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Bond issue denied placement on May ballot

By Sarah Hawley

shawley@civitasmedia.com

POMEROY — The
proposed bond issue
for the Meigs County
Sheriff’s Ofﬁce and Correctional Facility will
not appear on the May
ballot after a decision by
the Meigs County Board
of Elections on Tuesday
morning.
The Board of Elections
discussed the proposed
bond issue with Meigs
County Prosecutor
James K. Stanley, Meigs
County Commissioner
Tim Ihle and Meigs
County Sheriff’s Ofﬁce

Major Scott Trussell during their regular meeting
on Tuesday after the
matter was referred back
to the board by the Secretary of State’s Ofﬁce
last week.
The commissioners
had ﬁled paperwork for
the bond issue on behalf
of the sheriff’s ofﬁce
prior to the Feb. 1 ﬁling
deadline, but there was
an issue with the ﬁling
which caused the Secretary of State’s Ofﬁce to
approve it “to form only.”
By being approved to
form only, means that the
ballot language and submitted information does

not match the statutory
wording and therefore
the board should seek
clariﬁcation from the
submitting party on the
matter and meet with
legal counsel.
Tuesday provided the
opportunity to meet with
both legal counsel and
the submitting party,
with Stanley, Ihle and
Trussell in attendance for
the meeting.
Prosecutor Stanley
explained to the board
that it was his understanding the issue was
with the header on the
form which said “tax
levy” rather than “bond

issue” although he said
the matter was really
both a bond issue and
tax levy.
Chairman of the Board
of Elections Charles Williams stated at the beginning of the discussion
that the board “is not in
the business of blocking
an issue” and that they
are there to “make sure it
is presented as it should
be.”
Williams went on to
say that the matter was
“pretty much new to us”
and that the board was
not wanting to make it
difﬁcult.
Deputy Director Angie

Robson said that she
had spoken with the
Secretary of State’s ofﬁce
numerous time in the
past week to make sure
things are being done
right.
Robson stated that the
language was correct,
but submitted as a bond
issue on a tax levy resolution.
Board member Rita
Slavin stated that the
problem with placing
the matter on the ballot
as submitted is that the
board is responsible for
seeing that the wording
is correct.
It is foolish to say put

the issue on and say it
was not done correctly
and then have a protest
ﬁled, stated Slavin.
Williams echoed that
statement, saying that
if it was approved and
there was a protest then
the bond issue could be
declared null and void, a
problem that they did not
want to create.
Ihle stated that the
commissioners are
learning as they go with
regard to the bond issue
as it has not been done
before by the current
commissioners and that
See BALLOT | 3

Slavin resigns
from Board
of Elections
By Sarah Hawley
shawley@civitasmedia.com

POMEROY — Longtime Meigs County
Board of Elections
member Rita Slavin
announced her resignation from the board
near the conclusion of
Tuesday’s regular board
meeting.
Slavin, a Democrat,
has served as a member of the Board of
Elections for 17 years,
ﬁrst being appointed

in February 2000. She
said she intends for
Tuesday’s meeting to
be her ﬁnal meeting,
with a new member
in place by the board’s
reorganizational meeting on March 3.
Slavin said she has
enjoyed her time on the
board, working with
board members, as well
as directors and deputy
directors during her
time.
See SLAVIN | 5

Alexander income
tax only item before
voters in May
Only one township
in Meigs County
votes on issue
By Sarah Hawley
shawley@civitasmedia.com

POMEROY — With
the Meigs County
Sheriff’s Ofﬁce bond
issue off the ballot for
what would have been
a May special election,
that leaves the proposed
income tax for Alexan-

der Local Schools as the
only item on the ballot
for voters in any portion of Meigs County.
Voters in at least of
portion of Columbia
Township will be asked
to consider the proposed income tax, as
will voters in Athens
and Vinton counties
which reside within
the Alexander School
District.
With no county-wide
See TAX | 5

INDEX
Death Notices: 2
News: 3
Editorial: 4
Weather: 5
Sports: 6
Classifieds: 8
Comics: 9

Courtesy photo

This aerial photo of the proposed site for the Meigs County Sheriff’s Office and Correctional Facility shows how the proposed facility
would fit on the site of the former Veterans Memorial Hospital.

Sheriff eyes Nov. ballot for bond issue
By Sarah Hawley
shawley@civitasmedia.com

POMEROY — Disappointed, but optimistic
and hopeful.
“We are not giving
up,” said Meigs County
Sheriff Keith Wood on
Tuesday morning after
learning the bond issue
he had asked the commissioners to place on
the May ballot would be
delayed until November.
Wood and Commissioner Tim Ihle, meeting
with media after the
board’s decision, both
stated they understand
and respected the decision made by the Meigs
County Board of Elections that will keep the

proposed bond issue for
the sheriff’s ofﬁce and
correctional facility off
the ballot, and will push
forward to pursue the
bond issue in November.
“If we had more time
we could have just ﬁxed
it,” said Ihle, explaining
that the issue appears
to be the labeling of the
matter on the submitted
form as a “tax levy” rather than a “bond issue.”
While the decision by
the board is not what
Wood and Ihle had
hoped, it will allow for
more time to prepare for
the action and possible
outcomes.
When the decision was
made in December to

ask for the levy on the
May ballot, they knew it
would be a tight timeline
to get everything done.
“It was a lot to do in
a little amount of time,”
explained Ihle. “In our
efforts the language was
not exactly right to suit
them (Board of Elections).”
Ihle explained, as he
had done at the meeting
earlier on Tuesday, that
the information was all
in the paperwork, but the
format was not right.
With the additional
time — ﬁling deadline is
in early August — Ihle
stated that they will work
to clarify the language
and go through the pro-

cess again.
That process will begin
with a letter from the
sheriff to the commissioners requesting the
bond issue, followed by
the matter being forwarded to the auditor’s ofﬁce
for certiﬁcation and a
resolution from the commissioners to place the
action on the ballot.
Ihle and Wood said
they do not plan to wait
until the deadline, with
the bond issue to be
resubmitted “soon.”
While it will delay
the vote by six months,
Wood and Ihle said
that the delay will give
more time to meet with
See BOND | 5

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Pleasant Valley Hospital
on Tuesday announced
it has earned The Joint
Commission’s Gold Seal
of Approval®for Hospital
Accreditation by demonstrating continuous
compliance with its performance standards.
The Gold Seal of
Approval®is a symbol
of quality that reﬂects
an organization’s commitment to providing
safe and effective patient
care.

PVH underwent what
it calls a rigorous, unannounced onsite survey.
During the review, a
team of Joint Commission expert surveyors
evaluated compliance
with hospital standards
related to several areas,
including emergency
management, environment of care, infection
prevention and control,
leadership, and medication management. Surveyors also conducted
onsite observations and

Courtesy PVH

Pleasant Valley Hospital on Tuesday announced it has earned
The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval®for Hospital
Accreditation by demonstrating continuous compliance with its
See PVH | 5 performance standards.

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DEATH NOTICES

MEIGS BRIEFS

ROUSH

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.

GALLIPOLIS — Mable M. Roush, 85, of Gallipolis, passed away on Monday, February 13, 2017
at her residence.
Services will be 1 p.m., Friday, February 17,
2017 at the Willis Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Mina Chapel Cemetery. Friends may call at
the funeral home on Thursday, February 16, 2017
from 6 – 8 p.m.

ADRIAN
MARION — William E. Adrian, 66, of Marion,
passed away on Saturday, February 11, 2017 at the
Kobacker House.
Calling hours will take place Thursday, February
16, 2017 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Seventh-Day
Adventist Church, 540 Windsor St., Marion, OH.
Services will be held the following day, Friday,
February 17, 2017 at 11 a.m. at the Seventh-Day
Adventist Church. Burial will take place at a later
date.

MAYNARD
SOUTH POINT — Alma G. Maynard, 65, of
South Point, passed away Monday, February 13,
2017 at King’s Daughters Medical Center, Ashland, Ky.
Funeral service will be conducted 1 p.m. Thursday, February 16, 2017 at Souls Harbor Church,
1323 South 4th Street, Ironton. Burial will follow
in Haverhill Cemetery, Haverhill. Visitation will be
held one hour prior to the service at the church.

HUNTER
POMEROY — Henry Lee Hunter, 84, of Pomeroy, Ohio, died on Monday evening, Feb. 13, 2017.
Funeral services will be held 11 a.m., Monday,
Feb. 20, 2017, at the Anderson McDaniel Funeral
Home in Pomeroy. Visiting hours will be from 3-6
p.m., Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017, at the funeral home,
as well as one hour prior to Monday’s service.

SPEARS
PROCTORVILLE — Edna F. Spears, 86, of
Proctorville, Ohio passed away Monday, February
13, 2017 at The Emogene Dolin Jones Hospice
House, Huntington, W.Va.
A graveside service will be held 2 p.m. Thursday, February 16, 2017 at Neal Cemetery, Milton,
W.Va. There will be no visitation. Hall Funeral
Home and Crematory, Proctorville, is assisting the
family with arrangements.

GILLIS
GALLIPOLIS — Kevin Gillis, 51, of Gallipolis,
died on Monday, February 13, 2017 at Holzer
Medical Center ER.
There will be no services. Willis Funeral Home
is assisting the family.

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RUTLAND — The Village of Rutland is under a
boil advisory until further notice.

