Issue 151 Vol. 97

By Amanda Wilkinson@akaywilkinson

In a large barn surrounded by acres of fields, adults, children and their families have experienced the gift of seeing their loved one with special needs improve emotionally and phys-ically.

Those with special needs can re-ceive therapeutic horseback riding at the Paradise Equestrian Therapy Cen-ter located at 18146 E. County Road 750 N. in Charleston.

Carol Galey, the vice president of the board of trustees, said therapeutic horseback riding has significant bene-fits to the children.

“We have kids with cerebral palsy, for example, who are either in a wheel chair or use walkers to walk,” she said. “As you can imagine, they can’t walk like a normal person. We put them on a horse and a horse emulates a human walking so they get the feel of that.”

The therapy can help people sit up straighter and breathe better, Galey said.

She said the non-physical effects are building up their self-esteem and be-coming more communicative.

“There is that wonderful emotional connection with animals,” Galey said.

Depending on their ability, two side walkers can assist the rider and help them stay on the horse, she said.

“We take just about anyone who needs the emotional or physical bene-fit. As long as they’re strong enough to sit up on a horse, we can help them,” Galey said.

She said they had a teenage boy come for therapy who had to be held up on the horse with a therapy belt.

“With just a few weeks of riding, we didn’t have to hang onto him anymore

because the movement was building up his strength,” Galey said.

She said when he first started, he would not communicate or even look at people.

“Within a few weeks, he was look-ing around, looking at his side walk-ers and reaching out, touching them,” Galey said. “He just had a huge im-provement from the program.”

Billie Melton, an Ashmore resi-dent, said she saw the same improve-ment with her seven-year-old daugh-ter, Calley.

Calley was diagnosed with selective mutism last year and started going to the center in April.

“Usually she’s very quiet and people

are used to her not speaking or talking, so they don’t pay mind to her,” Melton said.

She said she was trying to talk to some other children and they kept ig-noring her.

“She turns around and yells at them, ‘I’m trying to tell you some-thing,’” Melton said, smiling. “It was like, ‘guys, quit ignoring her,’ because normally, she won’t speak up for her-self.”

Since starting therapeutic horseback riding, she said Calley has had a boost of self-confidence and her balance has gotten better.

“Now I’m having to yell at her to quit climbing on the furniture,” Melton

said, laughing in disbelief. “It’s only been four sessions, so I’ve been really ex-cited to see what’s going to happen.”

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The Charleston City Council will vote on amending an ordinance to close parking near Eastern during spe-cial events at O’Brien Stadium.

The special events include com-mencement ceremonies, home foot-ball games, state high school track meets and Special Olympics celebra-tions.

The ordinance would prohibit parking on Orchard Drive from Grant Avenue to Johnson Avenue, Chamber-lin Drive and C Street during major events.

No parking would be enforced two hours before and after the events.

Mayor Larry Rennels said during the events at O’Brien, people park on both sides of the street making it im-possible to drive through.

“All of those are short, residen-tial, narrow streets and the problem is that during big events at O’Brien — the problem is people tend to park on both sides of the streets,” he said. “They make it so narrow that you couldn’t get an ambulance or fire truck down there.”

Rennels said during past events, the city has put up temporary signs re-stricting parking.

“In the past, we’d go down there and stick little temporary signs in there, and we decided it was best to formalize the thing,” he said.

The city council will also be ap-proving a bid award for a new ambu-lance.

The council will be awarding the bid of $131,967 to American Re-sponse Vehicles in Columbia, Mo.

Rennels said the new ambulance will be replacing an ambulance cur-rently in the city’s fleet plan.

This vehicle purchase is different from ones they have made in the past, he said.

“Most of all of the ambulanc-es we’ve bought the past several years have come from a particular compa-ny,” Rennels said.

He said they always bought from the same company to keep things con-sistent.

“No mater which one an EMT got into, he knew exactly what drawer to open for what supply he wanted,” Rennels said.

He said that company went out of business so they had to find a new vendor that satisfied all of the require-ments.

