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VOL. 98 | ISSUE 65Monday, Nov. 18, 2013 “TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID”
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DOUSIN’ THE FLAMES Following a big performance from Reggie Smith, the Eastern men’s basketball team recorded a 20-point victory over UIC.Page 8
TEACHER OF THE YEARJeff Boshart was named this year’sIllinois Professor of the Year.Page 3
Back-to-back OVC champions
OlIvIa dIggs | The daIlY easTern ne ws
Landmark survey to gauge interest
BOT votes for lack of increase on room, board
dOmInIc BaIma | The daIlY easTern ne ws Jimmy Garoppolo and the Eastern football team celebrate, winning the Ohio Valley Conference title for the second straight year with a 52-14 win over Jacksonville State Saturday at O’Brien Field.
Check out page 8 to read the full recap of Eastern’s victory over Jack-sonville State at Saturday’s game.
By Bob galuskiNews Editor | @BobGaluski
The Board of Trustees voted to keep housing and tuition rates at the same amount and voted to allow President Bill Perry the opportunity to ex-tend a 5-year contract to head football coach Dino Babers.
The Board of Trustees, the governing body of Eastern, passed the proposed tuition rate for the fiscal year 2015. The rate will stay at $269 per se-mester hour per undergraduate student if they are an Illinois resident. Non-residential undergradu-ates would stay at $780 per semester hour.
The voted recommendations also included grad-uate students. For Illinois-resident graduates, the rate per semester hour would stay at $283. For non-residential graduate students, the rate would stay at $679.
Dan Nadler, the vice president for student af-fairs, said this was the first time since the 1992-1993 academic year tuition rates have remained unchanged.
Effective next fall semester, residence hall and Greek Court housing rates will also stay at an even rate.
Room rates will stay at $2,905. For the seven-meal plan option, which includes
$200 dining dollars per semester and two bonus meals, the amount will be $1,245. With room rates, the total will be $4,150.
The 10-meal plan option, which includes $60 dining dollars and three bonus meals, will cost $1,430. Added with room rates, the total will be $4,335.
The 12-meal plan option, which includes $100 dining dollars and four bonus meals, will cost $1,593. With room rates, it will total $4,498.
The 15-meal plan option, which includes $140 dining dollars per semester and five bonus meals, will cost $1,774, plus room rates, the total will be $4,679.
Along with the room and board rates, the cost for special rooms such as double room as a sin-gle and triple room as a double will remain un-changed. The cost for a double room as a single will be $850. The cost for a triple room as a dou-ble will be $450.
Summer room and board rates will also stay even from this past year. For University Court apartments, the rates will also stay the same.
Perry said the lack of increases is a focus on at-tacking enrollment issues.
“We are not effecting quality,” Perry said. “It is a both-and, not an either-or situation for quality and quantity.”
The board also voted to authorize Perry to offer a multi-year contract to Babers.
The multi-year contract would be five years and go from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2018.
Concerns were raised over whether or not Ba-bers would be leaving, which Perry was quick to quell.
“Contracts do have provisions,” he said. “If a coach leaves early, there are financial benefits to the university because the time and amount is put into the person’s tenure.”
The Board of Trustees’ next meeting will be on Jan. 17.
Jarad Jarmon contributed to this article. Bob Galuski can be reached at 581-2812
By Jarad JarmonStudent Governance Editor |@JJarmonReporter
The strategic planning committee and the university enhancement committee will be reaching out to students for feedback and de-signs for a panther landmark.
The landmark will be a bronze statue of a panther, with projected costs of $75,000, and is expected to be placed in the Library Quad.
Student Senate members will be in charge of handing out surveys, which gauge what the students are looking for in a statue. Bianca Tomlin, the university enhancement commit-tee chairwoman, said she is going to try to get every senate member to hand out 25 surveys to students.
Tomlin, one of the leaders of the project, said online surveys are normally ineffective be-cause there is usually a lack of interest in read-ing them, which is why the landmark surveys will be hard copies.
They will be handing out the survey the week after Thanksgiving break. The questions will focus on students’ interest in the landmark or a project similar to it. Tomlin said if there was a lot of negative feedback for the land-mark, they would rework their plans for the project but would not scrap the project entire-ly.
The survey will also assess what students would want the landmark to look like. For in-stance, one question will ask the student which position they would wish the panther would be in, such as crouching on all-fours or clawing
at the air. With the survey information, those running
the project will then send out an email to ev-ery student asking for design submissions for the landmark. They will be asking for designs which fit with the panther positions students said they were interested in for the survey.
The emails will be sent out to students be-fore winter break. They will be looking for sub-missions until a week after winter break to give people enough time to handle the project.
