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Jefferson FCCLA will sell tubs of Otis Spunkmeyer cookie dough as a fundraiser through Oct. 19. Money raised will go to the Jefferson FCCLA Cancer Campaign (American Cancer Society) and FCCLA. Each tub of cookie dough costs $16. Choose from 13 cookie flavors in addition to brownies, Apple Coffee Cake, Chocolate Filled Croissants, Raspberry Danish, and heat-and-serve pretzels. FCCLA members and FCCLA advisor Bev Tuttle are taking orders. For more information, contact Tuttle at 419-306-5370 or btuttle@dl.noacsc.org.

BY NANCY SPENCER nspencer@delphosherald.com

Dictricts 5-year Forecast; nearly $3M deficit in 2017

what the district will look like five years out. Like most school treasurers across the state, Rostorfer hopes state funding will increase. Thats really the only big variable on this forecast, he added. A copy of the forecast is available in the administrative building. The new Delphos Digital Academy has 37 students, a number that Rostorfer said has the academy operating in the black. The digital academy has paid for itself already, he said. We also have a few success stories. Learn more about the Delphos Digital Academy next week in The Herald. Superintendent Frank Sukup included in his report a Race to the Top update. Math teachers in grades K-12 participated in a cohort led by the Allen County Education Service Center on Student Learning Objectives. SLOs are one of the components that will be required under the new teacher evaluation process. Other SLO cohorts will be available for all core subjects. The RttT Transformation team met with Regional Coordinator Mary Riepenhoff Tuesday to plan professional development opportunities to meet the goals outlined in the districts RttT document. He also told the board open enrollment was a positive for the district this year. Seventy-seven students are in another school district with 104 incoming. Students come from Columbus Grove, Crestview, Elida, Fort Jennings, Lima City, Lincolnview, Ottoville, Spencerville and Van Wert districts. Total district enrollment was tallied at 1,088 last week during the

Zombie Walk set Sunday

Library to offer genealogy fare

The Delphos Public Library will offer So you want to do your family tree? at 6 p.m. today in the First Edition building. Deborah Carder Mayes will show participants what resources they need to know to chart their family tree.

No pre-sale for Jefferson/ Perry game Jefferson AD Chris Sommers announced there is no pre-sale tickets for the Perry game on Friday. Tickets for game, kicking off at 7 p.m. Friday, cost $6 for adults and $4 for students. Jays looking for BB coach St. Johns is looking to fill the position of head varsity baseball coach. If interested, e-mail info to AD Todd Schulte at schulte@ delphosstjohns.org. THURSDAY (partial) BSoccer (5 p.m.): Lincolnview at Spencerville; Elida at Defiance (WBL), 7 p.m. GSoccer (5 p.m.): Jefferson at Allen East (NWC); LCC at St. Johns; Ottoville at Fort Jennings; Kalida at Cview, 7 p.m. VB (6 p.m.): St. Johns at New Knoxville (MAC), 5:30 p.m.; Jefferson at Kalida; Ottoville at Continental (PCL); Defiance at Elida (WBL). CC: MAC at Coldwater, 5 p.m. FRIDAY Football (7:30 p.m.): Jefferson at Perry, 7 p.m.; Vers. at St. Johns (MAC); Spencerville at Cview (NWC); Bath at Elida (WBL); Paulding at Col. Grove (NWC). BSoccer: Ottoville at NK, 5 p.m. BGolf: State at OSU, 9 a.m.

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DELPHOS Delphos City Schools Treasurer Brad Rostorfer will submit the districts 5-year Forecast to the Allen County Auditor on Oct. 31. This years guesstimation leaves the district with a bottom line of $437,540 on June 30, 2013; $421,291 on June 30, 2014; a negative $194.971 on June 30, 2015; a negative $1,380,124 on June 30, 2016; and a negative $2,801,197 on June 30, 2017. Rostorfer said the numbers look a little daunting in the latter part of the forecast but a lot can change between now and when those figures will become fact. The forecast is just that, Rostorfer said. I use historical data and increases to plug these numbers in. They are a guess at

UN says world hungry not 1 billion after all

By NICOLE WINFIELD The Associated Press

states October count. The fuel storage tank at the bus garage on Euclid Street will be removed. School board members voted unanimously Monday to have the tank uninstalled once it is empty. The board made the decision after learning the district is paying liability insurance for the tank and if the tank leaked, the cleanup would be costly. The district buses get fuel at Pacific Pride. Rostorfer said he would look into getting a price lock on fuel. The board approved 21 Delphos FFA members to travel to Indianapolis for the annual National Convention Oct. 24-27 and next years eighth-graders to travel to Washington D.C., for an overnight educational trip. The next meeting will begin at 8 p.m. on Nov. 12 in the administrative building.

The first-ever Delphos Zombie Walk will be held on Sunday (rain date Oct. 21). Zombies will congregate at the corner of Fifth and Main streets at 4 p.m. The walk will begin at 5 p.m. For the Newly-Deads, the Zombie Walk is a fun and simple concept dress in the best (or worst) Zombie gear, bring a donation of canned goods for a local food pantry, lurch and grunt down the street with the other zombies while staying in character, on the hunt for brains. The walk will finish at Brentilys Steak House for the official Zombie Walk after-party! There will also be a 50/50 drawing and prizes for Best Dressed, Scariest, Funniest, Most Original and Cutest (childs division) zombie costumes. The walk is a family-friendly event. Everyone is invited to dress up and participate in the walk, just donate some canned goods or watch as Zombies take over Main Street. Americas Friendliest City is about to become Americas Scariest City! More details at http://www. facebook.com/delphoszombiewalk and http://www.facebook. com/mytowndelphosohio

Boosters to meet Thursday

St. Johns Athletic Boosters October business meeting has been rescheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday in the Little Theater. Mostly sunny Thursday with highs in the upper 50s and lows in the lower 40s. See page 2. Obituaries State/Local Politics Community Sports Business Classifieds TV

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ROME The United Nations said Tuesday its 2009 headline-grabbing announcement that 1 billion people in the world were hungry was off-target and that the number is actually more like 870 million. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization blamed flawed methodology and poor data for the bum projection, and said it now uses a much more accurate set of parameters and statistics to calculate its annual estimate of the worlds hungry. FAO issued its 2012 state of food insecurity report on Tuesday, and its core point was to set the record straight about the number of the worlds undernourished people, applying the more accurate data retroactively to 1990. And the good news, FAO said, is that the number of hungry people has actually been declining steadily rather than increasing over the past two decades, although progress has slowed since the 2007-2008 food crises and the global economic downturn. We have good news, we have made some progress in reducing hunger, Jose Graziano da Silva, the FAO director-general, told a press conference launching the report. FAO said that if the right action is taken now to boost economic growth and invest in agriculture, particularly in poor countries, the U.N. goal of reducing by one-half the number of the worlds hungry people by 2015 is very much within reach. To be sure, 870 million hungry people is still far too

Meningitis outbreak toll: 119 cases, 11 deaths

By MIKE STOBBE The Associated Press NEW YORK The number of people sickened by a deadly meningitis outbreak has now reached 119 cases, including 11 deaths. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated the count on Tuesday. New Jersey is the 10th state to report at least one illness. The other states involved in the outbreak are Tennessee,

many hungry people, said the heads of the three U.N. food agencies in a forward to the report. In todays world of unprecedented technical and economic opportunities, we find it entirely unacceptable that more than 100 million children under the age of five are underweight, and are therefore unable to realize their full socio-economic and human potential, they wrote. FAO made headlines in 2009 when it announced that 1 billion people one-sixth of the worlds population were undernourished. A highlevel summit was called at FAO headquarters in Rome, where the pope spoke. The U.N. chief went on a daylong hunger strike to show solidarity with the 1 billion. The Group of Eight devoted much of its summit that year to pledging $20 billion for seeds, fertilizers and tools to help poor nations feed themselves. It turns out, though, that the projections were wrong. They were calculated using figures from non-U.N. sources that were fed into the U.N.s number-crunching model, because FAO was expected to quickly come up with an estimate of how many people might go hungry from the dual crises of high food prices and the global downturn, said Kostas Stamoulis, director of FAOs agricultural development economics division. There was considerable fear that that combination of lower incomes and higher prices was going to cause significant undernourishment, said Jomo Kwame Sundaram, FAOs assistant director-general for economic and social development.

St. Johns hosts organists

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The Lima Chapter of the American Guild of Organists held its monthly meeting at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church Monday evening. Music coordinators Lynn Bockey and Mary Beth Will told some history on the St. Johns organ. The parish was established in 1844 and the first church was actually where Visual Image was before they moved it to this property, Will said. In 1860, they bought the first organ for around $1,000. Then in 1875, they bought a new organ that cost $2,800 and then in 1881, they transferred that organ here to this church. In 1916, the organ was taken apart and re-built. The current organ was built in 1929 by M.P. Mohler Co. of Hagerstown, Md. It sounds like a spaceship when you turn it on, Bockey joked. Above: David Williams, Dean of the Lima Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, presided over the chapters meeting.

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Michigan, Virginia, Indiana, Florida, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina and Ohio. Officials have tied the outbreak of rare fungal meningitis to steroid shots for back pain. The steroid was made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts. At least one contaminated vial was found at the company. The company recalled the steroid that was sent to clinics in 23 states, and later recalled everything it makes.

Lucy Pohlman, of Delphos, protects her ears from the sound of the organ pipes as Mary Beth Will points out the different size pipes, ranging from 32 feet to short pencil-sized ones.

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Man at LA airport had weapons, smoke grenade

the Associated Press LOS ANGELES Why would a man flying from Japan to Boston need to wear a bulletproof vest and travel with a suitcase full of weapons, leg irons, a smoke grenade, a gas mask and a biohazard suit? Thats what federal investigators are trying to figure out despite a lack of cooperation from 28-year-old Yongda Huang Harris, who was arrested during a stopover at Los Angeles International Airport, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Tuesday. Harris, who was taken into custody at the airport Friday wearing the vest and flameresistant pants, was not cooperating with federal officials attempting to interview him, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an open investigation. The official said Harris is not believed to be linked to a terrorist organization, but his motive has not been determined. Harris has been charged with one count of transporting hazardous materials, an offense that carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. He made a brief court appearance Tuesday, but his arraignment was delayed until Friday and he was ordered held until then. Harris is a U.S. citizen whose permanent residence is in Boston, though he recently started living and working in Japan, officials said. Attempts to reach Harris family in Boston and his associates were unsuccessful. His attorney, Steven Seiden, was unavailable to comment, said Chris Williams, a spokesman for Seiden, who also represents Mark Basseley Youssef, the man behind the anti-Islam video that recently sparked violence in the Middle East. Its unclear what Harris had on his body and what he had

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checked in baggage, which will be crucial information to the defense, said Williams, who declined to comment on why Harris was carrying any of the weapons. It raises a lot of questions, and those questions will need to be answered. Right now, the case is very early, Williams said. The defense attorneys spokesman described Harris as very intelligent, earning As in high school and college calculus. Harris drew suspicion when U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the airport noticed he was wearing the protective vest and pants under his trench coat, triggering a formal investigation by Homeland Security special agents. A search of Harris checked luggage uncovered numerous suspicious items, including knives, body bags, a hatchet, a collapsible baton, a biohazard suit, a full-face respirator, billy clubs, handcuffs, leg irons and a device to repel dogs, authorities said. The smoke grenade was X-rayed by police bomb squad officers, who said the device fell into a category that is prohibited on board passenger aircraft. Such a grenade could potentially fill the cabin of a commercial airplane with smoke or cause a fire, federal officials said in a news release. Many of the other items in Harris luggage including the hatchet and knives wouldnt violate Transportation Security Administration guidelines for what is permissible in luggage that is checked. However, customs officers Kenny Frick and Brandon Parker believed in their initial inestigation that the lead-filled, leather-coated billy clubs and a collapsible baton may be prohibited by California law, according to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court.

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nov. 25, 1975 oct. 5, 2012 Michelle L. Saunders, 36, of Warren, Ind., died on Friday. She was born on Nov. 25, 1975, in Hicksville to Sam A. Starbuck and Cheryl L. (Fellers) Nickels. Her father survives in Fort Wayne; her mother survives in Ohio. On Nov. 1, 2011, she married Tony D. Saunders, who survives in Warren. Survivors also include her children, Bethany, Brittany, Alanis, Michaela, Nathaniel and Hailey; sisters, Babette (Ryan) Rakoczy of Huntington, Dawn (Phillip) Lawrence of Ohio, Holli (Kyle) Altic of Ohio, Heather (Chad) Seewald of Fort Wayne; brother, Jason (Tama) McNaughton of Ft. Wayne; nephews, Ian Tester, Sabian Lawrence, Jake Tester, Zackory Rakoczy, Matthew McNaughton and Connor Seewald; nieces, Emma Seewald, Makenzie McNaughton, Maizie McNaughton and Megan McNaughton; mother-in-law, Linda Saunders; and father-inlaw, Edward Saunders Jr. Mrs. Saunders was a homemaker and a wonderful caregiver. She previously worked at Onward Manufacturing of Huntington, Ind. She enjoyed photography, running and spending time with her family, especially her children. Funeral Service will be at 11 a.m. on Wednesday at Needham-Storey-Wampner Funeral Service, North Chapel, 1341 N. Baldwin Avenue, Marion, Ind., with Pastor Tom Datema officiating. Burial will be in Grant Memorial Park, Marion. Visitation will be from 2-8 p.m. today and 1 hour prior to the service Wednesday at Needham-Storey-Wampner Funeral Service, North Chapel, 1341 N. Baldwin Avenue, Marion, Ind. Memorial contributions may be made to the family for Michelles children. Online condolences may be made at www.nswcares.com

