https://history.meigslibrary.org/files/original/7561fb905f97378a8198db3a5b873017.pdf bcaae4afffcb341b6861c1e3cfda9940 PDF Text Text Being different EDITORIAL s 4 T-storm, High 65, Low 59 Falcons knock off Meigs WEATHER s 5 SPORTS s 6 C_ZZb[fehjFec[heo"�E^_e Breaking news at mydailysentinel.com Issue 33, Volume 71 Tuesday, February 28, 2017 s 50¢ Southern announces head start, preschool and kindergarten registration dates Staff Report TDSnews@civitasmedia.com RACINE — The Southern Local School District has set dates for kindergarten and preschool registration in the elementary wing of the Southern campus. Kindergarten registration is Wednesday and Thursday, April 12 and 13. Preschool registration is slated Monday and Tuesday, April 10 and 11. Registration runs from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Two weeks prior to registration, parents can call the school ofﬁce at 740-949-4222 to schedule an appointment. Head Start will also do their screenings on this date. Parents will need to bring their child’s birth certiﬁcate, Social Security card and shot records to the school. Parents must have veriﬁcation of residency, parent picture identiﬁcation, and if applicable, custody papers. The child must be present for screening and accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Parents can make plans now to have immunizations in place by the date of registration. The Southern Wellness Center can do much of what is required for the wellness checks. Previously, public preschool served 3- and 4-year old children, however, last year state guidelines changed. Only 4-year old children can be served in the public setting such as the one at Southern. “If there are any 4-year-olds out there,” Principal Tricia McNickle said, “we need them to sign up. We need 40 kids to fund a unit.” Traditionally, it has been a struggle to ﬁll a unit and keep it full even while accepting 3-year-olds. This past year was the ﬁrst year for just 4-year-olds. Kindergarten students must turn 5 before Aug. 1 and preschool kids must turn 4 before Aug. 1, 2017. Parents with children in Southern Local that have 3-year-olds can still apply for preschool services in a private setting; or if they qualify, attend Head Start if openings are available and income factors are met. Head Start is an all-day program, Kindergarten is all-day, and Southern preschool a half day experience. Research shows that educating children prior to age 5 maximizes their academic experience. “If you know of any 4-year old children, please pass along this message,” McNickle concluded. Children must be 4 years of age by the district’s kindergarten age cutoff date of Aug. 1, and not eligible for kindergarten. One exception: Children with special needs who are kindergarten age may attend an early childhood education program if the child’s Individualized Education Plan requires it. Kids start developing communication skills from the moment they’re born. Newborns quickly begin to recognize important sounds in their environment, such as their parents’ voices. As they grow, babies start recognizing the sounds that form language, such as the way syllables, words, and sentences work. The ﬁrst three years of a child’s life are the most critical for speech and language development because the brain is best able to absorb language during this period. That’s why it’s important to talk, listen, read, sing, and play games with young children and help teach important language skills that will last a lifetime. Research has shown that 90 percent of a child’s brain develops in the ﬁrst ﬁve years of life. INDEX Obituary: 2 News: 3 Opinion: 4 Weather: 5 Sports: 6 Classifieds: 8 Comics: 9 Sarah Hawley/Sentinel The grand opening of Main Street Furniture and Flooring was held in Middleport on Monday morning with owner Sterling Shields cutting the ribbon held by York Ingels who will manage the store and Herbie Roush who operates the Point Pleasant location. Also pictured is Jamie Barker from the Ohio Treasurer’s Office who presented a proclamation recognizing the new business opening. Main Street Furniture and Flooring opens By Sarah Hawley shawley@civitasmedia.com MIDDLEPORT — There’s a new store in town, with a familiar face managing the business. Main Street Furniture and Flooring held its grand opening on Monday, at the former Ingels Furniture/Radio Shack building on North Second Avenue in Middle- port. The store will be managed by York Ingels, who owned and operated Ingels Carpet until a ﬁre destroyed the building last spring. Main Street Furniture has operated a location in Point Pleasant for several years and has expanded to its newest location, explained Sterling Shields, who along with his brother owns Main Street Furniture. The Middleport location allows for not only the new location, but also the ﬂooring business in addition to the furniture. Shields purchased Main Street Furniture about a year ago from his wife’s father and uncle. Last November, Shields approached Ingels about joining the business to open a ﬂooring store in Point Pleasant. Ingels explained that in looking at the space in Point Pleasant it was not large enough for what he had in mind and suggested the Middleport location. When Shields and Ingels looked at the building in Middleport See FLOORING | 5 New season, new name Northbend Church emerges By Mindy Kearns Special to the Sentinel MASON — A name change marked the 10th anniversary of the former Soul Harvest Church in Mason, which has now been renamed Northbend Church. In making the announcement to the congregation during the anniversary service, Pastor Jason Simpkins explained the reason for the change is threefold. First, he said, the new name speaks of the Bend Area. “We believe the name speaks of the area we are called to reach,” Simpkins said. “It is my heart “We believe the name speaks of the area we are called to reach. It is my heart not to simply be a place, but to reach an area.” —Pastor Jason Simpkins not to simply be a place, but to reach an area.” Second, as seasons change, so do people, the pastor noted. With all that has been happening within the church over the past 10 years, Simpkins said it was time the church name catches up, and described the new name as “timeless.” And last, Simpkins said Northbend Church is about reaching the area for Jesus by whatever means possible. He stated the church has supported church start- Mindy Kearns/Courtesy A sign in upper Mason marks the location of Northbend Church, formerly known as Soul Harvest Church. The new name was announced at the 10th anniversary service, with Pastor Jason Simpkins explaining the reasoning behind the change. ups over the years in other areas, but would like to begin new churches nearby in the future. “It has been my desire to start and launch new churches,” Simpkins said. “In the future, it is our goal to go into surrounding areas and launch churches — Northbend churches.” Although the pastor said he has no timeline for the project, he believes the name change will help the church become more approachable in whatever way it See SEASON | 5 Retiring after record Angus sale Sale included 850 head, totaling over $3 million By Dean Wright deanwright@civitasmedia.com JOIN THE CONVERSATION What’s your take on today’s news? Go to mydailysentinel. com and visit us on facebook to share your thoughts. BIDWELL — After an 850 head of cattle “herd sale” in early February, Gallia residents Lynn and Paul Hill, of Champion Hill Farm, will be retiring to spend time with family. In addition to the record breaking Angus sale, the couple have been a local power in Angus beef, placing in national competitions. “Lynn and I wanted to retire while we still can enjoy our families,” said Paul Hill. “The most dynamic thing is that there were more people who attended that sale than there has been in 144 years. The cattle were sold all over the US and a big part into Canada. Our genetics (Angus breed lines) have gone world-wide. We’ve been a top breeder in the country. Out of the last 27 years, two thirds of those, ﬁrst or second breeder of the year (in local and national competitions) was with Champion Hill.” Champion Hill had its complete dispersal sale Feb. 4 at the United Producers location near the Gallia County Junior Fair grounds. Champion Hill is located in Bidwell. Paul said Tom Burke, of the American Angus Hall of Fame, told him the that selling 850 cattle had set a world record with the breed in 144 years of Angus beef. Such was also previously reported by the Huntington Herald-Dispatch. See ANGUS | 3 �OBITUARIES/NEWS 2 Tuesday, February 28, 2017 OBITUARIES ANGELA KAY SWIFT MIDDLEPORT — Angela Kay Swift, 52, of Middleport, Ohio, passed away on Feb. 26, 2017, at the Ohio State Medical Center. She was born on Nov. 21, 1964, in Gallipolis, Ohio, daughter of the late Ralph L. VanCooney and Judith A. Mowery VanCooney. She is survived by her husband, Bruce Swift; sister, Teresa VanCooney; brother, Ira VanCooney; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Dana and Jodi Swift, Joe and Peggy Swift, and Rhonda Swift; nephews, Timothy L. VanCooney, Marcus T. Webb, Robbie Swift and Sean Wolfe; niece, Lori Swift; and many other close friends and family. Funeral services will be on Thursday, March 2, 2017, at 1 p.m. at Anderson McDaniel Funeral Home in Pomeroy with Pastors Handley Dunn and Sonny Mayes ofﬁciating. Burial will follow at Meigs Memory Gardens. Visiting hours will be on Thursday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the funeral home. A registry is available at www.andersonmcdaniel.com. VADA L. CUNDIFF RACINE — Vada L. Jividen Cundiff, 77, of Racine, passed away, at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, in the Overbrook Center, in Middleport. Born Dec. 2, 1939, she was the daughter of the late R. O. and Ruﬁna Jividen. She was a homemaker and a member of the Moose Lodge #303 of Galion, Ohio, the Aerie 2171 Eagles Club, Pomeroy, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9926, of Mason, West Virginia. She is survived by her daughters, Rebecca (Gary) Nay, of Racine, and Jeri Stowers, of Hurricane, West Virginia; two grandsons, Eric Owen Cook and Harold Lee Cook, III; and a brother, Carsel Jividen, of Houston, Texas. In addition to her parents she is preceded in death by her husband, George W. “Pete” Cundiff, and her brothers, Kenneth and Terry Jividen. In keeping with Vada’s wishes there will be no call hours nor funeral services. Cremation services are entrusted to the Cremeens-King Funeral Home, Pomeroy. Internment will be at the convenience of the family in the Meigs Memory Gardens. In lieu of ﬂowers memorials may be to a charity of ones choosing. Expressions of sympathy may be sent to the family by visiting www.cremeensking.com. Daily Sentinel BALLEY DEWEESE SOUTHSIDE, W.Va. — Harry Balley, 55, of Southside, W.Va., passed away Saturday, February 25, 2017. A graveside service will be held at noon on Wednesday March 1, 2017, at the Henderson Cemetery in Henderson, W.Va. Deal Funeral Home in Point Pleasant, W.Va., is serving the family. LEON, W.Va. — Steven DeWeese, age 42, of Leon, W.Va., died Saturday Feb. 25. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Crow-Hussell Funeral Home when they become available. KING GALLIPOLIS — Berniece King 89, of Gallipolis, passed away on Friday February 24, 2017. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday March 1, 2017 at Paint Creek Baptist Church. Burial (for the family only) will follow in King Family Cemetery. Friends may call at the Waugh-Halley-Wood Funeral Home on Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. CLEMINS POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — Stephen George Clemins, Point Pleasant, W.Va., recently passed away at 91 years old. There will be a graveside service at the family plot in Chippewa Falls, Wisc. at the family’s convenience, followed by a reception celebrating his life. MEIGS CHURCH CALENDAR LEWIS PROCTORVILLE — Victor V. Lewis, 72, of Proctorville, passed away Saturday, February 25, 2017 at The Emogene Dolin Jones Hospice House, Huntington, W.Va. Funeral service will be conducted 11 a.m. Thursday, March 2, 2017 at Hall Funeral Home and Crematory, Proctorville. Burial will follow in Miller Memorial Gardens, Miller. Visitation will be held 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at the funeral home. MYERS CHESAPEAKE — Carolyn S. Myers, 62, of Chesapeake, passed away Monday, February 27, 2017 at Cabell Huntington Hospital, Huntington, W.Va. Hall Funeral Home and Crematory, Proctorville, is in charge of arrangements, which are incomplete. JONES POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — Bryan “Ashton” Jones, 26, of Point Pleasant, W.Va., died Saturday, February 25, 2017, from injuries received as a passenger, in an automobile accident. A funeral service will be 1 p.m. Thursday, March 2, 2017, at Wilcoxen Funeral Home in Point Pleasant, with Minister Pete Allinder ofﬁciating. Burial will follow at the Forest Hills Cemetery in Letart, W.Va. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Tuesday, Feb. 28 POMEROY — A Shrove Tuesday pancake supper will be held from 5:30-7 p.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church located at the corner of Second and Sycamore streets. Donations go to Meals on Wheels. Wednesday, March 1 POMEROY — The community is invited to a prayer breakfast at 7:45 a.m. at Trinity Congregational Church on Second and Lynn Streets in Pomeroy, in observance of the beginning of the Lenten season. All are welcome to attend. 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 740-992-2755 and leave a message. 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Burial followed in the Goldsbury at Grant Medical Center. ents, he was preceded in Cemetery, Branchland, W.Va. Visitation was held prior death by his ﬁrst wife, He was born on April to the services Sunday at the funeral home. Jacqueline Brickles, and 22, 1947, at Pratts Fork, a special friend, Paul SinOhio, son of the late SCHULTZE clair. Floyd Lamont Brickles Funeral services will and Naomi Doan BrickPOINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — Wilda M. Schultze, be held on Wednesday, les. 92, of Point Pleasant, W.Va., passed away February March 1, 2017, at 1 p.m. He is survived by his 24, 2017. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, wife, Edith Brickles; chil- with Pastor Randy Smith February 28, 2017, at the Deal Funeral Home in Point ofﬁciating at Anderson dren, April Icenhower, Pleasant at 1 p.m. Burial will be in Suncrest Cemetery McDaniel Funeral Home John (Stacey) Brickles, in Point Pleasant. Friends may call at the Funeral in Pomeroy. 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TV14 (5:00) �NEWS Daily Sentinel Congressional Art Contest open to high school students Staff Report TDSnews@civitasmedia.com MARIETTA — Congressman Bill Johnson (R-Marietta) announced Friday that high school students in Eastern and Southeastern Ohio residing in the 6th Congressional District are eligible to participate in the 2017 Congressional Art Competition, “An Artistic Discovery.” “I truly enjoy this annual competition because it illustrates the extraordinary talents the young people of Eastern and Southeastern Ohio have to offer,” Bill Johnson said. “I always look forward to viewing the artwork produced by our students, and I encourage all interested schools and students to showcase their work.” The winning student-artist will be invited to Washington, D.C. to take part in a national reception, and have his or her artwork displayed in the U.S. Capitol for one year. Runners-up will have their artwork displayed in Rep. Johnson’s Marietta, Salem, Cambridge, Ironton, or Washington D.C. ofﬁces. All high school students living in Eastern and Southeastern Ohio can participate, regardless of where they attend high school: public, private, home school, or online school. All artwork must be no larger than 26 x 26 x 4 including the frame, and can weight no more than 15 pounds. The artwork should be original in design, concept, and execution. Acceptable media include: Paintings: oil, acrylics, watercolors Drawings: pastels, colored pencil, pencil, charcoal, ink, markers Collage Prints: lithographs, silkscreen, block prints Mixed media: use of more than two media such as pencil, ink, watercolor Computer-generated art Photography Full guidelines can be found online at: http:// billjohnson.house.gov/constituentservices/2017congressional-art-competition.htm All submissions are due by Thursday, April 27, and can be either mailed or delivered in-person to Rep. Johnson’s Marietta, Salem, Cambridge, or Ironton District ofﬁces. The winning submissions will be determined by a panel of experts and local ofﬁcials; the winners will be notiﬁed during the ﬁrst week of May. This year, in addition to the panel selections, Johnson will also award a “People’s Choice” award, whereby images of selected artwork will be posted on his Facebook page, and fans will have the opportunity to vote on a ﬁnal winner. The student whose artwork receives the highest number of “likes” will be designated the winner of the People’s Choice award, and their artwork will be displayed in a district ofﬁce. For more information on the contest, please contact Ben Keeler in the Salem District Ofﬁce at 330-337-6951. Judge says police murder retrial on course for May 25 start CINCINNATI (AP) — A judge said Monday the retrial of a white former University of Cincinnati police ofﬁcer in the death of an unarmed black man is on course to begin May 25. Hamilton County Judge Leslie Ghiz met with defense attorneys and prosecutors in the Ray Tensing case. She said after the closed-door session that they discussed logistics and other matters. She scheduled another meeting for April 4. Tensing testiﬁed at his ﬁrst murder trial that he feared for his life as Sam DuBose tried to drive away from a trafﬁc stop in July 2015. He had pulled over DuBose for a missing front license plate. That trial ended with a hung jury on the murder and voluntary manslaughter counts, which Tensing again faces in the retrial. The Ohio case is among several police shooting cases around the country that have increased attention on how police treat blacks. Ghiz was assigned the case after the ﬁrst trial judge recused herself after the November mistrial, saying a new trial should be conducted “with a blank slate.” Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said after the mistrial in Cincinnati that he’d like to retry the former ofﬁcer in another city so jurors would be removed from the intense local attention that had been given the case. But Ghiz has said her goal is to keep the second trial in Hamilton County, and she has imposed a gag order in an effort to lessen pretrial publicity. Angus in Lynchburg, Va., before moving to Gallia County and had lived in the area From page 1 a little under 30 years. The sale totaled around Paul said he grew up in Marianna, Fla. Paul $3,238,000. According also credited Reynolds to Paul, four different with much of the farm’s females and their progsuccess throughout the eny had gone for over $100,000. Some females years. “Through the grapewere averaging around vine I had heard that $15,000 a head. Marshall was looking to Paul has partnered develop a tremendous with Marshall Reynolds, herd,” said Paul. “I of Huntington, in the approached him and we Champion Hill operagot together. Marshall tion. Paul and Lynn had had already had quite a previously been working Tuesday, February 28, 2017 3 Funding available for child abuse prevention Staff Report ATHENS — Southeast Ohio organizations with innovative and well-developed programs aimed at strengthening families and promoting healthy child development are invited to apply for a grant from the Southeast Ohio Regional Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Council and the Ohio Children’s Trust Fund. The Ohio Children’s Trust Fund is the state’s sole public funding source dedicated to preventing child abuse and neglect. The Trust Fund supports prevention programs that recognize and build on existing strengths within families and communities to effectively intervene long before child abuse or neglect occur. It works with eight regional prevention councils to serve all Ohio communities. Ohio University’s Voinov- ich School of Leadership and Public Affairs is the coordinator for the Southeast Ohio Regional Prevention Council. To be considered for a grant, applicants must provide services in one or more of the following counties: Athens, Gallia, Hocking, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Morgan, Perry, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Vinton and Washington. Preference will be given to programs that strengthen parenting skills to promote healthy child development and/ or facilitate children’s healthy social and emotional development. Applications are available at http://jfs.ohio.gov/ OCTF/Funding_Opportunities.stmt#Southeas or from preventioncoordinator@ohio.edu. Completed applications must be emailed to preventioncoordinator@ohio.edu by 5 p.m. on March 27, 2017. NEWS FROM ACROSS OHIO Ohio reviews since 2011 find 126 non-citizens have voted COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s elections chief has identiﬁed an additional 385 non-citizens who are registered to vote in the presidential battleground state, including 82 who cast ballots in at least one election. Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted (HYOO’sted) said Monday that those who cast ballots are being referred to law enforcement for further investigation and possible prosecution. Those who didn’t vote will be informed that non-citizens aren’t eligible to vote and given two chances and 30 days to cancel their registrations or receive a similar referral. The new discoveries bring the total number of noncitizen voters Husted identiﬁed since taking ofﬁce in 2011 to 821. Of those, 126 actually cast ballots. He reiterated that voter fraud is rare. Ohio has nearly 7.9 million registered voters. About 5.6 million cast ballots last year. Man charged with kidnapping parents and an aunt in Ohio WILLOUGHBY, Ohio (AP) — A man has been charged with kidnapping his parents and an aunt in Ohio. A judge in Willoughby on Monday set a $1 million bond for 34-year-old Michael Ribaudo. Willoughby police say Ribaudo on Friday assaulted his father with chloroform and bound and gagged him inside the father’s home. Police say Ribaudo then picked up his mother, brought her to the home and handcuffed her to a basement post. They say he then did the same to his aunt, who used a handcuff key sitting on the ﬂoor to free herself and call 911. Ribaudo was arrested hours later. A Willoughby police lieutenant says it’s unclear why Ribaudo kidnapped his relatives. Court records don’t indicate whether the Cleveland man has an attorney. Man sentenced in death of woman whose body was found in well COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A man convicted of killing an 81-year-old woman who was strangled and whose body was found in an Ohio wishing well has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/2mwMp3x ) reports Charles Greene proclaimed his innocence at his sentencing Monday in the 2008 slaying of Alyce Seff, whose body was found in a well behind a house she owned. Greene was convicted in January of murder, aggravated robbery and kidnapping. The 54-year-old Greene told the judge there was “no DNA or evidence or nothing” of him “killing this lady.” Greene testiﬁed another man gave him Seff’s phone and credit cards and he didn’t know they were hers. Greene sometimes worked as a handyman for Seff. Defense attorney Frederick Benton says Greene will appeal his conviction. 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. Tuesday, Feb. 27 POMEROY — Meigs County Tea Party/9-12 Project will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Meigs County Senior Center, East Memorial Drive, Pomeroy. Wednesday, March 1 MIDDLEPORT — An American Red Cross Blood Drive will be held from 1-6:30 p.m. in the Meigs Primary School gym, 36871 State Route 124, Middleport. Please schedule your appointment at RedCrossBlood. org (sponsor code: meigsprimary), call 1-800-RED CROSS or call 740-669-4245. Walkins are always welcome. few farms. He bought a lot of land after I got here and we developed (the operation) into what it was.” Paul said that what set Champion Hill apart, was while also focusing on the herd’s statistic, the appearance of an Angus cow was important. Paul attended the American Herdsman Institute in Missouri and has spent a lifetime learning various breeding techniques including artiﬁcial insemination and more. He said board meeting at 10 a.m. at 27 West Second Street, Suite 202, Chillicothe, Ohio, 45601. Board meetings usually are held the ﬁrst ThursThursday, March 2 day of the month. For CHESTER — The Chester Shade Historical more information, call Association March board 740-775-5030, ext. 103. POMEROY — AA meeting will be held at Meeting open discusthe Chester Academy sion, 7 p.m. at Sacred dining area at 6:30 p.m. Heart Catholic Church, Anyone is welcome to attend. Agenda items to 162 Mulberry Ave. be addressed should be Friday, March 3 submitted by March 1. SALEM CENTER — ROCKSPRINGS — Meigs County Pomona Meigs High School Grange will meet at will be holding Parent7:30 p.m. at Star Grange Teacher Conferences Hall, located three miles from 3 p.m.-6 p.m. Stunorth of Salem Center dents will be bringing home a letter describing on County Road 1. Inspection will be held. the conference schedulStar Grange will serve ing procedure along with information on the refreshments following conferences. The school the meeting. would like to encourage all parents and/or guard- Saturday, March 4 SALEM CENTER — ians to attend that they Star Grange #778 and may keep you informed concerning the progress Star Junior Grange will meet with potluck supof your child. Please return the form attached per at 6:30 p.m. followed to the letter to the school by meeting at 7:30 p.m. Final Plans for Soup Dinor call 740-992-2158 by ner to be held on Sunday, Wednesday, March 1 to March 5 will be made. schedule conferences. POMEROY — AA CHILLICOTHE — Meeting closed big book The Southern Ohio Council of Governments study, 8 p.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church (SOCOG) will hold its Please remember to bring your photo ID or donor card to your appointment. people enjoyed Champion Hill Angus cows because not only could they serve competitively, they were also practical. “As far as being a successful cattle producer of purebred cattle, the most important thing of it all is that you should pursue it with the passion of it being your hobby rather than being your job,” said Paul. “You need to enjoy what you do (as a career).” Dean Wright can be reached at 740-446-2342, ext. 2103. 162 Mulberry Ave. Sunday, March 5 SALEM CENTER — Star Grange will sponsor a Soup Dinner with serving from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. The public is invited to attend. POMEROY — AA Meeting, 7 p.m., closed 12 and 12 study, Sacred Heart Catholic Church 162 Mulberry Ave. Monday, March 6 RUTLAND — The Rutland Township Trustees will meet at 7:30 a.m. at the Rutland Township Garage. Tuesday, March 7 GALLIPOLIS — Holzer Clinic and Holzer Medical Center Retirees will meet for lunch at noon on at Tuscany Restaurant. Thursday, March 9 OLIVE TWP. — The Olive Township Trustees will hold their regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. at the township garage on Joppa Road. POMEROY — AA Meeting open discussion, 7 p.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 162 Mulberry Ave. Dean Wright | Ohio Valley Publishing Lynn (left) and Paul Hill (right) are retiring from the Angus beef raising and showing business. The Hill family broke a recent record during their last Angus cattle sale as a leader in the cattle agriculture community of southeast Ohio. The couple’s office is full of cattle showing memorabilia from years in the business. �E ditorial 4 Tuesday, February 28, 2017 Daily Sentinel THEIR VIEW The distinct pleasure of being different I was pretty brave “I no longer strive for a girl. I’d venture to be normal. onto rooftops to fetch Normal equates to a runaway bouncy ball, traipse across the boring.” yards of neighbors’ other kids wouldn’t or a teacher lecture dare even look at. I was to escape into the scaled unknown hillstory my mind wrote sides and entered foreffortlessly. Maybe bidden grounds—all that’s why I felt such for curiosity’s sake. If adventure didn’t come a connection with the to me, I had no qualms students I taught over seeking it out—that is my twenty-year teachuntil I tried to become ing career—I know what it’s like to be a normal. captive audience. Normal little girls I ﬁgure I made a didn’t climb mushy better teacher swamps or rally than I did a the neighborstudent. Normal hood kids to girls did their pick up trash. homework, but I Normal little skipped classes, girls didn’t tell skimmed the their moms that notes, and they felt like Michele Z. showed up to they weren’t take the test. “really here,” or Marcum Contributing Sometimes sneak into the I’d ﬂunk the empty ﬁreplace columnist exam, but the for a nap. ﬁnal grade was It wasn’t until always passing. I was in ﬁfth grade After graduating that I realized just college, I got married, how different I was. I’d slipped into a sepa- had kids and cheered them on at their ballrate room to change into my pajamas at the games. I cut cheese into cubes and made slumber party when cookies for family getthe other girls were togethers. I wiped the tossing their clothes window sills and hung off in front of each the laundry in the sun other as if that was to dry, all the while totally normal. Somecreating alternate one peeked around the corner and made a worlds in my head. I no longer strive comment about how I to be normal. Normal must be embarrassed equates to boring. I’d about my body. much rather risk being Wow, I was really different than play embarrassed then. I hostess to a city full pulled on my nightgown and commented of guests who all wear the same gray smock. that it was too crowdI enjoy being my offed in where they all beat Aquarian self. were, but they knew I order a water with better and so did I. I lemon even though I knew I wasn’t normal have no intention of and it scared me. I drinking it because wasn’t into Barbie when I order a coffee dolls and frilly dresses. I was happiest with and a lemon, I always end up explaining to a book in my hand the waitress that I eat or a daydream in my the lemon—rind and head. I was happiest all because it helps when I was slipping prevent cancer, and if into the pages of the the women’s’ restroom story or creating an is packed, I will smile enchanted escape of at the ladies in the line my own. over-ﬂowing into the From that time on, hall and march into I changed in front the men’s—but only if of the other girls, it’s a one stall deal. cringing inside as I My stories now stood in my slip, bare trickle from my ﬁngershoulders hunching tips to my laptop, the forward. I nodded in plots overlap with my class and took notes. living, breathing life I giggled at stupid so much that real and jokes and memorized unreal is a smudge at my Bible verses, but best. Being different is life was boring unless normal with an active I altered it a bit. The imagination and being grocery store, church, brave and embarschool—nowhere was rassed are both rites exciting enough for of passage on a path of me, so I’d drift into self-discovery. the stories my head I’ll continue to generated. If Attention concoct stories as Deﬁcit Disorder had life unfolds around been a diagnosis back then, I’m sure I’d have me, knowing I may be the sole member been given the label. of the audience in Instead, I was called every adventure I “Air-headed.” Being experience, elated to blonde made that know that, even so, diagnosis stick even the effort results in an more. encore and oh baby, I maintained the is it ever worth the friendliest normal proﬁle I could muster, rehearsal. escaping every chance Michele Zirkle Marcum is a that was presented. native of Meigs County, author Into adulthood, my of “Rain No Evil” and host natural response to of Life Speaks on AIR radio. Access more at soundcloud. endless hours of liscomlifespeaks. tening to a preacher THEIR VIEW Trump’s foreign policy not all that radical By Ivan Eland Contributing columnist Although the administration of President Donald Trump is still new to its duties and has been somewhat erratic with its foreign policy plans, a historic comparison with past presidents shows that while Trump is indeed shaking things up with a few key ideas, he’s largely following the usual route on international relations. Leaving Russia’s meddling in the recent election aside for a moment, it should be noted that Trump’s long-running efforts to better relations with Russia are nothing new. Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush both attempted but failed to carry out resets with our Cold War enemy. Their efforts fell short because they refused to empathize with Russia’s intrinsically poor security situation. Russia has been invaded across the North European Plain many times, including the Nazis’ catastrophic attack during World War II that cost millions of Russian civilian lives. And although the United States is half a world away, in the wake of the Cold War, it advanced a hostile NATO alliance to Russia’s borders and today still performs military maneuvers in Eastern European ally nations. Russia is still weak and its meddling in Eastern Ukraine, including its annexation of Crimea, has primarily been aimed at keeping a vital country out of NATO. While Trump may come across as more sympathetic than usual to Russia’s perspective and has called NATO “obsolete,” his vice president, secretary of defense, and secretary of homeland security all recently traveled to Europe to reiterate support for the alliance. While there, they reminded some of our wealthy allies of their ﬁnancial obligations to the pact, something past administrations have failed to do. That said, tough guy Trump needs to stiffen his spine and tell Russia bluntly and publicly that there will be hell to pay if it ever tries to meddle in American elections again. If China and other would-be meddlers hear the message too, even better. In regards to immigration, while Trump’s travel ban seems to have been based on a wildly exaggerated threat of terrorism, his plans to deport illegal immigrants en masse follow in the footsteps of Obama, whose administration did more than its fair share of deporting. Even Trump’s proposed wall isn’t totally new. America’s southern border is already sporadically fenced in some locations along its extensive course. Trump has talked about reversing Obama’s thawing of relations with Cuba and scrapping the international nuclear deal with Iran. But Michael Flynn, an anti-Iran hawk, is out as national security adviser, and Secretary of Defense James Mattis, though he takes a dim view of Iran, has supported living with the deal. The agreement, which will therefore probably survive, will delay an Iranian nuclear weapon for at least 10 to 15 years, a positive outcome for the entire world and particularly Iran’s primary adversaries — the Arab Gulf states and Israel. The one area where signiﬁcant change could occur is his ill-advised protectionist trade policies, a centerpiece of his campaign. He has scrapped Obama’s Trans-Paciﬁc Partnership, which would have further opened up trade with Asian nations but was politically dead even before Trump took ofﬁce. In addition, he’s threatened to increase tariffs on Mexico, China and on U.S. companies that manufacture products overseas and send them back to U.S. shores. Such initiatives could cause worldwide trade war, as did the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff during Herbert Hoover’s administration. The vast reduction in world trade caused by that measure, and adverse foreign reactions to it, deepened the Great Depression and helped cause the conditions leading to World War II. Hopefully, Trump’s rhetoric in this area will turn out to be mostly bluster. In the end, Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of Defense Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly will probably end up taming Trump’s foreign policy — for better or for worse. Ivan Eland is the director of the Center for Peace and Liberty at the Independent Institute. Readers may send him email at ieland@ independent.org TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Tuesday, Feb. 28, the 59th day of 2017. There are 306 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 28, 1917, The Associated Press reported that the United States had obtained a diplomatic communication sent by German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to a German ofﬁcial in Mexico; the “Zimmermann Note,” which had been intercepted and decoded by Britain, proposed a German alliance with Mexico and Japan should the U.S. enter World War I. (Outrage over the telegram helped propel America into the conﬂict.) On this date: In 1844, a 12-inch gun aboard the USS Princeton exploded as the ship was sailing on the Potomac River, killing Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Navy Secretary Thomas W. Gilmer and several others. In 1861, the Territory of Colorado was organized. In 1942, the heavy cruiser USS Houston and the Australian light cruiser HMAS Perth were attacked by Japanese forces during the World War II Battle of Sunda Strait; both were sunk shortly after midnight on March 1 with a total loss of more than 1,000 men. In 1953, scientists James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick announced they had discovered the double-helix structure of DNA. In 1960, a day after defeating the Soviets at the Winter Games in THOUGHT FOR TODAY “Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” — Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, educator and Librarian of Congress (1914-2004) Squaw Valley, California, the United States won its ﬁrst Olympic hockey gold medal by defeating Czechoslovakia, 9-4. In 1967, American magazine publisher Henry R. Luce died in Phoenix, Arizona, at age 68. In 1975, 42 people were killed in London’s Underground when a train smashed into the end of a tunnel. In 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme (PAHL’-meh) was shot to death in central Stockholm. (The killing remains unsolved.) In 1993, a gun battle erupted at a religious compound near Waco, Texas, when Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents tried to arrest Branch Davidian leader David Koresh on weapons charges; four agents and six Davidians were killed as a 51-day standoff began. In 1996, Britain’s Princess Diana agreed to divorce Prince Charles. (Their 15-year marriage ofﬁcially ended in August 1996; Diana died in a car crash in Paris a year after that.) �NEWS/WEATHER Daily Sentinel Season MEIGS BRIEFS WEATHER Fish Fry POMEROY — Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Pomeroy will host a ﬁsh fry on Fridays March 10, 17, 24, and 31 from noon-7 p.m. Carryout is available. The ﬁsh fry is sponsored by the Knights of Columbus Monsignor Jessing Council #1664 with the proceeds beneﬁting local charities. Basket/Bag Games POMEROY — The Meigs County Council on Aging will kick off its 2017 March for Meals with basket and bag games on Thursday, March 2 at 6 p.m. The games will be held at the Senior Center, located at 112 E. Memorial Drive in Pomeroy. SYRACUSE — The annual Stop Hunger games hosted by Home National Bank will be held Thursday, March 9 at 6 p.m. at the Syracuse Community Center. Proceeds from the event beneﬁt the Meigs County Council on Aging. Advance tickets are available at the bank’s two locations until noon on the day of the games. MIDDLEPORT — Middleport Community Association’s spring games will be held on Tuesday, March 14 at 6 p.m. at Middleport Village Hall. Advance tickets are available beginning March 1 at Yellow Umbrella, Shear Illusions, Locker 219 and Hartwell House. 56° AccuWeather.com Asthma Index™ Temperature The AccuWeather.com Asthma Index combines the effects of current air quality, pollen counts, wind, temperature, dew point, barometric pressure, and changes from past weather conditions to provide a scale showing the overall probability and severity of an asthma attack. Precipitation 24 hours ending 3 p.m. yest. 0.11 Month to date/normal 2.13/2.96 Year to date/normal 6.11/5.93 Snowfall (in inches) 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 Trace/7.2 Season to date/normal 4.4/18.7 WEATHER TRIVIA™ SUN & MOON Q: Is it true that most raindrops begin as snowﬂakes? Wed. 7:01 a.m. 6:21 p.m. 8:56 a.m. 9:56 p.m. MOON PHASES First Full Last New Mar 5 Mar 12 Mar 20 Mar 27 SOLUNAR TABLE The solunar period indicates peak feeding times for ﬁsh and game. Today Wed. Thu. Fri. Sat. Sun. Mon. Major 12:40a 1:36a 2:34a 3:33a 4:32a 5:29a 6:25a Minor 6:52a 7:49a 8:47a 9:46a 10:46a 11:44a 12:12a Major 1:05p 2:02p 3:00p 4:00p 5:00p 5:58p 6:54p Minor 7:18p 8:15p 9:14p 10:14p 11:14p ---12:39p WEATHER HISTORY On Feb. 28, 1900, a giant storm produced a state record 24-hour snowfall of 36 inches in Astoria, Ill. The storm moved on to drop 43 inches of snow on Rochester, N.Y. 