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Arsalan Shabbir MD, Dermatologist from University of Miami speaking about "Nanomedicine, and Cellular Regeneration"
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Shortly after seven on a sunny spring morning in 2004, I freaked out in front of five million people.
I was filling in on "Good Morning America," anchoring the news updates at the top of each hour. I had done this job plenty of times before, so I had no reason to foresee what would happen shortly after the co-hosts, Diane Sawyer and Charlie Gibson, tossed it over to me for my brief newscast: I was overtaken by a massive, irresistible blast of fear. It felt like the world was ending. My heart was thumping. I was gasping for air. I had pretty much lost the ability to speak. And all of it was compounded by the knowledge that my freak-out was being broadcast live on national television. Halfway through the six stories I was supposed to read, I simply bailed, squeaking out a "Back to you."
My job as a reporter generally does not require me to reveal too much about my private life, beyond innocuous banter on Twitter and with my co-hosts on the weekend edition of "GMA" (Likes: animals, music, baked goods. Dislikes: math, reporting outside during snowstorms). But what I discovered as a result of the panic attack has genuinely improved my life, and could, I suspect, help many other people. So even though telling the story makes me uncomfortable, I've decided it's worth the risk.
One of the first things I learned when I consulted a shrink after the on-air meltdown was that the probable cause was my well-hidden and well-managed (or so I thought) drug use. In 2003, after spending several years covering the wars in Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine and Iraq, I became depressed. In an act of towering stupidity, I began to self-medicate, dabbling with cocaine and ecstasy. I'm not talking "Wolf of Wall Street"-level debauchery. My intake was sporadic, and mostly restricted to weekends. I had never been much of a partier before this period in my early thirties. In hindsight, it was an attempt, at least partly, to recreate some of the thrill of the war zone. A side-effect of all of this, as my doctor explained to me, was that the drugs had increased the level of adrenaline in my brain, dramatically boosting the odds of a panic attack. It didn't matter that I hadn't gotten high in the days or weeks leading up to my on-air Waterloo; those side-effects lingered.
The doctor decreed in no uncertain terms that I needed to stop doing drugs -- immediately. Faced with the potential demise of my career, it was a pretty obvious call. But as I sat there in his office, the sheer enormity of my mindlessness started to sink in -- from hurtling headlong into war zones without considering the psychological consequences, to using drugs for a synthetic squirt of replacement adrenaline. It was as if I had been sleepwalking through a cascade of moronic behavior. I knew I needed to make some changes to get my life in check -- but I didn't know how, or what they would be, exactly.
By pure happenstance, and despite my lifelong agnosticism, my boss and mentor, Peter Jennings, had assigned me to cover faith. Thus began a strange little odyssey. Leveraging my position as a reporter, I explored everything from mainstream religion to the bizarre fringes of self-help to the nexus of spirituality and neuroscience. The accidental yet enormously helpful end result of all this poking around: I became a reluctant convert to meditation.
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Joining the already impressive bill of speakers at the Open Compute Project Summit in San Jose, California, Brian Obernesser (Director of Data Center Architecture with Fidelity Investments) gave a short and powerful presentation simply titled the Open Bridge Rack walking the audience through the process of designing this device, from inception through manufacturing.
Fidelity has been active in OCP since the beginning, leading and participating in a variety of OCP projects and forums.
In addition to the obvious benefits of the mechanical and the electrical efficiencies on the hardware side, Fidelity embraces the spirit of innovation, open collaboration thats so prevalent in the community today, said Obernesser.But when it comes to adopting OCP hardware, for Fidelity it starts with the rack. We had some challenges with the initial OpenRack designs.
There were the obvious hardware incompatibilities between EIA and OCP standards, but for us OCP adoption meant rack replacement. Power systems were sometimes welded to racks, meaning manufacturers would have to operate or design outside their core competencies. Serviceability was a challenge as well. Some of the welded components were difficult if not impossible to access if they required repair, explained Obernesser.
The initial OCP OpenRack designs were not ready for enterprise consumption. That led Fidelity to design their own.
We submitted an idea to the Hackathon in January 2013, an idea of a convertible rack, and a team of five people came up with the first schematics, recalled Obernesser. It was still pretty bulky, heavy, difficult to manufacture and expensive.
This led Fidelity to search for strategic partners in the industry, with experience in manufacturing these components, bringing them where they are today.
