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Cops probe homicide of Sugar Hill woman

By Joshua Sharpe

investigators were gathered in the chill at 1072 Anthony Drive, searching for answers on what happened to the SUGAR HILL — The victim and who did it. So far Gwinnett County Police De- there is no word on a cause partment is investigating the or time frame of death for homicide of a woman who the woman, who is in her was found dead Tuesday in mid-50s and hasn’t been her home off Old Suwanee identified publicly.

Road.

The house, barely in At 4:30 p.m., upwards Sugar Hill, is a modest, of a dozen officers and dark brown three-bedroom

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with wind chimes and bird feeders on the porch and a Chrysler van and old Ford pickup in the driveway.

Cpl. Michele Pihera, police spokeswoman, said a family member found the slain woman at about 1 p.m. after several days without contact.

The victim’s husband, who is disabled, was inside when crews arrived.

Pihera said police were

looking into “why 911 wasn’t called earlier by the husband.” It wasn’t clear if he was able to make the call.

The man, who neighbors said had seen health troubles recently, was taken to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries. His issues appeared to be related to his existing condition, Pihera

Investigators enter the Sugar Hill home where a woman was found dead Tuesday.

(Staff Photo: Joshua Sharpe)

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Gwinnett transportation projects to get state funding

By Curt Yeomans curt.yeomans@gwinnettdailypost.com

Gov. Nathan Deal announced on Tuesday that Georgia will spend $2.2 billion on transportation improvements over the next 18 months, including about $30.1 million in Gwinnett County, as officials begin rolling out the state’s new infrastructure plan.

The projects included in the plan will be the among the first paid for through the state’s new transportation funding formula that was signed into law last year. The projects range from intersection improvements, to roadway, resurfacing and maintenance, and bike and pedestrian projects.

The state has also launched a new See TRANSPORTATION, Page 7A Dr. Abigail Hielscher discusses the parts of the brain and what happens during head trauma. (Special Photos)

Head knowledge High schoolers learn of concussions, more at GA-PCOM

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SUWANEE — Thirty-two students from various high schools in Gwinnett went through a head trauma and traumatic brain injury experience Monday at the Georgia Campus of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

The students, who are a part of the Gwinnett Medical Center Medical Explorer program, studied both issues as they related to a case study involving a high school football player who took a hard hit.

“The Medical Explorer’s visit to PCOM is one of the many experiences that make up the program,” said Susan M. Stubbs, director of learning resources at Gwinnett Medical Center. “This

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Students practice stapling a head laceration.

particular site visit helps them to understand the medical school environment and the wide variety of careers available to doctors and mid-level practitioners.”

The entire experience was to

give the Explorers a chance to see various medical careers and get a look inside a medical school located in Gwinnett County.

Among the stations the

students visited were proper boarding of a person who has sustained a head injury, an exploration of the various brain traumas, closure of minor skin wounds and pharmacotherapy considerations.

During an exploration of the various brain traumas, the students had a chance to listen to Dr. Abigail Hielscher and Dr. Mircea Anghelescu, who both used real brains to describe injuries.

“When you hit your head, your skull stops,” Hielscher told the students. “But your brain doesn’t stop until it hits the See PCOM, Page 7A

Lawrenceville man wins $1M Powerball prize

By Keith Farner keith.farner@gwinnettdailypost.com

A Lawrenceville man who stopped into a Gwinnett gas station is $1 million richer.

Dennis Taimanglo, a 38-year-old father of one, bought the lottery ticket at the Simonton Shell station at 920 New Hope Road in Lawrenceville, Georgia Lottery spokeswoman Kimberly M. Starks said Monday. He claimed his prize Monday afternoon.

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Lottery winner Dennis Taimanglo of Lawrenceville poses with his check, joined by his fianceé, Lani. (Special Photo)

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Alleged topiary Ex-Falcon Anderson pleads DUI guilt thief planted at county jail

By Joshua Sharpe

ed and must do 40 hours of communiFormer Atlanta Falcon ty service.

Jamal Anderson pleaded The guilty to DUI in GwinSuwanee nett County on Tuesday, resident Jamal volvement in the case began sidestepping additional jail was out on Anderson on Nov. 28, when a man time. bond from reported a special-order Anderson, the ex-runa November 2014 arrest utility trailer stolen from a ning back known for his on Interstate 85, where business at 6404 Pleasant“Dirty Bird” touchdown the Georgia State Patrol’s dale Road, police said. Sur- celebration, got 12 months report said, he parked veillance video showed a probation and must avoid and passed out behind the white man, driving a rental alcohol and drugs, prosecu- wheel of a Cadillac SUV. truck, inspecting the trailer tor Mihae Park said. He According to the report, in the parking lot. was also served with notice an off-duty Brookhaven On Dec. 30, the victim that his license is suspend- police officer first recalled 911 to report seeing a man believed to be the crook driving past the same address.

Police found evidence of By Joshua Sharpe that said the husband several other stolen trailers, joshua.sharpe had “chased” one of the @gwinnettdailypost.com one from Forsyth County. couple’s sons during an arAt King’s home, there were gument just before the fall.

The death of a Lawalso stolen articles of lawn The police equipment and the sculpted renceville-area father of attribthree has been ruled acplants from the Norcross uted the cidental by the Gwinnett businesses Topiary CourtinformaCounty Medical Examyard, Buck Jones Nursery tion to the and Green Reyno Nursery, iner’s Office, police said. son. The Jeffrey Williams, 50, as well as Family Tree mother Garden Center in Snellville, a U.S. Army veteran and said the one-time policeman, died police said. father was Jeffrey Williams after tripping in the second walking story of his home off Ronnormally Gwinnett police say these ald Reagan Parkway on and was only going to people are suspected of Dec. 20. Wife Kelly Wilspeak with the son. being behind a scam inliams told the Daily Post The real cause of Jeffrey volving rental homes in the on Tuesday she believes a Williams’ death, the wife Lawrenceville area. Police said, was the railing, which said the man is 30-year-old shoddy job of attaching a railing on the stairs caused has been examined by two Decatur resident Julius him to fall to the foyer engineers who found the Ball and the woman goes by various names includarea. attachment unsuitable. ing Camilla Jones, Melissa She also disputed previ- The family moved into the Hyatt and, simply, Star. ous reports from police house 11 years ago and joshua.sharpe @gwinnettdailypost.com

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After hitting him with a Taser, Gwinnett police arrested a man accused of stealing trailers, vehicles and topiaries from plant nurseries around the county.

Paul King, 35, of Lilburn remains in jail on a slew of Paul King charges, without bond. Police announced his Dec. 30 arrest on Tuesday, saying he fought with officers and tried to run away during the apprehension on Baker Street in unincorporated Atlanta.

Gwinnett officers’ in-

sponded to the scene after being “flagged down by motorists” who spotted the Escalade in a HOT lane near Ga. Highway 316.

Gwinnett fire officials had also received numerous reports of “a driver passed out behind the wheel of the vehicle.”

A GSP trooper responded around 5:40 p.m. and noted that Anderson appeared “unsteady” on his feet and had a “heavy” odor of alcohol.

“I asked Anderson why he had stopped in the middle of the interstate,

noting that it was extremely dangerous and asked him if he was trying to hurt himself,” the trooper wrote.

“He stated that he wasn’t trying to hurt himself and he didn’t really have a good explanation as to why he had parked in the middle of the interstate.”

Anderson played for the Falcons from 1994 to 2001, leading the team’s improbable Super Bowl run in 1998. He was arrested on DUI charges in DeKalb County in 2012, though the charge was ultimately reduced to reckless driving.

Lawrenceville dad’s death ruled accidental

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had never known that the railing was only attached by glue and a few nails, she said.

“This is such a tragedy because it was so preventable,” she said.

When authorities arrived to the home, they found the man in the foyer, bloodied.

The homicide unit was called in, per Gwinnett police protocol, police have said. But on Monday, the police department announced that the death had been ruled an accident.

According to the obituary, Williams was memorialized in a casual service Tom M. Wages Funeral Services’ Snellville chapel.

“No dress clothes,” the obit demanded. “Jeff hated suits and ties. He was not

a formal type of guy. At his daughter’s wedding he switched back into his tux T-shirt as soon as he could.”

Instead, all were asked to wear apparel from their favorite college football team. The preference was University of Alabama, where Williams’ sons, Brookwood grad Kellen and Archer alumnus Kieran, have been on the Crimson Tide’s roster.

“This is the way Jeff would have wanted it and he will be there with all of us,” the obit said. “In the words of Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant, ‘If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, ‘Roll, Tide, Roll!’”

Snellville takes step toward town center project Cops seek suspects, B J S Great Recession brought a elected, he said he expects the age requirement for y oshua

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measure of stagnation.

Developers are showing interest again.

SNELLVILLE — City “We’re talking about officials on Monday night commercial, retail, resivoted to pay a firm to cre- dential,” said City Managate updated and detailed er Butch Sanders. He said

By Joshua Sharpe the suspects were able to get plans for the town center the updated plans would joshua.sharpe into the home to show it to area. be needed for the develop@gwinnettdailypost.com the victim, but a few days Clark, Patterson, Lee ment to happen, and would The Gwinnett County later, a real estate agent who will get up to $40,000 address storm water issues, Police Department is look- actually had the right to under the agreement apland planning, engineering ing for additional victims rent the property showed up proved unanimously by the and the like. and the suspects who posed with a prospective tenant. mayor and city council.

Mayor Tom Witts, who as real estate agents to steal In the second case, the Officials billed the vote as won his seat in November, thousands in a house rental female suspect gave an ina major step toward reviv- said a key issue on the scam. terested renter the lockbox ing the plans to beef up the campaign trail was the The flimflammers are code to get the key to look heart of Snellville after the town center. Now that he’s believed to be 30-year-old at a house at 836 DoningDecatur man Julius Ball ton Circle. The victim was and a woman who goes by satisfied with the home and various names, including paid $3,600 cash. After Camilla Jones, Melissa Hy- seeing a news report about att and, simply, Star, police a similar scam, the victim said Tuesday. In the scam, realized she, too, had been the suspects are accused of taken. taking information from ads In the third case, a victim for rental properties off the paid $1,300 cash to rent Internet and creating their 915 Donington Circle, own bogus ads for the same moved some belongings homes, then taking people’s in and returned a few days money. later to find that the locks The lead investigator had been changed. believes there could be Anyone with information other victims in the city can contact 770-513-5300. of Newnan and Cobb and To remain anonymous, Fulton counties. tipsters can contact Crime Police released informa- Stoppers at 404-577-TIPS tion on three unincorpo(8477) or visit www. rated Lawrenceville cases crimestoppersatlanta.org. from December.

Crime Stoppers offers a In the first, a couple paid reward of up to $2,000 for $2,200 cash to rent a house information leading to an at 311 Moorland Court. Au- arrest and indictment in the thorities didn’t reveal how case.

victims in phony home rental scam

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progress.

“We are determined to deliver and we have a lot of interest from outside developers,” he told the crowd gathered for the meeting.

Councilwoman Barbara Bender agreed.

“We really do have a lot of good things that are percolating around the town center and around the city,” she said.

Also during the meeting: • The council voted unanimously to decrease

the senior center from 62 to 55.

• Witts announced that the Jan. 18 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day festivities, which begin at 10 a.m. behind City Hall, will include a speech from civil rights icon Tommie Smith.

During the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, the 200-meter champion raised a fist covered with a black leather glove as he stood on the medal podium. The gesture became a symbol of the civil rights movement.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2016 • 3A

GCPS mentoring program seeking more participants

By Keith Farner

tor in real life.

“Mentoring relationships are basic human connections that let a young person know As part of celebrating that they matter,” James National Mentoring Month, Rayford, the director of Gwinnett County Public GCPS’ Community-Based Schools is promoting a Mentoring Program, said in slogan to encourage more a press release. “And menpeople to get involved: Men- tees frequently report back

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that their relationships make them feel like someone is there to help them make the right choices in life.”

During January, the school district’s CommunityBased Mentoring Program is celebrating the month with a campaign to expand quality mentoring opportunities and connect more young people with caring adults.

“The evidence is clear: Mentoring works,” Rayford said. “The bond between a mentor and mentee is power-

ful and can positively change the trajectory of a young person’s life. Mentoring is linked to improved academic, social and economic prospects for young people, and that ultimately strengthens our community.”

The program often touts research that has said mentors involved in a young person’s life lead to higher grades and lower chance of engaging in behavior like skipping school or using illegal drugs.

A recent nationwide study titled The Mentoring Effect, reports young people who were at-risk of not completing high school, but who had a mentor, were 55 percent more likely to be enrolled in college than those who did not have a mentor. They also were: • 81 percent more likely to report participating regularly in sports or other extracurricular activities • 78 percent more likely to volunteer regularly in their

communities • More than twice as likely to say they held a leadership position in a club or on a sports team.

The same report found that one in three young people in our country will grow up without a mentor.

The report was commissioned by Mentor: The National Mentoring Partnership and claims to be the first nationally representative survey of young people’s perspective on mentoring.

New Gwinnett Tech campus adds nearly 700

By Keith Farner

site is expected to eventually support four three-story buildings and the parking necessary to serve up to Gwinnett Technical 10,000 students and be open College’s enrollment is six days a week. approaching 7,000 students The campus is located at thanks to nearly 700 who Old Milton Parkway next enrolled in classes at the new to Ga. Highway 400 across campus in Alpharetta. from the Avalon Shopping Classes began on Wednes- Center. day at the state’s third largest “Our students are off to technical college, which a great start at both camopened a $24 million campuses,” Gwinnett Technical pus and 100,000-square-foot College President Glen Canbuilding that has 35 classnon said in a press release. rooms, labs and offices. The “Whether they are focused full-time on their education, balancing jobs and class, NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS: interested in learning more about a particular discipline Hebron Weekday Preschool admits students of any race, color, or in high school concurearning college credit, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and rently we are honored to support activities generally accorded or made available to students at the them toward rewarding in some of Georgia’s school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national careers top industries.” and ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, The programs offered at the Alpharetta-North admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and Fulton campus were chosen other school-administered programs. after discussions with the keith.farner @gwinnettdailypost.com

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area’s business and economic development leaders.

They will include computer programming, game development, cybercrime specialist, website design/ development, networking specialist, early childhood education, accounting, logistics, criminal justice, business management, marketing management, and hotel, restaurant and tourism management.

The campus will also offer general education math and English classes and prerequisite health care-related programs.

“The Alpharetta-North Fulton Campus expands our footprint in this vibrant, exciting community,” Cannon said. “Our education and training programs — on both campuses — can be designed to help business respond to industry market dynamics.”

Cannon added that his school is a resource for local, national and global technology, health care and service-based companies.

“Continuing education and adult education oppor-

tunities further strengthen our response to individual growth and workforce development,” Cannon said.

“Business and industry leaders want a skilled workforce to drive the economy of this state. Gwinnett Tech is here to help meet that demand.”

School officials are proud to note that incoming high school students from all 10 North Fulton area public high schools will take classes at Gwinnett Tech’s new campus, and employers have also contacted the school to set up additional training for their employees.

The building also includes seven computer labs, three science labs, a library, a bookstore, two 75-seat lecture halls, a Learning Success Center and study areas on all three floors, and offices for student advisement, financial aid and admissions.

Gwinnett Tech has served North Fulton since 2010 and now offers continuing education, adult education and dual enrollment for high school students through the state’s “Move On When Ready” program.

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Symptoms on hiatus following colonosopy DEAR DR. ROACH: I have suffered for several years now from irritable bowel syndrome. I believe my symptoms began after back-to-back bouts of food poisoning, possibly norovirus. That said, I noticed something curious, and a gastroenterologist said that while it was not uncommon, he could offer no explanation. I thought maybe you might have a theory.

I’ve noticed that following a colonoscopy, my bowel movements returned to “normal” in accordance with the Bristol stool chart, and those normal bowel movements continued for anywhere between a month and six weeks before the IBS symptoms returned.

Do you think the process of prepping for colonoscopy removes an excess of bacteria from your colon? If so, would this indicate that IBS may be related to an overgrowth of bacteria? One thing I should add is that in my case, everything remained consistent with respect to diet before the colonoscopy prep and the diet after the colonoscopy.

— K. ANSWER: I often have heard that the pattern of bowel movements changes in some people after a colonoscopy. My experience is that it worsens symptoms at least as often as it helps them. It is clear that the bacteria count in the gut drops dramatically (31-fold) after the preparation, and that the types of bacteria in the gut change in the weeks following a colonoscopy.

I suspect that it isn’t the total number of bacteria but rather their type that has the greater effect on bowel movements.

Several small studies on probiotics (healthy bacteria) in people with IBS have shown some benefit, but others have not.

Since you notice significant benefit with colonoscopy prep, it leads me to hypothesize that you might benefit from probiotics. I would recommend that you discuss this with your gastroenterologist.

DEAR DR. ROACH: Our bodies go through many changes. I understand most of them, but there’s one that befuddles me. What makes our noses and ears grow in size as we age?

— E.J.B. ANSWER: They don’t grow in size, although I know many people believe it. It turns out that the number of cartilage cells reduces somewhat after age 40, but what really happens is that gravity acts on our soft tissues and they droop over time.

