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UVMC expands its Cancer Care Center Public can see facility April 28

BY NATALIE KNOTH Staff Writer nknoth@tdnpublishing.com Patient response to the newly revamped Cancer Care Center at Upper

Dr. Ronald Setzkorn, radiation oncologist, looks over center plans with Jean Heath, UVMC Cancer Care Center director.

TROY Valley Medical Center has been universally positive, as the remodeling was focused on making the space “warm and inviting.”

“It’s been nothing but compliments and positive reactions,” said the center’s

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The National Museum of the United States Air Force hosted living aviation history as four of the five surviving “Doolittle Raiders” pilots reunited to toast their fellow “raiders” who took part in one of World War II’s most celebrated Allied attacks.

The “Doolittle Raider” display is just one of the many exhibits and displays about aviation history housed in the National Museum of the United States Air Force. Coming

Police Memorial Day set Annual ceremony a chance to remember fallen

BY WILL E SANDERS Ohio Community Media wsanders@dailycall.com

Sunday in Valley, in the Miami Valley Sunday News.

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As it does for all police officers, line-of-duty deaths strike a personal chord that transcends all law enforcement jurisdictions for Piqua Deputy Chief Marty Grove, which is what makes the county’s upcoming Police Memorial Day at noon May 2 so meaningful, he said.

Grove, also the president of the Miami County STAFF PHOTOS/ANTHONY WEBER Hook Elementary School students Colton McNeal, Riley Johnson, center, and Molly Sanders get into crossing Fraternal Order of Police guard positon Friday at the school. The students protect their fellow classmates before and after school as they Lodge No. 58, said the annual event, which takes arrive and exit the building. place in the plaza outside of the Miami County Courthouse next to the county’s law enforcement memorial, not only gives a time of reflection for the sacrifices police officers make on a daily basis, but also a chance for people to pay their respects to those

BY MELANIE YINGST TROY who have fallen in the line Staff Writer of duty. myingst@tdnpublishing.com In the time since the get impatient and even Every morning they drive around the students • See MEMORIAL on 2 arrive at school, don their as they stand in the street,” safety equipment Lloyd said.

PIQUA and hit the streets Lloyd said she to protect their feland the safety low students as patrol students they arrive for write down license class. numbers to submit Hook Elemento the Troy City tary fifth graders Police Department Molly Sanders, and its DARE offiRiley Johnson and cers.

LLOYD Colton McNeal Lloyd said more were honored at than 100 vehicles

BY WILL E SANDERS the AAA School Safety pass through Hook Ohio Community Media Patrol banquet in Vandalia Elementary School’s traffic wsanders@dailycall.com Thursday. zone within 20 minutes “It’s just fun being out each morning.

A Piqua man remained there and seeing the kids “I think it’s important hospitalized Friday night every day,” McNeal said. “If because you are there to after a Thursday night we weren’t around, the help the younger kids cross road rage incident along kids wouldn’t be very safe the street and be safe,” the North Main Street — it wouldn’t be good.”

Johnson said. bridge ended with a driver Linda Lloyd, Hook “My brothers did safety hitting the motorcyclist Elementary’s safety patrol patrol and I knew I wanted with his car after the two adviser and a teacher’s to do it to help out my were involved in a verbal aide, said despite precau- school,” Sanders said. and physical altercation. tions taken by the staff and The three students subThe victim has been the safety patrol, keeping mitted essays on why they identified by police as students safe as they come enjoy helping students Dusty Hogston, 43, of and go to school is a serious cross the busy streets each Fifth-grade students at Hook Elementary School, Piqua. He was listed in job. including Colton McNeal, serve as crossing guards for serious condition Friday “We do have drivers who • See PATROL on 2 the school.

Zimmerman apologizes A routine bail hearing for George Zimmerman took a surprising turn into remorse and explanation Friday when the neighborhood watch volunteer got on the witness stand and told Trayvon Martin’s parents: “I am sorry for the loss of your son.” See Page 4.

Reds record 10,000th win

Keeping their peers safe

The Cincinnati Reds used a lot of little hits to achieve a very big milestone Friday. See

Local safety patrol members honored

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director, Jean Heath. “They love the rooms looking out into the garden, and they say, ‘If I have to get treatment, I want it to be here.’”

Patients were welcomed to the expanded center April 16, and the community is invited to an open house from 9 a.m. to noon April 28.

The expansion project was completed over a period of two years. Phase I consisted of remodeling the lower level and adding a second linear accelerator for radiation therapy treatments, allowing for greater flexibility in scheduling.

Prior to the construction, infusion and radiation took place in one area.

In Phase II, a groundlevel second entrance was added as well as a family waiting room, multi-purpose therapy room and

Memorial individual infusion treatment rooms with fulllength windows overlooking a garden. Formerly, the infusion center consisted of an open space with six treatment chairs.

Each individual room includes a TV, heated massage chair, controlled lighting and electric adjustable blinds.

Heath expects a steady increase in patients.

“We were land-locked downstairs before,” she said.

The center is accented with wood and bamboo and painted in natural colors, instilling a calming feel.

“We’ve really embraced the light,” Heath said. “We created the environment around the patient experience.”

For more information about the UVMC Cancer Center, go to Care uvmc.com or call 440-4820.

Patrol • Continued from 1 school day. The AAA School Safety Patrol selected multiple students to honor their service to their school and the community.

Each fifth-grade student volunteers to be part of the school’s safety patrol and they are the first to arrive to school and the last to leave for the day. The safety patrol students are trained by Lloyd and the previous safety patrol students on how to help children cross the street and to safely stop traffic.

The students were treated to a banquet dinner, received duffel bags full of prizes and plaques for their dedication to the community.

Other students honored at the banquet included Milton-Union Elementary School’s Jake Swafford and

Dallas Helton; Tipp City Exempted Village School’s Broadway Elementary School’s Rachel Wildermuth Nevin Coppock and Elementary School’s Mason Robbins; and Piqua City School’s Wilder Intermediate School’s Brenden O’Neal.

According to a news release, AAA launched the School Safety Patrol program 92 years ago and the program’s primary goal has never changed — keeping children safe as they travel to and from school. The national pedestrian death rate per 100,000 children ages 5-14 has fallen by 93 percent since 1935 (the first year records were kept).

The AAA School Safety Patrol program involves more than 585,000 safety patrol members serving in more than 30,000 schools nationwide.

• Continued from 1 memorial was erected in 1999, there has not been a named added to it, and Grove said this year is the 25th anniversary of the last line-of-duty death in Miami County, which was Miami County Sheriff ’s Sgt. Robert L. Elliott, who died Feb. 25, 1987.

“We have a nice memorial and every year we try and put on a nice service,” Grove said. “Thankfully, we have not had to add anybody’s name to the memorial.”

Of all law enforcement jurisdictions in the county, the Piqua Police Department has suffered the most line-of-duty deaths.

“It adds a little more special meaning,” Grove said, “but we do this not only for the deceased officers, but also their families. … Lots of people had some type of connection to these fallen officers or their families.”

Those police officers

who are on the memorial, in the order of their deaths, are: • Marshal Harvey Hake, a Covington police officer, was shot and killed on Jan. 12, 1917, while chasing a suspect.

• Patrolman George Eickmeyer, a Tipp City police officer, died Sept.

17, 1945, when his car was struck by a train.

• Lt. Noah Studebaker, a Piqua police officer, died Oct. 17, 1957, from complications of a shotgun blast to his face, neck and chest area on May 29, 1949, after being dispatched to a burglary in process.

• Patrolman Jan Mulder II, a Piqua police officer, was shot and killed Aug. 11, 1970, at the Fort Piqua Hotel by a fleeing gunman.

• Sgt. William R. Morris, a Miami County sheriff’s deputy, was shot and killed Nov. 22, 1972.

• Detective Robert Taylor, a Piqua police officer, died Nov. 3, 1982, after suffering a heart attack

while participating in strenuous police training.

• Sgt. Robert L. Elliott, a Miami County sheriff ’s deputy, was shot and killed Feb. 25, 1987.

The ceremony will feature keynote speaker Judge Jeffrey Welbaum, a former Miami County prosecutor and judge who is running for a seat in the Ohio Second District Court of Appeals.

For more information regarding Police Memorial Day, contact Grove at president@fop58.org.

Two days later on May 4 the local FOP lodge will have a Dayton Dragons Day that will have an extra special impact this year. That’s because the lodge’s Honor Guard, comprised of police officers throughout Miami County, will post the colors prior to the start of the baseball game, Grove said. In addition, Grove’s wife, April, will sing the National Anthem before the start of the game.

Hit and run • Continued from 1 night at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton.

Police and medics responded to the intersection of North Main and Riverside at approximately 8:45 p.m. on the report of a hit and run Thursday and, as a result, Hogston was airlifted by CareFlight for the injuries he suffered.

On Friday afternoon, police found the suspect’s vehicle, a 1997 Eagle Talon, in a garage in the 800 block of South Miami Avenue in Sidney, based on a tip from a resident, and charged a man at that location with a parole violation.

That man has been identified as Jason Moore, 27, of Piqua. He remains incarcerated at the Miami County Jail.

No other charges have been filed against Moore for Thursday night’s hit and run, but Piqua police Deputy Chief Marty Grove said “the investigation is ongoing at this time.”

The Piqua Police Department is asking anyone who has information on the vehicular assault to contact them at 778-2027 or through the department’s anonymous CrimeStoppers hotline at 615-TIPS. The vehicular assault

transpired after the driver of the Eagle Talon cut off Hogston while they were traveling southbound over the North Main Street bridge before stopping at the intersection of Riverside Drive and North Main Street.

While at the intersection, police say, Hogston and the driver exchanged words and then became physical with one another.

Correcting an earlier newspaper report, Hogston was struck by the Eagle Talon as he stood alongside of the car and was off of his motorcycle at the time he was hit, according to the police.

After 4-month surge, gas prices start falling NEW YORK (AP) — The worst appears to be over.

Gasoline prices are going down.

After a four-month surge pushed gasoline to nearly $4 per gallon in early April, drivers, politicians and economists worried that prices might soar past alltime highs, denting wallets, angering voters and dragging down an economy that is struggling to grow.

Instead, pump prices have dropped 6 cents over two weeks to a national average on Friday of $3.88.

Experts say gasoline could fall another nickel or more next week.

Drivers might also get to say something they haven’t since October 2009 they’re paying less at the pump than they did a year ago.

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Timko, who paid less than $4 per gallon Wednesday in the Chicago suburb of Burr Ridge, Ill., for the first time since March. “I wasn’t sure how high they were going to go this year.”

Gasoline prices are lower than they were a year ago in 11 states, according to the Oil Price Information Service. At $3.88, the national average is still high, but it’s down from a peak of $3.94. Predictions of $5 gasoline earlier this year

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will have an open house in celebration of the library’s 75th anniversary from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 560 S. • BOOK SALE: The Miami St. A special presenFriends of the Troy-Miami C o m m u n i t y tation will be at 2 p.m. The County Public Library will event will include refreshCalendar sponsor its spring book ments, displays, memorabilia sale at the Miami County and music.

Fairgrounds, 650 N. CONTACT US • SALE AND BREAKCounty Road 25-A, Troy.

FAST: The A.B. Graham Sale times are 10 a.m. to 5 Center, 8025 E. U.S. Route p.m. today and 10 a.m. to 3 36, Conover, will have a Call Melody p.m. Sunday. Admission is large indoor garage sale, free. Books are 50 cents along with the Lions panVallieu at each. Specials, some cake breakfast, from 8 a.m.

440-5265 to books, videocassettes, to noon. Table space is availlist your free CDs, collectibles and misable. For more information, cellaneous items are indicall (937) 368-3700 or (937) calendar vidually priced. Sunday is 368-3982. items.You $1 per bag with specials at • STEAK FRY: The Troy can send half price. Proceeds from Eagles No. 971 will offer a the event are used for the your news by e-mail to New York strip steak fry with Summer Reading Club, litvallieu@tdnpublishing.com. baked potato, garden salad eracy efforts and special and roll from 5:30-7 p.m. for purchases for the library. $9.

For more information, call • CHILI SUPPER: The (937) 339-0502.

Union Township Relay for Life Team will offer a chili supper at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 1209 S. Miami St., West TODAY Milton, from 5-7:30 p.m. Free will donations will be accepted and go to Miami County • CHICKEN AND NOODLES: The Troy Relay for Life, which will support the Senior Citizens Center, 134 N. Market St., American Cancer Society efforts in Troy, will offer a chicken and noodle dinner research and education. for $7 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Advance tickets • OPEN HOUSE: The West Milton will be available at the center from 9 a.m. to Church of the Brethren, 918 S. Miami St., 4 p.m. Monday-Friday and at the door. For West Milton, will have a spring open house more information, call 335-2810. from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Vendors will be on • PANCAKE DAY: Kiwanis of Troy will offer its annual Pancake Day from 7 a.m. to hand to offer a wide variety of items.

Cabbage roll dinners also will be available 2 p.m. at Staunton Grange Hall, 1530 N. from noon to 3 p.m. Meals will be carry-out Market St., Troy. Members will serve panonly for $6 and will include a cabbage roll, cakes, sausage and side dishes, including “a tasty surprise item.” Tickets are available mashed potatoes and cake.

• PANCAKE BREAKFAST: The for $6 for adults and $3 for children 6-12 Fletcher Lions will offer an all-you-can-eat years old, and kids 5 and under are free. pancake breakfast from 7 a.m. to noon at Tickets are available by asking a Kiwanis the A.B. Graham Center, Conover. Adult member, calling (937) 418-5276 or purmeals will be $5.50 and children’s meals chasing at the door.

• MS WALK: The 15th annual Walk MS: will be $3. Carry-outs will be available. An indoor garage sale also will be in the gym Miami County 2012 will be held at Troy from 8 a.m. to noon. For more information, Memorial Stadium. Registration begins at call (937) 368-3700.

8:30 a.m. and the walk starts at 10 a.m.

• PLANT SWAP: A plant sale and swap The 3-mile walk is followed by food and a will be from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the raffle drawing for prizes. Raffle tickets are Bradford Public Library, 138 E. Main St. available from committee members and at Participants are asked bring something to the stadium prior to the start of the walk.

Raffle tickets are $1 each or six for $5. This share and take something new home. The event is free and there will be refreshyear there will be a duck pond and particiments, prizes and a raffle. pants can purchase a rubber duck for $1 • SPAGHETTI DINNER: An all-you-canand win a prize. Walk brochures with regiseat spaghetti dinner will be offered from tration information are available at area 4:30-7 p.m. at the First United Church of businesses throughout the county or by calling (800) FIGHTMS or Connie Veach at Christ, 120 S. Market St., Troy. Meals will be $7 for adults, $3 for children 4-12 and 524-3181 or Charline Werts at 654-3030. free for children 3 and younger. Carry-outs • SOCCER REGISTRATION: Miami will be available. The meal will include East Youth Soccer Association registration spaghetti with or without meatballs, salad will be from 10 a.m. to noon at Miami East bar, bread, homemade dessert and a Elementary. drink. Proceeds will benefit Relay For Life.

• BUFFET BREAKFAST: The Sons of • WILDFLOWER WALKS: A spring the American Legion Post 43, 622 S. Market St., Troy, will offer an all-you-can-eat wildflower walk will be at 2:30 p.m. at Aullwood Audubon Center, Dayton. buffet style breakfast to the public from 7• RAIN BARREL WORKSHOP: A rain 10:30 a.m. for $7. Breakfast will include barrel workshop will be offered from 1-3 scrambled eggs, sausage gravy and biscuits, fried potatoes, bacon, sausage, toast, p.m. at Aullwood Audubon Center, Dayton.

Learn how to construct a rain barrel using juice and coffee. Take-out orders will be hand tools. The class will focus on water available by calling 335-3502. Wi-Fi also is conservation and the construction of baravailable. rels. Each participant will build a rain barrel • PORK CHOPS: The Pleasant Hill to take home. All materials will be providVFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, ed. The workshop fee is $55 for non-memLudlow Falls, will offer a marinated (nonbers. To register, call Aullwood at 890marinated upon request) pork chop dinner 7360. with baked potato and green bean casserole for $9 from 5-7 p.m.

• HOSPICE BENEFIT: The Pleasant Hill SUNDAY VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner Road, • SUNDAY BREAKFAST: Pleasant Hill Ludlow Falls, will have its annual Hospice VFW Post No. 6557, 7578 W. Fenner of Miami County benefit. A pork chop dinRoad, Ludlow Falls, will offer a made-toner will be offered for $9 from 5-7 p.m., an order breakfast from 8-11 a.m. Everything auction from 7-8 p.m. and a dance with is a la carte.

Excalibur Sound from 9 p.m. to midnight.

• CHANGE FOR CHARITY: A Change Proceeds will benefit Hospice and the for Charity event will be offered from 1-4 Dayton Veterans Hospice at the VA p.m. at Zion Lutheran Church, Tipp City, to Hospital. Contributions can be dropped off benefit Hospice of Miami County. Doors or mailed to the post before the event. will open at 1 p.m. Tickets will be $2 each • FOREST HIKE: A forest night hike, and may be purchased at Hospice of “Sounds of Spring,” will begin at 8:30 p.m.

Miami County’s office, 550 Summit Ave., at Brukner Nature Center. Come explore Troy, or 335-5191. Limited tickets will be the BNC wetlands and learn to identify available at the door. There will be numerfrogs and toads by their mating calls. Bring ous vendors represented at the event. a flashlight for this nocturnal adventure.

• STAR GAZE: Join the Stillwater Special drawings will be held from 2-4 p.m.

Stargazers as they explore the starry night • FAMILY QUEST: The Miami County sky above Brukner Nature Center.

Park District will have its Family Quest Members will have their telescopes set up Sunday “Rock Hounds” program between and will be available to answer questions.

