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TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2015 > WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY > VOLUME 90, ISSUE 38
BY JESSICA [email protected]
Fresh vegetables and herbs stood on display outside Fresh Food Company Monday afternoon, and students en-joyed a menu consisting of products from five local farms in celebration of WKU's initiation into the Kentucky Proud Farm to Campus program.
The Kentucky Commissioner of Ag-riculture, James Comer presented the acceptance award to President Gary Ransdell at the ceremony in Downing Student Union.
The program partners the univer-sity with local farms to purchase their products for use at dining locations on campus.
Comer said the program will posi-tively affect both WKU and the local community.
"This initiative and the steps that WKU, the dining services and Aramark
have made today to make a commit-ment to buy more local food from local family famers is a win-win situation," Comer said. "It's a win for family farm-ers… it's a win for the local economy… and it's a win for the student body here at Western."
Christian Ryan, WKU sustainability coordinator, said the Farm-to-Campus
SEE FARM PAGE A2
Campus, local police utilize numerous methods to deter crime
About 4,660 students live on campus according to a document provided by Housing and Resi-dence Life. The WKU Police Department has several resources at their disposal to inform stu-dents if crime occurs on or near campus.
Messages through email, text, television and social media are some of the options at WKUPD’s dis-posal.
Capt. Dominic Ossello of WKUPD said the decision to send out warnings are taken on a case-by-case basis.
"We generally base it on the risk to students," Ossello said. "If it's an armed robbery, if there's a weapon involved, things like that, to where it's a threat to our student community, then we send out a text alert."
Several supervisors of WKUPD have the authority to send out messages to students about potential dangers, as well as Bob Skipper, director of media relations, and the department of Environmental Health and Safety.
WKU joins Kentucky Proud Farm-to-Campus program
The Offi ce of Sustainability is located at 503 Regents Ave. and provides students with a variety of programs to promote a culture of sustainability, including Big Red Bikes, a program off ering refurbished bikes, free to rent, for students on campus. HARRISON HILL/HERALD
BY TREY [email protected]
James Comer, Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture
It's a win for family farmers...it's a win for the local economy...and it's a win for the student body here at Western.”
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• Police arrested Bowling Green sophomore Dominic Nunez on March 15 for failure to signal, failure to produce an insurance card, disre-garding traffi c control device and a DUI in McCormack Lot. • A resident assistant in Barnes-Campbell Hall caught Bowling Green freshman Andrew Payne on March 15 smoking marijuana in his room. Packaged marijuana, scales and other paraphernalia were also found in Payne’s closet.• Louisville freshman Tyshawn Pettway was reported on March 9 to have stolen food from Fresh Food Company. Estimated value of stolen
food is $8.50.• Police cited Bethpage, Tennessee freshman Andrew Sherrod, Barnes, on March 6 for the possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a prescribed controlled substance not in its original container. All of these items were found in Sherrod’s room.• Louisville freshman Travis Higdon, Poland Hall, reported on March 4 his Kentucky registration plate and decal stolen from his vehicle in the Creason Lot. Estimated value of the stolen property is $20. • Police cited Bowling Green fresh-man Lucia Grilli on March 4 for the possession of marijuana and posses-sion of drug paraphernalia in Bemis Lawrence Hall.
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program grew for many years and be-came a central goal of the sustainabil-ity department.
"Fresh food has become a priority for WKU," she said. "We've accomplished a lot, and we have some really great goals."
This effort toward sustainable food extends to other new practices as well.
Jamie Miller, sustainability coordina-tor for Aramark, said WKU took several steps toward sustainable food practic-es and products this semester.
Those steps include the use of eggs from free-range farms, waste-manage-ment systems and eco-friendly pack-aging.
Miller said Burger Studio, Fresh Food Company and Grille Works will utilize cage-free eggs in their cooking. She said this change came as an effort to
ensure animals are being treated prop-erly.
Fresh Food Company featured a hy-droponic herb garden last semester, an indoor gardening system where plants grew in a water and nutrient solution without soil.
Miller said Fresh Food Company en-countered problems with the system and it was taken down this semester, but it will return next fall.
"We're still learning," she said. "We're still working on the proper seeds, the proper nutrients, the proper amount of water to go in the bin and how to keep them protected from outside bugs."
