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The landscape has changed a lot in Girls Inter-Ac basketball over the past few years, but the teams that have won the most league titles between them, Germantown Academy and the Academy of Notre Dame, still maintain a fierce rivalry.
The latest installment unfolded last Friday at Notre Dame, which led much of the time through the first two quarters. The GA Patriots were actually up 19-18 at halftime, but the Irish seized the initiative again when the third quarter began, and Germantown could never quite catch up.
"In the first half we played really good team defense, then to start the second half we kind of broke down a little and let them hit their shots," GA senior forward Kiernan McCloskey said. "We came back, but in the end they hit their foul shots and we couldn't score."
Winning 49-44, Notre Dame reached an overall record of 11-1 in a highly successful season, attaining a 5-0 mark in the Inter-Ac. GA slipped back across the Schuylkill at 7-8, 2-3.
"We've been resilient this year," noted longtime Notre Dame mentor Mary Beth McNichol. "We've been down in a lot of games or really close in a lot of games, and we just seem to keep pulling them out. The girls don't lose their cool, and a big part of that is that we've had great senior leadership. I give GA credit today because every time we took a little bit of a lead they managed to claw back in it."
Seemingly endless whistles for touch fouls didn't favor one team over the other, but the incessant analog tweets from the officials gave the affair a herky-jerky quality and certainly made it less enjoyable to watch.
Both teams had picked up wins three days earlier. Following a loss to Springside Chestnut Hill the previous Friday, the Patriots had leveled their overall record with a triple-overtime victory at Delaware's Caravel Academy. The 70-65 triumph was powered by 27 points and 15 rebounds by McCloskey, and 23 points and 13 boards from another forward, junior Margaret Anne Hubbell.
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy had gotten the attention of the league with its success at GA, and when the Lions hosted Notre Dame last Tuesday, a deliberate style of play netted them a 19-16 halftime lead.
However, Bucknell-bound guard Megan McGurk rode Irish bench with two fouls for a number of minutes in the first half, and when she returned full-force after the interlude, the Irish took over the game with a 20-2 third quarter. McGurk finished with a game-high 19 points, while SCH was led by six points apiece from senior Maddi Hinchey and freshman Lindsay Hiner.
McGurk was not as productive on Friday with an eight-point performance, but Notre Dame's other Division I recruit at guard, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, scored 14 of her game-high 20 points in the second half, sinking a pair of her trademark extra-long distance three-pointers.
Particularly in the second half, GA depended on sophomore guard Olivia Gorman to stay in the game. Hitting one short jumper before halftime, she came on to stick three treys after the break and finished with a team-high 15 points.
Relying upon a 10th grader this much didn't pan out for the Patriots' offense overall. Lehigh signee McCloskey, always the focus of opposing defenses, still managed 11 points in the contest. Hubbell, the 11th-grader, put up 12 points, but none of McCloskey's four senior classmates scored at all.
McCloskey commented, "We always joke that Notre Dame knows our plays better than we do – they scouted us well. They keyed on me and they also keyed on our other older players, and we didn't have as many people scoring as we're used to. I know I wasn't as aggressive as I should have been."
Points from five different players helped the Irish attain a 14-9 advantage nine minutes into the game, but two free throws from Hubbell and a three-pointer by McCloskey hauled the Patriots back into a tie at 14-all midway through the second quarter. The tally seesawed to 18-18, then freshman Kendall Grasela stepped to the foul line and scored her lone point of the afternoon, sending Germantown into the locker room at halftime with a one-point edge.
The Irish charged back onto the court for an 8-0 run capped off by a score by Fitzpatrick off of a steal. The future St. Joe Hawk now had 10 of her 20 points in the book. GA managed a few free throws but didn't score a field goal until freshman guard Erin Lindahl (five points total) made a successful drive with 37 seconds left in the third period.
The one useful asset the Irish lack is size in the low post, but Germantown wasn't making the best use of its height advantage. On most occasions when Patriot "bigs" collected a rebound or caught a pass near the basket, they brought the ball down to a level where Notre Dame could either strip it or tie it up for a jump.
Near the close of the third quarter, the Irish were up by eight, but luckily for the visitors Gorman began to turn it on from the outside. The sophomore bagged her first "three" with five seconds to go to make it 32-27 for the start of the final round.
She and Notre Dame's Fitzpatrick traded triples during the first minute, then Notre Dame got into the foul bonus (the double-bonus would follow with 2:33 remaining). The Irish didn't score from the floor over the final seven minutes, but they made 14 of their 18 free throws, with Fitzpatrick and a fellow senior guard, Nikki Callahan (six points total), each going four-for-four.