1-4 p.m. at Charleston Falls Preserve, The program is free and open to the public. 2535 Ross Road, south of Tipp City. This Meet in the parking lot at 9:30 a.m. followprogram on Sundays is a series of fun, ing the night hike. family activities in the park. A roving natu• SCORE WORKSHOP: The Troy-Miami ralist will be on-site. For more information, County Public Library and Dayton SCORE visit www.miamicountyparks.com. will host a workshop for those wanting to • BREAKFAST SET: Sons of the learn about Small Business ownership.

American Legion Post No. 586, Tipp City, “The Strategic Planning for Small will serve an all-you-can-eat breakfast Companies” workshop will be from 10 a.m. from 8-11 a.m. Items available will include to 12:30 p.m. at the Troy-Miami County eggs to order, toast, pancakes and Public Library, 419 W. Main St., Troy. The waffes, bacon, sausage, sausage gravy, workshop is free, but those interested in biscuits, home fries, orange, tomato and attending are asked to register by calling apple juice, fruit and cinnamon rolls for 339-0502. $7.

• POT PIE DINNER: A chicken pot pie • EARTH DAY WALK: An Earth Day dinner will be offered from 4-6:30 p.m. at Walk will be offered at 2:30 p.m. at the Troy View Church of God, 1770 N. Aullwood Audubon Center, Dayton. Bring County Road 25-A, Troy. Dinner will favorite poems, stories or readings about include chicken pot pie, mashed potatoes, the Earth that you would like to share. green beans, corn, tossed salad and dessert. Adult meals will be $6, children 4- Learn how you can do your part to protect 12 are $4 and those 3 years and under are the Earth. free.

MONDAY • QUARTER AUCTION: A quarter auction, to benefit Indian Hills 4-H Camp, will • FAMILY FUN: Families will play be at 8212 W. Lauver Road, Pleasant Hill.

“Minute To Win It,” from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. and the aucthe Troy-Miami County Public Library. tion will begin at 6 p.m. Admission is $2 Students in grades kindergarten through and a concession stand will be available. fifth grade and their families may register • OPEN HOUSE: The Milton-Union by calling 339-0502.

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WEST MILTON

The West Milton Public Library’s New Friends of the Library group is in the process of getting ready for the West Milton community garage sale Memorial Day weekend.

The rummage sale will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 25-26, and will take place in the multi-purpose room inside the library.

Proceeds from the rummage sale will go toward the library’s summer reading programming and other needed materials for the library. The recent purchase of digitizing the West Milton Record newspapers had depleted the group’s funds substantially. The spring book sale in March was very successful and will help considerably with prizes for the library’s summer reading program.

The group is requesting donations from community members of items that can be placed in the rummage sale to help boost funds. They will accept clean small working appliances, housewares, decorations and similar items.

“We are unable to accept large furniture, clothing, shoes, personal hygiene items or weapons,” said Friends treasurer Marilyn Phillips.

Donations will be accepted by library staff during open hours through the morning of May 25. They also will sell water and soda.

The New Friends of the Library also is accepting donations of clean, good quality, saleable, gently used or new books, CDs, DVDs or puzzles for their fall book sale.

Staff members will give tax receipts for all donations and will sort through items to look for material that can be added to the library shelves.

For more information on donating to the library or the New Friends of the Library, call (937) 698-5515 or visit the website at www.mupubliclibrary.org.

The library is open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Miami County Cattlemen’s Association wins contest “The organization appreciates the hard work MARYSVILLE — The of county affiliates,” said Stephanie Sindel, OCA Ohio Cattlemen’s director of member servicAssociation membership drive was in full swing at es. “They are extremely the 2012 Ohio Beef Expo, helpful in communicating OCA’s message back to renewing more than 200 members on a local level, memberships.

In the months leading and through the Ohio Corn Marketing up to expo, OCA county Association’s sponsorship affiliate Miami County we are able to give back Cattlemen’s Association to the lucky county whose met membership goals name was drawn.” and won a drawing for For complete details on their choice of a new fivefoot stainless steel grill or the 2009 Ohio Beef Expo, visit a set of Tru-Test Scales. www.ohiobeefexpo.com.

The county recruitment The Ohio Beef Expo is contest was sponsored by the Ohio Corn Marketing a function of the Ohio Cattlemen’s Association Association.

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More officers expected to lose jobs WASHINGTON (AP) — At least three more Secret Service officers implicated in a prostitution scandal in Colombia were expected to lose their jobs Friday, a federal official told The Associated Press, and the Pentagon acknowledged that an 11th military person was involved.

Separately, the lawyer for two Secret Service supervisors said that President Barack Obama’s safety was never at risk and criticized leaks of internal government investigations in the case, signaling a possible strategy for an upcoming legal defense.

The Secret Service also briefed congressional officials behind closed doors about details in the incident in Colombia last weekend. disciplinary The announcement expected late Friday would bring to six the number of Secret Service employees who no longer work for the agency because of the incident. The federal official spoke on condition of anonymity because this person was not authorized to disclose the news ahead of the announcement.

Eleven Secret Service employees were put on administrative leave following an incident in Colombia that involved at least some agency personnel bringing prostitutes to their hotel rooms. News of the incident, which involves as many as 20 Colombian women,

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In this photo taken Oct. 4, 2008, David Chaney, right, who identified himself on his Facebook account as a member of Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s Secret Service detail, watches Palin during a rally in Carson, Calif. Chaney’s lawyer, Lawrence Berger of New York, said he is representing Chaney in the fallout from the prostitution scandal inside the Secret Service. broke a week ago after a fight over payment between a prostitute and a Secret Service agent spilled into the hotel hallway. A 24year-old Colombian prostitute told The New York Times that the agent agreed to pay her $800 for a night of sex but the next morning offered her only $30. She eventually left the

hotel, she told the newspaper, after she was paid $225.

The scandal involved 11 officers and supervisors and at least 11 military members who were working on security before President Barack Obama arrived in Cartagena, Colombia, for the Summit of the Americas. The Pentagon

The lawyer for ousted Secret Service supervisors David Chaney and Greg Stokes, Lawrence Berger of New York, said Friday that leaks surrounding the investigations “distort the process.”

Regardless of what happened inside hotel rooms, Berger said, it never jeopardized the president’s security. Berger said he could not comment on the woman’s claims about being paid for sex, but he added, “I don’t think anything she has said is material to any of the issues I am pressing with my clients.”

“Nothing that has been reported in the press in any way negatively or adversely impacted the mission of that agency or the safety of the president of the United States,” Berger said.

Chaney and Stokes were forced out of the agency Wednesday. A third agent, who has not been identified and was not a supervisor, resigned.

On Chaney’s Facebook account, which was made inaccessible on Friday, Chaney joked about his work with former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin while he was protecting her in 2008. The AP published a photograph it took of Chaney working in Palin’s protective detail in October 2008 during a campaign rally in Carson, Calif.

“I was really checking

her out, if you know what i mean?” Chaney wrote after a friend commented on the picture posted in January 2009 on Chaney’s Facebook account.

Speaking on Fox News late Thursday, Palin said the joke was on Chaney.

“Well, check this out, buddy you’re fired!” Palin said.

All 11 of the Secret Service employees have had their top-secret security clearances lifted.

The agency’s investigation has included interviews of agents and hotel staff. Rep. Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said this week that investigators in Colombia have not been able to interview the women.

The affair has also prompted a military investigation of the service members, including six members of the Army, two Navy Explosive Ordinance Disposal technicians, two Marine dog handlers and an Air Force airman.

An Air Force colonel and a military lawyer were also dispatched to Colombia this week. Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, patronizing prostitutes is a crime for military personnel. It is referred to as “compelling, inducing, enticing or procuring a person to have sex in exchange for money; or receiving money for arranged sex.”

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acknowledged Friday that the 11th military person, a member of the Army, was implicated.

Pentagon press secretary George Little said Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was getting regular updates on the investigation.

“He understands the level of interest in this issue,” Little said. “He has serious concerns about the alleged misconduct.”

Little said members of Congress have not yet been briefed on the military investigation but would be “in the near future.”

In a letter to Secret Service employees Monday and obtained by the AP, Director Mark Sullivan said the agency had moved in a “swift, decisive manner immediately after this incident was brought to our attention.” He praised “the overwhelming majority” of employees who he said had acted with the “highest levels of professionalism and ethical behavior.”

“Our job, our mission, our responsibility is to the president, the American people and the individuals we are entrusted to protect,” Sullivan said. “This is not just a matter of honor, although this is critical. It is imperative, as part of our sworn duties, to always act both personally and professionally in a manner that recognizes the seriousness and consequence of our mission.”

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SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A routine bail hearing for George Zimmerman took a surprising turn into remorse and explanation Friday when the neighborhood watch volunteer got on the witness stand and told Trayvon Martin’s parents: “I am sorry for the loss of your son.”

“I did not know how old he was. I thought he was a little bit younger than I am.

I did not know if he was armed or not,” Zimmerman said, marking the first time he has spoken publicly about the Feb. 26 shooting of the unarmed black 17year-old.

The hearing wrapped up with a judge ruling Zimmerman can be released from jail on $150,000 bail while he awaits trial on second-degree murder charges.

He could be out within days and may be allowed to live outside Florida for his own safety once arrangements are made to monitor him electronically.

Defendants often testify about their financial assets at bail hearings, but it is highly unusual for them to address the charges, and rarer still to apologize.

An attorney for Martin’s

nating himself. parents, who were in He is setting up the courtroom when his self-defense Zimmerman spoke, claim.” spurned the apology.

In agreeing to The parents, Tracy let Zimmerman Martin and Sybrina out on bail, Fulton, had no comCircuit Judge ment as they left.

Kenneth Lester “This was the ZIMMERMAN said he cannot most disingenuous have any guns and unfair thing I’ve seen,” said attorney Natalie and must observe a 7 p.m.a.m. curfew.

Jackson. “This was the most to-6 Zimmerman also surrenunmeaningful apology.”

In a measure of how dered his passport.

Zimmerman will need to volatile the case has become, Zimmerman put up 10 percent, or appeared to be wearing a $15,000, to make bail. bulletproof vest under his O’Mara said he expects the suit and tie, and his parents family to come up with the Zimmerman’s and wife testified via tele- amount. phone because of fears for father has indicated he may take out a second mortgage. their safety.

Zimmerman worked at a After the hearing, risk-manageZimmerman’s lawyer, Mark mortgage O’Mara, acknowledged that ment company at the time putting Zimmerman on the of the shooting and his wife stand was risky but said his is in nursing school. A webclient wanted to respond site was set up to collect after Martin’s mother said donations for Zimmerman’s in an interview that she defense fund. It is unclear would like to hear from him. how much it has raised.

Bail is not unheard of in “He had always wanted murder to acknowledge what hap- second-degree pened that day,” O’Mara cases, and legal experts said. “I was hoping that it had predicted it would be could be accomplished in a granted for Zimmerman private way. We weren’t because of his ties to the afforded that opportunity.” community, because he Stacey Honowitz, a turned himself in after he Florida prosecutor with no was charged last week, and connection to the case, said: because he has never been “I think it was to sway pub- convicted of a serious lic opinion. He’s not incrimi- crime.

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Hundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July WASHINGTON (AP) — For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing Internet connections this summer.

Unknown to most of them, their problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of infected computers around the world. In a highly unusual response, the FBI set up a safety net months ago using government computers to prevent Internet disruptions for those infected users. But that system is to be shut down.

The FBI is encouraging users to visit a website run by its security partner, http://www.dcwg.org, that will inform them whether they’re infected and explain how to fix the problem. After July 9, infected users won’t be able to connect to the Internet.

Most victims don’t even know their computers have been infected, although the malicious software probably has slowed their web surfing and disabled their antivirus software, making their machines more vulnerable to other problems.

Last November, the FBI and other authorities were preparing to take down a hacker ring that had been running an Internet ad scam on a massive network of infected computers.

“We started to realize that we might have a little bit of a problem on our hands because … if we just pulled the plug on their criminal infrastructure and threw everybody in jail, the victims of this were going to be without Internet service,” said Tom Grasso, an FBI supervisory special agent. “The average user would open up Internet Explorer and get ‘page not found’ and think the Internet is broken.”

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PERSPECTIVE

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It seems as if some things never change Last fall, I wrote a letter to all the members of the State Board of Education after reading a synopsis of a meeting they held during which they complained that too many school districts were being labeled as "Excellent" or "Excellent with Distinction." I couldn’t believe their discussion. What the board members were upset about was that too many districts had achieved the very standards that they, the board, had created. It was truly an "are you kidding me?" moment.

Instead of congratulating schools for their efforts, their response to the inconceivable notion (at least in their minds) that schools might actually be doing an excellent job, was to change the rules. In my letter, I argued that they were missing the point entirely; that their time would be better spent acknowledging that the entire report card concept itself is worthless rather than worrying about a few meaningless labels they had invented.

What they were discussing was akin to worrying about a few faulty shingles on a roof when the whole foundation of the house is crumbling.

My letter generated a conference call from both the state board president and vice president that lasted nearly an hour. Our discussion was cordial yet unproductive, as I spent my time telling them that what they were doing defied logic while they tried to convince me of their wisdom. I was no more convinced of their point of view than they were of mine.

My correspondence also generated a letter from the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) superintendent in which he invited me to join the committee that was tasked with rewriting the standards comprising the state report card. Receiving that letter was probably the most demoralizing part of the give-and-take. I had been clear in my opinion that the report card is a useless evaluation tool that should be scrapped, yet his response was to invite me to participate in revising it. Needless to say, I declined his invitation.

What has occurred in the time since is even more alarming. After months of discussions by the leadership of the ODE, the end result is (drum roll, please) that instead of using a worthless tool to label school districts as "Excellent with Distinction," "Excellent," "Continuous "Improvement," "Academic Watch," or "Academic Emergency," they will use a worthless tool to label them "A," "B," "C," "D," or "F." Are you kidding me? Months of discussions by the supposed leaders of education in this state have resulted in that?

It has become painfully obvious that the opinions of professional educators mean nothing to the people in decision-making roles at the state level. Oh, sure, they offer us the opportunity to make their bad ideas as palatable as possible, which allows them to say they were developed “with input from educators.” The problem with that is that try as we might to improve them, they still are bad ideas that ignore the most obvious facts of human development.

So, I have a better plan. How about if we dispense with all the political rhetoric and engage in real discussions about how we become educated? How about if we acknowledge that perhaps parents play just a slight role in their child’s future success and the more engaged they are in his or her development beginning at birth, the better the chance of success? How about if we quit pretending that we can actually evaluate a school without ever setting foot in it?

While we’re at it, can we quit acting as if schools that sit in communities filled with people who couldn’t care less about their child’s future have some magical powers to reverse the damage caused by that attitude? Can we also acknowledge that educating a young person is a team effort comprised of committed parents, a motivated student, a supportive community, and a high quality school?

Could we also please stop making up meaningless terms like “Twenty-first Century Skills,” “Race to the Top,” and “No Child Left Behind,” and talk about why some children in a school become highly educated while others in that same school do not? Can we at least have those discussions once before the foundation crumbles completely?

LETTERS

Many contributed to Troy athletics To the Editor: Subject: Troy Memorial Stadium To change the name of this facility would be a travesty. To me, it represents ALL Trojans contributing to the building of

Troy, whatever their sport, vocation or trade.

I would suggest three large, bronze plauqes be placed at the entrance of the stadium. One would be for coaches indicating years and records. One would be for players who excelled and went on to play college ball.

Last, but not least, is the ultimate plaque for those who

went on to join the pro leagues.

One thing, none of these individuals would be on plaques if it were not for the dedicated four-year high school unrecognized players that never played ball again. It’s called TEAMWORK. — Nelson Frantz Troy

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Five books that should never have been written Perhaps you’ll remember the column I wrote a few months ago about starting yet another new job. I should note that I haven’t been fired a bunch, but rather I have a restless soul that can’t stay in one place. That, and I majored in English, which basically means I’ve had to climb my way through multiple jobs to finally earn an income above the poverty level.

When I started my new job I got wooed right away. They whisked me off to San Antonio, Texas, for a big company meeting before my technical first day, they shipped me copious amounts of electronic equipment I’d need to get my job done and just for fun, they sent me a fancy new Kindle so I could read on my own or participate in the company’s book club. (Trust me, I count my lucky stars every morning for finding this job).

So for your reading pleasure (and the lack of mine), I’ve decided to come up with a list of five books that should never, ever have been written, let alone published.

No. 1 most definitely goes to the (undoubtedly self-published) title The Art and Science of Poisoning. Inside, readers will find

Amanda Stewart Troy Daily News Columnist a comprehensive look at poisoning to kill, not to mention common, everyday substances around us that can be used to kill! I imagine the next book the author pens will be along the lines of “The Art of Serial Murder,” a detailed look at how to kill multiple people and standard household items that can help you achieve it!

Seriously? Is this book just a big conspiracy designed by the FBI so they can monitor what human beings actually download something with this title? Maybe it’s the new, innovative way to get the forefront on murderers?

No. 2: While this is a far cry from killing people, Minimalism and the Minimalist Lifestyle: How to Live More with Less rings in as my second “why on Earth was this

published” book. Now don’t get me wrong, I happen to think the whole concept behind minimalism is really interesting (you basically rid your life of extraneous items, like televisions, video games, and only keep what is absolutely crucial to living each day), I find it funny that someone who’s interested in eradicating the nonessential items from their lives would purchase a book (yet another frivolous item) about it.

No. 3: While I think this title should speak for itself, Winning Lotto/Lottery for Everyday Players the third edition might be the biggest waste of your $5.26 (the cheapest it’s going for on Amazon).

Or is it? There are currently 42 new and used copies available on Amazon as we speak, do you think maybe the last 42 lottery winners bought this book and are now selling it because they no longer need it?

No. 4: The Klingon Hamlet. I don’t even think this requires an explanation, but just in case a few of you were thinking it was some cool, futuristic, set-in-space take on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, you’re sorely mistaken. It’s actually exactly what it says, it’s William

Shakespeare’s Hamlet, translated into Klingon (some kind of language from Star Trek). Yes, I’m not making this up, in 2000 someone actually wrote this book, or “translated” it. I’m pretty sure Willy is rolling over in his grave as we speak.

