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BEYONCÉ BLENDEIU Dancers will be performing a mash-up of Beyoncé on Friday at Yell Like Hell for Homecoming Week.
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FOURTH AND NEWCOMEREastern quarterback Jalen Whitlow won the Ohio Valley Conference Newcomer of the Week for the fourth time this season.
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By Stephanie MarkhamNews Editor | @stephm202
Hit-and-run suspect Jose Garcia-Cardi-el pleaded not guilty on the charge of leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in death or great bodily harm during his preliminary hear-ing Monday.
Garcia-Cardiel was arrested and charged on Sept. 26 in connection with a hit-and-run that occurred Sept. 21 near the intersection of Fourth Street and Grant Avenue, resulting in special education major Alexandria Ward suffer-ing head trauma.
The hit-and-run charge is considered a class-four felony.
Garcia-Cardiel’s status hearing will be at 9 a.m. Nov. 24 in the Coles County Courthouse.
He also requested a jury trial.
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By Samantha MiddendorfEntertainment Editor | @Samantha_EE
Eastern’s music department welcomed a new face to the Doudna Fine Arts Center with the hiring of a new voice faculty member this fall.
Timothy Renner is the director of Eastern’s University Mixed Choir, instructor for applied voice and director of the musical theatre and opera programs.
Renner said he is looking forward to the up-coming semester and performances that he is di-recting with the UMC and the production of this semester’s musical titled “Carnival.”
“A new choir director brings unique experi-ences, unique exposure to certain literature,” Renner said.
However, being a new director is not always simple.
Renner said there are many times that he has
taken the role of recruiting more students to the music department.
For example, through the auditions for “Car-nival,” Renner said he discovered many students he asked to join UMC.
“I’m always looking for new talent,” he said. “If there’s anyone who shows unusual talent, then I’m always hap-py to tell them, because a lot of times they don’t know. They like to sing, but a lot of times they don’t realize they can go further with it than they think.”
As the director of mu-sical theatre and opera, Renner works with ei-ther the production of the semester’s musical or
opera.This semester the department will perform
“Carnival.”“I’ll hold music rehearsals for the first cou-
ple of weeks and then I assemble a pit orches-tra,” Renner said. “I work with the singers on primarily musical things, but also get into their acting as well within the songs.”
The relationship between the Renner and the director of “Carnival” is crucial to the success of the musical.
“You never want to step on anyone’s toes, and try to do their job for them,” Renner said. “They don’t speak too much about the music and I don’t do anything with the blocking, so we contribute equally.”
Apart from Eastern’s music department, Renner also participates in productions at the University of Illinois.
Professor has operatic hopes for future
By Jarad Jarmon Associate News Editor | @JJarmonReporter
Funeral services for an Eastern student who died in a car accident Friday have been set for 11 a.m. Thurs-day at the Bauer Funeral Home in Effingham, Ill.
A visitation remembering the death of Brianne Martin, 23, will take place from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Bauer Funeral Home. The family requested memorials to Martin should be made out to her daughter, Madeline Summers, according to a Bauer Funeral Home obituary.
Martin died in a car accident at 3:35 p.m. Friday on Interstate 57, according to an Effingham Daily News report.
The report said John Adams, 60, attempted to enter the median crossover on the interstate driv-ing a semitrailer. When the vehicle came to a stop in the median, a vehicle Martin drove, struck the rear of the trailer in the left lane, causing her vehicle to cross the interstate and come to rest in the right shoulder, the report added.
The report continued the Effingham County Coroner pronounced Martin dead at the scene.
The obituary states Martin was survived by her family including her daughter, Madeline Summers; Madeline’s father, Travis Summers; her father, Steve Martin; her mother, April Hurt; her brother, Jacob Martin; and her sister, Annabelle Martin.
She is also survived her grandparents William and Barbara Hurt and John and Renee Martin; her great grandparents, Merle and Loretta Martin and Arlene French.
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By Debby HernandezAdministration Editor | @DEN_News
The night began with excited and anticipated faces as Greek and non-Greek members cheered through roll calls and nominee names, as they eagerly wait-ed for their Homecoming court winners to be an-nounced in the McAfee Gym Monday.
Dressed in long gleaming gowns of bright viv-id colors, translucent lace, elegant black gowns and stylish mermaid dresses, the nominated ladies walked gracefully along with their sharply dressed black suit male companions.
The audience stirred in their seats as the announc-er began to name the winners of this year’s Home-coming Court. The winners of the Homecoming King and Queen were Black Student Union mem-bers Brandal Miles and Alexis Lambert.
