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Prep boys track & ﬁeld preview Williamston’s seniors, who have never lost a dual meet, PAGE lead a Hornets squad that is among the state’s best

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Showing support: Hundreds of enthusiastic people from across the state rally Saturday evening at the Capitol as the Tea Party Express bus, part of a national anti-tax movement, made a stop in Lansing.

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Unlike some cities, Lansing lacks major benefactors

you could imagine’ KATHLEEN LAVEY

Fewer foundations with less cash can make fundraising a challenge CHRISTINE ROOK clrook@lsj.com

Every community could use a sugar daddy. Flint has the Mott family. Midland has Dow. Grand Rapids has DeVos. But Lansing, experts say, doesn’t have a major benefactor. The R.E. Olds fortune never landed w Some of the in a top granting long-lasting foundations s u b s t a n t i a l and their foundation in assets, m i d - M i c h i - Page 2A gan. And although the Mason-based Dart Foundation gave at least $7.9 million in 2008, according to foundation center.org, the Lansing area must work harder than others to support artisans, entrepreneurs and nonproﬁts. “When I was mayor, I would have died for a Mott foundation to write the kind

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of checks they write for Flint,” said former Lansing leader David Hollister. And not all of the Lansing-area foundations even focus locally. Dart, for example, says about 18 percent of the $4.5 million it will grant this year will go to organizations in Greater Lansing. Certainly, Flint and Grand Rapids foundations send money elsewhere, but in assets alone, the Lansing area has less to work with. For example, in the tricounty area around Lansing, foundations have assets of $363 million, according to data provided by the Council of Michigan Foundations. Compare that to Kent County around Grand Rapids where foundations have $2.9 billion in assets, and Genesee County around Flint where foundations have $2.6 billion. The Charles Stewart Mott

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Tokai Zaman, 2, creates his own butterfly garden Saturday as part of Butterfly Day at the 4-H Children’s Gardens at Michigan State University. The event strives “to get (children) connected with butterflies” and to teach them that “butterflies and plants go together,” said Norm Lownds, curator of the children’s gardens. — Page 1B

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“Nice!” he says, as someone offers an answer to the ﬁrst set of numbers to add. “Nice!” he says again, as another list of numbers is totaled up. “Nice!” he says a third time, after calling on a student urgently waving a hand in the air. That third, encouraging “Nice!” was the only time in the seven-hour school day at Okemos’ Wardcliff Elementary that Stephenson ever raised his voice. Stephenson is Michigan’s teacher of the year and one of four ﬁnalists for National Teacher of the Year, to be named later this month in a White House ceremony with President Barack Obama. Stephenson, in his 16th year of teaching, has a shining reputation among families, glowing reviews from administrators and the rapt attention

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t’s shortly after lunch on a typical Tuesday, and Rob Stephenson is using the smart board in the front of his classroom to show his third-grade class a fresh math concept. It’s the lattice method, a nifty way to multiply large numbers by diagonally multiplying, then adding digits in the equation. It doesn’t seem like it should work, Stephenson tells the kids. And they might not get it yet. But they will. of kids in his class. He is in complete control of the room every minute, but gives kids the leeway to work at their own paces and make some independent choices. He has an uncanny ability to be both dead-level calm and 100 percent enthusiastic. At the same time. All day long. He’s got it all, says 9-yearold Cameron Muzzall, who says he was happy to learn he was among the 24 students placed in Stephenson’s class last fall. “He’s the best teacher you could imagine,” Cameron said as he checked his classroom mailbox and ﬁlled his backpack at the end of the day. “To ﬁnd a better teacher, either visit heaven or … I don’t know.” SEE Page 5A

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10A SUNDAY

APRIL 11, 2010

EDITORIAL BOARD Brian Priester

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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. — First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Inject fault back into divorce proceedings OUR POINT IS... S

enate Bill 1127 has not advanced a step since its introduction Feb. 10. Once done with their budget work, though, legislators should take up the bill — and how Michigan’s divorce law hurts Michigan children and Michigan taxpayers. Sponsored by Sen. Michelle McManus, R-Lake Leelenau, SB 1127 is far from perfect. But the concept behind it — that choosing marriage and, particularly, choosing children has consequences — is sound. SB 1127 would revamp Michigan’s 40-year preference for “no-fault” divorce, in which one spouse can seek to dissolve a marriage for pretty much any reason. It would require that in marriages where children are involved, a cause for divorce must be established. Such determinations of “fault” were typical in U.S. courts prior to 1970. That year, California pioneered the concept of “no-fault” divorce and almost every state, including Michigan, followed suit. “The divorce revolution of the 1960s and ’70s was over-determined. The nearly

The Legislature should take up a bill that would restrict Michigan’s “no-fault” divorce system.

universal introduction of no-fault divorce helped to open the ﬂoodgates, especially because these laws facilitated unilateral divorce and lent moral legitimacy to the dissolution of marriages,” wrote W. Bradford Wilcox, a University of Virginia professor. After peaking in 1980, the divorce rate has declined. And Michigan’s divorce rate has stayed just below national averages over the years. That’s the good news. “Each year, government spends over $250 billion for means-tested welfare beneﬁts for single parents,” stated a Heritage Foundation memo in 2009. And children of divorce are also far more likely to suffer later problems than children of intact homes on issues ranging from high-school completion to teen pregnancy

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Bragging up Michigan

As I play music from Michigan to Key West and back, I often meet people who have never visited Michigan and are only exposed to our bad press. The comments range around things like, “What are you doing living in Michigan?” I then ﬁll their ears with Michigan’s wonderment. From those who have visited Michigan, the response I get is “Beautiful state, nice people.” When the weather was 58 in Florida and Michigan was 65, I let them have it on stage. I said, “Michigan, the new Florida.” I would hope all Michiganders who care about this great state as much as I do will join me in spreading the good word and rebuilding our image. Here is some Michigan trivia for you: “One Shining Moment,” the NCAA anthem, was not written in New York or Los Angeles. It was penned by my Michigan State University college buddy David Barrett, in his home in Haslett. Spread the word: Michigan has much to be proud of. I can’t wait to get home! Don Middlebrook Haslett

Rushing to an excuse

Well, well, men now have a new refuge for cheating on their wives. First, it was Tiger Woods, and now it’s Sandra Bullock’s husband who has admitted himself into a sex addiction rehab program. How long will it take now for the local rehabs to start ﬁlling up with men who cannot keep and honor the commitment they made with their spouses? Keith Pervorse Lansing

Are we great or not?

We claim that we live in the greatest country in the world, but we don’t trust our government to provide for the basic needs of our citizens. We somehow put our trust in businesses that have repeatedly shown the need to be regulated. We claim to not trust our government, when, for more than 200 years, it has proven to be a model for every other free country in the world. We fear government takeover, but demand an array of government services such as police, ﬁre, public utilities, education, local governments, roads, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. However, we show an

to criminal activity. But wouldn’t making divorce harder to obtain trap people in dangerous situations? Back to Wilcox: “In cases where children are exposed to high levels of conﬂict — like domestic violence or screaming matches between parents — they do seem to do better if their parents part. “But more than two-thirds of all parental divorces do not involve such highly conﬂicted marriages.” This isn’t about running people’s lives, but making them more responsible for the consequences of two of the most fundamental decisions in a life. SB 1127 would change nothing for two adults who agree to split. And it provides an exception for cases where abuse occurs. It should be amended, also, to allow a no-fault divorce in all childless marriages. But, in the end, it should be harder for the partners in a marriage with children to walk away from each other. An LSJ editorial

YOUR OPINIONS

He would see the stars and stripes and hear a prayer, a 21-gun salute and “Taps.” We move then to the Sycamore Creek for a Navy prayer for those killed in action and a 21-gun salute. Then, it’s on to Maple Grove Cemetery for a memorial service for all veterans who served their country. We invite all people of Ingham County to come and observe this ceremony. Frank Phillips Mason

unwillingness to pay for these services. We talk about waste in government, but feel that waste is only when the money is spent on someone else. Politicians insert amendments into legitimate bills in an attempt to win favor from their own local constituents. Our country will survive only if our leaders help us resolve these inconsistencies in our public discourse. This requires cooperation and a willingness to put the public good above local needs. While I think it is great that Luke WagGary Beaudoin East Lansing ner, a 17-year- old, has written a letter to the editor (April 4, “Have we become British?”), I disagree with his views. We, too, have spent a good deal of time in England and had to take our then It is great to read all the Spartan hype, young son (now 16) to the emergency but I am disappointed with the paper in room. The first time, he was not quite 1 many respects. and was so sick that he would not eat. On a recent TV interview, a Spartan The next time, he was 3, and had fallen fan remarked that Tom Izzo is God. over onto the back of his head. What? Did I miss something? I thought Both times, the British National Health God created this magnificent world and Service doctors and staff gave us highall in it. quality care and attention — all with no Yet, there it was, on the biggest Chris- charge. We tried to “pay” the first time tian holy day, the headlines and pictures and the hospital staff laughed, saying in the April 2 and April 3 papers were all “you Americans.” They informed us that about the Final Four and the Spartans. only upon admittance for an overnight They even had a special section and stay would compensation be required. another sports section besides that. I remember thinking at the time how Wow, silly me, I thought Easter was difficult it must be for a foreigner visiting important. the U.S. to get emergency care. I don’t I am a Spartan fan, too. I watched the know how Wagner drew his conclusions games, cheered for them and was sad for his piece. when they lost — but give me a break. Barry Goetz What happened to common sense? Okemos Life’s journey is so much more important than sports. Don’t relegate Easter news and its importance to a smaller article somewhere inside your paper. Shame on you. I have been a Catholic for more than 80 years. With the reJoan Schrauben St. Johns cent scandals, I’m always at a loss for words to explain it to my non-Catholic friends the despicable acts of some priests. I understand LSJ columnist John SchIf pedophiles cannot be neider has never attended a Memorial rehabilitated, they should Day celebration in Mason, where the In- be sent to Calcutta to Mother Teresa gham County Veterans Memorial is lowork with the Sisters of cated. Charity to care for adults who are ill with I would like to invite him to attend AIDS, leprosy, tuberculosis and those the celebration on May 31 in Mason. He who are hungry and dying. would see and hear the names read of Read “A Simple Path” by Mother Teveterans from Ingham County who were resa. killed in action from World War I, World There are many wonderful Catholic War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf War. priests, sisters and laymen who do great We read the names in front of the memo- deeds each day. rial on the Court House Square in MaDorothy Richards son, starting at 8 a.m. Lansing

British care was ﬁne

Easter trumps MSU

No answer on scandal

Big day in Mason

The times truly are out of joint when the most important IPO — initial public offering — of 2010 could come from what was American capitalism’s iconic corporation for most of its 102 years. Andrew Bary, writing in Barron’s, says General Motors “may go public in the second half of this year, and its stock market value could GEORGE top $50 billion, more than Ford’s $40 billion.” WILL This is justice under today’s state capitalism: Ford took on $23.6 billion in debt to avoid becoming dependent on Washington, whereas GM shed much of its debt by becoming dependent. Washington, Bary explains, turned most of its $50 billion loan to GM into 60.8 percent ownership, the United Auto Workers got 17.5 percent for forgoing a $20 billion health-care claim against the company, and Canada’s government got an 11.7 percent stake for $9 billion. Detroit’s long drive down the crumbling road to disaster is chronicled in “Crash Course” by Paul Ingrassia, formerly of the Wall Street Journal. It is a story of the hubris of a corporate oligopoly and the myopia of a union monopoly. When Henry Ford said people could have his cars in any color they wanted as long as it was black, the actual name of the color was, portentously, “Japan black enamel.” But in 1927, GM hired Harley Earl, whose father designed custom cars for Hollywood stars, to head its Art and Color Section, a harbinger of Detroit’s emphasis on cars as “visual entertainment” — Earl’s phrase — rather than on the technological improvements Japanese automakers would come to emphasize. Enchanted by stabilizer fins on World War II P-38 fighter planes, Harley put tail fins on 1948 Cadillacs. By 1959 the fins were almost as high as the car’s roof. The chrome protrusions Harley put on Cadillacs’ front bumpers were at first supposed to project power by resembling artillery shells. Soon, Ingrassia writes, they were nicknamed “dagmars” after the breasts of a television starlet. But in 1959, an ad showing a Volkswagen Beetle in front of a suburban home asked, “What year car do the Jones drive?” This, Ingrassia says, “took direct aim at annual styling changes, which lay at the very heart of Detroit’s business model.” When Lee Iacocca ran Chrysler, it spent $2 million on gold-plated faucets and other trimmings on the company’s suite at the Waldorf. Still, the UAW hourly workers flourished. In 1970, a 67-day strike against GM won, Ingrassia reports, “the company’s 400,000 hourly workers (triple what the Big Three’s combined total would be 40 years later) a 30 percent wage hike over the next three years.” Soon thereafter, workers could retire at any age with a full pension after 30 years on the job. “If the retiree lived to be 79 or older,” Ingrassia writes, “he or she would spend more years drawing a full pension than actually working.” When Washington bailed out Chrysler in the late 1970s, Alan Greenspan, then a Wall Street consultant, said the danger was not that the rescue would fail but that it would work, thereby whetting Washington’s appetite for interventions. The bailout “worked” in that the government made money from it and Chrysler survived to be rescued 30 years later by an administration that, as a wit has said, can imagine the world without the internal combustion engine but not without Chrysler. What do you think? Write George Will, Washington Post Writers Group, 1150 15th St. NW, Washington, DC 20071.

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“A complaint for divorce may be ﬁled in the circuit court upon the allegation that there has been a breakdown of the marriage relationship to the extent that the objects of matrimony have been destroyed and there remains no reasonable likelihood that the marriage can be preserved. ...”

The break-up — Michigan law on divorce

Marriage isn’t meant to be ‘disposable’

For most of us, marriage is a personally fulfilling, private relationship. Strong marriages enrich our lives and provide a secure, loving environment for raising our children. But marriage BRAD also has a profound public aspect which of- SNAVELY fers irreplaceable ben- is executive efits to society. There- director of the Michigan fore, Michigan lawmakers should act Family Forum, to strengthen marriage whose goal “is and protect children of to strengthen Michigan’s divorce — an important step toward end- families by encouraging ing our “disposable” sound public view of marriage. policies.” When marriages break down, there is an enormous public impact. The nofault divorce revolution, which began nearly 40 years ago, has had a devastating effect on children and society. Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution has concluded that, “The proliferation of single-parent households accounts for virtually all of the increase in child poverty since the early 1970s.” Furthermore, Bill Galston, domestic policy adviser to President Clinton, said, “It is no exaggeration to say that a stable, twoparent family is an American child’s best protection against poverty.” The latest census data confirm the mountain of evidence showing marriage matters for kids, and for our communities. A child living with two married parents is three times less likely to be living in poverty than a child living with either a single parent or in a cohabiting household. There is also growing consensus that divorce is simply too common. It has become “disposable.” No other legal agreement requires two people to enter, but allows just one to ter-

On families

Groups listed below provide information and advocate on family law topics. w Institute for

minate without cause. Recent polls show that 87 percent of Michigan voters believe divorce is a problem and a strong majority (62 percent) say something needs to be done. Each year, more than 30,000 children are impacted by divorce in Michigan. The combination of divorce and births to unmarried parents means nearly 40 percent of kids will go to bed tonight in a home without their father. We can do better. The Legislature should consider several proposals, including encouraging sound premarital education, better parental cooperation and enhanced protection for children during divorce. The time has also come to move from a pure “no-fault” system to a “mutual consent” approach. This would allow no-fault divorce to continue, except in cases of non-consent where minor children are involved. In these cases, it is reasonable to require a signiﬁcant waiting period or proof of grounds for divorce. Having a healthy marriage is almost a universal desire. In fact, 93 percent of adults expect to be married for life and 81 percent believe an unhappy couple should remain together and work to rekindle their relationship. Contrary to critics, strengthening marriage laws and slowing down the divorce process will not trap couples in bad marriages. Michiganders clearly value marriage. A diverse chorus of researchers and policy experts also agree: healthy marriages beneﬁt children, adults and society. Our public policy should reinforce, not undermine, these values. Let’s end “disposable marriage,” encourage healthy marriages and give the next generation the best chance to succeed in life.

American Values (www.american values.org): “The Institute for American Values, founded in 1987, is a nonproﬁt, nonpartisan organization whose mission is to study and strengthen key American values.” w American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (www.aamlmich.org/): “The American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers was founded in 1962, by highly regarded domestic relations lawyers, ‘to encourage the study, improve the practice, elevate the standards and advance the cause of matrimonial law to the end that the welfare of the family and society be protected.’” w Family Research Council (www.frc.org): “The Family Research Council was founded in 1983 as an organization dedicated to the promotion of marriage and family and the sanctity of human life in national policy.” w State Bar of Michigan Family Law Section (www.michbar.org/ family/): The Family Law Section analyzes and takes positions on legislation affecting families in Michigan.

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The Legislature has a bill (SB 1127) before it to restrict the state’s ‘no-fault’ system of divorce. Should divorce be more difﬁcult to obtain in Michigan?

Fault system would harm families more

The Michigan Senate is again considering whether to reinstate fault as a requirement in divorce proceedings. Under Senate Bill 1127, if JANICE K. there are no minor children residing CUNNINGHAM with one of the is a Lansing attorney parents and both specializing in family parties agree to law. She also teaches the divorce, then family law at Cooley the present “noLaw School in fault” standard ap- Lansing. plies. However, if there are minor children or one of the parties objects to the divorce, then there must be a ﬁnding in open court that the other party committed some wrongful act, such as adultery, cruelty, drug use or desertion. The intent behind SB 1127 is to reduce the divorce rate and the adverse consequences that come from the break-up of a marriage. The basis for the bill is a belief that the current standard makes it too easy to obtain a divorce. I have spent a career trying to help people get through one of the most difﬁcult and dramatic periods of their lives. I have never had a client who did not take the end of their marriage seriously or fail to understand the consequences of their decisions. Adding the requirement of proving fault will accomplish little except to drain the marital estate in legal fees and create greater animosity. Requiring an examination of fault will divert the courts resources away from the truly important issues such as custody, spousal support and the proper division of property.

The proponents of SB 1127 have fallen into the trap of defining the problem of our exploding divorce rate by the solution they offer. By blaming the no-fault divorce laws, they can construct a simple solution — make it harder to get a divorce. They fail to recognize that by making it harder, they have also made it more difficult and more expensive on the very people they want to help. What then is the answer? I believe in improved education and counseling, both before and during marriage and addressing problems before it becomes too late. I also think we need to reform our divorce laws by modifying them to correct the hardships caused by divorce, such as protecting the innocent spouse and children by insuring proper support and a fair property division. Finally, I think we need to examine and make changes when needed to our Friend of the Court and Family Court system. Both have to be held accountable to insure they are providing a supportive role in the process. To reinstate “fault” as a requirement to obtain a divorce will not have the effect the proponents of SB 1127 seek. It will not force families to stay together and may actually hurt those going through this very difficult time in their lives. It will certainly increase the cost of the divorce process, which results in the lawyers making more money. I doubt that is one of the goals of SB 1127, but it will be an unintended consequence.

I have never had a client who did not take the end of their marriage seriously ...

Talk about it

This week’s question:

Would you favor a change in Michigan divorce law to eliminate the no-fault option for people with minor children?

Enforce existing laws

As a Catholic, I generally come down on the side of marriage. That said, the benefit of no-fault divorce is that it facilitates concluding intolerable situations. Children do not benefit from parents who are fighting, spewing venom and hate. Let them divorce. If the state has a role in these personal decisions, it should be to provide counseling of the couple and fairer enforcement of the support, custody, alimony, property, etc. — laws that exist now. — Michael Kavanagh, Lansing

Churches could help

As someone who has experienced divorce, I can speak for myself only. I don’t believe the family would be helped by changing the laws on no-fault divorce. If people want to strengthen families, the time to do it is on the front end. Church groups that are concerned about this should offer free baby-sitting every Friday night so couples can

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People should be required to prove they have taken steps to try to save their marriage, including Judges have the latitude to order adequate counseling, classes, etc. Current law destroys child support. They also have the ability to order families for generations, and allows people to enter fair and adequate child-custody arrangements. Marriage is a contract and walk away from this solemn vow frivolously. Reverting to an adversarial divorce process Marriage is a contract. The parties to the — James Jackson, Lansing contract have the right to expect the contract to be requiring the claim of wrongdoing won’t magically faithfully executed. If it is violated, the guilty party cause the bench to do its job, or the system to enforce the orders, and could easily cause Reasons to change law ought to lose custody rights and pay damages. unintended consequences worse than those There is strong evidence that divorced women — Joe Sanger, Lansing pointed out by Christian organizations backing with children often live at a poverty level, while the this bill. We need to pay close attention to who’s fathers move outside of the jurisdiction that can on the bench and we need an overhaul of the Take care of the children enforce child support and live prosperous lives. I don’t care if it’s fault or no-fault divorce, take Friend of the Court, not a return to the 1950s. Divorces that involve children need to be based on care of the children and make sure they have the — Susan Robertson, Lansing grounds more serious than incompatibility. ability to see both parents. Do we really want — John Peterson, Holt people to stay married just because they have children and be miserable? Is this the atmosphere Current law is too frivolous “Talk about it” features comments from the LSJ we want children to be exposed to? ‘No-fault’ divorce should only be allowed when Community Panel. Their views appear weekly. See there are no children and no property disputes. — Tom Krug, Holt expanded comments online at www.lsj.com. invest in their marital relationships. — Therese Dawe, Lansing

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Survivor: A patient covers his head with a shirt as he sits in a wheelchair at the Shaar Menashe Mental Health Center for Holocaust survivors in northern Israel.

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weight of their experiences. coming for her. “This is something that reGrinshpoon said research has shown that those who ally happened to her. It’s not have experienced emotional something that she is maktrauma are five times more ing up,” Tiram said. “Each likely to develop serious time they go to sleep, they mental illnesses. Holocaust go back to the Holocaust, to survivors, he said, have a reliving their childhood.” higher rate of suicide. Grinshpoon said most paEighty percent have trou- tients have trouble distinble sleeping and two-thirds guishing between fantasy and suffer from emotional dis- reality, and their stories are SEBASTIAN SCHEINER/Associated Press tress, according to a survey often unreliable. One man Frozen in the past: At Israel’s Shaar Menashe Mental Health Center for Holocaust survivors, patients commissioned by the Foun- says he was a fighter pilot dation for the Benefit of Ho- during World War II, anothremain frozen in time. Even today, there are sometimes screams of “The Nazis are coming!” locaust Victims in Israel. er says he’s a ninja. A third is convinced he’s an Arab of visitors, he spoke just one to Uprising rather than Jews rael. About 200 are in Shaar word: “Germania.” meekly filing into cattle cars Menashe and the other two Even the sane suffer and says he hates Jews. One homes. The foundation’s chair- thinks she is still in Europe Arieh Bleier, a gentle, and gas chambers. 87-year-old Hungarian with Survivors driven insane by Some have lived in men- man, Zeev Factor, is an Aus- and is shocked to see an eldeep, sullen eyes, survived their experiences ended up tal institutions since their chwitz survivor. He says he derly woman in the mirror. At Shaar Menashe, patients the Mauthausen concentra- in ordinary institutions that liberation, while others de- has been able to maintain tion camp. His parents and were not always a good fit; for veloped mental illness late his sanity by focusing on are not required to wear pabrother perished in Aus- instance, they had to wear pain life. the present but still suffers jamas. Some have developed chwitz. When asked about jamas, which reminded them Alexander Grinshpoon, in his dreams. “I sometimes hobbies, cultivated friendWorld War II, he looked of concentration camp in- director of Shaar Menashe, wake up from them covered ships and even reconnected away and shook his head. with children and grandchilmates’ uniforms. said all survivors have some in sweat,” he said. “It’s hard to talk about It’s not uncommon for dren. Many of the volunteers Sometimes the children form of post-traumatic stress it, very hard,” said Devora and grandchildren of pa- disorder. But the roughly 80 mental patients anywhere to working here are survivors Amiel, 78 and toothless, her tients were simply told they in his care are men and believe the world is coming themselves. speech slurred by a tongue had died in the Holocaust. Still, the shadow of death women who could not over- to an end. But for these papuffed up from medication. come their wartime traumas, tients whose world really camps, crematoria, deportaShe escaped a Polish ghet- 3 homes built in ’98 perhaps because their suf- did come apart, paranoia is tions and gas chambers is to, was taken in by a Chrisnever far away. Only in 1998 did Israel fering was so profound, or well-founded. tian family, and later grew build three homes for survi- because they were predisSaid Factor, of the benefit Tiram, the social worker, up in an orphanage. She nev- vors, starting with Shaar Me- posed to mental illness — or spoke of an elderly woman foundation: “They live in er found out what happened nashe. Today about 220,000 maybe because their minds in Shaar Menashe who con- this world and in that world to her family. survivors are still alive in Is- simply crashed under the stantly fears the police are at the same time.” “After you go through it, it’s hard to tell,” she said. “You 24 HOUR PRICE QUOTES AT SPARTANMOTORMALL.COM can only scream about it.” Most survivors in Israel NEW‘10 went on to live productive * Everything you need to know about Bariatric Surgery lives, and their ranks include politicians, authors and NoHow it can change your life • Where your insurance fits in TWO YEA bel Prize laureates. But for FOR 36 MONTHS MAINTENRA FREE How it can improve your health • If it’s right for you decades after becoming a NCE* • Air Conditioning state, Israel tended to look • Anti-Lock Brakes Learn the benefits of gastric bypass and Lap-band© • Power Locks for role models among the • Cruise • Smart Entry fighters in the Warsaw Ghet-

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the Cherokee Nation Cultural Grounds, about 70 miles east of Tulsa. Mankiller died Tuesday after a bout with pancreatic cancer at age 64. Mankiller led the Cherokee Nation, which now has about 290,000 members, from December 1985 until 1995. Under her guidance, the tribe tripled its enrollment, doubled employment and built new health centers and children’s programs.

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da and Colorado that were among the 16 ﬁnalists for the grant competition — are hoping to get performance pay laws passed in time to reapply for the money in June. “We want to reward our educators who are truly making gains with our students,” said Perdue, who has used Georgia’s position as a ﬁnalist for the federal money to urge lawmakers to pass his performance pay bill. “To some, it’s become more of a job than a calling or a passion.”

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ATLANTA — For parents and politicians hungry for better schools, the idea of paying teachers more if their students perform better can seem as basic as adding two and two or spelling “cat.” Yet just a handful of schools and districts around the country use such strategies. In some states, the idea is effectively illegal. That could all be changing as the federal government wields billions of dollars in grants to lure states and school districts to try the idea. The money is persuading lawmakers around the country, while highlighting the complex problems surrounding pay-for-performance systems. Some teachers, like Trenise Duvernay, who teaches math at Alice M. Harte Charter School in New Orleans, want to be rewarded for helping students succeed. Duvernay is eligible for $2,000 a year or more in merit bonuses based on how well her students perform in classroom observations and on achievement tests. “It’s a reward for doing what we all have a passion to do anyway — making sure our kids master the skills they need in order to be successful,” Duvernay said.

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Other teachers, like Debra Gunter, a middle school math teacher in Cobb County, Ga., say teachers can’t control which kids walk into their classrooms. “Your mother and father just got a divorce, your grandfather died, your boyfriend broke up with you: those kinds of life-altering events have an effect on how you do in class that day, through no fault of the teacher whatsoever,” said Gunter, echoing the position espoused by major teacher unions. Some researchers have found student achievement improves when teachers get performance bonuses. Others have found no correlation.

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‘It’s a reward’: Trenise Duvernay wants to be rewarded for helping students succeed. She is eligible for $2,000 a year or more in merit bonuses based on how well her fourth-grade students in New Orleans perform in classroom observations and on achievement tests. Matthew Springer, director of Vanderbilt University’s National Center on Performance Initiatives, said the problem is that there are only a handful of valid studies, most from other countries. “I think the jury is still out,” he said. The push for performance pay programs dates to 1950, but has mostly failed because districts and states didn’t get buy-in from teachers and couldn’t come up with objective ways to measure performance. School districts in most states calculate pay based on seniority and level of education. For example, teachers who get master’s degrees generally get a pay bump. In a massive survey of the nation’s teachers released in March, most said they value non-monetary rewards, such as time to collaborate with other teachers and a supportive school leadership, over higher salaries. Only 28 percent felt performance

The push for performance pay programs dates to 1950, but has mostly failed because districts and states didn’t get buy-in from teachers and couldn’t come up with objective ways to measure performance. pay would have a strong impact and 30 percent felt performance pay would have no impact at all. The survey was conducted by Harris Interactive and paid for by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Scholastic Inc. Still, lawmakers and education ofﬁcials in many states are pushing the idea. Washington, D.C., schools just reached a tentative agreement with their teachers’ union that would allow teachers to earn annual bonuses for student progress on standardized tests, among other benchmarks.

Perdue is pushing for a law requiring teacher salaries to be based on student test scores and other academic factors rather than years of experience and education. Oklahoma lawmakers are considering a similar bill that would create a pilot program for teacher bonuses. In Louisiana, Colorado, Florida and Minnesota, where a

few local districts have been offering merit pay to teachers for years, lawmakers and governors are aiming to create statewide programs. The states and D.C. hope to win some of the $4.35 billion in highly competitive federal “Race the Top” money available this year to states that embrace education reforms like merit pay and charter schools. Tennessee and Delaware were initial winners of the money, garnering $600 million in part because of their teacher merit pay programs and their use of student achievement data in teacher evaluations. Other states — particularly those like Georgia, Flori-

Powerful teachers’ unions in many states are ﬁghting performance pay proposals, arguing that they lack thoughtful planning for how performance will be measured, and advocating that teachers should instead be paid more overall. “If you don’t engage teachers in the process of what the incentives are — they put them out there, and teachers don’t understand them and don’t believe they will work or be workable — they are not going to be incentives that mean anything. “They’ll actually do the opposite. They will demoralize people,” said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers. Meanwhile, trouble brews in some states merit pay programs that already exist. A judge ruled recently that an Arizona performance pay program is unconstitutional because it’s open to only 28 out of more than 230 school districts. In Florida, just eight of 67 districts participate, although a bill before lawmakers would create a $900 million pot to woo more districts to the program.

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KABUL — President Hamid Karzai got a VIP brieﬁng at NATO headquarters Saturday and the top American diplomat in Kabul went out of his way to smooth U.S.-Afghan relations — signs that Washington is using a softer touch in dealing with the unpredictable Afghan leader. The turnabout is a bid to ease the rancor of the past week that ﬂared after Karzai, seeking to rally national support, accused the West of meddling in his nation. Karzai’s strident comments, just days after President Barack Obama visited

Kabul, alleged the U.N. and the international community interfered in last year’s fraud-tarnished presidential election in Afghanistan. Karzai’s backlash came at a time when 30,000 U.S. reinforcements are streaming into the country to ramp up the war against Taliban insurgents. The Obama administration needs Karzai’s support during an upcoming military offensive to Karzai clear the Taliban from Kandahar, the biggest city in southern Afghanistan and the Islamist movement’s birthplace. “We occasionally have disagreements between us — of course we have disagreements between us occasionally — how can it be

otherwise?” the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, said in the capital announcing $20 million in U.S. assistance to bolster local governance. Across town at NATO headquarters, Karzai joked with U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top NATO commander in Afghanistan, during a security briefing with senior military officials and members of the Afghan Cabinet. Karzai talked about his aspirations for a May conference to develop a national consensus for reaching peace with the Taliban, heard a security update on Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan and had lunch with top officials from the international coalition. Tension between Karzai and the U.S. was running high even before Obama made his first presidential visit to Afghanistan.

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OUT OF THE GULAG

Family’s imprisonment in North Korea spurred writing career, expose “At Yodok, you couldn’t worry about someone else. The fear of your own death was too strong.”

JOHN M, GLIONNA MCT News Service

SEOUL, South Korea — As a boy in the North Korean capital, Kang Chol Hwan kept aquariums. In a city of dull grays and shadows, he found solace in his menagerie of colorful fish. Because his grandfather was an official in the country’s totalitarian regime, Kang always got the most exotic species. In 1977, when Kang was just 9, his grandfather fell out of favor and one day just disappeared. Soon the soldiers came for Kang and the rest of his family: his sister, father, grandmother and uncle. He begged intelligence officers until they let him put a few prized fish into a plastic bag. Once within the stark confines of Yodok prison, the most notorious outpost of the North’s gulag system, the fish quickly died. Kang didn’t fare much better.

ries, I now realize something I never thought possible: that the situation there is actually getting worse.” Kang, now 41, knows the regime reads his work. When he co-wrote one story claiming a defector had been killed, Pyongyang ofﬁcials produced the man to prove he was still alive. The incident, he said, demonstrates the difﬁculty of reporting on the secretive state.

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Kang has received anonymous threatening emails ordering him to stop. But his years at Yodok have JOHN M. GLIONNA/Associated Press hardened him. Journalist and gulag survivor: Kang Chol Hwan, seen here in Seoul, is an investigative journalist in South Korea with North Korea as “Once you walk out of his beat. He also has written the first account of the North’s gulag by a survivor. that place you can overcome anything.” fell asleep at his desk. tormentors. In 2000, Kang Nearly two decades of Fifteen months later, in took a job as an invesfreedom have muted the 1995, he published a tigative reporter covering painful images of his captivKorean-language memoir, North Korea for the Chosun ity. On skiing trips, he used “Songs of the Prison Ilbo newspaper. to feel overcome by paralCamp.” The book became The work provided a ysis and grief: The snowy an instant success, and in new way to rattle the reslopes reminded him of the 2000, working with jourgime: telling the stories of harsh winters at Yodok. nalist Pierre Rigoulot, Kang fellow survivors. Only now can he appreproduced a new version His own experiences led ciate nature’s beauty, debeing hanged, the confor one final gesture of titled “The Aquariums of him to feel particular com- spite knowing that the gudemned were starved and spite and rebellion: He pro- Pyongyang.” passion for other defectors. lag lies only 100 miles to the tortured, their broken duced a badge honoring Kang wrote columns and north. White House guest reported exclusive stories bones often breaking then-North Korean leader through their skin. The Kim Il Sung and smashed it Kang, a compact man on the failing North Korean Anger still smolders teeth of many were pulled on a rock. with mournful eyes, beeconomy, human rights His reporting keeps the and replaced by a mouthful “It was exhilarating,” he came a singular voice from abuses and succession sce- fire burning to expose Kim of stones. said. behind the iron-clad North narios for the eventual and his crimes. “That badge was a symbol Korean curtain. Former death of Kim Jong Il, “North Korea has stolen Sudden release of the regime. Destroying it President George W. Bush the country’s current a part of all defectors’ lives, But Kang endured. He was my way of saying I was made his book required strongman. as it has stolen mine,” he learned to steal belongings leaving forever.” reading for his Cabinet and He interviews defectors said. from corpses he was forced Once in South Korea, hosted Kang at the White who are reluctant to talk, “What makes me angrier to bury, digging shallow Kang worked menial jobs House. until they learn that Kang is the knowledge that some graves in the frozen ground. such as carrying bricks on Kang also founded the is one of them, a battered of my friends are still there In 1987, Kang and his a construction site, the only North Korea Strategy Cenfighter who has punched at the camp.” family were suddenly relabor that his time in North ter, a nonprofit organization his way out of the North. While many journalists leased from the gulag. No Korea had trained him for. seeking to expose the guHis fellow escapees have strive for awards, Kang explanation was given. But he longed to write an lags. The publicity angered taught him a valuable leskeeps his eyes on a singular Five years later, Kang de- expose about life in the gu- Pyongyang, where officials son about his homeland. prize. fected, bribing a guard so lag. He enrolled in college called him “riffraff devoid of “I thought I had been “I want to see democracy he could cross a river borand each night after studyhuman dignity and values.” through the hardest time,” come to my homeland,” he der into China. Once on ing, he wrote his memories It was just Kang’s first he said. said. “The truth is the only the other side, he stopped down in longhand. Often he volley against his former “After hearing their stoweapon I have.”

Yodok prison shaped Kang Chol Hwan as a ﬁghter who would become an investigative journalist covering North Korea, a reporter who each day seeks a rematch with the regime that stole his boyhood.

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For the next decade his life was hard labor and starvation. Ravenous and desperate, Kang and the other inmates ate whatever they could find. He caught rats and snakes to supplement his meager daily fare of corn and salt. He learned to eat live salamanders quickly, to grab the creatures by the tail and swallow them in one gulp before they could discharge their revolting secretions. One by one, the gruesome details were etched into his mind, details that would later drive his memoir, “The Aquariums of Pyongyang,” the first account of the gulags by someone who had survived them. Yodok shaped Kang as a fighter who would become an investigative journalist covering North Korea, a reporter who each day seeks a rematch with the regime that stole his boyhood. In prison, he watched friends slowly die of overwork and malnutrition. But what could he do? “At Yodok, you couldn’t worry about someone else,” he said. “The fear of your own death was too strong.” Kang and other inmates were often forced to watch public executions. Before

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More states targeting payday lenders Industry ﬁghts back with pricey lobbying efforts JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press

PHOENIX — When Jeffrey Smith needed some quick cash to pay a medical bill, he turned to a payday loan store near his home outside Phoenix. He eventually took out a string of payday loans and fell into a vicious cycle in which he would call in sick from work so he could drive all over town to pay off loans and take out new ones. The experience left him in bankruptcy, lying to his wife and ﬁghting thoughts of suicide. Stories like Smith’s and a growing backlash against payday lending practices have prompted legislatures around the country to crack down on the businesses. In the most severe case, Arizona lawmakers are on the verge of shutting down the entire industry in the state. A law took effect in Washington this year capping the amount of payday loans and the number that a borrower can take out in a year. And in Wisconsin, lawmakers are locked in a heated battle over whether to regulate the industry.

High rates charged

Payday lenders say they are providing an important service. Detractors say the industry preys on desperate people with annual interest rates that routinely exceed 400 percent.

don’t have much of a voice in these ﬁghts,” said Steven Schlein, a spokesman for the industry lobbying group Consumer Financial Services Association of America.

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ﬁrst state to kick out payday States cracking down: A growing backlash against payday lending practices have prompted legislatures around the country to trapping some borrowers in izona and Ohio soundly re- lenders. North Carolina let a cycle of debt where they jected industry-backed mea- lapse a temporary law authocrack down on the businesses. For example, a person who needs a quick $300 but doesn’t get paid for two weeks can get a loan to help pay the bills, writing a postdated check that the store agrees not to cash until payday. The borrower would have to pay $53 in ﬁnance charges for a $300, two-week loan in Arizona — an annual interest rate of 459 percent. Payday loan stores are ubiquitous in Arizona, especially in working-class neighborhoods of Phoenix where the businesses draw in customers with neon lights and around-the-clock hours. Payday lenders in Arizona several years ago were granted a temporary exemption from the state’s 36 percent cap on annual interest rates. The exemption expires June 30, and the industry says the interest cap is so

continually renew their loan or take out new ones because they can’t afford to pay the debt while still covering their daily expenses. Eventually, the fees can surpass the value of the initial loan so the lender proﬁts even if the borrower defaults. Industry proponents say the market has shown a need for short-term, smalldollar loans that aren’t generally available from banks or credit unions, especially with traditional lenders being more conservative in the down economy. Supporters also say taking a payday loan is cheaper than paying a late fee or bouncing a check to cover emergency costs like ﬁxing a car or keeping the electricity turned on. Cycle of debt The voting public doesn’t Payday lending opponents seem to be buying the argusay the industry depends on ment. In 2008, voters in Ar-

restrictive that it will have to shut down entirely. Bills that would have kept the industry alive languished in the House and Senate, and the year’s third and final attempt was pulled Tuesday amid a lack of support. Consumers frustrated with the economy “look for a dog to kick” because they’re angry with the financial institutions they blame for the Great Recession, said Ted Saunders, CEO of Dublin, Ohio-based Checksmart, a payday lender that operates in 11 states including Arizona. “They want to find a villain,” Saunders said. And opponents “have done a good job of painting a big X on my back.”

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Payday lenders say they are providing an important service, especially in a dreadful economy where people are short on cash. Detractors say the industry preys on desperate people with annual interest rates that routinely exceed 400 percent. “It’s sort of like a twisted person that’s standing on the street corner offering a child candy,” Smith said. “He’s not grabbing the child and throwing him into a van, but he’s offering something the child needs at that moment.” Payday loans are shortterm, high-interest loans that are effectively advances on a borrower’s next paycheck.

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Not wanted in Arizona: Payday loan businesses advertise their services in Phoenix. Arizona lawmakers are on the verge of shutting down the entire industry in the state.

sures that would have al- rizing payday loans, and the lowed payday lenders to District of Columbia repealed continue charging high an- its law allowing them. nual interest rates. Ohio tried to cap interest rates at 28 percent, but some ‘A fairness issue’ payday lenders have surA group in Montana is vived by using a state law alcollecting signatures for an lowing them to charge loan initiative asking voters to origination fees. decide whether to cap inThe payday loan industerest rates at a level that try has succeeded in fighting would doom the industry. back attempts in Congress “It’s just a fairness issue,” to crack down on their busisaid state Sen. Debbie Mc- ness thanks to an expensive Cune Davis, a Phoenix Dem- lobbying effort. ocrat who led the fight at the When Arizona’s law exLegislature against payday pires, executives have said loans. “I think when people they’ll try to keep open some work for a living they’re en- of their 650 stores in the state titled to have financial in- by stepping up their other struments that are ethical in lines of business, including the way that they operate.” car title loans, check cashing Industry backers say the and prepaid debit cards. election results aren’t a good “The payday statutes will guide because many voters evaporate out of the books, have no experience with (but) the demand doesn’t go payday loan services. away,” industry lobbyist Lee “Our customers, they Miller said.

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An acrobatic display of passion proved too much for a pair of eagles engaged in a mating dance over Alaska’s Prince William Sound. The female bird is recovering from an injured wing and other injuries sustained when the couple slammed beak-ﬁrst into a hard snowbank in what her rescuers believe was an aerial courting ritual gone awry. The male eagle died in the impact, which left the birds buried upside down at least two feet in the snow in the town of Valdez. It’s mating season for eagles, who perform an elaborate ritual where they clasp talons and spiral toward the ground. This pair probably got caught up in the throes of the moment, said Bob Benda, a bird rescuer and biology professor at Prince William Sound Community College who was among those responding to the Easter Sunday crash. “They just lose track of what they’re doing and don’t know how close they are to the ground,” he said. But most eagles ﬂing themselves back to reality instead of diving through a crunchy layer of snow. In this case, the male landed

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next to the female. If the talons had been locked, they were now separated, possibly thrust apart by the velocity of the landing. Benda said he thought both eagles had died but then noticed the female was breathing. He helped arrange the eagle’s transfer to the Anchorage-based Bird Treatment and Learning Center, where she is slowly emerging from shock. “She is less dazed and confused every day,” said Cindy Palmatier, the center’s rehabilitation director. “She had this inward stare the ﬁrst couple days.” Palmatier hopes the eagle can be released back to the wild in Valdez. She’s not too worried about any psychological effects from the loss of the bird’s partner.

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Foundation, alone, represents $1.9 billion of those assets for Flint. In fact, Mott is all over Flint, said Hollister, who is now president and CEO of the Prima Civitas Foundation in Lansing. Mott family money is in the parks and in the Flint Institute of Arts, and it boosts the general quality of life — upgrading the airport, funding community policing and nurturing networks of entrepreneurs. Lansing also trails in the number of local foundations based here as compared with Flint and Grand Rapids. There are, for example, 77 foundations in Lansing’s tri-county area. Genesee County has 129. Kent County has 359.

