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• BASEBALL: The Troy Recreation Department will host a baseball clinic at Duke Park’s Legion Field during June and July. The first session is June 10-13 and June 17-20, and the second session is June 24-26, July 1-3 and July 89, with three separate age groups — ages 8-10, ages 11-13 and ages 14-17. Troy Post 43 coach Frosty Brown will be the instructor, and the cost will be $30. Register online at activenet.active.com/troyrecdept. • HOCKEY: Registrations are now being accepted for the Troy Recreation Department’s Summer Youth Introduction to Hockey Program held at Hobart Arena. The program is for youth ages 5-10 years old and includes three dates: July 16, 23 and 30 from 7:308:30 p.m. The program is for those who have never participated in an organized hockey program. An equipment rental program is available. The cost of the program is $10 for all three sessions. To register, visit the Recreation Department located in Hobart Arena, 255 Adams St. or visit www.hobartarena.com on the “registrations” page and print off a registration form. Contact the Recreation Department at 339-5145 for further information. • BASKETBALL: Troy Christian girls basketball will run an elementary camp for grades 1-6 from 10 a.m. to noon June 10-14. The cost is $35. There is also a junior high camp for grades 7-8 from 1-3 p.m. June 10-14. The cost is $35. For more information, contact Dick Steineman at (937) 451-1723. • GOLF: The Milton-Union Bulldog Golf Classic, sponsored by the MiltonUnion Education Foundation, will take place June 22 at Beechwood Golf Course. The tournament is a Texas scramble with a noon shotgun start. The cost is $80 per person or $300 per foursome. The deadline to register is June 15. • GOLF: The Tippecanoe boys basketball program will host a golf outing at 11:30 a.m. June 28 at Homestead Golf Course. Proceeds will benefit the Tippecanoe boys basketball program, and Hickory River Barbecue and drinks will be provided. Visit www.reddevilbasketball.com and click on “Golf” to download a registration form.
State regulars BY COLIN FOSTER Associate Sports Editor colinfoster@civitasmedia.com Same story, different year. The Division III state track meet is loaded with kids from all over Miami County. Covington had four athletes win individual D-III regional titles, two for Troy Cron (110 and 300 hurdles), one for Jackie Siefring (300 hurdles) and another for freshman Carly Shell (3,200). Siefring also qualified
MIAMI COUNTY for state in the long jump. “Three of them (regional titles) were expected,” Covington coach Kyle Moore said. “With Troy in the 110, it seemed like there were four or five guys that could have went in and won. It seems like with Troy and Taylor Cordell (West Liberty-Salem), whoever runs the clean race is going to come out the winner.
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Miami East’s Corrine Melvin (left) and Lehman’s Sarah Titterington ■ See DIVISION III on 14 (right) compete at the Division III regional meet Saturday in Piqua.
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TODAY Softball Division IV State at Firestone Field Covington vs. Strasburg-Franklin (3 p.m.) Legion Baseball Kalamazoo Maroons at Troy Post 43 (7 p.m.)
SATURDAY Softball Division IV State Final at Firestone Stadim Covington/Strasburg-Franklin vs. TBA (1 p.m.) Track Division I State Troy, Tippecanoe (noon) Division II State Milton-Union (9 a.m.) Division III State Bethel, Bradford, Covington, Lehman, Miami East, Newton, Troy Christian (9:30 a.m.) Legion Baseball Troy Post 43 at Miami Valley Veterans Tourney (TBA)
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June 6, 2013
County athletes making return trips
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FRIDAY Track Division I State Troy, Tippecanoe, (4:45 p.m.) Division II State Milton-Union (9:30 a.m.) Division III State Bethel, Bradford, Covington, Lehman, Miami East, Newton, Troy Christian (9:30 a.m.) Legion Baseball Troy Post 43 at Miami Valley Veterans Tourney (TBA)
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Tippecanoe’s Sam Wharton will run in both Friday’s 4x800 relay race and Saturday’s 3,200 this weekend at the Division I state meet in Columbus.
