Sports & recreation
January 19, 2011
Northwest Press
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Ladies golf outing a 1st for X-Travaganza
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Perfect record
The Seven Hills Middle School boys’ soccer team – which includes a Colerain Township resident – ends the season with a perfect 19-0 record, a Miami Valley Conference Championship win and a first-place finish in the CHCA Invitational Tournament. During the season, the boys scored 76 goals and only allowed four. Goalies Kevin Brenning and Stefan Antonsson combined for 15 shutouts. In front are coach Bob Zepf, Connor Barnhart, Tigar Cyr, Carl Compton, Evan Smithers, Ike Lanier, Ben Nordmeye, Jared Fisher, Jared Nelson, Duncan Gibson, George Karamanoukian; in back are coach Mike Schnirring, coach Mike Heis, Brian Hills, Swede Moorman, Dale Reich, Ryan Green, Jackson Callow, Jules Baretta, Turner Anderson, Leo Fried, Tucker Robinson, Andrew Head, Kevin Brenning, Josh Weaver of Colerain Township, Jeff Dedeker, Stefan Antonsson and George Davis.
BRIEFLY The week at Roger Bacon
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The week in Press Preps
• Tony Meale reported on Colerain football players heading to Ohio State for a college visit. • Nick Dudukovich reported on the Ohio High School Athletic Association’s actions meant to balance scales between private and public school athletics. • We ran an item about a Jan. 16 high school boxing event featuring Moeller, Elder, La Salle and McAuley. • We listed the sporting event changes when the snow hit Tuesday, Jan. 11. To see this week’s stories and other blog entries, visit cincinnati.com/blogs/ presspreps
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The Mercy HealthPlex Sea Cubs provide the transition from swim lessons to swim team. The focus is on the four competitive strokes, starts, turns, conditioning and safe diving technique. With a small swimmer to coach ratio this is the perfect way to prepare for swim team or just stay conditioned. For registration or additional information, call Annie Macke at 3895498 or e-mail: asmacke@healthpartners.org.
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Spring sports signups
The White Oak Athletic Club have sports signups for spring. Register now at www.woac.org, or in person from 6-8 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 20, at the White Oak Athletic Club at Haubner Field at the end of White Oak Drive in White Oak. • Monfort Heights AA spring sports signups are scheduled for 6-8 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 26; and 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 12, inside Monfort Heights Elementary School The signups are for baseball, softball and soccer.
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Real Estate Wisdom Changing? Conventional wisdom with respect to selling a home might be falling by the wayside. Over the years, research on home sales has suggested the best season to sell a home is spring. Buyer demand has traditionally built through spring and into the summer months, when families often prefer to move because doing so does not force parents to uproot their children from school in the middle of the school year. However, as the economy has struggled over the last couple of years, so, too, has the real estate market. According to the S&P/Case-Shiller home price index, home prices decreased by 28 percent from their national peak in the second quarter of 2006 to the end of 2009. Such figures have turned conventional real estate wisdom on its head, as have tax credits to encourage first time buyers to buy homes. In 2010, first time home buyers who closed on a home by April 30, 2010 received an $8,000 credit. As a result, home sales figures in February and March were expected to be higherthan in years past, and therefore lower in the ensuing months. For those homeowners forced to sell a home in less desirable seasons like winter, real estate professionals typically advise selling up certain points of the home. Suggestions include decorating a home for the holidays and shoveling any walkways or driveways should snow arrive while a house is on the market. What’s more, sellers selling in off-seasons should be realistic about their selling price at the outset, as buyers might be reticent to buy in a season where so few homes are on the market. Selling a home at a desirable asking price, however, might increase buyer interest.
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outing banquet like that one,” said Ralph Nardini (St. X ’77), the school's vice president for development. “The ladies were having a great time with one another and really into the spirit of supporting the boys. They were cheering for all the raffles and the golf awards. It was a lot of fun.” “We made about $5,000 for X-Trav,” said Sara Schindler, X-Travaganza director. “For a first-time event, I'm very happy with the way it went. We couldn't have asked for a better a better group of ladies or for a better day in terms of the weather. I feel like we've established a great new tradition.” X-Travaganza, presented by The Corporex Family of Companies, raises funds for tuition assistance. The annual X-Travaganza dinner auction will take place Saturday, March 12. Visit www.stxavier.org for event details, the upcoming online auction in November and the grand raffle starting in January.
REAL ESTATE THIS WEEK
Mercy High School senior Erika Leonard, with parents Sherri and Jayme of Colerain Township, signs a National Letter of Intent Nov. 12 to play fastpitch softball at Florida State University.
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• The Roger Bacon girls basketball team lost 59-26 to Badin, Jan. 8. Bacon was led in scoring by Markisha Rainey with nine points. • In boys bowling, Roger Bacon scored 2,688 to beat St. Xavier’s 2,559 and Fenwick’s 2,361, Jan. 13. Roger Bacon’s Nate Frock bowled a 444, and Kyle Koester bowled a 428. • In girls bowling, Roger Bacon beat Fenwick 2,0131,760, Jan. 13. Bacon’s Darci Meiners bowled a 339.
It was a day for the ladies at Makatewah Country Club for the first St. Xavier High School Ladies Nine-Hole Golf Outing for X-Travaganza in August. John (St. X '80) and Katie Frey chaired the event, conceived by this year's X-Travaganza general chairs Mary and Jim Thacker. Janie Klare, Kelly Misleh and Patsy Glaser won the scramble outing with a three-under-par round of 34. Three groups – the twosome of Sandy HealeyWenhold and Amy Backscheider, the foursome of Katie Frey, Kathy Cassady, Kim Gusweiler and Betsy Schmidt and the team of Stephanie Augspurger, Lina Stokes, Cathy Flesch and Lovette Vuotto – tied for second at one under par. Trish Baker won the long-drive completion on the fifth hole. Backscheider made the longest putt on the eighth green. Laura Weinberger was closest to the pin on No. 9 and Amy Russert was closest to the pin on No. 2. The day was capped by a banquet in the club dining room, festively decorated with centerpieces of bright pink-and-black saddle-shoe cleats. “I've never been to a golf
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Mark Schupp has been a Real Estate Agent for the past 30 years and is a Certified Residential Specialist. He has won many awards including theTop Unit Producer for 1999 and 2000 (last year awarded) in the Cincinnati Board of Realtors and Top 1% Residential Real Estate Agent in the Nation. For professional advice on all aspects of buying or selling real estate, contact Mark Schupp at Star One Realtors. Please call me at 385-0900 (office) or 385-0035(home)orvisitmywebsite:www.markschupp.com
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