As the clock descended from seven minutes to two, Hubbell made two of four foul shots for GA, while McCloskey and Gorman each found the net from three-point land and Gorman hit a running lay-up. This kept the visitors in the game, and they only trailed 42-40 when Notre Dame called time-out with 1:36 to go.
"We came down the court a couple times and we had one pass and a shot," McNichol remarked. "We weren't trying to stall, but we wanted the kids to use a little bit of the clock and be patient about choosing a shot."
The Irish got two makes at the free throw line from Callahan when GA senior Fran Sweeney committed her fourth personal, becoming one of four Germantown players who would finish with that foul total. Gorman drew contact on a three-point attempt and made two of her tosses from the charity stripe, but another two-for-two by Callahan had the hosts ahead 46-42 with 69 seconds left.
GA missed a lay-up, had to foul in the double-bonus, and saw Fitzpatrick raise the score to 48-42 with 54 ticks to go. The Patriots called a time-out after Hubbell put in a lay-up with 41 seconds on the clock, then the 49-44 final score went up on the board when the hosts' Emily Ferro filtered in the second of two free throws with 27 seconds remaining.
Still needing more than one scoring possession to avoid defeat, GA was slow to get off a shot. Notre Dame's Fitzpatrick blocked a baseline attempt by Gorman with under five seconds left, and it was all over.
UPDATE – On Saturday at the Scholastic Play-by-Play Classic, GA faced Villa Maria, a team very similar to Notre Dame and one which had lost to the Irish in overtime. The Pats prevailed in this one, 42-37, after trailing 24-22 at the half. McCloskey scored on a putback at the end of the third quarter for a 30-30 tie, then two free throws by the senior and a trey by Gorman pushed the Patriots ahead for good at the start of the fourth quarter.
Still up by five heading into the final minute (40-35), GA came up empty on two one-and-one's while a drive by Jackie Carlin got Villa back within three points. With seven seconds left, a steal by Gorman led to a pair of free throws by Sweeney that rounded out the scoring. The winning effort included 20 points from McCloskey (11 rebounds) and nine apiece from Hubbell (10 rebounds) and Gorman. Senior guard Lisa Mirarchi led the Hurricanes with 14.


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A growing number of colleges are providing graduating students tools to improve their online image. The services arrange for positive results on search engine inquiries by pushing your party pictures, and other snapshots of your lapsed judgement off the first page. Syracuse, Rochester and Johns Hopkins are among the schools that are offering such services free of charge. From the article: "Samantha Grossman wasn't always thrilled with the impression that emerged when people Googled her name. 'It wasn't anything too horrible,' she said. 'I just have a common name. There would be pictures, college partying pictures, that weren't of me, things I wouldn't want associated with me.' So before she graduated from Syracuse University last spring, the school provided her with a tool that allowed her to put her best Web foot forward. Now when people Google her, they go straight to a positive image — professional photo, cum laude degree and credentials — that she credits with helping her land a digital advertising job in New York."
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RICHMOND, Va. – Second half defense had been troublesome, actually, downright alarming for VCU this season.
Prior to Wednesday's 69-46 win over South Florida at the Verizon Wireless Arena, the Rams had allowed their opponents to shoot 56 percent in the second half. That includes Sunday's loss at 13th-ranked Alabama, when the Crimson shot 62 percent in the final 20 minutes on the way to a 72-64 triumph.
The Rams decided that wasn't happening again on Wednesday.
"We talked about that at the half," VCU Head Coach Shaka Smart said of the Rams' second half effort. "Second half defense has been a big emphasis of ours because we've struggled to stop teams in the second half."
Smart may want to bottle that halftime speech and sell it. The Bulls shot a paltry 26 percent (6-of-23) after the break, including 0-of-6 from beyond the 3-point arc. As a result, VCU outscored USF 41-18 in the second half as a 28-all tie became a laugher.


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The NFL draft is far from an exact science.
Years ago former San Francisco 49ers coach Bill Walsh told me that the draft was "no more than an educated guess on the type player or players you wanted on a football team."
The NFL draft is far from an exact science.
Years ago former San Francisco 49ers coach Bill Walsh told me that the draft was "no more than an educated guess on the type player or players you wanted on a football team."
Walsh added that the one common denominator virtually every top NFL player has is that he was a very productive college player, but some teams look for potential and forget about what some players accomplished at the college level.
