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ZIKA OUTBREAK WORLD PAGE 8

TIME TO COZY UP YOUR HOMESUBURBAN LIVING PAGE 17

HIGHER TEMPERATURES MAKE MOSQUITOESSPREAD DISEASE MORE

By Samantha WeigelDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Seeking to preserve the San MateoCounty coast’s rich agricultural histo-ry, the Peninsula Open Space Trust isembarking on a multi-million dollareffort to preserve dwindling farmlandin perpetuity.

Officials with the nonprofit POST,local farmers and Supervisor Don

Horsley will gather Thursday, Feb. 4,to announce the Farmland FuturesInitiative. POST seeks to raise $25million to triple the amount of farm-

land it has acquiredand permanentlyprotected for agri-culture along thecoast. This 10-yearinitiative is alreadygaining tractionhaving securedmore than $7. 5 mil-lion from donors todate, according to

POST.Through this initiative, POST wantsto increase the number of farms pro-tected on the coast from 11 to 33, and

grow the total amount of preservedagricultural land from 750 acres to2,2 50 acres, according to POST.

“Protecting local working land mat-ters to our environment, our farmersand our community,” POST PresidentWalter Moore said in a press release.“Farms are vital to the health of ourlocal ecosystems, waterways and theregion’s overall food system, growingthe farm-fresh foo ds that we as a socie-

ty value and cherish. Our FarmlandFutures Initiative aims to protect San

Land trust seeks $25M to preserve farmland

COURTESY OF POSTAn aerial view of the POST-preserved Cowell-Purissimaproperty on the coastside that supports a recreational trailand local family farm.

Super securityBy Austin WalshDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Federal and local law enforce-ment officials charged with main-taining public safety as the SuperBowl brings the Bay Area intointernatio nal focus said there is noknown threat of violence hangingover the big game this weekend.

Secretary of Homeland SecurityJeh Johnson, David Johnson, spe-cial agent in charge of the SanFrancisco FBI field office, SanFrancisco Police Chief Greg Suhrand other law enforcement offi-cials praised the collaboration of public safety agencies working tocrack down on crime leading up toone of the biggest sporting events

of the year, during a press confer-ence Wednesday, Feb. 10.But in aftermath of the

November terrorist attack in Paris

City eyes treereplacementon BroadwayProject to addressconcerns of diseasedtrees, safety hazards

Law enforcementofficialsclaim no present threatleading up to Super Bowl

By Austin WalshDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

A new look may soon be bloom-ing along Broadway inBurlingame, as officials are con-sidering branching out and replac-ing the trees lining the streets of the commercial district.

The Burlingame BeautificationCommission is set Thursday, Feb.4, to discuss a proposal to removethe aristo crat pear trees pl anted onBroadway and replace them with

another similar species.Experts discovered fire blight, avascular disease, has infected the

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Armed law enforcement officers post in front of the entrance to Super Bowl fan festivities in San Francisco.

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 Trees lining Broadway inBurlingame have been infectedwith a lethal disease, causingofficials to consider replacing them.

By Samantha Weigel

DAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Several residents and the nearlybankrupt owner of an apartmentbuilding have filed an appealagainst the city of Pacifica forordering t he premises to be evacu-

ated after heavy storms erodedparts of the coastal bluffs alongEsplanade Avenue.

Various parts of the city havetaken a beating from El Niño this

winter and the 20-unit apartmentbuilding at 310 Esplanade Ave.was yellow-tagged with its s everaldozen residents forced to leaveJan. 25.

City officials contend they’vedone their best to keep the low-income residents apprised of the

severity of the erosion and wereacting to protect public health andsafety. But the property owner,who is also responsible for a

Dispute over condemned apartmentsPacifica property owner appeals city orders to evacuate building

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 The 20-unit apartment building at 310 Esplanade Ave. was yellow-taggedwith its several dozen residents forced to leave Jan. 25.

POST works with local agriculture workers in new conservation initiative

Don Horsley

See TREES, Page 20 See DISPUTE, Page 18

See SECURITY, Page 20

See POST, Page 18

M-A’S 2ND HALFSURGE GETS WIN

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Theft. A black Toyota Prius was stolen atOyster Cover Marina on Oyster PointBoulevard before 5:08 p. m. Sunday, Jan. 3 1.Reckless driving. Two teenagers wereseen riding dirt bikes up and down the b lockon El Campo Drive before 1:51 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 30.Disturbance . A man was found sleeping ina vacant storage unit at Public Storage onSouth Spruce Avenue before 9:45 a.m.Saturday, Jan. 30.Animal case. A coyote was seen n ear MiraVista Way and Granada Avenue before 6:05p.m. Friday, Jan, 29.

SAN MATEOTraffic hazard. A person who was weldingwas said to be distracting drivers at FiestaGardens School on Bermuda Drive before8:54 p. m. Friday, Jan. 22.Suspicious circumstances . A man wasseen tryin g to t ake items from a backyard onSouth Grant Street before 6:59 p.m. Friday,Jan. 22.Disturbance . Two people were seen fight-ing in a parking lot on Palm Avenue before2:43 p. m. Friday, Jan. 22.Burglary . A vehicle’s lock and tires weredamaged and tools were taken onEisenhower Street before 8:31 a.m. Friday,Jan. 22.

Police reports

Makes you uncomfortableThree down comforters valued atapproximately $300 were stolen from atent on the 200 block of Rossi Roadnear Pescadero before 4 p.m. Thursday,Jan. 28.

By Bill SilverfarbDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Mark Steven Ladas, the former chief of th eCentral County Fire Department, has stillnot had a judge decide whether the evidenceprosecutors have gathered against him is

sufficient enough to move ahead to a jurytrial nearly 14 months after his arrest forgrand theft and tax evasion.

Ladas was arraigned Dec. 4 , 2014 , pleadednot guilty and was supposed to face a pre-liminary hearing before March 2015.

There have been at least five and possibl ysix preliminary hearing dates since hisarrest with t he latest b eing Tuesday, Feb. 2.

But the defense asked for a continuanceand it was granted without prosecutionobjectio n. The evidentiary hearing has beencontinued at least five times now for a vari-ety of reasons.

Ladas retained atto rney Eric Hove sho rtlyafter his arrest.

On March 25, 2015, Hove asked for acontinuance to review “newly arrivedrecords.”

On June 24, 2015, a continuance wasgranted at th e request o f prosecutors b ecausean investigator was unavailable to testify.

On Aug. 18, 2015, a continuance wasgranted to th e defense at t he request o f Hovefor “further preparation. ”

On Oct. 28, 2015, a continuance wasgranted at the request of both the prosecu-tion and defense “due to an unavailable wit-ness.”

On Tuesday, Hove asked for a continuancedue to an “unexpected illness ,” according tocourt documents provided by th e San Mateo

County DistrictAttorney’s Office.

The prosecution wasset to present its evi-dence Tuesday and hadsome witnesses lined upto testify, District

Attorney SteveWagst affe said.“Continuances occur

with regularity,”Wagst affe said Wednesday.

It can be a frustrating process, he said.Preliminary hearings should occur ideally

within a couple of months after the arrest,he said.

If the defense exercises their right to aspeedy trial, pro secutors h ave to be ready togo to trial within two weeks, he said.

“We will get there eventually,” Wagstaffesaid.

The case was continued again to Feb. 10,not for a preliminary hearing but rather toset a new preliminary hearing date.

In December 2014, Ladas pleaded notguilty to 10 felony charges in a case prose-

cutors say was a “sophisticated” schemethat netted thousands of dollars through theuse of fraudulent credit cards at a fake busi-ness controlled by his wife.

Ladas, 51, faces six counts of felonygrand theft, two counts of tax evasion andtwo counts of filing false reports. The for-mer fire chief, who was placed on paidadministrative leave in light of his arrest,surrendered his passport and was ordered notto leave the state without the court’s per-mission. He retired his post from theCentral County Fire Department a few weeksafter his arrest.

His base salary was $196,420 annuallyand he earned an extra 10 percent for servin gas chief to Millbrae and San Bruno as well ashis administrative duties servingBurling ame and Hills borough.

Prosecutors s ay Ladas was invo lved in th escheme with his wife, Peta, during which h e

illegally obtained nearly $35, 000.From January 2011 to June 2013, PetaLadas reportedly opened several fraudulentcredit cards using false names, t hen st arted afake business to use the cards to make falsetransaction s and deposi t money i nto fraudu-lent bank accounts.

Peta Ladas was arrested in December201 2, but fled the country after Mark Ladasposted her $10,000 bail in cash, accordingto prosecutors. A maid at a Burlingame ho telwhere Peta Ladas stayed just before she fledturned over to Burlingame police a walletleft behind in her room with her identifica-tion and several fake credit cards, accordingto prosecutors.

The suspicious discovery led the DistrictAttorney’s Office to open a separate investi -gation into Mark Ladas’ own accounts.

Before long, investigators reportedly foundnearly $35,000 of fraudulent funds deposit-ed in three of Ladas’ personal bankaccounts, according to prosecutors.

Neither Mark nor Peta Ladas claimed anyof the proceeds from the phony business ontheir 2011 or 2012 tax returns, according toprosecutors.

Ladas, who resides in Hillsborough,remains out of custody on a $80,000 bailbond.

Neither Ladas nor h is att orney Hove couldbe reached for comment Wednesday.

