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Video shows inmate was fed at jail Sheriff’s office confirms Howard ate prior to fatal medical emergency

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Students from 27 public and private high schools across Gwinnett pose for pictures on Monday following a luncheon for the students who had the highest SAT score among the top 10 percent of students in their graduating class. (Staff Photos: Keith Farner)

AMONG THE TOP

Luncheon honors STAR students with near perfect SATs

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Sabarish Sainathan and Eric Yan were in a class by themselves even among the elite students in the Class of 2017.

Sainathan, a Gwinnett School of Math, Science and Technology student, spent 14 hours on Sunday working to solve a math challenge for recreation.

“It was really fun,” he said.

Yan, a Peachtree Ridge High student, who in his free time plays ultimate frisbee, recently studied neuropathways in Syrian hamsters.

While results are still pending, Yan looked at how their the hamsters’ brains are

organized to control different social behaviors.

After high school, Yan is considering Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt, University of California-Berkeley, Duke and Columbia universities to study neuroscience or engineering. Sainathan is looking to major in computer science at Princeton University or Georgia Tech.

Sainathan and Yan were each honored on Monday at a luncheon at the Hilton Atlanta Northeast hotel put on by the Gwinnett Chamber to recognize students who had the highest SAT score See STAR, Page 5A

Gwinnett Chamber President Dan Kaufman on Monday speaks at a STAR student luncheon to honor top students and their SAT scores across Gwinnett.

STAR students and teachers representing all Gwinnett high schools: School; STAR Student, STAR Teacher • Archer High School; Hannah Mahaffey, John Jameson • Berkmar High School Diane Lin, Christopher Pae • Brookwood High School; Karl Patram, David Dimsdale • Buford High School; Hee Joo Choi, Amy Lister • Central Gwinnett High School; Qasim Hassan, Lindsay Bates (currently teaching at The Newton College and Career Academy) • Collins Hill High School; Douglas “Aaron” Court, Ryan Keefer • Covenant Christian Academy; Caleb Godwin, Brandon Buchanan • Dacula High School; Paul Dittamo, Matthew Ludewig • Discovery High School; Brandon McCoy, Jonathan Larese (currently teaching at Apalachee High School) • Duluth High School; Margaux Ratcliff ,James “Jim” Reason • Grayson High School; William Taylor, Jeremy Mulkey • Greater Atlanta Christian School; Mason English, Derek Wilson

• GSMST; Sabarish Sainathan, Greg Field • Hebron Christian Academy; Katherine “Katie” Reynolds, Shomari Young • Killian Hill Christian; Ke jia “Jacky” Zhang, John Allan • Lanier High School; Ashley Park, Collin Jones • Meadowcreek High School; Aljon Pineda, Pintu Thaker • Mill Creek High School; Bryan Endsley, Aylen Parra • Mountain View High School; McKade Stewart, Billy Jones • Norcross High School; Jennifer Wang, Michelle Larate • North Gwinnett High School; Jonathan “Johnny” Park, Jeremy Martin • Parkview High School; Mohammad Makhmudov, Caroline Miklosovic • Peachtree Ridge High School; Eric Yan Gabriel Pak • Providence Christian Academy; Joshua “Josh” Randrup, Randall Cailor • Shiloh High School; Mehul Mehra, Vincent Tran • South Gwinnett High School; Isabelle Williams, Meryl Weaver • Wesleyan School; Angela Yang, Deborah Brown

Questions remain in the death of the 23-year-old man who suffered a medical emergency in Gwinnett jail, but the sheriff’s office confirmed that he did eat while in custody.

“We know that he received food very shortly upon his arrival to the jail and is captured on camera eating twice while Christopher he was here,” Gwinnett Cody Howard County Sheriff’s Deputy Shannon Volkodav wrote in a Facebook post Friday.

Christopher’s father, Robert Howard, was concerned about his son’s access to food because Christopher suffered from a metabolic enzyme deficiency, Robert told the Daily Post last week. Christopher had to be careful to eat as often as his body needed — or else his blood sugar could

See HOWARD, Page 7A

Daily Post to alter print schedule FROM STAFF REPORTS

Southern Community Newspapers Inc., the parent company of the Gwinnett Daily Post, has announced that, starting March 2, the paper will no longer print a Thursday edition.

The paper will continue to provide daily news and sports coverage through its websites — www.gwinnettdailypost.com and www. gwinnettprepsports.com — but the print schedule will now be Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Features that previously ran on Thursdays will shift to other days, and the Gwinnett legals will be published on Wednesdays.

“As readership and advertising patterns continue to change, newspapers must adjust to the market accordingly,” said Michael J. Gebhart, chief operating officer at SCNI. “Our goal is to continue to serve our communities through a combination of print and digital products. We will continue to find innovative ways to bring our award-winning content to our valued readers.”

The Daily Post is committed to timely reporting through its digital product, providing readers with daily updates as well as additional features online.

In addition to change at the Daily Post, SCNI will also reduce publication days at its Clayton News newspaper in Jonesboro and at the Citizen newspapers in Rockdale and Newton counties. SCNI is also the parent company of the Jackson Progress-Argus in Butts County, the Albany Herald in Dougherty County and the Henry Herald in Henry County.

Woman finds Pathway HOME from homelessness to ownership

BY CURT YEOMANS

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Dorothy Jackson had moments of doubt as she started her efforts to fight her way out of homelessness with guidance from the Lawrenceville Housing Corporation in 2014.

She felt that she was limited in what she could do to get out of debt largely because of her level of education.

“It was hard, because I couldn’t really see how it

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could happen based on my education status, I didn’t finish school, and just seeing how much it really cost to live,” Jackson said. “It just seemed impossible to even own a home.”

Jackson fought her way out of debt and homelessness though, and completed her journey from not having a home to being a homeowner

in December.

With the help of the Lawrenceville Housing Corporation (which also goes by the name Gwinnett Housing Corporation), Community Sustainability Enterprises and Brand Bank, through the corporation’s Pathway HOME program, she moved into a home of her own in Snellville.

Officials from the corporation and the bank joined Jackson to celebrate the milestone See HOME, Page 5A

Dorothy Jackson, left, is joined by Lawrenceville/Gwinnett Housing Corporation CEO Lejla Slowinski at a ceremony marking Jackson’s graduation from the corporation’s Pathway HOME program on Tuesday. Jackson was homeless three years ago and the ceremony was held outside the home she bought with the corporation’s help in December. (Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans)

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Local schools among GaDOE AP honors list

more in 2011 and another category in 2015.

AP exams are administered by the ColGwinnett schools were lege Board, which also well represented on administers the SAT. this year’s list of AdAP courses are one of vanced Placement Honor several ways Georgia Schools, which were students can access released this week by the college-level learning Georgia Department of at the high school level; Education. students who receive a Across the state, the three, four, or five on an GaDOE honored schools AP exam may receive in six categories for a college credit. total of 674 references, “The number of our as many schools, espeschools and students succially in Gwinnett, were ceeding in the collegehonored in more than level learning offered one category. The honors by Advanced Placement were based on the results continues to increase,” of 2016 AP courses and State School Superintenexams. dent Richard Woods said The GaDOE started in a press release. “It is this recognition program my pleasure to recognize in 2008 with three catthese schools — and, by egories, then added two extension, their students,

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teachers and staff — for the excellent work being done to expand opportunity to all students.”

AP Challenge (59 schools across the state) are schools with enrollments of 900 or fewer students and students testing in four of the core areas (English, math, science and social studies).

Gwinnett school: Phoenix.

AP Access and Support (65) Schools with at least 30 percent of AP exams taken by students who identified themselves as African-American and/or Hispanic and 30 percent of all AP exams earning scores of three or higher.

Gwinnett schools: Archer, Berkmar, Dac-

When using pesticides, remember the label is law Homeowners purchase and use chemicals to control the many pests that plague both our homes and gardens.

When using these products, remember they are poisons designed to kill or adversely affect living organisms in some way.

They can be useful in controlling the targeted pest if used correctly.

However, the misuse of pesticides is dangerous and illegal. It can potentially cause harm to the user, other people, and the environment.

The most important aspect of safely using pesticides is to follow all label directions. The label gives the names and percentages of the active ingredients, the type of plant material or areas where the pesticide can be applied, and the specific pests controlled.

It also provides relevant information on how to use the chemical and all the necessary safety precautions. It will also tell when the pesticide should not be applied due to environmental conditions or other factors. For example, some pesticides for lawns should not be used when the temperature is over 80 degrees.

It can damage the grass.

You can only use the pesticide on plant material and in places listed on the label. For example, if the label says it only be applied to turfgrass, it cannot be used on fruits and vegetable plants. If the product is labeled to Your Donations & Purchases Help Build Homes & Hope

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Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Environmental Science, AP Physics 1, AP Physics 2, AP Physics C, AP Computer Science A).

Gwinnett schools: Archer, Berkmar, Brookwood, Buford, Central Gwinnett, Collins Hill, Dacula, Discovery, Duluth, Grayson, GSMST, Lanier, Meadowcreek, Mill Creek, Mountain View, Norcross, North Gwinnett, Parkview, Peachtree Ridge, Shiloh and South Gwinnett.

AP STEM Achievement (128) are schools with students testing in at least two AP math courses and two AP science courses and at least 40 percent of exam scores on AP math and science exams earning scores of three or higher.

Gwinnett schools:

Archer, Brookwood, Buford, Collins Hill, Dacula, Duluth, Grayson, GSMST, Mill Creek, Mountain View, Norcross, North Gwinnett, Parkview and Peachtree Ridge.

AP Humanities (149) are schools with students testing in the following AP courses: at least one ELA course, two social science courses, one fine arts course and one world language course.

Gwinnett schools: Archer, Berkmar, Brookwood, Buford, Central Gwinnett, Collins Hill, Dacula, Duluth, Grayson, GSMST, Lanier, Meadowcreek, Mill Creek, Mountain View, Norcross, North Gwinnett, Parkview, Peachtree Ridge and Shiloh.

Gardening in Gwinnett

protective chemical resistant gloves and other protection listed on the label. Do not apply pesticides on windy days. Be careful about the drifting of pesticides, especially with herbicides, since the chemicals can drift and significantly harm or kill non-target plants. Do not Tim Daly eat, drink or smoke when applying pesticides, and control insect pests outthoroughly wash your doors, then you can not hands after each use. Use use it indoors. caution to keep pesticides Before using pestiout of bodies of water cides, you need to corsuch as lakes, streams, rectly identify the proband rivers. Never dump lem to determine how it chemicals down drains or should be controlled. For storm sewers. Make sure example, if you observe a you properly dispose of white substance on your the pesticide and its concrape myrtles during tainer as per label directhe summer, the plant tions. Always store them has powdery mildew, a in a safe, secure location fungal disease. Applying protected from weather an insecticide for conextremes, moisture and trol will not be effecdamage. tive since the cause of Remember, the most the malady is a fungus important aspect of apand not an insect. Also, plying any pesticide is to when using herbicides follow all label directions (chemical weed killand safety precautions. ers), remember some Thoroughly read and are nonselective such understand the product as Round-Up, meaning label before you select, they will kill any plant purchase, and apply it. material. Others are seBy not following all the lective. They will target precautionary statements particular types of weeds on the label, the applibut not harm other plant cator places himself in material. An example is danger along with other a herbicide labeled to people and the environcontrol broadleaf weeds ment. in lawns. It will kill The 2017 annual Gwinbroadleaf weeds, such as nett County Extension clover and chickweed, Plant Sale offers several but will not harm the plants, including blueberturfgrasses that are listed ries, apples, figs, native on the label. azaleas and other plants When applying pestiat affordable prices. To cides, you should wear download an order form, go to the Extension website at www.ugaextension.org/gwinnett/.

You can also contact the Gwinnett County Exten® sion office for one to be mailed to you.

Timothy Daly is an Agriculture and Natural Unclutter Your House Resources Agent with to Help Build Another Gwinnett County Extension. He can be reached at 678-377-4010 or tdaly@uga.edu.

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AP Merit (69) are schools with at least 20 percent of the total student population taking AP exams and at least 50 percent of all AP exams earning scores of three or higher.

Gwinnett schools: Archer, Brookwood, Buford, Collins Hill, Dacula, Duluth, Grayson, GSMST, Mill Creek, Mountain View, Norcross, North Gwinnett, Parkview and Peachtree Ridge.

AP STEM (204) are schools with students testing in at least two AP math courses and two AP science courses (AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics, AP

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City officials and department heads from the city of Lawrenceville on Tuesday celebrate a groundbreaking for a new $20 million public works facility expected to completed by Christmas. (Staff Photos: Keith Farner)

Lawrenceville officials celebrate new $20M public works facility

BY KEITH FARNER keith.farner @gwinnettdailypost.com

It’s been several years in the making, and on Tuesday, officials across Lawrenceville celebrated an upgrade for its public works operations.

In a groundbreaking ceremony off Pike Street behind Budget and Autobell Car Wash, city employees gathered with shovels, bucket hats, and a bucket truck with a large American flag in the background. The 25-acre site was formerly home to a lumber yard and retail space. But the $20 million move — put forth by a bond — for the city means all of its public works operations will be in one location.

City Manager Chuck Warbington said he expects employees to be moving in by Christmas this year.

“This was just a culmination of let’s take a pause, and let’s celebrate the amount of effort we’ve gotten through thus far,” he said. “Then ultimately … it’s a way to get everybody together, have cross

Lawrenceville officials on Tuesday celebrate a groundbreaking for a new $20 million public works facility expected to completed by Christmas.

City Manager Chuck Warbington, and other Lawrenceville officials on Tuesday celebrate a groundbreaking for a new $20 million public works facility expected to completed by Christmas.

conversations. This allows and encourages that to happen when you’re in the same office.”

Warbington said this project was one of his first priorities when he took his job last year, but that city officials had discussed it for at least a couple of years before that.

“It’s probably been a dream longer than that,” he said. “It makes everything more efficient. …

They have been working in facilities that were not standard, they were actually substandard.”

The new building will move the gas department, for example, from the old City Hall chambers. The electric and streets and sanitation departments are in the old Hooper-Renwick School.

“They’re reused facili-

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ties for temporary purposes,” Warbington said.

“Some of the other facilities where they store their equipment had cracks; you have to be careful walking around. Horrible conditions.”

Croft and Associates, the architectural and engineering firm managing the project, will soon begin prep of the site, and Warbington said a slab permit and steel building would begin in days and weeks.

Facility operations to be housed out of the new site include electric, gas, damage prevention, fleet maintenance and streets and sanitation departments.

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Wednesday, March 1, 2017 • 3A

ALDI hiring event to take place in Gwinnett

By Bryanna Cool On Thurday, ALDI is hosting hiring events to help fill the positions of store associate, shift manager and manager trainee for its metro Atlanta

stores.

The hiring events will take place in three cities, including Duluth, from 7 a.m. to noon and 2 to 7 p.m. The event in Gwinnett is being held at the Holiday Inn Gwinnett Center — located at 6310

A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule about water control that had caused alarm among Gwinnett County officials is getting another look by President Donald Trump’s administration in a move that could lead to the rule’s repeal.

Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday calling for the EPA and the assistant secretary of the army for civil works to review what has come to be known as the Waters of the United States rule.

It does not specifically roll back the rule, but it opens the door for that to possibly happen.

The Waters of the United States rule has been used

by Republicans as an example of over-regulation that they said took place during former President Barack Obama’s administration.

“It is in the national interest to ensure that the nation’s navigable waters are kept free from pollution, while at the same time promoting economic growth, minimizing regulatory uncertainty, and showing due regard for the roles of the Congress and the states under the Constitution,” Trump said in the order.

That rule caused alarm among Gwinnett officials, as well as their counterparts elsewhere in the country, because they felt it would enable the EPA to take control of any water body that was traditionally regulated and controlled locally or by the state.

That fear prompted county

A bill sponsored by state Sen. Renee Unterman, RBuford, to codify an order

by Gov. Nathan Deal that lets pharmacists distribute the anti-opioid overdose drug, naloxone, is set to go before the full Senate on Wednesday for a vote.

The Jeffrey Dallas Gay Jr. Act, also known as SenCurt Yeomans ate Bill 81, is on a list released by the Senate Press Office on Tuesday that officials to write a letter outlining their concerns to outlines which bills will be Sen. David Perdue in 2015. taken up by senators. Deal issued an order in DecemPerdue cited that letter ber to begin the process of during a hearing held on letting pharmacists distribthe rule that year. ute naloxone to make it Georgia House passes more readily available.

Hilton’s people with The bill also makes naldisabilities definitions bill oxone a Schedule V drug.