The council will also be approving the street closure for the St. Charles Morromeo Summer Start-Up Festival on June 9.

AIMING FOR NEW HEIGHTSPole-vaulter Sara Wortman competed in the IHSA State Track and Field Competition.

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WORK CONTINUES Construction on the University Court

parking lot started on May 6.

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By Cayla Maurer @caymaurer

Almost $2,000 was raised at the book sale at the Charleston Carnegie Public Library.

Jeanne Hamilton, the library di-rector, said they received a total of $1,738.30 in book sales and $42.05 in donations.

This was the best book sale since October 2011 after moving into a larger room specifically used for the book sale, Hamilton said.

Thirteen new Friends of the Library memberships were registered, totaling $130. The Friends of the Library is a group that helps support the library programs and do volunteer work.

Hardback books, audio books, and DVDs sold for $2 and paperback and children’s books, puzzles, CDs and games sold for 50 cents each.

Steve Whitley, a retired zoolo-gy professor, said a variety of people come in, from kids to adults, looking for a good read.

“We have people come in and buy books and then bring them back and

donate them. We try to keep them cir-culating, and it is for a good cause,” Whitley said.

Half the money made at the book sale will go toward special projects, book purchases and any projects that come up that are not in the library’s budget and the other half goes toward the Friends of the Library fund.

Previous Friends of the Library funds paid for the ramp that allowed the book sale to be moved from the lower level to an upper level room with more space. The room was previ-ously closed off to the public because it did not have easy access.

“We have a limited amount of space so we have to think about how well the book is probably going to sell,” Whitley said. “We don’t neces-sarily specialize in anything, it’s just a wide variety.”

Rose Cloud, a sophomore music major, came to the book sale twice af-ter reading about it in the newspaper.

“I grew up reading, and I just love having a book in my hands,” Cloud said. “Books are something you can always have whereas something on a

Kindle depends on technology, which might not always work.”

Wynette Noll, Charleston resident, came to the book sale looking for sci-ence fiction books, mainly Star Trek

novels.“It’s like a garage sale — sometimes

you get something, sometimes you don’t,” Noll said.

Charleston library hosts record book sale

Council to vote on street parking

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AMANdA WIlKINsoN | The dAIly eAsTeRN Ne WsNancy Loucks, a Charleston resident, browses the fiction selection during the Charleston Carnegie Public Library book sale Saturday. She said she was looking for books of a new author she recently discovered. “There’s very little I don’t like... except romances,” Loucks said, laughing.

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PhoTos By MARCus sMITh | The dAIly eAsTeRN Ne WsSarah Lazzell, a horse leader, pets one of the horses Saturday at Paradise Equestrian Therapy Center. Anybody with disabilities that are able to sit upright unassisted are welcome at Paradise Equestrian Therapy Center.

Bits and horse reins hang on a rack Saturday at Paradise Equestrian Therapy Center.

Horse-riding therapy benefits families

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By Robyn Dexter@robyn_dexter

Starting at the beginning of May, workers and bulldozers ripped into the pavement of the east half of the University Court parking lots.

The Board of Trustees approved the funding for the project at the Janu-ary 18 meeting, and the crews broke ground on May 6.

Facilities Planning and Manage-ment employees plan to improve the drainage of the area at a steep cost of $868,775.

The cost of the project encompass-es labor, materials and equipment to improve the parking lot, along with repaving costs and installation of the new drainage system.

Rex Hilligoss, Facilities Planning and Management’s architect, said the parking lot project is phase two of two, and the first phase was complet-ed two years ago.

“This parking lot was part of the apartment complex that was pur-chased by the university a number of years ago,” he said.

Mark Hudson, the director of Uni-versity Housing and Dining Servic-es, said the university purchased the complex around 1990.

“The buildings were built in the early 1970s, but the modern rules for drainage weren’t in place at that time,” he said.

The project includes 6,500 square yards of the east half of the complex.

At the January BOT meeting, Wil-liam Weber, the vice president for business affairs, announced that the university had paid project design projects and phase one construction costs totaling $956,671.

