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ASHLEY BAILEYCollegio Reporter

Jim Johnson, recently ap-pointed athletic director at Pitts-burg State University, is eager

to be settled for once in the past six years. He and his family have moved three times in six years for job advance-ments, but says that Pittsburg

could tie them down. From 1993 until 1997, John-

son served as the compliance coordinator and men’s athletic coordinator at Tarleton State University. In 1997, he accepted a position with the NCAA, fi rst as a membership services representa-tive and in 2003, as a Division II governance liaison.

In 2003 Johnson accepted a position with the University of Central Missouri where he briefl y served as an intercollegiate ath-letics consultant before becoming the associate athletics director for development. He then held the position of athletics direc-tor at Texas A&M University-Commerce from 2005 to 2007. Currently he is serving as the commissioner of the MIAA until Sept. 3, but at night is doing his “homework” in preparation for PSU.

Johnson holds both a bach-elor’s degree in business admin-istration and a master of arts in education from Tarleton State.

Johnson and his wife, Cindy, a former athletics administrator, have two sons, Ely and Riley, ages 10 and 7.

In their spare time, which Johnson says is far and few, they spend time just being with the kids.

“We try to play some golf and really enjoy snow skiing in the winter,” he said. “Our job is not really a career. It’s a lifestyle, so we work around it as best we can.”

Former athletic director Chuck Broyles says Johnson was a good pick.

“He realizes that PSU is a great university and our athletic department is one of the most

ASHLEY BAILEYCollegio Writer

Antelmo Beltran says he had never played lacrosse before he met Joshua James Hancock, but somehow Han-cock motivated him into being on the PSU lacrosse team.

“I didn’t know Josh for very long, but it’s not how much time you spend with someone,” said Beltran, a friend and Phi Sigma Kappa

brother. “It’s the moments you have in the times that you spend.”

The search for 21-year-old Hancock was ended Friday, Aug.

20, after a caller tipped Olathe police offi cers of a wrecked car near 151st Street and South Lone Elm Road in Olathe,

about one mile from where Hancock was last seen two weeks ago.

His car had apparently left a roadway over an embankment that left his vehicle 60 feet from the road in a tree line. Hancock died in the accident and no foul play is suspected.

Hancock, a psychology major at Pittsburg State Uni-versity, was last seen on Aug. 5 after going out with co-work-ers to JR’s Place Bar in Great

Plains Mall in Olathe. Hancock’s mother, Jen-

nifer Harnett, last saw him on Wednesday morning after he came home from work.

“We started worrying on Saturday but thought he might have gone back to Pittsburg to see friends before leaving for the National Guard,” Harnett said. “When Monday night came, and he wasn’t here, we

MADISON DENNISEditor-In-Chief

The student fees that come along with every Pitt State Stu-dent’s tuition keep the university running. They pay for care at the Bryant Student Health Center, memberships at the Student Recre-ation Center, and keep many clubs and organizations afl oat. They make the Pittsburg State Experi-ence more enjoyable. However, a recent Greek Leadership weekend in Kansas City, partially funded by student fees, led some students to question what was being done with their money.

JEN RAINEYCollegio Writer

Injuries and vandalism are just two of the problems that used to occur on and around campus during Shark Night each year.

“The last year Shark Night took place in Pittsburg, a student was signifi cantly injured in an altercation about a block from Broadway Street,” said Steve Erwin, associate vice president of campus life and auxiliary services. “The student was beaten almost to death and there were several similar, lesser occurrences the same year.”

Even students who weren’t injured have had their possessions vandalized. There were a variety of crimes that kept

taking place around campus. “My sophomore year when things be-

gan to get out of hand, my car was spray-painted some time during the middle of the night,” said Erin Richmond, senior in biology. “I couldn’t exactly make out what had been painted, but luckily it was able to be buffed out and didn’t ruin my vehicle.”

Richmond says Shark Night was originally set up to give the fraternity and sorority members a chance to meet each

other and see the different Greek houses. “(Potential) sorority sisters are required

to stay away from boys, booze and bars during the week of sorority recruitment,” said Richmond. “The silence would end Saturday evening at 11:59 and all sorori-ties would go out together. It was a chance for new members to meet and see the other Greek houses on campus.”

SARAH POLANDCollegio Writer

Parents, siblings, residence assistants, move-in crews and everyone in between took time on Saturday, Aug. 21, to help Pittsburg State University freshmen make the move into the dorms and start a new chapter in their lives.

Coordinated in rainbow polka dots and bright colors, beds bunked, match-ing chairs facing the TV, freshmen Karen Steele and Kristan Herrera, both double majoring in education and Spanish, got situated in their dorm room. Although some students took the option of getting a random roommate, Steele and Her-rera didn’t have to worry about meeting the person they will be rooming with; they’ve been best friends since they were 5. Yet knowing each other for 13 years doesn’t mean Steele and Herrera do everything together. Herrera decided to rush, and joined the sorority Alpha Gamma while Steele opted out of rush week.

“With my fi rst year I wanted to fi nd out more (about sororities) and see what they do,” Steele said.

Two fl oors up, Derrick Greenlee, freshman in biology, was in a different situation. Greenlee wasn’t able to track down his roommate on Facebook before he came to PSU. Even though the only thing Greenlee knew about his roommate is that he is from Kansas City, Mo., he took a positive outlook and says the situa-tion will be interesting. The only problem Greenlee had was fi tting all of his things in his room.

“This is only a fraction of what we brought,” Derrick’s mom, Gina Greenlee, said. “The closet is already full.”

Down a fl oor, Ashley Bowman, freshman in biology, was able to fi nd

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Hot fussFootball team endures heat,

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Missing student found dead

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Leadership weekend controversial on campus

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Alex Staueve, freshman in technology education, carries his lug-gage to his room in Bowen Hall in preparation for the start of the academic semester at Pitt State.

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TYLER SMITHSports Writer

From the beginning of August until the past week, there were only four days where the temperature fell below 90 degrees. Students found it hard to walk to class without sweat-ing a river, let alone to practice in full pads for three plus hours per day.

Although the weather is sometimes brutal, redshirt fresh-man linebacker Nate Dreiling says the heat isn’t unusual.

“The heat always plays a factor during camp,” Dreiling said. “This was my second year of camp and I would have to say that it was a lot hotter and more humid this year.”

Temperatures have reached over 100 degrees on the fi eld at times during the team’s preseason camp. That, coupled with the various equipment that players are required to wear, such as helmets and shoulder pads, just makes the situation worse.

“I heard that someone put a thermometer on the turf and it registered in at 125,” Dreiling said. “It feels like your feet are just melting when you run and cut on the turf.”

According to players like Dreiling, the humidity has made their practices tougher. The coaching staff is concerned with students succumbing to heat exhaustion during practice, which Dreiling says is a reason-able fear.

“There were a few players who had to sit out of a practice or two because they had lost too much weight or they were dehy-drated,” Dreiling said. “A few guys had to actually get I.V.’s so they could get some fl uids back in them.”

To help cope with the heat,

coaches changed up the sched-uling, according to Israel Masel-era, sophomore in psychology.

“For heat purposes our coaches had us practice in the morning and at night,” Maselera said. “If we had an afternoon practice it would be on the grass practice fi eld because it was a lot cooler than turf.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control’s Web site, the turf that Bradenburg Field is made from absorbs the sun’s rays and worsens the heat index.

With heat being such a big factor during practices, staying healthy and hydrated is a must.

“Our coaches gave us pe-riodic breaks,” said Maselera. “We had water girls there with water bottles to help us in the heat.”

According to a report by the CDC, more than 9,000 student-athletes suffer from heat-related issues every year.

Shea Miller, undeclared sophomore, put it all into per-spective.

“Most of the time we’re run-ning around and doing drills, so you really don’t have that much time to think about how hot it is,” Miller said. “The more you think about the heat, the more it plays a factor on you mentally.”

Eleven years after parting ways with the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association, Lincoln University is back.

For those of you who aren’t conference history buffs, here’s the story:

The two went their separate ways after the 1999 sea-son when Lincoln wasn’t going to be able to fi eld a foot-ball team, which is one of the require-ments MIAA members have to meet. For the past decade the small Missouri university has been competing in the Heartland Athletic Conference, which is home to teams around the Midwest and Texas. You might be wondering how a school that couldn’t produce a varsity football team would fare in the gauntlet that is MIAA football. The answer is not too well.

The Blue Tigers are awful and, as much as I try, there is really no other way to spin it.

Their football program was less than im-pressive last year with an 0-11 record and a conference low of 6.5 points per game. So we are looking at a team that couldn’t even score a touchdown in some of their match ups. Along with a winless record and mascot that I can’t fi nd anywhere in my encyclopedia, the highlight of the Blue Tigers’ season was a 65-6 loss at home to Upper Iowa University, which posted a slightly less awful 2-9 record last season.

This isn’t good for the Gorillas. It’s great.Maybe it’s a little selfi sh of me as a fan to say

that a possible matchup against Lincoln every year would be an easy win for the Gorillas, but after a 3-6 conference record last season, I’ll take what I can get.

It’s not like the conference is going to add more games to its schedule, and if a game against Lincoln would help the Gorillas avoid playing a tougher team like Central Missouri or Mis-souri Western, it could pave an easier road to the playoffs, which last time I checked was a pretty good deal. I realize that Pitt’s football players aren’t looking to get off easy by not having to play tougher conference teams, but you have to admit that every fan likes to see a blowout every once in a while.

The one thing that doesn’t make sense to me is why a school that was ousted from the MIAA when it couldn’t fi eld a football team and was winless last year would want to join one of the biggest football conferences in Division II. Sure, it is better for the conference as a whole for the same reasons that big-name conferences like the Pac 10 and Big Ten are looking to expand. It’s more teams, more revenue, more publicity. The area where these additions could hurt the MIAA is prestige.

As in any conference we have outliers like powerhouse Northwest Missouri, which is ranked as the top team in the nation, and the historic tradition of schools like Pitt. Lincoln joining the conference from a football perspective is ridicu-lous. Dwight T. Reed Stadium, where the team plays its home games, has the smallest capacity of any public school in the conference at 3,000. The only exception being Southwest Baptist, which plays an independent football schedule and is a private college.

The Blue Tigers have two games that are technically non-conference to start the season against Missouri Western and Missouri Southern and if last season is any indication of how they will perform, they are in for a rude welcome back to the MIAA.

I mean, does anyone else think that this is ridiculous? This is going to be the equivalent of when the Mighty Ducks got whipped by that really good team from Iceland. But I don’t expect Emilio Estevez to show up and whip Lincoln into shape.

The most recent team to join our conference was the University of Nebraska-Omaha, which, unlike Lincoln, was coming off a 2007 season with a near perfect 10-1 record. And before that, Fort Hays made the jump before the 2004 cam-paign with a decent record.

I’m not saying that Lincoln isn’t going to be able to compete in other sports because it is clearly capable of doing just that. Its track team had one of the most impressive streaks going after it won fi ve straight outdoor national champion-ships every year from 2003-2007 and the men’s and women’s basketball teams will do fi ne during conference play. They have an average baseball team that shouldn’t pose any problems for the Gorillas this spring; but the one thing you have to remember is that the MIAA is predominantly a football conference, and the only thing that Lin-coln brings to the table on the football fi eld is an easy win and an opportunity to pad its opposing teams’ stats.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for conference ex-pansion and I’m actually looking forward to UCO and Northeastern State joining the conference in 2012. But the only expansion for the near future is the addition of the Blue Tigers, who I expect will head back to Lincoln after every game next year with their blue tails between their blue legs.

JAKE FABERSports Editor

After getting thumped 42-13 on the Gorillas’ home turf last year, the University of Central Oklahoma Bronchos are looking for redemption in this year’s season opener. The non-conference matchup will mark the be-ginning of Tim Beck’s head coaching career and will be the fi rst real test for the Gorillas as a cohesive team.

The Bronchos’ offense averaged a little over 26 points per game last year and ended 4-7 overall for the season. On the bright side, the Gorillas won’t have to worry about recently gradu-ated QB Brandon Noohi, who threw for 333 yards and a touchdown in last year’s matchup and was statistically one of the better quarterbacks in the Lone Star Conference last season. Along with losing Noohi, UCO lost 17 starters at the end of last season but they do bring 10 starters back for this year’s campaign.

Noohi made up most of the Broncho offense with 431 pass at-

tempts and 105 rushes for a team leading 3,301 total offensive yards. However, the Bronchos will undergo a drastic change at the quarterback position this year by most likely giving the nod to sophomore Ethan Sharp to lead their passing game. Sharp appeared only in three games for UCO last season and has a total of two passing yards to his name. An inexperienced quarterback like Sharp will be a prime target for the Goril-las’ pass rushers to prey on early in the game before he will be able to get into a rhythm.

Unfortunately, senior safety Alex Kuhlman and the rest of the Pitt secondary will still have their hands full trying to cover UCO’s junior WR Daniel Morrell, who grabbed seven receptions for a game high 113 yards last season against the Gorillas and ended the year with 45 grabs for 640 yards.

The Gorillas will also need to look out for WR Matt Jackson, who contributed 67 yards to the Bronchos’ receiving game in last year’s matchup.

The Gorillas’ shutdown defense on special teams will need to show up again this year after effectively dis-mantling the Bronchos’ return game for -1 yards on punts.

The Bronchos’ offense was 72 percent in the red zone, scoring with a touchdown 55 percent of the time. Although the Bronchos lose Noohi to graduation, the Gorillas no longer have the same man dropping back in the pocket for them. John McCoy took the snaps against the Bronchos last year, completing 11-20 passes for 221 yards and a touchdown during the 42-13 win. This year’s offensive captain, Jeff Smith, did see some ac-tion in that game, though, completing one pass for a long bomb of 61 yards for a touchdown. Although Smith is the more experienced of the passers this year, this away game may provide Pitt’s coaching staff a chance to evalu-ate all three quarterbacks before their fi rst home game.

Although the drama is surround-ing the quarterback position, most of the Gorillas’ offense against UCO last

year came on the ground and fl owed through Terrance Isaac. Isaac is enter-ing his senior season for the Gorillas and took the ball for a game high 21 rushes for 103 yards and an astound-ing three touchdowns. Eric Love is another familiar face who rushed for a game high 135 yards against the Bronchos last year, with an impressive 11 yards per carry average. The Goril-las’ air attack will most likely be set by Ryan Holt, Derek Fisher and Aaron Sawyer. Sawyer snatched three long passes for a game high 141 yards and two touchdowns vs. UCO last year and will be looking to build on that performance in this year’s fi rst game on the road.

Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. in Edmond, Okla., which is about a four-hour drive for those fans who want to see the Gorillas play the fi rst game of the Tim Beck era. With a new team, new coaches and a lineup of new faces in the Gorillas’ locker room, this non-conference matchup will set an important precedent for the beginning of MIAA play.

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Isaac, Love look to repeat impressive running game vs. UCO

Heat plays factor in football camp

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Football players go through an exercise dur-ing a practice before the fi rst game of the season.

Cardell Clemons, run-ning back, takes a drink of water during a football practice on Wednesday, Aug. 25.

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Eggs from Iowa farms could come to table near you

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The Iowa hens at the heart of a massive recall are still laying eggs that could end up on a table near you. And food safety experts say that’s OK.

The eggs will fi rst be pasteurized to rid them of any salmonella. Then they can be sold as liquid eggs or added to other products.

Offi cials from the two farms that have recalled more than a half-billion eggs say there’s no reason not to use the eggs while federal offi cials inves-tigate the outbreak. Wright Egg Farms and Hil-landale Farms issued the recall after learning that salmonella may have sickened as many as 1,300 people.

Spokeswomen for the farms said their hens are still laying several million eggs a day. Those eggs are being sent to facilities where their shells are broken and the contents pasteurized.

Murkowski race highlightsfamily drama with Palin

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski faces a surprise, too-close-to-call primary race with a self-styled “constitutional con-servative” backed by Sarah Palin.

Murkowski’s race with Joe Miller represents the latest chapter in the long-running political saga that began when Murkowski’s father, Frank, picked his daughter — not political up-and-comer Palin — to replace him in the Senate when he was elected governor in 2002.

Four years later, Palin trounced Frank Murkows-ki in the GOP gubernatorial primary, the race that launched her start in national politics. And since then, the women have occassionally clashed, on the issue of health care reform and Palin’s decision to resign as governor last summer.

Both have denied any bad blood but that didn’t stop the potshots in this latest race.

Recovery in danger as fi rms,homebuyers cut back

WASHINGTON — The economic recovery appears to be stalling as companies cut back last month on their investments in equipment and machines and Americans bought new homes at the weakest pace in decades.

Overall orders for big-ticket manufactured goods increased 0.3 percent in July, the Commerce Depart-ment said Wednesday. But that was only because of a 76 percent jump in demand for commercial aircraft.

Taking out the volatile transportation category, orders for durable goods fell at the steepest rate since January. And business orders for capital goods took their sharpest drop since January 2009, when

the economy was stuck in the deepest recession in decades.

Separately, Commerce said new home sales fell 12.4 percent in July from a month earlier to a seasonally adjusted annual sales pace of 276,000. That was the slowest pace on records dating back to 1963. Collectively, the past three months have been the worst on record for new home sales.

The weak sales mean fewer jobs in the construc-tion industry, which normally powers economic re-coveries. Each new home built creates, on average, the equivalent of three jobs for a year and generates about $90,000 in taxes, according to the National Association of Home Builders.

The two reports are likely to stoke fears that the economy is on the verge of slipping back into a recession. They follow Tuesday’s report that showed sales of previously owned homes fell last month to the lowest level in decades. Unemployment remains near double digits and job growth in the private sec-tor is slowing.

Poll: Local schools up, Obama ed. plans down

SEATTLE — A new Gallup Poll has found fewer Americans approve of the job President Ba-rack Obama is doing in support of public education, but they continue to have a highly favorable opinion of their local schools.

The drop in the president’s education approval ratings — as found in the random telephone poll of

about 1,000 Americans in June — mirrored the drop in his general approval rating in other recent polls, said Shane Lopez, senior scientist in residence for Gallup.

The education poll released Wednesday was paid for by Phi Delta Kappa. It found 34 percent gave the president a grade of A or B for his work in support of public schools, compared with 45 percent at the same time in 2009. The poll has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points, except for questions asked of just parents, which have a sampling error margin of plus or minus 5 percentage points.

9/11 families, othersrally in favor of NYC mosque

NEW YORK — The planned mosque and Islamic center blocks from ground zero in New York is getting a new boost from a coalition of supporters that includes 9/11 families.

New York Neighbors for American Values rallied for the fi rst time Wednesday at a municipal building near ground zero.

Talat Hamdani says her paramedic son, a Mus-lim, gave his life on Sept. 11 to save Americans and their values, including freedom of religion.

The group was started by members of 40 civic and religious organizations. It plans a candlelight vigil near ground zero on Sept. 10, the eve of the ninth Sept. 11 anniversary.

The head of the watchdog group Common Cause New York, Susan Lerner, says the controversy over the Islamic cultural center was triggered by “irre-sponsible politicians” using it as an election issue.

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ing Arts and Lecture Series are holding a number of events for new students. There will be a concert with the group Chapter 6, an a cappella at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 26 at the Gorilla Village. Treat night at the Movies will be Friday, Aug. 27 at the U-Club theater in lower level Overman Student Center. Hypnotist Michael C. Anthony will perform at 7 and 9 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 1 in the Crimson and Gold Ballroom. An outdoor movie will be shown on Friday, Sept. 3 at Carnie Smith Stadium. For more information, call the Campus Activities Center at 235-4795 or campusactivities@pittstate.edu.

Study-abroad program holds information session

International Programs and Services will hold their fi rst Study Abroad 101 info session for the year at 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 27, in 201 Whitesitt. The meeting will be an overview of the various study- abroad programs.

Intramural sports teamsThe PSU intramural program will be organizing

a sand volleyball league. Entry deadline is Friday, Aug. 27. There will be a managers’ meeting Friday, Sept. 3., and matches will begin Tuesday, Sept. 7. Intramural sports will also be forming a three-on-three outdoor basketball tournament. Team entry deadline is Sunday, Aug. 29, with a managers’ meet-ing Friday, Sept. 3. For more information, contact the intramural offi ce at 240-6778 or intramurals@pittstate.edu.

Photographer to lecturePhotographer Vaughn Wascovich will give a

lecture at 10 a.m. Monday, Aug. 30, in Room 316 Hughes Hall. Wascovich currently is exhibiting his photographs of the Tar Creek Project in the Harry Krug Gallery of Porter Hall. Tar Creek is an EPA Superfund site in Northeast Oklahoma.

Wascovich has an MFA in photography from Co-lumbia College in Chicago and is an assistant pro-fessor of art at Texas A&M University-Commerce.

Tailgate pancake feedslated in Gorilla Village

An all-you-can-eat pancake feed will be held 9:30-11:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 4, in the West Shelter House of Gorilla Village east of the football stadium. Cost is $5 for adults and $3 for children ages 4-10.

The event is being put on by Chris Cakes as a pancake tailgate and will include pancakes, sausage, juice, coffee and water. Reservations are required and can be made by calling PSU Alumni and Con-stituent Relations at 235-4758, e-mail at alumni@pittstate.edu or online at https://go.pittstate.edu/ChrisCakePancake2010

PSU ranks 22nd among Midwest schools

Pittsburg State University is one of the top public regional universities in the U.S., according to the U.S. News and World Report’s Best Colleges 2011 report released last week.

PSU ranked 22nd among public universities in 12 Midwestern states.

U.S. News says it considers things like academic

programs, graduation and retention rates, admis-sions standards, peer ranking and the size of univer-sity endowments for its ranking.

Anime Club meetingThe Anime Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday,

Aug. 30, in the Inaugural Room in the Overman Student Center. All Pitt CARES students are invited.

Free yoga classesStudent Prevention and Wellness is hosting yoga

classes that are free to Pittsburg State University students. Sessions will be weekly on Monday and Wednesday from 5-6 p.m. in the Kansas West Ball-room in the Overman Student Center.

Teaching assistantship program

Graduating seniors, graduate students and recent graduates interested in teaching English overseas can apply to the Fulbright U.S. Student Program for an all expenses paid assistantship. The deadline to apply for 2010-2011 is late September but applica-tions are being taken now. For more information contact study abroad coordinator Megan Corrigan at 235-4221 or mcorriga@pittstate.edu.

Zumba, Pilates classes offered at rec center

Space is still available in Zumba and Pilates classes being offered by the Health, Human Perfor-mance and Recreation Department. Zumba class

meets at 4 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays and the Pi-lates class meets at 8 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, both at the Student Recreation Center.

Registrar’s offi ce setscourse add-drop schedule

Starting Tuesday, Aug. 31, all add/drops must be made through the Registrar’s Offi ce, 103 Russ Hall. Students and faculty may call 235-4200, visit the offi ce or e-mail registrar@pittstate.edu to make these changes. If additional tuition is needed, payment will be required from the student before the class addition. Students need the instructor’s written or online permission to add a course that began Aug. 23.

