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Five Ohio communities
to receive detailed
tech assessment and
broadband plan
Project assists
communities
with enhancing
technology
standing
Staff Report
TDSnews@civitasmedia.com

COLUMBUS — Connect Ohio has selected
ﬁve Ohio communities,
including Meigs County, to participate in the
Connected Community
Engagement Program
(Connected).
The ﬁve Ohio communities selected
include: City of Dayton,
Fairﬁeld County, MeigsVinton Progress (Meigs
and Vinton Counties),
Wyandot County, and
Western Reserve Port
Authority and Oak
Hill Collaborative
(Youngstown).
Each will receive a
comprehensive technology assessment and
innovative project plan
to enhance the technology standing in today’s
digital economy. The
awards are part of Connect Ohio’s funding

from the state of Ohio
to continue advancing broadband access,
adoption, and use for
all Ohioans.
Connect Ohio is a
program of Connected
Nation, the national
leader in community
technology planning
and data analysis.
Connected Nation has
compiled strategic technology plans for communities in the U.S.
for more than 10 years.
This work evolved into
what is known as the
Connected program, a
community technology
assessment and planning tool. Connected
has led more than 300
communities across
seven states in the
development of their
own technology plans
for enhanced success.
“Building a techenabled community
starts with a comprehensive planning
effort—a solid understanding of the needs
and opportunities,”
said Stu Johnson,
executive director for
Connect Ohio and vice
president for Connected Nation, Inc. “The
See PLAN | 5

Appeals court upholds
ex-Athens County
sheriff corruption
conviction
COLUMBUS, Ohio
(AP) — The 4th District Court of Appeals
has upheld the conviction of a former Ohio
sheriff imprisoned for
public corruption.
Former Athens
County Sheriff Patrick
Kelly was accused of
pocketing cash by selling county vehicles to a
salvage yard and spending public money on
clothes and meals. He
was sentenced to seven
years in prison.
His attorney argued
there was insufﬁcient
evidence to convict
Kelly on several charges,

including theft and
engaging in a pattern of
corrupt activity.
Defense attorney
Scott Wood also questioned instructions to
the jury and alleged the
court wrongly found
Kelly guilty of contempt.
The Fourth Ohio District Court of Appeals
rejected those arguments in a unanimous
ruling last week, saying
there was sufﬁcient
evidence to support the
convictions.
The case was prosecuted by the Ohio Attorney General’s Ofﬁce.

Courtesy photo

Law enforcement recovered around $4,500 in cash, a .22 caliber pistol, as well as over 17 grams of heroin, marijuana and pills along with
digital scales at Monday morning’s drug bust.

Officers reportedly fired upon during drug bust
Staff Report

CLAY TOWNSHIP
— Gallia-Meigs Task
Force agents, along with
deputies with the Gallia
Sheriff’s Ofﬁce, served a
search warrant at a residence on Cooper Road
where they were allegedly ﬁred upon when
attempting to enter the
residence early Monday
morning.
According to a statement released by Gallia
County Sheriff Matt

Champlin, deputies,
along with task force
agents, executed the
search warrant on Jan. 2
at approximately 12:45
a.m. at 672 Cooper
Road near Gallipolis in
northern Clay Township.
According to Champlin,
as law enforcement
approached the front
door of the residence,
ofﬁcers knocked and
announced they were
there to serve a search
warrant. While attempting to breach the door,

two shots were allegedly
ﬁred from inside the residence and exited near
the door where ofﬁcers
were attempting to gain
entry. Moments later, a
male allegedly pushed a
window open and tossed
a ﬁrearm which landed
in the vicinity of other
ofﬁcers at the rear of
the residence. Ofﬁcers
were able to make entry
into the residence and
detained Joseph M. Ellis,
35, and Amber N. Stewart, 32. Gallia County

Children’s Services were
contacted due to Stewart’s 5-year-old son being
home at the time of the
incident.
Once the scene was
secured, law enforcement
searched the residence
and property. Task force
agents seized several
items including a .22 caliber pistol, over 17 grams
of heroin, marijuana and
pills along with sets of
digital scales. Agents
See BUST | 5

Bossard begins to dismantle ‘Bodies’ exhibit
Final attendance record far exceeds expectations
By Miranda Wood
mwood@civitasmedia.com

GALLIPOLIS —When the
Bossard Memorial Library
decided to host the “Bodies
Revealed” exhibition, which
was on display from Sept. 24
to Dec. 31, it was, in a sense,
a “leap of faith,” according to
Library Director Debbie Saunders.
Saunders elaborated that she
had faith the community would
participate in the exhibit and
faith the exhibit would be well
received.
There were goals set for
Miranda Wood/Tribune
attendees
and much planning
Pictured are Bossard Library Director Debbie
Saunders with Steve Moore, the head of building involved, yet the outcome was
maintenance, reviewing the “load out” procedures beyond what was expected.
to remove the successful “Bodies Revealed” exhibit. Saunders set a personal goal of

10,000 attendees, the exhibit,
however, received a total of
19,555 attendees.
Saunders stated there were
many important aspects of
the “Bodies Revealed” exhibit.
The educational aspect of the
exhibit was one she felt encompassed not only aspects such
as science and health, but also
helped to bring attention to
the educational value of public
libraries and the community.
She also expressed the exhibit
might have “inspired a child
or adult to go into the medical
ﬁeld or in another scientiﬁc
ﬁeld.”
Saunders also said she heard
patrons of the exhibit talk with
See BODIES | 5

Bill Johnson sworn in to the 115th Congress

INDEX
Obituary: 2
News: 3
Opinion: 4
Weather: 5
Sports: 6
Classifieds: 8
Comics: 9

Staff Report

ing with President-elect Trump
and my colleagues on both sides of
the political aisle to ﬁnd commonWASHINGTON — Repsense solutions that work
resentative Bill Johnson
for the American people. It
(R-Marietta) was sworn in
matters little to me whether
on Tuesday to represent
an idea originates with the
Ohio’s Sixth Congressional
Republicans or Democrats;
District for the 115th Conrather, what matters is the
gress. It marks the start of
impact it will have on those
Johnson’s fourth term in
I represent. It is my hope
Congress, after ﬁrst being
Johnson
that President-elect Trump
elected in 2010.
will work with Congress to
In a news release, Johnson
advance an agenda that will reign
stated, “I am extremely honored
in Washington’s out-of-control
and humbled to have been chosen
bureaucracies, spending, and
by the hardworking people of
ballooning national debt, secure
Eastern and Southeastern Ohio to energy independence – which
serve them in Congress.”
includes all energy sources, includ“There are difﬁcult challenges
ing coal, grow our economy and
ahead, and I look forward to work-

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make positive, lasting changes for
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easy — it never is — but, I am
committed to the hard work of
governing that lies ahead.”
Johnson added, “Remember, I
work for you – it’s not the other
way around. I didn’t run for ofﬁce
to sit in a fancy ofﬁce or have
a nice-sounding title. Rather,
I sought to serve in order to
improve the lives of the American
people, and to ensure that our
children and grandchildren have
the same opportunities that my
See JOHNSON | 5

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OBITUARIES

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MEIGS BRIEFS

CHARLOTTE HARPER
MIDDLEPORT —
Charlotte Ann Harper,
76, of Middleport, Ohio,
passed away Monday,
Jan. 2, 2017, at her residence.
She was born Aug.
14, 1940, at Middleport,
Ohio, to the late Charles
and Mircia I. Zimmerman
Harrison. She retired as
a Postmaster for the U.S.
Postal Service, a homemaker, and a member
of Rocksprings United
Methodist Church, Pomeroy, Ohio.
Survived by children,
Steve (Mindy) Peckham,
Jeff Peckham, Greg
(Cheryl) Peckham, Tim
(Diane) Wamsley, Carl
(Casey) Harper and
Tam (Vern) Riley; special grandson, Mathew
(Misty) Peckham;
granddaughter, Brittany (Chad) Schuler;

Editor’s Note: Meigs Briefs
will only list event information
that is open to the public and will
be printed on a space-available
basis.

great-grandson, James
Peckham; nephew, Mike
Harrison; niece, Cathy
(George) Hereford; 12
other grandchildren; and
11 other great-grandchildren.
Besides parents preceded by her husband, Gary
Carl Harper (August
2016); brother, Clyde
Olen Harrison; nephew,
Ronnie Harrison; and
niece, Vicki S. Ellis.
Services are Thursday,
Jan. 5, 2017, at 11 a.m. at
Birchﬁeld Funeral Home,
Rutland, Ohio with
Lenora Leifheit ofﬁciating. Burial to follow at
Miles Cemetery, Rutland,
Ohio. Family will receive
friends Wednesday, Jan.
4, 2017 from 5-7 p.m. at
the funeral home.
Online condolences
may be sent at birchﬁeldfuneralhome.com.

Road
closure
LONG BOTTOM — One
lane of State Route 124 in Meigs
County is closed 0.5 miles north
of Township Road 402 (Barr Hollow) for an emergency landslide
repair. Temporary trafﬁc signals
are in place. The estimated completion date is June 30, 2017.

Animal bedding
available
MIDDLEPORT — The Meigs
County Humane Society will
be providing straw for animal
bedding during the months of
December, January and February. Vouchers may be picked up
at the Humane Society Thrift
Shop located at 253 N. Second
Street in Middleport. To receive

DAVIS
MILTON, W.Va. — Loreda Ellouise “Susie” Davis,
85, of Milton, W.Va., passed away Monday, January 2,
2017 in St. Mary’s Medical Center.
Visitation will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, January 5, 2017 at Heck Funeral Home, Milton.
Funeral service will be conducted at 1 p.m. at the funeral home with Pastor Ronnie Long ofﬁciating. Burial
will follow in Mt. Zion Baptist Church Cemetery.

a voucher you must provide proof Youth Development Educator, at
stumbo.5@osu.edu or 740-992of income and pay a $2 fee for a
6696.
bale of straw. For more information contact the Humane Society
Thrift Shop at 740-992-6064 from
10 a.m to 4 p.m., Monday through
Saturday.

