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By Katelynn MarcumCONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Hon. David Dewhurst, Lt. Governor of Texas, spoke about op-portunity at The Loan Star Legislative Summit held at SFA ,Thursday Feb. 16.
The summit was hosted by Nacogdoches County Chamber of Commerce and presented by Norbord, an international producer of wood based panels.
Dewhurst focused on opportuni-ties of the past and those that may be unavailable in the future. People are saying, “I am worried about my son or grandson not having the same opportunities I had growing
up,” explained Dewhurst during the luncheon.
He spoke of the nation’s recovery and how “Texas is poised for an even stronger recovery.” However, Dewhurst said, “The country needs to provide the right leadership to recover.”
Wednesday night there was a re-ception at Hotel Fredonia. Thursday there were multiple sessions held at SFA. The sessions included Jobs and the Economy, Healthcare, Public Education, Natural Resources and The 2012 Presidential Election.
Each session had either an expert in the field or a panel of experts to speak. There were many represen-
tatives and senators moderating or speaking.
Local businesses were well repre-sented. Many came to gain knowl-edge for their business, but some got more from it than they expected.
Mary Mocniak, Piney Woods Apartment Association Executive, attended the summit because she is a member of the chamber and wanted to see what she could learn.
After attending the education session, Mocniak said, “I was very enlightened.”
She explained that, as part of the
70 percent of people over 55 with their children out of the house and no grandchildren attending school here in Nacogdoches County, she “let other people be concerned with education.. After the session, she said she better understood the needs of the community and felt more involved.
Paula and Ray Morris of Morris Training Facility also enjoyed the sum-mit. Ray is also the President of the Piney Woods Apartment Association.
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By Piero PrettoCONTRIBUTING WRITER
John Carter Cash, Grammy award winning producer and only child of Johnny Cash and June Carter, was the latest guest to take part in a very per-sonal and inspiring work-shop hosted by singer and songwriter Kasey Lansdale last Saturday afternoon.
Taking place at The Runaway Mule located on the Nacogdoches down-town plaza, inspiring musi-cians and song writers were invited to spend some per-sonal time with Cash to pick his brain on what it takes to be a successful in the music industry.
His message to those in attendance: “Find out where your joy lies.”
Throughout the session, Cash pounded this into the hearts of the privileged Nacogdoches natives in at-tendance.
“What I beg of ya’ll is to be open-minded. To find out where that path is.” he said.
He started off the work-shop by sharing some of his early struggles in life.
“Although I was 30, I was still an apprentice in the family business,” he said. “I was trying to figure out exactly who I was, where I was headed.” He noted that it was hard to find himself when he lived in the shadow of his very successful par-ents for so long.
His struggle to find him-self ended when he landed in the studio with his father
for the first time. “When I began to work
in the realm of the record-ing studio, a light came on. This is what I love. This is where I love to work. This is what I love to do.” From there, he went on to win multiple Grammys as a producer, which included working with country musi-cians like Brooks & Dunn, George Jones and Miranda Lambert.
Following the story of his life, Cash invited members of the audience to perform some of their work. The reaction of those in atten-dance was both magical and uplifting. Starting things off, one young man shared a humorous tune about his love for Dr. Pepper. A blind man followed it with
a song that humbly shared his appreciation for women. Following several perfor-mances, Cash shared his intimate thoughts and cri-tiques with the audience.
Toward the end of the session, Cash suggested at-tendees to do two things. First, Cash and Lansdale en-couraged everyone to con-tinue pursuing their dreams with other inspiring song-writers and singers.
“A great way to further our writing and its quality is to work with other writers and work with other peo-ple,” Cash said.
Second, he asked every-one to help him come up with a song right on the spot. The lively crowd re-sponded with lots of feed-back and enthusiasm.
The workshop took place between 1 and 4 p.m. and was followed up by book-signing and performance later on in the evening. At the book signing, attendees were offered the opportunity to purchase an autographed copy of John Carter Cash’s new book entitled “House of Cash: The Legacies of my Father, Johnny Cash,” which provides an unprecedented account on his father’s life from his own perspective.
The owner of the Runaway Mule, an experience song-writer himself, said he was proud to be part of such a unique experience.
“We had no idea we could bring in John Carter here,” he said.
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Chidinma NeboSTAFF WRITER
During the weekend of February 10-12, the SFA African Students’ Organization traveled to College Station to enjoy a myr-iad of fun-filled events intend-ed to unite African students of Texas universities and colleges as they celebrate their African heritage.
