Nestled among the newly construct-ed sorority houses along Aggie Road, the Kays House sits back from the street amid a glade of trees and shrubbery. For some people, the former residence of ASU’s first president is a minor con-struction inconvenience; but for others, the house is an irreplaceable beacon of history and heritage.

The newly formed Save the Kays House Committee aims to preserve that heritage, by both restoring the house and making use of the facilities it offers by dedicating different sections of the house to offices, meeting rooms and his-

toric exhibits. Committee chair Clyde Milner, pro-

fessor of history and director of the heritage studies doctorate program, has been spearheading the efforts to save Kays House. Since the committee’s in-ception last April, its primary goals have been to raise both awareness and funds for the preservation of the historic site.

Awareness efforts kicked off Jan. 25, with the first “Coffee for Kays” gather-ing at the Milners’ home. “It’s a time for guests to come, ask some questions, have some coffee and make a pledge,” John Hall, psychology and counseling professor and Kays House committee member, said. He has yet to attend a

coffee meet and greet, but likes the idea because of the relaxed atmosphere and open question format.

A pledge brochure has also been de-signed and printed, and is being distrib-uted during coffee gatherings, commit-tee meetings and everyday interpersonal contact. Some committee members take the brochures and deliver them to their colleagues, friends and coworkers, ac-cording to Hall.

Chair Clyde Milner stresses that the committee is not a one man show.

“We’ve got a lot of great people work-ing on this,” Milner said. “Interesting-ly enough, on the committee there are about five faculty, but we’ve got a lot of

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Lindsey Blakely | Editor-In-ChiefFROM LEFT: Miss ASU 2012 Chelsea Treadway crowns the newest title holder, Sarah Hamilton; Taylor Keown performs a jazz routine in the talent portion of the Miss ASU pageant; Before crowning, Hamilton participated in the swimsuit portion of the competition alongside 11 other contestants; Molly Jones performs a clogging routine during the talent portion of the Miss ASU pageant.

BETHANY GALLIMORESTAFF WRITER

Four-peatFor the fourth year in a row, an Alpha Gamma

Delta has won the title of Miss ASU

As the contestants lined up in the 39th annual Miss Arkansas State Universi-ty pageant, a judge handed the Master

of Ceremonies and Miss Arkansas Congeniality 2009 award winner Anna Callaway the list of win-ners. Gowns of red, champagne, silver and white adorned the stage of Riceland Hall of the Fowler Center on Friday night while the women in them were filled with excitement as they awaited the an-nouncement of Miss ASU 2013.

Ten women put their talent to the test, compet-

ing for the crown and title to the only student run preliminary pageant to the Miss Arkansas pageant, which is hosted in Hot Springs this summer.

The title of Miss Arkansas State University went to Sarah Hamilton, a sophomore communications disorders major of Paragould. Sponsored by Alpha Gamma Delta, her service platform was, “the im-portance of supporting the arts,” which was reflect-ed through her vocal performance of “My Man.” Aside from winning the crown, she also tied for the Talent award.

Caitlin LaFarlette | Photo EditorThe Kays House sits on University Loop between two future sorority houses. Several community members and faculty members have joined forces to save the historic building.

Saving the Kays House: New committee, new plan

Choosing which classes to enroll in or just needing advice when it comes to de-cisions about education can be hard to make alone. That’s what the faculty and advisers at ASU are here to help stu-dents to do. They assist their students in so many ways, and there is one way students can give back to them.

“The ‘You Make a Differ-ence Award’ is given every fall semester to an outstand-ing faculty member,” said Ad-viser Kandi Granberry.

The award is a way for students to tell their adviser how much they really mean to them in the furthering of their education. It is a stu-dent nominated award and the recipient is chosen by the Student Government Associ-ation after they have looked over all the information pro-vided by the students.

The award is given to a faculty member who displays certain characteristics.

“They definitely have to be caring, knowledgeable about policies, and it is good for them to also be person-able with their students,” Granberry said. “During the awarding, we always give the winner a plaque and try to make sure the faculty from the department and college is there.”

The recipient of this year’s award, Larry Salinger of the

department of criminology, sociology, and geography, was taken by surprise when he found out he was chosen to receive it.

