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VOL. 98 | ISSUE 36Monday, Oct. 7, 2013 “TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID”
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By Olivia trilla and tori adamsStaff Reporters@DEN_News
Standing by second base in a knit hat and polyester uniform, Debra Reid’s attention is not on the sweltering August heat, but the possibility of a line drive.
In this league, there are no mitts. She is equipped only with a keen eye and reflexes, skills she has cul-tivated over a long career of 1850s-style baseball.
Dating back to the 1850s, the rules, equipment and even attire have not always been what baseball teams know today.
Reid, a history professor, and the inspiration for other Eastern fac-ulty members to become involved, began her vintage baseball career in 1986 in New York.
Every weekend, Reid spends her time traveling across the Midwest to participate in baseball games, in which she plays second base.
“I pride myself on being a strong defensive player. You have to be able to catch the ball,” Reid said.
She said the traveling does not
bother her too much. “I love to travel. We try to car-
pool. The people I play with are all
good friends, and it makes the trips pass by quickly,” Reid said. “The average drive is about an hour to
games, but it’s an all-day event.”
MISS BLACK EIUAn informational meeting about Miss Black EIU will explain what the competition is all about.page 3
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Students package food to send to Haitian children
Eastern to obtain statue
jasOn hOwEll | thE DaIly EastERn nE ws athletes volunteer their time and gather to hear instructions on how to properly measure, weigh and bag food to be sent to children in Haiti Saturday on the north balcony of Lantz arena.
By jordan thiedeStaff Reporter@DEN_News
A new panther landmark is mak-ing its way to Eastern.
Bianca Tomlin, a senior commu-nication studies major, said the stat-ue will stand eight feet tall and fea-ture a panther standing on rocks and will be placed near the Martin Luther King, Jr. University Union.
Tomlin, the chairwoman for the University Enhancement Commit-tee, said the idea for this landmark is something that just recently came up.
She said she felt this project is important because Eastern needs another landmark the university can call its own.
Tomlin said Old Main is the most identifiable part of Eastern’s campus, but the school is one of five Illinois universities who have a castle landmark.
She said the other schools include the University of Illinois, South-ern Illinois University, Illinois State University and Northern Illinois University.
Student Body President Kaylia Eskew said the project is expected to cost $75,000.
Eskew, a senior journalism major, said the money needed for the land-mark would not be taken from stu-dent fees, though.
Tomlin said revenue for the stat-ue would be earned from events such as giveaway programs at foot-ball games.
She said they also plan to raise money by gaining sponsorships of the statue from alumni and differ-ent departments along with auc-tions that could include panther statues.
Tomlin a l so sa id that dona-tions from those who are interest-ed would play a part in raising the money needed for the project.
“If I was a recent alum, I would donate,” she said.
Tomlin said those who are still students at Eastern should not feel obligated to donate, though.
“It’s unreasonable to ask current students to donate,” Tomlin said. “They don’t have the money to throw around.”
Eskew said student government is working to let students know about the project by creating a sur-vey, which will also acquire student feedback.
She said the statue completion time would be by Homecoming 2014, just in time for the reaccred-itation team that is coming to East-ern. Eskew said she hopes the pan-ther landmark will become a point of pride for students.
k atIE smIth | thE DaIly EastERn nE ws Grant Sterling, a philosophy professor, and Debra reid, a history professor, play in an 1850s-style baseball league.
By jarad jarmonStudent Governance Editor@DEN_News
In assembly line formation, pinto beans, soy, vitamins and rice were packaged on Saturday in Lantz Are-na to eventually be sent to Haiti.
First, eight ounces would be tak-en from 10 gallon buckets to ensure the food would fit inside the pack-ages.
The dry food and medic ine would then be weighted to make
sure that the package would actu-ally seal.
Without proper sealing, rodents have been found to cause a big problem when shipping the food.
The process ends with a grid master like Dylan Chatman, a ju-nior psychology major, to ensure there are no leaks or holes in the bag.
Around 80 student athletes, in-cluding Chatman, spent about an hour packaging food servings to be sent to Haitian children.
By the end, students packed 300 bags with 18 eight-ounce servings per bag.
