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Issue 205, Volume 71

Coalition reminds
of dangers of drunk
and drugged driving
Staff Report

POMEROY — The
Meigs County Community Prevention Coalition wants to remind
the public that December is National Drunk
and Drugged Driving
Prevention Month.
The holiday season
is fast approaching,
the time of year when
everybody is getting
into the festive Christmas spirit, but it is also
one of the most dangerous times of the year
for alcohol and drug
related accidents and
death.
In an average year
30 million Americans
drive drunk and 10
million Americans
drive impaired by illicit
drugs. According to
MADD, drunk driving costs the United
States $199 billion a
year and the human toll
is even greater. Newly
released data from
the National Trafﬁc
Highway Safety Administration (NHTSA)
shows that both overall trafﬁc deaths and
alcohol involved trafﬁc
fatalities increased
in 2016. It is the ﬁrst
time in more than a
decade that deaths on
America’s roads have
increased for two consecutive years.
Nearly 2,000 more
people were killed on
U.S. roads in 2016 compared to 2015 which is
a 5.6 percent increase.
Alcohol impaired trafﬁc fatalities ,which
deﬁned as involving
a driver with a BAC
of 0.08 or higher, rose
1.7% to 10,497 people,
compared to 10,320 in
2015. In every state,
it is illegal to drive
with a BAC of 0.08 or
higher. Meigs Prevention Council President,
Judge Scott Powell,
wants to remind Meigs
County drivers of
the seriousness and
importance of the law.
During the holiday
season, there will be
a special emphasis on
drunk-driving enforcement. Local drivers
should expect to see
more patrol vehicles,
DUI checkpoints, and
increased messaging
about this reckless

crime.
“The human toll
caused by impaired
driving is unacceptable,
because it is an entirely
preventable tragedy,”
said Judge Powell in a
release from the Coalition.
Alcohol alone does
not account for the
entire problem. Drugs
other than alcohol,
legal and illegal, are
involved in about 16
percent of motor vehicle crashes. Marijuana
users were about 25
percent more likely to
be involved in a crash
than drivers with no
evidence of marijuana
use, however other factors such as age and
gender may account
for the increased crash
risk among marijuana
users. After alcohol,
marijuana is the drug
most often linked to
drugged driving. Tests
for detecting marijuana
in drivers measure
the level of delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol
(THC), marijuana’s
active ingredient, in
the blood. The effects
of speciﬁc drugs differ depending on how
they act in the brain.
For example, marijuana
can slow reaction time,
impair judgment of
time and distance, and
decrease motor coordination. Drivers who
have used cocaine or
methamphetamine can
be aggressive and reckless when driving. Certain kinds of sedatives,
called benzodiazepines,
can cause dizziness and
drowsiness, which can
lead to accidents.
A misconception
exists that driving
under the inﬂuence
of marijuana or a prescription medication
is somehow safer than
driving while impaired
by alcohol. The bottom line is impaired is
impaired.
Local ofﬁcers and
State Highway Patrol
troopers are ramping
up their enforcement
efforts as part of a
national crackdown
on drunk driving
in partnership with
the NHTSA to curb
impaired driving
See DRIVING | 2

A job well done

Erin Perkins | OVP

Commissioners Randy Smith, Mike Bartrum, and Tim Ihle along with State Representative Jay Edwards honoring county service workers
Dan Nease, Jamie Jones, Vicki Cundiff, Margaret Burkhamer, Coleen Murphy-Smith, Perry Varnadoe, and Robbie Jacks.

Commissioners recognize county workers
By Erin Perkins
eperkins@aimmediamidwest.com

POMEROY — Meigs
County Commissioners
recently honored county
service workers at their
annual luncheon.

Commissioners handed
out service awards to
several county employees reaching signiﬁcant
ﬁve-year marks in their
career. State Representative Jay Edwards was
invited to attend the

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event.
“I feel like he has
clones because he is
everywhere,” said Commissioner Randy Smith.
Smith shared how
he respected Edwards
for being involved with

many events in Meigs
County and making
himself available to the
residents.
Edwards expressed
appreciation for the
introduction and shared
that he regards the residents of Meigs County
See JOB | 2

Middleport Literary Club honors member
By Lorna Hart
Special to the Sentinel

MIDDLEPORT — The Middleport Literary Club honored
Faye Wallace for her 48-year
membership and contributions
to the club at a recent meeting
at the Pomeroy Library.
Active members participate
on the club’s board, write a
yearly book review, and serve
as hostess for the group once
each year. Wallace fulﬁlled her
commitment to the club and
went beyond expectations,
giving her time while serving
in ofﬁcer positions: Secretary
from 1971 to 1973, President
from 1975 to 1980, Vice President from 1983 to 1984, PresiLorna Hart | Courtesy dent from 1984 to 1987, and
Faye Wallace, pictured, was honored with a plaque,
Secretary 1988 to 1992.
corsage, and cake during a recent Middleport Literary
Shaped by a lifetime of expeClub meeting.

riences and extensive reading,
she shares a perspective and
thoughtfulness that is treasured by the group, according
to members.
Wallace grew up in Meigs
County. After high school,
she became engaged, and “my
ﬁance left to ﬁght in WWII. I
didn’t see him for four years.
All we had were letters. We
didn’t have cell phones or computers…”
After passing the Federal
Civil Service test, she accepted
a position in Washington, D.C.
at the Pentagon, then boarded
a bus for the nation’s capital
alone.
“That was something in
those days,” Wallace declared.
“I got off the bus and went to
See MEMBER | 2

Holzer joins CareSource Health Plan Network
Staff Report

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

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GALLIPOLIS — CareSource
and Holzer Health System have
reached an agreement to provide
quality access to health care for
consumers in southeastern Ohio
through the Health Insurance Marketplace.
According to a joint press
release from CareSource and Holzer, beginning in January 2018,
Holzer Health System providers
and Holzer Medical Center will
accept CareSource Marketplace
members seeking health care and
physician services. The agreement
gives CareSource members access
to a wide variety of services available through Holzer Medical Center and through physicians in the
Holzer group.
“Holzer Health System is committed to continuing to serve our

community in southeastern Ohio
with access to a full-spectrum of
high quality, convenient care,” said
Mike Haynes, MBA, chief ﬁnancial
ofﬁcer, Holzer Health System.
Michael Canady, MD, Chief
Executive Ofﬁcer, Holzer Health
System shared, “We are proud
to partner with CareSource, a
health plan that joins us in putting
patients ﬁrst, to extend the reach
of our care.”
Holzer Health System is a multidiscipline health care system with
over 160 providers and 15 locations serving consumers in southeastern Ohio and West Virginia.
According to the release: “A
nonproﬁt health plan with a
28-year history, CareSource continues to invest in the health and
well-being of Ohioans through an
expanding coverage area and provider network. CareSource serves

thousands of members through its
Marketplace health care coverage
and is the only commercial insurance carrier offering plans on the
exchange in Gallia, Jackson, Meigs
and Vinton counties in Ohio.”
“We are excited to expand our
Marketplace network with the
addition of Holzer Health System.
This alliance provides CareSource
members with greater access to
more than 15 points of care and
a physicians’ network of more
than 160 specialty and primary
care providers,” said Steve Ringel,
president, Ohio market for CareSource.
About CareSource
CareSource is a nonproﬁt
nationally recognized as an
industry leader in providing
See HOLZER | 2

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DEATH NOTICES

MEIGS CALENDAR OF EVENTS

KIRK

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MIDDLEPORT — Delmarva Kirk, 90, died Friday,
December 22, 2017 at the Overbrook Rehabilitation
Center in Middleport. Funeral services will be held
on Thursday, December 28, 2017 at 2 p.m. at the
Anderson McDaniel Funeral Home in Pomeroy. At the
request of Mrs. Kirk there will be no visitation.
WRAY
APPLE GROVE — Carla M Wray, 64, of Apple
Grove, died December 22, 2017. Services will be held
at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017 at the Barton
Chapel Church, Apple Grove. Burial will be in the
church cemetery. Friends may visit the family from 11
a.m. to time of service on Wednesday. Deal Funeral
Home is serving the family.

Wednesday,
Dec. 27

Member

LETART TWP. — The regular
meeting of the Letart Township
Trustees will be held at 3 p.m. at
the Letart Township Building.
The Letart Township Organizational Meeting will be immediate-

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the women’s dormitory
where they had arranged
housing for me. There
were 600 of us who
stayed there. The next
day I went to work as
a secretary to two Captains.”
Wallace remembers the
day peace was declared,
and recalls being at the
Capitol as the country
rejoiced. She describes
seeing Generals Eisenhower and Patton, along
with other servicemen
and dignitaries, driving
through the streets during the celebration.
“We were all so happy,”
Wallace said. “You can’t
imagine how happy and
excited we were, and
relieved it was over.
What a party.”
She said her ﬁance
soon came home safely
and they married; she
was raising a young family when someone invited
her to join the literary
club.
“I kept saying I would,
but I never did, I kept
trying to ﬁnd the time,
then one day I said, ‘I’m

Holzer

The Middleport
Literary Club was
founded in 1894 with
the motto “Why stay
we on earth unless to
grow?” Refreshments
are kept simple, with
the traditionally
chocolate treat and
water. Meetings are
held on alternate
Wednesdays in OctoberMay. Those interested
in membership are
encouraged to attend
several meetings,
allowing the prospective
member an opportunity
to get to know the
group and learn more
about the club. More
information is available
at the Pomeroy Library.

member-centric health
care coverage. Founded
in 1989, CareSource
administers one of the
nation’s largest Medicaid managed care plans.
Today, CareSource
offers individuals and
families’ comprehensive
health and life services,
including Marketplace
and Medicare Advantage plans.
Headquartered in
Dayton, Ohio, CareSource serves more than
1.8 million members in
Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia and
Georgia. CareSource
understands the challenges consumers face
navigating the health

just going to do it, I’m
going to join. I love to
read, this is something I
should do. So I did.”
That was 1969, and
today at age 95, she continues to participate as
an associate member.
“I joined to include
some culture in my life,
but I also found friendship with this group of
women.”

