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NEW YORK -- Senior Megan Gaughn recorded a season-high 24 kills to break Columbia's all-time record and lift the Lions to a 3-1 victory over Penn Friday night at Levien Gym.
Gaughn surpassed the previous record of 1,256 set by Amalia Viti from 2005-08, and now sits as the career leader with 1,264 kills.
Columbia (13-9, 8-5 Ivy League) earned its fourth consecutive win by scores of 25-21, 18-25, 28-26, 25-16 as Penn fell to 13-11 overall and 8-5 in conference action.
Penn was the first to score in the first set, but four straight kills by the Lions put Columbia on top the rest of the way.
The second set was a back-and-forth battle up to an 11-all midway through. A 4-1 Penn run put the Quakers in front, 15-12, but Columbia rallied back to knot the score at 15. The score was tied once more at 16-16, but that would be as close as the Lions would come as the Quakers picked up the momentum and evened the series using a 9-2 run to close out the second set.
The third set also began as a close fight. With the score tied 13-13, Columbia embarked on a 5-0 run to regain the lead. Gaughn registered four kills in a row during the surge as she became Columbia's all-time leader in kills.
With the Lions up 19-15, Penn went outscored the Lions 4-1 to knot the score, 22-22. A kill by Caitlin Brenton put the Lions back in front, but the Quakers followed up with a kill by Emma White to make it 23-23. The teams traded points yet again for another tie at 24. Katarina Jovicic posted a kill to put the Lions back in the lead, but two attacking errors by Columbia pushed Penn into the lead, 26-25. The Lions silenced the Quakers for the final time of the set with three consecutive points, bringing the crowd to its feet as the Lions took a 2-1 match advantage.
Columbia pulled away from a 3-3 tie in the fourth set to build up to a 12-5 advantage. From there, the Lions were nearly unstoppable and continued to extend its lead en route to the victory.
Gaughn not only recorded 24 kills, but made it another double-double as she added 14 digs. Brenton also had a strong day on attack for the Lions, contributing 13 kills to go with a team-best .444 hitting percentage thanks to committing only one attack error on the night.
Colleen Brennan was the second Lion to record a double-double, as she recorded a match-high 53 assists and 16 digs. Charlee Dyroff led the Lions with a team-high 28 digs on the night.
Columbia will look to roll with its fifth straight win as the Lions close out the season at home for Senior Night on Saturday against Princeton at 5 p.m.


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Baby Milestones: Motor DevelopmentPediatrician Lisa Shulman shows the motor milestones expected in typically developing babies, from head control to walking and what pediatricians look for during a well-baby visit. She also explains the specific types of motor control a baby must master before the next milestone can be achieved. Dr. Shulman is associate professor of clinical pediatrics at Einstein and an attending physician in pediatrics at The Children's Hospital at Montefiore. She is also director of the RELATE program for the diagnosis and treatment of autism and related disorders at Einstein's Children's Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center (CERC). (April 18, 2014)
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Brad and Lisa Hoeme, Wichita, announce the birth of a daughter, Scarlett Faith, at 1:54 p.m. Jan. 23, 2013. She weighed 7 pounds and was 19 1/2 inches long.
She is welcomed by big sister Savannah, age 5.
Grandparents are Linda Hoeme, Preston, and Sue and Dennis Russell, Winfield.
Betty Hoeme, Preston, is a great-grandmother.


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More than 50 citizens — roughly two-thirds of them women — showed up Sept. 26 at the Point Loma Masonic Lodge for the monthly public meeting of the Ocean Beach Town Council's board of directors to find out what police are doing to catch the criminals responsible.
Three police representatives — community relations officer David Surwilo, service-area Lt. Natalie Stone and Det. Tom Jacques — were on hand to update the public and talk about ways to prevent crime and explain how the public can help catch the perpetrators.
In the process, police officials got quite an earful from citizens who say they're afraid and want their community back.
"I'm worried. It's at our doorstep and it's scary," said one woman who described herself as a 16-year resident who lives and works on Newport Avenue with a mother and aunt nearby. "I want to feel safe when I walk around my hometown. I've been calling cabs to go four blocks."
The officers said they're intensifying efforts to catch a Peeping Tom first reported in late spring along Saratoga Avenue who, after a lull of a few months, has reportedly resumed his spree and has raised the number of victims to seven.
At the same time, police officials said investigations are ongoing in connection with a female jogger who was groped by a man on a bicycle in mid-August along the San Diego River trail near Dog Beach, as well as an attempted rape a couple weeks later in the 5000 block of Muir Avenue.
Officials said the rape investigation is in the hands of the SDPD Sex Crimes Unit downtown, and Jacques is in charge of investigating the jogging victim. Meanwhile, more officers — in uniform and plainclothes police on foot, bikes and in cars — have been assigned to catch the Peeping Tom, Surwilo said.
"This has been a very hot topic for us," said Stone, who joined the Western Division last month. "We're very serious about this guy. As serious as you are about your safety."
The peeping case has been difficult to investigate because only one victim has been able to come up with a description, Stone said. The others, she said, have only offered statements like, "I saw a shadow in my window," or "I saw a male figure."
"That's not enough for us to make an arrest," Stone said.
Officers are noticing open windows and blinds at night, which they said invites crime.
"This person is an opportunistic criminal," Stone said. "When they have those opportunities to look in your windows, they're going to do things like that."
Police have released a composite drawing of the suspect and have two DNA samples, she said.
"We're continuing to do the best investigations with the cases that we can," she said.
Not everyone appeared convinced. Some residents expressed frustration with the lack of arrests stemming from the three crimes, and others said they suspected not all crimes were being investigated.
John Wilson, a relative of the near-rape victim, said he didn't like police criticism after he printed wanted posters offering a $5,000 reward.
He defended his inclusion of two composite sketches that are not suspects in the rape case, and pointed out the poster makes it clear the composites were for other crimes.
"I'll be happy [if we were] to catch any of them," Wilson said. "They need to be brought to justice too."
"I didn't appreciate the flack I got for the poster. I raised the awareness on the situation. A lot more people know about it. I'm not going to stop looking for him until I find the guy, period," he said, to a solid round of applause.
Others also backed Wilson's initiative.
"If it hadn't been for this young man putting posters around, none of the women at the club would have known about it until weeks later," said Donna Bergerson, president of the Ocean Beach Woman's Club.
Surwilo pointed to the website crimemapping.com, which allows the user to enter a ZIP code or address and see what crimes have been reported over a given time period. He also stressed the importance of reporting all crimes, even those too small to require an in-person police report.
Police need as many reports as possible to detect trends and put in place better staffing where needed, Surwilo said.
"Even if it's a minor burglary, [report] it online or over the phone," Surwilo said. "If we don't have the numbers, we can't get the staffing and we can't provide the proper safety for you. It's the only way we can be proactive."
Police officials also offered tips for turning in witness reports. Surwilo said to be prepared to describe clothing, including hats, bandanas and colors. Notice specific characteristics of facial features, hair and tattoos. Note if they're carrying anything, like a backpack. It also helps to start at the top and notice as many details as you work your way to the bottom.
Also notice the mode of transportation used by a criminal, whether it's a car or a bike, and get the color, make, model and license plate. Get the direction of travel, too, Surwilo said.
"Think of us as having a seeing-eye dog and a white cane," he said.
UNDER INVESTIGATION A review of the investigations discussed by police on Sept. 26 at the Ocean Beach Town Council meeting:
• Jogger groped, Aug. 15, San Diego River bike path
According to Crime Stoppers, a female was jogging on the south side of the San Diego river bike path between Sports Arena and Sunset Cliffs boulevards. A man on a bike reached down and touched the victim's buttocks and he passed, hid from sight and came up from behind and groped the jogger a second time before fleeing toward Sunset Cliffs Boulevard.
Suspect description: White male, approximately 25 years old, 5-feet 10-inches tall, 160 lbs., with about four days of beard growth, freckles over the entire face and a gap between the front teeth. The suspect was riding a black road bike. A composite sketch has been released.
Information can be reported to Det. Tom Jacques at (619) 692-4833 or to the Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line at (888) 580-8477. Anonymous email and text messages can be sent to www.sdcrimestoppers.com.
• Attempted rape, Aug. 25, 5000 block Muir Avenue
Police said the incident occurred shortly after 2 a.m. No composite sketch has been released. Family members have printed posters with a written description that accompanies two sketches unrelated to the case. Police said they believe the suspect was known to the family but have not ruled out a stranger.
Information can be called in to the police department's Sex Crimes Unit at (619) 531-2210.
• Peeping case, May to present, Saratoga Avenue
Police said the first of the seven cases was reported May 22 when a female noticed a person at her window as she got out of the shower.
Three of the four cases involved the window screen being cut about 2 inches by 2 inches. All cases occurred from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. Because of the proximity of the victims involved, police believe the suspect lives nearby.
A composite sketch has been released on the suspect, who is described as a white male between 22 and 28 years of age, between 165-200 pounds, between 5-feet 9-inches and 6-feet-tall. At the time of the incident, he was wearing a dark blue shirt or jacket and a dark colored beanie cap or hat that covered his hair.
Information may be reported to the San Diego Police Department's Western Division at (619) 692-4800 or to San Diego County Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.