The chefs at Fresh Food Company picked fresh herbs each day from an outdoor herb garden before the reno-vation of DSU eliminated that option. Miller said the hydroponic garden was a solution to this.
Miller said Fresh Food Company used the products of the garden at
large meals last semester, such as let-tuce at Thanksgiving.
"To be able to pull a head of lettuce off, cut it and mix it into the salad blend, that's really neat," she said. "That's as local as you can get."
Miller said all the kitchens now use clear garbage bins for food trash to manage waste.
"When you can physically see it in the bin, the employees are more apt to make sure their waste isn't over the top," she said.
Managers review the bins at the end of each day, weigh them and report findings to Aramark. Miller said the goal is to lessen the amount waste over time to produce a smaller carbon foot-print.
Miller she also switched the cups at JuiceBlendz from foam to a more eco-friendly biodegradable cup that is similar to the compostable eco-tainer at Burrito Bowl.
Miller said she used Aramark's
Green Thread Program, the compa-ny's commitment to environmentalconservation, as a guideline in devel-oping sustainable options on cam-pus.
"The Green Thread Program has all of our commitments to being more green and more sustainable in all things," she said.
Miller said a "green team" meets once a month to discuss sustainable practices.
In the future, Miller hopes to elimi-nate the use of bags at Subway and to sell the gallon buckets used at dining locations to the grounds crew at WKU and donate the money to local chari-ties.
Miller said the sustainability program will continue to grow.
"I love doing the sustainability stuff and being able to affect something," she said. "We're going to keep growing and finding ways to expand it as we go along."
FARMContinued from FRONT
"There's several people, several op-tions," Ossello said.
Ossello said there are no set location boundaries that factor into whether or not to inform students about a crime. Each crime is analyzed on a case-by-case basis and that choosing not to inform students based on the distance away from campus would put them at risk, Ossello said.
“We try not to do hard borders," he said. "Obviously if something oc-curs on campus, we're going to send something out. That is a direct threat to campus. But we don't have a one or two blocks out type radius."
The effort to inform students about potentially dangerous situations does not all fall on WKUPD's shoulders. The police department also cooper-ates with Bowling Green Police De-partment dispatch centers.
"If there is a call that is close to cam-pus, even though it is a BGPD case and that it's something they're going to in-vestigate, we will often send an officer too, to give them some help or to assist in any way we can. And that also al-lows us to determine if there is a threat towards campus itself,” Ossello said.
On Feb. 11, shots were fired at the Campus Edge Apartments on 320 Old Morgantown Road. Although no one was shot, the apartments are located within walking distance of the Regis-try Apartments, a place where many
students live. No warnings or notifica-tions about the fired shots were given.
Ossello said the description of the initial situation had changed, so there was no information to give students. The threat was also going away from campus.
Patrolling WKU property, such as the main campus, South Campus and the WKU Farm, is also a method WK-UPD utilizes to help keep students safe. WKUPD patrols the campus in their cars 24/7 and are encouraged to interact with students.
Ossello said off-campus housing, such as The Registry apartments or Campus Evolution Villages, that isn't owned by WKU isn't patrolled by WKUPD, but is usually handled by the Bowling Green Police Department instead.
"Since it's not owned by the uni-versity, it's not an option for us to patrol them," he said. "It's not a West-ern property. So although there are students there, there's no ability or reason for us to patrol them beyond what's requested."
Ronnie Ward, public information offi-cer for BGPD, said the city police will ran-domly and regularly drive through apart-ment complexes in order to deter crime.
Ward said apartment complexes are treated equally as far as patrols go, but property managers can call the police if they suspect a problem.
"We don't want to be in the middle of people's affairs, but we do want to be close by if they call us and they have a problem," he said.
POLICEContinued from FRONT
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SGA to vote on breast milk expression resolutionBY ANNA [email protected]
The Student Government Association is looking to acco-modate breast-feeding moth-ers on campus.
SGA will vote on a resolution Tuesday night that supports the “creation and mainte-nance of several private areas for women to express breast milk on campus for students, faculty, and staff.”
Resolution 4-15-S looks to as-sign specific spaces for mothers to breast-feed. The resolution states this would increase the quality of life for recent moth-ers. It also notes that Kentucky state law permits women to feed breast-milk in public loca-tions, and it cannot be a bath-room. However, breastfeeding can be embarrassing for many women.