Telephone: 740-992-2155

BEDFORD TWP. — The Bedford Township Trustees will be
holding the last meeting for 2017

Saturday,
Dec. 30
REEDSVILLE — The Olive
Township Trustees will hold its
end of year meeting at the township garage on Joppa Road, time
to be annonnced.

Tuesday,
Jan. 2
MIDDLEPORT — Veterans
Service Commission meeting,
9 a.m., 97 North Second Ave.,
Home National Bank Building,
side ofﬁce, special meeting to discuss and ﬁnish remaining end of
year business.

safely when you have
been drinking. The
SafeRide mobile app
(free from the iTunes
store and Google Play),
can help users call a
taxi or a friend for a
ride home. The app can
even help you identify
your location so you can
be picked up. So this
holiday season and yearround, remember that
there is no excuse for
impaired driving. Drunk
and drugged driving
can result in horrible
tragedies and loss of
life. Have a safe and
merry holiday season.
The Meigs Community Prevention Coalition

Job

nize some staff members for their years of
service,” said Smith.
Seven county service
employees were given
certiﬁcates of achievements for reaching
marks of ﬁve years,
10 years, 25 years, 35
years, and 40 years.
Smith began with
Robbie Jacks who has
been with the county
for ﬁve years, then
continued on to Perry
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is a group of citizens
dedicated to reducing
drug abuse in Meigs
County through education, community initiatives, and increased
access to treatment and
other helping resources.
The Coalition meets at
the Meigs EMS meeting room on the third
Tuesday of each month
at 12:30 p.m. The public
is invited to attend.
For more information
on the Coalition contact Judge Scott Powell
at judgescottpowell@
yahoo.com.

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retirement and social
security and Edwards
explained a representative from Columbus will
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be visiting to speak on
the issue. Commissionto be as much of state
er Mark Bartrum raised
representatives as he
concern about Meigs
is because he gets his
information from them. County needing to have
Edwards offered guests at least two 911 dispatchers and the county
to have his phone
struggles to pay for
number, so they may
one. Edwards expressed
call or message him
he will look further into
whenever they have
problems. Sheriff Keith the issue.
“We wanted to recogO. Wood inquired about

Lorna Hart is a freelance writer for
The Daily Sentinel.

About Holzer
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Tuesday, December 26, 2017 3

GOP trend in Ohio could face Trump test in 2018
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)
— Ohio Republicans have a
chance to complete their statewide domination in 2018 by
unseating a Democratic U.S.
senator while maintaining their
hold on governor and other
statewide ofﬁces.
However, the traditional
presidential bellwether also
offers Democrats a chance to
blunt GOP momentum in midterm elections with a president
whose approval ratings have
been skidding like Ohio drivers
on early morning ice. President Donald Trump racked
up 52 percent of the vote for
a convincing victory in Ohio
a little more than a year ago,
but national polls show his job
performance so far is getting
low marks.
Although he won’t be on the
2018 ballot, his party could
have to absorb some of the discontent with his performance.

An Associated Press-NORC
Center for Public Affairs
Research poll this month put
his approval rating at 32 percent, the least-popular ﬁrst-year
president on record.
And the Democratic ticket
in the state will be led by Sen.
Sherrod Brown, a long-time
ofﬁceholder with a history of
strong support from the kind of
blue-collar workers Trump carried last year.
“There should be a lot going
on in Ohio next year,” said Kyle
Kondik, an Ohio native at the
University of Virginia Center
for Politics who authored a
book about the state titled
“The Bellwether.” ”It’s just an
interesting year.”
A glance at Buckeye State
stakes in 2018:
Will Brown keep senate seat blue?
Any Democratic scenario for
gaining a Senate majority is

unlikely to allow for a Brown
loss. The expectation has been
for a rematch with Republican
second-term Treasurer Josh
Mandel, who echoes Trump on
issues such as immigration.
However, banker Mike Gibbons is in Mandel’s path and
has raised eyebrows by winning endorsements by the
Franklin County Republican
Party, in the state capital. Also,
Republican Gov. John Kasich,
still popular among Ohioans,
and Mandel aren’t mutual
admirers.
Brown won election to his
second term in 2012 with
nearly 51 percent of the vote to
nearly 45 percent for Mandel.
Kondik said unless Trump’s
ratings improve, the Republican nominee would have to
persuade people who don’t
approve of the president to
vote against an incumbent
senator, a tall order.

After Kasich
In a crowded race to replace
the term-limited Kasich, Attorney General Mike DeWine has
already won a victory: he got
Secretary of State Jon Husted
to give up his gubernatorial bid
to join his ticket against GOP
competitors Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor and U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci.
DeWine, a former U.S. senator and, like Brown, a ﬁxture
in Ohio politics for decades,
will have name recognition and
likely fundraising advantages.
“It does seem like the DeWine-Husted union is a pretty
formidable ticket,” Kondik said.
The early front-runner
among a half-dozen Democrats
running or talking of running is
Richard Cordray, who recently
left his Washington job heading
the U.S. Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau. A former
attorney general, Cordray was
unseated from that job by DeW-

ine in 2010.
“If it’s a rematch, I think
DeWine is probably stronger
now than he was eight years
ago,” said Kondik, who served
on Cordray’s staff in the attorney general’s ofﬁce.
Ohioans have also been
showing a steady preference for
Republican governors — only
Democrat Ted Strickland’s one
term has interrupted what will
next year make 24 years of
GOP leadership in the last 28.
2020 vision?
Since scrapping his presidential bid last year, Kasich
has upped his national proﬁle
by becoming a vocal Trump
detractor on cable news shows,
publishing a book and leading
an effort to stay relevant on
signiﬁcant federal policy topics.
That’s fueled speculation that
he plans to seek the presidency
again in 2020.

BUCKEYE STATE NEWS

Police in Ohio find
explosive device

Chiefs taking steps to
reduce cancer risks

RIVERSIDE, Ohio (AP) — Police
evacuated a hotel and restaurant after
ﬁnding an explosive device while investigating a suspicious vehicle.
The Dayton Daily News reports
Riverside police found the device after
receiving a call about 5 p.m. Saturday
about a vehicle in a hotel parking lot.
Police Sgt. Mike Safriet says ofﬁcers
found items inside the vehicle that came
from a burglary in Dayton and discovered a 12-inch-long explosive like those
used by construction companies in a
suspect’s hotel room.
It wasn’t clear how the suspect, who
was not named, obtained the device.
The hotel and a nearby restaurant were
evacuated and a street was closed for
about ﬁve hours.
The bomb squad took the device and
planned to detonate it.
Information from: Dayton Daily
News, http://www.daytondailynews.
com

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Fire
chiefs in Ohio are implementing new
procedures and buying new equipment
to reduce cancer rates among ﬁreﬁghters.
The Columbus Dispatch
reports ﬁre chiefs in Columbus
and Cleveland in recent months
have made policy changes while
discussing long-term strategies to protect ﬁreﬁghters from
harmful chemicals and exposure
to carcinogens.
The newspaper published stories
in October detailing ﬁreﬁghters’ high
risk for work-related cancers and the
struggle among ﬁre services to address
the issue.
Changes in Columbus include using
one unit to ﬁght a ﬁre and another to
tear into walls searching for smoldering
ﬁres and to clean up scenes.
Departments in Columbus and Cleveland are emphasizing that ﬁreﬁghters
exchange or decontaminate gear after
ﬁres.
Columbus Fire Chief Kevin O’Connor
says he wants his ﬁreﬁghters to “have a
long, rich life.”
Information from: The Columbus
Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.com

University to offer
video gaming team
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — The University of Akron in Ohio is joining
the growing list of colleges offering
varsity esports programs that will
include scholarships for competitive
video gaming.
The Akron Beacon Journal reports
the university announced last week
that students will be able to try out
for the varsity team starting next fall.
Team members will wear uniforms
and maintain a steady practice schedule.
University President Matthew Wilson says the varsity team will consist
of 30 to 35 students, and each gamer
could qualify for between $1,000 and
$5,000 in scholarships.
Michael Fay Jr. has been tapped
to lead the program at a salary of
$48,000, pending the board of trustees’ approval. Fay has experience
as a production director for esports
competitions and an announcer for
esports tournaments.

Ohio unemployment
benefits bill stalls out
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State
lawmakers in Ohio failed to pass an
overhaul of Ohio’s unemployment beneﬁt system before recessing for the
holidays, despite a promise to take
action on the looming ﬁnancial issue
by year’s end.
The Legislature recessed earlier this
month without action on a compromise bill that called for reducing at
least some worker beneﬁts while also
requiring employers to pay more in
taxes.
The proposal would freeze maximum weekly beneﬁts rates for unemployed workers for 10 years and, in
some cases, cut the number of weeks
for which workers are able to collect

MEIGS BRIEFS
contact Brooke Pauley, Coordinator at
Editor’s Note: Meigs Briefs will only
list event information that is open to the (740) 992-2117, extension 104.
public and will be printed on a spaceavailable basis.

