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By Wendi KunkelCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Career Services is offering a new service geared toward preparing students and alumni alike for the job search after graduation. Every Wednesday from 2 to 4 p.m. students can bring any career documents they wish to have critiqued to the Career Services office on the third floor of the Rusk Building.

Haley Hoskins, interview coordina-tor for Career Services, suggested that anyone interested in participating do so.

“Whether they are starting from the very beginning, or just need an ‘everything looks great,’ each student can benefit from attending a session,” Hoskins said.

The benefits attendees will receive include being able to walk away with revisions to any career documents, whereas an in-depth critique might take several business days to receive. Also students get the chance to sit

down with staff face-to-face and ask any questions they may have, it also gives those critiquing in the chance to explain any revisions made.

Hoskins encourages job seekers to get as much help or feedback for each stage of resume and career document building as possible.

“It is important to seek out assis-tance in the conceptualizing stage be-cause many students often forgo valu-able experiences that will enhance their resume,” Hoskins said. “The cre-ation of the resume is instrumental in being successful in a job search, as a bad resume can instantly find its way in a trash can.”

Students who find themselves struggling to create their resume can contact Career Services to schedule an appointment where a staff member can provide them with the foundation to create a great resume, as well as brainstorm with them the experience and qualifications the job seeker pos-ses to insert into the resume.

Hoskins reminded those building their resume to continue doing so.

“It is imperative to see the resume as a living document, constantly up-dating it with experiences, accom-plishments and qualifications as they are obtained,” Hoskins said.

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Sharp reductions in state funding of higher education factored heavily in Tuesday’s decision by the SFA Board of Regents to raise tuition and room-and-board rates for the coming academic year.

Designated tuition will be raised from $124.40 to $141.86 per semester credit hour beginning in fall 2012, increasing the cost of a 15-hour semes-ter by $291. Additionally, room-and-board rates will increase 2.5 percent and 2.0 percent, respec-tively. Together, the room-and-board rates will equate to an increase of about $96 per student each semester.

Raising costs for students is something the Board of Regents does not take lightly, according to Dr. Scott Coleman of Houston, chairman of the board’s finance and audit committee.

“This is a huge issue for us because it directly impacts those we are trying to serve – the student body itself,” he said.

“Providing the services we do and the courses we want to offer and the education quality we have is paramount in our thoughts. We don’t take this lightly. (We do our best) to make sure that what we bring forward to you is something that will continue the university’s function yet still provide a quality service for the students.”

Coleman said SFA’s tuition currently falls about in the middle of what institutions across the state are charging for a college education.

However, while six-year graduation rates have been on the decline statewide, SFA has reported steady increases in the past five years.

The regents adopted a summer budget to-taling approximately $3.57 million. The figure represents a decrease of approximately $1 mil-lion from last year’s summer budget, which was achieved by temporarily reducing the pay scale for faculty members teaching summer courses, according to Dr. Richard Berry, provost and vice president for academic affairs.

The board also approved issuing a Request for Qualifications for an architectural firm and a Request for Proposal for a construction man-ager at risk to begin the construction phase of a planned conservation education center at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center. The project will be funded by donations.

The administration also was authorized to enter into an agreement with South Texas Technology Management for invention manage-ment and any subsequent agreements necessary to jointly manage or market university-owned in-tellectual property developed by faculty and staff members within the scope of their employment with the university. STTM provides comprehen-sive and integrated technology development ser-vices to their affiliates, from initial evaluation of an invention to patenting and marketing.

During the meeting Tuesday, the Board of

Regents also approved:• A list of small classes for the spring 2012 se-

mester;• Undergraduate and graduate curriculum

changes as recommended by the administration;• Renaming the Department of General

Business within the Nelson Rusche College of Business the Department of Business Communication and Legal Studies;

• Changing the name of the Department of Chemistry within the College of Sciences and Mathematics to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry;

• The purchase of four shuttle buses at a cost not to exceed $400,000;

• Utilizing the services of CoBro Consulting to provide comprehensive program assessment, data analysis and evaluation services for the GEAR UP for Success Project to meet grant re-quirements;

• Set course and lab fees for Fiscal Year 2013;• Use available fund balances for the early pay

off of SECO loan obligations totaling $3.92 mil-lion;

• Renew the lease of space in the Baker Pattillo Student Center with Commercial Bank of Texas for an additional five years;

• Grant awards allocable to Fiscal Year 2012 totaling more than $333,000; and

• Various policy revisions.

