THE LEDGER INDEPENDENT today's recipes to go! life+food today's scores to go! sports WWW.MAYSVILLE-ONLINE.COM/SPORTS SATURDAY, 04.28.2012 | C1 today's Grahamnews fi ghting MS with all she’s got to go! “I went down, and they said, at Fountain Circle in Winchester. TO BE INDUCTED TODAY INTO KHSAA HALL OF FAME ‘What’s wrong?’ and I was fa- Lesions dot her scalp, her left eye tigued,” she said. “I was actually twitches from time to time and ZACK KLEMME “Let me fight. Give me a half a entertainment440-yard relay and 880-yard burning, like skin burning, and she says her eyesight is failing. [email protected] chance to fight,” she said Friday medley relay events in a Lady I knew. I said ‘OK, it’s here,’ and She also has lupus. But Graham morning. “My heart is here, it’s Panthers uniform. that was the first time.” continues to look at MS as an op- WINCHESTER | Multiple just my legs. That’s the problem.” Not long after those days, Gra- What caused that was multiple ponent she can beat. sclerosis has, for the time being, Graham is being inducted ham first realized at a track meet sclerosis (MS). MS is a chronic Terms such as “adversity” and taken from Maxine Graham the today into the Kentucky High she was afflicted with something, disease that damages the nerves “courage” have all but lost their use today'sof her legs. School Athletic Association Hall she said. She earned an opportu- in the spinal cord and brain, as meaning thanks to their overuse, But the former Fleming Coun- of Fame. She is still the state’s re- nity to compete at a Junior Olym- well as the optic nerves, accord- especially in the sports vernacu- ty tracknews and field standout, who cord holder in the long jump after pics event in Tennessee at the age ing to webmed.com. lar. makes no effort to hide the com- she propelled herself 20 feet, 4 of “17 or 18, something like that,” Graham is currently bedrid- petitiveto spiritgo! coursing inside her, inches in 1975, and won 10 state she said, and she “can remember den at the Kindred Transitional plans to get them back. titles in high jump, long jump, going down on regionboth knees.” Care and Rehabilitation Center+state See GRAHAM, C2 HOUSTON 6, CINCINNATI 4 Sixtoday's early Astros runs too much for Reds comeback views LEAKEto go! GETS ROCKED opinion Associated Press CINCINNATI | Jose Altuve drove in two runs with a triple and a double, leading Wandy Ro- driguez and the Houston Astros past the Cincinnati Reds 6-4 on Friday night. Jed Lowrie also had two hits for the Astros, who have won consecutive games for the first time since a three-game winning streak April 7-9. Houston hit .316 during three games in Milwaukee this week and had 14 hits in a 7-5 win in the series finale Wednes- day. Rodriguez (2-2) gave up two runs and six hits in six innings. He walked two and struck out six. The left-hander allowed only one earned run over 14 innings in his previous two starts. Astros first baseman Carlos Lee left in the first inning because of a sprained left ankle. ASSOCIATED PRESS Jay Bruce’s fifth home run of Cincinnati Reds’ Jay Bruce, left, slides safely into home plate past Houston Astros catcher Jason Castro, right, after a Todd Frazier triple during the fifth inning, thetuesday, season and 04.27,2010 second in two | days the Friday,ledger in Cincinnati. independent The Astros won 6-4. www.maysville-online.com/news and Devin Mesoraco’s first of the year, on consecutive pitches from The Astros took a 2-0 lead in the play. J.D. Martinez added an Johnson and Altuve sandwiched lips’ error today'son Brian Bogusevic’s Fernando Abad with one out in the third. Jason Castro led off RBI single. around Jordan Schafer’s run- sharp grounder.news the ninth, prompted Houston to with a bloop single and Altuve hit Houston chased starter Mike scoring single. Three of the runs to go! bring in closer Brett Myers. He a two-out triple to right as Bruce Leake with a four-run fourth that were unearned due to Gold Glove regiongot two outs for his fourth save. tried to make+ a divingstate catch on included RBI doubles by Chris second baseman Brandon Phil- See REDS, C4 FLEMING COUNTY 1, Massectionon b tuesday, Count 04.27,2010y |tr theack ledger