THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2010 * THE STERLING KANSAS BULLETIN * PAGE 5

Volume 113 Issue 9

The official student-run newspaper of Sterling College, serving since 1889 • For updates and more info, visit http://stir.sterling.edu

By TIM LUISISenior Staffer

Yesterday, renovations in the Student Government As-sociation office were complete as the old executive cabinet cleaned out their desks to make room for the 2010-2011 SGA members.

With only one member of the previous SGA returning, Vice President of the senate Mike Danski, the newest student leaders are ready to begin their terms in office.

“I am most excited about the opportunity I have to be a part of the “behind the scenes” work in making next year a great experience for the students of Sterling College,” Executive Secretary junior Anita Bunney said.

Newly elected SGA presi-dent junior Alyson Kumpula said she decided to run for this position because she wanted to inspire change.

“I am most excited to make a difference in Sterling,” Kum-pula said, “I love Sterling and am excited to see the changes it will go through.”

Kumpula also encouraged respect and appreciation for this past year’s SGA cabinet and said former SGA presi-dent senior Matt Ehresman was a great person to learn from.

“I think more than anything I have learned what to do by

The newly elected members of the SGA executive cabinet pose for their first group picture. From left, sophomore Ryan Corwin, junior Mike Danski, freshman Mike Redondo, sopho-more Matt Hastings, junior Alyson Kumpula, sophomore Kelly Johnson and junior Anita Bunney. Photo by Chris Latini

ON THE INSIDE

Opinion: Page 6

Features: Page 7

Sports: Page 8

EditorialWeekly Tornado“Cup of Joe” CartoonSGA ColumnCampus Pulse

THISWEEK

NEWSBITES

Today.Raya.327 - Union @ 3:30pm

Tennis vs. Bethany College @ Lindsborg, KS - 3:00pm

Friday.LSP- Heritage Hall @ 10:00am

Baseball vs. Bethany @ 1:00pm

Virtual Stock Exchange Game final meeting - Thompson @ 6:30pm Saturday.Tennis vs. Friends @ 9:00am

Track & Field @ Bethel College

Baseball @ Bethany College

Softball @ McPherson College

Sunday.Chapel - Amy Woods @ 7:00pm

Ultimate Frisbee Love SterlingPsychology ConferenceEntertainment Review

SGA explores possibility of adding a student fee

Track TennisBaseballSoftball

By CHRIS LATINIStaff Writer

This Saturday CAB is host-ing the Spring Formal at Marcella’s in Hutchinson. Dinner will begin at 6 p.m. with a dance following. For more information or directions to the restaurant you can contact Alyson Kumpula at akumpula01@sterling.edu

Spring Formal

2010-11 SGA members take office

As budget cuts continue to be felt in every department of Sterling College, the Student Government Association has looked to increase funding for activities and organizations across campus including CAB, SCOR and STIR through a stu-dent activity fee. First suggested by communications professor and SGA advi-sor Ken Troyer, SGA began to look at this possibility in order to provide itself a guaranteed amount of money to distribute at the beginning of each school year, which would not be sub-ject to administrative control. “I guess initially, what motivated it [the student fee] is that I didn’t understand how the funding that SGA had could be cut in the first place because enrollment is going up,” Troyer said. “And that’s when I realized, oh we don’t have any student fees here; we don’t have any specific amount that we control.” While SGA recognizes that most students will balk at the idea of paying even more money to SC in addition to increas-ing tuition costs, there is already nearly $72-75 a semester per student that goes to the SGA. The student fee, which would raise the amount to $100 per student per semester, would make it so that amount could not be used on anything but what SGA deems necessary. “All that money would go strictly towards SGA,” former SGA Treasurer Dustin Johnson said, “because right now the administration gives us whatever funds they feel that we de-serve for that year. Like, there’s no set $102 per student for the year.” According to former SGA president Matt Ehresman, the ad-ditional funds raised by the fee would be used for more and better activities, physical improvements to the campus as well as an increase in salaries for student organization positions. While this last possibility might sound self-serving, when looking at the pay that most student positions receive, it is clear that an increase in pay is necessary in order to keep the positions alive. “I made more money as student body president in 1993, when I was a senior at Bethel, than I think everyone in SGA combined,” Troyer said. “At the point that you have people running unopposed for positions, one of the reasons is who wants to put in that amount of time for that limited amount of money? When they sit down and figure it out, they’re making like $1.38 an hour.” While the student activity fee will not be installed for the 2010-2011 school year, as Sterling College has already held its budget meeting for next year, it will hopefully be implemented in the 2011-2012 school year.

