As baseball season comes to an end, the Student Activities Board and the Student Government Association have joined with athletics in efforts to host their annual Day at the Park 2013 to promote the Arkansas State baseball team, encourage school spirit and have a good time at the baseball park.

The game will commence at 6:30 p.m. on April 23 and will be held at the baseball park located on the ASU campus. The Red Wolves will be playing against the Rebels of Ole Miss.

Stevie Overby, a junior animal science and biology major and 2012-13 public relations director for SGA, has participated in making Day at the Park

a fun experience for all.“Day at the Park is an event to get

students more involved with athletics,” Overby said. “It is put on by both SGA and SAB, with the hopes to increase the fan base for our baseball team.”

By collaborating together, SGA and SAB have been able to plan a baseball game full of fun and prizes.

“Student Activities Board encourages the student body to have more school spirit and to join together as one to watch the team,” said Amber Ray, a junior nursing major and traditions director for SAB.

Day at the Park offers students a chance to watch the ASU baseball team pursue another victory and have a good time doing so.

“Students should definitely go out to show their support for our athletic teams, and this is a great game to start at,” Overby said. “So many other students are there that you’re bound to have a phenomenal time.”

During the game, students will have the chance to win prizes.

The first 150 students will also have the chance to receive a concessions voucher that will provide the student with a free drink and free hotdog.

“The outcome we hope for each year is just to create a greater sense of community within the university, and show our love and support for another facet of Red Wolves athletics,” Overby said.

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Caitlin LaFarlette | Photo EditorCedric Burnside shows off his guitar skills at the Blues and Roots Music Showcase, as part of this year’s Delta Symposium. The event was held Saturday afternoon as a conclusion to the acoustic blues contest held Wednesday. Burnside won the 2011 Blues Music Award for “Best Drummer of the Year.”

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Students react to Boston tragedy

Last week, campus flags were flown at half-mast as ASU’s salute to the runners and bystanders affected by the deadly bombing of the Boston Marathon.

In the wake of the April 15 tragedy, most students retain their confidence in the secu-rity of the university, some believe the bombing points to problems in national security and all remain stunned by the unremitted attack.

“I was just shocked,” said Hannah Freir, a sophomore nursing major of Jonesboro. Many students experienced similar reactions to Freir’s.

“It’s sad, disturbing and scary,” said Madison Hill, a speech pathology major of Jonesboro.

“Who in their right mind would want to bomb run-ners?” said Justin Mangrum, a senior interdisciplinary studies major of Jonesboro. “It’s just insane.”

Alex Washam, a fresh-man undeclared major of Jonesboro, said, “I was mad. I couldn’t comprehend how someone could do that to in-nocent people.”

Mikah Felkins, a physical education teacher at ASU, was one of the runners of the Boston Marathon and witnessed the bombing first-hand. Felkins said she and her running partner had finished the race only fifteen minutes

before the first bomb explod-ed.

Felkins said, “I didn’t think something terrible had hap-pened when the first one went off, I was just wonder-ing ‘what in the world is this?’ I thought maybe an electrical problem or a fire had caused it.”

Felkins only heard the first explosion, but she did see the second explosion that followed a mere ten seconds later. “With the second one, it wasn’t like panic set in, but everyone knew something wasn’t right,” Felkins said. “There was no panic where I was. We were all very calm as we were walking out.”

It was not until after he-licopters, policemen and FBI vehicles began arriving that people began to realize the full impact of the scene. “This whole time when other people were seeing things on television, we runners were not,” Felkins said. “We were not getting everything and seeing everything that was going on like others were. We knew something was wrong, but we didn’t know the ex-tent.”

Soon cell phones were flooded with Facebook posts, emails, and frantic texts from concerned family and friends. Felkins remained calm throughout the after-noon, grateful for the support of local Bostonians. “We had people offer for us to come into their homes to get warm,

Day at the Park set for Tuesday

Trip abroad propels student into successA spark of genuine inspiration is like a but-

terfly. Its magnificence catches your eye, and if curiosity gets the best of you, you run after it. Smiling, appreciating its beauty, you want to show that butterfly to those around you, espe-cially to those willing to appreciate it as much as you do.

For Drew Smith, a senior biology major of Helena, traveling the world and sharing his experiences are his butterflies. After his older brother Nathaniel studied abroad in Bulgaria for a year and had the time of his life, Smith saw how such an experience could not only change a person for the better, but also lead to personal discoveries that provide a reason for existence.