The Global Hunger Expedition, a non-profit organization whose goal is to send provisions to coun-tries such as Haiti, provided the food.
Mark Daily, an expeditor from the organization, said the food will be sent to 11 schools and orphan-ages across the country.
The food wil l be distributed from Oct. 23 until Oct. 25.
Daily said hunger is still an issue in the country.
“A lot of the kids only get one meal in a day,” Daily said.
Dai ly sa id they expected to package about 12 boxes of food Saturday.
“We are going to be taking over 60 boxes from Charleston,” he said.
Each serving cost 35 cents.“We collected, from the commu-
nity, $2,090 to put this thing to-gether,” Daily said. “We only asked for $20 to $25.”
SPIKING THE COMPETITIONThe Eastern volleyball team won its third straight match over an OVC opponent on Fri-day.page 7
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The Bridging Voice in Our Community organization and Eastern have teamed up to host the third annual Bullying Con-ference in the Martin Luther King Jr. Union on Friday.
The BVC Bullying conference project will aim toward incom-ing students and others in the community about how to pre-vent bullying. The conference will take place from 8:30 a.m. to
4:30p.m.Mildred Pearson, founder of
the BVC bullying project, said the conference has teamed up with several RSOs and other or-ganizations which have contrib-uted financial and service bene-fits.
Those RSOs and organiza-tions include Education Schol-ars, Sigma Pi Epsilon, Delta and EIU Pride.
Justin Patchin, the director of the Cyber Bullying Research
Center, will be in attendance at the conference as one of the sig-nificant speakers.
Individuals who are interested in attending the conference must register online through Eastern's website.
In addition, students who are interested in volunteering for the BVC bullying conference can visit eiu.edu/volunteer or con-tact Rachel Fisher, the director of community service, via email at [email protected].
Students who volunteer who are interested in volunteering for the conference will assist with check-in and assisting partici-pants at the conference.
Bullying conference needs volunteers
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A review of Eastern’s self-study survey was the focus of a month-ly meeting regarding the universi-ty’s ongoing accreditation process Friday morning.
Jeff Stowell, co-chair of the re-accreditation steering committee, presented findings from the more than 2,400 surveys completed by faculty, students and external au-diences.
The survey, which was meant to measure different aspects of education at the university, in-
cluding relationships with stu-dents and preparing students for careers, were emailed to all fac-ulty and students multiple times this semester.
Stowell said the results of the survey were overwhelmingly pos-itive, with most reflecting very highly on the university’s com-mitment and plan for higher ed-ucation.
According to the survey, 90 percent of students and facul-ty viewed Eastern students as the highest priority at the university, a number Stowell said was largely
a result of smaller class sizes and accessible professors.
While he said the university received a “wonderful” response from the survey, he also noted that the process of reflection is far from over.
He said the entire findings of the survey will be make public at a later date.
The steering committee, which is responsible for measuring the five criteria provided by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association for Colleges, is currently examin-
ing the second criterion, “ethical and responsible conduct.”
Marshall Lassak, an associ-ate professor of mathematics, and Linda Holloway, the assis-tant director in payroll and ben-efits, gave a brief overview of the second criterion, which asks the university to examine transparen-cy, ethics and accessibility to stu-dents, among other things.
The steering committee’s next meeting will be at 7:30 a.m. in the Loft of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union Nov. 1.
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The Black Student Union will be hosting an informational meeting on Monday for the Miss Black EIU Scholarship 2014.
The informational meeting will take place at 7 p.m. on the third floor in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union in the Arcola-Tuscola Room.
Women who are interested in participating in the Miss Black EIU scholarship program will have to prepare to compete in a pageant. This year’s theme of the pageant will be “A woman’s worth,” and the pageant is open to women of all ethnicities.
Alaysia Mitchell, the 2013 win-ner of the pageant, said this year’s pageant theme focuses on worth, intelligence and power of a wom-an. She also said this competition would put a scope on women re-ceiving respect.
“This pageant will focus on the empowerment of women because they deserve respect,” Mitchell said.
The actual pageant takes place in February, but Mitchell said wom-en participating would practice for the pageant after being picked at
the informational.Potential contestants will have to
be able to compete in the four cat-egories of creative expression, tal-ent, African garment and evening gown impromptu.
