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Lindsey Bolar of Bond Hill stands in front of a projected 1958 photo of Reading Road in Avondale at The Enquirer studio on April 18. Bolar ran the streets growing up, falling into a life of crime and nearly 40 years of heroin addiction, before “clarity came” while he served prison time. SAM GREENE/THE ENQUIRER

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Find interactive radar, storm warnings, live storm chaser video, school closings and global weather searchable by city or ZIP code at Cincinnati.com/weather.

Good Morning! Any rainfall has exited the region and skies will gradually clear out into this afternoon. Although the sun will return, you can expect a chilly afternoon with high temperatures only in the upper 50s. Warmer temperatures and unsettled conditions return next week. By Monday and beyond we are back into the mid to upper 70s. There are also afternoon chances for showers and thunderstorms each day. – Jeff Creighton

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LOTTERIES OHIO

THE NATION

U.S. FORECAST

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MON HI LO W

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MON HI LO W

Akron Albany, N.Y. Albuquerque Amarillo Anchorage Asheville Atlanta Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Baton Rouge Birmingham Bismarck Boise Boston Buffalo Burlington, Vt. Charleston, S.C. Charleston, W.Va. Charlotte, N.C. Cheyenne Chicago Cleveland Columbia, S.C. Columbus Concord, N.H. Dallas-Ft. Worth Daytona Beach Denver Des Moines Detroit El Paso Evansville Fairbanks Fort Lauderdale Fort Myers Fort Wayne Grand Rapids Great Falls Hartford Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jackson, Miss.

Jacksonville Kansas City Key West Knoxville Las Vegas

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66 59 75 63 51 76 86 62 84 66 85 86 45 58 57 52 51 85 82 80 34 58 60 89 71 59 82 82 39 64 50 90 79 62 85 90 60 53 38 60 84 85 69 84 84 66 86 85 76

Lexington Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Madison Memphis Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis Mobile Naples Nashville New Orleans New York City Norfolk, Va. Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland, Maine Portland, Ore. Providence Raleigh Reno Richmond Sacramento St. Louis Salt Lake City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco San Jose Santa Fe St. Ste. Marie Seattle Sioux Falls South Bend Springfield, Ill. Syracuse Tampa Toledo Traverse City Tucson Tulsa Washington, D.C. Wichita Wilmington, N.C.

65 67 70 67 54 72 86 51 53 82 88 72 81 53 82 73 59 89 62 96 58 55 67 53 81 74 78 80 63 58 84 69 67 74 77 47 61 55 55 62 50 87 57 54 93 72 72 69 84

80 80 67 82 56 82 86 49 56 82 89 85 83 58 69 74 64 88 65 84 69 54 68 58 75 72 69 80 73 60 82 66 68 73 71 43 63 52 57 67 55 90 55 49 86 78 67 63 80

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49 pc 57 c 56 sh 50 pc 39 s 61 pc 72 pc 40 s 41 pc 57 s 70 s 55 pc 64 s 42 r 56 pc 63 c 46 pc 63 s 41 r 69 s 39 r 33 r 43 pc 37 c 53 pc 43 pc 48 pc 51 pc 54 s 41 pc 64 pc 61 sh 51 pc 50 pc 46 pc 33 pc 43 pc 39 c 40 s 49 s 31 c 70 s 39 pc 36 s 64 s 63 c 47 pc 57 pc 64 pc

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IN THE SKY

NEW May 4

FIRST May 11

FULL May 18

LAST May 26

Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset

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(Drawings: April 26) Pick 3 (late): 0 3 2 Pick 4 (late): 5 7 0 3 Pick 5 (late): 7 7 5 6 3 Rolling Cash 5: 5 14 17 26 37 Classic Lotto: Saturday’s jackpot was an estimated $13.8 million.

Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation.

Temperature bands are highs for the day

CITY

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(Drawings: April 27) Pick 3 (early): 5 6 8 Pick 4 (early): 6 9 5 3 Pick 5 (early): 5 2 2 0 3

Today

Tomorrow

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8:28 p.m.

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110s 100s 90s 80s 70s 60s 50s 40s 30s 20s 10s 0s -0s -10s

KENTUCKY

(Drawings: April 27) Pick 3 (early): 8 5 0 Pick 4 (early): 8 8 0 4 (Drawings: April 26) Pick 3 (late): 3 2 8 Pick 4 (late): 3 1 1 8 Cash Ball: 3 6 12 15, 26

INDIANA Cold

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Stationary Showers T-storms

RIVER LEVELS RIVER

Snow

Ice

Levels as of 7 a.m. Saturday. Sunday’s forecast is for 7 a.m. Pool levels reflect the normal river level.

Previous level

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36.80 33.10 35.50 30.30 29.30

Pool Level

Previous level

Flood Stage

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28 17 18 20

Licking (Falmouth) Little Miami (Milford) Great Miami (Hamilton) Whitewater (Brookville)

12.0 12.0 12.0 12.0

ALMANAC

Rising

From Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport through 5 p.m. yest.

TEMPERATURE High/low ........................... 62/42 Normal high/low ............... 69/48 Record high ................. 86 (1990) Record low .................. 30 (1996) HUMIDITY High .................................... 72% Low ..................................... 38% PRECIPITATION Last 24 hours ...................... 0.03” Month to date .................... 4.40” Normal month to date ........ 3.48” Year to date ...................... 21.56” Normal year to date ......... 13.25”

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Flurries

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OTHER RIVERS

Rain

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Falling

Forecast

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5.30 8.00 10.50 7.20 Unchanged

AIR QUALITY Pollution..........................42/Good Main pollutant ............ Particulates Mold.......................531/Moderate Pollen ............................. 343/High Main pollen ...mulberry, oak, other Source: Hamilton County Department of Environmental Services

EXTREMES Saturday for the 48 contiguous states.

Highest ................. Needles, CA 101 Lowest ...................... Baraga, MI 17 Forecasts and graphics provided

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(Drawings: April 27) Daily 3 (early): 7 4 0(SB: 0) Daily 4 (early): 8 7 2 8 (SB: 0) (Drawings: April 26) Daily 3 (late): 8 1 9(SB: 3) Daily 4 (late): 0 8 9 5 (SB: 3) Cash 5: 4 21 28 41 45 Hoosier Lotto: Saturday’s jackpot was an estimated $35.6 million.

MEGA MILLIONS

(Drawings: April 26) 9 17 23 30 46 Megaball: 10 Megaplier: 4 Tuesday’s jackpot is an estimated $229 million.

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Saturday’s jackpot was an estimated $166 million.

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COMMENTARY

To our readers: The time is NOW to support ArtsWave Eddie Tyner and Alecia Kintner Special to Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

For the last 11 weeks, people across the region have been coming together to support the 2019 ArtsWave Community Campaign. This has been a tradition in Cincinnati for 70 years, and it’s the way our region – 15 counties covering Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana – funds the arts.

ArtsWave grows our economy, creates and keeps jobs, and prepares kids for the future.

From Fringe Festival to BLINK*; from Jazz & BBQ in Madisonville to Concerts in the Square in Price Hill; from EZZ Fest in the West End to Renaissance Covington to Street Spark in Hamilton; and from museums to Music Hall – ArtsWave brings people together and sets our region apart.

Without ArtsWave, kids in 500 schools would miss out on more than 235,000 arts experiences.

There would be 1,000 fewer free, outdoor arts activities.

More than 100 high-impact arts organizations, transformational experiences or projects would be jeopardized.

For decades, the force behind Cincinnati arts has been ArtsWave.

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Giving to ArtsWave comes with special benefi ts – passes to experiences at BLINK in October, a yearlong buy-one-get-one arts ticket membership, and even perks from partners like the Cincinnati Reds and FC Cincinnati.

The best reason to donate is that you will ensure the ripple eff ect of incredible benefi ts that arts give back to our community. Whether it’s a neighborhood arts center, children’s choir, mural program, one of our professional theaters or symphonies: they count on ArtsWave, and that means they count on you and me.

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Jae Saturday, 3, center, participates in an activity to learn colors and healthy food choices at the Closing the Gap Center’s Annual Health Expo on Saturday.

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Shirley Love of Rotary International administers an eye exam to Taniya Edwards, 5, at the Closing the Gap Center’s Annual Health Expo. The event was organized by the Community Action Agency. PHOTOS BY RYAN TERHUNE/THE ENQUIRER

Zumba instructor Patricia Dorsey leads a class at the Closing the Gap Center’s Annual Health Expo.

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On Monday, more than a dozen food trucks that will participate at Taste of Cincinnati will line the streets Downtown.

The Food Truck Takeover will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Monday on Second Street between Rosa Parks and Race streets.

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Bus-roads levy unites many, but not all are on board Jason Williams Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

The Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber is doing a good job organizing a diverse coalition to support a potential Hamilton County bus-roads tax levy in 2020.

It’s encouraging to see some of the regions most prominent liberal, conservative and moderate politicians working together. Cincinnati Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld, state Rep. Tom Brinkman, Mayor John Cranley and Ohio House Majority Floor Leader Bill Seitz are among the politicos backing the eff ort to put a 1-cent sales tax levy on the ballot.

They cleared a big hurdle this month, when Gov. Mike DeWine signed the transportation budget. It includes legislation allowing Hamilton County to put a levy on the ballot that could fund improvements for public transportation and roads.

The idea: There would be something in the levy for everyone. It would generate about $150 million a year, a portion of which would be used to help improve one of America’s worst bus systems. For suburbanites who don’t ride the bus, there’d also be money to fi x their roads and bridges.

Challenges remain in order for the levy to not only make it onto the ballot, but have a chance of passing. Here’s a look at those obstacles:

1. Commissioners aren’t supportive.

Many top business leaders, transit activists, City Hall Democrats, Statehouse Republicans and other key players are on board with the levy idea – except the three Democratic county commissioners.

The plan calls for the city’s money

going to SORTA to be eliminated, shifting all the local funding source to the countywide sale tax (more on that below). Commission President Denise Driehaus opposes that idea.

She believes a 1-cent sales tax increase is too high for this. Instead, Driehaus favors an idea that would increase the sales tax by a smaller amount and reduce the city’s SORTA funding but not entirely eliminate it.

That way, the commissioners would still have fl exibility to raise the sales tax for other purposes in the future if necessary.

Todd Portune fancies himself a transit expert, and he has a grander idea for creating a regionwide bus and passenger rail network. It’s a great idea, but it’s not realistic without fi rst taking incremental steps such as this countywide levy.

Commissioners’ approval isn’t necessary for a levy to move forward. SORTA has the authority to put a levy on the ballot without elected offi cials’ approval. The city appoints seven of the SORTA board members, a majority.

The county appoints the other six, so the board could end up passing a ballot initiative by one vote if the commissioners don’t come around.

Could this create a messaging challenge for the levy supporters? It could raise questions for county voters if their SORTA board representatives and the commissioners aren’t supportive.

And don’t forget: County voters outnumber city of Cincinnati voters, and the folks in the townships and villages will decide the fate of a bus levy.

2. City Hall-SORTA streetcar divorce has to happen.

The transit authority runs the cityowned streetcar, which is a public-relations nightmare.

Bus levy supporters says it’s a must that SORTA completely wash its hands

Hamilton County Commission President Denise Driehaus, right, shown with Cincinnati Reds CEO Bob Castellini, left, and Mayor John Cranley, opposes the tax increase plan. KAREEM ELGAZZAR/THE ENQUIRER

of streetcar operations in order to improve the agency’s perception among suburban voters, who generally see the streetcar as wasteful amusement park ride.

Some levy opponents are already calling it a “streetcar tax,” thus the need to get SORTA out of running the rail line. The city-SORTA streetcar divorce is in the works.

who works in the city helps pay for the system.

It’s an antiquated funding model, the only one of its kind in the state.

Public transportation systems in all other urban Ohio counties are funded by a countywide tax.

Levy proponents want the SORTA portion of the earnings tax to be eliminated as an incentive to voters. It would avoid doubling taxing people who work in the city and live in Hamilton County. The tax swap is the most critical piece to getting a levy passed, proponents say.

It’s why even hard-core fi scal conservatives like state Rep. Brinkman support the idea.

“Get rid of the bus portion of the earnings tax, and I think they’ve got it made,” the Mount Lookout Republican told Politics Extra.

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3. City earnings tax needs to be repealed.

About half of SORTA’s annual $100 million operating budget comes from the city’s earnings tax. Some threetenths of 1% of the city’s earnings tax goes to Metro buses, meaning anyone

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James Pilcher, Aaron Hegarty, Eric Litke and Mark Nichols USA TODAY NETWORK

AMSTERDAM, Ohio – In the days after they ousted their police chief, the leaders of this town realized that the real mess he’d made wasn’t the jumble of trash and misplaced evidence that cluttered his offi ce. It was what was buried underneath.

There they found forms featuring the mayor’s apparently forged signature that David Cimperman used to add more than 30 offi cers to the town’s police roster – one for every 16 residents. Many never did any paid police work for the town, logging hours instead for a private security business that state investigators say Cimperman ran on the side. He tried to outfi t them with high-end radios. The riot gear and other surplus military equipment he bought with taxpayer money are missing.

What they didn’t fi nd was evidence

that the police force built out of fear of being without help in an emergency did much actual police work.

Even now, the people who hired Cimperman don’t know the depth of what went wrong in the part-time police force of this small town in the hills of northeastern Ohio. The new chief says he’s consulted with state criminal investigators to help fi gure it out.

What they know is that they could have prevented it all with a single phone call. They hired a chief without knowing he’d been fi red for perjury, quit a job as his bosses started investigating missing police equipment and was charged with a felony for tampering with police radios to make untraceable phone calls. “That’s just it. No one calls me,” says one of his former bosses, Michael Goodwin, the chief of police in nearby New Philadelphia.

Cimperman’s journey from disgraced police offi cer to police chief is a surprisingly common one, a USA TODAY Network investigation found.

Misconduct that might disqualify someone from being hired as a rookie cop hasn’t stopped offi cers from taking the top jobs at law enforcement agencies throughout the USA. Many ended up running small forces in places without the inclination to do basic background checks or without the wherewithal to penetrate the secretive and haphazard systems that can hide police misconduct even from the police.

“I blame myself, I really do,” Amsterdam Mayor Gary Pepperling says of his former police chief. “He really looked good on paper, and I’m a trusting guy. I didn’t really check. To be honest, I hope to see him behind bars.”

The face of law enforcement Police forces – and the offi cers they employ – have come under intense public scrutiny in recent years after a succession of high-profi le scandals including questionable shootings and

commanders who have themselves become criminals. The USA TODAY Network gathered misconduct records from hundreds of departments and state licensing boards in nearly every state to shed light on the profession, amassing one of the largest stores of information on police wrongdoing.

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“Whether it’s entirely fair or not, a police chief or sheriff is really considered a role model for the community,” says Arizona State University criminology and criminal justice professor Michael Scott, a former police chief. “If

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it’s understood the chief has violated the law ... it more or less is a signal to the offi cers or deputies that you don’t have to be any better.”

The USA TODAY Network identifi ed 32 people who became police chiefs or sheriff s despite a fi nding of serious misconduct. At least eight of them were found guilty of a crime. Others amassed records of domestic violence, improperly withholding evidence, falsifying records or other conduct that could impact the public they swore to serve.

In North Dakota, offi cials picked as their sheriff a man who’d led his coworkers on a 100 mph chase after drinking. A dispatcher summoned him to assist in his own pursuit. In Georgia, an offi cer fi red from the state police after investigators found he’d carried out numerous on-duty aff airs and lied about it landed a job as a small-town chief. A Washington trooper who was convicted of rendering criminal assistance in a case involving his son found work leading a small department in that state. Those chiefs almost certainly represent only a small glimpse at the larger issue, because the records reporters were able to examine cover a small fraction of U.S. law enforcement agencies.

They are high-ranking examples of how easy it can be for police offi cers in the USA to escape records of misconduct when departments big and small have struggled to attract recruits and information about how police offi cers carry out their jobs remains largely scattered in fi les held by thousands of

At Cimperman’s former job in New Philadelphia, a high-speed chase ended with his cruiser upside down. “He just seemed to break everything he touched,” the city’s police chief says.

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What happens when they do is that places like Amsterdam, Ohio – a struggling former steel town in the hills Cimperman west of Pittsburgh where the boarded-up businesses outnumber the open ones – end up with police chiefs like David Cimperman.

‘He just seemed to break everything’ Cimperman had been a policeman in the U.S. Army and the low-income

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The USA TODAY Network left Cimperman repeated emails and voicemails, visited his home in Akron and served him with a legal notice after suing to get some of his court records unsealed. All went unanswered.

Instead, reporters documented his career through dozens of interviews and hundreds of documents, some of which the USA TODAY Network sued to obtain. The picture they paint isn’t all bad. He rescued a toddler from a truck that had driven into a lake while

off -duty in 2013. Former co-workers speak of his loyalty and work ethic.

Cimperman was on the job less than a year before his bosses in New Philadelphia started accumulating a fi le that would eventually overfl ow a large box. One of its entries: He left the door of his cruiser open after work, his loaded shotgun still on the seat.

The next year, the mayor tried to fi re him for a 115 mph chase over hilly country roads that ended with his cruiser upside-down in a creek.

Cimperman started the chase because he saw a motorcyclist who hadn’t lowered the visor on his helmet, a minor infraction. He continued the pursuit even after a supervisor recommended he break it off , because he said later he couldn’t get close enough to read the motorcycle’s license plate.

After about 15 miles, the motorcyclist darted into a park and across a wooden footbridge that was only 3 feet wide, Cimperman speeding close behind in the department’s new cruiser.

The driver escaped (offi cers found him later), and Cimperman ended up in the creek. He shot out a window of the cruiser to escape. The mayor fumed that Cimperman should be fi red but settled for a 10-day suspension.

“He just seemed to break everything he touched,” Goodwin, the city’s police chief, says.

In 2001, the city did fi re Cimperman after he pleaded no-contest to a felony charge of improper use of equipment and tampering. State investigators See MISCONDUCT, Page 14A

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found that he’d paid a company to reprogram three of his own radios to work on the city’s police radio network, something state and federal laws forbid.

The head of the company that did the work, Andy Brinkley, says Cimperman told him the radios were for the department, but he paid for it by sending a package of cash by UPS, which Brinkley says was “unique.”

Goodwin says the radios weren’t for police work. He says Cimperman wanted to make untraceable calls using the city’s radio network, though offi cials never fi gured out why.

Whatever the reason, it came at a cost. Records from the county prosecutor show that every time Cimperman used the radios to make calls, they tied up the communication network and blocked New Philadelphia residents’ 911 emergency calls.

Cimperman was sentenced to a year of probation, and prosecutors agreed to have the case sealed, a step they said they routinely take for people who don’t have a criminal record. A judge unsealed the records last year after the USA TODAY Network sued.

Ordinarily, a felony record would be career-ending because the state would automatically revoke his license to be a police offi cer. Cimperman’s plea let him keep his certifi cation, and the court’s decision to keep the case sealed made it harder for future employers to fi nd.

It was enough for the city to fi re him. The city’s termination letter cited Cimperman’s criminal record and other actions his bosses said were “tantamount to again being untruthful.”

Five months later, labor arbitrator Bruce McIntosh put him back on the force, saying he deserved to be suspended but not fi red. McIntosh said he couldn’t remember the case.

Two weeks later, the city fi red Cimperman again, this time for perjury.

The year before, Cimperman had forced his way into the basement of a locked rental house, something that normally requires a search warrant.

He said afterward that he had seen signs of a burglary outside the house, which could justify a warrantless entry. He found equipment for growing marijuana inside.

The county went to court to seize the house and brought drug charges against its owner. It dropped both cases after Cimperman testifi ed about how he had found the equipment.

The prosecutor running the case, David Hipp, told the local newspaper, The Times Reporter, that Cimperman gave “perjured testimony” during the hearing. He says he no longer remembers the case’s details but at the time left no doubt about why it collapsed.

“It is my conclusion that Mr. Cimperman was not truthful,” Hipp told the judge in the case, according to the newspaper. “This is the only time I’ve seen this in 27 years of prosecuting cases.”

Still, a diff erent mediator put Cimperman back on the force. David Pincus wrote in his decision that there

There’s little crime in Amsterdam, Ohio, but some residents worried about “unsavory elements.”

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were signs burglars might have entered the building, so Cimperman had the authority to go inside as he claimed in court. He returned to work, telling his colleagues in a letter that he was doing “many things to set things right” and wanted “a fresh start with everyone in New Philadelphia.”

More issues followed: Offi cials said he violated the department’s time-off policy, failed to turn in traffi c tickets, drove recklessly and didn’t show up to the trial of an accused sex off ender (who was eventually convicted).

Goodwin says he launched an investigation into Cimperman over “irregularities in the inventory” of surplus equipment the military had donated through a federal program. Cimperman left the department in 2012, when, according to Goodwin, the department gave him a choice: retire or face possible prosecution.

In the years that followed, Cimperman stitched together something like a full-time career from part-time police jobs. In one Facebook post in 2014, he boasted of working 24 hours straight between his jobs, plus three-and-ahalf hours of driving to get from one to another. One of his friends replied with a picture of RoboCop. Some departments limit the number of hours an offi cer can work in a day, in part because studies have linked fatigue to increased civilian

complaints and other risks.

Cimperman also found work with the state Lottery Commission, investigating problems with slot machines at the same time he held those part-time police jobs. He got into trouble there, too, and was disciplined for following a female gaming mechanic “in a way that went beyond a normal work relationship” and using a shower reserved for performers.

In 2016, lottery offi cials put him on leave for not showing up to work. He quit and said he’d found a new job.

A prestigious new title That new job came with a more prestigious title: chief of police.

In 2015, Pepperling, Amsterdam’s mayor, hired him to run what was essentially a one-man police force, sometimes with help from a few other part-timers, in this town of nearly 500 residents and zero stoplights about 100 miles southeast of Cleveland.

Over two decades, the town’s population has shrunk by about a quarter as nearby steel mills and coal mines shut down. The only two business left open in its small center are a diner and a convenience store. There’s little in the way of crime, but the junction of two state highways can draw drug traffi c and what Pepperling calls “unsavory elements.”

Although most towns this size don’t bother with their own police force, Amsterdam sits on the border of two counties. Locals worried that without their own offi cers, help would be too far away in an emergency.

When Amsterdam’s previous chief left, Pepperling scrambled to fi nd someone to take a job that came with a lofty title and lousy benefi ts: 20 hours a week at minimum-wage.

“We needed a police offi cer, bad,” Pepperling says.

To a hard-up town, a longtime cop

such as Cimperman “looked good on paper,” he says.

Pepperling called the people Cimperman listed as references but admits he didn’t do a thorough background check. Nobody called his old bosses.

Pepperling says that after the calls to references, he and other town offi cials interviewed Cimperman and gave him a badge.

Such lapses aren’t unusual. The USA TODAY Network found that many departments – especially small ones – lack the wherewithal to dig into the pasts of prospective police chiefs or simply had so few candidates that they couldn’t aff ord to care.

Thousands of communities are served by such tiny departments. At the federal government’s last count, in 2008, half of U.S. police forces had 10 offi cers or fewer. In a wide-ranging assessment of American policing three years ago, President Barack Obama’s administration warned that such small forces intensify problems of “organizational quality control.”

Even big cities such as Baltimore, Detroit and Memphis have struggled to attract enough qualifi ed recruits to fi ll out their forces, a challenge magnifi ed in towns that can’t match the pay and perks of bigger departments.

Some smaller communities ended up with chiefs such as Richard Pacheco, who landed several top police jobs at small Missouri departments and runs campus safety at a Kansas college despite the fact that he was charged with a felony after yanking a man out of his car at gunpoint while he was off duty because he thought the man was driving drunk. He pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of giving false alarm, his second criminal conviction. He lost his license to be a police offi cer in Kansas for misconduct and had been the subject of three restraining orders. In one, his then-fi ancee said he threatened to shoot her.

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His new bosses say they were unaware of his record until reporters contacted them.

Experts say the system for tracking police misconduct is so fragmented that it’s easy for offi cers and even chiefs to escape such a record. Though most states have statewide agencies that license police offi cers – and can pull their licenses for the most serious types of misconduct – much of the information about how a police offi cer has performed is stored in the personnel records of individual departments.

“With a highly decentralized system like we have in this country, we simply have got to get a better grip on misconduct so that people who don’t belong in the profession don’t get to stay in it by virtue of moving around,” says David Harris, an expert on police misconduct and a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Christopher Chavis was fi red from the Georgia state police in 2008 and lost his license to be a police offi cer for carrying out multiple aff airs while on the job. State investigators say he lied to them, though Chavis denies that.

The decision to revoke Chavis’ license was overturned on appeal, and Chavis kept his badge. In 2014, he landed a new job running the police department in Adrian, population 645.

Adrian Mayor Kim Adams says Chavis disclosed the incidents before being hired and had been “wonderful” and “100% honest” in his time there.

The City Council asked Chavis to resign in October over a series of “small reasons,” including not patrolling enough, Adams says. Experts say it’s especially alarming when offi cials fi nd out about a prospective chief ’s record of misconduct and hire him anyway, given the possible consequences.

“I’m surprised those kinds of things would be uncovered during that process and yet a person would still be chosen to lead an organization,” says Charles H. Ramsey, the former Philadelphia police commissioner, who helped lead a White House eff ort in 2014 to identify problems in modern policing. “That’s the price you pay if you take that attitude.”

About an hour from Amsterdam, in Kirkersville, Ohio, the new police chief died from a drug overdose two months after starting the job. Offi cials knew before they hired him that James Hughes had pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct over an off -duty incident at a fast-food restaurant, the town’s law director told The Newark Advocate. It was unclear whether offi cials knew he’d been the subject of multiple investigations in his previous job, as a sheriff ’s deputy. Kirkersville’s mayor, Terry Ashcraft, did not respond to questions about the former chief.

Drugs and packaging found near Hughes’ body bore markings from a police evidence room, says Reynoldsburg Police Lt. Ron Wright, who investigated his death.

A Potemkin police force Three years after he hired him, Pepperling ousted Cimperman as Amsterdam’s police chief. By then, he says, Cimperman wasn’t showing up to work. He’d seen other signs of problems, including a state homeland se-

Gary Pepperling, mayor of Amsterdam, Ohio, speaks about his regret in hiring Officer David Cimperman. PHIL DIDION/THE ENQUIRER

curity investigator who had come by to look into whether the chief was running a security business on the side.

Still, he says, offi cials weren’t prepared for the mess they found once their chief was fi nally gone.

“It took us weeks to clean it out,” says Amsterdam Police Chief Todd Walker, who had been the town’s chief before Cimperman arrived and took the job again after he left.

An internal report obtained by the USA TODAY Network shows photos of a bag of marijuana and seized drivers’ licenses found in the offi ce but never returned or stored properly. That report was prepared for the mayor by an offi cer whom Cimperman had fi red.

Walker says he even found an unidentifi ed handgun in the trunk of the town’s police cruiser. Trash covered the town’s dispatch computer, which Cimperman was supposed to use to track the department’s activity.

Though Amsterdam wanted its own police force to make sure someone was close by in an emergency, county dispatch records show the town’s offi cers signaled that they were on duty only 72 times in the years Cimperman was in charge, about once every two weeks. Some of those were for only an hour at a time. “The town had a parttime department that wasn’t working for them,” says Rob Herrington, director of Jeff erson County’s 911 system.

Cimperman seemed to be busy with other things, including building the Amsterdam Police Department into what appeared, on paper, to be something far more formidable than the one-man force the town had in mind.

He signed offi cers on to the town roster throughout 2015 and 2016, even if they never worked there or got paid.

The department’s roster swelled to 37 names, Walker says. More than half of them were former co-workers of Cimperman’s from other police departments, state records show. Others had little experience as police offi cers.

Few did any work for the town. Being on the roster let them maintain their state licenses to be police offi cers even if they were technically out of work. And it made it easier for them to take jobs doing security work, and for higher pay, because they could call themselves off -duty cops.

Multiple Amsterdam offi cers told state investigators that Cimperman hired them out as security guards

Reasons for banned cops In 44 states, USA TODAY obtained records of more than 30,000 law enforcement officers who lost their certification. In about one-third of the cases, states would not provide specific reasons. Breakdown of reasons in the documented cases: 4,537

Drugs & alcohol

3,254

Assaults & violence Other Dishonesty

2,976 2,777

Theft Misconduct with prisoners Sexual misconduct

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SOURCE State police licensure records and USA TODAY research

through a business called APD Security – a play on Amsterdam Police Department – says Brandon Gardner, director of enforcement and outreach for the Ohio Department of Homeland Security, which oversees private security fi rms. The state’s lead investigator, James Borntrager, says he visited Cimperman’s offi ce in 2017 and saw stacks of “security guard” patches and blank forms for adding offi cers to the town’s roster that included copies of the mayor’s signature.

Gardner says the arrangement exploits a loophole that exempts police offi cers from the licensing rules that govern other private security guards.

That meant Cimperman could “get these guys on his roster, then charge an increased fee for their services, telling their client they are having off -duty offi cers work.”

Former Amsterdam offi cer Louis Valdez says he and Cimperman worked several of the same off -duty details for APD Security. Valdez says he was paid in cash for the jobs by a diff erent offi cer who he thought ran the fi rm but acknowledged that he never did any work for the town and was on the roster only to qualify for off -duty work elsewhere. “I thought it was a legitimate business,” he says.

Pepperling says Cimperman “was running an off -duty security fi rm out of this offi ce and using our town as a front.”

How they got on the roster is another story. Ordinarily, the town’s mayor

would have to sign off on a request to add a new offi cer, and records show Pepperling’s signature appears on 35 forms submitted to state authorities.

Pepperling says he signed for no more than fi ve of them. The rest, he insists, were forged.

There are signs Cimperman sought to use the town to outfi t the offi cers he was hiring out. He wrote to other departments asking for spare or unused equipment, even though the county and town had provided relatively new gear in the past fi ve years, Amsterdam police records show. He tried to get county and state offi cials to let him activate 30 other radios, even though he never had more than two or three other offi cers helping him patrol the town.

Walker can’t fi nd thousands of dollars worth of equipment, including riot gear and even a sweater he bought from a state surplus-equipment program. This year, Ohio kicked Amsterdam out of the program because bills for the gear went unpaid. “It’s amazing,” Walker says. “This never ends.”

Walker and his offi cers are building a case against Cimperman for allegedly using his position as chief in Amsterdam to defraud local, state or even federal agencies.

One more check After all that, Cimperman hasn’t hung up his badge.

Within days of his departure from Amsterdam, he ended up on the roster of another small town less than 20 miles away, fi rst as a volunteer auxiliary offi cer and later as a paid part-timer.

His new boss is Chief Stacy McGrath. She took over the department in Bloomingdale – a town so tiny police park their one cruiser on a side street each night – after volunteering as an offi cer in two other small towns.

She had been on the rolls in Amsterdam as a “special offi cer,” one of the dozens of names Cimperman added.

McGrath started her own security company in 2018 after she became chief, says Gardner, the homeland security offi cial. She added Cimperman to the rolls of her department and says she pays him for three to fi ve hours of police work each week. “This is how we help each other because we don’t know where to go,” McGrath says.

Bloomingdale Mayor David Gaff ney says the town’s lawyer conducted a background check on Cimperman, including contacting other departments, and “those things came back positive.”

Bloomingdale’s law director, Kristopher Haught, says the check he conducted was somewhat less thorough: He submitted a request for a criminal background check, which wouldn’t have turned up the then-sealed criminal fi le or any of the other debris spilling out of Cimperman’s past. So once again, he had a badge.

Pilcher reports for the Cincinnati Enquirer. Hegarty reported from McLean, Virginia.; Nichols reported from Indianapolis; Litke reported from Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Contributing: Mark Hannan of USA TODAY ; Andrew Ford of The Asbury Park (New Jersey) Press; Brett Kelman of The (Nashville) Tennessean; Bethany Bruner and Benjamin Lanka of The Newark (Ohio) Advocate.

16A ❚ SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2019 ❚ THE ENQUIRER

Thieves stripping wood from old Ky. barns Thefts happening amid farmhouse-chic trend Tessa Duvall

Louisville Courier Journal USA TODAY NETWORK

BURKESVILLE, Ky. – Just off a bend in the Cumberland River stands a weathered tobacco barn whose split and slivered planks have gone missing piece by piece.

Lois “Nan” Coff ey, 95, points in exasperation with her tobacco pole cane at the gaping holes and absent barn doors that have left the structure stripped bare in places, like a skeleton with bones missing.

The barn is where her late husband, J.D. Coff ey, a mechanic and reluctant farmer, once helped the family cure tobacco four-tiers high, and the breeze still carries remnants of the burley’s dry, earthy scent.

Nan can’t be sure how long those missing planks and doors have been gone — the doors had been stored inside the barn for years — but she knows what happened to them: thieves stole them.

In fact, her family called the county sheriff , placed a notice in the weekly Cumberland County News and put up cameras and fl oodlights in case the thieves decide to return. And if they get bold, Nan says she still has a pistol hidden in the house.

“Well, sure, I’d fi re at ’em,” she said.

“I’d love to get it out.”

Barnwood thieves have been stealing Kentucky memories across the commonwealth — from Todd to Russell counties — not for what’s in them but to feed a growing desire for the farmhouse chic popularized by famous HGTV hosts Chip and Joanna Gaines — that is, taking ancient, weathered barnwood and using it to make a new house look old.

Sheriff s across the state have seen some barns stripped down to their frames and aluminum roofs. Law enforcement offi cials say there’s not much they can do to stop the thieves or to track down the wood.

But it has become such a problem that buyers of weathered wood have taken to asking for W-9 tax forms from those looking to sell.

Farmers in other states have also seen their timeworn wood stripped: Tennessee, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, South Carolina and Montana have had a few cases, though reports are rare. But in Kentucky, with more old barns per square mile than any other state, barnwood thieving has been a problem for years. Call a sheriff to ask about a barn theft case, and he’s just as likely to ask which one.

Theft cases have been reported in at least 13 Kentucky counties — Adair, Barren, Casey, Cumberland, Grayson, Hardin, Hart, Logan, Marion, Monroe, Russell, Todd and Warren — and there’s no end in sight.

Barns stripped bare Cumberland County Sheriff Scot Daniels can tick off a handful of thefts

Lois Coffey, 95, and her daughter, Ann Coffey, look at a hole in their Cumberland County tobacco barn where a board was stolen recently.

Reclaimed wood has become a hot item. MATT STONE/COURIER JOURNAL

so far this year: two in Salt Lick Bend; one off of 485; another on North 61 off of 704; and then, there’s the Coff eys’ place.

In the community of about 6,700, seeing 20 or more barns pillaged in a given year isn’t uncommon, Daniels said. Some years, there’s more.

“Someone will go back to their barns in tobacco time and the side will be gone,” Daniels said. “The thing is trying to prove it, because you don’t know when it was taken.”

Barren County Deputy Mike Houchens said not long ago, around Christmas, his offi ce worked an investigation in which fi ve barns were hit along isolated Mayhew Road.

Local lumber buyers are on “high alert” for stolen boards. When police ask, Houchens said they’ll keep an eye out for anyone peddling wood that matches the quantity, color and age of what was taken.

Todd County Sheriff Tracy White thinks his offi ce has worked 10 to 15 cases in the last couple of years.

“We haven’t had as much of it lately because they’ve about stripped every barn that we’ve got,” White said with a chuckle.

When White says the barns are stripped, he’s not exaggerating.

“We’ve got barns that are standin’ that are nothing but the frame and the roof left,” he said.

Arrests are few and far between.

Hundred-year-old barn boards don’t have serial numbers, and thieves usually work at night and away from main roads. Besides, in a lot of communities, seeing someone in a barn isn’t the least bit suspicious.

But police still say the best bet for busting a thief is catching them in the act. Cumberland County deputies arrested a duo at a barn with hammers and crowbars in their truck.

In Logan County, after a buyer turned away someone trying to sell barn doors, police nabbed the thief and recovered wood that had been stolen in neighboring Todd County.

The Clarkson Police Department and Grayson County Sheriff ’s Offi ce are pursuing a case against two men they say were found stealing several

thousands of dollars’ worth of boards off a barn last fall.

“I’ve had a few people that said, ‘They’ll try to put them in the penitentiary for stealin’ some lumber?’ ” Cumberland County’s Daniels said. “Yeah.

You know, bud? It’s still not yours to take. You’re still on someone else’s property that you’re not supposed to be on. You could be messin’ up their livelihood if that barn is used for farmin’.”

Compared with what police in other states see, Kentucky is a veritable hotbed of barnwood purloining. But it is happening elsewhere, if not as frequently, offi cers say.

Reclaimed wood’s popularity exploded in recent years The undeniable truth is that reclaimed wood is having a moment.

A quick search of Pinterest will give DIYers an endless stream of ideas for projects. Etsy returns more than 98,000 results for “reclaimed wood.”

Chic restaurants are working the wood into their designs, and people want it in their homes, too.

“New, holding on and here to stay,” Leslie Lewis Sheets, owner of LL&A Interior Design in downtown Jeff ersonville, Indiana, said of reclaimed boards. “It’s here and it’s popular. Especially in Kentucky.”

Her fi rm recently completed projects that used the raw timber on ceilings, fl oors and the backs of bookcases. Barnwood doesn’t have the expense of stone or tile, is lower maintenance than a smooth, painted wall, and is more modern than paneling or wallpaper. “If it’s weathered, it takes on the brown tones, the grays, some washed paint that may have been applied,” Lewis Sheets said. “The texture.

It’s welcoming. It’s warm.”

Justin Nagler, owner of Kentucky WiseWood in Louisville, said maybe fi ve years ago, no one really knew how big the barnwood trend would become.

“At fi rst, folks just wanted the barn down, and they weren’t even trying to sell it,” he said. “I’ve seen it change from ‘Come grab it,’ to ‘How much will

you pay me to take this barn?’”

Nagler said he got a call a week or two ago from someone off ering to sell their barn — before it got stolen anyway.

Mike Serafi ni, a purchaser for Lexington’s Old World Timber, said he can look at barnwood and tell if it was a part of a clean takedown or a rushed job that might have been done by thieves. If the wood looks beaten and is in smaller quantities, that seller is probably going to be turned away.

“There’s a hurried look to it,” he said, “almost like they’re ripping it off .”

Old World Timber now asks people looking to sell wood to fi ll out a W-9, tax documentation for independent contractors. “That’s how we keep everything legit,” Serafi ni said.

And if they refuse? “Those are the people you usually don’t see anymore.”

A barn’s wood can net its owner anywhere between a couple of hundred and a couple of thousand dollars, depending on its size and condition.

Wholesalers buy the wood for around 80 cents to $2 per board foot and sell it for $4.35 and up, depending on what it’s made of and its thickness.

Nagler thinks the wood’s history is one of the coolest parts about reclaimed materials: being able to look at a hand-hewn beam and see the ax marks, and seeing the old wood and knowing it’s from nearby.

Danae Peckler, past president of the National Barn Alliance, said the historic structures that dot the landscape play a signifi cant role in “creating and supporting our sense of place and cultural identity.”

“We are already too often stuck watching their slow decay on our daily commutes or on road trips through the countryside,” Peckler wrote in an email to the Courier Journal. “As simply put, profi ts are not made by their upkeep any longer. So their maintenance is an act of love for anyone engaged in their preservation.”

Kentucky barnwood, in particular, may have a little something extra for those looking to purchase it.

“Even if they’ve grown up here and they move away,” Lewis Sheets, the interior designer, said, “it may remind them of home, or younger days, or visiting family that lived on a farm.”

‘Greedy and no-good’ thieves Nan reckons the pieces stolen from her barn are probably somewhere in a nice house by now, part of a picture frame or furniture.

Having the boards stolen is an invasion of her space and property, she said, but it doesn’t make her angry.

“I guess that I’m older and material things don’t mean as much to me, I’d say.”

But in case those “greedy and nogood” thieves come back, Nan says her pistol in a safe place for when she needs it.

Reach Tessa Duvall at tduvall@ courier-journal.com and 502-5824059. Twitter: @TessaDuvall. Support strong local journalism by subscribing today: courier-journal.com/subscribe.

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Law-enforcement agencies win body armor grants Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

A group of 320 law-enforcement agencies in Ohio will split nearly $2.7 million in state grants for body armor.

That’s according to a press release ifrom Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost about the new program in which agencies – primarily police departments – can receive up to $40,000 each with 25 percent of matching funds.

Local agencies got grants totaling more than $130,000.

The program started last August and is funded by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation. An interactive map on the attorney general’s website shows participating law-enforcement agencies and the size of their grants.

“Law enforcement happens at the local level,” Yost said.

“Seeing that these grants are being used in every corner of our state helps me rest easier at night knowing that our peace offi cers are better equipped to return home safely to their loved ones at the conclusion of each shift.”

More body armor grant money is available now, and the attorney general’s offi ce and the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation are fi nalizing an agreement to substantially expand the program, Yost said.

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Two sudden deaths of children in the Greater Cincinnati Area have been attributed, at least in part, to strep infections. But how dangerous is the bacteria we commonly associate with sore throats?

Dr. Robert Frenck is a professor of pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati in the infectious disease division. He said that a recent study tested a group of children every three months and found 20 to 30 percent of kids will have strep in their throats at any given time.

“Most of the time, it just hangs out there and doesn’t cause any problems,” Frenck said.

Compared to how often kids test positive for group A streptococcus, as it is known, the bacteria only occasionally causes throat infections.

But it can also very rarely cause more serious problems like those seen in Fort Thomas middle school cheerleader Lillian Schalck and Mason fourth-grader Sable Gibson.

Lillian died suddenly in February at a cheerleading competition in Columbus. Her family said Thursday that the coroner determined an under-

lying strep infection turned into sepsis, an infection of the blood.

Her family noticed she was not feeling well and was experiencing numbness in her hands. They rushed her to the hospital where she died just hours later. That same week in February, Sable was diagnosed with the fl u and strep on a Tuesday morning and died from cardiac arrest that afternoon.

Despite two cases in a short period of time, Frenck said serious strep situations remain rare.

Typically, he said Children’s Hospital Medical Center will only see serious cases once every year or two. This is a hospital that has about a million outpatient visits a year.

Frenck said researchers are working hard to understand what prompts the bacteria to change from something harmless to something that makes you sick, but have not yet fi gured it out.

Strep can also cause other rare complications. Jim Henson of “Muppets” fame died when a strep caused pneumonia. It is also the bacteria behind scarlet fever.

Frenck said parents should not panic about strep or even strep throat infections. “It’s very, very common to have strep in your throat,” he said. “It’s very, very rare to have serious complications.”

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Audit: Money for needy vets spent on child care, retreats Tony Cook Indianapolis Star USA TODAY NETWORK

State auditors have found that an Indiana veterans aff airs agency may have misspent nearly $775,000 in federal welfare funds.

The spending at the Indiana Department of Veterans’ Aff airs included more than $20,000 for couples retreats at a high-end resort and casino, $56,000 in child care benefi ts and $683,000 for contract employees at the agency. In each of those cases, auditors could not fi nd documentation that the spending met the program’s criteria or that recipients were qualifi ed.

The fi ndings could put a small but signifi cant amount of the state’s federal welfare dollars at risk. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which provides Indiana with $206 million annually through the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, can require states to repay misspent funds.

The audit began last year after an IndyStar investigation found that middle-income IDVA employees had received those federal benefi ts intended for needy veterans, including child care and couples retreats. IndyStar also found that the wages of contract employees at IDVA were being paid with TANF funds, even though those employees worked primarily on other programs.

The Indiana Inspector General and Marion County Prosecutor’s Offi ce declined to seek criminal or ethics charges against any IDVA employees.

Adryanne Bonner, the contract employee who oversaw the agency’s TANF program, is still employed there.

So, too, are several other employees or managers who received IDVA benefi ts.

IndyStar found Bonner and her boyfriend received at least $6,700 for child care, $1,200 for a French Lick couples retreat and a voucher for an alternative horse-riding therapy program for Bonner’s son.

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Dina Cardinale thought she had appendicitis when she went to see her local doctor. She was young and in good health, so she wasn’t expecting to be diagnosed with a rare form of advanced cancer.

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AMPARA, Sri Lanka – Militants linked to Easter suicide bombings opened fi re and set off explosives during a raid by Sri Lankan security forces on a house in the country’s east, leaving behind a grisly discovery Saturday: 15 bodies, including six children.

The gun battle that began Friday night and the carnage that followed came amid widespread fear of more attacks as offi cials hunt for militants with explosives believed to still be at large after the coordinated bombings of churches and luxury hotels that killed more than 250 people last weekend.

Raids and police curfews have shut down areas of eastern Sri Lanka, and Catholic leaders have canceled Sunday Masses indefi nitely. Offi cials also urged Muslims to stay home for prayers in an extraordinary call by the clergy to curtail worship.

The government on Saturday also formally banned two extremist groups purportedly linked to the attacks, allowing offi cials to confi scate their property, presidential spokesman Dharmasri Ekanayake said.

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A long, narrow band of late April snow – up to 10 inches in some places – is forecast for the weekend along a 1,200-mile swath of the north-central U.S., including Chicago, Milwaukee and Detroit, and could dump several inches as far east as New England.

Some 16 million people were under a winter storm warning, from Montana, where a blizzard warning was in eff ect, to Michigan.

The biggest cities likely to see signifi cant snow are in Wisconsin, including Madison (4-8 inches) and Milwaukee (2-6 inches).

By Sunday night, some snow is possible farther east, in parts of northern Pennsylvania, New York state and New England, according to AccuWeather.

