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By TODD HELBERGcnedit@crescent-news.com

Defiance Mayor Bob Armstrong will seek a third term.

Armstrong, 68, made the announcement during a Defiance County Democratic Party fundrais-er Friday night at the UAW Hall in Defiance.

“I feel that my job isn’t done,” he said during an interview ear-lier Friday. “I feel energized and I feel good going to work every day. Our past suc-cess shows we’re doing a good job and I would like to continue on.”

The mayor’s race will be on the November ballot in 2011. And, if Armstrong ends up winning it, he would earn a third, four-year term. He would then become the first consecutive three-term mayor in Defiance, at least in recent memory.

Democrat William Daoust won three terms, but not consecutively, serving two periods as mayor from 1957-1961 — when two-year terms were the law — and from 1980-1984. And, Daoust also lost two re-election bids as well as a mayoral primary.

Armstrong could be challenged in his re-election plans. At least two other Democrats and a Republican have been mentioned as possible candidates.

Armstrong shrugs off the pro-spective political scenarios, saying: “I’m going to offer my services to the public and if they feel I’ve done a good job they will elect me.”

The announcement comes early in the electoral process. Armstrong would not have to file his nomi-nating petition with the county’s board of elections until February to qualify for the May primary.

As for future challenges as mayor, Armstrong pointed to finishing work on Ohio 66, north of U.S. 24, reconfiguring the low viaduct on South Clinton Street and expand-ing South Clinton to three lanes.

Asked about successes he claims during his seven years as mayor,

Defiance mayor says he’ll seek third term

By JACK PALMERpalmer@crescent-news

ARTHUR — When Norm Roughton retired after 30 years at GM Powertrain in 2006, he was looking forward many years of “the good life” at his retirement home in Tennessee.

Instead, he got ALS.More commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease,

ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) is a progres-sive, fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.

Four years later, the 55-year-old GM retiree and his wife, Peg, are back in northwest Ohio, hav-ing moved to the Arthur area last weekend. He is unable to walk, talk, feed himself or even sleep in a bed.

Yet, like most ALS patients, his mind remains sharp.

He is completely aware of his surroundings and communicates through a DynaVox system to

2007 and later model automobiles

2000 and older model automobiles

Boats

Here is a look at engines in which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved for use with E15 fuel/gas. The EPA will be examining the use in automobiles in model

years 2001-2006 after results of testing to be released in November.

Getting an ear-ful

Non-road engines

Jack Palmer/C-N Photo

Peg Roughton watches as her husband, Norm, checks his e-mails on a DynaVox unit in their home near Arthur. The hands-free, high-tech system also allows him to

speak, surf the Internet and maintain photo files. Norm, a 1973 Defiance High School graduate and GM Powetrain retiree, was diagnosed with ALS in 2007.

"I feel that my job isn’t done. I feel energized and I feel good going to work every day."

Bob Armstrong

Defi ance mayor

GM retiree battling ALS is bolstered with kindness

Norm and Peg Roughton are pictured above in this photograph taken two years ago. Norm, 55, was diag-nosed in 2007 with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

FRIENDS ARE FRIENDS ...

FOREVER

By LISA NICELYnicely@crescent-news.com

Engines throughout the nation will be putting more corn in their diet shortly.

The Environmental Protection Agency now has approved the use of E15 fuel/gas (15 percent etha-nol) for use in for auto-mobiles made in 2007 and later.

“Thorough testing has now shown that E15 does not harm emissions control equipment in newer cars and light trucks,” said EPA

Move to E15: ‘Good first step’

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By JENNY DERRINGERderringer@crescent-news.com

Defiance Lions Club will continue its much-antici-pated holiday tradition this month, hosting the 65th annual Halloween parade on Oct. 30.

Festivities get under way at 7 p.m. from Triangle Park at Clinton and Arabella streets, featuring commer-cial and non-profit floats and antique and classic vehicles. In addition, there

Defiance set for big parade

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Napoleon’s Weaver, Defiance’s Flores finish first, second

DISTRICT CC Yellow Jackets sting Anderson

Family seamstress holds record for

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■ A2 NATION The Crescent-News • Sunday, October 24, 2010

THERMAL, Calif. (AP) — In the five years Pasquala Beaza has lived in a squalid trailer park for migrant farmworkers, she has endured the stench of sew-age overflows, street flooding and blackouts.

When temperatures soared to 115 degrees in the baking Coachella Valley and an electri-cal fire killed the power for a month, her family couldn’t take any more.

Beaza’s husband and four other residents sued their land-lords in state court.

In doing so, they joined a small but growing minority of trailer dwellers fighting to improve conditions at more than 100 poorly maintained mobile home parks that dot the dusty cres-cent-shaped valley 150 miles southeast of Los Angeles.

“We didn’t want to go all the way to a lawsuit, but with a situ-ation like this there was no other way. It’s a basic necessity and we were forced to,” said Beaza, 51, a hotel housekeeper, whose trailer was labeled unsafe by the coun-ty because of the power outage. “And the problem that we have is almost nothing compared to the problems at other places.”

Once afraid to speak out about deplorable living conditions, residents like the Beazas are tak-ing trailer park owners to court and winning.

A Riverside County judge who restored the power last week at the Beazas’ park ordered the landlords Thursday to main-tain the sewage and electrical systems and refrain from evict-ing tenants or raising rent in retaliation. Residents at two other parks — mostly hous-ing low-income farmworkers, many of whom who are illegal immigrants — have also sued and another filed a complaint with the state’s Public Utilities Commission over water rates as high as $595 a month.

The recent victory marks the first time an entire park has organized itself and represents a

turning point in a decades-long debate about how to address an affordable housing crisis that has plagued the eastern Coachella Valley.

“The model is to have the com-munity be the driving force,” said Sergio Carranza, the executive director of the recently formed Pueblo Unido Community Development Corp., one of sev-eral nonprofits spurring activ-ism. “We want to give the power to these families.”

Wretched living conditions for migrants predate the arriv-al of Dust Bowl refugees in California’s fertile fields, but the situation in the Coachella Valley, known for its table grapes, dates, chili peppers and other crops, is unique for its severity. Dozens of hidden, illegal trailer parks pop up faster than regulators can inspect them in the vast rural county roughly the size of New Jersey.

“It’s sort of an epidemic,” said Megan Beaman Carlson, an attorney with California Rural Assistance League Inc., which is helping residents with lawsuits. “I think it became too big of an issue for the county to be able to properly monitor.”

At one of the more notorious parks, a 4,000-person rural slum taken over by a federal receiver, wild dogs roamed muddy alleys, raw sewage overflowed into the streets during heavy rains and flies swarmed children. Tangled electric wires dangled like spa-ghetti, sparking a dangerous fire that left 120 people homeless.

At the Hernandez Mobile Home Park where the Beazas live, power surges damaged appliances and occasional septic back-ups spilled human waste into the mobile homes and into dirt yards.

The brothers who own the park say they toiled as farm-workers for years themselves and pooled their money to open their property as a way of help-ing migrants out.

The situation grew out of their

control as families planted their trailers for $200 a month, said Oscar Hernandez. Now the brothers are stuck with a 24-trailer site they can’t afford, but can’t shut down because of the court order.

“My brothers made this to help people in need. People came say-ing ’I don’t have a place to stay, I need a place to stay’ and now they’re suing us,” he said, as his older brother Miguel listened. “They’re trying to make us look like bad people, but everything we have is here.”

In the late 1990s, local offi-cials cracked down on unper-mitted sites, but that just forced residents to flock to nearby American Indian reservations — where the county had no juris-diction — or become homeless. Advocates won a $21 million settlement against the county for discriminating against low-income Hispanic families by tar-geting three dozen sites.

Now, the county is targeting the most dangerous locations and working with nonprof-its to improve conditions and build affordable housing for the future.

While $59 million was spent to build 5,200 units of affordable housing and 3,200 more units are in some stage of develop-ment, an estimated 6,000 people are living in bad conditions, said Emilio Ramirez, the director of the county’s economic develop-

ment agency.“It’s a dilemma that we face.

Obviously we would like to rid the community of the substan-dard housing, but we have to do it in a way that avoids mass homelessness,” he said. “You’re kind of stuck between two evils.”

That leaves much of the cur-rent battle up to low-wage farm-workers and the landscapers and housekeepers who com-mute to nearby Palm Springs and other upscale desert cities to work at country clubs and luxury resorts.

Residents at St. Anthony’s Mobile Home Park in Mecca successfully sued over arsenic-tainted well water and now have a fresh supply of water sup-plied by a station in front of the trailer park. Sewage stench has been reduced by pouring lime near evaporation ponds and the lights now work.

Maria Arredondo, a grape har-vester who lived in the park for 17 years before joining the newly formed “Unity is Strength” com-mittee last year, still dumps scented cleaning fluid in an evaporating cooler to quell the stink of the sewage pond a few yards from her front door.

But tremendous changes recently give her hope that with the help of nonprofits, they’ll one day build a new, 136-unit site nearby with a grassy space and a community center.

Migrant workers unite over conditions

From wire reports

Nation

Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. on Saturday said the Food and Drug Administration rejected the company’s application for lor-caserin, one of three drugs seeking to become the first new FDA-approved pre-scription weight loss drug in more than a decade.

The federal agency’s rejection came after an FDA panel of experts on Sept. 16 recommended against approving lorca-serin in a 9-5 vote. Panelists raised con-cerns about tumors seen in rats in early stage testing, one of the factors that Arena Pharmaceuticals said the FDA had cited in a letter responding to the company’s application.

After last month’s FDA panel vote, shares of Arena plunged nearly 47 percent, to $1.99. San Diego-based Arena currently has no drugs on the U.S. market.

Being honored: The National World War II Museum is honoring a man who parachuted behind Nazi lines on D-Day. But Tom Blakey is being recognized for safer service: 10,000 hours as a muse-um volunteer. He’s the first volunteer to log that many hours for the museum in New Orleans. A ceremony was planned Saturday for Blakey, who was in the 82nd Airborne Division when he jumped at Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944.

Overdue book: A novel checked out in 1975 from the College of William & Mary library is back in the stacks. The long-term lender is alumnus Pat Harkin, who found the book of Leon Uris’ “QB VII” in a box. He says he planned to return it for the past several homecomings, but he finally made good on his intentions Friday.

The library caps its fees at $35. Otherwise, the overdue fee could have hit $1,400 at today’s dime-a-day late fee.

Beef stick recall: A Milwaukee sau-sage company is issuing a national recall of beef sticks because they may contain foreign material. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service says Klement Sausage Co. Inc. is recalling nearly 2,800 pounds of beef stick products.

They are the 8-ounce packages of “Market Pantry Beef Sticks, Original” and have a “use by” date of March 1, 2012.

Prescription diet drug gets rejected Saturday by FDA

Trailer park living

AP Photo

Residents cast their shadows as they talk in front of a trailer at an unpermitted mobile home park in Thermal, Calif., on Monday. Squalid housing for migrant farmworkers has for decades been a depressing reality.

AP Photo

This photo of Lucas Ransom’s boogie-board shows the bite marks left by a shark on Friday.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Matthew Garcia was surf-ing two feet away from his friend who was bodyboard-ing when he heard a desper-ate cry for help. Within sec-onds, a shark flashed out of the water, bit into his friend’s leg and pulled him under in a cloud of blood off the coast north of Santa Barbara.

“When the shark hit him, he just said, ’Help me, dude!’ He knew what was going on,” Garcia told Associated Press as he recounted his friend’s death. “It was really fast. You just saw a red wave and this water is blue — as blue as it could ever be — and it was just red, the whole wave.”

As huge waves broke over his head, Garcia tried to find Lucas Ransom in the surf but couldn’t. He decided to get help, but turned around again as he was swimming to shore and saw Ransom’s red bodyboard pop up. Garcia swam to his friend and did chest compressions as he brought him to shore.

The 19-year-old already appeared dead and his leg was mauled, he said.

“He was just floating in the water. I flipped him over on his back and under-hooked his arms. I was pressing on his chest and doing rescue breathing in the water,” Garcia said. “He was just kind of lifeless, just dead weight.”

Blue wave turns to blood red

The Crescent-News • Sunday, October 24, 2010 PEOPLE & PLACES ■ A3

Of all the medical diagnoses you don’t want to receive, Lou Gehrig’s disease might rank at the top of the list.

Also called amy-otrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), it’s a progressive and fatal neurologi-cal disorder that causes muscle weakness and paralysis. Patients eventually lose their ability and strength to move their arms, legs and body without help from another person.

ALS is always fatal. Average life expectancy is three to five years. Most die from respiratory failure.

To date, no cure has been found for this unforgiving disease.

I was aware of all of the above when I arrived at Norm and Peg Roughton’s new home near Arthur on Thursday.

In addition to obtaining infor-mation and comments for today’s front page story, I was hoping, at least in some small way, to offer a few words of support and good cheer under difficult circumstanc-es.

Instead, I was the one who walked away inspired.

Inspired by Norm’s drive to communicate, though he can bare-ly talk and is unable to express himself with hand and arm motions.

Inspired by his determination to embrace life and project hope for the future.

Inspired by his sense of humor.For those who may be unaware,

an ALS patient’s mind is not affected by the disease. The body may be progressively failing, yet the person is completely aware of his or her surroundings.

“Norm likes to send humorous e-mails,” said Peg. “Just in the few days we’ve been back in Ohio, he’s sent several to his former caregivers in Tennessee.”

He uses a hands-free, high-tech speech generating system to speak, send e-mail, surf the Internet, write documents and read books. He is able to accom-plish all those things with his feet and a dark “eye” on his forehead.

I was amazed when I saw him in action. His skills and heart reminded me of his disease’s namesake.

Gehrig, first baseman for the New York Yankees from 1925-39, was nicknamed “The Iron Horse” for his baseball skills and durabil-ity.

His career numbers included a batting average of .340 with 493 home runs and 1,995 runs batted in. He played in 2,130 consecu-tive games, the streak ending only when he became disabled by the neuromuscular disease that claimed his life two years later at age 41.

“Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got,” he said during a brief ceremony announcing his retirement at Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939. “Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.”

Norm Roughton never played professional baseball (though as a kid he once played basketball in my driveway), but he’s handling life’s pitches like a modern-day Gehrig.

It’s not how you weather the storm, it’s how you dance in the rain. That’s his attitude.

For the past two years, Norm has been part of a nationwide study group of about 100 ALS patients who have consented to taking a trial neuroprotective drug to treat the disease. Early results from the study group show a dose-dependent trend in slowing the rate of ALS progression.

Norm is the first to recognize the experimental nature of the study.

He knows that science can and is making incredible new medical discoveries, yet it may not advance quickly enough to save him.

But, if the Norm Roughtons of the world can get another year or two of life from an experimental drug, perhaps even more progress could be made toward an ultimate cure.

“We are so fortunate,” Peg Roughton says with Gehrig-like humility.

No Peg, you and Norm are not fortunate. The fortunate ones are those of us inspired by your cour-age and determination.

So keep dancing in the rain, both of you.

And may God bless your every move.

ALS delivers unforgiving curve ball

• HOSPITALS

Henry CountyBirth

Friday —Amanda and Joshua Smith,

Toledo, a daughter, 7 lbs. 7 oz., at 6:12 a.m.

• POLICE REPORTS

Defiance PoliceSaturday, Anthony Perrine, 45,

423 Hopkins St., was cited for driv-ing under suspension following a traffic stop on Cedar Street.

Saturday, Randy Bakle, 54, 1777 S. Clinton St., was charged with passing bad checks at Mike’s Sunoco.

Saturday, Kristy Cereghin, 31, 1221 Ayersville Ave., was cited for OVI following a traffic stop at Cleveland and Ottawa Avenues.

Saturday, Mark Yonge Jr., 31, Ney, was charged with violating a protection order, assault and resist-ing arrest. He was taken to the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio, rural Stryker.

Saturday, Jason Schelegel, 33, St. Luna Pier, Mich., was cited for OVI, speed and no safety belt following a traffic stop on South Jackson Avenue. Schelegel was able to post bond and was released.

Saturday, Angie Yoder, 28, 2002 Baltimore Rd, was arrested on a warrant from Fulton County. She was taken to CCNO.

Henry SheriffFriday, 6:10 p.m., at Ohio 34 and

Henry County Road 24 in Ridgeville Township, a vehicle driven by Jane Helberg, 58, Q-975 Henry County Road 14B, Napoleon, struck a vehi-cle driven by Ashleigh Colon, 17, 16365 Ohio 2, Wauseon. Colon was transported by Archbold Rescue to Fulton County Health Center where a condition update was unavail-able. Helberg was transported by Ridgeville Rescue to Henry County Hospital, Napoleon, where a con-dition update was unavailable. Damage to both vehicles was mod-erate. Colon was cited for failure to yield.

Napoleon PoliceFriday, Jeffrey Loofbourrow,

age and address unavailable, was arrested on a warrant from Wood County.

• COURT RESULTS

Napoleon Municipal CourtSentenced: Gregory Mahan,

48, 09938 Independence Road, Defiance, assured clear distance, $25 fine; Marjory Stites, 68, 700

Ralston Ave., Defiance, follow-ing too closely, $25 fine; Estella Fonseca, 77, Napoleon, assured clear distance, costs only; Seth Wyse, 28, Evansport, stop sign vio-lation, $50 fine.

David Schiffer, 24, Napoleon, possession of drug paraphernalia, $250 fine, 30 days jail suspended, six-month license suspension; pos-session of drugs, $150 fine, six-month license suspension concur-rent.

Donna Geis, 40, Liberty Center, OVI, $400 fine, three days jail, six-month license suspension; failure to control, dismissed with costs.

Charles Salyer, 57, Deshler, pos-session of drugs, dismissed with costs; open container, dimissed with costs; OVI, $400 fine, three days jail, six-month license suspen-sion.

Jay Bechtel, 22, Liberty Center, OVI, $400 fine, three days jail; urine test, navigation lights, dismissed with costs.

Tommy Hill, 40, New Bavaria, aggravated menacing, dismissed with cost; aggravated menacing, $250 fine, two days jail.

Delethia Shellenbarger, 22, 21562 Defiance County Road 10, Defiance, unauthorized removal, $25 fine; no license plate light, $10 fine.

Josh Adkins, 26, Napoleon, driv-ing under suspension, $250 fine; failure to dim headlights, no tail lights, costs only.

Maurice Jefferson, 36, Toledo, driving under suspension, dis-missed without costs; obstructed plates, $25 fine.

Amber Jeffers, 29, Toledo, driv-ing under suspension, $250 fine,

30 days jail; speed, no safety belt, dismissed.

Teodoro Gonzales, 33, Napoleon, OVI, $1,000 fine, 30 days jail, one-year license suspension; driving under suspension, dismissed with costs.

Patricia Siefer, 53, Hamler, physi-cal control, $250 fine, three days jail; violation of marked lanes, dis-missed with costs.

Tasha Bell, 21, Mark Center, no operator’s license, $250 fine; traffic control violation, costs only.

Joshua Marcum, 21, Napoleon, fictitious plates, $100 fine; no brake lights, $25 fine.

• LOTTERIES

Ohio Lottery: Friday: Midday Pick 3: 8-4-3. Midday Pick 4: 5-7-3-9. Midday Ten-Oh: 01-02-04-07-14-19-23-24-25-29-33-37-38-47-51-52-57-58-59-65. Pick 3: 0-1-7. Pick 4: 4-5-7-4. Rolling Cash: 13-15-26-27-38. Ten-Oh: 02-07-09-11-12-20-28-31-33-38-40-44-45-52-63-65-69-70-71-78. Saturday: Midday Pick 3: 6-3-4. Midday Pick

4: 9-2-4-5. Midday Ten-Oh: 01-08-10-11-13-14-23-26-32-33-37-41-44-47-57-66-70-72-75-77. Pick 3: 4-9-0. Pick 4: 4-4-8-8. Rolling Cash: 06-10-30-33-38. Ten-Oh: 09-10-15-21-24-25-26-30-36-40-45-46-47-50-57-68-70-72-77-80. Classic Lotto: 17-18-20-24-25-27.

Michigan Lottery: Friday: Midday Daily 3: 1-5-9. Midday Daily 4: 8-8-4-5. Daily 3: 5-6-0. Daily 4: 6-2-8-6 . Fantasy 5: 2-4-7-21-33. Keno: 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 15, 16, 23, 27, 32, 38, 42, 46, 49, 56, 60, 70, 74, 77, 78, 80. Classic Lotto: 9-10-14-15-23-29. Saturday: Midday Daily 3: 3-0-9. Midday Daily 4: 3-2-3-0. Daily 3: 3-7-6. Daily 4: 6-5-5-0. Fantasy 5: 8-10-21-32-37. Keno: 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 16, 18, 20, 29, 32, 35, 36, 49, 52, 53, 55, 56, 62, 70, 73, 74.

Indiana Lottery: Friday: Midday Daily 3: 4-9-5. Midday Daily 4: 7-7-5-8. Daily 3: 3-8-2. Daily 4: 0-8-9-4. Lucky 5 Midday: 06-08-11-23-27. Lucky 5: 02-09-30-34-35. Quick Draw: 06-07-16-18-24-25-27-29-30-35-37-38-43-45-50-51-59-62-63-65. Saturday: Midday Daily 3: 4-9-6. Midday Daily 4: 2-7-8-0. Daily 3: . Daily 4: . Lucky 5 Midday: 03-04-13-29-34.

Mega Millions: 02-07-18-32-53. Mega Ball: 18.

(Jack Palmer is a staff writer for The Crescent-News and may be contacted by e-mail at: palmer@crescent-news.com)

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Lupus support group: The Lupus Educational Support Group will meet on Nov. 2, at 6:30 p.m. in the Tiffin Room at the Defiance Regional Medical Center, 1200 Ralston Ave., Defiance. There will be an open dis-cussion among attendees. The public is welcome to attend. For more information, call Deb or Mike Weaks at 419-782-0375.

• HENRY COUNTY

Voting guide: Patrick Henry High School’s senior American government class has created a voting guide for the 2010 gen-eral election.

The purpose of this website is to inform the district residents

of all issues and candidates on this year’s ballot.

For new voters, the newly-cre-ated website provides an over-view of the voting process and platforms of the most common political parties.

All voters can learn the details of current issues and the views of each candidate, as well as the description of the office.

The voting guide will be avail-able as a link on the Patrick Henry Local Schools website at http://www.patrickhenry.k12.oh.us/.

• PAULDING COUNTY

Committee to meet: The Paulding village buildings and grounds committee will meet at 5:30 p.m. on Monday in the council room of the municipal building for grounds inspec-tion.

• PUTNAM COUNTY

Library meeting: The Friends of Putnam County District Library will be meeting on Nov. 1, at 4:30 p.m. at the Putnam

County Educational Service Center building in Ottawa. Everyone is welcome. The mission of the PCDL Friends is to provide support to all eight libraries in the county. Additional information is avail-able on the library’s webpage mypcdl.org or by calling the library at 419-523-3747.

Intercepted Letter

Area churchesNorthwest Ohio

Dear Churches, Please add Norm Roughton

and his family to your prayer list.

Yours truly,Anthony Wayne Jr.

People & PlacesNorthwest Ohio news from Crescent-News staff and wire reports

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■ A4 The Crescent-News • Sunday, October 24, 2010

OPINIONThe Crescent-News

Steve VanDemark, General ManagerDennis Van Scoder, Editor

Todd Helberg, Editorial Page Editor

Our choices for fourof Ohio’s top offices

In their view ...Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson

joined the ranks of brain-injured National Football League players recently. The toll is an almost weekly reminder that the league still hasn’t taken the necessary steps to make the game safer.

But that may change, finally, with league officials announcing Oct. 19 that they will impose suspensions on players for delivering devastating helmet-to-helmet hits. The pros, whose style of smashmouth play is emu-lated by younger players, can’t move soon enough on player safety concerns.

Jackson suffered a concussion that he doesn’t even remember following a vicious hit that sidelined both him and the guy who tackled him, Atlanta Falcons cor-nerback Dunta Robinson.

After years of denial, NFL officials have finally acknowledged the long-term health risks from concus-sions, including depression, memory loss, and demen-tia. The league has taken positive steps by requiring that injured players be cleared for a return to play by independent doctors. But that’s not enough. ...

A recent Harris Interactive poll shows most Americans don’t enjoy seeing football players get hurt. They want changes to helmets and other equipment to be made, and they believe players who cause head injuries should be hit with penalties, up to and including sus-pension. ...

Sports such as football and hockey will always be vio-lent, but there are ways to minimize life-altering injuries and retain the games’ popularity. Players and coaches should be the first to insist on aggressive reforms that will make contact sports safer.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Wherefore, instead of gazing at each other, with suspicious or doubtful curiosity, let each of us hold out to his neighbor the hearty hand of friendship, and unite in drawing a line, which, like an act of oblivion, shall bury in forgetfulness every former dissension.” — Thomas Paine

“Common Sense”

School levy makes most senseI have read with great interest the writings of those who

deem the idea that a local board of education should place an issue before the public as ridiculous during this time of economic woe.

I have critically evaluated the solutions offered by those who have served on our local police force and taught in our local school. I have searched for ways to side with those who live their life dependent upon the taxes of each of us while they decry the wisdom of placing an issue before the public. I bit my tongue as I read the editorial submitted by one of our political leaders where they place blame on an organization to which they, themselves, were once a part. Finally, I shuddered at the implications made by an employee of one of the finest automotive companies in the world when they announced, “no more.”

I am an employee of the Defiance City Schools. My livelihood is dependent upon the tax dollars that this community provides. To say that I am grateful would be a dramatic understatement. I owe everything that I have to the generosity of this community.

However, I must point out that those that are most vocal in their dissension of this levy are also beholding to the taxpayers of this community. The police officer and school teacher, whose salary and retirements, were and are, funded by your tax dollars. The gentleman with his disability, Social Security and portions of, if not all, his medical care funded by your tax dollars. The automotive employee whose company and job was saved — by your tax dollars. Finally, the politician paid by our tax dollars to spend our tax dollars.

Our focus needs to be on the impact this levy will have on our community. Will it bind us together or tear us apart? If we put community first the answer is clear. If we place our personal needs over those of the community we will find ourselves constantly degrading the foundation of our community to a point that what is Defiance will no longer be Defiance.

Thomas Paine was correct. We must put aside our suspicions and extend a hand, a hand to build a strong Defiance, a Defiance where consideration is given to what is best for the entire community rather than what is best for the individual. I will, as expected, support the school levy, the senior services levy and the Good Samaritan levy.

I am extending my hand in support with a hope to reap the benefits later and I encourage others to do the same. I choose to support local taxes that help and protect me both now and into the future. It does just make sense.

Garry RodenbergerDefiance

‘Letters to editor’ not place to get factsThere appear to be three areas of concern with respect

to the school bond issue. I would like to address each briefly.

1. Economics. These are challenging times that I believe will not last forever, especially if we move more posi-tively forward together. The increased taxes are in no one’s immediate favor, but the incredible long-term sav-ings is unprecedented. This investment will show what we value here in Defiance, and that asset is a significant attraction in bringing new businesses and people into our community. We can come out of this tough time and thrive as a town, not just survive, if we support these kinds of endeavors. It would be painfully ironic, as we complain about government and taxes, to turn down pos-sibly the single best return of investment of our money ever offered.

2. Historical preservation. The 1918 portion of the building and the community auditorium are not going anywhere. It is disturbing to see how many times that has been published, yet still seems to remain an issue. The past is respected, but it must be balanced with our responsibility for the future. The plans for improving the auditorium sound exciting for the entire town to enjoy.

3. Maintenance. The issue with the age of the junior high, and the problems at the high school, will not be cured by “taking better care of them.” These are serious, expensive concerns of a structural nature. Ninety year-old operating systems need to be replaced and updated, and crumbling walls are directly tied to original construction problems at the “new” high school. Hundreds of thousands of dol-lars have been spent to try to keep up with these types of expenses over the years, so please understand they are not happening because of neglect, that they are real, and not going away.

I have two final points. The “letters to the editor” page is not where you should

be getting your facts to make an informed choice on this issue. Please read the brochures and attend the meetings, where the facts and figures for you to better decide, are presented.

The administration and school board would only have erred if they did not present this to us to vote upon. This

is an incredible opportunity to advance our community. Letting us decide if we want to take advantage of it or not, is the right thing to do. I grew up and went to school in Defiance, and came back to teach here for over 20 years, as did my parents before me.

I believe in and support this issue. The amount of col-lective good realized for so many children, for so many years, by the passing of this levy, makes it clear to me to vote yes. I hope you will also.

Tom RexDefiance

Junior high promotes downtown vitalityThe Defiance school bond issue isn’t just about build-

ings. It isn’t just about money. Superintendent Struble is attempting to alter the character of Defiance.

We can’t let that happen. We have to hope and pray that the school bond issue doesn’t pass on Nov. 2. We need the junior high used as a school. Empty, it is nothing — just an empty shell. We have always had a school in downtown Defiance. Many people have spent much time and money trying to revitalize downtown Defiance. We need the stu-dents there and their presence to keep the vitality going.

If, God forbid, the bond issue should pass, within two years I can see the handwriting on the wall. Mr. Struble and the school board will say, “It is just an empty build-ing. No one wants it. The county commissioners don’t want it. We are paying to heat it and paying for other utili-ties as well. Let us go ahead and tear it down.” We need it used as a school to prevent this.

This has become an obsession. The superintendent and the school board are obsessed with pushing this idea for-ward — that is, tearing down various schools and build-ing an awful, 6-12 building somewhere else. The majority of Defiance’s citizens don’t want this.

I know the money is dangled in front of us. We still don’t want this and we can’t afford it. We don’t want another mistake. A couple of years ago (through a very narrow vote) we lost our four neighborhood schools. In exchange we got a brick building, remotely located out of Defiance. In the first year, the roof leaked, the building proved to be too small, the teachers found it cold and the building resembles a federal prison. Let us not make another mis-take. Let us make sure this doesn’t happen again.

Another point to be made before I close this letter: “New” and “big” don’t equal learning for students. The trend in education these days is away from big, mega schools and toward smaller, more personal schools. Students learn better in that environment. So big, new and money don’t equal learning and good grades. What does?

It is parents spending time with their children, having family dinner at night where kids can talk, going to all their events at school (track meets, choir concerts, cross country meets and so on), placing value on books, reading to their kids, encouraging their kids to read, limiting TV and video games. All these result in good grades, learning and good students. Statistics prove this and bear this out. Of course we need good teachers also.

So, vote no against the school bond issue on Nov. 2. Let us preserve our historic junior high without altering it. Continue using it as a school; it is the only way to save it.

Emilie LenhartDefiance

Senior services provides many thingsAs a geriatric nurse and Senior Center volunteer, I spend

a lot of time thinking about the quality of life of seniors. Our seniors are the people who have built and served

the Defiance community for many years. They are our parents, grandparents, friends and neighbors. Over the years, the goal of the Defiance County Senior Center has been to try and meet the needs of seniors and improve their quality of life wherever possible.

This includes a large, countywide meals-on-wheels pro-gram, weekday meals at the center’s cafe and a farmer’s market program as well as an Alzheimer’s support group and respite care to assist caregivers. It also includes trans-portation to doctor’s appointments, dialysis appoint-ments and grocery shopping assistance. They provide health screenings and educational programs on nutrition, wellness, financial issues and many other topics. They provide many opportunities for people to stay involved with the community and connect with old friends as well as make new ones through group trips, tours, social events and dances.

I’m always amazed to see seniors who come to the center as volunteers finding ways to continue to serve the community and stay vital and active.

In the all too near future our senior population will grow to be four times what it is today (thanks to us baby boomers). We would like to grow along with them and be a center where active seniors can stay involved, socialize, and use the skills they have developed over the years to help others.

This November please consider voting yes for the senior services replacement levy and make a positive difference in someone’s life as well as your own. Keep Defiance “A Great Place to Live” even if you’ve lived a long time.

Lisa SealscottDefiance

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Editorial

Last week we advocated for Republican John Kasich as Ohio governor, and this week we make recommendations for four other statewide offices:

— Secretary of state: John Husted, a Republican who is now a state senator, served effectively as Speaker of the Ohio House. He is an eloquent advocate for reforming the state’s method of reapportionment (shap-ing state congressional districts). His oppo-nent, Maryellen O’Shaughnessy, clerk of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Court, appears capable but we believe Husted would be less apt to be a micro-manager as the state’s top election official.

— Auditor: David Pepper, a Hamilton County commissioner, and David Yost, a former county auditor who now serves as Delaware County prosecuting attorney, both would be capable successors to Mary Taylor. Both express support for expansion of per-formance auditing and targeting fraud. Our choice is Pepper, whose ability to cross party lines as a Democrat in a largely Republican county could help him in getting the job done in Columbus.

— Attorney general: Both are qualified. Richard Cordray, a Democrat who previously served as state treasurer, has done an admi-rable job of restoring honor and integrity to an office tarnished by the scandalous tenure of the inept Marc Dann. His opponent, Mike DeWine, who served as a county prosecutor and state legislator before being the state’s lieutenant governor and a two-term U.S. senator, also would serve capably, but it is difficult to make a compelling case for turn-ing Cordray out of office.

— Treasurer: We have no strong recom-mendation and reservations about both can-didates for an office whose duties include oversight of billions of dollars of invest-ments. Kevin Boyce, the Democrat holding the office by virtue of appointment, and his opponent, State Rep. Josh Mandel, are youthful, energetic, articulate and politically ambitious. Boyce’s relatively short tenure has been marked by an inordinate amount of turnover in his office, a pattern that can’t help but call his leadership into question. Mandel’s attempt to inject religious over-tones in a TV ad against Boyce was distaste-ful and raises questions about his maturity and judgment. We do feel Mandel would bring more focused scrutiny to Ohio’s fis-cal management, which is of course highly important in this position. We refrain from a solid endorsement for either candidate and wish Ohio voters had better choices for this important position.

The Crescent-News • Sunday, October 24, 2010 REGION ■ A5

By BETHANY RAYLErayle@crescent-news.com

Several individuals learned more about dealing with autism in every day life as part of this year’s Hench Autism Symposium held Friday at Defiance College.

This year’s symposium featured Dr. Stephen Shore and Judy Endow, MSW, as guest speakers.

Shore, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, has authored several books on autism and currently teaches courses in special educa-tion and autism as a profes-sor at Adelphi University in Long Island, N.Y. He spoke to symposium attendees on how people on the autism spectrum can achieve a ful-filling and productive life, drawing from many exam-ples from his own experi-ences.

While many autistic indi-viduals have trouble with communication, socializa-tion, sensory integration and have restricted inter-ests, the scope of autism remains very broad.

“We don’t have a com-mon definition of autism,”

admitted Shore. “We don’t have any objective medical test for autism at this time ... It’s a wide spectrum. It’s a deep spectrum.”

Shore said he was two and a half when the “autism bomb exploded” on him and his family. It was then that he began throwing tan-trums, experiencing envi-ronmental withdrawl and loss of speech after oth-erwise developing as any normal child would.

“I didn’t like to be held,” he recalled. “There was a general discomfort with my surroundings.”

Despite recommenda-tions to remove him from the home, Shore said his parents remained very sup-portive of him.

“My parents had no idea what autism was. My par-ents knew very little about autism but now we know a lot. We have a lot more awareness of it. They advo-cated on my behalf.”

According to Shore an effective way to help those with autism be successful is to encourage self-advocacy and focus on the strengths of the individual.

“It starts with being able

to accurately assess the cir-cumstance,” he explained. Using the acronym SODA, Shore suggests people stop, observe their surroundings, deliberate the best course of action and then act. Once individuals assess their environments they can advocate or explain their needs to other followed by disclosure, or the reason for those needs.

Shore also spoke on edu-cation students with autism and suggesting useing a model for social inclusion.

“Colleges often have no idea what to do with (autis-tic students),” he said. He explained that some stu-dents may need a change in the size of material present-ed to them and that sim-ple change in the number of question on a test may make a difference, as well as giving them approriate time to process questions. He also suggested make a schedule for the student and involving that student in any transitions affecting that schedule.

“Just by inventing acco-modation in class structure, the more we can do and the better off we’ll be,” he said.

Speaker: Scope of autism still broad

Caryl RoestiCaryl M. Roesti, age 62, of

Defiance, Ohio, died at 10:16 p.m. on Thursday, October, 21, 2010, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice near Defiance, where she was a patient.

Mrs. Roesti was a graduate of Edgerton High School and attended West Virginia Wesleyan University. She was employed over the years at Strydel, Wal-Mart and as church secre-tary at Sherwood United Methodist Church and cur-rently served as a volun-teer at Fairview Schools in the elementary. She was a member of the Sherwood United Methodist Church and Bryan Chapter 248, Order of the Eastern Star, of which she was a Past Worthy Matron.

Caryl Roesti was born on July 2, 1948, in Bryan, Ohio, the daughter of Donald J. and Alice J. (Conkey) Ferrebee. She married Gary E. Roesti on June 12, 1982, in Defiance, Ohio, and he preceded her in death on May 11, 2010.

Also surviving are one sister, Ann Burrows, of Edgerton, Ohio; two broth-ers, Michael Ferrebee, of Union Beach, New Jersey, and Mark (Donna) Ferrebee, of Edgerton; her mother and stepfather, Alice and Robert Evans, of Bryan, Ohio; and a special nephew, Jason Griffiths, of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

She was also preceded in death by her father, Donald Ferrebee; a brother, Steven Ferrebee; and two sis-ters, Barbara Ferrebee and Martha Trausch.

Visitation will be Monday, October 25, 2010, from 2-8 p.m. in the Krill Funeral Home, 860 West Mulberry Street, Bryan, Ohio, with Eastern Star services being conducted at 8 p.m. on Monday. Services will be held on Tuesday, October 26, 2010, at 11 a.m. in the Krill Funeral Home, Bryan, Ohio, with Pastor Kevin Doseck officiating. Interment will follow in Farmer Cemetery, Farmer, Ohio.

Memorials may be given to Sherwood United Methodist Church, Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice or to a charity of

the donor’s choice.Condolences may be sent

to and the online register may be signed at www.krillfuneralservice.com.

Janice BassettHICKSVILLE — Janice

Lavon Bassett, 69, died Friday, October 22, 2010, at Lutheran Hospital, Ft. Wayne, Indiana.

She was born on October 9, 1941, in Jane Lew, West Virginia, the daughter of Robert and Estella (Blake) Morrison.

She was a 1959 graduate of Fairview High School. On October 24, 1960, she was united in mar-riage with Virgil Bassett and he survives. Janice worked at Cooper Power Tools in Hicksville for 30 years and was a member of Community Christian Center, Hicksville.

Janice is survived by her husband Virgil; two sons, Randy (Dawn) of Hicksville, Mark (Jennifer) of Butler, Indiana; a daugh-ter, Jan (Jeff Binder) Burris of Hicksville; 10 grandchil-dren; three great-grandchil-dren; and two sisters, Lucille (Jerry) Kelley of Decatur, Indiana, and Loretta (Don) Roehrs of Hicksville.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

Services for Janice will be Tuesday, October 26 at the Community Christian Center, Hicksville, at 2 p.m. Visitation will be Monday from 2-5 and 6-8 p.m. at Smith & Brown Funeral Home, Hicksville, and one hour prior to service at the church. Burial will be at Six Corners Cemetery, Hicksville.

Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society or The Ohio State University-James Cancer Center.

Online condolences may be shared at www.smith-brownfuneralhome.com.

Jeanette KellerDELTA — Former rural

Delta resident Jeanette Keller, 86, died early Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010, at Lenawee Medical Care Facility in Adrian, Mich. Barnes Funeral Chapel in Delta is handling arrange-ments.

Mary Alice GeringerWAUSEON — Mary Alice

Geringer, 91, Wauseon, died early Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010, at Heartland of Wauseon. Edgar-Grisier Funeral Home in Wauseon is handling arrangements.

Bethany Rayle/C-N Photo

Dr. Stephen Shore speaks with Defiance College students Audra Gibson (center) and Cindy Obermyer. Shore

spoke as part of this year’s Hench Autism Symposium held Friday.

Hench Autism Symposium

AREA DEATHS

Roesti

SWANTON — Officials with the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office are searching for a missing Swanton woman.

Authorities say Luella Hoodlebrink, 58, of rural Swanton, was last seen on Oct. 21 at 9:30 p.m. near her home. Hoodlebrink is described as being 4’10”, weighing 140 pounds, with brown hair and eyes.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office at 419-335-4010.

Rural Swanton woman missing

With fall upon us, Defiance’s street division is directing its attention toward the annual leaf cleanup program.

Beginning Monday and continuing through Nov. 24, the street division will be picking up leaves. At least two passes are planned on all streets.

Residents should rake their leaves to the edge of the street. However, in order to prevent plug-ging of catch basins, they should refrain from raking them into the street.

Grass clippings or garden refuse must not be added to the piles. As in previous years, the city will not be collecting bagged leaves. The city compost site at 26273 Ohio 281 — near GM Powertrain and the city’s wastewater treatment plant — is available for dispos-ing of leaves.

Information regard-ing collection schedules will be made available to all local news media net-works. Residents can also call 782-6582 to receive a pre-recorded schedule.

The schedule for the first week, weather permit-ting, is: Monday — streets

from Holgate Avenue to Grove Street; Tuesday — streets from Grove Street to Riverside Avenue;

Wednesday — areas south of Riverside Cemetery; Thursday — streets east of the Auglaize River

and north of the railroad; Friday — streets east of the Auglaize River and south of the railroad.

City leaf collection begins Monday

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A Defiance city employee gathers leaves during the 2009 leaf collec-tion season. Defiance’s street division

begins this year’s program on Monday and it will continue through Nov. 24.

A Rhode Island woman who assisted her hus-band in break-ins at two Ayersville businesses in August has been sen-tenced in Defiance County Common Pleas Court.

Tammy DeGrasse, 32, West Warwick, R.I., was placed on community control for four years on charges of complic-ity in the commission of breaking and entering, a fifth-degree felony; and two counts of endanger-ing children, each a first-degree misdemeanor.

She was also ordered to make restitution of $2,594.16 while her vehi-cle was forfeited to the Defiance County Sheriff’s Office.

Authorities alleged that DeGrasse drove a vehicle used when her husband, David DeGrasse, 48, West Warwick, R.I., broke into Miller’s Corner Pizza and Ayersville Carry Out on Aug. 25. Their two chil-dren were also in the vehi-cle while the crimes were being committed.

Although county sher-

iff’s deputies arrived on the scene not long after the break-ins, David DeGrasse eluded them on foot. Authorities said he later stole a vehicle in Defiance, which was found abandoned on the Ohio Turnpike.

He was recently arrest-ed in Rhode Island and is

being held on charges in that state.

A Defiance County grand jury in September indicted David DeGrasse on two counts of break-ing and entering, each a fifth-degree felony; and two counts of endanger-ing children, each a first-degree misdemeanor.

Woman involved in area break-in sentenced

■ A6 REGION The Crescent-News • Sunday, October 24, 2010

Inducted into Four County Career Center’s Wall of Fame last week were, from left: Betsy Babinger, Scott

Edgar, Lisa Myerholtz, Darlene Phillips, Dustin Smith and Richard Stotz.

Darlene Prince/C-N Photo

Collection for the annual Coats for Christmas by the First Presbyterian Church has begun. Barrels and boxes are in place at many area locations. Collections will continue through Nov. 12. Shown here is Barb Fitzenrider, a church member, with a Coats for Christmas poster and barrel.

By DARLENE PRINCEprince@crescent-news.com

Once again, it is time for the First Presbyterian Church’s annual Coats for Christmas campaign. During the event, hundreds of gently used and new coats are collected for those in need in the community.

The campaign got under-way last week and will con-tinue through Nov. 12. The church is collecting gently used and new coats that can be placed in barrels and boxes at a number of loca-tions in the county.

“We always seem to run short of coats for children and even for infants,” said church member Barb Fitzenrider. “Those are coats that are really needed. We also need donations of extra large coats for adults.

“Mercury Cleaners cleans the donated coats for us,” she added.

Coats can be donated at the First Presbyterian Church, Rogliatti’s Sport Center, St. Paul United Methodist Church, Northtowne Mall, GM Powertrain, Defiance Metal Products, both Johns Manville plants, all Defiance city and parochial schools, Ayersville Schools, Tinora Elementary School, Second Baptist Church, Goin’ Postal, St. John United Church of Christ, Mercury Cleaners, Church of God, Salon 206, Defiance Utilities and Defiance County Offices East.

Coats will be given away on Nov. 20 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and Nov. 21 from 1-3 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church, 501 Washington Ave. Each per-son may get one coat free of charge.

For more information about Coats for Christmas, call the church at 419-782-2781.

Coats for Christmas kicks into high gear

ARCHBOLD — Four County Career Center recently honored six of its graduates who have had suc-cess in their careers and will serve as outstanding representatives for the school at the 13th annual Wall of Fame awards program last week.

Inducted were Betsy Babinger, Hicksville, 1977, manager at Lincoln Financial Group; Scott Edgar, Oakwood, 1987, owner of Five Span Marina; Lisa Myerholtz, Bryan,

1983, co-owner of Myro’s, Bryan; Darlene Phillips, Montpelier, 1981, president of Wonsetler Flowers, Bryan; Dustin Smith, Defiance, M&D Detailing, Sherwood; and Richard Stotz, Edgerton, 1973, northern dis-trict manager at Automotive Color & Supply Corp. in Fort Wayne.

A picture/plaque of each recipient will be placed in the main entrance at Four County Career Center. The new members were inducted dur-

ing the annual advisory committee dinner.