2018 Family and
Children First Council

Immunization clinic
to be held Tuesday

POMEROY — The Meigs County
Health Department will conduct an
Immunization Clinic on Tuesday from
MIDDLEPORT — The Meigs Coun- 9-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m. at 112 E. Memorial Drive in Pomeroy. Please bring
ty Family and Children First Council
will be holding Regular Business Meet- child(ren)’s shot records. Children must
ings at 8:30 a.m. on the third Thursday be accompanied by a parent/legal guardian. A $15 donation is appreciated for
of the following months: January,
immunization administration; however,
March, May, July, September, and
November. The Council will hold these no one will be denied services because
of an inability to pay an administration
meetings at the Meigs County Department of Job and Family Services located fee for state-funded childhood vaccines.
Please bring medical cards and/or comat 175 Race Street, Middleport, Ohio.
The Meigs County Family and Children mercial insurance cards, if applicable.
Zostavax (shingles); pneumonia and
First Council will be holding Intersysinﬂuenza vaccines are also available.
tem Collaborative Meetings at 9 a.m.
Call for eligibility determination and
on the ﬁrst Thursday of every month.
availability or visit our website at www.
Meetings will be held at the Meigs
meigs-health.com to see a list of acceptCounty Department of Job and Family
ed commercial insurances and Medicaid
Services, located at 175 Race Street,
for adults.
Middleport. For more information,

beneﬁts.
The inaction came after a directive from GOP House Speaker Cliff
Rosenberger, of Clarksville, calling
on members to move legislation on
the matter out of a House committee
and have it ready for a vote before the
holiday break, The Columbus Dispatch
reported.
State Rep. Kirk Schuring, a
Canton Republican who led a
yearlong effort to forge a compromise bill, said he’s not giving
up on getting both sides to agree
on a solution.
“It seems like both sides
would like to have it 100 percent
their way … but I’m still working on it.
I’m not giving up,” Schuring said.
Ohio’s unemployment system is currently ﬁnanced by employer taxes paid
into a trust fund to provide unemployment beneﬁts for up to 26 weeks.
Concern has grown in the wake of
the national recession that started in
2007 about the system’s structure and
how long the state’s unemployment
compensation fund can be sustained.
Information from: The Columbus

Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.com

Ohio girl found safe
after van stolen
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a 2-year-old girl has been
found unharmed after someone stole
her mother’s van with the toddler
inside.
Columbus police say the girl was
found in the van around 10:45 a.m.
Sunday, nearly six hours after it was
stolen. Police say the girl’s mother
was attacked by the suspect as she
approached the van but wasn’t hurt.
The theft triggered an Amber Alert.
Police say a passer-by aware of the
alert spotted the van in a parking lot
and contacted authorities.
Police say the girl appears to be
in ﬁne but was taken to Nationwide
Children’s Hospital in Columbus to be
evaluated.
Columbus police Sgt. Terry McConnell says the theft appeared to have
been committed by a stranger whose
only intention was to steal the van.

Farmers Bank and

Your School

Farmers Bank is g
iving back to
the community wit
h the help of
your favorite local
basketball teams
At All Home Varsity Games
for every 3 Point Shot made
Farmers Bank will give $300 to the
athletic association of that school
all season long
If the Boys Team reaches 60+ points
or the Girls Team reaches 30+ points
in a game, Farmers Bank will Donate a
Bag of Groceries to the Local Parish

LOCAL SCHOOLS INCLUDE:
Meigs, Eastern, Southern, Wahama,
Point Pleasant, Gallia, South Gallia,
Ohio Valley Christian School
and River Valley
UPCOMING FARMERS BANK NIGHTS:
Dec 22 - River Valley at Gallia
Jan 12 - South Gallia at Wahama
Jan 23 - Eastern at Point Pleasant
Jan 30 - Point Pleasant at Meigs
Feb 6 - Wahma at Eastern
OTHER GAME SCHEDULES STILL TO COME

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THEIR VIEW

Fixing America’s food
deserts alone won’t
fix our terrible diets
You are what you eat. It’s an expression with
roots in the early 1800s that has come to mean
if you consume what’s good for you, you will be
healthy, and if you don’t, well,
watch out. But our latest research
Christine
on what inﬂuences consumers to
A. Vaughan make unhealthy food choices has
and Tamara compelled us to turn that axiom
Dubowitz
on its head: You eat what you are.
Contributing
In other words, your personal
columnists
characteristics may be more
important to your diet than
where you shop and what’s available to you — a
concept that challenges the popular notion that
building supermarkets in so-called food deserts
can, by itself, help the nation’s consumers develop
better eating habits. Sure, if a supermarket is
plopped down in a food desert — an area where
it is difﬁcult to ﬁnd affordable or quality fresh
food — shoppers may come. But their weakness
for doughnuts and cookies will walk through those
automatic doors with them.
As a predictor of unhealthy food consumption,
social and demographic factors were nearly twice
as important as where a person shopped for food,
according to our recent Rand Corp. study. The
ﬁndings come from an ongoing project studying
food consumption and food shopping of residents
in two low-income Pittsburgh neighborhoods that
have long been considered food deserts.
As researchers trying to ﬁgure out ways to help
people eat better, what we found caused us to
think twice about focusing too much on providing more access to healthy choices. We needed to
grapple with a version of the nature versus nurture
debate, which had arrived in the supermarket
aisle.
In our research, we surveyed nearly 1,400 consumers about what they had eaten over the last 24
hours and how often they bought food at supermarkets, convenience stores, specialty grocery
stores and other types of food retailers. We also
took note of individual characteristics such as age
and level of education. When it came to making
unhealthy food choices, a consumer’s individual
characteristics mattered more than where they
shopped.
Young consumers were less likely to eat fruits
and vegetables, which should come as no surprise
to parents everywhere. People without college
degrees consumed signiﬁcantly more sugar-sweetened beverages and “discretionary fats,” such as
butter.
With age and education came better eating habits. Older people and college graduates ate more
fruits and vegetables.
The clear role played by these sociodemographic connections argues for proactive approaches
to help people improve the dietary choices they
make. Particularly when it comes to eating less
junk food, targeted interventions are needed in
addition to building supermarkets and stocking
them with “good for you” foods. Policymakers
should consider putting in place proven strategies
that nudge consumers to change their shopping
behaviors, such as taxing foods high in added
sugars.
In 2014, Berkeley became the ﬁrst city in the
U.S. to slap a tax on sugar-sweetened drinks — a
cent for every ounce — and consumption of such
beverages dropped by more than 20 percent. In
Mexico, an 8 percent tax on high-calorie foods
put in place the same year reduced junk food purchases by about 5 percent.
Evidence that people with lower levels of education may be more likely to reduce their consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages in the face of
such a tax also comes from Mexico. University of
North Carolina researchers found that a “soda tax”
cut purchases of sugary drinks by 7 percent, and
the greatest decrease came among households in
the lowest socioeconomic status, which was based
on education and income.
With more U.S. cities following suit — including Philadelphia; Boulder, Colo.; Seattle; and Oakland — much-needed additional research should
follow on whether these taxes effectively reduce
consumption.
More subtle strategies aimed at changing individual behaviors also could make a difference in
eating and shopping habits. In-store marketing —
where and how foods are displayed — have shown
promise in increasing the sales of healthy foods in
supermarkets in low-income neighborhoods.
Technology may also play a role. Research has
shown that just being exposed to electronically
delivered dietary feedback, including advice on
how to eat more fruits and vegetables, led to
increased consumption of such foods among
lower-income individuals with lower levels of education.
It’s imperative to ﬁgure out how to improve
Americans’ eating habits. Two-thirds of us are
overweight. And being overweight can lead to
a host of health problems, including high blood
pressure, heart disease, diabetes and stroke. Our
diets are killing us.
It’s hard to make healthy food choices if you
can’t get to a store that offers them. But what matters most is what you put in your cart once you
get there.