The difference is negligible — 0.2 mm per year — but over decades it can be quite noticeable, especially since our brains are remarkably good at noticing changes in people’s faces.

What’s more, the tissues near the nose and ears, especially lips and cheeks, tend to shrink, making the ears and nose appear even larger.

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In 1952, the morning news program “Today” debuted on NBC. In 1954, New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio and actress Marilyn Monroe were married in San Francisco.

In 2010, Yemen declared open war on al-Qaida.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Benedict Arnold (1741-1801), American soldier/ traitor; Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), theologian/physician; Hal Roach (1892-1992), film and TV producer; John Dos Passos (1896-1970), author; Andy Rooney (1919-2011), writer/TV commentator; Faye Dunaway (1941-

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TODAY’S FACT: Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1943 meeting in Casablanca marked the first time a U.S. president traveled by airplane while in office and the first time a president left the country’s soil during wartime.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1973, the undefeated Miami Dolphins completed the only perfect season in NFL history, defeating the Washington Redskins 14-7 in Super Bowl VII.

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Relationship presents extreme challenges DEAR AMY: I am a 22-year-old woman. My father is Muslim and was born in Kuwait. My mother was Catholic and was born in the U.S. (but converted after being with my father).

I was raised Muslim.

Personally, I do not necessarily follow the religion, but I do have respect toward it for my parents’ sake.

I am currently in a very serious relationship with a 21-year-old Christian American man, who is as equally nonreligious as I am. The relationship is very serious, and we have talked about marriage and our futures together almost daily.

Since my parents are very devoted in their faith, I have never talked to them about my relationship (or about any of my previous relationships).

I know they do not expect me to have an arranged marriage, but we have never spoken about it before, except when I was young and that was when I wasn’t even allowed to be friends with boys (taboo in the religion, or at least in my father’s eyes).

I would like some advice on how to approach the situation to talk to them and make them understand.

When my mother saw a picture of me hugging a guy, she said it would “kill my father.” I don’t want to upset them.

I know it will be easier to start with my mother, since she is the American one,

members of the community) pressuring you regarding this relationship. In order for you to live the life you want to live, you may have to emancipate yourself from your parents and your religion (he may have to do the same).

Despite all of this, I want to encourage you to Amy Dickinson exercise your freedom to love the person you want but I just do not have that to love, finding the strength type of relationship with to face your challenges her. together.

— Wondering DEAR AMY: My DEAR WONDERhusband and I live overseas ING: Based on my curand recently got married. sory knowledge about the We plan to return to the issue of Muslim/Christian U.S. this summer, in part to marriages, while a Muslim attend my cousin’s wedman is permitted to marry ding in the hometown our a Christian woman (if she parents share. converts, as your mother We both come from did), a Muslim woman large extended families, so is not allowed to marry a many family members will Christian man and stay in be traveling to attend my the faith. cousin’s nuptials.

My reading about this isMy husband and I were sue and my instincts based thinking of asking my on your letter tell me that cousin and his fiancee if this is going to be tough. they would mind if we You should start by asking hosted a wedding celebrayour parents an open-ended tion (not a full wedding) of our own a week after they question about what their tied the knot. expectations are of your Can you weigh in relationships. If your hugging a man would kill your regarding if our request is justifiably practical — or if father (and if your mother it is just rude to intrude on tells you this), you can expect both of your parents’ the timing of my cousin’s nuptials? We can’t travel reaction to be challenging. home to the U.S. very You and your guy must often, but we do not want to think and talk realistically with each other about what detract attention from their wedding. your lives would be like Are we being practical or either without your parents just gauche? in it, or with them (and — Practical or Gauche other family members and

Ask Amy

DEAR PRACTICAL: It would be gauche (“graceless”) to preempt your cousin’s wedding by planning a celebration to take place just before his; as it is, your idea seems practical and potentially fun (although traveling family members may find extending their own vacations challenging). Keep your plans simple, and as a courtesy run it by both your cousin and his fiancee first.

I hope they will embrace the idea to keep the party going.

DEAR AMY: “Appreciative Out West” doesn’t like the response of “no problem” when they say thank you.

I use “no problem” as a response to a thank you all the time. To me it translates to, “It was my pleasure. I’m glad to help out any time.

Feel free to call me if you need anything.” My goal is to put the person I’ve done something for at ease for the next time.

— No Problem DEAR NO PROBLEM: I got a huge response to this letter. Thank you for the translation.

You can contact Amy Dickinson via email: askamy@tribpub.com. You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or “like” her on Facebook. Amy Dickinson’s memoir, “The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter and the Town that Raised Them” (Hyperion), is available in bookstores.

Do your own thing.

Don’t get trapped in someone else’s dilemma.

A pragmatic approach to life will help you stay on course and reach your goals. Take pride in what you do and finish what you start. Don’t meddle in other people’s affairs or let anyone interfere in your pursuits.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Money matters must be taken seriously. Don’t let anyone stand in your way or prevent you from getting done what needs to get done. A new opportunity will arise if you take care of unfinished business.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Don’t take chances. Protect against injury, and avoid getting into an argument with someone who doesn’t see things the same way you do. Take part in activities that make you happy.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Partnership problems will escalate if you make assumptions or overreact to what’s going on around you. Retreat and do your best to find out exactly what’s going on before making a move.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Enjoy the company of an agreeable someone.

Physical exertion or an update to your image will make you feel good and help you present what you bring to the table.

TAURUS (April 20May 20) — Listen to the advice offered, but make up your own mind. You will have the insight and knowledge to make the best choice. A professional gain is within reach.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Be cautious how you divide your time.

Don’t be too willing to give your all to someone else’s cause or concern.

It’s important that you take care of your business first.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Don’t fear doing things differently. A change will do you good and spark new ideas that can help you make personal and professional gains. Home improvement projects are favored.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You’ll mesmerize those you encounter with your lively attitude and innovative ideas. Good fortune will come your way through the connections you make. Romance is encouraged.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) — Explore new places in order to discover interesting opportunities, but first take care of your responsibilities at home before someone complains. A clear conscience will enhance your performance.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Getting together with people who understand you and can help you see a personal situation clearly will help to ease your mind. Put your needs first.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 22) — Don’t be too trusting of someone showering you with compliments. Ulterior motives lie behind kind gestures.

Focus inward and on the changes that will enhance your life.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Problems will develop if you travel or get into an emotional scuffle with someone equally as passionate about winning arguments as you are. Back down and spare yourself grief.

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world&nation WORLD Paramilitary force raids NYT reporter’s Pakistan home ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani paramilitary force raided the home of the New York Times’ national correspondent on Tuesday in what officials called a routine search operation for a terrorism suspect.

The search at the Islamabad home of Salman Masood came more than two years after Pakistan expelled the Times’ bureau chief, Declan Walsh, during national elections.

A team of the paramilitary Rangers force arrived at Masood’s house at around 7:30 a.m., he said, adding that the officers said they needed to search the home for a “terror suspect.”

Pakistan’s interior ministry said in statement that the raid was “in no way reasonable or acceptable,” but did not elaborate why.

Suicide bomber kills 10 in Istanbul ISTANBUL — A suicide bomber thought to have crossed recently from Syria killed at least 10 people, most of them German tourists, in Istanbul’s historic heart on Tuesday, in an attack Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu blamed on Islamic State.

All of those killed in Sultanahmet square, near the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia — major tourist sites in the center of one of the world’s most visited cities — were foreigners, Davutoglu said. A senior Turkish official said nine were German, while Peru’s foreign ministry said a Peruvian man also died.

Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said the bomber was believed to have recently entered Turkey from Syria but was not on Turkey’s watch list of suspected militants. He said earlier that the bomber had been identified from body parts at the scene and was thought to be a Syrian born in 1988.

English doctors strike for first time in 40 years LONDON — English doctors staged their first strike in 40 years on Tuesday over government plans to reform pay and conditions for working antisocial hours, in a move health chiefs have warned could put patients’ lives at risk.

Junior doctors, or doctors in training, who represent just over half of all doctors in the statefunded National Health Service, said they would only deliver emergency care during the 24-hour walkout.

The government expects some 4,000 non-emergency operations to be canceled during the stoppage, the first industrial action by doctors since 1975, as picket lines went up outside some hospitals.

The doctors are planning a 48-hour stoppage later this month and a full withdrawal of labor, including emergency care, for nine hours on Feb. 10.

— From wire reports

STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS

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Murdoch, Obama knocks anti-Muslim rhetoric Rupert ex-model Hall

By Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton Reuters

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama knocked Republican presidential candidates for anti-Muslim rhetoric and accused critics on Tuesday of playing into the hands of Islamic State in a speech aimed at setting an optimistic tone for his last year in office.

Obama, delivering his last State of the Union speech to Congress before leaving office next year, said it was fiction to declare the United States was in economic decline or getting weaker on the international stage.

In a direct slap at Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, Obama said insulting Muslims hurt the United States and “betrayed” its identity.

“When politicians insult Muslims ... that doesn’t make us safer,” he said, drawing applause from the crowd in the House of Representatives chamber.

“It’s just wrong. It diminishes us in the eyes of the world. It makes it harder to achieve our goals.”

Businessman Trump is leading the Republican field in the race for the Nov. 8 election to replace Obama. Trump has called

NATION SCOTUS strikes down Fla. death sentence process WASHINGTON — Florida’s death penalty sentencing process violates the constitutional rights of criminal defendants by granting judges powers that juries should wield, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, siding with a man convicted of murdering a fried-chicken restaurant manager.

The court’s 8-1 decision means death row inmate Timothy Hurst, 37, could be re-sentenced for the 1998 murder of Cynthia Harrison in Pensacola, potentially avoiding capital punishment.

The case will return to the Florida Supreme Court to determine whether Hurst’s death sentence can be upheld on other grounds.

Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor, writing on behalf of the court, said the right to an impartial jury guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution’s Sixth Amendment “required Florida to base Timothy Hurst’s death sentence on a jury’s verdict, not a judge’s fact-finding.”

Conservative Justice Samuel Alito was the sole dissenter.

Fifth teen accused of New York gang rape in custody NEW YORK — The last of five teens as young as age 14 accused of raping an 18-year-old woman in a Brooklyn playground last week was taken into custody on Tuesday, New York City police said.

Police initially said one of

get engaged

LONDON — Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and former supermodel Jerry Hall got engaged over the weekend, announcing their plans to tie the knot in a classified ad on Tuesday in the Times newspaper, which is owned

by Murdoch’s News Corp.

The 84-year-old executive chairman of News Corp. and 21st Century Fox Inc. and Hall, 59, became engaged in Los Angeles, where they had been attending Hollywood’s Golden Globes awards ceremony on Sunday, the London newspaper reported.

The three-times-married U.S. President Barack Obama smiles as he delivers his final State of the Union address media tycoon and Hall to a joint session of Congress in Washington on Tuesday. (Reuters/Carlos Barria) — who is also a former actress and was the longtime romantic partner of for a temporary ban on and twisted souls plotting be “promptly” returned, Rolling Stones frontman Muslims entering the in apartments or garages, U.S. officials said. The Mick Jagger — began United States and a wall they pose an enormous event gave Republicans dating last summer after on the U.S. border with danger to civilians and further fodder to criticize Mexico to stop the flow of must be stopped. But Obama’s nuclear deal with being introduced by one of Murdoch’s sisters and his illegal immigrants, ideas they do not threaten our Tehran. niece while in Australia, Obama strongly opposes. national existence,” Obama Obama did not address The Democratic presisaid. the issue in his speech. The the Times said. dent said critics played The remarks were a White House expects the into Islamic State’s hands repudiation of criticism of situation to be resolved ‘DC’s Legends of by comparing the fight his strategy against Islamic quickly.

Tomorrow’ to visit against the militant group State, which Republicans The address was one Old West hero to World War III, even as have called insufficient. of Obama’s few remainhe acknowledged that the Obama’s address comes ing chances to capture the Jonah Hex group and al-Qaida posed a as 10 sailors aboard two attention of millions of LOS ANGELES — The direct threat to the Ameri- U.S. Navy boats were Americans before Novempossibilities are endless in can people. taken into Iranian custody. ber’s election of a new a show about time travel, “Masses of fighters on Iran told the United States president who will take and “DC’s Legends of the back of pickup trucks the crew members would office next January.

Tomorrow” intends to take full advantage of its fanHome explosion tastical premise when The in Ohio kills four CW’s superhero spinoff series pays a visit to the Old West in the back half of its A family of four was freshman season, where killed on Monday in an exVariety has learned that our plosion at a house in northheroes will encounter the east Ohio, local authorities iconic DC Comics antihero said.

Jonah Hex. The bodies of a couple “Ever since we decided and two young children that ‘Legends’ would inwere discovered within the charred interior of the house volve time travel, we were in Northfield, about 20 miles eager to do a story set in the Old West,” executive south of Cleveland, NorthNew York City Mayor Bill de Blasio listens to a reporter’s field Center Fire Chief Frank producer Marc Guggenquestion at a news conference at City Hall on Tuesday. heim said. “But if you’re Officials announced a sweeping effort to combat gun vio- Risko told reporters.

An official with the Sum- going to do a story set in lence in New York on Tuesday by convening a new court the DC Universe version of in Brooklyn dedicated to handle gun possession cases mit County Sheriff’s Office the Old West, you simwhile also creating a police unit to focus exclusively on said the cause of the explogun cases. (Reuters/Mike Segar) sion was under investigation ply MUST include Jonah Hex in it. We’re thrilled and gave no further details. about bringing another the teens used a gun to order intolerance.

The identities of the victhe girl’s father to leave the “South Carolinians have tims have not been released. well-known, beloved DC character to television.” playground in the downtrod- tirelessly worked to overThe children were ages 8 den Brownsville section of come a history of hatred and and 12, the news website Brooklyn on Thursday night bigotry, and there is no place Cleveland.com reported.

Study: Percent of and then attacked her. in this state for anyone who female directors Four of the teens, who espouses hatred and bigNYC creates ‘gun range in age from 14 to 17, otry as a campaign slogan,” unchanged courts’ to reduce were charged with a single King’s resolution said. “He LOS ANGELES — count each of rape and sex is not welcome in the state of gun violence Female directors such abuse and two counts of South Carolina.”

NEW YORK — New as “Pitch Perfect 2’s” participating in a criminal Elizabeth Banks and “Fifty York City will establish sex act, police said. The fifth Mom of Texas Shades of Grey’s” Sam special courts for gun possuspect, who was taken into ‘affluenza’ teen Taylor-Johnson scored at session cases and create a custody at about 11 a.m., is awaiting charges, police released from jail police unit dedicated to gun- the box office last year, related investigations as part but their popular success is said. He is 17.

FORT WORTH, Texas of an effort to cut gun crime, an anomaly in an industry that remains dominated by — The mother of a Texas officials said on Tuesday.

S.C. lawmaker men. teen who was derided for Project Fast Track, to Trump: You’re his “affluenza” defense in unveiled at a City Hall press Women comprised 9 percent of directors on the a fatal drunk driving crash conference, is an attempt not welcome top 250 domestic grosswas released from a county to ensure gun cases are CHARLESTON, S.C. ing films and 12 percent of jail on Tuesday and placed prosecuted quickly and ef— A Democratic legisladirectors on the top 500 dounder home confinement ficiently at all levels of the tor in South Carolina has mestic grossing films, acon an electronic monitor, a criminal justice system. a message for Republican cording to a new report by sheriff said.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, U.S. presidential candidate the Center for the Study of Tonya Couch, 48, is joined by state and federal Donald Trump: Stay out of Women in Television and charged with helping her law enforcement chiefs, my state. son Ethan flee to Mexico, court officials and anti-crime Film at San Diego State Representative John King likely in violation of a University. That’s a slight, advocates, made the anfiled a resolution on Tuesday probation deal that allowed nouncement just a week af- 2 percent improvement saying the Republican front- him to avoid prison for ter President Barack Obama over the previous year, but runner’s “abrasive and racist the crash that killed four the same representation said he would take several rhetoric” did not belong women enjoyed in 1998, a people. He is being held executive actions aimed at sign of the durability of this South Carolina, a state that in Mexico while fighting reducing gun violence naparticular celluloid ceiling.

King said has worked to extradition to the United tionwide.

— From wire reports move beyond a past of racial States.

— From wire reports

Ohio suspect hates mug shot, sends selfie to police

By Kim Palmer Reuters

CLEVELAND — An Ohio man wanted for drunken driving, unsatisfied with his police mug shot, sent police a photo he felt was more flattering.

Donald “Chip” Pugh, 45, posted a photo of himself wearing sunglasses in a car after he saw the two mug shots the Lima, Ohio, police department had posted on its Face-

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“Here is a better photo that one is terrible,” Pugh wrote when he sent in the selfie.

The police last week posted the mug shots after an arrest warrant was issued following Pugh’s failure to appear in court on a misdemeanor drunkendriving charge. Pugh is a person of interest in several other cases

including an arson and vandalism.

Pugh’s post quickly captured the attention of police.

“This photo was sent to us by Mr. Pugh himself. We thank him for being helpful, but now we would appreciate it if he would come speak to us at the LPD about his charges,” the police said on Facebook.