"If you look at our core players from those championship teams, it was Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Ronnie Lott, Charles Haley, Bill Romanowski, Pierce Holt, Michael Carter, John Taylor, Harris Barton, Steve Young and a host of others, and every one of them were very productive college players," Walsh said. "Their transition to the pro game was rather smooth. Too many teams today fall in love with potential and forget about production. There is a certain degree of potential and if that player has reached it at the college level ... to a great degree most of the best players in this league were outstanding college players and not just for one season. "
Walsh said those words over 15 years ago and it holds true today.
Walsh will go down as one of the greatest talent evaluators in NFL history, and he was right. Sometimes you just can't explain why some players vault up the draft charts and others fall.
Today we see the same thing happening, especially on the defensive side of the ball.
LSU's Barkevious Mingo, Oregon's Dion Jordan and Brigham Young's Ezekiel Ansah are all considered Top 12 picks in the 2013 draft and the most productive and most dominant defensive player in the toughest conference in college football has taken a tumble.
Georgia all-American outside linebacker Jarvis Jones looked like a sure Top 10 pick in January, but he did not participate in the drills sessions at the Combine and had a rather pedestrian Pro Day in Athens, Georgia.
The drop by the 6-foot-2, 245 pound outside linebacker may be great news for the New Orleans Saints at the 15th spot in Round 1. The Saints are still in great need of a top-flight pass rusher off the edge.
Over the last two seasons Jones has recorded 147 tackles, 42 tackles for losses and 26 sacks and those numbers doubled the tackle for losses and sacks any of the three above players mentioned players over the past two seasons.
One scout told me this week that Jones was "in free fall a little" and that while he still thought he would be a Top 15 pick there was no guarantee of it.
I still can't believe that someone this talented and productive who looks like a great fit as an edge pass rusher in the NFL would tumble this far due to subpar workouts, but it happens each year.
The most amazing thing is that if not for numerous off-the-field issues, his teammate at Georgia — middle linebacker Alec Ogletree — would probably get selected ahead of Jones, but teams, including the Saints under coach Sean Payton have stayed away from players with issues off the field with the Top 18 picks in Round 1.
Over the next few weeks watch what happens to Jones because of all of the edge pass rushers at outside linebacker he becomes the guy most likely to be there for the Saints at No. 15.
You will hear the Saints quietly float out the names of Tennessee wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson and West Virginia's Tavon Auston as possible selections, but that is just to get others teams to bite hard on possibly moving up in Round 1 to get one of the two playmakers at wide receiver.
At No. 15 Jones is a player that two months ago I thought would never be there, but in the real NFL, there is a good chance he might be.
Jones, Texas free safety Kenny Vaccaro, Washington cornerback Desmond Trufant and a real long shot in Missouri defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson, who I think the Carolina Panthers will pick one slot ahead of New Orleans, are strong possibilities to land in New Orleans if the Saints don't trade back.
There will be plenty of maneuvering with the Top 10-12 picks in this draft class, which is not nearly as strong with those early picks as it has been the last two years.
The quarterback position is much weaker, but I really feel this is a stronger draft class from Nos. 22-100 than last year's class was.
That is why making a deal to move back would be tougher unless a team has multiple picks in the second and third rounds.
There are three players to keep in mind as we get closer to the draft that seem to be making a strong move up.
Cornerbacks D.J. Hayden from Houston University and Jamar Taylor from Boise State are projected in my draft magazine as early second-round choices, but some teams are now seriously considering them with late first-round picks.
Southern Mississippi outside linebacker Jamie Collins is projected to be an early to middle second-round selection, but if there is a run on the pass rush outside linebackers the very athletic and productive former Golden Eagles standout could also move up to late first-round pick status.
Hayden was an outstanding two-year starter for the Cougars at cornerback after spending a couple of seasons at Navarro Junior College.
In two seasons at Houston Hayden racked up 127 tackles, six interceptions and 19 pass deflections, but he suffered a near fatal injury in practice when he tore a vein that was feeding blood between his heart and his lower body.
He underwent emergency surgery to repair the damage and wasn't able to work out until recent weeks, but he has convinced NFL teams that he is fully healthy.
The 5-11, 192-pound cornerback ran a 4.33 in the 40-yard dash and posted a 33-inch vertical leap in individual drills, but what jumps out at you on film are his excellent man-to-man coverage skills, his tremendous recovery speed and that he is a very tough guy in run defense. He also has a 74-inch wingspan to knock away potential completions.
