January 16, 2011
Johnstown-Monroe schools
Board OKs seeking kindergarten waiver By MICHAEL J. MAURER ThisWeek Community Newspapers The Johnstown Monroe Board of Education held its organizational meeting Jan. 10 and authorized Superintendent Damien Bawn to seek a second waiver of the all-day kindergarten requirement imposed under Gov. Ted Strickland’s education reform law. The district obtained its first waiver last year for the 2010-11 school year
and will now apply for a two-year waiver through the spring of 2013. Bawn said the district academic performance level is rated “excellent” under the state classification system, and high performing districts are able to demonstrate hardship to delay imposing the all-day program. “Overall start-up costs were estimated at $600,000 and ongoing costs were around $300,000 to $350,000 per year going after that,” Bawn said. “That’s
something we cannot afford right now, let alone going into an austerity period if the economy did not pop right back, and it still has not come back.” Treasurer Tammy Woods said not knowing state policy wreaks havoc on school planning. “We don’t know going forward whether all-day kindergarten will be a requirement and we don’t know if any waivers will be accepted,” Woods said. For the J-M district, one of the main
obstacles to implementing all-day kindergarten is that there is not enough space. Modulars would need to be constructed to accommodate the program. “All-day kindergarten was mandated as part of the evidence based model (of education reform) in the last (state) biennial budget,” Bawn said. “For those districts that had extreme hardship trying to implement all-day kindergarten and who had high enough ratings, there was a waiver process.
“We applied for and received a waiver last year, and part of our hardship was our estimated costs because we are so far over the capacity of our buildings. “If we could afford to put on the extra teachers and materials we would love to do that, but we are achieving great success with the program we have now and we just flat out do not have the space for it,” Bawn said. “It would require at See KINDERGARTEN, page A2
Northridge schools
Committee: WINTER CHORE Adequate cuts are hard to find By MICHAEL J. MAURER ThisWeek Community Newspapers The parent and community finance committee for the Northridge Board of Education met Jan.12 to discuss the district budget, focusing on the few items apart from salary and benefit costs that offer an opportunity to save money. The task is a hard one, said Jayma Bammerlin, who led last fall’s income tax levy campaign and will also work to support the levy expected for the May ballot. When the district’s longstanding 1 percent income tax renewal failed twice last year, the tax expired Dec. 31. The result is the loss of $1.7-million in revenue annually. “We are losing $1.7-million every year because the levy failed, and we have to come up with more money for the district,” Bammerlin said. “We have to do it somehow. Either you bring money in or you have to cut. “We’ve already cut almost everything,” she said. “I think we’re going to hear from the school board that everything will be cut next year.” Among the options discussed at the finance committee meeting were changes to transportation routes and means of raising revenue, such as business donations or selling districtthemed clothing. “Numbers are not finalized on transportation,” Bammerlin said. “If we can be more efficient, we could receive a (funding) bonus from the state. The state provides a transportation bonus for three things: if you provide busing for all grades K through 12, which we do, if you bus within two miles of the buildings, which we do, and we get both of those bonuses. The third bonus is for efficiency, the number of students per bus, and we do not get that bonus.” The committee also explored revenue options. “We talked about donations, about setting up a new fund for people to put money into, and maybe selling Northridge logo apparel and logo items,” Bammerlin said. One of the main difficulties in the process is that there are no large cost areas apart from salaries and benefits. Changes to transportation are estimated to save up to $70,000 annually, Bammerlin said, well short of the $1.7-million in lost revenue. Extracurricular activities is See CUTS, page A2
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Priscilla Agnello clears snow from the parking lot of Vinny’s Pizzeria on Jan. 12 in Johnstown.