The National Weather Service offi ce in La Crosse, Wisconsin, said that hourly snow rates could be in the range of 1 to 2 inches at times. If this occurs, a slushy snow accumulation would make travel diffi cult.

Snow is rare but not unheard of in Chicago this time of year: At least an inch of snow was recorded there during the fi rst few days of May in 1907 and 1940.

In Michigan, Grand Rapids should see about 4 inches, which would be its biggest snowfall this late in the season since 1963. Meanwhile, Detroit is expected to pick up about 2 inches.

Police and army officers display bomb-making materials recovered from a hideout of militants after a gunfi ght in Kalmuna, Sri Lanka. ACHALA UPENDRA/AP

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LOS ANGELES – The fi ght against a devastating November wildfi re in Los Angeles County was hampered by politicians who asked fi refi ghters to check on certain homes.

The conclusion comes from an after-action review by the Los Angeles Fire Department, which joined Los Angeles and Ventura county departments in fi ghting the November blaze, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.

“A signifi cant number of requests by political fi gures to check on specifi c addresses of homes to ensure their protection distracted from Department leadership to accomplish priority objectives,” the review said.

It didn’t provide specifi cs, the paper said.

Assistant Chief Tim Ernst told the Times that he didn’t know which politicians were involved or exactly how those requests aff ected the fi refi ghting eff orts. He provided details from the report during a brush fi re training for the department’s chief offi cers last week.

The fi re destroyed more than 1,600 homes and other buildings from north of Los Angeles to Malibu before it was controlled.

Four people died.

It was one of the largest wildfi res in modern California history.

Ernst said that requests to check on specifi c addresses were not uncommon during large fi res.

The report said fi eld observers should be deployed to “provide real time information and reconnaissance to address specifi c requests from political fi gures during a largescale incident.”

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WASHINGTON – She tried gums, patches and various electronic cigarettes to quit smoking. What fi nally worked for Chantel Williams was a small, reusable e-cigarette called Juul that packs a big nicotine punch.

“I look better. I feel better and I don’t smell. It’s fantastic,” said Williams of Portland, Oregon, who smoked for decades.

That nicotine hit and its easy-toinhale vapor is a reason why Juul is so popular – and so feared.

“That’s the trouble with Juul: It’s probably the worst for kids but it might be the best for adult smokers,” said Dr. Nancy Rigotti, a tobacco treatment specialist at Harvard Medical School.

The brainchild of two Stanford University design students, Juul launched in 2015 and quickly leapfrogged over its competitors to become the top-selling e-cigarette in the U.S. Today, the privately held company controls nearly three-quarters of the $3.7 billion retail market for e-cigarettes, spawning dozens of copycat brands.

With Juul’s rise came an explosion of underage vaping, alarming public health offi cials and lawmakers. Last year, 1 in 5 U.S. high school students reported vaping in the previous month, according to a government survey.

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Researchers at Portland State University analyzing nicotine formulas found Juul’s nicotine level dwarfed its competitors. CRAIG MITCHELLDYER/AP

tion that deterred some teenagers from smoking. E-cigarettes typically heat a solution into a vapor containing nicotine, which health experts say is harmful to developing brains. Recent research shows some teenagers aren’t aware they are inhaling nicotine when using Juul and similar e-cigarettes.

Proposals to keep e-cigarettes away from teenagers include banning fl avored solutions, restricting where they can be sold and raising the purchase age to 21, which some states have done.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has the power to cap nicotine levels in e-cigarettes, but hasn’t proposed any such standard. For cigarettes, there’s no limit on nicotine, although the FDA has taken preliminary steps toward reducing levels to help smokers quit. Limiting nicotine in ecigarettes could have unintended consequences, including making the products less satisfying for smokers

trying to switch.

Juul has published little peer-reviewed research, and only in the last year have independent researchers begun studying its formula. The company said each of its full-strength pods delivers about as much nicotine as a pack of cigarettes.

Most researchers have focused on a more objective measure: the potency of Juul’s nicotine formula, or e-liquid.

Researchers at Portland State University analyzed the concentration of Juul’s full-strength pod against nine other formulas on the market in 2017.

Juul’s nicotine level dwarfed its competitors, in some cases by twentyfold.

Cigarettes and older e-cigarettes contain nicotine in its freebase form, which becomes harsh on the throat at higher levels. Juul’s innovation was to convert the nicotine to its salt form.

The result is a mild vapor that allows even a novice to inhale large doses.

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Evidence found, prosecutors seek freeze in Flint water case

Pakistan suspends anti-polio drive after attacks on workers

Cyprus: Suitcases in lake match suspect’s claims of seven killings

STERLING, Va. – President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shared their love of golf on a sunny, windy Saturday at the president’s northern Virginia course. Trump said on the eve of their outing they would play a quick round at a “beautiful” place before he goes to Wisconsin for a rally. Meanwhile, Melania Trump and Akie Abe visited the Washington Monument.

For all the camaraderie, Abe’s visit also has been an occasion for each leader to express frustration about the other’s tariff s.

DETROIT – Prosecutors on Friday asked a judge for a six-month timeout in the criminal case against Michigan’s former health director after fi nding a “trove of documents” related to the Flint water crisis in the basement of a state building. The 23 boxes included a fi le titled “phones/ wiped” with the names of eight state employees, prosecutors said. It’s unclear what connection, if any, the boxes have to former health chief Nick Lyon, who is charged with involuntary manslaughter in an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease.

ISLAMABAD – Pakistani offi cials suspended a nationwide anti-polio campaign after a health worker and two policemen escorting vaccination teams were killed in less than a week.

Pakistan is one of three countries in the world where polio is still endemic. But militant threats and deeprooted superstition have spurred many parents to refuse to vaccinate their children. Offi cials said unidentifi ed gunmen targeted polio workers and police assigned to protect them in three separate attacks in the rural regions bordering Afghanistan.

NICOSIA, Cyprus – Search teams in Cyprus located two suitcases at the bottom of a lake where a military offi cer who allegedly confessed to killing seven foreign women and girls told investigators he dumped some of the bodies, offi cials said Saturday. The suspect, a 35-year-old National Guard captain, said he put the bodies of three victims inside luggage that he ditched in the lake, a police offi cial told the Associated Press. The lake, 20 miles west of Nicosia, is part of an old copper mine where a woman’s body was found on April 14.

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STATE NEWS IN BRIEF OHIO Man found with missing girl, charged with child pornography CLEVELAND – An Ohio man is facing charges after authorities said they found him with a 14-year-old California girl who’d been reported missing after she communicated with him online.

The FBI said 39-year-old Jeremy L. Cruz, of Elyria, has been charged with interstate transport of child pornography. Cruz was arrested April 18 at a family home in Sheffi eld Lake. He was with the girl, who’d been reported missing in Santa Maria, California, three days earlier.

Police said the girl had been communicating online with a man they identifi ed through phone records as Cruz. They discovered photos on Cruz’s phone that they believe are child pornography.

The girl has returned to her family.

Cruz was in federal custody following an initial court appearance Friday.

Law cracking down on payday lenders takes effect COLUMBUS – A new law cracking down on what were some of the nation’s highest payday loan rates has taken eff ect in Ohio.

Signed in July by then-Gov. John Kasich, the law took eff ect Saturday.

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KENTUCKY Man booby-trapped porch with knives, authorities say LONDON – Authorities say they have arrested a Kentucky man who booby-trapped his front porch with a knife-fi lled sheet of plywood designed to swing downward.

According to the Lexington HeraldLeader, the Laurel County sheriff ’s department arrested Raymond Jackson, 56, and charged him with possession of a destructive or booby trap device. The sheriff ’s department said deputies responded to Jackson’s home outside London on Wednesday after a report of a man allegedly drunk and waving a large knife at neighbors, cursing at them and creating a disturbance.

When they arrived, deputies said, they found the booby trap with the words “If this don’t kill you I will.

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Jail records showed Jackson was in Laurel County Detention Center. His bond was $10,000. It was unclear if he had an attorney.

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POWAY, Calif. – A 19-year-old man armed with a rifl e opened fi re inside a synagogue near San Diego as worshippers celebrated the last day of Passover, killing a woman and wounding three people Saturday, authorities said.

The man, whose name was not released, fl ed in a car and called 911 shortly afterward to say he was involved in the shooting at Chabad of Poway, San Diego Police Chief David Nisleit said.

When an offi cer reached the man on a roadway, “the suspect pulled over, jumped out of his car with his hands up and was immediately taken into custody,” Nisleit said.

The offi cer found an AR-type rifl e in the front passenger seat.

San Diego County Sheriff William Gore said at a news conference that he had no details on motive. Authorities say they were reviewing copies of his social media posts.

There was no known threat after the man was detained, but authorities boosted patrols at places of worship as a precaution, Nisleit said.

The shooting came exactly six months since a shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue killed 11 people in the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history.

An off -duty Border Patrol agent inside the synagogue in the city of Poway, just over 20 miles north of San Diego, opened fi re as the shooter fl ed

Synagogue members console one another outside of the Chabad of Poway Synagogue on Saturday in Poway, Calif. A suspect was held by police after a shooting at the synagogue. DENIS POROY/AP

but didn’t hit him, Gore said.

Minoo Anvari told CNN that she’s a member of Chabad of Poway and her husband was inside during the shooting. She said he called to tell her the shooter was shouting and cursing and she called the shooting “unbelievable” in a peaceful and tight-knit

community.

“We are strong, we are united, they can’t break us,” she said.

Four people were admitted to Palomar Health Medical Center Hospital, spokesman Derryl Acosta said. The Authorities said a girl and two men were wounded.

Passover began on April 19 and was ending Saturday.

In Pittsburgh, a truck driver who authorities say expressed hatred of Jews has been charged in the Oct. 27 rampage at the Tree of Life synagogue. He’s pleaded not guilty.

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Reading Road, Evendale. danbeard.org/whitneyaward.

Salle High School, 3091 North Bend Road, Monfort Heights. $50. lasallehs.net/BigBand.

Derby Day Party at Laurel Court 5-9 p.m., Laurel Court, 5870 Belmont Ave., College Hill. $85. Benefits College Hill Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation. eventbrite.com.

Notorious Urban Derby 4-8 p.m., Union Hall, The Homeroom, 1311 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine. Benefits Elementz.

Rummage & Bake Sale 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Pleasant Run Presbyterian Church, 11565 Pippin Road, Colerain Township.

The Alana Marie Project Golf Tournament 1 p.m., Glenview Golf Course, 10965 Springfield Pike, Glendale. eventbrite.com.

Walk MS: West Chester 10 a.m., Voice of America Athletic Complex, 7850 VOA Park Drive, West Chester. Registration required. 855-372-1331.

Benefits National Multiple Sclerosis Society. walkms.org.

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SUNDAY, APRIL 28 Breathe Easy Road Ride noon, Perfect North Slopes, 19074 Perfect Lane, Lawrenceburg. Benefits Cystic Fibrosis Research. Onsite registration from 10 a.m. eventbrite.com.

Kitten Shower 1-4 p.m., Ohio Alleycat Resource, 5619 Orlando Place, Madisonville. Free, donations appreciated. ohioalleycat.org/kittenshower.

National Association of Black Journalists Region II Scholarship Jazz Brunch 9 a.m., Hyatt Regency Cincinnati, 151 W. 5th St., Downtown. eventbrite.com.

Rio Bravo (1959) 7 p.m., The Mini Microcinema, 1329 Main St., Overthe-Rhine. $25. Benefits Mini Microcinema. eventbrite.com.

TUESDAY, APRIL 30 Legends: Past and Present 6:30-10 p.m., Paul Brown Stadium, One Paul Brown Stadium, Downtown. $150.

Benefits The Andy & JJ Dalton Foundation and Ken Anderson Alliance. bengals.com.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1 May Day Brunch 2019 11 a.m., Bell Event Center, 444 Reading Road, Downtown. $40. Benefits Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center. 513-6215991 or emailing info@cworkers.org.

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Great Food for a Great Cause 5-9 p.m., National Exemplar, 6880 Wooster Pike, Mariemont. Reservations:

Whitney M. Young, Jr. Service Award Dinner 7-8:30 p.m., Dan Beard Council Scout Achievement Center, 10078

FRIDAY, MAY 3 Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser 5-8 p.m., Margaret B. Rost School, 5858 Bridgetown Road, Cincinnati. Information and tickets 513-574-2372.

School is operated by Hamilton County Developmental Disabilities Services and serves students age 5-22.

Fundraiser provides for adaptive classroom materials, special outings and supplies for students.

Double Vision 6:30-11 p.m., Memorial Hall, 1222 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine. $65. More than 500 works of art created by collaborative teams. Includes live auction, pop-up shop, food and live music. Benefits Visionaries + Voices. visionariesandvoices.com.

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Students from area high schools got behind the wheel of all kinds of construction equipment and learned how to operate them Friday during a special preview of The Big Dig at Boone County Fairgrounds on Saturday. This group of students is from Withrow High School. PHOTOS BY JOE SIMON/FOR THE ENQUIRER

Students tackle big machines

Jaden Love, an 11th-grader at Withrow High School, tries his hand on the mini-excavator.

Tyanna Springs, a ninth-grader at Withrow High School, gets instructions on the Bobcat.

Grace Cooper and Samantha Karlosky of Gray Middle School learn how to set forms for concrete wall.

Emily Carson, a ninth-grader at Simon Kenton High School, operates the roller Friday during a special preview of The Big Dig, which took place Saturday at Boone County Fairgrounds.

A student scoops a soccer ball resting atop on the caution cone with a machine at The Big Dig.

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Mother: 3 kids injured in police shooting ASSOCIATED PRESS

HUGO, Okla. – The mother of three children wounded when Oklahoma police fi red at a man in a pickup truck who was suspected of robbing a restaurant said two of her children suffered head wounds and the third was shot in the face.

“My 4-year-old daughter was shot in the head, and she has a bullet in her brain, and my 5-year-old has a skull fracture,” Olivia Hill told Sherman, Texas, news station KXII-TV. “My 1year-old baby has gunshot wounds on her face.” She said her 2-year-old child was not injured.

Hill and the four children were in the truck with William Devaughn Smith, 21, when offi cers approached him and gunfi re broke out Friday in Hugo, which is near the Texas state line, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Brooke Arbeitman said. Smith’s relationship to Hill and the children isn’t clear. Investigators have not determined what led to the shooting that also wounded Smith, who was treated at a hospital and then taken to a Texas jail on a robbery warrant, Arbeitman said Saturday.

Smith is suspected in an April 11 armed robbery at a Pizza Hut in Hugo.

Trump administration says ISIS bride lawsuit should be dismissed Deirdre Shesgreen and Kim Hjelmgaard USA TODAY

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration on Friday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit fi led by the father of Hoda Muthana, the American-born woman who fl ed Alabama in 2014 to marry an Islamic State fi ghter in Syria.

Hoda’s father, Ahmed Ali Muthana – a former diplomat at the United Nations for Yemen who is a naturalized U.S. citizen – fi led the lawsuit in February seeking to overturn the Trump administration’s determination that Muthana is not an American citizen.

Muthana’s father wants the U.S. to help bring Muthana, now 24 and the mother of a boy, back to the United States.

She has expressed remorse for her decisions and said she’s willing to face prosecution and jail time for her affi liation with ISIS, but Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has labeled her a terrorist.

The legal case turns on questions about when Ahmed Ali Muthana’s diplomatic status ended – before or after his daughter was born. But the outcome could have far-reaching implications for Americans all over the world.

“Muthana is not and never has been a U.S. citizen, and her son also is not a U.S. citizen,” Justice Department attorneys argued in Friday’s court fi ling.

Hoda Muthana was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, in October 1994, and raised in Hoover, Alabama. A few months before her birth, her father left his post at the U.N., and he and his wife applied for permanent residency in the U.S. In 2014, Muthana secretly joined

the Islamic State after telling her parents she was going to Atlanta as part of a fi eld trip connected with her studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Instead, she withdrew from college and used her tuition reimbursement to travel to Syria.

In Syria, she called for the death of Americans and helped spread ISIS propaganda on social media.

The Muthana family has provided documents from the U.N. showing Ahmed Muthana was terminated from his diplomatic job in July 1994, and the U.S. has twice issued Muthana an American passport based on those records.

But in Friday’s brief, the Justice Department noted that the U.S. government didn’t receive offi cial notifi cation of Ahmed Muthana’s termination until Feb. 6, 1995, months after Hoda Muthana’s birth.

Under the “plain terms of the Vienna Convention, and consistent with the practice of the United States regarding individuals accredited to permanent missions to the United Nations,” Muthana’s diplomatic status ended on Feb. 6, 1995, the government’s brief stated.

The government also argued that Ahmed Muthana did not have standing to bring the case on his daughter’s behalf and questioned whether she truly wants to return to the U.S. “Plaintiff alleges that Muthana wishes to return to the United States and is ready to face the consequences of her actions – including possible criminal prosecution and incarceration,” the brief stated. “But Muthana’s own past statements raise questions regarding whether Muthana and (her father) are aligned on this point.”

William Brownlee HARRISON

- Loving husband of Diane S. Brownlee; father of Lisa Carter & Jason (Kathleen Steele) Brownlee; grandfather of Hailee, Hillary (Kyle Kuhlman) Carter; William & Maxwell Brownlee; brother of Jane Young & John (Sharon) Brownlee. He is preceded in death by his parents Irven & Mildred Brownlee. Gathering of Friends will be on Fri., May 3, 2019 from 4 PM to 7 PM at Brater Winter Funeral Home, 201 S. Vine St., Harrison, OH 45030.

Memorials may be made to the American Lung Association, C.E.T or the National Park Foundation through the funeral home. www. braterfh.com

Victoria Chisholm CINCINNATI - Victoria Chisholm, passed away suddenly on March 26, 2019 at the age of 95.

Beloved wife of the late James M. Chisholm, cherished mother of James E. (Betsy) Chisholm, Ann C. (Dave) Hart, Robert (Elaine) Chisholm, Rebecca J. (Larry) Reinhart, Sara (Jerry) Kocsis and proud grandmother to 12 and greatgrandmother to 10 with one on the way. Memorial service will be on Saturday, May 4th at 1 PM at Knox Presbyterian Church, 3400 Michigan Ave. Cin. OH 45208. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in memory of Victoria C. Chisholm may be directed to the Knox Presbyterian Church or Cincinnati Nature Center. Spring Grove Funeral Homes Elden Good in charge of arrangements.

William “Bill” Dunlap MADEIRA - William E. “Bill”, beloved husband of the late Arlene (nee Bartels), father of Donna (Chris) Miller, Billy, Karen, James and Jerry Dunlap and Sharon (Scott) Rountree, grandfather of Katherine Claire and Gavin Scott.

Passed away on Friday, April 26th at the age of 90. Friends may attend the funeral service on Tuesday, April 30th at 11AM at Thomas-Justin Memorial, 7500 Montgomery Rd. (45236) Kenwood. Interment will follow at Laurel Cemetery.

If desired, donations may be directed to Hospice of Southwest Ohio, 7625 Camargo Rd. (45243).

Condolences may be shared with the family through our website, ThomasJustinMemorial.com.

Jo Ann Jones CINCINNATI - Jo Ann

Jones, born May 2, 1933, passed away March 30, 2019.

Beloved wife of the late Frank Jones, dear mother of Deborah (Jeff) Woods, Daniel (Tina) Jones, and the late Denise (Steve) Eggers, cherished grandmother of Ann Maldonado, Daniel Jones, and Lindsay (Dan) Horlander, and great grandmother of Bryson, Ian, Kymber, and Brystal Horlander.

Jo Ann was very active in Church and was a member of the Sharonville Senior Center. She loved puzzles, gardening, and crochet.

The family of Jo Ann will be receiving friends for a memorial service at Grace Bible Presbyterian Church on May 4, 2019 beginning at 10:00 AM. Donations may be made in memory of Jo Ann to the Church Youth Group or Hospice of Cincinnati.

Condolences may be left at shortenandryan.com

Gone from us, but leaving memories death can never take away, memories that will always linger while upon this earth we stay.

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Harry “Rick” Burdick

Joyce Marie Forman

BLUE ASH - Harry Richard “Rick”, Jr., beloved husband of 45 years of Susan A. (nee Massey), loving father of Scott R. (Kelly) Burdick and Jennifer B. (Matt) Kremer, devoted grandfather of Abigail and Colin Dorsey and Jack and Joshua Kremer.

Dear brother of Robert M. (Donna) Burdick, and Mary Ann (Pete) Back. He is also survived by five nieces and nephews and nine great-nieces. Rick served for 40 years with the Blue Ash Police Department. During his career he was an Officer, Detective, Patrol Sergeant, and Staff Lieutenant. He was past-president of the Greater Cincinnati Amateur Radio Association and he was an avid bass fisherman. Passed away on Thursday, April 25th at the age of 70. Visitation will be held on Tuesday, April 30th from 3:30-8PM at Thomas-Justin Memorial, 7500 Montgomery Rd. (45236) Kenwood. Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Wednesday, May 1st at 10:30AM at All Saints Catholic Church, 8939 Montgomery Rd. (45236). Interment will follow at Gate of Heaven Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be directed to Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, or the charity of one’s choice. Condolences may be shared with the family through our website, ThomasJustinMemorial.com.

- - Joyce Marie Forman, nee Gardner, 82, passed away peacefully on April 23rd, 2019. She will be missed by her children, Susan Forman (Mike Jones), Michael Forman (Joan), Chris Forman (Emily) and Nancy McLaughlin (Craig), and grandchildren, Reed Forman and Zane McLaughlin, many nieces and nephews, and her beloved dog Benny.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Eddie and Helen Gardner, and brother Joe Gardner. As generous in death, as in life, Joyce donated her body to the UC College of Medicine.

Joyce achieved a 30 year career with Fifth Third Bank. She enjoyed spending time with her close group of friends. After retirement, she operated a small dog-sitting business out of her home.

A Memorial Mass will be held at 1:00 p.m. on May 31st at St. Jerome Church, 131 Rohde Ave., followed by a Celebration of Life at 3:00 p.m. to be held at Withrow Nature Preserve, 7075 Five Mile Rd. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to a pet rescue of your choice.

Debra Jean Conley VIRGINIA - Debra Jean Conley (Debi), born 10/7/1956, passed away quietly at her home in Virginia, on April 21, 2019. She has returned home to be with the Lord, and also her father, who precedes her in death, Robert T. Conley, PhD, former University President of the Union Institute and Seton Hall University who she adored. Debi graduated from Fairmont East High School in 1974, Penn State University with a Bachelors in Finance, The University of Maryland with a Masters in Software Engineering, and The George Washington University with a Masters in Systems Engineering. She worked at the CIA for 14 years as a principal systems engineer. Debi, and her loving partner of 25 years, Dave Campbell, loved adventure, touring Egypt ,and vacations at the beach, and in the mountains. Debi and Dave, both animal lovers, adopted several cats from animal rescue. Besides Dave Campbell, Debi is also survived by her Mother, L. Doris Conley, Brother, Bryan Conley, Sister and Brother in law Robin and Bret Barbiea, Nieces and Nephews: Matt and Anna Barbiea, Danielle Barbiea, Kellie Barbiea, Katie Conley, and Amber Conley. Services will be private and for family only. Donations can be made, in her name, to Animal Rescue organizations and the Diabetes Foundation.

Pauline “Polly” Lojinger

Larry Day

Richard O. Gordon

CINCINNATI - Larry Day Age 74 (Korean War Veteran)(Retired Detective for Hamilton Co Sheriff Dept) passed away April 25th, Devoted Father of Gene (Barb), Richard (Michele), Donna (Joe) Young, & Mary Pennington. Also, survived by several grand & great grandkids.

There will not be a public service at Larry’s request. In Lieu of flowers donations can be made to Hospice of Cincinnati.

CINCINNATI - Richard “Rick” Gordon, 74, died on Sunday, April 21, 2019. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Barbara and his daughters Jen (Doug) McHugh, Beth (Brent) Bingman, and Kaki (Karl) Scheer; Grandsons Jack and Sean McHugh, Nate, Will, Josh, and Zach Bingman, Tommy, Anders, and Rowdy Scheer; and sister Sarah Hewitt. Preceded in death by his parents Florence and Richard Gordon. Memorial service information on website. Memorial donations suggested in Rick’s name to People Working Cooperatively 4612 Paddock Road Cincinnati, OH 45229 Attn: Development Dept/ Website. More info at www.hayfuneralhome.com

Joseph Fleshman Jr. COLLEGE HILL, OH - Fleshman,

Joseph F. 77 years old. Passed away peacefully April 21, 2019. Survived by wife Donna Asalone, daughter Marianne Dressman (John) and grandchildren Kyle & Lauren. In lieu of flowers the family requests any donations be made to the Southwest Ohio Chapter of JDRF c/o Nick Wagner 8050 Hosbrook Road Suite 314 Cincinnati, Ohio 45236. Services private.

CINCINNATI - February 12, 1925 - April 25,2019

Polly Lojinger of Indian Hill died peacefully April 25, 2019. Preceded in death by her husband, Robert I. Lojinger and her parents, William Morgan Profitt and Elizabeth Brewer Profitt and several siblings.

She is survived by her children, Elizabeth Hopkins (Ted) and Douglas Lojinger (Roberta) and four grandchildren, Katie & Molly Hopkins and Daniel & Kelly Lojinger. Additional survivors include two sisters, Shirley Profitt Young and Irene Hatton and one brother, Lawrence Profitt and his wife Virginia.

She was a member of the Kenwood Womens’ Club and Cincinnati Airmen’s Club. She enjoyed gardening, golf and bowling.

Private service to be held at a future date. Memorials can be made to Hospice of Cincinnati or American Red Cross.

Shirley Froelicher CINCINNATI - Shirley

Froelicher, 87, of Cincinnati, OH passed away peacefully on April 9, 2019. She was born to Robert and Edith (nee King) Mason on April 12, 1931. She married Robert A. Froelicher and he preceded her in death on July 12, 1999.

Shirley is survived by her children Gail Froelicher, Mark Froelicher (Laura Cullinane) and Tom Froelicher, and her grandchildren Carey and Jake Froelicher. Per Shirley’s wishes, she will be cremated and laid to rest at Spring Grove Cemetery. Memorial donations can be made to St. Jude’s Children Hospital. Online condolences can be left at www.SpringGrove.org.

Elizabeth “Betty” Rose Gruesser CINCINNATI - Eliza-

beth “Betty” Rose Gruesser (nee White), age 96, peacefully entered the loving embrace of Our Lord on April 24, 2019. Beloved wife of the late Paul J. Gruesser.

Loving mother of Paul Jr. (Margo), Dennis (Pam), Daniel (Susan), Thomas (Cindy), John (Frances), Robert (Merle), Mary Ellen (Doug) Rausch, Carol (Todd) Durian, and Jane. Blessed grandmother of 30 grandchildren, 37 great grandchildren and counting. Her legacy is her love that lives on in the hearts of all who knew her. Mass of Christian Burial will be held Friday, May 3, 10:00 AM at Our Lord Christ the King Church, Mt. Lookout. Visitation in church from 9:00 AM until time of Mass. Memorial information and online condolences at rohdefuneral.com.

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Joseph H. Head, Jr. CINCINNATI - Holding the hand of his wife, Jo-

seph Henry Head Jr. passed away peacefully at home on April 24, 2019 at the age of 87. Joe Head served in the US Army and was a graduate of The Taft School, Yale University and Harvard Law School. He reached the pinnacle of his profession as a legal counselor at Graydon Head & Ritchey. Through tireless effort, patriotic zeal, and relentless dedication through six decades of civic engagements, too numerous to list, he received recognition from grateful associates in many organizations. He was a devoted husband to Louise Atkins Head for 60 years. She was his home, his reason to explore, and the origin of the light that he reflected out onto the world. As such, Joe’s ambition was to be a good husband, as well as a good son, brother, father, grandfather, and friend. By all accounts, he was immeasurably successful. His unconditional and unshakeable love was a lighthouse whose beam could

be seen by his loved ones from anywhere in the world, no matter how thick the fog. A calm, gentle kindness infused his every action - actions guided by disciplined patience, quiet wisdom, intellect, humility, gratitude and moral integrity. He embraced the American ideal, and worked every day to secure the promise of America for his extended family, associates, community and country. Joe found profound happiness in his dedication to his family and in service to others. Joe was the loving father of Lisa (Jack Armstrong) James, Jeb (Nirvani) Head, and Andy (Melanie) Head. Devoted grandfather of Sam (Stacey) James, Attie (John) Dowling, Callie James, Louise (Lauren Fink) Head, Helen Head, Henry Head, Linnea Head, Sammy Head, Andrew Head, Nina Head, and Leila Head. Adored great-grandfather of Josephine James. A celebration of Joe’s life will be held on Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. at the Indian Hill Church, 6000 Drake Road, Cincinnati, OH 45243. Interment Spring Grove Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be given to the Charity of Donor’s Choice.

Gladys Jessen

Ruth Jennewein CINCINNATI - Ruth Bill Jennewein, 94, of Marie-

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mont (formerly of Clifton), died on April 26. She was born on November 1, 1924 to Marie (Voss) and Leonard Bill. Ruth graduated from Ursuline Academy and was an alumna of Marian College. Ruth married Jacquelson (Jack) Jennewein in November 1960 and together they raised two sons. She was a loving and devoted wife, mother and grandmother.

Over the years, Ruth and Jack supported many civic and philanthropic activities in the Cincinnati community. Ruth was an avid fan of the Reds and the Bengals, as well as Dayton and Xavier basketball, and an accomplished tennis player who shared her passion for the sport with her sons and granddaughter. Although she was a proud lifelong Cincinnati resident, Ruth spent many happy summers at her family’s home in Northern Michigan. In addition to her parents, Ruth was predeceased by her husband and her son, William. She is survived by her son, John, and his wife, Sophie, her granddaughter, Emily, her daughter-in-law, Carol Jennewein. and several cousins. Ruth will be greatly missed and will be remembered for her warm and generous spirit and her keen sense of humor. A Mass in celebration of Ruth’s life will be held at St. John Fisher Roman Catholic Church, 3227 Church Street, Newtown, Ohio 45244 at 10:00 a.m. on May 1, 2019. Friends may call at the church from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. for public visitation. The family suggests contributions in Ruth’s memory to Roger Bacon High School, 4320 Vine Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45217 or St. Xavier High School, 600 W. North Bend Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45224. Arrangements made by Spring Grove Funeral Homes www.springgrove.org

sen, Gladys M. age 88, of Springfield Township, Ohio passed away on Thursday, April 25, 2019. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on April 22, 1931 to the late George and Louise Mages (nee Stegman).

She was preceded in death by her brothers, James Mages, Elmer Mages, and George Mages, Jr..

Gladys is survived by her beloved husband of 67 years, William Jessen; children, Pam (Phil) Matteson, Greg (Yevette) Jessen, Lynn (Jim) Strotman, Bill Jessen, Jr., and Cindy (Michael) Steigerwald; many grand and great-grandchildren; sister, Margie Hitt; her puppy, Magie; and a host of other family members and friends. In loving memory of Gladys, contributions may be made to Hospice of Cincinnati. Services will be held privately with the family. www.NewcomerCincinnati.com

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Loving father of Cory (Carmen) Meholick; Grandfather of Tristin Meholick, and Kaiden Meholick; Good Friend of Carol Meholick; Preceded in death by his parents, John and Estelle Meholick his brother, Johnny Meholick, His sister Barbara Meholick; Passed away, Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Age77 years; Resident of Union Township; Visitation will be at Evans Funeral Home - Milford 741 Center Street Milford, OH 45150 Monday, April 29, 2019 from 10:00 AM until time of Funeral Service at 11:00 AM; Burial to follow at Mt. Moriah Cemetery; If so desired, memorials may be sent to Alzheimer’s Association 644 Linn St # 1026, Cincinnati, OH 45203.

Thomas H. Kelly - - Thomas H. Kelly died on Friday, April 12, 2019, after a courageous four-year battle with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. He was born on August 3, 1940 in Cincinnati, Ohio to Frank and Dorothy Kelly. Tom graduated from Elder High School in Cincinnati in 1958 and spent the next 58 years in the printing industry with three different companies: Crest-Craft; Gateway Press; and retired after 33 years from Publisher’s Printing. Tom served as Quality Control Manager and Training Manager ultimately spending 24 years in Community and Governmental Relations representing Publishers and Bullitt County.

Tom gave his time to many organizations, serving on numerous boards and in leadership positions for the organizations including: Bullitt County Chamber of Commerce; Bullitt County Tourist and Convention Commission; Court Appointed Special Advocates (“CASA”) of Bullitt County; Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development; Bluegrass State Skills Corporation; St. Catharine College; Governor’s Task Force for Skills; Junior Achievement; Kentucky Work Ready Communities; Bullitt County Foundation for Excellence in Public Education; Kentuckiana Work Board; and most recently was the Chair of the Southeast Bullitt

Fire Protection District.

Tom was known for his positive attitude, excellent work ethic, wonderful Irish Catholic dry wit, terrible puns, and his love of baseball, especially the Cincinnati Reds. He taught, guided, and raised the bar for all of us.

He made everyone around him believe that they were better than they thought they were. He always said, “you play the hand you’re dealt” and he did just that.

Tom was preceded in death by his parents. Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Patricia Jones Kelly; and children: Karen M. Curry of Charleston, SC; Diane E. Lea (T.J.) of Columbia, MD; Timothy E. Kelly of Indianapolis, IN; Thomas R. Kelly (Lori) of Louisville; and Susan Kessinger of Louisville and step-children Melissa A. Gindling (Ron); Amy M. McKinley (Brian); and Joseph D. Jones, all of Cincinnati. He is survived also by his 22 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren, and siblings Lois Mueller, James Kelly, John Kelly, Michael Kelly, Kathleen Kelly, Patrick Kelly, and Renie O’Conner, all of Cincinnati.

A funeral mass will be held at 11:00 am Thursday, May 2, 2019 at St. Aloysius on the Ohio Catholic Church in Sayler Park and internment of his ashes at St. Joseph’s New Cemetery in Delhi.

Memorial contributions may be made to CASA or Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation.

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Jean L. Niehaus (nee Meyer) CINCINNATI - beloved

wife of the late Herman F. Niehaus, loving mother of Tom (Roccina) Niehaus and Judy (Marc) Milgrim, dear grandmother of Jonathan (Lauren) Niehaus and Cathryn (Curtis) Williamson, sister of Jane (Ralph) Money, Bill (Diane) Meyer and the late Bud Meyer.

Longtime resident of Madeira and was a volunteer for 32 years at Bethesda North. Jean passed away on April 21, 2019 at the age of 89.

Visitation at Arlington Memorial Gardens Mausoleum Chapel, 2145 Compton Road, 45231 on Monday, April 29 from 10 AM until service at 11 AM. Donations may be made to the Alzheimer’s Foundation.

Condolences at hodappfuneralhome.com

William “Bill” McKeague Jr. W E S T CHESTER, OH - William

Henry McKeague, Jr., 75, a.k.a Bill and/ or “Grapes,” of West Chester, Ohio, passed away on April 16, 2019. A Celebration of Life will be Sunday, May 19, 2019 from 12:00 PM to 3 PM at the Back Porch Saloon (9626 Princeton Glendale Rd.) in West Chester, OH. Full obituary at www. cremationcincinnati.com

Janet F. Preuss CINCINNATI - (Nee) WENTZEL, Beloved wife of the late Edward E. Preuss, Loving mother of Lynne (Kevin) Merk and the late E. Erich. Devoted grandmother of Laura (Keith) Bolger, Jennifer, K. Ryan Merk and great grandmother of Will, Brooke, Taylor, Finley Bolger, Holden Merk. Dear sister of the late Robert, Milton, Allen and Elaine. Passed away peacefully on Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 83 years of age. Visitation at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church on MONDAY at 10:00 AM until time of Funeral Service at 11:00 AM. Memorials may be made to Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 5841 Werk Rd., Cincinnati OH, 45233 or to Hospice of Cincinnati, PO Box 633597, Cincinnati, OH 45263. www.bjmeyer.com

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C. Nelson Melampy, M.D. LEBANON - C. Nelson Melampy, M.D. died on April 17, 2019 at the Otterbein Senior Life center in Lebanon, Ohio. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, and two sons, Larry and Michael. Nelson was born on May 23, 1921 in Mason, Ohio to Clarence and Nell Melampy. He graduated from Mason High School and Wilmington College before entering the Navy during World War II. After the war, he attended medical school at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and then returned to the Navy as a flight surgeon during the Korean War. He later completed a residency in anesthesia at the University of Iowa and practiced anesthesia in Dayton, Ohio and Ottumwa, Iowa before securing a fellowship in pediatric anesthesia at Philadelphia Children’s Hospital. Upon completing the fellowship, he practiced pediatric anesthesia at Barney Children’s Hospital in Dayton, Ohio and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. In addition to medicine, Nelson pursued a lifelong interest in agriculture by moving back to his natal farm in 1969 where he and his first wife, Onda, lived until her death in 1996. In 1998 he married Lola Feick, who died in 2003; he married Dorothy Robinson in 2008. A memorial service will be conducted at the Otterbein Senior Life center in Lebanon, Ohio on August 4, 2019 at 3 PM.

Richard Bye “Dick” Robinson CINCINNATI - Richard Bye “Dick” Robinson died peacefully in his home at the Ocean Reef Club on Monday, April 22. He was 91 years old.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio on August 10, 1927, Dick was predeceased by his parents Harry and Grace Robinson and his brother Harry ( Isabel) Robinson. He was a graduate of the Hill School in 1945, served in the US Army from 1945-46 and graduated from Princeton University in 1950.

Dick was chairman of Technical Equipment Sales Company in Cincinnati. He was active in his community, serving on the Boards of the Cincinnati Nature Center, Boys and Girls Club of Greater Cincinnati, Stepping Stones Center and the Commonwealth Club. He was a longtime member of the Camargo Club, Ocean Reef Club and Card Sound Golf Club.

Dick was a true gentleman who loved his family above all else. He was a loving husband for 45 years to Barbara G Robinson and after her death to MaryLou R Robinson who preceded him in death. He was devoted to and survived by his children Pam (Tom) Terp, Patsy (Carl Mendel) Robinson, Bye (Jay) Watson, grandchildren Taylor (Sally) Mefford, Grace (Winborne) Boyles, Sarah Mendel , David Mendel, and 5 great grandchildren. He is also survived by 2 stepchildren and 3 step grandchildren.

There will be a private family graveside service on Saturday, May 4th.

Friends and family are invited to a reception to celebrate his life at The Camargo Club from 12:00 noon until 2:00 p.m. on May 4.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Stepping Stones Center, 5650 Given Rd., Cincinnati OH 45243.

Ralph Paul SPRINGDALE - PAUL, Ralph, age 90, of Springdale, passed away March 24, 2019 at The Suites of Walnut Creek in Kettering, Ohio. Ralph spent most of his youth in Canton, Ohio, where he was graduated from Timken High School. Originally interested in a career in pattern making, he served a short apprenticeship with the Canton Pattern and Stoker Company. He attended Kent State University (Canton) and briefly served in the Naval Reserve. Later, he entered The Ohio State University School of Dairy Technology. While at Ohio State, he was selected to be in the “Braids of Gold” Naval Officer program and then transferred to the Air Force Officer program. During his years at Ohio State, he excelled at dairy products judging and won both gold and silver medals at an international judging contest in Boston in 1953. He was graduated from Ohio State in 1954. Upon graduation from OSU, he was commissioned as an officer in the Air Force and served as a Lieutenant for two years in Okinawa. After returning to civilian life, he worked in the dairy industry in quality control and plant management for a time, then in sales in the food industry. For 26 years he was a salesman for the Klenzade Division of Econolab Corporation, winning the “Salesman of the Year” Award on three separate occasions. After retirement, he served as a consultant with Meyer Dairy. In this capacity he traveled to China and was instrumental in providing the first written dairy sanitation program for that country.

Ralph was a loyal supporter of The Ohio State University and served in the Big Brothers Program for a number of years. Very few things rivaled his devotion to his doggie “Buffy”, who was his companion for many years. He liked to tinker with all things mechanical and electronic and rightly considered himself an amateur inventor. In his younger days his favorite pastimes were tennis and skiing. He also enjoyed opera, classical music, dancing, Buckeye football, and gardening. His cultivation of flowers and his beautiful award winning rose garden will forever remain in the memories of family and friends. Preceded in death by his parents, Ralph and Mildred Paul of Canton, and sisters Geraldine Menegay of Florence, Kentucky and Luella Gestrich of Vero Beach, Florida. Ralph is survived by his sister, Marjorie Zink of Canton. Also, two brothers and sisters-in-law, Glenn and Kay Paul of Largo, Florida, and Don and Nancy Paul of Kettering, Ohio, and numerous nieces and nephews who will always remember him with great affection as “Uncle Junny”. In keeping with a lifetime of generosity, Ralph donated his body to the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine. Family and friends may call from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Saturday, May 11, 2019 at the TOBIAS FUNERAL HOME – FAR HILLS CHAPEL, 5471 Far Hills Avenue, Dayton, Ohio 45429, with a memorial service at 12:00 p.m. Condolences may be sent to www.tobiasfuneralhome.com

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James Quinlivan LAFAYETTE - A Celebration of Life will be held on Wednesday, May 1, 2019 from 10 am to noon at Martin & Castille Funeral Home - DOWNTOWN for James Quinlivan, 69, who died on Friday, April 19, 2019 at his residence in Lafayette. A Reception will follow the services at noon at a private residence.

Survivors include his beloved wife, Cindy Randazzo of Lafayette, LA.; and one brother, Tim Quinlivan and his wife, PK Anderson of Cincinnati, Ohio.

He was preceded in death by his parents, James Clement Quinlivan, Sr. and Kathleen Elizabeth Kelley Quinlivan; and three brothers, Patrick, Stephen and John Quinlivan.

Jim lived all but the last four years of his life in the Midwest. At 17 he left his hometown of Richmond, IN for Cincinnati, OH where he earned a BA in Literature and Writing from Xavier University and studied Journalism at University of Cincinnati, Graduate Studies. He resided in Cincinnati until 1998 when he moved to Chicagoland to join his future wife, Cindy.

In 2015 the couple chose Lafayette, LA as their retirement city, Jim’s career began as a high school teacher and freelance writer with published articles and reviews in magazines and newspapers. Then for 25 years he applied his award-winning writing talents with advertising agencies and later his own firm. Jim’s marketing expertise expanded as a Content Strategist with clients predominately in the New York City area. He retired March 2018.

Jim was a student his entire life - always eager to learn something new,

voraciously reading 2-3 books a week. He loved traveling to new countries and always immersed himself in their history and customs. Music was also a lifelong love, spanning from rock & roll to classical. As a Hoosier he loved Indiana and Xavier basketball and Notre Dame football. As a Louisiana resident he joined the Saints and LSU fan clubs.

The move to Louisiana in 2015 was filled with anticipation and angst as Jim was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. For almost four years he fought valiantly against this terrible disease. He read many books about “being mortal.” Even when he began home hospice in September 2018 he continued to read, to travel, to enjoy and make new memories with family and friends. Even in his last weeks, his optimism prevailed scheduling a dental cleaning. He was incredibly strong and loving; always concerned about the impact of his illness to his wife and brother. His final wish to loved ones is encapsulated in Warren Zevon’s “Keep Me in Your Hearts.”

In lieu of flowers memorial contributions can be made in Mr. Quinlivan’s name to Miles Perret Cancer Center at milesperret.org, or Colorectal Cancer Alliance at ccalliance.org .

A heartfelt appreciation is extended by the Quinlivan family to the nurses, staff and doctors of Hope Hospice and the Cancer Center of Acadiana for the kindness and compassionate care given to Mr. Quinlivan and his family during their time of need.

View the obituary and guestbook online at www.mourning.com Martin & Castille-DOWNTOWN-330 St. Landry St., Lafayette, LA 70506, 337-234-2311

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Joan Schroeder

Timothy Mark “Tim” Skidmore

CINCINNATI - Margaret L. Peyton of Cincinnati, OH, passed away Tuesday, April 16th. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, May 4 at Zion Baptist Church, 630 Glenwood Ave. 45229. Visitation begins at 10:00 AM, Service at 11:00.

WESTWOOD - Joan Schroeder, devoted sister of Jerry Schroeder, daughter of the late Edward and Ida Gallo Schroeder, cousin of Maureen Elfers, godmother of Peter J Hartman, Sr. survived by other relatives and friends. Former Administrative Assistant of the late Most Rev. Carl Moeddel, Auxiliary Bishop, Archdioceses of Cincinnati. Died, Tuesday, April 24, 2019 age 79. Please join the family for the funeral mass, Tuesday, 10:30 AM, Our Lady of Lourdes Church.

Burial to follow in New St Joseph Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to St Rita School for the Deaf, 1720 Glendale-Milford Rd, Cincinnati (45215) or the Dottie Westerfield Fund at Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 3450 Lumardo Dr, Cincinnati (45238).

Arrangements entrusted to Rebold, Rosenacker & Sexton Funeral Home. Condolence may be shared and donations completed online at www.rebold.com

NEWTOWN - Timothy Mark “Tim” Skidmore, 64, April 16, 2019, Newtown, passed away unexpectedly from illness. Leaving behind sisters, Linda, Kathy, Alice with husband Paul Kuhl and brother Tom and numerous nieces and nephews and many, many friends. Predeceased by brothers Larry and Ken and parents Harold and Alice. Tim lived and loved life his way. He was able to purchase his dream property and started his own landscape business after pursuing a degree in horticulture from Cincinnati State. He loved nature, fishing, his lake cabin in KY, gardening, his dogs Clifford and Roo(deceased) and especially his friends, always throwing backyard Bar-B-Qs. All his landscape clients and employees were treated like family. Music was Tim’s passion, having been involved since his teens. Forming several local bands throughout his life and playing alongside mentors and talented musicians. How truly blessed it made him feel..