Immunization
clinic

Plat Books
available

POMEROY — The Meigs
County Health Department will
conduct an Immunization Clinic
from 9-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m. on
POMEROY — Meigs County Tuesdays at 112 E. Memorial
Drive in Pomeroy. Please bring
4-H Committee has Plat Books
child(ren)’s shot records. Children
for sale for $25. Funds support
must be accompanied by a parent/
the 4-H program in the county
by providing funds for supplies, legal guardian. A $15 donation
is appreciated for immunization
camp and college scholarships,
administration; however, no one
learning opportunities and
more. To purchase a Plat Book, will be denied services because of
an inability to pay an administrayou can stop by the Extension
tion fee for state-funded childOfﬁce on Monday-Thursday
from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., mail $30 hood vaccines. Please bring medi(for book, shipping &amp; handling) cal cards and/or commercial insurance cards, if applicable. Zostavax
to Meigs County 4-H Commit(shingles); pneumonia ; inﬂuenza
tee, 113 East Memorial Dr,
vaccines are also available. Call
Suite E, Pomeroy, OH 45769
for eligibility determination and
or visit the Meigs County
availability or visit our website at
Recorder’s Ofﬁce in the Court
www.meigs-health.com to see a
House. If you have any queslist of accepted commercial insurtions, please contact Michelle
ances and Medicaid for adults.
Stumbo, Meigs County 4-H

MEIGS CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Editor’s Note: The Daily Sentinel appreciates your input to the
community calendar. To make sure
items can receive proper attention,
all information should be received
by the newspaper at least ﬁve business days prior to an event. All
coming events print on a spaceavailable basis and in chronological order. Events can be emailed to:
TDSnews@civitasmedia.com.

HILL
JACKSON — Fred Hill, 70, of Jackson, passed
away Monday, January 2, 2017, at OSU Hospital East,
Columbus.
A memorial will be planned in the future for family
and friends.

REYNOLDS

Card Shower
Mildred Hart will celebrate her
97th birthday with a card shower
on Saturday, January 7th from
2-4 p.m. at Overbrook Center in

CHESAPEAKE — Dolores Reynolds, 85, of Chesapeake, passed away Monday, January 2, 2017 at The
Emogene Dolin Jones Hospice House, Huntington,
W.Va.
Hall Funeral Home and Crematory, Proctorville, is
in charge of arrangements, which are incomplete.

E. Memorial Drive, Suite D, Pomeroy.
CHESTER — Chester Shade
Historical Board meeting for
January will be held at the Chester
Wednesday, Jan. 4
Academy starting at 6:30 p.m.
SCIPIO TWP. — Scipio Township Trustees Organizational Meet- Everyone is welcome to attend. We
will be discussing new business
ing will be held at 7 p.m. at the
and making plans for the Annual
Harrisonville Fire House.
Beneﬁt Dinner in April.
Thursday, Jan. 5
Friday, Jan. 6
POMEROY — The Meigs Soil
HEMLOCK GROVE — Meigs
&amp; Water Conservation District
County Pomona Grange will
Board of Supervisors will hold
their reorganizational board meet- meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Hemlock
Grange Hall. All members are
ing at 11:30 a.m. at the district
ofﬁce. The ofﬁce is located at 113 urged to attend.
Middleport. Family, friends, and
Overbook residents are invited to
attend. Cards only.

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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Mickey Blake, 76, of Huntington, W.Va., passed away on Monday January 1, 2017
at St. Mary’s Medical Center, Huntington.
The family will receive friends Thursday January 5,
2017 from 6 - 8 p.m. at Hall Funeral Home and Crematory, Proctorville. There will be a short service at 8 p.m.

GARVIN
WILKESVILLE — Mary Pridemore Garvin, 82, of
Wilkesville, passed away on Tuesday, January 3, 2017.
Funeral Services will be held 11 a.m., Friday, January 6, 2017. Burial will follow in the Vinton Memorial
Park. Friends may call at the McCoy-Moore Funeral
Home, Vinton Chapel, on Thursday, 3-6 p.m.

MULLINS, SR.
GALLIPOLIS, Ohio — Charles Edward ‘Charlie’
Mullins Sr., 32, of Gallipolis, Ohio, died Sunday January 1, 2017 at his residence.
Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Friday January 6,
2017 at the Waugh-Halley-Wood Funeral Home. Burial
will follow in Centenary Cemetery. Friends may call
at the funeral home on Friday from 11 a.m. until the
time of service.

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J. Scott Applewhite | AP

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calififornia
discusses the move by House Republicans to eviscerate the
independent Office of Government Ethics, during a network
television interview on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday.
McCarthy voted against the amendment but defended the
overall effort by his caucus.

Retreating after
Trump tweet, GOP
won’t gut ethics office
By Erica Werner
AP Congressional Correspondent

WASHINGTON —
The new GOP era in
Washington got off to
a messy start Tuesday
as House Republicans,
under pressure from
President-elect Donald
Trump, abruptly dropped
plans to gut an independent congressional ethics
board.
The dizzying aboutface came as lawmakers
convened for the ﬁrst day
of the 115th Congress,
an occasion normally
reserved for pomp and
ceremony under the
Capitol Dome. Instead,
House Republicans found
themselves under attack
not only from Democrats
but from their new president, over their secretive
move Monday to neuter
the independent Ofﬁce of
Congressional Ethics and
place it under lawmakers’
control.
GOP leaders scrambled
to contain the damage,
and within hours of
Trump registering his
criticism on Twitter,
they called an emergency
meeting where House
Republicans voted without opposition to undo
the change.
The episode, coming
even before the new
Congress was convened
and lawmakers were
sworn in, was a powerful
illustration of the sway
Trump may hold over his
party in a Washington
that will be fully under
Republican control for
the ﬁrst time in a decade.
GOP lawmakers who’ve
felt unfairly targeted
by the ethics ofﬁce had
deﬁed their own leaders
with their initial vote to
neuter the body, but once
Trump weighed in they
backpedaled immediately.
“With all that Congress has to work on,
do they really have to
make the weakening of
the Independent Ethics
Watchdog, as unfair as
it may be, their number
one act and priority,”
Trump had asked over
Twitter Tuesday morning, in an objection that
appeared focused more
on timing than on substance. Trump, who will
take ofﬁce in a little over
two weeks, said the focus
should be on tax reform
and health care, and he
included the hash-tag
#DTS, for “Drain the
Swamp,” his oft-repeated
campaign promise to
bring change to Wash-

ington.
Democrats and even
many Republicans were
quick to point out that
the lawmakers’ plans for
their ethics watchdog
ﬂew in the face of that
notion. The measure was
part of a GOP-written
rules package that faced a
vote in the full House late
Tuesday and looked like
it could fail after Trump
registered his objections
amid a public outcry
from good government
activists.
“We were elected on
a promise to drain the
swamp, and starting the
session by relaxing ethics
rules is a very bad start,”
said GOP Rep. Tom
McClintock of California.
House Majority
Leader Kevin McCarthy
mentioned Trump’s
opposition in the emergency meeting, and some
lawmakers said it had a
powerful effect.
“I do believe when
President-elect Trump
tweeted out...members
got calls,” said Rep. Lou
Barletta, R-Pa. Trump
spoke by phone with
House Speaker Paul Ryan
on Tuesday after the ethics change was dropped.
The Ofﬁce of Congressional Ethics was created
in 2008 after several
bribery and corruption
cases in the House, but
lawmakers of both parties have groused about
the way it operates.
Lawmakers were
especially incensed by an
investigation of members
of Congress from both
parties who went on a
2013 trip to Azerbaijan
paid for by that country’s
government. Lawmakers
said after the investigation was made public in
2015 that they had no
idea the trip was paid for
by the government, and
the House Ethics Committee ultimately cleared
them.
Once the ethics controversy was dispensed
with, Congress returned
to the ceremonial business. As set out in the
Constitution, both chambers gaveled in at noon,
and as storm clouds
threatened outside, the
halls of the Capitol ﬁlled
with lawmakers’ children,
friends and spouses
on hand to witness the
procedures. The day
had a festive feel of the
ﬁrst day back at school,
as new arrivals roamed
the halls with old hands,
exchanging greetings and
taking in the day.

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PORTLAND — A Bible study will be held on
Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. at the Portland Community Center with Rev. Tom Curtis. Everyone
welcome.
MIDDLEPORT — Pastor Billy Zuspan of the
First Baptist Church of Middleport has begun an
in-depth Bible study of The Revelation during the
Sunday and Wednesday evening services at 7 p.m.
at 211 S. 6th Ave., Middleport, Ohio. If you have
questions, please call 740-992-2755 and leave a
message.

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One of the 6-month-old Sumatran tiger cubs Achilles or Karis plays with a blackboard during a photo call for the annual stock take
at London Zoo in London Tuesday. Caring for more than 750 different species, ZSL London Zoo’s keepers face the challenging task of
tallying up every mammal, bird, reptile, fish and invertebrate at the Zoo.

Search for Ohio plane will last until recovery
CLEVELAND (AP) —
Cleveland ofﬁcials say the
search for a plane carrying
six people that disappeared last week over Lake
Erie will continue until the
aircraft is found.
Ofﬁcials said more
debris that possibly came

from the plane was found
Tuesday on the shoreline.
They have said many of
more than 120 pieces
of debris found are consistent with that type of
aircraft and a bag from the
plane was found.
Tuesday was the

third consecutive day
that weather conditions
allowed searchers to look
for the Columbus-bound
Cessna 525 Citation that
vanished shortly after
takeoff Thursday night
from Burke Lakefront
Airport.

Ofﬁcials say the search
area covers about 12
square miles.
A business executive
was piloting the plane carrying his wife, two sons
and two neighbors, including a University of Wisconsin-Madison student.

California snowpack measures low, but storms coming
PHILLIPS STATION, Calif.
(AP) — The ﬁrst manual survey
this year of California’s snowpack
revealed Tuesday that it holds
about half as much water as normal, casting a shadow on the state
that’s hoping to dodge a sixth
straight year of drought, ofﬁcials
said.
Surveyors, however, took the
reading at 6,000 feet near Lake
Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada as
major cold and windy storms were
expected to dump four to ﬁve feet
of snow through Thursday in areas
above 4,500 feet in Northern and
Central California, while mountain
areas below that could get two to
three feet, forecasters said.
The storms should boost the
snowpack that provides roughly a

third of California’s water in normal years for drinking, farming and
wildlife when it melts in warm, dry
months.
What surveyors ﬁnd between
now and April 1 will guide state
water ofﬁcials in managing the
water supply of the nation’s most
populous, agriculture-rich state.
Electronic monitors at elevations throughout the Sierra in
late December showed the overall
snowpack had a water content of
72 percent.
At Tuesday’s reading at Phillips
Station, the water content measured at 53 percent of normal, said
Frank Gehrke, chief snow surveyor
at the state Department of Water
Resources.
Gehrke said the level “seems a

little gloomy” as the state tries
to avoid another year of drought.
But he also called it a good start
because higher elevations were
showing a deeper snowpack.
Gehrke also pointed out that the
survey was taken at an elevation
below the snowline for December’s
storms.
A year ago, the snowpack was
slightly above normal levels, but
Gehrke recalled that the rain and
snow essentially stopped in February and March, leaving the state at
a nearly average year for precipitation on April 1.
“This year, it looks like (storms
are) lined up off the coast and will
continue to increase the snowpack,” he said as he stood on about
three feet of snow.

