VOL. 99 | NO. 25 Monday, Sept. 29, 2014 “TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID” WWW. DAILYEASTERNNEWS .COM T HE D aily E astErn n Ews ‘IOWA’ REVIEW Check out Entertainment Editor Samantha Middendorf’s review of the Tarble Arts Center’s production of “Leaving Iowa.” PAGE 3 PENALTY OVERLOAD The Eastern football team fell to Ohio in a penalty-filled game on Saturday. PAGE 8 Housing and Dining Services to offer early incentives By Debby Hernandez Administration Editor | @DEN_News Housing and Dining Services is in- viting students to apply for the Ear- ly Bird Contract, which requires them to apply early to receive dining dollars and housing cost benefits. On and off campus students, Greek members, Pemberton Presidential Scholarship winners, and members of Gateway or Achieving Collegiate Ex- cellence are eligible for the Early Bird Contract. Mark Hudson, director of Hous- ing and Dining, said this is the first year Pemberton scholarship winners are included in the Early Bird Con- tract offer. He said Pemberton scholarship re- cipients already receive free room and board while they live on campus, but they are now eligible for the extra din- ing dollars. He said the incentive this year is also to help Greek members obtain new members while receiving benefits from Housing and Dining. “We are trying to assist Greek Court with sign ups, “ Hudson said. “Members get the benefit of extra din- ing dollars and the organization gets the benefit of extra members.” Students who sign their housing contracts before Oct. 31 will receive $200 in free dining dollars for Fall 2015. INCENTIVES, page 5 ZACHARY LAVIZZO | THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS Eastern football veteran and graduate student Dominic Pagliara and David Baumgartner spend time with Pa- gliara’s dog Willie after the SACIS 5k run/walk Friday. By Samantha Middendorf Entertainment Editor | @Samantha_EE Roughly 80 people went out Sat- urday to run a 5k in support of the Sexual Assault Counseling and Infor- mation Service as well as ending sex- ual assault and violence in Sister City Park for the first Take Back the Day 5k. Participants, including communi- ty members and Eastern students and faculty members, received ribbons af- ter completing the race. e top runners received trophies. Other participants were entered in a drawing for gift cards to local busi- nesses. Awards were given to Taylor Mc- Millan, the top female runner, and Ryan Woods, the top male runner. A special award was given to Bill Perry for “Fastest President.” Erin Walters, executive director of SACIS, said the purpose of the 5k is to raise awareness to the times sexual assault could occur. “We know that sexual assault and violence is a year-round thing,” she said. “We have to really draw atten- tion to the fact that it exists, and we want to put an end to it.” SACIS typically hosts several events in April, because April is sexual assault awareness month, but Walters said they wanted more events throughout the year to represent that sexual vio- lence could happen at any time. “We do a Take Back the Night march in the spring, that says we de- serve to have a community free from sexual violence,” she said. “We should walk freely without the threat of vi- olence, without the threat of being raped. That doesn’t change day or night.” SACIS 5k brings awareness SACIS, page 5 By Kevin Hall Staff Reporter | @Den_News For reasons not yet clear to the ex- ecutive board, The Untold Truth’s Wildin’ Out event was canceled Friday. Members of the Registered Student Organization expressed concern that the event was canceled because of neg- ativity and ignorance on Eastern’s cam- pus. e event would have featured per- formances from artists Vonmar, Chris Carter and Lil Bibby. Finding out the day before the event that it was canceled, the Untold Truth’s executive board along with Antwione Smith, the founder of the organization that was co-sponsoring Wildin’ Out, had to distribute refunds to those who purchased tickets. Classified now as what the univer- sity considers an “unusual event,” the cancelation of Wildin’ Out left the ex- ecutive board of the Untold Truth with questions. However, executive board mem- bers said they still do not know the details as to why the event was can- celed. Cathy Engelkes, the deputy director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Univer- sity Union, was not available for com- ment about the cancelation. Smith said the group completed all the criteria presented before them in order to host the event, so he anticipat- ed an event that could impact the cam- pus in a positive light. Travon Moore, treasurer of the Un- told Truth, said the event would have been attractive to potential students. “With Eastern’s enrollment be- ing low, we felt like an event like this would bring life and diversity to East- ern and give them some positive pub- licity.” The original confirmation of the event was for Sept. 10, and after re- ceiving the authorization for the event, both co-sponsoring organizations be- gan to publicize “EIU’s Wildin’ Out.” The organizations were not asked about the specifics of the event un- til after members had begun to go through the procedures to go through and host it, Moore said. After having the event set in place for Saturday for more than a week, Engelkes sent the Untlold Truth an email with specific guidelines the orga- nization must follow in order to host the event inside the University Ball- room. Receiving the email three days pri- or to the event, Seve Day president of the Untold Truth, said he made sure all guidelines were met. Farrah Dean, the special events co- ordinator of the Untold Truth, said she believes the cancelation of “EIU’s Wildin’ Out” was racially based be- cause of references she heard coincid- ing with the “Barn Party” incident last year. “I am confused as to why Barn Par- ty and our event are constantly be- ing compared,” Dean said. “e only common factor is that these two events were hosted by black organizations.” Antwoine Smith, co-coordinator of “EIU’s Wildin’ Out,” said the cancel- ation of the event has given the partic- ipants a skewed view of Eastern’s ad- ministration. “I have never felt more disrespected in my life,” Smith said. “ I’ve never ex- perienced this much unprofessionalism ever; I feel as though Eastern has a tar- get on black students.” Kevin Hall can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected]. Lil Bibby, Wildin’ Out performance canceled
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‘IOWA’ REVIEWCheck out Entertainment Editor Samantha Middendorf’s review of the Tarble Arts Center’s production of “Leaving Iowa.”
