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In light of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, The Daily Collegian wishes to raise aware- ness of this issue and those who are survivors of sexual assault. In light of the content of this column, it was published anonymously. For as long as I can remember, I have been taught to protect myself. As a little girl, my parents engrained all the basic safety rules in my brain. If a stranger asks you to get into a car, scream as loud as you can. If he tries to grab you, kick as hard as you can. If he starts to chase you, run as fast as you can. What they didn’t tell me though, is that sometimes danger comes in a form that is not immediately recognizable. Sometimes the per- son who is trying to hurt you isn’t a stranger. Sometimes you can’t scream, you can’t fight back and you can’t run. Sometimes you can’t protect yourself. When they teach you about sexual assault on college campuses, there are a few statistics that are repeated religiously. Out of every five women in college, one will experience sexual assault during her four years on campus. In eight out of 10 instances of sexual assault, the victim knew the person who committed the assault. Approximately 90 percent of sexual as- sault cases are never reported to police or the university. I could repeat those numbers verbatim. I knew all the signs. Don’t leave your drink un- attended, don’t go somewhere secluded alone and stay with your friends. You think that it will never happen to you – you are so prepared, so educated. And then it does. My sexual assault was textbook definition. A night of casual drinking with friends that went terribly wrong. My memories of that night are very limited, except for a brief moment of consciousness to find him on top of me. When we’re children, we’re taught to fight back. We’re taught to kick, scream and run. We’re taught to protect ourselves. I didn’t fight back, and I thought it was my fault. The topic of sexual assault circulates around college campuses a lot. It’s a rampant problem – one that I’ve always been passionate about stopping. I’ve written papers on the topic, gave presentations in class and participated in fundraisers. No amount of papers or class projects could have prepared me for the aftermath of my as- sault. I was thrown into a world of self-blame and anxiety. The one thing that lacks conversation and social awareness when discussing sexual as- sault is the aftermath that survivors face. In the weeks following my assault, I didn’t know what to do. I knew that there was no way I had given consent – but I still felt like it was entirely my fault. I should have recognized the signs, I should have drank less and I should have fought back. I didn’t know where to go for help because I didn’t think I deserved help. All the research and statistics I had studied for years prior went out the window – I woke up every morning and struggled to look at myself in the mirror. How could I have possibly been so careless? Sexual assaults are so underreported, espe- cially in college, because so many times sur- vivors feel as though what happened to them is partially their fault. Often times, it may take weeks to realize that what they thought was just blurry, drunken decision is actually sexual assault. April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, a month that means so much more than re- peating the standard statistics. For me, it is a month to reflect and understand that what happened to me will never be my fault. It is a month that allows a community of sur- vivors to come together and collectively speak about their experiences, something that was absolutely crucial for me to hear as I struggled to piece myself back together. Sexual assaults don’t happen because wom- en drink too much or wear too little clothing. No matter how hard I had fought back, I would not have been able to avoid what happened to me. It is absolutely imperative that we stop teaching girls how to avoid being sexually as- saulted, and start teaching boys not to commit sexual assault. This month should bring awareness to all as- pects of this plague that is sweeping across the country. We need to focus on bringing aware- ness to the horrific frequency that sexual as- sault occurs, and we need to work to find re- sources that are going to allocate justice to the survivors who wish to move forward and tell their stories. Survivors are more than just the “one in five” statistic. The wounds that open after a sexual assault take an exhaustingly long time to heal – if they ever fully do. Every day, I wake up hoping that maybe to- day will be the day where I feel fixed. As I gain strength to begin telling more people, I keep hoping that maybe they will help me get rid of my nightmares or spontaneous anxiety at- tacks. What I’ve realized, however, is that the heal- ing process has no end date, no summation. There is no finish line to cross that marks the end of my nightmare. This month has given me a feeling of incred- ible support, even from afar, because for the first time in weeks I have not felt completely alone. Hearing the stories of other survivors has given me the courage to believe myself. I’m not waking up anymore and wondering what I could have done to stop it. As the month of April continues, don’t be so quick to brush it off as just another mean- ingless month. Take the time to listen to the stories of the survivors who are brave enough to tell them. Often times, the most important three words you can ever say are “I believe you.” You never know who you’re saving. 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In light of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, The Daily Collegian wishes to raise aware-ness of this issue and those who are survivors of sexual assault. In light of the content of this column, it was published anonymously.