Miles said the experience was unexpected.“It was surreal. I didn’t expect to win,” he said. “I
will go to the (homecoming) events and will be at the parade Saturday.”
Meanwhile Lambert said she was thrilled to have won.
“The feelings I have can’t be explained,” she said. “I appreciate those who supported us, especially the Black Student Union.”
Lambert said she hopes to encourage everyone to attend Homecoming events in order to show the panther pride.
Prior to the announcement, with excited and smil-ing faces the nominees walked through the bridge of formal dressed soldiers who were standing tall as they held up their rapiers. As each nominated couple was announced, both Greek and non-Greek life audience members cheered in support for each nominee.
This year’s homecoming prince was Black Student Union member Tylen Elliott.
“I am very excited,” Elliot said. “I am going to all of the homecoming events to support.”
The Homecoming princess winner was Alpha Gamma Delta member Catelin Witt, who said her win came to her as a surprise.
Homecoming winners for other court positions were also announced, with this year being the first with a nomination for Lord and Lady.
Lord and Lady winners include Lamda Chi Al-pha member James Smith and Alpha Phi member Samantha DeYoung. The duke and duchess winners were Student Senate member Stephen Simpson and Delta Sigma Theta member Brittany Fisher.
The king and queen will be present at the Home-coming parade and will hold their title until the next coronation in fall 2015. Winners are required to at-tend Homecoming events. The king and queen must present themselves as the campus representatives un-til the following year.
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CHYNNA MILLER| THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS The runner up and the newly crowned homecoming court pose for photo after the Homecoming Coronation Monday. In order from left to right: Samantha DeYoung, James Smith, Catie Witt, Tylen Elliot, Alexis Lambert, Brandal Miles, Brittany Fisher and Stephen Simpson.
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By Cassie Buchman Staff Reporter | @DEN_News
Eastern’s Concert Choir and a Swed-ish Barbershop Quartet called “The Ring-masters” performed a short concert Mon-day showcasing several songs they have been working on.
There were 250 high school singers at Eastern to see the performance and take part in the 11th Annual “Youth in Har-mony” Festival.
The Concert Choir consisted of about 29 singers, and started off the afternoon with two songs they sang under the direc-tion of choir director Richard Rossi.
Their first song was a Latin piece called “Nisi Dominus” by Claudio Monteverdi.
For this piece, choir members stood in a half circle as opposed to their usual plac-es on the risers.
This caused the choir’s sound to echo throughout the theater, which gave the theater a cathedral-like feeling.
The choir performed another song with three movements, called the “Shake-
spearean Trilogy of Love,” composed by Rossi. It premiered for the first time four weeks ago.
“(The songs) are about unrequited love, and are a little sarcastic,” Rossi said.
Each movement was a bit different from the others, with some songs be-ing slower than others. For this song, the choir also went back to their regular plac-es on the risers.
After the Concert Choir finished their songs, it was time for the Ringmasters to perform.
Anna Berry, a freshman Concert Choir member, said while she didn’t know about the Ringmasters coming to Eastern, “it was really cool to perform with them.”
The Ringmasters are a barbershop quartet from Stockholm, Sweden. They have been singing together for 8 years.
In 2012, they became the Barbershop Harmony Society International Quar-tet Champions. They are one of only two non-U.S. groups to receive such an honor.
They came to Eastern as part of their tour, which also includes Des Moines,
Iowa and California. The first song they sang, “Tonight,”
from the musical “West Side Story,” was arranged to better fit the barbershop style, making it a little faster and more energet-ic.
After one of the soloists ended the song by holding the last note for a consider-ably long time, the audience could be seen cheering and clapping wildly.
After “Tonight,” the Ringmasters sang a Swedish song after explaining its meaning.
According to one of the Ringmasters, it was a song about longing for a girl who lives far away and the singer’s dream of building a cottage together with her.
Their next song, “Blackbird,” by the Beatles, was one of the very first songs the Ringmasters sang together as a group.
At the end of “Blackbird,” they re-ceived a very enthusiastic standing ovation from the audience.
The Ringmasters ended their set with a rendition of “All Shook Up,” originally sung by Elvis.
One of the singers in the group kept
the audience entertained by acting out some of the instruments and using funny hand gestures and dance moves.
The audience was especially receptive to this last song.
“My favorite song was the Elvis piece,” Merrian Tice, a freshman elementary edu-cation major, said. “I like how they made sound effects for the instruments in the song.”
After this last song, they received yet another standing ovation and more fer-vent applause.