Police said Pugh, who could not be reached for comment, is still at large.

Donald “Chip” Pugh is pictured in an undated booking photo, left, and in a selfie. Pugh, who is wanted on a drunken-driving charge, was so dissatisfied with the mug shots that police put on their Facebook page, he posted a “better photo” of himself in a car wearing shades. (Reuters/Lima Police Department)

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Solutions to poverty not posturing In sports, if a game plan is not working, the coach changes it. In medicine, if a course of treatment does not cure a disease, doctors try a different approach.

In government, failure means nothing.

Government keeps cash flowing with little regard for results. In government, failure endures.

In an attempt to change our approach to poverty and to combat the long-held liberal accusation that conservatives care only about tax cuts for the rich and cutting programs for the poor, the Cal Jack Kemp Thomas Foundation sponsored a forum last weekend in Columbia, South Carolina.

Led by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., the gathering focused on ways to help the poor get out and stay out of poverty, which participants charged liberal programs have not done and are incapable of doing.

“U.S. taxpayers have spent over $22 trillion on ‘anti-poverty’ programs since President Lyndon Johnson announced a ‘war on poverty’” in 1964, writes the Heritage Foundation, and yet the poverty rate has not changed all that much, from 19 percent in 1965 to 14.8 percent in 2014. It’s long past time to come at the issue in a different way. Real compassion helps people break their dependency on government and become self-reliant.

Kemp’s optimism is well known to those who were around during the Reagan years. He was an economic conservative, who brought from his pro football career a belief in racial equality, thanks in part to his longstanding friendship with many African-American players. Kemp went into poor neighborhoods and demonstrated by his presence that he cared about helping the poor escape poverty, not sustain them in poverty with a small government check.

Empowerment could have been his middle name.

The key to unlocking the prison door that keeps too many locked in poverty is education. Democrats have consistently stood against school choice for poor children trapped in failing public schools because teachers’ unions often oppose choice and historically contribute to their political campaigns. An educated child is more likely to find a job and be able to support a family. An uneducated child will likely repeat the poverty cycle. That is a fact.

Ask yourself: Are you motivated more by optimism or negativity, by hope, or hopelessness? Donald Trump believes the American dream is dead. How is that approach going to help revive it?

At the Kemp Forum, a video was shown of a faith-based program that frees men from alcohol and drug dependency. One man, a former addict, said, “I have a fire in me I didn’t use to have.”

Lighting a fire inside is essential if a person is to escape poverty Growing the economy, a flat tax and other proposals are all good, but ultimately every poor person must come to embrace the prospect of success over failure, of optimism over pessimism.

They also must listen to the right voices, not the ones associated with the Democratic establishment, which preaches that racism is at the heart of poverty.

They must hear from black entrepreneurs and successful fathers and mothers who have emerged from poverty to build a life independent of government and of a Democratic Party that talks about poverty but has done little to eradicate it. Perhaps that’s what Democrats fear most, that if the poor are no longer addicted to government they will be more independent in their political thinking.

When I was a child my father took the training wheels off my bicycle and said, “You can do this.” He instilled confidence in me and I rode the bike without the training wheels. It’s time to take the training wheels off poverty and help the poor ride on their own. They can do this.

Speakers at the Kemp Forum offered the poor a big dose of hope and pointed the way.

Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.

January is the time to give blood I, like a lot of folks, have the habit of repeating myself. I trust this will not improve with age, but this is one time I don’t mind telling the same story again.

This story is about January being National Blood Donor Month and one of the most important months of the year for The American Red Cross. As you no doubt experienced yourself, November and December came and went in the blink of an eye. On a long list of things you likely weren’t able to get to, donating blood is probably one.

You are not alone in that regard.

According to the Red Cross, the final two months of 2015 featured 1,700 fewer blood drives held across the country compared to the two months prior to that. It makes sense then (simple mathematics, really) that there were fewer donations made during November and December. About 50,000 fewer, the Red Cross says.

That means there is currently an “urgent need” for blood and platelet donations. Which also means you can make a difference by participating in a local blood drive this month.

It’s a good thing to do and an easy way to make good on any promises of doing good deeds in the new year.

The need for blood donations this time of year is not new, but the situation can get back on track quickly if people pick up on the urgency of

Todd Cline Editor donating this month.

“A decline in the blood supply after the winter holidays is not uncommon, but it can be replenished when generous volunteers roll up their sleeves to help save lives,” said Mario Sedlock, director of donor recruitment, for the Red Cross Alabama and Central Gulf Coast and Southern Blood Services Regions. “We encourage our generous donors who are eligible, as well as new donors, to make an appointment to give blood or platelets and help ensure blood products continue to be available for patients. Every two seconds a patient in the U.S. needs blood.”

People who are hardcore donors may already have the Red Cross Donor App readily available. For those of you who don’t, you can make an appointment to donate by visiting visiting redcrossblood.org or by calling 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) to find a date and time for blood drives in your area.

January is National Blood Donor Month and one of the most important months of the year for The American Red Cross. (Special Photo)

To make things even easier for you, I found the following list of blood drives being held in Gwinnett this week, and one more that will be held on Jan. 18 — the MLK holiday: Wednesday: 2 to 7 p.m., Ricoh Electronics, 1125 Hurricane Shoals Road, Lawrenceville Wednesday: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Emory Eastside Medical Center, 1700 Medical Way, Snellville Friday: 1 to 6 p.m., Grayson United Methodist Church, 555 Grayson Parkway, Grayson Friday: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Lincoln Property Company, 1745 North Brown Road, Suite 190, Lawrenceville Saturday: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Salem Missionary Baptist Church, 4700 Church St.,

Lilburn Sunday: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Christ the Lord Lutheran Church, 1001 Duluth Highway, Lawrenceville Jan. 18: noon to 5 p.m., Fort Daniel Elementary School, 1725 Auburn Road, Dacula As you can see, there are ample opportunities to donate right here in Gwinnett County, which will help the Red Cross hit its goal of collecting 14,000 donations every day — the amount required to meet patient needs.

So, at the risk of repeating myself: Get your year off on a positive foot by taking time to donate blood this month.

Email Todd Cline at todd. cline@gwinnettdailypost.com.

His column appears on Wednesdays.

Teacher training is in a dismal state CHICAGO — At the end of “The Special-Education Charade,” a recent article in The Atlantic about why having a “special” child in public schools is “hell, or its equivalent,” readers confront a pertinent phrase: “the dismal state of teacher training.”

This was only one of several factors noted in Tracy Thompson’s emotional — and spoton, as I can attest as a former special education teacher — 2,000-plus-word tirade about how educating special-needs kids in mainstream classrooms has become a labyrinth of pain and nonsense. But it’s a factor worth illuminating.

Not least because the special education trend in schools is increasingly to move away from separate special ed classrooms, catering to specific needs such as learning disabilities or emotional/behavioral disorders, in favor of putting students with sometimes-profound disabilities in general classes.

This is called putting a student in the “least restrictive environment” so he or she can learn in the company of students who are roughly the same age, regardless of whether they have the same capacity for being able to perform the tasks expected of them, with or without assistance.

This placement results in anything from an eighth-grader

“permission to leave class as needed,” notes provided to the student ahead of class, the opportunity for longer times to take quizzes and tests or having them read aloud.

Many of these teachers in middle schools and high schools have more than 100 students Esther spread across multiple classCepeda rooms per day. In some cases, six or seven students with IEPs who reads at a first-grade level wind up in a single class period. getting placed in a mainstream Setting aside whether this is history course to a high school good policy — that is, whether senior who can’t readily both the special needs children compute simple mathematical and non-special needs students problems but is placed in a regu- in a given classroom get the lar biology class. Sometimes, most benefit out of their educabut not always, such students tional experience — you have are provided with a “one-onto consider the extra burden on one” assistant to facilitate their teachers who are already not as learning. well-equipped for such highMore often these students stakes teaching as one would simply show up in the classhope. rooms of regular teachers who According to the National have no specialized training in Council on Teacher Quality’s the instruction of children with 2015 State Teacher Policy Yearcognitive, behavioral or emobook, a scant 26 states require tional disabilities. The teachers all middle-school teachers to are likely, but not always, privy pass a test in every core subject to the student’s background they will teach. And just five and will have, at most, a few states — Indiana, Minnesota, excerpts from a very long legal Missouri, South Dakota and document called an “Individual- Tennessee — require secondary ized Education Program” (IEP) school teachers to demonstrate that explains what accommoda- their knowledge of the subjects tions the teacher is required to they’ll teach. provide the student.

And it’s not as though teachThese assistive methods ers who do have special educausually fall within the realm of tion expertise are so rigorously things like “preferred seating,” prepared, either.

According to the council, “With just a few exceptions, state licensing policies for special education teachers are abysmal. Twenty-one states still allow special education teachers to earn a generic special education license to teach any special education students in any grade, K-12. … Only 14 states require elementary special education candidates to demonstrate content knowledge on a subject-matter test — similar to what would be expected of any other elementary school teacher.

Only Missouri, New York and Wisconsin require secondarylevel special education teachers to pass a test in every subject they are licensed to teach.”

There are no quick and easy fixes for the many factors that lead public schools to perform poorly in educating our children — regardless of whether individual students need special help. But the low standards for training teachers who are in charge of our nation’s classrooms should be a no-brainer way to start remedying at least part of the problem.

Teacher training is dismal and, unfortunately, not a headline-grabbing education issue that motivates parents and other advocates to demand change.

But shouldn’t it be?

Esther Cepeda’s email address is estherjcepeda@ washpost.com.

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Mass transit advocate to run for BOC chairman away, however, so it remains to be seen A Norcross resident and who else retiree who launched a grasswill run roots effort to get Gwinnett from either County to join MARTA last major Jack Snyder year took his fight on the political campaign trail on Monday party. when he announced plans to “Are we as a county meetrun for county commission ing the needs of our citizens? chairman.

Is your commute getting Jack Snyder, the direceasier?” Snyder said in a tor of Gwinnett Needs statement. “I don’t think so.

Mass Transit, is running for Gwinnett County needs 21st the highest seat in county century thinking and leadergovernment as a Democrat ship, and the time for change on a platform that heavily fo- is now, and I will provide it!” cuses on mass transit in the Transportation has been county. The retired Dominos a hot topic in the county franchise owner is, so far, over the last year between the only announced Demothe Gwinnett chamber’s cratic candidate for chairannouncement that a survey man, and Gwinnett County they conducted showed Democratic Party Chairman majority support for joining Jim Shealey was listed as MARTA, the widely parthe contact on Snyder’s ticipated in Gr8 Exchange campaign announcement. on Transportation and the Candidate qualifying for this county’s decision to add year’s election is two months three new transit routes in its

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said.

There were no suspects named as detectives passed crime-scene tape, walked slowly through the front door and surveyed the scene, after obtaining a search

Meanwhile, Snyder is calling for the county to join a regional mass transit system on his campaign website, voteforjacksnyder. com.

“We have needs and concerns that have not been addressed by our elected officials and I am here to change that,” Snyder wrote on the website. “I believe that Gwinnett County needs to be part of a regional mass transit system. This system will provide access for employers to garner more workers for new jobs and for the workers to have access to those jobs.”

In addition to his support for regional mass transit, Snyder is also touting his community involvement, including leadership of his homeowner’s association and membership in the Business and Professional Women’s Club, Lion’s Club and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.

Transportation

features unprecedented in state history. website, www.GAroads.org, “This infrastructure that will give residents the investment will continue deability to track the progress livering dividends for years and spending on individual to come and keep Georgia a projects across the state. top destination for business “Over the next 18 months, and families.” nearly 60 percent of the The project forecast list projects contracted will be included under the Transporfor maintenance of our roads tation Funding Act section of and bridges,” Deal said in www.GAroads.org shows 16 a statement. “We are also GDOT construction projects upholding our promise of expected to take place in transparency through the Gwinnett County over the GA Roads website, which next year and a half. provides clarity through The list includes nearly

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budget.

Snyder asked commissioners to support a referendum on MARTA last September.

“We have citizens who need this mass transit to commute to work (and) going down to Atlanta,” Snyder told the commission at its Sept. 15 business meeting.

“We also have businesses that are desiring of having individuals capable of arriving at their places of work by using mass transit.”

Commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash has hesitated to call for a referendum on joining MARTA, however.

She has said she does not believe voters would approve it.

Nash has pointed to a county T-SPLOST which was recently made possible under a change to state law as a way to raise money for transportation projects, but she has not said whether she would call for one.

$19.6 million for eight bike and pedestrian projects, $7.6 million on four intersection signal and safety projects, $1.2 million for three resurfacing and maintenance projects and $1.7 million for a Hospital Drive connector road between the McClure Bridge Road roundabout and Duluth High School’s entrance on Abbots Bridge Road.

A statewide 10-year project list, which includes more than $10 billion in infrastructure investments,

was also unveiled. A good bit of that includes mobility improvements, such as express lanes on the north side of Interstate 285 and Ga. Route 400, and freight improvements across the state.

“We are excited that we now have the ability to start addressing the back log of work to Georgia’s critical infrastructure and increase preventative maintenance across the state,” GDOT Commissioner Russell McMurry said in a statement.

Death warrant.

Neighbors told the Daily Post they’d heard and seen nothing out of the ordinary before authorities descended on the property. A few Anthony Drive residents said they only recalled seeing

the couple here and there in passing, but that they seemed nice enough.

As the sun was soon to set, Ellen Hamby, who lives around the block, walked her three dogs on Anthony Drive through a cold breeze

that brought the smell of pine straw. She recalled hearing fire department sirens a few hours earlier, then police.

The situation had left her “puzzled” and “concerned,” she said.

obituaries LAWRENCEVILLE

Ethel Busby Ethel Jean Busby, age 69 of Lawrenceville, GA passed away January 8, 2016. Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, “A Family Company” Snellville Chapel, 770-9793200, has been entrusted with the funeral arrangements.

to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, www.stjude. org. Condolences may be viewed or sent to www. wagesfuneralhome.com Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, “A Family Company” Snellville Chapel, 770-979-3200, has been entrusted with the funeral arrangements.

LAWRENCEVILLE SNELLVILLE

Murrel Crawley Murrel C. Crawley age 87 of Snellville, GA, passed away Friday, January 8, 2016. Mr. Crawley was preceded in death by his wife, Louise Crawley who passed away on 8-15-15. He is survived by his daughter and son in law, Libby and Julian Diaz; 2 grandchildren, Eowyn Coleman and Autumn Coleman and step grandchildren, Julia Diaz and Jonathan Diaz and his wife Elaina. Mr. Crawley was born in Sale Creek, Tennessee, worked for more than 40 years with Container Corporation in both Chattanooga and Atlanta. He was a generous and caring man who loved a good practical joke. He was an active member of White Oak Baptist Church. The Celebration of Life for Murrel C. Crawley will be held on Monday, January 11, 2016 at 11:00 AM at Tom M. Wages, Snellville Chapel.

Rev. Ed Cook and Rev. Danny Odum will officiate the service. Interment will follow at Eternal Hills Memory Gardens, Snellville, GA. The Family will receive friends on Monday from 10:00 AM until the time of service 11:00 AM at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made

Carolyn Cummins Carolyn Sue (Rust) Cummins, 77, of Lawrenceville, GA died January 11, 2016. Arrangements by Bill Head Funeral Homes and Crematory Duluth Chapel, 770-476-2535.

CUMMING

Pamela Fort Pamela Ann Fort, age 62, of Cumming, GA passed away January 7, 2016.

Arrangements by Crowell Brothers Funeral Home & Crematory, Norcross, GA. 770-448-5757.

NORCROSS

Glenda Gomez Glenda Sue Gomez, age 67 of Norcross, died January 9, 2016.

Arrangements by Bill Head Funeral Homes and Crematory Duluth Chapel, 770-476-2535.

MURPHY, NC GRAYSON

Reginald Elliott Reginald H. Elliott, age 85 of Grayson, GA, passed away on January 8, 2016. Tim Stewart Funeral Home: 300 Simonton Road SW Lawrenceville, Georgia 30046. 770-962-3100.

Please leave online condolences at stewartfh.com

WINDER

Kirk Etheridge Mr. Kirk Etheridge, age 55 of Winder, passed away January 8, 2016. $15 photos are available with all Obituaries and Death Notices

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Lamar Grizzle Lamar Grizzle, age 82, of Murphy, North Carolina died Saturday, January 9, 2016, in a Blairsville, Georgia hospital. He was a native of Buford, Georgia but moved to Cherokee County, North Carolina in 1965. Lamar was a veteran of the Korean War serving in the United States Army. He was an entrepreneur and owner and operator of Grizzly Bear Trading Post for many years and was a co-owner and operator of Blairsville Honda. Lamar was a member of Ranger Baptist Church in Murphy.

Motorcycle riding was Lamar’s passion. He logged over 1.5 million m

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skull.”

Mary-Catherine Ciuba, who has experience as an athletic trainer, talked with the students about the initial stages of a possible concussion and what an athletic trainer does from diagnosing a concussion to properly securing an athlete on a spine board.

“I’ve worked with both colleges and high schools, and it’s interesting to see the difference in athletic training at the college level with an unlimited budget compared to a high school, where there’s not much of a budget,” she said.

