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Early Wednesday morn-ing, well before UK bustledwith students and professors,Rick Brizendine was alreadyon his way to getting ticketsto Big Blue Madness.

He and others who areamong the most dedicatedmen’s basketball fans linedthe street across from Memo-rial Coliseum waiting for 7a.m. when they could runacross and lay claim on a spotfor their tents.

For Brizendine, the raceto the front of the line is noth-ing new. This year’s practicewill be the 26th year in a rowthat he has attended the year-ly event.

For 10 of the past 11years, he has been the firstperson in line.

The Brizendine familyfirst started camping out fortickets when his twin sonsturned 5. Their group hassince grown to include 11friends; in other years it hasbeen as many as 20.

“They became like fami-ly,” Brizendine said of hisgroup.

In order to ensure a spotin the front of the line,Brizendine started sleeping inhis car near Memorial Colise-um on Saturday after thefootball game. His group gotin line at 4 a.m. Wednesday.

Regarding his strategy formaking it to the front of the

line, he said: “You have to re-cruit the right people, like abasketball team.”

Although Brizendinecamped out in 1996 and1998, he said this year feelslike it is new again.

“It’s going to be specialto me camping out followinga championship,” he said.

He plans on playing corn-hole, football and catching upwith friends to pass the timeuntil tickets are distributed.

In addition to family andfriends who are camping outfor tickets, the Brizendineswill have a special guest thisyear — Rick Brizendine’s 2-

month-old grandson will becoming to his first Big BlueMadness campout.

The infant, with themiddle nameMichael after for-mer Cat MichaelKidd-Gilchrist,has alreadymet hisn a m e -sake.

His fa-ther, DerekBrizendine, broughthim to meet Kidd-Gilchristwhen he was 17 days old.

“It looked like he hadseen his first child, he even

held him for a while after,”Derek Brizendine said of themeeting.

Vincent Swope,the UK studentwho won $10,000last season bymaking a half-court shot dur-ing the SouthCarolina game,

was among thecrowd of people

setting up tents.He had been there

since 10:45 a.m. Tuesday. “You sleep here, wake up,

The tales of tent city

By Latara Appleby

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See CAMPOUT on page 4

PHOTO BY LATARA APPLEBY | STAFFUK basketball fans are camping out in line for tickets to Big Blue Madness, the first official basketball practice of the season.

The barriers on getting the best

This is the third in afour-part series about thestate of the UK footballprogram.

It’s not the X’s and O’sbut the Jimmys and Joesthat win football games,many believe.

Alabama and LSU hadthe top two recruiting class-es in the country as rankedby Rivals.com in 2009.

Those two teams in-evitably met for the nation-al title in 2012, as those re-cruits from 2009 blossomedinto experienced upper-classmen.

UK lags behind in re-cruiting investment andfaces regional barriers tosecuring the top-level re-cruits it needs to compete inthe SEC.

Mitch Sherman ofESPN.com reported onSEC recruiting budgets inJune. That report revealedthe Cats were ranked eighthof the 11 teams whosebudgets were reported in2011 (there were 12 SECteams in 2011, and Vander-bilt is a private institutionthat does not have to reportthese numbers).

“It’s difficult to put acomprehensive commenton that statistic withoutknowing how expenseswere, and were not, countedby each individual school,”UK spokesman Tony Neelysaid in an email to the Ker-nel. “We spend the moneyand the coaches have theresources they need to getthe job done in recruiting.Our recruiting budget doesnot limit our recruiting ef-forts.”

The Cats spent$336,035 in 2011, com-pared with an average of$665,585 for the rest of theconference’s teams.

“You can make num-bers say anything you wantto and can slide numbersfrom one budget line to an-other. I’m not disputingthose numbers but don’t puta lot of stock in them, ei-

ther,” said Oscar Combs,founder of The Cats’ Pauseand member of the Ken-tucky Journalism Hall ofFame. “I don’t think theamount UK Athleticsspends on recruiting is aproblem.”