No. 5: Hands down, the fifth book that should never, ever have been published is Charles Dickens Great Expectations. Not only did I waste far too many brain cells on this novel in ninth grade, I had to reread it when I was in college during my senior seminar on “Great Classics Revisited.”

The only difference being I had half a week to tackle this dictionary of garbage instead of a month.

Haven’t read it? Consider yourself lucky.

There’s a boy, a crazy woman in a wedding dress and a really lame ending. And in between, a bunch of really, really unnecessary drivel. I should mention that Dickens was paid per installment when he wrote Great Expectations, which would probably explain why there are a billion of them.

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JANET L. PAINTER COVINGTON — Janet L. Painter, 63, of 75 Mote Drive, Covington, formerly of Troy, died at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 18, 2012, at the Covington Care Center.

She was born Feb. 12, 1949, to the late Ralph and Mary Williams Painter.

Survivors include one brother, Daryle (Jacquie) Painter of Troy; three sisters, Deena (Richard) Balser of Laura, Patti Cremeans of Troy and Beverly (Jerrold) Stapleton of West Milton,

nine nieces and nephews; and 14 great-nieces and nephews.

Janet was a graduate of Troy High School, and cosmetology school, and last worked at Ruby’s Hair Salon in Troy.

Private services will be at the convenience of the family.

Arrangements are being handled through the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home.

Condolences to the family also may be expressed through jamiesonand yannucci.com.

JOHN W. FIKE BRADFORD — John W. Fike, 73, of Bradford, passed away Thursday, April 19, 2012, at his home.

John was born in Lee County, Ky., on Nov. 29, 1938, to the late Joe and Jessie (Goe) Fike.

He retired from Homan Plating, Dayton, with 22 years of service; was owner of Fike Auction Service; owner/operator of Fike Saddlery, where he enjoyed making saddles; a farmer; an avid horseback rider, hunter, outdoorsman and raccoon hunter where his dog, Mike, won Night Grand Champion.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and son, John W. Fike II in 2004.

John is survived by his wife of 49 years, Anna L. (Reagan) Fike; son and daughter-in-law, David and Sharon Fike of Bradford; three daughters and sons-in-law, Debra and Bruce Shoup

of Piqua, Tammy and Ronnie Mahan of Covington, Brenda and Raymond Tompkins of Moraine; 10 grandchildren; 12 and one on the way great-grandchildren; two brothers and sistersin-law, Charles and Sandra Fike and Joe and Debra Fike, all of Tipp City; sister and brotherin-law, Jane and Code Lovely of Brookville; and numerous other relatives and friends.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Stocker-Fraley Funeral Home, Bradford, with Chaplain Ed Ellis officiating. Interment will be in Harris Creek Cemetery, Bradford. The family will receive friends from 2-6 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Hospice of Miami County.

Condolences may be sent to the family at www.stockerfraley.com.

FUNERAL DIRECTORY • Dexter B. Phillips BRADFORD — Dexter B. Phillips, age 67, of Greenville, formerly of Bradford, passed away Wednesday, April 18, 2012, at his son’s home in Olive Hill, Ky. Funeral service will be today at the Stocker-Fraley Funeral Home, Bradford.

OBITUARY POLICY In respect for friends and family, the Troy Daily News prints a funeral directory free of charge. Families who would like photographs and

more detailed obituary information published in the Troy Daily News, should contact their local funeral home for pricing details.

SHERIFF’S REPORTS responded to the Big Mike’s BP on State Route 201 to assist the Bethel Township squad. Officials found David Moore, 50, of Troy, intoxicated in his vehicle and had appeared to have pulled in to the gas station and passed out. Moore failed all three field tests and refused to submit to a Breathalyzer test. Moore was charged with physical control of vehicle while under the influence.

April 18 • Beer in glass: Michael Baker, 48, of Piqua, was cited for marked lanes, failure to use the right of way, OVI and consuming alcohol in a motor vehicle, when officials stopped his vehicle at North County Road 25-A and North Dixie Drive, Piqua. Officials also found beer in a glass in the vehicle’s cup holder.

• Handing over ID: Miami County Sheriff’s deputies stopped Summer Holmes, 30, of Tipp City at 1000 W. Main Street, Tipp City, for marked lanes violation. Holmes handed the officer her entire wallet and said, “It’s all in there.”

Officers detected alcohol use and Holmes failed all three field sobriety tests. Holmes submitted to a Breathalyzer test of 0.114 percent. Holmes was charged with OVI and marked lanes.

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Information provided by the Miami County Sheriff’s Office: April 14 • DUI charge: Officials stopped George Douglas Jr., 41, of Sidney, at 2:26 a.m. at the intersection of North Hetzler and Augusta Lane in Piqua for marked lane violations. Officials detected alcohol and Douglas submitted to two field tests and claimed to not be able to perform the third due to back surgery.

Douglas was charged with DUI and marked lanes.

April 16 • Fraud Alert: Miami County Sheriff’s officials were contacted by a resident in Covington who received a fraudulent call. The resident said he was contacted by a subject claiming he was a “Marshal” from the Bureau of Criminal Investigation and had the resident’s last four social security number and bank account numbers. The caller said the man had outstanding debt from Cashland and would need to submit money or he’d be arrested.

Authorities tried to contact the number and received the message that the “Magic Jack number was not assigned.” The resident was to put a fraud alert on his credit report.

• Intoxicated driver at gas station: Officials

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This April 4, 2012, photo shows General Electric lighting engineer Louis Nerone at Nela Park in East Cleveland.

During his quarter century at GE, Nerone has averaged about four patents a year, although last year he tallied eight. His colleagues brought in a cake and even the maintenance staff celebrated when, in December, he was awarded his 100th patent.

GE inventor awarded more than 100 patents CLEVELAND (AP) — Fountains soar and lawns stretch bright and green at Nela Park, the historic research campus in East Cleveland, where General Electric engineers design the lighting systems of tomorrow.

Walkways lead to stately Georgian-style structures but also to utilitarian buildings, like the redbrick Technology Building.

On its second floor, in a cluttered nook not much bigger than an office cubicle, Louis Nerone endeavors to build a better light bulb.

At 62, he throws himself into that task with curiosity, passion and an astonishing knack for invention.

During his quarter century at GE, Nerone has averaged about four patents a year, although last year he tallied eight.

His colleagues brought in a cake and even the maintenance staff celebrated when, in December, he was awarded his 100th patent.

GE’s most prolific inventor recently reacted to patent number 106 with trademark modesty.

“I see myself as part of a team,” he said. “I don’t invent anything here by myself.”

Maybe not. But on a campus where the specter of Thomas Edison looms, people intone the name Nerone with similar awe and respect.

“Lou’s one in a million,” said Dennis Bradley, GE’s technology manager for LED innovation and Nerone’s direct supervisor.

“There’s probably a handful of guys in the company with his technical depth,” he said, and few in history with his record of achievement.

Most of Nerone’s work is hidden from view. He tinkers with the electronic guts of lighting systems, divining innovations that

make lights burn brighter, softer, longer, or more efficiently.

Patent number 100, for example, came for a “dimming ballast” for a fluorescent lamp. To demonstrate what he did, Nerone points to the fluorescent light box above his head. His engineering softens the electric light when natural light is abundant. A second quality, which he calls parallel operation, allows three fluorescent tubes to burn on when the fourth tube has burned out. Previously, one bad lamp broke the circuit and darkened the set.

“If you go into Walmart and look up and see a lamp out, and all the other lamps are lit, that’s ours,” he said.

He’s a slight, brisk, talkative man who views the world through large wirerimmed glasses. He ranks a private office, where a framed copy of Thomas Edison’s 1879 patent application for an incandescent light bulb adorns a wall.

But most often he can be found in the electronics laboratory, at a workbench strewn with tweezers, wire cutters and soldering guns.

From such venerable hardware comes the state of the art. Nerone picks up an experimental bulb illuminated by light-emitting diode, or LED, and predicts the finished product will burn for about 15 years.

“You can put this in your house and forget about it,” he said.

Typically, an invention springs from a problem needing a solution. A product manager might stop by and report that a customer is unhappy with the way a lighting system is working, or not working. Or a colleague may point out a challenge that has arisen in a new design.

“I try to think of a way to solve the problem,” he said.

“Then you test it out. You find out what works best.”

A patent review board, on site, decides whether to send the next Nerone idea on to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The company will own the patent. Nerone gets only accolades and a stipend, or bonus, for each invention.

It’s reward enough, he said.

Sometimes, the “Aha!” moment comes on his long drive home to Brecksville.

He can’t wait to get to the lab the next day to test his idea.

“If it works, that’s the part that’s cool. That’s a big moment,” he said. “It’s like playing golf. You get that one good shot, it brings you back to the next game.”

The penchant for engineering began in boyhood.

He still recalls the thrill he felt when he built his first crystal radio set for a Cub Scout project. Grounded to a drain pipe in his family’s garage on West 114th Street, the simple machine pulled in three Cleveland radio stations.

His grandfather was a tinkerer and he loved to invade his workbench.

“I was always taking things apart. And getting in trouble for taking apart the wrong things,” he said with a smile. “That’s where it starts.”

He earned bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from Cleveland State University, where he teaches part time.

Nerone was 36 when he learned of an opening at “the park” and lept at the chance to join GE as a design engineer.

He became part of a continuum of innovation rare in the annals of American manufacturing.

General Electric emerged in 1892 from the Edison Electric Company.

At the turn of the century, GE began to invest in the National Electric Lamp Co.

(NELA) in Cleveland. The growing company envisioned a new kind of research center on a former vineyard in the countryside. Nela Park, America’s first smart park, opened in 1912.

More than 700 people work on the picturesque, 92-acre campus, the innovation center of GE Lighting, which employs about 17,000 people worldwide. To join the park in 1986 was akin to going to work at the Googleplex.

Nerone still sees it that way.

“This is where all the best electronics are done for lighting,” he said.

He enjoys the interaction with his colleagues, who often begin a conversation with the phrase, “Lou, I’ve got a problem…”

Many of the younger engineers came here for the chance to work with Nerone, Bradley said, some after taking his classes at CSU. The white board in his office is busy with problematic diagrams left by colleagues who hope Nerone will take a look and help.

“He really teaches you how to think,” said Nina Scheidegger, 23, who joined the lab full time two years ago, after earning her electrical engineering degree from CSU. Nerone was her thesis adviser. Now, he’s her co-worker.

“Always, when we’re sitting down at the bench, it’s not just him showing me things, it’s him making me think,” she said.

Her craft is rich in legends: Edison, Brush, Westinghouse. It gives her chills to think she is being mentored by another one.

“Whenever anybody finds out that I’m working with Lou Nerone, they tell me how lucky I am,” Scheidegger said. “Believe me, I know that.”

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Officials say they created thick black smoke believe a spark of static and left officials monitoring oil that spilled into a near- electricity started the blaze at R.D. Holder Oil Co., by tributary of a creek.

An Ohio Environmental which supplies fuel, heatProtection Agency spokes- ing oil, and heavy lubriwoman says the water was cants. They say the fire ignited while a truck was “running orange-red.”

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COLUMBUS — Three people with Piqua-area connections, including World War II ace pilot Dominic “Don” Gentile, were among six “Great Ohioans” being added to an exhibit at the Ohio Statehouse Museum.

In addition to Gentile, A.B. Graham of Lena, founder of the 4-H

program, and Gordon Battelle of Columbus, researcher and philantropist, the son of Piqua manufacturer John Gordon Battelle, will be added.

Civil War general and Lancaster native William Tecumseh Sherman is also among the six “Great Ohioans,” as well as clergyman Washington

Gladden of Columbus and Albert Sabin of Cincinnati, a medical researcher known for the oral polio vaccine.

They were approved by the board that maintains the Ohio Statehouse and presented by a foundation that works to preserve its history.

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Does giving antibiotics to animals hurt humans?

WASHINGTON (AP) — The bacon you had for breakfast is at the center of a 35-year debate over antibiotics.

That’s because the same lifesaving drugs that are prescribed to treat everything from ear infections to tuberculosis in humans also are used to fatten the animals that supply the chicken, beef and pork we eat every day.

Farmers say they have to feed the drugs to animals to keep them healthy and meet America’s growing appetite for cheap meat. But public health advocates argue that the practice breeds antibioticresistant germs in animals that can cause deadly diseases in humans.

The U.S. government moved to ban the use of some of the drugs in animals in the 1970s, but the rule was never enforced. Then last week, the Food and Drug Administration outlined plans to phase out the use of antibiotics in farm animals for nonmedical purposes over three years.

The U.S., the biggest global consumer of meat by far, follows Europe and other developed nations in restricting the use of

penicillin and other antibiotics in animals. The issue has moved to the front burner as documentaries such as “Meet Your Meat” and “Food Inc.” have led Americans to focus more on what goes into their food. Sales of antibiotic-free meat, for instance, are up 25 percent to $175 million in the past three years.

“Consumers are beginning to understand the cost of eating cheap meat,” said Stephen McDonnell, CEO of Applegate Farms, which markets antibioticfree meats and cheeses. “As people really understand what it takes to create a healthy animal they will probably eat less meat, but they are going to eat better meat.”

Antibiotics have been hailed as one of the greatest medical discoveries of the 20th century since their first use in humans in the 1940s. They’ve enabled doctors to cure deadly bacterial diseases like tuberculosis, typhoid fever and meningitis.

The FDA approved the use of antibiotics in livestock in the 1950s after studies showed that animals that got the drugs in their feed put on more weight in less

time than animals on a traditional diet. For example, pigs that got an antibiotic were shown to need 10 to 15 percent less feed to reach the same weight as pigs on regular diets.

Since feed can account for as much as 70 percent of total animal production costs, the discovery was a windfall for farmers. It meant they could produce more meat for less money, resulting in fatter profits.

But by the 1970s, researchers began warning regulators that routine use of antibiotics was contributing to a surge in drug-resistant germs, or superbugs, that render antibiotics powerless against deadly infections. Professor Stuart Levy of Tufts University conducted the first study in 1976 showing highly-resistant e. coli E. coli bacteria could pass from chickens to farm workers who worked with the animals in just a few weeks.

The study contributed to the FDA’s decision to ban nonmedical use of penicillin and tetracycline in farm animals a year later. But farmers and drugmakers pushed back, and the FDA rule was never enforced.

“Why did no one act on it?

Because there was a strong lobby,” said Levy, who is co-founder and president of the Alliance for Prudent Use of Antibiotics, a nonprofit advocacy group that favors restrictions on the drugs. “They said, ‘Well, show us the deaths.

Show us the real problem.

Otherwise, this isn’t so terrible.”

But it’s difficult to link the overuse of antibiotics to deaths. It’s tough to find the source of bacteria-resistant germs, which can spread from animals to humans through a number of ways, including undercooked meat and drinking water contaminated by animal waste. And bacteria mutate when passing between species, meaning that the same strain of drug-resistant bacteria in chicken can take on a different form once it enters the human body.

While the issue mostly was tabled in the U.S., it was gaining momentum elsewhere in the world.

In 1999, the European Union backed a ban on penicillin and other human antibiotics for growth in farm animals. Within four years, the use of antibiotics on

animals fell 36 percent in Denmark, 45 percent in Norway and 69 percent in Sweden.

Levy, the Tufts University professor, and his colleagues had hoped that the EU’s ban would bolster the case for restricting the use of antibiotics in the U.S. But instead, the data has been used to argue both sides of the issue.

U.S. farmers have seized on reports that cases of diarrhea among young pigs increased in the first year after the EU ban, suggesting that animal health had declined. But public health advocates say that the outbreaks among pigs decreased once farmers improved the sanitary conditions by cleaning feedlots more frequently and giving animals more space.

U.S. groups like the National Chicken Council warn that restricting use of antibiotics will result in sicker animals, increasing costs for farmers and the price of meat and poultry for consumers.

Some industry groups have projected costs for farmers would rise by $1 billion over 10 years, though those estimates have not been backed by outside groups.

Construction of Amish Heritage Center in Middlefield on schedule By the Associated Press Organizers of the soon to open Amish Heritage Center in Middlefield say the project is making good progress so far.

The center, set to open June 15, is designed to educate visitors on the Geauga and Northeast Ohio Amish history and culture. year, Geauga Last County had the fourth largest Amish population in the United States with more than 13,000 Amish residents. The center hopes that through the exhibits and artifacts on display, many will learn more about the Amish’s story and how they came to settle in the area.

Ken Lawton, the son of Florian Lawton who was known for his paintings depicting Amish life, is lead-

ing the efforts to open the heritage center. Lawton reports that grants from local organizations are pending, private donors have been making contributions and much of the fundraising is on track.

Last week, the Amish community in Middlefield hosted a benefit for the project with nearly 300 people in attendance. While they did not hit their goal of raising $10,000, Lawton says the outcome was a success.

“The interesting thing was it was attended 60 to 40, Amish to Yankee,” Lawton said about the ratio.

“The mere fact that so many English came I thought was so remarkable.”

The benefit was in the style of a wedding dinner, which is a traditional gathering the Amish organize to

help raise money for community projects. Another large-scale fundraiser that will likely be more geared toward English donors is planned for next month. It will be held at Pine Lake Trout Club in Chagrin Falls on May 12 and is open to the public.

Lawton says in addition to fundraising, the construction on the center itself is also moving forward. The heritage center will be located in what was formerly the Vancura Gallery of Fine Arts in Middlefield’s Settler’s Village.

“We’ve accomplished a great deal, in a relatively short amount of time since we’ve committed to the property …we have contractors in as we speak doing the needed reconstruction,” Lawton said.

Specifically, the reconstruction work under way is on what Lawton describes as the hallmarks of the museum. They include a nearly 30-foot mural and an interactive exhibit set up as a sanctuary that will allow visitors to experience the traditional Amish church service.