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July 17, 1928-oct. 6, 2012 Margie M. Bertling, 84, of Delphos passed away Sunday evening at Vancrest of Delphos, surrounded by her loved ones. She was born July 17, 1928, in Delphos to Elmer and Josephine (Fuerst) Miller, who preceded her in death. On July 3, 1948, she married James F. Bud Bertling, who passed away Dec. 17, 2003. Survivors include her children, Chuck Bertling of Bangkok, Thailand, Terry Nathanson of Delphos, Jane (Gary) Houg of Van Wert, Betty (Gary) Dilworth and Marty (Steve) Mansfield of Delphos, Tom (Priscilla) Bertling of Scottsdale, Ariz., Jack (Cindy) Bertling of Delphos, Glenn (Julie) Bertling of Lima, Anne (Rob) Watkins of Delphos and James Buddy (Marcy) Bertling Jr. of Lompoc, Calif.; 21 grandchildren, nine great grandchildren with one on the way; two sisters-in-law, Rita Daley of Lima and Ruth Bertling of California; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by two sons, George Bertling and Daniel Bertling; and her sister, Gloria Osting. Mrs. Bertling was a homemaker, and for over 20 years she served as a receptionist for Kolkmeyer-HelmkampOrians Funeral Homes in Delphos and Ottoville. She was a member of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Delphos. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. on Thursday at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Delphos, the Rev. Christopher Bohnsack officiating. Burial will follow in Resurrection Cemetery. Family and friends may call from 2-8 p.m. Wednesday at Siferd-Orians Funeral Home in Lima, and again on Thursday, one hour prior to Mass in church. A Parish Rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the funeral home. Memorial contributions can be made to St. Johns Schools. Condolences may be made at www.siferd-oriansfuneralhome.com June 12, 1926 oct. 7, 2012 Robert L. Good, 86, of Fort Jennings, died at 8:11 p.m. Sunday, October 7, 2012 at his residence surrounded by his loving family. He was born June 12, 1926, in Putnam County to Louis L. and Dorothy (Derwort) Good, who preceded him in death. On Nov. 25, 1948, he married Alma A. Krietemeyer and she survives in Fort Jennings. Also surviving are nine children, Ginnie (Chuck) Hellman of Delphos, Dale (Mary Ann) Good and Don (Christy) Good of Fort Jennings, Barb (Bill) Grothouse and Mary Ann (Robert) Garber of Delphos, Jodi (Howard) Rellinger of Kalida, Jackie (Jesse) Clay of Fort Jennings, Doug (Karen) Good of Cincinnati and Dan (Angie) Good of Fort Jennings; 26 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren. Mr. Good retired as owner/ operator of A & G Cash Register in Lima and had also owned the former Jennings Home Store in Fort Jennings. He was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Fort Jennings, where he had been on the church council. He was a World War II Navy veteran and member of the Fort Jennings American Legion and Ottoville VFW. He retired from the Fort Jennings Volunteer Fire Department; served on Town Council and was a member of Delphos Eagles and Delphos Country Club where he was an avid golfer. He enjoyed following the Cleveland Indians and loved playing cards. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, the Rev. Charles Obinwa officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery with military rites by the Fort Jennings American Legion and Ottoville VFW. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. today and 2-8 p.m. Wednesday at LoveHeitmeyer Funeral Home, Jackson Township (on the corner of Rts. 224 & 634) and one hour prior to service Thursday at church. On Tuesday, there will be a firemens service at 7:30 p.m. and on Wednesday, there will be a scripture service at 4 p.m. and an American Legion Service at 7 p.m., all at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Independent Cash Register Dealers Association Scholarship Fund. Condolences may be expressed at: www.lovefuneralhome.com

in the caption under the big item pickup picture in Mondays Herald, it was incorrectly stated that Allen County refuse is taking latex paint. American Paint recyclers is working with ACr for paint disposal on a trail basis for the next two big item pickups on nov. 3 and Dec. 1. The Delphos Herald wants to correct published errors in its news, sports and feature articles. To inform the newsroom of a mistake in published information, call the editorial department at 419-695-0015. Corrections will be published on this page.

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Building on momentum, For Obama, the trail can be Romney renews push for Ohio on grind it out mode
By KEN THOMAS and STEVE PEOPLES The Associated Press AKRON Republican Mitt Romney is making a fresh bid for Ohio voters, trying to use post-debate momentum to make up ground in a state that has been a mainstay of GOP presidential candidates and could help President Barack Obama hold onto the White House. Romney planned events in communities north of Columbus and Dayton today, intensifying his efforts in the state after a strong debate performance that has helped him close a deficit against Obama in national polls. This economy is not creating the jobs it should. Weve got to fix it, Romney said Tuesday in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, where he campaigned with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Were going to do it here in Ohio. Ohio remained a focus for both campaigns, as Obama and Romney pushed for support on the last day of voter registration before Election Day. Obama returned to the White House following a fundraising trip through California and a stop Tuesday at Ohio State University, where he urged students to cast their ballots early. Dont wait. Do not be late. Go vote today, Obama said. All right, Buckeyes, we need you. His campaign staged buses nearby, ready to ferry students or other supporters to registration centers. Obama was staying off the campaign trail today and then heading to Florida on Thursday for events in the nations largest battleground state. Romney was campaigning in Ohio as his comments on abortion to an Iowa newspaper brought attention to social issues. Romney told The Des Moines Register in an interview Tuesday that he would not pursue any abortionrelated legislation if elected president. His campaign tried to walk back the remarks, saying he would support legislation aimed at providing greater protections for life, without elaborating. Obamas campaign jumped on the apparent shift, saying in a statement that within just a couple hours of the story with Romneys abortion comments posting, his spokesperson clarified that he would in fact support legislation to restrict a womans right to choose. The attention on Ohio came amid signs that Obamas advantage in Ohio was narrowing. A new CNN poll showed Obama leading Romney 51 percent to 47 percent among likely Ohio voters, depicting a tighter race. Republicans said Romneys strong debate appearance has helped his standing in national polls and they were beginning to see evidence of that in the battleground states most likely to decide the election. Senior Obama political adviser Robert Gibbs said today the shifting poll numbers shouldnt be automatically viewed as a sign that the presidents re-election campaign is sagging. We always expected this to be a very close race and we expected that as we got closer to Election Day, the race would tighten even more, Gibbs said in an appearance on NBCs Today show. Of Romneys Des Moines Register interview, Gibbs said, One more time weve got an example of Mitt Romney changing a position in public even though everybody knows what he believes. In a conference call Tuesday with reporters, Ohio Gov. John Kasich said of Romney, There isnt any question that he has breathed new life and new energy into the Republican Party.Were seeing that there is greater intensity among Republicans and a great willingness to get out and vote and participate than were seeing with Democrats. With 18 electoral votes, Ohio remains a linchpin in Romneys strategy to string together enough state victories to amass the 270 Electoral College votes needed to take the White House. No Republican has won the presidency without this Midwestern state, and if Romney were to lose here, he would have to carry every other battleground state except tiny New Hampshire. Romney has far fewer state-by-state paths to the White House than Obama, who still has several routes to victory should he lose in Ohio. By BEN FELLER The Associated Press COLUMBUS The last campaign got the glory. This one is the grind. For all the many ways that President Barack Obamas bid for a second term is different from his first, the one that stands out now is the feel at the finish. The crowds are behind him, but this is not the 2008 Fired Up, Ready To Go! Obamas admonition to supporters might as well be turned around be ready to go, or I may get fired. There are times where you just have to grind it out, because its hard, Obama told wealthy donors at a softly lit dinner in Los Angeles, speaking almost quietly even with a microphone in his hand. Its hard work bringing about change. On Obamas trail, the current narrative is about his strangely listless appearance in last weeks debate. Yes, it left a major impression on the race, and given the enormous TV audience that saw it, Obama chose a bad day to have a bad day. Yet Obama has also turned in upbeat appearances since then, revving up one latenight concert-hall crowd to the point of screams. He has found peace in the company of longtime friends traveling with him on Air Force One, and energy from teenagers just waiting to shake his hand, and glee in improvising ways to mock Republican rival Mitt Romney for targeting Big Bird. Despite his trademark steadiness, Obama tends to turn in campaign performances that mirror the crowd and the setting. There is no one feel. He soaks up enthusiasm and shares it back when the audience is rocking, yet he can seem flat if his listeners are. The more representative feel of life around Obama is the determined, difficult lift of everything he wants to do. It was telling that his convention speech was remarkably short on inspiration, emphasizing instead that he offered voters a hard path, but one that would lead the country to a better place. His message in rallies and fundraisers is no different. I always said that change takes time, he said. We always said that it would take more than one term. ... And by the way, no, it doesnt just take me. Thats not the deal. The deal is it takes all of us. At times Obama almost sounds like voters inked a contract with him, and they need to renew it. Not exactly the stuff of tingles for Obama supporters who show up looking for that. But it does reflect a campaign that recognizes this is no 2008, when Obama was the fresh voice, and helped by the anti-incumbency mood of voters who saw Republican Sen. John McCain as a version of President George W. Bush. It was this time back then, during Octobers chill, that Obamas campaign took on the anticipatory feel of victory. Obama recalls it as a

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By ANDREW WELSHHUGGINS The Associated Press COLUMBUS A condemned Ohio inmate planned to ask the state Parole Board for mercy a third time today ahead of his scheduled execution next month for stabbing an Akron woman more than 100 times, then cutting off her hands. Death row inmate Brett Hartman came within about a week of execution in 2009 before federal courts allowed him to pursue an innocence claim. When that claim failed, Hartman had a new date set last year, but that was postponed because of a federal court lawsuit over Ohios execution policy. The parole board has twice unanimously denied Hartmans requests for clemency, citing the brutality of the Sept. 9, 1997 slaying of 46-year-old Winda Snipes and the overwhelming evidence of Hartmans guilt. Snipes was beaten, strangled with a cord, stabbed 138 times, had her throat slit and her hands cut off, according to records submitted to the parole board by Summit County prosecutors. Hartman admitted to having sex with Snipes sometime after midnight that day, going back to her apartment the following evening, finding her body and then wiping down anything he had touched, records show. He also called 911 about the body. The county medical examiner testified that Snipes was killed late in the afternoon or early in the evening the same day, according to records. Hartmans attorneys will base their arguments for mercy on three points. First, they say crucial evidence from the crime scene and Snipes body has never been tested, raising questions about Hartmans innocence. The evidence included fingerprints allegedly found on a clock and a mop handle. Hartman also argues the evidence could implicate an alternate suspect. Second, the attorneys argue that if the board does not accept Hartmans innocence claim, it

period with all the things we had going for us all the way that things just kind of converged. Yet even on that feel-good front, Obama offers tough lessons for voters. Back in 2008, everybody always remembers the victory. Things always look good in retrospect, he said. But in the middle of it, we made all kinds of mistakes. We goofed up. I goofed up. But the American people carried us forward. Such is the period Obama is in now. Its been one of the hardest of the campaign. His aides are still dealing with questions about the last debate and eager to get to the next one, but insistent that Obama never loses perspective. He spoke about it often during a reflective campaign swing that took him from the donor-rich events of California on Sunday and Monday to the campus of Ohio State University on Tuesday. When a classmate from his Hawaii school days, Pam Hamamoto, welcomed him to a fundraiser in San Francisco, Obama turned to her and said, That was the sweetest introduction Ive had since Ive been president. It didnt take, long, though for him to get down to business again. Sure, some hope. But mostly hard work. I very much intend to win this election, he said, but were only going to do it if everybody is almost obsessive.

CINCINNATI (AP) A group of Roman Catholic nuns is kicking off a 1,000-mile bus tour of Ohio to urge political leaders to focus on the states most vulnerable residents. The so-called Nuns on the Bus tour started in Cincinnati this morning and will travel throughout the state for five days. The nuns plan to visit Catholic-sponsored social service agencies that they say would be harmed by federal budget cuts. Theyre calling on Democrats and Republicans to approve a budget that affirms the life of all Gods children not just the wealthiest few. Their stops will include Dayton, Lima, Toledo, Cleveland and Columbus. Some of the same nuns in the group went on a ninestate tour over the summer that focused on the needs of low-income and vulnerable Americans.

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WH race contested in far fewer states than in past

By THOMAS BEAUMONT The Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. So much for Mitt Romneys plans to compete for Democratictrending Michigan or Pennsylvania. And what about President Barack Obamas early hopes of fighting it out for Republican-tilting Arizona, Georgia or Texas? Forget them. The presidential battleground map is as compact as its been in decades, with just nine states seeing the bulk of candidate visits, campaign ads and get-out-the-vote efforts in the hunt for the 270 Electoral College votes needed for victory. That means just a fraction of Americans will determine the outcome of the race for the White House. Its difficult if not impossible to pull new states into that kind of competition, said Tad Devine, a Democrat who long has helped his partys presidential nominees craft state-by-state strategies to reach the magic number. A month before Election Day, that means both candidates are concentrating their precious time and money in the handful of states that still seem to be competitive: Ohio, Florida, Nevada, Colorado, Iowa, Virginia, North Carolina, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin. Obama succeeded in expanding the map in 2008 by winning the traditionally Republican states of Indiana, North Carolina and Virginia. But it took a Democratic tidal wave to do so, and he was the exception in a nation thats grown increasingly polarized, with demographic shifts heralding Democratic victories in the Northeast and on the West Coast and Republican dominance in the West and South. Politics in the country has become homogenized regionally and culturally, said Steve Schmidt, a veteran of Republican presidential campaigns. So, he added: Youre left with the only states that have the population and demographic mix where its in question who is going to be on top at the finish line. TV ad money the best measure of whether a campaign is competing in a state shows that 93 percent of the $746 million spent so far, or $697 million has poured into the nine battleground states. Less than a quarter of the nations voters live in those states.