Is evidence sufficient to try former fire chief?Mark Ladas has yet to have preliminary hearing in grand theft case

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02-29-2016

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT• U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto , announced this

year’s districtwide Congressional Art Competition to dis-cover and celebrate talented high school artists and their work.

All high school students from throughout the 18th congres-sional district are invited to participate and exceptions may bemade for schools t hat have sevent h-grades through 1 2th-grades onone campus. Students can participate by submitting their works of 

art to Eshoo’s Palo Alto office at 698 Emerson St. by 5 p.m. Friday, April 8. A localreception will be held to announce the winner and honor all participants.

Detailed guidelines for the competition can be found at eshoo.house.gov/constituent-services/congressional-art-competition.

Official: El Niño could signaleasing of California drought

FRESNO — In the strongest indicationyet th at the Californi a drought could be eas-ing, officials said strict water conservationorders could be dramatically scaled back oreven ended if El Niño storms keep pummel-ing the state into the spring.

The assessment came amid encouragingresults from Tuesday’s measurement of theSierra Nevada snowpack, which provides athird of the state’s water during the spring

runoff when it feeds rivers and replenishesdepleted reservoirs.

The water content of the snowpack nowstands at 130 p ercent of normal for this t imeof year.

“We are hopeful that we are turning thecorner on this drought,” State WaterResources Control Board chair FeliciaMarcus said in a statement. “The truth i s th atit’s just too so on to tell. ”

The board exercised caution Tuesday whenit extended an emergency conservationorder by Gov. Jerry Brown that requirescommunities to cut water use by 25 percentin response to the four-year drought.

Come April, when the snowpack is typi-cally at its h ighest level, o fficials intend torevisit the conservation pl an. By then, theyshould know the full impact of the heralded

El Niño system — a warming of the PacificOcean that alters weather worldwide and isassociated with stormy California winters.

Study: Texas birth control fellafter Planned Parenthood cut

AUSTIN, Texas — A new study finds thatTexas saw a drop in women obtaining long-acting b irth con trol after Republican leadersbooted Planned Parenthood from a statewomen’s health program in 2013, whichresearchers say may explain an increase inbirths among so me poor families.

The research examined the effects of Texassevering taxpayer ties with the largest abor-tion provider in the U.S. The same yearTexas b arred Planned Parenthoo d, th en-Gov.Rick Perry signed tough abortion restric-tions that shuttered clinics statewide.

Researchers say their findings suggest alikely pol icy link between the exclusion o f Planned Parenthood and women obtaininglong-acting birth control.

Republican state Sen. Jane Nelson calledthe study misleading and defended access towomen’s services.

The study was released Wednesday by theNew England Journal of Medicine.

By Austin WalshDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

To combat the escalating cost of living inSouth San Francisco, officials are consider-ing revising policies with the intention of smoothing the path toward financing con-struction of affordable housing.

The South San Francisco PlanningCommission, during a meeting Thursday,Feb. 4, is expected to discuss adjusting anexisting requirement for any housing devel-opment which accepts a city subsidy to setaside 20 percent of the units at a below-mar-ket rate.

Under the proposed amendment, a finan-cial contribution from the city payingtoward the conversion of market-rate unitsto an affordable price would no longer beconsidered a subsidy, and would not triggerthe 2 0 percent requirement.

Developers are often wary of buildingaffordable units, due to the reduced opportu-nity to earn return on investment, and manymay consider a policy requiring such a sub-stantial portion of a project be offered at areduced rate cost prohibitive, said AlexGreenwood, the city’s director of Economicand Community Development.

“This is a slight administrative adjust-ment, that will increase the opportunity formore workforce housing ” said Greenwood.

The revised policy is designed to allowthe city to finance development of moreworkforce units by paying from a housingfund to backfill the difference between mar-ket and affordable rates, said Greenwood.

Under the existing policy, any payment

from the city would require such a substan-

tial portion of the development to be pricedaffordably, Greenwood said developers maybe reluctant to accept payment for fear of being forced to lose earning power.

City officials would rather be able to payfor the development of a small portion of units in a project to be priced affordably,than see builders forgo accepting contribu-tions to avoid triggering the potentiallyrestrictive th reshold, said Greenwood.

Officials are committed to maintainingthe affordability of South San Francisco,said Greenwood, and expect the proposedamendment will assist in realizing that

goal.“This is one of the strategies to giv e the

council more flexibility in building moreworkforce housing,” he said.

Planning commissioners cannot imple-ment the policy revision during the meet-ing, but will pass on a recommendation foraction to the South San Francisco CityCouncil at a y et to be determined date.

The policy is part of a larger effort bySouth San Francisco officials to build moreworkforce housing, as they have recentlyissued requests for proposals to developersinterested in building affordable projects oncity-owned property.

Greenwood has said roughly 100 afford-able units are currently in the pipeline forconstruction throughout South SanFrancisco.

Affordable housingpolicy revision soughtSouth City officials look to subsidize below-market units

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By Scott MorrisBAY CITY NEWS SERVICE

A San Bruno teen pleaded no contest totwo counts of robbery on Tuesday for rob-bing a woman at gunpoint in San Mateo inOctober and robbing a man in San Bruno amonth earlier, prosecutors said.

Michael Alexander Rodriguez, 19, faces

up to four years in prison for the two rob-beries when he is sentenced on March 3,according to th e San Mateo County DistrictAttorney’s Office.

The first robbery happened on Sept. 6,when a 21-year-old man was walking homein San Bruno at 10:51 p.m. after picking uptakeout food, pros ecutors sai d.

The victim had driven t o th e restaurant andparked his car on Linden Avenue near hishome when he returned.

As he was walking, Rodriguez and anaccomplice approached him and put a gun tohis throat. They demanded everything hehad and took hi s wallet and cellpho ne, mak-ing him unlock the phone and disable thepasscode feature.

The second robbery happened about amonth later on Oct. 2. Rodriguezapproached a 40-year-old woman walking

home from WesternUnion in San Mateo.

When she was almostto her home on DeSablaRoad, Rodriguezapproached her anddemanded her money,threatening to shoot herwith a replica gun. He

took her purse, jumped ina car and fled, prosecu-tors said.

Police pulled Rodriguez over for a trafficviolation on Oct. 14 and noticed a replicahandgun on the back seat of the car. Theyconnected the gun to the robbery and thevictim identified him in a photo lineup,prosecutors said.

Investigators encountered Rodriguezagain on Oct. 27 while doing a probationsearch of a possible accomplice’s home. Hewas t here during the s earch and police foundmore evidence connecting him to the rob-bery.

He pleaded no cont est Tuesday o n t he con-dition that he receives no more than fouryears in prison for both robberies, prosecu-tors said. He remains in custody on $50, 000

bail.

San Bruno teen pleads nocontest to two robberies

MichaelRodriguez

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Police investigateresidential burglary

Police in San Bruno are investigating aresidential burglary reported on Mondaynight.

Officers responded at 8:25 p.m. to the100 block of Merced Drive on a report of aresidential burglary.

The victim told investigators they arrivedhome to find the residence had been burglar-ized at some poi nt during the day.

Police said the suspects gained entry tothe home, possibly through an unlocked

rear door, and stole jewelry from the resi-dence.The San Bruno Police Department is

encouraging residents to remain vigilantand immediately report suspicious peopleor vehicles seen in their neighborhoods.

Anyone with information on Monday’sburglary is asked to call the department at(650) 616-7100.

Man arrested inconnection with vehicle theft

A Daly City man was arrested Monday inSan Bruno in connection with a vehicletheft out of South San Francisco.

Adolfo Moreno, 37, was arrested on sus-picion of vehicle theft, po ssession of b ur-glary tools, pos session of stolen property,

possession of methamphetamine, resistingarrest, p robation viol ation and driving witha suspended license, according to San Brunopolice.

On Monday around 10:30 p.m., a SanBruno police officer located a 2000 HondaCivic near the 600 block of HuntingtonAvenue that had been reported stol en out of South San Francisco earlier in the day.

After conducting surveillance on the vehi-cle, officers saw two suspects, later identi-fied as Moreno and Amanda Olsen, 23, of San Francisco, with t he vehicle, po lice said.

Moreno, the driver, fled from officers onfoot but was quickly apprehended.

Olsen, th e passeng er, was arrested on sus-picion of p ossession of methamphetamineand possession of stol en property.

Foster City police chiefretires, new leader announced

After 25 years of serving Foster City,Police Chief Matt Martell announced hewould retire April 1.

City officials confirmed Wednesday thatFoster City police Capt. Joe Pierucci hasbeen chosen to serve as chief after Martellsteps down.

Both Pierucci and Martell are longtimeFoster City residents.

Martell began his career as a militarypolice officer in the U.S. Army before join-ing th e Antioch Police Department in 1987 .He was hired by Foster City in 1990 andworked his way through the ranks holdingalmost every position in the departmentbefore being appointed to chief in 2012,according to the city.

Martell earned a master’s degree inEmergency Services Operation in 2008 andis a graduate of sev eral leadership programsincluding the Los Angeles PoliceDepartment’s West Point LeadershipInstitute, according to the city.

Martell plans to travel after retiring fromhis long-standing career in public service.

