COLUMBUS — The No. 4 

Michigan football team was just 
hanging on.

Even when the Wolverines 

went down two touchdowns 
in the first half, and even when 
momentum favored Ohio State 
to begin the second half, they 
hung perilously within reaching 
distance.

But with just under five 

minutes left in the third quarter, 
the floodgates broke open.

It came on a punt, just after 

Michigan had gone down, 27-19, 
on a Buckeye field goal. Ohio State 
receiver Chris Olave took a free 
run at junior punter Will Hart 
and blocked Hart’s kick.

The ball deflected high into 

the air and directly into the 
outstretched arms of Buckeye 
cornerback Sevyn Banks, who 
took it untouched to the house.

The Wolverines had finally 

wilted, like they have against 
Ohio State in 14 of the teams’ last 
15 matchups, and from there they 
could do nothing right, losing, 
62-39.

“It was tough,” said senior 

safety Tyree Kinnel. “We try to 
stay upbeat throughout the whole 
game and trust each other and 
stay in the fight. But I remember a 
point where it just got out of hand. 
Slowly devastated us throughout 
the game. All the yards they were 
putting up, how easily they were 
scoring, it was tough. Extremely 
tough.”

The out-of-hand point may 

have been the punt, or really any 
point after that, but the sings of 
impending trouble were present 
from the beginning.

Michigan started the game 

with the ball and a three-and-out, 
and the Buckeyes promptly drove 
43 yards for a score immediately 
afterward, finishing it off with a 
touchdown to Olave.

Olave, who entered the game 

with four catches all season, 
tacked on another score with 
9:08 left in the second quarter, 
and Ohio State threatened to 
break the game open when 
wide receiver Johnnie Dixon III 
caught a wide-open touchdown 
to extend the Buckeye lead to 21-6 
minutes later.

To these opening blows, the 

Wolverines had answers.

They scored back with a 

fade-route 
touchdown 
from 

sophomore wide receiver Nico 
Collins. Then, on the ensuing 
kickoff, Ohio State kick returner 
Demario McCall simply dropped 
the ball and Michigan recovered 
on 
the 
Buckeyes’ 
nine-yard 

line. Junior running back Chris 
Evans caught a wheel route for a 
touchdown on the next snap, and 
despite failing to convert on the 
two-point conversion attempt, 
the Wolverines were suddenly 
down just two.

Ohio 
State 
drove 
down 

to Michigan’s two-yard line 
twice in its next three offensive 
possessions, but had to settle for 
field goals both times.

“We had our opportunities 

offensively, and you know, the 
defense started the second half 
good and held them to a field 
goal and got a stop, and we had a 
chance,” Patterson said.

That’s 
when 
Olave 
broke 

through the Wolverines’ punt 
protection, 
and 
Banks 
went 

dancing into the endzone.

Junior 
quarterback 
Shea 

Patterson threw an interception 
three plays later, and the Buckeyes 
scored two snaps after that. 

As Kinnel put it, things were 

out of hand.

“You know, sometimes you 

get desperate in those types of 
situations,” Patterson said of 
his interception. “Wasn’t really 
trying to force it, I was actually 
trying to throw the ball out of 
bounds. Whoever made that play 
made a good play and hit my 

elbow.”

One last time, Michigan drove 

down the field in an effort to 
battle back, and Collins secured 
another fade route to chop the 
deficit back to two scores.

And then Ohio State wide 

receiver Parris Campell Jr., took 
the first play on the Buckeyes’ next 
drive 78 yards to the endzone.

In the end, the statistics are 

hideous 
for 
the 
Wolverines. 

They gave up the most points of 
any regulation game in program 
history. Ever. They allowed the 
most yards (567) since coach 
Jim Harbaugh and defensive 
coordinator Don Brown have 
taken over. They gave it all up in 
their biggest game of the year.

After Campbell’s run, the 

metaphorical floodgates were 
completely obliterated.

Ohio State spent the rest of 

the game scoring and breaking 
records 
offensively, 
while 

pumping up the crowd and 
dancing on graves defensively.

As the result of a unanimous 

vote by the Ann Arbor City 
Council at a recent meeting, 
the City now has to disclose 
information regarding where 
lead 
materials 
have 
been 

used in the Ann Arbor water 
system.

