President Tom Merritt, board member Frank Maus said that he wanted a “success number,” a figure that would get a yes from voters, unlike this past August. In a special election on Aug. 7, a 5-year, 7.95-mil levy failed by a large margin — 63 percent against, 37 percent for. Merritt’s only concern with a lesser amount was concession, the idea that the school would have to make more cuts with an amount lower than 7.95 mils and give the perception that it didn’t really need 7.95 mils. Superintendent Dr. John Kronour said that it only made sense to go for a lesser amount if the school was not interested in bringing back any previous cuts, including staff positions. Board member Scott Dixon believed that some cuts could be brought back with a lesser levy amount with possible savings from a

set in stone, but the board will further discuss and finalize what the school will health savings account pro- cut when they meet in gram, into which the board January. is currently exploring. Due to the voter’s reac- Cuts The final number tally of tion, board member Kate Johnsen said that lessening emails that the board the levy milage to 4.95 for received from the community for input on cuts and the May is the best choice. levy nearly “One of the hardest upcoming things you do as a board is reached 170, according to member Kate find what the public will board bear, and I think we’re in Johnsen. Twenty-eight people one of those circumstances wanted high school busing now,” Johnsen said. The next step in the eliminated while 31 people process will be to file two said that the school should resolutions to Miami increase busing to a 2-mile County Board of Elections radius district-wide. Thirty-two people said by Wednesday, Feb. 6, at no to increasing class sizes, 4 p.m. Nothing else has been and 43 people were all for

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GOOD STUFF Cheap for Christmas, Lead Crystal Compote, plus and others; oil painting 32x27; new and used- mens Burberry coat, London Fog jacket, all weather, silk and cashmere scarves; womens cardigan and pullover pure wool sweaters, Lambskin short coat; Beautiful China 10 place settings plus; William Rogers silverware 12 place settings plus, Swiss blue Topaz AAA necklace 8.5 ct, earrings 2.5 ct. each, all items fraction of retail, details, pricing, appointment, cell (937)497-1929 evening or later RIFLE, Winchester Model 94 SE, large loop lever, 30-30, 1987, never been fired, original box, saddle model. Barrels only 16". $600. (937)698-6362

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TROY DAILY NEWS • WWW.TROYDAILYNEWS.COM

MONDAY’S RESULTS

SPORTS CALENDAR TODAY Girls Basketball Indian Lake at Tippecanoe (7:30 p.m.) Springfield at Piqua (7:30 p.m.) Bowling Greenville at Tippecanoe (4 p.m.) THURSDAY Girls Basketball Fairborn at Troy (7:30 p.m.) Northridge at Milton-Union (7:15 p.m.) Miami East at Newton (7 p.m.) Ansonia at Bethel (7 p.m.) Covington at Tri-Village (7 p.m.) Ridgemont at Troy Christian (7 p.m.) Twin Valley South at Bradford (7 p.m.) Wrestling Troy, Kenton Ridge, Indian Lake at Sidney (6 p.m.) Tippecanoe tri (6 p.m.) Covington/Brookville at Mechanicsburg (5 p.m.) FRIDAY Boys Basketball Butler at Troy (7:30 p.m.) Tippecanoe at Bellefontaine (7:30 p.m.) Dixie at Milton-Union (7:30 p.m.) Covington at Miami East (8 p.m.) Bethel at National Trail (8 p.m.) Newton at Arcanum (8 p.m.) Sidney at Piqua (7:30 p.m.) Mississinawa Valley at Bradford (8 p.m.) Versailles at Lehman (7:30 p.m.)

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■ Boys Basketball

■ Boys Basketball

• Girls Basketball Troy Christian 36, Middletown Christian 23 Troy Christian stayed unbeaten in Metro Buckeye Conference play Monday despite an off night shooting, holding off Middletown Christian 36-23 on the road. Lydia Demmitt led all scorers with 12 points — six of them coming from the free throw line — and added 11 rebounds. Morgan Haddad added six points and five assists and Amanda Slone chipped in six points. Arcanum 40, Bradford 36 Arcanum edged Bradford 4036 in Cross County Conference action Monday. Bradford’s Brooke Dunlevy led all scorers with 15 points and Michayla Barga added 10 in the loss. • Swimming The Troy boys and girls swam against Northmont Monday at the Miami County YCMA Robinson Branch. The boys piled up 107 points compared to Northmont’s 62 for the win. The Troy girls, meanwhile, were beaten by a score of 91-79. In the 200 medley relay, Tommy Jackson, Matt Hokky, Will Armstrong and Jonathan Liew won (1:55.56). Liew, Matthew Roetter, Hokky and Joel Evans won the 200 free relay (1:41.50). Jackson, Will Metzger, Roetter and Evans also won the 400 free relay (3:45.49). In the individual events, Liew won the 200 free (2:14.15), Evans won the 200 IM (2:11.37), Roetter won the 50 free (25.04 seconds), Metzger finished first in the 100 free (58.19) and Tristan West placed first in the 500 free (5:53.25). Also winning for the boys was Jackson in the 100 backstroke (1:02.74) and Evans in the 100 breast (1:06.35). In the 200 yard free relay, Michelle Zelnick, Meredith Orozco, Cassie Rice and Mackenzie Rice won (1:52.44). That same group also finished first in the 400 yard free relay (4:07.81). Zelnick was champion in the 500 free (5:18.12) and in the 100 breast (1:11.15).

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Newton hands Bradford OT loss Staff Reports PLEASANT HILL — Newton may have been in control all night long. But the Indians still needed four extra minutes. And while Newton (2-4) missed tons of chances to close out Bradford in regulation, the Indians were able to find the momentum again when it counted, outscoring the Railroaders 12-5 in overtime to win 51-44 Tuesday night.

MIAMI COUNTY “We led the whole game, but we missed some free throws at the end — and a ton of layups,” Newton coach Steve Fisher said. “We probably missed 10 to 12 layups. Granted they were pressured a little, but you’ve got to make those layups in traffic.” Brady McBride hit three from long range and paced the Indians with 13 points, and David Brauer added 10 points and six rebounds. Bobby Gerodimos had five points and six rebounds and Cole Adams had four points and nine rebounds as Newton controlled the glass.

■ See ROUNDUP on 18

■ Bowling STAFF PHOTOS/ANTHONY WEBER

Bethel’s Patrick Bain goes up for a layup during a game against Tri-County North Tuesday.