SIFE plans 5K run

Students in Free Enterprise will hold a 5K Fun Run in conjunction with Pittsburg’s Paint the Town Red celebration. The run will take place on Saturday, Sept. 4, at the Student Recreation Center. Registration will begin at 7 a.m. and the run will start at 7:45 a.m. Interested persons must preregis-ter by Aug. 25 to secure a T-shirt at a cost of $13. Preregistration without a shirt costs $8. Registra-tion received after Aug. 25 costs $15 with a shirt (as they are available) and $10 without a shirt. The ages groups are as follows: 18 and under, 19-39, 40-59, and 60 and up. Medals will awarded to the top three male and female fi nishers in each age group.

Entry forms can be downloaded by going to www.pittstate-sife.com or picked up in 102 Kelce Hall. For more information, call 235-4599 or e-mail sife@pittstate.edu.

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Overseas orientation

The fi rst day of international student ori-entation had around 150 new students check-in at Grubbs Hall.Jiaze Xu, an international student from China, is taking the TB skin testing in the Prairie

and Balkans of Overman Student Center on Tuesday, Aug. 17. Around 120 new interna-tional students have to take the TB test before enrolling in classes.

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SARAH POLANDCollegio Reporter

Writing a check for textbooks may become less of a commit-ment with the new rental option through the Gorilla Bookstore by Barnes & Noble.

Instead of having to buy a book, students may now rent se-lect textbooks for a semester. The rental program was brought to Pittsburg by Barnes & Noble Col-lege Booksellers. The company tested its rental program in 25 of its 600 college bookstores last semester before deciding to open the program to other colleges.

This semester, only 25 percent of the books required by PSU’s classes will be offered on the textbook rental program.

Steve Erwin, associate vice president of campus life and auxiliary services, says for this early in the program, 25 is a good percentage of titles to be offered.

“If the program is successful it will probably grow,” Erwin said. “There may come a day when the bookstore offers 100 percent of the books.”

PSU’s bookstore manager, Fawn Baker, says the bookstore has already seen a great response from parents and students.

“We have had an increase in sales online and in the stores,” Baker said. “I think it is because the rental program has brought in more customers.”

Textbook rentals are offered at 45 percent of the cost of a new book, while a used textbook is 75 percent of a new book’s cost. In addition to saving money, rentals also eliminate the hassle of sell-

ing books back to the store.The bookstore is renting out

new books fi rst so the cheaper used books are still available.

The Gorilla Bookstore took different steps to prepare for the

rental program. Baker said they had to connect netbooks to their system because the rentals do not check out through the register. They also had to tag books for rental and train staff to use the

new program. Although the rental program

may benefi t students, the book-store is not making extra profi ts from rentals.

“We have to rent a textbook

out for two semesters to make any profi t,” Baker said. “We brought the program in so we are able to stay competitive, keep customers coming in and save students some money.”

Students using the rental program this semester must turn their books in by Dec. 23. The bookstore will send reminders for the books to be returned. If a book is not returned, the student must pay for it at a used price plus a 7.5 percent handling fee. Rental books may be used however the student desires as long as it does not make the book unsellable.

“It’s all individualized,” Erwin said. “We don’t want students to assume that renting is the best option.”

Christie Spencer, freshman in elementary education, decided to rent this semester.

“It’s a lot cheaper,” Spencer said. “I don’t want to keep my books.”

While renting textbooks was a good option for Spencer, Kendra Johnson, sophomore in sociol-ogy, decided to buy her textbooks instead of renting.

“Most of my books are for my major, so I wanted to keep them,” Johnson said. “I bought as many of them used as I could.”

Shelby Brooks, freshman in elementary education, also decided to buy her books, but for another reason. Brooks says she didn’t trust herself to rent textbooks because she was afraid they would get damaged.

Erwin says the new rental pro-gram will be evaluated yearly to gauge its progress and determine if the program will be offered the following year. But Baker says she doesn’t see the program being taken away.

“A year ago I would have never thought we would be offer-ing a textbook rental program,” Baker said. “Who knows what the future will bring? I think the textbook rental program is here to stay.”

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ANNA BAHRCollegio Reporter

Sherry Moentmann, a graduate student majoring in English, and Aaron Ward, a sophomore major-ing in nursing, provide insight into the daily routine of students who commute to PSU.

Q. What are some of the chal-lenges a commuting student faces?

Moentmann:A. “Mostly what comes to mind with this isn’t ‘parking, ugh!’ I fi gure that’s deal-able, as I men-tioned above. It’s the unknown stuff like the parking lots and streets REALLY fl ood when it rains ... wear old shoes.”

Ward:A. “Sometimes there’s not really enough parking around campus.”

Ward says there have even been times when the stadium parking has been full, and that he’d like to see more brown parking spaces, especially when he sees empty blue spaces.

Q. What do new commuting students need to know?

Moentmann:A. “Once I understood the park-ing glut that happens, I can allow for it. I also have experienced that it does lessen as the semester goes on.”

Ward:A. “Re-checking times on your schedule is really important. Don’t be afraid to go up and introduce yourself to your profes-sor.” Ward says that introducing your-self to your professors and having a personal relationship with them

gets students more out of their classes.Q. What are some of the benefi ts of commuting?

Moentmann:A. “Potential larger living space. For me, it meant I didn’t have to move. I could stay where I was.”

Ward:A. “Some of the benefi ts: the com-munity. I’m from around Pitts-burg, and the community is 100 percent behind the university.”

Q. What are some of the draw-backs?

Moentmann:“For underclassmen, it’s harder to build community connections off campus, in my opinion. For graduates, time management. Drive time is time you can’t study.”

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Freshman Robert Laxson, majoring in business management, gets a jump start buying books for the fall semester on Saturday, Aug. 21.

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WHITNEY SAPORITOCollegio Reporter

For resident assistants like Carly Andrasko, one of the perks of the job is having their own room. However, with the large infl ux of students living in Pittsburg State University housing this semester, many RAs have forfeited the privilege of not having a roommate.

“This year everybody has roommates again,” said Andrasko.

Andrasko, senior in elementary educa-tion and resident assistant in Crimson Commons, says the lack of room is par-tially the result of the Crimson Commons ongoing construction.

“Once those fi nish up, RAs won’t have roommates anymore I hope,” Andrasko said.

Melissa Beisel, assistant director of University Housing, says although they do not have offi cial numbers yet, there are obviously more students than last year.

“This year we did see an increase in the number of people who contracted for university housing and numbers just seem to be up,” Beisel said.

Biesel says the exact number of stu-dents living in student housing will not be

released until mid September. She says that although there are no

names currently on the waiting list, male fl oors are full this semester. She says she believes this is a trend not limited to PSU.

“I do think that we are seeing more and more across the country,” Beisel said.

“More schools are seeing higher enroll-ment and that is affecting housing.”

Both Beisel and Andrasko believe the increase in students is directly related to the economy.

Beisel says she believes some students may be sticking around because of dif-

fi culty fi nding jobs.Andrasko says because of the increase

in the number of students, and the Crimson Commons not being completed, they have had to convert some single rooms into doubles.

“I don’t remember that happening in the past,” said Andrasko.

Andrasko says the physical singles were originally held for students who had signed up for their own room, and that the rooms are big enough for two people.

Other accommodations have included using the showroom in Dellinger Hall as a regular dorm room, and building a new dorm, the Crimson Commons

“I think the biggest change that we did over the last few years ... was building Crimson Commons,” Beisel said.

Beisel says the Crimson Commons provides an additional 200 beds for campus housing. Although the number of students living on campus is growing, Beisel says only fi ve additional RAs have been hired.

“I don’t think it’s been a bigger deal than usual,” Andrasko said. “We still have the same number of people on each fl oor because they’re spread out pretty evenly on campus. I don’t think it’s any different than years past.”

International students attend dinner at the Presbyterian Church in Pittsburg on Wednesday, Aug. 18.

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No one is going to miss it more than Fred Funk.

The 54-year-old Funk won the tournament, the fourth of the Champions Tour’s fi ve majors, for the second time in three years, closing with a 3-under 69 on Sunday for a one-stroke victory over Michael Allen and Chien Soon Lu.

“I really like this golf course, and I really like this area. Obviously, it’s been good to me,” said Funk, 47 under in four Tradition tournaments at Crosswater.

Funk, also the 2009 U.S. Senior Open winner, has six Champions Tour victories. He won eight times on the PGA Tour.

The former Maryland coach took the lead for good with a 15-foot birdie putt on the

598-yard, par-5 16th, then two-putted from 40 feet for par at 18 to fi nish at 12-under 276 on the Sunriver Resort’s Crosswater Golf Club course.

Allen shot a 67, and Lu had a 69.

Eight players were tied or had the outright lead at some point on the back nine. When the fi nal group had fi ve holes left, 12 players were within two strokes.

Funk, who won the third Champions major of his career, began the round two strokes behind third-round leader Tom Lehman. Funk was in conten-tion throughout the day.

Funk’s 276 total is the highest winning score in the Tradition since 2002, when Jim Thorpe won at Desert Mountain at 11-under 277.

“Nobody was taking off. I thought that Tom or Bernhard (Langer) would get to 13 or 14 under, but nobody did,” Funk said. “Guess it was a testament

to how tough the golf course was playing.”

Langer, attempting to become the second player in Champions Tour history to win three consecutive majors, shot a 73 to tie for 10th at 8 under.

Lu had a chance to tie Funk at 18, narrowly missing a 40-foot chip shot for birdie.

Allen reached 12 under with a birdie at 15, but bogeyed 16.

Allen made a tournament-high 25 birdies, but it wasn’t enough to offset his play at the par-4 fourth, where he was 5 over for the week.

“I was taking three steps forward and two steps back all week,” said Allen, the 2009 Senior PGA winner.

Lehman (73) and Mark Cal-cavecchia (66) tied for fourth at 10 under.

Jeld-Wen is ending its relationship as title sponsor, and the Champions Tour is expected to announce its plans for the tournament this week.

Funk wins Tradition for second time in 3 years

DETROIT (AP) – Willie Bloomquist’s one-out home run in the 12th inning gave the Kan-sas City Royals a 4-3 win over the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday.

Kansas City, which also got a homer and two RBIs from Kila Ka’aihue, rallied from a 3-0 defi -cit to snap Detroit’s fi ve-game winning streak and avoided being swept in the three-game series.

Phillip Humber (1-0), who pitched three innings of scoreless relief, got the win for the Royals and Joakim Soria got his 36th save in 38 chances.

Alfredo Figaro (0-1) surren-dered Bloomquist’s home run and took the loss.

Ka’aihue’s homer off Detroit starter Armando Galarraga lead-ing off the seventh made it 3-1. It was the second straight game that Kai’aihue has homered.

Ryan Perry allowed Mike Aviles’ leadoff single in the eighth before getting the next two batters. Tigers’ closer Jose

Valverde replaced Perry and, after Aviles stole second, gave up Ka’aihue’s run-scoring double into the right-fi eld corner. Brayan Pena followed with a double over Austin Jackson’s head to tie the game at 3.

Valverde’s streak of 24

consecutive save opportunities converted was snapped.

Detroit took a 3-0 lead in the second inning. Santiago’s two-run triple with one out scored Brennan Boesch and Ryan Raburn. Boesch led off with a double and Raburn singled. San-tiago scored when Gerald Laird followed with a RBI double.

Galarraga allowed a run on fi ve hits in 6 1-3 innings, walking two and striking out four.

Royals’ starter Sean O’Sullivan gave up three runs on seven hits in seven innings. He didn’t walk a batter and struck out one.

Notes: Detroit’s Jackson led off the game with an infi eld single. It was the sixth consecu-tive contest he reached base lead-ing off a game. ... Ka’aihue made a backhand stab to his right at fi rst on Ryan Raburn’s low liner with two out in the bottom of the eighth with the score tied 3-3 and Miguel Cabrera on second base.

Bloomquist’s HR gives Royals 4-3 win over Tigers

NEW YORK (AP) – Alabama will start this season where it ended last season.

The Crimson Tide is on top.Coach Nick Saban has the

Tide rolling the way Bear Bryant did in his day, fi rst in The Associ-ated Press preseason poll for the fi rst time since 1978.

Alabama received 54 of 60 fi rst-place votes from the media panel and 1,491 points to easily outdistance second-ranked Ohio State in the Top 25 released Saturday.

The Buckeyes, who have been ranked no lower than 11th in the last eight preseason polls, received three fi rst-place votes.

Boise State is third, its best preseason ranking, following an-other undefeated season. Under-dogs no more, the Broncos even received one fi rst-place vote.

Florida, Alabama’s Southeast-ern Conference rival, is fourth. Fifth-ranked Texas received a fi rst-place vote.

The rest of the top 10 has TCU sixth, followed by Okla-homa, which received a fi rst-place vote, Nebraska, Iowa and Virginia Tech.

The 10th-ranked Hokies face Boise State at FedEx Field, home

of the Washington Redskins, on Labor Day night in the season’s fi rst huge game.

As for Alabama, Bryant was coach the last time the Crimson Tide was the AP’s preseason No. 1. The Tide started and fi nished that 1978 season on top of the rankings, the fi rst of two straight national championships for Alabama. The only other time Alabama was preseason No. 1 was 1966, when Bear’s boys were coming off back-to-back national championships.

Saban’s Tide, led by Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram, will try to make Alabama the fi rst program to win back-to-back AP titles three times. Oklahoma and Nebraska also have done it twice.

But please don’t call Alabama the defending champion at least not in front of its coach.

“What was accomplished by last year’s team has nothing to do with this year’s team. The play-ers have to understand that,” said Saban, who in three seasons has fully restored Alabama’s status as an elite program. “This team has to develop an image, an identity of its own by its performance. What was accomplished last year is just a standard for somebody

else to top.“Complacency is why the

mighty fall.”Saban has been trying to

downplay this team’s No. 1 worthiness since the morning after the Tide beat Texas 37-21 at the Rose Bowl to win the BCS

championship.Back in January he practically

was lamenting the fact that his team likely would be preseason

No. 1 in 2010, quick to point out that while the Tide’s offense would be returning most of its stars, its dominant defense was facing major turnover.

Gone are All-Americans Ter-rence Cody, Rolando McClain, Javier Arenas and six other start-ers from last season.

Stepping in will be a cast of former fi ve-star recruits and tal-ented players who will be asked to expand their roles.

“We have confi dence in our defensive players. I think it’s more a matter of knowledge and experience and maturity that the defense is going to have to develop,” Saban said.

Dont’a Hightower returns from a knee injury to fi ll Mc-Clain’s spot at middle linebacker and defensive end Marcell Dareus, the star of the BCS title game, becomes the headliner up front as long as an NCAA inves-tigation doesn’t sideline him.

“You can’t really promote guys into leadership roles,” Saban said. “I think that it’s something that sort of grows, develops and happens because of personality types and respect that other players have.”

Tide starts where it fi nished: No. 1

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Bad weather is to blame for a delay in construction on a $10 million student housing project, according to university offi cials.

Several buildings in the Crimson Com-mons, including a common building with washing machines and stoves, are still being built, leaving some students unsure about where to do laundry or cook food.

Rain delays impeded contractors’ ef-forts to pour concrete, and to build other structural improvements, said Steve Er-win, associate vice president for campus life and auxiliary services. Contractors are now targeting a late September fi nish.

Some students slated to live in the Crimson Commons are temporarily staying in older housing complexes, with single rooms converted into double rooms, and occasionally, double rooms converted into triple rooms.

The new dorms are just one part of a $30 million fundraising campaign to help restore the buildings around campus. Some of the existing dorms also received upgrades this summer.

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Construction workers continue to work on the new housing less than a week before school starts on Tuesday, Aug. 17.

Chuck Osborn, with R.E. Smith Construction, takes down an orange construction fencing between the dormitories.

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her roommate, Anastasiya Menestrina, a freshman in nursing, on Facebook before move-in day. Although Bow-man and Menestrina were meeting in person for the fi rst time they were both excited for the college experi-ence and agree that their computers were the most important things in their room.

“I can do pretty much anything on it,” Bowman said. “And it has Facebook.”

Down a fl oor, Zach Bendure, fresh-man in criminal justice, unpacked with the help of his parents, grand-mother, brother and family friends who Bendure said might as well be family. Although Bendure’s roommate had not yet moved in, Bendure said he has met him on Facebook and was at ease about meeting him in person. As he got situated, Bendure said he was content with the dorms.

“I like it,” Bendure said. “I wouldn’t change anything.”

Down the hallway, Chase Latham, freshman in prelaw, organized what he considers the most important thing in his room - his shoes. Latham was eager to meet new people and join the college experience and his shoes are a big part of that.

“Your feet always have to look

good when you go out,” Latham said.Meanwhile, Latham’s roommate,

Scott Fashimpaur, freshman in wood technology, set up one of his favor-ite things, his X-Box. Fashimpaur’s hometown is more than six hours away in The Colony, Texas. He came to PSU because of his major.

“(PSU) is the only place that offers my major,” Fashimpaur said. “I’m excited to learn about it.”

While residents moved into the dorm, residence assistant James Or-son, sophomore in chemistry, helped check people in. Orson said he enjoys helping move in because he gets to meet new people and watch mov-ers do entertaining things, like go through a door and around it just to go up the stairs. Orson and his fellow RAs agree on one thing when offering advice.

“Keep your doors open when you’re in your room,” Orson said. “It helps you meet new people.”

Whether the move-in crew con-sisted of family, PSU volunteers, or both, freshmen on move-in day are already thinking about the future.

“I’m excited to learn about my ma-jor,” Bendure said. “I’m just worried about going to the right classes at the right time.”

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“We were concerned about the phenomenon of non-PSU students and things taking place,” said Er-win. “Shark Night started attracting people from other colleges, high school students and other non-stu-dents in the Pittsburg area.”

Richmond says things got out of hand when students from Fort Scott and Coffeyville community colleges began showing up. People from Wichita and Kansas City would also hear about Shark Night and show up.

“We began working with student organizations, mostly Greek, as well as law enforcement to move in

a different direction,” said Erwin. “We asked the Greeks to move to a new emporium during that week-end.”

Fall of 2009 was the fi rst year the Greeks and the university took action. While there were some arrests last year, Erwin says there weren’t as many as previous years. He credits this to the heavy police presence on and around campus. This year, instead of having Shark Night the Greek community attend-ed a leadership program at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park.

“We’re always concerned about any given weekend on campuses,” said Erwin.

On weekends such as opening weekend, homecoming and Min-ers Bowl, concerns become even greater.

“It’s important to recognize the success we’ve had in eliminating previous problems. We are proud of the collaborations of all students, as well as the Greek community and Pittsburg area community,” said Erwin.

Steve Erwin, associate vice president of campus life and auxilary services, helped organize the event after a Greek member brought up the idea last year.

“This is sort of a pilot year, where we’ll examine it and see how it went,” Erwin said.

Some students are skeptical that the student fees should go to fund what seems like a vacation for Greeks.

“It seems kind of weird to me, that we are paying for them to go and be up in Kansas City when, you know, there’s other stuff that the money could go to,” said Amy Kirkpatrick, a senior in nurs-ing.

Although at fi rst glance the leadership conference may appear unfair to some students, Erwin says that overall, this event is neither expensive nor out of the ordinary.

“If you were to look across the board at what the fee council gives to orga-nizations, you would see seven, eight hundred thousand. The whole university is represented,” said Erwin. “The funds are reviewed by the entire senate.”

The Student Government Association determines which clubs and organiza-tions receive funding and how much they receive. After the funds are given out, any extra money is put in a reserve fund. The reserve fund can be distributed to different organizations that request extra

money for costly events or activities. The Greek organizations were given $10,000 total toward the Greek Leader-ship weekend.

“We fund a lot of organizations’ activities like this,” said Erwin. “The marching band, for instance, they need money for travel, or the choir taking a trip to Ireland last semester. Those were student fees.”

Like most of the other organizations, the Greeks had to contribute most of the money for the trip themselves.

The money itself is not the issue, some students say.

“It’s not that much per student, but it’s more that the people who cause . . . a lot of the trouble on campus with party-ing the fi rst week are the ones that are getting a weekend vacation so that there is less of a Shark Night,” said Jacob Winston, freshman in business.

Erwin says that while the univer-sity is taking measures to ensure that Shark Night is less of an issue, that was not the main intent for the leadership weekend.

“We have been looking for a way to bolster the Greek chapters and their jobs on campus,” he said. “These two events do intersect, but that was not our original plan.”

Erwin says it would be diffi cult to recruit enough Greek students to partici-

pate in the event once school and home-work got started, and the Greeks didn’t expect a high level of commitment for a weekend like this earlier in the summer.

“The honest reality is that it’s not accurate to put the label on the Greek organizations as the ones causing prob-lems,” said Erwin. “This is not neces-sarily a reward, as the weekend is highly regimented.”

The Greek students were driven to the event in vans at 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, and returned to Pitt early the next morn-ing. Erwin says that the vans were not only a safety precaution, but a way to minimize any partying that would have taken place in Kansas City.

Makala Tullis, a sophomore in international business and a member of Sigma Sigma Sigma, said that the weekend was focused entirely on leader-ship and training workshops and that the Greeks were encouraged to stay away from partying entirely.

“That’s one thing they pounded into us over and over again,” said Tullis. “It was good, we were really focused on what they were teaching us.”

Erwin says that if the event is ineffec-tive, it will be revised.

“The fact is that this [Greek Leader-ship weekend] was in the works for a while and there will be well thought out results.”

respected in the league,” Broyles said. “PSU is very fortunate to have someone like Jim Johnson because of his background in athletics.”

Getting used to a new town can take time and Johnson says he is fortunate to have this job — in this town.

“The main thing was to come to a campus that had this kind of atmo-sphere, but was still in the MIAA,” Johnson said. “Although moving has kept us busy, we are ready to be settled in Pittsburg.”

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called the police. They told us he was prob-ably with friends.”

Hancock had eaten at Emery’s Steak-house in Paola around 9 p.m. that day and rode with friends to JR’s Place, where he cashed out a tab at 1:20 a.m.

The community support was widespread and a group search of the area surround-ing the Great Plains Mall was to be held on Aug. 21, but was canceled by the dis-covery of Hancock’s body.

At PSU, Hancock was involved with the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. Steve Chastain, senior majoring in construction management and president of the chapter, helped in the investigation. The members of Phi Sigma Kappa distributed fl iers that detailed the disappearance.

“It was kind of surreal when I heard the news that he had been found,” Chastain said. “I had to pull all of the chapter members out of conferences in Kansas City to break the news.”

A candlelight vigil was held on the Phi

Sigma Kappa front lawn on Monday, Aug. 22. According to Chastain, about 150 PSU students, faculty and friends came to pay their respects.

“He was just very outgo-ing,” Chastain said. “If he didn’t know you, you would know him for sure.”

At a fundraiser that the chapter does at the Kansas speedway to pay for dues, Chastain stated that Hancock would keep them “cracking up with the random things that he would say into the walkie-talkies we had to carry around.”

“He would be like, ‘OK guys, let’s go mini-golfi ng.’ Just spur of the moment things like that every day,” Chastain said.

Hancock was supposed to be leaving for boot camp for the National Guard at the

end of August and according to friends and family, he was excited to go.