Tomlin also said so far 27 people have ap-proached her with interest in working on the project.
While there were previous plans to pay for a professional sketch artist, the group handling the landmark project decided it would not work out.
Tomlin said the artist would expect to be a part of the project if they sent their designs over.
“If you go with a sketch artist, you are com-mitting to them,” Tomlin said. “They didn’t want to do that.”
Tomlin said she wanted to get the students involved in the project by having them send their own designs of the project. She added the artist whose design is favored and used will most likely have his or her name on the land-mark in some way.
Despite interest in asking students to pay for the statue, Tomlin said she was adamant-ly against the idea of students who are already paying for tuition to pay for a statue as well.
When they have a design in place and most
of the plans in order, they plan on seeking out alumni and community members for support of the project.
Tomlin said it would be a lot more appeal-ing to alumni when the project plans were ful-ly fleshed out.
They also plan on having fundraising events at businesses within the area and on campus to cover the cost.
The project to build the landmark has been reworked within the past few weeks to become more efficient and organized.
Tomlin said there were a lot of ideas com-ing from everyone who was involved, but there was no definitive leader in the early stages of the project to decide what exactly would hap-pen. It was a miscommunication from all ends.
“Too many chiefs, not enough Indians,” Tom-lin. “Too many wanted to head the project.” Tomlin and Heather Webb, the director of Stu-dent Standards, are now officially heading the project.
Despite early plans of having the landmark done by fall 2014, the project is expected to take longer.
Tomlin said they do not want to just throw out a statue to fit a timetable. A bronze statue takes time to do right, she added.
It is currently undetermined when the proj-ect will be finished.
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Eastern’s Jazz Ensemble will be performing a diverse selection of jazz, highlighting the 16 current members of the ensemble.
The performance will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in The Theatre of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.
Sam Fagaly, the Jazz Ensemble director, said the ensemble will be performing a wide-range of jazz music.
“When people think of jazz, they might have one type of music in mind, but it really covers quite a broad spectrum; we are going to try and play a good variety,” Faga-ly said.
The Jazz Ensemble usually per-forms about three times in the fall semester and three times in the spring semester on campus.
“They often perform other con-certs off campus as well,” Fagaly said.
The ensemble just returned from a tour in Belleville, Mo. where they played three concerts, he added.
Eastern students can audition
for the Jazz Ensemble. Auditions are at the beginning of fall, during the first week of classes. Members of the ensemble are mostly music majors.
“In fact, all the members of the Jazz Ensemble this fall are music majors,” Fagaly said. “The Jazz Ensemble is a class that meets four days a week,” he added.
There are also non-music ma-jors in the jazz program, especial-ly in the other four groups of the program.
The Jazz Lab Band has the same instrumentation of the Jazz Ensem-ble, but usually the members are younger students, Fagaly added.
In the lab band, they can gain experience. They usually preform twice each semester.
“Addi t iona l ly, there a re the three groups of Jazz Combos who meet twice a week, containing about four to six members in each group,” Fagaly said.
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FiLe PhoTo | The daiLy easTeRN Ne wsCancer survivors take the survivor lap to start the 2013 Relay for Life in McAfee gym on Fri., April 5. The relay has raised around $30,000 so far.
By Jack Cruikshankstaff reporter | @Den_news
With cancer’s place in the fore-ground of American culture, the American Cancer Society’s annual Relay for Life helps those affected deal with the pain of the disease.
The Relay for Life will host a Boot Camp from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday at the First United Meth-odist Church in Mattoon to com-mence the planning process for the August 2014 Coles County Relay for Life.
The Boot Camp will focus on
planning the event, which will take place on Aug. 23 of next year at Peterson Park in Mattoon.
The Boot Camp organizers ask that individuals come with plan-ning ideas for the Relay for Life and say that, with the help of the community, next year’s event will be bigger and better than ever.
Each year, Relay for Life partic-ipants come together for one night in remembrance of those who have been plagued by cancer.
The night serves as a fundrais-er for the American Cancer Soci-ety as well.
Throughout Illinois, there are more than 100,000 volunteers for the American Cancer Society.
So far, for the Coles County Re-lay for Life, 14 teams and 46 par-ticipants have signed up to help raise funds and to participate in the relay.
According to the American Can-cer Society website, the team “Mat-toon CUSD” is in the lead, hav-ing raised $1,816.01 of the total $2,768.01.
“Each person who shares the Relay for Life experience can take pride in knowing that they are
working to create a world where this disease will no longer threat-en our loved ones or rob anyone of another birthday,” according to the information released by the Relay for Life organization.
