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Mayoral Unoffi cial
BY DECLAN HARTYASSISTANT FEATURES EDITOR
Don Gerard’s kelly green T-shirt peeks through the top of a gray knit Izod sweater as he enters Merry Ann’s Diner at 8 a.m. Friday.
It’s the morning of his fourth Unoffi cial as Cham-paign’s mayor, and a grin has already spread across his face. A man wearing a Philadelphia Phillies sweat-shirt exclaimed, “Hey look, it’s the mayor!” eliciting the diner of students, staff and other patrons to look at the opening glass doors.
The diner is fi lled with specks of green — a waitress’ T-shirt that she wears twice a year, St. Patrick’s Day and Unoffi cial, and the hint of a green Chief Illiniwek shirt beneath a student’s jacket — and the temperature outside has barely hit negative two degrees.
Already having done an interview with WLRW radio station, Gerard still faces a full day as facility man-ager for the University, in addition to duties as Cham-paign’s mayor and liquor commissioner, all while stu-dents binge drink for a cam-pus tradition.
“It is a bar stunt that took on a life of its own,” Gerard says while drinking coffee from his aluminum travel mug. “It means something to a lot different people in a lot of ways. Everywhere you have large numbers of people, who are either get-ting close to or have reached the age of a particular right that is to abide in alcohol — you’re going to have things like this.”
With his fi rst bid for re-
election as Champaign’s may-or in exactly one month and a day after Unoffi cial, Gerard has learned that Unoffi cial is a part of the C-U culture and is now embracing the day — not destroying it.
What began in the mid-90s, Unoffi cial provides students an opportunity to celebrate the infamous drinking holi-day that is St. Patrick’s Day while on campus. The March 17 holiday fell over spring break for several years, and bar owners recognized an opportunity to create sizable profi ts by promoting a stand-in celebration.
While the remnants of Gerard’s bacon, scrambled eggs and pancakes are being taken away, he is not only aware of what the remain-ing 15 hours of the day holds but is also ready to see it fi rsthand.
By early afternoon, stum-bling is still a rarity, but green isn’t. Students, alumni and visitors walk the streets of Campustown — some look-ing for their next beer, most for their next class.
Gerard also walks from bar to bar, but to check in with owners and employ-ees and see how the day has progressed.
As liquor commissioner, Gerard regulates and enforc-es liquor code in Champaign. Because Champaign has a city manager, Gerard said most people view the may-oral position as one with lit-tle power, except in certain regards including the regu-lation of liquor.
“On a day like Unoffi cial, I think that it’s important to come out and remind peo-ple that the mayor is also the liquor commissioner,” he said. “So it’s a big day for me.”
While community mem-bers, students and Univer-sity employees all pass by Gerard — some quizzical-ly, others aware of his posi-tion for the day — it’s the bar owners and employees that appreciate Gerard’s
presence.“It makes us feel like
they’re not just picking on us,” said Sam Uher, a shift manager at White Horse Inn and 2012 University alumna. “If you sell liquor, it seems like a lot of people are against you.”
While Uher said bars on campus face a great deal of criticism on the holiday, having Gerard come to the bars and speak to employees allows them to feel comfort-able throughout the day.
For Gerard, while the hol-iday has served a great deal of purpose for students, it is a massive asset for the city because of the tax money it generates.
“Tax money makes the city work so it is a pretty good boom,” Gerard said. “It’s not the event; it’s just the statistical numbers. There is a lot of positive aspects that benefi t every-body whether you go or not.
Whether you like it or not, there is a lot of tax revenue being generated.”
With breakfast and lunch specials over, the crowds go in search of spots for happy hour and dinner. Gerard is on his second and fi nal trek through the campus bars.
Each stop averages about three minutes. The routine is the same: reveal a sil-ver, fi ve-point badge in his tan, leather two-fold wallet, introduce himself as liquor commissioner, talk to the person in charge (mostly the owners), thank everyone for sticking around and doing a good job, and depart for the next location.
The walks between bars are riddled with mysterious looks and shouts of recogni-tion, perhaps from Gerard’s social media presence on Twitter or Facebook.
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He was a dancer, he was a musician, he was multi-lingual and he was a writer. He carried the same passion and fi re with him to every-thing he tried, his family and friends said.
“He would always say you have to know a lot of lan-guages, play instruments,” said Jeannie Douglas of her late nephew, 2014 Universi-ty graduate Cristian Zamo-ra, whose body was found Friday in Crystal Lake Park after having been missing since Dec. 31 .
Douglas babysat Zamora and his siblings and lived closely with his family in Humboldt Park in Chicago.
“He used to play a lot of instruments, which we didn’t know. He knew how to play the violin, he knew how to play the piano,” Douglas said. “Things that you would never think ... the violin, something that to us was so romantic, so passion-ate. Once he gave himself to something, he would master it to perfection. He was like that; he was a go-getter.”
Zamora graduated from the University in May after studying east Asian cul-tures and returned to Cham-paign to work part-time at Jimmy John’s. According to his mother, Sandra Carri-on, another reason her son cited for staying in Cham-paign after graduation was to work on a book with a Uni-versity professor.
“He was so happy. He was telling me ‘I got one more week at Jimmy John’s, I’m going to write this book,
you’re going to be in my book,’” said Carrion of her son’s plans. “‘You’ll see. It’s going to be a surprise.’”
A memorial for Zamora will take place Thursday at Alvarez Funeral Home in Chicago, according to a Facebook page run by fam-ily and friends that was ini-tially dedicated to search efforts and updates . The page also said they will hold a dancing or “tricking” trib-ute Thursday to “invite the b-boying/tricking/dancing community to perform in his honor.” Zamora was very passionate about dancing and actively participated in a tricking club on campus.
Douglas said she wants to
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No major incidents were reported during this year’s Unoffi cial St. Patrick’s Day, said Patrick Wade, spokes-man for University of Illinois Police Department.
The cold weather hindered many people from spending too much time outside, which likely contributed to few-er accidents than previous years, Wade said. The day
began at minus 9 degrees, and rose up to around 25 degrees. The police general-ly thought students behaved and acted responsibly, mak-ing Unoffi cial a reasonable day.
“Overall, I think it was a very manageable day” Wade said. “I think people who par-ticipated heard our message, which was ‘if you’re going to participate, that’s fi ne, but keep it safe and responsible.
Try to keep the problems to a minimum.’ And I think that’s what we saw.”
The Champaign Police Department and the Cham-paign County jail said they will release reports concern-ing Unoffi cial sometime after Monday. The Urbana Police Department said only Cham-paign will release reports for all police departments who participated in enforcing Unoffi cial to avoid confusion.
The Champaign Police Department’s police blotter said 40 notices to appear and one arrest was issued on the 900 block of South Second Street around 3 p.m. Friday. The report stated an Unoffi -cial St. Patrick’s Day apart-ment party yielded minor in possession notices to appear and a liquor sales to minor charge.
DECLAN HARTY THE DAILY ILLINIDon Gerard, Champaign’s mayor and liquor commissioner, walks the streets of Campustown on Unoffi cial visiting bars to check in with owners and employees. This was Gerard’s fourth Unoffi cial as Champaign’s mayor, but despite hesitations by community members, he has learned to embrace the holiday — not eliminate it.
SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIA participant dressed as Supergirl soars into the pool of cold water for the 2015 Polar Plunge to benefi t Special Olympics Illinois at Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
Friends, family of Zamora refl ect on his life
BY ALI BRABOYSTAFF WRITER
Despite the 39-degree weather on Saturday, volun-teers gathered at Memorial Stadium to willingly jump in an outdoor pool fi lled with freezing cold water to raise money for Special Olympics Illinois.
The fi rst Fighting Illini Polar Plunge raised $40,200 with 300 plungers, according to Special Olympics Illinois’ website . Each participant raised a minimum of $75 for the cause.
Jackie Walk, Special Olym-pics Illinois Area 8 director, said the money raised will go toward Special Olympics Illi-nois Area 8/Eastern Prairie, serving athletes with intellec-tual disabilities in six coun-ties, including Champaign.
Walk said Special Olym-pics is a great program for those with intellectual dis-abilities who are at least eight years old.
“This is how they get involved in community, this is how they build friendships for a lifetime,” Walk said. “So being able to fund raise and keep that program going for them is our top priority.”
Fundraising events are important because the group does not charge individuals to participate in Special Olym-pics; the organization also does not receive state or fed-eral funding, Walk said.
Zack Schoettes, junior in LAS, attended the event as a member of the University’s cheerleading team to encour-age the participants.
Schoettes, along with the other cheerleaders, cheered on the participants as they went to jump in the water and after they got out.
“It’s for a great cause, and
Polar Plunge raises $40,000
Unoffi cial was manageable, says CPD
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Champaign A 23-year-old male was
arrested on the charges of aggravated battery, resist-ing an offi cer and public uri-nation in the 600 block of South Sixth Street around 4 p.m. Friday.
According to the report, the suspect was seen urinat-ing in public and resisted and battered the offi cer .
Forty notices to appear
and one arrest was issued in the 900 block of South Sec-ond Street around 3 p.m. Friday.
According to the report, an Unoffi cial St. Patrick’s Day party at an apartment yielded minor in possession notices to appear and a li-quor sales to minor charge .
University Theft was reported near
the intersection of Sixth Street and Gregory Drive around 9 a.m. Wednesday.
According to the report, a student loaned $40 to a man who said he needed mon-ey for gasoline. At 10 p.m., the student reported that the man had not returned a phone calls or arranged to pay back the loan. Compiled by Miranda Holloway
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thank the community and friends of her nephew for helping search for him and for raising awareness about his disappearance. The page is currently being used for friends and family to post memorial information and share thoughts, videos and photos of Zamora.
Douglas thanked friends for posting videos and pho-tos, adding the family will cherish those memories.
“We want to thank the public, we want to thank law enforcement, we want to thank every single per-son in the community of Champaign-Urbana and even here in Chicago that helped us with the search, that helped us raise aware-ness, that took the time out of their busy schedule, even
when it was below zero, they went out with us to post fl yers,” Douglas said.
Cody Jones, junior in LAS and Zamora’s former roommate, said Zamo-ra’s energy and optimism was contagious. They met through their mutual inter-est of trick-style dancing.
“I was around him every day. There was hardly any time that he would ever be down or everything,” said Jones. “He was just a hap-py guy.”