independentsweeps www.maysville-online.com/lifestylesMENIFEE COUNTY 0 today's recipes Fleming County Twilight Invitational Lady Panthersto go! BRAD LAUX + lifeFor The Ledger Independent travel eke out win in FLEMINGSBURG | Madison Paver and Julia Woods each won three individual events, and Mason County captured six of seventh inning thesection eight relay b titlestuesday, at Friday 04.27,2010 | the ledger independent www.maysville-online.com/entertainment night’s Fleming County Twilight Invitational as the Royals and the SMALL BALL PROPELStoday's Lady Royals cruised to the team recipes crowns. FLEMING TO WIN Paver captured all three to go! sprints — the 100-meter dash, entertainmentthe 200-meter dash and the CHUCK HAMILTON 400-meter dash; while Woods [email protected] seventy-five cents won two distance events — the 800-meter run and the FLEMINGSBURG | When a high school softball 1600-meter run — as well as the game lasts just an hour, you’d expect a real pitch- pole vault as the Lady Royals er’s duel and that’s exactly what occurred at Lady captured the team title with 201 Panther Field on a cool Friday evening. points. Fleming County was able to finally dent the BRAD LAUX, FOR THE LEDGER INDEPENDENT scoreboard with a run in the bottom of the seventh Mason County’s Madison Paver wins an event at a track meet at Fleming County on Fri- inning to defeat 61st District rival Menifee County day. The Royals and Lady Royals were both victorious as teams. See TRACK, C3 1-0. The Lady Panthers had been held hitless and struck out 12 times by Lady Cats sophomore Erika Brewer over the first six innings but a bunt single from Mandy Hord past a drawn-in third baseman plated Cristi Petersen with the only run of the Coaching veteran Harrop tapped to game. With the victory, Fleming swept the season se- ries against Menifee and finished 6-0 in district mentor West Union boys’ basketball play to earn the top seed in the district tourna- ment. The Lady Panthers won 3-0 in Frenchburg on ‘START FROM WHERE WE ARE NOW AND MOVE FORWARD’ Monday and sophomore Sarah Boyd was the win- ning pitcher on both meetings against the Lady Cats. ZACK KLEMME two total wins in the last two years, trict 14 Division IV coach of the year “I had planned to only use Rachel for a few in- [email protected] one of which came against Southern in 2009. nings today and bring in Kayla Biddle because Hills League competition. His grandfather and father — Menifee had just seen Sarah a few days ago,” said When a school is looking for a “We’re gonna build on what the Walter Harrop Sr. and Walter Jr. — Fleming County coach Nathan Ryver. “But when basketball coach to lead a rebuilding players know now and build an ex- are both members of the Ohio High she’s pitching as well as she did today, it makes it effort, it can’t ask for much more pectation of winning,” Harrop said School Basketball Coaches Associa- hard to take her out. The key was she didn’t have in a potential head man than West Friday. “We’re going to use youth tion Hall of Fame, with a combined to throw a lot of pitches because they were swing- Union thinks it’s found in Trent as an advantage and we’re going 950-plus wins. ing early in the count and we played good defense Harrop. to not focus on the past, but start “Basketball’s been in my blood behind her.” He’s a former coach of the year from where we are now and move since day one,” the new Dragons The Lady Panthers committed just one error and with a winning record who knows forward.” bench boss said. left fielder Morgan Stephens made an outstand- the Dragons’ program and comes Harrop coached at Peebles from Harrop was an assistant at West ing catch on a deep drive from Brewer with one out from a family of successful coaches. 1998-99 and Western Pike from Union under Blaine Roush in the and a runner on base in the sixth inning to prevent Now Harrop, who was hired this 2007-09. 1999-2000 season. a possible Lady Cats run. week, turns his attention to getting His career record, he said, is West Union. back to relevance in 38-28, with two sectional titles at the league race. The Dragons have Western, and he was named the Dis- See HARROP, C5 See FLEMING, C5 .