As well as the event in August 2014, the American Cancer Soci-ety will host a different Relay for Life at 6 p.m. on Friday, April 4, 2014 at the McAfee Gym.
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Ke ViN haLL | The daiLy easTeRN Ne wsBryan Chesi, a graduate student in the music department, performs his solo piece in the EIU Jazz Group Concert on Sept. 19 in The Theater at the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Chesi has been playing the saxophone for more than 15 years.
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Art professor Jeff Boshart has been named the 2013 Illinois Pro-fessor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Ad-vancement and Support of Educa-tion.
According to a press release from Eastern’s office of media relations,
Boshart was selected from more than 350 other professors in the United States. The award was an-nounced at Friday’s Board of Trust-ees meeting.
“I am humbled to have received this recognition but gleefully share it with my family, peers and stu-dents , both past and present,” Boshart said in the press release.
Boshart joined Eastern’s art de-
partment in 1988 and will be retir-ing at the end of the 2013-2014 ac-ademic year.
Boshart’s work has primarily been with 3D art. He also organized the recent “Skulpcher Werkz” alumni art show in the Tarble Arts Center.
“I have spent my career striving to become a better teacher, men-tor and student-centered activist, asking myself, ‘How can I help my
students engage their profession, achieve better results and find suc-cess in their chosen field sooner?’” Boshart said in the press release. “It has been a challenging goal but one that has never left me without op-tions, and the exploration of those possibilities has made the struggle worth every dime I’ve spent and ev-ery hour I’ve devoted to the quest.”
According to the release, Boshart
also received the Master Educator Award from the international pro-fessional association, Foundations in Art: Theory and Education in 2007.
He has received multiple other awards for his work at Eastern and has served as both an instructor and director for the Eastern Summer High School Art Camp and other workshops and lectures.
Art professor named ‘Professor of the Year’
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AmAndA WilkinSon | The dAily eASTeRn ne WSIan Brock, a freshman sociology major, attempts to run past Julian Belmer, a freshman mathematics and computer science major, and Kavon Taylor, a freshman accounting major, during a scrimmage Sunday on the South Quad. Brock said they took advantage of the warm weather despite the mud.
SeTh SchRoedeR | The dAily eASTeRn ne WSSculpture professor Jeff Boshart stands in the Sculpture Studio of the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Boshart has been named the 2013 Illinois Professor of the Year by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
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Consider your options for housing, dining
“Legalize love.”
Phillip Melton
For those of you that live in the residence halls, this is the time to listen up. Don’t sign your life away with an Early Bird con-tract because of the extra dining dollars; sit back and consider your options.
As it has been seen many times, there are students that go do the Early Bird contract when it first comes out because they have a spe-cific room in a specific building they want to live in for the next year, but it is a trick.
Some students don’t think they have options, but they do. Living off campus is generally cheaper than living on campus, even with having to buy groceries for your apartment. If you found an all-inclusive apartment for, say, $500 a month and spent $100 on groceries, that’s $600 a month.If you do a 10-month contract for a school year, you’re going to pay about $6,000 for a year.
The cheapest housing and dining rate of seven meal plans a week and room and board is $4,150 a semester. That’s a whop-ping $8,300 a year. The most expensive meal plan plus room and board is the 15 plus plan, and that’s $9,358 a year. These numbers are based off Eastern’s current website Housing and Dining infor-mation.
Living off campus doesn’t work for everyone. Maybe you don’t want to live off campus or your parents won’t let you (aka won’t pay for off campus living) but if this is your case, do some research before signing a contract whether it is an Early Bird contract or not.
You have to think, if you got a 15 plus meal plan, are you going to use all 15 swipes? If a student had the time to eat three times a day every
day that is 21 swipes, but who are we tying to fool? Half the time we barely have time to eat once a day, and if this is your case, that’s only seven swipes, so why waste money?
Think about what your schedule is going to be for the next semester, and plan things that way. You can also have mini fridges in the residence halls. You can stock up on bread, peanut butter and jelly, and all oth-er kinds of things to substitute for a small-er, cheaper plan.
Money is too precious to waste, especially in college. The whole “college students are broke” became a saying because it is true. Think and do research before blindly signing a contract and locking yourself into the residence halls.
Registration started in October, but some people are not fully registered for next semester yet. Think about the classes you’re going to be taking.
Everyone has required classes that they have to complete. Some of my required classes outside my major I transferred in. Others I took were in communications, political science, English and history classes.
Having certain requirements outside your major gives you a choice to take interesting classes. The possibility of choosing different classes is what landed me in HIS 3100: His-tory of England, 1066-1688. I have always liked history and thought I might as well try something a little different since I have the chance.