DEAR EDITOR: We are losing freedoms it seems like almost daily. The newest one is here in Ohio. Issue 2 is presented by the backers as a fairness issue to woo voters to vote for it. I see it for what it is, trickery. Issue 2 is about redistricting for voting which happens the year after the nationwide census is done. We find out where every one moved to and see what changes have happened. Due to the last Census, we here in Ohio lost two Congressional seats so, the districts have to be redrawn to accommodate the loss. Currently, the Redistricting Board is made up of one Democrat and one Republican from both houses of the State Legislature. This is four out of the seven seats. The other three seats constitutes the governor, secretary of state and the auditor of the State of Ohio. These are all elected officials we vote on. Three of these positions are statewide races and the other four positions are elected from their district and then pick by their peers from their perspective legislative body. The whole point? They are elected and we pick them. Those who started Issue 2 talk about we need to make it a more fair by making a board to equal this out. The problem with this plan is the committee will be appointed positions and appointed by who? We will not be appointing these people with a vote, so why would we give up this right we have now of voting for the members of the board? Francis German, Wapakoneta DEAR EDITOR: Get the facts! This is only my opinion but I sure hope you think about this before you vote. I am an active volunteer firefighter, and I come from a family of firefighters both past and present. On the ballot this year there is a county-wide fire levy for one ladder truck, to be in Ottawa and 2 heavy rescue vehicles. Ottawa feels they are in need of a new ladder truck and new heavy rescue vehicle. The other heavy rescue vehicle is to go to Kalida. They have no money to purchase these, so they want the people of Putnam County to purchase these for them. When was the last time Putnam County bought your local Fire Department a fire truck? Never. When is the last time you saw the need for a ladder truck at a residential house fire? While the truck may be old, it is still operational; it is available to the entire county at this point. There are several neighboring counties that have ladder trucks and are there for mutual aid. As far as being turned down for the use of their ladder truck, this was in instances where it was in use somewhere else. This could occur in Ottawa as well. That is what mutual aid is for. Why do the people of Putnam County need to buy a new ladder truck that may or may not be used in their fire district? What about the rest of the county? No other village has the county purchase their equipment. Do you realize that if this goes through, you may still be charged extra for the use of this truck? As for heavy rescue trucks, they want $1.5, million for them. Seems to me the Putnam County Office of Public Safety just bought Ottawa and Kalida heavy rescue vehicles in 2004 and 2005, respectively. Their trucks are getting older but are still operational. Most of the fire departments have their own rescue equipment that was purchased on our own without any help from Putnam County. Why do we need a countywide heavy rescue? About two years ago Putnam County Office of Public Safety was going to disband the heavy rescue because it was too expensive to operate. Now they want the taxpayers to buy two heavy rescue trucks. They say it will cost $21.13 per year based on a $100,000 home. How many homes out there are worth more than $100,000? How will they continue to get funding for upkeep on this truck? If you do this for one department, you should do it for all the departments. I cant see the taxpayers wanting to purchases fire trucks for everyone in the county. Maybe the rest of the county would like their insurance rating to go down also. Get the facts about the county-wide fire levy. Support you local fire department. Please talk to your local firemen, even those from different departments and get their feelings. Brian Schroeder Columbus Grove

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State Dept. description of attack in sync with GOP

By LARRY MARGASAK and BRADLEY KLAPPER

WASHINGTON (AP) W The State Department now says it never believed the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was a film protest gone awry, giving congressional Republicans new fodder for criticizing the Obama administrations initial accounts of the assault. The State Departments extraordinary break with other administration offices came in a department briefing Tuesday, where officials said others in the executive branch concluded initially that the protest was based, like others in the Middle East, on a film that ridiculed the Prophet Muhammad. That was never the departments conclusion, a senior official told reporters. The Republican-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee holds a hearing Wednesday on diplomatic security in the attack that killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans. The attack as become a political football in the final weeks before the election. The committees chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has accused the State Department of turning aside pleas from its diplomats in Libya to increase security in the months and weeks before the attack in Benghazi. One scheduled witness Wednesday, Eric Nordstrom, is the former chief security officer for U.S. diplomats in Libya who told the committee his pleas for more security were ignored. Briefing reporters Tuesday ahead of the hearing, department officials were asked about the administrations initial and since retracted explanation linking the violence to protests over an American-made anti-Muslim video circulating on the Internet. One official responded, without specifying, that it was a question for others to answer.

High court looks at race in college admissions

By MARK SHERMAN The Associated Press The simplest explanation for why affirmative action is back on the courts calendar so soon after its 2003 decision in Grutter v. Bollinger is that the author of that opinion, Sandra Day OConnor, has retired. Her successor, Justice Samuel Alito, has been highly skeptical of any use of racial preference. Justice Anthony Kennedy, a dissenter in the 2003 decision, probably holds the deciding vote, and he, too, has never voted in favor of racial preference. As a result, said Supreme Court lawyer Thomas Goldstein, No matter what the court does, it is quite likely that the UT program is going to be in big trouble. The challenge to the Texas plan has gained traction in part because the university has produced significant diversity by automatically offering about three-quarters of its spots to graduates in the top 10 percent of their Texas high schools, under a 1990s state law signed by then-Gov. George W. Bush. The admissions program has been changed so that now only the top 8 percent gain automatic admission. More than eight in ten African-American and Latino students who enrolled at the

The trend is clear. Over the past 20 years, markedly fewer states have been competitive in presidential elections. In 1992, there were 33 decided by fewer than 10 percentage points. In 2008, just 15. Despite seemingly having the money to compete on a bigger playing field, neither Romney nor Obama is going after some states that long had been perennial swing-voting battlegrounds. Romney hasnt given any love to New Mexico, which now tilts Democratic because of an influx of Hispanics. And the GOP didnt even consider competing in other traditionally Democratic states where the GOP had spent money in past presidential elections, including Minnesota, Oregon, Washington and Maine. Obama, for his part, opted against competing in Indiana, a traditionally Republican state thats only grown more conservative after Obamas surprise victory there four years ago. The president also ceded Missouri; it was a presidential bellwether for years before it voted for Republican John McCain over Obama in 2008. And, unlike four years ago, theres been no talk about trying for North Dakota or Montana.

WASHINGTON Nine years after the Supreme Court said colleges and universities can use race in their quest for diverse student bodies, the justices have put this divisive social issue back on their agenda in the middle of a presidential election campaign. Nine years is a blink of the eye on a court where justices can look back two centuries for legal precedents. But with an ascendant conservative majority, the high court in arguments Wednesday will weigh whether to limit or even rule out taking race into account in college admissions. The justices will be looking at the University of Texas program that is used to help fill the last quarter or so of its incoming freshman classes. Race is one of many factors considered by admissions officers. The rest of the roughly 7,100 freshman spots automatically go to Texans who graduated in the top 8 percent of their high school classes. A white Texan, Abigail Fisher, sued the university after she was denied a spot in 2008.

One Year Ago Fort Jennings High School and its environmental science class held a community tree planting day Saturday. More than 85 trees were planted on campus and were paid for with a Putnam County Educational Service Center STEM Grant. The hope was to make the school grounds a sort of arboretum for the outdoor lab area dedicated last spring to long-time teacher MaryLou Altenburger. 25 Years Ago 1987 Whether its spinning her own yard, making her own dyes or tanning deer hides, Lynette Swift of Elida, is always ready to try something new. When a friend first taught her how to spin and weave nine years ago, it opened a new world of interest for her. Today Lynette with two wheels of her own is ready to teach anyone how to spin or to give demonstrations. The Fort Jennings Fire Department sponsored a coloring contest for the kindergarten and a poster contest for grades one through 12 in observance of National Fire Prevention Week. Dawn Stechschulte won a toy fire truck as first-place winner of the coloring contest. First place winners of the poster contest were:Katie Dickman, primary division; Rhonda Maenle, intermediate division; Stacy Will, junior high division; and Vicki Wieging, senior high division. St. Johns boys cross country team took fourth in a 10-team field at the Coldwater Invitational Thursday. The top five runners for St. Johns were Mike Schlereth 16th in 17:54, Scott Schimmoeller 17th in 17:57, Kevin Beckman 19th in 17:59, Dan Hohman 21st in 18:03, and Dan Mueller 25th in 18:16.

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WASHINGTON How many years of the woman KATHLEEN PARKER have we had? Let me count. To the extent that womens votes count more than mens, its been the year of the woman since at least 1964 when women began outvoting men. In 2008, 10 million more women than men voted, Republican-led states have according to the Center waved one too many ultrafor American Women sound wands at women. While these incidents and and Politics at Rutgers anecdotes provide handy University. The operative assumption, faces for dart practice, they obviously, is that women constitute a war on women pick winners and losers as only if all women find these a voting bloc. Nothing could positions reprehensible. And, only if all women care more be further from the truth. It is true that more women about contraception and are trending toward Barack reproductive rights above all Obama over Mitt Romney other issues, which is not the but this is only partly case. This also happens to be the owing to the usual, so-called womens issues. And it is, year of the fiscal cliff, when automatic spending cuts go potentially, temporary. Thanks to certain outspo- into effect at the same time ken members/supporters of Bush-era tax breaks expire. the GOP, the Democratic Its the fourth year of a $1 Party has been able to capi- trillion budget deficit. It is talize on a fiction created by also the year that the number the Obama campaign the of unemployed Americans is still too high and economic alleged war on women. It is not helpful when peo- recovery too slow. It is the year that al-Qaeda ple such as Rush Limbaugh call Sandra Fluke a slut caught its breath and began for her position that insur- gaining traction again, and ance should cover contracep- when terrorists murdered tion. Then there was Todd one of our ambassadors. Akins strange intelligence It is another year when that victims of legitimate Americas standing as the rape dont get pregnant, a worlds brightest light conflourish of rare ignorance. tinues to dim; and that the Check the birthrates in coun- Arab Spring descended into tries where rape is employed an extremist winter. These are things that as a weapon. Finally, some

The year of the woman

flagship campus in Austin last year were automatically admitted, according to university statistics. Even among the rest, both sides acknowledge that the use of race is modest. In all, black and Hispanic students made up more than a quarter of the incoming freshmen class. White students constituted less than half the entering class when students with Asian backgrounds and other minorites were added in. For decades, the defense of racial preferences was, Wed love to find a way to get diversity without using race, but its just not possible. Theres just no other way. And Texas found another way, said Richard Kahlenburg, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation and prominent advocate of classbased affirmative action. The university says the extra measure of diversity it gets from the slots outside automatic admission is crucial because too many of its classrooms have only token minority representation, at best. At the same time, Texas argues that race is one of many factors considered and that it is impossible to tell whether an applicants race was a tipping factor.

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women care about, too. Women, in other words, recognize the gravity of the problems this nation faces and likely will pick a candidate based on these issues rather than on a partys platform on abortion and contraception. In fact, women, who are not a monolithic group any more than men are, dont really rank reproductive issues at the top of their concerns. A recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that fewer than 1 percent of respondents mentioned womens health or birth control as top election-year issues. On access to birth control and abortion, attitudes tend to reflect party affiliation rather than gender. A USA Today-Gallup poll earlier this year found that women split on abortion in numbers comparable to the country as a whole, which is 49 percent to 45 percent favoring abortion rights. Topping womens concerns are the same things that are mens highest concerns the economy and jobs. The smartest candidate will recognize this sooner rather than later. In Virginias Senate race between former Govs. Tim Kaine and George Allen, Kaine, the Democrat, has tried to merge the issues. Abortion and birth control are fundamentally economic issues, he says. Few seem to recall that in one of the early

Republican primary debates, Romney responded to a question about contraception as follows: Its working just fine. Just leave it alone. This doesnt sound like a call to arms against women. When subsequently asked what he thought about the gender gap, Romney said he wished his wife, Ann, were there to answer the question. Romney benefits greatly from his better half, as he would put it, but he errs in thinking a woman would do a better job answering the question than would a man. Women do not require special handling because for the most part they do not think of themselves first or primarily as women. This is the big news for those men who failed to take note. Women think of themselves as breadwinners and job-seekers. They think of themselves as parents who want good schools for their kids and enough money to send them to college. They think of themselves as Americans who worry about national security and the nations image abroad. These are the issues that matter to women, the vast majority of whom will cast their votes accordingly. How about we ditch the gender nonsense and declare this the year of the American? Kathleen Parkers email address is kathleenparker@ washpost.com.

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Last night Benjamin and Joseph picked over a 5 gallon bucket of tomatoes. I now have enough to make a batch of homemade pizza sauce today. The tomato plants are still loaded with green tomatoes. Hot and green peppers are still doing great. I am surprised we didnt get a killing frost yet but imagine it is not too far off. I cant believe how many leaves have fallen from the trees this past week. Such beautiful colors of leaves. Autumn is a pretty season when the leaves start changing to yellow, red, and orange. These are scenes only our Master Artist could create. The sunsets are also a beauty to see in the evening. The cold air makes us think of winter. The boys went out one chilly morning and said Mom, we smell snow. Then the talk turned to sledding, homemade ice cream, snowmen and all the excitement during the winter months. I remember when the children were younger winter seemed to go on forever. Now that they are older they seem to fly by too fast. Its nice to have the winter months to get caught up with sewing. It also seems things seem to move at a

slower pace than the summer months. I have a new pants cut out for Kevin and hope to get it sewed before Saturday. Kevin is getting tall so fast that he is in need of new pants. Our plans are, Lord willing, to attend the wedding of Menno and Maggie in Columbia City, Indiana. It will be a full weekend with going to the wedding on Saturday and then church services on Sunday. Last Sunday we spent the day at Emma and Jacobs. Jacobs parents spent Saturday evening and overnight at Jacobs house. The rest of Jacobs family came from Berne, Indiana, on Sunday morning. Jacobs parents are an uncle and aunt to my husband Joe so we joined them for the noon meal. They had a delicious a meal consisting of barbecued chicken, hot wings, mashed potatoes and gravy, dressing, mixed vegetables and corn, overnight salad, sliced tomatoes, green and hot peppers, carrots and celery sticks and ranch dip, cheese, bread, butter and jam. Dessert was pecan and pumpkin pie, muskmelon,

watermelon and grapes, finger jello and punch and coffee. Jacob and Emma presented Jacobs dad with a Dairy Queen ice cream cake for his 60th birthday on Sunday. The afternoon was spent playing games. Benjamin, Joseph, Lovina,and Kevin biked the four miles to Jacobs. The boys biked back in the evening. Lovina couldnt as the pedal on her bike broke off. I was surprised that Lovina and Kevin did that well to go that far. This was the first time that they biked to Jacobs and they were so glad to be able to go. Verena and Loretta took the single buggy and our horse Diamond. We strapped Lorettas wheelchair to the back of the buggy. Joe and I took our double-buggy and Ginger. It was good to have the big buggy because we had to bring Lovinas bike home. Our buggy used to be packed with all 8 children and a lot of times we picked up my sisters Verena and Susan. Now as they all get older, some can drive in the other buggy, bike, or take the pony and wagon. Our buggy is hardly ever full anymore. And, of course, daughters Elizabeth and Susan prefer to drive with their special friends rather

than with their parents. We waited to do laundry until Tuesday as we had my friend Amys two little ones on Monday. Matthew wanted to go see the pony again so Susan took him to the barn to see the animals. Emily stands by the screen door and watches the horses in the field. Our border collie dog, Buddy, seems to have bonded with her as well. He comes up to the door and stares at her through the glass. He gets all excited when he does that. Matthew soon learned to hold his cookie high above his head when Buddy is around. Buddy loves to snatch cookies out of son Kevins hand when he plays outside. I think he must like homemade cookies. This is a delicious, easy casserole that we enjoyed this week!