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PENALTY OVERLOADThe Eastern football team fell to Ohio in a penalty-filled game on Saturday.
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Housing and DiningServices to offer early incentivesBy Debby HernandezAdministration Editor | @DEN_News
Housing and Dining Services is in-viting students to apply for the Ear-ly Bird Contract, which requires them to apply early to receive dining dollars and housing cost benefits.
On and off campus students, Greek members, Pemberton Presidential Scholarship winners, and members of Gateway or Achieving Collegiate Ex-cellence are eligible for the Early Bird Contract.
Mark Hudson, director of Hous-ing and Dining, said this is the first year Pemberton scholarship winners are included in the Early Bird Con-tract offer.
He said Pemberton scholarship re-cipients already receive free room and board while they live on campus, but they are now eligible for the extra din-ing dollars.
He said the incentive this year is also to help Greek members obtain new members while receiving benefits from Housing and Dining.
“We are trying to assist Greek Court with sign ups, “ Hudson said. “Members get the benefit of extra din-ing dollars and the organization gets the benefit of extra members.”
Students who sign their housing contracts before Oct. 31 will receive $200 in free dining dollars for Fall 2015.
INCENTIVES, page 5
Z ACHARY LAVIZZO | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Eastern football veteran and graduate student Dominic Pagliara and David Baumgartner spend time with Pa-gliara’s dog Willie after the SACIS 5k run/walk Friday.
By Samantha Middendorf Entertainment Editor | @Samantha_EE
Roughly 80 people went out Sat-urday to run a 5k in support of the Sexual Assault Counseling and Infor-mation Service as well as ending sex-ual assault and violence in Sister City Park for the first Take Back the Day 5k.
Participants, including communi-ty members and Eastern students and faculty members, received ribbons af-ter completing the race.
The top runners received trophies. Other participants were entered in a
drawing for gift cards to local busi-nesses.
Awards were given to Taylor Mc-Millan, the top female runner, and Ryan Woods, the top male runner.
A special award was given to Bill Perry for “Fastest President.”
Erin Walters, executive director of SACIS, said the purpose of the 5k is to raise awareness to the times sexual assault could occur.
“We know that sexual assault and violence is a year-round thing,” she said. “We have to really draw atten-tion to the fact that it exists, and we want to put an end to it.”
SACIS typically hosts several events in April, because April is sexual assault awareness month, but Walters said they wanted more events throughout the year to represent that sexual vio-lence could happen at any time.
“We do a Take Back the Night march in the spring, that says we de-serve to have a community free from sexual violence,” she said. “We should walk freely without the threat of vi-olence, without the threat of being raped. That doesn’t change day or night.”
SACIS 5k brings awareness
SACIS, page 5
By Kevin HallStaff Reporter | @Den_News
For reasons not yet clear to the ex-ecutive board, The Untold Truth’s Wildin’ Out event was canceled Friday.
Members of the Registered Student Organization expressed concern that the event was canceled because of neg-ativity and ignorance on Eastern’s cam-pus.
The event would have featured per-formances from artists Vonmar, Chris Carter and Lil Bibby.
Finding out the day before the event that it was canceled, the Untold Truth’s executive board along with Antwione Smith, the founder of the organization that was co-sponsoring Wildin’ Out, had to distribute refunds to those who purchased tickets.
Classified now as what the univer-sity considers an “unusual event,” the cancelation of Wildin’ Out left the ex-ecutive board of the Untold Truth with questions.
However, executive board mem-bers said they still do not know the details as to why the event was can-celed.
Cathy Engelkes, the deputy director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Univer-sity Union, was not available for com-ment about the cancelation.
Smith said the group completed all the criteria presented before them in order to host the event, so he anticipat-ed an event that could impact the cam-pus in a positive light.