THEIR VIEW

Yes, democracy can hinge on a single vote
‘Tis the season to
confess error. For years
I have argued — to my
students,
to my readStephen
ers and
Carter
Contributing to lecture
audiences
columnist
— that it’s
not rational
to vote if your intention is to inﬂuence the
outcome. Following the
lead of the late economist Gordon Tullock,
I‘ve challenged them to
come up with an example of an election where
a single vote made the
difference. No one has
offered an answer.
Small wonder. The
odds against one vote
affecting the outcome,
even in a local election,
are enormous. Thus, as
I’ve always explained, if
I happen to skip an election or two — or all of
them until the day I die
— the world of politics
will not be altered by a
millionth of a millimeter.
But maybe it’s time
to rethink that, because
we now have a tie. In
the race to represent
the 94th District in the
Virginia House of Delegates, Democratic candidate Shelly Simonds and
Republican incumbent
David Yancey are tied,
at 11,608 votes each. In
the Election Day count,
Yancey was ahead by
10 votes. A recount put
Simonds ahead by one.
A panel of judges then
awarded a disputed ballet to Yancey. At stake is
the Republican Party’s
17-year dominance of
the state Legislature.
An election so close
is rare but not unheard

of. A 2002 paper by
economists Casey B.
Mulligan and Charles G.
Hunter analyzed 16,577
elections for the U.S.
House of Representatives between 1898 and
1992 and found only one
contest, in nearly a century, that was decided by
a single vote. (According to the authors’ calculations, the likelihood
that a single vote will
be pivotal in a congressional election is about
1 in 89,000.) When they
studied state legislative
elections, they found
nine more.
Close elections are a
problem. Landslides create hubris, but when the
outcome rests on a handful of votes, one side is
bound to think it’s been
robbed. There’s no way
to ﬁx this. If Smedley
beats Smithers by 100
votes, and a recount
shows Smithers up by
50, Smedley’s people
will be furious. They’ll
demand to know why
the new count is more to
be trusted than the old.
Should we do two out of
three? Five out of nine?
The loser will never be
satisﬁed. Lots of Republicans still think Norm
Coleman beat Al Franken in Minnesota’s 2008
Senate race, and lots of
Democrats still think Al
Gore rather than George
W. Bush should have
been awarded Florida’s
electoral votes back in
2000.
There’s another reason to be skeptical of
recounts. It turns out
that we don’t count
votes terribly well. A
2012 study found that

although some methods
of tabulating ballots are
better than others, we
can generally expect
an error rate of 1 to 2
percent. Although we
can’t predict which way
the errors will fall, it’s
unlikely that they will
sum precisely to zero
— in other words, there
will always be mistakes.
So each time we count,
we can expect a different result. The defeated
side’s partisans will
never believe the count
was fair, and although
they’ll be right, their
grumbling about the
matter will affect their
view of how well electoral democracy works.
That can’t be a good
thing.
One way to avoid this
difﬁculty would be to
hold not a recount but a
new election whenever
the victor prevails by,
say, less than one half of
1 percent. This admittedly expensive solution
might yield a clearer
outcome, should lots of
those who stayed home
the ﬁrst time now see
the virtue of turning out
(or vice versa, one supposes).
An easier way to avoid
the grumbling is perhaps
harder: The candidate
who is defeated on election night could simply
accept the result, even
in a very close race. The
graceful concession by
Republican incumbent
Kelly Ayotte, who on
election night in 2016
was declared to have
lost her U.S. Senate seat
in New Hampshire to
Democrat Maggie Hassan by a bit over a tenth

of a percentage point,
provided a ﬁne example
that others might follow. Ayotte would have
been within her rights
to demand a recount,
and one was expected.
Instead, she spared her
state that ordeal, allowing Hassan to begin her
term without any taint.
By conceding, Ayotte
strengthened rather than
weakened democracy.
Meanwhile, back in
the Virginia 94th, the
next step is a random
drawing. This might
seem a bizarre way
to break the tie, but
it’s what Virginia law
prescribes, and election authorities have
announced their intention to follow the rules.
They plan to hold a
drawing of lots shortly
after Christmas Day.
Actually, we’ve been
here before. In 1994, a
state legislative race in
Wisconsin ended in a
tie. Republican Randall
Luthi was declared the
victor over independent Larry Call after a
pingpong ball with his
name on it was drawn
out of a hat. The winner later called the outcome “democracy at its
best.” He was wrong, of
course. But anything’s
better than counting the
ballots again.
Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg
View columnist. He is a professor
of law at Yale University and was
a clerk to U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Thurgood Marshall. His
novels include “The Emperor of
Ocean Park” and “Back Channel,”
and his nonfiction includes
“Civility” and “Integrity.” This
column does not necessarily
reflect the opinion of the editorial
board or Bloomberg LP and its
owners.

THEIR VIEW

RIP, Dick Enberg: broadcasting genius, great guy
This editorial recently appeared in The San
Diego Union-Tribune:
San Diego, the nation
and the world lost a
giant Thursday with
the passing of Dick
Enberg at his La Jolla
home. A powerful case
can be made that the
82-year-old was the
greatest all-around
sports broadcaster who
ever lived. Whether it
was college basketball,

major league baseball,
tennis, college and pro
football, boxing, golf or
the Olympics, Enberg
was smooth, thoughtful
and knowledgeable — a
perfect host who helped
his color analysts shine,
one with none of the
look-at-me, look-at-me
antics of some current
announcers.
But as the tributes
from people in and out
of sports rolled in on

Friday, it was striking
to see that Enberg was
praised as much for his
personal warmth and
generous spirit as for
his brilliance behind
the microphone. ESPN
hosts Chris Fowler and
Scott Van Pelt each
noted how they had met
Enberg as kids and were
taken by his graciousness and approachability. Many, many San
Diegans have had such

experiences.
Enberg is among
the most honored
broadcasters ever, with
awards from the pro
football, basketball and
baseball halls of fame,
multiple broadcasting
halls of fame and more.
If there were a hall of
fame for being a great
human being, he would
get in on the ﬁrst ballot.
May Dick Enberg rest
in peace.

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Tuesday, December 26, 2017 5

OVB furthers plans to develop downtown Gallipolis
Staff Report

OVB | Courtesy

Picture of representatives from Ohio Valley Bank and Gallia County CIC taken immediately after the “Sold” sign was hung. Back row L-R: Bob Foster, CIC; Jeff Smith,
Chairman, Ohio Valley Bank; Tom Wiseman, President and CEO, Ohio Valley Bank; Josh Bodimer, President, CIC; Jenni Swain, project committee, Ohio Valley Bank; Jenny
Shaffer, project committee, Ohio Valley Bank; Scott Shockey, Chief Financial Officer, Ohio Valley Bank; Larry Miller, Executive Vice President, Ohio Valley Bank. Front row:
Robby Jenkins, CIC; Gene Johnson, CIC; Tony Gallagher, President, Gallipolis City Commission; and Tammy Brabham, CIC.

TODAY
8 AM

WEATHER

2 PM

23°

30°

25°

Frigid today with clouds and sun. Mostly cloudy
and frigid tonight. High 33° / Low 12°

HEALTH TODAY

Statistics through 3 p.m. yesterday

AccuWeather.com Asthma Index™

Temperature

The AccuWeather.com Asthma
Index combines the effects of current air quality, pollen counts, wind,
temperature, dew point, barometric
pressure, and changes from past weather
conditions to provide a scale showing the overall
probability and severity of an asthma attack.

Precipitation

31°/22°
43°/27°
76° in 1982
-9° in 1983

24 hours ending 3 p.m. yest.
0.04
Month to date/normal
2.30/2.70
Year to date/normal
45.45/41.98

Snowfall

(in inches)

The AccuWeather.com Cold
Index combines the effects of local
weather with a number of demographic factors to provide a scale
showing the overall probability of transmission
and symptom severity of the common cold.

2

24 hours ending 3 p.m. yest.
0.1
Month to date/normal
0.1/2.7
Season to date/normal
0.2/3.5

WEATHER TRIVIA™

SUN &amp; MOON

Q: What was the largest ice accumulation from freezing rain?
Wed.
7:46 a.m.
5:14 p.m.
1:21 p.m.
1:18 a.m.

MOON PHASES
First

Dec 26

Full

Jan 1

Last

Jan 8

New

Jan 16

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

Today
Wed.
Thu.
Fri.
Sat.
Sun.
Mon.

Major
5:36a
6:21a
7:07a
7:54a
8:43a
9:37a
10:35a

Minor
11:47a
12:11a
12:54a
1:40a
2:29a
3:22a
4:19a

Major
5:59p
6:46p
7:32p
8:21p
9:12p
10:08p
11:07p

Minor
---12:33p
1:20p
2:07p
2:58p
3:52p
4:51p

WEATHER HISTORY
Miami, Fla., was in the grip of a cold
snap on Dec. 26, 1983. The 33-degree low temperature was a record
for December. It was cold again two
years later, when Miami’s low was 38
degrees on the same date.

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

A: 8 inches. Northern Idaho in January
1961

Today
7:46 a.m.
5:13 p.m.
12:49 p.m.
12:16 a.m.

Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset

THURSDAY

AIR QUALITY

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

0 50 100 150 200

300

Chillicothe
24/6

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

Source: Hamilton County Department of
Environmental Services

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

Flood
24-hr.
Location
Stage Level Chg.
Willow Island
37 13.02 +0.24
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34 18.35 +1.80
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36 22.41 +1.23
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41 12.88 +0.67
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50 12.99 -0.22
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pany, Ohio Valley Banc
Corp., also owns Loan
Central, a consumer
ﬁnance company specializing in expert tax
preparation and loans.
Common stock for Ohio
Valley Banc Corp. is
traded on The NASDAQ
Global Market under
the symbol OVBC. More
information can be
found at Ohio Valley
Bank’s Web site at www.
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ible outpouring of
community interest in
the project, OVB has
created an email list for
news and updates. To
receive email updates
on the downtown Gallipolis project, sign up
at http://bit.ly/projectovb. Updates will also
be posted at the project
site, OVB’s Facebook
page and website, and
provided to local media.
Ohio Valley Bank,
established in 1872,
operates 19 ofﬁces in
Ohio and West Virginia.
The Bank’s parent com-

ultimate goal of bringing this piece of history
back to life. The project
will include an expansion to the existing
building. The ﬁnished
property will not be a
working branch, but will
house administrative
ofﬁces for the growing
ﬁnancial institution as
well as a large community event space overlooking the Gallipolis
City Park.
Ohio Valley Bank
President and CEO Tom
Wiseman announced
that due to an incred-

purchase of the two lots
back in 2016.”
Ohio Valley Bank’s
plans for the project
include renovation of
the building on the corner of Second Avenue
and State Street. OVB
originally built the
building in 1896. At
the time, it was the tallest building in Gallia
County. In recent years,
the bank was able to
buy the building back
and has since worked
toward stabilizing the
structure and stopping
further damage with the

year 2016 to get it put
together and done. It
makes it all worth it seeing the positive impact
potential this will create
with a sustainable, high
foot trafﬁc anchor in the
heart of our downtown
area. I personally feel
we are blessed as a community to have so many
people who have a true
yearning to invest time,
money, and resources
into this community. I’d
like to thank the City
of Gallipolis and the
private owner for working with us on the initial