Breast and cervical
cancer screenings
POMEROY — Breast and cervical cancer screenings and education will be provided by the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine’s
(OU-HCOM) Community Health Programs, on Feb.
21, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The clinic will be held on
the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic
Medicine Community Health Programs’ Medical
Mobile Unit parked at the Meigs County Health
Department, 112 E. Memorial Drive, Pomeroy, Ohio.
Free Pap tests, pelvic and breast examinations, breast
health education, and appointments for mammograms
will be provided to uninsured and underinsured
women. Appointments are required. Interested persons should call 1-800-844-2654 or 740-593-2432 to
schedule an appointment. Provided as a community
service by the Ohio University Heritage College of
Osteopathic Medicine’s Community Health Programs,
Breast and Cervical Cancer Projects of Southeast
Ohio, and the Susan G. Komen For The Cure Columbus.

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POMEROY — The Meigs County Health Department will conduct an Immunization Clinic from 9-11
a.m. and 1-3 p.m. on Tuesdays at 112 E. Memorial
Drive in Pomeroy. Please bring child(ren)’s shot
records. Children must be accompanied by a parent/
legal guardian. A $15 donation is appreciated for
immunization administration; however, no one will
be denied services because of an inability to pay an
administration fee for state-funded childhood vaccines. Please bring medical cards and/or commercial
insurance cards, if applicable. Zostavax (shingles);
pneumonia ; inﬂuenza vaccines are also available. Call
for eligibility determination and availability or visit
our website at www.meigs-health.com to see a list of
accepted commercial insurances and Medicaid for
adults.

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 SociMIDDLEORT — The Meigs County Family and
ety Thrift Shop located at 253 N. Second Street in
Children First Council will hold regular business
meetings at 8:30 a.m. on the third Thursday of March, Middleport. To receive a voucher you must provide
proof of income and pay a $2 fee for a bale of straw.
May, July, September and November. The meetings
For more information contact the Humane Society
will be held at the Meigs County Department of Job
and Family Services located at 175 Race Street in
Thrift Shop at 740-992-6064 from 10 a.m to 4 p.m.,
Middleport. For more information contact Brooke
Monday through Saturday.

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.
Wednesday, Feb. 15
MARIETTA — There will be a
meeting of the Natural Resources
Assistance Council at Buckeye

Hills-Hocking Valley Regional
Development District, 1400 Pike
Street, Marietta, at 10 a.m. The
purpose of the meeting is to review
the Round 11 grant applications to
determine eligibility for funding of
the Clean Ohio Conservation Fund
for District 18. Questions regarding this meeting should be directed
to Michelle Hyer mhyer@buckeyehills.org at Buckeye Hills-Hocking
Valley Regional Development District or call (740) 376-1025.
Thursday, Feb. 16
MIDDLEPORT — Get Healthy

Meigs! will meet at 10:30 a.m. in
the third ﬂoor conference room
of the Meigs County Department
of Jobs and Family Services to
review/discuss the Meigs County
Community Health Improvement
Plan. Community input is appreciated. Lunch will be provided.
RSVP to Courtney Midkiff at 740992-6626 by or before Feb. 14.
Friday, Feb. 17
POMEROY — The PHS Class
of ‘59 will be having their third
Friday lunch again at Fox Pizza at
noon.

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MEIGS CHURCH CALENDAR
Sunday, Feb. 19
SYRACUSE — Junior Preston will be preaching at
Syracuse Community Church at 6:30 p.m. His wife,
Teresa Preston, will be singing.
Saturday, Feb. 25
REEDSVILLE — Reedsville United Methodist
Church will hold a soup supper and karaoke beginning
at 4 p.m.
Ongoing Events
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 740992-2755 and leave a message.

Ballot
From page 1

they too have been seeking advise from the Secretary of State’s ofﬁce.
The bond issue was
submitted on the form
that has always been
utilized by the county
for tax levies, said Ihle.
The ﬁrst time it was
ﬁled, a day before the ﬁling deadline, it was “not
even close” said Ihle of
the bond issue. The commissioners reﬁled the
paperwork on Feb. 1, the
day of the deadline.
In seeking advice from
the Secretary of State’s
ofﬁce, there was little
assistance as to forms to
complete or the language
which should be used.
Stanley stated that if
the top of the form stated
“bond issue” rather than
“tax levy” it would likely
have not been an issue.
It is a bond issue and
tax levy, stated Stanley,
noting that it is not misleading to say that it is
tax levy, with all of the
information included in
the resolution stating
that it is also a bond
issue.
“It is a levy that would
issue bonds,” said Ihle.
Stanley noted that it
was expected by the Secretary of State’s ofﬁce,
through his conversations
with them, that the issue
would be on the ballot,
although they could not
give an ofﬁcial opinion.
The format and language used by the county
for the proposed bond
issue was the same as the
language and format successfully used by Paulding County previously.
Slavin asked if it was
possible to restart the
process and reﬁle again,
to which Ihle said it
was possible but it was
signiﬁcantly wrong then
it could be done, but he
did not feel that it was
signiﬁcantly wrong.
Ihle said that the
county has the need
for the facility and will
continue to pursue the
measure whether in May
or November, but that
the measure being left off
the ballot in May would
delay getting the process
started.
Slavin reiterated her
concern that if there
was an objection to the
language being ﬁled on
the wrong for then the
county would have to pay
the expenses.
Ihle stated that there
was precedent for the
format being accepted,
but that it was not challenged.
Slavin stated they
wanted to make sure
there was no room for a
challenge.
Asked by the board
for his ofﬁcial opinion,
Stanley stated that all of
the pertinent information was included and
that everything from
the ballot language was
included in the resolution
approved by the commissioners.
“It’s not prefect, but I
wouldn’t say it’s fatal,”
said Stanley of the situ-

ation.
Williams asked Ihle if
there would be a problem
getting it passed, noting
that it was a big levy for a
small county.
Ihle noted that the
sheriff and others would
be working to educate
the voters, including
hosting town hall meetings.
After lengthy discussion, board member
David Fox made a
motion to accept the
issue as submitted on
the recommendation of
the prosecutor, therefore
placing the issue on the
ballot. Fox stated that
given the form and the
resolution it was clear
that it was worded the
way the commissioners
and sheriff’s ofﬁce wanted to go about it.
After the motion, Williams asked Stanley if
he felt the the issue was
secure or could with
stand a protest.
Stanley responded that
he could not say there
would not be a challenge
or how a judge would
rule, but that if it would
be challenged he would
argue that all of the language was contained in
the resolution and that it
was valid.
“There is certainly a
great chance of being
successful,” said Stanley.
Board member Jimmy
Stewart stated that he
would hate to have the
uncertainty going forward.
Williams stated that
they did not want to create a “black mark” on
the ballot issue going
forward if it were to be
challenged.
Stanley stated that the
concerns of the board
were misguided and
that the only issue they
should be concerned with
was if the language met
the requirements. While
he stated he understood
their concern of a challenge, the matter could
be challenged regardless
of if this speciﬁc concern
existed or not.
Williams asked if he
was able to second the
motion as chairman,
something he was not
able to do.
Fox stated that the
people should be given a
choice in the matter.
Slavin stated that she
could not second the
motion, citing her earlier
concern over the incorrect form.
Fox’s motion died for
a lack of a second after
much discussion.
Williams noted that
there are provisions in
place for a special election in August if the
county decided to go that
route.
Ihle said that the commissioners and sheriff’s
ofﬁce will regroup and
decide how to move
forward with the bond
issue. For more on the
reaction by Sheriff Keith
Wood and Ihle see a
related story in today’s
edition.
Reach Sarah Hawley at 740-9922155 ext. 2555 or on Twitter @
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017 3

From the Mountain State to D.C.
Jenkins helps pass bill to
encourage hiring more veterans

Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) on Tuesday released the
following statement after voting to conﬁrm Linda
McMahon to lead the Small Business
Administration:
“As a successful entrepreneur with
WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Evan Jenkins
ﬁrsthand experience starting and grow(R-W.Va.) has helped pass bipartisan legislation to
ing a business, Linda McMahon is
encourage businesses to hire more veterans and reduce
well suited to lead the Small Business
veteran unemployment rates.
Administration. After meeting with
Veterans who have served after Sept. 11, 2001, have
Linda earlier this month, I have full
signiﬁcantly higher unemployment
Capito
conﬁdence that she will be a strong
rates than non-veterans. The Honoring
advocate for the small business commuInvestments in Recruiting and Employnity, and I will work with her to ensure West Virgining American Military Veterans (HIRE
ia’s entrepreneurs have the tools needed to succeed,
Vets) Act is a crucial tool to reducing
including critical broadband infrastructure.”
this disparity in employment rates. The
House voted Monday night to pass this
Submitted by the office of U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito.
bill 409-1.
Jenkins
“Too many veterans have given their
all for our country but are unable to ﬁnd
work after leaving the military. I am proud to support
legislation like the HIRE Vets Act to promote hiring
veterans, who have a proven track record of loyal and
dedicated service. I hope West Virginia’s businesses
will consider hiring more veterans and give them a
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.
chance to succeed,” Rep. Jenkins said.
Va.) released the following statement on his vote to
The HIRE Vets Act would create the HIRE Vets
conﬁrm Linda McMahon to lead the Small Business
Medallion Program at the U.S. Department of Labor to
Administration (SBA).
annually recognize public and private-sector businesses
“Today I voted to conﬁrm Linda
for employing veterans. Employers would earn either
McMahon to lead the Small Business
platinum or gold status based on requirements, such as
Administration. As a former Governor, I
the number of veterans hired each year, if they provide
understand how crucial it is for an execpay equity for Guard members and Reserve employees
utive leader to have the chance to put
who are called up to active military service, and charihis team in place. With over 120,000
table and community services to support veterans.
small businesses making up 96 percent
Manchin
of our employers in West Virginia, the
Submitted by the office of U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins.
SBA is crucial in helping these businesses and our economy grow. I look forward to working with Mrs. McMahon to improve the lives of West
Capito Votes to Confirm Small
Virginians and create new economic opportunities in
our state and across the country, and I invite her to
Business Advocate Linda McMahon the Mountain State to visit.”

