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Auburn ends North Mac season at regionals

LITCHFIELD (Feb. 15, 2018) – Auburn got a jump-start from a Hannah Smith shot from beyond half court ending the first quarter to give the Trojans breathing room, en route to a 60-38 victory over North Mac on Wednesday in the regional semifinals at Litchfield High School.

Auburn (20-5) advanced to play Carlinville, while the Panthers completed their season with a 6-21 record.

North Mac led 5-0 in the first quarter as Sophie Starks hit a three-pointer.

But Katryel Clark then took over, scoring the first eight points of the game for Auburn as the Trojans took a 10-7 lead.

It was 10-9 when Smith got a shot from outside the half-court line and sank it – giving the Trojans a 13-9 lead.

While North Mac fought for a good portion of the first half, the Trojans went on a 13-3 run to end the half and led 30-15 by halftime.

It was 30-17 when Auburn’s defense took over in the third quarter, forcing 10 Panther turnovers in the stanza, leading to runs of 14-0 and 20-1 in pushing the lead to 50-24 through three quarters of play.

North Mac was led by Starks with 12 points on four three-point makes. Cailyn Martin added 11 and Alli Kallenbach had nine points. The Panthers made 12 of 37 from the field and nine of 14 from the foul line with 24 turnovers.

Clark had 29 points for Auburn and Smith added 17 points. The Trojans were 25 of 54 from the field and seven of 14 at the line with 13 turnovers.

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Greenfield/NW 61, Bunker Hill 52

At the Carrollton Regional, Greenfield/Northwestern moved to the regional finals by beating Bunker Hill Wednesday night.

The Tigers led 13-3 after a quarter before Bunker Hill got back in the game in the second. Still it was a 26-19 GFNW halftime lead and a 9-0 run in the third quarter helped push the game open.

Kassidy Walters scored 33 points, including 11 of 12 free throws and four three-pointers for Greenfield/Northwestern (19-10).

Ashley Dey had 15 points and Mallory Schwegel 12 for the Minutemaids, which finish the season at 10-15.

Carrollton 51, Greenfield/NW 46

In Thursday’s regional final, the Hawks came up with a regional title by edging the Tigers.

Walters finished her career with 21 points, and is the Tigers’ all-time leading scorer with 1,723 points for her career, and a school-best 48 points in a single game earlier this season.

Laiken Heavner added 10 points for the Tigers, which finish 19-11.

Boys Basketball

Staunton 53, Bunker Hill 27

At Staunton, the Bulldogs went scoreless in the fourth quarter but still doubled up the Minutemen Thursday night in a non-conference affair.

Staunton had a five-game losing streak end with a huge first half, leading 18-4 after a quarter and 36-4 at halftime. It was 53-11 after three quarters. Bunker Hill outscored Staunton 16-0 in the fourth quarter to make it more respectable.

Dylan Hemann had 14 points; Cylis Cox 12 and Ethan Booth 10 for Staunton (13-11). Booth added 10 rebounds and Lucas Sievers had five steals. Brady Kinder had six assists and four steals.

Elijah Dannenbrink had 12 points for Bunker Hill (1-20). Andrew Scroggins had five rebounds and Cole Kiffmeyer three steals.

Mt. Olive 62, Lutheran 53

At Springfield, the Wildcats held off the Crusaders in a MSM Friday night contest.

Mt. Olive led 21-5 after a quarter. Lutheran pulled within 48-44 through three quarters but the Wildcats held on for the win.

Mt. Olive (15-11) got 19 points from Roger Conlee and 13 from Joey Baum. Quintin Kosowski had 10 points and Jayden Shannon eight points.

Mt. Olive made eight three-point field goals.

Maroa-Forsyth 64, North Mac 60

At Girard, the Trojans held on for a Sangamo Conference win Friday night.

North Mac led 15-13 after a quarter. Maroa led 34-32 at half and won the closely contested affair.

Zayne Langellier had 20 points and Sam Mount 16 for North Mac (14-12).

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When your Mac slows down or starts behaving erratically, chances are it's because an application that's running, perhaps in the background, is misbehaving. And if it's not an application that's causing the problem, it will almost certainly be a process associated with macOS or an ancillary service.

Solving this problem is usually as simple as killing the process, but in order to do that you need to identify which one. Here's a comprehensive guide on how to view and kill processes on your Mac.

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How to show which processes consume a lot of memory

The easiest way to view all active processes running on your Mac is to launch Activity Monitor from your Applications folder. In the default CPU tab, you can see how much processing power every process takes, ranked by the most consuming. And if you switch to the Memory tab, you will see the same list ranked by the amount of used up RAM.

For more immediate and elaborate information on how your computer resources are consumed, use iStat Menus, which handily lives in your menu bar and, in its MEM table, shows you applications and processes that are consuming more than their fair share of RAM in real time.