A Memorial service is planned for Thursday, May 23rd from 6pm-8pm at Mt Washington United Methodist Church, 6365 Corbly Rd. In lieu of flowers please make a donation in Tim’s name to the Nature Conservatory. A Celebration of Tim’s life will be planned for a later date. TBA

Patricia A. Schlosser (nee Murphy) CINCINNATI - Loving

wife of Richard “Chick” Schlosser for 60 years.

Daughter of the late Carl Murphy and Beulah Murphy-Ahr. She was an avid sports fan of the Cincinnati Reds and Bengals. Pat passed away Friday, April 26, 2019, at the age of 81. Visitation at Hodapp Funeral Home, 7401 Vine St., Carthage, Thursday from 10:30 a.m. until time of funeral service at 12 noon. Memorials may be made to Shriners Hospital for Children, 3229 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229. Condolences at hodappfuneralhome.com

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Michael W. VonLuehrte - - Michael W. “Mikey” VonLuehrte beloved husband of Pamela R. VonLuehrte (nee Rensing), loving father of Lisa Marie VonLuehrte, devoted brother of Gregory VonLuehrte, also survived by many nieces and nephews, and greatnieces and great-nephews. Mike died April 10, 2019 at the age of 65 years. Mass of Christian Burial at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Anderson Twp. on Wed. May 1, at 10 AM. Friends may visit at the Church on Wed. from 9-10 AM. Memorials to Hoxworth Blood Center of Cincinnati or Alzheimer’s Association. T P WHITE & SONS Funeral Home serving the family.

DUERMIT - Martha Williams, Duermit, Sharonville, age 84, passed away on Saturday, April 20th, 2019. She died peacefully at home with her family. Beloved wife of the late Robert (Bud) Williams, devoted mother to Rob, Roger, Rich, Ron Williams, Cinda Hernandez, and daughter in law Crystal Napier Williams and Lisa (Gross) Williams. Loving grandmother to Robby, Tamra, Chelsea, Logan and Parker and many great grandchildren. Dear sister to Joann, Dottie, Ginny and the late Frank Duermit.

A Celebration of Life will be held on May 4th, Saturday from 6pm to 10pm, 7528 Macauley Blvd, Maineville, 45069.

Memorial contributions to Queen city Hospice in Mason.

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TODAY’S OBITUARIES AND DEATH NOTICES Name Allen, Charles E. Bearghman, Mary L. *Brewer, Victor Carl *Brownlee, William Bruce, Christopher *Burdick, Harry“Rick” Carter, Lamont Lee *Chisholm, Victoria *Chitwood, Joyce Ellen Clark, Barbara *Conley, Debra Jean Cox, Donnie D. Cruse, Judy R. *Day, Larry Drach - Neumeister, Carol *Dunlap, William“Bill” English, Audrey Figgins, Ezell *Fleshman Jr., Joseph *Forman, Joyce Marie *Froelicher, Shirley *Gordon, Richard O. Grissom, Jr., Willie C. *Gruesser, Elizabeth Rose *Head, Jr., Joseph H. Howard, Elizabeth *Jennewein, Ruth *Jessen, Gladys Johnson, Anthony Jones, Pamela *Jones, Jo Ann *Kelly, Thomas H. King, Wilbert“Pops”

Age 76 70 76 84 29 70 24 95 83 77 69 73 74 79 90 92 69 77 82 87 74 58 96 87 69 94 88 21 46 85 78 81

Town, State Hamilton Cincinnati Independence Harrison Cleves Blue Ash Cincinnati Cincinnati Florence Cincinnati Virginia Fairfield Twp. Cincinnati Cincinnati Green Twp. Madeira Falmouth Cincinnati College Hill Cincinnati Cincinnati Cincinnati Cincinnati Cincinnati Cincinnati Cincinnati Springfield Twp. Cincinnati Cincinnati Cincinnati Cincinnati

Death Date Arrangements 24-Apr WebsterFuneralHome,Fairfield 22-Apr TheArlingtonMemorialGardensFuneral 26-Apr Chambers and Grubbs Funeral 25-Apr Brater Winter - Harrison 24-Apr Brater Winter - Harrison 25-Apr Thomas-Justin Memorial 13-Apr Walker Funeral Home 26-Mar SpringGroveFuneralEldenGood 26-Apr Chambers & Grubbs, Florence 24-Apr Thompson,HallandJordanFuneral 21-Apr 24-Apr WebsterFuneralHome,Fairfield 21-Apr Ralph Meyer & Deters Funeral 25-Apr W.E. Lusain Funeral Home 25-Apr MeyerFuneralHomeandCrematory 26-Apr Thomas-Justin Memorial 25-Apr Woodhead 19-Apr Walker Funeral Home 21-Apr Ara Cremation Cincinnati 23-Apr 09-Apr Spring Grove Funeral Homes 21-Apr HayFuneralHomeandCremationCenter 22-Apr Preston Charles Funeral Home 26-Apr Geo. H. Rohde & Son 24-Apr Spring Grove Funeral Homes 22-Apr Walker Funeral Home 26-Apr Spring Grove Funeral Homes 25-Apr NewcomerFuneral-NorthwestChapel 24-Apr Newcomer-Northwest Chapel 20-Apr Walker Funeral Home 30-Mar ShortenandRyanFuneralHome 12-Apr Maraman BillingsFuneralHome 25-Apr Preston Charles Funeral Home

Name *Kleier, Harold *Lloyd, Emma Jean *Lojinger, Pauline Mahler, Kay Sue *Mason, Leslie Keith *Masters, Connie J. McCrary, Verline *McKeague Jr., William *Meholick, Richard S. *Melampy, M.D., C. Nelson Moser, Orville Dee *Niehaus, Jean L. *Paul, Ralph Payne, Emma Jeanne *Peyton, Margaret L. *Preuss, Janet F. *Quinlivan, James *Rankle, Leonard *Robinson, Richard Bye *Schlosser, Patricia A. *Schroeder, Joan *Skidmore, Timothy Mark *Snyder, Erika *VonLuehrte , Michael W. *Wessinger, Anne Wiedenmann, Charles F. Wilder, Jr., Thomas *Williams, Martha *Wright, Carolyn Yockey, Bert P. *Zieverink, George *Zimmer, Albert K.

Age 87 88 80 57 78 82 75 77 97 68 89 90 93 93 83 69 85 91 81 79 64 80 65 78 69 43 84 90 78 60 85

Town, State Ludlow West Chester Cincinnati Lebanon Covington Edgewood Cincinnati West Chester Union Twp. Lebanon Cincinnati Cincinnati Springdale Milford Cincinnati Cincinnati Lafayette Dayton Cincinnati Cincinnati Westwood Newtown California Cincinnati Hamilton Hamilton Duermit Cincinnati Green Twp. Aurora Green Twp.

Death Date Arrangements 26-Mar Ronald B. Jones Funeral Home 25-Mar Hodapp - West Chester 25-Apr 24-Apr Oswald-Hoskins Funeral Home 24-Apr Floral Hills Funeral Home 24-Apr Swindler&CurrinFuneralHome 16-Apr Walker Funeral Home 16-Apr Advantage Cremation Care 24-Apr Evans Funeral Home - Milford 17-Apr 18-Apr Walker Funeral Home 21-Apr HodappFuneralHome-CollegeHill 24-Mar TobiasFuneral- FarHills Chapel 08-Apr Advantage Cremation Care 16-Apr Spring Grove Funeral Home 25-Apr MeyerFuneralHomeandCrematory 19-Apr Martin & Castille Funeral Home 25-Apr Dobbling,Muehlenkamp-Erschell 22-Apr Allen Breyer Funeral Home 26-Apr Hodapp-Carthage 24-Apr Rebold 16-Apr AdvantageCremationCareofGreaterCincinnati 26-Apr Alexandria Funeral Home 10-Apr TP White&Sons FuneralHome 20-Apr Advantage Cremation Care 26-Apr Mueller Funerals 24-Apr WebsterFuneralHome,Fairfield 20-Apr 21-Apr Mihovk-RosenackerFuneralHome 26-Apr MeyerFuneralHome&Crematory 19-Apr Fitch-Denney Funeral Home 23-Apr MeyerFuneralHome(Bridgetown)

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Carolyn Wright

George Zieverink

Anne Wessinger (nee Baxter)

CINCINNATI - Carolyn Hope (nee Lundquist), beloved wife of the late L. Walter Wright of 63 years. Loving mother of Lynette (William) McCormack, Gordon (Donna) Wright and Deb (Tom) Homan. Cherished grandmother of Melanie Wittman, Heather Church, Nicholas and Christopher Wright, Brooke Neal, Jessica Wooding, and Amanda Fletcher. Dear greatgrandmother of Chloe Magnusson, Nicholas Wright, Jr., Mason Neal, William Wright, Braxton Neal, and Luxyn Neal. Carolyn was one of 11 children and is survived by her sister, Marilyn Wade. She passed away Sunday, April 21st, 2019 at the age of 90. Private services to be held at the convenience of the family. Mihovk-Rosenacker serving the family. www.mrfh.com

AURORA - George passed away on Fri. He is survived by his wife, Cindy Zieverink; 3 daughters, Sabrina (Matt) Coyle, Ashley Zieverink, Emily (Grant) Ashcraft; 4 sisters, Shorty (Ken) Kramer, Marlene (Dan) Cassidy, Lorraine (Jim) Harper, Diane (Mike) Yost; brother in law, George Young; 2 grandchildren, Bree and Korbin Coyle. Funeral services will be held at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Aurora, IN on Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 11 am. A gathering will be held at Agner Hall, Lawrenceburg, IN following the funeral mass. Visit us at www.fitchdenney.com

CINCINNATI - On Saturday, April 20, 2019, Anne Wessinger, loving wife, mother and Grammy, passed away at the age of 78. She was surrounded by those who loved her, after a brave fight with cancer. She is survived by her devoted husband of 57 years, Edward Wessinger, her four children: David (Theresa), Michael (Tina), Suzanne (Ray) Brickner, and Amy Hall, as well as her 11 grandchildren, and 1 great grandchild. Her mother, Rose Baxter Karches, and her brother, Tom preceded her in death.

Anne lived a very wonderful life. Many will miss her wisdom, kindness, strength, courage, and sense of humor. She loved being involved in a variety of activities throughout her lifetime, and was happy knowing she made so many friends through them. She enjoyed traveling and getting together with family and friends. Most importantly, she had fun!

The family will host a celebration of Anne’s life on May 30, 2019 at Terwilliger Lodge in Montgomery from 5-8 p.m.

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Devoted grandfather of Denise (Trent) Guess, Shana (Ken) Gary, Jermey Wheeler and great grandfather of Allie, Ella, Isabelle, Seth and Preston. Dear brother of Linda (John) Wagner and the late Audrey (Paul) Deiters. Also survived by his nieces, nephews, other family and friends. Passed away peacefully on Tuesday, April 23, 2019 at 85 years of age. Visitation on MONDAY at MEYER FUNERAL HOME, 5864 Bridgetown Rd., from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM. Mass of Christian Burial on TUESDAY at St. Antoninus Church, 1500 Linneman Rd., at 10:30 AM. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to St. Antoninus Endowment Fund, 1500 Linneman Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45238 or to Artis Senior Living Employee Fund, 5799 Bridgetown Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45248. Www.bjmeyer.com

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Success of CPS, others It all comes down to local leaders who know our community. Forum, 4D

Condition now tops location in home sales Steve Stephens Columbus Dispatch

bank with more than 1,200 branches operating in 10 states, including the upper Midwest, the Carolinas and Florida.

Growing online transactions coincide with Fifth Third’s trimming of its physical branch network. Last year, the bank shuttered nearly three dozen branches and plans to trim another dozen this year – on top of the 50 targeted for closure from the newly-acquired MB Financial in Chicago.

While Fifth Third plans to resume adding new branches in 2020, bank executives say their next-generation prototype will be 40% smaller and highly automated. The company

In today’s market, many realestate professionals suggest that the three most important things for home sellers, especially fi rst-time sellers, are condition, condition, condition.

“Everyone has heard that selling a home is about ‘location, location, location,’ ” said Jan Jedlinsky, an agent with Metro II Realty who was just named Columbus Realtor of the Year by the Columbus Board of Realtors.

Location, price and condition all play a role in getting a house sold for top dollar in a reasonable amount of time, Jedlinsky said.

There’s not much a seller can do about a home’s location, though, unless it has wheels. And the market will quickly show if a seller is asking too much for the house.

“These days, buyers already kind of know what price a house should be,” Jedlinsky said. “They kind of know what they can get for their money.”

But a home’s condition, and the impression it gives to would-be buyers, can give a seller of a “starter home” a leg up on the house for sale down the street.

Jason Rule, 35, and his wife, Maggy, 30, bought their fi rst house in the Columbus suburb of Dublin fi ve years ago and put it up for sale recently. They did extensive renovations, but always knew they would sell sooner rather than later.

“For us, selling was always something we kept in mind,” Mr. Rule said.

“We did things that we like, but also that would be appealing to potential buyers.”

Mr. Rule’s father, a contractor, gave them tips on market and design trends. And they did some basic staging to prepare for listing the house.

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Kimberly Brown, left, and Katie Dreyer work at Fifth Third Bank’s ONE67 innovation center at the Downtown headquarters. Bank executives say their next-generation branches will be smaller and highly automated. PROVIDED

Fifth Third ramps up a tech focus in its hiring More customers bank on their mobile phones Alexander Coolidge Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Fifth Third is ramping up hiring of tech workers in 2019 as more customers bank on their mobile phones.

In the coming months, the Cincinnati-based bank will hire 200 new workers as it continues to invest in digital – a 20% increase from late last year. Digital-centric workers already accounted for one in seven of the bank’s 7,000 area employees.

Fifth Third has invested more than

$100 million in alliances with fi nancial tech fi rms alone, while the bank won’t quantify how much it’s spending on in-house tech innovation. The push refl ects not just industry trends but also the infl uence of CEO Greg Carmichael’s tech background.

“We remain focused on accelerating our digital transformation and delivering innovative solutions for our customers,” Carmichael told Wall Street analysts early this year. “We’ve invested heavily over the last several years. ... Our goal is to ensure interactions with the customers are simple, seamless and of course secure.”

After completing its takeover of MB Financial in Chicago in March, Fifth Third is now the nation’s 15th-largest

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Ex-teammates’ baseball brawl is in court Strictly Legal Jack Greiner Guest columnist

I don’t have data to back this up, but it seems like there has been a rise in libel suit fi lings recently. And a recent one involves a dispute between former teammates on the 1986 World Champion Mets – Ron Darling and Lenny Dykstra.

It’s hard to imagine a less likely pair of teammates. Darling attended Yale and was as cerebral a player as there ever was. Dykstra, on the other hand, was an old school, rough and tumble guy who earned the nickname “Nails.”

“Cerebral” was typically not part of his biography. So maybe it was inevitable the two would clash.

And clash they have, as Dykstra recently fi led a libel suit against Darling

in New York State Court. Dykstra contends that Darling’s recently published book “108 Stitches: Loose Threads, Ripping Yarns, and the Darndest Characters from My Time in the Game” defames him. The issue in the case concerns a portion of Darling’s book that accuses Dykstra of screaming racist taunts at Red Sox pitcher Oil Can Boyd as Dykstra waited for the fi rst pitch of Game 3 in the 1986 World Series.

Darling calls it the “ugliest piece of vitriol I’ve ever heard.” Darling says Dykstra shouted “every imaginable and unimaginable insult and expletive in [Boyd’s] direction – foul, racist, hateful, hurtful stuff .” Darling also claims that it seemed to work, in that Boyd looked rattled and the Mets won the game and shifted the momentum of the Series. They ultimately won in seven games.

Dykstra claims he never made any racist comments, and several teammates, including Wally Backman, Daryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden back him up. Boyd himself disputes the account, according to the complaint.

It will be interesting to see how this case plays out. Dykstra has at least two hurdles to overcome. First, Darling didn’t include in his account any specifi c comments, saying he didn’t want to “commemorate this dark, low moment in Mets history.” So, essentially the book refl ects Darling’s impressions of what Dykstra said.

The challenge that poses for Dykstra is that it’s tough to prove impressions are false. Is Darling’s interpretation of the event “false”? How do you prove that? What one person considers out of bounds may diff er from what someone else does. But a diff erence of

opinion isn’t libel.

And Dykstra’s second hurdle is his own reputation. Libel protects a person’s good reputation. So what happens when a plaintiff comes to court with a pretty lousy reputation to begin with?

Dykstra’s post playing days have been rough. He’s a convicted criminal – having been sentenced to house arrest for bankruptcy fraud. He also plead guilty to grand theft auto.

Dykstra will have to show that people think less of a convicted thief because it turns out that in the heat of a World Series, he made racist comments. Maybe he can pull it off . But that seems more improbable than the Mets win in game six of the ’86 Series.

Jack Greiner is managing partner of Graydon in Cincinnati. He represents Enquirer Media in First Amendment and media issues.

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plans to open 100 over the next three years.

Where does the money go?

So where is Fifth Third putting all this money behind tech?

The bank’s investments span digital initiatives ranging from easier payments and lending to even venture capital investing. In 2017, the bank carved out 15,500 square feet of the fi fth fl oor of its Downtown headquarters to create its ONE67 Center to serve as an innovation lab for future digital ventures.

The latest: Fifth Third this spring relaunched its Dobot savings app, which is heavy on graphics and light on statistics. The app allows consumers to automate saving a little money at a time for everything from a downpayment on a house to concert tickets.

Bank offi cials believe the app’s simple focus and non-threatening presentation of fi nancial data will attract younger consumers. Dollars saved are represented by dots on the screen, which Dobot head Andy Zurcher admits is a move to “game-ify” saving.

“It helps people prioritize but doesn’t overwhelm them with the planning of their goals,” Zurcher said.

Another appeal: you don’t have to change banks to use it. The versatility works for both consumers and the bank: customers just link it to any checking account to start savings, but it gives Fifth Third another source of deposits because the saved money is held by Fifth Third.

Fifth Third thought the app’s appeal was so strong, it bought the start-up

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behind it – the bank’s fi rst-ever takeover of a fl edgling dot.com fi rm.

Just weeks after its launch, 37,000 customers have downloaded Dobot.

The bank also keeps looking for ways to upgrade the regular Fifth Third app. Last year, it enabled the app to allow customers to withdraw cash from ATMs without their debit cards.

In 2017, Fifth Third launched the Momentum app, which helps consumers pay down their student loan debt by rounding up debit purchases to the nearest dollar. So far, bank customers have paid down $2 million in debts.

Besides Fifth Third tech products, the bank is also investing in tech fi rm ventures that provide consumers additional services.

One of their largest so far: Fifth Third invested $15 million in New Yorkbased CommonBond, an online student loan lender, which both fi nances and refi nances loans and works with employers to help customers pay down debt.

Other tech investments include: ❚ Zelle, a person-to-person payments service (and a direct competitor of Paypal’s Venmo)

❚ GreenSky, a point-of-sale fi nancier for contractors and consumers for home improvement projects ❚ ApplePie Capital, a lender specializing in retail franchise operators ❚ QED Investors, a venture capital fi rm focused on tech fi rms in the fi nancial industry ❚ Accion International, a nonprofi t leader in micro-lending and sociallyconscious “impact” tech investing in the fi nancial sector For the latest on Fifth Third Bank, P&G, Kroger and Cincinnati business news, follow @alexcoolidge on Twitter.

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Small-business owners’ options to save for retiring Simply Money Amy Wagner & Nathan Bachrach Guest columnists

Question: Kenneth in Campbell County: I’m thinking about starting my own business and want to make sure I’m still saving for retirement.

What are my options?

A: Congratulations! Small business owners are the lifeblood of the American economy, so we wish you all the best. We’re also thrilled you’re keeping retirement a priority – sometimes it gets put on the backburner in the early stages of a new business.

If you’re going to run your business by yourself with no employees, there’s something that’s (fi ttingly) called a Solo 401(k). This off ers taxdeferred growth: you get an up-front tax break now, then pay ordinary income taxes when you withdraw the money in retirement. There are no income or age restrictions for contributions, and you can save up to $56,000 in 2019 ($62,000 if you’re age 50 or older). There’s also a Solo Roth 401(k).

Contributions to this account are made with after-tax money, but earnings come out tax free once you’ve held the account for fi ve years and are at least 59 1⁄ 2. (Note: If you save in both, the contribution limit is a combined

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“We had one room we had redone completely, but never put in furniture,” Mr. Rule said. “So we borrowed some furniture from a friend to make it look appealing” to would-be buyers.

One factor that has propelled condition, staging and curb appeal to the forefront for sellers (and buyers) is HGTV, the popular cable-TV channel that specializes in shows about home improvement, decorating, remodeling and home buying.

“Selling a house has changed a lot in the last seven to 10 years, and a lot of that is due to HGTV,” said Lori Murphy, owner of Element 1 Home Staging in Dublin.

“I got into the (home-staging) business in 2010 after I had a home to sell myself,” Murphy said. “It was taking forever to sell and I couldn’t fi gure out why. I was watching HGTV when I fi gured it out.”

Murphy’s company, like other staging companies, specializes in making homes look attractive to would-be buyers.

limit.)

On the other hand, if you’ll have employees, you’ll need to look at a SEP (Simplifi ed Employee Pension) IRA or a SIMPLE (Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees) IRA. A SEP IRA off ers tax-deferred growth and is funded completely by you, the business owner. In 2019, you can contribute up to 25 percent of an employee’s salary, or up to $56,000 (whichever is less). You can choose when to contribute (doesn’t have to be every year), and you would have to contribute the same percentage for all employees. According to the IRS, a SEP IRA is most popular for small businesses with less than 100 employees. A SEP IRA can also be used by a sole-proprietor in lieu of a Solo 401(k).

A SIMPLE IRA is also tax-deferred, but in this case, most of the funding comes from employee contributions (no employer contribution required).

This can take much of the fi nancial burden off you as the business owner.

The 2019 contribution limit is $13,000 ($16,000 if age 50 or older).

Here’s The Simply Money Point: Your fi nal decision hinges a lot on whether or not you’ll have employees.

A fi duciary fi nancial adviser can go over your options and help you make the best decision for your particular situation.

Q: Trish and Keith from Batavia: What’s the diff erence between a money market account and savings

“It’s an emotional purchase,” she said. “You want it to feel warm and homey.”

Murphy works mostly with homes in which the seller has already moved out.

“When you walk into a home with no furniture, people think it looks cold and empty,” she said. “I had an intern who put it really well after she went into an empty home with me. She said that before it was staged, it was hard to imagine the good times and laughter that could happen there. But after it was staged, you could imagine those good times.”

Zillow, an online real-estate database company, reports that the average home seller across the U.S. spends about $6,570 in home-preparation costs before the sale, including carpet cleaning, painting, housecleaning, full-service lawn care, staging and local moving.

A seller, especially a fi rst-timer, might be able to get by for less depending on the condition and size of the home – and how much work he or she does.

“But there are some things I always recommend, inexpensive things,” Jedlinsky said.

account? And which is better for an emergency fund?

A: These two types of accounts have a lot in common, but there are a few subtle diff erences.

A traditional savings account is pretty straightforward. You deposit money and it earns interest. However, a big downside right now is ultra-low interest rates – the national average for a savings account is currently about 0.10 percent APY (annual percentage yield). That means $10,000 would earn just $10 over the course of a year (assuming daily compounding).

A money market account is slightly diff erent. You’ll likely get a better interest rate (the current national average is about 0.21 percent, but local banks and credit unions are paying above one percent in some cases), but there’s a trade-off : you’ll probably need to keep a higher minimum balance in the account. A money market account also provides the option of check writing and/or a debit card, but federal law limits the number of withdrawals to six per month.

Keep in mind that online banks generally off er much higher interest rates than the previously mentioned national averages for both savings accounts and money market accounts, so always do your research at a site like Bankrate.com.

The Simply Money Point is that both types of accounts are FDIC insured, so choosing between the two

Jason and Maggy Rule of Dublin have their fi rst house on the market.

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When it comes to selling a house, clutter is just as bad as being empty, she said.

“And painting neutral colors doesn’t cost much. Decluttering, neutralizing, white towels, white bedspreads can make things look clean and neutral.”

Selling a home is often an emotional process, whether it’s your fi rst home or your 10th, Jedlinsky said.

“But when you’re selling, it’s not your house anymore. It’s like a business, you should try to take the emotions out of it.”

So as hard as it might be, sellers will probably want to remove beloved

comes down to how much you’re putting in the account, how often you need to access the money, the ease with which you can access your money, and the interest rate you can get.

Either can work as a place to keep emergency fund money.

Nathan Bachrach and his team offer fi nancial planning services through Simply Money Advisors, a SEC Registered Investment Advisor.

Call 513-469-7500 or email simply money@simplymoneyadvisors.com.

This May, Simply Money Advisors is becoming Allworth Financial. As we expand our services to better meet your retirement planning needs, we needed a name that encompasses all that we are. Don’t worry. We’ll still deliver our same no-nonsense money advice every week in the Simply Money column, presented by Allworth Financial.

Responses are for informational purposes only and individuals should consider whether any general recommendation in these responses are suitable for their particular circumstances based on investment objectives, fi nancial situation and needs.

To the extent that a reader has any questions regarding the applicability of any specifi c issue discussed above to his/her individual situation, he/ she is encouraged to consult with the professional adviser of his/her choosing, including a tax adviser and/or attorney.

collections, personal photographs and quirky touches before the fi rst would-be buyers arrive. (And moving the crib out of the master bedroom probably won’t hurt, either.)

The bottom line is: “How do I sell my home for the most money in the fastest time possible?” Jedlinsky said.

“You want to make it as widely appealing as possible.”

Of course, sellers should make sure that basic maintenance has been done around their house, Jedlinsky said.

To avoid surprises, sellers should consider having their own home inspection done before listing their house, she said.

Although homebuyers often have an inspection done before closing, a pre-listing inspection can benefi t a seller, too, said Tim Buell, immediate past president of the American Society of Home Inspectors.

An inspection can point out problems that a seller might not even know about, he said. And being able to show a potential buyer a recent home inspection, with completed repairs, can help sell a house quickly, he said, especially in this era of condition, condition, condition.

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Let’s keep our schools in the hands of the people we elect Your Turn Julie Sellers and Carolyn Jones Guest columnists

The success of the Cincinnati Public Schools or any school district comes down to this – strong local leadership.

Since 1829, a mere decade after the incorporation of our city, the Cincinnati Board of Education has been serving the families of Cincinnati and ensuring our students receive a quality education. It is the elected school board, representing the community, who can chart our course, in good times and in bad. They know our school district. They know our community. They know our staff . They know our students.

Currently when a school district is not performing well, the state brings in what’s called an Academic Distress Commission (ADC) to fi x it.

That may sound like a good idea.

But it’s not. Why? Local control gets kicked to the curb.

HB 70, passed under Gov. John Kasich in 2015, allows for state takeover of school districts when a district receives an overall F grade on its state report card for three consecutive years.

Here’s how it works. An ADC is appointed by the state superintendent.

That group hires a CEO to run and control the district. That CEO answers to the academic distress commission, not the community’s elected school board.

Currently, three districts are under state control. As many as 10 other school districts are heading in the same direction if the legislation or the district’s state report cards remain unchanged. CPS is not a district in danger of distress or academic emergency because of the support and investments of our local community. CPS is a highperforming district when comparing the Urban Eight – Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo and Youngstown. A state takeover is not the solution here.

Gov. Mike DeWine and State Superintendent Paolo DeMaria both agree that when the ADC steps in, schools lose control, creating a fracture between the district and the community it serves.

CPS is governed by our seven-

School board President Carolyn Jones says Cincinnati Public Schools is not a district in danger of distress or academic emergency because of the support and investments of the community. PHOTOS BY SAM GREENE/THE ENQUIRER

The seven CPS school board members are guardians of the public trust and put the interest of students fi rst, the authors write.

member school board. The board members are guardians of the public trust and put the interest of our students fi rst. Through policy, school board members are ultimately responsible for the success or failure of our

school district.

The school board, administration, teachers and community, not a stateappointed ADC, know how to best address the academic and non-academic challenges we face every day in order

to improve education.

For districts not hitting their marks and making progress, Ohio teachers and administrators with at least 10 years of proven successful experience in an urban setting should provide intervention assistance.

Last month, state lawmakers announced two bipartisan bills related to state Academic Distress Commissions.

One, introduced by Democratic Rep. Kent Smith and Republican Rep. Steve Hambley, would put a moratorium on further state takeovers. Another bill, sponsored by Democratic Rep. Joe Miller and Republican Rep. Don Jones, would abolish the system all together. Both bills have yet to move out of committee.

We urge state legislators to act quickly. Let’s keep our schools in the hands of the people we elect. Let’s keep our schools leadership in the hands of local decision makers, even in tough times.

Julie Sellers is president of the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers. Carolyn Jones is president of the Cincinnati Public Schools Board of Education.

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Do the poor have a place in Cincinnati?

Your Turn Brian Garry Guest columnist

All around Cincinnati a fi ght is raging, and this scuffl e doesn’t involve fi sts, knives or guns. In West End, the neighborhood is at war and residents need protection. Just ask 99-year-old Mary Page, who is being forced from her home to make way for a soccer stadium. Ask the tens of thousands of residents who have been displaced from other city neighborhoods in the name of “progress.”

This displacement stretches back nearly a century to when West End, a thriving minority neighborhood, was cleared for offi ces, light industrial businesses and Interstate 75. True progress only occurs when we all move forward together. Instead, what we have seen, as a result of our city government policies, is the advancement of a few at a cost of increasing poverty and segregation in our city.

Cincinnati has lost thousands of units of aff ordable housing while at

the same time granting huge tax breaks to wealthy homeowners and developers in Hyde Park, Mount Lookout and Over-the-Rhine. Build all the luxury housing you want, just don’t destroy any aff ordable housing and displace anyone in the process.

We have the power. Let’s turn this ship around. Those suff ering under the yoke of extreme poverty, seniors and children, need our support. We can, through easy choices made by City Council, use our city’s resources to help those most in need. The rising tide is not raising the boats of those weighed down with the heavy burden of poverty.

Yes, we can have fair development.

We can, we must and we will. One simple rule should be if a development removes aff ordable housing, then the developer must replace unit per unit with no net loss of aff ordable housing.

The question is: Do the poor have a place in Cincinnati? In our society?

It’s not feeling like it at the moment.

It feels low-income people are the untouchable caste. It feels this way because it seems most developments are

built on top of what used to be aff ordable housing. Yet we wonder why we have a 40,000-unit shortage of aff ordable housing. Not only are we destroying aff ordable housing at an alarming rate, we are also destroying the character and culture of Cincinnati.

Letting wealthy developers plan our city is not working. The most recent example is FC Cincinnati’s development in West End that was allowed to proceed against the will of its residents and businesses, then approved

by City Council and the Cincinnati school board without an impact assessment study. This lack of planning has resulted in the displacement of longtime residents and businesses.

This is heartless.

These displacements MUST BE STOPPED immediately. Our city and the fabric of its neighborhoods are being ripped asunder by totally unplanned development and unprecedented approval of demolition requests. A development with the impact of the FC Cincinnati stadium would never take place in neighborhoods such as Hyde Park or Indian Hill

without a plan. The development of the riverfront was planned for YEARS before ground was broken.

We, as a city, need to enact strong ordinances that protect against the destruction of and continued loss of aff ordable housing. Another way, which has been used around the country, to protect aff ordable housing is to enact rent control. Further, we need to add economic status as a protected class. We need strong anti-displacement laws that would require all future development to include a 35% aff ordable housing component, irrespective of funding source with no net loss of aff ordable housing.

Finally, future tax abatements must be limited to aff ordable housing development and projects that provide support for the communities in which the development is taking place. Developers need to stop just taking from communities and start giving back. They need to think more about people and less just about dollar signs.

Brian Garry is chair of the Human Services Coalition of the Faith Community Alliance.

Making a Liberty Street that works for everyone Your Turn Jeff Raser Guest columnist

The recent debate about the renovation of Liberty Street has degenerated into a mix of misunderstandings, misinformation and a collision of separate issues.

In 2011, I led the planning eff ort for the Brewery District that resulted in the redesign of Liberty Street into a more balanced urban street. The central goal of rehabilitating Liberty Street is to make it a more pedestrian-friendly, economically vibrant street corridor for much of its length. Making the street fi ve lanes wide (where the outside two lanes are on-street parking lanes much of the time) is better for Cincinnati’s economy and livability.

Liberty Street is too wide and has become a way for drivers to zoom through the neighborhood. In far too many urban neighborhoods in Cincin-

nati (and the rest of the country), roads have become too wide. They have made many of our urban neighborhoods places to drive through instead of places to drive to.

If we make Liberty Street into a more balanced, pedestrian-friendly place, then we’ll unleash the economic capacity that great urban streets have.

By making Liberty Street walkable, bikable and accessible, we’ll create fertile ground for the small businesses, housing and gathering spaces that make great neighborhoods.

One misunderstanding about giving Liberty Street a “road diet” (by turning it from a seven-lane throughway into a fi ve-lane street) is that traffi c congestion will become unbearable.

This is NOT how traffi c works. In many other cities, key roads have been reduced in width without making problems for the city. In fact, the opposite eff ect is often achieved.

It has been said that the fi ve-lane Liberty Street option eliminates all of

the street’s on-street parking. This is false. The two outside lanes of the fi velane option have parking during nonpeak traffi c times.

Parking in urban areas cannot be provided solely on public streets. Larger businesses and institutions should provide off -street parking for patrons and students. It is not right that these parking gluttons should expect the taxpayer to provide their parking for them.

One of the problems with initiatives that take years to complete is that processes and eff orts made by engaged citizens fade in the rear view mirror of memories, or is never known by those new to power. There have been many public workshops, over several years, where various streets confi gurations have been presented, studied and debated.

The fi ve-lane option is what the community wants. We studied options, discussed, debated and agreed to this years ago. Over-the-Rhine busi-

nesses, residents, the community council and many other organizations were, and are, aligned. The establishment of the OTR parking plans and the FC Cincinnati soccer stadium should have no eff ect on the long-term wisdom of making Liberty Street a great street.

If politicians now reject what the community has long wanted – through delays, misinformation and divisive maneuvering – then the message to those of us who love this city enough to involve ourselves in it deeply will be clear: We don’t care what you think, unless we already think that too.

Our goal should be more than just making Liberty Street somewhat safe to cross at a few places. Maintaining the seven-lane thoroughfare changes nothing. Our goal should be to create a neighborhood street where business can thrive, homes can be livable, and all can enjoy a walkable environment.

Jeff Raser is owner of Cincinnati Urban Design & Architecture Studio.

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Justice Kavanaugh and GMU snowfl akes Walter E. Williams Columnist

George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School hired Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh to co-teach a course this summer called Creation of the Constitution.

The course will be held 3,668 miles away, in Runnymede, England, where the Magna Carta was sealed 800 years ago. Some George Mason University students and faculty have become triggered. One student told George Mason’s Board of Visitors, “It has affected my mental health knowing that an abuser will be part of our faculty.”

Another said, “The hiring of Kavanaugh threatens the mental well-being of all survivors on this campus.”

The Washington Post reports that a petition to fi re Kavanaugh has gathered almost 3,500 signatures and has the endorsement of George Mason Democrats. GMU students have created separate forms for parents and alumni to pledge that they will not donate to the university so long as Kavanaugh is teaching.

Part of student demonstrations in-

cluded defacing a statue of the university’s namesake George Mason by putting blue tape on his mouth and attaching anti-Kavanaugh signs. The university’s spokesman Michael Sandler gave The College Fix a mealymouthed excuse saying, “We allow students to dress up the statue, so this doesn’t violate any policies that I’m aware of.” He said the university “strongly supports freedom of expression and this would seem to fall into that category.” His vision suggests that freedom of expression includes defacing university property.

Youngsters with little understanding might be forgiven for their protest of a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice sharing his wisdom with law students. But faculty members cannot be excused. Professor Bethany Letiecq, the head of the George Mason chapter of the American Association of University Professors, endorsed a call by UnKoch My Campus, another leftist group, for a congressional investigation of GMU’s law school’s hiring of Justice Kavanaugh as an adjunct faculty member. Fortunately for civility, Dr. Angel Cabrera, the university’s president, said that there were no legitimate grounds for an investigation by the university.

He threw a bit of pablum to the protesters by saying: “I respect the views of people who disagreed with Justice Kavanaugh’s Senate confi rmation due to questions raised about his sexual conduct in high school. But he was confi rmed and is now a sitting Justice.”

Considering that a college president is also a politician, that statement demonstrates good judgment.

According to The College Fix, after listening to the student protestors speak during the board meeting, Cabrera and Board of Visitors rector Tom Davis said they were proud of the students and appreciated that they spoke up and acted as engaged citizens. That’s nonsense.

I receive many questions from people around the nation who are surprised by the happenings at GMU. As I have advised on numerous occasions, George Mason University erroneously earns a reputation as a conservative/ libertarian university because of its most distinguished and internationally known liberty-oriented economics department, which can boast of two homegrown Nobel laureates in economics. Its Antonin Scalia Law School has a distinguished faculty that believes in personal liberty and reveres

the U.S. Constitution – unlike many other law schools that hold liberty and our Constitution in contempt.

The rest of the university is just like most other universities – liberal, Democratic Party-dominated. The chief diff erence between my GMU colleagues and liberals at some other universities is that they are polite, respectful and congenial, unlike what one might fi nd at places like U.C. Berkeley or University of Massachusetts.

GMU students and faculty may also be disturbed about what Justice Kavanaugh is going to teach. In the course, Creation of the Constitution, he will explain how much the Magna Carta infl uenced the founders of our nation.

The 1215 Magna Carta limited the power of central government and it forced a reigning monarch to grant his English subjects rights. It contained a list of 63 clauses drawn up to limit King John’s power, resulting in making royal authority subject to the law instead of reigning above it. It laid the foundations for limited constitutional governments, an idea off ensive to most leftists.

Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Democrats mislead about GOP tax cut U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio and other Democrats continue to push disingenuous talking points that claim that the Trump tax cuts are a scam because people’s tax refunds didn’t go up. What Democrat politicians don’t explain in these talking points is the reason why tax refunds didn’t increase. The IRS reduced withholding last year, thus increasing take-home pay, which allowed taxpayers to automatically benefi t from the tax cuts much earlier than if they had waited for higher refunds.

These “small tax refund” talking points mislead fi nancially uninformed taxpayers who don’t understand that they’ve already benefi ted from the tax cut through increased take-home pay, and prey upon the emotions of people who don’t understand the diff erence between their withholding, the taxes they ultimately pay and their tax refunds.

Democrats know the Trump tax cuts did, in fact, reduce working families’ taxes, so this is yet another example of liberals preying on unin-

zy. And to let him retain driving privileges on a license that wasn’t good to begin with!

No off ense to my attorney, but I want to know his attorney’s name and number. To the people of Butler County, don’t worry, I don’t think FC Cincinnati has a game in your neighborhood that Fanendo has to drive to!

Michael Long, Pleasant Ridge

Somebody, even if it’s not you, is paying the bill

The IRS reduced withholding last year, thus increasing take-home pay, which allowed taxpayers to automatically benefi t from the tax cuts much earlier, writes Stephen Johnson of Mason. SUSAN TOMPOR/DETROIT FREE PRESS

formed voters by spinning false narratives.

Stephen Johnson, Mason

FC Cincinnati player must have powerful friends, good lawyer Regarding, “FC Cincinnati’s Adi

pleads guilty, MLS reinstates him” (April 25): Fanendo Adi must know some powerful people in Butler County! How does anyone with a blood-alcohol level of 0.124 get dismissed? And for the speeding (reports he was driving 80 mph or higher) charge to also be dismissed is cra-

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposals include free health care, free education and a bunch of other items too long to list here. According to her biography, she majored in international relations and economics at Boston University, graduating cum laude in 2011. Just goes to show you how much the curriculum must have been watered down since I went to business school.

First course, fi rst day we were taught that the fi rst rule of economics is there is no such thing as a free lunch. Translated, that means that somebody, even if it’s not you, is paying the bill. The corollary to this is the famous quote by Margaret Thatcher; “The trouble with Socialism socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”

Fred VanPelt, Landen

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People seem to love a porch and the conversations and activities that happen there.

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Porch talk is just what we need Kathleen Parker Columnist

CAMDEN, S.C. – With the arrival of spring and the advance of summer, American life shifts toward the porch – at least for those lucky enough to have a sheltered outdoor space, preferably attached to the front or back of one’s home.

That all people seem to love a porch and the conversations and activities that transpire there, it’s a wonder that anyone ever bothered to build a dwelling without one. Architects, hang your heads.

But then, perhaps it isn’t the fault of designers or builders that American porches have come and gone from favor after their initial popularization in the 19th century, depending upon cultural developments and climate. In their earliest days, long before airconditioning, porches provided relief from summer heat. But porches couldn’t compete with electrically cooled air, and people went back inside.

With them went the more-open, neighborly ways of communicating – and what went on behind closed doors, well, nobody knew. Today, as social media and associated technologies have enhanced the availability of private spaces, we’ve also become further removed from community. Porches, to the extent they invite human communion, may be less appealing to rising generations who prefer texting to talking. Ear plugs keep out noise but also others’ efforts to communicate. A cellphone, or rather a handheld computer, may link us virtually to the great big world, but it conveys to everyone that you’re not open for business.

As a porch-dweller since birth, I’m partial to screened porches, largely because of the ravenous insects of my native lands – Florida and South Carolina. In Florida, we lived on a large lake opposite what was then “Cypress Gardens.” The name derived from the cypress trees that lined the lakefront, providing porches of sorts for water moccasins that liked to spool around the cypress knees protruding from the shore’s sandy bottom. Almost daily storms thundered across Lake Eloise as a dark gray curtain of drenched fury.

During summers, most of which I spent with my

mother’s family in South Carolina, we’d gather in the dark, sticky stillness of my grandparents’ front porch to hear my grandfather tell ghost stories that chilled children’s bones while my grandmother shelled lima beans just picked from their farm or churned ice cream made with peaches freshly plucked. From this scene repeated on porches across the South, you learned everything you needed to know about family, conversation, stories, our connection to nature, food and love.

I’m more acutely appreciative of porches this season as ours is being rebuilt just when I’m yearning to take up residence there. Apparently, unbeknownst to us, it was about to collapse after holding tight for almost 200 years, supported by ax-hewn beams held in place with long, wood-carved nails.

Our porch, beneath which Union Army Gen. William Sherman is alleged to have parked his horses during the torrential rains that, legend has it, saved our little town from being torched, is typical of the era. Freestanding columns support the roof a few feet in front of the porch itself. Like many historic houses here, a metal-pipe frame runs the length and height of the porch for vines to grow, usually wisteria. When soaked by rain or a garden hose, the fragrant wall becomes a cooling fi lter that reduces porch temperatures by at least 10 degrees. Genius.

The origins of the American porch apparently aren’t settled, but one theory is that it, like the vast waterway systems of the South that made the rice fi elds possible, the American porch was brought here by Africans and Haitians. It was they who built the fi rst “shotgun houses,” typically a narrow residence with one room feeding into the next without hallways, a back door, and front door to which a porch was attached. With both doors open, air cool the entire house, and the porch aff orded access to community, as well as relief from the heat.

Other theories include that porches were brought to America by Europeans who created porticos and other outdoor shade structures that evolved and became part of houses. But the fact that porches are nearly ubiquitous throughout the South suggests that we may have slaves and their descendants to thank for the best room in the house.

Contact Kathleen Parker at kathleenparker@ washpost.com.

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Fiona, now 2 years old and a pudgy 1,000-plus pounds, is still the city's favorite hippo. You can fi nd Fiona and her mom, Bibi, in Hippo Cove at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden. Nile hippopotamus love the water and will spend most of their time there. They are the third largest mammal, behind elephants and rhinos. Don't try to outrun a hippo, they've been clocked at going 25 mph and can swim 5 mph. LIZ DUFOUR/THE ENQUIRER

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Arbor Day tree recommendations In the Garden Denny McKeown Guest columnist

Arbor Day was April 26. The idea was the brainchild of Julius Sterling Morton (1832-1902) a Nebraska journalist and politician originally from Michigan. He was the Secretary of Agriculture under President Grover Cleveland when he conceived the idea of planting a million trees. He proposed a special day dedicated to planting a tree in Nebraska.

A second Arbor Day took place in 1884, and it was made a legal holiday in 1885, using the April 22 date to coincide with Morton’s birthday. Over time, all 50 states have adopted a day for a national Arbor Day the last Friday in April in 1970 by President Richard Nixon. Over time, several states have chosen diff erent days and weeks in April. Ohio and Indiana stayed with the last Friday and Kentucky the fi rst Friday in April.

Let’s all add a new tree to our landscape. That could be a native tree to America. The family of Florida Dogwood has struggled trying to grow in our heavy clay soil and very hot summers. I’m going to suggest a family of Chinese Dogwoods, The Kousa, which will grow in these tough areas that the Florida Dogwoods don’t excel. All dog-

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woods grow about the same size, 15 feet wide and 12 feet high with the exception of the ‘Cloud 9.’ Florida Dogwoods stay in the 8 feet wide and 6 feet high range. Here are some of my favorites.

The Florida Family recommendations: Cloud 9, Cherokee Brave, Venus Dogwood and Appalachian Snow Dogwood.