State Rep. Scott HilPark set to be ton, R-Peachtree Corners, honored on Saturday scored a win for legislation The Gwinnett Demohe sponsored to update terminology used in criminal cratic Women are set to law to describe people with honor the first openly gay man elected to the Georgia disabilities when it was General Assembly this passed by the state House weekend. of Representatives on State Rep. Sam Park, DMonday.

Lawrenceville, is expected The bill would replace to be recognized during a the terms “mental retardaprogram from 9 to 11 a.m. tion” and “mentally retarded” with the new term, on Saturday at Mimi’s Cafe, 1880 Mall of Geor“intellectual disability.” It gia Blvd. in Buford. Park was the first bill Hilton, defeated Rep. Valerie Clark who is in his first term, in November, turning a authored. previously red Republican “It is an honor to serve seat Democratic blue. as a champion for those Park’s election also made who need it most and to history in part by becoming fight for those who may the first openly gay man be marginalized for their elected to the legislature abilities,” Hilton said in a and by being the first Asian statement. “I am so proud Democrat elected to the of my colleagues in the chamber.

House for overwhelmPolitical Notebook apingly passing this piece of pears in the Wednesday legislation.”

Unterman’s naloxone bill and Sunday editions of the up for a vote Wednesday Gwinnett Daily Post.

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Sugarloaf Parkway in Duluth.

Local residents must be 18 years or older to apply, available to work anytime between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. Monday through Sunday and must have the ability to lift 45 pounds.

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Police indentify man killed in Peachtree Corners hit-and-run From Staff Reports

Gwinnett police have identified the man killed in a hit-and-run accident in Peachtree Corners Friday evening.

Michael Polk, 60, was killed on impact when a car hit him on Peachtree Corners Circle at Hunters Ridge Lane at 7:45 p.m., said Cpl. Deon Washington. The car fled the

scene.

“Police are still searching for the suspect vehicle,” Washington said.

Police are investigating the incident. So far, they’re looking for a dark-colored passenger car with damage to the front left bumper and headlight area. There would also be damage to the car’s hood and the driver’s side body.

Anyone with information to share in this case should call the Accident Investigation Unit at 678442-5653.

Tipsters can also remain anonymous by calling 404-577-8477 or by visiting www.crimestoppersatlanta.org. Crime Stoppers tipsters can receive up to $2,000 for information leading to an arrest and indictment in this case.

Karen Shields said the spill occured on a force main at 1976 Crescent Drive in Snellville. Officials were contacted about the spill at 7:46 p.m., and stopped it at about 11:30 p.m. In all, about 851 gallons of sewage spilled into Watson Creek.

Shields said crews

removed all solids that came out with the sewage and posted signs in the area to let residents know what happened. She also said county officials contacted their counterparts at the Georgia Environmental Protection Division about the incident on Monday.

Pipe failure in Snellville causes sewage spill at Watson Creek

By Curt Yeomans curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com

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A pipe failure caused nearly 1,000 gallons of sewage to spill into Watson Creek on Sunday.

Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources spokeswoman

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4A • Wednesday, March 1, 2017 To Your Good Health

Keith Roach

Removal of lice requires patience DEAR DR. ROACH: I am an adult woman who somehow has gotten head lice. This has been a traumatic adventure, since I have been unsuccessful in ridding myself of it — and it has been a little over a month of diligent trying.

I used a natural remedy made from chrysanthemums; it didn’t work.

Now I am using kosher salt dissolved in water, with a vinegar rinse. I then wash, condition and comb out nits.

I am vacuuming my furniture and floors daily.

I am washing my clothes in hot water, and I change my sheets and towels every other day after treatment.

I feel like I am making headway, but I am afraid that I will never be lice-free. I do not want to use RID or Nix, as they are pesticides. I read that today’s lice strains are resistant anyway. What works?

— K.D. ANSWER: Head lice (Pediculosis capitis) is a problem with many different possible solutions, only a few of which have been proven to work. Pyrethrin, the chrysanthemum-based medicine you tried, is effective in many people.

There is a synthetic version available, permethrin (Elemite or Nix), but you are correct that there is resistance to it in many areas. To be effective, mechanical removal requires time and patience — 15 to 30 minutes a day of wet combing is the minimum recommended, and people with longer or thicker hair may need much more. You need to have a specially made, fine-tooth comb used specifically for lice removal. Unfortunately, mechanical removal is not 100 percent effective in the real world: Studies in the U.K. showed 38 to 57 percent effectiveness.

This probably reflects poor technique and lack of patience.

Given the failure of the chrysanthemum extract treatment you tried, I probably would recommend the pesticide malathion (Ovide is the brand name), but benzyl alcohol in mineral oil (Ulesfia or Zilactin) would be an alternative for those who want to avoid pesticides; it works by asphyxiating the lice. Both of these treatments are about 80 percent effective. Both of these treatments can be irritating to the scalp and eyes, and malathion is potentially flammable.

Resistant cases may require oral medication (but I’ve never had to prescribe that).

I prefer mechanical removal, as there are possible side effects of any chemical treatment for lice. These are more likely in children (and especially infants), as their scalp can absorb chemicals more readily than adults’.

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Participants REDUCED Nightly Frequency and Leakage 79%

during a ceremony held in the new homeowner’s driveway on Tuesday.

Jackson, you see, was the first person to enroll in, and graduate from, the Pathway HOME program, through which she bought her home from the corporation.

“She realized that the income she was making wasn’t nearly sustainable enough for her and so she took advantage of all of our programs,” Lawrenceville Housing corporation CEO Lejla Slowinski said.

Officials from both the corporation and Brand Bank pointed to Jackson as a role model for other people facing homelessness in Gwinnett to follow.

For her part, Jackson said her situation early on was “insane” because the changes she was making were new to her.

“Anytime you’re doing something new for the first time, it’s always kind of like you want to revert back to your old ways of doing things just so you can feel some type of comfort,” she said. “But I think them kind of showing me, ‘This is what it is,’ and me seeing for myself what it is and making that decision, ‘OK, how do you want to live and how much does it cost to live like that? How much do I need to make?’

“They didn’t come up with a game plan for me. It was kind of like one of those things where they asked me questions about what I wanted and, not even (the corporation) making suggestions, but I was able to figure it out for myself.”

While she was receiving guidance from the housing corporation, Jackson de-

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Dorothy Jackson, center, is joined by Lawrenceville/ Gwinnett Housing Corporation officials at a ceremony marking Jackson’s graduation from the corporation’s Pathway HOME program on Tuesday. Jackson was homeless three years ago and the ceremony was held outside the home she bought with the corporation’s help in December. (Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans)

cided to put herself on a strict budget. Money was allocated for rent, food, gas money and a little bit of spending cash, but everything else went into savings.

“My budget was just based on necessities,” she said.

She worked her way out of debt gradually, and housing corporation officials said she also increased her savings by about 75 percent and raised her credit score by nearly 100 points.

The turning point came when Jackson got into a Workforce Investment Opportunity Act program at Gwinnett Technical College in 2014. She pointed to that as when she felt things turning around and began to really believe she could reach her goal of becoming a homeowner.

“That’s when I realized that I’ll be able to do this because I’ll be able to go back to school and make more money to be able to really take care of my children.”

She received an associate’s degree in applied science from Gwinnett Tech in 2016, and she said that allowed her to get a job working in the

surgical technology field.

Officials at the housing corporation said Jackson’s income doubled because of her new job.

“This is unheard of,” Slowinski said of Jackson’s success. “The second I met her, I knew she was a fighter.

She’s a strong person.”

Community Sustainability Enterprises President Deidre Cox said she realized when she met Jackson that she was meeting someone with dreams for a better life.

“Dreams help you set goals, and when you set those goals into motion, that’s when sustainability happens, that’s when you start making things happen,” Cox said before turning her attention to Jackson.

“Your smart goals manifested themselves girl, and I’m so proud of you.”

For her part, Jackson said she wants her story to send a positive message to other people who are in the same situation that she was in three years ago.

“I think I can pretty much tell them that they can do it, and that it is possible,” she said.

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Participants who took part in a clinical study experienced an average of 7.3 episodes of leakage at night. Six weeks later, they dropped to only 1.5 – an astounding 79% reduction in urinary frequency and leakage!

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Buford City Schools Curriculum and Instruction Administrator Tim Harris introduces STAR student Hee Joo Choi and STAR teacher Amy Lister on Monday at a luncheon for the students who had the highest SAT score among the top 10 percent of students in their graduating class. (Staff Photos: Keith Farner)

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•From Page 1A among the top 10 percent of their graduating class.

Sainathan and Yan tied with SAT scores of 2390 on a scale of 2400.

Students from public and private schools were honored at the luncheon with recognition from their principal, superintendent or top administrator.

“It’s exciting to be here surrounded by all these people, obviously very talented, very hardworking and it’s a great encouragement to me,” said Yan, who said he was inspired by his brother, Alvin, who was a STAR student seven years ago and set the path of high standards.

Sainathan said, “It’s great to be among so many great people. I’m just happy that I could be honored with all of these people.”

The STAR students and their mentor teachers are recognized as part of a program put on by the Chamber and the Professional Association of Georgia Educators, or PAGE. STAR stands for Student-Teacher Achieve-

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Gwinnett County Public Schools Chief of Staff Berney Kirkland recognizes Mountain View High School teacher Billy Jones for being named a STAR teacher for the 29th time on Monday. Jones stood alongside student McKade Stewart and GCPS CEO/Superintendent J. Alvin Wilbanks at a luncheon for students who had the highest SAT score among the top 10 percent of students in their graduating class.

ment Recognition.

Both seniors, Yan chose Gabriel Pak, who taught him Advanced Placement Physics C: Mechanics, and Sainathan selected Greg Field, who taught him AP Calculus BC. “The future for our community, for our state and particularly for our nation is very bright,” Chamber President Dan Kaufman said.

Yan and Sainathan advance to the regional title where they will compete

to proceed to the state competition.

Mountain View High teacher Billy Jones was recognized for being a STAR teacher for the 29th time.

“He’s eaten a lot of hotel chicken,” said Berney Kirkland, chief of staff of Gwinnett County Public Schools.

Buford City Schools honored Hee Joo Choi as that district’s top student, and her mentor teacher, Amy Lister.

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Kanye West drops 17-minute song

Yeezy is back.

Kanye West dropped an extended, 17-minute version Russia vetoed a Security of his 2007 song, “Bed,” on Council resolution Tuesday his SoundCloud account that aimed to place sanctions In his first major public Tuesday. on the Syrian regime for the The track features fellow speech since taking office, Attorney General rapper, The-Dream, and made use of chemical weapons.

Jeff Sessions pledged its debut at West’s fashion The resolution, therefore, Tuesday that a Justice show during New York Fashdoes not pass.

Department crackdown ion Week earlier this month.

China also vetoed the on violent crime will resolution.

The rappers have a long reverse what he views The veto was the seventh musical history together — as a dangerous new time Russia has blocked a most recently, on West’s trend. (Photo: CNN) Security Council resolution “Ultralight Beam” and “Highaimed at Damascus, protectlights.” ing its Syrian ally from any Although West has been diplomatic action. An interfeatured on several songs national investigation found from other artists over the past year, this is the first track he’s chemical weapons were put out since being hospitalpreviously used on civilians ized in November. three times.

Before the veto, France’s does follow drugs.” has not been well-received “people who commit crimes U.N. Ambassador Francois “Drugs today are more by them. We need to help are going to be out of here.”

Retailers dropping Delattre said “it’s a moment powerful and more addicpolice departments get betAnd he vowed to “conproducts from of truth,” demanding the tive,” Sessions said. “I am ter,” Sessions said, and “I front” nations that refuse to Council act, asking, “Who Ivanka Trump dubious about marijuana — don’t think it’s mean to civil take back individuals who couldn’t condemn today I’m not sure we’re going to rights.” have entered the US unlawThose who have turned those attacking innocent be a better, healthier nation A number of the state fully and committed crimes. away from the line, for women and children…with if we have marijuana being attorneys general and other As part of a question to chemical weapons?” sold at every corner grocery top legal officials in the room Sessions, California Attorney reasons political or otherwise, store.” He said he also plans — including the attorney General Xavier Becerra wor- have made an impact. Online sales of the Ivanka Trump to reduce the availability of general of Virginia — sued ried the Trump administraDeputy al Qaeda brand dropped 26 percent illicit prescription drugs. the Trump administration tion’s immigration policies leader killed Separately, Sessions said last month over his travel ban could have a chilling effect on in January compared with a year earlier, according to the in Syria attack he believes that a purported executive order. Sessions did community-based policing retail analysis company Slice sea change in morale among not address the travel ban di- efforts because of fear some Abu al Khayr al-Masri, Intelligence. those in law enforcement rectly in his remarks Tuesday. undocumented immigrants the No. 2 man for al QaNordstrom dropped the is on the way — implying Sessions did, however, feel in reporting crimes to loeda behind leader Ayman that the federal government speak about immigration cal police. Sessions began his brand — triggering a Twitter al-Zawahiri, has been killed should back off criticism of more generally — largely remarks by citing the increase attack from the president in a missile strike in Idlib, himself — because it wasn’t local law enforcement. echoing sentiments from his in crime nationwide, while Syria, according to multiple “Somehow, some way, we boss.

Becerra credited community- selling well. TJ Maxx, sources.

Marshalls, Neiman Marcus, undermine the respect for our “There’s nothing wrong police relations in part with Two U.S. officials said alpolice — oftentimes it makes with a lawful system of imreducing crime in California Belk and Burlington have all Masri was killed in an attack announced plans to eliminate their job more difficult — it migration,” Sessions said, but over the past two decades. directed by the U.S. intellior scale back their inventory gence community. of Ivanka Trump products.

Rosemary K. Young, senior The U.K.-based activist group Syrian Observaday school. Dismayed parents director of marketing for the Ivanka Trump brand, has said tory for Human Rights, or ran out of meetings and that sales grew 21 percent last SOHR, told CNN al-Masri rushed to their kids.

Car strikes band year, and the company said in was killed Sunday in a strike The scenes were played at Mardi Gras a statement for this story that targeting his vehicle near alout — over and over — at parade, wounds 4 it plans to continue growing Mastoumeh village in Idlib.

Jewish community centers Twelve members of the Several Syrian opposition acand day schools in at least 12 this year.

“In recent days, we’ve seen tivists also reported al-Masri Gulf Shores High School states Monday after a series of our brand swept into the politwas killed by a missile strike. marching band were injured, bomb threats were called in.

Abdallah al-Muhaysini, a four of them critically, when In every case, police found ical fray, becoming collateral senior member of Jabhat Fa- a car plowed into the band at no suspicious device. But the damage in others’ efforts to tah al-Sham, acknowledged a Mardi Gras parade Tuesday threats were enough to disrupt advance agendas unrelated to the death in a eulogy posted in Gulf Shores, Ala., city daily operations and rip apart what we do, which is produce accessible, solution-oriented on his official Telegram spokesman Grant Brown the sense of security. products for our loyal customchannel. He said, “May Allah said.

This is the fifth wave of Officials on the scene of a small plane crash in Riverside, ers,” the company said. accept Abu al-Khayr in His Brown said the car was bomb threats targeting Jewish Calif. (Photo: CNN) heaven. May Allah gather us driven by a 73-year-old man community centers across the together with him.” tenced to 15 years, with six who accelerated and hit the “He asked me, ‘what is U.S. and Canada since the Harvard Law years in prison. band. It was not immediyour name?’ ” Ali Jr. told year began. Add to that the Review elects its On July 25, 2015, Torres ately clear why the driver CNN’s Don Lemon on vandalism at Jewish cemGun fired during and Norton joined about a accelerated, but authorities “CNN Tonight.” “Which I eteries and several incidents first black woman French president’s do not believe the crash was didn’t think nothing of that.” dozen other people in a con- in Miami where swastikas president intentional.

The 44-year-old American voy of pickup trucks waving were etched into cars over the speech Tuesday In 130 years of existence, large Confederate flags as “Every indication is that it citizen, who was born in weekend, and what you get A weapon was fired as they drove around Douglas was a tragic accident by an Philadelphia added that the is a disturbing pattern of anti- the Harvard Law Review had French President François never elected a black woman County, a suburban Atlanta elderly man,” Gulf Shores official asked for the origins Semitism.

Hollande was giving a as president. ImeIme Umana community. Most of them Police Chief Ed Delmore of his name. speech in western France has changed that. said.

“He said, ‘OK, now, what belonged to a group called 3 people dead in Tuesday, the mayor of VilUmana, 24, is the first “Respect the Flag.”