Seth Church, chief of staff, authored the resolution. He said the issue was brought to him by a non-traditional stu-dent who just had her third
child. Currently, WKU deals with
breast-feeding mothers on a case-by-case basis. Church said this isn't very well adver-tised and can sometimes be difficult for students to make arrangements.
“There is no uniform policy
on providing students with areas,” Church said. “It is hit-or-miss on how well this works.”
Church said he expects this
to pass without debate at the meeting.
“I don’t expect any opposi-tion, and I like to think that it would be unanimous,” Church said.
Church said there aren’t exact details as to what or where these rooms would
be. He said he hopes to have three to four rooms dedicat-ed to the resolution around campus.
“We want to focus them on the top of campus because the bottom is mostly residential,” he said. “This allows for stu-dents who are commuters to have places to go.”
Church also wants to work to advertise the spaces once SGA discusses the resolution with administration. He hopes to have the rooms by the end of the semester or the beginning of next year.
Nicki Taylor, SGA president, said that she supports the res-olution.
“Glad WKU is doing what it is doing now, but I am in sup-port of adding the booths in the future,” she said. “Students don’t know to go to Human Resources, and they could
just walk past the booths and know that it is there.”
Taylor said so far SGA is just in the first step of the process, but she expects it to pass.
“It should go through un-less anything else happens,” she said. “I expect it to go, but I don’t want to make assump-tions.”
Tony Glisson, human re-sources director, said he has been emailing with Church about the resolution but has not met with him yet.
“Seth was suggesting we come together with SGA,” he said. “I plan to speak to him later.”
Glisson said there are sev-eral ways to make changes.
“It is certainly a possibility, but there are also other solu-tions,” he said. “There are a variety of ways to approach it.”
I don’t expect any opposition, and I like to think that it would be unanimous.”
Seth Church, SGA chief of staff
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EDITORIAL
THE ISSUE: WKU decided to cancel its annual membership with the American Association of State Colleges and Univer-sities due to budgetary concerns.
OUR STANCE: While $22,000 is a sizable number, the administration should recog-nize the importance of the organization.
B arbara Burch perhaps summed up the main concern in her Faculty Regent's Report on Feb.
26, when she voiced her issue with the withdrawal.
"I also believe that this suggests a lessening of our institutional identity as a comprehensive state university, and the commitment that this repre-sents,” she said.
Based on the student-oriented na-ture of the AASCU and the challenges the present universities face to ensure well-rounded academic institutions, Burch's comments should spark, at the very least, a resounding "Duh, bro."
However, despite having a success-ful relationship with the organization
for decades, being one of the founding universities to have the American De-mocracy Project and having an award named after Burch herself, the univer-sity has deemed the academic accred-itation organization too expensive to continue paying dues.
There's a total of $969,418 allotted by the university budget to pay for numerous organizational dues— as well as a few Sam's Club memberships and concert tickets Of that amount, $500,000 is for Conference USA, $80,000 for the Sun Belt Conference and an additional $13,000 for other sports-related membership dues and purchases. The total amount of mon-ey, about $593,000, is spent on athlet-ics and takes up 61.2 percent of the dues budget—a budget that seems to struggle giving any other department more than $1,000.
Before any feathers get ruffled, this isn't an argument in favor of cutting any sort of athletics budget. We have phenomenal teams and players and couldn't be more proud. However, universities aren't supposed to be en-
tirely focused on athletics, and oppor-tunities shouldn't only be delegated to those who play. An equal amount of money, at the least, should be divided between the two.
The membership the university is sac-rificing is more than worth the money we put into it, especially with the aca-demic opportunities it provides. The AASCU provides a multitude of research opportunities, programs and leadership development opportunities to its mem-bers, according to its website. If the only concern is budget concerns, it's clear that some things could be readjusted to ensure our ranking as a leading uni-versity. Leaving such a prestigious group looks sad when so many of our peers boast membership.
Our sports teams are great, as is WKU, and both deserve national rec-ognition. Though, if we start focusing solely on receiving acknowledgment based on extracurriculars, we end up just being like a MTV reality show— exciting to watch and entertaining to follow, but with no real depth or schol-arly merit.