Mitchell said the amount of the scholarship depends on the contri-butions from BSU. Mitchell said she received a $1,000 scholarship when she won. She also said she hopes to raise the amount of the scholarship each year to the point where the scholarship will be able to pay for a student’s entire semes-ter.
“My hope is to raise a scholar-ship for the next winner, enough to pay half of her fees for the year and possibly the entire amount,” Mitchell said.
Mitchell said based on her expe-rience from her victory, she learned a lot about herself and gained a lot of responsibilities as well.
“I learned a lot about myself and other people,” she said, “I was able to tap into my passion and fo-cus on issues that I am an advocate
for.”The current Miss Black EIU also
said despite winning or not, those participating will experience some-thing very useful and will pick up a huge amount of responsibility.
“(Participating) is a rewarding experience. To be able to inform others and learn about yourself, it’s not about winning at all,” she said, “Being crowned means that you are now a prominent role model, ex-pected to appear at various campus events and serve as a liaison on be-half of BSU.”
In addition, Mitchell mentioned it will take a lot of work to partici-pate in and win the pageant.
“It’s not all fun and games, but there are times where you’ll have fun,” Mitchell said. “Without risk, there is no reward.”
For more information, contact Mitchell at [email protected].
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Amidst the bustle of people going through campus on Monday, the Li-brary Quad will host a crowd stand-ing in silence to honor Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
From 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. on every Monday in October, members of the campus and Charleston com-munity are invited to join in on an hour of silence in the Library Quad, said Jenny Greenberg, a ju-nior English major and the presi-dent of the Women’s Empower-ment League.
“The hour of silence is open to all students, faculty and commu-nity members to stand with us to raise awareness on domestic vio-lence,” she said. “It will be a sol-
emn but memorable event.” The Women’s Empowerment
League i s sponsoring the hour of silence, but the group has also reached out to HOPE, the Hous-ing, Outreach, Prevention, Edu-cation organization of East Cen-tral Illinois, to spread the word and generate more participants in the cause to promote domestic violence awareness, Greenberg said.
Domestic Violence Awareness Month evolved from the Day of Unity observed in October 1981, which grew into a week of activi-ties to unite those affected by do-mestic violence and those advocat-ing ending violence against women and children. Domestic Violence Awareness Month emerged in Oc-tober 1987.
“Participants can find the hour of silence beneficial because peo-ple who have experienced domes-tic violence will know that they are not alone, and others will be able to express their support,” Green-berg said.
She added she expects about 15 people to participate on Monday, including members of the Women’s Empowerment League and HOPE, and hopes the number will grow each week.
Throughout the month, T-shirts will be available for purchase for $15.
The Women’s Empowerment League meets at 7 p.m. every Tues-day at the Women’s Resource Cen-ter in the basement of Stevenson Hall.
Monday to kick off hour of silence for awareness
“(Participating) is a rewarding experience. To be able to inform others and learn about yourself, it’s not about winning at all.”
-Alaysia Mitchell, 2013 Miss Black EIU
Pagent Information• Information Meeting : 7 p.m. on the third floor in the Martin Luther King Jr. Union in the Arcola-Tus-cola room• Pagent: Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014 in the Grand Ballroom of the Union. Door open at 5 p.m. • Pageant will start at 6 p.m.
FilE Photo | thE Daily EaStErn nE wS Alaysia mitchell, a senior business management major, is crowned miss Black eIU Saturday oct. 6, 2013 in the Grand Ballroom of the martin Luther King Jr. University Union during the 42nd Annual miss Black eIU Scholarship pageant.
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It’s that time of the year. It’s midterms time, and for some of you, this may be that first big test of your class.
Yes, tests are the worst part of a class, aside from the slightly easier (usually) quiz, but preparing for them can be easier if done right. Some people say that studying hard is the best way to prepare for a test, but speak-ing from experience, this could hurt more then help sometimes.
To do well on a test is one of the more important aspects of a class, but you can’t do well if you prepare poorly. The first thing I recommend is food. If you eat at the din-ing halls all the time, you probably tend to eat a lot of greasy food. I would stay clear of those foods for at least a few days. Eat foods that are healthier for the body and go visit the salad bar at the dining halls. Also, snack-ing instead of eating three larger meals has helped me in the past. I have had friends tell me that they study better if they have some-thing to snack on while studying.