The Concert Choir’s next performance will be at the annual Holiday Concert. The concert will feature the Eastern Sym-phony Orchestra and choral ensembles.
The groups will be performing “A Car-ol Symphony,” by Victor Hely-Hutchin-son and “The Many Moods of Christmas: Suite IV,” by Robert Russell Bennett and Robert Shaw.
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A total of 20 EIU Dancers will perform to a mixture of Beyoncé songs during Homecoming’s “Yell like Hell,” in McAfee Gymnasium Friday evening.
Ahkeem Lang, a senior philos-ophy major, said the organization will dance to a mash-up of Beyon-cé’s hits during the night.
Originally, the members were go-ing to perform a dubstep perfor-mance for Homecoming, but be-cause of a few changes in their di-rectors, the crew decided to transi-tion to a “Queen Bey” theme.
The routine will consist of a mash-up of several of her hit songs.
One of the male members will portray Beyoncé during the perfor-mance, Lang said.
Lang added the performers began practicing for the event two weeks ago.
They have been practicing every day of the week minus the week-ends.
He said many of their dances are fast-paced with different styles of choreography such as hip-hop, lyr-ical and ballet.
“It’s never really one style, it’s mixed with a lot of different styles — that’s what makes us different,” Lang said.
The hardest part about their rou-tines are how the males must try and meet halfway with the females in terms of dancing, which for the males, is all about flexibility and leaps unlike for the females, where the focus is on body-pops, Lang said.
Fawaz Sarumi, a junior psychol-ogy major, said the performers all
check with one another making sure they can all do the same moves, but in order to compensate they may adjust their moves slightly based off of the different genders.
Sarumi said each dancer would
teach one another their specific moves if the other does not know it.
There are only three males in the organization and both Lang and Sa-rumi are hip-hop choreographers.
Everyone performing for the
night will have a different dance formation with each person transi-tioning into a new position.
“We’re not really picky. We don’t care. If we need to move our hips, we’ll do it.” Sarumi said. “We’re
dancers, it’s the beauty of it.”
Roberto Hodge can bereached at 581-2812or [email protected].
EIU Dancers explore their inner ‘Queen Bey’
FILE PHOTO BY DOMINIC BAIMA | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSKatie Dumach, a senior elementary education major, performs lasst year during a dress rehearsal for the EIU Dancers’ “Inspired Connections” show. The EIU Dancers will perform to a mix of Beyoncé songs during “Yell like Hell,” Friday evening.
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I remember when I first registered to vote. I signed in and they gave me a form where I had to pick which party I affiliat-ed with. Now, this was a big step for me, as my family was divided between Repub-licans and Democrats.
So when I chose, I felt like one side would assume I was siding with the oth-ers. In the end, I selected which one I felt I aligned with more.
However, through the few years I’ve been voting, it dawned on me that just because I chose one side when I was 18 years old, doesn’t mean that every single ballot will reflect that.
I have issues that I agree with that would have me labeled as a liberal Dem-ocrat, and these are issues that I would vote for again and again. But, then again, issues do arise that I side with on the more conservative level.
I find myself more aligned with the Democrats’ view on social issues, however I feel more inclined to go with a Republi-can point of view for economic changes.
What ultimately matters in the end is
that your votes reflect what you believe in.
Just because you have decided to vote as a Democrat, Republican or Indepen-dent does not mean every time you enter a voting booth you need to vote that way. It’s ridiculous to think that you’ll agree with every single thing a Republican or Democrat stands for.
Just like it’s ridiculous to think you won’t have a change in viewpoints at some crossroad in your life.
When looking at the elections this year, take a look at the issues and policies being presented, not the title that comes before each politician. Don’t be afraid to vote
Democrat if you’re a registered Republi-can and vice versa.
The great thing about the bi-partisan system—despite many faults—is that it gives you options, even if you are regis-tered as something else.
If everybody who registered as a Demo-crat or Republican only voted that way, it would only come down to looking at the number of registered voters in the area to decide which way it would fall.
But that’s not how it works. It helps our system by voting outside of
your registration, and works to further the political development.
It’s not enough to just go out and believe that because you’re one thing that means you won’t ever get a chance to vote another way.
Vote how you want to vote, regardless of the registration.
Bob Galuski is a senior journalism andEnglish major. He can be reached at
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Don’t ruin Halloween with offensive costumes
Halloween is just around the corner. Halloween is one of those rare happen-ings where it’s fun as a kid and then you grow up and guess what? It’s still fun! See? Life doesn’t always have to be so miserable.
