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Women's Basketball: 'Cats ready to bounce back in Georgia State Tournament

By Luke O'Roark | Dec. 19, 2014

Following a loss to James Madison on Monday, Ohio is looking to clean up some of its mistakes it displayed in the first half of the season at the Georgia State Tournament.The tournament, which will be held in Atlanta, will have the Bobcats tip off against La Salle (6-3) on Friday and Massachusetts (5-4) on Saturday.Going in, the Bobcats (6-2) have dropped their previous two and will attempt to fix a slumping shooting percentage in their final three non-conference games of the season.“I feel like there are always positives in a game, but we don’t take moral victories,” junior guard Kiyanna Black said. “We set the standards high for ourselves and we just don’t accept moral victories.”Black, who had 17 points in Ohio’s 69-62 loss to James Madison, helped Ohio jump out to its best start in almost 30 years by shooting 51 percent from the field in the first two wins of the season. In the past two losses, however, Black has gone 10 for 35 from the field — a 29 percent shooting percentage.Despite facing tougher opponents in James Madison and East Carolina, Ohio’s shooting percentage, as a whole, has declined.In early wins against Manhattan and Morehead State, Ohio shot 55 and 45 percent from the field, respectively, but against East Carolina on Dec. 6 and James Madison on Monday, Black and the Bobcats shot 39 percent.“(Against JMU) was very choppy and I think we can play that game. When we’re locked in we guard pretty well, and that benefits the defense when that starts happening because there is no flow in the game,” coach Bob Boldon said. “I thought defensively, we were okay but I thought offensively, we were just too stagnant. We’ve got to be more comfortable playing half-court basketball.”Redshirt junior guard Mariah Harris, who made her Ohio debut Monday, could be more involved in Boldon’s game plan this weekend. The Bobcats already have a deep bench and Harris could provide more ball handling to a backcourt that averages just 13.6 turnover per game.Harris transferred from Michigan State to Ohio this fall and wasn’t allowed to play in the Bobcat’s first seven games because of NCAA transfer regulations.  At Michigan State, Harris played 18 total games off the bench.“I know there were some jitters and it would have been nice to get her in against some other teams that we’ve played, but she just became eligible Friday,” Boldon said. “We’ve got three more non-conference games with her before we get to conference schedule. I don’t personally think she is a point guard, but I thought she showed her versatility and did a lot of good things for us tonight.”The Bobcats may also see sophomore point guard Yamonie Jenkins return to action sometime soon, as Jenkins suffered a concussion in Ohio’s 76-68 loss to East Carolina and sat out Monday. Jenkins has paced the Bobcats with a team-best 26 assists and at one point led the nation in assist-to-turnover ratio.For Ohio’s opponents, La Salle is coming off a 70-36 loss to Villanova, which ended its six-game winning streak. Massachusetts goes into the tournament beating its last two opponents by double digits. UMass’ leading scorer, senior forward Kim Peirre-Louis, leads the team in scoring with 159 total points this season.“I think we’re small, but we can still compete with the big teams. It’s all about boxing out. It’s not height, it’s about sticking to the principals and boxing out every time,” Black said. “If you put a body on somebody, no matter how big they are, nine times out of ten its going to beat it.”@Lukeoroarklr514812@ohio.edu

Athens City Council

Council members reflect on Fall Semester's more controversial ordinances

By William T. Perkins | Dec. 15, 2014

Athens City Council tackled several legislative measures during Fall Semester that drummed up controversy, with ordinances enacted to regulate reckless partying, trash disposal and tobacco usage in city parks.“There have been some really high-profile ordinances on council, which has led to a lot more debate,” Councilman Steve Patterson, D-at large, said. “A lot more involvement, a lot more fact finding.”The legislative body reconvened Sept. 2 — a week after Fall Semester began at Ohio University — following its summer hiatus. Patterson soon began work on amending the Nuisance Party Ordinance.The amendment, which was designed to increase fines for rambunctious partying while reducing punishment to a civil offense, passed later in the fall.It was written in cooperation with the Athens-OU Joint Police Advisory Council, an organization that includes city officials, law enforcement officers and university students, and would have increased the fine for those hosting wild parties from $150 to $250.In the end, city Law Director Pat Lang determined that raising the fine to $250 for a civil offense would go against the Ohio Revised Code, so the fine was kept at $150.Council also received backlash from both city administration and residents in its attempt to amend the city’s trash ordinance.The amendment, which saw several revisions, increased fines for trash code violators from $20 to $50 and would have required residents to construct screens in front of their trash cans if their trash was not already entirely hidden from the street.The final draft of the ordinance, which passed Dec. 1, simply required trash cans to be out of view from the street of the residence's address. It also included a provision allowing for a waiver exempting disabled citizens from enforcement.Councilman Kent Butler, D-1st Ward, was the only dissenting vote on the measure.At the same meeting, council passed a measure prohibiting the use of tobacco in city parks. The measure also set a $50 fine for people discarding their cigarette butts on streets or sidewalks.City officials also passed some measures that had been in the works since late summer, including the purchase of a new fire pumper truck for the Athens Fire Department and the adoption of an ordinance that would better allow law enforcement officers to deal with complaints of noisy pets in late October.The body also faced the possibility of several administrative changes in December. Athens Mayor Paul Wiehl announced Dec. 1 he would not be running for reelection, prompting Patterson to announce his bid for the position on his personal Facebook page later that night.Council President Jim Sands also announced his resignation last week due to health complications, which had already kept him from council meetings for about a month.Butler said the past few months on council haven’t been easy but have nonetheless been rewarding.“On one level it’s business as usual,” he said. “But it’s also been very emotionally riddled with crests and troughs. It’s part of the community. It’s part of the lives we live here.”@wtperkinswp198712@ohio.edu 

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