Manchin votes to confirm
Linda McMahon

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley

Submitted by the office of U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin.

NEWS FROM ACROSS OHIO

Ex-postal worker sentenced for
stuffing mail down her pants

The Medina (meh-DY’-nuh) Gazette (http://bit.
ly/2lGI2po ) reports 43-year-old Dean Simms pleaded
guilty Monday in Medina County to two counts of
aggravated murder.
He was charged with killing 52-year old Cynthia
Gesaman and 45-year-old Randy Szychowicz with
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A former postal worker
a shotgun in February 2016 at the siblings’ home in
found guilty of stufﬁng mail down her sweatpants
multiple times has been sentenced in federal court in Hinckley Township, about 25 miles south of Cleveland. They were shot in the head.
Ohio to ﬁve months in prison.
The Medina County prosecutor says Simms never
The Dayton Daily News (http://bit.ly/2kkKqlz )
explained why he killed them.
reports 47-year-old Leanna Heskett was sentenced
A defense attorney says Simms could have faced the
Monday in Dayton after earlier pleading no contest
death penalty had he gone to trial and that plea negoand being found guilty on one count of delay or
tiations were fair.
destruction of mail.
His sentencing is scheduled for April 3. He could
Heskett’s attorney said she has been diagnosed with
face life in prison.
a mental illness.
The newspaper reports surveillance video it
obtained shows the Springﬁeld mail processing clerk
putting packages down her sweatpants, which were
often covered by an apron.
Hesket told the judge she wanted to apologize for
the “ruckus that I caused.”
The U.S. District judge also ordered her to have
LEBANON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio inmate accused of
mental health counseling and two years of supervised fatally beating a fellow prisoner has been sentenced to
release.
life without parole.
Authorities say defendant Casey Pigge (pij) hit cellmate Luther Wade multiple times with a cinder block
taken from the cell wall at Lebanon Correctional Institution in February 2016.
Pigge pleaded guilty last month in a deal that included
the life sentence, and he was sentenced Tuesday.
Warren County Prosecutor David Fornshell has said
ELKINS, W.Va. (AP) — A 37-year-old Ohio woman
that Pigge’s low IQ prevented prosecutors from seeking
has pleaded guilty to federal charges for illegally possessing a gun and using it to obstruct a deputy U.S. mar- the death penalty.
Defense attorney John Kaspar said that Pigge wanted
shal in West Virginia.
the case over with and didn’t want a trial.
According to a plea agreement, Peggy Chafﬁn, of
Pigge is already serving 30 years to life for aggravated
Portsmouth, Ohio, could face 10 years in prison on the
ﬁrst count and 20 years on the second and has agreed to murder and other charges from a 2009 Ross County conviction.
cooperate with authorities.
Chafﬁn admitted having a .22-caliber riﬂe despite a
previous felony conviction for heroin possession in Kentucky in 2013.
She also admitted using the gun to obstruct the deputy marshal in Orlando, West Virginia in November 2015.
She remains jailed pending sentencing.
GLENWOOD, Iowa (AP) — An Ohio man has been
given life in prison without the possibility of parole
for killing an 18-year-old woman in western Iowa.
Online court records say 27-year-old Mark Troutman, of Sylvania, Ohio, was sentenced Monday in
Mills County District Court. He’d been convicted in
CLEVELAND (AP) — The new prosecutor in Cleve- December of shooting to death Kathryn Weber. She
land says over 70 cases involving sexual assaults of chil- was found bleeding outside her Glenwood workplace
dren went unattended for months or years as that ofﬁce on Sept. 17 and died at the scene.
failed to properly track the cases or bring charges.
Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH’-guh) County ProsecuFIND IT IN THE
tor Michael O’Malley says a review by his ofﬁce has
prompted changes to its tracking of such cases and
could lead to potentially hundreds of new charges.
Three lawyers who handled most of the dormant
cases have been forced to resign. Four more were disciplined.
Prosecutors tell Cleveland.com that some of the cases
involved suspects who confessed or who later committed other crimes.
The ofﬁce also is reviewing more than 1,900 cases
categorized as “inactive” in the past few years to see
whether assistant prosecutors wrongly labeled those
and stopped receiving computer alerts about them.

Ohio inmate sentenced to life
for fellow prisoner’s slaying

Ohio woman admits gun,
obstruction counts in West Virginia

Ohio man imprisoned for life for
fatally shooting Iowa woman

Prosecutor: Over 70 Ohio child
sex assault cases unattended

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THEIR VIEW

Why trade deals
are complicated
By Dalibor Rohac

“A free-trade
agreement, or FTA,
The new administra- does not have to
tion has introduced
be thousands of
Washington to a new
mantra on trade. Com- pages long, the
new conventional
plicated multilateral
trade deals, such as the wisdom goes.”
Contributing columnist

Trans-Paciﬁc Partnership or NAFTA, are a
thing of the past. “No
longer will we enter
into these massive
deals, with many countries, that are thousands of pages long —
and which no one from
our country even reads
or understands,” President Trump promised
on the campaign trail.
A free-trade agreement, or FTA, does not
have to be thousands
of pages long, the new
conventional wisdom
goes. From now on,
the United States will
seek simple bilateral
agreements. Dump the
Trans-Atlantic Trade
and Investment Partnership, known as
TTIP, and its opaque
investment courts and
rules of origin. Instead,
let’s fast-track a U.S.Britain FTA, ready to
enter into force as soon
as Britain leaves the
European Union.
As laudable as the
idea of a U.S.-Britain
FTA may be, the new
narrative is naive at
best. At worst, it could
bring genuine trade
liberalization to a
standstill.
Trade agreements are
not long and intricate
primarily because trade
negotiators are incompetent or captured by
special interests; the
true source of complexity is that modern economies are governed by
complex rules. In other
words, they’re complicated because regulation is complicated.
The idealized onepage trade agreement
that scraps tariffs, quotas and other explicit
forms of discrimination
is no longer sufﬁcient
to reduce costs. We’re
not in the 19th century
anymore; tariffs are
at historic lows and
quotas are practically
nonexistent. Opentrade barriers directed
at speciﬁc countries
typically run against
World Trade Organization rules.
Meaningful liberalization, then, has to focus
on smoothing over the
differences in regulatory regimes. Value
chains extend through
numerous countries
and often involve shipping intermediate products across borders.
As a result, there are
countless environmental, safety and sanitary
rules enforced by different conformity assessment bodies.
In a case cited by
the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers,
for instance, a U.S.
company that sought
to export a popular
model of light truck
to Europe had to create 100 unique parts,
spending an additional
$42 million on design
and development, and
perform rigorous tests
of 33 different vehicle
systems — “without
any performance differ-

ences in terms of safety
or emissions.”
Car manufacturers
and large corporations
with armies of lawyers
can muddle through
the morass; smaller
businesses and startups less so.
Given this state of
affairs, those who say
that FTAs should be
short and simple are
effectively saying that
they do not wish to
deal with the real issue.
Although trade
agreements sometimes
involve a harmonization of rules, that’s just
one form of international regulatory cooperation used to bring
down trade barriers.
More frequently,
governments commit
to open-ended partnerships on regulatory
policy, agree to take
into account existing
international standards
set by transnational
organizations, or recognize each other’s regulatory requirements as
equivalent.
For some free-market
advocates, mutual
recognition is the
preferred tool of trade
liberalization. Taken to
the extreme, it could
lead to FTAs written on a single page.
However, governments
use mutual recognition only when they
are conﬁdent that the
regulatory practices
in question are closely
aligned.
It is no coincidence
that the most successful example of mutual
recognition, the TransTasman Mutual Recognition Arrangement,
involves Australia and
New Zealand — two
countries with a shared
political history and
common legal heritage.
By contrast, the United
States and the EU have
a number of mutual
recognition agreements
that are not actually
enforced due to underlying divergences in
regulations on both
sides of the Atlantic.
None of this is to
deny that a U.S.-Britain
FTA is a good idea.
Those eager to make
progress, though, will
soon ﬁnd that the two
economies are separated not only by an
ocean, but by differences in regulation as
large as those the E.U.
and the U.S. attempted
to bridge during TTIP
negotiations. That reality will not miraculously change after Brexit,
and no matter Trump’s
fervent desires, a successful FTA is bound
to be complicated and
politically controversial.
Those who imagine
otherwise are living in
a fantasy — and are in
for a rude awakening.
Dalibor Rohac is a research
fellow at the American
Enterprise Institute. He wrote
this for the Los Angeles Times.