So, it’s a few days to Halloween. You’re a college student. You’re busy. You’ve got stuff to do. You don’t have time to come up with a sweet Halloween costume. So what are you going to do? Who are you going to be?
Then it hits you. You’ve got a wig, a bandanna, some baggy pants – you can be Lil Wayne! Lil Wayne is still cultural-ly relevant! Right? I think so? Sure! You can be Lil Wayne. But then you real-ize that you don’t look anything like Lil Wayne. If anything, you look more like uhhhh, Kevin Federline. Maybe you can just tell people you’re going as Riff Raff. People know who Riff Raff is, right? That’s a good Halloween costume, I guess? No. You need to be Lil Wayne.
So you head over to the store and you get yourself a little container of shoe polish and cover yourself head to toe. Now you’re black! Lil Wayne is black! You are Lil Wayne! You did it! Happy Halloween!
No. No, you didn’t. And it pains me to have to say this, but it’s 2014, and no, you shouldn’t be wearing black-face. Are you really trying to be Lil Wayne? Or are you trying to be a bunch of racially insensitive stereotypes about black people? And if you are trying to be ‘edgy’ for Halloween, I’d recommend going with something else, for all of our sake.
For whatever reason, it happens every Halloween. People cover themselves in blackface in some weak attempt at humor. Dressing up as a person who doesn’t look like you is something that with a little more creativity, can most likely be pulled off. But if you have to resort to painting yourself, you either need to try harder or maybe just stay home.
The Tumblr blog “postracialcom-ments” recently posted a photo of a man, who according to his Facebook profile, lives in Charleston. The man had changed his default photo to an image of his face covered in black paint with the caption, “You guys I think I have Ebola!”
Not a smart move, and all in all, not cool. After the blog reposted the photo, social justice warriors on the Internet found out where he worked, and after repeated calls to his employer about his racially insensitive photo, he is no lon-ger employed with the company.
Let that be a lesson to us all, not only for Halloween, but in life as well. Dressing up can be a good time for all involved, but using the opportunity to make offensive statements under the guise of “humor” or “edge” ruins the fun for everyone.
Dominic Renzetti is a senior family andconsumer sciences major. He can be reached
at 581-2812 or [email protected].
It doesn’t take a political expert to realize the Illinois race for the U.S. Senate is drawing a very quick end.
With incumbent Democrat Dick Durbin currently projecting a roughly 12-point lead in the race, barring a monumental shift in state voting patterns, it seems the writing is on the wall for challenging Republican Jim Oberweis.
There’s a reason for that: Dick Durbin deserves six more years as a senator.
Durbin, who served in the U.S. House from 1983 to 1997 and in the U.S. Senate from 1997 to 2014, is often touted as a career politician.
And while that term—“career politician”—is usually pejora-tive in nature, used to undermine life-long Capitol Hillers for constant campaigning or stagnancy, Durbin’s legislative record proves himself a friend of the average Illinoisan.
In his most recent term, Durbin has consistently fought to curb the rampant cost of tuition, fees and room and board at public universities, sponsoring legislation to ensure federal mon-ey goes to hard-working and needy students, not exploitive insti-tutions or special interests.
As college students who often feel the financial burdens of ever-rising college costs, it is absolutely imperative we know we have a voice on Capitol Hill. Durbin has been that voice, and not just for college students, but for working-class Americans as a whole.
He has long-supported the middle class, often fighting for action that would help curb drastic income inequality and dis-parities.
He’s repeatedly stood with President Obama in the fight to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, to lessen pay dis-parities between men and women, and has been a vocal leader in stopping corporate tax evasion through reincorporation overseas.
His challenger, Sen. Jim Oberweis, has proposed a minimum-wage hike as well, but only for workers in their mid-20s and older. Oberweis’ plan would gradually increase the minimum wage to $10-an-hour by 2017 for workers 26 and older, and while such legislation is indeed commendable, it still neglects an already-vulnerable portion of the workforce, namely young par-ents already struggling to provide for their families.
All in all, Durbin’s record reflects a seasoned politician who understands the minutia and processes of power in Washington.
As Senate Majority Whip, Durbin has been one of only a few bright spots in a highly partisan and gridlocked Congress, and while Durbin has committed his fair-share of partisan bicker-ing, he has still remained steadfastly committed to helping aver-age Americans rather than special interests or extreme faction groups.
And with most polls indicating a Republican-takeover of the Senate this November that will likely mean more gridlock and stagnation, it’s important Illinoisans elect someone who not only understands how to operate in a highly-partisan environment, but has the interests of Illinois voters as his foremost agenda.
That person is Dick Durbin.