Board of Regents raises tution, room and board

Following a national search, Dr. Kimberly Childs was named dean of Stephen F. Austin State University’s College of Sciences and Mathematics by the Board of Regents Tuesday.

A professor of mathematics at SFA, Childs has been serving as interim dean for the past year and also directs the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Research and Learning Center. She has previously served as associate dean in the college.

Childs, a native of Galveston, joined the fac-ulty of the SFA Department of Mathematics and Statistics16 years ago after teaching in high schools in Galveston and Jacksonville, as well as at Lon Morris College. She earned her bach-elor’s degree in mathematics from Dallas Baptist University and her master’s in mathematics teaching from SFA. She received a doctorate de-gree in mathematics education from Texas A&M University.

The Board of Regents also approved numer-ous additional faculty and staff appointments, changes of status, promotions and retirements at the meeting Tuesday. Faculty appointments included: Erik Byker, assistant professor of el-ementary education; Donald Gooch, assistant professor of government; David Rex-Galindo, as-sistant professor of Latin American history; and

Daniel Bennett and Jennifer Gumm, assistant professors of biology.

Staff appointments included: Samantha Mora, alumni events and engagement director in Alumni Affairs; Suzanne Heffernan, aquat-ics coordinator in campus recreation; Anne Uhyrek, accountant III in the controller’s office; June Parker, graphics shop supervisor; Maureen Havard, physican assistant in health services; Wayne Meier, programmer/analyst I in infor-mation technology services; and Donna Parish, marketing communication specialist in public affairs.

Staff appointment in athletics included: Kevin Carberry, Richard Olin and Troy Rogers, assistant football coaches; Daniel Georgalas, assistant vol-leyball coach; Joshua Jorgensen, coordinator of athletic operations; and Samantha Robinson, athletic academic services assistant. In addition, Nathan Schneider moved from athletic academic services assistant to assistant football coach.

Additional changes of status were approved for the College of Liberal and Applied Arts: Kwame Antwi-Boasiako, from associate professor of government to associate professor and interim chair of the Department of Government; Mark Barringer, from associate professor of history and associate dean to associate professor and chair

of the Department of History; and Robert Szafran, from professor of social and cultural analysis to profes-sor and chair of the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis.

Changes of status in the D e p a r t m e n t of Information T e c h n o l o g y Services includ-ed: William Croft, from instructional systems adminis-trator to systems programmer I; Daniel Duplechian, from pro-grammer/analyst II to programmer/analyst III; and Allena Kendall and Jacquelyn Vose, from programmer/analyst I to programmer/analyst II.

Other changes of status approved by the re-gents included: Jennifer Bailey, from associate

Dr. Childs name dean of science and math

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COURTSEY PHOTODr. Kimberly Childs

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SFA spirit squads Nationals results

Pom Dance3rd place

Large Co-ed2nd place

Small Co-ed5th place

Jack AttackIn 2009, TJ Maple, head dance coach, introduced the Jack

Attack Hip Hop Team concept to the dance teams program. SFA is the first and only university to date to have a separate Hip Hop-only team in addition to the dance team.

Jack Attack won the ADTS (American Dance Team School) Collegiate Hip Hop Division in 2010 and 2011 and placed 4th in Division I Hip Hop at NDA Collegiate Nationals in 2011. This year marks their first national title at the National Dance Alliance collegiate competition.

Partner StuntsTwo members of the large co-ed cheerleading team, Alec

Heffron and Allison Pagnotta, competed in the National Cheerleaders Association Collegiate Partner Stunts Competition on Saturday, April 14. With top cheerleading couples across the national competing, Heffron, and Pagnotta won the national title. There was intense competition this year with nine qualify-ing couples from universities such as Oklahoma State University, Sam Houston State University and Universidad de Costa Rica competing.

