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Legion post to manage farmers market By MICHAEL J. MAURER ThisWeek Community Newspapers After two years of managing Johnstown’s Farmers Market, Pat Kramer has found someone else to take the reins at the weekly market this summer. Kramer recently opened a business — Gifts by Us, featuring local artists and craftsmen — and said she no longer has time to run the market as well.
“I had to give it up,” Kramer said. “My shop is open the same hours as the market.” When Kramer began to think about who might do a good job running the market, she thought about who benefited from the market and who would have the resources to manage it. The answer became obvious. “I tried to think of someone who had the time that would actually profit from
it, and both years I’ve given the money from the market to the American Legion,” Kramer said. “When I saw the list of things they did, it was like, hmmm.” The Legion sponsors several activities in Johnstown, including Fourth of July, Boys State, Safety Village, projects at the schools, baseball teams and more than 40 other projects and activities over the course of a year.
Kramer said the main responsibility is simply to be present to answer any questions and make sure vendors are organized. “It’s not that hard to run,” Kramer said. “You just have to have someone available. You have to have someone there at the beginning of the market. They’ve got a lot of guys (in the Legion), so one or two times a month they can have a person doing it so it does
not have to be time-consuming.” The market will continue to be sponsored by Downtown Johnstown, as it has for the two years it has been in existence, but operated by the Legion. Commander Bruce Tolle and Legion member Gordon Cromwell said they hope operating the market will raise the Legion’s profile in the community See FARMERS MARKET, page A2
J-M schools EQUIPMENT CHECK outlaw use of tobacco By JENNA GANT ThisWeek Community Newspapers Parents and guests at events are about to lose their tobacco privileges on any school property at Johnstown-Monroe Local Schools. J-M school board president John Davis on Feb. 24 said the school district would become 100 percent tobacco-free as soon as signs are ordered and put up around the schools. The board voted to change its policy on Feb. 14 when Chad Brown, director of community health in Licking County, and Mary Richardson presented reasons for going 100 percent tobacco-free at the school board meeting. The district is already 100 percent smoke-free in accordance with state law. Richardson, speaking on behalf of the health education department, said the policy prohibits all, “tobacco use, smoking and smokeless tobacco products on all school property and all school events.” She said most schools have policies that ban students from smoking, “but they do not include the visitors or parents or people who are coming to events.” The new policy would prohibit anyone from smoking or using tobacco products on school grounds, not just students, Richardson said. She said the district now joins Newark City, Licking Valley, and Per Excellence, a private school in Licking County with the same policy. According to the Ohio Department of Health, Johnstown-Monroe will become the 50th school district in the state switching to a 100 percent tobacco-free policy. An Ohio Department of Health spokesperson said it’s also looking into a districtwide ban of See TOBACCO USE, page A2
Barbershop chorus looking for a mermaid Members of the Land of Legend Barbershop Chorus, who are currently preparing for their annual show April 2 at Newark’s Midland Theatre, are in search of a mermaid. According to Bruce Tolle of Johnstown, a member of the chorus, this year’s show will have a beach and ocean theme, and one of the necessary props is a mermaid. The person who had been cast will not be able to play the part, so Tolle said they’re looking for a replacement. See MERMAID, page A2
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BOE OKs phone, Internet changes to save $10K By MICHAEL J. MAURER ThisWeek Community Newspapers The Northridge Local School District Board of Education approved changes to Internet and phone contracts Feb. 22 that are expected to save about $10,000 annually. Shawn Wilkoski, technology administrator, told the board that entering into a five-year contract for Internet service instead of a one-year contract should save the district approximately $5,000 annually.
In addition, a reduction from 10 cents per minute to 3 cents per minute in the phone services contract should contribute to another $5,000 monthly savings in phone service costs. The new phone service will allow the district to have dedicated direct dial phone numbers to a limited number of offices, such as athletics, administration, and building principals. “This would ease the burden in the offices,” Wilkoski said. “For example, if someone calls for the guidance office, the call goes to the (administration) office and then gets transferred to guid-
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Teacher using netbooks to engage her students By JENNA GANT the kids to go to and find inforThisWeek Community Newspa- mation,” Sharpe said. “Basicalpers ly they have to find the information and then we go over it in Kathy Sharpe’s six-grade so- class.” cial studies class at Adams MidSharpe traded books for techdle School learns without the use nology after receiving a local grant of textbooks. Instead her students at the end of the 2010 school year use netbooks, similar to small lap- for 25 netbooks. top computers. This is the first year she’s taught “I spent a lot of time research- with them as her main teaching ing a lot of different websites for tool.