Keith Niebuhr, a nation-al recruiting analyst for247sports.com, said it isn’talways about how muchyou spend, but how wiselyyou spend.

“Your most natural playto go geographically wouldbe Ohio. Most people inOhio don’t think aboutKentucky as a destination,they think about Ohio Stateand other Big Ten schools,”said Mark Nagel, associateprofessor in the sport andentertainment managementdepartment at the Universi-ty of South Carolina. “Iwould think Kentucky is ina very difficult place from afootball perspective, be-cause they don’t have thetradition. The first thingyou have to do is convincethe best local players toplay at your school in yourstate, which is hard to dowhen you have 50 years ofmediocrity.”

Combs agrees that theCats need to better secureplayers from within Ken-tucky first.

“Right now, they are ontarget to get maybe onlyone from their own state —that is an issue that moneyhas nothing to do with,”Combs said.

There are three playersin Kentucky rated four-starprospects by Rivals.com for2013. Hunter Bivin, fromOwensboro, has committedto Notre Dame and JasonHatcher, from Louisville,has committed to SouthernCalifornia. James Quick, awide receiver from TrinityHigh School in Louisville,has yet to commit.

“Players want to gowhere they are going to abowl every year and have agood shot at a BCS bowland/or a national champi-onship,” Combs said. “To-

By Les Johns

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See FOOTBALL on page 4

Less spending, lack of in-statetalent hurts football recruiting

Camping veterans plan for days to stake claim in ticket line

PHOTO BY KIRSTEN HOLLIDAY | STAFFA UK fan naps Wednesday at his campsite outside Memorial Coliseum. Tickets are distributed Saturday.

Several college cam-puses across the countryhave received bomb threatsin the past week, and UKhas reaction plans in place,should a threat ever occurhere.

UK Police Chief JoeMonroe said all threats arepresumed true, and if oneis made to campus, UKPolice is immediately noti-fied. He said UK Policewould put information outto campus about how itshould respond.

“(We) investigate themall appropriately,” he said.“You never know if it’s ahoax or not.”

Bomb threats are usual-ly made by phone calls, hesaid, because email can be

easily traced. The University of Texas

at Austin and atBrownsville, North DakotaState University, LouisianaState University andArkansas State Universityall received bomb threatswithin the past week.

Monroe said anytimeone notices this type of be-havior, he or she must takea step back.

UK Police works hand-in-hand with the Bureau ofAlcohol, Tobacco andFirearms and the Lexingtonpolice department’s bombsquad.

UK Police also has twoexplosion detective dogs oncampus.

“(We have) all neces-sary tools at our disposal ...if something should be dis-covered,” Monroe said.

Plan in place in case of threats

By Taylor Moak

tmoak@kykernel.com

In an effort to promoteFire Safety Month, UK Presi-dent Eli Capilouto set fire to amock dorm room outside theMain Building on Wednes-day.

“We talk all the timeabout how important it is thatyou don’t ignore your firealarm when it goes off,” saidAssistant Fire Marshal JasonEllis. “So what we do withthis demonstration is to show

just how quickly a fire canmove in a dorm room.”

Ellis said the mock dormroom, uses all the same furni-ture and accessories from adorm room on campus, in-cluding fire-retardant furni-ture and decorative posters onthe walls.

Once lit, the room is en-gulfed in flames in minutes.Ellis said the size of a firedoubles every 30 seconds.

“It will take about threeminutes for the room to com-pletely catch fire, but in about

a minute and a half, thesmoke will kill you,” Ellissaid. “Many college studentsthink they are invincible, butthe message we are trying toget out is that you do nothave any extra time when thealarm goes off. The smokealone will kill you before theflames do.”

Since 2000, there havebeen 155 fire-related fatalitiesacross the country on collegecampuses, Ellis said. On av-erage, the Lexington Fire De-partment is on campus twice

daily to respond to firealarms. Last year UK had 38active fires on campus.

