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VOL. 98 | ISSUE 45Monday, Oct. 21, 2013 “TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID”
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Parade brings out blue pride amid cold weather
Football attendance increases
pHotos by k atie smitH | tHe Daily eastern ne ws Children excitedly wait for candy to be thrown to them during the Homecoming Parade Saturday.
by bob GaluskiNews Editor@BobGaluski
Bundled in his blue blanket, his blue and white crown tilted on his head, David Groves, the 2013 Homecoming King, prepared for the parade to begin.
He said he had been getting ready since 7:30 a.m., and de-spite the early morning cold – 40
degrees at 9 a.m. – he had high hopes for the temperatures.
“It’s supposed to warm up, so I’m not going to need the blanket (for the parade),” he said.
And in a flourish it all began: moving cars, shuffling feet and booming music announced the start of the 2013 Homecoming Pa-rade.
However, the parade, which was scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m.
Saturday outside Old Main, hit a bit of a delay at the start.
The top to the convertible Mus-tang which President Bill Per-ry and his wife rode in would not lower, delaying the parade by a few minutes.
After members of the Universi-ty Board figured out how to low-er the top, the parade continued back up.
Amid the noise of vehicles,
cheers and music, distinct chants by the EIU Cheer Team could be heard through the parade.
Bob Galuski can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
RUNNING BACK ATTACKBehind 129 yards rushing from red-shirt sophomore Shepard Little, the Eastern football team won 55-33 against SEMO.page 8
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by aldo sotoAssistant Sports Editor@DEN_Sports
The Eastern football team is off to a 6-1 over-all record, winning its first three Ohio Valley Conference games by a combined score of 160-47, and fans are flocking over to O’Brien Field as a result of it.
After the Panthers’ first two home games, the revenue generated through ticket sales had al-ready exceeded what the athletic department had projected for the season, Barbara Burke, the athletic director, said.
“After two games, we have already met and exceeded our football ticket budget for this year, so anything that we generate in our last three home games will just be able to help out bottom line,” Burke said.
She said each year the ticket budget is set at around $140,000, which is combined between football and men’s and women’s basketball. Pri-or to the Homecoming game Saturday, Eastern earned $118,000 through ticket sales.
In the 2012 season, Dino Babers’ first year as Eastern’s coach, the program sold $84,400 worth of tickets, which was a decrease of $11,700 from 2011.
Burke said football ticket sales are projected to earn about $90,000 each year, making this season a success.
Ticket revenue is up, and so is the number of season-ticket holders. In 2011, 16 percent of the ticket money produced came from season-tick-et holders. That number decreased to 15 percent in 2012.
This season, 20 percent of ticket sales have come from season-ticket holders.
“Our goal from a ticket standpoint is we want to create a demand, and to do that we want to grow our season-ticket base because that No.1 is the best ticket in town,” Burke said.
Although Eastern set a Homecoming atten-dance record as 11,569 fans passed through the gates, it failed to reach 15,000, a goal the athlet-ic program set prior to the game.
With Eastern having a successful start to its season, following a 2012 OVC title, Burke said talks about extending Babers’ contract are begin-ning to initiate.
Babers is currently in the second of his three-deal that pays him $170,000 per year. Burke said it is a norm in a football coach’s world to have conversations about possible contract ex-tensions before a deal is up.
At this point in time, Burke said she is wait-ing for the board of trustees to approve the chance to negotiate with Babers.
“It’s in board approval process to be able to have the opportunity to offer (Babers) up to a five-year contract,” Burke said.
Eastern still has five games remaining before the FCS playoffs start at the end of November, but Burke said she will continue to further the conversations about a possible extension.
Aldo Soto can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
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Members of Gowin Pare in Mattoon drive their car dressed as Mr. and Mrs. Claus during the Homecoming Parade Saturday.
The International Student Organization members hold their flags as they take their position in the Homecoming Parade on Saturday.
by Jarad JarmonStudent Governance Editor @JJarmonReporter
Alumni of the graduating class of 1963 shared the differenc-es between the Eastern they re-member and the Eastern current-ly, as well as the memories of col-lege life in the early ’60s at a din-
ner Friday. After having their picture tak-
en, the alumni ate and rem-inisced about Eastern in the Dvork Concer t Hal l in the Doudna Fine Arts Center.
