Vol. 77 Iss. 22

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Megan EllisStaff Writer

Construction on Plaza Verde will in-tensify over Spring Break, closing some parking lots and in-tersections.

John Russell, di-rector of Facilities Planning and Con-struction, said several projects will begin Saturday, March 12, which he hopes to be finished by Monday, March 21.

Contractors will remove asphalt, make water line connec-tions, install electrical lines and make water taps, Russell said.

“Every effort is being made to com-

plete the portion of the projects that affect traffic and parking prior to the start of school on March 21,” Russell said.

Russell said sev-eral of these projects will affect traffic flow and parking. Con-tractors will have to remove and replace asphalt on the east end of the Rassman parking lot, which includes the intersec-tion of Dena Drive and Varsity Lane.

“This work will close the intersection of Dena [Drive] and Varsity [Lane], so no vehicular traffic will be permitted through this area,” Russell said.

That intersection has been congested since school started in January because of

the construction on Plaza Verde.

Senior Kailee Lea-bo said walking from the Rassman build-ing to the Texan and Junell Center parking lots is a concern for her.

“All of my classes are in the Rassman building and I walk from my job in the Junell Center,” Leabo said. “The area on Dena where the con-struction starts is very crowded with people parking on the street, traffic and those of us who walk that way to get to our classes.”

A sidewalk is in the works to help this area become less con-gested.

The sidewalk is scheduled to be com-pleted the first week of April, Russell said.

“I am excited for the sidewalk to be completed,” Leabo said. “I will be glad to be off the street walk-ing to and from class.”

The other con-struction projects will continue during Spring Break, but no additional parking is planned at this time, Russell said.

“I think there will be enough parking once it is all said and done,” Leabo said. “A little bit of walking is good for people. There is a lot of park-ing available by the Junell Center.”

Russell said peo-ple who park in the north section of the Concho Hall parking lot have to move be-fore March 12 in or-der for construction to begin.

Projects: Traf-fic flow, park-ing affected

Construction to closeparking, intersections

Jason HelmsOnline Editor

Ram baseball swept Southeastern Oklahoma State Uni-versity in a three-game series on March 4 and 5 at Foster Field.

“We were able to get three quality starts out of our pitching staff, which helps a lot,” head coach Kev-in Brooks said, “but mostly, we simply just played better than them.”

Junior pitcher Bry-ant Rutledge (2-2) held the Savage Storm to just one run while striking out eight bat-ters in eight complete innings of work in the first game of the se-ries.

SOSU brought it within a run in the top of the ninth, but relief pitcher James Conlee (2-0) kept them at bay, recording his third save of the season.

In the second game, the Rams were able to manufacture a run in both the first and fourth innings, which was all they needed after junior Matt Rechkemmer (2-0) gave up only one run in six innings pitched.

Conlee was called upon again to hold off SOSU in the top of the last inning, and deliv-ered save number four as the Rams recorded a 2-1 victory.

The Rams’ offense was on display in the third game, as four players had multi-hit games, including ju-nior centerfielder Jo-seph Leftridge, who

went three for four with three runs-batted-in.

T h e Rams’ pitch-ing staff gave up only two runs to the Sav-age Storm after start-ing pitcher Rick Reyna (3-0) played more than six innings that helped the Rams win 9-2 and complete the series sweep.

“We just

hit a nice groove as a squad and I think we have finally fig-ured out how to win,” Rechkemmer said. “As long as we continue to gel, there’s no team in the conference that is better than us.”

The wins bring the team to 11-7 overall and 8-7 in conference.

“We’ve been working really hard at practice and it has been transferring over to the field,” sopho-more catcher Nate Al-ter said.

The Rams won sev-en of their last eight

games, something that Brooks said is due to the right players in the right spots.

“We are get-ting better for sure,” Brooks said. “It has taken us a while to fig-ure some things out, but overall, we are headed in the right di-rection.”

The team travels to Abilene Christian on March 11 and 12. The Wildcats have won every series between the two since 2008, a streak that the Rams hope to end.