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GALLIPOLIS, Ohio
— Ohio Valley Bank has
announced the closing
of a deal to purchase
vacant property on Second Avenue in Gallipolis
along the park front.
The property appears
to be one, but is actually two lots that were
owned by the Gallia
County Community
Improvement Corporation (CIC) and sold
in an effort to further
develop the downtown.
As part of its Community First mission, Ohio
Valley Bank plans to
incorporate the vacant
property into its current renovation project
for the historic corner
of Second Avenue and
State Street.
“We are pumped about
the Ohio Valley Bank
purchase of our two
Second Avenue lots and
the bank’s multi-million
dollar future investment
into our community.
They are an enormous
asset to not only this
county but this entire
region. OVB is truly a
community ﬁrst bank
and organization and
our group, CIC, is proud
and honored to have
been a part of this development,” said Josh Bodimer, president of the
Gallia County CIC. “The
initial purchase of the
two lots by the CIC from
part City of Gallipolis
and part private ownership was a complicated
deal that took us nearly
three quarters of the

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Lady Falcons soar past Meigs, 58-34
By Bryan Walters

ond quarter points for Meigs,
but the Red and Gray still made
a 14-10 run that resulted in a
31-18 advantage at the break.
ALBANY, Ohio — ApparThe Lady Falcons never
ently good things don’t always
looked back from there as Ashcome in threes.
ley Blankenship and Hannah
The Meigs girls basketball
Tolle combined for 13 points
team dropped its third conas part of a 17-8 third period
secutive decision on Saturday
afternoon following a 58-34 set- surge, allowing Minford to
secure a 48-26 cushion headed
back to unbeaten Minford in a
non-conference matchup at the into the ﬁnale.
Blankenship added another
2017 Spartan Tip-Off Classic
held at Alexander High School. six points in the fourth during
a small 10-8 run that wrapped
The Lady Marauders (4-5)
mustered single digits in three up the 24-point outcome.
Meigs made 14 total ﬁeld
of the four quarters played
against the Lady Falcons (9-0), goals — including six threepointers — and also missed its
and the Maroon and Gold
found themselves in a 17-8 hole lone free throw attempt.
Madison Field and Kassidy
through eight minutes of play.
Becca Pullins scored six sec- Betzing led the Lady Maraud-

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MHS junior Becca Pullins lines up a three-pointer, during the Lady Marauders’
win over River Valley on Dec. 14 in Rocksprings, Ohio.

ers with eight points apiece,
followed by Devin Humphreys
with seven markers — all of
which came in the second half.
Pullins was next with six
points, while Marissa Noble
and Madison Hendricks respectively rounded things out with
three and two points.
Minford netted 20 total
ﬁeld goals — including three
trifectas — and also went 6-of13 at the charity stripe for 46
percent.
Blankenship — who was held
scoreless in the ﬁrst quarter —
led the way with a game-high
19 points, followed by Erin
Daniels with 11 markers.
Marissa Risner and Caitlyn
See FALCONS | 7

Wildcats fend
off Southern in
Meigs, 60-56
By Bryan Walters
bwalters@aimmediamidwest.com

RACINE, Ohio — Just a little too late.
The Southern boys basketball team overcame
an 18-point third quarter deﬁcit and tied things
up with 39 seconds left in regulation, but visiting
Waterford ultimately answered the bell down the
stretch and claimed 60-56 victory on Friday night
a Tri-Valley Conference Hocking Division matchup
in Meigs County.
The host Tornadoes (5-2, 3-2 TVC Hocking)
found themselves in a battle early on as the Wildcats (4-2, 4-1) jumped out to a small 13-12 ﬁrst
quarter advantage, but the Green and White made
their big charge of the night with a 20-10 second
quarter run that gave the guests a comfortable
33-22 cushion at the break.
WHS carried that momentum into the early
moments of the third after scoring seven consecutive points to secure its largest lead of the night at
40-22, but then SHS found its rhythm and did it
best to make things quite interesting.
Southern countered with a 10-7 run over the
rest of the third canto to close the gap down to
47-32 headed into the ﬁnale, then the hosts made
an improbable 23-9 charge over seven-plus minutes to knot things up at 56-all with 39 seconds
remaining.
The Tornadoes had possession and missed a
potential lead-taking shot, which Waterford gathered in and eventually turned into two points for a
58-56 edge.
The hosts then went for the win on their next
offensive series after launching an unsuccessful
trifecta with three seconds remaining. The Wildcats hauled in the carom before being fouled, then
converted a pair of free throws to secure the ﬁnal
four-point outcome.
The Purple and Gold connected on 20-of-60
ﬁeld goal attempts for 33 percent, including a 9-of25 effort from three-point range for 36 percent.
The hosts were also 7-of-11 at the free throw line
for 64 percent.
Weston Thorla led SHS with 17 points, with
nine of those coming in the ﬁnal stanza. Dylan
Smith and Colton Parker were next with 13 points
apiece, while Austin Baker contributed six markers.
Jensen Anderson and Brayden Cunningham
completed the Tornado tally with ﬁve and two
points, respectively.
Southern hauled in 22 total rebounds — including eight offensive boards — while also accumulating 11 assists and six steals as a team. The hosts
also committed nine turnovers in the setback.
See WILDCATS | 7

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Wahama junior Dakota Belcher, right, releases a shot attempt over a South Gallia defender during the first half of Friday night’s TVC
Hocking boys basketball contest in Mercerville, Ohio.

Wahama rallies past Rebels, 49-48
By Bryan Walters

Wahama only its third
lead of the night at 49-48.
The Red and Gold had
MERCERVILLE, Ohio two different chances to
— It had more twists and pull out the win over the
ﬁnal seconds of the game,
turns than even a rollerbut both attempts came
coaster enthusiast could
up short — allowing the
enjoy.
White Falcons to sneak
Wahama led only 1:24
over the course of 32 min- away with their ﬁrst triutes, but the guests found umph of the season.
Despite committing
a way to lead when it
mattered most on Friday 19 of the 27 turnovers
in the contest, Wahama
night following a 49-48
managed to claw its way
victory over the South
back into things by conGallia boys basketball
team in a Tri-Valley Con- verting in two key areas.
ference Hocking Division The White Falcons made
matchup of winless teams one more ﬁeld goal than
SGHS in 13 fewer chancin Gallia County.
es and also performed
The White Falcons
better at the free throw
(1-4, 1-3 TVC Hocking)
scored the ﬁrst basket of line.
Given the way that
the game, but the Rebels
(0-5, 0-3) answered with things ended up playing
out, WHS coach Ron
15 consecutive points
Bradley was thrilled to
while building their
get out of South Gallia
largest lead of the night
with a victory.
(15-2) ﬁve minutes into
The ﬁfth-year mentor
regulation.
noted that not only did
From there, the Red
his troops show real signs
and White never led
of growth, but it took
again until early in the
a collective effort from
fourth canto — but the
everyone to fend off a
hosts quickly countered
solid performance by the
by establishing a fourRebels.
point cushion at 48-44
“We did exactly what
with 2:02 left.
we needed to do once we
WHS, however, got a
got down early. We didn’t
big three-pointer from
panic and we just kept
Skyler Estep at the 1:43
mark to close to within a chipping away. You know,
we didn’t lead much …
single point, then Noah
Litchﬁeld knocked down but we led when it counta near-impossible jumper ed the most,” Bradley
said. “We still made a lot
in the lane with 18 secof mistakes and gave up a
onds remaining to give

bwalters@aimmediamidwest.com

South Gallia sophomore Austin Day releases a shot attempt over
a Wahama defender during the second half of Friday night’s TVC
Hocking boys basketball contest in Mercerville, Ohio.

lot of offensive rebounds,
but we did a lot better job
of things in the second
half … again, when we
had to have it.
“It was a hard-fought
game, and give South
Gallia a ton of credit
because they kids played
their hearts out too. It
was a great ball game to
be involved in, but I’m
glad we were able to get
out on the winning end of
this one.”
Both teams hauled

in 26 rebounds on the
night, with the hosts
claiming a 16-11 edge on
the offensive glass. Each
squad also made 13 twopointers in the contest,
with Wahama’s extra ﬁeld
goal coming from behind
the arc.
The White Falcons
were also 5-of-7 at the
free throw line for 71
percent, while the hosts
connected on only half of
See WAHAMA | 7

�SPORTS

Daily Sentinel

Tuesday, December 26, 2017 7

NBA
All Times EST
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W
Boston
27
Toronto
23
New York
17
Philadelphia
15
Brooklyn
12
Southeast Division
W
Washington
18
Miami
17
Charlotte
12
Orlando
11
Atlanta
8
Central Division
W
Cleveland
24
Indiana
19
Detroit
18
Milwaukee
17
Chicago
10
Southwest Division
W
Houston
25
San Antonio
23
New Orleans
17
Memphis
10
Dallas
9
Northwest Division
W
Minnesota
20
Oklahoma City 18
Denver
18
Portland
17
Utah
15
Pacific Division
W
Golden State
27
L.A. Clippers
13
L.A. Lakers
11
Sacramento
11
Phoenix
12