Nominations for this honor were open to the public and based on the areas of significant contributions to the individual’s career, the com-munity, education and Four County Career Center. Nominations are now being accepted for next year’s Wall of Fame.

Contact the career center at 419-267-3331 for nomination forms.

Six join Four County Wall of Fame

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The Crescent-News • Sunday, October 24, 2010 REGION & STATE ■ A7

New road surface on Ohio 66

Crews from Gerken Paving, of Napoleon, were busy Friday put-ing down a new road surface on Ohio 66 north between Elliott and Breckler/Jewell roads. Here a worker rolls the new asphalt while

crews in the background are laying down more asphalt as they proceed north along 66.

Dennis Van Scoder/C-N Photo

Make a Difference

Lisa Nicely/C-N Photos

Defiance College alumni and Chief Supermarkets teamed together Saturday for Make a Difference Day. Alumni bagged groceries at all Chief locations and individuals were able

to give monetary or food donations to the needy. Annette Hoeffel, at left, and Rich Pejeau sack groceries for customers at Chief Market Square in Defiance.

Jeff Long/C-N Photo

Ohio Democratic Party chairman Chris Redfern was in Defiance Friday evening at the UAW Local 211 hall. Redfern (left) speaks to the crowd as Defiance Mayor Bob Armstrong listens.

Party leader

NAPOLEON — Officers with the Napoleon City Police Department are investigating a robbery that occurred at Chief Supermarket, 1247 N. Scott St., Friday afternoon.

The incident occurred at approximately 12:05 p.m. when officers were informed that a white male, approximately 6 feet tall with a thin build, pos-sibly in his 20s, entered the store, approached one of the cash registers and took an undisclosed amount of cash from a register while a cashier had the drawer open.

Officials say the subject ran out of the store and headed south towards Hills Restaurant and got into a vehicle in the parking lot. The vehicle was described as possibly being a dark green Ford Explorer with stickers on the rear, one which read “Go Bucks.”

Witnesses report that the driver of vehicle was a female.

The subject was described as wearing dark colored sunglasses, a white hooded sweatshirt and light col-ored blue jeans.

Anyone with information in regards to the incident is asked to call the Napoleon Police Department at 419-599-2810.

Police investigating robbery in Napoleon

MASSILLON (AP) — Sitting on the front porch, Debra Hickman fought her tears and let go. She let go of the stress, let go of the fears and let go of all that was left of her beautiful hair.

Small snippets fell to the ground around her as the clippers whirred and buzzed.

For five years, Hickman had been growing her hair, keeping it trimmed and healthy so that on her 50th birthday she could donate it to Beautiful Lengths, an organization that makes wigs for women who have survived cancer.

She didn’t make it to 50.On June 1, four months

before her 50th birthday, Hickman was diagnosed with breast cancer. Three months later, before she started her chemotherapy treatments, Hickman settled in to the salon chair and donated her hair.

“I always said that if I had long enough hair I would donate it. Then, here I am. I’m the one in the (salon) chair donating my hair and I have breast cancer,” Hickman said. “I waited as long as I could. I waited until I had to start my che-motherapy. I remember I told them, ’It’s not time, yet — this isn’t the way it’s sup-posed to be. I was supposed to be 50.’”

The donation may have come one month shy of her birthday, but she never hes-itated to make it. Her hair always made her feel beau-tiful, elegant and strong. She wanted her hair to do exactly the same for some-one else.

Especially if she couldn’t keep her hair herself.

“I wanted someone who wanted it and needed it to have it,” Hickman said of her hair. “I wanted them to know that there was some-one out there who wanted to give it away for them. Even though it came at a hard time, I wanted to give it away.”

It didn’t take long for Hickman to discover that real strength comes from what’s inside, not outside. It comes from a sense of humor, an ability to smile in the most trying of times and a support system of family and friends who love you unconditionally.

Roy Barth, Hickman’s boyfriend of 26 years, is the person who keeps her grounded. He’s the one who keeps her laughing, and keeps her happy. He was the one who has been with her through it all — the good and the bad — and he’s not going anywhere.

That’s exactly why he was the one she trusted with the clippers the day she shaved her head.

“She’s a tough girl,” Barth said. “I got the clippers out and we gave her a buzz cut. It was harder for me than it was for her, I think.”

When Hickman began her chemotherapy treatments, she was told it would be only a short time before she noticed the hair loss. She knew what to expect, but that didn’t make it any easier. Although her hair had been cut shorter, her hair had begun falling out in clumps and she had no choice but to let Barth cut it all off.

It was still the hardest thing he’d ever done.

“She is the one that has to look in the mirror,” Barth said. “She spent a lot of time taking care of her hair so she could give it away. It was tedious for her at points, but I know that she has to be missing it now that it’s gone.”

Hickman is getting used to her new chemo-chic look, though it isn’t always easy to accept. She doesn’t want to get a wig, not right now at least. She wants simply to be who she is, right now in this moment, in this place and time. She wants her mirror to be honest.

“You look in the mirror every morning and you don’t look like the same person, but I’m still me,” Hickman said.

Ohioan who was growing out hair for patients now has cancer

■ A8 REGION & STATE The Crescent-News • Sunday, October 24, 2010

Hicksville High School assistant principal Jeremy Kuhlman (left) accepted the national Pacesetter School Award from David Spence at the 2010 National High Schools That Work Conference in Louisville, Ky., recently.

HICKSVILLE — Hicks-ville High School has been selected as a 2010 national High Schools That Work (HSTW) Pacesetter School. This award is based on the success of local school lead-ers and teachers in improv-ing school practices and raising student achieve-ment.

The award was presented by David Spence, president of the Southern Regional Education Board at the Summer HSTW Summer Conference in Louisville, Ky., before an audience of more than 6,000 educators from across the nation.

To be recognized as a HSTW Pacesetter School, schools must deeply imple-

ment the school improve-ment design, teach students a rigorous academic cur-riculum, have high student achievement, a high grad-uation rate, and meet the Adequate Yearly Progress criteria of the No Child Left Behind Act.

James Posta and Debra Schneider, Ohio HSTW C o n s u l t a n t s , v i s i t e d Hicksville High School to present the award banner to faculty, staff and students at a schoolwide assembly on Oct. 20 at Hicksville High School.

Hicksville High School is one of only 30 schools nationwide to receive the 2010 Pacesetter Award.

Hicksville picks up pacesetter award

COLUMBUS (AP) — The final snapshot of Ohio’s job market before Election Day was issued Friday and showed the state’s unem-ployment rate slipped to 10 percent in September, continuing a steady retreat from March’s 26-year high of 11 percent.

“Six months of con-tinuous decline definitely makes a trend,” said Ben Johnson, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

However, officials said the state’s employment picture was essentially unchanged because payrolls in Ohio, outside of farms, also shrank last month.

“While certainly there is progress still to be made and there are a lot of peo-ple still looking for work, the job market is getting stronger and the economy is recovering in Ohio,”

Johnson said.Joblessness was down

from 10.1 percent in August, falling with help from increased hiring in education and health care, department director Douglas Lumpkin said in a statement. The heaviest job losses were in local govern-ment.

The number of work-ers unemployed in Ohio dropped to 591,000 in September, from 601,000 the month before, and the num-ber has decreased by 47,000 in the past 12 months, offi-cials said.

Meanwhile, the state’s nonfarm payroll employ-ment also declined, by 17,300. Johnson specu-lated that one reason for the decline could be that people dropped out of the labor force because they returned to school after the summer.

Ohio jobless rates fall for sixth straight month

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 AT 11:00 a.m.

Schomburg Auditorium, Deiance College CampusTickets: $10 at door

National Players, America’s longest running classical

touring company, has now reached its 60th consecutive

season of touring. Currently the touring program of

Olney Theatre Center for the Arts, National Players has

earned a distinctive place in American theater. They

will bring to life Shakespeare’s comedy, “A Midsummer

Night’s Dream,” the adventures of four young Athenian

lovers and a group of amateur actors, who are

manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest.

A Schomburg Series performance

The Crescent-News • Sunday, October 24, 2010 REGION & TRI-STATE ■ A9

Safety day

Lisa Nicely/C-N Photo

Lt. Tom Rath, right, of the South Richland Fire Department shows Mencharo Rosalez, 4, of Defiance, how the jaws of life work during Sears’ National Safety Weekend events on

Saturday. Events continue today from 12-4 p.m. at Sears where people can participate in safety demonstrations from area response teams.

COLUMBUS (AP) — An Ohio judge allowed a pregnant teen to marry her boyfriend without parental consent after the bride-to-be told a court she’d likely have to have an abortion if she stayed at home. The Columbus Dispatch reports two 17-year-olds got married Tuesday after a hearing in central Ohio.

The teen bride’s mother says the judge waived the requirement for parental consent without hearing from her or her husband. She says she found out about

her daughter’s marriage when she tried to pick her daughter up from school.

The young groom’s father tells The Dispatch that his daughter-in-law felt that she was in an unsafe environment for her baby. Ohio law requires parents to sign off on the marriage of anyone younger than 18, but it’s within a judge’s rights to waive such requirements.

Franklin County Probate Judge Alan Acker didn’t respond to an e-mail sent Saturday.

Ohio judge allows 17-year-olds to marry

COLUMBUS, Ind. (AP) — Columbus native John Goss has a pretty impres-sive resume.

Among the positions he has held are:

— Executive director of the Indiana Wildlife Federation.

— Director of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.

— Vice chairman of the Great Lakes Commission.

— Director of tourism for the state of Indiana.

— Chief of staff for Lt. Gov. Frank O’Bannon.

— District director for 8th District Rep. Frank McCloskey.

— Deputy mayor of Bloomington.

Today he has another job, one far more impressive in scope and much more unusual in title. The 1969 Columbus High School graduate is the federal gov-ernment’s Asian carp czar.

“It brings out a lot of smiles among my friends when-ever someone brings it up,” Goss said recently from an office in Washington where he is responsible for a $78 million budget. The lesser known but more accurate official title is chairman of the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee.

In a city where there are economic czars, drug enforcement czars and a legion of other quasi-czars, the title Asian carp czar might qualify for a spoof on “Saturday Night Live.”

No one in the Great Lakes region would laugh, how-ever.

The Asian carp threatens a $7 billion sport and com-mercial fishing industry in the Great Lakes, according to Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., who described Goss as “an exceptionally qualified candidate and a longtime friend of Great Lakes.”

It has only been in recent years that the Asian carp has captured universal atten-tion, primarily because of some unique video footage in a constant state of rerun on YouTube that shows hundreds of the fish leap-ing out of the water and into passing boats.

The jumping Asian carps have had their effect, seri-ously injuring some boaters who were struck by the fish that can weigh up to 100 pounds.

However, those injuries pale alongside the dire pre-dictions raised should inva-sive varieties break into one of the Great Lakes to the detriment of native species.

“They’re voracious bot-tom feeders who are also prolific breeders,” Goss said. “There have already been sightings in Indiana waterways like the Wabash and White rivers, not to mention the Illinois River.”

Some Asian carp have been recovered in Chicago waterways (although not in the central city) and raised fears that they could even-tually migrate into Lake Michigan.

Durbin has been one of the main proponents in urging President Obama to appoint a federal coordi-nated response coordinator for Asian carp.

In September, Obama did just that, naming Goss to the post. At the time Goss was director of the Indiana Wildlife Federation but had already amassed a signifi-cant resume in the field of natural resources.

“My interests in the out-doors go all the way back to my time in the Boy Scouts and growing up in Petersville Methodist Church,” he said.

He is the son of the late Robert Goss, who worked at Arvin Industries and retired from Reliance Electric before his death last year. His mother, Harriet, still lives in Columbus, as do his brother, Steven, and sisters, Marcia Harbaugh and Jan Reed.

After obtaining bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Indiana University, Goss went to work for the city of Bloomington, where he would eventually serve as a deputy to two mayors.

He was on the staff of 8th District Rep. Frank McCloskey, D-Ind., and took part in the infamous 1984 election against Republican challenger Rick McIntyre that required recounts until McCloskey was declared the winner by a mere four votes.

“I still have nightmares about all those paper bal-lots we had to look over,” Goss laughed. “It was like a prelude to Florida and the hanging chads (in the still disputed presidential elec-tion between George Bush and Al Gore in 2000).”

He became involved in state government after serv-ing as chief of staff to Lt. Gov. Frank O’Bannon, who would later follow Evan Bayh as governor. That led to two statewide appoint-ments, one as tourism director and the other as director of the Department of Natural Resources.

Because of numerous dealings with his peers in other states, Goss built up a network of contacts and became an expert on issues relating to the eco-nomic viability of the Great Lakes.

By the time he was appointed to the current White House post, he was well versed on the dangers of Asian carp.

Although he will be administering a $78 million budget, very little of it will be spent on staff.

“The staff only consists of three people,” he said. “Most of the money will be directed to agencies such as the Army Corps of Engineers for specific proj-ects.”

The corps is but one of many federal, state and local agencies Goss will coordinate with in develop-ing a successful resolution of the Asian carp problem.

Indiana native takes on job as Asian Carp czar

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A downtown promotion group in South Bend is try-ing to attract area artisans and retailers to fill some vacant storefronts by offer-ing a month’s free rent for the Christmas shopping season.

Downtown South Bend Inc. business recruiter Tamara Nicholl-Smith says the program aims to create more of a critical mass of stores to make downtown a retail destination for holi-day shoppers.

The South Bend Tribune reports the group will require merchants occu-pying the four vacant Michigan Street stores to be open during certain hours on weekdays and week-ends from Dec. 1 through Jan. 2.

Group offers South Bend shops free rent

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Indiana University’s main campus will see its class scheduled revamped to have fall semester start a week earlier and give a full week off over Thanksgiving.

The new calendar is set to start in 2012 after being approved by the Bloomington Faculty Council. The Herald-Times reports that the campus’ new summer schedule will consist of three four-week modules, reducing the summer session from 14 to 12 weeks.

The faculty council’s vote follows discussions with university administrators and student government leaders.

The vote effectively sets the schedule without fur-ther input or approval, council President Erika Dowell said

Under the new calendar, the 2012 fall semester will start on Aug. 20 instead of Aug. 27. It will also include a one-day fall break on a Friday of either the seventh or eighth week of the fall semester.

Faculty members said that creating a full week off for Thanksgiving merely acknowledges the reality that many students — espe-cially those from out-of-state — miss classes dur-ing the partial week before the Thanksgiving holiday because of travel plans returning home.

Indiana U’s main campus to take off week of Thanksgiving

PORTAGE, Ind. (AP) — Two Chicago residents face drug charges after Indiana State Police say troop-ers found 14 kilograms of cocaine worth about $1.6 million in a hidden compartment in the pair’s sport-utility vehicle.

The Times of Munster reports 40-year-old Doris Reyes and 20-year-old Carlos Lopez were charged Friday with deal-ing cocaine. Both were being held Saturday at the Porter County Jail on $50,000 cash bonds.

Police said a trooper who pulled over Reyes’ SUV on Thursday night for unsafe lane movement on the Indiana Toll Road

in Portage noticed signs of possible criminal activity.

When a drug-sniff-ing dog detected pos-sible narcotics, the SUV was searched and a hid-den compartment with a hinged door was found in the vehicle’s interior that contained the cocaine.

Police find cocaine worth $1.6M in car on toll road

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Indiana State Police say a tractor-trailer that rear-ended another semi along the Indiana Toll Road burst into flames, killing one person.

The early Saturday col-lision near South Bend prompted police to close the highway’s eastbound lanes until firefighters could douse the flames that gutted the victim’s

cab.Sgt. Trent Smith said the

semi being driven by that driver crashed into the trailer of a second semi that had slowed along a toll road exit.

The driver of the other semi and his passenger were not injured in the 5:30 a.m. crash.

Police did not release the victim’s name, pending notification of relatives.

Indiana toll road crash kills one near South Bend

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■ A10 WASHINGTON The Crescent-News • Sunday, October 24, 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) — Military documents laid bare in the biggest leak of secret information in U.S. history suggest that far more Iraqis died than previously acknowledged during the years of sectarian bloodlet-ting and criminal violence unleashed by the American-led invasion in 2003.

The accounts of civil-ian deaths among nearly 400,000 purported Iraq war logs released Friday by the WikiLeaks website include deaths unknown or unre-ported before now — as many as 15,000 by the count of one independent research group.

The field reports from U.S. forces and intelligence offi-cers also indicate U.S. forces often failed to follow up on credible evidence that Iraqi forces mistreated, tortured and killed their captives as they battled a violent insur-gency.

Iraq’s prime minister accused WikiLeaks of trying to sabotage his re-election hopes by highlighting years-old abuses by Iraqi security forces. A statement released Saturday by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s office said

the documents show no proof of any improper treatment of detainees under al-Maliki’s administration.

The war logs were made public in defiance of the Pentagon, which insisted that the release would put the lives of U.S. troops and their military partners at risk.

Although the documents appear to be authentic, their origin could not be inde-pendently confirmed, and WikiLeaks declined to offer any details about them.

The 391,831 documents date from the start of 2004 to Jan. 1, 2010. They provide a ground-level view of the war written mostly by low-rank-ing officers in the field. The dry reports, full of military jargon and acronyms, were meant to catalog “significant actions” over six years of heavy U.S. and allied mili-tary presence in Iraq.

The Pentagon has previ-ously declined to confirm the authenticity of WikiLeaks-released records. But it has put to work more than 100 U.S. analysts to review what was previously released and has never indicated that any past WikiLeaks releases were

inaccurate.At a news conference

in London on Saturday, WikiLeaks said it would soon publish 15,000 additional secret Afghan war docu-ments. The group has pub-lished some 77,000 U.S. intel-ligence reports about the war in Afghanistan in addition to the almost 400,000 alleged secret U.S. documents about the Iraq war.

Casualty figures in the U.S.-led war in Iraq have been hotly disputed.

Iraq Body Count, a private British-based group that has tracked the number of Iraqi civilians killed, said it had analyzed the information and found 15,000 previous-ly unreported deaths. That would raise its total from as many as 107,369 civilians to more than 122,000 civilians.

Al-Jazeera, one of sever-al news organizations pro-vided advance access to the WikiLeaks trove, reported the documents show 285,000 recorded casualties, includ-ing at least 109,000 deaths. Of those who died 66,000, nearly two-thirds of the total, were civilians.

The Iraqi government has issued a tally claiming at least 85,694 deaths of civil-ians and security officials killed between January 2004 and Oct. 31, 2008.

In July of this year, the U.S. military quietly released its most detailed tally to date of the deaths of Iraqi civilians and security forces in the bloodiest years of the war.

That U.S. body count, reported by The Associated Press this month, tallied deaths of almost 77,000 Iraqis between January 2004 and August 2008 — the darkest chapter of Iraq’s sectarian warfare and the U.S. troop surge to quell it.

The new data was posted on the U.S. Central Command website without explanation.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says consumers would lose if Republicans regain power in Congress and try to roll back his hard-won Wall Street overhaul.

He says the GOP’s prom-ised repeal of the law would mean the return of a finan-cial system whose near-col-lapse led to the worst reces-sion since the Depression.

“Without sound over-sight and commonsense protections for consum-ers, the whole economy is put in jeopardy,” Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address. “That doesn’t serve Main Street. That doesn’t serve Wall Street. That doesn’t serve anyone.”

The law passed despite nearly unanimous Republican opposition. It sought to rein in a financial system that had sped ahead of outdated rules, allowing banks, traders and others to take increased risks.

Separate legislation tack-led bank overdraft fees and abuses such as retroactive interest rate increases on credit card balances.

The financial overhaul law came in the wake of a $700 billion bank rescue passed in the final months of George W. Bush’s presi-dency. While the bailout is credited with providing sta-bility, it’s deeply unpopular with voters angry of tax-payer money being used to help prop up huge banks.

Obama promised that the measure ensures that tax-payers will “never again be on the hook for a bailout.”

Obama’s address came less than two weeks before elections in which Republicans have a good chance of taking over the House, if not the Senate. The financial regulation measure hasn’t been a cen-tral campaign issue.

House GOP leader John Boehner of Ohio has called for a repeal, as have top Senate Republicans. But Obama still would stand in the way through his veto power.

President: consumers lose if law gets repealed

WikiLeaks

AP Photo

Founder of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, explains a website report during a press conference in London, on

Saturday. WikiLeaks revealed Saturday previously secret files on the Iraq war.

Analysis

WASHINGTON (AP) — The enormous cache of secret war logs disclosed by the WikiLeaks website paints a picture of an Iraq burdened by persistent sectarian tension and med-dling neighbors, suggest-ing that the country could drift into chaos once U.S. forces leave.

The reports, covering early 2004 to Jan. 1, 2010, help explain why Iraq’s struggle to create a uni-fied, independent state continues, despite a dra-matic reduction in vio-lence. They appear to sup-port arguments by some experts that the U.S. should keep thousands of troops there beyond their sched-uled departure in 2011, to buy more time for Iraq to become stable.

The threats described in the leaked documents come from outside, includ-ing next-door Iran, as well as inside, in the form of sectarian, political and

even family rivalries that predate the 2003 American-led invasion and endure today.

The reports demonstrate the weakness of Iraq’s civic institutions, court system and military, even before sectarian violence explod-ed in 2006-2007.

In the fall of 2005, the U.S. military discovered evi-dence of plots to assassinate various officials, including an Iraqi Army colonel. In September, one of the war logs said, a group of judg-es was abducted in Balad, beaten and forced into the trunk of a car.

Another example: On June 6, 2006, U.S. forces reported discovering large amounts of blood on the floor, a rubber hose and electric wires rigged to a metal door in a holding cell in an Iraqi police station in Husaybah, in western Iraq.

The report called the discoveries “evidence of

unchecked torture” and “clear indications” of human rights violations.

The U.S. report said that for a time, U.S. military advisers slept in the police station to make sure pris-oners were not abused, checked arrest logs and counseled Iraqi police, warning them against these practices.

But even a program of training and counseling didn’t put an end to the abuses. According to a report dated Feb. 16, 2009, U.S. forces reported the mistreatment of 33 detain-ees in custody at the same police station.

Associated Press was given access to a redacted WikiLeaks database hours before its general release Friday, but was not pro-vided the raw data. The documents appear to be authentic, but their origin could not be confirmed independently.

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■ A12 NEWS The Crescent-News • Sunday, October 24, 2010

KING, N.C. (AP) — The Christian flag is every-where in the small city of King: flying in front of barbecue joints and hair salons, stuck to the bum-pers of trucks, hanging in windows and emblazoned on T-shirts.

The relatively obscure emblem has become omni-present because of one place it can’t appear: flying above a war memorial in a public park.

The city council decided last month to remove the flag from above the monu-ment in Central Park after a resident complained, and after city leaders got letters from the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State urging them to remove it.

That decision incensed veterans groups, churches and others in King, a city of about 6,000 people 15 miles north of Winston-Salem. Ray Martini, 63, an Air Force veteran who served in Vietnam, launched a round-the-clock vigil to guard a replica Christian flag hanging on a wooden pole in front of the war memorial.

Since Sept. 22, the vigil has been bolstered by home-cooked food delivered by supporters, sleeping bags and blan-kets donated by a West Virginia man and offers of support from New York to Louisiana.

“This monument stands as hallowed ground,” said Martini, a tall, trim man with a tattoo on his right arm commemorat-ing the day in 1988 when he became a born-again Christian. “It kills me when I think people want to essentially desecrate it.”

The protesters are con-cerned not only about the flag, which was one of 11 flying above the memo-rial when it was dedicated six years ago, but about a metal sculpture nearby depicting a soldier kneel-ing before a cross.

“I won’t let it fall,” Martini said. “I have already told the city, before you can take it down, I’ll tie myself to it and you can cut me down first.”

The identity of the resi-dent who complained about the flag, a veteran of the Afghanistan war, has not been made public. But the state chapter of the ACLU has no problem with the vigil.

“We were concerned when the city was spon-soring the Christian flag, but we don’t have any con-cern with veterans groups displaying the flag,” legal director Katy Parker said. “We think it’s great the city is offering citizens a chance to express their opinions.”

The protesters, though, aren’t satisfied with the vigil. They held a rally Saturday in support of their ultimate goal, which is for the city to restore the Christian flag to the per-manent metal pole on the memorial.

At a recent public hear-ing, roughly 500 peo-ple packed the King Elementary School gym-nasium, many waving Christian flags. Of more than 40 speakers, no one spoke in favor of remov-ing it.

“We’ve let our religious freedoms and constitution-al rights be stripped away one by one, and I think it’s time we took a stand,” King resident James Joyce said.

Mayor Jack Warren said the city won’t make a deci-sion until it can go over its options with legal counsel. One possibility is desig-nating a flag pole at the memorial for the display of any religious emblem, he said. Another is selling or donating the memorial to a veterans organization, essentially privatizing it.

“What it comes down to is: What can we do and what can’t we do, what’s legal and what’s illegal?” he said.

Created by a pastor in New York City a little over a century ago, the flag, which sets a red cross in a blue square in the upper left corner of a white field, has been used by both liberal and conservative Protestant churches, but rarely draws much atten-tion, according to Elesha Coffman, a history pro-fessor at Waynesburg University.

“I would guess most churchgoing Protestants in America have never even noticed if there is a Christian flag in their own sanctuary,” she said. “It’s just kind of there, unless there’s a controversy, and suddenly people pick it up.”

In King, it’s virtually inescapable. Gullion’s Christian Supply Center, an area retailer, has sold hundreds of flags since the dispute began, according to Leanne Gay, who was running a tent at Calvary Baptist Church in King where everything from Christian flag decals to T-shirts were for sale.

“In the first couple weeks, we were running out of flags every two hours or so,” she said.

Rev. Kevin Broyhill, pastor at Calvary Baptist, donated the flag now fly-ing at the vigil. But Broyhill thinks having it returned permanently to the memo-rial is a losing legal strat-egy. He wants the city to transfer the memorial to a veterans group, which would make it private land.

“Right now, the judg-es on the Fourth Circuit Court are very liberal,” he said. “This battle’s already been fought in court.”

Broyhill is probably right, according to Larry Little, a lawyer and pro-fessor of political science at Winston-Salem State University.

“They know they’d lose,” he said of the city council. “They would have to use taxpayers’ money to defend what any lawyer worth a grain of salt could tell them is a violation of the separation of church and state.”

For veterans who say they’re honoring the sacri-fices of fallen comrades or Christians who say they’re defending their faith, though, such a compro-mise seems like a sellout.

“That’s an easy out,” said Eugene Kiger, who has been part of the vigil since the beginning. “The people here saw what was happening and said, ’Somebody has stood up. It’s time to stand up with them.’”

Veterans stand guard over Christian flag in NC town

WASHINGTON (AP) — A delayed decline in home prices and drops in manu-facturing and tourism have caused unemployment in western mountain states to rise faster in the past year than in any other region.

The jobless rate in the eight-state Mountain West region has jumped to 9.3 percent from 8.7 percent a year ago. That’s still lower than the 9.6 percent nation-al average. But the gap is narrowing with the rest of the nation. The jobs crisis in regions with higher unem-ployment has mainly sta-bilized.

The lagging pace repre-sents a sharp turnaround for a region that had been growing at a healthy pace before the recession. And it illustrates how broadly the Great Recession and its aftershocks are affecting the country.

A rush of young people and California transplants helped make the region — covering ground from New Mexico to Montana — one of the fastest-growing parts of the country in the past decade. Housing boomed in Boise, Salt Lake City and in Denver.

Thriving cattle farms, wheat crops and copper mines insulated much of the region from the level of lay-offs the rest of the country experienced in 2008. And while Nevada and Arizona were among those hit hard-est when the housing bub-ble burst, the six other states in the region had milder housing booms and fewer subprime borrowers.

Still, as the economy and home prices soured else-where, fewer people were willing or able to move for

work. Home sales slumped. Prices fell. Idaho, Colorado and Montana lost thousands of construction jobs. Timber companies lost business.

The states’ snow-capped mountains and prized national forests received fewer visitors. And the ones who did arrive after the recession traveled on tight-er budgets.

A big blow to Idaho came in early 2009, when technol-ogy companies such as chip-maker Micron Technology and Hewlett-Packard Co. laid off thousands of workers. The industry has rebounded, but the jobs haven’t come back.

In Idaho, the number of people receiving food stamps has surged.

“We got pulled in a lit-tle bit later than the rest of the country,” said Larry Swanson, an economist at the University of Montana and director of the Center for the Rocky Mountain West. Now “we are catch-ing up,” he said.

After previous recessions, the region has usually ben-efited from rebounds in homebuilding, tourism, and other service industries, said Addison Franz, an assis-tant economist at Moody’s Analytics. But those trends haven’t helped this time. Consumers around the country are still cautious and housing is still weak.

“You would expect (the region) to catch the wave of recovery, but they haven’t been able to this time,” she said.

Montana, for example, has seen its unemployment rate rise by the most in the coun-try since September 2009, to 7.4 percent from 6.5 percent. The state has lost jobs in its timber and tourism indus-tries. People aren’t spend-ing as much even when they do visit popular sites like Glacier National Park or Yellowstone, accord-ing to Patrick Barkey, an economics professor at the University of Montana.

Montana’s Flathead Valley, which includes Glacier National Park, a popular ski resort and blue-ribbon fly fishing, has one of the highest unemploy-

ment rates in the state. It reached nearly 14 percent at its peak in March.

After visitor numbers flagged last year, many sea-sonal employees weren’t hired back this summer. The timber industry’s con-tinued slide also added to job losses in the region.

The situation appears to be turning around, in part spurred by Glacier National Park’s centennial celebration this summer. That’s caused the number of visitors to rebound. But employment and hiring hasn’t followed.

Darwon Stoneman, a co-owner of Glacier Raft Co., which guides tourists on rafting and fishing trips, said business was better this year and he expects it to be good next year, too. But while he is building new guest cabins, he is still being cautious about hiring.

He doesn’t expect to add back the guide jobs that he didn’t fill last year or this year.

Idaho has seen the sec-ond-steepest rise in unem-ployment in the nation since the recession began, to 9 percent from 3.5 percent in December 2007.

In Boise, home prices are still falling faster than the national average, Franz said. The housing slump has cost the state 4,000 construction jobs in the past year.

A 75-unit condominium high-rise downtown offers a stark symbol of the down-turn.

Scott Kimball, a Boise developer, built it in 2008, just as the state’s unem-ployment rate was starting to bulge and housing values started to slump.

Two years later, sales have been slow and only half the building is occupied. Last month, he held an auction to generate sales and inter-est, setting a minimum bid for studio and 1-bedroom units of $99,000 — half the previous asking price.

“My plan was to build through the recession and come out on the other side when people were look-ing to buy and move in,” Kimball said. “I thought this would be a typical recession .... But this one has been dif-ferent.”

Only Nevada — an epi-center of the foreclosure crisis — has seen its unem-ployment rate rise faster than Idaho. Other states with high rates, such as Michigan and California, were struggling before the recession began.

One painful impact of that change is that Idaho’s food stamp rolls have jumped by 40 percent in the past year, the largest increase of any state. Nevada has seen the second-largest and Utah the fifth-largest.

“Idaho actually has had one of the worst times dur-ing this recession of any state,” Franz said. It’s gone from “a relatively fast-grow-ing, vibrant state to a state experiencing job losses and home prices declining. It’s a pretty stark change.”

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MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (AP) — A pilot course was created at Central Michigan University to teach students how to maxi-mize the use of the Apple iPad.

Professor Patricia Janes of Recreation, Parks and Leisure Services asked Mike Reuter, director of technol-ogy operations, to teach her parks and recreation students to be “danger-ous” with the higher-level technology that is desired and expected by today’s employers.

“The class I co-teach is RPL 400 N, digital media in recreation, parks and tourism,” Reuter said. “The class is designed to give our students the tools they need to go out and compete bet-ter in the corporate world or wherever they end up after they graduate.”

The course, which is taught by Reuter and Dan Bracken, associate direc-tor for the Faculty Center for Innovative Teaching, teaches the business uses for social networking, and how to use the applications found on the iPad.

“They know how to find music and simple stuff,” Reuter said. “But 80 percent of students don’t know how to use the blackboard, even though the icons are on the screen.”

Students who are in the student teaching portion of their educational process have to set up their own recording equipment to document their classroom work.

“We’ve had more than one student come back with nothing on their tapes, after hitting play instead of record during their ses-sions,” Reuter said. “The faculty assumed they knew what they were doing.”

Reuter said the students each need to bring in an iPad, which were provided for use free of charge dur-ing this pilot stage.

“We just finished an audio project where they creat-ed podcasts,” said Reuter. “Next, they will use a GPS (global positioning system) to update Foursquare.”

Foursquare is an applica-tion that allows people to check in and rate locations within their communities, and even earn points or free things from businesses that have been checked by users.

“We were in the Tap Room, and it was not checked,” said Reuter. “We wondered how is that possible, so one of their assignments is to go out with a GPS device and find 10 places (to mark on Foursquare).

“We keep them pretty busy.”

Danny Fancher is a stu-dent of the pilot class who is excited to be learning things that will “help him to be more tech savvy” and to help him get his “foot in the door” with employers.

“I know it’s just a pilot class, but it’s been an eye-opener with opportunities for critical thinking,” said Fancher, a 21-year-old junior from Leslie. He’s a former education major who has decided to pursue a degree in commercial recreation.

He said issues about music piracy and video on the internet were taught, and he has learned a lot about the laws protecting artists and record compa-nies.

“A lawyer for a group who worked for a record

label told us first hand about different cases,” Fancher said. “We got an overview of copyright laws regard-ing pictures and music and how to stay legal.”

Janes hopes the course will become a regular course.

“I have been working with the Faculty Center for Innovative Teaching trying to integrate technology into the classroom,” Janes said. “And I worked with Mike and Dan for six months.

“There are so many chang-es, and our employers were expecting our students to have the skills (of social net-working and working on websites),” she said.

Janes said the language is “difficult,” but that they are taught the layman’s ver-sion.

“I’m sitting in and learn-ing with them,” Janes said.

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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Dog sledding without snow?

Karen Tolin knew the concept was a little hard to understand, but she believed a Facebook pro-motion for her White Mountains dog-sledding business through the state tourism division would help clear it up — and draw some customers dur-ing the off season.

She was right.Visitors mentioned the

August offer when they booked a “rolling” dog sledding tour — when dogs pull passengers in a wheeled cart, something more common in the West. Tolin combined an excur-sion discount with a white-water rafting trip called “Paws and Paddles.”

State tourism bureaus, including New Hampshire’s, have been aggressively using social networks to promote busi-ness and attract visitors with travel packages, itin-eraries and tips from trav-elers themselves. Tolin’s Muddy Paw Sled Dog Kennel is among those reaping the benefits.

“No one Googles ’dog sledding,”’ said Tolin, of Gorham, “so taking advantage of social media in addition to traditional advertising has been a big deal and has gotten the word out, and has increased our business in a big way.”

Indiana has partnered with Foursquare, a smart-phone application that reveals the user’s location, to provide discounts at museums, restaurants and other places through its Leaf Cam foliage-viewing site. Virginia recently won a national award for using Twitter to promote wine tourism. Nearly three-quarters of Michigan’s Facebook fans learned from fellow travelers about unfamiliar places and activities.

“We’re starting to see more and more organiza-tions see the value of blog-ging,” said David Serino, a Michigan-based travel industry consultant who tracks and ranks social media use among state tourism sites.

“We’re generating con-tent that’s keyword-rich and the content we’re generating is very search engine-friendly,” he said. “The content is extremely beneficial to the traveler. With blogging, you really get the insider information or the insider’s take.”

New Hampshire’s Division of Travel and Tourism Development started its Facebook page in July 2009 and connect-ed it to its VisitNH.gov website. When it began offering promotions in November, it had about 1,400 fans, said Tai Freligh, a spokesman for the divi-sion. Today, it has nearly 20,000.

The state selects monthly partners for “fan benefits” exclusive to Facebook and Twitter users. The dis-counts come as printable coupons or promotional codes.

There’s no cost to the

partner for the promotion — which also is adver-tised to state, regional and national media outlets — and an e-mail database of 126,000.

Participation in the pro-motions lets businesses that don’t use social media gain exposure without the risk or commitment of setting up and maintain-ing their own page. But those that do have a social media page, like Muddy Paw, have noticed a boost in fans.

Tolin’s business also has received exposure through a separate visitor information website and social media network for northern New Hampshire businesses run through a nonprofit economic devel-opment group, an effort called NH Grand.

About 40 people took a Muddy Paw ride over Columbus Day weekend,

Tolin said, compared with very few a year ago.

Not all businesses say they have benefited from the monthly exclusives. The Great Northern Moose Lodge, a bed-and-break-fast in Dummer, was part of the August promotion. Owner Richard Tessier said he got some calls but no takers.

“We went into it with the understanding that even if we didn’t get anything out of it, it was worth the exposure,” he said.

The Radisson Hotel in Nashua made $30,000 in new sales from a December promotion letting visitors stay free a second night. The state’s very first pro-motion — 50 percent off midweek accommodations at the Inns and Spa at Mill Falls — generated only about $1,400 with eight room reservations, but a lot of hits.

Tourism bureaus use social websites to promote sights

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Karen Tolin steers her sled dog team with passenger Alisha Morse in the valley of the White Mountains in Jefferson, N.H. Tolin and The Muddy Paw Sled Dog Kennel is one of a num-

ber of New Hampshire businesses that have been promoted monthly since last November by the state’s Visit New Hampshire Facebook page or through Twitter, offering a reward or discount.

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Karen Tolin steers her sled dog team of the White Mountains in Jefferson, N.H.

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administrator Lisa Jackson in a release.

The EPA is still doing test-ing on how E15 affects vehicles in model years 2001-06. Those results are expected to be released next month. The EPA has not granted an E15 waiver, however for model year vehicles in 2000 or later and any motorcycles, nonroad engines and heavy-duty vehicles. That is because there is no testing data on those issues currently.

To ensure that no “misfueling” (a term that means using E15 in equipment it was not approved for) is done of these vehicles, the EPA is proposing a rule to require all E15 fuel dispensers to have a label. A vast majority of fuel already on the market has E10 in it, but under law, pumps do not have to label it as containing that amount currently. Many pumps in the region have E10 fuel/gaso-line.

However, the move to allow

E15 has gotten a mixed reaction from various groups throughout the nation.

The Renewable Fuels Association has said that the EPA “is missing an opportunity to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil and create new eco-nomic opportunity by limiting its decision on E15 to only model year 2007 and newer vehicles.”

Mark Borer, general manager of the POET Biorefining facility in Leipsic, said the move to E15 is “a good first step.”

“Essentially what it means for us is that there is more access to the marketplace,” he said. “It grows the market and gives the industry a chance to add more domestic fuel to our fuel sup-ply.”

However that doesn’t mean the Leipsic POET plant will be mak-ing more ethanol. The plant is currently producing its maximum capacity. However, the move to E15 may result in additional bio-refining plants being made across the nation.

“From a national demand

standpoint, we reached a wall where the industry was supply-ing as much ethanol that could be used (with E15),” Borer said. “This opened it up and would result in more farmers selling more corn to us.”

He did warn that the approval of E15 isn’t a mandate, but opens the market up for customers to put E15 in their tanks.

“This will reduce the amount of foreign oil to keep us running,” he said. “We are replacing that with this cleaner burning fuel and producing it here in America.”

Borer said this move will also help farmers sell their corn by increasing the market.

He did say that he hopes that the EPA expands its approval after additional testing for “we are confident that all the cars from 2001-07 are equally capable of running E15,” he said. “The industry believes it’s capable of running in any cars out there. The majority of cars will see this in their tank (in 2011) hopefully.”

While the move to E15 is a good move for some industries, others

are concerned that it may end up in engines it wasn’t approved for by the EPA.

The National Marine Manufacturers Association has concerns that if individuals put fuel higher than E10 into marine engines, it may cause costly prob-lems for boaters.

Scott Edgar of Five Span Marina said that they’ve already had to start customers on a regimen using a stabilizer with ethanol treatment in it for E10 use. Ethanol is hygroscopic, which means it attracts and absorbs water. On boats, where fuel storage is closer to water, the fuel absorbs more water than nonalcohol gas caus-ing engine issues.

“We’re having a lot of fuel system problems,” Edgar said. “That’s our number one issue right now. ... It gums up the carburetor. We’ll have someone who went out finishing and with fuel system gumming can’t get it (their watercraft) started again. That’s basically what we’ve had with E10. E15 will be very dif-ficult.”

Edgar said he hasn’t received anything from manufactur-ers lately about E15 usage, but expects it soon.

“The new outboard and stern drives are doing OK, but the 2005 and older (watercrafts) are going on the regimen,” he said. “It’s going to get worse.”

Edgar added that the E15 is good for the farmer and environ-ment, but just causes problems in the marine industry, especially for older models.

Also, the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute has advised users of chainsaws, lawnmowers, blowers and other outdoor equip-ment that they “could be at risk of product failure of voided war-ranty” if they use higher ethanol gasoline than E10.

“The department of energy’s own testing has sown that put-ting anything other than E10 in non-road, small engines can cause performance irregularities and equipment failure,” said Kris Kiser, executive vice president of the institute.

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speak, send e-mail, surf the Internet, write documents and read books.

“I noticed my first symptoms of ALS in May (of 2006),” he said. “I retired from GM in July and had tests done in Defiance, then Toledo, for the rest of the year. I was referred to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. I was diagnosed by Dr. (Robert) Sufit with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.”

Norm and Peg sought a second opinion at Columbus Children’s Hospital in Columbus, where they were referred to Dr. Peter Donofrio at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, who confirmed the diagnosis.

“At Vanderbilt, I had the opportunity to go to an ALS clinic,” he said. “There I had an opportunity to enroll in a clinical study involving 102 patients nationwide.”

The study’s novel oral neuroprotective therapy is called KNS-760704 (dexprami-pexole), which has received orphan drug designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

“Norm continues to be part of this clinical study, despite our move back to Ohio,” said Peg. “The people at Vanderbilt have been amazing.”

So have many others.“The Tuesday before our move, friends

from our church in Tennessee began packing us up,” said Peg. “That Friday, nine family members and friends from Ohio drove down and on Saturday they finished the packing. They helped us make the nine-hour trip back to our new home. We arrived about 2:30 a.m. last Sunday morning.”

By 10 a.m. that morning, 35 family and friends were helping move the furniture into the new residence. The last person didn’t leave until 9 p.m.

“So many people have helped, we have been so blessed,” said Peg. “There were many people in Tennessee, too, the whole time there. His home health nurses and aides, the church people, even the MDA (Muscular Dystrophy Association). They paid for a lot.”

The Roughtons have two daughters, Hillary Daniels, rural Arthur; and Jana Hiltner, North Creek. They have five grandsons and their first granddaughter is due next month.

The family has suffered from other recent

travails, including Peg’s bout with ovarian cancer. She was diagnosed shortly before her own retirement from GM Powertrain in early 2006.

“I had chemo and surgery but I’m in remis-sion now,” she said. “So far, so good.”

In April 2008, the couple’s son-in-law (Matt Hiltner) was deployed to Iran. Two months later, Jana gave birth to their first child.

In the spring of 2009, Issac Daniels, the 2-year-old son of the couple’s other daughter, underwent open heart surgery in Ann Arbor. He is currently doing well.

Last fall a 30-member delegation organized by Jana Hiltner participated in the annual ALS Walk in Toledo.

“They called themselves the ‘Stormin’ Norman’ group,” said Peg. “They raised $3,500 in Norm’s name that day. There have been so many people who have helped us.”

Peg smiled when asked if the couple first met at the local foundry.

“We met my very first day on the job in February 1979. We were married later that same year by Rev. George Holcombe at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Defiance.”

Over the years Norm has developed a fer-vent love of fishing, watching the birds in the backyard and rooting for Jeff Gordon on the NASCAR circuit.

“We actually bought the land in Tennessee in 1999,” said Peg. “It’s really a beautiful area, only five miles from Kentucky Lake. We planned to spend our retirement there once we both retired from GM.”

“This past spring we decided to move back to Ohio,” said Norm. “We made the move last week so we could get help from family and friends.”

Peg closed on the sale of the new home near Arthur during a four-day visit to north-west Ohio in July.

“My brother, Denny Ordway, and Norm’s mother, Connie Roughton-Dobbelaere, have helped so much. There have been so many other good and loving people, it is impos-sible to name them all. I don’t know if we can pay forward what everyone has done for us.

“It’s amazing how much love and support we have,” she added. “We are so fortunate. God has given us strength to get this far and I am sure he will give us continued guidance through our journey.”

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will be 10 high school and junior high bands, along with the Bud Widmer Rube Band, entertaining thousands of parade-goers that line Clinton Street for the two-hour event. Costumed charac-ters (mummers) and law enforcement and fire/EMS vehicles will also be interspersed throughout the parade formation which travels north on Clinton Street and turns back south at First Street.

Float representatives are asked to donate non-perishable food items as an entry fee. Political floats are obli-gated to pay $50 to the Lions Club. Checks can be mailed to the Defiance Lions Club, P.O. Box 833, Defiance, or can be paid the night of the event.

Parade chairman Ken Wenner also encourages those viewing or partici-pating in the parade to bring a non-perishable food item as well.

“We are working in conjunction with 105.7 The Bull’s Neighbors in Need Campaign,” said Wenner. “Food col-lected will be given to local food pan-tries.”

Collection points will be at Triangle Park, as well as the judges’ stand near the State Bank and Trust Co. Donors can drop off the food before or after the parade.

This is the third year the Lions Club has sponsored the food collection, and the second time it has done it in con-junction with the “Pack a Bus” food

collection, Wenner noted. That collec-tion was held at a recent Ayersville/Tinora football game with approxi-mately 4,600 items of food collected.