“The most common de-nominators for the causes of afire are candles, extensioncords and alcohol,” Ellis said.

“Statistically speaking, ifwe have a fire, it’s going tobe in a fraternity or sorority,and there is a 90 percentchance that there will be a fa-tality.”

What the fire marshalshave noticed is messages

By Laura Shrake

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See FIRE on page 2

Event shows how quickly fire spreads

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WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Summer’s over andthe employees of Dunder Mifflin are backfrom whatever it was they did the past fewmonths — besides work. Kevin (Brian Baum-gartner) ran over a turtle in the parking lot;Dwight (Rainn Wilson) made a new type ofjuice from beet runoff; Pam (Jenna Fischer)and Jim (John Krasinski) have their new bun-dle of joy; Kelly Kapoor (Mindy Kaling) isheading to Miami, but not in Florida; andAndy (Ed Helms) was shipped off to OutwardBound by new company owner David Wallace(Andy Buckley) so he could pick up somemanagement skills. Meanwhile, two new guyshave joined the company. Nicknamed the NewJim (Jake Lacy) and Dwight Jr. (Clark Duke),their youthful enthusiasm reminds everyone oftheir namesakes ... who are at first enthusias-tic, then ambivalent about them.

MY SAY: Early in the episode, Pam di-rectly addresses the camera crew. She sayssomething to the effect — don’t you haveenough already? Funny line — to which acrewman responds, we just want to see howeveryone ends up.

There’s something both sad and absurd

about that because most everyone here —Michael (Steve Carell) excepted — prettymuch completed their life journey before thefirst season. They are all glorious characterspreserved in amber — the cramped space ofDunder’s Scranton outpost. These past eightseasons have merely offered variations ontheir tics.

But Thursday night’s episode promisesthat the ninth and final season actually may of-fer completion. Those new guys are the clue— so young, fresh-faced and not entirelyguileless, they are flashbacks to a younger Jimand Dwight. That fills the older characterswith remorse and self-awareness. Maybe it istime to change. (But will they?) Or will Andyever learn how to be a boss, or Creed (CreedBratton) ever figure out exactly what producthe sells? Who knows, but Thursday nightpromises we’ll get considerable pleasure infinding out.

BOTTOM LINE: Greg Daniels returns asshowrunner for the final lap. The results so farare very (very) funny.s so far are very (very)funny.

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Registering to vote made easier

UK Student Governmenthas funded a partnershipwith TurboVote to allow stu-dents to register to vote elec-tronically — even for an ab-sentee ballot.

“It’s very similar tosigning up for Facebook; it’squick and painless,” saidMatt Cordeiro, the partner-ship associate for Tur-boVote.

Until the final deadlineon Sept. 25, students can logonto uky.turbovote.org andcreate an account to fill outthe registration form andhave it delivered.

“Then you can pop themback into the mail like Net-flix,” Cordeiro said.

TurboVote is partneringwith universities throughoutthe U.S.

So far, 50 universitiesranging from Ivy Leagueschools to community col-leges have joined the part-nership.

“It’s a very diverse groupof schools using it,”

Cordeiro said.Not only are students al-

lowed to register, but theyare also able to look at thecandidate platforms and re-ceive text message and emailreminders about ElectionDay, said Nolan Jackson, di-rector of the Wildcat InterestGroup.

“Any effort to registeryoung people to vote I thinkis very important,” Jacksonsaid.

Even if students alreadyregistered to vote, they havethe opportunity to utilize thewebsite for its voting infor-mation.

Polling locations in Ken-tucky are located on thewebsite to assist students,Jackson said.

Unlike other schools thatare setting numbers for howmany students they want toregister, UK only had threeweeks to launch the partner-ship.

“The partnership worksin tandem with school voterregistration efforts,”Cordeiro said.

Some schools having the

most success with TurboVoteare the University of Floridaand the University of Akron,Cordeiro said.

“There’s not a targetnumber (of registered peo-ple), but my personal phi-losophy is if it registers any-body at all, that’s a greatsuccess for us,” Jacksonsaid.