“I know the city will be in good hands asmembers of the department step in to their

new roles and continue providing the serv-ices this community has come to expect,”Martel said in a press release. “It’s been anhonor and privilege to serve this communi-ty as part of a ph enomenal team. … The res-idents, city staff, city councils (past andpresent) all working toward making FosterCity a great place to live, work and play.”

Two-alarm fire inBelmont apartment building

Firefighters cont rolled a two-alarm apart-ment fire that injured a woman in BelmontWednesday morning, fire and police offi-cials said.

The fire at the 119-unit, six-story condo-

minium complex at 400 Davey Glen Roadwas reported at 9: 22 a.m. and was under con-trol within about 30 minutes. The fire wasaccidental and caused approximately$450, 000 in damage, according t o po lice.

A 71-year-old woman living on the fifthfloor was b urning a candle when her curtainscaught fire. She attempted to extinguish itbut ultimately evacuated before being treat-

ed for an injury that was not life th reateningand smoke inhalation, according to police.

Two residents were displaced, the condo-minium in which the fire originated wasdestroyed, as well as smoke and water dam-age to the hallway and neighboring units,according to police.

About 60 firefighters, 11 engines, sixladder trucks as well as police and medicswere called to help evacuate the entire build-ing, which included balcony rescues,according to police.

Woman walking dog

victim of sexual batteryA woman walking her dog in downtown

Palo Alto was the v ictim of a sexual batteryon Tuesday evening, pol ice said.

The woman in h er 20s was walking on th e500 block of Emerson Street at 6:33 p.m.when a man approached her through a park-ing lot . He was yelling at n o one in particu-lar as he walked up to her and grabbed herbuttocks, according to police.

He then walked south on Emerson Street.The woman scolded him and he shoutedobscenities at her as he kept walking away,police said.

The woman called police and describedthe suspect as a white man in his 30s stand-ing 5 feet 9 inches tall with a skinn y build,salt and pepper hair parted on one side and

gelled back.He was wearing blue jeans and a blacknylon zippered jacket with a small logo onthe chest, police said.

Anyone with information about the casehas been asked to call Palo Alto police at(650) 329-2413. Anonymous tips can beemailed to paloalto@tipnow.org or sent bytext message to (650) 383-8984.

By Alison Noon

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SACRAMENTO — A Southern Californialawmaker said Wednesday t hat h e will s eekto by pass Gov. Jerry Brown and ask v otersto break apart California’s utilit ies regula-tor following allegations of wrongdoing.

Assemblyman Mike Gatto, D-Glendale,

said the California Public UtilitiesCommission as it is currently knownwould cease to exist in 2018 if voters

approve his plan.

The PUC has been a profound disap-pointment to residents and lawmakers inrecent years, said Gatto, who chairs the

Assembly Utilities and Commerce

Committee.“In recent his tory th e PUC has been rid-

dled with questions about the commis-

sion’s abilit y to regulate with t he people’sbest in terest in min d,” Assemblyman MarcLevine, a San Rafael Democrat and jointauthor of the measure, said at the confer-ence. “The public sentiment is that thePUC works for big-money i nterests.”

The proposal is the latest response toallegations that the commission is toocozy with the companies it regulates. It

has been accused of being too slow to acton a massive gas leak at Porter Ranch inSouthern California.

Lawmaker seeks to dissolve state utilities regulator“In recent history the PUC has been riddled with

questions about the commission’s ability to regulatewith the people’s best interest in mind. ... The public 

sentiment is that the PUC works for big-money interests.” — Assemblyman Marc Levine

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Firefighters clear out a residence after a fireat 400 Davey Glen Road in Belmont.

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Barack Obama waves farewell to students after his remarks at the Islamic Society of Baltimore mosque.

By Kathleen Hennesseyand Steve Peoples

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GOFFSTOWN, N.H. — Once abromance, no w a brawl.

Donald Trump and Ted Cruz castaside any veneer of kindness on

Wednesday to trade insults andaccusations in a show of hardballpolitics that demonstrated thestakes for both men in the NewHampshire p rimary six days away.

The billionaire mogul chargedthe Texas senator with “fraud” andcalled for a do-over of the Iowacaucuses. That’s where Cruz’sunexpected victory expo sed weak-nesses in Trump’s unorthodox,personality-driven bid for theWhite House.

Cruz shot back with his fiercestattack yet on the man who hasdominated opinion polls in NewHampshire, suggesting the reality

star doesn’t like the reality of los-ing. He’s having a “Trumper-tantrum,” Cruz told reporters.“He’s lo sing it.”

The back-and-forth between twocandidates who once made of ashow of their rapport underscoredthe shifting dynamic in aRepublican race rattled by theIowa results.

Cruz’s campaign staff poppedchampagne on the flight to NewHampshire early Tuesday, proud of stealthily out-organizing thepolitical novice.

Trump and Cruz go at it

By Darlene SupervilleTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CATONSVILLE, Md. —President Barack Obama soughtWednesday to correct what hecalled a “hugely distorted impres-sion” of Muslim-Americans as hemade his first visit to a U.S.mosque. He said those who demo-nize all Muslims for the acts of afew are playing into extremists’hands.

Inserting himself into a debatethat has ricocheted in th e presiden-tial campaign, Obama told parish-ioners at a mosque outsideBaltimore that he’d heard fromyoung Muslims worried they’ll be

rounded up and kicked out of the

country. He said Muslims, too, areconcerned about the threat of ter-rorism but are too often b lamed asa group “for the violent acts of thevery few.”

“We’ve seen children bullied,we’ve seen mosques vandalized,”Obama said, warning that suchunequal treatment for certaingroups in society tears at thenation’s fabric. “That’s not who weare.”

For Muslim advocates, Obama’svisit was a lo ng-awaited gesture toa community that has warned of escalating vitriol against themthat has accompanied the public’sconcern about the Islamic State andother extremist groups. Although

Obama has visited mosques over-

seas, he waited until his final yearin office to make such a visit athome, reflecting the issue’s sensi-tive polit ical implications.

In this year’s Republican presi-dential campaign, Donald Trumphas called for banning Muslimsfrom the U.S. temporarily and TedCruz and Marco Rubio warned of “radical Islamic terrorism.”Muslim-American advocacygroups have warned of growingantagonism that has followedrecent attacks in Paris and SanBernardino, California, by thosepurporting to act in the name of Islam.

“We have to understand: Anattack on one faith is an attack on

all our faiths, ” Obama said.

Obama visits U.S. mosque, saysimpression of Muslims distorted

Donald Trump Ted Cruz

By Julie Bykowicz

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — MarcoRubio’s strong third-place finishin Iowa could sound like a startin ggun to the Republican Party’s topdonors.

For months, many of thesebenefactors have been sitting ontheir wallets or spreading theirmoney around to multiple presi-dential candidates as they waitedto see whether one of four experi-enced politicians could rise up to

take on politi-cal newcomerDonald Trumpand conserva-tive insurgentTed Cruz.

Rubio, a 44-year-old Floridasenator, camewithin strikingdistance of 

Trump’s second place in Iowa, asurprising result given th e celebri-ty businessman’s dominance inpolls.

Rubio could see campaignfunds rise from Iowa finish

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By Maria Cheng, RaphaelSatter and Joshua GoodmanTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RIO DE JANEIRO — U.N. andU.S. health officials tell theAssociated Press that Brazil has

yet to share enough samples anddisease data needed to answer themost worrying question about theZika outbreak: whether the virus isactually responsible for theincrease in the number of babiesborn with abnormally small headsin Brazil.

The lack of data is frustratingefforts to develop diagnostictests, drugs and vaccines.Laboratories in the United Statesand Europe are relyin g o n samplesfrom previous outbreaks.Scientists say having so little towork with is h ampering their abil-ity to track the virus’ evolution.

One major problem appears tobe Brazilian law. At the moment,

it is technically illegal forBrazilian researchers and insti-tutes to share genetic material,including blood samples contain-ing Zika and oth er viruses.

“It’s a very delicate issue, thissharing of samples. Lawyers haveto be involved,” said Dr. MarcosEspinal, director of communicablediseases in the World HealthOrganization’s regional office inWashington.

Espinal said he hoped the issuemight be resolved after discus-sions between the U.S. andBrazilian presidents. He saidWHO’s role was mainly to be abroker to encourage countries toshare. When asked whether theestimate of other scientists thatBrazil had provi ded fewer than 20samples was true, he agreed itprobably was.

“There is no way this sh ould notbe solved in the foreseeablefuture,” he said. “Waiting isalways risky during an emer-gency.”

Last May, as the first cases of Zika in Brazil were emerging,President Dilma Rousseff sig ned anew law to regulate howresearchers use the country’sgenetic resources. But the regula-tory framework hasn’t yet been

drafted, leaving scientists in legallimbo.

“Until the law is implemented,we’re legally prohibited from

sending samples abroad,” saidPaulo Gadelha, president of theOswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil’spremier state-run research insti-

tute for tropical diseases. “Even if we wanted to send this materialabroad, we can’t because it’s con-sidered a crime.”

The ban does not necessarilymean foreign researchers can’taccess samples. Some were sharedwith the United States, includingtiss ue samples from two newbornswho died and two fetuses recentlyexamined by the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention.But a U.S. official said that wasn’tenough to develop accurate testsfor the virus or help determinewhether Zika is in fact behind therecent jump in the number of con-genital defects. The spike in casesprompted WHO to declare an inter-nation al emergency Monday.