Life for these alumni was dif-ferent from those of this gener-ation. Instead of worrying about the government shutdown, they
worried about the Cuban Mis-sile Crisis.
Brenda Mundell, an alum in elementary education, said many students back then were glued to the TV and news during the Cu-ban Missile Crisis on Oct. 28, 1962 when the United States and Russia almost were at nuclear war with each other.
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SHOW YOUR SPIRITFraternities, sororities and student organizations competed with dances and cheers for the “Yell Like Hell” pep rally. page 2
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Despite the cool weather and the early morning rain, about 100 participants toured a few streets of Charleston in the annual 2.5K Homecoming race.
Among them was 10-year-old Jordan McCully, of Joliet, who skipped a softball game to attend Homecoming with her mother, an Eastern alumna.
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Two German police representa-tives will give an international per-spective on gun control Monday during a forum addressing the gun laws in Europe and Chicago. The forum will take place at 7 p.m. in the Lumpkin Hall Auditorium.
Detective Captain Franz Plueck-thun, the undercover operations commander for the Bavarian State
Police, and Michael Tentler, a con-sultant for the German BKA (feder-al criminal police), will present their views on gun control in Europe. Hafeez Muhammad, a community activist from Chicago, will address gun issues in Chicago.
Kevin Anderson, an associate professor of political science and moderator for the forum, said the forum took about a month to orga-nize after the speakers agreed to par-
ticipate, and the forum is co-spon-sored by Eastern’s Public Policy In-stitute and the political science de-partment.
“The idea of the forum is to talk about the consequences of both guns and gun laws in our commu-nity,” Anderson said. “We will cover a number of topics, including how gun laws are designed to work and the safety issues surrounding own-ing guns and carrying firearms.”
Anderson said students, facul-ty, staff and community members can benefit at the forum by hearing an international perspective on gun control and comparing it with how those in the United States react to guns and gun laws.
The forum will be followed by a question and answer period along with a reception where audience members can meet with the pre-senters.
Officers to address gun control
By steve Proctor staff reporter @Den_news
Black Student Union members are planning to make fleeces for commu-nity children at their next meeting.
The fleece crafting will begin at 6 p.m. Monday in the Charleston-Mattoon Room in the Martin Lu-ther King Jr. University Union.
Alexandria Neff, the BSU chair-woman of service affairs, said she be-lieves this community service project will change the community’s opin-ions on black, Hispanic and bi-racial people and give them new insights on other cultures.
Steve Proctor can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
BSU to craft fleece blankets
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Construction is set to begin Monday for Ninth Street, which is to help fix the steam tunnels that run from Eastern’s Center for Clean Energy Research and Education.
The roadwork was approved by City Council Tuesday and will continue until Nov. 24.
Ninth Street currently has const ruct ion going on near Grant Avenue ; however the newest bit of construction will extend the work to Cleveland Avenue.
Roadwork to begin Monday
By Bob Galuskinews editor@BobGaluski
With students piled into McAfee Gymnasium Friday, spirits and ex-citement hit the ground running as fraternities, sororities and student or-ganizations brought forth their ver-sions of “Paint the Town Blue.”
Featuring characters like Cap-tain America, Cookie Monster and Smurfette, the “Yell Like Hell” pep rally served as a pseudo-preparation for the Homecoming game Saturday.
Fraternities, sororities and student organizations competed against one another during the pep rally, danc-ing, cheering and bringing school spirit to life.
Some of the competitors used the theme to wear costumes of blue-inspired characters, l ike Cookie Monster and Smurfette. Others simply wore blue paint-splattered clothing.
“Yell Like Hell” also included an appearance by the Eastern foot-ball team and head coach Dino Babers, who also led the crowd in cheering.
“Who’s house?” he cheered into the microphone to the students.