“I can find the information. I can send the kids to the right place,” Sharpe said. “When they search and find the information themselves, they seem to learn it a lot better than if the information is just given to them. “They take more of an ownership of what they are doing,” she said.
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TOBACCO USE Continued from page A1 tobacco products on school property, which includes buses and vehicles, to parents and visitors as well as at off-campus school events. To help make the transition easier for the community, Davis said the schools would make public announcements and list the new policy in sporting programs. He said school officials might need to monitor the issue at sporting events to enforce the new policy. “I know even at basketball games people will walk outside and think they are OK,” Davis said, “so we’ll just have to try to police that the best we can.” Richardson acknowledged that some schools have trouble enforcing the policy. She said those school administrators recommend “getting everyone involved.” “Having everyone help enforce this policy,” Richardson said, “Having students get involved or having enforcement officers, whether that’s a parent or school teacher or a coach.” Richardson said there are several benefits to becoming a 100 percent tobacco-free school. “It provides positive role modeling, it re-
duces youth observation of tobacco use. It supports preventive messages,” she said. Richardson said Licking County would provide some assistance to Johnstown-Monroe. She said the county health department could provide a $2,500 stipend and even offer cessation services to school district employees to help them to try to quit smoking. Richardson said the health department would also help with a “communications plan, tobacco-free signage and money set aside to provide incentives to promote the policy.” Some of those incentives include giving away basketballs or stadium cushions at sporting events “just thanking people for supporting the policy.” Supporting that policy, Richardson said, will keep students away from a dangerous drug. “Schools are responsible for providing a safe environment for their students,” Richardson said. “If they don’t see it at school or at school functions then their chances will be decreased.” Johnstown-Monroe superintendent Damien Bawn, through an email on Feb. 24, said he anticipates the “transition to be completed during the summer and full implementation to start with the new school year.”
and help recruit new members. “A lot of our guys are World War II vets, and Korean guys who are getting up there,” Tolle said. “They used to march from downtown to the cemetery and not many of those guys can do that anymore.” Cromwell said the Legion would like to recruit members from the generation of soldiers who have served in wars since the 1980s. “We need the Persian Gulf, Iraq and Afghanistan,” Cromwell
said. “I’m a member of the Vietnam Veterans of American in Newark, and I’m the average age there because it’s Vietnam. But in the VFW in Newark I’m young, and in the Legion I’m certainly young. We need new blood.” Cromwell said volunteering in the Legion is something that serves both the veterans and the community. “You don’t feel the need or urge to serve in something like this until you are older,” Cromwell said. “You especially see that when you see these
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Development officials challenge prevailing-wage laws By MICHAEL J. MAURER ThisWeek Community Newspapers Local county and municipal economic development officials are arguing that confusion over state prevailing-wage laws are driving away economic development. Licking County economic development manager Rob Klinger said two companies have turned down “Rapid Outreach Grants” from Ohio, although both companies still plan to expand in the area. “We ran into a bit of a jam, with two companies, both declined the grants, because of prevailing wage,” Klinger said. “It would cost them more in their project than the grant was worth. One company was already here and was going to expand here or look at going to West Virginia. Another company declined it because it increased the project cost. They’ve got to look at the bottom line to decide if it’s worth it. It becomes financially not feasible because they lose money.” Ohio’s prevailing-wage law, according to the state’s Department of Com-
merce, requires public authorities “to pay the workers on most of their construction projects the local ‘prevailing wage.’ As long as the cost of the public authority’s project exceeds a threshold amount (adjusted the first of January in every even-numbered year), and the type of project is not specifically exempted by law, the prevailing wage requirement is triggered. The amount is currently $73,891 for construction projects and $22,166 for reconstruction, enlargement, alteration, repair, remodeling, renovation or painting projects.” The problem becomes acute when other states offer equivalent grants without imposing prevailing-wage conditions, Klinger said. Prevailing wage is usually tied to union-contract wage rates. The Ohio Division of Industrial Compliance and Labor states that prevailing wage includes the hourly rate of pay, the pension contribution made by the employer and the benefits cost paid by the employer. Licking County has more than two dozen prevailing-wage categories as-
sociated with specific union contracts. One bricklayer contract, for example, provides a base wage of $25 per hour and $35 per hour in total compensation with all benefits. Actual prevailing-wage rates for any individual project are determined by the Department of Industrial Compliance and Labor. Chris Strayer, vice president of the Ohio Economic Development Association, said his organization has requested that Gov. John Kasich’s administration issue an executive order that would not change existing law but would confirm that a previous administration order is no longer effective. “We’re asking for an executive order from the governor’s office that states what the rules are pertaining to prevailing wage,” Strayer said. “We’re not asking for anything to change. We’re just asking for it to be recognized that this is the way the rules are going to be applied. It’s more or less a PR statement that we can take out to site selectors and say this is the way it’s going to be while Gov. Kasich is in office.” Before Gov. Ted Strickland took of-