WKU loses piece of identity with membership cancellation
TWEETS FROM THE HILL
@joeimel: Overheard on the scan-ner, KSP trooper to dispatch, "The subject is too drunk to be inter-viewed."— 9 Mar 2015
@sorabeekijer: Attention WKU stu-dent body- why are the colonnadesempty? It's beautiful outside— 15Mar 2015
@KyleNeaves_WKU:Those of you without student loans anymore, is it the best feeling in the world or the greatest feeling in the world?— 15 Mar 2015
@SarahAustyn: *gets back to WKU & immediately hits the gym*— 15 Mar 2015
@BigRedInsights: Could some-one cut off the heat? @wku It is themore sustainable move @Sustaina-bleWKU— 15 Mar 2015
@WKU_GreekHumor: Along with a hangover, it seems the WKU stu-dents brought sunshine from Pan-ama City back to BG.— 15 Mar 2015
@owenfi nke: I feel like I can get to wku without a GPS cause I have been there and back so many times. #its—15 Mar 2015
@Sam_Ford: @WKU has affi liated college class on Harry Potter se-ries in London…seems like there are tremendous educational oppys #SXSW #newscreens—15 Mar 2015
@HannahHrm1289: Not ready to go back to wku tomorrow. My ani-mals love me too much —14 Mar 2015
@pthompson0062: Yea wku/bg boys just aren't my style. Think I'll just go back home with that. —14 Mar 2015
@joeimel: Report of a fi ght involv-ing 15 people outside of Southern Lanes. Unknown if weapons are involved according to scanner traf-fi c. —13 Mar 2015
@joeimel: Report of intoxicated males running from the fi ght out-side Southern Lanes.—13 Mar 2015
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Spring breakers lick whipped cream off of each others' bodies in Panama City Beach, Florida. Students from more than 100 schools across the country traveled to Panama City Beach for spring break to party.
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MARCH 17, 2015 > WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY
ABOVE: Spring breakers chug beer from a beer bongzilla on Panama
City Beach on Friday, March 13. RIGHT: Spring breakers play tug-of-war at Panama City Beach, Florida
on Thursday, March 12. Vacationers played a variety of sports along the
beach in PCB.BOTTOM LEFT: Spring breakers
watch as two people make out on the beach in Panama City Beach,
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BY SAMANTHA [email protected]
One in four college-aged women binge and purge to manage their weight, according to the National As-sociation of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders. A group on campus is looking to combat those statistics.
The Eating Disorder Support and Awareness Coalition recently hosted a bake sale in the lobby of Downing Stu-dent Union. The group began meeting in October of last year, but became of-ficial this past January. They currently have 12 members and are growing steadily.
Rachel Bravenec, founder of the co-alition and a freshman from Brandon, Mississippi, said forming the group wasn’t their end goal, but simply the result of shared experiences.
“All of our members have either suf-fered from an eating disorder them-selves or have watched someone close to them suffer at the hands of an eat-ing disorder,” she said. “In fact, many of us know multiple people with eat-ing disorders… [We] realized that we shared a severe problem and decided to do something about it.”
The bake sale raised around $300. Members decided to use a bake sale as a means of raising money because they appeal to students, don’t cost much and help promote the impor-tance of providing your body with food in the form of a delicious treat. People could also donate without hav-ing to buy any of the food.
Emma Collins, a freshman from Louisville and a member of the group, expressed her thankfulness for the co-alition.
“The fact that WKU has a group like this is great because it will allow stu-dents who have been affected by eat-ing disorders, either because they have had one or they know someone who has had one, to find support,” she said via email. “Many people with eating disorders go untreated because of shame or fear, and this group will
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For many students, spring break consisted of selfies on the beach and relaxing under the sun, but for others it consisted of selfless service and relaxing under the shade of the Lincoln Memorial.
The Department of Student Activities offers students the opportunity to take alternative trips through the Leadership and Volunteerism committee. This year, eight students traveled to Tuscaloosa, Alabama to work with the local Habitat for
Humanity chapter, and another eight students traveled to Washington D.C. for a cultural experience of our nation’s capitol.
Andrew Rash served as a coordinator for the D.C. trip and is coordinator with the Leadership and Volunteerism committee. Rash highlighted several of the trip’s cultural experiences: going to Mount Vernon, Arlington National Cemetery, Holocaust Museum and a tour of the Capitol building. Students also met with Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and were allotted time to ask the senator questions.