Brown said there was no is your religion?’ ” Ali Jr. Calif. plane crash African-American to lead a lognon told CNN. “The convoy of trucks indication that drugs or alco- said. “And I said, ‘Muslim, Three people were killed Hollande was not injournal that has the largest hol were involved.

I’m a Muslim.’ And I thought passed by the victim’s reach of any law journal in the jured, but another man was, and two injured Monday At least 11 people have to myself, that’s kind of odd. residence where the victims world.

Mayor Claude Guitton said. been injured, including three He asked about my religion, were grilling hot dogs and when a small plane crashed According to CNN Her election was a long into a residential neighborhamburgers while hosting a who were critically hurt, Gulf and I’m traveling back into affiliate BFM-TV, a local child’s birthday party featur- hood in Riverside, California, time coming.

Shores city spokesman Grant the country from where I The Review elected its first police officer aiding in the said the city’s Fire Chief ing a bouncy castle, snowBrown said. He said the came from?” black man as president 27 security detail for the presi- parade has been canceled.

Michael Moore. cone machines, and a DJ,” Ali Jr. said the immigradent’s visit accidentally Previously, he had said that years ago. That was former the district attorney’s office tion official questioned him discharged his weapon. four people had died when the President Barack Obama. posted on its official Facein separate room from his Muhammad Ali’s The officer is a sniper and It has had other minorities plane crashed near Riverside book page. mother, Camacho-Ali for son detained was positioned on top of a as presidents. Andit has had Municipal Airport. After The drivers parked the nearly two hours. building, the Prefet of Char- at Fla. airport female presidents, the first of further investigation, Moore trucks near the house, ente Pierre N’Gahane told whom was elected 41 years announced late Monday in a prosecutors said.

Torres was Couple gets The son of legendary BFM-TV. news conference that the death ago. But until now, never a part of a smaller group that The president was speak- boxer Muhammad Ali said he prison for racist black woman. toll was now three. “threatened to kill the party ing at the inauguration of a was detained by immigration threats at party Umana was chosen by A Cessna 310 crashed goers while repeatedly using high-speed train line when officials at Ft. Lauderdalethe Harvard Law Review’s derogatory racial slurs against about a half-mile northeast A Georgia couple who the gun went off.

Hollywood International Air92 student editors in what of the Riverside Municipal them,” said the statement.

Video on the French rode with a Confederate port because he’s a Muslim. is widely considered the Airport, according to Ian presidential Élysée website Muhammad Ali Jr., along flag-waving group that made highest-ranked position a stuGregor, a Federal Aviation showed Hollande speaking, with his mother, Khalilah armed threats against African- New threats to Administration spokesman. It dent can have at the cut-throat law school. and then a gunshot is heard. Camacho-Ali were returning Americans at a child’s birth- Jewish centers had departed from Riverside “I hope it is nothing seri- to Florida from Jamaica after day party were sentenced to The difficult election en route to San Jose. ous,” he said. “I don’t think speaking at a black history Shaken workers wheeled process required a thorough prison Monday.

The plane had five people so.” out cribs from inside day Jose “Joe” Torres was event. They were retrieving on board, and split apart when dissection of her work and apAn investigation into the their bags at baggage claim, plication, and a 12-hour long sentenced to 20 years with 13 care centers. Teachers locked it hit two Riverside homes, incident has been opened. hands with puzzled children deliberation of her portfolio. when an official pulled them years in prison.

Moore said.

— From wire reports aside.

— From wire reports and quickly led them from Kayla Norton was sen— From wire reports In his first major public speech since taking office, Attorney General Jeff Sessions pledged Tuesday that a Justice Department crackdown on violent crime will reverse what he views as a dangerous new trend.

Standing before a packed ballroom of the National Association of Attorneys General, Sessions harked back to his early time as a young prosecutor in Alabama and suggested that the nation “maybe got a bit overconfident” with more lax crime prevention efforts.

“We are in danger. … We need to return to the ideas that got us here — the ideas that reduce crime and stay on it,” Sessions said. He expressed his concern that the spike in the murder rate is not an “aberration” or “onetime blip” but rather “the beginning of a trend.”

President Donald Trump has repeatedly cited the rising murder rate as justification for a focus on law and order.

The U.S. experienced its highest one-year increase in the murder rate in half a century between 2014 and 2015, but that is still down significantly from the early 1990s.

Following praise from Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi for vowing to crack down on illegal drugs, Sessions agreed that “crime

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Crocheted octopi comfort premature babies in hospital NICU

By Johanzynn Gatewood CNN

Inside neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) incubators at one United Kingdom hospital, premature babies have an unlikely companion — colorful, crocheted octopi.

These cuddly toys are used as a form of therapy to help comfort and calm premature babies, according to officials at Poole Hospital.

Must read An estimated 15 million babies are born too early every year — more than one in 10 babies, according to the World Health Organization. Babies born prematurely are at risk for serious health issues including breathing problems, feeding difficulties and developmental delay.

With the octopi, some babies

in the NICU experienced better breathing and more regular heartbeats, leading to higher levels of oxygen in their blood, hospital staff said.

“When we heard about the difference a cuddly octopus can make to our tiny babies we were impressed and, after research, eager to introduce them to our little patients.

It’s incredible that something so simple can comfort a baby and help them feel better,” Daniel Lockyer, a neonatal services matron at Poole

Hospital in Poole, Dorset, England said in a press release.

What’s comforting about these octopi are their soft tentacles, which hospital staff say remind babies of the umbilical cord and their mother’s womb. They found that babies cuddling an octopus are less likely to pull out their monitors and tubes.

“Babies are active inside their mothers and constantly interacting with the placenta,” says Dr. Valencia Walker, an associate professor at

UCLA and the medical director of NICU at the Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center.

“One of the things we recognize is that we can never fully replicate the sensation of being in a mother’s womb — but we try to find ways.”

Walker hasn’t tried the octopi, but because the field of neonatology is relatively young, health workers are always seeking innovative ways to create an environment that is nurturing and non-artificial for premature babies.

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when he pleaded guilty to a DUI, according to court drop dangerously low. records. The court fined him “We’ve never had any $1,598, imprisoned him for problems with it, but that 24 hours and sentenced him condition is still there,” to 12 months probation.

Robert said.

Robert said Christopher Christopher was booked had been in a hurry to get into the jail at 4:30 p.m. from Flowery Branch to the Feb. 15, according to the jail meeting in Gwinnett with log. He was charged with his probation officer Feb. a probation violation after 15. He said his son didn’t failing a random drug test eat before leaving. administered by his probaThe father said he was tion officer around noon worried his son hadn’t that day, according to his eaten once he was booked father. He suffered a mediinto jail, but the sheriff’s cal emergency in the jail department reached out to that night.

Robert and his family over “We do know that our the weekend to assure them staff worked very diligently Christopher was fed during to save his life,” Volkodav his brief stay. wrote on Facebook.

The sheriff’s office Christopher was taken to shared surveillance videos Gwinnett Medical Center with the family that showed where he was put on life Christopher eating two support in the early hours of sandwiches about 30 minFeb. 16. He died Feb. 17. utes after he was booked The doctors who cared into the jail. for Christopher said he had “Sheriff (Butch) Consuffered a seizure followed way’s staff wanted to reach by cardiac arrest, according out to the family out of to Robert Howard. respect for them,” VolkoChristopher had been dav said. “Many of us are on probation since Nov. 2, parents ourselves and we

can appreciate the situation the Howard family finds themselves in. We simply wanted to minimize their grief.”

The Howard family asked the sheriff’s department not to make the footage public — a wish the department has honored. But Robert did permit Volkodav to show the videos to reporters who inquired about them.

Volkodav showed the Daily Post the videos Monday. The first showed Christopher sitting in a holding cell with other inmates, eating a sandwich.

Another sandwich sat on a table next to him.

“Each inmate is given two sandwiches and two juices,” Volkodav said.

The next video clip showed Christopher eating the other sandwich.

“I don’t know what happened,” Robert Howard said. “There are still a lot of unanswered questions.

I guess it’s going to take some time to figure out.”

It could be some time

before officials know more about Christopher’s death.

Volkodav said the sheriff’s internal investigation won’t be complete until they receive the Medical Examiner’s report. It could be weeks or even months before the Gwinnett sheriff’s office obtains those results.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the Howard family,” Volkodav wrote in the Facebook post. “We hope that they receive the answers they are seeking at the conclusion of the Medical Examiner’s investigation.”

Until then, Robert said the Howard family has been keeping busy.

“We’ve really appreciated all our family and friends coming to support us,” he said. “This last week, it’s been really uplifting for us and kept us in good spirits.”

All that’s left to do is await the final report about Christopher’s death.

“Then, we can get some closure. We can get some answers,” Robert said.

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Sandra Anglin Sandra Tullis Anglin, age 50, of Lawrenceville passed away on Sunday, February 26, 2016. Funeral Services will be held at 12:00 PM on Saturday, March 4, 2017 in the Lawrenceville Chapel of Tim Stewart Funeral Home.

Interment will follow at Gwinnett Memorial Park.

Mrs. Anglin was a lifelong member at Lawrenceville Church of God & was very active within the church. She loved spending time with family & friends, traveling & going on trips with her “Florida girls” & getting together with her cousins, monthly.

Known as “Sanny” by her loved ones, she had an infectious smile & laugh.

Although she was facing a lifelong battle of breast cancer, she always kept faith in God & an abundance of courage. Mrs. Anglin had a special love for all things Christmasespecially the snow! She proudly shared a birthday with her Uncle John, and loved being the ?big bossy sister? to her brother.

Mrs. Anglin is preceded in death by; Father: D.C. Tullis; Grandparents: Nanny & Pop Graham, Granny & Papa Tullis; Aunt: Dorcas Otto; Uncle: Ralph Graham. She is survived by; Husband of 14.5 years: Jeffrey Anglin of Lawrenceville; Mother & Step-Father: Ruth & Perry Drive of Lawrenceville; Dog: Gracie; Brother & Sisterin-law: Darin & Dawn Tullis of Lawrenceville; Cousins: Krista & Brian Hunter of Lawrenceville, Kelli & Marc Gordon of Jefferson; Aunt & Uncle: Walker & Carolyn Smith of Grayson; Nieces: Jessica Holloway of Monroe, Angela & Mackenzie Reeves of Winder; Brother-in-law: Randy Anglin of Buford; GodChildren: Kate & Brent; f il i l

Host of Family & Special Friends. The family will receive friends from 6-9 PM on Friday, March 3, 2017 & 11AM- 12PM on Saturday, March 4, 2017 at Tim Stewart Funeral Home- 300 Simonton Road S.W. Lawrenceville, GA 30046. 770-962-3100.

Please leave online condolences at stewartfh.com.

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Mary Hicks Banks Mary Hicks Banks, age 77, of Snellville, GA, passed away on February 27, 2017. Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, “A Family Company”, Snellville Chapel 770-979-3200 has been entrusted with the arrangements.

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Linda Cook Linda Smith Cook, 68, of Jefferson passed away Saturday, February 25, 2017.

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Grace Cullens Grace Elizabeth Cullens, age 99, of Lilburn, passed away February 23, 2017. Wages & Sons Gwinnett Chapel 1031 Lawrenceville Highway, Lawrenceville GA, 30046 770-277-4550.

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Brenda DeLauder Brenda Delauder, age 60, of Snellville, GA, passed away on February 26, 2017. Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, “A Family Company”, Snellville Chapel 770-979-3200 has been entrusted with the arrangements.

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He was preceded in death (2014) by his loving wife, Willie Mae Lathem; his sister, Helen Waldron, Atlanta, and his brother Frank Jr, Buford, Georgia.

Herman is survived by his two children Raymond (Teri) Grizzle and Dixie (Michael) Savard; brother Louie (Phyllis) Grizzle, Buford, Ga; four grandchildren: Shelley GrizzleFreeman, Amy Van Meter, Brandon and Cameron Savard, and two great-grandsons Christopher Freeman Jr and Isaac Van Meter, along with many nieces and nephews. Herman was a Seaman in the United States Coast Guard, serving in World War II. The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter he was assigned to was an 83-foot vessel with a crew of 14 men and he spent 22 months on it until the end of the war, working his way up to earning $66 per month in 1946. After his service, Herman (and Willie Mae) worked in the cotton mill in Chicopee, Georgia until 1952 when they moved to Cocoa, Florida and he worked as a civilian firefighter at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida. He was a member of First Baptist Church Merritt Island, Florida for over 65 years, and served in various ministries throughout the years. His hobbies included fishing, quail hunting, coin collecting, and stamp collecting.

Before moving to Viera Manor in 2015, Herman and Willie Mae had resided in the same house in Cocoa since moving there from Georgia in 1952.

They returned frequently over the years to visit relatives in north Georgia, where Herman enjoyed fishing and hunting with his brothers. The Grizzle house on Cocoa Place was for many years a frequent visiting place for Dixie’s and Raymond’s friends, neighborhood kids, and other friends of the family.

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Lula Jobir, a future homeowner courtesy of Gwinnett Habitat for Humanity, works at the organization’s 132nd home, located at 8454 Hightower Trail in Snellville.

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Habitat for Humanity builds 132nd home

By Keith Farner

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The recipient of a local Habitat for Humanity home recently called the organization a “father figure” for making the process to own a home possible.

For Gwinnett Habitat for Humanity, it’s the 132nd home build and restoration project. The home is located at 8454 Hightower Trail in Snellville, and will soon be home for the Jobir family.

“I am really truly blessed and humbled to be accepted

by (Gwinnett) Habitat for Humanity,” Lula Jobir said in a press release. “I felt (Gwinnett) Habitat has been (a) father figure who guided me gently through this housing process. I can’t thank enough all the Habitat donors, crews and volunteers that are making this possible.”

Habitat officials estimated a housing deficiency of 40,000 units in Gwinnett for people who earn less than $40,000 per year.

Gwinnett Habitat’s goal is to build adequate and affordable housing for low-income families in need.

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smile and a wave as he sat in his chair on the front porch. The family held a private graveside service for Herman on Monday, February 20th at Brevard Memorial Park, Cocoa, Florida. .

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Evelyn L. Hemphill Evelyn L. Hemphill age 92 of Dacula, GA; passed away on February 22, 2017. Arrangements by Byrd & Flanigan Crematory and Funeral Service Lawrenceville, GA. (770)962-2200 Loganvillecremation.com

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Robert Schaefer Robert Clayton Schaefer (R John), age 72, of Lawrenceville, GA passed away February 25, 2017. Arrangements By: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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Rodney Wheeler Rodney Lamar Wheeler, age 50, of Buford, GA passed away February 26, 2017. Arrangements By: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

Willis Jarrell Willis H. Jarrell, age 81, of Suwanee, GA passed away February 26, 2017. Arrangements By: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.

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Evan Kirby Evan Paul Kirby, age 40, of Loganville, passed away February 26, 2017. Wages & Sons Gwinnett Chapel 1031 Lawrenceville Highway, Lawrenceville GA, 30046 770-277-4550.

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Sharon Stone-McGlade Sharon Lynn Stone McGlade, age 44, of Lawrenceville, GA, passed away on February 26, 2017. Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, LLC, “A Family Company”, Snellville Chapel 770-979-3200 has been entrusted with the arrangements.

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BY CURT YEOMANS

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President Donald Trump sought to shift his tone Tuesday during his first address to Congress, striking notes of inspiration and common national purpose and leaving behind the darker aspects of his speeches at the inauguration and the Republican National Convention.

Trump opened his address by condemning the recent spate of threats against Jewish community centers, vandalism at Jewish cemeteries and the shooting of two Indian men in Kansas.

“Recent threats targeting Jewish Community Centers and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries, as well as last week’s shooting in Kansas City, remind us that while we may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all its very ugly forms,” he said.

The comment came after Trump has come under heavy criticism for not addressing such violence.

He entered the House chamber to thunderous applause and spoke of the “renewal of the American spirit.”

In the emotional high point of the speech, Trump turned to the first lady’s box and acknowledged Carryn Owens, the widow of a U.S. Navy Special operator, William “Ryan” Owens, who was killed in an anti-terror raid in Yemen in the first major military engagement of the new administration.

“Ryan died as he lived: a warrior and a hero — battling against terrorism and securing our nation,” Trump said as the House floor erupted in a prolonged standing ovation. Owens, with tears streaming down her face, looked to the heavens and joined in the applause.

Trump still struck hardline notes. He overruled National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, according to a senior administration official, to warn of “radical Islamic terrorism.” Striking themes familiar from his campaign, Trump vowed to restore “integrity and the rule of law to our borders.”