Jamar Taylor has emerged over the last two seasons as one of the top zone-cover cornerbacks in college football. The 5-11, 193-pound speedster ran a 4.39 in the 40-yard dash at the Combine and posted 22 reps of 225 pounds showcasing his upper-body strength.
In 2012 Taylor registered 51 tackles, nine pass deflections, four interceptions and forced three fumbles for Boise State.
While he has been nicked up some in college, Taylor is known for his quick track-down skills with the ball in flight.
Southern Mississippi's Jamie Collins is my fifth rated outside linebacker prospect behind Oregon's Dion Jordan, Georgia's Jarvis Jones, LSU's Barkevious Mingo and Kansas State's Arthur Brown.
The 6-3 �, 250-pound Collins was one of the star defensive players in Conference USA the past two seasons recording 190 tackles, 39 � tackles for losses and 16 � sacks.
While Collins lacks elite football track-down instincts, he has the athleticism and speed to overcome some initial hesitation issues and in many ways reminds me of Miami Dolphins outside linebacker Cameron Wake.
Keep a close eye out for Hayden, Taylor and Collins as draft day gets closer.
As the 2013 NFL season gets underway I think the addition of tight end Ben Watson to the Saints will go down as one of the top free agent acquisitions of the offseason.
This past year while in football exile Payton was able to witness just how difficult it was for NFL teams to match up with very athletic tight ends in one-on-one situations and the blueprint laid out by the New England Patriots under Bill Belichick with Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez will be used here in New Orleans with Jimmy Graham and Watson.
Watson's excellent in-line blocking skills will also help a Saints rushing attack that was put on the shelf by its own coaching staff in the first half of games last season.
That won't happen under Payton, and despite not being one of the most noteworthy free-agent signings to others across the NFL, I believe that addition of Watson will be significant in 2013 and cause major headaches to defenses playing the Saints.
South Lafourche High School offensive tackle Bailey Granier has become the most highly coveted football player to come from the Bayou Region since Thibodaux High School quarterback/athlete Trovon Reed a few years back.
Reed, now a wide receiver at Auburn University, was a national recruit with over 50 scholarship offers as a prep senior.
The 6-6, 310-pound Granier is considered one of the top offensive linemen in Louisiana and also across the South.
He currently has scholarship offers from Alabama, Tulane, Mississippi State, Vanderbilt, Southern Mississippi, Louisiana Tech and Louisiana-Lafayette.
But he has yet to receive that coveted scholarship offer from Les Miles and LSU.
The inside word is that if offered by LSU Granier would verbally commit quickly. He is projected to play either right tackle or inside at guard at the college level.
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A week-old lamb on the farm of Lynn Wollerman northwest of Vandalia munches on a piece of straw as it explores its new surroundings.
The lambing season will begin in earnest in late January and into February.
The Illinois Field Office of NASS last week released the USDA's annual crop production summary, winter wheat seedings and grain stocks report. State highlights of the reports include:
Risk management meetings planned
Farmers interested in receiving a checkup on their risk management plans are invited to attend one of two upcoming meetings in the Central Illinois area.
Meetings will be held on Jan. 31 at the Holiday Inn in Mt. Vernon and on Feb. 1 at the Northfield Suites in Springfield. Both meetings begin at 5 p.m., cost $19 and include a ribeye steak dinner.
Registration closes on Jan. 23. For more information, contact a COUNTRY financial representative or a Farm Bureau office, or go online at www.agrivisor.com.
Each year, more than $20,000 in scholarship funds is awarded to college-bound high school seniors who are pursuing an agriculture-related education and career. Farm Credit Services of Illinois plans to present 25 $1,000 agriculture scholarships to current high school seniors in 2012.
In honor of the GROWMARK System's 85th anniversary, a new history section has been added to the cooperative's website.
The "Our History" site is designed to be as easy to use for people who want a little information as for those who want to dig deeply into the history of the system.
Veterinary Informatics & Research Co. of Rolling Meadows is currently recruiting cattle farmers, feedlots and people within the Illinois cattle industry to participate in an animal health study.
That study will track the use and prices of common veterinary products – such as vaccines and antibiotics – for large animals.
The company cited the following benefits to the cattle industry:
• Promotes more accurate forecasting of supply and demand;
• Encourages competitive pricing between manufacturers;
The number of hogs and pigs in Illinois on Dec. 1, 2011, was 4.60 million head, up 5 percent from Dec. 1, 2010. Breeding hogs on hand were estimated at 480,000 head, steady with a year ago. Market hogs, at 4.12 million head, were up 5 percent from a year ago.