Then there are the pesky electives that always seem to sneak up on students. I was lucky because since I am a transfer student, some of my classes transferred in as electives from the other schools I went to.
Some classes will count in multiple plac-
es on requirement sheets. That is some-thing you have to be careful with. At East-ern, students have to have 120 credits to graduate. Double counting some classes is going to make things easier, but be careful how much you do this because you could end up all done with classes and thinking you can graduate early but come to find out you need to take random classes because you don’t have the 120 credit requirement. I’ve seen it happen before, and I am sure it will happen again.
There are more than 30 subjects on
PAWS to choose classes from, so talk to your adviser.
Maybe exceptions can be made so you can take one class versus another. Explore the subjects, and find something that could interest you.
The point of this is whether it be with the required classes outside your major, elec-tives or choosing a minor, you should choose interesting classes and expand your horizons. Choose classes that are completely opposite of your major or minor.
Learn something different; you never know when having knowledge of a different subject besides your major and minor might come in handy. Maybe in a job interview or maybe with future in-laws; who knows?
Take the chance and do something a little different. Who knows -- maybe you’ll like it.
Emily Provance is a senior journalism major. She can be reached at 581-2812
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Eastern students tried their hand at directing, and the result came to a sold-out show Friday.
The show centered on “An Eve-ning of Tennessee Williams,” and three different one-act plays from playwright Tennessee Williams were performed.
Miranda Boub directed “The Long Goodbye,” Bill Stinde direct-ed “The Pink Bedroom” and Rich-ard Guss directed “These Are The Stairs You Got to Watch.” All three of the directors are theatre arts ma-jors.
Set in a different era, in an en-tirely pink bedroom, “The Pink Bedroom” kicked off the perfor-mance.
The story is about a man who is having an affair with a woman. Through a conversation in the pink bedroom, secrets come about the characters until the last few seconds when the biggest secret is revealed.
Sean Copeland, a senior jour-nalism major, played the name-less man, and Shelby White, a ju-nior communication studies major, played the woman. A third charac-ter was a part of the story, played by Michael Jachowicz, a freshman communication studies major.
“The Long Goodbye” centers on a man named Joe who is moving away from his home. He keeps hav-ing flashbacks of his mother and sister while the movers empty his house.
Rounding out the cast includ-ed Jacob Cole, a junior theatre arts major, playing Joe, Macken-zie Buob, a sophomore theatre arts and communication studies major, playing Joe’s sister Myra and Bill, Myra’s boyfriend, played by Ryan McCain, a senior theatre arts ma-jor.
Warren Jefferson, a freshman communicat ion studies major, and Copeland, who returned from “The Pink Bedroom” played Mov-er 1 and 2.
Also returning to the stage from “The Pink Bedroom” was Jacho-wicz, playing Silva, Joe’s friend. White also appeared once again to take on the role of the deceased mother.
The last short story, “These Are The Stairs You Got to Watch,” was set in an old movie theater per-ceived to have a bad reputation. Everyone from both “The Pink Bedroom” and “The Long Good-bye” had a role in the one-act play; however, it was the shortest one.
T h e o n e - a c t p l a y r e vo l v e d around kids climbing the stairs of the movie theater to have fun while others watched over the stairs.
Chloe Burken, a sophomore spe-cial education major, attended the play with her friends to support their friend who was acting in the play. Their favorite short story was “The Long Goodbye.”
Paul Durante, an undecided sophomore, said he came to the show because he wanted to see it and because he wrote the promo-
tion for the show. He also said that his favorite segment was “The Long Goodbye.”
Rachel Riesenberger, a sopho-more special education major, said her favorite short story was “The Pink Bedroom.
“It got my attention the most,”
she said.Hilary Shields, a senior theatre
arts major, was in charge of cos-tume design for “The Pink Bed-room” and “These Are The Stairs You Got to Watch.”
Shields said she had a hard time choosing which story was her favor-
ite. “All three plays have a powerful
message and reveal that message in such a poetic and beautiful way,” she said.
Stephanie Ciesla can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
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Staff Report
Student Senate members are hoping to appoint the last remain-ing five senate seats, which will be open even after the official elec-tions are announced.
The official election results will be announced at the senate meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Arco-
la-Tuscola Room in the Martin Lu-ther King Jr. University Union.
Student Senate Speaker Jesse Green said he expected there would not be any grievances against the unofficially elected senate mem-bers.
Green said members of the sen-ate hope to have all of the positions filled before the start of the spring
semester. He added they expect to be able to appoint these senators as well as officially elect the 19 other candidates.
The senate applications can be found on the student government website.