“This project addresses some drain-age issues we’ve been having and pro-vides other general improvements,” he said at the meeting.

Hilligoss said the funding from the project comes from parking funds.

Facilities Planning and Manage-

ment employees started the process for parking lot renovation nearly 10 years ago.

“In 2004, we did a campus-wide survey of all parking lots and priori-tized the repair order based on need,” he said. “Shortly after that, this lot was identified because of drainage is-sues that allowed water to enter into a couple of buildings in the southwest portion of the complex.”

Hilligoss said phase one relieved that issue.

Putting in a better system that in-cluded concrete curbing instead of as-phalt made the west half of the park-ing lot much more substantial, Hud-son said.

The project is of utmost impor-tance because the water would flood into students’ apartments, Hudson said.

“The water table is so high, so we’ve been working for quite a while to en-gineer a project that would put in the right kind of underground drainage system,” Hudson said. “In addition to the water that falls from the heavens to the parking lots, we’re also taking the water off the roofs and piping that underground.”

The water will now be direct-ly drained at various locations in the parking lot instead of being filtered from the top of the parking lot all the way to slightly lower-grade “bottom,” Hudson said.

The drained water will then flow into Carman Pond.

“The goal, ultimately, is to lower the water table out there so we have less issues with apartments flooding,” Hudson said.

On any given day of the workweek,

Hilligoss said there will be several la-borers working on the project.

“It varies with the type of work, but on average, there are 10 to 12 working on-site and in support roles,” he said.

Laborers from Feutz Contractors Inc. will be working to complete the project until mid-July, when Hilligoss said he hopes the construction will be completed.

“This type of work is weather-de-pendent and could be dramatical-ly impacted one way or another,” he said.

Once the construction for phase two is done, Hudson said work will be done on other efforts around the area such as landscaping.

Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

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AmAnDA Wilkinson | tHe DAily eAstern ne WsJajuan Jeffries, a sophomore pre-nusing major, throws a water balloon at Alexis Lambert, a junior psychology major, as she braces herself and takes cover. A group of about 10 students participated in the water balloon fight Sunday at the basketball court near Thomas Hall.

By Zachary White@ZacharyTAWhite

Ever-watchful, ever-waiting — he stands sentinel and does a job that many hold a grudge against him for.

Jim McNutt, 72 of Charleston, is a field marshal for the IHSA State Track Meets. His job is to hold back the flood of people who try to see their loved ones compete, to be there when they rise to new heights or fall behind.

McNutt does it for $40 a day, and he is good at it.

A high school track coach walked up to his gate on the south-east end of O’Brien Stadium Friday and peeked through, trying to get a better look at one of her athletes.

“Whatcha doing?” McNutt asked the coach, trying to hold back his ever present smile.

“Just peeking,” she responded de-fensively.

The smile grew across McNutt’s face as he pulled a joke from the pocket of his mind.

“That’ll be five bucks,” McNutt told the coach, causing a smile to contagiously catch on her face as she saw the joke for what it was.

For McNutt, it was just one of the hundreds of conversations he had while standing guard during the girls state track and field meet.

“You got to have a little fun in life, and to do that you got to be a little crazy,” he said after the interac-tion. “If you’re not a little crazy you’re probably not having any fun.”

And after almost 20 years working the state meets, McNutt tries to keep that fun going.

“After (the first) 3 years you realize that you just have to be calm and be happy,” he said. “That’s what you have to do in life, too.”

The fun he has at the state meet isn’t the only thing keeping him com-ing back to help out year after year. Instead there are a lot of things bring-ing McNutt back, including his love

for Eastern and the community.“This is probably the premiere

track and field event in the U.S.” he said. “I enjoy being out here work-ing the meet because I’m proud of the University, and I’m proud of this

town.”McNutt also has ties to the East-

ern hosted state meet going back

throughout its history. His wives fa-ther, Junior P. Crail, was one of the first field marshal at the state track and field events, and McNutt’s wife, Sabina, was a Eastern graduate for both her Bachelors and Masters de-

grees.But his love for the meet does not

keep the exceptionally aggravated from walking into his life.