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Hollister noted that even if the Lansing-based Accident Fund Insurance Company of America wants to donate locally, someone in Detroit has to be consulted. For Meijer to give, folks in Grand Rapids get involved. “It just makes it harder,” Hollister said, referring to fundraising. Working harder means making more phone calls, holding more fundraisers and sending out more solicitations, experts say. “I was in fundraising for 30 years,” said Claudia Deschaine, grants manager for the Dart Foundation. “If (an organization) wants to launch a big project, the list of possible lead donors is small. It might be less than five.” The organizations that look for grants often will do feasibility studies to find out what’s out there. Potter Park Zoo is doing that — conducting a feasibility study to determine financial support for the zoo. “We don’t want to make

GRANTING FOUNDATIONS IHereTOP are the top granting foundations, by assets, for mid-Michigan and

was starting enterprises. “He sold out all his interest in Oldsmobile in 1904,” the Greater Flint and Grand Rapids areas: Pfaff said. That year, he started a Tri-county area Total assets Total giving new company. Six years latPeckham Vocational Industries Inc. $65,098,103 $1,000,000 er he launched another. Capital Region “He was an entrepre$49,812,103 $2,879,556 Community Foundation neur,” Pfaff said. “He wasn’t Heritage Mark Foundation $37,687,371 $4,756,836 a bean counter like Mott.” Around the 1960s, the Great Lakes Capital Fund $35,506,444 $785,173 network of Lansing’s beneNonprofit Housing Corp. Delta Dental Foundation $27,605,385 $703,577 factors unraveled. “The patron structure faded into the background,” Genesee County said Brad Patterson, vice Charles Stewart Mott Foundation $1,933,369,747 $77,245,733 president of program for Ruth Mott Foundation $161,372,239 $8,905,756 the Capital Region ComJewell Educational Fund $118,694,742 $2,418,430 munity Foundation. “It certainly was a watershed Community Foundation $114,465,382 $5,360,513 event.” of Greater Flint It’s difficult to know how The Isabel Foundation $63,760,320 $3,091,500 much money a typical foundation spends in its local Kent County community. In the early Van Andel Institute $877,151,885 $26,070,903 years of a foundation, it is Grand Rapids $235,833,233 $9,510,414 generally managed by the Community Foundation generation that created the Van Andel Fund Inc. $162,293,676 $4,000,000 wealth or by the entrepreWege Foundation $158,400,848 $20,321,793 neur’s children. As a result, the focus Spectrum Health Foundation $157,280,410 $9,886,919 tends to remain local, said Source: Council of Michigan Foundations Roy Muir with the fundraising consulting firm of Marts 150 phone calls. We don’t Capital Region Community & Lundy in Ann Arbor. want to knock on every Foundation. It’s an example door,” said zoo Director of the innovation organiza- Focus can broaden Gerry Brady. tions must try. Later generations tend to Brady said the solution “The solution: You try broaden a charitable orgamay be having realistic ex- something else,” Hollister nization’s focus as family pectations. Instead of want- said. members move elsewhere. ing to raise $50,000, the goal “The most extensive promay need to be a few thou- Genesis of wealth gression of that is the Ford sand dollars. Trying something else is Foundation,” Muir said. “Its Private businesses stand a strategy of necessity. agenda is an international to benefit when nonprofits Decades ago, it looked agenda.” and artisans win grants. as if Lansing might be able Muir, whose company is a “Certainly that founda- to count on an Olds family member of the Giving Instition money is going to work fortune. tute — formerly the Amerits way into the economy,” R.E. Olds put large sums ican Association of Fundsaid Tom Donaldson, re- away early in the 20th cen- raising Counsel — said that gional director of the Small tury, but much of it was lost regardless of whether founBusiness & Technology De- in the Great Depression. dations spend locally or velopment Center in Lan“I’m assuming that’s what globally, local communities sing. “That money spins out happened to it,” said Dave benefit. The major foundaand creates jobs in the long Pfaff, historian with the RE tions help again and again. run.” Olds Transportation Muse“You’ll have those kinds The Capital Area United um in Lansing. “I know it of organizations that will Way, which offers grants was a substantial amount.” invest in health, education but also conducts a lot of Olds stands out as Lan- and culture,” he said. fundraising, has found ways sing’s one, significant moLansing, to some extent, around money issues. It gul. Even so, he wasn’t fo- has missed out. partners with foundations, cused on amassing wealth. “There wasn’t a compaincluding the Lansing-based What most interested Olds rable C.S. Mott,” he said.

Shroud of Turin on rare public display Millions to view possible burial cloth of Christ ASSOCIATED PRESS

TURIN, Italy — The Shroud of Turin went on public display Saturday for the first time in 10 years, drawing long lines of people to see the linen some believe is Christ’s burial cloth and others dismiss as a medieval fake. Turin Cardinal Severino Poletto led the opening ceremony in Turin’s cathedral. He referred to the debate over the shroud’s authenticity, saying it was “not up to the church but for science to decide.” By late Friday, 1.5 million people had reserved their three- to five-minute chance to gaze at the cloth, which is kept in a bulletproof, climate-controlled case. Viewing continues through May 23. Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to fly to Turin, in northwest Italy, on May 2 to pray before the shroud. It is the first time the

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Viewing through May 23: Cardinal Severino Poletto (center) leads a Mass on Saturday, the opening day of the public display of the Shroud of Turin, seen in the background, inside Turin’s Cathedral in Italy. 14-foot-long, 3.5-foot-wide cloth has gone on public display since a special showing in 2000 during Millennium celebrations. The Vatican has tiptoed around the issue of just what the cloth is, calling it a powerful symbol of Christ’s suffering while making no claim to its authenticity. A Vatican researcher said

late last year that faint writing on the linen, which she studied through computerenhanced images, proves the cloth was used to wrap Jesus’ body after his cruciﬁxion. But experts stand by carbon-dating of scraps of the cloth that determine the linen was made in the 13th or 14th century in a kind of

medieval forgery. That testing didn’t explain how the image on the shroud — of a man with wounds similar to those suffered by Christ — was formed. However, some have suggested the dating results might have been skewed by contamination and called for a larger sample to be analyzed.

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Everest next: Jordan Romero was the youngest person to climb the Carstensz Pyramid summit (above). The 13-year-old is now on a quest to reach the summits of the highest peaks on all seven continents.

13-year-old sets sights on Mount Everest record BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press

KATMANDU, Nepal — At age 13, Jordan Romero is headed to Mount Everest in an attempt to become the youngest person to scale the world’s highest mountain — and complete his goal of climbing the highest peaks on all seven continents. The teenager from Big Bear, Calif., was busy Saturday with his father Paul and stepmothw www.jordan er Karen packromero.com ing mountaineering gear and planning details of their expedition with three Sherpa guides who will accompany them. The team leaves Katmandu, Nepal’s capital, for China today and then will travel to the base camp on the Chinese side of the 29,035-foot mountain. Jordan has already climbed the highest peaks on six other continents and hopes to reach Everest’s summit in May.

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“I just wanted to do something big, and this was something I wanted to do for myself. It was all about the experience and I just happen to be 13 at this time,” Jordan said. The record for the youngest climb of Everest is held by Temba Tsheri of Nepal, who reached the peak at age 16. Jordan, who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa when he was 10 years old, says he was inspired by a painting in his school hallway of the seven continents’ highest summits.

Everest, however, will be his first over 26,240 feet. “This will be a big leap, but we have been training for the altitude,” he said. His father and stepmother have also accompanied him on his previous climbs. Jordan said he would not take any unnecessary risks and would turn around if they encounter problems like bad weather. He said he has read about past disasters on the mountain that have claimed many lives and has learned lessons from them. “This may be the first of many attempts,” he said. “It could take a couple of years, but I am determined to do it. If I don’t reach the summit this time, I will try next time.” “I do feel ready,” he said. “I feel very prepared emotionally, and definitely physically.” While he is acclimatizing at the base camp before the May push to the summit, Jordan plans to do his algebra homework, some book reports and write a journal about his experiences.

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(UMS) – Even if you’re a pharmacist with over 36 years of experience, you can still learn a thing or two from your dad. That’s exactly how a pharmacist in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania found out about this remarkable joint health supplement; his dad taught him. “My 79 year-old dad told me how great he was feeling since he started taking a joint pill he read about in the newspaper,” said Joseph Francisco, RPh.1, 6 “He said it was a maximumstrength pill called Trigosamine,” said Francisco. “Until then, I had never even heard of Trigosamine,” he said. “I went over to the supplement section in my store and, sure enough, there it was right under my nose,” said Francisco. “When I was a few years younger, I used to do a lot of running; now I struggle with sore joints so I decided to try it,” said 59 year-old Francisco. “That turned out to be an excellent decision; it worked great for me, too,” he added. 2, 6 “It’s a very good product. I’ve been recommending it to everyone I know who suffers with sore, stiff joints just like me,” said Francisco.6 Looks like Francisco has been talking to a lot of people. Nationwide demand continues to soar for Trigosamine; consumers can’t seem to get enough of this powerful joint health supplement and drug stores are selling it almost as fast as they can get it. “Unbelievable, that’s all I can say,”saidDarlaMiller,Operations Manager for PatentHEALTH, the company that developed the maximum-strength joint health supplement. “We’ve already sold well over a million bottles,” said Miller. “We had a record sales year in 2009 and so far this year our

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■ PHARMACY UPDATE: Joseph Francisco, RPh, (right) talks about Trigosamine’s powerful results with Marsha Tribble (left) and his father Demi Francisco (center). 2 Francisco learned about the impressive joint supplement from his dad who’s been getting great results. Consumers can call 1-866-966-3169 to have Trigosamine shipped directly to their homes. 1, 2, 6 tilage in the joints allowing for increased flexibility and range of motion. 6 A clinical study conducted by the United States government found that glucosamine and chondroitin, similar to those found in Trigosamine, had a 79.2% effective rate for those with moderate to severe joint discomfort.5 But it’s the results that continue to make this joint pill so popular. “My joints were really hurting me when my pharmacist (Joe Francisco) recommended I take Trigosamine,” said Marsha Tribble of Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania.1 “For me it’s been a life changer; I took it as directed and my hands and knees started to feel great,” said Marsha. 2, 6 “I can even chase my 5 yearold grandson Dillon around the yard again,” she added. 2 “I’m so thankful that Joe told

me about Trigosamine. I’ll never stop taking it,” said Marsha. According to Darla Miller, the surge in sales and exceptional consumer results don’t surprise her at all. “We get feedback from consumers all the time telling us how great Trigosamine works for them,” said Miller. Miller indicated that CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens have all recently placed orders for Maximum Strength Trigosamine and are doing everything possible to make sure store shelves are filled with inventory. “We know the stores are doing their best, but we just can’t guarantee consumers that every drug store will have Trigosamine in stock,” said Miller. “So to make sure everyone can get it, we’ve set up a National Order Hotline. This enables them to have it delivered directly to their homes,” Miller said. In addition to setting up the

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Clinical strength diet pill delivers 5 times more weight loss Drug store sales soar; clinical study data confirms results

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(UMS) – Over 10 million doses have already been shipped to dieters so far; and sales are expected to climb even higher for the diet pill called Apatrim®. “We knew we had a great product, but it’s even exceeded our expectations,” said Ken Geis, Manager of Call Center Operations. “People just keep placing orders, it’s been pretty amazing,” he said. There are some very good reasons for this diet supplement’s remarkable success. The results from the clinical trial were very impressive. Participants taking Apatrim’s active ingredient as directed lost an average of 5 times more weight than those taking a placebo during the 4-week U.S. study.1,3 These results were achieved without changing the participant’s daily diet or exercise routine.1,4 While no diet pill works for everyone, an amazing 100% of the participants taking Apatrim as directed either lost weight or inches off of their waistline during the 4 week clinical study. Some participants experienced great results, losing as much as 8 lbs and up to 2 inches off their waist.1,3,4 The U.S. clinical study was conducted in Los Angeles; the study included healthy, overweight indi-

viduals between the ages of 31 and 73. The caloric intake and level of exercise was not disclosed. The participants were instructed not to change the food they were eating and not to add any exercise. They were specifically told not to change their daily routine; just take two pills 30 minutes before lunch and dinner. Apatrim’s active ingredient has a known ability to help control hunger pangs, this allows people to eat the foods they want and always seem to be craving; because they’ll just want to eat less.4 Industry researchers believe that Apatrim works by suppressing a person’s appetite.4 “By suppressing their appetite, dieters consume fewer calories which can lead to weight loss,” said Dr. Joseph Dietz, Director of

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Kwame James waited nearly 10 years to be sworn in as a U.S. citizen, a long time compared with the time he spent helping subdue wouldbe shoe bomber Richard Reid on a trans-Atlantic ﬂight. A ceremony this week in Atlanta ended years of immigration limbo for James, now 32, that began after he helped thwart the terAP ror attack aboard a ParJames: 32-year-old is-to-Miami ﬂight in December 2001. now a U.S. citizen. James, born in Canada and raised in Trinidad, played professional basketball in France.

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An aging Russian airliner carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski and members of his country’s military, political and church elites crashed in thick fog Saturday as it took them to a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the slaughter of thousands of Polish military ofﬁcers by Soviet secret police. Poles wept before their televisions, lowered ﬂags to half-staff and taped black ribbons in their windows after hearing that the upper echelons of the establishment lay dead in woods a short drive from the site of the Katyn forest massacre, one of Poland’s greatest national traumas. Also among the 97 victims was Wojciech Seweryn, a respected artist in the Chicago area’s large Polish community. Seweryn had been chosen to accompany the group to commemorative events because of his love of history and a memorial sculpture he helped create, accord-

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Farewell: Polish soldiers salute during a Mass in Warsaw dedicated to the crash victims. ing to Tadeusz “Ted” Czajkowski, president of the Alliance of Polish Clubs in the USA. In central Warsaw, thousands of people, many in tears, placed candles and ﬂowers at the presidential palace. Many called the crash Poland’s worst disaster since World War II.

Twenty monks rang the Zygmunt bell at Krakow’s Wawel Cathedral — the burial spot of Polish kings — a tolling reserved for times of profound importance or grief. The crash also shocked Russia. Sensing the depth of the tragedy for Poland, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took charge of the investigation and publicly offered condolences, along with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. On board were the national bank president, deputy foreign minister, army chaplain, head of the National Security Ofﬁce, deputy parliament speaker, Olympic Committee head, civil rights commissioner and at least two presidential aides and three lawmakers, the Polish foreign ministry said. Kaczynski’s wife, Maria, also died in the crash. The Polish military suffered the deepest losses. Among the dead were the army chief of staff, the navy chief commander, and heads of the air and land forces, who were all making the emotional trip to honor the Polish ofﬁcers slain by the NKVD, the acronym for the Soviet secret police at the time of the murders in 1940.

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President Obama quietly breached years of protocol on Saturday morning by leaving the White House without the news media with him. About two hours before reporters were supposed to be in position to leave with the president, Obama left the grounds of the White House. Members of the news media were told he was attending one of his daughter’s soccer By Martha T. Moore games in northwest Washington, D.C. USA TODAY The White House press corps traditionally travels with the president anywhere he goes. NEW YORK — Already in bankruptcy, New York City Off-Track Around the world Betting says it will shut down today unless it can cut payments it U.S. Navy destroys pirate ship must make to state racetracks inA U.S. warship captured six suspected pirates cluding Belmont Park, site of the fiSaturday after a battle off the Horn of Africa — nal leg of the Triple Crown. the Navy’s third direct encounter with seafarThe betting agency — which, deing bandits in less than two weeks. spite its name, is run by the state — The Navy has taken at least 21 suspected pi- takes in nearly $1 billion in bets rates since March 31 in the violence-plagued annually, according to a report by waters off Somalia and nearby regions, where the state comptroller. That’s more U.S. warships are part of an international anti- than 8% of the $12.3 billion bet on piracy flotilla. horse racing nationally in 2009. The Navy said the Ashland returned fire and Off-Track Betting says it is the suspected pirate skiff was destroyed. All six $95 million in the red and that it people on board were rescued and taken needs to float $250 million in aboard the Ashland. state-guaranteed bonds to cover the cost of closing many of its 68 betting parlors and converting to all-telephone and Internet-based wagering. “Did you ever hear of a bookmaker going out of business?” asked Stu Porter, who came into a Midtown Manhattan betting parlor Thursday and lost $12 on the first race at Aqueduct Racetrack. “How could they not make money? It doesn’t make sense to me.” Cheap shot, says Off-Track Betting Chairman Meyer Frucher, By Harry J. Storms, U.S. Navy via AP who says the corporation’s strucPirates seized: A pirates’ skiff burns after beture is inefficient and it is forced to ing destroyed in the Gulf of Aden on Saturday. pay racetracks money it needs to revitalize its gambling business. The imminent collapse of the Demonstrators riot in Bangkok betting agency, at the start of the Thai soldiers and police fought pitched bat- spring racing season, is causing tles Saturday night with anti-government further turmoil in the weakened demonstrators in streets enveloped in tear gas, New York horse racing industry. but troops later retreated and asked protesters Off-Track Betting has lost money to do the same. Fifteen people were killed and since 2004 and filed for bankruptmore than 650 wounded in Thailand’s worst cy in December. The company lipolitical violence in nearly 20 years. censed to run the state’s biggest Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva went on na- tracks — Aqueduct, Belmont and tional television before midnight to pay condo- Saratoga — emerged from banklences to the families of victims and indicated ruptcy itself in 2008. he would not bow to protesters’ demands to If off-track betting collapses, dissolve Parliament and call new elections. “thousands of people in New York lose their jobs, and the racetrack Bomb damages U.S. consulate industry goes out of business,” The U.S. Embassy in Mexico said a bomb says state Assemblyman Gary damaged the outside of the U.S. consulate in Pretlow, a Democrat who is among the border city of Nuevo Laredo, but there are no injuries. Claude Young, a spokesman at the embassy in Mexico City, said the explosive device was thrown over the consulate’s wall Saturday.

Unable to pony up dough, NYC industry likely to be stalled today as parlors close

Down on luck: The New York City Off-Track Betting storefront on Seventh Avenue is another sign of hard times.

Photos by Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY

Long odds for survival: Off-track bettors’ demographics speak to the past — they are mostly men over age 55.

the legislators trying to negotiate a lifeline for the bookmaker. At lunchtime Thursday, the Midtown Manhattan betting parlor was busy with about 100 men lining up at the betting windows and automated kiosks. They clutched betting slips and folded newspapers, with race listings marked up in private code. At post time, they gathered around TVs to watch the action. “Get up, four!” Johnny Kaloyios yelled at the screen at Laurel, Md. But the No. 4 horse, Just for Kicks, was edged by No. 5, Remember Shirley. Goodbye, $18. “Son of a gun, I got beat (by) a nose,” says Kaloyios, 47, who has been betting on horses since his father took him to the track at 13. “It’s the best high in the world,” he says. “Except for sex. That’s close, but I’ll still take the horses.” Despite the hollering crowd in the parlor, fewer people are as excited about betting on horse racing as Kaloyios. The amount bet on horse racing nationally declined from $15 billion in 2004 to

$12.3 billion last year, says the Jockey Club, the thoroughbred registry association. In New York, Off-Track Betting took in just under $1 billion in 2008, paid $760 million in winnings and $129 million to the racing industry, the city and other municipalities, according to the state comptroller. Critics of Off-Track Betting say it is bloated, badly managed and riddled with political patronage. In August, the state comptroller’s report said the betting agency needs to cut its 1,366-person workforce, has a ﬂeet of 87 vehicles that may not be necessary and pays 25 of its 55 executives more than $100,000 a year. The betting agency “is refusing to address the real problems, which is their overhead and mismanagement,” says Jeff Cannizzo, executive director of the state thoroughbred breeders’ association. Frucher says Off-Track Betting has gotten rid of some of the cars. “Yes, there has been mismanagement,” he says. “The problem isn’t

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Somber mood in coal country after deaths

By Tim Wendel with staff and wire reports.

By Oren Dorell USA TODAY COMFORT, W.Va. — Hours after learning the fate of four missing miners, residents here continued the difﬁcult task of saying goodbye. Hundreds of mourners ﬁled into Sherman Elementary School in Boone County on Saturday afternoon to remember Jason Atkins, 25, who was one of 29 workers killed Monday in an explosion at Massey Energy Company’s Upper Big Branch mine in Coalmont.

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Finding his calling

Story time: Sixteen years ago, Rob Stephenson and his wife moved to Michigan so she could work on a master’s degree at Michigan State University. He got several teaching offers and chose Wardcliff.

One-on-one time: Rob Stephenson, a National Teacher of the Year ﬁnalist, works with student Ayesha Panda during class at Wardcliff Elementary School.

Growing up in Kent, Ohio, the 44-year-old Stephenson never dreamed of becoming a teacher. His father was a professor in the theater and drama department at Kent State University, his mother a social worker and homemaker. The youngest of six siblings, Stephenson earned a degree in theater at Kent State. At his dad’s urging, he moved to Los Angeles with his wife, Jamie Yeomans, to take a shot at an acting career. “I never went to a single audition,” he said. Instead, he became an apprentice to an elderly European woodworker, crafting fine furniture projects for Hollywood A-listers and others. A fluke moment at the apartment building where Stephenson and Yeomans lived changed the course of Stephenson’s life. His landlord’s daughter was doing her homework by the pool, struggling to complete her math assignment. He offered to lend a hand. “Her mom was eavesdropping and said, ‘You’d make a pretty good teacher,’” Stephenson said. “And it just got stuck in my head.” And it stayed there. He investigated opportunities in public schools, but without a teaching certificate was told he’d be unlikely to find a job. He began searching at private schools in the area and was hired for a part-time spot as a kindergarten aide at the Viewpoint School in Calabasas, Calif. When the headmistress saw his theater background, she asked him to Into space: Rob Stephenson, third-grade teacher at Okemos’ Wardcliff Elementary School, has his room decorated to resemble the universe. teach middle and high school drama. Then he picked up playground duty. He soon was hired to coordinate the school’s before- and after-care program, too. He thrived on the kids’ energy. They thrived under his care. It was a perfect fit. Stephenson and Yeomans packed up their lives and went to Ohio, where Stephenson went back to school at Kent State. He earned a master’s degree and his teaching certificate, focusing on kindergarten through third-grade education. Then it was “The kids know Yeomans’ turn to a school. my pace is fast and choose They moved to so she they have to be Michigan could work on a master’s degree in productive.” social work at Setting the standard: Rob Stephenson says his third-grade students know his Rob Stephenson Michigan State Unipace is fast and they have to be productive. He sets high expectations for them on the emphasis he places on not versity. Stephenson — and for himself. wasting learning time applied for teaching jobs in the area, got several job offers and picked Wardcliff. w Rob Stephenson and his family — wife Jamie Yeomans, daughter Rebecca, 8, and That was 16 school years ago, and son Andrew, 6 — will travel to Washington D.C., at the end of this month, where he’s been there ever since. President Barack Obama will announce the National Teacher of the Year. High expectations for kids w Other finalists are Kelly Kovacic, a California high school social studies teacher; Stephenson started the day that Megan Allen, a fourth-grade teacher in Tampa, Fla.; and Sarah Brown Wessling, a high Tuesday wearing neat blue chinos, a school English teacher from Iowa. pressed blue shirt and a molded foamw The National Teacher of the Year takes a year off from school and travels the rubber tie that looked like it was made country and the world to promote the profession of teaching. of cheese. Attentive students: Third-graders Nick Lulich and Emma Francis w Learn more at www.ccsso.org/Projects/national_teacher_of_the_year. The tie was a gesture of support

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for both his and Leah Kelly’s thirdgrade classrooms, who were presenting a 9:30 a.m. musical called “The Cheese Stands Alone.” Using the characters from “The Farmer in the Dell” and an array of kids dressed as international cheeses, it sent the message that each person is lovable in his or her own way. Before his costumed kids trooped to the gym to perform, Stephenson gave them a few ﬁnal thoughts. “Third grade,” he said. “You’ve worked really, really, really hard on this. Have fun! Does it matter if you make a mistake?” “No,” they told him. “Just go with it and have fun, because this is delightful.” After the play was over, Stephenson took off the cheese tie and changed into a blue-and-red tie from the Save the Children charity. He often changes ties in the middle of the day, to match a theme or just to make sure that all 280 ties in his collection get worn once a year. He ﬂipped over the cheese tie. On the back, written in black marker, it said: “Zack Rambo 1997.” Stephenson marks each tie given to him by a student, and when he wears it, he tells his current third-graders who gave him the tie and what they’re doing now. “It’s really kind of neat, because the kids realize that once they enter my classroom and my life, they’ll always be part of it.” After the play, the students were back to work discussing the book “Stone Fox,” about a boy who hopes to win a dog sled race in Wyoming. Before they lined up to go to lunch, they got out smart remotes and math papers, so they’d be ready to work as soon as they came back in. The emphasis on not wasting a minute of learning time is part of Stephenson’s high expectations for them — and for himself. “The kids know my pace is fast and they have to be productive,” he said.

are among the 24 students in Rob Stephenson’s third-grade class.

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2000, when each classroom in the school was assigned a decade to depict. Stephenson’s class got the 1970s, and turned their classroom into a discotheque complete with velvet ropes at the door, a disco ball they made themselves and Stephenson in a polyester leisure suit. “Another time we turned it into the rainforest,” Stephenson said of the room. “You never know what’s going to happen.” Wendy Pride’s son and daughter both spent third grade in Stephenson’s classroom. Zoe is now a fourth-grader at Wardcliff, and Aaron is in eighth grade. “He’s a human sparkler,” Pride said of Stephenson. “I’ve never seen him down. He obviously loves what he does.” Pride credits Stephenson with helping her Aaron learn to enjoy his time at school. “It was really a turning point for him,” she said.

you’d want to be.” Cheryl Kreger, Okemos superintendent, said Stephenson is particularly well suited for the role of Teacher of w Favorite book: J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the the Year. Rings” trilogy “Teaching is not an occupation, it’s w TV: “I don’t even have cable,” he says. “We get his life,” said Kreger. “His family is intwo channels.” He sometimes does watch volved. I’ve visited the school when “Chuck” — an edgy show about a nerdy secret alumni come back, and they still talk agent — online. about the difference he has made in their lives.” w Family activity: Backpacking with his family Stephenson says he couldn’t teach — w Advice for a new teacher: “Try to keep let alone handle the 16-hour days and everything in perspective. It’s easy to get travel that come along with being state overwhelmed by the magnitude of the position. Teacher of the Year — without his family. Realize that you can aspire towards educational “My wife is a saint,” he said. “There greatness, but you don’t get there is no way I could be the kind of educaimmediately.” tor that I am today without her support and the support of my children. They are as much committed and invested in Evolving classroom my teaching as I am.” Entering Stephenson’s classroom, Stephenson recently was recruited there was no question of the current by public television in Detroit to host message: At this particular phase in the the pilot of a TV series devoted to litMessage stays with student eracy. He shot the pilot in February. school year, Stephenson and the kids were stoked about space. Zack Rambo, now 21, graduated from If he wins National Teacher of the Black paper covered the ceiling, dotEast Lansing High School in 2006 and Year honors, Stephenson will take a ted with glow-in-the-dark stars and studies photography at Lansing Comyear off to travel the U.S. and the world planets. Cardboard covered with black munity College. He found the cheese in an effort to boost the profession of paper formed a tunnel plastered with tie — a Green Bay Packers souvenir — teaching. Some teachers who have that charts of planets, pictures of astronauts while visiting relatives in Wisconsin. opportunity don’t return to their classand spacecraft. White Christmas lights “He had a tremendous impact on me rooms. formed the shapes of constellations on in my life,” Rambo said. The message “I can’t fathom it,” he said. “But you a black-papered, temporary wall. Behind he has carried with him into adulthood: just can’t predict what the future holds. the wall was a nook for reading, com“Be the best possible person you can, You open yourself to possibilities, and plete with comfy, colorful ﬂoor cushions. and you can pretty much be anything things happen.” Stephenson’s own kids — Rebecca, 8, a third-grader at Cornell Elementary, and Andrew, 6, who is in kindergarten Family man: — helped him decorate over a weekend. Rob The constellations replaced a wigStephenson wam that housed the classroom comand his family puter and Indian longhouse used for will travel to reading. Washington “In other years I’ve done different D.C., at the end things,” Stephenson said. “We did an of April, when African market and an African hut. One President year we made the classroom completeBarack Obama ly underwater. There were ﬁsh hanging from the ceiling and coral.” will announce One of his favorites took place in the National

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Court pick to be made on Obama’s terms President has shot at a justice who’ll reshape rulings

the most vital for a nominee, vet the nominees with no embarrassing gaffes or leaks, and pick the one with whom he feels the most comfort. Confirmability was a factor then, not a driver. Expect BEN FELLER much the same now. AND CHARLES BABINGTON Obama’s task is to replace the liberal lion of the court, Associated Press Justice John Paul Stevens, WASHINGTON — Em- who on Friday announced boldened by success the first his coming retirement. time around, President Barack Obama is likely to His aggressive steak pick the Supreme Court nomIn quick succession, inee he wants and let the con- Obama has a rare chance firmation fight proceed from to choose two justices who there, putting huge emphasis could shape the court’s rulon a justice who would bring ings for decades. He has giva fight-for-the-little-guy sen- en every sign that he approaches this decision the sibility to the job. Politics will certainly play way aggressive coaches preinto Obama’s fer to call strategy — playcalculus: He ing to win, as opposed to no longer has playing not to lose. In choosing a nominee the votes in the Senate to overcome the over the next few weeks, delaying tactic known as the Obama is inclined to stick filibuster, and a minority Re- with his formula of going all publican Party in fierce op- in, like he did in getting a position to Obama’s agenda health care reform law, the has little incentive to hand biggest and most consuming him a win just months before fight of his presidency. The House and Senate elections. view from the White House But Obama’s strategy is that the president is almost worked when he chose Sonia certain to face a political and Sotomayor to replace Justice ideological fight in this elecDavid Souter last year — an- tion year no matter whom he nounce the criteria he deems nominates to the court; the

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Stepping down: Justice John Paul Stevens’ announcement that he is retiring means that President Barack Obama now has his second Supreme Court opening to ﬁll. Associated Press ﬁle photo

only issue is to what degree. So why scale back? What’s more, Obama has shown an aggressive streak when it comes to the nation’s highest court, one sure to shape his thinking in picking a nominee. Obama openly criticized the court for a January ruling that allowed corporations to spend freely to inﬂuence elections. And he did that during his State of the Union address with six justices sitting in front of him, drawing a rare, dismissive reaction from Justice Samuel Alito, one of the court’s conservative members. Stevens had strongly dis-

sented in that corporatefriendly campaign ﬁnance case, saying it did nothing less than threaten “to undermine the integrity of elected institutions around the nation.” And Obama all but referenced the court ruling when he said from the Rose Garden on Friday that he is poised to choose a nominee who “like Justice Stevens, knows that in a democracy, powerful interests must not be allowed to drown out the voices of ordinary citizens.” It is this criterion — Obama has called it empathy, or seeing life and the law through others’ eyes — that deﬁned his choice of Sotomayor.

Political fight ahead? It seems sure to do so again this time, inviting a political fight. Sotomayor’s confirmation itself was, for the most part, a hardened partisan battle. The vote was 68-31, with Democrats unanimously behind her and most Republicans opposing her choice and Obama’s judicial standards. Yet not lost in all that was that nine Republicans voted to confirm Sotomayor. Among them was conservative Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. He offered sharp questioning during confirmation hearings and found

some of Sotomayor’s views troubling, but ultimately considered her well qualiﬁed.” Obama hopes to get at least one such Republican supporter this time — and in purely practical terms, one is all he needs. Democrats and their allied independents hold 59 seats in the Senate, one short of the 60 needed to overcome a votekilling delay maneuver. Conﬁrmation itself would require a simple majority. And while senators take their “advise and consent” role seriously and members of the president’s own party don’t like their votes taken for granted, Obama clearly enters the process in a strong position. The three names that come up the most are Solicitor General Elena Kagan and federal appellate judges Merrick Garland of Washington and Diane Wood of Chicago. Obama promises to pick a nominee quickly. He should be able to do so within the same timeframe between Souter’s retirement announcement and Sotomayor’s selection — 25 days. The partisan atmosphere is only worse this time. But Obama’s game plan seems the same: choosing a nominee on his terms.

Steele tells GOP, ‘I’ve made mistakes’ RNC chairman Romney wins poll says he’s ready to straw Mitt Romney didn’t attend the Republican Leadership learn from errors Southern Conference in New Orleans, but LIZ SIDOTI Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — In damage control mode, GOP national chairman Michael Steele on Saturday sought to quell the furor over his management of the Republican National Committee by acknowledging errors and vowing to learn from them. “I’m the first here to admit that I’ve made mistakes, and it’s been incumbent on me to take responsibility to shoulder that burden, make the necessary changes and move on,” Steele told GOP activists and party leaders, drawing a standing ovation. “The one mistake we cannot make this November is to lose,” he added, and the crowd cheered in agreement. Saturday’s speech to the Southern Republican Steele Leadership Conference was Steele’s first public appearance since the disclosure of questionable spending — including a $2,000 tab at a sex-themed California nightclub — resulted in top advisers cutting ties with him and North Carolina’s state party chief calling for his resignation. Normally a bombastic showman, Steele struck a contrite tone before the supportive audience in the halffull hotel ballroom. He did not address the specific complaints. And even though he acknowledged his errors, he also blamed others. “We can’t coast into the majority, nor can we assume it’s a sure thing. The liberal media are looking for any possible alternative narrative to tell,” Steele said. “They are looking for those distractions, and Lord knows

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I’ve provided a few.” He added: “The Democrats also know that they have some explaining to do, and they’d love nothing more than for us to keep pointing fingers.” Still, for all the angst in the GOP over Steele, it’s unlikely he will be fired. Ousting a chairman is a complicated, messy process that requires votes of two-thirds of the 168-member RNC. And, while there are both hardcore Steele opponents and fierce Steele allies, several Republican officials at the New Orleans conference said that most committee members and party chairman simply seem to want to move on from the controversy so Republicans can focus on November. Attended by roughly 3,000 GOP activists and party leaders, the three-day conference wrapped up Saturday with speeches by prominent Republicans.

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‘Unusual’ situation: Bedford County (Tenn.) Sheriff Randall Boyce said it was not clear whether any laws had been broken. “This is extremely unusual,” he said last week.

Relative: 7-year-old terrorized adoptive family KRISTIN M. HALL Associated Press

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. — Torry Hansen was so eager to become a mother that she adopted an older child from a foreign country, two factors that scare off many prospective parents. Her bigger fears came later. Torry’s mother, Nancy Hansen, said the 7-year-old’s violent episodes — which culminated in a threat to burn the family’s home to the ground — terriﬁed them into a shocking solution: The boy they renamed Justin was put on a plane by himself and sent back to Russia. Now, outraged ofﬁcials in that country are calling for a halt to adoptions by Americans, and authorities are investigating the family. However, Nancy Hansen told the AP that the motives of her daughter — a 33-yearold, unmarried nurse — were sincere. “The intent of my daughter was to have a family and the intent of my whole family was to love that child,” she said Friday. The family was told the boy was healthy in September when he was brought from the town of Partizansk in Russia’s Far East to his new home in the heart of Tennessee horse country. Behavioral problems began soon after, Hansen said.

Russian ofﬁcials are calling for a halt to adoptions by Americans.

Violent eruptions

Hansen chronicled a list of problems: hitting, screaming and spitting at his mother and threatening to kill family members. Hansen said his eruptions were often sparked when he was denied something he wanted, like toys or video games. “He drew a picture of our house burning down and he’ll tell anybody that he’s going to burn our house down with us in it,” she said. Hansen said she thought that with their love, they could help him. “I was wrong,” she said. Hansen said her daughter sought advice from psychologists but never had her adoptive son meet with one. They chose an English-language home study program, hoping to enroll him in traditional school in the fall.

Back to Russia

In February, Hansen said, the family could take no more. Hansen bought the plane ticket, and the family arranged to pay a man in Russia $200 to take him from the airport and drop him off at the Russian education ministry. He arrived alone on Thursday. The Russian education ministry immediately suspended the license of the group involved in the adoption — the World Association for Children and Parents, a Renton, Wash.-based agency — for the duration of an investigation. Pavel Astakhov, Russia’s children’s rights commissioner, said during Saturday that three Russian families have already asked to adopt the boy.

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Anti-incumbency mood fuels races GOP hoping to take back 2 seats lost in ’08, maybe even pick up 1 ASSOCIATED PRESS

DETROIT — Michigan Republicans have wanted for the past two years to take back the two congressional seats they lost in the 2008 Democratic tsunami to Mark Schauer and Gary Peters. Now, with embattled Democratic U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak announcing he won’t run for re-election

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Michigan tribes to share in federal stimulus cash

WASHINGTON — Two Michiganbased Indian tribes will receive more than $62,000 in federal stimulus funds to provide food assistance to lowincome families on and near Indian reservations. The Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations program will provide $53,235 to the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and $9,455 to the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said the distribution program has received a total of more than $4.5 million in stimulus funds to buy equipment and improve facilities. The department said the food distribution program is designed to enhance access to safe and nutritious food on Indian reservations and tribal lands. Almost 90,000 low-income individuals nationwide receive a monthly food package through the distribution program.

to his northern Michigan seat, the playing ﬁeld has widened. The races are drawing the attention of the Republican National Congressional Committee and tea party activists, and the Michigan GOP sees a chance to regain a majority of Michigan’s congressional seats. But Republicans also must deal with fractiousness in their own ranks, as the decision of U.S. Reps.

Pete Hoekstra of Holland to run for governor and Vern Ehlers of Grand Rapids to retire has opened the door to a flood of GOP candidates hoping to succeed them in the November election. Those races, too, are influenced by tea party activists, Stupak and the infighting within the party could prove difficult to contain. A slew of factors, including the recent passage of historic but polarizing health care legislation and

a deeply rooted anti-incumbency mood, have emboldened candidates to take a shot this election cycle, experts say. “In an environment like this, the Republicans feel energized and enthusiastic about their chances in every race,” said Tom Erickson, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee. Peter Wielhouwer, political science professor at Western Michigan University, says there’s a lot of dissatisfaction with those in power. “I think we’re seeing vigorous competition from the party not holding the ofﬁce. I see within

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Land bank effort seeks gardeners in urban areas

DETROIT — Michigan’s land bank is looking for people to garden on vacant property to help strengthen urban neighborhoods. The Garden for Growth Program allows individuals and community groups to lease tax-reverted property for $25 a year or $75 for three years. The idea is to use the land for vegetable, ﬂower, native plant or educational gardens. Most of the property is in Detroit. Some is in Flint, Saginaw and other cities, including Lansing. The Michigan Land Bank Fast Track Authority program supports state efforts to make fresh and healthy foods more widely available in cities. Interested growers also may be able to actually purchase the land if they decide they’d prefer a permanent gardening location. — From wire reports

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the Republicans we’ve got quite a few challengers spread all over the place,” he said. The current breakdown in Michigan is eight Democrats and seven Republicans, but if the GOP holds its seven seats and picks up a win against either Schauer of Battle Creek or Peters of Oakland County’s Bloomﬁeld Township — or in

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Butterﬂy Day puts children in touch with nature MSU event teaches kids how insects interact with plants HEATHER LOCKWOOD hlockwood@lsj.com

Judge rules deer baiting ban unconstitutional

GAYLORD — A judge in Otsego County has thrown out a case against a man charged under Michigan’s ban on baiting and feeding deer in the Lower Peninsula, saying the ban is too vague. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment said it’s not clear whether the ruling Thursday by 87th District Court Judge Patricia Morse affects just the county or the entire state. Ken Borton was charged with illegally feeding deer from bird feeders. Morse said the ban was “unconstitutionally vague.” Borton said he just wanted to feed birds. DNRE spokeswoman Mary Dettloff told The Associated Press on Saturday that the state was looking into the ruling. The ban was imposed after a case of chronic wasting disease was discovered in a Kent County deer in 2008.

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Fired up: Michigan Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Cox (left) pumps up the crowd during the Tea Party Express rally Saturday at the Capitol. Hundreds rallied against high taxes and the health care reform law.

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Even the threat of rain couldn’t dampen the fury of Dan DeNike. Upset over newly passed health care reform, the Charlotte man was among hundreds who attended a Tea Party Express rally Saturday at the Capitol under overcast skies. Their goal was to send Washington a clear message: Repeal the bill, or face the consequences. “Stop health care reform. Throw the bums out of Washington,” said DeNike, 63, a rooﬁng contractor who was a wearing a red, white and blue hard hat. “They’re taxing us into oblivion. When the government mandates that you have to buy something, that’s an assault on our freedoms.” The Tea Party Express, part of an anti-tax movement that sprouted last year shortly after President Barack Obama took ofﬁce, visited Lansing during a series of Michigan stops that will conclude today in Detroit. The national tour went into high gear last month when Congress narrowly approved the

EAST LANSING — Flashcards in hand, Kadin Bowers, 9, and his sister Brielle Bowers, 6, hurriedly scanned butterfly specimens to match one to clues on the cards. “Found it,” Online they each called Extra out. For more photos The butterfly of the butterfly scavenger hunt was just one of garden, visit the activities www.lsj.com. offered during Butterfly Day on Saturday at and around Michigan State University’s Michigan 4-H Children’s Gardens. With pictures of specific species and clues, such as “find a butterfly with wings that look like tree bark,” the children examined hundreds of butterfly species pinned down beneath glass. “I think it just gives them more opportunity to see nature and understand some of the things they see when we’re outside our house,” said the children’s mother, Heidi Bowers, 38,

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At the Capitol: Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Bouchard (left) speaks to the crowd during the Tea Party Express rally Saturday in Lansing. reform measure. The bus arrived in Lansing more than an hour late after a stop in Grand Rapids, but that didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of many who arrived from throughout the state. Michigan State Police estimated the crowd at about 800; it remained peaceful throughout the

evening. “The government has not shown an ability to run anything,” said Carolyn Eckstein-Soule, a Holt woman, holding a sign “No Socialist Govt. Healthcare.” “The cost of this thing is going to ruin the

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Oooh: Alison Riley, 4, looks closely at a butterﬂy her grandpa set on her hand Saturday at the Michigan 4-H Children’s Gardens at Michigan State University.

Tales of joy, tales of heartbreak: Gamblers know them all I

come from gambling people. Rail birds. Poker faces. Dice chuckers. Numbers bettors. Slot machine junkies. You name it. We bet on horseshoe-pitching, stone-skipping, arm-wrestling. Candy Land? Chutes and Ladders? Forget it. On rainy days — and sometimes on sunny ones — my siblings and I played seven-card stud and three-card draw for pennies. Nickels and dimes, when we had them. And if your piggy bank got drained in the process, don’t even think about crying to Ma. You could bet your last nickel you wouldn’t ﬁnd any sympathy there. She was famous for her ﬁerce enforcement of gambling’s most sacred rule: “No bellyaching.” If you can’t stand to lose, she would say, don’t gamble. And if

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you persisted in your lament — if you didn’t know when to quit — she might just whip out her imaginary violin and mock your sorrows. Say what you want, the lesson took, and a valuable one it is. Tune in on a family poker game — which tend to break out whenever ﬁve or more of us gather — and you’ll see neither bellyaching, nor gloating. It works at the card table, and in the rest of life, as well.

Gambling stories are part of family lore. In the early days, it was common knowledge among us kids that our recreation budget ebbed and flowed with our father’s success in Friday night poker games with his mail-carrier colleagues. My younger brother will tell you about the big Texas hold ’em game at which both he and another player held pocket aces. My brother lost when his opponent caught a flush on “the river.” Ask my little sister some time about her honeymoon, and the detour to Reno, and the disaster that ensued. Think of the movie “Lost in America.” We’ve all heard about my older sister’s royal flush on a machine

at Motor City, and who could forget that night when my mother and younger sister, having gambled away even their bridge fare in Windsor, couldn’t get back into their own country? The most famous family gambling story involved my mother and sister-in-law teaming up in 1989 to win the ﬁrst-place prize in a three-day slot machine tournament at Harrah’s in Las Vegas. The payoff: $50,000.