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. THURSDAY Thunderstorms, some severe; cooler 0-2 Low; 3-4 Moderate; 5-6 High; 7-8 Very High; 9-10 Extreme 50° 32° Mostly cloudy and cooler Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Logan 66/59 Adelphi 66/59 Chillicothe 62/59 Lucasville 65/60 Portsmouth 66/60 SATURDAY AIR QUALITY 54° 38° Some sun with snow at times; chilly Milder with sunshine and some clouds 0 50 100 150 200 300 500 Primary pollutant: Particulates 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 Belpre 64/59 Athens 64/58 St. Marys 64/58 Parkersburg 63/60 Coolville 64/58 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 Flood Stage 37 34 36 35 41 40 50 50 52 54 50 50 51 Level 12.59 17.59 22.19 12.84 12.78 24.86 12.37 26.95 34.93 12.75 20.50 34.00 20.50 24-hr. Chg. -0.45 +0.05 +0.11 +0.08 -0.13 -0.20 -0.09 +0.23 +0.16 -0.02 +0.10 -0.20 +0.10 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 Elizabeth 65/59 Spencer 66/59 Buffalo 67/59 Milton 67/59 St. Albans 68/60 Huntington 67/61 NATIONAL FORECAST 110s 100s Seattle 90s 46/42 80s 70s 60s 50s 40s 30s 20s San Francisco 10s 58/42 0s -0s -10s Los Angeles 63/47 T-storms Rain Showers Snow Flurries Ice Cold Front Warm Front Stationary Front Mostly sunny and beautiful 67° 25° A strong afternoon thunderstorm NATIONAL CITIES Ironton 68/59 Ashland 68/59 Grayson 68/60 MONDAY 61° 44° Marietta 63/59 Wilkesville 64/59 POMEROY Jackson 64/58 65/59 Ravenswood Rio Grande 65/59 66/59 Centerville POINT PLEASANT Ripley 63/59 GALLIPOLIS 65/59 66/58 65/57 South Shore Greenup 68/59 65/59 33 SUNDAY 43° 24° Murray City 66/59 McArthur 66/59 Waverly 63/59 FRIDAY A: At mid- and northern latitudes, yes. Today 7:02 a.m. 6:20 p.m. 8:20 a.m. 8:49 p.m. Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset WEDNESDAY 5 AccuWeather.com Cold Index™ (in inches) EXTENDED FORECAST 64° HEALTH TODAY 48°/34° 50°/31° 77° in 1996 2° in 1963 Road Closure MIDDLEPORT — Meigs Elementary PTO will host its annual Craft and Vendor Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 4. There will also be a Chinese auction and food served. All proceeds beneﬁt Meigs Elementary School. For more information A thunderstorm today. A few thunderstorms, some severe tonight. High 65° / Low 59° Statistics through 3 p.m. yesterday 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. Craft and Vendor Fair 8 PM ALMANAC High/low Normal high/low Record high Record low Immunization Clinic 69° 36° 47° REEDSVILLE — Children being enrolled for kindergarten in the Eastern Local School District must turn ﬁve years old on or before Aug. 1, 2017. Kindergarten screening and registration will be held on Thursday, March 16 and Friday, March 17 from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. All children to be enrolled should be screened and registered at this time. Please call to schedule an appointment at 985-3304 (starting February 14). On the day of screening and registration, the child must be present and accompanied by his or her parent/legal guardian. The parent/legal guardian will need to produce veriﬁcation of residency, identiﬁcation, the child’s legal registered birth certiﬁcate (not the hospital birth record), up to date immunization record and, if applicable, custody documents. Acceptable documents for veriﬁcation of residency are: (In the name of the parent/legal guardian) Utility receipt, property tax document, real estate contract, rental lease or driver’s license with current address. ROCKSPRINGS — The Meigs County Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day Dinner will be held on Thursday, March 23 at 6 p.m. at Meigs High School. Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor will be the speaker for the dinner, other state and local ofﬁcials are expected to be in attendance. Tickets are available from Kay Hill or by calling Bill Spaun at 740-992-3992. Now, Ingels will be operating the furniture and ﬂooring business in the building where his From page 1 father opened a furniture they agreed that it would business in 1959. be a good location, and Ingels said he has many meeting with Mayor memories of being in Sandy Iannarelli she the building growing up, indicated that the village including listening to his would be receptive to the father work which taught business coming to town. him how to work in retail. Ingels said that when The new location also the ﬁre happened on May give the business room to 16, 2016, he did not know grow, with two additional why, but knew that God ﬂoors available. had a plan for him, a plan While the business is one store, the hope is that to do something out of it will plant a seed bringthat tragedy. ing more investment to He said he is excited to work with Shields and the village of Middleport. bring the furniture store Reach Sarah Hawley at 740-992to own, along with the 2155 ext. 2555 or on Twitter @ SarahHawleyNews ﬂooring business. 2 PM Kindergarten Registration Lincoln Day Dinner Flooring 8 AM contact PTO secretary Shara Fields at 740-444-9013 or sharaweekley@yahoo.com. 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. Clendenin 64/56 Charleston 67/60 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. 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Simpkins p.m. Life Class, which are said the change was not a classes in small group setspur-of-the-moment idea, tings, are held on Wednesbut one God placed on his days at “The Center,” heart well over a year ago. which is the former Mason Soul Harvest Church Elementary School. experienced many changes The church remodeled over the last 10 years, the school, which now Simpkins said, includincludes classrooms, a ing victories, behind the youth center, 65-seat scenes battles and times of theater, and large meetwander. Through it all, he ing room. Area youth in added, the church experigrades 7-12 meet weekly enced growth. at The Center, where there “I feel as a church, are gaming systems, pool, we have come to a new ping pong, board games season,” Simpkins said. and other activities. 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TODAY Tuesday, February 28, 2017 5 �Sports Daily Sentinel $?/=.+CM��/,<?+<C� �M� ��s� Oaks survive River Valley, 39-33 for sectional title By Alex Hawley ahawley@civitasmedia.com Alex Hawley/OVP Sports River Valley senior Tre Craycraft (5) drives past Oak Hill junior Landon Carroll (11) during the Oaks’ 39-33 sectional victory, on Saturday night in Jackson. JACKSON, Ohio — For the Raiders, 32 minutes were just two too many. The no. 10 seed River Valley boys basketball team held a three-point lead over secondseeded Oak Hill, in Saturday’s Division III sectional ﬁnal at Jackson High School. However, the Oaks avoided what would have been just their second loss of the season, outscoring the Raiders by an 11-to-2 clip over the ﬁnal 120 seconds to take the sectional crown by a 39-33 ﬁnal. The Raiders (9-15) scored the ﬁrst seven points of the game and never trailed in the opening quarter. Led by a trio of three-pointers, Oak Hill (22-1) — the ﬁfth-ranked team in the ﬁnal OHSAA Division III AP poll — battled back to within two points, at 16-14, by the end of the ﬁrst period. The Oaks took their ﬁrst lead of the game, at 17-16, in the opening minute of the second quarter on an old-fashioned three pointer. OHHS pushed its lead to four with its fourth triple of the half, but River Valley rattled off ﬁve straight points and led 21-20 with 5:20 left in the second quarter. The Oaks hit their ﬁfth trifecta of the half at the 4:38 mark, regaining the advantage until River Valley tied the game at 23, with 1:20 left in the half. River Valley junior Dustin Barber hit a put-back basket with 29 seconds left in the period, giving the Silver and Black a 25-23 advantage at halftime. Oak Hill regained the lead, at 26-25, at the 5:23 mark of the third quarter. With 2:26 left in the third, RVHS tied the game at 26 on a Jacob Dovenbarger free throw, but it was River Valley’s only point of the period. The Oaks hit a two-pointer with 58 seconds left in the third, giving OHHS a 28-26 lead headed into the ﬁnale. After a ﬁve minutes scoreless stretch to start the fourth, River Valley took the lead, at 29-28, on a Jarret McCarley three-pointer, off of an assist from Barber. With 2:15 remaining in regulation, McCarley made a pair of free throws to extend the Raider lead to three points, at 31-28. With just under two minutes to play, Oak Hill tied the game at 31, on a three-pointer from Nolan Carroll, off of Mitchell Hale’s assist. With 1:21 left in the game, the Oaks regained the lead on a two-pointer by Landon Carroll. Oak Hill then made 6-of-6 free throws over its next three possessions, extending the OHHS lead to eight points, at 39-31, with 16 seconds remaining. River Valley sank a twopointer with four seconds left, See OAKS | 7 Hannan falls at St. Joe in sectional By Paul Boggs pboggs@civitasmedia.com HUNTINGTON, W. Va. — Huntington —Saint Joseph Central that is — hung a hundred on Hannan. Host Huntington St. Joseph jumped out by scoring the game’s ﬁrst 13 points — and went on to coast past the visiting Wildcats 106-70 in a Class A, Region IV, Section 2 boys basketball tilt on Saturday night. The Irish amassed the ﬁrst 13 markers in a matter of two minutes and 15 seconds, and built a 28-11 advantage following the opening period that soon swelled to 49-27 at halftime. The Irish then amounted 31 points in the third period —compared to only 16 more for Hannan. St. Joseph, despite being outscored 27-26 in the fourth frame, held an insurmountable 80-43 advantage after three quarters. With the loss, the Wildcats ended their season at 7-15, while the Irish improved to 14-9. Deaundra Murphy, who poured in 24 points to pace the winners, scored 16 of those 24 in the opening half —as half of his points (12) were the result of four three-point goals. Noah Bolten came off the bench to score 16 points for St. Joseph, as Owen Huffman had 13 and Bronson Barker and Isaac Bias 12 apiece. John Morrison, with 10 points, made it six Irish players in double ﬁgures. Hannan’s Dalton Coleman tied Murphy for game-high honors with 24, while Corey Hudnall had 16 points in the loss. Chandler Starkey sank eight points for the Wildcats, while Josh McCoy canned seven and Malachi Cade another six. Logan Nibert, Luke Tilka and Matthew Qualls connected for three points apiece for the guests. It marked the ﬁnal game for Hannan’s two seniors: Hudnall and McCoy. Paul Boggs can be reached at 740-446-2342, ext. 2106 OVP SPORTS SCHEDULE Wednesday, March 1 Boys Basketball (6) Ironton St. Joseph vs. (3) Southern at Meigs HS, 8 p.m. Thursday, March 2 Girls Basketball (2) Eastern vs. (1) Portsmouth Notre Dame at Jackson HS, 6:15 p.m. Friday, March 3 Wrestling Gallia Academy, Meigs in Division II district meet at Heath HS, 4 p.m. River Valley in Division III district meet at Coshocton HS, 4 p.m. Saturday, March 4 Wrestling Gallia Academy, Meigs in Division II district meet at Heath HS, 9 a.m. River Valley in Division III district meet at Coshocton HS, 9 a.m. Paul Boggs/OVP Sports Meigs senior Jared Kennedy (20) goes up for a basket between Fairfield Union defenders Colin Woodside and Lucas Thompson (10) during Saturday’s Division II boys basketball sectional championship game at Logan High School. Falcons knock out Meigs in sectional By Paul Boggs pboggs@civitasmedia.com LOGAN, Ohio — For the second consecutive year, the Meigs Marauders made the favored