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This Week: Sports

Issue 14

From the Oconee to the Apalachee

Volume 11

Thursday, April 7, 2016

Running for a good cause Titans keep winning, sweep Stephens County

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Malcom Bridge sweeps track and field titles

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News jacquoi turner/Oconee Leader Fourteen current and former military men and one civilian stopped in Athens and Oconee County on Saturday as part of a run from Boston to Atlanta in an effort to bring public awareness of the high rate of suicide among military veterans. The men are attempting to raise $1 million for a program at Atlanta’s Shepherd Center helping veterans suffering from traumatic brain injuries or post-traumatic stress syndrome. The “Shepherd’s Men” set out on their nine-day journey March 26. They have committed to run 22 kilometers a day. See photo gallery, TheOconeeLeader.com.

Fire rescue volunteers gain added expertise in week-long courses

Oconee Business Expo

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Oconee Farmers Market packs them in

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In brief Oconee Regional Humane Society fundraiser The Oconee Regional Humane Society is offering tickets to the annual Belk’s Private Charity Sale. The sale offers ticket holders 20-70 percent off Belk purchases storewide including special savings on rarely discounted brands such as Free People, Ralph Lauren, DKNY, Frye, Michael Kors, Karen Kane, Vince Camuto, Coach, Dooney & Burke, Kate Spade New York and many more. Tickets to the event are $5, which is refunded with the holders first purchase. All of the proceeds go to ORHS. The sale is from 6 to 10 a.m. on April 30 in all Belks stores. Tickets to the sale, and fliers detailing sale items, are available at the ORHS adoption center (1020 Park Avenue, Suite 101, Greensboro, GA 30642) from 11-3 Monday through Saturday.

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Oconee County Fire Rescue volunteers participated in additional training at the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, Maryland last month. Dustin Gurley, Dusty Powell, Adam Smith, Paul Thaxton and Kenney Wilson represented Oconee County in the week-long courses intended to better prepare firefighters and rescue personnel and allow them the opportunity to exchange ideas with other fire departments around the country. “These volunteers took a week away from their families and jobs to attend the six-day courses,” said Fire Chief Bruce Thaxton. “This is an excellent example of the dedication that we have within our volunteer fire department.” While Oconee County Fire Rescue participates in National Fire Academy courses annually, it is supplemental to required training and those firefighters selected to participate are not necessarily the same firefighters every year. “Some of those individuals were recently honored at the (Oconee County Fire Rescue) Appreciation Dinner,” said Melvin Davis, Chairman of the Oconee County Board of Commissioners. “Those are some pretty dedicated volunteers. “I do know that they spend time in classes and in conversations with folks from other areas discuss-

Highlights from the Oconee County Chamber of Commerce Annual Business Expo held at the Oconee Civic Center last week. Community members meet face-to-face with representatives of dozens of local businesses conveniently gathered in one spot at the Oconee Business Expo. For more photos, go to TheOconeeLeader.com . Oconee County Fire Rescue volunteers (left to right) Adam Smith, Kenney Wilson, Paul Thaxton, Dustin Gurley, and Dusty Powell.

ing what other counties are doing with volunteer fire departments, picking up ideas on new techniques, safety and equipment. Then, they come back and I think they make a report to their station chiefs or to their stations. They may have training one evening where a firefighter may share with others in the station what they learned and what ideas they picked up.” Smith, Station 1 Captain, was among the five Oconee County Fire Rescue volunteers to attend the course. “Having the opportunity to attend the National Fire Academy for a weeklong class was great,” he said. “We met fellow firefighters from all across the country. The classes that the National Fire Academy offered are some of the best and the instructors are top notch.” Travel and tuition was funded by the National