Parade vehicles and floats may line up first-come, first-served after 4:30 p.m. along South Clinton Street, south of Defiance Junior High School, as well as Don Miller Drive behind the school. Cash prizes for first, second and third places will be awarded in the commer-cial and non-profit categories.

Those with antique and classic vehi-cles are asked to line up in the park-ing of First Federal Bank, 601 Clinton St., while mummers may line up at Triangle Park.

Float entry participants passing out candy are reminded about the safety of children lining the parade route, explained Wenner. “We want it to be handed out as much as possible to avoid any accidents.”

This way children aren’t running into the street to grab the holiday sweets.

At the completion of the parade, mummers are asked to return to the judges’ stand in the 300 block of Clinton Street for judging. “All will receive prizes,” said Wenner, “in addi-tion to those placing first, second and third in each category.”

Non-profit and commercial groups may also set up concession stands the night of the event.

The cost is $10 for non-profit groups and $40 for commercial entities. The fee will be collected by Lions Club members that night.

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Armstrong said, “our city is financially sound and our city is growing in just about every direction. We are very optimistic about our future with the U.S. 24 project and with everything that’s happened with new road construction. We are geared up and set up for the future.”

Armstrong was first elected in 2003, defeating Republican incumbent Fred Schultz before winning a second term in 2007 against three other candidates — Republican Pete Lundberg and Independents Rick Hoffman and Bob Miller.

In both elections, Armstrong won easily, taking 59 percent of the vote in 2003 and 44 percent in the four-way 2007 race. Lundberg was second in 2007 with 29 percent.

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Nashville 80 62 pc 79 64 rNew Orleans 84 70 t 85 72 tNew York 68 58 pc 71 61 cOrlando 87 65 pc 89 69 tPhiladelphia 72 55 s 74 59 cPhoenix 81 62 pc 83 62 pcRaleigh 77 56 pc 80 62 tSt. Louis 75 60 t 79 59 pcSan Diego 67 61 sh 67 59 shSeattle 52 46 r 52 44 rTampa 88 69 pc 88 72 tWashington 74 55 s 75 61 sh

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Bowling Grn 73 52 c 72 56 shCanton, OH 73 51 pc 70 55 shCharleston, WV 81 53 pc 72 56 shCleveland, OH 72 57 c 72 57 shDayton, OH 76 58 c 74 57 shIndianapolis, IN 74 59 t 76 59 shLima, OH 75 58 c 75 59 shMarion, OH 76 56 c 74 56 shMiddletown, OH 78 55 c 75 58 shNewark, OH 76 53 c 71 54 shPittsburgh, PA 73 54 pc 68 56 shSandusky, OH 71 56 c 70 58 shSpringfield, OH 77 57 c 73 58 sh

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airport through 3 p.m. yesterday)High yesterday .................................. 68Low yesterday ................................... 48Mean yesterday ................................. 58Lowest wind chill ............................... 41Record high .......................... 85 in 1963Record low ........................... 25 in 1982Normal high ....................................... 60Normal low ........................................ 39

PrecipitationYesterday ....................................... traceMonth to date ................................ 0.29"(above/below normal -1.62)Year to date ................................. 27.77"(above/below normal -2.31)

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Yesterday ............................................ 7Season to date ................................ 300

Last season to date ........................ 429Normal season to date ................... 375

Almanac National Forecast for Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010

National Cities

Regional Cities

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Mostly cloudy andwarm

Today

High 73, Low 56

Partly sunny andwindy

Wednesday

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High 67, Low 42

High 55, Low 38

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High 75, Low 58

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Sunrise Sunday ..................... 7:59 a.m.Sunset Sunday ...................... 6:44 p.m.Moonrise Sunday ................... 7:23 p.m.Moonset Sunday .................... 9:42 a.m.

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Monterrey90/66

La Paz88/64

Chihuahua81/48

Los Angeles70/58

Washington74/55

New York68/58

Miami85/75

Atlanta78/62

Detroit69/56

Houston87/70

Chicago70/59

Minneapolis64/53

El Paso74/50

Denver71/42

Billings62/42

San Francisco65/53

Seattle52/46

Iqaluit35/25

Whitehorse31/19

Yellowknife28/16

Churchill33/23

St. John's46/32

Halifax51/37

Saskatoon44/42

Toronto66/54

Montreal43/39

Winnipeg54/44

Calgary49/26

Vancouver55/47

Monterrey90/66

La Paz88/64

Chihuahua81/48

Los Angeles70/58

Washington74/55

New York68/58

Miami85/75

Atlanta78/62

Detroit69/56

Houston87/70

Chicago70/59

Minneapolis64/53

El Paso74/50

Denver71/42

Billings62/42

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Seattle52/46

Iqaluit35/25

Whitehorse31/19

Yellowknife28/16

Churchill33/23

St. John's46/32

Halifax51/37

Saskatoon44/42

Toronto66/54

Montreal43/39

Winnipeg54/44

Calgary49/26

Vancouver55/47

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Toledo73/56

Cleveland72/57

Columbus

Caldwell76/48

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Cambridge/Byesville76/49

Kent-Ravenna72/52

Alliance72/56

Defiance73/56

Cincinnati

Louisville76/62

Adrian70/54

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Wheeling74/56

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www.crescent-news.comSunday, October 24, 2010

Titles won: Antwerp, Edon win sectional volleyball crowns at

Bryan; Tinora trims Archbold in five-set thriller. | B2

The Crescent-News

Fightless Irish: Navy beats Notre Dame for third time in four

years with a 35-17 trouncing of the 4-4 Fighting Irish. | B3

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San Francisco Giants’ Edgar Renteria reacts after the ball hits his bat and goes foul during the sixth inning of Game 6 of baseball’s National League Championship Series against the Philadelphia Phillies.

D-II CC

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Defiance’s Colin Whitesell (7) heads the ball into an open net on a crossing pass from Doug Herrett (not shown) to give the Bulldogs a 2-1 lead late in the second half during Division II sec-tional soccer at Continental.

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Ohio State running back Dan Herron (1) leaps for a touchdown during the first quarter against Purdue on Saturday in Columbus. Ohio State coasted to a 49-0 victory.

Redemption

By JASON STEIN cnsports@crescent-news.com

CONTINENTAL — It was another typical hard-fought, physical soccer game between Napoleon and Defiance during sectional action at Continental High School, with the Wildcats overcoming a late one-goal deficit on two Jordan Lauf goals in the final seven minutes to take a 3-2 victory.

Napoleon (10-5-3) advances to take on Van Wert at 5 p.m. on Wednesday in the Division II dis-trict semifinal game.

“It was kind of like a box-ing match where (both teams) come out in the first couple of rounds and feel each other out,” Napoleon coach Chris DelFavero said of the match. “Then both

teams fought hard. Defiance played a great game today, they left it out on the field and when they got ahead of us, our guys showed me a lot. They didn’t give up, they came back and battled and got the victory.”

Defiance’s Doug Herrett, who scored the first Bulldog goal on a penalty kick, sent a low line shot crossing pass from the right side of the 18-yard box toward the left side of the net where Colin Whitesell came charging in and headed the ball into the net to give DHS a 2-1 lead with 8:31 left in the game.

“(Our) second goal is what we’ve been practicing all week long, on the back side,” said Defiance coach Carlos Lopez. “We know what kind of goalie they

Lauf’s late heroics send ’Cats by DHS

• LAUF, Page B7

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Defiance College’s Drew Kuesel (6) scampers for a 43-yard touchdown against Anderson University on Saturday. The Patrick Henry grad ran for a career-high 225 yards and three touchdowns. DC also set a Coressel Stadium record by scoring 49 points.

By LYNN GROLLgroll@crescent-news.com

Defiance College made Justin F. Coressel Stadium history and thumped short-handed Anderson University 49-7 for its third-straight victory to climb over the .500 mark on Saturday.

The 49 points scored by DC are the most ever tallied by the Jackets at Coressel Stadium, and the most points scored in a game since 1993 when DC clobbered Bluffton 59-14 on the final Saturday of the season in a game played at Defiance High School.

The 42-point winning margin was also the most by a Jacket squad since 2001 when DC topped Rockford, 42-0.

“We played well, we executed well,” said DC mentor Robert Taylor. “I thought our guys came out focused and were ready to go.

I thought they did a nice job of staying focused. I thought a little bit in the fourth quarter our minds wondered a little bit.”

DC (4-3, 4-1 HCAC) was in con-trol from the get-go against an AU team without 16 suspended players.

“Here’s the thing, we suspend-ed 16 kids for this game,” said Anderson coach Jeff Judge. “We had a problem on campus, we violated team rules ... I suspended them for this football game. We did not handle that very well. The next guy should be able to play or contribute or do the things that need to happen.

“I hope it’s a growth experience for our kids, to understand that no matter what adversity you go through at home, you come in with an attitude that you’re focused. Defiance took advantage of that.

DC sets stadium scoring markYellow Jackets tally 49 points, roll over short-handed Ravens

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• JACKETS, Page B9

COLUMBUS (AP) — No. 11 Ohio State wanted to heal a pair of wounds, one of them a year old, the other just a week.

Terrelle Pryor threw for three scores and Dan Herron ran for two as the Buckeyes steamrolled Purdue 49-0 on Saturday, earning redemp-tion for a stunning 26-18 upset a year ago at Purdue and for last week’s 31-18 defeat at Wisconsin that toppled them from No.1.

“Some people might have thought this game meant a lot because of last year, oth-ers thought it meant a lot because of last week,” coach Jim Tressel said. “You never

know. But most recent mis-ery probably trumps past misery.”

Purdue had won four of five despite losing its front-line quarterback, tail-back and wide receiver, but couldn’t muster any-thing against the beat-up Buckeyes (7-1, 3-1 Big Ten), who were without leading tackler Ross Homan (foot). The Boilermakers (4-3, 2-1) didn’t exceed 100 yards in total offense until their final possession.

“We didn’t talk about Wisconsin,” Ohio State line-backer Brian Rolle said. “We didn’t talk about anything

Buckeyes heal pair of wounds

By KEVIN EIScnsports@crescent-news.com

OTTAWA — The Division II district champion-ships at Ottawa Park saw Napoleon advance both its boys and girls packs to regional competition, while Defiance’s Abel Flores and Kristen Fett made the cut to the regional plateau on an over-cast Saturday afternoon.

In order to advance, teams were required to place in the top four, while individuals needed to finish among the top 16 overall.

Tied with district champion Lima Shawnee at 66 points, Napoleon had to settle for runners-up status on a sixth-man tie-breaker.

However, Napoleon junior Steven Weaver not only claimed an individual title, but shattered the ’07 D-II district record of 15:57 set by Chase Violet of Lima Shawnee with a blistering time of 15:40.10.

“I was training all week because I knew there were some tough runners like Abel from Defiance and a lot of great teams,” said Weaver. “I really wanted to help my guys get that extra push to get to the regional meet.”

Also helping with that push was Napoleon senior Ben Majewski and sophomore Clay Hunter, who placed eighth and 11th, respectively.

“We were a little disappointed that we ended up in a tie-breaker,” admitted Napoleon mentor Randy Burke. “The guys still ran well. They have bigger goals of moving on for next week.”

Finishing second to Weaver with a time of 15:49.10, Flores was the bright spot on a Defiance pack that missed the regional cut as a pack in fifth place. The DHS sophomore also claimed a spot in district history with a record-breaking perfor-mance of his own.

“It was a good day, no wind really,” commented the DHS sophomore. “I broke my PR, so it was good. I almost had (Weaver) today, but he got that kick. I tried to respond, but I didn’t have anything left really.”

With Austin Fraley (22nd), Jacob Rosebrock (33rd) and Garrett Wiles (34th) the next DHS run-ners to cross the finish line, the Bulldogs missed the required top-four team placement by just five points to Van Wert, while Ottawa-Glandorf, led by Brandon Heckman in seventh, claimed the third team slot.

“We had some really good efforts out of the

team,” said DHS boys mentor Obie Mouser. “Every race we’ve had somebody who just wasn’t able to get it done, and that happened again today. That’s just the way it is.

“If we have all five guys running on the cylin-ders, we would probably get out,” he added. “It’s the first time we’ve stayed home in a long time, and that’s a disappointment for all of us. We just took some high numbers there that really hurt.”

Michael Becker of Wauseon placed fifth to also earn a trip to the Tiffin Regional with a time of 16:38.40.

In the girls race, Napoleon placed third as a team behind Coldwater and Lima Shawnee, while holding off fourth-place Van Wert by a single point.

“We feel like we’re getting the program back on schedule with the team aspect of it,” com-mented Burke, who also coaches the Napoleon girls squad. “We have a lot of great individuals

Weaver breaks district record

• WEAVER, Page B7

• BUCKEYES, Page B3

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Napoleon’s Steven Weaver (left) leads Defiance’s Abel Flores during the Division II district cross country meet at Ottawa Park. Weaver finished first and shattered the Ottawa District record by clocking a 15:40.10. Flores finished second to also advance to regionals.

By BEN WALKERAP Baseball Writer

When the Texas Rangers and San Francisco Giants met the first time, it was a novelty. Now they’re set to tangle for much, much more.

Tim Lincecum and the Giants take on Cliff Lee and the Rangers in the World Series starting Wednesday night, a match-up of the teams that curiously played baseball’s first interleague game back in 1997.

It’s an improbable pairing and promises the trophy will be hoisted at Fisherman’s Wharf or in the Lone Star State for the first time. The Giants have not won the Series since moving to San Francisco in 1958. The Rangers finally made it this far in the franchise’s 50th season.

Unlikely star Cody Ross and the Giants clinched their spot Saturday night, beat-ing Philadelphia 3-2 in Game 6 of the NL championship series and denying the Phillies a third straight trip to the World Series.

Josh Hamilton won the MVP award as Texas eliminated the defending champion New York Yankees in Game 6 of the ALCS on Friday night.

Giants take NL pennant

• GIANTS, Page B9

■ B2 LOCAL SPORTS The Crescent-News • Sunday, October 24, 2010

By THOMAS HERRINcnsports@crescent-news.com

ARCHBOLD — The Thunder Dome was buzz-ing with energy on Saturday as the Lady Rams of Tinora prepared to face off against the hosting Lady Blue Streaks of Archbold for the Division III sectional title. After splitting the first four games, Tinora trimmed Archbold 16-14 in the fifth set to claim the sectional crown.

A determined Tinora (16-7) team opened up the fifth set with a quick 6-1 lead as Kendra McCann began to target the gaps in the Archbold (16-8) front line. Desperate not to get shut out, Becca Gerig and Chelsea Goebel joined forces to lock down the net, allowing Nicole Hurst to mount a counter attack. Hurst fired in five kills along the side line to give the Lady Blue Streaks a 9-7 edge.

“Nicole is an aggressive player,” said Archbold co-head coach Dale Grime. “She has a great reach, she is up over nine feet with her reach. She is great at getting those angles. When we needed her to, she really stepped up for us.”

With the lead slipping away, libero Anna Steffel took charge of the defense, locking it down and allow-ing Katie Zipfel to pull Tinora back to even footing. With the score at 14-14, a pair of hitting errors proved to be the difference, giving Tinora a 16-14 win and the sectional championship.

“Anna is one of the best kids ever,” comment-ed Tinora mentor Kerry Sebring. “She has been through so much health wise the past two years. To still come out and perform the way she does over and over is amazing. I think I have to say I have the best libero in the area. She understands the floor and

can call the plays probably better than I can.”

After fighting their way back to claim a 26-24 first-set victory, and coasting to a 25-5 win in the second, the Lady Rams took to the floor for the third set looking for an early night.

Steffel fired in a pair of aces to claim a 3-0 advantage. Determined not go to three-and-out, Jenny Lehman mounted a rally, launching a series of kills into the back row to pull Archbold back to even footing. With the score knotted, setter Kari Kahle and McCann joined forces to keep the Lady Blue Streaks on their heals, pulling Tinora back into the lead.

“Kari came out strong for us tonight,” said Sebring. “She went down on Wednesday with an injury, we thought it might be an ACL. It turned out it wasn’t, luckily. We didn’t know if she would be able to play until this morning. I know she had to be in so much pain, but she stuck right through it and was key for us.”

Archbold was quick to recover, however, as Becca Gerig fired in a pair of aces to reclaim the lead, 13-12. With the momentum shift-ed, Lehman began to pound the back row adding to the Archbold advantage. Goebel fired in a kill along the side to close the set at 25-19 and force a game four.

Eager to capitalize on their success, the Lady Blue Streaks jumped out to an early 3-2 lead in the fourth set as Hurst came out swinging. McCann quickly responded, pulling Tinora back to an even footing before Hurst found a seam in the Lady Rams defense. Hurst fired in three kills to put Archbold up 13-9.

Seeing things starting to slip away, McCann rallied her teammates with a series of kills at the net followed

by an ace to pull the Lady Rams back to a 16-17 score.

“Kendra is such a smart player,” stated Sebring. “I am so proud of what she has accomplished. She was with me when I was a junior var-sity coach, so we have been together for four years. She has become a leader for this team and works hard to keep the other girls’ heads up.”

The rally stalled, howev-er, as Becca Gerig fired in a pair of aces followed by a Tinora hitting error to end the set, 25-23 and force the critical game five.

“Tinora came out and played great defense,” said

Grime. “They came out and kept us on our toes all day. It was a total team effort tonight. Not one player got us where we are, everyone is important to our team.”

In the nightcap, Evergreen captured a 25-15, 21-25, 25-15, 26-18 triumph over Delta to also advance.

Evergreen will take on Parkway on Wednesday with the Lady Rams facing Lima Central Catholic in the late game at Kalida.

At Archbold

Tinora def. Archbold, 26-24, 25-5,

19-25, 23-25, 16-14

Tinora (16-7) - Katie Zipfel 21-25 hit-

ting, 6 kills, 22-25 serving, 5 aces, 17-18

serve receive, 10 digs; Mara Kunish 19-20

serving, 5 aces, 54-55 setting, 14 assists,

6 digs; Lexi Yeager 24-26 hitting, 9 kills;

Kari Kahle 11-11 serving, 75-75 setting, 17

assists; Kendra McCann 31-37 hitting, 7

kills, 10-12 serving, 3 blocks; Anna Steffel

20-22 serving, 38-39 serve receive, 39

digs; Annie Benecke 20-20 serving, 19-20

serve receive, 16 digs; Tianna Sheets 19-

24 hitting, 5 kills, 7 digs.

Archbold (16-8) - Sammi Wyse 13-16

serving, 9-12 passing, 10 digs; Becca

Gerig 18-18 serving, 3 aces, 29-34 serve

receive, 35-37 passing, 23 digs, 23-27 hit-

ting, 9 kills; Chelsea Goebel 21-23 serve

receive, 15-18 passing, 18 digs; Megan

Gerig 14-15 passing; Abby Short 9-16

hitting, 6 kills, 3 blocks; Nicole Hurst 11-

15 serve receive, 9-11 passing, 18 digs,

30-37 hitting, 12 kills; Sarah Wyse 73-75

setting, 18 assists; Taylor Coressel 14-16

serving, 7 digs, 57-58 setting, 18 assists;

Jenny Lehman 15-16 serving, 9 digs, 15-

16 setting, 29-34 hitting, 13 kills.

Evergreen def. Delta, 25-15, 21-25,

25-15, 25-18

Evergreen (20-3) - No stats.

Delta (12-11) - No stats.

Tinora claims five-set thriller

Volleyball

Mike Vernot/C-N Photo

Tinora’s Anna Steffel sets the ball dur-ing Division III sectional volleyball action

with Archbold on Saturday at Archbold. Tinora won in five sets.

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BRYAN — Antwerp and Edon claimed triumphs in Division IV sectional vol-leyball action at Bryan High School.

Antwerp captured its 20th victory with a four-set triumph over Edgerton. Taylor Vail slammed 22 kills and added six blocks for the Archers.

Antwerp’s Loni Walk fin-ished with 37 assists, while Toni Winslow knocked down a dozen kills.

Edon was led by Jennifer VanVleet’s 23 kills and 21 digs.

The Bombers will play Pettisville at 6:15 on Tuesday in the opening district con-test before Antwerp meets Toledo Christian in the 8 p.m. contest at Paulding.

Division II

At Liberty Center

Maumee def. Napoleon, 26-28, 25-11,

26-24, 26-24

Maumee - No stats.

Napoleon (16-8) - Taylor Miller 24-30

hitting, 8 kills, 4 blocks; Taya Franz 11-14

serving, 12-13 serve receive, 14 digs; Kate

Hesterman 13-14 serving, 25-29 hitting, 9

kills, 4 blocks; Kendra Kern 15-16 serve

receive; Jessica Eggebrecht 8-8 setting,

10-13 hitting, 4 kills; Megan Zachrich 19-21

serving, 11-14 serve receive, 51-52 setting,

14 assists, 27-33 hitting, 8 kills; Brittany

Edwards 8-8 serving, 7-7 setting, 9-11 hit-

ting; Amber Robison 13-14 serving, 35-37

serve receive, 9 digs; Chandler Ashbaugh

16-16 serving, 52-54 setting, 17 assists,

19-24 hitting.

Eastwood def. Wauseon, 25-14, 25-

11, 25-13

Wauseon (8-15) - Mary Kate D’Esposito

18-18 setting, 9 assists; Brooke Gerken 12-

14 hitting, 7 kills, 8 blocks; Ryenn Rice 10-

20 serve receive, 21-33 passing; McKalyn

Richer 18-19 setting, 7 assists, 13-18 serve

receive, 19-23 passing; Kendall Weber 7-

10 hitting; Alyssa Reed 6-12 passing, 3

blocks.

Eastwood - No stats.

At Lima Senior

Ottawa-Glandorf def. Wapakoneta, 25-

21, 24-26, 25-18, 21-25, 15-7

Ottawa-Glandorf (19-5) - Shannon

Roof 4 aces, 5 kills; Hannah Kaufman 32

digs; Sara Basinger 14 kills, 34 digs; Kristi

Jerwers 19 assists; Melissa Verhoff 18

kills, 5 blocks, 35 digs; Kelley Selhorst 25

assists; Jill Recker 7 blocks.

Wapakoneta - No stats.

Division IV

At Bryan

Edon def. Hicksville, 25-18, 25-16, 23-

25, 25-20

Hicksville (8-15) - Jenna Kinn 13-13 serv-

ing, 20-23 hitting, 5 kills, 10 digs, 6 blocks;

Karley Schmidt 16-17 serving, 13-13 hitting,

5 digs, 6 blocks; Emily Savage 16-16 serv-

ing, 11-11 hitting, 6 digs, 6 blocks; Mariah

Stevenson 14-14 serving, 36-38 setting,

12 assists.

Edon - Jennifer VanVleet 23 kills, 21

digs; Beth Aschliman 13 kills, 18 digs; Calli

Imm 12 kills, 23-23 serving, 36 digs; Sydney

Stoll 8 kills, 16-16 serving, 90-90 setting, 22

assists, 26 digs; Ashtin Miller 17-17 serving,

58-59 setting, 22 assists, 18 digs.

Antwerp def. Edgerton, 25-7, 23-25,

25-14, 25-20

Edgerton - Taylor Stark 12-12 serving,

23-25 serve receive; Cassandra Fritch 21-

21 serving, 4 aces, 13-14 serve receive;

Miranda Landis 8-8 serving, 108-109 set-

ting, 23 assists; Brooke Clark 7-7 serving,

14-15 serve receive; Sarah Smethurst 22-

23 hitting, 8 kills; Kelsea Stein 20-23 hitting,

4 kills; Jamie Newman 21-24 hitting, 4 kills;

Tabbitha Thiel 13-15 hitting, 6 kills.

Antwerp (20-3) - Taylor Vail 35-39 hitting,

22 kills, 6 blocks; Toni Winslow 34-47 hitting,

12 kills, 13 digs, 15-16 serve receive, 26-26

serving; Loni Walk 12-13 serving, 9 digs,

98-100 setting, 37 assists; Jessie Arnold

14-18 hitting, 4 kills; Ashlee Smith 18-20

hitting, 3 kills, 19 digs, 14-15 serve receive,

16-17 serving, 3 aces; Rachel Colley 10-

10 serving, 8-8 serve receive, 3 digs; Alex

North 11-11 serving; Tricia Smalley 11-11

serve receive, 9-9 serving, 8 digs; AJ Stuck

14-18 hitting, 4 kills, 3 blocks.

At Pettisville

Pettisville def. Hilltop, 25-21, 25-23,

25-17

Hilltop - Cierra Carpenter 8-9 passing, 3

digs; Bri Burlew 11-12 serve receive, 3 digs;

Jackie Smith 10-10 serving; Rachel King 9-

9 serving, 26-26 setting, 10 assists; Sarah

Mocherman 7-7 serve receive, 4 digs, 3

kills; Tayler Dobson 11-11 serving, 23-24

serve receive, 8-8 passing, 23-25 hitting,

6 kills; Paige Briskey 4 digs; Kacie Hodson

15-17 serving, 3 aces, 9-9 passing, 30-31

setting, 8 assists, 10-13 hitting, 5 kills; Sam

Lillemon 3 blocks.

Pettisville (21-2) - Tessa Yoder 29-29 set-

ting, 11 assists; Katie Yoder 8-10 serving, 6

digs, 15-15 hitting, 15 kills; Stephanie Yoder

15-15 serve receive, 22 digs, 9-9 hitting, 9

kills; Laura Rupp 12-13 serving, 6 digs, 48-

50 setting, 24 assists; Kylee Garcia 3 digs;

Natalie Hubby 3 digs, 14-14 hitting, 14 kills,

3 blocks; Lauren Frey 14-16 serve receive,

9 digs; Kate Nofziger 7 digs.

Toledo Christian def. Stryker, 25-17,

25-15, 25-13

Stryker - Brooke Ruffer 32-38 hitting, 8

kills, 8-9 serving; Baily Grime 13-19 hitting,

4 kills, 8-8 serving; Torey Varner 11-12 serv-

ing, 3 kills, 9-9 serving; Mikala Sonnenberg

10-10 hitting, 4 kills, 6-8 serving.

Toledo Christian - No stats.

At Miller City

Leipsic def. Continental, 25-15, 25-

13, 25-14

Continental (2-20) - Krystle Prowant 11-

11 serving, 7-11 serve receive, 7 digs;

Alex Luttfring 10-12 serving, 10-11 serve

receive, 30-31 setting, 6 assists, 3 kills; Erin

Weisenburger 15-17 serve receive, 20-25

hitting, 8 kills, 5 blocks; Erica Fitzwater 16-

23 serve receive, 9 digs; Stephanie Burke

6-7 serving; Cailah Rickard 25-27 setting.

Leipsic - No stats.

Miller City def. Ayersville, 25-15, 25-

23, 20-25, 26-28, 19-17

Miller City (8-15) - Olivia Rump 21-21

serving, 15 digs; Kara Vennekotter 24-25

hitting, 8 kills, 23-24 serving, 3 blocks, 4

digs; Courtney Niese 57-66 hitting, 24 kills,

16-17 serving, 3 blocks, 12 digs; Toni Steffan

39-43 hitting, 9 kills, 6 blocks; Emily Doster

6 kills, 26 digs, 123-128 setting, 41 assists;

Ali Lammers 26 digs; Samantha Michel 28-

28 serving, 11 digs; Bailey Dangler 5 kills;

Marissa Vennekotter 3 kills.

Ayersville (10-11) - Kylee Ondrus 20-24

passing, 10 digs; Renae Cramer 24-27

passing, 8 digs, 6 blocks, 7 kills, 5 assists;

Kaleigh Hug 13-13 passing, 4 digs, 16 kills;

Kaleigh Martin 5 digs, 6 blocks, 7 kills;

Arica Rohn 23-24 passing, 10 digs, 8 kills;

Amanda Cook 19-22 passing, 8 digs, 109-

115 setting, 37 assists; Stephanie Fishpaw

4 digs; Emily Cramer 16-18 passing, 8

digs; 9 kills.

At Lincolnview

Crestview def. Delphos St. Johns, 25-

21, 25-23, 25-23

Delphos St. Johns - No stats.

Crestview (8-16) - Jessica Burger 16-17

serving, 15 kills, 16-16 serve receive, 6

digs; Danica Hicks 15-16 serving, 6 kills,

23 assists, 6 digs; Holy Genth 10-12 serv-

ing; Taylor Hamrick 11-11 serving, 9 digs,

14-14 serve receive; Taylor Springer 14

kills, 3 blocks; Kirsten Hicks 8-10 serving,

8 kills, 16 digs, 20-20 serve receive; Sammi

Schneider 3 kills, 6 blocks; MeKale Clifton 6

blocks; Dani Hicks 4 blocks.

Wayne Trace def. Ottoville, 25-22, 25-

24, 25-22

Ottoville - No stats.

Wayne Trace (16-7) - Sarah Feasby 14

kills; Krystal Wannemacher 5 kills; Rebecca

Habern 5 kills; Taylor Baumle 6 kills; Carlee

Sinn 3 kills; Janelle Davis 3 kills, 5 aces.

At Pandora-Gilboa

Pandora-Gilboa def. Columbus Grove,

25-13, 25-17, 25-17

Columbus Grove - Riley Eversole 5 kills;

Stephanie Etzkorn 28 digs; Anna Ricker 3

blocks; Rachael Stechschulte 14 assists.

Pandora-Gilboa - No stats.

Cory Rawson def. Kalida, 25-20, 23-25,

24-26, 27-25, 15-11

Kalida (10-13) - Emily Turnwald 13 kills;

Haley McIntyre 6 kills; Brandi Merschman 6

kills; Halie Zenz 17 assists, 4 aces; Kayla

Siefker 5 kills.

Cory-Rawson - No stats.

Sectional crowns decided around area

Alaina Carnahan/C-N Photo

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Edon’s Sydney Stoll sets the ball to a teammate dur-ing Division IV sectional volleyball against Hicksville at Bryan. Edon won in four sets.

Alaina Carnahan/C-N Photo

Antwerp players celebrate a point during Division IV sectional final vol-leyball action at Bryan High School on

Saturday against Edgerton. The Archers earned their 20th win of the season and won in four sets.

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The Archbold girls soccer team defeated Swanton 4-1 in Division II sectional action at Otsego.

Lauren Kindinger scored two goals for the Lady Streaks (15-1-2), while Cassidy Wyse and Mindy Rupp each added a goal.

Archbold will face Wauseon, an 8-1 vic-tor over Swanton, on Wednesday at 4:45 p.m. at Otsego.

Archbold 4, Swanton 1

Archbold - Goals: Lauren

Kindinger 2, Cassidy Wyse, Mindy

Rupp.

Archold girls defeat Swanton

Soccer

The Defiance College men’s soccer team tied its season-high for points allowed in a game as DC fell, 4-1, to Mount St. Joseph on Saturday. Defiance went into half-time trailing by just one goal, but the Lions exploded with three sec-ond-half goals to claim the victory on their Senior Day.

After 35 minutes of scoreless action to start the game, MSJ’s Christopher Corbett put the Lions on the board with his fourth goal of the season. The game remained locked at 1-0 through halftime and much of the second peri-od, before MSJ’s Braden Shultz scored in the 65th minute to put Defiance down by two.

The Yellow Jackets responded with a goal three minutes later, as Jaiden Henderson scored his fifth goal of the season with 22 min-utes remaining to bring Defiance within one goal. However, the Lions packed on two late goals to hand DC its sixth loss in as many games.

Henderson’s five goals this season are a team-high, and rank the fresh-man forward among the top-ten scorers in the conference. DC’s Sean Roberts recorded seven saves in the contest to bump his saves total up to 107, and is now one of just two goalies in the conference with triple-digit saves this season.

The Jackets will play in their last road game of the season on Wednesday when they head to Bluffton for a match with the Beavers (2-13, 0-7 HCAC). The game is set to begin at 4 p.m.

DC men fall against MSJ

CINCINNATI — A late goal by Karly Smith was not enough for the Lady Jackets on Saturday afternoon, as they fell to seventh place in the HCAC with a 3-1 loss at Mount St. Joseph. With the loss, Defiance drops to 2-4-1 in the conference, and is now mathemati-cally eliminated from the HCAC playoffs.

The two teams battled for the majority of the first half without any score, but the Mount’s Ashley Maynard recorded her fourth goal of the season at the 40-minute mark, and Jessica Smith added a goal with one minute remaining in the period to send DC into halftime with a 2-0 deficit.

Mount St. Joseph’s Alyssa Seiller recorded a goal in the eighth min-ute of the second half, and the Jackets suddenly found themselves in a 3-0 hole with 37 minutes left in regulation.

DC’s Karly Smith cut the deficit to two goals with a strike in the 77th minute, marking her third goal in the last six games. Smith is now tied for first on the team with four goals this season, and is second on the team with an 18.2 shot percentage.

Lady Jackets suffer 3-1 loss

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Navy running back Gee Gee Greene (21) dives past the pylon, stretching the ball over the goal line, for a touchdown in the second quarter against Notre Dame. The Midshipmen won for the third time in four years, 35-17.

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— just this game.”Pryor, largely ineffective

at Wisconsin, completed 16 of 22 passes for 270 yards, although he did throw two interceptions.

“Losing to Purdue last year was more motivation than the loss last week,” he said. “Purdue was a big dis-appointment a year ago for me and that’s what made today a whole lot better.”

The victory was Ohio State’s eighth in a row against the Boilermakers in Ohio Stadium since its last

loss 22 years ago. About the only break with tradition came at halftime when an Elvis-themed show by the Ohio State band featured The King dotting the “I” in his name instead of in Script Ohio.

The Boilermakers never came close to scoring. Their only chance came on Carson Wigg’s 56-yard field goal attempt in the final minute. They had driven to the Ohio State 39 — their deepest penetration of the game. The kick was short and wide right.

Purdue, which led the Big Ten in rushing and defense

against the run, could do neither very well. It totaled just 118 yards, netting 30 on 27 attempts on the ground — 200 yards less than it was averaging. It had rushed for at least 200 yards in each of the last five games.

Meanwhile, Ohio State ran for 184 yards, led by Herron’s 74 yards on 16 car-ries and touchdowns of 10 and 2 yards.

The Buckeyes defense forced the Boilermakers to punt the ball away on their first five possessions. On the sixth, quarterback Rob Henry (9 of 18 for 58 yards with one interception) threw

directly to Ohio State safety Orhian Johnson.

Meanwhile, the Buckeyes ran and passed at will. Receivers were frequently lonesome in the secondary, and while Pryor took a cou-ple of hard hits, he also ben-efited from open targets.

“They weren’t open,” Purdue coach Danny Hope disagreed. “They were wide open.”

Ohio State set the tone after taking the opening kick — which, fittingly, Purdue booted out of bounds to allow the Buckeyes to take over at the 40. Running

Herron on five straight plays, they covered 60 yards including the 11-yard score, with the Boilermakers lend-ing a hand with a facemask penalty.

College football

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The only thing shocking about this Notre Dame loss to Navy was the ease with which the Midshipmen handled Brian Kelly’s Fighting Irish.

Ricky Dobbs scored three touchdowns and Alexander Teich ran for 210 yards to lead Navy to its third vic-tory against the Irish in the last four seasons, a 35-17 rout on Saturday at the New Meadowlands Stadium.

The 84-year old series, which Notre Dame (4-4) once owned like no other in college football history, now belongs to Navy (5-2).

In 2007, the Midshipmen snapped their NCAA record 43-game losing streak to Notre Dame with a 46-44 win in overtime at South Bend, Ind. Last year, Navy won 23-21 at Notre Dame Stadium, the first of four straight losses that ended the Charlie Weis era.

Add this one and Dobbs and his fellow seniors are now the third class at Navy to beat Notre Dame three times, joining the 1937 and ’64 classes.

“Being able to say my senior class is one of those to beat Notre Dame three times is special right there,” safety Wyatt Middleton said. “Notre Dame always had that streak going with us, but recently things have changed.”

Have they ever.These were the types of

startling losses Notre Dame faithful figured would stop when Kelly was hired. Instead, it was the Irish’s most lopsided loss against Navy since 1963.

Navy tweaked the block-ing scheme and empha-sized the inside run by the fullback Teich in its triple-option. And Notre Dame looked helpless to stop it.

“We always have new wrinkles,” Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo said. “We do the same thing over and over but there is subtle stuff. This is what we are, an option team. Yes, we run the triple but we have a ton of differ-ent variations on running it. We had to have some wrinkles because they’re a good football team.”

The Midshipmen ran for 367 yards, the most ever by Navy against Noter Dame, and Teich carried 26 times to become the first fullback in school history to rush for 200 in a game.

“A scheme is one thing, but you still have to win one-on-one matchups,” Kelly said. “We got beat today. Navy was the better football team today.”

Just figuring out who had the ball seemed a struggle for the Irish.

“They ran things we knew were going to come, they just did some things a little more often than they usually do,” Irish line-backer Manti Te’o said. “We didn’t execute they way we needed to be executing out there.”

Offensively, Dayne Crist and the Irish moved the ball, but the quarterback tossed two key interceptions when the score was still close. Dobbs’ third touchdown, a 1-yard plunge, came after Crist threw his second pick, and made the score 35-10 with 4:38 left in the third quarter.

It was a Navy home game at the NFL stadium, but there were plenty of Notre Dame fans in the crowd of 75,614 — and plenty head-ing for the exits when the third quarter ended.

Notre Dame cut the lead to 14-10 with a 16-yard touchdown pass from Crist to TJ Jones and the Irish followed up with their only defensive stop of the half.

But Crist was intercept-ed throwing into traffic by De’Von Richardson at the Notre Dame 30, setting up Gee Gee Greene’s 9-yard TD run to give Navy a 21-10 lead at half.

Dobbs ran for 90 yards on 20 carries and tied the school record for rushing touchdowns with 43, match-ing Chris McCoy’s mark set from 1995-97.

“It was amazing,” Dobbs said of the offense. “Very close to perfection.”

Notre Dame, meanwhile, was perfectly awful, but Crist vowed this loss to Navy won’t send the team into the tank the way last year’s did.

Midshipmen sink the fightless Irish

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema has a Hawkeyes tattoo on his leg and, appar-ently, a trick up his sleeve.

The former Iowa player and assistant coach stunned his alma mater with a fake punt midway through the fourth quarter, and Montee Ball ran 8 yards for a touch-down with 1:06 left as the 10th-ranked Badgers ral-lied to beat No. 13 Iowa 31-30 on Saturday.

Scott Tolzien threw for 205 yards and a touch-down and John Clay added a pair of touchdowns for the Badgers (7-1, 3-1 Big Ten), who pulled out a spe-cial teams gadget at just the right time.

Punter Brad Nortman ran 17 yards up the middle into wide-open field on fourth down from his own 26 with Wisconsin trailing 30-24. The Badgers converted another fourth down with 3:23 left and Ball capped an 80-yard drive with the game-winning score, barely breaking the goal line with an outstretched arm hold-ing the ball.

“It was something we had seen on film,” Bielema said. “Once I saw them put the punt return unit there ... we gave them the call.”

Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said: “(Nortman) did a great job of being patient. A big, big play in the game. It changed things around pretty dramatically.”

The week after Wisconsin knocked off then-No. 1 Ohio State at home, the Badgers earned back-to-back wins over ranked teams for the first time since 2004, thanks to a call few in Madison or Iowa City will ever forget.

“It’s been two pretty good weeks,” Bielema said.

Iowa (5-2, 2-1) took a 30-24 lead on Michael Meyer’s 40-yard field goal with 8:35 left and appeared set to take control.

But Nortman’s run changed the game.

Iowa’s final drive ended on the Wisconsin 35-yard line when Adam Robinson failed to get out of bounds before time expired. The Hawkeyes burned their final timeout the play before, after they had got-ten a first down and could have spiked the ball to stop the clock.

“We wanted to burn the timeout and just go from there. I guess we could have gone the other way. Might have saved us 2 seconds,” Ferentz said. “I don’t think that was exactly the turn-ing point in the game.”

Ricky Stanzi had 258 yards passing and three touchdowns and Robinson added 114 yards for Iowa (5-2, 2-1), which suffered its first home loss of the season.

What was expected to be a Big Ten slugfest turned into an offensive free-for-all in a sporadic rain.

Wisconsin put faith in its offensive line and the 255-pound Clay, who barreled 2 yards for a touchdown and a 17-13 Badgers lead in the third quarter.

That seemed to suck the life out of Kinnick Stadium, but Derrell Johnson-

Koulianos quickly woke up the soggy crowd. He got well behind the Badgers secondary and snagged Stanzi’s pass for a 45-yard touchdown.

It barely phased Wisconsin, though. The Badgers went 51 yards on just four plays and jumped back ahead 24-20 on Clay’s 2-yard TD run.

Top 25

No. 5 Auburn 24, No. 6 LSU 17

AUBURN, Ala. — Cam Newton ran for 217 yards and Onterio McCalebb sprinted 70 yards for the go-ahead score with 5:05 left to lift Auburn to a victory over LSU.

The host Tigers (8-0, 5-0 Southeastern Conference) moved on as the powerful league’s last unbeaten team. LSU (7-1, 4-1) finally had a Les Miles gamble backfire in an adventurous season.

No. 7 Alabama 41, Tennessee 10

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Trent Richardson’s 65-yard touchdown run and 5-yard touch-down reception were part of 28 unanswered second-half points as No. 7 Alabama beat Tennessee 41-10 on Saturday night.

Greg McElroy completed 21 of 32 for 264 yards, mostly to Julio Jones, who set an Alabama single-game record with 221 yards on 12 catches.

Richardson finished with 119 yards on 12 carries, and the Crimson Tide got its fourth straight win over Tennessee for the first time since 1992.No. 8 Michigan State 35, Northwestern 27

EVANSTON, Ill. — Kirk Cousins threw for 331 yards and three touchdowns, and No. 8 Michigan State rallied from 17 points down to remain unbeaten.

B.J. Cunningham made an acrobatic grab for the go-ahead touchdown with two min-utes left. Edwin Baker added a 25-yard scoring run and Eric Gordon intercepted Dan Persa to seal a wild win.

No. 9 Utah 59, Colorado State 6

SALT LAKE CITY — Jordan Wynn threw for 321 yards and three touchdowns in drizzly weather and No. 9 Utah thrashed Colorado State 59-6 on Saturday to stay unbeaten.

The Utes (4-0 Mountain West Conference) ran their record to 7-0 for the third time in the last seven years. In the 1994 and 1998 seasons, the Utes went undefeated and won BCS bowl games.

Pete Thomas threw for 185 yards and the Rams (2-6, 1-3 MWC) were able to move the ball against Utah in the first half but could only net two field goals after getting inside Utah’s 10 twice.

No. 12 Stanford 38, Washington St. 28

STANFORD, Calif. — Andrew Luck threw for 190 yards and three touchdowns to help No. 12 Stanford beat Washington State 38-28 Saturday to post its best record after seven games in 40 years.

Stepfan Taylor ran for 142 yards and two touchdowns for the Cardinal (6-1, 3-1 Pac-10), who hadn’t won six of seven to open a season since Heisman Trophy winner Jim Plunkett helped them do it in 1970 on the way to the Rose Bowl.

The Cougars (1-7, 0-5 Pac-10) lost for the third straight week to a ranked opponent, following losses to Oregon and Arizona. Washington State has lost 16 straight games against Football Bowl Subdivision teams and 14 straight in the Pac-10.No. 14 Nebraska 51, No. 17 Okla. State 41

STILLWATER, Okla. — Taylor Martinez set a Nebraska freshman record with 323 yards passing and threw a career-high five touchdown passes, and the Cornhuskers knocked Oklahoma State from the ranks of the unbeaten.

Martinez, who came in trailing only Michigan’s Denard Robinson in yards rush-ing by a quarterback, showed off his arm while also running for 112 yards on 19 carries.

Oklahoma State’s Kendall Hunter ran for 201 yards, but Nebraska (6-1, 2-1 Big 12) forced the Cowboys (6-1, 2-1) to go three-and-out on three of their four drives in the second half while pulling ahead.

Syracuse 19, No. 20 West Virginia 14

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Ryan Nassib threw a touchdown pass, Ross Krautman kicked four field goals and Syracuse scored nine points off turnovers in shocking West Virginia.

Syracuse (5-2, 2-1 Big East) snapped an eight-game losing streak to West Virginia (5-2, 1-1). The Orange made a remarkable turnaround on defense after being throttled at home by Pittsburgh 45-14 last week.

No. 21 Arkansas 38, Mississippi 24

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Knile Davis ran for 176 yards and three touchdowns, and No. 21 Arkansas waited out two weather delays to beat former coach Houston Nutt and Mississippi.

The Razorbacks (5-2, 2-2 SEC) also got a 97-yard punt return for a touchdown from Joe Adams while rebounding from a loss to fifth-ranked Auburn last week. The game against the Rebels was delayed twice by lightning that sent fans and players scurry-ing for cover.

Arkansas led throughout the game, but the Rebels (3-4, 1-3) twice pulled within a touchdown in the fourth quarter after a two scoring passes from Jeremiah Masoli to Markeith Summers.

Iowa State 28, No. 22 Texas 21

AUSTIN, Texas — Austen Arnaud passed for two touchdowns, Alexander Robinson ran for 120 yards and two scores, and Iowa State put another home loss on Texas.

The Longhorns, back home for the first time since a 34-12 loss to UCLA on Sept. 25, dropped a second straight in Austin for the first time since 1997. This one came against an Iowa State defense that had given up 120 points the previous two games.