— Compiled by Tony de Garate


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The Royals beat Cleveland 4-3, so the Red Sox have home field advantage for the entire post-season. They have also clinched the best record in MLB for 2007.***
The front office has one hour to decide which ALDS schedule it wants to play: the 7-day Series A (which starts Thursday) or the 8-day Series B (which starts Wednesday).
Trailing most of the night, the Red Sox scored four runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to win their 96th game of the season.
Three of those four runs came on a three-run home run from Mr. On Fire (J.D. Drew), who also singled and tripled. Drew thought he had walked on the pitch before -- which was at the letters -- but it was called a strike. Drew promptly clubbed the next offering over the visiting bullpen in right-center.
Kevin Youkilis went 3-for-4 and Coco Crisp had two hits. Wakefield was so-so (7-6-4-3-0-1, 92). Javier Lopez pitched a perfect eighth on nine pitches. Hideki Okajima allowed two singles to start the ninth, but then got Justin Morneau looking and started a 1-4-3 DP against Michael Cuddyer.
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BILLERICA -- Three Catholic parishes in town -- Saint Mary, Saint Theresa and Saint Andrew -- will combine their staffs as part of the Archdiocese of Boston's plan to consolidate churches into about 135 "collaboratives."
The three Billerica parishes will share one pastor, who has not yet been named, and some staff, said the Rev. James Kelly, a priest at Saint Andrews. Other details, such as whether Mass schedules at each of the parishes will be affected, have not yet been determined, he said.
"That remains to be seen, honestly," Kelly said. "No one has ever done this before."
None of the three churches will close. Each will retain its name, buildings, financial assets and obligations.
The Archdiocese named 12 collaboratives consisting of 28 parishes on Thursday, the first phase in a series as the church combines operations at churches as it responds to falling numbers of parishioners and priests. Pastors for each collaborative are scheduled to be named in March and be trained in May and June, according to the Archdiocese. The collaboratives will be formally set on July 1, but the plan will take place over the coming years.
Pastoral teams, parish councils, finance councils and school boards will begin training in September. A development team will work through 2014 on details of a plan for each collaborative. The collaboratives will be phased in over a period of five years, officially beginning combined operations by January 2015.
"During this first phase, we pledge our full support to the dedicated priests, parish staffs, parishioners and lay volunteers who will lead the way for our efforts to fully embrace the New Evangelization," Cardinal Sean O'Malley said in a statement announcing the first collaboratives.
Among other groups created in the first phase were parishes in Methuen, Belmont, Lynn and Salem.
Staff at Saint Mary and Saint Theresa, by far the largest of the three Billerica parishes, could not be reached for comment Thursday afternoon. The three parishes don't have much collaboration now, Kelly said, but will begin to do so in the next six months.
The three Billerica parishes have significant overlap in Mass schedules.
On Sundays, Saint Andrew and Saint Theresa both have 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. Masses, while Saint Mary has Masses at 8:30 and 10:30. Saint Andrew and Saint Mary both have 4 p.m. Masses on Saturday, and Saint Theresa has one at 4:30. Saint Andrew and Saint Theresa each have weekday Masses at 9 a.m.
The number of Masses at the three churches has fallen by 55 percent since 1989, when the data began being tracked, according to the Archdiocese. The number of marriages has fallen from 117 in 1989 to 21 last year. Baptisms are down 57 percent during that time, and confirmations by 44 percent.
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Franchise owner Brian Myers said that he plans on reopening the Middletown Friendly's sometime in March.
The Middletown Friendly's, which was gutted in a blaze June 27, is slated to reopen in March, said franchise owner Brian Myers.
The Dove Run Shopping Center restaurant will be rebuilt, he said. The building is under construction and preparation work is planned to start this week.
Myers said that rebuilding the popular family restaurant has taken longer than expected due to things out of his control.
At around 3:31 p.m. June 27, a fire started outside of the building in the mulch along its exterior.
The Delaware State Fire Marshall's Office ruled the blaze accidental.
Most of the fire was contained within the first 20 minutes by fire personnel from Odessa, Port Penn, Delaware City, Clayton, Aetna Hose Hook & Ladder of Newark, Middletown, and the Wilmington Fire Company.
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Voters in Wisconsin will decide Tuesday whether or not to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker. It's been one of the most expensive statewide races in American history, and the stakes in that election could have national implications, for unions, for deficit hawks, for businesses, even for President Obama's re-election.
The vote over whether to recall Walker is so important, it's drawn millions in outside money and some of the biggest political stars in the country. Now millions of dollars are flowing in, too.
"The dollar figures that were thrown around here are just astronomical in terms of Wisconsin's history," Wisconsin Public Radio's Shawn Johnson tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz.
"The old record for [the] governor's race in terms of money raised by a candidate was about $10 million," Johnson says. "And that was set in 2010 by Gov. Scott Walker. He's now raised $31 million dollars in about a year and a half."
Walker has no problem raising money; under Wisconsin laws the incumbent doesn't have to abide by the usual campaign finance contribution limits. Tom Barrett, his Democratic challenger, does.
"People can't give him more than $10,000 a pop, and he's raised about $4 million in the cycle," Johnson says. "Normally we'd be talking about that being [a] record-setting pace, but he's getting killed in Wisconsin, he's getting killed on the airwaves, because the governor has just destroyed all records."
A Rallying Cry For Republicans
"If Walker wins, [the] recall will be the best thing that ever happened to him," Johnson says. He'll be a national figure, not only because he survives but because of the issue he's running on."
"This is an issue that other governors have flirted with, and he's kind of taken it head on," Johnson says. "If he were to survive, it'd be big."
If Walker survives, Republican governors around the country have said it will be a turning point — a referendum in a sense, on whether they, too, can confront public sector unions and make huge spending cuts.
Walker's survival has become a rallying cry for Republican leaders across the country, and some have even rallied to his side. South Carolina's Gov. Nikki Haley hit the stump last week, and Louisiana's Gov. Bobby Jindal has also come through the state. So has Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey and one of the most popular Republicans in the country.
Virginia's Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has asked his backers to donate to Walker's campaign. Cuccinelli, a rising star in the Republican Party, is running for governor and holds a significant lead in the polls. On Tuesday, he'll be watching Wisconsin closer — quite possibly — than he ever has before.
"Scott Walker's recall election is the second most important election in America this year," he tells NPR's Raz. "The only one more important is the presidential election in November."
It's not just about unions, Cuccinelli says, it's pension problems at the state level and entitlements at the federal level. "It's related to all these types of problems because the theme is the same: We have to make painful changes."
"In order to make sure that our country doesn't go bankrupt it is very important for Scott Walker to win this election," Cuccinelli says, "not just for Wisconsin, but for America."
The White House Watches
Obama has been notably absent from the Wisconsin fight. He's endorsed Walker's opponent Tom Barrett, but otherwise, he's been quiet.
But the White House is watching Wisconsin closely, because in many ways, it's a trial run for the presidential race — big money coming in from outside groups, and a referendum on spending.
"I think it's like the Spanish Civil war was to World War II, where both sides got to try out their weapons," NPR's national political correspondent Mara Liasson tells Raz.
"This is going to be seen as a test case for the power and clout of the superPACs. Walker's raised tremendous amounts of outside money, which he's allowed to do under the law," she says. "So if he wins, I think the message will be the superPACs have a tremendous advantage.
"If he loses, I think will mean even more," she says. "I think it will be a huge boost to the Democrats, to the labor movement, and it'll mean that the superPACs can't buy everything."
But if Walker does survive, what does that mean for Obama? The president won Wisconsin by a pretty healthy margin in 2008, but Republicans swept the state in 2010.
"But the polls show President Obama still has a lead there," Liasson says. "It still is on the list of most people's battleground states; the Republicans believe that if Walker wins, Wisconsin automatically becomes a gettable state for Mitt Romney."
Combine that with the disappointing job numbers out last week, and things don't look good for Obama.
"When you think about this election — which was and is tied, it's a dead heat — and then you think about all of the external factors that could affect it: the economy, jobless rate, Europe, Wisconsin recall, Supreme Court health care decision, and put them all on a list, you can only think of things that will affect this race badly for the president," Liasson says.
Now, back to our cover story - and we're talking Wisconsin today - the recall vote and why many political leaders - Republican and Democrat - say that with the exception of the presidential race, the vote over whether to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is the most important election this year.
So important, it's drawn millions in outside money and some of the biggest political stars in the country, including former President Bill Clinton who hit the campaign trail Friday for Tom Barrett, the Democratic mayor of Milwaukee who is hoping to unseat Scott Walker.
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: If you don't show up and vote, will say, see, we got them now. We're finally going to break every union in America. We're going to break every government in America. We're going to stop worrying about the middle class. We don't give a rip whether poor people get to work their way into it. We got our way now. We got it all. Divide and conquer works. You tell them no.
RAZ: And so how did this all start to unravel for Scott Walker? He was elected governor in 2010 on a promise to reign in spending. Well, here's Wisconsin Public Radio's Shawn Johnson with more.
SHAWN JOHNSON, BYLINE: People first started talking about the idea of a recall about a year and a half ago after Governor Scott Walker introduced his bill to curb public employee union bargaining rights. I remember in the first week of the massive protest that erupted here, you could hear chants of recall Walker.