For years, homeowners have tried to successfully grow Florida varieties of dogwoods. This family of dog-

woods is native to the U.S., as their name implies, but like good soil and cool summers. That certainly does not describe some of our growing conditions in the Tristate. Many of these trees have had a very short growing life, especially those that have been planted in areas of Loveland, Mason, West Chester and Green Township.

The Florida varieties are the dogwoods that bloom in spring around Easter. The following Dogwoods are of the Kousa or the Rutgers Series, a

cross between the Florida varieties and the Kousa. Both are much more accepting of our growing conditions, bloom late May to early June, and have berries that will remind you of strawberries. Their fall leaf color is also outstanding.

This is a family you might want to add to your home landscape: Cornus Kousa (Kousa Dogwood), Cornus x Rutgan Stellar Pink Dogwood, Samaritan Kousa Dogwood and Blue Ray Kousa Dogwood.

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Grilling with the Yoders Gloria Yoder

Pork Chops

Everyone in our church has a special place in our hearts; the Lehmans are no exception. The Nathan Lehman family shares our vision of reaching out to troubled children. In fact, they have a beautiful family of four children by adoption.

A couple of months ago, Daniel and Nathan came up with the idea of us two families getting together for a dinner of choice cuts of pork. Now, Mr. Lehman is a griller at heart, and with his wife, Barbara, by his side as an outstanding cook, they make a fantastic team. We knew without a doubt that they would produce the most amazing tenderloin and pork chops.

And tonight, fi nally, was the night.

We gathered in their kitchen for a word of thanks and blessing. So, here we were, with fresh pork chops and tenderloin perfectly seasoned straight from the grill, as well as sweet potatoes along with a spaghetti casserole and a tossed salad, not to mention the custard and jello Barbara had prepared for dessert.

We were blessed with rich fellowship and one of the tastiest grilled suppers I remember having. If only I could reach you with a plate!

How about trying their pork chop recipe?

We’ll save the sweet potato recipe until this fall, so be sure to watch out for it.

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In a small bowl, whisk together oil, mustard, and pepper. Lift pork chops from the brine, pat both sides with a paper towel and then discard brine. Brush the chops on both sides with a

mustard mixture. Grill over direct medium heat with the lid closed until meat is slightly pink in the center, 5 to 7 minutes, turning once after 3 minutes.

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How to make carb-cutting ‘pasta’ with zoodles and bacon

Zucchini Carbonara 4 Zucchini 1 cup Heavy Whipping Cream 1/2 cup Grated Parmesan 2 Eggs 2 cloves Garlic 1/2 tsp Dried Oregano Salt + Pepper 4 slices Bacon 1/2 cup Green Peas

Instructions: Cooking with Caitlin Kelly Trush & Caitlin Steininger Guest columnists

Honor the most brilliant shades of the spring season with this twist on traditional carbonara. Sliced into ribbons or twirled into zoodles, fresh zucchini becomes a pasta-like canvas, while green peas, tossed with crispy bacon, are the ultimate crown.

Shop the farmers’ markets with this in mind and serve it for lunch later in the day. Or save it for Sunday supper and sop it up with a hunk of crusty bread. Kissed – not coated – with sauce, this truly light design comes together in minutes.

1. Prepare your zucchini: Wash the outside and remove both ends. Using either a mandolin, spiralizer or a knife, cut the zucchini into pasta-sized ribbons. Place in a bowl until ready to cook.

2. Cut the bacon into lardons and cook until golden brown and crispy.

Strain from the fat, combine with the peas and set aside.

3. In a mixing bowl, whisk together the cream, Parmesan, eggs, minced garlic, oregano, salt and pepper.

4. Fill a sauce pot with water, season with salt and bring to a boil. When the water is boiling, place the zucchini in the water and cook for 30 seconds.

Remove the zucchini from the water and toss it directly into the cream

Tips + Tricks: You want to cook the zucchini quickly; do not leave it in the water too long. You're aiming for an al dente-type texture with the zucchini, nothing mushy. CARA HUMMEL/PROVIDED sauce (**the eggs will cook when tossed with the hot ribbons of zucchini**).

bowl, spoon over a little extra sauce, and garnish with the bacon and peas.

Serve warm.

5. Warm the bacon-and-pea mixture.

Transfer the zucchini to a serving

Prep Time: 20 Minutes Cook Time: 5 Minutes Yields: 8 Portions

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ON STAGE Theater

A Night of Mystery Loveland Stage Company Theater, 111 S. 2nd St., Loveland. $20. 513-443-4572. Runs April 26-May 5.

Baskerville Falcon Theatre, 636 Monmouth St., Newport. $25, $15 students. $5 off Thursday performances.

Runs May 3-18.

Bat Boy: The Musical Gates-Abegglen Theatre, Miami University, 119 Center for Performing Arts, Oxford.

Dear Evan Hansen Aronoff Center for the Arts, 650 Walnut St., Downtown. $35-up. 513-621-2787. Runs April 30-May 12.

Macbeth Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, 1195 Elm St., Over-theRhine. $14-$54. Box office: 513-3812273. Runs April 5- May 4.

Mamma Mia Warsaw Federal Incline Theater, 801 Matson Place, East Price Hill. $29, $26 students and seniors.

513-241-6550. Runs May 1-May 26.

Mercury The Know Theatre, 1120 Jackson St., Over-the-Rhine. Runs April 19-May 11.

Skeleton Crew Ensemble Theatre, 1127 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine. $35up. Runs April 13-May 11.

Tiny Houses Playhouse in the Park, 962 Mt. Adams Circle, Mount Adams.

513-421-3888; cincyplay.com. Runs May 4-June 2.

Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike Oxford Community Arts Center, 131 E High St., Oxford. $12.

Working: The Musical The Drama Workshop, 3716 Glenmore Ave., Cheviot. $18-$20. Runs May 3-16.

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You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown Playhouse in the Park, 962 Mt. Adams Circle, Mount Adams. 513-421-3888; cincyplay.com. Runs April 20-May 18.

Dance

Forget Me Not Dance Company 1 p.m. May 4, William Howard Taft National Historic Site, 2038 Auburn Ave., Mount Auburn. Free.

Cincinnati Ballet: Bold Moves 6:30 p.m. April 28, Procter and Gamble Hall at Aronoff Center, 650 Walnut St., Downtown.

Hodgetwins 7:30 p.m. May 1, Funny Bone Comedy Club Liberty, 7518 Bales St., West Chester. $25-$55.

Ages 21-up.

JB Ball 7 p.m. April 28, Funny Bone Comedy Club Liberty, 7518 Bales St., West Chester.

Reformed Whores Go Bananas, 8410 Market Pl Lane, Montgomery. $8-$14.

Runs May 2-5.

Improv/Open Mic

Skeleton Crew continues at Ensemble Theatre in Over-the-Rhine through May 11. PROVIDED May 3, 8 p.m. US Bank Arena, 100 Broadway, Downtown.

Funny Brunch 1 p.m. April 28, Funny Bone Comedy Club Liberty, 7518 Bales St., West Chester.

Dinner Theater

Mystery Dinner Series: American Icon 6:30 p.m. May 4, Mill Race Banquet Center, 1515 W. Sharon Road, Springfi eld Township. $39.95 per person. Ages 18-up.

Comedy

Bobby Lee Funny Bone Comedy Club Liberty, 7518 Bales St., West Chester. $22-$52. Ages 21-up. May 3-4. Two shows nightly.

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Hard Candy Cincinnati with Brooke Lynn Hytes 7 and 9 p.m. April 30, Below Zero Lounge, 1120 Walnut St., Over-the-Rhine. Ages 21-up.513-2024052.

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We remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice and those who are especially dear to us on Memorial Day.

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❑ The year will never wipe away those happy days we spent together. ❑ In our heart we keep the memories of the one we loved so dear. ❑ The smile you wore, the way you talked and a thousand more things we remember. ❑ In our heart your memory lingers touching our lives forever. ❑ Sweetly tender, fond and true, there’s never a day that we do not think of you. ❑ Your memory is dear today as the hour you passed away. ❑ In our home you are fondly remembered, sweet memories cling to your name. ❑ We miss you today as much as we did when God called you home. ❑ Life is very empty without you as we were so happy together. ❑ Your absence to us is a sorrow and your loss we will always regret. ❑ Your presence is ever near us; your love remains with us yet. ❑ On earth you nobly did your best, may Jesus grant you heavenly rest. ❑ Fondly loved and deeply mourned; heart of my heart, I miss you so. ❑ There is a link death cannot sever, love and remembrance last forever.

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2019 JumpStart Theatre Showcase 6 p.m. April 30, Taft Theatre, 317 East 5th St., Downtown. 513-977-5564.

Disney’s Beauty & the Beast Anderson High School, 7560 Forest Road, Anderson Township. $10, showtix4U.com. Runs May 2-5.

Comedy Anarchy Open Mic every Sunday, MOTR Pub, 1345 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. Free.

Intro to Improv Workshop 3 p.m. May 5, Clifton Performance Theatre, 404 Ludlow Ave., Clifton.

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Girlfriend’s punitive behavior is immature

“The Red Line” opener 8 and 9 p.m., CBS. For years, CBS has remained No. 1 by playing it safe: It has dependable dramas, with an ending (a happy one, usually) in each hour. . .

Monday

“The Show Must Go On” 8-10 p.m., ABC. “American Idol” steps aside, for one of its most famous losers. Adam Lambert fi nished second to Kris Allen in 2009. He's one of many – Katharine McPhee (2nd), Chris Daughtry (4th), Jennifer Hudson (7th) – who surpassed the winners.

Tuesday

“The 100” season-opener 9 p.m., CW. That was quite a nap.

After a 125-year coma, the few survivors are revived and pointed toward a new sorta-planet. This time, there aren't 100 pilgrims; the landing party has only eight, including Clarke, Bellamy and the relentlessly annoying Murphy. Still onboard are Clarke's mom and others, including the relentlessly annoyed Octavia and Raven.

Wednesday

“Billboard Music Awards” 8-11 p.m., NBC. Halsey will sing “Without Me” and will link with BTS. Other combinations have Tori Kelly with Dan + Shay and Madonna with Maluma. Also performing are Kelly Clarkson (who hosts), Mariah Carey (who gets the Icon Award), the Jonas Brothers, Ciara, Khalid, Lauren Daigle and Panic! At the Disco.

Thursday

Miss USA pageant 8-10 p.m., Fox. Nick Lachey's career has ranged afar since his teen years at Cincinnati's School for Creative and Performing Arts. He's been a pop star, an actor, a game-show contestant and, often, a guest host (“Today,” “Home and Family,” “Kelly and Ryan”) and host.

Friday

Gershwin Prize 9-10:30 p.m., PBS. This starts vibrantly, with the “On Your Feet” cast ... then halts abruptly. Six people talk before we get more of the music of Gloria and Emilio Estefan; fortunately, the music is worth it.

Saturday

“Saturday Night Live” 11:29 p.m., NBC. It was 24 years ago that Adam Sandler left “SNL,” after starring alongside Chris Farley, David Spade, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey and more. He and Farley were fi red, he said later; he was perplexed at fi rst ... then became a movie star. Since then, Sandler has popped up briefly on “SNL,” but has said he would never host. Now he does; Shawn Mendes has his second turn as the music guest.

Hi, Carolyn: I am in a long-distance relationship and I recently had a birthday. My fi ancee is working overseas, and on my birthday, she never got to wish me a happy birthday. She knew the date and didn’t forget. When I asked her about it, she claimed she was angry at a conversation we had the previous night, yet we had left off saying “I love you” to each other. She claims she was sad and angry the whole day of my birthday, yet she acknowledged working, swimming and going to a work party after.

I wished her a happy birthday exactly on her date and this was the fi rst birthday I’ve had since we’ve been together.

The conversation that she claims got her upset was when I called her and she wanted to pass her phone to one of her work colleagues who I don’t know to say hi, and I refused.

This was unsettling given I need all her attention while conversing as we are far from each other.

She later apologized and sent me a

birthday wish three days late. Please assist with how to go about this.

– M. So my advice is, in ascending order of signifi cance: (1) Breathe. This relationship will either work or it won’t, and you’ll be OK either way.

(2) Release any and all specifi c expectations of this time apart. A mishandled birthday, an unsatisfying call, some unwelcome suspense, release it all. It can even help to make two fi sts, for real, then exhale and open your hands. Create the physical template.

(3) Ask yourself why she responds punitively when you try to assert yourself. You say no to her passing you around via phone (equals sign) she fumes for days. You’re sad about the birthday snub (equals sign) it’s on you for making her angry. Red-fl ag stuff .

(4) Ask yourself why you feel so insecure that you’re trying to micromanage things. (Also red-fl agged.) If

you’re just worried she’ll leave you, then keep this in mind: A bad breakup is pain from a onetime source, like surgery; a bad relationship is everyday and indefi nite, like torture.

(5) Breathe. This relationship will either work or it won’t, and you’ll be OK either way.

People who are insecure and punitive betray both signifi cant selfdoubt and a reliance on external assurances to ease that doubt – a combination that’s toxic to a commitment. Intimacy demands honesty, and honesty is only possible when both of you feel safe telling each other your emotional truth even at your most vulnerable. .

Email Carolyn at tellme@washpost.com, follow her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/carolyn.hax or chat with her online at noon Eastern time each Friday at www.washingtonpost.com.

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1967: Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali was stripped of his title after he refused to be inducted into the armed forces.

1980: President Jimmy Carter accepted the resignation of Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, who had opposed the failed rescue mission aimed at freeing American hostages in Iran.

1988: A flight attendant was killed and more than 60 persons injured when part of the roof of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 tore off during a flight from Hilo

to Honolulu.

1993: The fi rst “Take Our Daughters to Work Day,” promoted by the New York-based Ms. Foundation, was held in an attempt to boost the self-esteem of girls by having them visit a parent’s place of work. (The event was later expanded to include sons.)

2009: Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, a Cincinnati native, won Senate confi rmation as health and human services secretary.

TODAY IN HISTORY Today is April 28. On this date in: 1789: There was a mutiny on the HMS Bounty as rebelling crew members of the British ship set the captain, William Bligh, and 18 others adrift in a launch in the South Pacifi c. (Bligh and most of the men with him reached Timor in 47 days.)

1945: Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were executed by Italian partisans as they attempted to flee the country.

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Sore, tired or injured due to exercise?

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Guest Columnist USA TODAY NETWORK – FLORIDA

An active lifestyle full of exercise can sometimes leave you feeling a little sore, depleted and, on occasion, injured. But we live in an age in which a plethora of tools and technology are available that promote a more active recovery. If you fi nd yourself tired, sore or injured, you may want to consider the following to help fast-track your road to wellness.

Cryotherapy Cryotherapy is any treatment that involves the use of freezing or near freezing temperatures. Doctors have long recommended using ice packs on injured and painful muscles. Blood circulation is increased after the ice pack is removed, promoting healing and pain relief.

While stepping into an ice bath or freezing chamber may not sound like your idea of a good time, it can signifi cantly speed healing, reduce infl ammation and fl ush out lactic acid. Cryotherapy can help with muscle pain, as well as some joint and muscle disorders. It can also promote faster healing of athletic injuries and reduce pain.

Compression sleeves Compression sleeves promote muscle recovery and can also help reduce swelling and prevent injury. The more oxygenated blood that the heart can supply to the muscles, the better the muscles can function. Wearing compression sleeves creates arterial dilatation, which increases the amount of blood fl owing to the muscles, providing more oxygen and nutrients. Compression leg sleeves add gentle, graduated pressure to your calves to help fi ght the eff ects of gravity. The circulation boost from compression reduces lactic acid, boosts the lymphatic system and reduces infl ammation. With this increased circulation, recovery is faster from exercise with less discomfort.

Red light beds and lights Red light therapy is also known as laser therapy. It uses low-energy light emitting diodes (LEDs) or lasers as an alternative therapy for pain relief, or to promote good cell functions. Specifi c wavelengths of lasers have been determined to be eff ective in speeding up wound healing, reducing the

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Ranging in weight from 5-18lbs, weighted blankets reduce stress, tension and anxiety in the body and mind. The result is reduced cortisol, stress levels, and infl ammation.

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What: “Homebrewed Independent Movie Night”

They call it “Homebrewed Independent Movie Night.” And it’s just what the name suggests – an evening devoted to beer and indie fl icks. And lots of talk among like-minded spirits.

A year ago, Katharine Steele – spelled the way Hepburn did, by the way – was itching for some fi lm-related activity. We’re not talking about a visit to the Esquire or binge-watching “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.”

Steele, you see, is a compulsive organizer of fi lm events. She founded and ran the Cincinnati Film Festival for the better part of a decade. Before that, she spent several years as a talent agent, match-making fi lm talent with projects. She was a mainstay of Cincinnati’s 48-Hour Film Project.

The list goes on and on. The point is, if someone’s involved in independent fi lm in Greater Cincinnati, Steele is sure to know them.

More to the point, she wants to know what kind of movies they’re making. Thus was born the “Homebrewed Independent Movie Night” series. Every month, Steele selects a theme and gathers together a group of fi lmmakers in the taproom of Northside’s Urban Artifact brewery to share their work with whoever decides to show up.

When: 7-9 p.m., May 1 Where: Urban Artifact, Tap Room Lounge, 1660 Blue Rock St., Northside.

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Urban Artifact hosts Homebrewed Independent Movie Night once a month for local independent fi lmmakers. Host Katharine Steele holds a Q&A with Homer Shadowheart after screening his fi lm. PHIL DIDION

The fi lms range from eccentric to unexpected, with the occasional journey into the downright absurd. That’s the way Steele likes it – the movie night door is wide open for just about anyone with the chops to create a passable fi lm and the nerve to share it.

The gatherings have rarely been massive. Thirty or so people showed up for April’s screenings, devoted to comedy.

There was “The Fairhaven Portraits,” a trio of quirky short fi lms from Edmund Osterman. There was an oddly engaging autobiographical piece by Vernard S. Fields, founder of B3C (Black Cincinnati Cinema Collec-

tive) and the new city producer for the 48 Hour Film Project.

One after another, the fi lmmakers step to the front of the room for short Q&As with Steele. She grills them on funding, background, distribution, scripting – anything she’s inquisitive about that night.

“I didn’t know anything about this,” said 25-year-old Austin Mackey, a computer programmer who lives nearby. “I just came in for a beer and found this – it’s great.”

He settles into a seat in the back of the vast, slightly forbidding room that once served as a church undercroft.

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sense of it all.

“It’s really strange,” says Mackey, with a grin. “I like it.”

Steele is in the middle of an interview, so she can’t hear his muted enthusiasm. But this is why she does this and so many other fi lm projects.

“It’s no secret why I do this,” she explained in one of her rare quiet moments. “I love the fi lms. I love the people who make them. My goal with this is the same as it’s always been – to get more people to see more independent fi lms.”

The theme for May 1 is Film Fests and Competitions: How to Work It. Steele is expecting as many as fi ve fi lmmakers this month. So far, she’s confi rmed that Fields will be back, along with Joseph Cox of Average Joe Films. And the rest?

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MONDAY, April 29 Elle King 8 p.m., Bogart’s, 2621 Vine St., Corryville.

Native Plant Sale at the Nature Shop Cincinnati Nature Center at Rowe Woods, 4949 Tealtown Road.

Herbs, native plants, flowering trees and shrubs. Open daily April 19-June 2 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

TUESDAY, April 30 Dear Evan Hansen April 30-May 12, Aronoff Center for the Arts, 650 Walnut St., Downtown. $35-up.

513-621-2787. Winner of six 2017 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Evan Hansen is about to get the one thing he’s always wanted: a chance to fi nally fi t in. cincinnatiarts.org.

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Zoo Babies May 1-31, Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, 3400 Vine St., Avondale. Help celebrate the newest arrivals at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. Sixfoot-tall stork statues lead visitors to babies. cincinnatizoo.org.

New Kids On The Block 7:30 p.m., US Bank Arena, 100 Broadway, Downtown. With Salt N Pepa, Tiffany, Debbie Gibson and Naughty by Nature.

Mamma Mia May 1-May 26, The Warsaw Federal Incline Theater, 801 Matson Place, East Price Hill. $29, $26 students and seniors.

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Runners cross the Taylor Southgate Bridge after the one mile marker at the Flying Pig Marathon in 2018.

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Weekend events include P&G Health & Fitness Expo Friday and Saturday at Duke Energy Convention Center.

Friday, May 3: Little Kings Mile and After Party and Block Party.

Saturday, May 4: 5K & 10K races, kids one-mile race, evening pasta dinner.

Sunday, May 5: Flying Pig Marathon and half marathon plus after-party.

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Funny As Ish Comedy Tour 8 p.m., US Bank Arena, 100 Broadway, Downtown. With Mike Epps, Rickey Smiley, DC Young Fly, Lavell Crawford and Sommore.

Cincy Cinco noon-11 p.m. Saturday, noon-6 p.m. Sunday, Fountain Square, 520 Vine St., Downtown. Free.

Celebrating Cinco de Mayo with authentic music, culture, food and more. cincy-cinco.com.

AAC 150: Block Party 6-11 p.m., Art Academy of Cincinnati, 1212 Jackson St., Over-the-Rhine. Free.

To celebrate its 150th anniversary, the Art Academy is closing off the 1200 block of Jackson Street for music, art, fashion show, food and beer.

Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs, Louisville. kentuckyderby.com. Find local Derby Day parties at events.cincinnati.com.

Flying Pig Breakfast and Watch Party 6-11 a.m., Moerlein Lager House, 115 Joe Nuxhall Way, Downtown. Catch the start of the race and enjoy breakfast buffet for $17.99 per person.

Bobby Lee May 3-4, Funny Bone Comedy Club Liberty, 7518 Bales St. $22-$52. Ages 21-up.

Hamilton-Fairfi eld Friends of the Lane Library Used Book Sale Queen of Peace Church, 2550 Millville Ave., Hamilton. Free. 4-9 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. All items half price after 3 p.m. Saturday. lanepl.org.

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra: Trifonov plays Beethoven 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Music Hall, 1241 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine. Louis Langree, conductor, Daniil Trifonov, piano.

I Hear Music in the Air Concert 7:30 p.m., Inspirational Baptist Church, 9208 Daly Road, Cincinnati. Featuring Music from Fred Hammon, Charles Jenkins, Le’Andria Johnson, Zacardi Cortez, Rameco Lattimore and TWC. Visionaries + Voices: Double Vision 6:30-11 p.m., Memorial Hall, 1222 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine. $65.

More than 500 works of art created by collaborative teams. Includes live auction, pop-up shop, food and live music. Benefi ts Visionaries + Voices. visionariesandvoices.com.

May the Fourth Be With You: An Art Tribute Show, Episode IV 5 p.m., Brew House, 1047 East McMillan St., Walnut Hills. Free. Over two dozen local artists showing and selling their Star Wars-themed art, including characters from entire Star Wars universe.

LEGO Star Wars Event 2 p.m., Barnes & Noble Booksellers: Newport, Fields Ertel and West Chester. Star Wars fans can storm troop into stores for an afternoon of collaborative LEGO play and imagining a galaxy far, far away.

GeoFair 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sharonville Convention Center, 11355 Chester Road. $9/adult; $3/child; scouts in uniform free. Gem, mineral, fossil and jewelry show. sharonvilleconventioncenter.com.

NKY Cavalcade of Homes Northern Kentucky. Free.

Runs Sat-Sun May 4-19. Visit 9 new homes. Guide available at all Kroger stores in Northern Kentucky. Featured builders include BOLD Company, Arlinghaus Builders and Drees Company.

500 Miles to Memphis 7 p.m., MadTree Brewing, 3301 Madison Road, Oakley. Free.

Tapestry: the Carole King Songbook 8:30 p.m., Ludlow Garage, 342 Ludlow Ave., Clifton.

Tri-State Antique Market 7 a.m.-3 p.m., Lawrenceburg Fairgrounds, US 50 and Hollywood Blvd. $3 adults, free children and pets.

Cincinnati Choral Society: An Evening of Choral Music from the American Stage 2:30-4:30 p.m., Indian Hill Episcopal Presbyterian Church, 6000 Drake Road. (donations accepted).

Bass Series Fishing Tournament 7 a.m.-1 p.m., Winton Woods, 10245 Winton Road. $70. Teams fi sh for a fi ve-bass limit. greatparks.org.

Westwood First Concert Series: Chancel Choir Concert 3-5 p.m., Westwood First Presbyterian Church, 3011 Harrison Ave. Free.

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Dead performers go back on tour — as holograms Jefferson Graham USA TODAY

LOS ANGELES —The ghost of the late rocker Roy Orbison mysteriously rises from the bottom of a stage, slowly transforming itself into what appears to be rather lifelike.

Sure, if you let your camera zoom in on him, you can see the video lines, but from several feet away, the laser projected hologram almost looks real.

Chalk up a win for technology. The next question is why?

“To use the technology to create interesting ways of celebrating the legacies of great artists,” says Brian Becker, the CEO of BASE Hologram.

His company, which looks to use the technology to bring back great performers to our lives, or to tour existing ones who may not be up for the travel, cut a deal with the Orbison estate to recreate the singer. He died in 1988 and was best known for hits like “Only the Lonely” and “Oh, Pretty Woman.”

Orbison’s hologram was paired in 2018 with the London Symphony Orchestra. Ticket sales were a near sell out in Europe, but in the U.S., “slow” at fi rst, admits Becker. The shows eventually caught on by the end of the fi rst leg of the tour.

The tour will continue in the fall, See HOLOGRAMS, Page 14AA

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again fi rst in Europe, where Orbison will be accompanied by another 1950s rocker, Buddy Holly (“Not Fade Away,” “Peggy Sue”) who died in a famous 1959 plane crash. This time the two holograms will be accompanied by a live rock band with backup singers.

Tickets range between $50 and $100, says Becker. That much to see a dead person performing? “No, to see a fantastic concert experience, celebrating great artists,” he insists.

Orbison isn’t the only late musician touring as a hologram. A national tour featuring bandmates of the late Frank Zappa begins April 19th in Port Chester, NY; a hologram of the late opera singer Maria Callas tours via Becker’s BASE in the fall.

Putting on these shows isn’t as simple as beaming old concert footage on stage. Becker’s team, which also produces concerts in Las Vegas, primarily magic shows, hires actors to learn the mannerisms of the performer, and rehearses them for 3 months, fi lming them as Hollywood would do for a big-budget action fi lm shot with special eff ects. Then BASE applies CGI (computer-generated imagery) fi lm techniques to create an animated Orbison, which is then set to a digitally enhanced audio master recording.

While Vulture called the Orbison show last fall “breathtaking,” other critics were not kind.

“Kind of creepy,” said the London Telegraph. “Never once was anyone in the room under the illusion that they were watching anything but an illusion, and before too long the illusion and its limited bag of tricks began to wear out its welcome,” said the Toronto Star.

Tickets for the Orbison shows, which kick off in Dublin on Oct. 7, go on sale in June The second leg of the domestic tour is expected to begin in late 2019.

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Why is ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ such a hit show? The creator told us David Lyman

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It was unlikely material for a Broadway musical. But playwright Steven Levenson didn’t care. The story that would eventually morph into “Dear Evan Hansen” was one that moved him. It was a story that belonged on the stage.

“Dear Evan Hansen,” which opens April 30 at the Aronoff Center, is about a high school senior with extreme social anxiety. He fi nds nearly any sort of social encounter, no matter how innocuous, an occasion for extraordinary stress. It’s hard to reveal much more of the story without spoilers.

Just know that there is a teen suicide – not Evan – and countless deceptions and enough adolescent insecurity to fi ll a dozen plays.

Stevenson, who is currently the showrunner on FX’s hit show “Fosse/ Verdon,” still remembers being wary of presenting “Dear Evan Hansen” to producers, the people who would have to raise millions of dollars to put See HANSEN, Page 16AA

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“I know that everything about it sounded like a bad idea,” he recalls. “It just sounded insane.” Broadway is a place for shows that have broad commercial appeal, after all, shows that make money. Mental health and teen suicide didn’t seem to fi t that formula.

But “Dear Evan Hansen” was a hit.

A big hit. It was nominated for nine Tony Awards, winning six, including Best Musical and, for Levenson, Best Book of a Musical.

“It made me realize that you just never know,“ says Levenson. “As an artist – any kind of artist – the only thing you can follow is your passion and your interest, which is not to say that it will always work out the way you want it to. But if you follow that instinct, at least you did what you wanted to do.”

Did Levenson have any inkling of just how popular the show would be with teenagers?

After a long pause, he fi nally says “no. We really had no idea.” In fact, he admits, he was a little taken aback by just how profound an impact it seems to have on student audiences. Since there are several teen characters, he expected some popularity among young audiences.

“But nothing like this.”

Brittany Stacy could have told him.

She’s the theater instructor at Newport High School. She’s bringing 30

What: “Dear Evan Hansen” When: April 30May 12 Where: Procter & Gamble Hall, Aronoff Center, 650 Walnut St., Downtown.

Tickets: $35-$179 Information: 513621-2787; www.cincinnatiarts.org

Ben Levi Ross, center, plays the title role in the North American Tour of “Dear Evan Hansen.”

The Tony Award-winning musical opens a two-week engagement April 30 at the Aronoff Center. MATTHEW MURPHY/PROVIDED

students to see “Dear Evan Hansen” on May 3.

“They’ve been talking about this show for months,” says Stacy. They saw “Rent” in the fall. And they liked it. But it doesn’t speak to them the way “Dear Evan Hansen” does.

“They don’t live in New York in the ‘90s,” she says, alluding to the setting of “Rent.” “But the issues in ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ – feeling inadequate, not knowing how they fi t into life, thinking they don’t matter in the big

picture – those are things they live with every day. The show says things that they’re always thinking, but have trouble articulating.”

Chad Weddle’s students at Anderson High School had the same reaction.

“This show is so relevant to them,” says Weddle. “It’s not history like ‘Hamilton.’ It’s not ‘80s satire, like ‘Heathers.’ This is about the sort of anxiety and mental health issues they see all the time.”

He notes that his school district – Forest Hills – has had to deal with three student suicides in the past three years.

“When a community goes through things like that, it opens up dialogue among families,” says Weddle. “A show like ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ brings up the same issues, but in a more healthy fashion. It doesn’t stigmatize students who are struggling. It gives them a voice.”

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Art events Continued from Page 5AA

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Wednesday, May 1

Crafting a Starter Kit for Adulthood 2:30-5 p.m., Wave Pool: A Contemporary Art Fulfi llment Center, 2940 Colerain Ave., Camp Washington. Free.

Thursday, May 2

Origami Art Exhibit 6-9 p.m., Dick Waller’s ArtPlace, 130 W. Court St., Downtown. Free. Opening reception.

Runs May 2-July 6. 513-600-0382.

Friday, May 3

AAC 150: Block Party 6-11 p.m., Art Academy of Cincinnati, 1212 Jackson, Over-the-Rhine. Celebrate the Art Academy of Cincinnati’s anniversary with live music, art installations and more.

Magic & Melodrama: Cincinnati Posters from the Gilded Age Taft Museum of Art, 316 Pike St., Downtown.

Runs May 3-Aug. 18.

Saturday, May 4

May the Fourth Be With You: An Art Tribute Show, Episode IV 5 p.m., Brew House, 1047 E. McMillan St., Walnut Hills. Free. Over 2 dozen local artists show and sell Star Warsthemed art.

Continuing

Art Academy of Cincinnati at 150 Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Mount Adams. Free. Runs Feb. 1-April 28.cincinnatiartmuseum.org.

A Year on the Edge Union Terminal, 1301 Western Ave., Queensgate. Free.

Runs March 1-July 7. cincymuseum.org.

Cincinnati’s Historic Architecture exhibit Public Library of Cincinnati Hamilton County Main Branch, 800 Vine St., Downtown. Free. Runs Jan. 31-April 28. cincinnatilibrary.org.

Giorgione’s La Vecchia Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Mount Adams. Free. Runs Feb. 15-May 5. cincinnatiartmuseum.org.

Joanne & Laura Sloneker Show 1-4 p.m., “The Barn” Woman’s Art Club Cultural Center, 6980 Cambridge Ave., Mariemont. Free.

No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Mount Adams. Free.

Runs April 26-Sept. 2. cincinnatiartmuseum.org.

Paris 1900: The City of Entertainment 11 p.m.-28, 5 p.m., Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Mount Adams. $12, $6 ages 6-17, college students and seniors, free members and ages 5-under. Runs March 1-May 12. cincinnatiartmuseum.org/paris.

Professor Lorenzo’s Carnival of Mysteries The Globe at Findlay Market, 1801 Race St., Over-the-Rhine. Free.

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Cover story Bibi, left, and her famous daughter, Fiona, now two and a pudgy 1,000 + lbs, look like they’re posing for photos while spending time in Hippo Cove at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden. Nile hippopotamus love the water and will spend most of their time there. They are the third largest mammal, behind elephants and rhinos.

Don’t try to outrun a hippo, they’ve been clocked at going 25 mph and can swim 5 mph. PHOTOS BY LIZ DUFOUR/ THE ENQUIRER

Meet this year’s class of

Zoo Babies cuties Carol Motsinger

Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

H This young white-faced Saki monkey will be part of Zoo Babies at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden in May. These small monkeys, that reside in Jungle Trails, live in the tropical rainforest and have a life span of 11 years.

Three of seven little blue penguins born since December. Once their down feathers are gone, they'll be put on display.

ow much more do we really need to say about this event? The two words in the title say all we needed to inspire our

recent visit.

Zoo Babies.

So, starting May 1, this month-long event is at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden.

And, well, it features baby animals.

These critters are really that tiny and cute and, well, sometimes cuddly.

(Sorry, crayfi sh, we don’t know if we want to snuggle with y’all.)

But this year’s celebration of the next generation of zoo animals means more than just peak adorability.

Some of these animals are rare.

Others, rescued and record-breaking.

But all of them, whether it’s a young spitting cobra or a catfi sh, a monkey or a manatee, are part of a remarkable eff ort.

It’s part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Species Survival Plan (SSP) Programs. So, these babies are here because staff carefully manages and breeds animals, with a goal of creating long-term sustainability of each of these species.

See ZOO BABIES, Page 19AA

Meet Mani, a tamandua born Dec. 20, 2018 to fi rst-time mom, Isla. Tamanduas are found primarily in Spanish speaking countries and are called the lesser anteater. Mani translates to “peanut,” named because they watched him/her grow from the size of a peanut during Isla’s weekly ultrasounds. The sex is still unknown.

The pair can be found in the zoo’s Animal Ambassador Center (formerly the nursery) at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden. A tamandua can eat up to 9,000 ants in one day, using their long claws and long sticky tongue.

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Find this young tiny Pascagoula map turtle in the Reptile house. The species is at risk and can be found along the Pascagoula River system in Mississippi.

Females are more than twice as large as the males, growing up to 11 inches, where the males are up to fi ve inches.

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You’ll be able to learn more about these eff orts, as well as some pretty fun facts about these animals, during the Zoo Babies events.

Watch out for six-foot-tall stork statues displayed throughout the zoo. These will point you to all these beautiful bundles.

Oh, and the best part? None of this costs you any extra. This is included in the price of admission.

There are 24 featured zoo babies this year, not counting the other manatees, spitting cobras, catfi sh and invertebrates.

We can’t choose our favorites, of course.

But here are some interesting facts to get you prepped for your visit.

The seven little – littlest – blue penguins Starting in December, the largest colony of little penguins got bigger by seven. (Cute alert: They’re named Pierogi, Toast, Jam, Linguini, A.Ham, Green Eggs and Sprout.)

And these youngsters are some of the smallest of the small.

As a nod to that size, their nickname is fairy penguins!

Rarest in the zoo That’s right. The rarest animals in the entire zoo are also some of the newest ones.

Guam Rail hatched July 31 and Aug. 1. This species of bird is actually extinct in the wild. So, these chicks may end up playing a role in bringing this wild population back, the zoo says.

A happy ending This manatee may still be at the beginning of her life, but her story already has a happy new chapter here.

Daphne was brought to the Queen City as part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Manatee Rescue and Rehabilitation Partnership. She was rescued from Florida waters on April 9, 2018, after her mother was struck and killed by a boat.

She is one of four orphaned manatees temporarily at the zoo – just until she is healthy enough to be released back into the wild.

She’s, thankfully, getting healthier every day.

So, go see her while you can.

Actually, go see all of these animals soon.

Remember: They can’t be babies forever.

Want to go?

Visit this website cincinnatizoo.org/events/ zoo-babies.

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This young hamerkop can be found in the Wings of the World exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden. Though they can fly, they prefer to be on the ground. Their habitat is the wetland, woodland and savannah in Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar and southwestern Asia. PHOTOS BY LIZ DUFOUR/THE ENQUIRER

Don't stand too close. This Indochinese spitting cobra can hit a target in the eye with its venom from 8 feet away, causing stinging, pain and possibly blindness. But to kill the prey, it stills needs to inject the venom through a bite.

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HEROIN: RECLAIMING LIVES

Lindsey Bolar comforts a young woman addicted to heroin. He took her in January 2018 to an addiction center and a hospital as she sought treatment, but neither had space for her. Bolar, a janitor, works out at the same YMCA where he went to live as a 14-year-old addicted to heroin. ENQUIRER FILE

Life after L surviving addiction

Terry DeMio

Cincinnati Enquirer | USA TODAY NETWORK

indsey Bolar saw her walking in his neighborhood in Bond Hill, a young woman drained of color. She was addicted to heroin. He knew it. He approached her on that cold, January day in 2018. ❚ “She’s 28 and she is ready. I’m going to

keep her with me until I can get her into a program,” Bolar said. ❚ He understood her plight. Bolar was once certifi ed as an alcohol and drug counselor. ❚ But it was more than that. ❚ Bolar knew Penny’s pain because he had been addicted to heroin for nearly 40 years. ❚ But he had found a way out. And he fi gured she could, too.

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HEROIN: RECLAIMING LIVES

Lindsey Bolar, of Bond Hill, retraces steps he took as a child on Union Street where he grew up in the 1950s and ’60s off Reading Road in Avondale.

SAM GREENE/THE ENQUIRER

He was always the helper. Little Lindsey ran around his Avondale neighborhood when he was 9, pulling trash cans in and out of 90-year-old Miss Benton’s house, going for walks with Mr. Alexander, who was blind, and babysitting kids when he wasn’t changing diapers and fi xing bottles for his own siblings.

“I was a very loved boy outside that house,” he says.

Precocious and independent, he landed his fi rst real job after he turned 10, at the old Dollin’s Pharmacy on Reading Road.

The pharmacy was where young Lindsey Bolar entered an unwitting relationship with opium.

“At 11, I was stealing and selling paregoric,” Bolar says. Back then paregoric was an over-the-counter remedy for diarrhea, a liquid medicine with a tincture of opium in it. His price, “75 cents a bottle, 16 milligrams.”

It was just another job to Lindsey.

In the early 1960s, Reading Road was a hub of drug addiction and prostitutes – “I was fascinated by it,” he re-

calls – and some were his customers.

Soon he picked up more cash shining shoes across the street at Lubo’s Record Shop.

It would be a life-changing move for a boy of just 12: It was there at Lubo’s that Lindsey fi rst experienced heroin.

“I was turned out by Sadie B,” he says. She was a street prostitute, he recalls, and he says he was spying at her through the keyhole of the shop’s restroom. She saw him and ordered him into the bathroom.

“I was half-scared for getting busted,” he remembers.

“She put that needle in my arm and pushed that poison in my arm, gave me oral sex for the fi rst time,” he says.

“I threw up all over the pop machine.”

In that moment in 1963, Lindsey Bolar became part of a fairly distinct population of heroin users in the United States.

A different era of heroin Unlike today, most users then were

likely to start with heroin, not misuse prescription pain pills fi rst. It was an era when people in urban centers, often minorities in the northern U.S. cities, and some Vietnam veterans, were the primary heroin users, with men far more likely to use it than women.

It was a time, too, when the thenFederal Bureau of Narcotics did not have enough agents, nor had medical science fi gured out treatment, to tackle heroin, according to Jill Jonnes, author of “Hep Cats, Narcs and Pipe Dreams,” published in 1996.

And unlike today, “there was little public outcry for concerted action. As one retired narcotics agent and a former high-level (U.S.) Treasury offi cial expressed it in the exact-same phrase, ‘No one gave a s---,’ “ Jonnes wrote.

Lindsey knew nothing of the outside world and had minimal understanding of what had happened that day with Sadie. He says he knew two things: “I did wrong.” And he wanted to do it again.

Bolar blames himself to this day, at

68, for making “those choices,” even though the man he has become would never blame a child for an adult’s transgressions.

“By the time I was 14, I was a seasoned addict,” he says.

As a teenager addicted to heroin, Lindsey got himself into a lot of trouble, he says. But no matter what happened on the streets, he was hurt more deeply at home.

He calls it horror, the way his stepfather treated him.

A younger sister, Vanessa Slater, remembers the abuse her big brother suff ered.

A licensed child-care provider for 26 years now, Slater remembers traumatic family dinner times: “I had too much food, more than I could eat.”

Lindsey was given none.

She describes peering down a

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hallway as her father relentlessly beat a screaming Lindsey.

Conversely, Bolar recalls nothing agonizing about heroin until he was 14.

“My fi rst experience with withdrawal was at school track practice,” he says. He felt an unbearable searing in his abdomen. “I fell from the pain.”

He was taken to General Hospital (the predecessor of University of Cincinnati Medical Center in Corryville) by ambulance.

“I still remember the doctor’s diagnosis,” he says. “He said I was a junkie.”

“When the doctor revealed that to my mother, we both asked, ‘What’s a junkie?’”

Bolar says his stepfather Julius Washington’s reaction was fl at-out rejection.

“Long story short, my stepfather gave my mother an ultimatum: ‘Either he leaves or I leave,’” Bolar recalls.

Mary Washington loved her son, but she had younger children. She called her brother and asked for help.

Addiction takes control

Lindsey Bolar, far right, stands with his family in 1965. Bolar recalls nothing agonizing about heroin until he was 14.

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A street sign marks the intersection of Union Street and Savoy Place, off of Reading Road, where Bolar’s childhood home once stood in the Avondale neighborhood of Cincinnati. Bolar’s former home is now a vacant lot after the house was torn down. SAM GREENE/THE ENQUIRER

Bolar stole paregoric, an antidiarrheal with a tincture of opium, and sold it on the streets as a child. SAM GREENE/THE ENQUIRER

Uncle Wallace moved Lindsey, at 14, into the Central Parkway YMCA for $26 a month.

“From there,” he says, “my addiction went on a ride.”

He’d use on the streets when he could. He’d also sneak into his family’s basement to use heroin with friends.

“My baby sister told me she used to watch me come and do them doggone drugs,” Bolar says, shaking his head.

He was referring to Cassandra Fowler, now 60 and a state juvenile probation and parole offi cer.

Slater saw, too.

“Some of the things they did, it was like they had no value system,” she says. “But I also felt that, for most of them, it was because they were trying to escape something.”

Bolar did not fi nish high school.

On March 28, 1972, the 20-year-old Bolar was sent to an Ohio prison, convicted of robbing then-Kennedy Heights Savings and Loan, on Kennedy Avenue and Montgomery Road.

He got 30 years to life.

Slater has a memory of being at court for her brother when she was 13 years old. The timing fi ts with the robbery sentencing.

“I didn’t understand. It sounded like forever,” she says.

But the sentence was suspended two months later, on May 22, 1972, according to a handwritten note at the Ohio Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

“With Momma at the helm,” Bolar says, “Judge Gilbert Bettman reversed my sentence and released me under shock parole.”

Bettman was a Hamilton County judge for more than three decades. In 1992, after he’d retired, he told The Enquirer, “The mood of the country has been, ‘Lock ‘em up.’ “ But he

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believed prison should be “a last resort.”

Bettman said many judges “could not empathize with black defendants.” He did.

The deal required Bolar to move to Hollywood, California, for fi ve years to stay with his father, Edward Vaughn.

But when Bolar arrived, Vaughn told him the family did not accept felons.

The ‘War on Drugs’ begins He hit the streets again. With no treatment, he continued using heroin. And before the end of 1972, Bolar was arrested for having needle marks on his arm from injecting it.

This was a year after President Richard Nixon declared the “War on Drugs,” calling drugs “public enemy no. 1,” increasing funds for federal drug enforcement and proposing stricter sentencing.

But there were “profoundly unequal outcomes across racial groups, manifested through racial discrimination by law enforcement and disproportionate drug war misery suffered by communities of color,” according to the Drug Policy Alliance.

Even current U.S. Department of Justice data show that African Americans are six times more likely than white Americans to be imprisoned for drug convictions even though they’re no more likely to use drugs than are white Americans.

Bolar knows he was a victim of it all, yet he really wasn’t sure at the time just how aff ected he was by the political mood of the country.

He headed back to Cincinnati as soon as he could, and eventually fell in love with a woman and had two children, Lindsey Jr. and Ebonie.

Then his father asked him to return to California to make amends and work for him.

Again, Bolar went.

And again, the deal did not pan out.

His life was survival: heroin and homelessness, sometimes a job, other times crime, and for a while, caring for his children.

“I don’t even know how I made it,” he says.

California prison records for that time through the 1980s show that Bolar was convicted of possession of marijuana, forgery, loitering, trespassing and possessing cocaine.

Then came an indeterminate life sentence of 999 years, the prison records show, for, of all things, kidnapping for extortion.

It’s a strange story. Bolar was caring for his children, then aged 5 and 7, in an apartment and had rented a room to a man for extra cash. The man did not pay up, Bolar says.