Police investigating poisoning that killed 4 kids
DALLAS (AP) — A criminal
investigation is underway into
an apparent accidental poisoning
involving a professional-grade pesticide that left four children dead
and an Amarillo woman in critical
condition, police said Tuesday.
Authorities are looking into why
the family had the pesticide pellets, called Weevil-cide, which is
only supposed to be sold to people
with professional licenses or certiﬁcation. The product’s manual,
available online, outlines stringent
guidelines for using the product
including having two trained individuals apply it. Figures from the
American Association of Poison
Control Centers show that deaths
from the pesticide are rare.
The father of the children who
died told ﬁrst responders through
a Spanish language interpreter
that he had spread the pellets
under the family’s mobile home
after obtaining the product from a
friend, Amarillo Fire Capt. Larry
Davis said. Davis said the product
is not available for sale to the general public. The product’s manual
says it’s intended for use in pest
control in commercial transport
or storage of commodities and
animal feed.
Davis said the father does not
have professional certiﬁcation as
far as he knows. He did not know
whether the friend who gave him
the product had a certiﬁcation.
Amarillo police spokesman
Ofﬁcer Jeb Hilton says the
department’s special crimes unit
is investigating because of the
child deaths. Once completed,
the investigation will be turned
over to the district attorney to
determine whether charges will be
ﬁled. Hilton said other federal and
state environmental regulation

agencies may also investigate the
use and storage of the chemical.
Fire ofﬁcials identiﬁed the children who died as 7-year-old Felipe
Balderas, 9-year-old Johnnie Balderas, 11-year-old Josue Balderas
and 17-year-old Yasmeen Balderas.
Ofﬁcials have said all four children
lived at the home in Amarillo,
which is about 350 miles northwest of Dallas.
The children’s mother, Martha
Balderas, 45, was in critical condition Tuesday at University Medical Center in Lubbock, according
to a hospital spokesman. Five
other family members, including
the father and four other children,
were being treated at BSA Health
System in Amarillo and were in
stable condition, hospital and ﬁre
ofﬁcials said early Tuesday.
Crews who responded to a 5
a.m. call to the home on Monday
originally thought it was related
to carbon monoxide poisoning.
Authorities later determined that
phosphine gas was likely released
when the father took a garden
hose at some point Sunday and
tried to rinse away some of the
pellets because family members
had complained of the smell.
The water started the chemical
reaction that released the phosphine gas. A visitor arrived early
Monday, found everyone sick and
called 911.
Phosphine gas can cause respiratory failure and in severe cases
can cause a pulmonary edema,
which ﬁlls the lungs full of ﬂuid.
The American Association of
Poison Control Centers, which
compiles data on poisoning,
shows nine deaths from ingesting
or breathing in aluminum phosphide between 2010 and 2015.
Two of those deaths happened

in Utah in 2010, when two young
children died after a pest control
company spread vole pesticide
pellets that released phosphine
gas. Authorities believe the gas
seeped into the home through
cracks in the foundation.
Cynthia Aaron, the medical director for the Michigan
Regional Poison Control Center at
Children’s Hospital of Michigan,
said doctors there more often
treated adult patients for exposure
to phosphine gas from aluminum
phosphide because the pesticide is
often used in industrial shipping.
“It’s not a rare exposure, but
deaths like this are rare,” she said.
“We see mostly the overdoses. For
example, they used to use this in
ship holds when they ship grain.
So if they are de-mousing the big
ship hold and someone doesn’t
realize the pesticide has been
activated or they haven’t yet been
aired out properly, they might
enter and pass out or die.”
Chip Orton, emergency management coordinator for the city of
Amarillo and Potter and Randall
counties, says his staff was working with a number of state and
federal agencies to decontaminate
the Amarillo home. He did not
know when it would be safe for
the family to return.
About 10 police, ﬁre and medical personnel who ﬁrst responded
to the home were taken to the
hospital as a precautionary measure, Davis said. Two were kept
overnight for observation because
of headache and nausea but were
in good condition Tuesday, he
said.
Davis said the home was far
enough away from neighbors that
no other evacuations or treatments were necessary.

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THEIR VIEW

Math education
needs to start early
By Melissa E. Libertus
and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
Contributing Columnists

Educators and parents alike are alarmed over
the persistent gaps between 15-year-olds in the
United States and their international peers on science and math outcomes.
According to the latest results of the Programme for International Student Assessment, or
PISA, released on Dec. 6, American adolescents
rank a paltry 31st out of the 35 Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development countries in math, and math scores have signiﬁcantly
declined since the last PISA in 2012.
To combat this trend, forces have mobilized
around STEM education — stressing the experiences needed to build a foundation for science,
technology, engineering and mathematics. Fostering strong STEM education will safeguard our
place in the world and ensure our children a place
in tomorrow’s workforce.
Yet our lagging international PISA scores
highlight how we continue to miss an essential
element in preparing our students for the future:
Evidence suggests that the road to strong STEM
education starts not in elementary or middle
school, but at home and in preschool with very
young children.
Some parents and teachers talk about numbers
and math frequently so that their children are
hearing words such as “two,” “twelve,” “more,”
“less,” “count,” and “add” repeatedly in various
contexts. Other parents and teachers, however,
rarely use number and math words or engage children in meaningful math-learning activities.
Failing to talk to our kids about math and introducing them to mathematical ideas and activities
is what we call “The Great Shortchange” because
it stunts children’s math growth and their future
success. This is precisely where we need to act:
We must bring math into our homes and preschools.
To be speciﬁc, research indicates that some
parents of toddlers use an average of more than
30 number words every hour (e.g., “Where are the
three girls in the picture?”). Other parents, however, use only one number word every two hours,
on average. This creates close to a 6,000 percent
difference in math input at home. The results are
even more worrisome when we look at preschool
teachers. Some preschool teachers use more than
100 math words per hour, but others use only one
— almost a 10,000 percent difference.
Given these differences in children’s experience,
it is no surprise that children who are exposed to
more activities and talk related to math acquire
new math concepts faster and enter kindergarten
better prepared for learning math. Although some
children can barely count to 10, others are already
doing basic arithmetic.
Crucially, math abilities at the start of school
are among the strongest predictors of later math
achievement. Researchers in early mathematics,
among them Douglas Clements from the University of Denver, Herbert Ginsburg from Teachers
College at Columbia University, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek from Temple University, Nancy Jordan from the
University of Delaware, Susan C. Levine from the
University of Chicago, and Robert S. Siegler from
Carnegie Mellon University, share our concern
and contribute to the inquiry that speaks to these
issues.
So what can we do?
Early math needs to be promoted in the same
way that early language and emergent literacy
have been promoted over the past decades. We
need to foster the ABCs and the 1, 2, 3s (and
higher). Parents and early childhood educators
need to know that math learning starts early, that
it is important, and that it cannot wait until children are in elementary school.
Children enjoy learning to count and the meanings of number words (that the word “four” means
there are four things); comparing number words
and deciding which is larger; identifying, describing and constructing shapes (how many sides
does a triangle have?); and understanding how
much money a lollipop costs versus a toy truck.
Numbers can be a natural part of parents’ talk
with their children. At the grocery store, for example, parents can talk about the number of bananas
in a bunch and how many would remain if you
picked off two, the cost of a child’s favorite cereal,
and what it means to be “on sale.” At home, they
can count the number of plates needed to set the
table, and they can weigh and measure ﬂour and
salt when they bake together. When children ask
how long it takes for the cookies to bake in the
oven, parents have another opportunity to use
number talk.
When traveling by car or bus and children ask
the perennial “Are we there yet?,” parents can talk
about the number of miles and minutes to reach
their destination. Board games like Chutes and
Ladders that require counting give numbers real
meaning as they correspond to how many spaces
children can advance with each throw of the dice.
Building with blocks or doing puzzles together
can fuel the spatial skills that undergird math
knowledge.
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THEIR VIEW

Canada’s limited welcome
By Paul May

Contributing Columnist

To a lot of commentators, Canada looks like a
sanctuary for progressive
thinking on immigration, an exception to the
nativist wave sweeping
the United States and
Europe.
A recent cover of
the Economist put a
maple leaf crown on the
Statue of Liberty and
proclaimed Canada “an
example to the world.”
Famously, on election
day, the Canadian immigration website crashed
because of the number
of Americans reportedly
considering a move to
their northern neighbor
as Donald Trump won
the presidency. Year
after year, polls show
that Canadians are, by
far, more open and more
optimistic about immigration than the citizens
in any other Western
country.
But such optimism is
perhaps easier to achieve
in Canada than in other
nations: For historical
and geopolitical reasons,
Canada does not have
to cope with the same
immigration challenges
as the United States and
Europe.
To start, Canada has
pursued a much more
selective immigration
policy than the United
States or any western
European country. It
accepts far more immigrants legally than most
Western nations, but
under a policy designed
primarily to dovetail
with the economic interests of the nation.

Since the 1960s, the
country has sought to
reduce instances of racial
bias in its immigration policy, and it now
prioritizes professional
competence in a younger
generation of migrants,
regardless of ethnicity.
In 1967, it was the
ﬁrst country to move to
points-based admission,
which other countries
have adopted and reﬁned
since then: Applicants
are rated according to
their skills and adaptability relative to the Canadian workforce.
In consequence,
Canada accepts far fewer
immigrants on the basis
of family ties than in the
U.S., for example, and
the proportion of skilled
immigrants is much higher. Further, the country
sets a higher education
standard for immigrants
than the U.S. (which is
in turn more demanding
than Europe). This moreselective immigration
policy is likely to lead to
fewer integration problems and easier access
to jobs.
Canada’s selectivity is
helped by its geographical position. It does not
share a border with a
country where wages
are much lower (as the
U.S. does with Mexico),
and it isn’t next door
to unstable regions (as
Europe is to North Africa
and the Middle East).
The result is that few
undocumented migrants
move across the country’s southern border, as
is the case in the U.S.;
and few migrants land on
its shores by boat, as in
Europe.