The Cyclones (4-4, 2-2 Big 12) got their first win over Texas (4-3, 2-2) with the defense forcing four turnovers by Longhorns

quarterback Garrett Gilbert.No. 23 Virginia Tech 44, Duke 7

BLACKSBURG, Va. — Tyrod Taylor threw for 280 yards and three touchdowns and Virginia Tech rolled to a victory over Duke.

Taylor was 13 of 17 passing and finished with 327 yards of total offense, putting him less than 100 away from becoming the school’s career leader.

Ryan Williams, a first-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference running back a year ago, returned after missing four games with a hamstring injury. He only played two series but scored on a 1-yard run in the first quarter as the Hokies (6-2, 4-0) opened a 27-0 lead by halftime.

No. 24 Mississippi State 29, UAB 24

STARKVILLE, Miss. — Freshman LaDarius Perkins rushed for 131 yards and a touchdown as No. 24 Mississippi State survived an upset scare to beat Alabama-Birmingham 29-24 on Saturday night.

UAB (2-5) pushed Mississippi State (6-2) all night, rallying to take a 24-23 lead with 10:16 remaining in the game after quarter-back Bryan Ellis rushed for a 1-yard touch-down. Ellis also completed 23 of 45 passes for 236 yards and a touchdown.

But MSU’s Derek DePasquale responded with two field goals — his fourth and fifth of the night — as the Bulldogs hung on for the victory.

No. 25 Miami 33, North Carolina 10

MIAMI — Jacory Harris threw three touch-down passes to move into second place on Miami’s career list, Damien Berry ran for his fourth straight game of 100-plus yards and the 25th-ranked Hurricanes scored 30 straight points to easily get past North Carolina 33-10 on Saturday night.

Berry finished with 109 yards and a touchdown for the Hurricanes (5-2, 3-1 Atlantic Coast Conference). LaRon Byrd, Travis Benjamin and Leonard Hankerson had touchdown catches for Miami and Sean Spence forced a key fumble in the opening quarter to deny North Carolina a touchdown.

Johnny White had a 76-yard touchdown run for North Carolina (4-3, 2-2), the longest carry for the Tar Heels in more than nine years.

Big Ten

Penn State 33, Minnesota 21

MINNEAPOLIS — Matt McGloin threw two touchdown passes to Derek Moye for Penn State in relief of injured starter Rob Bolden, and the Nittany Lions used strug-gling Minnesota to get their first Big Ten win, 33-21 on Saturday.

After a rough homecoming loss two weeks ago to Illinois, Penn State (4-3, 1-2) got its sputtering offense going and built a healthy lead even after losing its freshman quarterback.

DeLeon Eskridge rushed 26 times for 111 yards for the Golden Gophers (1-7, 0-4), who played their first game following the firing of coach Tim Brewster and the takeover by interim replacement Jeff Horton.

Illinois 43, Indiana 13

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Illinois quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase passed for two touch-downs and the Fighting Illini returned inter-ceptions for two more Saturday in a 43-13 rout of Indiana.

Illinois (4-3, 2-2 Big Ten) led 27-10 at the half and held on through a sloppy, mostly defensive second half.

Chappell finished 26-48 with 279 yards for Indiana (4-3, 0-3) but threw three inter-ceptions.

MAC

Kent State 30, Bowling Green 6

BOWLING GREEN — Tyshon Goode caught two touchdown passes and Kent State held Bowling Green to minus-10 yards rushing in a 30-6 win on Saturday.

The Golden Flashes (3-4, 2-2 Mid-American Conference) had 13 tackles for a loss of 58 yards while holding the Falcons (1-7, 0-4) to 135 yards of offense.

Spencer Keith had 223 yards and two touchdowns on 26-for-32 passing. Goode was his favorite target with 12 catches on 158 yards. Freddy Cortez was 3-for-4, kick-ing field goals of 29, 32 and 30 yards for Kent State.

Toledo 31, Ball State 24

TOLEDO — Austin Dantin had three touchdowns and Toledo rallied to beat Ball

State 31-24 on Saturday night.Trailing 17-0 after the first quarter, the

Rockets (5-3, 4-0 Mid-American Conference) scored 17 in the second as part of 31 straight. Dantin’s 46-yard scoring pass to Eric Page got the Rockets on the board 9 seconds into the second quarter.

After a 1-yard TD run by Dantin, Bill Claus’ 25-yard field goal tied it at the end of the first half.

Keith Wenning was 19-for-39 passing with three touchdowns and 224 yards for the Cardinals (2-6, 1-3).

Western Michigan 56, Akron 10

AKRON — Juan Nunez had three touch-downs and 192 yards receiving in Western Michigan’s 56-10 rout of Akron on Saturday.

The Broncos (3-4, 2-1 Mid-American Conference), who totaled 519 yards of offense, scored the game’s first 35 points.

Carder finished with five touchdowns and 372 yards on 17-for-24 passing. White had eight catches for 168 yards and two touch-downs.

Northern Illinois 33, Central Michigan 7

DE KALB, Ill. — Chad Spann rushed for three touchdowns and 101 yards while Michael Cklamovski added four field goals in Northern Illinois’ 33-7 Mid-American victory over Central Michigan on Saturday.

The Huskies (6-2, 4-0) scored 30 unan-swered points on the way to their fifth straight victory and first over the Chippewas (2-6, 1-4) since 2007.

Temple 42, Buffalo 0

AMHERST, N.Y. — Mike Gerardi threw for three touchdowns and Bernard Pierce scored on two runs as Temple easily handled Buffalo 42-0 on Saturday.

The Owls (6-2, 3-1 Mid-American Conference) scored touchdowns on four of their first five possessions, building a 28-0 lead early in the second quarter.

Buffalo (2-5, 1-2) did not cross midfield on offense until the 7:34 mark of the third quarter.

Ohio 34, Miami, Ohio 13

OXFORD — Donte Harden and Boo Jackson rushed for two touchdowns each and Ohio’s defense forced six turnovers in a 34-13 win over Miami (Ohio) on Saturday.

Vince Davidson rushed for 103 yards and a touchdown on 17 carries as the Bobcats (5-3, 4-1 Mid-American Conference) had scor-ing drives of 87, 47, 48, 85 and 26 yards.

Ohio’s defense intercepted four passes, recovered two fumbles and sacked Miami quarterback Zac Dysert five times. The RedHawks (4-4, 3-1) were held to 11 yards rushing on 21 attempts.

Virginia 48, Eastern Michigan 21

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Marc Verica threw for 203 yards and two touchdowns and punter Jimmy Howell also had a passing score as Virginia beat Eastern Michigan 48-21 on Saturday night.

Off a fake punt, Howell found Trey Womack for a 56-yard touchdown pass to give the Cavaliers (3-4) a 38-21 lead in front of a crowd of 36,600 at Scott Stadium.

Ohio Colleges

S. Dakota State 30, Youngstown St. 20

BROOKINGS, S.D. — Thomas O’Brien threw two touchdowns and South Dakota State beat Youngstown State 30-20 Saturday.

The Jackrabbits (3-4, 3-2 Missouri Valley) finished with 492 total offense yards to the Penguins’ 402 yards.

Dayton 41, Campbell 23

DAYTON — Taylor Harris rushed for three touchdowns and Steve Valentino added two rushing scores as Dayton scored 21 unan-swered points in the fourth quarter to beat Campbell 41-23 on Saturday.

Harris, who finished with 41 yards rushing on 12 carries, scored on runs of 6, 1 and 4 yards in the final quarter for the Flyers (7-1, 5-0 Patriot League), who won their sixth straight.

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Archbold linebacker Zach Driver (50) and defen-sive back Noah Keefer bring down Wauseon running back Dustin Makula (25) during their NWOAL contest

on Friday at Archbold. The undefeated Blue Streaks knocked off the Indians 21-7 to clinch at least a share of their first league title since 1990.

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Battle of the Bulldogs

By BRUCE HEFFLINGERhefflinger@crescent-news.com

SANDUSKY — Size and speed. Sandusky had it on display Friday night at Strobel Field in a dominat-ing performance against Napoleon. The 26-0 victory kept Sandusky’s Greater Buckeye Conference title hopes alive, setting up a matchup with GBC leader Fremont Ross in the regu-lar-season finale.

”In all honesty the laws of physics prevailed tonight,” noted Napoleon coach Tory Strock. “That might be the most physi-cal team in the GBC. Their size and strength had a lot to do with everything on both sides of the ball tonight.”

While the Blue Streaks rolled up 270 yards on the ground, Napoleon was limited to just 107 yards of total offense

“Never at any point did I feel we could find a spark ... that energy,” Strock explained. “A lot had to do with Sandusky. They came off the ball and they flew to the ball.”

The domination began with the opening drive of the contest with Sandusky marching 70 yards in just eight plays, all runs by Cordney Strickland, the last from two yards out for a 7-0 lead.

”We knew we faced the number one rushing defense and the number one rushing offense in the league,” said Sandusky coach Mike Franklin. “Whoever controlled the line of scrimmage would win the game.”

That was no contest.In the first half alone

the Blue Streaks totaled 218 yards of offense while more than doubling Napoleon’s time of pos-session.

Yet, Napoleon nearly went into half down just 7-0. But a 14-play drive, that ate up 6:47 on the clock featuring three third-down conversions and one fourth-down conversion changed that idea, despite a pair of quarterback sacks by Nate Walker.

A 9-yard pass from Lucas Poggiali to Demelyan Smith for a touchdown with one second to play in the second quarter gave the hosts a 13-0 lead.

”In reflection that was kind of our ray of hope,” Strock said of the pos-sibility of going into the locker room down by just seven. “As many things that went against us we still had a chance to get into half at 7-0.”

Instead it was 13-0.“In high school foot-

ball momentum’s key,” Franklin said. “But the kids were (still) not happy at half. They thought we should have had more.”

Sandusky got more than enough after the break. The Blue Streaks added a pair of touchdowns

in the third quarter by Strickland, one from 30 yards out and the other an 11-yard run for a 26-0 advantage.

The 6-1, 185-pound senior tailback finished with 39 carries for 267 yards and three touch-downs while adding three receptions for 51 yards.

”He’s got real nice vision and is deceivingly strong,” Franklin said of Strickland, who now has rushed for 1,347 yards on the season.

An imposing offensive front helps as well.

”It always starts there,” Strock said of the play in the trenches. “Their sheer mass, it just ... kind of encompasses so much.

”Then there’s their speed on the outside and their ability to recover and make plays (on defense).”

Add in a senior quarter-back in Poggiali who did not threw an incompletion until early in the fourth quarter and the Blue Streaks have the complete package. Poggiali finished 9-of-11 passing for 121 yards.

”These kids are so hun-gry,” pointed out Franklin. “After what Findlay did to us on our home field (a 35-point win), they’re not going to let that happen again. You could tell they were ready to play.”

While Sandusky takes on Fremont Ross for a potential GBC champi-onship, Napoleon closes out the regular season at Findlay still clinging to faint playoff hopes. At 6-3 on the season the Wildcats must win and get help to advance to the Division III, Region 10 postseason.

SHS NHS

First Downs 20 6

Rushing Yards 46-270 23-61

Passing Yards 121 46

Total Yards 391 107

Passing 9-11-0 3-10-0

Fumbles-Lost 1-1 2-1

Penalties 9-90 5-38

Napoleon 0 0 0 0 - 0

Sandusky 7 6 13 0 - 26

S - Strickland 2-run (Creman

kick).

S - Smith 9-pass from Poggiali

(kick block).

S - Strickland 30-run (pass failed).

S - Strickland 12-run (Creman

kick).

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING: Napoleon -

Sonnenberg 14-51; Anderson 5-21;

Miller 1-1; Plassman 2-(-5); Gerken

1-(-7). Sandusky - Strickland 39-

267; Winston 4-21; Guevara 1-(-1);

Poggiali 2-(-17). PASSING: Napoleon

- Plassman 3-9-0-46; Miller 0-1-0-

0. Sandusky - Poggiali 9-11-0-121.

RECEIVING: Napoleon - Stuber 2-

39; Miller 1-7. Sandusky - Strickland

3-51; Fuqua 2-30; Jeffries 2-20;

Smith 2-20.

Sandusky just too strong, fastNapoleon drops third straight

By JASON STEINcnsports@crescent-news

ARCHBOLD — Wauseon came out with a perfect game plan when facing the high-powered Archbold offense: Keep Archbold’s offense off the field.

And for the first half, it worked tremendously well as the Indians (4-5, 3-4 NWOAL) had the ball for just over 20 minutes and held the home team to seven points.

However, once Archbold (9-0, 7-0 NWOAL) grabbed the lead midway in the third quarters, the coaching staff made a call to ensure the Streaks kept the offense on the field a little longer and solidify their seventh NWOAL win, guaranteeing them of no worse than a share of their first league title since 1990 with a 21-7 triumph.

“It’s the greatest feel-ing,” began Archbold coach Bryan Miller, whose team needs to beat Liberty Center (4-5, 3-4 NWOAL) in Week 10 to win the title outright. “We’ve clinched a share and that feels great because nobody is ever going to be able to take that away from these guys. I told them that hopefully their parents didn’t teach them to share too well when they were kids, because we certain-ly don’t want to share it. We want to go to Liberty

(Center) and play a good football game.”

Despite the lopsided time of possession, the game was tied at halftime, 7-7.

The first Indians’ pos-session couldn’t have been scripted any better as they held the ball for the first 9:35. Starting at their own 20 they took it 80 yards on 18 run plays, one pass, five first downs, three third-down conversions and two fourth-down conversions, before finally making their way into the end zone with Troy Lind scoring on a 3-yard rush.

Archbold’s offense start-ed out slow, but got on the board midway in the sec-ond quarter when Garrett Morton, on Archbold’s 12th play from scrimmage in three possessions, capped off a drive that lasted a mere 1:43 with a 9-yard TD scamper.

The Red-and-White came back with another run-dominated drive, starting at their own 32 with 3:46 left in the second quarter and no timeouts. As time ticked away, Wauseon pounded its way down the field, getting down to the home team’s 26-yard line with 15 seconds, but Chandler Tuckerman picked off Landon Schaffner with two ticks left on the clock as the defense kept the game tied.

While Mark Emans and his squad did a tremendous

job of keeping the ball out of the hands of Archbold’s offense, they were forced to kick to the Streaks in the second half, and in doing so, the atmosphere of the game took a turn.

Starting at their own 37, Morton connected on three straight passes. The first was an 11-yard pass to Noah Keefer. Following a sack by Marcus Oldham, Morton threw two 25-yard passes, one to Tyson Dietrich and the other to Danny Young to set up a first-and-goal at the 5-yard line.

Following two plays which netted -1 yards, Morton threw a jump ball to the right side of the end zone where the 6-3 Dietrich snagged it for a touchdown as he faded out of bounds. Aaron Bontrager blasted the extra point through the uprights and with 8:32 left in the third, Archbold took its first lead of the night.

“We were over on the side-line, we were anxious, we wanted to get out there on offense and then when we

Streaks earn title share

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Wauseon defenders Jake Trejo (11) and Jesse Finney (right) bring down Archbold receiver Tyson Dietrich after the sophomore hauled in one of his five catches.

Archbold finds its offense in second half

• STREAKS, Page B6

By TIM McDONOUGHmcdonough@crescent-news.com

Elida and junior quar-terback Reggie McAdams came out firing on all cyl-inders on Friday night at Defiance’s Fred J. Brown Stadium, racing out to a 28-7 advantage at the half in a 35-13 victory over Defiance on Senior Night.

McAdams, the 6-5 bas-ketball standout, wasn’t too shabby at quarterback on Friday, completing 16-of-21 passes for 255 yards and three touchdowns for Elida (7-2, 6-2 WBL). Colin Blymyer added a pair of rushing touchdowns for the visitors, sending the home Bulldogs to 1-8 overall and 1-7 in the WBL.

Getting out to an early lead was just what Elida mentor Jason Carpenter was looking for out of his team.

“It’s kind of funny, but we talked about getting on top early and creating that self doubt (for Defiance), which is for years what teams did to us,” said Carpenter, who has Elida on the brink of the playoffs for the first time since 1982. “That’s our focus, we try to get on top early to make our opponent change their game plan and lose their focus.

“The dangerous part about our offense is who

do you cover?” added Carpenter. “You take away (Austin) Etzler, we’ve got (Kevin) Kraft and (Rikki) Le. Take away the pass and we’re going to run it with (Colin) Blymyer. That makes us tough to stop ... I just have a lot of trust in our guys out on the field.”

Defiance coach Jerry Buti admitted to being “embar-rassed,” following the loss.

“I don’t think our defense showed up tonight, we didn’t hit anybody,” Buti said. “Our offense had a spark of life, but our defense was flat-lined. I didn’t see any enthusiasm to play the game the way we should. It was an embarrassing night as far as I was concerned. I thought that was the worst performance by our defense all year.”

After a promising open-ing drive by Defiance was snuffed out by a holding penalty and a sack, Elida went to work.

McAdams completed 3-of-4 passes in Elida’s first drive, including a swing pass to Kevin Kraft that he took 28 yards to paydirt to give the visitors a quick 7-0 lead with 7:25 to play in the first quarter.

After holding Defiance to just three plays on its next possession, McAdams

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Edgerton’s Brody Flegal runs for positive yardage against Hicksville on Friday. Flegal threw for 251 yards and ran for 56 in the Bulldogs’ 13-6 victory.

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Ayersville’s Brandon Ordway pulls down Antwerp receiver Shaile Chamberlain during action at Ayersville. Chamberlain caught eight passes for 122 yards.

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EDGERTON — With the Hicksville Aces going all in on their final drive with the game on the line, Edgerton desperately needed a trump card.

Holding on to a slight 13-6 lead against a charging Hicksville offense, Bulldog linebacker Wyatt Herman proved to be just that.

After an 11-play drive marched the Aces 53 yards to the Edgerton 7-yard line, Herman stepped in front of a Justin Miller pass on fourth-and-four for a game-saving interception with 1:04 left in the game.

Much to the delight of the home crowd at Edgerton’s Stauffer Field, the pick allowed the Bulldog offense to wind out the clock en route to a thrilling victory over the visiting Aces, in what proved to be a Green Meadows Conference slug-fest.

“We needed a stop, and coach always told us at practice that we need-ed to step up and make a play when it matters,” said Herman. “Everybody else has been doing it, so I guess it was my turn.”

Big plays were the theme of the evening in the low-scoring affair.

Hicksville threatened to close a 10-6 gap ear-lier in the stanza, utiliz-ing a pounding running attack that put the Aces in Bulldog territory at the 24. However, Herman once again got the job done via a fourth-and-one stop on Hicksville running back Kaleb Johns, putting the ball back in Edgerton hands.

“It wasn’t the defense, it was the crowd,” the Edgerton senior pointed out. “That got everybody fired up and that was good.”

From there, the Bulldogs moved the ball to the Hicksville 42 before faced with a fourth-and-four. But a direct snap to senior back Caleb Stark out of punt for-mation stretched into a new set of downs, eventually setting up a 20-yard field goal by Bill Radabaugh and a 13-6 Edgerton lead.

Putting the pressure on the Hicksville offense to respond, the Bulldog drive ate up nearly eight minutes of the final quarter.

“We felt pretty fortunate we were able to make some big plays when we had to,” commented Edgerton men-tor Kevin Kline. “I give total credit to our kids. Our kids showed that they can step up and make plays when they have to, and they did a pretty nice job of that tonight.”

The Hicksville defense also showed its mettle early in the first quarter as Zac Stoll forced a turnover on downs on the Bulldogs’ opening possession.

On fourth-and-four, the Aces junior planted Edgerton quarterback Brody Flegal for a turnover

on downs which led to a nine-play, 74-yard drive capped off by a one-yard plunge into the end zone by Hicksville senior Seth Klepper.

The ensuing kick missed its mark, however, as the Aces got out to a 6-0 lead at the 6:26 point of the open-ing quarter.

Feeling the urgency to score, a Flegal touchdown pass to Radabaugh from 11 yards out and a suc-cessful PAT by senior Bill Radabaugh put Edgerton in front at 7-6 just over three minutes into the sec-ond.

“I expected this all week out of Edgerton,” com-mented Hicksville head coach Lucas Smith, whose Aces slipped to 4-5 (4-2 GMC) after riding a four-game win streak. “After their loss to Fairview last week, I knew that coach Kline would have these guys ready to go. It’s been a down to the wire game the last two years. I didn’t expect this game to be any different, and it didn’t dis-appoint.”

With the Aces threaten-ing to tilt the game back in their favor later in the quar-ter, the senior Radabaugh raced in for a a block on a 27-yard field goal attempt as Edgerton took a one-point lead into the inter-mission.

“It was a very big team effort,” said Radabaugh, who also had a key inter-ception in the contest. “I can’t say that enough. It all starts with our corners, we work on it at practice and that is a big part of it.”

Flegal finished the game on 24-of-39 passing for 251 yards, while Nathan Stark was his prime target, catching 13 passes for 125 yards.

Meanwhile, Miller paced the 209-yard Hicksville rushing attack with 80 yards on 10 carries.

With the win, Edgerton (7-2, 4-2 GMC) remains alive for a playoff berth in Division VI, Region 22 while preparing to hit the road against Tinora (9-0, 6-0 GMC) on Friday.

Hicksville finishes off the regular season at home against Fairview.

HHS EHS

First Downs 13 19Rushing Yards 39-209 31-102Passing Yards 35 251Total Yards 244 353Passing 4-13-2 24-39-1Fumbles-Lost 2-1 0-0Penalties 3-30 8-79

Hicksville 6 0 0 0 - 6

Edgerton 0 7 3 3 - 13

H - Klepper 1-run (kick failed).E - C. Stark 11-pass from Flegal

(B. Radabaugh kick).E - B. Radabaugh 23-yard field

goal.E - B. Radabaugh 20-yard field

goal.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING: Hicksville - Miller 10-80; Klepper 20-70; Johns 8-59; Emenhiser 1-0. Edgerton - Flegal 21-56; Reynolds 8-30; J. Radabaugh 2-16. PASSING: Hicksville - Miller 4-13-35. Edgerton - Flegal 24-39-1-251. RECEIVING: Hicksville - Monroe 1-15; Conley 1-13; Sexton 1-5; Husted 1-2. Edgerton - N. Stark 13-125; C. Stark 8-79; Flower 2-33; J. Radabaugh 2-14.

Defense saves the day for Edgerton

HOLGATE — Tinora added another shutout to its resume after rolling past Holgate in GMC play, 45-0.

Kipp McCann had 205 yards on just seven carries while scoring four touch-downs to pace the undefeat-ed Rams (9-0, 6-0 GMC).

Holgate (0-9, 0-6 GMC) had three passes intercept-ed and lost a fumble in the defeat.

SUMMARY

Tinora 21 10 14 0 – 45

Holgate 0 0 0 0 – 0

T - McCann 47-run (Moser kick).T - McKenney 26-pass from Drewes

(Moser kick).T - McCann 3-run (Moser kick).T - McCann 72-run (Moser kick).T - Moser 23-field goal.T - McCann 52-run (Moser kick).T - D. Drewes 68-pass from L. Drewes

(Moser kick).

Fairview 28, W. Trace 14SHERWOOD — Brock

Mosier controlled the air to lead Fairview to a 28-14 GMC win over rival Wayne Trace.

Mosier had 299 yards and two touchdowns on 18 completions to lead the Apaches (5-4, 5-1 GMC), while also running for a score. Matt Tobin had 150 yards receiving and both Mosier TD receptions.

Dylan Horner pounded out 121 yards and a touch-down to lead the Raiders (4-5, 3-3 GMC). Kim Bickford added 76 yards and a trip to the end zone.

SUMMARY

Wayne Trace 0 7 7 0 – 14

Fairview 6 8 7 7 – 28

F - Mosier 3-run (kick failed).F - Tobin 43-pass from Mosier (Flanary

run).WT - Horner 10-run (Speice kick).WT - Bickford 6-run (Speice kick).F - Flanary 90-kickoff return (Murray

kick).F - Tobin 46-pass from Mosier (Murray

kick).

Antwerp 57, Ayersville 22AYERSVILLE — Antwerp

had 345 yards through the air in a 57-22 GMC victory over Ayersville.

John Brown was 15-of-25 passing for 302 yards to lead the Archers (3-6, 1-5 GMC). Tanner Copsey rushed 22 times for 119 yards and two scores and Shaile Chamberlain caught eight balls for 122 yards and three scores.

Justin Flory carried 21 times for 158 yards for the Pilots (3-6, 1-5 GMC) while scoring two touchdowns.

SUMMARY

Antwerp 14 14 7 22 – 57

Ayersville 0 8 14 0 – 22

An. - Chamberlain 57-pass from Brown

(Garcia kick).An. - Koppenhofer 59-pass from Brown

(Garcia kick).An. - Copsey 5-run from Brown (Garcia

kick).Ay. - Ordway 6-run from Brown (Perez

kick).An. - Chamberlain 21-pass from Brown

(Garcia kick).Ay. - Flory 7-run from Brown (Perez kick).Ay. - Flory 10-run from Brown (run failed).An. - Chamberlain 5-pass from Brown

(Garcia kick).An. - Jones 41-pass from Brown (Garcia

kick).An. - Copsey 1-run (Garcia kick).An. - Womack 43-pass from Smalley

(Huss run).

Delta 23, Lib. Center 12DELTA — Eric Puehler

rushed for 245 yards on 23 carries and scored twice to lead Delta to a 23-12 victory over NWOAL foe Liberty Center.

The Panthers (4-5, 2-5 NWOAL) rolled up 358 yards on the ground as a team against the Tigers (4-5, 3-4 NWOAL) in the win.

Justin Joseph had 105 yards on 15 carries to pace

Liberty Center.

SUMMARY

Liberty Center 6 0 6 0 – 12

Delta 0 7 6 10 – 23

LC - Niner 12-run (Niner run failed).D - Beverly 22-run (Schmitz kick).LC - Westhoven 2-run (Miller pass failed).D - Puehler 44-run (Beverly run failed).D - Puehler 52-run (Schmitz kick).D - Schmitz 25-field goal.

Bryan 60, Swanton 13SWANTON — Drew

Nossaman rushed for 110 of the 359 yards that Bryan rolled up on the ground in its 60-13 victory at Swanton in NWOAL action.

Nossaman needed just six carries to go over the cen-tury mark from the Golden Bears (5-4, 5-2 NWOAL).

Tom Leahey rushed for 18 yards on 18 attempts to lead the Bulldogs (0-9, 0-7 NWOAL).

SUMMARY

Bryan 27 20 6 7 – 60

Swanton 0 0 13 0 – 13

Evergreen 55, Montpelier 6METAMORA — Chad

Monaghan ran for 224 of Evergreen’s 540 yards en route to a 55-6 defeat of NWOAL foe Montpelier.

Dan Hilton scored two touchdowns to lead the Vikings (7-2, 5-2 NWOAL), while Lucas Pennington ran for one and threw for another.

Keagen Hartsock scored the Locomotives’ (1-8, 1-6 NWOAL) only touchdown on a 1-yard run.

SUMMARY

Montpelier 0 6 0 0 – 6

Evergreen 14 14 14 13 – 55

E - Pennington 49-run (DeWitt kick).E - Hilton 9-run (DeWitt kick).E - Hilton 20-run (DeWitt kick).M - Hartsock 1-run (run failed).E - Truckor 10-run (DeWitt kick).E - Monaghan 59-run (DeWitt kick).E - Thieken 25-pass from Pennington

(DeWitt kick).E - Good 5-run (DeWitt kick).E - Prentiss 10-run (run failed).

Pat. Henry 38, Eastwood 14HAMLER — Kasey

Spence powered Patrick Henry’s offense in a 38-14 non-conference victory over Eastwood.

Spence rushed for 137 yards and four touchdowns to lead the Patriots (8-1). Spence was also 17-for-21 passing for 208 yards, with Alex Wilhelm grabbing nine passes for 99 yards.

Marquis Pitts led the Eagles (5-4) with 59 yards

on he ground as well as 33 receiving yards.

SUMMARY

Eastwood 0 0 0 14 – 14

Pat. Henry 16 6 8 8 – 38

PH - Spence 22-run (Yungmann pass

from Spence).PH - Spence 1-run (Wilhelm pass from

Spence).PH - Spence 7-run (pass failed).PH - Spencer 7-run (Wilhelm pass from

Spence).E - Dix 19-pass from Klink (Depew kick).PH - Rosebrook 5-run (Palmer run).E. - Conkle 17-run (Depew kick).

Bluffton 49, Paulding 24BLUFFTON — Hunter

Joseph threw for 252 yards and touchdowns to lead Bluffton to a 49-24 victory over Paulding.

Keshaun Hughes added 75 yards on 10 carries for the Pirates (5-4, 4-3 NWC).

Drey Gamble had 97 yards on 14 carries with one score to pace the Panthers ((2-7, 1-6 NWC).

SUMMARY

Paulding 8 0 8 8 – 24

Bluffton 0 22 21 6 – 49

P - Arellano 3-run (Gamble run).B - Basinger 2-run (Gudakunst pass from

Joseph).B - Luginbuhl 12-pass from Gudakunst

(Koch kick).B - Basinger 2-run (Koch kick).B - Siefker 9-pass from Joseph (Koch

kick).B - Hughes 6-run (Koch kick).B - Stratton 40-pass from Joseph (Koch

kick).P - Gamble 9-run (Gamble run).B - Gleason 1-run (kick failed).P - Philpot 25-run (Brown run).

C. Grove 48, Crestview 14COLUMBUS GROVE

— Columbus Grove out-scored Crestview 34-14 in the first half en route to a 48-14 NWC victory.

Jordan Travis threw for three touchdowns to Colby Meuleman to lead the Bulldogs (6-3, 5-2 NWC). Wade Heffner added three trips to the end zone for Grove.

Matt Holden scored a pair of touchdowns for

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Tinora defensive lineman Jacob Norden (67) tackles Holgate quarterback Ryan Aelker (12) for a loss during the Rams’ 45-0 win over the Tigers.

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Ada 48, Delphos Jefferson 22Akr. East 15, Akr. Kenmore 13Akr. Firestone 31, Akr. Garfield 6Akr. Manchester 49, Zoarville

Tuscarawas Valley 18Akr. Springfield 57, Akr. Coventry 28Akr. SVSM 56, Hunting Valley Univ. 7Alliance 48, Can. South 23Alliance Marlington 21, Louisville 7Amanda-Clearcreek 31, Lancaster

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21Antwerp 56, Defiance Ayersville 22Apple Creek Waynedale 24, W. Salem

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14Bellaire 38, Wintersville Indian Creek

31Bellefontaine Benjamin Logan 21,

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Shenandoah 25Bloomdale Elmwood 41, Millbury Lake

21Bluffton 49, Paulding 24Bradford 67, W. Alexandria Twin

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David Anderson 6Columbus Grove 48, Conv. Crestview

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Purcell Marian 6Day. Oakwood 41, Bellbrook 7Day. Thurgood Marshall 28, Day.

Dunbar 20Defiance Tinora 45, Holgate 0Delphos St. John’s 17, Maria Stein

Marion Local 13

Delta 23, Liberty Center 12Dover 42, Coshocton 9Dresden Tri-Valley 42, McCon.

Morgan 0Dublin Coffman 38, Worth. Kilbourne

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Day 7Gahanna Lincoln 45, Reynoldsburg 7Gallipolis Gallia 41, Vincent Warren

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21Gnadenhutten Indian Valley 21, Can.

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Perry 6Hamilton 20, Mason 13Hamilton Badin 38, Middletown

Fenwick 31, OTHamler Patrick Henry 38, Pemberville

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Trail 7Hanoverton United 34, New Mid.

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19Ironton Rock Hill 55, Bidwell River

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Hilliard Bradley 0Lima Cent. Cath. 42, Lafayette Allen

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College of Canada, Ontario 17Maumee 28, Holland Springfield 14Mayfield 17, Brunswick 14McArthur Vinton County 18, Pomeroy

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32Ottawa-Glandorf 42, Van Wert 15Pataskala Watkins Memorial 36, Cols.

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Greenfield McClain 7Poland Seminary 41, Lisbon Beaver

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Millersport 15Sycamore Mohawk 25, Fremont St.

Joseph 14Sylvania Southview 28, Bowling

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0Trotwood-Madison 57, Sidney 14Troy 50, Miamisburg 14Troy Christian 63, Day. Ponitz Tech.

52Twinsburg 30, Stow-Munroe Falls 14Urbana 17, Spring. Greenon 14Utica 21, Danville 0Van Buren 34, Vanlue 18Vandalia Butler 37, Piqua 13Vienna Mathews 14, South. Chalker

0W. Chester Lakota W. 26, Fairfield 10W. Jefferson 28, Patask. Licking Hts.

14W. Lafayette Ridgewood 26,

Strasburg-Franklin 0W. Liberty-Salem 24, Mechanicsburg

0W. Unity Hilltop 34, Oregon Stritch 14Warren Champion 28, Brookfield 0Warren Harding 44, Shaker Hts. 17Warren Howland 48, Youngs. Liberty

0Washington C.H. 31, London 28Wash. C.H. Miami Trace 47, Hillsboro

14Waterford 25, Crown City S. Gallia 6Waynesfield-Goshen 54, Ridgeway

Ridgemont 7Waynesville 63, Milton-Union 34Wellsville 39, N. Jackson Jackson-

Milton 29Westerville S. 52, L. Center Olntngy

10Westlake 12, Middleburg Hts. Midpark

10Wheelersburg 42, Lucasville Valley

20Wheeling Central, W.Va. 10, Martins

Ferry 7Whitehouse Anthony Wayne 42,

Rossford 7Willard 3, Galion 0Williamsburg 43, Landmark Christian

7Williamsport Westfall 37, Chillicothe

Huntington 26Willoughby S. 49, P’sville Riverside

21Woodsfield Monroe Cent. 47, New

Matamoras Frontier 7Wooster 41, Millersburg W. Holmes 8Wooster Triway 48, Navarre Fairless

7Youngs. Ursuline 44, Youngs. Mooney

7Zanesville 48, Marietta 0Z’ville Maysville 26, New Lexington

12

RAMSFrom Page B5Crestview (2-7, 1-6 NWC).

SUMMARY

Col. Grove 21 13 14 0 – 48

Crestview 7 7 0 0 – 14

CG - Heffner 60-run (Kohls kick).

CG - Meuleman 28-pass from Travis (Kohls kick).

CG - Heffner 62-run (Kohls kick).

C - Holden 49-run (Nofer kick).

CG - Meuleman 44-pass from Travis (Kohls kick).

CG - Kohls 26-field goal.

CG - Kohls 34-field goal.

C - Holden 36-pass from Gibson (Nofer kick).

CG - Meuleman 23-pass from Travis (Kohls kick).

CG - Heffner 9-run (Kohls kick).

Hilltop 34, Stritch 14WEST UNITY — Quinton

Nofziger ran for three touch-downs to lead Hilltop to a 34-14 TAAC win over Cardinal Stritch.

Nofziger ran for 101 yards on 17 carries while making three trips to the end zone to lead the Cadets (5-4, 3-2 TAAC). Brandon Semer and Gabe Schaffner each added a touchdown run for Hilltop.

Mike Blazevich ran for a touch-down for Stritch (4-5, 2-3 TAAC).

SUMMARY

Stritch 8 0 6 0 – 14

Hilltop 7 14 7 6 – 34

CS - Blazevich 14-run (run good).

H - Nofziger 1-run (Ashenfelter kick).

H - Nofziger 4-run (Ashenfelter kick).

H - Schaffner 10-run (Ashenfelter kick).

CS - Fuller 6-run (run failed).

H - Nofziger 2-run (Ashenfelter kick).

H - Semer 9-run (kick failed).

Edon 41, Reading 27EDON — Edon held off

Reading, Mich., 41-27 in a non-league matchup.

Shannon Geren ran 35 times for 268 yards and scored four touchdowns for the Bombers (6-3), while Keegan Long passed for 137 yards and two touchdowns.

SUMMARY

Reading 7 6 7 7 – 27

Edon 12 15 0 14 – 41

Leipsic 54, C.-Rawson 0LEIPSIC — Liam Nadler was

15-of-22 passing for 214 yards and a touchdown to lead Leipsic to a 54-0 BVC victory over Cory-Rawson.

Trevor Schroeder rushed 17 times for 103 yards and a score for the Vikings (8-1, 7-1 BVC) while Derek Mangas caught eight balls for 112 yards.

James Rader led Cory-Rawson (4-5, 3-5 BVC) with five carries for 59 yards.

SUMMARY

Cory-Rawson 0 0 0 0 – 0

Leipsic 13 21 14 6 – 54

L - Derek Mangas 4-run (Derek Mangas kick).

L - B. Schroeder 13-run (kick failed).

L - T. Schroeder 13-run (Derek Mangas kick).

L - Schnipke 1-run (Derek Mangas kick).

L - B. Schroeder 5-run (Derek Mangas kick).

L - Niese 26-pass from Nadler (Derek Mangas

kick).

L - Derek Mangas 80-interception (Derek Mangas

kick).

L - Devin Mangas 87-run (kick failed).

L.-Benton 28, P.-Gilboa 0FINDLAY — Liberty-Benton

held Pandora-Gilboa to 85 total yards of offense in a 28-0 BVC win.

Jed Miller and Brady Vaught each scored twice for Liberty-Benton (7-2, 7-1 BVC).

Josh Breece led the Rockets (5-4, 5-3 BVC) with 11 completions.

SUMMARY

Pandora-Gilboa 0 0 0 0 – 0

Liberty-Benton 7 0 7 14 – 28

L-B - Miller 10-run (Darnall kick).

L-B - Vaught 28-run (Darnall kick).

L-B - Vaught 3-run (Darnall kick).

L-B - Miller 1-run (Darnall kick).

O-G 42, Van Wert 15OTTAWA — Nathan Kahle ran

for two touchdowns and passed

for two more to lead Ottawa-Glandorf past WBL opponent Van Wert.

Kahle passed for 235 yards to lead the Titans (7-2, 6-2 WBL) while Brandon Kuhlman ran 16 times for 134 yards and a score.

Corey Clifton led the Cougars (4-5, 3-5 WBL) with 164 yards passing and a touchdown.

SUMMARY

Van Wert 0 0 0 15 – 15

Ottawa-Glandorf 21 14 7 0 – 42

O-G - Kahle 1-run (Fischer kick).

O-G - Peck 27-pass from Kahle (Fischer kick).

O-G - Rieman 4-run (Fischer kick).

O-G - Hershberger 75-pass from Kahle (Fischer

kick).

O-G - Kahle 8-run (Fischer kick).

O-G - Kuhlman 18-run (Fischer kick).

VW - Catchings 14-pass from Clifton (Hurless kick).

VW - Sullivan 4-run (Clifton pass).

Kenton 46, Wapak 15 KENTON — Kenton defeated

Wapakoneta 46-15 to guarantee itself at least a share of the WBL title.

The Wildcats (8-1, 7-1 WBL) scored 24 second half points. Maty Mauk completed 20-of-39 passes for 327 yards and three touchdowns, all to senior wide-out Max Morrison. Mauk also

rushed for 111 yards and three scores.

Wapak (7-2, 6-2 WBL) caused four turnovers in the contest but were unable to slow down the Wildcats.

Celina 26, Bath 20CELINA — Celina scored 13

points in the fourth quarter to defeat Bath 26-20.

Braden Billger went 19-of-37 with 170 yards to lead the Bulldogs (6-3, 6-2 WBL), with Kahl Knapke catching eight of Billger’s throws for 88 yards and a score.

Colin Bishop had four catches for 111 yards and a score to lead the Wildcats (4-5, 3-5 WBL).

Shawnee 14, St. Marys 7SHAWNEE — Shawnee defeat-

ed St. Marys 14-7. The Indians (2-7, 2-6 WBL) were

led by Sam Altenbach who had 112 yards rushing on 15 carries with two touchdowns.

St. Marys (1-8, 0-8 WBL) was led by Mitch Newbauer with 219 yards rushing on 32 carries in the loss.

DEFIANCEFrom Page B4and Elida went to back to the air with much the same result. McAdams capped a 5-play drive with an 8-yard TD pass to his brother Alex McAdams, and with 3:46 to go in the first quarter, Elida was in front 14-0.

“Defensively, especially early on, coach (Al) Clum made some good calls to keep them off-balance and get pressure on them,” said Carpenter. “Sometimes when a sophomore is back there at quarterback, they look at the blitz instead of downfield, and getting pressure on them early was big.”

Blymyer added to Elida’s lead early in the second quarter, scoring on a 2-yard plunge with 11:28 to go before half, putting the visitors in front 21-0. Blymyer finished with 140 yards on 23 carries with the two scores.

Defiance, which still has not scored a point in the first or third quarter all sea-son, cut the deficit to 21-7 with 2:01 to play in the second stanza. Sophomore quarterback Joe Keween completed 5-of-8 passes in the drive to move the ball down the field, before Nick Lopez scored on a 1-yard run.

Unfortunately for the home team, Elida needed just one play, a Reggie McAdams swing pass to Austin Etzler, to go in front 28-7 just 11 seconds later. Etzler caught the pass near the line of scrimmage and outraced the DHS defense down the middle of the field for the score. Etzler had five catches for 142 yards in the win.

“When you’re 1-8, things go wrong and you expect them to go wrong. It’s just

like when you win, you expect things to go right,” Buti said. “Losing is a habit. It’s a bad habit, and unfortunately we’re in a bad losing habit.”

Elida added one more score in the third quarter before Defiance scored late to make it a 35-13 final.

“I’m totally disappointed in our play tonight, I really am,” concluded Buti. “We didn’t block anybody and we didn’t tackle anybody. Those are the two main things in football ... I don’t know how many more ways to say it. I was just totally disappointed, espe-cially from a hitting stand-point. There was none.”

Defiance finishes the 2010 campaign on the road at Lima Bath, while Elida returns home to host Wapakoneta, looking to clinch a playoff berth and possibly host in Week 11.

EHS DHS

First Downs 13 14

Rushing Yards 30-140 28-97

Passing Yards 258 128

Total Yards 398 225

Passing 16-32-1 17-22-0

Fumbles-Lost 2-2 1-1

Penalties 7-73 5-23

Elida 14 14 7 0 - 35

Defiance 0 7 0 6 - 13

E - Kraft 28-pass from R. McAdams

(Jenkins kick).

E - A. McAdams 8-pass from R.

McAdams (Jenkins kick).

E - Blymyer 2-run (Jenkins kick).

D - Lopez 1-run (Call kick).

E - Etzler 57-pass from R. McAdams

(Jenkins kick).

E - Blymyer 4-run (Jenkins kick).

D - Martinez 1-run (run failed).

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING: Elida - Blymyer 23-

140; R. McAdams 4-0; Hughes 3-0.

Defiance - Casarez 1-54; Martinez

8-35; Lopez 12-35; Barratt 1-1;

Keween 6-(-28). PASSING: Elida - R.

McAdams 16-21-0-255; Stambaugh

1-1-0-3. Defiance - Keween 16-32-1-

128. RECEIVING: Elida - Etzler 5-142;

Kraft 3-51; Jenkins 6-41; Le 1-13;

A. McAdams 1-3; Bly 1-3. Defiance

- George 9-96; Cordray 2-16; Lopez

2-11; Parrish 2-29; Romero 1-1.

STREAKSFrom Page B4

did get out there on offense, I missed some throws that I should’ve hit,” said Morton on the effects of waiting for so long on the sidelines as Wauseon ran time off the clock. “We couldn’t move the ball consistently down the field first half, so that first half is on me. We came out in the second half and improved things.”

On the ensuing kickoff, Bontrager bounced one to his left, where a streaking Young ran right in front of the Wauseon sideline untouched, and snared the ball after a long hop, to put the offense right back on the field.

“That was just a heck of a call by their coach,” Emans said of the onside kick. “I thought (Archbold) did a great job of executing that onside kick. We had just told our kids, watch that, they’ve got some momen-tum, watch the onside kick and we just didn’t execute the way we were supposed to.”

Archbold wasted little time in finding the end zone, starting at the Indians’ 41 and needing four plays to make the onside kick really hurt.

“We actually had talked about doing it earlier in the game and I screwed it up because I gave them the wrong direction, that’s the time we had to call time-out there,” admitted Miller. “Our special teams coor-dinator, Cam (Cameron

Thompson), did a great job of getting guys moved over. We switched a couple guys, put more speed on the side there which paid off because it was a long kick, it took a big bounce, Danny Young did a great job.”

After taking the ball to the Wauseon 17, and after a pump fake to the right by Morton, Desmond Sleigh came flying across the field from right to left, only a few yards beyond the line of scrimmage He then took a short pass 17 yards to the left side of the end zone for a touchdown and a 21-7 lead with 6:33 left in the third quarter.

Wauseon stuck with its game plan throughout, but after managing 155 yards rushing and 23 passing yards in the first half, they were limited to two sec-ond half possessions, one a 61⁄2 minute drive to end the third and the other a three-and-out in the fourth, adding just 36 more yards on the ground against the Archbold defense.

“The key is, forget,” Keefer said of the defense being on the field for long stretches. “Forget the last play, move on to the next one and play physical. We kind of have a bend but don’t break thing going on and to be honest, we don’t even want to bend. We want to stay physical. In the second half we came out and we did a great job of gang-tackling and being physical.”

Dietrich led all receiv-ers with five catches for 83

yards.Jesse Finney led all rush-

ers with 114 yards on 28 carries for the Indians, who wrap up the season at home against Patrick Henry.

“I thought our offensive game plan was really good, they only ran three plays I think in the first quarter and that old adage, ‘if you can keep their quarterback on the sideline, he can’t score, he can’t beat you’ and I thought our kids did a good job in the first half,” said Emans. “We just about went up 14-7, we about come down with that ball with a couple seconds left in the first half. I’m proud of the kids, proud of the way they hung in there, Archbold just has a lot of speed, they do a lot of nice things.”