Court records from Van Nuys, California, in April 1991, show that David Reisman, the victim, said he was “forced into the car,” that he feared for his life, and, “I was threatened to have

Lindsey Bolar sits in on a program in Cincinnati in 2014 about job-seeking as a former inmate. ENQUIRER FILE PHOTO

Tom Gorham, center, leads inmates in the Offender Mentor Certifi cation Program at California’s Solano prison in 2009. It is a program that Cincinnati resident Bolar enrolled in – and one that changed his life. PROVIDED

my glasses pushed back in the rear side of my head.”

Asked in court who was responsible, he pointed to Bolar.

Reisman told of a stop at a U.S. Postal Service offi ce and some checkcashing places where Bolar forced him to try to get his Social Security check cashed.

The jury believed Reisman. Bolar was sent to prison.

There, Bolar continued to use heroin, even selling it in Calfornia’s Corcoran prison. It was black tar heroin from Mexico, often sold west of the Mississippi River at that time.

Bolar says he had privileges at the prison. He had no gang affi liations.

And once, in late 1999, he was sweeping the “day room” when a Mexican inmate asked him to pass a kite to another inmate. After a few favors, Bolar agreed to arrange a way to get heroin into the prison.

With isolation comes understanding He got caught in April 2000 and was isolated from the other inmates.

“Somebody threw a book under the door,” he says. It was about addiction.

“That was the fi rst time in my life, honestly, I ever even took my attention to addiction. About the behavior.

About the lifestyle,” he says. “About me.”

He was 49. He’d used heroin for 37 years. “Clarity came,” he says.

When he left isolation, Bolar went to Narcotics Anonymous meetings, initially because he was required to do so.

“Before you know it, I ended up being the chairman of the NA program and running the program – 600 prisoners every Thursday night.”

Bolar was in recovery.

“It was tough inside of prison,” he says. “I had to watch people use drugs every day.”

His nickname in prison was “Cincinnati,” or “‘Nati” for short, and a neighboring inmate sometimes called out, “Hey, Cincinnati,” and showed Bolar the dope.

“I had to navigate all that,” he says, shaking his head and laughing.

He was eventually transferred to California’s Solano State Prison.

While Bolar was at Solano, Tom Gorham, a member of the National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Counsel, was pitching a program to certify inmates for drug and alcohol counseling to the California prison system.

Gorham, program director of his wife’s treatment center in Berkeley, an outfi t called Options Recovery Services, brought the Off ender Mentor Certifi cation Program to the nearby prison.

“It was an all-star lineup,” Gorham says of the trainers.

About 270 inmates applied to the program, 80 were interviewed and 50 enrolled.

“Lindsey is one of those 50 faces,” Gorham recalls.

“Lindsey always sat in the front row. He participated a lot,” Gorham says. Like most inmates, he says, Bolar was skeptical.

Each prospective mentor would have to complete 315 hours in class, then spend nights studying, Bolar recalls. Then there were another 255 hours of counseling experience for a total of 570.

One trainer was Paula Wold, a faculty member at University of California in San Diego who’d been a civilian instructor and adviser at the U.S. Navy Alcohol and Drug Counseling School.

“My job was to reach in there and fi nd the good guy, and then teach them how to be a counselor.”

Bolar stood out, Wold says.

“He was a character. Very charismatic,” she says. “He was challenging.”

She believes it was hard for Bolar to let go of who he thought he was. He was self-aware and self-protective – survival instincts, she says.

Eventually, though, Bolar let go.

“I would start to see this vulnerable side of him,” Wold says. “He started to trust more. I started to see who he really is: This nurturing, caring guy.”

It is no simple task to pass the certifi cation exam, Wold and Gorham say. But Bolar was among 38 of the inmates who did. (None of those paroled have returned to prison.)

Bolar became impassioned about his work. He urged young inmates to stay drug-free, to continue their education, get a trade, work on behaviors that led them to prison, a prison report notes. He told them to look toward a life outside the walls.

Before long, Bolar got that chance himself.

He was stunned when he was paroled. He was on his cot when the news came.

“They said, ‘Cincinnati, if you wanna go home, be ready at 8:30.’ “ Bolar was released from prison on Jan. 27, 2010. He was dropped off at Options Recovery with no advance notice to Gorham.

“I see this tall, African American guy roll in the door,” Gorham recalls, chuckling. “He had no family. No

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money. He’s wearing these ill-fi tting, gymnasium-gray sweats.”

Within 24 hours, Bolar had a room and a job working with addicted clients.

He loved it and he proudly told a reporter with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for a June 2011 prison story, “I am not part of the problem anymore. I’m part of the solution.”

In 2012, Bolar enrolled at Berkeley City College to study public and community health.

“He was a charmer,” says Gail Pendleton, assessment coordinator at the college.

She hired him to assist her and watched as Bolar grew.

“He helped a lot of people along the way,” Pendleton says. “He was a big inspiration.”

Bolar’s time in California ended in 2014, when a parole offi cer said he could leave the state.

He was ready to return to Cincinnati.

He left with certifi cates of recognition from the California Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors, Vaca Valley Adult School, the California State Assembly and the Orange County Department of Education, among others.

His sisters waited for him at the Greyhound Station.

For the fi rst time in more than two decades, all fi ve of Mary Washington’s children would be together.

Their mother had died in 2003. “She always believed he would come home,” Slater says.

She fi xed up a room for her brother so that he could share her Bond Hill home and printed a sign that’s still stuck to the door: “Welcome Home.”

Lindsey Bolar works through his regular lifting routine at the Central Parkway YMCA in Over-the-Rhine in March.

Bolar lived there as a teen after his stepfather kicked him out of the house when he learned of his drug addiction.

At 14 years old, Bolar’s uncle got him room at the same YMCA for $26 per month. PHOTOS BY SAM GREENE/THE ENQUIRER

Back home Bolar did not know until he returned to Cincinnati that opioid addiction had become an epidemic, and Ohio was crushed with 2,110 overdose deaths in 2013.

He was glad to learn that the developing idea was to decriminalize addiction and instead off er treatment.

“It used to be that an addict was the lowest thing,” he says. “That’s how they talked to us: We’re not people. We just become items. It was rough.”

Bolar got various jobs and has maintained work since he returned.

He started reaching out to young people with addiction, and he continued working on his own recovery.

Then, in 2016, Bolar found himself a victim of this new opioid epidemic.

He relapsed after he was prescribed pain pills for a foot injury.

“That was a hard moment for me,” he says. “It became real about this epidemic.”

He sought treatment, saw how some people got “trapped” in pain pills, and told his story in meetings in an attempt to help others with addiction.

Vanessa Slater, a licensed child care provider, sits outside her home in March. Slater welcomed her brother Bolar home when he was released from prison in 2014. Their mother had died in 2003.

A sign greeting Bolar home hangs on his bedroom door in his sister’s home in the Bond Hill neighborhood.

And he has been drug-free ever since.

Bolar works as a janitor at Yeshivas Lubavitch Cincinnati.

He works out at the same YMCA where he went to live as a 14-year-old addicted to heroin.

He often thinks about the array of individuals who decided to take a chance on a man who’d been, basically, homeless since he was a child, addicted to heroin. A man who’d spent most of his life on probation or locked up or on parole.

When he remembers their early conversations, he laughs and chokes up a little.

hear that there was no place that could take Penny. She could try again on Monday.

“I dropped off Penny. She did not want to leave,” Bolar said that night.

“She cried. I feel so bad for her. I feel the pain.”

“We need a safe house for women like Penny,” he said. “A place where they can get their paperwork together, their ID, whatever they need to be eligible for treatments.”

Bolar looked for Penny that Monday and watched his phone for her call.

He waited and watched. But, no surprise to Bolar, Penny was gone.

“They saved me,” he says simply.

And he longs to save others.

“He is an extraordinary man,” says trainer Wold.

So when Bolar saw the broken young woman in his neighborhood last year, he felt compelled to try to help her.

He comforted Penny. He drove her to an addiction center, where she was redirected to a hospital. He took her to the hospital and walked her inside.

He spoke on her behalf. He waited for her when she was getting a test.

Learned she did not have Medicaid.

He waited with her more. Hours went by and Bolar stayed with her only to

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Warning sign and free assessment Ann Mitchell, director of clinical services for SUN Behavioral Health, said the No. 1 sign that a loved one or oneself might need some help is isolation, relative to their own norm – they stay in their room more, don’t go out with friends or return calls as much as they used to.

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It’s a common scenario. “The Journal of the American Medical Association” estimates that 50 percent of people with a severe mental health issue also have substance use disorder issues, said Ann Mitchell, a licensed clinical social worker in Kentucky and director of clinical services for SUN Behavioral Health. The 197-bed mental health facility based in Erlanger, a partner of St. Elizabeth Healthcare, opened in April 2018 and has already served 1,300 patients in its substance use disorder (dual diagnosis) unit, as well as 6,300 in-patient cases overall.

“Anecdotally, I think the number is higher, but people don’t always come to get treatment because of the stigma behind mental health issues or because they use alcohol and drugs to self-medicate their mental health issues,” said Mitchell.

Dual diagnosis is complex to untangle and affects the suggested treatment, said Dr. Mike Kalfas, an addiction medicine physician with St. Elizabeth’s outpatient Journey Recovery Center.

“If it’s substance-induced depression, for example, if you get the substance out of their system, you’ve treated the mental health issue,” he said. “But if they’re bipolar, that’s different. It’s important to address both aspects or you’ll have two co-occurring things that keep exacerbating each other – the stress of their psychiatric decompensation will drive them to substance use or their substance use will drive them to psychiatric issues.”

In order to properly diagnose and treat people, and ensure they receive the right ongoing care and resources, it’s critical to prioritize the continuity of care, said Dr. Kalfas. A case manager approach, where someone has a thorough overview and understanding of a patient and all the facets of their care, is a backbone feature of the Journey Recovery Center.

That continuous-care protocol is critical to effectively treating dual-diagnosis patients in St. Elizabeth’s emergency departments (ED), said Wendie Morgan-Parro�, director of system care coordination.

“We are doing assessment triage and referring, and it really is a team effort from all areas,” she said. “Once the physicians rule out or treat medical needs, we start looking at other paths. The ED social workers conduct assessments in combination with our consulting psychiatry team of physicians, to determine what’s needed.”

The social work team takes a holistic approach to assessment and recommendations, said Anne Marie Davis, social work supervisor for St. Elizabeth Healthcare.

“They do a complete psychosocial assessment, look at the medical history and substance use history,” she said. “They take everything into consideration, including social factors like homelessness or lack of family support, and develop a plan.”

When it comes to dual diagnosis of substance use and mental health issues, said Dr. Kalfas, it takes a concerted effort. “Bo�om line: We have to be looking for it.”

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to know about me.”

The Bengals selected the now 6foot-3, 240-pound versatile defender on Friday in the third round of the NFL Draft. His background as a safety – he played in the secondary his fi rst two collegiate seasons – helped Pratt develop into a new-age three-

I’ve never liked the expression “moving forward.’’ Marvin Lewis used it all the time. It’s a blow-off . It implies a problem is solved, even as it might not be, while at the same time suggesting the issue is trivial and no longer worth anyone’s time.

“We’re moving forward,” Lewis would declare. Problem buried.

Reds broadcaster Chris Welsh used the term Thursday night. The ironic thing about that was, Welsh was right. It was time to move forward. If only we could.

On the previous night’s broadcast, Welsh talked about the teamfriendly, long-term contract signed

by Ozzie Albies, an Atlanta Braves infi elder. “Albies came from a very poor background,’’ Welsh began.

“He’s from Curacao and when somebody off ers you $35 million – I mean, he may not know the diff erence between $35 million and $85 million.”

Social media went crazy, as only social media can. Because when you virtually socialize, the only opinion that matters is your own. The only

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Eugenio Suarez is tagged out by Yadier Molina on a base hit by Jesse Winker for the third out of the third inning in the Cardinals’ 6-3 win Saturday. The Reds led 2-0 at the time but St. Louis answered with fi ve straight runs – all with two outs – off Tyler Mahle. The fi nal game of the three-game series is today. Coverage, 8C ASSOCIATED PRESS

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When he enrolled at NC State as a freshman in January 2014, Germaine Pratt weighed 195 pounds and was listed as a safety.

By the Wolfpack’s spring football game three months later, Pratt had gained 30 pounds and was on his way to becoming an NFL linebacker.

“I’m still hungry and on the rise,” Pratt said Saturday after arriving at Paul Brown Stadium. “Some people don’t know about me, but they ought

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BEREA, Ohio – Greedy Williams has already shown the Browns his recovery skills.

After accidentally missing Cleveland’s phone call telling him he was about to be drafted in the second round, the LSU cornerback got in touch with the front desk at the team’s headquarters and asked to speak with general manager John Dorsey.

Then his emotions overwhelmed him.

“Greedy was giddy,” quipped Browns coach Freddie Kitchens.

Considered the SEC’s best cover cornerback, Williams was selected with the No. 46 in the NFL draft on Friday night when the Browns got in on a run of defensive backs. Fearing he might lose a player he wanted, Dorsey traded the No. 49 and No. 144 picks to Indianapolis and selected Williams, a second-team AP All-American last season.

The Browns plan to pair Williams with Denzel Ward, last year’s No. 4 overall pick who made the Pro Bowl as a rookie.

“Oh my God, me and Denzel Ward

are going to tear up the league,” Williams said. “You can go man on the outside all day, and we will lock down those receivers.”

That’s not all the 21-year-old had to off er. In Cleveland, he’ll join fellow LSU alums Odell Beckham Jr. and Jarvis Landry, and like the two star wide receivers, Williams doesn’t lack confi dence.

“I know one thing: the Browns are going to the Super Bowl this year,” Williams said on a conference call from Shreveport, Louisiana.

He repeated the same prediction two more times.

In the third round, the Browns chose Brigham Young linebacker Sione Takitaki, who had 118 tackles last season. The 6-foot-1, 238-pounder recorded 19 tackles in BYU’s bowl win over Western Michigan.

“This s a physical, physical football player,” said assistant general manager Eliot Wolf.

“He plays with violence and we felt like that was something that kind of separated him from other linebackers in this class.”

Takitaki had some issues when he fi rst arrived at BYU. He was briefl y

The Browns will pair LSU cornerback Greedy Williams with last year’s top pick, Denzel Ward, who made the Pro Bowl. USA TODAY SPORTS

kicked out of school after being involved in a fi ght and an arrest, but the Browns are comfortable he’s matured – on and off the fi eld.

“He really changed his life around,” Wolf said. “This is a kid who came in immature. He’s from California and went to Utah. Probably wasn’t ready to be away from home. And the cool thing about this guy is he is a success story at BYU. You talk to anyone there, they kind of didn’t think he was going to make it after his fi rst year or so, and

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Takitaki credits his wife, Alyssa, for changing him.

“I got really lucky, I met a great girl,” he said. “She was always pushing me to be better. We just fi t. She’s a great woman.”

The Browns stayed defensive on the third day of the draft, selecting Miami cornerback Sheldrick Redwine and Alabama linebacker Mack Wilson.

Looking to add depth and toughness, Dorsey used his fi rst four picks on defensive players.

Redwine began his college career as a cornerback before moving to safety. Last season, he had three interceptions in 13 starts. He’s the sixth former Hurricanes player on Cleveland’s roster.

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Bengals

Finley should slide in behind Dalton at QB 35 points shorted in the trade with Denver on Friday, the Bengals gave up 55 draft points which is the equivalent of a mid-fourth round selection using the Jimmy Johnson Trade Valuation chart.

Awards First Team All-ACC and fi nalist for national QB of the year award.

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The Bengals fi nally drafted a quarterback when they traded up six spots to select Ryan Finley of North Carolina State with the No. 104 pick overall in the fourth round.

They weren’t taking any chances on missing out on him as they moved up six spots and gave up two of their sixth-round picks in order to make sure they got him.

Finley was the only top quarterback they brought into the building and were impressed by his intelligence working on the white board that went with his game tape from NC State.

He said he drew comparisons to Jared Goff because of his long 6-foot-4 frame, which would make sense to have fans in this building with Zac Taylor coming from working with Goff in Los Angeles.

Finley had a reputation for accuracy and anticipation at NC State, though, he doesn’t have quite the arm strength you would desire. That’s part of what slid him down into the top of the fourth round.

Measurables ❚ Height: 6-4 ❚ Weight: 213

The Bengals traded up six spots to select North Carolina State quarterback Ryan Finley, who was known for his accuracy in college.

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❚ 40-yard dash: 4.71 Key stat The Bengals come out on the wrong end of the draft chart for the second time. They moved up six spots with San Francisco. The value of the pick acquired by the Bengals is 84 points.

The total of the three given up by the Bengals is 104 points.

If you combine the 20 points with

Pratt

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down linebacker that can play virtually anywhere.

After making the move to linebacker as a redshirt junior in 2017, Pratt scored two touchdowns, one on an interception return and the other after recovering a blocked punt. And as a senior last season, Pratt was the Wolfpack’s leading tackler with 104 total stops and ranked second in the ACC with 9.5 tackles per game.

Pratt credits time at safety for honing his instincts and preparing him for any possible matchup.

“It helped me understand the defense and knowing my responsibility, my help and my leverage in coverage,” Pratt said.

“It helped me become versatile.

Safety helped me out a lot. I can play inside and outside of the box, and I’m better playing in space and making tackles in space. I can do diff erent things at linebacker.”

Another positive aspect of the move closer to the line of scrimmage: NC State defensive coordinator Dave Huxtable also served as linebackers coach. Every fi lm session, every practice, every conversation between Huxtable and Pratt furthered a pro-

Role expectation Will show up and be expected to assume the backup quarterback role from Jeff Driskel. There’s a possibility the Bengals could keep three quarterbacks, but considering Finley is noted for his maturity, comes in at 24 years old and Cincinnati traded up to get him, hard to see him not backing up Dalton. If they can develop him into more, maybe he could be an eventual successor, but most view Finley as a career backup.

Recent draft history ❚ 2018: Logan Woodside (seventh round, 249 overall) ❚ 2014: AJ McCarron (fi fth round, 164 overall) ❚ 2011: Andy Dalton (second round, 35 overall) He said Finley when asked what he thinks makes him a good quarterback: “I’m just a good decision-maker.

I’m extremely accurate. I throw with

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fessional career in the making.

“Working with the defensive coordinator as your position coach, he put a lot of pressure on you because you’re a refl ection of him,” Pratt said. “He gave us a lot of information that you had to process. You’ve got to understand his approach, why he’s throwing these tools in front of you.”

Huxtable challenged Pratt to learn what every player on defense was supposed to do each play. NC State quarterback Ryan Finley, the Bengals’ fourth round selection on Saturday, said it was obvious Pratt worked with more information than the average college defender.

“He watches more fi lm than any player I’ve ever been around, and it’s not even close,” Finley said. “It’s really not even close. It’d be so frustrating in

practice because he’d be calling out our plays before we even ran them. He already knew what was coming. He’s very intelligent, athletic, fast, and he’s just aggressive. In my opinion, he’s exactly what you’d want in a linebacker.”

Pratt joins a Bengals’ linebacker position that struggled mightily last season. The unit was banged up, too big, too slow, too old, too new – take your pick of criticism angle. The team cut Vontaze Burfi ct, re-signed Preston Brown and set their sights on drafting a long-term diff erence maker in the draft.

After linebackers Devin White and Devin Bush were taken ahead of the Bengals at the No. 11 spot in the fi rst round, and the Bengals opted for tight end Drew Sample in the second

anticipation and know situational football. I’ll always have our team in a situation to be successful.”

Coachspeak Quarterbacks coach Alex Van Pelt on putting Finley through the quarterback whiteboard process during his visit: “He was exceptional. We put him through a process where we taught him all our protections. He had a halfa-dozen adjustments, maybe more, took a little break and came back in.

Brian got him on the board and he spit it out pretty much verbatim, we were impressed by his ability to learn and comprehend quickly.”

Q: Is that unusual?

“You would hope not for that position, but I’ve been in some where they struggled and he shined.”

Draftniks say Draft guru Dane Brugler on Finley: “Although his lack of ideal velocity is an issue, Finley delivers a catchable ball with touch and clearly has a fi rm grasp of the playbook. He is a confi dent thrower, but his chances are mostly calculated, low-risk passes.

Overall, Finley has some Nick Foles to his game and projects as an NFL backup, but his average arm and lack of urgency and creativity outside of structure are concerns for his pro transition.”

round, the match between Pratt and the No. 72 pick became inevitable.

Bengals defensive coordinator Lou Anarumo said Pratt could be an off the-ball linebacker and he can line up inside the box. The coaching staff likely will avoid heaping too much information too early, but a versatile role that grows in any number of directions could be in store down the road.

“I don’t see that being a problem for the guy,” Anarumo said. “Again, that size and the length is what you like for in guys to be able to cover tight ends or running backs out of the backfi eld.

We’ll see. He’s going to be a rookie, and like every rookie player – whatever position it is – you want to see what they’re able to do early and do well early, so that they don’t lose confi dence. You want to get them going in the right direction. We’ll see where things are going, and we’ll put him where we can most benefi t him and us at the same time.”

Pratt said he doesn’t mind moving around in search of success. He’s done it before. That’s how he made it to this point.

“I knew that I had to make the position (change) to be able to go to the NFL,” Pratt said. “So I knew as soon as I made that change that no matter what I thought of myself as a linebacker.”

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Selections covered a lot of the bases Paul Dehner Jr. and Fletcher Page Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Here’s a look at the Bengals’ draft picks:

Drew Sample Round 2 Tight end, Washington This was a reach. Even Sample admitted he was hearing “a lot of three talk and four talk” in regards to the round he expected to go in.

Most of the national analysts plugged Sample into the fourth or fi fth round. Meanwhile, a load of talented receivers were still available including Parris Campbell (Ohio State) and JJ Arciega-Whiteside (Stanford). A host of edge rushers and linebackers were in play as well. The Bengals moved back 10 spots for this pick, but they would have been better off using one of their third-round picks on it.

This came after they were shorted in the draft trade chart math in their deal with the Broncos. Their No. 42 overall was worth 480 points. The picks they received in return (No. 52, No. 125 and No. 182) were worth a total of 445 points. Even if the Bengals would have received the Broncos’ fourth and fi fth-round picks, they wouldn’t have reached an equal number on the trade chart.

But, the Bengals value a quality run-blocking tight end, who can get open enough off play-action. They want to be able to pound the football.

Their fi rst two picks make that apparent. But when you consider what other players they left on the table and the ability to get Sample later, on its face this wasn’t the greatest moment for Cincinnati.

Germaine Pratt Round 3 Linebacker, N.C. State This pick had to be linebacker, with the Bengals addressing one of their biggest needs in the third round after taking off ensive lineman Jonah Williams in the fi rst and tight end Drew Sample in the second.

Pratt is a former three-star safety recruit that grew into a linebacker by gaining 50 pounds over the course of his college career. His previous experience in the secondary and skillset should help Pratt fi t in as a new-age linebacker that can line up inside or outside, run sideline to sideline and cover running backs and tight ends.

The Bengals didn’t have a chance Thursday to take a linebacker from the top tier available after Devin White and Devin Bush went in the top 10. That action made it likely the Bengals would wait until the third, though the selection of a tight end at No. 52

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was surprising. When the Bengals’ third selection came around, Pratt was among a group of linebackers that were the potential pick. Notre Dame duo Te’Von Coney and Drue Tranquill and Minnesota’s Blake Cashman were all still on the board and each fi t the Bengals expected profi le for a linebacker of the future.

It was Pratt who emerged from that group as the Bengals’ guy.

Renell Wren Round 4 DT, Arizona State The Bengals get good value with Renell Wren late in the fourth round, as draft guru Dane Brugler graded the interior defensive lineman as a thirdround selection.

The reason for the slide could be a boom or bust vibe created by Wren’s impressive measurables compared to technical skills that some draft experts cite as still a work in progress.

Wren has great size, strength and quickness, so the upside is obvious if the Bengals coaching staff can develop Wren’s fundamentals and mechanics.

Consistency is the biggest knock that held him back in college, Wren said to Bengals reporters after being selected. Growing into an every-down lineman with the ability to both stop the run and stay on the fi eld in passing situations is the goal, Wren said.

Michael Jordan Round 4 OL, Ohio State The Bengals moved back into the fourth round for a third selection by giving up picks in the fi fth and sixth rounds to the Dallas Cowboys.

With plenty of linebackers on the board and the chance to double up at the position of need, the team instead went with Michael Jordan, the versatile off ensive lineman from Ohio State. Jordan played guard before moving to center and becoming an All-American last season.

lineman Willie Anderson. He actually went to the same high school as Anderson and calls him “Stew meat.”

Davis was a three-year starter for the Tigers and will try to translate those skills to the NFL.

Trayveon Williams

Round 6 RB, Oklahoma The Bengals took a second running back in the sixth round, adding Oklahoma’s Rodney Anderson after previously drafting Texas A&M’s Trayveon Williams. That takes care of the void created by Mark Walton, the former fourth-round pick who was waived after three arrests following his rookie season.

Anderson’s tenure at Oklahoma featured one prolifi c season amid an unfortunate amount of time spent on the sideline with injuries. He rushed for 1,161 yards and 18 total touchdowns in 2017 as a redshirt sophomore. He played in just two games in 2015 due to a leg injury and missed the entire 2016 season after suff ering an injury in preseason camp. He was lost for the season last year after suff ering a knee injury in September.

The Bengals are banking on Anderson’s recovery and return to 2017 form.

Round 4 RB, Texas A&M This one always stuck out as a possibility for the Bengals. It made too much sense, especially once the team parted ways with thrice arrested running back Mark Walton.

Williams exploded last year in the Aggies system orchestrated by off ensive line coach Jim Turner. Turner is now off ensive line coach for the Bengals so when looking for a scheme fi t, he could personally attest to Williams.

The RB thought he might go earlier considering he was All-SEC and ran for 1,760 yards and 15 touchdowns last season, but the Bengals were happy to add him with their fi rst of three sixthrounders remaining.

Deshaun Davis Round 6 Linebacker, Auburn We were waiting for the double-up at linebacker and it came with the last of their selections in the sixth round.

Davis will instantly enter the royal rumble at linebacker for snaps at the last off -ball linebacker spot along with Jordan Evans, Germaine Pratt, Malik Jeff erson.

He brings Cincinnati ties as he’s close with former Auburn and Bengals linebacker Takeo Spikes as well as former Auburn and Bengals off ensive

Rodney Anderson

Jordan Brown Round 7 DB, South Dakota State The Bengals roll with a late bloomer in the secondary with their fi nal selection in the draft. Jordan Brown started off as a wide receiver at SDSU and has the ball skills to show for the experience on off ense after making the switch to cornerback.

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consequences you face for your words are, well, none. No consequences.

Welsh apologized in person to Albies, and again during the Thursday broadcast. “Not like me to say something like that. In 27 years, it’s never happened before. Will not happen again. And we’re ready to move on.”

Yes, we are. We’ve been ready.

Welsh knew what he said was wrong. He made quick amends. His might not be the perfect example of exploding political correctness, bolstered by the army of the self-righteous. But it’s in the photo.

Kate Smith and that version of God Bless America: Last week, the New York Yankees decided they’d no longer be playing Kate Smith’s version of God Bless America during the seventh-inning stretch. The Philadelphia Flyers covered a statue of Smith, outside their arena.

Smith’s crime? In 1939, she performed a song on Broadway that included racist language.

What else, Doc? Nothing else.

C’mon.

Seriously. Someone researched this and informed the Yankees.

Someone?

Correct. We don’t know who.

Once more, to make sure we have this right: Two sports teams are blackballing a dead singer for a song she

A covered statue of Kate Smith stands outside the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia after the NHL Flyers cut ties with her recording. ASSOCIATED PRESS

sang 80 years ago that wasn’t called God Bless America. In a less enlightened time. When it was OK to do so.

So OK that Paul Robeson, an entertainer who happened to be AfricanAmerican, performed the same song.

There is a diff erence between hate speech and saying something unwise.

It’s not a subtle diff erence. It’s the difference between Charlottesville and Kate Smith. The more we jump on Kate Smith, the less we take seriously Charlottesville. The line becomes blurred.

Vigilance is a good thing. Constant

moralizing isn’t.

I’m fully in the arena when it comes to recognizing the power of words.

Words create perceptions. Perceptions can become reality.

If someone drops the R-word in my presence, they’re going to hear about it.

About 25 years ago, I had an older friend who described my daughter Jillian as “Mongoloid.’’ I told her that people born with Down syndrome were no longer referred to that way.

She apologized, felt bad about it, I told her it was fi ne. End of problem.

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Context and intent.

My friend didn’t intend to demean my daughter. Chris Welsh didn’t intend to demean Ozzie Albies. He was speaking in the context of Albies’ surprisingly low-end contract. Did Kate Smith intend to slur black people? We can’t ask her. But we can judge her within the context of the time she sang the song.

A comedian named Tom Segura, who happens to be from around here, uses the R-word in his act. Gratuitously, for a laugh. If our paths ever cross, I’ll let him know how I feel about that.

Context and intent.

It’s an old-guy thing to complain about recent shifts in culture and society. Get Off My Lawn Guy hears lots of talk about rights, none about responsibilities. He reads about “safe spaces’’ on college campuses, to protect tender ears from contrasting opinions. He mumbles something about “coping skills’’ and thinks: When everyone is afraid to speak, no one will. Where will that leave us?

We’ve been a nation of robust discussion that allows for the fl ourishing of ideas. The ongoing erosion of free, reasonable expression is troubling.

Everyone is off ended by something, all the time. One reaction is Stepford Politeness. That’s not good for any of us.

Chris Welsh made a mistake. He apologized. It really is time to move forward, to a time when context and intent, not righteous indignation and punishment, are what matter.

6C ❚ SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2019 ❚ THE ENQUIRER

MLB STANDINGS

GAME SUMMARIES

TODAY’S PROBABLE PITCHERS

AMERICAN LEAGUE

HOME team in caps

All times Eastern

East Division

W

Tampa Bay New York Toronto Boston Baltimore

Central Division

16 16 13 11 10 W

L

Pct

9 11 14 15 18

.640 .593 .481 .423 .357

L

Pct

GB

— 1 4 51⁄ 2 71⁄ 2 GB

L10

5-5 8-2 7-3 5-5 3-7 L10

Str

L-1 W-2 W-2 W-2 L-2

15 15 12 10 8

9 10 13 14 18

.625 .600 .480 .417 .308

— 1 ⁄ 2 31⁄ 2 5 8

7-3 W-2 7-3 W-3 4-6 L-3 5-5 W-1 3-7 L-1

Seattle Houston Oakland Texas Los Angeles

18 15 14 12 11

11 11 15 13 16

.621 .577 .483 .480 .407

— 11⁄ 2 4 4 6

5-5 W-2 4-6 L-2 4-6 L-2 4-6 L-5 3-7 W-2

W

L

Pct

GB

9-7 8-7 6-8 5-5 3-10

Str

Minnesota Cleveland Detroit Chicago Kansas City

West Division

Home

L10

Home

7-4 7-4 6-5 4-6 5-8

Str

Home

7-7 8-3 10-8 10-4 8-7

Away

7-2 8-4 7-6 6-10 7-8

Away

8-5 8-6 6-8 6-8 3-10

Away

11-4 7-8 4-7 2-9 3-9

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division

W

L

Pct

Philadelphia New York Atlanta Washington Miami

14 13 12 11 8

12 12 13 13 18

.538 .520 .480 .458 .308

St. Louis Milwaukee Chicago Pittsburgh Cincinnati

16 14 12 12 11

10 13 12 12 15

Los Angeles Arizona San Diego Colorado San Francisco

17 16 15 12 11

11 11 11 14 16

Central Division

West Division

W

W

L

L10

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— 1 ⁄ 2 11⁄ 2 2 6

4-6 4-6 3-7 4-6 4-6

W-1 L-2 L-2 L-2 L-1

.615 .519 .500 .500 .423

— 21⁄ 2 3 3 5

7-3 3-7 7-3 4-6 6-4

W-1 W-1 L-2 L-6 L-1

.607 .593 .577 .462 .407

— 1 ⁄ 2 1 4 51⁄ 2

7-3 8-2 4-6 8-2 4-6

W-2 W-5 W-4 W-2 L-2

Pct

L

GB

Pct

GB

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L10

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10-4 5-5 7-8 5-7 5-7

Away

5-7 9-7 5-6 6-6 3-7

Away

5-6 6-7 5-8 6-5 4-9

Away

7-7 11-6 8-3 7-7 6-9

CARDINALS 6, Reds 3: Marcell Ozuna hit a three-run homer and drove in five runs and the Cardinals beat the Reds.

Padres at NATIONALS (late): Washington hitters have posted a team on-base percentage of .334 this season.

Indians at ASTROS (late): Houston leads the league in hitting with a .276 batting average.

Rays at RED SOX (late): The Boston pitching staff has a team ERA of 5.48, Eduardo Rodriguez paces the staff with a mark of 5.89.

Marlins at PHILLIES (late): Philadelphia’s team on-base percentage of .322 is sixth in the MLB.

Brewers at METS (late): The New York offense has compiled a .259 batting average as a team this season, good for eighth in the MLB.

Angels at ROYALS (late): The Royals are 5-8 in home games. Kansas City’s lineup has 33 home runs this season, Hunter Dozier leads them with seven homers.

2 4 5 4 5 3 4 3 4 0 34

2 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 7

1 1 3 1 0 3 1 1 1 0 12

Goldschmidt 1b DeJong ss Ozuna lf Martinez rf b-O'Neill ph Molina c Fowler cf-rf Wong 2b Hudson p Bader cf Totals

3 4 4 3 1 4 2 3 2 2 31

2 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6

1 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 9

.232 .241 .238 .205 .216 .207 .132 .143 .125 .182

Avg.

7 26

3.16 7.46

31.1 25.1

39 25

(Line: MIN -180) .000 1.50 6.56 1.000 1.50 6.10

23.1 20.2

26 18

24.2 24.0

16 27

6.51 4.61

27.2 13.2

24 12

(Line: HOU -127) .500 1.52 6.00 .333 1.08 3.58

21.0 27.2

33 18

Miami at Philadelphia, 1:05 p.m.

(Line: PHI -165) .400 1.18 4.44 .400 1.35 4.15

26.1 26.0

29 23

Milwaukee at N.Y. Mets, 1:10 p.m.

(Line: NYM -115) 1.000 1.35 1.65 .667 1.21 4.03

27.1 22.1

19 25

12.0 25.0

9 28

(Line: WAS -122) .600 1.30 4.33 27.0 1.000 1.61 4.34 18.2

29 10

(Line: STL -138) .000 0.97 3.65 .667 1.38 5.25

24.2 24.0

31 32

(Line: LAD -168) 0.96 2.59 31.1 0.00 0.00 0.0

21 0

OAK: Bassitt (R) TOR: Thornton (R)

(Line: OAK -115) 1-0 1.000 1.20 0-3 .000 1.37

1 5

Detroit at Chi. White Sox, 2:10 p.m.

DET: Boyd (L) CWS: Lopez (R)

5 5

(Line: ) .667 1.02 .250 1.89

2-1 1-3

5 4

0-3 1-0

5 5

TEX: Lynn (R) SEA: Swanson (R)

5 2

(Line: KC -110) .000 1.58 8.03 .500 1.33 5.63

0-2 2-2

(Line: SEA -130) 2-2 .500 1.55 0-2 .000 1.02

Cleveland at Houston, 7:05 p.m.

CLE: Carrasco (R) HOU: Miley (L)

5 5

2-2 1-2

NATIONAL LEAGUE MIA: Lopez (R) PHI: Eflin (R)

5 5

MIL: Davies (R) NYM: Matz (L)

Sogard ss Smoak 1b Grichuk cf Guerrero Jr. 3b Hernandez lf Drury 2b Tellez dh Jansen c Hanson rf Brito rf Totals

0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 2 7 BI BB SO

5.0 23.1

Texas at Seattle, 4:10 p.m.

Totals San Francisco

1 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 7 H

0.00 5.79

Yankees 6, GIANTS 4: Gary Sánchez hit his first career grand slam, and the Yankees beat the Giants.

0 0 0 2 0 1 4 H

0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 R

29 24

5 5

Oakland at Toronto, 1:07 p.m.

LAA: Harvey (R) KC: Bailey (R)

0 0 0 1 0 0 1 R

4 4 3 4 3 4 3 1 1 3 30 AB

29.1 23.0

(Line: BOS -140) 4-0 1.000 0.92 1.53 0-4 .000 1.52 7.43

L.A. Angels at Kansas City, 2:15 p.m.

4 3 1 4 2 4 31 AB

Votto 1b Suarez 3b Winker lf Puig rf Dietrich 2b Barnhart c Schebler cf Mahle p a-Ervin ph Peraza ss Totals St. Louis

K

BAL: Bundy (R) MIN: Gibson (R)

Piscotty rf Morales 1b a-Canha ph Laureano cf Profar 2b Hundley c Totals Toronto

AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

IP

Tampa Bay at Boston, 1:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m.

Cardinals 6, Reds 3 Cincinnati

2019 Statistics Pct. WHIP ERA

W-L

BLUE JAYS 7, Athletics 1: Brandon Drury had three hits a day after his winning ninth-inning home run and Toronto extended their winning streak against Oakland to five.

Rockies at BRAVES (late): The Atlanta offense has compiled a .266 batting average as a team this season, good for fifth in the league.

.273 .169 .216 .247 .162 .179

GS

TB: Glasnow (R) BOS: Sale (L)

NL LEADERS Through April 26 BATTING—Bellinger, Los Angeles, .433; McNeil, New York, .365; Rendon, Washington, .356; DeJong, St. Louis, .340; Markakis, Atlanta, .333; Peralta, Arizona, .333; Yelich, Milwaukee, .333; Heyward, Chicago, .328; Baez, Chicago, .327; Walker, Arizona, .326.

HITS—Bellinger, Los Angeles, 42; Peralta, Arizona, 37; DeJong, St. Louis, 35; Baez, Chicago, 33; Jones, Arizona, 32; Yelich, Milwaukee, 32; Eaton, Washington, 31; McNeil, New York, 31; 3 tied at 30.

DOUBLES—Peralta, Arizona, 13; DeJong, St. Louis, 11; Rendon, Washington, 10; Jones, Arizona, 9.

HOME RUNS—Bellinger, Los Angeles, 13; Yelich, Milwaukee, 13; Pederson, Los Angeles, 10; Baez, Chicago, 9; Goldschmidt, St. Louis, 9; Ozuna, St. Louis, 9.

0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 5 7 BI BB SO

Pitchers

TWINS 9, Orioles 2: The Twins again turned Target Field into a launch pad against the most homer-prone pitching staff in the league, smashing five homers for the second consecutive game.

AL LEADERS Through April 26 BATTING—Anderson, Chicago, .402; Reddick, Houston, .368; Andrus, Texas, .355; Meadows, Tampa Bay, .351; Polanco, Minnesota, .349; Mancini, Baltimore, .349; Martinez, Boston, .340; Brantley, Houston, .327; Moncada, Chicago, .323; Semien, Oakland, .321.

HITS—Mancini, Baltimore, 38; Anderson, Chicago, 35; Santana, Seattle, 35; Semien, Oakland, 34; Andrus, Texas, 33; Brantley, Houston, 33; Martinez, Boston, 33; Merrifield, Kansas City, 32; Moncada, Chicago, 32; Villar, Baltimore, 31.

DOUBLES—Buxton, Minnesota, 12; Healy, Seattle, 12; Choo, Texas, 11; Haniger, Seattle, 11; Mancini, Baltimore, 11; Simmons.

HOME RUNS—Rosario, Minnesota, 11; Davis, Oakland, 10; Altuve, Houston, 9; Bruce, Seattle, 9.

CIN ...............002 001 000 — 3 STL ...............003 021 00x — 6

AMERICAN LEAGUE

SCHEDULE

2-3 2-3

5 5

2-0 2-1

Colorado at Atlanta, 1:20 p.m.

COL: Anderson (L) ATL: Gausman (R)

(Line: ATL -154) 0-2 .000 2.33 1-2 .333 1.00

3 4

12.00 3.96

San Diego at Washington, 1:35 p.m.

SD: Lucchesi (L) WSH: Hellickson (R)

5 3

3-2 2-0

Cincinnati at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.

CIN: Gray (R) STL: Flaherty (R)

5 5

0-3 2-1

Pittsburgh at L.A. Dodgers, 4:10 p.m.

PIT: Williams (R) LAD: Hill (L)

5 0

1-1 0-0

Chi. Cubs at Arizona, 4:10 p.m.

CHC: Quintana (L) ARI: Weaver (R)

4 5

3-1 2-1

.500 NA

(Line: CHC -105) .750 1.29 3.21 .667 1.19 3.33

28.0 27.0

36 31

(Line: NYY -110) 0.82 1.75 25.2 1.00 3.54 28.0

28 22

INTERLEAGUE

N.Y. Yankees at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.

NYY: German (R) SF: Rodriguez (R)

4 5

4-1 3-2

.800 .600

AMERICAN LEAGUE Friday Tampa Bay at Boston, ppd.

Toronto 4, Oakland 2 Chicago White Sox 12, Detroit 11 Cleveland 6, Houston 3 Minnesota 6, Baltimore 1 L.A. Angels 5, Kansas City 1 Seattle 5, Texas 4, 11 innings N.Y. Yankees 7, San Francisco 3 Sunday Tampa Bay at Boston, 1:05 p.m.

Oakland at Toronto, 1:07 p.m.

Baltimore at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m.

Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Kansas City, 2:15 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.

Texas at Seattle, 4:10 p.m.

Cleveland at Houston, 7:05 p.m.

Monday Oakland at Boston, 7:10 p.m.

Houston at Minnesota, 7:40 p.m.

Baltimore at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Kansas City, 8:15 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Friday Philadelphia 4, Miami 0 San Diego 4, Washington 3 Milwaukee 10, N.Y. Mets 2 Colorado 8, Atlanta 4 Cincinnati 12, St. Louis 1 Arizona 8, Chicago Cubs 3 L.A. Dodgers 6, Pittsburgh 2 N.Y. Yankees 7, San Francisco 3 Sunday Miami at Philadelphia, 1:05 p.m.

Milwaukee at N.Y. Mets, 1:10 p.m.

Colorado at Atlanta, 1:20 p.m.

San Diego at Washington, 1:35 p.m.

Cincinnati at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Arizona, 4:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at L.A. Dodgers, 4:10 p.m.

Monday St. Louis at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

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

San Diego at Atlanta, 7:20 p.m.

Colorado at Milwaukee, 7:40 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 9:45 p.m.

Odds provided by Pregame.com.

Cubs at D-BACKS (late): Chicago has a team on-base percentage of .345, led by Jason Heyward with a mark of .434.

Nationals starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg delivers a pitch during the second inning against the Padres at Nationals Park.

Pirates at DODGERS (late): Los Angeles has a team on-base percentage of .346.

Rangers at MARINERS (late): The Mariners are 9-4 against the rest of their division. Seattle has hit a league-leading 58 home runs this season.

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Tigers at WHITE SOX (PPD): Saturday night’s game between the Tigers and White Sox has been postponed because of snow.

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Pillar cf 4 Austin 1b-lf 3 Belt lf 3 c-Kratz ph 1 Posey c 3 Longoria 3b 3 Solarte 2b 3 Crawford ss 4 Bumgarner p 2 Vincent p 0 a-Sandoval ph-1b 2 Duggar rf 3 Totals 31

0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3

0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 5

0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3

1 2 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 7

1 2 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 0 1 3 14

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5 3 1 1 37 AB

0 0 1 0 4 R

0 0 1 0 6 H

Haniger cf-rf Do.Santana lf Vogelbach dh Encarnacion 1b 1-Moore pr-3b Bruce rf Smith cf Beckham ss Narvaez c Healy 3b-1b Gordon 2b Totals

5 4 3 4 0 4 1 5 4 3 4 37

1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 5

0 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 6

0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 9 11 BI BB SO

1 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5

1 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 9

1 2 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 2 10

.286 .143 .318 .244

Avg. .248 .299 .299 .247 .226 .198 .178 .299 .296 .229 .290

Wingenter rp France ph Stammen rp Yates rp Totals

0 1 0 0 32

0 0 0 0 4

0 1 0 0 6

0 0 0 0 3

0 0 0 0 1

0 .000 0 1.000 0 .000 0 .000 12

Batting - 2B: Myers (5); HR: Hosmer (3); Renfroe (5); RBI: Hosmer (14); Machado (10); Renfroe (8) LOB: 2.

Fielding - E: Hosmer (1); DP: 1.

Washington ab r h bi bb so avg Eaton rf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .310 Robles cf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .273 Rendon 3b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .356 Soto lf 4 1 1 0 0 1 .241 Zimmerman 1b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .214 Gomes c 4 1 3 2 0 1 .255 Dozier 2b 3 0 0 0 1 3 .176 Scherzer sp 2 0 0 0 0 2 .125 M. Adams ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .289 Kendrick ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 .343 Kieboom ss 4 1 1 1 0 2 .250 Totals 33 3 6 3 2 13

Oberg rp Bettis rp Davis rp Totals

0 0 0 39

0 0 0 8

0 0 0 12

0 0 0 8

0 0 0 0

0 .000 0 .000 0 .000 10

Batting - 2B: Arenado (5); Butera (2); Murphy 2 (2); Story (4); HR: Arenado (5); Story (6); S: Butera (1); RBI: Arenado 2 (19); Blackmon (12); McMahon 2 (9); Murphy (1); Reynolds (8); Story (16) LOB: 5.