“It is a cultural, educational and
service trip all rolled into one,” Rash said.
For Alejandra Valadez Rodriguez, a junior from Mexico, it was the cultural aspect of the trip that appealed the most. Valadez Rodriguez said she wanted to know more about the history surrounding D.C., especially the history surrounding the district’s many monuments. She recalled going to the Pentagon and standing at the site where American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the building during the September 11 attacks.
“I definitely appreciate the history more and the remembrance that
freedom isn’t really free,” she said. In contrast, Nashville sophomore
Salvador Hernandez said the service aspect of the trip is what stood out most to him. The students worked with non-profit organization A Wider Circle, located in Silver Spring, Maryland.
The website for A Wider Circle cites their mission, “to end poverty for one individual and one family after another.” One of the programs the organization offers is the Neighbor-to-Neighbor program, which provides home goods to families transitioning out of bad situations.
Students serve, study over spring breakStudents serve, study over spring break
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TOP LEFT: Danville Freshman Hannah Robertson lays on a blanket with her friend Ava Katherine Fergerson (not pictured) outside, studying and enjoying the weather. "Sunshine is the best study partner," said Robertson. ERICA LAFSER/HERALD
TOP RIGHT: A group of students hammock in ENOs outside of Cravens library on Monday. It reached 70 degrees in Bowling Green and students around cam-pus took to hammocks to enjoy the weather. NICOLE BOLIAUX/HERALD
CENTER: Sarah Angelle, a junior from Monticello, en-joys the nice weather and plays frisbee with her friend on Monday ASHLEY COOPER/HERALD
BOTTOM: Chloe Carr, Outdoor Recreation Adventure Center staff member and sophomore from Harrisburg, Illinois, cleans mountain bikes from the recent ORAC spring break trip to Moab, Utah. Over spring break, there were two ORAC excursions, one to Moab and one to Buff alo River in Arkansas. NICOLE BOLIAUX/HERALD
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Hernandez said he aided in this effort by organizing the area where the items were located, certifying working items and unloading heavy items. Later that day, Hernandez and other students reflected on their work done at A Wider Circle and he said that nobody in the world should have to go through what these people have, and that everyone needs an opportunity.
“If everybody pitches in a little then we can do a lot to help,” he said.
Students who traveled to Tuscaloosa were also pitching in to help. Laura Johnson, graduate assistant with student activities, was one of the coordinators for the trip. Johnson said the area was devastated by a tornado that came through three years ago and left many homes in disarray. The house
they worked on belonged to Mattie Johnson, dubbed Ms. Mattie.
“I think it’s a great experience for any student to go on a service trip,” she said.
Louisville junior Rachel Byrd said the alternative break was something she had never done before. While her previous breaks consisted of go-ing to the beach, she said this one was spent putting in new drywall and repainting the bathroom of Ms. Mattie’s home.
“It opened my eyes. I’m very lucky to have what I have,” Byrd said.
Byrd said the group also traveled to cultural sites such as the Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham and took a tour of the University of Alabama. She said they also caught the basketball game between WKU and UAB.
“[It was] definitely a wonderful experience, and I’d recommend it to anyone,” Rodriguez said.
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hopefully allow struggling students to begin to seek treatment in the hope of recovering. Many times people think that recovery isn't possible, but it is,
and that's the message that the EDSA wants to spread.”
The group has a benefit concert planned for the fall, and local support-ers hope to hold a benefit walk in the spring of next year. EDSA will have in-formational tables set up throughout
the year to help raise awareness about eating disorders and the events they’re holding to help.
Michael Schrader, a sophomore from Bowling Green and co-founder of the co-alition, said a group like this is valuable.
“This is, in my opinion, an incredibly
important issue, which is often over-looked or marginalized,” he said in an email. “I think it helps quite a bit to spread awareness and dispel rumors as well as do what we can to facilitate treatment and make options avail-able/clear.”
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Louisville junior Rachel Byrd (left) and Tompkinsville fresh-man Chelsea Spears spent their spring break restoring a home damaged by a tornado in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Elec-trical power was out during the last day on the trip, forc-ing the duo to use manual saws rather than power saws LAURA JOHNSON/SPECIAL TO THE HERALD
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header, earning four hits in seven at bats, along with two home runs and two RBIs.