“We will soon begin the construction of a great,

Tensions and tempers continued to flare over Commissioner Tommy Hunter’s continued presence on the Board of Commissioners on Tuesday night as the backlash over his comments about U.S. John Lewis spilled into zoning matters.

For the fifth time in a month and a half, protesters President Donald Trump delivers his first speech to Con- showed up at a commission meeting carrying signs to gress on Tuesday. (Photo: CNN) protest Hunter, who has been great wall along our south- Americans with pre-existing in hot water for calling Lewis ern border,” Trump said, a “racist pig” and referring to conditions, should offer drawing raucous Republiplans backed by tax credits Democrats as “Demonrats” can cheers even as he didn’t and expanded Health Savand “Libtards” on Facebook. mention his earlier promise ings Account and should Things got particularly that Mexico would pay for heated when one speaker, preserve Medicaid expanconstruction.

Teddy Murphy, spoke against sion in the states. Trump While such language a senior housing project in also vowed to bring down could please conservatives, the high price of drugs “im- Hunter’s district. Murphy got Trump is on Capitol Hill up for several zoning quesmediately.” after sending shockwaves tion in Hunter’s district came “Obamacare is collapsthrough Washington earlier ing — and we must act up to speak in opposition.

Tuesday by telling reporters decisively to protect all Eventually, it got to be too he wants to pass an immuch for Commissioner John Americans,” he said, “Acmigration reform bill that tion is not a choice — it is a Heard, who accused Murcould grant legal status to phy of “making a mockery necessity.” millions of undocumented of this process” and said he House Democratic immigrants living in the was opening himself and the Leader Nancy Pelosi, who U.S. was instrumental in passing county up to the possibility of “The time is right for an a possible lawsuit over whatthe law, shook her head as immigration bill as long as ever decision the board made Trump condemned it. there is compromise on both on the zoning request.

The President will also sides,” Trump said at the “You’re playing in a deep, signal action on another key White House. deep pond,” Heard said to piece of his agenda — tax So far there is little sign Murphy. reform. that the new President’s “You have a complete and “My economic team legislative agenda, which total racist on this board,” is developing historic tax includes repealing and Murphy said in response reform that will reduce the replacing Obamacare, a before he was cut off by tax rate on our companies big tax overhaul, and a Chairwoman Charlotte Nash. so they can compete and trillion-dollar infrastructure thrive anywhere and with The exchange is a sign of program, is anywhere near the tensions that have arisen anyone. At the same time coming to fruition. That we will provide massive tax over Hunter’s comments. could quickly turn out to be relief for the middle class,” Some people have spoken in a problem for the President Trump will say, according Hunter’s defense at commisbecause there is only so sion meetings, but they’ve to the excerpts. much he can do by flexing been outnumbered heavily Buying time his power through executive by the number of people, like The President needed to orders — his main method Murphy, who have shown use Tuesday’s address to to date of showing that he is buy himself some politiup and called for Hunter’s leading the nation in a new cal time. Trump’s approval resignation. direction.

That continued Tuesday ratings are hovering at Under pressure night as protesters pushed depths never seen for a He is under pressure for some sort of resolution modern president so early to issue marching orders in his administration. Some to the ongoing saga. Several for Republicans who have protesters have expressed 44 percent of Americans been attacked in their home approve of the job Trump frustration that commissiondistricts over a lack of ers have not publicly called is doing, while 48 percent specifics about key planks on Hunter to resign. disapprove, according to of the Trump agenda. There a new NBC/Wall Street “Tempers and attitudes are no concrete plans yet to Journal poll published on have flared up right where provide Americans with a I’m standing, and it’s only a Sunday. workable alternative to the matter of time before someTrump remains a highly Affordable Care Act — a thing explodes in this room divisive figure, after the reality that is fast eroding or out in that parking lot,” most negative presidential Republican political capital. campaign on record, alDacula resident Art Smith But Trump promised a though has consolidated the said during public comment. much better system than the support of many Republi“This is going to be on your one that formed the center- cans. Still, his White House watch and on your heads. piece of Obama’s political Will you speak up then, or is struggling to fend off a legacy. will you continue to see controversy about alleged A new system, he said, nothing, say nothing and do ties between his campaign must retain coverage for nothing?” and Russia.

Hunter and his spokesman, Seth Weathers, have repeatedly said the commissioner will not resign. Hunter has also begun leaving commission meetings right before public comment periods begin.

“He is not doing his job by refusing to listening to our comments,” Murphy said.

“He is making you do his job for him.”

Murphy also said he felt threatened by the tone Heard took against him and added that his impression of the commission, based on the totality of the zoning meeting, was that commissioners “care more about multimillion-dollar developers than they about their own constituents.”

Hunter had some supporters in the crowd, but not many.

Thomas Livsey, whose family lived in the south Gwinnett community known as the Promised Land, admitted that he was not a user of Facebook. He said, however, that his interactions with Hunter were positive ones.

Livsey sold the Promised Land plantation house, which the Livsey family bought in the early 20th Century, to the county last year to be preserved.

“I’ve never been mistreated

by Mr Hunter or any of the other commissioners,” Livsey said.

Meanwhile, Weathers pushed back against Democrats on Tuesday, calling on state Sen. Curt Thompson, a Democrat who represents part of southwest and central Gwinnett, to resign for calling President Donald Trump a racist on Facebook.

Thompson’s post, which was posted on Tuesday afternoon, referenced Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress, which was set to take place Tuesday night.

“Tonight, Trump is giving his first address to a joint session,” Thompson wrote.

“As always, I encourage y’all to watch, but do not expect any real specifics on Trump’s plans. We probably won’t see any changes from last month, because a 70-something year old man won’t become any less cranky or racist over time.”

Weathers, who was the Trump campaign’s state chairman for a time in 2015, said he wanted to see the protesters calling for Hunter’s resignation to call for Thompson to step down.

“Unless the same individuals call for Democrat Curt Thompson’s resignation, it

will be incredibly hypocritical,” Weathers said. “Their response to this will be very indicative of their partisan motivations.”

Thompson could not be reached through a message sent on Facebook Tuesday, but some of his followers on the social media website disputed the idea that Hunter’s and the senator’s comments were similar.

“Calling someone a ‘racist’ versus calling someone a ‘racist pig’ are two totally different things,” one poster, Kim Adams, wrote. “When you are willing to be honest about the facts, people might actually be more prone to listen and take you seriously.”

Murphy echoed those sentiments Tuesday night.

“Sen. Thompson is a very smart man, he’s a lawyer, and he will be able to back up anything he says about Donald Trump,” Murphy said. “I doubt Tommy Hunter could do the same.”

Meanwhile, Hunter is also facing an ethics complaint over his comments — a complaint Weathers has denounced as unconstitutional — and a panel is in the process of being assembled to hear the issue.

The panel could recommend the Board of Commissioners take any of a number of sanctions against Hunter, including removal from office, if it determines he violated the county’s untested ethics policy.

The commission made some changes to the ethics policy Tuesday night, including replacing the Association of County Commissioners of Georgia’s appointment on the panel with an appointment by the local government section of the State Bar of Georgia.

County Attorney Bill Linkous told commissioners that ACCG officials had asked to have their appointment replaced on the ethics panel.

The commissioners also voted to give panel members a $150 per diem. Some procedural changes were also made, Nash said.

Nash said the complaint, the first since the ethics ordinance was adopted in 2011, has given county leaders a chance to see how things work, and if there are modifications needed.

She also said the commission is getting close to picking someone to represent it on the panel.

“We’ve got a few different folks that we’re looking at,” she said.

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But Haupert, 56, doesn’t see the job as finished, especially with the constant changes in health care.

Major changes may be in the works in Washington as Republican congressional leaders and President Trump look to scrap or at least overhaul the Affordable Care Act. “I love the challenge,’’ Haupert says.

He came to Grady from the historically famous Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas. He followed CEO Michael Young, whose approach tended to be on the abrasive, tough-minded side.

Pete Correll, who was chairman of Grady’s corporate governing board back then, says Young “did a fabulous job” and was “like a gunslinger going into Dodge City” in his willingness

to take risks and confront entrenched interests.

Correll says of Haupert, who followed Young, “We hired him thinking he was a healer.”

The first and biggest thing Haupert fixed was the revenue cycle — medical coding, billing and collections — and investing in a new system for electronic medical records.

“We jumped into the middle of that,” he says now.

Correll calls the revenue cycle work Haupert’s “single greatest accomplishment in turning Grady around.’’

Grady also installed a comprehensive program to help uninsured patients sign up for Medicaid. Not only did it help the hospital have more insured patients, Haupert says, but it “opens up the door’’ to access to care for these newly enrolled people.

Grady’s patient mix is now

27 percent uninsured, down from 42 percent uninsured.

That may be as low as it’s going to get, Haupert says, noting that Georgia has not expanded its Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act, which would have covered more low-income residents.

The quest for revenue The hospital, meanwhile, has worked hard to attract more privately insured patients. The patient mix is now 20 percent private-coverage

patients, up from 12 percent.

These patients were drawn by the creation or expansion of programs in cardiac care, urology, orthopedic surgery, stroke, trauma and burns, Haupert says.

Medicare beneficiaries are another target. Grady has designed programs around the care of seniors, and offers complex geriatric care.

“There are a number of (hospital) systems where you’re not even going to find geriatricians,” Haupert said.

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Five years ago, Grady Prior to Haupert, there had Health System in Atlanta been some positives, as he was racking up a $27 million himself recognized. Thanks loss. to an injection of funds from At the time, the job of philanthropists, a restrucGrady CEO appeared to be tured Grady made major one of the least secure in the capital investments after the health industry: As of late hospital reached the brink of 2011, there had been five collapse in 2007. New clinichief executive officers in cal services were developed five years. at Grady, which has long That year, the Grady been the cornerstone of system had gone through a health care in Atlanta. round of job cuts, and a paHaupert, though, faced big tient had fallen to her death financial challenges after his from a hospital window, arrival. One of them was to prompting a federal investi- get the hospital’s billing and gation. collections systems in order.

Things looked bleak. But Now he has passed the when John Haupert came five-year mark — an eteraboard in late 2011, he nity in “Grady years.” The perceived the system that hospital system, counting featured Grady Memorial contributions from Fulton Hospital, the biggest safety- and DeKalb counties, shows net facility in the state, as “a a profit. And the new facilidiamond in the rough.” ties across the campus reflect

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Improving relations with media Before becoming a newspaper columnist, I was a broadcast news reporter for local TV stations and occasionally appeared on the NBC radio and television networks.

I have some experience at being on the receiving end of hostilities directed at the media.

At a pro-Nixon, pro-Vietnam war rally I covered in the early ’70s, a demonstrator looked at the NBC logo on my microphone and called me a “communist.” We had never met.

He knew nothing about my politics or the quality of my reporting. He assumed that because I was covering the event Cal for NBC I must be a Thomas left-wing radical.

While there is little doubt in the minds of most conservatives that a large majority of reporters and anchors at the national level hold liberal views, the way labels are applied to journalists does little to improve the quality of journalism, a profession that was once considered a craft before it became big business, eventually devolving into just another political megaphone.

The Trump administration has probably extracted maximum benefit from its frontal assault on the news media.

It will not win converts by continuing the bashing. Even press critics must acknowledge that a free press is essential to a strong democracy.

Here is my proposal to simultaneously preserve and strengthen democracy, while encouraging the media to do a better job: Reporters, producers and TV bookers are people with families and, in my experience, a sense of duty. Mostly, they are friendly people who are interested in finding and reporting the truth.

Granted, their view of truth might be far different from most conservatives’, but let’s start there.

The administration and other press critics should make a list of federal programs and the philosophies associated with them and conduct an objective study as to whether they have produced the advertised results. Feelings, intentions, even ideology should have no part in the study.

Did the program and associated spending solve a problem? In terms of social services, were sufficient numbers of people helped and did those programs assist recipients to escape from government assistance and find jobs, or did they result in people becoming addicted to government, reducing their motivation?

How credible is it that someone would favor a program or support a philosophy that costs too much and delivers too little? Is the private sector having greater success in achieving certain desired ends far better than government?

Many states are doing better than Washington in solving some problems.

National reporters could be shown what success looks like outside the Beltway. They might ask members of Congress why they won’t embrace these models in the states they and their colleagues represent.

I have never seen anger and opposition convert anyone. Persuasion requires a relationship that includes respect for the other person and learning how they arrived at their point of view.

I suspect most people don’t take the time to contact journalists, much less develop relationships with them, or even know many people with views different from their own.

Find something you can admire in a journalist’s reporting and send them a note that says so. It can include a suggestion of something they might have missed in their coverage.

A reporter is more likely to consider such a suggestion if it is accompanied with praise, rather than a heavy dose of bile.

The media aren’t going away, and while conservatives can — and should — continue to call out errors and bias, they ought to be at least as interested in changing hearts and minds, even minds that already seem made up.

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

Calendar is filled with diet-busters I desperately need to lose weight, y’all. I mean desperately. The size 38 pants — even with the flex-o-matic waist bands — no longer do the job, and I just can’t walk into a store and buy size 40 pants.

Even if I did, I would have to figure out how to keep anyone from ever walking behind me because the seat of my pants would look like a family of five just moved out. I am seriously considering asking my doctor for a prescription for assatall pills because I simply don’t have any assatall.

Oh, but I have a stomach, and it is bulging more and more each day, no matter how much apple cider vinegar I slurp or how many of those expensive probiotic pills I swallow.

My lovely wife, Lisa, claims that the extra weight I’ve gained over the past couple of years — it can’t be more than 40 or 50 pounds — makes me snore something terrible. Not only will she no longer share the same bed with me, she won’t even sleep on the same floor of the house!

I want to lose weight. I really do. But the calendar is against me. That’s right. The calendar!

My doctor gave me an ultimatum in November. He said,

you can’t really begin those New Year’s resolutions on Jan. 1 because you have to eat pork roast and collards and blackeyed peas and sweet potatoes or you’ll have bad luck all year.

And this year there were college bowl games on Jan. 2, so we had to eat all day that day. Like Darrell I said. The calendar has it in for Huckaby me.

I guess I could have cut “Mr. Huckaby, do you know back a bit for a few days but it any really fat people?” hardly seemed worth it with the I said, “Lots of them.”

NCAA National Championship He said, “Do you know any on the horizon. Clemson versus really old people?”

Alabama. Wow! You know I said, “Absolutely.” we are going to throw down a He said, “Do you know any spread to watch that game, and really old, really fat people?” no sooner was it over than I had He had me there, but it was to depart for my tour company’s November! Like I said. The annual Hawaiian island cruise. calendar. Who can go on a Not even the strictest dietician diet three days before Thanksin the world would expect a guy giving? And two days after to cut back on eating during a Thanksgiving is the Georgiacruise of the Hawaiian islands.

Georgia Tech tailgate, and that’s So I get back from Hawaii just a food fest that leads right around the first of February and into the Christmas season with the Super Bowl is staring me dinner parties and Chex Mix right in the face. Not only that, and pecan divinity and German but the Falcons are playing. We chocolate cake and all of those had to support the home team, little maple-covered nut candies. so there were about three days Nobody is going to lose weight of grilling and feasting involved during Christmas. in that. As soon as it was over it The week after Christmas was Valentine’s Day, which we there are still plenty of leftovers have to celebrate — so see, the lying around the house, and calendar makes it really hard to

get on a strict diet and stay on it.

So far I’ve gained seven pounds this year. Only 57 more to lose before I reach my 2017 goal of losing 50.

I thought I had finally caught a break. Tuesday night we had our big Fat Tuesday celebration — barbecued shrimp cooked in about a six-pack of Jax beer and six pounds of butter, with that deliciously soft French bread for dipping and a couple of pieces of King Cake afterward — but Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent would give me the perfect opportunity to practically fast until Easter.

Other than maybe an extra slice of cake on my upcoming birthday and a large serving of corned beef and cabbage on St. Patty’s day, I would be free from temptation for a half dozen fortnights.

Or so I thought.

Right after we’d finished up the King cake the doorbell rang.

The cutest little neighborhood girl was on the porch, and she looked so sweet in her green uniform with all the badges on her sash. So now I have boxes and boxes of Thin Mints, Tagalongs and Samoas to deal with.

My diet will just have to wait.

Besides, who wants to live forever, anyway?

When teens are paid to skip college CHICAGO — In 2011, billionaire Peter Thiel made headlines when he announced that he would pay 20 teenagers $100,000 each to drop out or delay college and start businesses in biotechnology, finance, energy and education.

Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, a venture capitalist and early investor in Facebook, wanted to underscore his belief that college costs too much, isn’t as intellectually rigorous as it once was and leaves recent grads burdened with student loans that keep them from taking the entrepreneurial risks needed to spur the economy.

All these years later, Wall Street Journal reporter Alexandra Wolfe tells us how it all panned out for the first class of “Thiel Fellows” in her deliciously detailed book “Valley of the Gods: A Silicon Valley Story.”

The tome is great fun as Wolfe delves into the excesses of a cash-rich subsociety of uber-nerds who turn to polyamorous household configurations, obsessions with scientific quests for eternal youth and bizarre nutritional regimens to fit in.

“You had to be weird in some specifically difficult way that made you more productive at the same time.”

But her book centers on the story of one of the fellows, John Burnham, a precocious

was due in part to the convoluted nature of his company, which neither he nor his co-founder, Curtis Yarvin, could seem to explain in English, Burnham was feeling more and more detached.

He felt like his reason for being out there was to build a company that would get a mythical Esther high valuation, which he didn’t Cepeda think would come from anything like his own merit or character.

And what did Silicon Valley child who preferred reading think character was, anyway?

Aristotle and Plato to attending Were they even aware of it?” to anything his schoolteachers I’m not giving much away had to say. His big dream was by telling you that Burnham to mine asteroids and, after eventually left Silicon Valley pitching Thiel, he got his grant for college, seeking to study in and moved to California to get an effort to find meaning and started on monetizing his idea. spirituality in life.

By fall 2012, Burnham was a In this respect, it could be said little bored, a little dispirited, a that, far from failing at “starting little homesick and, ironically, up,” Burnham learned the types reading the novels he would’ve of truths that led him to pursue been assigned by a college litthe heart of what college used to erature professor and jostling to mean — education for the mind, get inside a Stanford University as opposed to job training. lecture hall to hear Thiel speak Which leads us to the concluon the topic of “how to build the sion of this experiment: Giving future.” kids cash and the freedom to At age 21, in 2014, Burnham create their own companies can was well into the disillusionment yield a whole crop of successphase of his grand experiment. ful business owners, but it isn’t “As he struggled to launch necessarily scalable.

Urbit, a personal server platFor everyone else finishing form,” Wolfe writes, “he was high school — whether they often frustrated with how little have an offbeat dream or no the valley’s hierarchy valued the idea of what they want to do in actual people who built the prod- life — there has to be something ucts or used them. Whether it other than immediate matricula-

tion into college or a job at a fast-food joint.

In a society where hiring managers generally won’t even look at someone who doesn’t have a degree, we insist that 17and 18-year-olds gamble tens of thousands of dollars on a course of study designed primarily to meet the entry-level requirements of a white-collar job.

This system is already failing.

Only 66 percent of high school graduates go on to college and only 60 percent of those who seek a degree at a four-year institution graduate within six years.

We should be questioning the wisdom of having few viable alternatives for kids who simply aren’t ready for or interested in college.

Wolfe concludes that the fellowships “made people question the establishment, and while the program may have come at a time that was too early for there to be an existing framework for kids who decided to skip school, what it did do was challenge political correctness and fly in the face of what academic institutions had previously made mandatory.”

Now that the status quo has been challenged, however, we must actually change it.

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

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SECTION B • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 2017

Earning their stripes

Team effort propels Archer past Colquitt County, into semifinals

By Paul Thomas

paul.thomas@gwinnettdailypost.com

LAWRENCEVILLE — Early on against Colquitt County, the Archer girls basketball team’s offense came entirely from Autumn Newby in Tuesday’s Class AAAAAAA state quarterfinal.

But once the Vanderbilt signee with down with a leg injury midway through the second quarter, it was all hands on deck for the Tigers.

Archer used a balanced scoring attack to defeat Colquitt County 55-50 to advance to the Final Four against McEachern on Saturday at 6 p.m. at West Georgia.

Asia McCoy led the Tigers (25-4) with 15 points, while Newby had 12 before her injury and Linsey Mar-

chese had 11.

“Coaches always talk about team efforts. This was absolutely a team effort,” Archer head coach Bob Westbrook said. “We’ve got individuals, but tonight they gelled, they played together. When you have the kind of adversity that we dealt with, when one of your big guns goes out like that, they just kept battling. And they never lost the lead, that’s what’s really fantastic. They’re just a great group. They’re all competitors and this was just a fantastic team win.”

Newby scored the first 10 points of the game for the Tigers, with each basket either putting the home team back in front or tying the game.

Inside touches to Marchese pushed See ARCHER, Page 4B

Norcross pays back Westlake

By Guy Curtright Staff Correspondent

Archer’s Linsey Marchese (33) goes up for a shot against Colquitt County in state quarterfinal action Tuesday at Archer. (Photo: Jamie Akoubian)

DOGGED ‘D’

Determined Collins Hill girls knock off Lambert in quarters

COLLEGE PARK — Despite being ranked No. 1 in Class AAAAAAA and going unbeaten against Georgia teams, the Norcross girls had to play their state tournament quarterfinal game on the road after losing a coin flip with Westlake.

It didn’t matter, though.

Norcross got to celebrate their advancement on the Lions’ court, just like Westlake had done at the House of Blue a year ago.

The Blue Devils jumped to a 13-0 lead and defeated Westlake 57-44 on Tuesday night and reached the Final Four after being ousted in the second round by the Lions in 2016.

“The players remembered last year, especially the seniors,” Norcross coach Angie Hembree said.

Senior guard Taylor Mason scored six points in the Blue Devils’ fast

See NORCROSS, Page 4B

McEachern juggernaut takes down Mill Creek

By David Friedlander

By Jay Squillace

david.friedlander@gwinnettdailypost.com

Staff Correspondent

HOSCHTON — By pretty much all measures, Mill Creek’s girls seemed to have every intangible in its favor heading into their Class AAAAAAA state basketball quarterfinal game against McEachern.

The Hawks not only had a huge and enthusiastic home crowd behind them, the Indians had a longer than expected trip across metro Atlanta just to get to the game.

In the end, none of that mattered as McEachern jumped out of the chute early and dominated the evening en route to a 77-29 win Tuesday night at Mill Creek.

The Indians (24-6) showed why they are three-time defending state champions at the state’s highest classification in rolling to earn a spot opposite Archer in Saturday’s 6 p.m. state semifinal game at the University

SUWANEE — Collins Hill used a relentless defensive effort to overwhelm a game Lambert team and advance to the semifinals of the girls state tournament Tuesday night.

The Eagles held No. 1 seed Lambert to just 14 total points in the second and third quarters en route to a 57-46 win.

“This was no easy win,” Eagles’ coach Brian Harmon said. “I watched the film and I told our girls they were gonna have to come to play tonight.”

After a first quarter that was tied at 12, Collins Hill found its stride early in the second — even with starting point guard Bria Harmon on the bench with early foul trouble.

The Eagles forced turnovers and got easy shots for Javyn Nicholson, who led the team with 14 points. They led 29-17 at the half. Collins Hill continued that momentum into the third quarter to put the game out of reach.

“In the first quarter, our defensive rotations were late,” Harmon said. “Once we got it set, we were able to get our rhythm. I told them coming out of halftime, if we hold them to single digits in the third quarter, we could put the game away.”

Collins Hill did just that, holding Lambert to nine third-quarter points. Bria Harmon made up for missing time in the first half with three third-quarter steals. She was also perfect on her three attempts from outside the arc. Kayla Dixon handled the dirty work, grabbing eight rebounds.

Despite a 20-point deficit going into the fourth, Lambert showed a lot of fight.

Lambert’s M.E. Craven had a particularly strong game and led all scorers with 21 points. Craven, who is headed to Auburn next year to play soccer,

See MILL CREEK, Page 4B

GHSA trustees vote for Phillips’ resignation

By David Friedlander david.friedlander@gwinnettdailypost.com

An already awkward situation involving the Georgia High School Association, its executive director Gary Phillips and the state legislature could be getting even more messy after the GHSA Board of Trustees voted Monday to recommend Phillips resign his position at the end of the school year, according to a published report.

Monday’s action by the board, which came by a 5-3 vote, will be considered and voted on, along with other personnel issues, by the GHSA’s Executive Committee at a meeting next Monday at the Thomaston-Upson County Civic Center.

The board of trustees vote may be related to the introduction of House Bill 415 and Senate Bill 203 to the state legislature.

Those identical measures would propose the GHSA be replaced by a new statewide body to govern high school athletics, band and literary competitions to be overseen by the Collins Hill’s Bria Harmon (11) shoots over Lambert’s Jaleah Greene (32) in Tuesday night’s AAAAAAA

See EAGLES, Page 4B quarterfinal state playoff game. (Photo: Anthony Stalcup)

See GHSA, Page 4B

2B • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 2017

ondeck Prep Schedule

Today

BASEBALL

• Buford at Winder-Barrow 4:30 p.m. — Wesleyan at Providence 5 p.m. — Collins Hill at West Forsyth 6 p.m. — Archer at Peachtree Ridge 6 p.m. — Cedar Shoals at Meadowcreek 6 p.m. — Discovery at Shiloh 6 p.m. — Habersham Central at Duluth 6 p.m. — Johnson at Central 6 p.m. — Lanier at North 6 p.m. — Mill Creek at Brookwood 6 p.m. — Mountain View at Dacula 6 p.m. — Norcross at South Forsyth

BASKETBALL

State quarterfinals Class AAAAAAA 7 p.m. — Brookwood boys at Grayson 7:30 p.m. — Norcross boys at Pebblebrook Class AAAAA 6 p.m. — Warner Robins boys at Buford

LACROSSE

5 p.m. — Parkview at Meadowcreek 5:30 p.m. — Hillgrove boys at Archer 6 p.m. — Collins Hill girls at Kennesaw Mountain 6:30 p.m. — Archer girls at Wesleyan South Forsyth boys at Peachtree Ridge 6:45 p.m. — Brookwood boys at Norcross 7 p.m. — Brookwood boys at Norcross 7 p.m. — Decatur girls at GAC 7 p.m. — Norcross girls at Duluth 7 p.m. — North Forsyth girls at Mountain View 7:30 p.m. — Mountain View boys at Collins Hill

TENNIS

• Dacula and Archer at Rhodes Jordan

TRACK & FIELD

4 p.m. — 9th and 10th Invitational at Mill Creek 4 p.m. — Wesleyan Invitational

BASEBALL

Thursday

5:30 p.m. — Tucker at GAC 6 p.m. — Grayson at Brookwood 6 p.m. — Hebron at Morgan Co. 6 p.m. — Lakeside-Dekalb at Peachtree Ridge 6 p.m. — Mountain View at South

GOLF

3 p.m. — Lanier and Duluth at Northwood 4 p.m. — Mount Pisgah and Wesleyan girls at St. Ives

LACROSSE

5:30 p.m. — Druid Hills girls at Mountain View 5:30 p.m. — Walton girls at Mill Creek 7 p.m. — Grayson boys at Buford 7:30 p.m. — Johns Creek girls at North

SOCCER

5 p.m. — Blessed Trinity at Hebron

TENNIS

• Meadowcreek at Central • Norcross and Brookwood girls at Brookwood Manor • Norcross and Brookwood boys at Montclair • Rockdale Co. and Archer at Rhodes Jordan 3:30 p.m. — Berkmar at Parkview 3:30 p.m. — Collins Hill girls at North 3:30 p.m. — North boys at Collins Hill 3:30 p.m. — Peachtree Ridge at Mill Creek 3:30 p.m. — South at Grayson 4 p.m. — GAC at Wesleyan

The Home Teams

Gladiators

Hawks

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at Florida at Florida Fri, 7:30 p.m.

Sat, 7 p.m.

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Dallas Cleveland Indiana 7:30 p.m.

Fri, 7 p.m.

Sun, 1 p.m.

FSSE/92.9-FM FSSE/92.9-FM FSSE/92.9-FM

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at Calgary Sat, 9 p.m.

at New England March 12, 1 p.m.

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On TV

Today

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

7 p.m. — Arkansas at Florida ESPN2 8 p.m. — Boston College at Notre Dame WPCH 9 p.m. — Texas at Texas Tech ESPN2 9 p.m. — Marquette at Xavier FS1 9 p.m. — Louisville at Wake Forest FSSO 11 p.m. — Washington at UCLA FS1

NBA

7:30 p.m. — Dallas at Atlanta FSSE 8 p.m. — Cleveland at Boston ESPN

NHL

8 p.m. — Pittsburgh at Chicago NBCSP

SOCCER

2:30 p.m. — FA Cup Manchester City FC vs Huddersfield Town FC FS1 7 p.m. — SheBelieves Cup, United States women vs Germany FS1

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

1 p.m. — ACC Tournament, Clemson vs. Virginia Tech FSSO 3:30 p.m. — ACC Tournament, Boston College vs.

Georgia Tech FSSO 6:30 p.m. — ACC Tournament, North Carolina vs.

Pittsburgh FSSO

Sports Calendar

FOOTBALL

Ongoing through June 1: The Georgia Force high school home-school football program is looking for players for its varsity, junior varsity and middle school teams. The program is based out of Sugar Hill with home games and practices at Gary Pirkle Park. It is designed for student-athletes who are home-schooled or attend private, Christian or charter schools without a football program. Winter conditioning has started for

the Force, and spring practice will begin in late April.

For more information or to register, email karynreasoner@gmail.com or go to www.forcehsfootball.com.

BASKETBALL

March 29: Lawrenceville Youth Association will host a general information meeting for the upcoming basketball season at 7 p.m. in the Rhodes Jordan Park Community Center. The meeting also will feature the filling of new board positions.

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SEC honors DeShields, Frerking From Staff Reports Former Gwinnett County basketball standouts Diamond DeShields and Katie Frerking made a substantial mark on the postseason Southeastern Conference women’s basketball awards released Tuesday.

DeShields, a Norcross grad, made the first-team All-SEC list as voted on by the SEC’s coaches, while Frerking, a Wesleyan grad, received four honors from the league, including second-team All-SEC. DeShields leads Tennessee and ranks fourth in the SEC in scoring (17.3), with the highest average per game for a Tennessee player since Candace Parker’s 21.3 in 2007-08. She also is sixth in the league in assists (3.6), ninth in freethrow percentage (79.8),

as the SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year. The Auburn senior was named earlier to the SEC Community Service Team for women’s basketball.

The 6-1 senior leads the Tigers in scoring (16.0), rebounding (6.4) and steals (2.5) and is tied for the lead in blocks (0.9). She has topped the 30-point mark twice this season — 30 at Louisiana Tech and 32 at Texas A&M — and scored her 1,000th career point Jan. 1 against Florida. She Wesleyan grad Katie Frerking, an Auburn senior, ranks is one of two players in Auin the SEC top 10 in six categories this season. (Photo: burn history with more than Anthony Hall/Auburn Athletics) 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 250 assists and 200 steals 12th in field-goal percent- best of 34 against Georgia. in her career. age (42.8) and blocked Frerking was the most Both DeShields and shots (1.0) and 15th in decorated player on the Frerking play in the SEC rebounding (6.6).

All-SEC list after being Tournament this week in The 6-foot-1 junior has named to the All-SEC Greenville, S.C. Tennesscored 20 or more points second team, to the Allsee is the No. 5 seed and 10 times this season with a Defensive Team and also Auburn is the No. 9 seed.

North names alum as new coach

By Will Hammock will.hammock@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Amanda Heil’s memorable year added another highlight Monday, when the 1997 North Gwinnett grad was named the new head girls basketball coach at her alma mater.

She takes over for Bryan Amanda SellHeil ers, who resigned earlier this month after seven seasons in charge of the program to spend more time with his family. It’s the first varsity head coaching job for Heil, a longtime middle school head coach in Gwinnett at both Sweetwater and Creekland.

She spent the 2016-17 season as a varsity assistant for Sellers.

“I’m excited about having a chance to take over the program I played in,” the 37-year-old said.

“North for lot of years had a very rich tradition in girls basketball. We’re ready to start working to get back to that level again.”

Heil, a lifelong Suwanee resident, wanted to join Sellers’ basketball staff at North for several years but health and physical education openings are scarce — and coveted when hiring assistant coaches for large football staffs — at the high school level. It finally worked out for her prior to

had. The fundamentals, the conditioning, the approach to the game. They played Name: Amanda Heil hard for him. My goal is New position: Head girls basketball coach at North get good, quality kids and Gwinnett Former position: Assistant girls basketball coach at get the most out of them North Gwinnett that I can.”