Travon Moore, treasurer of the Un-told Truth, said the event would have been attractive to potential students.
“With Eastern’s enrollment be-ing low, we felt like an event like this would bring life and diversity to East-ern and give them some positive pub-licity.”
The original confirmation of the event was for Sept. 10, and after re-ceiving the authorization for the event, both co-sponsoring organizations be-gan to publicize “EIU’s Wildin’ Out.”
The organizations were not asked about the specifics of the event un-til after members had begun to go through the procedures to go through and host it, Moore said.
After having the event set in place for Saturday for more than a week, Engelkes sent the Untlold Truth an email with specific guidelines the orga-nization must follow in order to host the event inside the University Ball-room.
Receiving the email three days pri-or to the event, Seve Day president of the Untold Truth, said he made sure all guidelines were met.
Farrah Dean, the special events co-ordinator of the Untold Truth, said she believes the cancelation of “EIU’s Wildin’ Out” was racially based be-cause of references she heard coincid-ing with the “Barn Party” incident last year.
“I am confused as to why Barn Par-ty and our event are constantly be-ing compared,” Dean said. “The only common factor is that these two events were hosted by black organizations.”
Antwoine Smith, co-coordinator of “EIU’s Wildin’ Out,” said the cancel-ation of the event has given the partic-ipants a skewed view of Eastern’s ad-ministration.
“I have never felt more disrespected in my life,” Smith said. “ I’ve never ex-perienced this much unprofessionalism ever; I feel as though Eastern has a tar-get on black students.”
JASON HOWELL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSBilly the Panther presses the button to dunk Kadie Peterson, a senior FCS major and vice president of the Resident Hall Association on Friday on the South Quad. The tank, hosted by the National Residence Hall Honorary, is raising money for breast cancer awareness.
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By Roberto HodgeMulticultural Editor | @Bertohodge
“D e f a m a t i o n ,” a n o r i g i n a l courtroom drama that focuses on issues like race, religion and class, will be presented at 7 p.m. Oct. 9 at the Recital Hall in the Doudna Fine Arts Center.
Housing and Dining, the Resi-dence Hall Association, the Office of Minority Affairs and other de-partments are involved with host-ing the play.
“Defamation” originally pre-miered in 2010 and is a 70-min-ute courtroom drama followed by a 15-minute open jury delibera-tion, which has been performed at high schools, law schools, univer-sities, and civil and religious orga-nizations.
Once the case is over, the play-wright Todd Logan will host a Q-and-A session to further explore the issues brought up in the play.
In the case, an African-Ameri-can woman is suing a wealthy Jew-ish businessman for defamation.
The story touches on issues of race, religion and class, which will be openly debated by the audience who will act as jury.
During the case , lawyers on
both sides of the case give testi-monials in regards to segregated neighborhoods and private club memberships.
Logan said in a press release that there is still a major divide in the country in regards to segregation, and the play should encourage a greater understanding and toler-ance through self-examination and promoting civil discourse.
The play first began when stud-ies came in stating race and reli-gion relations dropped, which in-dicated schools today are more segregated than the late ‘60s, ac-cording to the press release.
“My hope is that people become aware of the preconceived notions and implicit biases we harbor ev-ery day and then empathize with others more often, thereby com-bating prevailing trends,” Logan said. “Making the audience the jury and then inviting the ‘jury’ to dialogue with me and the cast after a verdict is reached provides a forum to start exactly that pro-cess.”
Courtroom drama summons students for jury dutyBy Debby Hernandez
Administration Editor | @DEN_News
Student Senate members will be registering students to vote from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday in front of the food court in the Martin Luther King Jr. Univer-sity Union.
The voter registration drive will be co-sponsored with other stu-dent organizations including the EIU College Democrats, the Afri-can Student Association, and the NAACP.
Student Body President Regi-nald Thedford said being involved in local politics is important for students.
“At a local level, it is important for students in Coles County to be involved because we are part of a public institution,” Thedford said.
He also encourages students to be involved at the state level by participating in the midterm elec-tions.
“Politics in Springfield affects students directly,” Thedford said. “Whoever is representing you af-fects you.”
Midterm elections will consist of local and state officials.
Registered voters will be able to vote for their state governor and U.S. senator.
Running for governor this year
will be republican Bruce Rauner, democrat Pat Quinn, and libertari-an Chad Grimm.
Candidates for senator represen-tative for the state of Illinois in-clude republican Jim Oberweis, democrat Dick Durbin and liber-tarian Sharon Hansen.
Other state representative posi-tions will also be available to vote for including secretary of state, at-torney general and treasurer.
At the local level, Coles County will be voting for their district rep-resentatives and court judges.
A new Coles County sheriff will also be voted on.
Candidates include republican James Rankin and democrat Greg-ory Voudrie for sheriff.