THEIR VIEW

A life not well-lived; A family’s desire to reflect reality
By Jacquielynn Floyd
Contributing columnist

What do we owe the
unloved dead?
A digniﬁed farewell or
a deeply felt “good riddance”? Tact or candor?
Leslie Ray Charping,
a Galveston, Texas, man
who died Jan. 30 at 74,
made a public mark in
passing that reﬂected the
private marks — both
ﬁgurative and literal —
that he apparently left on
his family. The obituary
they wrote is a gloomy
meditation on what
appears to have been a
cruel and useless life.
“He leaves behind
two relieved children
… and countless other
victims including an exwife, relatives, friends,
doctors, nurses and
random strangers,” read
the death notice, which
his adult daughter has
acknowledged she wrote.
The brutally candid
obit made headlines
around the world and
drew so many viewers
that the attending funeral
home’s website crashed
Friday. By the end of the
weekend, the send-off
had been replaced with
a brief just-the-dates
mention on the funeral
home’s tribute page.
It’s tough to read and
sad to imagine the raw
hatred this man engendered.
Mr. Charping’s hobbies, the biting reminiscence says, included
“being abusive to his

family (and) expediting
trips to heaven for the
beloved family pets.” At
his death, from cancer,
he had lived “29 years
longer than expected,
and much longer than he
deserved.”
“No services will be
held, no prayers for
eternal peace, and no
apologies to the family
he tortured.”
Out there in the chattersphere, opinions
varied as to the appropriateness of publicly excoriating the dead. Presumably, once gone to his
reward (or just deserts),
he is beyond criticism.
“Everyone deserves
prayers,” one commenter
wrote.
Yet reading this awful
obit offers a painful but
instructive picture of
the permanent damage imposed by human
cruelty. Mr. Charping’s
offspring may be safe
now from any injury he
might inﬂict, but the
miserable and tormented
children they once were
are still seeking some justice, some fairness, some
order in the universe that
they did not get.
There are other hints,
beyond the obituary’s
depiction of Mr. Charping as a violent alcoholic
and unfaithful husband,
that he was a less-thanstellar dad: Harris
County court records
published by the Houston Chronicle show that
he had several convictions for assault, includ-

“The brutally candid obit made headlines
around the world and drew so many viewers
that the attending funeral home’s website
crashed Friday.”
ing scalding his then-wife
with boiling water and
violating a restraining
order by contacting
another family member
and threatening her with
death.
The writer of the
obit has had little
to add, other than a
statement issued to
Houston’sKTRK-TV: “I
loved my father because
he was my father, and
his passing would not
have been any less difﬁcult had he been a good
father,” said his daughter,
who asked that her name
not be used. “This obit
was intended to help
bring closure because not
talking about domestic
violence doesn’t make it
go away.”
She added: “Although
I appreciate everyone’s
concern, it would have
been much more appreciated at any time during
my childhood.”
That’s the heart of it:
the lifelong damage a
terrible parent inﬂicts
on a helpless, dependent
child. If this woman
sounds angry and bitter,
the anger and bitterness
reﬂect what has to have
been a miserable childhood.
Mr. Charping’s family
chose not to rewrite history. While I’m skeptical
it will bring the peace

they seek — “closure”
tends to be the brass ring
that’s always just beyond
reach — I hope one stray
remark his daughter
made might provoke
some thought.
And that’s when she
said concern “would have
been much more appreciated … during my childhood.”
Concern for a child
who might be suffering
at home — a neighbor’s
youngster, a relative’s
kids, a school friend of
your child’s — is an easy
thing to suppress, to
dismiss with “no, not my
business.”
Kids cannot divorce
an abusive father, pack
up and leave a neglectful
mom. They can’t move to
another town. If nobody
helps them, they suffer.
Sadly, there are abusive parents out there:
selﬁsh bullies, sadists,
sociopaths. Many — and
maybe most — families
cover up the truth about
them, up to and including the day they die.
This family chose not
to. Maybe, in making
that choice, they at least
did somebody else a
favor.
Jacquielynn Floyd is a columnist
for The Dallas Morning News.
Readers may email her at jfloyd@
dallasnews.com.

TODAY IN HISTORY
Today in History
Today is Wednesday,
Feb. 15, the 46th day of
2017. There are 319 days
left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Feb. 15, 1867, “On
the Beautiful Blue Danube,” a waltz by Johann
Strauss (the Younger),
was publicly performed
for the ﬁrst time by the
Vienna Men’s Choral
Society, garnering a
polite, if decidedly less
than enthusiastic, audience response. (A revised
orchestral version proved
much more successful.)
On this date:
In 1764, the site of
present-day St. Louis
was established by Pierre
Laclede and Auguste

Chouteau.
In 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine mysteriously
blew up in Havana Harbor, killing more than 260
crew members and bringing the United States
closer to war with Spain.
In 1933, President-elect
Franklin D. Roosevelt
escaped an assassination
attempt in Miami that
mortally wounded Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak; gunman Giuseppe
Zangara was executed
more than four weeks
later.
In 1942, the British
colony Singapore surrendered to Japanese forces
during World War II.
In 1952, a funeral was
held at Windsor Castle
for Britain’s King George
VI, who had died nine
days earlier.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY
“Nothing is mine, I have only nothing but it
is enough, it is beautiful and it is all mine.”
— Katherine Anne Porter,
American author (1894-1980)

In 1961, 73 people,
including an 18-member U.S. ﬁgure skating
team en route to the
World Championships
in Czechoslovakia, were
killed in the crash of a
Sabena Airlines Boeing
707 in Belgium.
In 1967, the rock band
Chicago was founded by
Walter Parazaider, Terry
Kath, Danny Seraphine,
Lee Loughnane (LOK’nayn), James Pankow and
Robert Lamm; the group
originally called itself The
Big Thing.

In 1971, Britain and
Ireland “decimalised”
their currencies, making
one pound equal to 100
new pence instead of 240
pence.
In 1982, 84 men were
killed when a huge oildrilling rig, the Ocean
Ranger, sank off the coast
of Newfoundland during
a ﬁerce storm.
In 1989, the Soviet
Union announced that the
last of its troops had left
Afghanistan, after more
than nine years of military intervention.

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MU School of Music to host 48th Winter Jazz Fest

Bond

box, stated Ihle.
Wood plans to hold community meetings throughout the county in advance
From page 1
of the November election,
residents and discuss the
as well as taking part in
proposed issue.
events such as the fair and
Ihle said that the time
other events to meet with
will allow for the time to
members of the public to
speak with constituents
about the need for the facil- answer any questions or
concerns.
ity and the process that is
Wood said he feels like
needed in order to fund
they
are doing the right
and construct a facility like
thing
by putting the bond
the one being considered.
issue before the voters and
Informing the voters,
doing the right thing in
educating them on the
pursuing the administratax process and the exact
impact a tax could have on tive ofﬁce and correctional
facility.
property owners, would
There are no plans at
give voters all of the inforthis time to change the
mation needed to make
an informed and educated millage being proposed or
decision on the bond issue the 71-bed facility which is
as they head to the ballot
being considered.

Staff Report

high school bands will
be present for adjudicaHUNTINGTON, W.Va. tion each night.
— Longtime veteran
Turre has been pertrombonist of Saturday
forming as a member of
Night Live Steve Turre
the Saturday Night Live
and regular Ellis MarBand since 1984. His
salis Band trumpeter
career originally picked
Ashlin Parker will be
up momentum when
special guests during
Ray Charles hired him
the Marshall University to go on tour in 1972.
School of Music’s 48th
He has since worked
Annual Winter Jazz Fes- with a diverse list of
tival Feb. 16-18.
musicians from the jazz,
The festival’s daily
Latin and pop worlds.
concerts will begin at
Parker, who is based
7 p.m. in Smith Recital
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Hall on Marshall’s Hun- played with ensembles
tington campus, while
at international festivals
the special guests will
and clubs in Germany,
perform with the MarRussia, India, Switshall University Faculty zerland, Brazil, Wales,
Jazz Combo on Friday
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and the Jazz I Ensemble Bermuda, South Africa,
on Saturday. Thirteen
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the Netherlands, Can-

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Washington in mid-February. Mount
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the income tax. Those
absentee ballots are
then mailed back to the
Athens County Board of
Elections
The voters will also
have the opportunity to
vote by absentee ballot
or will be assigned a
nearby polling place in
Athens County where
they may vote in person

on election day.
Deputy Director
Angie Robson explained
that she had spoke with
the Athens County
Board of Elections
regarding the matter prior to Tuesday’s
meeting regarding the
matter to discuss the
options. The Athens
County Board must also

approve the plan.
This means that there
will be no election conducted in May through
the Meigs County
Board of Elections. The
next election in Meigs
County would be in
November, unless a matter is presented for a
special election prior to
that date.

will soon be turning
80 it is becoming difficult to do all of the
things that she felt a
person should do as a
good board member.
A recognition for
Slavin will be planned
at a later date.
With the vacancy of

a board member from
the Democratic Party,
the party’s executive
committee will meet
to make a selection for
a new board member,
who must then be
approved by the Secretary of State. The
executive committee is

scheduled to meet this
Thursday evening.
The remainder of
the board consists of
Charles Williams (D)
who is currently the
chairman, along with
Republicans Jimmy
Stewart and David
Fox.

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3

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300

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.

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Environmental Services

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

Location
Willow Island
Marietta
Parkersburg
Belleville
Racine
Point Pleasant
Gallipolis
Huntington
Ashland
Lloyd Greenup
Portsmouth
Maysville
Meldahl Dam

Level
12.74
23.50
25.41
12.15
13.33
26.70
12.20
30.48
36.36
11.83
28.70
35.60
27.60

Waverly
40/23
Lucasville
42/26
Portsmouth
43/26

24-hr.
Chg.
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+0.82
+1.37
-0.08
+0.60
+0.94
+0.20
+1.49
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-0.03
+1.40
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SUNDAY

62°
41°

Milder with sunshine
and patchy clouds

Chance for a couple
of showers

Mild with clouds and
sunshine

Nice and warm with
clouds and sun

Some rain and a
t-storm in the p.m.