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: Recall Walker. Recall Walker.
JOHNSON: And back then, you know, it seemed sort of - and it was sort of fanciful to Democrats, but it slowly became a reality.
RAZ: And over the winter, Wisconsin organizers, backed by unions, gathered more than 900,000 signatures on petitions that would eventually trigger this Tuesday's election.
JOHNSON: And so here, we find ourselves in a very abbreviated campaign in the middle of summer and a campaign that everybody's watching.
RAZ: Shawn, here's what I don't get. Scott Walker did campaign on the promise of closing a three-and-a-half-billion-dollar deficit, saying that he was going to ask public employees to, you know, to basically give up part of their pensions. I mean, he said what he was going to do, so why was there this recall effort almost immediately after he was inaugurated?
JOHNSON: He said he was going to balance the budget. He didn't provide a lot of details. He did say that he was going to look at pensions for public employees. He's been consistent on that, but he never talked about ending collective bargaining rights, and that was a shocker. And when he has described it to people candidly, he's referred to it as dropping the bomb.
RAZ: So many people in Wisconsin felt like they were duped. I mean, Walker basically came in and said, oh, by the way, we're going to end collective bargaining rights. And, sorry, but that's the way it's going to be. And a lot of people said, wait a minute. You didn't say you were going to do that.
JOHNSON: Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, it was introduced on a Friday afternoon, the governor wanted the legislature to move on it pretty quickly the next week. And it didn't work out that way. We had - our Senate Democrats left Wisconsin. That held up the vote in the Senate because they didn't have a quorum needed to pass it for a while. And the, you know, the place just went nuts. We had tens of thousands of people at regular rallies, people living in the capital for a few weeks. That didn't calm down for a while.
RAZ: Shawn, explain how much money has poured into this campaign.
JOHNSON: The dollar figures that were thrown around here are just astronomical in terms of Wisconsin's history. The old record for a governor's race in terms of money raised by a candidate was about $10 million, and that was set in 2010 by Governor Scott Walker. He's now raised $31 million in about a year and a half. You know, he just raised about $5 million in a month.
Raising money is not an issue for him right now, partly because when there's a recall going on under our laws, the incumbent doesn't have to abide by our usual campaign finance contribution limits. Tom Barrett, his Democratic challenger, does have to abide by those limits. People can't give him more than $10,000 a pop. And he's raised about $4 million in the cycle.
Normally, we'd be talking about that being record-setting pace, but he's getting killed in Wisconsin. He's getting killed on the airwaves because the governor has just destroyed all records.
RAZ: So, Shawn, I read that something like $62 million will be spent on this campaign by both sides, including the candidates and outside interest groups, for a recall election for a governor from Wisconsin, which is not California or New York. I mean, we're not talking hugely expensive media markets. Describe what the onslaught is like. I mean, are you just bombarded with ads on radio and TV and on billboards and newspapers all the time?
JOHNSON: If you watch your local TV news, you know, in between the news, it's pretty steady stream of candidate commercials, both from the governor, from Democratic challenger Tom Barrett and from the interest groups. It's just constant.
GOVERNOR SCOTT WALKER: Hi. I'm Scott Walker.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: With Tom Barrett as mayor, Milwaukee unemployment has gone up 28 percent.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: Not voting on June 5th...
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: ...is the same as voting for Scott Walker.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: I've got some bad news for Tom Barrett, but good news for Wisconsin.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #4: They uncovered a secret email network set up by Walker's aides.
WALKER: Help me oppose the recall, and let's use the foundation we've built to keep moving Wisconsin forward.
RAZ: Presumably, the Democrats - or some Democrats - are worried that if Scott Walker survives this recall vote, it will look bad for President Obama and for Democrats.
JOHNSON: It is definitely high-stakes politics. A recall is something - for a governor is something that's never happened here in Wisconsin. It's only the third nationally. So it's not a step that people have taken lightly. You know, Democrats really wanted to get Governor Scott Walker out now and not wait the full four-year terms. They felt strongly enough to take this extraordinary step.
At the same time, if Walker wins, the recall would be the best thing that ever happened to him because he's immediately a national figure because of that. Not only because he's the only governor to ever defeat a recall effort or to survive a recall effort, but because of the issue that he's running on. This is an issue that other governors have flirted with, and, you know, he's kind of taken head on. And if he were to survive, it'd be big.
RAZ: That's Wisconsin Public Radio's Shawn Johnson. He covers state politics from Madison.
Now, the latest polls show Scott Walker with a slight lead over Tom Barrett. And as you might have guessed, voters in Wisconsin are sharply divided.
We sent producers out to two places in the state to talk to some of those voters - to Sussex, a heavily Republican suburb outside Milwaukee, and to Madison, a Democratic stronghold. First to Madison now where anti-Walker activists have been gathered on the steps of the statehouse all week.
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Singing) ...Walker won't be governor, some day, some day soon.
MARIE MARTINI: My name is Marie Martini. Our state is being destroyed. I'm a grandmother. My grandchildren are seventh-generation Wisconsin people, and I'm not giving them the state that I had. And I'm an educator. My students don't have enough food. In America, in Wisconsin, kids are hungry? Kids are living out of a car? It's shameful. And if something doesn't happen, we'll be destroyed. It will go to the very rich and the very poor, and there won't be middle class anymore.
CATHERINE CAPILLERO: Catherine Capillero(ph). Well, I think that Scott Walker has been able to - with the Republican majority - has been able to really undo 50 years of labor peace here in Wisconsin, in the state that pioneered collective bargaining. And it's not just about collective bargaining. I've got kids in the schools that are suffering right now from budget cuts. And I just think that our state is not ready to be given away to powerful corporate interests.
RAZ: Voices of Wisconsin voters in Madison. Now to Sussex, outside the town post office where almost everyone seemed to back the governor.
GRIZ STRAUB: Griz, last name is Straub. But Walker's doing a damn good job. Best thing he's done? Keep the taxes the same and lower them. And there is jobs available. Just - people just got to go get them. The jobs are there, but you still - to keep working, we had to take a pay cut, which my boss was - I said that's fine. As long as I still got a job, I don't care. I'll take a 5 percent discount. No big deal. Instead of all these guys paying - giving them all these fancy bonuses. For what? What do I get? Nothing. Why should I pay for somebody else's retirement fund when I got to pay for my own?
KRIS CHAHALSKI: I'm Kris Chahalski(ph). It's just not quite fair that while other people are doing more and giving more, there's those that have these pensions that pretty much make them very comfortable. And some of us work and work and work and we just don't have that. And let's use teachers, for example. Some of the teachers in the schools are great, deserve what they're getting, and some of them just plain stink. And they have a union backing them no matter what they do. They stay in their jobs, and they shouldn't be there. So those are a couple of the reasons.
RAZ: Voices of Wisconsin voters in Sussex, just outside Milwaukee. Now, if Scott Walker survives the recall, Republican governors around the country have said it will be a turning point, a referendum in a sense on whether they, too, can confront public sector unions and make huge spending cuts.
We asked Bruce Colburn, a leader with the Wisconsin branch of the Service Employees International Union, about what Walker's victory will mean for unions in the state and even nationally.
BRUCE COLBURN: It'll hurt. I mean, one of the first things Scott Walker did when he talked about that he's going to do something about state workers, he included workers from our University of Wisconsin world class hospital, which had nothing to do with the state. He did away with the rights to bargain of home care workers who only make eight or $9 an hour, who have nothing to do, really, with the state, aren't state workers. So certainly, it will be a blow. But we're determined that whatever we have to rebuild, we will rebuild.
RAZ: Coming up on the program, we'll speak with a rising star in the Republican Party on why Scott Walker represents something much bigger than this election alone, and later, Mara Liasson will explain what it could mean for the Obama administration. Stay with us. You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.
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So we just heard from voters in Wisconsin, but, in fact, the race has become a national story, a story that could mark a turning point for public sector unions and for deficit hawks. And Scott Walker's survival has become a rallying cry for Republican leaders across the country. South Carolina's Governor Nikki Haley has hit the stump...
GOVERNOR NIKKI HALEY: All eyes across our country are on Wisconsin.
RAZ: ...Louisiana's Governor Bobby Jindal's come through the state...
GOVERNOR BOBBY JINDAL: He has been a great leader for Wisconsin. He's been a great leader for America.
RAZ: ...so has Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey and one of the most popular Republicans in the country.
GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE: When tens of thousands of people crowded your statehouse, disrupted your government and tried to scare Scott Walker, Scott Walker stood with you.
RAZ: Virginia's Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has asked his backers to donate to Scott Walker's campaign. Cuccinelli is a rising star in the Republican Party. He's running for governor next year. And right now, he holds a significant lead in the polls. And on Tuesday, Ken Cuccinelli will be watching Wisconsin closer - quite possibly closer - than he ever has before.
ATTORNEY GENERAL KEN CUCCINELLI: Scott Walker's recall election is the second most important election in America this year, and the only one more important is the presidential election in November. Because we face some very severe, especially financial, challenges in government at every level right now that if Scott Walker can't implement the kind of changes he has and survive the electoral storm that has come, the self-preservation instincts of politicians are going to overwhelm the need to solve our problems. And that would be a sad thing for America.