“98 percent of people are look-ing for something, their kid of their athlete,” McNutt said. “But some of them just want to be aggrivated. So I just stay calm and try to help them, but some people don’t want to be helped, they just want to be irritated.”

Zachary White can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

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tHe DAily eAstern ne WsJim McNutt jokes with two women who were trying to enter the stadium

“You just have to be calm and be happy. That’s what you have to do in life , too.”

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• At 10:20 p.m. Sunday, Bian-ca Blackstone, 21, 2219 9th St., Apt. 18, Charleston, was arrested at 9th Street & Roosevelt Avenue. She was charged with obstructing justice, driv-ing while license suspended, resisting a peace officer and released to the cus-tody of Coles County Sheriff’s Office at 6:57 p.m. pending court appear-ance to determine bond.

• At 8:40 p.m. Friday, a theft was reported at O’Brien Stadium. This incident is under investigation.

•At 5:25 p.m. Friday, a theft was reported near Coleman Hall. This in-cident is under investigation.

• At 12:27 a.m. Friday, David McKinney, 22, 3612 N. Meridian St., Niantic, Ill., was arrested at 2011 4th St. He was charged with DUI of al-cohol with a BAC more than .08 and released at 2:57 a.m. after posting 10 percent of a $3,000 bond.

• Revised* The sexual assault that was reported on May1 has been un-founded. Investigation revealed that the incident was reported to have oc-curred in a different county jurisdic-tion, which is not on or near the East-ern campus.

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In Thursday’s edition of The Dai-ly Eastern News, in the graphic “On-campus summer business hours,” the Booth Library summer hours were incorrect. The Booth Library is open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday. The News regrets the error.

In Thursday’s edition of The Dai-ly Eastern News, in the article “Dif-ferent places, different faces,” two programs were unclear with what they offered.Winchester does host Sports Industry, but Harlaxton Col-lege hosts English Literary Land-scapes.

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At the beginning of my time here at East-ern, I never thought I’d complete my last class overseas.

However, from the way I’ve planned out my last few credits, that’s the way I plan to finish up my bachelor’s degree.

Studying abroad can be one of the most exciting parts of a student’s time here at East-ern.

Going to the same classes, interacting with the same people and hanging out at the same spots in Chuckvegas on the weekends can get repetitive and lose its thrill.

So why not switch it up? Drastically?There has been a long-running myth about

how expensive studying abroad is, and it’s one that seriously needs to be put to rest.

Sure, exchange rates can be crummy in cer-tain areas of the world, but oftentimes study-ing abroad can be cheaper than a semester at Eastern.

The opportunities in other countries are endless.

For students who have never been out of the country or even out of the Midwest, study-ing abroad can bring the real world completely into perspective.

There are so many aspects of the world you cannot even fathom until you see them first-hand.

Although I’ve never studied abroad, I did have the opportunity to travel to Italy with my family when I was 16, and it absolutely turned my world upside down.

Visiting other countries really allows you to completely delve into another country’s culture in a way you simply cannot in a classroom.

Therefore, having the opportunity to experi-ence another culture while earning credits real-ly can be the best of both worlds.

So many people say they plan to travel the world after they graduate college and get a job, but all too often, life gets too busy to make those dreams reality.

In the end, they look back with a “coulda, shoulda, woulda” attitude.

College really is the opportune moment.Eastern’s Committee for the Assessment of

Student Learning outlines four learning goals that graduates of the university should be able to embody.

They are the ability to write effectively, speak effectively, think critically and be able to function as responsible global citizens.

The other three, though hugely important for graduates, are extremely different from the ability to function as a responsible global cit-izen.

This ability to be respectful and plunge into another culture with no holds barred is one that should be fostered and promoted in every way possible.

In an ever-increasing global economy and workforce, this skill in its true form is one that really makes a prospective employee stand out.