Given the drought of Braziliansamples, public health officialsacross the world are falling backon older viruses — or discreetlytaking them from privatepatients.

The U.S. official, who sharedthe information on condition of anonymity as he was not author-ized to speak publicly, said the

CDC was relyin g on a s train takenfrom a 2013 outbreak in FrenchPolynesia to perfect its Zika tests.U.S. researchers trying tosequence Zika’s genetic code havebeen forced to rely on virus sam-ples from Puerto Rico for the samereason, he said.

In England, researchers areusing samples drawn fromMicronesia, the site of an out-break in 2007. The French arerelying on samples fromPolynesia and Martinique. InSpain, scientists have a Ugandanstrain of Zika supplied by theUnited States. Even Portugal,Brazil’s former colonial master,doesn’t have the Brazilian strain;

the National Health Institute inLisbon said its tests relied on aU.S. sample from the 1980s,among others.

Some researchers are bypassingBrazil’s bureaucracy by gettingsamples sent to them for testingby a private lab, said Dr. JonasSchmidt-Chanasit, an expert onmosquito-borne diseases at theBernhard Nocht Institute forTropical Medicine in Hamburg.

“It’s almost impossible to getsamples from the country,”Schmidt-Chanasit told AP, refer-ring to Brazil.

Few Zika samples being shared by Brazil

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Germana Soares holds her 2 month old son Guilherme Soares Amorim, who was born with microcephaly, at herhouse in Ipojuca, Brazil.

By Seth BorensteinTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — In its brief lifespan, the mosquito that car-ries the Zika virus is caught in arace: Will it pass the disease to

humans before it dies?Weather might make the differ-ence. Scientists say the hotter itgets, the more likely the insectcan spread disease.

As the temperature rises, nearlyeverything about the biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito —the one that carries Zika, denguefever and other diseases — speedsup when it comes to spreadingdisease, said entomologist Bill

Reisen of the University of California Davis.

“With higher temperatures youhave more mosquitoes feedingmore frequently and having agreater chance of acquiring i nfec-tion. And then the virus repli-

cates faster because it’s hotter,therefore the mosquitoes cantransmit earlier in their life,”Reisen said. The thermodynamicsof mosquitoes are “driven by tem-perature.”

The hotspots for this Zika out-break also h ave been temperatureand drought hotspots recently.Recife, Brazil, the largest city inthe Zika-struck region, saw its

hottest September-October-November on record, about 1.2degrees Celsius (2.2 degreesFahrenheit) above normal,according t o NASA data. The stateof Pernambuco had its ho ttest anddriest year since 1998, according

to the state weather agency. Andglobally, last year was thehottest on record.

Although it is too early to sayfor this outbreak, past outbreaksof similar diseases invo lved morethan just biology. In the past,weather has played a key role, ashave economics, human travel,air conditioning and mosquitocontrol.

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Afghan insurgents killboy who joined militia

South Korea warns NorthKorea not to launch satellite

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea warned onWednesday of “searing” consequences if North Korea does-n’t abandon plans to launch a long-range rocket that criticscall a banned test of ballistic missile technology.

The South’s rhetoric about unspecified harsh conse-quences comes less than a month after North Korea’s defiantfourth nuclear test and as diplomats at the U.N. work onstrong new sanctions against the North.

North Korea on Tuesday informed internatio nal organiza-tions of its plans to launch an Earth observation satelliteon a rocket between Feb. 8 and 25 , and if North Korea’s pastpatterns are any clue, angry warnings by its neighbors andWashing ton probabl y won’t dissuade a coming launch.

By Rahim Faiez and Lynne O’DonnellTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KABUL, Afghanistan — A 10-year-old Afghan boy whowas declared a hero after fighting the Taliban has b een shotdead by in surgents while on his way to scho ol, officials saidWednesday.

Wasil Ahmad, who had fought the Taliban alongside hisuncle on many occasions, was kil led Monday near his homein Tirin Kot, the capital of the southern Uruzgan province,said deputy p olice chi ef Rahimullah Khan.

The 10-year-old boy had been a local celebrity of sorts,with widely circulated photographs on social media show-ing him ho lding an automatic weapon and wearing a uniformand helmet.

Ahmad’s uncle was a former Taliban commander whochanged allegiance to the government and was appointedlocal p olice commander in Khas Uruzgan district, Khan said.

The use of child soldiers is illegal i n Afghanis tan, b ut thecharity Child Soldiers International said both governmentforces and insurgents have been recruiting minors for y ears.

The organization’s policy and advocacy director CharuLata Hogg t old the Associated Press th at th e Afghan g overn-ment, despite pledging to stop the recruitment and use of children by the Afghan security forces, was making “slowand tardy prog ress.”

“There is a lack of po litical will t o address this issue, and

while it’s within th e framework of o verall human righ ts vi o-lations, there is a specific commitment by the governmentto clean it up but sufficient measures are not being taken,”she said.

In a June 2015 report presented to the U.N. SecurityCouncil’s working group on children and armed conflict, t heLondon-based charity said children were recruited by theAfghan Nation al Police and th e Afghan Local Police.

By Bassem Mroueand Jamey KeatenTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GENEVA — The peace talks in the

Syrian civil war are taking a b reak. Thefighting is not.U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan

de Mistura announced Wednesday therewould be a “temporary pause” in theindirect peace talks between the gov-ernment and opposition, saying theprocess will resume Feb. 2 5.

The delay reflects the rocky start of the talks Monday in which neither thegovernment nor the opposition evenacknowledged that the negotiationshad officially begun.

“It is not the end, and it is not thefailure of the talks,” de Mistura toldreporters after a meeting with opposi-tion leaders.

Both sides remain “interested inhaving t he politi cal process s tarted,”

he added.The conflict that began in March2011 has killed at least 250,000 peo-ple, displaced 11 million and given anopening for the Islamic State group toseize large parts of the country fromforces loyal to President Bashar Assad.

“I’m not frustrated I’m not disap-poin ted,” de Mistura said of th e pause.“When you have a five year war and hadso many difficult moments y ou have to

be determined, but also realist ic.”The last round of talks brok e down in

2014.The Saudi-backed opposition,

known as the High NegotiationsCommittee, had been reluctant to cometo the talks, saying the governmentshould first end the bombardment of civilians, allow aid into besiegedrebel-held areas, and release thousandsof detainees.

On Wednesday, delegation head Riad

Hajib said the Assad government hadnot met thos e demands.

“The HNC delegation will leavetomorrow and will not return (toGeneva) until we see positive steps onhumanitarian issues,” he sai d.

“This regime that ruined the Genevanegotiations in 20 14 is doing it againduring this political process,” Hijabadded. “We came to Geneva to prove tothe world that this regime does notbelieve in a political solution.”

After two days, Syrian peacetalks take a ‘temporary pause’

By Lauran NeergaardTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — It’s ethi cal t o test

a provocative new fertility techniquethat would prevent mot hers from pass-ing o n rare but devastating diseases bycreating embryos from the DNA of three people — dad, mom and an eggdonor — advisers to the governmentsaid Wednesday.

But don’t expect studies to beginanytime soon. It’s not clear that suchresearch can overcome political hur-dles.

At issue is a kind of DNA that chil-dren can inherit only from their moth-

er: genes that are inside the mitochon-dria, the energy factories in cells.Britain last year became the first coun-try to approve creation of embryosthat swap a mother’s defective mito-chondrial DNA with healthy geneticmaterial from a dono r egg.

The Food and Drug Administrationhas been considering whether to allowthat replacement technique to be testedin the U.S. But it’s controversial, inpart because such alterations could bepassed to future generations .

In a report requested by the FDA, theInstitute of Medicine said Wednesdaythat it is ethical to do such research if initial experiments follow certain

strict safety steps. They must targetwomen at high risk of passing on asevere disease, and in the firstattempts at pregnancy researchersshould implant only male embryos.That’s because when they grow up,those men couldn’t pass on mitochon-drial alterations to their own children.

Such research won’t happen thisyear. While the FDA said it would be“carefully reviewing th e report and rec-ommendations,” it noted that whenCongress passed the agency’s 2016budget, it prohibited using any of themoney to review applications inv olv-ing inheritable genetic modificationof embryos.

Report: It’s ethical to test embryos from DNA of three people

Wasil Ahmad had been a local celebrity of sorts, with widelycirculated photographs on social media showing him holdingan automatic weapon and wearing a uniform and helmet.

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U.N. mediator for Syria Staffan de Mistura gestures during a news conference onthe Syrian peace talks outside President Wilson hotel in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Dow 16,336.66 +183.12 10-Yr Bond 1.88 +0.02

Nasdaq 4,504.24 -12.71 Oil (per barrel) 32.65

S&P 500 1,912.53 +9.50 Gold 1,143.00

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on theNew York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq stock market:NYSEMerck & Co., down 36 cents to $50.05 The drug developer reported a drop in fourth-quarter profit and revenue.Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc., down $13.93 to $461.74 The fast-food chain reported continuing sales declines and said the scopeof a federal criminal investigation has widened.Syngenta AG, up $1.66 to $80.23Chinese state-owned chemical maker China National Chemical Corp.offered to buy the herbicide and pesticide giant for $43 billion.Lowe’s Cos., down $4.45 to $67.42 The home improvement retailer is paying $2.3 billion to buy Rona andexpand its footprint in Canada.General Motors Co., down 73 cents to $28.92 The automaker reported revenue that fell shy of Wall Street forecasts.Becton Dickinson and Co., down $3.97 to $141.08 The medical device maker reported revenue that fell short of forecasts.