Voters will also decide on new legislation in the state for issues in-cluding raising minimum wage for adults over 18 years old, health in-surance on prescription drugs in-cluding birth control, and school districts receiving additional reve-nue based on the number of stu-dents.
Students interested in register-ing to vote will need to bring their state ID card with them at the time of registration.
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By Samantha MiddendorfEntertainment Editor | @Samantha_EE
The s tage was made up of a dull excuse of a car, simply paint-ed backdrop, and the s ix writ-ten characters who made up the cast of “Leaving Iowa,” were not much better.
The Char les ton Community Theater’s production of “Leaving Iowa” left most of the play up to their viewers’ imaginations.
“Leaving Iowa” began with an int roduct ion to the Browning family, who were on one of their many family trips.
This trip in particular was to Hannibal , Mo., home of Mark Twain.
The play jumps forward three years later and takes a sentimen-tal turn.
The family explains that the fa ther, p layed by Tim Mason, passed away and his ashes have been left in the basement.
Don Browning, the main char-acter of the play and the son in the family, played by Matt Mat-tingly, takes it upon himself to t rave l wherever he must go to spread his father’s ashes where he wishes to lie.
“Leaving Iowa” continues as a tale that jumps between the fam-i ly t r ip to Hanniba l and Don Browning’s trip with his father’s ashes.
Browning faces many troubles along the way, such as guilt for not attending his father’s retire-ment party, which easily provides a sense of sentiment to the play.
Among those in the cast are the Little Sis, played by Leah Piescin-ski, and the mom, played by Vic-toria Bennett.
Mom and Si s a re ea s i l y the least desirable characters because of Sis’s obnoxious, nagging atti-tude and Mom’s constant look of boredom throughout the play.
T h e s t a n d o u t p e r f o r m e r s throughout the play were def-
i n i t e l y E a r l Ha lb e and Fa i th Ramsey who played an array of characters such as Uncle Phil and Aunt Phyllis, the Civil War Guy and Civil War Assistant, and the Hotel Clerk and Drunk Lady.
T h e i r p o r t r a y a l s o f v a r i -ous characters left the audience much more entertained than the Browning family managed to do.
Overall , “Leaving Iowa” con-sisted of many tongue-in-cheek one-liners that never quite made the cut.
Perhaps this is the fault of the actors, but more than likely it is the fault of the writers.
“Leaving Iowa” was performed at the Tarble Arts Center, which may also be a cause for the un-pleasant feel ings one may hold toward the play.
Perhaps the worst part of this production is the t imeliness of the performance, or lack thereof.
“Leaving Iowa’s” duration of two and a half hours was rough-
ly an hour too long. Writers should consider revis-
ing the screenplay into a version that does not last longer than the average Hollywood film.
“Leav ing Iowa” wi l l be per-formed at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 2 and 3, and at 2 p.m. Oct. 4 at the Tarble Arts Center.
Review: “Leaving Iowa” leaves much to be desiredEntertainment Editor Samantha Middendorf reviews “Leaving Iowa”
PHOTOS BY Z ACHARY LAVIZZO | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Bennett, Piescenski, Mattingly, Halbe, and Mason perform Friday during Charleston Community Theater's produc-tion of “Leaving Iowa” at Tarble Arts Center.
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“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”
- Steve Jobs
Today’s quote:
When I was in high school, I had a teacher say that sports had no redeem-ing qualities and that outside of its ath-letic benefits, that they were pretty much useless.
Maybe he’s right. I mean, what is the point of sports anyway? Have sports real-ly instilled values or morals or taught me “character” or anything like that? I’m not really sure, and to be honest, probably not.
I grew up watching the Chicago Bears, and since I was not alive in 1985, most of the Bears teams I watched were kind of bad. Some of them awful. Some of them were OK, but let’s not kid ourselves.
Growing up, watching football on Sun-days was just something we did. I had to have been at a pretty young age when I figured out that, OK, we watch the Bears every Sunday and we watch them even though they are terrible sometimes.
When I started to get a little older and a little more aware of the sport and what was actually happening, I started to get used to losing. I caught on to the pattern that on most Sundays while I was growing up, the Bears were not going to win, they
were not going to make the playoffs, and if by some chance they did, they probably weren’t going to go very far.
I don’t think I was too much of a sore loser while growing up and I think I have the Bears to thank for this. The Bears taught me that in every game, there’s a winner and a loser and there’s a good chance that loser can be you. In that like-ly chance that the loser is you, you just have to learn that there’s always going to be another chance, that the sun is going to come up tomorrow and that life goes on, win or lose.
The Bears taught me growing up that you could try really hard for something, care a lot about it and then still not have things go your way. There are only so
many Brett Favres in the world and guess what? They’re not on your team. You’re just going to have to work harder and try to get better. Sometimes you might, but sometimes you might not.