The second important part of preparing for studying is the amount of sleep you get. Now, only a few people I know have pulled true “all nighters,” but this is not the way
you should be studying for important tests. Personally, I can’t intake information
well when I’m sleepy, and most other peo-ple intake information better when they feel rested, too. So, I suggest that if you must stay up to study, don’t go to the point of exhaustion because the information you take in during that time won’t stick.
Of course, studying isn’t everything when successfully passing an exam, but studying and the different ways to study can help you pass.
A good way to study is to get study groups together. The benefits of studying in groups out weighs studying by yourself most of the time, and since everyone learns differently, maybe that one theory or prob-
lem that you can’t seem to wrap your mind, another person in your class knows well.
I am in, what I would consider, one of the most challenging classes in my field, and every time we have a quiz or a test, I have people to study with. Since this class is a law class, everyone reads the text differently, and it’s nice to hear how my study partners interpreted the text.
If you’re not a person that likes to do a group study, I suggest flash cards. We have been studying with flashcards since playing “Around the World” to help us study in our primary school classes. Re-read all materi-als the exam will have on it, and if you have the opportunity to copy the pages and high-light key sentences to help you remember, I’d do it.
The point is you should study for your midterms. Don’t wait until the night before to cram study and do get enough sleep and good food to help you in the process.
Don’t be the person that doesn’t study.
Emily Provance is a senior journalism major. She can be reached at 581-2812
As of late, the American political arena has seen no shortage of finger-pointing.
That is to say, our elected officials have hardly pulled any punches, nor have they toed away from lobbying insults and blame.
And so, as 800,000 government employees—the “non-excepted” and “non-essential” majority— are forced to stay home—as national parks, veteran’s offices and medical centers sit in unattended silence— the prospect of a clean-cut, “everybody wins” resolution to the government shutdown seems all-but dismal.
Of course, this political posturizing is hardly new, nor is the fact that, as ridiculous as it may be, the United States government can simply pack its bags and lock its doors in response to even the slightest disagreement.
And while it may be dangerous to slip into the mentality of “its just pol-itics,” or to discard the implications of the shutdown as merely a passing phase in political discourse, doing so has far too often been the response from both the general public and media alike.
Unfortunately, it is difficult to approach this situation objectively. Regardless of one’s efficacy, regardless of thoughts on the Affordable Care
Act (or, “Obamacare,” depending on who you ask), it’s hard to look at this shutdown and not see a game of political bullying that holds hostage not only the livelihoods of millions of Americans, but the faith and credit of the United States.
In all of this arguing, one fact has been increasingly overlooked—that, by the very nature of electing him president, America simultaneously granted President Obama a mandate for the application of universal healthcare.
In fewer words: we gave him the OK.
That sentiment—which, it should be noted, has been expressed by many moderate Republicans (i.e. John McCain)—is the bottom line in this argument.
If what that small minority of the Republican party is saying is true—if the American public is so adamantly opposed to universal healthcare—then we would be talking about President John McCain, or, maybe, his succes-
sor, President Mitt Romney.But we’re not.Americans had a chance to voice their sup-
posed opposition last November, and, before that, in 2008. Yet here we are, talking about President Barack Obama.
So, for that small minority to so voraciously dis-mantle the United States government based on a supposed and trumped-up fervor is inherently
counter to the wants and needs of the American public.This is not about “protecting” the nation from the ills of Obamacare. It
is not about fighting tooth and nail against some imposing socialist agenda. What it is about is appeasing a small constituency, and, come next election, boasting on campaign trails about fighting for “what is right for America.”
Whether or not universal healthcare is what’s right for America remains to be seen. But the point is, regardless of how well Obamacare will work in this nation, a majority of Americans were in favor of Barack Obama, and, by extension, his policies.
Thus, for a small group of officials to hold the United States government in limbo based on the claim that America does not want this policy is simply false and can be proven so with a simple look at whom we elected President.
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She also said she hopes new tra-ditions will be formed, such as rubbing the paw for good luck be-fore graduation.