TurboVoteis run byyoung adults who “speak(students’) language,”Cordeiro said.

The program should behelpful to students in gettingthem in the habit of votingregularly, Cordeiro added.

“It’s making it easy andgiving folks the informationthey need,” Cordeiro said.

After WIG introducedTurboVote Monday, Sept. 10at Rock the Vote, more than100 students had signed upless than two hours later,Jackson said.

“This partnership hasgenerated a lot of student in-terest,” Jackson said. “It al-lows the students to partici-pate in a presidential elec-tion.”

By Kayla Pickrell

kpickrell@kykernel.com

such as “stop, drop and roll”have not matured through theages, and thus many college-age students are not properlyeducated about fire safety.

Fire Marshal GregWilliamson said in the past16 years students have begunto better understand the ur-gency of a real emergency aswell as a drill.

“When I came here 16years ago, it was typical tohave 15 or 20 people stay inthe building,” Williamsonsaid. “We don’t have thatanymore. People understandthe urgency, and they get out

as fast as they can.”Much of this awareness is

attributed to the training andeducation of students in emer-gency situations.

“We offer fire extinguish-er trainings for the hall direc-tors and resident assistantswho are then required to relaythe fire safety information tothe residents,” said Ellis, a21-year service veteran. “TheNumber 1 thing we tell peo-ple is that the easiest fire tofight is one you can prevent.

“We tell (students) theycan’t have these things in thedorm because every one ofthem has started a fire on acollege campus somewhere.”

Lt. Keith Smith of theLexington Fire Departmentemphasized the importance of

fire-safety awareness on cam-pus.

“(This demonstration)shows very well how quicklya room will burn,” saidSmith, a member of the firedepartment for 21 years. “Youcan’t get a better demonstra-tion than just doing it; ourfirefighters want to use this asa training exercise, whichgoes to show how well it isset up.”

The demonstration alsoincluded a smoke tent whichemphasized the disorientingnature of a room filled withsmoke.

National Campus FireSafety Month will continuethrough September. No otherdemonstrations are scheduledat this time.

FIREContinued from page 1

PHOTO BY ADAM CHAFFINS | STAFFA firefighter reacts to a simulated dorm room lit on fire as a training and demonstration exercise.

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letter to the editorThey’ve struck again. This time, it’s to the tune of

$9.2 million. The recipients? Well, not who you mightthink. Football at the University of Kentucky brings inthe most revenue, is the most highly attended and is inthe most need of funds, but alas, this isn’t where $9.2million went. Seven million dollars went to soccer fa-cilities and the other $2.2 million went to softball.

Don’t get me wrong, I think these sports shouldbe supported, but if the Wildcats are ever going tobe competitive in the SEC then we must prioritize.Missouri, a newcomer in the SEC, just committed

$200 million to football. Heck, even Vanderbilt ismaking strides.

This isn’t just a coaching problem, nor is it win-ning problem. This is a commitment problem, andMitch Barnhart just doesn’t seem to care. It’s timefor Mitch and the rest of the UKAA to get real aboutUK football and get us back to going to bowl gamesevery year. Rich Brooks showed UK could do it,now it’s time for Mitch to commit to it.

Daniel Buckingham is a political science junior.Email opinions@kykernel.com.

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In 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered Ameri-ca. In 2012, a group of German students discovered the

United States of America. Discover,exchange and hopefully promotethe better understanding between allnations: That was J. William Ful-bright’s aim, who saw that “in thelong course of history, having peo-ple who understand your thought ismuch greater security than anothersubmarine.”