RAZ: I mean, essentially, what you're saying is that if he doesn't survive, other governors won't feel emboldened to take on public employee unions. If he does win, governors around the country who want to take on unions will?
CUCCINELLI: You're focusing in just on unions, but you also have pension problems in states. At the federal level, we have entitlement reform. It's related to all of these types of problems because the theme is the same. We have to make painful changes. We're going to have less of this service and that service in order to fund our pensions, in order to make sure that they're actuarially sound, in order to make sure that our country doesn't go bankrupt. It is very important for Scott Walker to win this election, not just for Wisconsin, but for America.
RAZ: Attorney General Cuccinelli, you, of course, are going to be running for governor of Virginia next year. If Scott Walker survives this recall, how might that influence your role if you win as governor? How might that influence the way you carry out your job?
CUCCINELLI: Well, I think I'm probably already in the category of people who campaign very clearly on what they want to do and then attempt to pursue it. So in terms of the bluntness factor, I'm already there. But it will - nobody does anything alone, including Governor Walker. I mean, he needed allies in his legislature, and I'll need allies in my legislature if I'm able to get elected governor in Virginia. And you need a team. And often, ideally, usually, that would be a bipartisan team.
This message that I've talked about isn't just for Republicans. It's about the financial survival, stable financial survival of our state governments and of our federal government. That's all wrapped up in Governor Walker's recall election. And again, that's why it's so important that he win.
RAZ: That's Virginia's Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. He's running for governor of the state next year.
Now, President Obama has been notably absent from the Wisconsin fight. He's endorsed Walker's opponent, Tom Barrett, but otherwise, he's been quiet. But the White House is watching Wisconsin closely because in many ways, it's a trial run for the presidential race - big money coming in from outside groups and a referendum on spending. Here's the analogy NPR's national political correspondent Mara Liasson makes.
MARA LIASSON, BYLINE: I think it's like the Spanish civil war was to World War II where both sides got to try out their weapons. This is going to be seen as a test case for the power and clout of the superPACs. Walker's raised tremendous amounts of outside money, which he's allowed to do under the law, about $30 million. So if he wins, I think the message will be the superPACs have a tremendous advantage. If he loses, I think it will mean even more. I think it will be a huge boost to the Democrats, to the labor movement, and it'll mean that the superPACs can't buy everything.
RAZ: Mm-hmm. If Scott Walker survives this recall, what does it mean for President Obama in Wisconsin in the fall? Does it mean anything?
LIASSON: If you talk to people at the White House, they say it means nothing at all. People who turn out in the primary are not the same as the people who will turn out in November. Obviously, you have a much bigger electorate in a presidential race. President Obama won Wisconsin by a pretty healthy margin in 2008.
Granted, Democrats in the past had won it by smaller margins, and, of course, Republicans roared back in 2010 to sweep Wisconsin. But the polls show that President Obama still has a lead there. It still is on most people's list of battleground states. The Republicans believe that if Walker wins Wisconsin automatically becomes a gettable state for Mitt Romney. And I think that one practical effect of the recall, regardless of whether Walker wins or loses, is that it's helped the Republicans on the ground in Wisconsin. They didn't have much in the way of voter lists and a get-out-the-vote turnout operation before this. They do now.
RAZ: You combine that strategy with very bad jobless figures this past week and things are not looking good for President Obama.
LIASSON: They're really not. And when you think about this election, which was and is tied - it's a dead heat - and then you think about all of the external factors that could affect it - the economy, jobless rate, Europe, Wisconsin recall, Supreme Court health care decision - you put them all on the list, you can only think of things that will affect this race badly for the president. You can't see any potential extraneous events that will make it better for him. So, yes, I would say the president is definitely the underdog in this race. The jobs numbers didn't help him. And I don't think that a victory for Scott Walker on Tuesday will help him either.
RAZ: That's NPR's national political correspondent Mara Liasson on the Wisconsin recall vote and its national implications. Mara, thank you so much.
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GREENCASTLE — This is the type of signature victory that can change the complexion of a season.
Looking to make a playoff push, the Greencastle-Antrim girls basketball team put together one of its most complete games thus far Tuesday night, defeating a solid Boiling Springs squad 47-41 in Mid-Penn Colonial Division action.
Paced by the inside presence of Katie Gelsinger, the Blue Devils (7-9, 5-4 MPC-Colonial) led by as many as 14 in the second quarter before having to stave off a resilient charge by the Bubblers (12-5, 7-2 MPC-Colonial) in the fourth, ultimately resulting in the six-point victory.
"This is what this team is capable of," G-A head coach Mike Rhine said. "I'm so proud of these girls and they're really starting to get it. That's a very good team we just beat and it's a game that we had to have."
Gelsinger was a force throughout, accounting for the Blue Devils' first 12 points of the night on her way to finishing with a game-high 19.
With the Bubblers struggling against G-A's swarming defensive scheme, a 13-2 Blue Devil run abruptly pushed the advantage to 10 midway through the second quarter before a jumper from Meghan Hirneisen and a 3-pointer by Chloe Hoover granted G-A its largest lead at 26-12.
Neither side was particularly productive in the third, with the Blue Devils maintaining a nine-point margin entering the decisive stanza.
From here, the momentum quickly began to shift, with an immediate 12-0 run by the Bubblers putting the visitors ahead for the first time since the opening quarter.
Unfazed, a pair of Hannah Crist jumpers regained the lead for G-A with 2:10 remaining before Ashlynn Schaeffer knocked down two free throws at 1:36, extending the advantage to 44-41.
Following a missed 3 by the Bubblers on their ensuing possession, Crist was fouled with 21.2 seconds left, with the freshman casually draining both attempts to essentially seal the win.
"All our girls really stepped up tonight," Rhine explained. "We won the game without having to get 20-plus points from Chloe (Hoover). Katie was big for us all night, Hannah hit her shots at the end and we sealed it from the free throw line. It's just a great feeling to play a complete game."
Hoover and Crist both finished with nine points in the win followed by eight from Hirneisen.
Mikayla Snyder matched Gelsinger's game-high point total of 19 to pace the Bubblers.
Prior to Tuesday's victory, G-A was ranked 21st in the District 3-AAA Power Ratings, with the top 18 teams qualifying for the postseason. Considering Boiling Springs was ranked 11th, Tuesday's win should certainly help the Blue Devils' cause.
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The surname Dinsdale appears six times in my family tree. The earliest person is John Dinsdale, my 3x great grandfather. The other five are all his children – four daughters and one son:-
Elsy – born about 1816
John – born about 1819
Mary – born about 1819
Hannah – born about 1821 (my 2x great grandmother)
Alice – born about 1824
According to surnamedb Dinsdale is of locational origin from places called "Low Dinsdale" in Durham, recorded as "Ditneshall" in the Early Yorkshire Charters (c1185) and "Over Dinsdale" in Yorkshire, appearing as "Digneshale" in the Domesday Book of 1086.
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HUTCHINSON, Kan. – A historic 2013-14 season came to an end for the LSU Men's Golf team as the No. 3-seeded Tigers went down by a 4-1 scoreline to the No. 2-seeded and defending national champion Alabama Crimson Tide in the NCAA Semifinals of the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships held Tuesday afternoon at Prairie Dunes Country Club.
The Tigers defeated No. 6 seed UCLA by that same 4-1 margin in their quarterfinal match Tuesday morning, setting up an SEC showdown with Alabama for a berth in the national championship match.
Sophomore Zach Wright was the lone Tiger to win his semifinal match as he scored a 1-up victory over Alabama's senior All-American Cory Whitsett to put the Tigers on the scoreboard in the contest, after the Crimson Tide had already clinched their spot in Wednesday's title decider. Alabama will face No. 4 seed Oklahoma State in the national championship match to wrap up the collegiate season.
The Tigers went out to arguably the hottest team in college golf this spring as the Crimson Tide brought their No. 1 national ranking to the NCAA Championships in defense of the title they won a year ago over Illinois. It marks the third-straight season in which Alabama has advanced to the national championship match after also finishing as the NCAA runner-up to Texas in 2012.
With their run to the Final Four this week, the Tigers have earned their best team finish at the NCAA Championships since earning a third-place national finish in 1967, while they also finished among the nation's Top 10 teams for the first time in 25 years when they tied for eighth place in the event in David Toms' senior season in 1989.
Their performance also capped an outstanding run that featured a victory at Texas A&M's Aggie Invitational in their regular-season finale before finishing as the SEC runners-up at the SEC Championships in 2014.
"Our guys competed well today. We didn't quite have our best this afternoon, but give credit to Alabama. They hit the shots they need to hit to swing some pivotal matches," said LSU head coach Chuck Winstead. "Robby Shelton's chip in on 16 and a great second shot into 17 was a good example of that. I'm proud of my team. We're proud of our guys with what they have accomplished this week and this entire spring season."
A sophomore from Phoenix, Arizona, Wright led throughout his semifinal match with Whitsett as he grabbed the lead for the first time by making par at the par-three fourth hole, and never looked back en route to his 1-up win over the Crimson Tide All-American. Wright held a 2-up advantage three times with wins at No. 9, No. 10 and No. 13 before closing out the match at 1-up for the event.
Wright was undefeated in his two matches on the day as he had already helped the Tigers clinch spot in the semifinals with a 2&1 victory over UCLA's Matt Pinizzotto in the quarterfinals held Tuesday morning.