With the Texas A&M University campus serving as the venue, schools such as the University of Texas and Sam Houston State University, along SFA collaborat-ed to celebrate African culture through dance, fashion, and po-etry connected with the theme “The African Rendezvous.” The festivities included a pageant, a basketball tournament, a forum, Battle of the Sexes, a talent exhi-bition and a fashion show. The fashion show exclusively featur-ing SFA students, included safari and African print inspired items from the fashion and accessory line “Modern Tribe.” The pio-neers and employees of “Modern Tribe” include Faidat Bakare, Jaida Taylor, Hannah Meshesha, and Rianna Jasper.
Each African organization of Texas universities and colleges takes turns hosting the week and invites other schools for a week-
end to unite, celebrate and net-work among African and African American students, according to Bernard Ambe, kinesiology se-nior and historian for the African Students’ Organization.
Ambe received an award for his spoken word piece, “My Africa,” a poem urging first-gen-eration Africans to remain proud and cherish their culture and most importantly not to get of-fended by ignorance rooted in false misconceptions and ste-reotypes. Along with SFA win-ning the talent show, the gentle-men also defeated Sam Houston State University in a basketball tournament.
Later on this month, ASO and the NAACP will collaborate for “Back to Africa,” an event that will showcase African dance, poetry, fashion and a forum entitled “The Miseducation of Africa,” which will enlighten blacks, whites, and Africans on African culture and ignorance, and hopefully eradicate miscon-ceptions, Ambe said. To learn more about African culture or to join ASO, meetings are promptly held at 6pm on Tuesdays in the Tiered Room on the second floor of the Student Center .
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ASO travels to College Station for conference
KATELYNN MARCUM/THE PINE LOGLt. Governor David Dewhusrt spoke at the Loan Star Legislative Summit this past week. The summit was a chance for local citizens to hear from elected representatives concerning public policy, the economy and its recovery.
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Steven Deaker and Richard Haisely, both members of SFA’s College Republicans, talk with Chuck Hopson, state representive during the summit.
By Steve JohnsonCONTRIBUTING WRITER
The STEM Research and Learning Center hosted an inaugu-ral event Friday called “STEM Day: Science Explosion” for East Texas high school students. The purpose of the event was to recruit STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) majors for SFA and to inspire and interest stu-dents with their experience.
Students from 11 school districts came to experience STEM activi-ties, games and competitions. There was a panel discussion with professionals to talk with the stu-dents and better inform them.
Coordinator Linda Boozer thought the event was an overall success.
“We had more than 230 high school students and 40 teachers and sponsors from 11 area districts including Nacogdoches, Lufkin, Central, Athens, Central Heights, Chireno, Hemphill, Hudson, Mineola, Spurger and Woden,” Boozer said. “In addition, Angelina College sent ten science and math representatives. Over 85 SFA math and science students and 50 fac-ulty worked together to make the day a wonderful success.”
STEM hosts the types of events
for students who have a drive for success in their science and math classes. Some of the students who attended this event are the best and brightest and some have the ability to be the best but aren’t at their peak. STEM invited East Texas math and science teachers to bring students to this program to benefit from the experience.
“Our nation has a critical need for individuals who are well-pre-pared to enter the workforce as STEM professionals,” Boozer said. “The need to develop a populace that is scientifically, mathemati-cally, and technologically literate is vital to the maintenance of our status as a world leader. At the same time, there is evidence that many of the most proficient stu-dents have been gravitating away from science and engineering to-ward other professions. STEM Day provides opportunities for East Texas high school students to learn about STEM professions that they may not know about otherwise.”
This is the very first STEM Day SFA has had, but they plan on mak-ing it an annually held event.
The STEM Research and Learning Center is here to increase the research capacity between STEM and non-STEM fields and to consolidate SFA’s support for STEM education. That includes a com-mitment to studies as well as tradi-tional research within STEM disci-plines. The Center also encourages research in the areas of Science and Mathematics Education.
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With an evening filled with head-thrash-ing, screaming, and vein-pulsing music, the Siid Show Rock n’ Roll Circus offered a dynamic experience of different genres of rock music to the Nacogdoches community on Saturday at LugNutz Sports Bar and Grill on 59 South.
The venue decorated with posters of al-coholic beverages, pool tables and plasma screen TVs, was appropriate to accommo-date bands such as Downsiid, Rockett Queen, Maniacal Grind, In Ve(in), Vindictive 420 and My Sweet Scarlett with Rockett Queen and In Ve(in) as the headliners.
The show attracted a large crowd of law-yers, teachers, college students, the healthy and the unhealthy, according to Chaz, the promoter of the event.