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Fiddler in the quad“I perform primarily in operas, but I
also do musical theatre,” Renner said. “My first musical performance was in ‘My Fair Lady’ at the U of I about two years ago. That was a new thing for me, but it opened up that world of Broadway musicals.”
Renner said these types performances gave him more experience that helps him with his directing.
“I think that every time you perform, you learn something new” he said. “Ev-ery time you learn an entire role, you sort of access more skills and abilities that you didn’t know you had, and that you devel-op, whether it’s humor or an ability to em-pathize with people.”
Renner is currently living in Urbana and completing his doctorate in voice per-formance at the University of Illinois Urba-na-Champaign.
“I’m currently doing a role at the U of I called Dulcamara in ‘Elixir of Love,’ and that’s my fourth opera role at the U of I.”
“Elixir of Love” will be performed Nov. 6 through 9 at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illi-nois. Renner will take the role of Dulca-mara on Nov. 7 and 9.
At Eastern, Renner said he hopes to bring more productions to the depart-ment.
The Holiday Concert will be at 4 p.m. Dec. 7 in the Dvorak Concert Hall at the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Concert tick-ets are $12 for the general public, $10 for Eastern employees and seniors and $5 for students. Tickets can be bought at the Doudna box office.
Samantha Middendorf can bereached at 581-2812
» OPERATIC CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
JAR AD JARMON | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJames Trevarthan, an engineering major, played his fiddle in the breezy 66 degree weather in the North Quad on Monday. He said the nice weather inspired him to play outside. Trevarthan has been playing for 10 years.
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» WHITLOW CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8E a s t e r n t a k e s o n Te n n e s s e e S t a t e f o r 2 0 1 4 H o m e c o m i n g g a m e a t O ’ B r i e n F i e l d
The Tennessee-Martin defense re-covered a fumble and also returned an interception for a touchdown, as the Skyhawks won 21-16 in Nash-ville, Tenn. Jarod Neal completed 11-of-18 passes and threw a touchdown pass for the Skyhawks, who picked up their first road win against the Tigers since 2008.
Although Tennessee State quarter-back Michael German threw for 341 yards and had two passing touch-downs, the late fourth-quarter surge by the Tigers was not enough, as the Skyhawks were able to run-out the fi-nal 4:34 of the game.
Tennessee State coach Rod Reed said he was not thrilled about the two turnovers that directly led to 14 points for Tennessee-Martin during his postgame press conference.
“That team practically scored 14 points and the defense wasn’t even on the field,” Reed said.
The Tigers’ defense only allowed 210 yards of offense, but Tennessee State still trailed 21-3, entering the fourth quarter. Reed was also disap-pointed with the team’s running game that netted 53 yards on 24 attempts.
Eastern hosts Tennessee State at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at O’Brien Field,
where the Tigers will try to snap their three-game conference losing streak.
Austin Peay had its own losing streak heading into its home game against Murray State, am 18-game losing streak, but the freshmen-led Governors broke it with a 20-13 win.
Quarterback Mickey Macius threw three touchdown passes to fellow freshman Jared Beard, while freshman running back Otis Gerron rushed for 137 yards, leading Austin Peay to its first win since 2012.
Murray State has the worst OVC record along with Tennessee State at 1-3, while the Governors improved to 1-2 in conference play and 1-6 over-all.
Macius was named co-OVC New-comer of the Week along with Whit-low, as he completed 18-of-22 passes for 201 yards, adding his three touch-down passes for Austin Peay.
No. 12 Eastern Kentucky car-ried its six-game winning streak into Cookeville, Tenn., to face Tennessee Tech, which was 2-4 prior to Satur-day’s final. The Golden Eagles soared past the Colonels, erasing a 21-point deficit in the fourth quarter, outscor-ing Tennessee Tech 29-0 in the final 15 minutes to win 39-31.
Darian Stone was named OVC Offensive Player of the Week, Mar-ty Jones was named OVC Defensive Player of the Week and Ladarius Van-lier was named OVC Specialist of the Week, as the three Golden Eagles all contributed to the comeback win.
Stone threw three touchdown pass-es in the fourth quarter, while Jones tied a conference record with four in-terception, two coming in the final 1:07 of the game and Vanlier scored a 79-yard punt return touchdown and sealed the victory for Tennessee Tech with a 63-yard rushing touchdown with 2:01 left to play.
The loss dropped Eastern Ken-tucky to 3-1 in the OVC, while Ten-nessee Tech evened its conference re-cord to 2-2.