For as long as I can remember, I have been taught to protect myself.

As a little girl, my parents engrained all the basic safety rules in my brain.

If a stranger asks you to get into a car, scream as loud as you can.

If he tries to grab you, kick as hard as you can.

If he starts to chase you, run as fast as you can.

What they didn’t tell me though, is that sometimes danger comes in a form that is not immediately recognizable. Sometimes the per-son who is trying to hurt you isn’t a stranger. Sometimes you can’t scream, you can’t fight back and you can’t run.

Sometimes you can’t protect yourself. When they teach you about sexual assault

on college campuses, there are a few statistics that are repeated religiously.

Out of every five women in college, one will experience sexual assault during her four years on campus.

In eight out of 10 instances of sexual assault, the victim knew the person who committed the assault.

Approximately 90 percent of sexual as-sault cases are never reported to police or the university.

I could repeat those numbers verbatim. I knew all the signs. Don’t leave your drink un-attended, don’t go somewhere secluded alone and stay with your friends.

You think that it will never happen to you – you are so prepared, so educated.

And then it does. My sexual assault was textbook definition. A

night of casual drinking with friends that went terribly wrong. My memories of that night are very limited, except for a brief moment of

consciousness to find him on top of me. When we’re children, we’re taught to fight

back. We’re taught to kick, scream and run. We’re taught to protect ourselves.

I didn’t fight back, and I thought it was my fault.

The topic of sexual assault circulates around college campuses a lot. It’s a rampant problem – one that I’ve always been passionate about stopping. I’ve written papers on the topic, gave presentations in class and participated in fundraisers.

No amount of papers or class projects could have prepared me for the aftermath of my as-sault. I was thrown into a world of self-blame and anxiety.

The one thing that lacks conversation and social awareness when discussing sexual as-sault is the aftermath that survivors face. In the weeks following my assault, I didn’t know what to do. I knew that there was no way I had given consent – but I still felt like it was entirely my fault. I should have recognized the signs, I should have drank less and I should have fought back.

I didn’t know where to go for help because I didn’t think I deserved help. All the research and statistics I had studied for years prior went out the window – I woke up every morning and struggled to look at myself in the mirror. How could I have possibly been so careless?

Sexual assaults are so underreported, espe-cially in college, because so many times sur-vivors feel as though what happened to them is partially their fault. Often times, it may take weeks to realize that what they thought was just blurry, drunken decision is actually sexual assault.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, a month that means so much more than re-peating the standard statistics. For me, it is a month to reflect and understand that what happened to me will never be my fault.

It is a month that allows a community of sur-vivors to come together and collectively speak about their experiences, something that was absolutely crucial for me to hear as I struggled

to piece myself back together. Sexual assaults don’t happen because wom-

en drink too much or wear too little clothing. No matter how hard I had fought back, I would not have been able to avoid what happened to me.

It is absolutely imperative that we stop teaching girls how to avoid being sexually as-saulted, and start teaching boys not to commit sexual assault.

This month should bring awareness to all as-pects of this plague that is sweeping across the country. We need to focus on bringing aware-ness to the horrific frequency that sexual as-sault occurs, and we need to work to find re-sources that are going to allocate justice to the survivors who wish to move forward and tell their stories.

Survivors are more than just the “one in five” statistic. The wounds that open after a sexual assault take an exhaustingly long time to heal – if they ever fully do.

Every day, I wake up hoping that maybe to-day will be the day where I feel fixed. As I gain strength to begin telling more people, I keep hoping that maybe they will help me get rid of my nightmares or spontaneous anxiety at-tacks.

What I’ve realized, however, is that the heal-ing process has no end date, no summation. There is no finish line to cross that marks the end of my nightmare.

This month has given me a feeling of incred-ible support, even from afar, because for the first time in weeks I have not felt completely alone. Hearing the stories of other survivors has given me the courage to believe myself. I’m not waking up anymore and wondering what I could have done to stop it.

As the month of April continues, don’t be so quick to brush it off as just another mean-ingless month. Take the time to listen to the stories of the survivors who are brave enough to tell them. Often times, the most important three words you can ever say are “I believe you.”

You never know who you’re saving.