This event is unique to the East Texas area where local bands can receive expo-sure along with big-named brands as stated by Chaz, who is also featured in Rockett Queen and In Ve(in).
He wanted the event to attract a diverse crowd with an affinity for heavy metal, old rock and rock with mellow undertones. Chaz has personally been associated with this show for four of the six years it has been in existence and simply loves the music, art and girls associated with it.
As the night grew darker, the crowd en-
larged to include patrons enjoying bottles of Budweiser, Bud Lite and a drag of smoke as the waiters dressed in neon colors, denim and friendly smiles, refilled drinks and emptied ash trays.
Some were entertained by the plasma screens around the bar area, some played a game of pool, while others danced sug-gestively in front of the stage with the musi-cians passionately screaming lyrics into the microphone, or strumming the guitar to the rhythm of their head sway.
My Sweet Scarlett, the third band featur-ing a singer, guitarist, and drummer, sang a jarring hit entitled “F*** my Life” while an-other performed “Untouchable,” dedicated to a female with syphilis.
D u r i n g i n t e r m i s -sion, the stage was dismantled after every act, and rebuilt with the instruments with the next band as re-corded music blared through the speakers.
Chris, an audience member, attended because he loves music, heavy metal, and gravitates to anything with a good beat, and practically listens to all types of music with no music preference.
Mary, who came with her husband, usu-ally comes to support whenever the show comes to town. She is also friends with Chaz, the promoter of the event.
An SFA student has been charged with a felony after he confessed to creat-ing a false Facebook page using his former girlfriend's name and photograph.
Ceasar Saldana has been charged with online impersonation after a for-mer girlfriend told a Harris County constable she had discovered a site on Facebook that contained her name, a topless photo and a vulgar user name.
According to a complaint filed last week by the Harris County District Attorney's Office, Saldana was interviewed on Feb. 10, when he admitted that he created the Facebook page in the girl's name and placed the topless photo of her on the site.
The report said the girl told officers she had recently ended her relation-ship with Saldana, her boyfriend of three years, and she had been receiving degrading text messages from him saying he was going to ruin her life.
The IP address for the Facebook account was traced to a McDonald's res-taurant in Galena Park.
SFA records list Saldana as an environmental science sophomore. According to Saldana's Facebook page, he is a member of Sigma Chi fraternity.
SFA student charged with felony last week
LugNutz draws crowd with ‘Rock ‘n Roll Circus’
This year was Paula Morris’ second Legislative Summit, and she was ex-cited to attend. The healthcare session was the most important to her be-cause she has a special needs daugh-ter who would be heavily affected by changes in Medicaid benefits.
“It is good to be able to talk with our representatives and senators” she said.
Dr. Evan Koenig was invited from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas to speak on jobs and the economy. He predicted there would be slow growth in the economy over time. The growth is estimated to be about 2 percent.
Koenig said Texas is in good shape economically. In relation to the re-cession, Texas “unemployment start-ed to rise later than the nation and turned around sooner”
He also said there must be an in-
crease in revenue (taxes) coupled with budget cuts to decrease the na-tion’s debt.
“There is not enough money (to be cut) in the budget to close the gap” Koenig said.
During the healthcare panel, Rep. Chuck Hopson said people are com-ing to live in Texas because, “We have jobs, no state tax and the spirit of Texas”
The final session covered the im-pact of media on the 2012 Presidential Election. As opposed to all the other sessions, there were quite a few stu-dents in attendance. Many professors offered extra credit for students who went to this session.
Political science students were able to hear from Dr. Ken Collier, associate professor at SFA, speak on what “an exciting time it is to teach this stuff” during an election year.
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The Miss Juneteenth Pageant was held at 7 p.m. on Saturday Feb. 18, in the Grand Ballroom of the SFA Baker Pattillo Student Center.
Several people gathered for a night of elegance and confidence as five young women competed for the title of Miss Juneteenth. Family and close friends were seated in an area by the stage dressed with tables, flowers and can-dles.
In the end Adrianna Williams, inter-disciplinary junior, was crowned Miss Juneteenth and given a $200 scholar-ship.
“Adrianna is a beautiful girl inside and out. She is the most encouraging girl I have ever met,” said Katy Supan, child development senior and a sup-porter of Williams.
Throughout the pageant Williams was well spoken and represented her-self, as well as African American women. The purpose of the pageant every year is to select a young woman who rep-resents African American women and everything they have been through.
Miss Juneteenth began on the SFA campus in February of 2008, and origi-nated in Austin in 1996. Juneteenth is
a holiday celebrating the abolition of slavery in June of 1865.
The pageant’s purpose is to inform people about Juneteenth and to inspire young African American women and show off their beauty, grace, elegance and confidence.