Tatiana Rodriguez, a 2010 graduate of Central Gwinnett, is a student at GAPCOM. She was a member

of the Medical Explorers when she was in high school.

“Being a Medical Explorer confirmed to me that I wanted to be a doctor,” she said. “Although I didn’t get this kind of experience when I was a Medical Explorer, this gives the current students a huge advantage.

They’re exposed to a lot of different careers in the medical field and get a chance to see what a real medical school is like.”

As the students left the campus, they had a lot of information to help them with a potential future in the medical field.

“There’s a lot of information we provided them, but they definitely got to see things we do here,” Rodriguez said.

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miles in his lifetime.

He was the son of the late Fred and Eula Devore Grizzle.

Surviving are his wife of 62 years, Carrie Tuggle Grizzle; a son, Mark L. Grizzle of Atlanta, Georgia; a grandson, Corey Grizzle and wife, Amanda of Andrews, North Carolina; and two great grandchildren, Chloe and Cameron Grizzle.

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM Tuesday, January 12, 2016 in the Chapel of Ivie Funeral Home, Murphy with the Rev. L.B. Adams officiating. The interment will be in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens with military graveside rites by Murphy American Legion Post 96, VFW Post 10222, Hayesville VFW Post 6812 (Allison-Bristol), American Legion Post 532, Andrews VFW Post 7620, and NC National Guard. Pallbearers will be Chase and C.O. Locke, Dawson Grizzle, Matthew Campbell, Terry Jones, Mike Stevens.

The family will receive friends from 6-8 Monday evening at the Ivie Funeral Home, Murphy.

Ivie Funeral Home, Murphy in charge of all arrangements.

An online guest register is available at www.iviefuneralhomeinc.com.

JEFFERSON

Stephanie Jones Stephanie Lea Jones, age 41, of Jefferson passed away Saturday, January 9, 2016.

Martha “Jean” Stanley age 88 of Loganville, GA died January 9, 2016. Arrangements by Tim Stewart Funeral Home: 2246 Wisteria Drive, Snellville, Georgia 30078. 770-9795010. stewartfh.com.

OXFORD

Harold Lindsey, Sr. Harold “Pop” Lindsey, Sr., age 81 of Oxford, GA passed away January 12, 2016. Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, “A Family Company” Snellville Chapel, 770-9793200, has been entrusted with the funeral arrangements.

BUFORD

Robert Wansley Mr. Robert Carl Wansley, age 69, of Buford, GA, passed away on January 10, 2016. Services and Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan, Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

WINDER

Ann Magness Mrs. Ann Magness, age 84 of Winder, passed away January 9, 2016.

MONROE

Louise Moore Louise Moore, age 89 of Monroe, passed away on January 9, 2016.

Tim Stewart Funeral Home, 670 Tom Brewer Road, Loganville, GA 30052. 770-466-1544. www.stewartfh.com.

BUFORD

John Williams John Darren Williams, age 50, of Buford, GA, passed away on January 10, 2016. Services and Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan, Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

SNELLVILLE

LAWRENCEVILLE

Leon Hunt Leon J. Hunt, age 871 of Lawrenceville, GA, passed away on January 7, 2016. Tim Stewart Funeral Home: 300 Simonton Road SW Lawrenceville, Georgia 30046. 770-962-3100.

Please leave online condolences at stewartfh.com

LOGANVILLE

Martha Stanley

DACULA

Norman Pollack, Sr. Mr. Norman D. Pollack, Sr., age 82, of Dacula, GA, passed away on January 10, 2016. Services and Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan, Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

Mildred Young Mildred Louise (Anglin) Young, age 86 of Snellville, GA passed away January 11, 2016. Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, “A Family Company” Snellville Chapel, 770-979-3200, has been entrusted with the funeral arrangements.

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InComm to bring 120 jobs to Gwinnett in expansion

By Curt Yeomans

“Companies such as InComm continue to look to Gwinnett County as a prime location to better A major prepaid product reach national markets and and transaction services grow their business.” company plans to create The news comes a month 120 new jobs in Peachtree after state and company ofCorners and Suwanee as ficials initially announced part of a $20 million explans to expand in the area pansion in the area. and open a new facility in The Gwinnett Chamber’s Suwanee. The company Economic Development plans to add a total of 275 team announced the local jobs across metro Atlanta jobs numbers in partnership by the end of the year, but with InComm, the mayors the amount of jobs specifiof Peachtree Corners and cally coming to Gwinnett Suwanee, commission was not released until this Chairwoman Charlotte week.

Nash and the Georgia “The state of Georgia and Department of Economic several local governments Development. have demonstrated their The new jobs are excommitment to keeping us pected to be mostly in the here by creating a favorable information technology economic environment for field. us to develop talent through “This announcement our innovative internship is yet another excellent program and university example of our strong IT partnerships with Georindustry that continues to gia Tech, Georgia State, make a significant econom- University of Georgia and ic impact on our commuKennesaw State,” InComm nity,” Gwinnett Chamber Chief Operating Officer Economic Development and Chief Financial Officer Director Andrew Carnes Scott Meyerhoff said last said in a statement. month in a statement.

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The new employees will join a team of about 1,800 InComm employees, nearly half of whom are in Georgia. InComm’s services range from gift cards, prepaid wireless products, reloadable debit cards and digital music downloads, and it boasts a client base that includes well known brands such as Apple and Best Buy. Local officials praised the 23-year-old company’s growth, with Nash calling it a “valuable asset” to the county. Meanwhile, Peachtree Corners Mayor Mike Mason and Suwanee Mayor Jimmy Burnette each said the announcement was a sign of the the county’s economic strength.

“It’s another example of community attracting diverse companies from around the country as a place where they can invest and grow,” Burnette said.

Mason added, “The news reconfirms that our city continues to develop as a regional job hub in the metro area.”

Registration for new school year coming to Gwinnett Online Campus

By Keith Farner

17 school year will take place throughout February. The meetings will be held at the GOC AuditoRegistration will soon rium, 713 Hi Hope Road be available for students in Lawrenceville. and families interested in Registration is firstGwinnett Online Campus. come, first-served and Three informational is completed in person. meeting are scheduled Because of current enfor Jan. 26, Feb. 11 and rollment, space is limited Feb. 23, all at 6:30 p.m., in certain grade levels; as registration for new waiting lists will be genfamilies for the 2016erated once a grade level

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is filled.

Visit gwinnettonlinecampus.com/attend-goc. html for more information.

The school accepts students who reside within the Gwinnett County Public Schools attendance zone. The student’s custodial parents or guardians must also reside within the GCPS district.

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Gladiators prevail over Aces in OT

By Christine Troyke

time, giving the Gladiators a 4-3 victory at Infinite Energy Arena.

“A great individual DULUTH — The effort there by Nunner to Atlanta Gladiators squanbeat a guy one-on-one and dered another multi-goal then talk about finishing it lead against the tenacious off by putting it under the Alaska Aces, but Garry bar,” Atlanta head coach Nunn came up huge to beat Andy Brandt said. “Just an his former team in overall-around beautiful goal time Tuesday.

by Garry there.”

Nunn undressed the The way Troy Redmann defense and lifted a backwas playing between the handed winner under the pipes for Alaska, it needed crossbar 3:50 into overto be. christine.troyke@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Collins Hill tops Ridge in two OTs

“That kid played well all three games,” Brandt said of the Aces’ 30-yearold netminder who has made the transition from the national roller hockey team. “Tonight was probably even his best game.

He made some big saves at key moments throughout the game. Not only in overtime, but in the first period he made a couple big ones as well. Very impressed with him.”

The Gladiators (22-12-

2-0) also had a 2-0 lead in the opener of this threegame series Friday and needed a shootout to win.

Tyler Shiplo, Tyler Murovich and Brock Higgs scored for Atlanta in Tuesday’s rubber match before Alaska charged back to tie it in the third period. “(The OT winner) takes away some of the frustraAtlanta’s Garry Nunn scores the overtime game-winning tion — until we watch goal on Alaska netminder Troy Redmann (30) as fellow some film,” Brandt said.

Aces Patrick Wellar (33) and Felix Antoine Poulin (4) peel

away on Tuesday night at the Infinite Energy Arena. (Photo:

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SHILOH SURVIVES Generals hang on against Berkmar

By David Friedlander david.friedlander@ gwinnettdailypost.com

SUWANEE — When the buzzer sounded at the end of regulation with Collins Hill and Peachtree Ridge boys basketball teams still tied, the Peachtree Ridge student section began chanting, “Just like last year.”

There were two major differences, however, between the latest Region 7-AAAAAA overtime clash between the two neighborhood rivals and last year’s thriller on the same floor at Collins Hill.

For one thing, this one needed just two overtimes instead of four. The other was the outcome.

Unlike a year ago, it was the host Eagles celebrating at the end as J.D. Ozoh’s layup with 24 seconds proved to be the difference in a 55-54 Collins Hill victory Tuesday night.

“That’s what I’m told.

They’re always like that,” second-year Collins Hill coach Ty Baumgardner said of his team’s series with Peachtree Ridge. “It was what I thought it would be — two teams that play man-to-man and just grind on each other. I think both teams showed some real toughness.”

Playing without highscoring wing TeShaun Hightower, who was serving the second game of a suspension from being ejected a week earlier against Duluth, A.J. Cheeseman in particular,showed some toughness Tuesday.

The 6-foot-6 senior finished with a double-double, posting game highs of 24 points and 14 rebounds as the Eagles improved to 15-2 overall and 5-2 in region play.

After an initial 7-2 run by See EAGLES, Page 4B

By Guy Curtright Staff Correspondent

LILBURN — Shiloh survived another road test and in the process stretched its winning streak against Region 8-AAAAAA opponents to 28 games.

“I’m proud of our boys,” coach Kim Rivers said after the Generals held on for a 55-53 victory at Berkmar.

“This was our seventh straight road game and to win in a great basketball environment like this is a real tribute to the team.”

Shiloh hasn’t lost to an 8-AAAAAA team since Berkmar knocked the Generals off in the 2014 region championship game and the Patriots almost ended the winning streak Tuesday night before a near-capacity crowd.

Berkmar had two chances to win, but a pair of 3-point attempts in the closing seconds missed the mark.

“We always have great games with Berkmar,” Rivers said. “We knew it was going to be another close game, and it certainly was.”

A victory by Berkmar would not only have ended the Generals’ region winning streak, but created a tie for first place in the standings.

Shiloh, though, was able to win again in part because of a surge to start the second half sparked by senior point guard Malik Chandler.

Down by six points at intermission the Generals, started the third quarter with a 9-0 run and that would end up proving decisive as Shiloh’s Malik Chandler (1) jumps to the basket against Berkmar’s Lane Foster (1) during the second half of Tuesday’s game at Berkmar High School in Lilburn. (Photo: Kyle Hess)

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NASL shuts down Mountain View’s K’Maron Patterson operation of the makes good on a childhood promise Atlanta Silverbacks COLLEGE FOOTBALL RECRUITING NOTES

By Paul Thomas

paul.thomas@ gwinnettdailypost.com

As a young kid, Mountain View senior K’Maron Patterson made a promise to his parents — that they wouldn’t have to worry about paying for his college.

Patterson told his parents he would earn a football scholarship. On Saturday, he made good on that promise as he verbally committed to play for Division I FCS

Gardner-Webb in North Carolina during an official visit.

“Growing up, my parents didn’t have as much money as they would want to,” he said. “So I never really got much and everything. Me knowing that for college I would have to pay for it, I didn’t want them to have to worry about them paying for it, so I promised my mom and my dad that I was going to grow up and that I Mountain View’s K’Maron Patterson (53) chases down

Duluth quarterback Thad Bell (4). (Photo: Chris Rough-

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From Staff Reports

“The goal all along has been to secure committed It was a sad day for the local ownership in Atlanta, professional soccer team but despite significant conthat plays its games just out- versations with a number side the Gwinnett County of interested parties, we border. were unable to identify a The North American group that could lead the Soccer League announced Silverbacks in a direction Monday that it has susconsistent with the rest of pended its operation of the our clubs,” NASL CommisSilverbacks for the 2016 sioner Bill Peterson said season and possibly beyond. on the NASL website. “It’s The club plays at 5,000-seat unfortunate, and particularly Silverbacks Park alongside sad for the Silverbacks’ Spaghetti Junction at the inSee NASL, Page 4B tersection of I-85 and I-285.

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gwinnettdailypost.com CFP NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP: ALABAMA 45, CLEMSON 40

Prep Schedule

Today

WRESTLING

5 p.m. — Duluth at Norcross 5 p.m. — Wesleyan at Berkmar Thursday

SWIMMING AND DIVING

5 p.m. — Discovery at Berkmar

WRESTLING

4:30 p.m. — Discovery at Berkmar Friday

BASKETBALL

6 p.m. — Athens Academy at Providence 6 p.m. — Berkmar at Central 6 p.m. — Duluth at Mountain View 6 p.m. — Flowery Branch at Discovery 6 p.m. — Grayson at Brookwood 6 p.m. — Holy Innocents’ at GAC 6 p.m. — Mill Creek at Collins Hill 6 p.m. — North at Norcross 6 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge at Meadowcreek 6 p.m. — Shiloh at Archer 6 p.m. — South at Parkview 6 p.m. — Towns Co. at Hebron 6 p.m. — Wesleyan and Hapeville Charter at TBA 7 p.m. — Lanier at Winder-Barrow 7 p.m. — North Hall at Buford

SWIMMING AND DIVING

5 p.m. — Duluth, West Forsyth at Wesleyan 6:30 p.m. — Collins Hill and Dacula at Collins Hill 6:30 p.m. — Archer, Discovery, Lanier and Mountain View at Mountai Park 6:30 p.m. — North at Peachtree Ridge at West Gwinnett

WRESTLING

• State duals at Macon Centreplex

The Home Teams

Gladiators

Swarm

Hawks

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Sat, 7:05 p.m.

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New England at Toronto Off Sun, 2:05 p.m.

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Fri, 8 p.m.

Sat, 7:30 p.m.

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On TV

Today

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

7 p.m. — Duke at Clemson ESPN2 8:30 p.m. — Marquette at Villanova FS1 9 p.m. — Georgia Tech at Notre Dame MyATL 9 p.m. — Mississippi at LSU ESPN2 9 p.m. — Wake Forest at Virginia Tech FSSO 11 p.m. — USC at UCLA ESPN2

NBA

7 p.m. — Atlanta at Charlotte FSSE 8 p.m. — Indiana at Boston ESPN 10:30 p.m. — Miami at Los Angeles Clippers ESPN

NHL

8 p.m. — Boston at Philadelphia NBCSP

SOCCER

2:55 p.m. — English Premier League: Liverpool FC vs Arsenal FC NBCSP

Sports Calendar

DIVING

Ongoing through Feb. 28: SpringDogs Springboard Diving of Gwinnett is accepting registration for training at three Gwinnett aquatic centers — Collins Hill, Mountain Park and West Gwinnett.

Sessions are open to all youngsters ages 8 and up and no knowledge of springboard diving is required. Cost is $75 for the first round of training and a $14 AAU registration fee also is required. Sessions at Collins Hill are 5 to 7 p.m. Mondays (from Feb. 29-March 7) and Wednesdays (March 3-31). Sessions at Mountain Park are from 7 to 9 p.m. Mondays (Feb. 29-March 28) and Wednesdays (March 3-30).

Sessions at West Gwinnett are 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays (March 1-29) and Thursdays (March 3-31), as well as beginner training Thursdays (March 3-31) from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

For more diving dates, times, pricing and club information, go to www. gwinnettcounty.com/Aquatics or www.springboarddogs.com.

RUNNING

Jan. 30: The sixth annual Norcross Blue Devils Run will be held as a fundraiser for the high school’s cross country and

track and field teams. The event begins at Pinckneyville Middle School in Peachtree Corners with the certified Peachtree Road Race qualifier 5K at 8 a.m., followed by a onemile run fun when the 5K finishes.

Doors open at 7 a.m. and registration is $25 in advance, or $30 on race day. For more information and a course map, go to bluedevilsrun.wix.com/ blue-devils-run. Sponsorship opportunities also are still available.

WEIGHTLIFTING

Jan. 23-24: No Excuses CrossFit in Suwanee is hosting the USA Weightlifting Sport Performance Coaching Course and Certification. The cost is $495 and the course will be instructed by C.J. Stockel.

Go to www.usaw.hangastar.com/EMS_Courses_ Register.aspx to register for the course or contact the event coordinator at info@noexcusescrossfit. com for more information.

The entry level course is open to anyone 17 and older and includes a one-year membership with USAW. The scope and sequence of the course includes the teaching progressions of the snatch, clean and jerk, and all associated movements.

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Alabama Crimson Tide running back Kenyan Drake (17) celebrates with Buford grad Dillon Lee (25) after returning a kickoff for a touchdown against the Clemson Tigers in the fourth quarter in the 2016 CFP National Championship at University of Phoenix Stadium. (Photo: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports)

Special teams carry Tide to title win

By Anthony Gimino The Sports Xchange

GLENDALE, Ariz.

— When it was over, the confetti on the ground and another trophy raised in the air, Alabama coach Nick Saban had only one thing left to do.