Organizers still hope to add more Amish artifacts to the current collection. John Gingrich, an amateur historian working with securing the historical items, said he believes there will be a sufficient amount for the public to see by the time the doors open, but the center wants to continue collecting donations of Amish clothing, farming tools, old letters, books and diaries from the settlers.

This search for artifacts relevant to the Geauga

County Amish is not limited to local areas. Gingrich said donations have come in from other states and the Amish communities in Canada also are aware of their requests for items.

“We have roots in several other areas, “ Gingrich said.

“There’s a lot of material in a number of settlements that would relate to our history.”

In addition to displays, the center plans to use donated books and writings to offer a reference library for both Amish and English researching genealogy.

Geauga County Tourism Director Lynda Nemeth said there’s growing anticipation in the community for the center’s opening. A large number of visitors from other states and countries come in to the tourism center to ask questions specifi-

cally about the Amish so Nemeth believes the new center will be a welcomed addition to the area.

“It will be wonderful to have a focal point to send inquisitive tourists to,” Nemeth said. “One of the things we hear a lot right now is that our society is so fast paced. I think a lot of people want to get back to that simpler time.”

Nemeth said she’s also looking forward to how authentic the museum plans to be, because the board overseeing the center includes Amish members.

After the June grand opening, hours of operation for the Amish Heritage Center will be Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., adjusted seasonally. For more information on the heritage center, email info@fklfoundation.org.

AREA RELIGION BRIEFS

Open house set for April 21 WEST MILTON — The West Milton Church of the Brethren, 918 S. Miami St., will have a spring open house from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today.

Vendors will be on hand to offer a wide variety of items.

Cabbage roll dinners also will be available from noon to 3 p.m. Meals will be carry-out only for $6 and will include a cabbage roll, mashed potatoes and cake.

Services set at synagogue PIQUA — Congregation Anshe Emeth will hold a combination Shabbat service/Yom H’ashoah observance at 10 a.m. today. The synagogue is at 320 Caldwell St. in Piqua.

For more information, visit the website at www.ansheemeth.org or call (937) 547-0092.

God’s Grocery giveaway today LOCKINGTON — A

TROY — Living Word Fellowship, 947 N. Market St., will offer a “garage WEST MILTON — The give” from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

West Milton Nazarene May 19 at the church.

Church, 151 W. Baker Clothing, toys and Road, will have revival household items will be services nightly at 7 p.m. distributed free of charge today, and at 10:30 a.m. to those in attendance.

Sunday.

If you would like to The Rev. Jim Dodds will donate items or if you be the guest speaker and need more information, the community is invited call Pastors Brian and Jill to attend.

Patel at 440-1690.

Spaghetti dinner Wellness Saturday presentation set TROY — An all-youcan-eat spaghetti dinner will be offered from 4:30-7 p.m. today at the First United Church of Christ, 120 S. Market St. The meal will include spaghetti with or without meatballs, salad, bar, bread, homemade dessert and drink. Meals will be $7 for adults, $3 for children 4-12 and free for children 3 and younger. Carry outs will be available.

Proceeds will benefit Relay For Life.

Ice cream social to ring in spring LAURA — Laura Christian Church, 1 S. Main St., will have a spring ice cream social from 4-7 p.m.

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FLETCHER — A wellness presentation will be offered at 7 p.m. May 7 at the Fletcher United Methodist Church, 205 S. Walnut St. The repeat program will be at 1 p.m. May 16.

Included in the presentations will be free exams from chiropractor Jason Toman and free massages from reflexologist Marge DeHays. Also, Connie Webb-Parker will give demonstrations on nutrition and whole foods.

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TROY — A chicken pot pie dinner will be offered from 4-6:30 p.m. today at the Troy View Church of God, 1770 N. County Road 25-A, Troy.

Dinner will include chicken pot pie, mashed potatoes, green beans, corn, tossed salad and dessert. Adult meals will be $6, children 4-12 are $4 and those 3 years and under are free.

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Dear Annie: My husband's parents live on the farm where he grew up, which is about an hour away from my folks' house. When we go home to visit, I prefer to stay with my parents.

I have no problem visiting the farm and spending time with my husband's family, but the accommodations at my parents' house are more comfortable. We have an entire section of the house to ourselves, including a private bathroom. At my in-laws', the entire family shares a bathroom. Also, my mother-in-law has OCD and insists we shower every time we enter the house, and anything in our possession (phone, watch, wallet) must be wiped off. The last time we visited, my husband had to tell his mother three times not to wipe off my dryclean-only outfit with her wet dishrag. In addition, all of our belongings end up smelling like manure.

I think the family is only enabling my mother-in-law's issues by accommodating all of her odd requests. I've tried to tell my husband how uncomfortable this makes me, and that I'd rather spend the night at my parents' home and split the daylight hours between the two houses. But he says it's not fair, it hurts his feelings and we should spend nights at the farm, too. What is your take on the situation? — Sick of the Farm Dear Sick: We can certainly understand your discomfort, but you also must consider your husband's preferences. If you visit only once or twice a year, we say suck it up and stay there half the time and wear clothes you don't mind wiping with a wet dishrag. His mother's issues are not really your business unless you live with her. But also discuss this calmly with your husband and ask if you can spend more daylight hours at the farm to make up for fewer sleepovers. Find other things to like and admire about his family so this doesn't turn into a power play. He needs to know that you don't consider his folks inferior to yours.

Dear Annie: I love my wife, but find us drifting apart. She must control every aspect of our day-today lives. She has a fuse that is extremely short and spends a lot of time being angry.

Why would anyone want to share time or romance with a person who is always mad? Then, when I don't want to be with her, she gets angry that we don't spend quality time together. Also, I don't want to make love much anymore.

We have seen counselors, but they have not been helpful. How do we end this death spiral that will surely end in divorce? — Sad in Buffalo Dear Sad: Ask your wife to see her doctor and be checked for any type of hormonal or endocrine imbalance. She also should be evaluated for depression. Sometimes, underlying medical conditions can create or exacerbate personality issues. Please check it out before giving up.

Dear Annie: This is for "Hanging Loose in Calif.," who worried about where he and his wife would be buried.

There are more than 100 national cemeteries across the country. As long as the couple is still married at the time of death, and pending the veteran's eligibility, his spouse is entitled to be buried at a national cemetery at no cost. The Veterans Administration provides the following burial benefits: opening and closing of the gravesite; a grave liner for casket burials; a headstone or niche cover for cremated remains to be interred above ground; perpetual care. The process of determining a veteran's eligibility is occasionally complicated. Those interested can contact their local national cemetery or Veterans Affairs office. The National Cemetery Administration also has an informative website at www.cem.va.gov. — NCA Customer Service Rep Dear Rep: Thank you for your excellent information. Many readers let us know that veterans' spouses can be buried at national cemeteries. We thank all who wrote.

Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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The Capture of the Green River Killer ('08) James Marsters, Sharon Lawrence.

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Abandoned ('10) Dean Cain, Brittany Murphy.

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Her Sister's Keeper ('06) Dahlia Salem.

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The Man Without a Face Mel Gibson.

The Money Pit Tom Hanks.

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Outlander ('08) Sophia Myles, John Hurt, James Caviezel. Alien Tornado ('12) (P) Jeffrey Fahey.

Star Trek: Insurrection ('98) Patrick Stewart.

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind Richard Dreyfuss.

Rollerball ('75) James Caan.

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Red ('10) Bruce Willis.

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Road Kill ('10) Xavier Samuel.

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HOW TO PLAY: Complete the grid so that every row, column and 3x3 box contains every digit from 1 to 9 inclusively. Find answers to today’s puzzle in tomorrow’s Troy Daily News.

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION:

HINTS FROM HELOISE

Is there a way to make foaming soap at home?

Hello, Heloise: I read your column in the Port Charlotte, Fla., Sun newspaper, and I really appreciate all your wonderful ideas and the ideas of your readers.

I hate having to toss plastic foaming-soap bottles into the recycle bin. Is there a way to make my own foaming soap? — Mimi, via email Yes, there is, and it takes no effort or extra money at all. It’s the pump mechanism inside the bottle, not the soap itself, that makes the foam! Any liquid soap will work. Just make sure that the label on the bottle you plan to refill says “foaming.” You might want to add a bit of water.

Hints from Heloise Columnist We recycled a foaming-soap dispenser at Heloise Central and used ordinary liquid hand soap.

Reuse and save money! — Heloise PET PAL Dear Readers: Ann in Victoria, Kan., sent a picture of her son’s short-haired orange cat, Koko, yawning! Ann says he

seems to be saying, “Hey, where’s my coffee?” To see Koko and our other Pet Pals, log on to www.Heloise.com and click on “Pets.” — Heloise ON THE RIGHT TRACK Dear Heloise: My 2-1/2-yearold grandson was visiting, and brought his small toy cars to play with.

I put wide blue painter’s tape on my coffee table around the edges so we would have a “track” to play on, and my table would be protected from scratches.

I used painter’s tape so there would not be any residue after the tape was lifted. We had a lot of races and crashes during his visit,

and I didn’t have to worry about my table. — Linda D. in Florida DISPOSABLE PANS Dear Heloise: Please remind thoughtful friends and family to use disposable aluminum pans when delivering meals to the elderly or funeral meals for grieving families.

I still have a dish whose owner is unknown because it was not marked.

Families have enough to go through. They don’t need the extra errands of returning dishes to worry about. — Donita E., Rawson, Ohio Yes, a very good heart hint. — Heloise

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HOROSCOPE Saturday, April 21, 2012 Certain circumstances that have a bearing on your material success in the year ahead might be difficult to define, yet even if you don’t fully understand them, they will still be working in your favor. It behooves you to go with the flow.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Several situations that personally affect you have been handled rather poorly by others in the past, but will now revert to your control. Try to profit from others’ past mistakes.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — The possibility for fulfilling a secret ambition of yours is starting to look better than ever. Don’t lose faith and switch objectives right now, because victory has never been closer.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You are about to enter a new cycle that will have a multitude of hopeful ramifications that you haven’t yet explored attached to it. Take ample time to investigate each one thoroughly.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — This is an excellent time to elevate your sights and upgrade the quality of your objectives and goals. You can do much better than you think, if you’d merely push yourself a bit harder.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Any new knowledge you acquire during this time frame can eventually be put to very productive use. Don’t be overly anxious about finding some immediate applications for it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Pay particular attention to investment suggestions offered by two people you respect, trust and who have already established successful track records of their own.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — A legal agreement or partnership arrangement into which you enter should have good chances for success, as long as it provides equal potential benefits to all parties involved.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — There could be some interesting developments occurring concerning your work or career that could lead to a raise, bonus or promotion. Recognize these opportunities and make the most of them.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Heed all urges or inclinations you get to reorganize your affairs along more productive lines, both socially and commercially. It’ll help you benefit in more ways than one.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Certain conditions that have caused you more than a few frustrations will be replaced by some new influences that should be meaningful to you financially.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — You could finally receive some vital information, the lack of which inhibited your progress over the past few years.

This discovery will enhance your potential for success in a new area.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — There are three advantageous trends stirring within your chart, but the most important one suggests that your finances could markedly improve when handled correctly.

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Cool High: 54°

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Mixed clouds and sun High: 55° Low: 36°

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Mostly cloudy High: 58° Low: 38°

Chance of showers High: 67° Low: 45°

TODAY’S STATEWIDE FORECAST Saturday, April 21, 2012 AccuWeather.com forecast for daytime conditions, low/high temperatures

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Toledo 52° | 40°

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REGIONAL ALMANAC Temperature High Yesterday .............................75 at 3:09 p.m.

Low Yesterday..............................51 at 5:34 a.m.

Normal High .....................................................64 Normal Low ......................................................43 Record High ........................................85 in 1915 Record Low.........................................21 in 1897

Precipitation 24 hours ending at 5 p.m................................0.0 Month to date ................................................0.80 Normal month to date ...................................2.67 Year to date ...................................................9.46 Normal year to date ....................................11.07 Snowfall yesterday ........................................0.00

TODAY IN HISTORY (AP) — Today is Saturday, April 21, the 112th day of 2012.

There are 254 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight: On April 21, 1962, the Century 21 Exposition, also known as the Seattle World’s Fair, opened. President John F. Kennedy spoke briefly to the event by telephone from Palm Springs, Fla., where he tapped a gold telegraph key to signal the official start of the six-month fair.

On this date: In 1836, an army of Texans led by Sam Houston defeated the Mexicans at San Jacinto, assuring Texas independence.

In 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in Redding, Conn., at age 74.

In 1930, a fire broke out inside the overcrowded Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, killing 332 inmates.

In 1972, Apollo 16 astronauts John W.Young and

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Charles M. Duke Jr. explored the surface of the moon.

In 1986, a rediscovered vault in Chicago’s Lexington Hotel that was linked to Al Capone was opened during a live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera; aside from a few bottles and a sign, the vault turned out to be empty.

Today’s Birthdays: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is 86. Actor Tony Danza is 61. Comedian Nicole Sullivan is 42. Actor James McAvoy is 33.

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555 Garage Sales/Yard Sales

CONOVER, AB Graham Center, 8025 US Rt. 36, Saturday, April 21 Only, 8am-Noon. Indoor garage sale, Ohio State items (separate vendor) home weight bench with weights, ten speed and exercise bike, small furniture, office desk, display case, jewelry, kitchen items and home decor, puzzles, books and much more! Items recently received! Fletcher Lions Pancakes, Sausage and Fried Mush Breakfast.

Serving 7am-Noon.

COVINGTON, 3627 North State Route 48, Friday 11-6, Saturday 8-5, ESTATE! Collector dolls, Avon, fishing, material, vcr movies, tools, arts & crafts, Phase 3 motors, antique furniture, guns, Elvis items, glider rocker, pictures, books, Lots of miscellaneous, Everything must go!

PIQUA, 6110 West State Route 185, Friday, 8am-6pm & Saturday, 8am-3pm. Queen oak bed frame, boat trailer, fifth wheel camper, tiller/ garden equipment, indoor/ outdoor furniture, collectibles, cast iron banks, (Special Edition) Hot Wheels, tree stand & household treasures! You have got to see it to believe it!

SIDNEY, 808 Taylor Drive, Thursday 9-1, Friday 9-3, Saturday 9-3, household items, Southwestern items, Wheaton bottles, Emmitt Kelly, Large collection of Cleveland Browns items!

555 Garage Sales/Yard Sales TIPP CITY, 385 West Kessler-Cowlesville Road, Friday, April 20 & Saturday, April 21, 9am-6pm.

Antique dishes, musical instruments, furniture, household, kitchen, bedroom, much more!

TIPP CITY, 4006 Crane Road (across from High School), Friday and Saturday, April 20 & 21, 8:30am-5pm.

China hutch, twin size headboard, glider rocker, books, clothes: kids, womens and mens, lots of NICE household items.

TROY, 1514 Peters Road, Friday, 4/20 & Saturday, 4/21, 8am-2pm. Everything Must Go! Furniture, workout equipment and miscellaneous items.

TROY, 2508 Foxchase Court West (King's Chapel Subdivision), Friday & Saturday, 8am-4pm. Tons of girl's clothes 4T-7/8, toys, books, lamps, household, holiday items, queen & king bedding, tons of stuff! Rain or shine!

TROY, 70 South Weston Road, Friday 9am-4pm and Saturday 9am-2pm.

Dining Room suite (48" hutch/buffet, table with 2 leaves, 7 chairs), place settings for 12, misc glassware, cookware, household items, living room chairs, love seat, coffee tables. book cases, misc electronics, speakers, treadmill, exercise bike, bar accessories, LP and 45 records, misc hardware, gas welding set/cart, industrial battery charger

TIPP CITY, 724 Hathaway Trail. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 9am-5pm. Moving Sale with a few antiques.

UNION TOWNSHIP, 5385 West Kessler Cowlesville Road. Sunday and Monday, 8am-4pm. Clothes, jewelry, Lionel train set, saddles and horse items, pictures, truck camper, dishes, pottery, antique boxes and furniture, books, toys, fenton glass, candy dishes

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MIG WELDER CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION OPENINGS Local commercial concrete contractor seeking self-driven individuals to join our team.

Experience in construction welcome, but not necessary.

Full benefits package offered, including on the job training.

Pre-employment drug test is required.

Or call Sandy at: (937)547-0012

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NOW HIRING: Companies desperately need employees to assemble products at home. No selling, any hours. $500 weekly potential. Info: (985)646-1700 Dept.

OH-6011.

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135 School/Instructions ATTEND COLLEGE ONLINE from home. *Medical, *Business, *Criminal Justice, *Hospitality. Job placement assistance.

Computer available. Financial Aid if qualified.

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Please only Interested apply Apply within 8am-2pm

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Elite Enclosure Co.,LLC 2349 Industrial Dr Sidney, Oh NO PHONE CALLS

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Thursday April 26th 9:00AM - 1:00PM Holiday Inn Express 60 Troy Town Drive Troy, OH 45373

General Operators Material Handlers Press Operators For any questions, or if you can't make the event, call

(937)237-8514

Security Positions Available

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Pay starting $9.00 per hour Must be able to work all shifts Flexible hours Paid training Full time position receives vacation, and sick time, after one year Yearly raise with evaluation Requirements:

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Cook position available at Caldwell House Assisted Living. 30+ hours per week, Experience necessary, Must be willing to work weekends.

Apply in person at: 2900 Corporate Drive Troy, OH

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Tool Room Machinists Positions: Boring Mill, Manual Mill, Lathe & Grinders.

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Or fax to: (937)339-9149

2ND SHIFT SUPERVISORS

Apply within at the Residence Inn at: 87 Troy Town Drive, Troy

WOOD FRAMERS Local/ Commercial Carpentry Contractor seeking experienced Wood Framers. Must have own transportation.

Good pay and benefits.

Immediate openings.

Pre-employment drug screening Call: (937)339-6274 Or apply in person at: 1360 S. Co. Rd. 25-A Troy, Ohio

keith_price@ ahm.honda.com

Is seeking to fill the following positions:

~(Full & Part time)~ ~Maintenance ~Front Desk (Part Time) ~Shuttle Driver

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Professional Opportunity We are a growing community bank and have a professional opportunity for an experienced credit analyst.