I worked at a summer camp for kids a few years back and the kids, like a lot of kids, would get really upset when they would lose. It’s kind of hard to teach kids how not to be sore losers. It’s just kind of something you have to grow out of (some people never do, though). Maybe the Bears being sort of decent over the last few years and kids being able to see the Black-hawks win two championships have made people too used to things going their way.
Losing isn’t fun, and if I had the power to make it so, the Bears would have won every Super Bowl since I started watching them, but I’ll take the losses too, I think. They made me a better person in the sense that I’m not a sore loser. Maybe that’s a moral victory.
Dominic Renzetti is a senior family and consumer sciences major
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Letter to the Editor:Eastern needs policy for stolen belongings
Just recently, I found out to my shock and d i smay that my shower e s sent ia l s (shampoo, etc.) had disappeared from the shower room on my floor after I had for-gotten them.
I do admit that this has happened before, but now I want to put my two cents in.
Why do forgotten shower supplies disap-pear almost immediately after they are for-gotten?
I could understand them disappearing, say, after a BSW holds onto them for at least a day, but the fact that shower sup-plies are presumably thrown away without any second thought bothers me.
Shampoo, soap and body wash all cost money.
And having them thrown away before be-ing claimed by their rightful owner is first-ly, wasteful and secondly, annoying - waste-ful in the respect that all the plastic and shampoo and so on will be sent to landfills and not used or recycled.
Ecologically speaking, that’s not a good thing.
Secondly, people who sometimes forget their shower supplies such as myself are try-ing to keep to some sort of budget - having our stuff thrown out and being forced to make a special trip to Walmart or wherever to replace them is inconvenient and finan-cially frustrating.
This university needs to have some sort of policy in place where students who may accidentally leave their soap and sham-poo in the shower rooms have some sort of chance to reclaim their belongings before they are thrown away.
This sort of inconvenience and source of frustration needs to be addressed.
Sincerely,
Michael Skasick, a senior English major
With voter registration readily available almost every day there is no excuse not to be registered to vote in this upcoming election.
When November hits, Eastern students should be lining up to cast their ballots, instead of watching yet another election go idly by.
Staying involved with state and local politics in most ways are more important than national elections. Where the president and Congress make decisions that affect the big picture, state and local government affect your day-to-day activities.
New stop lights, ordinances for bars and resolutions for which streets are closed—all things local and state governmenthelp achieve.
When casting your vote, don’t decide to skip the elections until ev-ery four years. Instead, realize that the closer the election is to home, the more impact it will have on you.
While the national elections are important, do not stray from the idea that local and state politics also matter.
Deciding on which sheriff or which mayor or which state represen-tative you want can have monumental impact on what happens here.
As for students who believe they are not residents of Charleston — well, you are actually.
For four years Charleston is your home. It’s where your mail is sent. It’s where you identify yourself. It’s where you live.
And because this is your home for four years — especially if you’re
a freshman, even a senior — you want to take care of it as much as possible. Do not shy away from the politics, but instead embrace them.
These are politics that will change your life and should have mean-ingful impact. These are elections that could help shape the rest of your collegiate career if you watch carefully enough.
Just because this is school does not mean this isn’t home. And part of being home is taking care of it.
Just because the local and state elections aren’t as popular as the na-tional elections does not give them less importance. And even though national elections are wide-spread, you can still be informed of local and state politics.
Watch the news. Read a paper. Do independent research. This should mean a lot to you and because of that you should be willing to go the extra mile. Don’t slack off because you think it won’t matter—in these elections every vote counts.
Don’t ignore state and local elections. Even if you just arrived, know what you want from this area. And then find someone run-ning who’s beliefs coincide with yours. These are important elec-tions. Get involved now.
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The exc i tement o f the Ohio Valley Conference sea-son opener was quickly re-placed by heartache for the Eastern volleyball team.
The Panthers dropped a 3-1 decision to Tennessee Tech, Friday, and a five-set loss to Jacksonville State Sat-urday that dropped Eastern’s record to 6-9 and 0-2 to be-gin OVC play.
Chelsea Lee led the Pan-thers in kills both games, with 14 on Friday and 20 on Saturday.
On Sa t u rd a y, E a s t e r n lost the first set 27-25, be-fore rallying to take the next two 25-22 and 30-28. The Gamecocks then took the next two sets by two points, apiece, giving the Panthers their second loss in as many plays.
The Panthers had five at-
tackers who finished with double-digit kills, along with Lee. Josie Winner and Abby Saa l f rank added 14 k i l l s apiece, while Allie Hueston chipped in with 12, and Kayla Nesbitt with 11. Win-ner led the Panthers attack average with a clip of .462.