“Miller is just a special talent and he is really fun to watch just like other guys in our lineup,” said Myers. “He is one of those guys that fans pay to watch.”
In the series-deciding game on Sun-day, the Hilltoppers exploded for seven runs in the fifth inning and nine in the game as junior starter Austin King won his first game of the season after giving up only three runs on five hits in five innings.
Church played a huge game at the plate, earning three hits and three RBIs in four at-bats. Redshirt senior catch-
er Ryan Messex added two RBIs, and Miller added two RBIs as well. Every player in the Hilltopper lineup either earned a hit or an RBI during the game.
The bullpen played a solid rubber match for WKU as three pitchers com-bined to give up only two runs on four hits through four innings.
“We played great today and we have shown great character in coming back
after losing the first game like we did,” said Coach Myers. “We are really close to being a special team, but all that matters is what we did this week and that we won our first conference series at home.”
WKU will play next on Tuesday, March 17 at 6 p.m. in a midweek show-down against Lipscomb University at Nick Denes Field.
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lose a lot of production year certainly, so we need to recruit well and continue to bring in good players, but I'm confi-dent we will."
WKU is 71-47 under Harper and holds a 9-2 record in the conference tournament during that time.
Harper found immediate success in his first season at WKU after joining the squad half way through the 2011-2012 season, leading WKU to an 11-8 record and the first of two Sun Belt Cham-pionships. In 2012-2013, Harper led WKU to a 20-16 record, the program's first 20 win season since 2009-2010, and another Sun Belt Championship.
In his first season, Harper was for-
tunate enough to have two freshmen that would go on to become two of the greatest players to ever wear the red and white— T.J. Price and George Fant.
Price ended his career in sixth place on the all-time WKU career scoring list while Fant placed both on the scoring list (13) and all-time career rebounding list (8).
"I think they both rank up among the biggest contributors we've ever had from both an individual and team standpoint," Stewart said. "Individu-ally, T.J. is the No. 6 scorer all-time... George, 13th in scoring and eighth in rebounding, so I mean, again, they leave a tremendous legacy from an individual standpoint, but they were winners also. They went to two NCAA tournaments and won 20 games their last three years. They didn't just
achieve individual success at the ex-pense of winning, and I think that's a true credit to both of them."
This season, Harper achieved feats that made his resume improve more as a coach. The Hilltoppers defeated their first ranked opponent at home (No. 25 Old Dominion) since 1986, they rattled off a nine game winning streak and sat atop their new conference for a brief period of time.
The season came to a close after an-other one-point loss in the conference tournament, this time a 53-52 loss to UAB. The loss marked the first time WKU has failed to reach the semi-finals for the conference tournament in the past 10 seasons. But, the defeat didn't come before Harper reached 20 wins for the third consecutive year, after de-
feating Marshall in the first round. It may be the second consecutive
year that WKU will miss the NCAA tournament, but it is also the third consecutive year that WKU has found consistent, sustained success under Head Coach Ray Harper.
"Ultimately our goals are higher than to finish fifth in the regular season, and we want to win conference champion-ships. We want to win conference tour-naments. We want to go to the NCAA tournament, and we want to advance in the NCAA tournament. That’s what our program goals are," Stewart said.
"Certainly there is a lot we can still achieve, but I am confident. I am proud of what we have achieved over the last three years, and our coaches and play-ers deserve a lot of credit for that."
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McDonough, Georgia senior Cody Woff ord hits the ball against Ohio State University, on Sunday, March 8 at Nick Denes Field. OSU won the game 10-1. LEANORA BENKATO/HERALD
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After losing the first game of its inaugural Conference USA series, WKU’s baseball team came back and won the next two games at Nick Denes Field to capture the series.
In the victories the Hill-toppers won 6-3 and 9-5, respectively. The series im-proved WKU’s record to 9-9 on the season and their conference record to 2-1.
“Coming back after the first loss just shows our experience,” senior first
baseman Ryan Church said. “Our offense really found its footing in the last two games and our pitch-ing staff was great in those games as well.”
The series began on a sour note for the Hilltoppers as Old Dominion defeated WKU 3-1 in the first game of a double header on Sat-urday. Starting pitcher Greg Tomchick of the Monarchs threw a perfect game un-til a home run by junior outfielder Anderson Miller broke it up in the seventh inning.