Fairﬁeld Union Falcons work. Unfortunately for the Marauders, for the second consecutive year, the Falcons found a way to capture Saturday’s Division II boys basketball sectional championship at Logan. This time, the Falcons stymied the Marauders to only ﬁve third-quarter points — en route to earning a 62-53 victory inside Logan High School’s Jim Myers Gymnasium. Meigs managed to rally from an 11-5 ﬁrst-period deﬁcit, going on a 16-5 run to lead 21-16 midway through the second stanza. But the Falcons, as part of six second-quarter lead changes, doubled up the Marauders 12-6 in the ﬁnal 3:54 of the canto — to take a slim 28-27 advantage into halftime. Fairﬁeld Union — which led for the ﬁnal 16 minutes and 52 seconds — then erupted in the third frame, outscoring Meigs 17-5 to take a 45-32 lead entering the fourth. In fact, the Marauders’ only points in the period came on a pair of Zach Bartrum free throws — followed by a ﬁeld goal and free throw by Chris- tian Mattox. With Mattox’s ﬁeld goal, only a minute and 25 seconds into the quarter, the Marauders made it a 33-31 deﬁcit —but got no closer the rest of the way. His foul shot trimmed the Meigs deﬁcit to 38-32 with 3:51 left in the period, but the Falcons tallied nine unanswered over the next four minutes and 21 seconds — staking their largest advantage of the game (47-32). The Marauders got to within single digits ﬁve times in the fourth quarter (51-42, 53-44, 55-46, 60-51 and 62-53), and got as close as eight (61-53) points with only 28 seconds to play. The Falcons — which scored 17 points in each of the ﬁnal three quarters — ﬁnished the ﬁnal eight minutes with four ﬁeld goals, and knocked down 9-of-13 free throws to ofﬁcially knock out the Marauders. “We had to do a few things coming into this game. We needed to shoot the ball well, but it took us a while, and I’m not sure if we actually ever did. And we had to get to the foul line. We didn’t get there as much as we wanted to. It came late, but it was too late. Consequently, we didn’t open up our three-point shooters,” said Meigs coach Ed Fry. “But our kids kept battling and we scrapped and hung tough. That’s (Fairﬁeld Union) a very very good team. Our kids were outsized. They have some beasts out there. We worked all week on getting two guys on the big boy (Colin Woodside) every time a shot went up. We did that pretty well for most of the game, but they are just a real good basketball team.” Real good is right. With the win, in addition to advancing to the Division II district tournament, the Falcons raised their stellar record to 21-2. The loss ends Meigs’ season at 14-9, as the Marauders were the seventh seed in the Logan sectional. Last season, the Marauders fell to the topseeded Falcons for the sectional championship, but managed 18 victories —the most for the program since the 1986-87 campaign. Saturday’s opening two quarters in each half proved pivotal, as Meigs made just 3-of-9 ﬁeld-goal attempts in the ﬁrst period —followed by a worse 1-of-8 and ﬁve turnovers in the third. For the game, while Meigs shot a decent 41-percent (19-of-46), the Marauders made just three of 14 three-point attempts (21-percent). Senior shooters Luke Musser, who did not score, and Dillon Mahr made just 1-of-15 ﬁeld- goal attempts between them —as Mahr made a fourth-quarter basket and a ﬁrst-frame free throw. Meigs also attempted as many foul shots (15) as the Falcons made, and committed 13 turnovers while fouling 19 times. Evan Conley canned six ﬁeld goals and 5-of-5 second-half free throws to pace Fairﬁeld Union, as his pair of second-quarter three-pointers gave the Falcons a pair of onepoint leads (13-12 and 24-23). Colin Woodside, the Falcons’ top player who stands six-foot, sixinches tall and weighs 265 pounds, tossed in 14 points on ﬁve ﬁeld goals and 4-of-7 fourth-quarter free throws. Woodside also grabbed a game-high nine rebounds, and helped get Meigs center Jared Kennedy in foul trouble. Kennedy was whistled for his fourth personal with 2:39 remaining in the third quarter — and with the Marauders trailing 40-32. “In the third quarter, JK (Jared Kennedy) picked up his fourth foul and we had to have him on the court,” said Fry. He then fouled out with 3:17 left to play — and with the Falcons ahead 51-42. He ﬁnished with six rebounds and a pair of baskets. See FALCONS | 7 �SPORTS Daily Sentinel Tuesday, February 28, 2017 7 Reds star Votto says he’s energized by team’s youth movement Grenadiers take down RedStorm men GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) — Youth dominates the Cincinnati Reds’ roster this spring. Maybe that’s helping rekindle Joey Votto’s intensity and competitive edge. “Last year, I felt like I was on the border of being burned out,” the ﬁrst baseman said. “I didn’t feel like that this offseason.” The Reds went 68-94 last year, tied with San Diego for the worst record in the National League. The 33-year-old Votto is starting his 10th full season in the majors after hitting .326 with 29 home runs, 97 RBIs and an NL-leading .434 onbase average. Cincinnati was in its seventh straight losing season when Votto was called up in September 2007. The team broke through in 2010, with Votto winning the NL MVP award and the Reds taking the Central title. The Reds posted three 90-win seasons in four years, including two division titles. Since then, they have traded Johnny Cueto, Todd Frazier, Jay Bruce and others. Just before training camp opened, star second baseman Brandon Phillips was dealt. NEW ALBANY, Ind. — Even when they’ve come up short in the end, the University of Rio Grande men’s basketball team — more often than not of late — has made the opposition earn everything it gets. Such was the case again on Wednesday night in what turned out to be the 2016-17 season ﬁnale for head coach Ken French’s squad. Indiana UniversitySoutheast used an 11-0 run midway through the second half to pull away from the upset-minded RedStorm, and posted a 93-79 win in the quarterﬁnal round of the River States Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament at the Activities Building. The Grenadiers, ranked 18th in NAIA Division II and the tourney’s top seed from the RSC’s West Division, improved to 23-5 with their ﬁfth straight victory and 10th win in their last 11 outings. IU-Southeast advanced to Saturday’s semiﬁnal round where it hosted 20th-ranked West Virginia University-Tech, which ousted Asbury University in another of Wednesday night’s quarterﬁnal tilts. Rio Grande, which had a modest two-game winning streak snapped, closed its season at 13-17. The RedStorm battled their hosts tooth-and-nail for the ﬁrst 30 minutes in a contest which featured OVP SPORTS BRIEFS GAHS baseball fundraiser GALLIPOLIS, Ohio — The Gallia Academy baseball program will be holding its Blue Devil Double Play Dinner/Sports Memorabilia Auction on Saturday, March 4, at the First Church of God located on State Route 141. The dinner will run from 5 until 7 p.m. and the auction begins at the conclusion of the dinner. PYL baseball-softball signups POMEROY, Ohio — The Pomeroy Youth League will be having baseball and softball signups for kids ages 4-16 at the Pomeroy Fire Department from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 4, and also on Saturday, March 11. There will also be a Thursday evening signup at the PFD from 5-8 p.m. on Thursday, March 9. For more information, contact Ken at 740-4168901 or Clinton at 740-591-0428. MYL baseball-softball signups MIDDLEPORT, Ohio — The Middleport Youth League will be having baseball and softball signups for kids ages 5-16 at the Middleport Jail gymnasium from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 4, and also on Saturday, March 11. There will also be a Thursday evening signup at the Middleport Jail gymnasium from 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, March 9. For more information, call Dave at 740-5900438, Jackie at 740-416-1261, or Pat at 740-5904941. Falcons (Musser), Jared (Kennedy), Dillon (Mahr) and T.J. (Williams) and Garrett (Buckley) From page 6 joined us this year after Lucas Thompson, I recruited him for on two deuces, two two years to come out. treys and 2-of-4 foul What these kids have shots, tacked on a done…you can have a dozen points —while winning team anytime. Brad Miller and Jack But we’re out to estabWolshire scored seven lish a winning culture. points apiece. That’s what these guys Wolshire drained a helped to create,” said third-quarter triple and Fry. “We stress things 4-of-4 second-stanza like trust, commitment, free throws, while Mill- teamwork, tenacity and er made a pair of twos discipline. These guys and a three. helped to establish that Hayden Price popped in our program the a three-ball to open the last three years. These scoring — exactly a seniors are going to be minute and three secsorely missed.” onds into the game. Indeed, the Marauder Mattox poured in seniors helped reverse 20 points to pace the an 0-for-4 start to the Marauders and all scor- season to a 14-5 ﬁnish ers, hitting eight total — and an unlikely King ﬁeld goals and 3-of-4 of the Smokies Christfree throws. mas Classic championBartrum bagged ﬁve ship in Tennessee. ﬁeld goals and 8-of-8 “We really grew as a second-half free throws team after those ﬁrst towards 18 points, four games. Our experiwhile Weston Baer’s ence down in Tennestwo threes and a steal see, it showed our boys and layup landed Meigs we could play with a 17-13 lead at the 5:45 anybody. We came in mark of the second. today, we weren’t intiSaturday’s sectional mated and we just went ﬁnal marked the ﬁnal at it,” said Fry. “Our tilt for ﬁve Marauder players now, we believe seniors: Kennedy, we can beat anybody Musser, Mahr, T.J. at any time. So we’ve Williams and Garrett come a long way.” Buckley. “We came in three Paul Boggs can be reached at 740-446-2342, ext. 2106 years ago with Luke By Randy Payton For Ohio Valley Publishing Courtesy Photo Rio Grande’s Will Hill (with ball) waits on a screen from teammate Corey Cruse during the second half of Wednesday night’s River States Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament quarterfinal round game against Indiana University-Southeast. Hill scored a career-high 35 points and Cruse added 21 of his own, but the 18th-ranked Grenadiers eliminated the RedStorm with a 93-79 win. two ties and eight lead changes. Rio trailed by as many as 11 points late in the opening half, but used a 15-0 run over a span of just two-and-a-half minutes to grab a lead of their own — before settling for a 47-all deadlock at the intermission. The