7/8 games: ‘no team in confer-ence better’

Friday, March 11, 2011


Meals for the Elderly hosted their first annual fundraiser Tues-day night to a theme Mardi Gras.

The McNease Con-vention Center hosted over 30 restaurants that provided food for the event. ME held a silent auction, and had fortune telling, palm reading, Texas Hold ‘Em, Bingo, raffles, door prizes, and live music available.

Volunteer Director of Meals for the Elderly LeAnn Criswell said the event is 100 percent do-nor-supported and the proceeds go directly to-ward providing meals for the homebound community.

Criswell said this event raised about $45,000 and drew a crowd of at least 800 people.

An estimated 200 people volunteered at this event, including ASU’s cheer team Tri-Beta and Delta Zeta.

“It’s a really fun event,” senior cheerleader Jordan Young, said. “Being behind the scenes is a lot of fun and you get to meet a lot of people.”

Community member Jennifer Calverley said she attended this event to support the program and to help give back to the commu-nity.

This event was the first of three fundraisers that Meals for the Elderly will host this year. They will host a clay bird shoot-ing tournament on June 4 and a Christmas open house on Dec. 11.

“Based on what we saw, this is the biggest turnout we have had for Mardi Gras,” Criswell said. “We are hoping that this was the largest Mardi Gras event we have had.”

Fundraiser: Games, auction, music give sup-port to community

Photo by Ashley Romo

Photo by Pam BelcherThe Central jazz band performs as guests arrive at Meals for the Elderly Mardi Gras party .

Photo by Ashley RomoParticipants take a chance on the Wheel of Fortune at the Meals for the Elderly Mardi Gras party Tuesday night.

Mardi Gras feedsthe homebound

Photos by Ashley RomoJunior Matt Rechkemmer pitches in the first game Saturday against Southeastern Oklahoma.

Photos by Ashley RomoJunior Toby Semler signals the next pitch.

Rams sweep SOSUin three-game series

Jeremy Evans, President, HERO

Major: CommunicationsClassification: SophomoreMusic: “Right now I’m listening to Zydeco to get into the Mardi Gras spirit, but usually I listen to pop,” Evans said. Frequented Website: “Facebook – all the time on my phone,” Evans said.Hobbies: ATV, rock climbingRestaurant: “I really don’t have one,” Evans said.

HeroPurpose: To provide a safe haven for everyone on campus. “We are by name a gay and straight alliance, here to help everyone at ASU,” Evans said.Events: Recently held a Mardi Gras party for studentsEligibility: “There are no requirements for HERO, all are welcome,” Evans said.Advice: “Go to class, it helps out,” Evans said.

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The Multicultur-al Center will com-memorate the second annual Women’s His-tory Month Celebration March 24 in the univer-sity center from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Events include a self-defense demon-stration, an awards cer-emony for Wonderful Women of ASU, and a fashion show, pro-gram specialist Adri-ana Balcorta said. The Multicultural Center will also display post-

ers featuring pioneer women in American history.

The University Po-lice Department will present the demonstra-tion to show women how to defend them-selves, Balcorta said.

“It’s needed more than we like to talk about,” Officer Lea Anne Roach said. “Everyone needs to know how to protect themselves.”

Students can visit the Multicultural Cen-ter’s webpage and vote for any woman who works at ASU to par-ticipate in Wonderful Women until March 11, Balcorta said. D i l -lard’s will sponsor the fashion show, Balcorta said. Fifty students will

model casual and busi-ness attire. Any student can volunteer.

Senior Rex Johnson said he modeled last year and hopes to mod-el again this year.

“It was fun pick-ing out clothes without looking at the price tag,” he said.

Balcorta said it is important to celebrate women because of their impact on the world.

“Women have ac-complished so much,” she said. “They have been segregated for so long, but they are im-portant and we need to recognize that.”

Johnson said he thinks women’s contri-butions are sometimes overlooked.

“Sometimes people think that a man invent-ed something, when really a woman did,” Johnson said.

Balcorta said she hopes students will learn about some of the important women in the past and appreciate the women they know now.

Women’s History Month Celebration is a popular event at ASU, Balcorta said.