A team of Ultimate Frisbee players line up and wait for the game to begin. The Frisbee team plays every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3:30 p.m. in front of Campbell hall.Photo by Alyson Kumpula

Last Thursday morning, during a business writing class with professor Kathy Glynn, first-year student Tim Hoover collapsed after hav-ing a heart attack. Hoover had a complicated medical history, which in-cluded a long struggle with diabetes, and did not survive the attack. Junior Adam Beutler was in the class when Hoover col-lapsed and said Glynn and another student, who are both trained first responders, did everything they could to help until the EMTs arrived. “It was really neat to see how many students really cared about what was going on,” Beutler said. “If their help could have been used to do something, they were there.” Following Hoover’s death, there has been a great deal of discussion about the access faculty, staff and students have to medical supplies, es-pecially in emergency situa-tions. Although in Hoover’s situa-tion there was little that could have been done, having ac-cess to basic medical supplies in a time of emergency is a clear need. “Tim had walking pneu-monia and in a good first aid kit there would have been a mouth guard to prevent the spread of germs,” Beutler

Death of student raises safety concerns By TAYLOR LIBBYEditor-in-Chief

said. “I’m not sure what oth-er things could have been done even if there would have been a decent first aid kit, but who knows if in an-other situation it could have helped save a life.” Vice President of Student Life Tina Wohler said even before the situation with Hoover, the college has been looking into ways to be more prepared during an emergency medical situ-ation. Wohler said she had be-gun looking into getting CPR training for all resident directors, resident assistants and student chaplains be-cause that would mean at least 30 more people would have basic medical knowl-edge. “If we can do anything to assist immediate response, where we are doing what we are trained to and not what we think we should do, that is what we are working to-wards,” Wohler said. Outside of simply provid-ing more training to faculty, staff and student leaders, Beutler said having good emergency kits in every building would be a huge step in the right direction. “The college should find uniform, certified first aid kits and they can be put right by the front door to ev-ery building,” Beutler said, “then if someone in a certain building gets hurt everyone knows they can get what they need right away.”

Matt’s example,” Kumpula said.

Though the new executive cabinet just took over, plan-ning for next year’s activities, clubs and events has already begun.

Director of Campus Activi-ties sophomore Matt Hastings has already begun setting goals for next semester while trying to keep up with what is going on in this last month of school.

“I would like to see all of the organizations more actively

seeking new members next year,” Hastings said. “I would eventually hope to see every student on campus involved with an organization in some way.”

Along with Hastings, SGA chaplain freshman Mike Re-dondo is planning for the new year and speaks extensively of his passion for his position.

“I look forward to strength-ening relationships with the dorm chaplains,” Redondo said, “In my opinion, the strongest ministry is relational

ministry and so their spiritual formation is imperative.”

Along with building rela-tions, Redondo said he had big plans for chapel next year.

“I hope to be more involved with chapels than my prede-cessor was able to,” Redondo said. “I personally find Chapel rejuvenating and think it is a great opportunity to reach out to the student body.”

The new executive Cabinet has already moved into the Union and began having regu-lar office hours this week.