“Our house,” the audience an-
swered enthusiastically. Babers also gave out an auto-
graphed helmet as part of a raffle. With the fraternities and sorori-
ties competing, the theme of “Paint the Town Blue” broke through each performance, from signs pro-
claiming “Go Big Blue,” “E-I-U” or even “Paint the Town Blue.”
The performances included the members flipping, spinning and twirling in mid-air, being caught and then raised up for the audience to applaud.
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Cast of characters pump up crowd
K aTie sMiTh | The daily easTeRn ne Ws A member of Sigma Pi performs with Alpha Sigma Tau at "Yell Like Hell" Friday in the McAfee Gymnasium.
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The lights went down just as easily as they came back up. Mu-sic flooded the massive space of McAfee Gymnasium as they parted the waves of the audi-ence. Feet touched the floor with precision and grace around the multi-colored lights across the stage.
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NPHC hits the stage for Step Show
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Eastern students and communi-ty members wrapped up this year’s Homecoming Week Sunday by clean-ing up the campus and the surround-ing Charleston area at this year’s Trash Bash.
Eastern plans several Trash Bashes throughout the year, and the Home-coming Week Trash Bash has been happening for the past three years.
“We primarily cover the Homecom-ing Parade route during the clean up. We try and pick up all the items left behind from the different parade par-ticipants,” said Rachel Fisher, director of Student Community Service.
Around 40 students from differ-ent organizations around campus met at Old Main and went out into the community to pick up trash and take down decorations.
“We had a wonderful turnout this year and we could not have been hap-pier with it,” Fisher said. “Trash Bash is a great way for EIU students to give back and show their appreciation to the Charleston community.”
Homecoming means tailgating, games and many other festivities that bring along mass amounts of trash that litter campus grounds.
“My family came down for Home-coming and we tailgated, which means we had a lot of left over garbage,” said Sean Enk, a senior elementary edu-cation major. “It is easy for things to blow and for things to be left on the grounds.”
Homecoming 2013’s theme, “Paint the Town Blue” also contributed to the aftermath from all the activities, Adam Kruse, one of the volunteers during Trash Bash, said.
“I thought the theme ‘Paint the Town Blue’ was awesome, but it defi-nitely did not help with the trash that was leftover,” Kruse said. “People had blue everything and all the decorations definitely got left behind and thrown around.”
The amount of people in attendance at Homecoming activities also played a huge role in the messy aftermath, he
added. Jamie Jacobson, a senior communi-
cation studies major, said the carefree attitudes of Homecoming participants make it easy to disregard the items left behind from the parade.
“There are so many alumni and family members that come down for Homecoming that it is no surprise the campus is a mess by the end of it all,”
Jacobson said. “Everyone just wants to have a good time and show their spir-it; they are not worried about cleaning up a mess.”
Jacobson also said the Trash Bash is a good reminder of personal responsi-bility.
“It is great that EIU has this oppor-tunity available to students and com-munity members. Responsibilities
seem to be forgotten during Home-coming Week due to all of the fun activities going on,” Jacobson said. “Trash Bash is a fun and easy way for participants to give back to the EIU community after a great week.”
Jenna Witt can be reached at 581-2812
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k atie smith | the Daily eastern ne Ws Shawn Allen, a senior history major and academic affairs chair of the Black Student Union, stands beside a sign that reads “EIUnity” Sunday on the shoul-der of Lincoln Avenue. Coordinator of the event and a senior political science major, said BSU got together after the Trash Bash to hold the signs and show the community that the organization cares.
Students clean up Charleston after Homecoming
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More benches and places to sit in open spaces, such as near the quads and by the campus pond. There aren’t that many palaces to sit around cmapus and it just doesnt’t seem like the space is utilized well because of this.
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Our POSiTiOn • Situation: Changes are being considered for female quiet lifestyle floors. • Stance: Thomas should not add a female qui-et lifestyle floor.
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Don’t be that person; use proper library etiquette
Thomas needs to follow Andrews’ lead
The library a relaxing place to study, read or simply escape from noise. At least that’s what you would think, right? But then what about the people who go to the library to listen to their music without headphones or put their head-phones in only to give loud commentary on what they’re watching?