Each of the other four matches were tight affairs while remaining all square for much of the front nine before the Crimson Tide pulled away on the back nine. LSU junior Ben Taylor erased a 2-down deficit to square his match with Alabama senior Bobby Wyatt through 11 holes, but the Crimson Tide standout sealed a 3&2 victory in the match to give his team its first point of the day.
Leading LSU's early challenge was junior Stewart Jolly as he twice held a 1-up advantage on the front nine over Robby Shelton after making par for the par-four fifth hole and birdie at the par-five seventh hole. Shelton then quickly gained a 2-up lead by winning three-straight holes from Nos. 8-10, while Jolly then pulled the match back to all square after making two pars at the par-four 11th and 13th holes.
That's where the match remained through 15 holes before Shelton closed out Jolly 2&1 with back-to-back birdies at the par-four 16th and par-five 17th holes to extend Alabama's lead to 2-0 on the day.
It was a 3&2 victory by Trey Mullinax over Tiger junior Curtis Thompson that ultimately clinched the match for the Crimson Tide as his win gave the defending champions a 3-0 lead LSU could not overtake. Tom Lovelady polished off Alabama's victory with a 1-up win over Smylie Kaufman in a match was halted after 15 holes when Mullinax closed out the deciding match.
NCAA Men's Golf Match Play
May 27, 2014
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Quarterfinal Results
1. Curtis Thompson (LSU) def. Preson Valder (UCLA), 1UP
2. Ben Taylor (LSU) def. Anton Arboleda (UCLA), 4 and 3
3. Smylie Kaufman * (LSU) def. Jonathan Garrick (UCLA), 2UP
4. Lorens Chan (UCLA) def. Stewart Jolly (LSU), 4 and 3
5. Zach Wright (LSU) def. Matt Pinizzotto (UCLA), 2 and 1
* Clinched match
Semifinal Matchups
(2) Alabama 4, (3) LSU 1
Game 1: Bobby Wyatt (UA) def. Ben Taylor, 3 and 2
Game 2: Robby Shelton (UA) def. Stewart Jolly (LSU), 2 and 1
Game 3: Tom Lovelady (UA) def. Smylie Kaufman (LSU), 1 UP
Game 4: Trey Mullinax (UA) def. Curtis Thompson (LSU), 4 and 2
Game 5: Zach Wright (LSU) def. Cory Whitsett (UA), 1 UP
NCAA Team Results/Schedule
Match 1: (2) Alabama def. (7) SMU, 3-2
Match 2: (3) LSU def. (6) UCLA, 4-1
Match 3: (1) Stanford def. (8) Illinois, 3-2
Match 4: (4) Oklahoma St. def. (5) Georgia Tech, 4.5-0.5
Match 5: (2) Alabama def. (3) LSU, 4-1
Match 6: (4) Oklahoma St. def. (1) Stanford, 4-1
Final (May 28)
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The Nebraska women's gymnastics team capped a stellar 2014 season at the NCAA Championships in Birmingham, Ala., finishing in sixth place in team competition and taking away an overall record of 27-11 on the year. Four Huskers earned seven All-America honors at the event and all competed at the individual event finals. NU recorded its 11th Super Six and 22nd overall appearance at the NCAA Championships. On the conference level, Nebraska took home its fourth consecutive conference crown.
Senior Emily Wong cemented her position as one of the nation's top all-around athletes in the country and capped one of the most impressive senior seasons by a Nebraska gymnast. Through the regular season, Wong captured 32 event titles, remained undefeated in the all-around and remained ranked in the top 15 nationally on every event.
Wong took home three All-America honors at the NCAA Championships to give her 11 total honors which tie with both Emily Parsons and Heather Brink for the most in school history. In semifinal competition, Wong put-up a 39.525 all-around score to finish sixth overall. On floor, she notched a 9.90 to earn her eighth-place in event finals. At the Big Ten Championship meet, she collected two career-high scores on beam (9.95) and floor posting a perfect 10.00 to claim both event titles. She was awarded Big Ten Gymnast of the Year after the meet.
Wong continued to stockpile honors both in the gym and the classroom in 2014, as she was selected Nebraska's Female Student-Athlete of the Year and Honda Award finalist. She became the second Nebraska gymnast presented with the AAI American Award, an honor given annually to the nation's top gymnast on the basis of athleticism, academic excellence and civic responsibility. Wong also captured her second consecutive CoSIDA Academic All-America honor being named to the first-team.
Fellow senior Jamie Schleppenbach returned to the Husker lineup in 2014 bringing considerable experience and strong performances. She earned first-team All-America honors at the NCAA Championships after posting her career-high 9.90 on beam in the Semifinals. She logged 15 performances on beam and was one of the team's most consistent workers never dropping below a 9.75 during the regular season. She topped her career at the NCAA event finals where she hit a 9.8875 routine that tied for third-place overall. The two-event specialist also contributed vital performances on floor, claiming her career-high mark of 9.85 at Penn State. Schleppenbach earned her second Academic All-Big Ten honor during the season.
Jessie DeZiel had an outstanding junior campaign for the Huskers, continuing the dominancy and consistency she displayed years before. The seven-time All-American defended her status as one of the nation's best all-around competitors by capturing 10 event titles including two in the all-around and five on vault.
She capped her season at the NCAA Championships putting together a stellar performance to place eighth overall in the all-around competition (39.500). DeZiel was an integral part of the Huskers beam lineup where she posted a 9.90 to earn first-team All-America status. A powerful vaulter, DeZiel took home her second consecutive Regional vault title with a score of 9.95, while also placing third in the all-around. She captured NACGC/W second-team All-America honors on vault for her efforts during the regular season.
Junior Desire' Stephens was a major contributor to Nebraska's success in 2014, competing on vault, bars and floor exercise in nearly every meet. The Omaha, Neb., native, who competed some of the Huskers' strongest tumbling, tied her season-best on floor exercise (9.825) four times over the course of the year, including postseason competition at the NCAA Semifinal and Super Six Finals in Birmingham.
In addition, Stephens was among NU's most consistent vaulters, as she posted a 9.80 or better on the event in 12 meets. She enjoyed one of her finest showings at the NCAA Seattle Regional where she posted a career-high 9.90 to tie for fifth-place overall with teammate Emily Wong. She also took home second-place against Minnesota on Feb. 1 with a 9.875 on the event. She claimed her career-high score of 9.875 on bars against Northern Illinois for the season opener. In the classroom, she added Academic All-Big Ten honors.
Junior Amanda Lauer filled a number of roles for Nebraska in her junior season, contributing as a two-event specialist and a dependable leadoff on the most crucial event. Lauer established herself early in 2014 as a beam specialist and never gave up her spot in the lineup all year. She tallied 14 routines on beam and never recorded a fall in the leadoff position.
At the 2014 NCAA Championships Lauer was the spark to the historical beam lineup by putting together a seamless performance claiming her career-high 9.85 score. Her efforts propelled the Huskers to the Super Six Finals the following night.
Lauer came on strong towards the end of the season moving into the bar lineup adding crucial routines. She picked up her career-high 9.85 score at the Big Ten Championships. Lauer is a standout in the classroom collecting Academic All-Big Ten and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar honors.
Teammate and sister, Jennifer Lauer kicked off her junior campaign in stellar form before falling to a season ending injury. Prior to her injury Lauer knocked down five beam titles in five showings on the event, highlighted by her performance at Penn State where she earned Big Ten event specialist of the Week honors after taking her fifth beam crown with a score of 9.925. She took home her second Academic All-Big Ten honor for her work in the classroom.
Hollie Blanske became an All-American in 2014, earning first-team accolades on beam at the NCAA Championships. Blanske proved to be one of the Huskers' most valuable gymnasts and continually provided clutch performances in every event.
Blanske did not miss a meet all season in the all-around delivering her best performance at the Big Ten Championships soaring to a 39.600. Her performance included two career-high scores on floor (9.95) and beam (9.90) en-route to finishing as the Big Ten all-around runner up. She was named to the Big Ten Championship team for both beam, floor and the all-around. At the NCAA Championships, Blanske proved her strength as a powerful beam worker as she recorded a career-high matching 9.90 on beam at the team Semifinals and at the Super Six Finals. She took 10th place overall on beam with a 9.85 mark at the Event Finals.
Ariel Martin stepped up as a three-event competitor for Nebraska in her first season, consistently contributing on vault, bars and floor. Martin was a key performer on vault as she did not miss one meet on the event and achieved her career-high mark of 9.95 against Arkansas. Martin earned her best mark on bars against Minnesota notching a 9.825. As a floor worker, she showed steady improvement all season long and claimed her high mark at the NCAA Semifinals (9.85) to propel the Huskers to the Super Six Finals the next day.
Freshman Jennie Laeng provided a surprising spark in the Husker lineup during the 2014 season. In her collegiate gymnastics debut against Michigan, Laeng took second place on bars hitting a career-high 9.875 and remained in the rotation for the rest of the season. Laeng showed her prowess on bars early in the year, as she became one of the Huskers' most consistent performers on the event by scoring a 9.80 or better seven times throughout the season. In addition, Laeng competed in the all-around competition three times earning her best performance at the Big Ten quad meet of 39.325. Laeng capped her freshman season at the Super Six Finals where she notched her career-high 9.90 on beam.