“He was an inspiration. He was always cheerful,” Beltran, the Phi Sigma Kappa brother, said.

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Koreans welcomed Jimmy Carter back to Pyongyang with smiles, salutes and hearty hand-shakes as the former American president arrived on a mission to bring home a Boston man jailed in the communist country since January.

U.S. offi cials have billed Cart-er’s trip as a private humanitarian visit to try to negotiate the release of Aijalon Gomes, sentenced to eight years of hard labor in a North Korean prison for entering the country illegally from China.

However, visits like Carter’s — and the journey ex-President Bill Clinton made a year ago to secure the release of two Ameri-can journalists — serve as more than just rescue missions. They also offer an opportunity for unof-fi cial diplomacy between the U.S. and North Korea, analysts say.

Communist North Korea and the capitalist U.S. fought on op-posite sides of the Korean War. Three years of warfare ended in 1953 with a cease-fi re but not a peace treaty, and the two Koreas remain divided by one of the world’s most fi ercely fortifi ed borders.

To this day, the U.S. stations 28,500 troops in South Korea to guard the longtime ally, a pres-ence that chafes at Pyongyang, which cites the forces as a main reason behind its need for nuclear weapons.

For more than a year, relations have been particularly tense, with North Korea testing a nuclear weapon and long-range missile technology, and the U.S. leading

the charge to punish Pyongyang for its defi ance.

The March sinking of a South Korean warship, which killed 46 sailors, has provided fresh fodder for tensions. Seoul and Washington accuse Pyongyang of torpedoing the vessel; North Korea denies involvement and has threatened harsh retaliation if punished.

With all sides digging in, six-nation nuclear disarmament talks remain stalled. North Korea wants a peace treaty; South Korea and the U.S. want an apology for the sinking of the warship.

Last year, it took Clinton’s visit to get the U.S. and North Korea talking again. Some fi ve months after journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were seized near the Chinese border, Clinton — the last president to have had warm relations with North Korea — turned up in Pyongyang on a private jet.

Clinton was cordial but seri-ous as he met with leader Kim Jong Il, who appeared giddy at being photographed next to the former president. North Korean state media paid little attention to the two journalists he had gone to retrieve, focusing instead on Clinton.

With relations again at a stand-still, Carter’s mission to bring Gomes home could again provide another face-saving opening for contact, analysts said.

Paik Hak-soon, a North Korea analyst at the private Sejong Institute think tank near Seoul, predicted Carter would meet with Kim, and that Kim would ask

him to relay a positive message to Washington on the resumption of nuclear disarmament talks.

He said the trip has a “posi-tive” aspect, given Carter’s popularity and symbolic role in defusing the fi rst nuclear crisis in 1994.

Carter made his fi rst trip to Pyongyang when Clinton was president — a visit that resulted in a warm meeting with late President Kim Il Sung and led to a landmark nuclear disarmament deal.

“It was obvious to me when I was in North Korea that there is deep resentment of the past and genuine fear of pre-emptive military attacks in the future,” Carter said in a speech in Seoul in March. He said sanctions were unproductive and urged “unre-strained direct talks” with North Korea.

Having Carter in North Korea “could certainly contribute to U.S.-North Korean relations, as well as the nuclear talks,” said Kim Yong-hyun, an expert on North Korean affairs at Seoul’s Dongguk University. However, any diplomatic overtures would be small and unlikely to bring about drastic changes in position, he said.

Senior U.S. offi cials in Wash-ington stressed that Carter was not representing the government but was on a private mission. U.S. State Department spokes-man Mark Toner told reporters in Washington that he could not give details of Carter’s mission.

“It’s a mission to secure the release of Mr. Gomes. But we

don’t want to jeopardize the prospects for Mr. Gomes to be

returned home by discussing any of the details,” Toner said. “So

I’m not going to get into anymore details.”

Carter’s N. Korea visit may ease tensions

APA child salutes former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, center, upon his arrival at the air-port in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Wednesday, Aug. 25. Carter’s mission is to bring home an imprisoned American.

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The Overman Student Center houses the book-store and Gorilla Crossing, but what some students may not know is that tickets and information about upcoming events are available.

These events are often planned by the student activities coordinator, the head of the student activ-ity center.

The activities council recently welcomed Eva Sager as the new activities coordinator. Her respon-sibilities include planning most of the events that students attend on campus and answering questions about those events.

Sager was formerly a student government administrative assistant. That job involved answer-ing phones, scheduling appointments, paying bills, managing accounts and handing out free Scantrons. Now she is proud to be a part of the many events students enjoy coming to.

David Adams, the assistant director of campus activities, says of her new role, “The biggest change I expect to see from her is a fresh outlook on her job responsibilities.”

Sager agrees that the job is demanding and busy most of the time.

“It is a unique role on campus,” said Sager. Event programming has been a dream and a passion for Sager.

“I get to work with some fantastic staff members that I have already gotten to know, and I make a

lot of new acquaintances across campus. I learned about the people I would work with and what the job involved,” Sager said. She decided to fi ll the position after working several jobs off campus.

The event she looks forward to planning the most is the “Safe Trick or Treat” because the children in the community will have a chance to dress up and because it is another chance for the college to do something for Pittsburg residents.

Adams describes Sager as an “outstanding leader who connects well with students,” which is Sager’s ultimate aspiration. She also looks forward to plan-ning this year’s Homecoming.

Sager replaces Edie McCracken, who, she says, was a wonderful person, and an amazing event programmer, who had strong relationships with the students she encountered.

“I know she made a big difference in a lot of lives, and I aspire to be like that,” she said. “She helped make SAC a more recognizable group on campus and had Homecoming down to a graceful, fl awless routine. I would like to continue expanding on those things.”

Currently, the only thing that she would like to change is the lack of a performing arts center. Ac-cording to Sager, enrollment continues to grow each year, so not having a venue for some of the events is

sometimes a problem. Many local residents would benefi t greatly from

a new arts center, since it would offer new events that wouldn’t have been available before, she says.

“I think it will be a phenomenal asset for both the academic side of campus and the community because we will have the opportunity to spread out a little more and there would be extracurricular benefi ts as well,” she said.

Some events already under way are the annual “Off2PSU,” which started on Saturday, Aug. 21, and end on Thursday, Aug. 26. These are events to help welcome new and returning students to campus.

Some events included a concert by Hotspur, a band from Washington, D.C., on Aug. 23, and Chapter 6, an a capella group performing at Gorilla Village at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 26.

Sager has her calendar full of events like these, from Family Weekend on Sept. 17-19 to Homecom-ing on Oct. 11-16.

She expects this year to be fi lled with chances to go to events and meet old and new friends.

“The group I’m working with is amazing and eager to help in any way. I’m excited to work with them this semester,” Sager said. “I’m very lucky to be here with them.”

Activities director: ‘lucky to be here’

Photos by Aaron Anders

Sager says her position has her busy with planning campus events, answering ques-tions about those events and meeting new people.

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(Above) James Walker, with JPI Glass, seals the new windows that were put in Yates Hall on Tuesday, Aug. 17.(Left)Construction workers from JPI In-corporated Glass take down the old windows on the fi rst fl oor of Whitesitt on Wednes-day, Aug. 25.

Mark Henderson, with JPI Incorporated Glass, takes down the old win-dows on the fi rst fl oor of Whitesitt on Wednesday, Aug. 25.

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Alex Phillips, senior in nursing, gets a free snow cone from Mike Lewark, University Bank employee, at the community fair in the Oval on Wednesday, Aug. 25.

ANNA BAHRCollegio Reporter

Students passing through the Oval Wednesday were greeted by about 75 vendors participating in the annual Community Fair.

While most students strolled down the sidewalks, stopping to talk with vendors and pick up free merchandise, others stepped hur-riedly through the crowd.

An airplane temporarily drowned out conversations and music as it made a low pass over campus.

Sunlight fi ltered through the trees as a cool breeze caught the corners of vendors’ tents. Flames from the international foods booth snapped and receded, and enticing smells of freshly cooked food beckoned students toward the tent. Ryan Johnson, senior in automotive technology, says that the com-munity fair is a great information resource for incoming students.

“I think it’s a great benefi t, especially if you’re a freshman or transfer student,” John-son said. “It’s a good way to get involved in the community. One of the funnest things I’ve done is visit the international foods booth.”

The booth, which was run by student diversity groups, offered free food to students winding their way through the Oval.

Natalie Lopez, senior in math education, found one booth in particular informative.

“I guess the one that I found most useful was Vie, because it talked about issues for women,” Lopez said.

Vendors offering a variety of goods and services attended the fair.

At the SEK Urgent Care exhibit, Michele Coseus told students what medical services SEK Urgent Care can provide.

“I think it’s more of an awareness,” Coseus said. “It lets people know what urgent care is. We’re giving a lot of free stuff away.”

Aside from the medical and culinary exhibits, local radio station KRPS staffers promoted their station.

Matt Osterthun, coordinator of underwriter and listener relations for KRPS, says that the students attending the fair get an idea of how student-friendly the community is. The com-munity is 100 percent behind the university,” Osterthun said.

Local churches and Christian organizations also made appearances at the fair. Mike Trent and Evan Hurford of Cross Quest came to let students know of the organization’s presence near campus at the South Broadway Baptist Church on Broadway. “We’re here to make ourselves available to students at Pittsburg State,” Trent said. “I look forward to the fair because it gives us an opportunity to meet lots of new students.”

Ginny Jones, senior recreation major, speaks with Sara Michell from the Pittsburg Parks and Recreation at the community fair.

Leslie Rockwood, senior in elementary education, grabs a free hamburger from the student diversity offi ce during the community fair on Wednesday.

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Hyde attitude, enjoy the balance between freedom and responsibility, and discover what kind of people we are and who we want to be.

Most of us, anyway.For nontraditional students,

it can be a whole different world, and sometimes the two clash.

In several of my classes are adults ranging from early 30s to late 50s, obvious not only because of the age difference, but the difference of demeanor — a demeanor some traditional students fi nd irritating.

You see, many nontraditional students assume a role that most college students abhor — the class contributor. We traditional students, unless we are really fascinated by a topic or have a dire question, prefer to quietly take notes and learn the

material, then leave. So anyone who deviates from this norm by frequently instigating discussions or inserting comments or asking in-depth questions, well, that’s going farther into the class than most students want. After all, we have video games to play or friends to chat with or things to stress about. The people who are inclined to get to that depth often

seem to be nontraditional students.I admit that initially I was annoyed when the

classroom balance was disturbed. The professor

lecturing away, some students taking notes, some students texting, meant that all was well in the education world. When a nontrad would open his mouth with something like, “That’s interesting, because my kids have a tendency to . . .”

I would sometimes be one of the students rolling their eyes and thinking, “Let’s just move on.”

While their comments might have applied to the material, I was bored with most of their life experiences and more interested in getting things done so that I could get out. Come on, we know you have a wife and kids. You’re 45. It’s not surprising.

But when I examined why I was bothered in the fi rst place, my own immaturity surprised me. I

am suffering from more of a superiority complex (I got a chance to do college right the fi rst time) and a junior high clique problem (you aren’t one of us) than any real annoyance with the nontrads themselves.

I think that I realized someone was getting their money’s worth out of their education while I was taking notes. I was memorizing, and someone with more life experience than I had was learning. I was taking notes, and someone with no wiggle room for zoning out was making connections with the material. Even if it means I have to sit through another guy’s story about how, yes, he sleepwalks too because once his wife found him about to pee in the closet (actual story) then so be it.

Shame on me and everyone else who whispered “Shut. Up.” when a chatty nontrad spoke up yet again. These are the opportunities we have, and it’s up to each of us to take advantage of them.

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Let’s just move on.”

thisweek’squestion How were your fi rst few days at Pittsburg State?

“Its been pretty good and pretty easy getting used to campus. I’ve enjoyed meeting new people and walking around campus, and the classes are pretty good, and the teachers are reasonable.”

Scott Ratliff, freshman in criminal justice

“It’s been really good and I’ve met a lot of new really nice people, and the classes have been fun and interesting. It’s my senior year, so I got to go to senior seminar and I met the head of my department for one of my classes. It was just exciting.”

Hannah Aaron, senior in fashion merchandising

“It’s awesome because of the freedom and having no parents around to tell you what to do. The classes are pretty cool because of the resources like Angel.”

Katie Bates, freshman in social work

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TJ Leonard, sophomore in wood technology

“I feel like my classes are going to be very stressful this semester. I’m taking harder classes so I’m gonna have to buckle down and study more.”

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BARTHOLOMEW KLICKCollegio Reporter

Fans of the hit '90s movie “The Matrix” will absolutely adore “Inception.” The fairly signifi cant number of people who were confused by “The Matrix” will probably leave in the fi rst 10 minutes. With very few fl aws, and a complicated plot to distract you from them, it’s a ride that you should take at least once.

Creative writing students are often told that their fi c-tion cannot end with the entire story having been a dream. This movie’s ultimate goal, it seems, was to subvert this. Not only is the entire plot contained within a series of dreams, the question Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) must answer is whether his reality is the true reality. In the wrong hands, this plot would have been nonsensical.

Fortunately, writer and direc-tor Christopher Nolan under-stands character-driven stories and manages to weave Cobb’s reality-challenging plotline with Robert Fischer’s (Cillian Mur-phy) struggle to cope with his father’s death. The way these two character arcs intertwine will for-ever subvert the traditional roles of protagonist and antagonist, and will have both fi lm buffs and creative writing majors studying

“Inception” for decades to come.The fi lm did disappoint in a

few areas. The dream sequences never felt like dreams, but rather they had the alternate-reality feeling of the Matrix. The special effects were nice, but misplaced. Real dreams do more than chal-lenge traditional physics; they implant the bizarre into common settings in a way that makes the perceiver accept them, and this quality is missing from the long string of dream sequences in the fi lm.

The story also broke its own, subtle rules — arguably for the sake of plot twists, but still distracting. For instance, each character in the fi lm has a unique object they use to test reality. If

Cobb’s top doesn’t stop spin-ning, or if Ariadne’s (Ellen Page) chess piece falls the wrong way, they know that they’re dreaming. The script established early on that the characters must have a unique object that no one else has ever touched. Later in the movie, it’s revealed that Cobb’s reality checker actually belonged to his wife. Another rule is that dying in a dream wakes the characters up — until this becomes incon-venient to the plot. Then dying in a dream traps the characters in their minds for all eternity. Christopher Nolan’s explanation involves strong anesthetics, but doesn’t try to explain what hap-pens when the drugs wear off.

Of course, since the entire

movie turns out to be a dream, one could argue that these minor fl aws were all foreshadowing of the outcome. I’m rarely a fan of fi ction that exists merely to challenge a convention of story

telling. For all my criticism of these

minor fl aws, the character devel-opment and acting were so good that I didn’t notice any of this until hours after I’d watched the

fi lm. Like everyone else who’d stayed for the ending, when Cobb twirled his dead wife’s top as a fi nal test of reality, I sat at the edge of my seat waiting to see if it would fall, or spin forever.

BY ELIZABETH WINDLECollegio Reporter

A band clad in tennis shoes and tight jeans tunes its instruments and warms up outside

the Overman Student Center. Finally, one of them says hello to the small crowd of curious onlookers that has gathered.

The music begins. The crowd grows bigger, but the band stays relaxed. Its fi ve members eventu-ally kick their shoes off and joke around with one another through-out the performance.

Hotspur, from Washington,

D.C., played songs from its latest album, “You Should Know Better By Now” for a gathering of about 50 students.

Kirsten Wilson, sophomore in psychology, says their vibe was laid-back.

“I had literally just heard about them ten minutes ago,” Wilson said. “They sound and look amazing. I mean, you can tell if the band is going to give you something to connect to. If you can’t relate to a song, why listen?”

Another student, Sara Liming, freshman in communication, says she also enjoyed the performance.

“I heard them coming from eating in the cafeteria,” Liming said. “It defi nitely got me curi-ous. They were a mesh of sounds close to a cross between Panic! At The Disco and Owl City.”

Members of the band say they draw their inspiration from real-ity; they fi nd incidents in their lives and make them relatable to listeners. The lead singer, Joe Mach, calls their life together an “enhanced life.”

Drew Porter was driving by the concert when he heard the band playing. He stopped just to listen.

“I don’t normally listen to

this kind of music, but they have talent,” Porter, senior in commu-nication, said. “They remind me of Fall Out Boy, but more like an energetic sing-a-long.”

The event was part of the Stu-dent Activities Center-sponsored Off2PSU, a week-long welcome back to campus.

Kate Radosevich, freshman in art education, says she enjoyed the concert.

“I just bought their CD and I want to see them in the future,” she said.

Hotspur’s biggest challenges are the people who don’t like them, according to the band

members. “You can’t win them all by

yourself,” Dave Trichter, pianist and vocalist, said. “That’s the hard part.”

Trichter described their lives of touring and recording CDs as “super fast.” Their newest CD, “You Should Know Better By Now,” was the main focus of the concert. Songs like “Sold!” got the crowd dancing and singing along.

“I’m glad I heard about the concert in my dorm,” Carley Kimberling, freshman in busi-ness said. “Their sound is fun and playful.”

Inception: ‘The Matrix’ revisited, again

D.C. native band Hotspur performs to a crowd of students at Cleveland Plaza on Monday, Aug. 23. The band was brought to PSU as part of Off2PSU.

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klah

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the

Pitts

burg

fai

thfu

l w

ill p

ile in

to C

arni

e Sm

ith S

tadi

um

to w

atch

the

Gor

illas

take

thei

r fi r

st

step

s on

to th

e tu

rf a

s a

team

for

th

eir

hom

e op

ener

aga

inst

Cha

dron

St

ate.

H

ead

coac

h B

ill O

’Boy

le a

nd

the

Eag

les

fi nis

hed

thir

d ov

eral

l in

tota

l sco

ring

last

sea

son

with

39

touc

hdow

ns a

nd 1

8 fi e

ld g

oals

, but

w

ere

rank

ed fi

fth

in th

eir

conf

er-

ence

in to

tal o

ffen

sive

pro

duct

ion.

A

long

with

bei

ng a

t the

hel

m f

or

Cha

dron

Sta

te, O

’Boy

le w

ill s

erve

as

the

offe

nsiv

e co

ordi

nato

r th

is

seas

on.

Alth

ough

the

Gor

illas

eff

ectiv

ely

shut

dow

n th

e E

agle

s la

st y

ear

41-

13 in

thei

r no

n-co

nfer

ence

mat

chup

, th

ere

have

bee

n a

lot o

f ch

ange

s in

pe

rson

nel a

nd P

itt S

tate

will

nee

d m

ore

than

a s

tatis

tical

edg

e to

com

e ou

t on

top

this

tim

e.“P

itt S

tate

is a

lway

s a

prem

iere

D

-II

prog

ram

yea

r in

and

yea

r ou

t,”

O’B

oyle

sai

d. “

I m

ean,

I d

on’t

thin

k w

e pl

ayed

a b

ette

r te

am th

e re

st o

f th

e se

ason

but

we

didn

’t e

ven

stan

d up

to th

em. S

o ho

pefu

lly th

is y

ear

we’

ll ha

ve th

e ri

ght m

inds

et f

or th

at

gam

e.”

Luc

kily

for

the

Gor

illas

, the

E

agle

s ar

e so

mew

hat s

hort

hand

ed

on o

ffen

se a

s on

ly tw

o st

arte

rs a

re

retu

rnin

g th

is s

easo

n. A

long

with

be

ing

inex

peri

ence

d, th

e E

agle

s do

no

t hav

e m

any

plac

es to

look

for

le

ader

ship

with

onl

y 12

sen

iors

on

thei

r sp

ring

ros

ter.

But

eve

n th

ough

they

will

be

deal

ing

with

an

inex

peri

ence

d of

-fe

nse,

the

Gor

illas

’ pas

s co

vera

ge

will

hav

e to

wat

ch o

ut f

or th

e ae

rial

at

tack

that

fl ow

s th

roug

h th

e ar

m o

f G

arre

tt T

reff

er.

“(G

arre

tt) g

ot b

ette

r as

the

seas

on w

ent o

n, fi

nish

ed w

ell a

nd

rece

ntly

had

a r

eally

goo

d sp

ring

,”

O’B

oyle

sai

d. “

The

re is

goi

ng to

be

a lo

t of

com

petit

ion

this

yea

r at

that

sp

ot b

ut w

e’re

exp

ectin

g hi

m to

be

our

sign

al c

alle

r th

is s

easo

n.”

Tre

ffer

thre

w f

or 2

54 y

ards

and

one

touc

hdow

n la

st y

ear

agai

nst

the

Gor

illas

and

was

res

pons

ible

fo

r m

ost o

f th

e of

fens

ive

reps

with

52

pas

ses

atte

mpt

ed. A

long

with

a

dece

nt p

erfo

rman

ce a

gain

st th

e G

o-ri

llas,

Tre

ffer

fi ni

shed

fi ft

h ov

eral

l in

pas

sing

in th

e R

MA

C w

ith 1

75.4

ya

rds

per

gam

e an

d a

leag

ue s

econ

d be

st 1

6 T

D’s

. Bes

ides

a th

ird-

plac

e fi n

ish

in th

eir

conf

eren

ce a

s a

team

, T

reff

er a

nd th

e E

agle

off

ense

wer

e

fi fth

ove

rall

in p

assi

ng

and

thir

d ov

eral

l in

com

plet

ion

perc

ent-

age

duri

ng th

e re

gula

r se

ason

.A

lthou

gh T

reff

er

is a

siz

able

off

ensi

ve

thre

at, h

e re

ally

has

no

whe

re to

look

with

C

hadr

on’s

wid

eout

sit-

uatio

n at

the

mom

ent.

The

Eag

les’

rec

eivi

ng

core

, whi

ch a

ccou

nted

fo

r 1,

586

yard

s an

d 18

to

uchd

owns

last

sea

-so

n, h

as fi

gura

tivel

y fl e

w th

e co

op. A

ll fo

ur

play

ers

who

sta

rted

at w

ideo

ut la

st

seas

on c

ompl

eted

thei

r el

igib

ility

an

d th

e te

am w

ill h

ave

to s

tart

out

fr

esh

with

a w

hole

new

cas

t of

play

-er

s. T

he m

ost p

rom

isin

g w

ideo

ut

for

the

Eag

les

look

s lik

e it

is g

o-in

g to

be

Jeff

A

lcor

n, w

ho

had

only

ei

ght c

atch

es

for

103

yard

s la

st y

ear.

Alth

ough

th

e E

agle

s ar

e kn

own

for

thei

r hi

gh-fl

yin

g pa

ssin

g, th

ey

had

a lo

t of

wor

k to

do

with

thei

r ru

nnin

g ga

me

goin

g in

to th

e of

fsea

son

this

yea

r. R

unni

ng b

ack

John

Ritz

en is

the

only

bac

k w

ith a

ny e

xper

ienc

e w

ho

is r

etur

ning

to th

e ba

ckfi e

ld th

is

seas

on a

fter

the

team

lost

its

two

top

rush

ers

to g

radu

atio

n.T

he G

orill

a of

fens

e w

ill n

eed

to b

e ca

refu

l whe

n it

goes

to th

e ai

r be

caus

e C

hadr

on fi

nish

ed a

t th

e to

p of

its

conf

eren

ce in

pas

sing

de

fens

e w

ith 1

3 in

terc

eptio

ns a

nd

only

2,0

67 p

assi

ng y

ards

allo

wed

la

st s

easo

n.