WHS AHS

First Downs 14 14

Rushing Yards 51-191 25-127

Passing Yards 23 171

Total Yards 214 298

Passing 2-6-0 12-19-3

Fumbles-Lost 1-1 1-0

Penalties 4-20 3-30

Wauseon 7 0 0 0 - 7

Archbold 0 7 14 0 - 21

W - Lind 3-run (Schaffner kick).

A - Morton 9-run (Bontrager kick).

A - Dietrich 6-pass from Morton

(Bontrager kick).

A - Sleigh 17-pass from Morton

(Bontrager kick).

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING: Wauseon - Finney

28-114; Lind 10-47; Makula 5-22;

Schaffner 4-5; Harper 4-3. Archbold

- Morton 16-67; Young 2-31; Keefer 6-

21; Rosales 1-8. PASSING: Wauseon

- Schaffner 2-6-1-23. Archbold - 13-

19-1-171. RECEIVING: Wauseon

- Stickley 1-15; Roth 1-8. Archbold

- Dietrich 5-83; Young 2-56; Sleigh 2-

17; Keefer 3-16; Reyes 1-(-1).

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Defiance’s Gabe Martinez (39) keeps his legs driv-ing after being met by a pair of Elida defenders during WBL action at DHS. Elida won the game, 35-13.

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WEAVERFrom Page B1leading the way, but the team backing the individ-uals up is really good to see.”

Junior Erica Monnin posted a third-place time of 19:30.70 to lead Napoleon, just under 19 seconds off of the district champion Christina Seas of Coldwater. Hannah Westhoven (15th) and Amber Willeman (18th) also helped keep the points low for the Lady ’Cats.

“We worked pretty hard as a pack to stay up there with the other teams,” Monnin stated. “It’s nice (to have boys and girls packs going to regionals) because we can support each other and do our best there.”

The Defiance girls also missed a trip to Tiffin with a fifth-place team showing. However, Fett punched her ticket in fourth place with a 5k time of 19:41.40.

“The competition was really tough,” noted the DHS junior harrier. “I’m going to have to be able to run my best (next week) if I’m going to be able to make it out. I wish the team could have made it too ... it would have been better.”

The Defiance senior duo of Sadie Daeger and Alex Ramirez placed 20th and 26th, respectively, while senior Nikki Roehrig crossed the finish line in 36th position.

“I can’t fault how we ran time-wise,” said DHS girls coach Scott Saner. “That might be one of the better averages we’ve had all sea-son. My two, three and four ran very solid races. My five had one of her best races of the year. We did about what we could do ... I don’t know if we could have individu-ally run much better than we did today.

“They ran like they want-ed to continue,” he contin-ued. “But we weren’t a top-four team today.”

Also qualifying from the area was Tessa Herring of Wauseon, who fin-ished ninth, and Ottawa-Glandorf’s Dana Landwehr with a 13th-place showing.

At Ottawa

Boys Meet

Lima Shawnee 66, Napoleon 66, Ottawa-Glandorf 126, Van Wert 131, Defiance 136, Celina 157, Bryan 173, St. Marys 182, Wapakoneta 184,

Wauseon 230, Lima Bath 264, Elida 358, Paulding 383.

Top 10 Individuals

Steven Weaver (N), 15:40.10; Abel Flores (D); Jared Fleming (VW); Garrett Diltz (LS); Michael Becker (Wauseon); Zach Diltz (LS); Brandon Heckman (O-G); Ben Majewski (N); Brandon Sevitz (LS); Tom Mault (LB).

Area Individual Qualifiers

Abel Flores (D); Michael Becker (W); Chris Nusbaum (C); Derek Pease (C); Cole Mertz (C).

Other Defiance Finishers

Austin Fraley (22nd); Jacob Rosebrock (33rd); Garrett Wiles (34th); Jordan Harpest (45th); Josh Quintero (51st); Nathan Wickman (53rd).

Girls Meet

Coldwater 66, Lima Shawnee 78, Napoleon 91, Van Wert 92, Defiance 115, Celina 128, Wauseon 172, Wapakoneta 179, Bryan 262, Ottawa-Glandorf 270, St. Marys 345, Elida 380, Lima Bath 384.

Top 10 Individuals

Christina Seas (Coldwater), 19:11.80; Adrienne Pohl (LS); Erica Monnin (N); Kristen Fett (D); Hannah Fleck (Celina); Emily Wolery (LS); Katie Bono (VW); Jill Kanney (Coldwater); Tessa Herring

(Wauseon); Andrea Bell (Celina).Area Individual Qualifiers

Kristen Fett (D); Hannah Fleck (Celina); Tessa Herring (Wauseon); Andrea Bell (Celina); Kayla Limbert (Wapakoneta); Dana Landwehr (O-G).

Other Defiance Finishers

Sadie Daeger (20th); Alex Ramirez (26th); Brittney Holmes (29th); Nikki Roehrig (36th); Angelica Quintero (53rd); Katie Koester (64th).

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Delta’s Colin Fisher (right in left photo) and K.J. Abair (left) helped Delta cap-ture the Division III District I cross country

team title while Ottoville’s Shayla Siefker (right photo) won the girls D-III District I title in 19:05.10.

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Ayersville’s Hannah McKibben (left photo) advanced to regionals by plac-ing 10th at the Division III cross country

meet while Fairview’s Tierney Czartoski (right photo) led the Apaches to the D-III District II team championship.

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Division III cross country

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have, we know he always likes to cover the first post. I told the guys, believe in each other and try to look for a second post shot, we did it, we played real good.”

As perfect a play as the Whitesell goal was, the lead did not last long.

Napoleon charged back and while Conor Brobston, who finished with eight saves, made the initial stop on a Brandon Homan shot, Lauf put himself in per-fect position to pound the rebound home, and tie the game at 2-2 with seven min-utes left to play.

“Our team preaches never give up, we always have a headstrong mental-ity, we never give up, we keep going and going and going until that clock says zero,” stated Wildcat senior Zach Morris. “After the game-tying goal, we were all up, we knew we had it. We just kept pounding their defense, pounding them, pounding them, and we’d have it. Gotta keep working for it.”

Morris and the rest of the ‘Cats kept working hard, playing with momentum on their side and less than five minutes after tying the

game, Napoleon delivered the knockout blow.

On a corner kick, the left-footed Morris sent a curve heading toward Brobston and the Defiance net. The ball was kicked back out to Morris, who promptly fired it right back to the net.

Brobston made the initial save, but the ball went up in the air and Lauf, again in the right spot, buried the ball with a game-winning header.

“I almost bent it in, but they kicked it out to me, so my first instinct was rocket it in there at the keeper, see if we could get some-thing,” recalled Morris. “He (Brobston) hits it up, it’s a fair game, then I got Jordan Lauf, he runs in and puts it away. That’s all there is too it.”

Napoleon’s first goal came on a play similar to the Whitesell goal for Defiance as Cole Arps sent a cross-ing pass and Tommy Brown came charging in toward the net to put the ‘Cats on the board first with 11:52 left in the first half.

““The one thing about our team is in our past years, we’ve had games like this in the playoffs and we have scored a couple late goals in other games in previous seasons,” stated DelFavero. “So these guys use that

experience and were able to do that. They know how to win and they did it.”

Herrett’s game-tying pen-alty kick goal came in the 45th minute after Jordan Tobias made a move to get around Tyler Shafer. Shafer tried to recover but instead tripped Tobias inside the box, leading to the PK.

Defiance wraps up the season at 3-10-5, although many of their losses could have gone either way as the Bulldogs battled all year long and were in most games all the way till the end, similar to this game with Napoleon.

“In 20 years I’ve been coaching I’ve never seen a season with so many talent-ed players like we have this year,” concluded Lopez. “We started out playing Napoleon 0-0 at the begin-ning of the season, that was a plus for us. We had a good summer, we won a tourna-ment in BG. We’ve got good talented players.”

Napoleon 3, Defiance 2

Defiance (3-10-5) - Goals: Doug

Herrett (PK, 45’), Colin Whitesell (72’).

Assists: Herrett. Shots/On goal: 13/8.

Saves: Conor Brobston 8. Corner

kicks: 7.

Napoleon (10-5-3) - Goals: Tommy

Brown (12’), Jordan Lauf 2 (73’ ,78’).

Assists: Cole Arps, Brandon Homan,

Zach Morris. Shots/On goal: 14/11.

Save Brody Tejkl 6. Corner kicks: 7.

By KEVIN EIScnsports@crescent-news.com

OTTAWA — It was a long day of high school cross country action at Ottawa Park as 32 boys teams and 30 girls packs converged for the Division III district championship meet.

Broken into two districts to handle the influx of com-petition, this year’s D-III district sent eight teams and several local individuals on to Saturday’s regional level.

The top four teams in each meet qualified to move on, as did the top 16 indi-viduals not already part of a qualifying pack.

In the first D-III race of the day, Delta packed four run-ners in the top 10 to claim it sixth-straight district title in a landslide victory over Liberty Center, Stryker and Archbold.

Behind district champi-on Colin Fisher, K.J. Abair (3rd), Maxx Lackie (4th) and Alec Nash (7th) all packed in to help the Panthers to 34 points - 47 points ahead of second-place Liberty Center.

“The first two worked together as a group, and three and four worked together as well,” said first-year Delta mentor John Wordarski. “It helped that everybody pushed each other to get through to next week.”

The senior Fisher finished his final high school district race with a championship time of 16:17.00.

“We knew we had to run good,” Fisher commented. “K.J. and I have tried to run together, and I think it’s the lowest we’ve ever scored here.”

While seniors Ben Martinez and Josh Seedorf earned respective sixth and 14th-place stands for Liberty Center, Stryker claimed the three-spot behind Connor Frey (8th), Tyson Rohrs (9th) and Jay Planson (13th).

“Our effort was pretty good, I had about four kids run PRs,” noted Stryker boys mentor Maurice Zuver. “We talked about the fact that it was a one step at a time kind of thing, and the kids got after it. I’m very pleased with the effort they put forward.”

Junior Adrian Ramirez and sophomore Alexander Hurst led Archbold in the 15th and 16th spots to help the Blue Streaks make the regional cut.

“We have a young team,” said Archbold mentor Mike Wachtmann. “Most of the guys running there were freshman and sophomores, so I’m really happy with the way they ran.”

Ottoville senior standout Shayla Siefker ran a time of 19:05.10 to win her fourth straight district individual crown in the District I girls race, just one tenth of a sec-ond ahead of Liberty Center sophomore Kelly Haubert.

“It’s a bummer that the team isn’t moving on,” said

Siefker, whose pack fin-ished fifth behind Liberty Center, Bluffton, Kalida and Pettisville. “But I know all the girls gave it their all. We had a great season and it was a lot of fun. We have nothing to be ashamed of with that.”

Haubert’s second-place finish helped LC to its third district title in as many years.

“I feel the team ran very well,” she lauded. “It’s nice to see our freshmen work hard because I remember being a freshman last year, and it takes guts to run at these races and not be ner-vous.”

Also running well for the Lady Tigers were junior Chelsea Knapp (3rd), fresh-man Paige Chamberlain (14th) and the senior combo of Mallory Spieth (19th) and Erica Bodenbender (20th).

“We’ve been performing well in October,” said LC head coach Tim Atkinson. “Some of our girls didn’t run as well as they wanted to today, but any time you win a championship, you can’t complain. It was an exciting day for Liberty Center to have two teams up on the podium like that.”

Junior Tanner Hostetler paced Pettisville to the regionals with a 12th-place showing, while Ayersville sophomore Hannah McKibben made it out of districts as an individual in 10th.

“It was awesome,” McKibben explained. “I’m really glad that I got to go on to regionals. I was hop-ing for a top-10, and I hope I go on to do well at region-als.”

Hilltop took the boys District II crown over Coldwater, Columbus Grove and Fayette, while Cade Mansfield and Ryan Johnston of Ayersville and Pettisville’s Dominic Frey placed in the top 16 as indi-viduals.

Hilltop senior Travis Burwell placed second behind Coldwater’s Mike Seas, while Zach Smith, Isaac King and Devin Filip all took top-10 honors Hilltop.

Mansfield placed 11th while Johnston took 13th to advance for Ayersville.

“I’m excited to see how we will run next week at regionals,” said Ayersville second-year coach Alexis Zippay. “Hopefully we can get a couple out to state.”

Added Mansfield: “The competition was good and everybody ran really hard. It’s just great to move on another week.”

In the final race of the day, the Fairview girls cap-tured their first-ever district crown, beating out Lima Central Catholic, Columbus Grove and Stryker for regional berths.

“I thought they looked pretty good, but I still see room for improve-ment,” said Fairview men-

tor Angela Zeedyk, whose girls are in the only district heading to regional compe-tition at Troy on Saturday. “They’re going to have to be on next week, that’s for sure.”

Fairview got a boost from a fifth-place finish by senior Tierney Czartoski, who recorded a time of 21:05.60, followed by Krysten King and Morella Roehrig in the 11 and 12 spots.

“It feels amazing, I still can’t believe we did it,” exclaimed the Fairview senior. “We knew it would be close, but we pulled it out and we did it.”

Junior Natalie Graber placed 14th to lead the Stryker girls to a fourth-place team standing.

“They ran well and they’ve worked hard all year,” com-mented Stryker coach Scott Goodnight. “We’ve had a lot of injuries all year, but patience and hard work has worked out well for us.”

Kyle Thomas (Fairview), Dylan Crawford (Antwerp), Sam Lehman (Tinora), Sabrina Brown (Edon), Levi Cvikle (Edon), Lindsey Matthews (Wayne Trace), Anna Schmenk (Patrick Henry), Jamie Hablawetz (Hicksville), Andrea Schroeder (Swanton) and Vanessa Gordon (Antwerp) all advanced out of both D-III races as individuals.

At Ottawa

District I

Boys Meet

Delta 34, Liberty Center 81, Stryker 98, Archbold 105, Fairview 127, Allen East 200,

Bluffton 217, Tinora 222, Hicksville 233, Antwerp 249, Edon 270, Wayne Trace 323

Top 10 Individuals

Colin Fisher (D), 16:17.00; Matthew Herron (B); K.J. Abair (D); Maxx Lackie (D); Kyle Thomas (F); Ben Martinez (LC); Alec Nash (D); Conner Frey (S); Tyson Rohrs (S); Caleb Burkey (AE).

Area Individual Qualifiers

Matthew Herron (B); Kyle Thomas (F); Caleb Burkey (AE); Dylan Crawford (Antwerp); Sam Lehman (T).

Girls Meet

Liberty Center 56, Bluffton 96, Kalida 126, Pettisville 145, Ottoville 152, Pandora-Gilboa 154, Fayette 155; Delta 197, Ayersville 210, Edgerton 227, Montpelier 274, Hilltop 287,

Evergreen 354Top 10 Individuals

Shayla Siefker (O), 19:05.10; Kelly Haubert (LC); Chelsea Knapp (LC); Hannah Chappell-Dick (B); Jessica Doepker (K); Sarah Flickinger (P-G); Vanessa McCullough (P-G); Jessica Kern (D); Kristen Fruchey (D); Hannah McKibben (A).

Area Individual Qualifiers

Shayla Siefker (O); Sarah Flickinger (P-G); Vanessa McCullough (P-G); Jessica Kern (D); Kirsten Fruchey (D); Hannah McKibben (A); Melani Seiler (F); Shelby Wilson (McComb); Brianna Rodriguez (O).

District II

Boys Meet

Hilltop 44, Coldwater 58, Columbus Grove 77, Fayette 122, Lima Central Catholic 142, Pettisville 152, Ottoville160, Ayersville 186, Kalida 250, Edgerton 298, Patrick Henry 329, Holgate 337, Evergreen 350, McComb 387.

Top 10 Individuals

Mike Seas (C), 16:26.60; Travis Burwell (H); Jake Graham (CG); Jim Kesner (LCC); Zach Smith (H); Zach Muhlenkamp (C); Darrell Randall (F); Isaac King (H); Devin Filip (H); Jacob Lorton (C).

Area Individual Qualifiers

Jim Kesner (LCC); Cade Mansfield (A); Ryan Johnston (A); Dominic Frey (P).

Girls Meet

Fairview 42, Lima Central Catholic 74, Columbus Grove 84, Stryker 85, Edon 101, Antwerp 117, Paulding 193

Top 10 Individuals

Sabrina Brown (E), 20:36.30; Haley Perkins (Allen East); Levi Cvikle (E); Lindsey Matthews (Wayne Trace); Tierney Czartoski (F); Amber Herron (CG); Anna Schmenk (Patrick Henry); Jamie Hablawetz (Hicksville); Elizabeth Kidd (LCC); Andrea Schroeder (Swanton).

Area Individual Qualifiers

Sabrina Brown (E); Haley Perkins (Allen East); Levi Cvikle (E); Lindsey Matthews (Wayne Trace); Anna Schmenk (Patrick Henry); Jamie Hablawetz (Hicksville); Andrea Schroeder (Swanton); Vanessa Gordon (A).

Solid day for area runners

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Defiance’s Kristen Fett finished fourth in the Division II district meet to advance to regionals.

Jeff Long/C-N Photo

Napoleon’s Erica Monnin placed third at the D-II district cross country meet.

■ B8 PRO FOOTBALL The Crescent-News • Sunday, October 24, 2010

Sunday’s TV ScheduleTime Warner Cable

1 p.m.Eagles at Titans (Fox 7)

Redskins at Bears (Fox 8)Bengals at Falcons (CBS 9)Browns at Saints (CBS 11)

4 p.m.Patriots at Chargers (CBS 9, 11)

8:30 p.m.Vikings at Packers (NBC 10)

DirecTV (with local channels)1 p.m.

Eagles at Titans (Fox 36)Browns at Saints (CBS 11)

4 p.m.Patriots at Chargers (CBS 11)

8:30 p.m.Vikings at Packers (NBC 24)

Dish Network (with local channels)1 p.m.

Eagles at Titans (Fox 36)Browns at Saints (CBS 11)

4 p.m.Patriots at Chargers (CBS 11)

8:30 p.m.Vikings at Packers (NBC 24)

Browns-Saints

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Scott Fujita was a post-Katrina pio-neer.

The veteran linebacker was one of the first pro athletes to choose to make the battered Big Easy home, to invest in New Orleans financially and emotionally, and to take an active role in the city’s renaissance.

This Sunday, less than nine months after he paraded trium-phantly through downtown to celebrate the Saints’ first NFL championship, Fujita will be back in the domed stadium where fans adored him for the past four years, less than a mile from the warehouse district condominium he still owns.

Only this time, he’ll be trying to help the desperate Cleveland Browns (1-5) take down his old teammates with the Saints (4-2), who unlike Fujita still have a Super Bowl title to defend.

“It will be natural for there to be some emotions with it. I am going to try and not get too caught up with it. I have too many team-mates teasing me, telling me I better not cry,” Fujita said. “There are so many strong feelings about that city. I am always going to have those feelings. This will be

my first time in New Orleans since the ring ceremony.

“I have been getting e-mails and text messages from pretty much everybody I know there for the last two weeks saying, ’We can’t wait for you to come home,’ or, ’It’s going to be so weird to see you in another uniform.”’

Fujita remains active in the community here, having donated about $40,000 to groups whose mission is to restore Louisiana’s fragile, eroding coast. He also is hoping to be an uplifting force in Cleveland, a Rust Belt city hit hard by the Great Recession.

On the field, it hasn’t worked out yet. The team that lured him away with a three-year, $14 mil-lion contract keeps finding ways to lose tight games. It hasn’t helped that Cleveland’s top two quar-terbacks, Louisiana native Jake Delhomme and Seneca Wallace, have been injured, forcing rookie Colt McCoy into a starting role last week that will likely continue Sunday in the Superdome.

“We are not playing all that bad, but we just can’t finish games the right way,” Fujita said. “Every game has kind of played out the same way, where a few times we had leads in the fourth

quarter and let them slip away. Sometimes it is a turnover or a couple of dumb penalties on defense. It teaches you how small the margin for error in this league is.”

The Saints also were in close games in the first five weeks, but won three, then awoke from an apparent offensive slumber last weekend in a 31-6 trouncing of Tampa Bay. The Saints executed the type of balance (212 yards rushing, 263 yards passing) and big-play ability (TD passes of 41 and 42 yards) for which they were known last season.

“I feel like we learned some lessons early on in the season,” quarterback Drew Brees said, not-ing how the Saints have overcome a slew of injuries and how young players such as rookie running back Chris Ivory have stepped up.

“We became maybe even more battle tested than we were,” Brees said.

With Reggie Bush and Pierre Thomas expected to remain out with injuries this week, Ivory, signed as an undrafted rookie free agent out of Division II Tiffin, will likely get a chance to build on his 15-carry, 158-yard performance

(10.5-yard average) against the Bucs.

Meanwhile, Brees’ entire offen-sive line and receiving corps is healthy.

“They’re explosive,” Browns coach Eric Mangini said. “They have the ability to change the game at any point. There’s a deep ball to (Robert) Meachem or Devery Henderson or (Marques) Colston. (They) can start put-ting points on the board pretty quickly. Every play they have that potential.”

Although Fujita practiced against the Saints’ offense for four years, the Saints doubted whether he’d be able to tip off Cleveland’s defense on much at the line of scrimmage.

“Unless you’re in the huddle,” Brees began, “I think we change things up enough year to year, and week to week, that it’s hard to sit there and know exactly what’s coming.”

Fujita agreed.“I practiced against those guys

for forever, but it wasn’t like we were ever game planning against them,” Fujita said. “I am familiar with some of the players and know some of their strengths and weaknesses, but all in all this is

an offense that comes out week in and week out and presents mismatches for everybody they face.”

Fujita had noticed New Orleans looking vulnerable early in the season and wasn’t terribly excit-ed to see the Saints recapture their swagger the week before his Browns had to face them.

He recalled looking up at oout-of-town scores last weekend and noticing the Saints leading he Bucs 24-0 in the third quarter, “and I thought, ’I guess the sleep-ing giant has woken up,”’ Fujita said. “I was hoping they might continue to struggle a little bit, but that offense is about as good as it gets.”

It seemed not even the birth of Brees’ second son could work in the Browns’ favor. Bowen Christopher Brees was born on Tuesday — the Saints’ day off — so the quarterback didn’t even miss any work.

Fujita said he was happy for Brees, adding with a laugh that maybe the newborn would have Brees a little sleep deprived by game time.

“We will hope for the best with that,” Fujita said.

Cleveland’s Fujita braces for emotional return

Bengals-Falcons

ATLANTA (AP) — The Cincinnati Bengals already were feeling the pressure in the tough AFC North.

Leave it to receiver Chad Ochocinco to raise the stakes even more with some tough talk — and a little baiting — as the Bengals prepare for Sunday’s game against the Atlanta Falcons.

The Bengals, coming off a bye week, have lost two straight to fall to 2-3. They trail Pittsburgh (4-1) and Baltimore (4-2) in their division. Ochocinco said a third straight loss would be devastating.

“It’s do or die,” Ochocinco said. “We’re 2-3. To get into a hole at 2-4 is a no-no. This is a must-win. I’m sure people are not going to take it like that, but it is, to salvage what we do have left of our season. And that’s it.”

The Falcons (4-2) didn’t make any do-or-die declara-tions this week, but they’re determined to bounce back from last week’s 31-17 loss at Philadelphia. The Falcons fell into a tie with New Orleans for the NFC South lead.

Atlanta will be short-handed on defense. Rookie linebacker Sean Weatherspoon will miss his second straight game with a sprained right knee. Cornerback Dunta Robinson’s status is uncer-tain after he sustained a concussion with his hit on Eagles receiver DeSean Jackson.

Robinson is appealing the $50,000 fine from the league for the hit that left Jackson with a concussion.

The loss of Robinson could be crucial as the Falcons’ secondary faces difficult matchups against Ochocinco and Terrell Owens. Robinson signed a six-year contact worth $22.5 million to be the team’s shutdown corner.

The Falcons likely would start Christopher Owens with Brent Grimes at cor-nerback and move Brian Williams into the rotation at nickel back if Robinson can’t play.

“They have a good group of corners and some good safeties, too,” said Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer. “So if (Robinson) is not in there — he’s obviously probably their No. 1 guy — but if he’s not in there, they have very capable backups and guys that play fast, play hard and understand their schemes.”

Ochocinco tried to give the defensive backs a little more to think about when he announced he sent gifts — apparently T-shirts — through the mail.

“It’s no big thing. Nobody is paying much attention to it,” said safety Thomas DeCoud.

Nobody? Not quite.The defensive backs

shrugged off questions about Ochocinco’s ploy, but Falcons receiver Roddy White took the bait.

“We’re going to go out there and want to run the score up on him for doing that, whatever the circum-stances are in the game,” White said. “It’s just, I don’t think it’s cool. I don’t think Terrell Owens ever did that to anybody. But that’s (Ochocinco’s) antics. That’s kind of what he does. We’ll see on Sunday. We’ll see how it goes.”

Added White: “I don’t like it, period. Those are my teammates. I’m going to defend them for anything. ... If they knock him out of the game, who cares?”

If Ochocinco was seeking attention, he was success-ful. He was pictured on the front page of the Falcons’ Web site on Thursday over the headline “Silencio On Ochocinco.”

Ochocinco said he was trying to motivate himself by sending the gifts. He has 26 catches for 316 yards and only one touchdown. Owens leads the team with 31 catches for 476 yards and two touchdowns.

“They’re good players, both Terrell and Ocho,” Christopher Owens said. “I’ve been watching them since I was a kid. Not much bad I can say about them.”

The Falcons will try to extend their record of suc-cess in the Georgia Dome in their three seasons with coach Mike Smith and quarterback Matt Ryan.

Ryan is 15-1 as a starter in home games, includ-ing wins this season over Arizona and San Francisco.

Smith has stressed fast starts — in games and in seasons. That was a key to the team’s success in its first back-to-back winning seasons in franchise history the last two years, but sud-denly the Falcons have lost their first-quarter spark.

The Falcons fell behind 21-0 in the loss to the Eagles and have been outscored 45-14 in the first quarter this year. They have won the fourth quarter, 34-9, and are the only team in the league to not allow a TD in the final 15 minutes.

Smith has renewed his emphasis on a good start against Cincinnati.

“We’ve got to start faster,” Smith said. “Historically since we’ve been here this is a team that has started fast. We’ve outscored our opponents significantly in the first quarter. We are not doing it right now. It’s something that we have to continue to work on. ... We’ve got to make sure that we put our guys in the best opportunity to be suc-cessful.”

‘Do or die’ timefor Cincinnati?

Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers take their show on the road as they play the Miami

Dolphins in an important AFC matchup.

Barry Wilner • AP

MATCHUP STORYLINE PICK

Browns at Saints The champs appear to have found the big-play touch again Saints 33-10

Eagles at Titans No questions about the Titans’ strong and physical defense Titans 20-14

Bills at Ravens Ravens ticked-off after blowing last Sunday’s game at New England Ravens 27-3

Bengals at Falcons Both are coming off losses to teams they should have beaten Falcons 24-17

Redskins at Bears Like the way Mike Shanahan has the Redskins playing Redskins 17-13

Steelers at Dolphins Oddly, the Dolphins are 3-0 in away games, winless at home Steelers 22-20

Rams at Bucs Tampa Bay’s division is tougher, making this a must-win for the Bucs Bucs 17-14

49ers at Panthers Niners got their first win against Raiders last week. This should be No. 2 49ers 10-9

Jaguars at Chiefs Chiefs lost two straight, but they tested the Colts and Texans Chiefs 17-13

Cardinals at Seahawks Cards might be better squad, but Seattle is dangerous at home Seahawks 23-20

Raiders at Broncos Broncos hoping to take advantage of struggles of rest of AFC West Broncos 27-17

Patriots at Chargers New England comes off an impressive comeback win against Ravens Patriots 27-23

Vikings at Packers Visit No. 2 by Brett Favre in purple; unlike last year, it won’t bring a win Packers 23-21

Giants at Cowboys It’s getting monotonous hearing this, but the Cowboys must win Cowboys 24-23(Monday) BYES: Lions, Texans, Colts, Jets

Lions bye

ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — No one loses quite like the Detroit Lions.

Especially on the road.The Lions lost last week to the New

York Giants, dropping a 24th straight game on the road to match their own sorry NFL record set back in 2003.

“The reason you have long losing streaks is you’re not good,” said kicker Jason Hanson, who was a part of both skids because he’s in his 19th season with the Lions. “End of story.”

Not quite.The Lions were the first team to

have an 0-16 season in 2008 and are now the first to pull off a pair of 24-game skids on the road.

They’ve been pretty bad every-where since 2001 — when the Ford family handed the franchise’s keys to Matt Millen — winning just 34 of 150 games. Detroit’s 22.7 winning percentage is the second-worst over a 10-season span in NFL history, barely better than the Philadelphia Eagles’ 21.9 winning percentage from 1933-42, according to STATS LLC.

Remarkably, the Lions have had almost the same statistics for points and turnover differentials during both 24-game winless stretches as visitors. They have scored 383 points and have a minus-23 turnover margin dur-ing the current malaise away from

Michigan; they scored 382 points and had a minus-22 turnover differen-tial on the road from Sept. 9, 2001, through Dec. 21, 2003.

Both had memorable moments, missed opportunities and a relatively equal number of routs.

Former coach Marty Mornhinweg infamously chose to have the wind at his team’s back after winning an overtime coin toss. The Chicago Bears took the ball and set up a field goal for the win Nov. 24, 2002.

During the current streak, former quarterback Dan Orlovsky oblivious-ly took several strides before know-ing he was out of bounds — behind the end zone — when he was rolling out to pass at Minnesota. The safety helped the Vikings win by two points on Oct. 12, 2008.

Millen, who was finally fired as team president and general manager by Lions owner William Clay Ford during the team’s bye week two years ago, turned a mediocre franchise into a laughingstock with first-round busts such as Joey Harrington, Charles Rogers and Mike Williams, and so many other misses in the draft that not one of his selections from 2002-06 is still on the team.

Millen identified a problem with the franchise — a losing culture — but he

failed to fix it.“What stands in our way is the

here-we-go-again attitude that starts in the city, in the streets and carries over into our locker room,” Millen said in a 2005 interview with The Associated Press. “We can’t escape it unless we win. And even when we do win, people will say, ’Give them time, they’ll screw it up,’ so we’ve got to win a lot.”

Center Dominic Raiola said Millen’s assessment five years ago was accu-rate.

“I think there was a losing culture here in the past,” said Raiola, who Millen drafted in 2001 along with tack-le Jeff Backus. “During the last losing streak on the road, guys checked out and were simply overmatched. It’s not a talent issue anymore.

“What’s stopping us from winning now is mental errors like penalties.”

Defensive end Cliff Avril agrees, lamenting the fact that he made a costly mistake between his ears that helped the Giants beat Detroit 28-20.

Avril took a swing at a player he was tangled up with after a third-down stop and was flagged for it, let-ting New York keep a drive alive that led to a touchdown.

“I was not a professional on that play,” Avril said.

Detroit knows how to lose on the road

NFL labor

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — By the time Brett Favre is finished with the first quar-ter Sunday night against the Green Bay Packers, the Minnesota Vikings quarter-back will have made been paid more than 10 times what Chase Letourneau makes in an entire year.

Letourneau, a 25-year-old delivery driver for a local pizzeria, estimates he makes $20,000-$24,000 a year, depending on tips. Favre is making about $1 million per game to play for the Vikings in 2010.

It’s that kind of discon-nect — between star player, wealthy owner and blue-collar fan — that is turning into a delicate side issue that threatens the popularity of the league as its players and owners publicly bicker about the collective bargain-

ing agreement.The way Letourneau sees

it, it’s a battle pitting mil-lionaires against billionaires who live in a world light years away from the one Letourneau he does.

“It kind of seems like maybe the players get paid enough as it is,” said Letourneau, wearing a pur-ple No. 4 Favre jersey at a recent NFLPA event held for fans in St. Paul. “They prob-ably don’t need to get paid too much more. I under-stand that it is a risky busi-ness out there. But I, person-ally, take risks every day at my job, too, and I don’t make a fraction of what they make.”

With the national unem-ployment rate approaching 10 percent, an ugly fight between players and owners over billions in NFL revenue

doesn’t appear to be sitting well with the everyday fans who have made profession-al football the unquestioned king of all American sports.

The players union recog-nizes that, and has orga-nized a series of “tailgate” events in NFL cities across the country to directly relay its message to the fans.

In St. Paul, NFLPA execu-tive director DeMaurice Smith and several current and former players gath-ered at the Eagle Street Bar and Grille to host a little party for the fans, who were given food and goodies, and a pitch from the players to get behind their cause.

“We’re out here taking pictures with the fans. You see us every day,” Vikings defensive end Ray Edwards said. “I don’t think you see too many owners out here

taking pictures with the fans and having fun and enjoy-ing fans. Without them, we wouldn’t love the game we play as much. They defi-nitely keep us going. They give us home-field advan-tage and we love them more than anything.”

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said, “Communicating with our fans is something we do in many different ways on a regular basis. We want to keep then informed about all issues.”

“We know the fans are interested in the labor situ-ation, but a new collective bargaining agreement has to be reached through nego-tiations at the bargaining table,” Aiello added. “We want an agreement as soon as possible that is good for the players, the teams, the game, and the fans.”

Players trying to get the fans on their side

The Crescent-News • Sunday, October 24, 2010 SPORTS ■ B9

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa law limiting law-suits in contact sports doesn’t prevent a softball player from suing a batter for injuries suffered when a bat hit him in the head, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.

The issue, the court said, is whether the batter’s action were intentional or reckless, and a jury must decide that.

In its opinion, the court referred to an article that said only two states, Vermont and Wyoming, completely bar lawsuits involving sports injuries.

Benjamin Feld was struck while playing first base dur-ing an informal batting practice for an intramural soft-ball team in 2005. The batter, Luke Borkowski, hit a ball toward third base, and the bat went flying about 60 feet and hit Feld, injuring his right eye.

Both teens were about to enter their senior years at Keumper Catholic High School in Carroll. The game was not a school-sanctioned activity.

Feld and his parents sued Borkowski, seeking medical expenses and other damages.

They argued softball was not a contact sport and Borkowski didn’t qualify for protection under the state law. They also claimed Borkowski’s actions in releasing the bat constituted reckless conduct.

• FOOTBALL

Cribbs says ‘Don’t change’: The NFL is demanding that Steelers linebacker James Harrison and others stop using their helmets as weapons.

And although he was the victim of Harrison’s vicious-ness, Browns wide receiver Joshua Cribbs had a softer message for Pittsburgh’s enforcer: “Don’t change you.”

“You’re a player, so play,” Cribbs said he told Harrison, his former Kent State teammate and close friend. “Let refs ref. Let the NFL administration, let everyone do their jobs. If you get fined, just try to tailor yourself, but play the game. Don’t try to change who you are.”

Cribbs returned to practice Friday for the first time since suffering a concussion when he was knocked out last Sunday by Harrison, who moments later flattened Browns wide receiver Mohamed Massaquoi with a blow that earned him a $75,000 fine.

No charges coming: Prosecutors in San Diego won’t charge former NFL star Junior Seau after his live-in girl-friend alleged she was assaulted.

The San Diego County district attorney’s office said Friday that it reached its decision after reviewing an investigation by Oceanside police. The office declined to elaborate in a brief statement.

The 41-year-old Seau was arrested early Monday on suspicion of domestic violence. Police said his 25-year-old girlfriend reported that she was assaulted during an argument.

Former Cowboy arrested: Former Dallas Cowboys and University of Georgia quarterback Quincy Carter has been arrested on a battery charge.

Gwinnett County Police say a woman who identified herself as Carter’s girlfriend told officers Oct. 6 that the 33-year-old Decatur native was drunk when he choked and hit her because she wanted to end their relationship. Officers said 35-year-old Egan Jacobs had bumps and bruises.

Carter was stopped nine days later for driving with an expired tag and a suspended license. He was arrested on the outstanding warrant for battery. Police said he was freed from jail the same day.

Agent named in investigation: North Carolina has told the NCAA that three people acted as “prospective agents” by providing benefits to players in connection with the ongoing investigation into the program, includ-ing one who works for NFL agent Drew Rosenhaus.

The school named Rosenhaus employee Michael Katz in documents sent to the NCAA to report violations as part of the process to reinstate players suspended or held out of games due to the probe. Katz is listed on the Rosenhaus Sports Representation Web site as the firm’s director of marketing and client services.

Reached by phone Friday night, Rosenhaus denied the report.

Trust fund set up: A trust fund has been established to help provide support for the care of Eric LeGrand, the Rutgers defensive tackle who was paralyzed last week.

Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti said the “Eric LeGrand Believe Fund” provides an outlet for the many people and organizations who have expressed interest in making contributions to LeGrand’s family.

Ongoing investigation: The NFL still is investigat-ing allegations that Vikings quarterback Brett Favre sent lewd photos and inappropriate text messages to a New York Jets game hostess two years ago, with the door open to a conversation between the woman and league officials.

• ELSEWHERE

Swimmer dies: Fran Crippen, a medal-winning open-water swimmer on the U.S. national team, told his coach he wasn’t feeling well late in a race before he died in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday.

The 26-year-old from a family of prominent swimmers in suburban Philadelphia was competing in the FINA Open Water 10-kilometer World Cup in Fujairah, south of Dubai, but failed to finish and was found in the water two hours later, according to Swimming World.

Cavs excercise option: The Cleveland Cavaliers are exercising a fourth-year contract option on forward J.J. Hickson.

Cavaliers General Manager Chris Grant made the announcement Saturday — just days after first-year coach Byron Scott criticized Hickson for a lack of focus following a win over the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday.

Bagwell says no: Former Astros All-Star Jeff Bagwell will not return as Houston’s hitting coach next season.

Bagwell informed general manager Ed Wade on Saturday that he did not want to continue in the position. The Astros say Bagwell will remain with the organiza-tion in a role similar to his previous position as a special assistant to Wade.

All knotted up: Sweden’s Maria Hjorth shot her sec-ond straight 3-under 68 in steamy conditions Saturday for a share of the second-round lead with South Korea’s Jee Young Lee in the Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia.

Lee followed her opening 66 with a 70 to match Hjorth at 6-under on the short Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club course in the event that was delayed again because of lightning, this time for 2 hours, 28 minutes.

From wire reports

Sports

Iowa court allows suit over softball injuries

JACKETSFrom Page B1

They’re a good football team, I congratulate them. They took advantage of the fact that we weren’t very focused, and physically beat on us on both sides of the ball.”

Anderson (2-5, 2-3 HCAC) also played with-out the HCAC’s leading rusher, Marcus Spann, who was out with an injury. The Jackets held Anderson to only 30 rushing yards on 26 attempts.

“That hurt them, let’s not kid ourselves,” said Taylor of Spann being out with an injury. “They struggled a little bit to run the ball and that’s their bread-and-but-ter. Spann’s a great athlete and they missed him.

“At the same time, the bottom line is you’ve got to play the game and I thought our kids were ready,” added Taylor. “I thought we dominated up front. Our defensive line played extremely well and we played very physical. It might’ve been one of the more physical games we’ve played this year.”

DC rolled up the rushing yards for the third week in a row with 285 against the Ravens.

Patrick Henry prod-uct Drew Kuesel led the DC ground attack with a career-high 225 yards and three scores. He scored on runs of four and five yards to put the Jackets up 14-0

early in the second quarter, before rumbling 43 yards for his final score in the early stages of the final quarter. Junior QB Rick Powell, who leads DC in rushing this season, was held to 52 yards on the ground.

“Drew played well,” lauded Taylor. “That’s what we got to do when people try and take Ricky away, and they did a good job of taking Ricky away. We’ve got to do a real nice job up front and give Drew some opportunities. I thought we did a nice job of that up front.”

The big rushing after-noon gives Kuesel 572 yards rushing for the sea-son.

“The offense was making great holes and the offen-sive line was blocking their hearts out,” said Kuesel. “We’re on a roll and we plan on keep rolling.

“I think focus and per-sistence,” added Kuesel as the pivotal aspects of the Jackets’ winning streak. “We’re always trying to get better every day and that’s what we’re doing.”

The DC defense also got in on the scoring fest with a pair of scores. Bookend Joemese Scott picked up a dropped snap out of the shotgun by AU QB Mitch Grider and covered five yards for a score 2:24 into the second half, while senior standout safety Kyle Longsdorf returned an

interception 20 yards for a score not quite 10 minutes later.

Longsdorf also returned an interception a NCAA record 100 yards last week for a TD at Earlham. The London, Ohio native added 13 more stops against the Ravens to give him 97 for the season.

DC will play its final home game next Saturday when Rose-Hulman visits Defiance.

AU DC

First Downs 13 19

Rushing Yards 26-30 51-285

Passing Yards 159 68

Total Yards 189 353

Passing 22-44-3 6-16-2

Fumbles-Lost 4-3 2-0

Penalties 12-973 10-74

Anderson 0 7 0 0 - 7

Defiance 7 21 14 7 - 49

DC - Kuesel 4-run (Foos kick).

DC - Kuesel 5-run (Foos kick).

AU - Davidson 8-pass from Grider

(Drummy kick).

DC - Carrabino 21-pass from Powell

(Foos kick).

DC - Powell 12-run (Foos kick).

DC - Scott 5-fumble return (Foos kick).

DC - Longsdorf 20-interception return

(Foos kick).

DC - Kuesel 43-run (Foos kick).

NDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING: Anderson - T. McCollum 10-

31; Mann 3-16; Grievers 4-11; Payton 1-3;

Akers 1-1; Priser 1-0; M. McCollum 1-(-3);

Peacock 1-(-9); Grider 4-(-20). Defiance

- Kuesel 27-225; Powell 15-52; Chester

3-19; Spence 2-11; Team 1-(-1)Keegan 1-

(-7); Teague 2-(-14). PASSING: Anderson

- Grider 20-41-3-157-1; Priser 2-3-0-2-0.

Defiance - Powell 6-16-2-68-1. RECEIVING:

Anderson - Peacock 5-11; Thomas 4-38;

Johnson 4-34; T. McCollum 3-23; Akers 2-

29; Mann 2-16; Davidson 1-8; Wheeler 1-0.

Defiance Carrabino 2-42; Hunt 1-12; Oliver

1-9; Morris 1-3; Chester 1-2.

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Texas Rangers did a victory lap, sharing the moment with their fren-zied fans. They sprayed each other with ginger ale on the field to involve the AL championship series MVP in the celebration, and doused their manag-er with the contents of a water cooler.

Fireworks and confetti filled the Texas sky. A flag proclaiming the Rangers as the AL champions was raised high above the ballpark, whipping in the wind alongside more than three dozen Lone Star state flags.

And to make their first World Series berth even more satisfying, the Rangers earned it by beat-ing the defending champi-on New York Yankees. The clincher was a 6-1 victory Friday night in Game 6 of the ALCS.

“Coming out of spring training, this team showed such a heart,” said Rangers icon Nolan Ryan, the Hall of Fame pitcher who is the team president and a part-owner. “There were so many things going on, and they were just unbe-lievable.”

The celebration erupted when former Ranger Alex Rodriguez took a called third strike from hard-throwing rookie closer Neftali Feliz.

“The World Series is com-ing to Texas,” said Michael Young, the longest-tenured Ranger in his 10th season. “These fans have waited longer than we have. I know how bad we want-ed it and they must have wanted it more.”

The World Series begins Wednesday in either San Francisco or Philadelphia, and the first game in Texas will be next Saturday. The Giants have a 3-2 lead in the NLCS with Game 6 on Saturday night in Philly.

Texas, which had never won a postseason series or a home playoff game before this year, dispatched the $200 million-plus Bronx Bombers with little drama — especially after a four-run outburst in the fifth inning snapped a 1-all tie.

“They beat us,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said.

“They outhit us, they out-pitched us, outplayed us and they beat us.”

The Rangers showed the 27-time World Series cham-pions something Ryan has brought them: a culture where pitching rules, and starters expect to go deep into games.

Colby Lewis dominated over eight innings for his second win of the series and Josh Hamilton earned the series MVP award. In a state where most sports fans gear up for fall week-ends by watching high school football, the Rangers gave a new meaning to Friday Night Lights.

Vladimir Guerrero, head-ing for baseball’s biggest stage for the first time in his 15 major league sea-sons, drove in three runs before scoring on Nelson Cruz’s homer in the fifth.

Hamilton, who homered four times in the series, admitted he shed a tear in center field right before the final out.

“We are here as a group. This group is here because they don’t know how to fail,” said Hamilton, whose comeback from cocaine and alcohol addictions after being the No. 1 over-all pick has been well-doc-umented.

After going 2 for 18 with two singles in the division series, Hamilton broke out in the ALCS. So much so that he was intention-ally walked five times, an ALCS record, including three times in the clincher.

Right after Hamilton was given a free pass in the fifth, Guerrero followed with a two-out, two-run double that chased Yankees starter Phil Hughes. Cruz greeted reliever David Robertson with his fifth postseason homer, knocking it to one of the deepest parts of Rangers Ballpark.

Guerrero didn’t have an RBI in the series until his grounder in the first drove home Elvis Andrus. The big hits by Guerrero and Cruz made it 5-1 again, but the Rangers wouldn’t give up that lead the way they did in Game 1.

Washington, their fourth-year manager, wasn’t even sure he’d keep his job in the summer of 2009 after

failing a drug test and admitting to using cocaine once. But Ryan and general manager Jon Daniels stuck by their skipper, and again when the story became public this spring.