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stir.sterling.edu OPINIONSEditorial

In an ironic turn of events, in my environmental science class last Friday, we were taught about the dangers that overpopulation poses to the world. I say ironic, because this same scenario, albeit on a much smaller scale is occurring on our very campus at this moment.

From what I have been told, we are nearly out of room for future and current students, with the very real possibility of the college ending up anywhere from 20 to 40 beds short next semester.

What this means is that already crowded dorm rooms will become even more so. For example, in Kilbourn Hall it will become a requirement to fill most rooms with four students, rather than just a possibility, and in Campbell Hall it will be nearly impossible to obtain a single room; that is if you can get a room at all.

This is not a problem that is going to go away anytime soon as annually Sterling College is bring-ing in record or near-record amounts of freshman. If we’re almost out of room now, just imagine the difficulties we will be facing two years from today.

While this is an ongoing situation, luckily enough, there are a few things that the college can do to help alleviate it.

For starters, why hasn’t the third floor of Camp-bell Hall been renovated yet? Doing this and ex-tending the fire escapes would add a nice amount of rooms. This could be done quickly and would be a great temporary solution.

While building more dorms is certainly an op-tion, it would most likely be both expensive and time consuming.

The cheapest and easiest way that the college could create more space, therefore, would be to simply give all upperclassmen the option of living off-campus. I realize that the college needs money and that students living off campus provide less income to the school than those in the dorms, but at the same time, if we don’t have the room, we don’t have the room. Sterling College will still be fine financially, as all of the dorms will be filled, leaving more than enough money to cover costs, and this will give upperclassmen the chance to learn how to live on their own.

Whatever Sterling decides, however, it must do so quickly. Space is becoming more and more lim-ited, creating stress for students and less room for the college to expand. Quite simply, we’re almost out of time.

-- Tim Luisi, Senior Staffer

Solution to room shortage fairly simple

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Today I realized that in just over three months I will be twenty years old, no longer a teenager and well on my way to forty. I’m losing my hair and starting to freak out a little bit. This realization has made me look back on my life and think about how I have spent the last twenty years (almost), and man has it been good. If only I could be a kid again. Television will never be better than it

What was your favor-ite campus event this

year?

By MATT HASTINGSDirector of Campus Activities

Burn out epidemic spreads through campus

Being involved at Ster-ling College is a must. Whether you have a scholarship to maintain, a reputation to build or a résumé to polish, most students find themselves doing some sort of extra-curricular activity. The

Compiled by TAYLOR LIBBY

“Definitely either the Campbell Christmas party or Monte Carlo

Night.”-freshman Mike

Redondo

Weekly Tornado

SGA COLUMN

CAMPUS PULSE

A Cup of Joe By JOE DARDZINSKI

Remembering the good old days

By ALYSON KUMPULAStaff Writer

was in the 90’s. Do you remember all the great shows? Are You Afraid of the Dark, Boy Meets World, Doug, Captain Planet, Rocco’s Modern Life, Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Wishbone just to name a few. Remember when a three page “research paper” made you think that your teacher was out to get you and you would never get past sixth grade? Remember when a “band” was five guys without instruments? R e m e m b e r w h e n you didn’t have a debit card, and your allow-ance seemed like a lot of money? Remember when the Chicago Bulls were the best team ever and ev-eryone had to own a pair of Air Jordans? Remember Y2K when

we all thought the world was going to end? (Only two more years until 2012!) It’s weird to think about a time before Face-book, text messaging, DVDs and student loans, or even before flat screen televisions, Wikipedia, PS3’s and the War on Terror. Sure, life was easier then, but just think: in twenty more years we will all look back and say “Remember how awesome, fun and easy being in college was?” What I’m trying to say is slow down and don’t stress too much about all the things you have to do before school is out. Enjoy being young. Hang out with friends, attend a campus event or just lay out in the sun. Oh, and remember what Mr. Feeny had to say, “Believe in your-selves. Dream. Try. Do good.”

problem that we at SC are now facing is some-thing called burn out.