One for the books

Two weeks ago, at a blackjack table at the Golden Nugget, on the old Vegas strip, my wife and I anted up in the gambling-story department. My wife was dealt two aces, and naturally split them. She got a third ace, and a fourth, and split

them, too. So, she was playing four hands. On the first ace she stayed on 19; on the second, 20. She drew a seven on the third ace, and another seven on the fourth. Since the dealer was showing a five, she doubled down on the two soft 18’s, drawing a 10 and a queen. All told, she had six $10 bets on the table. And since the dealer was showing a five — a classic “bust” hand — we started counting our chickens. But you know how that goes. The dealer’s down card turned out to be a king — a promising development. But the next card? A six. A dagger to the heart. So, we lost 60 bucks on the hand, but gained a story. Call John Schneider at 377-1175 or e-mail jschneid@lsj.com.

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Founders’ Day awards brunch is Saturday The Greater Lansing Area Club of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Club Inc., will host its annual Founders’ Day Awards brunch at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Days Inn, 7711 W. Saginaw Highway. This year’s theme is “Women Leaders Emerging in a Global Society,” which was selected to appreciate the women who are taking leadership roles in business and government. The 2010 souvenir booklet will be dedicated to the memory of Percy Sutton, a famed Tuskegee Airman and civil rights lawyer who represented Malcolm X, and Stuart Dunnings Jr., who established Lansing’s first black law firm and a National Bar Association Hall of Fame inductee. The Rev. Dr. Wilma Johnson, senior pastor of New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church in Detroit, and author of “Giving Away my Joy,” is the keynote speaker. In keeping with tradition, the GLAC will pay tribute to its founders and honor several Lansing-area residents who have impacted the community in a significant and positive way. Glenda Hammond is the esteemed recipient of the Sojourner Truth Award, the highest honor bestowed. Dr. Don Coleman will join the prestigious list of men who have been bestowed with the Frederick Douglass Award. The Business Excellence Award will be presented to Robert “Bobby” Husband of Robert’s Hair Salon and Judge Hammond Amy Krause is the recipient of the Community Service Award. Youth on the Move Awards will be presented to Sharonda Lavonne Hudson and Charles Chivas Tucker. Tickets for the event may be purchased for $25 from any club member or by contacting Gloria Davis at 487-1913, Doristene Haynes at 323-7823 or Renee Freeman at 203-0865.

Delhi Twp. man to mark 90th birthday

Paul Jankoviak will celebrate his 90th birthday Tuesday. A proud member of the 101st Airborne and veteran of World War II, Jankoviak was captured at the Battle of the Bulge and held as a prisoner of war by the Germans until he managed to escape. His war experiences were chronicled as part of a WKAR special on World War II veterans from Michigan. Jankoviak and his wife, Dorothy, who reside in Delhi Township, will celebrate this milestone Jankoviak with their family, daughter Sue (Dale Glynn), son Mike (Cherie), daughter Sandy (the late Dr. Joe Westwood), son Mark, son Marty (Terri) and daughter Sherry (Tim Bashore), along with 11 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Road association to honor Okemos man

The County Road Association of Michigan recognized Ingham County Road Commission Director of Engineering Bob Peterson with a merit award at its annual Highway Conference. Peterson, of Okemos, has been an active member of the association for many years, and currently serves as chair of the engineering committee. He has coordinated the engineer’s workshop and facilitated several subcommittees. “Merit awards are presented to those Peterson who have made signiﬁcant contributions of time and service to advance the educational mission of the Association,” CRAM director John Niemela said. “Even with his heavy work load, Bob serves the Association with great commitment. We are proud to acknowledge his efforts with an Award of Merit.”

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Spring was sprung in a wonderful fashion thanks to Teresa and Allan Sonﬁlippo-Wilcox, coordinators of Retrouvaille of Lansing. They hosted and sponsored a special Sunday liturgy with Bishop Earl Boyea at the downtown Lansing cathedral, followed by a fabulous dinner for all. Thank you to the bishop for participating and praying for our marriages. Thanks to all the dedicated couples committed to make their marriage work in today’s challenging culture. Remember, the couple that prays together, stays together! — Mary and Doug Adelman, East Lansing

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ignoring the will of voters. Last week, Cox deﬁed Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm by joining several attorneys general in a national lawsuit to stop the implementation of some parts of the federal measure, saying it is unconstitutional. “People are worried about the march of government,” Cox said. “(Lawmakers) are crossing lines and ripping up the Constitution.”

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Races: Dems brace for big challenges Stupak’s 1st District — they’ll be back in the majority. Stupak’s decision not to run leaves former Charlevoix County Commissioner Connie Saltonstall as the lone Democratic candidate in the 1st District, but other better-known Democrats, including Senate Democratic Leader Mike Prusi of Ishpeming, could get in the race now that he’s stepping down. Three little-known Republicans also are running.

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Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer says Schauer and Peters are in “strong positions” heading into November, raising a lot more money than their opponents thus far. And, he says, “the Republicans have really ﬁelded weak candidates against them.” Republicans disagree, with candidates ranging from a former congressman to an Iraq war veteran, several businessmen and a onetime congressional staffer. Schauer faces a handful of GOP challengers hoping to win the chance to take him on in the 7th District, including Tim Walberg, who held the seat for one term until Schauer unseated him in 2008. Peters has three Republicans ﬁghting for the chance to take him on in November in the 9th District.

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DeWitt Born August 20, 1925, and raised in Boyne City, Rosaline Frederick went to be with her Lord on April 4, 2010, at the age of 84. She was preceded in death by her loving husband of 45 years, the Rev. Monroe Frederick; brother, Verlin Cook; sisters, Florine Padgett and Bertha Stutzman. Surviving are her sons, Aaron (Jody) Frederick, Montie Frederick, and Tim Frederick; granddaughters, Devon Frederick, Lindsay Frederick, Katy (Justin) Graham, and Natasha (Phillip) Willey; grandson, Steven (Pam) Frederick; greatgrandchildren, Drew, Gabrielle, Griffin, Avery, Josh, Kaylee, and Logan; sisters, Betty (Gene) McDaniel, Vada (Clarence) Visel and many nieces and nephews. Rosaline enjoyed sewing and making special things for home and grandchildren and was active in church groups. From loving grandson Steve: "My grandmother died today. She did her job as an ambassador to Christ, a wife to grandpa, a mother to her 3 sons and a haven to her grandchild. I have never had a bad memory of her. If she ever crossed your path in life, then your life was made better because of it. My heart is heavy today, but only because I love." The family will receive friends at Gorsline Runciman Funeral Homes, 205 E. Washington, DeWitt on Tuesday, April 13 from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Funeral Services will be held at Redeemer United Methodist Church, 13980 Schavey Road, DeWitt, MI 48820; at 11:00 a.m., on Wednesday, April 14 with Pastor Rodney Kalajainen officiating. Interment will follow at White Chapel Cemetery in Royal Oak. Those desiring may make contributions to American Lung Association or American Diabetes Association in memory of Mrs. Frederick. On line condolences may be made to www.gorslineruncimandewitt.com

John W. Foltz Jr.

St. Johns Passed away peacefully on April 8, 2010, surrounded by his family. He was born September 6, 1930, in Lansing, MI, the son of John W. Foltz Sr. and Cecil Parker Foltz. John was a veteran of the Korean War having served with the U.S. Navy in the Submarine Service from 1950-1954 and on May 9, 1953 he married Frances Faiver. In 1956 John graduated from M.S.U. with a degree in Agricultural Economics. He was an avid gardener and outdoorsman enjoying hunting, fishing, camping and woodworking. John was a member of the NRA, VFW and St. Joseph’s Catholic Church. He is survived by his wife, Frances; children, John III (Michael Ann), Martin (Wendy), Jeanne (Peter) Gross, Donald (Eleanor), Thomas (Julie), Charles (Mary) and Peter; brother, Jim (Linda); sister, Irene Carmody; 19 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. The Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Monday, April 12, at 11:00 a.m. at Church of the Resurrection, 1531 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. The Rite of Committal will be held in Deepdale Memorial Park, Lansing. The family will receive friends at the Gorsline-Runciman Funeral Homes, 900 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing, on Sunday from 3-7 p.m. where the Rosary will be prayed at 6 p.m. The family will also receive friends at the church on Monday 1-hour prior to the service. Those desiring may make contributions to Hospice of Lansing, 4052 Legacy Parkway, Suite 200, Lansing, MI, 48911, or to Michigan Parkinson Foundation, 30161 Southfield Rd., Suite 119, Southfield, MI, 48076-9775, in memory of John Foltz. Online condolences may be sent to www.gorslineruncimanlansing.com

Evelyn Martha Russell

Dimondale Evelyn left this life to be with the Lord on April 8, 2010 at the age of 91 surrounded by her family. She was born January 31, 1919 in Lansing, the daughter of Charles and Ada Fay. Evelyn graduated from Central High School and Beauty College in Lansing. On September 20, 1941 she was united in marriage to Robert L. Russell in Lansing. The couple celebrated their 68th anniversary in 2009. She leaves to mourn her death her husband, Robert; two children, JoLynn (Lee) Ross of Spring Arbor and Michael R. Russell of Dimondale; five grandchildren; four greatgrandsons; her sister, Josephine Hathaway of Lansing; and a host of close friends. The family will receive friends from 4 - 7 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Monday, April 12, 2010, at Field & Leik Funeral Home, Dimondale, with Rev. Sharon Myers officiating. Cremation will follow the services and a private graveside service will be held later at Dimondale Cemetery. It was Evelyn’s wish that any memorial donation be made to First Presbyterian Church of Dimondale.

Teresa "Teri" Kaye Jenks

Dimondale Went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, April 6th. She was preceded in death by her parents, Bob and Barbara Jenks; brother, Gordon; and uncle, Jack Friar. Surviving are her brother, Daryel (Lolly) and his children, Tyrone and Jessica; brother, Mark (Suzanne) and his children, Jennifer, Andrew and Alex; aunt, Donna Friar; close friends, Peg McCartney and Deb Finley; many more dear family and friends; and her companion, Coco. More information at www.gorslineruncimanlansing.com

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DEATHS AND FUNERALS ALSO APPEAR ON PAGE 5B; DEATH NOTICES APPEAR ON PAGES 5B AND 7B Robert E. "Bob" Sarhatt

Kewadin Robert E. "Bob" Sarhatt, 83, of Kewadin and Lansing, gently passed away on April 8, 2010 with his family by his side. Bob was born March 7, 1927 in Flint, MI to Elishva (Aivasadacha) and Ewas Sarhatt. On August 11, 1949, Bob married Lorraine T Golombek of Bay City, MI. Bob graduated from Michigan State University in 1950 with a bachelor’s degree in business and continued his finance studies at Purdue University. Bob never retired, loved his work in insurance and estate planning and was completely committed to his clients. Bob won many awards for his professional accomplishments, including the Lansing Association of Life Underwriters Distinguished Service Award and the Lansing Chamber of Commerce "Business Man of the Year." Bob was involved in many community activities including: Medic Alert; United Way; St. Vincent’s Home; The Boys and Girls Club of Lansing; Walk for Hunger; and the Alden Men’s Club. On Wednesday, April 14th, at Tiffany Funeral Home, 3232 W. Saginaw, Lansing visitation will be held from 121:30 p.m. with a Service following . Burial will take place at St. Joseph Cemetery, with full military honors. Memorial contributions may be made to the Robert E. Sarhatt Memorial Fund, Alden Men’s Club PO Box 261, Alden, MI 49612. Arrangements for both Elk Rapids and Lansing services have been entrusted to Covell Funeral Home, Elk Rapids. Please share a memory at www.covellelkrapids.com

Elizabeth P. Zakas

Delta Township Passed away January 13, 2010. Elizabeth was born November 7, 1932 in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan to the late Maurice and Harriet (Woodworth) Piatt. She retired from St. Lawrence Hospital as a Histotechnologist. Elizabeth wintered at Amelia Island, Florida, was an avid golfer at the Grand Ledge Country Club, a devout bird watcher and loved spending summers at Lake Michigan "Birchwood" community. She is survived by her children, Kathi (Bruce) Dunn of Grand Ledge and Mike (Kristy) Zakas of New Mexico; grandchildren, Nicole and A.J.; sister Robin (Jim) Olson of California. A memorial service with a meal to follow will be held Saturday, April 17, 2010, 11:30 a.m. at the Grand Ledge Opera House 121 South Bridge Street Grand Ledge, Michigan 48837. The family will receive friends at the Opera House from 10:00 a.m. until the time of the memorial service at 11:30 a.m. Memorial contributions may be given to the Delta Township District Library 5130 Davenport Drive Lansing, Michigan 48917. Arrangements by the Holihan-Atkin Funeral Home, Grand Ledge. Online condolences and guest book entries may be made at www.holihanatkin.com

Riley Faith Rule

Riley Faith Rule (Reid) passed peacefully in the arms of family on April 8, 2010. She was born on March 12, 2010 and spent four weeks at the University of Michigan hospital. Riley has seen the face of God and is now perfect in heaven. She is now an angel to us all! Riley is the daughter of Eric and Jenny Rule (Reid). She is survived by four siblings; Eric, Madeleine, Christian, and Lily. Riley is the 17th grandchild of Jay and Jerry Gilroy and Patrick Reid, and the 10th grandchild of Rick and Linda Rule. Riley gave us a lifetime of love during her short time on earth. Her life has brought so many of us closer to God and we rejoice knowing she is in the arms of the Father! Forever in HIS grip! The celebration of Riley’s life will begin on Monday, April 12th with a visitation from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., followed by a Funeral Mass at 12:00 p.m. at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in East Lansing. A celebratory luncheon will be held after mass at Eagle Eye Golf Course.

Anna Sarver

Lansing Age 54, went to her eternal home to be with her Lord and Savior on Monday, April 5, 2010. Anna was born March 30, 1956 in Detroit, MI, daughter of William and Betty Sarver.Always putting others before her, Anna was a loving woman with a kind, generous heart. She enjoyed every moment with her kids and especially loved cheering on the Detroit Tigers with her son. She was preceded in death by her father William "Harry" Sarver and sister Nancy Sarver. She is survived by her mother Betty Sarver, three children Monica Sarver, Sean Kenney, and Erin (Denton) Wingeier, grandson Jaycob Sarver, brother Douglas Sarver, sister Linda (Randy) Lilly, and special nieces and nephews. No funeral services will be held. Memorial service to be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Capital Area Humane Society in memory of Anna. You were the best mother we could have hoped for. We will forever love you and always cherish our many memories. We look forward to the day when we will see you in heaven. Arrangements by Palmer Bush & Jensen Family Funeral Homes, Lansing Chapel. Condolences can be made at www.palmerbush.com.

Virginia E. Boswell

East Lansing Born January 6, 1919; Virginia E. Boswell died April 8, 2010, at the age of 91. A graduate of Hope College, Virginia earned her Master’s Degree from Wayne State University in 1955. For over 40 years, Virginia was a teacher and counselor, primarily at Redford Union High School, Redford, Michigan, retiring in 1980. She was well-loved by her students and fellow staff, receiving recognition from the Michigan House of Representatives in 1980 as a "Distinguished Educator." Virginia married the late James Boswell in 1946. They were married for 63 years. Virginia was life-long avid Bridge player and a docent at Kresge Art Museum after she retired. Virginia was preceded in death by her husband, James (2009), and her parents. She is survived by her sister-in-law, Shirley Boswell and a myriad of cousins, nieces, and nephews. A memorial service will be held Sunday, April 18, 2010, at 2:00 p.m. at All Saints Episcopal Church, 800 Abbot Rd., East Lansing with the Rev. Katherine A. Carlson officiating. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the church. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Kresge Art Museum, 127 Kresge Art Center, East Lansing, MI 48824-1119, or Children’s Aid Society, 105 East 22nd Street, Room 504, New York, NY 10010-5413 in memory of Virginia. The family is being served by Gorsline Runciman Funeral Homes, East Lansing. Online condolences may be made at www.gorslineruncimaneastlansing.com

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White Cloud Karen Sue Brewer, age 52, formerly of Six Lakes and Lansing, passed away Tuesday at her home. Karen was born on Oct. 10, 1957 in Lansing to Jerry and Jeanette (Myers) Burch and later married Carl David “Dave” Brewer on June 30, 1979 in Lansing. Dave preceded her in death on Aug. 30, 2009. Karen had been a bank teller at Chemical Bank in Six Lakes for several years until she and Dave moved to White Cloud in 2001 where she opened Flowers in the Cloud. Karen was a member of the White Cloud United Methodist Church and enjoyed camping, working in her yard, playing board games and being involved in many children’s lives. Survivors: her father and stepmother, Jerry (Donna) Burch of Palmetto, FL; her sister, Cheryl (Rev. Jeff) Bowman of White Cloud; daughters, Tina (Paul) Mitchell; Terona Killingbeck both of Columbia, TN; 7 grandchildren; 8 great grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. Preceded in death by her mother, Jeanette in 1987 and her sister, Patricia Hannahs in 2005. Visitation : Thursday, April 15, 2010 from 1-2pm until the time of memorial services at the White Cloud United Methodist Church. Memorial Contributions : White Cloud United Methodist Church. CRANDELL-WHITE CLOUD, 1109 Court Street www.crandellfh.com 231-689-1492 or 1-888-358-8704.

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Lansing Heather Marie Terwilliger now Heather Main-Dennis, 40, was taken from us far too early on April 7, 2010. She was preceded in death, by her grandmother, Adeline Marek. Surviving are her husband, Ron Dennis; parents, Marv and Patty Main; brother, Rob Emerson; nephew, Dustin Ellsworth; and of course her loving pet, Lapoo. A Memorial to celebrate her life will be held at 5:00 p.m. Saturday, April 17, 2010 at Gorsline-Runciman Funeral Homes, 900 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing with Steve Reed, officiating. The family will receive friends at the Chapel Saturday 1 hour prior to the service. Those desiring may make contributions Capital Area Humane Society, 7095 West Grand River Ave., Lansing, MI 48933. "Your heart touched us all. We love and miss you!" Online condolences may be sent to www.gorslineruncimanlansing.com

Lowell Dallas Anderson

DeWitt A wonderful husband, father and friend was born September 9, 1926, in Battle Creek; died April 8, 2010, at the age of 83. Lowell was a veteran of WWII having served in the U. S. Army and had retired from General Motors after 23 years of service. He was preceded in death by his sister, Marion Long. Surviving are Dorothy, his wife of 54 years; daughters, Carolyn (Ronald) Varilek of Sarasota, FL, and Lola (Jim) Dickerson of Lansing; son, Joe Anderson of Lansing; grandsons, Dustin Dickerson (Tiffany Paseka) and Landon Dickerson (Paige Sims); 6 step-grandchildren; greatgrandson, Braylon Dickerson; 17 step-great-grandchildren; brothers, Eugene (Marilyn) Anderson and Robert (Mary) Anderson; sister, Barbara Brown; and several nieces and nephews. Private services will be held at a later date. There will be no visitation. The family is being served by the GorslineRunciman Funeral Homes, DeWitt. Online condolences may be sent to www.gorslineruncimandewitt.com

Carl Dean Clarke

Passed away Sunday, March 28, 2010 in Alpena, MI at the age of 71. Born November 18, 1938 to James and Dorothy (Towns) Clarke in Eaton Rapids, MI. Carl retired from the Laingsburg School district where he was a Biology teacher and coach of the track team from 1965 to 1982. From 1982 1995 he was the high school Principal. After retiring, Carl and his wife opened Birch Cove Cottages on Long Lake in Alpena. He enjoyed playing with his grandchildren, hunting, fishing, gardening, and spending time on the family farm. He was a handyman who could fix anything. Genuine, Hardworking and caring, Carl will be dearly missed by all that knew him. Preceding him in death were his father; father-in-law, Al Lee; nieces, Lillian and Angel. Surviving are his wife of 47 years, Rebecca (Lee) Clarke; son, Chris (Beth) Clarke; grandchildren, Ryan Wheeler, Jacob Clarke, Austin Clarke, Madeline Clarke; mother; sister, Carol (Kenneth) Janousek; brother, Robert (Denise) Clarke; loving in-laws and several nieces and nephews. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, April 16, 2010 at Skinner Funeral Home with a luncheon to follow. Family will receive friends at the funeral home on April 15 from 5-8 p.m. For those desiring, memorial contributions may be made to the National Kidney Foundation, or, the American Cancer Society. For online condolen ces please visit www.SkinnerFuneralHome.com

Jerome (Jerry) K. Hill Thonotosassa, FL

Formerly of Lansing and Alma, MI, age 89, died April 1, 2010, at the Baldomero Lopez State Veterans’ Nursing Home in Land O’ Lakes, Florida. Jerry was born July 13, 1920, in Lansing, MI. He was a WWII U.S. Army veteran. He retired from Motor WheelCentrifuse in 1979. He is survived by step-children Richard Isatala of Thonotosassa, FL, and Janice (Philip) Adams of Jackson, MI; daughter Ella Mae (Daniel) Beasley of Columbia, TN; sisters Beverly (Oliver) Stidam of Anaheim, CA, and Marilynne Walton of Lansing, MI; step-grandchildren, Kristi Lippmann, Brandon Adams, and David Cripe; 5 step-greatgrandchildren, and many nieces and nephews. Jerry was predeceased by his wife, Beulah; parents Samuel and Mabel Hill; brothers Vernie, Bill, David, and Jack; and sister, Patricia. Per his request, cremation has taken place and there will be no services. Interment will be at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Lansing, MI.

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Lansing Also of Zionsville, IN. Age 91, died Wednesday, April 7, 2010. Born August 10, 1918 in Tolna, ND, to Richard Keating and Marie Rundtom of Lesjaskog, Norway. Salutatorian of her 1936 High School class, Mildred studied a year in Wahpeton, ND, graduating from Mayville State Teachers College in 1939. She taught school briefly before working in the Pentagon, later moving to Detroit. She met Floyd Alden in 1948, married September 23, 1949 and moved to Lansing, residing there until 2005. Mildred worked at the Post Office 5 years before retiring and enjoying too brief of a time with her husband RV traveling, square dancing, etc. She was predeceased by beloved husband, Floyd, and brother, Richard Keating. Mildred enjoyed travel, reading and family. A fiercely competitive scrabble player, Mildred routinely beat her caregivers and never lost her great sense of humor or love for family. She was beloved by daughters, Susan Alden (Gary Prehm), Kaye Alden and Julie (Robert) Montgomery; sister, Ann Wood; grandsons, Joseph (Trina) Galvano and Nathan Thomason; granddaughters, Elisabeth and Madeline Prehm; 3 great-grandchildren Gabe, Gio and Genesis Galvano; and several nieces and nephews. Funeral Services, Friday, 11:30 a.m. at Bethlehem Lutheran Church. Interment follows in Evergreen Cemetery. Visitation, Thursday, 6-8 p.m. at Palmer Bush & Jensen Funeral Homes, Lansing Chapel. Memorial contributions may be sent to the Church or Alzheimer’s Assn. Condolences can be made at www.palmerbush.com.

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Emily left this earthly home for her heavenly home on April 10, 2010. While surrounded by her loving family, she was called to the Lord at the age of 86. Born Emila Malinowski on January 26, 1924 in Grand Rapids, Michigan to Stanley and Veronica (Podapowicz) Malinowski, Emily graduated from Grand Rapids Catholic Central High School in 1942. At age 20, Emily proudly joined the Grand Rapids Platoon of the Women’s Marine Corps. She served two years as an Ordnance Sergeant during World War II while stationed at Cherry Point Marine Base in North Carolina. Emily married her sweetheart Forrest Gillespie in 1947, with whom she had four children. He preceded her in death after 26 years of marriage. She later married Earl Smith who is also deceased. Emily was predeceased by her parents, two brothers, Michael and Henry, and two sisters, Rita and Margaret. Emily was a founding member of St. Gerard’s Catholic Church, where she volunteered in many Catholic community activities and charities. A devout Catholic, Emily was also a member of the St. Gerard Madonna Circle. Emily is survived by her loving sons, Kenneth (Peggy) Gillespie of Lansing, Peter (Dona) Gillespie of Ovid, Phillip (Pamela) Gillespie of East Lansing, and her loving daughter Anne Wood, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Emily is additionally survived by ten beloved grandchildren, Patrick (Jennifer) Gillespie, Marcy (Gary) Kinzer, Jennifer (Lane) Osborn, Scott (Sara) Gillespie, Christopher (fiancé Casy) Gillespie, Dominic (fiancé Mallorie) Gillespie, Orlando, Graycie, Jillian and Forrest Gillespie; eight greatgrandchildren, Patrick, Meghan, Zachary Gillespie, Maggie and Ryan Kinzer, Scotty Gillespie and Sawyer and Lilly Belle Osborn; brother, Joseph (Rene) Malin of Wisconsin; sisterin-law, Janet Malinowski; and numerous nieces and nephews. A Funeral Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at St. Gerard Catholic Church, 4437 W. Willow Hwy, Lansing and followed by interment at St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery. Visitation will take place from 2-4 and 6-8 with a rosary at 7:00 p.m. Tuesday at Tiffany Funeral Home, 3232 W. Saginaw, Lansing. Friends may sign the online guestbook at www.tiffanyfuneralhome.com The Gillespie family requests any memorial contributions be made to The Hospice House of Mid-Michigan, St. Lawrence/Sparrow campus in Lansing, where their mother, Emily Gillespie-Smith received kind and gentle loving care during her illness.

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91, of Holt, died Thursday. Arrangements by Palmer Bush and Jensen Family Funeral Homes, Holt Chapel.

Hubbardston w Schafer, MacKenzie

Grace, infant daughter of Matthew Schafer and Kimberly Case of Hubbardston, died Saturday. Private services will be held. Arrangements by Lux & Schnepp Funeral Home, Carson City.

Sunﬁeld w Butler, Jacqueline Kay

(Coon), 69, of Sunfield, Sunfield Village Council member, died Thursday. Services 11 a.m. Tuesday at Sunfield United Methodist Church. Arrangements by Rosier Funeral Home, Mapes-Fisher Chapel, Sunfield.

Elsewhere w Bosche, Mark Eugene, 51,

of O'Fallon, Mo., formerly of Lansing, retired information technology worker, died Monday. Memori-

al services 10:30 a.m. Friday, at Assumption Parish, O'Fallon, Mo. w Stine, Mitchell "Mitch" I., 56, of Winn, formerly of Lansing, Oil City Sales body man, died Thursday. Arrangements by Chapel in the Pines Funeral Home.

Births Lake Odessa w Hyland: To Daniel and

Sara Hyland, a daughter, Eleanor Louise Hyland, at Sparrow Hospital, Feb. 25.

Mason w Anderson: To Dave and

Richelle Anderson, a daughter, Phebe Marie Anderson, at Sparrow Hospital, March 9. w Doyle: To Kenny and Tasha Doyle, a daughter, Kendall Marie Doyle, at Sparrow, March 14. w Vandecar: To Vaughn and Angie Vandecar, a son, Vaughn Harrison Vandecar, at Sparrow Hospital, March 18. w Mackey: To Kevin and Michelle Mackey, twins, a daughter, Violet Catherine Mackey, and a son, Luke Ernest Mackey, at Sparrow Hospital, March 20. w Brady: To Francis Brady and Leslie Ewing, a daughter, Addison Lauren Brady, at Ingham Regional Medical Center, March 21. w Chalmers: To Troy and Melinda Chalmers, a son, Cade Michael Chalmers, at Sparrow Hospital, March 24. w Murray: To Jeremy and Hilery Murray, a daughter, Lydia Joy Murray, at Ingham Regional Medical Center, March 26. w Oesterle: To Matthew and Jenna Oesterle, a son, Benjamin Lyle Oesterle, at Sparrow Hospital, March 27.

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HIGH 811977in 14 in LOW 1989

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The beauty of balsamic Put balsamic vinegar to use in marinades, in sauces or drizzled over fruit, vegetables, meats, poultry and seafood.

4C WD-40: Use it to clean 6C LIFETIME MOVIE: up everything from Crayons to grease. LIVE GREEN: Plant evergreen trees to block the wind and save on heating costs.

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St. Thomas hosts joint ‘Messiah’ concert

‘Today’ correspondent to talk at Town Hall

»The Lansing Symphony Orchestra and the MSU College of Music will join forces tonight to present Parts II and III of George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah” in East Lansing. » St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 955 Alton Road, Tonight East Lansing, 487-5001, www.lansingsymphony.org » 7 p.m. today, $20, $10 for students

»The Lansing Town Hall Celebrity Lecture Series will APR hold a talk by Amy Robach, an NBC “Today” show correspondent and anchor, on Monday. (Robach, incidentally, was born in St. Joseph, Mich.) »Causeway Bay Hotel, 6820 S. Cedar St., 332-3729, www.lansingsymphony.org (click on “things to do”) »11 a.m. Monday, $25 for lecture, $15 for lunch

Two of best selling author Patricia Cornwell’s books are making the jump to the small screen.The novels “At Risk” and “The Front,” debut on Lifetime this weekend and next weekend respectively. Actor Daniel Sunjata plays the character Win, and Cornwell herself makes a breif screen appearance as a waitress.

Staying in touch during a health crisis

Doing her job: In this undated photograph of a young Dr. Dorothy Segal, pictured at right, examines a dog in her veterinary practice. Dr. Segal was one of only two women who graduated from the Michigan State University veterinary school in 1943. Courtesy photo provided by Dorothy Segal

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FEMALE VETS TAKE THE LEAD

hen Dorothy Segal entered Michigan State University’s veterinary school in the 1930s, she was one of seven women in the class. She recalls the dean telling them that they didn’t belong in the school or the profession. “There’s no place for women here. Go back to the kitchen,” Segal recalled him saying. “I made up my mind that he was going to like me when I was done.” At age 93, Segal, of Grand Blanc, has lived to see her profession become dominated by ROD SANFORD /Lansing State Journal women. Today, there are about 2,500 Doctor: Veterinarian Julie Copeland, an MSU graduate, examines “Zeke” licensed veterinarians who owned by Kelly LaGrave, at the Miller Animal Clinic on Wednesday. practice in Michigan, and about half are women, said Dr. Julie Copeland is a small animal veterinarian at Karlene Belyea, director of the An extreme shift the Miller Animal Clinic in Michigan Veterinary Medical The ascent of women “has happened in higher education Lansing and 2002 graduate of Association. across the board, and it’s hap- MSU’s program. And about 87 percent of The tables already turned MSU’s 431 students pursuing pened in extreme” in veterinary medicine, said Chrishad during her time at MSU. veterinary medicine degrees topher Brown, the dean of There were only a few men are women. “It’s a good thing,” said SeMSU’s College of Veterinary in Copeland’s graduating class, gal, who graduated from MSU Medicine, the only veterinary in 1943. school in the state. SEE VETS Page 8C

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of veterinarians in the U.S. are female. Women took the lead for the first time in 2009 tipping the scales with 44,802 female vets compared with 43,196 male vets. American Veterinary Medical Association

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Send us your requests Lansing of old seems to be striking a new chord for readers, particularly online. News surrounding plans to renovate the J.W. Knapp’s building prompted us to dig deep into the LSJ photo archive. We posted a photo gallery of historic pictures of the building and the businesses that called it home. Our Web site traffic numbers skyrocketed. There have been more than 21,000 page views so far. The Lansing State Journal has covered Lansing news for 155 years. We’ve captured countless historic moments in that time. What buildings or events would you like to relive? Send us your requests, with as much detail and description as possible, and we’ll do our best to locate the images and upload them to a photo gallery on www.lsj.com.

echnology — and some forethought — can help patients share their news about a health crisis and rally the support of friends and family when it’s needed most. In difﬁcult times, the help and encouragement from friends and family are important, but too many phone calls, e-mails or visits can be a burden. The April issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource offers tips on sharing news of a health crisis. » Set the pace: Patients should share information at a pace that’s comfortable, without pressure or rush. Waiting until emotions are in check can make sharing easier, especially when talking with children. » Draw boundaries: Basic facts might be enough to share with acquaintances. With close friends and family, patients might want to share more details as well as the hopes and fears about treatment and recovery. » Be prepared for a variety of reactions: Everyone reacts differently. Some people might seem awkward or distant and not want to talk about the health concern. Others will express fears or sadness openly. Most people will be curious about treatment, next steps and recovery. » Take advantage of technology: Sharing information online or through regular e-mails is easy.A service such as CaringBridge (www.caringbridge.org) or CarePages (www.carepages.com) allows patients to inform friends and family through a personalized Web page. Family and friends can provide support via an online guestbook. Many hospitals and clinics offer similar services. Social media, such as Facebook or Twitter, are options, too. » Accept help: Upon hearing serious health news, friends and family will want to help. Having a list of chores ready — shopping, cooking, running errands — makes it easier to take advantage of these offers. » Set limits: Patients might need to limit conversations or the number of guests when they aren’t up to talking.

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Dr. Dorothy Segal, 93, of Grand Blanc recalling what the dean told her when she started at MSU.

Drawn by a familyfriendly career and a love of animals, female veterinarians now outnumber men

»www.helloquizzy.com/tests/ the-nerd-geek-or-dork-test »Are you a nerd, a geek or a dork? (Or perhaps none of the above?) And what the heck is the difference? This quiz cracked us up — probably because so much of it rang true for us that we ended up with the result “pure nerd.” But we shouldn’t feel bad about that, apparently, as the quiz results reassure us that “being smart isn’t as socially crippling as it once was.”

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Ford Edge, pet safe vehicle of the year Is Dog your co-pilot? Then listen-up.The Ford Edge is the safest car on the road for pets. So says the pet safety group, Bark Buckle UP (www.barkbuckleup.com) Also on the list: Chrysler Town and Country; Dodge Journey; Ford Edge; Ford Flex; Ford Transit Connect; Kia Soul; Honda Element (which last year introduced its first “dog friendly model” complete with ramp, rear car kennel, pet bed and fan); Smart Car; Subaru Outback; Volvo XC60. “Most people don’t think about it, but in only a 35 mph accident with a 60-pound pet it becomes a 2,700-pound projectile,” says Christina Selter, founder of Bark Buckle UP, which also markets in-vehicle-safety products for pets. “This will injure the pet, passengers,

driver; or the pet may escape the vehicle and cause a second accident or become agitated and bite the first responder that is on scene.” The group evaluated vehicles on a variety of petfriendly points, including how easily the vehicle accommodates animals and kennels of various sizes, ease of access to pet from within the vehicle, ease of pet entry and exit, ventilation for animals in the rear and whether the vehicle has pet-friendly surfaces or safety gear. — MCT News Service

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CLASSES

Cheese Making Classes, Woldumar Nature Center, 5739 Old Lansing Road, Lansing, 6-8 p.m. April 15 and 22. Learn how easy it is to make artisan cheese in your own kitchen in a two-week basic cheese making course. Info: 322-0030. Cost: beginning sessions: $25 for Woldumar members, $30 for nonmembers. Registration is required. Going Green: Composting 101, Lincoln Brick Park, 13991 Tallman Road, Grand Ledge, 10 a.m.- noon April 17. Registration is recommended. To register, please visit the Web site or call the park office at 627-7351. Info: 622-8855, www.eatoncountyparks.org. Cost: $3, $2 per child 12 and younger and $8 per family. Just B Yoga, free weekly yoga class, Shabazz Academy, 1028 W. Barnes Ave., Lansing, 6:45-8:15 p.m. Wednesdays. All-level yoga practice blended into a continuous flow with music. Open to ages 13 through adult. Info: 488-5260, bythurston.wordpress.com. " Learn the Basics of Food Preservation, Ingham County MSU Extension, 5303 S. Cedar St., Lansing, 6:30-8 p.m. April 16. Call to RSVP. Info: 887-4588. Cost: $10 per person. Lifecycles: Memoirs to Share, Lansing Community College East, 2827 Eyde Parkway, East Lansing, 3:10 p.m. April 14. Info: 483-1860. Cost: $49. Woldumar’s Herb Gardens: Planning and Planting, Woldumar Nature Center, 5739 Old Lansing Road, Lansing, 2-4 p.m. April 11. Info: 322-0030, www.woldumar.org. Cost: registration is required, $10 per person, $7.50 for Woldumar members.

driver’s license, and a box or bag to carry food. Info: 483-4477. "

food establishments will offer tastes of appetizers,, entrees, desserts, more. Proceeds will help the MSU Community Club provide endowment scholarships. Call for tickets. Info: 332-6683. Cost: $25.

NATURE

Eaton County Parks Spring Pork supper and bake sale, Millville Splash, Delta Mills Park, 6941 Old River United Methodist Church, 1932 N. M-52, Trail, Lansing, 1 p.m. April 17. Three-hour Stockbridge, 5-7 p.m. April 17. At 7 p.m. excursion down the Grand River. Bring the film “Fireproof” will be shown. Info: Williamston/Webberville Relay snacks, water and warm clothes. There is a 851-7853. Cost: donation, take-out available. For Life Scrapbooking & limited supply of canoes for use at a cost Crafting fundraiser, Vantown of $10 per person. Registration is required, Spring Bake Sale, Ingham County Community Church, 3504 E. Howell Road, call 627-7351 or visit the Web site. Info: Medical Care, 3860 Dobie Road, Okemos, Webberville, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. April 17. Info: www.eatoncountyparks.org. Cost: $5 per 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. April 16. Employees 694-6479. Cost: $30 includes lunch, dinner. person with your own canoe or kayak. are sponsoring this sale, in the facility atrium. All proceeds will benefit resident Knee High Naturalist, Fenner Nature HEALTH programming. Info: 381-6132. Center, 2020 Mount Hope Ave., Lansing, H1N1 Vaccination Clinic, St. 1-2:30 p.m. April 15. For ages 3-5. Call Spring Feast/Chili Cook-Off, Vincent’s Children’s Home, Gym, 1202 W. to register. Info: 483-4224, www.fofnc.org. Nokomis Learning Center, 5153 Marsh Road, Willow, Lansing, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. April 16. Info: Cost: $5. Okemos, noon-5 p.m. April 17. Please bring 887-4319. " a dish to pass if you are not entering the Spring bird walks, Fenner Nature cook-off. We will be grilling buffalo burgers H1N1 Vaccine Clinic, St. Vincent’s Center, 2020 Mount Hope Ave., Lansing, Catholic Charities, 2800 W. Willow St., and hot dogs. You also get to vote on your 9 a.m. April 17. Walk the trails with a local Lansing, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. April 16. Info: favorite chili. Info: 349-5777. birder to observe the spring migrations of 230-7976, www.nwlansing.org. " birds. Info: 483-4224, www.fofnc.org. " Woldumar’s Geocache Bash, Woldumar Nature Center, 5739 Old Lansing Road, Lansing, 2 p.m. April 17. For $6 per person you will take a GPS guided hike around Woldumar’s diverse habitats, collecting clues that will lead you to a treasure. Each participant will take home a prize. GPS units will be loaned on a firstcome, first-served basis, one unit per family or group. Participants are encouraged to bring their own GPS. Info: 322-0030, www.woldumar.org.

RACES

Everything you can stuff in a standard paper grocery bag for $2 per bag. Bags will be furnished at the door. Info: 372-5830.

Eaton Rapids Women’s Expo, Island City Academy, 6421 S. Clinton Trail, Eaton Rapids, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. April 17. Info: 416-0398. Cost: admission is free but we are asking for nonperishable food items or monetary gifts for the local food band. Kiwanis Club Division 16 Indoor Yard Sale, Faith United Methodist Church, 4301 S. Waverly Road, Lansing, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. April 16 and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. April 17. Proceeds go to Michigan Foundation, supporting Michigan Children’s Hospitals. Info: 882-0661. Mom to Mom Sale, Rowley Wesleyan Church, 3720 Rowley Road, Williamston, 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. April 17. Come get some great bargains. Tables available for selling gently used clothing, maternity cloths, toys, books, etc. E-mail or call Courtney Kephart at rwcmom2momsale@hotmail.com or 930-3798 for table information. Info: 655-4684. Cost: Free admission, strollers welcome. Semi-Annual Rummage Sale and Bake Sale, St. Michael’s Church, 405 Edwards St., Grand Ledge, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. April 15. Info: 627-2201. Thrifty Sparrow Re-Sale Shop, Sparrow Hospital, St. Lawrence campus, the Outpatient Building, lower level, 1210 W. Saginaw St., Lansing, 8 a.m.-noon Mondays and 8 a.m.-2 p.m. the first and third Wednesdays and 2-5 p.m. Fridays. Donations welcome during shop hours. Proceeds go to Sparrow Hospice Services. Info: 364-7185.