Getting to this point, however, was not in the least bit easy. After graduating high school in 2008, Smith was enrolled in the Universi-

ty of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee for his freshman year and then transferred to Arkan-sas State University for the fall 2009 semester. His life then took a series of turns. He put his social life before school, which proved to be a negative impact on his GPA, he dealt with the death of his best friend and he experience spine problems in which he had to endure surgery to correct his spine as well as take the semester off to heal.

Smith found himself bringing his grades back up at a community college and he en-rolled for the second time at ASU to finish his degree and hopefully study abroad. With the help of Carl Lindquist, the former coordina-tor for Study Abroad and Special Recruitment Projects at ASU, Smith found his own inspira-tion to spend a year studying abroad in Tartu, Estonia

Although Estonia was not his first choice, Smith loved to travel. He had visited Spain, It-

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Takako Okumura | Staff PhotographerClyder A. Milner presents “Historic Preservation and the V.C. Kays House” for part of the Delta Symposium events, and speaks about saving the Kays House.

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The Department of English and Philosophy kicked off the annual Delta Symposium Wednesday and continued

through Saturday. The theme, “Cultivating the Delta,” brought several events including presenters and music

festivals.

Bullying is common among children, youth, and young adults but thankfully there are ways to deal with it.

A recent report showed Wisconsin’s Matthew Bent trying a new strategy that has been gaining a lot of social media attention.

He posted a picture on Facebook with his recently bullied son, Shiloh, holding a sign stating that he is against bullying.

According to the story, Shiloh was body slammed on to the ground by an aggres-sive student at his school in gym class and had a necklace stolen.

The report said the father of the child went to the local police, but the police chose to do nothing about the sit-uation.

They alleged the boy could have left the situation but had chosen not to.

This situation needs to be examined from different an-gles, but it seems that a key factor to protecting yourself from bullying lies within you.

Consider the situation. Simply observing the Bents’ side of the story suggests the father had to go to the police because the school system

did not do anything about the situation.

While the police suggest-ed that the boy could have left the situation, the boy was in gym class, a class that is usually required in most school systems.

However, there is more that could have been done to solve this problem.

The father made a good first step, sticking up for his son. However, there may be a step that Mr. Bent could lean more towards prevention than remediation. Mr. Bent’s can empower his son to to stand up for himself.

Sticking up for yourself is usually a common solution to the problem of bullying. The power of this, seemingly sim-ple strategies cores around

self-confidence. Confidence goes a long

way and you would be sur-prised how well it actually shows.

Most of the time a bully will pick on someone if they perceive them to be an easy target who lacks confidence.

Confidence can come naturally with knowing your self-worth and what you have to offer to the world.

Being assertive when a situation calls for it will also show confidence.

While this point is op-tional, learning some form of self-defense is a great way to slowly but surely build confi-dence if you find it to be lack-ing.

While I am confident from my life experience that I can stand up for, and even protect

myself if need be, I do not think it would hurt to learn some form of self defense discipline.

While applying these fac-tors to a bullying situation, the best way to handle your-self is to defuse the situation.

This is the best means in handling any conflict. If someone hurts you, let them know it and that you do not appreciate it.

It is also crucial to forgive them if the person acknowl-edges that they made a mis-take. We are human after all.

If you cannot defuse the situation, the best way to avoid being a party guilty of an offense is to leave.

Only in situations where you cannot leave and the aggressor makes a physical threat against you is when you may legally defend your-self.

I am not saying that what Mr. Bent did was wrong.

I actually commend him for standing up for his son. There are ways he can build his son’s self-confidence, and teach him to stand up for himself.

Jason Holland is crimonology major of Jonesboro.

Today is Earth Day, an annual day to celebrate and appreciate the Earth’s natural environment.

The first Earth Day took place on April 22, 1970. It was founded by United State’s Senator Gaylord Nel-son to promote the ideas of ecology, encourage respect for life on earth, highlight growing concern over pollu-tion of the soil, air, and water, and to conserve our natural resources.

The first Earth Day was focused on the United States but in 1990 Earth day became international organized event in 141 nations.

Earth Day is now coordi-nated globally by the non-profit Earth Day Network and is observed in more than 192 countries every year. This makes sense since the Earth is not only composed of the United States.

Typical ways of celebrat-ing Earth Day include plant-ing trees, picking up roadside trash, conducting various programs for recycling and conservation, and people might actually reduce, reuse and recycle.