Logan
39/20

NATIONAL CITIES
Marietta
41/23

Murray City
39/20
Belpre
43/23

Athens
41/21

St. Marys
42/23

Parkersburg
42/24

Coolville
42/22

Elizabeth
43/24

Spencer
44/25

Buffalo
45/27

Ironton
44/26

Milton
45/27

St. Albans
45/27

Huntington
45/26

NATIONAL FORECAST
110s
100s
Seattle
55/47
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70s
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50s
40s
30s
20s
San Francisco
10s
64/56
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Los Angeles
78/57
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Rain
Showers
Snow
Flurries
Ice
Cold Front
Warm Front
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65°
42°

Wilkesville
43/24
POMEROY
Jackson
43/25
43/24
Ravenswood
Rio Grande
43/25
44/25
Centerville
POINT PLEASANT
Ripley
36/24
GALLIPOLIS
45/25
44/25
45/25

Ashland
45/27
Grayson
46/28

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63°
46°

McArthur
40/20

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Flood
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34
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41
40
50
50
52
54
50
50
51

Chillicothe
39/22

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61°
43°

Adelphi
40/20

South Shore Greenup
44/27
42/26

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e-mail at saunders35@
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because I don’t want
to do it any more,”
said Slavin. She
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election in Meigs County, the Meigs County
Board of Elections took
action to mail absentee
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the 710 voters who are
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ada, France, Hungary,
Finland and Norway.
He shared in the 2009
Grammy Award for Best
Large Jazz Ensemble for
the New Orleans Jazz
Orchestra’s debut album,
titled “Book One.” Since
2011, Parker has been
leading the jazz trumpet studio in the music
department at the University of New Orleans.
The 48th Annual Winter Jazz Festival is open
to the public. While
admission is free, the
jazz department will be

41°
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53°/29°
46°/28°
78° in 1950
-2° in 1905

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27/21

Billings
56/36

Minneapolis
35/27

Montreal
32/22

Detroit
35/21

New York
46/30

Chicago
35/23

Washington
51/31

Kansas City
50/32

Denver
65/36

Toronto
33/16

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43/31/pc
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39/26/pc
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Atlanta
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El Paso
59/34

84° in Hollywood, FL
-7° in Antero Reservoir, CO

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Chihuahua
55/31

High 107° in Augrabies Falls, South Africa
Low -45° in Kugaaruk, Canada

Houston
65/41
Monterrey
70/43

Miami
86/67

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Eagles top
Hannan,
66-50

Wednesday, February 15, 2017 s 6

Wildcats fend off OVCS, 71-69

By Bryan Walters
bwalters@civitasmedia.com

ASHTON, W.Va. — It
was competitive for three
quarters, but a 24-15
fourth quarter charge ultimately allowed the Eastern boys basketball team
to walk away with a 66-50
victory over host Hannan
in a non-conference contest on Saturday in Mason
County.
Both the Wildcats
(6-11) and the visiting
Eagles (8-12) had ﬁve
players reach the scoring
column and each squad
also had three players ﬁnish the game with double
digits. The matchup also
had single-digit leads
through each of the three
quarters of action.
Jeremiah Martindale
scored seven points as
part of an EHS 16-12
run in the opening eight
minutes, then Jett Facemyer netted 14 points as
part of an 18-13 second
period surge that led to
the Eagles having a 34-25
cushion at the break.
Corey Hudnall scored
seven points as part of a
small 10-8 HHS run in the
third canto that resulted
in a 42-35 contest entering the ﬁnale, but the
Blue and White were ultimately never closer than
three possessions the rest
of the way.
Garrett Barringer
scored 11 points and Martindale added eight markers as the guests ended
regulation with that 24-15
run that wrapped up the
16-point triumph.
See EAGLES | 7

OVP SPORTS
SCHEDULE
Wednesday, February 15
Boys Basketball
Point Pleasant at Nitro,
7:30
Girls Basketball
(8) Gallia Academy vs.
(1) Sheridan, 6:15 p.m.
(OHSAA Division II sectional semiﬁnal at Logan)
(5) Jackson vs. (4)
Meigs, 8 p.m. (OHSAA
Division II sectional semiﬁnal at Logan)
(9) Westfall vs. (8)
River Valley, 6:15 p.m.
(OHSAA Division III
sectional semiﬁnal at
Athens)
(10) South Gallia vs.
(7) Miller, 6:15 p.m.
(OHSAA Division IV sectional semiﬁnal at Meigs)
(11) Green vs. (6)
Southern, 8 p.m.
(OHSAA Division IV
sectional semiﬁinal at
Meigs)
Wrestling
Meigs at Gallia Academy, 5 p.m.

Photos by Bryan Walters/OVP Sports

Ohio Valley Christian senior Austin Ragan, left, is joined by head coach Steve Rice in holding a banner after becoming the eighth Defender in boys basketball history
to score 1,000 career points during the fourth quarter of Monday night’s contest against Hannan in Ashton, W.Va.

Ragan becomes 8th Defender to reach 1,000 career points
By Bryan Walters
bwalters@civitasmedia.com

ASHTON, W.Va. — A historic accomplishment … but
not the desired result.
Senior Austin Ragan became
the eighth Ohio Valley Christian boys basketball player
to reach 1,000 career points,
but the Defenders ultimately
dropped a thrilling 71-69 decision to host Hannan in a nonconference matchup Monday
night in Mason County.
Ragan — who entered the
game needing 28 points to join
the elusive quadruple-digit
club — joined the likes of John
Keenan, Marshall Hood, T.G.
Miller, Adam Holcomb, Bo Pollard, Pete Carman and current
teammate Elijah McDonald in
accomplishing such an honor
with a layup at the 4:04 mark
of the fourth quarter … cutting
the Hannan lead down to 58-54
at the time.
OVCS (14-10) followed with
a Hollis Morrison trifecta 33
seconds later to trim the deﬁcit
down to one, but the Wildcats
(7-11) — who led the ﬁnal

9:40 of regulation — countered
with a 10-5 run that resulted in
a 68-62 cushion with 1:03 left
to play.
The Defenders twice closed
to within a single point down
the stretch, with the last occasion coming with 13 seconds
left as a Justin Beaver offensive
putback made it a 70-69 contest.
Chandler Starkey netted
the second of two free throw
attempts to give HHS a 71-69
lead with 6.8 seconds left, then
Ragan attempted a long threepointer just before the buzzer
sounded, but the shot was off
of its mark.
The Wildcats salvaged a season split after OVCS claimed
a 54-46 win in the ﬁrst contest
back on December 15 in Gallipolis. The Defenders also had
their four-game winning streak
snapped in the process.
It was a bittersweet emotion
for Ragan afterwards. On one
hand, he accomplished an individual feat that is quite rare.
Then again, his achievement
See WILDCATS | 7

Hannan freshman Chandler Starkey (50) leaps for a shot attempt over OVCS
defender Hollis Morrison (24) during the second half of Monday night’s nonconference boys basketball contest in Ashton, W.Va.

Meigs’ Pullins signs with URG volleyball
By Alex Hawley
ahawley@civitasmedia.com

Thursday, February 16
Boys Basketball
Meadow Bridge at Hannan, 7 p.m.
Friday, February 17
Boys Basketball
River Valley at Meigs,
7:30
Eastern at Southern,
7:30
Portsmouth at Gallia
Academy, 7:30
South Gallia at Miller,
7:30
Wrestling
Point Pleasant and
Wahama at Region IV
championships at Calhoun County, TBA

Alex Hawley/OVP Sports

On Thursday inside Larry R. Morrison Gymnasium, MHS senior Alliyah Pullins signed her letter
of intent to join the University of Rio Grande Volleyball team. Sitting in the front row, from left,
are Paul Pullins, Alliyah Pullins and Amy Pullins. Standing in the back row are URG assistant
coach Courtney Young, URG assistant coach Eric Landrum, RedStorm junior varsity coach
Morgan Daniels, Meigs junior varsity coach Lea Ann King, Lady Marauders head coach Lori
Carter and Meigs Athletic Director Steven Wood.

ROCKSPRINGS, Ohio
— On Thursday at Meigs
High School, senior Alliyah Pullins signed her
letter of intent to join the
University of Rio Grande
volleyball team.
“I really didn’t expect
it, but I’m excited for it,”
Pullins said of continuing
her volleyball career. “It’s
just crazy, everything is
going to be at a much
higher level, I don’t even
know what to think about
it.”
A three-year member
of the Lady Marauders
varsity team, Pullins
posted 272 kills, 44 aces
and 108 digs in her varsity career. Alliyah was a
sophomore on the 2014

Meigs district ﬁnalist
team.
“Alliyah has all the
potential to be great
playing for Rio Grande,
I couldn’t be happier for
her,” said MHS head
coach Lori Carter. “She
has worked hard these
last four years, grown as
a player and a student.
She can play all the way
around and do anything
they ask of her.”
As a senior, Pullins was
named to the All-District
13 second team and the
Tri-Valley Conference
Ohio Division ﬁrst team.
At Meigs, Alliyah played
in both the back row and
the front row, but she will
primarily play back row
for the RedStorm.
See PULLINS | 7