Vol. 117, No. 141 Monday, April. 17, 2017

Accepting the aftermath of sexual assault

(814)-234-5050

(814)-234-7150

(814)-863-1111

(814)-865-92551-800-550-7575

Centre County Women’s Resource Center 24-hour hotline

State College Police

Penn State Police

Safe Walk Service

Penn State Counseling & Psychological Services sexual assault & relationship

violence hotline

Center For Women (814)-863-2027

Office Of Sexual Misconduct Prevention & Response

(814)-867-0099

Sexual Assault Resources

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Live music echoed throughout the north side of campus Satur-day as Arts Crawl 2017 presented 38 different acts around campus.

From the Palmer Museum to 105 Arts Cottage, Arts Crawl hosted various performances in seven different locations located along Curtin road on campus.

Sponsored by the Students Organizing the Multiple Arts, Arts Crawl presented a range of acts, including live music, stand-up comedy and galler-

ies to present artwork created by students on campus.

Starting at 2 p.m., Inter-mission Improv performed on the second floor gallery of the Palmer Museum of Art, while Portal De La Muerte simultaneously performed at Stuckeman Lobby.

Each set ranged around 30 minutes long, and were given a grace period for the next group to set up. Music traveled through the open rooms in the second floor gallery as the four mem-bered group Intermission Improv performed songs such as “Fly-

ing” live with a drum and three guitars.

While most onlookers were passing through the gallery, three rows of chairs were provided for the audience.

Audience member Elijah Armstrong said he came to Arts Crawl to support his friend’s per-formance. “I really like the diver-sity of performances,” Armstrong (sophomore-education and pub-lic policy) said. “I’m pretty im-pressed with the wide range of acts happening throughout the day.”

Robin Moussa said she wished

there was more advertising for the event, because she thought the events and venues were really cool.

“The performance was more atmospheric than just standing and watching,” Moussa (sopho-more-philosophy) said. “It’s an interesting combination of music concerts and arts.”

The gallery started to fill up around 2:30 p.m. when Second Floor Stand-Up, Penn State’s premiere student-run stand-up comedy organization, performed afterward.

Five different student stand-up

comedians took the microphone, with topics such as “Beauty and the Beast” and relationship ad-vice from Cosmopolitan maga-zine articles.

Alise Deveney said she attend-ed Arts Crawl 2017 because she heard it was a good way to have fun — especially because her friends went home for Easter.

Deveney (freshman-film and video) said she likes to watch Sec-ond Floor Stand-Up and is look-ing forward to headliner Frankie Cosmos later Saturday night.

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Casey town hall bridges important gapAn important element of

Trump’s campaign and first few months into presidency has been a perpetuated distrust of the media, often calling what were once known as reputable, trusted news sources as “fake news.”

However, some members of the media will be taking political matters into their own hands this week, providing the public with factual information straight from the horse’s mouth.

According to a press release issued by WTAJ, several local Pennsylvania television stations, including WHTM-TV, WTAJ-TV, WYOU-TV and WJET-TV will be hosting a town hall with Demo-cratic Senator Bob Casey at 7 p.m. on Wednesday.

Members of these news organizations — Dennis Owens, of WHTM; John Clay, of WTAJ; Andy Mehalshick, of WYOU; and

Sean Lafferty, of WJET — will also serve as moderators, ac-cording to the release.

The event, “This Week in Pennsylvania: Senator Bob Casey Town Hall,” encouraged those interested in being a part of the live local audience to at-tend the town hall, and for those

who are unable to attend, several questions from social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as email ques-tions, will also be accepted.

At this point in time, especially seeing how our country seems to grow more and more politically divided by the day,

it’s more important than ever to engage with local politicians, un-derstand their main stances on political topics and to, ultimately, have a hand in the future of our country.

While many Americans know that it’s important to be politi-cally engaged, few would go so

far as to state that it’s the me-dia’s job to get people involved in local government, seeing how there has been a consistent clash between our governance and the ways in which they are covered in the media.

However, we have been lucky enough to have our local media stations forgo this standard — instead, they are bridging the gap between politicians and the press, and we, the people should not take this lightly.

This event gives the people of Pennsylvania a chance to see past strictly the politics of Wash-ington, and for us to actively engage both with our local media and our lawmakers.

It’s for this reason that we encourage Pennsylvanians to take full advantage of this critical opportunity to make our voices heard.