L
9
8
16
18
20

Pct
.750
.742
.515
.455
.375

GB
—
1½
8½
10½
13

L10
5-5
9-1
6-4
2-8
4-6

Str
W-1
W-6
L-2
W-1
L-1

Home
14-4
12-1
15-6
7-9
7-10

Away
13-5
11-7
2-10
8-9
5-10

Conf
17-7
12-4
9-12
7-9
6-11

L
15
16
21
23
25

Pct
.545
.515
.364
.324
.242

GB
—
1
6
7½
10

L10
6-4
6-4
3-7
1-9
3-7

Str
W-1
L-1
W-1
L-8
W-1

Home
10-6
7-8
10-9
6-9
5-11

Away
8-9
10-8
2-12
5-14
3-14

Conf
8-8
10-8
7-13
6-13
5-18

L
10
14
14
14
22

Pct
GB
L10
Str
.706
—
7-3
L-1
.576
4½
7-3
W-2
.563
5
4-6
W-1
.548
5½
5-5
L-1
.313
13
7-3
L-2
WESTERN CONFERENCE

Home
14-4
11-7
10-5
11-5
7-8

Away
10-6
8-7
8-9
6-9
3-14

Conf
18-7
14-8
11-9
7-9
9-10

L
6
11
16
23
25

Pct
.806
.676
.515
.303
.265

GB
—
3½
9
16
17½

L10
8-2
7-3
5-5
2-8
2-8

Str
L-2
W-1
W-2
W-1
L-2

Home
13-5
15-2
8-7
7-12
7-11

Away
12-1
8-9
9-9
3-11
2-14

Conf
14-4
13-7
9-12
9-12
6-16

L Pct
13 .606
15 .545
15 .545
16 .515
19 .441

GB
—
2
2
3
5½

L10
7-3
7-3
5-5
4-6
2-8

Str
W-3
W-4
W-2
W-1
L-1

Home
11-6
12-4
11-3
7-10
12-6

Away
9-7
6-11
7-12
10-6
3-13

Conf
17-6
10-9
9-10
9-10
9-10

L
7
19
20
21
23

GB
—
13
14½
15
15½

L10
9-1
5-5
3-7
4-6
3-7

Str
W-1
L-1
L-2
L-1
L-1

Home
13-4
7-7
6-9
5-8
5-13

Away
14-3
6-12
5-11
6-13
7-10

Conf
14-5
9-11
5-13
7-9
7-13

Pct
.794
.406
.355
.344
.343

___
Sunday’s Games
No games scheduled.
Monday’s Games
Philadelphia 105, New York 98
Golden State 99, Cleveland 92
Washington at Boston, 5:30 p.m.
Houston at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.
Minnesota at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.
Tuesday’s Games
Indiana at Detroit, 7 p.m.
Toronto at Dallas, 7 p.m.
Orlando at Miami, 7:30 p.m.
Chicago at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.
Brooklyn at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.
Memphis at Phoenix, 9 p.m.
Utah at Denver, 9 p.m.
Sacramento at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games
Boston at Charlotte, 7 p.m.
Dallas at Indiana, 7 p.m.
Washington at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.
Brooklyn at New Orleans, 8 p.m.
Denver at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
New York at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Toronto at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.
Cleveland at Sacramento, 10 p.m.
Memphis at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.
Utah at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Detroit at Orlando, 7 p.m.
Houston at Boston, 8 p.m.
Minnesota at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.
New York at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.
Philadelphia at Portland, 10:30 p.m.

East

y-Pittsburgh
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Cleveland
West
y-Kansas City
L.A. Chargers
Oakland
Denver

W
12
8
6
5

L
3
7
9
10

T Pct PF PA Home
0 .800 432 290 5-2-0
0 .533 280 343 6-2-0
0 .400 265 371 4-3-0
0 .333 292 356 4-4-0

Away
7-1-0
2-5-0
2-6-0
1-6-0

AFC
9-2-0
6-5-0
5-6-0
5-6-0

NFC
3-1-0
2-2-0
1-3-0
0-4-0

Div
4-1-0
2-3-0
2-3-0
2-3-0

W
10
8
4
3

L
5
7
11
12

T Pct
0 .667
0 .533
0 .267
0 .200

PF
407
319
325
241

PA Home
253 6-2-0
346 5-2-0
414 3-5-0
391 2-5-0

Away
4-3-0
3-5-0
1-6-0
1-7-0

AFC
9-2-0
7-4-0
3-8-0
2-9-0

NFC
1-3-0
1-3-0
1-3-0
1-3-0

Div
4-1-0
4-1-0
1-4-0
1-4-0

W
12
9
6
0

L
3
6
9
15

T
0
0
0
0

PF
378
368
259
210

PA Home
284 5-2-0
272 5-2-0
322 4-4-0
382 0-8-0

Away
AFC
7-1-0 9-2-0
4-4-0 7-4-0
2-5-0 5-6-0
0-7-0 0-11-0

NFC
3-1-0
2-2-0
1-3-0
0-4-0

Div
5-0-0
3-2-0
2-3-0
0-5-0

W
9
8
6
5

L
6
7
8
10

T Pct PF PA Home Away
0 .600 388 315 6-2-0 3-4-0
0 .533 325 262 4-3-0 4-4-0
0 .429 281 324 4-4-0 2-4-0
0 .333 265 355 4-3-0 1-7-0
NATIONAL CONFERENCE

AFC
7-4-0
5-6-0
5-6-0
4-7-0

NFC
2-2-0
3-1-0
1-2-0
1-3-0

Div
4-1-0
2-3-0
2-3-0
2-3-0

Away
NFC
6-2-0 10-1-0
5-2-0 6-5-0
2-5-0 5-6-0
1-7-0 0-11-0

AFC
2-1-0
2-2-0
2-2-0
2-2-0

Div
5-0-0
4-1-0
1-4-0
0-5-0

Pct
.800
.600
.400
.000

East
W L T
y-Philadelphia 12 2 0
Dallas
8 7 0
Washington
7 8 0
N.Y. Giants
2 13 0
South
W L T
x-New Orleans 11 4 0
x-Carolina
11 4 0
Atlanta
9 6 0
Tampa Bay
4 11 0
North
W L T
y-Minnesota
12 3 0
Detroit
8 7 0
Green Bay
7 8 0
Chicago
5 10 0
West
W L T
y-L.A. Rams
11 4 0
Seattle
9 6 0
Arizona
7 8 0
San Francisco 5 10 0
x-clinched playoff spot
y-clinched division

PA Home
279 6-0-0
332 3-5-0
370 5-3-0
378 1-6-0

Pct
.857
.533
.467
.133

PF
438
348
332
228

Pct
.733
.733
.600
.267

PF PA Home
424 295 7-1-0
353 305 6-2-0
331 305 4-3-0
304 358 3-4-0

Away
4-3-0
5-2-0
5-3-0
1-7-0

NFC
8-3-0
7-4-0
8-3-0
2-9-0

AFC
3-1-0
4-0-0
1-3-0
2-2-0

Div
4-1-0
3-2-0
3-2-0
0-5-0

Pct
.800
.533
.467
.333

PF
359
375
309
254

Away
NFC
6-2-0 9-2-0
5-3-0 7-4-0
3-4-0 5-6-0
2-5-0 1-10-0

AFC
3-1-0
1-3-0
2-2-0
4-0-0

Div
4-1-0
4-1-0
2-3-0
0-5-0

Pct
.733
.600
.467
.333

PF PA Home
465 295 4-3-0
342 306 4-3-0
269 337 5-3-0
297 370 3-5-0

Away
7-1-0
5-3-0
2-5-0
2-5-0

AFC
4-0-0
2-2-0
3-1-0
3-1-0

Div
4-1-0
4-1-0
2-3-0
0-5-0

PA Home
242 6-1-0
365 3-4-0
349 4-4-0
297 3-5-0

NFC
7-4-0
7-4-0
4-7-0
2-9-0

grader at the time the
streak started — played
a big role in ending the
skid after producing a
double-double effort
MASON, W.Va. —
of 18 points and 14
The streak is ﬁnally
rebounds, both of which
over.
were game-highs.
The Wahama girls
Gibbs scored four
basketball team snapped
an almost ﬁve-year-long points in each of the
ﬁrst two quarters, then
league losing skid on
tacked on another eight
Thursday night following a 40-28 victory over points in the third canto
that allowed the hosts
visiting Trimble in a
to take a commanding
Tri-Valley Conference
36-23 cushion into the
Hocking Division contest at Gary Clark Court ﬁnale.
THS won the fourth
in Mason County.
quarter by a small 5-4
The Lady Falcons
(2-5, 1-5 TVC Hocking) margin, but Wahama’s
hadn’t enjoyed a league large cushion ultimately
proved to be too much
triumph since postfor the guests to overing a 53-48 home win
come.
over Southern back on
The Lady Falcons
January 14, 2013 — a
built a 9-5 edge after
stretch that covered
eight minutes of play,
74 TVC Hocking contests between then and then Hannah Rose
chipped in seven second
Thursday night.
quarter points during a
The hosts, however,
15-7 surge that allowed
showed signs of real
progress as the Red and the hosts to take a 24-12
advantage into the
White outscored the
Lady Tomcats (1-6, 1-4) intermission.
Wahama, behind eight
in each of the ﬁrst three
quarters while snapping points from Gibbs,
made a slim 12-11 third
an almost half-decadequarter run to secure a
long streak of misery.
13-point cushion headed
Freshman Emma
into the fourth.
Gibbs — who would
Afterwards, WHS
have been a fourth-

coach John Arnott was
very pleased to have
such a colossal monkey
off the program’s back.
He also noted it’s a heck
of a way to start the
holiday season.
“It’s a great Christmas
present for a group of
kids that have worked
really hard,” Arnott
said with a smile. “The
girls have never quit
through all of this and
they never let the game
get away from them
tonight. They put the
effort in tonight and
they got the job done.
“Some of the underclassmen didn’t know
how long this streak
had been going on. Honestly, these kids may not
know how much of burden that this streak was,
but now it’s out of the
way. We’ll enjoy this one
for now, but we need to
come back focused and
ready to play like we did
tonight. We can have a
few more of these this
year if we come ready to
compete.”
The Lady Falcons
made 18 total ﬁeld goals
— including two trifectas — and also went
2-of-4 at the free throw
line for 50 percent.