A memorial fund for Zamora’s burial service has been set up by his mother at YouCaring.com . By press time, the fund-raiser was $4,293 into its $10,000 goal .
Brian Kung, a 2011 Uni-versity graduate who also met Zamora through their mutual love of dance, said he believes his friend brought a certain warmth
and optimism with him everywhere he went.
“Chris had all the char-acteristics of a fl ame, a bright fl ame in our lives,” Kung said. “He would light a place up, he would bring warmth, he was extreme-ly kindhearted. Whether it was in dance, breakdancing or tricking, he was always there. He was always get-ting people moving.”
As for his legacy, Doug-las hopes those who knew Zamora can take his ambi-tion for life and apply it to their own.
“I think people can learn from him to never give up,” said Douglas. “Follow their dreams, follow their goals ... the sky is the limit. He wanted to write a book, he would write a book. To him, nothing was impossi-ble. That was him.”
BY CAELI CLEARY STAFF WRITER
The Champaign Urbana Mass Transit District now faces an $18 million lawsuit, after a woman was hit and critically injured by a bus on Feb. 25 .
That afternoon Patricia Marxmiller was on her way to Christie Clinic, where she has worked for 26 years, when she was hit while crossing the intersection of Walnut and Logan Streets, according to the lawsuit. She now faces extensive injury to her legs, said Lt. Tod Myers, North District Commander of the Champaign Police
department . The lawsuit, filed on
Wednesday by Frederick & Hagle against CUMTD and the driver of the bus, Seth Stevens, asks for $18 mil-lion in damages caused by the accident .
“The (driver) ran the bus he was driving over the plaintiff causing her cata-strophic injuries, including the traumatic amputation of her left leg,” the lawsuit stated.
Myers said police are still looking for witnesses to get more information on the accident.
“All we know at this point is that the bus was going west on Logan street,” Myers said. “At this point we inter-viewed a few people, we col-lected surveillance from
nearby stores, but we are still very much in the inves-tigative phase.”
Cameras are installed on each bus to provide footage for these investigations, but the camera was not working on this particular bus.
“In this case, the camer-as had been noted that they weren’t working on Monday evening,” said Bryan Smith, chief operating offi cer of CUMTD . “On Tuesday it was scheduled for repair, but ... we weren’t able to get to it on midday on Tuesday, and so it ended up going back out on route on Wednesday without
having been repaired.”Smith said cameras are
not considered a safety fea-ture, and since the CUMTD runs so many routes, they needed to use the bus.
This is not the fi rst time Stevens had an accident concerning another pedes-trian. On Jan. 29, 2014, Ste-vens struck a pedestrian in a crosswalk on First Street, the lawsuit stated. Stevens pleaded guilty in the case.
Marxmiller is a mother of two daughters and a grand-
mother to two boys, accord-ing to her biography from Christie Clinic’s website. The lawsuit states the money will be used for medical expens-es, rehabilitation expenses, care taking expenses, lost wages and extreme physi-cal and emotional pain.
A date for appearance in court has not yet been set according to Cham-paign County Circuit Clerk records .
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BY CHARLOTTE COLLINSSTAFF WRITER
Cristian Zamora’s autopsy showed no signs of trauma or foul play, according to a press release from Champaign County Coroner Duane Northrup.
Zamora, a 2014 Univer-sity graduate and Cham-paign resident, had been missing since Dec. 31, 2014 . His body, frozen under ice in Urbana’s Crystal Lake Park, was recovered Friday . He was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:55 p.m.
“We don’t know yet, we think that he probably slipped and fell,” said Jean-nie Douglas, Zamora’s aunt. “But we don’t know yet.”
The preliminary autop-sy was conducted Saturday at the Champaign County Coroner’s Regional Autopsy Facility in Urbana.
In a press release, the Champaign County Coro-ner’s offi ce said the fi nal autopsy results are pending further studies.
In a February inter-view, Champaign Police Department Detective Ser-
geant Dennis Baltzell said the department planned to search Crystal Lake once the weather improved . Fri-day’s weather was a high of 26 degrees.
Douglas said she believes his infl uence on those around him was great, and she hopes he continues to be known for his optimism.
“I want everyone to remember his smile,” Doug-las said. “That’s how I believe he would want everybody to remember him.”
it really helps raise a lot of money,” Schoettes said.
Beth Visel, police offi cer for the Division of Public Safety, said the University of Illinois Police Department sponsored the event, and had three teams that participat-ed: police offi cers, housing security and Student Patrol members.
Visel said the police department raised $1,950 with four offi cers and one ser-geant, while housing security raised $545 with six members and the student patrol raised $1,010 with six members.
Albert Baek, junior in LAS, participated as part of the Student Patrol team.
Baek said although he expected the water to be cold, he was deeply involved in the event. His friend has a broth-er with autism, and Baek said the family has been very involved in Special Olympics.
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SELMA, Ala. — Thou-sands of marchers, gov-ernment offi cials and oth-er public fi gures gathered Sunday for a second straight day to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a bru-tal police assault on civil-rights demonstrators that
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Starting from early morning, groups of people — some with locked arms, some in song, some taking to their knees to pray — began to march across Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge, the
site of Selma’s Bloody Sun-day march on March 7, 1965.
The bridge, which is named after a former grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, has become a potent symbol both of change and of the work many here say still needs to be done.
MOSCOW — Five men from the Caucasus region of southern Russia were brought Sunday before a Moscow court where two were charged for their alleged roles in the killing of Kremlin critic Boris Y. Nemtsov.
One of the charged sus-pects, former Chechen
police commander Zaur Dadayev, pleaded guilty to the murder charge, the offi cial Tass news agency reported.
“Dadayev’s involvement is confi rmed by his confes-sion,” Judge Natalya Mush-nikova of the Basmanny district court was quoted as announcing after the
arraignment.Charges were also
brought against Anzor Gubashev, who was arrest-ed Saturday in the Ingush-etia region of the Caucasus. Three other suspects were ordered held for further investigation, court press secretary Anna Fadeyeva said.
Dozens of people were standing on a garage roof when it collapsed around dawn Saturday during a pre-St. Patrick’s Day block party in San Luis Obispo, Calif., injuring nine, author-ities said.
About 30 or 40 college-age revelers were on the roof when it gave way shortly
after 6 a.m., according to San Luis Obispo fi re Chief Gar-ret Olson. The roof “clearly wasn’t designed for people to be on top of it,” he said.
The injured were among several thousand people that had gathered before dawn for a block party about a half-mile from the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo campus.
The crowd, including many wearing green and drinking alcoholic beverages, started drawing noise complaints along Hathway Avenue around 4:45 a.m., police said.
No one suffered life-threat-ening injuries, but a young woman was impaled in the thigh by a shard of wood, police said.
BEIJING — As Sunday’s anniversary of the disap-pearance of Malaysia Air-lines Flight 370 approached and the Malaysia govern-ment prepared to issue an interim report on its inves-tigation, the sister of pilot
Zaharie Ahmad Shah issued an impassioned defense of her brother, calling him a “man of integrity.”
“As things stand today, with no tangible evidence to show, NO ONE, be you politician, scientist, aviation
expert, plane crash inves-tigator, pilot, retired pilot, media or whoever else ... NONE OF YOU have a right to blame Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah for any wrong-doing,” Sakinab Shah said in a statement released online.
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Gerard!” exclaims one girl as he passes by at the intersection of Sixth and Green streets.
“You’re the mayor?!” another girl asks after Eric Meyer, the owner of KAM’S, explains that she had just interrupted his conversation with “The Mayor.”
His social media accounts stay active throughout the day. Gerard frequently retweets police and students posting about Unoffi cial, and posts pictures of students on the Quad and selfi es with a table of men at Joe’s Brewery on his Facebook.
“I take pride that people recognize me when I walk down the street,” he says.
But as Gerard looks through the bars, he continues to notice trends — beer gardens are empty. Bars are not sev-en-deep. Owners and employees aren’t reporting any trouble.
Unoffi cial has changed from what it
once was, but the mayor of Illinois’ 11th-largest city isn’t surprised.
“We have this all the time now. You have Cinco de Mayo, every Blackhawks game campus is fl ooded and bars are full,” he said. “If you are all going to do it at the same time ... some things are going to go wrong, people come in from out of town, and we just have to do our best to try to help herd that in the right direction.”
Gerard, who attended the University in the mid-1980s, recognizes the con-siderations of surrounding, concerned community members, but he pressed that Unoffi cial is not a new drinking tra-dition. Instead, it’s a spirit that began with “Hash Wednesday” on the Quad in 1977, continued with Halloween cel-ebrations and lives on now through Unoffi cial.
“It’s an American tradition, and if you squash one out, somewhere else it’s going to pop up,” he said. “Unoffi -cial is what it is.”
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1. Unoffi cial participants happily walk down Wright Street on during Unoffi cial St. Patrick’s Day.2. Hydration Station gives out free waters to individuals participating in Unoffi cial.3. Two individuals sport Unoffi cial wear while walking through an alleyway adjacent to Second Street.4. Two Unoffi cial participants perch upon the alma mater statue on Unoffi cial.5. Two participants celebrating Unoffi cial walk down Green Street in Campustown.6. Unoffi cial participants stop by the hydration station in front of the Alma Mater on Unoffi cial.7. Tim Shores, an Illinois State graduate, waits for his girlfriend at the intersection of Sixth and Green streets.8. An Unoffi cial participant wearing a KAMS branded shirt crosses the intersection at Wright & Green.9. Participants endure the cold and head to Unoffi cial celebrations.10. Onlookers look onto the street at an apartment building on Second Street11. People crowd outside KAMS in a long line during the afternoon on Unoffi cial Day.
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Top ten tweets of #Unoffi cial2015
BY FEATURES STAFFWhile binge drinking and shenanigans raged on campus, social media highlighted the more humorous side of Unoffi cial interactions and celebrations. Check out the top ten tweets from Friday’s holiday.
1. U of I Police @UIPDBREAKING: #Unoffi cial2015 canceled due to cold weather. (Hey, @UrbanaPD and @ChampaignPD, think this will work?)
2. U of I Police @UIPDWhere the party at? #Unoffi cial2015Urbana PD @UrbanaPD@UIPD boo. Totally can do better than that.U of I Police @UIPD @UrbanaPD No one is telling us where their parties are! #Unoffi cial2015Urbana PD @UrbanaPD@UIPD yeah...I know. @ChampaignPD tried. I tried. It’s like we aren’t wanted anymore. Channel your inner Stuart Smailey.