Tomlin said this statue could also become a new place for grad-uating students to take pictures at other than just Old Main.
She also said she thought it was important for this to be a more of-ficial landmark of campus, rather than something like the panther at Marty’s being representative of the school.
Tomlin said she hopes the statue will become a focal point of cam-pus like Old Main and the Doud-
na Steps.“I think that it’s time for East-
ern to have something to beautify its campus,” she said.
Eskew said that even though the project is going to require quite a bit of work, it is still necessary be-cause it will be important for the school.
“It’s going to be a long process, but once we get there, it will all be worth it,” she said.
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The rugby team helped raise money, adding $100.
Barbara Burke, the director of the athletic department, said $200 worth of meals will be donated to Standing Stone Community Center in Charleston.
Burke said this will be the first time the athletic department has done something like this.
“Potentially, we would like to make it an annual event and to grow it; you have to get financial donations to purchase the rice and the beans,” Burke said. “It is impor-tant for our young people to under-stand how blessed we are with what we have.”
St u d e n t s w h o p a r t i c i p a t e d worked in an assembly line either measuring or packaging the food.
Burke and Daily talked about the idea for another volunteer opportu-nity that the athletics department can be a part of.
“I know Mark Daily, who is vol-unteering with Global Hunger, and we actually were in the grocery store,” Burke said. “We talked about needing to do a packaging event and the student athletes.”
Kaylee Morris, a sophomore ath-letic training major who is on the women’s swimming team, said her team and she just wanted to help out.
Chatman said it was not man-datory to volunteer, but there was some pressure to go.
“Somebody needs to do i t ,” Chatman said.
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Reid said when she was younger, there were no athletics tailored spe-cifically to women, so she joined the league.
“I’ve always been athletic and there were no formal girl sports while grow-ing up,” she said.
Even today, few women consistently play, she added.
Reid also said she would like to see “more gentlemanly behavior” in today’s baseball – a change she said would be a positive one for the sport.
Grant Sterling, a philosophy pro-fessor, was influenced by Reid to take part in the unique league.
“It’s hard to find good opportunities to play baseball nowadays,” Sterling said “It was an opportunity to have fun and participate in history.”
Being a part of the baseball league takes serious effort, Reid said.
“It takes a lot of dedication to be a member of these leagues. It’s a special type of life.”
After playing for so long, Reid and Sterling have plenty of insight on the differences of the rules of the game.
They said while the game has
evolved over the years, three things have always remained the same: three outs to an inning, 90-foot base paths and the love for the game.
The rules vary by home team, but there are basic guidelines that all teams follow, Sterling said.
One rule includes not being able to show any skin during game time. However, Sterling said sometimes that rule is ignored.
“It wasn’t socially acceptable to show skin in the 1850s,” Sterling said. “We let one another roll up our sleeves when it is really hot.”
Other than that, they abide strictly by the 1850s rules.
However, because of the lack of protection for hands, there is always a threat of injury.
“I have been injured. Playing with no mitt and being the second base ten-der puts you in the line of fire of hard-thrown balls, and the balls are hard to begin with,” Reid said.
A common outfield rule— and Sterling’s favorite—is the “bamboo-zle,” when a foul ball caught on one bounce off the ground results in the
batter being out. “It is more strategic,” Sterling said. As there are differences in the out-
field, there are also changes while bat-ting.
One of the biggest rules is the abil-ity to hit the ball backwards and still be considered fair if it first lands in fair territory.
“It is much more strategic. You can’t just crank it and throw it as hard as you can like they do now,” Sterling said.
Reid’s most memorable experience came when she was lucky enough to have the opportunity to play at Lafay-ette Square, which she said is the site of the first recorded game of baseball in St. Louis. That historic game took place in July of 1860.
“It’s great when you get to watch people who are incredibly athletic that play the game and see how they inter-pret the rules,” she said.
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MONDAY, OCT. 7, 2013 The DAilY eAsTerN News | SPORTS 7volleyball | recap
Jason Howell | THe Daily easTern ne wsJunior middle blocker Kelsey roggemann and sophomore outside hitter chelsea Lee make a block in Saturday’s game at Lantz arena. The panthers beat the Tennessee State Tigers 3-1.