“People from all over campus come to this event,” she said. “It is a great way to net-work with other organi-zations.”

The Multicultural Center will provide free refreshments for the celebration.

Multicultural center tocelebrate women’s historyRecognition: Second annual history month

Justin SeguraContributing Writer

Students can continue their academic studies at various libraries during Spring Break through the Texshare Borrow-ing Card Program.

This program allows stu-dents to check out books from the Porter Henderson Library, and return them when they are due at a different library in the state, or vice versa.

“It’s one of the most under-used services offered by the ASU Library due to unaware-ness,” Library Executive Direc-tor Maurice Fortin said.

There are nearly 700 aca-

demic, public and private li-braries throughout the state that participate in the program.

“Students are encouraged to stop by the ASU Library before Spring Break and register for a TexShare card,” Fortin said.

Students may obtain a Tex-Share Card at any participat-ing library. The card is separate and different from the ASU OneCard.

The program also helps Distant Education students and is strongly promoted within Distant Education pro-grams.

Students do not have to return all borrowing materi-als and books to the original library. It is a case-by-case ba-sis, depending on the lending library’s rules and regulations.

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Delta Sigma Pi held the “Dress for Success” fashion show Saturday night to help students and community members un-derstand the importance of dressing well.

“A resume will get you in the door, but the interview is what will get you the job,” said Erica Adkins, vice president of

Professional Activities.Students, faculty, staff

and community members attended the event Satur-day evening.

“I learned that what you wear to an interview is about as important as what you say,” junior Marcus Thomas said.

Students modeled on the runway, along with President Joseph C. Rallo and Mrs. Barbara Rallo.

“The way you dress says a lot about you,” sophomore Humberto Sanchez said. “It shows how well you will repre-sent the company.”

The fashion show dis-played smart casual, busi-ness casual, and business professional wear. The audience had an opportu-nity to ask questions.

Delta Sigma Pi coor-dinated with Bron Austin Deal’s company, “The Image,” to host the infor-mational fashion show. Nearly 80 people attended the show.

“We host seminars for the professional advance-ment of college students,” Deal said. “We use real student models and their own clothing.”

Deal said professional

wear can become expen-sive. In his seminar, he broke down clothing op-tions and told the audi-ence what one absolutely needs to have to start one’s professional wardrobe.

“New hires dress ter-ribly,” Deal said. “A com-pany’s decision is made within the first 15 seconds of you walking in the door.”

Deal said a com-pany’s hiring committee judges a person the first time it sees him or her. A bad first impression is all it takes to lose a dream job.

Photo by Pam BelcherIsabel Aguilar and Jennifer Cavanaugh model for The Im-age’s “Dress for success” program Saturday, March 5.

Fashion show teaches professionalismSeminar: Advice on starting profes-sional wardrobe

Students lobby for new bill

Mark McDanielStaff Writer

Eight Doctor of Physical Thera-py students lobbied in Austin with the Texas Physical Therapy Associa-tion for a new bill on February 22.

Graduate students Chrissy

Bautsch, Heather Frerich, Brittany Gaillard, Karen Hasson, Lindsey Hohlt, Michelle Iorio, Agata Mirko-wicz, Hayley Schuette and Assistant Clinical Professor of Physical Thera-py Lynne Hughes all traveled to the capital to participate in the political process.

Students met with staff in both Rep. Drew Darby and Sen. Robert Duncan’s office to express their sup-port of House Bill 637, which would allow Texans direct access to their

physical thera-pist, Hughes said.

The students sat down with Rep. Darby’s aide, ASU alum-nus Justin G. Till, to discuss the new law.

C u r r e n t l y, physical thera-pists can evalu-ate Texans only after they obtain a prescription from a physi-cian, dentist, physician as-sistant or nurse p r a c t i t i o n e r , Gaillard said.

“Our main concern is that people these days cannot go

directly to a physical therapist,” Gaillard said. “We think that we should be able to evaluate and treat patients without them going to a physician first.”

The current system wastes pa-tients’ money, because in order to get referred by doctor, one must pay the doctor first, then the physical therapist, Gaillard said.