Heffron is from Emporia, Kan., and a kinesiology major. Pagnotta is from Canyon County, Calif., and is a criminal justice major.

Additional Partner stunts:Dusty Burns & Caley Coss —5th placeDustin Moore & Missy Bolman—4th place

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Courthouse savedBy Katelynn Marcum

STAFF WRITER

The Lufkin Federal Courthouse is no longer in danger of being closed.

The announcement was made at a First Friday Chamber of Commerce business meeting at noon Friday.

Lufkin’s courthouse was number 45 on a list of 60 other courthouses facing closure across the country. These courthouses are all without a resident judge, which explains the reason for the attempted closure.

The Nacogdoches Chamber of Commerce urged its members as well as the community to write letters to persuade the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

“They did whatever they needed to do,” Kelly Daniel, membership and marketing manager for the Nacogdoches Chamber of Commerce, said. “There was a great community re-sponse.”

Bruce R. Partain, pres-ident and CEO of the Nacogdoches Chamber of

Commerce, sent The Pine Log a copy of the letter he sent. The letter was written to Jesse Cannon, assistant circuit executive for space and facilities, U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Partain stressed the number of people living in Nacogdoches, which totals more than 60,000 in the county according to the 2010 federal census.

“Growth has been sig-nificant and steady in our community, and projec-tions are positive for the fu-ture,” Partain said. Citizens would have had to travel to Tyler, Texas or Beaumont, Texas to the next closest federal courthouse. Each of those cities are more than 150 miles away.

Partain also included that Lufkin’s courthouse “had vigorous usage pat-tern.” It was the highest on the closure list.

The Nacogdoches Chamber of Commerce was accepting letters until Monday, however the de-cision to keep the court-house open was reached on Friday.

CHILDS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1director of Project ENLANCE to director of Project CONFIANZA in the Department of Secondary Education and Educational Leadership; Fred Allen, from director of bands to professor of music and director of bands; and Randall Scott, from coordinator to director of Piney Woods Area Health Education Center.

The following retirements were approved by the Board of Regents: Mitzi Blackburn, alumni activities/events director; Florence Elliot-Howard, associate pro-fessor of general business; Debbie Ellisor and Mary Pack, clinical instructors of nursing; and Betty Johnson, professor of general business.

The Board of Regents also approved numerous fac-ulty promotions. To assistant professor: Erin Bailey and Tamara Harris, nursing; and Adam Akerson, Tracey Hasbun and Robin Johnson, Elementary Education.

To associate professor: Linda Black, Kerry Roberts, Mark Seaman, Sandra Stewart and Janet Tareilo, sec-ondary education; Mario Ajero, music; Todd Brown, economics and finance; Wesley Brown, geology; Wilma Cordova, social work; Dianne Dentice, sociology; Jeremy Heider, psychology; George Hunt, accounting; Matthew Kwiatkowski, biology; Alan Larson, human services; Steven Marsden, English; Michael Maurer, ag-riculture; Matthew McBroom, Daniel Scognamillo and Pat Stephens-Williams, forestry; Kefa Onchoke, chemis-try; Karren Price, criminal justice; Le’Ann Solmonson,

human services; and Scott Sosebee, history. To professor: Charlotte Allen, management, mar-

keting and international business; Christopher Ayer, music; Angela Bacarisse, theatre; Lesa Beverly, Roy Joe Harris and Sarah Stovall, mathematics; Dean Coble and Warren Conway, forestry; Joyce Johnston, modern lan-guages; and Emmerentie Oliphant, social work.

To professor emeritus: Alan Nielsen and Allen Oster, theatre; wDillard Tinsley, management and marketing.

In addition, Greg Bailey was promoted to librarian II, and Jennifer Brancato was promoted to archivist II.