Team extends win streakby ashley Holstromstaff reporter@alholstrom
The Eastern Volleyball team came out ahead of Tennessee State in four sets (25-17, 25-18, 23-25, 25-21) Fri-day, improving to 3-1 in the Ohio Valley Conference and 9-8 overall.
The Tigers had early leads in the first two sets, but the Panthers came out on top in both. Only in the third set, which saw 14 tied scores and nine lead changes, did the Tigers have any “glimpse of hope,” as Eastern senior Stephanie Arnold said.
Eastern coach Kate Price said the loss in the third set was not all nega-tive, though.
“I think we controlled a lot of the set, so with that, I think it’s a posi-tive,” Price said. “We just need to fin-ish it.”
Arnold said the team’s biggest goal now would be to do what Price said.
“End it right there,” Arnold said. “Don’t even give the glimpse of hope.”
The middle hitter had a career-high .789 hit percentage, ranking the sixth best hitting performance in school history and third highest in current OVC play. Arnold sits atop the OVC charts for overall attack at .430 per-cent, above Austin Peay at .412 per-cent.
Arnold trailed senior outside hitter Reynae Hutchinson’s 21 kills with 15 — and no errors.
“It’s nice to see our offense going, and any time one of our kids hits 800, it’s an awesome match,” Price said. “Fifteen kills, zero errors is a pretty awesome statistic.”
On the defensive end, junior out-side hitter Kelsey Brooke led the Pan-thers with 21 digs, followed by soph-omore libero Stephanie Wallace with 10. Brooke also slammed two aces against the Tigers.
Sophomore setter Marah Bradbury dominated in assists, racking up 60 of the team’s 65 in the match. She leads the OVC in assists.
Arnold said the win was partially a
result of a team meeting earlier in the week.
“We looked each other in the eye and said, ‘Hey, let’s do our goals, let’s fulfill each other’s goals,’ so I think that really helped refocus us,” Arnold said.
The biggest goal, she said, was to work as a more cohesive unit, improv-ing communication and keeping the energy high.
“It was a fun game to play,” Arnold said. “I think I was more tired cheer-ing than I was actually playing.”
The Panthers’ next stops in OVC play are in Kentucky, taking on More-head State and Eastern Kentucky Fri-day and Saturday.
“Having a three-game winning streak under your belt is always a huge plus for us,” Arnold said.
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“To win all four first conference games is huge for us,” he said. “We’re doing our job; we won three at home and one on the road. We stole one, so that was really nice.”
The Panthers will try and steal two more on the road when they trav-el to face Austin Peay at 7 p.m. Fri-day in Clarksville, Tenn., followed by
a 1 p.m. match Sunday against Mur-ray State on the road.
Austin Peay is 3-0-1 in conference, following two wins over Tennessee Tech and Belmont over the weekend. The Governors are the only other un-beaten team in the OVC other than the Panthers.
Murray State is 1-3 in the OVC,
picking up its first win over Tennessee Tech on Sunday
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men’s soccer | vS. weSTern iLLinoiS
by michael spencerstaff reporter@tmskeeper
The Eastern men’s soccer team lost its Summit League matchup on the road with Western Illinois, 3-1, in the second week of conference play on Saturday.
Oscar Ortega came off the bench to put the nail in the coffin for West-ern (2-8) in the 82nd minute when he knocked home his first goal of the season to put the Leathernecks two goals ahead of Eastern (0-7-2).
The Panthers remain winless through nine games.
Red-shirt freshman Ben Feltes was back in goal for Eastern after watch-ing the Panthers first match of Sum-mit League play from the bench.
Sophomore Garrett Creasor was the man in goal for that conference matchup with IUPUI, but he missed practice Thursday for a slight knock he picked up during the week for the Panthers.
Feltes made eight saves in the match but let in three goals. In keep-ing with the trend this season, Feltes faced a flurry of shots from the West-ern attack. The Iowan goalkeeper has averaged 21 shots faced per match this season, while Creasor has aver-aged 12 shots faced.
Freshman midfielder Nick We-grzynowicz got his first start for the Panthers Saturday after what East-ern coach Adam Howarth said was a couple weeks of solid performances in training.