Dan Langdon Memorial 5K, Eagle Eye Golf Club, 15500 Chandler Road, Bath, 2 p.m. April 11. Children can also enter the 1-mile Banjo Dash for $10. Info: 898-5692, www.danlangdonmemorialrun.com. Cost: $25. Kappa Delta Sorority Run 5KD, MSU Conrad Hall, Conrad Hall, East Lansing, Lansing State Journal ﬁle photo CLUBS AND 9 a.m. April 17. Proceeds go to Child MEETINGS Next Saturday: Leila Knoblauch gets her face painted by MSU student Abuse Prevention Services in Lansing. SPECIAL EVENTS American Sewing Guild Lansing Christine Hadley, during the last year’s Small Animals Day at the MSU Pavilion. Race day check-in at 9 a.m. E-mail 2010 Small Animals Day, MSU Clippers April Meeting, UAW bachteal@msu.edu for more information. Pavilion, 4301 Farm Lane, East Lansing, Stress and Relaxation: A sigh Waverly Education Foundation Local 652 Hall, 426 Clare St., Lansing, Info: www.playmakers.com. Cost: $20. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. April 17. Families are invited of relief, Hayes Green Beach Memorial Pancake Fundraiser, AppleBee’s 6:30-9 p.m. April 12. The American Sewing to attend this great event that educates Miles for Smiles, Hawk Island Park, Hospital, 321 E. Harris St., Charlotte, noon Restaurant, 5400 W. Saginaw Highway, Guild Lansing Clippers is hosting a sew-in visitors about agriculture and natural pavilion, 1601 E. Cavanaugh, Lansing, and 4:30 p.m. April 13. Call for reservations. Lansing, 8-10 a.m. April 17. All-you-can-eat at its meeting. Lansing Clippers is assisting resources through hands-on activities. Baby 9 a.m.- noon April 17. Miles for Smiles Info: 541-5839, www.hgbhealth.com. " pancake fundraiser that benefits the the mission of Operation Care Package animals will be on exhibit and children is a 5K walk that raises money to help Waverly Community Schools. Info: by sewing 14-inch drawstring bags. Info: Worlds of Wellness Health Fair, will have the opportunity to milk a cow. pay for dental treatment for local Head www.waverlyeducationfoundation.org, 699-8062, lansingclippers.org. Edgewood United Church, 469 N. Hagadorn Events include face painting, a sheep Start families who lack adequate insurance 321-7265. Cost: $7 per person. Road, East Lansing, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. April 17. East Lansing Woman’s Club, dog demonstration, bus rides to the MSU and financial resources. Info: 482-1504, Interactive exhibits and hands-on Peoples Church, Robertson Room, 200 W. Horse Farm and the MSU Poultry Farm FUNDRAISERS www.facebook.com/milesforsmiles. Cost: demonstrations. Come check out Reiki, Grand River Ave., East Lansing, 1:30 p.m. and educational booths sponsored by MSU registration begins at 9 a.m., the cost is Bath Elementary Annual Walkenjoy a chair massage, get your blood April 12. Speaker: Kelly Arndt, director of student organizations. Info: 355-0234. Cost: $15 which includes a T-shirt and a goody a-Thon, Bath High School, 6175 E. Clark pressure checked, learn the benefits of East Lansing Prime Time Seniors Program. $2 per person. bag, the walk begins at 10 a.m. Parking is Road, Bath, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. April 17. Theme is eating locally, get your bike ready for spring, Info: 332-5073. $2 for Ingham County residents and $4 for “We Like To Move It.” Along with prizes for Celebration of Anne Woiwode’s visit a fire truck and more. For all ages. Info: Grand River Conservation Club non-residents. If this is a hardship the fee walking, there will be a silent auction 25th Anniversary with Sierra 332-8693. " meeting, Grand River Conservation is waived. and raffle. Check out the bouncy house, Club Michigan Chapter, Club, 7345 Lyons Road, Portland, 7 p.m. face painting, crazy hair and more. In Perspective2, 319 E. Grand River Ave., LIBRARIES RivMX 5K 2010, Riverview Community first and third Thursdays. New members case of bad weather, activity will move Lansing, 5:30-8 p.m. April 14. Join us Church, 3585 Willoughby Road, Holt, 9 a.m.A History of Lansing Theaters, welcome. Info: 647-7771. Cost: $20 per year indoors. Money raised goes to our PTA for a celebration of Anne Woiwode’s noon April 17. RivMexico and RivRunners Capital Area District Library Main Branch, membership fee. and Health Team. Contact Ann Koch for 25 years on the staff of the Michigan are hosting a 5K Run/Walk/Kids’ Fun Run 401 S. Capitol Ave., Lansing, 7-8 p.m. info at B1anna@aol.com or 641-8119. Info: Chapter of the Sierra Club. Register online Greater Lansing Weavers Guild and carb dinner to help raise money to April 15. A tour of Lansing’s theaters 641-8119, www.bath.k12.mi.us. Cost: $5 per at tinyurl.com/april14RSVP. Info: 484-2372, Monthly Meeting, Country Stitches send people to Monterrey, Mexico to serve through photographs, playbills and movie person or $15 per family. www.michigan.sierraclub.org. 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The National Day of Silence Impression 5 Science Center, 200 Museum Irish-American Club of MidDistrict Library Webberville Branch, 115 S. at Riverview Church. Info: 694-3400. Cost: brings attention to anti-LGBT bullying Drive, Lansing, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. April 17. Michigan, Cork & Bottle Winery LLC, Main St., Webberville, 1-4 p.m. April 11. late registration 8:30-9:30 a.m. April 17 at and harassment in schools. To give the Be part of a Multiple Mania Super Saturday. 1161 E. Clark Road #134, DeWitt, 7 p.m. With local expert Glen Rairigh, owner of Riverview Church, $20 per person or $35 students of Eastern High School’s Spectrum Info: 316-0261, www.impression5.org. Cost: April 13. An informative talk on the Potato Americana Auctions. Bring up to three family; carb dinner tickets $8 person or $20 club the opportunity to see this year’s families with multiples - adults get in free, Famine in Ireland. Info: (800) 743-9457, items, excluding coins, stamps and jewelry. family. 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Horoscopes Sunday, April 11, 2010:

» There are times when the ethereal world seems more real than the

so-called real world. And it may be so, especially when the moon is in dreamy Pisces. After all, most things that exist started out as mere imaginings. "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." — Albert Einstein

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

» Things that are on your "some-

day I'll get around to it" list need to be moved over to your "do today" list. Planning and organization will be the cornerstones of your success.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

» You've suffered a few setbacks in the past, and these are the very same events that gave

you the edge you have now. Reflection brings new insight. You'll analyze what happened and learn from the experience.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21)

» Information is power. What one

person calls "gossip" you call "being aware of your surroundings." So go ahead and shake a few trees to find out what's really going on.

CANCER (June 22-July 22)

» It would be nice if you could

make your goal in the first or second shot. It probably won't go that way today, but never stop trying. That's the way winners do it, and you definitely fall into that category.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

» The world is loaded with oppor-

tunities just waiting to be seized. You'll wield your optimism like a weapon, cutting down the defenses of the gatekeepers who stand between you and your desire.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

» Instead of riding on a vague

notion that something needs to them, but you won't mind a bit. be done, figure out what it is You are always happiest when and how to do it. If you spend a you are growing. lot of time in the planning stage, SAGITTARIUS you'll be very likely to quickly (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) see things through to the end. » Loved ones want to go where LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) you go because they know that » Participate in games — it wherever that is — even if it will help you stay sharp. Comhappens to be the grocery store pete whenever the opportunity or the city dump — it's where arises. But do so in the spirit the fun will be. of fun. Surpassing someone else CAPRICORN is far less important than doing (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) your best. » You'll be energized by the same SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21) challenges that once stopped » Obstacles in your path will make you. You're learning to stop takthings more interesting. You'll ing things personally and serihave to stretch, think and assert ously — and your game just yourself in order to get past keeps on improving.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

» You'll be at your best when you

genuinely feel you don't need to impress anyone. People you know well and see often will make comfortable companions. They will relax you and remind you of your roots.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

» You'll focus on your loved ones'

needs, connect with them on deep levels and understand how to make them happy. No wonder others are so loyal to you. And next week, they'll become your good-will ambassadors. —— Holiday Mathis

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FIX IT: CLEANING CRAYON MESS

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~ McIntyres Celebrate Golden Wedding Anniversary ~ Dr. and Mrs. Lonnie D. McIntyre (Ruthie Collins) were both born in Indianapolis, are products of the Indianapolis Public schools and began their teaching careers in Indianapolis. The couple married on April 9, 1960 at Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Indianapolis, IN. Both Lonnie and Ruthie were sponsored by the Indianapolis Public Schools and received the coveted Fulbright Exchange Teaching Fellowship (a national education award) to Manchester, England in1966. Lonnie earned his doctorate in Education (Ed.D.) at Indiana University in Bloomington and worked as a Professor of Education at Michigan State University. After retiring, he began another Professorship at the University of Tennessee. By attending school in the evening, Lonnie became an ordained minister and has pastored churches in Athens and Rockwood, TN. Ruthie earned her M.S. degree at Butler University and has done work toward her doctorate at Indiana University and Michigan State University. She began teaching Kindergarten in Indianapolis and taught other grades in elementary school. She ultimately earned positions as school administrator in the elementary, middle school, and high school. After retirement in Michigan and a move to the lovely Smoky Mountain area of Tennessee, she became a Department Chairperson at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, TN. She retired a second time in 1997. Presently Lonnie and Ruthie enjoy the fruits of three “retirements.” The couple spends their time serving on various community boards (a list too long to mention) and pursuing their hobbies. His hobbies are fishing, bowling, photography, mentoring and traveling. Her hobbies are designing and making jewelry, storytelling in children’s hospitals and schools, travelling, scrapbooking, and taking classes all over the country to learn new things. Both McIntyres are active in the AME Zion Church and, though superannuated after being a local pastor, Rev. Dr. Lonnie McIntyre is a mentor to newly ordained ministers and a teacher in their training process. Both McIntyres play in the Chattanooga Gospel Orchestra; he plays clarinet and she plays cello. Ruthie also plays piano/organ and directs various choirs. Lonnie is active in Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity and Ruthie is a life member of Delta Sigma Theta, Inc.. As a Delta Dear, she celebrated 50 years in the sorority last year.

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Paul Jankoviak will celebrate his 90th birthday on April 13, 2010. A proud member of the 101st Airborne and veteran of World War II, Paul was captured at the Battle of the Bulge and held as a Prisoner of War by the Germans until he managed to escape. His war experiences were chronicled as part of a WKAR special on World War II veterans from Michigan. Paul and his wife Dorothy, who reside in Delhi Township, will celebrate this wonderful birthday milestone with their family, daughter Sue (husband Dale Glynn), son Mike (wife Cherie), daughter Sandy (husband the late Dr. Joe Westwood), son Mark, son Marty (wife Terri) and daughter Sherry (husband Tim Bashore), along with 11 grandchildren and 10 greatgrandchildren. Please join us in wishing Paul a very happy birthday!

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The Knoxville, TN couple, who have traveled the world extensively outside the USA, celebrated their Golden Anniversary with a quiet dinner at home and were joined by members of their original wedding party who presently live in Texas, California and Florida.

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Robert and Jayne Foy were married on April 15, 1950 at St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Owosso, MI. They have been happily married for sixty years. Robert and Jayne have 9 children. They will celebrate with family.

In their celebration of 50 years of marriage, the McIntyres encourage family and friends to join them in donating to one of their favorite charities that provide aid to children: Red Cross Haitian Relief Fund Computer Donation link: https://knoxredcross.com/index.php?option=com_dtdonate&Itemid=999999 Red Cross Phone: 865 584 2999 Ask for Cheynne Duffy St. Judes Children’s Research Hospital Phone: 800 822 6344 Tribute # 25887619 Please make sure donations to these organizations are made with a notation McIntyre Golden Wedding Celebration. These organizations will keep track of our efforts toward our goal.The goal is to use this joyous occasion to raise $50,000 to help children. Donations to both of these non-profit organizations are tax deductible and can be made through Dec. 31, 2010. Every little bit helps!!

Allen

Julie Allen of Dimondale is celebrating her 90th birthday Happy 1st Birthday to Our with family and friends on Gorgeous Baby Boy Isaac April 18. Julie’s open house Elijah! A year’s gone by, how hosted by her family, will be time has flown, We can’t held on April 18 at the Windbelieve how Isaac’s grown! sor Estates Clubhouse in He’s such a joy & so much Dimondale from 1p.m. to fun, Oh my Our Baby’sturning 5p.m. If you’re a friend of JuOne! Happy 1st Birthday to lie’s consider yourself invited! Our Gorgeous Baby Boy Isaac For more information about Elijah! Hope your first this special occasion, call her Birthday is as special as the daughter, Leslie Charles, at day you were born Baby!! 517.675.7535. No presents, please, your Mommy, Daddy & your new presence is plenty! brother/sister Love you Very Much!

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Barrett Sweet of Chicago, IL and Suzanne DeYoung of Okemos, MI are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Chloe Leigh Sweet, to Jeffrey William Branta, son of Jack and Crystal Branta of Okemos, MI. Chloe and Jeff are both graduates of Okemos High School and the University of Michigan. Chloe is employed by BP in Toledo, OH as a Chemical Engineer. Jeff is in his fourth year at the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine and will be graduating in May. A June 2010 wedding is planned.

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Trevor Mahoney and Chrissi Pung, together with their families, are pleased to announce their engagement. Chrissi is the daughter of Bill and Kathy Pung of Portland, MI and Trevor is the son of Jim and Lori Mahoney of Laingsburg, MI. Chrissi and Trevor are both graduates of Central Michigan University. Trevor and Chrissi are employed by Auto-Owners Insurance Company. They currently reside in Mesa, Arizona. A July 2010 wedding is planned in Lansing, MI.

Brady ~ Goodine

David and Deborah Brady of Grass Lake announce the engagement of their daughter, Dana Marie Brady to McCabe Brastow Goodine. McCabe is the son of Thomas and Robbi Goodine of Lansing. A June 2010 wedding is being planned.

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Modern Daytona is more than racing For the Lansing State Journal

ichigan sun seekers and snow birds often look straight south for hot holidays and warm weekends in Florida. But Florida is, by geography and culture, a huge and varied travel experience. It is a vibrant mural that cannot be painted with a single brush. The names of its prominent destinations conjure up feelings and perceptions ranging from thrilling and exotic to serene and sedate: Miami; Sarasota; Fort Lauderdale and Fort Myers; Orlando; Palm Beach; the Panhandle and the Keys — and Daytona Beach. Daytona, which refers to itself as “the world’s most famous beach” isn’t glamorous like Boca Raton or South Beach, but it has plenty happening on the sand and off. Known for years as a spring break haven, Daytona has made an effort to let the world know that families are welcomed and will be comfortable there. To some degree this is true, depending on which section of the beach you choose for your vacation headquarters.

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Immediate name recognition and perceptions of Daytona tend to focus on the Speedway and the famous Daytona 500, plus the ability to drive your car on the beach, where, in fact, the race was ﬁrst held. Both of those features still exist, as does “Bike Week” and “Biketoberfest,” when thousands of motorcycles roll in

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To plan your trip, visit www. DaytonaBeachResort.com and www.DaytonaBeach.com. and the thunderous rumble they create rolls through this northeast Florida town. My impressions of modern Daytona? It is inexpensive. It’s easy to ﬁnd your way around. Daytona has a convenient little airport right near the freeway and main drag. It is the home of the LPGA Tour headquarters, with plenty of golf available.

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Daytona also seems to be the bikini and tattoo capital of the world. It is 60 miles in each direction from tourist activities such as Walt Disney World, St. Augustine and the Kennedy Space Center. Surf’s up as evidenced by plenty of boarders. And most of all, it is a casual, user-friendly destination. Daytona doesn’t have the snobbery of Palm Beach — sandals and shorts are accepted apparel everywhere. Breakfast at Krispy Kreme, lunch at Hooters and an evening at the brand-new greyhound track in a brand-new $6 spring break T-shirt can be good for the soul. Let your hair down. With 23 miles of Atlantic beachfront, you get essentially the same sunrise view, but you can deﬁnitely choose your atmosphere. Most of the buzz and action centers around the Daytona Pier area, which features a park, gift shops, ar-

cade games, carnival rides and waterslides, go-carts, volleyball, a couple erotic dance clubs, restaurants, the strand’s largest hotels and the Ocean Deck — a wellknown, open-air beachfront watering hole. A couple miles to the north you’ll ﬁnd the Daytona Beach Resort and Conference Center, a sparkling clean, family-friendly beachfront resort, fresh off a $30 million renovation, far enough away from the ruckus but close enough for an entertaining beach walk. The hotel has personality because it is not too big, but expansive enough to have four swimming pools, a poolside bar, ﬁre pit and barbecue grill, small spa, gym and restaurant. The Daytona Beach Resort’s 322 condominium suites are across the street from a strip mall with souvenir shops, beach stores, and a supermarket, which can come in handy for travelers since every unit has a kitchen. Easter weekend a wedding party watched the bride and groom, from East Lansing, exchange oceanfront vows at twilight and then walk to the reception staged in the indoor ballroom.

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you’ll fit into the seat and be able to buckle the seatbelt and put down the armrest. First surprise? It’s false that the smaller the aircraft, the skinnier the seat. Delta’s 70- and 76-seat Embraer ERJ 170 and 175 jets, used a lot on short-hop routes, have seats that are 18.25 inches wide. That is the best domestically of all airlines. According to Seat Guru, larger passengers also should try to fly Frontier or Air Tran because their coach seats are 18 inches wide. Certain United and US Airways aircraft also have 18-inch-wide seats. Southwest Airlines, which recently found itself the Twitter target of turned-away overweight flier Kevin Smith, has seats measuring only 17.2 inches wide. Smith was affected by the policy many airlines now use — charging overweight fliers for two seats — and if the flight is sold out, bumping the passenger off the flight.

If you’re flying internationally, the bad news is that most coach seats still are only 17-18 inches wide. Best international carriers? Singapore has 19-inch-wide seats in coach on its long-haul Airbus A330s. Air France, Air China, Aeroflot and CSA Czech offer 18-inchwide seats. The best way to get a wider seat is to fly first or business class. Those seats range from 18.5 to 21 inches wide, even domestically. — Ellen Creager/MCT News Service

remote-carved through heavy vegetation. Once you’re off your doughnut and chicken wing diet, Boneﬁsh Grill, a halfmile north of Daytona Beach Resort on A-1A, is a splendid dining choice: a sophisticated “big city bar” feel, but casual and not overly expensive. You’d have a hard time recognizing Boneﬁsh Grill is a chain restaurant.

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If you’re a “Bucket List” kind of person, that is to say, you seek to experience certain activities or traditions before you “kick the bucket,” you can kill two birds with one stone in Daytona if you act quickly. The wisdom of still allowing cars to drive on the beach is in question, and has already been scaled back, after recent accidents. The custom is handy since you can tailgate right at your beach spot. Be sure you have a fourwheel drive vehicle, though, to avoid getting stuck in spots of softer sand. Your second bucket list item may be to see a NASA launch of the space shuttle, which is visible from Daytona Beach, but you’re also within 45 miles of the entertaining visitor attraction and viewing areas at Kennedy Space Center. The anticipation, the ﬂash, the rumble and the majesty of a launch is almost indescribable. There are only three launches left between now and September, so plan accordingly. Contact Michael Patrick Shiels at MPSbigshow @aol.com.

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Vets: Clinic ownership still dominated by men

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so she’s used to women outnumbering men in her ﬁeld. She’s also not surprised that the professors told Segal to ﬁnd another profession. “Years ago it was more about large animal (veterinary needs) and small animal was a smaller part of it,” Dr. Copeland said. “That’s probably why they told her to get out of there.” It once was believed that women couldn’t handle large animals, such as cows and horses, so a vet needed to be a brawny fullbacktype. But compared with a 1,700-pound horse, the size difference between a 130-pound woman and a 200-pound man doesn’t amount to much. Whatever concerns once may have existed are mitigated now by education, and the availability of medications such as tranquilizers to subdue large animals. Harvard economist Claudia Goldin said the workday of a typical clinic vet-

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Lifelong caretaker: Dorothy Segal, 93, seen here in a family photo, treated horses, goats and birds, too. erinarian can give women, if they are struggling to balance children and family life, more ﬂexibility in a professional career. “When you choose occupations, you also choose because you have a passion for something,” said Goldin,

who has analyzed why women gravitate to certain professions. But women also are balancing career callings with practical needs. Copeland said a love of animals drew her to the job and the ﬂexibility for managing her work and family life (she has two young children) made her glad she chose the career. “The hours can be ﬂexible, (and) a lot of the clinics are really helpful with being able to work around your children,” Copeland said. Miller Animal Clinic is owned by a husband and wife team, and the rest of the vets on staff are all female, many of them MSU graduates.

Tipping point

Females overtook male veterinarians in 2009, according to ﬁgures released last month by the American Veterinary Medical Association, which reported that women lead men, 44,802 to 43,196, in the ﬁeld. But women who own their own practice or clinic are still

the exception to the rule. In Michigan, 546 male veterinarians own practices, compared with 261 women, according to the Michigan Veterinary Medical Association. Dr. Tricia Horton is a vet at the Mount Hope Veterinary Hospital in Lansing. She said the work setting for small animal veterinarians can ﬁt into a familyfriendly routine more than a large animal vet’s schedule can. “In large animal you can get called out in the middle of the night to deliver a calf in very cold weather,” Horton said. “I think there’s more expected from you, you’re making housecalls and going out. Here you just come to work, and you kind of get to leave it at work and go home at night.” Dr. Cassandra Pohl, 40, of Canton Township, works as a vet at Dearborn Family Pet Care. Pohl relishes the ﬂexibility it gives her. She works three days a week, plus two Saturdays a month. “I can make a good living

part-time and my husband works full-time. I can be home with the kids more often,” said Pohl, mother of boys ages 9 and 7. “I was full-time until I had my ﬁrst son, and then it was very easy to go part-time after that.”

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Only once in Pohl’s career has a client asked that a pet be seen by a male veterinarian. “My ﬁrst year of practice, I did deal with a client who was really not very nice to women. ... He wanted a male vet. That was really the only time that I ran into that,” Pohl said. “I’ve worked in three hospitals and they were all owned by women.” Jennifer Stokes, who will graduate from MSU’s vet program in 2011, said she ﬁrst thought of becoming a veterinarian when she heard a career day speaker in grade school. “She was a woman, matter of fact,” said Stokes, 25. “I thought it was cool, and I stuck with it over the

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Sharp Bonderman bafﬂes Indians Former Tigers phenom throws 5 one-hit innings LARRY LAGE Associated Press

DETROIT — Jeremy Bonderman looked like a dependable pitcher again. Bonderman gave up one hit in ﬁve innings and Magglio Ordonez had a two-run homer, leading the Tigers to

LCC softball sweeps twinbill DAN KILBRIDGE

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Each time a Lansing Community College softball player hits a home run, coach Bob Every hands her a package of Starburst candy — a play on the team’s nickname — as she rounds third base. Every gave away three packs during Saturday’s doubleheader sweep of Glen Oaks Community College, 13-0 and 11-3 Every Stars victories in a pair of five-inning games at Ranney Park. LCC (15-4) moved into first place in the Michigan Community College Athletic Association’s Western Division with the wins. The Stars travel to Lake Michigan College for a 1 p.m. doubleheader today. “I’m not interested in finishing second to anybody,” Every said. “I’ve got that Steve Prefontaine attitude that I go right out front from the beginning and if anybody wants to beat me, they have to catch me and pass me.” That showed Saturday. Sophomore third basemen Liz Veltman hit a two-run homer in the first inning of Game 1 to begin the Stars’ offensive onslaught. “It’s important to jump on them early and try to get their hopes down,” Veltman said of LCC’s 9-0 lead after two innings. “We’ve got the reputation that, once (teams) get down, you’re down for the count.” Veltman was 3 for 3 with three RBI and three runs scored in the first game, while sophomore first basemen Stephanie Manuel went 4 for 4 with three RBI. Sophomore second basemen Kirsten Rohn drew a pair of walks and scored four runs, while

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a 4-2 win over the Cleveland Indians on Saturday. The right-hander won and started for the ﬁrst time at home in nearly two years, bouncing back from surgery that broke up a blood clot in his throwing shoulder. “It was fun to just get back on the mound, compete and be who I am and not worry about my arm hurting,” he said. “It’s been a long journey back, but I’m hoping I got 35 more starts in and hopefully we can do something special.”

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pitches Cubs past Reds; Yankees’ Sabathia loses bid for no-hitter in eighth, beats Rays. Page 12D w Box scores and recaps from Saturday’s games. Page 13D Bonderman (1-0) retired the ﬁrst 11 he faced, then allowed a run on a wild pitch, single and two walks to win for the ﬁrst time since his last Comerica Park start on May 22, 2008.

Stellar start: Tigers pitcher Jeremy Bonderman allowed one hit and one run over ﬁve innings as Detroit beat Cleveland on Saturday, 4-2. Bonderman was making his ﬁrst start at Comerica Park since May 22, 2008.

He started on opening day for the Tigers in 2005 at the age of 22, the youngest pitcher to earn the honor since Dwight Gooden two decades earlier, and helped them reach the World Series the next season for the ﬁrst time since 1984. A circulation problem in his shoulder in 2008 stunted his career. The Tigers, though, publicly counted on him being a starter this year and he

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THIRD-ROUND LEADERS

LEE WESTWOOD ........................ 67-69-68—204..................-12 PHIL MICKELSON ....................... 67-71-67—205...................-11 K.J. CHOI ....................................... 67-71-70—208.................... -8 TIGER WOODS ............................. 68-70-70—208 ................... -8

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As Mickelson sizzles, Westwood maintains calm, lead DOUG FERGUSON Associated Press

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Lee Westwood heard the ground-shaking roars for just about everyone but him on a Saturday that sounded an awful lot like Sunday at the Masters. Phil Mickelson made consecutive eagles, and came within inches of three in a row. Tiger Woods battled back from a seven-shot deficit with three w TV: 2 p.m., CBS straight birdies to Inside stay in the game. Fred Couples chipped in w Complete list for eagle, keeping his of scores, tee times for today, hopes alive. Westwood kept Page 8D his head down amid all this madness and wound up with what mattered — the lead. With his best chance ever to win that elusive major, Westwood made only one bogey and finished with a tough par for a 4-under 68 to take a one-shot lead over Mickelson into the final round of a Masters that keeps getting better. “I think I’m ready,” Westwood said. By the look of the names behind him, he better be. Westwood, No. 4 in the world and among the best without a major, was at 12-under 204. He will be in the final group with Mickelson, No. 3 in the world and the sentimental favorite at Augusta given his turbulent year at home with his wife and mother battling breast cancer. Right in front of them will be Woods, No. 1 in the world and playing as though five months of a humiliating sex scandal never happened. He finished with a 3-foot birdie on the last hole for a 2-under 70, putting him at 8-under 208 along with K.J. Choi, who also had a 70. “I think that’s what everybody wants to see,” Westwood said. “Everybody has missed Tiger on the golf course the last five or six months, and he’s up there. Phil is up there. You’ve got 4, 3 and 1 in the world.

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The hunter and hunted: Phil Mickelson (top right) became just the third golfer to card back-to-back eagles at the Masters, making an 8-foot putt for his first at No. 13 and finding the cup with a wedge from the 14th fairway Saturday. But Lee Westwood (above) made just one bogey to sit at 12 under and holds a one-shot lead on Mickelson going into today’s final round. It’s a good leaderboard, I think.” Just as exciting as the names were the cheers, too many to count. It got so crazy at one point that in the time it took Westwood to play the 11th hole with a hard-earned par, Mickelson made up four shots on him with an 8-foot eagle putt on the 13th and holing out a wedge on the 14th. Ricky Barnes holed an eagle from off the green and knocked in a 60-foot birdie putt across the 14th. The thrills never stopped. “It was probably one of those great days in golf at a major championship,” Westwood said. “I obviously wasn’t privy to the things you have seen, but I was well aware somebody was making a charge, and

I figured it was Phil. That’s what major championships are about. They’re tough ones to win because great players do great things.” The Masters hasn’t seen a leaderboard this strong for the final round since Woods and Mickelson — Nos. 1 and 2 in the world — were in the final group in 2001. Mickelson hasn’t looked great all year, the first time since 2003 he has come to Augusta without a victory. Now, he goes after a third green jacket by playing in the final group at a major for the first time his meltdown at Winged Foot in the 2006 U.S. Open. His spirits have been lifted in part

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SATURDAY RECAP IA glance at Saturday’s third round:

w Leader: Lee Westwood at 12-under 204. w Just behind: Two-time Masters champ

Phil Mickelson is one shot off the lead.

w Still in the mix: Tiger Woods and K.J.

Choi are four strokes behind, while Fred Couples is five back. w Wrong way: Ian Poulter started the day tied with Westwood for the lead, but a 74 left him six strokes off the pace going to the final round. Anthony Kim also failed to make a move on Moving Day, struggling to a 73 that left him with a seven-shot deficit. w Key stat: Phil Mickelson became only the third golfer in Masters history to make back-to-back eagles, joining Dan Pohl (1982) and Dustin Johnson (2009).

Boston College captures hockey title Eagles score four in 3rd, shut out Wisconsin, 5-0 LARRY LAGE Associated Press

DETROIT — Cam Atkinson scored twice, John Muse made 20 saves and Boston College won the NCAA hockey championship for the secPAUL SANCYA/Associated Press ond time in three years with a Flock of Eagles: Boston College players celebrate Ben Smith’s 5-0 victory against Wisconsin on Saturday night. goal in front of Wisconsin goalie Scott Gudmandson on Saturday.

The Eagles scored four times in the third period, with Atkinson and Chris Kreider scoring 2:02 apart early in the period. Atkinson scored again midway through the period. A world indoor attendance record was set for hockey with a crowd of 37,592 at the home of the NFL’s Detroit Lions. Boston College won its fourth title and third since 2001, best in the nation over the last 10 years. The Eagles’ top rival, Boston University, took home

the championship last year, meaning the trophy has stayed on Commonwealth Avenue for three straight seasons. Wisconsin beat the Eagles in the 2006 ﬁnals for its sixth title, but didn’t have much of a shot to stop Boston College’s faster forwards, swarming defensemen and stellar goaltender. Muse improved to 8-0 in the NCAA tournament, including his perfect run in 2008. “I don’t know if it’s so much me or my whole team,”

he said. For BC coach Jerry York, the national title was his fourth, including one with Bowling Green. Only two coaches have more championships — Michigan’s Vic Heyliger won six from 1948-56 and Denver’s Murray Armstrong won ﬁve from 1958-1969 — and York’s 33 NCAA tournament wins is a record. “He’s a great coach,” Muse said. “I wouldn’t want to play for anyone else.”

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Getting ready: Jason Romig greases the hub on a boat trailer. Making sure the trailer is ready to go — which includes checking the air pressure in your tires — is just as important as tuning up your boat in preparation for the upcoming openers to the ﬁshing seasons.

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bilge and live well pumps are working. (Don’t just listen; pour some water in the bilge and wells and Outdoors make sure the pumps actubobgwizdz@ ally work.) sbcglobal.net w Check your waterpump impellor. Hanley recooked at the calendar ommends replacing it every lately? The biggest day couple of years. w Remove the props from in Michigan outdoors this side of Nov. 15 is fast your outboard and trolling approaching. motor and make sure The last Saturday in there’s no fishing line April marks the statewide around the shafts. (I had opener for trout, the catcha big wad behind my outand-release bass opener board prop; I’m lucky it and the Lower Peninsula didn’t wreck the seal in the inland openers for walleye, lower unit.) If your prop is muskie and pike. chewed up, have it rebuilt Potential hazards: Above, fishing line wrapped around a So there are two quesor replaced. propellor shaft can cause damage to the seal in an outboard’s w Check your motor tions: what to do and have lower unit. Below, notice the difference between an old wateryou got your boat ready? mounts to make sure pump impellor (left) and a new one? I‘ll leave the first questhey’re tight. w Make sure your trailer tion for you to decide. But not having your boat lights are working. w Check the air pressure ready will certainly play into how you answer the in your tires. Jack the trailer first question. up and spin the wheels Given that my ability with to check the bearings and hand tools is challenged make sure the hubs are by anything more complex greased (but not overly so). w Check your bow strap than a corkscrew, I generally take my boat in every spring (or rope) for dry rot. w Lube your trailer jack. for a quick once over. And I always spend an hour or (And once the boat is so with Miles Hanley, the launched, do a quick survey service manager at D & R of your trailer bunks to Sports Center in Kalamazoo, make sure they’re not for his words of wisdom. loose.) w Check your safety This year, Hanley said, the biggest bugaboo for boaters equipment. Make sure your is problems caused by ethafire extinguisher is charged. nol in the petro. the automobile in the winethanol is now in most gas- How about your flares and “The biggest thing we’re ter?) is called “phase sepaoline. horn or whistle? Do you seeing is fuel-related isration,” Hanley said. So check fuel lines and have adequate personal flosues,” Hanley said. “Ethanol “Ethanol attracts water,” primer bulbs and run your tation devices as well as is a powerful solvent and it Hanley said. engine (you can use a plas- throwable devices? Anchor strips away any rust or varHanley suggests an entic garbage can to immerse and anchor ropes? Adenish in the fuel tank or in zyme treatment. (He recthe lower unit or buy a quate rope for tying off, if the system. It causes debris ommends Star-Tron, which pair of flushing ears) before you must? A first aid kit? in the fuel and it winds up is also a fuel stabilizer.) you get to the launch ramp. Every year there are miin your filters, carburetors, “It’s important to put that Check the kill switch while nor catastrophes at the injectors, whatever. “ in to prevent that phase you’re at it. launch ramp on opening There’s more. separation,” he said. “And Of course, fuel problems day. At major destinations, “Gasoline carries about I’m seeing a lot of broken aren’t the only issue. (A opening morning is often half-percent water in susdown fuel lines and primer boat, as they say, is a hole a zoo. Tempers get short pension. When water gets bulbs. It (ethanol) is break- in the water that you throw when guys are champing at above a half-percent, it can ing down the rubber.” money into.) So give every- the bit to go and someone’s fall out of suspension — Although newer fuel thing the once over. got the ramp tied up fixing w Check the batteries. fall to the bottom of the lines are alcohol resistant, a problem that could have tank,” he continued. “That’s older ones are susceptible (They can freeze over the (should have?) been taken where your fuel pickup is. to damage that could cause winter.) Check for corcare of before he got there. That’s what you’re trying to leaky lines (or bulbs), lead- rosion on the terminals Opening day is almost a burn.” ing to stalling or, worst and check all connections. religious experience to a lot The collection of water case, a fire hazard. Make sure the batteries are of anglers. Don’t risk ruinin the bottom of the fuel Fuel problems have incharged. ing the big day when an w While you’re at it, check hour or so spent beforetank (anybody old enough creased by two to three to remember when that was times in the last couple of for corrosion in the fuse hand can mitigate the risk. a sometimes problem with years, Hanley said, since panel and make sure your Trust me on this one.

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State bear license quotas about the same Number reduced in western U.P. so population grows STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS

The state has approved license quotas allowing hunters to take 11,742 bears in Michigan this year. The Natural Resources Commission said in a release the harvest number is similar to licenses issued for last year’s bear hunting season. The quota was reduced in the western Upper Peninsula to attain a desired 10 percent fewer bears.

The state says that will allow bear populations in that part of Michigan to grow by about 4 percent each year. The commission also voted to form a 20-member work group to look at regulation changes involving problem bears and the animals’ management on private property. Recommendations are expected to be presented for action at the Natural Resources Commission’s Dec. 9 meeting. TREE GRANTS OK’D: Thirty-nine grants totaling $79,415 have been awarded to communities in the state for local tree planting projects, according to the Department of Natural Resources and

Environment and DTE Energy Foundation. For information or a list of approved grants, call Kevin Sayers,DNREurbanandcommunity forester, at 241-4632, or see www.michigan.gov/ dnrucf. STURGEON VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT: The Sturgeon for Tomorrow (SFT) Program is seeking volunteers to help protect the fish while spawning. Each spring, mature lake sturgeon, a threatened fish species in Michigan and rare throughout the United States, briefly leave Black Lake in Cheboygan County, seeking spawning sites in the Black River. The sturgeon is highly

prized in our culture and when spawning on the shallow rocky beds, become vulnerable to poaching. For more than a decade, the Sturgeon Guarding Program has proven that citizens who watch over the river and report any suspicious activity have greatly reduced the unlawful take of this valuable fish. While the sturgeon are in the river spawning, volunteers stand watch and, if necessary, use cell phones to contact conservation officers, who are patrolling the area. In addition to guarding the fish, volunteers can also play a key role by recording the number of fish they see as well as their activity.

your home. Participants are welcome to join in a bird walk w RUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY: directly following the presentaThe Andy Ammann Chapter’s tion. Cost is $10 per next-box kit. 24th Annual Sportsmen’s Space is limited and advance Banquet will be Friday at Eagle registration is required. For Eye Country Club, 15500 information or to register, visit Chandler Road, East Lansing. www. eatoncountyparks.org or Cocktails and raffles begin at call 627-7351. 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 7:30. w FOX PARK OBSERVATORY: Individual membership & meal The observatory will open, if the ticket is $50. A family membersky is sufficiently clear, on the ship is $40 (includes a memberfollowing Friday and Saturday ship for each household member nights: 9:30-11 p.m. May 4-5 and and one magazine per house9:30-11 p.m. June 4-5. Program hold). Mail order forms to Tom fee to the observatory, 3979 E. Masters, 4863 Sequoia Drive, Gresham Highway in Potterville, Jackson, MI, 49201; call him at is $1 or $5 per family. Local 784-5556; or e-mail amateur astronomers Jason tom.j.masters@gmail.com. Blaschka and/or Kevin Keys will w COMPOSTING 101: Learn more be on hand to answer questions. about composting, recycling, and For information, call 645-6666 or other ideas for “Going Green” 627-7351. from Clinton County Department w WILDFLOWER WALKS: Park of Waste Management Naturalist Jackie Blanc leads environmental education guided hikes: 6 p.m. May 4 at coordinator Kathleen Donahue Bennett Park (meet at the Ranger and Eaton County Parks Station); 6 p.m. May 12 at naturalist Jackie Blanc, Fitzgerald Park (meet at the 10 a.m.-noon Saturday at the Nature Center); 6 p.m. May 13 at Lincoln Brick Park Interpretive Fox Park (meet at Pavilion No. 2); Center, just north of Grand Ledge. and 1:30 p.m. May 15 at Lincoln Cost is $3, $2 for 12 and under, Brick Park (meet at the or $8 per family. Advanced Interpretive Center). registration is recommended. w BREAKFAST WITH THE BIRDS: For information or to register, visit www. eatoncountyparks.org Learn the basics of bird watching and bird identification, 7:30-10 or call 627-7351. a.m. May 15 at Lincoln Brick Park, w SPRING SPLASH: Canoe trip just north of Grand Ledge. Sturdy down the Grand River from Delta walking shoes, field guides, and Mills Park to Fitzgerald Park, binoculars are recommended. 1 p.m. Saturday. Meet and launch Cost is $4. Advance registration at Delta Mills Park at 1 p.m. Cost is required. Call 627-7351 to sign is $10, $5 if you have your own up or visit eatoncountyparks.org. canoe or kayak. Advanced w NETTIE BAY SCHOOL OF registration is required. Call BIRDING: Jim McCormac, veteran 627-7351 to register. ornithologist, author and w INTRODUCTION TO BIRDING botanist, will lead the presentaWORKSHOP: Learn about local tion, May 21-23 at NettieBay birds, their food and habitat Lodge near Hawks in Presque Isle needs, and basic birdwatching County. Event is limited to 15 techniques, 1-3 p.m. April 18 at people. Cost is $250. To reserve a the Lincoln Brick Park Interpretive spot, a nonrefundable $150 Center, just north of Grand Ledge. deposit is required. For Bake a bird-nest box for use in information, call (989) 734-4688. the wild or as a decoration for

— Lansing State Journal

Death of state’s last wolverine due to natural causes, necropsy shows Michigan’s only known wolverine apparently died of natural causes, according to the Department of Natural Resources and Environment. A necropsy performed at the DNRE’s Wildlife Diagnostic Laboratory and microscopic examinations at Michigan State University showed some heart degeneration and some liver congestion, but no sign of infection or trauma. The wolverine was in fair body condition with small deposits of fat.

The female wolverine was ﬁrst discovered near Bad Axe on Feb. 24 was about 9 years old. The animal was found by Morgan Graham and Todd Rann in the Minden City State Game Area in mid March. The animal was last known to be alive on Feb. 17. The carcass will be made into a full-body mount to be displayed at the Saginaw Bay Visitor Center at Bay City State Recreational Area. The animal was ﬁrst wolverine ever authenticated in Michigan.

FISHING REPORT Strong storms last week have raised water levels in the rivers, and that should help anglers seeking steelhead and suckers, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment said. Colder weather by the end of the week likely will slow the bite for panfish, but it should rebound when temperatures rise again, the DNRE said. Anglers are reminded that bass season is closed. SOUTHEAST LOWER PENINSULA Sand Lake: In Lenawee County, this lake is producing crappie in shallow water. Try jigs tipped with small minnows. Huron River: Catch rates for steelhead were spotty. Some are participating in the catch and release trout season in the Proud Lake Recreation Area. Detroit River: The river has good walleye action in the Trenton Channel with jigs, big minnows and stinger hooks in 6 to 16 feet of water. Purple, pink and chartreuse were good colors. Some of the walleye caught have already spawned. Perch are also spawning and smaller fish were caught in the canals on the south end of Grosse Ile. Lake St. Clair: Anglers are targeting bluegill, rock bass and crappie at the Selfridge access site. Good catches of large panfish were coming from the marinas. Lexington: The lake had a good deal of fishing activity with boat anglers trolling in 10 to 20 feet of water with planer Online boards and long Extra lines. They caught mostly coho,a few Complete fishing chinook and steelreport, see head along with www.lsj.com. the occasional brown trout and whitefish. Pier anglers caught perch, pike, salmon, trout and bullhead. Crappie were starting to show up in the marina. Port Sanilac: Boats are trolling for trout and salmon and pier anglers are fishing both inside and outside the harbor. Look for crappie in the marina. Saginaw Bay: The perch bite off Pine River and Palmer Road was slow. Those trolling rapalas off Linwood caught walleye in 18 feet of water. Near Spoils Island, boat anglers vertical jigging with minnows or crawlers caught walleye. At Caseville, pier anglers fishing Lake Huron were taking a few salmon and trout. Saginaw River: Shore anglers caught a few perch along with channel catfish when using live bait in the lower river. Tittabawassee River: Sucker runs continue and should hold up for another week. Flint River: The river is still producing some suckers however walleye season is closed. SOUTHWEST LOWER PENINSULA St. Joe: Pier and boat anglers were still catching steelhead and brown trout. St. Joe River: Steelhead fishing was slow but should improve with much needed rain this week. A few fish were caught on the gravel when using spawn or flies. Good sucker fishing at the Berrien Springs Dam. Bluegills were also caught. Grand Haven: Boat anglers are troll-

ing for brown trout along the shoreline. Perch fishing was good in 60 feet of water. Spikes, mousies and minnows were the bait of choice. Those pier fishing were using spawn for brown trout and steelhead however most of the fish caught were small brown trout. Grand River at Grand Rapids: Steelhead are being caught between Fulton Street and the Sixth Street Dam. Anglers are using spawn bags, small Cleos, or white jigs with wax worms. Try chrome wobble glos with red, pink or chartreuse. Suckers were caught at the dam. Bluegill and crappie off the points and in the backwaters. Grand River at Lansing: Moore’s Park is producing steelhead and catfish. Carp and catfish have been caught at the North Lansing Dam and Riverfront Park. Duck Lake: In Calhoun County, this lake was good for crappie when using jigs with minnows. Vineyard Lake: In Jackson County was good for crappie when fishing the shallows. Morrison Lake: The lake had fair to good crappie fishing. Reeds Lake: This lake had good bluegill fishing on sunny days with limit catches reported. Leaf worms and wax worms in the shallows were the ticket. Crappie fishing was spotty. Big perch were caught in 15 to 40 feet of water on perch rigs with minnows. Rogue River: Those floating spawn at the dam have caught steelhead. In the lower river, fly anglers did well with streamers or black stone flies. Muskegon: Boats are trolling along the shoreline for brown trout. Pier anglers were using spawn for steelhead and brown trout but few fish were caught. NORTHEAST LOWER PENINSULA Cheboygan River: Anglers are catching steelhead. Ocqueoc River: Is producing some steelhead in the lower river. Au Sable River: Anglers should find good numbers of steelhead after much needed rain this week. Try spawn, flies, spinners or small spoons. Higgins Lake: The ice is gone. Boats are trolling for lake trout and rainbow along the drop-off. Yellow perch should start coming up along the drop-off in the evening. NORTHWEST LOWER PENINSULA Bear River: The better steelhead fishing was up near the dam. Boardman River: Light numbers of steelhead have been caught however if water levels go up by the end of the week, the bite should improve. Glen Lake: The lake was producing a few perch. Betsie River: Catch rates for steelhead improved with some fish on the gravel. Red worms and crawlers were good for sucker fishing. Lake Cadillac: Fair to good numbers of crappie were caught during the warm spell however cooler weather by the end of the week will most likely slow the bite. Boat and shore anglers were fishing with minnows.

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AREA DIGEST BASEBALL

Dayton completes sweep of Lugnuts

DAYTON, Ohio — Byron Wiley homered and the Dayton Dragons (3-0) completed a three-game sweep of the Lansing Lugnuts (0-3) with a 5-4 win on Saturday night at Fifth Third Field. All three games in the series were decided by one run. The Dragons scored twice in the fourth inning on Alex Oliveras’s two-run double and added solo tallies in the fifth, sixth, and seventh innings to build a 5-2 lead. Sean Ochinko’s two-run double in the eighth inning cut the deficit to a run, and the Lugnuts put two runners on in the ninth with one out — only to see Kevin Nolan ground into a double play to end the game. Dayton’s Ezequiel Infante (1-0) earned the win with three innings in relief of starter Brian Pearl, while Donnie Joseph recorded the final four outs for his first save. Lugnuts starter Dave Sever (0-1) allowed four runs, two earned, over six innings to suffer the loss. Lansing right fielder Brad Glenn went 3-for-4 with an RBI double and two outfield assists, including throwing out Henry Rodriguez at the plate to end the fifth inning. The Lugnuts begin a three-game series with Great Lakes at 3:05 p.m. today in Midland. Right-hander Chad Jenkins, the Blue Jays’ first-round pick in 2009, will start for Lansing. He’ll be opposed by Loons right-hander Will Savage.