Fire Academy, part of the Department of Homeland Security and funded through the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “We are proud to see our volunteers continue their education and training,” continued Chief Thaxton. “This trip gave them the opportunity to gain knowledge and share ideas with other fire department personnel from all over the United States.” Davis echoed Thaxton’s comments on the value of collaborating with other fire departments. “I think any time we get a chance to interact with other fire departments from other states or counties, it benefits us to share what we do here because I think we have a pretty good system with our own volunteer fire department; the things we do to recruit and maintain their status Please see ‘Fire’

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In an instant, kids grow up so fast And just like that, Nathan is all grown up. Nate’s a sophomore in high school this year, so we knew it was coming. But it seemed to come out of the blue, without warning. There was no build up. Our oldest son, Harrison, started at a young age. When he was a freshman in high school he was hanging out with juniors and seniors and going off on Friday and Saturday nights to hang out with his friends who could drive. It was a frightening time for us, as parents, to watch our 14-year-old get in another teenager’s car and go do stuff that we didn’t know anything about. I remember what I was doing when I was a teenager, and with those memories haunting me, I kept expecting a call from the local constabulary telling me if I wanted to see my son again I was going to have to bail him out of jail. Fortunately, Harrison didn’t get up to as much stuff as I did when I was a kid. His teenage friends with their cars and their driver’s licenses always returned him home, and the police never had to act as intermediary. Our youngest son, Robert – who is just a year behind Nate in school – started even earlier. His seventh grade year he spent more weekends hanging out with his friends than he spent at home. I don’t actually remember seeing him at all during his eighth grade

year. For a bunch of middle school students without cars or licenses, Robert and his little friends had an amazing ability to start on one side of town and traverse to the other side of town, making stops along the way. But Nate was satisfied staying around the house. We’d encourage him to do things, and he never had much interest. Sometimes he’d spend the night with a friend or go to the movies or something, but hanging out never seemed to hold much interest. Then a couple of weeks ago Nate announced that he’d been asked to the Sadie Hawkins Dance at school. Then he was grabbing rides home from school with friends with driver’s licenses and cars. Then he was going for the weekend to the lake with friends. And with horror, I realize that spring break marks one year that Nathan has had his learner’s permit. He’s now eligible to get his driver’s license. As parents, it’s a tough adjustment when your kids are scattered hither and yon, getting up to activities that you know nothing about and quite probably wouldn’t approve of if you did. Your only comfort can be that when they were little, you did the best you could to teach them important things like being responsible, being respectful and not getting caught. Harrison, who is 20-years-old, working two jobs and going to college full-time, is living at home, but most nights you wouldn’t know that. To read the full column, go to TheOconeeLeader.com

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Christina Byerly, Karyn Jarvis and Chris Barr of Pounds Coffee offered folks at the Oconee Farmers Market samples of their coffee Saturday. This is the first year that Pounds Coffee is participating in the market.

Making new friends, meeting old friends at Oconee market By Rob Peecher

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For Patrick Blount, opening day at the Oconee Farmers Market Saturday was like a return to old friends. Last year, Blount, owner of Greenhow Farms, didn’t participate in the Farmers Market after having been a regular vendor in previous years. “I love the Market,” he said. “We took a year off, and I missed it every bit of the summer. I love the people, I love the atmosphere, I love being downtown.” Saturday was a perfect day for Blount to return and the Market to reopen for the 2016 season. Market Manager Cindy Pritchard noted that she’d been concerned about rain on opening day. “It’s been great,” she said. “It’s a beautiful day to be out here. It was a little slow to start this morning; it was a little cool, but now that the sun has come out everybody’s gotten woke up and we’ve had a really good crowd.” Pritchard said opening day there were 20 vendors at the Market, but she is expecting it to grow significantly as the season goes along and more produce comes in. “We’re expecting more vendors than we’ve had in the past because we’ve had a lot of new applications,” Pritchard said. Blount didn’t have much in the way of produce Saturday morning. Instead, he was selling some of the blacksmithing and woodturning items he’s created on his farm. As the season goes along, he’ll have more vegetables. Cucumbers, zucchini, butterbeans, cowpeas, tomatoes are among the items he’s planted. “Every year we get some crazy seed that we’ve never tried before,” Blount said. “What I’m really excited about this year is we planted popcorn sorghum. It’s sorghum that can be popped like popcorn.” While Blount was returning to old friends after a season’s hiatus, Chris Barr was hoping to make new friends. Barr is among the new vendors this year at the Oconee Farmers Market, selling his Athens-based Pounds Coffee. “This is a wonderful opportunity,” Barr said. “I’ve been familiar with Watkinsville and Oconee County, and I really enjoy the vibe they have here.” Barr said he was selling Rwandan and Guatemalan coffee – whole bean and ground – Saturday morning,