“I’m smiling,” he said.

Ol’ sly Saban was smiling early in the fourth quarter, too, when the Crimson Tide pulled of a gutsy onside kick with the game tied at 24.

Alabama rode the momentum from that surprise to score the go-ahead touchdown and then rocket back to the top of the college football world, winning its fourth national title in seven years Monday night by beating Clemson 45-40.

The Tide used a quartet of scoring plays that covered 50-plus yards — including a 95-yard kick return in a wild fourth quarter that featured a combined 40 points — to deliver Clemson its only loss of the season.

“What a year. What a year,” Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said. “I’m incredibly proud of our team. I think at least the nation saw why we have been so successful — they saw the heart of our team. I think they gave us everything they had.”

Heisman-winning running back Derrick Henry sealed the outcome with a 1-yard touchdown run with 1:07 remaining, stretching Alabama’s lead to 45-33.

The Tigers battled to the end. Quarterback Deshaun Watson’s 24-yard touchdown pass to tight end Jordan Leggett with 12 seconds left brought Clemson within a score, but the ensuing onside kick went out of bounds.

Alabama unleashed tight end O.J. Howard as a weapon to complement Henry’s power running. Howard had five catches for 208 yards and two touchdowns, his first scores since the 2013 season.

Howard’s second touchdown came after defensive back Marlon Humphrey recovered a high-bouncing onside kick toward the right sideline with the score tied at

Clemson Tigers running back Wayne Gallman (9), a Grayson grad, celebrates with Deshaun Watson (4) after scoring on a 1 yard run during the third quarter. (Photo: Matthew Emmons-USA TODAY Sports)

24. The TV cameras caught Saban with a big grin on the sideline.

“We call it pop kick,” Saban said.

“I thought we had it in the game anytime we wanted to do it. I made the decision to do it. The score was tied … and we were tired on defense. We weren’t doing a great job of getting them stopped.

“I felt like if we didn’t do something to change the momentum of the game that we wouldn’t have a chance to win it.”

Henry ran 36 times for 158 yards and three touchdowns, including a 50-yard burst to start the scoring.

He wasn’t able to get untracked much in the second half, but quarterback Jake Coker connected on scoring passes of 53 and 51 yards to Howard after the break.

Coker finished 16-for-25 for 335 yards.

Alabama’s fireworks on offense were enough to offset a brilliant effort from Watson, who dazzled with his arm, his legs and dizzying improv skills.

He completed 30 of 47 passes for 405 yards and four touchdowns, and he ran 20 times for 73 yards.

“He’s special,” Swinney said.

After several big-bowl blowouts, Alabama (14-1) and Clemson (14-1) put a

whopper of a topper on the college football season in front of 75,765 fans at University of Phoenix Stadium.

Alabama, which lost in last season’s playoff semifinals, was not done exerting its special teams’ superiority after the onside kick.

Clemson used a 31-yard field goal to get within 31-27, but Alabama kick returner Kenyan Drake carved through the coverage on the ensuing kickoff, taking it 95 yards and stretching out the ball to hit the pylon for a touchdown with 7:31 left.

“I think special teams may have been the difference in the game,” Saban said. “The onside kick and the kick return for the touchdown kind of changed the momentum of the game.”

The Tigers had won 51 consecutive games when leading after three quarters but couldn’t hold on against Alabama after taking a 2421 lead into the final period.

Saban won his fourth national title at Alabama and fifth overall. Only former Crimson Tide coach Bear Bryant (six) has won more than four national titles during the wire-service era (since 1936).

“I’ve never been prouder of a group of young guys,” Saban said.

Alabama took a 21-14 lead early in the third quarter when Howard scored on

a 53-yard reception, wide open down the right sideline because free safety T.J. Green failed to come over in support.

“It was a slugfest out there,” Swinney said. “A couple of those special teams plays were momentum plays. Championship football is a game of a few plays, and that is what this came down to — just a few plays.”

Clemson took a 24-21 lead on a 60-yard drive, capped by a 1-yard plunge from running back Grayson grad Wayne Gallman.

Henry and Watson took turns throwing haymakers in a riveting first half, which ended with the teams tied at 14.

Henry scored twice, including on a 50-yard run, and Watson fired two pretty touchdown passes to freshman receiver Hunter Renfrow. Henry went over the 100-yard mark with 7:41 to go in the second quarter.

Each team missed 44-yard field goals, including Clemson in the final seconds of the half. Alabama defensive lineman D.J. Pettway got a hand on the attempt, causing it to fall short.

Alabama safety Eddie Jackson, who intercepted Watson in the first half, was chosen the Defensive Player of the Game. Howard won the award for offense.

Mel Tucker officially named UGA DC (2008). The Jags ranked sixth in the league in total Mel Tucker, assistant defense in 2011, allowing head coach and defensive just 313.0 yards per game. backs coach at the UniverTucker was Jacksonville’s sity of Alabama and former interim head coach for the NFL defensive coordinator, final five games of that has been named defensive season. He earned the adcoordinator at the University ditional title of assistant of Georgia according to an head coach with the Jaguars announcement Tuesday by in 2012.

UGA head coach Kirby Tucker was also on the Smart.

Browns staff from 2005-07 Tucker joined the Crimas defensive backs coach beson Tide staff in January, fore taking over as defensive 2015, after serving seven coordinator in 2008. In that years as an NFL defensive season, the Browns were coordinator — two with the second in the NFL with 23 Chicago Bears (2013-14), interceptions and ranked four with the Jacksonville 16th in scoring defense Jaguars (2009-12) and one (21.9 points per game). with the Cleveland Browns Tucker joined Nick From Staff Reports

Saban’s staff at Michigan State as a graduate assistant in 1997. After two years there, he went to work as a defensive backs coach at Miami (Ohio) for one season in 1999. In 2000, Tucker returned to work with Saban at LSU for one season before going to Ohio State for a three-year stint (2001-03). The Buckeyes went 14-0 in 2002 and won the BCS National Championship. Tucker was elevated to co-defensive coordinator in 2004.

A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Tucker attended Cleveland Heights High School where he was a football standout and earned

a scholarship to Wisconsin.

He was a four-year letterman at defensive back for the Badgers and graduated in 1995.

Tucker’s wife, JoEllyn, earned her undergraduate degree at Illinois and her law degree from Rutgers. The couple has two sons, Joseph (12) and Christian (10).

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2016 • 3B

MacIntosh does it all for the Georgia Swarm

By Paul Thomas

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Twenty minutes until the start of the Georgia Swarm’s inaugural home opener, all but one player from the Swarm and Toronto Rock had returned to the locker rooms at the Infinite Energy Arena.

Unsatisfied with the rhythm he was in, Swarm captain Jordan MacIntosh lingered on the floor after shoot-around to fire off a few more shots. He was searching for that feeling of perfection shooters get when their shot kisses the goal posts on its way in to the net in the upper 90. After a few shots pinged off in to the crowd he finally was satisfied and returned to the locker room.

MacIntosh’s day wasn’t done yet though — it was far from it in fact.

As a transition player the 6-foot-1, 210-pound Canadian does a little bit of everything for Georgia (1-1).

“I would say kind of a jack of all trades on the team,” he said of his role.

“I take faceoffs, play defense, play a little offense and my primary goal is to get some transition goals.

So, pushing from defense to offense, getting in some odd number situations and scoring goals.”

After being selected by the Swarm fourth overall in the first round of the 2011 draft, MacIntosh has excelled at the transition position, being named NLL Transition Player of the Year in 2013 and 2014.

He’s scored at least 48 points every season for the Swarm and been in the top-five in the league in loose balls recovered.

What: New England Black Wolves at Georgia Swarm When: Sunday, 2:05 Where: Infinite Energy Arena TV: Streamed live on FOX Sports GO

Georgia Swarm’s Jordan MacIntosh (24) looks to pass against Toronto Rock’s Brock Sorensen (3) during the first half of Saturday’s home opener at Infinite Energy Center in Duluth (Photo: Kyle Hess)

“He really can (do it all),” Swarm head coach Ed Comeau said. “When you look around the league there’s not as many — like in baseball they call it a five-tool guy — there’s not a lot of fivetool guys in lacrosse in the days of specialization.

Then there’s Jordan. He can be on your last-minute defensive team, he can be on your last-minute offensive team, power play, man-short, your faceoff team, he can do it all. I like to say a guy like Jordan, the only guy who’s going to play more minutes than him is the goalie. He’s important to us and he plays those roles really well.”

On Saturday in a 12-7 win over Toronto, MacIntosh had one goal and six loose balls. In the season opener, a 16-15 loss to Colorado, he finished with four points on two goals and two assists.

He’s won 28 of his 54 faceoffs this season as well. What’s encouraged him most is the way the Swarm has played offensively through the first two games.

“It’s been exciting,” he said. “We’ve had a lot of great offensive players come through this organization since I’ve played here, but this group really excites me because they’re so young, and they’re so dynamic. Every guy up there kind of has a different skill set. I think if you watched (against Colorado) they scored really unselfishly. They scored a lot of goals, a lot of big goals in critical times in the game — which as a young group you wouldn’t expect — so I’m excited to see what these guys can do.”

While the Swarm hasn’t had much success during his first four seasons in the league, MacIntosh has

played for a few championships since leaving the Rochester Institute of Technology.

As a midfielder in Major League Lacrosse he’s made it to the finals three times in five seasons with the now defunct Hamilton Nationals and the Rochester Rattlers (which played for its two titles in Kennesaw, the new home of the leagues’ expansion Atlanta Blaze).

As a member of Team Canada he won the 2014 FIL World Lacrosse Championships in outdoor, and then this summer — playing for Comeau — MacIntosh won another gold medal at the World Indoor Lacrosse Championships.

The Oakville, Ontario native said he’s worked over the last five seasons to become a better defensive player in both leagues.

“I’ve always been kind

of more of an offense player, so focusing on my defense has been really important,” he said. “Especially since getting in to the NLL and this year is going to be my first year as captain, so leadershipwise improving on that is something I’ve been working on.”

The leadership part comes naturally. He leads by example — like being the last guy off the floor during shoot-around and the first guy out for practice.

Comeau said the 26-year-old MacIntosh is one of the most respected members of the organization, because of that work ethic.

“Jordan is a veteran player in this league, and he’s still young compared to a lot of players in the league, especially to be a captain,” Comeau said.

“We know — as captain of our team — he’s a great leader; he leads by how he plays. He plays buzzer to buzzer as hard as he can.

He’s a real character guy, I had the good fortune of working with him in the national team programs and just saw what a great guy he was there. The guys love him, the staff love him, everyone loves Jordan just because not only what he brings on the floor, but what a character guy he is off the floor, too.”

Broncos motivated by regular-season loss to Steelers The Sports Xchange ENGLEWOOD, Colo.

Getting the decision about their starting quarterback out of the way last week helped the Denver Broncos’ focus this week on how to exact vengeance on the Pittsburgh Steelers, who dealt them their most recent loss.

And that is what they did upon returning to practice Monday.

Coach Gary Kubiak already decided to start veteran Peyton Manning in Sunday’s playoff game against Pittsburgh.

Brock Osweiler, who returns to backup duty, practiced Monday. It was his first on-field work since he was pulled for Manning in the regular-season finale.

Osweiler has dealt with shoulder, elbow, ribcage and knee injuries in the past four weeks, but is expected to be available as a backup for this game.

That settled, the Broncos are able to focus intensely on the Steelers.

Pittsburgh was the only opponent to score more than 24 points at the expense of Denver’s top-

dealt team captain David Bruton Jr. a senseless afterthe-play, helmet-to-helmet NFL Playoffs shot but escaped suspenDivsional Round sion for it.

Saturday’s Games However, Stewart admits 4:35 p.m. — Kansas the Broncos are still “mad” City at New England about the hit.

TV: CBS “Some B.S., 72, yeah, 8:15 p.m. — Green Bay we already know. We’ve at Arizona got his number,” Stewart TV: NBC said.

And given their recent Sunday’s Games playoff failures, a little 1:05 p.m .— Seattle at Carolina extra juice wouldn’t help.

TV: FOX “Last year, we looked 4:40 p.m. — Pittsburgh past the Colts,” defensive at Denver end Malik Jackson said. “I TV: CBS think this year, we’re not doing that. We’re really and once again have to deal taking this off-week to look with the best quarterbackat ourselves and I know receiver combination in the nobody’s looking past the NFL the last two seasons.

Pittsburgh Steelers.”

“You have to,” said But some also insist that safety Darian Stewart, who just being where they are is missed last month’s game sufficient motivation. because of a hamstring “It’s a playoff game and injury. “Regardless of what whoever loses goes home, happened last game, we so I think that’s enough,” expect them to play. We’re cornerback Bradley Roby definitely expecting to see said. them.”

“It’s the divisional round The Broncos insist they of the playoffs. You don’t don’t need the motivation need too much motivation,” that comes from facing an Talib added. “If that ring offense that diced them isn’t enough motivation up — and a player, Pittsfor you, then you’re in the burgh’s Cody Wallace, who wrong business.”

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Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown (84) catches a pass in front of Denver Broncos cornerback Chris Harris Jr (25) during the second half at Heinz Field.

The Steelers won the game 34-27. (Photo: Jason BridgeUSA TODAY Sports)

ranked defense.

“We feel like we let them get back in the game,” said cornerback Aqib Talib as he reflected on the Broncos’ 34-27 loss in Pittsburgh on Dec. 20.

“They came back on us, so we’re all looking forward to seeing them again.”

Denver led 27-10 in the second quarter and 27-13 at halftime before collapsing in the second half, enduring a fade that was due as much to the offense being shut out as the defense being shredded.

Ben Roethlisberger

would become the first — and only — quarterback to throw for at least 300 yards at Denver’s expense in the 2015 season, and Antonio Brown would score the only two touchdowns allowed by two-time Pro Bowl cornerback Chris Harris Jr. since Nov. 24, 2013.

It was an uncharacteristic half for the Broncos’ defense. And while Roethlisberger and Brown emerged from the Steelers’ wild-card win at Cincinnati injured, the Broncos believe they will see both,

NFL NOTES

Arizona Cardinals make roster moves at linebacker The Sports Xchange

weekend, it’s uncertain how or when Okafor was The Arizona Cardinals injured. Arizona (13-3) signed linebacker Jason plays host to the Green Bay Babin, promoted linebacker Packers (11-6) on Saturday Gabe Martin from the night in a NFC divisional practice squad to the active round game. roster and signed linebacker The 6-foot-3, 267-pound Quayshawn Nealy to the Babin has 64 1/2 sacks, 465 practice squad ahead of tackles and three fumble retheir playoff game this coveries in his 12-year NFL weekend. career. The two-time Pro To clear space on the Bowl selection has been roster, the Cardinals placed with eight different teams. defensive tackle Cory This season, Babin Redding (ankle) on injured played in two games for the reserve and linebacker Alex Baltimore Ravens. In 2014, Okafor (toe) on the nonhe saw action in 16 games football injury list. and started four for the With Cardinals having New York Jets. had a bye in the wild-card The 6-2, 236-pound round of the playoffs last Martin, an undrafted free

agent rookie, was released by the Cardinals at the conclusion of the preseason and joined the practice squad.

The 6-0, 237-pound Nealy was signed by the Seattle Seahawks in May as an undrafted free agent and released after training camp. He spent two weeks on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ practice squad during the season.

torn ACL in his right knee, folks around Arrowhead Stadium breathed a sigh of relief. Maclin ruptured his ACL in that knee two previous times during his college and NFL careers, and a third tear would be another tough rehab comeback for the 27-yearold who was ending his seventh season.

The diagnosis of a high ankle sprain is likely to preclude help from Maclin Maclin unlikely to play in the Chiefs’ divisional against Patriots round game in the playoffs KANSAS CITY — this Saturday against New When Kansas City Chiefs England. The Chiefs say wide receiver Jeremy his ability to play is a “dayMaclin learned he had a to-day” proposition, but sprained ankle rather than a that type of injury normally

takes three to four weeks before a player is able to return.

The Chiefs have had several players deal with high ankle sprains during the 2015 season and none bounced back and played the next week, or the week after. Reid and his offensive staff will have to work around Maclin’s absence against the Patriots.

No easy assignment because Maclin was the club’s leading receiver with 87 catches for 1,088 yards and eight touchdowns. The stats for No. 2 receiver Albert Wilson are less than half that — 35 catches, 451 yards, two touchdowns.

IN BRIEF

South Gwinnett’s Pullens signs with Albany State South Gwinnett senior Jordan Pullens has signed with the Albany State baseball program.

Pullens is a left-handed pitcher and outfielder for the Comets.

North’s Duncan fares well in Ironman debut North Gwinnett grad Ryan Duncan, a student at the University of Georgia, posted a solid finish in his first Ironman competion, Ironman Louisville.

The 20-year-old Suwanee resident, who played tennis on scholarship at Georgia Perimeter College before transferring to UGA, placed 18th in his age division and 1,232nd overall out of more than 3,200 competitors.

The 140.6-mile Ironman features a 2.4-mile swim followed by 112 miles of biking and 26.2 miles of running. Duncan, despite a knee injury that limited his running leading up to the event, finished in 13 hours, 22 minutes, 49 seconds. He had a time of 1:10:54 in the swimming, 6:25:17 in the biking and 5:24:48 in the running.