The following SFA faculty members were granted tenure by the Board of Regents: Mario Ajero, Gene Moon and Jorge Salas, music; Brian Beavers, Jeremy Becnel and Kent Riggs, mathematics; Linda Black, Kerry Roberts, Mark Seaman, Sandra Stewart and Janet Tareilo, secondary education; Todd Brown and Mikhail Kouliavtsev, economics and finance; Wesley Brown, ge-ology; Wilma Cordova and Emmerentie Oliphant, social work; Dianne Dentice, sociology, Tracey Hasbun, Jannah Nerren and Claudia Whitley, elementary education; Jeremy Heider, psychology; George Hunt, accounting; Matthew Kwiatkowski, biology; Alan Larson and Le’Ann Solmonson, human services; Steven Marsden, English; Michael Maurer, agriculture; Matthew McBroom, Daniel Scognamillo and Pat Stephens-Williams, for-estry; Kefa Onchoke, chemistry; Karren Price, criminal justice; and Scott Sosebee, history.

The SFA Friends of Music will be accepting reserva-tions through the end of this week for Extravaganza 25, the SFA School of Music’s annual gala banquet. The

banquet is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 26, in the Grand Ballroom of SFA’s Baker Pattillo Student Center.

This year’s Extravaganza, “Sterling Stars,” celebrates the 25th anniversary of the gala banquet, which fea-tures gourmet dining, per-

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Additionally, Bruce Brown, who received his Master of Music Performance from SFA in 1985 and then spent 20 years singing opera professionally in the United

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Summer is so close, I can almost taste it. I’m personally looking forward to days spent by the pool soaking in the sun, and having no worries except for what outdoor activity I’ll enjoy next . But for now I’m still stuck in school with responsibilities.

The Rec Center pool opening was a glo-rious thing. When I was done with class-es I could go out there and always find friends to swim, tan or play volleyball with. I thought nothing bad could come from the pool. After all, that vitamin D is supposed to make you happy.

Almost as soon as the pool opened though, I started slacking on homework and studying, and I know I’m not the only one who willingly traded studying for soaking up some rays.

It got progressively harder to keep myself on track with my classes when seemingly every day someone would ask me to meet them at the pool or to go play sand volley-ball. The temptation of the sun, water and sand is too good to pass up on most days. Even thinking about sitting in the cold li-brary and studying while all of my friends

are at the pool is just torturous.I’ve tried bringing my studying materials

to the pool, but we all know how that goes. I’ll look it over for about 10 minutes, on a good day, and then it’ll get pushed aside once someone starts talking to me about anything more interesting than schoolwork. Not to mention what happens if a textbook accidentally gets wet; that is practically life ruining.

So here we are, six weeks after the pool opened, and I have to limit myself on how often I can go to the pool a week. I have rules for myself. I’m not allowed to go if I have homework, I’m not allowed to go if I have a test the next day and I’m not allowed to go for more than three hours at a time. Although they sometimes annoy me (more like always annoy me), if I actually follow them I am much more productive.

I’m not the only person I know slacking because of the temptation of the pool. Most of my friends are at the pool almost every day, at least for an hour. They are relaxing and having a good time and I can’t help but be jealous. I don’t know how they are keeping up with their grades, but I do wish I knew their secret.

For now I’ll unfortunately keep on study-ing. But you can bet your bottom dollar the second my last final is over, the only place you’ll find me at is the pool for the next three and a half months.

Kate Neal is a journalism junior and the sports editor for The Pine Log

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Axes down to Springfest being dry this year. Guess we can all act like kids again and jump around on trampo-lines on a sugar high instead.

In the column by Kara Goodson that appeared in Monday’s Pine Log, a paragraph was added that did not reflect the writing or opinion of Goodson. Also, Goodson said she does not agree with the headline that indicates students are “needless(ly) complain-ing” about parking is-sues. The Pine Log re-grets the addition of the paragraph and any confusion that resulted from it.

Push through last weeks

As I begin this article, I would like to re-mind the general campus population that we are all college-age adults. We are at least 18 years of age, or most of us are. With this being said, the drama and the gossip that happens between two or more people should stay between those people and not on Facebook for the entire world to see.

Within the span of the past few weeks, I don’t think I am able to count on two hands the amount of times I have encountered the drama.

Now I could be over-analyzing this, but I have come to realize that there are different ways in which people are targeting oth-ers. You have your typical “name-calling” where the person being targeted is directly “tagged” in the post and you have your more encrypted statuses in which the names are not mentioned but the situation is. Even if names are not mentioned, there are ways to figure out who is being mentioned.