It’s more important than ever for us to engage with our local politicians, understand their main stances on

political topics and to, ultimately, have a hand in the future of our country.

OUR VIEW

‘13 Reasons Why’ sparks mental health discussionWhen a friend suggested

Netflix’s new show 13 Reasons Why, I was skeptical.

The show – which is based on Jay Asher’s bestseller – focuses on Han-nah Baker, a high school stu-dent who com-mitted suicide, and the audio-tapes she left behind which

describe the reasons which led to her tragic decision to kill herself.

It’s certainly not an uplifting premise, but my friend prom-ised that the show is so com-pelling that I wouldn’t be able to turn it off.

My friend was right. I raced through the series in just under a week – thirteen hour-long episodes in which Clay Jensen, a friend of Hannah’s, listens to the tapes while flash-backs illustrate what happened to her in the year preceding the suicide.

In the days following the show’s release, news outlets ranging from The Washington Post to Buzzfeed chimed in with their opinions.

Some argued that it was too graphic, others said it was an accurate portrayal of teen sui-cide. The show was accused of glamorizing Hannah’s death, even running the risk of encouraging copycat attempts.

Others praised the show for being brave and groundbreaking.

There are merits in all of these points of view. It’s not important, however, which

opinion you think is right. What’s important is that this show has sparked a national discussion about mental health and suicide.

Too often, our discussion of mental health is reactive, rather than proactive.

In the show, Hannah’s school responds to her suicide by posting suicide prevention posters around the building, having the school counselor speak with students who are affected by her death, and holding a seminar for parents.

However, this focus on men-tal health was precipitated by Hannah’s suicide; the support system for students struggling with depression didn’t exist when Hannah could have benefitted from it.

At many high schools and universities across the country, this is common practice.

Hopefully, the discussion resulting from 13 Reasons Why will make these schools reeval-uate their approach to mental health.

We are fortunate that, at Penn State, we have a sus-tained conversation surround-ing mental health and, in recent years, have invested significant resources in Coun-seling and Psychological Services.

While it’s difficult to com-pare a high school with a large public university, I believe that our school supports students battling mental health chal-lenges better than the school portrayed in the show.

However, 13 Reasons Why brings up an important point to consider – what about those students who do not reach

out for help? In the show, Hannah reaches

out for help only once, months after her depression has taken hold. Even if her school had excellent mental health resources – as our university does – she may not have taken advantage of them.

The show’s flashbacks depict that Hannah is clearly depressed, but her fellow stu-dents, her teachers and her parents do not recognize the signs.

As a viewer, I was alert to these signs of depression because I knew that she would ultimately commit suicide.

However, as someone who has been blessed to never struggle with mental health, I’m not sure that I would rec-ognize the signs of depression if someone in my life was exhibiting them.

And herein lies another ben-efit of 13 Reasons Why. While this is just a television show, it is also a reminder that we don’t know what everyone in our lives is going through.

So, be kind. Be observant. Let people know that you are there for them if they need it and, even if they aren’t reach-ing out, be a support.

Not everyone who needs

help will ask for it, so, even with mental health resources available, it is critical that we are all resources to our peers.

A constant theme through-out the show is the regret of those left behind, who are haunted by their action or inaction.

However, we shouldn’t only stop to reflect on how we are treating those around us when something tragic, like a suicide, occurs.

As with the conversation surrounding mental health, it must be a continuous endeavor.

I still can’t say whether or not I liked 13 Reasons Why. What I can say for certain is that I appreciate the discus-sion which it has sparked. These conversations, while dif-ficult, are essential.

It is our responsibility to ensure that, even after public attention has moved away from this show, we sustain a discussion on mental health and how to best support those battling mental health issues.

Caroline Briselli is a senior majoring in history and is a columnist for The Daily Collegian. Her email is [email protected] or follow her on Twitter at @carolinebriselli.

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“We shouldn’t only stop to reflect on how we are treating those around us when some-thing tragic, like a suicide, occurs. As with the conversation surrounding mental health, it must be a continuous endeavor.”

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SPORTS

Ahead of Penn State’s weekend series with Nebraska, coach Amanda Lehotak said she

thought the Nittany Lions were playing their best stretch of softball.

On the heels of taking two of three games at home from Indiana two weeks ago and splitting with No. 25 Ohio State on Wednesday, Penn

State was beginning to turn a corner after a poor start to Big Ten play.

