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LOVELAND, OHIO NEWS - Capobianco: 1,000... 1,145... and counting

LOVELAND, OHIO NEWS - Bobby Capobianco broke the 1,000 point basketball scoring mark on January 25, 2008 at Anderson High School. The Loveland High School (LHS) Junior ended the season with 1,145 points which placed him as the third all time leading score in Loveland Mens Basketball history. Kevin Schappell who graduated in 2002 is currently the schools all time leading scorer with 1,403.

Head Coach Tim Partin said, “He is the only junior in Loveland history to reach the 1,000 point mark. We have only had four 1000 point scorers in the history of Loveland Mens Basketball, counting Bobby.”

This season Capobianco also became the school's all time leading shot blocker with 164 for his career, and is currently second on the school's all time leading rebounder list with 678 rebounds, behind Eric Van Buskirk's 702.

The past two seasons Capobianco has averaged just over 20 points and 11 rebounds per game.

Capobianco scored 32 early in the season against Milford, 31 on January 29 at Wilmington, and 35 at home against Lebanon on February 2. He had 5 blocked shots in games against Mason and Princeton, and pulled down 19 rebounds against Lakota East, and 17 against Fairfield.

Partin added, “Bobby is one of the strongest players we have ever had at Loveland.  When he gets position under the basket, there is no moving him. Along with his strength, he also has great hands and a soft shooting touch. Besides his physical attributes, he also has worked hard to develop his basketball skills and knowledge. As a result, he has been able to thrive at the sport he loves.
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Loveland High School Athletic Director, Jeff Zidron said, “Bobby will become Loveland's all time leading scorer and rebounder during the 2008-09 season. This will be an achievement unprecedented in the history of  Tiger basketball. His career stats are a testament to his desire and drive for excellence.”

Barbara Capobianco, said that what led her son to play basketball was, “Well he has always been really tall and hated piano lessons.” She said he started playing basketball at 5 years old in Naperville, Illinois and played on a YMCA team with one of his teammates being a brother of Rich Dowd. Bobby played with Rich Dowd at LHS his freshman year.  After the family moved from Illinois to Rhode Island, he played for the Boy's and Girl's club in Cumberland Rhode Island. “They played outdoors and went undefeated. They even had their team picture in the local paper at 6 years old.”

Barbara (Brackman) Capobianco herself held many records while playing basketball at Vanderbilt. She scored 1,631 points during the years 1982-85 and is still in the Vanderbilt record book as their seventh all-time leading scorer and rebounder. She once pulled down 22 rebounds in a single game. She said, “One thing I thought was pretty interesting was that Bobby achieved his 1000 point on the 25th of January 2008 which was almost to the day, 25 years since I scored my 1000th point in college at Vanderbilt. Bobby thought it was cool to display his 1000th point ball in the trophy case next to mine.”

Bobby said that his most satisfying shot in a game was this past season when he hit a shot at the buzzer against King's to send the game into overtime. Loveland won the game. His most memorable moment in basketball occurred last year when he played on a team with Derrick Rose, the Memphis Tiger point guard from Chicago. Rose has made it to the NCAA final four, 2008 tournament.

He says that practice is “crucial” and that “It is during team practice that you improve your basketball IQ and  during your individual workout that you improve your individual skills, and become better as an athlete.”

Bobby does core training, ladder drills, and medicine ball crunches at home during the off season, and goes to Lifetime Fitness in Mason to play pickup games and work on his cardio. His mother said, “He has made the tremendous strength advance by working out at school in Coach Thomas' personal training class. Dedication to this is a daily commitment. Everyone who wants to play basketball in college is working super hard and getting ready for the Spring AAU season.”

Barbara was asked to relate something funny about Bobby that only a mom would know. She said that after so many basketball experiences and honors, she thought his reaction to winning first place in the middle school science fair and advancing to regional was interesting. “He was almost embarrassed. To date it is the only Non-athletic trophy he has won.”

After taking a year off basketball in 5th grade, Bobby got a call from a former AAU coach that they needed a "big man" on their team. He had not played for more than a year and although he made the team, ended as being mostly a role player. He was playing with former teammates who had grown their game and realized the advances they had made by playing year-round. Barbara Capobianco said, “After sitting on the bench most of that season and playing for a very demanding coach, Bobby realized that he wanted to up his game and worked on getting a starting role the next season.” She said it was then that she knew Bobby would be a good basketball player. “His commitment was unwavering and by the next year he had accomplished his goal. The idea that 'hard work pays off' was now his  personal motto.” She credits his return to basketball and new found dedication to a “wonderful coach” named John Lewis. Bobby met Coach Lewis at the Greensboro Spears YMCA in North Carolina several mornings a week at 5:00 AM to teach Bobby how to be a "Big Man." Barbara said, “His (Lewis) inspiration helped Bobby achieve his next level. Every great low block move, we label the 'John Lewis move.”