If throughout your time at Eastern, you’ve become a better writer, speaker and analyst, take the time to truly develop that final skill of being a responsible global citizen.

The world will thank you later.

Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

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STAFF EDITORIALTake precautions to stay safe this summer

With the summer weather comes open doors and windows, which provides increased opportunity for thefts to occur.

It is easy to pop into a house or an open on-campus room and take something if the door is open with no one around. Why make it easy for someone to take what someone else has earned?

Make it hard. Lock the door when leaving for any period of time and do not let strangers in the room.

Residents cannot control other people’s guest, which means every-one who is brought onto the floor will have access to any rooms if the door is left open.

There are also rare cases when a resident will give keys to a friend and let the come and leave the floor as they please.

If there is someone who does not belong on the floor, confront them and make sure they have an escort.

Students who feel uncomfortable with confronting someone, get the person in charge of the floor or building or call the police.

The same goes for cars. It gets hot in cars when they are sealed up for a couple of hours, but do not leave a window open.

It is not hard to grab a nearby stick and use it to poke an automat-ic lock or unlock a door if the window is open even an inch, but it is

really difficult if the window is shut complete-ly.

That is not to say never open a window, but make sure it is completely closed before leav-ing the car.

It is wise to hide anything valuable that is kept in a car and not leave it in sight of the

windows. A phone or iPod left on the dashboard is a treasure without a treasure hunt.

All of this should be common sense, but it is easily forgotten if a student is running late for class or just going down the hall to see a friend.

If someone is out of sight of their room or car, they should not allow some easy access to their stuff.

If a student sees something suspicious they should call the police, whether on or off campus.

Thefts increase during the summer because of the open doors or windows but also because there are less people to report to the police.

Students should not make it easy for someone to steal their belong-ings when they can prevent it by making sure their rooms and cars secure.

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OuR POsiTiON • situation: Warm weather brings open win-dows and easier access for thiefs • stance: Students should be aware that theft can still occur even through the summer months

PAWS UP/PAWS DOWN

sOGGY: Warm weather and rain brings the gross, Midwest humidity we all hate. We’re not fans. Pray for clearer skies.

BLOODsuCKERs: The mosquitos are out in full force, and avoiding them is near impossible.

MEMORiaL DaY: The national holiday next Monday marks a day of rememberance and a day of no classes.

QuaRTER DOwN: Only three weeks left in four-week summer classes. It’s only a fourth of the way, but we’ll make it.

PiTChER PERFECT: Sophomore Matt Borens was awarded the OVC pitcher of the week. Good going, Matt!

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Construction for the new Charles-ton walk-in clinic is planned to be finished by the expected completion date in September.

Patty Peterson, the director of public relations at the Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center, said the con-tractors are currently working on the interior of the building.

She said all of the interior me-chanicals – electrical wiring, water pipes, heating and air – are currently being installed.

When the interior mechanicals are installed, Peterson said the dry wall will go up.

“All the framing on the building is complete,” she said. “We’re wait-ing on the brick to go on the out-side so that will be the next step on the exterior.”

The shingles are on the roof, the canopy frame is complete and the windows are on, Peterson said.

She said they decided to build a walk-in clinic in Charleston after they opened the Mattoon clinic.

“We opened a walk-in clinic in Mattoon last October, and it has more than surpassed what we expect-ed the volume of people seeking care there would be,” Peterson said.

She said when they looked at where the people at the clinic were coming from, they saw a large num-ber of people from the Charleston area.

“It showed us that there was just a real need for something more local to the Charleston area residents,” Pe-terson said.

By opening a Charleston clin-ic, she said they hope to relieve the stress of the Mattoon clinic and also offer a convenient location for peo-ple in the Charleston area.

The walk-in clinic is a alternative to going to the emergency room for non-emergency conditions, Peterson said.

“If you have an ear infection, a stomachache, regular rid of the day illnesses that you need to see a doc-tor or a medical provider for, this is the ideal place to go because it’s the same as going to the doctor’s office,” she said.

Peterson said they also found that people aged 20-40 frequented the Mattoon clinic the most.