There are also outdoor performances,exhibits, street fairs, and television programs that focus on environmental issues.

The Earth Day of 1970 had participants and celebrants from ten thousand primary and secondary schools, and hundreds of communities across the United States.

This equals 20 million Americans enjoyed the spring sunshine for peaceful demonstrations about envi-ronmental changes.

It also persuaded U.S. pol-iticians that environmental legislation had an important, lasting group of supporters.

Earth Day is now the larg-est secular holiday in the world, celebrated by more than a billion people every year.

That is all great and the numbers are impressive but it seems the Earth is only cel-ebrated for one day a year by many people.

The Earth should be taken care of everyday because it

is the only planet we can live on.

One of the best and easiest ways to help the earth is to recycle. Sadly, people seem too lazy to even do that.

On campus, I see paper in the trash can even when there is a paper recycling bin right next to it.

Or there is always this gar-bage can favorite. There was a trash can in the North Park-ing Dock that obviously was full as the lid of it was popped off from all the trash, yet peo-ple kept stacking more on top.

It is pure laziness that pre-vents you from trying to find a trash can nearby that is not full.

While people at least are not directly littering, trash was falling out of the can for it to be blown away or for people to kick around.

I am curious, what does it take for people to care about the earth?

Could it be statistics, such as 80 percent of Earth’s nat-ural forests have been de-stroyed and 14 billion pounds of garbage, mostly plastic, is dumped into the ocean every year.

Every year in America we throw away 96 billion pounds of food. That is 263 million pounds a day, 11 million pounds an hour. 3 thousand pounds a second.

Then we hear sad facts of 1 in 5 children go to bed hungry or do not know when their next meal will be. In third world countries, there are thousands of people threat-ened daily by starvation.

For the visual learners, just check out how much food is wasted everyday in the cafeteria.

It is evident that we need to start living a greener life-style, not just on Earth Day, but every day.

All people need to do is commit at least one action a day to protect the environ-ment. A better tomorrow starts today.

Jennifer Wells is a junior journalizm major of Moun-tain Home.

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Arkansas State University is about to round out its most prestigious academic celebration.

The Convocation of Scholars is a program that creates receptions and ceremonies for the different colleges across our campus to honor the academic success of our University. In total, there were 20 different Convocation of Scholars events throughout the last three weeks of April.

Events included induction ceremonies, receptions, speakers, luncheons and banquets.

The various formal dinners were accompanied by speakers, presentations of awards and scholarships.

The attendance at these events were quite select. For students it came as an invite basis.

After a hard year of homework, testing, learning and extra curricular activities, the banquets are a great way to support all the hard work that goes into being an exceptional student.

Student success is not the only thing celebrated at these events. Members in the audience were celebrating the academic achievements of our student body as well as our faculty.

As students we know how important it is to have a strong faculty body to ensure soundness of knowledge and appropriate application.

The Convocation of Scholars certainly brings about a unity on our campus between administration, faculty and students.

Besides unifying present faculty and students, the celebration also brought in previous employees and students of ASU.

If you were a student or faculty that was awarded during the Convocation of Scholars, congratulations. Job well done, at least for now. Don’t forget that GPA’s are cumulative and so are achievements or failures in careers.

If you were at the reception and saw an award that you coveted, challenge yourself to earn it next year.

If you were not invited to the receptions, we hope you make the changes to ensure your name makes the guest list next year.

College, and more importantly life, is operated by individuals who apply themselves.

They apply themselves in the classroom, in clubs and organizations that they know will continue to grow them as individuals.

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BOSTON, Continuedoffer us food or free meals at restaurants,

because most of the runners didn’t have mon-ey with them when they finished the race,” Felkins said.

Cameron Lamb, a sophomore English ma-jor of Jonesboro, learned of the bombing on Facebook.

“It’s bad when someone has that much dis-respect for human life,” Lamb said.

With the proliferation of edited photo-graphs available on the internet, some stu-dents initially doubted the reality of last Mon-day’s twin explosions.

Austin Turbeville, an undeclared freshman of Jonesboro, said, “I found out online, but I thought the pictures were Photoshopped.” Turbeville said, “But after my mom told me it was real, I thought it was terrible. I didn’t think someone could do that to their own people.”

Kasey Tabor, a freshman accounting major of Beebe, said, “I didn’t think the bombing was real either until it was on the news. Then it freaked me out.”

