WEATHER FORECAST FOR THURSDAY, NOV. 7TH, 2019
TODAY – RAIN, WITH SNOW MIXING IN FOR THE
AFTERNOON. HIGH – 45.
TONIGHT – PARTLY CLOUDY. LOW – 27.
FRIDAY – PARTLY CLOUDY. A FEW FLURRIES OR SNOW
SHOWERS POSSIBLE. HIGH – 38.
SATURDAY – MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGH – 44.
SUNDAY – PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH – 52.
MUSIC DEPARTMENT presents……..
A Patriotic Celebration
Beaver County Band & Chorus Festival
Student Musicians from the following schools will participate:
Ambridge Beaver Beaver County Christian School
Beaver Falls Blackhawk Central Valley Freedom Hopewell
Lincoln Park PACS New Brighton Quigley Catholic Riverside
Rochester South Side Western Beaver
Beaver Area JROTC will present the Colors
Thursday, November 21
Concert @ 7:30 pm
Beaver Area HS Auditorium
Admission is Free
Donations for Beaver Area Music Department accepted at the door
Pittsburgh slips past Florida State 63-61 in ugly ACC opener
By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jeff Capel and Leonard Hamilton expected ugly. Good thing, because the Pittsburgh and Florida State coaches saw plenty of it in their season opener on Wednesday night.
Missed shots. Turnovers. Scrambles for loose balls that looked more like rugby scrums. Oh, and fouls. Lots and lots of fouls. Yet through the whistles and the weirdness, the Panthers found the resolve necessary to grind out a 63-61 victory that laid another brick in the foundation Capel is trying to set in his second year on the job.
“I thought we showed a lot of toughness, showed a lot of togetherness,” Capel said after the Panthers rallied from nine down to beat the Seminoles for a second straight season. “Got an amazing contribution from our bench and I thought guys just fought. We figured out a way to win.”
Reserves Ryan Murphy and Terrell Brown scored 13 points each for the Panthers (1-0, 1-0 ACC), who won despite shooting just 31 percent (16 of 51) from the field. Pitt survived by getting into the lane relentlessly against the bigger Seminoles (0-1, 0-1), an approach that helped them outscore Florida State 22-13 at the free throw line.
“We want to attack,” Capel said. “They’re a team usually with a lot of size but we want to challenge that. That’s who we are and what we do.”
Senior guard Trent Forrest, the only starter returning from a team that reached the Sweet 16 last season, led Florida State with 19 points. Devin Vassell added 14 but the Seminoles couldn’t survive 14 turnovers and 27 fouls. RaiQuan Gray, Malik Osborne and Balsa Koprivica all fouled out for Florida State. The Seminoles also played without 7-foot graduate transfer center Dominik Olejniczak.
Florida State is rebooting after winning a program-record 29 games a year ago. All that newness led to first-game jitters that translated into an over-aggressiveness that led to foul trouble that forced Hamilton to dive deep into his bench. Twelve players saw the floor for the Seminoles.
“We were reaching and grabbing,” Hamilton said. “There were some very anxious fouls and once we got into that situation where we had to play a lot of different lineups, they took advantage of it.”
Still, Florida State went up 40-31 on a layup by Osborne with 13:37 to play. The Panthers, however, responded behind a mixture of old and new faces. Freshman Justin Champagnie hit a 3-pointer to get Pitt started and the Panthers found their footing thanks in part to Brown. A starter a season ago, he began the night on the bench as part of a revamped lineup. He scored all of his 13 points in the second half, including a layup while getting fouled with two minutes to go and made the ensuing free throw to push Pitt’s lead to 59-56.
“I thought Terrell was terrific,” Capel said. “Thought it was one of the best games he’s played since I’ve been here. He finished around the rim and I thought our guys did a good job of finding him.”