3. Chambanamoms.com @chambanamomsJust a warning ... #Unoffi cial2015
4. Sam Shore @samshoreBe safe, and be excellent to each other. #Unoffi cial2015 (Do current undergrads even remember Bill & Ted?)
6. Urbana PD @UrbanaPDLook! The party bus! #Unoffi cial2015
7. UrbanaPD @UrbanaPD#Unoffi cial2015
8. Illini Crushes @IlliniCrushesI don’t usually wake up at 5:45 am, but when I do I unoffi cial. #Unoffi cial2015
9. Barbara Conover @BarbaraConover#Unoffi cial yesterday. Today, Irish yoga. #tradition #Unoffi cial2015
5. Miramadness @madmiramuffinThat was my day yesterday exactly … #Unoffi cial2015
10. Lt. Jim Clark @ClarkCPD@ChampaignPD would like to thank #UIUC students for behaving yourselves and acting responsible (most of you anyway) during #Unoffi cial2015
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Last week, our Illini Media compadres over at Buzz Magazine published an
interview with local musi-cal artist Telepath. The inter-view was at times enlighten-ing and at times infuriating, but most importantly, it sent ripples through Champaign’s music scene, prompting Face-book comment threads and think-pieces from local blogs for days.
Here’s another response.Telepath, who chose to
remain anonymous for this infamous interview, makes a unique brand of ambient and ethereal sounds that have vault-ed him to a cult-like amount of Internet fame. This has even included him personally selling six albums to people in Japan, which he kindly mentioned twice in one paragraph, in case any readers forgot.
In his interview, Telepath was asked a fairly unconten-tious question: “At what point did you start to grow a fol-lowing for your music?” He responded with a plethora of acidic (and seemingly irrel-evant-to-the-question-being-asked) swings at the local music scene here in Cham-paign-Urbana. He criticized bands that sign to local, inde-
pendent record labels and the perhaps overly-supportive nature of local critics. His interview pretentiously focused on demeaning the way local artists here share their music, which is largely subjective. Some of his complaints may hold some truth.
But here’s something that’s definitely true: Champaign-Urbana seems to have one of the most vibrant music scenes in the entire world for a city its size. The lists of record labels, live music venues and journalistic outlets that report on music are surpris-ingly vast.
Citizens committed to fos-tering a community which is helpful to musicians and music enthusiasts alike is something that is envied by many, which Telepath seemingly doesn’t acknowledge.
Instead of this large commu-nity, he insists that the Internet is a more viable platform for music circulation and criticism. Please, don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that this Internet-popular artist is spreading his music in the wrong way. Some of my favorite artists have sprouted out of the digital revo-lution of the music industry.
Artists such as Chance The Rapper and Vic Mensa (I like hip-hop a lot — sorry) have been reliant on platforms like Twitter, SoundCloud and Band-camp to share their art — and that’s a perfectly legitimate medium to spread music.
Any kid with a MacBook and a microphone can drop a mix-tape or an album now, and while that certainly floods the market with content, it also cre-ates an endlessly fascinating sea of music. It’s great.
What’s not great, however, is seeking to demean an avenue of sharing and criticizing music that is different than your own.
One of the most infuriat-ing lines of Telepath’s inter-view reads: “The Internet gives bands this huge advantage to share their music for free on their own, but most of [the art-ists] focus on getting their sal-ad tossed by some immediate peers or promoters, or unrea-sonably local terms of success.”
Cringe-city. You see, Telepath, this situa-
tion doesn’t have to be mutually exclusive. This may be hard to believe, but an artist can both be integrated in the local music scene (playing shows and get-ting their albums reviewed by local media), and use the Inter-net as a form of marketing. In fact, nearly every local band I know does have an online presence.
There is no need to tear down all of those avenues that vary from yours. It’s simply unnecessary.
Champaign-Urbana’s musi-cally-interested citizens con-tinually put a lot of effort into releasing music, coming to concerts or buying albums. Honestly, I’m happy to live in a place where I can go out to live
shows, see some of my friends and have a good time — not just sit on my Soundcloud endlessly digging for the perfect album to meet my specific standards (though I do that, too).
You can go out on a Satur-day night in Champaign-Urba-na and the chances that you’ll find a good show at The Cano-py Club, Cowboy Monkey, The Highdive or Mike ‘n Molly’s are likely. Maybe even all four with an occasional outdoor concert in the summer. Because of this local focus, maybe the bands I go out to see aren’t going to be extremely critically acclaimed on the Internet — but that’s OK with me.
Have you ever seen Ryan Groff (of Elsinore) in a wig belting Whitney Houston at The Great Cover-Up? Or perhaps the way Church Booty can get an entire house party vibing? What we have here in Cham-paign-Urbana is something spe-cial — and even if you disagree with that, there’s no reason to crassly rip a community that is continually devoted to fostering a vibrant scene.
It’s clear that Telepath doesn’t want to be a member of Champaign-Urbana’s local music scene, and that’s fine. But tearing down those who choose to engage — and devote sig-nificant time — to such a com-munity is careless at best and malicious at worst.
Boswell is a senior in LAS. [email protected].
Before I say anything, I would like to say that I am a Democrat. I have very
liberal opinions on social issues and fairly liberal economic views. However, when I got my first chance to vote last Novem-ber, I found myself voting for Bruce Rauner, the Republican candidate for governor, over Democratic incumbent Pat Quinn.
In the past few weeks, Raun-er has been taking a lot of heat for his proposed 2016 fiscal budget. Rauner has suggested massive cuts across the board, and many University students have been up in arms over his outlined 31.5 percent decrease in higher education funding.
In contrast, I’m still team-Rauner for a variety of reasons.
His proposed cuts would cause a $209 million loss to the University , and while I agree that this cut is extreme, I am not too worried, yet.
With a Democratic major-ity in both the Illinois House of Representatives and the Sen-ate, Rauner probably knows this budget isn’t getting passed the first go-around. Chanc-es are, that’s why the slash is
so extreme. The idea is sim-ple: Propose a 31.5 percent decrease in funding, so that a smaller decrease won’t be as intimidating. It’s a basic princi-ple in compromise. Politicians use an extreme to make their real goal seem more sensible and middle-grounded, meaning that our cuts hopefully won’t be as drastic.
However, despite the fact that we don’t want sacrifices in the University’s budget, the state of Illinois still has a $9 billion annual deficit, meaning cuts in various programs are necessary.
Our state is drowning in debt. Even though we might not like how close to home these cuts are, this just means that Rauner is taking the necessary steps to start rebuilding our economy. He doesn’t stop there, either.
One large deficit we face is our $111 billion in pension debt. In his budget proposal, Raun-er is suggesting restructur-ing the pension plan for state employees, excluding firefight-ers and police officers. His pro-posed format would save the state $2.2 billion in the first year alone, while still cover-ing employees’ pensions and leaving them with necessary benefits.
This plan would help decrease our pension deficit and make great steps toward restoring our pension system.
Rauner already seems to be taking more long-term steps to help stabilize Illinois’ econo-my than Quinn did during his whole stint in office.
Quinn’s answer to the bud-get crisis was to hike up taxes. While he promised on his cam-paign trail to veto any income tax over 4 percent, in 2011, Quinn passed a law raising income taxes to five percent. He also increased corporate tax from 4.8 to seven percent.
Both of Quinn’s tax increas-es were set to be temporary for four years. While the tax increase did help with some of the deficit, they were only momentary solutions. Rauner’s proposed budget reforms com-pared to Quinn’s seem like they would be one of the first long-term approaches taken in four years.
Rauner wants an overhaul of the Illinois government. Rauner’s campaign platform rested mainly on budget, pen-sion and education reforms. He currently seems to be three-for-three with his attempts to keep his promises to the voters: He promised to cut spending, he promised to put more mon-ey into K-12 education and he promised to deal with our pen-sion mess.
Usually when Republicans enter office, we Democrats might feel we have to sacri-fice some of our social ideals
about topics like gay marriage or abortion rights, which can be a major reason not to vote for those candidates. Electing a Republican candidate in Illinois may have caused some worry for Democrats since this is a state which legalized gay mar-riage, and some may have had fear this would be repealed.
However, Rauner has said numerous times that he was the candidate with “no social agen-da.” Now, he’s the governor with no social agenda, which Democrats can find comfort in.
He is attempting to fol-low through with his cam-paign promises, even as early as in his first two months as governor.
The way I see it, Rauner is keeping his word from his cam-paign, so I’m going to keep mine. By casting my vote, I feel as though I promised to support Rauner as he tries to accom-plish what I put him in office to do, and I am doing just that.
Great slashes have to be made to make up for our grave debt. Hopefully, when our budgetary crisis is over, a Democrat can come back into office and build back up our social programs. For now, we need to be focused on fix-ing our state’s budget deficit and this Republican seems to be the best man for the job.
Sam is a sophomore in Media. [email protected]
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EDITORIALSafety a two-
way street with CUMTD
BOSWELL HUTSON
Opinions columnist
As noted in an editorial last week, the Cham-paign-Ur-
bana Mass Transit District’s bus service is something we students truly appreciate. There are a variety of bus-es that run daily and to many different locations both on and off campus that make our commutes to classes and jobs that much easier. These buses come in great frequen-cy and are especially ben-eficial in these cold winter months or late at night when walking alone isn’t safe.
However, that being said, we need to feel safe on these buses as well — the servic-es of CUMTD need to ex-tend beyond just travel con-venience. The Daily Illini reported today that on Feb. 25, a woman was struck by a CUMTD bus on the corner of Logan and Walnut Street in downtown Champaign as she was crossing the street. Unfortunately, this woman’s legs were very badly injured in the incident.
The case is still under in-vestigation, but what is known is that the camera in the bus was not work-ing, leaving no footage from CUMTD to help with this case. The fact of the matter is that safety between buses and pedestrians is essential. And from what it sounds like, the bus service is not com-pletely holding up their end of the bargain.
Seth Stevens, the driver in-volved in the crash, was also involved in another pedestri-an accident last year. This, paired with the fact that CUMTD did not make sure their cameras were operat-ing effectively, interferes with the concept of uphold-ing a safe and reliable ser-vice. Apparently, cameras are not considered a safety feature by CUMTD, but it is clear that should be changed.