Madison McConkey provided necessary depth to the Huskers roster this season. The sophomore became a bars specialist and made her debut on the event against Michigan. McConkey picked up her career-high mark of 9.70 against Arkansas.
Jordyn Beck and Ashley Lambert were slowed by injuries in 2014, as the duo only competed in the first five meets of the season.
Head coach Dan Kendig wrapped up his 21st season at Nebraska with a record of 486-186-5 and a career mark of 599-298-5. Kendig's 486 wins are a program record and place him fourth all-time across all sports in Nebraska history. He has guided Nebraska to four consecutive conference titles, giving him 14 overall. Kendig has also coached 39 Huskers gymnasts to 134 awards since 1995.
National and Conference Prominence
• Nebraska closed out 2014 with a 27-11 record, making its 30th consecutive postseason appearance at the NCAA Championships where the team finished sixth overall.
• Four Huskers earned seven All-America honors at the 2014 NCAA Championships. Emily Wong earned two first-team (FX, BB) and one second-team honor (AA), while Jessie DeZiel earned one first-team (BB) and one second-team (AA) selection. Both Hollie Blanske and Jamie Schleppenbach received first-team honors on beam.
• Wong and DeZiel notched two top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championships. Wong finished sixth in the all-around (39.525) and eighth on floor (9.90), while DeZiel took eighth in both the all-around (39.500) and on beam (9.8625). Schleppenbach finished third on beam 9.8875, while Blanske added a 10th place finish (9.85).
• Two Huskers were selected as NACGC/W All-Americans in regular season competition. First-team honoree was Emily Wong on floor and the all-around, while adding second-team honors on bars and beam. DeZiel also collected second-team laurels on vault.
Success in the Big Ten
• Nebraska earned its fourth consecutive conference title as they were named Big Ten Regular season Champions after the Big Ten Quad meet.
• The Huskers took second place at the Championship meet with a score of 196.950. Emily Wong took home two event titles on beam (9.95) and floor with a perfect 10.00 score.
• Emily Wong was named Big Ten Gymnast of the Year.
• Hollie Blanske was the Big Ten All-Around Runner Up with a score of 39.600
• Three Huskers were named to the Big Ten All-Championships team: Jessie DeZiel (V, UB), Hollie Blanske (AA, BB, FX) and Emily Wong (BB, FX).
• Emily Wong (Jan. 13, Feb. 10, March 3, March 10, March 17) and Jessie DeZiel (Feb. 24) were selected as the Big Ten Gymnast of the week in 2014. Jennifer Lauer (Feb. 10) was also chosen as the Big Ten Event Specialist of the Week.
Superior Staff
• Head Coach Dan Kendig finishes his 21st season at Nebraska with a 599-298-5 career mark and a 486-186-5 NU mark, continuing his impressive career as the winningest coach in NU women's gymnastics history.
Academic Excellence
• A Big Ten-best nine Huskers snagged academic All-Big Ten honors, giving the women's gymnastics program 159 total academic all-conference selections. Jordyn Beck, Hollie Blanske, Jessie DeZiel, Amanda Lauer, Jennifer Lauer, Madison McConkey, Jamie Schleppenbach, Desire' Stephens and Emily Wong were all honored by the conference.


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The Trouble with Senegal
As Abdoulaye Wade, 85, ignores cries - both at home and abroad - that his bid for a third term as president is unconstitutional, François Picard's panel argues over the democratic credentials of a nation often hailed as a beacon of democratic light on the continent.
- Doudou SIDIBE. Head of Abdoulaye Wade's campaign in France, Senegalese Democratic Party;
- Amadou GAYE. Political strategist, Senegalese Socialist Party;
- Mamadou DIOUF. Director, Institute for African Studies. Professor of African Studies and History, Columbia University (from New York);
- Douglas YATES. Professor of Political Science, American University of Paris.
Produced by François Picard, Anelise Borges, Mary Colombel, Yi Song, Pauline Heilmann.


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DURHAM, N.C. – Sophomore Jason Tahir captured a doubles victory and sealed the team win in singles, as the eighth-ranked Duke men's tennis team opened its Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) schedule with a 7-0 sweep over No. 24 Wake Forest Friday afternoon at the Ambler Tennis Stadium. The Blue Devils improve to 13-3 on the season and 1-0 in conference play, while Wake Forest falls to 12-4 on the year and 0-1 in conference action.
"I am really happy with how we rebounded again from a very tough loss in California," said head coach Ramsey Smith. "We worked on being more aggressive as a team and playing on our terms. I thought we did a great job of that today."
Duke opened the match by capturing the doubles point for the 14th time this season. The duo of Michael Redlicki and Tahir captured the first win of the afternoon for the Blue Devils with an 8-3 win on court two over the Demon Deacon pair of Danny Kreyman and Adam Lee. The win marks the 18th victory this season for the pair, including a 10-2 mark in the spring. The tandem of Henrique Cunha and Raphael Hemmeler, who reclaimed the top spot in the ITA doubles rankings earlier this week, sealed the opening point for the Blue Devils after downing the Wake Forest pair of Amogh Probhakar and David Hopkins, 8-4. The dynamic duo of Cunha and Hemmeler now own a team-leading 23 wins on the season.
After Duke won the opening point, the two squads played out the remaining match on court three as Fred Saba and Chris Mengel matched up against Wake Forest's Jon Ho and Sam Bloom. The Blue Devil tandem was able to stave off three match points in a tiebreak, before breaking through to defeat Ho and Bloom, 8-7 (6).
"Doubles was great today," Smith said. "I thought we came out with really good energy and played an aggressive style. I thought we really took it to Wake, particularly at one and two. At three, we did a really good job of hanging in there after we were down triple match point and played some big tennis when we needed to."
In singles, Hemmeler captured the first singles victory of the day at the fifth position, as he overwhelmed Wake Forest's Morgan Mays, 6-3, 6-1. A product of Zurich, Switzerland, Hemmeler now owns a team-high 24 victories for the season and remains a perfect 10-0 from the No. 5 position. Redlicki gave the Blue Devils a commanding 3-0 lead after the rookie defeated Kreyman at the No. 3 position, 6-4, 6-1. A native of Hawthorn Woods, Ill., Redlicki trailed in the first set 1-4 before coming back to win 11 of the final 12 games and capturing his 21st victory of the season.
"I stuck with it and fought for every point," said Redlicki of his play after getting down early. "I did not want to lose my first ACC match, outdoors. I just told myself, 'I am not losing this match regardless.' I was proud of myself for getting back into it."
Tahir clinched the match for the Blue Devils from the No. 6 position, as he defeated Ho, 6-2, 6-4. A product of Rochester, N.Y., Tahir quickly jumped out to a 4-2 advantage on his way to taking the first set, 6-2. In the second, the sophomore was able to come back from a 1-4 deficit to win five consecutive games and earn the victory over Ho. Tahir remains perfect in the dual season at 10-0, while he and Hemmeler are a combined 21-1 in the spring when playing from the fifth and sixth positions in the lineup.
"It is cool that Rafa [Hemmeler] and I have been able to play well in singles," said Tahir. "It is good that we are able to contribute and be strong spots for the team."
On court one, Cunha remained undefeated on the season, as he downed Hopkins, 7-6 (5), 6-1, while Saba won his match in a third set tiebreak from the No. 2 position over 56th-ranked Prabhakar, 6-3, 6-7 (2), 1-0 (10-8). Mengel completed the sweep of the Demon Deacons, as he defeated Lee at the No. 4 position in straight sets, 6-3, 7-5.
Up next, the Blue Devils will travel to Chapel Hill, N.C. to take on rival North Carolina Sunday, March 17 at 1 p.m. The Blue Devils will then travel to face No. 1 Virginia in Charlottesville, Va., Friday March 22 at 3 p.m.
Tennis Match Results
Wake Forest vs Duke
Mar 15, 2013 at Durham, NC
(Ambler Tennis Stadium)
#8 Duke 7, #24 Wake Forest 0
Singles competition
1. #10 Henrique Cunha (DU) def. David Hopkins (WF) 7-6 (7-5), 6-1
2. #27 Fred Saba (DU) def. #56 Amogh Prabhakar (WF) 6-3, 6-7 (2-7), 1-0 (10-6)
3. #26 Michael Redlicki (DU) def. Danny Kreyman (WF) 6-4, 6-1
4. #89 Chris Mengel (DU) def. Adam Lee (WF) 6-3, 7-5
5. #55 Raphael Hemmeler (DU) def. Morgan Mays (WF) 6-3, 6-1
6. Jason Tahir (DU) def. Jon Ho (WF) 6-2, 6-4
Doubles competition
1. #1 Henrique Cunha/Raphael Hemmeler (DU) def. #70 David Hopkins/Amogh Prabhakar (WF) 8-4
2. #9 Michael Redlicki/Jason Tahir (DU) def. Danny Kreyman/Adam Lee (WF) 8-3
3. #25 Fred Saba/Chris Mengel (DU) def. Sam Bloom/Jon Ho (WF) 8-7 (8-6)
Match Notes:
Wake Forest 12-4; National ranking #24
Duke 13-3; National ranking #8
Order of finish: Doubles (2,1,3); Singles (5,3,6,1,2,4)


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BOXBORO -- A patrolman suffered non-life threatening injuries Friday night during a traffic stop on Interstate 495 when his cruiser was rear-ended by another driver whom police say was drunk.