fice, prevailing-wage rules would apply to a roadway project in an industrial park if the roadway were funded with state money, Strayer said, but not to every project in the park. Gov. Strickland changed that. “A few years ago under Gov. Strickland, they reread the rules regarding how prevailing wage was applied to projects,” Strayer said. “Before then, if you had an industrial park and you got state funds for a roadway, prevailing wage was used only for the construction of the roadway. The rereading of the rules by Gov. Strickland was that, if you received public funds for the roadway, then every single project, every private development in that industrial park also had to be built with prevailing wage.” The Ohio Supreme Court eventually reversed Strickland’s executive order, Strayer said, but national site selectors often are not aware of the reversal. “There was a lot of turmoil about that — a lot of confusion,” Strayer said. “The state Supreme Court had reversed that, but the problem is, there are a lot of national site selectors and corporate
real estate people out there who do not know that this has been reversed. They’re still confused by what the reading of the rules is. We’ve asked that Gov. Kasich make an executive statement to give clarity to what the prevailing-wage rules are.” Strayer said it is difficult to quantify lost business because no one knows how many times the state simply was not included as an option for a new site. “The state of Ohio has lost a lot of projects because of this confusion,” Strayer said. “We can’t really quantify it because what happened with a lot of national site selectors, when the reinterpretation of the rule came out, they just crossed Ohio off their list. There were a lot of projects we were never even considered for because no one wanted to pay the prevailing wage on their private project. “You can’t quantify how many millions of dollars were lost by the state for that, but now we are trying to repair our image with national site selectors and get back to attracting new jobs.” www.ThisWeekNews.com
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Continued from page A1 higher than the Ohio Department of Taxation had projected. But overall it’s still 4.4 percent less than the January 2009 collections. The good news is, it’s a little higher than we had projected in the five-year forecast.” The increased collection represents $19,000 more than the district had estimated. Hudson also reported that the Licking Area Computer Association had notified the district that it intended to destroy old computer tapes that held payroll records from the 1980s and 1990s. “LACA has old payroll tapes from the ’80s and early ’90s in storage,” Hudson said. “We still have the records on file and they still have the information (in other formats). They just have these old reels, I’m not sure what they are, and they don’t have the technology to read it anymore and we don’t have the technology. We do have it backed up ourselves.” Superintendent John Shepard reported that a family that had volunteered to pay its income tax to the district voluntarily had sent in a $120 donation in January. “I was approached by a family that wanted to pay the income tax, even though it is not coming out of their paycheck,” Shepard said. “Out of respect for that family, it is an anonymous donation. They did send us a check last month. We are approving that donation and keeping track of it. “It speaks highly for not only that family but our community for stepping forward. That will go into our general fund, as would the income tax if it had passed.”
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Sharpe said her class textbooks “don’t actually meet the state standards. It’s kind of hit or miss” so she saves a lot of time “sorting out the information” she needs. Sharpe said netbooks make her job easier and help her students retain information they go over in class. Student Andrew Sayer said even though it was “overwhelming at first,” he’s learning better with netbooks. He said it’s easier to gather information for class discussion topics compared to a textbook. “It gives you many sources of information rather than one source from a book,” Sayer said. Savannah Steele, also in Sharpe’s class, agrees. “You get different perspectives on life and events in time, while in a book you only get one perspective that’s been edited,” Steele said. Sharpe believes it’s those dif-
ferent viewpoints that help keep her students interested. “I think the students are engaged. They are so much more engaged in their learning with the netbooks than with the textbooks,” Sharpe said. She said her students also can learn a hands-on approach compared to pencil and paper. When studying Egypt, Sharpe said her students could take a virtual tour of the pyramids, float down the Nile River and learn how to mummify things. “They enjoy it so much more,” Sharpe said. “When they find something they get so excited.” Because students are so adept to playing on computers and video games, Sharpe said the netbooks have become an integral part of learning in her class. She said she makes sure her students attribute website pages so she knows exactly where they received their information. Sharpe said the only real problem with netbooks is grading assignments because “if they type
up a report we have to make sure it’s printed.” Sharpe said she’s also working on a drop box application where students “just drop their information into my computer and I can read it from my computer.” After 34 years in the education field, Sharpe said she’s never teaching with just textbooks again.