When I think of a place to hang out and not worry about being quiet, I think of the 7th St. Underground or maybe even Java, not the library. So why is it that when visiting the library for an all-day study session, my thoughts are constantly jolted by the sounds of others who seem to lack library etiquette?
Even when I was younger, I was taught that libraries are places that require silence. Even Arthur, the beloved aardvark, had to be quiet in the library, and I seem to remember Wishbone calling for silence in the library as well. Does that mean that you can’t still hold conversations and work on group projects in the library? Of course not.
As living beings, we make noise. I get that. But there’s quite the difference between whisper-ing to someone sitting next to you and shout-ing at someone on the other side of the comput-er room, just as there’s a difference between put-ting your phone on vibrate when you’re texting and turning the volume all the way up.
Whether you’re going to the library to study for 13 hours on end (been there, done that) or even just going to watch your favorite televi-sion show with your headphones in, do you real-ly want to be disrupted by the people that can’t respect your eardrums?
I wouldn’t think that library rules would need to be posted on a university campus as they are in children’s sections at public libraries, but may-be I’m wrong. Booth Library even has its user code of conduct posted on its website for all to see. Let’s review, shall we?
There is no “engaging in activity disruptive or offensive to others.” That includes the require-ment of keeping your volume to a minimum and wearing headphones. Respecting others is something we have been taught for ages; this should include respecting those who are trying
to study. Just because you don’t have a massive test in a subject you’re struggling with doesn’t mean that the person next you doesn’t either.
They also list that there should be no “drink-ing/eating outside designated areas.” As someone who doesn’t work in the library, I’m not about to be a major stickler on this. But when I find someone’s gum shoved under the table I’m sit-ting at, or the wrapper from someone’s melted chocolate bar sitting on the chair I’m about to use, I get a little annoyed that people don’t fol-low this rule.
There are other guidelines listed in the code of conduct, but it seems that these two are the ones that are most often violated.
Having made it to college, I would hope that my peers know how to keep their voices down, their headphones in and their messes cleaned up, but when I go to the library, it certainly doesn’t seem that they do.
So please, when in doubt, follow the exam-ple of those around you that are actually trying to get something done. Believe it or not, some of us still have homework to do in the middle of the semester.
Piper Black is a senior foreign language major. She can be reached at 581-2812
People can be loud in the residence halls, especially if they are new in their college careers. For these situations, quiet lifestyle floors make sense.
Surprisingly enough, not many students are necessarily asking to be put on these floors.
This makes it really hard to justify the existence of many of the quiet lifestyle floors, which is why Andrews Hall took a step in the right direction.
Andrews’ Hall Council is planning to remove one of its quiet lifestyle floors, leaving only one other.
They are finding it difficult to fill floors with those who want the quiet lifestyle, which is hurting those that want to be on these floors instead of helping.
These floors don’t have enough people who want it, so housing staff is forced to place those who don’t want it on the floors.
This is unfair for both parties because in most cases, those want-ing regular floors will end up not respecting the more strict rules of the floor to accommodate those who want toa be there.
They then are punished and seen as in the wrong, even though they didn’t want to be put on the floor in the first place.
Residents who want to be there also suffer because those treating
the floors as regular floors make it loud and annoying for those who are there on purpose.
It just ends with no one being happy with the situation.Thomas Hall should follow Andrews’ lead and forget about add-
ing a female quiet lifestyle floor. While there are still people looking for these types of floors, it is
not enough to warrant the five floors across campus. If Thomas ended up adding another quiet
floor, those in hall council and those living on the floor would come across the same problems Andrews had with filling space and ultimately filling them with people who don’t want them.
The difficulty filling floors proves there are plenty of quiet floors for those looking in that direction.
While they might not have the variety of halls to choose from, they will have the floor they want with others who want it as well.
Looking at the situation and need for a quiet lifestyle floor is a beneficial step for students in the residence halls.
Coexisting with other residents creates tension as it is without having two very different lifestyles butting heads.
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“No matter how much you throw the football, there’s going to come a time during that game that even if you are successful throwing it, there is going to be a time when you will have to run it to win the game,” Ba-bers said.
Little averaged 8.6 yards per car-ry against the Redhawks, bringing his season average to 7.3 yards per attempt.