Defensive gem Bees shut down Panthers in 81-28 win BY JOSH BROWN Sports Editor jbrown@tdnpublishing.com

Trojans sweep G-Wave Staff Reports

Bethel coach Eric Glover admitted that Patrick Bain and Gus Schwieterman didn’t finish around the basket as well as they’re capable of. But with the way they and the rest of the Bees played on the defensive end, they didn’t necessarily have to. Bain scored a game-high 22 points and did a little of everything else, Schwieterman put up a double-double and Bethel (5-0, 3-0 Cross County Conference) only BRANDT allowed seven field goals in an 81-28 rout of Tri-County North Tuesday night at Bethel. The Bees didn’t allow a field goal in the first quarter and turned 16 first-half turnovers into a 42-11 lead at the break. “That’s where we focus, on the defensive end,” Glover said. “When we’re playing good ‘D,’ we can go. We try to utilize our guards’ quickness on defense and come at the other team’s guards from a lot of different angles.” With Bain, Christian Pfledderer and Jason Clendening running a trap on the perimeter, the Panthers’ guards never stood a chance. Of the 22 turnovers that the Bees forced in the game, that trio combined for 14 steals. Bethel led 13-1 late in the first quarter and

GREENVILLE — The Troy bowling teams had little trouble with Greenville, sweeping the Green Wave by lopsided scores in Greater Western Ohio Conference North action on Tuesday at Treaty Lanes. The Trojan boys (5-1, 2-0 GWOC North) coasted to a 2,381-2,079 win, while the Troy girls (3-3, 2-0 GWOC North) rolled their way to a 1,884-1,522 victory.

MIAMI COUNTY The Trojan boys shot a 1,015 game to open the match. In that game, A.J. Bigelow led the way with a 224, D.J. Burghardt rolled a 209, Andrew Spencer contributed a 207, and Austin Eidemiller added a 206. Spencer rolled a 259 in the second game to finish with a match-high 466 series. Bigelow posted a second game 225 to finish with a 449 series. Allie Isner led the way for the girls team, turning in games of Bethel’s Gus Schwieterman pump fakes a group of

■ See BEES on 18 Tri-County North players Tuesday in Brandt.

■ See BOWLING on 18

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

UC, Xavier rivalry back in new format The city’s storied basketball rivalry is back in a very different format. When Xavier and Cincinnati played last season, their annual crosstown game ended with punches and punishments four players from each team suspended. The small Catholic school and large public school, separated by only 2 miles, spent the rest of the season dealing with the black mark on their reputations and one of the city’s marquee sporting events. See Page 16.

OSU edges Winthrop, 65-55 COLUMBUS (AP) — Deshaun Thomas scored 21 points — missing nine straight shots at one point and making five in a row at another — to lead No. 7 Ohio State past Winthrop 65-55 on Tuesday night. It was the last tuneup for the Buckeyes (9-1) before Saturday’s rematch with No. 9 Kansas. The Jayhawks beat them twice last year, once at Allen Fieldhouse and then in the Final Four. Whether Ohio State was looking past Winthrop (4-5) and ahead to Kansas, or whether the Eagles just played well and the Buckeyes did not, the game was in doubt until Thomas got hot. Lenzelle Smith Jr. added 14 points for the Buckeyes, who have won four in a row, all at home, since a 73-68 defeat at No. 2 Duke on Nov. 28 in the ACC/Big Ten

Challenge — a game the Buckeyes led most of the way. Thomas added nine rebounds and a career-high four assists. Derrick Henry had 12 points to lead Winthrop, which was coming off a 50-49 upset of Ohio University, which has its top nine players back from an NCAA tournament team a year ago. Ohio came in averaging 74.2 points a game, but was shut down by the Eagles. Thomas hit his first two shots of the night for a quick 5-0 lead, then missed the next nine. Just as quickly, he changed directions again. He hit five shots in a row from the AP PHOTO field — and scored 12 of 14 Ohio State Ohio State’s Evan Ravenel, left, drives the basepoints over a 5½-minute span — as the line against Winthrop’s Steve Johnson Tuesday ■ See BUCKEYES on 16 in Columbus.

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■ National Football League

■ College Basketball

Cleveland hires new president

UC, Xavier renew rivalry

BEREA (AP) — Alec Scheiner has been named the new president of the Cleveland Browns. Scheiner, 39, will join Cleveland after eight years with the Cowboys. He was senior vice president and general counsel with Dallas the last five years. Scheiner will quarterback the Browns’ day-today business operations in his new post, which will begin Jan. 7. Scheiner, raised in Lower Merion, Pa., attended Georgetown, and in 2008, took over the Cowboys’ business opera-

tions, which included football analytics. “I want to thank the Cowboys for making my eight years there some of the most rewarding of my professional career,” Scheiner said. “I am looking forward to this challenge with the Browns, which I view as a tremendous opportunity to start at the ground level with a new and exciting leadership group.” Jimmy Haslam III, who bought the team over the summer, leads that group, which also includes new CEO Joe Banner.

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Buckeyes ■ CONTINUED FROM 15 Buckeyes took a 47-41 lead. But the Eagles would not go away. Henry made a 3 from the left wing to cut the gap to three. Thomas passed up a perimeter jumper with a nifty pass to Amir Williams for a three-point play only to have Gideon Gamble add a 3 at the other end to cut the lead to 52-47. Defense finally turned the tide, fueling an 8-0 run. Aaron Craft’s steal led to him hitting two free throws. Shannon Scott then tipped away a ball and then broke quickly to the basket, taking a long pass from Craft for an easy breakaway layup and a 56-47 lead. Williams then scored

inside off a pass from Smith and the lead was 58-47. Williams then swatted a shot away and then received a pass from Thomas for an easy dunk to push the lead to 60-47 with 5:36 left. Winthrop got as close as seven points in the final minute. Ohio State, with a decided height advantage, was outrebounded 38-36. It also got little out of its transition game — usually a strength. The Buckeyes forced 14 turnovers and picked up only 17 points off them. The Buckeyes, winners of 39 straight nonconference games in Columbus, came in as the second-leading scoring team in the Big Ten at 80.1 points a game.

CINCINNATI (AP) — The city’s storied basketball rivalry is back in a very different format. When Xavier and Cincinnati played last season, their annual crosstown game ended with punches and punishments four players from each team suspended. The small Catholic school and large public school, separated by only 2 miles, spent the rest of the season dealing with the black mark on their reputations and one of the city’s marquee sporting events. The overriding question: Should the rivalry end? It’ll be renewed on Wednesday night in a different setting. The game has been moved away from the campuses, bringing fans of both schools together in the stands at a downtown arena. The mood is different, too. There’s been no trash talking between Xavier (72) and No. 11 Cincinnati (10-0). Both teams are avoiding talk of the brawl as well, wishing they could move beyond it. A good, clean game on Wednesday night would go a long way. “It was a regrettable moment,” Xavier coach Chris Mack said. “We lived that a year ago. As an educator, someone who mentors players, the message has been that we need to learn from what happened a year ago. And I think our kids have.” The two schools and

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year. With its top two frontline players suspended, Cincinnati went to a threeguard offense and took off, reaching the NCAA tournament’s round of 16. Xavier fell apart and didn’t regroup until the closing weeks of the season, also reaching the round of 16. Both teams had to answer questions about the fight’s lingering effects the rest of the way. Eventually, they agreed to keep the rivalry going, but wanted to remove its nasty edge. The game was moved to a downtown arena for the next two seasons. The name was changed from the Crosstown Shootout to the Crosstown Classic. The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center became a partner. Students and players from both schools toured the center together. Five of the eight suspended players have moved on, including four who started last year. There’s been no boasting, no turning the game into a referendum on which program is better a notable break from the past. “Everyone on their team is very talented and very good as well,” Cincinnati guard Sean Kilpatrick said. “Their starters are as good as our starters and their bench can be as good as our bench. We don’t know how it’s going to be, but it will be a great matchup.”

