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North Stafford High School’s Big Blue Marching Band marches through the high-rises of the Big Apple during Macy’s 257th Saint Patrick’s Day Parade in New York City on March 17.

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No repeal of cluster developments Board votes for alternative that shrinks land area where ordinance can apply ALEX KOMA

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luster-development standards escaped a total repeal Tuesday when the Stafford County Board of Supervisors chose to adopt an alternative instead.

The board voted 6-1 a revised motion named option three, with board member Jack Cavalier, R-Griffis-Widewater, casting the dissenting vote.

Supervisor Wendy Maurer, R-Rock Hill, suggested the revised motion instead of a repeal.

Maurer explained that the revision doesn’t fully repeal the ordinance; it maintains the county’s compliance with state law and shrinks the applicable land where the

ordinance will apply.

The revision keeps the cluster ordinance but only related to what the county is required to have, which is about 40 percent of the available residentially developable land in Stafford, she said, while shrinking it to further look at the cluster ordinance and make changes.

Jeff Harvey, director of planning and zoning for the county, explained that with larger lots there is a concern over the long-term viability of wells and septic systems in certain areas.

By strategically allowing clustering, the county can extend utilities to those neighborhoods if necessary through purposeful placement with respect to urban service areas.

Maurer said that the option makes certain that the county isn’t breaking the law.

Cavalier was unmoved by what he called last-minute options opposing the repeal.

“I could’ve easily gone into the back room and watched reruns of ‘Big Bang Theory’ tonight,” he told board

members. “We had a public hearing for a reason. None of what you all said influenced me one iota.”

Cavalier said he was never going to vote to repeal an ordinance when the county was in compliance with state code. He said the new proposal was thrust upon the board at the last minute, and he didn’t support the quick action of choosing the option either.

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Stafford, said he was in high school in the county in 1965 so he’s seen many changes.

“We need to stay within the law and I think this is a fair compromise,” he said.

Earlier in the evening, builders and developers packed the audience to urge the board not to support a repeal. They feared losing money and businesses, and not being able to provide as well for their families.

About 50 people spoke to the board at the public hearing, with a smaller number supporting the repeal. However, Maurer said that she heard from many other people who supported the repeal or a revision.

Some speakers told the board that they are concerned about growth and the pace of growth in Stafford. They don’t want special interests, developer incentives or the wishes of outside profiteers to trump the best interest of the community and its quality of life.

On Feb. 28, the Stafford County Planning Commission voted 5-2 to recommend repealing current clusterdevelopment regulations.

Developers and builders at the meeting told the board that repealing the regulations would be illegal and lawsuits would be imminent. They said they were willing to see changes but urged the board not to repeal.

Daniel Hudson, a realtor and member of the local builders’ association, said before the vote that he could see

both sides. He urged the board to not break the law but instead work with both sides to make changes.

Cluster subdivisions are a concern, some said, based on the allowance of smaller lot sizes to go along with preserving open space. The process gives benefits to developers in exchange for specified amenities; however, those who oppose the idea say that developments are overcrowded and create sprawl, as well as negatively affect any rural character still remaining in the county.

“Cluster development is an option for developing residential- and agricultural-zoned property,” Harvey said.

There are two types of subdivision developments – conventional subdivision designs with lots and streets, and cluster developments with lots, streets and significant open-space areas, he said. There are different types of open space--some that encourage recreation and a family neighborhood feel, some that are rural, and some that preserve the historical character in areas, he added.

State code has a variety of regulations that cluster developments must follow.

Stafford has used cluster development since 1987 and is generally favored, Harvey said in a background report.

Regulations were amended in 1993, 1994, 2000, 2005 and 2007, as well as repealed in 2012.

Speakers’ concerns about current regulations included environmental impacts, wetlands, steep slopes and power-line easements, safety, land val-

ue, dry wells and managed growth.