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Wildcats

remaining. The Defenders outscored HHS 20-13
over the ﬁnal 4:22 but
also trailed the entire
From page 6
way.
came in a setback.
Hannan snapped a
“I’m just thankful for
seven-game
losing streak
all of my teammates and
against
the
Defenders.
all of the work that my
The Wildcats last beat
coaches have put into
OVCS by a 43-38 margin
me over the years. I
in Ashton back on Februowe all of this to them,”
ary 21, 2011.
Ragan said. “We weren’t
“It’s been a long time
at full strength, but we
since
we’ve beaten OVC,
left everything out on
so
it
is
good to get over
the ﬂoor tonight. This
that
hump,”
HHS coach
would probably be easier
Ross
Thornton
said afterto enjoy right now if we
wards.
“This
win
also
would have won.”
allowed
us
to
eclipse
last
The Defenders were
year’s win total, so that
without the service of
was another positive sign
McDonald, who did not
that things are still movplay due to a leg injury.
ing forward in a positive
McDonald eclipsed the
direction. In all reality,
1,000-point mark earlier
this was a big win for us
in the season and was
… for a lot of reasons.”
averaging 18 points per
The Wildcats made
game.
10 of their 23 total ﬁeld
OVCS, however, had
goals from behind the arc
no troubles early on as
and also went 15-of-19 at
the guests stormed out
the free throw line for 79
to a 12-3 lead, but Hannan answered with seven percent.
Hudnall led Hannan
straight points to close to
with 23 points, followed
within 12-10. Beaver hit
by Dalton Coleman with
a trifecta just before the
22 points and Malachi
ﬁrst quarter buzzer, giving the Defenders a 15-10 Cade with 12 markers.
Chandler Starkey was
lead after eight minutes
of play.
next with nine points,
Ragan capped an 8-4
while Matt Qualls and
start to the second canto Logan Nibert rounded
with a basket at the 5:09
out the winning tally with
mark, which extended
respective efforts of three
the lead back out to three and two points.
possessions at 23-14.
The Defenders netted
The Wildcats retaliated nine of their 28 total ﬁeld
with a 17-7 surge over
goals from behind the arc
the ﬁnale 4:33 of the half, and also went 4-of-5 at
allowing the hosts to take the free throw line for 80
a slim 31-30 edge into the percent.
intermission.
Ragan ﬁnished the
Ohio Valley Christian
night with a game-high
trailed 38-32 less than
31 points that included
two minutes into the
seven trifectas. Morrison
third, but rallied with
was next with 14 points,
six straight points to tie
while Dante Lewis and
things up at 38-all with
Andrew Dubs respective5:06 remaining in the
ly added nine and eight
third.
markers.
Andrew Dubs gave
Beaver chipped in ﬁve
OVCS its ﬁnal lead of
points and Nate Dubs
the night with a basket
rounded things out with
at the 2:52 mark, maktwo markers.
ing it a 44-43 contest.
Hannan hosts Meadow
Corey Hudnall answered Bridge on Thursday,
for Hannan with a baswhile the Defenders open
ket at the 1:40 mark,
postseason play this
which sparked a 5-0 run
Friday when they host
to close out the quarter
Dayton Temple Christian
for a Wildcat 48-44 edge
at 6:30 p.m. in the ﬁrst
headed into the ﬁnale.
round of the OCSAA
The hosts made a
Southeast Regional tour10-5 run to start the
nament.
fourth, which resulted in
their biggest lead of the
Bryan Walters can be reached at
740-446-2342, ext. 2101.
night at 58-49 with 4:41

Pullins

district second team selection as a sophomore and an
all-district ﬁrst teamer as
a junior.
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For the Maroon and
“We liked Alliyah
Gold, Pullins stared in the
because she went after ever
inﬁeld and as a pitcher.
ball, she hustled every play,
Although she signed her
she was very encouraging
letter of intent to join the
to her teammates,” URG
URG volleyball team, Allijunior varsity head coach
yah noted that her softball
Morgan Daniels said.
career may continue at the
“We’re excited to have her
next level as well.
on our jay-vee team. We
“I am going to try to
really needed a defensive
walk on to the softball
specialist, because we had
team at Rio,” Pullins said.
none.”
“I went and talked to the
Pullins noted that Rio
Rio softball coach and he
Grande being close to
told me about how a lot of
home was a major factor in
players are coming back,
choosing the RedStorm.
and he has full team.”
In addition to excelling
Currently ranked 23rd
on the volleyball court,
in the MHS class of 2017,
Pullins has also been a
Pullins holds a 3.75 grade
key member of the Lady
point average. Alliyah plans
Marauders’ softball team.
on majoring in exercise
For her efforts on the diaand sports studies at URG.
mond, Alliyah was named
ﬁrst team All-TVC Ohio
Alex Hawley can be reached at 740twice. Pullins was an all446-2342. ext. 2100.

Eagles

ning cause.
The Wildcats netted
eight of their 16 total ﬁeld
goals from three-point
From page 6
territory and also made
The Green and White
14-of-16 charity tosses for
made six of their 27 total
88 percent.
ﬁeld goals from behind
Malachi Cade paced
the arc and also went 6-ofthe hosts with 17 points,
9 at the free throw line for
followed by Hudnall with
67 percent.
16 points and Dalton
Facemyer led EHS with
Coleman with 14 markers.
a game-high 24 points, folMatthew Qualls added
lowed by Barringer with
two points and Logan
18 points and Martindale
Nibert completed the
with 15 markers. Sharp
scoring with one point.
Facemyer and Kaleb Hill
respectively added seven
Bryan Walters can be reached at
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RedStorm lands Gallia Academy’s Shriver
By Alex Hawley
ahawley@civitasmedia.com

CENTENARY,
Ohio — On Thursday
at Gallia Academy
High School, senior
Carly Shriver signed
her letter of intent to
join the University of
Rio Grande volleyball
team.
“It’s a blessing to be
able to play at the collegiate level,” Shriver
said. “It’s always been
a dream of mine and
I’m just so glad that I
have to opportunity
to do so. I’m so glad
Alex Hawley/OVP Sports
that Coach Donaldson
On Thursday at the GAHS library, Gallia Academy senior Carly Shriver signed her letter of intent to
and Rio Grande have
join the University of Rio Grande volleyball team. Sitting in the front row, from left, are Joseph Roush,
given me the opporCarly Shriver, Carol Roush and Blue Angels head coach Janice Rosier. Standing in the back row are
tunity to farther my
Lori Ward, Dr. Kelly Roush, RedStorm head coach Billina Donaldson, URG junior varsity coach Morgan
education and my love Daniels, URG assistant coach Eric Landrum, URG assistant coach Courtney Young and Gallia Academy
for volleyball.”
Athletic Director Adam Clark.
As a two-year startBlue Angels became the kills over her junior and to get a point, or keep
ing setter for GAHS,
ﬁrst GAHS team to com- senior seasons in the
the other team from
Shriver amassed 1,113
Blue and White. Carly
scoring. The next thing
career assists and helped plete a perfect regular
season and the ﬁrst team was named All-District
would be, she just puts
Gallia Academy win
13 second team in both
the ball where it needs
back-to-back Ohio Valley since 2001 to reach district ﬁnal.
her junior and senior
to be all the time. She
Conference champion“I’m real happy to see seasons, while earning
makes great decisions,
ships and claim its third
Carly
take
the
next
step
All-SEOAL
ﬁrst
team
she has great hands
straight Southeastern
in
signing
with
the
Unihonors
as
a
junior.
and she’s going to great
Ohio Athletic League
versity
of
Rio
Grande,”
“We’ve
watched
her
things.”
title in the ﬁnal year of
GAHS head coach Jangrow up through the
Shriver also noted that
the league.
program, being right
“Its been really special ice Rosier said. “I look
Rio Grande was a perto be a part of something forward to watching her here local, and we know fect choice to stay close
play, since it’s close to
that her team’s success
so big at Gallia Acadto family and friends.
home. She’s been the
is because of her want
emy,” Shriver said. “I’d
Carly currently holds a
leader of our team for
to win,” RedStorm head 4.0 grade point average,
like to thank my fama while now, she ran
coach Billina Donaldson with an overall 3.5 GPA.
ily and teammates for
the
offense.
She’s
an
said. “She has great
always being there and
At URG, Carly plans on
extremely hard worker
knowledge of the game, an intervention specialist
pushing me to be my
and a team player, she’s
she’s very dedicated, and major.
best.”
going to bring a lot to
she’s a very sweet kid,
GAHS set a new
In addition to volRio Grande.”
her personality is aweschool records for wins
leyball, Shriver has also
In addition to her
some.
twice in Shriver’s tenure,
excelled for the Blue
“The big thing I like
as the Blue Angels were impressive assists tally,
Angels in basketball and
about her is, if I ask her
22-3 in her junior season Shriver — a two time
softball.
All-OVC ﬁrst team
to go through a wall for
and 25-1 this past fall,
me, she’s going to go
when ﬁnished as district selection — posted 110
Alex Hawley can be reached at
runner-up. The 2016
aces, 359 digs and 53
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740-446-2342, ext. 2100.

Lady Defenders sweep Hannan, 35-34
By Bryan Walters

rally back from two-possession deﬁcit through
three periods of play.
ASHTON, W.Va. —
The host Lady Cats
Down to the wire.
(3-16) claimed a slim
Senior Katie Bradley
7-6 edge after eight
converted an old-fashminutes of action, then
ioned three-point play
Julie Frazier scored nine
with 7.6 seconds remain- points as part of an 11-8
ing, which ultimately
run that allowed HHS to
allowed visiting Ohio
secure an 18-14 edge at
Valley Christian to sneak
the intermission.
away with a hard-fought
Hannan got four
35-34 win over the Hanpoints
apiece from Magnan girls basketball team
gie
Waugh
and Lindsey
on Monday night in
Holley
in
the
third as
Mason County.
part
of
a
small
11-9 run
The Lady Defenders
that
allowed
the
Blue
(8-8) picked up their
and
White
to
increase
ﬁfth straight victory
their lead out to 29-23
with the decision, but
headed into the ﬁnale.
the Blue and Gold
Bradley scored 10 of
trailed after each of
Ohio Valley Christian’s
the ﬁrst three quarters
dozen points down the
of play. Bradley’s late
stretch as the guests
heroics capped a 12-5
used that pivotal sevenfourth quarter charge
point swing to complete
that allowed OVCS to

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their game-long comeback bid.
HHS, however, still
had seven-plus seconds
to recapture the lead, but
the ensuing inbounds
pass was picked off by
Cori Hutchison — who
proceeded to dribble
out the remainder of the
clock.
With the triumph,
OVCS completed a season sweep of the Lady
Cats after posting a
25-19 decision in Gallipolis back on December
15.
The Lady Defenders
made three of their 13
total ﬁeld goals from
behind the arc and also
went 6-of-21 at the free
throw line for 29 percent.
Bradley led the guests
with a game-high 17

points, followed by
Rachel Sargent and
Emily Childers with six
markers apiece. Kristen
Durst and Hutchison
respectively added four
and two points to the
winning cause as well.
Hannan netted only
one of its dozen total
ﬁeld goals from threepoint range and also
went 9-of-19 at the charity stripe for 47 percent.
Frazier paced the Lady
Cats with 12 points, followed by Holley with
seven points and Waugh
with six markers. Josie
Cooper was next with
ﬁve points, while Cassidy Duffer and Pammie
Ochs completed the
scoring with two points
each.
Bryan Walters can be reached at
740-446-2342, ext. 2101.