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher was apparently worried he would lose his baby and money to his longtime girlfriend before fatally shooting her and killing himself, to newly according released police reports. Belcher also complained about Kasandra Perkins, the mother of the couple’s 3-month-old daughter, in conversations and text messages sent to a woman he was dating on the side, the reports show. In one text message sent in late October or early November, Belcher wrote he “would shoot” Perkins “if she didn’t leave him alone.” The girlfriend told police that Belcher said “his child’s mother threatened to take all his money and his child if they split up” and “knew exactly how to press his buttons and make him angry.” Belcher shot Perkins multiple times in their home on Dec. 1 and then drove to team headquarters, where he killed himself in front of his coach and general manager after telling them he “wasn’t able to get enough help.” The Jackson County prosecutor’s office reviewed the police reports, which first were obtained by The Kansas City Star, before closing the case Friday. It formally ruled the deaths of Belcher, 25, and Perkins, 22, a murder-suicide, prosecutor’s office spokesman Mike Mansur said Tuesday. The reports provide new details about the final days and hours leading to the tragedy. The night before the killings, Belcher went to a club with the woman he was dating while Perkins attended a concert with her friends, the reports said. A friend of Perkins has told The Star that the couple argued around 1 a.m., about Perkins being out late, although it wasn’t clear whether the argument happened in person

or on the phone. The police report, which doesn’t mention this dispute, said that after Belcher kissed his girlfriend and she went inside her apartment, he fell asleep in his car. About two hours later, police roused Belcher after someone called 911 to report his idling Bentley as suspicious. The report said Belcher was legally parked and didn’t smell of alcohol, but officers asked if he could stay inside the apartment for the night. Belcher tried to call the girlfriend, but she didn’t discover the missed calls until the next morning and didn’t hear him at her door. Two women who were up late invited Belcher to wait inside their apartment after he explained his plight. They said Belcher “appeared to be intoxicated” but “seemed to be in good spirits . laughing, joking.” After taking him to a gas station to buy a sports drink, they gave him a pillow and blanket and he slept on the couch for a couple hours, leaving at 6:45 a.m. so he could make it to a team meeting planned for later that morning. Upon arriving at the home he shared with Perkins, the couple began arguing over “one or both of them going out as in to a club or partying,” said Belcher’s mother, Cheryl Shepherd, who had moved in with them about two weeks earlier. When Shepherd heard multiple gunshots, she ran to the bedroom and saw Belcher kneeling next to Perkins’ body, saying he was sorry. After kissing Perkins, his baby daughter and his mother, Belcher drove to Arrowhead Stadium, breaking off his Bentley’s rear-view mirror on the way, the police report said. Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli saw Belcher holding a gun to his head and jumped out of his vehicle so he could find out what was happening.

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FOOTBALL National Football League All Times EDT AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA y-New England10 3 0 .769 472 274 6 7 0 .462 245 306 N.Y. Jets 6 8 0 .429 264 279 Miami 5 9 0 .357 306 402 Buffalo South W L T Pct PF PA y-Houston 12 2 0 .857 394 280 Indianapolis 9 5 0 .643 309 358 Tennessee 4 9 0 .308 271 386 Jacksonville 2 12 0 .143 219 383 North W L T Pct PF PA 9 5 0 .643 348 307 x-Baltimore Cincinnati 8 6 0 .571 355 293 Pittsburgh 7 7 0 .500 302 291 Cleveland 5 9 0 .357 280 310 West W L T Pct PF PA 11 3 0 .786 409 274 y-Denver 5 9 0 .357 299 312 San Diego 4 10 0 .286 263 402 Oakland Kansas City 2 12 0 .143 195 367 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA 8 6 0 .571 381 350 Washington 8 6 0 .571 327 338 Dallas 8 6 0 .571 373 304 N.Y. Giants Philadelphia 4 10 0 .286 253 375 South W L T Pct PF PA 12 2 0 .857 371 259 y-Atlanta New Orleans 6 8 0 .429 389 379 6 8 0 .429 354 349 Tampa Bay 5 9 0 .357 296 319 Carolina North W L T Pct PF PA y-Green Bay 10 4 0 .714 344 292 Minnesota 8 6 0 .571 319 308 8 6 0 .571 321 240 Chicago 4 10 0 .286 330 380 Detroit West W L T Pct PF PA San Francisco 9 3 1 .731 316 184 Seattle 9 5 0 .643 350 219 St. Louis 6 7 1 .464 258 315 5 9 0 .357 224 302 Arizona x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Thursday's Game Cincinnati 34, Philadelphia 13 Sunday's Games Green Bay 21, Chicago 13 New Orleans 41, Tampa Bay 0 Minnesota 36, St. Louis 22 Houston 29, Indianapolis 17 Atlanta 34, N.Y. Giants 0 Washington 38, Cleveland 21 Miami 24, Jacksonville 3 Denver 34, Baltimore 17 Carolina 31, San Diego 7 Arizona 38, Detroit 10 Seattle 50, Buffalo 17 Oakland 15, Kansas City 0 Dallas 27, Pittsburgh 24, OT San Francisco 41, New England 34 Monday's Game Tennessee 14, N.Y. Jets 10 Saturday, Dec. 22 Atlanta at Detroit, 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 23 Tennessee at Green Bay, 1 p.m. Indianapolis at Kansas City, 1 p.m. New Orleans at Dallas, 1 p.m. Minnesota at Houston, 1 p.m. Oakland at Carolina, 1 p.m. Buffalo at Miami, 1 p.m. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. New England at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. Washington at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. St. Louis at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. San Diego at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. Cleveland at Denver, 4:05 p.m. Chicago at Arizona, 4:25 p.m. N.Y. Giants at Baltimore, 4:25 p.m. San Francisco at Seattle, 8:20 p.m. College Football FBS Bowl Glance Subject to Change All Times EST Saturday, Dec. 15 New Mexico Bowl At Albuquerque Arizona 49, Nevada 48 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl At Boise, Idaho Utah State 41, Toledo 15 Thursday, Dec. 20 Poinsettia Bowl At San Diego San Diego State (9-3) vs. BYU (7-5), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Dec. 21 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl At St. Petersburg, Fla. Ball State (9-3) vs. UCF (9-4), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 22 New Orleans Bowl East Carolina (8-4) vs. LouisianaLafayette (7-4), Noon (ESPN) Las Vegas Bowl Boise State (10-2) vs. Washington (75), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu SMU (6-6) vs. Fresno State (9-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 26 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl At Detroit Central Michigan (6-6) vs. Western Kentucky (7-5), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Dec. 27 Military Bowl At Washington Bowling Green (8-4) vs. San Jose State (10-2), 3 p.m. (ESPN) Belk Bowl At Charlotte, N.C. Duke (6-6) vs. Cincinnati (9-3), 6:30 p.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl At San Diego Baylor (7-5) vs. UCLA (9-4), 9:45 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Dec. 28 Independence Bowl At Shreveport, La. Louisiana-Monroe (8-4) vs. Ohio (8-4), 2 p.m. (ESPN) Russell Athletic Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Virginia Tech (6-6) vs. Rutgers (9-3), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN) Meineke Car Care Bowl At Houston Minnesota (6-6) vs.Texas Tech (7-5), 9 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 29 Armed Forces Bowl At Fort Worth,Texas Rice (6-6) vs. Air Force (6-6), 11:45 a.m. (ESPN) Fight Hunger Bowl At San Francisco Arizona State (7-5) vs. Navy (7-4), 3:15 p.m. (ESPN2) Pinstripe Bowl At New York Syracuse (7-5) vs. West Virginia (7-5), 3:15 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl At San Antonio