And for most of the first two games of the team’s weekend series at Nebraska, it looked as though that run of fine form was going to continue.

On Friday, Penn State led 1-0 through four-and-a-half innings with its ace Marlaina Laubach pitching a stellar game. On Sat-urday, the Nittany Lions entered the bottom of the seventh ahead 4-0 with Madison Seifert pitch-ing as well as she has since the early portion of the season.

In the blink of an eye, in both games, all of that changed.

It’s a signal Penn State still has to clean up late-game mis-takes.

Penn State couldn’t get the necessary offensive production to support Laubach on Friday, and the Cornhuskers forced the game into extra innings. One Austen Hurness walk-off home run later, and Nebraska had completed the 2-1 turnaround win.

Nebraska recorded another walk-off win on Sunday after

three costly errors from the Nittany Lions allowed the Cornhuskers to steal a seem-ingly improbable 5-4 win.

Nebraska completed the three-game sweep on Sunday with a 6-4 win.

Penn State can cope with Friday’s close loss more so than Saturday, which will be a much harder pill to swallow for the Nittany Lions.

Leading by four runs at any point in a game is a significant lead, let alone when entering the final inning of play.

If the Cornhuskers had blasted over home run after home run to complete the turn-around, that’s one thing, three errors and two walks is another. In that final inning, Penn State beat itself, a problem the Nittany Lions have encountered several times this season.

These are the kinds of games the Nittany Lions have to win.

With an offense that ranks near the bottom of the league in most offensive categories — the Nittany Lions entered the weekend 12th in batting average and 11th in runs scored — Penn State’s margin for error is thin.

It can’t afford to play sloppy late in games. One walk or error can make the difference, just like it did on Saturday.

Penn State has undoubtedly improved a lot since a three game drubbing at the hands of Michigan in late March. The Nittany Lions aren’t the same team that lost to the Wolverines by a combined score of 28-0.

Even so, their offensive limita-tions don’t give them the luxury of getting away with mistakes and it’s something Penn State will have to improve as the season enters its last few weeks.

To email reporter: [email protected] them on Twitter at @VinceLungaro.

MONDAY, APRIL 17, 2017PAGE 4

Loss puts Penn State in must-win situation

Penn State’s best start in pro-gram history is creeping further away in the rear-view mirror.

A 10-game unbeaten start has quickly turned into a two-game losing streak for the Nittany Lions.

On Sunday night, the Nit-tany Lions will host Rutgers for senior day in a game that has turned into a must-win to

solidify their spot in the NCAA tournament.

Two straight trips to the state of Maryland have ended in defeats for the Nittany Lions (10-2, 1-2 Big Ten). After falling to Maryland in College Park, the Nittany Lions travelled to Bal-timore on Saturday and fell to Johns Hopkins, 13-11, despite a comeback in the fourth quarter.

Coach Jeff Tambroni’s team will head into the week of practice needing to show more urgency than it has all year.

Last Saturday, the NCAA Lacrosse Tournament Selection Committee released its first

rankings of the season, pegging the Nittany Lions at No. 5. They’re expected to fall after dropping their second game in a row with two weeks left in the season.

With only eight at-large bids for the NCAA Tournament, and four in the Big Ten Tourna-ment, there is little room for error in the final weeks of the season. With Penn State sitting at 1-2, and tied with Rutgers for fourth-place in the conference, it will likely need a win over the Scarlet Knights this weekend to make the Big Ten Tournament.

With potentially only two games left in their collegiate ca-reers, it is time for the seniors to get this team back on track. The captain, attackman Nick Aponte, defenseman Peter Triolo and middie/face-off man Drake Kreinz, among others, need to show leadership this week.

Penn State last qualified for the NCAA tournament in 2013. Kreinz is the only redshirt se-nior on the roster, which makes him the only remaining player who stood on the sideline for the first-round loss to Yale in the

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Gerard Arceri (40) battles for a faceoff with Austin Henningsen (18) of Maryland at Maryland Stadium in College Park, Md. on Saturday, April 8.

Nittany Lions earn co-championship

By Jack R. HirshTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

While Penn State got off to a quick start, it faded slightly on the back nine to post a 3-over

287 on Sunday. Yet it was good enough to finish as co-champi-ons with Georgetown at the Rutherford

Intercollegiate at the Penn State Blue Course.