Spartans roll over Minnesota, 12-5

MINNEAPOLIS — Chris Roberts had a double and three RBI on Saturday as the Michigan State baseball team beat Minnesota, 12-5. Eli Boike and Ryan Jones and Ryan Jones each added three hits for the Spartans (22-5, 4-1). Kurt Wunderlich (6-1) gave up ﬁve runs — four earned — on 11 hits in eight innings pitched. He struck out four. “We talked about the importance of getting the leadoff hitter on base, and we were fortunate to do that today,” said MSU head coach Jake Boss Jr. “We put ourselves in good situations and made the most of them.” The Spartans ﬁnish their series against Minnesota (12-19, 2-3) at 2:05 p.m. today.

SOFTBALL

Michigan State falls short at Indiana BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Lauren Kramer had a homer and two RBI Saturday as the MSU softball team lost to Indiana, 6-4. Cassie Gogreve homered with four RBI for the Hoosiers (8-23, 1-4). Kramer (12-9) took the loss for the Spartans (16-18, 2-3), giving up three runs — two earned — on ﬁve hits in four innings. MSU next plays a doubleheader at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at Penn State.

GOLF

MSU’s Kueny leads after two rounds

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Michigan State’s Laura Kueny has a two-round score of 141 and leads th ﬁeld at the Gator Invitational. The women’s golf team is in second place through two rounds at the par-70 Mark Bostick Golf Course at the University of Florida. Florida State leads at 17-over par. The Spartans sit three strokes back at plus-20. Kueny has turned in rounds of 73 and 68 and is at 1-over par for the tournament. Aimee Neff and Caroline Powers are tied for eighth place at 5-over. Shannon Warner is tied for 23rd at 9-over going into the ﬁnal round.

BOXING

St. Johns’ Marchek wins state title

GRAND RAPIDS — Jeremy Marchek of the Clinton County Boxing Club won a state Golden Gloves title Saturday in the 178 pound novice division. Marchek was named outstanding novice boxer of the Golden Gloves. Travis McMillan and Eduardo Mendiola from Hoose’s Gym in Charlotte were both defeated in the state semiﬁnals on Friday. Thad Berkousen from Clinton County Boxing Club in St. Johns also lost. — From staff and wire reports

HIGH SCHOOL Baseball Ithaca 11, Farwell 1 Farwell 010 00 –1 3 6 Ithaca 341 30 –11 9 2 Sutton and Fitz LP– Fitz (0-1). Capen and Derochers. WP–Capen (1-0). Highlights– Farwell: Saupe 1-2 RBI. Ithaca: Bunting 3-4 2B 3 RBI, Billalobos 2-3 2B 4 RBI, Acker 4 SB 3 R. Records–Ithaca 1-0, Farwell 0-1 Ithaca 11, Farwell 1 Farwell 001 00 –1 4 2 Ithaca 203 42 –11 11 0 Saupe and Cotton LP– Saupe (0-1). Bunting and Derochers . WP–Bunting (1-0). Highlights–Farwell: Hamming RBI. Ithaca: Buntin 5-6 3 RBI, Acker 4-6 2B 3 RBI, Billalobos 3-4 HR 2 RBI. Records–Ithaca 2-0, Farwell 0-2. Gladwin 2, Fulton 1 Gladwin 100 01 –2 4 2 Fulton 100 00 –1 3 1 Pratt, Larner (4) and Hager. Slavik and Leiby. WP– Larner (1-0). LP– Slavik (0-1). Highlights– Gladwin: Pratt 2-3 2 2B 2 RBI. Fulton: Leiby 1-1 2B RBI. Records– Gladwin 1-0, Fulton 0-1 Montabella 4, Fulton 0 Montabella 101 011 –462 Fulton 000 000 –0 4 2 Williams and Edgar. Leiby, Johnson (6) and Johnson, Leiby (6). WP– Williams (1-0). LP– Leiby (0-1). Highlights– Montabella: Williams 2-3, Edgar. Fulton: Clark 2-2, Johnson 1-2, Winkler 1-2. Records– Montabella 1-1, Fulton 0-2. Kalamazoo Central 10, East Lansing 0 East Lansing 000 00 –0 0 5 K’zoo Central 013 06 –10 10 0 Zwart and Humphrey. WP– Zwart (1-0). Hartley, Pentecost (5) and Gruhn. LP– Hartley (0-1). Highlights– Kalamazoo Central: Humphrey 2-3, Deem 2-3 2B, Mayer 2-2. Kalamazoo Central 8, East Lansing 2 East Lansing 100 100 0– 2 1 3 K’zoo Central 011 312 X–8 8 1 Humphrey, Vandermolen (5), Kannegeiter (7) and Deem, Humphrey (5). Messerschmidt, Wood (5) and Gruhn. WP– Humphrey (1-0). LP– Messerschmidt (0-1). Highlights– East Lansing: Pentecost 1-2. Records– Kalamazoo Central 4-0, East Lansing 1-2.

Track and ﬁeld ST. LOUIS RELAYS Boys team scores– Alma 111, Sparta 98, Clare 96, Shepherd 65, Ithaca 45, Saranac 37, Leroy Pine River 33, Coleman 24, St. Louis 22, Gladwin 14, Breckenridge 10, Sacred Heart 5, Sanford-Meridian 4. Top Finishers– Shuttle Hurdle Relay– Clare 1:06.76.Eight Mile Relay– Alma 1:00.00. Middle Distance Relay– Clare 6:01.20. 800 Meter Relay– Sparta 1:35.50. 3200 Meter Relay– Alma 8:45.46. St. Louis Relay– Sparta 1:10.10. Disance Medley Relay– Shepherd 11:30.20. 400 Meter Relay– Alma :45.83. 1600 Meter Relay– Sparta 3:39.04. Discus– Thrush (Shepherd) 231-0. Shotput– Siegert (Clare) 83-7. High Jump– Behmlander (Coleman) 12-6. Long Jump– DeVante (Coleman) 39-3.50. Pole Vault– Clare 22-6. Girls team scores– Leroy Pine River 94, Manton 81, Gladwin 81, Alma 49, Ithaca 43, Sanford-Meridian 42, Clare 39, Saranac 36, Sacred Heart 36, St. Louis 28, Shepherd 21, Coleman 8. Top Finishers– Shuttle Hurdle Relay– Leroy Pine River 1:34.59. Eight mile Relay– St. Louis 1:00.00. Middle Distance Relay– Manton 7:39.92. 800 Meter Relay– Gladwin 1:56.00. 3200 Meter Relay– Ithaca 10:59.42. St. Louis Relay– Sanford-Meridian 1:27.15. Distance Medley Relay– Sacred Heart 13:53.74. 400 Meter Relay– Leroy Pine River 54.43. 1600 Meter Relay– Manton 4:32.15. Discus– Pludo (Gladwin) 189-8. Shot Put– Russell (Leroy-Pine River) 64-4.50. High Jump– Balzer (Gladwin) 9-8. Long Jump– Baller (Manton) 29-6. Pole Vault– Rice (SanfordMeridian) 17-0.

AUTO RACING Nationwide: Bashas’ Supermarkets 200 Friday at Phoenix International Raceway Lap length: 1 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (2) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 200 laps, 140.8 rating, 195 points, $71,075. 2. (10) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 200, 116.9, 170, $53,775. 3. (3) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 200, 132.3, 170, $36,600. 4. (20) Brendan Gaughan, Toyota, 200, 97.2, 160, $38,118. 5. (4) Greg Biffle, Ford, 200, 104.1, 155, $30,150. 6. (1) Carl Edwards, Ford, 200, 113.4, 150, $25,925. 7. (5) Paul Menard, Ford, 200, 100.9, 146, $21,385. 8. (9) Scott Lagasse Jr., Ford, 200, 86, 142, $27,113. 9. (14) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 200, 79.9, 138, $21,975. 10. (6) Joey Logano, Toyota, 200, 119.1, 139, $18,475. 11. (21) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 200, 86.3, 130, $17,225. 12. (13) Reed Sorenson, Toyota, 200, 97.5, 127, $22,893. 13. (7) Justin Allgaier, Dodge, 200, 101.8, 124, $22,318. 14. (18) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, 200, 78.6, 121, $22,343. 15. (31) Johnny Sauter, Chevrolet, 200, 80.5, 118, $22,543. 16. (17) Brian Scott, Toyota, 200, 76.1, 115, $21,493. 17. (16) Kelly Bires, Chevrolet, 200, 83.9, 112, $21,293. 18. (11) Michael McDowell, Dodge, 200, 65.7, 109, $21,093. 19. (22) Jason Leffler, Toyota, 200, 76, 106, $20,918. 20. (23) Brian Keselowski, Dodge, 199, 55.3, 103, $22,118. 21. (40) Kenny Wallace, Chevrolet, 199, 56.1, 100, $20,668. 22. (35) Jason Keller, Chevrolet, 198, 56, 97, $14,075. 23. (38) Mike Wallace, Chevrolet, 198, 53.2, 94, $20,818. 24. (36) Josh Wise, Ford, 198, 41, 91, $20,343. 25. (29) Jason Bowles, Ford, 198, 47.6, 88, $20,668. 26. (15) Joe Nemechek, Chevrolet, 197, 54.7, 85, $20,143. 27. (42) Eric McClure, Ford, 197, 36.4, 82, $20,043. 28. (27) James Buescher, Chevrolet, 197, 53.9, 79, $20,393. 29. (41) Victor Gonzalez Jr., Ford, 195, 32, 76, $19,943. 30. (12) Steve Wallace, Toyota, 194, 81, 73, $20,193. 31. (19) Casey Mears, Toyota, 180, 75.9, 70, $19,838. 32. (24) Trevor Bayne, Toyota, 176, 58.9, 67, $19,778. 33. (33) Michael Annett, Toyota, 160, 36.4, 64, $19,743. 34. (8) Colin Braun, Ford, accident, 137, 62, 61, $13,240. 35. (26) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, accident, 136, 59.3, 58, $19,678. 36. (43) John Borneman III, Ford, accident, 134, 36.2, 55, $13,175. 37. (25) Derrike Cope, Dodge, accident, 134, 39.4, 52, $13,140. 38. (39) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet, accident, 127, 52.6, 49, $19,553. 39. (30) Morgan Shepherd, Chevrolet, brakes, 56, 41.2, 46, $13,045. 40. (34) Kevin Lepage, Chevrolet, vibration, 36, 34.7, 43, $12,995. 41. (28) David Gilliland, Chevrolet, brakes, 19, 42, 40, $12,940. 42. (37) Danny O'Quinn Jr., Chevrolet, brakes, 18, 31.4, 37, $12,895. 43. (32) Dennis Setzer, Dodge, oil pump, 9, 27.3, 34, $12,843. Average speed of winner: 93.872 mph. Time: 2 hours, 7 minutes, 50 seconds. Margin of victory: 1.550 seconds. Caution flags: 7 for 37 laps. Lead changes: 7 among 3 drivers. Lap leaders: K.Busch 1-17; Bra.Keselowski 18-32; K.Busch 33-136; Bra.Keselowski 137-179; J.Logano 180-194; Bra.Keselowski 195; K.Busch 196-200. Leaders summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): K.Busch, 3 times for 126 laps; Bra.Keselowski, 3 times for 59 laps; J.Logano, 1 time for 15 laps.

IRL-Grand Prix of Alabama After Saturday qualifying, race today At Barber Motorsports Park Lap length: 2.38 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (12) Will Power, 118.057 mph. 2. (24) Mike Conway, 117.197. 3. (3) Helio Castroneves, 117.186. 4. (26) Marco Andretti, 116.505. 5. (9) Scott Dixon, 116.038. 6. (5) Takuma Sato, 115.904. 7. (10) Dario Franchitti, 117.229. 8. (11) Tony Kanaan, 117.131. 9. (6) Ryan Briscoe, 117.015. 10. (8) E.J. Viso, 116.989. 11. (22) Justin Wilson, 116.989. 12. (32) Mario Moraes, 115.769. 13. (78) Simona de Silvestro, 116.577. 14. (37) Ryan Hunter-Reay, 117.04. 15. (67) Graham Rahal, 116.375. 16. (19) Alex Lloyd, 116.698. 17. (06) Hideki Mutoh, 116.153. 18. (2) Raphael Matos, 116.537. 19. (7) Danica Patrick, 115.749. 20. (14) Vitor Meira, 116.399. 21. (77) Alex Tagliani, 115.696. 22. (34) Mario Romancini, 115.639. 23. (4) Dan Wheldon, 115.627. 24. (18) Milka Duno, 110.191. 25. (36) Bertrand Baguette, 115.032. NOTE: All cars Dallara chassis, Honda engine.

NHRA–O’Reilly Spring Nationals Saturday at Houston Raceway Park Top Fuel 1. Larry Dixon, 3.772 seconds, 323.19 mph vs. 16. Del Cox Jr, 4.151, 283.43; 2. Antron Brown, 3.777, 321.96 vs. 15. Spencer Massey, 4.147, 295.08; 3.Tony Schumacher, 3.785, 321.81 vs. 14. Brandon Bernstein, 4.040, 298.47; 4. Doug Kalitta, 3.829, 322.34 vs. 13. Bobby Lagana Jr., 3.960, 306.19; 5. Cory McClenathan, 3.837, 318.54 vs. 12. T.J. Zizzo, 3.955, 299.73; 6. Steve Torrence, 3.839, 313.80 vs. 11. Morgan Lucas, 3.939, 296.63; 7. Shawn Langdon, 3.860, 314.24 vs. 10. Troy Buff, 3.936, 293.28; 8. Terry McMillen, 3.891, 313.73 vs. 9. David Grubnic, 3.916, 312.71. Did Not Qualify: 17. Terry Haddock, 4.698, 284.93. Funny Car 1. John Force, Ford Mustang, 4.021, 316.08 vs. 16. Tony Pedregon, Chevy Impala, 4.296, 260.16; 2. Ashley Force Hood, Mustang, 4.042, 314.90 vs. 15. Jeff Diehl, Chevy Monte Carlo, 4.264, 291.70; 3. Robert Hight, Mustang, 4.051, 312.64 vs. 14. Paul Lee, Chevy Impala SS, 4.246, 298.54; 4. Ron Capps, Dodge Charger, 4.059, 314.09 vs. 13. Cruz Pedregon,Toyota Solara, 4.246, 292.71; 5. Matt Hagan, Charger, 4.091, 311.99 vs. 12. Melanie Troxel, Charger, 4.176, 303.64; 6. Jeff Arend, Solara, 4.095, 309.98 vs. 11. Jim Head, Solara, 4.129, 304.94; 7. Del Worsham, Solara, 4.096, 305.84 vs. 10. Bob Tasca III, Mustang, 4.124, 305.15; 8. Jack Beckman, Charger, 4.097, 311.63 vs. 9. Tim Wilkerson, Mustang, 4.098, 306.12. Did Not Qualify: 17. Todd Simpson, 4.678, 240.47. Pro Stock 1. Mike Edwards, Pontiac GXP, 6.539, 212.43 vs. 16. Rickie Jones, GXP, 6.584, 209.79; 2. Ron Krisher, Chevy Cobalt, 6.548, 211.33 vs. 15. Justin Humphreys, GXP, 6.584, 210.08; 3. Allen Johnson, Dodge Avenger, 6.549, 211.73 vs. 14. Johnny Gray, GXP, 6.582, 210.34; 4. Jeg Coughlin, Cobalt, 6.555, 212.23 vs. 13. Bob Yonke, GXP, 6.579, 210.44; 5. Greg Anderson, GXP, 6.560, 211.53 vs. 12. Kurt Johnson, Cobalt, 6.575, 210.14; 6. V. Gaines, Avenger, 6.563, 211.20 vs. 11. Ronnie Humphrey, GXP, 6.573, 211.26; 7. Jason Line, GXP, 6.566, 211.43 vs. 10. Shane Gray, GXP, 6.571, 210.64; 8. Greg Stanﬁeld, GXP, 6.566, 211.30 vs. 9. Rodger Brogdon, GXP, 6.569, 211.39. Did Not Qualify: 17. Steve Spiess, 6.590, 210.24; 18. Larry Morgan, 6.600, 210.01; 19. Mike Trumble Jr, 6.601, 209.26; 20. Warren Johnson, 6.606, 210.14; 21. John Nobile, 6.609, 209.79; 22. Jim Cunningham, 6.623, 209.26; 23. Erica Enders, 6.624, 209.23; 24. Steve Schmidt, 6.649, 208.23; 25. Mark Buehring, 6.708, 205.63; 26. John Gaydosh Jr, 6.811, 202.27. Pro Stock Motorcycle 1. Hector Arana, Buell, 6.856, 195.25 vs. 16. Steve Johnson, Suzuki, 7.068, 194.63; 2. Eddie Krawiec, Harley-Davidson, 6.863, 197.10 vs. 15. Redell Harris, Buell, 7.028, 187.26; 3. Andrew Hines, Harley-Davidson, 6.870, 196.93 vs. 14. Junior Pippin, Buell, 7.010, 193.32; 4. Craig Treble, Suzuki, 6.874, 192.91 vs. 13. Mike Berry, Buell, 6.970, 191.05; 5. Matt Smith, Buell, 6.881, 193.65 vs. 12. Angie Smith, Buell, 6.964, 188.46; 6. LE Tonglet, Suzuki, 6.910, 193.79 vs. 11. Karen Stoffer, Suzuki, 6.945, 192.30; 7. Michael Phillips, Suzuki, 6.919, 197.13 vs. 10. David Hope, Buell, 6.932, 193.21; 8. Jim Underdahl, Suzuki, 6.932, 195.28 vs. 9. Douglas Horne, Buell, 6.932, 193.07. Did Not Qualify: 17. Joe DeSantis, 21.167, 235.31.

RUNNING Delta Township Library Run for Reading 5K NOTE: For results of all 227 runners and walkers who finished the 3.1-mile course north of the Lansing Mall, see www.playmakers.com. Female overall winner–3. Becca Rudey, East Lansing, 18:54 Male overall winner–1. Brian Teed, Hastings, 17:42 Female masters (over age 40) winner–18. Sharon Dolan, Westphalia, 23:23 Male masters winner–4. Michael DuCharme, Saginaw, 19:44 Female grandmasters (over age 50) winner–44. Anne Boomershine, Lansing, 25:14 Male grandmasters winner–8. Philip Ewing, Lansing, 21:56 Female age group top three finishers 14-under–13. Ye Li 22:49, 27. Andrea Garza 23:51, 30. Samantha Long 24:07 15-19–38..Allison Epstein 24:30, 63. Brenda White 52:04 20-24–77. Brooke Gleason 28:12, 108. Stefanie Hilton 31:42, 110. Jeannie Klavanian 31:43 25-29–5. Marcia Backstrom 20:46, 6. Shannon Audretsch 20:53, 14. Sara Russ 22:57 30-34–46. Kimberly Lawens 25:44, 70. Doreen Zwemer 27:55, 71. Alexis Allen 27:58 35-39–106. Laurie Desilva 31:36, 116. Colleen Gundy 32:45, 127. Sarah Spencley 33:50 40-44–67. Kristin St. Marie 27:40, 81. Sherry Workman 28:25, 93. Kaye Gonzalez 29:35 45-49–29. Amy Willing 24:07, 54. Barb Schelter 26:39, 59. Jodi Barron 27:05 50-54–68. Elizabeth Rice 27:45, 76. Monica Fox 28:10, 112. Carla Caldwell 31:56 55-59–57. Shawn Witherspoon 26:57, 121. Suzanne Bailey 33:10, 126. Susan Surateaux 33:39 60-64–149. Linda Kuhlman 37:59, 172. Candy Chatfield 45:27, 178. Frances Kempf 46:40 65-69–219. Carole Haley 54:09, 225. Betty Simonds 55:13 70-74–53. Joann Lehman 26:35, 215. Pat Leik 54:04 75-79–210. Dawn Tyler 53:25 Male age group top three finishers 14-under–24. Tre Coulter 23:34, 43. Adam Epstein 25:05, 87. Drew Morgan 29:12 15-19–2. Derek Shumway 17:52, 17. Alexander Fox 23:18, 35. Brandon Kiefer 24:24 20-24–34. Lee Ridenour 24:18, 50. Robert Chartrand 26:17, 56. Mark Simpson 26:51 25-29–9. Brian Smith 22:06, 16. Richard Gaston 23:14, 49. Robert Ledergerber 26:07 30-34–7. Erik Briggs 21:03, 21. Derek Frisbie 23:26, 23. Brent Kolhoff 23:30 35-39–10. Rob Pearson 22:13, 40. Peter Kransberger 24:39, 45. Kent Nordlund 25:16 40-44–11. Chris Hudson 22:15, 12. Rene Gonzalez 22:35, 20. Mikey Getter 23:25 45-49–61. Andres Oviedo 27:23, 84. Jeff Moore 28:55, 91. Jose Oviedo 29:29 50-54–15.Tom Nelson 23:00, 33. Mark Bush 24:15, 55. Denys Decastilhos 26:44 55-59–28. Jim Windsand 24:05, 37. Mark Graham 24:27, 48. Leon Schneider 25:54 60-64–19. Fred Moore 23:24, 42. Larry McCaskey 25:04, 119. Kim Kiefer 32:50 65-69–26. Bill Keller 23:41, 98. Jack Carlton 29:58 70-74–80. Francis Leik 28:24 75-79–153. William Rude 39:31

MSU AMA Run for Access to Care for Everyone (RACE) 5K NOTE: For results of all 109 runners and walkers who ﬁnished the 3.1-mile course near Michigan State University’s Fee Hall in

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East Lansing, see www.playmakers.com. Female overall winner–6. Amanda Brewer, Sheridan, 19:25 Male overall winner–1. Brad Ziemer, Eaton Rapids, 16:41 Female masters (over age 40) winner–14. Lisa Brewer, Sheridan, 21:57 Male masters winner–20. Stephen Sirotko, East Lansing, 23:18 Female grandmasters (over age 50) winner–48. Elizabeth Stewart, Mason, 27:56 Male grandmasters winner–15. Peter Bates, 22:08 Female age group top three ﬁnishers 14-under–19. Cassie Klocek 23:17 15-19–12. Ali Smith 20:58, 45. Alaina Vince 27:41, 81. Nicole Niss 33:58 20-24–8. Sarah Jorgenson 20:27, 9. Katie Schaefer 20:32, 18. Claire Chavez 22:52 25-29–23. Janelle Moerlein 23:52, 30. Mera Keenan 25:03, 46. Anny Ching 27:45 30-34–63. Christina Dean 30:48, 67. Jennifer Lacluyze 31:38, 68. Joplin Cotner 31:48 35-39–86. Jennifer Roy 35:52 45-49–43. Kris Ziemer 26:30, 66. Carla Richards 31:20, 106. Lori Wesner 52:59 55-59–99. Carolyn Zielinski 49:34, 105. Ellen Randall 52:27, 108. Joanie Nelson 55:54 60-64–83. Marge Novak 34:16, 109. Linda Adams 55:55 Male age group top three ﬁnishers 14-under–53. Lyle Winklerprins 28:48 15-19–16. Evan Withrow 22:27, 13. Kyle Howard 21:13 20-24–3. Jon Ducastel 17:59, 4. Ben Edwards 18:04, 33. Bernard Issa 25:31 25-29–2. David De Steiger 16:57, 5. Brett Gerstner 18:19, 7. Alan Young 19:50 30-34–17. Mario Espindola 22:35, 21. Kristofer Southwick 23:41, 26. Nicolas Fletcher 24:27 35-39–64. Collin Monahan 31:11 45-49–85. Vince Winklerprins 35:19 50-54–35. Paul Marsh 25:37, 78. Tom Voelz 32:43 55-59–41. Jim Pocan 26:27 65-69–61. Tom Sampson 30:19

BOWLING Char Lanes FRI NIGHT MISH MASH 3/19, Series,Team– Big Bad Bowler 2841, Ain’t No Turkey 2799, No Names 2609. Series, Senior men–Bill DePeel 662, Ken Gouin 654. Series, Senior women–Terry Wellman 560. Game, Senior men–Ken Gouin 255. Game, Senior women– Terry Wellman 205. FRI NIGHT MISH MASH 3/26 Series,Team– Big Bad Bowlers 2866, Ain’t No Turkey 2738, Rockey’s Campgrounds 2701. Series, Classic men–Dan Lightner 754. Series, Standard women–Sarah Walters 611. Series, Senior women–Terry Wellman 600. Game, Classic men–Dan Lightner 300, Todd Cooper 279. Games, Classic women–Becky Sheets 255. Games, Senior women–Terry Wellman 234. FRI NIGHT MISH MASH 4/2 Series, Team– Big Bad Bowlers 2902, Rockey’s Campground 2830, You Ready? 2616. Series, Classic women–Becky Sheets 635. Series, Standard women–Sarah Walters 651. Series, Senior men–Hal Wheeler 675. Game, Standard women–Sarah Walters 290. SUN NIGHT HOLY ROLLERS 3/21, Series, Team–Lost Cause 2400,We-G-Robbed 2213, Misﬁts 2033. Series, Classic men–Travis Jackson 756. Series, Standard men–Larry Twombley 677. Series, Senior men–Bill DePeel 673. Game, Classic men–Travis Jackson 279. Game, Standard men–Larry Twombley 264. SUN NIGHT HOLY ROLLERS 3/28, Series, Team–Lost Cause 2380,We-G-Robbed 2150, Palm Nuts 2102. Game, Standard women– Terrie Jackson 233. SUBURBAN 3/29 Series,Team–Hidden Trails Gifts & Gardens 3175, N.W.O. 3009, Harris Bros 2876. Series, Classic men–David Price 749, Gary Stoneham 717, Neal Rohrs 708. Series, Senior men–Dan Bockheim 694, Larry Preadmore 659. SUBURBAN 4/5, Series, Team–Hidden Trails Gifts & Gardens 2939, Terry’s Barber Shop 2887, N.W.O. 2833. Series, Senior men– Bill Hewer 665. Game, Classic men–Steve Grulke 279. Game, Senior men–Bill Hewer 251. INDUSTRIAL 3/24 Series, Classic men– Jeff Good 734, Rodney McCarrick 736, Jim Zimmerman 712. Series, Senior men–Paul Cooley 628, Roger Hall Sr. 637, Dave Jackson Sr. 632, Vern Thelen 665. Game, Classic men–Rodney McCarrick 279. Game, Standard men–Robert Sanne 299. Game, Senior men–Chuck Allen 233, Paul Cooley 226, Roger Hall Sr. 243, Greg Hart 226, Dave Jackson Sr. 256, Ned Palmer 227, William Powell 236, Vern Thelen 234, Phil Thompson 246. INDUSTRIAL 4/7 Series, Classic men–Todd Cooper 759, Brian Jones 717, William Kelly 702. Series, Senior men–Chuck Allen 641, Dutch Benden 689, Greg Hart 633, Vern Thelen 629, Dennis Warren Sr. 630. Game, Classic men–Dutch Benden 289. Game, Senior men–Dutch Benden 289, Chuck Allen 233, Paul Benden 248, Gene Byrd 226, Wayne Jackson 227, Bob Southerling 228. WOMENS HANDICAP 3/23 Series, Team– Jerry’s Creations 2692, Serendipity Florist 2442, Hale Electric 2438. Series, Classic women–Marci Kohler 624. Series, Senior women–Yvonne Palmer 540, Shar Maynard 595. Game, Classic women–Marci Kohler 259. Game, Standard women–Dawn Kepler 225. Game, Senior women–Yvonne Palmer 201, Shar Maynard 223.

Marvelanes NIGHT ANGELS 4/7, Series Team– Tasty Twist 2,656. Series, Standard women– Sandy Chamberlain 571. Game, Standard women– Sandy Chamberlain 218, Melissa Miller 210, Pat Niemela 225.

Royal Scot ROYAL SCOT SINGLES SCRATCH 3/31 Series, Classic women– Valerie Jackson 672. Series, Senior men– Ron Antes 748, Mike Braun 769, Terry Gartside 667, Dan Taylor 679, Daryl Steele 661. Series, Senior women– Dora Nettleman 672. Game, Classic men– Dave Spohn 289. Game, Classic women– Valerie Jackson 246. Game, Senior men– Ron Antes 267/256/258, Mike Braun 256/268, Tyrone Lawrence 278, Dan Taylor 279, Daryl Steele 258. Game, Senior women– Dora Nettleman 236/245.

BASEBALL

Dragons 5, Lugnuts 4 LANSING DAYTON ab r h bi ab r h bi Wilson cf 4 0 1 0 Gregorius ss 4 0 2 0 Nolan 3b 5 1 1 1 Rodrigz 2b 3 0 1 2 Schimpf DH 4 0 0 0 Means cf 4 0 1 0 Glenn rf 4 1 3 1 Wiley rf 2 2 1 1 Goins ss 3 1 0 0 Richburg 1b 4 1 0 0 Ochinko C 3 0 1 2 Oliveras lf 4 0 1 2 Fuenmayr 1b 4 0 0 0 Contreras rf 4 1 1 0 Eiland lf 3 0 1 0 Fleury c 3 0 0 0 Sobolwski ph 1 0 0 0 Wideman c 0 1 0 0 Hopkins pr 0 0 0 0 Feiner 3b 3 2 2 0 Domingz 2b 4 1 1 0 Totals 35 4 8 4 Totals 31 5 9 5 Lansing 000 110 020 —4 Dayton 000 211 100 —5 E—Gregorius 2, Rodriguez, Ochinko. DP—Dayton—1. LOB—Lansing 7, Dayton 5. 2B—Glenn, Dominguez, Ochinko, Oliveras, Rodriguez, Gregorius. HR—Wiley. SB—Nolan. CS—Goins, Wilson. SF—Rodriguez. Lansing IP H R ER BB SO Fields 4.2 5 3 1 0 2 Gracey 2.1 1 0 0 0 2 Slover 2.0 2 0 0 0 1 Loup 2.0 0 0 0 1 3 Turnbull (L, 0-1) 0.2 1 1 0 0 1 Dayton IP H R ER BB SO Villarreal 5.0 5 1 0 0 4 Ware 2.1 6 2 1 1 1 Salinas (W, 1-0) 4.2 2 0 0 0 5 T–2:31. A—8,264.

Thursday: Dragons 6, Lugnuts 5 (11 inn.) LANSING DAYTON ab r h bi ab r h bi Wilson cf 3 2 1 0 Gregorius ss 6 1 4 1 Schimpf R 2b 5 1 2 4 Rodrigz 2b 5 0 1 1 Ochinko c 4 0 1 0 Means cf 4 1 1 1 Fuenmyor 1b 5 0 0 0 Wiley rf 4 1 0 0 Goins ss 4 1 1 1 Richburg 1b 4 0 2 2 Sobolwski 3b 5 0 0 0 Fleury dh 4 0 0 0 Talley dh 4 0 0 0 Coddingtn c 5 2 2 1 Nolan dh 1 0 0 0 Pﬁster 3b 5 0 0 0 Glenn rf 4 0 0 0 Oliveras lf 4 1 0 0 Eiland lf 5 1 3 0 Totals 40 5 8 5 Totals 41 6 10 6 Lansing 011 000 300 00—5 Dayton 030 020 000 01—6 E—Goins. DP—Lansing 2, Dayton—1. LOB—Lansing 8, Dayton 8. 2B—Wilson, Means, Richburg. 3B—Gregorius. HR—Goins, Schimpf, Coddington. SB—Wilson. SF—Means. Lansing IP H R ER BB SO Shopshire 5.0 7 5 4 4 2 Molina 2.0 0 0 0 0 3 Antolin 2.0 0 0 0 0 3 Crawford (L, 0-1) 1.2 3 1 1 0 2 Dayton IP H R ER BB SO Ravin 3.2 5 2 2 4 7 Walker 6.1 3 3 3 1 5 Joseph (W, 1-0) 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 T–3:20. A—8,345.

COLLEGE BASEBALL Big Ten league overall W-L Pct. W-L Pct. Michigan State 4-1 .800 22-5 .815 Ohio State 3-2 .600 18-9 .667 Illinois 3-2 .600 13-12 .520 Michigan 3-2 .600 17-11 .607 Northwestern 3-2 .600 9-20 .310 Minnesota 2-3 .400 12-19 .387 Purdue 2-3 .400 15-13 .535 Indiana 2-3 .400 15-14 .517 Iowa 2-3 .400 11-16 .393 Penn State 1-4 .200 12-17 .414 NOTE: (BTN)-Big Ten Network telecast, *-BigTen Network.com video feed Saturday’s results Michigan State 12, Minnesota 5 Iowa 6, Illinois 4 Indiana 6, Ohio State 4 (10) Michigan 6, Purdue 4 Northwestern 3, Penn State 2 Today’s games Illinois at Iowa, 1 p.m.* Indiana at Ohio State, 1 p.m.* Purdue at Michigan, noon (BTN) Michigan State at Minnesota, 1 p.m. Northwestern at Penn State, 1 p.m. Friday’s results Illinois 9, Iowa 8 Ohio State 7, Indiana 1 Purdue 8, Michigan 5 Michigan State 5, Minnesota 3 Northwestern 11, Penn State 5

COLLEGE SOFTBALL Big Ten league overall W-L Pct. W-L Pct. Michigan 6-0 1.000 29-5 .853 Iowa 6-0 1.000 20-13 .606 Illinois 3-1 .750 27-4 .871 Ohio State 2-1 .667 21-11 .656 Penn State 3-2 .600 24-11 .685 Northwestern 2-3 .400 17-14 .548 Michigan State 2-3 .400 16-18 .471 Purdue 1-4 .200 16-21 .432 Minnesota 1-4 .200 15-24 .385 Indiana 1-4 .200 8-23 .258 Wisconsin 0-5 .000 9-21 .300 Saturday’s results Indiana 6, Michigan State 4 Michigan 9, Minnesota 0 Northwestern 12, Alabama 1 (5) Penn State 3, Wisconsin 1 Illinois 3, Ohio State 2 Iowa 1, Purdue 0 Today’s games Michigan State at Indiana, 1 p.m. Ohio State at Illinois, 3 p.m. Michigan at Minnesota, 2 p.m. Northwestern at Alabama, 2 p.m. Penn State at Wisconsin, 2 p.m. Purdue at Iowa, 3 p.m.

COLLEGE HOCKEY NCAA Tournament

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TENNIS Saturday at River Oaks Country Club Purse: $607,200 (WT250) Surface: Clay-Outdoor Singles semiﬁnals Sam Querrey (3), United States, def. Wayne Odesnik, United States, 7-6 (3), 1-6, 7-5. Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentina, def. Horacio Zeballos (6), Argentina, 7-5, 6-2. Doubles championship Bob and Mike Bryan (1), United States, def. Stephen Huss, Australia, and Wesley Moodie (3), South Africa, 6-3, 7-5.

Andalucia Open Saturday at Club de Tenis Puente Romano Purse: $220,000 (Intl.) Surface: Clay-Outdoor Singles semiﬁnals Carla Suarez Navarro (8), Spain, def. Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (5), Spain, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2. Flavia Pennetta (2), Italy, def. Sara Errani, Italy, 6-1, 6-1.

BASKETBALL NBA standings EASTERN CONFERENCE W L z-Cleveland 61 19 y-Orlando 56 23 x-Atlanta 51 29 y-Boston 49 30 x-Milwaukee 45 34 x-Miami 44 35 x-Charlotte 43 37 Chicago 38 41 Toronto 38 41 Indiana 32 48 New York 28 51 Philadelphia 27 53 Detroit 26 54 Washington 25 55 New Jersey 12 68 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L z-L.A. Lakers 56 23 y-Dallas 52 27 x-Denver 52 27 x-Utah 52 28

x-Phoenix 51 28 .646 5 x-Oklahoma City49 30 .620 7 x-Portland 48 31 .608 8 x-San Antonio 48 31 .608 8 Houston 41 38 .519 15 Memphis 40 40 .500 16½ New Orleans 35 45 .438 21½ L.A. Clippers 27 52 .342 29 Sacramento 25 54 .316 31 Golden State 24 54 .308 31½ Minnesota 15 64 .190 41 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division; z-clinched conference Saturday’s results Charlotte 99, Detroit 95 Indiana 115, New Jersey 102 Atlanta 105, Washington 95 Philadelphia 120, Memphis 101 Boston at Milwaukee, late San Antonio at Denver, late Dallas at Sacramento, late Golden State at L.A. Clippers, late Today's games Orlando at Cleveland, 1 p.m. Portland at L.A. Lakers, 3:30 p.m. Chicago at Toronto, 6 p.m. Miami at New York, 6 p.m. Minnesota at New Orleans, 7 p.m. Oklahoma City at Golden State, 9 p.m. Houston at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Friday's results Detroit 106, Miami 99 Milwaukee 95, Philadelphia 90 Orlando 118, New York 103 Atlanta 107, Toronto 101 Washington 106, Boston 96 Indiana 116, Cleveland 113 L.A. Lakers 97, Minnesota 88 Utah 114, New Orleans 103 Oklahoma City 96, Phoenix 91 New Jersey 127, Chicago 116,2OT Houston 97, Charlotte 90 Memphis 107, San Antonio 99 Dallas 83, Portland 77

Hawks 105, Wizards 95 ATLANTA (105): Williams 3-6 2-2 8, Jos.Smith 5-8 0-1 10, Horford 3-7 2-2 8, Bibby 4-6 0-0 10, Johnson 8-14 2-2 20, Crawford 9-13 5-5 28, Teague 1-4 0-0 2, Pachulia 2-4 3-4 7, J. Smith 1-4 0-0 2, Evans 4-8 2-2 10, West 0-0 0-0 0, Morris 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 40-74 16-18 105. WASHINGTON (95): Miller 6-10 0-0 16, Blatche 11-24 2-3 24, Oberto 1-1 0-0 2, Livingston 6-9 3-4 15, Young 10-19 0-0 23, Singleton 0-2 0-0 0, McGee 3-8 2-3 8, Boykins 1-3 0-0 2, Thornton 2-3 1-2 5, Martin 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 40-79 8-12 95. Atlanta 30 22 26 27—105 Washington 30 20 28 17—95 3-point goals—Atlanta 9-18 (Crawford 5-6, Bibby 2-2, Johnson 2-6, Williams 0-1, Evans 0-3), Washington 7-12 (Miller 4-5, Young 3-5, Blatche 0-1, Thornton 0-1). Rebounds— Atlanta 34 (Horford 10), Washington 45 (McGee 10). Assists—Atlanta 22 (Jos.Smith 8), Washington 26 (Blatche, Livingston 7). Total fouls—Atlanta 15, Washington 17.

Pacers 115, Nets 102 NEW JERSEY (102): Williams 7-15 1-1 15,Yi 7-12 4-4 18, Lopez 8-16 4-6 20, Harris 5-13 1-1 12, Lee 7-11 1-1 15, Douglas-Roberts 1-4 0-0 2, Dooling 1-3 0-0 3, Humphries 5-6 3-4 13, Boone 2-2 0-0 4. Totals 43-82 14-17 102. INDIANA (115): Granger 9-20 2-3 22, Murphy 10-18 2-2 25, Hibbert 8-10 0-2 16, Watson 3-7 0-0 7, Rush 5-6 0-1 12, Dunleavy 1-4 2-2 4, D.Jones 6-12 6-6 18, McRoberts 3-5 0-0 6, Price 1-4 0-0 3, S.Jones 0-0 2-2 2. Totals 46-86 14-18 115. New Jersey 34 26 19 23—102 Indiana 25 31 32 27—115 3-point goals—New Jersey 2-11 (Dooling 1-2, Harris 1-4, Yi 0-1, Williams 0-1, Lee 0-3), Indiana 9-24 (Murphy 3-7, Rush 2-2, Granger 2-8, Watson 1-2, Price 1-3, Dunleavy 0-2). Rebounds—New Jersey 46 (Williams 8), Indiana 40 (Murphy 9). Assists—New Jersey 21 (Williams 7), Indiana 26 (Watson 6). Total fouls—New Jersey 18, Indiana 13.

SOCCER MLS Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA New York 2 1 0 6 2 2 Kansas City 1 0 0 3 4 0 Columbus 1 0 0 3 2 0 New England 1 1 0 3 2 1 Philadelphia 1 1 0 3 3 4 Chicago 0 1 1 1 2 3 Toronto FC 0 1 0 0 0 2 D.C. 0 3 0 0 2 9 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA Los Angeles 2 0 0 6 3 0 Houston 1 0 1 4 3 2 Colorado 1 0 1 4 3 2 Seattle 1 1 0 3 2 1 Real Salt Lake 1 1 0 3 4 2 Chivas USA 1 2 0 3 2 3 FC Dallas 0 0 1 1 1 1 San Jose 0 1 0 0 0 3 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie. Saturday's results Chivas USA 2, New York 0 Philadelphia 3, D.C. United 2 Toronto FC at New England, late San Jose at Chicago, late Los Angeles at Houston, late Colorado at Kansas City, late Columbus at FC Dallas, late Seattle FC at Real Salt Lake, late Thursday’s game Philadelphia at Toronto FC, 8 p.m. April 17 Kansas City at Seattle FC, 3 p.m. Chivas USA at Houston, 4 p.m. Chicago at D.C. United, 7:30 p.m. FC Dallas at New York, 7:30 p.m. New England at San Jose, 10 p.m. Real Salt Lake at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. April 18 Toronto FC at Colorado, 2 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS

FROZEN FOUR at Ford Field, Detroit Saturday’s championship Boston College 5, Wisconsin 0 Thursday’s semiﬁnals Wisconsin 8, Rochester Tech 1 Boston College 7, Miami-Ohio 1

Tennis

Midwest League Eastern Division W L Pct. Dayton (Reds) 3 0 1.000 Great Lakes (Dodgers) 3 0 1.000 Lake County (Indians) 3 0 1.000 Fort Wayne (Padres) 2 1 .667 Bowling Green (Rays) 1 2 .333 Lansing (Toronto) 0 3 .000 S. Bend (D'backs) 0 3 .000 W. Mich. (Tigers) 0 3 .000 Western Division Cedar Rapids (Angels) 2 1 .667 Wisconsin (Brewers) 2 1 .667 Burlington (Royals) 1 1 .500 Clinton (Mariners) 1 1 .500 Peoria (Cubs) 1 1 .500 Quad Cities (Cards) 1 1 .500 Beloit (Twins) 1 2 .333 Kane County (A's) 1 2 .333 Saturday's results Dayton 5, Lansing 4 Lake County 6, West Michigan 4 Kane County 10, Wisconsin 5 Cedar Rapids 7, Beloit 2 Bowling Green 5, Fort Wayne 1 Great Lakes 7, South Bend 1 Quad Cities at Burlington, late Peoria at Clinton, late Today's games Lansing at Great Lakes, 3:05 p.m. Kane County at Burlington, 2 p.m. Cedar Rapids at Quad Cities, 2 p.m. Fort Wayne at West Michigan, 2 p.m. Lake County at South Bend, 4 p.m. Peoria at Beloit, 5 p.m. Dayton at Bowling Green, 6:05 p.m. Clinton at Wisconsin, 6:05 p.m. Monday's games Lansing at Great Lakes, 6:05 p.m. Cedar Rapids at Quad Cities, noon Burlington at Kane County, 1 p.m. Clinton at Wisconsin, 1:05 p.m. Lake County at South Bend, 6:30 p.m. Peoria at Beloit, 7:30 p.m. Fort Wayne at West Michigan, 6:35 p.m. Dayton at Bowling Green, 7:35 p.m. Friday’s results Wisconsin 3, Kane County 2 Lake County 7, West Michigan 1 Great Lakes 9, South Bend 1 Dayton 4, Lansing 3

Fort Wayne 5, Bowling Green 4 Burlington 7, Quad Cities 1 Clinton 5, Peoria 4 Cedar Rapids 5, Beloit 3

Pct .763 .709 .638 .620 .570 .557 .538 .481 .481 .400 .354 .338 .325 .313 .150

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BASEBALL American League w OAKLAND ATHLETICS— Announced OF-DH Jack Cust accepted outright assignment to Sacramento (PCL). National League w LOS ANGELES DODGERS— Placed C Brad Ausmus on the 15-day DL, retroactive April 9. Recalled C A.J. Ellis from Albuquerque (PCL). w NEW YORK METS— Activated SS Jose Reyes from the 15-day DL. Optioned SS Ruben Tejada to Buffalo (IL). HOCKEY National Hockey League w COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS— Assigned C Tomas Kana, C Greg Moore, LW Tom Sestito and RW Chad Kolarik to Syracuse (AHL). w OTTAWA SENATORS— Recalled D Brian Lee and F Zack Smith from Binghamton (AHL). w ST. LOUIS BLUES— Recalled D Tyson Strachan from Peoria (AHL). w VANCOUVER CANUCKS— Called up D Evan Oberg from Manitoba (AHL). COLLEGE w MARSHALL— Named Tom Herrion men's basketball coach. w MICHIGAN— Announced men's associate head basketball coach Jerry Dunn and men's assistant basketball coach John Mahoney will not return next season.