Students should be able to feel confident in the ser-vice regardless of what bus they board, and the mistakes we’re witnessing are not en-suring that comfort.
Since the investigation is still ongoing, some details are still being ironed out. The victim is said to have been at a designated cross-walk and saw no bus com-ing, and she also was not us-ing her phone at the time. Regardless of some of the unknowns of the case, it in-troduces an important learn-ing opportunity for people on this campus.
Considering we frequent the streets and sidewalks near CUMTD routes, we have seen first-hand that pedestrians aren’t always mindful of crossing the streets at appropriate in-tersections or when buses are coming. And while cars and buses might not always yield to pedestrians when they’re supposed to, as hu-mans, we have no hope of defeating a bus or car if we cross the street at a poor time.
This universal truth is something both students and drivers need to remain mindful of.
Accidents happen every day, unfortunately, but mak-ing smart walking choic-es in conjunction with mak-ing sure these buses uphold appropriate and extensive safety regulations can en-sure that safety is being rec-ognized as a two-way street.
SAM PULLING
Opinions columnist
For midwesterners, any temperature above 40 is essentially bikini weather. Our skin grows so thick during these cold winter months that even a peak from the sun feels like a splash of summer. So now that temperatures are going up into the 50s, we can’t help but feel a shred of hope that miserable winter weather is behind us. And, because we’re all ridiculous, most of us will be in shorts and flip flops by the end of the week.
If you grew up in the 90s, you either religiously watched “Full House” or were lying if you said you didn’t. John Stamos aka Uncle Jesse visited the famous San Francisco “full” house recently and ongoing spectators didn’t even notice him while passing by. We’re thinking this is due to the fact that Stamos is now 51 years old and not the same hunky 30-something year old he was on the show. Sorry, Stamos, but if it helps, you’re definitely a silver fox.
Daniel Radcliffe has weird indie movies, Emma Watson has #HeforShe, and Rupert Grint and Tom Felton have ... well, not much really, but they do hang out from time to time! This includes a few nights ago when they met up with Bonnie Wright (Ginny) and James Phelps (Fred). Apparently, Ron still doesn’t feel comfortable being around Draco unless he has some of his family members there to back him up.
This past Sunday marked the 25th anniversary of Internation-al Women’s Day, a holiday which honors over half of the United States’ population — and women all over the world. Campaigns such as Women On 20s and HeForShe are helping change the way we approach feminism and holidays such as International Women’s Day help reinvigorate the fight for gender equality. Not to be biased, but, in the words of Beyonce, who run the world? Girls (girls)!
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SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIMotivational speaker Endalyn Taylor smiles as she concludes her speech during the Black Women Rock! Awards Ceremony at Lincoln Hall on Saturday.
Awards ceremony honors black women BY CAMILLE MURRAYSTAFF WRITER
Lincoln Hall Theater was packed Saturday evening as students and commu-nity members gathered to honor local African-Amer-ican women at the second annual Black Women Rock! Awards Ceremony.
The show was organized by EmpowerME, a student organization that aims to inspire minorities to help them empower both them-selves and others.
Cindy Beasley, Empow-erME president and junior in LAS, brought the con-cept of the Black Women Rock! Awards to campus last year with the goal of inspiring and recognizing the accomplishments of successful black women in the community. The theme of this year’s award show was “50 Shades of Brown.”
“African-American wom-en come in all shades. Some of us are lighter, some of us are darker,” Beasley said. “So we want to highlight the fact that although our skin tones might be differ-ent, we’re all black wom-en that are doing positive things.”
There were a total of nine awards and 14 wom-en nominated. Campus and community members were given the opportu-nity to nominate women for the awards in the fall.
The nominations were then reviewed and selected by the board.
The highest honor giv-en during the ceremo-ny was the Black Women Rock Award, which was presented to Janice Mitch-ell, founder and executive director of the Urbana Neighborhood Connections Center. The Black Wom-en Rock Award is given to a woman who is said to embody all the qualities of the other eight awards presented at the award ceremony.
“I’m one that can tell you I have no choice but to try to give back,” Mitchell said. “I have no choice but to try to give inspiration and motivation to others.”
The ceremony also show-cased several musical, poetic and artistic per-formances. Endalyn Tay-lor, assistant professor of dance, was featured as the show’s motivational speak-er and delivered a inspira-tional speech stressing the importance of self-love and individuality.
”What I’d like to convey tonight is that there is no greater power than self-validation,” Taylor said. “We don’t need to look any-where else — learn to love what we see and then use the gifts we possess to do things that matter.”
Beasley believes the
event will continue to become bigger and better in the future. She hopes the awards ceremony will help promote positivity in the black community and show appreciation to women whose success and hard work sometimes goes unnoticed.
“No matter your shade, no matter your color, you’re still a sister who matters,” she said.
2015 Black Women Rock! Award winner: Janice MitchellJanice Mitchell was born in Louisiana, the sixth child of eight siblings. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Southern University A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and a master’s degree from the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service. In the community, Mitchell serves on the Board
of Commissioners for the Champaign County Housing Authority and as a member of the Usher and Greeters Ministry at Jericho Missionary Baptist Church in Champaign. She is also the creator of Mitchell’s Sweet Creations and founded the Urbana Neighborhood Connections Center in 2010, where she now serves as executive director. The center serves K-12 students from the
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2015 Black Women Rock! winnersRising Star Award — Skylar JohnsonInnovator Award — Obiamaka OnwutaTrailblazer Award — Ayanna WilliamsLeadership Award — Ariana TaylorHumanitarian Award — Alexxis FranklinInspiration Award — Aja BeckhamMotivator Award — Anuoluwapo OsidekoYoung, Gifted and Black Award — Adebola AdeyemoBlack Women Rock! Award — Janice Mitchell
cate to him about it from time to time.”
Now, Jacobi leaves a busi-ness card and a set of secret instructions inside for future puzzle-solvers to follow after they open the case.
Today, around 30 people have solved the case, two being Evan Phibbs and Nao-mi Won.
“We tried to open it the way most do — playing with the wooden slabs, the drawer and cabinet. It was figuring out how those different compo-nents connected together on the inside that was the key,”
Phibbs said. “What a creative idea to just put a puzzle out there for students to solve. Each one of us was integral in solving a different step of the puzzle. I felt that we were all important.”
Not many campuses have puzzle cases quite like this. Jacobi said having secret puzzles scattered and hidden throughout campus furthers education beyond the class-room walls.
“I think students who tin-ker with the puzzle out of curiosity are taught that curi-osity is fun and solving the puzzle is fun. It teaches some-thing about design,” Jacobi said. “The puzzle has a lega-cy, and they’re interested in
maintaining that. It’s a very clever design.”
To Socie, the puzzle was just another game to play.
“Why do it? It’s a challenge, initially for me, and now for everyone else. It is becoming a tradition to solve the puz-zle before graduation,” Socie said. “Someday, I expect to find the solution posted on the Internet.”
When that day comes, Socie is prepared.
“I plan to begin restoring another cabinet this summer. I already have a design for a new locking mechanism,” Socie said, “One that I don’t think anyone will solve.”
was something I did when I was 16 or 17,” she said.
Now that she is about to start working at the end of the semester, Emma said going out and getting drunk isn’t something she could do or even wants to do, espe-cially because she has been able to drink for nearly eight years.
But the low drinking age isn’t always a positive thing, Sofia said. At that age, she believes kids are immature mentally and physically.
“No one ever gave me a PowerPoint presentation on the dangers of alcohol,” Emma said. “I don’t think there is a good way. It’s just a drug, you know? It’s a real-ly bad drug, and I think peo-ple should be more aware ...
about the damages it can do.”
From the halls of their dorm room to bus advertise-ments, warning signs about the possible consequences of drinking on Unofficial appeared everywhere.
The two started their day at an apartment party with other international students before heading to the bars for a day of jello shots, vodka and beer, they said.
“When we went to Mur-phy’s and it was like $2.50 for a vodka with something, and I was like, ‘Oh, she’s mis-taken, I’m not going to say anything,’ but she wasn’t mistaken. It was really so cheap,” Emma said.
In Europe, getting a beer could cost around eight euros, while $1 shot specials in certain campus bars are extremely cheap, costing about an eighth of a euro,
they said.According to the women,
even on a typical night, they wouldn’t start drinking until midnight, while it seems like everyone here was wasted and then home by 2 p.m. on Friday, they said.
“It’s noon; it’s 1 o’clock. What am I doing?” Emma said of day drinking, a hall-mark of Unofficial. “It’s just funny, you also start party-ing so much earlier.”
By 9 p.m., the two stopped drinking and were ready to go home. While they saw groups of people dressed in green staggering down the street, they said it was inno-cent and funny.
“We weren’t drunk drunk drunk. We knew what we were doing,” Emma said. “I really had a lot of fun, I wish we had it in Belgium.”
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Editor’s Note: The names of the two students in this article have been replaced to protect their identities by their request.
W hile Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day isn’t marketed as part of their study abroad experience here, international students take on
the day same as domestic. But for some, the buildup seems exaggerated.
“In Italy, we don’t even celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, so there’s nothing like this,” said Sofia, an exchange stu-dent in LAS who has chosen to remain anonymous.
Sofia, along with her friend Emma, a Belgian exchange student in Media, experienced their first Unofficial on Fri-day, beginning at 11 a.m. The women didn’t quite understand the desire of drinking in the early hours of the day.
“I think it’s just so funny that people set their alarms at 6 o’clock — like why would you get out of your bed at 6 o’clock just to drink?” said Sofia, who skipped her class that day to fully embrace the C-U holiday.
While getting lunch — for the pur-pose of not drinking on an empty stom-ach — they saw what they deemed to be the most shocking part of the day: the police presence.
“There were even undercover cops in our dining hall,” Emma said.
The women said that while a police presence is common at Italy and Bel-gium’s nightlife scenes, they did not expect to see the mass numbers of police patrolling campus on Unofficial.
From her experience in Belgium, Emma said police tend to intervene only in extreme scenarios, including students puking in the streets or pub-lic urination. Typically, rowdy drunks will be picked up and put in jail for the night, but it doesn’t go on a record and is meant to keep drunks off the streets.
“I never had problems with it. Like here, everyday you’re in contact with police and showing your ID. I’m so aware of it now,” she said. “I never had to show my ID. Here, I have to show it every time.”