Fulbright’s International Ex-change Program gives scholarshipsto students and helps to promote agood relationship between the Unit-ed States and other countries. It isan academic and cultural exchange.An exchange between countries,

but also between individuals.For five years the University of Kentucky and the

Fulbright Program offer students from Germany a greatopportunity to experience this unique exchange on theirown. Participants of the program “Discover the USA”have five weeks to get to know America in reality, notjust from books, movies or the Internet. And at thesame time, Americans have the chance to see how Ger-mans are, to see how people from Bulgaria, Turkey,Russia, Uzbekistan, Syria and plenty other countriesare. Because the additional specialty of this program isdiversity — diversity that is usually typical for Ameri-ca. Everyone has a different origin. No one has just aGerman background.

And this is one of the discoveries that the studentmade. Despite all the different ancestors some Ameri-can students had, they could just say “I am American.”An incredible fact.

Usually, in Germany, no matter if you were bornthere and never lived in the home country of your par-ents, they would consider you a non-German.

“Here I can say I am German without getting astrange look due to the fact that my outward appear-ance is unlike,” says Jin Jeong, whose parents are fromSouth Korea.

The weeks at the UK passed quickly and the stu-dents can look back at many, many other experiences,observations and astonishments.

Starting with K-Week, they got overloaded withfree T-shirts, free food and events, like the water bal-loon fight or Fusion Day. They learned more aboutsororities and fraternities. They attended classes.Learned to deal with a “point clicker” or “plus card.”They talked to Americans, went out with them and dur-ing the football game, they cheered on the team. Out-side the campus they made trips to Louisville, Cincin-nati, Natural Bridge and, of course, to a horse farm.

Now, flying back to Germany, the suitcase is full ofpresents (and free stuff), but also full of stories to share— full of feelings, thoughts and memories — but,hopefully, also full of a deep passion to bring othercountries more together.

Zeynep Alraqeb is from Cologne, Germany, and isin her second year at the University of Cologne whereshe majors in media studies, computer science and eco-nomics. Email opinions@kykernel.com.

Fulbright: So much more thanfootball, fun and free food

It is hard to remember atime when the Middle East

wasn’t fea-tured in thenews. AsAmericans,we are so fo-cused on ourown societythat we oftenforget thatother cultureshave differentportrayals ofright andwrong, whichis really whatit all breaks

down to. We do not understandIslam and Islam does not un-derstand us.

It all started with a movie— a movie made to start fights,which is exactly what it did. Tothe Middle East, one person’sview reflects everyone’s view.So in their culture, that one per-son who made the movie re-flects how we as a society viewthem.

After Islamic extremistskilled the U.S. ambassador toLibya — only the sixth ambas-sador to be killed on duty —the threat continued, this timecloser to home. Bomb threatssprung up in schools all acrossthe United States. Once again,to Americans, this does notmake sense.

Americans do not feel thatthey should be persecuted forone person’s intended harm.Now the question is, why doAmericans blame all of Islamfor one extremist group’s ac-tions? If Americans are askingto not be blamed for the movie,then they should not blame allof the Middle East for killingthe ambassador.

There has always been ten-sion between the U.S. and theMiddle East, and the tensionwill continue to heighten if nei-ther side takes the time to thinkabout who is being blamed andwho should be blamed.

Americans cannot expectthe Middle East to throw outtheir preconceived notions of“Americans = bad.” The oldergeneration of people in theMiddle East will still think theUnited States is narrow-mindedand should be more acceptingof the Islamic culture. To a cer-tain extent, they are right.

If Americans could look be-yond past events that havecaused animosity between theU.S. and Islam, we could startto overlook the differences inculture and reach an under-standing.

Once again the questionneeds to be asked, who shouldbe punished for these actions?In American culture, with freespeech and freedom of expres-sion, our law dictates that nopunishment is necessary. In Is-lam, it is a large offense to in-sult their religion, and someonemust be punished. The extrem-ists looked to the U.S. toblame.

Still, it all comes back to alack of understanding. That isone thing over the years thathas not changed between Amer-ica and the Middle East. Theywill continue to be perplexedby our insensitivity to religionand our lack of punishment forthe lawless, just as we will bebaffled by their strict moralcode and seemingly harsh pun-ishment system.