Now Washington is tak-ing them to the World Series, with ace left-hander Cliff Lee set to start Game 1 since he wasn’t needed for a final game against the Yankees.

Before going the full five games in the first round to beat Tampa Bay for their first-ever postseason series victory, the Rangers had been knocked out of the playoffs by New York in 1996, 1998 and 1999. The Yankees went on to win the World Series each time, and had won 10 postseason games in a row over Texas, including the opener of this series a week ago.

It seemed fitting that A-Rod made the final out.

Rodriguez was one the largest unsecured creditors owed money by the Rangers in a messy bankruptcy case

this summer before a group led by Ryan and Chuck Greenberg bought the team from Tom Hicks in an auction. Rodriguez was owned about $25 million in deferred compensation for his three seasons (2001-03) when Texas finished last in the AL West each time.

Ryan, whose only World Series as a player came for the 1969 New York Mets, was presented with the AL championship trophy after spending much of the game standing, clap-ping and hollering along with the rest of the raucous crowd of 51,404.

A franchise that began in 1961 as the expansion Washington Senators and moved to Texas in 1972 with Ted Williams as its manager finally reached the World Series in its 50th season.

“Our fans have waited a long time, this organization has waited a long time,” Ryan said. “This team com-ing out of spring training was on a mission.”

Rangers heading to first World Series

AP Photo

Texas Rangers’ Vladimir Guerrero leaps on his teammates after the Rangers advanced to the World Series with a 6-1 win over the New York Yankees.

GIANTSFrom Page B1

Well before this World Series, these club helped change the base-ball world. That June night in Texas more than a dozen years ago, Nolan Ryan and Willie Mays threw out the ceremonial first balls, players wore special patches on their sleeves and the bases were painted with a logo reading “First Interleague Game.”

“I remember that,” Rangers reliever Darren Oliver said this week, having thrown the first pitch in interleague history.

The atmosphere is sure to be even

more charged for the opener at AT&T Park. The NL finally won an All-Star game to earn home-field advantage in the World Series, and that’s an especially good omen for the Giants — they are 9-0 against Texas in their waterfront ballpark.

Overall, Texas has lost 11 straight at San Francisco dating to 1998. The previous time the Rangers won there? Oliver outpitched Orel Hershiser at Candlestick Park.

The Giants swept visiting Texas in 2009 the last time the teams met in the regular season. They both train in Arizona and in a spring training

game this year, Nelson Cruz hit a long home run and Hamilton left the game after accidentally being hit in the left hand by a pitch from Giants rookie Madison Bumgarner.

There is a more direct link between the clubs. Eager to get rookie Buster Posey behind the plate on a regu-lar basis, the Giants traded veteran catcher Bengie Molina to Texas on July 1.

Posey blossomed into a Rookie of the Year candidate, excelling as a catcher and hitter. He homered on the final day of the regular season as the Giants clinched the NL West.

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Defiance College’s Joemese Scott (99) lunges to tackle Anderson’s Tyler Akers on Saturday at Defiance College.

■ B10 SCOREBOARD The Crescent-News • Sunday, October 24, 2010

• BASEBALL

Postseason GlancePostseason Baseball Glance

LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP

SERIES

American League

Friday, Oct. 15

New York 6, Texas 5Saturday, Oct. 16

Texas 7, New York 2Monday, Oct. 18

Texas 8, New York 0Tuesday, Oct. 19

Texas 10, New York 3Wednesday, Oct. 20

New York 7, Texas 2Friday, Oct. 22

Texas 6, New York 1, Texas wins series 4-2

National League

Saturday, Oct. 16

San Francisco 4, Philadelphia 3Sunday, Oct. 17

Philadelphia 6, San Francisco 1Tuesday, Oct. 19

San Francisco 3, Philadelphia 0Wednesday, Oct. 20

San Francisco 6, Philadelphia 5Thursday, Oct. 21

Philadelphia 4, San Francisco 2, San Francisco leads series 3-2

Saturday, Oct. 23

San Francisco 3, Philadelphia 2, San Francisco wins series 4-2

WORLD SERIES

Wednesday, Oct. 27

Texas at San Francisco, 7:57 p.m.Thursday, Oct. 28

Texas at San Francisco, 7:57 p.m.Saturday, Oct. 30

San Francisco at Texas, 6:57 p.m.Sunday, Oct. 31

San Francisco at Texas, 8:20 p.m.Monday, Nov. 1

San Francisco at Texas, if neces-sary, 7:57 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 3

Texas at San Francisco, if neces-sary, 7:57 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 4

Texas at San Francisco, if neces-sary, 7:57 p.m.

Box scoreSan Francisco Philadelphia

ab r h bi ab r h bi

ATorrs cf 5 0 3 0 Rollins ss 4 0 1 0Rownd cf 0 0 0 0 Polanc 3b 3 1 0 0FSnchz 2b 4 0 3 0 WValdz pr 0 0 0 0A.Huff 1b 4 1 1 1 Utley 2b 3 1 1 1Posey c 4 0 0 0 Howard 1b 5 0 2 0Burrell lf 4 0 1 0 Werth rf 2 0 0 1Linccm p 0 0 0 0 Victorn cf 4 0 2 0BrWlsn p 1 0 0 0 Ibanez lf 4 0 2 0C.Ross rf-lf 4 0 1 0 C.Ruiz c 3 0 0 0Uribe 3b 3 1 2 1 Oswalt p 2 0 0 0Renteri ss 4 0 0 0 BFrncs ph 1 0 0 0JSnchz p 1 1 1 0 Madson p 0 0 0 0Affeldt p 0 0 0 0 Lidge p 0 0 0 0Fontent ph 1 0 1 0 Gload ph 1 0 0 0Bmgrn p 0 0 0 0 Ishikaw ph 1 0 0 0 JaLopz p 0 0 0 0 Schrhlt rf 1 0 0 0 Totals 37 3 13 2 Totals 32 2 8 2

San Francisco 002 000 010 — 3

Philadelphia 200 000 000 — 2

E—Polanco (1). DP—San Francisco 1, Philadelphia 2. LOB—San Francisco 11, Philadelphia 11. 2B—F.Sanchez (1), C.Ross (3), Utley (1), Howard (4), Ibanez (1). HR—Uribe (1). S—F.Sanchez, C.Ruiz. SF—Werth. IP H R ER BB SO

San Francisco

J.Sanchez 2 3 2 2 2 1Affeldt 2 0 0 0 0 2Bumgarner 2 3 0 0 1 1Ja.Lopez W,1-0 1 0 0 0 0 1Lincecum H,1

1/3 2 0 0 0 1

Br.Wilson S,3-3 11/3 0 0 0 2 1

Philadelphia

Oswalt 6 9 2 1 0 5Madson L,0-1 2 2 1 1 1 3Lidge 1 2 0 0 1 2

J.Sanchez pitched to 2 batters in the 3rd.

HBP—by J.Sanchez (Utley), by Oswalt (Uribe). WP—J.Sanchez.

Umpires—Home, Tom Hallion; First, Derryl Cousins; Second, Dan Iassogna; Third, Ted Barrett; Right, Jeff Nelson; Left, Wally Bell.

T—3:41. A—46,062 (43,651).

• FOOTBALL

NFL StandingsNational Football League

AMERICAN CONFERENCE

East

W L T Pct PF PA

N.Y. Jets 5 1 0 .833 159 101New England 4 1 0 .800 154 116Miami 3 2 0 .600 89 112Buffalo 0 5 0 .000 87 161

South

W L T Pct PF PA

Houston 4 2 0 .667 153 167Indianapolis 4 2 0 .667 163 125Tennessee 4 2 0 .667 162 98Jacksonville 3 3 0 .500 110 167

North

W L T Pct PF PA

Pittsburgh 4 1 0 .800 114 60Baltimore 4 2 0 .667 112 95Cincinnati 2 3 0 .400 100 102Cleveland 1 5 0 .167 88 125

West

W L T Pct PF PA

Kansas City 3 2 0 .600 108 92Oakland 2 4 0 .333 120 151Denver 2 4 0 .333 124 140San Diego 2 4 0 .333 157 126

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

East

W L T Pct PF PA

N.Y. Giants 4 2 0 .667 134 118Philadelphia 4 2 0 .667 153 120Washington 3 3 0 .500 113 119Dallas 1 4 0 .200 102 111

South

W L T Pct PF PA

Atlanta 4 2 0 .667 130 101New Orleans 4 2 0 .667 130 108Tampa Bay 3 2 0 .600 80 111Carolina 0 5 0 .000 52 110

North

W L T Pct PF PA

Chicago 4 2 0 .667 112 97Green Bay 3 3 0 .500 139 112Minnesota 2 3 0 .400 87 88Detroit 1 5 0 .167 146 140

West

W L T Pct PF PA

Arizona 3 2 0 .600 88 138Seattle 3 2 0 .600 98 97St. Louis 3 3 0 .500 103 113San Francisco 1 5 0 .167 93 139

Sunday’s Games

Buffalo at Baltimore, 1 p.m.Washington at Chicago, 1 p.m.Cincinnati at Atlanta, 1 p.m.Philadelphia at Tennessee, 1 p.m.Pittsburgh at Miami, 1 p.m.St. Louis at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.Cleveland at New Orleans, 1 p.m.Jacksonville at Kansas City, 1 p.m.San Francisco at Carolina, 1 p.m.Arizona at Seattle, 4:05 p.m.Oakland at Denver, 4:15 p.m.New England at San Diego, 4:15

p.m.Minnesota at Green Bay, 8:20 p.m.Open: Indianapolis, N.Y. Jets,

Detroit, HoustonMonday’s Game

N.Y. Giants at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.Sunday, Oct. 31

Denver vs. San Francisco at London, 1 p.m.

Washington at Detroit, 1 p.m.Buffalo at Kansas City, 1 p.m.Carolina at St. Louis, 1 p.m.Miami at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.Jacksonville at Dallas, 1 p.m.Green Bay at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.Tennessee at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.Minnesota at New England, 4:15

p.m.Seattle at Oakland, 4:15 p.m.Tampa Bay at Arizona, 4:15 p.m.Pittsburgh at New Orleans, 8:20

p.m.Open: N.Y. Giants, Philadelphia,

Chicago, Atlanta, Baltimore, ClevelandMonday, Nov. 1

Houston at Indianapolis, 8:30 p.m.

College Scores

College Football Scores

EAST

Alfred 42, St. John Fisher 31 Amherst 37, Wesleyan, Conn. 10 Bloomsburg 45, West Chester 21 Brown 27, Cornell 14 Castleton St. 55, Husson 51 Colby 35, Hamilton 7 College of N.J. 48, Buffalo St. 29 Dartmouth 24, Columbia 21 Delaware Valley 36, Lycoming 0 Duquesne 21, Wagner 20 East Stroudsburg 65, Millersville 14 Edinboro 31, Clarion 14 Fordham 14, Lafayette 10 Framingham St. 48, Westfield St.

27 Franklin & Marshall 17, Muhlenberg

7 Harvard 45, Princeton 28 Hobart 40, Merchant Marine 33 Holy Cross 31, Colgate 24 Kean 29, William Paterson 2 Lebanon Valley 21, King’s, Pa. 19 Lehigh 32, Bucknell 10 Maine 28, Rhode Island 23 Maine Maritime 28, Mass. Maritime

27 Maryland 24, Boston College 21 Monmouth, N.J. 19, St. Francis,

Pa. 7 N.Y. Maritime 37, Mount Ida 35 Navy 35, Notre Dame 17 New Hampshire 39, Massachusetts

13 New Haven 27, Merrimack 25 Penn 27, Yale 20 Pittsburgh 41, Rutgers 21 Sacred Heart 33, Georgetown, D.C.

20 Syracuse 19, West Virginia 14 Temple 42, Buffalo 0 Trinity, Conn. 31, Bowdoin 14 Ursinus 43, McDaniel 18 Villanova 14, James Madison 7 W. New England 14, Plymouth St.

6 Williams 35, Tufts 24 Worcester St. 31, Coast Guard 7

MIDWEST

Albion 42, Olivet 24 Allegheny 41, Ohio Wesleyan 21 Ashland 30, Saginaw Valley St. 24 Augustana, S.D. 47, Minn. St.,

Moorhead 17 Aurora 21, Concordia, Wis. 14 Baldwin-Wallace 38, Wilmington,

Ohio 0 Beloit 34, Monmouth, Ill. 27 Bemidji St. 23, Mary 22 Benedictine, Ill. 49, Maranatha

Baptist 14 Carroll, Wis. 35, Knox 0 Case Reserve 28, Wooster 14 Cent. Missouri 34, Nebraska-

Omaha 31 Central 27, Loras 6 Charleston, W.Va. 44, Urbana 34 Chicago 35, Kenyon 14 Coe 42, Simpson, Iowa 21 Concordia, Ill. 48, Lakeland 7 Concordia, Moor. 30, Hamline 3 Dayton 41, Campbell 23 Defiance 49, Anderson, Ind. 7 Dickinson St. 24, S. Dakota Tech

14 Drake 42, Davidson 10 Elmhurst 40, Millikin 34 Eureka 40, Northwestern, Minn. 14 Grand Valley St. 41, Ferris St. 0 Heidelberg 49, Marietta 26 Illinois 43, Indiana 13 Illinois College 40, Ripon 35 Indianapolis 6, N. Michigan 5 Jamestown 58, Dakota St. 48 Kent St. 30, Bowling Green 6 Lake Erie 48, Findlay 45 Lake Forest 35, Lawrence 14 Luther 26, Buena Vista 20 Michigan St. 35, Northwestern 27 Michigan Tech 62, Northwood,

Mich. 30 Minn. Duluth 27, Northern St., S.D.

7 Minn. St., Mankato 13, Wayne,

Neb. 3 Missouri St. 31, W. Illinois 28 Morehead St. 21, Butler 20 Morningside 17, Concordia, Neb. 3 Mount Union 38, Capital 0 Murray St. 38, E. Illinois 28 N. Dakota St. 27, Indiana St. 15 N. Illinois 33, Cent. Michigan 7 N. Iowa 42, Illinois St. 14 Nebraska-Kearney 38, N.M

Highlands 13 North Central 30, Illinois Wesleyan

7 Northwestern, Iowa 31, Doane 23 Ohio 34, Miami (Ohio) 13 Ohio Dominican 41, Tiffin 21 Ohio St. 49, Purdue 0 Otterbein 49, Muskingum 14 Penn St. 33, Minnesota 21 Rose-Hulman 40, Bluffton 13 S. Dakota St. 30, Youngstown St.

20 SE Missouri 40, E. Kentucky 21 SW Minnesota St. 40, Upper Iowa

34, OT Sioux Falls 63, Dakota Wesleyan 3 St. Cloud St. 49, Minn.-Crookston 6 St. John’s, Minn. 33, Gustavus 13 St. Norbert 58, Grinnell 14 St. Olaf 48, Augsburg 14 St. Scholastica 28, Minn.-Morris 7 St. Thomas, Minn. 10, Bethel, Minn.

6 Taylor 25, Trinity, Ill. 10 Trine 31, Hope 10 W. Michigan 56, Akron 10 Wabash 55, Denison 20 Walsh 24, Malone 21 Wartburg 55, Dubuque 17 Washington, Mo. 21, Oberlin 7 Wayne, Mich. 14, Hillsdale 9 Wis. Lutheran 19, Rockford 0 Wis.-Oshkosh 41, Wis.-Platteville

14 Wis.-Stevens Pt. 31, Wis.-LaCrosse

17 Wis.-Stout 37, Wis.-Eau Claire 28 Wis.-Whitewater 63, Wis.-River

Falls 14 Wisconsin 31, Iowa 30 Wittenberg 27, Carnegie-Mellon 21

SOUTH Alabama St. 24, Savannah St. 0 Albany St., Ga. 13, Morehouse 12 Appalachian St. 37, W. Carolina 14 Auburn 24, LSU 17 Bethune-Cookman 23, N.C. Central

10 Campbellsville 22, Faulkner 21 Cent. Arkansas 31, Nicholls St. 7 Chattanooga 36, Furman 28 Christopher Newport 37,

Greensboro 7 Clemson 27, Georgia Tech 13 East Carolina 37, Marshall 10 Florida A&M 17, Norfolk St. 13 Fort Valley St. 14, Kentucky St. 12 Gallaudet 40, Becker 12 Georgia Southern 20, The Citadel

0 Grambling St. 35, MVSU 14 Jacksonville 56, Marist 14 Jacksonville St. 56, Austin Peay 3 Louisville 26, Connecticut 0 Middle Tennessee 38, Louisiana-

Monroe 10 Millsaps 30, Centre 18 Morgan St. 34, Delaware St. 24 N. Carolina A&T 52, Howard 32 N.C. Wesleyan 34, Maryville, Tenn.

16 Old Dominion 34, Georgia St. 20 Presbyterian 26, Gardner-Webb 24 Richmond 28, Towson 6 S. Carolina St. 10, Hampton 7 St. Augustine’s 34, Johnson C.

Smith 24 St. Joseph’s, Ind. 43, Kentucky

Wesleyan 35 Stillman 26, Lane 25 Tuskegee 37, Clark Atlanta 10 UCF 41, Rice 14 Union, Ky. 34, Belhaven 15 VMI 34, Charleston Southern 16 Virginia Tech 44, Duke 7 W. Kentucky 54, Louisiana-

Lafayette 21 William & Mary 17, Delaware 16

Wofford 28, Elon 21

SOUTHWEST

Arkansas 37, Mississippi 24 Arkansas St. 37, Florida Atlantic 16 DePauw 32, Trinity, Texas 31 Iowa St. 28, Texas 21 NW Oklahoma 20, Langston 13 Nebraska 51, Oklahoma St. 41 Northeastern St. 39, Cent.

Oklahoma 28 Northwestern St. 16, Texas St. 3 Prairie View 30, Southern U. 16 Stephen F.Austin 31, Sam Houston

St. 28 Texas Southern 21, Jackson St. 18

FAR WEST

BYU 25, Wyoming 20 California 50, Arizona St. 17 E. Washington 28, Sacramento St.

24 Hawaii 45, Utah St. 7 Idaho 37, New Mexico St. 14 Montana 24, N. Arizona 21 Montana St. 37, N. Colorado 35 S. Utah 31, South Dakota 13 San Diego 30, Valparaiso 10 Stanford 38, Washington St. 28 Texas Tech 27, Colorado 24 Utah 59, Colorado St. 6 Weber St. 44, Portland St. 41

SummariesPurdue 0 0 0 0 — 0

Ohio St. 14 28 0 7 — 49

First Quarter

OSU—Herron 10 run (Barclay kick), 13:05.

OSU—Herron 2 run (Barclay kick), 6:48.

Second Quarter

OSU—J.Hall 1 run (Barclay kick), 14:25.

OSU—Posey 22 pass from Pryor (Barclay kick), 4:57.

OSU—Sanzenbacher 7 pass from Pryor (Barclay kick), 1:54.

OSU—Brown 15 pass from Pryor (Barclay kick), :36.

Fourth Quarter

OSU—Sp.Smith 23 pass from Bauserman (Barclay kick), 7:24.

A—105,387.

Pur OSU

First downs 9 28Rushes-yards 27-30 48-184Passing 88 305Comp-Att-Int 15-28-2 19-25-2Return Yards 28 44Punts-Avg. 7-45.1 3-42.7Fumbles-Lost 4-1 0-0Penalties-Yards 7-64 4-35Time of Possession 24:59 35:01

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING—Purdue, Henry 5-26, Carlos 9-16, Crank 2-2, Pegram 3-1, Edison 2-(minus 2), Robinson 6-(minus 13). Ohio St., Herron 16-74, Saine 5-41, Berry 6-27, Hyde 5-21, Brown 1-18, J.Hall 8-13, Guiton 1-2, Pryor 4-(minus 2), Bauserman 2-(minus 10).

PASSING—Purdue, Henry 9-18-1-58, Robinson 6-10-1-30. Ohio St., Pryor 16-22-2-270, Bauserman 2-2-0-30, Guiton 1-1-0-5.

RECEIVING—Purdue, C.Smith 4-29, Bush 2-3, Carlos 2-2, Holmes 1-14, Lindsay 1-13, Edison 1-9, Reese 1-9, Adams 1-7, Ross 1-3, Pegram 1-(minus 1). Ohio St., Sanzenbacher 4-86, Posey 4-84, Brown 2-38, A.Homan 2-11, Sp.Smith 1-23, Z.Boren 1-18, Herron 1-14, J.Hall 1-9, Saine 1-9, Stoneburner 1-8, Hummel 1-5.

Kent St. 10 17 3 0 — 30

B. Green 6 0 0 0 — 6

First Quarter

Kent—FG Cortez 29, 8:20.BG—Gates 75 kickoff return (kick

blocked), 8:06.Kent—Keith 1 run (Cortez kick),

3:21.Second Quarter

Kent—Goode 3 pass from Keith (Cortez kick), 9:13.

Kent—FG Cortez 32, 2:27.Kent—Goode 28 pass from Keith

(Cortez kick), 1:33.Third Quarter

Kent—FG Cortez 30, 9:55.A—14,279.

Kent BG

First downs 19 11Rushes-yards 38-128 24-(-10)Passing 223 145Comp-Att-Int 26-32-0 20-39-2Return Yards 64 3Punts-Avg. 4-45.3 7-35.3Fumbles-Lost 3-2 2-1Penalties-Yards 6-58 1-15Time of Possession 34:59 25:01

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING—Kent St., Terry 22-94, Archer 7-22, Muldrow 1-13, Keith 6-6, Team 2-(minus 7). Bowling Green, Wiley 2-22, Hopgood 11-9, Pronty 1-3, Geiger 3-(minus 2), Geter 1-(minus 4), Schilz 6-(minus 38).

PASSING—Kent St., Keith 26-32-0-223. Bowling Green, Schilz 18-35-2-118, Pankratz 1-3-0-11, Wiley 1-1-0-16.

RECEIVING—Kent St., Goode 12-158, Terry 4-19, Kirkland 3-10, Pressley 2-10, Gordon 2-9, Gilbert 1-11, Erjavec 1-4, Muldrow 1-2. Bowling Green, Jorden 5-36, Pronty 5-27, Bayer 3-38, Hodges 2-17, Wiley 2-17, Joplin 1-11, Rieke 1-0, Hopgood 1-(minus 1).

C. Mich. 0 7 0 0 — 7

N. Illinois 3 6 14 10 — 33

First Quarter

NIU—FG Cklamovski 25, 1:43.Second Quarter

CMU—Poblah 11 pass from Radcliff (Harman kick), 14:18.

NIU—FG Cklamovski 21, 6:55.NIU—FG Cklamovski 24, 2:44.

Third Quarter

NIU—Spann 13 run (Cklamovski kick), 5:44.

NIU—Spann 12 run (Cklamovski kick), 2:01.

Fourth Quarter

NIU—Spann 2 run (Cklamovski kick), 10:37.

NIU—FG Cklamovski 19, 5:41.A—17,042.

CMU NIU

First downs 19 26Rushes-yards 27-94 56-282Passing 211 138Comp-Att-Int 21-33-4 12-19-0Return Yards 0 78Punts-Avg. 4-31.5 1-41.0Fumbles-Lost 2-1 0-0Penalties-Yards 4-35 5-55Time of Possession 23:56 36:04

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING—Cent. Michigan, Volny 11-74, Tipton 11-31, C.Wilson 1-0, Radcliff 4-(minus 11). N. Illinois, Spann 23-101, C.Bell 12-82, Harnish 11-69, Lynch 4-12, A.Daniels 1-9, Ja.Hopkins 3-8, Crider 1-3, Team 1-(minus 2).

PASSING—Cent. Michigan, Radcliff 17-25-3-178, Fricke 4-8-1-33. N. Illinois, Harnish 12-19-0-138.

RECEIVING—Cent. Michigan, C.Wilson 11-115, Poblah 4-66, Harris 4-20, Volny 2-10. N. Illinois, L.Cox 4-34, Moore 2-12, Ashford 2-11, Flahive 1-38, Palmer 1-28, Skarb 1-8, W.Clark 1-7.

Top 25 FaredThe AP Top 25 Fared

Saturday

No. 1 Oregon (7-0) beat UCLA 60-13, Thursday. Next: at Southern Cal, Saturday, Oct. 30.

No. 2 Boise State (6-0) did not play. Next: vs. Louisiana Tech, Tuesday, Oct. 26.

No. 3 Oklahoma (6-0) at No. 18 Missouri. Next: vs. Colorado, Saturday.

No. 4 TCU (7-0) vs. Air Force. Next: at UNLV, Saturday.

No. 5 Auburn (8-0) beat No. 6 LSU 24-17. Next: at Mississippi, Saturday.

No. 6 LSU (7-1) lost to No. 5 Auburn 24-17. Next: vs. No. 7 Alabama, Saturday, Nov. 6.

No. 7 Alabama (7-1) beat Tennessee 41-10. Next: at No. 6 LSU, Saturday, Nov. 6.

No. 8 Michigan State (8-0) beat Northwestern 35-27. Next: at No. 13 Iowa, Saturday.

No. 9 Utah (7-0) beat Colorado State 59-6. Next: at Air Force, Saturday.

No. 10 Wisconsin (7-1) beat No. 13 Iowa 31-30. Next: at Purdue, Saturday, Nov. 6.

No. 11 Ohio State (7-1) beat Purdue 49-0. Next: at Minnesota, Saturday.

No. 12 Stanford (6-1) beat Washington State 38-28. Next: at Washington, Saturday.

No. 13 Iowa (5-2) lost to No. 10 Wisconsin 31-30. Next: at Indiana, Saturday.

No. 14 Nebraska (6-1) beat No. 17 Oklahoma State 51-41. Next: vs. No. 18 Missouri, Saturday.

No. 15 Arizona (5-1) vs. Washington. Next: at UCLA, Saturday.

No. 16 Florida State (6-1) did not play. Next: at N.C. State, Thursday, Oct. 28.

No. 17 Oklahoma State (6-1) lost to No. 14 Nebraska 51-41. Next: at Kansas State, Saturday.

No. 18 Missouri (6-0) vs. No. 3 Oklahoma. Next: at No. 14 Nebraska, Saturday.

No. 19 South Carolina (5-2) beat Vanderbilt 21-7. Next: vs. Tennessee, Saturday.

No. 20 West Virginia (5-2) lost to Syracuse 19-14. Next: at Connecticut, Friday, Oct. 29.

No. 21 Arkansas (5-2) beat Mississippi 38-24. Next: vs. Vanderbilt, Saturday.

No. 22 Texas (4-3) lost to Iowa State 28-21. Next: vs. Baylor, Saturday.

No. 23 Virginia Tech (6-2) beat Duke 44-7. Next: vs. Georgia Tech, Thursday, Nov. 4

No. 24 Mississippi State (5-2) vs. UAB. Next: vs. Kentucky, Saturday.

No. 25 Miami (4-2) vs. North Carolina. Next: at Virginia, Saturday.

Big Ten StandingsBIG TEN CONFERENCE

W L PF PA W L PF PA

Michigan St. 4 0 129 74 8 0 276 143Iowa 2 1 62 31 5 2 206 79Ohio St. 3 1 129 54 7 1 326 112Wisconsin 3 1 96 75 7 1 254 132Purdue 2 1 48 83 4 3 135 171Illinois 2 2 95 76 4 3 171 124Michigan 1 2 87 107 5 2 252 199Northwestern 1 2 73 83 5 2 193 145Penn St. 1 2 49 78 4 3 142 129Indiana 0 3 58 123 4 3 218 215Minnesota 0 4 89 131 1 7 195 255

Saturday’s Games

Ohio St. 49, Purdue 0Illinois 43, Indiana 13Michigan St. 35, Northwestern 27Penn St. 33, Minnesota 21Wisconsin 31, Iowa 30

Saturday, Oct. 30

Purdue at Illinois, NoonNorthwestern at Indiana, NoonMichigan St. at Iowa, 3:30 p.m.Michigan at Penn St., 8 p.m.Ohio St. at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

MAC StandingsMID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE

East

W L PF PA W L PF PA

Ohio 4 1 164 85 5 3 227 162Temple 3 1 100 68 6 2 216 168Miami 3 1 95 96 4 4 154 236Kent St. 1 2 70 78 2 4 124 138Buffalo 1 2 42 113 2 5 110 216B. Green 0 3 78 105 1 6 190 261Akron 0 3 41 116 0 7 111 265

West

W L PF PA W L PF PA

Toledo 4 0 91 58 5 3 153 196N. Illinois 3 0 126 45 5 2 215 140W. Michigan 1 1 69 53 2 4 165 182Ball St. 1 3 85 103 2 6 148 209C. Michigan 1 3 99 85 2 5 178 160E. Michigan 1 3 93 148 1 6 146 304

Saturday’s Games

Temple 42, Buffalo 0Ohio 34, Miami (Ohio) 13W. Michigan at Akron, 3:30 p.m.Kent St. at Bowling Green, 3:30

p.m.Cent. Michigan at N. Illinois, 4 p.m.E. Michigan at Virginia, 6 p.m.Toledo 31, Ball St. 24

Saturday, Oct. 30

N. Illinois at W. Michigan, NoonAkron at Temple, 1 p.m.Louisiana-Lafayette at Ohio, 2 p.m.Miami (Ohio) at Buffalo, 3:30 p.m.Ball St. at Kent St., 3:30 p.m.Bowling Green at Cent. Michigan,

3:30 p.m.Toledo at E. Michigan, 4 p.m.

Ohio Prep ScoresSaturday’s Scores

PREP FOOTBALL

Akr. Ellet 45, Akr. North 12Canisius, N.Y. 47, Cuyahoga Falls

Walsh Jesuit 44Chardon NDCL 21, Cle. VASJ 12Cin. Elder 21, Carmel, Ill. 14Cin. St. Xavier 19, Cle. St. Ignatius

9Cle. Benedictine 28, Louisville

Aquinas 16Cuyahoga Hts. 28, Beachwood 6E. Cle. Shaw 54, Warrensville Hts.

0Fairfield Christian 70, Bellaire St.

John 14Garfield Hts. Trinity 28, Cle. Cent.

Cath. 22Lakewood St. Edward 31, Cin.

Moeller 7Tuscarawas Cent. Cath. 21,

Magnolia Sandy Valley 19Youngs. East 22, Youngs. Chaney

20

• AUTO RACING

Fast Relief 500NASCAR-Sprint Cup-TUMS Fast

Relief 500 Lineup

After Friday qualifying; race

Sunday

At Martinsville Speedway

Ridgeway, Va.

Lap length: .526 miles

(Car number in parentheses)

1. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 97.018.

2. (47) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 97.003.

3. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 96.988.4. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet,

96.973.5. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya,

Chevrolet, 96.959.6. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet,

96.889.7. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 96.835.8. (00) David Reutimann, Toyota,

96.825.

9. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 96.696.

10. (6) David Ragan, Ford, 96.686.11. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet,

96.666.12. (98) Paul Menard, Ford,

96.657.13. (78) Regan Smith, Chevrolet,

96.622.14. (82) Scott Speed, Toyota,

96.607.15. (43) A J Allmendinger, Ford,

96.583.16. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota,

96.479.17. (33) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet,

96.46.18. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet,

96.366.19. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet,

96.352.20. (13) Casey Mears, Toyota,

96.342.21. (5) Mark Martin, Chevrolet,

96.244.22. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota,

96.229.23. (09) Bobby Labonte, Chevrolet,

96.19.24. (77) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge,

96.166.

25. (12) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 96.136.

26. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 96.132.

27. (38) Travis Kvapil, Ford, 96.107.

28. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 96.024.

29. (2) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 95.888.30. (64) Landon Cassill, Toyota,

95.888.31. (19) Elliott Sadler, Ford,

95.859.32. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford,

95.767.33. (83) Kasey Kahne, Toyota,

95.685.34. (36) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet,

95.675.35. (9) Aric Almirola, Ford, 95.641.36. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet,

95.521.37. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota,

95.208.38. (26) Ken Schrader, Ford,

95.098.39. (37) David Gilliland, Ford,

94.78.40. (34) Tony Raines, Ford, Owner

Points.41. (7) Kevin Conway, Toyota,

Owner Points.42. (71) Hermie Sadler, Chevrolet,

Owner Points.43. (81) J.J. Yeley, Dodge, 94.855.

Failed to Qualify

44. (46) Michael McDowell, Dodge, 94.472.

45. (07) Robby Gordon, Toyota, 94.34.

46. (55) Terry Cook, Toyota, 94.125.

47. (66) Johnny Sauter, Toyota.

5-Hour Energy 250NASCAR Nationwide-5-hour

Energy 250 Results

Saturday

At Gateway International

Raceway

Madison, Ill.

Lap length: 1.25 miles

(Start position in parentheses)

1. (20) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 200 laps, 131.8 rating, 190 points, $34,000.

2. (4) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet, 200, 120.5, 175, $51,468.

3. (1) Justin Allgaier, Dodge, 200, 140.4, 175, $37,118.

4. (26) Jason Leffler, Toyota, 200, 103.5, 160, $30,468.

5. (11) Carl Edwards, Ford, 200, 116.3, 155, $22,750.

6. (10) Reed Sorenson, Toyota, 200, 99.4, 155, $24,218.

7. (6) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 200, 103, 151, $24,418.

8. (12) Brad Coleman, Toyota, 200, 96.3, 142, $23,343.

9. (2) Paul Menard, Ford, 200, 90.7, 138, $18,500.

10. (24) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 200, 85.6, 139, $18,975.

11. (8) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 200, 100.1, 130, $22,943.

12. (7) Steve Wallace, Toyota, 199, 109.7, 127, $22,818.

13. (19) Kenny Wallace, Toyota, 199, 84.7, 124, $22,943.

14. (15) Brian Scott, Ford, 199, 76.4, 121, $23,418.

15. (18) Ryan Truex, Toyota, 199, 84.5, 118, $23,643.

16. (40) Mike Wallace, Chevrolet, 198, 58.9, 115, $22,618.

17. (13) Drew Herring, Ford, 198, 71.5, 112, $22,118.

18. (39) Morgan Shepherd, Chevrolet, 198, 53.2, 109, $22,043.

19. (25) Brandon McReynolds, Dodge, 196, 48.4, 106, $15,525.

20. (42) Peyton Sellers, Chevrolet, 195, 46.5, 103, $16,625.

21. (27) Michael Annett, Toyota, 195, 64.9, 100, $21,868.

22. (41) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 183, 52.6, 97, $21,818.

23. (14) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 164, 55.6, 94, $22,168.

24. (3) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, engine, 161, 81.4, 91, $22,693.

25. (29) Jeff Green, Chevrolet, 157, 48.5, 88, $21,643.

26. (16) Brendan Gaughan, Toyota, 150, 72.6, 85, $21,723.

27. (21) Shelby Howard, Chevrolet, 138, 52.8, 82, $15,750.

28. (31) Joe Nemechek, Chevrolet, engine, 110, 52.7, 79, $21,473.

29. (38) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, accident, 103, 60.5, 76, $21,438.

30. (37) Michael McDowell, Dodge, accident, 103, 45.3, 73, $15,235.

31. (9) Brad Sweet, Toyota, acci-dent, 103, 62.1, 70, $21,368.

32. (32) Scott Wimmer, Toyota, accident, 102, 69.2, 67, $21,333.

33. (5) Sean Caisse, Ford, accident, 102, 66.9, 64, $15,130.

34. (34) Antonio Perez, Chevrolet, accident, 72, 52.1, 61, $21,278.

35. (35) Tim Andrews, Ford, brakes, 29, 42.7, 58, $14,790.

36. (23) Chase Miller, Chevrolet, brakes, 15, 39.2, 55, $14,770.

37. (36) Johnny Chapman, Chevrolet, ignition, 4, 39.1, 52, $14,745.

38. (43) Andy Ponstein, Dodge, rear gear, 2, 41.1, 49, $14,705.

39. (22) Kevin Lepage, Toyota, vibration, 2, 39.5, 46, $14,670.

40. (30) Carl Long, Dodge, electri-cal, 2, 37.8, 43, $14,590.

41. (28) Brian Keselowski, Dodge, engine, 1, 36.5, 40, $14,560.

42. (17) Danny O’Quinn Jr., Chevrolet, brakes, 1, 34.9, 37, $14,530.

43. (33) Kevin Hamlin, Chevrolet, brakes, 1, 33.4, 34, $14,475.

Race Statistics

Average Speed of Race Winner: 106.876 mph.

Time of Race: 2 hours, 20 minutes, 21 seconds.

Margin of Victory: 0.227 seconds.Caution Flags: 6 for 26 laps.Lead Changes: 12 among 6 driv-

ers.Lap Leaders: J.Allgaier 1-48;

M.Bliss 49-54; J.Allgaier 55-76; Bra.Keselowski 77-108; M.Bliss 109-112; Bra.Keselowski 113-156; R.Sorenson 157-160; J.Wise 161-163; J.Clements 164-169; Bra.Keselowski 170-174; J.Allgaier 175-192; R.Sorenson 193-198; Bra.Keselowski 199-200.

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): J.Allgaier, 3 times for 88 laps; Bra.Keselowski, 4 times for 83 laps; M.Bliss, 2 times for 10 laps; R.Sorenson, 2 times for 10 laps; J.Clements, 1 time for 6 laps; J.Wise, 1 time for 3 laps.

Top 10 in Points: 1. Bra.Keselowski, 5,144; 2. C.Edwards, 4,659; 3. K.Busch, 4,439; 4. J.Allgaier, 4,278; 5. P.Menard, 4,067; 6. K.Harvick, 3,902; 7. T.Bayne, 3,633; 8. J.Leffler, 3,593; 9. J.Logano, 3,557; 10. S.Wallace, 3,554.

NASCAR Driver Rating Formula

A maximum of 150 points can be attained in a race.

The formula combines the follow-

ing categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish.

Kroger 200NASCAR Camping World Truck-

Kroger 200 Results

Saturday

At Martinsville Speedway

Ridgeway, Va.

Lap length: .526 miles

(Start position in parentheses)

1. (3) Ron Hornaday Jr., Chevrolet, 206 laps, 133.8 rating, 190 points, $33,050.

2. (1) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 206, 120.9, 175, $31,090.

3. (24) Todd Bodine, Toyota, 206, 122.2, 175, $21,835.

4. (7) Jason White, Toyota, 206, 101.1, 160, $16,150.

5. (15) Aric Almirola, Toyota, 206, 97.3, 155, $12,625.

6. (10) Mike Skinner, Toyota, 206, 94.9, 150, $12,400.

7. (13) David Starr, Toyota, 206, 85.9, 146, $10,250.

8. (20) Stacy Compton, Chevrolet, 206, 77.4, 142, $10,200.

9. (6) Ricky Carmichael, Chevrolet, 206, 81.8, 138, $10,150.

10. (2) Matt Crafton, Chevrolet, 206, 97.8, 134, $11,050.

11. (14) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, 206, 71.7, 130, $10,050.

12. (8) James Buescher, Chevrolet, 206, 81.6, 127, $9,925.

13. (11) Justin Lofton, Toyota, 206, 82.6, 124, $10,875.

14. (25) Hermie Sadler, Chevrolet, 206, 70.8, 121, $7,575.

15. (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 206, 107.9, 123, $8,325.

16. (9) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 206, 78.3, 115, $9,650.

17. (23) B.J. McLeod, Chevrolet, 206, 63.1, 112, $7,550.

18. (16) Jason Bowles, Toyota, 206, 69.9, 109, $9,550.

19. (27) John King, Chevrolet, 206, 55.4, 106, $9,500.

20. (29) Wes Burton, Chevrolet, 206, 54, 103, $7,700.

21. (5) Johnny Sauter, Chevrolet, 206, 111, 105, $11,525.

22. (17) Johanna Long, Toyota, 206, 52.4, 97, $7,150.

23. (26) Brent Raymer, Ford, 204, 46, 94, $9,375.

24. (33) Norm Benning, Chevrolet, 204, 38.2, 91, $9,350.

25. (30) C.E. Falk, Chevrolet, 203, 39.6, 88, $8,050.

26. (34) Amber Cope, Dodge, 203, 32.7, 85, $8,025.

27. (28) Clay Greenfield, Dodge, 202, 39.4, 82, $7,300.

28. (31) Chris Jones, Chevrolet, 202, 41.3, 79, $6,925.

29. (19) Dennis Setzer, Chevrolet, radiator, 201, 51.5, 76, $6,875.

30. (32) Angela Cope, Dodge, 200, 30.9, 73, $6,850.

31. (21) Matt Lofton, Toyota, 198, 49.4, 70, $6,900.

32. (36) Cody Cambensy, Ford, 198, 29.9, 67, $6,375.

33. (35) Jennifer Jo Cobb, Ford, 172, 32.4, 64, $6,350.

34. (12) Timothy Peters, Toyota, accident, 163, 79.4, 61, $6,300.

35. (18) Mario Gosselin, Chevrolet, engine, 116, 53.8, 58, $6,275.

36. (22) Mike Garvey, Chevrolet, brakes, 27, 28.7, 55, $6,242.

Race Statistics

Average Speed of Race Winner: 63.356 mph.

Time of Race: 1 hour, 42 minutes, 37 seconds.

Margin of Victory: 0.305 seconds.Caution Flags: 11 for 59 laps.Lead Changes: 5 among 5 drivers.Lap Leaders: K.Busch 1-7; K.Harvick

8-42; J.Sauter 43-91; T.Bodine 92-174; K.Busch 175-195; R.Hornaday Jr. 196-206.

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): T.Bodine, 1 time for 83 laps; J.Sauter, 1 time for 49 laps; K.Harvick, 1 time for 35 laps; K.Busch, 2 times for 28 laps; R.Hornaday Jr., 1 time for 11 laps.

Top 10 in Points: 1. T.Bodine, 3,371; 2. A.Almirola, 3,089; 3. J.Sauter, 3,001; 4. A.Dillon, 2,923; 5. M.Crafton, 2,907; 6. R.Hornaday Jr., 2,877; 7. T.Peters, 2,834; 8. M.Skinner, 2,699; 9. D.Starr, 2,650; 10. J.White, 2,535.

NASCAR Driver Rating Formula

A maximum of 150 points can be attained in a race.

The formula combines the follow-ing categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most

Laps, Lead-Lap Finish.

• HOCKEY

NHL StandingsNational Hockey League

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA

N.Y. Islanders 7 4 1 2 10 23 19Pittsburgh 8 5 3 0 10 27 19N.Y. Rangers 5 2 2 1 5 16 17Philadelphia 6 2 3 1 5 13 17New Jersey 7 2 4 1 5 13 21

Northeast Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA

Toronto 6 4 1 1 9 18 13Boston 5 4 1 0 8 16 8Montreal 6 3 2 1 7 14 16Ottawa 7 2 4 1 5 16 23Buffalo 8 2 5 1 5 18 23

Southeast Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA

Tampa Bay 7 5 1 1 11 24 23Washington 7 4 3 0 8 19 18Carolina 6 3 3 0 6 17 18Atlanta 7 3 4 0 6 20 25Florida 5 2 3 0 4 13 9

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA

Chicago 9 5 3 1 11 27 25Detroit 6 4 1 1 9 18 14Nashville 6 3 0 3 9 16 14St. Louis 6 3 1 2 8 18 14Columbus 6 3 3 0 6 15 19

Northwest Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA

Calgary 7 4 3 0 8 17 17Colorado 7 4 3 0 8 21 23Vancouver 8 3 3 2 8 20 21Minnesota 7 3 3 1 7 21 20Edmonton 5 2 3 0 4 14 15

Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA

Dallas 6 5 1 0 10 24 16Los Angeles 6 4 2 0 8 16 13Anaheim 8 3 4 1 7 17 28Phoenix 5 2 2 1 5 12 12San Jose 5 2 2 1 5 13 16

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s Games

N.Y. Rangers 3, Boston 2Montreal 3, Ottawa 0Buffalo 6, New Jersey 1Philadelphia 5, Toronto 2Washington 4, Atlanta 3, OTFlorida 4, N.Y. Islanders 3Detroit 5, Anaheim 4Toronto at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 8 p.m.Nashville at Dallas, 8 p.m.Columbus at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.Los Angeles at Colorado, 9 p.m.Carolina at Phoenix, 9 p.m.San Jose at Edmonton, 10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games

Nashville at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.New Jersey at N.Y. Rangers, 7

p.m.San Jose at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Monday’s Games

Philadelphia at Columbus, 7 p.m.Phoenix at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.Los Angeles at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

SummaryAnaheim 1 2 1 — 4

Detroit 1 2 2 — 5

First Period—1, Detroit, Zetterberg 2 (Lidstrom, Holmstrom), 7:42 (pp). 2, Anaheim, Ryan 2 (Getzlaf, Visnovsky), 19:38. Penalties—Visnovsky, Ana

(interference), 4:01; Perry, Ana (inter-ference), 7:16; Koivu, Ana (tripping), 9:19; Helm, Det (hooking), 15:39.

Second Period—3, Anaheim, Carter 1 (Marchant, Visnovsky), 6:34. 4, Anaheim, Syvret 1 (Ryan, Bodie), 7:08. 5, Detroit, Franzen 5 (Bertuzzi, V.Filppula), 10:23. 6, Detroit, Holmstrom 1 (Stuart, Zetterberg), 17:08. Penalties—None.

Third Period—7, Anaheim, Selanne 4, 8:32. 8, Detroit, Zetterberg 3 (Stuart, Lidstrom), 11:17. 9, Detroit, Datsyuk 4 (Lidstrom, Zetterberg), 19:48. Penalties—None.