Water and sewer services
Revitalization program creates infrastructure fix By MICHAEL J. MAURER ThisWeek Community Newspapers When a downtown waterline is replaced this spring as part of the reconstruction of the U.S. Route 62/state Route 37 intersection, the village of Johnstown will replace one of its final remaining original water distribution lines, a longtime goal of service director Jack Liggett. “We started about eight years ago to aggressively remove old lines and upgrade lines,” Liggett said. “We wanted to get out of this repair mode that we had gotten into. “The first lines were put in in the late 1930s and here we are in 2011,” he said. “Repair of old lines was dominating my crew, instead of keeping up maintenance of things like main line valve turning, fire hydrant repair and maintenance.” When the state of Ohio and the village began planning to rebuild the downtown intersection, Liggett wanted to make sure he could take care of the waterline, too. “Every spring, I’m in there cutting up pave-
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ment,” Liggett said. “If you drive down that you see patch after patch after patch. When Jim started talking about that downtown revitalization, I just wanted to bring to the table the idea that that waterline was on our hit list for years, but everyone was always afraid of it because you have to
handle the traffic.” During the reconstruction, the village will move its downtown water lines to Post Office Alley, so that it will not be required ever again to dig up downtown for routine waterline repairs. Liggett said residents do not like to see new pavement cut up. “We’re going to put this new pavement, new sidewalks, new trees, and two weeks after we do that I’ll be in there cutting pavement,” Liggett said. “The residents would think, what are they doing?” Johnstown maintains about 24 miles of water supply lines that require regular maintenance such as simply operating valves, which will freeze up and quit working if they are not “exercised” at least annually. “They’ll freeze up so they won’t turn,” Liggett said. “Then when you have a leak and you do try to turn them they’ll snap off and you have two problems, a leak and broken valve. “The other thing is, if you don’t close a valve See REVITALIZATION, page A2
Downtown Johnstown officials looking to highlight special events By MICHAEL J. MAURER ThisWeek Community Newspapers Downtown Johnstown held its annual organizational meeting this week, reviewing its bylaws, opening up the downtown ice rink and planning to find a new director for the farmers market. Pat Kramer, who has run the market since its inception two years ago, has opened her business Gifts by Us, which
she said will prevent her from devoting the time necessary to the farmers market. “We’re looking for a new person to run it,” Kramer said. “My personal business would prevent me from doing that, so we’re exploring members of Downtown Johnstown to take that over.” Downtown Johnstown president Chris Speck said the group is discussing opening up the farmers market to new ven-
dors by relaxing the existing limit to homemade products. “We’re going to open that up past homemade, homegrown this year,” Speck said. “I think we assumed other towns did it this way and that’s not the case. Other towns were open to everything. We were kind of exceptional in that regard. And we can still be subjective, if there is something we don’t find appropriate for the farmer’s market.”
Kramer said many more sellers would participate if the limit were relaxed. “We have people here in town who have viable businesses but we could not let them in because it wasn’t homemade,” Kramer said. “I think we could double our vendors.” The group also discussed adding other major seasonal events to Downtown Johnstown’s regular activities. The Cupola Classic Car Show has worked very
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ures for a fee of $10 for two items. LCHS members can have one item appraised free of charge. The public is invited to bring family heirlooms, Ticket sales are under way for the Licking garage sale bargains and other mystery items to County Chamber of Commerce’s 55th annual this event. Proceeds will benefit the LCHS. Lunch will be available for purchase. For more Groundhog Breakfast, to be held at 6 a.m. on information, call (740) 345-4898. Friday, Feb. 4. The breakfast will be served at Adena Hall on the shared campus of Central Ohio Technical Tax prep offered College and the Ohio State University, Newark. The keynote speaker will be E. Gordon Gee, by AARP volunteers Free tax form assistance and preparation for president of OSU. For more information or to purchase tickets, taxpayers with low and moderate incomes will call (740) 345-9757 or e-mail jmcdonald@lick- be offered by AARP Tax-Aide at Zerger Hall Senior Center, 745 E. Main St., Newark. ingcountychamber.com. Appointments are necessary and are being scheduled now. Call (740) 404-8053 between Appraisal fair 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. set for Jan. 22 Those who make appointments are asked to The Licking County Historical Society is bring identification with a photo and a Social Sesponsoring an antiques and collectibles appraisal curity card along with their tax information. Infair on Saturday, Jan. 22, at the Buckingham clude a copy of your 2009 tax return and a copy Meeting House at Veterans Park. of any real estate taxes paid in 2010. From noon until 3:30 p.m., auctioneer Craig See IN BRIEF, page A3 Connelly will appraise basement and attic treas-