This position is responsible for assisting the VP of Commercial Lending in implementing the overall credit philosophy of the bank into action.

This position works closely with our commercial loan department and is responsible for evaluating the financial condition of businesses and associated individuals applying for credit with the bank.

To submit your resume and to review the complete job description and position requirements, please visit our website at www.MinsterBank.com and click on the Careers tab to view all job openings.

Minster Bank is an equal opportunity employer.

Professional Good customer service skills Basic computer skills Strong communication skills At least 18 yrs of age High school diploma or GED Be able to pass an extensive background check & drug test Reliable transportation, valid driver license Send Resumes For Immediate Consideration To:

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We offer: Competitive pay plan 401K Medical Insurance Paid vacation

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Apply: Ron Garrett Chevrolet 1225 E Russ Rd Greenville, OH 45331

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STNA's FT-PT-Casual We are looking for experienced skilled people. come in and fill out an application and speak with Beth Bayman, Staff Development.

Koester Pavilion 3232 North County Road 25A Troy OH 45373 (I-75 at exit 78) 937.440.7663 Phone 937.335.0095 Fax Located on the Upper Valley Medical Center Campus EOE

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Pay increases every 6 months over the next two years Health care (Rx card), dental, and vision coverage

Call (937)418-6230 for appointment

280 Transportation DRIVERS Livestock transportation company seeking OTR drivers, home weekends. Owner operators welcome to apply.

Call (937)295-2768 sgoubeaux@ hotmail.com DRIVERS WANTED

HOME DAILY, ACT FAST!

SELF RELIANCE INC. In search of caring people to work in homes with consumers with Developmental Disabilities in Miami County. All shifts available, 7 days a week.

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Great Pay Local Runs Off 2 days per week Health + 401K Must live within 50 miles of Tipp City, OH. Class A CDL w/Hazmat required.

(866)475-3621

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Familiar Look There will be a familiar paint scheme at Kansas Speedway on Sunday.

Richard Petty Motorsports is putting the traditional Petty Blue and STP Day-Glo Red colors on the Ford Fusion driven

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“It brings back a lot of memories,” said Petty, who drove cars carrying STP’s banner from 1972-92.

“Just to see the red and blue, I’m a little prejudiced to those colors.”

Few brands have become more closely associated with a single athlete. Four of Petty’s record seven titles came carrying the STP logo, along with four Daytona 500 wins.

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Last year: Brad Keselowski raced to the first of his three 2011 victories, stretching his fuel perfectly.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. was second.

Last race: Defending series champion Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won at Texas to extend Roush Fenway’s Nationwide winning streak at the track to four. Paul Menard was second.

Next race: Richmond 250, April 27, Richmond International Raceway, Richmond, Va.

SFP 250 Site: Kansas City, Kan. Schedule: Saturday, qualifying (Speed, 10:30-11:30 a.m.), race, 2 p.m. (Speed, 1:30-4:30 p.m.).

Track: Kansas Speedway (oval, 1.5 miles).

Last year: Clint Bowyer won in his home state, leading 142 laps of 167 laps. Bowyer is from Emporia.

Johnny Sauter was second.

Bahrain Grand Prix Site: Sakhir, Bahrain.

Schedule: Saturday, practice, qualifying (Speed, 7-8:30 a.m.); Sunday, race, 8 a.m.

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Track: Bahrain International (road course, 3.36 miles).

Last year: The race was canceled because of clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters.

Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso won the 2010 race.

Kansas City, Kan.

Johnson’s New Rep Five-time Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson reached a deal with Octagon to provide marketing expertise and capitalize on endorsement and commercial opportunities.

Johnson has been working with Creative Artists Agency.

“Jimmie’s value, image and business philosophy are consistent with ours, which makes him an ideal fit,” Octagon founder Phil de Picciotto said. “He is one of the most recognizable athletes in the world, and his commitment to sustained excellence over the long term is second to none.”

Johnson won last season’s fall race at Kansas Speedway.

TOP 10 RACERS: Sprint Cup 1. Greg Biffle 2. Matt Kenseth (tie) Dale Earnhardt Jr. 4. Martin Truex Jr. 5. Kevin Harvick 6. Denny Hamlin 7. Tony Stewart 8. Jimmie Johnson 9. Ryan Newman 10. Clint Bowyer

273 254 254 253 249 242 234 233 225 219

Nationwide Series 1. Elliott Sadler 247 2. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.243 3. Austin Dillon 227 4. Sam Hornish Jr. 193 5. Michael Annett 183 6. Cole Whitt 182 7. Trevor Bayne 180 8. Tayler Malsam 163 (tie) Justin Allgaier 163 10. Mike Bliss 147 Camping World Truck Series 1. Timothy Peters 121 2. Justin Lofton 115 3. Ty Dillon 114 4. James Buescher 111 5. Parker Kligerman 101 6. Nelson Piquet Jr. 100 7. Jason White 94 8. John King 93 9. Ron Hornaday Jr. 90 10. David Starr 84

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Distance: 1.5 miles Race: 400.5 miles Laps: 267 laps

Going to the extreme Pastrana to debut at Richmond

Dress In Layers Greg Biffle called it the worst-case scenario outside rain.

The weather at Kansas Speedway on Friday was overcast and windy, and the temperature barely nudged over 50 degrees by early afternoon, when fans who turned out to watch practice for the Trucks series race Saturday and the Sprint Cup race on Sunday.

By the time those races start, temps are forecast to be in the mid-70s and sunny.

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Greg Biffle (16) pulls out of the garage during practice for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan. Friday.

The Biffle triple crown Re-energized driver looks to complete title trio

By The Associated Press Greg Biffle roared through the early stages of his NASCAR career.

Biffle gave Jack Roush his first NASCAR season title in 2000 by winning the Trucks Series, two years after he was the rookie of the year.

Then came the natural progression to the Nationwide Series, where Biffle won another rookie of the year award and followed immediately with the 2002 season championship before moving up again.

A decade later, Biffle is still trying to become the first driver to complete the NASCAR title trio.

This could finally be the year for the re-energized Biffle, who is coming off a victory at Texas that reinforced his standing as the early-season Sprint Cup points leader.

“When I moved from the Trucks Series to Nationwide, it was a huge step. It was much, much harder. And when I moved from the Nationwide to the Cup Series, I had no idea that the competition was going to be what it was,” Biffle said. “I knew it was going to be hard. But this year is my year.”

Biffle’s fifth top-five finish in seven races this season came in the fastest Cup race ever in Texas and snapped his 49-race winless drought.

With only two early cautions, and 234 consecutive green-flag laps to end the race, he got a big boost in the pits from crew chief Matt Puccia and the rest of his team at the 1-mile, high-banked track.

“That gives me huge confidence,” Biffle said. “I know that from about the third race, that these guys, the guys that Matt had put together, we

kind of held the handcuffs on them a little bit last year until we got to the end of the season, and he revamped the entire team over the winter. I really, really like my guys.”

Puccia, who like Biffle worked his way up through the Roush organization, replaced Greg Erwin midway through last season. The No. 16 Roush Fenway Ford had its only three poles of the season after that, but wasn’t enough to keep Biffle from finishing 16th in points, his worst since 2004 in his second full Cup season.

“That guy, I promise you, if anybody can take me to winning a championship, it’s Matt Puccia,” Biffle said. “He never gives up, never leaves a rock unturned.”

They started this season with third-place finishes in each of the first three races, taking over the points lead after the third race in Las Vegas. A pair of 13th-place finishes are the only ones outside the top six.

“It was really an unusual thing when we went after the team the way we did last year and said, you know, we just got great people but they’re not just working together as well as they need to and we need to organize ourselves differently,” Jack Roush said after the Texas victory.

“That’s a rarity that we do that. But that certainly was the key to getting the momentum that we’ve got going right now.”

Biffle is certainly off to a much better start than last season, when the same opening three-race stretch set the tone for a frustrating season.

There was a 35th-place finish at Daytona, before finishing 20th at

Phoenix and 28th at Las Vegas.

This week’s Cup race is in Kansas, where Biffle had last won before Saturday night in the Lone Star State. He has gone to Victory Lane twice in Kansas with eight top10 finishes in the 11 previous races at the 1 1/2-mile track.

Even though Biffle hasn’t won a Cup season title, the 42-year-old driver has had success on NASCAR’s highest level. The win in Texas was his 17th in the Cup Series.

In 2005, Biffle won six times, and had 15 top-five finishes. He tied for second in season points with teammate Carl Edwards, only 35 behind Tony Stewart.

Three years later, Biffle rebounded from missing the Chase two years in a row, and was third behind Jimmie Johnson and Edwards, who won nine races in 2008. Biffle became the first driver to win two of the 10 Chase races in the same season though those were his only victories.

For now, Biffle is enjoying being on top while realizing there are 19 more races before the final 10-race Chase starts in mid-September. He hopes to be in the same spot at the end of the season, no matter what happens before then.

“I know that we’re probably not going to lead the points the whole way. So I’m happy and proud of our team fighting to stay in the points lead running as good as we can every week,” Biffle said. “If and when that happens, certainly I’m not going to let that take the wind out of our sails. … We’re going to work as hard as we can to keep the points lead, keep in the top five, keep in the top three.”

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Travis Pastrana will have a guaranteed spot in the field for his Nationwide Series debut next week at Richmond.

The extreme sports star will race a Toyota that will be fielded jointly between Michael Waltrip Racing and RAB Racing. Kenny Wallace has been the primary driver of RAB’s No. 09 car which will be changed to No. 99 for Pastrana.

Pastrana said being locked into the field takes some of the pressure of him at Richmond.

“The qualifying, running one fast lap, is something that I’ve been working really hard,” he said Tuesday.

“But the most difficult thing for me has been to get up to speed in the first couple laps. So this will be huge for me.”

MWR will provide cars and technical and marketing support for RAB under the alliance announced Tuesday. Mike Greci, Pastrana’s crew chief in NASCAR regional races, will co-crew chief with Scott Zipadelli of RAB when Pastrana drives.

Pastrana had been scheduled to make his Nationwide debut last July, but broke his right ankle in the X Games two days before the race. His debut has been delayed until Richmond, but Pastrana said his time sidelined actually gave him an opportunity to learn more about NASCAR. “I hadn’t realized it until I got back,” Pastrana said.

“I think I understand more of the terminology. I understand more how to get feedback. I think in the long run, I wouldn’t go as far. I’m sure I could have learned more out on the track than I could have from TV, but it was definitely something that I think is going to help this season and help my first race be better. I’m hoping that’s the case.”

Pastrana is also scheduled to race at Darlington and Charlotte in May. MWR also has New Hampshire, Chicago, Indianapolis and Atlanta on his tentative schedule.

Protesters, violence continues to mar Bahrain GP MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Anti-government protesters flooded a main highway in a march stretching for miles and security forces fired tear gas in breakaway clashes Friday as Bahrain’s leaders struggled to contain opposition anger while under the world’s spotlight as the island nation hosts the Formula One Grand Prix.

The government allowed the massive demonstration in an apparent bid to avoid the hit-and-run street battles that are the hallmark of the Gulf nation’s 14-month uprising and an embarrassing

spectacle for Bahrain’s Western-backed rulers as F1 teams prepare for Sunday’s race.

But violence flared as small groups in the march peeled away from the route to challenge riot police, who answered with volleys of tear gas and stun grenades. Some protesters sought refuge in a mall and nearby shops about 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of the Formula One track, where practice runs took place and Bahrain’s crown prince vowed the country’s premier international event would go ahead.

Last year, a wave of antigovernment protests by the island’s Shiite majority and a crackdown by the Sunni rulers forced organizers to cancel the 2011 Bahrain GP. At least 50 people have been killed since the start of Bahrain’s uprising the longest-running in the Arab Spring which seeks a greater political voice for Shiites and to weaken the near monopoly of the Sunni dynasty that has ruled for more than 200 years.

“We demand democracy” and “Down, Down Hamad,” chanted some of the tens of

thousands of opposition supporters in reference to King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, as they massed on the main highway leading out of the capital, Manama. Bahrain’s monarchy is the main backer of the F1 race, and the crown prince owns rights to the event.

Hours before the march, Bahrain’s most senior Shiite cleric, Sheik Isa Qassim, delivered a strongly worded sermon that denounced authorities for making dozens of arrests of suspected dissidents in recent weeks.

He called the intensified

crackdowns before the F1 event “as if we are entering a war.”

Bahrain’s rulers lobbied hard to stage this year’s Grand Prix as part of attempts to portray stability in the strategic kingdom, which is home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet. On the opposite side, rights groups and others campaigned to keep the race away, citing the relentless pressures by security forces and the imprisonment of opposition figures including a Shiite political activist on a more than a twomonth-long hunger strike.

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■ Softball

• COACHING SEARCH: Bethel High School is looking for a varsity head football coach. Please submit a letter of interest, resume, and references to Bob Hamlin, Athletic Director, Bethel High School, Tipp City 45371 or bethelathdept@bethel.k12.oh.us.

• SOCCER: Troy High School will host a “Meet the Coaches” night for all returning and incoming soccer players and their parents for the fall 2012 season at 7 p.m. Monday in the high school cafeteria. It is important that all players and their parents attend. The players will receive their summer schedule and more.

• BASEBALL: The Troy Post 43 baseball team is holding the 2012 Golf Scramble at Cliffside Golf Course in Tipp City on May 12. Check in starts at noon. A shot gun start will take place at 1:00 p.m. The fee is $65 a person.

Proceeds go to the support of Troy Post 43 baseball. To learn more, contact Frosty Brown at (937) 339-4383 or at (937) 474-9093.You can also contact Frosty via email at ibrown@woh.rr.com.

• FOOTBALL: The Troy Football Alumni Association is holding a Texas Hold ‘Em Tournament at 4 p.m. April 28 at the St. Patrick’s Parish Center, 409 E. Main St., Troy. Registration begins at 3:15 p.m the day of the event. There is a maximum of 200 players. Participants may pre-register by sending a request to brad8rohlfs@yahoo.com. There is a $50 entry fee. There will be a payout to the top 10 finishers, free snacks, raffles and a 50/50 drawing. Beer and non-alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase. Proceeds from the event will go toward the Troy Football Alumni Association Scholarship Fund.

Checks and money orders may be mailed to Troy Football Alumni Association, P.O. Box 824, Troy OH 45373.

• GOLF: The Ladies 18-hole Golf League at Miami Shores Golf Course is having its opening meeting at 9 a.m.

Tuesday at Miami Shores. Everyone is invited. For more information, call the golf course.

• GOLF: The Ladies 9-hole Golf League at Miami Shores Golf Course is having its opening meeting at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Miami Shores.

Everyone is invited. For more information, call Gail at (937) 332-7467.

SPORTS CALENDAR TODAY Baseball Centerville at Troy (DH) (10 a.m.)

Milton-Union at Bethel (DH) (noon) Cedarville/Northwestern at Miami East (11 a.m.)

Middletown Christian at Newton (DH) (noon) Springfield Cavaliers at Troy Christian (DH) (11 a.m.)

Covington at Fort Loramie Invite (TBA) Wapakoneta at Piqua (DH) (11 a.m.)

Bradford at Houston Invite (11 a.m.)

Softball Tippecanoe at Gahanna Classic (TBA) Milton-Union/River Valley at Covington (10 a.m.)

Miami East at Northwestern (DH) (11 a.m.)

Tri-Village at Troy Christian (DH) (11 a.m.)

Bradford at Fort Loramie Invite (10 a.m.)

Tennis Lehman at Carroll Invite (TBA) Track and Field Milton-Union Bulldog Classic (10 a.m.)

Newton, Troy Christian at Southeastern Invite (9:30 a.m.)

Lehman at Piqua Invite (10 a.m.)

Bradford at Eaton (TBA)

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■ Baseball/Softball

Trojans fall, 5-0 Troy errors costly in loss to Bellefontaine Staff Reports BELLEFONTAINE — Troy wasn’t itself on Friday.

And the score reflected that in a 5-0 loss to Bellefontaine.

The Trojans committed four errors and had just one hit at the plate in the losing effort. Cody Fuller took the loss on the mound.

“We made four errors in four innings,” Troy coach Ty Welker said. “That’s inexcusable at this

MIAMI COUNTY point in the season — or at any point in the season. We had poor turns at the plate, poor defense.

Hopefully we can bounce back from this.”

Troy (11-5) plays Centerville today at home.

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Troy’s Mackenzie Dankworth tags out a Wayne runner Friday during the Trojans 6-1 loss to the Warriors at Market Street Diamond.

Wayne drops Troy Big fifth inning propels Warriors past Trojans

BY COLIN FOSTER Sports Writer cfoster@tdnpublishing.com

Troy ..................000 00 — 0 1 4 Belle. ................302 0x — 5 3 0 Fuller, Kendall and Nadolny. Wilson and Francis. WP — Wilson. LP — Fuller.

2B — Roebuck (B). Records: Troy 11-5.

TC 10, Jackson Center 4 TROY — Still riding high from the emotion of Thursday’s victory over Dayton Christian, the Troy Christian Eagles jumped out to a 10-0 lead against Jackson Center Friday.

And even though they couldn’t close out the game early, they still rolled to a 10-4 victory.

“That’s what’s hurting us right now. We had a chance to get

■ See ROUNDUP on 18

Kicking off the festivities of Friday night’s game between Troy and Wayne at Market Street Diamond was the singing of the National Anthem by former Troy JV softball coach — and Elvis impersonator — Ryan Roth.

But ‘The King’ couldn’t stop what was about to happen at the First Annual Troy Cancer Awareness game.

Wayne starting pitcher Megan Tinch settled down after giving up a run in the first, ending the game with seven strike-

■ Tennis

Troy wins eighth in-a-row Staff Reports KETTERING — The Troy Trojans made it eight straight victories Friday, cruising to a 5-0 shutout at Fairmont.