The deadline to apply is at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 18.
AmAndA WilkinSon | The dAily eASTeRn ne WS Jake Cole, a junior theatre arts major, and Mike Jachowicz, a freshman communication studies major, perform during “An Evening of Tennessee Williams” rehearsal Wednesday in the Black Box Theatre of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.
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Little kept going when Eastern got the ball back on its third possession. This time, a 37-yard touchdown run, putting the Panthers up 21-0 with 5:58 remaining in the first quarter, but his favorite touchdown still had not come.
The last time Little threw a pass was when he was in high school, he said. It ended as a touchdown. On a second down and seven, from the Gamecocks’ 10-yard line, Little threw his first pass in college. It ended the same way his pass in high school did.
“When they called that play, I was kind of surprised,” Little said. “But we have been practicing that play for a while.”
Little’s 10-yard touchdown pass wound up in the hands of Garoppo-lo, who after taking the snap and giving the ball to Little, peeled out of the back-field toward the front corner of the end zone, nearest the Eastern sideline. Two Jacksonville State players met Garoppo-lo and one of them was called for pass interference, but that became irrelevant as the quarterback had already hauled in the pass.
“In man-to-man defense, who covers the quarterback?” Babers asked after the game. “The answer? Nobody.”
By halftime, Jacksonville State had scored a touchdown, but was still down 38-7. The Gamecocks, who entered the game averaging 215.3 rushing yards per game, only ran for 37 in the first two quarters. Babers said the defensive line had a lot to do with that.
“Our defensive line was penetrat-
ing,” he said. “They were knocking peo-ple off the ball. They were staying gap conscious. Pat Wertz, Dino Fanti, Jon Voytilla, (Timotheus) Granger, (Fed-ney) Delphonse, those guys were mov-ing their offensive line back into the backfield, which was cutting off angles for the running backs.”
As the second half progressed, the Gamecocks were able to establish more of a presence in the run game, scor-ing a rushing touchdown a minute into fourth quarter as DeMarcus James scored his 20th rushing touchdown of the season.
But by then, Garoppolo had in-creased Eastern’s lead with a nine-yard touchdown to Adam Drake earlier in the third quarter. Lera scored the fi-nal touchdown on a two-yard run with 9:11 left to play. By the end of the game, the Panthers rushed for a school-record 413 yards, 111 from Lera on 12 attempts and 245 coming from Little on 26 carries.
“The offensive line did a great job and they gave us the run, and we just ran the ball,” Little said. “The offensive line did a great job of moving people.”
Babers said the Jacksonville State de-fense was giving the Panthers the option to run because of the type of defense it was playing.
“They were basically playing the toughest throwing defense that you could play,” he said. “Now, if you’re go-ing to play that style of defense, then you’re really susceptible to someone running the ball on you.”
Babers explained how the Game-cocks were lining up in a one-free press, where all of the defensive backs were up in the Eastern receivers’ faces on first and second down. On third down plays, Babers said Jacksonville State would play a 25-man defense, mean-ing there would be two defenders play-ing deep while five others played un-derneath, trailing the wide receivers on their inside hip and protecting from long passed down field.
That defense on third down plays would leave only four defenders hav-ing to be blocked by the Eastern offen-sive line.
“It would be a great technique if we couldn’t run the football, but we just looked at that and turned around and gave the ball to Shep,” Babers said.
The final stats read Eastern 595 yards and Jacksonville State 253, but the more important number was the 52-14 final that officially clinched the Pan-thers’ spot in the FCS playoffs.
Eastern has now won seven OVC titles since 2000, and Babers has won two in a row in his first two years as the head coach. Babers said it was amazing to win the championship for the second straight year at home.
“It’s amazing. It tickles me to death that we can do that in front of our home crowd, in front of our adminis-tration, in front of our school president, in front of our community,” he said.
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Eastern had its highest scoring out-put of the season behind a 57.1 shoot-ing percentage, a 64.3 3-point shoot-ing percentage and a 77.8 free throw percentage — all season highs.
Illinois-Chicago, meanwhile, shot 40 percent from the field and 42.9 percent from the 3-point line. The Flames were 14-of-20 from the free throw line.
The Panthers led the Flames nearly the entire game, starting with a 10-9 lead at 15:43 in the first half.
Eastern then went on a 29-11 run during the next 12 minutes to take a
37-20 lead before eventually taking a 40-27 lead into halftime.
Forward Josh Piper was the only other Panther to score in double digits with 10 points.
Forward Sherman Blanford, as his status was also uncertain, as he did not practice Thursday after suffering an ankle injury against Olivet Naza-rene, played 25 minutes against the Flames.