KINDERGARTEN Continued from page A1 least three new classrooms, which would mean portables or something.” Bawn said he would support all-day kindergarten in general terms, if the budget allowed it, even if the state did not mandate it. “We would like to investigate some options and perhaps over time be able to offer something,” Bawn said.” Some districts offer it to students who are most at risk academically based on pretests to get into kindergarten. We are looking at that, but it is a space issue.” Generally, Bawn said more time in the classroom is better for student performance. “Any time you can get students into an educational setting and
give them more time on task it gives them a head start, a boost, and we can go further with them all along the line,” Bawn said. “We are getting there, as our excellent rating shows, but it’s always in the back of our minds if we could do a little more then we can go beyond where we are now (with student performance).” Bawn said part of the benefit of additional time depends on what is being done in the classroom by the teacher and the student. “In educational research, two things among the very few things shown repeatedly over time to have a positive correlation with learning are time on task and quality of teaching,” Bawn said. “Adding more time in a classroom that does not have the quality teaching may not make any
REVITALIZATION Continued from page A1 completely, then over the years the buildup will stop it from closing completely,” he said. Ordinarily the village will have a spike in water line breaks in the fall and the spring, corresponding to the change in weather. “Breaks are seasonal,” Liggett said. “When the first cold weather hits, you can count on four or five breaks. This year we have not had that, we’ve been very fortunate, but I attribute that to our line replacement during the last eight years. The next time we start to get breaks will be in the spring, when you have the thaw and the ground shifts and puts pressure on the lines.” Liggett estimated that the village waterlines are at about 95 percent of where they should be in terms of replacement, while the sewer collection system is probably about 40 percent of where it should be. The sewer system is lower priority because it does not cause breaks in service, and because the sewage treatment plant can handle the excess flow that results from old water lines. The village is fortunate in that both its water and sewer capac-
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ity greatly exceed the current need, Liggett said. “Back during the housing boom, when we built this plant 14 years ago, we had 1,000 homes slated to go in that did not go in,” Liggett said. “Because of that we’re at 40 percent capacity (for water service).” Liggett said that the village produces about 400,000 gallons of water daily, with a capacity of 1.2-million gallons.
sense, but more time on task certainly is something I would support. “I would support extending the length of the school year or even year-round schooling, but yearround schooling does not necessarily mean a longer school year,” he said. “Most of the time it just means breaking the year up into different chunks.” In other business, the board approved a $5,000 donation from Lynn and Ronald Genevie for the Robert and Majorie Bishop Scholarship, and reelected John Davis as board president and Karen Blair and vice president.
Continued from page A1 among the biggest dollar items, at approximately $200,000 in district costs each year — not including what parents pay and boosters provide. An important function of the finance committee is to review suggested administration budget cuts and gauge community response to the changes. “We looked over the cuts and sort of gave them a blessing, if you can call it that,” Bammerlin said. “We have to make sure we have enough money to make payroll next year. “A lot of us are just heartbroken, and there just isn’t anything that is worth, has a big chunk of money, that could help us,” she said. “The biggest number is extracurricular and sports, and that’s only $200,000. It’s not good for our district, at all.” Looking to the expected May levy, Bammerlin said a levy campaign co-chair was expected to be selected from the student body. “We are just starting the levy committee,” Bammerlin said. “I’d like to try to have a few meetings to talk to people and try to have a kind of focus group. I’d like to see what they are thinking and what they are saying. We want to find a way to make sure people know what is being done at the district.”
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Continued from page A1 day night to open up the downtown ice rink, but Speck said that was more of an activity than a major event of the sort the group would like to sponsor. “If the ice rink goes well this year, that would be annual, but we want events more than that would be,” Speck said. “There is talk of a garden show in the spring, which I don’t think would happen this year, but we could do some fact-finding, look around at some others so that we can put on a good one next year.” Kramer said the key to success is building sufficient awareness that people will begin to naturally plan on attending the events, as they have begun to do with the car show and farmers market. “The hard problem is to get Johnstown people to do Johnstown things,” Kramer said. “We would like to have at least four things a year, so people start to recognize that there are scheduled events so everyone knows it, just like they know about Red, White and Boom.