“He had a good week of practice and trained very well, so we will keep looking at it,” Howarth said after last week’s tie with IUPUI, a game in which Wegrzynowicz played 36 min-utes.
On Saturday, Wegrzynowicz played
the entire game.Additionally, sophomore midfield-
er Tony Meza was back in the first 11 for Howarth after coming off the bench for three straight weeks, dating back to Eastern’s match with Loyola on Sept. 13.
Red-shirt junior forward Chris Bo-swell was not on the field or on How-arth’s list of substitutes. Boswell only recently returned from an injury that kept him out of the lineup for the be-ginning of the season; he missed prac-tice Thursday.
Sophomore midfielder Jake Brill-hart opened the scoring, giving East-ern the lead in the ninth minute. The Panthers retained the advantage for most of the first half.
With 51 seconds to go before the end of the first half, senior midfield-er Husref Jupic buried an equalizer to bring Western level with Eastern just before the half time break.
Coming out of half time, Eastern’s inconsistent play followed. Eastern has been outscored 16-7 in the sec-ond half this season.
After keeping the Leathernecks at bay for the first 20 minutes of the sec-ond half, freshman forward Diego Lopez scored a goal to put Western ahead 2-1.
In the 82nd minute, Ortega add-ed his goal to the total, handing East-ern its first loss of conference play this season, while Western picked up its second win of 2013.
Eastern will go on the road face the University of Illinois-Chicago on Tuesday in a match that was post-poned because of inclement weather on Aug. 30.
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Men’s soccer team falls to Leathernecks
rugby | vS. davenporT
by bob reynoldsstaff reporter@DeN_sports
The Eastern rugby team lost its fifth match in a row, losing 38-0, to Davenport University in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Saturday.
The shutout loss marked the first time in the NCAA Division I era (2002-present) that Eastern has been held without a point by its op-ponent.
Freshman Danielle Ordway and sophomore Gabby Florez, who combined for 22 of Davenport’s 38 points, led their team past the Pan-thers.
Before halftime, Florez converted a try to put Davenport up 17-0.
In the second half, Davenport would add 21 more points to put Davenport up 38-0.
Florez said with the wet weath-er, her team had to change the way they passed.
“We tried to play a smart game,” Florez said in a press release. “We
got tighter with our passing so the ball was wider out, and we didn’t have to worry about jumping for it and it slipping out of our hands.”
Florez said she noticed that the Panthers’ defense was bunched up on the side.
“We had to get the ball out fast, so their defense didn’t catch up with us,” she said.
Davenport has outscored oppo-nents 237-5 in its first four games this season.
Eastern dropped to 0-5 on the season, while Davenport improved to 4-0.
Eastern will continue its action on Saturday when the Panthers trav-el to Knoxville, Tenn., to take on the Southeastern Conference’s Ten-nessee Volunteers at noon.
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Rugby team loses fifth straight match
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Cross CounTrY | RECAP
Late goals push Panthers to 4-0By Dominic renzettiManaging Editor@domrenzetti
Junior Meagan Radloff had a pair of late game-winning goals over the weekend, propelling the Eastern women’s soccer team to 1-0 victories over Morehead State and Eastern Kentucky, respectively, at Lakeside Field on Friday and Sunday.
The Panthers are now 4-0 in the Ohio Valley Conference, the team’s best start since 2000.
Eastern and Morehead State were scoreless heading into the second half during Friday’s game at Lakeside Field. Radloff found herself in the right place at the right time in the 82nd minute for what would be the game-winner.
“Pressuring the defense, the ball happened to deflect into the perfect spot,” Radloff said. “Chip-ping it over the goalie, it was like going in slow motion over the goalie. It was a little nerve wrack-ing, but that’s OK.”
Radloff was able to find the back of the net again on Sunday against Eastern Kentucky in the 87th minute to push the Panthers over the Colonels.
After the Eastern Kentucky goalkeeper deflected the ball, Ra-dloff was there for the score.
“I just saw it coming out at the top of the 18 and shot it, hoping for the best,” she said.
The Panthers were playing with an advantage after Colonels goal-keeper Erik Wolfer was given a red card for a foul on Eastern’s Chris Reed in the 66th minute.