He was one of seven Panthers to score eight or more points. He shot 3-of-6 while hauling in three re-bounds as the team’s leading re-
bounder from last season.Eastern out-rebounded Illinois-
Chicago 33-28. The Panthers near-ly double their season total in assists with 17 for the game. Eastern out-blocked Illinois-Chicago nine to two.
Eastern will return to action at 6 p.m. Wednesday against Purdue in West Lafayette, Ind.
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JaSon HowELL | THE DaILy EaSTErn nE wS Mark Pedziwiatr, a freshman kinesiology and sports studies major, competes in the Walt Crawford Open on Sept. 6 on the Panther Trail. The men’s cross country team finished first out of the 12 teams competing.
By Blake nash staff reporter | @DeN_sports
Despite solid performances at the Midwest Regionals at Iowa State University, the Eastern cross coun-try team saw its season end on Fri-day with the men finishing 16th and the women 27th.
The men’s team, led by Pablo Ramirez, finished 16th out of 29 teams, while the women finished 27th out of 30 teams. Ramirez fin-ished 48th individually with a time of 31:32.1, matching his career-best time in the 10K.
Fellow seniors Mike Hesslau and Danny Delaney were the second and third best runners for Eastern, with Hesslau finishing 79th with a time of 32:05.9 and Delaney finish-ing 96th with a time of 32:26.5.
Despite not winning the race or sending any runners to the Nation-al Championships this week, East-ern coach Erin Howarth said it was one of their best races of the season.
“We beat many teams that were regionally ranked throughout the season, like Loyola, Wichita State, and North Dakota State,” Howarth said. “Our strength was from our three, four and five punch, from Danny, Riley McInerney and Matt Black.”
T h e r e m a i n i n g s c o r e r s f o r
the men’s team were McInerney (97th, 32:27.4), and Black (105th, 32:31.2). The top three teams for the meet were Oklahoma State with 45 points, Tulsa with 57, and Iowa State with 113.
In spite of numerous injuries from the last few weeks, the wom-en’s team fared very well with a young squad, Howarth said.
Victoria Quarton finished 107th with a time of 22:10.7, running on an injured foot. Emily Brelsfoard followed her at 127th with a time of 22:32.0 and Ivy Handley at 135th with a time of 22:35.2.
Goals for this race were hard to focus on with all the injuries East-ern was faced with.
“In the last few weeks, Rachel’s foot was bothering her, Rachel Gar-ippo had to deal with some quad tightness and Julie James rolled her ankle last Sunday,” Howarth said. “Although we were focused on our goals, those three were just trying to get to the finish line.”
K e l s e y H a r d i m o n ( 1 4 6 t h , 22:47.0) and Ruth Garippo (163rd, 23:09.7) rounded out the scoring for the Panthers.
Iowa State won the meet with 39 points, followed by Minnesota (59 pts) and Oklahoma State (192 pts).
None of the Panthers qualified for the national championships at
Indiana State next week. Howarth said she has no doubt that the fu-ture of her team is in good shape.
“We’ve had ups and downs throughout the season, but I have
no doubt that we will be in a much better position next year with ded-icated training and physical and mental growth from these young athletes,” she said.
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Teams come up short at Midwest Regionals
By Bob reynoldsstaff reporter | @BobreynoldsDeN
After about an hour rain delay at Lakeside Field, the Eastern rugby team played its first game since they defeated the Kentucky Wildcats 61-0 for their first win of the season.
On Sunday, the Panthers defeat-ed Illinois State twice in a matchup of rugby 7s. The Panthers won the first game 46-0 and won the second 48-0.
Rugby 7s consists of seven players per team. The games are played with seven-minute halves and a five-min-ute halftime.
Eastern’s Katlyn Hammock had about a 50-yard run for a try in the first half from a pass from Miranda Hankins.
Hankins would add the next try, and Burge added the two-point con-version to put the Panthers up 12-0.
After running down the right side, Burge faked out a defender and con-tinued running up the field into the end zone for another try to put the Panthers up 19-0. She added the two-point conversion as well.
Eastern coach Frank Graziano said he was pleased with the way Burge played.
“We are starting to teach them how to run,” he said. “She is starting to get a feel for what it is like to get into open spaces. She is starting to become a nice center for us now. The center position is really the mainstay of the attack.”
Sara Fisher would add her second try of the season with run of about three yards off the right side for the Panthers, right as the half ended to put Eastern up 24-0
To start off the second half of the first game, Burge scored again with a run of about 20 yards up the middle for the try and then later converted on the two-point conversion kick to
put the Panthers up 31-0.The Panthers would add tries by
Jasmine Gardner, Angelica Cerceo-Jensen and Hannah Vieth to finish off the scoring in the first game.