Texas (8-4) vs. Orgeon State (9-3), 6:45 p.m. (ESPN) Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl At Tempe, Ariz. Michigan State (6-6) vs. TCU (7-5), 10:15 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 31 Music City Bowl At Nashville,Tenn. Vanderbilt (8-4) vs. N.C. State (7-5), Noon (ESPN) Sun Bowl At El Paso,Texas Georgia Tech (6-7) vs. Southern Cal (7-5), 2 p.m. (CBS) Liberty Bowl At Memphis,Tenn. Iowa State (6-6) vs. Tulsa (10-3), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Chick-fil-A Bowl At Atlanta LSU (10-2) vs. Clemson (10-2), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Jan. 1 Heart of Dallas Bowl At DallasPurdue (6-6) vs. Oklahoma State (7-5), Noon (ESPNU) Gator Bowl At Jacksonville, Fla. State (8-4) vs. Mississippi Northwestern (9-3), Noon (ESPN2) Capital One Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Georgia (11-2) vs. Nebraska (10-3), 1 p.m. (ABC) Outback Bowl At Tampa, Fla. South Carolina (10-2) vs. Michigan (84), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif. Stanford (11-2) vs. Wisconsin (8-5), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Orange Bowl At Miami Northern Illinois (12-1) vs. Florida State (11-2), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Jan. 2 Sugar Bowl At New Orleans Florida (11-1) vs. Louisville (10-2), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Jan. 3 Fiesta Bowl At Glendale, Ariz. Kansas State (11-1) vs. Oregon (11-1), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Jan. 4 Cotton Bowl At Arlington,Texas Texas A&M (10-2) vs. Oklahoma (102), 8 p.m. (FOX) Saturday, Jan. 5 BBVA Compass Bowl At Birmingham, Ala. Pittsburgh (6-6) vs. Mississippi (6-6), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Sunday, Jan. 6 GoDaddy.com Bowl At Mobile, Ala. Kent State (11-2) vs. Arkansas State (9-3), 9 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 7 BCS National Championship At Miami Notre Dame (12-0) vs. Alabama (121), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 19 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, 4 p.m. (NFLN) Saturday, Jan. 26 Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. North vs. South, TBA (NFLN) NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Playoff Glance All Times EST First Round Saturday, Nov. 24 Wagner 31, Colgate 20 Coastal Carolina 24, BethuneCookman 14 South Dakota State 58, Eastern Illinois 10 Stony Brook 20, Villanova 10 Second Round Saturday, Dec. 1 Wofford 23, New Hampshire 7 Georgia Southern 24, Cent. Arkansas 16 Old Dominion 63, Coastal Carolina 35 Illinois St. 38, Appalachian St. 37, OT North Dakota State 28, South Dakota State 3 Sam Houston State 18, Cal Poly 16 Eastern Washington 29, Wagner 19 Montana State 16, Stony Brook 10 Quarterfinals Friday, Dec. 7 Sam Houston State 34, Montana State 16 Saturday, Dec. 8 Georgia Southern 49, Old Dominion 35 North Dakota State 14, Wofford 7 Eastern Washington 51, Illinois State 35 Semifinals Friday, Dec. 14 North Dakota State 23, Georgia Southern 20 Saturday, Dec. 15 Sam Houston State 45, Eastern Washington 42 Championship Saturday, Jan. 5 At FC Dallas Stadium Frisco,Texas North Dakota State (13-1) vs. Sam Houston State (11-3), 1 p.m.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct New York 18 6 .750 Brooklyn 13 10 .565 Boston 12 11 .522 Philadelphia 12 12 .500 Toronto 6 19 .240 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 15 6 .714 Atlanta 14 7 .667 Orlando 11 13 .458 Charlotte 7 16 .304 Washington 3 18 .143 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 13 10 .565 Milwaukee 12 10 .545 Indiana 13 11 .542 Detroit 7 20 .259 Cleveland 5 20 .200 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 19 7 .731 Memphis 16 6 .727 Houston 12 12 .500 Dallas 11 13 .458 New Orleans 5 18 .217 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 20 4 .833 Minnesota 12 10 .545 Denver 13 12 .520