Shots on Goal—Anaheim 6-7-12—25. Detroit 14-12-15—41.

Power-play opportunities—Anaheim 0 of 1; Detroit 1 of 3.

Goalies—Anaheim, McElhinney 1-1-0 (41 shots-36 saves). Detroit, Howard 4-0-1 (25-21).

A—19,401 (20,066). T—2:25.Referees—Frederick L’Ecuyer,

Dan O’Halloran. Linesmen—David Brisebois, Brian Mach.

ECHL StandingsECHL

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division

GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA

Elmira 3 1 0 2 0 4 13 11Reading 2 1 1 0 0 2 10 11Trenton 2 1 1 0 0 2 11 10

North Division

GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA

Wheeling 3 2 1 0 0 4 9 6Kalamazoo 1 1 0 0 0 2 7 2Cincinnati 2 1 1 0 0 2 8 11Toledo 3 1 2 0 0 2 6 13

South Division

GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA

Gwinnett 3 2 0 0 1 5 13 8Florida 4 2 2 0 0 4 14 17Greenville 2 1 0 1 0 3 10 8S. Carolina 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 6

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Mountain Division

GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA

Alaska 3 2 1 0 0 4 9 10Victoria 3 2 1 0 0 4 7 6Idaho 3 1 1 1 0 3 8 8Utah 3 1 1 1 0 3 7 10

Pacific Division

GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA

Ontario 3 2 1 0 0 4 12 10Stockton 3 1 1 1 0 3 10 12Bakersfield 2 1 1 0 0 2 8 4Las Vegas 2 1 1 0 0 2 5 6

NOTE: Two points are awarded for a win, one point for an overtime or shootout loss.

Saturday’s Games

Gwinnett 5, Florida 2Elmira 7, Reading 2Cincinnati at Kalamazoo, 7:30 p.m.Trenton at Wheeling, 7:35 p.m.Bakersfield at Utah, 9:05 p.m.Stockton at Ontario, 10 p.m.Victoria at Las Vegas, 10:05 p.m.Idaho at Alaska, 11:15 p.m.

Sunday’s Games

South Carolina at Greenville, 4:05 p.m.

Elmira at Reading, 5:05 p.m.Trenton at Wheeling, 5:05 p.m.Cincinnati at Kalamazoo, 7:30 p.m.

CHL StandingsCentral Hockey League Glance

TURNER CONFERENCE

GP W L OL Pts GF GA

Missouri 3 2 0 1 5 8 6Bloomington 2 2 0 0 4 7 5Dayton 3 2 1 0 4 11 10Rapid City 3 2 1 0 4 13 10Colorado 3 2 1 0 4 13 10Evansville 2 1 1 0 2 6 5Fort Wayne 2 0 1 1 1 1 6Quad City 2 0 2 0 0 3 7Wichita 3 0 3 0 0 5 10

BERRY CONFERENCE

GP W L OL Pts GF GA

Allen 4 4 0 0 8 21 13B-Shreveport 5 3 2 0 6 25 17Tulsa 3 2 1 0 4 12 10Arizona 3 2 1 0 4 10 10Texas 3 1 1 1 3 9 12R Valley 3 1 1 1 3 9 9Laredo 2 1 1 0 2 6 7Odessa 3 1 2 0 2 11 11Mississippi 3 0 3 0 0 4 17

NOTE: Two points are awarded for a win, one point for an overtime or shootout loss. Overtime or shootout losses are only denoted in the OL column, not the loss column.

Friday’s Games

Dayton 3, Quad City 2Bloomington 5, Odessa 4Allen 5, Bossier-Shreveport 3Evansville 5, Mississippi 2Texas 3, Rio Grande Valley 2Missouri 2, Wichita 1Colorado 5, Rapid City 2Arizona 2, Fort Wayne 1, OT

Saturday’s Games

Odessa at Dayton, 7:30 p.m.Quad City at Evansville, 8:35 p.m.Tulsa at Bloomington, 8:05 p.m.Allen at Wichita, 8:05 p.m.Missouri at Mississippi, 8:05 p.m.Bossier-Shreveport at Texas, 8:30

p.m.Rio Grande Valley at Laredo, 8:30

p.m.Colorado at Rapid City, 9:05 p.m.Fort Wayne at Arizona, 10:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games

Evansville at Quad City, 5:05 p.m.

• SOCCER

MLS StandingsMajor League Soccer

EASTERN CONFERENCE

W L T Pts GF GA

x-New York 15 9 6 51 38 29x-Columbus 13 8 8 47 37 33Kansas City 10 13 6 36 32 34Chicago 8 12 9 33 33 37New England 9 16 5 32 32 50Toronto FC 8 13 8 32 30 39Philadelphia 8 14 7 31 34 46D.C. 6 19 4 22 19 44

WESTERN CONFERENCE

W L T Pts GF GA

x-Los Angeles 17 7 5 56 42 25x-Real Salt Lake 15 4 10 55 43 18x-FC Dallas 12 3 14 50 41 26x-Seattle 14 9 6 48 38 33x-San Jose 13 9 7 46 33 29x-Colorado 12 8 9 45 42 30Houston 8 15 6 30 38 48Chivas USA 8 17 4 28 30 41

NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

x- clinched playoff berthSaturday’s Games

Houston 2, Seattle FC 1Toronto FC at D.C. United, 7:30

p.m.San Jose at Kansas City, 8:30 p.m.Real Salt Lake at Colorado, 9 p.m.Chicago at Chivas USA, 11 p.m.

Sunday’s Games

Philadelphia at Columbus, 4 p.m.FC Dallas at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

• SPORTS EXTRA

TransactionsSaturday’s Sports Transactions

BASKETBALL

National Basketball Association

CLEVELAND CAVALIERS—Exercised the fourth-year contract option on F J.J. Hickson.

MIAMI HEAT—Signed F Jerry Stackhouse.

FOOTBALL

National Football League

BALTIMORE RAVENS—Placed OT Jared Gaither on injured reserve. Activated S Ed Reed and Brendon Ayanbadejo from the physically unable to perform list. Released LB Edgar Jones.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS—Released OT Breno Giacomini. Signed RB Chris Henry from the practice squad.

HOCKEY

National Hockey League

LOS ANGELES KINGS—Released G Erik Ersberg.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS—Recalled D Teemu Laakso from Milwaukee (AHL).

OTTAWA SENATORS—Recalled F Zack Smith from Binghamton (AHL).

TV SPORTS

Time Event ChannelToday

Auto Racing

1 p.m. Sprint Cup: Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville ESPNFootball

1 p.m. Philadelphia Eagles at Tennessee Titans FOX1 p.m. Washington Redskins at Chicago Bears FOX1 p.m. Cincinnati Bengals at Atlanta Falcons CBS1 p.m. Cleveland Browns at New Orleans Saints CBS4:15 p.m. New England Patriots at San Diego Chargers CBS8:30 p.m. Minnesota Vikings at Green Bay Packers NBC

Golf5 p.m. PGA: Shriner’s Hospital for Children Open GOLF

Soccer4 p.m. Philadelphia at Columbus ONN

Monday

Football

8:30 p.m. New York Giants at Dallas Cowboys ESPNHockey

7 p.m. Philadelphia Flyers at Columbus Blue Jackets FSN

The Crescent-News • Sunday, October 24, 2010 TV/ENTERTAINMENT ■ B11

R A N T H A M B H O R E NATIONAL PARK, India (AP) — Comedian Russell Brand and pop star Katy Perry were married Saturday in northwest-ern India, the couple con-firmed in a statement.

A Christian minister and longtime friend of Perry’s family performed a “pri-vate and spiritual ceremo-ny,” which was attended by family members and close friends, said the statement released by the couple’s representatives.

“The backdrop was the inspirational and majestic countryside of Northern India,” said the statement, which did not provide any further details on the cer-emony.

The wedding was held at the Aman-e-Khas luxu-ry resort in a tiger reserve in Ranthambhore National Park, a hotel official said on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Security has been strin-gent with private security guards stationed at the resort and other nearby hotels where guests and the couple are staying for the six-day wedding cel-ebration.

Photographers and media reporters were not allowed into the Aman-e-Khas wildlife retreat. The couple have given the exclusive coverage rights to a London magazine, and no other photographers or journalists will be allowed

into the resort.The wedding venue was

lit with lamps, colorful lights illuminated the trees and flower garlands fes-tooned the luxury tents at the resort, the hotel official said.

Both Brand and Perry wore traditional Indian clothes to the wedding, the hotel official said. Perry donned a sari, as did a number of other female guests at the ceremony. On Friday, at a prenuptial celebration, Perry, like a typical Indian bride, had henna designs applied on her palms and hands.

Meanwhile, a four-mem-ber committee had been set up to check noise pollution from the wedding celebra-tion and ensure that ani-

mals in the wildlife reserve in India’s Rajasthan state are not disturbed, said Ravi Kumar, a district offi-cial.

Ranthambhore National Park is home to a host of wildlife species includ-ing tigers, leopards, wild boars, hyenas and sloth bears.

The British comedian’s wedding procession, accompanied by tradition-al Indian musicians, made its way from Sher Bagh, another nearby luxury resort, to the Aman-e-Khas retreat.

Brand proposed to the American pop singer, whose parents are Christian pastors, in the historic Indian city of Jaipur over New Year’s Eve.

Brand, Perry wed at tiger reserve in India

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s a bit of this and a dash of that making Rachael Ray’s daytime talk show.

On a recent day of back-to-back tapings, she cooked up a chicken-and-porcini shepherd’s pie, chatted with Harry Hamlin and Lisa Rinna about marriage and squeezed in plugs for other parts of her lifestyle empire: the new cooking show, the new cookbook and the Thanksgiving issue of her magazine.

Nine years after break-ing out as a Food Network personality, Ray is an estab-lished star who still keeps stirring the pot.

She has 18 cookbooks and an iPhone app. But mostly she has her TV shows. In addition to her talk show, her original “30 Minute Meals” is still in produc-tion, as is the new “Rachael Ray’s Week in a Day” on the Cooking Channel. It all adds up to more than 1,300 hours of television since 2001 — or almost two months’ worth of around-the-clock Rachael and her exclamations of “Yum-O!”

Repetition clearly hasn’t dimmed her enthusiasm. On a recent day of filming at a Manhattan studio made to look like an urban loft, she segued breezily from cooking dishes to dishing about “Dancing with the Stars.” Young aides in T-shirts printed with “Yum-O” and “EVOO” bustled during breaks to prep the kitchen set. The pace never slowed, even after a bro-ken boot heel forced Ray to hobble around.

“I’m 42 and I feel healthi-er than I did 10 years ago,” she told Associated Press on set. “Maybe 52, I’ll have more energy than 42.”

Ray debuted on the Food Network with “30-Minute Meals” in 2001. Viewers warmed to the unpreten-tious daughter of parents who ran several family-style restaurants on Cape Cod, Mass., before she moved to upstate New York. The self-described “pound puppy” used timesaving ingredi-ents like canned corn. Her food was tasty but not snooty. Her everywoman appeal was fresh for food TV back then, when the big-gest stars were professional chefs like Emeril and reality shows based on the perils of cupcake bakers were still a way off.

“You feel like you’re watching a sister cooking in the kitchen,” said Judy Sacco of Vineland, N.J. She waited in line more than an hour to get into Ray’s talk show one gray Manhattan morning.

While Giada De Laurentiis and some other TV chefs have higher “Q scores” — measures of celebri-ty appeal — none are as well known. Ray is recog-nized by three out of four Americans, according to The Q Scores Company.

Despite her fame, Ray shows few signs of celeb-

rity-style vanity. She casu-ally tells her studio audi-ence her age and poses with them for pictures (“OK 1-2-3 Cheese!”). She eats one of her on-air creations, a spin-ach and egg noodle casse-role, with her fingers. When Lauren Conrad promotes the benefits of skinny jeans for non-skinny bodies, Ray gamely chimes in:

“I just always thought, ’Well that’s not for me. I’m a Sicilian girl. I’ve got too much of this, or that.”’

The daytime show was launched five years ago, around the same time as her Every Day With Rachael Ray magazine, allowing her to branch out as the everywoman niche on food TV grew more crowded. The set has a kitchen, but also an interview couch for when she heads into Oprah territory.

She spent couch time with Conrad and chatted at a faux kitchen table with Rinna and Hamlin. She also had a frank, hand-holding chat with an overweight high school senior trying to lose weight. The show is helping the girl and follow-ing her progress.

The audience is over-whelmingly female. When Ray’s warm-up comedian asks if there are any moms in the house, hands shoot up. Ray’s appeal is stron-gest among women aged 18 to 34, according to Q Scores, but she is still look-ing to cultivate the newest generation of foodies.

Her new cookbook, Rachael Ray’s Look + Cook, is loaded with pictures and friendly to visual learners. Buyers of the book also will have access to exclusive Web videos of Ray cooking the dishes. The videos will show that, yes, her meals really can be made in 30 minutes.

Her new show, “Rachael Ray’s Week in a Day” on Food Network’s sister sta-tion, the Cooking Channel, features dishes she says are “a little edgier.” The hour-long show has her prepar-ing meals for the week ahead like Moroccan meat-loaf and stuffed peppers with lamb and eggplant.

“I’m trying to, like, push my own skill level in writ-ing for that show so I can attract young foodies who

really want good food but maybe they only have a day or two a week to dedi-cate to getting a leg up on home-prepared meals all week long,” she said.

Her magazine, whose longtime editorial director left this year, is getting an update. Like many people in media, Ray is ponder-ing how to best integrate print and TV outlets to suit changing times. Also, she resolves to start tweeting more.

“I am going to try to teach myself to be a child of this new age,” she said “I am going to try to get good at it. There must be a term for a good tweeter. I don’t know, but I’m going to try to make that sucker chirp.”

But the real key to any future success likely will be what it always was: Ray’s eagerness to keep a frenetic working pace. As she fin-ishes filming her shows for the year, she will head out on a 17-date tour for her new cookbook, And then it’s back to TV in January.

She insists that it’s not really work for her.

“I get to chat and cook,” she said. “I get to do what I would do on a day off from any other job.”

The C-N Crossword Puzzle(See answers on page A13)

Friday’s

BRESLINGirl Scout Chelsea Lesnewski

(left) and Oscar-nominated actress Abigail Breslin create self-confidence journals with a group of young girls at the kickoff event for the first nationwide “Dove Self-Esteem Weekend,” an effort by Dove, the maker of bath prod-ucts, to address girls’ self-esteem issues, Friday, in New York.

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 8 p.m. • ABCWith supermodel Christie Brinkley along for

the project, Ty and his team travel to Hamburg, Pa., to help transform the 300-year-old log cabin dwelling of widow Trisha Urban into the joyous fairy-tale home her late husband, Andy, wanted for her and her daughter before he died of an unexpected heart attack in early 2009.

ON TVVEGASThe Osmond

brothers, from left, Jay, Jimmy, Merrill and Wayne perform at The Orleans Showroom in Las Vegas on Friday.

Rachael RayStill stirring the pot as everywoman

AP Photo

Rachael Ray (above) on the set of her talk show. At right is her new book, Look + Cook.

■ B12 BUSINESS The Crescent-News • Sunday, October 24, 2010

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Tribune Co. CEO Randy Michaels resigned Friday amid tales of raunchy behavior as the company looked to shift atten-tion back to its efforts to emerge from bankruptcy protection. Hours later, the company filed its latest reorganization plan in court.

Michaels’ departure comes at a piv-otal time for the troubled media com-pany. After nearly two years operating under bankruptcy protection, Tribune Co. is drawing up a reorganization plan that it hopes a federal judge will approve before the end of the year.

Michaels, 58, joined Tribune Co. three years ago following an ill-fated $8.2 billion buyout engineered by real estate mogul Sam Zell in 2007. Michaels became Tribune Co.’s CEO late last year. Michaels, a former radio disc jock-ey, won Zell’s trust as CEO of a radio broadcast company that Zell owned, Jacor Communications.

It seemed likely Michaels’ reign was nearing an end anyway. Lenders in line to become the company’s new owners will probably want to install their own management team once a bankruptcy reorganization plan gains approval.

Tribune Co., whose holdings include the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and more than 20 television and radio stations, offered its latest plan just

before a midnight deadline Friday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington.

It came nearly two years after the company filed for Chapter 11 protec-tion, dogged by an industrywide decline in newspaper advertising revenue and debt totaling nearly $13 billion, mainly associated with the Zell-led buyout just a year earlier.

In line with a previously announced settlement with major creditors, Friday’s plan promised to increase how much Tribune Co.’s bondholders would get compared with a previous proposal. Tribune is hoping that would be enough to win approval of the much-debated reorganization plan.

The earlier plan got derailed after an independent report found evidence of fraud in the leveraged buyout that led to Tribune Co.’s bankruptcy filing.

Friday’s plan proposes a trust, financed by a $20 million loan from the company, that could pursue legal claims arising from the buyout. Earlier in the day, the judge overseeing the case gave the official committee of junior creditors permission to file lawsuits against some parties involved in the 2007 buyout. He gave them until Nov. 1 to file the complaints.

An independent investigator con-cluded this summer that some aspects of the deal had bordered on fraud. The

lawsuits could allege that Tribune Co. wouldn’t have had to file for bank-ruptcy protection if not for fraudulent conduct by Tribune’s board members, including Zell, and by some of the com-pany’s financial advisers and lenders. Tribune Co. spokesman Gary Weitman declined comment on the possibility of lawsuits.

In exchange for relinquishing more money to Tribune Co.’s bondholders, senior lenders would be shielded from any legal claims tied to early stages of the Zell-led buyout.

CEO resigns, new bankruptcy plan filed

WAUSEON — Paulding-Putnam Electric (PPE) Cooperative has named Peterson Construction Company, Wapakoneta, as the general contractor for their building project.

Having utilized all of the available space to maximum capacity, PPE was able to purchase a vacant building at a very low price. “During the past 75 years it has been our pleasure to serve the local communities,” said George Carter, chief executive officer. “This building project is allowing us the opportunity to continue taking care of our members and we believe it will be an asset to everyone.” In an effort to keep everyone informed on the progress, PPE plans to post updates regularly on the website at www.ppec.coop.

Profit falls: Verizon Communications Inc., the coun-try’s largest wireless carrier, on Friday said its profit fell 25 percent in the third quarter, held back by a one-time charge for a pension settlement and the performance of its landline operations, which barely broke even.

Verizon’s landline business posted operating income of $19 million for the July to September quarter, com-pared to $4.9 billion on the wireless side.

Accepts results: The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) accepted the results of the first of six wholesale auctions that will determine FirstEnergy’s retail generation service rates from June 1, 2011-May 31, 2014.

The auction began on Oct. 20, 2010 and concluded that same day. There were 10 bidders registered for the auction and four submitted winning bids. The auction consisted of 12 rounds. The auction resulted in a clear-ing price of $54.55 per megawatt hour (MWh) for the June 1, 2011-May 31, 2012 delivery period, $54.10 per MWh for the June 1, 2011-May 31, 2013 delivery period and $56.58 per MWh for the June 1, 2011-May 31, 2014 delivery period.

From The Crescent-News staff and wire reports

Business in brief

Contractor named for Paulding-Putnam building project

By KATHLEEN PENDERSan Francisco Chronicle

Employees need to be extra careful when they decide how much to con-tribute to their flexible

spending accounts for next year.

The new health-care reform law brings two major changes to these plans.

Starting Jan. 1, employees will no longer be able to use

their health-care spending accounts to pay for over-the-counter drugs and med-icines without a doctor’s prescription, although they will be able to use them for many other drugstore

items, such as bandages and contact lens solutions, without a prescription.

Also, the law will let many parents use their accounts to pay for medical expens-es incurred on behalf of a

child through the end of the year in which the child turns 26.

Flex accounts, also called FSAs, let employees put part of their paychecks into an account to pay for cer-tain out-of-pocket medical expenses, such as co-pay-ments and drugs. (Parents can set up a separate account to pay for depen-dent care.) Money that goes into these accounts escapes income, Social Security and Medicare taxes, yielding substantial savings, espe-cially for folks in higher tax brackets.

As expenses are incurred, employees can seek reim-bursement from their accounts. But if they put more into the accounts than they spend, they forfeit the difference.

Many employees will soon have to decide how much to set aside for 2011. Here are some details to help you decide how much to save.

Young adults: The health reform act requires employ-ers to cover an employee’s children up to age 26. (Grandfathered plans —those that don’t make too many substantive changes — can exclude young adults if they can get coverage at their own job, but only until 2014.) The law also allows — but does not require — employers to cover an employee’s child up to age 26 in their dental, vision

and flex-account plans.“In most cases, employ-

ers are keeping it simple. Because they are required to extend coverage to chil-dren, they are extending it across the board,” says Jody Dietel, chief compliance officer for WageWorks.

Parents with young adult children who were uninsured or underin-sured might consider add-ing money to their flex accounts next year to help them take care of deferred maintenance. But check to see whether your employer will cover them in the FSA plan.

Dietel says a parent might be able to enroll a young adult in the flexible spend-ing account even if the child is not enrolled in the health plan. Even if your child has an FSA at his or her job, if you are in a higher tax bracket you will probably save more money if you pay for expenses out of your account.

OTC drugs: In the past, employees could use their flex accounts to pay for both prescription and non-prescription drugs and medical supplies. Starting Jan. 1, they can no longer use them to pay for drugs and medicines without a doctor’s prescription.

Drugs and medicines are defined as anything you inject or apply topically to treat a specific medical con-dition.

Big changes coming for employees’ flexible spending accounts

CLEVELAND (AP) — KeyCorp is reporting a profit for the third quar-

ter in contrast to a loss a year ago, citing improved credit quality across its loan

portfolios. The Cleveland banking company said that its net income available to

shareholders amounted to $178 million, or 20 cents per share.

KeyCorp posts a third quarter profit of about $178 million

AP Photo

Randy Michaels, the CEO of the Interactive and Broadcasting divi-sions of Tribune Co. is shown in this 2007 file photo. Michaels stepped down from his duties this week.

Tribune Co.

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11,258.01 9,614.32 Dow Jones Industrials 11,132.56 +69.78 +.63 +6.76 +11.644,812.87 3,546.48 Dow Jones Transportation 4,754.97 +60.19 +1.28 +15.99 +24.97

413.75 346.95 Dow Jones Utilities 406.83 +.60 +.15 +2.22 +7.797,743.74 6,355.83 NYSE Composite 7,522.91 +2.31 +.03 +4.70 +6.452,118.77 1,689.19 AMEX Index 2,063.16 -37.46 -1.78 +13.05 +12.492,535.28 2,024.27 Nasdaq Composite 2,479.39 +10.62 +.43 +9.27 +15.081,219.80 1,010.91 S&P 500 1,183.08 +6.89 +.59 +6.10 +9.59

12,847.91 10,573.39 Wilshire 5000 12,465.44 +65.46 +.53 +7.94 +11.69745.95 553.30 Russell 2000 703.43 +.27 +.04 +12.48 +17.07

3,405.48 2,782.05 Lipper Growth Index 3,378.79 +15.28 +.45 +10.48 +14.66

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DIARYAdvanced 211Declined 314New Highs 43New Lows 12Total issues 560Unchanged 35

Name Vol (00) Last ChgCitigrp 27620797 4.11 +.16BkofAm 20692799 11.44 -.54S&P500ETF8581893118.35 +.65SPDR Fncl418661614.60 +.26WellsFargo314802926.11 +2.53iShEMkts3011552 46.03 -.69FordM 2990682 13.95 +.15GenElec 2985387 16.06 -.25Pfizer 2312890 17.50 -.25JPMorgCh2296763 37.70 +.55

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Name Last Chg %ChgFstPfd pfA 10.63 +2.88 +37.2Compx 12.00 +2.33 +24.1QksilvRes 15.20 +2.59 +20.5Brookdale 19.77 +3.10 +18.6AMR 7.42 +1.16 +18.5HangrOrth 19.48 +3.04 +18.5DeltaAir 13.18 +1.80 +15.8GlbShipLs 3.69 +.49 +15.3iStar pfI 11.65 +1.54 +15.2Raythn wt 10.50 +1.37 +15.0

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It has been a couple weeks since I answered reader mail and the mail-bag is bulging at the vir-tual seams. Let’s dive right in and try to forget that Steven Seagal is armed and patrolling the streets of New Orleans right now and Tony Danza appears to be teaching high school English.

Q: My work com-puter (a Dell) has a docking station that I really like but there isn’t such a slot on the bottom on my person-al laptop (a Toshiba.) I see some universal docks on the market but I am not sure if they work or work very well. What do you know about them?

A: The ones I have used are OK for basic users but they fall down in the video transmission from laptop to monitor. To make a true docking station develop-ers try to minimize the number of cords you have to connect to the computer each time, often shoving a ton of data through the USB bus. I would not rec-ommend them, but if you wish to try one I would get return and restocking rights from your retailer or online source. (This does not apply to traditional docking stations, which I recommend for both business and home users. These can be purchased on the secondary market on eBay and elsewhere for pennies on the dollar.)

Q: I know there is a way to run Windows on an Apple computer, but is there a way to run Apple’s Operating System on Windows?

A: This is one of those no/yes answers. No, if you are a normal computer user. Yes, if you are one of

those people who can find and install an emulator and have enough time to write to me and tell me I am wrong. In other words, for most consumers the answer is no. But if you are a computer hobby-ist of some skill, you can probably get a reasonable facsimile of Apple’s OS running on your Windows machine. That said, with enough effort anything is possible. (At a Microsoft conference earlier this year a guy showed me Windows XP running hap-pily on a thumb drive.) So, for the real answer to your question, no. That is how Apple wants it.

Q: What is the best e-mail program out there that will also let me share my calendar with my fam-ily?

A: “Best” is one of those words that will get me knifed in a nerd bar, but I would look at Google mail. It has a fantastic calendar application and just gave up its requirement that everyone keep their mail in “conversation” threaded mode. This goes triple if you have an Android phone because Google mail syncs with it effortlessly. Your company may let you forward your company mail to Gmail, too.

Q: I used that cleaning tool you recommended the other week and found I have four browsers on my Windows PC. I have to keep Internet Explorer. Of the rest, Firefox, Chrome and Safari, which one should I keep?

A: This is a personal-preference thing, but that noise you hear is me screaming “CHROME” at the top of my lungs from your lawn.

(James Derk is owner of CyberDads, a computer repair

firm and a tech columnist for Scripps Howard News

Service. His e-mail address is jim@cyberdads.com)

Q&A: docking stations, calendar sharing, more

Compute

JAMES

DERK

LONDON (AP) — From stolen cars to suspicious smells, one of Britain’s biggest police forces posted every incident it dealt with over 24 hours to micro-blogging site Twitter.

The online campaign was intended to show that officers don’t just spend their time chasing criminals — and aimed to illustrate the pressure police are under as British officials prepare for deep budget cuts.

“The reality of police work is that although crime is a big part of what we do, we do much else beside,” Chief Constable Peter Fahy said in a message posted to YouTube. “We’re very much the agency of last resort, and a big part of our workload is related to wider social problems of alcohol, drugs, mental health and people having problems with their relationships.”

The project, which began at 5:00 a.m. local time on Oct. 14, racked up more than 500 different incidents. Among the first tweets: An alert about a stolen vehicle thought to be headed for Manchester, the arrest of an aggressive shoplifter, and a report that “a man appears asleep at bus stop.”

Greater Manchester Police is one of the country’s largest police forc-es, responsible for the 500 square mile area centered on Manchester — which competes with Birmingham for the title of England’s second city.

Although the city sees some high-profile crimes — including interna-tional terrorism cases — most of the calls from Oct. 14 spoke of the daily grind of police work.

Many tweets covered domestic incidents, traffic accidents, stolen cars

and missing people. There were calls about animals, complaints about a man urinating against a school wall, and a report of man smoking on an incoming flight to Manchester Airport.

There were dozens of false alarms.In one incident, officers were sent

to a bridge where a man was report-edly seen dangling a baby over the edge. In fact, he’d been carrying his dog in his arms because the animal was afraid of bridges. The Twitter feed was choked with children who had dialed police while playing with their parents’ mobile phones.

There were also a host of nuisance calls.

For technical reasons, police are publishing their updates across three different Twitter feeds. The project ran until Friday, Oct. 15.

UK police force shows they’re busy ... on Twitter

By JAMES DERKScripps Howard News Service

The smart-phone market, which has been pretty quiet for a while, is buzzing about the long-awaited release of phones running Microsoft Windows 7.

These handsets, which will start out on AT and T Mobile, will be the first to run the lat-est version of Windows and you’d think this would be a big deal given the size of Microsoft Corp. and its domi-nance of the PC world.

Well, you’d be wrong.Microsoft has pretty much

hopelessly blundered its way into the smart-phone market and until this point has made little splash with the devices running Windows Mobile. Now it is releasing probably the best phone operating sys-tem it has created thus far and ... another thud.

It’s not that the phones are that bad. There are decent fea-tures on the new phones cou-pled with the new operating system that are pretty good. It is just too little and too late for Microsoft to make a significant splash in this market.

The tale of the tape:Google Inc.’s Android oper-

ating system, which runs on dozens of phones now, already has grabbed a 32 per-

cent market share. BlackBerry has 25 percent and falling and Apple has 26 percent and falling. So to get a significant market share, Microsoft must produce a product better than the Android flood, the iPhone and Research in Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry line.

That’s not going to happen.Thanks to a lousy business

plan, consumers are locked into contracts with their smart phones and they can’t just run out and get the latest toy even if they wanted it. Then Microsoft has to show that its product is worth changing for, that there will be enough applications for Windows Mobile and that learning a whole new way of doing something is worth it. Those are huge hurdles for consum-ers today.

There is a chance that the Windows phones will be a minor hit in the corporate world because of the tight integration with Exchange mail, SharePoint and Office. That’s why so many people are still carrying BlackBerries ... because their company makes them and pays the bill. So some companies with close ties to Microsoft will take the plunge and roll out the new-est phones but that also won’t make a significant dent in the marketplace.

Microsoft smart-phone effort too little, too late

Above is the AT&T HTC Surround (top) and the AT&T Samsung Surround phones. At right, this prod-uct image provided by T-Mobile, shows the HTC HD7 smart phone that runs Windows Phone 7.

■ B14 NEWS The Crescent-News • Sunday, October 24, 2010

KAPAA, Hawaii (AP) — It is a frequent sight during autumn evenings on the island of Kauai: Young sea-birds mistake football stadi-um lights for the moon and stars during their migration to the ocean, causing them to become disoriented, fall from the sky and die.

The bird die-off has become such a problem that school officials have canceled Friday night foot-ball for the entire season on Kauai and moved the games to Saturday after-noon.

Island residents are angry that they have lost the revered tradition of foot-ball under the Friday night lights all because of a bird on the threatened species list. They have been show-ing up to games wearing T-shirts that disparage the policy, and occasionally voicing their displeasure from the stands during games.

“Because we’re in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, we don’t have much to have to offer our kids. On a Friday night, this is what our kids would look for-ward to,” said Lori Koga, whose 17-year-old son is a Kauai High School var-sity linebacker and running back. “And then they took that away from us.”

At issue is a bird called the Newell’s shearwater, which numbered about 80,000 in the mid-1990s. Its population has plunged 75 percent in recent years as Kauai grew in size and added more lights that con-fuse the birds.

The birds take their first flight a few months after hatching from ground nests in Kauai’s wet mountain forests. These fledglings, some still with down feath-ers, are prone to mistaking the bright lights at sports fields, hotels, parking lots and other places for the moon and stars, lead-ing them to repeatedly fly around in circles.

They become exhausted and eventually drop to the ground, where they’re often attacked by cats or hit by cars unless they are rescued by volunteers. The species is also threatened by pigs and goats that trample on their nests.

“When they hit the ground, it’s usually very hard for them to take off. They need a breeze or they need a place to launch from,” said Scott Fretz, the state’s wildlife program manager. “They’re just sit-ting ducks for the cats that are all over the place.”

The problem for football is that fledglings take off between Sept. 15 and Dec. 15 each year — smack in the middle of the season.

Most football games are now played on Saturday afternoons, with the excep-tion of days closest to the full moon. Schools allow later games on those days because birds are less likely to be confused by artificial nights.

The switch to Saturday has upended a revered tradition on Kauai, an island once dominated by sugar cane fields that is now known for its relaxed, breathtaking tropical resorts. The small community of about 60,000 doesn’t have concert halls, amusement parks or any college teams for people to enjoy, making high school football the only show in town.

Football attendance has dropped as some parents have to work during game hours or take player sib-lings to different sports activities. Saturday games have drawn an average of 1,173 people so far this sea-son — about 200 fewer than last year’s season average. Some fans don’t want to sit in the sun and players complain about the brutal daytime heat.

Some residents are direct-ing their anger at the birds. An enterprising fan has printed more than 250 T-shirts saying “Buck the Firds” on the front and “Let the Boys Play” on the back. They come in the colors of each of Kauai’s three high schools.

Kapaa High’s head foot-ball coach, Kelii Morgado, has taken steps to pre-vent heatstroke during day games, including tell-ing his players to drink lots of water starting three days before. When players come off the field, they’re sponged with ice water.

So far the teams have avoided major medical problems due to the heat. Even so, Morgado said one of his players got so hot and lost so much fluid during a game the coach thought he showed concussion symp-toms. The student thankful-ly recovered after trainers put ice water on his neck and had him drink water.

Travis Koga, Lori Koga’s son, said high school play-ers have it especially hard during day games because most of them are on the field for both offense and defense.

“It’s hot. And you get all tired. You cannot focus,” Travis Koga said after Kauai High defeated Kapaa

High in a 14-13 nailbiter last Saturday. “I think it’s best — Friday night lights. Not Saturday day football. It’s Friday night lights.”

The Kauai Interscholastic Federation changed the football schedule as Kauai County was facing possible federal prosecution for fail-ing to protect seabirds.

The U.S. Justice Department said federal wildlife officials noti-fied the county in 2005 its lighting was hurting the birds, in violation of the Endangered Species Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. The government said the county failed to install shielded lights that shine down on the field, not out, thus being less harmful to the birds.

The county ultimately reached a deal with pros-ecutors in which officials

will install shielded lights at Kauai’s three football fields by next season. Any night games next year will have to be played under specially designed shielded lights, and the county must have an escrow account to cover fines for any birds downed during the games.

“This is a serious situa-tion, and we are on a trajec-tory to extinction with this species if we don’t take real responsible action,” Fretz said.

Meanwhile, island resi-dents like Rich Rapozo warned that some people are talking about refusing to rescue birds they see on the ground in protest of the Saturday games.

“They chose the bird over our keiki,” he said after a Saturday game, using the Hawaiian word for chil-dren.

No Friday night lightsBirds force high school teams to play Saturdays

AP Photos

An endangered Newell’s shearwater seabird is held by a Kauai Humane Society technician on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010 in Kapaa, Hawaii on the island of Kauai. A controversy has arisen in Kauai where the need to protect threatened seabirds has taken precedence

over Friday night school football games, a tradition on the Island. The seabirds, which become disoriented during flight because of the bright stadium lights, have forced the schools to play on Saturday afternoons, a change which has unsettled the community.

LORI KOGA

AP Photo

With a misting fans blowing onto him, Kapaa Warriors high school football player Derek Silva wipes the sweat from his face during a game against their rival, Saturday, Oct. 16, in Kapaa, Hawaii.

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paper and trace it onto cardboard,” explained Camp. This year Beth had the idea of doing a “Jack on the Beanstalk”

and “Goose that laid the Golden Egg.” But Camp pointed out that many children today would have

no idea about who these characters are or about fairy tales in general.

She said that Halloween today is a very different enterprise than when she was a sprite.

“We didn’t go trick-or-treating for candy... We went for meanness,” joked Camp who was raised

with seven brothers (her sister came along years later.)

The Halloween parade in Defiance had a lot more bells and whistles back in 1945 when she first came to town.

“There used to be hundreds of kids and adults dressed up called ‘mummers,’ and 10 or 15 bands,” she said.

Regulars included Doc Erman, who rode a Penny-farthing bicycle and dressed in period clothing including a big top hat.

The Cye Walz family dressed up as the “Purple People Eaters” she recalled.

Today there are no decorated bikes, far fewer bands, and the tone is more “political,” lamented Camp (read PC).

Camp begins work on her costumes some-time in September. The most time consuming project was the Little Dragon which she cut, sewed on, and embellished each scale cut from a plastic garbage bag.

“We never put much money into anything,” she said. “The goal was to use what you have.”

Beth became known as the “box queen” of the neighborhood where the kids grew up off Holgate Ave. They regularly scavenged for paint and fabric remnants.

They once used scraps from the silvery covering on insulation board to outfit an extraterrestrial.

A clutch of shredded dry-cleaning bags became a gleaming white wig.

Camp gleefully accepts credit for making one of the first “faceless” masks using black chiffon over cardboard.

A pro at the lost art of papier mache, in the early days Camp made costume “heads” using old

Crescent-News papers. (For years they were stored in the barn at her mother’s place until mice got into them.)

Over the years Camp’s costumes have been used in part or in full to festoon the neighbor kids and/or entire groups such as the Girl Scouts.

“We use, and reuse everything,” Camp said proudly, and then added that she still has the Robin Hood cos-

tume Beth wore 45 years ago (when she was 4).It was made from a green pool table cover.Her granddaughter, Mary, who is now 22, borrowed

it years later when she was Friar Tuck. (Her cousin, Lisa, went as Maid Marian.) Camp said she hopes to put her great-

grandson in the costume next year. A child-size gingerbread house that was used for the Camp’s Hansel

By ANGELA ASSAFcnlife@crescent-news.com

What do you get when you cross two peach carton lids with a cardboard box?

A horse of course. That kind of out-of-the-

box thinking is what led Mary Camp of Defiance to her unofficial role

as costume designer/creative engineer in her family and spawned a Halloween tradi-tion that has lasted for three generations.

Camp, who is 83, first began participat-ing in the Defiance Lions Halloween Parade in the 1960s, first as a solo act; she was later joined by her children, Beth (Kiessling), Bill and Julie.

In her last parade appearance at age 78, Camp went as a ghost pirate riding a ghost ship.

Today she carries the distinction of having garnered the most first prizes in the history of the parade, for her sometimes whimsi-cal, often gory, yet always entertaining, Halloween get-ups made from household odds and ends.

“At first my husband ‘tolerated’ it, but then he really got into it and would engineer the tricky stuff,” said Camp about her costumemaking hobby.

Many of the more difficult ones were made cam-ouflaging the kids’ bicycles: The Winged dragon, Flintstone car, Mother Goose, and the like.

“ ‘Leave a distance between you and the other person so you stand out for the judges,’” Beth recalled her dad, the late Clarence “Tommy” the boxer would coach them. “He always stood by the corner of the judging trailer to wait for us.”

“Whether there was one child or four, we won at least first prize every year, except the time Beth went as a half-and-half Cinderella with one half in rags and the other half as a princess,” recalled Camp. “She hated that costume.”

“We quit getting judged after my grandchildren were no longer in because of band and their other high school activities,” she added.

“Beth continued to go. She did it for fun and tradi-tion. She wanted to leave the prizes for the kids.”

Camp said she does not know how the ideas come to her. “We see something we have and try to figure out how to use it, and also, what would appeal to others or what is popular for the time.”

In later years some of the costumes for her granddaugh-ter, Mary, would come from the pages of the Little Golden

Books that Camp read to her from when she was a tot. “I would take an idea and then draw a big pattern on news-

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The goblin costume (made using an umbrella) is being worn by Mary Camp’s daughter, Beth Kiessling.

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Mary Camp of Defiance is surrounded by some of her favorite parade characters. She has been making Halloween costumes by hand for more

than 50 years for her family and others. A self-taught seamstress, Camp has won first prize in the Defiance Lions Halloween Parade close to every year.

50FAMILY SEAMSTRESS HOLDS RECORD FOR MOST PRIZE-WINNING PARADE COSTUMES

DEFIANCE LIONS CLUB HALLOWEEN PARADE

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Mary Camp, 66, as a Killer Bee in 1993.

Mary Kiessling, 9, peeks out between the jaws of her T-Rex cos-tume in this 1997 photo.

Mary Camp served as best man for the “Marriage of Frankenstein” occasion.

■ C2 HEALTH The Crescent-News • Sunday, October 24, 2010

What are the options, doc?

Sooner or later, a con-versation with a physician over a difficult diagnosis comes down to a question like that.

But all too often, doctors are likely to leave stuff out, the results of a recent sur-vey of more than 3,000 patients age 40 and older sug-gests.

The survey, conducted by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, found that patients hear far more from doctors about the pros than cons of medications, tests and surgeries.

Much of the time, physicians tend to offer opinions, not options, the researchers found, and rarely mention to patients that they can decide not to do anything.

The study was funded by the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making, a Boston nonprofit seeking to give patients more voice in their health care choices.

The Michigan team asked the subjects about decisions they made with health care providers within the past two years regarding common medi-cal issues: screening tests for colorectal cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer; taking prescription drugs for hypertension, high cholesterol and depression; having surgery for knee or hip replacement, cataracts and lower back pain.

They found that more than three-quarters of the patients had made at least one of those decisions in the past two years and half had tackled two or more.

The study found that doctors, nurses and others were much more likely to talk up the advantages of a treatment or test while skipping the negatives. For instance, only 20 per-cent of the patients who discussed breast cancer screening said they heard anything about possible downsides, such as false positive results, while 50 percent said they heard “a lot” about the pros of screening.

The patients, on average, were able to answer only about half the questions about four or five pieces of information that experts say are essential to under-standing the risks and ben-efits of a therapy.

For instance, few patients who had discussed choles-terol-lowering drugs knew the most common side effects (headache, nausea, digestive tract problems) or how much a reduction in risk of heart attack can be achieved by taking them (roughly 33 to 50 per-cent, various studies have shown.)

“The study clearly demonstrates that people routinely make poorly informed medical deci-

sions,” said Dr. Michael Barry, president of the foundation and a profes-sor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Health policy experts consider it vital that patients fully understand both the benefits and risks of medicine, and that they have the right and power to say no to suggested treatment. Many feel the system is often biased toward doing something, and driving up costs while in reality adding little to overall health or lifespan.

One program called for under the new health reform law (but still not fully funded by Congress) would develop, test and spread educational tools to help patients and their families fully understand treatment options. It also directs government researchers to test shared decision-making models to see if they improve quality of care and reduce costs.

Of course, many of those doctor-guided educational tools would be Web-based.

Which is a good thing, because people are already turning to the Internet for medical information more often, and using it to self-diagnose rather than seek-ing professional care.

A recent study done for Google found that 75 per-cent of patients research their condition online before discussing it with a doctor, and 70 percent said they search for more information after consult-ing a physician. More than a third of the people in the study said they do health searches weekly and 52 percent said they had used information from the Web to self-diagnose.

Another survey done over the summer for the supplemement maker Flexin International found somewhat similar num-bers, but with a gender gap: It found that 74 per-cent of women (aged 35 to 60) routinely turned to the Web first on health issues, but just 44 percent of men did so. True to decades worth of research that find women more in tune with their bodies, the men reported they weren’t always sure how to describe their ailments when they tried to use the Web to self-diagnose.

All of this is troubling to doctors like Pamela Hartzband and Jerome Groopman of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and also medical professors at Harvard.

In a commentary pub-lished in The New England Journal of Medicine in March, they argue that while the Internet can provide a wealth of infor-mation, “It is too easy for non-experts to take at face value statements made confidently by a voice of authority,” they wrote.

They concluded, “The doctor, in our view, will never be optional.”

But doctors could stand to be a bit more informa-tive.

(Contact Lee Bowman at BowmanL@shns.com)

Study finds docs offer too little info to patients

LEE

BOWMAN

Thomas Born/C-N Photo

Dr. Paul Brose, of Defiance, was recently given an award by the Ohio State Medical Association for 50 years of service as a physician. A luncheon was held in his honor at the Defiance Clinic. Brose is retired from the Defiance Clinic, where he served as a physician of internal medicine. He presently serves as the coroner of Defiance County. Shown here with Brose (right), are, from the left, Dr. Peter Lenhart, Dr. Allen Gaspar and Dr. Harry Doyle.

Service honor

WAUSEON — The Fulton County Health Center (FCHC), Wauseon, has received a 5-star rating from HealthGrades for its joint replacement and total knee replacement programs. HealthGrades is the leading inde-pendent health care ratings organization.

The designation indicates that FCHC’s joint replace-ment and total knee replacement outcomes are better than predicted. The HealthGrades study, an analysis of patient outcomes in the nation’s 5,000 hospitals, found that 5-star-rated hospitals, had on average, an 80 percent lower rate of complications than hospitals receiving a 1-star rating.

The HealthGrades study, the largest annual report of its kind, analyzed patient outcomes in nearly 40 million Medicare hospitalization records from 5,000 hospitals over the years 2007, 2008 and 2009. HealthGrades rates hospitals independently based on data that hospitals sub-mit to the federal government. No hospital can opt in or out of being rated, and no hospital pays to be rated.

“This achievement speaks very highly of our physi-cians, surgery nursing staff and all our other patient care staff,” said E. Dean Beck, FCHC administrator.

FCHC gets 5-star rating

By SARAH AVERY

Raleigh News and Observer

A targeted therapy that has generated excitement for its early success in breast cancer is now being tested on other cancers, including often-deadly ovarian tumors.

Doctors and patients have eagerly anticipated the drugs, which provide an entirely new route to killing tumors that is less toxic than traditional che-motherapies.

Called PARP inhibitors, after the enzyme they tar-get, the drugs disable a key mechanism that can-cer cells employ to repair themselves. Used in com-bination with current drugs against breast can-cer, PARP inhibitors were shown to add cancer-free months to patients’ lives while causing few serious side effects.