“Complete and utter shock,” Salinger said, ex-plaining his reaction. “My departmental colleagues had known about the award for two weeks before I did, and they kept it a complete secret from me.”

More than 90 faculty members on campus were nominated for the “You Make a Difference Award.” Howev-er, Salinger’s advising meth-ods broke the mold this year.

“Every student is some-one’s child, and deserves to receive the best advising pos-sible, but it does not mean telling the student what they want to hear,” Salinger said. “It means telling them what they need to hear. My goal is to graduate every student as expeditiously as possible, and with the skills needed to obtain employment or attend graduate school.”

Salinger believes in be-ing sincere with his students in order to help them get to where they need to be aca-demically and in their future careers.

“I am upfront and honest with my advisees. They don’t always like to hear what I need to tell them, but I also don’t hem and haw around the truth, and I don’t lie to them,” Salinger said. “Many

Adviser continues compassion after award

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Valentine’s Day is the day for couples and secret admir-ers to make their valentines feel special.

It is also the day for single people, like me, to remember that they are single.

With this day of love rap-idly approaching, our valen-tines are going to the grocery store to stalk up on chocolate, candles and condoms.

But, will they also be con-sidering all the necessities needed to survive an apoca-lyptic event?

On Feb. 15, a 150 foot wide “small” asteroid will be speeding past Earth. The as-teroid named “2012 DA14” will be flying closer to the Earth than our ring of satel-lites.

2012 DA14 will be the closest flying asteroid known about in advance.

The asteroid was discov-ered last February and has continually been zipping past the sun every 368 days.

It has been calculated to be a mere 17,200 miles from our planet.

Europe, Asia and Austra-lia have the best chance of seeing this phenomenon and will only need a small pair of binoculars or a telescope.

NASA has assured every-one that this asteroid will not collide with Earth this year, but this does not mean that there isn’t potential for aster-oid collisions in the future.

An article published by Space.com stated “Asteroids of 2012 DA14’s size probably make such close flybys once every 40 years and actually hit Earth every 1,200 years or so.”

An asteroid of this size could easily destroy a large metropolitan area (or sever-al) and has been said to be twice the energy force of the atom bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima.

We can refer back to the large crater in Arizona to see the type of impact expected of a “small” asteroid.

The key to surviving an as-teroid collision with Earth is preparation. Most asteroid survival guides believe that to be properly prepared would require almost an entire year of preparations to build shel-ters and stock up on necessi-ties.

Some survivalist groups urge people to take extra cautionary actions before an asteroid’s near Earth passing.

The quote that’s most of-ten used is, “Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.”

The probability of an as-teroid killing off all life on Earth is very small, but small asteroids are passing by earth often.

Scientists admit that other relatively large asteroids have passed Earth without being spotted.

Each of these asteroids has the possibility of colliding with earth at some point in time.

Instead of turning a blind eye to these threats, peo-ple should be thinking of an emergency plan.

When you watch the weather channel and hear that there is a 60 percent chance of rain, don’t you immediately weigh your de-cisions for the day based on that information?

You wonder if you should bring a jacket maybe an um-brella, and you decide what you will do if it rains and you

decided to not bring any-thing.

We constantly question the meteorologist prediction on weather, when the conse-quences are rather trivial.

However, when media re-ports that there’s a 150-foot asteroid flying extremely close to Earth, we are told not to worry. We believe them without question.

So, on Valentines Day, if you don’t get the perfect flowers or any at all; do not forget that it could have been far worse. Thankfully, we have a 99.9% chance of mak-ing it to Feb. 16.

Lakin Cathy is a freshman business administration ma-jor of Heber Springs

There’s been a lot of de-bate on a recent incident in-volving a viral tweet and an Applebee’s waitress.

For anyone who didn’t catch the news here is the short of it: An Applebee’s waitress from the St. Louis area posted a photograph of a receipt her co-worker re-ceived.

The receipt was for a large party and included an 18 percent service charge. The included tip amount was crossed out on the receipt, with the phrase “I give God 10%, why do you get 18%?”

The waitress was fired be-cause the photograph showed the signature of the customer, and this is considered a viola-tion of privacy.

A lot of controversy has surrounded this issue.

Many people, religious or not, are upset by the custom-er’s actions.

Others are arguing about whether or not the visible sig-nature constitutes a violation of the customer’s privacy, and whether that warrants the waitress being fired.