“Defensive ly, we knew what (Southeast Missouri) was doing,” Little said. “I was taking the right steps and making the right reads.”
Babers said success in the run-ning game would be key for the rest of the season.
“If you are not capable of (run-ning the ball), somewhere down the road you are going to be walk-ing back to locker room with tears in your eyes,” he said. “You have to practice to stop the run, and you have to be able to run the football.”
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AmAndA WiLkinsOn | The dAiLy eAsTern ne Ws Garet Christianson, a red-shirt sophomore forward, passes ball toward a teammate during a match against Oral Roberts Sunday on Lakeside Field. Christianson scored the game-winning goal in double overtime. The Panthers won 2-1 against Oral Roberts.
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Eastern gets first winBy michael spencerstaff reporter@tmskeeper
The Eastern men’s soccer team cap-tured its first victory of the 2013 sea-son Sunday as red-shirt sophomore Garet Christianson scored off a free kick in the second overtime period to give the Panthers a 2-1 victory over Oral Roberts.
It was the striker’s sixth goal of the season, and it came in Eastern’s fourth Summit League matchup, leaving the team with just two more match-es with which to stake a claim for the conference postseason tournament.
“It’s a huge relief, no matter how you look at it; winning games is what it’s all about,” Eastern coach Adam Howarth said. “I think it gives the guys something to build on.”
After letting in a goal against the run of play midway through the first half, the Panther’s rallied with a goal from junior midfielder Jake Brillhart.
“My immediate thought was, ‘We just need one more, one doesn’t mat-ter, we need three points,’” Brillhart said.
The match would remain tied at one goal apiece until the end of reg-ulation.
With just 51 seconds left in the game, Christianson was fouled while on a run near the edge of the penal-ty area. The Iowan stepped up to the ball and slotted it past the goalkeeper to give Eastern the victory.
“Stepping up to that free kick, (ju-nior forward Tayron Martin) just told
me to do it like I do in practice; so, I just did like I do in practice, and it went in,” Christianson said.
Oral Roberts (4-6-2) was unde-feated through both of its conference matches before losing to Eastern (1-9-2) at Lakeside Field.
After losing to the Panthers, the Golden Eagles are now 0-5-1 in away matches.
The Golden Eagles were without red-shirt freshman midfielder Edgar-do Mira for the game with Eastern. Mira is the leading scorer for Oral Roberts.
Junior Will Butler and freshman Nick Wegrzynowicz played at out-side back and allowed Eastern to force the issue in the attacking third of the field, Howarth said.
Additionally, the Panther’s link-up play in the midfield helped to dis-lodged an Oral Roberts team that Howarth said came to Charleston hoping to steal points by not putting a lot of emphasis on attacking.
“They really came in to sit and try to sneak a victory, and they almost did that,” Howarth said.
Red-shirt freshman goalkeeper Ben Feltes mishandled a back pass from red-shirt sophomore defender Spen-cer Filosa. The ball fell to sophomore Alex White, who knocked the ball in off the back post in the 30th minute, scoring for Oral Roberts.
The goal was the Golden Eagles only shot of the half.
As the clock ticked past the hour-mark, Howarth started to push his midfielders higher up the pitch, leav-
ing only one back in a defensive po-sition.
Brillhart spent most of the match exploiting the considerable space he was allotted by junior leftback Casey Cantor.
“I was just trying to find space out-side,” Brillhart said. “We were using our outside backs to get forward and take the defender away. Also, in the midfield, when the ball comes across, it allows me to cut across middle.”
That is exactly what he did in the 65th minute.
Will Butler pushed up from the back and won the ball in the attack-ing third. Brillhart made a slashing run across the backline, pulling Can-tor out of position. Butler lifted the ball over the heads of the Oral Rob-erts defense and found Brillhart, who took a quick touch and fired the ball into the goal with his right foot.
The game went into overtime with both teams struggling to fashion an opportunity that would allow the winning goal to be scored.
With less than a minute to be played in extra time, Eastern broke quickly on the counter-attack and found Christianson whose touch led him straight into centerback and cap-tain Trevor Laffoon.