Eastern did not let the Redbirds cross midfield once in the first game and Graziano said defense was the one main focus in the game.
“Even when we do our cheers, we focus on defense,” he said. “With Il-linois State not having played 7s be-fore, we talked about trying to make sure we got a shutout today and con-tinue to play defense. That was a car-ry over from 15s. We certainly were not going to beat anybody if we didn’t continue to play defense.”
The second game saw Eastern get off to a quick start, scoring four con-secutive tries in the first half.
The first try of the game, came on a Burge 70-yard burst up the middle of the field. Hankins would add two more tries for the Panthers to give her seven on the year.
In the second half of the second game, the Panthers scored four times, including the two from Hankins, Em-alie Thornton and Kim Youhas would add a try each.
Burge went 3-of-4 in conversion kicks in the second half.
Graziano said the team improved all throughout the season.
“It would have been great to get another 15s game in to see where we are,” he said “We will try to use 7s this spring to get the girls ready for a 15s season.”
The Panthers finished the season 2-6.
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Panthers close with two wins for 2013 season
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sA jjAD AbEDIAn | THE DAILY EAsTErn nE wsJacksonville State safety Brandon Bender attempts to tackle Eastern running back Shepard Little during Saturday’s game at O’Brien Field. The Panthers won 52-14 to claim colmplete control of the Ohio Valley Conference championship.
Little rushes for career high in win
by Aldo soto Assistant Sports Editor | @AldoSoto21
The Eastern football team did not need any extra motivation heading into its game against Jack-sonville State Saturday at O’Brien Field.
Panthers’ coach Dino Babers said Eastern’s main goal was to beat the Gamecocks, which would result in an outright Ohio Valley Conference title.
E a s t e r n d i d t h a t , s l a s h i n g through the Jacksonville State de-fense as running back Shepard Lit-tle thrashed the Gamecocks for a ca-reer-high 245 rushing yards, scoring two rushing touchdowns, catching one and throwing for another, lead-
ing to a 52-14 Panthers’ victory.But before either team stepped
on the field prior to their noon kickoff in Charleston, some Eastern players saw a tweet that became bul-letin board material.
Gavin Hallford is a former Jack-sonville State player and is current-ly on the Gamecocks’ strength and conditioning coaching staff. At 7:40 a.m. on Saturday, he tweeted the following, “GAME DAY in Illinois! Big game today! Time to get ready to take it to em! They have not out worked us! #JaxStateGamecocks #BeatEIU #Hit’em!”
Senior cornerback Alex McNul-ty was one of five Eastern players to
retweet the message.“The great thing about us is that
we didn’t say anything back, but we did put it in the back of our minds,” McNulty said.
Even Babers, who said he does not frequent the social media scene often, also knew about this added motivation.
“I thought there was some inter-esting tweets, bulletin board type stuff that our football team hap-pened to get that information be-fore the game,” Babers said. “It kind of motivated us a little bit, but that’s not the final straw.”
He said Eastern was well pre-pared for the OVC matchup. And
just like McNulty said, the Panthers did all their talk on the field.
After the first quarter, Eastern was ahead 35-0. With 46 seconds left in the opening 15 minutes, Jim-my Lera scored a 57-yard touch-down after receiving the hand off from Jimmy Garoppolo on fourth down and one yard to go.
The Panthers had outgained Jack-sonville State on offense 287-44 af-ter one quarter, including 94 rush-ing yards by Little.
The sophomore not only finished with the fifth-best rushing total in Eastern history with 245 yards, he also was a part of the Panthers’ first four touchdowns.
The first came on a three-yard run that followed a Jacksonville State fumble at its own 15-yard line. Then Garoppolo hit Little with a pass that Little took to the end zone for an 18-yard touchdown catch.
Panthers drop to 0-3 at SLU
Eastern clinches second straight conference title
Eastern Illinois (#2) vs. Jacksonville State (#22)
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by bob reynoldsStaff Reporter | @BobReynoldsDEN
ST. LOUIS — The Eastern wom-en’s basketball team was outscored 34-17 in the second half of Friday’s game against Saint Louis, leading to a 71-52 loss to the Bilikens in Chaifetz Arena.
The Billikens came out firing in the second half, going on a 14-6 run in about eight minutes, capped off by a la-yup from Olivia Jakubicek.
Later in the half, the Billikens went on a 20-7 run, which was highlighted by a 3-pointer by Jamesia Price that gave Saint Louis a 69-48 lead with 3:28 re-maining to play.