RedStorm led twice inside the opening two minutes of the second stanza — and trailed by just four points, 60-56, after a three-pointer by senior Corey Cruse with 12:47 left in the game. The Grenadiers responded, though, with 11 consecutive points to take — at the time — their largest lead of the night, 71-56, after a layup by Jamie Johnson with 8:58 remaining in the contest. IU-S eventually built its cushion to as many as 17 points on two occasions in the ﬁnal ﬁve minutes, while Rio got no closer than nine points, 88-79, after junior Will Hill nailed three free throws with 1:27 left to play. Johnson led six Grenadiers in double ﬁgures with 25 points, going 10-for-18 from the ﬁeld overall. He also had a gamehigh three steals. Robert Sawyer and Demetrius Stanton netted 14 points in the winning effort, while Devon White had 12 points and the duo of Joe Ferree and Joe Jackson had 11 points each. Jackson also had nine rebounds and ﬁve assists. Tyler Landry pulled down a game-high 10 rebounds for the IU-S, which enjoyed a whopping 44-18 edge on the boards while also shooting 54.7 percent (35-for64) for the game. Hill scored a careerhigh 35 points to pace Rio, including four threepoint goals and a 17-for18 showing at the free throw line. He also led the RedStorm with six rebounds, four assists and a pair of steals. Cruse had 12 of his 21 points in the ﬁrst half, when Rio shot a sizzling 68-percent (17-for-25) from the ﬂoor. The RedStorm connected on just 25-percent (7-for-28) of their secondhalf ﬁeld-goal attempts, though, and were outscored 56-30 in the paint. Wednesday’s loss marked the ﬁnal collegiate contest for Cruse and fellow seniors Josh Thompson and Demarco Washington. Randy Payton is the Sports Information Director for The University of Rio Grande Bulls benefit as James sits with strep, beat Cavs CLEVELAND (AP) — With LeBron James missing from Quicken Loans Arena, the Cleveland Cavaliers were reminded again just how tough life can be without their star. James stayed home with strep throat while Dwyane Wade scored 20 points and Jimmy Butler recorded a triple-double, leading the Chicago Bulls to a 117-99 victory Saturday night. Cleveland coach Tyronn Lue said he wasn’t sure how long the Cavaliers would be without the fourtime MVP. Cleveland struggled as it often does without James — they are 4-19 without him since he returned to Cleveland in 2014, including 0-4 this season. Forward Tristan Thompson knows opposing teams won’t feel sorry for the Cavaliers when James isn’t on the court. “It’s a long season,” he said. “Guys are going to be out. Guys are going to be hurt. Guys are going to be sick. It’s part of the game of basketball. Whether it’s LeBron or whoever it might be, we have to be ready to play.” Chicago has won all three games against Cleveland this season. It took advantage of James’ absence to win its fourth straight overall. Wade was 9 of 18 from the ﬁeld and had 10 assists with eight rebounds. Butler had 18 points, including 13 in the third quarter, to go along with 10 rebounds and 10 assists. “Of course, I wanted to play against LeBron,” said Wade, a longtime friend of James. “But once we knew he wasn’t playing, we had to put that to the back of our mind and focus on playing a team with Kyrie Irving.” For the game, River Valley shot 12-of-33 from the ﬁeld, including 4-of-9 (44.4 percent) From page 6 from three-point range. and Oak Hill missed backMeanwhile, the Oaks shot to-back free throws just a 12-of-36 (33.3 percent) second later, capping off from the ﬁeld, including the Oaks’ 39-33 victory. 7-of-20 (35 percent) from “The guys played their beyond the arc. hearts out tonight,” ﬁrstFrom the free throw year River Valley head line, Oak Hill was 8-of-11 coach Bryan Drummond (72.7 percent) and the said. “In the second half, Raiders were 5-of-9 (55.6 we missed some shots we percent). should have made. Oak “I just thought in the Hill is a good team, obviﬁrst half we had no enerously. I told them in the gy,” said Oak Hill head huddle, ‘it’s not going to coach Norm Persin, who be given to you, you have claimed his 707th career to earn it,’ and Oak Hill victory with the win. earned it. “Give credit to (River “I thought the game Valley), they played would be close all along, really hard and they made and that’s no disrespect to Oak Hill what so ever,” shots. We know that Dovenbarger is a really added Coach Drumnice player inside and mond. “I just know that what it does is, it opens we under-achieved a it up for his guards to little this year and we get to the rim and they were ready to play. We were able to do that. We just needed to make a couple more shots, that’s told our kids at halftime, ‘you’re not rebounding all there is to it. We’d be going to play next Sunday and you’re not getting if we make a couple more any loose ball’. Once we shots in the middle of the started doing that, we got back in the game.” fourth quarter.” The Raiders claimed After hitting 50 percent a 26-to-17 rebounding from the ﬁeld, including advantage for the game, 60 percent from threewith a 10-to-4 edge on point range in the ﬁrst the offensive glass. River half, the Raiders were held to 15.4 percent from Valley committed 14 turnovers in the setback, the ﬁeld, including 25 percent from deep, in the seven in each half. After second half. ﬁve turnovers in the ﬁrst half, Oak Hill gave the ball away just once over the ﬁnal 16 minutes. The Oaks held advantages in assists (9-to-8) and steals (8-to-3), while RVHS claimed a 6-to-1 advantage in blocked shots. “You have to win the free throw battle, you have to get more rebounds than them and you have to make more layups,” said Coach Drummond. “With those key stats you have to get two of the three and they got two of the three tonight. They made more free throws than us and we missed some layups that we should have made. Rebounding we won, probably pretty handily.” McCarley led the RVHS offense with 15 points, followed by Barber with six. Dovenbarger and Tre Craycraft both scored ﬁve points for the Raiders, while Ian Polcyn chipped in with two markers. Polcyn led the Silver and Black on the glass with seven boards, followed by Dovenbarger with ﬁve and McCarley with four. Barber and Dovenbarger each marked a pair of assists in the contest. Jacob Campbell led the River Valley defense with two steals and one blocked shot. Dovenbarger rejected three shots for the Raiders, while McCarley sent back a pair of shots. Just three Oaks marked the in scoring column, led by Nolan Carroll with 15 points. Hale scored 14 in the win, while Landon Carroll added 10. Hale pulled in a gamebest eight rebounds, while Landon Carroll dished out a game-high four assists, followed by Brett Long with three helpers. Nolan Carroll also led the OHHS defense with three steals, while Long posted two steals and one rejection. This marks the ﬁnal game in the Silver and Black for RVHS seniors Tre Craycraft, Ian Polcyn and Jacob Dovenbarger. “Our seniors did a great job,” said Coach Drummond. “They were our everything, they were our heart and soul. As they went, that’s how we went. They played hard tonight, they played their guts out, all of them did.” The Oaks — who have now won nine sectional titles — will play in their ﬁrst district tournament since 2013 on Sunday, against sixth-seeded Paint Valley, at the Convocation Center in Athens. Oaks Alex Hawley can be reached at 740446-2342, ext. 2100. �CLASSIFIEDS 8 Tuesday, February 28, 2017 Daily Sentinel Auctions Notices Help Wanted General Help Wanted General Pictures that have been placed in ads at the Gallipolis Daily Tribune must be picked within 30 days. Any pictures that are not picked up will be discarded. 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Call your classified department to schedule your ad today! 2/28 2017 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc. 2 9 4 3 �10 Tuesday, February 28, 2017 SPORTS Daily Sentinel Point ties for 4th at state championships By Bryan Walters bwalters@civitasmedia.com HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Another bitter end to an otherwise solid weekend. For the third time in four years, the Point Pleasant wrestling program came away emptyhanded in the state title category following the conclusion of the 2017 WVSSAC wrestling championships Saturday night at Big Sandy Superstore Arena in Cabell County. The Big Blacks — making their ﬁrst appearance at the Class AA-A level since three-peating as state champions from 2010 through 2012 — earned three podium ﬁnishes and had a pair of state runner-ups during the three-day event, which led to 74 points and a fourth-place tie with Oak Glen in the ﬁnal team standings. PPHS — which didn’t have a state champion at the 2014 or 2015 championships in Class AAA — had two chances for an individual title on Saturday night, but neither came to fruition. Senior Grant Safford — the defending triple-A champ at 182 pounds — dropped a 6-4 decision to now four-time champion Jacob Hart of Independence in the 182-pound bout. The ﬁrst period was scoreless, then Safford claimed his only lead of the match with an escape a minute into the second period for a 1-0 edge. Hart, a senior, followed with a takedown a minute later and led 2-1 after two periods of work. Hart escaped from the down position 45 seconds into the third period for a 3-1 lead, then landed a takedown at 1:20 to secure a commanding 5-1 edge. Safford scored an escape and a takedown in the next 50 seconds to close back to within 5-4, but Hart mustered an escape just before the ﬁnal buzzer to wrap up the 6-4 outcome. It was a tough way to end a stellar prep career that resulted in a 17225 overall record that included three state ﬁnal matches. Safford also dropped the 195-pound Class AAA championship as a sophomore in 2015. As disappointing as the end result was, Safford was still humble and thankful for the opportunities that he has had during his tenure as a Big Black grappler. “I’ve had a great time at Point Pleasant and I know the amount of work that I’ve put in to get here. It’s disappointing to go out like this, but I will always have the one from my junior year and I’ve been a state ﬁnalist three times. It just wasn’t God’s plan for me tonight,” Safford said. “You always want to win that last match, but I also have other things to focus on moving forward. I’m just a football player that ended up being pretty good at wrestling.” Safford — a two-time all-state football selection — is headed to West Virginia Wesleyan on a football scholarship. Sophomore George Smith — the defending triple-A champ at 106 pounds — dropped a 3-0 decision to classmate Liam Lusher of Independence in the 113-pound ﬁnal. The match remained scoreless through two periods, but Lusher started the scoring with an escape from the down position for a 1-0 edge early in the third period. The match stayed that way until Lusher scored a takedown with just ﬁve seconds left as Smith tried to make a scoring move and got caught in the process. Smith is only the second sophomore in program history to compete in consecutive state ﬁnal matches, and Saturday night’s setback was the ﬁrst of his career in eight state bouts. It was tough to stomach, but Smith acknowledged that this minor setback only serves as motivation to get better before next season. “It’s disappointing, but I am thankful to again have had the opportunity to compete in a state ﬁnal,” Smith said. “It didn’t go as planned, but there is always next year and I’m ready to start putting the work in during the offseason. This will serve as some fuel to come back and win a state title next year.” Smith was one of the eight Point Pleasant underclassmen competing at the state tournament this weekend — and the only podium placer amongst that group. Senior Andrew Roach was Point Pleasant’s only other podium ﬁnisher after placing third at 195 pounds. Roach — a ﬁrsttime state qualiﬁer — scored a 3-2 decision in double overtime against Ryan Stewart of Clay County in his ﬁrst match Saturday morning, then landed a 3-1 overtime decision over Jake Abbott of Fairmont Senior in the third-place ﬁnal. Roach — who ﬁnished the year with a 39-12 overall mark — was thrilled with how his ﬁrst and ﬁnal state weekend at Big Sandy Superstore Arena went, but he noted that he didn’t feel as Bryan Walters/OVP Sports Point Pleasant sophomore George Smith locks in a hold on Independence sophomore Liam Lusher during the 113-pound Class AA-A championship match Saturday night at Big Sandy Superstore Arena in Huntington, W.Va. much pressure as you’d think headed into his ﬁrst state competition. A lot of those reasons included the program he has wrestled in and the people he has trained with during his time as a Big Black. “I really can’t thank Coach Bonecutter and the staff enough because they’ve helped me become so much better in this sport over the years. I would not have been here doing this weekend without them,” Roach said. “To ﬁnally make it to state in my senior year and end up ﬁnishing third in my weight class, it just feels like all of the hard work over the years has paid off. “I’ve been training with Grant every day for a few years now, so I knew I was prepared coming into this tournament. To go out with a pair of overtime wins on the ﬁnal day at state, I don’t even know how to describe it .. except that it is awesome.” It was the ﬁrst time since the 2004 campaign that Point Pleasant did not win an individual state title at the Class AA-A tournament. The Big Blacks were also 17-19 overall in head-tohead matches as a group. Afterwards, eighth-year PPHS coach John Bonecutter spoke about the weekend in general — with mixed reviews. “We’re not happy or satisﬁed with the way things went this weekend, but you also have to know that we hit every goal that we had at the beginning of the year. We had three goals. We wanted to win dual against Ripley, we wanted to win the regional and we wanted a top-ﬁve ﬁnish at state. We, as a team, did everything we set out to do,” Bonecutter said. “At the same time, when you have two kids competing in state ﬁnals and they have opportunities to win the matches — that’s disappointing. “It was the typical state tournament with a lot of ups and downs. We had a good weekend back in double-A and we are happy in some regards, but we are not satisﬁed.” Independence stormed away with the 2017 Class AA-A title with 259 points. East Fairmont (105.5) was the overall runner-up and Petersburg claimed third place with 84.5 points. Wirt County won the Class A team title with 55 points, while Magnolia (45) and Greenbrier West (41) rounded out the top three efforts in the singleA ﬁeld. Wahama, with its four points and 2-8 overall record, ﬁnished 15th out of 19 scoring teams in the Class A ﬁeld. The Class AAA tournament is incomplete due to the 145-, 152- and 170pound matches that need to be ﬁnished at the Fairmont Armory on March 13-14. Complete results of the 2017 WVSSAC wrestling tournament are available on the web at wvmat.com Bryan Walters can be reached at 740-446-2342, ext. 2101. Kurt Busch steals monster victory by winning Daytona 500 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Decked in Monster gear and chugging a tall boy of the energy drink as he was ﬂanked by scantily clad models and one of pro sports’ top partiers, Kurt Busch celebrated the biggest win of his racing career. It was Monster Madness! Busch used a last-lap pass to win the crashﬁlled Daytona 500 on Sunday in the opening race of Monster Energy’s new role as title sponsor of NASCAR’s top series. Busch, it just so happens, is also sponsored by Monster, and the company has strongly stood by him through his rocky career. So this was a victory of redemption for Busch, who was suspended by NASCAR two days before the 2015 Daytona 500 for his off-track behavior, and for Monster, which has promised to pump new life into NASCAR’s sagging sport. “I’ve had a lot of people that have believed in me through the years, a lot of people that have supported me,” Busch said. Add NFL star Rob Gronkowski to Busch’s bandwagon, too. Gronkowski celebrated with Busch and the Monster girls in victory lane. He raved about the win and seemed to really enjoy his ﬁrst Daytona 500, the ﬁrst for NASCAR’s new three-segment format and one ﬁlled with wrecks. “Monster’s the best!” Gronk shouted to The Associated Press. “We picked Kurt to win and he won ‘cause he’s a Monster guy. Kurt did an awesome job. Monster killed that race!” Gronk and Busch likely will celebrate late into the night, well after the banged-up No. 41 Ford heads to the museum for its yearlong display at Daytona International Speedway. “The more that becomes unpredictable about Daytona, the more it becomes predictable to predict unpredictability,” Busch said. “This car’s completely thrashed. There’s not a straight panel on it. The strategy today, who knew what to pit when, what segments were what. Everybody’s wrecking as soon as we’re done with the second segment. “The more that I’ve run this race, the more that I just throw caution to the wind, let it rip and just elbows out. That’s what we did.” It wasn’t NASCAR’s ﬁnest moment, though, as multiple accidents pared down the ﬁeld and had a mismatched group of drivers racing for the win at the end. It appeared to be polesitter Chase Elliott’s race to lose, then he ran out of gas. So did Kyle Larson, Martin Truex Jr., Paul Menard and Kasey Kahne. As they all slipped off the pace, Busch sailed through for his ﬁrst career Daytona 500 victory in 16 tries. incident for Patrick and her Stewart-Haas Racing team, which had all four of its cars collected in the accident. “Just seems like that could have been avoided and was uncalled for,” Johnson said about the aggressive racing behind him that triggered the accident. Kurt Busch was able to continue, but most of the top contenders found themselves on the outside looking in. “Some years I think we have it where we run here and nobody wrecks and it’s great racing,” said Chuck Burton | AP Brad Keselowski, “and Kurt Busch celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Daytona 500 auto race at Daytona then you have other years International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla., Sunday. like this where everybody wrecks all the time.” mendinger was third in a had a good chance and It also was the ﬁrst Roughly two hours Chevrolet, and Aric Almi- Kurt hung in there after Daytona 500 win for before the race, NASCAR rola was fourth for RichStewart-Haas Racing, getting caught up in that chairman Brian France ard Petty Motorsports. which is co-owned by crash. He didn’t give up.” issued drivers a stern “I can understand his Tony Stewart. The threeThe ﬁrst points race of warning about blocking. time champion retired at disappointment, for sure,” the Monster era was run France rarely wades the end of last season and Blaney said of Elliott, his under a new format that into competition matters, watched his four cars race friend and rival. “You’re split the 500 miles into especially in public, but leading the race. Looks from the pits. three stages. Kyle Busch stepped to the microlike you’re going to win “I ran this damn race won the ﬁrst stage, Kevin phone to admonish the the Daytona 500. You (17) years and couldn’t Harvick won the second drivers. The Truck Series win it, so ﬁnally won it as know how he is, he’s very stage and neither was a and Xﬁnity Series races hard on himself. But it an owner,” Stewart said. contender for the win. were sloppy wreck-fests, wasn’t his fault. You can’t NASCAR also this year “It’s probably the most and France hardly wanted help you run out of gas.” patient race I’ve ever passed a rule that gave the same spectacle for his The win was a huge watched Kurt Busch run. teams just ﬁve minutes Super Bowl. boost for Ford, which He deﬁnitely deserved to repair any damage on “This is our biggest lured Stewart-Haas Racthat one for sure.” their cars or they were event,” France told the It was a crushing defeat ing away from Chevrolet forced to retire. packed drivers meeting. this season and celebrated for Elliott, who is develBut the race was slowed “What I don’t normally the coup with its second oping a reputation as a by wreck after wreck after do, and I’m going to do driver unable to immedi- Daytona 500 victory in wreck, including a 17-car this today, is bring up a ately digest defeat. He left three years. Joey Logano accident at the start of competition issue. This is won in a Ford in 2015. the track without comthe ﬁnal stage that ended for the drivers. And what “What a great win to ment in a car driven by the race for seven-time I want you to think about. start off a partnership,” his father, Hall of Famer and reigning series cham- We realize blocking is said Raj Nair, Ford’s chief pion Jimmie Johnson Bill Elliott. part of racing. We undertechnical ofﬁcer. “We Ryan Blaney ﬁnished and Danica Patrick. It stand that. We accept were so fast. We knew we was a particularly rough second in a Ford. AJ Allthat. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 02. February Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. 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