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DETROIT — As well as the Cleveland Indians are playing, sending Corey Kluber to the mound makes them pretty close to a sure thing.
On Saturday night, the combination of Cleveland’s offense and Kluber’s pitching meant that a 10th straight victory was in the bag long before the sun set over Detroit.
Cleveland scored four runs in the first inning and Kluber only allowed one in eight innings as the Indians moved their winning streak to double figures with a 5-2 victory over the Tigers.

High Schools
Football
Delphos St. John’s 34,
Lima Central Catholic 10
Score by quarters:
LCC`3`7`0`0 `–`10
DSJ`0`21`0`13 `–`34
Scoring:
LCC – Ron Banks 34-yard field goal
DSJ – Jared Wurst 27-yard pass to Connor Hulihan (Mark Wrasman kick)
LCC – Logan Schultz 14-yard run (Banks kick)
DSJ – Isaac Musser 50-yard run (Wrasman kick)
DSJ – Wurst 4-yard run (Wrasman kick)

LIMA — Lima Senior’s Colton Fry and Lima Central Catholic’s Xanan Ruiz each scored a goal in a 1-1 boys soccer match Saturday at Spartan Stadium.
Lima Senior’s Micah Rex had three saves and LCC’s Jack Zerante had a pair of saves in goal for their respective schools.
New Knoxville 1,
Van Wert 0
NEW KNOXVILLE — Chris Covert scored the match’s only goal on assist by Joesph Baende. Nathan Merges made six saves to earn the shutout in goal.
Volleyball

Interesting letter by Mr. Donaldson, who believes in a Democratic system of government but does not believe in an individual’s right to select whether or not they want to join an organization. It is my belief that the right to cast preference in selection of political party is paramount to the very core of our society, and that no one should have the audacity of demanding that individuals follow like sheep to the slaughter or lemmings to the sea.

Lima recently hired five police officers, three who have relatives working for the city. An ordinance is needed to curtail nepotism. Because of this, I will not support David Berger in the election this year. Twenty-eight years in office is enough.

LIMA — The streets are crowded with traffic, both motorized and pedestrian, as people move from shop to shop browsing or looking for that hard-to-find item. After working up an appetite, shoppers stop by local eateries to get a hamburger or indulge in dessert.

Reading about the disaster in Houston, I’m so moved by the way that ordinary citizens are coming out — in boats and on foot — to help their fellow residents. The media is reporting that these informal efforts are equal in size to government rescue activities.

In recent Lima News columns, both Thomas Lucente and Neil Winget write about the Civil War in ways that deemphasize slavery while glorifying Confederate leaders as fighting for a “noble” cause. These columnists engage with an interpretation of the Civil War which downplays the overwhelming evidence showing that the war was first-and-foremost a conflict about the maintenance of slavery in the South.

DELPHOS – You just have to take advantage of scoring opportunities when they are presented to you.
Delphos St. John’s did while Lima Central Catholic didn’t and the result was a 34-10 win for the Blue Jays on Saturday afternoon at Stadium Park.
LCC falls to 1-1 on the young season while Delphos improves to 2-0.
The Thunderbirds actually controlled the first quarter as they ran 19 plays from scrimmage to only 8 by the Blue Jays. LCC took the lead at 3-0 on a 34-yard field goal by Ron Banks at the 2:21 mark of that initial period of play.

”Arma virumque cano” is the first full sentence I learned in Latin. It’s the opening line to Virgil’s “Aeneid” and means “I sing of arms and the man.”
Clearly, I’m not Virgil, even after four years of high school Latin and an award from a classical society for my epic rewrite of the “Fall of Pompei.” Epically bad, that is.
So I will narrow my horizons for this column: I speak of feet and the woman.