The Colonels’ defeat comes a week after they overcame a 26-5 Panthers’ lead in the third quarter.
Jacksonville State is now the only team in the OVC with a perfect league record at 3-0, as the Game-cocks were on their bye week.
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“We have nothing to lose,” se-nior Meagan Radloff said. “Just gonna give it all we’ve got for the last two.”
Original ly scheduled for a 3 p . m . s t a r t , Friday’s m a t c h a t Eastern Ken-t u c k y n o w s t a r t s a t noon.
T h e C o l -o n e l s a r e 1-6-1 in the OVC, co m-i n g o f f t w o
losses to Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois-Edwardsville.
Eastern Kentucky has failed to score a goal in four of its eight conference matches.
The Colonels only win came over Tennessee Tech on Oct. 3. Eastern Kentucky played to a 0-0 draw on Sept . 28 aga inst Be l-mont.
While the Panthers match with E a s t e r n Ke n t u c k y m i g h t n o t mean much, Morehead State cur-rently has 11 points in the stand-ings. The Eagles are currently in
sixth place, making them the last team to make the tournament. Austin Peay is close behind with 10 points.
A Morehead State loss to East-ern could spoi l i t s chances o f making the tournament.
Morehead State won the tour-nament last year and lost to Wake Forest 2-0 in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Southern Illinois-Edwardsville, currently with 18 points , i s in first place after picking up wins over Morehead State and Eastern Kentucky. The Cougars were for-merly tied with Murray State for first place.
Murray State has 15 points, as its win over Eastern was its only match of the weekend.
Mu r r a y St a t e , Ja c k s o n v i l l e State and Southeast Missouri are all tied for second place with 15 points.
The OVC tournament star ts Thursday Nov. 6. The first place team hosts the tournament.
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» WOMEN’S SOCCER CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8Panthers are coming off three stra ight losses in OVC play
By Blake Nash Staff Reporter | @Banash5
A school record was broken by the Morehead State volleyball team last weekend. The 2013 Ohio Valley Con-ference champions dropped matches to Dayton, Tennessee Tech and Jack-sonville State to set up their first 0-22 start in school history.
The Eagles have been a powerhouse the last four years, going 67-3 in OVC play. Their season ended at the NCAA national tournament last year against the University of Illinois. No other Division I program had won 96 percent of its conference matches dur-ing that stretch.
The Eagles have faced a number of bigger schools during the non-confer-ence season including Louisville, Ari-zona State, Notre Dame and Purdue. Of those four matches, Notre Dame was the closest, with the Eagles falling to the Fighting Irish in five sets.
This year’s roster consists of nine players, who’ve had one year of col-legiate experience, including three se-niors in Colbey Cameron, Laura Mc-Dermott and Alex Fitzmorris. Those three seniors were named to the pre-season All-OVC team.
The rest of the roster consists of two juniors, four sophomores and three freshmen. They will return to action this weekend in rematches with Tennessee Tech and Jacksonville State.
Murray State races to first place in conference
The Murray State Racers went un-beaten last weekend, following victo-ries over the Tennessee State Tigers and Belmont Bruins. The Racers, led by attacker Scottie Ingram, shut out both those opponents, upping their record to 16-4 overall and 7-1.
Ingram picked up a double-dou-ble against Belmont, recording 22 kills and 10 digs, while fellow soph-omore Ellie Lorenz led the Racers in digs with 20.
Lorenz followed that up with 20 more digs against the Tigers, while In-gram 11 kills and seven digs, in the victory. Junior Sam Bedard dished out
72 assists to go with 22 digs and eight kills over the two matches, including a double-double of 39 assists and 15 digs versus Belmont.
Those three swept the OVC Players of the Week podium, which Ingram has become familiar with on a week-to-week basis. She’s been named the offensive player of the week for the last three weeks
This was Lorenz’s second time be-ing named the defensive player of the week, while Bedard picked up her third OVC setter of the week award this season.
The Racers will host Southern Il-linois-Edwardsville and Eastern next weekend. They defeated both those teams in four sets on the road two weeks ago.
Eastern’s next opponentsComing of a weekend split, East-
ern will take to the road this weekend, when they travel to Austin Peay and Murray State.
The Panthers faced those teams two weeks ago at home, and were defeat-ed by the Racers in four sets, but re-turned the next day to defeat the Governors.
The Governors went 1-3 during that road trip with their only win coming against Tennessee State. Se-nior Jada Stotts made another bid for OVC player of the week, recording a double-double in each match. The Hoffman Estates native led her team with 12 kills and 14 digs, and fol-lowed that up with 16 kills, 10 digs and two blocks, in a four-set loss to Belmont.