“[If you go to the doctor] you’re going to have to pay the co-pay, and you’re going to have to pay another time when you come to me,” Gail-lard said. “So if you could go direct-ly to me and pay at one time co-pay, you will save a lot of money.”

According to the Texas Physical Therapy Association, this extra step is unnecessary, costly and time-con-suming to the public and acts as a barrier to receiving health services.

TPTA reported that 17 other states have passed similar legislation.

Gaillard said the number of states that have passed a bill like this proves it works, but Texas is lagging behind.

“We all take the same exam to get the license, so [they are saying] we’re good enough for 17 states and not for the rest,” said Bautsch.

The students said they hope the bill passes to reduce the amount of time and money required to receive fair and appropriate treatment.

“We’re not changing the scope of our practice, we are just changing consumer access,” Hasson said

Photo Illustration by Pam Belcher

Features Friday, March 11, 2011

Mariah Powell Features Editor

A break from class equals relaxation and fun for students ev-erywhere. While some head home, others head out for pricey adven-tures.

Freshman Tiffany Allen said she is going home to Midland to sleep and to hang out with friends and family.

“I am going to enjoy eating my mother’s home-cooked meals for a week,” Allen said.

Allen knew before March that she would be spending time at home. However, others are still do-ing some last-minute debating.

Sophomore Jordan Green said if he does not go home for Spring Break, he will spend a maxi-mum of $500 on a trip to Miami.

Freshman Trey Casey said he is going to North Padre to camp on the beach with his friends.

He said it will cost him rough-ly $100 for food and $100 for gas to go on this three- to four-day trip.

“I am going to South Padre with my Ram family,” freshman Velt Hickmon said. “It’s about 20 of us going and everyone is pitching in on gas and housing.”

Hickmon said he plans to spend roughly $400 shopping in South Padre.

“I’m going to make it worth my time since it’s my first college spring break,” Hickmon said. “We are going to be safe and cautious of everything in South Padre.”

Senior LeRoyal Tutt said he is going to California to look for apartments with his girlfriend dur-ing Spring Break.

He said they will be going to the beach and visiting Disneyland.

“I will be checking out some theatres to see what kind of job op-portunities I have as a theatre ma-jor,” Tutt said.

He said he went to South Pa-dre sophomore year, but has never been to California.

“The best part will be getting to explore something different from Texas,” Tutt said.

Starring: Vanessa Hudgens,Alex Pettyfer,

Mary-Kate Olsen,Peter Krause,

Lisa Gay Hamilton

Director: Daniel Barnz

I give “Beastly” four and a half out of five stars.

The story is about a high school student named Kyle Kingson (Alex Pettyfer), whose narcissistic news anchor father (Peter Krause) has led him to believe that looks are everything. Kingson thinks popular-ity, money and beauty will buy him everything he wants in life, but he is forced to discover otherwise. King-son receives a rude awakening from one of his estranged classmates, Kendra (Mary-Kate Olsen) after making fun of less attractive people and winning the school election. She casts a curse upon Kingson, who is too blinded by his own beauty to see his arrogant and ugly ways for himself.

The curse completely scars Kingson’s outside appearance, al-lowing him to walk in the shoes of those he had previously tormented. The only solution is to find someone who loves him for who he is, inside and out. His father moved him to Brooklyn with the housekeeper and

hired a blind tutor for him out of disgust. He never returned, leav-ing Kingson hurt and anxious to be normal again. Kingson promises a drug addict that he will protect his daughter (Vanessa Hudgens) from death after he kills a man’s brother. Still thinking of himself, Kingson tries to get her to fall in love with him.

While on this path Kingson re-alizes that there is a lot more to life than he thought. He gains respect for others and finds love.

The film is heartwarming.“Beastly” is based on Alex

Flinn’s 2007 novel of the same name. It is said to be the modern New York version of “Beauty and the Beast.” This is my first time hearing of Alex Pettyfer. I guess we can say he is new to Hollywood, because before this year he had only played in a British spy film called “Stormbreaker” in 2006. He also stars in a new movie “I Am Number Four,” which makes a part of me want to go see it. Vanessa Hudgens plays her typical sweet-heart role, which drives all the ro-mance in this film. On top of Pettyfer being new to American film, this is the director Daniel Barnz’s second film – I fell in love with it.