While they’re aren’t as big as the Boston Marathon, ASU does host several large sport-ing events every year and, regardless of the re-cent events, most students still feel comfort-able with their safety on campus.

“There’s always danger, but that’s the world we live in,” said Courtney Wentworth, a soph-omore speech pathology major of Jonesboro. “I don’t feel any more scared now than I did before.”

Most of the safety students feel is due to the area ASU resides in. “I don’t think it’s danger-ous here because (Jonesboro) is a small town,”

Tabor said. “If I lived in Chicago or Detroit or somewhere, then I would be more worried.”

Felkins said, “I’ve never felt unsafe in Bos-ton. Even in the airport the next morning, I never felt for a moment that I wasn’t safe.”

While some students view the bombing as an isolated event, others think it points to more pressing security issues nationwide.

“My opinion is that we need to be more secure overall,” Mangrum said. “We need to do better background checks and increase border security. I’m not saying we should cut ourselves off from the world, just that more security would be safer for everyone.”

Joey Abe, a freshman marketing major of Jonesboro, said, “It’s going to keep happening until we do something about it.” He said, “Ter-rorism control is a big problem in the US be-cause we don’t want to offend anyone. We’re too worried about being politically correct.”

Felkins has no problem with the prospect of returning to Boston, though she plans on retiring from her days as a marathoner. “I don’t think we can prevent every situation that’s ever going to happen,” Felkins said. “It’s a great city and the race is unbelievable. That’s why I’ve gone four times, there’s no other race like that one. It’s the super bowl of marathons really.”

While the Boston Bombing has stirred up fear within all U.S. Citizens, Felkins points out that people are banding together and sup-porting each other.

“The people of Boston were really wonder-ful,” Felkins said. “You could just sense on the street afterwards, everyone was helping ev-eryone. Everyone was in it together.”

aly, Switzerland, and Costa Rica while in high school, so he welcomed the opportuni-ty with open arms. With his college career drawing to a close, Smith went through the daunting application process with Lindquist in a short week’s time. He submitted the ap-plication in February of 2012, and found out he would be studying at the University of Tar-tu in Tartu, Estonia for 11 months.

“This school was not my first choice, but I was happy none the less to know that this dream was quickly becoming a reality,” Smith said.

Smith arrived in Estonia at the end of Au-gust in 2012. As he began adjusting to his new life, Smith began to experience the physical impacts that Estonia was beginning to have on his body due to the abundance of organic food that was improving his physical health. Alongside these bodily changes, he was mak-ing more and more friends and was immersed in a sea of different cultures.

“The biggest change, however, was proba-bly the fact that I was finding a sudden burst of inspiration. As if someone turned on a light switch in me.” Smith said. “I had an over-whelming urge to express myself through whatever outlets I could.”

Smith began entering competitions for blogging, photography and videos. Much to his surprise, Smith took top prizes in each of the competitions he entered, which put him in the spotlight at the University of Tartu. The university, which is in the top 2 percent of the world, began to do everything they could to get Smith’s work noticed by others. His work is currently posted on their Facebook page and Twitter account, and the university lead-ers now refer to Smith as “Our American.”

“They helped me to realize a talent, which propelled me forward,” Smith said. “Since I’ve been here, I’ve had an article published in a travel magazine, my opinions published alongside top educators in the country, an of-fer to contribute to another travel magazine, two job offers for making promotional videos, and a lot of attention for my blogs.”

While Smith realizes that he could have gained the same experiences at ASU he ex-plains that there is no replacement for an ex-perience outside of one’s comfort zone.

“Culturally, we think that our customs are the correct ones and everyone else is weird.

As long as you’re viewing the world through your prejudices, you will be left behind and weigh the entire country down as we move to-ward a smaller world with more cross cultural experiences,” Smith said. “We have to learn to appreciate others for their differences, instead of hating or fearing them, and that can only come from investigating the world with an open mind.”

It was these differences that set Smith’s blog apart from others. The people in Esto-nia have international experiences on almost a daily basis due to their exposure to other cultures.

“We don’t have this luxury because we are relatively secluded from the rest of the world, so we have to be more proactive in our explo-ration and learning,” Smith said.

Smith’s blog gets about 95 percent of its attention from people outside of the United States. Smith believes that it is because they are genuinely interested in what he has to of-fer as an exchange student from America.

“Back home, it doesn’t matter as much. That, to me, is our biggest weakness,” Smith said. “The best way to improve yourself, our country, and the world is to immerse yourself in a culture different from your own.”