This poses a problem for internation-al students, both Sofia and Emma said, because bars won’t accept a national ID, only a passport which contains the stu-
dents’ visas. For the women, the prob-lem is that losing a visa can result in a expensive and extensive process to replace it.
Checking IDs is a lenient practice in Italy, according to Sofia — bars occa-sionally permit people as young as 13. Though the legal age for serving alcohol in Italy is 16, most people start drinking when they are 14 or 15, she said.
Sofia and Emma identified this as the root difference in drinking styles between Europe and the U.S.
“It’s so funny you get to do all this stuff: you get a driver’s license, you fall in love, some people even get married at the age of 18 in America, and you’ve never had a drink!” Emma said.
She said because of the earlier drink-ing age, she knew her limits and was less inclined to drink in excess because she knew how it affected her.
“Here people drink more because ‘Oh my god, I want to get drunk’ and that
BY SARAH FOSTERSTAFF WRITER
It started as a late-night campus exploration. Evan Phibbs and Naomi Won had no set destination in mind, but soon enough they found something they never expect-ed: a secret glass puzzle case inside the Mechanical Engi-neering Laboratory.
“I just walked right past it (at first) because it looked like an average-looking glass case,” said Won, freshman in LAS. “It caught our attention and made us really curious.”
It was camouflaged in plain sight, tucked between a winding set of tiled floors and white halls. It looked like anything but a puzzle.
“I didn’t know about the case before the night we
opened it,” said Phibbs, fresh-man in engineering. “All of us enjoy a challenge, so we decided to attempt to unlock it.”
As they worked together to find a solution, they had no idea they were interact-ing with one of the most unknown, mysterious parts of campus history.
For nearly 40 years, stu-dents have been passing this puzzle case every day, unaware that it’s not just a glass cabinet. It first sat in the halls of Talbot Labora-tory. Five years ago, it was moved to its current location in the Mechanical Engineer-ing Lab.
And the mastermind behind it is retired Mechani-cal Science and Engineering professor, Darrell Socie.
“The best place to hide something is in plain sight, which I did,” Socie said. “One of my hobbies is woodwork-ing, so the cabinet restoration is natural for me. When I got
it, the cabinet had padlocks on it. These cabinets some-times had hidden compart-ments and locking mecha-nisms for storing valuables.”
Thus, the puzzle is finding a way to unlock the glass case. According to Socie, there are multiple different combina-tions and ways students can open the case. And when they do, they find a prized posses-sion inside.
“A 100-year-old piece of research equipment: a bul-lion scale. It is used to make very accurate weight mea-surements on heavy objects,” Socie said. “The scale has enough resolution to mea-sure the weight of a fly on the back of an elephant. It has not been used in more than 25 years. After so many years of admiring the scale, I hated to see it discarded. I decided to restore it.”
For those who know about it, it’s become a tradition; a goal to solve it before grad-uation. It’s been the object
of attention for graduates, undergraduates, alumni and campus visitors, even Profes-sor Anthony Jacobi.
“Professor Socie asked me, ‘Can you open this cabinet?’ and I said, ‘I don’t have a key.’ He replied, ‘You don’t need a key. You just have to touch it in the right way. You will never open it,’” Jacobi said. “I took it on as a challenge.”
To Socie’s dismay, he received an email from Jaco-bi a few days later. He had solved the puzzle.
“I got an email from him with a picture of an open cab-inet,” Socie said.
As Socie approached retirement, he decided to reward Jacobi’s ingenuity. He proclaimed Jacobi as “the keeper of the cabinet,”
the one who would watch over the case for years to come. To Jacobi, however, it’s much more than that.
“I’m the admirer of the cabinet. I’m just a person who appreciates clever design and careful workmanship,” Jaco-bi said. “I try to watch over it, take care of it and communi-
ZOE GRANT THE DAILY ILLINIThe case that holds a puzzle of the principles of physics on the Mechanical Engineering Lab’s second floor along with the names of those who have successfully completed it.
Students among few to solve puzzle40-year-old puzzle hides in engineering lab
ZIANG XIAO THE DAILY ILLINIPeople crowd outside KAMS on the afternoon of Unofficial. Festivities start as early as 6 a.m. for some, who celebrate with a day of drinking at campus bars and parties.
KEVIN VONGNAPHONE THE DAILY ILLINIUnofficial St. Patrick’s Day participants walk down Fourth Street on Friday.
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Ceremony took place on Saturday at Lincoln Hall Theater honoring local African-American women.
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BY MICHAL DWOJAKASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
With one out in the top of the 10th inning at Allie Reynolds Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma, Illinois baseball’s David Kerian waited at the plate. Sunday’s game against No. 10 Oklahoma State was tied 2-2 and designated hitter Pat McIner-ney had just reached first base on a single.
Kerian hadn’t done much during the weekend, but knew he still had a chance to change that. He didn’t waste any time and hit the first pitch he saw — a fastball. He watched the ball fly over the left field fence as he circled the bases; he had made his contribution.
The two-run home run would be enough for pitcher Tyler Jay, who took care of Oklahoma State (8-6) in the bottom of the inning to help Illinois (11-3-1) win the game 4-2 and steal two of three from the host Cowboys.
“I was going to be aggressive,” Kerian said. “I knew that Pat was going to be on the run, so I made sure to get contact on the ball.”
The rubber match was a tightly contested game. Both teams only held the lead for half an inning each before the extra inning heroics. Oklahoma State struck first in the bottom of the second inning with an RBI single from catcher Bryan Case. Illinois responded in the top of the third when senior right field-er Casey Fletcher pulled a single down the right field line to score third baseman Ryne Roper.
The two teams went scoreless
until the sixth, when a wild pitch scored McInerney from third. The Illini loaded the bases in the top of the inning, but only scored on the wild pitch. The Cowboys responded in the bottom of the frame with an RBI single from right fielder Conor Costello, tying it up 2-2.
Senior pitcher John Kravetz pitched a strong game against the Cowboys. He threw seven innings of five-hit ball, gave up two runs and struck out four batters. Jay came
in relief for 2 2/3 innings and only gave up one run to pick up the win. The strong pitching performance allowed Illinois to win its first series against a top-10 team since taking two of three against No. 1 LSU in
2009.Sophomore Adam Walton led Illi-
nois to a strong start to the weekend Friday. The shortstop went 3-for-5
BY SAM SHERMANSTAFF WRITER
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Illinois men’s basketball team entered Saturday’s regular season finale against Purdue needing a win going into the Big Ten tournament.
Led by junior guard Rapheal Davis’ team-high 18 points, the Boilermakers defeated the Illini 63-58.
Saturday was Purdue’s senior day, but its offense ran through the hands of both Davis and fel-low junior, center A.J. Hammons.
Going into the game, both teams sat firmly on the NCAA tournament bubble. A win had similar impli-cations for two teams desperately seeking a ticket to the big dance.
Illinois head coach John Groce
said he didn’t like the his players’ effort.
“Individually, I thought Rice and Egwu had it today,” Groce said. “I
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T hey got the start they want-ed, but not the ending they needed.
Illinois basketball (19-12, 9-9 Big Ten) ambushed Purdue at their home court Saturday in the final regular season game of the year, jumping out to a 15-2 first half lead. It was a refresh-ing start for an Illini team that has had its share of slow ones this season, and the 14,000 fans at Mackey Arena were growing restless.
By the time Rayvonte Rice threw a vicious alley-oop mid-way through the first half, Illini fans were feeling good about their chances to come out on top in what was likely a NCAA tour-nament play-in game.
But when Illinois’ lead grew to 26-13, the Boilers (20-11, 12-6) finally did what they’ve prided themselves on for years: buckled down on defense and gave the Illini a fight.
You could pinpoint when the tide began to turn. Purdue’s P.J. Thompson decided he wasn’t going to let Illini point guard Jaylon Tate get by so easily. Freshman Thompson hounded Tate every time he attempted to bring the ball up the floor.
Thompson sparked the Pur-due comeback by ripping the ball away from Tate under his own basket and immediately converting a lay-up. It was all downhill from there for the Illi-ni, who stumbled to a 63-58 loss in their most critical game of the season.
“P.J. Thompson changed the game,” Illinois head coach John Groce said. “Totally changed the game- changed the energy level in the building, changed the energy level of his team-mates. I thought he was the dif-ference in the first half for sure, and in the second half.”
Thompson’s efforts ignited the Mackey Arena crowd, and what had been a dull murmur from the fans in black and gold became a deafening roar that persisted for the rest of the game. Purdue players fed off each other and the crowd, which did not help the Illini team, which was already on its back. The Illini offense began to stall, and Purdue only trailed by five points entering the half.
With the Boilermakers mak-ing a comeback, the Illini abso-lutely needed to head into half-time strong if they had any hope of winning. The Illini did not manage to rally against the Boilermakers. Rapheal Davis hit a jumper on Purdue’s first possession, and went on to score 15 more points in the second half to finish with a 18 team-high. Meanwhile, Illinois’ offen-sive attack went south, and Pur-due used a 24-4 run to bury the Illini for good.
Senior Rice did all he could to help out the team. The Cham-paign native scorched the nets from the start, and possessed throughout the game although he has never played in an NCAA tournament before. He finished with 25 points from 9-of-16 shooting. Sophomore Malcolm Hill made another significant contribution to the Ilini offense by scoring 15 points. The Illi-nois bench combined for just four total points.
This game had some similari-ties to the Illini’s other crucial losses in Oregon, Michigan and Indiana, where they blew double digit leads and forfeited victory. In each of those games, extend-ed scoring droughts doomed the Illini. The difference in the Pur-due game was that the collapse came more quickly.
Each of those losses could prove costly to Illinois’ NCAA tournament hopes, each of them made more painful by the big leads the Illini let evaporate. Illinois has a chance to win No. 20 on Thursday in the Big Ten tournament against Michigan. But with Wisconsin looming in the second round, it would take a miracle for the Illini to advance past the quarterfinals in Chicago.
It’s March, so you never know what can happen in college bas-ketball. The tournament bub-ble is soft this year, and maybe things will break the right way for the Illini when it comes to other bubble teams. But I just don’t think a 20-13 record will be enough to get Illinois any-thing better than a No. 1 seed in the NIT.
I would love to be optimis-tic, but when Illinois let its huge lead slip away Saturday, its NCAA tournament dreams might have slipped away as well.