The points system
and geography also have
a noticeable effect on
where Canada’s immigrants come from.
Ofﬁcial data show that
the leading countries
among foreign-born residents in Canada are the
United Kingdom, China
and India. In the U.S.,
28 percent are Mexicans
and 24 percent are from
other Latin American
countries. In Europe,
foreign-born residents
originate mainly from
the Muslim world (in
the Netherlands, for
instance, Turkey, Suriname and Morocco;
in France — Algeria
and Morocco). Canada
therefore does not have
to deal (at least not on
the same scale) with the
complex problems associated with integrating
newcomers from a rural
and conservative Muslim
background into a highly
secular environment.
Not that Canada hasn’t
welcomed Muslims.
Between November 2015
and November 2016,
it resettled more than
35,000 Syrian refugees;
most European countries
have been much more
reluctant to extend permanent status to these
immigrants. But again,
Canada can and does
exert a great deal of control over the process.
Refugees accepted in
Canada have been selected by the United Nations
High Commissioner
for Refugees. They’ve
had health and criminal
background screenings;
their identities have
been permanently registered using biometric

Court, in Gonzalez v.
Williams, ruled that
Puerto Ricans were
not aliens and could
enter the United States
freely; however, the court
stopped short of declaring them U.S. citizens.
(Puerto Ricans received
U.S. citizenship in March
1917.)
In 1935, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt,
in his State of the Union
address, called for legislation to provide assistance
for the jobless, elderly,
impoverished children
and the handicapped.
In 1943, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin made the
cover of TIME as the
magazine’s 1942 “Man of
the Year.”

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

security methods such
as iris scanning. Canada
accepts only whole
families, single women
or children. Single
men, considered a possible security threat, are
turned away.
In contrast, a recent
study carried out by
United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees shows that about 62
percent of all migrants
who arrived in Europe
in 2015 were men; 22
percent were children
and only 16 percent were
women. (A portion of
these are Syrian refugees,
but the European Union’s
inadequate screening
does not allow us to estimate the number.)
Of course, not all of
these refugees were
accepted for permanent
settlement in Europe, but
these numbers show that
these nations don’t have
the luxury to carefully
pick and choose refugees.
Canadians are
undoubtedly more tolerant of immigration than
many of their Western
peers. The country succeeds in having both an
efﬁcient welfare state
and an institutional
multiculturalism that
may provide an inspiring
example for a globalizing
world.
But this success is also
because of its speciﬁc
geopolitical situation,
and because it has one of
the strictest immigration
systems in the Western
world.

Paul May is a lecturer in political
science in the department of
government at Harvard University.
He wrote this for the Los Angeles
Times.

TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Wednesday,
Jan. 4, the fourth day of
2017. There are 361 days
left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Jan. 4, 1967, “The
Doors,” the self-titled
debut album of the rock
group featuring the
song “Light My Fire,”
was released by Elektra
Records.
On this date:
In 1717, France, Britain and Holland formed
a Triple Alliance against
Spain.
In 1896, Utah was
admitted as the 45th
state.
In 1904, the Supreme

“Sometimes history takes things into its own
hands.”
— Thurgood Marshall,
U.S. Supreme Court justice (1908-1993)

In 1951, during the
Korean War, North Korean and Communist Chinese forces recaptured
the city of Seoul (sohl).
In 1960, author and
philosopher Albert
Camus (al-BEHR’ kahMOO’) died in an automobile accident in Villeblevin, France, at age 46.
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered
his State of the Union
address in which he
outlined the goals of his

“Great Society.”
In 1974, President
Richard Nixon refused to
hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate
Watergate Committee.
In 1987, 16 people
were killed when an
Amtrak train bound
from Washington, D.C.,
to Boston collided with
Conrail locomotives
that had crossed into its
path from a side track in
Chase, Maryland.

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Math
From page 4

All of these activities
can become part of the
family and preschool
routine and can teach
children signiﬁcant mathematical concepts in a
playful way. They do not
require workbooks, large
amounts of time or inappropriate formal instruction. But they can go a
long way toward closing
the Great Shortchange
and helping prepare
the next generation of

Bust

ReachMelissa E. Libertus is a
research scientist at the Learning
Research and Development Center
and an assistant professor in the
Department of Psychology at the
University of Pittsburgh. Readers
may send her email at libertus@
pitt.edu. Roberta Michnick
Golinkoff is the Unidel H. Rodney
Sharp Professor of Education,
Psychology and Linguistics at the
University of Delaware. Her latest
book is “Becoming Brilliant: What
Science Teaches Us about Raising
Successful Children.” Readers
may send her email at roberta@
udel.edu. They wrote this for The
Philadelphia Inquirer.

communities are asked
to provide input on their
local survey. Projects will
be completed by June
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and will include a oneConnected program will
of-a-kind assessment and
provide just that and
Technology Action Plan
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with strategic insight and
areas of Ohio in advancactionable project plan
ing opportunity through
for addressing the most
technology.”
pressing technology chalThese communities are lenges facing each of the
currently establishing a
ﬁve communities today.
local team to champion
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their individual Connect- this kind of support from
ed projects, with leaderConnect Ohio, which is
ship from staff of the Con- greatly needed here as we
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will be rolled out in each from a post-industrial
community within the
community to an active
next few weeks to begin
participant in the knowlgathering technology
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and parents in these

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generation had. Just as
when I was ﬁrst elected,
I will decline the congressional health care plan
and pension - as a 26-year
veteran, my family and I
will use the same healthcare that our nation’s
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The AccuWeather.com Cold
Index combines the effects of local
weather with a number of demographic factors to provide a scale
showing the overall probability of transmission
and symptom severity of the common cold.

2

24 hours ending 3 p.m. yest.
0.0
Month to date/normal
0.0/0.5
Season to date/normal
1.8/5.1

WEATHER TRIVIA™

SUN &amp; MOON

Q: What is the record high temperature
for January in the United States?

Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset

MOON PHASES
First

Full

Jan 5

Last

New

Jan 12 Jan 19 Jan 27

SOLUNAR TABLE
The solunar period indicates peak feeding times
for ﬁsh and game.

Today
Thu.
Fri.
Sat.
Sun.
Mon.
Tue.

Major
4:19a
5:10a
6:01a
6:50a
7:40a
8:31a
9:24a

Minor
10:31a
11:23a
12:14p
12:37a
1:26a
2:16a
3:09a

Major
4:43p
5:35p
6:27p
7:17p
8:08p
9:00p
9:54p

Minor
10:56p
11:48p
---1:04p
1:54p
2:45p
3:39p

WEATHER HISTORY
A storm on Jan. 4, 1982, drenched
San Francisco, Calif., with 12 inches
of rain and dumped 10 feet of snow
on Lake Tahoe in just two days. The
extreme storminess was blamed on a
strong El Nino.

0-2 Low; 3-4 Moderate; 5-6 High; 7-8 Very High; 9-10 Extreme

A: 98F at Laredo, Texas, on Jan. 17,
1954.

Today
Thu.
7:47 a.m. 7:47 a.m.
5:20 p.m. 5:21 p.m.
11:42 a.m. 12:16 p.m.
12:00 a.m.
none

FRIDAY

Cloudy and cold; a bit
of p.m. snow

AIR QUALITY
0 50 100 150 200

300

Chillicothe
35/19

Air Quality Index: 0-50, Good; 51-100,
Moderate; 101-150, Unhealthy for sensitive
groups; 151-200, Unhealthy; 201-300, Very
unhealthy; 301-500, Hazardous.

Source: Hamilton County Department of
Environmental Services

OHIO RIVER
Levels in feet as of 7 a.m. yesterday

Flood
24-hr.
Location
Stage Level Chg.
Willow Island
37 12.06 -0.40
Marietta
34 17.80 -0.28
Parkersburg
36 22.14 -0.24
Belleville
35 12.97 +0.08
Racine
41 12.74 -0.09
Point Pleasant
40 25.03 +0.08
Gallipolis
50 12.00 -0.02
Huntington
50 27.34 -0.68
Ashland
52 34.93 -0.45
Lloyd Greenup 54 12.72 +0.12
Portsmouth
50 21.30 -1.50
Maysville
50 34.30 -0.30
Meldahl Dam
51 21.70 -1.90
Forecasts and graphics provided by
AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017

Logan
36/18

Waverly
38/21
Lucasville
39/22
Portsmouth
39/21

Ashland
42/24
Grayson
41/22

SUNDAY

MONDAY

29°
16°

Mostly sunny and
quite cold

Sunny and cold

TUESDAY

42°
31°

46°
34°

Partly sunny and not
as cold

Chance for afternoon
rain or drizzle

NATIONAL CITIES
Marietta
41/20

Murray City
36/17
Belpre
41/21

Athens
38/19

McArthur
36/17

500

Primary pollutant: Particulates

Gallia County, Guernsey
County, Harrison County,
Jackson County, Jefferson
County, Lawrence County, Meigs County, Monroe
County, Noble County,
and Washington County.
The 6th Congressional
District also includes
portions of 5 counties:
Athens County, Mahoning County, Muskingum
County, Scioto County,
and Tuscarawas County.

29°
13°

Decreasing clouds
and very cold

Adelphi
35/19

St. Marys
41/20

Parkersburg
40/19

Coolville
40/19

Wilkesville
39/20
POMEROY
Jackson
41/21
38/19
Ravenswood
Rio Grande
42/21
40/21
Centerville
POINT PLEASANT
Ripley
31/18
GALLIPOLIS
42/22
42/22
42/22

South Shore Greenup
41/23
38/20

42

District is made up of
18 counties in Eastern
and Southeastern Ohio.
The district runs along
the Pennsylvania, West
Virginia, and Kentucky
borders, following the
Ohio River on its meandering journey south. The
13 full counties that make
up the 6th Congressional
District include: Belmont
County, Columbiana
County, Carroll County,

SATURDAY

28°
14°

Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures
are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

0

AccuWeather.com Cold Index™

(in inches)

THURSDAY

Mostly cloudy, breezy and much colder today.
Partly cloudy tonight. High 42° / Low 22°

ALMANAC
High/low
Normal high/low
Record high
Record low

any other federal agency.
I am tremendously proud
of my ofﬁce’s track record
of casework success. If
you need my help, please
do not hesitate to contact
me,” Johnson said.
In the 115th Congress,
Johnson will once again
serve on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House
Budget Committee.
The 6th Congressional

EXTENDED FORECAST

8 PM

38°

and also any suggestions
for possible upcoming
events. Reach her by
email at DSaunders@
bossardlibrary.org.
As previously reported, “Bodies Revealed,” is
an exhibition featuring
whole and partial bodies
and organs treated with
a plastic silicone polymer
to retain their startlingly
natural appearance. The
popular displays have
been viewed by millions
worldwide, yet never
before at a community
library.

visitors who attended
the exhibition who came
from outside of the TriState area, which she
From page 1
recognized as being one
enthusiasm about the
of the many important
professionalism of the
outcomes of “Bodies
specimens and the way
Revealed.” Saunders statin which they were dised she was proud of the
played in the library’s
community for helping
new addition, The
to make the exhibit posRiverside Room. The
Riverside Room is a large sible, not only by their
attendance but because
museum expansion of
the library which hosted of word of mouth about
it and enthusiasm
the “Bodies Revealed”
regarding the exhibit.
exhibit.
Saunders feels even more
Saunders went on to
say there were many
enthusiastic about what