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SPORTS ON TV TODAY MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 7 p.m. ESPN2 — Xavier at Cincinnati NBCSN — W. Michigan at Duquesne 9 p.m. ESPN2 — North Carolina at Texas NBA BASKETBALL 7 p.m. ESPN — Brooklyn at New York 9:30 p.m. ESPN — Milwaukee at Memphis 13 12 .520 7½ Utah Portland 11 12 .478 8½ Pacific Division W L Pct GB 18 6 .750 — L.A. Clippers 16 8 .667 2 Golden State L.A. Lakers 11 14 .440 7½ 10 15 .400 8½ Phoenix Sacramento 7 17 .292 11 Monday's Games Orlando 102, Minnesota 93 Houston 109, New York 96 L.A. Clippers 88, Detroit 76 Memphis 80, Chicago 71 Oklahoma City 107, San Antonio 93 Phoenix 101, Sacramento 90 Tuesday's Games Toronto at Cleveland, 7 p.m. Atlanta at Washington, 7 p.m. Utah at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m. Minnesota at Miami, 7:30 p.m. Boston at Chicago, 8 p.m. Indiana at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. Philadelphia at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. San Antonio at Denver, 9 p.m. New Orleans at Golden State, 10:30 p.m. Charlotte at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m. Wednesday's Games Brooklyn at New York, 7 p.m. Detroit at Toronto, 7 p.m. Utah at Indiana, 7 p.m. Washington at Orlando, 7 p.m. Cleveland at Boston, 7:30 p.m. Oklahoma City at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Houston, 8 p.m. Charlotte at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Milwaukee at Memphis, 9:30 p.m. Golden State at Sacramento, 10 p.m. New Orleans at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m. Thursday's Games Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Miami at Dallas, 9:30 p.m. Denver at Portland, 10 p.m. The Top Twenty Five The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' college basketball poll, with firstplace votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 16, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking: Pts Prv ...............................Record 1. Duke (62)...............9-0 1,622 2 2. Michigan (3) ........11-0 1,543 3 3. Syracuse................9-0 1,465 4 4. Arizona ..................8-0 1,371 8 5. Louisville................9-1 1,362 6 6. Indiana...................9-1 1,321 1 7. Ohio St. .................8-1 1,249 7 8. Florida....................7-1 1,163 5 9. Kansas...................8-1 1,110 9 10. Illinois.................12-0 1,044 10 11. Cincinnati...........10-0 967 11 12. Missouri ...............8-1 886 12 13. Minnesota..........11-1 730 13 14. Gonzaga............10-1 710 14 15. Georgetown.........9-1 579 15 16. New Mexico.......11-0 548 17 17. Creighton...........10-1 530 16 18. San Diego St.......8-1 493 18 19. Butler ...................8-2 361 — 20. Michigan St. ........9-2 343 19 21. UNLV ...................8-1 315 20 22. Notre Dame.........9-1 291 22 23. North Carolina.....8-2 256 21 24. Oklahoma St. ......8-1 244 24 25. NC State..............7-2 198 25 Others receiving votes: Oregon 176, Pittsburgh 158, Kentucky 41, Wyoming 14, Marquette 8, VCU 7, Wichita St. 6, Murray St. 4, UConn 4, Miami 3, Maryland 2, Bucknell 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 Dec. 16, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking: ...............................Record Pts Pvs 1. Duke (30)...............9-0 774 2 2. Michigan (1) ........11-0 743 3 3. Syracuse .............11-0 695 4 4. Louisville................9-1 640 6 5. Arizona ..................8-0 632 8 6. Indiana...................9-1 627 1 7. Ohio State .............8-1 595 7 8. Kansas...................8-1 552 9 9. Florida....................7-1 532 5 10. Illinois.................12-0 482 10 11. Cincinnati...........10-0 460 12 12. Missouri ...............8-1 451 11 13. Creighton...........10-1 351 13 14. Gonzaga............10-1 339 14 15. San Diego State..8-1 296 15 16. Minnesota..........11-1 273 16 17. New Mexico.......11-0 219 20 18. UNLV ...................8-1 216 17 19. North Carolina.....8-2 187 18 19. Michigan State ....9-2 187 19 21. Georgetown.........9-1 180 21 22. Notre Dame.........9-1 125 24 23. Kentucky..............7-3 98 22 24. Oklahoma State ..8-1 94 23 25. Butler ...................8-2 89 — Others receiving votes: N.C. State 84, Pittsburgh 74, Oregon 45, VCU 11, Wyoming 8, UConn 6, Wichita State 5, Murray State 3, Oklahoma 2. Tuesday's College Basketball Scores EAST Alvernia 83, St. Joseph's (LI) 54 Berkeley (NJ) 75, Milligan 72 Iona 87, Liberty 69 Lafayette 86, Arcadia 62 Providence 79, Colgate 45 Scranton 79, Gwynedd-Mercy 64 Stony Brook 64, Sacred Heart 59 UNC Asheville 79, Northeastern 73 Wesley College 81, Washington (Md.) 73 Yale 112, Albertus Magnus 63 Yeshiva 55, Lehman 52 MIDWEST Akron 76, Ark.-Pine Bluff 46 Albion 83, North Park 76 Ashford 55, Viterbo 52 Evansville 103, Oakland City 69 Indiana-East 82, Goshen 77

Kansas 87, Richmond 59 Kansas St. 78, Texas Southern 69 Marian (Wis.) 90, Martin Luther 78, OT Michigan St. 64, Bowling Green 53 Nebraska-Omaha 74, Benedictine (Kan.) 70 Northern St. (SD) 76, Mayville St. 50 Ohio St. 65, Winthrop 55 Purdue 66, Ball St. 56 Tiffin 62, N. Michigan 55 W. Illinois 70, Ill.-Chicago 54 SOUTH Alabama A&M 59, Missouri St. 47 Auburn 81, Tennessee Tech 62 Belmont Abbey 80, Mars Hill 70 Carson-Newman 90, Queens (NC) 55 Charleston Southern 72, ETSU 51 Coll. of Charleston 76, Old Dominion 65 East Carolina 62, Gardner-Webb 60 Florida Gulf Coast 86, Southeastern (Fla.) 60 Georgia 58, Mercer 49 Hampton 72, American U. 65 Lindsey Wilson 72, Taylor 57 Lipscomb 87, Austin Peay 84 Miami 72, UCF 50 Middle Tennessee 77, Tennessee St. 48 Robert Morris 66, Louisiana-Lafayette 61 South Florida 72, Youngstown St. 54 Southern Miss. 69, Georgia St. 67 St. Augustine's 66, West Georgia 63, 2OT Stetson 69, FAU 68 Tennessee 78, Presbyterian 62 VCU 76, W. Kentucky 44 Wake Forest 79, Furman 55 William Carey 72, Xavier (NO) 71 Winston-Salem 66, Virginia Union 65 Wofford 94, Jacksonville 52 SOUTHWEST Houston Baptist 100, Arlington Baptist 61 Southwestern (Texas) 68, Howard Payne 61 Stephen F. Austin 56, Oklahoma 55 Texas A&M 66, Texas A&M-CC 54 TOURNAMENT Don Lane Classic First Round Transylvania 68, Wooster 62 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 Dec. 16, total points based on 25 points for a firstplace vote through one point for a 25thplace vote and last week's ranking: ...............................Record Pts Prv 1. Stanford (22) .........9-0 978 1 2. UConn (16)............8-0 967 2 3. Baylor (2)...............8-1 931 3 4. Duke ......................8-0 884 4 5. Notre Dame...........6-1 821 5 6. Georgia................11-0 789 6 7. Kentucky................8-1 773 7 8. California ...............7-1 663 10 9. Maryland................7-2 641 9 10. Tennessee ...........7-1 602 13 11. Penn St................9-2 595 11 12. UCLA...................7-1 539 14 13. Purdue...............10-1 495 15 14. Louisville..............9-2 491 8 15. Oklahoma St. ......7-0 440 16 16. Dayton ...............10-0 395 17 17. North Carolina...10-1 317 19 18. Oklahoma............8-2 285 12 19. Kansas ................9-1 215 22 20. Texas....................7-2 197 18 21. South Carolina ..10-0 152 24 22. Texas A&M ..........6-3 139 23 23. Florida St.............8-1 126 — 24. West Virginia........7-2 101 25 99 — 25. Colorado..............9-0 Others receiving votes: Arkansas 94, Miami 58, Nebraska 52, Iowa St. 41, Ohio St. 37, Delaware 15, Vanderbilt 15, Michigan 10, Michigan St. 9, Chattanooga 7, Duquesne 7, Syracuse 6, Iowa 5, Villanova 5, Toledo 2, Gonzaga 1, Rutgers 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 Dec. 17, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking: ...............................Record Pts Pvs 1. Stanford (25) .........9-0 767 1 2. UConn (6)..............8-0 746 2 3. Baylor.....................8-1 716 3 4. Duke ......................8-0 681 4 5. Notre Dame...........6-1 645 5 6. Kentucky................8-1 617 6 7. Georgia................11-0 581 7 8. Maryland................7-2 515 9 9. California ...............8-1 497 11 10. Penn State...........9-2 493 10 11. Tennessee ...........7-1 467 12 12. Purdue...............10-1 410 14 13. Louisville..............9-2 405 8 14. Oklahoma State ..8-0 384 15 15. Dayton ...............10-0 334 16 16. UCLA...................7-1 303 17 17. South Carolina ..10-0 271 18 18. Oklahoma............8-2 234 13 19. Kansas ................9-1 184 21 20. West Virginia........7-2 140 22 21. Nebraska.............8-3 103 24 22. Texas A&M ..........6-3 100 25 23. Texas....................6-2 96 20 24. Ohio State ...........7-3 86 19 25. North Carolina...10-1 81 — Others receiving votes: Florida State 71, Syracuse 32, Iowa State 20, Miami 18, Arkansas 15, St. John's 14, Colorado 13, Gonzaga 12, Chattanooga 9, Middle Tennessee 4, Vanderbilt 4, Rutgers 3, South Florida 2, UTEP 1, Toledo 1. Tuesday's Scores Boys Basketball Akr. Buchtel 74, Akr. Kenmore 53 Akr. East 63, Akr. Garfield 39 Akr. Springfield 53, Mogadore 40 Ashland Crestview 81, Lucas 47 Ashville Teays Valley 48, Circleville 42