Also at the meeting, supervisors: • heard from the Stafford County School Board, which presented the board of supervisors its approved fiscal 2019 budget. The school board’s $296.3 million operatingbudget request is higher than the superintendent’s proposed budget and includes an increase in compensation for paraprofessionals, bus drivers and monitors, as well as $500,000 for enhanced security in the schools. The request is a 6.24 percent increase over the fiscal 2018 adopted operating budget.

The boards also held a joint work session on the budget and other topics Tuesday. They touched on a proposed school board resolution earlier this month to place an armed police officer at every school.

Supervisor Mark Dudenhefer, RGarrisonville, told the school board that it would cost $2.2 million and seemed to be a political move to “throw it over the fence at us.” He said he prefers to wait for a sheriff ’s office task force recommendation.

• agreed to support improvements to Chatham Bridge, built in 1941.

• authorized the advertisement of a public hearing to set the calendar year 2018 tax rate. The rate will be set April 24 with a public hearing and more discussion to follow.

The proposed rate has been set for 99 cents per $100 of assessed value.

The board can only lower the tax rate as opposed to making it higher.

Head Start school news Kindergarten registration packets for students will be sent home soon. Parents should return them to Head Start as soon as possible. A current proof of residency is required with your registration. Call Alice Thompson if you need help or more information at 540368-2559.

Head Start and Early Head Start parents and students are invited to the Picturing America Museum Night on March 26 at 5 p.m. Participants will create arts and crafts, pictures and other forms of creative expressions as they experience the world of art. The GED class will meet at 6 p.m. that same day.

Students attending kindergarten at Hampton Oaks Elementary will tour the school March 26 at 10 a.m. Students attending kindergarten at Moncure Elementary will tour the school March 27 at 10 a.m. Students attending kindergarten at Hartwood Elementary will tour that school March 29 at 9:45 a.m. Parents are invited to attend these tours, but must meet the students at the schools.

Students will dismiss at 11:30 a.m. March 30.

Students of The Week were Aiden Berrios, Kylie Adams, Oluwatomisin Ajayi, Ronell Bell Jr., Ghaith Algibhah, Kynnedi Brunson, Derek Garcia Alvarez, Louis Nguyen, Brayden Beverly, Lae’la Gould, Larry Carter, Reza Bell, Emmanuel Cruz-Flores, Faith Bonomo, Aalyvia Jenkins, Aaliyah Bunns and Dahlia Boyd.

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Time to ask tough questions about HOT lanes reporting unusually high rates.

Interstate 95’s toll lanes have Last month there was a high been in operation for years reported of $45 dollars. Again now. It was announced with that’s one way. And it raises great fanfare. We were told the question, is a $60 fee posthat this kind of privatization sible? Perhaps $80? Apparwas the wave of the future. ently there isn’t a cap, or at least But, like so many contracts, none that anyone’s mentioned. there was something in the fine DAVID KERR By comparison it costs $47 to print we missed. That little cover the 360 miles of the Pennsylvania detail was the price the vendor, in this Turnpike. case, Australia-based Transurban, could The HOT lanes do bring some bencharge for its tolls. efits. Car poolers, three or more, don’t Most commuters, when they first have to pay the fee. They just buy a tranheard the news about the toll road, put aside their doubts, figuring that anything sponder, get two passengers, and they’re on their way. If you drive a motorcycle, that increased capacity was good, and you don’t even need to buy a transponbesides, how high could the tolls be anyder. Just gun that Harley and go. way? Surely they would be reasonable.

That’s the up side. But, the rates, the So, I ran my own quiet little Facebook fees and the contract itself, have always survey, asked commuters what they caused a certain amount of grumbling. thought off the current charges, and For one thing, while Transurban built nobody used the word “reasonable.” A nearly $1 billion in infrastructure for number of people reported fees, from I-95, they were given miles of the old Alexandria where the toll road begins to the end of the extension in Stafford, run- HOV lanes, which we paid for in federal and state taxes. ning as high as $40. And that’s one way.