31°
17°
37°

the future holds for the
community and Bossard
Memorial Library.
“The library belongs
to the community,”
she said “We are at the
utmost appreciation to
all the taxpayers who
helped fund unique and
traditional services to
the community through
the Bossard Memorial
Library.”
Saunders values
community feedback;
feedback in regards to
how the community feels
about “Bodies Revealed”

Courtesy photos

Joseph M. Ellis and Amber N.
Stewart

Bodies

rewarding parts of serving you is helping those
who are struggling with
one of the many federal
agencies. I am here to
assist all those I represent
in any way possible, from
expediting a passport,
assisting with Social
Security beneﬁts, or helping to cut through the red
tape of the bureaucracy
at the Department of
Veterans Affairs, IRS, or

sleep in my ofﬁce and
return home each weekend; I am a proud resident of Marietta, Ohio,
not the Washington D.C.
Beltway.”
Again this Congress,
Johnson will maintain
four ofﬁces in Eastern
and Southeastern Ohio,
located in Marietta,
Salem, Cambridge, and
Ironton.
“One of the most

when they appeared at
the residence on Cooper
Road. He felt they had the
wrong address and that
law enforcement could not
see inside the residence
because they could not
enter, so therefore they did
not see any actions inside
the structure. Ellis said law
enforcement had not tested
his grip for residue as evidence of gunﬁre and felt
that the mentioned weapon
discovery outside the structure was “put on him.” Ellis
said he asked to see the
warrant paperwork and it

was not displayed to him as
of the time of the incident
and the subsequent arrest.
The Major Crimes Task
Force of Gallia-Meigs is a
state task force under the
jurisdiction the Ohio Organized Crime Investigations
Commission which is part
of the Ohio Attorney General’s Ofﬁce, the task force
was formed in September
2013. The task force is
formed by the Gallia and
Meigs County Sheriff’s
Ofﬁces, Gallipolis and
Middleport Police Departments and the Gallia and
Meigs County Prosecutor
Ofﬁces.
According to Champlin,
the search warrant was
secured after a “lengthy
narcotics investigation.”
Editor’s Note:Dean
Wright contributed to this
report.

degree felony. Ellis was
then incarcerated in the
Gallia County Jail. Stewart
is charged with trafﬁcking
From page 1
in heroin, a felony of the
also say they seized over
ﬁrst-degree in the vicinity
$4,500 in cash money.
of a juvenile, possession
After conferring with
of heroin a second-degree
Gallia Prosecuting Attorfelony with a gun speciﬁcaney Jason Holdren, who
tion and child endangerwas also on scene, agents
ment, a misdemeanor of
arrested Ellis and charged
the ﬁrst-degree. She was
him with felonious assault, also then incarcerated in
a ﬁrst-degree felony, due
the Gallia County Jail.
to a reported attack on an
During court proceedofﬁcer with a peace ofﬁcer ings Tuesday afternoon,
speciﬁcation, trafﬁcking in both Ellis and Stewart
heroin, a ﬁrst-degree felony pleaded not guilty to
in the vicinity of a juvenile alleged crimes. Ellis is
and possession of heroin
being held on a bond of
with a gun speciﬁcation
$500,000 with a 10 percent
as a felony of the secondsurety. Stewart is being
degree. Ellis was also
held on a $250,000 with a
charged with child endan10 percent surety.
germent, a misdemeanor of
During the proceeding,
the ﬁrst-degree and tamper- Ellis said he did not feel
ing with evidence, a thirdofﬁcers had a warrant

students to propel our
country forward in math
and to ensure that future
PISA results are not as
bleak as this year’s.

Plan

Johnson

Wednesday, January 4, 2017 5

Elizabeth
42/20

Spencer
42/21

Buffalo
43/22

Ironton
41/23

Milton
43/23

St. Albans
44/23

Huntington
40/24

NATIONAL FORECAST
110s
100s
Seattle
90s
33/20
80s
70s
Billings
60s
5/-7
50s
40s
30s
20s
10s
San Francisco
Denver
0s
55/46
21/1
-0s
-10s
Los Angeles
62/55
T-storms
Rain
El Paso
Showers
64/41
Snow
Flurries
Ice
Chihuahua
78/43
Cold Front
Warm Front
Monterrey
Stationary Front
68/53

Clendenin
44/19
Charleston
42/23

Shown are noon positions of weather systems and
precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Winnipeg
-8/-20

Minneapolis
4/-5

Toronto
35/19
Detroit
26/17

Chicago
19/8
Kansas City
24/11

Montreal
36/12
New York
52/28

Washington
55/29

City
Albuquerque
Anchorage
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Boise
Boston
Charleston, WV
Charlotte
Cheyenne
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Columbus
Dallas
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Miami
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Orlando
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, ME
Raleigh
Richmond
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Seattle
Washington, DC

Today

Thu.

Hi/Lo/W
55/34/s
17/9/pc
54/33/pc
54/30/pc
54/27/pc
5/-7/pc
27/13/sn
50/28/pc
42/23/c
59/31/pc
14/-3/sn
19/8/pc
30/17/pc
32/18/sf
30/18/c
48/33/pc
21/1/sn
20/8/s
26/17/sf
79/64/pc
55/45/pc
28/15/pc
24/11/c
62/52/pc
42/27/s
62/55/sh
35/22/s
84/64/sh
4/-5/pc
40/26/pc
61/46/pc
52/28/pc
39/20/pc
78/54/pc
54/28/pc
66/48/s
38/18/sf
43/22/pc
62/32/pc
60/28/pc
30/19/s
38/25/sn
55/46/r
33/20/s
55/29/pc

Hi/Lo/W
54/33/r
24/6/s
55/33/pc
38/30/pc
36/28/pc
11/1/s
17/-1/pc
37/27/s
31/22/sn
50/35/s
9/-11/sf
15/1/c
25/12/sn
24/17/sn
24/15/sn
46/26/pc
10/-7/sn
16/3/c
22/14/sn
79/63/s
65/45/c
22/11/sn
20/4/c
64/39/pc
40/24/c
61/51/c
30/17/sn
81/60/s
3/-11/c
37/23/pc
62/51/pc
35/28/pc
31/17/c
77/51/pc
36/28/pc
66/49/s
26/15/sn
33/20/s
49/35/pc
44/32/pc
25/13/sn
26/8/sf
52/36/s
32/26/pc
40/32/pc

EXTREMES YESTERDAY
National for the 48 contiguous states

Atlanta
54/33

High
Low

88° in Marathon, FL
-26° in Jordan, MT

Global
High
Low

Houston
55/45
Miami
84/64

111° in Marble Bar, Australia
-68° in Delyankir, Russia

Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy,
sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow
ﬂurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

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�Sports
Daily Sentinel

Wednesday, January 4, 2017 s 6

Pacman
Jones
accused of
head-butting
cops, spitting
CINCINNATI (AP) —
Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Adam “Pacman”
Jones was jailed Tuesday
on charges he head-butted
police and spit on a nurse
after being arrested for
disorderly conduct in his
latest brush with the law.
Authorities said he was
so combative that he had
to be placed in a restraint
chair.
A lawyer representing
Jones at his initial court
appearance told a judge
he “vehemently denies”
the allegations against
him. The Hamilton
County judge set bond
at $37,500 for Jones and
ordered that he submit to
a blood test.
The Hamilton County
sheriff’s ofﬁce said Jones
would remain jailed until
the blood test can be
performed Wednesday
morning. Sheriff Jim
Neil said Jones was “disorderly and combative”
throughout his booking
just after midnight Tuesday and had to be put in
restraints.
“Whether someone is
a professional athlete,
a blue collar worker or
homeless, our staff will
treat them with respect
and we expect the same,”
Neil said in a statement.
“Regardless of who they
are, if they endanger my
deputies, our medical
staff or themselves, we
will take action.”
Court records show
Jones, who has a history
of trouble with the law
during his NFL career, is
accused of pushing and
poking a man in the eye,
then struggling with Cincinnati police ofﬁcers by
head-butting, kicking and
refusing to get into the
police car. He then spit
on a nurse’s hand while
being booked into the jail,
police said.
See PACMAN | 7

OVP SPORTS
SCHEDULE
Wednesday, January 4
Girls Basketball
Meigs at Logan, 7:30
Thursday, January 5
Girls Basketball
South Point at Gallia
Academy, 7:30
Nelsonville-York at
River Valley, 7:30
Vinton County at
Meigs, 7:30
Sissonville at Point
Pleasant, 7 p.m.
Miller at South Gallia,
7:15
Wahama at Federal
Hocking, 7:30
Southern at Trimble,
7:30
Friday, January 6
Boys Basketball
Eastern at Hannan,
7:30
Miller at Wahama, 7:30
Southern at Belpre,
7:30
South Gallia at Federal
Hocking, 7:30
River Valley at Alexander, 7:30
Gallia Academy at Coal
Grove, 7:30
Meigs at Athens, 7:30
Wrestling
Wahama at Nitro, 4
p.m.
Point Pleasant at
Madeira, TBA

Photos by Bryan Walters/OVP Sports

Gallia Academy senior Jenelle Stevens (5) is trapped by Point Pleasant defenders Allison Henderson (10) and Morgan Roush after hauling in an offensive rebound
during the second half of Monday night’s non-conference girls basketball contest in Centenary, Ohio.

Blue Angels sweep Point, 51-29
By Bryan Walters
bwalters@civitasmedia.com

CENTENARY, Ohio — The
more things change, the more
they stay the same.
Visiting Point Pleasant put
up quite an early ﬁght, but the
Gallia Academy girls basketball team used a 28-11 second
half surge to secure a season
sweep Monday night following
a 51-29 non-conference victory
in the 2017 opener for both
programs in Gallia County.
The Blue Angels (4-6) —
who won the ﬁrst contest by a
58-26 margin at PPHS on Dec.
1 — found themselves in an
early two-possession deﬁcit
before rallying to knot things
up at eight through eight minutes of play.
The Lady Knights (1-9)
never led beyond the opening
quarter, and the hosts had ﬁve
different players contribute
to a 15-10 second period run
en route to a 23-18 halftime
advantage.
From there, it was all GAHS
— as the Blue and White made
an 8-0 run over the opening
three minutes of the second
half and led by double digits
the rest of the way.
Hannah Smith ended Point’s
scoring drought with a basket
at the 4:12 mark, making it a

31-20 contest. The Blue Angels
ﬁnished the canto with a 6-2
run while taking a 37-22 edge
into the ﬁnale.
Jenelle Stevens capped an
8-0 run with a basket at the
5:01 mark of the fourth, which
gave the hosts their largest
lead of the night at 45-22.
The Lady Knights — who
have now dropped seven
straight decisions — ended
regulation with a small 7-6 run
to wrap up the 22-point outcome.
The Blue Angels — winners
of two straight — had seven
different players reach the scoring column, including a pair
with double ﬁgures.
With such even distribution after almost half a week
away from the game, GAHS
coach Joe Justice noted that he
expected some rust … but he
was pleased with ﬁnal result.
“We expected a little bit of
a slow start because we hadn’t
been in a gym since we beat
Athens last Thursday, but give
the kids credit because they
hustled and played through it,”
Justice said. “We challenged
them in the second half and
they responded, which shows
how much this young group
has grown. That’s a good thing
headed into the second half of
the season.”