Bobby Capobianco is ranked by Prep Hoops Online as the #1 ranked Junior in Ohio, and JJ Huddle's Ohio High has him ranked #1 as well. He will play his final AAU season for one of the highest ranked 17 year-old and under  AAU teams in the country, Indiana Elite One; which already has one player committed to Duke University and another to Purdue.  Capobianco's team may produce more that eight Division I players. They will play in Cincinnati this summer, July 6-9, in the Adidas “It takes 5 Tournament."

More info can be obtained at Indiana Elite One's web site as to dates and locations, should folks around here like to take in a local game.

More Awards in the Capobianco Record Case

• Loveland High School Honor Roll
• Fort Ancient Valley Conference Leadership Team
• Duke University TIP Award (Middle school award for academic excellence)
• Ping Pong champion in Greensboro NC (When Capobianco was in7th grade)
• Swimming record holder in North Carolina
• 1st Place Middle School Science Fair
• 1st Team District 16
• 2 time Enquirer All City Team
• 3 time 1st Team All FAVC Buckeye
• 07-08 Leading Scorer
• 07-08 Leading Rebounder
• 2nd Team All Southwest District

Scholarships honor marines and soldiers across the USA

By TERRY BROWN

Colonie, New York - A student at Christian Brothers Academy in Colonie will receive a new scholarship that commemorates two soldiers killed in action in the Iraq war.

The June scholarship award will commemorate Army Sgt. David Fisher of Watervliet and Staff Sgt. Keith Matt Maupin of Batavia, Ohio.

Carol Pingelski Hotaling of Ballston Spa -- the "Yellow Ribbon Lady" -- was selected to pick the New York state soldier killed in action to be commemorated through the awarding of the Let Us Never Forget Foundation's Keith Matt Maupin Scholarship.

Fisher, 21, was killed Dec. 1, 2004, while serving with the state Army National Guard's 42nd Infantry Division in Iraq. Maupin had been listed as captured from April 9, 2004, until March 20 the Army found and later identified the soldier's remains.

Read on... Scholarship honors 2 killed in Iraq war -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY.

Local event raises money for scholarships

The "Let Us Never Forget" Scholarship Fundraiser, Silent Auction, Dinner, Show, Dance will be on April 9 at the Oasis Conference Center, 902 Loveland-Miamiville Road. 5-11:30 PM.

Reservations: (513) 484-9141 or 1-800-878-2003 or Yellow Ribbon Support Center 752-4310.

The fundraiser will provide scholarships for graduating high school seniors at schools where fallen soldiers and marines attended. Scholarships will be offered in all fifty states.

Alice Walker on Obama

Lest We Forget: An open letter to my sisters who are brave.

       By Alice Walker | TheRoot.com

I HAVE COME home from a long stay in Mexico to find – because of the presidential campaign, and especially because of the Obama/Clinton race for the Democratic nomination - a new country existing alongside the old.  On any given day we, collectively, become the Goddess of the Three Directions and can look back into the past, look at ourselves just where we are, and take a glance, as well, into the future.  It is a space with which I am familiar.

When I was born in 1944 my parents lived on a middle Georgia plantation that was owned by a white distant relative,  Miss May Montgomery. (During my childhood it was necessary to address all white girls as "Miss" when they reached the age of twelve.) She would never admit to this relationship, of course, except to mock it.  Told by my parents that several of their children would not eat chicken skin she responded that of course they would not.  No Montgomerys would.

My parents and older siblings did everything imaginable for Miss May. They planted and raised her cotton and corn, fed and killed and processed her cattle and hogs, painted her house, patched her roof, ran her dairy, and, among countless other duties and responsibilities my father was her chauffeur, taking her anywhere she wanted to go at any hour of the day or night.  She lived in a large white house with green shutters and a green, luxuriant lawn:  not quite as large as Tara of Gone With the Wind fame, but in the same style.

We lived in a shack without electricity or running water, under a rusty tin roof that let in wind and rain.  Miss May went to school as a girl. The school my parents and their neighbors built for us was burned to the ground by local racists who wanted to keep ignorant their competitors in tenant farming.  During the Depression, desperate to feed his hardworking family, my father asked for a raise from ten dollars a month to twelve.  Miss May responded that she would not pay that amount to a white man and she certainly wouldn't pay it to a nigger.  That before she'd pay a nigger that much money she'd milk the dairy cows herself.

Read on... Alice Walker on Obama | Views | TheRoot.com.

MLK 40 years later: Still searching for the promised land

Watch this video.

Honoring King is Not Enough

        By Marian Wright Edelman

April 4, 2008--The day after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot, I went out into the riot-torn Washington, D.C. streets and into schools in those neighborhoods scorched by flames to talk to the children.  I went to tell them not to loot and raid, so that they would not get arrested and ruin their futures. A young black boy about 12 or 13 years old looked squarely at me and said, "Lady, what future? I ain't got no future. I ain't got nothing to lose."  This young boy spoke the plain truth for himself and millions like him.  Read on...

SYMMES TOWNSHIP, OHIO – Kemper to close for construction

Between Loveland Madeira Road and Twightwee

SYMMES TOWNSHIP, OHIO – William W. Brayshaw, the Hamilton County Engineer, has announced the closing of East Kemper Road between Loveland Madeira Road and Twightwee in Symmes Township beginning Monday, April 21, 2008.