Duncan, a former North tennis player, is a business management major.

GSU’s Hart named Freshman All-American ATLANTA — Georgia State wide receiver Penny Hart’s outstanding 2015 season earned yet another accolade Monday when he was named to the Football Writers Association of America’s Freshman AllAmerican Team.

The 5-foot-8, 170-pound freshman, a Buford resident and graduate of King’s Ridge Christian School in Alpharetta, had already been named the Sun Belt Conference’s Freshman of the Year and a first-team All-SBC selection.

Hart led the SBC in receptions and receiving yards, setting GSU single-season records with 71 receptions and eight touchdowns and setting a conference record for freshmen with 1,099 yards in helping the Panthers (6-7) to their first bowl appearance.

Hart becomes the third Panther to receive some sort of All-American designation, joining placekicker Iain Vance (thirdteam FCS All-American in 2010) and current Kansas City Chiefs receiver Albert Wilson (honorable mention All-American in 2013).

Long’s term as CFP chairman comes to close

Jeff Long’s two-year run as the first chairman of the College Football Playoff selection committee is ending.

CFP executive director Bill Hancock confirmed to USA Today on Tuesday that Long filled what was expected from the outset to be a one- to- two-year term as chairman after the playoff organization was formed. A new chairman from the current committee should be in place by the end of the month, Hancock said.

Long, the athletic director at Arkansas, has two years left in his term on the CFP committee and is expected to remain a member. During his tenure as chairman, he served as the spokesman for the group, explaining the rankings each week during the season to the media.

— From staff and wire reports

4B • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2016 •From Page 1B After getting beat by the Aces to pucks for the better part of two games, Atlanta wasn’t making that mistake in the first period.

It earned the Gladiators a 2-0 lead — and a 19-5 shot advantage — before intermission.

Captain Derek Nesbitt hustled to a loose puck in Alaska’s zone and found Nunn. Shiplo called for the puck as he charged over the blue line and Nunn snapped a tape-totape pass. Shiplo, leaning on one leg, rifled the shot through traffic for a 1-0 lead 2:15 into the game.

Unwilling to let off the gas, a great keep at the point by Cole Martin gave Murovich a chance to double the lead. Martin smothered a bouncing puck and rung it around the boards. Murovich snagged it behind the net and made a quick move to the post.

He snuck the wrap-around shot by Redmann at 13:36 of the first period for his 12th goal of the year.

“What we did a great job of in the first period was pursuing pucks,” Brandt said. “We shot. We

•From Page 1B Shiloh improved to 7-0 in the region and 13-2 overall.

“They got on a pretty good run,” Berkmar junior Jay Estime said. “It was bucket, bucket, bucket. We just couldn’t get a stop.”

Chandler, scoreless in the first half, had all except two of the points in the stretch, which he climaxed with a 3-point play.

“He’s a versatile player and this time he needed to score some points,” Rivers said. “He’s not 100 percent because of some tendonitis with his knee, but he stepped up big for us there.”

Then Georgia Tech signee Josh Okogie came through at clutch time as usual for the Generals, scoring the basket that put them ahead and adding a 3-point play with 1:26 remaining to make it a four-point game.

With the lead down to two points, Berkmar (10-6, 6-2 region) held for a final shot. Al Durham missed a 3-pointer from the left wing, but Chandler missed the front end of a 1-and-1 with 3.4 seconds left and Berkmar rebounded.

But with just 2.9 seconds remaining, all the Patriots had time for was a long 3-point heave.

Okogie, a 6-foot-5 forward, had game bests of 17 points and eight rebounds, while Chandler scored all 12 of his points in the second half.

Berkmar placed four players in double figures, with Estime and fellow ju-

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Nunn Sivak tied it at 7:19 after Patterson made two impressive saves. The initial surge of pressure was the result of an icing waived off at the last second and Sivak capped it with a turnaround wrister on the rebound.

But the shot by Nunn, who played three years in Anchorage, salvaged two points for the Gladiators.

“It’s a growing moment for that group,” Brandt said. “It’s a maturing moment for them to realize that when things aren’t goThe Atlanta Gladiators mob teammate Garry Nunn after ing well, we have to find a Nunn scored the overtime game winner against Alaska on Tuesday at Infinite Energy Arena. (Photo: Amanda way to get that mometum back — and that’s by doHertel) ing hard things and simple recovered our shots. Those Breton stepped on the things. I know the guys goals were a direct result gas, went around the outunderstand it. of our relentless puck side of defenseman Matt “At the end of the day, pursuit.”

Register and tucked his we walk away with two Atlanta pushed its lead 13th of the year between points. That’s the posito 3-0 just 6:04 into the Kent Patterson’s pads. tive outcome. But we talk second period, but a shortIt was only the second about being at the halfway handed tally swung things short-handed goal given up point in the season and in Alaska’s direction. by the Gladiators this sea- we’re continuing to grow Higgs scored his 13th son and the Aces (12-18as a team. And we’re goal of the season by 2-3) closed the gap further continuing to harp on the deflecting Max Everson’s with a power-play goal 24 details of the game.” hard point shot for the 3-0 seconds into the third.

The Gladiators homesadvantage.

Peter Sivak’s shot tand, which includes seven Alaska’s leading scorer squeezed between Patstraight and 11 total games Justin Breton sparked an terson’s leg pads to leave here in January, continues Aces’ resurgence with his Atlanta with the barest of Friday against regular short-handed goal at 12:49. margins. rival South Carolina.

Shiloh

Shiloh’s Perry Battle (11) attempts a 3-point shot against Berkmar’s Joshua Faulkner (11) during the second half of Tuesday’s game at Berkmar High School in Lilburn.

(Photo: Kyle Hess)

nior Durham each scoring 11. Seniors Zach Cooks and Josh Faulker each had 10 points.

Junior T.J. Massenburg’s rebound stuff at the end of the first quarter gave Shiloh a 21-20 lead, but Berkmar forced the Generals into a rash of turnovers in the second quarter and led 37-31 at halftime.

Cooks had 10 points at the break for Berkmar, while Okogie had eight

of his 10 first-half points for Shiloh in the opening quarter.

Points were at a premium in the second half, with Shiloh having a 24-16 edge. Berkmar led 45-43 going into the final quarter.

“This was the first time we’ve had a game like this and I think it contributed to the loss,” Estime said. “We knew how high Shiloh was ranked. Now we’ve got to bounce back

and hopefully we can beat them the next time.”

Shiloh has played just three home games and the Generals, who haven’t lost to a Georgia team, have four more road games before finishing the regular season with five at home.

Another big test awaits Saturday at Dacula, but Shiloh has survived every road challenge so far.

Berkmar girls 36, Shiloh 35 Jirah Simpkins had 15 points and fellow senior Hylan Clayton scored 10 to help the Berkmar girls to a 36-35 victory over Shiloh.

Berkmar (6-11, 3-5) led by five points with less than a minute to play, but Shiloh (6-10, 1-6) had a chance to force overtime when Bria Cade scored on a rebound with 1.7 seconds left and was fouled.

The foul shot was missed, though, and Berkmar was able to hold for a second straight home victory after beating Dacula on Saturday.

Shiloh senior Emani Bell had 16 points, including seven in the fourth quarter, before fouling out in the closing seconds.

Shiloh, down 10-7 after the first quarter, began the second quarter with an 11-0 run and led 20-17 at halftime behind nine points from Bell.

Berkmar, though, scored the first seven points of the third quarter and led 29-22 heading into final quarter.

Senior Clara Lawton had 12 rebounds for Berkmar to go with five points.

Recruits

fensive line for Mountain View this season. He also was going to get a scholar- started at noseguard every ship for football. I’ve just game. been working hard ever Gwinnett County coachsince. Since I was about 7 es named him second-team years old, I’ve been playall-county as a defensive ing football.” lineman, while the Daily Patterson is a 6-foot-2, Post named him third-team 290-pound lineman who all-county as an offenplayed both ways for the sive lineman. He’ll play Bears this season. defensive line for GardnerHe chose the Runnin’ Webb.

Bulldogs over offers from “It was kind of bitterPresbyterian, Reinhardt, sweet,” Patterson said of The Citadel and Chattahis senior season. “As a nooga. team, we didn’t do as well “I love being a part of a as we thought we were growing team,” he said. “I going to do, but I stepped feel as if Gardner-Webb is up when I needed to step going to grow in the future up for my team and I made … they made me feel like plays when I needed to I’m No. 1 on their recruit- make plays. I felt like I had ing list. I went there this a nice, successful season past weekend, and I felt at because of how hard I home. All the guys there worked during the summer had positive attitudes about just to get to the spot I’m this next coming season in today.” and they welcomed me to the family so I decided to Buford’s Lott also picks commit (on Saturday).”

Gardner-Webb Patterson lined up at Patterson wasn’t the all five spots along the of- only Gwinnett County

product to verbally commit to Gardner-Webb over the weekend.

Buford’s Da’Mario Lott pledged to the Runnin’ Bulldogs on Sunday. Lott played both fullback and outside linebacker for the Wolves this season as they advanced to the Class AAAA state championship.

He’ll play outside linebacker in college for Gardner-Webb.

“I had a visit this weekend, and the visit went really well,” Lott said. “I interacted with the other recruits and current plays as well. I see potential. I see Gardner-Webb on the come-up so I just decided to be a part of that.”

will be a Georgia Bulldog.

The 6-foot-4, 235-pound Nauta is a five-star prospect and rated the 18th best player in the Class of 2016

by Rivals.com. The onetime Florida State commit is an early enrollee and will start classes at Georgia this week.

Extra points • Two of Gwinnett’s top uncommitted senior prospects have official visits scheduled this weekend.

Lanier five-start defensive tackle Derrick Brown, 247sports.com’s top rated player in the state, will visit Auburn, while four-star Archer offensive tackle E.J. Price will visit Oklahoma.

• Recent Tennessee Georgia lands commit Baylen Buchanan No. 1 tight end — who flipped from LouAs expected, former isville — was offered by Buford tight end and IMG Ohio State last week.

Academy’s Isaac Nauta • Grayson cornerback announced on Saturday Adesola Abisoye picked during the U.S. Army up an offer from Mercer on All-American Bowl that he Saturday.

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onds left to give Peachtree Ridge the lead back at the Eagles over the opening 54-53, only to have Ozoh 3:26 of the game, followed come up with a quick by a subsequent 10-2 run answer once again. over the final 4:04 of the This time, he blew past opening frame to vault his defender on the left the Lions in front, neither wing and drove in for the team led by more than four layup with 24 seconds left points the rest of the way. to help Collins Hill seeIn fact, the two teams saw back in front at 55-54.

Peachtree Ridge had one traded the lead 11 times last shot, and good ball over the course of the evemovement from Tatum ning, with six ties.

Cheeseman was a major and McCollum helped reason Collins Hill was able them get a good look at a 3-pointer for Heyward in to stay close by scoring the right corner with the the Eagles’ final 11 points final seconds ticking off. of the first half to help his But the shot bounced off team take a 24-20 lead into intermission, and he added the front iron, and the two teams batted the rebound his team’s first four points of the second half to make in the air. Fred Payton eventually grabbed the the lead 28-25 with 5:52 loose ball and laid it in, but left in the third quarter. not until after the buzzer The Collins Hill lead had sounded, and Collins reached as much four Hill could celebrate it’s points early in the fourth quarter, and stood at 42-39 hard-fought win.

“I can’t tell you how after a Chris Parks jumper from the foul line with 1:41 many times it comes down to a last-second shot with remaining in regulation. them. It seems like every But as it did all night, time,” Peachtree Ridge Peachtree Ridge refused coach Keith Arrington to back down, with Consaid. “Good game. The nor Heyward draining a kids played really hard, 3-pointer from the right corner with 1:20 left to pull both sides. We didn’t shoot it really good, and they the Lions back even again didn’t shoot it very good. at 42-all.

Some of that’s probably The junior guard had a because the kids are playchance to give Peachtree ing really hard and we’ve Ridge when he drove the got a big crowd. baseline as the final sec“We had plenty of oponds ticked away, only to be stripped by Ozoh as the portunities. We had open shots from a multitude of buzzer sounded, sending different people, and we the game into overtime. just couldn’t make them. I Both teams took leads don’t know fault anything in the first extra frame, with bounces on 3-pointers we did, though. I’m proud of them.”

by Cheeseman and Max Parks was the only other Clark going the Eagles’ way, while a pair of driving Collins Hill player in doulayups down the lane from ble figures with 10 points, though Ozoh finished with Milz Tatum eventually seven points, two assists pushed the Lions in front and two steals, and Kai before a jump hook in the lane by Cheeseman knotted Lambert, Kenny Stanciel the score again at 50-all and and Clark were strong sent the game into a second on the boards with eight, seven and six rebounds overtime. respectively.

There, it looked like McCollum led Peachtree Peachtree Ridge might Ridge with 15 points and take control after Markel added seven rebounds, McCollum drove he lane while Tatum chipped in for a layup and the Lions 13 points and four assists. corralled the rebound of a Heyward contributed 10 missed Collins Hill shot points and a team-best nine with 1:41 left.

That’s when Ozoh came boards and three steals.

Collins Hill girls 71, up with perhaps the two Peachtree Ridge 11 biggest plays of the game.

Sydney Brown and Nia The first came when Lee each scored 14 points he knocked the ball loose and tracked it down in the as the Eagles (14-0, 7-0) frontcourt before going all remained unbeaten on the season with an easy won the way in with a layup, over Peachtree Ridge. and then completing the Kyra Dixon and Desiree three-point play after Conner each added eight getting fouled, to put the points for Collins Hill, Eagles back on top at 53while Quinnay Summers 52 with 1:11 remaining. led the Lions with five McCollum answered points. with a layup with 44 sec-

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NASL

ship group identified that met the very specific stanpassionate fan base, which dards we hold ourselves to has supported the club as a league.”

The Silverbacks won tremendously throughout the NASL Spring Season the years.”

The city won’t be with- Championship in 2013 and earned the right to host out pro soccer for long, the league’s championthough. Major League Soccer’s Atlanta United FC ship game, NASL Soccer Bowl 2013. They lost that will begin play next year matchup 1-0 to the New in Atlanta’s new stadium, which it will share with the York Cosmos.

Atlanta’s most recent NFL’s Atlanta Falcons. match came Oct. 31, 2015 That didn’t make it at Silverbacks Park — a any easier to absorb the 1-1 draw against Ottawa news of the Silverbacks’ Fury FC. departure. The club was “This is obviously a founded in 1998, competed in the A-League until 2004 disappointing day for anyone that has been inand then joined the USL volved with the club over First Division, reaching the years,” Silverbacks the USL Championship president and general Game in 2007. It joined manager Andy Smith said. the NASL in 2011.

“The organization created The Silverbacks were operated by the league last some great memories for season during a search for the city of Atlanta and its soccer fans, but as we all a local ownership group.

“We have made incred- know, you need ownership to continue on. We ible strides in just five short years, and one of the appreciate all of the time key pillars of our league’s and effort the league and its owners have invested in growth and improvement their search for long-term has been the emergence Silverbacks ownership of a group of committed owners who believe in the — they truly turned over every rock in the process. long-term NASL plan,” “On behalf of the orgaPeterson said on NASL. nization, I want to thank com. “Unfortunately in all of our staff members, Atlanta — a market we players, coaches, partners, continue to believe could be successful in the NASL and most importantly fans for their loyal support.”

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SWIMMING AND DIVING ROUNDUP

Brookwood tops Mill Creek in swimming and diving From Staff Reports Brookwood’s boys and girls swimming and diving teams swept a competition over the weekend against Mill Creek.

The Broncos topped Mill Creek 183-103 in the boys division and 197-118 in the girls meet, sweeping all six relays in the two divisions.

Brookwood’s boys event-winners were Andrew Huenniger (200-yard freestyle, 1 minute, 45.65 seconds), Keegan Walsh (200 individual medley, 2:02.46), Jacob Rees (50 free, 22.15 and 100 free, 48.13), Alex Taylor (100 butterfly, 53.70 and 100 backstroke, 52.28) and Dylan Scott (500 free, 4:55.33).

The Brookwood girls got individual event wins from Devan Sweeney (200 free, 2:00.29 and 100 fly, 57.66), Tegan Sweeney (200 IM, 2:15.16 and 500 free, 5:14.74), Maddy Cohen (50 free, 24.82 and 100 free, 55.03) and Erin Scott (100 breaststroke, 1:07.08).

Mill Creek’s first-place finishers were Ambria D’Alonzo (girls diving, 254.40 points), Katherine Parker (girls 100 back, 57.47) and Collins Sainovich (100 breast, 1:05.05).

Archer wins quad-meet Archer swept a quad-meet over the weekend with South Gwinnett, Central Gwinnett and Providence Christian.

The Tigers put up 202 points in the boys meet, while South was

runner-up at 147. Archer’s girls had 197 points to second-place Providence’s 133.

Archer’s girls individual wins were by Megan Dollar (200 IM, 2:53.67), Hannah Mahaffey (50 free, 25.71 and 100 free, 54.94), Brigid Cross (500 free, 7:03.28) and Sarah Floyd (100 breast, 1:21.25).