Bryan Walters/OVP Sports

Point Pleasant sophomore Hannah Smith (32) dribbles the ball past Gallia
Academy defender Hunter Copley, right, during the second half of Monday
night’s non-conference girls basketball contest in Centenary, Ohio.

Conversely, PPHS coach
John Fields was pleased with
how his troops started the
night. That was where his
praise also ended.
“It’s disappointing because
we did what we were supposed

to do in the ﬁrst half, but we
didn’t do what we needed to
after halftime,” Fields said.
“We have to the things we
are supposed to do for four
See ANGELS | 7

Point grapplers 7th at Wheeling Park Duals
By Bryan Walters
bwalters@civitasmedia.com

WHEELING, W.Va.
— The Point Pleasant
wrestling team ﬁnished
seventh out of 32 teams
this past Thursday
and Friday at the 2016
Wheeling Park Duals
held at Wheeling Park
High School in Ohio
County.
The Big Blacks
posted a two-day team
record of 7-2 at the
annual event and ﬁnished with a combined
84-39 overall record
in individual matches,
which included a trio of
unbeaten grapplers.
Senior Grant Safford
became the newest
member of the 150 wins

club at PPHS following a perfect 9-0 mark
between matches at 182
and 195 pounds. Safford now has 157 career
wins, leaving him fourth
on the all-time list
behind only Casey Hogg
(165), James Casto
(176) and Anthony Jeffers (188).
Sophomore George
Smith posted a perfect 9-0 record at 113
pounds, while Jacob
Bryant also went 2-0 for
the Red and Black.
Caleb Lane (126),
Jacob Roub (138) and
Austin Wamsley (145)
all ﬁnished 8-1 at the
two-day event, while
Justin Cornell (106)
and Brian Gillispie
See POINT | 7

Bryan Walters/OVP Sports

Point Pleasant senior Andrew Roach, right, locks up with an opponent during a 195-pound match
at the 2016 Jason Eades Memorial Duals held on December 9 in Point Pleasant, W.Va.

�SPORTS

Daily Sentinel

Pacman
From page 6

The spitting, following his arrest on misdemeanor charges of
assault, disorderly conduct and obstructing
ofﬁcial business, resulted in a felony count
of harassment with
a bodily substance,
authorities said.
A prosecutor said the
altercation began when
Jones started pounding
on doors at the Millennium Hotel, near the
Bengals’ stadium in
downtown Cincinnati.
He then pushed and
poked a security guard,
authorities said.
Public defender
Lauren Staley said he
“vehemently denies”
that he assaulted anyone and will hire an
attorney to contest the
charges.
She said Jones, who
stood next to her in
court nodding in agreement, has witnesses
for his defense and had
waited for police to
arrive to explain what
happened.
“They essentially
didn’t hear his side of
the story before placing him under arrest,”
Staley said.
Bengals spokesman
Jack Brennan said the
club is aware of the
incident but by policy
doesn’t comment on
unresolved legal matters.
Jones will be subject
to potential NFL discipline after the case is
resolved. Jones’ agent
didn’t respond immediately to a request for
comment.
Jones, who played
in Sunday’s seasonending home victory

Point
From page 6

(285) each earned identical 7-2 marks. Andrew
Roach was also 6-3
overall at 195 pounds.
Logan Southall (132),
Jeffrey Simpkins (138),
Miles Williams (160)
and Nazar Abbas (170)
all posted 4-5 marks at
the event, while Juan
Marquez was 2-7 at 220
pounds.
Thomas Jeffrey and
Colton Carr also earned
matching 1-1 records
for PPHS.
The Big Blacks ﬁnished second in Pool
4 with a 6-1 record,
with the lone setback
coming to Waynedale
(54-24). The opening
round wins came over
Wheeling Park (43-30),

over Baltimore, has
had legal issues since
making his NFL debut
with Tennessee in 2005
after playing for West
Virginia University.
He was suspended
as a Titan by the NFL
throughout the 2007
season, then was suspended again during
the 2008 season as a
member of the Dallas
Cowboys.
The Atlanta native
was acquitted in 2013
on an assault charge
in Hamilton County
after a woman accused
him of punching her
in a nightclub. Earlier
that year, he paid a
ﬁne for disorderly
conduct after police
accused him of making
offensive comments at
a trafﬁc stop. He also
pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in January 2012 after an arrest
at a Cincinnati bar.
Earlier, Jones
pleaded an equivalent
of no contest to a misdemeanor charge of
conspiracy to commit
disorderly conduct in
a 2007 Las Vegas strip
club melee. Jones was
blamed for instigating violence that led
to the shooting by
someone else of two
club employees, one
left paralyzed from the
waist down. He was
ordered to pay more
than $12.4 million in
damages.
The Titans made
Jones the sixth overall pick in the 2005
draft, and he started
28 games in his ﬁrst
two seasons. Arrests
and suspensions nearly
scuttled his career
before the Bengals
signed him in 2010 and
he became a regular
starting defensive back
and punt returner.

St. Xavier (50-24),
East Liverpool (41-32),
Howland (60-21), Buckeye Local (72-12) and
Preston (72-3).
Point Pleasant
dropped a 39-30 decision to John Marshall
in the eighth round and
wrapped up the tournament with a 42-30 victory over Madonna.
Harrison won the
overall team title, with
Carrollton, Steubenville, Waynedale, Dover
and John Marshall
all ﬁnishing ahead of
PPHS. Madonna, Oak
Glen and Ripley rounded out the top 10 team
spots.
Complete results of
the 2016 Wheeling Park
Duals are available on
the web at wvmat.com
Bryan Walters can be reached at
740-446-2342, ext. 2101.

Angels

Alex Barnes rounded
out the winning tally
with four and two
From page 6
points, respectively.
Peyton Campbell
quarters if we want to
paced
the Lady
be successful.”
Knights
with 12
The Blue Angels
points,
followed
by
made 21 total field
Aislyn
Hayman
with
goals in the game —
including one trifecta six points. Smith and
— and also went 8-of- Allison Henderson
22 at the free throw
were next with four
line for 36 percent.
points apiece, while
Hunter Copley led
Porsha Mayo rounded
Gallia Academy with out the scoring with
a game-high 13 points one marker.
and Abby Cremeans
PPHS made zero
chipped in 10 points. trifectas and a total
Aubrey Unroe and
of a dozen field goals.
Adrienne Jenkins
The guests were also
were next with eight
5-of-13 at the charity
markers apiece, while
stripe for 38 percent.
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Rodgers-Manning headlines NFL’s wild-card
By Rob Maaddi

and home-ﬁeld advantage
throughout the playoffs. The Chiefs (12-4)
Aaron Rodgers vs. Eli
clinched a ﬁrst-round bye
Manning will headline
thanks to Denver’s win
the NFL’s wild-card week- over Oakland coupled
end.
with their victory over
Rodgers tossed four
San Diego.
touchdown passes to help
The Raiders (12-4)
the Green Bay Packers
fell from No. 2 to the
capture the NFC North
ﬁfth spot and will open
title with a 31-24 victory the playoffs on the road
over the Detroit Lions on at Houston (9-7). That
Sunday night. The Pack- matchup could feature
ers (10-6) will host the
rookie quarterback ConGiants (11-5) next Sunnor Cook making his
day while the Lions (9-7) ﬁrst career start for the
visit Seattle (10-5-1) on
Raiders after they lost
Saturday night.
Derek Carr last week and
New York’s 19-10 win
backup Matt McGloin
at Washington eliminated went down in the second
the Redskins (8-7-1) and quarter against the Bronallowed the Packers and
cos.
Lions to secure playoff
The Texans also have
spots before their game
uncertainty at quarterkicked off. But the teams back. Tom Savage susare heading in opposite
tained a concussion in
directions. The Packers
a loss at Tennessee and
have won six in a row
was replaced by former
while the Lions lost three starter Brock Osweiler.
straight.
The Steelers (11-5) will
Earlier in the day, Matt host the Dolphins (10-6)
Ryan and the Atlanta
in the AFC’s other wildFalcons (11-5) secured
card game.
a ﬁrst-round bye with
Here’s a look at the
a 38-32 win over New
playoff teams by seed:
Orleans. The Seahawks
beat San Francisco 25-23 AFC
and earned the No. 3
1. NEW ENGLAND
seed.
PATRIOTS: Brady and
The Cowboys (13-3)
coach Bill Belichick will
already locked up the
begin their quest for a
NFC’s No. 1 seed before
ﬁfth Super Bowl chamthey played last week.
pionship against either
In the AFC, Tom Brady Houston, Oakland or
and the Patriots (14-2)
Miami on Jan. 14 at 8:15
beat Miami 35-14 to
p.m.
secure the No. 1 seed
2. KANSAS CITY
Associated Press

CHIEFS: Coach Andy
Reid is 3-0 in divisional
playoff games when his
team has a bye. All three
wins came with the
Eagles. The Chiefs open
against Pittsburgh, Houston or Oakland on Jan.
15 at 1:05 p.m.
3. PITTSBURGH
STEELERS: Ben Roethlisberger, Le’Veon Bell
and Antonio Brown had
an early bye. They sat
out an overtime win over
Cleveland in preparation
for the Dolphins next
Sunday at 1:05 p.m.
4. HOUSTON TEXANS: They need to sort
out their quarterback
issues before the Raiders visit next Saturday at
4:35 p.m. Oakland beat
Houston 27-20 in Mexico
City on Nov. 21.
5. OAKLAND RAIDERS: Carr’s season-ending injury deﬂated a team
making its ﬁrst playoff
appearance since losing
the 2003 Super Bowl to
Tampa Bay.
6. MIAMI DOLPHINS:
It’s unknown whether
QB Ryan Tannehill will
return from injury when
the Dolphins play their
ﬁrst playoff game in
eight years. Matt Moore
was 2-1 in Tannehill’s
absence.
NFC
1. DALLAS COWBOYS: Dak Prescott only
played two series and
Ezekiel Elliott sat out a

loss at Philadelphia to
get ready for the playoffs.
The Cowboys will open
against Green Bay, New
York or Detroit on Jan.
15 at 4:40 p.m.
2. ATLANTA FALCONS: They will host
Seattle, Green Bay or
New York on Jan. 14 at
4:35 p.m.
3. SEATTLE
SEAHAWKS: Russell
Wilson and the Seahawks
start their drive for a
third NFC championship title in four seasons
against the Lions next
Saturday at 8:15 p.m.
4. GREEN BAY PACKERS: Rodgers has the
Packers riding high into
the playoffs. They were a
No. 6 seed in 2010 when
the last won a Super
Bowl. Green Bay plays
the Giants in this season’s ﬁnal wild-card game
next Sunday at 4:40 p.m.
5. NEW YORK
GIANTS: Were locked
into the No. 5 seed, but
Manning played the
entire game and the
Giants knocked out the
Redskins. Manning has
won two playoff games at
Lambeau Field, beating
Brett Favre and the Packers in a frigid NFC championship game following
the 2007 season.
6. DETROIT LIONS:
Wilson, Richard Sherman
and The 12s stand in the
way of Detroit’s ﬁrst playoff win since the 1991
season.