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Athletes share wishes for 2011 The beginning of the year brings a chance to set goals and kindle hopes of good things that could occur. Here are the 2011 wishes of some of central Ohio’s top high school athletes. Stevie Taylor, Gahanna boys basketball: “I wish that my team LARRY stays unbeatLARSON en throughout the season and, personally, that I can break the school scoring record.” Abby Chin, Upper Arlington girls swimming: “My wish for 2011 is to swim NCAA cut times and Olympic trial cut times so I can be ready for 2012.” Kyle Annis, Hilliard Davidson football: “My wish for the new year would just be for everyone to be safe and enjoy time with their families.” Hannah Stefanoff, Grandview cross country and track: “My new year’s wish is to have a healthy winter of training By Chris Parker/ThisWeek which can lead into a successful track season this spring and Lydia Ulry (left) and Holly Sammons of Johnstown-Monroe defend against Watkins Memorial’s Lou Nickel during the host Johnnies’ 54-51 loss last Thursday in a nonto stay positive through these league game. winter months.” Joey Tomko, Gahanna baseball: “I wish that my family and friends have a healthy 2011. I hope that all my friends graduate and have successful college careers.” Chris Diaz, Watterson boys tennis: “My wish for 2011 is to have a great and successful start to four years of college and for college to be the best years of my life up to that point.” Joey Uhle, Olentangy Liberty pole vault: “My wish is real short and simple. I wish for warm Richards said. “There is so much about By SCOTT HENNEN weather during the track season.” baseball you learn in college about how ThisWeek Community Newspapers Nick Netotian, Whitehall to approach situations and how to run boys bowling: “For the new practice. There were things I didn’t Justin Richards learned a lot from his year, I look forward to my final success in high school and college base- even think about at the high-school year competing with my teamball. Now, he plans to call upon those level.” mates on the bowling and baseRichards is in his first year as a experiences to take the Johnstown-Monball teams at Whitehall. I am roe High School program to the next physical education teacher at the high also very excited about graduschool and middle school. Before level. ating with my class of 2011 and this, he was a teacher at Columbus Richards has been hired to replace starting college this fall.” Don Carter, who resigned after nine sea- Montessori School and has been an Niki Flower, Upper Arlingsons with the Johnnies. assistant at Lucas High School for two ton girls tennis: “I wish that my “Justin has a great and extensive baseseasons. shoulder injury gets better so I ball background,” athletics director Mike “One of my biggest interests was to can work harder and get ready be a high school baseball coach,” said Carter said. for college tennis. I also hope that “He is positive, motivated, disciplined Richards, who coached freshman footby doing so, I can have the conball with the Johnnies last fall. “When and very knowledgeable.” fidence to not be intimidated by Richards graduated from Richmond I got the offer (to coach baseball), it any task given to me, whether it Edison in 2003 when he was named was really exciting because I know the be in sports or in the classroom.” Eastern District Player of the Year and kids here. They are great kids and the Ron Tanner, Eastmoor Acadearned all-state honors. He played at reason I wanted to coach here.” emy football and basketball: Last season, the Johnnies finished 10West Virginia University and was the “In 2011, I would like to truly get team’s Freshman of the Year before 18 after dropping a second-round Dibetter every day. If I begin to imtransferring following his sophomore vision III district game to second-seedprove every day, then I know I season to Ashland. With the Eagles, he ed Marion Pleasant 9-0. The Johnnies will be the best that I can be.” was the third baseman and closer dur- beat Mount Gilead 17-16 in the openMay all of you have your wishing their run to the NCAA Division II ing round. es come true in the coming year. World Series in 2006. Johnstown lost its first four games I’ll see you at a game. “I pitched in a regional final win (in and six of its first seven before winning By Chris Parker/ThisWeek 2002), played in a state championship Larry Larson is a former athfour consecutive contests. In the MBC, letics director at Grandview High The Johnnies’ Sarah Thomas heads toward the basket after getting past Mathea (a 6-1 loss to Tallmadge in 2002) and School. See JOHNNIES, page A5 played in a World Series with Ashland,” Tenwalde of Watkins Memorial last Thursday.