On the defens ive s ide , the Panthers were led by Hueston and libero Stepha-nie Wallace. Hueston post-ed six blocks against a strong Gamecock front line, led by Nicole Merget who finished with 21 kills.
Wallace upped 19 Jack-sonville State attacks to lead Eastern in digs. Seniors Da-kota Springer and Kelsey Brooke also registered 15 and 12 dig tallies, respec-tively
Fo l l o w i n g t h e g a m e , Wallace said that the Pan-thers struggled to put to-gether lengthy runs, which will hopefully be better in
Wednesday’s home opener. “Hopefully being at home
all next week, with our fans cheer ing us on, wi l l g ive us more energy and we can move on,” Wallace said.
On Friday against Ten-nessee Tech, the Panthers fel l short in the f irst two sets, by scores of 25-21 and 26-24 . Eas t e rn took the next set 25-22, before fall-ing by that very score in the deciding fourth set.
Along with Lee’s 14 kills, Hueston led Eastern with 10 kills. Other team lead-ers were Wallace, who led the team with 29 digs, and setter Marah Bradbury, who f in i shed wi th 33 a s s i s t s . She nearly doubled that to-ta l the next day, with 63 against Jacksonville State.
Tennessee Tech was led by Cody Dodd and Kellie Williams, who finished with 19 and 15 kills, respective-ly. Eastern coach Kate Price
was impres sed by Dodd, who finished with a .310 clip, to lead all players on the court.
“You’ve got to give her all the credit, she showed why she’s one of the best play-ers in the conference,” Price said. “Just a great all-around player.”
Dodd added 22 digs to her kills, to finish with her fourth double-double of the season.
The Panthers have now opened OVC play 0-2 for the seventh time, since join-ing the conference in 1996.
Eastern plays its confer-ence home opener, s tar t-ing at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Lantz Arena, where the Pan-thers will host in-state rival Southern Illinois-Edwards-ville.
The Eastern rugby team opened its home schedule with a 31-17 victory over Tennessee on Satur-day at Lakeside Field.
Eastern started off with the foot on the gas pedal, scoring twice early in the first half.
Newcomer Katlyn Gibson took advantage of a Tennessee turnover and scored. Hannah Vieth added a two-point kick conversion to give the Panthers a 7-0 lead.
Gibson was hurt on the try and was held out the rest of the game with a leg injury, after being cart-ed off the field.
Another newcomer Deairel le Ivy scored her first try of her ca-reer and Vieth added her second-straight kick conversion to give the Panthers a 14-0 lead.
The Volunteers cut the Pan-thers’ lead to 14-7 after Morgan Alston scored for Tennessee.
The Panthers scored seven more points with 11 seconds left in the second half on freshman Lacey Viano’s try and a two-point kick conversion by Vieth.
Eastern coach Frank Grazia-no said that the three newcomers scoring in the first half was nice to see. The Panthers entered their first home game with two losses, which Eastern was outscored 88-18 in.
In the second half, the game looked like it had déjà vu written all over it, as in the last game the Panthers played, they were leading at the half and let Lindenwood run all over them in the second half of the game.
Early in the second half of Sat-urday’s game, the Volunteers scored to cut the lead to 21-12.
But, the Panthers responded with solid defense and added a try from Kaitlyn Hammock to give the Pan-thers a 26-12 lead.
Both teams traded tries late in the second half, capped off by a Ca-rissa Burge try.
Neither team converted a two-point kick conversion in the final 40 minutes of the game.
Vieth finished the game 3-of-5 kicking, which was her best in the first three games of the season.
Graziano said after the game that it was nice to see the Panthers pull out a win and figure out how well
they needed to play to win a game.“Certainly it was great to get
our first win,” he said. “The girls worked very hard to try and feel what that actually feels like to play well enough to win a game. We
played very good in spurts, and then we didn’t play so good in spurts.”
Eastern’s next action begins at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Marietta, Ga., where the Panthers take on
JASON HOWELL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSophomore Breanna Young is grabbed by an opponent during a game on Saturday against Tennessee at Lakeside Field. The Panthers beat the Volun-teers 31-17 to improve to 1-2 on the season.
Rugby opens home schedule with 1st win
By Mark ShanahanStaff Reporter | @DEN_Sports
For the second game in a row, the Eastern men’s soccer team was shut-out after losing 1-0 to Omaha to open Summit League play in Oma-ha, Neb., on Saturday.
Eastern was outshot 13-3 and had just one shot on goal from Chris Boswell. Will Butler and Tay-ron Martin also had shots, but they were not on goal for the Panthers. Eastern is now 2-6 overall, while dropping its conference opener.
Eastern has not won its first con-ference game in the Summit League, since joining in 2011.