Wednesday, December 19, 2012 Athens 60, New Lexington 52 Attica Seneca E. 54, Bucyrus 37 Avon 36, Rocky River 28 Barberton 64, Brecksville-Broadview Hts. 53 Barnesville 75, Belmont Union Local 67 Bascom Hopewell-Loudon 52, Van Buren 50 Batavia Clermont NE 48, Batavia 36 Beaver Eastern 62, Portsmouth Clay 41 Beverly Ft. Frye 67, Caldwell 44 Bishop Donahue, W.Va. 81, Toronto 61 Bloom-Carroll 90, Cols. Hamilton Twp. 36 Bloomdale Elmwood 88, Genoa Area 51 Bowerston Conotton Valley 67, Magnolia Sandy Valley 51 Cadiz Harrison Cent. 64, Martins Ferry 48 Cambridge 52, Marietta 40 Campbell Co., Ky. 66, Batavia Amelia 62 Can. Timken 64, Zoarville Tuscarawas Valley 48 Canal Fulton Northwest 63, Akr. Coventry 40 Canal Winchester 55, AmandaClearcreek 39 Canal Winchester Harvest Prep 70, Millersport 46 Carrollton 52, Louisville Aquinas 42 Cedarville 69, W. Liberty-Salem 41 Chagrin Falls Kenston 67, Gates Mills Hawken 50 Chesapeake 69, Gallipolis Gallia 35 Chillicothe Unioto 66, Piketon 62 Chillicothe Zane Trace 71, Chillicothe Huntington 56 Cin. Clark Montessori 42, Reading 36 Cin. Hillcrest 82, Miami Valley Christian Academy 57 Cin. NW 62, Cin. Hills Christian Academy 58, OT Cin. Princeton 67, Cin. Colerain 48 Cin. SCPA 64, Bellevue, Ky. 53 Cin. Sycamore 61, W. Chester Lakota W. 46 Cin. Turpin 61, Cin. Anderson 49 Cin. Western Hills 56, Cin. Mt. Healthy 50 Cin. Winton Woods 58, Huber Hts. Wayne 49 Circleville Logan Elm 63, Lancaster Fairfield Union 46 Cle. Collinwood 55, Cle. Lincoln W. 53 Cle. Hay 51, Cle. Glenville 50 Cle. Horizon Science 58, New Day Academy 53 Cle. Hts. 84, Bedford 51 Cle. JFK 49, Cle. Rhodes 34 Cle. MLK 57, Cle. Max Hayes 45 Cols. Africentric 81, Cols. Briggs 61 Cols. Brookhaven 103, Cols. Linden McKinley 47 Cols. Centennial 73, Cols. East 56 Cols. Marion-Franklin 88, Cols. West 79 Cols. Mifflin 70, Cols. Whetstone 54 Cols. Northland 83, Cols. Beechcroft 40 Cols. Ready 54, Milford Center Fairbanks 47 Cols. South 81, Cols. International 55 Cols. Walnut Ridge 64, Cols. Independence 33 Corning Miller 67, Belpre 58 Covington 59, New Paris National Trail 25 Crown City S. Gallia 45, Glouster Trimble 42 Danville 67, W. Lafayette Ridgewood 51 Delaware Hayes 55, Cols. Wellington 46 Dover 52, Byesville Meadowbrook 32 Dresden Tri-Valley 41, Zanesville Maysville 26 Dublin Coffman 57, Thomas Worthington 50 Edgerton 65, Swanton 41 Elmore Woodmore 55, Pemberville Eastwood 54, OT Elyria 93, Parma Hts. Valley Forge 43 Elyria Cath. 62, N. Ridgeville 51 Fairfield 65, Hamilton 43 Findlay 61, Tol. St. John's 59 Fremont Ross 71, Lima Sr. 61 Ft. Recovery 71, Waynesfield-Goshen 42 Gahanna Christian 57, Delaware Christian 49 Galloway Westland 51, Hilliard Davidson 37 Garfield Hts. 70, Brunswick 59 General McLane, Pa. 69, Conneaut 26 Georgetown 84, Felicity-Franklin 38 Granville Christian 48, Madison Christian 32 Hannibal River 55, Bridgeport 40 Harrison 59, Franklin Co., Ind. 51 Hilliard Darby 52, Worthington Kilbourne 41 Hudson 72, Cuyahoga Falls 60 Hunting Valley University 53, Willoughby S. 45 Ironton Rock Hill 59, Wellston 58 Lancaster 59, Groveport-Madison 57 Lawrenceburg, Ind. 73, N. Bend Taylor 45 Lewis Center Olentangy Orange 41, Mt. Vernon 35 Liberty Center 53, Antwerp 42 Liberty Twp. Lakota E. 49, Cin. Oak Hills 36 Lore City Buckeye Trail 57, New Matamoras Frontier 24 Loveland 76, Cin. Glen Este 60 Lucasville Valley 56, Wheelersburg 51 Lyndhurst Brush 69, Twinsburg 67 Macedonia Nordonia 69, Tallmadge 49 Mansfield Christian 51, Loudonville 37 Mansfield St. Peter's 85, Marion Cath. 33 Mayfield 57, Parma Normandy 40 McArthur Vinton County 54, Bidwell River Valley 48 Medina Highland 76, Lodi Cloverleaf 44 Mentor 87, Medina 66 Mentor Lake Cath. 74, Perry 42 Middletown 68, Mason 60 Middletown Fenwick 49, Cin. La Salle 35 Milford 55, Kings Mills Kings 49 Millbury Lake 74, Rossford 65 Mt. Gilead 46, Centerburg 40 Mt. Orab Western Brown 73, BethelTate 46 N. Can. Hoover 80, Massillon Perry 66 N. Royalton 72, Parma 33 New Concord John Glenn 51, Crooksville 36 New Middletown Spring. 63, Mineral Ridge 49 New Philadelphia 67, Zanesville 65, OT New Richmond 51, Norwood 40 Newark 78, Grove City 68 Norwalk 63, Marion Harding 36 Notre Dame Academy 79, New Boston Glenwood 31 Oak Hill 68, McDermott Scioto NW 44 Ottawa Lake Whiteford, Mich. 74, Tol. Emmanuel Baptist 47 Ottoville 47, Delphos Jefferson 28 Pataskala Licking Hts. 75, Baltimore Liberty Union 36 Pataskala Watkins Memorial 58, Sunbury Big Walnut 44