Rose followed Gibbs
with 11 points and
Harley Roush chipped
in ﬁve points to the winning cause. Elizabeth
Mullins, Victoria VanMatre and Gracie VanMeter completed the
Lady Falcon tally with
two points apiece.
The Lady Tomcats
netted 10 total ﬁeld
goals — including a trio
of three-pointers — and
also sank 5-of-10 charity
tosses for 50 percent.
Sydney Hardy and
Kym Williams paced
the guests with seven
points apiece, followed
by Skylar Moore with
six markers. Breanna
Brammer was next with
ﬁve points, while Calen
Campbell and Kaitlyn
Spears completed the
scoring with respective
efforts of two points
and one point.
Wahama — which has
now matched last year’s
win total — returns to
action Friday (Dec. 29)
when it hosts Hannan
as part of girls-boys varsity doubleheader. The
girls contest will begin
at 6 p.m.

Wahama

the ﬁnal 2:49 to close
to within 19-14 through
eight minutes of play.
The Rebels answered
with an 8-4 start to the
second canto for a 27-18
lead with 4:34 left, but
the guests responded
with 10-5 spurt that
resulted in a 32-28 halftime deﬁcit.
South Gallia’s largest
lead of the second half
came at 38-29 following
a Hardy bucket at the
5:06 mark of the third,
but Wahama countered
with an 11-2 surge over
the ﬁnal 4:49 to knot
things up at 40-all headed into the ﬁnale.
The guests claimed
their second lead of the
night at 42-40 following
a Belcher basket at the
5:36 mark, then SGHS
reeled off four straight
points before Wahama
answered to tie things
again at 44-all with 4:29
remaining.
Austin Day and Hardy
converted consecutive
ﬁeld goals to give the
Rebels a 48-44 cushion
with 2:02 left, then went
scoreless the rest of the
way.
Wahama connected
on 19-of-43 ﬁeld goal
attempts for 44 percent,
including a 6-of-13 effort
from three-point range
for 46 percent. The
hosts, conversely, netted
18-of-56 shot attempts
for 32 percent, including a 5-of-20 effort from
behind the arc for 25
percent.
Litchﬁeld led the

White Falcons with a
game-high 20 points,
followed by Tyler
Bumgarner with eight
points and Belcher with
six markers. Isaiah Pauley was next with ﬁve
points, while Estep and
Anthony Ortiz each contributed three points.
Abram Pauley and
Jacob Warth completed
the winning score with
two markers apiece.
Belcher hauled in a
team-best nine rebounds
and Litchﬁeld also
grabbed ﬁve caroms.
Ellis paced the Rebels
with 14 points, followed
by Hardy with a dozen
and Day with 10 markers. Stapleton was next
with six points, Curtis
Haner added four points
and Bryce Nolan completed the scoring with
two markers.
Day led the hosts with
nine boards, while Hardy
and Ellis each collected
six rebounds in the setback.
Wahama returns to
action Wednesday and
Thursday at the Wirt
County Tournament,
then hosts Hannan on
Friday night at 7:30 p.m.
South Gallia returns to
action Wednesday when
it hosts Federal Hocking
in a makeup TVC Hocking contest at 7 p.m. The
Rebels will then host
Ohio Valley Christian on
Friday.

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Wildcats

Wyatt Lang led WHS
with a game-high 21
points, followed by Travis
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Pottmeyer with 19 points
and Bryce Hilverding
with 13 markers. Austin
Trey McNickle led
Pyatt and Peyton SteSouthern with eight
rebounds and four assists, phens completed the winwhile Smith grabbed four ning tally with respective
efforts of four and three
caroms and also added
points.
four assists. Thorla and
Southern returns to
Baker also came away
action Wednesday when
with two steals apiece.
it hosts Ravenswood in a
The Wildcats made 20
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ing four three-pointers — 7 p.m.
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Falcons

looked back while claiming the 10-point triumph.
Pullins led the hosts
with 22 points, followed
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by Betzing with 11 points
and Noble with seven
Puckett were next with
nine points apiece, while markers. Morgan Bentley
paced VCHS with a gameTolle chipped in eight
markers. Maddie Slusher high 23 points.
The Lady Marauders
completed the winning
return to action on Friday
tally with two points.
and Saturday when they
Meigs also dropped a
66-56 decision to visiting travel to Marietta College
Vinton County on Thurs- for a pair of tournament
contests. MHS will face
day night in Tri-Valley
Conference Ohio Division Shaw on Friday at 4:30
p.m., then take on Mariaction.
etta on Saturday at 11:15
The Maroon and Gold
trailed 32-27 at the break, a.m.
but the Lady Vikings
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their 14 charity tosses
— including misses
on all four of their free
throws in the ﬁnale.
Those little things
— according to SGHS
coach Kent Wolfe — ultimately ruined an otherwise solid performance
by the Red and Gold, as
did Litchﬁeld’s gamewinner in the closing
moments of regulation.
“We knew Litchﬁeld
was going to get the
ball, and he made a great
shot because we were all
over him. I think it was
between a triple-team,”
Wolfe said. “We had a
play set up if Wahama
scored and we ran it to
perfection, outside of the
shot just not going in.
“Our kids played hard
and they showed a lot
of guts, but it ultimately
came down to the free
throw line. It’s a tough
one to swallow for us,
being our home opener,
because our effort
was great. Hat’s off to
Wahama and their effort
tonight too. We just have
to regroup and get ready
for the next one.”
Trailing 48-47,
Wahama came out of a
timeout with 33.4 seconds left and got the ball
to Litchﬁeld at the top
of the key. The senior
had the ball knocked
away by a defender, but
recovered and drove

inside the lane to his left
— where a trio of Rebels
were waiting for him
with arms extended.
Litchﬁeld, somehow,
managed to get a contested shot off as he was
bumped in the lane —
and the ball ended up
going through hoop with
18 seconds remaining.
South Gallia inbounded the ball to Austin Stapleton, who crossed midcourt and passed the ball
over to Braxton Hardy
at the top of the key.
Stapleton cut through
the lane and ended up
alone in the left corner,
with the White Falcons
clearly focused on where
Hardy and Eli Ellis were
on the ﬂoor.
Hardy ended up delivering the ball to a wideopen Stapleton in the
corner, and the senior
released a practically
uncontested trifecta that
rolled in and out of the
rim and into the arms
of Wahama’s Dakota
Belcher — who was
fouled with 3.6 seconds
left.
Belcher missed the
front end of the 1-and-1
opportunity, and Hardy
grabbed the rebound.
Hardy took a handful
of dribbles to the right
side of midcourt and
launched a desperation
trifecta — but the shot
never drew iron as the
ﬁnal horn sounded.
After falling behind by
13 points early on, the
White Falcons answered
with a 12-4 run over

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Wellston
Bengals eliminate Lions, 26-17
gets past
Marauders
By Alex Hawley
ahawley@aimmediamidwest.com

