Flood Watch issued September 20 at 1:07PM EDT until September 21 at 8:00AM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)

* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.
* WHERE...Portions of Indiana, including the following counties, Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ripley, Union and Wayne and Ohio, including the following counties, Adams, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont, Clinton, Darke, Delaware, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Hamilton, Hardin, Highland, Hocking, Licking, Logan, Madison, Mercer, Miami, Montgomery, Pickaway, Pike, Preble, Ross, Scioto, Shelby, Union and Warren.
* WHEN...From 7 PM EDT this evening through Monday morning.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - Showers and thunderstorms producing heavy rain will impact the area overnight. Rainfall totals of 1 to 3 inches are expected with locally higher amounts. The heavy rain combined with saturated ground will lead to potential flash flooding.

Flood Warning issued September 20 at 1:05PM EDT until September 21 at 8:00AM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)

...Forecast flooding changed to Minor severity and increased in duration for the following rivers...
St. Marys River at Rockford.
* WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...St. Marys River at Rockford.
* WHEN...Until Monday morning.
* IMPACTS...At 13.0 feet, State Route 117 near Route 118 north of Rockford is water-covered and closed.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - At 12:40 PM EDT Sunday the stage was 13.0 feet. - Forecast...The river is expected to rise to a crest of 13.0 feet this afternoon. It will then fall below flood stage just after midnight tonight. - Flood stage is 13.0 feet.

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

New Bremen volleyball off to strong start at 5-1

By Mark Ruschau

Photo by Mark Pummell/The Daily Standard

New Bremen puts up a nice block with Jackie Dabbelt, 8, and Taylor Jones, 10, in front of St. Marys' Jessica Taylor, 25, during their nonleague matchup of Auglaize County schools on Tuesday evening. New Bremen won in three games, 25-16, 25-21, 25-16.

ST. MARYS -The New Bremen Cardinal volleyball team continued its early season winning ways Tuesday night going on the road, overcoming a sluggish performance, but still coming home with a 25-16, 25-21, 25-16 nonleague match win over Auglaize County rival St. Marys at Cook Gymnasium.

With the win, New Bremen improves to 5-1 while St. Marys falls to 1-5.

"After a holiday on Monday, the game on the Tuesday after is always tough," said New Bremen coach Lisa Thobe. "The girls are tired from the long weekend and having the extra day off and I'm pleased with the way we played tonight. I was concerned with playing them, they took New Knoxville to five games and I had no idea what they had. Coach (Tricia) Naseman has some girls that can hit the ball, and they had made great strides from where they were last year and I am glad to get out of here with a win."

The numbers show the inconsistency and sluggishness of the play of the Cardinals. New Bremen gave up 24 points on hitting errors and an additional 10 points on service errors. On the positive side, the Cardinals held the Roughriders to just 13 kills and three blocks.

"Our intensity was there all night long, even at the beginning of the match," said St. Marys coach Tricia Naseman. "I think we should of picked things up but we didn't and I thought we just played an average game, nothing was great, nothing was terrible, it was just average for the entire game.

"I think our problem right now is consistency," continued Naseman. "We are up and down, up and down. We would score four points and then we would let them score four points. Our consistency is not there, especially in our serve receive and in just getting the ball back over the net, it's just not there yet."

St. Marys returns to action on Thursday night playing host to Grand Lake rival Celina in Western Buckeye League play. New Bremen is also in action on Thursday hosting Coldwater in Midwest Athletic Conference action.

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