The benefits of OpenRack are multiple: it is compatible with both OCP and EIA and it can be converted from the EIA to OCP standards very rapidly, explained Obernesser. The power has been disaggregated from the rack, so this allows subject matter experts and manufacturers to innovate within their respective areas. It also allows Fidelity to respond to the rack demands in our environment.
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Google, acknowledging that many of our customers still use traditional desktop applications has teamed up with VMware to bring the Windows desktop and apps to Chrome OS. Apparently 21% of commercial laptop sales in the US last year were Chromebooks and with Windows XP soon to be retired, Google and VMware think its prime time you make the jump to Chrome OS.
The setup goes something like this: You (or rather your companys IT admin) installs the VMware Horizon DaaS server. Horizon (which costs thousands of dollars) is basically a big server that runs virtualized instances of Windows. Then, when a user wants to use a Windows desktop or app, they simply connect to the server and request one of those instances. In this case, that connection is made using VMware View and as of 2011, theres an HTML5 version of VMware View that works in all major browsers, including Chrome OS. (In the photo above you can see an early beta version of VMware View logging into Windows 7 on a Chromebook.)
The HTML5 viewer is surprisingly good, especially over a high-speed LAN but you probably wont be using it to play fast-paced games on your Chromebook. The main use-case here is giving employees access to legacy applications old, sometimes bespoke Windows programs that are very difficult to upgrade or migrate. This solution could also allow you to use high-performance applications like Photoshop on your wimpy, low-spec Chromebook.
Beyond platform agnosticism, the biggest benefits of running the Windows Desktop as a Service (DaaS) are ease of management and security. As you may know, Windows (for a variety of reasons) isnt the safest OS for enterprise use while Chrome OS, at least according to Google, is highly secure and doesnt require additional antivirus software. With Windows XP finally being retired in April, Google is hoping that business customers will switch to Chromebooks + VMware, rather than upgrading to Windows 7 or 8. This is probably a bit too optimistic on Googles behalf, but theres no denying that theres a large, ongoing shift towards cheaper, thin clients that leverage remote computing power (the cloud, a local server, etc.)
The hard truth is that, in a large number of cases, most users dont need a full Windows machine. Almost everything can now be done in the browser a fact that Google must be very, very happy about.
To use Windows apps on your Chromebook, youll need to be running VMware Horizon DaaS and have access to VMware Horizon View 5.3 which are currently only available as subscription-based services. Google says Horizon View will soon come to the Chrome Web Store, but Im fairly certain you will still need the very expensive Horizon DaaS software to use it.
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Platelets, whose primary function is to prevent bleeding, are vital for treating various forms of trauma and blood diseases. However, they can only be obtained through blood donations at present. Researchers reporting online February 13 in the Cell Press journal Cell Stem Cell recently found a way to create platelets without the need for donated blood, an advance that could possibly erase supply shortages and ensure platelet treatments for all who need them.
The supply of donated platelets, which have a short shelf life and must be kept at room temperature, is often insufficient to meet clinical needs. In addition, while transfused platelets do not typically need to be immune-matched to patients, repeated transfusion of unmatched platelets leads to an immune reaction that eventually renders patients unresponsive to platelet transfusion therapy.
To address these limitations, investigators from Japan developed a strategy to derive functional platelets from human induced pluripotent stem cells. Induced pluripotent stem cells can be generated from various types of cells in the body, and they can in turn be coaxed to develop into nearly any other cell type. In the current study, the approach involved genetically manipulating such stem cells to become stable immortalized lines of platelet-producing cells called megakaryocyte progenitors.
The megakaryocyte progenitors could produce large quantities of platelets with clotting capabilities that were similar to those of donated platelets. Unlike freshly donated platelets, though, the immortalized megakaryocyte progenitors could be expanded and frozen for long-term storage.
"Here we established a method to achieve the long-term self-replication of megakaryocyte progenitors as an immortalized cell line, which could eventually contribute to large-scale cultivation and production of platelets," says senior author Dr. Koji Eto of Kyoto University and the University of Tokyo.
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Everyday our cells take in nutrients from food and convert them into the building blocks that make life possible. However, it has been challenging to pinpoint exactly how a single nutrient or vitamin changes gene expression and physiology. Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School have developed a novel interspecies model system that allows these questions to be answered. In a study appearing in the journal Cell, UMMS researchers use this new approach to show how bacterially supplied vitamin B12 changes gene expression, development and fertility in the model organism C. elegans.