Of course burn out happens even when we try to avoid it, but why is it so prevalent at Ster-ling? What about this college makes every stu-dent, come March, just want to quit everything and go home?

More often than not, I hear students complain that faculty and staff simply expect too much from them. Whether you are an RA wondering how you are going to have six hall events with five dollars, a work study student with more work than the hours you are

allotted or you stay up all night painting the set of whatever show is hap-pening that week, there may be times when you look back and think “if only they didn’t expect so much.” But is that re-ally the issue?

Maybe what we need to do is learn prioritiz-ing, time management and other leadership qualities that don’t come naturally to everyone. There are a lot of natural born leaders at SC, but natural talent needs to be polished and guided.

What we need more than anything, I believe, is leadership training. No, not just the week

“I really like dancing a lot, so the dances

are my favorite. The Campbell Hall rave is definitely in my top

two.”- sophomore Emily

Konrade

before classes start, or once a month on Mon-day nights, but an hour a week of training from those who not only have been in college, but who know what it is like to leave college and meet the demands of the world.

What we need are people to train heav-ily involved students on campus so that come March we aren’t dying, because when the “real world” hits, unless you find yourself in the aca-demic realm, you won’t have three months of summer vacation to re-cover and burn out will not be an option.

“The Campbell Hall rave because most of my friends are there

and it was a good, safe, fun time.”

- freshman Megan Walker

You know it’s the end of the year when more people are waiting for the library to open than the cafeteria.

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stir.sterling.eduFEATURES

Psychology professor named president of Southwest Psychological Association

Ultimate Frisbee team to host week-end tournamentBy TAYLOR LIBBYEditor-in-Chief

OnWednesday,April8th, psychology profes-sor Dr. Arn Froese andseveral students trav-eledtoSanAntonio,TXfor the Southwest Psy-chological Association’sannualconference. While the trip to theconference was an edu-cational opportunityforthestudents,profes-sional accomplishmentswere made for Froese,who was named presi-dentoftheassociation. Froese said he hopestousehisnewseatinof-fice as an opportunity to spreadtheknowledgeofSterling College’s find-ings to the psychologycommunity. “Next year I’m goingto use the data that thestudents collected thisyear plus informationthat students are goingto collect this semesterandnextfallinmyinau-gural address,” Froesesaid. SeniorsDenyseInmanandChristinaCarpenterbothpresented thepsy-chology department’sstudyovertextmessag-

On Saturday, Frisbeeteams from across thestate will converge toparticipateintheSterlingCollegeUltimateFrisbeetournament.

JuniorScottMcCaulleyis the organizer behindthetournamentandsaidthis is the third tourna-mentthathasbeenhost-edbySC.

“Last year’s tourna-mentwasnotassuccess-fulaswehadhopedduetotheweather,”McCaul-leysaid,“butthegoalisfor it to become an an-nualtournament.”

Along with the ever-changingKansasweath-er, McCaulley said Fris-

By RYAN CORWINStaff Writer

Superhero movie entertaining, falls short of potential

By TIM LUISISenior Staffer There is a momentabout two thirds of theway though Kick-Ass,the latest film based on a graphic novel, whereone of the lead charac-ters is shown strappedto a chair, doused inkeroseneandslowlyen-gulfed in flames. The scene up until thatpoint, much like the film itself, was filled with

wonderfulcreativityandgenuineexcitement;thiswas a superhero film un-likeanyotherbeforeit. But,justasthecharac-ter trapped in the chairslowly was choked oflife,sothefocusandin-novationsthatpossessedthe film prior to this cru-cial scene all but disap-peared. StarringNicholasCageand Christopher Mintz-Plasse alongside new-comers Aaron Johnsonand Chloe Moretz, thiswas a film filled with en-tertainingperformances,tremendously satisfyingaction sequences andmost of all an attitudethat separated it frommostprioreffortsinthecomicbookgenre. Thiswasnotthetypicalcomicbook tale,where-