These five young ladies competed in five categories. The categories were Introduction, oratorical, swimwear, talent, and eveningwear. Each of the young women presented themselves with confidence and power.
The introduction was the first phase as well as a crowed pleaser. All five girls came out one by one and gave a speech that represented who they were and what they stood for.
The young women not only showed con-fidence in the color of their skin but in their faith as well. Not one of the girls showed any sign of hesitation or nervousness.
All five contestants gave an inspiring speech in the oratorical phase and gained great reactions from the crowd. The swim-wear phase was a crowd favorite as well. Each young lady dressed up in a one-piece swimsuit showing off her natural shape.
The talent phase of the pageant showed off what the women were pas-
sionate about. eThere was acting, danc-ing, painting, and stepping. After tal-ent came eveningwear, where all five girls wore beautiful dresses that showed their personality and elegance.
After the young women presented their evening gowns, the girls were brought back onto the stage for the crowning.
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By Lydia ElsethContributing Writer
Westbound 21 is an up-and-coming country band based out of Nacogdoches.The band has been together for a little over a year and consists of four members, according to
band member, Cody Wayne. He said he and one of the other band members are the lead singers and the guitar players. The third member plays the drums, and the fourth member plays the bass guitar.
The band said on its website that it is a mix of Texas country, outlaw country and Southern rock. Wayne added, “It’s a mix of Lynard Skynard and Jason Bolland.”
The band writes a lot of its own music, according to Wayne. He added that he writes all the music that he sings, and Max McRuiz, the other lead singer and lead electric guitarist,
writes a lot of the material that he sings as well. Wayne said that Lyndsey Torrez, the bass player, writes music and Ronnie Godfrey, the drummer,
edits the music. Wayne said that Godfrey adds the “finesse to the music.”Both Wayne and McRuiz have attended SFA. Godfrey, who is currently a student at SFA,
said that he is scheduled to graduate this May as a music education major.The band has played at many different venues throughout Texas. Wayne said that the
worst place they had played was at a Longview restaurant. He said that it was a good time but the next weekend the restaurant closed down because they failed to meet the health inspection standards.
Wayne said that the best venue the band has played at has been Banita Creek Hall. He said, “It’s a place people love to play at.” He added, “It’s such a great atmosphere.”
The band is currently working on their first CD and their website is set to launch after next weekend according to Wayne. He said the best place to check them out is under their Reverbnation Web page. Reverbnation is a website that allows musicians, producers and owners of venues to communicate.
Wayne said that the band plans to play at Banita Creek Hall this spring.
By Zoe Reimer Staff Writer
Just as Hollywood took the risk of putting out films that had talking in them during the late 1920s, the industry took the risk of releasing the silent film, The Artist, in the 21st century.
The story revolves around the famous silent movie actor George Valentin, played by Jean Dujardin, who meets an aspiring actress Peppy Miller ,played by Bérénice Bejo. The movie takes place where film is just starting to have sound. Valentin does not want to move past the silent film era, while Miller steps into it full force, causing Valentin to lose his fame, and Miller to become the starlet of the time.
While at fist I wasn’t exactly sure if I was going to enjoy watching a silent film, I found it to be one of the best movies I have seen so far this year. It was almost re-laxing not needing to focus on what the characters were saying, and the simple black-and-white film was a nice change from the 3D, IMAX films out currently. I also found it interesting that, despite the absence of sound, the audience actually paid attention to the whole movie.
I found the acting to be almost perfect. It isn’t easy conveying emotion to the audience when there is no voice to be heard, but The Artist did a wonderful job showing how the characters felt in every situation.
Being up for a number of Oscars, I have a feeling that this film has a very high chance of winning multiple awards. Its plot, acting and overall product truly is a work of art, that I find deserves every credit it gets.
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Westbound 21, new Nac country band from SFA
Miss Juneteenth celebrates elegance and confidence in young women
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Adrianna Williams, Miss 2012 Juneteenth, is surrounded by Jasmine hall, Breauna McCoy, Dynasty Jackson and Felicia Campbell at the conclusion of the recent pageant.
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Axes up to fun halftime activities at SFA basketball games. Just another reason to go out to support your fellow Ladyjacks and Lumberjacks.
Axes down to Nac being deserted this weekend. Spring Break is right around the corner, yet everyone rushed home or to Mardi Gras, leaving behind a ghost town.
Axes up to Girl Scout cookies. Contribute to the cause by indulging in a box or two of Thin Mints.