Where did Penn State

In high winds and difficult course conditions, Penn State put together its best score of the tournament with a 287. George-town teed off after the Nittany Lions, and as the Hoyas’ scores were posted, they had struggled, by posting a 299 to finish tied for with Penn State at 16-over-par.

Penn State Round of the Day

Charles Huntzinger came out of the gate red hot with four bird-ies in the first seven holes. He ended up making six birdies on the round, which were offset by three bogeys for a 3-under 68. The score propelled the sopho-more and defending champion, who opened with consecutive

73s, to a tie for fourth. JD Hughes also posted an under-par round for the Nittany Lions with a 1-under 70, despite bogeying the opening hole on Sunday.

Medal ContentionOhio’s Peyton White shot a

solid 72 to finish at 4-under and keep his overnight lead and claim the individual title. He fought of a strong charge from Seton Hall’s Lloyd Jefferson Go, who fired the round of the tournament by 3 on Sunday with a 64.

Ryan Davis was in contention after shooting 2-under 140 on Saturday to go into the day in a tie for second, but bogeys on six and seven derailed his chances. The freshman took a double bogey on the par-3 17th and finished with a 75, six shots back of White, in sixth place.

Starting hot and coming in cold

Cole Miller got to 1-under after a birdie on the par-5 fifth, but came back after a double on seven. He managed to keep his score around par before driv-ing into the hazard on 18. He scrambled around and salvaged a bogey to post a 3-over 74 and finish in a disappointing tie for 27th.

Freshman Alec Bard, play-ing as an individual fired a 73 to place in a tie for 19th. Bard, who had a gallery compromised of family members from all over was able to best two of Penn State’s starters including Miller.

Quotable“We played very well today,”

coach Greg Nye said. “We played the first two rounds like we did in qualifying, not sharp. Today we were like we were in the south.”

My ViewFollowing their performance,

the Nittany Lions said they didn’t think it would be enough to over-come their 12-shot deficit to be-gin the day and win the team championship. The co-champi-onship is huge for the Nittany Lions, as they only have one reg-ular season tournament before the Big Ten Championship to im-prove their ranking. Huntzinger led the comeback with his return to form, and if Miller can find his game this week, the Nittany Lions could be a dark horse in the Big Ten Championship having not finished worse than second this spring.

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MEN’S GOLF

Jack R. Hirsh/Collegian

The Penn State men’s golf team poses after finishing as co-champions with Georgetown at the Rutherford Intercollegiate at the Penn State Blue Course on Sunday, April 16.

MEN’S LACROSSE

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DP Tori Dubois (9) smacks a two-RBI double at Beard Field on Friday, April 1, 2016.

By Aidan BittermanTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

For the second straight game, Maryland used a dominant first inning to beat Penn State, sweep-

ing the three-game series.

The Terrapins won the series fina-

le on Sunday afternoon, 15-2, as they scored runs in every inning other than the seventh.

Though all but one Nittany Lion in the lineup had a hit in the game, Penn State left nine run-ners stranded on base and went 0-for-9 with runners in scoring position. Overall, Penn State was 3-for-17 with runners on base.

“We have to generate offense,” Cooper said. “We have to find a way to get on base. We have to

find a way, with runners on, to make something happen. We didn’t do a very good job of that. We still have a ways to go.”

Maryland took an early three-run lead in the bottom of the first off of Nittany Lion starting pitch-er Myles Gayman.

Marty Costes singled home a run and later scored on a wild pitch in the first, and the other run in the inning scored on an er-ror by shortstop Conlin Hughes.

Costes drove in two more runs in the bottom of the second with a two-out triple.

He had four hits, five runs driv-en in and two runs scored in the game. He was a home run short of the cycle.

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BASEBALL

Michigan blows out Lions to sweep three-game series

SOFTBALL

Nittany Lions must clean up late game mistakes

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Myles Gayman (33) throws a pitch during a game against Ohio State at Medlar Field on Sunday, April 9. Penn State lost 11-2.

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4/18 TUE 6 PM, 106 Forest Resources BuildingMary Jo Casalena will talk about her job as

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4/20 THURS 7 PM, HUB Heritage HallMohona - Bangladesh Cultural Club is go-ing to celebrate the Bengali New Year for the

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