inaregularpersonsud-denlywasstruckwithanabilityviaamutationorlabaccident.Instead,thenarrativeasked,whydowelookawayinsteadofdoing something whenweknowthatsomethingiswrong? The film argues that it would not take su-per-strength, but just awillingnesstoacttobeahero. In the beginning se-quences, when the titlecharacter (Johnson),who tries to become ahero,isbeingbeatentoapulp,thismessageringsespecially true. Peoplebecome more and moreaware of evil in theworld,andjusthowawe-someitisseetosomeonefighting against it. Theseearlysequences,

alongwithadelightfullyunique relationship be-tweenBigDaddy(Cage)and Hit Girl (Moretz),were just some of thegreat ideas that the film hadinstoreforitsaudi-ence. Stylistically, the film was also spectacular,drawing on influences such as director SergioLeonne as well as su-perhero films from the recentpast. These exhilarating ac-tion set pieces, along-side a wonderful scorereminiscent of DannyElfman’s iconic Batmancomposition, worked tocreate an exciting andtenseatmosphere. Unfortunately, for allof these strengths andcharms, certain aspectsof the film fell equally

flat, including an imma-turity that made certaincharacters very hard toempathize with and aseemingly unnecessaryand entirely rushed ro-mance. This film had no prob-lemasglaringas its cli-max (which could havebelonged to almost anyother superhero film), yet seemed particularlyoutofplaceinthisone. Turning to plot de-vices that it had ear-lier mocked, the finale, while tremendouslyentertaining in its ownright, ultimately failedto capitalize on the film’s ambitions, resulting ina very good superherofilm, but at the same time robbing the audience ofwhatcouldhavebeenagreatone.

Senior Denyse Inman gives a presentation on the effects of texting in the classroom at a psychology conference.Photo courtesy Arn Froese

On Saturday, May 1 the citizensand friends of Sterling are invitedtoparticipateinLoveSterling,adaydevoted tomaking the townabet-ter,morebeautifulplace.

Theology and ministry professorandchaplainCraigandAnneSmithfirst heard about the idea while liv-inginBristol,England.

“The churches of Bristol got to-getherandhadaLoveBristolweek-end--doingworkprojects,throwingbarbecues,justlovingontheroughpartsofthecity,”Annesaid.

The Smiths thought they couldmake the event work in Sterling,and the students in Craig’s UrbanMinistry stepped to organize theeventasaclassproject.

Sophomore Jordan Stineman, astudentintheclass,isthechurchli-aisonforLoveSterling.Asthemaincontact for the local churches, heorganizes theirneeds (projects thatcan be done for them) and assets(peopleandtoolsthatcanhelp).

“It’s nice to see change comingabout in a new way in Sterling,”Stinemansaid.

Someoftheprojectsalreadylinedup include painting fire hydrants andchippingpaintoffofhouses.

TheleadersofLoveSterlingwouldliketoseetheeventbecomeanan-nual tradition, and so far the com-munity is strongly supporting theidea.Boththecityandthechurcheshavebeenveryhelpfulinvolunteer-ingpeopleandservices.

“If this project can sustain itselfover the next few years, I think itwillchangeSterlingforthebetterinalotofways,”Stinemansaid.

To keep the workers energized,the Reformed Presbyterian Churchwill provide sack lunches for allworkers, and the college cafeteriawill have sack lunches for all stu-dentswithmealplans.

LoveSterlingisnotonlyaneventbut also an official student organi-zation under SGA. Many studentsoutside the Urban Ministry classhave volunteered to work for theday. Several have already signedup via the Facebook group ‘LoveSterling’ andon the sign-up sheetsoutsidethecafeteriaandinthelocalchurches.

Head football coach Andy Lam-bert has even pledged 50 footballplayers to volunteer their strengthandstaminafortheevent.