Although many cancer treatments have shown early promise only to fade under wider scrutiny, the prospect of a whole new approach has generated buzz even in staid journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine. Last year, the journal editorial-ized on the strength of the small breast-cancer trial.

Since then, enthusiasm has only grown, with patients eagerly volun-teering for limited spots in clinical trials to gain access to the treatment.

“There are a lot of patients very interested

in this,” said Dr. Linda Van Le, an oncologist at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, who is helping enroll patients in a clinical trial of a PARP drug for ovarian cancer.

At least nine PARP inhib-itor drugs are in different phases of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval process, but none is yet on the market.

As a result, patients can get the drugs only through clinical trials. In addition to the ovarian-cancer study at UNC-Chapel Hill, trials are on tap there for lung, breast and colorectal cancers. Doctors at Duke University will soon par-ticipate in a PARP inhibi-tor trial aimed at colon cancer.

Lynn Burrell, 44, of Clayton, N.C., was the first to enroll in the ovar-ian-cancer study at N.C. Cancer Hospital in Chapel Hill, which was initially approved to enroll three patients. Van Le said her group quickly filled its quota and was allowed to enlist seven more patients. The trial is led by the drug’s manufacturer, Abbott Laboratories.

After being diagnosed with ovarian cancer last year, Burrell had a hyster-ectomy and chemothera-py. When tumors recently returned in nearby tissue, she seized the chance to try the experimental treat-ment.

“I was excited about it,” Burrell said. “Knowing there are limited chemo-therapies for ovarian can-cer, this was a great oppor-tunity.”

PARP inhibitors work in a way far different from traditional chemothera-pies, which wipe out can-cer cells but also kill or damage healthy cells. That residual damage is what causes many of chemo’s dreaded side effects, such as hair loss, nausea, mus-cle weakness and fatigue.

The new approach, which stems from discov-eries about the genetic source of tumors, is much more focused.

Research conducted on new cancer treatment

CHICAGO (AP) — Swallowing button batter-ies can be fatal or cause seri-ous harm. Severe injuries in children, though relatively scarce, are on the rise. The dangers are shown in a new medical report about 10 cases at a Utah hospital, including seven that caused severe damage.

Button batteries are widely used in dozens of household products includ-ing toys, musical greeting cards, watches and lighted shoes. Batteries pose a spe-cial swallowing risk; even if they don’t completely block the throat, they can trigger a chemical process when they lodge there that can burn through tissue within just a few hours.

“These are bad news. They have to be removed immediately,” said Dr. Fuad Baroody, a pediatric ear, nose and throat specialist.

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NEW ARRIVALS A daughter, JOCELYN

LEEANN, born July 23 to CHAD and JENNIFER FOREMAN, Defiance. Grandparents are GARY and SANDY FOREMAN, Florida, LAURIE BLOSSER and DAVE and MARSHA HOFFMAN, Defiance. JOCELYN has two sib-lings, MAKAYLAH, 9, and KALLEN, 2.

• • • A daughter, LILA GRACE,

born Aug. 1 to TONI and BRANDON SCHINDLER, Wauseon. Grandparents are STEVE and LINDA THIEL, Hicksville, DR. VINCE and LOU ANN WALDRON, Huntington, W.Va., and DAN and JUDY SCHINDLER, Ney. Great-grandparents are MARY LOU SLUSHER, Antwerp, and BOB and KATE SCHINDLER, Ney. LILA has a brother, LANE, 2.

• • • A daughter, SIENNA

LOVE, born Sept. 17 to MATT and JULIE BERRY, Columbus. Grandparents are JIM and JACKIE STONE, Defiance, and CATHY BERRY, Columbus, and the late M. PAT BERRY. Great-grandparents are the late EDWARD and AMY BROWN, and the late ROBERT and RUTH STONE. SIENNA has two siblings, AIDEN, 71⁄2, and ISABELLA, 31⁄2.

• • • A son, GARRETT

NICKOLUS, born Sept. 22 to NICK and NICOLE SHEETS, Defiance. Grandparents are DON and JANICE HELMKE and LeROY and CONNIE SHEETS, Defiance. GARRETT has a sister, EMMA GRACE, 3.

• • • A daughter, ISABEL RAE,

born Oct. 6 to LONNY and KELLY BREEN, Defiance. Grandparents are JIM and DIANE RIDENOUR, McConnelsville, and EDWARD and JEANIE BREEN, Hicksville. Great-grandparents are WILLIAM and JUNITA GARRETT, McConnelsville. ISABEL has a brother, RYAN PHILIP, 3.

• • • A daughter, TORI JO,

born Oct. 7 to SEAN and JENNY KOBILIS, Holgate. Grandparents are KIRK and LYNETTE FRUTH, Holgate, and MARY ANN MILLER, Cleveland. Great-grandparents are WAYNE FRUTH, Leipsic, and the late MARY FRUTH, MARGIE MONEGHAN, Holgate, and the late LLOYD MONEGHAN, JOANNA KOBILIS, Cleveland, and the late EDWARD KOBILIS, and the late JAMES and CAROL PECEK.

• • • A daughter, KAREENA,

born Oct. 18 to STEPHEN and RHONDA BROOKS, Defiance.

Grandparents are RAY and KELLY MELIOLI, Defiance, and MARK and WANDA BROOKS. KAREENA has two sib-lings, KALYN, 5, and KAYLIE, 2.

• • • A son, NATHAN

MICHEAL , born Oct. 19 to PAUL and MICHELLE BRINK, Continental. Grandparents are DAN KELLER, Edon, MARGARITA CERECERES, Continental, and JOHN and ANGEL BRINK, Continental. NATHAN has two siblings, RYAN, 2, and MATTHEW, 1.

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

SAIGE MEYER will be inducted into the Alpha Omega Pi Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa next month at Owens Community College.

Meyer, a business major, is the daughter of DOUG and LINDA MEYER, Deshler.

• • • Bluffton University

seniors TIM NOFZIGER of Archbold, and ZEKE TRACY, Continental, were named to the 2010 home-coming court at Bluffton University.

PAULDING — Mr. and Mrs. Ken Young of Paulding will celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary.

Ken Young and Sue Walters were married Oct. 24, 1970, by Rev. Wilbur Stiver.

The couple have two children: Greg, Odessa, Texas; and Chad (Kristi Contris), Bowling Green.

The Youngs celebrated the special occasion with a family trip to Myrtle Beach in June.

Celebrate 40 yearsMR. and MRS. KEN YOUNG

Mr. and Mrs. Larry Werling of Defiance will celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary.

Larry Werling and Nancy Wagner were married Oct. 25, 1980, at St. John Catholic Church by Rev. Thomas E. Wehinger.

The couple have three children: Brandon, South Bend, Ind.; Reyna Ham, Sylvania; and Brock, Pittsburg, Pa. They have one grandson.

Celebrate 30 yearsMR. and MRS. LARRY WERLING

DEAR ABBY: I have a problem with people in our church congregation who want to greet me with a kiss. Please advise me on how to handle this delicate situation.

I don’t want to hurt any feelings; these are nice people. However, lips carry germs, and I have a weak immune system. I have tried extending my hand in greeting, but one man smooched me any-way, saying, “I don’t shake hands with girls!” Abby, I’m 70 and hardly a “girl,” and I didn’t appreciate his rejection of my handshake.

Do you think it will work if I tell him and others that I have a conta-gious disease that causes men’s lips to dry up and fall off? — DEANNA IN FLORIDA

DEAR DEANNA: No. It would be more to the point to tell your fellow church members that you have a fragile immune system and are suscepti-ble to viruses — which is why you prefer to shake hands. It’s the truth. And if the man who smooched you continues to be a problem, talk to your cler-

gyperson about it.DEAR ABBY: I have

met my soul mate. She has the same name as my ex-wife. How do we remedy this? It is driving me nuts! — SCOTT IN WASHINGTON STATE

DEAR SCOTT: Remember when you were in school and there were several students in a class who shared the same name? Some of them would adopt a nickname. If it’s OK with your soul mate, she can

certainly do the same. But consider the upside for you. The fact that your new lady’s and ex-wife’s names match guarantees you won’t ever slip and call her by the wrong one.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

Churchgoer wants smoochers to kiss off

INESBy ANGELA

ASSAF

IFE

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Abby

Mr. and Mrs. Denny Seigman of Ayersville celebrated their45th Wedding Anniversary yesterday.

Denny Seigman and Ann Friend were married October 23, 1965, at the North Mount Zion Church located at Rice, Ohio by the late Rev. Glen Kelly.

The couple has two children: Mrs. Bruce (Lisa) Fackler, Defi ance and Scott (Karen) Seigman, Ayersville. Their son Rich is deceased.

The Seigmans have been blessed with eight grandchildren: Zack, Elijah, Emily, Luke, and Gideon Fackler; Allie, Amelia, and Ben Seigman.

The Seigmans returned recently from a cruise in Europe down the Rhine River to mark the occasion.

MR. AND MRS. DENNY SEIGMAN

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and Gretel costumes years ago, just went to the Defiance County Fair this summer as a “sweet booth” for a 4-H project.

Not all of the Camps’ projects have worked out as planned.

“Many times Beth and I started out with one idea and wound up with something different, due to ‘technical difficulties,’” humored Camp, like the time a papier mache head split in two and curled up. They used it for a witch doctor’s mask.

“There are so many cos-tumes it’s a good thing that we have pictures to remember them all,” said Camp who has stacks of photo albums chronicling their creative heritage from black and white pictures, to colored Polaroids to crisp digital images most of them taken against the backdrop of the bushes in the front yard.

Today Camp walks with a cane, and has some health issues, but her wit is still sharp as the Grim Reaper’s scythe.

“Mom always does something gross,” said Beth with an eye roll. Camp’s more de morte personages have included the “Chop Shop” hacker.

This year Camp said she plans to enjoy the parade on TV from the cozy dwell-ing of her living room.

Here’s a look back at 50 years of Camp.

THE EARLY YEARS

Where Camp grew up in Holgate, the school’s Halloween parade was “THE big event” of the year, she said. “All of the children took part in it. Costumes were anything that you could throw together.”

She won her first prize dressed as a Hawaiian girl donning a grass skirt her uncle sent home from the South Pacific. Her brother, Jim, made a plaster-of-Paris mask of Quasi Moto and went as a hunchback.

Camp learned to sew as a child from her mother, but it was home economics class that “really got me going,” she said.

“I can fix and alter most anything, but I like to start from scratch.”

MARY, MARY

To hear Camp tell it, she inherited her creativ-ity from her grandmother, Mary Voigt, after whom she was named. She was an artist and created cos-tumes for the stage she mentioned.

“My granddaughter, Mary, was named for both of us. She is talented in art and creative, as well.”

Also blessed in the arts, was Camp’s aunt, Madeline Voigt Porter. Born in Holgate, she went on to become the seventh original artist hired by Walt Disney.

HORSING AROUND

Now getting back to the horse.

“Everyone loved the horse,” said Beth.

“Mom once went as Lady Godiva on the horse. We were thrilled and embarrassed. She lost her shoe mid-parade, and tried to bend over and pick it up while inside the horse.

“That horse has been used many times, includ-ing in the Defiance Bicentennial Parade.”

She said her favorite year was when they dis-guised it as a dragon. Beth posed herself as St. George roasting a chicken on her sword in the dragon’s fiery breath.

FAVORITE THINGS

Umbrellas and suspend-ers have been key elements of design in Camp’s cos-tumes over the years. But it is the kids’ little red wagon that has set her creative feats in motion.

“That wagon has seen more use than you can imagine,” Beth remarked. “My husband, Mike, makes all of the frames and supports for the proj-ects.”

When Mary was still in pigtails, Camp transformed her into a snow queen and the wagon into a swan sleigh pulled by a horse (Beth).

“They still can’t figure out how I made the horse head,” Camp snickered.

MISTAKEN IDENTITY

When Mary was a youngster, Camp made a large dinosaur head out of cardboard and used quilt batting to stuff the body.

During the parade, Mary became visibly agi-tated along the route when onlookers misjudged her grandmother’s interpreta-tion of the tyrannical T-Rex for the portly purple dino-saur of public television fame.

“Many people thought that she was Barney (the dinosaur). Mary hated Barney. She kept yelling, ‘I’m NOT Barney!’” Beth recalled.

COSTUME MALFUNCTION

Bad thumbs today remind Camp about the time she made the sus-pender straps on her clown car costume too long.

“I had to carry it through the whole parade on my thumbs ... they have not been right since,” she mused.

After that little mishap Beth said they began to “over-secure” everything.

TRICK

THE EYE

In last year’s parade, Beth, draped in Goth attire, caught the atten-

tion of eyes everywhere as she pulled along a three-fourths mannequin named the Raven Queen.

She recalled, “People actually thought it was a real woman. They kept saying, ‘How can that poor woman stay on her knees for so long?’”

BETTER LATE

THAN NEVER

Three years must have seemed like an eternity for Ima Corpse to get her 30 minutes of fame. (Her newspaper-stuffed body had seen its better days.)

She was laid to rest in a fetching purple lace dress

inside a life-size coffin with bat wing closure.

Beth recalled, “The cof-fin lid acted like a sail and would catch the wind. By the third year the weather cooperated and she was able to go.”

She said they always had a “back-up plan” in case of bad weather.

PURE ‘CAMP’

This year the Camps plan to keep it real.

“We don’t want to give too much away ... We are still deciding whether it is possible from the ‘engi-neering standpoint,’” said Beth coyly, and then added

that a “human” orange barrel and striped cone, and a wagon full of green pipes is one idea on the table.

A role for the grandsons, perhaps?

“The boys are still a little young to go,” said Beth about Brandon, 2, and Aydon, 1. “Aydon would probably eat Brandon’s costume,” as he has done in previous years.

Great-grandmother Camp is already eyeing the possibilities for next year.

“I’ll be the seamstress for whatever they come up with.”

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Delightfully DownhomeGive a nod to this winning 3-bed-room ranch. Among its features are a new kitchen with laminate floor-ing, Gas fireplace in the family room and in Ayersville Schools.Sitting on a spacious lot & ready for a new owner. Call Matt 199Z

Win Both Value & Comfort!Dollar-smart, 4BR/2BA Traditional-style situated on .50 acres. This enticing single-level features formal dining room, family room and mas-ter suite. Main-level laundry, electric heat. Deck. Call Chris. $89,900. 342Z

New Price!Have hours of fun and enjoy the wonderful view of this 1997 3 bedroom, 2 bath home. Enjoy the summer,river breezes while you relax in the hot tub on the custom deck w/fire pit. $89,900 #331Z Loraine 789-0547 331Z

Brick Ranch On Double Lot Inquire today to see this 3 BR home featuring LG eat-in kitchen w/built-in appliances, spacious LR, full base-ment w/rec rm. 2.5 car gar. + covered carport. NEW roof shingles. Only $98,500. SUSAN HALE,Realtor www.susanhale.com 100Z1

Sunday, October 24 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.

221 Johnson CircleHurry to obtain this cheerful 3-bedroom ranch conveniently lo-cated on the north side. Amazing new kitchen, recent roof, vinyl windows, gas heat, central air, large deck, and all stone exterior.

$119,900 Call Brent 784-3054. 100Z3

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Brent JoostBroker / Owner

Office 784-3054

Cell 438-4486

Loraine DuerkRealtor

Office 784-3022

Cell 789-0547

Laurie MerillatRealtor

Office 784-3050

Cell 576-0000

Matt JoostRealtor/Owner

Office 784-3070

Cell 438-0790

Chris RicicaRealtor

Office 784-4603

Cell 783-1518

Susan HaleRealtor

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Michael G. BoffRealtor

Office 784-3049

Cell 438-3460

Jim NusbaumRealtor

Office 784-3198

Cell 576-7648

Donna BaldwinRealtor

Office 782-3378

Cell 576-6668

20805 State Route 637Look at the values in this pleasant 3 BR home amid rural-area charm. NEWER: kitchen & bath updates, 6 panel oak doors, windows, vinyl sid-ing, blacktop drive, roof shingles & MORE! $109,900. Call SUSAN HALE 419-784-3126 (343Z) 343z

Need Space?Surprising space in this newly-roofed 3BR/2+BA brick home. Highlights of this delightful home are spacious living room with fireplace, main-level master, covered porch. Bonus effi-ciency apartment for added income. Call Matt 198Z

Enticing Vintage!Discover the appeal of this 3 BR beauty offering privacy fenced backyard w/patio & deck. Pleas-ing updated kitchen & bath, crown moldings, hdwd floors, formal dining, basement,deck. $114,500 Call SUSAN HALE 419-784-3126 158Z

Beautiful 1910 Home!Step into the charm of an era gone by! while enjoying the amenities of today. Central Air,upgraded wiring,hardwood floors, ornately detailed pillars & built-ins, including leaded glass buffet. $119,900 Loraine 789-0547 173Y

WOW What a Beauty! $189,900Refurbished hardwood floors, amaz-ing kitchen with granite countertops & breakfast area. New tiled bath with separate tub & shower. Grand entry,open staircase, oversized front porch, character & charm are bounti-ful! Call Matt 193Z

Lots Of AppealCheck the joys of this 4-bedroom Contempo. An enviable residence with winter-retreat sun room, main-level master suite,full basement, sun-room and beautiful fenced backyard. Meticulously maintained! Call Matt 419-784-3070 136Z

Enjoy your leisure time!Stop spending your free time cutting the lawn, raking the leaves, removing the snow. Tour this beautiful 3 bed-room,2 bath villa w/beautiful hard-wood floors + 4 season sunroom. $174,900 Loraine 789-0547..Villas of Berkshire 131Y

Here Is A Very Smart Buy!Be prepared to fall for this win-ning 3BR/2BA single-level in Tinora Schools. This enticing home features both living and family rooms and is in move in condition. Only $139,900 for a quick sale. Call Brent at 784-3054. 100Z8

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2117 Power Dam Open 1-2 SundayOwn this 3 bedroom home with spacious kitchen and dinette,and separate family room.Nice treed lot close to Bronson Park...gas heat +central air. Wouldn't you love monthly payments below

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Located: 403 W. Brown Road, Montpelier, OhioHouse is located in a very nice residential area, approximately 1/2 mile from (New) K-12 Montpelier Schools. This is a 1698 sq. ft. home, on a crawl space, with addition & 12’ x 24’ storage building. OPEN HOUSE: Sunday, Oct. 17 (1:00 – 2:00 PM) or by AppointmentTERMS: $3,000 down (non-refundable) auction day w/balance due on or before Nov. 25, 2010. POSSESSION: On deed delivery. TAXES: Prorated. All announcements made auction day take precedence over all printed materials.

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Mary statues white con-crete 21" $25. 26" $45.Great funeral, patio, gar-

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Old brown Frigidare refrig-erator. Used kitchen sink

white sandstone. Both free.(419) 592-8686

Refrigerator almond colorworks great $60. Printer/fax/scanner/copier $15.

Call (419) 956-9715

Falls Creek 32X32 linedcarpenter jeans like new(paid $20) great for out-

doorsman $7. 784-0578

Kids playstation games -Rescue Heroes, Bob the

Builder, Sponge Bob,Dora,$5 Ph.419-782-0568

40 gallon gas water heater,$40. Sgteel pet cage,

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AB lounger Ultra,$75. Call (419) 393-2810

Dresser with mirror $50.Table chairs $25. Call (419)

782-9400

Hot Wheels robo wheelsextreme half pipe track set,

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Framed turkey prints,hunting book and

2 collectors knives, $75.Call (419) 592-5727

Baby clothes boys com-plete wardrobe, sizes

6-9mo. & 12mo. Used by 1child $20. (419) 782-2747

14 Ladies Dickies for neck$5. All Groovy lava

yellow/red motion light $7,excellent. (419) 438-9550

(1) sheet drywall, 10' high,$5. Old wooden tool chest,$40. Call (419) 782-3096

Stainless steel double sink& Moen faucets $75. Call

(419) 594-2994

Vattey camper sway barcontrol $75. 419-782-2418

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electric 5 gal. water bucket$10. 419 596 4705

White youth bed with halfrails $50. Hicksville Call

(419) 542-8691

Coats-mens 46L suede$25. Ladies size L, 2 @

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2 three speed bikes onemans, one womans good

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Solid maple coffee table,good condition, $65. Call

(419) 267-3361

Barbie Ice Cream Shoppe1987 edition, $60. Call

(419) 653-4783

Mid-calf length wool andmohair winter-white coat,

size 8-10, very dressy,$75. (419) 782-0375

42" Simplicity mower deck,3 new spindles, fits 5000

6000 tractors excellent $75OBO. (419) 576-9770

Bassett furniture oak head-board, dresser, chest with

2 mirrors $75. (419)393-2081

Salamander 150,000 BTUheater $50. 20 inch TV$25. (419) 769-5865

White wicker chair, $20.Coffee table, 5' long, $20.old homemade desk, $15.

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Whirlpool almond 18cu.ft.refrigerator $75. Call (419)

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Wilson's leather coat,brown XL, like new. $60.

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(10) Fishing lurers signedby Bobby Knight only $7ea.Call Travis 419-596-3453

or 419-438-6535

Picnic table, two benches,redwood by Vandi Craft,stored inside $75. Call

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Kenmore gas dryer, heavyduty, excellent condition,

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Pilates rowing exercise ma-chine in good condition.$75. Call (419) 393-2658

Free for hauling 2-55 gallondrums. Must take both. Call

(260) 228-0862

Women's 3X leather coat,$40. Call (419) 770-0163

Stereo & stereo stand $25.Ironing board full size $5.

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3 Sewing machines for$75. Call after 1pm (419)

439-3380

FREE kittens- calicotortoise shell, pretty! TVstand with cabinets, $25.

Call (419) 438-6074

5 Doz. pint jars $15. Call(419) 592-0107

Free Mother cat, 3 kittensto good farm home, blacktiger, white black, white.

Call (419) 782-0017

Commercial display case,lighted, $75.

Call (419) 439-1928

275 gallon oil tank, 2yrs.old. $75. Call (419)

395-1439

Sliding glass window patiodoor with door frame $75.

Call (419) 784-0733

set wooden french doorsno jam fits 60 in. opening

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Free to a good home minischnauzer, female great

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Aluminum cap,fits short bed S-10, $35.

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$75. cash for 100+ 16"x8"x4" concrete blocks, 20+building blocks, (2) 26"x12"x2.75", assorted 20drain tile 419-261-1926

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Graco Totyard, like new,$15. Portable play pin onwheels or in carry bag, likenew, $15. 419-439-2014

Bombay black cat, female,white male, white female

cats. FREE to good home.Call (419) 789-3552

Good bikes, girls 16", 18",boys Thunder 24" $20ea.

Call (419) 789-0980

Dayton heater 150,000BTU natural gas

contractors type, $75.Call (419) 445-3263

Old mirror, excellentcondition, $20. TV,

excellent condition, $25.Call (419) 784-0507

Ice fishing shanty 38"X48"plywood floor 2"X4" run-

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15 Name brand mensshirts XL, good condition,Tommy, Gap. $10 for all.

Call (419) 782-8589

Wood lawn tractor utilitytrailer, $35. Black & Decker

electric lawn edger, $30.Call (419) 784-5752

2 Aluminum 15" rims, fitPontiac Montana van, $40.

(419) 596-4203

Men's 15# Brunswick &Manhattan (rubber) bowlingballs, $10ea. Dual bowlingbag $25obo. 419-274-6635

Girls clothing..Huge lot of2T and 3T girls clothing

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Cordless Milwaukee drill14.4 volt flashlight charger& case, works well, $75.

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TV 31" Hatachi excellentcondition $75 call

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2 Dresser top fish tanks, 1black & 1 aqua, complete.$15 each. (419) 783-1293

Free to a good home 10moold Great Dane. Call (419)782-7822 after 1pm. Seri-

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5 Cement culverts 2ft. inner4ft. long, free you pick up &haul. Call (419) 264-5980

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Washer, white, Frigidaire,works great $75. Call (419)

783-1298

Free Rex bunny plus smallcage. Call(419) 439-4278

Xbox 360, no hard drive,one controller, all cables in-

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Free kittens. Male & fe-male. Litter box trained.

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Materials for 10'X14' shedexcept shingles. Can de-

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36" White Vinyl ScreenDoor $20.00 419-789-0776

Sharp 27" TV, very nice,$25. Bunk bed mattress

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1941 Defiance yearbookgreat condition $20. Battery

charger 2-10-50 $20. Jr.size guitar, $25. 782-0006

Deer stand A. MacherClimber type $25. Stick lad-der deer stand $25. Call

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2-Mens bowling balls withlarge black bag, asking $55

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15 bags of educational aids@$3.00 per bag.

419-428-3451

Graco infant car seat car-rier 5-22lb. One child excel-lent 2 bases with heat sup-port $40. (419) 784-0930

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1548 S. Clinton St.

248 Garage SalesDefiance City

249 Garage SalesDefiance County

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8306 ST RT 15 North 2Bedroom Country down-

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1 BR, includes all utilities &appliances, references

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2 BR, near mall, TinoraSchools, 5109 Havenwood,

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Defiance 3 Bedroom,1.5 bath ranch with largefenced in yard south of De-fiance. Attached 2 car gar-age, washer/dryer hook up.$600/per month. LakeviewDrive. Call 260-760-0126.

Excellent UrbanLocation!

Newly renovated spacious2-bedroom apartment with

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$750 rent.($350 in utilities included,

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419-784-0819.

Duplex 2 rental units inNapoleon, $1000 rental

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3 BR, 860 Maple St. Nap.Lease, deposit, good refer-

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412 Douglas, $19,90018930 Road 111, $22,500

Call Donna at ReMax419-782-3378

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WOODED ACRES1051 Ralston Ave.(Next to Diehl Park)

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references. (419) 784-0700

355 Wanted to BuyWelcome Home!!!

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Drywall jack Nearly new,used for one job. 10' liftingheight. Folds for storage.

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3BR, 1.5BA, ranch, 2 cargarage, $725/$725. CallLaurie @ ReMax (419)

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2.5 Acre lot-FairviewSchools, $11,900, $1000down, $129mo.; 5 Acre lotw/new septic, well, drive-

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405 Open Houses

403 Tacoma Very large 3bedrooms, large living

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419-345-8536

Single man, 53 lookingfor small house to rent.No kids. Must allow cat.

Call 419-789-3199

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425 Land Sale /Rent

For Sale: White maleGerman Shepherd dog,

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Perdido Bay, Pensacola,Florida Vacation Home;

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2 BR on Euclid Ave.W/D hook up, large yard,

storage shed, tenantpays all utilities. $400/mo.+ deposit. (419) 782-3665

leave message.

2280sq.ft. building,$1875mo. rent. Call Donna

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Opportunity of a Lifetime!24 unit mobile home parkwith expansion approved.15 acres. Bank authorizessale at $149,000. Call fordetails (941) 356-5308

1 Male, 1 Female GermanShepherd puppies.

3 1/2mo. old. AKC, 1stshots & wormed. $400.

Call (419) 212-3576

1954 Chevy Bel Airstation wagon, 6cyl.,

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EliSchlatter,

Sales

JimStykemain,

Owner

IanGochenour

Sales

WANT A 2011 CHEVY EQUINOX? WE’VE GOT 3 OF THEM!!!

2011 CHEVY TRAVERSEbluetooth, 8 passenger

LEASE FOR$366.42/MO*

14501 Sausman Rd. Sher-wood, Sat. & Sun. 9a-5p

Holiday deco., TV's, MP3's,freezer,tanning bed & more

Infant & toddler toys, girlsclothes NB-2T, women's &Jr. clothing, changing table,

bassinet & more.Sat. & Sun. 8-4

1548 S. Clinton St.

248 Garage SalesDefiance City

249 Garage SalesDefiance County

Mary statues white con-crete 21" $25. 26" $45.Great funeral, patio, gar-

den, excellent. 789-3780

Old brown Frigidare refrig-erator. Used kitchen sink

white sandstone. Both free.(419) 592-8686

Refrigerator almond colorworks great $60. Printer/fax/scanner/copier $15.

Call (419) 956-9715

Falls Creek 32X32 linedcarpenter jeans like new(paid $20) great for out-

doorsman $7. 784-0578

Kids playstation games -Rescue Heroes, Bob the

Builder, Sponge Bob,Dora,$5 Ph.419-782-0568

40 gallon gas water heater,$40. Sgteel pet cage,

24x20x21, high collapsa-ble, $25. (419) 633-0158

AB lounger Ultra,$75. Call (419) 393-2810

Dresser with mirror $50.Table chairs $25. Call (419)

782-9400

Hot Wheels robo wheelsextreme half pipe track set,

was gift $10. (419)782-8286

Framed turkey prints,hunting book and

2 collectors knives, $75.Call (419) 592-5727

Baby clothes boys com-plete wardrobe, sizes

6-9mo. & 12mo. Used by 1child $20. (419) 782-2747

14 Ladies Dickies for neck$5. All Groovy lava

yellow/red motion light $7,excellent. (419) 438-9550

(1) sheet drywall, 10' high,$5. Old wooden tool chest,$40. Call (419) 782-3096

Stainless steel double sink& Moen faucets $75. Call

(419) 594-2994

Vattey camper sway barcontrol $75. 419-782-2418

or 419-784-2427

electric 5 gal. water bucket$10. 419 596 4705

White youth bed with halfrails $50. Hicksville Call

(419) 542-8691

Coats-mens 46L suede$25. Ladies size L, 2 @

$15, 1 @ $25. All like new.(419) 782-1396

2 three speed bikes onemans, one womans good

condition, $37.50 ea.phone 419-782-9286

Solid maple coffee table,good condition, $65. Call

(419) 267-3361

Barbie Ice Cream Shoppe1987 edition, $60. Call

(419) 653-4783

Mid-calf length wool andmohair winter-white coat,

size 8-10, very dressy,$75. (419) 782-0375

42" Simplicity mower deck,3 new spindles, fits 5000

6000 tractors excellent $75OBO. (419) 576-9770

Bassett furniture oak head-board, dresser, chest with

2 mirrors $75. (419)393-2081

Salamander 150,000 BTUheater $50. 20 inch TV$25. (419) 769-5865

White wicker chair, $20.Coffee table, 5' long, $20.old homemade desk, $15.

Call (419) 899-2465

Whirlpool 4 cycle dish-washer looks & works great$50 419 263 3158 PLEASE

leave message

Whirlpool almond 18cu.ft.refrigerator $75. Call (419)

398-2115

Wilson's leather coat,brown XL, like new. $60.

Call (419) 393-2274

(10) Fishing lurers signedby Bobby Knight only $7ea.Call Travis 419-596-3453

or 419-438-6535

Picnic table, two benches,redwood by Vandi Craft,stored inside $75. Call

(419) 592-5382

Kenmore gas dryer, heavyduty, excellent condition,

looks like new, $75.Call 419-274-6155

Pilates rowing exercise ma-chine in good condition.$75. Call (419) 393-2658

Free for hauling 2-55 gallondrums. Must take both. Call

(260) 228-0862

Women's 3X leather coat,$40. Call (419) 770-0163

Stereo & stereo stand $25.Ironing board full size $5.

(419) 782-8298

3 Sewing machines for$75. Call after 1pm (419)

439-3380

FREE kittens- calicotortoise shell, pretty! TVstand with cabinets, $25.

Call (419) 438-6074

5 Doz. pint jars $15. Call(419) 592-0107

Free Mother cat, 3 kittensto good farm home, blacktiger, white black, white.

Call (419) 782-0017

Commercial display case,lighted, $75.

Call (419) 439-1928

275 gallon oil tank, 2yrs.old. $75. Call (419)

395-1439

Sliding glass window patiodoor with door frame $75.

Call (419) 784-0733

set wooden french doorsno jam fits 60 in. opening

$45 419-782-1235

Free to a good home minischnauzer, female great

with older children & dogs419.438.4474 call or text

Aluminum cap,fits short bed S-10, $35.

Call (419) 393-2733

$75. cash for 100+ 16"x8"x4" concrete blocks, 20+building blocks, (2) 26"x12"x2.75", assorted 20drain tile 419-261-1926

Kittens Free kittens419 784 2479

Graco Totyard, like new,$15. Portable play pin onwheels or in carry bag, likenew, $15. 419-439-2014

Bombay black cat, female,white male, white female

cats. FREE to good home.Call (419) 789-3552

Good bikes, girls 16", 18",boys Thunder 24" $20ea.

Call (419) 789-0980

Dayton heater 150,000BTU natural gas

contractors type, $75.Call (419) 445-3263

Old mirror, excellentcondition, $20. TV,

excellent condition, $25.Call (419) 784-0507

Ice fishing shanty 38"X48"plywood floor 2"X4" run-

ners canvas pop up top ,$50. (419) 446-4639

15 Name brand mensshirts XL, good condition,Tommy, Gap. $10 for all.

Call (419) 782-8589

Wood lawn tractor utilitytrailer, $35. Black & Decker

electric lawn edger, $30.Call (419) 784-5752

2 Aluminum 15" rims, fitPontiac Montana van, $40.

(419) 596-4203

Men's 15# Brunswick &Manhattan (rubber) bowlingballs, $10ea. Dual bowlingbag $25obo. 419-274-6635

Girls clothing..Huge lot of2T and 3T girls clothing

items, over 100 items, allfor $50. 419-782-9062

Cordless Milwaukee drill14.4 volt flashlight charger& case, works well, $75.

Call (419) 587-3326

TV 31" Hatachi excellentcondition $75 call

4195760399

David's Bridal bridesmaiddress, champagne color,size 12, like new, $75.

(419) 399-0703

2 Coca Cola bears $6. 2Sm lamps pink $6. Treas-

ure Turtle, Sweet Honesty$8. (419) 596-3591

2 Dresser top fish tanks, 1black & 1 aqua, complete.$15 each. (419) 783-1293

Free to a good home 10moold Great Dane. Call (419)782-7822 after 1pm. Seri-

ous inquires only please.

5 Cement culverts 2ft. inner4ft. long, free you pick up &haul. Call (419) 264-5980

(2) Goodyear P225/60R16tires, good, $20 each. Call

(419) 393-2971

Washer, white, Frigidaire,works great $75. Call (419)

783-1298

Free Rex bunny plus smallcage. Call(419) 439-4278

Xbox 360, no hard drive,one controller, all cables in-

cluded, $75. (419)980-9481

Free kittens. Male & fe-male. Litter box trained.

Great for kids, cat lovers ofall ages. (419) 235-8762

27" RCA Color TV worksgreat $50.00 or o.b.o

419-789-0776

Bunk bed mattress, excel-lent condition, $50. Leave

message. 419-769-0870

Materials for 10'X14' shedexcept shingles. Can de-

liver. $75. (419) 782-6907

36" White Vinyl ScreenDoor $20.00 419-789-0776

Sharp 27" TV, very nice,$25. Bunk bed mattress

$50. (419) 782-4731

1941 Defiance yearbookgreat condition $20. Battery

charger 2-10-50 $20. Jr.size guitar, $25. 782-0006

Deer stand A. MacherClimber type $25. Stick lad-der deer stand $25. Call

(419) 497-5395

Two free pet goats to agood home. Call419-439-0640

2-Mens bowling balls withlarge black bag, asking $55

for all. (419) 630-8827

15 bags of educational aids@$3.00 per bag.

419-428-3451

Graco infant car seat car-rier 5-22lb. One child excel-lent 2 bases with heat sup-port $40. (419) 784-0930

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CLASSIFIED The Crescent-News • Sunday, October 24, 2010

The Beginner HorsebackRiding Clinic Starts Nov.13. 6wk. program-special

rate. Call Cathy Ohms(419) 770-0228

Maple Leaf FarmWe Buy Goats.Call 419-576-8158

260 Horses /Livestock

Grass & Alfalfa HayStarting at $2.50/bale &

up. 419-769-5760

231 Hay / Straw

Prime Ohio Farmland408+ Acres (8 tracts)

Thurs., Oct. 28 6 pmHenry Co., Harrison Twp.,

Napoleon, OHProductive, tillable land.

Potential commercial sites.Auction location:

VFW # 82181008 N. Perry St.

Napoleon, OH. 43545Sellers: Marcella M. & Lyle

Brink TrustOffered by: Schrader Real

Estate & Auction Co.www.schraderauction.com

Apples , Cider, FallDecor & PotatoesMahnke Orchards

Co. Rd. 16 between R & S(Napoleon) 419-598-8655

Defiance Farmers MarketThurs. 12p-4p • Sat. 9-NoonNorthtowne Mall parking lot

LAST DAY OCT. 30th

230 Farm Products/ Produce

Large AuctionRandy A. Ball Estate

Sat., Oct. 30 - 9 AM3 Real Estate Parcels

plus Sports Memorabilia,Collectables, Household,

Tools, Related

Entire Auction will be heldat Gorrell Bros. Auction

Facility - 1201 N. WilliamsSt., Paulding, OH

Call 419-399-4066 or visitwww.gorrellbros-pauding.com

for more information

Flat bed wagon 8X14,new plank floor, $600.

Call (419) 786-9231

225 FarmEquipment

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P & T GuttersFree estimates

Call (419) 782-7858

Jet Contracting &Consulting. Home

improvements, garages,pole barns, asphalt & steelroofing. Free estimates.

Call 419-296-9107 or419-594-3210

845 HomeImprovement

B & C Construction LLCRoofing, Drywall, Windows,

Doors, Kitchen's & Bath.Custom Remodeling. 419-769-0033 • 419-782-3748

N.W. SEPTIC SERVICEHaving septic, sewer, or

water line problems?Call 419-658-2400 orCell# 419-615-5981

Central BoilerOutdoor Wood

Furnaces starting at $4990.Limited Time Offer. Instant

rebates up to $1,000.419-267-5196

840 Heating1010 Septic

Systems

Sanchez Junk RemovalFor free; scrap metal, etc.

419-769-JUNK (5865)

Fry Painting: Quality work,Reasonable Rates. FREEEstimates. (419) 395-2614

08450-KITCHEN CENTERHOME SUPPL-40550

830 Hauling925 Painting

E & M BuildersWe build pole barnsand redo old barns.

(260) 238-4551

Thoz-GuyzLandscaping, tree & shrub

trimming. Misc. outdoorwork. 419-438-3601

860 Landscaping

INSULATION-new/existingattics & side walls. FreeEstimates 419.769.6004

Are you ready for Winter?Is your roof in bad shape?

Do you need windows?Could you use new siding?Is your family expanding &

you need extra room?CALL US we can help!

Barth Builders& Supply, Inc419-782-1141

We also have wooded lotsfor sale, Hillcrest #4

Evan Drive. Defiance.

American GeneralConstruction, post build-

ings 30X40X8 $7900,40X60X12 $14,900,50X80X14 $22,900,60X96X16, $34,900.

29 Guage Metal.~ 260-223-0548 ~

850 Insulation

The Gutter GuySeamless Gutters** FREE ** Estimates

419- 576-8288

RUBIO RENOVATIONSFor all your Home Repairs,

Registered & Insured.(419) 784-0029

Ace BuildersAmish crew wants any type

work. Pole Buildings,Garages, Re-roofs, or RoomAdditions. FREE estimates!

260.625.2327

845 HomeImprovement

720 Construction 845 HomeImprovement

05000 AD11725820 756SNYDER

CHEVROLET

05000 AD11725826 756SNYDER

PONTIAC BUICK CADILLAC & GMC

500 Automobiles 500 Automobiles

00150 AD10670097 388.8PROMOTIONS

- Classifieds

14ft. Aluminum Craftsemi V boat & trailer

$500. Call (419) 258-1710

05 Forest River Cherokee34', 15' slide out, excellentcondition, $9950. 393-2116

1994 Chevy 1/2 ton Reg.cab, 5.7 V8 short bed,green, 2wd, runs great,

good shape, tires like new,250,000mi., $1500 Firm.

Call (419) 399-9554

00150 AD10670189 129.6PROMOTIONS

- Classifieds

535 RVs &Campers

1996 Chevy S10 LS Ext.cab pick up. 4WD, 97,212

actual miles. Must see$3900. (419) 784-3727

Winterizing Jet Skis& Outboards $34.95

Inboards/Outboards $64.95Pontoon trailer rental.

Sherry Sales & Service9917 RD 171 Oakwood,

OH (419) 594-3305

78 Chevy 3/4 Ton 4X4,$800 OBO. Call (419)428-1300 after 5:30

2000 Dyna Low Rider Har-ley Davidson, new paint.$10,000. (419) 784-0339

99 Chevy 4X4 Blazer,4dr,white,leather,good condi-

tion. $3300 419-399-2665

520 Boats

1981 Honda CB custom900, low miles $600. obo.

Call (419) 438-1837

1988 Ford 150, mechani-cally perfect, rough body,

$1050. (419) 899-2241

2001 Ford Ranger Edge,ext. cab, red, nice, 16" Mi-

chelin tires, 118K miles,$7200 OBO. 419-371-6640

ATV FALL SPECIALSwww.5spanmarina.comClick on Current Specials

419-393-2530

GOOD USED TIRESFor Sale• Most Sizes, also start-

ers and alternators We buycars not running, top price

INDOOR AUTOMART(419) 784-2500

1991 Ford F250 heavyduty 4X4. V-8 auto, body &

paint very good. $1900.Call 419-439-5557

05000 AD11728001 288STYKEMAIN

PONTIAC-BUICK-GMC LTD

2004 Dodge Ram 1500Quad cab, SLT, 4x4, loaded.80K miles, black, 20" rims,$12,800 OBO. 5.7 Hemi.

Great condition.419-592-3448

1989 Conversion van,rebuilt motor, some rust,

runs good, good condi-tion, $1500 OBO or trade

for car of equal value.Call 419-789-9652

540 Trucks / SUVs 545 Vans540 Trucks / SUVs510 Auto Parts /Accessories

530 Motorcycles /ATVs

500 Automobiles

■ C8

P & T GuttersFree estimates

Call (419) 782-7858

Jet Contracting &Consulting. Home

improvements, garages,pole barns, asphalt & steelroofing. Free estimates.

Call 419-296-9107 or419-594-3210

845 HomeImprovement

B & C Construction LLCRoofing, Drywall, Windows,

Doors, Kitchen's & Bath.Custom Remodeling. 419-769-0033 • 419-782-3748

gg

N.W. SEPTIC SERVICEHaving septic, sewer, or

water line problems?Call 419-658-2400 orCell# 419-615-5981

Central BoilerOutdoor Wood

Furnaces starting at $4990.Limited Time Offer. Instant

rebates up to $1,000.419-267-5196

840 Heating1010 Septic

Systems

Sanchez Junk RemovalFor free; scrap metal, etc.

419-769-JUNK (5865)

Fry Painting: Quality work,Reasonable Rates. FREEEstimates. (419) 395-2614

830 Hauling925 Painting

E & M BuildersWe build pole barnsand redo old barns.

(260) 238-4551

Thoz-GuyzLandscaping, tree & shrub

yy

trimming. Misc. outdoorwork. 419-438-3601

860 Landscaping

INSULATION-new/existingattics & side walls. FreeEstimates 419.769.6004

Are you ready for Winter?Is your roof in bad shape?

Do you need windows?Could you use new siding?Is your family expanding &

you need extra room?CALL US we can help!

Barth Builders& Supply, Inc419-782-1141

We also have wooded lotsfor sale, Hillcrest #4

Evan Drive. Defiance.

American GeneralConstruction, post build-

ings 30X40X8 $7900,40X60X12 $14,900,50X80X14 $22,900,60X96X16, $34,900.

29 Guage Metal.~ 260-223-0548 ~

gg

850 Insulation

The Gutter GuySeamless Gutters** FREE ** Estimates

419- 576-8288

RUBIO RENOVATIONSFor all your Home Repairs,

Registered & Insured.(419) 784-0029

Ace BuildersAmish crew wants any type

work. Pole Buildings,Garages, Re-roofs, or RoomAdditions. FREE estimates!

260.625.2327

845 HomeImprovement

720 Construction 845 HomeImprovement

The Beginner HorsebackRiding Clinic Starts Nov.13. 6wk. program-special

rate. Call Cathy Ohms(419) 770-0228

Maple Leaf FarmWe Buy Goats.Call 419-576-8158

260 Horses /Livestock

Grass & Alfalfa HayStarting at $2.50/bale &

up. 419-769-5760

231 Hay / Straw

Prime Ohio Farmland408+ Acres (8 tracts)

Thurs., Oct. 28 6 pmHenry Co., Harrison Twp.,

Napoleon, OHProductive, tillable land.

Potential commercial sites.Auction location:

VFW # 82181008 N. Perry St.

Napoleon, OH. 43545Sellers: Marcella M. & Lyle

Brink TrustOffered by: Schrader Real

Estate & Auction Co.www.schraderauction.com

Apples , Cider, FallDecor & PotatoesMahnke Orchards

Co. Rd. 16 between R & S(Napoleon) 419-598-8655

Defiance Farmers MarketThurs. 12p-4p • Sat. 9-NoonNorthtowne Mall parking lot

LAST DAY OCT. 30th

230 Farm Products/ Produce

Large AuctionRandy A. Ball Estate

Sat., Oct. 30 - 9 AM3 Real Estate Parcels

plus Sports Memorabilia,Collectables, Household,

Tools, Related

Entire Auction will be heldat Gorrell Bros. Auction

Facility - 1201 N. WilliamsSt., Paulding, OH

Call 419-399-4066 or visitwww.gorrellbros-pauding.com

for more informationg p gg p

Flat bed wagon 8X14,new plank floor, $600.

Call (419) 786-9231

225 FarmEquipment

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