At first singles, Luke Oaks defeated Ian Steiner 6-1, 6-1. At second singles, Reid Wynkoop defeated Adam Wolfe 6-1, 6-2. At third singles, Sean Cothran defeated Nate Bare 6-0, 6-2.

TROY outs, and the Warriors tacked on three big runs on three extrabase hits in the top of the fifth to leave Troy with a 6-1 six-inning rain-shortened victory.

“We were there,” Troy coach Scott Herman said. “Honestly, Megan Tinch is the best pitcher we have faced all year. And I knew that going in. I knew she moved the ball really well. I knew it was going to be a challenge for our kids.”

After Wayne took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first, Troy mounted an attack in the bottom half of the inning. Alex Wilt led off the inning with a walk, then Rachel Good bunted for a hit. Amber Smith sacrificed the runners over to second and third with a bunt, which was followed

MIAMI COUNTY At first doubles, Chris Schmitt and Ben Thompson defeated Tommy Shine and Jordan Thomson 7-5, 6-3. At second doubles, Matt Alexander and Ian Stutz defeated Trevor O’Hara and Sam Bodary 7-5, 6-3.

“It was a good team win,” Troy coach Mark Goldner said. “Matt Alexander and Ian Stutz were down 4-1 in the first set and made a nice comeback to pull out Troy’s Shelby Schultz catches a fly ball in center field Friday

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Troy girls 4th at shortened meet

Reds beat Cubs for 10,000th victory

The Trojans were rained out for the second weekend meet in a row.

But that didn’t stop Troy’s girls 4x200 relay team from smashing the old school record.

Still, the Trojans finished in fourth place overall when the Edwin C. Moses Relays were stopped early due to the weather, with three running and two field events still to go. See Page 18.

Dragons Lair DAYTON — Dayton led Quad Cities 10-2 in the top of the seventh Friday night at time of press after the game was delayed by rain.

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Milestone reached CHICAGO (AP) — The Cincinnati Reds used a lot of little hits to achieve a very big milestone.

Cincinnati rapped out 12 hits nine singles and cruised to a 9-4 win over the Chicago Cubs on Friday for the 10,000th win in franchise history.

“When you look at 30 different teams and being one of six, it’s a pretty cool thing,” said outfielder Drew Stubbs. “To be a part of it is pretty special.”

Harsh winds and chilly temperatures didn’t slow Cincinnati’s offense. Stubbs drove in three runs for the Reds, who joined the Cubs, Giants, Dodgers, Braves and Cardinals as the only teams to reach the 10,000 win plateau.

The Cubs dropped their sixth

straight and fell to 3-11 on the year.

Winds were blowing in, gusting up to 27 mph, and the gametime temperature was 35 degrees with the wind chill.

Chris Volstad (0-2) labored through a four-run, 41-pitch first inning. He gave up run-scoring singles to Joey Votto and Chris Heisey, and an RBI-groundout to Willie Harris as the Reds batted around for the first time this season.

“It breeds confidence the more hits you get,” said Reds manager Dusty Baker. “So it was good for us to get those hits.”

Starlin Castro and Marlon Byrd didn’t help Volstad by comAP PHOTO mitting errors in the inning, but Cincinnati Reds’ Chris Heisey hits an two-run single against

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Cavs stun playoff-bound Knicks CLEVELAND (AP) — Amare Stoudemire’s return from a back injury didn’t help the playoff-bound New York Knicks, who were stunned 98-90 by the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday night.

Stoudemire had missed New York’s previous 13 games with a bulging disk.

But even with him in the lineup, the Knicks couldn’t handle the Cavs, who snapped a three-game losing streak and won for just the fourth time in 19 games.

Stoudemire finished with 15 points and Carmelo Anthony had 12 before sitting out the fourth quarter.

Manny Harris had 19 AP PHOTO points and a career-high 12 Cleveland Cavaliers’ Manny Harris (6) drives against rebounds to lead the Cavs, New York Knicks’ Steve Novak (16) in the fourth and rookie Kyrie Irving quarter Friday in Cleveland. The Cavaliers won 98- scored 21 points in his sec90. ond game back from a

shoulder injury. Samardo Samuels added 15 points for Cleveland.

Harris banked in a desperation 3-pointer from near half-court as the 24second shot clock expired in the fourth quarter to keep Cleveland comfortably ahead.

The Knicks wrapped up a playoff spot on Thursday night, clinching when Milwaukee lost.

One day later, New York hardly looked ready for the postseason.

Stoudemire was in foul trouble in the first 5 minutes and never got into a groove. Anthony, who has had to carry the scoring load with his frontcourt mate out, went just 5 of 13 from the field in 29 uninspired minutes. The Knicks didn’t wake up until the final minutes when they cut

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a 19-point deficit to eight on two free throws by Stoudemire with 2:33 left.

New York had a chance to get closer, but Toney Douglas made a silly pass for a turnover and JR Smith then fouled Harris on a 3-point miss. Harris knocked down two free throws and Cleveland’s Donald Sloan drove past four Knicks standing like statues for an easy layup to put the Cavs ahead 96-82.

Earlier Friday, Cleveland decided to shut down center Anderson Varejao for the last five games because he’s still bothered by soreness in the right wrist he broke in February.

Despite missing 41 games, Varejao, who sat out the final 51 games last season, didn’t lose his sense of humor.

Surrounded in the locker room by reporters, eager to ask about his disappointment in having to end a second straight season on the sideline, Varejao tried to fake everyone out.

“What disappointment?

I’m playing tonight,” he joked.

The Cavs sure played.

They outhustled the listless Knicks to loose balls, and with only the NBA lottery to look forward to, had one of their best home games this season.

Cleveland had a little luck, too.

Leading 74-60, the Cavs were in danger of turning it back over when Harris lost control of the ball. But he ran it down near halfcourt, turned and launched his 42footer that caromed in off the glass as the horn sounded.

■ Tennis

Tennis ■ CONTINUED FROM 15 their win.”

Troy, now 11-2, hosts Greenville Monday Tippecanoe 4, Lehman 1 SIDNEY — Tippecanoe’s underclassmen had an impressive day against a tough Lehman team Friday, pulling out a 4-1 victory on the road to make the Red Devils 13-0 on the season.

Freshman Michael Keller won a straight-sets battle with Dan Selhorst 64, 6-4 at second singles, while sophomore Jacob Belcher took down Mitchell Shroyer 6-2, 6-2 at third singles. Sam Bollinger, nursing an injury, dropped his match at first singles 61, 6-1 to Pierce Bennett.

At first doubles, Blake Sowry and Joe Coughlin defeated Matt Ulrich and David Freytag 6-3, 6-2. At second doubles, Adam Southers and Tyler Heinl defeated Louis Gaier and Michael Comer 6-3, 6-1.

“We knew this was going to be a tough match for Sam, even if he was healthy,” Tippecanoe coach Von Clendenen said.

“Michael Keller played a guy that’s about his size, but a senior, and he kept his composure.

“Doubles surprised me.

Their No. 1 team knocked us out of the sectional tournament last year, so I was happy to see Blake and Joe win.”

Tippecanoe travels to Urbana Monday before what amounts to the Central Buckeye Conference title game against Kenton Ridge on Tuesday.

Milton-Union 5, Sidney 0 WEST MILTON —After improving to 5-0 in the Buckeye Southwestern League with a win over Carlisle Thursday, MiltonUnion made it 11-1 overall on the season Friday with a 5-0 victory at Sidney.

At first singles, Beau Smedley defeated Frank EnYart 6-1, 6-0. At second singles, Marshall Winterbotham defeated Eric Beigel 6-0, 6-0. At third singles, Jake Bleving defeated Connor Bowers 63, 6-2.

At first doubles, Kevin Brackman and Craig Hollis defeated Tyler Olson and Hunter Davis 6-1, 6-1. At second doubles, Jack Blevins and Mitch Gooslin defeated Oakk Wynn and Sean Brown 6-1, 6-0. hosts Milton-Union Franklin Monday.

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■ CONTINUED FROM 15 only one of the runs was unearned.

Fielding woes were contagious as Heisey was unable to haul in Castro’s fly ball in the third inning, which led to two unearned runs. The teams combined to make five errors.

The Reds tacked on a pair of runs in the fourth on Stubbs’ double into the rightfield corner. He finished with three hits and two stolen bases.

“I stayed on every pitch,” said Stubbs. “Leading up to that I had been kind of pulling off of some sliders, especially, but I got a lot of them today and was able to drive one to right field.”

Homer Bailey (1-2) pitched seven solid innings for his first victory of the year.

He allowed four runs, but only one was earned. Bailey struck out two and walked none. He also drove in a run with a groundout in the sixth.

“Especially with the wind, it’s here it is, hit it as hard as you can,” said Bailey. “It’s probably not going to go anywhere.”

The Cubs sent several balls into the teeth of the wind, blowing in from left field, including Castro’s thirdinning fly ball and a ninthinning blast off the bat of Geovany Soto. But none went beyond the warning track.

“This park plays like polar opposites, as different as any park I’ve ever seen,” said Stubbs. “When the wind’s blowing out, it’s hard to keep the ball in the yard. When the win’s blowing in, you can give it all you got.” ” You try to stay more on top of the ball, hit more line drives because anything in the air is going to get held

up.”

Volstad gave up six runs, five earned, on seven hits over five innings. He was lifted for pinch-hitter Blake DeWitt in the fifth. DeWitt doubled and came around to score on Darwin Barney’s groundout to cut the Reds’ lead to 6-3. “(The first inning) put me in a huge hole, put the team in a big hole,” said Volstad.

“That’s not the momentum you want to put the team in right off the bat.”

The Reds added a run in the eighth inning on Stubbs’ single to score Devin Mesoraco, and on a ninthinning pinch-hit triple by Todd Frazier.

Mesoraco finished 2 for 3 with two runs scored.

Aroldis Chapman struck out a pair in a scoreless eighth, and Jose Arredondo pitched a flawless ninth to close the door.

Bryan LaHair had two more hits for the Cubs. He’s batting .375 on the year and has a base hit in every game he’s started.

Notes: The Cubs placed RHP Kerry Wood (right shoulder fatigue) on the 15day disabled list and recalled LHP Scott Maine from Triple-A Iowa . Brandon Phillips was held out of the lineup due to the cold weather and lingering hamstring soreness . Ryan Dempster (strained right quad) is questionable for his start on Sunday. RHP Randy Wells will be recalled from Iowa if Dempster is unable to go. .

Paul Maholm takes the mound for the Cubs on Saturday in the second game of the series against Mike Leake. Both are in search of their first win of the season.

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BASEBALL Baseball Expanded Standings All Times EDT AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Baltimore 8 5 .615 8 6 .571 New York 7 7 .500 Tampa Bay 6 6 .500 Toronto 4 9 .308 Boston Central Division W L Pct Detroit 9 4 .692 6 5 .545 Cleveland 6 6 .500 Chicago 5 9 .357 Minnesota 3 9 .250 Kansas City West Division W L Pct Texas 11 2 .846 Oakland 7 7 .500 7 7 .500 Seattle 4 9 .308 Los Angeles NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Washington 11 4 .733 Atlanta 8 5 .615 7 5 .583 New York 7 7 .500 Miami 6 7 .462 Philadelphia Central Division W L Pct St. Louis 10 4 .714 Milwaukee 6 7 .462 Cincinnati 6 8 .429 5 8 .385 Houston 5 8 .385 Pittsburgh 3 11 .214 Chicago West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 10 3 .769 Arizona 7 6 .538 6 6 .500 Colorado 6 .500 San Francisco 6 3 11 .214 San Diego

Scores GB WCGB — — ½ — 1½ 1 1½ 1 4 3½

L10 5-5 7-3 4-6 4-6 4-6

Str Home Away W-1 3-3 5-2 W-2 4-3 4-3 L-1 3-1 4-6 L-2 4-5 2-1 L-4 3-4 1-5

GB WCGB — — 2 ½ 2½ 1 4½ 3 5½ 4

L10 6-4 6-4 5-5 5-5 2-8

Str Home Away L-1 5-2 4-2 W-1 1-4 5-1 L-1 3-4 3-2 W-1 2-4 3-5 L-7 0-6 3-3

GB WCGB — — 4½ 1 4½ 1 7 3½

L10 9-1 6-4 4-6 3-7

Str Home Away W-7 5-2 6-0 W-3 3-4 4-3 L-1 3-3 4-4 L-3 2-5 2-4

GB WCGB — — 2 — 2½ ½ 3½ 1½ 4 2

L10 8-2 8-2 5-5 6-4 5-5

Str Home Away W-1 7-2 4-2 W-3 5-1 3-4 L-2 4-2 3-3 L-1 5-2 2-5 W-1 3-3 3-4

GB WCGB — — 3½ 2 4 2½ 4½ 3 4½ 3 7 5½

L10 7-3 5-5 4-6 3-7 3-7 2-8

Str Home Away W-1 4-2 6-2 L-1 3-3 3-4 W-2 3-3 3-5 W-1 3-3 2-5 L-1 2-2 3-6 L-6 2-6 1-5

GB WCGB — — 3 1 3½ 1½ 3½ 1½ 7½ 5½

L10 7-3 4-6 5-5 6-4 2-8

Str Home Away W-1 6-0 4-3 L-3 4-3 3-3 W-2 5-4 1-2 W-2 4-2 2-4 L-3 2-6 1-5

AMERICAN LEAGUE Thursday's Games Baltimore 5, Chicago White Sox 3 N.Y.Yankees 7, Minnesota 6 Texas 10, Detroit 3 Tampa Bay 9, Toronto 4 Oakland 4, L.A. Angels 2 Cleveland 2, Seattle 1 Friday's Games N.Y.Yankees 6, Boston 2 Texas at Detroit, ppd., rain Minnesota 5, Tampa Bay 4 Toronto at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.

Baltimore at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

Saturday's Games Texas (M.Harrison 2-0) at Detroit (Porcello 1-0), 1:05 p.m., 1st game Chicago White Sox (Humber 0-0) at Seattle (Beavan 1-1), 4:05 p.m.

N.Y.Yankees (F.Garcia 0-1) at Boston (Doubront 0-0), 4:05 p.m.

Texas (Feliz 1-0) at Detroit (Verlander 1-1), 7:05 p.m., 2nd game Minnesota (Pavano 1-1) at Tampa Bay (Shields 2-0), 7:10 p.m.

Toronto (Hutchison 0-0) at Kansas City (Mendoza 0-2), 7:10 p.m.

Baltimore (Arrieta 1-0) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 2-0), 9:05 p.m.

Cleveland (J.Gomez 0-0) at Oakland (McCarthy 0-2), 9:05 p.m.

Sunday's Games Texas at Detroit, 1:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Tampa Bay, 1:40 p.m.

Toronto at Kansas City, 2:10 p.m.

Baltimore at L.A. Angels, 3:35 p.m.

Cleveland at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Seattle, 4:10 p.m.

N.Y.Yankees at Boston, 8:05 p.m.

Monday's Games N.Y.Yankees at Texas, 7:05 p.m.

Boston at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.

Toronto at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Thursday's Games Miami 5, Chicago Cubs 3 L.A. Dodgers 4, Milwaukee 3 Cincinnati 6, St. Louis 3 Houston 11, Washington 4 Atlanta 10, Arizona 2 Philadelphia 2, San Diego 0 Friday's Games Cincinnati 9, Chicago Cubs 4 Washington 2, Miami 0 St. Louis 4, Pittsburgh 1 San Francisco at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Houston, 8:05 p.m.

Colorado at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.

Atlanta at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

Philadelphia at San Diego, 10:05 p.m.

Saturday's Games Cincinnati (Leake 0-1) at Chicago Cubs (Maholm 0-2), 1:05 p.m.

(A.Sanchez 1-0) at Miami Washington (Strasburg 2-0), 1:05 p.m.

San Francisco (Vogelsong 0-1) at N.Y. Mets (Pelfrey 0-0), 1:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 0-0) at Houston (Weiland 0-2), 7:05 p.m.

St. Louis (Westbrook 2-0) at Pittsburgh (Correia 1-0), 7:05 p.m.

Colorado (Pomeranz 0-1) at Milwaukee (Estrada 0-0), 7:10 p.m.

Atlanta (Hanson 1-2) at Arizona (J.Saunders 1-0), 8:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Halladay 3-0) at San Diego (Luebke 1-1), 8:35 p.m.

Sunday's Games San Francisco at N.Y. Mets, 1:10 p.m.

Miami at Washington, 1:35 p.m.

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 1:35 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Houston, 2:05 p.m.

Colorado at Milwaukee, 2:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m.

Philadelphia at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Arizona, 4:10 p.m.

Monday's Games Colorado at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

San Francisco at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.

Houston at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

Atlanta at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

Reds 9, Cubs 4 Cincinnati ab r h bi Cozart ss 4 1 1 0 Stubbs cf 5 1 3 3 Votto 1b 4 1 1 1 Bruce rf 5 2 2 0 Rolen 3b 3 1 0 0 Heisey lf 5 0 1 2 Harris 2b 4 1 1 1 Chpmn p 0 0 0 0 Frazier ph 1 0 1 1 Arrdnd p 0 0 0 0 Mesorc c 3 2 2 0 HBaily p 3 0 0 1 Valdez 2b 1 0 0 0

SCOREBOARD

Chicago

ab r h bi DeJess rf 4 1 1 0 Barney 2b 4 0 0 1 SCastro ss 4 1 1 0 LaHair 1b 4 1 2 1 ASorin lf 4 0 0 1 IStewrt 3b 4 0 0 0 Soto c 4 0 0 0 Byrd cf 3 0 0 0 Volstad p 1 0 0 0 DeWitt ph 1 1 1 0 Camp p 0 0 0 0 Maine p 0 0 0 0 Mather ph 1 0 0 0 Castillo p 0 0 0 0 Dolis p 0 0 0 0 Totals 38 912 9 Totals 34 4 5 3 Cincinnati .................400 201 011—9 Chicago.....................002 011 000—4 E_Heisey (1), Cozart (1), Byrd (1),

LaHair (1), S.Castro (5). DP_Chicago 2. LOB_Cincinnati 8, Chicago 3.