Patrolman Edward Pokornicki was on-duty with his cruiser's flashing blue lights activated and in the process of pulling over another driver at the time of the accident, according to a Police Department statement.
All three vehicles were traveling in the northbound lanes about 11:45 p.m. when a 2010 Toyota driven by Concord resident Mary Hayes, 52, of 73 Adin Drive, struck Pokornicki's cruiser from behind, police said.
The release states that Pokornicki then proceeded to make a hard turn to avoid hitting the vehicle he had been trying to pull over. The impact "propelled" the cruiser off the roadway, "crossing the breakdown lane and into the wood line on the grassy median."
Hayes was uninjured and was arrested by the State Police following an investigation. She was charged with operating under the influence of liquor and negligent driving.
Pokornicki was driven by ambulance to Emerson Hospital in Concord, where he was treated and released.
The accident is still being investigated by the Massachusetts State Police Collision and Reconstruction Section.
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Funeral services will be held at Faith Baptist Church-Beavercreek on Monday, April 1 at 11 a.m. with Pastor Gary Favor officiating.
Clyde L. Chapmon, age 74, of Beavercreek, Ohio, was born Oct. 27, 1938, and passed away Thursday, March 28, 2013, surrounded by his family.
Clyde was preceded in death by his parents, Pauline and Ollie Chapmon; brothers, Cleo, Leo Claud; and one daughter Loretta Ann.
He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Margaret; six children, Ted (Jan) of Wichita Kan., Wanda (Elliot) Merja of Sun River, Mont., Dorothy (Mike) Viancourt of Brook Park, Ohio, Alfred (Karin) Chapmon of Lampasas, Texas, Corinne (Ronnie) Jones of Kettering, Ohio, and Irene Sherman of Beavercreek, Ohio; 20 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; three brothers, Ray (Julia) of Pine Bluff, Russell (Pat) of Stuttgart and Billy (Phyllis) of Pine Bluff; sisters-in-law, Judy of Pearland, Texas and Nyra Jean of Sumter, S.C.; and many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
He was very devoted to his family. He spent 12 years in the Air Force as an aircraft mechanic and 30 years in the active Army and Army Reservce as a helicopter and fixed wing pilot, maintenance officer and served in the law office, retiring as a CW3.
He worked for civil service and as a contractor at Wright Patterson AFB, serving his country for 47 years. He was a member of Faith Baptist Church.
If desired, donations may be made to Faith Baptist Church in Beavercreek. Friends may call at the Tobias Funeral Home — Beavercreek Chapel, 3970 Dayton-Xenia Rd. at Grange Hall Road on Sunday, March 31 from 3-6 p.m.
Funeral services will be held at Faith Baptist Church-Beavercreek on Monday, April 1 at 11 a.m. with Pastor Gary Favor officiating. Interment will be in Valley View Memorial Gardens following the funeral on Monday. Contributions may be made to Faith Baptist Church, General Fund, 4215 Indian Ripple Road, Beavercreek, Ohio 45440 in Clyde's memory. Condolences for the family can be made at www.tobiasfuneralhome.com.


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Boulder High grad Miles Havlick will also compete at the NCAA skiing championships for the University of Utah. More info and results: NCAA.com
W hile many in Boulder will watch to see how the University of Colorado-Boulder ski team fares this week at the NCAA Championships, a small cheering section from Boulder will be rooting for the championship's host school, Middlebury College.
Kelsey Phinney, a Boulder High graduate and Middlebury freshman, will compete for national titles in the 5K classic on Thursday and 15K freestyle race on Saturday. Younger sister of local cycling phenom Taylor Phinney, Kelsey was the only Middlebury freshman to qualify for the championships.
Her mom, Olympic cyclist and speed skater Connie Carpenter-Phinney, has made the trip to Vermont to cheer for the Panthers. Older brother Taylor and dad Davis Phinney can't make it, Kelsey said, because of their hectic schedules.
Kelsey, a Nordic specialist, got her first taste of the sport in seventh grade. She went to watch a friend's cross-country ski race and saw how the skiers pushed themselves -- hard.
"I saw everyone basically hurting themselves to the point of falling across the finish line, so I thought it would be fun to try," she said, laughing. "I joined Boulder Nordic Junior Racing team in middle school and sort of fell in love with it, and really found racing was a lot of fun, I guess in a masochistic way."
Last March, Kelsey finished eighth at Nordic junior nationals. Then came high school graduation and the tough decision of where to spend the next four years.
Kelsey, now 18, knew she wanted to move east for the strong Nordic skiing culture, she said, but the Middlebury campus visit was what sold her on the 2,500-student private liberal arts school. Her introduction to the ski team on the visit was the deciding factor, she said.
Middlebury Nordic ski coach Andrew Gardner described her as a "brilliant" athlete, but added that he's tried not to put any pressure on Kelsey to do well in the championship races.
"It's uncommon for a first-year skier to go to NCAAs and do exceptionally," Gardner said. "Just making it is doing exceptionally well. (My goals) are not anything other than for her to experience the NCAAs for the first time."
Gardner said he's been impressed with how Kelsey has balanced skiing with schoolwork, calling her "academically driven." She hasn't declared a major yet, but Kelsey said she's planning to study neuroscience and one day hopes to become a doctor. Her dad was diagnosed in 2000 with Parkinson's disease, a neurodegenerative brain disorder, so Kelsey was exposed to neuroscience growing up.
With such an impressively athletic family, Gardner said he's watched as Kelsey has slowly made a name for herself in skiing through hours of practice and steady improvement.
"Coming from a family like Kelsey comes from comes with its challenges," he said. "What she's done is pretty remarkable because it would have been easy for her to be in the shadow of her family, and she's not. She's been capable of maintaining her own scene."
To Kelsey, she's just skiing and not at all worried about setting herself apart from her parents and brother.
Having successful family members gave her good exposure to the media, fame and an athletic lifestyle, she said. As far as living in her brother's shadow, Kelsey laughs off the suggestion.
"I mean, he's a tall person so I guess..." she said, jokingly.
She went on to add that she considers Taylor her best friend, someone she looks up to and one of her biggest supporters. When she found out she'd qualified for NCAAs, she got some "Twitter love" from all of Taylor's fans, too.
"I'm just really excited," she said. "I had NCAAs in the back of my mind coming into the season as a goal, but I knew it was going to be tough. I'm just excited to be going."
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- Dec 19:
- Football: CU Buffs compliance office says Jon Embree conscientious about rules
- Dec 7:
- Football: CU Buffs recruits closely watching coaching search
- Dec 2:
- Football: Butch Jones to visit CU Buffs Monday
- Nov 30:
- Louisville, Florida ADs suggest CU Buffs' Mike Bohn follow his gut
- Football: CU Buffs staff connecting with recruits
- Nov 29:
- Football: Mike Bohn debunks CU Buffs search rumors
- Thorburn: Perception of racism could be big trouble for Buffs and not just in football
- Jon Embree 'I'm a Buff'
- Nov 26:
- Football: CU Buffs looking to make splash with next hire
- Mike Bohn's next CU Buffs football hire pivotal
- CU regents to meet tonight to get update on Jon Embree firing
- Jon Embree on being fired as CU Buffs' coach: 'I did things the right way'
- Black Coaches Association chief 'disappointed' in CU Buffs' firing of Jon Embree
- Nov 25:
- Thorburn: Time for CU Buffs brass to decide if they're committed
- Football: CU Buffs players disappointed to see Jon Embree fired
- Football: CU Buffs fire Jon Embree
Mike Bohn is not going to fire Mike Bohn.
Right Mike Bohn?
"It's not an exact science," Colorado's athletic director said during an inelegant press conference Monday on the subject of why Mike Bohn should be able to hire a third football coach after firing Mike Bohn's first two picks. "And Mike Bohn has a team of people, of faculty and leadership and internal resources and other coaches, that constantly work to try and find that right dynamic and pull that together."
Mike Bohn used the words "head winds" five different times while explaining the challenges that face CU football. That was fitting, considering most of the rhetoric coming from CU's three wise men -- Mike Bohn, chancellor Phil DiStefano and president Bruce Benson -- was just hot air.
Firing Jon Embree on Sunday with a 4-21 overall record was the easy thing to do. Where's the personal accountability from the athletic department's chief decision maker?
"Ultimately, in the end, I'm accountable for it," Mike Bohn said. "But I don't make every single decision on my own."
That's true.
Mike Bohn wanted to fire Dan Hawkins after four regrettable seasons, but Benson and DiStefano didn't like the idea of paying a football coach a seven-figure buyout and then begging for funding for the university from the state legislature.
Bringing Hawkins back as a lame duck in 2010 sent a struggling program with a disengaging fan base into a downward spiral Nick Saban wouldn't have been able to pull the Buffs out of.
Not in two years anyway.
It was difficult to watch an emotional Embree say goodbye to his dream job and his players in front of family, friends and the untouchable Mike Bohn.
The former CU tight end and Buffs-4-Life founder was sad, angry, graceful, defiant and honest.