-Mariah Powell Features Editor

Movie Review:“Beastly”

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FeaturesFriday, March 11, 2011

Mariah PowellFeatures Editor

African Student As-sociation hosted their third annual “Back to My Roots” program March 3 in the C.J. Davidson Center.

The program usually takes place in January, but it was pushed back this year to March because of small de-lays, ASA president senior Beth Agho-Otoghile said.

Its setbacks did not stop the show from entertaining its audience.

“They performed re-ally well,” sophomore Jordan Green said. “The dances were cool and the short film was funny.”

Although it was a lot of work, ASA dancer freshman Raven Ross said the dances were her favorite part of their show.

“It took us about two months to get the dancing together,” Ross said. “At first we would practice three times

a day then we narrowed it down to once a day.”

At the last minute, changes in position had to be made so everyone would fit on the stage, Ross said.

Agho-Otoghile said the hardest part to put together was the dancing.

“People will come in one day and not feel like dancing, and then other peo-ple get frustrated, or some people take longer to learn steps than others,” Agho-Otoghile said. “It made it hard to work at times.”

After the dances were put together, ASA members helped each other perfect it, Agho-Otoghile said.

ASA members per-formed two dances and asked a break dance crew from school to perform as well.

This year ASA decided to run their play as a comi-cal short film instead of per-forming it live. The film was “From the Village to the U.S.”

“The hardest part was

time,” chief film editor fresh-man Besspher Mannah said. “It took us exactly three days to get everything done, and the editing was tough because we had so many takes. We lit-erally finished thirty minutes before the show started.”

Agho-Otoghile said their goal was to make it fun-ny, but true of Africa.

“It was fun working with everybody on this pro-gram,” Ross said. “It was a lot of hard work, but it paid off.”

The hard work was vis-ible to the audience.

“It was very entertain-ing,” sophomore Jeremy Henry said. “It had different events and showings than last year’s, so I thought over-all it was better.”

He said his favorite parts were “From the Village to the U.S.” and the fashion show.

ASA members ripped the runway in traditional Af-rican clothing.

Sophomore Cheyenne

Lesser said the fashion was her favorite part of the pro-gram.

“I had never worn Af-rican clothes so it was a cool experience,” Lesser said.

She is Native American, so joining ASA this year has brought along new experi-ences.

Green said the open-ing comedian, Junkyard Dog, made him laugh hard.

“He was super funny and I needed a laugh that day,” Greene said.

Junkyard Dog and co-median Kasambwe Mpu-lamasaka was invited from Dallas, Agho-Otoghile said. ASA searched for an Afri-can comedian to come to the event and found him online.

“There are great and fun things coming up for ASA this semester,” Agho-Otoghile said. “Be watching for flyers because ASA is go-ing to be doing things people wouldn’t expect ASA to do.”

“Back to My Roots”

1: Raul Kabona and Maureen Odiari , African Student Associa-tion members, show off traditional African clothing. ASA held a fashion show March 3 that debuted both traditional clothing and modern day wardrobes. 2: ASA members sing in harmony. The event included musical performances, poetry reading by ASA President Beth Agho-Otoghile, members Bisi Adebimpe and Taboderick Runels dancing, a short film, a fashion show and comedians. 3: A CaPoeira inspired break dancer performs for the crowd. CaPoeira is an African dance. ASA invited a team of three break dancers to dance at Back to My Roots III. 4: ASA members perform a Western African Dance. The group also performed a Congolese dance later in the evening. 5: ASA members present a different set of clothes as a part of the fashion show. The whole event was funded by the Student Organization Leadership Fund. 6: Kasambwe Mpulamasaka, comedian, tells jokes. He present-ed material that educated the crowd on Africa. The comedian Junkyard Dog opened for Mpulamasaka.

Photos by Scott Dykowski

Friday, March 11, 2011

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We think students should stop floating and start walking.

“Floating” describes a person who is sitting in an unmoving ve-hicle, waiting for a parking space to open up.