Put tater tots in the bottom of a casserole dish. Mix together sour cream, soup, pepper, and salt. Pour over tater tots. Top with cheese and fried hamburger with onion. Sprinkle with corn flakes mixed with melted margarine. Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes.

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The Ohio State University has issued the list of seniors and graduate students who received degrees at the summer commencement exercises on Aug. 12 in the Jerome Schottenstein Center. Cloverdale Julie Ann Schroeder, master of education Spencerville Tricia Fuge, bachelor of arts Venedocia Kristyn Jones, bachelor of science construction systems management, magna cum laude The Ohio State University has issued its honor roll for the summer, listing the names of graduating and undergraduate students who achieved high academic averages for their work. Elida Jonathan Reeves

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Bulldogs spoil Lady Wildcats Senior Night

lar net play behind 6-0 senior est Lady Wildcat being the Faith Huff, 5-11 junior Julia 5-9 junior Katelyn Goergens Wynn (12 kills, 5 blocks) (7 kills, 4 digs). A kill by DELPHOS Columbus and 5-11 junior Sammi junior Elizabeth Selhorst Grove had a little too much Stechschulte from the word and an ace from sophomore firepower for Jefferson go. They steadily built up Sydney McCluer (4 aces) put Tuesday night, graba lead in the the visitors up 2-0. bing a 25-14, 25-12, first set and The Bulldogs scored 25-22 Northwest grabbed the the first three markConference volset on an ace ers of the third leyball sweep at by sophoset but the Red Jefferson High more Sydney and White was School. McCluer. not going to go The Lady That was away quietly. Bulldogs (16-5, 9-1 a very emoThey rallied NWC) ruined the tional win for behind the likes final home matches us last night. of Goergens, junior Landwehr Rileigh Stockwell (3 Van Dyke for two Jefferson Im just glad (7-14, 2-7 NWC) we came kills) and sophomore seniors: Fallon Van Dyke (5 tonight and went about our Brooke Culp (13 assists). The kills) and Caitlin Landwehr). business, Grove coach Kelly hosts held the lead at sevThat is a very good hitting Lepley noted. Im happy that eral different times and it was team with a lot of weapons. we were able to bounce back close for the first half of the Still, I told the girls that this so quickly. It helps that we set. After Stockwell put one was the best weve moved in come off a win like that. We down off the Grove block, a long time, Jefferson coach came out pretty well, which the Wildcats led 13-12. Then Joy Early said. We needed to was good. came the decisive span: 10-0 with their power hitting and Bulldog junior Rachel in favor of the guests, forcsome of the crazy stuff they Schumacher (30 assists) ing Early to use both of her were doing up front: quicks, served up the first seven points timeouts. Wynn (2 kills, 3 slides and other things. Im of set two, forcing Early to call stuffs), Huff (1 kill, 2 stuffs) glad to see that as we get timeout. The Lady Wildcats and an ace by Schumacher ready for the tournament. could never recover from that put the Bulldogs up 21-12. The Lady Bulldogs (16- deficit. They simply could not However, the hosts had a last 5, 9-1 NWC), coming off a contend consistently with the rally. With three kills from sweep of PCL power Kalida long and lean Bulldog front- Goergens leading the way, the night before, used its stel- liners, especially with the tall- they got within 22-21 on a
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Eickholt has big night for Lady Green

By BOB WEBER The Delphos Herald btzweber@bright.net OTTOVILLE Tuesday night, the St. Johns girls soccer team traveled to the Ottoville Sports Complex to take on the Lady Green of Ottoville. The Lady Green came away with the non-league win 3-0. The Lady Greens win was bittersweet as seven seniors played their last match on the Ottoville soccer field. Rachel Beining, Monica Buettner, Kendra Koester, Casey Miller, Marissa Pohlabel, Rachel Turnwald, and Nicole Vorst all starters for the Lady Green were honored before the match and walked across the field hand and hand with their parents before giving them a big hug and thank you. Unfortunately, on the other side of the field, the Jays lost eight starters including seven seniors - from last years squad and are trying to find a combination that works to fill a lot of positions. The Lady Jays, directed by head coach John Munoz, start only two seniors, five juniors, two sophomores and two freshmen. This evening belonged to Lady Green junior Kendra Eickholt. Eickholt, filling in as a starter for the injured Monica Sarka, really stepped up for head coach Tim Kimmets squad, scoring all three goals for the evening for a hat trick. We had to make a little change last week with Monica Sarka going out with an injury. We had to take Kendra (Eickholt) and put her out front and drop back Rachel (Turnwald); Kendra has always been a great striker and finishes very well as she proved tonight with three goals, Kimmet stated. Eickholts first goal came at the 38:51 mark in the first half. She followed that up with goals in the second half at the 21:10 and 13:44 marks. Sophomore Haley Landwehr and Turnwald also had a great night on the offensive side of the pitch but were unable to put a shot in the goal. The Jays were only able to muster up six shots on-goal

hitting error. However, sophomore Briana Glass hit an offspeed hit to break the host momentum. A hitting error on match point sealed the deal. I was happy with the hustle we showed tonight. We have struggled some lately, Early added. We have lost a few sets in a row and it would be easy for the girls to drop their heads and not hustle but they dont. We have shown glimpses of putting it all together. I know we can do it; we just have to get there. I know we will. I put in some junior varsity players in the third set to try and give them some playing time, Lepley added. Any time you put in some new people with girls theyre not used to with, youll have some struggles. At the same time, Jefferson kept up its intensity. Kelli Vorst added 15 digs for the guests. Grove won the junior varsity match 25-8, 25-10. Jefferson visits Kalida 6 p.m. Thursday to end the regular season; Grove hosts Ottawa-Glandorf 10 a.m. Saturday.

Senior Lauren Utrup spikes the ball during her last volleyball match in the Robert A. Arnzen Gymnasium Tuesday night. The Lady Blue Jays played well but lost in 4 to their MAC foe.

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for the evening with junior Madison Kreeger and seniors Jessica Recker and Alyssa Gable throwing shots on goal that were either saved by Lady Green goalie Beining or swept away by the Ottoville defense. The Lady Jays (3-11-1) will finish the regular season Thursday at home when they entertain Lima Central Cathoilic for a 5 p.m. start. The Lady Green (9-4-1) will also finish the regular season Thursday as they travel to Fort Jennings to take on the Lady Musketeers, also with a 5 p.m. start.
St. Johns 0 00 Ottoville 1 23 Shots on-Goal: St. Johns 6, Ottoville 12. Saves: St. Johns - Samantha Wehri 9; Ottoville - Rachel Beining 6. Goals Ottoville Kendra Eickholt 3.

Big Green ties Kalida atop PCL boys standings

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Kalida girls take 4th straight PCL soccer title

By DAVE BONINSEGNA The Delphos Herald zsports@yahoo.com CONTINENTAL The Kalida Lady Wildcats soccer team was looking for a bit of redemption on Tuesday night as they took on the Continental Lady Pirates in soccer action as the teams battled for the Putnam County League title. With the wind blowing in towards the Continental net to start the first half, the Wildcats took advantage and got an early goal from freshman Brittany Kahle to give them a 1-0 lead and never looked back as they rolled to a 3-1 victory. Holtkamp and Jackie Gardner both added goals for the Wildcats; Holtkamp, Gardner and Joni Kaufman also contributed an assist in the victory. Sloane Zachrich had the lone goal for Continental. Kahle took a pass from Summer Holtkamp and placed the shot to the left of Continental goalkeeper, senior Leva Weller, with 30:24 to go in the first half. Kalida took control early in the contest, keeping the ball in their offensive end of the pitch and wasting no time in delivering the shots at Continental net. The Wildcat assault continued on in the first 40 minutes of play as the Pirate netminder was repeatedly delivering goal kicks or scooping up shot attempts. Kalida sent in five endeavors in an 8-minute period as Gardner led the attack. McKenna Vorst sailed a delivery towards the Continental goal that sailed wide to the right with 18:10 left in the half, while Gardner pooched in a pair for 25 yards and 20 yards out, both swallowed up by Weller to keep the deficit at 1-0. Holtkamp rocked the crossbar with an attempt with 7:20 to go in the half and Gardner sent in four more in the next five minutes-plus but the surehanded Weller was able to keep the guests at bay for the remainder of the half. In the second 40 minutes, while the wind was now in favor of the Pirates, the Kalida defensive domination continued. Kalida allowed just three shots on-goal to the Pirates and kept their hosts in their defending end for the better part of the half. The score remained 1-nil until the 30-minute mark of the second half when the sophomore Gardner took a shot that Weller (12 saves) knocked down but Holtkamp was right there to clean up the trash and send it past Weller into the back of the net, making it a 2-0 contest. The intensity also picked up in the second 40 minutes as three yellow cards were issued

FORT JENNINGS The Ottoville boys soccer team was on the lookout for a tie for the Putnam County League crown with Kalida when they visited the Fort Jennings Outdoor Soccer Complex on a brilliant but windy Tuesday afternoon. The Big Green accomplished the mission with a 2-0 win, scoring both goals in the second half with the wind. These guys have come a long way. We were 4-3 at one point and have played very well since, Ottoville mentor Eric Gerker noted. We moved some people around position-wise and we also started to get healthy and that has made all the difference in the world. We only tied a good St. Marys team. For Musketeer coach Gregg Luthman, it was a great effort. We did some good things all match long, whether it was with the wind or against, he explained. We actually had some better opportunities, especially in the first half and

early in the second, but we couldnt get them in the net. Despite going against the wind in the second half, the Musketeers (7-8-1, 2-2-0 PCL) had some early opportunities. They were getting tries but the Big Green (11-3-1, 3-1-0) defenders were getting feet in the way, knocking the balls out of bounds but awarding corner kicks (5 in the second half, 6 for the match). Even on those, the hosts were unable to take advantage and get clean looks at the goal. The Green and Gold had a couple in the first 10 minutes (32:28 and 30:20) but well outside the 18-yard box, with Musketeer senior keeper Alex Vetter (5 saves) getting both stops. However, the Green and Gold got on the board on a magnificent curling corner kick from sophomore Joel Beining. Booting it from the left side, the orb got up in the wind and perhaps with the setting sun also playing tricks, the keeper leapt for it but couldnt get more than fingertips on it as the ball settled into the right side of

the twine at 26:02. Both teams defenses stood strong as very few shots on-goal were allowed (8 for Ottoville, 2 for Jennings). The visitors got the big insurance tally at 20:55. Off a steal in the offensive third, senior Anthony Eickholt got possession and headed for the goal. His shot from 12 yards outside the right post went low and hard to the other side for the 2-0 edge. The Orange and Black had its only real shot on-frame in the second half as junior Seth Ricker got a good look from the left post from 16 yards but it was deflected by a defender and then sophomore netminder Colin Bendele (2 saves) gobbled it up. Weve been looking to maintain a good possession game and apply a lot of pressure to their defense. We felt if we could do that and keep the ball moving, it would result in a defensive breakdown, Gerker added. It also helps having a very quick kid up front like Anthony; he is such a blessing. He just made a

great individual play. For us, we want to maintain our play as we finish the season and head into the tournament. The Big Green had a couple of shots on-goal in the first six minutes of the first half (37:05 by senior Austin Meyer and 34:20 by senior Dylan Klima) but Vetter stood up to the challenge. After that, it was a battle for possession, for working to get open looks which were few and far between. Most of the tries were well wide of the frame. The visitors had their only other shot in the first half at the 44-second mark as Beinings header from 10 yards was denied. Im so proud of the efforts of these guys today, Luthman added. Both the goals were simply some bad luck: I dont think Alex has ever had that happen to him and he just missed knocking the ball away. Ottoville visits New Knoxville 5 p.m. Friday, while Fort Jennings awaits the New Knoxville/Lima Temple Christian winner in the first round of Division III sectionals.

to the Pirates as frustration began to set in. Kalida added to their advantage with 18 minutes left when Kaufman, a freshman, put a pass into the penalty area that found the foot of Gardner, promptly placing it into the back of the net, giving the LadyCats a 3-0 lead. The Pirates got just one corner kick in the game (5-1 on behalf of Kalida) but they made it count and avoided being blanked when Vanessa Kopenhofer sent the kick into the 18 that Zachrich placed it by Sarah Verhoff (2 saves versus 5 shots on-goal) with just two minutes left to go. The Wildcats (with 23 shots) are 14-0-1, finishing 4-0-0 in the PCL for their fourth straight league title after sharing the crown with the Pirates last year. Continental finished 2-1-1 in the league and are 10-3-2 in all games.