"In mammals, micronutrients are provided by a combination of diet and gut flora," said A.J. Marian Walhout, PhD, co-director of the Program in Systems Biology and professor of molecular medicine at UMMS and senior author of the study. "We've developed a powerful approach that can be used to unravel the complex interaction between nutrients, gene expression and physiology by systematically studying both the predator (worm) and the prey (bacteria). With it we can begin to answer important questions about how what we eat affects how we function."
The key to the study was a set of complimentary genetic screens performed on the transparent roundworm C. elegans and two kinds of bacteria that comprised the worm's diet -- Comamonas and E. coli. In a pair of papers published last year, Walhout and colleagues described dramatic changes in gene expression between worms fed only Comamonas and those fed only E. coli bacteria. Linked to these genetic changes were profound physiological differences between the worms. Comamonas-fed worms developed faster and were less fertile than their E. coli-fed counterparts.
By genetically dissecting the two bacteria and using a special C. elegans strain developed to sense changes to diet-related gene expression, Walhout and colleagues were able to zero in on a set of genes present in Comamonas but absent from E. coli. Further testing confirmed that these genes were responsible for producing vitamin B12 in Comamonas and it was the presence of the micronutrient that accounted for the genetic and physiological differences seen between the worms on different diets.
Importantly, Walhout found that vitamin B12 fulfills two important functions in C. elegans: It helps regulate development through the methionine/SAM cycle, which is needed for the production of cell membranes in new cells. It also alleviates potentially toxic buildups of the short-chain fatty acid propionic acid, which can alter gene expression or harm cells.
"C. elegans fed E. coli are actually vitamin B12 deficient and this reflects only one natural state of the animal," said Walhout. "Because E. coli has been the standard laboratory diet for decades it would be interesting to study other characteristics of the worm, such as behavior, mating and movement, on a vitamin B12 rich diet."
Walhout and colleagues say that this system can also be adapted to identify genetic and physiological changes caused by other micronutrients in C. elegans. With the proper human analogs, it's possible that we could one day predict the precise interaction between diet, gene expression and physiology that occurs when we eat a carrot, hamburger, steak or any other food. Doing so might someday lead to new insights into a variety of conditions or diseases such as high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes and obesity. It can also be used to explore the precise benefits of bacteria found in gut flora.
"It turns out a single transgenic worm is a powerful tool for exploring the complex interaction between macro and micronutrients, gene expression and physiology," said Emma Watson, a doctoral student in the Walhout Lab and first author on the Cell study.
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WORCESTER, MA Everyday our cells take in nutrients from food and convert them into the building blocks that make life possible. However, it has been challenging to pinpoint exactly how a single nutrient or vitamin changes gene expression and physiology. Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School have developed a novel interspecies model system that allows these questions to be answered. In a study appearing in the journal Cell, UMMS researchers use this new approach to show how bacterially supplied vitamin B12 changes gene expression, development and fertility in the model organism C. elegans.
"In mammals, micronutrients are provided by a combination of diet and gut flora," said A.J. Marian Walhout, PhD, co-director of the Program in Systems Biology and professor of molecular medicine at UMMS and senior author of the study. "We've developed a powerful approach that can be used to unravel the complex interaction between nutrients, gene expression and physiology by systematically studying both the predator (worm) and the prey (bacteria). With it we can begin to answer important questions about how what we eat affects how we function."
The key to the study was a set of complimentary genetic screens performed on the transparent roundworm C. elegans and two kinds of bacteria that comprised the worm's diet Comamonas and E. coli. In a pair of papers published last year, Walhout and colleagues described dramatic changes in gene expression between worms fed only Comamonas and those fed only E. coli bacteria. Linked to these genetic changes were profound physiological differences between the worms. Comamonas-fed worms developed faster and were less fertile than their E. coli-fed counterparts.
By genetically dissecting the two bacteria and using a special C. elegans strain developed to sense changes to diet-related gene expression, Walhout and colleagues were able to zero in on a set of genes present in Comamonas but absent from E. coli. Further testing confirmed that these genes were responsible for producing vitamin B12 in Comamonas and it was the presence of the micronutrient that accounted for the genetic and physiological differences seen between the worms on different diets.