ROCKSPRINGS, Ohio — So close, but yet still
so far.
The Meigs Boys basketball team cut its deﬁcit
to three points headed into the fourth quarter of
Friday night’s Tri-Valley Conference Ohio Division
matchup inside Larry R. Morrison Gymnasium,
but visiting Wellston poured in 18 points over the
ﬁnal eight minutes to escape Meigs County with a
67-58 victory.
The Marauders (0-9, 0-4) fell behind by six
points after the opening period, with the Golden
Rockets (4-3, 2-2) taking a 22-16 lead into the
second. Meigs hit a trio of three-pointers in the
second quarter, but were still outscored by a 16-13
clip, giving Wellston a 38-29 halftime advantage.
The Maroon and Gold outscored WHS by a
17-11 tally in the third period, cutting the Rocket
lead to 49-46 headed into the ﬁnale. The guests
capped off the 67-56 victory with an 18-to-12 run,
scoring half of their fourth quarter points from the
charity stripe.
For the game, Meigs shot 21-of-54 (38.9) from
the ﬁeld, including 5-of-13 (38.5 percent) from
three-point range. The Marauders were 11-of-14
(78.6 percent) from the free throw line, where the
Golden Rockets were 13-of-28 (46.4 percent).
As a team, MHS recorded 24 rebounds, nine of
which came on the offensive end. Collectively, the
Marauders totalled 10 assists, eight steals, one
rejection and nine turnovers.
Christian Mattox and Weston Baer led the
Maroon and Gold with 18 points apiece, including
a trio of three-pointers by Mattox and two triples
by Baer. Zach Bartrum scored 16 points in the
setback, half of which came from the free throw
line. Bobby Musser and Wyatt Hoover rounded
out the Marauder total with four and two points
respectively.
Bartrum led the hosts on the boards with nine
rebounds, followed by Baer with six. Bartrum also
ﬁnished with a team-high seven assists, while Baer
led the defense with three steals. Musser came up
with the lone rejection in for Meigs.
Wellston was led by Eddie Smith and Matt
Simpson with 17 points apiece, followed by Jordan
Lucas with 12 and Decota McKenzie with 11. Jase
Arthur and Michael Graham capped off the winning total with ﬁve points each.
The Marauders will have a chance to avenge this
setback on Feb. 2 at WHS.
Meigs returns to action on Friday at Marietta
College, where they will take on Wood County
Christian.
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No. 10 WVU beats
Fordham, 86-69
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Jevon Carter
and Sagaba Konate had double-doubles to lead
No. 10 West Virginia to its picked up his second
double-double 11th straight victory, 86-69 over
Fordham on Saturday.
The Mountaineers (11-1) started out a little
sluggish but managed a 16-point lead with 4 minutes left in the ﬁrst half.
Mountaineers coach Bob Huggins wasn’t
impressed with the win.
“We played bad and scored 86,” Huggins said.
“That’s not a bad deal when you play really bad
and score 86, and we played bad. Played bad, shot
it bad, passed it bad.”
Carter had 10 points and a career-high 12
assists and Konate ﬁnished with 12 points and 11
rebounds, both getting their second double-double
of the season.
Daxter Miles Jr. led the Mountaineers with 21
points and Lamont West added 15.
“(We’ve) got to turn it up (for Big 12 play),”
Miles said. “(It’s) different level competition and
guys need to be ready to play.”
Will Tavares led Fordham with 18 points and
seven rebounds, while Joseph Chartouny added 16
points.
“We did do some good things offensively,” Rams
coach Jeff Neubauer said. “We just didn’t do 40
minutes of good things.”

CINCINNATI (AP) —
Matthew Stafford made a
right-hand turn out of the
visitors’ locker room and
headed into the gloomy
night with yet another
long offseason soon to
follow. With everything
on the line, the Lions
came up short again.
Stafford and the Lions
couldn’t take advantage of
a down-and-out team to
stay in playoff contention
Sunday. Giovani Bernard
ran for 116 yards and a
clinching touchdown that
sent Cincinnati to a 26-17
victory, a good moment
for Marvin Lewis in possibly his ﬁnal home game
as Bengals coach.
Nothing good for the
Lions (8-7) , who ended
their playoff chances in
appropriate form. After
rallying for a fourthquarter lead, they selfdestructed and let it all
slip away.
“It’s not fun when you
get eliminated,” said Stafford , who was only 19 of
35 for 203 yards with a
touchdown and an interception. “It’s not fun.”
Detroit repeatedly
wasted chances to move
to the thick of the playoff
chase during the season.
It still had an opportunity
to extend its hopes for
one more week after Tion
Green’s 5-yard touchdown
drive put the Lions ahead
17-16 early in the fourth
quarter.
Then it all fell apart.
“We laid an egg out

there today,” Lions
receiver Marvin Jones Jr.
said .
Penalties for holding
and pass interference
extended Cincinnati’s
drive to Randy Bullock’s
51-yard ﬁeld goal. Given
one last chance, Detroit
self-destructed with a
holding penalty, a false
start and a short punt.
“We were not sharp in
any way, shape or form,”
coach Jim Caldwell said.
The Bengals (6-9) then
ﬁnished it off in front of
a half-empty stadium.
Bernard broke free for a
12-yard touchdown run
with 1:54 to go, sending
fans to the exits.
The erratic season
raised questions about
Caldwell’s future after
four seasons in Detroit
without a playoff win.
The Bengals haven’t won
a playoff game since the
1990 season, the sixthlongest stretch of postseason futility in NFL history. The Lions are right
behind them in futility.
“Anytime you lose,
everything’s up for
consideration,” said
Caldwell, adding that he
hasn’t talked to management about the future.
The focus on Lewis’
future in Cincinnati has
increased since a 23-20
loss to the Steelers on
Monday night essentially
snuffed out the Bengals’
chances.
There wasn’t much
reaction from the small

crowd when Lewis’ name
was announced as part of
the pregame team introductions. He’s ﬁnishing
his contract and has been
cryptic about whether he
thinks he’ll return for a
16th season.
Lewis didn’t show any
extra emotion about the
game.
“Emotional?” Lewis
said. “Why? Do you know
something I don’t know?”
The win ended Cincinnati’s streak of three
straight dismal losses,
momentarily salving
the sting of the Bengals’
second straight losing
season.
“We have a lot to play
for, too — the logo on
our jersey and name on
our backs,” Bernard said.
“That was Marvin’s message to us every day.”
The Bengals play at
Baltimore, which is in the
thick of the playoff chase.
The Ravens opened the
season with a 20-0 win at
Paul Brown Stadium.
Injuries
Lions: Detroit’s offensive line was in ﬂux
again. Center Travis
Swanson was out for the
second straight game
with a concussion, and
guard T.J. Lang was inactive with a foot injury.
Right tackle Rick Wagner
missed his third game
with an ankle injury.
Bengals: LB Vontaze
Burﬁct was back after
missing two games with

a concussion, but hurt
his right shoulder shortly
before halftime. Running
back Joe Mixon — who
also missed the last two
games with a concussion
— left with an injured
right ankle in the ﬁrst
quarter, putting the onus
on Bernard.

Stafford’s streak snapped
In his three previous
games, Stafford completed 80 percent of his
passes overall. The Lions’
offense never got into a
rhythm against the Bengals. His passer rating of
69.1 was his lowest in six
games.
“Sometimes it’s not
going to be easy,” Stafford said. “For some reason or another, we didn’t
score enough points.”
Disappointing return
Jones was one of the
Bengals’ top receivers for
four seasons. He was hoping to have a big game
in his return, but was
limited to three catches
for 50 yards. He topped
1,000 yards receiving for
the season.
“It really doesn’t mean
anything right now,”
Jones said.
Empty seats
The 65,000-seat stadium was half-empty for the
kickoff. The Bengals sold
47,732 tickets, though
many went unused. It was
their smallest announced
crowd since 2011.

Tar Heels get past Ohio State, 86-72
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Theo
Pinson and Joel Berry II viewed
North Carolina’s recent upset loss
to Wofford as a test of their leadership.
The seniors provided a convincing response in a neutral-site,
made-for-TV matchup against Ohio
State.
Berry and Pinson each scored 19
points, and No. 5 North Carolina
bounced back with an 86-72 victory over the Buckeyes on Saturday
in the CBS Sports Classic.
“Any team should have a great
amount of focus after a loss,”
Pinson said. “I was just ready to
come out and step up for my teammates.”
Pinson scored six points on ﬂawless free throw shooting inside the
ﬁnal 1:06 of the game as the Tar
Heels (11-2) kept the Buckeyes
(10-4) at bay.
“We’ve got veteran guys who
know we can’t sulk,” Pinson said.
“We need to move on to the next
game, but at the same time, keep
that loss in our minds.”
Cameron Johnson — a graduate
transfer from Pittsburgh whose
recent debut was delayed by inju-

ries — scored 13 points in just his
second game for North Carolina,
which had 13 3-pointers.
Keita Bates-Diop had 26 points
— one point shy of his career high
— for Ohio State. He shot 10 of 17
for the game and scored 19 points
in the second half, including eight
straight for Ohio State during a
late 13-4 run that brieﬂy pulled the
Buckeyes within 78-69 with 1:10
to play.
In the ﬁrst half, Bates-Diop
played just 8 minutes because of
a couple of quick fouls, and that
helped Carolina take its ﬁrst double-digit lead before halftime.
“When you’re losing a guy as
important to us as Keita is, you’re
going to feel it, and we felt it,” said
Ohio State coach Chris Holtmann,
who was called for a technical foul
during the ﬁrst half. “I’m sure that
was a factor in them stretching the
lead.”
C.J. Jackson scored the ﬁrst 11
points for Ohio State before ﬁnishing with 19 for the game, while
Kaleb Wesson added 12 points.
“My teammates found in the
right spots, pretty much,” Jackson
said, adding he was “just kind of

taking what the defense gave me at
the beginning.”
North Carolina’s Jalek Felton
scored 12 points, joining Johnson in giving the Tar Heels two
reserves with 12 or more points.
Felton “came in and gave them a
big lift,” Holtmann said.
Luke Maye grabbed 10 rebounds
for North Carolina in an all-around
performance that included nine
points, four assists, two steals and
a block.
The big picture
Ohio State: The Buckeyes looked
competitive in stints, but never led
and had trouble keeping their deﬁcit under double digits against a
UNC squad that had more balanced
scoring. Ohio State also struggled
with UNC’s physicality and size
under the basket. The Tar Heels
outrebounded Ohio State 39-25.
North Carolina: A game against
Ohio State might have been just
what the Tar Heels needed to
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at home to Wofford earlier this
week. UNC is 12-2 all-time against
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Fordham picked up a moral victory in Morgantown, staying competitive with the nationally
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10 schedule at VCU.
West Virginia will ride their 11-game winning
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