Jays fall in 4 sets DELPHOS St. Johns bid good-bye to seven volleyball seniors playing their final home matches at Robert A. Arnzen Gymnasium Tuesday night. Unfortunately for the Lady Blue Jays, Fort Recovery was a rude guest as they beat the hosts 3-1 in Midwest Athletic Conference action. The Jays visit New Knoxville 5:30 p.m. Thursday to end the regular season. ----Titan girls, T-Bird boys win cross country tri OTTAWA The OttawaGlandorf girls cross country team was the only one with a full team at its own tri-match versus Ottoville and Lima Central Catholic Tuesday at Ottawa Memorial Park. They compiled 15 points and had the four top runners. The Thunderbirds won the boys race 24-38-70 over the Titans and Big Green. Luke Schimmoeller ran an 18:28 to finish fifth. Ottoville is next in the Districts Oct. 20. ----Lady Green sweep Pioneers OTTOVILLE Ottoville finished its regular season at 7-13 with a 25-17, 25-20, 25-21 sweep of invading Lima Temple Christian Tuesday night at L.W. Heckman Gymnasium. Leading the way are seniors Abby Siefker (16-of20 hitting, 7 kills) and Tammy Wannemacher (19-of-19 setting, 9 assists), along with junior Tonya Kaufman (20of-21 serving, 1 ace) and sophomore Annie Lindeman (9 digs). ---Lady Lancers shut out Liberty Center RURAL MIDDLE POINT The Lincolnview girls soccer team shut out Liberty Center 7-0 in non-league activity Tuesday at Lincolnview. Kaylee Thatcher got the Lady Lancers (9-7) on the board at 30:49 of the first half, followed by Haley McAbee (28:09), Cortney Gorman (17:20) and Sarah Harris (4:31). Harris made it a second goal with 27:56 left in the match, with Hannah McCleery (14:40) and Lydia Myers (assist from Joanne Myers) at 3:00. Lincolnview dominated the shots on-goal 17-5, with sophomore Julia Thatcher saving five for the hosts. Lincolnview takes on St. Johns 7 p.m. Saturday in the Division III sectional at Elida. ----Spencerville drops a pair at the net PAULDING Spencerville paid a visit to Paulding Tuesday night and fell 23-25, 25-12, 25-11, 26-24 in Northwest Conference action. Leaders for the Lady Bearcats were senior Shelby Mulholland (10 digs, 7 kills), senior Alli Gilroy (13 digs), senior Abby Freewalt (11 digs, 7 kills), sophomore Schylar Miller (13 digs, 22 assists), sophomore Katie Merriman (15 digs, 2 stuff blocks) sophomore Alyse Smith (8 kills) and sophomore Megan Miller (3 aces). The night before, the Bearcats lost to host Minster 25-17, 25-17, 25-23. The match was moved up from Saturday. Tops were Mulholland (5 kills, 6 digs, 2 stuff blocks), Freewalt (8 kills, 6 digs) and Schylar Miller (12 assists, 15 digs). Spencerville plays St. Henry 6 p.m. Oct. 17 at the Division IV Coldwater Sectional. ------

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Lady Dawgs goose-egg Defiance ELIDA Elidas girls soccer unit tossed a 4-0 shutout versus Defiance in Western Buckeye League play Tuesday at the Elida Soccer Complex. Lindsey Hall had two goals for the Lady Dawgs, while Shannon Boroff and McKenna McCarthy had one each. Jena Wensole and Rachel Foust had assists. Elida dominated the shots on-goal 12-2, with Caitlyn Shroyer stopping both Bulldog tries. ----Celina bests Elida in Bulldog volleyball battle CELINA Celinas volleyball team downed Elida 22-25, 25-10, 25-17, 25-17 in Western Buckeye League volleyball activity Tuesday at Celina. Pacing Elida (9-12, 3-5 WBL) were Torie McAdams - 6 kills, 11 digs, 1 block), Erika Kiel (11 digs, 4 aces), Bethany Koch (11 digs, 1 block) and Katie Hawk (23 assists). Celina won the junior varsity match 2-0. Elida hosts Defiance 6 p.m. Thursday. ----Rockets outlast LadyCats in PCL volleyball PANDORA A day after losing a 3-setter versus Putnam County League foe Columbus Grove on the road, the Kalida volleyballers trekked to Pandora-Gilboa High School for another PCL showdown, this time versus the Lady Rockets. This one was much tougher but still resulted in a loss, very nearly overcoming a 2-set deficit: 25-22, 28-26, 17-25, 16-25, 15-11. Leading the LadyCats were Kayla Siefker (2 aces, 20 kills, 4 blocks, 15 digs), Amy Smith (10 kills, 2 aces, 20 digs), Andrea Bellman (10 kills), Julia Vandemark (17 digs), Alexis Decker (33 assists) and Bailey Dangler (22 assists, 2 aces). ---Titans edge Lady Cougs in soccer By BRIAN BASSETT VAN WERT - With a hard wind blowing out of the south during Tuesday evenings girls soccer contest between Van Wert and Ottawa-Glandorf at Van Wert High School, it is no surprise that all the matchs goals were scored in the north goal. Unfortunately for the home Lady Cougars, O-G put one more goal in than they did and the Lady Titans escaped Van Wert with a 2-1 Western Buckeye League win. O-G had the wind at its back in the first half and got a pair of goals. When the teams switched sides after halftime, Van Wert put a goal in but it was too little, too late. It didnt take long for the Lady Titans to get on the board. After a shot-on-goal by Danielle Schroeder at the 38:53 mark of the first half was saved by Van Wert sophomore keeper Emily Bair, Schroeder responded with a goal 45 seconds later. Almost six minutes later, at the 32:48 mark of the firs half, Michelle Maag added to the O-G lead with a goal from 20 yards out to the right of the goal. The Lady Cougar defense clamped down and shut out O-G the remainder of the match. Unfortunately, the Lady Titan defense also played very well. Van Wert struggled to get the ball into O-G territory in the first half, with the Lady Titan defense and the wind, but they did at the 14:48 mark. Junior forward Hannah See ROUNDUP, page 8
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Zito has chance to pull Giants even with Reds

By JOE KAY The Associated Press CINCINNATI Joaquin Arias hit the ball, put his head down and ran. All he knew was that the Giants season depended upon how fast he made it to first. Thats the fastest Ive ever run to first, the infielder said. He won the playoff dash, taking advantage of third baseman Scott Rolens momentary bobble to beat the throw. Arias foot hit the bag and the Giants suddenly had a little hope. After managing only one hit through the first nine innings, the Giants took advantage of a passed ball and Rolens error in the 10th inning for a 2-1 victory that cut the Cincinnati Reds lead in the division series to 2-1. A team thats struggled just to get hits is suddenly feeling like it has a chance against long odds. The Giants are trying to become the first team to overcome a 2-0 deficit in a best-of-5 series by winning three straight on the road. I think we have to be really happy that we came away with a win tonight because we didnt swing the bats very well at all, said Buster Posey, who singled as part of the winning rally. The Giants have struggled the last two games against Bronson Arroyo and Homer Bailey, managing a total of three hits in the starters 14 innings combined. Theyre not sure whos up next for the Reds, who havent won a home playoff game in 17 years and now have a tough decision. Left-hander Barry Zito will pitch Game 4 today for San Francisco, which has won the last 11 times he started. The Reds had to decide whether to try ace Johnny Cueto, forced out of the opener in San Francisco on Saturday with spasms in his back and side. Manager Dusty Baker said after the game that they hadnt decided whether to go with Cueto, bring back Mat Latos on short rest again, or replace Cueto with Mike Leake, who wasnt on the division series roster. Switching out Cueto would leave the Reds ace ineligible to pitch in the championship series should the Reds get that far. They were hoping to avoid having to make that choice. One grounder forced the issue. The Giants managed only three hits against Bailey and the bullpen but got two of them in the 10th along with a passed ball by Ryan Hanigan to pull it out. San Francisco won despite striking out 16 times. Rolen, an 8-time Gold Glove winner, couldnt cleanly field Arias grounder, which put him in a tough position. Ive gone through the play many times in my mind between then and now and I think I would play it the same way, Rolen said. It hit my glove. I just couldnt get it to stick. The Reds havent won a home playoff game since 1995, the last time they reached the NL championship series. They scored a run in the first, then managed only one more hit the rest of the way, wasting another dominating performance by their pitching staff. The Reds set a season high with 16 strikeouts. Bailey matched his career high by fanning 10 in seven innings, a franchise playoff record. He allowed only one single. San Franciscos 1-hit wonders finally got it going against Jonathan Broxton, who gave up leadoff singles by Posey the NL batting champion and Hunter Pence, who pulled his left calf on a wild swing before getting his hit. With two outs, Hanigan couldnt come up with a pitch, letting the runners advance. Moments later, Cincinnatis chance for a sweep was over when Rolen bobbled the ball. A Reds team that lost a lot closer Ryan Madson in spring training, top hitter Joey Votto for six weeks at midseason, Baker for the NL-Central clincher, Cueto in the first inning of the first playoff game ended up with another playoff loss at home. Baker was back in the home dugout at Great American for the first time in nearly a month, recovered from an irregular heartbeat and a mini-stroke. After a pregame ovation, he settled in his red folding chair with a toothpick on his lips. The 63-year-old manager watched his pitching staff dominate again but fail to get that breakthrough win. The second-largest crowd in Great American history was still getting the hang of playoff rooting. A video board message instructed the 44,501 fans not to wave white rally towels while the Reds were in the field could be distracting.

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Lady Mustangs knock off short-handed Lincolnview

By JIM COX DHI Correspondent sports@timesbulletin.com MIDDLE POINT - Shorthanded Lincolnview played Allen East tough Tuesday night but eventually fell in four sets 23-25, 25-17, 25-22, 25-21. The Lady Lancers end their Northwest Conference season at 2-7 and theyre 7-12 overall. The Mustangs are 5-4 and 10-6. Four of Lincolnviews varsity players were serving the second match of a two-match suspension, which forced some major changes in the home teams lineup. Freshmen Ashton Bowersock (middle hitter) and Grace Gorman (right-side hitter) moved up to the varsity level and played the entire game. They (Bowersock and Gorman) stepped up and they did what they were supposed to do they did a very good job, said coach Heather Crow. And our setter, Kelsey Mohr, normally doesnt run a 5-1 and she had to run a a 5-1 tonight. She did a very good job mixing up the sets. Ashley McClure played middle for us and she usually plays outside, so she was able to step up, too. Even with the changes, they did overall really well. Allen East led early in the first set, going ahead by as much as five at 11-6, but a slew of Mustang errors allowed the Lancers to take their first lead at 15-14. The visitors came back to lead 22-17, seemingly in control, but Lincolnview reeled off five in a row, two of those coming on kills by McClure, to tie it at 22-22. At 23-23, Jodie Doner ended a long rally with a clean kill and McClure ended the set with an ace. The Lancers started the second set with a point when Allen East miscommunicated on a receipt of serve but that turned out to be Lincolnviews last lead of the set. The hard hitting of the Mustangs Kaycee Rowe led the visitors to a decisive 25-17 set. However, there was nothing decisive from that point on. There were five lead changes early in the third set before a rash of Lancer errors allowed Allen East to pull out to a 23-16 advantage but McClure led a 6-1 Lancer run to close the gap to 24-22. However, Rowe then tipped one into the open court to end the set. The fourth set was similar to the third close most of the way. Lincolnview led 16-13 but Allen East took over at that point. The Mustangs,

Athletics 2, Tigers 0 By JANIE McCAULEY OAKLAND, Calif. Coco Crisp saved a likely home run and Oaklands season for at least one more game. If the centerfielder had any lingering frustration about that 2-run error that dearly cost Oakland in Game 2, this might have erased it. Crisp made a spectacular leaping catch at the top of the center-field wall to rob Prince Fielder and that was just one in a handful of defensive gems by the Athletics to back Brett Anderson in a 2-0 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday night. The As cut their deficit in the bestof-5 AL division series to 2-1. Anderson outdueled fellow postseason first-timer Anibal Sanchez and the upstart As showed off stellar defense all over the diamond to avoid another playoff sweep by Detroit. Yoenis Cespedes hit an RBI single in the first inning and Seth Smith homered in the fifth. That was plenty on a night Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera, Fielder and the Tigers highpriced offense were shut down by the low-budget As. Tigers 16-game winner Max Scherzer will try to close out the series in Game 4 tonight against As rookie A.J. Griffin. Fielder was the biggest victim of Oaklands spot-on defense, robbed three times. First by Crisp, Oaklands most experienced player whose blunder on Cabreras fly allowed two runs to score in a 5-4 loss Sunday in Detroit. As shortstop Stephen Drew made a tough play running to his left to stop Fielders grounder in the fourth and then threw to first while still off balance and in motion. Then, in the seventh, Cespedes cut over to make a diving catch on Fielders liner to left field. That delighted the yellow towelwaving sellout crowd of 37,090 in this blue-collar city. After Cabrera singled with one out in the ninth, Fielder grounded into a game-ending double play. Fielder is now batting .172 (11-for-64) in his postseason career .083 (1-for-12) this year. The As own the lowest payroll in baseball at $59.5 million. Fielder is getting big money in Motown: $214 million over nine years. Anderson, back on the mound for the first time since straining a muscle in his right side Sept. 19 at Detroit,

worked quickly and showed no signs of a layoff or jitters in his first postseason start. Thats just not the way the As have operated this year. Last week, Oakland entered its final 3-game series of the regular season needing to sweep the 2-time reigning AL champion Rangers to capture the AL West and the As did it, sending a stunned Texas team to the 1-game wild card, which it lost to Baltimore. A club with a majors-best 14 walkoff wins and countless whipped cream pie celebrations snapped the longest postseason skid in franchise history at six games, all losses to Detroit. The Tigers are trying to reach a second straight AL championship series after losing last years ALCS in six games to the Rangers. Detroit captured the AL Central in Oakland last year and is hoping for another clinching party as soon as possible. Anderson did his job to delay it. He insisted he was healthy and ready to go and manager Bob Melvin took his pitcher at his word and gave him a shot in his biggest start yet. Anderson had shown plenty when he returned in August following a 14-month absence recovering from elbow-ligament replacement surgery and made six impressive starts. Not feeling quite 100 percent, he allowed two hits, struck out six and walked two in six innings. He was on a pitch count of 80 and was done at exactly that, though was never told about it beforehand. Next, the reliable bullpen took over. Ryan Cook pitched the seventh, Sean Doolittle struck out the side in order in the eighth and closer Grant Balfour finished the 4-hitter for a save. The As staff pitched the 11th postseason shutout by the franchise, while the Tigers were blanked for the 13th time in the postseason. The As had lost five straight while facing elimination in the postseason, one shy of the longest active streak by the Twins. But this group has defied expectations ever since the first full workout at spring training back in February when the As lost third baseman Scott Sizemore to a season-ending knee injury. Opening day starter Brandon McCarthy took a line drive to the head Sept. 5 and needed brain surgery. Starter Bartolo Colon was suspended for 50 games in August for a positive testosterone test. Oakland became the first team in major-league history to win the division or pennant after trailing by five or more games with fewer than 10 to go. The As were five back of the Rangers with nine left, then won their final six, all at home with sweeps of Seattle and Texas. Smith hit a towering drive to the deepest part of center field in the fifth for yet another timely home run for the As, whose 112 homers after the AllStar break led the majors. Sanchez gave up five hits and two runs in 6 1/3 innings, struck out three and walked two. NOTES: Smith hit his first postseason homer and third lifetime against Sanchez in 15 at-bats. ... At 24 years, 251 days, Anderson became the fifth-youngest pitcher in Oakland history to make his first career postseason start. ... Oakland sold out for the eighth time this year and second straight the regular-season finale vs. Texas drew 36,067 including 1,000 standing-room only tickets and extra suite sales. It was the biggest crowd at the Coliseum since drawing 43,974 against the Yankees on Sept. 4, 2005, before the upper decks were tarped.