There’s plenty of discus-sion to be had about these things, but I think they miss

the bigger picture: fair wages. The whole reason tipping

is even a necessary thing in the United States, is because it supplements wages that are too low to live on alone.

Paying gratuity is only an issue when we don’t pay food servers the minimum neces-sary amount to survive on, especially if they have chil-dren to take care of.

It is important for us to realize that this problem isn’t just something that happens in the food service industry.

The issue of adequate wag-es is something that touches a great number of people.

While minimum wage laws have been in effect for quite some time, and do provide for some degree of

worker protection, they quite often fail to do so adequately.

This is because as infla-tion and living costs go up, the laws establishing mini-mum wages stay the same. This causes the “real value” of wages to decrease over time.

The best way to solve for a problem like this is to base the minimum wage upon a carefully calculated “living wage”.

A living wage is the min-imum wage necessary for a worker to provide themselves with basic needs with a 40-hour workweek.

In the United States, this is usually a difference of several dollars per hour.

It varies from region to re-gion, but according to MIT’s Living Wage Calculator, the

living wage for a family of four in Craighead County is $17.62/hr, while the poverty line is at $10.60/hr and min-imum wage is $7.25/hr.

Supplying low-wage work-ers with the raise they need to meet the living wage will not only make wages fairer but also raise the standard of liv-ing for the working class.

This increase in take home pay will increase these work-ers spending ability. As a na-tion we can benefit from their higher dollar velocity.

The National Employ-ment Law Project has shown through a study conducted in 2012 that slow wage growth hinders economic recovery.

At the end of the day, this is a simple issue.

Not only do workers de-serve to make a wage that al-lows them to adequately pro-vide for themselves and their families, instituting a living wage policy will also stimu-late economic growth.

Clint Simpson is a senior poli-cal science major of Jonesboro.

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They have called us “Generation Y,” “The Millennials,” “Gen Next” and newly suggested, “Gen Text.”

With 140 character tweets and short texts on phones be-coming the standard, it is clear the way that words are used has changed. In some cases we avoid words altogether. As our communication is becoming far more visual, we need far less words.

Look to our social media programs like Instagram or new wordless communications like Snapchat. These typify a pic-ture being worth a thousand words.

Besides just doing away with words there is also a ru-mored new language “Txtspk.” Txtspk is the accumulation of all of the abbreviations, slang, new words and emoticons we use daily. Although this new language originated from text messages, txtspk is now being used in all venues.

But is it appropriate for all communication settings?Communication has become short, efficient and suffers

from its own form of ADHD. Many individuals fear that this new language has dilap-

idated this generation’s grammar. Multiple studies have looked into the relationship between this new language and it’s negative effect on English grammar skills.

Students are trained for 13 years to be proficient in the basic principles of spelling, noun and adverb use, sentence structure and comma splicing.

The power in grammatical precision might best be illus-trated by the comma that can save lives.

“Let’s eat grandma!” reads demonic and in poor taste, lit-erally. Compared to, “Let’s eat, grandma!” When the proper comma is placed, the sentence immediately transforms from a Saw film into the Andy Griffith show.

But are grammar skills really this important?Many students have seen the forward that claimed to be

the conclusion of research from Cambridge University, “it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteers be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.”

Although the research never actually took place at Cam-bridge University; there is something to be said about the human brain’s ability to comprehend grammatical inaccu-racies. With this information we can see a compelling ar-gument that content can still be expressed, even without perfect grammar.

It seems the best solution for our now bilingual, Gen Text, is to understand context and audience. There is no need to throw away the incredibly useful communication style of txtspk, and likewise need to have a firm foundation in proper grammatical creativeness. The ability to switch in-between these two forms of communication will prove incredibly useful in the workplace.

On twitter, sending a text to a friend or writing person-al notes in class it is proper to use txtspk. However, when sending emails to teachers or other professionals, writing papers for class or preparing a resumé for a job interview, grammar must be stressed.

With this in mind, go eat with your grandma, just don’t forget to use proper English when writing about it on Face-book.

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FOUR-PEAT, Continued

Day One • Lunch at the Delta Cultural

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• Tour - Delta Cultural Center Vistor’s Center, Moore-Hornor House, Estevan Hall, Freedom Park

• Dinner at the Historic Pillow - Thompson House

Day Two• Tour - Helena Phillips County

Museum, Windsheld Tour of Batteries A-D, Confederate Cemetery.