After a scoreless first half, Omaha senior Vance Rookwood scored in the 77th minute and it turned out to be the game-winning goal. It was his fifth goal of the year, as Chris-tian Garcia was credited with the as-sist. Rookwood is Omaha’s leading scorer with nine points and has two game-winning goals this season.
Eastern head coach Mark Han-sen had praise for the lone goal of the game.
“It was a well taken goal,” Han-sen said. “You have to tip your hat
to that goal.”Hansen also said that his team
gave Omaha a fight for 90 minutes and that no changes are needed to be made. He said the Panthers sim-ply did not get as many chances as they would like.
Eastern is now 0-5 on the road this season, with only two goals in the five defeats.
Freshman goalkeeper Mike No-votny made two saves for Eastern, while opposing goalie Joseph Ghi-tis had to make just one save in the shutout victory. Ghitis is 2-2 on the year now and Novotny is 2-3. The 1-0 win was Ghitis’ first career shut-out.
Felipe da Silva and Andres Irvin each received yellow cards during the match for Omaha. Eastern was not given any penalties. Omaha is 4-3-1 on the year and 1-0 in con-ference play.
Despite the loss, Hansen still had a positive attitude, as the Panthers prepare for their next opponent.
“We are going to continue to work a little bit harder,” he said. “We need to move the ball quicker.”
Eastern’s conference home open-er starts at 3 p.m. Saturday at Lake-
side Field, where the Panthers will host Denver.
Around the Summit League:Denver is 6-3 and 1-0 in confer-
ence after a 4-0 win at home against Oral Roberts. The Pioneers were undefeated in conference play last year and won the conference tour-nament.
Fort Wayne is 3-3-3 and 1-0 in conference after winning 4-0 against IUPUI. With that win Fort Wayne matched its conference win total from last season.
Western Illinois is 4-4-1 and has yet to open up conference play. The Leathernecks finished fourth in the Summit League after going 3-3 in conference play last year. Western starts league play at noon Saturday in Macomb, against Fort Wayne.
Oral Roberts is 3-3-1 and 0-1 in conference. The Golden Eagles have a non-conference game Tuesday be-fore hosting Omaha at 7 p.m. Sat-urday in Tulsa, Okla.
JASON HOWELL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSFreshman defender Jeffery Etter battles against an opponent during the Panthers' last home match against Culver-Stockton on Sept. 8 at Lakeside Field. The Panthers won 5-1. The Panthers have lost the last four away games and will face Denver on Oct. 4 at 3 p.m. at Lakeside Field.
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By Aldo SotoSports Editor | @AldoSoto21
Eastern football coach Kim Dameron em-phasized one major thing prior to Saturday’s road game at Ohio for the Panthers.
“We have to play penalty free and that doesn’t mean we have no penalties, but we have to decrease the number that we have,” he said.
Eastern committed 13 penalties, costing the Panthers 134 yards against Ohio on Saturday, as the Bobcats won 34-19 in Peden Stadium in Athens, Ohio.
The Panthers dropped to 1-4, finishing non-conference play with a 0-4 record, while the Bobcats won their second game in a row to im-prove to 3-2.
Eastern’s nemeses this season have been turn-overs and penalties, but against Ohio the Pan-thers won the turnover battle, as defensive backs Bradley Dewberry and Anthony Standifer each had an interception of JD Sprague, who made his first start for the Bobcats.
Though, yellow flags reared their ugly heads for Eastern.
Ohio was leading 7-3 midway through the first quarter, when Sprague was leading the Bob-cats deep into Eastern territory. On third down and one from the Eastern 14-yard line, the Pan-thers’ defense forced an incomplete pass that made it a forth down. But before Sprague re-ceived the snap from center, the Panthers were called for an offside penalty, giving Ohio a first and goal from the nine-yard line.
Sprague scored three plays later on a quarter-back keeper from six yards out that made it a 14-3 advantage for Ohio.
But it was not just the defense giving Ohio more chances to score; the Eastern offense also shot itself in the foot.
After falling behind 21-3 with 14:37 left in the second quarter, Eastern quarterback Jalen Whitlow led the Panthers on a nine-play, 47-yard scoring drive. He capped it off with a one-yard rushing touchdown, which brought the score to 21-10, with a little more than eight minutes left in the first half.
After a couple of defensive stands by the Pan-thers, Whitlow managed to get the Eastern of-fense near midfield, where it faced a third down and two. Before Whitlow could get the snap the Panthers were flagged for illegal procedure, cost-ing them five yards. Whitlow then threw an in-complete pass. The ensuing punt was blocked by Ohio and the Bobcats capitalized with a 20-yard field goal to take a 24-10 lead.
A 15-yard unsportsmanlike penalty in Ohio’s first drive of the second half after being stopped
on third down also led to another field goal for the Bobcats. Meanwhile, the Panthers’ first of-fensive possession stalled quickly, following a delay of game penalty on third down and nine.