Laffoon stuck out a foot and fouled Christianson, which brought on a yel-low card and a free kick, leading to the game-winning goal.
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By Bob reynoldsstaff reporter@DeN_sports
The Eastern rugby team won its first game of the season on Saturday, when the Panthers defeated Ken-tucky 61-0 in Lexington, Ky.
Coming off the bus on Saturday, the Panthers confidence was really high, Eastern coach Frank Grazia-no said, despite having to play under
rain for the entire game.Graziano said the weather did not
play a factor at all and was excited that the team did not let the weather conditions bother them.
“We dealt with the weather con-ditions fairly well,” he said. “We did have some mishandles, but we han-dled the ball pretty well. It was nice to see the practice game plan a lit-tle bit. Once the girls got a couple scores, they felt really good about
how they were playing.”The Panthers took the lead early
in the game and never let the foot off the gas pedal.
They scored 11 tries, which is the most the Panthers have scored all season. The Panthers snapped a six-game losing streak with their shut-out win.
Graziano said all the pieces came into place during the game, but it wasn’t perfect.
“There are areas that can be im-proved, but I am very proud of the girls. We were able to get our first win, and we can build on that for the next couple games,” he said.
Graziano was preaching defense in practice all week, and it paid off as junior Ellen Wilson led the team with 25 tackles and also was one of eight players who converted tries for the Panthers.
Graziano said they maintained fo-
cus through the entire day.“When we did throw bad passes,
it didn’t look like it frustrated us,” he said. “The field conditions held up very well. I think they did a very good job of maintaining their focus.”
The Panthers will have a short week, as they will play Lindenwood on Wednesday.
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Team breaks losing streak at Kentucky
VOLLeyBALL
By Anthony catezonesports editor@AnthonyCatz
The Eastern volleyball team went 2-0 this weekend against Ohio Val-ley Conference foes to improve to 5-3 in conference, moving back into third place overall.
The Panthers began Homecoming Weekend with a win over Austin Peay — the OVC’s west division leader — in a five-set comeback (23-25, 26-28, 25-22, 25-16, 15-11) on Friday.
The Lady Governors took the first two sets in Lantz Arena and even con-trolled the third set for much of the match, leading several times in the third set.
Their 4-0 jumpstart in the third set eventually turned into a 15-12 lead. The Panthers fought back to tie the set at 16, but not until the Lady Gov-ernors regained the lead at 20-18.
Eastern, however, reeled off a 7-2 run to close out the match and seal a 25-22 victory. Senior outside hitter Reynae Hutchinson had three of the Panthers final seven points. The third set featured nine tied scores and five lead changes.
The fourth and fifth sets were a different story, as there was just one tied score and no lead changes in the fourth set, and four of both in the fifth set.
Eastern hit a combined .297 over the last three sets, after hitting just .151 in the first two sets.
Hutchinson led all players with 22 kills. She also recorded 11 digs for her 35th career double-double of her ca-reer.
Fellow outside hitters Chelsea Lee and Lexi Brown recorded 14 and 10 kills, respectively, to round out the Panthers to hit in double digits.
Sophomore setter Marah Bradbury had a game-high 52 assists on 69 Pan-ther kills. A team-high 15 digs gave Bradbury her 14th career double-dou-ble, as well.
Middle blocker Amy Martin led the Panthers with a .455 attack on six kills.
Eastern edged Austin Peay in attack (.217 to .172), assists (66 to 61), digs (75 to 71) and points (85 to 78).
On Saturday, Eastern then followed with a four-set win over Murray State (25-23, 25-21, 15-25, 25-22) that improved the Panthers to 11-10 over-all on the season.
Eastern hit .196 or more in every set except for a .050 attack in the loss in the third set. Eastern remains the second best OVC team in attack, hit-ting .221 in conference play.
Hutchinson led the Panthers again with 14 kills along with Lee. Hutchinson’s 17 digs made her per-formance the 36th double-double of her career. She is now second in the OVC with four kills per set in confer-ence play.
Martin was the top Panther in at-tack once again, hitting .348 as the third Eastern player to hit in double digit kills with 12.