• Speaker - Cathy Cunningham, Director of Community Outreach,

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Hamilton said she was in awe when her name was followed by the title of Miss ASU.

“I’m in shock right now. I feel like I’m just about to wake up from my dream,” Hamilton said. “I’m gonna wake up.”

While Hamilton will take home a crown and $5,000 scholarship, four other con-testants will not go home empty handed for compet-ing in the on stage question, performing talent and dress-ing in swimwear and evening gown.

Jordon Fonville, a soph-omore clinical laboratory science major of Conway, was sponsored by the gen-tlemen of Alpha Tau Ome-ga and took the title of first runner-up along with a $500 scholarship.

In a surprising award cer-emony, Fonville also won the Interview award and tied in the Talent Award with Ham-ilton.

Second runner up, Molly Jones, a freshman political science major sponsored by the ladies of Chi Omega, is from El Dorado. She took home a $250 scholarship.

A $150 scholarship and the title of third runner-up and Miss Congeniality went to Sarah Loftin, a sophomore nursing major of Paragould.

The ladies of Zeta Tau Al-pha sponsored her.

The ladies of Chi Omega sponsored Jill Ligon, a soph-

omore education major of Poplar Grove.

She took home the Peo-ple’s Choice award, the title of fourth runner-up along with a $100 scholarship.

Pi Kappa Alpha President, and executive pageant direc-tor, Zach Morrison presented $500 to Sue McDaniel, chair of the Northeast Arkansas Children’s Advocacy Center.

“I don’t know how I could’ve picked if I was a judge. Everyone was just so great. That normally doesn’t happen,” said Chelsea Tread-way, Miss ASU 2012.

Treadway said there was a noticeable difference be-tween this year’s pageant and last year’s pageant.

“This year everything went a lot quicker, that was kind of the goal this year to get it rolling,” Treadway said. “This was the first year I thought that we had a group of great talent.”

Treadway said she was more than happy with the judges’ results.

“Sarah absolutely deserves it,” Treadway said. “She’s been competing since she was in teens and so I am really hap-py to be able to crown her tonight.”

Treadway only had good wishes for Hamilton.

“I just hope that she has fun at Miss Arkansas,” Tread-way said. “She is so talented so I hope she just keeps on it.”

people from the commu-nity and alumni. Easily, the majority are alumni commu-nity members.”

Paula Miller, committee member and director of the Arkansas Heritage Sites, sees the diversity of the commit-tee as having incredible po-tential.

“We all have different strengths. That’s what makes it so great,” Miller said. “There are just so many peo-ple that are interested in this. All of us are very involved in the community, so all of us are taking brochures out to organizations that we are in-volved with.”

According to Clyde Mil-ner, the awareness efforts are paying off. “We’ve already raised over $30,000 in the first week,” Milner said.

That puts the committee well on their way to their first goal, $100,000 to fix up the Kays house exterior. “We’re just getting started,” Miller pointed out. “We just launched these efforts a few weeks ago, so that’s a good

sign that we are almost a third of the way to our first goal.”

The first phase of the res-toration efforts will be im-provements on the exterior of the house, paying particu-lar attention to protecting it from further decay from wa-ter or weather damage. This will be in addition to adding new landscaping and fixing the exterior to the standards of its more modern sorority counterparts.

“Now that the (Kays house and the sorority housing) are all here together, there’s the sense that the scale is right, they enhance each other,” Milner said. “A lot of people comment on that,” Milner said.

Phase two would be to re-store and refurbish the interi-or of Kays House.

“It’s a president’s house, there’s a lot of room and there’s a lot we can do with it,” Milner said. “The idea is that it’s a very useful space, for offices, for students, both upstairs and in the basement.

There’s some very useful pub-lic space for all kinds of things up on the first floor.”

The tentative plan is to use the first floor as a public area, featuring historic ex-hibits and heritage kiosks, as-sign the heritage studies and Delta Scenic Byways offices to the second floor, and use the basement for archiving or workspaces.

