FARMINGTON The Davis County Board of Education discussed a boundary change for Wasatch and Holt Elementary Schools during a workshop Tuesday.

A boundary study for the two schools began last year and is expected to be finalized at the end of the academic year in preparation for the opening of the new Wasatch Elementary School in the fall. Assistant Superintendent Craig Poll presented the study and said that the proposed changes ease enrollment at Holt, which is currently over-capacity, while simultaneously filling the classrooms of the new school.

“Holt has four portables, they really need a couple more,” he said. “Holt will lose kids but will not lose faculty.”

Wasatch currently enrolls around 350 students, compared to more than 700 at Holt. Poll said the boundary committee has met with both school faculties and community councils, which have been supportive of the boundary plan.

“They had some questions but had no suggestions for change,” he said.

In its current state, the boundary change would re-allocate students living in the area south of 150 North and north of 200 South between 500 West and Pacific Street. Those students, of which there are more than 100, would attend Wasatch Elementary.

Poll said the only foreseen issue would be students crossing Pacific Street, but added that a pedestrian walkway is already in place for children to cross safely and precautions for snow removal and crossing guards have been taken.

“It’s a safe walk out of traffic,” Poll said.

District Spokesperson Christopher Williams said the committee is being proactive in making sure parents are aware of the changes. An open house will be held Feb 28 at Clearfield City Hall where residents will be able to see the boundary maps and direct their questions and concerns to members of the district. Fliers will also be distributed with information about the boundary study.

Poll said that compared to prior boundary studies, the Wasatch and Holt change has elicited overwhelmingly positive feedback. Both schools feed into the same Jr. High and High School, meaning students effected by the change will only see a difference at the elementary level.

“It’s been quiet and quiet is good,” he said. “We’re not hearing anything. We’re not used to that with a boundary study.”

In other Board of Education business, Poll also presented a Davis School District plan for increasing ethnic minority hiring. Discussion of the plan focused on not only the need to better represent the diversity of Davis County, but also to attract the highest quality of new teachers.

“The goal is to get the best and the finest,” Poll said.

The plan focused on increasing the number of minority applicants, including a more focused effort on out of state recruiting and the development of programs like Latinos in Action and education grants that encourage Davis County students to return after receiving their education certificates.

Board member Peter Cannon emphasized that the quality of a teaching candidate should be considered before any other criteria, saying when he was a student what mattered was whether the teacher was inspiring, not the teacher’s ethnicity.

“He didn’t need to be my ethnic group, he didn’t need to be my own race, he just needed to be inspiring,” Cannon said. “It’s just a slippery slope when we think anyone in America needs to be inspired by their own ethnic type. If they’re good and inspiring, that’s who we want.”

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett plans to attend a memorial service for former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno at a church in Harrisburg.

Corbett’s office says the governor doesn’t plan to make remarks at the Wednesday afternoon tribute, organized by Harrisburg-area alumni.

The late coach’s son Scott is scheduled to speak on behalf of the family, and former Penn State players are expected to attend.

It’s being held at the Cathedral Parish of Saint Patrick, a Roman Catholic church in downtown Harrisburg.

Paterno died last month after a brief battle with lung cancer. He had been fired as coach in November following child-sex abuse charges filed against former assistant Jerry Sandusky.

Thousands attended a public memorial for the 85-year-old coach at Penn State’s Bryce Jordan Center following his burial.

SORRENTO, Fla. – College golf coaches rarely make bold predictions. Kim Evans, a veteran coach of 25 years, dodged the “How good can you be?” question as if it were kryptonite. Like so many of her peers, she prefers to stay in the present, looking no further than the next event. For the record, at least.

“I know that’s boring,” Evans said, moments after her Auburn Tigers held off Baylor on Feb. 14 for a two-stroke victory in the UCF Challenge at RedTail Golf Club.

It’s hard to blame Evans, though for once it would be fun to hear a coach say something like, We’re gunning for UCLA. They’re overrated, especially now that Stephanie Kono is gone.

What Evans did say is that her team is legit. And after the Tigers won the SEC Championship and then failed to advance to the NCAA Championship last season, they have much to prove.

“This team is hungry,” Evans said. “I think we left a lot out there last year.”

Freshman Victoria Trapani won her first college title on the strength of an opening 4-under 68 on the coldest day this winter in central Florida. The south Florida native then held steady in a whipping wind on the final day to shoot 73 and finish one stroke ahead of Tulane teammates Ashley McKenney and Gemma Dryburgh.

Auburn, No. 3 in the Golfweek/Sagarin College Rankings, entered the final round tied with No. 24 Baylor. The Tigers took a sizable lead early on and held it until the nerves kicked in on the back nine, where the Bears cut the difference to one stroke.

“We folded down the line the last four or five holes, so we’ve got a lot to work on,” Evans said. “We’re young.”

Trapani is the third Tigers player to win this season, after Carlie Yadloczky and Marta Sanz won in the fall. Trapani also tied for second at The Landfall Tradition. Evans said the first time she saw Trapani walk across a green at a junior tournament, she thought Trapani carried herself like a champion.

Evans also gave credit to sophomore Diana Fernandez for her breakthrough second round, a 5-under 67, the low round of the tournament.