Essentially,LoveSterlingisalargegroupefforttoblessthecommunityandhelpothersthroughactsofser-vice.

“To me, it is important to trans-lategoodideasandgoodintentionsintoaction,”Annesaid.“Oneofmyfavorite things is to work hard onsomething Ibelieve inwithpeopleIenjoy.”

AllstudentsandresidentsofSter-lingareinvitedtojoininthework.Volunteerswhohavenotsignedupbeforehandcanmeetat thegazeboby the lake where they will be as-signedjobs.Therewillbeapartybythelakeat5:30p.m.andanoptionalworshipservicefollowing.

By ROBIN SMARTSenior Staffer

Campus declares Love Sterling Day

bee tournaments arehard to host becauseteams tend tobeunreli-able, making it difficult to finalize a schedule for tournamentplay.

Teams from WichitaState, Emporia State,Wichita High School,McPherson and KansasStatue University alongwith three teams fromSterling are set to cometothetournament.

Thoughtheschoolsin-vited to the tournamentaren’t necessarily in ourconference, McCaulleyand fellow teammatejunior Paul BrandesbothsaidSChasagoodchance of doing verywell against the otherteams.

Junior Zak King looks to pass to freshman Kyle Davis while being blocked by freshman Jesse Kagarise during a game of Ultimate Frisbee.Photo by Kelly Johnson

ingandtheeffectsithason students’ ability toretain information pre-sentedinclass. “Lots of people havestudied the effects oftextingondriving,”Fro-esesaid.“veryfewhavestudiedtheeffectsoftex-tingintheclassroom.” Overall the experi-

ence was a success forstudents and professoralike. “The experience wasextremelyvaluable,”In-man said. “In additionto learning a lot aboutpsychologyandthedif-ferent areas of it I wasalso able to make con-nections.”

“We have three verycompetitiveandtalentedteamsinthetournamentthis weekend,” Brandessaid. “I would not besurprised if it was twoSterling teams in thechampionship.”

Ultimate Frisbee atSterling College has be-

come a very popularextra-curricular activityandMcCaulleysaidpartof the reason the teamsweresocompetitivewasbecause students whocometoSCtoplaysportsoften find their way onto the Frisbee field.

“We are fortunate

enough to pick up in-jured players or play-ers who have left theirsport,” McCaulley said.“Withthatsaid,Iwouldcontendthatourathleti-cismontheFrisbeeteamrivals that of any sportsteamoncampus.”

The Frisbee tourna-

ment will begin at 10a.m. on Saturday andwill be held at LyonsHighSchool.

If you are interestedin participating contactMcCaulley at smccaul-ley01@ster l ing .edu,though he cannot guar-anteeaspotonateam.

On Saturday the Warrior softball team faced off against the Univer-sity of St. Mary in a doubleheader at

Leavenworth. Both games resulted in victories for the Warriors, the final

scores standing at 10-7 and 10-4. The Warriors softball team split 1-1 to Tabor College on

Tuesday April 13. The first game the Warriors won 1-0 the second loss 1-4.

The Warriors came out very defensive the first game against Tabor College and won it 1-0. Meanwhile the sec-ond game found Tabor College connecting with every pitch from the Warriors.

“As a team I feel we did very well, we were all loud and ready to play and we needed another conference win,” sophomore Alyssa Bell said. “The second game I felt we had too many errors on both sides of the ball and the other team capitalized off our mistakes and unfortunately came up with the win the second game.”

Head coach Hosea Bell said his team needed to continue working on playing consistently throughout the game, es-pecially when they have to play several back-to-back.

“We got to start the game off intense and finish the same way,” coach Bell said. “My girls played real good, but at times we lost focus of the game.”

The Sterling College Warriors will travel to McPherson for the their final doubleheader of the season this Saturday.