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Relay For Life slates March 3 meeting Relay For Life of Johnstown will hold committee and team meetings in Johnstown Village Council Chambers on Thursday, March 3 The committee is scheduled for 6 p.m., with teams meeting at 7 p.m. According to Jacquelyn Dismuke, one of the organizers, there are still openings on key committees. She indicated that the all volunteer committee “is desperately seeking individuals who can step into several key positions.” They include work in entertainment and accounting, and an advocacy chair and event co-chair are still needed. Anyone interested in becoming a committee member is asked to call Mary Wiswell at 740-9673323 or e-mail mary@logoprinting.com for more information. Relay For Life of Johnstown is scheduled for June 24 and 25.
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in 1854 to another entrepreneur, Peter Hayden. Hayden had come to Columbus in the 1830s and begun a number of enterprises. He started a business making saddles and other equipment for horses, using the labor of prisoners at the nearby Ohio Penitentiary. At the same time, he opened his own foundry producing bar iron, hoop iron and wire from pig iron and scrap iron. Eventually, Hayden and his family would also invest heavily in the coal and iron fields of southeastern Ohio. In 1838, John Gill and others built Gill’s Foundry with about 25 workers on the west side of the Scioto and developed a good business making stoves and other iron goods. In 1855, the company began making a combination steel plow that sold quite well and later began making railroad cars, as well. In 1849, Charles Ambos and James Lennox started the Eagle Foundry with $8,000. When the business was sold in 1854, the foundry became a joint stock company under the name of the Columbus Machine Manufacturing Co. Employing more than 125 men, it provided the iron for the roof of the new Statehouse as well as all of the iron ceilings and railings in the building.
And while all of this was going on, other factories were making other sorts of goods. Two men named Brotherlin and Halm began producing chairs and cabinetware by steam-powered machinery in 1853. Another company began making wooden hollowware — tubs and pails, primarily — in a factory along the river in 1856. By 1858, there were others. A local description reported that they included Ohlen and Drake’s steam-powered saw factory, Hines and Miller’s steam-powered paper mill, and Butlers’ coffee- and spice-grinding mill. And almost as an afterthought, the author noted that there were “two extensive breweries at the south end of the city.” All of these enterprises contributed importantly to the success of Columbus. In all, they employed several hundred men, many of them recent immigrants from Ireland and Germany who worked alongside recent arrivals — black and white — from rural Ohio. These new factories formed the beginnings of industry in Columbus and a pattern of industrial growth and success that has continued to the present day. Ed Lentz writes a history column for ThisWeek.
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Lydia Ulry was happy for the win and the recognition. Ulry and her Johnstown-Monroe High School girls basketball teammates will receive letterjacket patches for reaching a Division III district tournament semifinal by beating LindenMcKinley 47-22 in the second round on Feb. 23 at Dublin Scioto. The Johnnies play third-seeded Bloom Carroll at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 2, at Olentangy Orange. “Everyone’s pretty excited about the patch,” said Ulry, a senior forward who scored nine points against Linden. “Now we have made our mark by winning a sectional title. We’ll get our number (2010-11) on a banner
in the gym and we’ll get a patch.” The Johnnies improved to 616. Linden finished 5-15. “We set the goal of winning the MBC, and that didn’t happen, so I challenged the girls that they could make their mark this way,” said coach Connie Allen, whose team beat fourth-seeded Marion Elgin 55-47 in the first round on Feb. 16 at Gahanna. “They came out and played great against Elgin and now won a sectional.” The game against Linden was never in doubt. The Johnnies scored the first 10 points and led 14-4 after the first quarter. They led 26-8 at halftime and 38-13 after three quarters. “I think we came out and got a lead and kind of settled back a bit,” Allen said. “It’s hard not to do that, but we did do a good job
defensively.” Laiken Valentine led Johnstown with 10 points and Holly Sammons added eight points. Bloom-Carroll improved to 18-4 by defeating Ready 46-36 in the second game Feb. 23 at Scioto. Ashley Milligan, a 5-foot-8 senior guard, led Bloom-Carroll with 25 points. Senior forward Abby Seymour (5-9) had eight points and senior forward Briana Wagner (5-8) added seven points. “We saw them in the opening round against West Jefferson (4435 win),” Allen said. “We just have to play like we did against Elgin. We have to shut them down defensively. We need to finish our layups and hit our outside shots.” Sammons said the Johnnies must be aggressive against the
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Johnstown’s Patrick Wilson shoots over Worthington Christian’s Chris Bradley on Feb. 22 during their Division III district tournament game, which the Johnnies lost 52-38.