‘Fire’ so they can continue to serve. I think we do things uniquely here that we can share with other volunteer fire departments throughout the country.

Continued from page 1 “I also think one of the benefits is just sharing ideas and coming back with new ones; (Chief Thaxton) picking up on some major thing that the delegates feel we

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Plenty of items to buy at Oconee Farmers Market.

but his company roasts the coffee seasonally, so the coffees he has at the Farmers Market will vary through the season. The first Saturday of each month at the Market is “Sample Saturday,” and Barr was generously giving out free samples of his coffee brewed with a Chemex, a process, he said, that makes for a “clean, sweet coffee.” “We’re looking forward to being here every week,” Barr said. Pritchard said the Oconee Farmers Market is a rain or shine event and will be open every Saturday through November. The numbers of vendors will grow as it gets closer to harvest time. The Market opens at 8 a.m. and runs to 1 p.m. On the second Saturday of each month, the Watkinsville Trade and Tourism Association is going to be hosting Saturday Strolls in Watkinsville where groups will meet at the coffee table at 9 a.m. and go on walking tours around town. The walking tour for April 9 will be led by the Oconee County Historical Society and the stroll will feature some highlights of Watkinsville’s history. To learn more about Greenhow Farms, visit greenhowfarms.com (where there is a link to Blount’s Etsy store that features some of his woodwork and blacksmithing work. For more about Pounds Coffee, visit poundscoffee.com.

might like to incorporate into our system of operation, techniques or training.” According to Davis, participation in training at the National Fire Academy is also a reward. “I honestly think it is a reward for individuals to be considered for

and participate in this. It is a reward because we always want to send delegates to these types of activities where they can be good representatives for Oconee County.” For information about becoming a member of Oconee County Fire Rescue, call 706-769-3975.

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This Week: Warriors

WARRIORS l TITANS l SPARTANS l WOLVERINES l LIONS

April 7, 2016

League champs! Wrestling

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Malcom Bridge Middle School track and field team

Malcom Bridge sweeps league track and field championships, caps off successful school year By Matthew Caldwell

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The dynasty continues for Malcom Bridge Middle School’s track and field team. The Lady Lightning captured the Northeast Georgia Athletic League championship for the seventh straight season and the Lightning won it for the second straight season Wednesday at North Oconee High School. The meet capped a very successful season for the athletic department at Malcom Bridge. The Lightning won the football, cross country, basketball and track league championships, and the boys’ soccer team had an undefeated season this spring. The Lady Lightning won the cross country, track and volleyball league championships, and the basketball team finished third in their tournament. “I don’t think we could have done much better than we did,” said athletic director Scott Burrell. “Since I’ve been athletic director at the school, it has been rare we’ve won football and basketball in the same year. I don’t recall doing that before. A lot of it is our coaching staff is fantastic at the school. With the athletes that we have, the support they have from their parents and everyone involved in the school to get the athletes out there and prepared is a team effort. “Our track and cross country programs have been very strong for several years now. We have really built something great with our track and cross country programs. We just keep building. I know we have a lot of kids on our team whose families are involved in running. That definitely helps. We have some right now whose parents were college runners. They get them started at a young age. In our community, we have a lot