How to kill process using Activity Monitor

1. Launch Activity Monitor. The easiest way to launch Activity Monitor is to press Command and spacebar to call up Spotlight, then start typing Activity Monitor. When it appears in Spotlight, hit Return to launch it. Alternatively, go to Utilities in the Applications folder and double-click on its icon. Or open Activity Monitor in one click through iStat Menus app.

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How to shut down processes using Terminal

1. Launch Terminal. Press Command and spacebar to pull up Spotlight then start typing Terminal. When the Terminal app appears in Spotlight, tap Return to launch it. Alternatively, navigate to the Utilities folder in Applications and double-click Terminal.
2. View processes. When Terminal has launched, type 'top' into the Terminal window. You'll see a list of currently running processes. At the top of the list is an overview of the processes that are running and the resources they're consuming.
3. Kill an unwanted process. When you identify a process that's causing a problem or consuming too many resources, take note of the number in the PID column next to the name of the process. To kill the process, type 'kill -9' followed by the PID number. Press Enter. The problem process will now quit.

How to prevent problematic processes

You can pretty much avoid issues altogether by being a little bit proactive in hunting down the common culprits. Here, iStat Menus will help you identify which applications or processes are consuming finite resources, such as CPU and RAM.

Then, you can use CleanMyMac maintenance routines that, when run regularly, will keep you Mac running smoothly. Here's how to do that:

1. Launch Setapp and search for CleanMyMac.
2. Find the maintenance scripts. Under the Speed section in the left sidebar, click on Maintenance. You will see a list of tasks that CleanMyMac would suggest you to perform to optimize your Mac. You should try to run them all, but the one especially important for us is under Run Maintenance Scripts.
3. Run the maintenance scripts. Click on the checkbox next to Run Maintenance Scripts and then click Run. Alternatively, choose another specific maintenance script such as Speed Up Mail or Reindex Spotlight and click Run. When it's finished, click Select Tasks to return to the list of maintenance tasks.

Run other tasks, as necessary. If you're having problems with Mail, repeat step 3, but this time click the checkbox next to Speed Up Mail. Likewise, if Spotlight is running slowly, run the Reindex Spotlight task.

How to kill a background process

To kill a background process, use Activity Monitor. While the steps are the same as described in the 'How to kill a running process using Activity Monitor' section above, the key difference is that background processes often have obscure names that don't clearly describe what they do.

Be careful when killing a background process and, if not sure, leave it alone or search online for its exact role in your system. Otherwise, you might risk causes problems for your macOS. Generally, background processes don't tend to consume significant RAM or CPU cycles, so if you spot one that does, it has probably got into trouble. Kill it using the X in the Activity Monitor toolbar.

How to easily remove startup items

One common cause of Macs running slowly or having problems is items that launch automatically at startup. These could be helper apps for something like iTunes or just complete apps in their own right. They are also frequently apps you once used but no longer need.

To review the apps and helpers that startup when you log in

1. Launch System Preferences from the Apple menu and click on the Users & Groups pane.
2. Click the padlock and type in your password.
3. Then select your username in the left panel and click the Login Items tab.
4. Look through all the login items that correspond to apps you no longer use and then click the minus button. The app will no longer start up automatically when you log in.

How to Force Quit an application that's not responding

If you see the dreaded spinning beachball, or an app just won't do anything, you should force quit it.

There are several ways to force quit an unresponsive application:

1. Press Command-Alt-Esc and click on the application in the window that opens. Press Force Quit
2. Control-click or right-click on the application's icon in the Dock and choose Force Quit
3. Launch Activity Monitor, locate the application and press the 'x' in the toolbar
4. Locate the process in Activity monitor, look for the entry in the PID column and launch Terminal. Type 'kill -9' followed by the PID number. Press Enter

Reset a problematic app

There's one more thing you can try if an app keeps running slowly or crashing – reset it. Thanks to CleanMyMac, resetting an app is easy. Here's what you need to do:

1. Locate the uninstaller. In the left hand sidebar of CleanMyMac, click on Uninstaller under Applications.
2. Find the app that's causing a problem. Scroll through the list of apps until you find the one that's been crashing or running slowly. Click on it to highlight.
3. Reset the app. With the app highlighted, you'll see all the files associated with it in the right-hand window. Click Application Reset at the top of the window and all the files, except the main application file, will be selected.
4. Click Uninstall. All the selected files will be trashed, effectively resetting the application to its default state. When you launch it the next time, it will behave as if it has just been installed — so you'll need to recreate any custom settings or preferences.

If resetting the app doesn't work, the final resort should be to uninstall the app completely and reinstall it. To do that, click Complete Uninstallation in the same menu instead of Application Reset.

As you can see there are lots of different ways and apps that help you view and kill processes in macOS. iStat Menus is a great way to passively monitor which processes are causing problems, so you can launch Activity Monitor and quit them. And running CleanMyMac's maintenance scripts regularly prevents problems occurring in the first place. Best of all, all these apps are available to try for free on Setapp, along with over 120 high-quality macOS apps. So check your Mac for problematic processes now and see what you find.