They also have a provision in their Depending on the time of day, others contracts whereby if the revenues fall reported $25, $30 and someone who got short, i.e. the toll receipts, the state will off easy at $12. Again that’s one way. make up the difference to assure them a The I-66 toll roads were hyped with profit. Would anyone else like a contract the same kind of fanfare as the I-95 like that? I know I would--but these lanes. Virginia’s Deputy Secretary of kinds of clauses are common in so called Transportation at the time even said he expected tolls to be around $7 eastbound privatization contracts.

Several years ago I put the question and $9 westbound. That didn’t happen. Not even close. Commuters started about the high tolls rates to a former

member of the state transportation commission, who was an advocate for this program. When I mentioned just how prohibitively high the fees can become, he shrugged, and said, “…they always have a choice.” However, that response didn’t answer the question.

“Why are the prices so high? Don’t you have a say?” That’s something he didn’t want to talk about.

It still feels like Virginia got hoodwinked in this deal. All throughout the construction, of both the I-95 and I-66 HOT lanes, we knew there would be tolls. But no one gave us any hint they would be as massive as they turned out to be.

Sadly, while some local legislators are making noise, such Danica Roem (D13th District) who said she “…can’t make a case for such exorbitant fares,” no one else has demanded an audit or a reasonable oversight of how this whole mysterious toll-pricing system works.

We’re just supposed to sit quietly and not ask questions. What’s more, there are more plans for such privatized roads in Virginia.

So maybe it’s about time we started asking questions, while we still have time.

David Kerr, a former member of the Stafford County School Board, is an instructor in political science at VCU and can be reached at StaffordNews@insidenova.com.

TO THE EDITOR Medicaid is not a game I don’t think Virginia has ever been this close to Medicaid expansion and I say, “It’s about time!” From the first, I heard cries of not trusting the federal government to continue to honor their word of supplying the promised dollars. That was $10.5 billion that Virginia missed out on while 32 states and Washington, D.C., smiled all the way to the bank when they went to cash their Medicaid expansion checks.

What are positive effects to Virginia of accepting Medicaid expansion? Medicaid is the primary funding source for individuals with disabilities, whether mental or physical, who need access to community-based care. This even includes the concept of “aging in place.” It would give our residents the security of emergency and medical care as well as behavioral health services such as outpatient therapy, psychiatry and medication management for mental illness. It would provide dollars for preventive services, such as breast cancer screenings and mammograms. Routine screenings on a consistent basis will lead to earlier

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diagnosis, improving treatment options and outcomes, thus reducing the cost of care compared to later diagnosis. It will assist our residents who cannot afford or qualify for other insurance and would save on hospital and medical provider expenses that we all pay anyway. It would provide support for 18,000 jobs in health care and would generate $89 million in new state and local tax revenues in fiscal 2020.

This issue is not a game, although it seems to have been treated like one. A game where the goal was to harm lives, not save them. Let’s start saving lives, working on our economy and finally choosing Medicaid expansion.

Mary D. Lopez Manassas

Pull yourselves out of self-inflicted circumstances

Passage of the proposed Medicaid expansion is fraught with financial risk to the Virginia tax payer. Even with a work requirement, which will be hard to de-

fine and even harder to enforce, expansion is reliant on federal dollars that are supposed to come from the Obamacare program.

Keeping mind that Obamacare is still subject to rejection, abolishment, defunding, the cost of funding the expansion then falls to state taxpayers and an increase in state government.

The last thing we need at either the state or the federal level is expansion.

Our goal should be reduction of government intrusion into the lives of hard working Americans.

While I have compassion on those who are truly impaired and in need of assistance, I have little concern for those who have made life altering decisions that result in negative impacts on their lives.

Some have had the intestinal fortitude to pull themselves out of their selfinflicted circumstances, but the majority wallow in their decisions.