Age: 37 Heil spent three years as Career record: First high school head coaching job a girls basketball coach at Education: Graduated from North Gwinnett High Sweetwater early in her caSchool in 1997; earned degree in health and physical reer, guiding the program education from Kennesaw State to an unbeaten season and Background: Spent the 2016-17 season as assistant division title in 2005. She coach with the North varsity girls basketball program; also won a division title was head girls basketball coach at Sweetwater Middle, at Creekland, where she and then Creekland Middle, from 2003-14; coached three seasons at Sweetwater and 10 at Creekland; worked for 10 years. She four-year varsity letter-winner in both basketball and was a middle school head softball at North; played two seasons of softball at coach from 2003-14 before Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, helping team taking a two-season hiatus to third place nationally as a freshman; son Cade is a for the birth of her third North senior who is committed to the North Georgia child. baseball program for college She returned to coaching Family: Husband Jason; sons Cade, 18, and Dane, 7; this season at North under daughter Parker, 1 Sellers, whose tenure featured a trip to the Final the 2016-17 season, when coach Phil Hall.

Four in 2012 and a state she was hired as a varsity “We’re in contact all the runner-up finish in 2013. girls basketball assistant. time,” Heil said of Hall.

The Bulldogs haven’t had She also joined her old “He sends me messages the talent pool to draw high school coach, Randy four or five times a year. from of late, though, winBlack, as an assistant soft- It was nice when I used to ning 10 games in 2015-16 ball coach last fall when coach (in middle school) and six this past season. the Bulldogs won their first and he made it to the However, the future is state championship in fast- championship games. He’d bright. The North Gwinpitch softball. The victory be in the stands for those nett Middle girls won the came not long after her games. … It was just the Gwinnett County tournaoldest son, Cade, a North pure respect with him and ment last week. senior, made a college how hard that I wanted to “It’s very exciting (to be commitment to the North play for him. I try to get named head coach),” Heil Georgia baseball program. the same out of my girls. said. “We were very young “I couldn’t have asked Coach Hall is one you (this past season). We just for a better start to the never wanted to let him graduate two seniors this school year,” the mother of down. You never wanted year. And obviously our three said. to disappoint him. For me, eighth-grade program just Heil lettered four years when you get girls to buy won the overall Gwinnett in both basketball and into that type of program, County championship, softball at North, playing those types of expectawhich was super exciting. the latter sport for two sea- tions, you get so much I was able to watch them a sons at Abraham Baldwin more out of them. He did few times this season. It’s Agricultural College. She the best job of getting the exciting to see this young played basketball for the most out of his kids, no talent come up through the Bulldogs under longtime matter what talent level he program.”

THE HEIL FILE

GGC sweeps all A.I.I. weekly honors From Staff Reports All of the A.I.I. weekly honors went to Georgia Gwinnett College athletes on Monday.

In softball, sophomore Taylor Hansis was named pitcher of the week and senior Brashante Dareus was tabbed as player of the week. It’s the third straight time Grizzlies have been picked for the softball awards and second straight for Hansis.

The right-hander went 2-1 last week, striking out

12 batters in nine innings of work. Against Kentucky Christian, Hansis threw five innings of two-hit ball as the Grizzlies defeated KCU 13-2 in a run-rule victory.

Dareus helped guide No. 13 GGC to a 5-1 week with a .450 batting average. She drove in 12 runs during the Reinhardt Invitational with two doubles, a triple and two home runs. For the week, Dareus boasted a .950 slugging percentage.

In baseball, Marcus

McCorkle was player of the week and senior Tyler Souris earned the pitching honors.

McCorkle, a second baseman from Lawrenceville, had six hits and scored five runs as the Grizzlies went 4-0 in the week. He hit .375 and batted in nine runs.

Souris, a Bradenton, Fla., native pitched a onerun, six hit outing against Montreat as the Grizzlies defeated the Cavaliers 23-1.

Senior Chiara Di Salvo was selected as the con-

ference women’s tennis player of the week.

For the last four weeks, the award has gone to a Grizzly. Di Salvo picked up a pair of wins with a 6-0, 6-0 showing against Mikayla Rinker of NCAA Division II’s No. 40 Dallas Baptist (Texas) in singles play while teaming up with Alyona Vasilyeva for an 8-4 result against DBU’s Ana Marija Banic and Lacey Sprinkel.

She is ranked No. 3 in NAIA singles and No. 1 in doubles with Vasilyeva.

Redskins give Cousins franchise tag The Washington Redskins placed the exclusive franchise tag on quarterback Kirk Cousins, the team announced Tuesday.

Under NFL rules, the Redskins can negotiate with Cousins on a longterm contract extension until July 15. If a deal is not reached, Cousins will make $23.94 million for the 2017 season.

The Redskins also applied the franchise tag to Cousins last season at a salary of $19.953 million.

Because Washington

applied the exclusive tag to Cousins, he is not allowed to negotiate with other teams.

Before being tagged, Cousins had reportedly expressed interest in a reunion with former Redskins offensive coordinator and new 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan in San Francisco.

Cousins is entering his sixth NFL season after throwing for 12,113 yards, 72 touchdowns and 42 interceptions in five previous seasons with Washington.

Last season, the former fourth-round pick (102nd

overall) of the Redskins threw for a personal-best 4,917 passing yards and 25 touchdowns with a careerworst 12 interceptions.

Chiefs ink Berry to extension, release Charles The Kansas City Chiefs and star safety Eric Berry agreed on a six-year, $78 million contract on Tuesday that will make Berry the highest-paid safety in NFL history.

Berry expressed earlier this offseason that he wasn’t interested in

playing under the franchise tag for the second straight season.

Berry had 77 tackles and four interceptions — returning two for touchdowns — last season.

Berry is a highly popular figure in Kansas City and courageously won a battle with Hodgkin’s disease.

The Chiefs also parted ways with all-time leading rusher Jamaal Charles on Tuesday. Charles, 30, missed most of last season after tearing the ACL in his right knee in 2015.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 2017 • 3B

Stage racing intrigue ramps up at Atlanta

By Don Coble

Staff Correspondent

If it’s true fans only go to races to see the wrecks, everyone got their money’s worth Sunday at the Daytona International Speedway.

Eight crashes involved 35 of 40 cars. Half the field was in the garage when Kurt Busch finally took the checkered flag for the season opening Daytona 500.

Even Kurt Busch’s winning car had battle scars from the 200-lap demolition derby.

Busch’s Stewart-Haas Racing team spent months massaging every fender to make it perfect at high speeds. By the time Busch’s Ford crossed the finish line, everyone one of those perfect fenders were bent. In fact, Busch went on NASCAR’s new five-minute repair clock so his team could pull away fenders and hammer out the dents.

“I was thankful that I got through a lot of the wrecks with minimal damage,” Busch said. “(Crew chief

UP NEXT Monster Energy Series What: Folds of Honor Quik Trip 500 (Second of 36 races).

Where: Atlanta Motor Speedway at Hampton When: Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

Track: 1.54-mile quadoval.

Broadcast: Television — FOX, 1:30 p.m.; Radio — Performance Racing Network, Sirius Satellite Radio channel 90, 1:30 p.m.

Race format: 325 laps, with segments of 85, 85 and 155 laps.

Last year’s winner: Jimmie Johnson.

Track schedule: Friday — practice, noon; pole qualifying, 5:45 p.m.; Saturday — noon.

Up next: The Kobalt Tools 400 is March 12 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Xfinity Series What: Rinnai 250 (Second of 33 races).

Where: Atlanta Motor Speedway When: Saturday at 2 p.m.

Broadcast: Television — FS1, 1:30 p.m.; Radio — Performance Racing Network, Sirius Satellite Radio channel 90, 1:30 p.m.

Race format: 163 laps with segments of 40, 40 and 83 laps.

Last year’s winner: Kyle Busch.

Track schedule: Friday — practices, 10 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.; Saturday — pole qualifying, 9:15 a.m.

Up next: The Boyd Gaming 300 is March 11 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Camping World Truck Series What: Active Pest Control 200 (Second of 23 races).

Where: Atlanta Motor Speedway When: Friday at 4:30 p.m.

Broadcast: Television — FS1, 4 p.m.; Radio — Motor Racing Network, Sirius Satellite Radio channel 90, 4 p.m.

Race format: 130 laps, with segments of 40, 40 and 50 laps.

Last year’s winner: John Hunter Nemechek.

Track schedule: Friday — Practices, 11 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.; Saturday — pole qualifying, 10:40 p.m.

Up next: The Alpha Energy Solutions 250 is April 1 at the Martinsville Speedway.

NASCAR Cup Series drivers Kyle Busch (18), Erik Jones (77), Dale Earnhardt Jr. (88) and Matt Kenseth (20) wreck during the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on Sunday. (Mike DiNovo-USA Today Sports)

Tony) Gibson managed the five‑minute clock. Here we are, minutes away from not being able to repair the car and having a clock tell us that we can’t compete any more. We were that close to being eliminated.

“Daytona’s always about survival. I’m thankful enough we didn’t have too much damage. The nose was clean and the tail was clean. Yeah, the sides were a bit wrinkled up. You just kind of let the rough edges drag and you go for it.

There’s things that every-

body has to go through to win this race. Usually there’s not a perfect car anymore.”

One wreck was caused by a Kyle Busch’s blown tire. The other seven were the result of driver errors.

Some suggested a new race format of breaking each race into three stages created so many differing strategies that increased the chance of a mistake.

“With the segments today, that threw in another wrench,” Kurt Busch said.

“With guys on old tires,

guys on new tires, a lot of veterans were taken out.”

Most of the Toyota teams pitted early in the first two 60-lap segments, while the Ford teams tended to pit at the halfway point of each segment.

The Chevrolet teams had a varied strategy since they rarely were bunched together to work as a group.

The final 80-lap segment got everyone back on their late-race agendas.

Despite the carnage, which was estimated between $8-$10 million, most liked dividing the race into three stages.

While the stages created some challenges, nobody blamed the new format for the crashes.

“Stage racing hasn’t contributed to any crashes,” Ricky Stenhouse Jr. said after being knocked out of the race in a fivecar crash during a restart after a 17-car pileup. “We finished every stage under green with no issues, so I would say stage racing was not the issue. A couple of them happened right after restarts.”

Racing in segments, many said, will be even more prominent when the series moves to intermediate tracks, starting with Sunday’s Folds of Honor Quik Trip 500 at the Atlanta Motor Speedway.

“Honestly, I think it’s going to be more important on other race tracks, not the speedways,” Ryan Blaney said after finishing second at Daytona. “I enjoyed it. I thought it was good. It made for good racing before the stages were over, just to try to get some points to help you towards the playoffs. It was definitely good strategy. I know my team, they did a great job of making sure we pitted when the time was right with our group to try to set us up to be up front at the time the stages were over.”

The segments at Atlanta, which is a 1.54-mile track, will be 85, 85 and 155 laps.

“I like it. It changes the complexion of the field.

It changes what the crew chiefs are thinking. What the drivers are thinking,”

Kasey Kahne said after a seventh-place finish. “It just throws a couple different points in that race.

Everyone gets their shot and it is going to give them their shot and be different.

It is going to win a lot of people stages and races, and a lot of people are going to lose off of it. I think it is really cool.”

Stage racing also may have an impact on the Chase for the Championship. The top 10 runners at the end of each of the first two segments get bonus points in the overall standings, starting with 10 for the leader and down to one point for 10th place.

If Daytona is any indication, the final standings could be interesting.

Joey Logano is third with 43 points and Kevin Harvick is second at 42.

Despite finishing third in the 500, A.J. Allmendinger is fifth in the rankings.

Logano was sixth on Sunday; Harvick was 22nd, three laps down.

“It was crazy to say the least,” Logano said.

With more to come.

NASCAR fine-tuning concussion protocol sion — while allowing others to get back to work.

“When that conversaAlthough NASCAR’s tion first came up there new concussion protocol definitely wasn’t a need was created to protect the for it and all of a sudden, health of its drivers, anoth- the more voices that come er welcomed consequence up (they) listened, which has been an at-track credit to NASCAR, they evaluation that reduces the listened and it started chance of drivers being to gain momentum and sidelined unnecessarily. pushing forward,” Kevin Nobody blamed NASHarvick said.

CAR for being overly A big part of that is a cautious in the wake of traveling safety team that Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s revela- has everyone’s medical tion last year that he drove records. three races while suffer“The main thing is to ing from the symptoms of see some familiar faces another concussion. so that we don’t get into At the same time, some situations like we did with believed they were kept out Kyle Larsen, who didn’t of the driver’s seat because have a concussion and some diagnoses took too had to go all the way to long.

Charlotte to be evaluated The sanctioning body because somebody in the and the driver’s council medical center was going worked together to find a to say that and it goes right solution for both problems, into concussion protocol,” and they came up with a Harvick said. “I think protocol that can quickly having those familiar faces identify a possible concus- and knowing us is the most

By Don Coble

Staff Correspondent

important part, no matter what the number is or how big it is, it’s really about the familiar faces who can relate to those professionals in that particular medical center.”

A year ago, Matt DiBenedetto wasn’t allowed to drive in the Cup Series race at the Texas Motor Speedway because he limped and was slow to get out of his car a day earlier during the Xfinity race.

An examination eventually concluded DiBenedetto actually suffered from chronic knee pain, not a concussion.

“I’d say that was probably the final straw,” Harvick said.

Forbes: Top 10 teams worth average of $137M The overall value of owning a race team dropped 7 percent last year, but the top-tiered organizations still have an

average value of $137 million each, Forbes said.

Hendrick Motorsports is the most valuable team at $350 million with more than $200 in revenue during 2016, the financial magazine reported.

Joe Gibbs Racing is second on the list at $225 million, followed by Stewart-Haas Racing at $180 million in third.

Jimmie Johnson replaced his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. as the highest-earning driver last year.

Johnson earned $21.8 million while Earnhardt, who missed 18 races while recovering from a concussion, made $21.1 million.

Earnings are based on driver salaries, bonuses and endorsements.

ence of nearly 12 million viewers on FOX, with a peak level of 14 million — a 5 percent increase over last year’s race and the most-watched sporting event on television since Super Bowl LI on Feb. 5.

But on the negative side, Nielsen Media Research said it still had the thirdsmallest audience since 1995.

There were a lot of demographic upswings compared to the 2016 race.

Adults from 18-24 saw a 13-percent increase and men from 18-34 improved by 10 percent. Both numbers represent four-year highs.

The top-five national markets were: Greensboro, N.C., Greenville, S.C., Indianapolis, Knoxville, Tenn., and Jacksonville, Fla. Daytona 500 ratings offer Nielsen also reported mixed bag of results Austin, Texas, has a On the plus side, last remarkable 111-percent Sunday’s Daytona 500 increase in viewership drew an estimated audicompared to 2016.

Hass’ decision to hire Busch pays off at Daytona

By Don Coble

Staff Correspondent

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Tony Stewart was just starting a difficult rehabilitation in 2013, just three weeks following a gruesome sprint car accident, when his business partner, Gene Haas, pulled rank and expanded their Stewart-Haas Racing organization to four teams.

Stewart didn’t want a new team or Haas’ pick of Kurt Busch as the driver.

But he was in no shape with two broken bones in his right leg to put up a fight.

Haas laughed when he said Stewart had two choices back then — either accept the expansion or else.

“I don’t think Tony was exactly enthralled with what I did,” he said. “But I think he saw it my way, you know. Either that or

Brookwood’s McLane, North’s Nemec to serve on GSU coaching staff

Gwinnett products will hold two of the four graduate assistant positions on new Georgia State head football coach Shawn Elliott’s first coaching staff.

Brookwood grad Ben McLane and North Gwinnett grad Tyler Nemec were announced Tuesday by the school in a release of Elliott’s coaching hires. Both played college football at Georgia State — McLane at quarterback and Nemec at wide receiver.

The Panthers also announced that Skylor Magee is the new defensive line

NASCAR Cup Series driver Kurt Busch (41) celebrates winning the Daytona 500 on Sunday at Daytona International Speedway. (Photo: Peter Casey-USA Today Sports)

get out of the building.”

Stewart stayed. So did Busch.

Haas’ conviction, Busch’s purpose and Stewart’s acceptance converged in a magical place Sunday night — Victory Lane at the Daytona International Speedway.

While the journey clearly has had so many ups and

downs, it led to a dramatic Daytona 500 win. While most were crippled by several big crashes or running out of gas in the final laps, Busch kept his No. 14 Ford pointed toward the finish line to give Haas and Stewart their first win as car owners in NASCAR’s biggest race.

From the start, it was a

grouping that created as much debate as trophies.

Busch won the 2004 Cup Series championship, but he was fired a year later by car owner Jack Roush following his arrest near Phoenix for running a stop sign.