Arizona Sen. Lori Klein is on a mission to stop teachers from cursing in the classroom. Klein is trying to get Congress to pass a bill stating that after being reprimanded four times for cursing , the teacher will lose his or her job.
With all of the other more important things in this country, I feel this initiative is a waste of tax-payers’ money. I agree that teachers should not curse at the students; however, does this coun-try really have to pay Congress to legislate this? Whatever happened to letting the school district be in charge of keeping the teachers in check?
The proposed bill would make it so that any words that are considered vulgar by the Federal Communications Commission cannot be used by teachers in the classroom. The first and sec-ond offence would result in a warning. The third would get them one week suspension without pay. The fourth offense gets them two weeks off without pay, and a fifth offense would cost them their job.
I feel our money would be better spent by try-ing to get guns out of schools or getting kids to
quit bullying other children.All across the country there are students
bringing weapons to school and murdering other students and their teachers for the simple fact that they get bullied on a daily basis. Other stu-dents commit suicide, some of them on school property, just to get away from the bullying. And yet Sen. Klein thinks that cursing is a bigger problem.
If Klein’s bill had been passed a few years ago, I could not count on my hands the number of teachers I had in school who would not have jobs today. Even though cursing is not appropriate in the classroom, I have never heard of a student causing a massive riot because they were cussed at by the teacher. If anything, a student is more likely to get upset by a student cussing them out, rather than by a teacher using inappropriate language.
Also, students are (more than likely) not learn-ing to cuss from their teachers. Whether it is out loud in the classroom or under their breath, a vast percentage of students are already cussing. A large percentage of students are caught every day by the teachers and are punished for their language. Think of how many times students are caught cussing and then compare it to the num-ber of times they are not caught.
Then look at things such as a school sporting
events. While at these types of functions, many people are not careful about what they are saying around their neighbors. Throughout my entire high school career, I had been to every football game. Again, I could not tell you how many times I have heard parents and students use deroga-tory words and cuss words.
In the world we live in today, it is very difficult not to cuss. I do not know a single person who has never used a curse word. With how many times we hear them a day, and how easily most of us become frustrated and stressed, things such as watching our words can be tricky. Many of us forget to think before we speak.
With how poorly our education system is dete-riorating, it is imperative that we keep our teach-ers. Within the past few years, especially this past year, the number of teachers lost in the pub-lic school system is massive. We cannot afford to lose any more. The more teachers who are fired, the more difficult it will be to make sure today’s kids are getting a proper education.
If we want to make sure the education system functions properly, we need to worry about more important things than firing teachers for mini-mal use of cuss words. Our tax dollars are going to waste.
Tinesha is a sophomore English education major and a staff writer for The Pine
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Tinesha Mix
In the increasingly interconnected and innovation-driven world in which we live and work, aviation provides a vital link to economic opportunity. U.S. airports are the starting points for nearly 22,000 daily flights that carry about 2 million people across our country and the globe. Nearly 11 million Americans are employed by the aviation industry, which generates $1.3 tril-lion in economic activity annually. Aviation provides vital services in commerce, agri-culture, and medical and law enforcement emergencies for small and rural communi-ties.
Congress recently approved bipartisan legislation that reauthorizes the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and extends vital programs for airports and air travel. Arriving at a good, balanced bill wasn’t easy. The previous FAA reauthorization bill expired nearly five years ago. Repeated (23) short-term extensions of the FAA kept commercial air travel going. But short-term extensions didn’t provide the long-term sta-bility which airports, commercial airlines, and private aviation needed to make capital investments in new runways, terminals, and other facilities.
As the Ranking Republican on the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, which has jurisdiction over the FAA, I worked with the Democrat Chairman, Jay Rockefeller, to produce a long-term, fiscally respon-sible reauthorization bill that earned both Republican and Democrat support. It makes a number of improvements for air travelers, assures public safety, and will strengthen a vital sector of our economy in the years ahead.
This bill provides for modernization of our antiquated air traffic control system, and moves us one step closer to more effi-cient and safer travel through our national airspace. When fully implemented, the Next Generation Air Transportation System
(NextGen) initiative will transform air traf-fic control (ATC) from a ground-based radar system to a satellite-based system that uses Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation and surveillance, digital communications, and more accurate weather services. In ad-dition to improving safety for commercial and general aviation, and reducing flight times and delays, NextGen will help airlines to conserve fuel, reduce jet engine emis-sions, and reduce costs.
For the millions of Americans who reside in rural areas and for those who travel to and from these areas of the country, the FAA bill contains important provisions that will strengthen rural communities access to air service by continuing incentives for carriers to gain improved service to small and rural communities. The bill also authorizes the Small Community Air Service Development program to support creative financing at rural airports.