At last Monday’s meeting, 

councilmembers 
gave 
city 

staff until the end of the year 
to produce the information, 
which identifies places where 
some homeowners may be 
exposed lead contamination 
and need to replace their 
water 
service 
lines. 
The 

decision follows a Freedom of 
Information Act request filed 
by the Ann Arbor News and 
MLive. The city originally 
asked for a payment of $667.94 
for copies of the records, but at 
the meeting last Monday, the 

council voted to waive the fee.

City Councilmember Jack 

Eaton, D-Ward 4, said it was 
important to waive the costs 
given the funding constraints 
of local media outlets.

“I think that all of us are 

aware of the dire economic 
circumstances of local media,” 
Eaton said. “Newspapers are 
struggling to survive in small 
communities like this, and it’s 
so essential that a community 
like 
ours 
have 
a 
good, 

healthy paper. We shouldn’t 
burden our local newspaper 
unnecessarily.”

Eaton 
also 
noted 
the 

state 
law 
regarding 

public 
documents 
favored 

disclosure, adding the city 
itself sometimes struggled to 
disseminate information.

“Any opportunity that we 

have, we should cooperate 
with 
the 
local 
media 
in 

their attempts to take city 

As 
Ann 
Arbor’s 
fourth 

annual deer cull approaches, some 
have raised concerns regarding 
the safety of donating venison to 
local soup kitchens. Many deer 
in the area drink from the Huron 
River, which the Department of 
Environmental 
Quality 
found 

this summer contains the toxic 
chemical perfluorooctanesulfonic 
acid, or PFAS.

In 
October, 
the 
Michigan 

Department of Natural Resources 
and the Department of Health and 
Human Services issued a “Do Not 
Eat” advisory for deer within five 
miles of Clark’s Marsh in Oscoda 
Township due to PFAS levels 
found in the animals. Though the 
Huron River contains some PFAS, 
Hayner said the Clark’s Marsh area 
provided the deer with a uniquely 
high amount of PFAS exposure.

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cull meat could contain 
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Ann Arbor to publicize information 
on lead in pipes after state tightens regs

City initially requested processing fee for Ann Arbor News FOIA request

LEAH GRAHAM 
Daily Staff Reporter

Under the surface of Lake Erie 

lies a vast and complex ecosystem 
of plants and animals. In a recent 
study, University of Michigan 
scientists dove into the biology 
of the lake’s algae population to 
better understand the catalyst 
of their summer blooms and the 
potential hazards they pose to 
the environment.

According to a University press 

release, the study — conducted 
by the University’s Cooperative 
Institute 
for 
Great 
Lakes 

Research — found cyanobacteria 
cells to be the cause of Lake Erie’s 
summer algal blooms. Over two 
years, researchers evaluated the 
sediment-core of 16 sites up to 30 
feet deep over 145 square miles 
in the lake’s western area, as it 
has been greatly affected by the 
blooms.

The 
team 
identified 

cyanobacteria cells as the culprit 
for summer blooms, surviving 
at the bottom of the lake during 
the winter and reemerging in the 
spring. 

According 
to 
an 

announcement 
from 
the 

marching 
band, 
Maggie 
St. 

Clair, director of Operations for 
the Michigan Marching Band, 
unexpectedly passed away after 
a medical emergency Saturday 
morning just before leaving 
for the Michigan v. Ohio State 
football game.

 Marching Band Drum Major 

Kelly Bertoni, an LSA junior, 
said working with St. Clair on 
Fridays was her favorite time of 
day because of St. Clair’s caring 
personality.

“Every Friday I would go in 

was just the highlight of my 
day,” Bertoni said. “It was a time 
where we would just talk and 
catch up on life things and then 
go to work.”

“Kelly, where’s my hug for the 

day?”

This is what St. Clair would 

ask Bertoni as she came in to 
help St. Clair with the marching 
band’s finances and office work 
every Friday.

University 
study finds 
key driver 
of blooms

U-M Band
members
remember 
director

RESEARCH
CAMPUS LIFE

“Overwintering” cells 
shown to be culprit of 
algal growth in Lake Erie

Maggie St. Clair, director 
of operations, remembered 
after passing suddenly Sat.

REMY FARKAS
Daily Staff Reporter

RACHEL CUNNINGHAM

Daily Staff Reporter

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