The Seminoles had a chance to tie it at the end of regulation but Patrick Williams missed a jumper with two seconds to go. Anthony Polite grabbed the offensive rebound but couldn’t get a shot off before the buzzer. Florida State shot 40 percent (21 of 53) from the floor but just 6 of 20 3-pointers.
“I think we’re still in the developing stage and when you go on the road in the ACC regardless of who you’re playing, you’ve got to execute and be at your best,” Hamilton said. “If we get those same open looks in the future, hopefully they’ll go down a little better. I think their defense had something to do with it.”
BIG PICTURE
Florida State: The Seminoles might be mixing in a sea of new faces but they remain big and athletic. The Seminoles blocked six shots and made things uncomfortable for the Panthers for long stretches before wearing down late
Pitt: Ten months after upsetting the Seminoles behind McGowens and Xavier Johnson — who combined for 48 points — the Panthers showed they might be more versatile this season. Murphy, a junior college transfer who originally began his college career at Charlotte, made 3 of 6 3-pointers and Champagnie overcame a shaky start to knock down a pair of big shots in the second half.
UP NEXT
Florida State: Hosts Western Carolina on Sunday.
Pitt: Begins nonconference play on Saturday at home against Nicholls State.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats have announced they’ll hold the first public hearings next week in their impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. Three State Department officials will testify in hearings Nov. 13 and Nov. 15, according to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff. Schiff, who is leading the probe, announced the hearings.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republicans have held on to a Senate seat in the Richmond area as Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant defeated Democratic challenger Del. Debra Rodman in a race dominated by attack ads over gun control and abortion. Dunnavant, an OB-GYN, blasted Rodman for co-sponsoring a bill that would have loosened rules for a legal, third-trimester abortion by reducing the number of doctors required to find that the procedure was necessary for the life or health of the mother.
GALEANA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican officials say gunmen who killed nine U.S. citizens _ three women and six children _ may have mistaken the group’s large SUVs for those of a rival drug gang. Gen. Hector Mendoza, Mexico’s army chief of staff, said the attackers let some surviving children go, indicating that “it was not a targeted attack.”
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal court judge in New York has struck down a rule letting health care providers object to providing abortions and other services on moral or religious grounds. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer ruled Wednesday in Manhattan. The ruling came after health organizations sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A spokeswoman says the government “will not comment on the pending litigation at this time.”
(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)
There’s been plenty of early backlash from the public through phone conversation and social media over the newly installed “reverse parking” lines along 7th Avenue northbound (Route 18) in Beaver Falls.
In a non-recorded interview with Beaver County Radio, Beaver Falls City Manager Charles “Mick” Jones said that he understands the frustrations of the citizens in regard to the new change, even admitting that he himself wasn’t hot on the idea when he first heard about it.
However, Jones says that the reverse parking–according to studies–is less of a hazard than the old parking situation on 7th Avenue Northbound, and that it’ll prevent fewer collisions in exit situations in years past.
“But it’s not like we’re permanently locked into this,” says Jones. “If we’re still dealing with issues a year from now, we will re-evaluate things.”
Jones, formerly the city’s police chief, said that the main focus of the now is the entirety of the city’s restructuring and rebuild, including (but not limited to) a revamping of the southern end of Geneva College on Route 18, the county’s first ever all-green building, the restoration of the park area at the Carnegie Free Library, and continued improvements to the downtown area.
“This [reverse parking] is just part of a greater plan,” says Jones, “and this is only the beginning”. The restructuring of the downtown area was in conjunction with PennDOT, who Jones says acknowledges Beaver Falls as a good and continuing source of progress in the state with its ongoing progressive changes.
It also came with a $1 million grant to help with the new traffic patterns, “and we’d be foolish not to accept it,” Jones said.
But Jones knows that getting used to the changes will take a while. “I’m all ears,” he said, “if anyone wants to talk to me about this current situation.”
A new report from the Education Law Center says bringing the special-education funding formula into line with the basic education formula would be an important step forward. Andrea Sears reports…