“(The ball) got through, and I was running through the defend-ers and it was me and the goal-ie, we were both going out for it,” Reed said. “She wanted to stop the ball and I wanted to kick the ball in the net, so I wouldn’t take any hard feeling or anything. It hurt, but she was doing what she had to do for her team.”
Wolfer was ejected and Saman-tha Melton was brought in to re-place her. Eastern coach Jason Cher-
ry said it was the right call.“(Wolfer) was the last defender
and it was a 1-v-1 situation and she came out on the ball feet first, so it was a red card and a good call by the official,” he said.
Eastern goalkeeper Cortney Jerzy recorded her second and third shut-
outs of the season over the weekend.“I can’t say enough about Cort-
ney Jerzy, just jumping in there and doing everything she can to keep a clean sheet,” Cherry said. “I think collectively, the team is playing bet-ter defensively.”
Red-shirt freshman goalkeeper Kylie Morgan is still out with a hand injury and has not played since the team’s 3-0 loss to Drake on Sept. 20.
Cherry said starting the OVC schedule off with four wins is huge for the team.JAson HowELL | THE DAILY EAsTErn nE ws
Junior forward/midfielder Meagan Radloff goes up against two players from Morehead State in Friday’s match at Lakeside Field. Radloff scored the only goal in the match, which gave the Panthers the 1-0 win over the Eagles.
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Men finish 6th, women 12th at Notre DameBy Blake nashStaff Reporter@DEN_Sports
Senior Pablo Ramirez led the men’s team as the Eastern men’s and women’s cross country teams competed in the University of Notre Dame’s Blue/Gold Invitational as part of the Gold Divi-sion. The men’s and women’s teams fin-ished sixth and 12th, respectively, on Friday in South Bend, Ind.
Ramirez finished with a time of 25:55.2 and ended in 14th place. He was followed by teammates Mike Hes-slau (39th, 26:31.9), Matt Black (53rd, 26:45.4), Danny Delaney (60th, 26:51.0) and Paxson Menard (72nd, 26:58.6).
Eastern coach Erin Howarth said the team fell right in where she expected it.
“Our goal was to finish somewhere between fourth and seventh overall, and we accomplished that goal,” How-arth said. “This was our best translation from practice to race day. Notre Dame
was the best effort we had to gain more of teamwork and ‘pack running.’”
Grand Valley State won the overall competition with 40 points, followed by North Central with 78 points and Windsor with 108.
Howarth said the weather in South Bend, Ind., might have had an effect on some runners, but that it is being used as a learning experience.
“Some runners embraced the hu-midity, like junior Max Gassmann, and helped pull along other teammates, while some struggled,” she said. “We need to recognize that everyone is rac-ing in the same conditions, so hopefully that lesson was learned (Friday).”
On the women’s side, the Panthers placed 12th out of 26 teams.
Emily Brelsfoard continued her re-cent success finishing second on the team behind sophomore Victoria Quar-ton.
Quarton finished 38th with a time of 18:34.6 and Brelsfoard finished 40th with a time of 18:35.9. Fellow Panthers
Kelsey Hardimon (67th, 18:56.5), Ra-chel Garippo (71st 19:02.7) and Ivy Handley (103rd, 19:23.7) rounded out the top five for the team. Brelsfoard, Garippo and Handley are freshmen.
Howarth said she used the strategy of pack running in the race.
“I challenged a couple of runners, such as Rachel and Kelsey, to go out with Victoria, and Rachel did it with Kelsey close behind,” Howarth said. “We still need a fifth runner to come through and run with the three and four runners, and then we’ll have a day everyone’s excited about.”
The top three teams for the wom-en’s division were Southern Illinois-Car-bondale with 52 pts, Grand Valley State with 63 and Loyola with 121.
Eastern will have two weeks off be-fore its next meet at the Pre-National Invitational in Terre Haute, Ind.
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JAson HowELL | THE DAILY EAsTErn nE ws Pablo Ramirez, a red-shirt senior cross country runner, finishes second in the Walt Crawford Open on Sept. 6 at the Panther Trail. Ramirez finished 14th at the Notre Dame Blue/Gold Invitational in South Bend, Ind., on Friday, lead-ing the team.