Tessa Lighty is the Kernel’sphoto editor. Email her attlighty@kykernel.com.

America and Islam: A cultural divide

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go to class and shower whenyou can,” he said.

This is the second yearSwope has camped out forBig Blue Madness tickets.

Former UK footballplayer Matt Roark, star ofUK’s win over Tennesseethat broke a 26-year losingstreak, also was among thecampers.

He said he used to see allthe fans when walking toCATS, the on-campus tutor-ing facility for student ath-letes housed in MemorialColiseum.

“The past four years Ihaven’t been able to,” Roarksaid about camping out fortickets. “I wanted to get a

feel of the part I missed incollege. Plus, I wanted to goto Big Blue Madness and gettickets the right way.”

Roark arrived at 4:30a.m. Wednesday.

“It was an adrenalinerush. I was so excited when Ilaid down on top of the tent;it felt like an accomplish-ment,” he said.

Sophomores AdrianneClay and Kayla Denny knewabout the student-ticket lotterybut chose to camp out instead.

“We wanted the experi-ence,” Clay said.

“I’m enjoying myself. Igot a prime spot and I didn’tget trampled, now I’m justwaiting to see Coach Cal,”Denny said.

Brittni McCoy is camp-ing out for a fourth time.

“It’s the adrenaline rush

of the mad dash across theroad. It’s an experience youwill never get anywhere elsebut Lexington, Ky.,” she said.

Donyale Jones, a politi-cal science junior, campedout last year as well. Hechose to camp instead of at-tending the student lottery;he did not want his tickets tobe based on luck.

“It’s certainly a lot morehectic this year,” Jones said ofthe first campout after the2012 Cats won an NCAA ti-tle.

Big Blue Madness takesplace on Friday, Oct. 12, inRupp Arena.

“It’s the first time they’regoing to see these guys. It’sthe first big something todo,” Jones said.

“It’s not a game but it isas close as you can get.”

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day, you can’t say either oneof them at Kentucky and besincere. I think that is theirlimit in recruiting.”

One could argue that UKneeds to spend more to com-pete with the other programsin the SEC in deeper talent-pool rich states, with so fewhigh-level recruits comingfrom Kentucky.

Kyle Tucker of TheCourier-Journal compiled rawdata from Rivals.com recruit-ing data to reveal that Ken-tucky produces fewer four-and five-star players than anyother state in the SEC. In thepast four years, Kentucky hasproduced six such recruits,compared with 42 in Ala-bama, 53 in Louisiana, 99 inGeorgia and 194 in Florida.

“They are in a disadvan-tage from one standpoint —the state of Kentucky justdoesn’t have a ton of talent.That means you have to

spend money to get yourcoaches to where the talentis,” Niebuhr said. “Then youask, where is most of the tal-ent that is in Kentucky? Thehigher percentage is inLouisville. Not only do youhave the disadvantage of nothaving a ton of D-1 kids inyour state, but many of onesyou do are in your rival’sbackyard.”

Lack of investment in re-cruiting coupled with geo-graphic disadvantages led tothe Cats reeling in what Ri-vals.com ranks as the 14thbest class in the SEC for 2012(out of now 14 teams).

“Kentucky has to travel,and you can see that fromwhere they earn commit-ments, but it wasn’t that longago that the team led by An-dre Woodson was right in thethick of things for the divi-sion race,” Niebuhr said.“There’s a lot of sellingpoints to coming to Ken-tucky. Is it an uphill battle?Sure. It can be done. It isn’teasy, but it can be done.Five-star guys will be hard to

get.”Neibuhr said the Cats

could compete in the southernstates by targeting what he la-beled “difference makers”and by recruiting smartly.He cited Woodson and Ran-dall Cobb as difference mak-ers in the past for UK —players who flew a little un-der the radar but turned out tobe huge contributors.