We are not completely against floating, however. Sometimes people float because they actually see a person heading to his car to leave, or because around a certain time of the hour, some students get out of class and leave campus. A person who has an injury or some other condition might need a space closer to his or her desti-nation.

We are only concerned with people who sit their vehicles dead-center in the lane so no one can even try to go around, ignore the honking behind them, even though they are perfectly capable of walking.

Everyone is a unique individ-ual with his or her own special, defining qualities. That is not an excuse to stall the cars behind you

while you wait for a parking space to open up. No one student is en-titled to threaten others’ schedules and agendas.

It is obvious why some stu-dents resort to floating. The cur-rent availability of parking spaces is less than ideal. However, there are a number of reasons why floating should almost never be the answer.

First, floating, at its worst, may prevent other vehicles from entering a lot, affecting traffic out-side the lot. This works the other way: floating may prevent vehi-cles from leaving a lot. Some stu-dents do not have time to float or wait for the people ahead of them to park. They might have class, an appointment, or a test.

Second, floating is really one of the most self-centered vehicu-lar acts. Most people who float are probably in no hurry, which is why they can afford to park in the middle of a lane or street for up to half an hour (sometimes even

longer). Again, what about the people they are holding up?

Finally, the amount of time some students take to congest parking lots is more than enough time to park someplace a little far-ther away and walk to their des-tinations. Yes, it can be a hassle—your next class is in the library and the only open parking space is on the other side of campus—but it would probably take about 15 minutes to hoof it, as opposed to not knowing at all when a space might open within the next thirty minutes.

It is unlikely that people who regularly float and are quite okay with it will quit without any con-crete restrictions.

Here are some suggestions for the university: 1) create some kind of policy to limit the amount of time someone can float, 2) convert the mostly empty ‘D’ lots to gen-eral use lots, or 3) lower the cost of ‘D’ permits so more students will buy them.

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Checking the newspaper, I have found this nonsense of the possibility to cut funding to Planned Parenthood due to “dif-ferences of opinion.” I personally highly disagree with possibility in cutting funding. Without it, I and many other women my age can-not take advantage of services that benefit our futures. I am a low in-come student, paying out of pocket for just about everything you can think of. Thanks to Planned Par-enthood, I got accepted into the Women’s Health Program provid-ed by Medicaid to offer me yearly pap smear visits, birth control, and emergency services. Without these services, which are offered by very few clinics in San Angelo at little to no cost to me, I would not be able to make my decisions in life about the future I and other women my age wish to hold.

My entire future was planned out. I had a great career, great circle of friends, and a great life ahead of me. That all came to a shocking halt...I unfortunately became preg-nant during my college life. This was a devastating blow to my as-pirations to graduate from college. I had to make some swift decision, alone: was I to keep this baby or not? I decided to utilize the clinics services provided to me. I knew I could not raise a child; I knew I

had not the financial or mental ca-pabilities to ensure the future of the child. It was a mistake that I knew had consequences, getting preg-nant. I have always understood the ramifications of unprotected sex. One mistake led me to the hardest decision of my life. I found myself making the call to a friend of mine, telling him of the decision I had to make with a tear dropping from my eye in every word and I was left heartbroken at his decision to nev-er speak to me again. Yet the pain I felt was not to last forever—I knew I had made the right decision. One day all would understand why I had to make the decision I did. It was a horrible journey from then to now, but I thank those few who supported my decision—after los-ing many friends and family in the ordeal—and the counseling the clinic got me in touch with, the af-tercare they provided and the com-

passion of the women who work there who understand the choices young women are faced with daily.

My story produces anger, and is rather difficult to swallow for those of deep religious or opinion-ated roots. Although I understand your opinion and concern, put yourself in another’s shoes. What if you were faced with this decision? What if you found yourself alone, in bed, left to cry for hours because you didn’t think anyone would un-derstand, your religious friends, your family? What if you had to give up your school, life, work, ca-reer, hours studying, money spent and time with loved ones to raise a baby you know you just can’t han-dle at 18, 19, 20, etc.? Tough road to take once you’re faced with the question.