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Shoppach ends suspense with single in eighth

April assault: Detroit’s Magglio Ordonez hits a two-run home run, his second of the season, in Saturday’s ﬁrst inning. Ordonez is batting .476 so far this month.

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — CC Sabathia was going to lose his no-hit bid one way or another. Former batterymate Kelly Shoppach made Yankees manager Joe Girardi’s decision a whole lot simpler, lining a sharp single to left with two outs in the eighth inning of New York’s 10-0 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday. “It makes it easy now, but there would have been ﬁghting out there on the mound,” Sabathia said after learning Girardi planned to remove him regardless of what Shoppach did because of a high pitch count (111). “I felt good, but I understand where he’s com-

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In control: CC Sabathia took a no-hitter against Tampa into the eighth inning on Saturday. ing from at the same time, too. It’s the second start of the year,” Sabathia added. “It would have been a good discussion.” With a large contingent of Yankee fans among the Tropicana Field crowd of 29,892 chanting “Let’s go, CC!” Shoppach’s hit on a 1-0 pitch fell cleanly in front of left ﬁelder Brett Gardner and ended the closest call of the big lefty’s career.

There was no visible reaction from the Yankees ace, although Sabathia (1-0) and his former teammate in Cleveland exchanged glances after Shoppach reached first base. “Typical looks,” Shoppach said. “You can read faces.” Girardi immediately bounced out of the dugout to remove Sabathia, who walked two and struck out five. The left-hander threw 69 of his 111 pitches for strikes and benefited from spectacular defensive plays by Mark Teixeira, Alex Rodriguez and Robinson Cano. But Girardi said he had no intentions of allowing Sabathia to pitch beyond Shoppach, who settled into the batter’s box thinking “OK. It’s gotta be me,” to end the bid for what would have been the first Yankees no-hitter since David Cone’s perfect game in 1999, caught by Girardi. “Watching that pitch

count go up and up and up, that was what was on my mind the most. Shoppach was his last hitter no matter what,” Girardi said. “He did not know that going out. I told him when he came out. It’s not something you want to do, but you have to think big picture.” “The big picture was the month of October. You have to think ahead. You can’t be short- sighted,” Girardi continued. “I would have loved to see him walk out with no hits and eight innings. I would have loved to see it, but it didn’t happen. It made it real easy to go get him.” David Robertson pitched the ﬁnal 11/3 innings to complete a combined two-hitter. Ben Zobrist doubled off the reliever with two outs in the ninth. Sabathia also took a nohitter into the eighth inning for Cleveland on April 7, 2002, at Detroit, with Randall Simon breaking up that bid with a leadoff single.

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Tigers: Perry gets ﬁrst save; win streak at 3 CONTINUED FROM 1D

rewarded their faith with a strong spring and first start. “We were tickled to death, obviously,” manager Jim Leyland said. Bonderman needed some help to get the win. Brad Thomas gave up a run as he matched a career high by pitching two innings, Fu-Te Ni retired two and Ryan Perry took the ball for the final 1 1/3 innings to pick up his first career save. “It was a dream come true for me to come in the ninth for a save,” the 23-year-old Perry said. The Tigers have won three straight and four of five. Mitch Talbot (0-1) allowed four runs, six hits and five walks in his debut with the Indians and fourth game in the majors. He threw 38 pitches — just half for strikes — in the first inning before recovering well enough for stay in the game for 101 pitches over five innings. “It didn’t feel like anything was wrong mechanically, I just couldn’t throw strikes,” Talbot said. “Nothing felt different in the last two innings, but the pitches were there.” Johnny Damon singled in the first, ending a three-game hitless streak, and scored on Ordonez’s no-doubt shot to left.

Baker home run lifts Cubs, Zambrano FROM WIRE REPORTS

CINCINNATI — Desperate times call for desperate measures, no matter what time of the season it is. So when Lou Piniella sent Carlos Zambrano out to start the seventh inning Saturday against the Reds, he was sending a message to the rest of his starters: The load is fully on their shoulders. Zambrano delivered with a strong seven-inning performance, and was rewarded when Jeff Baker’s pinchhit home run in the eighth launched the Cubs to a 4-3 victory over the Reds. The shaky bullpen performances of the last week have forced Piniella to alter his strategy. “Our starting pitchers going seven innings is proba-

bly the best remedy,” Piniella said. “Now we can go with our short people and into our closer and take our best shots that way.” Zambrano is ﬁne with that. He threw 110-pitches, allowing three runs on six hits with nine strikeouts. “That’s good,” he said. “Seven innings every time you go out there, (multiplied by) 34 (starts) gives you 200-plus innings. That’s what we’re here for.” John Grabow pitched a scoreless eighth and Carlos Marmol struck out the side in the ninth to post his second save. Marmol has only threeplus years of big league experience, but he spent Saturday morning counseling Esmailin Caridad after the rookie blew Friday night’s

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game. It was his ﬁrst big failure as a big leaguer, and Marmol played the role of a wise veteran. “He learned from that,” Marmol said. “We learn from our mistakes. We have tomorrow. He needs to forget stuff.” The Cubs bounced back from Friday night’s nightmare, thanks to home runs from Kosuke Fukudome, Alfonso Soriano and Baker, who was pinch-hitting for Mike Fontenot against lefthander Arthur Rhodes.

“It was huge,” Baker said. “Everyone did well, from Zambrano settling down and pitching well, Grabow came in and gave us some big outs, and then Carlos (Marmol) was unbelievable today. “This road trip so far has been kind of funny. You could ﬂip it around and be 4-1, and on the ﬂip side, we could also be 1-4. So it would be nice to come out (Sunday) and go home with a split. ...” The Cubs are still hitting only .204 as a team, and key players such as Aramis Ramirez (.158), Soriano (.176), Geovany Soto (.111), Marlon Byrd (.133) and Ryan Theriot (.150) are off to slow starts. They got some solid defense Saturday from Derrek Lee and Fontenot, and the pitching carried them through.

The Tigers scored two more in the third to take a 4-0 lead on Brandon Inge’s RBI single and Scott Sizemore’s sacrifice fly, the rookie’s first RBI. Bonderman struck out the top two hitters in Cleveland’s lineup — Asdrubal Cabrera and Grady Sizemore — to open the fourth, inspiring “Let’s go Bon-do!” chants from fans in the stands. Then, he walked Shin-Soo Choo on a full-count pitch. Choo advanced to third on a single and scored on a wild pitch. “He was cruising along great, then it was encouraging to see him bounce back after that tough inning,” catcher Alex Avila said. Bonderman was 0-1 with a 8.71 ERA in eight games last season, including only one start on June 8. Hafner’s RBI single in the sixth pulled the Indians within two runs and they blew a chance to at least cut into the deficit two innings later. Ni hit two straight batters in the eighth, then struck out Hafner and Perry got Jhonny Peralta out swinging. “You can’t win a lot of games by scoring two,” manager Manny Acta said. “But we’re battling against some good pitching.” Ordonez was 1 for 3 — dropping his batting average to .476 — after opening the season with four multihit games in a row.

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Last 3 starts W-L IP ERA

Cle.-Westbrook (R) Det.-Verlander (R)

0-1 19-9

— 4-0

— 30

— 0.90

0-1 0-0

4 11.25 5 7.20

Cleveland at Detroit, 1:05 ET (Line: Det. 11:5; Total runs: 8) 4 11.25 4-8 245 3.53 8-10

Toronto at Baltimore, 1:35 ET (Line: Bal. 6:5 ; Total runs: 9) Tor.-Marcum (R) Bal.-Millwood (R)

0-0 7 13-10 203Z

3.86 1-2 3.67 2-4

— 1-1

— 14Z

— 2.45

0-0 0-0

7 5

3.86 3.60

N.Y.-Burnett (R) T.B.-Shields (R)

13-9 212 11-12 225Z

4.08 11-4 4.15 1-7

4-0 0-1

32 5z

1.97 8.44

0-0 0-0

5 6

5.40 4.50

Min.-Blackburn (R) Chi.-Buehrle (L)

12-11 212z 14-10 220z

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4-1 2-3

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2.12 5.85

1-0 1-0

6Z 7

4.05 0.00

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New York at Tampa Bay, 1:40 ET (Line : 6½ :5; Total runs: 9 )

Minnesota at Chicago, 2:05 ET (Line:Chi. 6:5 ; Total runs: 8½ ) Boston at Kansas City, 2:10 ET (Line: 7:5 ; Total runs: 9 ) Bos.-Buchholz (R) K.C.-Meche (R)

7-4 6-10

92 129

4.21 1-1 5.09 5-3

1-0 0-1

6Z 0.00 3Z 14.73

Sea.-Snell (R) Tex.-Feldman (R)

7-10 151 17-8 196Z

4.71 1-0 4.07 2-1

0-0 2-1

12 26

3.75 3.12

0-0 0-0

6 7

1.50 3.86

Oak.-Braden (L) 8-9 143Z L.A.-Saunders (L) 16-8 191 Lines by Danny Sheridan

3.76 1-3 4.71 9-3

0-3 4-1

17 30z

6.35 3.26

0-0 0-1

7 5

1.29 9.00

Seattle at Texas, 3:05 ET (Line: Tex. 8:5 ; Total runs: 9)

Oakland at Los Angeles, 3:35 ET (Line: LAA 6½ :5; Total runs: 9)

Results, upcoming games Friday

Monday

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KC at Det., 1:05 . Tex. at Cle., 3:05 Bos. at Min., 4:10 Oak. at Sea., 6:40 TB at Bal., 7:05 Chi. at Tor., 7:20

LA at NY, 1:05 KC at Det., 1:05 TB at Bal., 7:05 Chi. at Tor., 7:07 Oak. at Sea., 10:10

Yankees 10, Rays 0

Cardinals 7, Brewers 1

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St. Louis ........ 040 021 000 — 7 Milwaukee... 000 001 000 — 1

New York Jeter ss Johnson dh Teixeira 1b Rodriguez 3b Pena pr-3b Cano 2b Swisher rf Winn rf Granderson cf Gardner lf Cervelli c Totals

St. Louis Schumaker 2b Mather ph Motte p Lopez ss-2b Pujols 1b Holliday lf Rasmus cf Ludwick rf Molina c Freese 3b Garcia p Boggs p Stavinoha ph Ryan ss Totals

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r h 1 1 1 0 2 3 1 2 1 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 2 0 1 10 14

bi bb so avg 1 0 0 .304 0 1 1 .111 1 1 0 .150 0 1 0 .217 0 0 0 .000 3 0 1 .381 0 1 1 .353 0 0 0 .000 1 2 0 .316 2 1 0 .385 2 1 0 .333 10 8 3

u Batting — 2B: Teixeira (1); Cervelli (1). HR: Cano (2). S: Cervelli. RBI: Jeter (2); Teixeira (3); Cano 3 (6); Granderson (3); Gardner 2 (3); Cervelli 2 (2). GIDP: Jeter. Team LOB: 8. u Baserunning — SB: Granderson (2); Gardner (3). CS: Rodriguez (1). Tampa Bay Bartlett ss Brignac ph Crawford lf Rodriguez ph Zobrist 2b Longoria 3b Navarro ph Upton cf Aybar 1b Burrell dh Shoppach c Kapler rf Totals

ab 3 1 2 1 4 2 1 3 3 3 3 3 29

r 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

h 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2

bi bb so avg 0 0 0 .300 0 0 1 .600 0 1 1 .188 0 0 1 .200 0 0 2 .300 0 1 1 .333 0 0 0 .333 0 0 0 .235 0 0 0 .143 0 0 1 .083 0 0 0 .250 0 0 0 .000 0 2 7

u Batting — 2B: Zobrist (3). Team LOB: 4. u Baserunning — SB: Zobrist (1); Longoria (1). u Fielding — DP: 1. Pitching New York Sabathia W,1-0 Robertson Tampa Bay Davis L,0-1 Balfour Choate Wheeler Ekstrom

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WP: Ekstrom. Balks: Robertson. Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Sabathia 26; 111-69; Robertson 5; 25-16; Davis 26; 105-62; Balfour 3; 12-8; Choate 7; 24-16; Wheeler 1; 2-1; Ekstrom 8; 36-13. uUmpires — HP: Bell; 1B: Diaz; 2B: Carapazza; 3B: Hoye. uGame data —T: 3:20. Att: 29,892.

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r 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 7

h 1 1 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 8

bi bb so avg 0 0 1 .273 0 0 0 .333 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 .091 2 0 1 .316 0 0 1 .476 1 1 2 .385 1 0 1 .167 3 0 1 .267 0 1 1 .214 0 1 0 .000 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 .500 0 0 0 .067 7 3 9

u Batting — 2B: Schumaker (2). HR: Rasmus (2); Molina (2). RBI: Pujols 2 (6); Rasmus (3); Ludwick (2); Molina 3 (7). Team LOB: 4. Milwaukee Weeks 2b Gomez cf Braun lf Fielder 1b McGehee 3b Hart rf Zaun c Escobar ss Gallardo p Gerut ph Vargas p Villanueva p Counsell ph Parra p Totals

ab 3 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 31

r 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

h 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4

bi bb so avg 0 1 0 .313 0 0 1 .238 0 0 0 .333 0 0 3 .278 0 0 0 .333 1 0 2 .286 0 1 0 .000 0 1 0 .235 0 0 1 .000 0 0 0 .500 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 .000 0 1 0 .167 0 0 0 .000 1 4 7

u Batting — 2B: McGehee (1). RBI: Hart (1). Team LOB: 7. u Fielding — E: Braun (1). Pitching St. Louis Garcia W,1-0 Boggs Motte Milwaukee Gallardo L,0-2 Vargas Villanueva Parra

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5 1 1 2

2 1 0 0

5 1 0 2

6 1 0 0

5 1 2 1

6.75 9.00 0.00 0.00

WP: Parra. Batters faced; pitchesstrikes: Garcia 25; 95-58; Boggs 7; 21-14; Motte 3; 13-10; Gallardo 22; 87-48; Vargas 5; 14-8; Villanueva 3; 16-10; Parra 8; 29-19. uUmpires — HP: Vanover; 1B: Carlson; 2B: Nelson; 3B: Kellogg. uGame data —T: 2:41. Att: 42,039.

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Tigers 4, Indians 2 Cleveland...... 000 101 000 — 2 Detroit........... 202 000 00x — 4 Cleveland ab r h bi bb so avg Cabrera ss 4 1 1 0 0 2 .333 Sizemore cf 3 0 0 0 0 3 .273 Choo rf 2 1 0 0 1 1 .111 Hafner dh 4 0 2 1 0 2 .238 Peralta 3b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .188 LaPorta 1b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .267 Grudzielanek 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .143 Marson c 2 0 0 0 1 0 .000 Valbuena ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .167 Brantley lf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .231 Totals 30 2 3 1 3 9

u Batting — RBI: Hafner (2). Team LOB: 6. u Fielding — DP: 2. Detroit Jackson cf Damon lf Kelly lf Ordonez rf Cabrera 1b Guillen dh Inge 3b Avila c Sizemore 2b Everett ss Totals

ab 5 2 0 3 3 2 3 1 3 4 26

r 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 4

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bi bb so avg 0 0 2 .261 0 2 0 .150 0 0 0 .000 2 1 0 .476 0 1 0 .450 0 2 0 .263 1 1 1 .368 0 2 1 .250 1 0 0 .091 0 0 1 .333 4 9 5

u Batting — HR: Ordonez (2). SF: Sizemore. RBI: Ordonez 2 (4); Inge (3); Sizemore (1). GIDP: Cabrera; Everett. Team LOB: 9. u Baserunning — CS: Everett (1). Pitching Cleveland Talbot L,0-1 Sipp Smith Lewis Detroit Bonderman W,1-0 Thomas H,1 Ni H,1 Perry S,1

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6 0 0 0

4 0 0 0

5 1 3 0

1 1 1 2

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5 1 1 1

2 5 1.80

2 2 1 1 Z 0 0 0 1z 0 0 0

1 2 3.86 0 1 5.40 0 1 2.45

T.Sipp pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. WP: Bonderman; Thomas. IBB: Guillen (by Smith). HBP: Avila (by Sipp); Choo (by Ni); Sizemore (by Ni). Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Talbot 24; 104-55; Sipp 5; 18-8; Smith 5; 22-8; Lewis 3; 14-9; Bonderman 19; 91-59; Thomas 10; 42-25; Ni 4; 11-7; Perry 4; 12-11. uUmpires — HP: Gorman; 1B: Campos; 2B: Randazzo; 3B: Nauert. uGame data —T: 3:01. Att: 35,332.

Washington Morgan cf Guzman 2b Zimmerman 3b Harris 3b-lf Dunn 1b Kennedy pr-1b Willingham lf Gonzalez 3b Desmond ss Rodriguez c Taveras rf Lannan p Clippard p Morse ph Capps p Totals

ab 5 4 3 1 3 0 3 0 2 2 4 2 1 1 0 31

r 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 4

h 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 5

bi bb so avg 0 0 0 .150 0 0 1 .273 0 0 2 .211 0 0 1 .167 0 1 1 .143 0 0 0 .133 0 1 0 .375 0 0 0 .000 0 2 1 .308 0 2 0 .400 4 0 1 .333 0 0 1 .000 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 0 .167 0 0 0 .000 4 6 8

u Batting — 3B: Taveras (1). RBI: Taveras 4 (4). GIDP: Guzman; Rodriguez. Team LOB: 6. u Fielding — E: Dunn (1); Desmond (3). DP: 1. New York Reyes ss Cora 2b Wright 3b Bay lf Francoeur rf Matthews cf Igarashi p Feliciano p Castillo ph Barajas c Tatis 1b Blanco c Catalanotto ph Mejia p Perez p Pagan cf Totals

ab 4 4 3 4 4 2 0 0 1 1 3 2 1 0 2 2 33

r 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3

h 1 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 8

bi bb so avg 0 0 1 .250 0 0 0 .188 0 2 1 .294 0 1 2 .263 0 1 1 .444 0 1 1 .200 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 .182 0 0 0 .294 1 0 0 .273 1 0 1 .000 0 0 1 .000 0 0 0 .000 1 0 0 .500 0 0 2 .333 3 5 10

u Batting — 2B: Francoeur (3). S: Cora; Tatis. SF: Blanco. RBI: Tatis (3); Blanco (1); Perez (1). GIDP: Francoeur. Team LOB: 12. u Fielding — E: Reyes (1); Wright (2). DP: 3. Pitching Washington Lannan W,1-1 Clippard H,1 Capps S,2 New York Perez L,0-1 Igarashi Feliciano Mejia

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WP: Igarashi; Feliciano. IBB: Desmond (by Feliciano). HBP: Reyes (by Lannan). Batters faced; pitchesstrikes: Lannan 26; 99-62; Clippard 10; 40-29; Capps 6; 21-11; Perez 25; 101-59; Igarashi 5; 21-15; Feliciano 6; 20-10; Mejia 3; 9-4. uUmpires — HP: Cousins; 1B: Joyce; 2B: Hudson; 3B: Wolf. uGame data —T: 3:13. Att: 33,044.

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League

DETROIT 4, Cleveland 2

Jeremy Bonderman gave up one hit in ﬁve innings and Magglio Ordonez had a two-run homer, leading the Tigers to a 4-2 win over the Indians on Saturday. Toronto 3, Dana Eveland pitched brilliantly into the eighth in his BALTIMORE 0 Toronto debut, and the Blue Jays got two RBIs from No. 9 hitter Jose Molina in a 3-0 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday. NY Yankees 10, CC Sabathia took a no-hit bid into the eighth inning TAMPA BAY 0 Saturday, losing the closest call of his career on a sharp two-out single by former batterymate Kelly Shoppach in the Yankees’ 10-0 win over the Rays. Seattle 4, Franklin Gutierrez drove in the go-ahead run to cap TEXAS 3 a three-run ninth, and the Mariners ended a fourgame skid with a 4-3 win over the Rangers. Boston 8, Jeremy Hermida and Jason Varitek homered on KANSAS CITY 3 consecutive pitches from Zack Greinke and the Boston Red Sox went deep ﬁve times in an 8-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Saturday. Minnesota 2. Jason Kubel hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the CHICAGO seventh inning and Scott Baker pitched seven sharp WHITE SOX 1 innings, leading the Twins to a 2-1 victory over the White Sox on Saturday. Oakland at Friday: Daric Barton and Rajai Davis each had three LA ANGELS hits and two RBIs, No. 9 batter Cliff Pennington added a three-run homer, and the Athletics sent the Angels to their fourth straight defeat with a 10-4 victory.

East Philadelphia Florida Atlanta New York Washington

W 4 3 2 2 2

L 1 2 2 3 3

Central St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago Cincinnati Milwaukee Houston

W 4 2 2 2 2 0

L 1 2 3 3 3 5

West San Francisco Arizona Colorado Los Angeles San Diego

W 4 3 2 2 1

L 0 1 2 3 3

Friday: Jorge De La Rosa pitched seven innings of one-hit ball, and Clint Barmes hit a late three-run homer to lead the Rockies over the Padres 7-0. Atlanta at Friday: Aaron Rowand drove in the winning run SAN FRANCISCO with two outs in the 13th inning, salvaging the Giants’ unbeaten season with a 5-4 victory over the Braves. Chicago Cubs 4, Carlos Zambrano recovered from his horrible openCINCINNATI 3 ing day by pitching seven innings, and pinch-hitter Jeff Baker hit a tiebreaking homer in the eighth Saturday, sending the Cubs to a 4-3 victory over the Reds. FLORIDA 7, Jorge Cantu’s sacrifice fly capped a three-run rally in LA Dodgers 6 the ninth inning and the Florida Marlins beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-6 on Saturday night. Washington 4, Willie Harris made a game-ending diving catch to NY METS 3 thwart a Mets rally. Well-traveled Willy Taveras drove in a career-high four runs and the Nationals beat New York 4-3 on a blustery Saturday. Philadelphia 9, Ryan Howard, Shane Victorino and Jayson Werth HOUSTON 6 drove in three runs apiece, and the Phillies’ offense rolled again Saturday in a 9-6 win over Houston that sent the Astros to their worst start in 27 years. St. Louis 7, Yadier Molina hit a three-run homer and Yovani MILWAUKEE 1 Gallardo struggled in his first outing since signing a contract extension with the Brewers, giving up six runs in five innings in the Cardinals’ 7-1 win Saturday. Pittsburgh at Friday: Chris Young hit a grand slam for his second ARIZONA homer in two games and matched a career high with five RBIs, leading the Diamondbacks to a 9-1 win over the Pirates.

Pitchers

2008-09 vs. opp. W-L IP ERA

Chi.-Gorzelanny (L) Cin.-Leake (R)

7-3 —

47 —

5.55 3-2 — —

1-0 —

7z —

1.23 —

— —

L.A.-Haeger (R) Fla.-A. Sanchez (R)

1-1 4-8

19 86

3.32 — 3.87 0-1

— —

Los Angeles at Florida, 1:10 ET (Line: Fla. 6:5; Total runs: 9) Was.-L. Hernandez (R) N.Y.-Santana (L)

9-12 183Z 14-9 172Z

5.44 11-13 3.08 6-1

— 2-0

— 12

— 3.00

— 1-0

— 6

— 1.50

Phi.-Halladay (R) Hou.-Oswalt (R)

18-10 246 8-7 187z

2.74 — 4.13 6-1

— 0-0

— 6z

— 2.84

1-0 0-1

7 6

1.29 4.50

S.D.-Garland (R) Col.-Jimenez (R)

11-14 16-12

208 224

4.02 1-0 3.42 4-3

1-0 1-0

13Z 7

2.63 3.86

0-1 1-0

4 6

4.50 1.50

7-12 156z 16-7 232z

3.86 0-1 2.40 5-1

0-1 1-1

10Z 13

3.38 2.77

— 1-0

— 7

— 0.00

36z 219

4.21 — 3.66 1-0

— —

— 0-1

— 5

— 5.40

StL.-Carpenter (R) 18-4 198Z Mil.-Wolf (L) 12-7 221 Lines by Danny Sheridan

2.27 4-3 3.30 3-5

2-0 0-1

23 6

1.17 3.00

1-0 1-0

6 6Z

3.00 5.40

Philadelphia at Houston, 2:05 ET (Line: Phi. 9½:5; Total runs: 7½ ) San Diego at Colorado, 3:10 ET (Line: Col. 12:5; Total runs: 9) Atlanta at San Francisco, 4:05 ET (Line: SF 2:1; Total runs: 7) Atl.-Kawakami (R) S.F.-Lincecum (R)

Pittsburgh at Arizona, 4:10 ET (Line: Ari. 2:1; Total runs: 9½ ) Pit.-D. McCutchen (R) Ari.-E. Jackson (R)

Results, upcoming games Friday

Seattle ab Suzuki rf 5 Figgins 2b 4 Griffey Jr. ph 1 Tuiasosopo pr-2b 0 Gutierrez cf 5 Lopez 3b 5 Bradley lf 4 Sweeney dh 3 Kotchman 1b 3 Johnson c 3 Wilson ss 3 Totals 36

Minnesota Span cf Hudson 2b Mauer c Morneau 1b Cuddyer rf Thome dh Casilla pr-dh Kubel lf Hardy ss Punto 3b Totals

Boston Ellsbury cf-lf Pedroia 2b Martinez dh Youkilis 1b Drew rf Lowell 3b Beltre 3b Hermida lf Cameron ph-cf Varitek c Scutaro ss Totals

u Batting — 2B: Johnson (1). S: Wilson. RBI: Suzuki (1); Griffey Jr. (1); Gutierrez (2). GIDP: Lopez. Team LOB: 9. u Fielding — E: Figgins (1). DP: 1. Texas Borbon cf Young 3b Hamilton lf Guerrero dh Cruz rf Davis 1b Arias 2b Blanco 2b Teagarden c Murphy ph Andrus ss Totals

ab 5 4 2 4 4 3 3 1 2 1 3 32

r 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 3

h 1 0 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 7

bi bb so avg 1 0 1 .048 0 0 0 .167 0 2 1 .154 0 0 2 .474 1 0 0 .444 0 1 1 .143 0 0 0 .455 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 .000 0 0 1 .200 0 0 0 .176 2 3 7

u Batting — 3B: Hamilton (1). HR: Cruz (4). S: Andrus. RBI: Borbon (2); Cruz (8). GIDP: Young. Team LOB: 7. u Fielding — DP: 1. Pitching Seattle Hernandez Lowe W,1-1 Aardsma S,2 Texas Harrison Nippert H,1 Feliz H,2 Francisco L,1-2; BS,2 O’Day

ip h r er bb so

era

7 7 3 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

1 5 3.29 2 0 3.38 0 2 0.00

6 1 1 z

1 0 0 1

6 2 0 3

1 0 0 3

Z 1 0 0

4 1.50 1 7.36 1 3.86 0 27.00

0 0 0.00

WP: Hernandez; Harrison. HBP: Sweeney (by Harrison); Teagarden (by Hernandez). Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Hernandez 30; 11074; Lowe 5; 20-9; Aardsma 3; 20-15; Harrison 26; 109-67; Nippert 5; 1510; Feliz 3; 10-6; Francisco 5; 15-9; O’Day 2; 8-7. uUmpires — HP: Rapuano; 1B: Tichenor; 2B: Kulpa; 3B: Barksdale. uGame data —T: 2:53. Att: 26,861.

Cubs 4, Reds 3 Chicago .......... 000 210 010 — 4 Cincinnati .... 012 000 000 — 3 Chicago Theriot ss Fukudome rf Lee 1b Ramirez 3b Byrd cf Soriano lf Colvin lf Fontenot 2b Baker ph-2b Soto c Hill c Zambrano p Nady ph Grabow p Marmol p Totals

ab 4 4 3 4 3 3 0 2 1 3 0 2 1 0 0 30

r 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4

h 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 5

bi bb so avg 0 0 1 .150 2 0 0 .313 0 1 1 .313 0 0 1 .158 0 0 0 .133 1 0 1 .176 0 0 0 .111 0 0 0 .385 1 0 0 .200 0 0 2 .111 0 0 0 .167 0 0 2 .000 0 0 0 .333 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 .000 4 1 8

u Batting — HR: Fukudome (1); Soriano (1); Baker (1). RBI: Fukudome 2 (2); Soriano (1); Baker (1). Team LOB: 0. u Baserunning — CS: Lee (1). u Fielding — E: Zambrano (2). DP: 1. Cincinnati Stubbs cf Cabrera ss Votto 1b Phillips 2b Bruce rf Francisco 3b Dickerson lf Hanigan c Nix ph Harang p Cairo ph Rhodes p Masset p Totals

ab 4 4 3 4 3 4 4 3 1 1 1 0 0 32

r 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3

h 1 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 7

bi bb so avg 0 0 3 .313 0 0 2 .200 0 1 0 .316 2 0 0 .158 0 1 0 .056 0 0 4 .167 0 0 1 .364 1 0 1 .500 0 0 1 .250 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 .000 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 .000 3 2 13

u Batting — 2B: Dickerson (1). HR: Phillips (1). S: Harang. RBI: Phillips 2 (4); Hanigan (1). GIDP: Dickerson. Team LOB: 5. u Baserunning — CS: Votto (1). Pitching Chicago Zambrano W,1-1 Grabow H,1 Marmol S,2 Cincinnati Harang Rhodes L,0-1 Masset

ip h r er bb so

era

7 6 3 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0

2 9 11.88 0 1 7.71 0 3 0.00

7 4 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0

0 7 4.50 0 0 4.50 1 1 15.00

WP: Zambrano; Harang. Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Zambrano 28; 110-66; Grabow 4; 14-9; Marmol 3; 13-9; Harang 24; 99-70; Rhodes 4; 13-8; Masset 3; 17-10. uUmpires — HP: DeMuth; 1B: Danley; 2B: Bucknor; 3B: Eddings. uGame data —T: 2:32. Att: 27,235.

u Batting — 2B: Kubel (1). HR: Kubel (1). S: Hudson. RBI: Kubel 2 (3). Team LOB: 8. u Fielding — DP: 1. Chicago Pierre lf Beckham 2b Quentin rf Konerko dh Kotsay 1b Vizquel pr Rios cf Pierzynski c Ramirez ss Teahen 3b Totals

ab 3 4 3 4 4 0 4 4 3 2 31

r 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1

h 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 6

bi bb so avg 0 0 0 .150 0 0 2 .222 0 1 0 .267 0 0 0 .250 0 0 0 .100 0 0 0 .200 0 0 1 .211 0 0 0 .211 0 0 0 .158 1 1 0 .091 1 2 3

u Batting — 2B: Rios (2); Pierzynski (1); Teahen (1). S: Pierre. RBI: Teahen (1). Team LOB: 6. u Fielding — DP: 1. Pitching Minnesota Baker W,1-1 Mijares H,2 Crain H,1 Rauch S,4 Chicago Garcia L,0-1 Williams Linebrink

ip h r er bb so 7 z Z 1

5 0 0 1

1 0 0 0

7 3 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0

1 1 0 0

3 0 0 0

era 3.86 9.00 0.00 2.25

5 4 2.57 1 0 3.86 0 1 3.86

R.Williams pitched to 3 batters in the 8th. IBB: Morneau (by Garcia). Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Baker 26; 99-68; Mijares 2; 6-2; Crain 2; 6-5; Rauch 4; 16-11; Garcia 28; 9556; Williams 3; 10-5; Linebrink 6; 23-14. uUmpires — HP: Crawford; 1B: O’Nora; 2B: Cuzzi; 3B: Guccione. uGame data —T: 2:35. Att: 28,337.

Blue Jays 3, Orioles 0 Toronto.......... 000 101 001 — 3 Baltimore .... 000 000 000 — 0 Toronto McCoy 2b Bautista rf Lind dh Wells cf Overbay 1b Encarnacion 3b Gonzalez ss Snider lf Molina c Totals

ab 4 4 5 3 5 4 4 2 3 34

r 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 3

h 0 0 2 0 1 2 2 0 2 9

bi bb so avg 0 1 0 .222 0 1 1 .158 1 0 1 .350 0 2 1 .412 0 0 2 .105 0 0 0 .188 0 0 0 .318 0 2 0 .188 2 0 0 .333 3 6 5

u Batting — 2B: Lind 2 (2); Encarnacion (1); Gonzalez 2 (3); Molina (1). RBI: Lind (3); Molina 2 (2). GIDP: Encarnacion. Team LOB: 11. u Baserunning — CS: Bautista (1). u Fielding — DP: 2. Baltimore Lugo 2b Jones cf Markakis rf Tejada 3b Atkins dh Wieters c Reimold lf Wigginton 1b Izturis ss Totals

ab 3 4 2 4 4 4 4 3 2 30

r 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

h 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 6

bi bb so avg 0 1 0 .182 0 0 0 .182 0 2 0 .200 0 0 0 .238 0 0 1 .350 0 0 1 .389 0 0 1 .214 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 .250 0 3 3

u Batting — 2B: Reimold (1). GIDP: Jones; Markakis. Team LOB: 7. u Baserunning — CS: Izturis (1). u Fielding — DP: 2. Pitching ip h r er bb so era Toronto Eveland W,1-0 7z 5 0 0 2 2 0.00 Downs H,2 Z 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 Frasor S,3 1 1 0 0 1 1 5.40 Baltimore Hernandez L,0-1 6 6 2 2 4 5 3.00 Berken 2Z 2 1 1 1 0 3.38 Ohman z 1 0 0 1 0 0.00

IBB: Wells (by Ohman); Snider (by Hernandez). HBP: Izturis (by Eveland); Molina (by Hernandez). Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Eveland 28; 94-59; Downs 1; 2-2; Frasor 5; 20-13; Hernandez 28; 98-54; Berken 10; 23-15; Ohman 3; 11-5. uUmpires — HP: West; 1B: Hernandez; 2B: Schrieber; 3B: Drake. uGame data —T: 2:24. Att: 21,148.

bi bb so avg 1 0 0 .320 3 0 0 .250 0 0 1 .182 1 0 1 .389 0 0 2 .211 0 0 0 .250 0 0 0 .333 1 0 1 .500 0 0 0 .357 2 0 1 .500 0 0 0 .267 8 0 6

u Batting — 2B: Ellsbury (3). HR: Pedroia (2); Youkilis (1); Hermida (1); Varitek 2 (2). SF: Pedroia. RBI: Ellsbury (1); Pedroia 3 (6); Youkilis (4); Hermida (1); Varitek 2 (2). GIDP: Martinez. Team LOB: 5. u Baserunning — SB: Scutaro (1). u Fielding — DP: 2. Kansas City DeJesus rf Podsednik lf Callaspo 3b Butler 1b Ankiel cf Guillen dh Kendall c Betancourt ss Aviles ph Getz 2b Totals

ab 4 4 4 3 4 4 4 3 1 3 34

r 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3

h 1 1 1 0 2 1 1 1 0 1 9

bi bb so avg 1 0 1 .286 0 0 1 .333 0 0 0 .188 0 1 1 .222 1 0 0 .400 0 0 0 .211 0 0 0 .313 0 0 0 .176 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 .313 2 1 4

u Batting — 2B: Podsednik (1); Callaspo (1); Ankiel (3); Guillen (2). RBI: DeJesus (1); Ankiel (5). GIDP: Betancourt; Getz. Team LOB: 5. u Baserunning — SB: Getz (3). u Fielding — DP: 1. Pitching Boston Beckett W,1-0 Okajima H,2 Ramirez Kansas City Greinke L,0-1 Hughes Mendoza Colon

ip h r er bb so 7 9 3 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6Z 1 Z Z

8 1 3 0

4 1 3 0

era

1 4 6.17 0 0 3.00 0 0 13.50 0 0 0 0

5 3.55 1 9.00 0 30.86 0 18.00

HBP: Scutaro (by Greinke); Pedroia (by Greinke). Batters faced; pitchesstrikes: Beckett 29; 105-71; Okajima 3; 12-8; Ramirez 3; 15-10; Greinke 29; 108-68; Hughes 4; 16-8; Mendoza 5; 12-7; Colon 2; 10-6. uUmpires — HP: Darling; 1B: Hohn; 2B: Dreckman; 3B: Estabrook. uGame data —T: 2:47. Att: 37,505.

Phillies 9, Astros 6 Philadelphia 013 000 302 — 9 Houston........ 005 000 001 — 6 Philadelphia Rollins ss Polanco 3b Utley 2b Howard 1b Werth rf Ibanez lf Victorino cf Schneider c Moyer p Durbin p Francisco ph Baez p Madson p Totals

ab 4 5 3 4 4 5 5 3 2 0 1 0 0 36

r h 1 0 1 2 2 0 2 2 2 3 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 11

bi bb so avg 0 1 1 .368 0 0 0 .542 0 2 1 .368 3 1 0 .417 3 0 0 .409 0 0 1 .250 3 0 1 .174 0 2 3 .000 0 0 1 .500 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 .000 9 6 8

u Batting — 2B: Werth (4). 3B: Howard (1). HR: Howard (3); Victorino (1). S: Moyer. SF: Werth. RBI: Howard 3 (10); Werth 3 (3); Victorino 3 (5). Team LOB: 8. u Baserunning — SB: Rollins (2). Houston Michaels cf Keppinger 2b Pence rf Lee lf Feliz 1b Johnson 3b Manzella ss Quintero c Bourn ph Paulino p Sampson p Blum ph Lyon p Byrdak p Lindstrom p Sullivan ph Totals

ab 5 4 5 4 4 4 4 3 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 38

r h 1 2 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 11

bi bb so avg 3 0 0 .333 0 1 0 .400 2 0 1 .095 0 0 1 .158 0 0 0 .250 0 0 1 .222 1 0 0 .286 0 0 0 .143 0 0 0 .278 0 0 0 .500 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 .154 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 .200 6 1 3

u Batting — 2B: Bourn (1); Paulino (1). HR: Michaels (1); Pence (1). RBI: Michaels 3 (3); Pence 2 (2); Manzella (1). Team LOB: 6. u Fielding — E: Feliz (1). Pitching Philadelphia Moyer W,1-0 Durbin H,2 Baez H,1 Madson Houston Paulino Sampson H,1 Lyon L,0-1; BS,1 Byrdak Lindstrom

ip h r er bb so

era

6 1 1 1

9 0 0 2

5 0 0 1

1 0 0 0

0 1 1 1

7.50 0.00 3.38 3.86

5 1 1 1 1

4 0 4 1 2

4 0 3 0 2

4 1 1 0 0

4 7.20 2 2.45 1 13.50 0 3.00 1 9.00

Balks: Paulino. Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Moyer 28; 84-54; Durbin 3; 16-10; Baez 3; 10-7; Madson 5; 27-18; Paulino 24; 111-61; Sampson 4; 15-10; Lyon 8; 35-22; Byrdak 4; 17-8; Lindstrom 5; 20-10. uUmpires — HP: Everitt; 1B: Fletcher; 2B: Johnson; 3B: McClelland. uGame data —T: 3:04. Att: 35,138.

Phillies 8, Astros 0 Philadelphia 300 220 100 — 8 Houston ....... 000 000 000 — 0 Philadelphia Rollins ss Polanco 3b Utley 2b Howard 1b Werth rf Ibanez lf Victorino cf Ruiz c Happ p Herndon p Baez p Dobbs ph Contreras p Totals

ab 4 5 4 5 5 4 5 5 2 1 0 1 0 41

r h 2 2 2 4 1 2 2 2 0 2 0 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 16

bi bb so avg 0 2 0 .467 2 0 0 .579 2 1 0 .438 1 0 0 .400 0 0 1 .333 3 1 0 .267 0 0 1 .111 0 0 1 .364 0 1 1 .000 0 0 1 .000 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 .000 0 0 0 .000 8 5 6

u Batting — 2B: Rollins (3); Polanco (3); Howard 2 (3); Ibanez 2 (2). HR: Utley (1). RBI: Polanco 2 (8); Utley 2 (4); Howard (7); Ibanez 3 (4). GIDP: Ibanez; Victorino. Team LOB: 11. u Fielding — E: Polanco (1). DP: 1. Houston Bourn cf Keppinger 2b Pence rf Lee lf Sampson p Fulchino p Feliz 3b Blum 1b Towles c Manzella ss Norris p Lopez p Johnson ph Moehler p Sullivan ph-lf Totals

ab 5 4 4 3 0 0 4 3 4 4 1 0 1 0 2 35

r 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

h 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 8

bi bb so avg 0 0 0 .235 0 0 0 .545 0 0 1 .063 0 1 2 .133 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 .188 0 1 1 .167 0 0 1 .083 0 0 1 .300 0 0 1 .000 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 .000 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 .250 0 2 10

u Batting — 2B: Keppinger (3). GIDP: Towles. Team LOB: 10. u Fielding — DP: 2. Pitching Philadelphia Happ W,1-0 Herndon Baez Contreras Houston Norris L,0-1 Lopez Moehler Sampson Fulchino

ip h r er bb so

era

5 2 1 1

6 2 0 0

0 0 0 0

2 0 0 0

5 2 1 2

0.00 0.00 5.40 0.00

2Z 1z 3 1 1

6 3 6 1 0

3 2 3 0 0

4 0 1 0 0

3 10.13 1 13.50 1 7.36 0 3.38 1 15.43

J.Happ pitched to 2 batters in the 6th. WP: Happ. Batters faced; pitchesstrikes: Happ 25; 103-63; Herndon 7; 36-23; Baez 3; 15-10; Contreras 3; 8-7; Norris 18; 82-44; Lopez 7; 28-19; Moehler 15; 54-34; Sampson 3; 6-5; Fulchino 3; 13-10.