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Illnesses are taking toll on Vikings swim teams By SCOTT HENNEN ThisWeek Community Newspapers
Illnesses have pared down the already small numbers of the Northridge High School boys and girls swimming teams. Although the Vikings are on course to have one of their best seasons to date, influenza and other bugs have taken their toll on the eightmember girls team and the six-athlete boys team, coach Catherine Carney said. “We had had every bug known to man over the last few weeks,” she said. “For as small of a team as we have, it’s tough to win a meet because it’s difficult to put together two relays. That becomes worse when you have people who are sick.” An example was Jan. 8 during the SEOSL South meet at Zanesville Rosecrans. Marcie Boyce was out sick, and Carly Wilson missed with family obligations. The boys team had
Jesse Bowman battling a stomach ailment. “That was our third meet in a week, and we had some sick swimmers,” Carney said. “Jesse fought through his stomach bug to swim relays for us, and Britanny Hupp stepped up into our ‘A’ relay and really did good job for us.” In the SEOSL South meet, the Northridge boys team was fourth (68) of nine teams behind champion Portsmouth Notre Dame (117). The Vikings girls were fifth (55) of 10 teams behind champion New Concord John Glenn (118). Beau Hammock won the 200-yard freestyle in 2 minutes, 13.2 seconds and the 500 free in 6:12.11. “Beau is swimming well and in the best shape of his life because he’s swimming both with the high school and with the Licking County Family YMCA,” Carney said. “He didn’t have much competition in the 200 free, and I suspect he could have done even better if he had someone in the lane next to him pushing him. It was his
first time swimming the 500 free and he missed breaking the (program) record by one second. If he had been pushed, he would have easily set the record. We need to make sure he competes in the 500 free more during the season and he will get the record.” Paul Hager set the program record in the 50 free at the SEOSL South meet by finishing third (25.43). Carney said Hager was 58 seconds off the record for the 200 free and others are close to eclipsing marks. Aside from Hammock in the 500 free, they include Mickellea Tennis in the 200 free and Vivian Carney in the 200 free and 500 free. Coach Carney said her team has time to recover from the illnesses and get ready for the postseason, which begins Feb. 12 with the Division II sectional at Columbus Academy. “We still have time to recover and get pulled back together for sectional,” she said. “By (this) week, we should have everyone back in water
to do conditioning and stroke work to get ready for the postseason. If the flu had hit us later, we might have been in trouble.” •The girls basketball team picked up a signature victory by defeating two-time defending MBC champion Utica 41-36 on Jan. 8. Senior post player Keilah Ketron scored 21 points with 12 rebounds and five blocks. Maddie Hess scored seven points and Lauren Cornwell added six. “We controlled the tempo of the game and Utica likes to run and push the ball up the floor,” said coach Ashley Holmberg, whose team was 5-6 overall and 3-4 in the MBC before playing Fredericktown last Saturday. “In order from keeping it from becoming a track meet, we had to slow down and be a lot more patient on offense. “In the second half, we didn’t shoot unless we could get the ball to Kei or we had a wideSee VIKINGS, page A5
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Top performances BOYS Olentangy Liberty’s Jake Bischoff scored 27 points and had five assists to lead the PaBy Lorrie Cecil/ThisWeek triots over Westerville Central 65-48 on Jan. 7. GIRLS Africentric’s Raven Ferguson Westerville Central junior Mary Wells (left) and senior Melissa scored 24 points to lead her Klodnick placed first and second last year in the state bowling team to a 71-59 win over North tournament. Visit ThisWeekSPORTS.com to read the story. Ridgeville Lake Ridge AcadeWrestling: Rapid weight loss my on Jan. 8. Video vault among high school wrestlers is a concern. Check out our YouTube chanTop stories nel, chock full of videos produced Quotable by ThisWeekSPORTS.com. Football: Staff writer JarIt’s easy to find, too. Go to rod Ulrey examines the coach“A small, chubby kid who Yo u Tu b e . c o m / T h i s We e k ing vacancies across central wasn't even fast enough to NewsSports today. Ohio. swim on the A relays.” Boys Basketball: The OCC—Olentangy Liberty senior Friend us Central Division battle between swimmer Dmitry Dolgov, deUpper Arlington and Dublin scribing himself as a freshman. Log onto Facebook.com and Coffman is previewed. He now stands 6-foot-4. search "ThisWeekSports" to Swimming: Olentangy Libbecome a fan. erty swimmer Dmitry Dolgov Note of the week and his late-blooming career Follow us is profiled. The Upper Arlington boys Wrestling: The Gahanna basketball team won 28 conShort, sweet and limited to team features twin brothers secutive regular-season games 140 characters, follow us on Drew and Kasee McDougle. Twitter @TWSportsFan today. before last Friday.