Bulldogs. “We have to play good, tough defense and stay on their shooters,” she said. “And we have to make our shots. When we’re open, we have to make the shots.” The winner will play in a district final against second-seeded North Union or Galion Northmor at 4 p.m. Saturday, March 5, at Orange. North Union improved to 21-1 by defeating Marion Pleasant 52-33 on Feb. 22 in a second-round game at Marysville. The Wildcats’ only
loss came against DeSales 55-52 on Dec. 15. Northmor improved to 10-11 by defeating Fredericktown 4231 on Feb. 22 at Marysville. The Johnnies have not played Bloom-Carroll, North Union or Northmor this season. The district champion advances to play Springfield Northeastern, Hamilton Badin, Versailles or Casstown Miami East at 6:15 p.m. March 9 at Springfield. •The wrestling team qualified three competitors to the Division
III district tournament, which concluded Feb. 26 at Coshocton. The top four in each weight class advanced to state ThursdaySaturday, March 3-5, at Ohio State. Senior heavyweight Brendin Cornwell advanced to district by finishing second at the Madison Plains sectional, which concluded Feb. 19. Junior Joey Dismuke was third at 189 and freshman Clayton Bullard was fourth at See JOHNNIES, page A8
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The Vikings’ Kelsey Garrabrant (center) battles Caledonia River Valley’s Abby Guinther (left) and Tayler Hall for control of the ball Feb. 16 during their Division III district tournament game. Northridge lost to Mount Gilead 55-45 in overtime on Feb. 24 in second-round play.
Coach Ashley Holmberg believed that if her Northridge High School girls basketball team took care of the ball and ran its offense, the Vikings would reach their first Division III district tournament semifinal in nine years. The Vikings handled those tasks but were only 2-for-12 from the free-throw line in a 65-55 overtime loss to ninth-seeded Mount Gilead on Feb. 24 at Granville. Northridge finished 11-11 overall after winning three games last season and eight in the previous four seasons. The Vikings’ last district semifinal appearance came in 2002, when they had a first-round bye and defeated Johnstown-Monroe 49-45 before losing to North Union 54-53. “We really played well, but it came down to free throws, which have been our Achilles’heel all season,” said Holmberg, whose team
committed only five turnovers. “We played great defensively, and we played great when (Keilah Ketron) got into quick foul trouble.” Ketron, a 6-foot-2 senior post player, committed her second foul with 3 minutes, 9 seconds remaining in the first period and the Vikings leading 8-4. With their inside presence and leading scorer on the bench until the second half, the Vikings led 1816 after one period and 31-30 at halftime. “We had some of our other girls step up when we needed them to the most,” Holmberg said. “They kept us in the game. I couldn’t have been happier with the way they played.” Mount Gilead led 42-38 entering the fourth quarter, but a Ketron layup gave Northridge a 47-44 lead with 3:37 remaining in regulation. The Vikings went 1-for-6 on free throws the rest of the fourth quarter, sending the game to overtime tied at 48.