Old Dominion shut down
a normally strong WKU of-fense as Miller’s home run proved to be the Hilltoppers only hit in the game. WKU received a quality start from junior pitcher John Harman, who only gave up three runs on nine hits. Senior Brennan Pearson came out of the bullpen and threw three innings of scoreless relief for Harman.
The second game of the double header on Saturday saw a completely differ-ent performance from the Hilltoppers. They cranked out 14 hits in the game and scored six runs, while ju-
nior starter Josh Bartley im-proved to 3-1 on the season after allowing three runs on only seven hits.
“I thought we were really noncompetitive in the first game and we came out flat, but we got a great start in game two and we respond-ed well,” Head Coach Matt Myers said. “I’m very proud of how we responded, but it’s disappointing that we needed a game to respond to.”
Miller played dominant at the plate in the double
Harper makes history with his third straight 20-win seasonBY BILLY [email protected]
The WKU basketball pro-gram has a long and lucrative history, but Head Coach Ray Harper achieved a feat this season that legendary coach-es E.A Diddle, John Oldham or any other coach in Hilltopper history has failed to meet in their tenure on the Hill.
Harper became the first coach in program history to win 20 games in each of his first three full seasons as head coach. WKU's 59-45 first round victory over Marshall in the C-USA tournament this year gave WKU its 43rd 20-win season, a mark tied for seventh in the all-time 20-win seasons in NCAA history. WKU is currently tied with Syracuse in the category, a college that has made 37 NCAA tourna-ment appearances and five Final Four visits.
"I think that he (Harper) does an outstanding job
coaching the game once it starts," Athletic Director Todd Stewart said. "He is excellent at making adjustments, and he's excellent at maximizing the personnel that he has."
"I think when he took over as an interim coach, which pre-dates any of these 20-win sea-sons, was probably one of the best coaching jobs I've ever seen anybody do anywhere.
"He inherited a team that, I believe was 5-11 at the time. We were in disarray, and there was no energy in the program at all," Stewart said. "And he changed all that al-most immediately, and then we end up winning a confer-ence tournament that year, make the NCAA tournament and win our first game in the NCAA tournament in dra-matic fashion, so I think that showed the kind of coach that he is. The key for any coach, obviously, is recruiting and having some talent, and we
WKU Head Coach Ray Harper reacts to a foul call in the fi nal minutes of WKU's 53-52 loss against UAB in the second round of the Conference USA tournament, Thursday, March 12 at Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama. MIKE CLARK/HERALD
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BY HUNTER FRINT [email protected]
WKU softball played several games this past week while the student body was on spring break, including a game in South Carolina and a Conference USA opening series against Marshall.
WKU (10-5) played a game in Columbia, South Carolina this past Wednesday, March 11 against the South Caro-
lina Gamecocks (20-9). Despite WKU holding the lead with a score of 1-0 until the sixth inning, the Lady Top-pers fell 2-1.
Senior Dani Pugh scored the only run for the Lady Toppers from third base after junior Brooke Holloway sacrificed a bunt. During the second, fourth and fifth innings South Caroli-na put runners on base, but solid play from the mound and defensive stops from the Lady Toppers kept the score in their favor.
“Kramer came through and our hit-ters stepped up and hit the ball well,” Head Coach Amy Tudor said. “We made some great defensive plays.”
A walk off triple and a walk at the bottom of the seventh cleared the way for South Carolina to win.
"I feel like we are still trying to get back in sync,” Tudor said. “I thought we played well and you know, a few mistakes happened. When you’re playing a team of that caliber mistakes can’t happen.”
On Friday, WKU's opening series in the C-USA took place against Marshall.
The outcome of the first game that went into extra innings was a win for Marshall. Ten innings resulted in a score of 2-0 as both pitchers com-bined for 30 strikeouts for the game.
Game two ended in the highest scor-ing with WKU winning 9-5.
Game three ended in WKU’s favor as well with a score of 3-2. Dani Pugh hit her fourth homer of the year in the fifth inning to break the 1-1 tie.
“It’s definitely good to win when you’re playing a team like Marshall,” Tudor said. “It’s great to go in there and get your first conference series win.”
The Lady Toppers travel to Tennessee on March 17 for a non-conference game against the Volunteers, and then to Mun-cie, Indiana to play a three-game series against Ball State. The series will begin with a doubleheader on March 21.
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