Robert E Martin Jr Woodbridge

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March 24; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Curtis Park, Stafford Ages 10 and under; $10 pre-register/$12 at gate staffordparks.com Eggsplosion March 24; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Curtis Park, Stafford Facebook.com/Eggsplosion Dogwood Festival March 24 - May 5; event times vary Charlottesville: locations vary cvilledogwoodfestival.com

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Easter Egg Hunt March 25; 1 p.m.

1221 Washington Drive, Aquia Harbour Free admission Easter Extravaganza March 25; noon to 3 p.m.

FunLand, Central Park 1351 Central Park Blvd., Fredericksburg Beeping Egg Hunt March 25, 2 to 4 p.m.

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Preschool Egg Hunt March 26; 10 a.m.

Rowser Building, Stafford $5 residents/$10 nonresidents staffordparks.com

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Easter Bunny Lunch March 30; 10:30 a.m. to noon Rowser Building, Stafford Ages 5 and under staffordparks.com

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UMW Chamber Music Festival April 7, 7:30 p.m.

University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg umw.edu

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2400 Airport Ave., Fredericksburg fredbrewfest.com and eventbrite.com

Rabies Clinic April 14; 8:30 a.m. to noon; $7 per vaccine Stafford County’s Government Center 1300 Courthouse road, Stafford Pre-register through April 6 Multicultural Fair April 14; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg umw.edu Aquia Evening Lions’ Monte Carlo Night April 14; 7 p.m.; $20 Aquia Harbour’s Harbour Inn Washington Drive Circle, Stafford 540-659-2825

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Food Truck Rodeo April 25; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Spotsylvania Courthouse Village 9010 Battlefield Blvd., Spotsylvania Aquia Lions’ Benefit Dinner: St. Jude’s April 28; 6:30 to 11 p.m.

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LOOK FOR ‘DINNER IN THE DARK’ Members of the Stafford County Lions Club will host Dinner in the Dark from 5-8:30 p.m. March 24 to raise funds to buy an additional audiometer, SPOT vision screener and donation to the Foundation Fighting Blindness.

The Foundation Fighting Blindness is the leading private funder of retinal disease research. The purchase of an additional audiometer and SPOT vision screener will expand the club’s reach for vision and hearing screenings in Stafford County. The past year the four Lions Clubs in Stafford screened 6,300 students for vision and 480 for hearing.

The audiometer will allow hearing screenings for children 4 years and younger. Current audiometers are for children 5 years and up.

“Money raised on March 24 will allow Lions to continue the good work of early detection of vision and hearing issues in the children of our community,” Ed Tober, club president, said. “Lions members thank everyone who contributes to this important work. You are truly helping Lions make a difference in our community.”

Tickets may be purchased at http://www.e-clubhouse.org/sites/ staffordcounty/ The Stafford County Lions Club has 31 members and meets on the

third Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at the Gauntlet Golf Club, 18 Fairview Drive, Stafford.

For more, contact 703-517-2360 or visit http://www.e-clubhouse.org/ sites/staffordcounty/.

AQUIA TOWN HALL SET FOR MARCH 29 An Aquia District town hall meeting hosted by Supervisor Cindy Shelton will be March 29, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the ground floor conference room of the Stafford Hospital, 101 Hospital Center Blvd.

FAMPO TO HOLD PUBLIC HEARING ON TRANSPORTATION PLAN The Fredericksburg Area Metropolitan Planning Organization has initiated a 30-day public comment period for the draft 2045 LongRange Transportation Plan.

The public is invited to their share comments with FAMPO through April 11.

A public hearing is scheduled during the policy committee meeting April 16 during the FAMPO policy committee meeting which beings at 7:15 p.m. at the George Washington Regional Commission/FAMPO office located at 406 Princess Anne St., in Fredericksburg.

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Is 5G the true answer to rural broadband?