NasdaqIAC/InterActive Corp., down $5.09 to $45.78 The website operator’s results fell short of Wall Street forecasts.Comcast Corp., up $3.25 to $57.84 The cable provider reported a boost in fourth-quarter profit and revenue.

Big movers

By Ken SweetTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Stocks staged a rapidcomeback in late-afternoon trading toclose solidly higher Wednesday, helpedby a surge in the price of oil and adecline in the U.S. dollar.

Chipotle Mexican Grill fell as thecompany said a federal investigationinto its E. coli outbreak had widened,and Yahoo sank as the troubled Internetcompany announced layoffs and plansto sell b usinesses.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose183.12 points, or 1.1 percent, to16,33 6.66 . The Standard & Poor’s 500index rose 9.50 points, or 0.5 percent,to 1,912.53 and the Nasdaq compositefell 12.71 points, or 0.3 percent, to4,504.24.

It was a day of major swings. The Dowhad been down nearly 200 points earli-er. Major industries t hat were deep in t hered, like energy and financials, wereable to recover almost all the groundthey lost. In the red most of the day,

energy stocks ended up nearly 4 percent.The gains can be largely attributed to

a decline in the value of dollar againstthe major other currencies. The U.S. dol-

lar index, which tracks the dollaragainst other major currencies, fell 1.7percent, a large move for the foreignexchange market. Nearly all that declinehappened in the last two hours of trad-ing.

Many U.S. companies have beencomplaining that the appreciation of 

the dollar was eroding their earnings bymaking U.S. exports less p rofitable.A weaker dollar also tends to send

commodity prices higher. That was arelief to investors as well si nce a plungein the price of crude oil has been deci-mating profits at energy companies.

“An unusually weak U.S. dollar pro-vided a key impetus to today’s rally,”Jim Ritterbusch, an oil analyst withRitterbusch and Associates, wrote in anote to investors.

The price of U.S. crude oil jumped$2.40, or 8 percent, to close at $32.28a barrel, which helped lift up energystocks.

Despite the gains on Wednesday,investors remain skeptical of this mar-ket. They are still putting money into

traditional safe-havens: stocks that payhigh dividends, U.S. governmentbonds, and precious metals.

The Dow Jones utility index, a basket

of 15 utility companies, rose 1.3 per-cent. That index is up more than 8 per-cent this year. Utilities and other com-panies that pay large dividends are pop-ular at times of uncertainty because theyprovide a regular return and are large,mature businesses that tend to stand upwell during economic downturns.

Some traders are taking that a s tep fur-ther.“I’ve been telling clients to be in all

cash,” said Ian Winer, co-head of equi-ties trading at Wedbush Securities.“There’s too much credit risk out there,S&P 500 earnings could be down thisyear and it seems an increasing possi-bility that the U.S. could be in a reces-sion in 2017.”

In other company news, Yahooslumped $1.38, or 4.7 percent, to$27.68 after the company announcedlate Tuesday it would cut 1,700 j obs andsell some of the company’s strugglingbusinesses.

Chipotle fell $13.90, or 3 percent, to$461.74 after the company said the E.coli outbreak at its stores hurt sales

more than anticipated. Chipotle alsodisclosed it was now under investiga-tion by Federal regulators over the out-break.

Stocks stage late turnaround, led by energy sector

By Scott MayerowitzTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Richard Anderson,who oversaw Delta Air Lines’ transfor-mation into one of the world’s mostprofitable airlines, will retire this May.

His right-hand man, airline presidentEd Bastian, will take over as CEO, theAtlanta-based airline said Wednesday.

Anderson started as CEO in 2007, just after Delta exit ed bankruptcy pro-tection. The next year, Delta mergedwith Northwest Airlines, a deal oftencited as a model for future airline merg-ers, some of which did not go assmoothly.

Northwest would be Anderson’sbiggest deal, but not his last. Deltaalso p urchased a 49 percent ownershipstake in Virgin Atlantic to gain much-needed access to London and bought an

oil refinery, anu n c o n v e n t i o n a lmove that gave thecarrier more insightinto the jet fuel mar-ket.

Anderson will

retire on May 2, theday he turns 61.Bastian will be pro-moted on that dateand Glen

Hauenstein, the airlin e’s executive vicepresident, will be appoin ted president.Chief Operating Officer Gil West willimmediately be elevated from an execu-tive vice president to a senior execu-tive president.

While other airlines have been buy-ing new, fuel-efficient jets at a heftycost, Anderson has been seekin g a mixof cheaper used models and smaller

orders of new jets,when the price isright. He’s beenable to raise fares,getting passengersto pay a slight pre-mium to fly Delta

over other airlines.And in the p ast year,Delta has canceledfewer flights that

the competition. He’s managed to getworkers to agree to more flexible workrules than at oth er airlines and success-fully fought off an effort to unionizeflight attendants.

Only 18 percent of Delta’s full-timeworkforce is union — the pilots —compared to roughly 80 percent of theworkforce at American Airlines,Southwest Airlines and UnitedAirlines.

Delta Air Lines CEO Andersonto retire, president takes over

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SAN MATEO — Slumping wearablecamera maker GoPro Inc. onWednesday reported a surprise fourth-quarter loss and forecast sales wellbelow Wall Street expectations, send-ing its stock tumbling.

The San Mateo company also nameda new finance chief.

GoPro said it lost $3 4.5 millio n, or25 cents a share, in the last threemonths of 2015. Losses, adjusted forstock option expense and pretaxexpenses, came to 8 cents per share.

The average estimate of 11 analystssurveyed by Zacks InvestmentResearch was for adjusted earning s o f 1cent per share. In the same period of 

2014, it earned $122.1 million, o r 83cents a share.

Revenue fell 31 percent to $436.6million. Six analysts surveyed byZacks expected $434.9 million.

CEO Nicholas Woodman acknowl-edged the slowdown in revenue in thesecond half of last year, saying thatthe company recognized the “need todevelop software solutions that makeit easier for our customers to offload,access and edit their GoPro content. ”

For the current quarter ending inMarch, GoPro said it expects revenuein the range of $160 million to $180million. Analysts surveyed by FactSethad been forecasting $291 million.

The company expects full-year rev-

enue in the range of $1.35 billion to$1.5 billion, also well below WallStreet expectations o f $1.61 billion.

GoPro shares fell 87 cents, or 8 per-cent, to $9.84 in extended trading fol-lowing the earnings report. They havedropped 41 percent since the begin-ning of the year and 80 percent in thepast 12 months.

Brian McGee, who joined GoProfrom Qualcomm last year, will takeover as CFO on March 11, the compa-ny said. Current CFO Jack Lazar isretiring.

For the year, GoPro reported profitof $36.1 million, or 25 cents pershare. Revenue was reported as $1.62billion.

GoPro reports 4Q loss, issues weak sales forecast

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NEW YORK — Wells Fargo said it hasagreed to pay $1.2 billion to settle agovernment lawsuit related to itsFederal Housing Administration homemortgage program.

The bank said Wednesday it reachedthe agreement earlier this week with theU.S. Department of Justice, two attor-neys general and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The

company said the agreement still needsto be approved.

The Department o f Justice declined tocomment.

In 201 2, the federal government suedWells Fargo accusing the bank of mis-representing the quality o f thousands of loans in order to be eligible for federalloan insurance. The go vernment wantedto recover money that the FHA paidafter borrowers defaulted on WellsFargo mortgage loans.

Wells Fargo, the country’s largestmortgage lender, said the s ettlement isrelated to the 2012 case and other pend-ing or potential cases.

The company said that because of thesettlement, the bank will reduce its2015 net income by $134 million, or 3cents per common share, to $22.9 bil-lion, or $4.12 per common share.

Shares of Wells Fargo & Co. , based inSan Francisco, fell $1.57, or 3.2 per-cent, to $46.88 in afternoon trading.

Wells Fargo to pay $1.2 billion to settle home loan case

Richard

AndersonEd Bastian

Governor signs emergencyamendment to medical marijuana law

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown has signed an emer-gency bill that eliminates an upcoming deadline local gov-ernments faced to ban or regulate medical marijuana cultiva-tion.

The governor on Wednesday signed AB21 by DemocraticAssemblyman Jim Wood of Healdsburg. The bill amends thecomprehensive medical marijuana regulations the CaliforniaLegislature passed in September.

The framework approved in the closing hours of the leg-islative session included a paragraph that would have giventhe state alone authority to license pot growers in jurisdic-tions that did not h ave laws on t he book s by March 1 specif-ically allowing or o utlawing cultivation .

Fearful of losing their power to set policy to the state,dozens of cities chose to ban pot-growing within their bor-ders.

Wood says the deadline made it into t he regulations by mis -take and that local officials now can take time to cons ider theissue.

Google to test self-drivingcars in Kirkland, Washington

KIRKLAND, Wash. — Google says it will begin testing itsself-driving cars in Kirkland, Washingto n.