Alex is a junior in AHS.
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Illinois at No. 10 Oklahoma StateFriday: Illinois 6, Oklahoma State 2Saturday: Oklahoma State 8, Illinois 1Sunday: Illinois 4, Oklahoma State 2Summary: Illinois picked up its first series win over a top-10 team since beating No. 1 LSU in 2009.
Key performer: First baseman David Kerian went 2-for-5 in Sunday’s game, including a go-ahead two-run home run in the top of the 10th inning.Quote of the weekend: Head coach Dan Hartleb — “(This weekend) shows that we can play with anybody.”Up next: vs. Chicago State, Tuesday 3 p.m., Illinois Field
Illinois impresses in wins over OK State
BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Adam Walton tags for an out during the game against Michigan State. Walton was instrumental in the Illini’s 6-2 win over Oklahoma State.
FOLAKE OSIBODU THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Nnanna Egwu takes a shot during the game against Purdue at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Indiana on Saturday. The Illini lost 63-58.
BY ETHAN SWANSONSTAFF WRITER
Another Big Ten wres-tling season is over and the Illinois wrestling team’s 10-year conference champi-onship drought continues. The Illini have not placed in the top three since 2009.
Penn State saw its four-year conference champion-ship winning streak come to an end. Ohio State and Iowa both scored 120 points and
were named co-Big Ten Champions on Sunday in Columbus, Ohio.
Illinois has not claimed the Big Ten crown since 2005; however, the perfor-mances of the younger Illi-ni grapplers indicate that the championship drought could come to an end in the near future.
The Illini finished sixth, with 96 points, just five and a half points behind fourth-
place Michigan. After the first day of competition Sat-urday, Illinois was in posi-tion to rack up some points heading into Sunday’s title matches. The Illini sat only seven and a half points out of third with seven wres-tlers in contention for a third-place or better indi-vidual finish.
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Illinois falls to Purdue, loses best chance
Cold shooting hurts Illinois
With a 20-13 record and loss to Purdue, Illinois needs a March Madness miracle
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BASEBALLFRI: ILL 6, OKLA-HOMA STATE 2SAT: OKLAHOMA STATE 8, ILL 1SUN: ILL 4, OKLA-HOMA STATE 2 STILLWATER, OKLA.
WRESTLINGBIG TEN CHAMPION-SHIPSSAT-SUNCOLUMBUS, OHIO
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Purdue 63, Illinois 58 Summary: The Illini came out hot, and took a 13-point lead in the first half, but struggled to score down the stretch in a loss to the Boilermakers. Key performer: Rayvonte Rice scored 25 points and grabbed three rebounds on 9-of-16 shooting.
Quote of the game: Head coach John Groce — “We can’t afford for six or seven of our guys out of nine to not be NBA All-Stars at their roles. We didn’t have it.” Hidden stat: Illinois shot 47.8 percent from the field in the first half but only 23.3 percent in the second half. Up next: vs. Michigan, 11 a.m. Thursday at United Center
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2015 Big Ten Wrestling Championships Summary: The Illini only placed four wrestlers in the top four and finished sixth overall. Key Performer: Isaiah Martinez – Defeated Minnesota’s Dylan Ness to claim the Big Ten Championship at 157 pounds and bring his record to 30-0 this season.
Quote of the Meet: Coach Jim Heffernan on Isaiah Martinez – “He took down some really talented guys this weekend.”Hidden Stat: Seniors Jackson Morse and defending national champion Jesse Delgado each reached 100 career wins Sunday.Next: NCAA Wrestling Championships, St. Louis, March 19-21
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just didn’t feel the other guys were NBA All-Stars in their roles at all for us today.”
After an opening bucket by Ham-mons, the Illini scored 15-straight points, quieting the rowdy Boiler-maker faithful. For most of the first half, Purdue didn’t put up much of a fight.
In the closing minutes of the first half, Purdue went on a scoring run that brought the score to 26-21 at halftime.
Groce credited Purdue guard P.J. Thompson as the difference maker.
“P.J. Thompson changed the game, totally changed the game,” Groce said. “It changed the energy level of the building, changed the energy level of his team. I thought he was the difference in the first and second half.”
Thompson’s three steals kept Purdue within striking distance at the end of the first half.
Both the Illini and the Boiler-
makers came out of the half look-ing like completely different teams. Illinois’ hot shooting turned cold, and Purdue’s started to hit the shots it missed in the first half.
Senior Rayvonte Rice led all scor-ers with 25 points, but without much contribution from his teammates, the Illini never regained the lead.
Once the Boilermakers start-ed feeding Hammons in the post, they found more success on offense. Hammons finished with 16 points and 10 rebounds.
In the teams’ previous meeting this season, the Purdue big man was held to eight points and seven rebounds.
Purdue’s success this season has been directly connected with the individual success of Hammons, and his presence was felt Saturday.
The Boilermakers maintained their second-half lead in large part due to the effort of junior guard Rapheal Davis.
Davis scored 17 of his 18 points and was perfect from beyond the arc in the second half.
Illinois’ second-half shooting
struggles continued throughout the entirety of the second half. With about four minutes left, sophomore guard Kendrick Nunn missed an uncontested layup that would have cut Purdue’s lead to nine.
Nunn continued his scoring struggles — he shot 2-for-12 from the field and 1-for-7 from three. In his last five games, Nunn has shot only 20 percent from beyond the arc.
He wasn’t alone in his cold shoot-ing. The Illini shot 34 percent over-all and 21 percent from three.
Illinois’ captain Nnanna Egwu said his team’s positivity can make or break its season.
“We can’t hang our heads. We’re going to lose overall if we hang our heads,” Egwu said. “The best thing to do now is to hold our heads high and look forward to our next game.”
The Illini head to Chicago next week for the Big Ten tournament and are in line to play the Michigan Wolverines on Thursday.
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with three RBIs, clocked a two-run home run in the third inning and added a triple in the fifth. The Illini tacked on one run each in the eighth and ninth to secure the 6-2 win.
Junior pitcher Kevin Duchene (2-0) had little trouble in his sec-ond start of the season. He took a no-hitter into the sixth inning before Costello hit a two-out sin-gle. The left-hander gave up one run in seven innings and struck out six.
Heading into a tough environ-ment against a highly ranked team, Walton knew the impor-tance of starting the weekend on the right foot.
“It was definitely great to get the team going,” Walton said. “It was definitely a momentum builder. Behind the pitching of Duchene and the pitching staff, I knew the job would get done.”
Oklahoma State came out fir-
ing in Saturday’s game. The Cowboys scored three runs in the first two innings, but senior Drasen Johnson pitched out of a bases-loaded situation in the sec-ond and settled down to retire the next 13 batters.
Illinois’ bats were silent Sat-urday, only managing four hits and one run — a Jason Goldstein solo home run in the top of the eighth. But by then, Oklahoma had added five runs, enough to finish off the Illini 8-1
The Illini made a statement with its winning weekend. The team has been on the fringe of the top 25 for most of the season, ranking as high as No. 25. Tak-ing two of three against a top-10 team on the road, head coach Dan Hartleb was pleased, but isn’t satisfied yet.
“(This weekend) shows that we can play with anybody,” Har-tleb said. “It’s a step in the right the direction, but there’s a long way to go.”
tlers in the top five and two in the top three, which didn’t please head coach Jim Heffernan.
“On the team level, I don’t think we scored as many points as we hoped to,” Heffernan said. “We had some matches that didn’t go our way, but we also had some individuals step up and have great performances.”
Senior Jack Morse matched his best finish in the conference tournament by defeating Michi-gan’s Garrett Sutton 2-0 in the 165-pound fifth-place bout. After
winning his first two matches, fellow senior Jesse Delgado was upset in the semifinals by Ohio State’s No. 3-seeded Nathan Tomasello 3-2, ending his quest for a three-peat at the 125-pound conference title. Delgado — a two-time defending national champi-on — forfeited the third-place match, having already qualified for nationals.
“All we wanted to do was make sure Jesse qualified for nationals, and he did that,” Heffernan said. “We didn’t want to risk anything going into nationals. Wrestling in this atmosphere was really good for him, seeing good competition. It was the best he’s wrestled this
season.”The main storylines this week-
end for the Illini, however, were the performances of freshmen Kyle Langenderfer and Isaiah Martinez.
Langenderfer entered the championships unseeded at 149 pounds. In his first match of the tournament, he suffered a 4-2 loss to the eventual winner, North-western’s defending national champion and No. 1-seeded Jason Tsirtsis. That would be Langende-fer’s only loss of the tournament.
Going on to pin Ohio State’s No. 3 Logan Steiber and take down Michigan’s No. 5 Alec Panta-leo, Langendefer claimed third
place in his weight class and punched his ticket to the NCAA tournament.
“He took down some really tal-ented guys this weekend,” Heffer-nan said. “He really stepped up and showed us that he can rise to the competition and be the best when he needs to.”
Martinez continued his historic season for the Illini, beating Min-nesota’s No. 2 seed Dylan Ness 12-5 to win the 157-pound brack-et. The victory brought his season record to 30-0 and earned him Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors.
“It feels great to be a Big Ten champion, to achieve goals I’ve set for myself since the beginning
of the season,” Martinez said.All Illinois wrestlers finished
in the top 10 in their respective weight classes. Zane Richards, Zac Brunson, Jeff Koepke, Nikko Reyes and Brooks Black rounded out the list of Illini who earned automatic NCAA tournament bids.
“Our future is in two weeks, we need to focus succeeding there first,” Heffernan said. “We recruited these young guys to come here for a reason: to hope-fully do big things on the nation-al level.”
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BY PETER ROMANCHUKCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Despite a couple of wins in the national tournament, the Illini men’s wheelchair basketball team fell just short of capturing a nation-al title this weekend.
Illinois traveled to the Brewer Fieldhouse in Columbia, Mo., for the National Intercollegiate Wheelchair Basketball Tournament. Confident and prepared, the Illini looked to wrestle away the title from the defending champions, Wisconsin-Whitewater.
The team opened the weekend Thursday against Edinboro. The Illini grabbed a lead early thanks to sol-id shooting performanc-es from senior Nik Goncin and sophomore Ryan Neis-wender. Illinois combined its offense with a stifling, high-pressure defense, lead-
ing 38-27 at halftime despite a miraculous one-handed 3-point toss by Edinboro’s Isaiah Moore.