In this day and age, many employers are beginning to ask an interviewee for their Facebook info, thus enabling them to look

into their true personalities and charac-teristics. The correct response should be to let them see your page. If you do not grant them the permission, they are instantly able to know something about your char-acter. Also, if you deny them access to your page you are more than likely not going to get the position. A lot of employers nowa-days do not even ask to see your page, but they will check it anyway.

Now I know this may seem a bit extreme, but I know that I would not want to hire someone who is nice to their boss, but talks poorly of their peers and fellow employees.

If you (or anyone for that matter) are brought into the middle of an argument on Facebook, there are two ways to deal with it in a more professional manner. You can either discuss it through private messages or talk to each other in person, the latter of which should be the one chosen.

When gossip starts it can lead to many things, including cyber-bullying. As laugh-able as it may sound to some, it has become a serious issue in recent years. Facebook has been the cause of many of these problems.

Not only is it rude, it’s distracting. In the

time that people spend posting their drama online, they could use that time to be doing more productive things with their lives. Even if the gossip is not posted on the web, it consumes people’s lives and the way that they think. It is very easy for these problems to intrude into more important matters, such as classes and work.

The next thing is when someone posts a Facebook status every few minutes. Please correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t that one of the primary purposes of Twitter? How is this relevant? Well, when a person contin-ues to do this for lengthy periods of time, it will cause drama between people. All it takes is for one person to comment and say “stop posting every few minutes!” After said comment is released to the public, all hell will soon break lose.

My point is, short and sweet, that the drama and the gossip need to be shut down. Be more professional.

We are adults, and we need to act like it.

Tinesha is a English sophomore and a staff writer for The Pine Log.

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Don’t act out on the face space, keep it drama-free

Axes up to the onslaught of awards ceremonies and banquets. Free food is good food. If you’re not invited to any, sorry for ya’.

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Facebook. When is it becoming too much. There have been talks about police stations look-ing up interviewees’ Facebook page to see what they have been up to. Teachers have looked up students Facebooks to find out why they weren’t in class. People disclose everything on Facebook, and I feel it’s becoming too much. If you’re under 21, and you put “I’m drunkkkkkkk” on your Facebook status, then you just lessened your chances for getting a part-time job at school or even at home. You never know who could be reading your statuses or who could be looking at them at any point in time.

But is it an “invasion of privacy”? Some people say it is, but I say no. The reason why Facebook is not an “invasion of privacy” is because a lot of people have a Facebook page, and a lot of people don’t set their account to “private,” making it open to the public to look at. If you don’t want your professors or future employers looking at your Facebook to try to find something bad on you, then don’t put anything bad on there in the first place. Take into account that a lot of employers will look on your Facebook to find out if you have done illegal drugs, how much you party, if you have a girlfriend, or whatever else they want they can find it on your Facebook page, most likely.

Complain all you want, but social media, like Facebook is taking over people’s lives and inhib-iting their work experiences. If you don’t want your employer to look at your Facebook because you went out or are looking for another job, then don’t put, “Yes! I got that other job, good-bye old job! Hello new one!” on your Facebook. That’s just plain stupid. Why would you put your per-sonal business out there for everyone to see any-way? You don’t know everyone in the world, but it seems like everyone can know you at times.

Just be careful with what you put on your Facebook because you never know who could be looking. Just remember that anyone can access social networks now. Even though you might not be “friends” with somebody, that doesn’t mean that they can’t look at your profile. They might have a friend, who you are friends with, and look at your page through them. Just remember, in the words of George Orwell, “Big brother is watching.”

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What’s better than a dinner and a show?

How about a restaurant dinner, two shows, raffle prizes and the opportu-nity to support a global cause?

The Phi Theta Gamma sorority will host its second annual Autism Benefit Concert at Banita Creek Hall starting at 7 p.m. today.

The concert will showcase back-to-back performances by Nickel Draft and the Buddy Franklin Band and will be sponsored by several local Nacogdoches businesses including Auntie Pastas, Chicken Express and Cotton Patch Café. Tickets are $10 individually but two tickets can be purchased for $15. Phi Theta Gamma will be selling con-cert tickets and T-shirts today in front

of the Baker Pattillo Student Center between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Concert tickets can also be purchased at the Banita Creek Hall back room.