Work being performed by Sunesis is sanitary sewer installation and is anticipated to last until September 21, 2008 (weather permitting).

Sunesis’ detour will be routed over Loveland Madeira Rd. to Loveland Ave. to River Rd (becomes Kemper at Corp. Line) and vice versa.

LOVELAND, OHIO – St. Columban Praying Tribute to our Troops

LOVELAND, OHIO - The April/May edition of St. Columban's Parish newsletter, "The Columban," will pay special tribute to “our many brave men and women who serve in the armed forces. And, it will honor our past veterans in commemoration of Memorial Day.”

If you have a family member, friend or if any of your Loveland subscribers would like St. Columban Parish community to pray for them, please submit his or her names. If you have a short story or tribute to contribute in regard to the military person, you are welcome to do so.

There are many non-profit organizations that offer support for present and past veterans. Some of this support comes in the way of prayers, letter writing and so forth. If you belong to such organizations, you are welcome to send those web addresses so as to be featured as well.

Please send your information to newsletter@stcolumban.org. Submissions are due by 5 PM, Friday, April 11.

Zornes and Weber graduate Basic Training

Air Force Airmen Darryl D. Zornes and Brandin A. Weber have graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.

Zornes is the son of Jenny R. Zornes of Country Lane, Goshen, Ohio, and grandson of Nancy Wethington of Today Drive, Fairfield, Ohio. He is a 2004 graduate of Goshen High School.

Weber is the grandson of Judith Weber of Hampton Court, Maineville, Ohio, and a 2006 graduate of Kings High School, Kings Mills, Ohio.

During the six weeks of training, the airmen studied the Air Force mission, organization, and military customs and courtesies; performed drill and ceremony marches, and received physical training, rifle marksmanship, field training exercises, and special training in human relations. In addition, airmen who complete basic training earn credits toward an associate degree through the Community College of the Air Force.

Centers Tap Into Personal Databases

The center in Ohio has access, through authorized users, to an FBI "secret   level repository

    State groups were formed after 9/11

By Robert O'Harrow Jr. The Washington Post

Intelligence centers run by states across the country have access to personal information about millions of Americans, including unlisted cellphone numbers, insurance claims, driver's license photographs and credit reports, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post.

One center also has access to top-secret data systems at the CIA, the document shows, though it's not clear what information those systems contain.

Dozens of the organizations known as fusion centers were created after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to identify potential threats and improve the way information is shared. The centers use law enforcement analysts and sophisticated computer systems to compile, or fuse, disparate tips and clues and pass along the refined information to other agencies. They are expected to play important roles in national information-sharing networks that link local, state and federal authorities and enable them to automatically sift their storehouses of records for patterns and clues.

Read on... Centers Tap Into Personal Databases.

LOVELAND, OHIO NEWS – Matt "The Hammer" Hamill back on TV

LOVELAND, OHIO NEWS – Former resident and Loveland High School graduate, Matt Hamill will be on Spike TV on Wednesday night at 10 PM in a two hour presentation of Ultimate Fighter.

Matt "The Hammer" Hamill is a deaf American amateur wrestler and MMA fighter. He was a three-time NCAA Wrestling Division III National Champion (167 lb. class in 1997, 190 lb. class in 1998, and 197 lb. class in 1999) while attending the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. In November 2007, Matt was inducted into the RIT Athletics Hall of Fame.

Matt also participated in the Deaflympics in 1997 (Denmark) where he won both golds in greco-roman style and freestyle. Then in 2001 at Rome, Italy, Matt earned a silver in greco-roman style along with a gold medal in freestyle.

He was a contestant on the third season of The Ultimate Fighter reality television show, training under Tito Ortiz in the 205 lb (93 kg) weight class. He won a preliminary fight against Mike Nickels via decision, but was unable to continue into the semi-finals due to injuries.

On June 24, 2006, Matt fought Jesse Forbes on Spike TV on the The Ultimate Fighter 3 Finale and won via TKO.

Matt Hamill defeated Seth Petruzelli via unanimous decision at Ortiz vs. Shamrock 3: The Final Chapter on October 10, 2006. Judges scored the bout 29-28, 30-27, and 29-28 for Hamill.

Matt Hamill fought Rex Holman at UFC 68: The Uprising where he won by TKO in the first round.

Matt fought Michael Bisping at UFC 75 in London, England.

Currently, Matt is training for his next fight against Tim Boetsch at Ultimate Fight Night 13 in Broomfield, Colorado on April 2, 2008! (from: matthamill.com)

CLERMONT COUNTY, OHIO - $1,000 scholarships available

CLERMONT COUNTY, OHIO - The Clermont County Chamber of Commerce has announced that they will be awarding two $1,000 scholarships to UC Clermont students who are employed by a Chamber member.

Applications are being accepted until April 11, 2008. To download an application and view the eligibility requirements, visit UC Clermont’s Web site at: http://www.ucclermont.edu. For more information, contact the Clermont Chamber at 576-5000.