The Seattle suburb will become the third city to see thevehicles on its streets. The company has previously tested

the self-driving cars in Mountain View where Google isbased, an d Austin Texas.Google said in a statement Wednesday its test drivers have

been driving a single Lexus SUV in an area of Kirkland andmaking detailed maps of the streets. The company said whenthe self-driving car begins operations there will be a testdriver in the vehicle to take over if needed.

Google has a large campus in Kirkland, located about 12miles east of Seattle.

The company has con cluded that human error is the bi gges tdanger in driving, and the company wants to remove thesteering wheel and pedals from cars of the future, giving peo-ple minimal ability to intervene.

Ailing media mogul SumnerRedstone resigns as chair of CBS

NEW YORK — Sumner Redstone, the ailing 92-year-oldmedia mogul who controls media giants CBS and Viacom,

has st epped down as executive chairman of CBS amid a court-room battle over hi s health and mental capacity. CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves will replace him as chairman.

Redstone’s resignation took effect Tuesday, leaving himchairman emeritus of CBS, the company said. It did not gi vean update on his health. Redstone remains executive chair-man of Viacom. He effectively controls both companiesthrough a trust.

CBS shares rose 4.4 percent in after-hours trading to$50. 37 after already climbing 3.5 percent in the regular ses-sion.

Redstone has been at the center of a monthslong courtfight. His ex-girlfriend and longtime companion ManuelaHerzer, who had been in control of Redstone’s care, issued acourt challenge ov er his decision-making capacity after shewas expelled from his house in October.

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The Skyline College women’s basket-ball t eam just has College o f San Mateo’snumber.

With an 83-72 victory Wednesday nightat CSM, Skyline extended its current win-ning streak against the Bulldogs to sevengames dating back to 2012-13, includingthe third straight year the Trojans haveswept the season series between the rivals.

The Trojans (5-3 in Coast North, 15-9overall) had the magic touch from beyondthe arc, hitting eight 3-pointers in thegame, including six in the first half.Sophomore forward Stephanie Allen was aforce driving the hoop with a team-high 23points, but freshman Juliet Courtney added14 points while converting four 3s on thenight.

“I saw the opportunities, so I took them,”Courtney said. “And the defense was l eavingme open, so I went for it.”

The task for Skyline was in containing

CSM center Mariah Elzy. The 6-foot fresh-man is averaging a double-double this sea-son, ranking 10th in the state with 19.3points per game, and sixth in the state with12.8 rebound per game. And the Bulldogs’big bettered her average on both countsWednesday, totaling game-highs with 34points and 18 rebounds.

But Skyline countered with superb ballcontrol. After committing five turnovers inthe first quarter, t he Trojans totaled just sixfor the rest of the game, most of which camelate in the fourth quarter with the CSM

defense pressi ng t o try to make up for whatproved to be an i nsurmountable deficit.“We did really good tonight,” Allen said

of her team’s ball control. “This is actuallythe best I’ve seen us.”

Skyli ne set an early tempo and never real-ly relented. For most o f the first quarter, th eBulldogs (2-5, 13-8) were able to keep pacewith the Trojans’ transition game. But onceSkyline took a 15-13 lead off freshmanVictoria Langi’s short jumper — off a nice

Skyline women continue dominance of rival CSM

By Nathan MollatDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Wednesday nigh t, the Hillsdale girls’ bas-ketball team did in the first two quarterswhat no Peninsula Athletic League team hasdone to Menlo-Atherton this season: theKnights had the Bears on their heels.

Hillsdale rode a hot start to 13-point sec-ond-quarter lead and settled for a 30-23advantage at halftime in a battle of PALSouth unbeatens.

The Knights simply out-played the Bearsin t he first half and M-A was facing i ts firstdeficit in league play this season.

In the second half, however, the real M-Asquad showed up. The Bears scorched thenets over the final two periods and Hills dalecould not buy a basket as M-A went on torout th e Knights 65-35.

“[We] go into every game thinking it willbe a challenge. … We never overlook anopponent,” said M-A coach MarkishaColeman. “We knew Hills dale was goin g togive us a good game.”

After a lethargic start, M-A (9-0 PALSouth, 19-2 overall) came out flying in thesecond half. The Bears, who hit on just 9 of 27 shots in the first half, had eight fieldgoals in t he thi rd quarter alone.

Hillsdale (8-1, 12-9), on the other hand,was ice-cold in the third and fourth quarters.The Knights connected on 7 of 11 shots inthe first quarter and finish ed the half shoo t-

ing 43 percent from the field.Over the final two quarters? Hillsdale

managed just two baskets. Add it all up andin equals a 42-5 second-half run for theBears.

“We played a whole different game in that(second half),” Coleman said.

M-A grabbed the momentum just beforethe end of the second quarter and never gaveit back. Mele Kailahi’s 3-poin ter at the half-time buzzer cut the Bears’ deficit to singledigits, 30-23.

Ten seconds into the third quarter, M-A’sMegan Sparrow splashed home a 3 and theBears were cooking. They rattled off nine

M-A surges to win

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Mele Kailahi knocks down this third-quarter 3-pointer to put M-A up 32-30 over Hillsdale.Kailahi scored a game-high 16 points in the Bears’ 65-35 win over the Knights.

Back in 2011, former San MateoHigh School football p layerLemoto Filikitonga told the San

Jose Mercury News that he dreamed of playing rugby in the Olympics.

Filikitonga, 22, is getting closer andcloser to realizingthat dream.Filikitonga, whograduated from SanMateo in 2011, is inthe team pool for theUSA Rugby Sevensteam that will play

in the USA SevensInternational RugbyTournament in LasVegas the first week-end of March.

This summer,rubgy sevens will be an official Olympicsport in Rio de Janeiro and, while theteam is far from being set, just think of this tournament as a tryout for theOlympic team.

Filikitonga, who played for the SanMateo Warriors while in high school andwas a hi gh s chool All American, has beena member of the national team pool of players since 2011. He has spent the lasttwo years playing for the MetropolisRugby Football Club in Minneapolis,Minnesota and was part of the pool of players that competed in the RubgyWorld Cup last summer in England.

***The College of San Mateo softball

team opened the 2016 season with asweep of Merced and Yuba colleges by acombined score of 26-1.

The wins were Nos. 299 and 300 forcoach Nicole Borg, who, along withassist ants Toby Garza and DaleBassmann, t ook over the program priorto the 2006 season.

The wins also ext ended two long win-ning streaks, dating back to 2014. TheBulldogs now have a st reak of 45 regular-

See BEARS, Page 14

Making a name

with USA rugbynational team

See LOUNGE, Page 14

By Stephen Whyno

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Following one of hisworst offensive games this season, reign-ing NBA MVP Stephen Curry sto pped thin k-ing about basketball and recalibrated hismind. It worked out just fine.

Curry was all systems go Wednesdaynight as he made 11 3-pointers and scored51 p oint s to lead the Golden State Warriorspast the Washington Wizards 134-121 for

their eighth straight vic-tory, which came in sp iteof a monster perform-ance from John Wall.

Wall scored a season-best 41 points in theshadows as Curry shot13 of 14 for 36 points inthe best first half of hiscareer. After sco ring just13 point s Sunday at New

York, Curry was in a zone, tyin g Gilbert

Arenas and Michael Jordan for the VerizonCenter record and reaching 5 0 for the secondtime this season.

“The shots that you know feel good go in,and some of the shots that you’re like, ‘Ohthat’s off,’ they end up going in,” Currysaid. “It’s a fun feeling , and you want to ridethat until you can’t anymore.”

Curry looked human when he missedseven of 10 shots during the third quarterbut was dominant most of the night as theWarriors (45-4) matched the 1966-67

Philadelphia 76ers for the best 49-gamestart in NBA hist ory.

“It’s li ke Kobe (Bryant) when he had 81, ”Wall said. “He couldn’t miss. You keepdefending the best way you can. We chal-lenged some shot s. He didn’t have too manyopen looks. He just made them.”

Curry’s 5 of 17 shooting performanceagainst the Knicks was all forgotten by theend of this game. Not like coach Steve Kerrwas worried.

Curry drops 51, hits 11 3s in Warriors’ win

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By Jimmy GolenTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOSTON — Former Oakland Raiders quar-terback Ken Stabler, the late NFL MVP andSuper Bowl winner who is a finalist for thePro Football Hall of Fame, has been diag-nosed with the brain disease CTE, Boston

University researchers said Wednesday.Stabler, who died of colon cancer at 69 i n

July, had Stage 3 chronic traumaticencephalopathy, Dr. Ann McKee told TheAssociated Press. McKee said the diseasewas widespread throughout his brain, with“quite severe” damage to the regionsinvolving learning, memory and regulationof emotion.

“We’ve now found CTE in former NFLplayers who played every position exceptkicker,” said McKee, a professo r of neurolo-gy at Boston University. “While we knowon average that certain positions experi-ence more repetitive head impacts and are

more likely at greaterrisk for CTE, no posi tionis immune.”

The diagnos is was firstreported by The NewYork Times.

The disease, which canbe diagnosed only after

death, i s lin ked to repeat-ed brain trauma and asso-ciated with symptoms

such as memory loss, depression and pro-gressive dementia. CTE has been found inthe brains of dozens of former footballplayers.

According to Ch ris Nowinski, the founderof the Concussion Legacy Foundation,Stabler told his family he wanted to havehis brain studied after learning that formerNFL linebacker Junior Seau had been diag-nosed with the disease. In 2012, Seau shothimself in the chest at the age of 43.