USC hits FG at gun, beats Penn State 52-49
PASADENA, Calif.
(AP) — After 98 combined points and 1,040
yards of spectacular
offensive play, the highest-scoring Rose Bowl
in history rested on the
left foot of a Southern
California kicker who
had already missed two
ﬁeld goals.
Matt Boermeester
somehow blocked out
the cacophonous tension in the chilly air. He
focused only on securing a perfect ending to
an epic evening.
“Game was on the
line, but you’ve got
to keep true to your
technique and trust it,”
Boermeester said.
His technique was
sound. His kick was
true. And the Trojans
got their storybook ﬁnish in Pasadena.
Boermeester hit a
46-yard ﬁeld goal as
time expired , and No.
9 USC rallied from a
14-point deﬁcit in the
fourth quarter for a
52-49 victory over No. 5
Penn State on Monday
night in the 103rd edition of the Granddaddy
of Them All.
Freshman Sam Darnold passed for 453
yards and ﬁve touchdowns while leading
a stirring comeback
by the Trojans (10-3),
who won their ninth
consecutive game and
triumphed in their ﬁrst
Rose Bowl since 2009.
USC trailed 49-35 with
nine minutes to play,
but persevered to win
one of the greatest Rose
Bowls ever played.
“It was just two really
good football teams
playing at the highest
level and competing
until the absolute,
very end,” USC coach
Clay Helton said. “The
greatest players shined
brightest on the biggest
stage. It’s what fairy
tales are made of.”

Mark J. Terrill | AP

Southern California place kicker Matt Boermeester kicks the game-winning field goal against Penn
State during the second half of the Rose Bowl Monday in Pasadena, Calif.

Deontay Burnett, who
had three TD receptions, caught a tying
27-yard scoring pass
from Darnold with 1:20
left to cap an 80-yard
drive in 38 seconds with
no timeouts available.
Leon McQuay III
then intercepted an illadvised long pass by
Trace McSorley and
returned it 32 yards to
the Penn State 33 with
27 seconds left. In an
instant, the Trojans
went from preparing for
overtime to having a
chance to win.
“I didn’t know
whether to block or celebrate” after McQuay’s
interception, USC
defensive lineman Stevie Tu’ikolovatu said. “I
kind of did both.”
The Trojans set up
Boermeester, and the
junior conﬁdently
drilled the Rose Bowl
winner , sprinting away
as it went through the
south uprights and set
off pandemonium on the
hallowed ﬁeld.
“It’s beautiful,”
McQuay said. “This is
a special group of guys.
Oh man, this is the time

to step up. This is the
time to make plays.”
McSorley passed for
254 yards and threw
two of his four touchdown passes to Chris
Godwin for the Nittany
Lions (11-3), whose
nine-game winning
streak ended in heartbreaking fashion.
Saquon Barkley
rushed for 194 yards
and two TDs as the
Nittany Lions (12-2) followed up their 21-point
comeback in the Big
Ten title game with
another ferocious rally,
only to watch the Trojans rally back.
“That game doesn’t
really deﬁne us,” Penn
State coach James
Franklin said. “I
wouldn’t be any more
proud tonight sitting
here with a win … after
what might have been
the most exciting Rose
Bowl game ever.”
With one jaw-dropping play after another
from two talent-laden
offenses, the teams
obliterated the combined Rose Bowl scoring record in the third
quarter, surpassing

Oregon’s 45-38 victory
over Wisconsin in the
2012 game.
BIG 3
The Nittany Lions’
offensive stars put
together a highlight reel
for the ages during a
28-point third quarter.
After trailing 27-21 at
the break, Penn State
scored three touchdowns on its ﬁrst three
snaps of the second half:
a stunning 72-yard run
by Barkley, a bobbled
79-yard catch by Godwin and a 3-yard TD
run by McSorley after
an interception return.
BAD THROW
McSorley went 18 for
29, throwing interceptions on his ﬁrst pass
and his last pass. He
was left lamenting that
ﬁnal throw in an aggressive attempt to win. “I
tried too much to force
it to Chris (Godwin),”
McSorley said. “He had
been making plays for
us all game long, so that
was the guy in my mind.
… To come back, to
climb back like we did
and not ﬁnish, it hurts.”

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Wisconsin wins Cotton Bowl 24-16, only Western Michigan loss
ARLINGTON, Texas
(AP) — Troy Fumagalli
had highlight catches for
Wisconsin even before
the big tight end’s leaping 8-yard touchdown in
the fourth quarter and
his 26-yard gain on third
down that effectively
wrapped up the Cotton
Bowl victory.
The game’s offensive
MVP also had a nifty
one-handed grab on third
down with his left hand —
the one missing an index
ﬁnger since right after
his birth — to extend the
eighth-ranked Badgers’
opening touchdown drive.
There was another leaping
two-handed catch in the
ﬁrst half of a 24-16 victory
Monday that denied Western Michigan a perfect
season.
“It’s special,” said Fumagalli, a junior. “It’s a great
feeling to come out on
top.”
Fumagalli had seven
passes thrown his way,
and the 6-foot-6 junior
caught six of them. The
last two clinched the third

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Badgers (11-3).
After his TD catch
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“Told them I was very
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touchdowns, tying the
FBS record on an 11-yarder on fourth down with
3:27 left . Even with cornerback Sojourn Shelton’s
arms wrapped around
him in the back of the end
zone, Davis broke free to
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learned so many lessons
LM Otero | AP on the ﬁeld, and off the
Wisconsin defensive end Conor Sheehy (94) and defensive end Alec James (57) celebrate after ﬁeld.”
winning the Cotton Bowl against Western Michigan on Monday in Arlington, Texas.

embrace our past to create our future, and it just
wasn’t enough tonight.”
The Badgers, who ﬁnished with 11 wins for the
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Appleby shines, No. 20 Florida beats Iowa in Outback Bowl
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — No.
20 Florida dominated the Outback with stingy defense and a
persistent offense that did its
job, too.
Chauncey Gardner, Jr.,
returned one of his two fourthquarter interceptions 58 yards
for a touchdown, and graduate
transfer Austin Appleby threw
for 222 yards and two TDs to
pace Monday’s 30-3 rout of No.
21 Iowa.
With Gardner grabbing game
MVP honors, the Gators (9-4)
held up their end of what many
expected to be a day defense
ruled , especially considering
Florida entered ranked 115th
in the nation in total offense
— ﬁve spots ahead of the sputtering Hawkeyes.
Conversely, the teams were
sixth and 24th, respectively, in
total defense.

“The MVP, it goes to our
guys up front, the linebackers
and the coaching staff because
they put me in good position
to make plays. … It should be
a team MVP,” Gardner said.
“Our motto is just go out there
and have fun, and play our
game.”
Mark Thompson scored on
an 85-yard pass play in the ﬁrst
half and Appleby, who spent
the past four seasons at Purdue, tossed a 6-yard TD pass
to DeAndre Goolsby to break
the game open late in the third
quarter.
Florida (9-4) rebounded
from lopsided losses to archrival Florida State and No. 1 Alabama, scoring more points on
Iowa (8-5) than the Hawkeyes
allowed to Michigan, Illinois
and Nebraska combined while
ending the regular season on a

three-game winning streak.
“It was a tough day for our
football team,” Iowa coach
Kirk Ferentz said. “Our team
really had a good month, they
practiced and prepared well.
I’m not sure there’s a thing I’d
go back and change. Ultimately, we didn’t play well enough
to come up with a victory.”
Iowa’s C.J. Beathard led
an early ﬁeld goal drive and
managed to get his team close
to the end zone on two other
occasions. Florida’s defense
stiffened both times, stopping
the Hawkeyes on downs at the
Gator 3 in the second quarter
and forcing them to settle for
a 30-yard ﬁeld goal that sailed
wide right midway through the
third quarter.
Appleby, who actually began
his career at Purdue against
Iowa, shrugged off throwing

interceptions on Florida’s ﬁrst
two drives of the day to ﬁnish
14 of 25 passing.
“We didn’t panic early. We
knew Iowa would come out
swinging and make some plays
on us early,” Appleby said. “We
had some bad luck, but didn’t
panic, and the defense made
some stops and we got on a
roll.”
Akrum Wadley ran for 115
yards, giving Iowa a pair of
1,000-yard rushers in the same
season for the ﬁrst time. The
junior ﬁnished with 1,081,
and LeShun Daniels wound
up with 1,058 after gaining 45
Monday.
TURNING POINT
Beathard directed the best
drive of the game by either
team, moving Iowa from its
own 36 to inside the Florida

10 with help from runs of 27
yards by Akrum Wadley and
11 yards by LeShun Daniels,
plus an 18-yard pass to tight
end George Kittle on thirdand-14 from the Gators 28.
Three plays later, Beathard
dropped back to throw before
scrambling for a 6-yard gain
near the goal line. The Hawkeyes thought he scored, but
ofﬁcials ruled him down at the
1. Daniels was dropped for a
2-yard loss on fourth down.
Florida snapped the 3-3 tie
less than six minutes later,
when Thompson scored on the
longest reception and TD in
Outback Bowl history.
“That was big. Momentum
deﬁnitely switched in their
favor after that,” Wadley said.
“But that was just one drive. A
football game is four quarters,
and we had to bounce back.”