“When you go to thestates with a lot of talent,there isn’t much differencebetween the Number 7 de-fensive tackle in Georgia andthe Number 13 defensivetackle in Georgia. There’snot always a big difference,”he said. “When Georgia andAlabama are done in thestate of Georgia, there arestill plenty of good playersthere. There’s still plenty ofgood players left in Florida.A lot of this starts with ask-ing where the talent is, and itis a long way away.

“There are guys that getoverlooked, and they are go-ing to have to find thoseguys.”

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The UK men’s soccerteam chalked up its secondhome win of the seasonWednesday night with a 3-1victory over East TennesseeState University.

The first half was a scrap-py affair as both teams battledto get the upper hand at thesun-soaked UK Soccer Com-plex.

Things failed to settledown until the 20th minutewhen East Tennessee had astrong penalty appeal turneddown. Franck Doumbe wasbrought down in the box byUK senior Jacob Kemper, butthe referee waved play on.

ETSU looked to build onthe momentum and appearedto take the upper hand, but itwas the home side that struckfirst.

A finesse move finishedoff by freshman GabrielConelian propelled the Catsinto a 1-0 lead on 36 minutes.

Freshman Bryan Celisknocked the ball into TylerRiggs on the edge of the area;the junior deftly one-timed theball into the feet of Conelian,who took his time before firingthe ball past ETSU goalkeeperRyan Coulter.

“It was nice to get a win athome against a good oppo-nent,” UK head coach JohanCedergren said.

UK went into the breakwith its 1-0 lead intact, butshortly after the break ETSU

had another strong penalty ap-peal, which this time saw thereferee point to the spot.

Junior Steven Perinoviccut ETSU’s Alesi Osorio downfrom behind as the strikerlooked set to pull the triggeron freshman Jack Van Ars-dale’s goal.

Perinovic saw a yellowcard for his two-footed lungeas Osorio limped off the fieldhurt.

ETSU forward DavidGeno stepped up and, after ashort run-up, drove the balldown the middle past the div-ing Van Arsdale to tie thegame.

ETSU’s Henrique Novaesmoments later scuffed over af-ter a nice passing move, miss-ing the chance to put the visi-tors ahead.

UK had Van Arsdale tothank for not going 2-1 downin the 66th minute after thefreshman stopped a bulletheader from Osorio at point-blank range.

“Jack’s been coming uphuge. He’s playing out of hismind for us right now,” Peri-novic said post-game. “He’sbeen keeping us in a lot ofgames.”

Thanks to a string of VanArsdale saves, it was the Catswho would go on to take thelead in the 74th minute, withPerinovic making amends forconceding the earlier penaltykick.

Senior Charley Pettysfloated a free-kick from nearthe left corner flag into the

back-post, and it was Peri-novic who rose highest to nodUK in front.

“It was nice to get one es-pecially after (giving away thepenalty),” Perinovic said.

The lead would be extend-ed in the 84th minute afterETSU’s MaximilianMuemken handled anotherPettys free-kick as it bouncedaround the goalmouth.

Pettys came forward toplace the ball on the spot be-fore sending the keeper thewrong way to give UK a 3-1advantage.

Simon Schroettle’s late redcard all but ended ETSU’shopes of a comeback as theCats comfortably held on forthe 3-1 win.

Cedergren was happy withthe way his team respondedafter letting its lead slip.

“Today there was just nobacking down. OK theyscored, OK fine, we’ll scoreanother one,” he said.

“They know that they cando so much better, and theyknow that they can play withanyone in the country.”

The coach was alsopleased with the input of Pet-tys’ contribution.

“Charlie wants to play atthe next level,” Cedergen said.“He’s got an engine where hejust never seems to stop run-ning.”

The victory moved UK to3-4 overall on the seasonahead of its next game, on theroad against Evansville on Sat-urday.

By Tom Hurley

thurley@kykernel.com

Men’s soccer pulls aheadto 3-1 win over ETSU

PHOTO BY JONATHAN KREUGER | STAFFJunior forward Tyler Riggs battles defender Simon Schroettle in UK’s 3-1 win over East Tennessee State.

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