Whe

n as

ked

if

O’B

oyle

th

ough

t his

de

fens

e w

ould

be

com

peti-

tive

agai

n th

is

year

, he

had

no

doub

ts.

“As

for

our

defe

nse,

I’d

sa

y de

fi nite

ly,”

he

sai

d. “

Our

se

cond

ary

is b

ack,

we

didn

’t lo

se

any

seni

ors,

so

barr

ing

any

inju

ries

w

e’re

defi

nite

ly r

eady

this

yea

r.”T

he E

agle

s al

so fi

nish

ed th

ird

over

all i

n ru

shin

g de

fens

e, s

o th

e te

am m

ay lo

ok to

Isa

ac, C

lem

ons,

L

ove

and

the

rest

of

the

Gor

illas

’ ba

ckfi e

ld to

get

the

job

done

on

the

Nex

t st

ep:

Gor

illa

s fa

ce f

resh

Ch

adro

n

squa

d in

hom

e op

ener

File

ph

oto

TYL

ER S

MIT

HSp

orts

Wri

ter

Pit

t Sta

te lo

oks

to g

et b

ack

on tr

ack

this

ye

ar w

hen

it c

olli

des

wit

h th

e M

isso

uri

Sou

ther

n L

ions

on

Oct

. 2.

Las

t yea

r th

e L

ions

wer

e be

sted

by

the

Gor

illa

s 21

-14

in o

ne o

f th

e fe

w c

lose

gam

es

of th

e 20

09 s

easo

n. I

n a

clos

ely

cont

este

d ba

ttle

the

Gor

illa

s us

ed a

sup

erio

r pa

ssin

g ga

me

to p

ut a

way

Mis

sour

i Sou

ther

n.P

itt S

tate

’s J

ohn

Tho

mas

cau

ght s

ix

pass

es f

or 9

7 ya

rds.

Thi

s, c

oupl

ed w

ith

the

Gor

illa

s’ m

any

quar

terb

acks

, hel

ped

them

ea

rn 2

74 to

tal p

assi

ng y

ards

com

pare

d to

th

e L

ions

’ 180

. Alt

houg

h M

isso

uri S

outh

ern

stru

ggle

d in

the

pass

ing

gam

e, it

had

the

supe

rior

rus

hing

att

ack.

Mis

sour

i Sou

ther

n ra

cked

up

185

yard

s in

rus

hing

com

pare

d to

th

e G

oril

las’

98.

U

ltim

atel

y, th

ough

, it w

as th

e L

ions

who

m

ade

the

mis

take

s, w

ith

thre

e in

terc

epti

ons

and

the

Gor

illa

s’ a

bili

ty to

mai

ntai

n po

s-se

ssio

n of

the

foot

ball

long

er th

an M

isso

uri

Sou

ther

n. A

t tha

t tim

e, S

outh

ern

was

the

seco

nd m

ost p

enal

ized

team

in th

e M

IAA

. To

go

alon

g w

ith

thei

r fr

ustr

atin

g pe

nalt

ies,

th

e L

ions

als

o al

low

ed 1

3 sa

cks

last

sea

son,

w

hich

was

the

seco

nd m

ost i

n th

e le

ague

. W

ith

thos

e nu

mbe

rs, i

t wil

l be

inte

rest

ing

to

see

how

the

Lio

ns b

ounc

e ba

ck th

is y

ear.

Mis

sour

i Sou

ther

n he

ad c

oach

Bar

t Ta

tum

gav

e so

me

insi

ght i

nto

last

yea

r’s

gam

e.

“I th

ough

t it w

as a

pre

tty

dece

nt b

all

gam

e go

ing

into

the

half

,” T

atum

sai

d.

“Pit

tsbu

rg ju

mpe

d up

ther

e w

ith

a co

uple

sc

ores

in th

e se

cond

hal

f, b

ut I

fel

t we

cam

e ba

ck s

tron

g an

d m

ade

a de

cent

gam

e of

it.”

M

isso

uri S

outh

ern

did

a de

cent

job

of

keep

ing

the

Gor

illa

s fr

om s

cori

ng in

the

end

zone

in th

e fi

rst h

alf,

but

whe

ther

it

was

fat

igue

that

set

in o

r ju

st b

ad lu

ck, t

hey

coul

dn’t

get

the

win

. Reg

ardl

ess

of th

e lo

ss,

they

hav

e pr

eppe

d th

emse

lves

this

off

-se

ason

and

fee

l the

y ha

ve m

ore

to o

ffer

this

go

-aro

und.

Ask

ed a

bout

his

pas

t sea

son

and

how

th

ey f

eel g

oing

into

201

0, T

atum

sou

nded

co

nfi d

ent.

“I’m

pro

ud o

f th

e se

ason

and

it h

as

been

goo

d, w

e’ve

got

a

nucl

eus

of p

laye

rs b

ack

and

I lo

ve o

ur q

uart

er-

back

. He’

s a

very

str

ong

com

peti

tor.”

The

qua

rter

back

, ju

nior

Rol

and

Tho

mp-

son,

is m

akin

g hi

s re

turn

th

is y

ear

and

hope

s to

m

ake

a bi

g im

pact

. Las

t se

ason

Tho

mps

on th

rew

fo

r ei

ght t

ouch

dow

ns

and

1,14

2 ya

rds

whi

le

coll

ecti

ng a

pas

ser

rati

ng

of 1

02.3

. C

ompe

ting

alo

ngsi

de J

ohns

on f

or th

e st

arti

ng d

utie

s is

Col

lin

How

ard.

How

ard

is c

onsi

dere

d a

dece

nt th

reat

to g

et th

e no

d at

qua

rter

back

aft

er th

row

ing

for

10 s

core

s la

st y

ear,

whi

ch w

as m

ore

than

Tho

mps

on.

How

ever

, How

ard

coll

ecte

d on

ly 8

58

yard

s th

roug

h th

e ai

r. Alt

houg

h th

e tw

o qu

arte

rbac

ks

had

a de

cent

pa

ssin

g se

ason

, th

ey a

lso

had

thei

r sh

are

of m

ista

kes.

H

owar

d th

rew

ei

ght i

nter

cept

ions

la

st s

easo

n an

d T

hom

pson

topp

ed

the

seas

on o

ff w

ith

a te

am w

orst

15

pick

s. D

urin

g la

st y

ear’

s ga

me

agai

nst t

he G

oril

las,

Tho

mps

on th

rew

for

a re

spec

tabl

e 18

0 ya

rds

but w

as 1

6 of

34

wit

h th

ree

pick

s.

Not

onl

y w

ill t

he L

ions

nee

d to

be

mis

-ta

ke-f

ree,

but

they

wil

l be

play

ing

wit

hout

th

eir

hom

etow

n cr

owd.

Car

nie

Sm

ith

sta-

dium

is k

now

n fo

r it

s la

rge

turn

outs

and

the

Gor

illa

s w

ill h

ave

a si

gnifi

can

t adv

anta

ge

wit

h th

at. M

isso

uri S

outh

ern

wil

l hav

e on

e of

the

bett

er o

ffen

sive

line

s go

ing

into

the

gam

e, th

ough

. Reg

ardl

ess

of a

ny p

ress

ure,

Ta

tum

doe

sn’t

see

med

con

cern

ed.

“We

coul

d be

dee

per

than

any

team

out

th

ere

and

our

offe

nsiv

e li

ne is

one

of

our

best

str

engt

hs.”

PIt

tsbu

rg w

ill h

ave

a lo

t to

live

up

to th

is

year

in te

rms

of it

s re

puta

tion

as

one

of th

e to

p te

ams

in th

e M

IAA

. A

s Ta

tum

put

it, “

Any

tim

e yo

u’re

han

g-in

g an

d ba

ngin

g w

ith

the

Pit

tsbu

rg G

oril

las,

yo

u’ve

got

ta b

e so

met

hing

rig

ht.”

Hig

hly

pen

aliz

ed S

outh

ern

ent

ers

Jung

le in

Oct

ober Fi

le p

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se)

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ense

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sh O

ffen

seRM

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sTe

amst

ats

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09

Rec

ord

: 3

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ensi

ve R

ank

(Tot

al D

efen

se)

MIA

A: 9

Pass

Off

ense

MIA

A: 8

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sh O

ffen

seM

IAA

: 6

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Landscaping and Garden Center Mon-Sat 9-5Sun-10-4

Aug. 28at Central Oklahoma – Edmond, Okla. – 7 p.m.

Sept. 4vs. Chadron State – The Pitt – Noon Sponsored by State Farm

Sept. 18 • Family Day • Hall of Famevs. Central Missouri – The Pitt – 4 p.m. Sponsored by Via Christi Hospital

Sept. 25at Missouri Western – St. Jpseph, Mo. – 6 p.m.

Oct. 2vs. Missouri Southern – The Pitt – 2 p.m. Sonic Miner’s Bowl

Oct. 9at Emporia State – Emporia, Kan. – 1 p.m.

Oct. 16 • Homecoming •at Washburn – The Pitt – 2 p.m. Sponsored by Commerce Bank

Oct. 23at Fort Hays State – Hays, Kan. – 2 p.m. Oct. 30 vs. Nebraska-Omaha – The Pitt – 2 p.m. Sponsored by Comfort Inn / Holiday Inn

Nov. 6vs. Truman – The Pitt – 2 p.m. Sponsored by Quinlan Eye Center

Nov. 13vs. NW Missouri State – Kansas City, Mo. – 2 p.m.

Home games played at Brandenbrug Field/Carnie Smith Stadium

JAK

E FA

BER

Spor

ts E

dito

r

Aft

er lo

sing

to th

e G

riff

ons

45-4

0 at

hom

e la

st s

easo

n, te

mpe

rs

are

sure

to fl

are

as th

e G

orill

as

head

nor

th to

St.

Jose

ph, M

o., i

n a

som

ewha

t lop

side

d co

nfer

ence

m

atch

up. T

he h

igh-

fl yin

g G

riff

ons

ende

d la

st s

easo

n on

a h

ot s

trea

k by

fi n

ishi

ng 9

-3 o

vera

ll an

d be

ing

in-

volv

ed in

a f

our-

way

tie

for

seco

nd

plac

e in

the

MIA

A w

ith a

6-3

mar

k.

The

Gri

ffon

s ar

e a

seri

ous

thre

at in

th

e co

nfer

ence

this

yea

r af

ter

they

w

ere

pick

ed N

o. 1

6 in

the

natio

nal

polls

at t

he b

egin

ning

of

this

sea

-so

n. E

ven

with

all

of th

e ch

ange

s th

roug

hout

the

Gor

illa

staf

f,

head

coa

ch

Jerr

y Pa

rtri

dge

isn’

t qui

ck to

di

smis

s Pi

tt.“T

here

are

ch

ange

s bu

t no

t rea

lly,”

Pa

rtri

dge

said

of

the

Gor

illas

’ pe

rson

nel.

“Tim

B

eck

has

been

lik

e th

e se

rgea

nt

wai

ting

in th

e w

ings

this

w

hole

tim

e, s

o th

ere

are

goin

g to

be

a lo

t of

thin

gs th

at h

e w

ill d

o th

at

are

like

coac

h B

royl

es. E

ven

thou

gh

ther

e ar

e th

ings

that

are

goi

ng to

be

diff

eren

t, it’

s st

ill P

itt S

tate

.”Pa

rtri

dge

and

the

Gri

ffon

s av

er-

aged

an

impr

essi

ve 3

7.6

poin

ts p

er

gam

e la

st s

easo

n, m

ost o

f w

hich

w

ere

due

to q

uart

erba

ck D

rew

Ne-

wha

rt. B

ut P

artr

idge

say

s th

at m

ore

will

hav

e to

be

done

if th

e G

riff

ons

are

goin

g to

mak

e th

e pl

ayof

fs.

“(T

he M

IAA

) w

as a

n of

fens

ive

leag

ue la

st y

ear,”

Par

trid

ge s

aid.

“I

f yo

u re

ally

look

at i

t, m

ost o

f th

e te

ams

wer

e av

erag

ing

abou

t tho

se

num

bers

.“O

bvio

usly

with

Dre

w N

ewha

rt

back

at q

uart

erba

ck, i

t giv

es u

s a

grea

t cha

nce

to w

in. W

e ha

ve tw

o re

ally

exp

erie

nced

bac

ks, e

xpe-

rien

ced

wid

e re

ceiv

ing

core

, you

na

me

it w

e’ve

got

it.”

New

hart

was

con

side

red

one

of

the

bette

r pa

sser

s in

the

MIA

A la

st

seas

on a

fter

he

thre

w f

or m

ore

than

3,

000

yard

s an

d co

nnec

ted

with

his

re

ceiv

ing

core

for

31

touc

hdow

ns.

The

thin

g th

at m

ade

the

Gri

f-fo

ns s

o ha

rd to

han

dle

last

yea

r w

as th

eir

stre

ngth

at t

he w

ide

rece

iver

pos

itio

n. E

ven

thou

gh th

e G

riff

ons

lost

Ced

ric

Hou

ston

to

grad

uati

on a

fter

Hou

ston

pos

ted

an

MIA

A s

econ

d-be

st p

erfo

rman

ce

wit

h 1,

006

rece

ivin

g ya

rds

and

15

touc

hdow

ns, t

hey

do r

etur

n tw

o st

rong

wid

eout

s in

Ada

m C

laus

sen

and

Tyro

ne C

rock

um. C

rock

um

wou

ld h

ave

been

a p

robl

em f

or

the

Gor

illa

def

ense

bec

ause

of

his

vers

atil

ity

runn

ing

and

catc

hing

the

ball

, but

he

wil

l mos

t lik

ely

not b

e ba

ck in

tim

e fo

r th

e ga

me

agai

nst

the

Gor

illa

s be

caus

e of

a to

rn A

CL

du

ring

the

offs

easo

n.W

ith th

eir

grou

nd g

ame,

the

New

hart

-Cla

usse

n-C

rock

um c

ombi

-na

tion

will

kee

p co

rner

back

Elij

ah

Ola

bode

and

the

rest

of

the

Gor

illa

defe

nse

on th

eir

toes

. R

egar

dles

s of

whi

ch G

orill

a qu

arte

rbac

k is

dro

ppin

g ba

ck in

th

e po

cket

, th

ey w

ill n

eed

to w

atch

out

fo

r G

riff

on

lineb

acke

r Se

an

Whi

ters

. “S

ean

is o

ne

of th

e be

st li

ne-

back

ers

we’

ve

had,

and

we

have

had

a lo

t of

goo

d on

es,”

Pa

rtri

dge

said

. “H

is in

tel-

ligen

ce le

vel

is v

ery

high

be

caus

e he

kno

ws

wha

t’s g

oing

on

in th

e pl

ay. H

e’s

one

of th

ose

kids

th

at c

an s

ee th

e ga

me

from

tack

le to

ta

ckle

.”W

hite

rs is

one

of

the

defe

nsiv

e ca

ptai

ns f

or th

e te

am a

nd w

as v

oted

a

pres

easo

n A

ll-A

mer

ican

this

yea

r af

ter

tally

ing

219

tota

l tac

kles

in h

is

care

er, 1

19 o

f th

ose

bein

g un

as-

sist

ed. O

n to

p de

alin

g w

ith W

hite

rs,

the

Gor

illas

’ qua

rter

back

is g

oing

to

hav

e a

toug

h tim

e fi n

ding

ope

n sp

ace

with

Sha

ne S

imps

on a

nd th

e re

st o

f th

e G

riff

on in

terc

eptio

n-ha

ppy

defe

nse.

Sim

pson

and

sen

ior

corn

erba

ck I

an T

hom

pson

eac

h ha

d fo

ur p

icks

last

sea

son,

whi

le th

e re

st o

f th

e G

riff

on d

efen

sive

cas

t co

ntri

bute

d a

tota

l of

19 p

icks

, thr

ee

of w

hich

wer

e br

ough

t all

the

way

ba

ck f

or d

efen

sive

touc

hdow

ns.

The

sec

ond

thin

g th

at th

e G

orill

a of

fens

ive

line

will

nee

d to

look

out

fo

r is

the

pass

rus

hing

atta

ck th

at

will

com

e m

ainl

y fr

om D

avid

Bas

s an

d W

este

rn’s

def

ensi

ve li

ne.

Bec

ause

of

the

conf

eren

ce b

eing

hi

gh s

cori

ng, P

artr

idge

say

s th

at a

lo

t of

thei

r se

ason

rid

es o

n th

e pl

ay

of th

eir

defe

nse.

“If

we

are

goin

g to

hav

e a

good

de

fens

ive

seas

on, e

ither

Whi

ters

or

Dav

id B

ass

need

to b

e so

meo

ne th

at

I ca

n pu

t up

for

Def

ensi

ve P

laye

r of

the

Yea

r,” P

artr

idge

sai

d. “

If I

can

do th

at th

en w

e w

ill h

ave

had

a gr

eat d

efen

se, a

nd if

we

have

a g

reat

def

ense

ther

e’s

a re

ally

goo

d sh

ot th

at w

e ca

n m

ake

it in

to th

e pl

ayof

fs.”

Bas

s ha

d 6.

5 sa

cks

last

sea

-so

n fo

r a

loss

of

52 to

tal y

ards

an

d ta

llied

9.5

sol

o ta

ckle

s in

th

e ba

ckfi e

ld. A

s a

who

le th

e G

riff

ons

colle

cted

32

sack

s on

th

e se

ason

, whi

le th

eir

oppo

-ne

nts

wer

en’t

abl

e to

mea

sure

up

with

onl

y 21

. T

he G

orill

as h

ave

a sl

ight

ed

ge o

n th

e gr

ound

with

run

-ni

ng b

ack

Terr

ence

Isa

ac, w

ho

rush

ed f

or tw

o to

uchd

owns

la

st s

easo

n ag

ains

t Wes

tern

and

ra

nked

hig

her

in th

e M

IAA

than

an

y of

the

Gri

ffon

s’ b

all c

arri

ers

last

yea

r. B

ut n

othi

ng c

an c

ompa

re

to th

e ed

ge th

at W

este

rn h

as w

hile

th

ey a

re tr

aini

ng w

ith it

s ne

w in

door

pr

actic

e ce

nter

.“W

ell,

it ce

rtai

nly

give

s us

a

cont

rolle

d en

viro

nmen

t tha

t we

can

play

in,”

Par

trid

ge s

aid.

“W

e ca

n’t

be a

rrog

ant w

ith it

and

say

that

it is

a re

ason

to c

ome

to W

este

rn b

ut it

ca

n de

fi nite

ly b

e an

exc

iting

thin

g fo

r us

.”A

long

with

bei

ng u

sed

for

the

Chi

efs’

pre

seas

on tr

aini

ng, P

ar-

trid

ge jo

kes

that

it o

ffer

s hi

m a

w

ay to

sta

y w

arm

dur

ing

the

cold

er

mon

ths

of f

ootb

all s

easo

n.“W

ell,

fi rst

of

all,

I’m

not

ver

y to

ugh,

” he

sai

d jo

king

ly. “

If it

’s

real

ly, r

eally

col

d, w

e’re

goi

ng in

, if

ther

e’s

light

ning

, we’

re g

oing

in.”

Las

t yea

r’s

gam

e ag

ains

t M

isso

uri W

este

rn w

as o

ne o

f Je

ff S

mith

’s s

tart

s, w

here

he

pass

ed f

or 2

56 y

ards

and

two

touc

hdow

ns, a

long

with

rus

h-in

g th

e ba

ll fo

r 49

yar

ds a

nd

anot

her

two

scor

es.

Bec

ause

the

last

tim

e th

ese

two

team

s m

et w

as o

ne o

f th

e cl

oses

t gam

es o

f th

e se

ason

, w

here

the

Gri

ffon

s na

rrow

ly

esca

ped

Car

nie

Smith

Sta

dium

w

ith a

45-

40 v

icto

ry, e

xpec

-ta

tions

are

hig

h fo

r an

othe

r th

rille

r. W

ith T

im B

eck

at

the

helm

for

the

Gor

illas

and

th

e of

fens

ive

cont

ribu

tion

of

Stev

e R

ampy

, the

Gor

illas

won

’t b

e se

ttlin

g fo

r an

othe

r lo

ss.

“I w

iped

that

sla

te c

lean

,”

Part

ridg

e sa

id a

bout

his

vic

tory

last

se

ason

. “I

take

pri

de th

at w

e ar

e th

e on

ly o

nes

that

wen

t int

o (C

arni

e Sm

ith)

and

won

. Pitt

lost

som

e ga

mes

on

the

road

and

at A

rrow

-he

ad, b

ut th

ere

was

onl

y on

e te

am

that

cam

e in

to th

e Ju

ngle

and

won

an

d th

at w

as u

s.”

JAK

E FA

BER

Spor

ts E

dito

r

Aft

er th

eir

two

non-

conf

eren

ce m

atch

ups,

T

im B

eck

and

the

Gor

illas

will

mee

t the

ir fi

rst

MIA

A r

ival

in th

e U

nive

rsity

of

Cen

tral

Mis

-so

uri o

n Fa

mily

Day

in P

ittsb

urg.

Alo

ng w

ith

the

fam

ily f

estiv

ities

that

will

be

taki

ng p

lace

, ha

lftim

e of

this

gam

e w

ill a

lso

feat

ure

the

2010

Hal

l of

Fam

e re

cogn

ition

cer

emon

y an

d is

exp

ecte

d to

be

one

of th

e bi

gges

t cro

wds

to

pile

into

Car

nie

Smith

this

sea

son.

The

gam

e ag

ains

t the

Mul

es w

ill b

e th

e fi r

st r

eal t

est f

or th

e G

orill

as a

fter

last

yea

r’s

23-1

4 de

feat

on

the

road

. The

loss

als

o m

arke

d th

e fi r

st ti

me

in 2

1 ye

ars

that

Pitt

St

ate

lost

bac

k-to

-bac

k co

nfer

ence

gam

es.

The

Mul

es h

ave

one

of th

e be

st q

uart

erba

cks

in th

e le

ague

this

yea

r an

d on

e of

the

mos

t ve

rsat

ile b

all c

arri

ers

in M

IAA

his

tory

. E

ven

thou

gh th

e M

ules

hav

e to

pla

y th

e G

orill

as o

n th

eir

hom

e tu

rf th

is y

ear,

head

co

ach

Jim

Svo

boda

say

s he

will

wel

com

e hi

s te

am’s

ret

urn

to C

arni

e Sm

ith.

“I lo

ve th

e st

adiu

m,”

Svo

boda

sai

d. “

It’s

a

grea

t atm

osph

ere,

gre

at c

row

d, g

reat

sm

all

colle

ge s

tadi

um. W

e’ll

enjo

y it,

and

we’

ll em

brac

e it.