We aren’t any closer to truly exIt will come as a shock to no panding broadband access. Interone that a major concern for resinet service providers are not godents in rural counties of Northing to invest millions of dollars ern Virginia, is reliable broadin low populated areas, because band internet access. When I the return on investment will was part of Culpeper County’s take decades due to high inbroadband steering commitstallation costs. tee, I would hear stories from Local governments across the real estate agents and home JOHN BARKER state have been a mix of combuilders that the first question pletely “hands off ” to several asked by buyers was “Is highspeed internet available in the home?” It counties, such as near the Eastern Shore, was the first question my wife and I asked setting up their own broadband authority.

Finally, you have truly innovative combefore moving to Culpeper three years panies such as local start-up TraxyL, that ago.

have revolutionized installation of fiber optic lines by “painting” them on roadways. This drastically reduces the cost of installation by not having to trench lines.

But it’s hard for me to envision a way rural broadband gets solved without major industry or a tech giant with deep pockets continuing the fight. The rollout of mobile 5G over the next several years could be the answer, depending how telecom providers handle it.

How is 5G better?

We typically think of upgrades to services as being smaller and faster, but that is not the complete case when it comes to 5G. 5G will have the following improvements: data speeds up to 20 gbps, 1 millisecond latency, ability to handle up to 100x the number of connected devices per area, and the potential of a 90 percent reduction in network energy used.

In practical terms, this mean if you are in a very congested area or at a large event, your cell phone service will be more reliable with little network congestion. Real time interactivity or augmented reality apps will function much more smoothly. 5G will be able to integrate low power remote monitoring sensors. Innovative technology such as driverless cars will be able to communicate more reliably and respond faster to the environment than a human.

What’s the downside?

The major downside to the 5G rollout is the amount and placement of the necessary towers throughout the community.

It is estimated that the smaller equipment will need to be placed an average of 500 feet apart.

The Virginia State Assembly just approved a bill 15.2-2316.3 that would allow wireless towers shorter than 50 feet to be installed without getting certain local approval, effectively removing local land-use authority oversight in these instances.

There is also a growing group of scientists (180 from 35 countries) concerned with long term exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) because of the significant amount of additional cell towers needed to make 5G work. A lobbying group for firefighters in California has successfully exempted 5G towers from placement on firehouses.

The biggest concern I have with 5G as a true alternative for home broadband is potential data caps. A reason given for data caps is that current equipment can only handle so many connections reliably. 5G eliminates that hurdle. Verizon has come out and said that there will be no data caps for the yet-to-be released 5G home service. But will that last?

There is not expected to be any significant rollout of 5G technology until 2019.

Each major cell carrier has different test cities around the country.

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White holds down second base for Davis & Elkins » BY DAVID DRIVER

as a second baseman and shortstop. He played travel ball for the Stafford Riverbandits and a team in Rappahannock.

White played in a college league last summer in Norfolk and this summer hopes to play in a college league in West Palm Beach, Florida.

He is the son of Michael and Stacy, and he has a sister. His mother played basketball in high school while his father played soccer and baseball.

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Steven White recognized the difference right away when he began to face pitchers at the Division II college level.

“Knowing that when I stepped in the box it is a little bit different [from high school],” he said. “In high school nobody’s fastball would blow by me.”

He said practicing at Colonial Forge High, with a focus on hitting with two strikes, served him well last season as a freshman at Division II Davis & Elkins in West Virginia.

“That was good to bring to college with me,” White said. “Once I got here, fastballs were no longer capped at 80 miles per hour [like in high school]. They were 85 to 90 with movement. Every pitcher had at least three pitches. It was a big difference here, mostly with the pitching.”

White is now a sophomore second baseman at Davis & Elkins, where he hit .212 in the first 14 games this season, with 12 starts. The Senators host Ohio Dominican for a doubleheader March 24.

Last season as a freshman, he played in 39 of 45 games, with 38 starts, and hit .243 with one double, no triples and no homers with 12 RBIs as the Senators were 11-34 overall.

Earlier this season the Senators played a series in North Carolina against Mount Olive, at the time ranked in the top five in Division II.

Colonial Forge High School graduate Steven White is in his second year at Davis & Elkins in West Virginia.