The Tigers got boys victories from Ethan Cortel-Fraser (200 free, 1:57.18 and 100 back, 1:00.59), Sam Powell (50 free, 24.21 and 100 free, 52.59) and Jonah Genge (100 fly, 1:04.83).

Providence’s event-winners were Caroline Smith (girls 200 free, 2:22.92), James Ferrante (boys 200 IM, 2:27.02 and 100 breast, 1:12.54) and Raleigh Bentz (girls 100 fly, 58.02 and 100 back, 59.25).

South got victories in diving from David Onyeanula (boys, 151.80) and Markiyah Davis (girls, 222.95).

Central’s Vincent Huynh won the boys 500 free (7:02.70).

Duluth tops Archer Duluth won both divisions of a meet with Archer this past weekend.

The Wildcats won by a 189121 margin in the girls meet and by a 174-126 margin in the boys division.

Duluth got girls event wins from Ashley Neas (200 free, 2:00.86), Becca Erwin (200 IM, 2:16.95 and 100 breast, 1:12.40), Molly Botting (50 free, 26.68 and 100 free, 58.58), Kendal Reeves (diving, 196.95) and Margaux Ratcliff (500 free, 5:58.25).

Jimmy Fung (200 free, 1:54.62 and 500 free, 5:10.19) and Richard Rettig (100 fly, 1:01.31) were winners for the Duluth boys.

Archer’s Hannah Mahaffey won two girls events (100 fly, 59.88 and 100 back, 1:02.02), while teammate Samantha Baez broke the Archer record in the six-dive event at 177.10 with a second-place finish.

The Tigers got boys wins from Alec Young (200 IM, 2:10.89 and 100 breast, 1:04.69), Sam Powell (50 free, 24.01 and 100 free, 51.54), Kerry Kerr (diving, 161.75) and Fletcher Hilton

(100 back, 58.24).

Mountain View wins against Meadowcreek Mountain View rolled to a 345-172 win in the girls meet and a 261-209 victory in the boys division of a meet this past weekend.

The Bears’ boys race winners were Hayden Brown (200 free, 2:02.05 and 100 free, 57.34), Sean Hordines (200 IM, 2:33.93), Troy Tarantino (50 free, 24.51 and 100 back, 1:03.91), Matt Molini (100 fly, 1:05.72) and Justin Chan (100 breast, 1:15.01).

Mountain View’s girls event wins were by Rose Anderson (200 free, 2:29.37), Kendyl Lowery (200 IM, 2:53.75), Abby Hulsey (50 free, 27.36 and 500 free, 5:59.88), Allison Flatt (diving, 137.95), Amanda Flatt (100 fly, 1:15.43 and 100 back, 1:12.04), Emily Hulsey (100 free, 1:01.91) and Alex Felger (100 breast, 1:27.94).

Norcross gets past Dacula Norcross won its head-to-head meet with Dacula last week, including a 318-141 victory in the girls division. The Blue Devils won 276-181 in the boys meet.

Norcross’ boys winners were Dutch Danskin (200 free, 1:51.41 and 500 free, 5:14.72), Eric Strickland (200 IM, 2:04.24 and 100 free, 47.72), Arion Solomon (50 free, 22.48), Griffin Ramsey (diving, 268.40), Preston Schaefer (100 fly, 59.46), Colton Kryski (100 back, 1:00.15) and Carter Januzelli (100 breast, 1:07.21).

The Blue Devils’ girls eventwinners were Raya Ward (200 free, 2:09.43), Holland Danskin (200 IM, 2:21.45 and 100 breast, 1:13.96), Sarah Gries (50 free, 25.62 and 100 back, 1:03.74), Lyle Hoge (diving, 237.85), Andrea Thornell (100 fly, 1:03.86), Stevie Bramble (100 free, 58.32) and Maggie O’Leary (500 free, 6:13.52).

Grayson wins at tri-meet with Berkmar, Loganville The Grayson girls won a tri-meet with Loganville and Berkmar this past weekend, scoring 255 points to runner-up

Loganville’s 178 and Berkmar’s 176.

The Loganville boys won with 200 points to Grayson’s 190 and Berkmar’s 184.

Grayson got wins from Ben Phillips (boys 200 free, 2:11.66), Anna Calaicone (girls 200 free, 2:14.09 and 500 free, 6:09.40), Makenzie Narey (girls 200 IM, 2:30.29 and 100 breast, 1:16.75), Kayla Wade (girls 50 free, 27.02), Joseph Wilson (boys diving, 216.80), Rachel Wellington (girls diving, 204.35) and Ethan York (boys 100 fly, 1:09.13).

Berkmar’s first-place finishers were Tony Perez (boys 500 free, 6:45.98) and Christopher Nguyen (boys 100 back, 57.78).

Parkview posts wins over Peachtree Ridge Parkview won both divisions over the weekend against Peachtree Ridge, winning 183-125 in the girls meet and 206-103 in the boys meet.

The Panthers got first-place showings from Jacob Finco (boys 200 free, 1:51.64), Josh Fountain (boys 200 IM, 2:04.27 and 100 breast, 1:07.31), Sarah Jahns (girls 200 IM, 2:24.98 and 100 back, 1:06.98), Kelsey Halls (girls 50 free, 26.57), John Rollins (boys 100 free, 52.86), Adair Kimbrough (girls 100 free, 58.69), Daniel Johnson (boys 500 free, 5:08.70) and Will Mahone (boys 100 back, 58.03).

Peachtree Ridge’s event-winners were Josephine Rudd (girls 200 free, 2:10.60), Maliq Williams (boys 50 free, 23.17 and 100 fly, 54.21), Oliver Stephan (boys diving, 196.00), Jaclyn Bulluck (girls diving, 170.45), Sarah Pierce (girls 100 fly, 1:02.89 and 500 free, 5:24.42) and Riha Moss (girls 100 breast, 1:12.16).

North, Collins Hill split North Gwinnett and Collins Hill each won a division of a meet between the two over the weekend.

North won the girls meet 22094 and Collins Hill won the boys division 164-148.

Event-winners for North were Megan Jones (girls 200 free,

2:01.11), J.P. Baselj (boys 50 free, 22.76), Kelley Jones (boys 50 free, 26.11), Matt Shelton (boys 100 fly, 54.53), Abigail Duncan (girls 100 fly, 1:02.19), Julia Rummins (girls 500 free, 5:27.75) and Marianne Allard (girls 100 breast, 1:11.28).

Collins Hill got victories from Taylor Delk (boys 200 free, 1:43.46 and 500 free, 4:35.07), Wesley Hobbs (boys 200 IM, 2:07.07 and 100 back, 55.82), Haley Arner (girls 200 IM, 2:09.11 and 100 back, 1:00.63), Peter Smithson (boys diving, 305.55), Madison Franklin (girls diving, 165.40), Andrew Winton (boys 100 free, 48.87), Reagan Balog (girls 100 free, 56.92) and Cameron Ogden (100 breast, 1:04.39).

Collins Hill, Mill Creek earn wins Collins Hill and Mill Creek each won a division of last weekend’s tri-meet with Grayson.

The Collins Hill boys won with 287 points to Mill Creek’s 232 and Grayson’s 118. The Mill Creek girls were first with 281 points to Collins Hill’s 217 and Grayson’s 136.

Collins Hill’s event-winners were Wesley Hobbs (boys 200 free, 1:50.65 and 100 back, 57.22), Reagan Balog (girls 200 free, 2:08.68 and 100 free, 56.91), Driscoll Crabbe (boys 200 IM, 2:03.54 and 500 free, 5:03.96), Kell Waddell (boys 50 free, 23.03) and Peter Smithson (boys diving, 319.60).

Mill Creek got victories from Isabelle Andrews (girls 200 IM, 2:22.34 and 100 back, 1:03.79), Sarah Lowry (girls 50 free, 26.32), Reecy Brown (girls diving, 195.70), Sebastian Rodriguez (boys 100 fly, 54.95 and 100 breast, 1:03.89), Robyn Peterson (girls 100 fly, 1:07.61), Will Jordan (boys 100 free, 51.45), Bailey Williams (girls 500 free, 5:55.80) and Lydia Evans (girls 100 breast, 1:13.24).

Shiloh tops Lanier, Discovery Shiloh swept a tri-meet this past weekend with Lanier and Discovery.

The Generals scored 230.5

points in the girls meet to Lanier’s 205 and Discovery’s 108.5. They had 241 points in the boys competition to Lanier’s 184 and Discovery’s 107.

Shiloh got first-place showings from Nyota Edjidjimo (girls 200 IM, 2:29.73), Cristopher Jones (boys 50 free, 26.70 and 100 free, 1:02.35), Clarke Swain (girls 50 free, 27.81 and 100 fly, 1:13.67), Stephen Black (boys 100 fly, 1:12.18) and Jenelle Cranston (girls 100 breast, 1:25.90).

Lanier’s event-winners were Seth Johnson (boys 200 free, 1:57.46 and 500 free, 5:19.79), Lilah Davis (girls 200 free, 2:07.87 and 500 free, 5:33.52), Chris Pinkston (boys 200 IM, 2:48.68), Anthony Albanese (boys diving, 222.70), Katelyn Hartwig (girls diving, 153.70), Katie Spathelf (girls 100 free, 1:03.32), Tanner Mazanetz (boys 100 back, 1:12.74), Maya Donaldson (girls 100 back, 1:11.38) and Wyatt Penland (boys 100 breast, 1:20.45).

Wesleyan sweeps GAC Wesleyan swept rival Greater Atlanta Christian last Thursday, winning 196-118 in the boys division and 200-103 in the girls division.

The Wolves won 18 of the 24 events.

First-place finishers for the Wesleyan boys were James Claffey (200 free, 1:56.55), Ben Buckley (200 IM, 2:11.98), Jon Hunt Ficken (50 free, 23.52 and 100 free, 52.57), Ethan Moon (500 free, 5:15.97) and Grant Sauer (100 breast, 1:07.75).

The Wesleyan girls eventwinners were Ellie Bradach (200 free, 2:10.27 and 500 free, 5:54.57), Gabby Hernandez (200 IM, 2:31.13 and 100 breast, 1:18.87), Sydney Weissman (50 free, 26.05 and 100 free, 59.04), Abby Gardner (diving, 276.20) and Anna Roy (100 fly, 1:08.22).

Greater Atlanta Christian got wins from Anthony Stewart (boys diving, 237.30), Zachary Musser (boys 100 fly, 57.80), Shane Lussier (boys 100 back, 1:02.67) and Caitlin Brown (girls 100 back, 1:14.73).

PREP ROUNDUP

Willis free throws help Grayson escape South Gwinnett From Staff Reports LOGANVILLE — Alphonso Willis scored 15 points in the fourth quarter, including a pair of game-winning free throws with five seconds left, and Grayson rallied past South Gwinnett 58-56 in Region 8-AAAAAA boys basketball Tuesday night.

Down one in the waning seconds, Grayson’s Austin Dukes made 1 of 2 free throws to tie the score. When he missed the second free throw, Kenyon Jackson grabbed the rebound and missed, but Willis got the rebound and was fouled with five seconds left. Willis, who had 20 points and seven rebounds, made both, and South (5-10, 1-7) didn’t get a shot off in an attempt to tie.

Jackson finished with 10 points, 15 rebounds and five blocked shots for the Rams (15-2, 6-2), who trailed by four points entering the fourth quarter.

BOYS BASKETBALL BOYS HOOPS Brookwood 96, Heritage 68 SNELLVILLE — Up just 39-36 at halftime, Brookwood pulled away in the third quarter for a 96-68 victory over Class AAAAA state-ranked Heritage (15-3) on

Tuesday.

The Broncos (12-5), who outscored Heritage 25-7 in the third quarter, were led by 20 points from Donald Parham, who also had four assists. Trae Higginbotham scored 16 for Brookwood and Sean Agnant had 12 points.

The victors also got 10 points, eight assists, six steals and five rebounds from Micah Kinsey, 10 points and 11 rebounds from Amari Kelley and 10 points from Markus Smith.

Dacula 71, Archer 64 DACULA — Kevon Tucker and Demari Edwards powered Dacula to a 71-64, Region 8-AAAAAA win over Archer on Tuesday.

Tucker had 25 points and 12 rebounds, while Edwards had 20 points and seven rebounds as Dacula improved to 12-4 overall and 5-2 in the region.

Archer (6-11, 1-7) was led by Darrion Taylor’s 23 points.

Central Gwinnett 61, Parkview 53 LAWRENCEVILLE — Central Gwinnett picked up a Region 8-AAAAAA win at home Tuesday night 61-53 over Parkview.

Jalen Hillery led the Black Knights (9-7, 4-4) with 20 points, while Adnan Antonio scored 18.

Mill Creek 53, North Gwinnett 51 HOSCHTON — Mill Creek edged visiting North Gwinnett 53-51 for a Region 7-AAAAAA victory Tuesday night.

Charles Botchway (13 points) and Christian Mancillas (12 points) led the Mill Creek (9-7, 3-4) offense. North (4-12, 1-6) was led by Ethan Smith’s 15 points and Colby Leifson’s 12 points.

Norcross 70, Mountain View 57 LAWRENCEVILLE —The Norcross boys basketball team remained unbeaten in Region 7-AAAAAA with a 70-57 win at Mountain View on Tuesday.

The Blue Devils (15-2, 7-0) were led Rayshaun Hammonds with 22 points and Kyle Sturdivant with 18 points. The Bears (11-7, 2-5) were led by 19 points from Spencer Rodgers with 19 points on five 3-point shots.

Uchenna Nwagbara added 13 points and Donnell Nixon had 12 points on four 3-pointers.

PEACHTREE CORNERS — Despite 18 points from Christian McLean, Wesleyan fell 50-39 to Lovett in Region 6-AA Tuesday night.

The Wolves (9-8, 3-4) also got eight points from Sean McDonough.

Hebron 62, Commerce 21 DACULA — Hebron Christian easily dispatched Commerce 6221 Tuesday in Region 8-A. Luke Crawford led the Lions (13-4, 5-0) with 12 points and Shane Smith scored 11.

Duluth 52, Meadowcreek 46 NORCROSS — Duluth defeated Meadowcreek 52-46 Tuesday in Region 7-AAAAAA. The Wildcats (12-6, 6-1) were led by Adam Flagler’s 14 points.

Lamont Smith, Javis Diaz, Jalen Hodges and Obinna Ofodile also chipped in offensively for Duluth.

Travontay Taylor had 19 points and Joseph Toppin scored 16 to lead Meadowcreek (5-12, 0-7).

Mill Creek 54, North Gwinnett 41 HOSCHTON — Shortly before receiving her state championship softball ring in a post-game ceremony, Wynter Webb scored a game-high 16 points and led Mill Creek to a 54-41 win over North Gwinnett in Region 7-AAAAAA play Tuesday.

Kim Forbes had 13 rebounds for the Hawks (6-10, 3-4), while North (8-9, 2-5) was led by 15 points from Jessica Belcher and 14 points from Kathleen Wilson.

Apalachee 75, Lanier 58 SUGAR HILL — Kamar Baldwin had 40 points, 10 rebounds and three assists in Apalachee’s 75-58 win over Lanier in Region 8-AAAAA North on Tuesday. The Wildcats (13-3, 3-0) also got 18 points from Jabari Hill and six assists and four steals from Omer Ahmed.

Adrian Martin led Lanier with 13 points.

Buford 62, Johnson 53 GAINESVILLE — Buford defeated host Johnson-Gainesville 62-53 Tuesday night in Region 8-AAAA. Pace Academy 50, Wesleyan 39

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Grayson 52, South Gwinnett 39 LOGANVILLE — Tied entering the fourth quarter, Grayson pulled away for a 52-39 win over South Gwinnett in a Region 8-AAAAAA matchup Tuesday night.

Destiny Newkirk led Grayson with 21 points, Imani Conner scored 13 and Jessica Ewing had 10 points and 12 rebounds.

The Rams (14-3, 5-3) outscored South (9-8, 4-4) 21-8 in the fourth quarter.

Norcross 71, Mountain View 33

LAWRENCEVILLE — Ty Gillespie had 23 points and eight rebounds Tuesday, powering Norcross to a 71-33 win over host Mountain View in Region 7-AAAAAA. The Blue Devils (12-4, 6-1) had 10 players score, including 13 points from Vash Perry and six points and 10 rebounds from Devyn Wilson.

Mountain View (8-9, 4-3) got eight points from Jaron Stallworth and seven points from Tamara Jordan.

Brookwood 51, Heritage 29 SNELLVILLE — N’dea Jones had 28 points, 14 rebounds, three blocks and two steals Tuesday night in Brookwood’s 51-29, non-region win over Heritage.

The Broncos (11-5) also got six assists and five rebounds from Kierra Adams.

Parkview 66, Central Gwinnett 21 LAWRENCEVILLE — Parkview cruised to a 66-21 win over Central Gwinnett in Region 8-AAAAAA Tuesday night.

Kristi Derouen led the Panthers (11-6, 7-1) with 13 points, seven rebounds and five steals and Sydney Fields also scored in double figures with 11. Dominique Leonidas added eight points, five steals and five assists.