Busch then drove for Roger Penske, and his employment ended abruptly at the end of the 2011 season.

In 2012 he was suspended for one race after he swore at a reporter. He was demoted to secondtier teams Phoenix Racing and Furniture Row Racing before Haas resurrected his career with a new offer.

“It wasn’t really a big leap of faith on my part,” Haas said in 2013. “I knew he had gone through a little bit of a transition out of Penske. I knew he had the talent to do it.

“Like I say, I wasn’t interested in points racing, I was interested in winning.

I thought he could deliver that. And he has done that.

I knew he had the ability to do it. That was really the basis for my decision.”

There were some bumps once Busch got to StewartHaas. He was suspended for three races in 2015 after a former girlfriend accused him of domestic violence. Investigators in Dover, Del., never charged him, and he eventually was allowed to resume is driving duties.

Haas has never wavered in his support of Busch.

“It looks like, (Sunday), it all paid off,” Haas said.

Busch stayed near the front — and in contention — during the final 48 laps. He faked a pass to the left on race leader Kyle Larson on the final lap, and when Larson moved left to block, Busch veered to the right — and into the lead that lasted all the way to the checkered flag.

IN BRIEF coach. He replaces former Buford coach Jess Simpson, who was hired away from Georgia State by the Atlanta Falcons.

Magee had been the defensive line coach at Charleston Southern.

Goff, Rogers headline FCA fundraiser

Ray Goff and 1980 Heisman Trophy winner George Rogers as speakers. Tables and individual tickets are still available.

Individual tickets are $50 and tables start at $350 depending on what level of sponsor you choose.

For more information and tickets go to www.FCAGwinnett.org or contact Carl West via email at cwest@fca.org.

The Fellowship of Christian Athletes Gwinnett Coaches Ministry is hosting a “Faith and Football” breakfast fundraiser Gwinnett Heat to host state wheelchair hoops at 9 a.m. on Saturday at Lilburn Alliance Church off Lawrenceville Highway in tournament Saturday Tucker.

The Gwinnett Heat will host American The breakfast will feature former Association of Adapted Sports Programs University of Georgia head football coach state wheelchair basketball tournament

rounds Saturday at Hull Middle School.

Games begin Saturday at 11 a.m. with the Houston Junior Sharks vs. the Henry County Hurricanes in Gym 1 and the Muscogee Lions vs. the DeKalb Silver Streaks in Gym 2.

The junior varsity final will be played at 1 p.m. in Gym 1 at the same time as the varsity semifinal matchup between the Gwinnett Heat and the West Georgia Wolverines in Gym 2. The Heat team is operated through Gwinnett County Public Schools.

The varsity semifinal winner advances to the AAASP championship game Thursday, March 9 at the University of Georgia.

— From staff reports

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GHSA •From Page 1B state board of education, according to published reports.

HB 415 passed through the House education committee Monday and is headed for the rules committee, where it could be passed on to the house floor for a vote. SB 203, meanwhile, is making its way through Senate committees.

The flurry of activity by both houses in the general assembly and the GHSA’s board of trustees has given much for the executive committee to discuss.

“I’m a firm believer in the GHSA,” said Shiloh athletics director Mike Cammack, one of three members of the GHSA’s executive committee from a Gwinnett school. “To me, it’s the best association to run athletics, band and literary (competition) in Georgia. I don’t think abolishing it and trying to come up with something else is the answer. There have been mistakes made in every high school association in the country, … but I don’t know if calling for heads is the answer. …

We just have to do a better job.”

The GHSA, and Phillips specifically, has come under much criticism involving a variety of topics in recent years.

Perhaps the most vocal of the criticism was triggered by problems

Archer

involving last year’s state basketball tournament championship games, including misaligned baskets and gaps in the portable floor at the Macon Centreplex, which prompted the GHSA to move this year’s finals to McCamish Pavilion at Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia’s Stegeman Coliseum.

Cammack said he wasn’t prepared to decide which way he might vote at next Monday’s executive committee meeting, at least not until he had more information available to him.

Nor was he certain if a vote to remove Phillips — who has been with the GHSA for the past 15 years, the last two as executive director — would affect how, or even if, the two bills in the legislature would proceed.

“The question is, if we make a personnel decision at the top, does HB 415 and Senate Bill 203 get taken off the table?

Or does everything move forward?” Cammack said.

“There’s a lot of information the board of trustees has to put out about (Monday’s) vote for the full (executive committtee) panel to digest. I don’t think there needs to be a knee-jerk reaction.

“It’s important that we get all the information from the board of trustees’ vote (Monday) and have a look. The executive committee has a tough job and vote ahead.”

•From Page 1B the lead out to 16-11 after one quarter. In the second quarter, neither team found much offensive rhythm early. Newby added just one more basket before she went down with a leg injury with 4:57 left in the half after she got tangled up underneath the hoop.

From there it was McCoy’s turn to carry the Tigers. She made three 3-pointers in the second quarter.

Marchese added two more baskets and Archer pushed its lead to 32-19.

“We realized that we have to face adversity and we just had to go out there and prove to people that one person can go down, but everybody else is going to step up,” she said.

Newby came out of the locker room at the half, but was walking gingerly and didn’t return to the game. Westbrook said afterword he didn’t have an update on her status for the semifinals, but thought he would know more after she saw a doctor this morning.

With two minutes left in the third quarter, the Packers (23-5) cut the Archer lead down to 39-34 on a Za’nautica Downs 3-pointer. Archer responded with a 6-0 run with some key baskets by Christian Olukoju, who scored all six of her points in the third quarter.

Colquitt’s shooters continued to fire away and kept the Packers in the game. Another Downs trey with 6:19 left in the game cut the Archer lead to five. Baskets by McCoy and Tia Shorter had Archer ahead 49-42 with 2:34 remaining.

The Packers kept it close with two more 3-points, and Tionna Hunt’s free throws with 50 seconds left in the game cut Archer’s lead to 53-50. After Marchese missed a layup on the offensive end, Colquitt’s 3-pointer was off the mark at the other end.

The Packers chased down the rebound, but traveled to turn it over with 11 seconds left in the game.

Shorter hit two free throws with 10.3 seconds remaining to give Archer a two-possession lead. Colquitt couldn’t hit another trey as time

Archer’s Autumn Newby (24) starts the game by winning the opening jump ball against ZaNautica Downs (20) of Colquitt County in the state quarterfinals Tuesday at Archer. (Photo: Jamie Akoubian)

expired and the Tigers advanced.

Downs led the Packers with a game-high 20 points before fouling out. Diamond Hall had 16 points, including seven in the fourth quarter.

“You knew they were going to have a run at some point,” Westbrook said. “They’re a good basketball team and they’ve got really good shooters. I think we did about as good as we could have done on them. They just started scoring. It might have been a little bit of us getting a little bit leg-weary, that

might have had something to do with it. Even with that we never lost the lead and that’s the most important thing.”

Archer will face a familiar foe in the state semifinals in McEachern.

The Indians defeated Mill Creek 7729 on Tuesday to advance, and have ended Archer’s season the past three years in the state tournament.

“It’s time to just go work hard the next couple of days before we play them and just get our revenge for the past three years,” said McCoy, who also had nine rebounds Tuesday.

Mill Creek •From Page 1B

Collins Hill’s Desiree Conner (3) passes the ball against Lambert’s Mandy Clarke (5) in Tuesday night’s AAAAAAA quarterfinal state playoff game. (Photo: Anthony Stalcup)

Eagles •From Page 1B

just 10 years old.

“It was awesome,” also grabbed five rebounds. Whitney said of coachLambert was coached ing against Harmon. “He

by Wesleyan graduate, taught me a lot about Carolyn Whitney, who basketball and he’s very has been the interim head special to me.” coach while South GwinCollins Hill moves onto nett grad, Jaime Kruppa the semifinals Saturday at Fisher, is on maternity West Georgia. leave. Whitney had a faHarmon summed up miliar face on the opposing tournament basketball as bench, as coach Harmon he walked away. was her first ever basket“Survive and advance,” ball coach when she was he said.

of West Georgia in Carrollton, while ending Mill Creek’s season at 25-5.

“So many things have happened to this team over the course of the season,” McEachern coach Phyllis Arthur said. “We’ve had three different starters go down with season-ending injuries. And (Tuesday), our bus broke down on our way here. We had to sit in Suwanee for two hours until we got another one.

“I’m just so proud of this team. They just kept focused and kept believing.”

The long trip definitely had little effect on the visiting Indians, who got their running game going shortly after Kimberley Forbes countered an early 3-pointer to bring Mill Creek to within 3-2 less than two minutes after the opening tip.

Quanniecia Morris, who poured in a game-high 24 points on the evening, got the ball quickly up the floor following that bucket and hit a driving layup at the 5:55 mark of the first quarter to ignite a 7-0 run over the next 1:15 that pushed the McEachern lead to 12-2 with 4:40 left in the opening frame.

a jumper from the left wing to spark another big McEachern run — this Saturday’s games one, a 15-3 spurt over the Class AAAAAAA final 6:30 of the half to at University of West Georgia build the bulge to a com2 p.m. — Collins Hill vs. Norcross manding 42-13 by inter6 p.m. — Archer vs. McEachern Class AAAAA mission. at Columbus State Though the Hawks were University never able to challenge 6 p.m. — Buford vs. Griffin the rest of the evening, Class AAA Phillips praised his team’s at Armstrong Atlantic State University fight, particularly that 2 p.m. — GAC vs. Beach of seniors like Morgan Class A (Private) Simmons (7 points, 5 at Cobb Civic Center rebounds), Forbes (team6 p.m. — Wesleyan vs. Darlington/Lakeview Academy high six rebounds) and Wynter Webb (team-high Bridget Mukasa pulled “Their speed really af8 points).

Mill Creek to within fected us, there’s not doubt “I thought our effort single digits again at 12-4 about it,” Mill Creek coach was outstanding,” Phillips with a pair of free throws Ashley Phillips said of said. “We just didn’t shoot with 4:28 left in the quar- McEachern. “It’s just hard well, and we had so many ter, but that is as close as to simulate that kind of, not turnovers. But we played the Hawks would get the only athleticism, but their with pride all the way rest of the evening. skill on the offensive end. through. Sometimes, that’s McEachern smothered Some of the shots they all you can do. the Hawks with pressure hit were not always easy “(McEachern has) won defense that forced them shots. They were knocking three state championships into nine first-quarter them down. They came in a row, so they know turnovers and 13 for the out ready to play, no doubt what it takes and they’re first half. about it.” going to come to play. We Most of those miscues And the Indians let their speed affect us wound up as points on the continued to pour it on more than we should’ve other end, as McEachern after Agyin and Mukasa early, and it’s tough to dig outscored Mill Creek exchanged baskets over out of a hole like that.”

10-4 over the final 4:07 of the first 29 seconds of the Clements posted a the first quarter — six of second quarter to leave the double-double with 17 which came from reserve score at 27-10. points and 14 rebounds for guard Victoria Agyin — to Jasmine Clements McEachern, while Agyin balloon its lead to 25-8 af- knocked down a 3-pointer added 13 points off the ter the first eight minutes. and added a layup and bench.

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Norcross •From Page 1B start and finished with 19 points, five rebounds and three assists to lead the payback victory.

“We had to come back and do to Westlake what they did to us,” the University of Miami signee said.

“We knew it would be a tough challenge playing over here, but we were ready.

“All we worked on in practice was defense, and that was the difference.

We came out with a lot of intensity and got the jump on them.”

Region 7-AAAAAAA champion Norcross (28-2) will play Region 6-AAAAAAA runner-up Collins Hill in an all-Gwinnett semifinal at 2 p.m. on Saturday at West Georgia.

The Eagles defeated Lambert 57-46 on Tuesday.

Westlake (22-8) recovered after going nearly six minutes without a point to start the game, but Norcross was solid at the foul line

to hold the Lions off after struggling from the stripe a year ago in the 39-37 loss.

“We can’t leave the gym (after practice) until we make 10 free throws in a row,” said Mason, who made her first nine against Westlake before finishing 11 for 15.

Norcross was 18 of 26 at the foul line as a team, including 11 of 17 in the fourth quarter as Westlake fouled repeatedly trying to get back in the game.

Junior guard Tehya

Lyons had 15 points for the Blue Devils, while senior guard Vanessa Blagmon contributed 11 points, seven rebounds and two assists.

Norcross also got good play inside, with junior Devyn Wilson scoring eight points and sophomore Tionna Carter grabbing a team-best nine rebounds.

Anatassia Warren had 14 points, seven rebounds and three assists for Westlake, the Region 2-AAAAAAA champion. Fellow junior

Taylor Hovendove had 10 points and Paris Mullens, a 6-foot-2 sophomore, grabbed 10 rebounds.

Norcross led 13-4 after the first quarter, 27-17 at halftime and 38-29 through the third quarter.

Back-to-back drives by Lyons made it 46-31 with five minutes left and it was a parade to the foul line in the final minutes, with Westlake never getting closer than 10 points.

“The kids came out really well and played

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hard,” said Hembree, who led Norcross to three state titles over a four-year period from 2010-13. “I knew they’d be excited and intense and I was happy with the performance. We did a really nice job.”

Norcross was state runner-up in 2015, but lost in the second round in 2014 and last year.

“As a senior, you want to finish off strong,” Mason said. “I wanted to come through for my team and my coach.”

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Slow start can’t Wolves headed to semis — again stop Buford girls

By Nick Ackerman Staff Correspondent

By Michael Lough

real pleased with everything. I had to settle them down a little bit.”

WARNER ROBINS — Buford went on its first The start couldn’t have run late in the second been better for Warner quarter after leading 22Robins against a peren21, then extended the lead nial state title contender. to 40-27 at the half.

The Demons led 7-2, and Warner Robins had to clicked on both ends of sit ballhandlers Shynia the court.

Jackson, Kezia Holmes But foul trouble started and Victoria Brown with creeping into the equasome foul trouble in tion, as did Buford’s the second quarter, and accuracy.

Buford took advantage A seven-point run in of some sluggish passing less than a minute and and turnovers to establish another seven-point run control. shortly thereafter in the “We had to keep them final 1:49 of the second off the boards, and basiquarter put the Wolves cally make sure they shot in control en route to a contested jump shots, and 77-56 win over Warner cut down on penetration,” Robins in a GHSA Class Durden said. “Warner AAAAA girls quarterfinal Robins has got a really game Tuesday. good team.

Buford (27-2) advanced “That kind of athto the state semifinals, leticism and to hold them where it will take on like we did, I was real Griffin in a 6 p.m. tipoff pleased.”

Saturday at Columbus Tory Ozment, a 6-footState University.

0 junior point guard, led Warner Robins ended Buford — which hit 10 the season at 27-2 for a 3-pointers — with 22 two-year mark of 50-5. points, while the Wolves The early deficit also got a combined 27 didn’t seem to faze the points from Audrey WiWolves. enter and Rachel Dobbs, “I know we had (a) 24 of which came on shaky start coming out,” 3-pointers.

Durden said. “Those kids Le’Terria Mathis were overhyped. Once scored 18 to lead Warner they settled down and Robins and Holmes and started executing, I was Jackson had 12 each.

Staff Correspondent

PEACHTREE CORNERS — Wesleyan’s girls basketball team put together another dominating performance to advance to the state semifinals for the 14th straight Mikayla year.

Coombs The Wolves (26-4) defeated Prince Avenue 63-31 in the Class A Private playoffs Tuesday night.

“I thought we played real well for three quarters,” Wesleyan head coach Jan Azar said. “We were

slowed down by some fouls, but fortunately we have a deep bench. We had some people come off of the bench, step up and do a really good job for us.”

The Wolves put the game out of reach early with a 15-0 run after the Wolverines scored the game’s opening two points.

Pressure defense was key to Wesleyan’s success. The Wolves started the game out in a fullcourt press that forced the Wolverines to commit 19 turnovers in the first half — 10 of which came in the first quarter.

“I thought we did a really good job in our press,” Azar said. “Then you get up by quite a bit and you don’t want to press past a

certain point, so we worked on some of our half-court, which we needed work on anyway. I thought we did a good job in some of our half-court defensive sets, but I was also pleased with our press.”

The turnovers committed by the Wolverines led to many easy baskets for the Wolves. Wesleyan was led by senior guard Mikayla Coombs, who scored 16 of her 23 points in the first half. Coombs also finished the game with six rebounds and five steals.

“The great thing about Mikayla is that she forgets about the last shot and moves on to the next one,” Azar said. “She plays really hard. She’s a great teammate, passes the ball

real well and can score it, too, when we need her to.”