The new legislation also moves forward use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). UAS deployment to bolster border secu-rity and law enforcement is a particularly important new capability for rural areas and smaller communities along our border. UAS technology can also be a valuable new resource for fighting the kinds of wildfires that ravaged scores of Texas communities last year.
Now more than ever it is critical for leaders in Washington to work together to advance policies that are both fiscally re-sponsible and provide the private sector with the certainty and predictability need-ed to create jobs and revive our weak econ-omy. I am proud that this legislation helps to accomplish both of those imperatives. For instance, this bill establishes a process to address outdated and obsolete FAA air traf-fic control facilities to save taxpayer money. The long-term certainty and predictability this bill gives to one of the largest industries in our country and its stakeholders allows for more effective and efficient use of tax-payer dollars.
Ultimately, what this legislation means for our economy, for our safety, and for our national security is paramount, and in turn it will undoubtedly have a positive impact, either directly or indirectly, on the lives of all Americans.
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Page FivePINE LOGTHEMonday, February 20, 2012
The SFA Ladyjacks found the going dif-ficult Saturday on the second day of the Troy Cox Classic hosted by New Mexico State.
SFA (2-7) started the day with a 9-0 loss in five innings to No. 22 Nebraska followed by a 12-0 loss in five innings to New Mexico State.
In both games the Ladyjacks compiled just one hit each while allowing 14 com-bined earned runs on 23 hits and 11 walks.
Against Nebraska SFA starting pitcher Carlie Thomas (1-4) took the loss allow-ing eight runs, but of which only two were earned, on 11 hits and four walks. Angela White pitched one inning of relief allowing just one earned run.
Left fielder Bethany Brown was respon-
sible for the lone hit for the Ladyjacks, which also marked SFA’s only base runner. Tat Edwards earned the victory for Nebraska, going five innings and striking out five.
In game two, New Mexico State pounded out 11 hits and scored four runs in each of the first and third inning. White (1-3) started and took the loss allowing five runs (three earned) in an inning and a third. Thomas would enter in the second inning but the Aggies continued to wreak havoc, scoring seven more runs on nine hits in 2.2 innings from the sophomore.
The Ladyjacks will look to get back in the win column Monday against Weber State at noon.
Softball struggles continue
The SFA men’s and women’s track and field team recorded a school record, seven individual titles and had several top ten finishes Saturday at the J.D. Martin/OU Invitational in Norman, Okla. The meet was the team’s final competition before the Southland Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships in Norman beginning Friday morning.
Sophomore Kirsten Knox recorded the Ladyjacks first title of the day taking the women’s long jump with a mark of 18-4.50. Classmate Chelsea Stephen added to the title haul with her victory in the 60-meter hurdles (8.45) setting a new school record. With Stephen’s record Saturday, SFA has now recorded at least one school record at every indoor meet this season.
Four Ladyjacks finished in the top eight of the women’s high jump led by Carrie Hahn
and Ashley Gadson who cleared heights of 5-6.00 to finish tied for first in the event. Freshman Melai Carter was fifth in the event with her mark of 5-4.25, while Heather McPherson was tied for eighth (5-2.25).
Senior Mary Dickerson won the women’s 400-meter dash with a time of 56.72. She was one of three Ladyjacks to finish in the event’s top five. Paige McCutcheon was third overall (57.48) while freshman Ashley Burris was fifth (57.89). Dickerson returned to the track to lead the SFA effort in the women’s 200 meters. She was third overall with a time of 25.25, finishing just ahead of Tryon (25.29). McCutcheon and Burris also added top 10 finishes in the event. McCutcheon was sixth (25.44), while Burris placed eighth (25.90).
The Ladyjacks’ team of Katrina Turner, Cierra Jefferson, Danielle Burchett and
Lauren Watts closed out the women’s titles with their victory in the 1,600-meter relay. SFA won the event with a time of 3:55.02.
Sophomore Clint Harris won the J̀acks first title with his throw of 60-10.00 in the weight throw. Classmate Cass Brown added a title in men’s 200 meters with his time of 21.89.
Sophomore Hampton Hawkins was the top collegiate finisher in the men’s 400-meter dash, but was second overall. He clocked a time of 49.72. Classmate Torin Crowder was fifth overall with a time of 50.03.