”T

he b

igge

st th

reat

on

the

fi eld

in th

is

mat

chup

will

und

oubt

edly

be

the

Mul

es’

supe

rsta

r, q

uart

erba

ck E

ric

Cze

rnie

wsk

i. C

zern

iew

ski t

ook

over

UC

M’s

all-

time

reco

rd

list b

y th

row

ing

for

2,93

8 ya

rds

last

sea

son

and

thro

win

g fo

r th

e en

d zo

ne w

ith a

n un

-pr

eced

ente

d 33

pas

sing

touc

hdow

ns.

Svob

oda

has

a si

mpl

e st

rate

gy w

hen

it co

mes

to th

e im

port

ance

of

his

quar

terb

ack.

“How

man

y ch

ampi

onsh

ip-l

evel

team

s ha

ve h

ad a

n av

erag

e qu

arte

rbac

k?”

Svob

oda

aske

d.

“Our

qua

rter

back

is a

lway

s im

port

ant t

o us

,” S

vobo

da s

aid.

“(C

zern

iew

ski)

has

gre

at

skill

s, h

e do

es a

lot o

f th

ings

wel

l whe

n he

’s

on th

e fi e

ld a

nd h

e’s

got a

rea

lly g

ood

sup-

port

ing

cast

, so

we

are

exci

ted

to s

ee w

hat h

e ca

n do

this

sea

son.

” W

hen

Cze

rnie

wsk

i dro

ps b

ack

into

the

pock

et th

is s

easo

n, h

e w

ill h

ave

a lo

t of

tar-

gets

to c

hoos

e fr

om, w

hich

is o

ne th

ing

that

Sv

obod

a is

exc

ited

abou

t. “W

e’re

exc

elle

nt a

t the

tigh

t end

spo

t with

D

eMar

co a

nd in

our

run

ning

gam

e,”

Svob

oda

said

of

his

seni

or T

E D

eMar

co C

osby

. “So

we

are

defi n

itely

goi

ng to

spr

ead

the

ball

arou

nd,

shar

e th

e w

ealth

.”C

osby

was

eas

ily o

ne o

f C

zern

iew

ski’s

fa

vori

te m

en to

thro

w to

last

sea

son

afte

r th

e tw

o co

mbi

ned

for

39 r

ecep

tions

and

519

ya

rds,

whi

le C

osby

rea

ched

the

end

zone

fi ve

tim

es to

lead

all

wid

eout

s.

Eve

n th

ough

he’

s ha

d su

cces

s st

atis

ti-ca

lly in

the

past

, Cos

by s

ays

his

goal

for

this

se

ason

is m

ore

of a

men

tal o

ne.

“I h

aven

’t r

eally

put

any

num

bers

on

it,”

Cos

by s

aid.

“I

just

wan

t it t

o be

the

best

sea

-so

n th

at I

’ve

had

here

at C

entr

al.”

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long

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suc

cess

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the

fi eld

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by

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one

of

his

mai

n go

als

this

sea

son

is to

be

a le

ader

off

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fi eld

as

wel

l.“I

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t to

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ble

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et a

tone

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re I

am

on

e of

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emot

iona

l lea

ders

on

the

team

as

wel

l,” C

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o be

abl

e to

lead

by

exa

mpl

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ther

thin

g st

andi

ng in

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Gor

illas

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ad to

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tory

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ame

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Alth

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d m

atch

up a

gain

st th

e E

mpo

ria

Stat

e H

orne

ts th

is y

ear

isn’

t as

high

ly a

ntic

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ed a

s th

e Fa

ll C

lass

ic o

r ho

mec

omin

g, T

im

Bec

k an

d th

e G

orill

as d

o ha

ve a

re

ason

to lo

ok f

orw

ard

to th

eir

trip

to E

mpo

ria.

The

rea

son

be-

ing

the

wea

knes

s of

the

Hor

net

squa

d.Fo

r E

SU h

ead

coac

h G

arin

H

iggi

ns, t

he s

late

has

bee

n w

iped

cle

an f

rom

last

yea

r’s

loss

. “I m

ean

it’s

just

like

any

ot

her

gam

e, b

ut w

e’re

goi

ng in

to

the

seas

on w

ith o

ne o

f ou

r go

als

bein

g to

pro

tect

our

hom

e tu

rf,”

H

iggi

ns s

aid.

“W

e’re

just

wan

t-in

g to

go

in th

ere

and

perf

orm

be

tter

than

we

did

last

yea

r.”A

lthou

gh it

’s n

ever

a g

ood

stra

tegy

to d

isre

gard

a te

am, t

he

Gor

illas

dis

man

tled

the

Hor

-ne

ts in

a 4

4-14

win

in th

eir

last

m

eetin

g, w

here

Pitt

’s th

ird-

stri

ng

play

ers

even

got

a c

hanc

e to

get

into

the

gam

e in

an

atte

mpt

to

not r

un u

p th

e sc

ore.

Alth

ough

th

e G

orill

as w

on’t

hav

e th

e ve

rsat

ile a

rm a

nd s

peed

of

John

M

cCoy

any

mor

e, o

ne o

f B

eck’

s th

ree

quar

terb

ack

suito

rs f

or th

is

seas

on w

ill m

ost l

ikel

y be

abl

e to

get

the

job

done

, esp

ecia

lly

with

vet

eran

cap

tain

Jef

f Sm

ith’s

kn

owle

dge

of E

mpo

ria’

s sq

uad.

The

gam

e la

st y

ear

was

one

of

McC

oy’s

bet

ter

perf

orm

ance

s of

the

seas

on, w

ith f

our

touc

h-do

wns

thro

ugh

the

air

and

288

yard

s of

pas

sing

bef

ore

Jeff

Sm

ith g

ot a

few

rep

s to

war

d th

e en

d of

the

gam

e. T

he G

orill

as

real

ly ti

lted

the

stat

she

et in

thei

r fa

vor

with

638

yar

ds o

f to

tal

offe

nse,

whi

ch w

as m

ore

than

do

uble

the

num

ber

that

Em

po-

ria

rack

ed u

p, a

nd a

lthou

gh th

e po

sses

sion

tim

e w

as s

tatis

tical

ly

even

, Em

pori

a w

asn’

t abl

e to

get

an

ythi

ng d

one

whe

n th

ey h

ad th

e ba

ll in

thei

r ha

nds.

A

lthou

gh th

e G

orill

as h

ad

thei

r w

ay w

ith th

e H

orne

ts

in th

at g

ame,

thei

r re

tool

ed

lock

er r

oom

may

pre

sent

som

e pr

oble

ms

if th

ey a

re n

ot in

syn

c w

ith e

ach

othe

r by

this

poi

nt in

th

eir

sche

dule

. With

the

situ

atio

n la

st y

ear

betw

een

Jeff

Sm

ith

and

John

McC

oy, t

he G

orill

as

didn

’t r

eally

hav

e st

abili

ty a

t the

qu

arte

rbac

k po

sitio

n an

d th

at is

so

met

hing

that

is m

uch

need

ed if

th

e G

orill

as w

ant t

o m

ake

a ru

n at

the

play

offs

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r. T

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roun

d at

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cam

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r Pi

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er m

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leap

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st

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on.

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EMPO

RIA

pag

e 19

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Bre

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at 6

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one

of

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laye

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this

yea

r an

d he

r m

ovem

ent

is g

oing

to b

e ke

y in

a lo

t of

thin

gs th

at w

e w

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e do

ing.

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noth

er k

ey o

ffse

a-so

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ove

by S

uber

u w

as

sign

ing

fres

hman

Chr

ista

M

cCaw

to a

lette

r of

inte

nt

for

this

upc

omin

g se

ason

. M

cCaw

, who

is c

onsi

dere

d a

defe

nsiv

e sp

ecia

list,

is

com

ing

off

an a

ll-st

ate

perf

orm

ance

in h

er s

enio

r ye

ar a

t Bel

levu

e W

est

Hig

h Sc

hool

in N

ebra

ska.

M

cCaw

bel

ieve

s th

at h

er

defe

nse

and

her

pass

ing

abili

ty a

re e

xpec

ted

to h

elp

the

Gor

illas

mov

e th

e ba

ll ar

ound

on

thei

r si

de o

f th

e ne

t. “I h

ave

quic

k fe

et,”

Mc-

Caw

sai

d. “

And

I a

m g

ood

at r

eadi

ng w

here

the

ball

is g

oing

to g

o, b

ut I

’m e

xcite

d fo

r ju

st g

ettin

g to

pl

ay in

the

mat

ches

and

try

to m

ake

a di

ffer

ence

.”E

ven

afte

r a

thir

d-pl

ace

fi nis

h in

ass

ists

in th

e co

nfer

ence

, Sub

eru

says

that

ther

e is

nev

er a

lack

of r

oom

to im

prov

e ba

ll m

ovem

ent.

“Our

win

/loss

was

infl u

ence

d tr

emen

dous

ly

by p

assi

ng th

e ba

ll la

st y

ear.

But

that

is o

ne a

rea

whe

re w

e ha

ve a

vet

eran

in C

assi

e W

il-so

n,”

Sube

ru s

aid.

“T

he in

itial

fo

rce

pass

is a

lway

s cr

itica

l to

ever

y te

am’s

suc

cess

and

we

do b

elie

ve th

at o

ur p

assi

ng w

ill

be k

ey d

urin

g th

is s

easo

n.”

But

hav

ing

a yo

ung

team

, Su

beru

say

s, is

no

obst

acle

to

havi

ng a

suc

cess

ful t

eam

. “

One

thin

g w

e w

ork

on

with

our

vet

eran

s is

not

onl

y th

eir

abili

ty to

han

dle

thei

r ow

n re

spon

sibi

litie

s, b

ut to

te

ach,

” Su

beru

sai

d. “

It’s

sor

t of

a d

ivis

ion

of la

bor,

but o

ver

the

year

s on

e of

the

tran

sitio

ns

we’

ve m

ade

over

the

year

s is

th

e fa

ct th

at w

e ha

ve tr

aine

d ou

r ve

tera

ns v

ery

wel

l, an

d th

at

know

ledg

e he

lps

them

trai

n ou

r yo

unge

r pl

ayer

s.”

With

a m

ix o

f ve

tera

ns a

nd

youn

g ta

lent

ed p

laye

rs, S

uber

u an

d th

e G

orill

as

are

look

ing

to fi

ll up

Joh

n L

ance

Are

na d

urin

g th

eir

hom

e op

ener

Sep

. 17

agai

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2010

Pit

t St

ate

foot

ball

ros

ter

Okl

ahom

a St

ate

duri

ng th

e of

fsea

son.

With

Cod

y ha

ving

one

of

the

two

guar

d po

sitio

ns lo

cked

do

wn,

juni

or K

ell S

mal

ley

and

tran

sfer

Ty

Hen

ry w

ill h

ave

to

com

pete

for

the

star

ting

dutie

s on

the

othe

r si

de.

With

the

expe

rien

ce th

at W

i-le

y br

ings

at t

ackl

e, m

any

are

look

ing

for

juni

or C

alin

Arc

her

to ta

ke o

ver

the

star

ting

job

on

the

othe

r si

de. A

rche

r en

joye

d a

two-

year

sta

y at

Hut

chin

son

Com

mun

ity C

olle

ge w

ith th

e B

lue

Dra

gons

, and

has

the

expe

rien

ce to

be

an a

ncho

r on

th

e G

orill

as’ o

ffen

sive

line

this

se

ason

.O

n th

e de

fens

ive

side

of

the

ball,

the

Gor

illas

hav

e a

stri

ng o

f tr

ansf

er p

laye

rs, b

ut th

e fa

mil-

iari

ty o

f st

arte

rs f

rom

last

yea

r th

at w

ill b

e ne

eded

to lo

ck d

own

oppo

nent

s’ o

ffen

ses

this

sea

son.

“O

n de

fens

e w

e fe

el li

ke w

e ha

ve te

n or

ele

ven

youn

g m

en,

who

stil

l hav

e th

ree

or f

our

year

s or

elig

ibili

ty o

n th

em, t

hat

have

a c

hanc

e to

be

diff

eren

ce

mak

ers,

” B

eck

said

. “A

nd th

at

is v

ery

exci

ting

for

us.”

Thi

rtee

n of

the

33 tr

ansf

er

play

ers

that

Bec

k is

mov

-in

g in

to th

e pr

ogra

m a

re o

n de

fens

e, w

ith th

e m

ajor

ity o

f th

em b

eing

on

the

line.

But

,

acco

rdin

g to

Bec

k, s

omet

hing

th

at n

eede

d to

cha

nge

with

the

Gor

illa

defe

nse

last

yea

r w

as

pass

rus

hing

.“W

e ha

ve th

ree

defe

nsiv

e en

ds th

at a

re v

ery

good

pla

y-er

s,”

Bec

k sa

id. “

And

last

yea

r th

at w

as o

ne o

f ou

r m

ain

prob

-le

ms,

we

wer

en’t

abl

e to

get

to

the

pass

er v

ery

wel

l.”T

hose

def

ensi

ve e

nds

will

m

ost l

ikel

y be

sop

hom

ore

Gus

To

ca, a

long

with

two

tran

sfer

s in

Will

Gri

ssom

and

Jos

h N

unu.

Juni

ors

J.R

. Jon

es, X

avie

r Ja

ckso

n an

d C

ody

Moo

re w

ill

mak

e up

the

inte

rior

of

the

Gor

illas

’ off

ensi

ve li

ne, w

hile

th

e te

am b

ring

s in

exp

erie

nced

pl

ayer

s lik

e M

att J

enki

ns a

long

w

ith f

resh

man

tale

nt f

rom

Mat

t A

nder

son

and

Tank

Bur

ns, w

ho

are

com

ing

to P

itt f

resh

out

of

the

prep

ran

ks.

At l

ineb

acke

r, th

e G

orill

as

retu

rn s

tron

g ta

lent

fro

m ju

nior

s L

uke

Stri

nger

and

Dus

tin

Smith

, whi

le s

enio

r Jo

hnny

R

ow w

ill a

ncho

r th

e lin

ebac

k-in

g co

re a

fter

logg

ing

23 ta

ckle

s la

st s

easo

n.

In th

e G

orill

a se

cond

ary,

the

one

stan

dout

pla

yer

wou

ld h

ave

to b

e at

saf

ety

with

sen

ior A

lex

Kuh

lman

. Kuh

lman

pic

ked

apar

t the

opp

osin

g of

fens

es

last

yea

r w

ith tw

o in

terc

ep-

tions

and

71

tota

l tac

kles

at f

ree

safe

ty. A

long

with

lead

ing

the

Gor

illas

’ def

ense

, Kuh

lman

was

se

lect

ed a

s an

All-

Am

eric

an

two

year

s ag

o an

d w

as n

amed

to

the

All-

MIA

A te

am tw

ice

duri

ng h

is c

aree

r at

Pitt

.O

ppos

ite K

uhlm

an a

t saf

ety

will

mos

t lik

ely

be s

opho

mor

e C

has

Smith

or

tran

sfer

Pau

l R

obin

son,

who

are

com

ing

into

th

e G

orill

as’ p

rese

ason

cam

p ne

ck a

nd n

eck

for

the

star

ting

dutie

s.

At c

orne

rbac

k, th

e G

orill

as

have

exp

erie

nce

with

Elij

ah

Ola

bode

, who

bro

ke u

p th

ree

pass

es la

st y

ear

and

was

all

over

opp

osin

g w

ideo

uts

befo

re

battl

ing

thro

ugh

inju

ries

late

in

the

seas

on. T

o st

art o

ppos

ite

Ola

bode

are

the

fres

h ju

nior

tr

ansf

ers

Ken

dall

Dav

is a

nd

Josh

Hei

mer

man

n, w

ho a

re

both

con

side

red

cand

idat

es f

or

the

star

ting

job.

With

an

inex

peri

ence

d bu

t ta

lent

ed te

am, B

eck

says

that

ag

e is

just

a n

umbe

r.“C

ount

ing

our

fres

hmen

, w

e’re

goi

ng to

hav

e si

xty

new

pl

ayer

s on

our

team

, whi

ch is

go

od a

nd b

ad,”

Bec

k sa

id. “

We

don’

t hav

e a

lot o

f ex

peri

ence

, bu

t all

of o

ur g

uys

are

very

ea

ger

to le

arn

wha

t we’

re d

oing

th

is y

ear.”

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LLA

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om p

age

4

File

ph

oto

Cas

sie

Wils

on r

etu

rns

the

bal

l d

uri

ng

the

gam

e ag

ain

st N

orth

-w

est

Stat

e on

Fri

day

, Oct

. 30

, la

st y

ear.

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e 8

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ust

26

, 20

10

Aug

ust

26

, 20

10

22

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TYL

ER S

MIT

HSp

orts

Wri

ter

Pitt

Stat

e’s

golf

team

is lo

okin

g to

mak

e th

e up

com

ing

seas

on o

ne

to r

emem

ber

follo

win

g its

str

uggl

es

last

yea

r. A

lthou

gh th

e G

orill

as

plac

ed s

even

th in

the

MIA

A c

ham

-pi

onsh

ips,

coa

ch M

att B

rock

saw

ro

om f

or im

prov

emen

t. “I

wou

ld r

ate

(las

t sea

son)

as

a ye

ar th

at w

e di

dn’t

qui

te g

et o

ver

the

hum

p,”

Bro

ck s

aid.

“W

e w

ere

inco

nsis

tent

.”A

lthou

gh c

onsi

sten

cy is

a h

ard

thin

g to

ach

ieve

, esp

ecia

lly in

the

gam

e of

gol

f, th

e G

orill

as h

ope

this

ye

ar b

ring

s m

uch

bette

r re

sults

for

th

eir

team

as

a w

hole

.“O

ur g

uys

have

bee

n w

orki

ng o

n co

nsis

tenc

y an

d th

eir

shor

t gam

es

this

sum

mer

.”

Bro

ck h

opes

that

the

lead

ersh

ip

from

cer

tain

pla

yers

wil

l bol

ster

th

eir

chan

ces

this

yea

r. W

ith

two

of th

eir

top

play

ers

from

the

last

se

ason

ret

urni

ng, t

here

is m

uch

to lo

ok f

orw

ard

to. T

op r

etur

ners

G

arre

tt F

owle

r an

d B

ren

Fis

her

are

amon

g th

e pl

ayer

s lo

okin

g to

le

ad th

e go

lf te

am th

is y

ear.

Whe

n re

fl ec

ting

on

last

yea

r’s

effo

rts,

F

ishe

r sa

ys th

at s

tayi

ng h

ealt

hy

was

his

mai

n co

ncer

n du

ring

the

past

sea

son,

but

is o

ptim

isti

c co

m-

ing

into

this

fal

l.“M

y 20

09 s

easo

n I

battl

ed

thro

ugh

inju

ries

bec

ause

I s

prai

ned

my

rota

tor

cuff

in th

e fa

ll, th

en h

ad

knee

sur

gery

ove

r th

e w

inte

r so

I

had

to fi

ght b

ack

in th

e sp

ring

to

be a

ble

to m

ake

it to

a f

ew to

ur-

nam

ents

tow

ard

the

end

of th

e se

ason

,” F

ishe

r sa

id. “

But

I w

as

very

hap

py w

ith h

ow I

was

abl

e to

co

mpe

te in

the

spri

ng r

ight

aft

er

com

ing

off

the

knee

sur

gery

.”

But

Bre

n sa

ys h

e’s

been

wor

king

to

pre

pare

for

the

com

ing

seas

on.

“All

sum

mer

I h

ave

been

tryi

ng

to im

prov

e on

my

accu

racy

and

just

m

akin

g su

re I

am

kee

ping

my

con-

fi den

ce b

uilt

up a

nd s

tayi

ng f

ocus

ed

on m

y ga

me,

” he

sai

d.A

ccor

ding

to B

rock

, the

Gor

illas

ha

d a

pret

ty d

ecen

t run

at t

ourn

a-m

ents

in th

e pa

st b

ut M

IAA

riv

al

Cen

tral

Mis

sour

i is

com

ing

off

of a

go

od s

easo

n an

d po

ses

a si

gnifi

cant

th

reat

. The

fi gh

ting

Mul

es w

ere

NC

AA

run

ner-

ups

last

yea

r an

d w

ill

be th

e G

orill

as’ b

igge

st te

st to

see

w

here

they

sta

ck u

p th

is s

easo

n.U

CM

has

lost

a lo

t of

its to

p pl

ayer

s bu

t will

stil

l be

expe

cted

to

be a

stif

f te

st. F

ort H

ays

Stat

e U

ni-

vers

ity is

exp

ecte

d to

be

a pr

esen

ce

in th

e po

lls th

is s

easo

n as

wel

l. A

lthou

gh o

ptim

istic

, Bro

ck

know

s th

at th

ere

is w

ork

to b

e do

ne

if th

e G

orill

as w

ant t

o su

ccee

d th

is

seas

on.

“We

are

expe

ctin

g to

hav

e a

good

yea

r be

caus

e th

ree

of o

ur

top

fi ve

play

ers

are

retu

rnin

g an

d th

e co

re g

roup

is n

ow m

ade

up o

f ju

nior

s,”

he s

aid.

“W

e w

ill n

eed

mor

e co

nsis

tenc

y, b

ut if

we

stay

he

alth

y an

d liv

e up

to o

ur p

oten

tial

we

coul

d ch

alle

nge

the

top

half

of

the

conf

eren

ce.”

C

onsi

sten

cy s

eem

s to

be

the

key

wor

d fr

om th

e co

ache

s an

d pl

ayer

s w

hen

desc

ribi

ng w

hat t

hey

need

to

wor

k on

. Pla

yers

like

Fis

her

and

Bo

Mer

rill

hope

to fi

nish

str

ong

this

ye

ar a

nd th

ink

they

hav

e a

com

plet

e te

am th

is g

o-ar

ound

. “T

his

seas

on I

hop

e th

at w

e ca

n tr

y an

d fi n

ish

insi

de th

e to

p fi v

e of

ea

ch c

onfe

renc

e to

urna

men

t tha

t w

e go

to,”

Fis

her

said

. “A

lot o

f us

that

are

ret

urni

ng h

ave

a lo

t of

golf

exp

erie

nce

and

we

all h

ave

the

capa

bilit

y of

bei

ng a

ble

to s

core

lo

w. W

e al

l will

just

hav

e to

sta

y as

co

nsis

tent

as

poss

ible

and

I th

ink

that

we

can

acco

mpl

ish

this

goa

l.”

Con

sist

ency

: Bro

ck, G

olfe

rs a

im h

igh

thi

s se

ason Fi

le p

hot

o

File

ph

oto

Jun

ior

golf

er E

amm

on K

rusi

ch t

ees

off

du

rin

g on

e of

th

e G

orill

as’ m

eets

last

yea

r. T

he

Gor

illas

ope

n t

hei

r se

ason

at

the

Lin

-co

ln C

lass

ic in

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den

ton

, Mo.

on

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t. 1

3

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ior

Cal

eb J

essu

p w

atch

es a

s h

is o

ppon

ents

’ off

ense

com

es u

p ju

st s

hor

t of

a fi

rst

do

wn

last

sea

son

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e of

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ten

tsC

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in t

he

lock

er r

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sive

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te

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entr

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tern

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ther

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sou

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tate

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cro

ss c

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try

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gol

f

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edu

le

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-14

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nco

ln C

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ic

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derh

ook

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f Cl

ub

C

amde

nto

n, M

o.