The Associated Press BELLEFONTE, Pa. In what sounded at times like a locker room pep talk, Jerry Sandusky rambled in his red prison suit about being the underdog in the fourth quarter, about forgiveness, about dogs and about the movie Seabiscuit. With his accusers seated behind him in the courtroom, he denied committing disgusting acts against children and instead painted himself as the victim. And then, after he had said his piece, a judge sentenced him to 30-60 years in prison Tuesday, all but ensuring the 68-year-old Sandusky will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the child sexual abuse scandal that brought disgrace to Penn State and triggered the downfall of his former boss, football coach Joe Paterno. PRO FOOTBALL NEW ORLEANS NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell upheld the suspensions of Jonathan Vilma and Will Smith for their role in the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal and reduced penalties for Scott Fujita and Anthony Hargrove. Though an appeal panel created by the NFLs labor agreement vacated the original suspensions on technical grounds, Goodell ruled he was sticking with his decision to suspend Vilma for the season and Smith for four

games. Hargrove, a free agent defensive lineman, will face a 2-game suspension once he signs with a team. He originally was hit with eight games but that was reduced to seven with five games already served. Fujita, who plays for Cleveland, will now miss only one game instead of three. The responses of Vilma, Smith and the NFL Players Association left little doubt that the 7-monthold bounty saga is far from over. Alex Karras died Wednesday after he was recently released from a California hospital after having kidney failure so he could spend his final days with family. The 77-year-old former defensive tackle and actor, who was born and raised in Gary, Ind., has been surrounded by his wife and kids at his home in Los Angeles. HOUSTON Linebacker Brian Cushing is out for the season with a torn left knee ligament, leaving the unbeaten Houston Texans without their top tackler and one of their emotional leaders. Cushing was hurt in the second quarter of the Texans 23-17 win over the New York Jets on a low block by guard Matt Slauson. Cushing walked off the field on his own but didnt return. The Texans (5-0) play Green Bay (2-3) in Houston on Sunday night. The loss of Cushing is wor-

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behind three Rowe aces, went on a 10-3 run to lead 23-19. An Allen East service error and a Doner kill cut the gap to 23-21, but kills by Carly Clum and Eliza Laing ended that set and the match. I think the one thing weve been struggling on all season is letting teams get on runs and thats what happened tonight, said Crow. Wed get into one serve/ receive rotation for four or five points in a row and they were able to take advantage of that. We just didnt do enough side-out plays when we needed them. The Lancers got another stellar performance from senior libero Whitney Miller, who came up with 34 digs. Doner was second with 18 digs. McClure and Doner led in kills with 19 and 13, respectively. McClure led the servers with six aces. Mohr had 37 assists.

OHSAA releases weekly football computer ratings COLUMBUS The Ohio High School Athletic Association released its weekly football computer ratings Tuesday. The weekly computer ratings are released every Tuesday afternoon beginning after the fourth week of the season, leading up to the final report released on Oct. 28. The top eight teams in each region will qualify for the regional quarterfinals. Ratings are listed by division and region with record and average points. Log on to the football page at OHSAA. org for an explanation of how the ratings are calculated. Division I Region 1 - 1. Cle. St. Ignatius (7-0) 20.3218, 2. Willoughby South (7-0) 20.1286, 3. North Royalton (7-0) 18.2857, 4. Lakewood St. Edward (7-0) 18.2437, 5. Mentor (6-1) 16.5065, 6. Austintown-Fitch (6-1) 15.3286, 7. Warren G. Harding (6-1) 15.2994, 8. Cleveland Heights (6-1) 14.4071. Region 2 - 1. Tol. Whitmer (7-0) 19.3429, 2. Macedonia Nordonia (6-1) 18.3286, 3. Massillon Washington (6-1) 18.3143, 4. Canton GlenOak (6-1) 18.0895, 5. Avon Lake (5-2) 15.8429, 6. Hudson (6-1) 14.95, 7. Canton McKinley (5-1) 14.9457, 8. North Canton Hoover (5-2) 12.9449; ... 12. Findlay (5-2) 9.4323. Region 3 - 1. Dublin Coffman (7-0) 18.85, 2. Lewis Center Olentangy (6-1) 17.7071, 3. Pickerington North (7-0) 17.5612, 4. Hilliard Darby (7-0) 17.3071, 5. Dublin Scioto (6-1) 17.0214, 6. Westerville Central (6-1) 14.1286, 7. Pickerington Central (4-2) 13.1944, 8. Gahanna Lincoln (6-1) 12.9. Region 4 - 1. Cin. Colerain (7-0) 21.0505, 2. West Chester Lakota West (7-0) 18.1786, 3. Cin. Archbishop Moeller (5-2) 17.2429, 4. Springboro (7-0) 17.1857, 5. Cin. Sycamore (6-1) 17.0214, 6. Cin. St. Xavier (5-2) 15.2857, 7. Loveland (5-2) 14.8714, 8. Huber Hts. Wayne (5-2) 14.728. Division II Region 5 - 1. Chardon (6-1) 14.9357, 2. Aurora (6-1) 13.5, 3. Tallmadge (5-2) 13.1786, 4. Chagrin Falls Kenston (5-2) 13.0214, 5. New Philadelphia (7-0) 12.9798, 6. Kent Roosevelt (6-1) 12.6786, 7. Warren Howland (6-1) 12.5133, 8. Copley (5-2) 12.2071. Region 6 - 1. Tol. Central Cath. (7-0) 18.2929, 2. Tiffin Columbian (7-0) 15.7193, 3. Mansfield Senior (6-1) 14.4163, 4. Avon (6-1) 14.35, 5. Perrysburg (6-1) 14.2786, 6. Mansfield Madison Comp. (6-1) 13.4214, 7. Grafton Midview (6-1) 13.3571, 8. Norwalk (7-0) 12.4071. Region 7 - 1. Dresden Tri-Valley (7-0) 15.5857, 2. Pataskala Licking Hts. (7-0) 15.3786, 3. Zanesville (6-1) 14.3571, 4. Cols. Marion-Franklin (6-1) 14.1551, 5. New Albany (5-2) 13.0714, 6. Mount Vernon (5-2) 11.7063, 7. Cols. Beechcroft (5-1) 11.4663, 8. New Carlisle Tecumseh (5-2) 9.8071. Region 8 - 1. Cin. Turpin (7-0) 18.85, 2. Cin. Northwest (7-0) 15.8071, 3. Cin. Winton Woods (5-2) 15.0571, 4. Cin. Mount Healthy (7-0) 13.2429, 5. Tipp City Tippecanoe (7-0) 13.0512, 6. Franklin (6-1) 11.6643, 7. TrotwoodMadison (5-2) 10.5612, 8. Celina (6-1) 9.9429. Division III Region 9 - 1. Chagrin Falls (6-1) 12.6, 2. Ravenna (5-2) 11.1357, 3. Niles McKinley (6-1) 11.1143, 4. Chardon Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin (5-2) 10.0204, 5. Cle. John Hay (5-2) 9.9643, 6. Peninsula Woodridge (5-2) 9.05, 7. Akron St. Vincent-St Mary (6-1) 9.028, 8. Jefferson Area (5-2) 8.4877. Region 10 - 1. Napoleon (6-0) 15.8714, 2. Bryan (7-0) 12.1571, 3. Bellevue (6-1) 11.7571, 4. Sandusky Perkins (6-1) 11.45, 5. Cols. Eastmoor Acad. (5-2) 11.311, 6. Urbana (6-1) 10.9071, 7. Cols. Bishop Watterson (4-3) 9.4055, 8. Cols. St. Francis DeSales (4-3) 8.9509; ... 11. Elida (5-2) 7.6929. Region 11 - 1. Alliance Marlington (7-0) 16.5286, 2. Millersburg West Holmes (6-1) 14.1143, 3. Granville (6-1) 12.1214, 4. Zanesville Maysville (6-1) 11.7571, 5. Wintersville Indian Creek (6-1) 11.55, 6. Dover (5-2) 11.1299, 7. Duncan Falls Philo (6-1) 10.9429, 8. Struthers (4-3) 9.8429. Region 12 - 1. Circleville (6-1) 14.0071, 2. Day. Thurgood Marshall (6-1) 12.7915, 3. Kettering

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Archbishop Alter (6-0) 12.1536, 4. The Plains Athens (5-2) 8.8429, 5. Gallipolis Gallia Acad. (5-2) 8.5357, 6. Greenfield McClain (4-3) 7.9459, 7. Cin. Archbishop McNicholas (4-3) 7.7143, 8. Circleville Logan Elm (5-2) 7.671. Division IV Region 13 - 1. Brookfield (7-0) 14.4163, 2. Streetsboro (5-2) 10.75, 3. Creston Norwayne (7-0) 10.6284, 4. Gates Mills Hawken (6-1) 10.4993, 5. Beachwood (6-1) 10.3391, 6. West Salem Northwestern (6-1) 9.85, 7. Youngstown Liberty (6-1) 9.5571, 8. Wooster Triway (5-2) 8.3643. Region 14 - 1. Ottawa-Glandorf (7-0) 16.2, 2. Cols. Bishop Hartley (7-0) 15.75, 3. Genoa Area (7-0) 13.2071, 4. Galion (6-1) 11.7714, 5. Richwood North Union (7-0) 11.4929, 6. Cols. Bishop Ready (6-1) 10.9033, 7. Oak Harbor (6-1) 10.5286, 8. Lorain Clearview (5-2) 9.4286. Region 15 - 1. St. Clairsville (7-0) 17.2653, 2. Ironton (5-2) 14.6571, 3. Minford (7-0) 11.0357, 4. JohnstownMonroe (6-1) 10.0643, 5. Piketon (5-2) 8.3143, 6. Martins Ferry (5-2) 7.9429, 7. Chillicothe Zane Trace (3-4) 7.5821, 8. Cadiz Harrison Central (5-2) 7.5. Region 16 - 1. Williamsport Westfall (6-1) 14.5821, 2. Clarksville ClintonMassie (7-0) 14.3643, 3. Batavia (7-0) 12.6837, 4. Cin. Hills Christian Acad. (6-1) 12.267, 5. Brookville (6-1) 11.3071, 6. West Milton Milton-Union (6-1) 10.8, 7. Norwood (6-1) 10.1775, 8. Cin. Shroder (5-2) 9.2347. Division V Region 17 - 1. Sugarcreek Garaway (7-0) 15.2417, 2. Kirtland (7-0) 13.9286, 3. Columbiana Crestview (7-0) 13.7714, 4. Cuyahoga Hts. (6-1) 12.2786, 5. Bellaire (5-2) 10.9329, 6. Louisville St. Thomas Aquinas (6-1) 10.7643, 7. Youngstown Ursuline (4-3) 10.6176, 8. Columbiana (6-1) 9.7929. Region 18 - 1. Lima Central Cath. (7-0) 14.7, 2. Northwood (7-0) 11.0357, 3. Liberty Center (6-1) 10.8214, 4. Hamler Patrick Henry (6-1) 10.3714, 5. Columbia Station Columbia (6-1) 10.3643, 6. Collins Western Reserve (6-1) 8.9857, tie-7. Archbold (6-1) 8.65, tie-7. Findlay Liberty-Benton (6-1) 8.65; ... 11. Columbus Grove (4-3) 7.4143, 12. Spencerville (5-2) 7.0071. Region 19 - 1. Oak Hill (6-1) 9.9786, 2. Bucyrus Wynford (6-1) 9.9286, 3. Wheelersburg (6-1) 9.3117, 4. Lucasville Valley (7-0) 8.9322, 5. Loudonville (5-2) 8.1786, 6. Jeromesville Hillsdale (5-2) 8.1571, 7. Howard East Knox (5-2) 7.8214, 8. West Lafayette Ridgewood (4-3) 6.7357. Region 20 - 1. Coldwater (7-0) 15.1071, 2. Covington (7-0) 11.5143, 3. Cin. Summit Country Day (7-0) 11.4538, 4. Miamisburg Day. Christian (7-0) 9.949, 5. West Liberty-Salem (7-0) 9.398, 6. West Jefferson (6-1) 7.8571, 7. Versailles (5-2) 7.5571, 8. North Lewisburg Triad (6-1) 6.949; ... 10. Anna (3-4) 6.6429. Division VI Region 21 - 1. Mogadore (7-0) 13.8571, 2. Malvern (6-1) 11.4643, 3. Steubenville Cath. Central (5-2) 9.6857, 4. Warren John F. Kennedy (6-1) 9.6786, 5. Shadyside (7-0) 9.3429, 6. Youngstown Christian (5-1) 8.2222, 7. Fairport Harbor Fairport Harding (4-3) 7.6643, 8. Berlin Center Western Reserve (5-2) 5.7714. Region 22 - 1. Fremont St. Joseph Central Cath. (6-1) 10.9571, 2. McComb (7-0) 10.4929, 3. Leipsic (7-0) 10.2429, 4. Arlington (4-3) 7.1429, 5. Delphos St. Johns (4-3) 6.5357, 6. Tiffin Calvert (4-3) 6.4429, 7. Norwalk St. Paul (4-3) 6.0214, 8. Tol. Ottawa Hills (5-2) 5.9214; ... 10. Convoy Crestview (3-4) 4.4143; ... 12. Pandora-Gilboa (4-3) 3.8214. Region 23 - 1. Newark Cath. (6-1) 12.1143, 2. Zanesville Bishop Rosecrans (6-1) 11.4293, 3. Danville (6-1) 10.3983, 4. Glouster Trimble (6-1) 8.9643, 5. North Robinson Colonel Crawford (6-1) 8.4071, 6. Willow Wood Symmes Valley (6-1) 8.3214, 7. Portsmouth Notre Dame (5-2) 6.1857, 8. Hannibal River (4-3) 5.8429. Region 24 - 1. Maria Stein Marion Local (6-1) 10.4571, 2. Fort Loramie (5-2) 9.8571, 3. Ada (7-0) 9.7071, 4. St. Henry (4-3) 9.3357, 5. Bradford (6-1) 9.2929, 6. Waynesfield WaynesfieldGoshen (4-3) 7.8214, 7. Minster (5-2) 7.7429, 8. Day. Jefferson Twp. (4-2) 6.6667.