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Davis & Elkins lost all three games in late February, by scores of 12-2, 6-4 and 20-3.

“That is a very good program. We are not going to see anyone as good as Mount Olive,” White said. “We were able to compete with those guys when we were there.

We should have taken two of those games.

We will be able to handle our competition a little bit better. The conference is looking a little easier to handle. It is not something we worry about. You have to expect the best from everybody.”

White attracted attention from college programs such as Charleston in West Virginia, UNC-Wilmington and Virginia schools such as Ferrum and Bridgewater.

“It is a small school that is out of state,” he said of Davis & Elkins. “Academically

there are 14 students per teacher. I can learn better that way, personally. It is a small school; I really like that. It was a big jump, a big difference, coming from Colonial Forge.

“I wanted something with a small-town feel. It got me out of Virginia. I like Virginia, don’t get my wrong. It is good to get away a little bit.”

Last season he had 28 hits in 115 atbats and also scored 15 runs, with four walks while getting hit by a pitch six times. White had an on-base average of .302 with five sacrifice bunts. On defense he had a fielding average of .966 with 78 putouts and 94 assists.

White played four years at Colonial Forge and was all-region and all-district

HOLLAND, PRINCETON WIN IVY LEAGUE TITLE Senior guard and Colonial Forge grad Kenya Holland of Princeton had six points off the bench as the Tigers beat Penn 63-34 to win the Ivy League basketball title earlier this month. That earned Princeton an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

“Always want to come out strong and assert your will and utilize the energy of the crowd,” Princeton coach Courtney Banghart told reporters. “We wanted to utilize the momentum of their energy. ...

Trying to say in basketball terms, being active versus reactive. We were very active coming out of the locker room.”

Holland had 19 minutes off the bench Friday as the Tigers ended season with 77-57 loss to Maryland in the NCAA tourney.

David Driver can be reached at StaffordNews@insidenova.com.

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Riley Croce’s game grows from overseas visit » BY HUGH RIST

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Once Mountain View boys’ soccer forward Riley Croce took a three-week trip to play with a team based in Denmark last February, the trajectory of both his high school soccer career and his aspirations took an auspicious turn.

Croce, then a junior, attended an open tryout for the HIK Hellerup soccer club sponsored in Alexandria, and through that experience he was invited to play during a three-week showcase tournament before overseas scouts. Following that experience, Croce returned with a

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“The overseas game is much faster,” Croce said. “You have to move off the ball more and need to move the ball with one touch, whereas here you can make [sometimes] two or three passes.”

Croce said that the trip also whetted his appetite to play overseas immediately after graduating, and he has a trip planned to Portugal this summer to play in front of more overseas scouts.

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But first, Croce has his sights set on winning a state title for Mountain View this year during his senior season.

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“We only lost three seniors from last year’s team, so we know we have a lot of experience back. The seniors all carry a big leadership role and we are looking forward to doing big things as a team.”

Croce’s soccer pedigree is rooted in watching his older sister, Brittany, play soccer for North Stafford when he was 5 years old.

“I would go to her games and it was there I fell in love with the sport. I have two other siblings and we all either play or watch soccer, so we’re a soccer family for sure,” Croce said.

Some players have concentrated on academy soccer rather than playing high school soccer, but Croce said he likes playing both. He plays travel soccer for Stafford Soccer.

“High school soccer is a more physical game,” Croce said. “Club soccer is a slower, more technical game. I like the fact that there is that difference.”

Croce said his strength as a player is his dribbling, but there is still room for developing his game.

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Croce said the approach the Wildcats take to every game has served them well so far during their start.

“We pretty much let the opponent know that we are going to press you. We want to take control of the tempo of the game because it puts the other team on their heels,” Croce said. “My big goal personally is making people around me better. Everyone loves scoring goals, naturally, but I love helping my teammates get in a position to score.”

Hugh Rist can be reached at StaffordNews@insidenova.com.

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