Bradbury also recorded the 15th double-double of her career with 47 assists and 12 digs. Her 11.90 assists per set in conference play continues to lead the OVC.
Middle blocker Stephanie Arnold led all players with 10 blocks. She fell just one block short of her career high, while adding eight kills against the Racers. The Panthers won the block battle 15 to 11.
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Panthers come back to beat Austin Peay
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K ATIE smITH | THE DAILY EAsTErn nE ws Shepard Little, a red-shirt sophomore running back, runs the ball past a Southeast Missouri defensive player during Saturday’s game at O’Brien Field. Little ran for a game-high 129 yards and the Panthers’ 55-33 win.
Running attack prevails against SEMOBy Aldo sotoAssistant Sports Editor@AldoSoto21
Senior Jimmy Garoppolo became Eastern’s No. 1 ranked quarterback of all-time in Saturday’s 55-33 win against Southeast Missouri, but it was the Panther running game that wore down the Redhawks at O’Brien Field in the school’s 96th Homecom-ing game.
With a 41-yard pass to Charles-ton native Adam Drake, Garoppolo passed Sean Payton for the school’s career passing yards record. Garop-polo finished the game with 376 yards, bringing his career total to 10,841.
Prior to the game Southeast Mis-souri coach Tony Samuel compared Murray State’s offense to Eastern’s af-ter beating the Racers in triple over-time on Oct. 12. Samuel said a dif-
ference would be the running game for the Panthers.
“(Eastern) will run the ball better and will have a more concerted effort to run the ball than Murray State did,” Samuel said.
He was right.Eastern had two 100-yard rushers
as Shepard Little, and Taylor Dun-can rushed for 236 yards, which led the Panthers to their third consecu-tive Ohio Valley Conference win to start the season.
Little had a game-high 129 yards on the ground on 15 attempts and scored three first-half touchdowns.
Little said he knew Eastern would rely on the running game more after Friday night.
“(Friday) night it was raining, so I knew today was going to be a big day running the ball,” Little said.
The Panthers fast-paced offense erupted for 27 points in the first
quarter, marking the second straight game Eastern has scored 27 points in the first quarter. By the end of the first half Eastern had scored 41 points, making that three games in a row that the Panthers have scored at least 35 points in the opening half of play.
Garoppolo began the game com-pleting his first 10 passes for 254 yards and two touchdowns. In the first quarter he threw for 242 yards, which was the third time this season Garoppolo has thrown at least 200 yards in the first quarter.
After completing two long touch-downs, the first to Erik Lora for 60 yards and the other to Drake for 82, Garoppolo began handing the ball off to his running backs.
Eastern coach Dino Babers said although Garoppolo completed 73 percent of his passes (22-of-30), the passing attack did not execute as
sharply as he would have wanted it to.
“I didn’t think our base passing game was as sharp as it should have been, but we have time to work on that,” Babers said.
The second-year coach said the running game did work well as East-ern ran for 283 yards, a season-high for the Panthers.
In the opening half, Little and Duncan combined for 174 yards, gaining 97 and 77 yards, respective-ly.
Out of Eastern’s six touchdowns in the first two quarters, Duncan and Little ran in for four. In those four scoring drives the two backs com-bined for 15 carries for 107 yards, capped off by 19, 10, five and eight yard-touchdown runs, with Duncan scoring from 10 yards out.
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First-half goals lead Panthers to winBy Dominic renzettiManaging Editor@domrenzetti
The Eastern women’s soccer team added its sixth Ohio Valley Confer-ence win of the season Friday at Lake-side Field with a 2-1 victory over Jack-sonville State.
The Panthers are now 6-1 in the OVC and in first place with 18 points in the conference standings.
The Panthers scored two goals in the first half, and it would be all they needed to take down the last place Gamecocks.
Junior Meagan Radloff scored first in the sixth minute, giving Eastern a team-leading six goals for the year. Red-shirt junior Lauren Hoppen-steadt was credited with the assist.
The Panthers added their second goal in the 23rd minute when Cincin-nati transfer Chris Reed came in off the bench to score from 15 yards out.