Jackson vows: ‘We are not going 1-15 next year’
Mayfield leads
game ﬁlm on Grifﬁn, who
climb to the top appears
“Amen,” said Browns
BEREA, Ohio (AP) —
Oklahoma to 35-19 Hue
signed a two-year deal in
vice president of football as steep as ever.
Jackson’s eyes were
March. The Browns have
“We do have pieces,”
operations Sashi Brown.
bloodshot, the result of
to decide whether to pay
Jackson said. “We do
The Browns knew
little sleep.
Sugar Bowl win
have guys that can play in him a $750,000 roster
rebuilding would be
Poor guy’s worn out.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Heisman Trophy
ﬁnalists Baker Mayﬁeld and Dede Westbrook
connected one last time for a touchdown. Joe
Mixon emerged from his recent controversy with
big plays that had teammates lifting him off his
feet in celebration. Samaje Perine put his name
in Oklahoma’s record books.
Seventh-ranked Oklahoma had plenty to celebrate after a 35-19 triumph over No. 17 Auburn
in the Sugar Bowl on Monday night, including a
10th-straight victory.
“We’re a prideful team,” Oklahoma coach Bob
Stoops said. “And we’re conﬁdent, regardless of
the people that try to rattle the cage and shake
your conﬁdence. … We improved as we went
through the end and we fought through the outside noise.”
Mayﬁeld passed for 296 yards and two touchdowns. Mixon heard boos from Auburn fans,
who also shouted derisive comments regarding
a recently publicized video of him punching a
woman in the face in 2014. Mixon, who served
a season-long suspension in 2014 and has apologized for the assault, also drew cheers from crimson-clad Oklahoma fans with his play. His two
short touchdown runs were among the highlights
of a performance in which he gained 180 yards
from scrimmage — 91 rushing on 19 carries and
89 receiving on ﬁve catches.
“He has a second chance and making the most
of it,” Stoops said. “He is a great teammate to
these guys and one of the most popular guys in
the locker room.”
Mixon didn’t answer questions about the boos
or the reasons for them, saying only he wanted
to celebrate with his teammates.
Perine rushed for 86 yards, three more than he
needed to set Oklahoma’s career rushing record.
“Our backs pound people and it wears on
people,” Mayﬁeld said.
Auburn (8-5), which wound up in the Sugar
Bowl despite dropping its last two Southeastern
Conference games to Georgia and Alabama,
entered the game hopeful that it would be
buoyed by the return of quarterback Sean White,
who’d missed the Tigers’ ﬁnal two games with a
throwing shoulder injury. White led Auburn to a
touchdown on its ﬁrst series — Chandler Cox’s
3-yard run on fourth down — but the quarterback left the game for good in the ﬁrst half with
a broken right forearm.
“Obviously, it’s a big blow. We were excited he
was back” for the bowl game, Auburn coach Gus
Malzahn said. “Overall it was a tough night at
the quarterback position.”
John Franklin III backed up White but also
hurt his throwing arm, Malzahn said, so Jeremy Johnson got into the game. The Tigers’
offense was inconsistent, increasing pressure on
Auburn’s 20th-ranked defense to keep the Sooners’ fast-paced, high-powered attack in check.
“That’s tough. They’re (among the best) in the
nation,” Auburn defensive back Josh Holsey said
of Oklahoma’s offense, which came in averaging
557.3 yards and 44.7 points per game. “They
came out and showed that tonight.”
Mixon broke loose for a 35-yard run in the
third quarter that set up his second TD, which he
scored from 4 yards out by diving for the pylon.
Early in the fourth quarter, Perine took a direct
snap for a 2-yard TD that made it 35-13.
With the Sooners (11-2) pulling away for
their second Sugar Bowl triumph in four years,
Auburn fans started ﬁling out.
RUSHING RECORD
With back-to-back fourth-quarter runs of 16
and 15 yards, Perine reached the 83-yard mark,
giving him the Oklahoma record for career yards
rushing. The previous record of 4,118 was set
by Billy Sims back in 1979. Perine ﬁnished with
4,122, and when he set the mark, Mixon gave
him a congratulatory embrace. Perine wasn’t
inclined to discuss the record, but others spoke
for him.
“When you look at the running backs we have
had through the decades, to be the all-time leading rusher is something special,” Stoop said. “So
the entire team took a lot of pride in that.”

Coaching the Browns has
been physically and mentally draining, tougher
than ever.
Jackson, though, will
ﬁnally get a break and
should be able to get
some needed rest now
that the nightmarish 1-15
season has ended.
A day after Cleveland
completed an awful and
appalling 16-game run
with an overtime loss
at Pittsburgh, Jackson
vowed there would never
be another one like it.
Not on his watch.
“We are not going
1-15,” Jackson said. “No,
or I will be swimming in
the lake over there somewhere. That is not happening. I just know me
too well. I know me and I
know these guys too well.
We are not going 1-15
next year, OK? You can
write it if you like. Hue
Jackson said it. We are
not.”

painful, but they never
expected to go through
what they did in 2016,
when inexperience combined with injuries and
ineptitude resulted in one
of the worst seasons the
NFL has ever seen.
On Monday, Jackson,
Brown and strategy director Paul DePodesta spent
35 minutes doing their
autopsy on a season they
can’t wait to forget. The
Browns lost their ﬁrst 14
games before beating San
Diego to avoid joining the
2008 Detroit Lions in the
exclusive 0-16 club.
There were a few bright
spots, but not enough of
them as Cleveland’s ﬁrst
season under a new coach
and front ofﬁce produced
just one win.
Cleveland was at or
near the bottom in virtually every meaningful
statistical category, and
ﬁnished last — again —
in the AFC North. The

the AFC North. We just
need more of them to get
to where we want to be.”
On the positive side,
the Browns will have
the No. 1 overall pick
in this year’s NFL draft,
another opportunity to
perhaps ﬁnd a franchise
quarterback. Cleveland
elected not to go after
one last year, trading the
No. 2 overall selection to
Philadelphia for another
ﬁrst-rounder in 2017 and
a second-rounder in 2018.
This year, the plan was
to see if Robert Grifﬁn
III could be the long-term
answer, but the season
ended without any resolution after RG3 was limited to ﬁve games because
of injury.
Jackson has been a
strong supporter of Grifﬁn’s, but he was noncommittal when asked if the
Browns had found their
quarterback. Jackson
wanted to watch more

bonus in March or let him
leave as a free agent.
Jackson, who was
forced to make six changes at starting quarterback
this season because of
injuries, said Grifﬁn made
some progress but the
Browns need more from
their quarterbacks.
The search continues.
“We are going to ﬁnd a
quarterback that is going
to come here and play
winning, championship
football, but I think it is
too early to talk about
‘Do you have him yet?’
Do you not have him
yet?’” Jackson said. “Here
comes the draft. Here
comes other opportunities to add more players
to our team. My job and
our job is to make sure
we have them here. Obviously, we are 1-15.
“Everything would say
maybe we don’t, but I
think you also have to put
it all into the pot.”

Bengals receiver A.J. Green won’t play in Pro Bowl
CINCINNATI (AP)
— Bengals receiver A.J.
Green expects his injured
right hamstring to be
fully recovered in a few
weeks, but he’s not going
to play in the Pro Bowl.
Green severely strained
the hamstring on Nov.
20 and didn’t play the
rest of the season, even
though he felt he was
ready. Green practiced
without problem and
accompanied the team
to Houston for a game
on Dec. 24, expecting to
play, but the front ofﬁce
decided to hold him out.
The Bengals (6-9-1) had
already been eliminated
from playoff contention.
“Coach (Marvin)
Lewis’ plan was for me
to play,” Green said.
“And they came to the
decision that I didn’t
need to play at all.”

Green said he ran hard
during practice leading
up to the Houston game
and didn’t have an issue,
even though a scan of
the hamstring indicated
it wasn’t completely
healed. The front ofﬁce
was concerned about
how he would respond to
being tackled.
“I pushed it all the
way,” Green said. “I don’t
feel any kind of pain or
fatigue on it. One thing
they were worried about
was people hanging on
me. So that’s the only
thing they were worried
about.”
Green said the hamstring should be back to
normal within a couple
of weeks. He was voted
into the Pro Bowl for the
sixth time, but won’t play
in the game.
Green was on his way

to his best season when
he got hurt. Despite
missing essentially the
last seven games, he ﬁnished the season leading
the team with 66 catches
for 964 yards.
He came up 36 yards
shy of his sixth straight
1,000-yard season.
Randy Moss is the only
player who has started
his career with six 1,000yard seasons, and Green
wanted to join him.
“I wanted to get the
1,000, but doctors know
best and I didn’t want to
put my whole career in
jeopardy to try to go for
36 yards,” Green said.
“So, it’s tough.”
The Bengals missed
Green, running back
Giovani Bernard and
tight end Tyler Eifert in
the ﬁnal games. Bernard
tore an ACL in the same

game that Green got
hurt. Eifert missed the
last two games because
of a problem with a disk
in his back. He had surgery last week to have
part of the disk removed.
Eifert has had the back
issue for years. It ﬂared
up earlier this season
when he was recovering
from offseason ankle
surgery.
During his four-year
career, the 6-foot-6, 255pound tight end has
missed games because
of neck, shoulder, elbow,
ankle and back injuries.
He expects to be ready
for offseason workouts.
“It’s annoying when I
get labeled injury-prone
because I just go out and
play,” Eifert said. “I play
hard and, you know, I’ve
had some bad breaks.”

AP SPORTS BRIEFS

OSU All-American S Hooker
leaving early for NFL draft

He said after talking with his family, “we have
decided its best for me to forgo my remaining two
years of eligibility and declare for the 2017 NFL
draft.”
Ohio State co-defensive coordinator Greg Schiano
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State All-Amer- has compared the 6-foot-2, 205-pound Hooker to former NFL All-Pro safety Ed Reed.
ican safety Malik Hooker is entering the NFL draft
Hooker is the ﬁrst of several key Buckeyes playafter one sensational season as a starter with the
ers who will be making stay-or-go decisions in the
Buckeyes.
next two weeks. Most notably, All-American H-back
Hooker redshirted in his ﬁrst year at Ohio State
Curtis Samuel, cornerbacks Marshon Lattimore and
and played sparingly in 2015. This season he
Gareon Conley and linebacker Raekwon McMillan
stepped into the starting lineup and led the Buckeyes in interceptions with seven, including a school- could be early round NFL draft picks if they give up
record three returned for touchdowns. He also made their remaining eligibility.
Quarterback J.T. Barrett is not considered a top
74 tackles, third best on the team, and had 11 passes
NFL prospect, but there has been some speculation
defended.
about him turning pro instead of returning for a ﬁfth
Hooker announced his intentions Monday with a
season. After the Buckeyes’ 31-0 loss to Clemson in
post on Twitter. He thanked teachers, coaches and
the Fiesta Bowl on Saturday, Barrett indicated that
teammates for his growth “both as a football player
is not likely.
and as a person.”

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