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Peebles 70, Lynchburg-Clay 66, OT Portsmouth 67, S. Point 52 Portsmouth Notre Dame 79, New Boston Glenwood 31 Portsmouth Sciotoville 76, Latham Western 61 Portsmouth W. 61, Waverly 58 Powell Olentangy Liberty 75, Marysville 55 Reynoldsburg 40, Gahanna Lincoln 38 Rittman 45, Ashland Mapleton 31 Rockford Parkway 62, S. Adams, Ind. 52 Rocky River Lutheran W. 66, Fairview 60 S. Webster 62, Minford 49 Shenandoah 66, Sarahsville Beallsville 45 Sardinia Eastern 62, Seaman N. Adams 40 Shadyside 55, Madonna, W.Va. 45 Shaker Hts. 73, Strongsville 39 Sheffield Brookside 55, Sullivan Black River 21 Southeastern 50, Bainbridge Paint Valley 47 St. Clairsville 86, Rayland Buckeye 38 Steubenville Cath. Cent. 55, Oak Glen, W.Va. 36 Stewart Federal Hocking 55, Racine Southern 46 Stow-Munroe Falls 40, Solon 37 Sugarcreek Garaway 59, Berlin Hiland 49 Thornville Sheridan 45, Philo 36 Tol. Bowsher 86, Tol. Waite 70 Tol. Scott 89, Tol. Woodward 45 Tol. Whitmer 71, Tol. St. Francis 56 Tree of Life 59, Cardington-Lincoln 42 Tuscarawas Cent. Cath. 40, StrasburgFranklin 27 Uhrichsville Claymont 60, Coshocton 37 Vanlue 44, Tiffin Calvert 35 W. Carrollton 75, Germantown Valley View 71 Wadsworth 60, Copley 44 Wahama, W.Va. 61, Reedsville Eastern 51 Wapakoneta 37, Bluffton 26 Washington C.H. 42, Hillsboro 33 Washington C.H. Miami Trace 64, London 58 Wellington 79, Delaware Hayes 67 Williamsport Westfall 65, Frankfort Adena 53 Wintersville Indian Creek 53, Bellaire 29 Zanesville Rosecrans 58, Warsaw River View 42 Zanesville W. Muskingum 68, McConnelsville Morgan 54 Tuesday's Scores Girls Basketball Arlington 55, Ada 54 Beachwood 57, Newbury 32 Bellefontaine Benjamin Logan 47, DeGraff Riverside 23 Bellevue, Ky. 55, Cin. SCPA 31 Cardington-Lincoln 49, Mansfield Christian 33 Celina 59, St. Henry 31 Chagrin Falls 41, Cuyahoga Hts. 27 Cin. Hughes 55, Cin. Shroder 8 Cin. Woodward 45, Cin. Aiken 35 Circleville 51, Athens 50 Cle. Collinwood 55, Cle. Lincoln W. 53 Cle. E. Tech 64, Cle. John Marshall 17 Cle. Hay 51, Cle. Glenville 50 Cle. Horizon Science 54, New Day Academy 11 Cle. MLK 57, Cle. Max Hayes 45 Cle. Rhodes 50, Cle. JFK 44 Clyde 67, Milan Edison 25 Cols. Africentric 77, Cols. Briggs 40 Cols. Bexley 44, Delaware Buckeye Valley 33 Cols. Brookhaven 81, Cols. Linden McKinley 6 Cols. Centennial 72, Cols. East 36 Cols. Independence 69, Cols. Walnut Ridge 38 Cols. Marion-Franklin 73, Cols. West 45 Cols. Mifflin 45, Cols. Whetstone 37 Cols. Northland 86, Cols. Beechcroft 29 Continental 54, Defiance 28 Delaware Christian 34, Lancaster Fisher Cath. 26 Dublin Coffman 51, Thomas Worthington 36 Findlay Liberty-Benton 60, OttawaGlandorf 41 Fostoria St. Wendelin 65, Dola Hardin Northern 32 Fredericktown 57, Sparta Highland 29 Galion 64, Mt. Gilead 22 Gates Mills Gilmour 41, Parma Padua 30 Gibsonburg 41, Northwood 17 Granville Christian 38, Johnstown Northridge 34 Hilliard Darby 56, Worthington Kilbourne 45 Hilliard Davidson 51, Galloway Westland 21 Kalida 47, Columbus Grove 33 Kenton 57, Caledonia River Valley 55 Lakeside Danbury 27, Oregon Stritch 22 Lewis Center Olentangy Orange 45, Mt. Vernon 32 Mansfield Sr. 65, Sandusky 51 Marion Pleasant 43, Marion Elgin 29 Morrow Little Miami 60, Blanchester 40 N. Robinson Col. Crawford 56, Plymouth 23 Newark Licking Valley 38, Hebron Lakewood 32 Newark Licking Valley 74, JohnstownMonroe 69 Northside Christian 47, Mansfield Temple Christian 28 Norwood 63, Reading 47 Oak Harbor 59, Sandusky St. Mary 27 Ontario 45, Ashland 43 Painesville Harvey 60, Orange 25 Pataskala Licking Hts. 38, Lakewood 32 Perrysburg 59, Holland Springfield 35 Pickerington N. 43, Pickerington Cent. 37 Port Clinton 41, Huron 23 Powell Olentangy Liberty 63, Marysville 46 Sandusky Perkins 46, Castalia Margaretta 41 Sunbury Big Walnut 50, Pataskala Watkins Memorial 19 Sycamore Mohawk 56, Galion Northmor 25 Sylvania Northview 65, Maumee 40 Sylvania Southview 68, Bowling Green 58 Tol. Christian 59, Tol. Ottawa Hills 37 Tol. Emmanuel Baptist 34, Tol. Maumee Valley 24 Upper Sandusky 43, Tiffin Columbian 22 Williamsport Westfall 58, Circleville Logan Elm 54 Wood County Christian, W.Va. 42, OVC 28 Wooster Triway 64, W. Salem NW 34 Napoleon NW Signal Classic Consolation Holgate 34, Napoleon 27 Championship Hamler Patrick Henry 55, Wauseon 48

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■CONTINUED FROM 15 191-185 for a 376 series. Courtney Metzger shot a 183 game and Rachel Darrow rolled a 191 the second game. Troy returns home on Saturday to host Beavercreek in non-divisional action at Troy Bowl. Boys Troy 1,015-927-215-224 – 2,381 G’ville 827-872-157-225 – 2,079 Troy – D.J. Burghardt 209157, Austin Eidemiller 206, Cameron Hughes 169-162, A.J. Bigelow 224-225, Andrew Spencer 207-259, Michael Barkett 124 G’ville – Korey Garland 161-225, Alex Hoffman 125120, Kody Kitchen 172-146, Trever Mann 185-134, Austin Weimer 181-247 Girls Troy 769-788-160-167 – 1,884 G’ville 651-649-107-115 – 1,522 Troy – Rachel Darrow 130191, Courtney Metzger 183166, Allie Isner 191-185, Schmitz 119-96, Rahney Natalia Sainz 146, Rachel Wagner 150 G’ville – Natalie Blinn 114, Hannah Byers 99, Lizzie Hart 155-166, Mariah Kohlhorst 120, Leslie Logan 133-83, Shelby Sumaker 129-192, Shannelle Smith 109

• Tipp Boys Tip Greenon FAIRBORN — Tippecanoe’s boys scored just their second win in history over the Greenon Knights — albeit a short-handed Greenon team — winning 2,5781,792. The Red Devil girls bowled their best game of the season in a 2,270-1,713 loss.