“What is interesting about Ken Stabler is

that he anticipated his diagnosis years inadvance,” Nowinski wrote in an email to theAP. “And even though he’s a football icon,he began actively distancing himself from(the) game in his final years, expressinghope that his grandsons would choose notto play.”

McKee said the extent of the damage to

Stabler’s brain was surprising because hewas relatively young when he died andbecause he was a quarterback and thought tobe less expos ed to repeated head trauma.

“There was no evidence of any oth er braindisorder to explain the difficulties he expe-rienced during life,” McKee said.

The left-handed Stabler, nicknamed“Snake” for his ability to escape fromdefenders, led Alabama to an undefeated sea-son in 1966. A second-round draft pick byOakland, he was the NFL’s Most ValuablePlayer in 197 4 and led the Raiders to vi cto-ry in the 1977 Super Bowl.

In all, Stabler threw for 27,938 career

yards and had a .661 winning percentageover 15 seasons, which also included stintswith the Houston Oilers and New OrleansSaints. He was selected as a finalist for theHall of Fame by its Seniors Committee; theinductees will be announced Saturday.

Denver Broncos linebacker BrandonMarshall said at a Super Bowl availability

Wednesday that t he news bo thers hi m.

“You’ve got to look after yourself because, really, nobody else will,” he said,adding that he has h eard about players walk-ing away from the g ame but can’t do it him-self.

“The game is so much a part o f who I am,so I can’t give up a big part of me. I justhope the game doesn’t one day take away abig part of me,” h e said. “I mean, Lord will-ing it doesn’t happen, but say somethingdoes happen, I don’t think I’m going toregret it because I’ll say, ‘I did what I want-ed to do.”’

Raiders’ legend Ken Stabler had brain disease CTE

Ken Stabler

MLS’s Galaxy gets richer with signing of DeJongCARSON — The LA Galaxy acquired Dutch midfielder

Nigel de Jong on Wednesday, completing their third high-profile international move of th e winter with th e signing of the two-time World Cup veteran on a free transfer.

De Jong spent t he past four seasons with AC Milan, s erv-ing as captain and making 79 appearances since 2012. Heterminated his contract with the club Monday by mutualconsent.

The 31-year-old De Jon g i s a s tandout defensive midfield-er adding even more toughness to the Galaxy, who enteredtrainin g camp last mon th with a renewed focus on th eir ownend. The club ho pes de Jong will be a strong midfield part-ner with Steven Gerrard, providing defensive cover for theEnglish star’s adventurous offensive play.

“Nigel is an experienced midfielder who will help theplayers around him get b etter,” Galaxy coach Bruce Arenasaid. “He will add qualiti es on the field that can strength en

our team in all areas.”The Galaxy also signed two big-name international

defenders last month, acquiring England’s Ashley Cole andBelgium’s Jelle Van Damme. Both are reporting to theGalaxy this week.

De Jong made just five appearances this season for hisItalian club despite a contract extension. He played forManchester City from 2009-12 and the Bundesliga’sHamburg from 2006-09 .

De Jong began his p ro career at home with Ajax and alsoplayed for the Netherlands in the 2010 and 2014 World

Cups. He earned international notoriety for breaking a legof American midfielder Stuart Holden during a 201 0 exhibi -tion, kicking Spain’s Xavi Alonso in the chest during the2010 World Cup final and breaking a leg of Newcastle’sHatem Ben Arfa that October.

Blue Jays will have dirt infieldin time for coming season

TORONTO — The Blue Jays are installing a dirt infield atthe Rogers Centre for the first time but say it is t oo early todetermine whether they would replace artificial turf withgrass in some future season.

Toronto announced Wednesday that work will b egin nextweek to excavate about 12, 000 square feet of con crete. Theinfield and baselines will be dug out to a depth of 12 i nchesand filled with layers of g ravel, s and and clay.

Toronto and Tampa Bay are the only major league teamswith artificial surfaces at their home ballparks. At

Tropicana Field, t he infield and baselin es are dirt.Before moving in June 1989 to what then was called

SkyDome, the Blue Jays spent more than 12 seasons onartificial turf at Exhibiti on Stadium.

Former Blue Jays president Paul Beeston expressed adesire to install grass at Rogers Centre. Mark Shapiroreplaced Beeston in November and said the followingmonth that installing a grass surface must be weighedagainst other potential upgrades.

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Boys’ basketballTerra Nova 64 Oceana 63

Gino Filardo made the game-winning 3-pointer for the Tigers with 1.4 seconds left.

Filardo finished with 13 points for TerraNova (5-4 PAL South, 11-9 overall)), but itwas Jared Milch who led the way with 29points — 20 in the second half. CharlieArmenta added 11 in the win as well.

Oceana remains winless in PAL NorthDivision at 0-10 and is just 6-12 overall.

Menlo-Atherton 63 Hillsdale 47

The Bears stayed unbeaten in PAL Southplay with the win over the Knights.

M-A (9-0 PAL South, 19-2 overall) built up a16-8 lead after one quarter and led by 16, 34-18, at halftime.

Christian Fioretti had a big night for theBears, scoring a game-high 20 points. EricNorton added 19 for M-A.

Hillsdale (4-5, 11-10) was led by TaigaSchwarz, who finished with 16 p oints, hittingfour 3-poin ters along the way.

Girls’ basketballMills 42 San Mateo 26

Julia Gibbs and Kaela Stonebarger eachscored in double figures to lead the Vikingsover the Bearcats.

Gibbs scored a team-high 12 points, whileStonebarger added 10 for Mills (7-2 PALSouth, 13-8 overall). Aubrie Businger hadeight points, but pulled down nine rebounds,had two blocks, two steals and two assists forthe Vikings.

Alyssa Cho led San Mateo (3-6, 8-11) with11 points.

Carlmont 81 Capuchino 54

The Scots exploded for a season highWednesday night, scoring 23 points in thefirst quarter and 27 over the final eight min-utes.

Alexa Bayangos led Carlmont (6-3 PALSouth, 13-8 overall) with 21 points. JaylaChee and Lys Hayes added 14 and 13 points,

respectively.

Capuchino (2-7, 8-13) got a game-high 22points from Sera Quintana, who hit four 3-pointers.

Boys’ soccerMenlo School 1 Sacred Heart Prep 0

Will Chisolm’s strike in late in the secondhalf gave the Knights their first win over theGators since the two teams joined the WestBay Athleti c League for the 20 08-09 s eason.

Chisolm took a feed from Dylan Williams togive Menlo (5-2-1 WBAL) sole possession of second place in the WBAL standings .

South City 3 Half Moon Bay 0The Warriors scored twice in the first half topick up a big win in PAL Bay play.

South City improves to 4-3-2 in league,while Half Moon Bay falls to 1-6-1.

Capuchino 4 San Mateo 1

Gabriel Huerta scored off a Bruno Brazileiroassist for the Bearcats, but it wasn’t nearlyenough to prevent the los s to the Mustangs.

San Mateo falls to 4-4-2 in PAL OceanDivision play, while Capuchino improves to3-5.

Girls’ soccer — TuesdayPriory 5 Mercy-Burlingame 2

The Panthers handed the Crusaders their firstWBAL Skyline Division loss of the season,

scoring four times in the second half.Mercy (5-1-1 WBAL Skyl ine) led 2-1 at half-

time thanks to goals from Rania Salamy andEmily Naughton. Shannon Grady andNaughton added the assists for the Crusaders.

Priory improves to 5-3-1.

Girls’ basketball — TuesdayMenlo School 57 King’s Academy 19

Menlo jumped out to a 24-5 lead after thefirst quarter and never looked back in the winover King’s Academy.

Menlo (5-1 WBAL Foothill, 16-4 overall)was led by Sam Erisman’s 16 points. AllyStuart added 10.

Local sports roundup

By Barry WilnerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO — The painof los ing a Super Bowl never real-ly disappears. It drives playerswho have experienced it to getback and get it right.

Ricky Proehl has been to fourSuper Bowls as a player, going 2-2. He won and lost with th e Rams,lost with the Panthers, and got thesecond ring in his final NFL sea-son, 2006 with Indianapolis.

He’s at the big game again asCarolina’s wide receivers coach,buoyed by memories of earningthose rings, haunted by remem-brances of th e two failures.

“Anger, disbelief, shock,”Proehl said Wednesday of his reac-tions to walking off the field aSuper Bowl l oser.

“And then th ey rush you off likeit’s a cattle drive so t hey can set upa stage for the winni ng t eam. Yousometimes don’t even get a chance

to congratulate the winners.“It’s pain ful.”Proehl has relayed those senti-

ments to some Panthers, empha-sizing just how good the oppositefeelings are.

“You are on top of the world, ontop of your profession,” said theformer receiver who play ed for sixteams in a 1 7-year career, the firstnine of which he didn’t reach thepostseason.

“You start out with a commongoal and you’re going with guysto att ain a dream, and then y ou arehoisting the Lombardi Trophy.Everyone in this league should beable to feel that feeling with theirteammates.”

But only four players who willsuit up Sunday have had that joy,

 just one current Bronco : Peyto nManning with the Colts.

Carolina’s Michael Oher and EdDickson earned rings withBaltimore, Roman Harper withNew Orleans .