Twins 4, White Sox 3 Minn........ 000 002 100 01 — 4 Chicago.. 001 002 000 00 — 3 Minnesota Span cf Hudson 2b Hardy ss Morneau 1b Cuddyer rf Kubel dh Young lf Harris 3b Punto pr-3b Thome ph Casilla 3b Butera c Mauer ph-c Totals

ab 4 6 5 5 5 4 5 3 0 1 0 3 0 41

r h 1 2 0 1 0 2 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 10

bi bb so avg 0 1 0 .150 0 0 2 .174 1 1 1 .333 1 1 1 .389 0 1 1 .333 0 1 2 .077 1 0 1 .294 0 1 0 .143 0 0 0 .250 0 0 1 .200 0 0 0 .000 0 0 3 .000 0 1 0 .333 3 7 12

u Batting — 2B: Morneau (1). S: Span; Butera. RBI: Hardy (3); Morneau (4); Young (7). Team LOB: 13. u Baserunning — SB: Span (1). CS: Span (1). Chicago ab r h bi bb so avg Pierre lf 5 0 0 0 0 0 .118 Beckham 2b 3 0 1 0 2 0 .286 Quentin rf 4 1 2 0 1 0 .333 Konerko 1b 3 1 1 0 1 1 .250 Teahen pr-1b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Jones dh 3 0 0 0 1 1 .000 Kotsay ph-dh 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Rios cf 5 0 2 2 0 0 .200 Vizquel 3b 5 0 1 0 0 1 .200 Ramirez ss 5 1 2 0 0 0 .188 Lucy c 2 0 1 0 0 1 .500 Pierzynski ph-c 2 0 0 0 0 0 .200 Totals 39 3 10 2 5 5

u Batting — 2B: Rios (1); Ramirez (1). RBI: Rios 2 (3). GIDP: Pierre; Teahen. Team LOB: 8. u Baserunning — CS: Rios (1); Vizquel (1). u Fielding — E: Ramirez 2 (2). Pitching Minnesota Liriano Neshek Guerrier Duensing W,1-0 Rauch S,3 Chicago Danks Linebrink H,1 Williams BS,1 Santos Thornton Pena L,0-1

Tuesday

Mil. at Chi., 2:20 Was. at Phi, 3:05 Hou. at StL, 4:15 Atl. at SD, 6:35 . Cin. at Fla., 7:10 Pit. at SF, 10:15

Friday’s late games

Boston ........... 000 020 213 — 8 Kansas City .. 100 000 200 — 3 r h 2 3 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 1 1 8 12

Monday

Col. 7, SD 0 SF 5, Atl. 4, (13) Cin. 5, Chi. 4 LA 7, Fla. 3 NY 8, Was. 2 Phi. 8, Hou. 0 StL 5, Mil. 4 Ari. 9, Pit. 1

Minnesota ... 000 000 200 — 2 Chicago.......... 000 010 000 — 1

ab 5 3 5 5 4 4 0 3 1 4 3 37

1-2 13-10

St. Louis at Milwaukee, 8:05 ET (Line: StL 7:5; Total runs: 7½)

Seattle............ 100 000 003 — 4 Texas .............. 000 021 000 — 3

bi bb so avg 0 1 0 .125 0 0 0 .192 0 2 0 .353 0 1 1 .381 0 0 1 .280 0 1 1 .167 0 0 1 .000 2 1 0 .188 0 0 0 .280 0 0 1 .167 2 6 5

Last 3 starts W-L IP ERA

Washington at New York, 1:10 ET (Line: NYM 12:5; Total runs: 7½ )

Red Sox 8, Royals 3

h 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 5

Home Away 1-0 3-0 3-1 0-0 1-0 1-2 0-0 2-3 0-0 1-3

Chicago at Cincinnati, 1:10 ET (Line: Cin. 6:5; Total runs: 9)

Twins 2, White Sox 1 r 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2

Home Away 0-0 4-1 2-1 0-1 0-0 2-3 2-3 0-0 2-3 0-0 0-5 0-0

Career vs. 2009 season opp. W-L IP ERA W-L

Mariners 4, Rangers 3

ab 4 3 2 3 4 2 1 3 4 4 30

Home Away 0-0 4-1 1-1 2-1 2-1 0-1 2-3 0-0 1-2 1-1

Today’s probable pitchers, lines

San Diego at COLORADO

bi bb so avg 1 0 1 .292 0 0 1 .190 1 0 0 .250 0 0 0 .400 1 0 0 .435 0 0 0 .208 0 0 2 .048 0 0 2 .143 0 1 0 .222 0 1 0 .250 0 0 0 .250 3 2 6

vs. Div. 2-1 2-1 0-0 2-3 2-3 vs. Div. 4-1 0-0 1-1 2-3 0-2 0-0 vs. Div. 0-0 2-1 1-0 0-0 1-3

All times Eastern

NL games

r h 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 2 4 12

Last Pct. GB Strk 10 .800 W-2 4-1 .600 1 W-1 3-2 .500 11⁄2 L-2 2-2 .400 2 L-1 2-3 .400 2 W-1 2-3 Last Pct. GB Strk 10 .800 W-2 4-1 .500 11⁄2 L-2 2-2 .400 2 W-1 2-3 .400 2 L-1 2-3 .400 2 L-2 2-3 .000 4 L-5 0-5 Last Pct. GB Strk 10 1.000 W-4 4-0 .750 1 W-2 3-1 .500 2 W-1 2-2 .400 21⁄2 L-1 2-3 .250 3 L-2 1-3

ip h r er bb so

era

6 0 2 2 1

4 1 1 2 2

3 0 0 0 0

5 0 0 0 0

3 0 1 0 1

4.50 0.00 0.00 0.00 3.00

6 z z Z Z 3

8 0 1 0 0 1

2 1 0 0 0 1

1 1 0 0 0 1

1 2 1 1 0 2

6 1.50 1 27.00 0 3.86 1 0.00 0 2.45 4 2.45

Neshek pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. WP: Liriano. IBB: Cuddyer (by Williams). Batters faced; pitchesstrikes: Liriano 26; 92-56; Neshek 1; 5-5; Guerrier 7; 31-20; Duensing 7; 31-21; Rauch 4; 15-12; Danks 27; 105-65; Linebrink 3; 13-5; Williams 3; 12-5; Santos 3; 14-7; Thornton 2; 10-7; Pena 12; 59-33.

Ari. at LA, 4:10 . Cin. at Fla., 7:10 NY at Col., 8:40 Pit. at SF, 10:15

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u Batting — 2B: Iwamura (1). RBI: Clement (2). Team LOB: 7. u Baserunning — SB: Milledge (1). u Fielding — E: Iwamura (1). PB: Doumit (1). DP: 2. Arizona Jackson lf Drew ss Abreu ph-ss Upton rf LaRoche 1b Reynolds 3b Rosales p Howry p Montero c Young cf Johnson 2b Lopez p Vasquez p Ojeda 3b Totals

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u Batting — 2B: Montero (1); Johnson (1). HR: Young (2). RBI: LaRoche 3 (3); Montero (3); Young 5 (7). GIDP: Johnson; Lopez. Team LOB: 6. u Baserunning — SB: Drew (1). u Fielding — DP: 1. Pitching Pittsburgh Morton L,0-1 Carrasco Meek Penn Arizona Lopez W,1-0 Vasquez Rosales Howry

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Athletics 10, Angels 4 Oakland ....... 310 012 300 — 10 Los Angeles... 010 010 002 — 4 Oakland Davis cf Barton 1b Sweeney rf Kouzmanoff 3b Suzuki c Chavez dh Ellis 2b Rosales 2b Buck lf Gross ph-lf Pennington ss Totals

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u Batting — 2B: Davis (1); Barton 2 (2); Chavez (1). HR: Pennington (1). RBI: Davis 2 (4); Barton 2 (7); Kouzmanoff (1); Suzuki (4); Chavez (1); Pennington 3 (5). GIDP: Chavez. Team LOB: 8. u Fielding — E: Davis (1); Ramirez. DP: 1. Los Angeles Izturis ss Abreu rf Hunter cf Evans cf Matsui dh Morales 1b Wilson 1b Rivera lf Kendrick 2b Wood 3b Mathis c Totals

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u Batting — 2B: Rivera (1). HR: Matsui (2); Rivera (1). SF: Mathis. RBI: Izturis (2); Matsui (3); Rivera (3); Mathis (2). GIDP: Kendrick. Team LOB: 7. u Fielding — E: Kendrick (2); Palmer. DP: 1. Pitching Oakland Gonzalez W,1-0 Ramirez Breslow Los Angeles Palmer L,0-1 Bulger Cassevah

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2D • Sunday, April 11, 2010 • Lansing State Journal

Duke redux? Joe Rexrode reviews his MSU hoops preseason story and whether the Spartans can become a perennial power like the Blue Devils.

GAME PLAN

Up and at ’em: D.J. Augustin (14) had 13 points, including the game-winning shot with less than a minute left, and nine assists in Charlotte’s 99-95 win on Saturday. Charlie Villanueva had 12 points for Detroit as the Pistons lost for the ﬁrst time in four games.

Home games in bold

LCC BASEBALL Tuesday Thursday April 17

2 p.m. 2 p.m. 1 p.m.

at Muskegon at Kellogg Jackson

LCC SOFTBALL

Sunday Thursday April 17

1 p.m. at Lake Mich. 3 p.m. Jackson 1 p.m. at K’zoo Valley

MSU BASEBALL Today Wednesday Friday

2 p.m. at Minnesota 3 p.m. at W. Michigan 3 p.m. Ohio State

MSU SOFTBALL

Today Wednesday April 17

1 p.m. at Indiana 4 p.m. at Penn State (2) 1 p.m. Ohio State

LANSING LUGNUTS

Today Monday Tuesday

3 p.m. 6 p.m. 6 p.m.

at Great Lakes at Great Lakes at Great Lakes

DETROIT PISTONS

Monday 7:30 p.m. Toronto Wednesday 8 p.m. at Minnesota End of regular season

DETROIT RED WINGS Today 3 p.m. End of regular season

at Chicago

CHUCK BURTON Associated Press

Pistons’ streak ends to Bobcats Playing without Hamilton, Stuckey, Detroit hangs close MIKE CRANSTON Associated Press

DETROIT TIGERS

Today Monday Tuesday

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Larry Hughes scored 18 points, D.J. Augustin hit the go-ahead jumper with just over a minute left, and the Charlotte Bobcats used their depth to hold off the Detroit Pistons 99-95 on Saturday night. Gerald Wallace and Stephen Jackson added 14 points apiece and Augustin had 13 for the Bobcats, who improved w NBA box to 31-9 at home and scores, kept their slim hopes standings, alive for overtaking Page 11D Miami for the sixth seed in the Eastern Conference and avoiding a ﬁrst-round playoff matchup with Orlando. Ben Gordon scored 17 of his 21 points in the second half, and Jason Maxiell added 14 points for the Pistons, who missed four straight shots with a chance to take the lead in the ﬁnal minute as their three-game winning streak was snapped. Playing without ill point guard Raymond Felton, the Bobcats struggled to put away the Pistons, who had knocked off playoff teams Atlanta and Miami in the past week following their 11-game losing streak.

I INSIDE

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INSIDE CORNER

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Instruction: Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly talks to quarterback Dayne Crist during practice.

Notre Dame football coach more encouraged after three practices

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame football coach Brian Kelly is feeling better about his team three practices after proclaiming: “We stink right now.” Kelly doesn’t want to dwell on an overall assessment nearly midway through spring practice. He prefers to say the team is coming along. “Last week we weren’t very good. I think I made that pretty clear,” he said Saturday. “This week I wanted to evaluate three practices and then make a decision. In all three practice we started better, we ﬁnished better and we made progress. We still have a long way to go.” COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Alabama safety Robby Green has been ruled ineligible for the 2010 season by the NCAA. Green was a leading candidate for a starting spot for the defending national champion Crimson Tide. — Associated Press

Moving the mound: High school editor Geoff Kimmerly explains why the longer pitching distance will make softball a better sport next season.

The lead changed hands seven times in the final 5 minutes, after Detroit rallied from an 11-point third quarter deficit. Augustin, who started in Felton’s spot, hit a fadeaway with 1:11 left put Charlotte ahead 96-95 before the Pistons got four chances after three offensive rebounds. But Gordon missed twice in the sequence, including a mid-range jumper from the right of the lane with 17 seconds left. After Wallace hit 1 of 2 free throws, Will Bynum missed a contested runner in the lane before Hughes hit two free throws with 5 seconds left. It was Hughes’ best game with Charlotte after being signed on March 13. Entering having made just 13 of his last 54 shots, Hughes shot 6 of 10 from the field and hit 4 of 5 3-pointers for Charlotte. Bynum and Charlie Villanueva added 12 points apiece for the short-handed Pistons, who were again without Richard Hamilton (ankle) and Rodney Stuckey (rib).

DETROIT (95): Prince 3-9 1-2 8, Jerebko 3-5 0-0 8, B.Wallace 3-6 0-0 6, Bynum 4-12 4-5 12, Gordon 7-20 7-8 21, Maxiell 6-6 2-7 14, Daye 3-7 2-2 9, Summers 0-1 0-0 0, Villanueva 5-10 1-2 12, Atkins 2-3 0-0 5. Totals 36-79 17-26 95. CHARLOTTE (99): G.Wallace 5-9 4-6 14, Diaw 3-6 2-2 8, Ratliff 4-6 0-0 8, Augustin 6-12 0-0 13, Jackson 4-11 5-6 14, Chandler 1-1 9-10 11, Hughes 6-10 2-2 18, D.Brown 1-4 0-0 2, Graham 5-6 0-0 11. Totals 35-65 22-26 99. Detroit 20 23 26 26—95 Charlotte 19 31 24 25—99 3-point goals—Detroit 6-21 (Jerebko 2-2, Prince 1-1, Atkins 1-2, Villanueva 1-3, Daye 1-3, Summers 0-1, Bynum 0-3, Gordon 0-6), Charlotte 7-15 (Hughes 4-6, Graham 1-1, Augustin 1-4, Jackson 1-4). Fouled out— None. Rebounds—Detroit 43 (B.Wallace 10), Charlotte 43 (Jackson, Ratliff 6). Assists—Detroit 26 (Gordon 7), Charlotte 27 (Augustin 9). Total fouls—Detroit 23, Charlotte 22.

Hockey: B.C. wins 2nd title in 3 seasons CONTINUED FROM 1D

Badgers forward Blake Geoffrion, grandson of Hockey Hall of Famer Bernie “Boom Boom” Geoffrion, was shut down a day after winning the Hobey Baker Award as college hockey’s top player. Geoffrion scored 28 goals this season to help Wisconsin enter the game with a nation-high 171 goals — averaging four a game — but he and his teammates struggled to get pucks and bodies near the net to make Muse sweat. “I thought our key was tremendous defensive zone coverage,” York said. Smith, who won the most outstanding player award for the tournament, got Boston College’s good

night started with a goal 12:57 into the game. After a scoreless second, the Eagles proved they weren’t content to just sit back and play conservatively. Atkinson led the flurry in the third and Matt Price finished it with an empty-net goal with 4:31 left while Scott Gudmandson was pulled briefly to add an extra skater. Gudmandson made 21 saves. Wisconsin’s Michael Davies had chances to score and perhaps could blame the ice conditions for taking away his best opportunity in the second period when he whiffed on a breakaway after the puck bounced over his stick. “Both teams had to play on it,” Wisconsin coach Mike Eaves said.

LCC: Stars move into ﬁrst CONTINUED FROM 1D

sophomore catcher Morgan Goddard was 2 for 4 with an RBI. Sophomore Sara Fisher (7-3) earned the win, allowing four hits with a season-high eight strikeouts and no walks. “I threw my changeup a lot,” Fisher said. “It was really working good today, so I needed it.” LCC took another early lead in the second game. Rohn’s three-run homer gave the Stars a 6-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning, and Manuel added a solo blast in the in the third inning to make it 7-0. Rohn ﬁnished 2 for 3 with three RBI and two runs scored, and sophomore outﬁelder Brandy Williams was 2 for 2 with an RBI and

three runs scored. “It’s an ideal field to hit on under certain conditions,” Every said of Ranney Park. Freshman Destiny Manning earned the Game 2 win and improved to 8-1, allowing one hit and no runs with two strikeouts. Glen Oaks scored three runs in the fifth inning and had a chance to extend the game, but freshman Devin Culham induced a double play to end the inning and maintain the eight-run mercy rule after five innings. Conditions couldn’t have been better Saturday, with the wind howling out all afternoon. “The pitchers supply most of the power. And if you just make solid contact, the ball will jump off your bat,” Every said.

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MSU hoops will again be in top 3 Purdue, Ohio St. to also contend in Big Ten race

t looks like Purdue, Michigan State and Ohio State atop the men’s Big Ten basketball standings again next season. I’ll guess the league will be tougher with Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin all fielding credible teams. If the field expands to 96 schools maybe Northwestern can make its first ever NCAA Tournament. The bottom four will be Indiana, Penn State (providing Talor Battle returns), Iowa and Michigan. The order is subject to change based on any more underclassmen declaring for the NBA Draft. Battle has declared for the draft but has not signed with an agent. As for the Spartans, Kalin Lucas and Delvon Roe need complete recoveries from surgery and everyone else needs offseason improvement. The Final Four is in Houston and the regionals are at New Jersey, San Antonio, Anaheim and New Orleans. The Spartans can hope to draw first round sites at either Cleveland or Chicago. w Back on his feet: It was back in January in the Breslin Center during the second half of the MSU vs. Minnesota game that 70-year-old Spartan fan Jim Van Nocker of East Lansing collapsed in the upper stands. A Minnesota fan who was an emergency-room physician was seated nearby and spent 25 minutes working on Van Nocker, whose heart simply stopped. Van Nocker was zapped seven times by medical personnel on the scene and spent 2½ months in Sparrow Hospital, including three weeks in the intensive care unit. He was given one stint to replace a blocked artery. He has missed five home MSU football games in the last 50 years and doesn’t plan to stop attending games in the future. w In the hospital: Former MSU football great Don Coleman is ailing at Sparrow Hospital where he has been treated for the past two weeks. The Flint native was a unanimous 1951 All American tackle at 5-10, 180 pounds and became the first MSU player ever to have his jersey number retired — 78. Coleman was inducted into the College Hall of Fame in 1975. w Names to remember: Remember these two high school football names — receiver DeAnthony Arnett of Saginaw, and defensive back Doran Grant of Akron, (Ohio) St. Vincent’s. Both are stellar prospects who will be seniors this fall and both are strongly considering Michigan State. At the moment, the Spartans have three verbal commitments who will formally sign next February. w Poor showing: In a basketball-crazy part of the country like the midwest, why aren’t there better women’s players in the Big Ten? Only two seniors were chosen in the WNBA Draft, Jenna Smith, 14th, from league doormat Illinois, and Tyra Grant, 24th, from Penn State. w Sparse turnout: The NCAA claims to have sold 35,000 tickets to the Frozen Four this week end at Ford Field, but the atmosphere and the crowd hardly looked like the seating arrangement was that full. The semifinal games were dreadful blowouts with little energy in the building. Hockey’s tournament finals might better be served returning to a standard-sized NHL arena with a resulting demand for tickets providing for a more climactic season end. At least the setting would be far more

TIM STAUDT Staudt on Sunday

tim.staudt@wilx.com

electric than what was seen. And I still maintain the tournament would offer more interest with a 24-team field than the current 16. w Lions win one: Finally a victory for the Detroit Lions. A federal judge ruled former Spartan and Lions receiver Charles Rogers owes $6.1 million of his $9.1 million signing bonus back to the team. Any guesses on how much of that amount the Lions will ever receive? Former general manager Matt Millen ought to be ordered to make up the difference out of his own pocket for ever drafting Rogers in the first place and then pocketing millions himself in a separation package from the franchise once he was fired. w It’s about time: Congratulations to 83-year old former MSU basketball coach Gus Ganakas. Because of his obligations on the MSU radio network, Ganakas missed his induction recently into the Mount Morris (N.Y.) High School hall of fame. The 1944 graduate starred in soccer, basketball and baseball and it apparently took the selection committee a mere 65 years to recognize his prowess. Ganakas was born and raised in the town of 3,100, located 30 miles south of Rochester where his Greek immigrant parents operated a restaurant and confectionery. w Retirement party: All are invited to Sexton High School coach Lyle McFadden’s retirement celebration next Saturday at the Pozega/McFadden Track Invitational meet at the school. McFadden has been hospitalized much of the year and is now living at Burcham Hills Rehabilitation Center. The meet begins at 11 a.m. McFadden will be honored at 1 p.m. w Series bound? Michigan State is the only Big Ten baseball team ranked in the national polls this week — 29th. The Spartans have a legitimate shot to contend for the conference title and who knows what beyond that. No Big Ten team has played in the College World Series since 1983. w Unfair treatment: Mike Cosgrove e-mails me that he has been an MSU hockey season ticketholder for nearly 40 years and this winter, he paid $18 per seat, per game for four tickets. He asks why it is fair to such patrons when late-season promotions to increase attendance offered four tickets and concessions for $44? Cosgrove suggests eliminating such incentives and lowering ticket prices to $14 per game. Cosgrove adds that he feels alienated among those who support the program on a season-ticket basis. w Enos debuts: Dan Enos is ready to unveil his first Central Michigan football team at the spring game at 5 p.m. Saturday in Kelly Shorts Stadium. Admission is free. A kids’ clinic will be from 2-3:30 p.m. with registration beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the indoor athletic complex. Players will sign autographs before the game with free food available at a tailgate in the stadium parking lot at 3 p.m. w Hockey voice: Holt native Ben Holden has spent the past hockey season as the radio play by play announcer for the AHL’s Lake Erie Monsters. Holden called the NCAA Tournament games in Fort Wayne last month and is hoping to land a radio or TV job with any of the 30 NHL teams in the future.

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Lansing State Journal • Sunday, April 11, 2010 • 3D

I IN BRIEF FOOTBALL

Texas Stadium set for implosion

IRVING, Texas — The old stadium for America’s team is about to become a pile of dust and rubble. With the push of a button at 7 a.m. today, more than a ton of dynamite will blow Texas Stadium into pieces. In about one minute, down will go the building that was home to the Dallas Cowboys during all ﬁve of their Super Bowl championships and was the birthplace of those famous cheerleaders. It also hosted events ranging from Billy Graham-led worship services to Von Erich brothers wrestling extravaganzas. “They can blow it up, implode it, dynamite it — but they can’t take away the memories created there,” former Cowboys star receiver Drew Pearson said Friday. He plans to watch the demolition from a nearby building, “because I don’t want anybody to see me tearing up.” For former running back Walt Garrison, it’s just a building: “The memories are not about where you played, but who you played with,” he said. The Cowboys played their last game at Texas Stadium in December 2008, then moved into the $1.2 billion Cowboys Stadium in Arlington last season.

BOXING

Hall of Fame referee Mercante dies at 90

NEW YORK — Hall of Fame boxing referee Arthur Mercante, the third man in the ring for the first Ali-Frazier fight and more than a hundred other world title bouts, died Saturday at his home in Westbury, said Edward Brophy, executive director of the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota. Flags at the Hall of Fame were flying at half-staff Saturday, and 10-bell salutes were planned before Andre Berto’s welterweight title fight against Carlos Quintana in Sunrise, Fla., and a Top Rank-promoted card in Las Vegas. Mercante, 90, refereed 145 world title fights during his career, the most famous on March 8, 1971, when Joe Frazier defeated Muhammad Ali in “The Fight of the Century” at Madison Square Garden.

TENNIS

Querrey, Chela in clay-court ﬁnal

HOUSTON — Third seeded Sam Querrey defeated Wayne Odesnik 7-6 (4), 1-6, 7-5 in the semifinals of the U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championships. Querrey will go for his second title this year in today’s final against Argentina’s Juan Ignacio Chela, who beat sixth-seeded countryman Horacio Zeballos 7-5, 6-2. Chela will play in his first final since March 2007. Odesnik pleaded guilty on March 26 to taking vials of human growth hormone into Australia. He has denied taking the banned substance and is playing while his case is being investigated by the International Tennis Federation.

BASKETBALL

Accused woman wants trial moved

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The woman accused of attempting to extort money from University of Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino is asking a judge to move her trial out of Louisville. Federal court records show the attorney for Karen Cunigan Sypher filed a motion in U.S. District Court on Friday that asks that the June trial be moved to Bowling Green or Owensboro. She argues extensive media coverage would make it difficult to find impartial jurors. Assistant U.S. Attorney John Kuhn told The Courier-Journal on Saturday that the government will oppose the move, but said he will explain why in a filed response with the court next week. Sypher has pleaded not guilty to trying to extort money from Pitino, retaliating against a witness and lying to the FBI. — From wire reports

Modano’s star quality helped light up league North Star fans responded to his energy and skill RACHEL BLOUNT Minneapolis Star Tribune

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Met Center is long gone, imploded years ago to make way for a sprawling furniture store and a weedy parking lot. Still, every time Mike Modano comes to the Twin Cities, a loyal corps of fans from the old days remind him of where his NHL journey began. He came to Minnesota as an 18-year-old kid, charged with resuscitating a North Stars franchise failing in the standings and at the box office. For all his immense talent, no one could have imagined the imprint he would leave on his game. Over the course of 20 seasons, Modano helped hockey take root in football country, polished the image of the American-born player and remained in many Minnesotans’ hearts even after his move down I-35. The North Star-turnedDallas Star could say his goodbyes in the same state that introduced him to the NHL, on Saturday night against the Wild in St. Paul. Modano will end a challenging, injury-disrupted season as the Stars and Wild close out the schedule at Xcel Energy Center. With his 40th birthday less than two months away, he is leaning toward retiring this summer. While he hasn’t completely made up his mind, Modano appreciates the symmetry of closing the curtain on his career in the place where it was raised. “As the months and days tick by, I find (retirement) consuming a lot of my thoughts,” he said. “I still feel like I can contribute and do some things, if I’m put in the right situations. But I don’t know how things will play out. “I don’t think it happens very often to someone, that they could have their last game back where they started. It’s going to be special for me to go back there one final time, seeing a lot of those familiar faces that were at Met Center. It could be a little emotional.” He won’t be the only one fighting a lump in his throat. Lou Nanne, who made Modano the No. 1 pick in the 1988 NHL entry draft, thinks Modano has another year left in those still-swift legs. Should he call it quits, though, Nanne said his achievements will be long remembered. “I was hoping he’d have the effect he did on the crowds and the gate,” said Nanne, the former North Stars general manager and president. “But did I expect he’d play this long and reach this level, where he had this effect on the game? No. He is undoubtedly the best American forward that ever played.”

in NHL history. He leads all American-born players in goals (557) and points (1,359). A three-time Olympian who played in seven NHL All-Star Games, he won a Stanley Cup with Dallas in 1999 and helped fuel the North Stars’ improbable race to the finals in 1991. Perhaps most important, Modano gave the franchise a crossover star who appealed to hockey diehards and newbies alike. Many thought Nanne had a tough choice to make in 1989, when he could have chosen Modano or Trevor Linden with the first pick. Nanne insists it wasn’t difficult at all. “Our crowds were low, and our team wasn’t very good,” he said of the North Stars of the late 1980s. “I said to (then-owner) Gordon Gund, ‘We’ve got two good hockey players here, with one major difference. One is electrifying.’ He brought you out of your seat, he captivated you, he had charisma, he could sell tickets.” Modano dazzled them with his incredible speed, his smooth skating and his ability to deliver either a smart pass or one of the most accurate shots in the game. During his time in Minnesota, he also soaked up an old-school approach to hockey that would serve him throughout his career.

said. “It needed to be hard. They taught me what it takes to make a name for yourself, to play the game for a long time, to respect the game and the organization. Those things stick with me to this day.” Modano would pay that forward in Dallas, where he shouldered the challenge of selling the NHL in unfamiliar territory. His talent and wide appeal drew in fans who knew nothing about hockey, generating the star power critical to establishing the franchise — and the game — in a new market. Wild winger Antti Miettinen, who began his NHL career with the Stars, saw Modano’s influence both inside and outside the locker room. “He’s definitely the face of that franchise, and the face of U.S. hockey as well,” he said. “And the way he treats other players and makes them better, that’s what great players do.” Modano said he has been trying to prepare himself for the end of his playing days. He owns a Dallas restaurant in partnership with former teammate Brett Hull, now a Stars executive. And though he shot down rumors that he would partner with Hull and Wayne Gretzky to buy the Stars, he did say he would be interested in helping revitalize the franchise with a new ownership group. ‘Respect the game’ “I’ve been part of a lot North Stars such as Neal of positive things in my caBroten, Curt Giles and Bob- reer,” he said. “I’ve been by Smith taught Modano to around some great players. be unselfish and committed, The game has taken off, while coach Bob Gainey be- with more popularity and expanding around the gan molding him into an outstanding two-way playcountry, and it’s been rewarding to be part of that. er. “Those guys made it tough on me, but I wouldn’t I don’t think my timing could have been better.” have it any other way,” he

Modano won’t make his decision until the Stars begin solidifying next year’s roster, giving him an idea of where he stands. The signs, though, point toward closure. His ﬁve-year contract is expiring, and his status as a captain and ﬁrst-line center have passed to younger hands. He now plays fewer minutes, on a checking line and on special teams. While his love of the game still burns, Modano said the grind of an 82-game season has worn on him, and an appendectomy that sidelined him last month gave him extra time to ponder his future. His remarkable past assures his place

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Leafs 4, Canadiens 3 (OT) Toronto 1 1 1 1—4 Montreal 2 1 0 0—3 First period—1, Montreal, Markov 6 (Pouliot), 6:14. 2, Toronto, Hanson 1 (Grabovski, Stalberg), 9:12. 3, Montreal, Gionta 28 (Gomez, Markov), 16:17 (pp). Second period—4, Toronto, Stalberg 9 (Bozak, Beauchemin), 11:55. 5, Montreal, Bergeron 13 (Markov, Gomez), 18:23. Third period—6, Toronto, Hanson 2 (Mitchell, Gunnarsson), 3:32 (sh). Overtime—7, Toronto, Phaneuf 12 (Hanson, Mitchell), 2:06. Shots on goal—Toronto 8-7-10-3—28. Montreal 14-9-13-1—37. Goalies—Toronto, Giguere 10-15-7 (37 shots-34 saves). Montreal, Halak 26-13-5 (28-24).

Thrashers 1, Penguins 0 Pittsburgh 0 0 0—0 Atlanta 0 1 0—1 Second period—1, Atlanta, Little 13 (MacArthur, Kozlov), 9:26. Shots on goal—Pittsburgh 9-11-13—33. Atlanta 4-9-9—22. Goalies—Pittsburgh, Fleury 37-21-6 (22 shots-21 saves). Atlanta, Hedberg 21-16-6 (33-33).

Devils 7, Islanders 1 N.Y. Islanders 0 0 1—1 New Jersey 3 2 2—7 First period—1, New Jersey, Zubrus 10 (P.Martin, Zajac), 10:54. 2, New Jersey, Parise 38 (White, Zajac), 14:18. 3, New Jersey, McAmmond 8 (Pelley, Mottau), 15:48. Second period—4, New Jersey, Elias 18 (Kovalchuk, Greene), 11:16 (pp). 5, New Jersey, Rolston 20 (Kovalchuk, Zajac), 19:11 (pp).

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Oilers 4, Kings 3 (SO) Edmonton 1 1 1 0—4 Los Angeles 0 0 3 0—3 Edmonton won shootout 2-1 First period—1, Edmonton, Comrie 11 (Gilbert, Whitney), 14:37. Second period—2, Edmonton, Comrie 12 (Whitney, Gilbert), 3:13 (pp). Third period—3, Edmonton, Gilbert 5 (Pisani, Potulny), 5:24 (sh). 4, Los Angeles, Brown 23 (Smyth, Kopitar), 6:39 (pp). 5, Los Angeles, Stoll 15 (Brown, J.Johnson), 12:03. 6, Los Angeles, Handzus 20 (Scuderi), 17:26. w Shootout—Edmonton 2 (Potulny G, Horcoff G), Los Angeles 1 (Handzus G, J.Johnson NG, Smyth NG). w Shots on goal—Edmonton 6-7-2-1—16. Los Angeles 14-25-15-1—55. w Goalies—Edmonton, Dubnyk 4-10-2 (55 shots-52 saves). Los Angeles, Quick 39-24-7 (16-13).

Sabres 5, Senators 2 Buffalo 2 2 1—5 Ottawa 0 1 1—2 First period—1, Buffalo, Vanek 24 (Mair, Ellis), 9:14. 2, Buffalo, Vanek 25 (Roy, Sekera), 12:38. Second period—3, Ottawa, Neil 10 (Regin, Phillips), 7:43. 4, Buffalo, Vanek 26 ( Third period—6, Buffalo, Roy 26 (Gerbe, Myers), 10:16. 7, Ottawa, Donovan 2 (Z.Smith, Phillips), 13:20. Shots on goal—Buffalo 13-8-7—28. Ottawa 9-12-9—30. Goalies—Buffalo, Miller 41-18-8 (30 shots-28 saves). Ottawa, Leclaire 12-14-2 (28-23).

Bruins 4, Hurricanes 2 Carolina 0 2 0—2 Boston 0 3 1—4 Second period—1, Boston, Paille 10 (Chara, J.Boychuk), :32 (sh). 2, Boston, Wheeler 18 (Krejci), 1:21 (sh). 3, Boston, Begin 5 (Wideman, Paille), 1:36 (sh). 4, Carolina, Cole 11 (Dwyer, LaRose), 14:30. 5, Carolina, Dwyer 7 (Samson, Rodney), 17:06. Third period—6, Boston, Lucic 9, 19:00 (en). Shots on goal—Carolina 14-13-8—35. Boston 18-18-6—42. Goalies—Carolina, Ward 18-23-5 (41 shots-38 saves). Boston, Rask 22-12-5 (35-33).

Friday: Blackhawks 5, Avalanche 2 Chicago 2 1 2—5 Colorado 0 1 1—2 First period—1, Chicago, Fraser 5 (Kopecky, Seabrook), 6:20. 2, Chicago, Toews 25 (Kane, Byfuglien), 10:55 (pp). Second period—3, Chicago, Sharp 25 (Toews, Sopel), 7:21. 4, Colorado, Stoa 1 (Stastny, Salei), 17:36. Third period—5, Colorado, Tucker 10 (Yip, Wilson), 12:49. 6, Chicago, Fraser 6 (Kopecky, Eager), 13:27. 7, Chicago, Versteeg 20 (Ladd), 18:39 (en). Shots on goal—Chicago 17-9-11—37. Colorado 7-11-14—32. Goalies—Chicago, Niemi 26-7-3 (32 shots-30 saves). Colorado, Budaj 5-5-2 (36-32).

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strong group of seniors who have never lost a dual meet will try to lead Williamston to a fourth straight regional crown and CAAC White division title. The Hornets, who have finished first or second in either Division 2 or 3 the past four years under longtime coach Paul Nilsson, will try to move up from second in 2009 and grab a second Division 2 title in three years under new coach Kevin Rathbun. Rathbun has served as an assistant under Nilsson, whose boys teams earned Division 3 state titles in 2001, 2003 and 2006 besides the Division 2 title in 2008. Photos by KEVIN W. FOWLER/For the Lansing State Journal Another veteran coach who retired after last season Raising the bar: Fowlerville senior Max Babits won the pole vault at the CAAC Gold, regional and Honor Roll meets last year. is Grand Ledge’s Kim SpalDan Jimenez (sr.-MD), Brad Hull (sr.-dist.), sbury. The Comets will try ner-up in the 1600 as well as league Umakanthan Kavin (sr.-dist.), Ian Horne ATHLETES TO WATCH to continue a streak of four runner-up in the 3200 run and a competi(so.-throws, hurdles), Max Wilson (sr.tor in the honor roll meet in the 800 run. w Max Babits, Fowlerville sr.: CAAC Gold, straight undefeated league dist.), Devin Rucker (jr.-hurdles), Adam w Owen Hughes, Okemos jr.: won CAAC regional and honor roll meet champion Glaub (jr.-MD), Billyle Alman (jr.-sprints), dual meet seasons and Blue high jump, took third in the honor in the pole vault. Tyler Belyea (sr.-dist.) CAAC Blue titles under new w Other contributors: Mario Mills (sr.-hurroll meet and came in fourth in Division w Ryan Brooks, Williamston sr.: CAAC 1 to earn all-state. White and Division 2 state champion dles), Martis Woods (jr.-throws), Sam coach Brett McCartney. w Cory Noeker, Pewamo-Westphalia sr.: in the 200 as well as regional, league Larsen (jr.-MD), Andrew Dike (sr.-dist.), Potterville topped PewaWon regional, CMAC, honor roll meet and honor roll meet champion and state Clayton Barnes (sr.-sprints), Nic Reed (sr.and Division 4 state titles in both the meet competitor in the 100 dash. sprints), Pat Cruitt (sr.-dist.), Seph Dabmo-Westphalia for the 110 and 300 hurdles. w Tavarrio Davis, Eastern sr.: CAAC Blue rowski (so.-dist.) Division 4 state title a year w Ross Parsons, DeWitt sr.: Won CAAC champion in the 800 run, third in the w Inside track: Besides Hughes (see athletes ago, but heavy graduation league in the long jump, and second in Gold, took second in the honor roll meet to watch), the Chieftains will look for help the honor roll meet and sixth in Division and fourth in Division 2 state meet in from cross country runners Kavin, Wilson, losses by the Vikings may 1 to earn all-state in the 400. Dabrowski, Belyea, Cruitt and Douches. the 100, and also won the league and make the Pirates the favorThat group helped end a string of Grand w Leroy Green, Eastern sr.: First in the honor roll meets and placed fifth in the Ledge league cross country titles last fall, Division 2 state meet in the 200. CAAC Blue, third in the honor roll meet ite in the CMAC, regionals and Okemos hopes they do likewise in and 11th in the Division 1 state finals w Sean Wren, Mason jr.: Won the CAAC and state meets. track this spring. in the 400. Red and took fourth at the honor roll Alma will also be trying w Ian Hancke, Haslett sr.: Division 2 meet in the 110 hurdles, took third in and CAAC Gold runner-up in the 1600, the league and competed in Division 2 CAAC RED for its third straight Divileague champion and 14th at the state state meet in the pole vault (as well Coaches’ predictions: 1. Sexton; 2. Mason; sion 2 regional title, and meet in the 3200. as the 110 hurdles), and finished run3. Waverly; 4. St. Johns; 5. Lumen Christi; w Matt Hoshal, East Lansing sr.: CAAC ner-up in the league and sixth in honor Laingsburg for its second in 6. Owosso; 7. Jackson Northwest Blue champion and honor roll meet runroll meet in the 300 hurdles. League’s best: Jourdyn Thompson, Sexton; Top sprinters: Ryan Brooks a row in Division 3.

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Coaches’ predictions: 1. Eastern; 2. Grand Ledge; 3. Okemos; 4. East Lansing; 5. Jackson; 6. Holt; 7. Everett League’s best: Tavarrio Davis and Leroy Green, Eastern; Matt Hoshal, East Lansing Outlook: New Grand Ledge coach Brett McCartney thinks key graduation losses will make it tough for Grand Ledge to continue its dual meet win streak and string of league titles. Its main competition will come from Eastern and East Lansing teams with strong individuals but less depth and an Okemos team with a lot of depth but not too many frontrunners. The competition will conclude at the league meet on Wednesday, May 26, at Holt. EASTERN w Last season: second w Coach: Mike McDonald, sixth year w Top returnees: Leroy Green (sr.-sprints, LJ), Tyler Allen (jr.-sprints), Tavarrio Davis (sr.-MD, LJ), Ricardo Dabney (sr.-MD), William Green (jr.-sprints), Ryan Gilbert (sr.-dist.), Tim Wells (sr.-throws), Mike Balassone (sr.-PV), Montrell Grimes (sr.sprints, hurdles) w Other contributors: Tyiwan Jones (jr.sprints), Cameron Sanchez (sr.-sprints), Jordan Johnson (jr.-dist.), Garrett Fuhrman (so.-sprints) w Inside track: Besides Davis and Green (see athletes to watch), the Quakers’ Allen was league champion in the 100 dash and third in the 200 in the CAAC Blue, Dabney was league runner-up in the 800 run, and Grimes took third in the league in the 300 hurdles. EAST LANSING w Last season: second w Coach: Pat Murray, seventh year w Top returnees: Matt Hoshal (sr.-dist.), Dan Tyler (jr.-sprints), Henry Pettway (jr.sprints), Chris Fischre (sr.-jumps), Kondwani Phiri (sr.-PV), Jamele Allen (jr.-LJ, HJ, hurdles), Andre Archer (jr.-hurdles, sprints), Robbie Glew (jr.-dist.), Shane Glynn-Habron (jr.-sprints), Tim Kulang (jr.-LJ, sprints), Ted McGinn (jr.-dist.), Gavin Midlam (jr.hurdles), Daniel Richardson (jr.-MD), Elijah Hamilton-Wray (so.-sprints), Alex Townsend (so.-dist.) w Other contributor: Nick Pridnia (fr.-MD) w Inside track: Besides Hoshal (see athletes to watch), the Trojans’ Tyler was CAAC Blue runner-up in the 400 dash, and Pettway took third in the league and competed in the honor roll meet in the 100. EVERETT w Last season: seventh w Coach: Marcelle Carruthers, fifth year w Top returnees: Corey Bilodeau (sr.-dist.), Oscar Cruzata (jr.-sprints), Michael Skinner (jr.-sprints), Robert Tarpley (sr.-sprints, LJ), Deshawn Thompson (sr.-sprints), Jordan Walker (jr.-MD) w Other contributors: Jaleel Canty (fr.sprints), Anthony White (fr.-sprints), Trent Bragg (jr.-sprints) w Inside track: Carruthers says the Vikings are young, but will improve and be competitive in the relays. GRAND LEDGE w Last season: first w Coach: Brett McCartney, first year w Top returnees: Chad Beatty (sr.-hurdles), Jake Bennett (jr.-throws), Ryan Konen (sr.-MD), Brian Lucas (sr.-dist.), Kory Schrauben (sr.-throws), Chase Skinner (jr.dist.), Blake Simon (sr.-sprints), Anthony Mauro (sr.-PV), Chase Wight (sr.-sprints) w Other contributors: Warren DeLong (jr.-MD), Lawrence Collins (jr.-sprints), Dylan Wedley (jr.-sprints, hurdles), Taylor Strouse (sr.throws) w Inside track: The Comets’ Beatty won the league and finished sixth in the honor roll meet in the 110 hurdles, Bennett took third in the league and sixth in the honor roll meet in the shot put, Konen was third in the league in the 1600 and competed at the honor roll meet in the 800, and Lucas came in third in the league and competed at the honor roll meet in the 3200 run. HOLT w Last season: sixth w Coach: Jack Rarick, 20th year w Top returnees: Chris Scott (sr.-hurdles), Cameron Gibson (sr.-HJ, sprints), Dominic Todd (sr.-sprints), Jordan Beachnau (sr.sprints), Phil Batterson (sr.-dist.), Arthur Williams (jr.-hurdles), Kyle Bort (jr.-PV), Nick Thomas (jr.-sprints), Everett Rawlings (so.-dist.), Kenny Rogers (jr.-throws), Tyler Reah (sr.-throws), Grant Taylor (jr.-LJ), Nick Worden (so.-MD), Daniel Middleton (jr.sprints, HJ) w Inside track: The Rams’ Bort was league pole vault champion; Scott took second in the league, third in honor roll meet and 17th in the Division 1 state meet in the 300 hurdles; and Todd came in fourth in the league and seventh in the honor roll meet in the 100 dash. OKEMOS w Last season: fifth w Coach: Brian Harrod, eighth year w Top returnees: Owen Hughes (jr.-HJ), Dan Douches (sr.-dist.), Tyler Fisk (jr.-dist.),

Morsi Rayyan, St. Johns; Onaje Miller, Sexton Outlook: Tuesday’s league-opening dual meets between Sexton, Mason and Waverly at Mason will go a long way toward determining the CAAC Red championship. The other key date is the league meet on Wednesday, May 26, at Jackson Northwest. Last year, Sexton broke a three-way tie after the dual meets with its league meet victory. MASON w Last season: third w Coach: Eric Haynie, ninth year w Top returnees: Michael Stewart (sr.-dist.), Sean Wren (jr.-PV, hurdles), Ben Hinamanu (jr.-sprints), Josh Clark (sr.-throws), Beau Hayhoe (sr.-hurdles), Chris Spyke (sr.-MD), John Geer (jr.-MD), Austin Barr (jr.-MD), Trey Hornberger (jr.-PV) w Other contributors: Ian Way (jr.-HJ, LJ) w Inside track: Besides Wren (see athletes to watch), the Bulldogs’ Stewart took second in the league and 13th at the Division 2 state meet in the 3200 as well as third in the league and fifth in the honor roll meet in the 1600. Clark also came in third in the league and fifth in the honor roll meet in the discus. OWOSSO w Last season: sixth w Coach: Tom Harkema, 12th year w Top returnees: Evan Mueller (sr.-MD), Kieran McClintock (jr.-dist.), Jim Maloney (sr.-hurdles), Will Algozin (jr.-MD), Devin Michalec (jr.-LJ, sprints) w Other contributors: Derrick Brooks (so.-PV), Harrison Marnon (so.-sprints), Frankie Samson (so.-sprints) w Inside track: The Trojans’ Mueller was league runner-up in the 800, and Maloney took third in the league in the 300 hurdles. SEXTON w Last season: first w Coach: Dan Boggan, 13th year w Top returnees: Onaje Miller (jr.-sprints), Anthony Goodman (so.-sprints), Demarco Bisbee (so.-throws), Kendall Jackson (so.-MD), Jourdyn Thompson (sr.-hurdles, sprints), Kelvin Williams (sr.-hurdles, sprints), Lee Henderson (sr.-MD), Kofi Hobson (so.-MD), Greg Scott (jr.-PV, LJ) w Other contributors: Justin Fuqua (so.sprints), James Duncan (jr.-LJ, HJ, sprints), Talhah Haynie (sr.-MD), Bradford Mandiville (sr.-LJ, HJ) w Inside track: The Big Reds’ Miller was league runner-up in the 200 dash and took third in the league and in the honor roll meet in the 100 dash. ST. JOHNS w Last season: third w Coach: Dave Mohre, third year w Top returnees: Alex Salemi (sr.-MD), Morsi Rayyan (sr.-dist.), Scott Ketchum (jr.-discus) w Other contributors: Trevor Kramer (jr.throws), Gunnar Swanchara (jr.-hurdles), Tyler Miske (sr.-sprints), Sawyer Coleman (jr.-sprints, LJ) w Inside track: The Redwings’ Salemi was league champion and came in fifth in Division 2 (and all-state) in the 1600, and third in the league in the 800. Rayyan was league and honor roll meet champion in the 3200 and eighth in the Division 2 state finals in the 3200 as well as league runner-up in the 1600. Ketchum was league runner-up in the discus. WAVERLY w Last season: second w Coach: David Pike, 21st year w Top returnees: Alex Flanagan (sr.-sprints), Austin McKay (sr.-sprints, LJ), Nate Holmes (sr.-sprints), Sean Smith (jr.-sprints), Andy Phillips (sr.-throws), Aaron Mays (so.sprints), Montel Smith (jr.-LJ, HJ), Ramadan Ahmeti (jr.-throws), Alex Marlin (jr.-dist.), Nick Harrell (sr.-dist.) w Inside track: The Warriors’ Phillips was league champion in the shot put, and McKay placed third in the league and 13th in Division 2 in the long jump.