Reds have opening at 2B after trading Phillips
GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) —
The Cincinnati Reds opened a
spot for 22-year-old Jose Peraza
to become an everyday player
when they traded second baseman Brandon Phillips to the
Braves for a pair of pitching
prospects.
Manager Bryan Price said
Monday that Peraza would be
the second baseman unless
he struggles. Peraza was one
of the Reds’ most impressive
young players last season, batting .324 in 72 games with
three homers and 25 RBIs.
“From Peraza’s body of work,
he’s a regular,” Price said as the
Reds opened camp. “He’d have
to play his way off the position.”
The Reds tried repeatedly to
trade the 34-year-old Phillips,
who used his 10-and-ﬁve rights
— 10 years in the majors, ﬁve
with the same team — to block
a move. The Reds will pay most
of his $14 million salary this
season, the ﬁnal year on his
deal.
Cincinnati got left-hander
Andrew McKirahan — who

missed last season after Tommy
John surgery — and righthander Carlos Portuondo in the
deal.
The Reds are in the midst
of a massive rebuilding movement, trading most of their
core players for prospects in the
last two years. They got Peraza
from the Dodgers as part of a
three-team deal that sent third
baseman Todd Frazier to the
White Sox after the 2015 season.
With Phillips at second base
and Zack Cozart at shortstop,
the Reds had trouble getting
Peraza regular playing time.
Now he has a position. The
Reds also could trade the
31-year-old Cozart if another
team needs a shortstop.
Phillips’ insistence on staying in Cincinnati was blocking Peraza from developing
faster. Price was reluctant to sit
Cozart or Phillips regularly to
give Peraza more time.
“It’s not right to take a start
a week from established players
like that,” Price said.
The Reds were determined to

get Peraza a bigger role somehow even if Phillips had continued to block a trade.
“Going into the offseason, we
knew we were going to incorporate Jose Peraza,” Price said. “I
hope it works out for Brandon.”
Price plans to play Peraza
at shortstop and in the outﬁeld during spring training to
enhance his versatility. Left
ﬁelder Adam Duvall will play at
third and ﬁrst base as well.
Notes: Pitchers and catchers
reported and will have their
ﬁrst workout on Tuesday. The
ﬁrst full-squad workout is Friday. … RHP Homer Bailey had
surgery to remove bone spurs
from his pitching elbow last
week and is expected to start
the season on the disabled list.
The Reds also will be cautious
with minor league right-hander
Nick Travieso, who has had
shoulder problems. … The Reds
claimed RHP Lisalverto Bonilla
off waivers from the Pirates
and placed him on the 40-man
roster. He last pitched in the
majors in 2014, appearing in
ﬁve games with the Rangers.

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No. 3 Kansas rallies to beat No. 9 West Virginia 84-80 in OT
LAWRENCE, Kan.
(AP) — Frank Mason
III and Devonte Graham
never felt as though the
game was over, even
when they huddled
around coach Bill Self
with less than four minutes to go and Kansas
trailing West Virginia
by 14 points.
“We just talked about
staying in it. ‘We can
do it.’ Coach kept telling us we were going
to step up and make
plays,” Graham said
later, “and everybody
stepped up and made
plays.”
The two starting
guards made the ones
that mattered most.
Mason poured in 24
points, including the
two free throws that
forced overtime, and
Graham hit two of his
ﬁve 3-pointers in the
extra period and ﬁnished with 18 points
as the third-ranked
Jayhawks stormed back
to stun the No. 9 Mountaineers 84-80 on Monday night and assume
control of the Big 12
race.
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avenged a loss in Morgantown while extending their lead over
fourth-ranked Baylor to
two games in the league
standings.
“It was huge to play
that hard and compete
that hard and not have
anything good happen for so long, and
the guys just hung in
there,” Self said. “I still
don’t know how we did
it.”
Esa Ahmad scored
20 points and Tarik
Phillip had 18 for the
Mountaineers (20-6,
8-5), who appeared to
have the game locked
up when they led 64-50
with 2:58 left in the second half.
Kansas answered with
some more Allen Fieldhouse magic.
Spurred on by their
own version of a fullcourt defense, the
Jayhawks began forcing
turnovers and turning
them into easy baskets.
And by the time Graham curled in a 3-pointer, Phillip threw the ball
away and Mason made
a pair of free throws,

it was 71-all with 21.6
seconds left in regulation.
The Mountaineers
called a timeout with
16.1 seconds to go to
set up a ﬁnal play, and
they managed to get
Phillip isolated on the
wing.
But his long 3-pointer
clanked off the iron as
the buzzer sounded.
“I was just trying to
keep positive,” Ahmad
said. “I was just trying
to keep ﬁghting.”
Any ﬁght the Mountaineers had left withered away as Kansas
scored the next eight
points.
“We just didn’t take
care of the ball like we
normally do,” West Virginia’s Nathan Adrian
said.
The Jayhawks had
their 51-game winning
streak at the Phog
snapped by Iowa State
just more than a week
ago, but they still have
not lost consecutive
home games since February 1989.
They also have never
been swept in the regular season by a Big 12
foe in 14 years with Self

on the sideline.
It helped that they
got to the foul line 44
times, making 33 of
them.
“That’s what our season is going to come
down to — when it matters most, free throws,”
said Mason, who was
16 of 18 at the line.
“That’s what Coach tells
us. We just have to keep
working hard.”
West Virginia has
never beaten the Jayhawks at the Phog in
ﬁve tries.
The Mountaineers
scored the game’s ﬁrst
10 points to silence a
record-breaking crowd,
only for the Jayhawks
to answer with a 16-0
run spanning nearly ﬁve
minutes.
Lagerald Vick was
the catalyst, hitting
back-to-back 3s when
nobody else in a Kansas
uniform could hit much
of anything.
The Mountaineers
soon regained their
composure and took
a 39-32 lead into the
locker room, then kept
the Jayhawks at arm’s
length throughout much
of the second half.

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Blue Angels slip past Athens in sectional
By Paul Boggs
pboggs@civitasmedia.com

LOGAN — In what
would have been a sickening defeat on a sickly day,
Jenelle Stevens saved the
night — and the Gallia
Academy Blue Angels’
season.
That’s because the
senior Stevens, with only
three seconds remaining
on Monday night, sank a
short-range shot to lift the
Blue Angels over Athens
57-56 in a girls basketball
Division II sectional quarterﬁnal inside Jim Myers
Gymnasium in Logan.
Indeed, in a rollercoaster contest throughout, the Blue Angels
enjoyed the last laugh
— as fellow senior Carly
Shriver found Stevens
open off the inbounds
play for the basket on the
low block.
But the Bulldogs, which
incredibly battled back
from a 20-3 deﬁcit early
in the second period,
almost made it another
miracle at the buzzer
—but Olive Harter’s halfcourt heave was off the
rim.
Thus, Gallia Academy
—with players impacted
by illness along with
head coach Joe Justice
— advances to tonight’s
(Wednesday, Feb. 15) sectional semiﬁnal against
top-seeded Sheridan.
Justice did not coach
the club on Monday
night, and remained
home because he was
sick.
“It was an interesting
game to say the least,”
said GAHS assistant
coach Chris Tackett.
“Given the whole situation with Coach Justice
being sick and not being
able to make the trip.
When I got to the school
today, I found out Coach
Justice was sick, so the
girls’ mindset had to be
business as usual. We
knew this game was
going to be a dogﬁght

and it didn’t matter who
was up or who was down,
we had to keep playing.”
The Blue Angels are
the eighth-seeded squad
in the Logan sectional,
while Athens was the
ninth seed.
Gallia Academy
improved its record to
10-13 with the win, while
the youthful Bulldogs
bowed out at 5-18.
This was the second
consecutive season in
which the Blue Angels
upended Athens in the
sectional quarterﬁnal,
although Monday’s
matchup featured many
more extremes.
There were six lead
changes and ﬁve ties,
and the score by quarters
through the ﬁrst three
frames demonstrated
the dramatic and drastic
turns.
The Blue Angels
opened the game by
amassing the ﬁrst 15
points — and led 16-3
after one.
Athens, however, in
trailing 20-3 with six
minutes and 52 seconds
before halftime —ended
the stanza on an amazing
28-6 spree to lead 31-26.
The Bulldogs then built
their advantage to 35-26
with seven minutes left in
the third period, but the
Blue Angels ended the
quarter with a 16-5 spurt
to lead 42-40.
Eventually, it all came
down to the ﬁnal set
underneath the Blue
Angels’ basket.
It began once Harter
had missed a one-and-one
free throw for Athens
with 15 seconds left —
after her three-point goal
gave the Bulldogs a 56-55
edge with 35 seconds to
play.
Gallia Academy’s Adrienne Jenkins rebounded
the Harter missed foul
shot, as the Blue Angels
actually inbounded the
ball twice —the ﬁrst
of which was with 10.7
seconds to play along the