And the guys who have fallenshort, including Manning, haveused that letdown as motivation.

“We got beat by a hot team and abetter team that night,” he said of the 43-8 whipping Seattle put onDenver two years ago . “It was dis-appointing. It was a tough pill to

swallow.”It’s a pill still stuck in the craw

of Super Bowl lo sers. And it does-n’t matter if the result was lop-sided or down to the wire.

Antonio Smith, a 12-year veter-an, has reached his second titlegame. He was with Arizona when itlost to Pittsburgh in the finalminute in 2 009.

The defensive end, in his firstseason with Denver, has a memen-to from that season that remindshim why he strives each day to goone step beyond.

“Every time I look at the NFC

championship ring, that’s what Ithink: I left that field a loser,”Smith said Wednesday morning

 just before l earnin g h is father hadpassed away after recently under-going heart surgery. “So I havebeen focusing in on what I need todo here for me to walk off with abetter result.

“I love this game of football, Ilove putting it on the line everyweek. But in th e end, you’re doingit to have the opportunity to becalled champion.”

Broncos receiver EmmanuelSanders joined the Steelers twoyears after that thrilling victory.Against Green Bay in 2 011, he feltthe sting of defeat as a rookie.

Five seasons later, as Sandershas developed into a top receiver,he still shudders when thinkingabout coming up short.

“I’ve been here and I have aloss,” said Sanders, who hasbecome one of Manning’s go-toguys. “I can’t suffer that again?”

Suffer?“Yeah, man,” Sanders added, the

smile disappearing from his face.“Does it ever hurt.”

And there’s no way of ever eas-ing the hurt unless you return tothe Super Bowl and pull off thevictory.

Asked how he thought theBuffalo Bills of the 1990s musthave felt when they fell fourstraight times in the Super Bowl,Sanders simply shook his head.

Proehl sees little to no differ-

ence in working the sideline or

being in the coaches’ box as

opposed to performing on the

field in the championship game.

Losing in the Super Bowl haunts some players

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 Tom Brady eludes the Panthers’ rush in the Pats’ win in Super Bowl XXXVIII.

Las Vegasbroadcastof SB 50 isin jeopardyBy Sally HoTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAS VEGAS — From th e taco barto the chicken wings, Me RayShook has long had the potluckplanned for her annual Super Bowlparty. It’s how to watch the biggame that she h asn’t figured out.

Like tens of thousands of otherLas Vegas footb all fans, Sho okand her husband are scrambling tofind backup plans as a bitter ratedispute between a cable providerand the local CBS affiliate threat-ens to leave their TVs dark toSunday’s championship betweenthe Carolina Panthers and DenverBroncos.

Cox Communications cable cus-

tomers haven’t been able to watchany CBS programs since Saturday,when KLAS-TV pulled the channeloff the Cox lineup after fivemonths of failed contract negotia-tions.

About 40 percent of all areahouseholds pay Cox for TV, inter-net or phone services, accordingto market research firm SNLKagan.

The TV station’s parent compa-ny, Nexstar Broadcasting Group,wants the cable giant to pay moreto carry its programming. Cox hasbalked at the cos ts and says KLASis “out of line” to seek a threefoldrate increase, which they s ay could

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season wins and have extended their ho mewinning streak to 38 games, according to aCSM press release.

CSM will b e back at it Friday, when theBulldogs host College of Siskiyous at 3p.m. They will face Siskiyous again onSaturday, th is t ime as part of a doublehead-er with Gavilan, at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.,respectively.

***

Cal Hi Sports released its annual all-stateteams this week and there were a handful of local players — and one with local ties

— who were named to the v arious teams.Kelepi Lataimua, a running back/defen-

sive b ack from Serra, was named honorablemention for the overall all-state team.

Menlo-Atherton defensive lin emanBryce Rodgers was named second-team

defense in th e medium school divis ion.A pair of Sacred Heart Prep players were

selected for the small scho ol t eam. AndrewDaschbach, a tigh t end/defensive end whowill play b aseball at Stanford, was namedfirst team multi-purpose, while offensivelineman J ustin Harmon was named second-team offense.

Devin Asiasi, who went to Henry FordElementary and Clifford Middle school s i nRedwood City before moving to t he EastBay and playin g at De La Salle, was namedan overall all -state multi-purpose p layer as

a tigh t end and defensive lin eman.Wednesday, Asiasi, one of th e top co llegerecruits in t he country, committed to playfootball at University of Michigan.

***Menlo-Atherton has announced the hir-

ing of Brandon Joh nson, who will takeover the boys’ water polo program.

He takes over for Giovanni Napolitano,who coached the Bears from 2013 throughthis season.

John son, who is a PE teacher at HerbertHoover Middle School in San Francisco,was a three-time All-American at U.C.Irvine and went on to play for the UnitedStates National team for five years andplayed three years professionally inAustralia.

Since turning in his player’s cap for a

coach’s whistle, Johnson has served as anassistant with the Anteaters and alsocoached in the USA Water Polo program asthe U18 Olympic development coach. Hisprevious hig h school stop was at Palo AltoHigh School and is currently a coach o n

the Stanford Water Polo Club staff.“I’m grateful to be given the opportunity

to take over such a fantastic program,”Johnson said in a press release from theschool. “I can’t wait to continue to buildon t he success t hat M-A water polo has hadand look forward to the cont inued growthof the program.”

Nathan Mollat can be reached by email:nathan@smdailyjournal.com or by phone: 344-5200 ext. 117. You can follow him on Twitter@CheckkThissOut.

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unanswered poin ts in th e first 2:06 seconds of the thi rd, with a Kailahi 3 p unctuating the run.

And it kept going. Ilana Baer had threesteals in the quarter, scoring seven points of her team’s final 14 points.

Hillsdale was in danger of going 0 for thequarter until Lauren Izumi’s layup with a sec-

ond to go gave the Knights their only po intsof the period, going 1 for 14 from the field.

By the time the dust settled. M-A hadoutscored Hillsdale 23-2 and turned a seven-point, halftime deficit into a comfortable 46-32 lead after three quarters of play.

“Once they got up by 12 or 13 (it wasover),” said Hillsdale coach Mike Ciardella.“We just don’t have enough.”

Kailahi was one of four Bears to score indouble figures, leading them with 16 points

— hitting four 3s along the way. Ofa Siliadded 14 and Baer had 12. Sparrow finishedwith a double-double, scoring 10 points andgrabbing 10 boards.

Not only was M-A getting it done offen-sively, they flipped a switch defensively aswell. After out-rebounding the Knight s by justone board in the first half, 14-13, the Bearsdominated the glass over the final two peri-ods, pulling down 21 rebounds to j ust five forHillsdale.

“We can’t get any put backs,” Ciardella said.In the fourth quarter, the tsunami that was

M-A just kept surging. Kailahi opened thefinal period by converting a rare four-pointplay. She was fouled while draining a 3 andthen hit the free throw to put the Bears up 50-32 and it was all but over at that point.

Again, Hillsdale managed only one basketin the quarter: this time a 3 from EmilyNepomuceno with 2 :30 to play.

“We just fell apart (in the second half),”Ciardella said.

It was a completely different story in the

first half, however, Despite starting fiveguards against the biggest and most physicalteam in th e PAL, t he Knight s came out on fire.

Especially Marissa Otonari, who cannedfour 3-pointers in the first six minutes of thegame. With the game tied at 6, Otonari buriedher first 3 to put Hillsdale up 9-6.

“We were hot in the beginning,” Ciardellasaid. “[Otonari is] capable of that (hitting 3sin bunches). She’s a streak shooter.

“We have four or five guards who are capableof doing that. ”

It was the first of four straight 3s— Nepomuceno sandwiched a 3 betweenOtonari’s barrage — and suddenly, Hillsdalewas 10, 18-8 with 1:53 left in th e first quarter.

Izumi would lead the Knights with 14points, with Nepomuceno chipping in nine.

M-A, meanwhile, struggled with its outsideshooting. The Bears went into the post earlyto Sili, but the Knigh ts’ 2-3 zone slowly start-ed to take away the ins ide.

And with shoo ting guard Carly McLanahansitting the game out, it took a while for the

rest of the Bears to find its rhythm.

Coleman, h owever, remained confident herteam would find their stroke.

“We have plenty of guards who can shoo t,”Coleman said.

The roles remained the same in the secondquarter. The Knights built their b iggest lead of the game, 13 points, following aNepomuceno 3 that gave her team a 27-14with 4:12 to play in the half.

The Knights were still up 12, 30-18, fol-lowing an Izumi 3-pointer off an in-bound

play, but the Bears rallied with five points inthe final 32 seconds. Sili k nocked down a pairof free throws before Kailahi drained her 3 toend the half.

“To end a half on a positive note is goodgoing into the locker room,” Coleman said.“Credit to Hillsdale. They came out playingreally hard. They played as if they wanted tostay undefeated. … I th ink (my team was) a li t-tle disappointed to let Hillsdale play its game(in th e first two quarters).”

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The South San Francisco Unified School District is in need of

substitute teachers for our Pre-School, Elementary, and

Secondary programs. Our automated system calls substitute

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KLAS-TV says their proposal iscloser to double current prices andinsists that local broadcasters areseverely underpaid compared withwhat Cox pays a channel like ESPN.Both say nondisclosure terms in theircontract prohibit disclosing the actualrates.