Billiken guard Desirae Ball shot 3-of-5 in the second half and Jamesia Price shot 2-of-4 in the final 20 minutes of play.
The Panthers’ shooting struggled in the second half, going 0-of-7 from 3-point range and made 5-of-23 field goal attempts.
Eastern is shooting 30.5 percent (22-of-72) in the second half in the first three games combined.
Eastern coach Debbie Black said the Billikens did nothing different in the second half to slow the Panthers down.
“We do a terrific job in the first half, and then we come out in the second half and we become a different team,” she said. “They did nothing different. They didn’t press us. They played exact-ly the same.”
Billiken freshman guard Erin Nelson was held to just four free throws in the second half and finished with 14 points.
Entering the game, Nelson was aver-aging 22 points a game on 50 percent shooting and also 38.5 percent from the 3-point range.
Before the game, Black talked about slowing Nelson down, which the Pan-thers did, but Halee Castleman picked up the scoring for Saint Louis. Castle-man scored 13 points on 5-of-7 shoot-ing and 1-of-3 from the 3-point line.
The Billikens had five players who scored at least 10 points.
“When we say one kid is the majority of the scoring, that doesn’t mean we can forget about everybody else,” Black said. “That is what we did.”
In the first half, the Panthers had a 25-20 lead after going on a 16-6 run early in the game.
After that, the Billikens went on a 17-10 run to finish the half, giving Saint Louis a 37-35 lead at halftime.
Eastern hit all three of it’ first 3-point field goals, including two from Katlyn Payne, who had 12 points on the day on 5-of-9 shooting.
Sabina Oroszova had her second straight double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds for Eastern.
Arnisha Thomas came off the bench for the Panthers, scoring 12 points on 4-of-9 shooting and Black said that was one of the lone bright spots.
“That is who I thought Arinsha was, the sixth man off the bench, to spark us both defensively and offensively,” Black said.
The Panthers will get a few days off before hosting Loyola-Chicago at 7 p.m. on Thursday at Lantz Arena.
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Team to take on Loyola-Chicago Thursday at home
Smith leads Eastern to win over Flames
by Anthony CatezoneSports Editor | @AnthonyCatz
Reggie Smith’s status was uncer-tain for the Eastern men’s basketball team’s game at Illinois-Chicago, but after its 86-66 win, it was clear that Smith had played.
The red-shirt junior guard scored a game-high 23 points on 7-of-13 shooting, including 3-of-5 from 3-point range and 6-of-9 from the free throw line to compliment his six assists.
Smith did not practice Thursday because the game prior he experi-enced “asthmatic-like symptoms,” Eastern coach Jay Spoonhour said, as doctors were continuing to test the 6-foot guard to determine whether
or not he had an allergic reaction.But there were no symptoms Sat-
urday afternoon at the UIC Pavil-lion, where Smith scored 17 points in the second half, including 11 points, two assists and one steal in the final six minutes of the game.
Illinois-Chicago was staging a comeback, trailing 63-56 with about six minutes remaining.
Flames’ guard Marc Brown, who had a team-high 20 points, had just hit two free throws to cut the Illi-nois-Chicago deficit to seven. Brown made 6-of-7 free throws in the game.
The Flames were on a 9-3 run and had their smallest deficit since the opening minutes of the second half. Guard Gabe Snider had just missed a 3-point attempt.
On the rebound, Eastern guard Zach Dickerson passed the ball up the court to Smith in the paint where he recorded the fast break-bucket to give Eastern a nine-point lead again.
After two Keenen Anderson free throws for Eastern, Brown came up big again for Illinois-Chicago.
He hit a 3-pointer with 5:17 to play to cut Eastern’s lead at 67-59. Brown was 6-of-11 from the field.
On the ensuing possession for Eastern, Smith answered with a 3-pointer of his own, again assisted by Dickerson.
It gave Eastern an 11-point lead with five minutes to play.
The Panthers then outscored the
Flames 16-7 to close out the game with a 20-point win and improve to 2-1 on the season.
“We knew it was going to be a physical game,” Flames’ coach How-ard Moore said in a press release. “We obviously weren’t ready for a game like this, and I take responsibility for that. I give credit to Eastern Illinois and coach (Jay) Spoonhour - they played their hearts out. We’ll take this game and learn from it.”
rEggIE smITH
Smith returns at UIC
PoInTs AssIsTs sTEALs23 6 2
Fg sHooTIng | 7-13, .538%FT sHooTIng | 6-9, .667%
3Fg sHooTIng | 3-5, .600%rEboUnDIng | 0 OFF, 2 DEF
Guard shines after
sneezes held him
out Wednesday
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