When he leaves Estonia, Smith is planning on returning to Spain for the third time in his lifetime. Although Smith will land on Ameri-can soil in the middle of July, he is sure that he will miss Estonia desperately.

“I hope to go into the Foreign Service af-ter graduation in order to continue to build bridges between cultures, and help people to celebrate each other’s differences, as opposed to hating them,” Smith said. “My biggest goal in life is to inspire people to better themselves, so if I can do that for at least one person, then I can consider my life a success.”

Smith has an urgency to change the per-spectives of Americans Through his blogs, photography, and writing, Smith has already begun to inspire not only students and faculty at the University of Tartu, but as well as peo-ple all over the world.

Smith believes that writers have the oppor-tunity to inspire readers to be open to learn-ing.

“Much like how Christ invites us to have a child-like faith, we should also strive for a child-like wonder of the world,” he said.

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Caitlin LaFarlette | Photo EditorDwain Haynie, a junior engineering major of Camden, is revealed as a new member of the Spring 2013 Theta Upsilon chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.

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Xinzhong Zhao | Staff PhotographerThe track and field team compiled 19 top-five place performances Saturday at the 2013 Vanderbilt Invita-tional.

Cara Prichard | Sports EditorSenior Matt Howton putts during the Red Wolves Intercollegiate Feb. 18.

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The Arkansas State baseball team had its three-game winning streak snapped with a 3-1 loss to Louisiana-Monroe in Sunday’s se-ries finale at Warhawk Field.

Chandler Hawkins and John Koch com-bined to give up just three runs on four hits, but the Red Wolves offense stranded seven runners on base and did not have a runner reach second base after the fourth inning.

A-State’s record fell to 22-18 overall and 8-10 in Sun Belt Conference play, while the Warhawks improved to 15-25 and 5-13 in the league.

The Red Wolves wasted little time in push-ing across a run, needing just four pitches to take a 1-0 lead in the first inning.

Kaleb Brown led off the game with a sin-gle up the middle and Stuart Levy moved him into scoring position with a bunt.

Ryan Emery followed with a single to cen-ter field on the first pitch he saw to give ASU the early advantage, but it would be the only run Arkansas State would score on the day.

ULM struck back with a pair of runs with two outs in the third inning. Dalton Her-rington singled on a ball that was just out of the reach of second baseman Alex Potts, which allowed Kodie Tidwell to score.

The hit chased ASU starting pitcher Chan-

dler Hawkins from the game.John Koch replaced Hawkins and issued an

RBI double to the first batter he faced to give the Warhawks their first lead of the game at 2-1.

Koch battled and back, however, and got Taylor Abdalla to pop up to the mound to end the inning. The Warhawks added to their lead with a run in the fourth inning to push the ad-vantage to 3-1.

The Red Wolves looked to have a scoring opportunity in the top of the fourth inning when Claude Johnson led off with a double to right field, but the next three A-State batters failed to advance him any further.

Ryan Roberts reached on a 1-out single in the top of the ninth inning, but the run was left stranded on base after a fly out and strike out ended the game for the Red Wolves.

Hawkins pitched the game’s first 2 2/3 in-nings and gave up two runs on one hit and had one strike out. John Koch pitched the fi-nal 5 1/3 and gave up one run on three hits and had two strikeouts.

Brown, Emery and Roberts each had two hits on the afternoon, while Emery had the only RBI for the Red Wolves.

A-State will return home for a midweek matchup with Ole Miss on Tuesday, April 23. First-pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m.

Baseball falls in series finale

The women’s and men’s outdoor track and field teams wrapped up the second and final day of competition Sat-urday at the 2013 Vander-bilt Invitational in Nashville, Tenn., with continued suc-cess as the Red Wolves com-piled a combined 19 top-five place performances.

Arkansas State posted three champion titles on the women’s side to equal the men’s team output in day two of competition.

Junior Sharika Nelvis won both the 100-meter dash and 100-meter hurdles events to join senior Julia Agawu, who captured top honors in the discus.

The A-State men tal-lied three first-place efforts as well with senior Solo-mon Williams winning the 110-meter hurdles while juniors Kashef Daniel and Chris Nicasio were the top performers in the high jump and discus, respectively.

The Red Wolves conclud-ed this weekend’s meet with a total of eight first-place showings between the wom-en’s and men’s squads.