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stir.sterling.edu SPORTS

Softball racks up wins

Baseball doubleheader against Friends ends in shut out victories

Track hosts first meet in 11 years

By Amy WoodsSenior Staffer

Freshman sara doll heads toward the water during the steeplechase. Though doll got wet, she did improve her time during the race, achieving a personal best at the ACCK meet hosted by sterling on April 10th. Photo by Alyson Kumpula

On Saturday, April 10th a monumental achievement was marked into the record books: for the first time in 11 years Sterling College was able to host a home track meet.

“I was extremely excited to experience the track meet on Saturday,” athletic director Andy Lambert said. “There have been [many] people who worked diligently to make this happen. I am proud of Jack [Dillard] and all he has invested into track and field at Sterling College.”

The Warrior’s didn’t just host a regular invitational

By RenARd BellStaff Writer

The Sterling College War-rior baseball team competed in two doubleheaders this past weekend against Friends University where the War-riors dominated at home and in Wichita.

Last Thursday the team traveled to Wichita and won 9-4 and 5-0 against Friends. The Warriors repeated this at home last Saturday winning 10-0 and 4-0 for a two game blow-out and four game win-ning streak against Friends.

“Friends is having a down year, but beating anyone four

By CHRIs HAlCRomBStaff Writer

Junior Jerrod spillers steps up the plate against Friends last saturday. The Warriors domi-nated the field, shutting Friends out of both games. Photo by Jon VanVeldhuizen

Junior Chris morr sprints head to the next hurdle during the ACCK meet on Saturday, April 10th. Morr is qualified for the national meet in the 100 meter hurdles and was last week’s named KCAC player of the week. Photo by Alyson Kumpula

meet; SC hosted the ACCK meet, in which all the teams from the KCAC conference, excluding St. Mary’s and Ot-tawa University, participated. Head track coach Jack Dillard said the meet was a huge suc-cess.

“Our kids competed well, the volunteers were amaz-ing and the whole thing went very very well,” Dillard said. “There was a lot of stress go-ing into preparing for the meet, but once it started things went very smoothly. To be in front of a home crowd meant a lot.”

Saturday, the Warriors would definitely take advan-tage of the home turf to rack up seven event champions,

led by junior Chris Morr with three of those in the 110 high hurdles, long jump, and to-gether with the rest of the members of the 4x100 meter relay, which he anchored.

Freshman Brett Jensen won the 400 meter hurdles, while junior Tim Dinh won the pole vault. Junior Jessica Stuart would be the lone women’s champion with a win in the 200 meter dash.

Overall, the men’s team would tie for second place with Tabor with 135 total points.

Last Wednesday, the War-riors traveled to Tabor, where Jensen won himself a trip to nationals running the 100 me-ter hurdles with fellow team-

mate Morr. Morr would also be named the KCAC Player of the week on April 14th.

Senior Jacquie Holmberg bettered her qualifying mark by nearly a foot to go up to 155’ 8”. Freshman Sara Doll also beat her personal best in the steeplechase, while Stuart ran her 400 meter dash in un-

der 60 seconds. “Tabor is a great meet,

[with] lots of good competi-tion and [is] always an op-portunity to compete well,” Dillard said.

The Warriors will now pre-pare for the Southwestern Re-lays held in Ark City on Sat-urday.

Doubles partners sophomore Jordan Stineman and freshman Mike Jaderston wait for the re-turn during a match against Tabor on Monday. The team did not win any of its nine matches against Tabor, but will try again when they face Friends on Saturday. Photo by Alyson Kumpula

times in a row is difficult,” head coach Jared Hamilton said. “We pitched well and played good defense as evi-dent by the three shutouts.”

Freshman pitcher Brandon Ramirez said he was very sat-isfied with the shutout against Friends on Saturday, particu-larly because the team played well as a whole.

“We really played togeth-er,” Ramirez said, “the field-ing was on, the pitching was on, everything just clicked.”

The next game for our Ster-ling College warrior baseball team will be Tuesday away at Fort Hays.

Tennis loses to Tabor on home courts