Ashleigh Earwood, the Phi Theta Gamma senior heading the event, said her social service sorority decided to launch this event for numerous rea-sons. First of all, the founding members of her sorority were all education ma-jors, which helped to ignite a common desire to help children with autism. Secondly, April is Autism Awareness Month.

In addition, Earwood noted that last year’s benefit concert raised more than $700 for Autism Speaks. This year, she expects that her sorority is well- posi-tioned to write an even fatter check to the organization.

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autism science and advocacy organi-zation, dedicated to funding research into the causes, prevention, treatments and a cure for autism. The organization seeks to increase awareness of autism spectrum disorders and advocate the needs of individuals with autism and their families.

For more information concerning the event contact Earwood at (903)651-1347 or email her at ashleighearwood@yahoo.com. All proceeds go to Autism Speaks. For more information please contact Ashleigh at (903)651-1347 or email at ashleighearwood@yahoo.com. For more information please con-tact Ashleigh at (903)651-1347 or email at ashleighearwood@yahoo.com.

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World-renowded art critic, Dave Hickey judged 84 students’ art from 23 states. The show was held at the Cole Art Center Friday.

The twoSFA jazz bands, the Swingin’ Axes and the Swingin’ Aces, will present a program of contemporary and classical jazz, swing, Latin and funk during their final concert of the season at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 27, in W.M. Turner Auditorium.

Under the direction of SFA Associate Professor of Trombone Deb Scott, the Aces will open the concert with Frank Mantooth’s ballad “Whispered Elegy,” Matt Catingub’s fast swing tune “Blues and the Abscessed Tooth” and a Latin tune by Denis DiBlasio, “Jalapeno Dreams.”

The Aces will also perform Maynard Ferguson’s “The Fly” and Les Hooper’s “Chickenscratch,” both of which Scott describes as “seventies-style funk/boogaloo.”

The program offered by the Swingin’ Axes’ will focus primarily on contemporary jazz, explained Gary Wurtz, SFA professor of trumpet and the group’s director.

“We will perform Chris McQueen’s ‘Foe Destroyer,’ which was recorded by the University of North Texas One O’Clock Lab Band in 2006; ‘Spin Cycle’ by Alan Baylock, composer for the United States Air Force’s Airmen of Note; and Radiohead’s ‘Body Snatchers,’ poignantly arranged for a big band setting by Fred Sturm.”

The Axes will also perform Pat Metheny’s “Across the Sky” and Les Hooper’s arrangement of Benny Golson’s “Killer Joe.”

The concert is a joint presenta-tion of the SFA College of Fine Arts and School of Music. W.M. Turner Auditorium is located in the Griffith Fine Arts Building, 2222 Alumni Drive.

Tickets are $5 for adults, $4 for seniors and $2 for students. For tickets or more information, please visit www.finearts.sfasu.edu or call (936) 468-6407 or (888) 240-ARTS.

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Joe Serrano scored the tying run in the bottom of the eighth inning, then hit a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the ninth to give No. 17 Arkansas a 4-3 win in the nightcap of a double-header Tuesday at Baum Stadium.

Arkansas (27-10) trailed 3-2 after the Jacks (14-23) put a run on the board in the top of the eighth, but got leadoff singles in each of the final two innings and converted each time to pull off the come-from-behind win.

Hunter Dozier had a pair of hits for the Jacks, scoring the go-ahead run in the eighth, but took the loss on the mound in just his second collegiate pitching appearance. The loss spoiled an otherwise solid start from right-hander Justin Choate, who allowed two run - one earned - in five innings with four strikeouts and no walks.

The Razorbacks allowed just four hits on the night, putting up 10 of their own, led by three from leadoff man Tim Carver. Colby Suggs got the win for Arkansas with 1.2 innings of scoreless relief late in the game, striking out one and walking one.