Importantly, Walhout found that vitamin B12 fulfills two important functions in C. elegans: It helps regulate development through the methionine/SAM cycle, which is needed for the production of cell membranes in new cells. It also alleviates potentially toxic buildups of the short-chain fatty acid propionic acid, which can alter gene expression or harm cells.
"C. elegans fed E. coli are actually vitamin B12 deficient and this reflects only one natural state of the animal," said Walhout. "Because E. coli has been the standard laboratory diet for decades it would be interesting to study other characteristics of the worm, such as behavior, mating and movement, on a vitamin B12 rich diet."
Walhout and colleagues say that this system can also be adapted to identify genetic and physiological changes caused by other micronutrients in C. elegans. With the proper human analogs, it's possible that we could one day predict the precise interaction between diet, gene expression and physiology that occurs when we eat a carrot, hamburger, steak or any other food. Doing so might someday lead to new insights into a variety of conditions or diseases such as high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes and obesity. It can also be used to explore the precise benefits of bacteria found in gut flora.
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Image Caption: Analysis for the distribution of shapes of melanin-containing organelles (melanosomes) in fossil and living amniotes shows that fuzz-covered dinosaurs like Sinosauropteryx share similarities with living lizards, turtles and crocodilians. In these living taxa color and the shape of the melanosomes are not linked in such a way that color can be reconstructed from melanosome shape alone. Melanosomes in Sinosauropteryx don't presently tell us if this animal was brown, blackish or grey. However, feathered dinosaurs are similar to birds, and we can estimate their color. Credit: Li et al. (authors)
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New research that revises the rules allowing scientists to decipher color in dinosaurs may also provide a tool for understanding the evolutionary emergence of flight and changes in dinosaur physiology prior to its origin.
In a survey comparing the hair, skin, fuzz and feathers of living terrestrial vertebrates and fossil specimens, a research team from The University of Texas at Austin, the University of Akron, the China University of Geosciences and four other Chinese institutions found evidence for evolutionary shifts in the rules that govern the relationship between color and the shape of pigment-containing organelles known as melanosomes, as reported in the Feb. 13 edition of Nature.
At the same time, the team unexpectedly discovered that ancient maniraptoran dinosaurs, paravians, and living mammals and birds uniquely shared the evolutionary development of diverse melanosome shapes and sizes. (Diversity in the shape and size of melanosomes allows scientists to decipher color.) The evolution of diverse melanosomes in these organisms raises the possibility that melanosome shape and size could yield insights into dinosaur physiology.
Melanosomes have been at the center of recent research that has led scientists to suggest the colors of ancient fossil specimens covered in fuzz or feathers.
Melanosomes contain melanin, the most common light-absorbing pigment found in animals. Examining the shape of melanosomes from fossil specimens, scientists have recently suggested the color of several ancient species, including the fuzzy first-discovered feathered dinosaur Sinosauropteryx, and feathered species like Microraptor and Anchiornis.
According to the new research, color-decoding works well for some species, but the color of others may be trickier than thought to reconstruct.
Comparing melanosomes of 181 extant specimens, 13 fossil specimens and all previously published data on melanosome diversity, the researchers found that living turtles, lizards and crocodiles, which are ectothermic (commonly known as cold-blooded), show much less diversity in the shape of melanosomes than birds and mammals, which are endothermic (warm-blooded, with higher metabolic rates).
The limited diversity in melanosome shape among living ectotherms shows little correlation to color. The same holds true for fossil archosaur specimens with fuzzy coverings scientists have described as protofeathers or pycnofibers. In these specimens, melanosome shape is restricted to spherical forms like those in modern reptiles, throwing doubt on the ability to decipher the color of these specimens from fossil melanosomes.
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Everyday our cells take in nutrients from food and convert them into the building blocks that make life possible. However, it has been challenging to pinpoint exactly how a single nutrient or vitamin changes gene expression and physiology. Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School have developed a novel interspecies model system that allows these questions to be answered. In a study appearing in the journalCell, UMMS researchers use this new approach to show how bacterially supplied vitamin B12 changes gene expression, development and fertility in the model organismC. elegans.
In mammals, micronutrients are provided by a combination of diet and gut flora, said A.J. Marian Walhout, PhD, co-director of the Program in Systems Biology and professor of molecular medicine at UMMS and senior author of the study. Weve developed a powerful approach that can be used to unravel the complex interaction between nutrients, gene expression and physiology by systematically studying both the predator (worm) and the prey (bacteria). With it we can begin to answer important questions about how what we eat affects how we function.