The pig crop during September, October and November 2011 was 2.48 million pigs, down 1 percent from the same period in 2010. There were 250,000 sows that farrowed, down 4 percent from a year earlier.
The litter rate for the quarter averaged 9.90 pigs saved, up from 9.60 for the same quarter last year.
Temps, precip are up for December
For December, statewide average temperatures were 35.7 degrees, 5.9 degrees above normal.
Precipitation was also above normal for much of the state, with an average of 3.43 inches.
The warm temperatures allowed farmers to wrap up fall field work.
Topsoil moisture was rated at 5 percent short, 86 percent adequate and 9 percent surplus.
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dust regulations
Congressman John Shimkus (R, Illinois-19) supported legislation that would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating farm dust. The bill, Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act (HR 1633), passed the House last Thursday with bipartisan support.
The Illinois Farm Bureau is home to a wealth of fond and familiar traditions, first and foremost being the promotion and support of agricultural and farming traditions.
Yet, for many Illinois farmers, the tradition that means the most is the grassroots, member-driven decision making that stems from the IFB's annual meeting. Each year, Illinois farmers gather during the first week of December to meet, discuss issues facing agriculture and set policy for the coming year.
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Climate change most visible through freshwater lens
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The impacts of climate change are most visible in the dramatic changes occurring to the planet's freshwater resources, says a new report written by WWF for the World Bank.Stockholm, Sweden – The impacts of climate change are most visible in the dramatic changes occurring to the planet's freshwater resources, says a new report written by WWF for the World Bank.
The report, Flowing Forward, finds both "visible" water such as rivers, lakes, precipitation, glaciers and snowpack, and water used for crops and livestock, health and sanitation services, hydroelectric and nuclear power as well as manufacturing and business are heavily influenced by climate change.
WWF's John Matthews talks climate change, freshwater at World Water Week
"The very language of climate change — droughts, floods, desertification, famines, tropical cyclones — is the language of water," says WWF-US CEO Carter Roberts. "Flowing Forward defines the methodologies that are necessary to sustain healthy economies and healthy ecosystems through water. Water is what unites us. And good water management is the tool we need to sustain development in the face of climate change."
Effective water resource management is central to adapting our economies and societies to emerging climate conditions. But the uncertainty surrounding our future climate poses a major challenge to engineers and policymakers, especially when developing long-term water infrastructure development strategies. Flowing Forward marks the first comprehensive set of tools to achieve climate-sustainable water management.
"We can't wait another 30 years for predictions to tell us how climate change is affecting freshwater resources. The threats are being felt now. The World Bank needs climate adaptation decision-making techniques, and it needs them now," says Julia Bucknall, Manager for the World Bank's Energy, Transport and Water Department.
Flowing Forward recognizes that sustainability in water management has become a moving target, and this is now the biggest obstacle to implementing solutions to the impacts of climate change.
"We can no longer assume that what is sustainable now will remain sustainable in 10 years, much less 50. So a shifting climate means that the rules for water management must change too. Our current model of 'sustainable development' is threatened by climate change. Engineers, policymakers and resource managers need new tools to prepare for more extreme floods and droughts, and we believe that ecosystems are the best scorecard to see how our cities farms, and economies are adapting to climate change." says co-author John Matthews of WWF-US.
"We need to design and operate dams, irrigation systems and energy production grids in ways that will help people and ecosystems adjust to emerging climate conditions together," he adds.
But report co-author Tom Le Quesne from WWF-UK says the report's most critical finding is that water managers and policymakers already have most of the important tools to cope with climate change in hand:
"The existing library of methods to manage river basins and water resources will go a long way in creating the conditions that will make our lakes, rivers and groundwater more sustainable. Our goal now is to help the water sector deploy tools that they already know work: environmental flows, Integrated Water Resource Management and the creation of monitoring networks."
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Hubble Space Telescope Captures First Direct Image of a Star
This is the first direct image of a star other than the Sun. Called Alpha Orionis, or Betelgeuse, the star is a red super giant, a Sun-like star nearing the end of its life.
The Hubble picture reveals a huge ultraviolet atmosphere with a mysterious hot spot on the stellar behemoth's surface. The enormous bright spot, twice the diameter of the Earth's orbit, is at least 2,000 degrees Kelvin hotter than the star's surface.