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. 20

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orth

east

ern

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te C

lass

icEm

eral

d Fa

lls C

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try

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b T

uls

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kla.

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isso

uri

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tern

Invi

tati

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Fa

irvi

ew G

olf

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b

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. Jos

eph

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iver

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all

hom

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ww

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M.c

om

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oll

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thw

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orth

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inn

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ntr

al W

ash

ingt

on

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alif

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Pa.)

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len

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rist

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t Li

ber

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W.V

a.)

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son

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man

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nn

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ash

burn

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t Te

xas

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est

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bam

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ebra

ska-

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naw

Val

ley

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Mic

h.)

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rask

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mah

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xas

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M-K

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ville

16

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(A

la.)

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sdal

e (M

ich

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idw

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t. (

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isso

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tern

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nes

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th C

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st S

trou

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ntry

side D

entis

try

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ie B

ell,

DD

SC

orey

Fre

y, D

DS

Jaso

n K

nag,

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ntru

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mily

with

our

fam

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PSU

Stu

dent

s bri

ng in

stud

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rece

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ff al

l maj

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ork

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happ

ily w

elco

me

new

pat

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s, c

hild

ren

and

emer

genc

ies.

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ase

call

toda

y fo

r an

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men

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ame

day

appo

intm

ents

ava

ilabl

e.

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rs:

Mon

T

ue W

ed T

hur

Fri

8-7

8

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Delta

De

ntal

Prov

ider

Go

Gor

illas

!

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ighw

ay 6

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onte

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son

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man

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th A

laba

ma

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nes

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luth

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ifor

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len

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bam

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inb

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ash

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inn

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tate

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rask

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gin

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nes

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orth

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pen

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st S

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inn

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ntr

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orth

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pen

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burg

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t Te

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Tech

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t A

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ma

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wes

tern

Sta

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5.

■

UCM

from

pag

e 11

gam

e ag

ains

t the

Mul

es w

as o

ne o

f th

e ga

mes

that

ret

urni

ng

QB

Jef

f Sm

ith s

tart

ed la

st s

easo

n. H

e w

as a

ll ov

er th

e fi e

ld

that

gam

e w

ith 1

5 co

mpl

etio

ns f

or 2

04 y

ards

and

a to

uch-

dow

n. S

mith

als

o sh

owed

his

ver

satil

ity b

y ke

epin

g th

e ba

ll an

d ru

shin

g 15

tim

es f

or o

ver

60 y

ards

.T

he G

orill

a ru

nnin

g ga

me

was

som

ewha

t abs

ent i

n th

e lo

ss, a

s Te

rren

ce I

saac

led

the

way

for

Pitt

’s b

acks

with

onl

y 41

yar

ds, f

ollo

wed

by

Car

dell

Cle

mon

s w

ith 2

4. B

ut w

ith a

he

alth

y Is

aac

and

a st

acke

d ru

nnin

g ba

ck d

epth

cha

rt, c

arry

ing

the

ball

shou

ldn’

t be

a pr

oble

m f

or th

e G

orill

as th

is s

easo

n.

Las

t yea

r U

CM

was

kno

wn

for

its s

peci

al te

ams,

esp

e-ci

ally

thei

r st

reng

th in

the

retu

rn g

ame

with

Bob

by G

uillo

ry.

Gui

llory

bro

ught

bac

k th

e op

enin

g ki

ck-o

ff la

st y

ear

agai

nst

the

Gor

illas

for

a 9

7-ya

rd to

uchd

own

and

afte

r th

at b

reak

in

def

ense

, Gui

llory

cau

ght a

n 18

-yar

d to

uchd

own

pass

. A

fter

that

def

ensi

ve s

tum

ble,

the

Gor

illas

bro

ke d

own

to le

t th

e M

ules

take

an

earl

y 23

-0 le

ad in

to th

e lo

cker

roo

m a

t ha

lftim

e. L

ucky

for

the

Gor

illas

, Gui

llory

gra

duat

ed a

fter

last

ye

ar a

nd w

on’t

be

a th

reat

on

the

fi eld

this

sea

son.

Alth

ough

th

e fi r

st h

alf

was

all

Mul

es, t

he G

orill

as h

eld

thei

r op

pone

nts

scor

eles

s in

the

seco

nd h

alf

and

wer

e ab

le to

put

som

e po

ints

on

the

boar

d. U

nfor

tuna

tely

, the

y ar

e go

ing

to h

ave

to d

o a

who

le lo

t mor

e if

they

’re

look

ing

to c

ome

away

with

the

vic-

tory

this

yea

r. T

he G

orill

a ba

ckfi e

ld f

umbl

ed f

our

times

in th

e la

st

mee

ting

of th

ese

two

team

s an

d w

asn’

t abl

e to

com

e up

with

po

sses

sion

two

of th

ose

times

, so

poss

essi

on a

nd a

min

imum

nu

mbe

r of

turn

over

s w

ill b

e ke

y du

ring

this

mat

chup

.W

ith th

e co

mbi

natio

n of

Cze

rnie

wsk

i at q

uart

erba

ck, “

The

C

osby

Sho

w”

at ti

ght e

nd a

nd S

tew

art c

arry

ing

the

ball

up

the

mid

dle,

the

Gor

illas

will

hav

e to

wor

k ha

rd to

com

e aw

ay

with

the

win

aga

inst

this

nat

iona

lly r

anke

d op

pone

nt.

■ C

LASS

IC fr

om p

age

17

whe

n it’

s ea

rly

in th

e ye

ar li

ke th

at.”

The

last

tim

e th

at th

ese

two

team

s m

et, t

he B

earc

ats

blas

ted

the

Gor

il-la

s w

ith 2

0 fi r

st q

uart

er p

oint

s on

thei

r w

ay to

a 3

0-10

vic

tory

in f

ront

of

over

20

,000

fan

s w

ho p

acke

d in

to A

rrow

-he

ad. J

ohn

McC

oy w

as u

nder

cen

ter

for

the

Gor

illas

for

the

entir

e ga

me,

an

d al

thou

gh h

e pu

t up

an im

pres

sive

84

rus

hing

yar

ds, h

e w

as p

icke

d of

f th

ree

times

and

sac

ked

by th

e B

earc

at

defe

nse

thre

e m

ore

times

dur

ing

a pe

rfor

man

ce in

whi

ch h

e co

mpl

eted

on

ly s

even

pas

ses.

Alth

ough

it is

a n

ew

year

, the

Bea

rcat

s ar

e co

nsid

ered

to b

e as

com

petit

ive

as e

ver.

The

Bea

rcat

s ba

sica

lly d

omin

ated

th

e M

IAA

on

both

sid

es o

f th

e ba

ll la

st

seas

on. N

orth

wes

t fi n

ishe

d la

st s

easo

n at

the

top

of th

e co

nfer

ence

in b

oth

scor

ing

offe

nse,

sco

ring

def

ense

and

bo

th to

tal o

ffen

sive

and

def

ensi

ve y

ard-

age.

In

fact

, the

clo

sest

team

in th

e to

tal

offe

nse

cate

gory

was

Was

hbur

n, w

hich

w

as a

lmos

t 2,0

00 y

ards

beh

ind

the

pow

erho

use

Nor

thw

est.

If th

e G

orill

as

wer

e lo

okin

g fo

r a

team

to k

eep

thei

r ey

e on

this

sea

son,

they

nee

d lo

ok n

o fa

rthe

r th

an M

aryv

ille,

Mo.

The

bri

ght s

ide

for

the

Gor

illa

defe

nsiv

e lin

e is

that

they

won

’t h

ave

to w

orry

abo

ut s

topp

ing

rece

ntly

gr

adua

ted

runn

ing

back

LaR

on C

ounc

il.

Cou

ncil

fi nis

hed

at th

e to

p of

the

con-

fere

nce

in r

ushi

ng la

st y

ear

with

1,7

82

yard

s on

the

grou

nd a

nd a

n ou

tlier

of

22

touc

hdow

ns.

“You

can

’t r

epla

ce a

pla

yer

like

(La-

Ron

),”

Tje

erds

ma

said

. “H

e ha

d a

grea

t ca

reer

and

two

outs

tand

ing

seas

ons

duri

ng h

is ju

nior

and

sen

ior

year

s.”

To p

ut it

in p

ersp

ectiv

e, C

ounc

il ha

d tw

ice

as m

any

rush

ing

touc

hdow

ns a

s th

e en

tire

foot

ball

prog

ram

at T

rum

an

Stat

e la

st y

ear.

As

wel

l as

putti

ng u

p im

pres

sive

sta

ts, C

ounc

il ac

coun

ted

for

over

hal

f of

Nor

thw

est’s

run

ning

ga

me

last

sea

son

and

the

team

will

m

ost l

ikel

y be

look

ing

tow

ard

a tr

io o

f ru

sher

s to

get

the

job

done

this

sea

son.

T

he te

am w

ill h

ave

to d

ecid

e be

twee

n so

phom

ores

Jor

dan

Sim

mon

s, A

ustin

K

elvi

n an

d B

ill C

reas

on f

or th

e st

artin

g jo

b th

is f

all,

and

the

rush

ing

core

is

inex

peri

ence

d, to

say

the

leas

t. “W

ith th

e gu

ys th

at w

e ha

ve th

is

year

, the

y al

l hav

e sp

ecia

l abi

litie

s,”

Tje

erds

ma

said

. “B

etw

een

the

use

of

the

thre

e of

them

, we

will

be

read

y.”

Bec

ause

Cou

ncil

basi

cally

car

ried

N

orth

wes

t’s e

ntir

e ru

nnin

g ga

me

on h

is

shou

lder

s la

st s

easo

n, a

ll th

ree

of th

e pr

ospe

cts

for

this

sea

son

put t

oget

her

have

less

than

hal

f of

Cou

ncil’

s at

-te

mpt

s un

der

thei

r be

lts.

Nor

thw

est’s

qua

rter

back

, Bla

ke

Bol

les,

is e

nter

ing

his

seni

or y

ear

afte

r fi n

ishi

ng a

top

the

MIA

A a

s a

pass

er

last

sea

son.

Bol

les

rack

ed u

p 4,

145

yard

s th

roug

h th

e ai

r al

ong

with

an

unm

atch

ed 4

2 to

uchd

owns

dur

ing

the

Bea

rcat

s’ c

ham

pion

ship

sea

son

and

is

the

clea

r fa

vori

te f

or th

e st

artin

g jo

b th

is y

ear.

“The

impo

rtan

t thi

ng th

at w

e ha

ve

to d

o is

try

to m

aint

ain

a ba

lanc

e on

our

fo

otba

ll ga

me

betw

een

the

run

and

the

pass

and

not

get

ove

rbur

dene

d on

eac

h en

d,”

Tje

erds

ma

said

.B

olle

s’ f

avor

ite ta

rget

last

sea

son

was

juni

or w

ide

rece

iver

Jak

e So

y,

who

acc

ount

ed f

or m

ost o

f th

e B

earc

at

rece

ivin

g ga

me

with

1,5

59 y

ards

and

27

sco

res,

and

the

two

will

mos

t lik

ely

be d

iale

d in

aga

in th

is s

easo

n as

one

of

the

mos

t dan

gero

us c

ombi

natio

ns in

the

conf

eren

ce.

“(B

olle

s an

d So

y) b

oth

had

incr

ed-

ible

yea

rs la

st s

easo

n,”

Tje

erds

ma

said

. “T

o ev

en tr

y an

d m

atch

thei

r nu

mbe

rs,

and

wha

t the

y di

d la

st s

easo

n is

toug

h,

but I

thin

k th

e re

ason

that

they

wer

e bo

th s

o go

od w

as b

ecau

se w

e ha

d a

good

bal

ance

.”W

ith a

cap

acity

cro

wd

sure

to b

e en

teri

ng th

e fr

iend

ly c

onfi n

es o

f Arr

ow-

head

, and

eno

ugh

hype

to la

st a

who

le

seas

on, t

his

gam

e is

sur

e to

be

a ex

actly

w

hat i

ts n

ame

impl

ies,

a c

lass

ic.

20

10

Sch

edu

leA

ug.

28

A

lum

ni R

ace

(4K

/6K

)

Pitt

sbu

rg (

Cou

ntr

ysid

e G

.C.)

Sept

. 18

M

SSU

Sta

mpe

de (

5K

/8K

)

Jo

plin

, Mo.

Sept

. 25

O

SU C

owb

oy Ja

mb

oree

(6

K/8

K)

St

illw

ater

, Okl

a.O

ct. 9

O

BU B

ison

Invi

tati

onal

(5

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Sh

awn

ee, O

kla.

Oct

. 22

SI

U-E

dwar

dsvi

lle In

vita

tion

al (

6K

/8K

) Ed

war

dsvi

lle, I

ll.N

ov. 6

M

IAA

Ch

ampi

onsh

ips

(6K

/10

K)

H

ays,

Kan

.N

ov. 2

0

NC

AA

-II S

outh

Cen

tral

Reg

ion

al (

6K

/10

K)

War

ren

sbu

rg, M

o.D

ec. 4

N

CA

A-I

I Nat

ion

al C

ham

pion

ship

s (6

K/1

0K

) Lo

usi

ville

, Ky.

TYL

ER S

MIT

HSp

orts

Wri

ter

The

cro

ss c

ount

ry te

am is

look

-in

g to

mak

e th

is it

s be

st s

easo

n ye

t. T

he te

am w

as d

isap

poin

ted

with

ho

w la

st s

easo

n w

ent,

belie

ves

it ha

s a

grea

t sea

son

ahea

d.

“I h

ave

not s

een

a te

am w

ith a

s m

uch

hear

t and

cha

ract

er in

the

12

year

s I

have

bee

n ru

nnin

g,”

said

se-

nior

run

ner

Jam

es W

ard.

“W

e w

ere

a lit

tle d

isap

poin

ted

at th

e M

IAA

bu

t we

boun

ced

back

and

they

did

a

grea

t job

to m

ake

it to

NC

AA

.”T

he p

laye

rs s

eem

to h

ave

a fe

elin

g th

at th

is y

ear’

s te

am h

as

a lo

t of

pote

ntia

l. Te

am c

apta

in

Mat

t Haf

fner

is lo

okin

g to

mak

e a

dash

to le

ad th

e G

orill

as to

vic

tory

an

d se

nior

Cha

rles

Jan

ssen

is ju

st

anot

her

seas

oned

vet

eran

look

ing

to

mak

e th

ings

hap

pen

for

the

team

. W

ith u

pcom

ing

fres

hmen

al

read

y be

ing

hype

d an

d re

turn

ing

runn

ers

like

Bre

nnan

Ham

pton

, thi

s ye

ar’s

team

see

ms

pois

ed a

nd r

eady

to

go. Se

nior

Cha

rles

Jan

ssen

suf

fere

d a

huge

set

back

last

sea

son

whe

n he

fo

und

out h

e w

as in

elig

ible

due

to

an N

CA

A tr

ansf

er r

ule.

Reg

ardl

ess,

he

say

s th

at h

e is

look

ing

to m

ake

a hu

ge le

ap f

orw

ard

this

sea

son.

“My

seas

on la

st y

ear

was

the

grea

test

to d

ate,

” Ja

nsse

n sa

id. “

I

had

som

e m

ajor

set

back

s in

trai

n-in

g la

st s

umm

er, b

ut c

ame

into

the

seas

on v

ery

stro

ng a

nd w

as a

ble

to

put i

n hi

gh-v

olum

e an

d hi

gh-i

nten

-si

ty r

unni

ng a

nd r

an s

ome

maj

or

pers

onal

rec

ords

in b

oth

trai

ning

an

d ra

cing

.”A

lthou

gh te

am p

laye

rs a

re lo

ok-

ing

forw

ard

to a

gre

at 2

010,

they

ca

n’t h

elp

but w

onde

r ab

out t

he s

ea-

son

that

cou

ld h

ave

been

aft

er th

e te

am b

arel

y lo

st th

e M

IAA

con

fer-

ence

cha

mpi

onsh

ip b

y a

mar

gin

of

six

poin

ts, p

laci

ng s

econ

d be

hind

po

wer

hous

e M

isso

uri S

outh

ern.

At t

he S

outh

Cen

tral

Reg

iona

l in

Tex

as la

st s

easo

n, th

e G

orill

as

snag

ged

thir

d pl

ace,

alo

ng w

ith th

e fi n

al q

ualif

ying

spo

t in

the

NC

AA

D

ivis

ion

II N

atio

nal M

eet i

n In

di-

ana.

Alth

ough

it w

as th

eir

fi rst

tim

e qu

alif

ying

for

a th

ird

cons

ecut

ive

year

, the

y st

ill fi

nish

ed 1

8th

over

all.

Dur

ing

the

off-

seas

on th

e cr

oss

coun

try

team

has

just

bee

n tr

ying

to

sta

y he

alth

y an

d in

dec

ent s

hape

. A

s W

ard

put i

t, “T

he o

ff-s

easo

n is

m

ostly

to g

et a

bas

e fo

r th

e up

com

-in

g se

ason

.”

Acc

ordi

ng to

its

vete

rans

, the

te

am h

as b

een

runn

ing

low

mile

s th

roug

hout

the

sum

mer

and

is

slow

ly w

orki

ng th

e di

stan

ce u

p as

th

e se

ason

dra

ws

near

.W

ith th

e se

ason

loom

ing,

the

runn

ers

are

now

wor

king

hig

h-

inte

nsity

mile

s an

d ar

e pu

shin

g th

e pa

ce.

Seni

or C

harl

ie J

anss

en h

ad

mor

e to

say

on

prep

arin

g fo

r th

e of

f-se

ason

: “T

he m

ain

focu

s on

the

off-

seas

on, w

hich

is p

retty

muc

h ju

st th

e su

mm

er, i

s pu

tting

in h

igh

volu

me

whi

le s

tayi

ng in

jury

-fre

e as

wel

l as

stay

ing

high

ly m

otiv

ated

w

hile

mos

tly tr

aini

ng s

olo,

” Ja

nsse

n sa

id. “

Slow

and

ste

ady

mile

age

prog

ress

ion

is th

e ke

y fo

r m

y tr

ain-

ing

and

subs

eque

nt r

acin

g su

cces

s in

the

sum

mer

.”T

he G

orill

as w

ill h

ave

to w

atch

ou

t for

som

e ot

her

conf

eren

ce r

ival

s th

is y

ear.

Cen

tral

Mis

sour

i loo

ks to

re

turn

this

yea

r w

ith to

p ru

nner

La-

ban

Sial

o, w

ho w

on th

e “F

resh

man

of

the

Yea

r” a

war

d af

ter

plac

ing

seco

nd a

t the

MIA

A r

aces

. Mis

sour

i So

uthe

rn h

as a

lway

s be

en o

ne o

f th

e to

p do

gs in

this

MIA

A. I

t has

con

-si

sten

tly d

one

wel

l and

will

like

ly b

e th

e G

orill

as’ b

igge

st th

reat

.L

ooki

ng a

head

, the

Gor

illas

’ fi r

st m

eet i

s th

e U

CM

Mul

e R

un (

4 m

iles)

on

Sept

. 11.

UC

M’s

Sia

lo

will

look

to r

uin

the

Pitt

Stat

e de

-bu

t, so

the

Gor

illas

will

hav

e th

eir

hand

s fu

ll. A

lso

up o

n th

e m

enu

is

the

Sept

. 9 m

eet a

t Mis

sour

i Sou

th-

ern

know

n as

the

Mis

sour

i Sou

ther

n St

ampe

de. S

o ri

ght o

ff th

e ba

t are

tw

o to

ugh

race

s fo

r th

e ve

tera

n Pi

tt St

ate

team

.

File

ph

oto

CYA

N M

AG

ENTA

YEL

LOW

BLA

CK

Aug

ust

26

, 20

10

Aug

ust

26

, 20

10

22

3

JAK

E FA

BER

Spor

ts E

dito

r

Dra

stic

cha

nge

wou

ld s

eem

to b

e an

un

ders

tate

men

t for

the

adju

stm

ents

that

hav

e go

ne o

n in

the

Gor

illas

’ loc

ker

room

dur

ing

this

pas

t off

seas

on. T

he g

ood

new

s is

that

m

ost o

f th

em s

eem

to b

e fo

r th

e be

tter.

“We

got c

ompl

acen

t,” o

ffen

sive

cap

tain

Je

ff S

mith

sai

d. “

But

this

yea

r w

e’re

not

tak-

ing

anyt

hing

for

gra

nted

.”W

ith a

new

coa

ch, n

ew o

ffen

sive

coo

rdi-

nato

r an

d a

stri

ng o

f ne

w p

laye

rs, t

he G

orill

as

are

look

ing

to p

ut la

st s

easo

n be

hind

them

an

d m

ake

a ru

n at

ano

ther

trip

to th

e D

ivis

ion

II p

layo

ffs.

“T

he c

oole

st th

ing

abou

t thi

s ye

ar is

the

attit

ude,

” ju

nior

qua

rter

back

Zac

Dic

key

said

. “W

e ha

d an

unb

elie

vabl

e tu

rnou

t for

the

sum

-m

er w

orko

uts,

and

that

mak

es it

exc

iting

for

ev

eryo

ne to

kno

w th

at w

e’re

exc

ited

to p

lay

this

yea

r. T

hat’s

wha

t eve

ryon

e is

look

ing

forw

ard

to.”

Alth

ough

muc

h is

dif

fere

nt a

bout

Pitt

’s

foot

ball

prog

ram

this

sea

son,

oth

er c

oach

es

arou

nd th

e co

nfer

ence

are

not

eas

ily d

ism

iss-

ing

the

youn

g pr

ogra

m.

“The

re a

re g

oing

to b

e a

lot o

f th

ings

that

ar

e di

ffer

ent t

here

, but

it’s

stil

l Pitt

Sta

te,”

M

isso

uri W

este

rn h

ead

coac

h Je

rry

Part

ridg

e sa

id. “

It’s

stil

l ‘T

he J

ungl

e’, t

hey’

ve a

lway

s go

t tha

t goi

ng f

or th

em.”

The

onl

y pr

oble

m w

ith th

at c

ould

be

the

lack

of

the

Gor

illas

’ pre

senc

e in

the

polls

. A

fter

com

ing

into

the

seas

on la

st y

ear

rank

ed

in th

e To

p 10

, the

y w

ill h

ave

to c

limb

thei

r w

ay u

p pa

st f

our

othe

r M

IAA

con

fere

nce

op-

pone

nts

that

are

ran

ked

in th

e To

p 25

, whi

ch

new

hea

d co

ach

Tim

Bec

k kn

ows

will

be

a to

ugh

task

.“T

hat’s

the

pari

ty o

f th

e M

IAA

rig

ht n

ow,”

B

eck

said

. “T

hey

are

all e

xtre

mel

y to

ugh

and

we’

re ju

st g

oing

to h

ave

to ta

ke it

one

gam

e at

a ti

me

and

hope

fully

hav

e so

me

succ

ess

earl

y an

d th

en w

e ca

n ga

in s

ome

confi

den

ce

with

our

pla

yers

.”A

s fo

r th

e ra

nkin

gs w

ithin

the

conf

er-

ence

, the

Gor

illas

wer

e re

cent

ly ta

bbed

six

th

in b

oth

the

coac

hes

poll

as w

ell a

s th

e m

edia

po

ll ar

ound

the

MIA

A.