Reed used her opposite foot to
put the ball past freshman goalkeep-er Cate Eden, who got her second straight start after Taylor Hammond was again out with an illness.
“It was a ball from Madison Cart-er and she played it through,” Reed said. “There was, I think, two defend-ers, and I played it to the left of the defender and ran it to the right side. And then when I picked up my head, I saw the goalie out, and I kind of chipped it over her with my left foot, which never happens because I’m a righty, so it’s pretty sweet.”
The goal was Reed’s first of the sea-son.
“It’s great to have another win,” Eastern interim head coach Jason Cherry said. “I think it’s good for us because we got on the board really fast.”
Radloff ’s goal in the sixth minute was the earliest in a match the Pan-thers have scored this season.
The Gamecocks scored their only goal of the match in the 28th min-
ute when Lindsey Jackson fired a shot that deflected off the top crossbar.
Jacksonville State’s leading scorer, junior Jackie Rush, left the match in the 20th minute with a hip injury.
Rush was unable to walk off the field under her own power but would return in the second half as a sub. Rush had a number of shots in the match’s final minutes, but none were able to get past sophomore goalkeeper Cortney Jerzy.
Jerzy, who has started the last sev-en matches for the Panthers, recorded her sixth win of the season.
Cherry said defender Caitlin Greene would likely miss the rest of the season with an injury. Greene has not played in the team’s last three games.
This weekend’s match against Jack-sonville State was the only match for the Panthers. Cherry said the Panthers would have Saturday, Sunday and Monday off to recover.
The team will take on Tennessee-Martin at 7 p.m. on Friday on the road in a meeting between the con-ference’s top two teams. The Panthers will then take on Southeast Missouri at 1 p.m. Sunday in Cape Girardeau, Mo.
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OVC standings
1. Tennessee-Martin (6-1) Eastern (6-1)
2. Morehead State (5-2)
3. Southeast Missouri (4-1-2)
4. SIUE (4-2-1)
5. Austin Peay (4-3-1)
Teams drop meet at St. LouisBy Dan HildebrandtStaff Reporter@DEN_Sports
Eastern swimming struggled to compete with Saint Louis as the women’s team lost 134-75, while the men’s squad lost 132-77.
The teams won a combined three out of 24 races with the men taking two of those victories.
Kaylee Morris won the 100-yard freestyle for the women. For the men, Brogan O’Doherty won the 100-yard backstroke and Harris Thompson won the 500-yard free-style.
Saint Louis won the f irst 14 events that dug the Panthers into a deep hole. Although Eastern was getting beat, the Panthers did their best to keep spirits up, Eastern coach Elliott McGill said.
“I liked our team energy on deck, even though the meet was a strug-gle,” McGill said. “That’s hard to do when you’re getting beat halfway through the meet. The team really kept the energy high, and they led us to a fairly stronger last half of the meet.”
McGill said he noticed that the teams seemed tired because of a lot of hard work being put in prior to the meet. However, McGill thought the team did a decent job overall.
“We swam tired,” McGill said. “We’ve been training hard the last few weeks, and a lot of the wear and tear caught up with us. That be-ing said, we had decent swims all around.”
Going in with high expectations, Eastern was unable to perform up to the expectations it set. The teams will have to learn from this experi-ence and try to get better from it, McGill said.
“We didn’t swim up to our expec-tations, for sure,” he said. “You’re going to have meets like that every now and then. For us, we are going to watch film, address what we need to work on and move on.”
The Panthers have very young teams this year with 16 freshmen between the men and women. Mc-Gill noticed the younger swimmers were not used to the high level of competition that is presented by many college swimmers.
“I think they learned that the lev-el of competition has been raised and you are now racing against grown men and women,” McGill said. “You have to mature in your approach to each set, practice and meet in order to compete with peo-ple who are physically more mature than you.”
The Panthers will now have to go back to work to improve upon this performance, McGill said.
“For right now, we are going to focus on the details and apply-ing them to practice,” McGill said. “Once we get those habits estab-lished, our racing will really come around.”
The women now stand at 1-1 af-ter two meets, while the men start off their season at 0-1.
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