Could anyone have turned this program around in 23 months given the state it was in? Depends what direction your moral compass is set on.
"I guess then you've got to decide what you want to be," Embree said when I asked him if the obscene amount of money involved in college football is ruining the 'amateur' sport he loves. "You can try to do things the right way or you can throw caution to the wind and do whatever it is you have to do to win."
Lowering admission standards, paying players, and erecting lavish facilities to impress 18-year-olds are some of the "shortcuts" Embree didn't or was unable to take.
"You've got to roll the dice on a lot of different things," Embree said of turning CU football around with an impatient boss. "You expose the university, you put the university at risk. If you hire the next guy and say, 'You've got two years' ... keep your fingers crossed."
Embree deserves respect for trying to build CU football the right way. He also deserved at least another year to show that progress was being made and his young team was on the rise.
But don't feel too sorry for Embree.
He knew CU was a difficult job before he accepted the challenge. He hired coordinators without experience at those positions, compounding his lack of experience as a head coach. His team finished 1-11 this season and was humiliated on the scoreboard and in the national statistics.
"I'm going to be OK," said Embree, who is owed $1.625 million. "But it's hard leaving these kids."
The vibe in the Dal Ward Center on a gloomy Monday was that players are shocked by this turn of events and are having a hard time buying the message the leadership at CU is selling.
Mike Bohn told the Buffs he respects them to the "highest" in one breath, and then pointed out in the next breath that their performance in the Pac-12 is what dug Embree's early grave.
"We were exposed in this league," Mike Bohn said. "Did we give Jon a big enough shovel? We tried to provide additional enhancements to that shovel. Is it enough? The answer is no."
So after firing Gary Barnett, Hawkins and Embree -- paying out over $7.6 million in buyouts along the road to perdition -- why is Mike Bohn being allowed to hire another football coach at CU?
"One thought is that we have made a decision on Jon. Our first goal is to go out and get a new head coach," DiStefano explained. "Mike has done a good job in many areas within the athletics department. Our goal now is to go out and get the best head coach that we can get and bring that person in as quickly as possible."
"I just want to make it clear that I am absolutely dedicated to making this program work and I'm convinced that we can go out and find a coach that can make that happen," Benson said. "Phil and I are both strongly behind this and we're going to do everything possible to make it work."
Mike Bohn's bosses aren't going to fire Mike Bohn either.
Buffs fans had better hope the third time is the charm.
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It disillusions a few people that the Newberry Library Book Fair offers some of its wares to the greater eBay public. I know you really want to come and find them on the shelves in July, but the point is selling them, not so much selling them where you get to watch people fight over them. Anyway, you can see that on eBay as well, can't you?
See, among other things, it's a great place to unload some of our more, er, awkward donations. One of our first big online sales was a very nearly complete 111-year run of National Geographic, including all but about a dozen of the original map and supplemental inserts, the work of a really dedicated collector. Many of the magazines were in their original mailing wrappers. It was bought by someone who gave it to her fiancé as a wedding present, and we were off and running.
Not only was it a nice beginning to our eBay career, but selling this at the Book fair would have been the stuff of nightmares. The collection was big enough to take up a whole table, for starters. We shuddered at the thought of trying to make sure some collector didn't slip away with that one map that was needed to complete a collection elsewhere, or tear off a sixty year-old paper wrapper to find those dearly remembered photos of topless natives. You can see what a boon having eBay as an alternative was.
Then there's the Christmas book by the Black Cat Press, a tale from the Depression of a book collector who sold off his books so his family could continue to live in a nice house and eat regularly, but found he couldn't himself live without collecting books. So he collected books no one else wanted: rare but not expensive. He is saving up to buy one really expensive book on fleas when his wife finds his stash and spends the money on (wait for it) Christmas presents! For his horrible children, who will probably break them anyway when he could have had his book instead. (I didn't say this was a heartwarming Christmas story, did I?) Anyhow, this rare book was obviously meant to be sold on eBay.
Why? Because it runs $50-$150 and measures less than an inch square. Yes, I know Tiffany's manages to sell smaller objects that cost more, but they have access to better display cases.
And hey, that adding machine booklet from 1949 that you tossed in a box because you didn't know what else to do with it? I tossed it on eBay for the same reason. I would have considered myself lucky to get a dollar at the Book Fair for a charming little piece of bygone technology like that, but the folks on eBay bid it up over $12.
That's what we try to sell on eBay: the big, the small, the awkward, the fragile, and the truly bizarre (the black cat sculpture without a tail hasn't sold yet, but it is useful in scaring small children away from the vault). Oh, and remember those boxes of books you've had in storage since your college days and decided to donate them without looking inside? I figured some of my volunteers would take offense at your complete collection of Booty Booklets. Thank goodness—or badness—eBay has an Adults Only section where I could sell those without risking the moral deterioration of my cast and crew. Don't know quite what to do with those pictures you took in that photo booth at the airport…oh, that's right: I wasn't going to mention those 'til I found out whether that was your Significant Other in the picture. Consider them not mentioned.
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An Oak Ridge nightspot for sports fans had its wrist slapped for serving alcohol to an underaged undercover operative after Oak Ridge Beer Board members were told the server was an overzealous rookie who was immediately fired.
(AP) — An Oak Ridge nightspot for sports fans had its wrist slapped for serving alcohol to an underaged undercover operative after Oak Ridge Beer Board members were told the server was an overzealous rookie who was immediately fired.
Members Monday also endorsed a city ordinance change requiring beer permit-holders to notify them if holders have been cited by the state's Alcoholic Beverage Commission.
During a show-cause hearing Monday, members gave Lincoln's Sports Grille a week's suspension of its beer permit, but that penalty will be waived if the operators provide proof that all servers and bartenders have state Alcoholic Beverage Commission training for selling and serving alcohol.
The move was in response to an ABC undercover sting in March where seven Oak Ridge eateries were cited for serving beer to a 19-year-old operative. All were fined at least $1,500 by the ABC. Additional penalties by the board are possible and have already been leveled in one case.
The board in August gave Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar the option of paying a $2,500 fine or having its beer license pulled for five days. The stiffer penalty options were imposed because it was the eatery's second offense in a year.
Board members have scheduled show-cause hearings for the remaining establishments nabbed by the ABC for selling beer to underage patrons in March. Hacienda DeGollado and Oak Ridge Moose Lodge No. 1316 are scheduled Oct. 14, while Aubrey's, Hidalgo Mexican Restaurant and Ruby Tuesday go before the board Nov. 18.
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Board members Monday also approved recommending a change in city ordinances requiring beer permit holders to give the city notice if they've been nabbed for beer sale violations by the ABC. Members only learned of the March 19 ABC operation because of the second-offense status against Applebee's.
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Colton Schmitz takes home third place at MIAA championships
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. – The No. 19 Truman State women held a 44-42 lead with 24 seconds reaming against the Northeastern State Riverhawks.
However, Tosha Tyler would knock down a three-point shot and draw a foul, and when she completed the four-point play it gave NSU a 46-44 comeback win over TSU.
Becka McHenry had a chance to send the game into overtime, but her runner went off the iron and Truman was forced to foul. NSU hit one of two free throws and McHenry had a desperation look at a three, which came up just short, and Truman lost their second game in a row and the last two of a three game trip.
NSU didn't have a lead in the ball game until just over six minutes left in the game. It was short lived, as Amy Briggs quickly put the Bulldogs back on top with a three ball of her own and Allie Norton knocked down four free throws. But the four-point play would do in the Truman women.
Norton tied a career high with 20 points, 12 of those coming from deep. McHenry came up one rebound short of her second double-double of the season as she had 10 points and nine boards.
As Truman returns home to face Southwest Baptist. They now find themselves in fifth place in the MIAA, one game behind Emporia State and one game ahead of Ft. Hays State and Pittsburg State.
TSU beat Emporia and Ft. Hays earlier this season and fell to Pitt on this three game road trip.
Men's basketball
TAHLEQUAH, Okla.- Truman State and Northeastern State met for the second time this season, but this one was a MIAA match-up that saw the Riverhawks knock down one three ball after another as they cruised to a 72-56 win over Truman.
The Bulldogs lost to NSU in the title game of the Quincy Holiday Tournament, but it came on a last second buzzer beater by the Riverhawks.
TSU fell down by as many as 13 in the first half, before rallying to cut the lead to only three at halftime. NSU opened the second half on a 14-4 run and would build their lead to 18.
Mike Carlson and Seth Jackson each scored 13. Truman struggled from the field as they only shot 37 percent from the field and 27 percent from deep.
Truman dropped to 7-14 and 4-9 in the MIAA and is currently riding a four-game losing streak.
The Bulldogs have also dropped into 13th place and sit one game behind Missouri Western and the final spot in the MIAA tournament. The Bulldogs return to Pershing Arena on Thursday to play Southwest Baptist, who just beat TSU to open the three game road trip.
College wrestling
EDMOND, Okla. – For the first time since 1986 the MIAA held a wrestling conference tournament, and Truman's Colton Schmitz picked up a third place finish at the 157-pound weight class.
Dustin McClintock and Nate Seiler both finished fourth.
Truman returns to Pershing Arena on Friday to wrap-up their regular season when they host McKendree in what will be a conference match next season in the GLVC.