Fielding - E: McMahon (2); DP: 2.

Atlanta ab r h bi bb so avg Albies 2b 4 1 2 0 1 1 .282 Donaldson 3b 4 0 1 1 0 0 .261 F. Freeman 1b 4 0 0 0 1 1 .313 Acuna Jr. lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .289 Markakis rf 3 1 2 0 1 0 .333 Camargo ss 4 0 0 0 0 0 .220 Wilson rp 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Flowers c 4 2 4 2 0 0 .378 Inciarte cf 4 0 1 1 0 2 .226 Fried sp 2 0 0 0 0 1 .143 Tomlin rp 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Sobotka rp 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Joyce ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .238 Biddle rp 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Webb rp 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Swanson ss 1 0 0 0 0 1 .259 Totals 35 4 10 4 3 7

Angels 5, Royals 1 LAA ...............200 011 010 — 5 KC.................000 000 001 — 1 Los Angeles Fletcher 3b Trout dh Simmons ss Pujols 1b Calhoun rf Smith c Rengifo 2b Goodwin lf Bourjos cf Totals

ab 4 5 5 4 3 4 2 3 4 34

r 1 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 5

h 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 0 10

Vlad Jr. lives up to the hype in his MLB debut Avg.

1 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 6

2 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 5

0 1 1 2 2 0 1 0 2 0 9

.400 .280 .238 .250 .216 .209 .235 .185 .175 .074

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1-ran for Estrada in the 6th.

E: Belt (1), Longoria (4). LOB: New York 7, San Francisco 9. 2B: LeMahieu 2 (9), Voit (3), Torres (5), Belt (6), Posey (8). HR: Voit (8), off Melancon. RBI: Voit 3 (22), Torres (12), Urshela (6), Maybin (1), Estrada (1), Posey 2 (8), Solarte (4). SB: Crawford (1). SF_Posey. S_Torres, Paxton.

DP: San Francisco 2 (Duggar, Longoria), (Crawford, Solarte, Austin).

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Batting - 2B: Rengifo (1); Simmons (10); HR: Calhoun (7); Pujols (4); SF: Rengifo (1); RBI: Calhoun (16); Pujols 2 (13); Rengifo (1); Simmons (15); GIDP: Simmons LOB: 7.

Fielding - DP: 3.

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Estevez H,2 / 0 0 0 0 1 5.25 Seattle Chapman 1 0 0 0 1 2 2.45 Pitching ip h r er bb so era Doolittle L,3-1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1.46 Oh H,1 1 1 0 0 right-hander 0 0 4.50 Kikuchiby left 1 0 0 0 0 2 4.54 DP: Cincinnati 3 (Barnhart, Dietrich), San Francisco Inherited runners-scored: 2-1. WP:robbed two-run homer with(Peraza, two outs in a 402Hendrikswas of an extra-base hit for-12 slide.

Guerrero, arm raised, was Jays Marcus Stroman Oberg 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.32 Sheffield 3 2 2 2 4 3 6.00 Dietrich, Votto), (Dietrich, Votto); St. Louis 1 Los Angeles Bumgarner, L, 1-4 5 11 5 5 0 5 4.30 Hendriks.

HBP: Rendon (by Strahm). Batters faced; Bettis / 2 1 1 0 1 7.50 Sadzeck 1 1 0 0 0 1 0.96 (Goldschmidt, DeJong).

Skaggs W,2-2 5 3 0 0 3 5 3.15 Z Umpires: HP: Dan on Bellino; 1B:fi elder Alfonso winPitching over theipOakland Athletics 4-2 Stephen Pinder’s leaping catch the fi rst Blue Jays player out of the said.

“He’s way ahead of his years.” pitches-strikes: Strahm 23; 81-55; WingenDavis S,4 / 0 0 0 0 1 1.00 z h r er bb so era Bard 2 0 0 0 0 2 3.38 Vincent 1 1 0 0 1 1 1.84 Marquez; 2B: Larry Vanover; 3B: Dave Rackter 3; 14-10; Stammen 4; 15-9; Yates 6; 28-13; Atlanta H, 5 0 0 1 2.35 Bedrosian 1 1 0 0 0 1 3.46 z Cincinnati 24; 101-69; Barraclough 3; 25-15; SueFriday night.5 7 5 5 3 2 4.50 ley. in the fourth, then toRosscup, right inZ1 01 00dugout celebrate.

Bob Fried L,3-1 5 / 7 Oakland 4 4 0 8 2.30 manager Gearrin, H, 5 0 1 2 4.50 to Scherzer Anderson 1 1 1 Melvin 1 0 0 3.12 said Dyson 1 0 0fl ied 0 0 1 out 4.05 T: 2:50. A: 22,254 (53,506).

Mahle, L, 0-3 ro 2; 9-6; Doolittle 4; 20-15 Tomlin 1 2 1 1 0 1 3.60 Brennan, H, 4 1 1 1 0 2 0 1.12 Kansas City Melancon 1 3 2 2 0 0 1.54 Duke Z 1 1 1 0 0 11.25 Umpires HP: Fletcher; 1B: Little; 2B: Sobotka / 0 0 0 0 0 9.28 Swarzak, BS, 2-5 1 1 1 1 2 0 3.24 Duffy L,0-1 5 5 3 3 Guerrero’s 3 1 5.40 “Just it,” Guerrethe sixth.

“It feels great,” said Drury, who he was impressed with Hughes the way z 0 0 I0 dreamed 0 0 5.73 Inherited runners-scored: Kahnle 1-0, OttaviWest; 3B: Cooper Biddle 0 3 3 1 0 0 3.18 Elias, W, 2-0 2 0 0 0 0 2 2.16 Yankees 6, Giants 4 Lovelady / 2 1 1 1 0 7.20 Lorenzen 2 1 0 0 0 1 1.29 no 3-0, Vincent 2-0. WP: Kahnle.

Game data - T: 3:02. Att: 27,193.

Webb 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 Newberry / 0 0 0 0 0 2.08 Inherited runners-scored: Rosscup 1-0.

WP: ro said.

“He’s a great player,” Drury said. talked Montoyo out of giving him a performance at the plate.

St. Louis Umpires: HP: Ramon De Jesus; 1B: Jim ReyNYY..............001 050 000 — 6 Wilson 1 0 0 0 0 1 8.31 Fillmyer 3 3 1 1 0 0 9.00 Brennan.

Hudson, W, 2-1 5 7 3 3 1 1 5.62 nolds; 2B: Alan Porter; 3B: Mark Wegner.

SF ................000 000 004 — 4 can Umpires: HP: Mark Carlson; 1B: Scottoff .

Barry; “I always feel like I’m Zwas showered Biddle pitched to 4 batters in the 8th.

WP: Guerrero with beer “You by his at bats the game day one “He looks like he has a good swing, T: 3:26.see A: 34,950 (41,915).

Skaggs pitched to 1 batters in the 6th. Bat2B: Brian Gorman; 3B: Tripp Gibson.

New York AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Gant, H, 5 1 0 0 0 0 3 0.98 Fried.

HBP: Donaldson (by Bettis).

Balks: Soters faced; pitches-strikes: Skaggs 19; Blue Jays 4, Athletics 2 T: 4:06. A: 21,721 (47,943). swing away from getting my bat z botka.goBatters faced; pitches-strikes: 92-52;swing,” Bard 5; 22-14; Bedrosian 3; 7-5; Ander-said, 10, Mets 2 andMiller, almond milk after the game comes easy to him.

We’re all an aggressive Melvin LeMahieu 2b in 3the 1 1 1 2kind 0 .306 ofBrewers H, 5 1 0 0 0 1 2 6.10 Senzatela 25; 105-60; Estevez 1; 6-5; Oh 4; 13son 4; 16-9; Duffy 22; 86-51; Lovelady 4; 23-12; OAK .............000 000 020 — 2 Voit 1b 4 1 0 1 0 2 .265 Diamondbacks 8, Cubs 3 Hicks, S, 8-9 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.38 MIL .............005 010 Vladdy — 10 10;off , Oberg 3;I12-7; Bettis 5; 16-11; Davislike 1; 5-3; Newberry 2; 11-8;some Fillmyer 11; 47-29 Sanchez c 4 1 a1 4 0super 2 .231 clubhouse.

On the fi eld, he dumped excited to 040 have in this ing.

I never want to 000 take “Looks there’s power beTOR...............101 002a—day 4 Fried 23; 87-59; Tomlin 5; 19-13; Sobotka 2; 11-7; Umpires - HP: Baker; 1B: Layne; 2B: WhitInherited runners-scored: Hughes 2-0, Gant Torres ss 4 0 1 0 0 2 .255 NYM .............000 110 000 — 2 CHI...............002 100 000 — 3 Oakland ab r h bi bb so avg Biddle 4; 12-8; Webb 3; 11-6; Wilson 3; 13-9 son; 3B: Wendelstedt 1-0. HBP: Duke 2 (Fowler,Wong).

WP: HudUrshela 3b 4 0 3 0 0lineup.”

0 .327 sports drink over Drury. want to be in there every day.” hind it.”

Milwaukee AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Semien ss 3 0 2 0 1 0 .321 Umpires - HP: Torres; 1B: DeMuth; 2B: AZ..................301 030 01x — 8 Game data - T: 3:06. Att: 23,186.

Gardner cf 3 0 0 0 1 1 .229 son. PB_Barnhart (1).

ASSOCIATED PRESS Carpenter 3b 3 1 0

0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6

1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3

0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3

.219 .284 .346 .270 .328 .300 .265 .303 .265 .000 .190

a-grounded out for Morales in the 9th.

E: Profar (6), Sogard (1). LOB: Oakland 8, Toronto 10. 2B: Chapman (6), Laureano (4), Sogard (3), Grichuk (7), Drury (5), Jansen (4).

RBI: Sogard (8), Grichuk 2 (11), Hernandez (13), Tellez (16), Jansen (4). SF: Jansen. S_Sogard.

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2

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Umpires: HP: Ted Barrett; 1B: Kerwin Danley; 2B: Lance Barksdale; 3B: John Tumpane.

T: 2:32. A: 44,197 (45,538).

Twins 9, Orioles 2 Baltimore.....000 110 000 — 2 Minnesota ....001 002 24x — 9 Baltimore

AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

Maybin rf Estrada lf Tauchman lf Happ p Cessa p Chapman p Totals San Francisco

Pillar cf Austin lf

2 3 1 2 1 0 31 AB

1 1 0 1 0 0 6 R

1 1 0 0 0 0 8 H

0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 5 8 BI BB SO

4 0 0 0 4 0 1 0

.333 .400 .185 .000 .000 ---

Avg.

0 0 .183 0 2 .280

Cain cf Gamel cf Yelich rf Grandal c Petricka p Moustakas 2b Braun lf Shaw 3b Thames 1b Arcia ss Anderson p

5 0 4 5 0 5 3 4 3 3 3

2 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 2 1 0

2 0 2 0 0 2 1 1 1 1 0

3 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 2 0

0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 0

2 0 1 2 0 2 0 1 1 1 3

.269 .222 .333 .296 --.250 .207 .202 .277 .226 .000

Chicago

Almora Jr. cf Bryant lf-rf Rizzo 1b Baez ss Contreras c Bote 3b Zobrist 2b Zagunis rf b-Schwarber ph-lf

AB R H BI BB SO Avg. 5 3 4 4 4 3 4 2 2

1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0

4 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 1

0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0

0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

1 1 0 1 2 1 1 1 0

.246 .235 .198 .327 .286 .280 .217 .259 .208

Chapman 3b Piscotty rf Davis dh Morales 1b Pinder lf Profar 2b Laureano cf Phegley c Grossman ph Hundley c Totals

4 4 4 3 4 4 3 2 1 0 32

0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2

0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 5

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2

0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

1 2 4 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 10

.298 .283 .223 .177 .316 .165 .237 .254 .239 .171

Hernandez; 3B: Hickox Game data - T: 3:21. Att: 40,282.

Indians 6, Astros 3 CLE ................001 110 102 — 6 HOU .............020 100 000 — 3 Cleveland

ab r h bi bb so avg

3 3

Reds 12, Cardinals 1 CIN ..............100 210 026 — 12 STL ...............000 000 100 — 1 Cincinnati Votto 1b Suarez 3b Winker lf

AB R H BI BB SO Avg. 5 2 2 5 1 1 4 3 2

1 1 1

0 1 .231 0 1 .241 1 2 .221

Moncada, Chicago, 32; Villar, Baltimore, 31.

DOUBLES—Buxton, Minnesota, 12; Healy, Seattle, 12; Choo, Texas, 11; Haniger, Seattle, 11; Mancini, Baltimore, 11; Simmons.

HOME RUNS—Rosario, Minnesota, 11; Davis, Oakland, 10; Altuve, Houston, 9; Bruce, Seattle, 9.

31; 3 tied at 30.

DOUBLES—Peralta, Arizona, 13; DeJong, St. Louis, 11; Rendon, Washington, 10; Jones, Arizona, 9.

HOME RUNS—Bellinger, Los Angeles, 13; Yelich, Milwaukee, 13; Pederson, Los Angeles, 10; Baez, Chicago, 9; Goldschmidt, St. Louis, 9; Ozuna, St. Louis, 9.

9-4 against the rest of their division. Seattle has hit a league-leading 58 home runs this season.

Cardinals 6, Reds 3

Piscotty rf Morales 1b a-Canha ph Laureano cf Profar 2b Hundley c Totals Toronto

4 3 1 4 2 4 31 AB

0 0 0 1 0 0 1 R

0 0 0 2 0 1 4 H

Totals San Francisco

Sogard ss Smoak 1b Grichuk cf Guerrero Jr. 3b Hernandez lf Drury 2b Tellez dh Jansen c Hanson rf Brito rf Totals

2 4 5 4 5 3 4 3 4 0 34

2 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 7

1 1 3 1 0 3 1 1 1 0 12

CIN ...............002 001 000 — 3 STL ...............003 021 00x — 6 Cincinnati

AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

Votto 1b Suarez 3b Winker lf Puig rf Dietrich 2b Barnhart c Schebler cf Mahle p a-Ervin ph Peraza ss Totals St. Louis

4 4 3 4 3 4 3 1 1 3 30 AB

0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 R

1 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 7 H

Carpenter 3b Goldschmidt 1b DeJong ss Ozuna lf Martinez rf b-O'Neill ph Molina c Fowler cf-rf Wong 2b Hudson p Bader cf Totals

3 3 4 4 3 1 4 2 3 2 2 31

1 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6

0 1 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 9

0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 2 7 BI BB SO

0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6

1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3

0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3

.232 .241 .238 .205 .216 .207 .132 .143 .125 .182

Avg. .219 .284 .346 .270 .328 .300 .265 .303 .265 .000 .190

a-flied out for Hughes in the 7th. b-singled for Gant in the 7th.

E: Votto (2), Martinez (2). LOB: Cincinnati 4, St. Louis 6. 2B: Winker (1), Ozuna (5). HR: Ozuna (10), off Mahle. RBI: Suarez (14), Dietrich (14), Peraza (5), Ozuna 5 (26), Bader (6). CS: Carpenter (1). SF_Dietrich. S_Mahle.

DP: Cincinnati 3 (Barnhart, Dietrich), (Peraza, Dietrich, Votto), (Dietrich, Votto); St. Louis 1 (Goldschmidt, DeJong).

Pitching ip h r er bb so era

Cincinnati

2 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 5

0 1 1 2 2 0 1 0 2 0 9

Avg. .400 .280 .238 .250 .216 .209 .235 .185 .175 .074

a-grounded out for Morales in the 9th.

E: Profar (6), Sogard (1). LOB: Oakland 8, Toronto 10. 2B: Chapman (6), Laureano (4), Sogard (3), Grichuk (7), Drury (5), Jansen (4).

RBI: Sogard (8), Grichuk 2 (11), Hernandez (13), Tellez (16), Jansen (4). SF: Jansen. S_Sogard.

Pitching ip h r er bb so era

Oakland

Anderson, L, 3-2 Hendriks Rodney Dull

Toronto

Sanchez, W, 3-1 Gaviglio Hudson

4 10 6 6 z 1 1 1 1 Z 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0

2 2 4.35

5 2 1 0 3 2 0 0 1 0 0 0

4 4 2.32 0 3 1.00 1 0 4.63

1 3 2.40 1 2 6.55 1 2 10.8

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1 1 5.62

NYY..............001 050 000 — 6 SF ................000 000 004 — 4

0 0 0

0 3 0.98

New York

AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

LeMahieu 2b Voit 1b Sanchez c Torres ss Urshela 3b Gardner cf Maybin rf Estrada lf Tauchman lf Happ p Cessa p Chapman p Totals San Francisco

3 4 4 4 4 3 2 3 1 2 1 0 31 AB

1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 6 R

1 0 1 1 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 8 H

Pillar cf Austin lf Belt 1b-rf Posey c Longoria 3b Solarte 2b Crawford ss Parra rf Bergen p b-Kratz ph Holland p a-Panik ph Gott p Sandoval 1b Totals

4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 0 1 1 1 0 2 36

0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 4

0 1 1 2 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 9

0 0 0 0 0 0

1 2 6.10 0 1 2.38

Twins 9, Orioles 2 Baltimore.....000 110 000 — 2 Minnesota ....001 002 24x — 9 Baltimore

AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

Villar ss Mancini rf 1-Alberto pr-2b Smith Jr. lf Nunez dh Ruiz 3b Rickard cf Davis 1b Wilkerson 2b-rf Severino c Totals Minnesota

4 1 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 35 AB

0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 R

0 1 2 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 8 H

0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 3 2 0 14 BI BB SO

Kepler cf-rf 4 2 2 4 Polanco ss 5 0 1 0 Cruz dh 5 1 2 0 Rosario lf-cf-lf 4 0 0 0 Cron 1b 4 1 2 2 Gonzalez 3b-lf-3b 4 1 1 1 Astudillo rf 1 1 1 0 Adrianza 3b 0 0 0 0 Buxton cf 0 1 0 0 Schoop 2b 4 0 0 0 Castro c 3 2 1 2 Totals 34 9 10 9

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 3

1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 5

.272 .355 .299 .278 .287 .250 .213 .145 .188 .231

Avg. .263 .341 .314 .263 .250 .164 .327 .161 .268 .266 .214

1-ran for Mancini in the 1st.

E: Straily (1). LOB: Baltimore 6, Minnesota 6.

2B: Nunez (5), Cruz (5). HR: Cron (5), off Fry; Kepler (5), off Scott; Gonzalez (2), off Yacabonis; Castro (2), off Yacabonis; Kepler (6), off Yacabonis. RBI: Ruiz (10), Alberto (7), Kepler 4 (15), Cron 2 (14), Gonzalez (5), Castro 2 (4). SB: Wilkerson (1), Buxton (6). SF_Kepler.

Pitching ip h r er bb so era

Baltimore Straily Fry, L, 0-1 Scott Yacabonis

4 3 1 0 2 2 2 2 0 1 2 2 2 4 4 4

1 0 1 1

3 6.75 2 4.05 0 7.11 0 6.32

Berrios, W, 4-1 May, H, 4 Rogers, H, 5 Mejia

6 7 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0

0 0 0 0

8 2 3 1

Minnesota

2.97 3.38 2.13 6.55

Umpires: HP: Gerry Davis; 1B: Chris Conroy; 2B: Pat Hoberg; 3B: Jeremie Rehak.

T: 3:24. A: 18,878 (38,649).

Blue Jays 7, Athletics 1

OAK..............000 010 000 — 1 TOR ...............220 021 00x — 7 Oakland Grossman lf Semien ss Chapman 3b Davis dh

AB R H BI BB SO Avg. 3 3 4 3

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0

1 1 0 1

0 1 1 1

.229 .312 .296 .217

0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3

0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 5

0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3

1 2 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 7

1 2 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 0 1 3 14

.191 .286 .226 .130 .234 .215 .213 .205 .231 --.316 .223

1 2 0 1 0 2 4 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 5 8 BI BB SO

0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 4

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5

.306 .265 .231 .255 .327 .229 .333 .400 .185 .000 .000 ---

Avg. .183 .280 .227 .247 .206 .235 .207 .208 --.167 .111 .183 --.300

a-grounded out for Holland in the 5th. b-homered for Bergen in the 9th.

LOB: New York 5, San Francisco 5. 2B: Torres (6), Urshela 2 (6). HR: Sanchez (7), off Holland; Solarte (1), off Cessa; Kratz (1), off Cessa.

RBI: LeMahieu (15), Voit (23), Sanchez 4 (15), Solarte 3 (7), Kratz (3). SB: LeMahieu (2).

S_Happ.

Pitching ip h r er bb so era

New York

Happ, W, 1-2 Cessa Chapman, S, 5-6

San Francisco Holland, L, 1-4 Gott Bergen

7 5 0 0 1 4 4 4 Z z 0 0 0

0 2 4.68 0 2 4.15

5 6 6 6 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 0

3 6 5.34 0 1 1.80 2 1 5.40

0 1 2.38

HBP: Holland (Voit).

Umpires: HP: Jim Reynolds; 1B: Alan Porter; 2B: Mark Wegner; 3B: Ramon De Jesus.

T: 2:35. A: 33,971 (41,915).

Yankees 7, Giants 3 NYY ...............201 011 002 — 7 SF.................100 002 000 — 3 New York LeMahieu 2b Voit 1b Torres ss Urshela 3b Maybin rf Romine c Tauchman cf-rf Estrada lf 1-Wade pr-lf Paxton p Gardner cf

AB R H BI BB SO Avg. 5 4 4 5 4 4 4 3 1 2 1

3 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0

3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0

0 3 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0

0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 2 0

.305 .276 .255 .294 .250 .250 .189 .429 .243 .000 .237

5 3 1 1 37 AB

0 0 1 0 4 R

0 0 1 0 6 H

Haniger cf-rf Do.Santana lf Vogelbach dh Encarnacion 1b 1-Moore pr-3b Bruce rf Smith cf Beckham ss Narvaez c Healy 3b-1b Gordon 2b Totals

5 4 3 4 0 4 1 5 4 3 4 37

1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 5

0 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 6

0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 9 11 BI BB SO

1 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5

1 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 9

1 2 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 2 10

.286 .143 .318 .244

Avg. .248 .299 .299 .247 .226 .198 .178 .299 .296 .229 .290

One out when winning run scored. a-homered for Mathis in the 9th.

1-ran for Encarnacion in the 10th.

E: Gordon (1). LOB: Texas 9, Seattle 10. 2B: Mazara (4). HR: Mazara (5), off Sheffield; Choo (2), off Swarzak; Encarnacion (7), off Miller. RBI: Mazara 3 (19), Choo (9), Haniger (19), Encarnacion 4 (19). SB: DeShields (7), Forsythe (1), Haniger (3), Do.Santana (4). CS_Pence (1).

DP: Seattle 1 (Brennan, Gordon, Encarnacion).

Pitching ip h r er bb so era

New York

Texas

Paxton, W, 3-2 Kahnle, H, 2 Britton, H, 4 Ottavino, H, 4 Chapman

5 Z z Z 1 z 1

5 3 3

2 8 3.38

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1 1 1.84 0 1 4.05 0 0 1.54

Brewers 10, Mets 2 MIL .............005 040 010 — 10 NYM .............000 110 000 — 2 Milwaukee

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Cain cf Gamel cf Yelich rf Grandal c Petricka p Moustakas 2b Braun lf Shaw 3b Thames 1b Arcia ss Anderson p Pina c Totals New York

5 0 4 5 0 5 3 4 3 3 3 1 37 AB

2 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 2 1 0 0 10 R

2 0 2 0 0 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 10 H

McNeil lf-2b Alonso 1b Cano 2b Conforto rf Ramos c Nimmo cf-lf Frazier 3b Rosario ss deGrom p Oswalt p b-Broxton ph-rf Totals

5 4 3 3 4 4 4 3 1 1 2 34

1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2

2 0 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 7

3 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 10 6 14 BI BB SO

0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2

0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4

0 2 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 8

.269 .222 .333 .296 --.250 .207 .202 .277 .226 .000 .182

Avg. .365 .292 .284 .283 .263 .219 .200 .253 .111 .000 .158

a-flied out for Albers in the 7th. b-lined out for Oswalt in the 7th.

LOB: Milwaukee 8, New York 9. 2B: Cain (7), Moustakas (5), Shaw (3), Thames (1), McNeil 2 (7), Cano (7), Nimmo (4). RBI: Cain 3 (9), Yelich (32), Moustakas 2 (12), Thames 2 (14), Arcia 2 (10), Cano (11), Frazier (5). SB: Yelich 2 (5).

Pitching ip h r er bb so era

Milwaukee Anderson

Albers, W, 2-1 Barnes Petricka

New York

deGrom, L, Z Oswalt Avilan Zamora

4 5 2 2 Z 1 0 0 0 z 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 4 3 1 1

5 3 2 0

5 4 1 0

5 4 1 0

3 4 3.20 0 2 4.76 1 1 5.73 0 1 3.38 3 2 1 0

7 3 1 3

4.85 12.15 9.90 0.00

Inherited runners-scored: Albers 2-0. HBP: deGrom 2 (Thames,Braun). PB_Ramos (5).

Umpires: HP: Tom Hallion; 1B: Adam Hamari; 2B: Todd Tichenor; 3B: Phil Cuzzi.

T: 3:20. A: 28,131 (41,922).

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a-grounded out for Vincent in the 7th. b-singled for Ottavino in the 9th. c-struck out for Melancon in the 9th.

1-ran for Estrada in the 6th.

E: Belt (1), Longoria (4). LOB: New York 7, San Francisco 9. 2B: LeMahieu 2 (9), Voit (3), Torres (5), Belt (6), Posey (8). HR: Voit (8), off Melancon. RBI: Voit 3 (22), Torres (12), Urshela (6), Maybin (1), Estrada (1), Posey 2 (8), Solarte (4). SB: Crawford (1). SF_Posey. S_Torres, Paxton.

DP: San Francisco 2 (Duggar, Longoria), (Crawford, Solarte, Austin).

Pitching ip h r er bb so era

Yankees 6, Giants 4

5 Z 1 z 1 1

Inherited runners-scored: Hughes 2-0, Gant 1-0. HBP: Duke 2 (Fowler,Wong). WP: Hudson. PB_Barnhart (1).

Umpires: HP: Ted Barrett; 1B: Kerwin Danley; 2B: Lance Barksdale; 3B: John Tumpane.

T: 2:32. A: 44,197 (45,538).

Pillar cf 4 Austin 1b-lf 3 Belt lf 3 c-Kratz ph 1 Posey c 3 Longoria 3b 3 Solarte 2b 3 Crawford ss 4 Bumgarner p 2 Vincent p 0 a-Sandoval ph-1b 2 Duggar rf 3 Totals 31

Inherited runners-scored: Kahnle 1-0, Ottavino 3-0, Vincent 2-0. WP: Kahnle.

Umpires: HP: Ramon De Jesus; 1B: Jim Reynolds; 2B: Alan Porter; 3B: Mark Wegner.

T: 3:26. A: 34,950 (41,915).

Hudson, W, 2-1

Miller, H, 5 Hicks, S, 8-9

38 7 15 7 1 7 AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

San Francisco

3 0 0 0

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Inherited runners-scored: Hendriks 2-1. WP: Hendriks.

Umpires: HP: Dan Bellino; 1B: Alfonso Marquez; 2B: Larry Vanover; 3B: Dave Rackley.

T: 2:50. A: 22,254 (53,506).

5 7 5 5 Z 1 1 1 z 0 0 0 2 1 0 0

Gant, H, 5

4.50 11.25 5.73 1.29

1 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 6

.273 .169 .216 .247 .162 .179

Mahle, L, 0-3 Duke Hughes Lorenzen

St. Louis

2 0 0 1

0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 5 7 BI BB SO

TOMMY GILLIGAN/

Miller Chavez Kelley Sampson Martin Dowdy, L, 1-1

5 1 1 1 2 z

3 2 0 0 0 1

Kikuchi Sheffield Sadzeck

1 3 1 z Z 1 1 1 2

0 0 0 2 2 2 1 0 0

0 2 4.54 4 3 6.00 0 1 0.96

1 0 1 1 0

0 1 2 2 0

Seattle

Rosscup, H, 5 Gearrin, H, 5 Brennan, H, 4 Swarzak, BS, 2-5 Elias, W, 2-0

4 0 0 0 0 1

0 0 1 1 0

4 0 0 0 0 1

0 0 0 1 0

5 1 0 0 1 2

4 1 1 1 2 1

1 2 0 0 2

7.52 8.53 1.64 4.50 4.35 5.27

2.35 4.50 1.12 3.24 2.16

Inherited runners-scored: Rosscup 1-0. WP: Brennan.

Umpires: HP: Mark Carlson; 1B: Scott Barry; 2B: Brian Gorman; 3B: Tripp Gibson.

T: 4:06. A: 21,721 (47,943).

Diamondbacks 8, Cubs 3 CHI...............002 100 000 — 3 AZ..................301 030 01x — 8 Chicago

AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

Almora Jr. cf 5 Bryant lf-rf 3 Rizzo 1b 4 Baez ss 4 Contreras c 4 Bote 3b 3 Zobrist 2b 4 Zagunis rf 2 b-Schwarber ph-lf 2 Hendricks p 2 Totals 34 Arizona AB

1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 R

4 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 8 H

Marte cf-2b Vargas 3b Peralta lf Jones rf Walker 1b Flores 2b 1-Dyson pr-cf Ahmed ss Kelly c Ray p Andriese p Totals

1 2 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 8

1 1 2 3 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 11

3 5 5 5 4 3 0 3 4 2 1 35

0 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 10 BI BB SO

0 0 1 2 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 8

2 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 6

0 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 6

.246 .235 .198 .327 .286 .280 .217 .259 .208 .100

Avg. .252 .211 .333 .317 .326 .222 .333 .270 .200 .000 .000

a-walked for Lopez in the 6th. b-flied out for Zagunis in the 7th. c-grounded out for Maples in the 7th. d-walked for Webster in the 9th.

1-ran for Flores in the 7th.

LOB: Chicago 7, Arizona 9. 2B: Almora Jr. (1), Vargas (3), Peralta (13), Jones (9), Kelly (6).

3B: Ahmed (1). HR: Bryant (2), off Ray; Baez (9), off Ray. RBI: Bryant 2 (10), Baez (22), Peralta (18), Jones 2 (18), Flores 3 (5), Ahmed 2 (13). SB: Vargas (1).

DP: Arizona 1 (Andriese, Marte, Walker).

Pitching ip h r er bb so era

Chicago

Hendricks, L, 1-4 Maples Chatwood Webster

5 10 7 7 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1

1 2 2 1

Ray, W, 1-1 Lopez Andriese, S, 1-1

5 5 3 3 1 0 0 0 3 3 0 0

1 7 4.18 1 0 0.87 1 3 3.24

Arizona

3 3 0 0

5.33 0.00 2.77 5.40

WP: Chatwood, Webster, Andriese.

Umpires: HP: Mike Everitt; 1B: Bill Welke; 2B: Chris Guccione; 3B: Ryan Blakney.

T: 3:04. A: 30,664 (48,519).

Padres 4, Nationals 3 Mariners 5, Rangers 4 TEX.........000 200 011 00 — 4 SEA.........003 010 000 01 — 5 Texas DeShields cf Odor 2b Andrus ss Pence dh Mazara rf Gallo lf Forsythe 3b

AB R H BI BB SO Avg. 4 5 2 5 5 3 3

0 0 0 2 1 0 0

0 0 1 1 3 0 0

0 0 0 0 3 0 0

2 0 3 0 0 2 2

0 4 1 0 0 1 1

.188 .149 .355 .286 .244 .263 .222

SD..................000 010 111 — 4 WSH .............000 200 010 — 3 San Diego Tatis Jr. ss Myers lf Machado 3b Reyes rf Renfroe rf Hosmer 1b Kinsler 2b Hedges c Margot cf Strahm sp

ab 4 4 4 3 1 4 4 2 3 2

r 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0

h 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0

bi bb so avg 0 0 2 .286 0 0 2 .284 1 0 3 .244 0 0 0 .200 1 0 0 .222 1 0 0 .221 0 0 1 .147 0 1 1 .200 0 0 1 .257 0 0 2 .250

Wingenter rp France ph Stammen rp Yates rp Totals

0 1 0 0 32

0 0 0 0 4

0 1 0 0 6

0 0 0 0 3

0 0 0 0 1

0 .000 0 1.000 0 .000 0 .000 12

Batting - 2B: Myers (5); HR: Hosmer (3); Renfroe (5); RBI: Hosmer (14); Machado (10); Renfroe (8) LOB: 2.

Fielding - E: Hosmer (1); DP: 1.

Washington ab r h bi bb so avg Eaton rf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .310 Robles cf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .273 Rendon 3b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .356 Soto lf 4 1 1 0 0 1 .241 Zimmerman 1b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .214 Gomes c 4 1 3 2 0 1 .255 Dozier 2b 3 0 0 0 1 3 .176 Scherzer sp 2 0 0 0 0 2 .125 M. Adams ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .289 Kendrick ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 .343 Kieboom ss 4 1 1 1 0 2 .250 Totals 33 3 6 3 2 13

Batting - HR: Gomes (2); Kieboom (1); RBI: Gomes 2 (8); Kieboom (1); GIDP: Soto LOB: 6.

Baserunning - SB: Robles 2 (7); Taylor (1).

Fielding - PB: Gomes (3); DP: 1.

Pitching ip h r er bb so era San Diego Strahm 6 4 2 2 0 8 3.04 Wingenter 1 0 0 0 0 2 3.00 Stammen W,3-1 1 1 1 1 0 0 3.00 BS,2 Yates S,13 1 1 0 0 2 3 0.60 Washington Scherzer 7 4 2 2 0 10 4.12 1 Barraclough /3 1 1 0 1 0 2.08 2 Suero /3 0 0 0 0 1 5.06 Doolittle L,3-1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1.46

HBP: Rendon (by Strahm). Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Strahm 23; 81-55; Wingenter 3; 14-10; Stammen 4; 15-9; Yates 6; 28-13; Scherzer 24; 101-69; Barraclough 3; 25-15; Suero 2; 9-6; Doolittle 4; 20-15 Umpires - HP: Fletcher; 1B: Little; 2B: West; 3B: Cooper Game data - T: 3:02. Att: 27,193.

Blue Jays 4, Athletics 2 OAK .............000 000 020 — 2 TOR...............101 000 002 — 4 Oakland Semien ss Chapman 3b Piscotty rf Davis dh Morales 1b Pinder lf Profar 2b Laureano cf Phegley c Grossman ph Hundley c Totals

ab 3 4 4 4 3 4 4 3 2 1 0 32

r 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2

h 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 5

bi bb so avg 0 1 0 .321 0 0 1 .298 0 0 2 .283 0 0 4 .223 0 1 0 .177 0 0 2 .316 0 0 1 .165 0 0 0 .237 0 0 0 .254 2 0 0 .239 0 0 0 .171 2 2 10

Batting - 2B: Pinder (6); HR: Grossman (2); RBI: Grossman 2 (7) LOB: 5.

Toronto ab r h bi bb so avg Sogard ss 3 1 2 1 1 0 .394 Smoak 1b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .282 Grichuk cf 4 0 1 1 0 2 .219 Tellez dh 4 0 0 0 0 1 .234 Guerrero Jr. 3b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .250 Hanson pr 0 1 0 0 0 0 .167 McKinney rf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .237 Hernandez lf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .229 Drury 2b 4 1 1 2 0 1 .182 Jansen c 3 1 1 0 0 1 .177 Totals 33 4 8 4 1 6

Batting - 2B: Guerrero Jr. (1); HR: Drury (3); Sogard (2); S: McKinney (2); RBI: Drury 2 (5); Grichuk (9); Sogard (7) LOB: 5.

Baserunning - SB: Hernandez (2).

Pitching ip h r er bb so era Oakland Fiers 7 6 2 2 0 5 7.03 Wendelken 1 0 0 0 1 1 3.63 2 Petit L,0-1 /3 2 2 2 0 0 2.93 Toronto Stroman 7 1 0 0 2 7 1.43 2 Biagini BS,2 /3 3 2 2 0 0 3.75 1 Tepera /3 0 0 0 0 1 8.10 Giles W,1-1 1 1 0 0 0 2 2.19

Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Fiers 27; 101-67; Wendelken 4; 22-12; Petit 4; 13-8; Stroman 24; 97-61; Biagini 5; 18-14; Tepera 1; 3-3; Giles 4; 14-9 Umpires - HP: Rackley; 1B: Bellino; 2B: Marquez; 3B: Vanover Game data - T: 2:50. Att: 28,688.

Rockies 8, Braves 4 COL...............000 202 130 — 8 ATL ................100 101 001 — 4 Colorado Blackmon rf Story ss Arenado 3b Murphy 1b Dahl lf Desmond cf McMahon 2b Butera c Senzatela sp Estevez rp Tapia ph Oh rp Reynolds ph

ab 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 3 2 0 1 0 1

r 0 2 2 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0

h 1 2 2 3 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0

bi bb so avg 1 0 0 .275 1 0 2 .297 2 0 1 .284 1 0 0 .263 0 0 2 .354 0 0 1 .181 2 0 3 .250 0 0 0 .200 0 0 1 .000 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 .276 0 0 0 .000 1 0 0 .200

Oberg rp Bettis rp Davis rp Totals

0 0 0 39

0 0 0 8

0 0 0 12

0 0 0 8

0 0 0 0

0 .000 0 .000 0 .000 10

Batting - 2B: Arenado (5); Butera (2); Murphy 2 (2); Story (4); HR: Arenado (5); Story (6); S: Butera (1); RBI: Arenado 2 (19); Blackmon (12); McMahon 2 (9); Murphy (1); Reynolds (8); Story (16) LOB: 5.

Fielding - E: McMahon (2); DP: 2.

Atlanta ab r h bi bb so avg Albies 2b 4 1 2 0 1 1 .282 Donaldson 3b 4 0 1 1 0 0 .261 F. Freeman 1b 4 0 0 0 1 1 .313 Acuna Jr. lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .289 Markakis rf 3 1 2 0 1 0 .333 Camargo ss 4 0 0 0 0 0 .220 Wilson rp 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Flowers c 4 2 4 2 0 0 .378 Inciarte cf 4 0 1 1 0 2 .226 Fried sp 2 0 0 0 0 1 .143 Tomlin rp 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Sobotka rp 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Joyce ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .238 Biddle rp 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Webb rp 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Swanson ss 1 0 0 0 0 1 .259 Totals 35 4 10 4 3 7

Batting - 2B: Donaldson (8); Markakis (7); HR: Flowers 2 (3); RBI: Donaldson (10); Flowers 2 (4); Inciarte (5); GIDP: Camargo LOB: 8.

Fielding - E: Donaldson (3); PB: Flowers (4).

Pitching ip h r er bb so era Colorado Senzatela W,2-1 52/3 7 3 3 3 4 3.93 1 Estevez H,2 /3 0 0 0 0 1 5.25 Oh H,1 1 1 0 0 0 0 4.50 Oberg 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.32 2 Bettis /3 2 1 1 0 1 7.50 1 Davis S,4 /3 0 0 0 0 1 1.00 Atlanta Fried L,3-1 51/3 7 4 4 0 8 2.30 Tomlin 1 2 1 1 0 1 3.60 2 Sobotka /3 0 0 0 0 0 9.28 Biddle 0 3 3 1 0 0 3.18 Webb 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 Wilson 1 0 0 0 0 1 8.31

Biddle pitched to 4 batters in the 8th. WP: Fried. HBP: Donaldson (by Bettis). Balks: Sobotka. Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Senzatela 25; 105-60; Estevez 1; 6-5; Oh 4; 1310; Oberg 3; 12-7; Bettis 5; 16-11; Davis 1; 5-3; Fried 23; 87-59; Tomlin 5; 19-13; Sobotka 2; 11-7; Biddle 4; 12-8; Webb 3; 11-6; Wilson 3; 13-9 Umpires - HP: Torres; 1B: DeMuth; 2B: Hernandez; 3B: Hickox Game data - T: 3:21. Att: 40,282.

Indians 6, Astros 3 CLE ................001 110 102 — 6 HOU .............020 100 000 — 3 Cleveland Lindor ss Martin cf Ramirez 3b Santana 1b C. Gonzalez dh Kipnis 2b Bauers lf Plawecki c Perez c G. Allen pr Naquin rf Totals

ab 5 4 3 5 4 4 3 0 3 1 4 36

r 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 6

h 2 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 2 9

bi bb so avg 3 0 1 .259 1 1 2 .256 0 1 0 .172 0 0 3 .317 1 1 2 .257 0 0 2 .235 0 0 1 .224 0 1 0 .200 0 0 0 .185 0 0 1 .105 1 0 1 .242 6 4 13

Batting - 2B: Naquin (4); HR: C. Gonzalez (1); Lindor 2 (3); Martin (5); RBI: C. Gonzalez (2); Lindor 3 (5); Martin (8); Naquin (7) LOB: 8.

Baserunning - SB: Ramirez (8).

Fielding - E: Santana (3).

Houston ab r h bi bb so avg Springer cf 5 0 1 1 0 3 .279 Altuve 2b 2 0 0 0 3 0 .265 Bregman 3b 4 0 1 1 1 2 .301 Brantley lf 5 0 2 0 0 1 .327 Correa ss 5 0 1 0 0 3 .267 Reddick rf 4 1 1 0 0 0 .368 Gurriel 1b 4 1 2 0 0 0 .261 White dh 4 0 0 0 0 2 .268 Chirinos c 4 1 2 1 0 1 .279 Totals 37 3 10 3 4 12

Batting - 2B: Brantley (6); Reddick (3); Springer (6); RBI: Bregman (13); Chirinos (9); Springer (22) LOB: 11.

Pitching ip h r er bb so era Cleveland Kluber 5 7 3 3 3 6 5.81 Cimber W,2-1 12/3 0 0 0 0 1 3.86 Perez 0 1 0 0 0 0 7.94 1 Wittgren H,1 1 /3 2 0 0 0 2 0.96 Hand S,8 1 0 0 0 1 3 1.42 Houston McHugh 52/3 4 3 3 2 9 4.78 1 Harris /3 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 Rondon L,2-1 1 2 1 1 0 0 2.79 Devenski 1 1 0 0 1 1 3.72 James 1 2 2 2 1 3 7.90

HBP: Ramirez (by McHugh). Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Kluber 25; 98-58; Cimber 5; 15-12; Perez 1; 4-3; Wittgren 6; 24-14; Hand 4; 20-14; McHugh 24; 99-62; Harris 1; 7-4; Rondon 5; 16-12; Devenski 5; 17-10; James 6; 24-14 Umpires - HP: Kellogg; 1B: O'Nora; 2B: Hoye; 3B: Ripperger Game data - T: 3:19. Att: 38,084.

Angels 5, Royals 1 LAA ...............200 011 010 — 5 KC.................000 000 001 — 1 Los Angeles Fletcher 3b Trout dh Simmons ss Pujols 1b Calhoun rf Smith c Rengifo 2b Goodwin lf Bourjos cf Totals

ab 4 5 5 4 3 4 2 3 4 34

r 1 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 5

h 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 0 10

bi bb so avg 0 1 0 .299 0 0 0 .297 1 0 1 .273 2 0 0 .228 1 1 0 .200 0 0 0 .268 1 1 0 .500 0 1 0 .333 0 0 0 .091 5 4 1

Batting - 2B: Rengifo (1); Simmons (10); HR: Calhoun (7); Pujols (4); SF: Rengifo (1); RBI: Calhoun (16); Pujols 2 (13); Rengifo (1); Simmons (15); GIDP: Simmons LOB: 7.

Fielding - DP: 3.

Kansas City ab r h bi bb so avg Merrifi eld 2b 2 1 1 0 2 0 .302 Mondesi ss 3 0 0 1 0 1 .275 Gordon lf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .309 Dozier dh 4 0 1 0 0 1 .320 Soler rf 2 0 0 0 1 1 .224 O'Hearn 1b 3 0 0 0 0 2 .169 Owings 3b 3 0 1 0 0 2 .163 Maldonado c 3 0 1 0 0 1 .179 Hamilton cf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .222 Totals 27 1 5 1 3 8

Batting - 3B: Merrifi eld (3); SF: Mondesi (4); RBI: Mondesi (21); GIDP: Gordon; Hamilton; Mondesi LOB: 3.

Baserunning - CS: Hamilton (3).

Fielding - DP: 1.

Pitching ip h r er bb so era Los Angeles Skaggs W,2-2 5 3 0 0 3 5 3.15 Bard 2 0 0 0 0 2 3.38 Bedrosian 1 1 0 0 0 1 3.46 Anderson 1 1 1 1 0 0 3.12 Kansas City Duffy L,0-1 5 5 3 3 3 1 5.40 1 Lovelady /3 2 1 1 1 0 7.20 2 Newberry /3 0 0 0 0 0 2.08 Fillmyer 3 3 1 1 0 0 9.00

Skaggs pitched to 1 batters in the 6th. Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Skaggs 19; 92-52; Bard 5; 22-14; Bedrosian 3; 7-5; Anderson 4; 16-9; Duffy 22; 86-51; Lovelady 4; 23-12; Newberry 2; 11-8; Fillmyer 11; 47-29 Umpires - HP: Baker; 1B: Layne; 2B: Whitson; 3B: Wendelstedt Game data - T: 3:06. Att: 23,186.