That age group usually does not have an established relationship with a family practice or internal medi-cine physician, she said.

“We found that people in the younger age group really aren’t seek-ing that kind of long-term relation-ship with a physician or provider,” Peterson said.

The clinic is also great for people who are in town visiting such as rel-atives or people at the lake, she said.

The clinic will have weekend hours and extended hours to help ac-commodate people who work during the day, Peterson said.

She said they are looking at a completion date of September 1 for the $1 million project.

“We hope to be in a couple weeks after it’s finished,” Peterson said.

Amanda Wilkinson can be reached at 581-2812

or [email protected].

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AmAndA WiLkinson | The dAiLy eAsTern ne WsPaul Bishop, an electrician for Jim Shoot Electric, installs metal piping for an exit light at the construction site for the Sarah Bush Lincoln walk-in clinic in Charleston Monday.

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The resolution was placed on file for public inspection at the May 7 meeting.

Ninth Street, between Madison and Jefferson Avenue, and Jefferson Avenue, between Ninth Street and 10th Street, will be closed from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. that day.

The council will also be voting on authorizing street closure for the farm-er’s market beginning every Wednes-day at 7 a.m. June 5 until October. Reserved parking spots along the west and north sides of the court house will be closed off to parking. The council will also be authorizing a loan agreement for a used crane truck. T h e p u r c h a s e w a s a p -proved at the May 7 meeting. The loan with Prairie State Bank and Trust will not exceed more than $70,000 with an interest rate of 1.695 percent for a period of five years. Rennels will also be re-appoint-ing Reed Benedict, criminolo-gy professor at Eastern, to the Fire and Police Board of Trustees. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the council chambers of city hall.

Amanda Wilkinson can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].

Noll walked out with a box full of Star Trek books and other science fic-tion books.

The next book sale will be in ear-ly November for a pre-Christmas sale.

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left: Sara Wortman, a junior at St. Anthony in Effingham, waits for her turn to vault Saturday at O’Brien Field. top: Wort-man makes an approach. Bottom right: Wortman gets up after a vault. Bottom left: Wortman grips her pole to prepare for a vault. Middle: Wortman chalks her hands up preparing for a pole vault. Wortman finished the Class 1A division in ninth place with a height of 10 feet 3 inches.

Wortman vaults high, finishes short

By Michael Spencer@Den_Sports

Debbie Black is the new head women’s basketball coach.

In a press conference on Thursday, Eastern announced the former Ohio State University assistant coach as the selection to fill the spot vacated by Lee Buchanan last month.

Black played college basketball at St. Joseph’s University and graduat-ed in 1988. She played professional-ly for 15 years in Italy, Australia and the U.S.

She spent one season at Vander-bilt and began as an assistant coach at Ohio State in 2005. In each of her eight years with the Buckeyes, Black lead her team to the NCAA tourna-ment every season. Additionally, the program won six Big Ten Conference Championships during Black’s tenure at the university, according to a press release from Eastern just before the announcement.

At the press conference, Eastern athletic director Barbara Burke spoke first and said her selection was made because of her record of success every-where she has worked in her basket-ball career.

President Bill Perry was also in at-tendance. He said the two quali-ties Black demonstrated were integ-rity and the ability to win champi-onships.

After Black was introduced, she described a children’s story that was written about the journey she has been on as a basketball player and coach. In Eastern, Black said she has

found her storybook ending.“Eastern Illinois University has

given me the opportunity to make a dream come true by being a head coach,” Black said at the press confer-ence.

However, whether or not her story

will end “happily ever after” remains to be seen.

Black must dive straight in, as the NCAA recruiting season is already underway for the summer.

“People make good programs,” Black said.

She used the press conference to announce that she will be bringing her own staff with her to Eastern.

Several Eastern players were in at-tendance, though they declined to comment on the day of the press con-ference.

Black said her first order of busi-ness would be to get in touch with her players for next season.

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@DEN_Sports tweet of the day: Track & field west regional qualifiers will leave for Austin, TX Tuesday morning to compete in the regional meet. Eastern sends 10 athletes.

