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February 22nd, 2012
• ST. MARYS — Locked into the top seed in its sectional tournament and the Midwest Athletic Conference already conquered after last Thursday’s win over Fort Recovery, Marion Local head coach Treva Fortkamp expected a letdown in intensity.
Marion Local  didn’t look like itself at times on Tuesday night , but even its B-game is pretty formidable as the Flyers showed in a 62-35 win at St. Marys in which they never trailed.
If anything, the sectionally top-seeded Flyers (16-3) got acclimated to the site where they hope to be playing district tournament games in two weeks.
NEW BREMEN — The New Bremen Lady Cardinals basketball team started the fourth quarter Thursday with a 12-2 run and it garnered the Cardinals their first MAC victory of the season with a 60-52 win over the Parkway Panthers in the first regular season game of the year at New Bremen.
“We were down by 10 points with four minutes left,” Cardinals head coach Randy Eckert said. “It just showed that there was no quit in the girls tonight.
• NEW BREMEN – Withstanding two last second three-point chances the New Bremen Cardinals basketball team survived to defeat the Spencerville Bearcats 71-58 Saturday evening in a wild non-league game played at New Bremen.
“Our kids kept fighting,” Spencerville head coach Kevin Sensabaugh said. “We got a pretty good effort out of our guys and we battled through some adversity but the big thing that killed us was rebounding. They killed us on the boards and that is what won the game. They dominated us on the boards and you can’t win if you don’t rebound.”
MINSTER - A big second half propelled St. Henry to a 51-42 victory over fellow Midwest Athletic Conference opponent Minster on Friday night’s Senior Night.
“For as well as we started out the game — we had pretty good ball movement and ball reversal and so forth against their zones, which we addressed the entire week — we just did a rotten job once they switched defenses and that unfortunately carried over into the second half, and they basically just slowed us to a crawl,” said Minster head coach Mike Lee.
• ST. HENRY - A big third quarter propelled Minster to a 49-39 victory over fellow Midwest Athletic Conference opponent St. Henry in the regular season finale for both teams on Thursday night.
“It might be the longest game of my life. It seemed a lot longer than that. Just a lot of whistles, a lot of fouls out-of bounds and deflections,” said Minster head coach Nann Stechschulte. … “On a road, MAC game, I’m just happy to come away with a win.”
Two minutes into the first quarter, St. Henry’s Sarah Moeder hit a three-pointer for the first score of the game.
NEW BREMEN — Local seventh-grade students recently showcased their science, technology, engineering and math talents at this year’s STEM fair.
Feb. 16 marked the fourth annual STEM fair at New Bremen Middle School, said Tracy Steinke, seventh and eighth-grade science teacher.
“They had to invent either something brand new or make an improvement on something that already exists,” she said. “And then they needed to follow through the engineering design process — planning it out, drawing their blueprints, finding their materials, building it, making modifications.”
MINSTER — Ohio’s 12 Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) — which includes the Area Agency on Aging 3 based in Allen County — recently received a better than 99 percent approval rating for 2011.
In late January, the Ohio Department of Aging released data from its consumer satisfaction survey based on participation in programs offered by all AAAs. The Area Agency on Aging 3 — which serves Allen, Auglaize, Hancock, Hardin, Mercer, Putnam and Van Wert counties — scored 99.4 percent on this survey, according to a news release.
MINSTER — On Feb. 15, Don Rosenbeck talked to the Minster Service Club about the Maria Stein Shrine of the Holy Relics.
Rosenbeck has been the Shrine’s administrator for the past 18 months.
“Basically what we are is we’re a place of prayer,” said Rosenbeck. “We’re not like a normal business at all and we’re very much a connection to the saints.”
• History: The history of the shrine very much relates to the history of Ohio.
ST. MARYS — Area residents are now able to access Grand Lake Health Systems’ online content through its newly-launched mobile website.
Because of the prevalence of internet usage through smartphones and other mobile devices, the mobile website allows users to access GLHS’s web content with greater ease, said Martin Dodrill, director of planning and marketing at GLHS.
Blanche O. Muter, 76, of 225 E. Fayette St., Celina, died on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton.
She was born on Jan. 17, 1936, in St. Marys, the daughter of the late Otis and Minnie (Heath) Chilcoate.
On July 26, 1952, she married Glen E. Muter, and he preceded her in death on Dec. 6, 1998.
She is survived by four children, Dennis and Tracy Muter of Springfield, Terry and Ann Muter of Celina, Janice and James Curry of Celina, Brenda and Jody May of Celina; six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; a sister, Betty Stolzenberg of Wapakoneta.