Reds 12, Cardinals 1 CIN ..............100 210 026 — 12 STL ...............000 000 100 — 1 Cincinnati

AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

Votto 1b Suarez 3b Winker lf Puig rf Schebler cf Iglesias ss Casali c DeSclafani p b-Dietrich ph Lorenzen p d-Ervin ph-rf Peraza 2b Totals St. Louis

5 5 4 5 3 5 5 1 1 1 1 4 40 AB

2 1 3 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 12 R

2 1 2 2 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 2 14 H

Carpenter 3b Goldschmidt 1b f-Wieters ph DeJong ss Ozuna lf Martinez rf Molina c Fowler cf Wong 2b Mikolas p a-Munoz ph c-O'Neill ph Gyorko p Totals

2 3 1 4 4 3 4 3 4 1 1 1 1 32

1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

2 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 8

1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 2 3 0 0 0 2 3 1 0 0 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 12 3 11 BI BB SO

0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4

0 0 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 6

.231 .241 .221 .202 .138 .284 .306 .000 .208 .167 .143 .176

Avg. .226 .283 .364 .340 .259 .328 .266 .311 .275 .182 .200 .276 .143

LOB: Cincinnati 5, St. Louis 10. 2B: Casali (5).

HR: Suarez (6), off Mikolas; Winker (7), off Mikolas; Votto (3), off Mikolas; Puig (4), off Webb; Peraza (2), off Leone. RBI: Votto (5), Suarez (13), Winker (12), Puig 3 (15), Iglesias (5), Casali 4 (5), Peraza (4), DeJong (13). S: DeSclafani.

RISP: Cincinnati 4 for 6; St. Louis 1 for 7.

Pitching ip h r er bb so era

Cincinnati

DeSclafani, W, 1-1 Garrett Lorenzen

3 6 4.26 1 0 1.54 0 0 1.50

Hughes

6 4 0 0 Z 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 z 1 1 0 0

Mikolas, L, 2-2 Helsley Webb Gallegos Leone Gyorko

5 2 z Z Z z

1 0 1 0 1 0

St. Louis

6 1 1 0 6 0

4 0 2 0 6 0

4 0 2 0 6 0

0 0 5.91 4 2 1 1 2 1

5.29 2.84 7.94 4.91 6.17 0.00

Reds’ long wait for off ense ended in a big way John Fay

Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

ST. LOUIS – The way the Reds’ starting pitchers have been throwing, a little off ense goes a long way.

The Reds got more than a little offense Friday night. They opened their series with the St. Louis Cardinals with a 12-1 victory before a sellout crowd of 45,087 on a chilly night at Busch Stadium.

Eugenio Suárez, Jesse Winker, Joey Votto and José Peraza hit solo shots and Yasiel Puig hit a two-run shot.

The win was the Reds’ sixth in their

last eight games and they were 10-6 since the 1-8 start. The good streak has come from winning close games.

Friday was opposite of a close game.

“You just never get to point where you relax,” Reds manager David Bell said. “We’ve had so many close ones. I think in the end, it will make us a better team. I think it already has. It’s brought us together. But it was nice to have a little bit of breathing room against a really good off ense.”

The fi ve home runs were a seasonhigh.

“It was a lot of fun,” Winker said. “It was very impressive. I think we’ve been talking about this off ense all year long. It can kind of get you at any

minute. It happened tonight real quick. Those 12 runs got put up very fast and I think that can happen at any moment with us.”

Anthony DeSclafani extended the streak of innings without allowing an earned run to 17 for Reds starters.

DeSclafani went six shutout innings.

He allowed four hits, all singles, including two bunt hits that beat the shift. He struck out six, walked three.

DeSclafani seems to have found himself. He’s allowed one run on six hits over 12 innings in his last two starts. He had allowed 10 runs in 8 1⁄ 3 innings in the two starts previous to that.

“I’m trying to command the ball up

a little bit,” DeSclafani said. “It’s something I haven’t been used to in the past. I always preach ‘down in the zone.’ These coaches came along and they say ‘your fastball plays up,’ so I’m trying to command the upper part of the zone. It’s something I’ve been working on since spring training.

Maybe I got away from it a little bit once the season started. Hopefully, from here on out, I can utilize it, whether to get ahead or getting a weak out.

The outing lowered the ERA of the starting rotation for the Reds to 3.01.

The starters have not allowed an earned run in their last 17 innings. ❚ Box score, 12C

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Elusive third out costly for Mahle

SATURDAY’S GAME Cardinals 6, Reds 3

Mahle walked Matt Carpenter with one out in the bottom of the inning.

Paul Goldschmidt singled to extend his hitting streak to 13 games. It looked like Mahle would escape when Paul DeJong fl ew out to center for the second out.

But Ozuna crushed the next pitch – a 93-mph belt-high fastball on the inner half. It ended up in the left-fi eld seats for his 10th home run, and the Cardinals led 3-2.

“The home run was supposed to be a fastball up and in,” Mahle said. “I left it over the plate.”

Those were the fi rst earned runs a Reds’ starter allowed in 19 innings.

Ozuna got Mahle again in the fi fth.

Mahle walked Goldschmidt with two outs. DeJong singled. Ozuna’s followed with a two-run double off the wall in right.

Bell did not consider pulling Mahle with Ozuna due up.

“In the fi fth inning there, no,” Bell said. “Just the way he’s been pitching, I feel great about giving him the opportunity. We trust him and trust our guys. They have a good lineup. It’s not always going to work out. Right there, unless anything got out of whack, it’s Tyler’s inning for the most part.”

It wasn’t the pitches to Ozuna that left Mahle frustrated.

“The thing about that was walking hitters with two outs,” Mahle said.

Zach Duke took over for Mahle in the sixth and his struggles continued.

He got an out and then hit the next two batters before allowing an RBI single to Harrison Bader.

Duke’s ERA is 11.25. He’s allowed at least one run in seven of his 14 appearances.

John Fay

Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

ST. LOUIS – Tyler Mahle was two outs from a good outing Saturday.

But his inability to get the third out in the third and fi fth innings led to fi ve runs in a Reds’ 6-3 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals before a crowd of 44,197 at Busch Stadium.

Mahle gave up a two-out, threerun homer to Marcell Ozuna in the third and a two-out, two-run double to Ozuna in the fi fth.

Mahle, 0-3, went fi ve innings and allowed the fi ve runs on seven hits. He walked three – two of whom scored – and struck out two. Mahle has given up 13 runs in 17 innings over his last three starts. He gave up one run in 11 innings over his fi rst two starts.

“The splitter wasn’t good today,” Mahle said. “The curveball wasn’t good. I threw some cutters, a lot of them weren’t competitive pitches.

They got some hits off of them, off the-end-of-the-bat bloopers. I can’t do much about that. Just poor pitches.”

Reds manager David Bell didn’t think Mahle was that bad.

“There were some real close pitches that were borderline pitches,” Bell said. “Really, the story was Ozuna. He had a huge game for them that was, really, the diff erence. Tyler, I defi nitely still feel good about how he’s pitching. He just missed. Just off the plate.

Just missed getting a few calls and it made a diff erence.”

The Reds took a 2-0 lead in the second. Scott Schebler led off with a walk. Schebler moved to second on Mahle’s sacrifi ce and to third on a wild

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pitch.

Jose Peraza singled to score Schebler. Peraza moved up on Joey Votto’s groundout. Eugenio Suarez lofted one down the right line that Jose Martinez could not get to after long run. Peraza scored, and Suarez ended up at second when the ball went off Martinez’s glove for an error.

Jesse Winker followed with single to center. Dexter Fowler’s strong throw easily beat Suarez to the plate.

Yadier Molina applied the tag to end the inning.

“Two outs there, you defi nitely have to take a chance to try and score him right there. If the throw is off , just a little bit, it’s a run,” Bell said. “In most cases, it is off a little bit. In that case, Dexter Fowler made a perfect throw. It was still very close. Defi nitely the right call. It just didn’t work out.”

Cincinnati

AB

Totals St. Louis

30 AB

Votto 1b Suarez 3b Winker lf Puig rf Dietrich 2b Barnhart c Schebler cf Mahle p Duke p Hughes p a-Ervin ph Lorenzen p Peraza ss Carpenter 3b Goldschmidt 1b DeJong ss Ozuna lf Martinez rf Gant p b-O'Neill ph Miller p Hicks p Molina c Fowler cf-rf Wong 2b Hudson p Bader cf Totals

Cincinnati St. Louis

R

H

BI

BB

SO

3 R

7 H

3 BI

2 BB

7 SO

6

9

6

4 4 3 4 3 4 3 1 0 0 1 0 3

0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1

3 3 4 4 3 0 1 0 0 4 2 3 2 2

1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

31

002 003

001 021

1 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 2 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1

0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

000 00x

0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3

— —

Avg.

1 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 1

.232 .241 .238 .205 .216 .207 .132 .143 ----.125 .167 .182

0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1

.219 .284 .346 .270 .328 .000 .300 ----.265 .303 .265 .000 .190

Avg.

3

3 6

7 9

1 1

a-flied out for Hughes in the 7th. b-singled for Gant in the 7th.

E—Votto (2), Martinez (2). LOB—Cincinnati 4, St. Louis 6.

2B—Winker (1), Ozuna (5). HR—Ozuna (10), off Mahle.

RBIs—Suarez (14), Dietrich (14), Peraza (5), Ozuna 5 (26), Bader (6). CS—Carpenter (1). SF—Dietrich. S—Mahle.

Runners left in scoring position—Cincinnati 1 (Barnhart); St. Louis 3 (Goldschmidt 2, Martinez). RISP—Cincinnati 4 for 5; St. Louis 3 for 7.

Runners moved up—Votto, Carpenter. LIDP—Fowler.

GIDP—Winker, Molina.

DP—Cincinnati 3 (Barnhart, Dietrich), (Peraza, Dietrich, Votto), (Dietrich, Votto); St. Louis 1 (Goldschmidt, DeJong).

Cincinnati

Mahle, L, 0-3 Duke Hughes Lorenzen St. Louis

IP H

R ER BB SO

NP

R ER BB SO

NP

5 7 5 ⁄ 3 1 1 1 ⁄ 3 0 0 2 1 0

2

IP H

5 1 0 0

3 0 0 0

2 84 0 11 0 1 1 22

ERA

4.50 11.25 5.73 1.29 ERA

Hudson, W, 2-1 52⁄ 3 7 3 3 1 1 79 5.62 Gant, H, 5 11⁄ 3 0 0 0 0 3 20 0.98 Miller, H, 5 1 0 0 0 1 2 19 6.10 Hicks, S, 8-9 1 0 0 0 0 1 13 2.38 Inherited runners-scored—Hughes 2-0, Gant 1-0. HBP—Duke 2 (Fowler,Wong). WP—Hudson. PB—Barnhart (1).

Umpires—Home, Ted Barrett; First, Kerwin Danley; Second, Lance Barksdale; Third, John Tumpane.

T—2:32. A—44,197 (45,538).

UP NEXT REDS AT CARDINALS Game 3 of a 3-game series When: 2:15 p.m. Sunday Where: Busch Stadium, St. Louis

STATISTICS

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(Through Saturday’s game) BATTERS

Casali J.Iglesias Suarez Winker Votto Dietrich Barnhart Puig Kemp Peraza Farmer Schebler Ervin Team Totals PITCHERS

Peralta Castillo Lorenzen Garrett Stephenson Hernandez Roark Gray R.Iglesias DeSclafani Mahle Hughes Duke Team Totals

AVG

OBA

.306 .284 .241 .238 .232 .216 .207 .205 .200 .182 .167 .132 .125 .208

AB

.342 .324 .347 .315 .344 .317 .324 .217 .210 .203 .250 .263 .300 .280 W

0 3 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 11

R

36 67 87 80 82 51 58 88 60 77 24 68 8 830 L

0 1 0 1 0 1 1 3 3 1 3 0 1 15

H

3 6 10 14 13 8 7 7 4 9 3 10 1 99 ERA

1.12 1.23 1.29 1.54 2.08 2.53 3.24 3.65 3.65 4.26 4.50 5.73 11.25 3.27

2B

11 19 21 19 19 11 12 18 12 14 4 9 1 173 G

10 6 12 14 10 12 5 5 11 5 5 14 14 26

3B

5 3 5 1 6 1 2 3 2 2 0 1 0 33 GS

0 6 0 0 0 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 0 26

HR

0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2

SV

0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 8

RBI

0 1 6 7 3 5 2 4 1 2 3 2 0 36

IP

8.0 36.2 14.0 11.2 13.0 10.2 25.0 24.2 12.1 25.1 28.0 11.0 8.0 228.1

BB

5 5 14 12 5 14 4 15 5 5 7 5 1 98

H

5 21 15 6 7 12 29 18 10 21 32 12 11 199

2 4 13 8 13 5 10 2 1 1 2 12 2 76

R

1 5 2 2 4 3 10 11 5 12 14 7 10 86

SO

12 11 23 17 25 11 16 23 19 18 6 25 4 232 ER

1 5 2 2 3 3 9 10 5 12 14 7 10 83

SB

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 4

HR

0 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 5 4 1 2 20

CS

E

0 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 9

1 1 3 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 14

BB

SO

3 14 5 5 4 5 11 6 6 11 7 5 6 88

5 43 10 12 18 10 24 31 19 28 26 8 4 238

The skinny: After lasting only 22⁄ 3 innings in his first start in March, Gray has put together a 3.27 ERA in his four April starts. In his last start, a no-decision against the Braves, he allowed four runs in 51⁄ 3 innings. He did strike out nine without walking a batter.

Pitching matchups Reds: Sonny Gray Throws: Right Record: 0-3 ERA: 3.65 Cardinals: Jack Flaherty Throws: Right Record: 2-1 ERA: 5.25

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Wood won’t be back soon after setback John Fay

Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

ST. LOUIS - Left-hander Alex Wood’s back injury has already kept him out longer than expected.

Now, the timetable is moving the wrong way. Wood, obtained in the seven-player trade with the Los Angeles Dodgers had a setback after his latest bullpen session in Goodyear, Ariz.

“His back didn’t respond quite as well as it had been,” Reds manager David Bell said. “I think he had his most encouraging day when he was in San Diego. But when he threw in the next session in Arizona, the next day it didn’t respond that well.”

“It’s a little bit of a step back. He may go next week for an exam, like a second opinion, on his back.”

The rotation has been excellent in Wood’s absence. The fi ve starters took a combined 3.01 ERA into Saturday. That was the best in the National League and second best in the Major Leagues to Tampa Bay (2.14).

Still, Wood was 9-7 with a 3.68 ERA last year and 16-3 with a 2.72 ERA in 2017.

“We can’t wait to get Alex back,” Bell said. “We’ll just keep our fi ngers crossed that this is a minor setback because he was defi nitely progressing. Our guys have stepped in, and it’s been good. The one guy that we really would really be a big part of it, he hasn’t yet. The depth has really helped us.”

PITCHING + DEFENSE: The Reds went into Saturday with a National League-best 3.15 ERA. A big part of that is turning balls in play into outs.

“Our defense up the middle, at the corners, really everywhere. Jose Iglesias has added a lot with his defense,” Bell said. “Geno (Suarez) is playing great at third base. We’re getting a lot out of our outfi elders, doing everything they can with positioning, getting reads off the bat. Our catchers have done a fantastic job with the pitching staff .

“They go hand-in-hand, pitching and defense. I think they’re picking each other up. It’s been good to see.”

Iglesias, signed on Feb. 23, had a reputation as an elite defender. He’s live up to that.

“It’s fun to watch him,” Bell said.

“He loves to play defense. He loves to

When he’s not blowing bubbles, Eugenio Suarez has played good defense and helped the Reds to the NL’s best ERA. USA TODAY SPORTS

play shortstop. He works every day.

It’s not really work. He has a way of practicing that’s fun. He challenges himself. He makes things diffi cult for himself, so he’s ready for anything in the game. It’s fun to see him. He really has a passion for playing the position.

He wants to make every single play.

He’s not afraid of any play. He’s been a good example for everyone. I think

we’re a better team for having him on the team for sure.”

Iglesias has a fl air in the fi eld. It may look like all instinct. It’s not.

“It’s a combination,” he said. “I practice those plays. Those plays become routine.”

DOES SIZE MATTER? The size of outfi elds varies around baseball. St. Louis is one of the bigger ones.

Does that factor into who plays that day for the outfi eld that day for the Reds?

“I think we do look at all the factors, what ballpark we’re playing in,” Bell said. “There’s certain pitchers in our rotation that may be more fl y ball or more ground ball. I don’t know if it’s really changed any of the decisions that we’ve made on who is playing, but we do look at all that. I know this outfi eld here is bigger than our outfi eld in Cincinnati, but it’s hard to know how much to really factor that in.”

“It is something we’re aware of and think about.”

Scott Schebler, the Reds’ best defender in center, started Friday and Saturday, depsite his prolonged hitting slump.

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Track, lacrosse athletes are stepping up Melanie Laughman Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

In a vote that ended April 25, Cincinnati.com readers voted for the Cincinnati Enquirer athlete of the week winners for April 15-21, sponsored by TriHealth.

You do not have to be a subscriber to vote, a period that lasts Monday afternoon to Friday at 3 p.m. each week.

Please submit any nominees by Monday for the previous week’s performances to mlaughman@enquirer.com.

The new ballot will be posted Monday. You can vote once an hour from any device.

You can nominate the remaining winter and beginning spring sports athletes using the following Twitter hashtags or emailing mlaughman@enquirer.com. #cincybaseball #cincysoftball #cincytennis #cincyvb #cincytrack #cincylax This week’s winners are: Ohio team of the week: Lakota East girls track – At the Centerville relays, the 4x200 and 4x1,600 team broke school records and were relay champions. Those performances were the third and second best times in the state. The 4x200 team: Danni

Stoughton, Azairyah Bryant, Dawn Hilton and Camiyah James. The 4x1,600 team: Kelsi Harris, Danielle Horter, Carly Spletzer and Cali Reynolds.

Northern Kentucky team of the week: Notre Dame Academy lacrosse – The Pandas are 11-3 on the season including wins over Cincinnati Country Day, Louisville Mercy and Atherton.

Ohio baseball: Will Eads, Summit Country Day – The senior continues to lead the Miami Valley Conference in multiple off ensive categories after a monster week in a spring break trip to Florida, when he had three games with four or more RBI. Northern Kentucky baseball: Devin Johnson, Beechwood – The senior went 3-4 with a single, double and triple to help beat Bishop Brossart for the All A Sectional championship on April 17th.

He is tied for 6th in the state with a .610 average.

Ohio softball: Haley Spitznagel, Western Hills – The pitcher leads the Cincinnati Metro League with 76 strikeouts, 10 wins and a 1.78 ERA. She’s also second in the league in RBI with 19.

Northern Kentucky softball: Kennedy Baioni, Highlands – She

got two wins, 19-7 over McNicholas April 16, and 13-3 over Newport Central Catholic April 17. She was 2-for-3 with 5 RBI in the NewCath game and went 3-for-4 against McNicholas at the plate.

Boys lacrosse: Owen Howard, Walnut Hills – The junior had 13 combined goals and two assists in two dominating wins over Anderson and Milford that improved the Eagles to 9-1 overall. Howard is second in the ECC with 38 goals.

Girls lacrosse: Josey Storms, Loveland – She had seven goals in two games as well as some great assists. Displaying her stick skills with ground balls, forced turnovers, her speed and moves in aiding her team to a 15-8 victory over MND and 13-8 over Mason.

Boys track: Kyle Kelly, Newport Central Catholic – The senior won the 100 and 200, and anchored the 4x100 and 4x200 relays that won to

complete a four-event sweep at the Diocese of Covington meet. He won three of the four events two days earlier at the Campbell County championships.

Girls track: Maria Kinnett, Newport Central Catholic – She won all four of her events at the Campbell County championships: The 200 and 400, and 4x100 and 4x200, and won two events at the Diocese of Covington meet.

Tennis: Luke Williams, Campbell County – He went undefeated (4-0) in singles play last week with wins over Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, Mason County and Ryle. He is now 7-1 in regular season play for this year and hopes to qualify for the state tournament for the second year in a row.

He also has a 4.0 GPA. Boys volleyball: Owen Vogelpohl, Walnut Hills – In a three-set win over West Clermont, he had four aces, 29 assists, one block and seven digs.

Join the Enquirer high school sports Facebook group, Enquirer Preps Plus, to keep current on the high school sports scene during the summer. There’s also a new group called Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Sports Parents for those interested.

Community still rallying around Xavier coach Adam Baum

Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

One of the ever-endearing qualities of sports is they can bring people together in a lasting way, often for a cause that’s far more important than winning or losing.

It’s a fact Andy Fleming knows well because he’s reminded of it every year.

The fall soccer season ended almost six months ago, but last Wednesday, after his Xavier men’s soccer team wrapped up practice for a spring exhibition game Saturday against Northwestern, tears trickle down Fleming’s face as he spoke about one game that holds permanent real estate in his heart.

Saturday’s visit from Northwestern marked the eighth edition of Devin’s Game, a fundraising event for the Down Syndrome Association of Greater Cincinnati, named after Fleming’s daughter, Devin, who was born with Down Syndrome.

“I’m sorry,” Fleming said, wiping away tears. “I always get sad when I talk about this, but I fi gure when I stop crying about this that means I don’t care about it.”

Almost eight years ago, life changed for Fleming and his wife, Amy, in a way they didn’t expect.

“I had been here one year,” said Fleming, who will begin his 10th season at Xavier in the fall. “Devin was born in May of 2011 and me being from

Xavier men’s soccer coach Andy Fleming and his family were to participate in the Devin’s Game fundraiser, named after his daughter who was born with Down Syndrome, against Northwestern on Saturday night. PROVIDED

Boston and my wife from New York and probably knowing three or four people (in Cincinnati) at the time, she was born 12 days early. We didn’t know she was gonna have Down Syndrome and they come in and tell you that.

“Within the fi rst 48 hours, I remember Amy had to stay in the hospital a few days and Devin stayed for several days – there were some breathing complications she had – and I remember my son, Brayden, was only two years old at the time but he woke up one morning and said, ‘Dad, are the baby and mom gonna be alright?’ He looked me in the eye and I think it was the second day after Devin had been born and I realized this is hard but you can’t stop living, you have to take control of this and lead your family right now.”

Fleming, who contemplated taking a leave of absence, said his coaching instincts kicked in.

“I realized that I control one thing and that was my attitude,” said Fleming. “I looked at it as an opportunity and a challenge and got moving.”

It didn’t take long for the Xavier community to rally around the Flemings, and in the process, create a game that’s become a marquee event every year on the Musketeers’ calendar.

Fleming has watched that community amplify “times 100.” Between Devin’s Game, a summer kickoff social for families in Mariemont, where the Flemings live, and a buddy walk, the events have raised more than $100,000 for the Down Syndrome Association, Fleming said.

It’s given Fleming a unique perspective on the kindness of humanity and the power of community.

“The fi rst two or three years we did this I would cry all day and look at Devin like, ‘How are we gonna get through this?’ ” said Fleming. “My daughter’s diff erent.

“Now, I look at it and I’m just happy because Devin’s great and you see her running around during the game and everybody knows who she is. The thing I’ve learned is the world is kind and I think, particularly now, young kids are kind. We went to Easter mass at Xavier on Sunday and Devin’s walking around all over the place and these two teenage girls bring her over and they move their bags and sit with her

for the whole mass. We don’t even know who they are. Amy and I looked at each other and it was a very human moment but it was also a very Xavier moment.”

What began as uncertainty has become a point of pride for Fleming. It’s an annual reminder that something as simple as a game can give power to something greater.

“Last year, she said, ‘My game, tonight’s my game,’ ” said Fleming. “I think she goes out there and kicks the ball and understands everyone’s looking at her. This has become a night the guys look forward to and they’re proud of it and I’m proud of that.”

Fleming was an assistant at Northwestern for three years before he came to Xavier for his fi rst collegiate head coaching job. At the time the job opened, Xavier had won a combined fi ve games in the two seasons before Fleming arrived, and he also had calls from Syracuse and Brown for their head coach openings.

“Xavier called and I said I’ll go use it as a practice interview for Syracuse and Brown,” said Fleming. “And, as you may or may not know, there’s something about this place.”

Next month, Devin will turn 8 years old. Fleming has been able to watch his little girl become a lightning rod for love and positivity. “I can’t imagine it being any diff erent,” said Fleming.

Donations can also be made by visiting www.buddywalkcincy.org and searching for Devin’s Team.

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Preps+ scoreboard LOCAL HIGH SCHOOLS RESULTS THURSDAY, APRIL 25 BASEBALL CHCA 25, Lockland 1 (5 innings) W-Ripperger (2-2). Leaders: CHCA-Crawford 3-3, 2B, 2 HR, 5 RBI; Davis 2B; Deines 2 RBI; Miller 3-4, 3 RBI; Moffitt 2-3; Ooten 2-3, 2 RBI; Pruitt 2-4, 4 RBI; Rotello 2-3, 2B, 2 RBI; Tippen 2-2. Records: CHCA 15-4 (11-1 MVC), L 5-10 (4-9 MVC).

Moeller 2, Highlands 0 W-Hornschemeier (2-1). L-Cramer. Leaders: M-Galanie 2B; Tennie 2-3; Bronner 3B; Davenport 2B. Records: M 15-3.

New Richmond 14, Walnut Hills 7 W-Skaggs (1-0). L-Longeway (1-1). Leaders: NR-Skaggs 2B, 2 RBI; Hicks 2-5; Royalty 3-4, 3B; Ernst 2-4; Delisle 2-3; Cook 2-5.

WH-Heinicke 2-4; Brandenburg 2-4; Francis 3-3, 2B. Records: NR 10-4, WH 13-6.

OTHER SCORES: Covington Catholic 15, Holmes 0 (3 innings) Sycamore 12, Indian Hill 8 GIRLS’ LACROSSE Mariemont 15, Summit Country Day 14 Sycamore 16, Mason 11 Walnut Hills 14, Milford 8 SOFTBALL Western Brown 6, Mercy McAuley 1 W-Barnes (18-0, 11 K). L-Henry. Leaders: MM-Henry 2-3. WB-Wallace 2-4, HR, 3 RBI; Conley 3-4, HR; Barnes 2-4, 2B; Hadley 2-3; Jones 2-3. Records: WB 18-0, MM 15-5.

OTHER SCORES: Middletown 3, Carter 0 BOYS’ TENNIS Bethel-Tate 5, East Clinton 0 TRACK AND FIELD Little Miami Invitational BOYS Team results: 1. Wilmington 134.75, 2.

Bellbrook 129.25, 3. Mason 115.5, 4. Little Miami 112, 5. Western Brown 79, 6. Aiken 57, 7.

Kings 53.25, 8. Monroe 35, 9. Legacy Christian 14.25, 10. Fenwick 6, T11. Cincinnati Christian 2, Little Miami B 2.

Individual champions: 4x1600-1. Bellbrook 19:18.90; 4x800-1.

Monroe 8:32.58; 110Hurdles-1. Weston (Bellbrook) 16.16; 100M-1. Patten (Little Miami) 11.43; 4x200-1.

Aiken 1:34.09; 1600M-1. Easterling (Western Brown) 4:26.79; 4x100-1. Mason 44.90; 400M-1. Perkins (Mason) 51.43; 300Hurdles-1.

Weston (Bellbrook) 43.25; 800M-1. Levine (Bellbrook) 2:06.05; 200M-1. Ferguson (Bellbrook) 23.22; 3200M-1.

Heys (Wilmington) 9:52.72; 400IronmanRelay-1.

Mason 50.55; 4x400-1. Mason 3:34.15; High jump-1. Finn (Western Brown) 5-8; Long jump-1. Moore (Western Brown) 20-4.5; Discus-1. Knisley (Bellbrook) 118-7; Shot put-1.

Bennett (Aiken) 49-8; Pole vault-1. Sisco (Little Miami) 14-0.

GIRLS Team results: 1. Mason 163, 2. Bellbrook 128, 3.

Little Miami 110, 4. Wilmington 94, 5. Western Brown 60, 6. Fenwick 50, 7. Aiken 49, 8.

Monroe 32, 9. Cincinnati Christian 18, 10.

Kings 14, 11. Little Miami B 11, 12. Legacy Christian 5.

Individual champions: 4x1600-1. Mason 23:11.10; 4x800-1.

Mason 10:30.48; 100Hurdles-1. Miozzi (Fenwick) 17.13; 100M-1.

Sanks (Aiken) 12.77; 4x200-1. Aiken 1:50.66; 1600M-1. Capiello (Mason) 5:42.94; 4x100-1.

Aiken 51.84; 400M-1. Grimes (Little Miami) 1:00.84; 300Hurdles-1. Mills (Little Miami) 49.78; 800M-1. Blank (Western Brown) 2:32.51; 200M-1. Gordon (Little Miami) 26.82; 3200M-1.

Rader (Mason) 11:57.26; 400IronwomanRelay-1. Bellbrook 1:03.08; 4x400-1. Mason 4:21.16; High jump-1. Hensley (Monroe) 5-2; Long jump-1. Lambcke (Wilmington) 15-0.25; Discus-1. Vance (Wilmington) 104-10; Shot put-1. Hickey (Wilmington) 32-6.5; Pole vault-1.

Cunningham (Western Brown) 9-6.

BOYS’ VOLLEYBALL Carroll d. Purcell Marian 25-3, 25-12, 25-3 Fairfield d. Sycamore 23-25, 26-24, 29-27, 25-18 Fenwick d. Badin 25-18, 21-25, 25-23, 23-25, 15-10 Mason d. Oak Hills 25-12, 25-23, 25-10 Moeller d. Elder 25-18, 26-24, 25-21 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24 BASEBALL CHCA 4, Ross 3 W-C. Brock (4-0). L-Shields (2-1). Leaders: CHCA-C. Brock 2 RBI; Crawford 3-4, 2B; Rotello 3-4; Tippen 2-2. R-Hall 2-4, 2B; Merkle 2B. Records: CHCA 14-4, R 14-1.

Cincinnati Country Day 13, Lockland 1 (5 innings) W-Campbell (5-1). L-Kromer. Leaders: CCD-Howard 3 RBI; Delbello 2 R, 2 RBI. Records: CCD 12-5.

Conner 10, Ryle 7 W-Holtzclaw (1-1). L-Haines. Leaders: C-Vega 2-3; Atwood 2-4, 2B, 4 RBI; Parsons HR (1); Osterburg 2-3, 2 2B. R-Barrett 3-4, 2B; Caldwell 2-3, 2B, HR, 2 RBI. Records: C 9-13.

Hamilton 6, Princeton 1 W-Mudd (2-3). L-Maloney (1-1). Leaders: H-Mills 2-2, 3 RBI. Records: H 7-10, P 9-11.

Lakota East 13, Sycamore 3 (6 innings) W-Fisher (1-0). L-Heist (1-2). Leaders: LE-Koger 3-5; Vincent 2-4; Milburn 2-3; Crawford 2-3; Bodden 2-3. S-Barnes 2-3.

Records: LE 14-2, S 7-12.

Moeller 10, Elder 1 W-Strickland (6-0). L-Schmitt (1-1). Leaders: M-Galanie 2-4; O’Callaghan 2B; Pacetti 2 RBI; Bronner 2B, 2 RBI; Noyes 2-4. Records: M 14-3 (4-1 GCL-S), E 10-5 (2-3 GCL-S).

New Richmond 7, Clinton Massie 3 W- Ernst (4-1), L- Chappie (3-1). Leaders: NRSuttle 2-4; Royalty 2-4; Ernst 3-3, 2 2B; Delisle 2-3; Cook 2-4. CM- Kennedy 3-4; Kerns 2-3. Records: NR 9-4, CM 11-4.

Oak Hills 4, Lakota West 1 W-McPeek (3-2). L-Kiker (2-3). Leaders: OH-Richmond 3B, 2 RBI. Records: OH 7-11 (6-8 GMC), LW 9-7 (9-5 GMC).

Riverview East 14, Gamble Montessori 2 W-Thomasson (5-2, 18 K).* L-Taylor. Leaders: RE-Blum 5-6; D. Corey 3-6; Thomasson 2-2; J. Corey 3-3; Woods 2B. GM-Bowers 3B. Records: RE 12-3, GM 3-4. *Senior Cole Thomasson recorded his 300th strikeout.

Summit Country Day 11, Clark Montessori 1 (5 innings) W-Ciaccio (3-1). L-Carr. Leaders: SCD-Averill 2B; Eads 2B; Marx 2-3, 2B, 5 RBI; Ray 2B; Johnson 2-3, 2 RBI. CM-Lawson 2B; Curtis 2B. Records: SCD 13-5 (9-1 MVC), CM 3-11 (3-10 MVC).

Walnut Hills 12, Turpin 9 W-Heinecke (4-1). L-Henkel (3-2). S-Conte (2). Leaders: WH-Davenport 2-4, 2B; Longeway 3-4, 3B; Williams 2-4, HR (3); Brandenburg 2-3, 2 2B; Francis 2-2; Presley 2-4. T-Silverstein 3B; Henkel 2-3; Hartley 3-4; Manaster 2-3. Records: WH 13-5 (5-4 ECC), T 11-6 (6-3 ECC).

Wyoming 19, Finneytown 3 W-Raymer (12 K). L-Wurzenbacher. Leaders: W-Pagan 3 R; Kadish 2-3, 2B, 2 RBI; McMichen 2 R, 2 BB; Dennis 2-2, 2b, 2 R; Stickney 2-2; Raymer 4-5, 2 R, 2 RBI; Dunehew 2 R; Taylor 2-4, 4 RBI; Judge 2-2.

F-Dace 2B. OTHER SCORES: Badin 4, Carroll 0 Beechwood 8, Clermont Northeastern 1 Chaminade Julienne 4, McNicholas 3 Colerain 3, Middletown 0 Cooper 5, Boone County 2 Covington Catholic 15, Bellevue 0 (3 innings) Fenwick 4, Roger Bacon 2 Goshen 12, Batavia 1 Highlands 20, Bishop Brossart 4 (4 innings) Kentucky Country Day 8, Walton-Verona 6 Little Miami 3, Edgewood 1 Lloyd 8, Eminence 0 Loveland 5, Milford 2 Lynchburg Clay 3, Blanchester 1 Mason 3, Fairfield 1 Middletown Madison 10, Milton Union 7 Monroe 6, Eaton 0 Northwest 8, Talawanda 7 Scott 5, Campbell County 3 St. Xavier 12, Newport Central Catholic 0 Taylor 5, Indian Hill 1 Villa Madonna 15, Silver Grove 8 West Clermont 11, Kings 2 Western Brown 15, Wilmington 1 BOYS’ LACROSSE Indian Hill 20, Wyoming 5 Lakota West 13, Lakota East 3 Summit Country Day 11, Cincinnati Country Day 6 Turpin 14, Anderson 3 SOFTBALL Badin 14, Carroll 1 W-Feenstra (1-0). L-Browning (5-7). Leaders: B-Feenstra 3-4, 2B, 3 RBI; Kent 2-4, 2B, 2 RBI; Smith 3-4, 2 RBI. Records: B 10-9, C 6-10.

McNicholas 7, Chaminade-Julienne 0 W-Dwyer (12 K). L-Fugett. Leaders: M-Bryll 2-4, 2 R, 2 RBI; Dwyer 3-3, 2B, 2 R; Melcher 2-3, HR, 2B, 4 RBI. CJ-Fugett 2-3, 2B. Western Brown 14, Wilmington 1 W-Barnes (17-0).

L-Veidt.

Leaders: WB-Wallace 3-5, 2 RBI; Conley 3-5, 2B, 3 RBI; Barnes 3-5, 2B, 3 RBI; Young 2-3; Hadley 2-4; Little 2-4, 2B. W-Bickett 2-3, 2B. Records: WB 17-0.

OTHER SCORES: Blanchester 10, Clermont Northeastern 7 Boone County 12, Notre Dame Academy 4 Campbell County 2, Pendleton County 1 CHCA 12, St. Ursula Academy 2 Clinton-Massie 14, Mount De Sales (MD) 5 Eaton 5, Monroe 1 Edgewood 6, Little Miami 5 Fairfield 5, Oak Hills 0 Felicity-Franklin 12, Whiteoak 0 Fenwick 7, Roger Bacon 5 Gallatin County 11, Newport 9 Goshen 11, Batavia 2 Harrison 13, Mount Healthy 0 Highlands 11, St. Henry 4 Holy Cross 12, Bishop Brossart 11 (8 innings) Kings 6, Turpin 2 Lakota West 16, Sycamore 1 Loveland 14, Withrow 0 Mason 14, Colerain 1 Mercy McAuley 13, Mount Notre Dame 3 Middletown Madison 13, Milton-Union 11 Milford 13, Walnut Hills 0 Scott 10, Lloyd 1 Seton 11, Seven Hills 4 Simon Kenton 12, Grant County 4 Talawanda 28, Northwest 15 Walton-Verona 3, Conner 2 West Clermont 4, Anderson 3 Williamsburg 11, New Richmond 4 Winton Woods 6, Norwood 4 Wyoming 10, Finneytown 7

BOYS’ TENNIS Campbell County 4, Simon Kenton 0 Williams d. Hampton 6-0, 6-0; Wittrock d.

Snyder 6-2, 6-3; Wooldredge d. Chatterton 6-3, 4-3 ret.; McDowell-Bertsch d.

Meade-Greenwood 6-2, 6-0; Neiser-Hoskins d. Mairose-Puckett 6-3, 6-3.

Fenwick 5, Princeton 0 Erhart d. Tulloss 6-4, 4-6, 6-0; Lippert d. Cole 6-0, 6-2; Powers d. Hoover 6-0, 6-1; Burns-Perrotti d. Patel-Shah 6-3, 6-2; King-Schraer d. Booker-Spence 6-0, 6-0.

Kings 5, Milford 0 Lee d. Ostrander 6-0, 6-4; Alexander d. FAler 6-2, 6-1; Mussari d. Kroeger 6-3, 6-0; Jones-Lockwood d. Dalziel-Shumard 6-2, 6-0; Freemon-Messer d. Harris-Haywood 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.

Mason 5, Middletown 0 Joshi d. Misirlioglu 6-0, 6-0; King d. Brown 6-0, 6-0; Tang d. Chairez 6-0, 6-1; Zutshi-Divekar d. Langendorf-Toscano 6-0, 6-1; Viswanathan-Steedly d. Hackney-Rivera 6-1, 6-0.

Northwest 5, Mt. Healthy 0 Cao d. Young 6-0, 6-1; Walden d. Gibbons 6-1,6-1; Wendland via forfeit; N’Guessan-Yamada d. McKinney-Lackey 6-0, 6-4; Ackermann-Bungabong d.

Smith-Edwards 6-1, 6-3. Records: N 7-8.

Oak Hills 4 Harrison 1 Rodriguez (OH) d. Bischoff 6-0, 6-0; Rauch (OH) d. McCelroy 6-0, 6-3; Franco (OH) d.

Weber 6-0, 6-2; Wessler-Keppler (H) d.

Cole-Hoeting 7-6, 6-2; J. Graff-S. Graff (OH) d. Mullins-Pruitt 6-3, 6-0. Records: OH 9-7.

Seven Hills 3, Cincinnati Country Day 2 Midha (CCD) d. Yuan 6-4, 6-2; Sajjad (SH) d.

Badlani 6-3, 7-5; Wang (SH) d. Fatuzzo 6-0, 6-1; Annapantula-Nalagatla (CCD) d.

Zenezini-Raman 6-1, 6-3; Gupta-Kilaru (SH) d. Albert-Chopra 6-4, 6-2.

Sycamore 5, Lakota West 0 Miller d. Athans 6-0, 6-1; Marcus d. Reedy 6-1, 6-0; M. Karev d. Isele 6-0, 6-0; Bolger-A. Karev d. Kovacs-Szolwinski 6-1, 6-0; Wittenbaum-Dong d. Lytle-Martin 6-0, 6-0.

Wyoming 3, Loveland 2 Ruble (L) d. Kelly 6-4, 6-1; D. Keller (W) d.

Greenberg 7-5, 6-3; M. Keller (W) d. Smith 4-6, 6-3, 6-3; Ditchen-Huisther (L) won 5-7, 6-4, 11-9; Ford-Mota (W) d.

Libby-Kapszukiewicz 4-6, 6-2, 6-4.

OTHER SCORES: Bethel-Tate 3, Batavia 2 Blanchester 4, East Clinton 1 Monroe 3, Carlisle 2 Ross 3, Hamilton 2 Western Brown 4, Clinton Massie 1 Wilmington 5, Goshen 0 GIRLS’ TENNIS Simon Kenton 3, Campbell County 2 Smith (CC) d. Carpenter 6-0, 6-0; White (CC) d. Mallory 6-2, 6-2; Nachzel (SK) d. Elsbernd 6-4 7-5; Saner-Capps (SK) d.

Melton-McDowell 6-2, 6-1; Adkins-Fagan (SK) d. Nadeau-Maren 4-6 6-2 10-6.

TRACK AND FIELD Milford Invitational Boys Team scores: 1. Moeller 134, 2. New Richmond 105, 3. Hillsboro 98.5, 4. Anderson 88, 5. West Clermont 78, 6. Milford 66, 7. Goshen 46.5, 8.

McNicholas 23, 9. Seven Hills 11, 10. Summit Country Day 10, 11. Hughes 2, 12. Milford B 1.

Individual champions: 4x800-1. Milford 8:47.62; 110Hurdles-1. Duncan (Moeller) 16.70; 100M-1. Khayo (Moeller) 11.23; 4x200-1.

Milford 1:33.61; 1600M-1.

Hanthorn (Anderson) 4:47.28; 4x100-1. Moeller 44.08; 400M-1. Craft (Moeller) 51.57; 300Hurdles-1.

Reveal (West Clermont) 45.09; 800M-1.

Dickerson (Milford) 2:05.14; 200M-1. Khayo (Moeller) 22.86; 3200M-1.

Phillips (Anderson) 10:22.31; 4x400-1. New Richmond 3:41.37; Discus-1. Stodgel (Hillsboro) 161-3; Long jump-1. Bradley (Goshen) 19-1; High jump-1. Conlon (Hillsboro) 6-0; Pole vault-1.

Mattingly (New Richmond) 12-0; Shot put-1.

Stodgel (Hillsboro) 51-9.

Girls Team scores: 1. Loveland 157.33, 2. Milford 133.33, 3. Anderson 103, 4. New Richmond 76, 5. Seven Hills 46, 6. Hillsboro 44, 7.

McNicholas 39,33, 8. Goshen 24, 9. West Clermont 16, 10. Hughes 10, 11. Milford B 7, 12.

Summit Country Day 4.

Individual champions: 4x800-1. Loveland 10:13.49; 100Hurdles-1. Brines (Loveland) 15.53; 100M-1. Andrews (Loveland) 12.61; 4x200-1. Anderson 1:46.80; 1600M-1. Sager (Milford) 5:16.26; 4x100-1. Loveland 51.99; 400M-1.

Armstrong (Milford) 58.12; 300Hurdles-1. Sullivan (Anderson) 46.56; 800M-1. Clayton (Anderson) 2:21.27; 200M-1.

Sullivan (Anderson) 25.87; 3200M-1. Burns (New Richmond) 11:13.34; 4x400-1. Andesron 4:12.97; Discus-1. Ott (Loveland) 113-4; Long jump-1. Brines (Loveland) 17-5; High jump-1.

Jeffries (McNicholas) 5-2; Pole vault-1.

Horrigan (Loveland) 10-0; Shot put-1. Burns (Hillsboro) 32-2.25; Taylor Invitational Boys Team scores: 1. Mt. Healthy 143, 2. CHCA 75, 3.

Mariemont 64, 4. Roger Bacon 62, 5. South Dearborn 51.33, 6. Reading 50.33, 7.

Finneytown 41, 8. Clark Montessori 35, 9.

Taylor 29.33, 10. Purcell Marian 28, 11.

Western Hills 25, T12. Norwood 15, Deer Park 15, 14. North College Hill 14, 15. St. Bernard-Elmwood Place 6, 16. Hillcrest 4.5, 17.

Shroder 3.5.

Individual champions: 4x800-1. Mt. Healthy 8:51.25; 110Hurdles-1. Dill (Mariemont) 15.52; 100M-1.Gause (Roger Bacon) 11.02; 4x200-1.

Mt. Healthy 1:31.62; 1600M-1. Grauel (Taylor) 4:55.17; 4x100-1. Roger Bacon 43.85; 400M-1.

Moore (Clark Montessori) 50.60; 300Hurdles-1. Dill (Mariemont) 40.65; 800M-1. Dreyer (Taylor) 2:06.44; 200M-1.

Herman (CHCA) 22.35; 3200M-1. Beeler (Mariemont) 10:44.22; 4x400-1. Mariemont 3:42.22; Discus-1. Huckleby (Mt. Healthy) 122-9; Long jump-1. Barnard (CHCA) 21-6; High jump-1. Evans (Norwood) 5-10; Pole vault-1. Boggs (South Dearborn) 12-0; Shot put-1. Pruitt (South Dearborn) 47-2.

Girls Team scores: 1. South Dearborn 96.75, 2.

Taylor 79, 3. Mariemont 75, 4. Mt. Healthy 60.5, 5. Reading 49.75, 6. CHCA 46, 7. Roger Bacon 44.5, 8. Clark Montessori 42, 9.

Norwood 38.75, 10. Purcell Marian 33, 11.

Gamble Montessori 20, 12.

St. Bernard-Elmwood Place 16, 13. Finneytown 15, 14. Deer Park 11, 15. Taylor B 9, 16. North College Hill 7.75, 6. Shroder 6.