SFA also recorded numerous top-10 fin-ishes on both the men’s and women’s side. Freshmen La’Tricia Griffin and Tiffany Mott tied for sixth in the shot put with a throw of 43-11.75. Junior JimEd Hughes finished third in the men’s weight throw with a mark of 52-5.50. The J̀acks placed two athletes in the
finals of the men’s long jump. Josh Cravens was seventh with his mark
of 21-4.00, while sophomore Jamal Peden was ninth (20-6.50). Kelli Hermes was third in the women’s triple jump with a mark of 39-5.00. Edric Williams was seventh in the 60-meter dash with a time of 6.915, but was the third collegiate finisher. Crowder was fifth overall (22.54) in the men’s 200-meter dash, while Hawkins was sixth with a time of 22.55.
Der’Jernel Jordan was one of three Ladyjacks to finish in the top 10 of the women’s 800 meters. She clocked a time of 2:20.65 to finish fourth overall. Katrina Turner was sixth with a time of 2:21.47, while De’Andrea Rouwtt was 10th overall with a time of 2:22.60.
Track and field continues record-breaking year
Ladyjack volleyball head coach Debbie Humphreys has announced the hiring of Dan Georgalas as an assistant coach for the upcoming 2012 season after spend-ing the last five years assisting with the volleyball program at the University of Kansas.
A native of Chicago, Georgalas was the Jayhawks’ volunteer assistant coach dur-ing the 2011 season, helping Kansas to its third-straight winning record. Before being named to the KU coaching staff, Georgalas served as a team manager for four seasons, giving him five total years with the Kansas volleyball program. His last day with Kansas Athletics was Jan. 24.
At SFA, Georgalas will enter his first
year as a full-time assistant coach under the direction of head coach Debbie Humphreys, a 23-year coaching veteran. In addition to his coaching and daily op-erations duties, Georgalas will also teach kinesiology electives for the university. Both of which he will use experiences gar-nered during his time at Kansas, where he handled all travel arrangements, helped with video operations and was the direc-tor of the Jayhawk Juniors Volleyball Club.
“We’re happy to have Dan join us and he’s going to bring a lot of energy and en-thusiasm to our staff,” Humphreys said. “He brings good knowledge coming from Kansas and is ready to get going. He’s got experience of coaching in a lot of ca-
pacities and we cannot wait to get him out there and see what he can do for us.”
Although he did not start playing vol-leyball until his senior year of high school, Georgalas earned a starting position at middle hitter halfway through the season. His Buffalo Grove High School team fin-ished fourth in the state, with Georgalas taking home the team’s most improved player award. He went on to start for the KU men’s club volleyball team for two seasons and helped the Jayhawks qualify for the NIRSA National Tournament in Spring 2010.
Georgalas graduated from Kansas in December 2010 with a degree in sport management and a minor in business.
Dan Georgalas hired as new volleyballassistant coach to Debbie Humphreys
Dan Georgalas ( l e f t ) h a s been hired to b e c o m e a n assistant to head coach Debbie Humphreys after being an assistant to the program at the University of Kansas for f i v e y e a r s . Georgalas is expected to bring a new energy to the squad and help the Ladyjacks c a p t u r e a conference COURTESY PHOTO
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Hunter Dozier had three hits, including a pair of homers, but the Lumberjacks gave up four runs in the first two innings and had to play catch up all afternoon in dropping a 10-5 decision to Portland on the final day of the Lamar Classic at Vincent-Beck Stadium.
Pilot (2-0) starter Chris Johnson earned his first win of the season with 5.1 innings of work, allowing all three SFA (0-2) runs on five hits with three punch outs. Colton Eubanks struck out five and walked just one before being lifted after 4.2 innings of his first career start, but was hampered by four of SFA’s seven wild pitches on the day and three of his five hits allowed going for extra bases.
Turner Gill gave the Jacks headaches all afternoon, finishing 4-for-5 with a four RBI and three of Portland’s five extra-base hits on the day.
Meanwhile, Dozier did his part at the plate for SFA, going 3-for-4 with three RBI and a pair of bombs to left field, making him the first Lumberjack to have a multi-homer game since Ryan Priest in February of 2010. Bobby Loveless also added a two-run homer and a single as the duo combined for five of SFA’s nine hits.
It did not take long at all for the Pilots to strike, hitting a pair of solo homers in the first inning to take a quick 2-0 lead. Kris Kauppila picked up where he left off on Friday by knocking out the first pitch of the game to left field and two batters later Gill crushed a 2-1 pitch from Eubanks to give Johnson an early two-run cushion.
Portland added runs in each of the next two innings to build a 4-0 advantage before Loveless got SFA back into the game with a homer off the right-field foul pole. But SFA couldn’t respond with the shutdown inning it needed, allowing a two-out single by Gill as the Pilots’ first answer of the day and then a two-out double by Gill in the seventh to respond to Dozier’s first homer of the day, a solo shot with one out in the sixth.