DIVISION SERIES (Best-of-5; x-if necessary) American League Detroit 2, Oakland 1 Tuesdays Result: Oakland 2, Detroit 0 Todays Game: Detroit (Scherzer 16-7) at Oakland (Griffin 7-1), 9:37 p.m. (TNT) New York 1, Baltimore 1 Todays Game: Baltimore (Gonzalez 9-4) at New York (Kuroda 16-11), 7:37 p.m. (TBS) Thursdays Game: Baltimore (Tillman 9-3) at New York (Hughes 16-13), 7:37 or 8:37 p.m. (TBS) National League

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risome for Houston, which ran into a rash of injuries to some of its top players in 2011, including Andre Johnson (hamstring), Matt Schaub (Lisfranc fracture) and outside linebacker Mario Williams (torn chest muscle). NEW YORK Mark Sanchez is staying put as the New York Jets starting quarterback. Despite struggling again in a 23-17 loss to the Houston Texans, Sanchez is still Rex Ryans guy despite many fans and media suggesting a switch to Tim Tebow could help the Jets (2-3) get back on track. FOXBOROUGH, Mass. After two injury-plagued seasons, running back Kevin Faulk retired after 13 years with the New England Patriots. The teams career leader in all-purpose yards formally announced his retirement at the teams Hall of Fame. Drafted out of LSU in the second round in 1999, Faulk was part of all three New England championship teams. His 12,349 all-purpose yards, 5,041 return yards and 4,098 kick return yards are team records. He also rushed for 3,607 yards and 16 touchdowns and caught 431 passes for 3,701 yards and 15 touchdowns. SOCCER MIAMI Landon Donovan will not play for the U.S. national team in a pair of upcoming World

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The Associated Press CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-3) Eastern Conference Connecticut 1, Indiana 1 Friday, Oct. 5: Connecticut 76, Indiana 64 Monday, Oct. 8: Indiana 78, Connecticut 76 Thursdays Game: Indiana at Connecticut, 8:30 p.m.

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Lady Wildcats tie Hornets on pitch

However, the Hornets The Wildcats had more scored at the 23:56 mark when chances in the second half but junior Mallory Hiser couldnt put them in the finished off a back of the net, either FORT JENNINGS flurry in front via saves by the keeper It was a tale of of the goal or defenders deflecting two halves between at least two shots away. Jefferson and Coryother legitiThe best hope came Rawson on a brilliant mate attempts at 12:14, when Haehn but chilly Monday were either stole a ball and launched afternoon/evening deflected by a high, hard 18-yarder at Keith Hamel the keeper or that hit off the crossbar Memorial Field in other defendand then off the keeper; Fort Jennings. Metzger ers as she she had the wherewithal The visiting Lady R. Miller went inside to gather in the orb. Hornets won the first the right post from six Rawsons best chances and the Lady Wildcats yards. to win the match came at the second. At 15:37, Moreo tried from 27:57, when a goal by Hannah When the 80 minutes was over, the teams had fought to 15 yards but it was denied by Roebke was denied due to offa defender. sides; and at 5:24, when a 1-1 draw. At the Roebke hit the outside Five Jefferson 6-minute of the right post from seniors played their mark, Schutz 17 yards. final home matchhad a great Weve played a es: Courtney Van chance in lot of 1-goal matches Schoyck, Jenna front of the this year but havent Moreo, Rachel net but her won too many. We Miller, Corrine 8-yarder was have rarely led, CoryMetzger and goaldenied by Rawson coach Jay keeper Paige Miller. Metzger. Frommer said. We This was our The secplayed state power third match in five Moreo ond half, Archbold Saturday and days and I think P. Miller especially early on, was only trailed 1-0 at the half we didnt have a before losing 3-0. We just lot of energy the first half, all Red and White. The Lady Wildcats (5-8-2), couldnt maintain our effort Jefferson coach Josiah Stober explained. We only have the who only had three shots on- from the first half, where we three subs off the bench but we goal the first half but 10 the played very well. We almost get stretched when we have a second, dominated the second got the match-winner later in the second half. stretch like this. Our seniors 40 minutes. Shields was under the gun The Hornets host Van have really played well this year for me. Weve come a as it seemed the Hornets could Buren 5 p.m. today. never get the ball outside of its The girls just had a lot long way since the start. more energy the second half, The Lady Hornets (3-10-1) defensive end. She stopped three shots in a lot more intensity. Cory had 10 shots, eight on-goal (11 for the match), in the first the first 3:17: by sophomore played pretty physical the first Bailey Miller (38:40); fresh- half and we didnt match it, half. They took advantage of the man Logan Hamilton (38:01): Stober added. We did match it tired Jeffcats to possess the and Haehn (36:43) on a diving the second half and we played stab. with more intensity. I felt we orb more. However, she could not had some great chances to put Sophomore Kylee Haehn had two attempts stopped deny the next one. Far out more shots in the net; that is by C-R netminder Natasha on the right side, Hamilton the next stage of our developShields (7 saves): at 30:49 and crossed inside to Haehn on the ment overall because everypost; her 1-toucher from nine thing else is coming along. 20:31. Jefferson visits Allen East Hornets had chances but yards got past the keeper and 5 p.m. Thursday. either Paige Miller (7 total tied it at 1. stops) was up to the ask or the Hornets aim was off the mark. The visitors had a great (Continued from Page 7) 7-6 (3), 6-7 (8), 7-6 (7). opening at 25:58 when Miller had come out to gather up 8-player World Golf Finals. Rafael Nadal says he has a ball and fell down; when McIlroy lost to Matt Kuchar been encouraged recently about she couldnt get back in time, by six shots and Woods fell to his recovery from a left knee one shot on Shiann Ludwig had an open Charl Schwartzel by million event injury and hopes to soon resume Tuesday in the $5.2 practice. goal from eight yards but it at the Sultan course in Antalya. Nadal didnt rule out playing was wide left. TENNIS next month in the ATP World SHANGHAI John Isner Tour Finals or Davis Cup finals Miller denied Rebecca of the returning that Schutz from the right post on reached the third round beating but added that difficult. Shanghai Masters by quickly would be a deflection. Kevin Anderson of South Africa LINZ, Austria American
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(Continued from Page 6) Hulbert nailed a shot into the wind which hit the crossbar and sailed high, narrowly missing a goal. The Lady Titans had their best scoring opportunity through the remainder at the 7:28 mark of the first when Maag fired a shot from seven yards out. Bair was not in position and it looked like a sure-fire goal but senior defenseman Sierra Kesler was there to kick it away. The match went to the half with O-G leading 2-0. Van Werts offense picked up with the wind at its back in the second half, possessing the ball more. They managed seven shots on-goal in the second half, to only one in the first. Hulber had most of the shots-on-goal for the Cougars but Lady Titan keeper Megan Hoehn held strong with some impressive saves. The Lady Cougars finally broke free at the 7:30 mark in the second half. Van Wert was awarded a free kick from 20 yards out. Hulbert took the kick and sent the ball past a line of O-G defenders but Hoehn came through with a diving. The ball bounced away from Hoehn, however, and junior midfielder Lauren Mathew was there to send the ball past Hoehn for Van Werts only goal. The Lady Cougars made several more pushes at the goal but couldnt convert in the last seven minutes as the Lady Titans held on. O-G ended the match with 20 shots on-goal, 10 in each half. Van Wert had eight, one in the first half and seven in the second. The win improves the Lady Titans to 10-4-1, 5-3-1 in WBL play. The Lady Cougars fall to 4-11, 3-6 in WBL play. ---(Late Monday) Raiders outlast Wildcats for non-league win By KEVIN WANNEMACHER
Bethanie Mattek-Sands defeated Tamira Paszek of Austria 6-2, 6-4 in the first round of the Generali Ladies. OSAKA, Japan Zheng Jie of China advanced to the second round of the Japan Open with a 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 win over Maria Jose Martina Sanchez of Spain. OBITUARIES DETROIT Budd Lynch, a veteran radio broadcaster who spent more than 60 years working for the Detroit Red Wings and became the teams public voice, died. He was 95. Lynch, the hockey clubs public address announcer, died following a brief illness at a Detroit-area rehabilitation center, the team said in a release. At 63 years, Lynch was the longesttenured employee in team history. DETROIT Donnie Butcher, who played for five seasons in the NBA and later coached the Detroit Pistons, died. He was 76.

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DHI Correspondent sports@timesbulletin.com HAVILAND Wayne Trace dominated the first set and then had to hold off visiting Jefferson in the second and third sets en route to a straight-set victory the Wildcats in non-league volleyball action at the Palace. The lady Raiders led from start to finish in the first set in rolling to a 25-9 victory. However, the second set saw the Wildcats rally from an early deficit to take the lead only to see Wayne Trace answer late and slip past Jefferson 29-27. Set three was very similar to the second set as the red, white and blue came from behind for a 25-23 win. Wayne Trace never trailed in the first set, leading 5-1 early on and widening the margin to as much as 15-3. Jefferson did get back within 18-8 on a Katie Goergens kill but it was all Raiders from there. The red, white and blue then finished the set with an ace by Krystal Wannemacher, a kill from Tanya Sinn and three more Wannemacher aces to seal the 25-9 win. However, set two was altogether different. With the lady Raiders on top 11-8, kills from Sinn, Lauren Speice and Wannemacher widened the margin to 14-8. The Wildcats would rally, though. A Goergens slam ignited a 10-1 run that saw the visitors go on top 19-17. Fallon Van Dyke added three kills in the spurt for the lady Wildcats while Kenidi Ulm, Lindsay Deuel and Rileigh Stockwell also chipped in slams. Jefferson led 21-18 following a Van Dyke kill before Wayne Trace rallied to tie after an ace from Maddie Baumle and a Wannemacher slam. Kamie Pulford recorded an ace as the Wildcats went on top 23-21 but the set again took a quick turn. Kills from Wannemacher and Brenda Feasby helped Wayne Trace go back in front 25-24 before a service error left the set tied at 25-25. A Raider hitting error again put the Wildcats in position for the win but the visitors couldnt finish. Two straight hitting mistakes by Delphos allowed Wayne Trace to go back in front 27-26. After the Wildcats tied the set at 27-27, the lady Raiders finished off the second set with consecutive kills by Speice and Sylvia Young for the 29-27 victory. The third set again saw Delphos take a lead midway through, opening a 20-15 advantage following slams from Ulm and Deuel. With Jefferson still leading 21-16, it was Wayne Trace who took control from that point forward. Four Young kills and a

Young block for a point, two aces by Sinn and a Wannemacher slam sealed the 25-23 Raider victory to end the match. Stockwell and Goergens had five kills for the lady Wildcats and Van Dyke recorded four slams. Deuel and Ulm chipped in two each as well. Stockwell also had four aces for Delphos, which falls to 6-12. Wannemacher recorded five aces and six kills with Sinn recording seven kills and three aces for Wayne Trace, which moves to 9-10 on the season. Jefferson visits Kalida 6 p.m. Thursday. ---DC Football to host Take A Kid to the Game Saturday DEFIANCE The Defiance College athletics department will join the NCAA to host the 18thAnnual Take A Kid to the Game program during its football contest with Mount St. Joseph on Saturday,. Kickoff is slated for 1:30 p.m., with festivities starting at noon. All children ages 12 and under will be admitted into the game at no cost and will be encouraged to participate in various games and competitions. Children will receive a free plastic Defiance College mini-football and will have the opportunity to have their faces painted in a football, Defiance College or Halloween theme. The action will continue at halftime of DCs game against the Mount as three children will be selected to compete in a relay competition on the game field for a prize. For more information, contact Matt Zahel at 419783-2343.

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Could pepperoni spoil presidential debate?

By MAE ANDERSON and CANDICE CHOI The Associated Press NEW YORK During the next presidential debate, the candidates will be pondering the important questions of our time. But the most controversial may be Sausage or pepperoni? Pizza Hut is offering a lifetime of free pizza one large pie a week for 30 years or a check for $15,600 to anyone who poses the question to either President Barack Obama or Republican candidate Mitt Romney during the live Town Hall-style debate next Tuesday. The proposed stunt, which the pizza chain announced Tuesday, threatens to tick off millions of viewers who are expected to tune in to the debate to hear what the candidates have to say about the economy, health care and other serious concerns facing this country. Its a terrible waste of time for the presidential candidates, the people who organize the debate and everyone who wants to listen, said Mickey Sheridan, a 43--year-old bartender from Queens, N.Y., who is a Pizza Hut fan. They should find some other way to advertise. Pizza Huts move comes as marketers continue to look for new ways to engage TV audiences that increasingly are resistant to their traditional commercials. Its also happening at a time when Americans are paying closer attention to presidential debates. On Oct. 3, an estimated 67.2 million people watched the first debate between Obama and Romney, the largest TV audience for a presidential debate since 1992, according to Nielsens ratings service. Its not the first time a question that could be seen as frivolous has been asked of a president or candidate during a live, televised events. One of the most famous moments in TV history came during a 1994 MTV Town Hall when an audience member asked then-President Bill Clinton whether he wore Boxers or briefs? Clintons sheepish response, Usually briefs, became an indelible moment in pop culture. But such moments dont always end well. During Obamas 2009 State of the Union address, for instance, South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson yelled out You lie, you lie. Wilson quickly apologized but was widely criticized by members of both parties for the breach of decorum. I think people are frustrated with the political process, but they dont want it to become a zoo, said Allen Adamson, managing director of branding firm Landor Associates in New York. It can be even more difficult for marketers to get away with such outbursts. While companies long have used hot political topics to gain publicity for their brands, it can backfire. For example, there was backlash in February 2011 when Kenneth Cole compared the Arab Spring uprisings to a frenzy over the U.S. designers spring collection. The company later apologized. Context really matters, said Deborah Mitchell, Clinical Professor of Marketing at Ohio State University. Political satire is fine if its in the context of where people are expecting it. When context is violated thats when you run into trouble. Even if Pizza Huts stunt doesnt turn off viewers, Laura Ries, president of Atlantabased brand strategy firm Ries and Ries, said it still will likely fail. Thats because it does not substantially connect back to the Pizza Hut brand. The problem is that its too contrived; its completely made up, she said. For something to move past silly gimmick and become more successful brand connection, it does have to have some sort of relevance. To its critics, Pizza Hut, a unit of Louisville, Ky.-based Yum Brands Inc., said there is room for both serious and lighthearted questions in the debate, which will be broadcast on most network and cable news stations. We know there are a lot of serious topics that are going to be debated and need to be debated, Pizza Hut spokesman Doug Terfehr said. But Terfehr said the pizza chain, which operates 10,000 restaurants in 90 countries, saw this as a way to ask an everyday question that people can relate to. Pizza seems to be a question everyone understands. John Dunn, 51, a manager of a data center from North Carolina, said Pizza Huts ques-