D-League getting
makeover in
Gatorade deal
By Kareem Copeland
Associated Press

The G-League is coming.
The NBA Development League is changing its
name starting next season to the NBA Gatorade
League, a deal that will include a rebranding that
will affect the league logo, basketballs, jerseys, oncourt signage and digital properties.
Long viewed as a proving and testing ground
of sorts for the NBA, what has been known as the
D-League will also get to take advantage of Gatorade’s Sports Science Institute — a resource that
many elite athletes, including Dwyane Wade and
Cam Newton, have used in recent years for testing
and evaluation of what exactly their bodies need
during competition.
“This isn’t about slapping a name on a league,”
NBA deputy commissioner Mark Tatum said.
“This is much, much deeper than that.”
Tatum said this is not the ﬁrst step toward a
name change for the NBA, and declined to detail
the length or ﬁnancial terms of the deal. But he
said the part of the deal including GSSI will provide “knowledge to enhance player performance
in our game” through nutrition, training and other
advances. Gatorade will also incorporate its most
recent products and equipment throughout the
league.
David Carter, executive director of the USC
Sports Business Institute, called the deal “very
authentic” because the brands are historically connected and the deal provides the opportunity for
brand positioning from both sides. He said leagues
look for true marketing partnerships because consumers can be “reluctant to embrace brands they
think are inauthentic.”
Putting sponsorships on jerseys is fairly new for
the NBA. While other leagues have putting sponsorships on jerseys for several years, including the
WNBA, MLS and soccer leagues overseas, the
NBA got on board and approved on-jersey corporate sponsorships patches starting next season.
The Utah Jazz announced Monday that their patch
will be sponsored by Qualtrics and used to raise
money for cancer research.

Paul Boggs/OVP Sports

Gallia Academy’s Alex Barnes (4) drives against four Athens Bulldog defenders during Monday night’s Division II girls basketball
sectional tournament game at Logan High School.

sideline, with the other
being with six seconds
left by Shriver underneath the basket.
“It wasn’t anything
fancy. I didn’t call that
play. The kids made that
play,” said Tackett. “We
saved our timeouts for
late so we can get some
rest. The play was actually for Adrienne Jenkins,
and the backside slip was
for Jenelle (Stevens).
Jenelle made the bucket.
That’s one of the greatest
memories she will ever
have.”
Stevens scored a dozen
points on six baskets for
the Blue Angels —and
grabbed a game-high 14
rebounds.
Alex Barnes bagged
nine buckets and a free
throw for a game-high 19
points, as Jenkins (four
ﬁeld goals) and Hunter
Copley (three ﬁeld goals
and 2-of-5 free throws)
chipped in nine points
apiece.
Both Jenkins and Copley canned a three-pointer
apiece, along with one
by Shriver (ﬁve points),
as Kimberly Edelmann

added a ﬁeld goal and
Abby Cremeans split a
pair of free throws.
Barnes also dished out
four of the Blue Angels’
10 assists.
“Alex Barnes played
lights out tonight as a
freshman. She has been
big for us all year. But
when we went box-andone (defense) late in the
game, she had to guard
plus carry the workload
in handling the ball,”
said Tackett. “She was
also our leading scorer
tonight.”
The Blue Angels shot
43-percent from the ﬁeld
(25-of-58), which was
impacted by their 4-of-20
second-period performance —that also included nine of the team’s 21
turnovers.
Athens — on the other
hand — after missing its
ﬁrst 14 ﬁeld-goal attempts
and making only 1-of-15
in the opening quarter,
made 9-of-13 in the sizzling 28-point second.
The Bulldogs also beneﬁted from attempting 19
free throws and making
12, while Gallia Academy

only attempted 10 and
meshed four.
“We weathered the
storm in the second quarter with three seniors on
the bench in foul trouble.
When I talked to them
(Blue Angels) at halftime,
I told them the senior
leadership has to come in
the second half. We had
to be well-disciplined, we
have to know our assignments on defense, stay
out of foul trouble and
ﬁnish the game,” said
Tackett.
That the Blue Angels
did, rallying from the
35-26 deﬁcit —and building as much as three ﬁvepoint leads (51-46, 53-48
and 55-50) in a matter of
a minute and 10 seconds.
The ﬁnal of those was
with 1:35 to play, but a
Kaylee Stewart three-ball
from the left wing 30 seconds later — followed by
Harter hitting from the
key 30 seconds after that
—put the Bulldogs back
in front (56-55).
Athens — which
started four sophomores
and a freshman — ended
up shooting 34-percent

(19-of-56), but only went
6-of-23 for 26-percent
from long range.
Laura Manderick, on
seven ﬁeld goals including three threes, mustered 18 points to pace
the Lady Bulldogs.
Stewart secured a double-double with 15 points
and 13 rebounds, as Harter had a pair of triples en
route to 13 points.
The Blue Angels now
face 18-4 Sheridan, which
will be played inside the
Logan-Hocking Middle
School’s Katie Smith
Gymnasium.
Tipoff time is set for
6:15 p.m.
Tackett said staying
healthy — “and not
getting sick” —is paramount.
Truth be told, Gallia
Academy already has
been through enough illness this week.
“It’s going to be an
uphill battle, but if we
can get healthy, I think
we will be alright,” said
Tackett.
Paul Boggs can be reached at 740446-2342, ext. 2106

NBA party not in Charlotte this weekend
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) —
Hornets season ticket holder
Doug Doggett was planning on
ponying up several hundred dollars for tickets to the NBA All-Star
game this weekend in Charlotte.
But since the league has moved
its annual showcase to New
Orleans, Doggett now has no
plans to watch the game on TV.
Charlotte won’t be a ghost town
this weekend, but it sure won’t
be buzzing like many had hoped
when the NBA awarded the city
the 2017 All-Star game. The
league moved the event last summer after North Carolina politicians failed to repeal House Bill 2,
a law that passed last March that
limits the protections of LGBT
people.
As a result, Doggett — like
other Charlotte residents and
businesses — have been left out in
the cold, looking for ways to enjoy
this weekend. There is an Equestrian Trade Show in town, though
it’s not generating the same level
of excitement.
Vernon Jackson, also a season
ticket holder, said he was looking forward to seeing the All-Star
game in person but now only
plans to watch when Charlotte’s
Kemba Walker participates in the
3-point contest.
“I’ll watch Kemba, but as for
the game itself — probably not
much,” Jackson said.
Walker — Charlotte’s ﬁrst AllStar since Gerald Wallace seven
years ago — shares the fans’ pain.
He won’t be showing off his skills
in front of his home crowd.
“I have been here a long time,
and it would have been really cool
for the city, the organization, the
fans and even me,” Walker said.
But Walker and the fans aren’t
the only ones disappointed.
Charlotte area hotels, restaurants and other entertainmentbased businesses stand to lose out

on the $100 million impact of the
game, according to Hornets COO
and president Fred Whitﬁeld.
Before the league moved the
game, it was almost impossible to
ﬁnd a hotel in downtown Charlotte near the arena for this coming weekend. Now, the Westin is
offering rooms starting as low as
$90 per night.
Hickory Tavern, a sports bar/
restaurant where fans regularly
gather for Hornets “viewing parties,” and other local bars have
mostly cancelled All-Star themed
events and aren’t expecting nearly
as big crowds.
The Charlotte Convention Center was going to host many of the
events, including the interactive
NBA All-Star Experience. Now
the biggest event on the center’s
calendar this weekend is the International Equestrian Trade Show.
“There are a lot of business
leaders that would like to see a
resolution to HB2 and there are a
lot business leaders who have had
ongoing discussions with leaders
of the Senate and the House, asking them to work together to get a
resolution,” Whitﬁeld said.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in October that returning
the All-Star Game to Charlotte in
2019 is “a high priority,” provided
there’s a resolution to the so-called
bathroom bill, which limits which
restrooms transgender people can
use in government buildings and
schools.
But that’s no guarantee.
Newly elected Democratic Gov.
Roy Cooper wants to repeal the
law, but so far attempts to do so
with the GOP-controlled legislature have failed. A federal trial
to decide the legality of HB2 is
scheduled to begin later this summer.
Hornets owner and former NBA
great Michael Jordan declined
comment, but has spoken out

against any form of discrimination
in the past.
“We are extremely disappointed
we lost the game because we
worked so hard as a community
to get it,” Whitﬁeld said. “But we
did support commissioner Silver’s
decision to move the game. We,
like the NBA, don’t believe in any
form of discrimination but we felt
like it was incumbent upon us to
move the game as long as the HB2
situation lingered over our city
and state.”
Along with the All-Star game,
North Carolina has had major
music headliners like Bruce
Springsteen cancel concerts dates
and the Atlantic Coast Conference
pull its neutral site championship
games out of state, including football which featured national champion Clemson.
And now NBA stars LeBron
James, Kevin Durant and hometown hero Stephen Curry — and
their big, revenue-generating corporate sponsors — won’t be coming here either.
Forbes estimated in November
that HB2 has cost North Carolina
$630 million in lost revenue since
it was passed in March of 2016.
They stand to lose millions more if
the NCAA pulls the state’s tournament bids for the next six years.
“HB2 has cost North Carolina
every single day with businesses
and events leaving a state that has
written discrimination into law,”
Equality NC executive director
Chris Sgro said in an email. “…
The economic damage already
experienced because of HB2 is
only the beginning.”
Charlotte’s loss is New Orleans’
gain.
The Big Easy has paired the
four days of All-Star game festivities with Mardi Gras, merging two
giant parties.
Meanwhile, Charlotte is left
wondering what could have been.

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