Illinois kept Edinboro at arms-length and cruised to a 70-39 victory. Head coach Matt Buchi was pleased with his team’s effort.
“(Thursday’s game) was good for us because we were able to get all of the guys to play some minutes,” Buchi said. “It was a good starting point to get the blood flowing a little bit and get the bench playing.”
Texas-Arlington was up next. The teams traded blows, even though the Mav-ericks held a slim lead for a majority of the first half. The Illini struggled shoot-ing early, a problem Buchi diagnosed and adjusted for the second half.
“We were trying to force big plays to happen for us
instead of being patient,” Buchi said. “We were 0-for-7 from the 3-point line, so we were trying not to go for three and go (instead) for those two-point buckets.”
Illinois trailed Texas-Arlington by three at half-time. The Mavericks led most of the second half until two free throws from Goncin gave the Illini their first lead of the half with about two minutes to play.
With only seconds remain-ing in the game, Illinois caught the Texas-Arling-ton defense napping. Fol-lowing a short-range buck-et by Texas-Arlington’s Andreas Kraft, the Maver-icks failed to pick up Ryan Juguan, who flew down the court, picked up a long toss from Goncin and laid the ball in the bucket to give Illinois the 58-57 lead and win with five seconds left.
With the win, Illinois earned a spot in the title game against Wisconsin-Whitewater.
“We felt and knew we were completely prepared for the game, and we knew that it would be a fight,” Buchi said. “I told (the team) that this is a prize fight, and the guys with the belt are going to be com-ing out and trying to get the first swing, so we have to be able to duck and move and stay in this.”
The Illini shot lights out in the early stages of the game, going on a 6-0 run and push-ing the pace of play in the transition game. However, Illinois’ shooting success would be short-lived. White-water players David Flem-ing and Derrick Bisnett dominated in the paint and the Warkhawks led 36-21 at halftime.
Whitewater’s bigger play-ers took advantage of their
size. The Illini were sparked late by a series of defensive stops from sophomore Der-ek Hoot and a 3-point buck-et from Goncin. A couple of made free-throws and a three-point play from Kyle Gribble clinched the champi-onship for Wisconsin-White-water with a 68-55 win.
Despite falling short, Buchi was proud of the way his team fought. Illinois had a hard-fought season and the head coach knows that this experience will help the pro-gram in the future.
“I’ve got a great group of guys, and I didn’t really have to say much (regarding the loss),” Buchi said. “We had gone from a team that strug-gled early in the season to playing in the national cham-pionship game and playing with a championship team.”
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The Illinois women’s wheelchair basketball team entered the National Inter-collegiate Wheelchair Bas-ketball Tournament with a sense of urgency. The Illi-ni lost to Texas-Arlington last weekend in Alabama, and head coach Stephanie Wheeler was determined for her team to not repeat such a poor performance.
“The team realized we didn’t do the things that we can control,” Wheeler said regarding the previous loss to Texas-Arlington. “If we just prepare and execute those things, we knew we would put ourselves in a posi-tion to win.”
The Illini opened Fri-day’s game with an early lead, but Texas-Arlington surged back later in the half to tie the game. Illinois’ Hel-en Freeman drained a mid-range shot right at the buzz-er to give her team a 26-24 lead at halftime.
It was a high-scoring start in the second half and both teams went on scoring runs that again left Illinois with a two-point lead. Wheeler used a timeout following an 8-1 Texas-Arlington run to refo-cus her team’s defense.
“I told my ladies, ‘This is still our game, and we’re still in control,’” Wheeler said. “From there, we were able to build a lead and finish the game strong.”
In the final minutes of the game, the Illini defense shut down the Mavericks offense, forcing two turnovers in the last minute of the game and cementing their position in the championship game with a 49-45 victory.
The national champion-ship game pitted Illinois against Alabama. The Illini struggled on the court ear-ly on, allowing the Crimson Tide to score 10 unanswered points to open the game. After Wheeler called a time-out, seniors Freeman and Megan Blunk led the way and helped cut Alabama’s lead to four. The remainder of the first half was a defen-sive showdown, and neither team finished the half with
more than 30 points.Alabama entered the
second half leading 28-22. The Crimson Tide steadily increased their lead over the course of the second half, but some late foul trouble gave Illinois an opportuni-ty to get back in the game. With six minutes left, Free-man sunk a mid-range buck-et to give the Illini its first lead of the game.
However, Illinois’ lack of scoring touch in the final moments hurt the team and it fell to Alabama 58-52.
“We didn’t capitalize on our offensive opportunities toward the end of the game,” Wheeler said. “We had opportunities, layups actu-ally, where we created great
shots for ourselves, and we just didn’t capitalize on them by finishing the shot.”
Despite not capturing a national title, Wheeler only felt pride for her team’s effort. They showed resil-iency throughout the season and knows that it all started with the team’s dedicated work ethic.
“Our motto was to show up to every practice ready to give everything they had and to show up at every game and give it everything they had,” Wheeler said. “No matter the result, it doesn’t diminish the journey they were on all sea-son. It was all worth it.”
Wheelchair basketball at NIWBT championships
Men:Thursday: Illinois 70, Edinboro 39Friday: Illinois 58, Texas-Arlington 57Saturday: Wisconsin-Whitewater 68, Illinois 55
Women:Friday: Illinois 49, Texas-Arlington 45Saturday: Alabama 58, Illinois 52
Summary: The men’s and women’s wheelchair basketball teams came up just short this year, both teams losing in the championship game of the wheelchair basketball nationals at the Brewer Fieldhouse in Columbia, Mo.
Key performer: Nik Goncin hit shots at the right times all weekend, providing a constant stream of offense for the men’s team.
Quote of the weekend: Matt Buchi — “We knew we were going to have to be a big defensive team.”
Hidden Stat: The Illini began three of the five games this weekend with a 6-0 run; two for the men and one for the women.
Wheelchair basketball falls short in nationals
Women’s offensive failure leads to loss
BY JONATHAN JOFFECONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Illinois women’s tennis team failed to pick up a victory against Big Ten oppo-nents Penn State and Ohio State over the weekend. The Illini lost at Penn State on Friday 4-3 and fell to the Buckeyes 6-1 at home Sunday. The team now stands at 6-4 on the season.
The Illini’s Friday match against Penn State was the first conference match away from home for the team this season. Illinois head coach Michelle Dasso did not expect the match against the Nittany Lions to be easy.
“Playing at Penn State is a tough place to play for many reasons, but I credit our team for making the most of it,” Dasso said. “Penn State served big and Surin, at No. 3 singles, was a very, very strong player.”
The competition didn’t get easier for the Illini against Ohio State on Sunday. The team struggled against No. 22 Ohio State in the doubles portion of its Sunday match.
Senior Melissa Kopinski and sophomore Louise Kwong kept their match close at the No. 1 doubles spot against sophomores Gabriella De Santis and Sandy Niehaus, but the Buckeyes picked up wins at the No. 2 and No. 3 spots to win the doubles point before that match could conclude.
“It hurts to lose at home,” Kopinski said. “I’m very proud of how the team fought, and I’m glad we were able to hang in there physically.”
The singles portion of the match against Ohio State was much more competitive than the doubles portion — four of the six matches went to a third set. Despite the tight matches, Illinois failed to capitalize, losing at every spot except No. 2.
Sophomore Alexis Casati came back from
a 1-8 defeat in doubles to win in straight sets in singles, defeating freshman Anna Sanford 6-4, 6-3.
“I knew that I had to get my energy up after doubles,” Casati said. “We got off to a really slow start, and even though I won in singles, we weren’t able to pull out a vic-tory in the end.”
Despite defeating both of these teams last season, Illinois could not overcome losing both doubles points this time around. Das-so — who emphasized the importance of starting off with a win in the doubles point — wasn’t encouraged by the two losses.
“Losing is not fun,” Dasso said. “In gen-eral, we were right there in singles. It’s doubles that I’m most concerned about.”
Penn State 4 Illinois 3, Ohio State 6 Illinois 1Summary: Illinois women’s tennis failed to capitalize on the road at Penn State and then was outmatched Sunday at home against Ohio State.Key performer: Alexis Casati did not drop a set in singles at the No. 2 spot against Ohio State.Quote of the game: “Playing at Penn State is a tough place to play for many reasons but I credit our team for making the most of it.” — Michelle Dasso after loss to Penn StateHidden stat: Illinois beat both Penn State and Ohio State last season.Up next: Sunday, 8 a.m. at USF
Tennis fails to produce victories against Big Ten rivals
BRENTON TSE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Melissa Kopinski attempts to return the ball during the match against Indiana at Atkins Tennis Center on March 1. The Illini lost to both Penn State and Ohio State over the weekend.
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Hockey loses early in ACHA tournamentBY MATT GERTSMEIERSTAFF WRITER
At the beginning of the season, the Illinois hock-ey team had a single goal in mind: Win the ACHA national championship.
Robert Morris erased any chance Illinois had at achieving that goal Fri-day when the Eagles beat the Illini 3-2 in the second round of the ACHA tourna-ment in Strongsville, Ohio.
The 13th-seeded Illini won their first round game 4-1 against No. 20 John Car-roll on Thursday night in what head coach Nick Fab-brini described as a poorly-played game by the Illini. Illinois scored three goals within two minutes of each other in the first period and goaltender Joe Olen record-ed 28 saves on 29 shot attempts in the game.
However, the excitement following the Illini’s first-
round win was short-lived.Against conference oppo-
nent No. 4 Robert Mor-ris, Illinois winger Eric Cruickshank scored both of the Illini’s two goals in an effort to advance to the quarterfinals. But a crucial penalty in the third period called against Illinois for too many men on the ice resulted in a Robert Mor-ris powerplay goal that put the Eagles up 3-1.
Fabbrini thought the call was controversial and that early in the game there were a couple of times Rob-ert Morris had too many men on the ice, but wasn’t penalized.
“We can’t afford mental mistakes like that in the tournament, and we got punished for it,” Fabbri-ni said. “That was a good break for them and really unfortunate for us.”
Fabbrini said Illinois’
loss to Robert Morris wasn’t due to a lack of effort — he said the puck just didn’t bounce Illinois’ way.
Despite Friday’s loss, Fabbrini drew some posi-tives from the tournament. He said it was good for Illi-nois to be selected for the tournament and especial-ly important for the team’s younger players to get ACHA tournament experi-ence. Six freshmen and five sophomores played in Illi-nois’ loss.