“The conditions were a lit-tle better today, ”head coach Jim Patchell said. “Chris (Nicasio) threw well in the discus and Solomon (Wil-liams) had a big jump in the triple. Sabrina (Antimo) ran a season best in the 100-me-ter dash and Heather New-berry ran an all-time best in the 800 meters.”

“Kashef (Daniel) and Sa-vannah (Hutchinson) both had personal bests in the high jump and Lucas Bateman ran a personal best in the

400-meter hurdles. Overall, we had another good week-end,” added Patchell.

Sharika Nelvis captured her first 100-meter crown of this outdoor season in an 11.61, a time which is cur-rently tops in the Sun Belt Conference and tied for 30th in the NCAA West Region.

She also took first place in the 100-hurdles for the sec-ond straight week by clock-ing a conference outdoor second-fastest 13.54 time, which presently sits at 19th among the NCAA West Re-gion leaders.

Julia Agawu’s throw of 161-08.15 (49.28m) in the discus was tops as she turned in the SBC’s second-best effort this spring and 44th highest in the region.

Senior Jamie Curry earned third-place laurels in the triple jump this season with a top jump of 39-02.07 (11.94m).

Senior Stephanie Fore-man notched third place in the pole vault, clearing the bar at a conference fifth-best 11-10.12 (3.61m) heighth to finish just in front of fresh-man Alexandra Pevtsova.

Pevtsova would also vault a height of 11-10.12 (3.61m) and garnered fourth-place accolades.

Solomon Williams was the first sprinter to cross the finish line in the 110-meter hurdles with a 14.65 time.

He achieved second-place honors in the triple jump at 50-10.62 (15.51m), which represents the second-lon-gest distance in the confer-ence and 13th-best in NCAA West Region action this out-door season.

The men’s high jump was won by Kashef Daniel,

who also established a PR at 6-11.46 (2.12m) to better his prior mark of 6-09.75 (2.08m) in the LSU Relays last month (March 23).

Daniel’s effort currently ranks in a four-way tie for 21st in the NCAA this year and is second in the Sun Belt Conference.

The Red Wolves also re-ceived a solid outing from Lucas Bateman in the 400-meter hurdles as the A-State senior took second place as a result of compiling a personal-best 53.01 time, which is the conference’s fourth fastest to date.

Senior Corwin Pace re-corded a second-place finish in the discus with a throw of 165-06.60 (50.46m).

A pair of third-place showings were turned in by junior Joey Meyer in the 400-meter dash at 47.49 and junior Richard Chavez with a hammer throw distance of 190-10.15 (58.17m).

Arkansas State will now get set to host its second an-nual Red Wolves Open this weekend, April 26-27, at the ASU Track and Field Com-plex in Jonesboro, Ark.

A-State’s home meet starts Friday as the men’s hammer throw gets under-way at 3 p.m. with the wom-en’s competition to follow.

Action resumes Saturday at 10 a.m. with women’s ac-tion in the both the javelin and long jump.

The running events begin with the women’s 3,000-me-ter race at 10:30 a.m.

The final event of the two-day meet is the men’s 4x400-meter relay, which be-gins at 3:20 p.m.

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Track and field shine in tourney

The men’s golf team began play in Muscle Shoals, Ala. today to compete in the Sun Belt Conference championship.

The three-day, 54-hole tournament will consist of 11 Sun Belt schools competing on The Shoals’ “Fighting Joe” course. This will be the fourth year for the tournament to be held on this course.

“A couple of guys have played it in the past, as well as our coaches,” junior Easton Key said. “They were able to show the guys who haven’t played in it specific places to hit to or to try to avoid that we might not know otherwise, so that really helped.”

The team competing for the Red Wolves is seniors Matt Howton and Wessel Zwiegers, junior Chance Holden along with Key and freshman Seth Garner.

Preparing for the tournament, ASU hasn’t changed much routine practice. Key said the course is known for having big, sloping greens.

“We’ve played a couple more times at Ridgepointe just because it is the most simi-lar to the course we will play on in Alabama,” Key added. “I’ve personally been working on

my longer irons and woods since I knew the course we’re going to play is long.”

The last tournament the Red Wolves com-peted in was April 9th at the Old Waverly Col-legiate Championship where they completed with a 14th place finish.

“We feel like we’ve been making steps in the right direction our last few tournaments as far as our game plans and focus go, so we all know we can come out here and put up a good finish,” Key said.

Golf team begins play in conferencetournament

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“I’ve personally been working on my longer irons and woods since I knew the course we’re going to play is long.”

-Easton Key