Ryan Rittenhouse led the Devil boys with 245166—411. Josh Bellas rolled 180-201—381, Jack Bauder rolled 161219—380, Logan Banks rolled 170-155—325, Jordan Vollmer rolled a 222 game and Steven Calhoun added a 150. “The boys bowled well, but energy was law because Greenon was short-handed and only had four bowlers,� Tippecanoe coach Clay Lavercombe said. “The boys did well but were well below their average.� Despite shooting a season high, the girls lost to Greenon. Jenny Korleski (141-158—299) and Sarah Rhoades (131-145—276) each had season high series to lead the team. Sarah Marshall rolled games 108-150—258 and Catherine Timmons added a season high game of 122. “So incredibly proud of the girls,� Lavercombe said. “Their attitudes were positive. Their energy was high. Their smiles were big and they shot the best they have all year. Many of the girls set personal bests and they keep improving every day. Their first win is coming, I can feel it.They just need to keep working hard and keep working on their confidence.� The Red Devils bowl today against Greenville at Troy Bowl.

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Tri-County North — 28 Brad Hornbeck 1-0-2, Mark Vanbrederode 2-1-5, Billy Derringer 0-1-1, Austin Hutchins 1-7-9, Derek Booth 00-0, Amani Cunningham 0-1-1, Josh Heltsley 2-4-8, Hunter Gleadell 1-0-2. Totals: 7-14-28. Bethel — 81 Patrick Bain 8-5-22, Andrew Hurst 2-0-5, Mitch Siler 1-0-2, Christian Pfledderer 6-0-13, Jason Clendening 1-1-3, Luke 0-0-0, Derek Veldman Longshore 0-0-0, Trey Davis 1-03, Aaron Bozarth 3-0-7, Gus Schwieterman 3-4-10, Andrew Watson 2-0-4, Brandon James 20-4, Johnny Wills 3-2-8. Totals: 32-12-81. Score By Quarters TC North..........1 11 14 28 Bethel.............16 42 60 81 3-point goals: Tri-County North — none. Bethel — Bain, Pfledderer, Davis, Hurst, Bozarth. Records: Bethel 5-0, 3-0. Reserve score: Tri-County North 32, Bethel 22.

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Roundup reach. Troy Christian (4-1, 4Bradford shot itself 0 MBC) travels to play back into the game from Mississinawa Valley on 3-point range. Brandon Friday. Wysong hit four 3s and Troy Christian — 67 scored a game-high 14 Varvel 3-0-7, Horn 3-0-7, points, Brandon Wirrig Thomas 3-0-7, George 0-2-2, hit three 3s and scored Kirkpatrick 1-0-2, Sloan 1-0-2, Boone 1-0-2, Scott 1-0-2, Salazar 13. 5-3-13, Zawadzki 6-10-23. “We’ve only had three Totals: 24-15-67. practices all year where Middletown Christian — 32 Williams 3-3-10, Gilliam 3-3we’ve had our four returning starters on the 12, Hall 1-1-4, Kennedy 1-0-3, Adams 0-3-3. Totals: 9-10-32. floor at the same time,� Score By Quarters Fisher said. “We conTC .....................9 26 48 67 MC ....................6 15 27 32 trolled a lot of the game, 3-point goals: Troy but we just struggled Christian — Varvel, Horn, scoring. We just need to Thomas, Zawadzki. Middletown get everyone here in Christian — Williams, Gilliam, practice to take care of Hall, Kennedy. Records: Troy Christian 4that.� 1, 4-0 MBC. Middletown Newton travels to Arcanum Friday, while Christian 3-3, 1-2. Covington 59, Bradford hosts National Trail 25 Mississinawa Valley. COVINGTON — In Bradford — 44 Wirrig 3-4-13, Schwab 2-5- two of the first three 10, Wysong 5-0-14, Arnett 2-0-4, games of the 2012-13 seaHoelscher 1-1-3. Totals: 13-10- son, the Covington 44. Buccaneers took it on the Newton — 51 Filbrun 0-2-2, Vance 2-3-7, chin against two of the McBride 3-4-13, Gerodimos 1-3- better teams in the area 5, Hines 3-0-8, Adams 1-2-4, — Versailles and Marion Brauer 5-0-10, Walters 1-0-2. Local — all the while Totals: 16-14-51. learning under a new Score By Quarters coaching staff led by Bradford .....9 17 25 39 44 Newton .....12 21 28 39 51 newly hired coach Matt 3-point goals: Bradford — Pond. Wirrig 3, Schwab, Wysong 4. That’s why Tuesday’s Newton — McBride 3, Hines 2. victory over Records: Bradford 0-5. 59-25 National Trail was a Newton 2-4. much- needed victory for TC 67, MC 32 MIDDLETOWN — a senior-laden team lookAnother Metro Buckeye ing to find its stride. Conference game. “We needed this,� Pond Another win for the Troy said. “We played two of Christian Eagles. the better teams around Grant Zawadzki made in Versailles and Marion 10 out of 13 free throws Local while the kids are and tied a career-high still learning on the job. with 23 points, Christian We really needed to come Salazar added a double- out and play well tonight double with 13 points to give us some confiand 11 rebounds as the dence.� Eagles defeated Cole Owens led the Middletown Christian Buccaneers with 16 67-32 Tuesday night. points, while Ryan Craft “We struggled early. and Dylan Owens each We were 2 for 14 shooting had 11. in the first quarter,� Troy Covington (2-2, 2-0 Christian coach Ray Cross County Zawadski said. “I thought Conference) travels to our defensive intensity Miami East Friday. was the best we’ve had Piqua 75, all year. Our kids were Stebbins 48 flying to the ball. We PIQUA — Piqua ended up holding two out jumped all over Stebbins of the top five scorers early and cruised to its (Josh Hall and Drew first victory of the season Adams) in our league to Tuesday night, winning just a few points.� 75-48. After a close first Josh Holfinger led quarter, the Eagles got Piqua (1-5) with 25 rolling in the second, points and 12 rebounds building a 26-15 by half. and Erik Vondenhuevel Then in the third, the added 12 points. Eagles used a 22-12 run Piqua hosts Sidney to put the game out of Friday. ■CONTINUED FROM 15

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