CAAC GOLD

Coaches’ predictions: 1. Haslett; 2. DeWitt; 3. Ionia; 4. Charlotte; 5. Eaton Rapids; 6. Fowlerville League’s best: Ian Hancke, Haslett; Ross Parsons, DeWitt Outlook: Defending champion Haslett will be challenged in its attempt to repeat by DeWitt’s largest squad under 35th-year coach Tom Zielaskowski when it hosts the league meet on Wednesday, May 26. CHARLOTTE w Last season: third w Coach: Tom Sneckenberg, ninth year w Top returnees: Grant Sommers (sr.-sprints), Zach Ruswick (sr.-hurdles), Jeremy Hicks (sr.-dist.), Josh Miller (jr.-throws), Logan Lindsey (jr.-dist.), James Brinker (so.-dist.), Matt Garn (so.-distance), Chase Deback (so.-throws), Mike Swanson (sr.-MD) w Other contributors: Nate Louaas (sr.-MD), Michael May (jr.-throws), Jared Stapor (jr.-PV), Ryan Bartolocci (fr.-sprints) w Inside track: The Orioles’ Ruswick won the league and competed in both the honor roll meet and Division 2 state ﬁnals in the 110 hurdles, and Sommer took sixth in the 100 and ﬁfth in the 200 at the honor roll meet. DEWITT w Last season: second w Coach: Tom Zielaskowski, 35th year

(left) of Williamston leads Ross Parsons of DeWitt to the ﬁnish in the 100-meter dash ﬁnal at last year’s Honor Roll Track Meet at Sexton High. w Top returnees: Ross Parsons (sr.-sprints),

Tyler Sherman (jr.-sprints), Dan McCauley (sr.-dist.), Eric Rogozewski (sr.-dist.), Chris Theis (jr.-HJ), Jake Baldino (sr.-throws), Zach Ruch (sr.-PV), Luke Pabst (jr.-hurdles), Zach Acre (jr.-sprints) w Other contributors: Ian Fitzner (jr.-throws), Nathaniel Deak (jr.-throws), Nick Cummins (sr.-dist.), Ricky Esquival (sr.-dist.) w Inside track: Besides Parsons (see athletes to watch), the Panthers’ Theis took third in the league and sixth in the honor roll meet in the high jump, and McCauley was second in the 3200 and third in the 1600 in the league as well as sixth in the honor roll meet in the 3200. EATON RAPIDS w Last season: third w Coach: Troy Pence, first year w Top returnees: Chris Hamoud (sr.-sprints), Adam Hofman (sr.-dist.), Justin Brininstool (sr.-sprints, throws), Jerrad Heinz (sr.-HJ), Chase Richey (jr.-HJ), Adam Roberts (sr.throws) w Other contributor: Kraig Whitmyer (fr.-dist.) w Inside track: Heavy graduation losses will make challenging for the league title much tougher for the Greyhounds. FOWLERVILLE w Last season: fifth w Coach: Dan Coon, eighth year w Top returnees: Max Babits (sr.-PV), Johnny Duran (jr.-MD), Scott Parker (sr.-dist.), Brian Glover (sr.-hurdles), Keith Flemini (jr.hurdles), Kenny Menter (sr.-sprints), Jordan Prather (jr.-MD), Kevin Campbell (so.dist.), T.J. Fields (so.-sprints), Jake Wietecha (so.-hurdles) w Other contributors: Caz Wanczyk (jr.-dist.), Jake Larioza (sr.-throws), Tim Nakapaahu (sr.-throws) w Inside track: Besides Babits (see athletes to watch), the Gladiators’ Duran won the league and finished 12th at the Division 2 state meet in the 400. HASLETT w Last season: first w Coach: Charlie Otlewski, sixth year w Top returnees: Ian Hancke (sr.-dist.), Josh Delaney (jr.-sprints), Jake Lampman (jr.-sprints), Jake Schaibly (jr.-sprints), Pete Sherman (jr.-PV), Kolby Casaday (so.-sprints), Billy Hastings (so.-throws), Marcus Jenks (so.-sprints), Ryan Laczynski (so-sprints, LJ), Alex VanCamp (so.-dist.) w Other contributors: Kevin Jayne (sr.-HJ), Ryan Beyea (so.-dist.), Griffin Marinez (so.-MD) w Inside track: Besides Hancke (see athletes to watch), the Vikings’ Van Camp was the 1600 champion and Lampman took third in the 400 in the league. IONIA w Last season: fifth w Coach: Chris Young, 34th year w Top returnees: Austin Alcala (sr.-dist.), Don Blight (jr.-dist.), Nick Wharry (so.-MD), Connor Montgomery (so.-dist.), Josh Burns (sr.-hurdles), Tommy White (so.-hurdles), Garrett Youngstrom (sr.-throws), Tyler Walch (jr.-sprints) w Other contributors: Tyler Ellis (jr.-dist.), Brad Hyland (sr.-throws) w Inside track: Members of the Bulldogs’ Division 2 state champion cross country team such as Alcala, Blight, Wharry, Montgomery and Ellis should help Ionia move up in the league standings.

CAAC WHITE

Coaches’ predictions: 1. Williamston; 2. Perry; 3. Lansing Catholic; 4. Corunna; 5. Portland; 6. Lakewood League’s best: Ryan Brooks, Williamston; Justin Krauss, Perry Outlook: Williamston returns many of the competitors who won 11 of 17 events at last year’s league meet. Perry features some talented individuals, but may not have the depth to truly challenge the Hornets. This year’s meet is May 26 at Lakewood. CORUNNA w Last season: third w Coach: Jason Beldyga, second year w Top returnees: Tyler Andrews (jr.-sprints), Jalen Schlacter (jr.-throws), Kory Costello (sr.-sprints) w Other contributors: Dominic Persichini (sr.hurdles), Matt McNeill (jr.-dist.), Phil Gibson (so.-sprints, LJ) w Inside track: The Cavaliers’ Schlacter was league champion in the shot put. LAKEWOOD w Last season: ﬁfth w Coach: Jim Hassett, 11th year w Top returnees: Wes Cramer (jr.-throws, sprints), Sam Desgranges (sr.-MD), Bill Erhart (jr.-sprints), Jason Foltz (sr.-MD), William Gross (jr.-HJ, LJ), Tucker Seese (jr.-dist.), Adam Senters (jr.-MD), Travis Ackerson (sr.-MD), Kyle Shanks (sr.-sprints, HJ, LJ) w Other contributors: Nathan Byans (jr.-HJ, LJ, throws), Cody Lindemulder (jr.-throws, hurdles), Cannon Ostrander (jr.-dist.), Brandon Phillips (so.-hurdles), Ryan Steverson

(sr.-throws), Michael Carr (fr.-jumps)

w Inside track: Hassett thinks some newcom-

ers may help the Vikings move up to as high as third place in the league. LANSING CATHOLIC w Last season: sixth w Coach: Tim Simpson, seventh year w Top returnees: John Lopez (sr.-sprints), Matt Macksood (so.-sprints), Louis Savona (jr.-MD), Austin Winter (so.-dist.), Zach Zingsheim (so.-dist.), Jimmy Hicks (so.dist.), Patrick Gauthier (sr.-PV), Cedric Lee (so.-sprints), Luis Ramirez (sr.-throws) w Other contributors: Jack Swain (fr.-HJ, hurdles, sprints), Alex Thompson (sr.-dist.), Mitchel Lebel (jr.-dist.), Andy Gross (so.throws) w Inside track: Simpson believes his young but talented Cougars will do well this year and even better in future years. PERRY w Last season: second w Coach: Dave Myron, 10th year w Top returnees: Conor Murphy (sr.-sprints, LJ, HJ), Justin Krauss (jr.-dist.), Jake Fortman (sr.-dist.), John Bell (so.-dist.), Scott Ruzinsky (jr.-sprints), Brandon Chrzan (jr.sprints), Drew Fanko (sr.-sprints) w Other contributors: Wyatt Ross (so.-HJ, LJ, hurdles), Zach Gomez (jr.-LJ, sprints), Jesse Metzmaker (jr.-dist.), Logan MacLaren (so.-PV) w Inside track: The Ramblers’ Krauss was league champion in both the 800 and 1600 as well as honor roll meet champion and Division 3 state finals qualifier in the 800, Murphy was league runner-up in the 400, and Fortman took second in the 3200 and third in the 1600. PORTLAND w Last season: fourth w Coach: Dan Sandborn, third year w Top returnees: Jake Silas (sr.-throws), Zack Cooper (sr.-hurdles), Lucas Holcomb (sr.-throws), Andrew Barr (so.-LJ), Hunter VanRiper (jr.-HJ), Brian Brown (jr.-dist.), Branden Vanderbroek (jr.-dist.), Tyler Tichvon (sr.-hurdles), Alex Newman (jr.-sprints), Chris Feldpausch (jr.-sprints), Ralph Warfield (jr.-dist.), Justin Pung (sr.-throws), Logan Morse (jr.-dist.) w Inside track: The Red Raiders’ Cooper was league runner-up in both the 110 and 300 hurdles and competed in both the honor roll and Division 3 state meet in the 110 hurdles. WILLIAMSTON w Last season: first w Coach: Kevin Rathbun, first year w Top returnees: Ryan Brooks (sr.-sprints), Chad Rhiness (sr.-hurdles), Brandon Heins (sr.-MD), Nate Hicks (sr.-sprints), Brian Pugh (sr.-throws), Spencer Pioszak (sr.dist.), Ethan Wirth (jr.-throws), Coleman Bradley (sr.-PV), Josh Bucklin (sr.-HJ, LJ) w Other contributors: Kody Ware (so.-sprints), Troy Lyons (jr.-hurdles), Alex Brouwer (jr.throws), Mike Bailey (sr.-throws) w Inside track: Besides Brooks (see athletes to watch), the Hornets’ Pioszak was league runner-up in the 800 and Rhiness won the league in both the 110 and 300 hurdles and competed in the Division 2 state meet in the 110 hurdles.

CENTRAL MICHIGAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE

Coaches’ predictions: 1. Pewamo-Westphalia; 2. Potterville; 3. Laingsburg; 4. Bath; 5. Saranac; 6. Fowler; 7. Dansville; 8. Fulton; 9. Carson City-Crystal; 10. Portland St. Patrick League’s best: Cory Noeker, Pewamo-Westphalia; Warren Witchell, Dansville; Mark List, Laingsburg; Nick Flietstra, Potterville Outlook: Graduation losses by Potterville, Laingsburg and Fowler especially open up the race in this league that includes some of the top teams in Division 4. The league title will be decided on May 26 at Pewamo-Westphalia. BATH w Last season: fifth w Coach: Mel Comeau, 46th year w Top returnees: Nick Seddon (jr.-MD), Justin Gurk (jr.-throws), Cameron Everett (jr.sprints, HJ, LJ), Drew Brown (jr.-dist.), Dustin Sulcer (jr.-dist.), Alex Sexton (sr.hurdles), Ransom Scott (sr.-PV), Jon Spagnuolo (sr.-sprints) w Other contributors: Matej Dobrovolny (sr.sprints), Andy Kussch (sr.-sprints), Nick Thomas (fr.-dist.), Zach Seddon (fr.sprints) w Inside track: Comeau thinks new athletes and depth will enable the Bees to contend in the CMAC. CARSON CITY-CRYSTAL w Last season: 10th w Coach: Tim Hullinger, first year w Top returnees: Raymond Enbody (sr.-dist.), Will Lacy (sr.-dist.), Will McCrackin (jr.sprints), Seth Heckmen (jr.-sprints) w Other contributors: Mike Richardson (sr.sprints) w Inside track: Enbody competed in the Division 3 state finals in the 800 run for the Eagles, who have a newly resurfaced track. DANSVILLE w Last season: seventh w Coach: Jason Gubeno, fifth year w Top returnees: Warren Witchell (sr.-dist.),

Nick Moon (jr.-MD), Jay Witchell (jr.-MD), Ethan Gurecki (jr.-MD), Karl Scripter (sr.hurdles), Seth Rentfrow (sr.-sprints, jumps) w Other contributors: Aaron Henfling (jr.sprints), Jacob Hause (so.-vault) w Inside track: The Aggies’ Witchell, honor roll meet champion in the 1600, earned allstate twice by taking fourth in the 1600 and fifth in the 3200 at the Division 4 state finals. Scripter also competed in the state meet in the 300 hurdles. FOWLER w Last season: sixth w Coach: Keith Kleimola, 15th year w Top returnees: Ben Halfman (jr.-sprints), Mitch Thelen (so.-sprints), Bob Bodarko (sr.-MD), John Schrauben (jr.-throws), Lane Thelen (jr.-PV), Josh Klein (jr.-MD), Jacob Dell (jr.-sprints, LJ), Jeff Martin (jr.-hurdles) w Other contributors: Garret Pike (jr.-throws), Garrett Mueller (so.-sprints) w Inside track: Despite losing key seniors, Kleimola says the Eagles “have the ability to be a solid team.” FULTON w Last season: eighth w Coach: Ron Merritt, sixth year w Top returnees: Jared Barton (jr.-sprints), Devon Rossman (sr.-HJ, LJ, throws), Dakota Price (jr.-throws) w Other contributors: Geoff Farrier (jr.-sprints) w Inside track: Merritt says the Pirates have some outstanding individuals, but that small numbers will make it a challenge to score well. LAINGSBURG w Last season: second w Coach: Brian Borgman, sixth year w Top returnees: Mark List (sr.-dist.), Chris Koerner (sr.-sprints), Scott Wickham (sr.sprints), Michal Marshall (sr.-sprints, hurdles), Stephen Gerger (jr.-throws) w Other contributors: Taylor Smith (so.throws), Adam Stewart (jr.-dist.), Joe Arthur (jr.-PV), Dakota Ridsdale (sr.-throws) w Inside track: List finished first in the league, third in the honor roll meet and seventh in the Division 3 state finals in the 3200 and also competed at the honor roll meet in the 1600 for the Wolfpack. PEWAMO-WESTPHALIA w Last season: third w Coach: Scott Werner, 10th year w Top returnees: Cory Noeker (sr.-sprints, hurdles), Alex Thelen (so.-sprints), Austin Fedewa (jr.-sprints, hurdles), Elliot Platte (so.-MD, LJ), Gavin Smith (so.-throws), Matthew Klein (sr.-sprints) w Other contributors: Jordan Spitzley (jr.throws, sprints), Greg Trierweiler (fr.-dist.), Zach Smith (jr.-dist.) w Inside track: Besides multiple state champion Noeker (see athletes to watch), the Pirates return Austin Fedewa and Alex Thelen from the 400 relay that also captured a Division 4 state title. PORTLAND ST. PATRICK w Last season: ninth w Coach: Erin Martin, third year w Top returnee: Ben Lawless (so.-dist.) w Other contributors: Casey Wilcox (fr.sprints), Josh Schneider (so.-sprints), Jesse Smith (fr.-MD) w Inside track: A small squad will keep the Shamrocks from moving up a lot in the CMAC. POTTERVILLE w Last season: first w Coach: Dan Brunk, 13th year w Top returnees: Nick Flietstra (sr.-dist.), Tyler Carter (sr.-MD), Kyle Lamb (jr.-MD), Andrew Dilernia (jr.-dist.), Kyle Hardy (so.-MD) w Other contributors: Michael Mehney (jr.sprints), Tyler Larson (so.-MD), Kodi Carter (so.-sprints) w Inside track: The Vikings’ Flietstra finished fourth in the honor roll meet and in the Division 4 state finals (and made all-state) in the 3200. SARANAC w Last season: fourth w Coach: Diana and Erric Smith, 10th year w Top returnees: Danny Antcliff (sr.-sprints), James Vance (sr.-dist.), Coy Mattix (jr.-PV, hurdles), Dylan Lake (sr.-MD), Alex Talcott (sr.-sprints) w Other contributors: Jacob Conley (jr.sprints), Jimmy Leyland (so.-sprints), Bryan Roth (jr.-sprints), Tony Knop (jr.-dist.), Tim Young (fr.-dist.), Aaron Vance (sr.-dist.), Paul Simpson (jr.-MD) w Inside track: Mattix qualified for the Division 4 state meet in the pole vault as did James Vance in the 3200.

SOUTHERN MICHIGAN ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

Coaches’ predictions: 1. Albion; 2. Parma Western; 3. Hillsdale; 4. Stockbridge; 5. Leslie; 6. Brooklyn Columbia Central; 7. Morrice; 8. Lansing Christian League’s best: Darius Crum and Paul Lewis, Albion; J.D. Summers, Stockbridge Outlook: Mid-Michigan teams are not likely to be ﬁghting for the league title on May 26 at Hillsdale College. LANSING CHRISTIAN w Last season: ninth w Coach: Coye Bouyer, third year w Other contributors: Sean Cook (sr.-sprints), Calvin Kuyers (sr.-hurdles, sprints), Max

Hulliberger (so.-MD), Luke Block (fr.-dist.), Dan Prieskhorn (fr.-throws), Daniel Breautigan (fr.-shot put) w Inside track: The Pilgrims look to move up in the league standings. LESLIE w Last season: fourth w Coach: Lisa Lutchka and James Harrison, 10th and 15th year w Top returnees: Tyler Harrison (so.-dist.), Nicholas Jansen (so.-MD), Chase Tropf (jr.-MD), Ryan Kemplin (sr.-throws), Ryan Armstrong (jr.-throws), Manny Pennell (so.throws, LJ, sprints) w Other contributors: Chanler Carmer (fr.-LJ, HJ, sprints), Cody Davis (fr.-sprints), Chris Kunkel (jr.-sprints, throws), Joshua Steckelberg (so.-MD), Trevor Alleman (fr.-LJ, HJ, sprints) w Inside track: With lots of graduation losses, 75 percent of the Blackhawks’ roster is made up of freshmen and sophomores. MORRICE w Last season: eighth w Coach: Brad Long, eighth year w Top returnees: Andrew Hiveley (sr.-throws), Darrel Stambaugh (sr.-throws), Dillon Morrice (so.-MD), Neal Scheffer (so.-MD), Andy Munro (so.-MD), Ryan Thorne (so.-MD), Dylan Lorenz (so.-MD) w Other contributors: Ryan Watz (jr.-LJ), Vince Zickefoose (sr.-hurdles), Casey Wood (sr.sprints) w Inside track: Long believes increased numbers should help the Orioles to be competitive in every event. STOCKBRIDGE w Last season: ﬁfth w Coach: Chuck Bumpus, second year w Top returnees: J.D. Summers (sr.-sprints), Scott Watson (so.-PV), Ian Bumpus (sr.-HJ), Tyler Graustein (sr.-dist.) w Other contributors: Kyle Losey (so.-dist.), Zach Platte (sr.-MD), Jake Powers (sr.dist.), Joe Martinez (so.-sprints) w Inside track: Strong performances in the recent indoor meet at Michigan State give Bumpus reason to be optimistic about the Panthers’ chances in the SMAA.

KALAMAZOO VALLEY

Coaches’ predictions: 1. Olivet; 2. Maple Valley; 3. Delton Kellogg; 4. Schoolcraft; 5. Constantine; 6. Hackett Catholic; 7. Pennfield; 8. Parchment; 9. GalesburgAugusta; 10. Kalamazoo Christian League’s best: Matt Ingle, Delton Kellogg Outlook: Maple Valley coach Brian Lincoln says his team is in a “rebuilding mode” after losing 12 athletes to graduation. But they may be strong enough in the sprints, jumps and middle distance events to contend with Delton, Schoolcraft and an Olivet squad that includes a strong senior class. The league meet is May 26 at Constantine. MAPLE VALLEY w Last season: first w Coach: Brian Lincoln, 11th year w Top returnees: Jimmy Brown (sr.-sprints), Garrett Reid (so.-sprints), Cody Leinhart (jr.-MD), Trent Courtney (jr.-MD, throws), Joe Benedict (jr.-dist.), Josh Hall (sr.sprints, relays), Zac Eddy (sr.-LJ, MD), Josh Burd (jr.-HJ, hurdles), Adam Zank (sr.-HJ, LJ, PV) w Other contributors: Dylan Hall (jr.-hurdles), Brady Halliwill (so.-dist.), Austin Tobias (so.-MD), Austin Pool (jr.-PV, hurdles) w Inside track: The Lions’ Eddy came in third in the league in the long jump. OLIVET w Last season: second w Coach: Dean Peters, 22nd year w Top returnees: Aaron Kelley (sr.-sprints), Cam Colson (sr.-LJ, hurdles), David Stone (sr.-MD), Jordan Jones (jr.-sprints, LJ), Tyler Stutzman (sr.-HJ, hurdles), Dean Kronner (jr.-PV), Devon Weeks (sr.-LJ, MD), Tyler Sobleskey (so.-dist.), Connor Dodenhoff (sr.-dist.), Ryan Winchell (sr.-sprints), Seth Campbell (sr.-sprints), Zach Place (jr.sprints, throws), Matt Corliss (so.-dist.) w Other contributors: Cody Cowell (jr.throws), Quinton Harris (fr.-throws), Donnie Kyre (fr.-throws), Jeramiah Woodworth (so.-HJ), Zac Page (so.-sprints) w Inside track: The Eagles’ Kelley finished third in the league in the 100 dash.

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Coaches’ predictions: 1. Freeland; 2. Shepherd; 3. Alma; 4. Ovid-Elsie; 5. Swan Valley; 6. Bullock Creek; 7. Chesaning; 8. Hemlock League’s best: Mario Baluha (Freeland), Derek Devine (Alma) Outlook: Freeland snapped Alma’s dual meet win streak at 29 at the end of last season and is favored again. The Panthers will go for a third league title in four years on May 25 at Ovid-Elsie. ALMA w Last season: second w Coach: Chris Brown, sixth year w Top returnees: Brock Buschle (sr.-sprints), Chaz Bradshaw (so.-hurdles), Dillon Carr (jr.-sprints, HJ LJ), Ryan DeLorenzo (srhurdles), Derek Devine (sr.-dist.), Kegan Gibson (sr.-PV, MD), Nathaniel Holmes (sr.dist.), Nick Lewis (jr.-sprints), Roger Uplegger (sr.-MD), Cole Woods (so.-throws) w Other contributors: Tyler Bradshaw (jr.sprints, HJ, LJ), Broderic Bender (fr.-dist.), Ron Campbell (sr.-dist.), Vinny Costanzo (fr.-MD), Tim DeJong (fr.-MD) w Inside track: The Panthers’ Devine competed in the Division 2 state finals in the 1600, Buschle was league runner-up in the 200 dash, Uplegger was league runner-up in the 800, and DeLorenzo came in third in the league in both the 100 and 300 hurdles, took sixth in the honor roll meet and competed in the Division 2 state meet in the 300 hurdles. OVID-ELSIE w Last season: fourth w Coach: Doug Long, 26th year w Top returnees: Brian Grecu (sr.-MD), Seth Holder (sr.-throws), Kody Coleman (jr.hurdles), Trenton Garlock (jr.-dist.), Brendon Hagerman (jr.-sprints), Marques Horak (jr.-dist.), Rob Klco (jr.-PV), A.J. Sjoberg (jr.-PV), Garrett Strachato (jr.-MD), Logan Winans (jr.-sprints), Dustin Karlik (so.sprints), Hunter Winans (so.-MD) w Other contributors: Keifer Hall (jr.-sprints), Dylan Harrod (so.-sprints), Jacob Micka (fr.-sprints) w Inside track: The Marauders’ Grecu qualified for the Division 3 state finals in the 1600.

OTHERS ITHACA w Last season: first in TVC West w Coach: Jason Marcy, 11th year w Top returnees: Keith Carley (jr.-throws), Mitch Cullinan (jr.-dist.), A.J. Huss (sr.dist.), Christian King (sr.-sprints), Blake Miniard (sr.-dist.) w Other contributors: Tyler Gibson (fr.sprints), Markes Gadlen (fr.-sprints), Alex Niznak (jr.-sprints) w Inside track: Marcy thinks the Yellowjackets should repeat as league champions and are looking to claim their first regional title since 1947. WEBBERVILLE w Last season: independent w Coach: Troy Perkins, first year w Top returnees: Hunter Juntunen (sr.-hurdles, sprints), Garrett Teague (sr.-LJ, sprints), Ryan Guidroz (jr.-LJ, hurdles, sprints), Garrett Hitchcock (so.-throws), Drew Richards (so.-PV), Andy Moran (sr.-HJ, LJ) w Other contributors: Ryan Goke (sr.-dist.), Ryan Adair (so.-dist.), Daylan Howe (fr.-HJ, LJ) w Inside track: The Spartans’ Teague came in 12th in the long jump and Juntunen was 14th in the 300 hurdles at the Division 4 state meet. Key: dist.-distance (800, 1600, 3200), HJ-high jump, hurdles-100 and 300 hurdles; LJ-long jump, MD-middle distance (400, 800), PV-pole vault, sprints-100, 200, 400; throws-shot put and discus

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and was no match for Stately victories were on the turf. Suddenly, Victor’s stunning run. trainer John Sadler has two Paddy O’Prado’s second- prospects for the first Saturday in place finish probably earned May, along with Santa Anita Derby him a spot in the Derby field winner Sidney’s Candy. Trainer Todd Pletcher’s Super too. He began the day 34th in earnings with $100,950 Saver was second on Oaklawn but took home $150,000 by Park’s dirt track, with Dublin holding off a game effort another neck back in third for four-time Kentucky Derby-winning from First Dude. He’ll be joined there by trainer D. Wayne Lukas. Uh Oh Bango was fourth, Stately Victor, who knocked Dust Commander’s upset the followed by 8-5 favorite Noble’s 1970 Blue Grass Stakes out of Promise, who finished out of the the record books. Dust Com- money for the first time in eight career starts. New Madrid was mander paid $72.80 to win 36 sixth, Berberis seventh, Pulsion years ago, a sure thing comeighth and Lukas’ other entry, pared to the odds Stately Vic- Northern Giant, last. tor faced on Saturday. w CHURCHILL NEXT FOR w ARKANSAS DERBY: Line of ZENYATTA: Zenyatta is taking her DANNY JOHNSTON/Associated Press David won the $1 million Arkansas gaudy winning streak on the road. Derby by a neck, propelling the 17-1 The 6-year-old mare who tied By a head: Line of David (right) edges Super Saver at the finish long shot into Kentucky Derby Citation and Cigar with her 16th line Saturday in the Arkansas Derby. Dublin (left) took third. consideration. consecutive victory in the Apple tions of the Blue Grass. stakes earnings, it now looks Line of David had never before Blossom at Oaklawn Park on The race was supposed to like Odysseus and Pleasant run in a stakes race and his last two Saturday is going to travel more be the last shot for Derby Prince — seemingly locks a prospects such as Interactif, few weeks ago — will need Tampa Bay Derby winner Od- a little help to run under the ysseus and Pleasant Prince to twin spires in three weeks. Paddy O’Prado, who overearn enough money to assure themselves a spot in the Run took front-running Odysseus for the Roses. at the turn, appeared to have While Interactif is almost nothing but clear sailing beSTARTING AT guaranteed a spot in the tween himself and the wire * $ Derby based on his graded but faltered deep in the stretch

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Sliding, yet surviving: Tiger Woods puts his head down after missing his putt on the 17th hole during Saturday’s third round of the Masters. Woods endured an up-and-down round Saturday, ﬁnishing with a 2-under 70. He’s tied for third, four shots off the lead.

Masters: Woods loses temper, is 4 shots back CONTINUED FROM 1D

by having his family — wife Amy and the three kids — with him for the first time since The Players Championship nearly a year ago, right before she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Amy Mickelson has not been to the golf course. “It’s fun having them, just being together,” he said. “It’s been a fun week.” Fun doesn’t even begin to describe Saturday. The course was not meant to yield so many fireworks — not one shot better than 67 — yet the quality of the play was superb. Westwood did his work on the front nine, rolling in a bending birdie putt at the first, hitting a 4-iron just over the bunker to 10 feet on the fourth and slowly starting to pull away. Then came the first of big cheers, from all corners of the course, so many that it was hard to figure out what they meant. “You couldn’t figure out who was doing what because there roars happening simultaneously throughout the course,” Mickelson said. Couples was walking off the 14th tee when he motioned at Mickelson to get it going, and Lefty obliged. He hit a 7-iron to 8 feet on the 13th, and the eagle putt produced such volume that Westwood backed off his putt on the 11th.

“It was pretty funny because we were texting a little bit about how low I was going to have to go to catch him and maybe play with him tomorrow,” said Couples, who was in the final group when Mickelson won his last Masters in 2006. “For a time, we were both playing pretty well. But then he went eagle-eagle-birdie, and that’s a pretty big jump to get going. “Once again, I just love this place.” For Woods, it was more of a love-hate relationship for most of the round. He quickly pulled within one shot of the lead with two tough birdies, from 18 feet on the first hole and a curling 35-footer on the third. Few could have guessed it would be the putter that put him behind. It started with a bad swing and an outburst — “Tiger, you suck!” — from a guy who pledged to keep his temper in check. From the bottom shelf of the green, Woods ran his putt 15 feet by the hole and missed that for his first three-putt bogey of the Masters. He missed a 5-foot par on the seventh hole, then three-putted on the 10th from about 18 feet. That’s all it took for Woods to tumble seven shots out of the lead. And while he tried to peck away with birdies, Mickelson ahead of him was hammering away at eagles.

Sticking around: K.J. Choi is tied with Tiger Woods at 8-under par after the first three rounds. Choi shot a 2-under 70 on Saturday. He has made only five bogeys over the first three rounds. Woods two-putted the 13th, hit his approach to 3 feet on the 14th for birdie, then made an 8-foot birdie on the 15th. He was so wild at times that he played the 17th hole from the 15th fairway and almost got away with it until missing a 6-footer for par. “After struggling just to fight back ... the guys were running away from me there,” Woods said. “At one point, I was seven back. So to kind of claw my way back in there where I’m only four back right now, I’m in good shape.” He has never won a major from behind. He had never lost one from in front until Y.E. Yang rallied to beat him in the PGA Championship last summer at Hazeltine. Asked about his outburst on the sixth hole, Woods

said he wasn’t aware: “If I did, then I’m sorry.” From the spontaneous cheer he received for the opening tee shot on Thursday, the cheers have become louder throughout the week for Woods. Only on this day, they weren’t all for him. “Those roars are Augusta roars,” said 60-year-old Tom Watson, who had a 73 to fall 10 shots behind. “I’m glad they’re back.’”’ Ian Poulter, tied for the 36-hole lead with Westwood, shot a 74 and fell six shots behind with Barnes (72) and Hunter Mahan (68). That would seem to be too far behind at any other major. But at Augusta National? “We have seen some strange things happen over the years,” Mickelson said. “I think tomorrow is going to be another exciting day.”

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Fred Couples twisted one way, then the other, wincing as he tried to loosen up his aching back. It’s moments like this that make the 50-year-old feel twice his age. Get him to the Masters, however, and he plays like he’s half his age. Four years after playing in the final group, Couples is lurking again at Augusta National. His 4-under 68 on Saturday puts him five strokes behind leader Lee Westwood and four behind Couples Phil Mickelson — pretty good for a guy more accustomed to tearing up the Champions Tour these days. “I know time flies, but (today) I have a shot,” Couples said. “I’m way behind, but I’ve heard other people talk about it, so I might as well say the same thing. If I can shoot a low score, I maybe can post a score and see what happens.” A few more shots like he had on 14 and 15 would help. He flew the green with his second shot on the par-5 15th, leaving him at least 30 feet to the hole. He made a perfect chip and the ball rolled straight at the hole, the noise level rising the closer the ball got to the cup. When it rolled in, the crowd roared and Couples shook his fist. Fans in all three grandstands around 15 gave him a standing ovation, and Couples took off his hat and waved. “I just love this place,” he said. “I have a shot (Sunday) if I can shoot a crazy score.” CHOI A FORGOTTEN MAN: Amid all the prominent names on the Masters leaderboard, there’s one player who just doesn’t seem to fit. Then again, K.J. Choi has been there all three rounds. No reason for him to go away now. Still right in the mix after his third straight subpar round — even if no one seemed to notice — the South Korean heads into today’s finale just four strokes off the lead. He’s right in the middle of a star-studded board that includes three of the top four in the world golf rankings, No. 1 Tiger Woods, No. 3 Mickelson and No. 4 Westwood, plus sentimental favorite Couples. “I’m really having a good time this week,” said Choi, who shot a 2-under 70 that

Hamlin back after knee surgery Despite penalty, Kyle Busch holds on in Nationwide FROM WIRE REPORTS

AVONDALE, Ariz. — Denny Hamlin raced 10 days after having surgery to repair the torn ACL in his left knee, and skipped a chance to get out of the car during an extended pit stop for repair work on the car. When there was a caution for debris on lap 135 Saturday night at Phoenix International Raceway, Hamlin came in for his crew to repair damage behind the front right Hamlin tire and attempt to solve an ongoing electrical problem by changing the batteries. The race was incomplete at press time. Hamlin opted to stay in the car, not giving way to relief driver Casey Mears who was standing by if needed. Even without making

the driver switch, the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota dropped two laps behind the leaders on the stop. There was trouble changing the batteries, then the car stalled after pulling away and had to be pushed back down pit road. While clearly upset on the radio about what happened, since he had moved up from his 26th starting spot to 13th before pitting, Hamlin never mentioned anything about his knee or the possibility of getting out of the car. Before the hobbled Hamlin started the race, he indicated that the 50-lap mark could be an indication of whether he would go ahead and complete all 375 laps on the oddly shaped mile-long track where braking is often at a premium. Hamlin was still having electrical issues after the battery change. The rightside damage came after he got hit only 15 laps into the race. After Kurt Busch apparently got loose and made contact with Kasey Kahne ahead of him on lap 15, Hamlin drove to the bottom of the track. But the nose of Busch’s car hit the side of

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Trophy time: Kyle Busch won Friday’s Nationwide Series Bashas’ Supermarkets 200 race at Phoenix International Raceway. Hamlin’s car. Hamlin injured his knee playing basketball in January. He had hoped to put off surgery until after the season, but instead had surgery March 31, two days af-

ter his victory at Martinsville in the last NASCAR Sprint Cup race. Hamlin had an ice bag draped over his left knee in the garage before getting into the car.

KYLE BUSCH WINS NATIONWIDE RACE: The obstacles were enormous: a bad restart; a penalty for jumping a start; and a possible transmission problem. All stood in the way of Kyle Busch during Friday night’s Bashas’ 200 at Phoenix International Raceway. All fell to the wayside. Busch, who was 19th and the last car on the lead lap after being penalized for jumping a start on Lap 150 of 200, roared back to pass Brad Keselowski for the lead with five laps remaining to earn his second Nationwide Series win of the season. “This car was super, super fast. Hopefully, that was an exciting win for the fans,” said Busch, who earned his 32nd series win. “I don’t know how we could have made it any better.” Asked how he made his way back to Victory Lane, Busch said, “All I know is I paid NASCAR back by winning.” Kevin Harvick ended up second; Keselowski was third and took over the points lead; Brendan Gaughan was fourth; and Greg Biffle fifth.

MASTERS SCORES

Third round at Augusta National Golf Club at Augusta, Ga. (a-amateur) Lee Westwood 67-69-68—204 -12 Phil Mickelson 67-71-67—205 -11 K.J. Choi 67-71-70—208 -8 Tiger Woods 68-70-70—208 -8 Fred Couples 66-75-68—209 -7 Hunter Mahan 71-71-68—210 -6 Ricky Barnes 68-70-72—210 -6 Ian Poulter 68-68-74—210 -6 Y.E. Yang 67-72-72—211 -5 Anthony Kim 68-70-73—211 -5 Jerry Kelly 72-74-67—213 -3 Steve Marino 71-73-69—213 -3 Bill Haas 72-72-71—213 -3 Tom Watson 67-74-73—214 -2 Trevor Immelman 69-73-72—214 -2 Geoff Ogilvy 74-72-69—215 -1 Heath Slocum 72-73-70—215 -1 David Toms 69-75-71—215 -1 Nick Watney 68-76-71—215 -1 Sean O'Hair 72-71-72—215 -1 Kenny Perry 72-71-72—215 -1 Angel Cabrera 73-74-69—216 E Steve Flesch 75-71-70—216 E Adam Scott 69-75-72—216 E Soren Kjeldsen 70-71-75—216 E Camilo Villegas 74-72-71—217 +1 Charl Schwartzel 69-76-72—217 +1 Matt Kuchar 70-73-74—217 +1 Lucas Glover 76-71-71—218 +2 Ryan Moore 72-73-73—218 +2 Yuta Ikeda 70-77-72—219 +3 Miguel Angel Jimenez72-75-72—219 +3 Scott Verplank 73-73-73—219 +3 Francesco Molinari 70-74-75—219 +3 Ernie Els 71-73-75—219 +3 Mike Weir 71-72-76—219 +3 Dustin Johnson 71-72-76—219 +3 a-Matteo Manassero71-76-73—220 +4 Steve Stricker 73-73-74—220 +4 Ben Crane 71-75-74—220 +4 Sergio Garcia 74-70-76—220 +4 Zach Johsnon 70-74-76—220 +4 Robert Karlsson 71-72-77—220 +4 Retief Goosen 74-71-76—221 +5 Jason Dufner 75-72-75—222 +6 Robert Allenby 72-75-78—225 +9 Chad Campbell 79-68-80—227 +11 Nathan Green 72-75-80—227 +11

TODAY’S TEE TIMES

10:40 a.m.—Chad Campbell, Nathan Green 10:50 a.m.—Jason Dufner, Robert Allenby 11 a.m.—Robert Karlsson, Retief Goosen 11:10 a.m.—Sergio Garcia, Zach Johnson 11:20 a.m.—Steve Stricker, Ben Crane 11:30 a.m.—Dustin Johnson, a-Matteo Manassero 11:40 a.m.—Ernie Els, Mike Weir 11:50 a.m.—Scott Verplank, Francesco Molinari Noon—Yuta Ikeda, Miguel Angel Jimenez 12:10 p.m.—Lucas Glover, Ryan Moore 12:20 p.m.—Charl Schwartzel, Matt Kuchar 12:30 p.m.—Soren Kjeldsen, Camilo Villegas 12:50 a.m.—Steve Flesch, Adam Scott 1 p.m.—Kenny Perry, Angel Cabrera 1:10 p.m.—Nick Watney, Sean O'Hair 1:20 p.m.—Heath Slocum, David Toms 1:30 p.m.—Trevor Immelman, Geoff Ogilvy 1:40 p.m.—Bill Haas, Tom Watson 1:50 p.m.—Jerry Kelly, Steve Marino 2 p.m.—Y.E. Yang, Anthony Kim 2:10 p.m.—Ricky Barnes, Ian Poulter 2:20 p.m.—Fred Couples, Hunter Mahan 2:30 p.m.—Tiger Woods, K.J. Choi 2:40 p.m.—Lee Westwood, Phil Mickelson

left him four strokes off Westwood’s pace and tied for third with Woods. “I feel good right now, and I’m just going to keep to my routine and just keep on praying. You never know how this tournament is going to ﬁnish.” AMATEUR STRUTS STUFF: Matteo Manassero is the only amateur left playing at the Masters, and he has shown he certainly belongs alongside the professionals. The 16-year-old Italian had a strong round going Saturday with two birdies on the front nine to get to 1 over for the tournament. But he dropped those shots back with a trio of bogeys on the back for a round of 73. Manassero is at 4 over for the tournament and in a tie for 38th place after three rounds. He scored better than ﬁve pros who made the cut.

Power on pole for IndyCar race

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Will Power fully understands how difficult it is to win on the IndyCar Series. Really, he does. The competition is stiff, the cars competitive and the margin for error slim. “You’ve got to have everything go right on the weekend now,” Power said. “You can’t have a bad start. You can’t make mistakes or you’re not going to win. It’s very hard now.” Really, it is. The Australian is just making it look easy. He will start on the pole for the second straight race in today’s inaugural Indy Grand Prix of Alabama (3 p.m., Versus). Power is trying to become the first driver to win the opening three IndyCar races. Sam Hornish was the last to start out 2-0 in 2001, and he went on to win the points title as a rookie. Today at the 2.38-mile, 17-turn Barber Motorsports Park, Power also has a chance to join Scott Dixon, Dan Wheldon and Kenny Brack as the only IndyCar drivers to win three in a row at any point during the season. He topped both Friday practice rounds and turned in the fastest lap time by nearly a second over Mike Conway and Penske Racing teammate Helio Castroneves in the final round of qualifying.

— Associated Press

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