of kids that do different sports and that helps with cross training to make them even better in season.” The track team is coached by Amos Tift, Crystal Melton, Tonya Daniel and Jerrod Morse. “We have had a lot of coaching turnover in some sports and some we have had coaches for a while. Track is one where we have had the same for a while. They are committed and fantastic coaches,” Burrell said. In the track meet, the Lady Lightning finished with 167 points. Oconee County was second with 127. Sheleah Harris set a new school record in the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.47 seconds, breaking her own record. The 4x100-meter relay team (Harris, Brooke Burns, Piper Cyterski and Kristen Randolph) also broke the school record with a time of 53.85 seconds. The Lightning were down by five points going into the final event, but the 4x400-meter relay A team finished second and the B team finished third to give the team enough points to pull ahead and win the title with 117 points. Oconee County was second with 112 points. Alex Thomas broke the school record in the 1600-meter run with a time of 4:45.55. It was held by Cole Thornton. This school year was Malcom Bridge’s turn to host the tournaments. It rotates between the other schools in the league, which consists of four Barrow County middle schools and the two public middle schools in Oconee County. Malcom Bridge also hosted the football championship thanks to having the best record and advancing to the game. “It definitely helps when you are hosting because you have home-field advantage,” Burrell said. “Football depends on making the champion Please see ‘Malcom Bridge’

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Titans keep winning streak alive, sweep Stephens County By Matthew Caldwell TheOconeeLeader.com

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The winning streak continued for North Oconee’s baseball team on Saturday afternoon. The Titans defeated Stephens County 7-0 to improve to 6-2 in Region 8-AAAA and 9-7 overall. It was the second straight win via shutout against Stephens County for the Titans. They won 2-0 on Wednesday at Toccoa. “The whole goal is to keep trying to play good baseball at this point of the season,” said head coach Jay Lasley. “The kids are doing an outstanding job of coming out every day and working hard. Good things happen when you come ready to play the game.” All of the wins during their current winning streak have been region contests. They currently sit in third place in the region behind Buford (8-0) and Madison County (8-2). Madison County still hasn’t played Buford. Those two teams face off against each other this week. Madison County’s region losses were against North Hall (7-3). North Hall was swept by Buford last week. The Titans played Monroe Area (2-6) this week before facing Madison County on April 8 and April 11. “We have to keep chugging along,” Lasley said. “For us, it’s take care of our business and give ourselves a chance against Monroe to go into Madison and play it down the stretch.” Lasley said the Titans have done a better job of playing as a team during their current winning streak. “The big thing is showing up to the park every day, preparing yourself and playing as a team,” Lasley said. “Baseball is a sport where lots of times guys get caught in the ‘me’ stats, and the ‘we’ stats are the ones that add up to the W column.”

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North Oconee shortstop Evan Meade throws out a runner in the top of the second inning in last Saturday’s win at Olympus Park. For more photos and the full story, see theoconeeleader.com.

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Lions take control of region with win against Peachtree

Thursday, April 7, 2016

North Oconee sweeps Madison County

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In a battle of undefeated region teams, it was the Westminster Christian Academy Lions who came away with an 11-1 win against Peachtree Academy last Tuesday at WCA. CJ Smith (pictured) pitched five of the six innings. The junior lefty had nine strikeouts, allowed one hit, one walk and gave up zero earned runs. Smith was also 3-for-4 at the plate with a home run and six RBI. Hollan Johnson was 2-for-4 with two RBI. The Lions improved to 5-2 overall and 4-0 in the region.