The key to the study was a set of complimentary genetic screens performed on the transparent roundwormC. elegansand two kinds of bacteria that comprised the worms diet ComamonasandE. coli. In a pair of papers published last year, Walhout and colleagues described dramatic changes in gene expression between worms fed onlyComamonasand those fed onlyE. colibacteria. Linked to these genetic changes were profound physiological differences between the worms.Comamonas-fed worms developed faster and were less fertile than theirE. coli-fed counterparts.
By genetically dissecting the two bacteria and using a specialC. elegansstrain developed to sense changes to diet-related gene expression, Walhout and colleagues were able to zero in on a set of genes present inComamonasbut absent fromE. coli. Further testing confirmed that these genes were responsible for producing vitamin B12 inComamonasand it was the presence of the micronutrient that accounted for the genetic and physiological differences seen between the worms on different diets.
Importantly, Walhout found that vitamin B12 fulfills two important functions inC. elegans: It helps regulate development through the methionine/SAM cycle, which is needed for the production of cell membranes in new cells. It also alleviates potentially toxic buildups of the short-chain fatty acid propionic acid, which can alter gene expression or harm cells.
C. elegansfedE. coliare actually vitamin B12 deficient and this reflects only one natural state of the animal, said Walhout. BecauseE. colihas been the standard laboratory diet for decades it would be interesting to study other characteristics of the worm, such as behavior, mating and movement, on a vitamin B12 rich diet.
Walhout and colleagues say that this system can also be adapted to identify genetic and physiological changes caused by other micronutrients inC. elegans. With the proper human analogs, its possible that we could one day predict the precise interaction between diet, gene expression and physiology that occurs when we eat a carrot, hamburger, steak or any other food. Doing so might someday lead to new insights into a variety of conditions or diseases such as high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes and obesity. It can also be used to explore the precise benefits of bacteria found in gut flora.
It turns out a single transgenic worm is a powerful tool for exploring the complex interaction between macro and micronutrients, gene expression and physiology, said Emma Watson, a doctoral student in the Walhout Lab and first author on theCellstudy.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, February 14. THE 2014 Legends of Texas Clinic, sponsored by ASCA, will be April 11, 12, 7 13 in Houston, Texas.
Clinic Schedule 8 AM -- 4 PM Level 3 Physiology of Training Course
5 PM -- 6 PM Keynote: The Art of Selling the Sport of Swimming to Parents and Athletes John Leonard, ASCA
6:15 PM -- 7:15 PM What are the Components of the Environment that can Develop Elite Athletes? Panel Discussion
8 AM -- 4 PM Level 3 Physiology of Training Course John Leonard, ASCA
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6:15 PM -- 7:15 PM What are the Components of the Environment that can Develop Elite Athletes? Panel Discussion
8 AM -- 4 PM Level 3 Physiology of Training Course John Leonard, ASCA
5 PM -- 6 PM Keynote: The Art of Selling the Sport of Swimming to Parents and Athletes John Leonard, ASCA
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NEW PORT RICHEY Pasco County students got a chance to show off their skills to the community last weekend at the Pasco Regional Science and Engineering Fair at the Center for the Arts at River Ridge.
More than 260 students presented research projects in categories ranging from biochemistry and behavioral science to environmental studies and Earth and planetary science.
Their day began early Saturday with a public viewing and several rounds of judging and ended with trophies and plaques awarded.
The level of the experiments is so much greater than it was last year, said Amelia Van Name Larson, assistant superintendent for student achievement.
Many of our students today will hold jobs not yet invented with skills not yet defined, Larson said during the awards ceremony. We must teach them to ask the right questions to shape what is to come.
The fair showed that innovation is not limited by age and that many of the projects filled a practical need of society.
One project studied the solar efficiency of roofing materials. Another focused on finding new ways to clean up oil spills. Raj Warman, a 10th-grade student at Academy on the Lakes, created an original mathematical equation to aid in the early detection of diseases such as cancer.
Winners will be in Lakeland on April 8 through 10 to compete in the 59th State Science and Engineering Fair for a chance to compete at the national and international levels.
Awards
Junior Division 1, Alex Hsieh, St. Josephs; 2, London Woods, Hilldale Middle School; 3, Talana Holland, Hilldale Middle School.