Archer 50, Dacula 25 DACULA —A complete team effort on defense led Archer past Dacula in Region 8-AAAAAA action Tuesday.

After leading by just one point after the first quarter, defensive pressure led by Kyleeyah Whitehead and Hannah Dunston sent the Tigers (14-2, 8-0) on a 34-10 run over the next two quarters.

Whitehead and Dunston each

had four steals.

Linsey Marchese led the way with 13 points and five rebounds, Tia Shorter had 12 points and six steals and Autumn Newby and Asia McCoy each had eight points. Dacula was led by six points from Faustine Aifuwa.

Duluth 63, Meadowcreek 31 NORCROSS — Deja Mitchell had a game-high 20 points and Torey Walker scored 16 in Duluth’s 63-31 win at Meadowcreek in Region 7-AAAAAA play Tuesday.

The Wildcats improved to 8-10 overall and 5-2 in the region, while Meadowcreek fell to 4-13 and 0-7.

Buford 61, Johnson 21 GAINESVILLE — Buford routed Johnson-Gainesville 61-21 Tuesday, improving to 2-0 in Region 8-AAAA. The Wolves (13-3) got 11 points each from Audrey Weiner and Pamela Johnson.

Wesleyan 52, Pace Academy 14 PEACHTREE CORNERS — The Wesleyan girls basketball team remained undefeated in Region 6-AA with a 52-14 win Tuesday over Pace Academy.

Cairo Booker led the way for the Wolves (14-2, 5-0) with 12 points. Mikayla Coombs added 10 points, Natalie Armstrong had nine and Bailey Edwards had a team-high seven rebounds.

Commerce 66, Hebron 38 DACULA — Despite 28 points from Yarimel Ramirez, Hebron Christian fell 66-38 to visiting Commerce in Region 8-A Tuesday night.

Hebron also got 11 rebounds from Payton Johnson.

SPORTS AT A GLANCE Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto.............24.. 15.. .615......— Boston..............19.. 18.. .514....... 4 New York..........19.. 20.. .487....... 5 Brooklyn...........10.. 28.. .263.. 13.5 Philadelphia....... 4.. 36.. .100.. 20.5 Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Atlanta..............23.. 15.. .605......— Miami...............22.. 16.. .579....... 1 Orlando............20.. 18.. .526....... 3 Washington......17.. 19.. .472....... 5 Charlotte...........17.. 20.. .459.... 5.5 Central Division

W L Pct GB Cleveland.........26....9....743......— Chicago............22.. 14....611.... 4.5 Indiana.............21.. 16.. .568....... 6 Detroit..............21.. 16.. .568....... 6 Milwaukee........15.. 24.. .385..... 13 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct GB San Antonio......33....6.. .846......— Dallas...............22.. 16.. .579.. 10.5 Memphis...........21.. 18.. .538..... 12 Houston............19.. 19.. .500.. 13.5 New Orleans..... 11.. 25.. .306.. 20.5 Northwest Division

W L Pct GB

Oklahoma City..26.. 12.. .684......— Utah.................17.. 20.. .459.... 8.5 Portland............16.. 24.. .400......11 Denver..............14.. 24.. .368..... 12 Minnesota.........12.. 26.. .316..... 14 Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Golden State....36....2.. .947......— L.A. Clippers.....25.. 13.. .658......11 Sacramento......15.. 22.. .405.. 20.5 Phoenix............13.. 26.. .333.. 23.5 L.A. Lakers........ 8.. 31.. .205.. 28.5 Monday’s Games San Antonio 106, Brooklyn 79 Washington 114, Chicago 100 Golden State 111, Miami 103 Tuesday’s Games Phoenix at Indiana, late San Antonio at Detroit, late Boston at New York, late Houston at Memphis, late Chicago at Milwaukee, late Oklahoma City at Minnesota, late Cleveland at Dallas, late New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, late Today’s Games Atlanta at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Milwaukee at Washington, 7 p.m.

New York at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

Indiana at Boston, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at Houston, 8 p.m.

Dallas at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

Golden State at Denver, 9 p.m.

Utah at Portland, 10 p.m.

New Orleans at Sacramento, 10

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Miami at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Toronto vs Orlando, at London, England, 3 p.m.

Chicago at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Cleveland at San Antonio, 8 p.m.

Sacramento at Utah, 9 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

Louisiana 63 South Carolina State 92, No.Carolina A&T 85 Southern 74, Jackson State 66 Texas A&M CC 91, Lamar 82 Western Carolina 83, NC-Greensboro 77, OT Winthrop 81, Ferrum 63 MIDWEST Cal. State — Bakersfield 67, Chicago St. 56

Monday’s College Basketball Scores EAST Bethune-Cookman 72, Norfolk State 70 Bucknell 82, Lehigh 76 Hampton 71, Florida A&M 65, OT Maryland - E. Shore 69, Morgan St. 65 Monmouth-NJ 86, Fairfield 74 Howard at Delaware State, ppd.

SOUTH Alcorn St. 69, Grambling State 53 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 59, Alabama St. 55 Chattanooga 77, Wofford 68 East Tennessee St. 88, VMI 51 Furman 77, Samford 57 Incarnate Word 71, New Orleans 68 Mississippi Valley State 79, Alabama A&M 73 North Carolina Central 69, Savannah State 46 Sam Houston St. 70, Southeastern

Tuesday’s College Basketball Scores EAST Albany 80, New Hampshire 75, OT Dartmouth 80, Canisius 69 George Washington 81, Massachusetts 70 Harvard 73, Ryerson 57 Virginia 66, Miami-Florida 58 West Virginia 74, Kansas 63 SOUTH Abilene Christian 87, Northwestern St. 72 Stephen F. Austin 85, Central Arkansas 64 Texas A&M 71, Florida 68 Tulane 81, South Florida 70 Auburn at Vanderbilt, late Iowa St. at Texas, late MIDWEST Ball St. 74, Western Michigan 64 Bowling Green 91, Ohio 75 Central Michigan 92, Akron 81

Dayton 80, Davidson 74 Eastern Michigan 81, Buffalo 69 Evansville 84, Drake 65 Kansas St. 83, Texas Tech 70 Kent St. 76, Miami (OH) 68 Kentucky 80, Mississippi St. 74 Northern Illinois 71, Toledo 66 Northwestern 70, Wisconsin 65 Southern Illinois 81, Illinois St. 78 Xavier 84, DePaul 64 Providence at Creighton, late Arkansas at Missouri, late Minnesota at Nebraska, late Maryland at Michigan, late WEST Air Force at Utah St., late Mexico at UNLV, late Wednesday’s College Basketball Schedule EAST Maine (4-11) at Massachusetts Lowell (5-10), 11 a.m.

Georgetown (10-6) at St. John’s (710), 6:30 p.m.

St. Joseph’s (12-3) at George Mason (6-10), 7 p.m.

Saint Louis (6-9) at Duquesne (10-6), 7 p.m.

Boston College (7-8) at Syracuse (10-7), 7 p.m.

Hartford (5-11) at Binghamton (3-12), 7 p.m.

MD Baltimore Cty (5-12) at Stony Brook (11-4), 7 p.m.

Fordham (10-4) at VCU (11-5), 7 p.m.

La Salle (5-8) at Richmond (9-6), 7 p.m.

Rhode Island (10-6) at St. Bonaventure (11-3), 7 p.m.

Army (11-5) at Colgate (6-9), 7 p.m.

Holy Cross (7-8) at Lafayette (4-11), 7 p.m.

Loyola-Maryland (4-11) at Navy (125), 7 p.m.

Boston U (8-9) at American U. (2-13), 7:30 p.m.

Marquette (12-4) at Villanova (14-2), 8:30 p.m.

Wake Forest (10-5) at Virginia Tech (10-6), 9 p.m.

SOUTH Southern Methodist (15-0) at East Carolina (8-8), 6:15 p.m.

Tennessee (8-7) at Georgia (8-5), 7 p.m.

Duke (14-2) at Clemson (10-6), 7 p.m.

Tennessee Tech (12-5) at TennMartin (9-8), 7 p.m.

Temple (8-6) at Memphis (10-5), 8 p.m.

Nicholls State (5-11) at Houston Baptist (8-7), 8 p.m.

Texas Christian (9-6) at Baylor (123), 8:15 p.m.

Mississippi (12-3) at Louisiana State (9-6), 9 p.m.

South Carolina (15-0) at Alabama (9-5), 9 p.m.

Florida St. (10-5) at N.C. State (10-6), 9 p.m.

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Clark set to debut short putter Irish Ryder Cup hero dies at 67

By Tom LaMarre

putting one way, I don’t The Sports Xchange think many guys out here that have putted with a Golf’s ban on anchored short one for that long putters, implemented by would like to switch to the R&A and the United something else that they States Golf Association, haven’t used.� went into play on Jan. 1.

Last June, Clark showed That gave Tim Clark, up at the Travelers Champoster boy pionship with a convenof the long tional putter and missed club who the cut before going back for 18 sea- to his long putter for the sons anrest of the season. chored his Use of the anchored putter to putter dates to 1924, when his chest, Leo Diegel bent over and Tim Clark about pushed the butt of his two extra putter into his belly, and weeks to prepare for his the first patent for a belly debut with something dif- putter was submitted by ferent in competition.

Richard Parmley and apThe 40-year-old South proved in 1965.

African, one of the more In 1966, Phil Rodgoutspoken opponents of ers won two tournaments the rule change, will get on the PGA Tour with a a chance to show off his 39.5-inch belly putter, usnew putting method for ing a technique suggested the first time this week in to him by Paul Runyan, the Sony Open in Hawaii who twice won the PGA at Waialae Country Club Championship. in Honolulu.

In the 1989 U.S. Senior Clark, who has two Open, Orville Moody PGA Tour victories, became the first player to including the 2010 Playwin a major on any tour ers Championship, might using a belly putter, and seem to qualify for a there immediately was waiver because he cannot talk that the long wand supinate his forearms due might be outlawed. to a congenital defect that After nearly two months makes it difficult for him of debate, the USGA to use a standard putter and R&A announce that and a regular stroke. anchored putters would However, golf’s powers continue to be legal under that be have not granted the Rules of Golf. him one.

In 1991, Rocco Medi“There’s going to be ate won the Doral Open, some challenges along the becoming the first player way, but I feel what I’m to win on the PGA Tour going to do will be just with a putter anchored to fine, though you’re only his sternum. going to really know when The debate continued you start in competition,� in the ensuing years, Clark told Reuters. with golf analyst David “The major switch for Feherty providing some me to the short putter is comic relief when he said a lot of muscle memory on the air: “You shouldn’t and retraining of how you be able to use a belly use a putter. I’m going putter unless you actually to try and do something have a belly.� that’s not vastly different Vijay Singh of Fiji even to what I’ve been doing in used a belly putter for the past. several victories when he “Nearly two decades of was No. 1 in the World

Golf Rankings in 2004, but the pendulum began to swing toward the ban when players started winning PGA Tour majors with long putters.

It started with Keegan Bradley at the 2011 PGA Championship, followed

by Webb Simpson at the 2012 U.S. Open and Ernie Els of South Africa at the 2012 Open Championship.

When Adam Scott of Australia captured the 2013 Masters with a putter anchored to his sternum, the wheels for the ban already were in motion, with the USGA and R&A having announced five months earlier a proposal to ban anchored putters beginning Jan. 1, 2016.

PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem originally announced that U.S. circuit was against the ban, but eventually Finchem fell into line with the governing bodies.

Several players switched in the last three seasons, but once Christmas was out of the way last month, there were golfers all over the world trying to get used to new putters and putting styles.

It will be interesting to see exactly what methods and putters will be chosen by holdouts such as Clark and Bernhard Langer of Germany, the best player on the Champions Tour, and how they fare.

Langer is one of numerous players on the senior circuit who used some form of the long or anchored putter, and when the idea of the ban was first floated a few years ago, some of them suggested they might quit rather than switch.

Not only is it a new year, but it is a new day for the ancient game, which can be traced back to 1332.

By Tom LaMarre

GOLF NOTES

expected to heal. “It’s not 100 percent,�

George’s, where he finished Furyk said from his home Christy O’Connor Jr. two strokes behind champi- in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. of Ireland, whose greatest on Sandy Lyle of Scotland. “I don’t want to get out moment in golf came in there and play and show up O’Connor Jr. held a the 1989 Ryder Cup, died just to show up. I’ve been two-stroke lead over Lyle Wednesday while on vaca- and four others after open- hitting balls since early Detion in the Canary Island cember, but I wasn’t going ing with a 6-under-par 64, off the coast of Spain. He but in the long run, he was to be as strong as I needed was 67. done in by a second-round to be. “To push it and try to get O’Connor hit a brilliant 76. there early didn’t seem like approach shot from 229 Snedker plays without the right move. In my mind, yards to within 3 1/2 feet his regualr caddie to set up a birdie on the last Brandt Snedeker played it’s not the right way.�

Furyk was hoping to play hole at The Belfry and beat in the Hyundai Tournament in the winners-only HyunFred Couples, 1 up, allow- of Champions without his dai TOC for the first time in ing Europe to retain the regular caddie, Scott Vail, Ryder Cup with a 14-14 tie. who is recovering from foot five years after ending the longest non-winning streak “No one will ever surgery. in his career by capturing forget Christy O’Connor’s Vail underwent surgery the RBC Heritage last year two-iron from the middle on his right foot late last of the 18th fairway at the year and also wasn’t avail- at Hilton Head in a playoff with Kevin Kisner.

Belfry, which retained the able to work for Snedeker When he does not play 1989 Ryder Cup for Team at the Australian PGA in Hawaii, Furyk normally Europe,� Irish Prime MinChampionship and Frankbegins his year by playing ister Enda Kenny said in a lin Templeton Shootout in in the AT&T Pebble Beach statement.

December.

National Pro-Am, and he “It is an image that will “He’s struggling, he’s remain fixed forever in the not here, but foot surgery is hopes the wrist will allow him to be in the field on the minds of all Irish golf and tough,� Snedeker said last Monterey Peninsula in four sporting fans.� week at Kapalua. “It’s goweeks.

O’Connor, nephew of ing to take some time.�

Charles Schwartzel 91-year-old Ryder Cup Steve Underwood filled hospitalized star Christy O’Connor Sr., in for Vail in the Hyundai Charles Schwartzel passed away in his sleep TOC and also will be on missed the South African while on holiday with his the bag fort Snedeker this Open last week because of wife, Ann, in Tenerife, week at the Sony Open in an illness that put him in Spain.

Hawaii. the hospital.

A native of Galway, Vail hopes to return for The 31-year-old veteran, Ireland, O’Connor Jr. won the Farmers Insurance the 2011 Masters cham17 times in his pro career, Open at Torrey Pines later pion, needed rehydration including four titles on the this month. treatment after he and sevEuropean Tour, the biggest Furyk hopes to return eral members of his family in a playoff over Tony to action soon Johnstone of Zimbabwe in Jim Furyk hoped to play came down with a stomach the 1992 Dunhill British in the Hyundai Tournament virus during the Christmas holidays.

Masters when he was the of Champions, the first “I am hugely disappointoldest player in the field at PGA Tour event of 2016, 44. but was forced to withdraw ed to be missing out on the SA Open,� Schwartzel said O’Connor Jr. also won because of a left wrist in a statement. “Everybody the State Farm Insurance injury. knows how keen I am to Classic and the Foremost Furyk, No. 9 in the win our national Open, and Insurance Classic on what World Golf Rankings last having come so close the is now the Champions Tour, week, hasn’t played since last couple of years and both in 1999, and his last he walked off the course following my good form at victory came when he won during round one of the Leopard Creek, I was really the Senior British Open for BMW Championship looking forward to conthe second consecutive year last September with what tending at Glendower. in 1999. turned out to be a bone “I look forward to being His best result in a major bruise on the wrist. strong and healthy in time championship was a tie The injury caused him for third in the 1985 Open to miss the President’s Cup for the Joburg Open the following week, however.�

Championship at Royal St. and is taking longer than

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HARLEY DAVIDSON, 2012 IRON 883 Excellent Cond., 1000 miles, garaged, have title, helmets, rain suit, saddle bags incl. $5500 OBO. Social Circle. 770-787-7098

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ONE OF THE BEST IN THE USA THAT SHOULD APPRECIATE RAPIDLY IN PRICE Fabulous black with burgundy leather.

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MERCEDES 560 SL, 1988. LOW MILES AND ONE FAMILY OWNED. FABULOUS CAR FAX WITH 0 ACCIDENTS. Gorgeous black with tan leather. Two top.

NADA and Hagerty value guide value is $24,000-70,000. Minimum appraisal on this car is $23,828. Super car and super buy on one of the fastest appreciating cars over the next 5-10 years. Drives great and only $12,700. call 770-873-2627.

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MERCEDES BENZ 500 SEL, 1985.

Runs & looks good.

Asking $2750.

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VOLVO V70, 2006 One owner wagon with only 105K miles.

Babied and beautiful, white with tan leather. Super CarFax. Desirable 2.5LT 5 cyl. engine. Looks and drives great. Selling way under the market for a car of this low miles and quality.

Only $7750.

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