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VIKINGS Continued from page A4 open layup. We did a much better job of moving the ball and made our shifts on defense. And Kei did an excellent job of finishing and going to the foul line.” The host Redskins led 11-7 after one period and 21-19 at halftime, but Northridge limited them to two points in the third period to lead 29-23 entering the fourth and held on for the victory. “Staying positive is the big thing and they are finally getting confidence in themselves,” Holmberg said. “We tell them that they are talented and that they are winners. If they make mistakes, we try to point out the good things they have done instead of the errors. If they do something right in practice, we stop, let them know and ask what they did right and why it worked. It all starts with confidence and communication.” Before last Saturday, Centerburg led the MBC at 6-0 followed by Utica at 5-2, East Knox at 4-3, Fredericktown at 3-3 and Northridge and Loudonville at 3-4. Danville was seventh at 2-5 and Johnstown was 1-6. “This win was big because now they know they are capable of winning against anyone,” Holmberg said. “Right now, we look at the standings and we’re right in the mix. We’re tied for (fifth) and that’s big for them.
At a glance Below are the recent results and coming schedules for the Johnstown-Monroe and Northridge boys basketball teams: BOYS BASKETBALL *Jan. 7 — Defeated Danville 82-45. Connor Burke scored 21 points with three 3-pointers, Aaron Estep had 11 points and Justin Howard added 10. *Last Tuesday — Game at Loudonville postponed because of bad weather and rescheduled for Jan. 29. *Last Friday — Played Utica Tuesday — Home vs. Liberty Union *Friday — Home vs. Fredericktown *Jan. 25 — At East Knox Of note: The Vikings were 4-4 overall and 3-1 in the MBC before last Friday. GIRLS BASKETBALL *Jan. 8 — Def. Utica 41-36 *Last Saturday — Played Fredericktown *Thursday — At East Knox *Saturday — At Centerburg Jan. 24 — Home vs. Hamilton Township in a game postponed from last Wednesday because of bad weather Of note: The Vikings were 5-6 overall and 3-4 in the MBC before last Saturday. WRESTLING Jan. 8 — Finished second (232) of eight teams in home Northridge Invitational behind Jonathan Alder (307) and ahead of Westland (214), Mifflin (149), Harvest Prep (103), Walnut Ridge (97), Mount Gilead (73) and Eastmoor Academy (42) Last Friday-Saturday — North Union Invitational *Wednesday — MBC Quad at Centerburg Jan. 29 — Jimmy Wood Memorial at New Lexington *MBC contest
I look for them to make a pretty big run in the second half.” shennen@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com
SWIMMING Jan. 7 — Boys: Finished second (52) in four-team meet behind Newark Catholic (120) and ahead of Newark (27) and Lakewood (11). Paul Hager won the 50 freestyle (28.28); Girls: Finished third (56) in three-team meet behind Newark (113) and Newark Catholic (72). Vivian Carney won the 200 free (2:45.66) and Mickellea Tennis won the 400 free (5:57.28). *Jan. 8 — Boys: Finished fourth (68) in nine-team SEOSL South meet at Zanesville Rosecrans behind champion Portsmouth Notre Dame (117). Beau Hammock won the 200 freestyle (2:13.2) and 500 free (6:12.11). Hager was third (25.43) in the 50 free and third (59.34) in the 100 free, and Joe Larson was third (2:43.87) in the 200 IM. The 400 free relay of Hammock, Jesse Bowman, Larson and Hager was second (4:30.32); Girls: Finished fifth (55) in 10-team SEOSL South meet behind champion New Concord John Glenn (118). Allison Everhart was second (1:09.68) in the 100 free and Tennis was second (2:26.79) in the 200 free and third (1:24) in the 100 butterfly. Vivian Carney was second (6:19.21) in the 500 free and the 400 free relay of Everhart, Brittany Hupp, Carney and Tennis was third (4:46.1). Last Thursday — Boys: Def. Liberty Union 37-23, def. Zanesville Maysville 43-0, lost to Zanesville West Muskingum 43-32; Girls: Def. Maysville 50-8, lost to Liberty Union 65-26, lost to West Muskingum 43-37 Last Saturday — Teays Valley Invitational Saturday — Zanesville Invitational at Rosecrans Jan. 24 — At Coshocton with Newark Catholic *SEOSL meet
Schools announce coaching vacancies
Former U.S. Olympic coach Criss Somerlot will provide shot put and discus lessons at a “throws center” opening at 189F W. Olentangy St. in Powell. The lessons are for athletes in high school and junior high. Somerlot, who lives in Powell, was a U.S. Olympic coach in 2004 and 2008. He also was a coach and teacher at Centerville High School near Dayton. For more information, contact Somerlot at (614) 5601251 or csomerlot@aol.com.