Prince Avenue Christian sweeps Athens Academy

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The North Oconee Lady Titans beat Madison County 5-0 last Wednesday to wrap up their region matches in the regular season. The Lady Titans went 8-0 in the region. Ansley Hardeman (pictured) won 6-1, 6-0 at No. 1 singles. Hannah Daniel and Kate Dukes won 6-0, 6-0 at No. 2 and 3 singles, respectively. Sydney Yang and Keller Barks won 6-1, 6-0 at No. 1 doubles. Charlotte Hudson and Amanda Bounds won 6-0, 6-0 at No. 2 doubles. The Lady Titans improved to 15-2 overall with the win. The Titans beat Madison County 4-1 to improve to 7-0 in the region. Walker Towns won 6-0, 6-1 at No. 1 singles. Doster Chastain won 6-2, 6-3 at No. 2. Henri Johnson and Christopher Brandon won 6-1, 6-0 at No. 1 doubles. Quint Breedlove and Antonino Quintero won 6-2, 6-0 at No. 2 doubles. The region tournament is April 12-13.

Summer Hill Orcas post all-time best finish at divisionals From Staff Reports TheOconeeLeader.com

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Prince Avenue Christian’s baseball team swept Athens Academy last week. The Wolverines won last Thursday’s game 7-2 and won last Friday’s game 11-2. The Wolverines improved to 11-7 overall and 5-3 in Region 8-A. The Spartans dropped to 7-7 overall and 3-5 in the region. For the full story and a photo gallery of last Friday’s game, see theoconeeleader.com.

The Summer Hill Orcas Swim Club ended their 2015-16 short course season in Augusta at the Northeastern Divisional Championships with an all-time best performance of fifth place in the overall team scoring. The 1577.50 points scored was over 550 points better than their previous best performance in 2015. Individually, Orca swimmers picked up fourteen wins and set twenty new team records in the process. Orca swimmer Simon Casey was also the high-point winner for the meet, scoring 211 points. “This meet was the culmination of what we’ve been working on for the last five years,” said head coach Chip Holland. “When I arrived at Summer Hill, we were competitive in, maybe, two or three age groups. This weekend, we had finalists in every age group, both boys and girls, for the first time ever. To see us competitive in every event from ages 7-17 is what we’ve been working so hard for, and I think it shows we’ve arrived as a perennially competitive squad, both in our division and at the state level. I couldn’t be prouder of all of the hard work that our kids and coaching staff put in to attain these results.” Individual Winners included: n Ansley Ayers (2) – 9-10 girls 100y butterfly and 100y backstroke n Simon Casey (5) – 9-10 boys 50y butterfly, 100y butterfly, 50y backstroke, 50y freestyle, 500y freestyle n Marshall Cohen (3) – 9-10 boys 200y freestyle, 50y breaststroke, 100y freestyle

Simon Casey

n Spencer Cohen (1) – 11-12 boys 100y backstroke n Reese Graham (2) – 11-12 boys 50y butterfly and 50y backstroke

Relay Winners Included: n 9-10 boys 200y Medley Relay – David Duncan, Marshall Cohen, Simon Casey, Parker Fagrell “Being at this competition for the first time as a coach was amazing! I loved every second of it, and can’t wait for next season,” said assistant coach Natalie Gardner, who is in her first year with the team. The Orcas will begin the 2016 long course season in Atlanta on April 30 at the Southern Crescent Aquatic Team Long Course Kickoff at the McAuley Aquatic Center at Georgia Tech.

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Hallyburton, a two-time state champ, signs with Washington and Lee By Matthew Caldwell TheOconeeLeader.com

Rexx Hallyburton had a standout high school wrestling career, and he will get to continue wrestling after he graduates from Oconee County High School. The two-time state champion signed to join Washington and Lee’s wrestling team. His signing ceremony was held in February, not long after winning the state championship in his weight class. “I am very excited because up until now, my goal was to get a second state championship,” Hallyburton said. “Wrestling allowed me to attend Washington and Lee. I am super thankful for the sport that allows me to go to an amazing place. “The coach was the first coach to contact me after I won last February. I had a bunch of other people I was talking to but they were there from the beginning. I

Rexx Hallyburton with family and coaches

was able to take a couple of visits and after the second visit, I knew that is where I wanted to be for the next four years.” In every year Hallyburton was in high school, a member of the Warriors won a state championship in his weight class. Hallyburton, who won as a junior, became the first wrestler in program history to be a