But for Illinois’ six active seniors, Friday signified the end of their collegiate careers, and Fabbrini said players were understand-ably emotional after the game.
“It’s tough,” Fabbrini said. “Even the younger guys realized what we had to build and do this year and understanding that this was really the last time
we’re going to be together as a group.”
Although this group of Illini failed to win the ACHA tournament, Cruick-shank said he still views this as a successful sea-son. He said the team came together and the players trusted in one another — Fabbrini considered it one of the best groups he has coached in his six seasons
at Illinois.While Illinois has packed
up and is back home, the ACHA tournament contin-ues with semifinals Monday and the championship game Tuesday. Four of the eight teams in the quarterfinals represent the CSCHL.
But Illinois, the only CSCHL team that failed to make the quarterfinals, expects to be in the ACHA
tournament next season, and the goal remains the same: Win the national championship.
“It’s the goal every year, and we’re going to keep building on that,” Cruick-shank said. “I think every year we have a good shot.”
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ACHA TournamentIllinois 4, John Carroll 1Summary: Illinois’ three first-period goals helped push it past John CarrollKey performer: Jack Soneson, one goal, one assistQuote of the game: Head coach Nick Fabbrini — “The fact that we’re able to
win when we didn’t (play our best) says a lot about our group.” Robert Morris 3, Illinois 2Summary: A crucial penalty for too many men on the ice against Illinois in the third period resulted in go-ahead goal for Robert Morris.
Key performer: Eric Cruickshank, two goals.Quote of the game: Fabbrini — “We can’t afford mental mistakes like that (penalty) in the tournament.”Hidden stat: Illinois’ six seniors accounted for a total of 76 points this season.
Women’s gymnastics dominates Illinois ClassicBY ASHLEY WIJANGCOSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois women’s gymnastics team placed first out of four teams at the State of Illinois Classic on Saturday night at the NIU Convocation Center in DeKalb, Illinois. The No. 12 Illini committed some mis-takes, but earned a deci-sive win, scoring a 196.275. Northern Illinois finished second with a 194.350. Illi-nois State grabbed third by posting a 193.525 while UIC came in last with a 192.750.
From the start, Illinois had no problem beating out Illinois State and UIC in the standings, but North-ern Illinois was a different story.
The Illini began the meet on floor, where Gia-na O’Connor struggled with her leaps. Head coach Kim Landrus didn’t know the cause of the junior’s prob-lems, but said that O’Connor did her best to minimize deductions.
I l l i noi s d r opped O’Connor’s 9.500, but only counted two 9.8 scores for a 48.825 event total. This wasn’t enough to overcome Northern Illinois’ 48.975, leaving Illinois in second place after the first rotation.
But from there, the Illini never looked back.
Illinois recovered in the second rotation with a 49.075 on vault, led by O’Connor’s 9.850. That was enough for the Illini to take a 97.900-97.825 lead over the Huskies. But it was the Illini’s performance on uneven bars — their best
event — that made the big-gest difference.
On bars, the Illini scored their highest event total of the entire meet with a 49.200. They had to count one score below a 9.8. Soph-omore Sarah Lyons also had a mistake on a transi-tion — causing her to score a 9.375 — but her score was dropped, and the gymnasts recovered, with senior Sun-ny Kato’s 9.900 bringing up the total.
Illinois’ bars score boost-ed it to a 147.100-145.750 lead over Northern Illinois — who struggled on the bal-ance beam during Illinois’ bars rotation.
From there, the Illini moved to beam and earned a 49.175 to solidify the vic-tory. Sophomore Mary Jane Horth said she wasn’t sur-prised that her team could come back and saw it as a confidence booster.
“It doesn’t matter what happened on the last event,” Horth said. “We know that we have a really strong bar team and beam team, and we can come back with those events and just take it away.”
However, with the post-season nearing, the Illini are concerned with more than performing well — they want to perfect the details.
“When you look at meet as a whole, I definitely think we can look at it and see those little things that we didn’t quite get, wheth-er it was a landing or a bal-ance check,” Landrus said. “We know that coming into
championship season, it does comes down to the lit-tle tenths.”
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Gymnastics goes from tough loss to sweet win
BY DANIEL COLLINSSTAFF WRITER
The Illinois men’s gym-nastics’ graduating class ended its career at Huff Hall on a winning note against Nebraska on Sunday, despite losing to Stanford on Friday.
The Illini lost to Stanford by a score of 21-9 on Fri-day. The weekend opener was played with a match-play format. No set line-ups are submitted in match play — coaches are allowed to choose which gymnast they want to compete after the opposing team has com-pleted its routine. Overall scores are still submitted to the NCAA.
Head coach Justin Spring said the match-play format seemed to add anxiety to the team, which trailed the whole meet.
“Too many things went wrong against Stanford and it snowballed,” Spring said.
Against Nebraska on Sunday, which was recog-nized as Senior Day, Illi-nois had a polar opposite meet, winning by a score of 436.700-423.450.
The five gymnasts who were honored before the meet were redshirt juniors C.J. Maestas and Jacob Tils-ley and seniors Jordan Val-dez, Mike Wilner and Nick
Sacramento. Sacramento became the team’s man-ager after suffering from a career-ending injury his freshman year. Every mem-ber of the senior class won at least one event title against Nebraska except for Tilsley.
Maestas won the floor exercise, pommel horse and parallel bars titles — his parallel title was split with Valdez, who also won the high bar title. Wilner won the still rings title. Huff Hall let out a cheer every time one of Maestas’ scores were presented.
With his three title victo-ries, Maestas moved to 10th on the Illinois all-time title list.
“Going out the way I did was amazing,” Maestas said.
At the end of his parallel bars routine, Maestas blew a kiss to the crowd.
“That kiss was for my fam-ily,” Maestas said. “Especial-ly for my mom. She’s my angel. And my little sister, who I practically raised.”
While Maestas received many cheers, Huff Hall was at its loudest after Valdez completed his high bar rou-tine, which was also the last routine of the meet.
Afterward, he walked off and all of his teammates greeted him with a hug.
“Looking back on five years of ups, downs, pain (and) injury, I just wanted to give my absolute best for (the team) one more time here,” Valdez said.
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Illinois men’s golf looks to continue streak in tournament at UNLV
BY DRAKE PENASTAFF WRITER
The Illinois men’s golf team faces, arguably, its big-gest test of the season Mon-day when it competes in the Southern Highlands Colle-giate Masters in Las Vegas.
Hosted by last year’s win-ner, UNLV, the event features the stiffest competition Illi-nois has faced all year.
With 10 of the participating 15 teams ranked in the top 25,
Illinois will have some seri-ous competition for its No. 1 ranking.
With previous tournaments this spring consisting of zero teams in the top 25, this will be the first chance Illinois has to compare itself to some of the better collegiate golf teams in the country.
Specifically No. 3 USC, No. 4 Texas, No. 6 Arizona State and No. 10 Texas Tech, all can easily move up in the national rankings with strong show-ings this week.
Head coach Mike Small will come out with the same lineup that he’s used for the last two tournament victories.
Senior Brian Campbell, junior Thomas Detry, junior Charlie Danielson, freshman Dylan Meyer and freshman Nick Hardy all look to contin-ue their winning ways.
Detry has been the go-to man for the Illini the past two tournaments.
He is fresh off his third Big Ten Golfer of the Week honor for his play at the Louisiana Classics on March 2-3, where he finished first in the individ-ual rankings. Detry posted three below-par rounds (68-69-66) in the tournament, helped by his 14 birdies, 39 pars and only one bogey.
Detry recorded his season-low in the final round of the
Classics, which was delayed more than an hour due to heavy fog conditions.
“A 66 in those conditions and with those pins is spe-cial — it’s world class,” assis-tant coach Zach Barlow said of Detry’s play in Tuesday’s final round at the Louisiana Classics.
Campbell and Danielson also look to continue their hot hand. Each finished in the top five in last week’s tournament.
More strong performanc-es from these three would go a long way against some of the tougher competition in the country.
Last week’s performanc-
es ensures nothing, however.“We definitely accom-
plished some things this week that we wanted to accom-plish, but we also know we still have some issues from winter break that we have to work on,” Barlow said. “We have a quick turnaround to go to Vegas, but we can still make some changes and get better for Vegas.”
The collegiate masters will begin Monday and conclude Wednesday. Each participat-ing team will compete in one 18-hole round on each of the three days of action at this year’s event.
Illini men’s gymnastics weekend recapFriday: Stanford 21, Illinois 9Sunday: Illinois 436.700, Nebraksa 423.450Key performer: C.J. Maestas recorded two personal bests over the weekend and moved up to 10th on the Illini’s all-time titles list.Quote of the game: Jordan Valdez — “Looking back on five years of ups, downs, pain (and) injury, I just wanted to give my absolute best for (the team) one more time here.”Quick note: Valdez passed head coach Justin Spring on Illinois’ all-time high bar title list for seventh.Up next: Michigan, Sunday, March 15, Ann Harbor, Mich.
State of Illinois ClassicIllinois 196.275, Northern Illinois 194.350, Illinois State 193.525, UIC 192.750 Summary: Illinois trailed early, but ran away with the lead after its third rotation on the uneven bars. Key performer: Senior Sunny Kato won the balance beam and uneven bars titles after being the lone Illini to score a 9.9. Quote of the game: Sophomore Mary Jane Horth — “It doesn’t matter what happened on the last event. We know that we have a really strong bar team and beam team, and we can comeback with those events and just take it away.”Hidden stat: The Illini were the only team to score a 49 on any event.Up next: Big Five Meet, Noon, Saturday at Devaney Center in Lincoln, Nebraska
SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Mary Jane Horth performs a routine on the balance beam during the meet against Minnesota at Huff Hall on Saturday. The Illini won 195.775-195.375.
Seniors end college careers on high note against Cornhuskers
Campbell andDetry lead the Illini charge
SONNY AN THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ C.J. Maestas performs a routine on the pommel horse during the meet against Stanford at Huff Hall on Friday. The Illini lost 21-9 but won against Nebraska on Sunday.
“We have a quick turnaround to go to Vegas, but we
can still make some changes
and get better for Vegas.”
ZACH BARLOWILLINOIS MEN’S GOLF ASSISTANT
COACH
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