Panthers end season strong

Black named head basketball coach

Tr Ack & FIELD

woMEn’S BASkETBALL | Position

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MArcuS SMITH | THE DAILY EASTErn nE wSDebbie Black, head coach, talks with President Bill Perry before a confrence announcing her as the women’s basketball head coach saturday at the Hall of Champions in Lantz Arena.


Junior pole-vaulter Jade Riebold vaulted 4.35 meters to launch her-self into the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field West Regional as the fourth-ranked athlete.

Nine others will join her in Austin, Texas for the meet Thursday.

Among Eastern’s other contenders are junior Mick Viken and senior Domi-nique Hall who will both make their third consecutive appearances in the re-gional contest.

Viken and Riebold will both be go-ing to the meet for pole-vault while Hall will be running the 100-meter hurdles.

The 10 athletes left for Austin early Tuesday morning. Tom Akers, Direc-tor of Track and Field, said he plans to take a relaxed approach to practice this week and prepare his team mentally for the competition ahead.

“There’s nothing we can do physical-ly right now that’s going to make them better,” Akers said. “The only thing we can do is overwork them and make them tired going in, so (we will) just keep the confidence levels high, make sure the body is feeling good and rest-ed and well.”

Among the others traveling to Aus-tin is freshman Calvin Edwards who finished in the 28th spot in the 200-m dash. Junior distance runner Pablo Ramirez will be making his regional de-but in the 10 kilometer run.

Despite taking lower numbers to the regional, Akers remains content.

“I’m very pleased,” Akers said. “It’s not as big of a group as we took last year, but we took two relays which usually ends up taking a lot more people.”

The regional meet will be Thursday


Eastern took the final series of the sea-son against Tennessee-Martin last week 2-1.

The team, which was eliminated from contention for a bid to the Ohio Valley Conference tournament, ended its sea-son on a high note as they won seven of 11 to close out the season 22-27.

Three runs in the seventh inning took the Panthers over the Skyhawks 5-1 Sat-urday as Cameron Berra brought home the final run with a walk-off single.

“You can’t ask for a better script for senior day,” said Eastern coach Jim Schmitz in a press release from Saturday.

Eastern will lose five seniors next sea-son: Nathan Sopena, Nick Priessman, George Kalousek, Scott Houdek and Troy Barton.

Eastern finishes the season 11-17 in conference play.

The Skyhawks rallied from behind to collect two runs in the bottom of the ninth to record the win for pitcher Dan Tobik, who has a history of keeping Eastern from scoring runs.

“Tobik is a good pitcher, and he shut us out last year,” Schmitz said. “I was proud of how we scored three runs on him.”

The OVC selected sophomore pitch-er Matt Borens as pitcher of the week for his 9-0 shutout of Tennessee-Martin in

game two of the series. In addition to keeping the Skyhawks scoreless, he re-corded 12 strikeouts and only allowed three hits on 119 pitches.

Freshman pitcher Jake Johansmeier started on the mound for the Panthers and gathered four innings without a run and allowed only three hits.

Senior centerfielder Nick Priessman earned two runs in three at bats.Priess-man’s sacrifice hit gave him a total of 28, making him the all-time leader for Pan-thers.

Michael Spencer can be reached at 581-2812

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FILE PHoTo | THE DAILY EASTErn nE wSJunior catcher Jacob Reese prepares for the incoming pass to tag out senior infielder Dylan Wheeler of Murray state on April 7 in Coaches stadium. the Panthers swept Murray state in the series.

Team heads to Austin

MArcuS SMITH | THE DAILY EASTErn nE wS

Jade Riebold, a red-shirt junior, practices pole vaulting Monday at o’Brien Field.

and conclude on Saturday at the Mike A. Myers Track & Soccer Stadium on the University of Texas campus. The top 12 athletes for each event will move on to the national championships which will be June 5-8 at the University of Or-egon in Eugene, Ore.

Michael Spencer can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected]

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