If th

e G

orill

as w

ant t

o m

ake

it to

the

post

-se

ason

they

will

hav

e to

wor

k th

eir

way

up

to

the

top

of th

e co

nfer

ence

.T

he p

hras

e “T

he p

ast i

s th

e pa

st”

seem

s to

be

the

Gor

illas

’ mot

to th

is y

ear

afte

r an

un

char

acte

rist

ical

ly to

ugh

seas

on in

the

end

of th

e C

huck

Bro

yles

era

.B

royl

es le

ft a

big

gap

in th

e G

orill

a pr

o-gr

am w

hen

he c

hose

to b

egin

the

fi rst

pro

cess

in

his

pha

sed

retir

emen

t pla

n. A

lthou

gh

Bro

yles

was

the

No.

4 w

inni

nges

t coa

ch in

al

l of

colle

ge f

ootb

all w

hen

he r

etir

ed, h

e is

tu

rnin

g th

e w

heel

ove

r to

a c

apab

le c

oach

in

Bec

k. T

he n

ew h

ead

coac

h se

rved

as

the

Gor

illas

’ off

ensi

ve c

oord

inat

or f

or th

e pa

st 1

6 se

ason

s. A

long

with

bei

ng f

amili

ar w

ith th

e

prog

ram

, Bec

k is

kno

wn

for

his

acco

mpl

ish-

men

ts a

fter

he

was

cho

sen

as th

e 20

08 N

CA

A

Off

ensi

ve C

oord

inat

or o

f th

e Y

ear

and

was

na

med

as

the

team

’s a

ssis

tant

hea

d co

ach

star

ting

with

the

2007

cam

paig

n.B

eck

esta

blis

hed

him

self

as

one

of th

e m

ost a

ccom

plis

hed

coor

dina

tors

in P

itt’s

his

-to

ry a

fter

his

200

4 sq

uad

aver

aged

55.

8 po

ints

pe

r ga

me

alon

g w

ith h

is o

ffen

se le

adin

g th

e en

tire

NC

AA

in 2

004

and

2006

.A

fter

bei

ng n

amed

to th

e he

ad c

oach

pos

i-tio

n in

Dec

embe

r, B

eck

quic

kly

hire

d a

new

of

fens

ive

coor

dina

tor

in S

teve

Ram

py.

Ram

py is

com

ing

to P

ittsb

urg

from

Blu

e V

alle

y H

igh

Scho

ol in

Stil

wel

l, w

here

he

earn

ed f

our

stat

e ch

ampi

onsh

ip r

ings

and

was

kn

own

as o

ne o

f th

e be

st c

oach

es in

the

Eas

t-er

n K

ansa

s L

eagu

e. W

hile

coa

chin

g at

Blu

e V

alle

y, R

ampy

com

pile

d a

176-

84 r

ecor

d du

r-in

g hi

s 25

-yea

r ca

reer

, alo

ng w

ith e

ight

sta

te

cham

pion

ship

gam

e ap

pear

ance

s.A

lthou

gh R

ampy

has

som

e bi

g sh

oes

to

fi ll t

akin

g ov

er f

or B

eck

at th

e of

fens

ive

coor

-di

nato

r po

st, t

he m

an k

now

s hi

s of

fens

e.D

urin

g hi

s pr

ep c

aree

r, R

ampy

was

wel

l-kn

own

arou

nd th

e le

ague

for

his

team

s’ s

witc

h to

a “

Pist

ol”

styl

e of

fens

e in

200

6, w

hen

his

Tig

ers

aver

aged

46

poin

ts p

er c

onte

st o

ver

a

13-g

ame

span

to le

ad th

e le

ague

whi

le w

in-

ning

one

of

thei

r st

ate

cham

pion

ship

s.W

ith h

is k

now

ledg

e of

the

Pist

ol o

ffen

se

and

a fu

ll ar

sena

l of

quar

terb

acks

at h

is

disp

osal

, Ram

py is

exp

ecte

d to

hav

e an

eas

y tim

e ac

clim

atin

g to

the

colle

ge g

ame.

B

eck

says

that

Ram

py’s

rep

utat

ion

and

resu

me

spea

k fo

r th

emse

lves

. “C

oach

Ram

py is

ver

y fa

mili

ar w

ith o

ur

conf

eren

ce b

ecau

se h

e pl

ayed

qua

rter

back

at

Tru

man

Sta

te a

nd h

is s

ons

both

pla

yed

at

Em

pori

a St

ate,

so

he’s

bee

n to

a lo

t of

MIA

A

gam

es o

ver

the

year

s,”

Bec

k sa

id. “

He

has

a go

od u

nder

stan

ding

of

wha

t goe

s on

in o

ur

conf

eren

ce a

nd h

as a

goo

d un

ders

tand

ing

of w

hat h

as to

hap

pen

to w

in g

ames

in th

e

MIA

A.”

Alo

ng w

ith b

ring

ing

his

high

-sco

ring

of

fens

e ca

pabi

litie

s to

Pitt

, Ram

py r

ecru

ited

tale

nted

pre

p at

hlet

es f

rom

Blu

e V

alle

y in

QB

A

ntho

ny A

beno

ja a

nd T

yler

Dis

ney

to s

ign

lette

rs o

f in

tent

for

the

Gor

illas

this

fal

l, al

ong

with

his

son

, wid

e re

ceiv

er L

uke

Ram

py

tran

sfer

ring

to P

itt f

rom

Em

pori

a St

ate.

With

Bec

k at

the

helm

and

Ram

py c

allin

g th

e sh

ots

on o

ffen

se, t

his

youn

g G

orill

a pr

o-gr

am is

sur

e to

be

a fo

rce

to b

e re

ckon

ed w

ith

in th

e co

nfer

ence

this

yea

r.“W

e’re

ada

ptin

g,”

Smith

sai

d. “

And

we’

re

doin

g a

lot o

f ne

w s

tuff

and

tryi

ng to

lear

n so

me

thin

gs th

at c

oach

Ram

py is

bri

ngin

g to

ou

r te

am th

is y

ear.”

Reb

irth

: New

coa

ches

, new

pl

ayer

s, s

ame

Gor

illas Fi

le p

hot

o

File

ph

oto

Cu

rren

t h

ead

coa

ch T

im B

eck,

th

en d

efen

sive

coo

rdin

ator

, ad

dre

sses

th

e te

am f

ollo

win

g on

e of

th

e G

orill

as’ h

ome

gam

es la

st s

easo

n.

Play

ers

line

up

to e

xit

the

lock

er r

oom

bef

ore

one

of P

itt

Stat

e’s

hom

e ga

mes

last

sea

son

. Th

e G

orill

as’ fi

nal

rec

ord

w

as 5

-6 a

t th

e en

d

of t

he

20

09

reg

ula

r se

ason

.

Run

nin

’ and

gun

nin

’

Team

look

s to

sta

rt s

easo

n w

ith

ban

g

File

ph

oto

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N M

AG

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SPO

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IEW

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Ath

leti

cs

Pitt

Sta

te

Rem

ode

ling

Gor

illas

ch

ange

up

pers

onn

el (

p. 3

)

Volle

ybal

l tea

m r

etu

rns

you

ng

squ

ad (

p. 8

)Fo

otb

all s

ched

ule

(p.

12

-13)

Fo

otb

all r

ost

er (

p. 7

)

Thre

e ca

pabl

e Q

B’s

(p.

6)

Get

ser

ved

Pl

us.

..

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a of

pas

sers

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N M

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ust

26

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10

Aug

ust

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of

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d, B

ud

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& N

atu

ral L

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n No

w o

n Su

nday

from

12-

8 pm

No

w t

akin

g P

itt

Sta

te c

ard

s!

JAK

E FA

BER

Spor

ts E

dito

r

To g

o al

ong

with

the

Gor

illas

’ st

acke

d qu

arte

rbac

k sl

ot, t

he te

am

is a

lso

retu

rnin

g m

any

key

play

ers

from

last

yea

r’s

squa

d w

ho w

ill b

e an

inte

gral

par

t of

the

new

Gor

illa

offe

nse.

Acc

ordi

ng to

hea

d co

ach

Tim

B

eck,

the

Gor

illas

will

be

runn

ing

a no

-hud

dle

offe

nse

this

yea

r, in

an

atte

mpt

to s

witc

h th

ings

up

from

la

st y

ear.

“We’

re n

o hu

ddle

bec

ause

we’

re

very

intr

igue

d in

con

trol

ling

the

tem

po o

f th

e ga

me,

” B

eck

said

. “So

w

e’re

goi

ng to

be

able

to g

o as

fas

t as

we

wan

t to

go, a

nd w

e’ll

be a

ble

to s

low

up

the

gam

e if

we

wan

t to.

”A

long

with

cha

ngin

g up

the

of-

fens

e, B

eck

says

it w

ill s

till b

e Pi

tt St

ate’

s tr

aditi

onal

foo

tbal

l.“I

thin

k it

will

rea

lly h

elp

of-

fens

ivel

y,”

he s

aid.

“It

’s g

onna

be

‘old

-sch

ool f

ootb

all’

, but

def

en-

sive

ly y

ou’r

e go

ing

to h

ave

to b

e on

yo

ur to

es a

gain

st u

s.”

Run

ning

the

ball

is g

oing

to b

e a

big

part

of

the

new

off

ense

, and

th

e G

orill

as a

re r

etur

ning

one

of

the

mos

t sta

cked

cla

sses

in th

e co

nfer

-en

ce a

t run

ning

bac

k.H

eadl

inin

g th

ose

rush

ers

wou

ld

have

to b

e th

e re

turn

of

seni

or b

ack

Terr

ance

Isa

ac. I

saac

led

the

team

in

car

ries

last

sea

son

with

165

, and

co

llect

ed a

n M

IAA

sec

ond

best

89

.3 y

ards

per

gam

e. A

long

with

be

ing

a to

p pe

rfor

mer

in th

e le

ague

, Is

aac

grab

bed

nine

touc

hdow

ns a

nd

show

ed h

is v

ersa

tility

by

mak

ing

11

rece

ptio

ns f

or 9

8 ya

rds

last

yea

r. W

ith I

saac

bei

ng th

e ro

ck in

Pi

tt’s

runn

ing

gam

e, th

e G

orill

as

also

ret

urn

expe

rien

ced

back

s fr

om

last

yea

r, lik

e ju

nior

Eri

c L

ove,

se

nior

Car

dell

Cle

mon

s an

d th

e yo

ung,

but

tale

nted

, sop

hom

ore

Jaso

n Sp

radl

ing.

L

ove,

who

was

a b

ig p

art o

f th

e ru

nnin

g ga

me

last

yea

r, ru

shed

for

41

6 ya

rds

and

thre

e sc

ores

. Eve

n th

ough

Cle

mon

s w

as s

idel

ined

ear

ly

in th

e se

ason

, he

boun

ced

back

for

a

dece

nt 2

96 y

ards

and

fou

r to

uch-

dow

ns, w

hile

hav

ing

a hu

ge im

pact

on

the

Gor

illas

’ ki

ckof

f re

turn

ga

me.

Spr

adlin

g w

ill b

e lo

okin

g to

m

ake

a bi

gger

impa

ct th

is y

ear

afte

r

rush

ing

for

162

yard

s on

the

year

, bu

t bat

tling

for

car

ries

will

be

hard

to

do

with

suc

h a

deep

run

ning

bac

k cl

ass. Alo

ng w

ith v

eter

ans,

the

team

w

ill lo

ok f

or r

edsh

irt f

resh

man

So

lom

on W

atki

ns, a

tale

nted

bac

k ou

t of

Smith

-Cot

ton

Hig

h Sc

hool

in

Mis

sour

i, to

ste

p in

to h

is r

ole

as a

st

rong

bac

k th

is s

easo

n. S

opho

mor

e B

rice

ton

Wils

on w

as r

edsh

irte

d fo

r th

e G

orill

as la

st s

easo

n, b

ut is

ex

pect

ed to

sta

nd o

ut a

mon

g th

e yo

unge

r ru

nner

s, d

ue to

his

exp

eri-

ence

gai

ned

whi

le p

layi

ng in

juni

or

colle

ge.

At t

he ti

ght e

nd s

pot,

the

Gor

il-la

s re

turn

thre

e up

perc

lass

men

, w

hich

will

be

impo

rtan

t whi

le S

teve

R

ampy

is r

unni

ng a

two

tight

-end

se

t. Juni

or B

rist

an K

elly

and

sen

iors

B

lake

Byf

ord

and

Tell

Wyr

ick

will

m

ost l

ikel

y be

the

mai

n pl

ayer

s th

at R

ampy

goe

s to

at t

ight

end

th

is y

ear,

and

whi

le B

yfor

d ha

s th

e m

ost e

xper

ienc

e of

the

grou

p, h

e is

co

min

g of

f a

med

ical

red

shir

t yea

r

follo

win

g hi

s sh

ould

er in

jury

.A

long

with

thei

r de

pth

in th

e ru

nnin

g ga

me,

the

Gor

illas

hav

e a

solid

mix

of

vete

ran

and

youn

g w

ideo

uts

this

yea

r, w

ith ju

nior

Jon

T

hom

as h

eadl

inin

g th

e gr

oup.

Tho

mas

had

27

grab

s fo

r 36

0 ya

rds

and

one

touc

hdow

n as

a

soph

omor

e la

st s

easo

n, w

hile

Ken

-da

ll Fi

sher

han

dled

the

bulk

of

the

rece

ivin

g ga

me.

With

Fis

her’

s ab

-se

nce,

sen

ior

Rya

n H

olt a

nd ju

nior

A

aron

Saw

yer

will

look

to c

arry

ov

er th

eir

succ

ess

from

last

yea

r in

to th

is s

easo

n af

ter

com

bini

ng f

or

464

yard

s an

d fo

ur to

uchd

owns

. Sa

wye

r, w

ho s

tart

ed f

our

gam

es

for

the

Gor

illas

last

yea

r, is

kno

wn

for

his

spee

d on

the

fi eld

and

ave

r-ag

ed 2

3.9

yard

s pe

r ca

tch

duri

ng h

is

brea

kout

sop

hom

ore

seas

on.

The

Gor

illas

als

o re

turn

juni

or

Der

ek F

ishe

r, w

ho h

ad a

sol

id

perf

orm

ance

dur

ing

the

spri

ng, a

nd

tran

sfer

Ant

hony

San

chez

fro

m

Cof

feyv

ille

Com

mun

ity C

olle

ge.

To g

o al

ong

with

the

core

of

wid

eout

s, th

e G

orill

as r

etur

n se

nior

N

ate

Mor

ris

as th

eir

prim

ary

full-

back

. Mor

ris

is k

now

n fo

r hi

s ke

y bl

ocki

ng a

bilit

y an

d sa

w p

layi

ng

time

in 1

1 ga

mes

dur

ing

last

sea

son.

On

the

offe

nsiv

e lin

e, th

e G

oril-

las

retu

rn o

nly

two

star

ters

in s

enio

r D

ustin

Wile

y an

d so

phom

ore

Josi

ah

Cod

y. W

iley

has

enou

gh e

xper

ienc

e to

lead

the

line

with

11

star

ts la

st

year

, whi

le C

ody

will

take

ove

r th

e gu

ard

dutie

s up

fro

nt.

Seni

or M

ark

Che

stnu

t is

look

ing

to s

tep

into

the

big

shoe

s le

ft b

y ce

nter

Jay

Nun

ez a

fter

last

sea

son,

bu

t bri

ngs

a lo

t to

the

tabl

e af

ter

tran

sfer

ring

fro

m B

CS

mem

ber

Gor

illas

ret

urn

a s

tack

ed

dept

h c

hart

thi

s se

ason

File

ph

oto

The

Pitt

Sta

te f

ootb

all t

eam

hea

ds

tow

ard

th

e C

arn

ie S

mit

h S

tad

ium

bef

ore

a h

ome

gam

e la

st s

easo

n.

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k cu

t out

for

them

at

the

quar

terb

ack

posi

tion

this

yea

r. A

lthou

gh n

o on

e w

ould

des

crib

e ha

ving

too

man

y st

arte

r-qu

ality

pl

ayer

s as

a p

robl

em, fi

ndi

ng a

way

to

cho

ose

one

is b

egin

ning

to p

res-

ent o

ne.

“It’s

com

plet

ely

open

rig

ht

now

,” B

eck

said

of

the

quar

terb

ack

com

petit

ion.

“T

hat w

ill b

e a

deci

-si

on th

at o

ur c

oach

ing

staf

f w

ill

have

to m

ake

and

it w

ill b

e to

ugh

one.

” The

thre

e m

en th

e te

am w

ill b

e au

ditio

ning

und

er c

ente

r ar

e ju

nior

s Je

ff S

mith

and

Zac

Dic

key

and

a tr

ansf

er f

rom

the

Uni

vers

ity o

f K

ansa

s, T

yler

Law

renc

e.A

fter

Joh

n M

cCoy

’s d

epar

ture

fo

llow

ing

last

sea

son,

the

Gor

illas

ar

e le

ft w

ith a

ple

thor

a of

pas

sers

to

choo

se f

rom

, a d

ecis

ion

that

Bec

k sa

ys w

ill b

e m

ade

two

or th

ree

wee

ks in

to A

ugus

t aft

er th

e te

am’s

ca

mp

befo

re th

e se

ason

.“J

eff,

Zac

and

Tyl

er a

ll di

d a

good

job

thro

ugh

the

spri

ng a

nd

all t

hree

will

hav

e a

chan

ce to

sh

ow w

hat t

hey

can

do e

arly

in th

e ca

mp,

” he

sai

d in

ear

ly A

ugus

t.Sm

ith, w

ho s

hare

d tim

e as

the

star

ter

last

sea

son

with

McC

oy a

nd

was

vot

ed a

s a

team

cap

tain

this

ye

ar, c

lear

ly h

as th

e m

ost e

xper

i-en

ce r

unni

ng th

e G

orill

a of

fens

e.

But

, acc

ordi

ng to

Bec

k, h

e w

ill

have

to c

ompe

te w

ith th

e tw

o ot

her

quar

terb

acks

dur

ing

the

team

’s

pres

easo

n ca

mp.

Sm

ith s

tart

ed th

ree

gam

es f

or th

e G

orill

as la

st s

easo

n,

but g

ot o

n th

e fi e

ld in

nin

e of

the

team

’s g

ames

and

com

plet

ed 6

1 of

95

pas

ses

for

937

yard

s an

d se

ven

touc

hdow

ns. O

n th

e gr

ound

, Sm

ith

kept

the

ball

for

61 r

ushe

s fo

r 28

4 ya

rds

and

four

sco

res.

His

bes

t ga

me

was

und

oubt

edly

his

sta

rt

agai

nst M

isso

uri W

este

rn w

here

he

thre

w f

or 2

56 y

ards

and

two

scor

es,

alon

g w

ith r

ushi

ng f

or 4

2 ya

rds

and

two

touc

hdow

ns. A

lthou

gh th

e th

ree

play

ers

are

play

ing

for

the

sam

e sp

ot, S

mith

say

s th

at th

e co

mpe

ti-tio

n is

n’t a

s br

utal

as

one

wou

ld

thin

k. “We

all g

et a

long

wel

l,” S

mith

sa

id. “

I m

ean

ever

yone

wan

ts to

be

the

star

ter,

that

’s w

hy w

e’re

pl

ayin

g co

llege

foo

tbal

l. B

ut w

e do

ge

t alo

ng w

ell a

nd w

e fe

el li

ke th

e co

ache

s w

ill m

ake

the

righ

t dec

i-

sion

whe

n th

at ti

me

com

es.”

Alo

ng w

ith b

eing

an

expe

rien

ced

play

er, S

mith

was

cho

sen

as a

team

ca

ptai

n th

is s

easo

n an

d sa

ys th

at h

is

lead

ersh

ip is

a b

ig p

art o

f hi

s ga

me.

“I th

ink

I’m

a c

alm

pla

yer,

and

my

lead

ersh

ip to

ols

are

real

ly b

ig

part

s of

my

play

ing

styl

e,”

Smith

sa

id. “

But

I w

ould

n’t s

ay (

my

expe

-ri

ence

) gi

ves

me

an e

dge,

bec

ause

w

e’re

all

capa

ble

of d

oing

the

job.

”D

icke

y, th

e tr

ansf

er f

rom

Div

i-si

on I

Okl

ahom

a St

ate

and

Fort

Sc

ott C

omm

unity

Col

lege

, was

the

thir

d-st

ring

qua

rter

back

last

sea

son

behi

nd M

cCoy

and

Sm

ith. H

e w

as

mov

ed to

wid

e re

ceiv

er d

urin

g th

e ye

ar b

ecau

se o

f th

e G

orill

as’

stre

ngth

at q

uart

erba

ck, c

atch

ing

12

pass

es f

or 1

31 y

ards

and

one

sco

re

all s

easo

n. H

e sa

ys h

e w

ill c

ontr

ib-

ute

to th

e te

am if

he

does

n’t g

et th

e no

d as

sta

rter

.“I

t’s n

ice

to k

now

that

I c

an

play

oth

er p

ositi

ons

in c

ase

play

ing

quar

terb

ack

does

n’t w

ork

out,”

he

said

. “I’

m g

lad

I ca

n co

ntri

bute

on

othe

r pa

rts

of th

e fi e

ld.”

Dic

key

reds

hirt

ed a

t BC

S O

klah

oma

Stat

e bu

t tra

nsfe

rred

to

Fort

Sco

tt fo

llow

ing

his

fres

hman

se

ason

. Whi

le a

t For

t Sco

tt, h

e co

m-

plet

ed 8

5 of

173

pas

ses

tota

ling

937

yard

s an

d 10

touc

hdow

ns. A

long

w

ith h

avin

g ex

peri

ence

as

a st

arte

r, D

icke

y ha

s a

bow

l-ga

me

win

und

er

his

belt

afte

r th

e G

reyh

ound

s co

m-

pete

d in

the

Hea

rt o

f Te

xas

Bow

l.“A

ll th

ree

of u

s ha

ve d

iffe

rent

ex

peri

ence

s th

at w

e br

ing

to th

e ta

ble,

” D

icke

y sa

id. “

It’s

rea

lly c

ool

that

all

of u

s ar

e pr

etty

clo

se. B

ut

we

each

bri

ng s

omet

hing

to th

e ta

ble

that

will

mak

e it

exci

ting.