The Pilots then added two runs apiece in both the eighth and ninth innings to nullify Dozier’s second bomb, a two-run shot in the eighth inning that trimmed the lead to just 8-5 at the time.
SFA will now look to get its first win of the season on Tuesday when it travels to nation-ally-ranked Texas A&M before opening up the home slate on Wednesday vs Grambling.
The SFA Ladyjacks put together their most complete game of the sea-son Saturday, avenging an earlier season loss to Texas State with a 81-59 disman-tling of the Bobcats at William R. Johnson Coliseum.
Four Ladyjacks scored in double-figures, including a career-high 16 points from freshman Porsha Roberts. The Waco native went 8-of-13 from the field (5-of-6 in the sec-ond half) to bounce back from just a 2-point performance on Wednesday at UTA.
Joining Roberts in double-digit scoring were Daylyn Harris (12 points), Amina Sawyer (11 points) and Annette Davis (10 points).
Harris, playing in just her fourth game back from a foot injury, went 4-of-4 from 3-point territory off the bench while also pulling down 7 rebounds. Sawyer record-ed her second double-double of the season with 11 points and 11 rebounds, and has now scored in double-figures in back-to-back contests. Davis (10 points) had her finest offensive performance since a 12-point effort back in January at Tulsa.
As a team SFA dominated Texas State 44-20 in points in the paint and held the
high-scoring Bobcats’ defense to just 30 percent shooting (19-of-64). After scoring 95 points in their previous match with the help of 60 free throws attempts, the Bobcats shot just 20 free throws on Saturday.
Diamond Ford led Texas State with 18 points but was hounded all afternoon by the SFA defense and made just 5-of-18 at-tempts from the floor.
The Bobcats only lead of the night was a jumper on their opening possession from Ford. From that point on SFA led from start to finish.
The Ladyjacks outscored Texas State 34-25 in the first half thanks to seven points from Sawyer and six each from Roberts and Davis. The Bobcats struggled mightily shooting the ball, making just six field goals in the first 20 minutes on 30 attempts.
SFA kept the pedal to the medal in the second half, outscoring Texas State 47-34 en route to their second-highest scoring performance of the season.
The Ladyjacks will next host Lamar on Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. in the first matchup between the two teams this season
by Jordan BoydSportS Editor
Taylor Smith and the Lumberjacks survived a sec-ond-half rally from High Point University to beat the Panthers 69-62 on Saturday at the William R. Johnson Coliseum. Smith, who shot a perfect 8-for-8 from the field and finished with 16 points and a career-best five blocks, led the way for the Jacks to win their first-ever hosted Sears Bracket Buster on Saturday.
High Point came into the game scoring nearly 71 points per game and hitting nearly nine 3-pointers a game. High Point’s star guard Nick Barbour was held to just 2 points in the first half as the scout-ing report paid off. Barbour is the reigning Big South Conference Player of the Year and leading scor-
er in the conference at 19.9 points per game.
The Jacks took a slim 28-24 lead going into the locker room at half and looked to come out in the sec-ond half strong.
SFA did just that as Desmond Haymond drilled two threes on SFA’s first two possessions and stretched the lead out to ten. SFA’s largest lead would come with 14 minutes to go in the second half when Darius Gardner dropped a shot from beyond the arc, right above the key, to give the Jacks a 45-34 lead.
The Panthers did not stop at-tacking after going down by 11, however. Nick Barbour started to play like the conference player of the year, dropping 21 points in the second half alone. He and fellow guard Shay Shine accounted for 44 of High Point’s 62 points in the
contest.With SFA’s lead at 11, Barbour
and Shine went to work for the Panthers. The duo scored 20 of High Point’s next 22 points and cut the lead to 59-56 with just over three minutes to play.
Taylor Smith had two major blocks to halt major Panther pos-sessions as the SFA shut down the Panthers, holding them scoreless for the last two minutes.
While the bulk of the Panthers’ scoring came from Shine and Barbour, the Lumberjacks had a well-rounded performance from their squad with four players scor-ing in double figures.
This win will give the Jacks mo-mentum as they jump back into conference play and travel to Lamar to face the Cardinals on Wednesday.
Taylor Smith, Lumberjacks halt High Point Panthers
Baseball falls to U of Portland Ladyjacks crush Texas State
Taylor Smith throws d o w n a n emphatic dunk against the Panthers of High Point University. Smith had 1 6 p o i n t s a n d f i v e blocks and was a defensive anchor in the big win. The Jacks w i l l h e a d t o L a m a r to face off against the Cardinals on Wednesday.
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