Sprague once again capitalized with the aid of another Eastern penalty.
Facing a third down and eight from the Pan-thers’ 43-yard line, Sprague elected to go deep over the middle of the field for Chase Cochran. The pass fell harmlessly on the field, but the back judge threw a flag for pass interference. The culprit was Antoine Johnson. The result was a first down for Ohio at Eastern’s 28-yard line.
A Daz Patterson 19-yard run set up the Bob-cats with a first and goal from the nine and three plays later Sprague scored his second rush-ing touchdown. The 34-10 lead with 7:28 left in the third quarter was Ohio’s biggest lead and enough to withstand Eastern’s late push in the fourth quarter.
The 13 penalties for 134 yards were both sea-son highs for Eastern.
Dameron knew the more mistakes Eastern committed the less chance it had to win.
“We can’t go over there and do some of the things we’ve done and think we’re going to beat this good football team,” Dameron said.
The Panthers have committed at least 11 pen-alties in their last four games. Eastern is one of four teams in the Ohio Valley Conference to play five games so far. The Panthers have 52 penalties called against them – the next closest from the teams with the same amount of games played is Southeast Missouri with 44.
Another trend continued in the loss, as East-ern managed to gain more yards than Ohio.
Although, 168 of the Panthers’ 432 yards came in the fourth quarter, when the Bobcats had a 24-point lead. Eastern allowed 387 yards.
The Panthers have outgained all of their op-
ponents this season, including their four defeats.Whitlow led Eastern in rushing with 112
yards on 15 carries, which included a season-high 48-yard run in the fourth quarter that led to his six-yard touchdown pass to Anthony Tay-lor.
With Shepard Little missing his second straight game with an ankle injury, Taylor Dun-can and Jimmy Lera handled the primary duty from the running backs position. Unfortunately for Eastern, the duo combined for 26 yards on 11 total carries.
Eastern heads into its bye week and will not play again until Oct. 11, in Richmond, Ky., against Eastern Kentucky. The Panthers are 1-0 in OVC play.
PHOTO COURTESY K ATIE KLANN | THE POST AT OHIO UNIVERSIT YOhio freshman running back A.J. Ouellette escapes a tackle against Eastern on Saturday at Peden Stadium in Athens, Ohio. The Panthers fell to the Bobcats 34-19.
By Dominic RenzettiAssistant Sports Editor | @domrenzetti
The Eastern women’s soccer team opened Ohio Valley Conference play with two losses to Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois-Edwardsville during the weekend.
Despite strong words from Eastern head coach Jason Cherry following Friday’s loss against South-east Missouri, the Panthers fell 3-1 to the Cougars on Sunday in Edwardsville.
The Panthers and Cougars were tied at 1-1 go-ing into halftime following a goal from Southern Il-linois-Edwardsville’s Mariah Vollmer just 1:20 into the match. Senior Madison Carter scored the re-sponding goal for the Panthers in the 18th minute. Fellow senior Meagan Radloff supplied the assist.
The Cougars jumped back on top in 49th min-ute with a goal from Michelle Auer and then add-ed an insurance goal in the 83th minute from Kay-la Delgado.
With the loss, the Panthers fall to 1-9-1 and 0-2 in the OVC. Eastern takes on Belmont and Austin Peay this Friday and Sunday. Both matches are at Lakeside Field.
Panthers fall to Southeast MissouriSoutheast Missouri’s Natasha Minor scored twice
in the first half, helping lead the Redhawks to a 4-0 victory over Eastern in the Ohio Valley Conference opener for both women’s soccer teams Friday at Lakeside Field.
Minor scored the first two goals of the match for Southeast Missouri in the 11th and 25th min-ute to give the Redhawks an early lead. Christina Rhode added a third in the 32nd minute and Tay-lor Byrd put in the only goal of the second half to secure the 4-0 win.
“Of course, not the way we want to start,” Cherry said. “I think with us, we gotta refocus and pay attention to details. We were prepared for the game, but we didn’t execute our plan and stick to it and those little small details killed us today and that’s why we lost the game.”
Radloff led Eastern with three shots and two on goal. Radloff said the Panthers are putting the loss behind them.
“We’re just keeping our head high,” she said. “Last year we lost to them with the same score and we still did really well in conference, so we’re kind of taking it as we’re just gonna put this one behind us.”
Panthers fall during weekend; open OVC schedule 0-2
JASON HOWELL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSenior forward Madison Carter maneuvers around opponents in a match against Southeast Missouri on Friday at Lakeside Field. The Panthers lost to SEMO 4-0. After losing to Southern Illinois-Edwardsville 3-1 on Sunday, the Panthers are 0-2 in the OVC and 1-9-1 overall.