The majority of the first floor would be public her-itage-history displays, ed-ucating visitors on the im-portance of former ASU President V.C. Kays as well as his relationship with Hat-tie Caraway, the first woman senator in the United States Congress. “There could be other important exhibits there about other key people in terms of Arkansas state, it could be a sort of Arkansas State heritage house as well,” Milner said.

As per the proposed plan, the heritage studies and Delta Scenic Byways offices would be moved from their current location in the Library build-

ing to the second floor of the Kays House.

“What’s nice is that it will be very accessible, so as a heritage facility it’ll be great. It’ll be an anchor point.”

When the board of direc-tors made the decision to postpone demolition of the Kays House last spring, a one-year deadline was set in place for restoration efforts. If satisfactory progress is not made, then the Board would see no reason to keep the house, according to Hall.

Miller encourages the committee to stay united and goal-oriented. “I’ve said before that we all have differ-ent strengths, but our main strength is that we all love the Kays House and want to save it.”

“It’s not going to be an old house that gets fixed up and then sits there. It’s going to be an old house that’s really go-ing to be a landmark, and it’s really going to be of use to the university and the communi-ty,” Milner said.

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students want information on careers and graduate opportunities. I work to direct them to the proper resources for those opportunities.”

Being able to see how he has affected his advisees and how they accomplish their graduation goals at ASU motivates Salinger.

“The absolute best part of being an

adviser is going to graduation, watching my advisees cross the stage, and hearing their families cheer and clap for them,” Salinger said.

Salinger’s effect on his students was definitely made known when he became the recipient of the “You Make a Differ-ence Award.”

“There are literally hundreds of excel-

lent advisers across the ASU campuses, including in Jonesboro,” Salinger said. “All of them work really hard to make a difference in their student’s lives. I am very thankful to the students of ASU for choosing to honor me with this award, and I plan to live up to what it means to make a difference for the rest of my ca-reer.”

ADVISER, Continued

A season-high 23 points from senior guard Trey Finn helped the Arkansas State University men’s basketball pull out a 67-49 victory over Western Kentucky this Satur-day (Feb. 9) night at WKU’s E.A. Diddle Arena in Bowling Green, Ky.

The ASU win not only moved the Red Wolves back into within a half-game tie for first place in the SBC West Division standings, but also ended an 11-game losing streak at WKU as A-State is now 2-18 all-time on the Hill-toppers’ home floor.

The last win by ASU at Western Kentucky prior to this one was in the 1997-98 campaign when the Red Wolves claimed a 71-49 de-cision.

ASU improved to 15-9 overall and 9-6 in the SBC West Division with the tri-umph and as a result, moved a half game back of first place in the SBC West Division with rival UALR as the Tro-jans were idle tonight.

Finn, who eclipsed his previous best 18-point ef-fort against South Alabama a week ago (1/31), went a season game-best 6-11 from three-point territory and 5-6 at the free throw line.

He finished shooting 6-14 from the floor and totaled seven rebounds in 38 min-utes of action.

Junior guard Ed Town-sel posted 11 points off the bench while senior forward Brandon Peterson and junior forward Kendrick Washing-ton contributed nine points apiece. Peterson grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds and Washington hauled down eight boards as A-State held a 40-30 advantage on the glass.

“This is as close to a com-plete game as we’ve played all season,” said ASU head coach John Brady. “It was a great road win for us and I’m so

proud of my team. We shot the ball well, made timely baskets, and our defense was really good.

“If our team plays like this (tonight’s game), we can win them all,” added Brady.

The Red Wolves led from wire to wire and in the sec-ond half, taking a three-point lead to start at 30-27 and building it up to 13 points at 42-29 with 14:12 remaining.

Western Kentucky would get no closer than eight points twice, including 55-47 with 6:40 left on the clock.

ASU then tallied eight consecutive points in a two-minute plus stretch to put the game away.

Arkansas State started out strong as the Red Wolves scored 10 of the game’s first 12 points in the four minutes.

ASU would go on to claim its largest lead of 13 points in the first half on two occa-sions – 22-9 at the nine-min-ute mark and 25-12 with 5:28 remaining on an Ed Townsel three-pointer.

Western Kentucky man-

aged to trim an 11-point deficit within less than one minute down to five at 30-25 with 1:21 to go as neither team scored the rest of the half. Ed Townsel (11 pts.) and Trey Finn (10 pts.) paced the Red Wolves’ scoring lead-ers in the opening stanza.