‘Malcom Bridge’ ship and who has the better record hosts the championship. It happened we are the host of the league and football happened to be at home. With basketball, that was a benefit to hosting the championship. It’s nice the way it fell. Our guys kept fighting and we won several games in overtime. It could have gone either way. There is a little luck involved as well and it worked out when we needed it to. Randy Cain is head coach of both the football and boys’ basketball teams. “We had a lot of success with football. It says a lot about our program. We changed coaches. I give Coach Cain a lot of credit there,” Burrell said. “In the last two years, he has taken on the head coach responsibility. His primary

two-time state champion. “My freshman year, I was able to watch Jake Hodges win it and I was like, that is what I want to do. Everything the past four years has been school about accomplishing that goal. When I was able to do it my junior year, it was a reassessment of what I wanted to do. That was the new goal that I was work-

Continued from page 3 sport is basketball and he coached football to support the program as an assistant coach. We ended up changing head coaches a couple of times and we needed someone, and he stepped up. That is tough doing a whole football season and then having to head right into basketball. We had our championship on Thursday in football, had one day off that Friday and started basketball that Monday. There wasn’t a whole lot of time to recover from football before we went right into basketball. “I give our coaching staff a lot of credit. I let them go out and coach and try to support them as best I can. A lot of them are self-sufficient. They are able to work with the kids and get them to perform at a very high level.”

ing towards all year. Being able to do that is a great feeling,” Hallyburton said. “If someone told me (my freshman year) I would be sitting at a table doing a signing with two state championships, I wouldn’t have believed them at all. It’s an incredible feeling to do this with my family and friends around.” Hallyburton started wres-

tling as a way to become a high school athlete. He started in sixth grade but prior to that, he did taekwondo and jujitsu. “I did combat sports but I wanted to be a high school athlete. That is the one sport that fit that whole set of parameters. It has helped. I am a weird wrestler and that has a part to do with it. I am glad that is how I came up,” Hallyburton said. “At the end of my freshman year, I saw how I did and I felt like I may be able to do something in the sport. I trained at Compound Wrestling in Buford. The head wrestling coach there told me I should try this and see how far I should go. Since then, (wrestling in college) is something I have been working towards.” Hallyburton said he wasn’t sure yet which weight class he will compete in at Washington and Lee.

“Nothing set in stone but I am expecting to be at 184. I will put on some weight this summer to prepare myself for that,” Hallyburton said. Oconee County head coach Al Yauck, who has seen Hallyburton compete for several years, said he is “very deserving” of all that he has accomplished. “He is going to a really good academic school. It’s a school he went out and found. They talked to him and athletically and academically, he is very strong. I am proud of him,” Yauck said. “He has been a tremendous asset to our program since he got involved with it. He came out in seventh grade and went to a summer camp with us. He has been a hardnosed, hard-working kid the whole time he has been with us. “He is a great kid and very deserving.”

OCHS clinches top seeds

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Oconee County’s tennis teams wrapped up the No. 1 seeds for this month’s Region 8-AAA tournament with 5-0 wins against Hart County last week. Connor McCarthy won 6-2, 6-1 at No. 1 singles for the Warriors. Gabriel Young won 6-2, 6-0 at No. 2. Clay Malcom won 6-0, 6-0 at No. 3. Landen Benson and Andrew Davis won 6-1, 6-0 at No. 1 doubles. Jake Boran and Malachy Mejias won 6-4, 6-2 at No. 2 doubles. Hannah Boran won 7-5, 6-1 at No. 1 singles for the Lady Warriors. Claire Lacksen won 6-0, 6-3 at No. 2. Julia Hardell won 6-2, 6-2 at No. 3. Sara Catherine Pennell and Miranda Gomez won 4-6, 6-2, 10-8 at No. 1 doubles. Alexis Anderson and Lexie Houston won 6-4, 6-4 at No. 2 doubles. The region tournament is April 13-14 at Oconee.

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