Senior Division 1, Ashlee Fletcher and Makenna Hukill, Muskogee High School; 2, Amber Roberts, Westville High School; 3, Hayden Jacobs, Bailey Speake, Muskogee High School.
Advisor/Sponsor of Best of Fair winner, Junior Division Neil Workman.
Best of Fair Ashlee Fletcher and Makenna Hukill, Muskogee High School.
Office of Naval Research, Junior Division Talana Holland, Hilldale Middle School; James Harper, Hilldale Middle School.
Office of Naval Research, Senior Division Hayden Jacobs, Muskogee High School; Bailey Speake, Muskogee High School.
Judges Award in Memory of Dr. C.L. Oglesbee (Most Promising Project), Junior Division Jackson Teegarden, Twin Hills.
Judges Award in Memory of Dr. C.L. Oglesbee (Most Promising Project), Senior Division Brandon Aphonexay, Muldrow High School.
Connors State College Senior Scholarships ($500) Ashley Mayle, Muskogee High School; Michelle Perkins, Muskogee High School; Paige Ennis, Westville High School.
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Watch: KMBC #39;s Stephanie Ramos performs national anthem at Comets game
Watch as KMBC Anchor and US Army Reserve Captain Stephanie Ramos performs the national anthem during military appreciation day at a Comets game.
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Seven months after ending Cooperstowns softball season, the Comets have done it again, this time to the CCS volleyball team.
Cooperstown took the first game, 25-23, in a Class C-2 quarterfinal match, but the Hawkeyes fell, 3-1, to fifth seeded Sandy Creek. Katie Franck finished with four kills, one ace, and 15 assists and Caroline Leonard added 11 kills, but it wasnt enough to beat the Comets.
They were good, said Cooperstown coach Rich Jantzi. They started all seniors and they were tough.
It seemed as if it would be a close match after the first game, which featured seven ties and ended with an ace by Katie Franck to give the Hawkeyes a 25-23 victory.
The Comets came out strong in the second game though, never trailing after a 3-3 tie, and taking the game 25-13.
Sandy Creek was very disciplined in their play, generating few errors after the first game. They continued this play in the third game, jumping to an early 4-0 lead and winning, 25-10.
They were a lot cleaner than us tonight, said Jantzi. We had 23 hitting errors and 11 serving errors, thats 34 points right there.
The Comets were led by Kylee Martin, who had 24 assists, 10 digs, and four aces and Kylie Hanni, who finished with 11 kills, eight digs, and three blocks. McKenna Guarasce also added 12 kills and four blocks.
They were very good last year, Jantzi said of Sandy Creek. We hadnt played them in five years and I honestly had no idea what to expect. They had the experience.
Sandy Creek looked as if they would take the fourth game as easily as the previous two. The Comets came out and held a 14-9 lead, which prompted Cooperstown to call a timeout.
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FULTON Castons boys basketball team rallied for a big win over Class 3A Maconaquah on Thursday night.
Dustin Offenberger knocked down the game-winning shot with 17 seconds left to go to lift the Comets to a 53-52 win over the Braves.
The Comets improved to 10-7 and they are 9-1 on their home court. The Braves dropped to 4-10.
With the Comets trailing by one, Quentin Douglass drove and found Offenberger open from 16 feet for the game-winner.
Quentin made a great pass and I was just feeling it and shot it and it went in, said Offenberger, who scored a game-high 22 points in the win. Its definitely a key victory for us because we havent played a lot of great teams. Theyre a really good team and that was just a big win for us.
Following Offenbergers basket, Wyatt Hughes, the Braves 6-foot-6 freshman center, got the ball on the right block but his shot attempt went halfway down before bouncing out. Douglass got the rebound and was fouled with 1.7 seconds left. He missed the front end of a 1-and-1. K.J. Walton rebounded and called timeout with 0.8 seconds left for the Braves. Walton caught an inbounds pass near the top of the key and his turnaround 3-point attempt bounced off the backboard and rim as time expired.
The Braves led throughout the entire first three quarters but never by more than nine points. They led 31-25 at halftime before Caston cut the lead to 42-41 after three.
The Comets took their first lead, 47-44, on Offenbergers fourth 3 of the game with 5:50 remaining. The rest of the game was back and forth until Offenbergers game-winner.
Brayton Jellison had 15 points and five rebounds, and Douglass added nine points, seven rebounds and seven assists.
None of Douglass assists were bigger than on the game-winning shot.
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