”

Law

renc

e, w

ho is

ano

ther

pla

yer

mak

ing

the

mov

e to

Pitt

sbur

g fr

om

a D

ivis

ion

I sc

hool

, was

a r

eser

ve

quar

terb

ack

on th

e Ja

yhaw

ks’ s

quad

fo

r th

ree

year

s. H

e gr

adua

ted

earl

y fr

om K

U a

nd s

pent

the

past

yea

r aw

ay f

rom

the

colle

giat

e ga

me

whi

le c

oach

ing

at a

hig

h sc

hool

.“T

akin

g th

e ye

ar o

ff r

eally

gav

e m

e a

chan

ce to

lear

n a

lot m

ore

of

the

little

det

ails

of

the

gam

e,”

Law

-re

nce

said

. “W

hen

I w

as c

oach

ing,

I

was

for

ced

to r

eally

stu

dy d

efen

ses

and

lear

n w

hat e

ach

play

er o

n th

e fi e

ld is

res

pons

ible

for

doi

ng a

nd I

fe

el li

ke th

at h

as r

eally

hel

ped

my

gam

e on

the

fi eld

.”

With

two

year

s of

elig

ibili

ty le

ft

in h

is c

olle

ge c

aree

r, L

awre

nce

says

th

at h

is r

etur

n to

the

colle

ge g

ame

was

an

easy

dec

isio

n.“W

hile

coa

chin

g, I

rea

lized

how

m

uch

I lo

ve th

e ga

me

and

that

I

shou

ld ta

ke a

dvan

tage

of

my

chan

ce

to p

lay

it w

hile

I c

an. I

did

n’t w

ant

to lo

ok b

ack

and

regr

et n

ot u

sing

th

e la

st tw

o ye

ars

of m

y el

igib

ility

,”

he s

aid.

“It

has

bee

n a

grea

t exp

eri-

ence

her

e an

d I

am lo

okin

g fo

rwar

d to

con

tinui

ng it

ove

r th

e ne

xt c

oupl

e of

yea

rs.”

Eve

n th

ough

Law

renc

e ha

sn’t

be

en o

n th

e fi e

ld in

a w

hile

, the

w

ord

from

spr

ing

cam

p is

that

he

is

quic

kly

pick

ing

up o

n th

e G

orill

a of

fens

e an

d th

at h

e is

rig

ht u

p th

ere

with

the

othe

r tw

o qu

arte

rbac

ks.

“The

big

gest

dif

fere

nce

that

I

have

not

iced

so

far

is th

e ab

ility

to

rel

ax a

nd e

njoy

the

expe

rien

ce

mor

e,”

he s

aid.

“T

hey

push

us

hard

he

re, b

ut th

ere

is a

muc

h m

ore

pers

onal

rel

atio

nshi

p w

ith a

ll of

the

coac

hes,

whi

ch m

akes

it e

asie

r to

w

ork

for

them

. It h

as b

een

a tr

eat

to c

ome

here

and

enj

oy e

very

thin

g ab

out t

he g

ame

of f

ootb

all b

oth

on

and

off

the

fi eld

.”So

whe

reve

r B

eck

and

Ram

py

choo

se to

go

with

thei

r qu

arte

r-ba

ck a

ssig

nmen

t, th

ey a

re g

ettin

g a

play

er w

ho h

as p

rove

n hi

mse

lf in

Sm

ith o

r tw

o B

CS-

calib

er q

uart

er-

back

s in

Dic

key

and

Law

renc

e.

Aft

er s

witc

hing

bet

wee

n M

cCoy

an

d Sm

ith r

egul

arly

dur

ing

the

Go-

rilla

s’ s

trug

gles

last

yea

r, th

e th

ing

that

Pitt

pla

ns o

n em

phas

izin

g th

is

seas

on is

sta

bilit

y at

the

quar

terb

ack

posi

tion.

Whi

ch c

ould

pro

ve to

be

diffi

cul

t to

do w

hen

you

have

so

man

y pl

ayer

s of

suc

h hi

gh c

alib

er.

“If

you

had

your

pre

fere

nce,

yo

u w

ould

wan

t to

go w

ith o

ne

solid

qua

rter

back

,” B

eck

said

. “I’

ve

neve

r be

en a

fan

of

play

ing

two

or th

ree

quar

terb

acks

but

ther

e ar

e so

me

year

s w

here

it is

adv

anta

-ge

ous.

” Fo

llow

ing

that

, Bec

k re

ferr

ed

to th

e co

mbo

of

Nea

l Phi

lpot

and

A

ndy

Maj

ors,

a n

otor

ious

qua

rter

-ba

ck d

uo in

Pitt

’s h

isto

ry.

“It’s

a p

ossi

bilit

y,”

Bec

k sa

id

of th

e qu

arte

rbac

ks s

plitt

ing

time.

“E

spec

ially

with

how

clo

se th

ey a

ll ar

e in

the

com

petit

ion,

but

we

will

ju

st h

ave

to w

ait a

nd s

ee.

Batt

le r

oyal

:Smit

h, D

icke

y, L

awre

nce

to

com

pete

for

snap

s

Tyle

r La

wre

nce

Play

ed f

or S

haw

nee

Mis

sion

Wes

t H

igh

Sch

ool a

nd

was

ra

nke

d N

o. 4

pla

yer

in K

ansa

s af

ter

grad

uat

ion

.

Jeff

Sm

ith

61

of

97

pas

ses

for

93

7 y

ards

and

sev

en t

ouch

dow

ns. 6

1 r

ushe

s fo

r 2

84

yar

ds a

nd f

our

touc

hdow

ns in

20

09

.

Zac

Dic

key

Cau

ght

12

pas

ses

as a

wid

e re

ceiv

er la

st s

easo

n f

or 1

31

ya

rds

and

on

e to

uch

do

wn

. Als

o pl

ayed

at

Okl

ahom

a St

ate

Un

iver

sity

an

d F

ort

Scot

t C

omm

un

ity

Col

lege

.

■ C

HA

DR

ON

from

pag

e 10

grou

nd if

Pitt

’s q

uart

erba

ck c

an’t

fi nd

any

one

to th

row

to.

Def

ense

will

pro

babl

y be

the

nam

e of

the

gam

e ag

ains

t the

Gor

illas

, mos

tly b

ecau

se o

f th

e ex

peri

ence

an

d ab

ility

that

is r

etur

ning

for

the

Eag

les

this

sea

son.

T

he o

nly

posi

tion

on d

efen

se th

at is

lack

ing

will

be

the

lineb

acke

rs. T

he E

agle

s do

n’t h

ave

any

star

ters

ret

urn-

ing,

but

they

do

have

thre

e pl

ayer

s w

ho s

aw c

onsi

dera

ble

play

ing

time

duri

ng la

st s

easo

n. J

unio

r Ja

mes

Bel

ville

is

expe

cted

to li

ne u

p op

posi

te th

e qu

arte

rbac

k at

the

ML

B

posi

tion.

Cor

nerb

ack

and

safe

ty a

re a

lso

two

stro

ng s

lots

in

the

Eag

les

dept

h ch

art w

ith J

ed H

erbl

an a

nd T

alm

aus

Ew

ell b

oth

retu

rnin

g to

sta

rt a

t cor

nerb

ack,

whi

le K

ram

er

Kir

z an

d K

evin

Ber

g w

ill c

ontin

ue to

dro

p ba

ck a

t the

sa

fety

pos

ition

s.

One

sta

tistic

whe

re th

e G

orill

as w

ill b

e cu

t som

e sl

ack

is fi

eld

goal

s. T

he E

agle

s lo

st A

ll-A

mer

ican

pla

ce k

icke

r T

ravi

s A

tter,

who

, kno

wn

as a

wea

pon

arou

nd th

e co

nfer

-en

ce f

or h

is p

erfe

ct 3

8-38

rec

ord

for

kick

ing

extr

a po

ints

, fi n

ishe

d N

o. 1

in th

e R

MA

C w

ith a

75

perc

ent fi

eld

goa

l pe

rcen

tage

. Aft

er lo

sing

suc

h a

tale

nted

kic

ker,

O’B

oyle

sa

ys th

at r

edsh

irt f

resh

man

Mic

hael

Zio

la is

set

to ta

ke

over

the

plac

e-ki

ckin

g du

ties

and

has

very

big

sho

es to

fi l

l. “Lik

e an

y go

od p

laye

r, yo

u ca

n’t e

ver

repl

ace

a gu

y lik

e (A

tter)

,” O

’Boy

le s

aid.

“B

ut M

icha

el is

a v

ery

ca-

pabl

e ki

cker

and

he

had

a gr

eat s

prin

g. W

e’re

hop

ing

he

does

the

job

wel

l and

we’

ve g

ot a

ll of

the

confi

den

ce in

th

e w

orld

in h

im.”

■ E

MPO

RIA

from

pag

e 16

from

Car

dell

Cle

mon

s an

d Te

rren

ce

Isaa

c w

as k

ey la

st y

ear

agai

nst t

he H

or-

nets

as

the

duo

com

bine

d fo

r 14

0 ya

rds

of r

ushi

ng. T

his

is im

port

ant b

ecau

se

both

Isa

ac a

nd C

lem

ons

wil

l be

avai

l-ab

le in

the

Gor

illa

s’ a

rsen

al th

is s

easo

n an

d E

mpo

ria’

s w

eak

defe

nsiv

e li

ne is

es

peci

ally

sus

cept

ible

to o

ne o

f Is

aac’

s br

eako

ut g

ames

that

he

is n

otor

ious

for

. E

ven

thou

gh k

eepi

ng I

saac

hea

lthy

is a

co

ncer

n fo

r th

e G

oril

las,

the

situ

atio

n at

ru

nnin

g ba

ck th

is y

ear

give

s th

e G

oril

las

mor

e de

pth

and

mor

e w

eapo

ns to

cho

ose

from

dep

endi

ng o

n th

e de

fens

e th

at th

ey

are

faci

ng.

Aft

er s

wit

chin

g co

nsis

tent

ly b

etw

een

four

sep

arat

e qu

arte

rbac

ks la

st s

easo

n,

the

Hor

nets

are

ret

urni

ng tw

o of

thos

e pl

ayer

s th

is y

ear,

and

Hig

gins

sai

d th

at

no d

ecis

ion

has

been

mad

e ov

er th

e st

arti

ng d

utie

s.“W

e pl

ayed

fou

r qu

arte

rbac

ks la

st

year

wit

h Z

ack

Ram

py, S

held

on S

mit

h,

And

re S

loan

El a

nd T

yler

Eck

enro

de,”

H

iggi

ns s

aid.

“B

ut S

mit

h an

d E

cken

-ro

de w

ill b

e ou

r m

ain

quar

terb

acks

this

se

ason

.”T

his

is s

omet

hing

that

the

Gor

il-

las

are

than

kful

for

bec

ause

they

are

fa

mil

iar

wit

h E

cken

rode

’s p

layi

ng s

tyle

. S

loan

El d

idn’

t tak

e an

y sn

aps

for

the

Hor

nets

aga

inst

the

Gor

illa

s la

st s

easo

n an

d E

cken

rode

had

a d

ecen

t gam

e go

ing

14-3

4 fo

r 19

1 ya

rds.

Eck

enro

de’s

in-

abil

ity

to fi

nd h

is r

ecei

vers

was

the

mai

n pr

oble

m a

gain

st th

e G

oril

las,

wit

h no

ne

of h

is w

ideo

uts

gain

ing

mor

e th

an 5

0 ya

rds

of r

ecei

ving

in th

e ga

me.

A

ltho

ugh

the

Gor

illa

s’ d

efen

sive

li

ne d

id a

goo

d jo

b of

con

tain

ing

the

Hor

nets

’ gro

und

atta

ck b

y al

low

ing

only

78

yar

ds f

rom

scr

imm

age,

the

Hor

nets

’ m

ain

back

s ar

e al

way

s a

caus

e fo

r co

ncer

n.

Sen

iors

La’

Dar

rian

Pag

e an

d K

evin

S

mar

t wer

e bo

th e

nter

ing

thei

r fi

rst y

ear

at E

mpo

ria

last

yea

r as

tran

sfer

s an

d le

d th

e te

am w

ith

a co

mbi

ned

1,12

8 ya

rds

rush

ing

and

16 to

tal t

ouch

dow

ns a

t the

en

d of

last

sea

son.

Wit

h ti

me

last

sea

son

and

this

sum

mer

to g

et a

ccli

mat

ed to

th

e pr

ogra

m, P

itt’

s de

fens

ive

line

wou

ld

have

had

trou

ble

wit

h th

ese

two

seni

or

ball

car

rier

s co

me

Oct

. 9. B

ut, a

ccor

ding

to

Hig

gins

, Pag

e w

as r

uled

aca

dem

ical

ly

inel

igib

le a

nd w

on’t

be

back

for

this

seas

on.

“I th

ink

Kev

in (

Sm

art)

end

ed o

n a

good

not

e la

st s

easo

n,”

Hig

gins

sai

d.

“He’

ll b

e ba

ck f

or u

s th

is y

ear

and

I th

ink

he’s

had

eno

ugh

tim

e an

d w

ill

have

a g

reat

yea

r.”“(

Cou

rson

) de

fi ni

tely

has

a g

reat

ch

ance

,” H

iggi

ns s

aid

of th

e w

ide

rece

iver

. “H

e di

d a

grea

t job

last

sea

son

and

we

wil

l defi

nit

ely

look

for

him

to

step

up

into

that

rol

e th

is y

ear.”

In a

ddit

ion

to b

eing

ski

lled

run

ning

th

e ba

ll, S

mar

t has

bee

n kn

own

to li

ne

up a

t the

wid

eout

pos

itio

n fo

r a

coup

le

of p

lays

, and

that

mig

ht b

e th

e si

tuat

ion

this

yea

r w

ith

the

loss

of

McE

voy.

Who

ever

is u

nder

cen

ter

for

the

Go-

rill

as w

ill n

eed

to b

e aw

are

of E

mpo

ria’

s se

nior

saf

ety

Chr

is W

oods

, who

had

th

ree

inte

rcep

tion

s la

st s

easo

n, tw

o of

w

hich

cam

e in

the

fi rs

t fi v

e ga

mes

. E

ven

wit

h th

e in

expe

rien

ce o

f th

e H

orne

ts’ m

ain

play

ers,

and

the

land

slid

e vi

ctor

y la

st s

easo

n, th

e G

oril

las

wil

l ne

ed to

be

caut

ious

of

unde

rest

imat

ing

oppo

nent

s th

is y

ear.

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ust

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ust

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10

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sas

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ou a

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our

fam

ily

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fi nan

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orill

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Nor

th B

road

way

, Pit

tsb

urg

, KS

JAK

E FA

BER

Spor

ts E

dito

r

The

Pitt

Sta

te v

olle

ybal

l tea

m is

get

ting

set f

or

its s

easo

n fo

llow

ing

a fo

urth

-pla

ce fi

nish

in th

e M

IAA

last

yea

r. H

ead

coac

h Ib

rahe

em S

uber

u an

d th

e G

orill

as p

oste

d a

14-6

rec

ord

in th

e co

nfer

ence

an

d fi n

ishe

d th

e ye

ar w

ith a

25-

11 o

vera

ll re

cord

. T

his

will

be

Sube

ru’s

12t

h se

ason

at t

he r

eins

for

th

e G

orill

as a

nd h

e is

lead

ing

a sq

uad

that

lost

tw

o ke

y pl

ayer

s in

Em

ily V

osse

ler

and

Pam

ela

Car

tege

na, b

ut S

uber

u sa

ys h

e ha

s pl

ayer

s w

ho a

re

capa

ble

of s

tepp

ing

up in

thei

r ab

senc

e.“W

hen

you

look

at l

ast y

ear’

s pl

ayer

s w

ho to

ok

on b

igge

r re

spon

sibi

litie

s, m

ost o

f it

falls

on

the

shou

lder

s of

Cor

rinn

e St

ring

er,”

Sub

eru

said

. “B

e-ca

use

she

has

had

a gr

eat t

echn

ical

bre

akth

roug

h in

the

spri

ng.”

Alo

ng w

ith r

etur

ning

All-

Am

eric

an c

alib

er

play

ers

like

Stri

nger

, Sub

eru

says

that

you

nger

pl

ayer

s fr

om la

st y

ear

have

had

tim

e to

gro

w a

nd

impr

ove.

“Bro

oke

Fay

and

Mol

ly B

ergk

amp

beca

me

mor

e co

mfo

rtab

le w

ith th

e rh

ythm

of

how

to m

ove

and

beco

min

g be

tter

in th

eir

mov

emen

t,” S

uber

u sa

id. “

So w

e an

ticip

ate

that

they

all

will

car

ry a

bi

gger

load

fro

m w

here

they

left

off

last

sea

son.

”A

s Su

beru

men

tione

d, ju

nior

out

side

hitt

er

Stri

nger

is r

etun

ing

for

the

Gor

illas

this

sea

son

afte

r an

impr

essi

ve s

how

ing

last

yea

r. St

ring

er

fi nis

hed

fi fth

in th

e M

IAA

in k

ills

as a

n in

divi

dual

w

ith 4

41 to

tal,

aver

agin

g 3.

32 p

er s

et. S

trin

ger

was

als

o si

xth

in th

e co

nfer

ence

in to

tal p

oint

s sc

ored

with

500

, and

the

maj

ority

of

thos

e w

ere

talli

ed in

the

kills

cat

egor

y. R

edsh

irt f

resh

man

R

ebec

ca P

ears

on s

ays

that

Str

inge

r w

ill b

e a

big

part

of

an in

expe

rien

ced

team

.“(

Cor

rinn

e) w

ill m

ostly

bri

ng p

layi

ng e

xper

i-en

ce to

our

team

that

has

nin

e fr

eshm

en c

omin

g in

,” P

ears

on

said

. “Sh

e’s

a ha

rd-w

orki

ng

play

er a

nd s

he

is g

oing

to b

e a

vita

l par

t of

our

team

sco

r-in

g po

ints

this

se

ason

.”E

ven

with

St

ring

er le

adin

g th

e te

am o

n th

e co

urt,

Sube

ru

says

that

you

ng-

er p

laye

rs f

rom

la

st y

ear’

s sq

uad

are

capa

ble

of

step

ping

up

in

lead

ersh

ip r

oles

th

is s

easo

n.“W

e do

hav

e tw

o fr

eshm

an

sette

rs, o

ne o

f th

em is

a v

et-

eran

in R

ebec

ca

Pear

son,

” Su

beru

sa

id. “

She

has

impr

oved

trem

endo

usly

ove

r th

e sp

ring

in h

er

lead

ersh

ip a

nd w

e th

ink

that

a lo

t of

othe

r fr

esh-

men

, lik

e K

rist

ina

Will

is, w

ill b

e ve

ry s

ucce

ssfu

l th

is y

ear.”

Alo

ng w

ith S

trin

ger’

s in

divi

dual

per

form

ance

, th

e G

orill

as fi

nish

ed th

ird

in th

e co

nfer

ence

in

kills

, ave

ragi

ng 1

4 pe

r se

t las

t yea

r an

d w

ere

in th

e to

p ha

lf

with

153

ace

s on

se

rves

thro

ugho

ut

the

seas

on. T

he b

ig-

gest

sta

t the

Gor

illas

ha

d la

st s

easo

n w

as

digs

, whe

re th

ey

fi nis

hed

at th

e to

p of

the

conf

eren

ce

aver

agin

g a

little

un

der

18 p

er s

et.

The

one

thin

g th

at

the

team

str

uggl

ed

with

last

sea

son

was

bl

ocks

, whe

re it

was

ra

nked

at N

o. 9

in

the

conf

eren

ce.

But

Sub

eru

is c

onfi d

ent t

hat

adde

d he

ight

fro

m

fres

hman

Lau

ren

Bre

ntlin

ger

will

hel

p th

e te

am im

prov

e in

th

at a

rea.

“All

of o

ur

fres

hmen

this

yea

r ar

e un

ique

, and

dur

ing

thes

e pa

rtic

ular

tim

es w

e lo

ok a

t wha

t eac

h pe

rson

bri

ngs

Sube

ru, v

olle

ybal

l pla

yers

gea

r up

for

seas

on

JAK

E FA

BER

Spor

ts E

dito

r

Alth

ough

the

Fall

Cla

ssic

is

slat

ed a

s th

e la

st r

egul

ar s

easo

n ga

me

on th

e G

orill

as’ s

ched

ule,

m

any

are

fi ndi

ng it

har

d to

not

lo

ok f

orw

ard

to u

ndou

bted

ly

the

toug

hest

test

for

the

foot

ball

prog

ram

this

yea

r. O

ne o

f th

e fe

w w

ho tr

ies

to k

eep

the

gam

e in

per

spec

tive

is th

e G

orill

as’

head

coa

ch, T

im B

eck.

“We

have

so

muc

h w

ork

that

w

e ha

ve to

do

befo

re w

e ge

t to

that

,” B

eck

said

of

the

Fall

Cla

s-

sic

mat

chup

. “O

ur f

ocus

has

to

be o

n ge

tting

bet

ter

in f

all c

amp,

an

d th

en w

e w

ill f

ocus

on

Cen

-tr

al O

klah

oma,

that

’s a

ll yo

u ca

n do

, tak

e it

one

gam

e at

a ti

me.

”T

he m

atch

up w

ill, a

s al

way

s,

be a

gain

st N

orth

wes

t Mis

sour

i St

ate

and

will

take

pla

ce a

t A

rrow

head

Sta

dium

in K

ansa

s C

ity, M

o., b

ut th

e bi

g pl

ay-

ing

stag

e is

n’t t

he m

ain

reas

on

for

antic

ipat

ion

this

yea

r. T

he

Bea

rcat

s ar

e co

min

g in

to th

e se

ason

ran

ked

No.

1 in

the

pres

easo

n na

tiona

l pol

ls, b

ut

even

whi

le b

eing

at t

he to

p,

Nor

thw

est’s

hea

d co

ach

Mel

T

jeer

dsm

a sa

ys th

at th

e ra

nkin

g is

exa

ctly

wha

t it l

ooks

like

, jus

t a

num

ber.

“Fro

m a

pla

yer’

s st

andp

oint

, I

don’

t thi

nk it

’s s

omet

hing

th

at c

hang

es th

em,”

Tje

erds

ma

said

. “T

here

’s o

nly

one

rank

-in

g th

at m

atte

rs a

nd th

at is

the

last

reg

iona

l ran

king

bef

ore

the

play

offs

. Our

em

phas

is is

on

our

conf

eren

ce.”

With

the

Cla

ssic

bei

ng

push

ed b

ack

to th

e en

d of

eac

h of

the

team

’s s

ched

ules

, Tje

erds

-m

a sa

ys th

at it

con

trib

utes

to th

e tr

aditi

on.

“Per

sona

lly, I

like

it a

t the

end

of th

e ye

ar,”

he

said

. “It

’s

a gr

eat t

radi

tion

gam

e an

d it’

s al

way

s go

ing

to b

e a

good

gam

e.

Las

t yea

r w

hen

it’s

such

a b

ig

ball

gam

e, it

can

set

you

bac

k

Eyes

forw

ard

to A

rrow

head

Fall

Clas

sic

look

s m

ore

prom

isin

g th

an e

ver

File

ph

oto

Qu

arte

rbac

k Jo

hn

McC

oy d

ives

for

th

e en

dzo

ne

du

rin

g th

e Fa

ll C

lass

ic a

t A

rro

wh

ead

last

yea

r.

File

ph

oto

see

CLA

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e 20

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