Jay Goble, in his first year as coach at Baylor, inherited a gutsy team. An injured Chelsey Cothran hadn’t played a round of golf in 10 days when she showed up to this rural area north of Orlando. Goble told the senior to treat Day 1 like a practice round. She opened with a 77 and followed with a 68-70 to tie teammate Hayley Davis and Auburn’s Fernandez for fourth place at 1-under 215. Cothran’s final round included seven birdies and a back-nine 32.

“We played with Auburn yesterday, and I know that they’re the No. 3 team in the country and they’re awesome,” Goble said, “but I feel like we hung really well with them. I think our games match up pretty close.”

Baylor won twice in the fall – Dick Maguire Invitational and Price’s NMSU Invitational – and finished second at the Alamo Invitational. The Bears will face stronger competition this spring.

As for Auburn, the Tigers have yet to finish outside the top 3 in five events.

PISCATAWAY – Jordan Theodore scored 24 points as Seton Hall took a 59-54 win over Rutgers on Wednesday night to snap a six-game losing streak.

Herb Pope had 12 points and 12 rebounds for the Pirates and hit a 3-pointer with 2 minutes, 52 seconds remaining to put Seton Hall up for good at 51-50. Brandon Mobley added 10 rebounds for the Pirates.

The Scarlet Knights , who lost their third straight and fifth in their last six games, got 14 points from Mike Poole and 13 from Eli Carter.

In a game that had eight lead changes and four ties, Rutgers took a 50-48 lead on Dane Miller’s 3-pointer with 3:08 remaining.

Pope answered with his 3-pointer for the final lead change, starting Seton Hall on a 10-1 run that gave the Pirates their largest lead of the game at 58-51 with 19 seconds remaining.

The game was halted for five minutes with 3:26 remaining when an altercation between the teams resulted in a personal and two technical fouls on Seton Hall and one technical on Rutgers. Television replays showed that Pope head-butted Carter during the skirmish, but no further action was taken beyond the technicals.

Once everything was settled, Rutgers made 3-of-4 free throws to cut it to 48-47 before Miller hit his go-ahead 3-pointer.

With the Super Bowl champion Giants’ star receiver Victor Cruz sitting in the front row, Seton Hall won for the first time since beating DePaul on Jan. 10. The Pirates shot just 42.9 percent with 19 turnovers, but held Rutgers to 31.5 percent shooting and just 29.6 percent in the second half.

Seton Hall led for nearly the entire first half, opening its largest advantages at 8-2 and 19-13. With the Pirates up 24-19, the Scarlet Knights closed with a 9-2 run for a 28-26 halftime lead.

Rutgers held the edge despite shooting just 33.3 percent and committing eight turnovers in the half. Seton Hall shot 47.4 percent but had 13 turnovers.

The second half went back and forth until Seton Hall’s late run.

Mike deGruy, a filmmaker, marine biologist and N.C. State University graduate who through the lens of his submersible cameras transported viewers to the deepest crags of the oceans and face to face with swirling, pulsing sea creatures, died Saturday in a helicopter crash in Australia. He was 60.

National Geographic, for which deGruy made many television documentaries, said in a statement that he and Andrew Wight, 52, a pilot and also a filmmaker, were killed when their Robinson R44 helicopter went down shortly after takeoff from an airstrip in Jasper’s Brush, 80 miles south of Sydney.

Last summer, DeGruy was featured in an NCSU alumni magazine cover story that looked at his return to the Gulf Coast, near where he grew up, to document the aftermath of the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

In more than two-dozen documentaries over three decades, deGruy (pronounced de-GREE) filmed killer whales snatching sea lion pups off the beaches of Patagonia; lobsters migrating in the Bahamas; tiger sharks feeding on albatross in Hawaii; hydrothermal vents deep in the Atlantic and the Pacific; and the diversity of cephalopods such as squid, cuttlefish and octopi.

In 2002, his cinematography on “The Blue Planet: Seas of Life,” an overview of the world’s oceans and their inhabitants shown on the Discovery Channel and the BBC, won both an Emmy and an award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

DeGruy also documented threats to the world’s coral reefs, the devastating impact of El Nino on California’s marine mammals, and the dwindling of shark populations in the Great Barrier Reef, among other projects. He was usually not only behind the camera in these films but sometimes served as host as well.

In 2005, working with James Cameron, the Academy Award-winning director of “Titanic,” deGruy supervised underwater photography for “Last Mysteries of the Titanic,” a Discovery Channel documentary series in which submersible cameras roamed the labyrinth of the ship to reveal rooms and artifacts not seen since it sank in 1912.

An ocean warrior

In a statement, Cameron called deGruy “one of the ocean’s warriors – a man who spoke for the wonders of the sea as a biologist, filmmaker and submersible pilot, and who spoke against those who would destroy the sea’s web of life.”

Michael Verloin deGruy was born in Mobile, Ala., on Dec. 29, 1951, to Frank and Katherine deGruy. He swam in the swamps of the streams emptying into Mobile Bay as a boy, was a springboard diver on his high school swim team, and took up scuba diving along the Gulf Coast.

He graduated from NCSU, where he was a member of the dive team, with a degree in marine zoology, then moved to Hawaii and eventually became a curator at the Waikiki Aquarium. He later moved to the Marshall Islands, where he was manager of the Mid-Pacific Marine Laboratory. He also learned the complexities of underwater photography and began making documentaries.