2B_Stubbs (1), Harris (2), LaHair (4), DeWitt (1). 3B_Frazier (1). SB_Stubbs 2 (3), Bruce (1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IP H R ER BB SO Cincinnati H.Bailey W,1-2 . . . . . .7 5 4 1 0 2 Chapman . . . . . . . . . .1 0 0 0 0 2 Arredondo . . . . . . . . .1 0 0 0 0 1 Chicago Volstad L,0-2 . . . . . . .5 7 6 5 2 4 Camp . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 2 1 1 0 1 Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 0 0 0 1 2 Castillo . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1 1 1 2 0 Dolis . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 2 1 1 1 1 PB_Mesoraco.

Umpires_Home, Lance Barrett; First, Scott Barry; Second, Gary Darling; Third, Jerry Meals.

T_2:52. A_37,782 (41,009).

Friday's Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE NewYork . . . .120 111 000—6 11 0 Boston . . . . .010 010 000—2 10 1 Nova, Wade (7), Robertson (8), Eppley (9), M.Rivera (9) and Martin; Buchholz, Atchison (7), J.Thomas (8), Tazawa (8) and Saltalamacchia.

W_Nova 3-0. L_Buchholz 1-1.

HRs_New York, Swisher (3), Er.Chavez 2 (2), A.Rodriguez (2), Martin (1).

Boston, Ortiz (2).

Minnesota . . .100 010 300—5 11 1 Tampa Bay . .000 013 000—4 5 0 Hendriks, Maloney (6), Burton (7), Duensing (8), Capps (9) and Doumit; M.Moore, B.Gomes (7), Jo.Peralta (7), Badenhop (8) and Gimenez.

W_Maloney 1-0. L_B.Gomes 0-1.

Sv_Capps (4). HRs_Tampa Bay, Joyce (4), Longoria (3).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Miami . . . . . . .000 000 000—0 4 0 Washington .001 000 01x—2 4 0 Zambrano, Cishek (8) and J.Buck; Detwiler, Stammen (7), Clippard (8), H.Rodriguez (9) and Flores. W_Detwiler 2-0. L_Zambrano 0-1. Sv_H.Rodriguez (4). HRs_Washington, Ankiel (1).

St. Louis . . . .010 010 002—4 8 0 Pittsburgh . . .100 000 000—1 4 4 Lynn, Boggs (8), Motte (9) and Y.Molina; Morton, Meek (6), J.Hughes (7) and Barajas. W_Lynn 3-0. L_Morton 0-1. Sv_Motte (3). HRs_St. Louis, Descalso (1). Pittsburgh, Presley (1).

San Francisco003 0000001—4 10 0 NewYork . . . .000 1100010—3 8 1 (10 innings) Zito, Mota (6), Affeldt (7), S.Casilla (9), Ja.Lopez (9), Romo (9), Hensley (10) and H.Sanchez; Niese, R.Ramirez (7), Rauch (8), Byrdak (9), F.Francisco (10) and Nickeas, Thole. W_Romo 1-0.

L_F.Francisco 0-1. Sv_Hensley (1).

HRs_San Francisco, Pagan (1). New York, Bay (3), Nieuwenhuis (2).

Midwest League Eastern Division W L Pct. GB Lansing (Blue Jays) 12 3 .800 — Bowling Green (Rays) 10 4 .714 1½ Great Lakes (Dodgers) 8 7 .533 4 South Bend (D’Backs) 7 8 .467 5 West Michigan (Tigers) 7 8 .467 5 Dayton (Reds) 6 8 .429 5½ Fort Wayne (Padres) 5 10 .333 7 Lake County (Indians) 4 11 .267 8 Western Division W L Pct. GB Quad Cities (Cardinals)10 4 .714 — Wisconsin (Brewers) 9 6 .600 1½ Beloit (Twins) 8 7 .533 2½ Kane County (Royals) 8 7 .533 2½ Cedar Rapids (Angels) 7 7 .500 3 Burlington (Athletics) 7 8 .467 3½ Peoria (Cubs) 6 9 .400 4½ Clinton (Mariners) 4 11 .267 6½ Friday's Games Wisconsin 8, West Michigan 2 Fort Wayne 12, Kane County 1 Quad Cities at Dayton, 7 p.m.

Lake County 7, Clinton 0 Burlington 2, Lansing 0 Great Lakes 7, Peoria 5 Beloit 13, South Bend 3 Cedar Rapids at Bowling Green, 8:05 p.m.

Saturday's Games Wisconsin at West Michigan, 1 p.m.

Fort Wayne at Kane County, 2 p.m.

Great Lakes at Peoria, 2 p.m.

Beloit at South Bend, 6:05 p.m.

Lake County at Clinton, 7 p.m.

Quad Cities at Dayton, 7 p.m.

Lansing at Burlington, 7:30 p.m.

Cedar Rapids at Bowling Green, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday's Games Beloit at West Michigan, 1 p.m.

Lake County at Kane County, 2 p.m.

Wisconsin at South Bend, 2:05 p.m.

Great Lakes at Burlington, 3 p.m.

Fort Wayne at Clinton, 3 p.m.

Lansing at Peoria, 3 p.m.

Cedar Rapids at Dayton, 4 p.m.

Quad Cities at Bowling Green, 6:05 p.m.

AND SCHEDULES

SPORTS ON TV TODAY AUTO RACING 7 a.m. SPEED — Formula One, qualifying for Bahrain Grand Prix, at Manama, Bahrain 10:30 a.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Truck Series, pole qualifying for SFP 250, at Kansas City, Kan. Noon SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, pole qualifying for STP 400, at Kansas City, Kan. 2 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Truck Series, SFP 250, at Kansas City, Kan. BOXING 9 p.m. SHO — Champion Anselmo Moreno (32-1-1) vs.

David de la Mora (24-1-0), for WBA bantamweight title; Abner Mares (23-0-1) vs. Eric Morel (46-2-0), for vacant WBC super bantamweight world title, at El Paso, Texas COLLEGE BASEBALL 1 p.m. FSN — Memphis at Southern Miss.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL 1:30 p.m. NBCSN — Intrasquad, Notre Dame Blue-Gold Game, at South Bend, Ind. COLLEGE SOFTBALL 4:30 p.m. FSN — Houston at Tulsa GOLF 9 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, China Open, third round, at Tianjin, China (same-day tape) 1 p.m. CBS — Champions Tour, Legends of Golf, second round, at Savannah, Ga. 3 p.m. CBS — PGA Tour, Texas Open, third round, at San Antonio 6:30 p.m. TGC — LPGA, LOTTE Championship, final round, at Kapolei, Hawaii MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 1 p.m. FSN, WGN — Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs 3:30 p.m. FOX — Regional coverage, N.Y. Yankees at Boston or Chicago White Sox at Seattle 9 p.m. MLB — Regional coverage, Baltimore at L.A. Angels or Cleveland at Oakland MOTORSPORTS 8:30 p.m. SPEED — AMA Pro Racing, at Braselton, Ga. (same-day tape) 10:30 p.m. SPEED — Supercross, at Seattle NBA BASKETBALL 5:30 p.m. ESPN — Denver at Phoenix 8 p.m. ESPN — Dallas at Chicago 10:30 p.m. ESPN — Orlando at Utah NHL HOCKEY 3 p.m. NBC — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 5, Washington at Boston (if necessary) 7 p.m. NBCSN — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 5, Ottawa at N.Y. Rangers (if necessary) 7:30 p.m. CNBC — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 5, San Jose at St. Louis (if necessary) 10 p.m. NBCSN — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals, game 5, Chicago at Phoenix (if necessary) SOCCER 7:30 a.m. ESPN2 — Premier League, Arsenal vs. Chelsea, at London 3:30 p.m. NBCSN — MLS, Chicago at Toronto

AUTO RACING NASCAR Sprint Cup Points Leaders Through April 14 1. Greg Biffle ..............................273 2. Matt Kenseth ..........................254 3. Dale Earnhardt Jr. ..................254 4. Martin Truex Jr. .......................253 5. Kevin Harvick.......................... 249 6. Denny Hamlin......................... 242 7. Tony Stewart ...........................234 8. Jimmie Johnson .....................233 9. Ryan Newman ........................225 10. Clint Bowyer .........................219 11. Carl Edwards ........................215 12. Paul Menard .........................192 NASCAR Driver Rating Formula A maximum of 150 points can be attained in a race.

The formula combines the following categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB y-Boston 37 27 .578 — x-New York 33 30 .524 3½ Philadelphia 32 30 .516 4 New Jersey 22 41 .349 14½ Toronto 22 41 .349 14½ Southeast Division W L Pct GB y-Miami 45 17 .726 — x-Atlanta 38 25 .603 7½ x-Orlando 36 26 .581 9 Washington 16 46 .258 29 Charlotte 7 55 .113 38 Central Division W L Pct GB y-Chicago 47 16 .746 — x-Indiana 41 22 .651 6 Milwaukee 29 33 .468 17½ Detroit 23 40 .365 24 Cleveland 21 41 .339 25½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB y-San Antonio 45 16 .738 — x-Memphis 38 25 .603 8 x-Dallas 36 28 .563 10½ Houston 32 31 .508 14 New Orleans 20 43 .317 26 Northwest Division W L Pct GB y-Oklahoma City 45 17 .726 — Denver 34 28 .548 11 Utah 33 30 .524 12½ Portland 28 35 .444 17½ Minnesota 26 38 .406 20 Pacific Division W L Pct GB x-L.A. Lakers 40 23 .635 — x-L.A. Clippers 39 24 .619 1 Phoenix 33 30 .524 7 Golden State 22 40 .355 17½ Sacramento 20 42 .323 19½ x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Thursday's Games Indiana 118, Milwaukee 109 Minnesota 91, Detroit 80 New Orleans 105, Houston 99, OT Miami 83, Chicago 72 Phoenix 93, L.A. Clippers 90 Friday's Games Atlanta 97, Boston 92 Memphis 85, Charlotte 80

Cleveland 98, New York 90 Dallas 104, Golden State 94 L.A. Lakers at San Antonio, 9:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Saturday's Games Denver at Phoenix, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Washington at Miami, 7:30 p.m.

Dallas at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Golden State at Houston, 8 p.m.

Portland at Memphis, 8 p.m.

New Jersey at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m.

Orlando at Utah, 10:30 p.m.

Sunday's Games New York at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, 3:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Detroit, 6 p.m.

Houston at Miami, 6 p.m.

Golden State at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Cleveland at San Antonio, 7 p.m.

Orlando at Denver, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

HOCKEY National Hockey League Playoff Glance All Times EDT FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7) (x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE N.Y. Rangers vs. Ottawa Thursday, April 12: NY Rangers 4, Ottawa 2 Saturday, April 14: Ottawa 3, NY Rangers 2, OT Monday, April 16: NY Rangers 1, Ottawa 0 Wednesday, April 18: Ottawa 3, NY Rangers 2, OT, series tied 2-2 Saturday, April 21: Ottawa at NY Rangers, 7 p.m.

Monday, April 23: NY Rangers at Ottawa, TBD x-Thursday, April 26: Ottawa at NY Rangers, TBD Boston vs. Washington Thursday, April 12: Boston 1, Washington 0, OT Saturday, April 14: Washington 2, Boston 1, 2OT Monday, April 16: Boston 4, Washington 3 Thursday, April 19: Washington 2, Boston 1, series tied 2-2 Saturday, April 21: Washington at Boston, 3 p.m. x-Sunday, April 22: Boston at Washington, TBD x-Wednesday, April 25: Washington at Boston, TBD Florida vs. New Jersey Friday, April 13: New Jersey 3, Florida 2 Sunday, April 15: Florida 4, New Jersey 2 Tuesday, April 17: Florida 4, New Jersey 3 Thursday, April 19: New Jersey 4, Florida 0, series tied 2-2 Saturday, April 21: New Jersey at Florida, 6:30 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 24: Florida at New Jersey, TBD x-Thursday, April 26: New Jersey at Florida, TBD Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia Wednesday, April 11: Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 3, OT Friday, April 13: Philadelphia 8, Pittsburgh 5

Saturday, April 21, 2012 Sunday, April 15: Philadelphia 8, Pittsburgh 4 Wednesday, April 18: Pittsburgh 10, Philadelphia 3 Friday, April 20: Pittsburgh 3, Philadelphia 2, Philadelphia leads series 3-2 Sunday, April 22: Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, noon x-Tuesday, April 24: Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, TBD WESTERN CONFERENCE Vancouver vs. Los Angeles Wednesday, April 11: Los Angeles 4, Vancouver 2 Friday, April 13: Los Angeles 4, Vancouver 2 Sunday, April 15: Los Angeles 1, Vancouver 0 Wednesday, April 18: Vancouver 3, Los Angeles 1, Los Angeles leads series 3-1 Sunday, April 22: Los Angeles at Vancouver, 8 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 24: Vancouver at Los Angeles, TBD x-Thursday, April 26: Los Angeles at Vancouver, TBD St. Louis vs. San Jose Thursday, April 12: San Jose 3, St. Louis 2, 2OT Saturday, April 14: St. Louis 3, San Jose 0 Monday, April 16: St. Louis 4, San Jose 3 Thursday, April 19: St. Louis 2, San Jose 1, St. Louis leads series 3-1 Saturday, April 21: San Jose at St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. x-Monday, April 23: St. Louis at San Jose, TBD x-Wednesday, April 25: San Jose at St. Louis, TBD Phoenix vs. Chicago Thursday, April 12: Phoenix 3, Chicago 2, OT Saturday, April 14: Chicago 4, Phoenix 3, OT Tuesday, April 17: Phoenix 3, Chicago 2, OT Thursday, April 19: Phoenix 3, Chicago 2, OT, Phoenix leads series 31 Saturday, April 21: Chicago at Phoenix, 10 p.m. x-Monday, April 23: Phoenix at Chicago, TBD x-Wednesday, April 25: Chicago at Phoenix, TBD Nashville 4, Detroit 1 Wednesday, April 11: Nashville 3, Detroit 2 Friday, April 13: Detroit 3, Nashville 2 Sunday, April 15: Nashville 3, Detroit 2 Tuesday, April 17: Nashville 3, Detroit 1, Friday, April 20: Nashville 2, Detroit 1, Nashville wins series 4-1

GOLF PGA-Texas Open Scores Friday At TPC San Antonio, Oaks Course San Antonio Purse: $6,2 million Yardage: 7,435; Par: 72 Partial Second Round Note: Play was suspended and will be completed Saturday Ben Curtis ..........................67-67—134 David Mathis.......................69-67—136 Cameron Tringale...............72-65—137 Blake Adams......................71-69—140 Ryan Palmer.......................71-69—140 Hunter Haas.......................66-74—140 Charlie Wi...........................72-69—141 Scott Piercy ........................76-65—141 Kevin Streelman.................71-70—141 Bud Cauley.........................70-72—142 Brian Gay............................73-69—142 Garth Mulroy ......................71-71—142 Daniel Summerhays ..........74-68—142 Tim Herron .........................74-69—143 Patrick Sheehan.................72-71—143 Bill Lunde............................73-70—143 Derek Lamely.....................68-75—143 Kevin Kisner .......................73-70—143 Billy Mayfair ........................70-73—143 Miguel Angel Carballo .......70-73—143 Greg Chalmers...................72-72—144 Marco Dawson...................71-73—144 Chad Campbell..................73-71—144 Justin Leonard....................74-70—144 Skip Kendall........................71-73—144 Tom Gillis ............................72-72—144 Nathan Green ....................73-71—144 Seung-Yul Noh...................73-71—144 J.J. Killeen...........................73-71—144 Martin Flores ......................71-73—144 Fredrik Jacobson................68-76—144 Cameron Beckman............68-76—144 Ryan Moore........................72-72—144 Bob Estes...........................72-72—144 Chris Stroud .......................72-73—145 Joe Ogilvie..........................72-73—145 John Huh............................77-68—145 Patrick Reed.......................71-74—145 Brian Harman.....................72-73—145 Briny Baird..........................73-73—146 Harrison Frazar ..................72-74—146 Will Claxton ........................75-71—146 Danny Lee..........................75-71—146 Hank Kuehne .....................72-74—146 Matt Kuchar........................70-76—146 Jerry Kelly...........................72-74—146 Charley Hoffman................72-74—146 Spencer Levin ....................71-75—146 Graham DeLaet .................73-74—147 Brendan Steele ..................73-74—147 Garrett Willis.......................75-72—147 Brendon de Jonge .............72-75—147 Kris Blanks .........................74-73—147 Rich Beem..........................69-78—147 Paul Stankowski.................73-74—147 Shaun Micheel ...................77-71—148 Ricky Barnes......................74-74—148 David Hearn .......................74-74—148 Ted Purdy ...........................76-72—148 J.J. Henry............................74-74—148 Robert Damron..................76-72—148 Bobby Gates ......................77-71—148 Scott Langley......................72-76—148 Billy Horschel......................74-74—148 Diego Velasquez ................73-75—148 Matt Jones..........................77-71—148 David Duval........................75-73—148 Stephen Ames ...................74-74—148 Scott Dunlap.......................72-76—148 Will MacKenzie...................72-76—148 Josh Teater .........................77-72—149 Troy Matteson.....................68-81—149 Craig Barlow.......................76-73—149 Steve Wheatcroft................74-75—149 Jason Kokrak......................76-73—149 Lonny Alexander................77-72—149 Vaughn Taylor.....................71-78—149 Jason Gore.........................68-81—149 Woody Austin .....................72-77—149 Duffy Waldorf......................76-74—150 Daniel Chopra ....................74-76—150 Tim Petrovic........................76-74—150 Gavin Coles........................75-75—150 William Osborne ................75-75—150 K.J. Choi .............................74-76—150 Lee Janzen.........................72-78—150 Brandt Jobe........................73-77—150 William McGirt....................71-79—150 Alexandre Rocha ...............75-76—151 Sunghoon Kang.................74-77—151 Colt Knost...........................74-77—151