She recorded a double-double in her last match against the Panthers with 17 kills and 16 digs.
As mentioned earlier, the Racers have been the OVC’s hottest team, having won five in a row, and eight of their last nine.
In their last meeting with Eastern, the Racers rebounded from a first set defeat, to sweep the next three games and the match, for the victory.
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By Sean HastingsStaff Reporter | @DEN_Sports
The Eastern women’s tennis team had four players compete in the USTA/ITA Midwest regional dur-ing the weekend to finish off its fall season where its faced their toughest competition yet.
The tournament, hosted by Uni-versity of Illinois, consisted of a sin-gles and a doubles tournament. The tournament started on Friday and goes until Tuesday with the finals on the last day.
The tournament consisted of a 48-player qualifying singles draw, with players advancing to the main draw. Doubles consisted of 48 of the region’s top duos.
The players will be playing for a spot to play in prestigious USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercolle-giate Championships, which takes place Nov. 6-9 at the USTA-Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y.
Competing for the Panthers over were freshmen Grace Summers, se-nior Sephora Boulbahaiem and ju-niors Hannah Kimbrough and Ali Foster.
Summers and Boulbahiem compet-ed in both singles and doubles, while Kimbrough and Foster only played in doubles.
In the first round of qualifying sin-gles Summers and Boulbahiem won their matches. Summers won her match against Sorokina form IPFW in straight sets 6-3 and 6-3, sending her to the second round. Boulbahiem also won her match in straight sets 6-3 and 6-3, defeating Manole of Il-linois-Chicago, which was enough to advance her to the second round.
Despite first round victories, both Summers and Boulbahiem lost their second round matches and be eliman-ted.
Summers would lose to Rebeca Mi-trea of DePaul in three sets 1-6, 7-5 and 5-7. Boulbahiem would later lose to Allison Miller of Notre Dame 1-6 and 4-6.
Saturday marked the start of the doubles portion of the tournament.
The duo of Summers and Boulba-hiem faced off against Yuliya Shupe-nia and Mitrea of DePaul, while Kim-brough and Foster took on Karolina
Maksimova and Martina Zerbola of Akron.
Both pairings lost their matches. Summers and Boulbahiem lost 8-6. Foster and Kimbrough also lost 8-6.
This was the last live action the
women will see until the regular sea-son in the spring.
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Morehead State remains winless
JASON HOWELL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJunior Hannah Kimbrough returns a serve at a team practice. The Eastern women’s tennis team finished its fall season.
4 compete at midwest regional
By Aldo SotoSports Editor | @AldoSoto21
Another week, another award for Eastern quarterback Jalen Whitlow.
For the fourth time this season, the junior sig-nal caller has been named Ohio Val ley Conference Newcomer of the Week, following his five-touch-down perfor-mance in the Panthers’ 52-
13 win over Southeast Missouri on Saturday.
Not counting Eastern’s bye week, Whitlow has been honored with the newcomer of the week award four consecutive times.
He rushed for three touchdowns against the Redhawks, two coming in the second quarter and his third coming early in the fourth quar-ter that put the Panthers ahead 45-13, with a two-yard run. Whitlow’s second-quarter rushing touchdowns were from three and 13 yards out.
The Ken -tucky trans-fer also threw t w o t o u c h -down passes, both coming to Charleston native Adam Drake. Whit-l o w ’ s f i r s t touchdown pas s aga ins t
the Redhawks came in the open-ing quarter, when he faked a hand-off and then threw a 50-yard touch-down to Drake.
Whitlow’s second score through
the air was a five-yard pass to Drake on a fourth and one play in the third quarter. Whitlow finished 17-of-30, for 213 yards, while carrying the ball 15 times for 75 yards.
Drake was a big help Saturday, catching seven passes for 110 yards. Whitlow’s No. 1 target has been Drake ever since the quarterback was named the outright starter prior to Eastern’s OVC opener against Austin Peay on Sept. 20.
“Drake, he can run and he’s a well-rounded guy,” Whitlow said.
In the past four games, Whitlow has thrown seven touchdowns, four going to Drake.
Against Southeast Missouri, Whit-low was fortunate enough to have a couple passes dropped by Redhawks’ defenders and was able to extend his interception-less streak to four games. In that stretch, he is averag-ing 3.5 total touchdowns per game.
Whitlow is tied with Eastern Ken-tucky running back Dy’Shawn Mob-ley for the most rushing touchdowns at eight, while the quarterback also leads the OVC in total offense, av-eraging 258.7 total yards per game.