Despite all the struggles, Prince Avenue did have one bright spot and that was from junior guard Maria Johnston. She led all players in scoring with 26 points and was one of just two Wolverines to make at least one field goal during the game.

Two other Wesleyan players scored in double figures. Senior center Natalie Armstrong put up 11 points while also grabbing seven rebounds and blocking three shots. Junior Sutton West scored another 10 points for the Wolves.

The Wolves will play their semifinal game at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Cobb Civic Center.

GAC girls crush Tattnall County From Staff Reports REIDSVILLE — Greater Atlanta Christian built a double digit lead in the first quarter and sprinted to a 72-46 win over Tattnall

County in the girls Class AAA basketball quarterfinals Tuesday.

The Spartans advance to face Beach on Saturday at Armstrong State University in the semifinals.

GAC withstood the Tattnall press and drew out to a 18-5 lead after the first quarter. The 13-point lead remained at the half, 36-23. In the second half, Tattnall wore down and the

Spartans were able to build upon their advantage.

Robyn Benton had 21 points and 10 rebounds to lead GAC. Tamiah Lewis added 17, while Lexi Mann added 12 in the victory.

GGC blasts Middle Georgia in run-ruled win From Staff Reports

day, overpowering No. 17 Middle Georgia State 18-7 COCHRAN — The en route to a seven-inning, fifth-ranked Georgia Gwin- run-rule victory. nett baseball team put on “Our hitting tonight an offensive show Tueswas on point and timely,”

GGC head coach Brad Stromdahl said. “The guys showed up ready to play.”

The Grizzlies (14-4) were led by junior left fielder Austin Alexander at

the plate. The Tuscaloosa, Ala., native went 3-for-4, including his third home run of the season, and drove in five of GGC’s 18 runs.

PREP ROUNDUP

Pendley, Turley homer in Hawks win over Parkview From Staff Reports

Isabel Eigenbauer scored in regulation for Mill Creek (3-3).

LILBURN — Mill Creek played long ball and defeated Parkview 4-2 on Tuesday. Jay Pendley hit a solo home run, while Cameron Turley connected on a two-run shot to make Pendley a winner on the mound for the Hawks (6-2).

Alaska Adney earned the save while Steven Kirk added an RBI for Mill Creek.

Michael Bryan had two hits and drove in a run, Ben Markiewicz added an RBI, while Caleb Mitchell took the loss for the Panthers (3-1).

Discovery 2, Madison County 1 (SO) LAWRENCEVILLE — Discovery defeated Madison County 2-1 in a shootout on Tuesday.

The Titans outscored the visitors 6-5 in penalty kicks to earn the win. Valentina Rodriguez scored in regulation for Discovery.

BASEBALL BASEBALL Brookwood 3, Grayson 2 SNELLVILLE — Brookwood defeated Grayson 3-2 on Tuesday.

Derrius York was the winning pitcher in relief for the Broncos.

Austin Hohm notched the save.

Chad Williamson had two hits while Will Banfield drove in a run for Brookwood.

Parker Meadows took the loss for Grayson (6-4) despite striking out six.

Centennial 5, Dacula 4 ROSWELL — Centennial held on to defeat visiting Dacula 5-4 on Tuesday.

Ryan Vigue led the Falcons (62) with two hits. Jojo Lopez and Marcerio Allen also contributed hits for Dacula.

GAC 10, Chamblee 4 NORCROSS — Greater Atlanta Christian evened up its season record at 3-3 with a 10-4 win over Chamblee on Tuesday.

Sam Johnson pitched four and one-third to earn the win while striking out three. Erik Smith had three hits, scored twice and drove in two runs, while Johns Hamilton belted a two-run home run for the Spartans.

Westminster 8, Wesleyan 2 PEACHTREE CORNERS — Westminster defeated Wesleyan 8-2 on Tuesday. Stewart Stamper had two hits for the Wolves (2-5).

Hebron Christian 12, Collins Hill 8 SUWANEE — Hebron Christian defeated host Collins Hill 12-8 on Tuesday.

Steven Casey was the winning pitcher and contributed two hits to his cause. Landon Jones also had two RBIs, while Spence Johns had two hits for the Lions (4-1).

Ian Jenkins had four hits, including a home run and five RBIs for the Eagles. Monty Horn had two hits and drove in a pair of runs.

GIRLS SOCCER GIRLS SOCCER Mill Creek 2, Grayson 1 (OT) HOSCHTON — Mill Creek’s Jenna Miller scored in overtime to lift the Hawks to a 2-1 win over Grayson on Tuesday.

Norcross 2, North Gwinnett 1 (SO) NORCROSS — Norcross defeated North Gwinnett 9-8 in penalty kicks to eke out a 2-1 win over the Bulldogs in a double overtime contest on Tuesday.

Kirsten Leggit scored a goal in regulation for the Blue Devils (6-0). Erin Stitt made a save in penalty kicks to secure the win.

Parkview 2, GAC 1 NORCROSS — Parkview downed host Greater Atlanta Christian 2-1 on Tuesday.

Paige Schett scored for the Spartans (2-2).

Duluth 3, Loganville 1 LOGANVILLE — Duluth defeated host Loganville 3-1 on Tuesday.

Nadia Dixon, Roni Wengenroth and Alex Reyes scored for the Wildcats (3-1).

Peachtree Ridge 2, Brookwood 1 SUWANEE — Peachtree Ridge defeated visiting Brookwood 2-1 on Tuesday.

Hannah Holley scored a goal on an assist from Kam Downs while Erin Harris scored the eventual game winner for the Lions (4-1).

Buford 10, Social Circle 0 SOCIAL CIRCLE — Buford defeated host Social Circle 10-0 on Tuesday.

Maria Maggio led the Wolves (5-1) with three goals and two assists. Arden Paulin also scored three goals and added an assist, while teammate Julia Lewis scored twice in the victory.

Wesleyan 8, Riverwood 2 PEACHTREE CORNERS — Wesleyan defeated Riverwood 8-2 on Tuesday.

T.J. Anderson scored two goals and added two assists to lead the Wolves. Ashley Cowart also had two goals while Lucy Mitchell added a goal and three assists. Abbey Mitchell had a goal and two assists, while Izzy Moratti and Caroline Hayes each scored for Wesleyan (4-2).

Providence Christian 1, Berkmar 0 (OT) LILBURN — Providence Christian’s Audrey Scoggins scored a goal in overtime to lift the Storm to a 1-0 win over Berkmar on Tuesday.

Zoe Albury was credited with the assist on the game-winner, while Mallory Larson made nine saves in net to secure the shutout and victory for Providence (3-2).

Fellowship Christian 5, Hebron Christian 1 ROSWELL — Fellowship Christian defeated Hebron Christian 5-1 on Tuesday.

Jadyn Steele scored on an as-

sist from Peggy Johnson for the Lions (1-4-1).

BOYS SOCCER BOYS SOCCER Peachtree Ridge 2, Brookwood 1 SUWANEE — Peachtree Ridge used a late goal to defeat Brookwood 2-1 on Tuesday.

Trailing 1-0, Sando Alvarez tied the score for the Lions (6-0).

Late in the game, Dalton Seckinger scored on a penalty kick for Peachtree Ridge.

Collins Hill 3, St. Pius 0 SUWANEE — Collins Hill shut out visiting St. Pius X 3-0 on Tuesday.

George Perez, Josh Mackie and Brian Alcantar scored for the Eagles (4-1-1), while Grant Bell recorded the shutout.

Duluth 7, Loganville 3 LOGANVILLE — Duluth (2-3) defeated host Loganville 7-3 on Tuesday behind three goals by the Wildcats’ (David Park).

Mill Creek 2, Grayson 0 HOSCHTON — Mill Creek shut out visiting Grayson 2-0 on Tuesday.

Justin Robinson and Boland Lekeaka each had a goal while Matt Campbell made four saves to earn the shutout for the Hawks (4-1-1).

Norcross 7, North Gwinnett 2 NORCROSS — Norcross defeated visiting North Gwinnett 7-2 on Tuesday.

Gibou George and Bivin Moke each scored two goals for the Blue Devils (5-1).

Discovery 7, Madison Co. 0 LAWRENEVILLE — Discovery blanked visiting Madison County 7-0 on Tuesday.

Alejandro Chara scored twice to lead a total of six Titans to score at least one goal. Oscar Cordon notched the shutout for Discovery (4-1).

Parkview 3, GAC 1 LILBURN — Parkview rallied to defeat Greater Atlanta Christian 3-1 on Tuesday.

After going down 1-0 inside 10 minutes, the Panthers scored three times. Carlos Valenciano, Alec Leake and Jorge Garcia registered the goals. Garcia, Kurt Suhr and Andrei Bajura registered assists for Parkview (3-2).

Berkmar 4, Providence Christian 0 LILBURN — Berkmar defeated Providence Christian 4-0 on Tuesday.

James Forster had two goals to lead the Patriots (6-0-1).

Brian Ramirez also scored, as did Jose Torres. Nahun Trochez dished out two assists while Diego Uquillas made four saves in net for the shutout.

Josh Jones made 14 saves in net for the Storm (2-2).

Buford 7, Social Circle 0 SOCIAL CIRCLE — Buford

defeated Social Circle 7-0 on Tuesday. The win improves the Wolves to 4-1-1 on the season.

Wesleyan 3, Riverwood 3 PEACHTREE CORNERS — Wesleyan overcame a pair of two goal deficits to tie Riverwood 3-3 on Tuesday.

Trailing 2-0, Alex Turner scored for the Wolves to make the score 2-1. After another Riverwood goal, Liam Coxhead scored befor halftime to trim the deficit to 3-2. Bryce Cook converted a penalty kick in the second half to tie the game.

Hebron Christian 3, Fellowship Christian 2 ROSWELL — Jake Major scored a hat trick to lift Hebron Christian to a 3-2 win over Fellowship Christian on Tuesday.

Bryce Butler, Matthew Meek and Jack Goldschmidt each recorded an assist for the Lions (2-3-1).

GIRLS TENNIS GIRLS TENNIS North Gwinnett 5, Discovery 0 LAWRENCEVILLE — North Gwinnett defeated host Discovery 5-0 on Tuesday.

Bri Olps, Maya Diaz and Cristina Shields won in singles for the Bulldogs (4-0, 1-0 in Region 6-AAAAAAA). Maria Herrera and Grace Rivord, along with Hanna Etelalahti and Sarah Cagle, won in doubles.

Mill Creek 5, Collins Hill 0 HOSCHTON — Mill Creek swept visiting Collins Hill 5-0 in Region 6-AAAAAAA action Tuesday.

Kayleigh Hahn, Madeline Hill and Emilee Martinez were victorious in singles. Chika Nwosu and Callie Franklin, along with Lauren Walsh and Sarabeth Jordan, won in doubles for the Hawks (6-2, 1-0).

Grayson 4, Newton 1 CONYERS — Grayson beat host Newton 4-1 in a Region 8-AAAAAAA match Tuesday.

Gracie Chambers and Julie Mooney won in singles. Hanna Brown and Kaitlyn Eagens along with Lauren Wyton and Ibuku Olagbegi won in doubles for the Rams (3-1, 2-0).

Norcross 3, Parkview 2 LILBURN — Norcross edged Parkview 3-2 in a Region 7-AAAAAAA match Tuesday.

All three singles matches went the Blue Devils (4-1, 2-0) way, with wins by Jessica Lackey, Leah Thomas and Chloe Lo. Brookwood 4, Central Gwinnett 1 LAWRENCEVILLE — Brookwood defeated Central Gwinnett 4-1 in Region 7-AAAAAAA action Tuesday.

Kendra Womack and Molly Dudman won in singles for the Broncos (2-0). Madison Sneeton and Maggie O’Hara along with Allie Spyke and Sydney Weigand won in doubles for

Brookwood.

Archer 4, Shiloh 1 SNELLVILLE — Archer defeated host Shiloh 4-1 in a Region 8-AAAAAAA match played on Tuesday.

Dacula 5, Habersham Central 0 DACULA — Dacula swept visiting Habersham Central 5-0 on Tuesday.

Samantha Lowry, Maya Clark and Brittany Tris won in singles.

Mary Beth Lord and Emily Santerseit along with Riley Fitzgeral and Aubrey Gaston won in doubles for Dacula (6-2, 1-0 in Region 8-AAAAAA).

Wesleyan 3, St. Pius 2 PEACHTREE CORNERS — Wesleyan defeated St. Pius X 3-2 on Tuesday.

Lauren Alexander and Harrison Feininger won in singles for the Wolves (3-1). Samantha Laurie and Makena Renz won in doubles for Wesleyan.

Providence Christian 4, Tallulah Falls 1 LILBURN — Providence Christian improved to 5-2 on the season with a 4-1 win over Tallulah Falls on Tuesday.

Grace Auman, Alexis Trammell and Molly Legg won in singles.

Margaret Ann Levy and Hannah Ormond won in doubles for the Storm.

BOYS TENNIS BOYS TENNIS North Gwinnett 5, Discovery 0 LAWRENCEVILLE — North Gwinnett defeated Discovery 5-0 in Region 6-AAAAAAA action on Tuesday.

Whit Duncan, Ethan Long and Diego Munoz de Cote were winners in singles. Ben Moser and Carson Duerr along with Nick Harrison and Blake Barber won in doubles for the Bulldogs (3-2, 1-0).

Brookwood 5, Central Gwinnett 0 LAWRENCEVILLE — Brookwood swept host Central Gwinnett 5-0 in a Region 7-AAAAAAA match Tuesday.

Andre Aponte, Alan Matkovic and Michael Porcelli won in singles. Al-zaeem Ukani and Chase Ruff along with Robbie Brookman and Spencer Horton won in doubles for the Broncos (3-0, 2-0).

Grayson 5, Newton 0 CONYERS — Grayson defeated Newton 5-0 in Region 8-AAAAAAA Tuesday.

Brandon Wilson, Connor Barr and Austin Stepps won in singles for the Rams (6-2, 1-0). Cole Jurick and Eric Tivy along with Matthew Quinn and Jake Feinberg won in doubles for Grayson.

Archer 4, Shiloh 1 SNELLVILLE — Archer defeated host Shiloh 4-1 in a Region 8-AAAAAAA match played on Tuesday.

Dacula 5, Habersham Central 0 DACULA — Dacula swept Habersham Central on Tuesday.

Chase Hamilton, Mateo Gomez and Drew Grap won in singles.

Daniel Mocanu and Siso Johnson along with William Phan and Lyon Ngo won in doubles for the Falcons (6-2, 1-0).

Providence Christian 3, Tallulah Falls 2 LILBURN — Providence Christian defeated Tallulah Falls 3-2 on Tuesday.

Chris Elam and Griffin Hendricks won in singles as did the doubles tandem of Brock Albury and Parker Trump for the Storm (5-2).

Wesleyan 3, St. Pius 2 ATLANTA — Wesleyan notched its first win of the season, 3-2 over St. Pius X on Tuesday.

Connor Seim and David Anderson won in singles while Jack Lambert and Cullen Davis won in doubles for the Wolves (1-3).

GIRLS LACROSSE GIRLS LACROSSE North Gwinnett 16, Chatahoochee 0 SUWANEE — North Gwinnett shut out Chatahoochee 16-0 on Tuesday.

Shannon Costelloe scored five goals and added three assist to lead the Bulldogs (5-0, 2-0).

Samantha Gladstein made five saves to record the shutout while the defense caused 13 turnovers.

Archer 17, Buford 4 BUFORD — Archer defeated host Buford 17-4 on Tuesday.

Grace Spivey, Emi Buchanan and Ellie Friese led the Tigers (3-2) to the victory.

BOYS LACROSSE BOYS LACROSSE GAC 9, North Gwinnett 8 NORCROSS — Greater Atlanta Christian defeated North Gwinnett 9-8 on Tuesday.

Bo Powell scored five goals and added an assist while teammate Canon Kuipers scored twice for the Spartans (1-1).

Wesleyan 21, Mt. Pisgah 9 PEACHTREE CORNERS — Wesleyan defeated Mt. Pisgah 21-9 on Tuesday behind seven goals and three assists from Rawley Smith.

Garrett Hangartner added five goals and two assists while Sid Brendel chipped in three goals and three assists for the Wolves (3-2, 1-0).

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Norcross 169, Chattahoochee 171 JOHNS CREEK — Norcross downed Chattahoochee 169-171 in a match played at RiverPines Golf Club on Tuesday.

The Blue Devils were led by Brock Healy who fired a 35 and Blake Rodgers who scored 44.

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770-519-3438

473266-1

MONROE, GA 30656 506 MORGANS LANDING

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