The following schools are seeking coaches: Hilliard Bradley — Boys volleyball, football, boys soccer. Send résumé to athletics director Chip Ebert at chip_ebert@hboe.org. Johnstown-Monroe — Junior varsity baseball, seventhgrade baseball. Contact athletics department at (740) 9672721. Westland — Football, volleyball. Send résumé to Greg Burke at greg.burke@swcs.us. •To add to this list, contact ThisWeek at (740) 888-6069 or sports@thisweeknews.com.
the Johnnies finished tied for fourth with Loudonville at 77, behind Fredericktown at 131, Utica at 11-3 and Centerburg at 8-6 and ahead of East Knox at 5-9, Northridge at 3-11 and Danville at 1-13. “As a new coach, I approach it as I don’t know any kid and I don’t know how they can play,” Richards said. “They are all on a level field and now they can challenge each other. I see it as having no returning players and the kids have everything to gain.” The Johnnies expect to return their leading hitter in Matt Smith, a junior catcher who batted .465 with 46 hits, 33 runs, five doubles, two homers and 24 RBI. Junior outfielder Taylor Baughman hit .385 with 20 RBI and senior infielder Andrew Pizzurro batted .301 with 23 runs. “I want to put the fastest team we can out there with the best defense and use pitching to win,” Richards said. “Pitching and defense win championships and that’s the kind of team I want to put out on the diamond.” •The boys and girls track
At a glance Below are the recent results and coming schedules for the Johnstown-Monroe boys basketball, girls basketball and wrestling teams: BOYS BASKETBALL *Jan. 7 — Lost to Loudonville 58-57. Matt Smith scored 11 points and Harley O’Flaherty and Patrick Wilson scored 10 points apiece. *Last Tuesday — Home game with Fredericktown postponed because of bad weather and rescheduled for Feb. 16. *Last Friday — Played Centerburg Tuesday — Home vs. Lakewood *Friday — At Danville *Jan. 25 — Home vs. Utica Of note: The Johnnies were 3-6 overall and 1-4 in the MBC before last Friday. GIRLS BASKETBALL *Jan. 8 — Lost to Centerburg 59-43. Holly Sammons scored 14 points and
and field teams will have a new coach. Mark Thomas resigned last Tuesday after two seasons leading the program. “I have family obligations I have to tend to, the same thing that kept me from coaching (as an assistant in) football last fall,” Thomas said. In his two seasons, Thomas’ teams won three MBC titles. The girls won league titles in 2009 and 2010 and the boys were MBC champs in 2009. “Mark is a coach that cares about the kids, the school and the community,” Mike Carter said. “He is a great representa-
Natalie Carpenter added 11 points. Last Thursday — Lost to Watkins Memorial 54-51. Laiken Valentine led with 14 points. *Last Saturday — At Danville *Thursday — Home vs. Utica *Saturday — At East Knox Jan. 26 — At Licking Valley Of note: The Johnnies were 2-10 overall and 1-6 in the MBC before last Saturday. WRESTLING Last Saturday — Competed at Thornville Sheridan Larry Remmert Memorial *Wednesday — MBC Tri-Meet at Centerburg Friday-Saturday — Josh Hephner Memorial Tournament at AustintownFitch Jan. 29 — Jimmy Wood Memorial at New Lexington *MBC contests
tive of Johnstown athletics. His work ethic and knowledge have provided fantastic opportunities for our student athletes.” Thomas expects the new coach to inherit a pair of talented teams. “The girls are loaded again this year and should be favored to win their third straight (MBC) title,” he said. “The guys only lost one senior, so they will be better this year and should challenge for a league title.” shennen@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com
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