Lindsey Garza,senior

Yes

13%

38%

I alreadylive

off-campus 38%

No 13%

I would rather live off-campus regardless of room and meal rates

Friday, March 11, 2011 Sports

StandingsBaseball

Tarleton St.WTAMUCameronIncarnate WordSouthwestern OKA&M- KingsvilleAbilene ChristianSoutheastern OKAngelo StateCentral OKEastern NMEast CentralNortheastern St.

School Overall

14-316-310-3

10-514-510-712-57-8

Conf.

10-27-29-39-3

10-57-55-45-48-73-91-8

1-110-12

11-76-113-115-130-15

Softball

Angelo StateWTAMUIncarnate WordTexas Woman’sTarleton StateA&M- KingsvilleAbilene ChristianEastern NM

School Overall

20-117-111-6

11-710-7-113-1014-13

Conf.

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Basketball season came to an end for the ‘Belles after they lost to Central Okla. 76-52 in the first round of the Lone Star Conference Tournament in Bartles-ville, Okla on Wednes-day, March 2.

“We’re disappointed in the way we played to-day,” Head Coach Sally Brooks said. “Other than that, there is nothing dis-appointing about this year.”

In her last game in an Angelo State uniform, senior guard Camille Per-kins led the ‘Belles with 18 points. Junior center Paige Weishuhn added 14 points and nine boards.

“I never felt like we really buckled down on defense… to get back in to the game,” Brooks said. “We scored some points towards the end, but I never felt like we took control defensively.”

The ‘Belles dressed seven players against the Lady Bronchos, just like they have throughout most of the season.

“We played great the last two weeks of the sea-son and I couldn’t be any more proud of them,”

Brooks said. “I’ve been coaching a long time but I don’t know if I’ve ever been more proud of sev-en players on the same team than I am with these seven.”

Perkins said she has no regrets and is glad she

made it back to the LSC Tournament in her senior season.

“We made it a goal this summer and my teammates and I worked extremely hard,” Per-kins said. “I couldn’t have asked for a better group of girls to end my senior year with… I know they’re going to continue to carry on the ‘Belle legacy and I wish them all the best.”

Perkins is the only graduating senior. The six other ‘Belles will return next season with the new recruits.

“We had a great early signing period… so we just need to keep working hard,” Brooks said.

Basketball: Senior leads team with 18 in final game

‘Belle basketball comes to an end

“I couldn’t have asked for a better group of girls to end my senior year with.”

-Sr. Camille Perkins

Photo by Ashley Romo(Above) Rambelles rally around the mound after a great play. (Below) Freshman Morgan Spearman slides safely into third. (Left) Freshman Mary Kate McKay winds up for the pitch.

Track: ASU in first ever Indoor Championships

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Contribut-ing Writer

The women’s in-door track team will send four individuals to the NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field Championships in Albuquerque, N.M. March 11 through 12.

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Nussey (800-meter) and Chrystal Ruiz (pentathlon), sopho-more Kelsey Wilson (pole vault) and fresh-man Kati Holly (high jump) will represent Angelo State in the ‘Belles’ first national indoor meet in school history.

“This is an awe-some ending to my first indoor season as a freshman,” Holly said. “I am very nervous but very excited and ready to go.”

Nussey and Ruiz

both have experience at the national level. At the 2010 NCAA Divi-sion II Outdoor Track and Field Champion-ships, both placed in the top three in their events. Ruiz placed sec-ond in the heptathlon. Nussey placed second in the 800-meter run and was a part of the first place 4X400 relay team.

“I am pretty ex-cited,” Ruiz said. “I am ready to see the out-come of all the hard work.”

What to watch for:3-11: BB at Abilene Christian 7:00 pm Track at NCAA Div. II Indoor Championships SB vs A&M- Kingsville 3:00 pm/5:00 pm (DH)

3-12: Track at NCAA Div. II Indoor Championships SB vs A&M- Kingsville 1:00 pm BB at Abilene Christian 2:00 pm BB at Abilene Christian 5:00 pm

Four advance to NCAA national indoor meet

Rambelles sweep up Dustdevils

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