The Hogs took advantage of an SFA error in the bottom of the third to get on the board, snapping a string of three

straight strikeouts by Choate when Jacob Morris reached on an error by Michael Ruiz at third base. Carver sent him to third with a single and Dominic Ficociello brought him home with a grounder to second base.

Choate then faced just three batters in the bottom of the fourth before the SFA offense evened things up in the top of the fifth. Singles from Bobby Loveless and Chris Hernandez was fol-lowed by a two-out walk of Michael Ruiz by reliever Michael Gunn and then a free pass to Rene’ Moreda with the bases juiced to tie the game at 1-1.

The tie game did not last long, how-ever, as the Razorbacks got a leadoff infield hit from Brian Anderson in the bottom half of the inning and turned it into a run with a sacrifice bunt and a single from Morris. SFA tied it up one inning later on a wild pitch that scored Hunter Dozier from third, but reliever Cade Lynch kept the go-ahead run on third base by retiring the next three hitters.

Cory Ochs worked around a leadoff single in the bottom of the sixth, and Cass Ingvardsen left the go-ahead run on third in the bottom of the seventh which gave the Jacks the chance to take

the lead, which they did in the top of the eighth. Dozier led off with a first-pitch double into the right-field corner and moved to third on a passed ball, scor-ing two batters later on a ground ball by Loveless.

But the lead would not last as Arkansas managed to score a run off of Alex Moshier in the bottom of the eighth with Joe Serrano reaching on a single after a 10-pitch at bat and then advancing all the way to third on a pair of wild pitches. Sam Bates then brought him home with a routine sacrifice fly to right field.

The Jacks couldn’t cash in on a lead-off walk in the top of the inning, but the Razorbacks did after Jimmy Bosco delivered a pinch-hit leadoff single with two strikes off of Dozier. after a sacri-fice bunt and a strikeout, the Jacks in-tentionally walked Ficociello and then Matt Reynolds after a wild pitch ad-vanced the runners. Serrano then took a 1-1 pitch back up the middle to plate pinch runner Bo Bigham and give the Hogs the one-run win.

SFA travels to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Friday to open up a three-game set with the Islanders at Chapman Field.

Following an impressive doubleheader sweep of McNeese State on Monday, the SFA Ladyjacks will host the Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks Thursday at 4:30 p.m. in what will be the final non-conference home game of the season.

SFA (13-27, 4-10) scored 13 combined runs in two games against the second-place Cowgirls on Monday, including a season-high nine runs and 14 hits in the game one 9-8 walk-off victory. Senior outfielder Amber Price had a big day at the plate, going a combined 3-for-8 with 4 RBI’s, and the game-winning single in the

bottom of the seventh in game one.Sophomore Carlie Thomas was also

solid in the circle, earning two wins while allowing just two earned runs in 9.2 in-nings of combined work. Thomas struck out a combined five hitters while issuing just three walks.

The Warhawks (18-19, 5-10) have lost six of their past eight games entering Thursday play. They have been outscored 282-226 so far this season.

The Ladyjacks will host Central Arkansas this weekend with a Friday/Saturday series.

The 41st-ranked SFA women tennis team had a disappointing finish to an otherwise memorable 2012 season Sunday afternoon in Arlington. The Jacks dropped a 4-0 deci-sion to Texas-Arlington, ending the season 20-4 on the year, and 10-1 in conference play.

“Give Texas-Arlington credit for being the more prepared team today,” said head coach Patrick Sullivan. “It was senior day, and these UTA seniors have won two confer-ence championships, and they showed why today. We’ll take this and learn from it and show up more prepared in the conference tournament.”

Due to the threat of bad weather in the area, the two teams played singles first, but the Lady Mavs swept in the first four matches, eliminating the need for doubles which resulted in SFA’s first conference loss of the season. It also marks the first time since the conference opener last season that SFA has failed to score a point in a confer-ence match.

Despite the loss, SFA is the outright Southland Conference champions and will enter the tournament as the No. 1 overall seed. Tournament play will begin Thursday, April 26, at SFA’s Schlief Tennis Complex.

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The Lumberjacks put up a tough fight against the No. 17-ranked Razorbacks of Arkansas. SFA will travel to Corpus Christi to face off against the Islanders on Friday.

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