Upsets in the OVCAlong with Eastern’s win on the
road against a previously ranked team,
Tennessee Tech took advantage of its home field and beat No. 12 Eastern Kentucky, Tennessee-Martin won on the road at Tennessee State and Austin Peay defeated Murray State.
Following two straight losses by a single touchdown against Southeast
Missouri and Jacksonville State, Ten-nessee State welcomed the 2-5 Sky-hawks into Hale Stadium on Satur-day.
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JOHNNA MCKEE SPEAKS | THE EASTERN PROGRESSEastern wide receiver Adam Drake is wrapped up by Eastern Kentucky on Oct. 11 in Richmond, Ky. The Panthers lost 36-33 in overtime.
Whitlow rushes toward weekly awardDrake continues to lead Panther receiving corps
2-5, 2-1 (OVC) 4-4, 1-3 (OVC)
EASTERN ILLINOISVS.
TENNESSEE STATE
SATURDAY | 1:30 P.M.O’BRIEN FIELD
By Mark ShanahanStaff Reporter | @DEN_Sports
The Eastern men’s soccer team and Green Bay both hope to end their losing streaks, when they face each other at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Lakeside Field.
The Phoenix is 3-8-3 this year and has a 1-4-2 record on the road. They are currently on a five-game losing streak and have not recorded a goal during the losing streak.
Green Bay has not won since Sept. 12, when it beat Viterbo University 8-0. The Phoenix did beat Western Illinois on the road this year, which Eastern lost to 1-0 last Saturday. Western is the top team in the Sum-mit League right now.
Eastern has struggled to score goals as of late, netting just two goals in the last six games. Their last win came on Sept. 8, when the Panthers defeated Culver-Stockton 5-1. Since then they have had seven losses and one tie.
The Phoenix top scorer is soph-omore Audi Jepson, who has nine goals and three assist with a total of 21 points. The next leading scorer for
Green Bay is junior Faycal Oulahbib with three goals and an assist. He has seven points so far on the year.
Goalkeeper Dani Alvarado has played in 12 games this season for Green Bay and has a 2-6-3 record. The junior has 17 goals against and 46 saves giving him a 1.42 goals against average. Sophomore Kyle Ihn has also had some time in net. Ihn has played in four games and has 1-2 record.
Eastern tied Green Bay 4-4 last year, but Eastern leads the all time series 12-6-3. Green Bay is 3-4-2 in non-conference play, while Eastern is 2-6. Eastern has a 2-2-1 record at home.
Freshman goalkeeper Mike Novot-ny has continued to have good per-formances for Eastern, but has a 1-7 record. Novotny has a goals against
average of 1.54 and is tied for fourth in the Summit League in saves with 36. He has given up a total of 15 goals in 10 games.
Senior captain Jake Brillhart and freshman Dominic Recca are East-ern’s top goal scorers with three goals each. Brillhart has three assists and nine points and Recca has two assists with eight points.
Western, Denver, Fort Wayne and Omaha are the top four teams in the Summit League at this point in the season. Eastern will have to win its last two conference games against Fort Wayne and Oral Roberts to have any chance of reaching the confer-ence tournament this year.
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Panthers host Green BayEASTERN ILLINOIS
VS.GREEN BAY
TUESDAY | 3 P.M.LAKESIDE FIELD
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(SUMMIT) By Dominic RenzettiAssistant Sports Editor | @domrenzetti
After surrendering two losses last weekend, the Eastern women’s soc-cer team appears to be on the out-side looking in of making the top six and qualifying for the Ohio Val-ley Conference tournament.
The Panthers didn’t go out with-out a fight, though. Eastern held Murray State, the conference’s top scoring team, scoreless until late in the match Friday when a contro-versial hand ball led to the eventu-al winning goal. Then on Sunday, Eastern took Tennessee-Martin to overtime, but the Skyhawks were able to score on a corner kick in the last minute of overtime.
“It was a tough weekend for us because I think we played well enough to win both of these games,” Eastern head coach Jason Cher-ry said. “I was really proud of the
seniors and how well they played and how hard they worked. They played the majority of the game a n d t h e y just batt led. I w a s v e r y p r o u d . I t ’s been an hon-or and privi-lege coaching
them.”The two losses kept the Panthers
at four points in the OVC stand-ings, leaving Eastern and Eastern Kentucky tied for ninth place.
Eastern is now preparing for its final two matches of the season, traveling to Kentucky to take on Eastern Kentucky and Morehead State.
Women’s team has ‘nothing to lose’ in final week of season
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