Mount Gilead’s Ashley Ohler scored 14 of her 19 points in overtime. Lauren Cornwell led the Vikings with 14 points with two 3-pointers and Sara Pribonic had 12 points with two 3s and four rebounds. Kelsey Garrabrant had 10 points with three 3-pointers and Sierra Fronk scored seven points. Ketron had eight points with six rebounds and six blocked shots. •The boys basketball team opened Division III district tournament play by beating Galion Northmor 54-52 in the first round Feb. 23 at Newark. The 11th-seeded Vikings advanced to play eighth-seeded Horizon Science in the second round Feb. 26. The winner advanced to a district semifinal against top-seeded Heath or Ready at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 2, in the Fairgrounds Coliseum. Northridge lost at Heath 45-42 See VIKINGS, page A8
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VIKINGS Continued from page A7 on Dec. 3 in the season opener for both teams. Heath was 15-5 before Feb. 26. The Vikings have not played Ready, which was 615 before Feb. 26. The district final will be at 9 p.m. March 9 at the Fairgrounds against fourth-seeded North Union, sixth-seeded Columbus Academy, seventh-seeded Marion Pleasant or Worthington Christian. Against Northmor, Nick Nixon led with 19 points and four 3pointers. Caleb Higgins had nine points and Aaron Estep, Justin Howard and Tony Rios added eight points apiece. “Nick was on with four 3pointers, and we had a balanced attack behind him,� said coach John Wheeler, whose team improved to 13-8 overall. “It was good to get out there and get a win in a close game like that. That can hopefully help us out down the road.� Northridge lost its regular-season finale 42-36 to Utica in MBC play. Nixon scored 12 points and
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Photo of the week GIMME FIVE — The Northland boys basketball team celebrates with the championship trophy after winning its fifth consecutive City League title with a 59-52 victory over Walnut Ridge on Feb. 19 at Columbus East.
Connor Burke added nine points. Fredericktown won the MBC title at 13-1 followed by Utica (11-3), Northridge (10-4), Centerburg (9-5), East Knox (6-8), Loudonville (3-11) and both Danville and Johnstown (2-12). •The wrestling team qualified five competitors for the Division III district tournament, which concluded Feb. 26 at Coshocton. The top four in each weight class advanced to the state Thursday-Saturday, March 3-5, at Ohio State. Thomas Williams improved to 47-1 by winning a championship at 130 pounds in the sectional at Cardington, which concluded Feb. 19. The sophomore defeated Alex Cornwell of Northmor 10-1 in the title match. Also placing in the top four to advance to district were Parker Fox (112), Rob Mickey (140), Shane Mulligan (125 pounds) and Anthoney Verhovec (heavyweight). Mulligan was runner-up and improved to 35-13, and Mickey was third and improved to 33-10. Fox (21-7) and Verhovec (31-16) both finished fourth.
The Vikings (140 points) were sixth of 15 teams at sectional behind champion Northmor (182). •The boys and girls swimming teams failed to advance any competitors to the Division II state meet, which concluded Feb. 25 in Canton. The Vikings competed in the boys 400-yard relay and the girls 400 relay at district Feb. 18 at Ohio State. The top three boys and top four girls in each district event advanced to state, with the remainder of the field coming from top times throughout the state. The boys 400 relay of Brandon Eckstein, Joe Larson, Beau Hammock and Paul Hager finished 28th (4:16.98). Columbus Academy (3:14.71) won the event. The girls 400 relay of Brittany Hupp, Vivian Carney, Allison Everhart and Mickellea Tennis finished 26th (4:29.43). The Vikings did not score any team points. Granville won the boys (368) and girls (256) meets.
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JOHNNIES Continued from page A7 171. The top four in each weight class advanced to district. The Johnnies (59 points) finished ninth of 12 teams at sectional behind champion West Jefferson (254.5). •The boys basketball team lost to Worthington Christian 5238 in the first round of Division III district play on Feb. 22 at Orange to finish 5-16. Sam Scovell scored nine points
with five rebounds and Matt Smith also had nine points. Taylor Atwood scored eight points and Patrick Benton had five rebounds and three assists. Harley O’Flaherty also had three assists. “We didn’t play well in the first half, and had 16 turnovers (before halftime),� coach Kevin Martin said. “We were down 10 (2717) and could have been down more. We just needed to have a consistent effort from all five guys on the court.�
In the MBC finale on Feb. 18, the Johnnies lost to Centerburg 59-34. Atwood and O’Flaherty scored nine points apiece and Smith added eight points. Fredericktown won the MBC title at 13-1, followed by Utica (11-3), Northridge (10-4), Centerburg (9-5), East Knox (6-8), Loudonville (3-11) and both Danville and Johnstown (2-12). shennen@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com
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