Brandon Peterson totaled eight rebounds in the open-ing 20 minutes for ASU, which connected on 39.3 percent in the first frame while WKU was held to 30.8 percent shooting from the floor.

Western Kentucky, which is 13-12 and 7-7 in the SBC’s East Division, had only one player in the double-figure scoring column as T.J. Price’s 21 points paced the Hilltop-pers.

ASU wrapped up the win with a 42.3 percent field goal percentage compared to Western Kentucky’s 32 per-cent shooting performance.

The Red Wolves also con-verted 20 points off WKU turnovers compared to the Hilltoppers’ three points.

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Rugby prepares for season in Red v. Black scrimmage

When the University of Arkansas had to reschedule its Wednesday’s game against Arkansas State’s rugby team, head coach Alex Houser kept preparing for a game.

In the 39-degree weather on Saturday, ASU’s A-team took on the B-team in the hard-hitting Red v. Black scrimmage.

After 60-minutes of ag-gressive play, the A-team—the red team—won 59-7.

“We have been focusing on being physical around the rucks and learning to love the hard stuff this weekend in practice,” sophomore lock Harry Higgins said.

Coach Houser said the team needed to work on holding the ball better after several turnovers that oc-curred in the game, as well as doing a better job of attack-ing after forcing a turnover.

Higgins, who played for the red team, agreed with Houser on the ball handling issue, but also said he was pleased with the intensity of

the game and what it means for next weekend.

“It was only the second game, so there’s plenty of room for improvement,” Hig-gins said. “We play Life [Uni-versity] next weekend which will be a huge step for us and all of us are looking forward to the encounter. This prac-tice scrimmage was huge in preparation for this game coming up, as we won’t get much better competition anyways in the country. For our B side to be that compet-itive for us is such a huge ad-vantage.”

There were injuries that took people away from the game, injuries that players corrected on their own, and at times some fans thought the players might be confus-ing heads for the ball.

There was no holding back in this scrimmage, making for a game that was too excit-ing to look away.

“It’s just part of the game,” Houser said.

“Somebody gets hurt and it just means an opportunity for someone else. Players like

Zin Zan [Elan-Puttick] and some others are playing dif-ferent positions, but they’re good athletes and good rug-by players, so they should be all right,” Houser continued. “Dylan Carrion who start-ed last week against Texas A&M has missed the major-ity of the last few years with injuries and he’s really come back. He was great for us in the fall with the 7s and I was pretty impressed with how he did today.”

The game against the Ra-zorbacks has been resched-uled for April 13.

On Saturday, Feb. 16, Arkansas State’s A-team will take on Life Universi-ty in Marietta, Ga., and the B-team will play St. Louis University at home Saturday. Both games begin at 1 p.m.

The last time ASU and Life met was Nov. 30 in College Station, Texas, when the Red Wolves beat Life 21-7 in the 7s National Championship game.

Takako Okumura| Staff PhotographerJunior outside center Dillon Sauerwein looks to tackle junior inside center Zin Zan Elan-Puttick during the scrimmage Saturday.

Sports information| Courtesy PhotoJunior guard Ed Townsel dribbles past a defender during Satur-day’s game . The Red Wolves beat the Hilltoppers 67-49.

Men’s basketball clinches road win

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The Arkansas State wom-en’s basketball team picked up a pivotal win in its quest to win the Sun Belt Confer-ence West Division with a 78-74 victory over Western Kentucky Saturday afternoon at E.A. Diddle Arena.

Arkansas State trailed 74-73 with 36 seconds left, but junior forward Jane Mor-rill gave A-State the lead for good on an old fashioned three-point play with just 18 seconds remaining. Morrill took a feed from senior point guard Ashley Olvera, hit the layup and drew the foul. She hit the free throw to give ASU a 76-74 lead.

On the ensuing Lady Top-per offensive possession, Morrill stole the ball from WKU’s Bianca McGee and was fouled with four seconds to go. She hit both free throws to give the Red Wolves a 78-74 lead and Western Ken-tucky failed to get a shot off before time expired to give ASU the win.