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Health changes spur test of more part-time workers

NEW YORK (AP) The owner of Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants is putting more workers on part-time status in a test aimed at limiting costs from President Barack Obamas health care law. Darden Restaurants Inc. declined to give details but said the test is only in four markets across the country. The move entails boosting the number of workers on part-time status, meaning they work less than 30 hours a week. Under the new health care law, companies with 50 or more workers could be hit with fines if they do not provide basic coverage for fulltime workers and their dependents. Starting Jan. 1, 2014, those penalties and requirements could significantly boost labor costs for some companies, particularly in low-wage industries such as retail and hospitality, where most jobs dont come with health benefits. Darden, which operates more than 2,000 restaurants in the U.S. and Canada, employs about 180,000 people. The company says about 75 percent of its employees are currently part-timers. Bob McAdam, who heads government affairs and community relations for Darden, said the company is still learning from the tests, which was first reported by the Orlando Sentinel. Were not at a point where we have results, he said. McAdam also noted that Darden is not alone in looking at ways to keep labor costs in check, with companies across the industry prepping for the new regulations to take effect. In fact, Paul Keckley, executive director of the Deloitte Center for Health Statistics, noted that followup legislation might be needed to ensure that companies do not shift more workers to part-time status to avoid providing coverage. Theres not a company in those industries that arent looking at this, Keckley said. This summer, for exam-

tion is one that should not be asked during the presidential debate. This election means a lot to me, he said. Id rather ask them a more important question if I actually had the opportunity to ask a presidential candidate a question. To be sure, because of rules governing the debate, Pizzas Hut stunt may not even be possible. The first Town Hall-style presidential debate was in 1992 and there were not many rules, which made for a lively debate, says Alan Schroeder, a professor of journalism at Northeastern University and author of Presidential Debates: 50 Years of High-Risk TV. But since then, campaigns have added many restrictions in their negotiations in the way audience members can ask questions. The terms for this year havent been made public, but in the past, Schroeder notes that audience members have had to arrive early and write out their questions on notecards, with the moderator selecting among the questions that got the green light. Even if someone attempts to ask the Sausage or pepperoni? question, its likely they would get immediately shut down. Thats because in 2004, campaigns negotiated a rule that an audience members microphone would be cut off if they start to veer from pre-determined questions. In any case, Schroeder, the journalism professor, said he doesnt think anyone who makes it into the debate audience will dare pose the question to the candidates. ple, McDonalds Corp. Chief Financial Officer Peter Bensen noted in a conference call with investors that the hamburger chain was looking at the many factors that will impact health care costs, including its number of fulltime employees. Nationally, 60 percent of companies offer health benefits, but the figure varies depending on the size of the company. Nearly all companies with 200 or more workers offer benefits, compared with 48 percent for companies with 3-9 workers, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Even beyond health care costs, however, Darden has made cutting labor costs a priority in recent years as sales growth has stalled at its flagship chains. In the most recent fiscal quarter, the companys restaurant labor costs were 31 percent of sales. Thats down from 33 percent three years ago. The reduction was driven by several factors. Given the challenging job market, Darden has been able to offer lower pay rates to new hires, as well as cut bonuses for general managers as sales have stagnated. Servers at Red Lobster now handle four tables at a time, instead of three. And last year, the company also put workers on a tip sharing program, meaning waiters and waitresses share their tips with other employees such as busboys and bartenders. That allows Darden to pay more workers a far lower tip credit wage of $2.13, rather than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.

China consumers spurn Japan cars amid islands row

TOKYO Sales of Japanese vehicles nosedived in China during September as anti-Japanese sentiment flared over a territorial dispute that threatens to hobble what was a booming business relationship between Japan and its biggest export market. Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday that sales of new vehicles in China dropped 48.9 percent in September from a year earlier to 44,100 vehicles. Honda Motor Co. said September sales plunged 40.5 percent to 33,931 vehicles. China sales for Nissan Motor Co. slid 35.3 percent last month to 76,100 vehicles.

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Q: I gave up coffee years ago because it made me too jittery, but my husband still drinks coffee -- sometimes four or more cups -- every Caffeine day. Ive always been under the impression that too much caffeine is bad for your health. Is there harm in drinking so much coffee? Are there any health benefits from drinking it? A: Its true that coffee has its good qualities and not-so-good qualities. In Vasoconstriction excess, coffee, and more of blood vessel particularly, caffeine, can cause problems for some people; Some Some people find that simply drinking a nervousness, rapid people find that simply drinking a caffeinated beverage can ease their migraine headache. Caffeine causes blood vessels to narrow, which heart action, heartburn caffeinated beverage can ease their migraine counters the blood vessel expansion causes to migraine pain. and excessive urination headache. Caffeinethat contributesblood vessels to head the list. But study narrow, which counters the blood vessel results keep coming expansion that contributes to migraine 2012 Harvard University. Illustration by Scott Leighton. that suggest coffee does have some health pain. benefits. 2012 Harvard University. Illustrated by Scott Leighton. Recently, researchers reported that coffee drinking is associated with lower risks of depression, lethal prostate cancer and stroke. There are also reports of possible protective effects against illnesses ranging from Parkinsons disease to diabetes to some types of cancer. Caffeine has been studied more than any other ingredient in coffee. But coffee contains literally a thousand different substances. And some of these lesser-known substances may be responsible for healthful effects in various parts of the body. In fact, some studies show caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee have similar effects, which suggests that something besides caffeine is involved. It gets complicated, though. Caffeine and some of the other substances in coffee seem to have their good and bad sides. Coffees overall effect may depend on how much the positive and negative effects balance out. Heres a rundown of how coffee is thought to affect various medical conditions: -- Alzheimers disease: Some evidence suggests protection against beta-amyloid plaque that may have a role in causing Alzheimers. -- Cancer: Studies suggest a lower risk for some tumors (endometrial, aggressive prostate and estrogen-negative breast cancers). Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory substances could be responsible. -- Diabetes: Regular use is associated with lower risk, and high intake (three to six cups a day) seems to have a greater effect. Protection may come from factors that affect insulin and blood sugar levels. -- Heart attack: Coffee drinking increases some factors (homocysteine) associated with higher risk. But one to three cups a day has been linked to a small decrease in risk. -- Liver disease: Coffee drinking is associated with lower levels of enzymes that indicate liver damage and inflammation. -- Parkinsons disease: Studies show a 25 percent decrease in risk for coffee drinkers. The effect is smaller in women. -- Stroke: Three to four cups a day is associated with lower risk. But chance of a stroke may increase immediately after intake, particularly among infrequent drinkers. -- Migraine headache: The caffeine in coffee helps ease migraine headache in some people by narrowing the expanded blood vessels in the brain that cause migraine pain. Caffeine can also be a performance enhancer, strengthening muscle contraction and offsetting effects of physical exertion. But, especially in the short term, it also has negative effects, which include raising blood pressure and increasing levels of homocysteine, insulin and possibly cholesterol. Coffee drinkers concerned about cholesterol werent happy about some early study results showing that coffee seemed to increase cholesterol levels. But the bad news turns out to be not so bad, because the cholesterolraising effect seems to be limited to unfiltered coffee. There is a twist, however. Cafestol and kahweol, the two cholesterolraising ingredients in coffee, may also have some health benefits. The research is in the preliminary stages, but they could have some anticancer effects and be good for the liver. Switching gears to the antioxidant benefits of coffee, explanations for the connection between coffee and lower rates of heart disease and diabetes point to chlorogenic acid and other antioxidant substances. But chlorogenic acid might be another coffee ingredient with a split personality. Along with caffeine, it seems to push up levels of homocysteine, which has been associated with atherosclerosis. Coffee isnt a great source of vitamins and minerals, but it contains some, and a few that we should be getting more of. A cup of coffee contains about 7 mg of magnesium, which is a drop in the bucket, but because we dont eat enough fruit, vegetables and whole grains, a cup of coffee or two can help. Potassium, another component of coffee, helps the body by offsetting some of the harmful effects of sodium. At about 116 mg per cup, coffees contribution toward the 4,700 mg that were supposed to get daily is small but still helpful. Research has debunked many early concerns about coffee, but more studies are needed to nail down possible health benefits. For now, its a matter of personal preference. If youre someone who feels jittery or experiences other side effects from coffee, switch to another beverage. But if coffee goes down well, there is no medical reason to cut down. Its a message many of us will drink to.

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Mom should let daughter make mistakes, pay for them

Tomorrows Horoscope
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2012 Be alert in the year ahead for ways to generate additional income, because there will be a number of new avenues opening. Be on the lookout for opportunities you ignored in the past. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Left to your own devices, youll perform your tasks quite well. It could be another story, however, if youre pressured into taking on assignments that youd rather not do. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -When the stakes are quite high, there is no question that you will do what needs to be done with skill. Given a bunch of minor things to handle, however, and youll make a hash of things. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Theres a good chance that success will be denied you if you dont make allowances for unexpected contingencies. Your blueprint and what actually exists may be totally different. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- When it comes to issues that you dont know much about, dont take an unyielding position. Should you be challenged on any point, your lack of knowledge could prove embarrassing. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Whatever you do, dont allow yourself to be drawn into the financial morass of a friend who cant manage his or her funds. Youre likely to end up paying for this persons mistake. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -In order to protect yourself in a joint endeavor you have with another, its imperative you make your views known right up front, or else decisions might be made that bypass your interests. ARIES (March 21-April 19) -Hopefulness and optimism are needed in all of our lives, but you cant leave out realism either. It takes a lot more than just wishful thinking to make things happen the way we want them to. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -Accept people for who they are, and not for what they can do for you. If your motives are purely self-serving, it will quickly be perceived, and youll look bad in the eyes of others. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -Its not unheard of for family members to pull in different directions, which could happen today. It takes harmony of purpose to get anything done. CANCER (June 21-July 22) -Flow with events, instead of resisting changes that others want to make. If you work with them, things will turn out well in the long run. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- When it comes to money matters, take nothing for granted. Theres a good chance you could involve yourself in something that has undisclosed costs. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -Although your chart shows you to be a good organizer, this is not so when it comes to delegation. If you give a job to anyone, be sure that he or she has the ability to effectively carry it out.
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Dear Annie: My hus- You could try to change your band and I have a 20-year- sleep habits to match his, old daughter, Brianna. We waking up later so you arent pay for her private college too tired to stay up until the tuition, as well as all of her wee hours. Counseling helps only if expenses. In August, Brianna was both parties agree to work on invited for a weeklong trip to what needs to be changed. If Hawaii with her boyfriends Charlie wont address this, family. She decided to go you can get counseling on without discussing it with us. your own and decide whethWe had made plans to get her er you will put up with the a new apartment that week current situation in order to stay married. If you so she could move opt to stick around, in prior to classes adjust your attitude starting, and she so that your focus is totally blew us not on Charlie and off. his sleep habits, but I am so hurt on whatever makes by this. It seems you happy when disrespectful to us youre awake. and to the commitDear Annie: I ment she has as a am writing about daughter. I have the letter from communicated His Mom, whose very little with her 15-year-old son is since she left for Annies Mailbox having sex with his school. How can 15-year-old girlI let her know this behavior is unacceptable? I friend. They wanted to know am also disappointed in her who is responsible for paying boyfriend, who has known for the girls birth control us long enough to be more pills. As the mother of a 15-yearsensitive to our family. What old boy, Id like to say that should I do? A Mom Dear Mom: Yes, it was what I loved about this letter rude that Brianna did not is that both kids had talked discuss the change in plans to their parents about havwith you, but she is trying to ing sex. That is amazing and assert her independence, and says a lot about both sets we recommend you let her. of parents. Kudos to them. That means she should make Heres my simple response: I more of her own decisions, think the boy should pay for and you need to stop paying condoms that he assiduously for them. If Brianna receives wears, and the girl should a free trip to Hawaii and pay for her birth control pills. blows off apartment hunting, It provides double protection let her handle her own living for pregnancy and the added arrangements. Dont do it benefit of STD protection. for her or fret that she wont Jen from Connecticut have a place to live. Shell Annies Mailbox is written manage. Let her find a parttime job to pay for things by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy you dont want to finance. Sugar, longtime editors of the Help her become a respon- Ann Landers column. Please sible, mature adult instead of email your questions to a dependent child. Youll be anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annies Mailbox, grateful later. Dear Annie: Ive been c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 married to Charlie for 35 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, years. He is now semi-retired CA 90254. and works an afternoon shift three days a week. He wakes up minutes before going to work and comes home an hour before my bedtime. On his days off, he sleeps until dinnertime. He says there is no reason to get up during the day. I have tried staying up later, but I get too sleepy. I am in my 50s now, and the kids have left the nest. Ive made lots of friends who are available during the day, but I dont want to keep living this way. I miss my husband. Charlie and I have been to counseling numerous times, but it hasnt changed anything. What do I do? Lonely in Kentucky Dear Kentucky: Charlie would rather sleep late than spend time with you. It could be that hes avoiding you, is depressed or that his internal clock is simply set later.

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All children are welcome to enter. You do not have to be a member of the parish 4 Age Categories: 1-3 4-6 7-9 10-12 No help from older children or parents, please 1 prize winner in each category Entries can be brought to the St. Johns Grade School office, or dropped off at the Ministry Center, 201 N. Pierce St., Delphos. All coloring entries must be turned in by THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18.

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