Best still to come Red Devils ready for D-I state meet BY JOSH BROWN Sports Editor jbrown@civitasmedia.com Tippecanoe coach Bob Crawford has high hopes for his Red Devils in the boys 4x800 race Friday. “It doesn’t seem to us like they’ve ran their best race of the season yet,” he said. “Hopefully they’re saving it for this weekend.”
TIPP CITY The same could be said for all of the Devils’ state qualifiers. The 4x800 team of Sam Wharton, Grant Koch, Rick Andrews and Mitchell Poynter will kick the Division I state meet weekend off on Friday, then Wharton, Koch, Andy Droesch and Allison Sinning will all compete in individual STAFF FILE PHOTO/ANTHONY WEBER events on Saturday — with all Tippecanoe’s Andy Droesch clears the bar in the high jump earlier this season. Droesch will be making his first trip to the Division ■ See DEVILS on 14 I state tournament this weekend.
COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio State University President Gordon Gee attempted to make his retirement announcement personal on Wednesday, citing everything from his age to his 7-month-old twin granddaughters to a California girlfriend as reasons for his abrupt departure next month. He continued to downplay the furor over remarks first reported by The Associated Press jabbing Roman Catholics, Notre Dame and the Southeastern Conference, comments taken seriously enough by university trustees that they threatened in March to fire him for further verbal transgressions. If anything, the remarks helped Gee reflect on what he wanted to do next, he said at a morning news conference. “It played that role but not a defining role in terms of my own conversation with myself,” Gee said. Gee left that news conference for a closed-door meeting with board trustees to discuss a longterm university plan. He said that upcoming project is another reason he wants to step down now rather than later. He couldn’t say when asked if he would have made a different decision had the remarks, recorded in December, not been made public last week. Gee explained away the onemonth notice he gave Tuesday by citing a desire not to stay on any longer than he has to. “I’m not a victory lap guy,” Gee said Wednesday. “The last thing I want to do is be queen for a day. I want to move on. I want the university to move on.” Trustee chairman Robert Schottenstein denied Gee had been forced out. In Dec. 5 comments to the university Athletic Council, Gee jokingly referred to “those damn Catholics” at Notre Dame and poked fun at the academic quality of other schools. He apologized when the comments were disclosed, saying they were “a poor attempt at humor and entirely inappropriate.” Ohio State at the time called the comments unacceptable and said it had placed Gee on a remediation plan to change his behavior. It was the latest in a string of remarks Gee has made in recent years that put him in hot water, though the first that brought such a strong warning from trustees. He apologized last year for likening the difficulties of coordinating various university divisions to the Polish Army. In 2011, Gee got egg on his face for saying at a news conference that rather than firing his embattled football coach he was worried that the coach “doesn’t dismiss me.”
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Post 43 shuts down Dayton Dynasty Rockies hit 6 HRs, pound Reds Carlos Gonzalez tied his career high with three of Colorado’s six homers, and Troy Tulowitzki went 5 for 5 with a pair of homers Wednesday night, powering the Rockies to a 12-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. See Page 14.
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Three Post 43 pitchers combined on a four-hit shutout, a five-run lead more than doubled in one inning and Troy routed the Dayton Dynasty 11-0 Tuesday at
Duke Park. Luke Veldman pitched the first three innings, Reid Ferrell pitched the next three and got credit for the win and Trenton Wood finished things
off in the seventh. Troy (7-1) started out slow, with single runs in the first and second innings before scoring three in the third to go up 5-0. Post 43 added six more in the bottom of the fifth to put the game com-
pletely out of reach. Garrett Mitchell was 3 for 4 with a double, Nick Sanders was 2 for 2 with a double, Colton Nealeigh was 2 for 4 with a double and Dylan Cascaden and Nick Antonides both doubled in the game.
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