“We played really well,” ASU head coach Brian Boyer said. “Offensively we got back to the team we were during the winning streak, but I think more importantly was this ability to rebound from a very tough loss Wednesday night. We were able to come together as a team and draw a line in the sand and say that’s enough and they did a heck of a job coming back from that.”

Morrill led ASU in scoring

with 24 points on 10-of-17 shoot-ing. She also went 3-for-3 from the free throw line, all of which came in the game’s final 20 seconds. Fresh-man forward Jalen O’Bannon added 20 points, while sophomore guard Hanna Qedan had 17 points, including three, 3-pointers.

The score was tied at 37-37 at halftime, but the Red Wolves took advantage of its size in the second half and worked the ball inside to Morrill and O’Bannon in the paint to build an eight point edge with 7:53 left in the game.

Western Kentucky slow-ly worked its way back into the game and tied the score at 67-67 with 2:25 to go. The Lady Toppers took their first lead since early in the sec-ond half on a bucket from Alexis Govan with 1:05 to go, but A-State answered with a layup from Morrill nine sec-onds later to retake the lead.

Govan responded for WKU with a jumper in the lane to put the Lady Toppers up 74-73 with 36 seconds left to setup ASU’s final scoring sequence.

The game featured 16 lead changes and 10 ties but was decided on the final three possessions of the game, in-cluding a defensive stop by

the Red Wolves with four seconds to go.

A-State shot 52.6 percent from the field and moved its record to 3-1 in games in which it shoots over 50 per-cent. A-State also outscored Western Kentucky 44-36 in the paint and the Red Wolves scored 19 points off the Lady Toppers’ 16 turnovers.

The Red Wolves jumped out to a quick 10-3 lead to start to start the game, thanks to back-to-back 3-pointers from Qedan. Western Ken-tucky battled and pulled within 12-11 and from that point the lead did grow to larger than three for either team for the remainder of the first half.

The Red Wolves will re-turn to action Wednes-day, Feb. 13 for home game against Arkansas-Little Rock at the Convocation Center. Tip-off is set for 7:05 p.m.

Women’s basketball back on track

Sports Information| Courtesy PhotoJunior forward Jane Morrill looks to make a pass during Saturday’s game against WKU. The Lady Red Wolves took home the 78-74 victory.

Cara Prichard| Sports EditorDiamond Dolls begin to give away the prizes of the silent auction at the Grand Slam banquet last Thursday.

Banquet kicks off baseball season

“You can become good, but what defines becoming great?” Opening the Grand Slam Banquet with these words, head coach Tommy Raffo set the pace for this year’s baseball season.

“We want to go to Oma-ha. That’s what we’re talking about for the first time in this program… the word Omaha is being used,” Raffo contin-ued. “We’re going to be first class in everything we do. We’re going to pay attention to detail. We’re going to be good to the little guy. We’re going to hustle and play the game right. That’s the ASU way.”

High standards are set this year and they plan to do ev-erything possible to reach them.

“I really look forward to how well we are going to play as a team,” junior pitch-er Bradley Wallace said. “We had a retreat that really brought us close as a team and we’re reaching for great-ness this season.”

In order to reach the level the Red Wolves are hoping to attain, support is essential. The Grand Slam banquet is an annual way for Arkansas State baseball to raise funds that can facilitate the needs of the team such as clothing and on field necessities. Fam-

ilies, sponsors and communi-ty supporters came to min-gle with the team Thursday night, while enjoying dinner and silent and live auctions.

“The turn out this year was impressive. The ASU Home Run Club raised over $30,000, which was enough to pay off the baseball com-plex,” senior diamond doll Stacey Spivey said. “That, in itself, is really great for the team and program.”

The diamond dolls coor-dinated much of the event, but only as a kick-start for the season. “We act as a support team for the guys. We are bat girls at ev-ery home game, hold e v e n t s with the team and give our ‘diamond’ gifts before each home g a m e . ” S p i v e y said.

M a n y fans and alumni are l o o k i n g f o r w a r d to the up-c o m i n g season as

the team comes off a strong year in the Sun Belt Confer-ence.

“They return a very strong line-up and a couple key pitchers. I think they’re ready to take the next step, which is winning the Sun Belt Con-ference and advancing to a NCAA Regional,” alum and Kansas City Royals player Murray Watts said.

The team is set to take on the Bradley University Braves in a three game home series this weekend.