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Steven Bowditch ................77-75—152 Charlie Beljan.....................83-69—152 Matt McQuillan...................74-78—152 Neal Lancaster...................72-80—152 Omar Uresti........................74-78—152 Stuart Appleby ...................71-81—152 Matt Bettencourt ................76-76—152 J.B. Holmes ........................77-75—152 Dicky Pride .........................74-78—152 John Rollins........................71-81—152 Johnson Wagner................74-79—153 Arjun Atwal .........................76-77—153 Mathew Goggin..................74-79—153 Joe Durant..........................77-77—154 Chris DiMarco ....................77-77—154 Jamie Lovemark.................79-75—154 Casey DeVoll......................78-76—154 Marc Turnesa......................77-77—154 Heath Slocum ....................74-80—154 Marc Leishman ..................76-78—154 Mark Hensby......................79-76—155 Brian Bateman...................79-76—155 Shane Bertsch ...................77-78—155 Michael Putnam.................77-79—156 Kevin Stadler ......................77-80—157 Chris Riley ..........................79-78—157 Brett Wetterich....................77-80—157 Eric Axley............................82-76—158 Roland Thatcher.................79-79—158 Steve Flesch.......................78-80—158 Ryuji Imada ........................78-80—158 Robert Gamez ...................82-77—159 Jimmy Walker.....................78-81—159 Kirk Triplett ..........................82-78—160 Tommy Gainey ...................80-84—164 Leaderboard at time of suspended play ....................................SCORE THRU F 1. Ben Curtis ......................-10 F 2. David Mathis ....................-8 F 3. Cameron Tringale ............-7 3. Matt Every .......................-7 16 5. Ryan Palmer ....................-4 F 5. Blake Adams ...................-4 F 5. Hunter Haas ....................-4 F F 8. Scott Piercy .....................-3 F 8. Charlie Wi ........................-3 F 8. Kevin Streelman ..............-3 8. Frank Lickliter II ................-3 17 12. Daniel Summerhays ......-2 F 12. Brian Gay .......................-2 F 12. Garth Mulroy ..................-2 F F 12. Bud Cauley ....................-2 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf Scores Friday At Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa Savannah, Ga. Purse: $2.7 million Yardage: 7,087; Par: 72 (36-36) First Round Bryant/Purtzer ......................31-29—60 Allen/Frost.............................29-33—62 Cochran/Perry ......................31-31—62 Faxon/Sluman ......................33-29—62 Fleisher/Jenkins ...................30-32—62 Bean/Lu ................................32-31—63 Cook/Sindelar.......................31-32—63 Couples/Haas.......................33-30—63 North/Clampett.....................31-33—64 Langer/Lehman....................33-31—64 Roberts/Simpson .................32-32—64 Browne/Pate.........................32-32—64 Mize/Sutton...........................31-33—64 Stadler/Goodes ....................33-32—65 Kite/Morgan..........................33-32—65 Senior/Lyle............................32-33—65 Hallberg/Pavin ......................32-33—65 Jacobsen/Weibring ..............33-32—65 Pernice/Tway ........................32-33—65 Brooks/Glasson....................32-33—65 Gilder/Romero......................32-34—66 Calcavecchia/Spittle.............33-33—66 Blake/Funk............................34-32—66 McNulty/Eger........................32-34—66 Irwin/Baker-Finch .................34-32—66 Fergus/Levi...........................35-31—66 Gallagher/Huston.................33-33—66 Quigley/Thorpe.....................34-33—67 Jacobs/Zoeller......................33-34—67 Beck/Wiebe ..........................31-36—67 Hatalsky/Nelson ...................33-34—67 Green H./Thompson............34-35—69 Doyle/Vaughan.....................34-35—69 Wadkins/Wadkins.................33-37—70 Sigel/Tewell...........................37-34—71 LPGA-LOTTE Championship Scores Friday At Ko Olina Golf Club Course Kapolei, Hawaii Purse: $1.7 million Yardage: 6,421; Par: 72 (a-amateur) Third Round Ai Miyazato ...................71-65-70—206 Cristie Kerr ....................70-68-71—209 Azahara Munoz ............72-64-73—209 So Yeon Ryu .................71-70-69—210 Yani Tseng.....................69-72-69—210 Jiyai Shin.......................69-71-70—210 Angela Stanford............69-71-70—210 Meena Lee....................74-65-71—210 Haeji Kang ....................74-67-71—212 Inbee Park.....................70-70-72—212 Momoko Ueda..............74-69-70—213 Karrie Webb..................71-71-71—213 Brittany Lang.................69-70-74—213 Suzann Pettersen.........70-69-74—213 Jimin Kang....................72-66-75—213 Caroline Hedwall ..........73-70-71—214 Sun Young Yoo ..............70-73-71—214 Brittany Lincicome........70-71-73—214 Paula Creamer .............73-67-74—214 Katie Futcher ................72-72-71—215 Julieta Granada ............74-70-71—215 Lorie Kane ....................73-69-73—215 a-Kyo Joo Kim ..............71-71-73—215 Karen Stupples.............72-70-73—215 Kris Tamulis...................74-68-73—215 Mariajo Uribe ................77-65-73—215 Morgan Pressel ............72-69-74—215 Candie Kung.................71-74-71—216 Jennie Lee ....................72-73-71—216 Becky Morgan...............75-70-71—216 Sophie Gustafson.........71-71-74—216 Natalie Gulbis ...............75-72-70—217 Hee-Won Han...............76-71-70—217 Ayaka Kaneko...............74-72-71—217 Amy Yang ......................72-73-72—217 Alena Sharp..................73-70-74—217 Na Yeon Choi ................74-68-75—217 Pernilla Lindberg...........76-66-75—217 You-Na Park..................73-74-71—218 Leta Lindley...................72-74-72—218 Dewi Claire Schreefel...72-74-72—218 Karin Sjodin ..................74-72-72—218 Belen Mozo...................75-70-73—218 Danah Bordner.............72-72-74—218 Beatriz Recari...............72-72-74—218 Jessica Shepley............75-68-75—218 Eun-Hee Ji....................73-73-73—219 Dori Carter ....................74-68-77—219 Elisa Serramia ..............70-71-78—219 Moira Dunn ...................73-74-73—220 Katherine Hull...............77-70-73—220 Ilhee Lee .......................73-74-73—220 Hee Young Park............78-69-73—220 Lizette Salas .................76-71-73—220 Laura Davies.................75-71-74—220 Shanshan Feng............74-72-74—220 Rebecca Lee-Bentham73-73-74—220 Sydnee Michaels..........76-70-74—220 Giulia Sergas ................73-73-74—220 Gerina Piller ..................74-70-76—220 Jee Young Lee ..............73-70-77—220 Sandra Gal....................73-74-74—221 Jessica Korda ...............72-75-74—221 Lindsey Wright..............78-69-74—221 Wendy Doolan..............76-70-75—221

SPORTS

Saturday, April 21, 2012

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by Shelby Schultz’s walk to load the bases.

Mackenzie Dankworth drove in Wilt from third on yet another bunt single.

But with one out and the bases still loaded, Tinch struck out the next two hitters to end the inning.

“We did (have a good start), but we left three runners on base,” Herman said. “We had an opportunity — and we need to seize those opportunities when we get them. We’ve got to get the big hit in those situations.”

Troy’s bats were relatively silent after the first, ending the game with three hits.

After Wayne added two more runs in the second, the Warriors did even more damage in the fifth.

Maddy Dramis led the inning off with a double, then scored two hitters later on an Alexis Bahl triple. Desi Bahl slapped a double to bring in the runner and make the score 5-1. Desi Bahl crossed the plate two batters later to give the Warriors their final run of the game.

“We played good defense,” Herman said. “I thought we had fairly good pitching. But it comes down to hitting — we have to put all of those things together.

And young teams, they struggle putting all those things together. It’s going to come. It’s just a matter of time. “ The Trojans are now 513 on the season, 3-3 in the Greater Western Ohio Conference North Division.

But this loss, though,

■ CONTINUED FROM 15 out of there in five (innings), but we gave up four in the fifth and had two errors that inning,” Troy Christian coach Bill Campbell said. “The last three or four games, we’ve been scoring early, but then, I don’t know, we settle in.

“But we’re still playing well, playing good baseball, and that’s always good.”

Alec Patterson hit a home run, doubled and drove in three runs to lead the way offensively. Nathan Kirkpatrick tripled and David Diltz and Daniel McGillivary doubled.

McGillivary also got the win, pitvhing into the fifth inning, and Elijah Simms took over from there to earn a save.

Troy Christian (12-3) hosts the Springfield Cavaliers in a doubleheader today.

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Troy’s Alex Wilt slides into second base on Friday during a game against Wayne at Market Street Diamond in Troy. was overshadowed by the cause of the game. The entire Troy team supported breast cancer awareness by wearing pink.

Even coach Herman added a little pink dye to his mustache.

“The kids had a great time,” Herman said. “This was the first time we have hosted a cancer game. I hope to make this an annual event. Ryan Roth sung the national anthem, and he did a heck of a job. He was my JV coach last year. He’s one of the top Elvis impersonators.”

Troy is back in action Monday, hosting Trotwood at 5 p.m.

Wayne 120 030 — 6 10 0 Troy......100 000 — 1 3 0 Tinch and Bayer. Smith, Pierce (6) and Lehmann. WP — Tinch. LP — Smith. 2B — D. Bahl (W), Dramis (W), Williams (W). 3B — A. Bahl (W).

Records: Wayne 4-11, 0-6 GWOC. Troy 5-13, 3-3 GWOC.

Troy’s Amber Smith delivers a pitch Friday.

■ Track and Field

Troy’s 4x200 relay team sets record Staff Reports

DAYTON

The Trojans were rained out for the second weekend meet in a row.

But that didn’t stop Troy’s girls 4x200 relay team from smashing the old school record.

Still, the Trojans finished in fourth place overall when the Edwin C. Moses Relays were stopped early due to the weather, with three running and two field events still to go.

But the 4x200 team of Gracie Huffman, Catelyn Schmiedebusch, Ashley Rector and Todda Norris left their stamp on the meet — and Troy High School’s recordbooks — by winning the race in 1:43.34.

The old school record was 1:45.53.

“I was really impressed.

The girls stepped up and showed they’re the best sprinters in the Dayton

area,” Troy girls coach Kurt Snyder said.

“Ashley caught us up a little, and we were still losing to (Chaminade Julienne) when Todda took the handoff. She just outran their anchor, caught her and passed her at the finish line.”

The 4x100 team of Huffman, Norris, Sharice Hibbler and Shanelle Byrd was second in 50.24 seconds, a season-best time.

The discus relay of Bri

Jumper and Jessica Blakes was third, the pole vault relay of Abby Brinkman and Mariajh Sano was fourth and the 4x1,600 relay of Katie-Grace Sawka, Courtney Mazzulla, Natalie Snyder and Caitlyn McMinn was fifth.

The long jump relay was in good standing — with both jumper over 16-feet — but the event was one of the ones left unfinished.

Troy kicks off the Wayne Invitational Thursday.

■ National Hockey Leauge

Predators knock out Red Wings NASHVILLE, Tenn.

(AP) — David Legwand scored 13 seconds into the third period, and the Nashville Predators advanced to the Western Conference semifinals with a 2-1 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Friday night.

The fourth-seeded Predators won the series 4-1, capping a season in which they finished ahead of their Central Division rival for the first time, and beat the Red Wings for the first time in their third playoff series.

Nashville made it even

sweeter by handing the Red Wings their earliest postseason departure since a six-game firstround loss to Edmonton in 2006.

The Predators became the first team to advance this postseason, and they could face No. 3 seed

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Phoenix in the second round. The Coyotes lead the Chicago 3-1.

Penguins 3, Flyers 2 PITTSBURGH — Steve Sullivan, Jordan Staal and Tyler Kennedy scored and the Pittsburgh Penguins fended off elimination with a 3-2 comeback victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Friday night in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinal series.

Marc-Andre Fleury made 24 saves including a series of big stops in the third period to help Pittsburgh cut Philadelphia’s lead to 3-2 in the best-of-seven series.

Game 6 is Sunday in Philadelphia.

Matt Carle and Scott Hartnell scored powerplay goals in the first period for Philadelphia, but the Flyers failed to close out Pittsburgh for the second straight game.

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offense, Marina Snipes was 3 for 4 and Burden was 2 for 3 with a double.

Newton (13-3) hosts Northridge Monday.

Hou.....000 000 0 — 0 2 2 New..111 300 x — 6 13 0 Hyatt and Willoughby. K. Burden, Hixon (7) and L. Burden.

WP — K. Burden. LP — Hyatt. 2B — K. Burden (N), Steck (N).

Records: Newton 13-3.

ME 3, TV South 0 CASSTOWN — Paige Kiesewetter made the most of a rain-shortened game, striking out nine, walking none and surrendering only two hits in a 3-0 Miami East victory over Twin Valley South Friday.

Lindsey Brookhart doubled and had two RBIs and Gabby Ryman doubled as the Vikings (10-5, 4-1 Cross County Conference) made the most of their six hits.

“Paige had a very nice game. She continues to throw well for us right now,” Miami East coach JC....000 040 0 — 4 7 0 Brian Kadel said. “And we TC424 000 x — 10 11 3 Fry and Meyer. McGillivary, executed in situations Simms (5) and Manuel. WP — where early in the year we McGillivary. LP — Fry. SV — weren’t able to. It’s good to Simms. 2B — Fine (J), Diltz (T), McGillivary (T), Patterson (T). 3B see us progressing.

“We had a few mental — Kirkpatrick (T). HR — Patterson (T). Records: Troy mistakes that we’d like to Christian 12-3. sharpen up, but we didn’t Bethel 12, let it rattle us.”

Bradford 1 Miami East travels to BRADFORD — Luke Triad for a doubleheader Veldman one-hit Bradford today.

Friday afternoon, striking TVS . . . . .000 000 — 0 2 2 ME . . . . .111 00x — 3 6 4 out eight and only giving up Froment and Spaeth. a hit in the final inning as Kiesewetter and Accurso. WP — Bethel (14-3, 5-2 Cross Kiesewetter. LP — Froment. 2B — County Conference) put Brookhart (M), Ryman (M). away the Railroaders 12-1 Records: Miami East 10-5, 4-1.

M-U 9, Dixie 2 in five innings.

NEW LEBANON — Mason Siler was 2 for 2 with a double and four Ashley Smith homered and RBIs for the Bees, Jordan drove in five runs Friday, Elam was 3 for 4 with three powering the Milton-Union RBIs, Jon Ellerbrock was 2 offense to a 9-2 victory over for 3 with a triple and Dixie in Southwestern Jimmy Pelphrey was 2 for Buckeye League Buckeye Division play.

2.

Chelsey Smith and Luke pitched a great game for us, we got timely Jessica Booher were each 2 hitting and we spread it for 3, while Ashley Smith throughout the lineup,” finished the game 2 for 4.

Andrea Fetters struck Bethel coach Brett Brookhart said. “We were out seven and walked four happy with this after a to get the win, giving up only two hits. tough game last night.”

Milton-Union travels to Bethel hosts MiltonUnion in a doubleheader Covington today for a tri with River Valley. today.

Bethel .....064 02 — 12 12 1 Bradford ....000 01 — 1 1 2 Veldman and Hoke. Leer, Wysong (3) and Cline. WP — Veldman. LP — Leer. 2B — Siler (Be). 3B — Ellerbrock (Be).

Records: Bethel 14-3, 5-2, Bradford 5-11, 2-5.

• Softball Newton 6, Houston 0 PLEASANT HILL — Kirsten Burden and the Newton defense were on top of their game Friday, and the offense got the job done in a 6-0 victory over Houston.

“I was very happy tonight,” Newton coach Kirk Kadel said. “Our effort and the way we played was a lot better tonight. This was probably one of our better games of the year.

Everyone seemed sharp and focused.”

Burden struck out nine, walked one and gave up two hits in six innings of work, and Erin Hixon pitched the seventh and struck out two.

Taylor Steck was 3 for 4 with a double to lead the

M-U .....002 040 3 — 9 10 2 Dixie .....100 000 1 — 2 2 5 Fetters and Booher. Bargo and Buxton. WP — Fetters. LP — Bargo. HR — Ash. Smith (M).

Records: Milton-Union 13-4, 5-3.

Bradford 7, Bethel 0 BRADFORD — Bradford improved its overall record to 12-4 — and moved to 5-2 in the Cross County Conference — with a 7-0 defeat of Bethel on Friday.

Alisha Patty led Bradford at the plate with a 2 for 4 day, including a homer and an RBI. Haley Patty — who recorded 10 strikeouts on the hill — was 3 for 4 and Brooke Dunlevy was 2 for 3 with an RBI. Lindsey Nesbitt pitched for Bethel, striking out three in the losing effort.

Bradford plays Riverside today at the Fort Loramie Invite at 10 a.m.

Bethel....000 000 0 — 0 3 4 Bradford.101 221 x — 7 13 0 Nesbitt and Welch. H. Patty and Dunlevy. WP — H. Patty. LP — Nesbitt. HR — A. Patty (B).

Records: Bradford 12-4, 5-2 CCC.

■ Golf

Curtis leads in Texas SAN ANTONIO (AP) Ben Curtis shot a bogeyfree 5-under 67 on Friday in the Texas Open before storms brought afternoon wind, leaving the former British Open champion two strokes ahead at 10 under when the second round was suspended because of darkness.

Storms interrupted the round for nearly two hours.

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Japan’s Ai Miyazato shot a 2-under 70 on Friday in difficult wind conditions to take a three-shot lead into the final round of the LPGA LOTTE Championship.

The seven-time tour winner had a 10-under 206 total at Ko Olina.

Cristie Kerr and Spain’s Azahara Munoz, tied for the second-round lead with Miyazato, were second.

Kerr shot a 71, and Munoz had a 73.

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