Individual champions: 4x800-1. Taylor 10:47.39; 100Hurdles-1. Quinlan (South Dearborn) 16.16; 100M-1. Koebbe (Reading) 13.32; 4x200-1. Mt. Healthy 1:54.49; 1600M-1.

Baker (Norwood) 5:44.17; 4x100-1. Mt. Healthy 53.45; 400M-1.

Valentine (Mariemont) 58.93; 300Hurdles-1. Quinlan (South Dearborn) 47.06; 800M-1. Baker (Norwood) 2:27.04; 200M-1. Valentine (Mariemont) 26.70; 3200M-1. Korte (Taylor) 11:25.68; 4x400-1. Mariemont 4:20.48; Discus-1. Meek (South Dearborn) 91-3; Long jump-1. Nelson (Reading) 14-4; High jump-1.

Frazer (CHCA) 4-10; Pole vault-1. Russell (CHCA) 8-0; Shot put-1. Hale-Frater (Purcell Marian) 32-3.5.

TUESDAY, APRIL 23 BASEBALL Cincinnati Christian 6, MVCA 3 W- Winston. L-Griswold. Leaders: CC-Smith 3-4, 2 2B, 2 RBI; Winston 2-5; Carroll 2-3; Johnson 2B. MVCA-Cox 2B, 2 RBI; Smith 2B. Cincinnati Country Day 6, Norwood 0 W-Renner (2-2).

L-Cole.

Leaders: CCD-Renner 2-2; Delbello 2-4, 2 RBI; Jones 2-3, 2B, 2 RBI. Record: CCD 11-5.

Colerain 11, Princeton 4 W-Stultz. L-Strickley. Leaders: C-Lawson 2-5, 3 RBI; Robinson 3-4, 2B, 2 RBI; Smith-Moore 3-5. P-Scott 2-2; Utterington 2-4.

Conner 3, Ryle 2 W-Schneider (2-2). L-Webster. Leaders: C-Schirico 2B; Wood 2B. R-Batte 3-4; Furnesh 2-3; Barrett 2-4. Records: C 8-13.

Lebanon 12, Miamisburg 5 W-Wilson. Leaders: L-Bittman 3-4; Schultz 2-3.

Oak Hills 4, Turpin 2 W-Fisher. L-Logan. Leaders: OH-Braun 2-3, HR, 2 RBI; Gorman 2-3. T-Silverstein 2-3, 2B, 3B, 2 RBI. Riverview East 12, Hillcrest 0 W-Blum (4-1). L-Comer. Leaders: RE-J. Coorey 3-3; Woods 2B. Record: RE 11-3.

Summit Country Day 11, Clark Montessori 0 (5 innings) W-Fisk (4-1). L-Grapes. Leaders: SCD-Fisk 2-3; Averill 2-4, 4 RBI; Marx 2B; Ray 2-4, 2B. Records: SCD 12-5 (8-1 MVC), CM 3-10 (3-9 MVC).

Walton-Verona 4, Williamstown 0 W-Ponzer. L-Turner. Leaders: WV-Brauer 2-3; Hunley 2-4, 2 2B; Wagner 2-4, HR, 3 RBI. W-Kemper 2B. OTHER SCORES: Clermont Northeastern 14, Mariemont 4 Deer Park 17, Withrow 2 Lockland 16, St. Bernard 2 CHCA 11, New Miami 1 Ross 3, Little Miami 2 Clermont Northeastern 14, Mariemont 4 Clinton Massie 4, Wilmington 0 SOFTBALL Goshen 3, Blanchester 1 W-Bauer. L-Mueller. Leaders: G-Slate HR, 2 RBI; Bauer 2B; Sweeney 2B; Crawford 3B; Forewright 2B. B-Patton 2B; Caldwell 2B; Abney 2B; Stanforth 2B. Record: G 8-7.

Little Miami 8, Ross 3 W-Stenger (5-1). L-Minges. Leaders: LM-Schmidt 2-4, 2B, HR, 3 RBI; Stenger 2B, 2 RBI; Holt 2-4; Donohue 2B. R-Ploehs 3-4, 2B, 3 RBI. McNicholas 21, Carroll 3 (5 innings) W-Imbus.

L-Browning.

Leaders: M-Zahumesnky 2-2, 3B, 2 RBI; Bridgers 3-5, 2B, 3B, 4 RBI; Dwyer 4-4, 3B, HR, 4 RBI; Melcher 2-2, 2B, 3 RBI; Smith 2-3, 2B, 3 RBI; Imbus 2-3, 2B; Carnes 2-3; Elam HR. C-Casey 2-3, 2 RBI. Record: M 13-4 (7-0 GCL-C).

Oak Hills 10 Anderson 0 W-Roddy. L-Madden. Leaders: Fisher 3-4; Cassidy 3-3; Wefer 2-3; Bode 2-3. Records: OH 11-7, A 13-5.

OTHER SCORES: Cincinnati Christian 10, St. Bernard 0 Cincinnati Country Day 13, North College Hill 0 Clinton Massie 17, Wilson (NY) 2 Clinton Massie 3, Myrtle Beach HS (SC) 1 Felicity-Franklin 12, Bethel-Tate 2 Harrison 11, Mercy McAuley 5 Highlands 6, Loveland 0 Norwood 23, New Miami 3 Reading 3, New Richmond 2 Seven Hills 13, Lockland 2 Talawanda 13, Hamilton 5 Walnut Hills 19, Western Hills 6

BOYS’ TENNIS Beechwood 3, Conner 2 Shah (C) d. McElwee 6-1, 7-5; Smith (B) d.

Ernst 7-5, 6-2; Frye (C) d. Hatfield 6-1, 7-5.

Hetzel-Frahm (B) d. Weber-Roth 6-3, 6-1; Grence-Bischoff (B) d. Finley-Sanders 6-1, 6-0. Records: B 6-3, C 2-6.

Cincinnati Country Day 4, Summit Country Day 1 Badlani (CCD) d. Locke 6-3, 6-1; Nalagatla (CCD) d. Tew 4-6, 6-4, 11-9; Battaini (S) d.

Mahmud 6-3, 7-6. Albert-Annapantula (CCD) d. Mack H.-Hajjar 6-1, 7-6; Fatuzzo-Chopra (CCD) d. Barrere-Teddy S. 6-0, 6-0.

Elder 3, Harrison 2 Meade (E) d. Bischoff 6-1, 6-1; Janszen (E) d.

McElroy 6-3, 6-2; Weber (H) d. Vinel 6-1, 6-4.

Wesseler-Keppler (H) d. Meade-Crable 6-3, 6-3; Schutte-Kent (E) d. Mullis-Pruitt 6-1, 6-1.

Fenwick 4, Badin 1 Erhart (F) d. Jorgenson 6-2, 6-1 ; Paxton (B) d.

Lippert 6-3, 6-3; Powers(F) d. Fiehrer 7-5, 6-4. Burns-Perrotti (F) d. Eldridge-Hetterich 6-2, 6-4; King-Schraer (F) d. Grime-Golden 6-4, 6-0.

Kings 4, Anderson 1 Love (K) d. Scott 6-2, 6-2; Feagin (A) d.

Alexander 6-4, 6-1; Mussari (K) d. Huang 6-0, 6-0. Jones-Lockwood (K) d. Zhou-Hensley 6-4, 4-6, 6-1; Freeman-Messer (K) won by default.

Lakota East 3, Fairfield 2 Heyser (F) d. Cho 6-2, 6-1; Ahlborn (LE) d.

Grisham 6-0, 6-0; Cho (LE) d. Bowlin 6-0, 6-3.

Shively-Robertson (F) d. Vandivier-Faxon 6-1, 7-6; Shroder-Das (LE) d. Hicks-Plenz 6-4, 6-2.

Loveland 4, Turpin 1 Ruble (L) d. Wantz 6-1, 6-1; Greenberg (L) d.

Kissel 4-6, 6-3, 1-0; Caruso (T) d.

Kapszukiewicz 6-2, 6-1. Ditchen-Huether (L) d. Reynolds-Rhodes 7-5, 6-1; Libby-C.Smith (L) d. Chavez-Owens 7-5, 6-2.

Mason 5, Colerain 0 Gangavaram d. K. Rioux 6-0, 6-1; Gogineni d.

Zielinski 6-0, 6-0; Tang d. A. Rioux 6-0, 6-0.

Divekar-Steedly d. Bernhardt-Patel 6-1, 6-0; Chandrasekar-Kunaparaju d.

Eulenburg-Nguyen 6-1, 6-2.

Middletown 3, Hamilton 2 Misirlioglu (M) d. Bolimg 6-3, 6-2; Rhoden (H) d. Toscano 6-1, 4-6, 1-0 (3); B. Thomas (H) d.

Brown 3-6, 6-4, 1-0 (8).

Langendorf-Chairez (M) d.

Burkart-C.Thomas 6-3, 6-1; Rivera-Hackney (M) d. Sharpe-Tabor 6-2, 6-2.

Northwest 3, Little Miami 2 Lockman (LM) d. Cao 6-0, 6-3; Walden (N) d.

Coffman 6-3, 2-6, 6-2; Williams (L) d.

Ackermann 6-3, 6-2. N’Guessan-Yamada (N) d.

Meyer-Rogers 7-5, 4-6, 6-2; Wendland-Woods (N) d. Paddock-Cooper 7-6 (7-5), 7-5. Record: N 6-8.

Seven Hills 5, Norwood 0 Yuan d. Zimmerman 6-0, 6-0; Sachdeva d.

Enderley 6-1, 6-4; Lane d. Peter 6-2, 6-1.

Labrie-Bedi d. Keyes-O’deh 6-0, 6-0; Katneni-Glum d. Kulman-Canada 6-0, 6-0.

Seven Hills 4, Norwood 1 Zenezini d. Canada 6-0, 6-0; Kilaru d. O’deh 6-0, 6-0; Papakirk d. Rudd 6-0, 6-0.

Zimmerman-Enderley (N) d.

Veldhuis-Weirich 6-4, 7-5; Hatfield-Gupta d.

Keyes-Kuhlman 6-1, 6-0.

Wyoming 4, Mariemont 1 M. Keller d. Andrews 6-3, 6-3; D. Keller d.

Peterman 6-0, 6-3; Kohlman (M) d. Blade 6-4, 7-5.

Klein-Schaefer d.

Glassmeyer-Stehling 6-2, 6-1; Ford-Mota d.

Comer-Stephens 6-2, 2-6, 6-2.

OTCA State Team Tournament Sycamore 5, Centerville 0 Miller d. Owen 6-3, 6-0; Marcus d. Smith 6-3, 6-2; M. Karev d. Appalaneni 6-4, 6-4. A. Karev-Bolger d. Gollamudi-Peters 6-0, 6-0; Wittenbaum-Dong d. Rowland-Brown 6-1, 6-0. Record: S 13-2.

BOYS’ VOLLEYBALL Oak Hills d. Lakota West 25-18, 25-12, 26-24 MONDAY, APRIL 22 BASEBALL CHCA 13, New Miami 0 W-Deines (3-0). L-Marcum (1-2). Leaders: CHCA-D. Ames 2-3, 2B, 3B, 4 RBI; Atkinson 2-2, 3B; C. Brock 2-3, 2 RBI; Ooten 2B, 2 RBI; Rotello 2-3. NM-Frost 2B. Cincinnati Christian 8, MVCA 1 W-Smith. L-Smith. Leaders: CC-Johnson 2 RBI; Allen 2-3. MVCA-Smith 2-2, 2B. Cincinnati Country Day 9, Norwood 1 W-Vance (2-1). L-Fanning. Leaders: CCD-Howard 2-3, 2 3B, 4 RBI. Record: CCD 10-5.

Cooper 6, Campbell County 5 W-Hogan. L-Brooks. Leaders: Co-Eha 1-2, 2 RBI; Walters 2B. CC-Brooks 2-2, 2B; Stevenson 2-3, 2B, HR, 3 RBI. Records: Co 15-3, CC 12-10.

Lakota East 8, Sycamore 2 W-Haberthier (5-0). L-Westendorf (1-3).

Leaders: LE-Gr. Hamilton 2-4; Church 2-3, 2 3B; Milburn 2-3, 3B; Mcdonough 2-2, 2B. S-Bahr 2-3.

Milford 15, Western Brown 2 (5 innings) W-Becker (3-1). L-Wylie. Leaders: M-Bassano 2-4; Rawlins 3B, 3 RBI; Whitaker 3-4, 4 RBI; Sluder 2B, 4 RBI. WB-Steigers 2B; Crall 2-3, 2 2B. Moeller 6, Elder 0 W-Pacetti (3-0). L-Martini (2-1). Leaders: M-Tennie HR, 2 RBI; O’Callaghan 2-3, HR. E-O’Conner 2B; Domenicone 2B. Records: M 13-3 (3-1 GCL-S), E 10-4 (2-2 GCL-S).

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HORSE RACING Belterra Park Results Saturday 1st—$23,900, mdn spl wt, 3YO, 6f, clear.

5 Dare Day (L.Rivera) 5.00 2.40 2.10 1 Lt's Go Lins (T.Houghton) 2.80 2.40 2 Slmn's Wsdm (A.De Leon) 4.40 Off 12:42. Time 1:11.30. $1 Exacta (5-1) paid $4.30. $0.1 Superfecta (5-1-2-4) paid $3.84. $0.5 Trifecta (5-1-2) paid $10.75.

2nd—$16,900, mdn spl wt, 3YO up, 1mi, clear.

8 Gldn Chllng (J.Radosevich) 14.60 7.60 4.80 3 Solo Drink (G.Lagunes) 8.00 5.20 2 Auld Cup (J.McKee) 5.80 Off 1:10. Time 1:39.84. Fast. $1 Daily Double (5-8) paid $20.80. $1 Exacta (8-3) paid $52.30. $0.1 Superfecta (8-3-2-7) paid $166.71. $0.5 Trifecta (8-3-2) paid $222.65.

3rd—$8,600, cl, 3YO up, 6f, clear.

3 Break the Deal (P.Ouzts) 9.20 4.20 2.80 8 Prmnthrne (E.Prentice, Jr.) 4.40 3.20 11 Infnt Mdnght (C.Villasana) 4.20 Off 1:11. Time 1:11.87. $0.5 Pick 3 (3/5-8-3) 3 Correct Paid $90.10. $1 Exacta (3-8) paid $25.10. $0.1 Superfecta (3-8-11-2) paid $233.38. $0.5 Trifecta (3-8-11) paid $75.65.

4th—$7,500, cl, 3YO up F&M, 6f, cloudy.

2 Spot a Kiss (H.Ramos) 7.20 3.80 2.80 9 Qun of Crna (A.Lezcano) 6.60 4.40 5 Adorable Eyes (M.Salazar) 11.40 Off 2:19. Time 1:13.24. $0.5 Pick 4 (3/5-8-3-2) 4 Correct Paid $277.85. $0.5 Pick 3 (8-3-2) 3 Correct Paid $144.20. $1 Exacta (2-9) paid $17.90. $0.1 Superfecta (2-9-5-3) paid $141.50. $0.5 Trifecta (2-9-5) paid $164.25.

5th—$8,600, cl, 3YO up F&M, 6f, cloudy.

3 Lcky M Lcky u (L.Machado) 8.60 4.00 3.60 4 Carolina Reaper (S.Leon) 4.20 4.00 2 Love Totem (M.Salazar) 10.40 Off 2:52. Time 1:13.26. $0.5 Pick 3 (3-2-3) 3 Correct Paid $51.60. $1 Exacta (3-4) paid $13.40. $0.1 Superfecta (3-4-2-1) paid $281.97. $0.5 Trifecta (3-4-2) paid $158.50.

6th—$17,400, alc, 3YO, 1mi 70yd, cloudy.

4 Good Good (J.McKee) 4.40 2.60 2.20 8 Albireo (E.Prentice, Jr.) 5.40 3.00 2 Svnty Svntyct (R.Miranda) 3.00 Off 3:20. Time 1:43.63. $0.5 Pick 3 (2-3-4/6) 3 Correct Paid $17.35. $1 Exacta (4-8) paid $9.00. $0.1 Superfecta (4-8-2-3) paid $9.76. $0.5 Trifecta (4-8-2) paid $15.75.

7th—$75,000, stk, 3YO up, 6f, rain.

Edward Babst/Albert Palacios Memorial H. 3 Altissimo (C.Pilares) 2.80 2.10 2.10 4 Mo Dont No (S.Spieth) 3.60 2.20 5 Mannford (E.Zuniga) 3.00 Off 3:48. Time 1:10.10. $0.5 Pick 3 (3-4/6-3) 3 Correct Paid $8.15. $1 Exacta (3-4) paid $3.70. $0.1 Superfecta (3-4-5-6) paid $5.03. $0.5 Trifecta (3-4-5) paid $6.85.

8th—$7,700, mdn cl, 3YO up, 6f, rain.

1 Tme Is Mny (E.Prentice, Jr.) 10.20 5.20 2.60 2 Tommy C Me (P.Ouzts) 4.00 2.60 3 Acs and Eghts (A.Lezcano) 2.60 Off 4:17. Time 1:12.39. $0.2 Pick 6 (3-2-3-4/6-3-1) 6 Correct Paid $36.58. $0.5 Pick 4 (3-4/6-3-1) 4 Correct Paid $35.15. $0.5 Pick 3 (4/6-3-1) 3 Correct Paid $7.25. $0.5 Trifecta (1-2-3) paid $15.45. $0.1 Superfecta (1-2-3-6) paid $18.63. $1 Daily Double (3-1) paid $6.40. $1 Exacta (1-2) paid $13.90.

Belterra Park Entries, Sunday 1st—$12,800, mdn cl $12,500-$10,500, 3YO up.

Yankee Rose 125 Yes I's a Miller 125 I Likem 125 Kelly's Agenda 119 Dyanidancer 125 Tale of Tiara 125 Vancleve 114 2nd—$11,600, cl $5,000-$5,000, 3YO up, 6f.

Likely to Reign 121 Chillicothe 121

Spots Appeal 116 Last Prospect 121 Totheend 121 Into the Out 115 Dorthysfunnygirl 116 3rd—$8,600, cl $5,000-$5,000, 3YO up F&M. Anna Kate 121 a-Surely Dimple 121 a-Twirling Princess121 Hero of the Best 121 Siccar 121 Cora Anne 121 Knockout Girl 121 Famille Trois 121 Lil Pom Pom 123 a-Coupled.

4th—$16,400, mdn spl wt, 3YO F, 6f.

Stay in the Buggy 122 Easter Weekend 122 Carol's Royalty 122 Too Short 122 Tishe 122 Topo Chica 122 Cat's Popstar 122 Grams Future 122 5th—$7,700, mdn cl $5,000-$5,000, 3YO up, 6f.

Astro Minister 119 Mamma Loves 125 You Reaganize 120 Lookinforfun 119 Uncatchable 120 Vanishing Act 125 Dunny Bug 119 Right On Munich 125 Quest Approval 119 6th—$17,400, alc opt cl, 3YO up F&M, 1mi.

Tempestuous Amy 121 Butter Up Katie 121 Royal Alexandra 121 Monthly 121 Birdacious 121 Naifah 121 Puppy On a String 121 My Dark Secret 121 Hail Spring 121 7th—$12,300, st alc, 3YO up F&M, 6f.

Rulelikecleopatra 121 Madame Begue 116 Lusty Git Yer Gun 121 Oldfashioned 121 Angel Tiger Lisa 123 Old Centre 121 Nymue's Treasure 121 Ivy O'Day 121 Magnetic Spot 116 8th—$16,900, mdn spl wt, 3YO up F&M, 1 1/16mi.

Sweet Baytown 118 Classical Magic 118 Soroa 124 Raramuri Spirit 118 Lady Revelstoke 118 Clara Sanna 118 Strella's War 118 Lady Lisa 118 Enduro 113 Windsheer 124 She Be Striking 124 Sailor's Cap 118 Godello 124 Viva Per Lei 118 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Reds 12, Cardinals 1 Cincinnati

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LOB—Cincinnati 5, St. Louis 10. 2B—Casali (5).

HR—Suarez (6), off Mikolas; Winker (7), off Mikolas; Votto (3), off Mikolas; Puig (4), off Webb; Peraza (2), off Leone. RBIs—Votto (5), Suarez (13), Winker (12), Puig 3 (15), Iglesias (5), Casali 4 (5), Peraza (4), DeJong (13).

S—DeSclafani. Runners left in scoring position—Cincinnati 3 (Peraza 2, Ervin); St. Louis 4 (Ozuna 3, Mikolas). RISP—Cincinnati 4 for 6; St. Louis 1 for 7. Runners moved up—DeJong.

GIDP—Molina, O'Neill. DP—Cincinnati 2 (Iglesias, Peraza, Votto), (Peraza, Votto).

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DeSclafani, W, 1-1 Garrett Lorenzen Hughes St. Louis

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T—2:55. A—45,087 (45,538).

PRO FOOTBALL 2019 NFL Draft Selections FIRST ROUND 1. Arizona, Kyler Murray, qb, Oklahoma; 2. San Francisco, Nick Bosa, de, Ohio State; 3. N.Y. Jets, Quinnen Williams, nt, Alabama; 4. Oakland, Clelin Ferrell, de, Clemson; 5. Tampa Bay, Devin White, lb, LSU; 6. N.Y. Giants, Daniel Jones, qb, Duke; 7. Jacksonville, Josh Allen, de, Kentucky; 8.

Detroit, T.J. Hockenson, te, Iowa; 9. Buffalo, Ed Oliver, dt, Houston; 10. Pittsburgh (from

Denver), Devin Bush, lb, Michigan; 11. Cincinnati, Jonah Williams, ot, Alabama; 12. Green Bay, Rashan Gary, de, Michigan; 13. Miami, Christian Wilkins, de, Clemson; 14. Atlanta, Chris Lindstrom, g, Boston College; 15. Washington, Dwayne Haskins, qb, Ohio State; 16. Carolina, Brian Burns, de, Florida State; 17. N.Y. Giants (from Cleveland), Dexter Lawrence, dt, Clemson; 18. Minnesota, Garrett Bradbury, c, N.C. State; 19.

Tennessee, Jeffery Simmons, dt, Mississippi State; 20. Denver (from Pittsburgh), Noah Fant, te, Iowa; 21. Green Bay (from Seattle), Darnell Savage, s, Maryland; 22. Philadelphia (from Baltimore), Andre Dillard, ot, Washington State; 23. Houston, Tytus Howard, ot, Alabama State; 24. Oakland (from Chicago), Josh Jacobs, rb, Alabama; 25. Baltimore (from Philadelphia), Marquise Brown, wr, Oklahoma; 26. Washington (from Indianapolis), Montez Sweat, de, Mississippi State; 27. Oakland (from Dallas), Johnathan Abram, s, Mississippi State; 28. L.A. Chargers, Jerry Tillery, dt, Notre Dame; 29.

Seattle (from Kansas City), L.J. Collier, DE, TCU; 30. N.Y. Giants (from New Orleans through Green Bay and Seattle), Deandre Baker, cb, Georgia; 31.

Atlanta (from L.A. Rams), Kaleb McGary, ot, Washington; 32. New England, N'Keal Harry, wr, Arizona State.

SECOND ROUND 33. Arizona, Byron Murphy, cb, Washington; 34.

Indianapolis (from N.Y. Jets), Rock Ya-Sin, cb, Temple; 35. Jacksonville (from Oakland), Jawaan Taylor, ot, Florida; 36. San Francisco, Deebo Samuel, wr, South Carolina; 37. Carolina (from N.Y. Giants through Seattle), Greg Little, ot, Mississippi; 38. Buffalo (from Jacksonville through Oakland), Cody Ford, ot, Oklahoma; 39.

Tampa Bay, Sean Bunting, db, Central Michigan; 40. Oakland (from Buffalo), Trayvon Mullen, db, Clemson; 41. Denver, Dalton Risner, ot, Kansas State; 42. Denver (from Cincinnati), Drew Lock, qb, Missouri; 43. Detroit, Jahlani Tavai, lb, Hawaii; 44. Green Bay, Elgton Jenkins, g, Mississippi State; 45. New England (from Atlanta through L.A. Rams), Joejuan Williams, db, Vanderbilt; 46. Cleveland (from Washington through Indianapolis), Greedy Williams, db, LSU; 47. Seattle (from Carolina), Marquise Blair, s, Utah; 48. New Orleans (from Miami), Erik McCoy, c, Texas A&M; 49. Indianapolis (from Cleveland), Ben Banogu, de, TCU; 50. Minnesota, Irv Smith, te, Alabama; 51. Tennessee, A.J. Brown, wr, Mississippi; 52. Cincinnati (from Pittsburgh through Denver), Drew Sample, te, Washington; 53. Philadelphia (from Baltimore), Miles Sanders, rb, Penn State; 54. Houston (from Seattle), Lonnie Johnson, cb, Kentucky; 55.

Houston, Max Sharping, ot, Northern Illinois; 56.

Kansas City (from Chicago through New England and L.A. Rams), Mecole Hardman, wr, Georgia; 57. Philadelphia, JJ Arcega-Whiteside, wr, Stanford.; 58. Dallas, Trysten Hill, dt, Central Florida; 59. Indianapolis, Parris Campbell, wr, Ohio State; 60. L.A. Chargers, Nasir Adderley, s, Delaware; 61. L.A. Rams (from Kansas City), Taylor Rapp, db, Washington; 62. Arizona (from New Orleans through Miami), Andy Isabella, wr, UMass; 63. Kansas City (from L.A. Rams), Juan Thornhill, s, Virginia; 64. Seattle (from New England), D.K. Metcalf, wr, Mississippi.

THIRD ROUND 65. Arizona, Zach Allen, de, Boston College; 66.

Pittsburgh (from Oakland), Diontae Johnson, wr, Toledo; 67. San Francisco, Jalen Hurd, wr, Baylor; 68. N.Y. Jets, Jachai Polite, de, Florida; 69.

Jacksonville, Josh Oliver, te, San Jose State; 70.

L.A. Rams (from Tampa Bay), Darrell Henderson, rb, Memphis; N.Y. Giants Exercised in Supplemental Draft; 71. Denver, Dre'Mont Jones, dt, Ohio State; 72. Cincinnati, Germaine Pratt, lb, N.C. State; 73. Chicago (from Detroit through New England), David Montgomery, rb, Iowa State; 74. Buffalo, Devin Singletary, rb, Florida Atlantic; 75. Green Bay, Jace Sternberger, te, Texas A&M; 76. Washington, Terry McLaurin, wr, Ohio State; 77. New England (from Carolina through Seattle), Chase Winovich, de, Michigan; 78. Miami, Michael Deiter, g, Wisconsin; 79. L.A. Rams (from Atlanta), David Long, db, Michigan; 80. Cleveland, Sione Takitaki, lb, BYU; 81. Detroit (from Minnesota), Will Harris, s, Boston College; 82. Tennessee, Nate Davis, g, Charlotte; 83.

Pittsburgh, Justin Layne, cb, Michigan State; 84.

Kansas City (from Seattle), Khalen Saunders, dt, Western Illinois; 85. Baltimore, Jaylon Ferguson, de, Louisiana Tech; 86. Houston, Kahale Warring, te, San Diego State; 87. New England (from Chicago), Damien Harris, rb, Alabama; 88.

Seattle (from Philadelphia through Detroit and Minnesota), Cody Barton, lb, Utah; 89.

Indianapolis, Bobby Okereke, lb, Stanford; 90.

Dallas, Connor McGovern, g, Penn State; 91. L.A. Chargers, Trey Pipkins, ot, Sioux Falls; 92. N.Y. Jets (from Kansas City through Seattle and Minnesota), Chuma Edoga, ot, Southern Cal; 93.

Baltimore (from New Orleans through N.Y. Jets and Minnesota), Miles Boykin, wr, Notre Dame; 94. Tampa Bay (from L.A. Rams), Jamel Dean, db, Auburn; 95. N.Y. Giants (from New England through Cleveland), Oshane Ximines, de, Old Dominion.

Compensatory Selections 96. Buffalo (from Washington), Dawson Knox, te, Mississippi; 97. L.A. Rams (from New England), Bobby Evans, ot, Oklahoma; 98.

Jacksonville (from L.A. Rams), Quincy Williams, lb, Murray State; 99. Tampa Bay (from L.A. Rams), Mike Edwards, s, Kentucky; 100. Carolina, Will Grier, qb, West Virginia; 101. New England (from New England through L.A. Rams), Yodney Cajuste, ot, West Virginia; 102. Minnesota (from Baltimore), Alexander Mattison, rb, Boise State.

FOURTH ROUND 103. Arizona, Hakeem Butler, wr, Iowa State; 104.

Cincinnati (from San Francisco), Ryan Finley, qb, N.C. State; 105. New Orleans (from N.Y. Jets), Chauncey Gardner-Johnson, s, Florida; 106.

Oakland, Maxx Crosby, de, Eastern Michigan; 107. Tampa Bay, Anthony Nelson, de, Iowa; 108.

N.Y. Giants, Julian Love, db, Notre Dame; 109.

Indianapolis (from Jacksonville through Oakland), Khari Willis, s, Michigan State; 110. San Francisco (from Cincinnati), Mitch Wishnowsky, p, Utah; 111. Atlanta (from Detroit), Kendall Sheffield, db, Ohio State; 112. Washington (from Buffalo), Bryce Love, rb, Stanford; 113. Baltimore (from Denver), Justice Hill, rb, Oklahoma State; 114. Minnesota (from Green Bay through Seattle), Dru Samia, g, Oklahoma; 115. Carolina, Christian Miller, lb, Alabama; 116. Tennessee (from Miami through New Orleans and N.Y. Jets), Amani Hooker, db, Iowa; 117. Detroit (from Atlanta), Austin Bryant, de, Clemson; 118. New England (from Washington through Green Bay and Seattle), Hjalte Froholdt, g, Arkansas; 119.

Cleveland, Sheldrick Redwine, s, Miami; 120.

Seattle (from Minnesota), Gary Jennings, rb, West Virginia; 121. N.Y. Jets (from Tennessee), Travon Wesco, te, West Virginia; 122. Pittsburgh, Benny Snell, RB, Kentucky; 123. Baltimore, Ben Powers, g, Oklahoma; 124. Seattle, Phil Hayes, g, Wake Forest; 125. Cincinnati (from Houston through Denver), Renell Wren, dt, Arizona State; 126. Chicago, Riley Ridley, wr, Georgia; 127.

Baltimore (from Philadelphia), Iman Marshall, cb, Southern Cal; 128. Dallas, Tony Pollard, rb, Memphis; 129. Oakland (from Indianapolis) Isaiah Johnson, cb, Houston; 130. L.A. Chargers, Drue Tranquill, lb, Notre Dame; 131. Washington (from Kansas City through Buffalo), Wes Martin, g, Indiana; 132. Seattle (from New Orleans through N.Y. Giants), Ugo Amadi, cb, Oregon; 133.

New England (from L.A. Rams), Jarrett Stidham, qb, Auburn; 134. L.A. Rams (from New England), Greg Gaines, dt, Washington.

Compensatory Selections 135. Atlanta (from Indianapolis through Oakland), John Cominsky, de, Charleston; 136.

Cincinnati (from Dallas), Michael Jordan, g, Ohio State; 137. Oakland (from Atlanta), Foster Moreau, te, LSU; 138. Philadelphia, Shareef Miller, de, Penn State.

FIFTH ROUND 139. Arizona, Deionte Thompson, db, Alabama; 140. Jacksonville (from N.Y. Jets through Oakland), Ryquell Armstead, rb, Temple; 141.

Pittsburgh (from Oakland), Zach Gentry, te, Michigan; 142. Seattle (from Detroit through San Francisco and N.Y. Giants), Ben Burr-Kirven, LB, Washington; 143. N.Y. Giants, Ryan Connelly, lb, Wisconsin; 144. Indianapolis (from Jacksonville through Cleveland), Marvell Tell, s, Southern Cal; 145. Tampa Bay, Matt Gay, k, Utah; 146. Detroit, Amani Oruwarlye, cb, Penn State; 147. Buffalo, Vosean Joseph, lb, Florida; 148. San Francisco (from Denver), Dre Greenlaw, lb, Arkansas; 149.

Oakland (from Cincinnati through Dallas), Hunter Renfrow, wr, Clemson; 150. Green Bay, Kingsley Keke, dt, Texas A&M; 151. Miami, Andrew Van Ginkel, lb, Wisconsin; 152. Atlanta, Qadree Ollison, rb, Pittsburgh; 153. Washington, Ross Pierschbacher, c, Alabama; 154. Carolina, Jordan Scarlett, rb, Florida; 155. Cleveland, Mack Wilson, lb, Alabama; 156. Denver (from Minnesota), Justin Hollins, lb, Oregon; 157. N.Y. Jets (from Tennessee), Blake Cashman, lb, Minnesota; 158. Dallas (from Pittsburgh through Oakland and Buffalo and Oakland), Michael Jackson, cb, Miami; 159. New England (from Seattle through Minnesota), Byron Cowart, dt, Maryland; 160. Baltimore, Daylon Mack, dt, Texas A&M; 161. Houston, Charles Omenihu, de, Texas; 162. Minnesota (from Chicago through New England, L.A. Rams and New England), Cameron Smith, lb, Southern Cal; 163. New England (from Philadelphia), Jake Bailey, p, Stanford; 164.

Indianapolis, E.J. Speed, lb, Tarleton State; 165.

Dallas, Joe Jackson, de, Miami; 166. L.A. Chargers, Easton Stick, qb, North Dakota State; 167. Philadelphia (from Kansas City through L.A. Rams and New England), Clayton Thorson, qb, Northwestern; 168. Tennessee (from New Orleans through N.Y. Jets), D'Andre Walker, de, Georgia; 169. L.A. Rams, David Edwards, ot, Wisconsin; 170. Cleveland (from New England), Austin Seibert, k, Oklahoma.

Compensatory Selections 171. N.Y. Giants, Darius Slayton, wr, Auburn; 172.

Atlanta, Jordan Miller, cb, Washington; 173.

Washington, Cole Holcomb, lb, North Carolina.

SIXTH ROUND 174. Arizona, Keesean Johnson, wr, Fresno State; 175. Pittsburgh (from Oakland), Sutton Smith, de, Northern Illinois; 176. San Francisco, Kaden Smith, te, Stanford; 177. New Orleans (from N.Y. Jets), Saquan Hampton, s, Rutgers; 178.

Jacksonville, Gardner Minshew, qb, Washington State; 179. Arizona (from Tampa Bay), Lamont Gaillard, c, Georgia; 180. N.Y. Giants, Corey Ballentine, cb, Washburn; 181. Buffalo, Jaquan Johnson, s, Miami; 182. Cincinnati (from Denver), Trayveon Williams, rb, Texas A&M; 183. San Francisco (from Cincinnati), Justin Skule, ot, Vanderbilt; 184. Detroit, Travis Fulgham, wr, Old Dominion; 185. Green Bay, Ka'dar Holloman, db, Toledo; 186. Detroit (from Atlanta), Ty Johnson, rb, Maryland; Washington Exercised in Supplemental Draft; 187. Denver (from Carolina), Juwann Winfree, wr, Colorado; 188. Tennessee (from Miami), David Long, lb, West Virginia; 189.

Cleveland, Drew Forbes, g, Southeast Missouri; 190. Minnesota, Armon Watts, dt, Arkansas; 191.

Minnesota (from Tennessee through Baltimore), Marcus Epps, s, Wyoming; 192. Pittsburgh, Isaiah

Buggs, dt, Alabama; 193. Minnesota (from Baltimore), Oli Udoh, ot, Elon; 194. Green Bay (from Seattle), Dexter Williams, rb, Notre Dame; 195. Houston, Xavier Crawford, db, Central Michigan; 196. N.Y. Jets (from Chicago through Oakland), Blessuan Austin, cb, Rutgers; 197.

Baltimore (from Philadelphia), Trace McSorley, qb, Penn State; 198. San Francisco (from Dallas through Cincinnati), Tim Harris, cb, Virginia; 199.

Indianapolis, Gerri Green, de, Mississippi State; 200. L.A. Chargers, Emeke Egbule, lb, Houston; 201. Kansas City, Rashad Fenton, cb, South Carolina; 202. Miami (from New Orleans), Isaiah Prince, ot, Ohio State; 203. Atlanta (from L.A. Rams), Marcus Green, wr, Louisiana-Monroe; 204. Seattle (from New England through Detroit and Minnesota), Travis Homer, rb, Miami.

Compensatory Selections 205. Chicago (from New England), Duke Shelley, cb, Kansas State; 206. Washington, Kelvin Harmon, wr, N.C. State; 207. Pittsburgh (from Arizona), Ulysees Gilbert, lb, Akron; 208. Tampa Bay (from Philadelphia), Scott Miller, wr, Bowling Green; 209. Seattle (from Minnesota), Demarcus Christmas, dt, Florida State; 210. Cincinnati, Desahun Davis, lb, Auburn;211. Cincinnati, Rodney Anderson, rb, Oklahoma; 212. Carolina (from San Francisco through Denver), Dennis Daley, ot, South Carolina; 213. Dallas (from Cincinnati), Donovan Wilson, s, Texas A&M; 214. Kansas City, Darwin Thompson, rb, Utah State.

Note: Seventh round unavailable PRO HOCKEY NHL Playoff schedule CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Thursday, April 25 Boston 3, Columbus 2, OT, Boston leads series 1-0 St. Louis 3, Dallas 2, St. Louis leads series 1-0 Friday, April 26 Carolina 1, N.Y. Islanders 0, OT, Carolina leads series 1-0 San Jose 5, Colorado 2, San Jose leads series 1-0 Saturday, April 27 Dallas at St. Louis, 3 p.m.

Columbus at Boston, 8 p.m.

Sunday, April 28 Carolina at N.Y. Islanders, 3 p.m.

Colorado at San Jose, 7:30 p.m.

ECHL Playoff schedule Western Conference Central Division Division Finals Toledo 1, Cincinnati 0 Thursday, April 25: Toledo 3, Cincinnati 2 Saturday, April 27: Cincinnati at Toledo, late Wednesday, May 1: Cincinnati at Toledo, 7:35 p.m.

Friday, May 3: Cincinnati at Toledo, 7:35 p.m. x-Saturday, May 4: Toledo at Cincinnati, 7:35 p.m. x-Tuesday, May 7: Toledo at Cincinnati, 7:35 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 8: Toledo at Cincinnati, 7:35 p.m.

PRO SOCCER MLS STANDINGS EASTERN CONFERENCE W

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D.C. United 5 2 2 17 Montreal 4 3 2 14 Toronto FC 4 2 1 13 Philadelphia 4 3 1 13 Columbus 4 4 1 13 Orlando City 3 3 3 12 New York City FC 2 1 6 12 Chicago 2 3 3 9 Cincinnati 2 4 2 8 New England 2 6 1 7 New York 1 4 2 5 Atlanta 1 3 2 5 WESTERN CONFERENCE

13 11 19 12 8 13 11 12 8 6 8 5

9 14 13 9 9 14 12 12 13 15 9 8

Los Angeles FC 7 1 1 22 25 7 LA Galaxy 6 1 1 19 13 7 Seattle 5 1 2 17 17 11 FC Dallas 5 2 2 17 14 9 Houston 4 1 1 13 13 8 Minnesota United 3 3 2 11 17 15 Real Salt Lake 3 4 1 10 10 14 Sporting Kansas 2 2 3 9 15 11 City San Jose 2 5 2 8 12 19 Portland 2 5 1 7 11 19 Vancouver 1 5 2 5 6 11 Colorado 0 6 2 2 12 23 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Saturday, April 27 Orlando City 1, New York City FC 1, tie Portland 2, Toronto FC 1 San Jose 0, FC Dallas 0, tie Philadelphia at Vancouver, late Colorado at Atlanta, late Cincinnati at New York, late Columbus at Houston, late New England at Sporting Kansas City, late Sunday, April 28 Chicago at Montreal, 12:30 p.m.

D.C. United at Minnesota United, 1:30 p.m.

Los Angeles FC at Seattle, 3:30 p.m.

Real Salt Lake at LA Galaxy, 8 p.m.

NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Cincinnati at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.

PRO BASKETBALL NBA Playoff schedule FIRST ROUND Friday, April 26 Golden State 129, L.A. Clippers 110, Golden State wins series, 4-2 Saturday, April 27 San Antonio at Denver, 10 p.m.

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Durant, Warriors advance convincingly Beth Harris

ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES – Kevin Durant is setting the tone for the Golden State Warriors. Get him the ball and watch him work.

Durant scored 38 of his playoff career-high 50 points in the fi rst half, Draymond Green had a triple-double, and Golden State dominated in closing out the Los Angeles Clippers 129110 Friday night to win their fi rst-

round series 4-2.

“I scored 50 points but I missed some good shots,” Durant said. “I thought I could have made a few more.”

The Warriors advanced to the Western Conference semifi nals and will face the Houston Rockets beginning Sunday in a rematch of last year’s conference fi nals.

That’s when Houston let a 3-2 lead slip away and the Warriors went on to win their second straight NBA cham-

UPCOMING Sun. at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.

Mon. at New York, 7:10 p.m.

Tues. at New York, 7:10 p.m.

Wed. at Toledo, 7:30 p.m.

Fri. at Toledo, 7:30 p.m.

Sat. vs. Toledo, 1 p.m.

Wed. at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.

Sat. at San Jose, 10 p.m.

May. 11 vs. Montreal, 1 p.m.

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SEC Tournament: SEC Men’s Golf Championship, St. Simon Island, Ga. COLLEGE SOFTBALL

Maryland at Nebraska Florida at Auburn Missouri at Missouri State Georgia at South Carolina Tennessee at Mississippi Kentucky at Alabama Arkansas at Texas A&M GOLF

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pionship.

Golden State found itself in the unfamiliar position of trying to win a third road game in a playoff series for the fi rst time in franchise history. Durant made his mark early with 38 points that tied for the second-most points in a half in a playoff game.

He was 12 of 17 from the fl oor, made all 10 of his free throws and sank four 3-pointers in leading the Warriors to a 72-53 advantage.

Durant’s 45 points on Wednesday

were his previous career playoff high.

Stephen Curry added 24 points and Green had 16 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists for his fi fth career playoff triple-double, despite fi ve fouls.

Klay Thompson was limited to nine points with three fouls. Durant got his fourth foul in the fourth.

The Warriors repeatedly burned the Clippers with dunks off alley-oop passes.

Houston arrived in the Bay Area on Friday.

Dillon on pole for expected unpredictable day at Talladega

The loss for Nadal came one week after he was beaten by Fabio Fognini in Monte Carlo.

Nadal was seeking to add to his 11 titles at both events.

Now, the 17-time Grand Slam champion will be looking to recover his normally unstoppable form on clay before next month’s French Open, which he has also won 11 times.

TALLADEGA, Ala. – Austin Dillon will start on the pole at Talladega Superspeedway. What happens from there is anybody’s guess.

Dillon celebrated his 29th birthday by posting the highest speed in qualifying Saturday at 192.544 mph for his second pole of the year. Aric Almirola, who won at Talladega in October, was second, followed by Clint Bowyer, fi ve-time Talladega winner Brad Keselowski and Daniel Hemric.

Even by Talladega standards, there’s an element of mystery and potential for chaos heading into Sunday’s Cup series race, which is often marked by big wrecks and late dramatics.

Now, NASCAR has replaced the horsepower-sapping restrictor plates that have been fi xtures at Talladega and Daytona for two decades. The cars have tapered spacers and the height of the rear spoiler has been raised in hopes of cutting speeds.

NASCAR tweaked the cars in between Friday practice sessions trying to slow the cars down. ❚ Tyler Reddick held off Gray Gaulding in a two-lap shootout to win the NASCAR Xfi nity Series race Saturday at Talladega Superspeedway for his fi rst victory of the year.

Reddick withstood a last-lap move

by Gaulding to survive the cautionpacked race and overcame a speeding penalty on pit road and brushes with both the wall and rookie Noah Gragson. Nobody could get by him after a restart from the eighth caution, a red fl ag after a seven-car wreck.

Another title on the clay eludes Nadal after loss in semifi nals

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BARCELONA, Spain – For the second week in a row, Rafael Nadal has fallen in the semifi nals of a clay-court tournament he has dominated for more than a decade.

Dominic Thiem defeated Nadal 6-4, 6-4 in the Barcelona Open on Saturday, becoming the fi rst player other than Novak Djokovic to defeat the Spaniard on clay four times.

Messi’s goal clinches Spanish league title for Barcelona BARCELONA, Spain – Lionel Messi conjured the perfect fi nish to a dominant title march by Barcelona on Saturday, when he came off the bench and scored the goal that clinched the Spanish league crown.

After resting until halftime, Messi went on and fi nally put a shot past Levante goalkeeper Aitor Fernandez in the 62nd minute to start the celebrations at the Camp Nou. Barcelona won 1-0 with Messi’s league-leading 34th goal, his 46th in all competitions this season.

After hugging and kissing his children who came on the pitch with the other players’ families, Messi received the league trophy from Spanish federation president Luis Rubiales and pumped it in the air.

Barcelona’s win put it nine points ahead of second-placed Atletico Madrid with three rounds to play.

Woods won’t play Quail Hollow; next event may be the PGA Masters champion Tiger Woods is not ready to get back to work.

Woods did not enter the Wells Fargo Championship next week at Quail Hollow, meaning he likely will not play again until the PGA Championship at Bethpage Black on May 16-19.

The only other tournament before the next major is the AT&T Byron Nelson on a links-style course in Dallas.

Woods has only played the week before a major when it was the PGA Championship, but that was when the PGA was in August and he played either the Buick Open or the Bridgestone Invitational.

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